Notes:

Buried:
Lincecum Cemetery

Notes:

- In 1823, a Garland R. Lincecum received a land patent in Leake County, Mississippi. ["Alabama & Mississippi Connections: Historical & Biographical Sketches of Families Who Settled on Both Sides of the Tombigbee River"]

- Garland owned land in Mississippi totalling 163 acres. The land office was Columbus. The document number is 26665. The land was in Leake County. The signature date was 27 February 1841.

- Mississippi Land Record for Garland R Lincecum:

Land Office: COLUMBUS
Document Number: 26665
Total Acres: 162.86
Signature: Yes
Canceled Document: No
Issue Date: 27 Feb 1841
Mineral Rights Reserved: No
Metes and Bounds: No
Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566
Multiple Warantee Names: No
Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820
Multiple Patentee Names: No
Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries
Land Description: 1 NWNW CHOCTAW No 11N 7E 22
2 E?SW CHOCTAW No 11N 7E 22
3 SWSW CHOCTAW No 11N 7E 22 [Source: United States, Bureau of Land Management. Mississippi Land Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1997. Original data: United States, Bureau of Land Management. Mississippi Pre-1908 Patents: Homesteads, Cash Entry, Choctaw Indian Scrip and Chickasaw Cession Lands. General Land Office Automated Records Project, 1997.]

- Garland and Nathaniel L. Mitchell owned land in Lowndes County, Mississippi totalling 161 acres. The signature date was same as other land record, 27 February 1841.

- Southern Argus (Columbus, Mississippi)
7 June 1842 [via ChroniclingAmerica.loc.gov]
IN BANKRUPTCY, -- No. 63.
District Court of the U. States
Northern District of Mississippi.
NOTICE is hereby given that GARLAND R. LYNCECUM, of the County of Lowndes, has been duly declared a Bankrupt by an order of this said Court made on the 18th day of April A.D. 1842; and that said Garland R. Lyncecum has applied for a certificate of final discharge, from his debts under the act of Congress in such case made and provided: and the Third Monday of July, A.d. 1842, at Aberdeen, has been set for the final hearing...

- Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1845-1846; MONDAY, January 12, 1846. Pg 234:

"By Mr. Stephen Adams: A petition of Garland R. Lincecum, of Lowndes county, and State of Mississippi, praying remuneration of the money paid by him for a certain tract of land which was resold by the government: which petition was referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims."

Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1845-1846; FRIDAY, February 13, 1846. Pg 394:

"Mr. Wick, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, made an adverse report upon the petition of Garland R. Lincecum: which report was laid upon the table." [A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875 via Library of Congress ]

- According to the 1850 Caldwell County, Texas Federal census, Garland had real estate valued at $4,000.

- Gideon wrote in a letter to his grandson that Garland "came to his death from an overdose of morphine administered by the hands of a drunken scamp of a doctor." [Source: Gideon Lincecum, 1793-1874 by Lois Burkhalter. Page 270.]

- Lincecum Cemetery
Lockhart, Caldwell County, Texas

Information provided by the State of Texas Atlas Site

Location:
5.4 mi. E of US 183 on SH 20 ROW

Marker:
Garland R. Lincecum, cousin of Alamo hero James Bowie, and his wife Emmaline left Mississippi and settled on land he had purchased here in 1847. Lincecum, who signed a petition with others to create Caldwell County in 1847, died in 1853 and was the first person buried here. Three of his daughters were married to the sons of fellow Mississippian Alexander Roberts, who settled in this area in 1843. The last person buried here was Jacob G. Roberts, Lincecum's grandson, in 1938. Members of the pioneer Roberts and Lincecum families and their descendants are interred here.

- "Garland Lincecum was a well remembered and strange historic character. In personal appearance he looked in every particular like an Indian, except that he was white. His hair and eyes were as black as a raven's wing, and long black hairs grew from his prominent cheek bones, the rest of his face being bare. He generally wore the Indian dress in whole or in part. His leather hunting shirt, fringed, beaded, and tasseled, and his leggings and moccasins were a marvel to the Columbus boys. He was for many years the proprietor of the Columbus ferry and with his Choctaw assistants ferried over the missionaries, traders, and travelers going to Jackson, on the State road. His last home was on the bluff of the river occupied by the steam sawmill,...just above the cold spring that gushes so abundantly from the bluff below....He went to the farthest frontier of Texas and died there." - A HISTORY OF COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI DURING THE 19TH CENTURY by W. L. Lipscomb

- In the book, WHO WAS WHO AMONG THE SOUTHERN INDIANS 1698 - 1907, by Don Martini, published 1998 the following is given:

LINCECUM, GARLAND: White resident among the Chickasaw Indians, married Martha Wall in Monroe County, Mississippi, on October 9, 1834. He was born in 1797 and died in 1853.

Source of Info: Monroe County Will and Marriage Book, 1:38

- "According to an article written by Mrs. Brunetta Griffith, a direct descendant of Sophia Folsom Pitchlynn, "One morning at the breakfast table there was an altercation between the brothers and Jack [John "Jack" Pitchlynn, Jr.] killed his brother Silas with a blow from his tomahawk. He fled to the Chickasaw Nation. Sophia was a way from home but upon return she made plans to avenge her son's death. She hired a prominent citizen of Columbus, Mississippi to carry out her plans. Following her instructions Garland Lincecum sought out Jack Pitchlynn, killed him and buried him where he fell, pistol, watch and money." Gideon Lincecum, John Jr.'s business partner, (and a brother of Garland Lincecum), indicates that Garland was John Jr.'s bodyguard, and when Garland and John Jr. were seperated one night, John Jr. was ambushed and killed. There is some indication that this event took place at or near Cotton Gin Port." [Source: Website, "Descendants of James Logan Colbert . Maintained by K. M. Armstrong]

[See also lincecum-robertshistory.rtf on cloud drive.]

Buried:
Lincecum Cemetery

Garland married Emaline R. Jones on 26 Oct 1837 in Monroe, Mississippi, USA. Emaline was born on 8 Oct 1815 in Tennessee, USA; died on 7 Jul 1889 in Caldwell, Texas, USA; was buried in Lockhart, Caldwell, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

- In 1880, Emmaline was unemployed. This is according to the Caldwell County, Texas census. She is listed with her daughter, Fernandella Lincecum-Roberts.

Buried:
Lincecum Cemetery

Other Events:

• Census: 1830, Lowndes, Mississippi, USA

Notes:

- On 13 August 1813, Hezekiah was a prosecutor in Georgia. Ben, a slave belonging to Robert McGough, took an iron mattock and cut a gash in Hezekiah's head, penetrating to the skull. The jury found Ben guilty. Ben was hung [...suspended between the heavens and the earth by the neck until you are dead, dead, dead and the Lord have mercy on your soul.]

- Hezekiah married his first wife, Sally Strange, in 1788 in Georgia. In 1791, in Georgia, he married the mother of his children, Sally Hickman.

- Mississippi Land Record for Hezekiah Lincecum:
Land Office: MT SALUS
Document Number: 6884
Total Acres: 79.37
Signature: Yes
Canceled Document: No
Issue Date: 9 Oct 1834
Mineral Rights Reserved: No
Metes and Bounds: No
Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566
Multiple Warantee Names: No
Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820
Multiple Patentee Names: No
Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries
Land Description: 1 W?NE HUNTSVILLE No 17S 18W 31

- According to the book, "Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist", Hezekiah was large (six feet tall, 200 pounds), strong, very handsome, had a beautiful voice, and had a reputation for being able to out drink anyone. He lived in Wilkes County, Georgia 1786-1790 where he married Sally Strange. About 5 years later, after his divorce from Sally, he married Sallie Hickman.

- Hezekiah served as an officer in Andrew Jackson's Forces in 1808. After being discharged, between 1808 and 1830, he lived in 2 states and 5 counties: Washington, Hancock, and Putnam Counties in Georgia; and Monroe and Lowndes Counties in Mississippi. He settled in Lowndes County around 1830.

- Hezekiah died 04 March 1839 in Lowndes County, Mississippi. The "Columbus Democrat" wrote, "Died suddenly at his residence near this town, on the 4th, Mr. Hezekiah Lincecum, aged 70 years. He was a native of Virginia and for several years resided in the state of Georgia. About 20 years since he emigrated to this neighborhood and was one of the first white settlers in the Choctaw Nation. While a resident of Georgia, he fought bravely on several occasions in defending the frontiers against Indians. His corpse was met at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. Joseph Bryant." After Hezekiah died, Sally moved to Catahoula Parish, Louisiana where her son, Grant, lived. She died there on 28 May 1848.

- Gideon describes his father, Hezekiah, as "a large, powerful man, six feet high and weighed in the prime of life 200 pounds."

- ..."Yankee Schoolmaster in Lincoln Co[unty], GA by name of Whitney, had invented an iron gin... Hezekiah..." took a nine year old Gideon to see it.

- From "Early Records of Georgia, Vols 1 & 2": Lincecum, Hezekiah to Wm. West, 121 acres on water of Ogeechee on a creek or fork, agreeable to a plat annexed to a grant 1784 to said Lincecum. Nov 17, 1790. Jonathan McCrary, John Nugent, Andrew Burns, J. P. test.

- Hezekiah died in 1839. There are land records for a Hezekiah Lincecum in Mississippi (Columbus Land Office) in 1841. (?)

- He had property Wilkes County, Georgia, 1 December 1788. Linniecom, Hezekiah and wife Sarah, to Matthew McCravey, 179 Acres on Long Creek part of orig. grant 1784 to said Hezekiah. Dec. 1, 1788. Henry Townsend, Jona. Mc Cravy, James Wadsworth, Test.

- On 17 February 1788, Hezekiah was excommunicated from the Long Creek Church of Christ in Warren County, Georgia... "The Church of Christ on Long Creek of Ogechee being met in conference, pursued to take into consideration the irreligious conduct of Hezekiah Lensecom and unanimously agreed that he should be excommunicated. First for riding a race on the Sabbath day. Secondly for refusing the hear the Church when called on. Thirdly for offering to commit a rape on M. Jonegen."

- Mississippi Land Record for Hezekiah Lincecum:
Land Office: MT SALUS
Document Number: 3709
Total Acres: 78.31
Signature: Yes
Canceled Document: No
Issue Date: 1 Dec 1830
Mineral Rights Reserved: No
Metes and Bounds: No
Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566
Multiple Warantee Names: No
Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820
Multiple Patentee Names: No
Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries
Land Description: 1 E?SE HUNTSVILLE No 17S 18W 3

- Hezekiah is at least mentioned in each of the following books:
BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER: A TEXAS FOLKLORE SAMPLER by Francis Edward Abernethy
EARLY TEXAS PHYSICIANS, 1830 - 1915: INNOVATIVE, INTREPID, INDEPENDENT by Texas Surgical Society
THE FIRST WEST: WRITING FROM THE AMERICAN FRONTIER, 1776 - 1860 by Edward Watts

- Hezekiah "lived on a farm on the bank of the river near Champagne and Brandywine springs, four miles above Columbus. [Ancestry.com. A history of Columbus, Mississippi during the 19th century. Provo, UT. MyFamily.com, Inc. 2004. Original title by W. L. Lipscomb, Columbus, Miss. S. D. Lee Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. 1909. Pg 39.]

- "Hezekiah married Sally Hickman. Their first and most famous child was Gideon II (1793 - 1874)." [B. J. Lincecum, Lincecum Genealogy; Stephanie Lincecum, Perry, GA, 2015. Featuring "The Lincecum Line" genealogy report dated January 1990.]

Hezekiah married Sarah Hickman on 2 Mar 1791 in Warren, Georgia, USA. Sarah was born on 4 Mar 1777 in Anson, North Carolina, USA; died on 28 May 1848 in Catahoula, Louisiana, USA; was buried in Aimwell, Catahoula, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

- Gideon describes his mother, Sarah Hickman, "...there was nothing remarkable except that she could outrun anybody; was handsome, healthy, energetic, ingenious, industrious, frugal; but entirely illiterate."

Notes:

- Gideon and Miriam eloped and settled on the Saluda River in colony of South Carolina. They remained there fifteen years...

"Pascal thought the Bowies were pretentious and was not pleased with Gideon's engagement. Meanwhile, according to Gideon Lincecum II, Miriam's brother 'could not consent for his beautiful, young and highly accomplished sister to become the wife of a frog-eating Frenchman.' Since both sets of parents objected, Gideon and Miriam eloped." [Judy Jacobson, Alabama & Mississippi Connections]

- Gideon and Miriam went to Warren County, Georgia in 1769. They had been married 15 years earlier in Maryland.

- Gideon fought in the American Revolution; he was killed... Gideon was captain of a company of rangers that had been organized by the government for protection of the frontier against the Muscogee Indians, who had been hire by the British to kill and scalp the people of Georgia. Then came the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution. Colonel Few sent an order to Captain Lincecum to collect his rangers and meet his forces. At a point a few miles from (1871's) Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia, they came to a bunch of raw hide ropes that had been dropped in the path. They dismounted. The Indians that were concealed in the switch cane rose up and fired into the crowd. Two were killed and Lincecum received a shot in the thigh. The rangers began running with the Indians following. They ran less than half a mile when the bleeding Lincecum turned and faced the approaching savages. The captain fell mortally wounded. He was badly mutilated having had five scalp trophies taken from his head. His widow, Miriam, didn't feel safe and fled to the Edgefield district of South Carolina. She remained til peace was made. Meanwhile, her two sons, Edward and John, were taken prisoner and shot soon after the Battle of Cowpens.

- Source: Wilkes County Misc Records Book B, Folio 13 [http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/wilkes/court/lincecum744gwl.txt]
Written: February 10, 1784

Gideon Lincecum Estate Inventory
Wilkes Co., GA
10 Feb 1784

An Inventory of the Estate of Gideon Linecean Decd. taken this 10 day February
1784.

300 Acres Land ?125 One Negro named Tom ?60
1 Negro woman named Hannah ?50 1 Negro girl named Patt ?50
3 Feather Beads ?6 12 Pewter Plates ?10 6 Plates & 2 Dishes ?1 15sh.
1 axe & kittle 15sh. 1 Pegin(?) 1 Box Iron & Punch Bole(?) 1sh.
1 Candle stick & Snuffer 3 sh.

Appr. James Morgan
William White
Rezan Bowie

April 7th 1784
B. Heard

GA ARCHIVES, Dr. 45/Box 20
Wilkes Co., GA Misc. Estate Records
Book B, 1783-1784, Register Folio (13)
Transcribed by Bob & Linda Ellis, Duluth, GA

Note: This appraisal is believed to have taken place approximately 7 years
after Gideon Lincecum?s death as shortly after the skirmish with Indians in
which Gideon was killed (c. 1777-1778) and then nearby Augusta?s first fall to
the Tories most of the settlers in the area (including the Lincecum family,
according to Gideon?s grandson and namesake, Gideon Lincecum, 1793-1874, the
frontier naturalist) removed to the South Carolina side of the Savannah River
until peace was declared (a period of nearly 7 years). According to the
younger Gideon, the Lincecums were in the Edgefield District of SC during this
time period.

- Early Records of GIDEON LINCECUM, tak[en] from the "Early Records of Wilkes County, Georgia, Volume I and II"

Folio 13--LINECEAN (sic), GIDEON, dec'd. Inventory Feb. 18, 1784. Wm. White, James Morgan, Rezan (sic) Bowie, appraisers.

Folio 30--To MILLAY (Miriam) LINCOCEAN (sic), widow, "Whereas Gideon Lincocean (sic) late of this Co. lately died." Dec. 19, 1783. B. Heard, R. P.

Page 53--LINICUM, MERIUM (sic) to Richard Childers 200 acres on Powells creek. Feb. 14, 1785. Thos. Ansley, James Bowie, Burrill Waller, Samuel Braswell, Test.

Page 221--LINNIECOM (sic), HEZEKIAH and wife Sarah, to Matthew McCravey, 179 acres on Long creek part of orig. grant 1784 to said Hezekiah. Dec. 1, 1788. Henry Townsend, Jona. McCravy, James Wadsworth, Test.

Page 101--LINDSACUM (sic), HEZEKIAH to Wm. West both of Wilkes Co., 120 acres on Ogeechee orig. grant 1784 to said Hezekiah. Oct. 27, 1788. Benj. Moore, Wm. Smith, Test.

Volume II

Page 180--LINCECUM, HEZEKIAH to Wm. West, 121 acres on water of Ogeechee on a creek or fork, agreeable to a plat annexed to a grant 1784 to said Linecum. Nov. 17, 1790. Jonathan McCrary, John Nugent, Andrew Burns, J. P. test.

Gideon married Miriam Bowie about 1760 in Maryland, USA. Miriam (daughter of John Bowie, Jr. and Elizabeth Pottinger) was born between 1725 and 1749 in Maryland, USA; died in 1813 in Eatonton, Putnam, Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Miriam was the Scotch aunt of James Bowie, the originator of the Bowie knife.

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From Judy Jacobson's Alabama & Mississippi Connections
"Then later during the war, Tories who had overrun the area, severely beat Gideon's widow with an iron ramrod in an attempt to get her to reveal where her money was. Her slaves fled and feeling alone and unsafe in her own home, Miriam joined a group of Georgians going into Edgefield District of South Carolina. She remained there until peace came in 1783 and then returned to Wilkes County where she found her home and crops had been burned and livestock stolen by Tories."

From "Georgians in the Revolution":
[The following deposition from the Telamon Cuyler Collection, Special Collections, University of Georgia Libraries, reflects the type of decision that many families of Burke County and other areas of Georgia had to make in the last days of the Revolution.]

State of Georgia This Day appeared before me one of the Justices
Richd. County appointed for said County Meriam Lincecum and after
begin Duely sworn doth say that about ye 25th of
Feby. Last Past that she was at the House of John McDaniel, and she heard
said McDaniel say he was going away she asked him if his family was going
he said no. he should take what he wanted of his living with him and
the remainder he should leave with his wife to keep her children on and
she his said wife made answer that she chose to stay or go with the Liberty,
said Mcdaniel said the King's people had possession now but he expected
the Liberty would be here again, and he would not stay here but would
go Down Below as she the said Miriam Lencecium heard the said McDaniel's
wife say that she would not go with the King's people, but would stay
with the Liberty or words to that Effect sworn before me

14th Feby 1782 her
Jas. Bowie JP Miriam Lincecum
Mark

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From "Greene County, Georgia - Land Records"

Page 48: GREENE COUNTY, STATE OF GEORGIA. Miriam
Linnecone (?) of Washington County, on 31 May 1793, for love
and affection for my grandson, Giddeon Berry, I give one negro girl named
Patt. The first child of Patt will go to my granddaughter, Linna Linnecone,
but all other children to Giddeon. Wit.: Charles Medlock and P. Boyle, J.P.
Recorded 13 April 1795.

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From Rootsweb BOWIE-L mailing list archives:

"From:
Subject: Bowies of Maryland, LA/VA connection?
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:03:45 -0800

In the Texas State Library, a pair of spectacles that Belonged to James Bowie were found with the following documentation: "These spectacles were the property of James Bowie who came from Scotland, and settled in Maryland Ano Domini 1742. He was the oldest of eight brothers and sisters. He died soon after his arrival in America leaving the spectacles to his youngest sister, Miriam Lincecum. She at her death left them to Sarah Lincecum, the wife of her youngest child, Hezekiah Lincecum. And Sarah Lincecum gave them to her oldest son Gideon Lincecum, who is the writer of this in the year 1847. (Jennings, 1997 p. 4)*.

In her book, Jennings traces the line down to James Bowie of the Alamo. The year 1742 has a familar ring in the VA Bowie history as well....

Miriam Bowie died in 1813 at age 88, making her birth about 1725, since she was the younger sister, then James was born before 1725, and if above is correct, in Scotland. What is even more interesting, is at the death of Miriam's Husband, Gideon Lincecum, during the Revolutionary war, she went to live in Abbeville, South Carolina, assumably with relatives.

Since in this period, the Major John Bowie is in Abbeville, SC, this may imply that the line out of Dumbartonshire, and further back into Stirlingshire is this Bowie line. Since he is eldest, his grandfather should be James Bowie as well.

This would actually make sense. With so many James and John Bowies, it makes this part hard to sort out, but I reccomend other Bowie researchers get the Jennings book and let me know what you think. She has documentation, translations etc. on all of this.

Best Regards,
Cameron, Lori and Bob Bowie of Maine
PO Box 3751
Brewer, Maine 04412
deemi@juno.com"

*Book cited is The Rezin Bowie family of Louisiana: Documents supporting corrections and additions concerning the Rezin Bowie family of Louisiana and suggestions for further research by Virginia L. Jennings