Robert F. ALTIZER

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West VA Vital Records
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=1928395&Type=Death

Robert married Eliza J. NELSON 5 Feb 1872, Tazewell Co. VA. Eliza (daughter of Israel Nelson and Susan) was born 15 Jun 1854, Ashe Co. NC; died 27 May 1932, Bartley, McDowell Co. WV. [Group Sheet]

1. Sally ALTIZER was born Oct 1875, Tazewell Co. VA.
2. Elizabeth ALTIZER was born ca 1877.
3. Eveline ALTIZER was born 1878, Tazewell Co. VA; died 9 Dec 1894, Tazewell Co., VA.
4. Nancy Jane ALTIZER was born 16 Dec 1882, Tazewell Co. VA; died 02 Mar 1943, McDowell Co. WV.
5. William Jasper ALTIZER was born 11 Apr 1885, Tazewell Co., VA; died Bef 29 Aug 1942.
6. John ALTIZER was born 07 Oct 1887, Tazewell Co. VA; died Dec 1961.
7. Hugh Andrew ALTIZER was born 1888, Canebrake, McDowell Co. WV.
8. George Washington ALTIZER was born 18 Sep 1890, Tazewell Co., VA; died 14 Feb 1949, Canebrake, Mercer Co. WV; was buried , Hartwell Cemetery Canebrake McDowell Co. WV.
9. Glen Johnson ALTIZER was born 14 Oct 1891, McDowell Co., WV; died 15 May 1918.
10. Magdalene (Maggie) ALTIZER was born Jan 1892, Tazewell Co. VA; died 4 Mar 1944.
11. Joshua H. ALTIZER was born 1897.
12. Hobart ALTIZER
13. Belle ALTIZER

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Died:
West Virginia Vital Records
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=4686514&Type=Death

John married Sarah Rebecca BEAVERS 16 Jul 1841, Tazewell Co. VA. Sarah (daughter of Alexander BEAVERS, Jr. and Sarah RICE) was born 1820, Tazewell Co. VA; died 8 Jun 1855, Tazewell Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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Cause of Death: dropsy

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Married:
Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940
Name: John Attiser
Spouse's Name: Sally Beavers
Event Date: 16 Jul 1841
Event Place: Tazewell, Virginia
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M01695-4
System Origin: Virginia-EASy
GS Film number: 34214
Reference ID: Page 152

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Tazewell Co. Death Register, page 7, line 307, shows David (Reilly) Altizer died 26 Sept 1854 at Dividing Ridge of dropsy. 2nd page states unknown parentage, married, farmer, reported by son-in-law John Christian.

David married Susan SLUSHER Abt 1809, Montgomery Co. VA. Susan (daughter of Christopher Schlosser and Eva Jane Hancock) was born Abt 1786, Maryland; died Aft 1860, Tazewell Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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Info on her parents are from the Pane-Joyce Genealogy
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr24/rr24_086.html#P52967

However, the Altizer Family site has her last name as possibly Sadler.

http://www.altizerfamily.com/TNG/getperson.php?personID=I1623&tree=tree1

Some other sources have her listed as Susan Slusher Brewster. So it is not confirmed if she is descended from or even related to the Slusher family of Floyd Co. VA who are the descendants of Christopher Slusher. So proceed with caution in using this information on her possible parentage as there is no documentation or proof at this point.

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FamilySearch.com, LDS Internet Site, 16 Sep 2000, wbarnett@netscope.net

CENSUS RECORDS

1810 Census
Name: Alexr Beavers
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Christiansburg, Montgomery, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 2

1830 Census
Name: Alexander Beavanrs [Alexander Beavers]
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Tazewell, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 3
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 5
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 5

1840 United States Federal Census
Name: Alexr Beavers [Alex Jr Beavers]
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Tazewell, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 4
No. White Persons over 20 Who Cannot Read and Write: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 9
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 11
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 11

1850 United States Federal Census
Name: Alex Beavers
Age: 77
Birth Year: abt 1773
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1850: Western District, Tazewell, Virginia
Gender: Male
Family Number: 1178
Household Members:
Moses Christian 56
Polly Christian 50 [daughter]
Lome Christian 23 [Samuel]
Jno Christian 15
Shone Christian 13
Mosten Christian 10 [Mastin]
Alex Beavers 77
[Note: his wife is still alive and is living with John Altizer, their son-in-law and daughter Sally.]



Buried:
Grave site is listed on findagrave.com.

Beavers Family Cemetery, Dicks Creek, Tazewell Co. VA

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Beavers&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSst=48&GScnty=2891&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=16960234&

Died:
Virginia, Deaths and Burials Index, 1853-1917
Name: Alex Beavers
Birth Date: abt 1773
Death Date: Dec 1858
Death Place: Dicks Creek, Tazewell, Virginia
Death Age: 85
Gender: Male
FHL Film Number: 34185

Alexander married Sarah RICE 7 Jan 1793, Montgomery Co. , Va.. Sarah (daughter of James RICE and Elinor) was born Abt 1774, Virginia; died 1850, Tazewell Co. VA; was buried , Beavers Family Cemetery, Dicks Creek, Tazewell Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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FamilySearch.com, LDS Internet Site, 16 Sep 2000, wbarnett@netscope.net

Moses Jackson Beavers, born in 1793 in Giles Co, VA; died 28 Dec 1870 in Tazewell Co, VA; son of Alexander and Sarah Rice Beavers; married Phebe Harman. Sarah Rice was daughter of James Rice.

CENSUS RECORDS

1850 United States Federal Census
Name: Sally Beavis [Sarah Beavers]
Age: 75
Birth Year: abt 1775
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1850: Western District, Tazewell, Virginia
Gender: Female
Family Number: 1158
Household Members:
Jno Altiser 25 [son-in-law]
Sally Altiser 30 [daughter]
Susan Altiser 7
Cathrine Altiser 4
Robbin Altiser 1
Sally Beavers 75
[Note: her husband is still alive and is living with Moses Christian, their son-in-law and daughter Polly.]





Buried:
Grave location:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=2199276&GRid=16960241&

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Married:
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: Alexander Beavers
Gender: Male
Birth Place: VA
Birth Year: 1772
Spouse Name: Sarah Rice
Spouse Birth Year: 1775
Marriage
Year: 1793
Marriage State: VA
Number Pages: 1

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Original name was von Althauser.

Information from Jay Altizer. Please check his site for all things Altizer!

http://www.altizerfamily.com

Emera Altizer was born Emmerich Althauser in 1749, in Dutchess Co., New York, to German immigrants Johann Peter Althauser and Elisabetha Christiana Laucks. As a young man, Emera traveled south to Lancaster Co., PA where (according to family tradition) he worked as a cobbler for a Michael Pitzer. He married Pitzer's daughter Anna Marie in July, 1773 at Hagarstown, MD. Shortly after his marriage Emera moved to Montgomery Co. VA and lived there until his death in 1819. He is buried in the Altizer Cemetery on Chestnut Ridge in Montgomery Co. Emera was father to eight children (six boys and two girls) and those of us who bear the name Altizer, or have an Altizer in our ancestral line, all descend from this one man who lived through the last half of the 18th century.

The children of Emera Altizer were John, Emera Jr., Nancy, Elias, David Riley, William Alexander, Elizabeth and Jonas. Each of these children had rather large families and Emera became grandfather to approximately 70 grandchildren. Of the Altizer male children: John, Emery Jr. and Jonas lived their lives in the Montgomery Co and Floyd Co area. Jonas inherited the Altizer homeplace on condition that he care for his mother until her death. Elias, David, and William left Montgomery Co. about 1810, and headed west for the newly opened Indiana Territory. David settled in Tazewell Co, near what is now Cedar Bluff (supposedly because one of his children got sick) while the other two young men went on to settle in the southwest corner of Indiana (later Illinois). As for the two Altizer girls, Nancy married Adam Akers and Elizabeth married George Reed, and they both stayed in the Montgomery Co. area and raised their families there.

The largest concentration of the Altizer clan is in and around the Tazewell Co., VA area, and most of these members are descended from David Riley, and of those, the majority are descended from his son William. The children of Elias and William Alexander apparently had the same wander gene as their fathers, following the westerly migrations and creating branches of the family in Illinois, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Missouri, Wisconsin, Texas, California and other areas. Of course, in the post WWII automotive age, every branch of the family has become mobile and scattered all over the country. And today there are probably as many Altizers in Florida as in Virginia.

Emera could neither read nor write so the revised spelling of his name was probably from some notary or census taker who spelled it as he heard it. The German name Althauser has an umlaut over the a, making the pronunciation something like "Althoiser" In the 1810 census his first name is spelled Emeriah, and a few records exist that spell the last name "Althiser". There are other variations of the Althauser name but none of those have been traced to Emera, yet everyone I've met who spells the name "Altizer" or ?Alltizer? can trace their lineage directly to Emera. We are today recording eleven generations of his descendants. From telephone records and other sources I have seen, I estimate there are some 4000 people living who bear the name and, if my grasp of math and genetic traits is correct, there could be over 1 million other descendents of Emera Altizer.




Christened:
Source: Pane-Joyce Genealogy
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr21/rr21_134.html#P36978

Buried:
Grave location and tombstone photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=1979246&GRid=42630127&

Emera married Anna Marie Pitzer Jul 1773, Hagerstown, MD. Anna (daughter of Michael Pitzer and Sophia Charlotte Bashore) was born 15 Feb 1756, New Holland, Lancaster County, PA; died 25 Aug 1850, Montgomery Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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Some researchers have her name as Mary Miller dob ca 1759. However Jay Alitzer at http://www.altizerfamily.com has provided the information I use.

In Jul 1773 Emmerich married Anna Maria Pitzer, daughter of Michael Pitzer (20 Feb 1733/4-17 May 1822) & Sophia Carlotta Baishore (24 Mar 1739/40-ca 1789), at Hagerstown, MD. Born on 15 Feb 1756 at Lancaster, PA. Baptized on 25 Apr 1756 at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Holland. Anna Maria died at Montgomery Co., VA, on 25 Aug 1850.

Also see Payne-Joyce website:
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr21/rr21_134.html#P36978

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Source: Pane-Joyce Genealogy for DOB and DOD

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr24/rr24_086.html#P52967

Original spelling of name was Schlosser.

Some years after his service in the Revolutionary War as Private First Class in Captain Stone's Company of the Second Battalion of the Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) Militia, Christopher migrated down the valley of Virginia to Montgomery County (from which Floyd County was formed 1831).

By 1803 Christopher and his family settled on 600 acres in what is now Floyd County. He owned over 1600 acres by the time of his death, Dec. 11, 1845.

Christopher married Eva Jane Hancock 1775, Lebanon, Lancaster Co. PA . Eva was born 1758, Pennsylvania; died 1838, Floyd Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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WILL ABSTRACT

1774 Nov 9 Robert Bevers of Mansfield, Woodhouse Township, Sussex Co. NJ, yeoman, Will of. Wife Elizabeth Bevers £200. Son Alexander £40. To Abraham Bevers, oldest son of my oldest son, Alexander, £10. Daughter Sarah, wife of Abraham Axford, £80. Son William, £100. Daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Doctor Samuel Cannady,£80. Son Robert, £100, Son Moses £200. To George Bevers, oldest son of my brother, Joseph Bevers, £10. Lands to be sold and money divided among my children, Alexander, Sarah, William, Elizabeth, Robert, and Moses.

Executors: Wife, Elizabeth; and my sons, Robert and Moses; and my son-in-law, Doctor Samual Cannady.

Witnesses: John Marlatt, Nathan Marlatt, and Mary Bevers.

Proved Oct. 17, 1777. Inventory £1,342.10.3 made by Garrett Rapalje and Newbold Wootson.

Alexander married Nancy UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet]

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Most likely she was his first wife.

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LAND, TAX, AND CENSUS RECORDS

1782 Montgomery Co. tax list. Spencer, John and James Rice. "James Rice and Robert Bristoe lived two houses apart. Later two land sales were listed as the James Rice and Robert Fristoe/Bristoe improvements."

1793 Wythe Co. Va tax list area North of Walker's Mountain, Elijah, William and James Rice. Also Phillip Lambert.

1793 & 1796 On petitions from residents of Wythe Co., Va who wish to form Tazewell Co. the following three names appear in sequence on both the petitions: James Rice, William Rice, Elisha Rice.

1794 Wythe County, VA (tax list)

1795 Wythe County, VA (tax list)

1797 Wythe County, VA (tax list)

1798 Wythe County, VA (tax list)

1800 Kanawha County, VA (land sale document)

1801 Kanawha County, VA (tax list)

1806 Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio (historical account)

1810 Gallia County, Ohio (tax list)

1810 Gallia County Ohio, Jeremyer, Eliger, Ezekial Rice listed in 1800 census, Gallia County, Ohio.


1812,1818, and 1819 Gallia County, Ohio (tax list)

1820 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio

1830 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio

1840 Fed Census, Greenfield, Gallia County, Ohio

CENSUS RECORDS

1820 United States Federal Census
Name: James Rice
Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Greenfield, Gallia, Ohio
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
Total Free White Persons: 2
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 2

1830 United States Federal Census
Name: James Rice
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Greenfield, Gallia, Ohio
Free White Persons - Males - 100 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 80 thru 89: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
Total Free White Persons: 3
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 3

1840 United States Federal Census
Name: James Rice
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Greenfield, Gallia, Ohio
Free White Persons - Males - 100 and over: 1
Total Free White Persons: 1
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 1
[Note made on census record: "was 116 years old on x day of August 1840 is now in good health, laboring under no infirmities."

SOURCES

Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800, p. 1382
Wythe County Minutes of County Court 1790-1800; November 14, 1796

Re: road from the top of Iron Mountain to the Cripple Creek road. "James Rice, appointed Surveyor of the Road."

1801 Annals of Tazewell Co. Va. : July 6, 1801
James Rice and Mary his wife, sold land for a token price to Jeremiah Lambert (son of their daughter Hannah who married Job Lambert). Tazwell Co. Va Deed Book 1801, page 78. James and Mary Rice of Kanawha Co. Virginia (fr) Wolf Creek.

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History of Gallia County, H.H. Hardesty & Co., Publishers, Chicago and Toledo, 1882, Page XXIII.

Greenfield Township

The first to settle in the township were Daniel Faulkner, James Rice (who died at the advanced age of one hundred and twenty years), and Andrew Faulkner. On the 22d of June, 1882, the latter gave an account of his early pioneer recollections to the one appointed to collect and record them for this work, and four days later he had "passed beyond the river," dying suddenly June 26th, 1882. The pioneers first settled at the forks of Symmes creek, Daniel Faulkner building the first cabin, in 1806.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Niles' Weekly Register, Volume 59, September 1840 ? March 1841, Printed by the Editor: Jeremiah Hughes, Baltimore, MD, page 288 which states "Longevity: There is a man living in Greenfield Township, Gallia County, Ohio by the name of James Rice who was 116 years old on the 24th of April last and yet bids fair to add some years to the days of his earthly pilgrimage."

Gallipolis Journal, 8 Aug 1839

James Rice of Greenfield Twp. Gallia County, Ohio was 116 years old last June. His health is good, and he still retains strength sufficient to walk about without assistance. He has a son living, who is 83 years of age.

INTERNET INFORMATION

Posted by Sandra Salyers
To: < RICE-SOUTHERN-L@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Rice-Southern-L] RICE in Montgomery/Grayson pre-1790

A James Rice and Robert Bristco/Frisco had a large land holding in the area of Montgomery, Wythe, Tazewell County, Virginia called the James Rice Robert Frisco improvement. A number of land sales from this improvement are listed
in the court record books of Montgomery, Wythe and Tazewell Counties.

James and his wife Mary sold their land in Virginia and moved to Gallia County, Ohio in their later years. James is listed in the 1840 census as 116 years old in good health. This was so unusual that the census taker wrote it across the line from James' name. A Gallia County News paper mentioned his longevity a couple of years later. The last Virginia land sale I have listed is to their grandson Jeremiah Lambert for a token price.

They spent their last few years of life in Gallia County with the offspring of their daughter Hannah who married Job Lambert. Some of the children of this Rice-Lambert related family migrated to Carter and Lawrence County Kentucky in the early 1800's.

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From: SALYERS9@aol.com
Subject: Re: [Rice-Southern-L] RICE in Montgomery/Grayson pre-1790 Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:11:40 EDT

James was born Aug. 24, 1724 according to the census record. The news article stated he was born in June. James's daughter Hannah married John Withrow in Cabell County, Virginia after the death of her husband Job Lambert. The 1850 census records list Hannah as age 90 born in Virginia. That would place James in Virginia in 1760. James was living in Montgomery County in 1782 next door
to Robert Briscoe, other Rice's on the tax list that year were John and Spencer. Job Lambert's father Phillip was also there.




Buried:
Grave location and biographical information:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=100286070

James married Elinor. [Group Sheet]