Contributed by Lou Whitley Mayo Ladson cladson@widomaker.com
Cordelia "Dilly" Harper - Daughter of Alexander2 and Courtney Coward
My great-great grandmother, Cordelia Harper Rasberry, was omitted from the list of children of Alexander Harper and Courtney Coward. I submit to you the following information on Cordelia Harper Rasberry for addition to your website. I am also including biographical information on each of Cordelia's children.
Known Children of Alexander
Harper2 and Courtney Coward were as follows:
- i. Francis Harper (as
listed on site)
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- ii. Alexander Harper III
(as listed on site)
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- iii. P/Saga Harper(as
listed), a daughter born June 24, 180_ (Dr. Ed Rasberry
Bible)
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- iv. Edward Harper (as
listed on site)
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- v. Cordelia
("Dilly") Harper, born
circa 1806 in Greene County, North Carolina, married Ben Rasberry
of Greene County in abt. 1824.
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- vi. Courtney J. Harper (as
listed on site)
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- Cordelia (Dilly) Harper was
the daughter of Alexander Harper and his wife, Courtney Harper.
(Dr. Ed Rasberry's Lineage Chart
- in possession of Judi Rasberry
Gettier of VA Beach, VA)
GREENE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. DEED
OF SALE BY ADMINISTRATOR OF CORDELIA RASBERRY'S ESTATE,
- SALE of LAND JOINTLY OWNED BY
SAID CORDELIA AND OTHER HARPER FAMILY MEMBERS: Sold to R. M.
McLawhorn
- on November 19, 1870, for $2500,
undivided tract of 75 acres of land, jointly owned by said
Cordelia Rasberry, deceased, and the heirs of
- Rebecca Harper, Edward Harper,
and Courtney (Harper) Jenkins, being 5/8 of the of the whole tract
of land, this land adjoining the lands of
- Courtney Jenkins, Tuton, and
Gardner Jones.
- Cordelia Harper married Benjamin
Rasberry, of Greene County, in abt. 1824. Benjamin Rasberry (born
abt. 1799-died abt. 1869) was the son of Joseph
- Rasberry (born 1770-75, died July
1854) and his 1st wife, Mary Smith.
(Dr. Ed Rasberry Lineage Chart,
GREENE CO.-RASBERRY VS. PORTER ET AL, 1836, U.S. Census)
- GREENE CO. NC DEED, February 21,
1854: Martha Williams and others to Benjamin Rasberry, land on
Sandy Run, beginning on Benjamin Rasberry's corner
- on Earl of Granville's line, 12
acres more or less, for $129. 90. Witnesses: John W. Rasberry
and William W. Harper
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- GREENE CO, NC DEED, Dec. 01, 1870
Whereas a petition was filed in Spring Term 1869 by Edward
Carman, Administrator of the estate of Benjamin Rasberry,
- deceased, for sale of a portion
of land of said Benjamin Rasberry estate, 275 acres, more or less,
was hereby sold on February 07, 1870 for $2500, land on the north
side
- of Sandy Run Swamp, 1 graveyard
excepted.. Witness: Edwin A. Rasberry
Benjamin Rasberry died by 1869
(GREENE CO. Estate Records of Edward Carman, Administrator of estate
of Benjamin Rasberry, deceased)
Cordelia Harper Rasberry died by
1870 (GREENE CO. Estate Records of William A Darden, Jr.,
Administrator of estate of Cordelia Rasberry, deceased)
Known Children of Cordelia Harper
(Alexander2, Alexander1) and Benjamin Rasberry:
i.
Mary Rasberry, born 1825-1829, died September, 182_ (Ed
Rasberry Bible)
ii. Margaret
Rasberry, born circa 1830
iii. Nancy Ann
Rasberry, born April, 1832, married abt. 1855 to William H.
Britt. Died after June, 1900 (NC Death Certificates of her
sons, U.S.Censuses)
- Children of Nancy Ann
Rasberry (Cordelia3 Harper, Alexander2, Alexander1)
and William H. Britt:
- Susan A. Britt, born
Sept. 1855 (U.S. Census of 1900)
- John Benjamin Britt,
born July 07, 1857, married Emma Dail. Died Aug. 28,
1916, buried in Snow Hill, NC. (NC Death
Certificates)
- Midian Britt, born
abt. 1859
- Robert D. Britt, born
October 28, 1860, married Hattie Cornelia Suggs in
abt. 1888. Died Jan. 03, 1917 (NC Death Certificates,
U.S. Census)
- Gray Britt, born abt.
1862
- Henry Britt, born abt
1864
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- iv.
Alexander Joseph Rasberry, born circa 1835, married Cordelia
Carmon Lyons in abt. 1857, daughter of Hannah Jackson Carman
and Joseph (?) Lyons.
- Died June 18, 1888,
in Kinston, NC (Obit., "Kinston Free
Press", June 21, 1888, US Census)
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- Children of Alexander
Joseph Rasberry (Cordelia3 Harper, Alexander2,
Alexander1) and Cordelia Carmen Lyons
- Hannah Cornelia
Rasberry, born c. 1858
- Olivia C. Rasberry,
born Feb. 12, 1860. Married William Franklin Phillips
at home of A. J. Rasberry on Dec. 08, 1880. Died
Sept. 20, 1886, buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Lenoir
Co. (Phillips Family Bible, Tombstone
record)
- Davis Alexander
Rasberry, born Jan. 19, 1861. Died Dec. 05, 1896,
buried in Rasberry Cemetery, Kinston, NC (Tombstone
record)
- Henry Jackson
Rasberry, born Dec. 27, 1862, married Annie Frances
Cason. Died Oct. 27, 1914, buried in Dixon Cemetery
in Greene Co., reinterred in Forrest Hill Cemetery,
Farmville, NC (U.S. Census of 1880, NC Death
Certificate, Tombstone record)
- William O. Rasberry,
born July 26, 1872. Married Annie McCotter on May 01,
1893, died Aug. 31, 1944. Buried in Maplewood
Cemetery, Kinston, NC (Obit., "Kinston Daily Free
Press," Sept. 1, 1944, Tombstone record)
- Minnie Agnes
Rasberry, born Oct.09, 1873, died March 11, 1897,
buried in Rasberry Cemetery, Kinston, NC (Tombstone
record).
- Ella Carmon Rasberry,
born Oct. 12, 1877. Died Feb 06, 1944, buried in
Maplewood Cemetery, Lenoir Co., NC (NC Death
Certificate, Tombstone record)
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- v.
Harriet A. M. Rasberry, born August 02, 1836, married
William Whitley, son of Jordan and Rachel Whitley, in abt.
1857. After William's death in the
- Civil War on June 15,
1865, she remarried in abt. 1866 to John B. Sylivant.
She died in Greene Co. on August 03, 1873, buried in
Whitley Family
- Cemetery, reinterred
in Greenlawn Cemetery, Greenville, NC. (Tombstone
records, U.S. Censuses)
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- Children of Harriet
A. M. Rasberry (Cordelia3 Harper, Alexander2,
Alexander1) and John B. Sylivant, Greene Co.,
NC
- Ida Sylivant, born
July 24, 1867. Died Nov. 02, 1868, buried in Sylivant
Cemetery in Greene Co. (Tombstone record)
- John Sylivant, born
Oct. 10, 1868. Died Oct., 11, 1868, buried in
Sylivant Cemetery in Greene Co. (Tombstone
record)
- Harriett ("Hattie")
Sylivant, born May 16, 1871. Married to William H.
White, a Pitt Co. merchant, on Feb. 24, 1892. Died
Sept. 3, 1939 in Pitt Co., buried in Cherry Hill
Cemetery, Greenville, NC (U. S. Censuses, NC Death
Certificate)
- Unnamed Daugher- Born
and died on August 3, 1873. Buried with mother in
Whitley Family Cemetery, reinterred in Greenwood
Cemetery, Greenville, NC. (Tombstone
record)
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Children of Harriet A. M.
Rasberry (Cordelia3 Harper, Alexander2, Alexander1) and
William Whitley
- Nancy Ann Cordelia
Whitley, born June 03, 1858. Married James William
Ormond by Nov. 1875. Died July 28, 1918 in Greene Co.
Buried in Whitley Cemetery in Greene Co., later
reinterred in Greenwood Cemetery in Pitt Co., NC
(Tombstone record, Greene Co. Probate Court, Nov. 10,
1875, Division of Whitley Place, James Ormond Copy
Book)
- Lula Susan Whitley,
born Aug. 23, 1862. Married Louis Allen Mayo on Dec.
22, 1886 at the home of Sally Rasberry Dixon in Greene
Co. Died Sept. 16, 1918. Buried in Mayo Cemetery in
Pitt Co., NC, reinterred in Greenwood Cemetery in
Greenville, NC (Tombstone record, Greene Co. Marriage
Certificate, NC Death Certificate)
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vi. Martha A.
C. Rasberry, born circa 1846
vii. Lucetta
(Frances) Rasberry, born circa 1849. (Was living with her
sister Harriet Whitley Sylivant in the 1870 Census, after the
death of her parents)
viii. Benjamin
Rasberry, born circa 1852 (Was living with William Darden in
the 1870 Census, after the death of his parents)
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