![]() ![]() Reproduction of Montgomery County Land Book. Interestingly, a farmhouse survived on the property at least until 1971 as shown in the aerial photograph below. Chappell Gray was a colorful character in his own right, one who overcame troubles for bootlegging in the 1920s to become a long-time county commissioner and widely respected cotton planter. Indeed, Chappel held the property to the end of his days. Gray in paying off the debt on the property assuaged any doubt of his intent and resolve. Gray’s step daughter but the diligence of the younger Mr. Gray to his nephew Chappell angered his siblings according to W. The latter held the property until he sold it in 1899 to Thomas Jefferson Gray (1864-1937), upon whose death the tract passed to William Chappell Gray (1901-1978). The ownership of the tract subsequently (after about 1853) transferred from Noah Moates to Martin Willis (1825-1866), and-on his death-to his heirs: wife Sarah Ann Ingram Willis (1829-1895) and son Asa “Acie” James Willis (1860-1946). ( Carey may have been a kinsman of Noah, but the relationship is unclear) Nevertheless, apparently Noah Moates rented and resided on the land until he purchased it. The land had previously been purchased and held in 1819 by a Carey Motes of Abbeville, S.C. The legal description of this aliquot is East Half Southwest Quarter Section 6 Township 13 North Range 20 East. Noah settled on and later patented a half-quarter section neat the Little Sandy Creek in Montgomery County, Alabama on 16 Sept 1831. ![]() She was the mother of my mother’s grandfather, James Marion Moates (1843-1921) by an illicit affair with William Goodman Miley of Pike County, Alabama. Indirect evidence comes from the later census-documented 1823 birth year of daughter Rachel (1823-1872) that is universally reported to have occurred in Alabama. The first direct evidence of Noah’s presence in Alabama appears as a record of his appointment as Justice of the Peace for Montgomery County in 1825. Responding to the urges of “Alabama Fever,” Noah at about the age of 27, along with his young bride Elizabeth Pilcher Moates (1796-1874) and infant son William (1815-1849), began his westward journey on the Fall Line Road across Georgia to the Federal Road to Macon and Columbus, Georgia and on to Montgomery County, Alabama. (1760-1830) and Rachel Adams Moates (1763-1830), descendants of Huguenot immigrants from France who were residing in the 96 District (after 1800 Abbeville County) of upcountry South Carolina. In 1793 Noah Moates, we believe, was born to William Chesley Moates Sr.
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