Isham LESTER, Sr.

1799 - Aft 1860  (> 62 years)

• Name	Isham LESTER  [1]
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	1799	Chesterfield County, Virginia   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 1860	Giles County, TN   [1]
  Name	Isom Lester  [2]
  Death	Aft 1860	Alcorn County, MS   [1]
  Person ID	I13285	Wood-Lester
  Last Modified	17 May 2024

  
  

  Father	Lewis LESTER, Sr.,   b. Abt 1755, Probably in Virginia d. 3 Jan 1823, Oglethorpe County, GA (Age 68 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Rhoda (RUSSELL ?)   d. 2 Sep 1832, Oglethorpe County, GA
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F4705	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Manassa MCDONALD,   b. 1799, Shelby County, KY d. 1855, Alcorn County, MS (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	Between 1818 and 1819	Limestone County, AL   [1, 3]
  Children	1. Eliza LESTER,   b. Abt 1820, Alabama d. 1850 (Age 30 years)  [Father: natural]   2. James Reed LESTER,   b. 1822   d. 1890 (Age 68 years)  [Father: natural]   3. Parthenia LESTER,   b. 1825  [Father: natural]   4. Mary LESTER,   b. 1827  [Father: natural] + 5. Lewis John LESTER,   b. 25 Aug 1829, Giles County, TN d. 1906, Denton County, TX (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]   6. James Isham LESTER,   b. 5 Feb 1832, Alabama  [Father: natural]   7. Isham LESTER, Jr.,   b. 5 Feb 1832   d. 15 Apr 1885, Itawmba County, MS (Age 53 years)  [Father: natural]
  Family ID	F4774	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 May 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Note for place of death: Alcorn County, MS came into existence on 15-April-1870 and was formed from parts of Tippiah and Tishomingo counties which both still exist today. Therefore, it is unknown which county might have any records on this individual. In 1917 many vital records were lost in Alcorn County, MS ____________ Isham and Manassa married ca 1819 in Limestone County, Alabama. Their first two children were born in Limestone County, Alabama. They moved to Giles County, Tennessee where additional children were born, including Lewis John Lester in 1831. They subsequently moved to Mississippi. - Information provided by Paul David Lester in an email dated 23-May-2007 ____________ Event: 57 shares in Union Bank of Miss. Property 1838 Residence: NW corner of 1838 Tippah Co, Miss Note: which is now Benton County and next to Marshall County, Miss and on the Tenn line of Fayette County and Haridman. In 1870 Benton Co. was taken off of Tippah. They lived in Spring Hill 6 miles north of Salem. This is maybe 10 miles from Holly Springs in Marshall County, where JR was on the 1860 census. - Information provided by Riffe Family Site

  
  

• Sources

  [S211] Paul David Lester (Houston, TX), research data, email dated 23-May-2007. [S6] Robert Darious Wood, Sr and J Glenn Wood, "Our Time in History: This Wood & Lester Family", file 102A.txt. [S265] Julie Riffe, Rootsweb forum - Riffe Genealogy Page.