Phebe (Smith) Joyce (1761 - 1851)

Born 1761 in Virginia

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Died 1851 at about age 90 in Henry County, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Phebe was born in 1761. She was the daughter of Thomas Smith and Elizabeth Witt. She passed away in 1851.

Notes

The following comes from Sally (Painter) Prior 1983 book "Ancestry of William John Greer and Sarah Isadora Greer":

• "Phebey Smith (born 1761), daughter of Thomas Smith. She married Littleberry Mays, Sr., son of Henry and Phebey Mays, and brother of Betty Smith's husband Sherrod Mays."
• "About 1795 Littleberry died, and as Phebey Mays she was party to deeds in Henry County, Virginia, up to 1806. Her home land was on Fall Creek in Henry County."
• "In the early 1800's she was remarried, apparently in Henry County, to a man with a quaint name -- POSSUM JOHN JOYCE. In 1822 she signed as Phebey Joyce in witnessing her brother Drury's will." she signed as Phebey Joyce in witnessing her brother Drury's will."
• "Phebey and Littleberry had at least two sons and three daughters. She and the daughters were named in her father's will as legatees to receive 'three negroes....and their increase.' She was also named in her brother Zachariah's will, and in the will of her son-in-law James Moore, who died in Rockingham County, North Carolina, in 1847."
• "In the 1850 census of Henry County she was listed at age 89 in the household of Josiah Wilkes. She apparently died later in 1850, at which time final appraisement were made of the negroes...."

• The Will of Phebey's father made his bequeath to her as follows: "then I lend to my daughter Phebe Mayes three negroes named.....Frank and Peter during her natural life and after her death they and their increase to be equally divided between her daughter."

• 1850 Census - Henry County, Virginia - Taken on October 10, 1850 - Page 61 - House 858, Josiah WILKS - 38 - Male - White - Farmer - $304 in Real Estate - born in Virginia, Margaret WILKS - 36 - Female - White - born in Virginia, Pinkney WILKS - 12 - Male - White - born in Virginia - Attended school, Josiah H. WILKS - 11 - Male - White - born in Virginia - Attended school, Rufus WILKS - 10 - Male - White - born in Virginia - Attended school, Drury WILKS - 7 - Male - White - born in Virginia, James WILKS - 5 - Male - White - born in Virginia, John WILKS - 4 - Male - White - born in Virginia, PHEBE JOICE - 89 - Female - White - born in Virginia.

Spouses

1. Littleberry Mayes (1761-1790) m 1775
2. John (Possum) Joyce (1743-1827) m 1800

Children

1. Thomas Mayes (1775-1846)
2. Mary Ann (1776-1857)
3. Nancy (1778-)
4. Elizabeth (1780-1853)
5. James (1780-1807)
6. Nancy (1781-)
7. Thomas (1782-)
8. David (1788-1868)
9. Littleberry (1791-1886)
10. Betsy (1793-1847)
11. Elizabeth (1797-)
12. Mary Ann (1797-)
13. Nancy (1797-)
14. Robert (1799-1865)
15. John (1799-1818)
16. Conrad (1802-1874)
17. George (1803-)

Sources

• 1850 United States Federal Census for Phebe Joice
• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
• "The Smith Family of Rockingham, North Carolina, Volume I ; Drury Smith of Paw Paw Creek; A Compilation of Descendants by Elvin E. Perkins, Jr."
• "Descendants of Thomas Smith (ca) 1720 -1989" Compiled by Hazel W. Smith, 1989"