Peyton Noland (1793 - abt. 1838)

Born 1793 in Walton County, Georgia

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Moseley) Noland — married 30 Dec 1821 in Walton County, Georgia, USA

Descendants

Died about 1838 at about age 45 in Carroll County, Georgia, USA

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Biography

Peyton, son of George, was born in Wilkes County, Georgia, in 1793. He served in the Georgia Militia, War of 1812, as a private in Capt. John E. Little's Co. 1st Regt. from August 26, 1813 to February 1, 1814. He was mustered out at Fort Mitchell.^[1]

He married Sarah "Sallie" Mozley^[2] on December 30, 1821 in Walton County, Georgia.^[1] They had the following children:

• Edwin Moseley Noland (1822-1881)^[1][3]
• George F. Noland (b 1822)^[1]
• Henry Terrell Noland (1825-1896)^[1]
• William Aubrey Noland (1828-1884)^[1]
• Seaborn W. Noland (1830-1899)^[1]
• Annie Pathon Noland (b 1833)^[2]
• Samuel Noland (b 1834)^[2]

Peyton Noland apparently worked with the Moseley's - his wife's father and brothers - in the gold mining business in Carroll County, Georgia, where he died in 1838,^[1] on May 26.^[2]

Family tradition says that he died of a venomous snake's bite that occurred in the entrance of a mining tunnel. After his death, his widow continued his mining work, for she is listed in the 1850 Census as a gold miner.^[1]

Peyton and Sarah are buried in New Hope Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Villa Rica, Georgia.^[1]

1850 Census

The 1850 census for Carroll County, Georgia lists Sarah Noland as a 55-year-old miner, born in Georgia.^[4]

The census shows that Sarah Noland was living next door to another Noland household, headed by another miner:

• E.M. Noland (M, 28), miner, born in Georgia^[5]
• Orrey Noland (F, 35), born in Georgia (cannot read or write)^[5]
• Alfred Noland (2), born in Georgia^[5]
• Chas. Noland (2/12), born in Georgia^[5]

Her household continued on the next page of the census:

• Geo R Noland (28), miner, born in Georgia^[6]
• Wm. Noland (22), miner, born in Georgia^[6]
• Seaborn Noland (20), miner, born in Georgia^[6]
• Samuel Noland (16), miner, born in Georgia^[6]

Neighbor E.M. Noland and the men in Sarah's household are the sons of Peyton and Sarah.

Research Notes

Father George: Peyton, son of George, was born in 1793. His mother is said to be unknown. The wife of George Noland who died in Georgia by 1800 - George Noland - was Alice Peyton. Their known children (orphans in 1800) were Pearce and Aubrey, who were paid their inheritance by the administrator of George's estate in 1812. No mention of a son Peyton.^[7] Of interest: an 1810 passport issued in Georgia included "Messrs. Pearson Nowlan, Averett Nowlan... all from the county of Richmond in this State".^[8] A "B. Moseley" is listed as receiving headrights in Richmond County, Georgia (1785-1787).^[9]

Locations: Born in Wilkes County, married in Walton County, and buried in Douglas County.

Wilkes County, Georgia was created in 1777. Walton County was created in 1818. While there was another Walton County (1804-1811), it was on the North Carolina-Georgia border - much farther North than the Walton County created in 1818. which was to the west of Wilkes County.^[10]

Find a Grave has Douglas County for the location of New Hope Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Villa Rica, but it is in Carroll County, according to a 1992 newspaper article about a Noland reunion there.^[11] Douglas County, created in 1870, is adjacent to Carroll County.^[12]

From Wilkes to Walton and back again: So how was it that Peyton Noland of Wilkes County married (1818) and had children (1822-1828) in Walton County but had returned to Wilkes County by 1830? (As of 23 June 2023, FamilySearch shows that Peyton and Sarah married in Wilkes County, but their WikiTree profiles show they married in Walton County and the WikiTree profiles for their sons who were born before 1830 show that they were born in Walton County. The profile for their daughter Annie Pathon Noland, has her birth as Wilkes County, Georgia in 1830.)

An explanation of how Peyton met Sarah Moseley can be found on his Find a Grave memorial:

"As a young man, he served in the Georgia Militia during the War of 1812 along with his brother-in-law, Samuel Gathright Mozley who is buried at Old Salt Springs in Lithia Springs."^[13][14]

Peyton's military tombstone supports that he served in the Georgia militia in the War of 1812.^[13] The text of his Find a Grave memorial has details: "Served as a private in Capt. John E. Little's Co. 1st Regt., GA Militia".

How he wound up in Walton County... perhaps this is where Samuel Mozley settled and Peyton visited and met Samuel's sister Sarah there. Or perhaps both men were offered land in the new county for their militia service, and Sarah joined her brother c1821.

The return to Wilkes County escapes explanation, aside from the simple answer: WikiTree has Annie's birthplace wrong.

The family's relocation to Carroll County, Georgia (where Sarah and several sons are found in the 1850 census) is easier to explain. The answer is found in this comment from his Find a Grave memorial: "Peyton ...worked as a gold miner during Villa Rica's glory days". The lure of gold is strong.

From Wikipedia's article on Villa Rica:

"Villa Rica is a city in Carroll and Douglas counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. Located roughly 30 miles west of Atlanta... [t]he location which was to become Villa Rica was originally settled in 1826 along what is now Dallas Highway. This land was ceded by the Creek people in 1825.... [and] gold was discovered there" in 1826, which "was also the year that Carroll County was created.... Although it did not develop into the large gold rush that would strike Georgia a few years later, there was a small gold rush in Villa Rica in the late 1820s."^[15]

Daughter Annie / Family Names: Annie Pathon Noland. While WikiTree has her birth c1830, the "Spirit in the South" Rootsweb tree had her birth as 1833. She was apparently the first-born (and only) daughter. The southern naming pattern at the time would have her named for a parent's mother - any bets on "Pathon" being a mishearing of "Peyton"? Peyton and Sarah's first two sons were named after their parents' fathers.

Possible Family Connections

• Annie "Pathon", named for Alice (Peyton) Noland, which supports that Peyton was a son of George Noland and Alice Peyton
• George and Edwin, named for George Noland and Edwin Moseley

George's middle name begins with either an F (WikiTree) or an R (1850 census). Perhaps George's middle name was "Rush"? Alice Peyton's mother was Ann Rush. Shown as "E.M. Noland" in the 1850 census, Edwin's middle name is Moseley in WikiTree. Sons following George and Edwin (both 28 in the 1850 census):

• Henry Terrell Noland (born 1825, per his WikiTree profile)
• William Aubrey Noland (born c1828 - 22 in the 1850 census) - an uncle of Sarah's was William^[16] & George Noland's mother was Sarah Aubrey
• Seaborn W Noland (born c1830 - 20 in the 1850 census)
• Samuel Noland (born c1834 - 16 in the 1850 census) - Sarah's brother, whom Peyton had served with in the War of 1812, was named Samuel

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} Information from the following Find A Grave memorials:
   • Find A Grave: Memorial #57320738 for Peyton Noland
   • Find A Grave: Memorial #57320818 for his wife
   • Find A Grave: Memorial #56911743 for his son Henry
   • Find A Grave: Memorial #85775107 for his son William
   • Find A Grave: Memorial #56911539 for his son Seaborn
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Information from the entry for Peyton Noland in the "Spirit in the South" Rootsweb tree posted in September 2017 (content deleted by Ancestry by 25 June 2023).
3. ↑ Text on the Find A Grave memorial for his mother had Edward, not Edwin, and just the birth year; Google news had Edwin and b August 24, 1822 d November 2, 1881. "Spirit in the South" (Rootsweb) had his death as November 1881 in Gibsland, Bienville Parish, Louisiana. A memorial for him has since been created, which calls him Edwin. His family is buried in the "Noland plot" of Gibsland Cemetery, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, USA.
   • Find A Grave: Memorial #42473213 for Edwin Moseley Noland (accessed 25 June 2023).
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1850" for Carroll County, Georgia, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZYJ-99Q : Sun Mar 19 09:55:04 UTC 2023), Entry for Sarah Noland, 1850. Enumerated 25 October 1850. Image, accessed 25 June 2023.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} 1850 census for Carroll County, Georgia, Image, accessed 25 June 2023.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} 1850 census for Carroll County, Georgia, Image, accessed 25 June 2023.
7. ↑ "Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G93L-TJQX?cc=1999178&wc=9SYY-N3F%3A267832301%2C267901601 : 20 May 2014), Wilkes > Returns 1811-1837 vol1-2 and 5 > image 34 of 560; citing Houston County Probate Court Judge, Georgia.
8. ↑ Passports Issued by Governors of Georgia 1785-1820, by Mary G. Bryan (page 75). Transcription posted December 2002 in Rootsweb, "Southeast Pioneers" (Ancestry subsequently removed the content of the page).
9. ↑ From Georgia Genealogy Trails: "Headrights granted by the Georgia Colonial and State Governments from 1754 to 1800" (as printed in....)
   • Story of Georgia and The Georgia People, by George Gillman Smith ©1901; Transcribed by K. Torp, ©2007
10. ↑ See the following Wikipedia articles, accessed 25 June 2023:
    • Wilkes County
    • Walton County (est. 1818)
    • Walton War (1804-1811 Walton County, on land now in Transylvania County, North Carolina)
    • Transylvania County, North Carolina
11. ↑ Google news.
12. ↑ https://sites.rootsweb.com/~gatttp/maps/formationmap.htm (Douglas County formed from Carroll County and Campbell County).
13. ↑ ^{13.0 13.1} Find A Grave: Memorial #57320738 for Peyton Noland (tombstone image, accessed 25 June 2023).
14. ↑ Sarah's brother Samuel is represented by the WikiTree profile Samuel G. Mozley (1789-1854) (and Find A Grave: Memorial #36589430), accessed 26 June 2023.
15. ↑ Wikipedia: Villa Rica, Georgia (accessed 25 June 2023).
16. ↑ See the FamilySearch PID for her mother, Sarah Gaithright (1769–1831). FamilySearch Person Discovery: LDSQ-VPP. (The FamilySearch PID says she married Edwin in Virginia, in 1785, and died in Walton, Georgia, but sources only support the marriage.)

• 1812 Roster Georgia Militia: Private Patan Noland, 1st Company on roll "bx" REG'T HARRIS' GA Militia
• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (N.S.U.S.D. of 1812) Ancestor Database, record for Peyton Noland (https://usdaughters1812.org/ancestor-database/ - search for 25393)