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The McDonald Family of
Madison County, Florida
Beth Gay, DCTJ, FSA Scot
Louise Booth
229-985-6540
229-782-5674
PO Box 2693
Moultrie, GA 31776-2693
In the Old Parish Records
of Perthshire, Scotland, there is a record of Duncan Macdonald and
Shusanna Mackintosh registering the birth of a son, John, on 7 November
1774. John's actual birth date, according to family Bible records was 30
October 1774.
Family tradition says that
John immigrated to America from Glasgow, Scotland. He was shown as "John
McDaniel" in the Jefferson County, GA census in 1790. He was deceased by
1840 and is buried "on the Ogoochee River."
(McDonald/McDaniel/Macdonald/MacDonald, M'Donald, etc., are completely
interchangeable with all of the prefixes simply meaning "son of.")
This John was on the 3 July
1799 Petit Jury list in Jefferson County, Georgia (Louisville) and was
married to Mary ?.
Family tradition says that
John's father was "a wee red-headed Scotsman who walked with a cane and
ate from gold plates. He left land and money to his son (John) who could
not go back for it."
Issue of John and Mary
include: Jane H., born 29 September 1798 (married ca 1818 Shepherd Green
in Sumter Co., Americus, GA); Rachel E., born 14 May 1806 (married 26 Nov.
1824 to Robert L. Albritton); Mary Anney (Anna) Bell, born 27 August 1809
and died 16 June 1848 (married in Jefferson Co., GA 1824 to Thomas Green,
Jr.); John, born October 1812; Lovey Emmaline, born 1 August 1814 (married
to ? Pruett); James Madison, born 25 August 1816, Jefferson Co.,
Georgia - died 26 March 1899 Madison County, Florida (married Mary Cannon
23 February 1842); John Allen, born 5 March 1820, Randon/Randall/Ranald
was born 21 June 1820; Adline; Sarah who married ? Green (son, Thomas
Jefferson Green, CSA, who married 23 April 1885 in Lee County, GA).
James Madison McDonald
lived in the Augusta, GA/SC area and family tradition says he was a
"riverboat captain." According to family stories, he became angered over
the slavery issue and sold his riverboat and put the money in a red
bandana and came to Florida via Sumter County - Americus - Georgia. Census
records show him in Sumter County in 1840 with his family. He was also in
the Thomas County, Georgia 1840 census as James "McDaniel." He had a land
grant in Florida just south of Madison…and was there before 1850.
James Madison McDonald
and Mary Cannon (born 2 April 1825 and died 10 November or 11 October
1883 in Madison County, FL (buried Dowling Park) had children: George
McDonald, CSA, born 21 July 1843 - 11 July 1864 in the war; Lucinda
McDonald, born 8 Januarary 1845 and died 12 Dec. 1809 and is buried in
Orange Cemetery, Suwanee County, FL (She married J.C. Williams in 1888);
Harriet McDonald born 23 February 1847 and died 25 May 1916 (She married
William T. Porter 27 December 1869); Sarah "Sid" McDonald was born 2
January 1849 and died 29 January 1930 (she married 29 September 1869
Samuel Monroe Brown); Annie McDonald was born 4 May 1851 (married Brinson
"Brince" Lamb); James McDonald, Jr., born 4 February 1854 near Madison, FL
and died 7 February 1884 (He married Lora Virginia Scott); John Daniel
McDonald was born 1 September 1856 at Hopewell, near Madison, and died 2
December 1932 (He married 20 December 1883 Zillian Zaradora Phillips);
William F. McDonald was born 12/20 January 1861 and died 28 June 1869;
Laura McDonald was born 3 September 1863 and died 16 July 1932 (married 12
December 1885 Martin Faircloth); Flora McDonald was born 20 April 1862 and
died 8 June 1951 (married 9 December 1886 "Leavie" Faircloth); and Mary
Ann McDonald was born 12 September 1856 and died 23 December 1941 (she
married James Henry Samuel Jordan).
After the death of Mary
Cannon, James Madison McDonald married Safroney Whitten 9 April 1890 in
Madison, Madison County, Florida.
John Daniel McDonald and
Zillianne Zaradora Phillips (the daughter of James Phillips and Martha
Jane Cone) had issue: Mary Jane, born 23 October 1884 in Madison, FL and
died 16 February 1886; William Henry, born 16 January 1886 and died 21
January 1887; Annie Roberta (Beth's grandmother), born 11 July 1887
and married 26 March 1907 to Robert Benjamine Bishop - after his death
with no issue, married 18 July 1916 Joseph Tompkins (Annie Roberta died 30
October 1960 in Jacksonville, Florida); John Edward, born 26 July 1889 and
died 11 November 1890; James Oscar (Louise's grandfather), born 2
April 1891 and died 6 January 1970 (married 19 December 1909 Edna Mae
Woodward); Emily Estelle, born 21 March 1893 and died 25 December 1980
(married 4 August 1913 to Jasper Edwin Stuart); Jessie Mae, born 4
February 1895 and died 23 January 1974 (married 15 March 1914 Walter
Clarence Copeland).
Many of this family are
buried in Mt. Olive Cemetery near Madison and Oak Ridge Cemetery in
Madison.
Just some of the Madison
County families that have ties to this McDonald family are Henderson,
Cone, Phillips, Bishop, Hill, Popwell (Poppell, etc.), Dyess, Burnette,
Stubbs, Morris.
The old family "plantation"
was near Mt. Olive Cemetery, near Madison. Other family land included
acreage near Cherry Lake, Florida/Quitman, Georgia. |
