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Abednigo Kiser
and Mary Polly Jessee
Abednigo Kiser b 1784 Clinch River Russell Co VA d 4 Oct 1814 Norfolk VA buried
Cedar Grove Cemetery, Norfolk VA, s/o
Joseph Kenton Kiser and Susannah Stacy. Abednigo
Kiser m. 8 Sept 1803
Russell Co VA to Mary Polly Jessee b about 1787
Cobbs Creek, Caswell Co NC d 1836 Reeds Valley Russell Co VA, d/o John Jessee
and Frances Frankey Lea. Mary Polly Jessee m. after 1815 to
James Jimmy Chafin. Children
of Abednigo Kiser and Mary Polly Jessee;
1. Frances Kiser b Feb 1805 Russell Co VA d 18 Feb 1887 Carbo Russell Co VA m. Russell Co VA to Abraham Childers (aka Childress) b 1800 Russell Co VA d 29 Dec 1887 Carbo Russell Co VA, s/o Abraham Childress and Elizabeth Roberts. Children
of Abraham Childers and Francis Kiser;
I. Mary Ann Polly Childress b 21 Oct 1822 Russell Co VA d 27 Oct 1887 m. about 1846 Russell Co VA to Elijah Sutherland b 10 Oct 1823 Russell Co VA d 25 Nov 1918, s/o Daniel Sutherland and Phoebe Fuller.
II. Elizabeth Childress b 13 Jun 1824 Russell Co VA d after 1900 never m. Spouse Unknown. Children; Catherine "Chary" Childress b 1857 Russell Co VA, Laura Childress b 1862 Russell Co VA, Virginia Childress b 1863 Russell Co VA and Joseph Childress b 1865 Russell Co VA.
III. Martha Mattie Childress b 23 Jan 1826 Carbo Russell Co VA d 1906 m. Nimrod
Kiser b 16 May 1823 Russell Co VA d 31 May 1905 s/o Ephraim Noah Kiser and Mary Polly Sutherland. Children; J Baxter
Kiser b 1848 d 1922 m. Emily Jane Sutherland b 1856 d 1949 - child; Osie Kiser and 9 other Children
Kiser.
IV. John Harvey Childress b 26 Oct 1827 Russell Co VA d 4 May 1902 VA m. 7 Dec 1855 to Rebecca Sue Owens Jessee (aka Burke) b 4 Sept 1836 Russell Co VA d 28 Apr 1926 Reeds Valley Russell Co VA, d/o Archer Jessee and Mary Polly Wilson Owens.
2. Martha Kiser b Feb 1807 Russell Co VA d 18 Oct 1839 Russell Co VA m.
Joshua Counts b 27
Sept 1801 Russell Co VA d 15 Feb 1883 Russell Co VA, s/o John "of Cleveland"
Counts and Margaret Peggy Kelly. Joshua Counts m. 2nd to
Rebecca Kelly b 1816 Russell Co VA, d/o Peter
Kelly and Susanna Banner. Joshua Counts m. 3rd to
Margaret Fannin (aka Fanning) b 20 Jan 1820
Russell Co VA d 15 Dec 1889 Russell Co VA, d/o Francis Fannin and Matilda
Browning.
3. Noah Kiser b Feb 1809 Reeds Valley Russell Co VA m. 1827 Russell Co VA
to Boadica "Dicie" Thompson b 1811 Russell Co VA. (Source).
4. Elihu Kiser b 15 Feb 1810 d 1900 m. 15 Apr 1832 Russell Co VA to
Jane
"Jennie" Skeen b 1811 VA d 1900, d/o Jonathon "Rees" Skeen and Elizabeth Sergent (aka Sargent). (Source).
Mary Polly Jessee
and James Chafin
Mary Polly Jessee m. after 1815 Russell Co VA to 2nd James "Jimmy" Chafin.
More About Mary Polly Jessee
(Source): Polly Jessee married Abednego
Kiser,
and after his death at the fight at Cowan Creek, she married James Jimmy Chafin.
He had no children by her, but later married and had children with his 2nd wife. Years later, Abednego's widow married
Jim Chafin, but no children were born to them. They lived in Reeds Valley among
the Jessees." This was from the interview of Mahala Kiser Sutherland who said
she had married herself in 1851 and that Mary had died before she (Mahala)
married, but "I saw her several times before I married." In one of the stories,
it says that Jim Chafin mistreated Polly Jessee Kiser Chafin so bad that one day
her son-in-law went to their home and brought Polly back to live with him and
her daughter. After Jim sobered up, he came the daughter's home and said he was
taking Polly home but they would not let her go with him, which made Jim very
angry. According to the story, Polly died soon after this and Jim married again
and had a family. Mahala thought Polly was buried at Little Arch Jessee
Graveyard in Reed's Valley.
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