LAGENWEB ARCHIVES PROJECT: FAMILY GROUP SHEETS SURNAME: DEASON ********************************************************************* USGenWeb NOTICE: Libraries and individual researchers may download this file for personal, noncommercial use only. Any other use requires written permission from the transcriber. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ********************************************************************* TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen. 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report. This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. ********************************************************************* DEASON Submitted By:Dianne Duncan Date:9/7/2001 E-mail or Snail Mail Address:dduncan@krl.org FATHER Name: DEASON, Edmond R Birth Date/Place: Abt 1821, Alabama Marriage Date/Place: Jan 18, 1843, Pike County, Alabama Other Marriages: none Military Service: served in Cobb's Company, Lieut. Col. Henry D. Flippin's 1st Battalion Arkansas Reserve Cavalry Death Date/Place: March, 1865, Union County, Father's Father(Name and Birthdate): Levi DEASON Father's Mother(Name and Birthdate): (probably) Massy White MOTHER Name: POLK, Dorothy Jane Birth Date/Place: July 19, 1824 in Florida Other Marriages: none Death Date/Place: March 5, 1916, Vernon Parish, LA Mother's Father:Robert Polk, b abt 1799 in SC, d aft 1860 in AL Mother's Mother:Rebecca Burk(e), b. July 08, 1804 in SC,d June 12,1887 in FL CHILD 1. Name: Sarah Ann DEASON Birth Date/Place: 1841, Alabama Spouse's Name: Marriage Date/Place: Other Marriages: Death Date/Place: unknown but died before 1916 CHILD 2. Name: Levi Wilkerson DEASON Birth Date/Place: 1851, Alabama Spouse's Name:Nancy Susan MARTIN) Marriage Date/Place: abt 1881-1882 in LA Other Marriages: Death Date/Place: Feb 12, 1931, Vernon Parish, LA CHILD 3. Name: Eliza Rebecca DEASON Birth Date/Place: May 02, 1854, AL Spouse's Name: John Edward Legg Marriage Date/Place: Oct 25, 1869, Alexandria, Rapides Parish. LA Other Marriages:none Death Date/Place: November 10, 1938, Pitkin, Vernon Parish, LA Buried at Blue Branch Cemetery, Vernon Parish, LA CHILD 4. Name: George Riley DEASON Birth Date/Place: July 27, 1856,AL Spouse's Name: Louisa Gertrude Cole Marriage Date/Place: 1880-1883 Other Marriages: Death Date/Place: December 05, 1933 Buried at Ebenezer Cemetery, Hicks, LA CHILD 5. Name: Dorotha Jane DEASON Birth Date/Place: 1858,AL Spouse's Name: William H Matthews Marriage Date/Place: Other Marriages: Death Date/Place: March 15, 1935 Buried at Blue Branch Cemetery, Pitkin, LA CHILD 6. Name: Edmond Berry McLemore "EBM Mack" DEASON Birth Date/Place: May 04, 1862, Union County,AR Spouse's Name: Dora COLE Marriage Date/Place: Other Marriages: Death Date/Place: July 02, 1928, DeRidder, LA Buried at Lewis Cemetery, Beauregard Parish, LA CHILD 7. Name: Martha Ann DEASON Birth Date/Place: February 23, 1865, Union Co., AR Spouse's Name: Robert Jackson Hines Marriage Date/Place: 1883 Other Marriages: Death Date/Place: November 30, 1954, DeRidder, LA Buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Beauregard Parish, LA Notes: Information Sources: Alabama Marriage Index, 1850 Census, Monroe Co., AL, 1858 Land records Crenshaw Co., AL, 1860 Land records, Union Co., AR, Civil War Pension Application of Dorothy Jane (Polk) Deason. Marriage certificate of Eliza Deason and John Legg, Tombstone inscriptions at Drakes Fort Cemetery, LA and Ebenezer Cemetery, LA, Tombstone inscriptions at Blue Branch Cemetery, LA. Census records 1860-1920