4. Henry R. Middleton was born May 3, 1842 in Wayne County, TN. He married Mary V.
WOMBLE 1868. Mary, the daughter of Samuel Allen Womble and Mary
Martha CATES, was born September 27, 1841 in Weakley County, TN.
Known children of Henry R. and Mary V. Womble Middleton were:
Rufus R. Middleton born October 21, 1869 and died July 1, 1931. He married Edna E. SHEPARD and they are buried at Owen's Chapel Cemetery in Graves County. They had no children.
William Arthur Middleton born 1872.
Samuel R. Middleton born 1877.
Samuel died before 1900, William Arthur was single and living with his parents on the 1900 census. The 1900 census states that Mary was the mother of 5 children with only 2 living. Two unknown children were born and died between 1880 and 1900.
Mary died May 21, 1906 and Henry died March 25, 1917. They are buried at Owen's Chapel Cemetery in Graves County.
5. Hanson A. Middleton was born March 6, 1844 in Wayne County, TN. Shortly after he
was Paroled from his service in the Confederate Army, Hanson married Georgie Ann ADAMS. Georgie Ann, the daughter of Thomas Adams and Salita G. FARMER, was born October 22, 1850. Hanson was a Mail Carrier. He and Georgie Ann were members of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Carlisle for several years and then members of Antioch Baptist Church in Ballard. Hanson and Georgie Ann had 8 known children but only 2 are known to have survived to adulthood.
The children who did not survive were:
O. T. Middleton born June 6, 1870 and died May 5, 1872.
Greenbury A. Middleton born January 10, 1875 and died January 11, 1875.
They are buried at Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery in Carlisle County.
Daisy B. Middleton born May 16, 1881 and died February 15, 1903.
Alex Middleton born 1876 and died November 9, 1889.
Marandy C. Middleton born about 1873, death date unknown.
The three above are buried at Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery in Ballard County.
The surviving sons were:
William F. Middleton born April 15, 1868 and died February 29, 1916. He married a Laura JETER, born May 21, 1866, the daughter of Matthew JETER and Mildred TRICE. Laura died Oct 21, 1950 in Kevil. They had 2 children, one a son named Odell.
Robert S. Middleton born 1878 and died October 17, 1964 in McCracken County. In 1909 he married a Georgia L., surname unknown, and they had one son.
Georgie Ann Adams Middleton died September 15, 1894. Hanson remarried June 2, 1895 to Mary L. Adams. Mary was born November 12, 1848 and died November 1, 1905. Hanson died March 19, 1906 and is buried with his two wives at Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery in Ballard County.
6. Richard Greenberry Middleton, Jr. was born about 1846 in either Wayne or Perry County TN. He went by the nickname Green and the initials G. B. He married Sarah Jane HUTCHERSON before 1869. Sarah Jane was born December 1850, the daughter of John Washington Hutcherson and Mary WHITE. [NOTE from another researcher: Sarah Jane Hutchison (Hutcheson) Middleton Garrett Born 1850 Tenn. was the daughter of Ivy Hutchison. (Hutcherson).not George Washington Hutcherson (Hutcherson) who also had a daughter named Sarah born at a later date.. Several different spellings. My mother says it was Hutchison. or Hutcheson. Ernestine ]
Green remains a mystery to me. G. B. Middleton, his wife Sarah Jane, and daughter Mary Harriett appear on the 1870 Census of Ballard twice. Their household is shown in District 2, Barlow, near his parents, and then again in District 8, Blandville. That is the last record I can find of him or his daughter Mary Harriett who was born in 1869.
According to the Ballard County Cemetery Book, volume I, Unsell Cemetery, Green and Sarah Jane had a son, John Lewis Middleton, born October 1, 1875 and died July 4, 1898. This son John is buried in the Unsell Cemetery. Sarah Jane Hutcherson Middleton Garrett is buried next to her son John in the Unsell Cemetery with no death date given for her. The book states that Sarah Jane remarried and was the wife of William E. GARRETT at the time of her death. I assume that Green died, probably between 1875 and 1880. He may be buried in an unfound grave like the other family members who died during the 1870s.
7. Mary C. Middleton was born about 1849 in Wayne or Perry County, TN. Nothing more is known about her after her appearance on the 1860 Census of Ballard County in the household of her parents.
8. Malinda Jane Middleton was born June 12, 1851 in Graves County, KY. She married Isaac Hall RANSOM, the brother of her sister Ellen's husband. Isaac was born May 28, 1852, the son of Richard Madison and Elizabeth HALL Ransom. Isaac was a blacksmith and carpenter. Jane and Isaac had 5 known children.
Their children were:
Elishey H. Ransom born about 1874. Nothing more is known about him after the 1880 Census.
Oliver (Ollie) Hall Ransom was born 1876 and died August 27, 1948 in Carlisle County. Ollie married Lena Ann MARTIN before 1910. Lena was born about 1883, the daughter of Robert H. and Adar E. Martin. Lena died January 4, 1968. They appear to have been childless. They are buried at Zoar Cemetery in Carlisle County.
Richard M. Ransom was born 1878 and died November 9, 1947 in Graves County. He married Sarah Fanny Unknown before 1904. They had a daughter Orena and a son Vesta. Sarah died September 4, 1958 in Graves County.
Colie A. Ransom was born 1882 and died May 11, 1929 in Carlisle County. He married Bonny L. Unknown before 1902. Bonny was born 1883 and died 1965. They had one son, Homer, born in 1902. Colie and Bonny are buried at Zoar Cemetery.
Annie Ransom was born 1884 in Ballard County. She is on the 1910 Census of Carlisle in the household of her parents and I know nothing more about her.
Malinda Jane Middleton Ransom died February 3, 1929 and Isaac Ransom died April 17, 1926. They are buried together at Zoar Cemetery in Carlisle County.
9. America A. Middleton was born 1855 in Graves County. She married Alfred F. CARTER February 24, 1875 in Ballard County. Alfred was the brother of her sister Sarah Lyla's husband John. Alfred was born about 1857 in Missouri, the son of James Carter and Elizabeth JONES.
America and Alfred had 3 daughters by the 1880 Census, Sarah C. born December 1876 and twin daughters Corah and Lory born 1879. America was dead before March 25, 1883 when Alfred remarried to M. E. HAMMONDS. Alfred was widowed again and married Mattie J. PRUITT September 15, 1889 and they had at least 4 children.
America is buried in the Carter Family Graveyard in Carlisle County. Nothing more is known about her twin daughters Corah and Lory. Her daughter Sarah married Thomas J. MENSER July 30, 1896 in Carlisle.
10. Sarah Lyla Middleton was born about 1857 in Graves County, KY. Sometime in the 1870s Lyla married John F. CARTER in Ballard County. John was the son of James Carter and Elizabeth Jones, and the brother of Alfred Carter who married Lyla's sister America. Lyla and John had twin sons whose names are unknown. Lyla and the twins died before the 1880 Census. Lyla and her sons are buried in the Carter Family Graveyard along with Lyla's sister America. John remarried, had four children and is buried with his wife Maria in Bethlehem Cemetery in Carlisle County.
