BENJAMIN UPTON, ADARAN MIRANDA WALDEN and MARGARET WALDEN

Benjamin Upton was the first child of Asa and Elizabeth Upton born May 26, 1833 in Warren County, GA. Benjamin was the great grandson of Benjamin Upton for whom he was named.

Great Grandfather Benjamin settled in Georgia before 1769 when he petitioned King George III of England for 100 acres for farming in St. Paul Parish, which became Richmond County and then Columbia County in 1790. Benjamin received grants for numerous parcels of land as well as purchased land from other grantees. He appears over 50 times in various Warren County deed and tax records. He was a member of the Church of Christ at Fellowship Baptist Church in Warren County, GA and is listed as a Trustee on a deed dated 7 June 1806.

In commenting on several of the Upton families that settled in Georgia, the Upton Researcher Pat Hill writes, "Benjamin was without any doubt the most successful of the Georgia Uptons…he was granted and purchased several thousand acres of Georgia land…He left a large estate, including many slaves."

Benjamin Upton and Judith had at least six children. Tobias, Polly, Nancy, Sarah, Obedience and Rebecca were all named in Benjamin's will dated 23 Jan 1813. Obedience gave birth, apparently out of wedlock, to Asa Upton around 1811. Benjamin raised Asa until his death in November 1821. At that time, Asa's Uncle Tobias became his guardian.

On 3 Jan 1831, apparently when Asa turned 21 and could receive his share of Benjamin's estate, he received from his uncle, "One Negro girl named Mourning." Asa received grants in the Georgia Gold Lottery and the Cherokee Land Lottery and bought and sold property in deeds recorded in Warren County.

The 1850 Census of the 48th District, Jefferson County, GA shows: Asa Upton age 39, farming, value of real estate $2000, b. Warren Co.; Eliza age 35, b. Jefferson Co.; Benjamin age 18, farming, b. Warren Co.; John age 16, farming, b. Warren Co.; Jordan age 15, farming, b. Warren Co.; William F age 12, farming, b. Warren Co.; George W age 8, b. Warren Co.; Elizabeth age 3, b. Jefferson Co. (M432, roll 75, pgs. 149-150). By the time of the 1860 census, Asa's personal estate is valued at $12,000. As history would later confirm, Asa learned a lot at his Grandfather's knee and passed this on to his sons, but not his love of farming.

Adaran (Adrian) Walden

Adaran Miranda Walden was the third child of seven born to Mitchell Walden (ca.1800-1887) and Margaret Hannah (1805-ca.1853). She had eleven half brothers and sisters. Mitchell's father was Samuel Walden, Jr. (ca. 1769-1842) who died in the community of Grange, near the Ogeechee River in Jefferson County, Georgia where he was a planter most of his life and owned about 770 acres. His father, Samuel Walden, Sr. (ca. 1735-1808) had come to Georgia by 1784 where he was given a headright grant for 200 acres in the County of Richmond, later to be known as Burke, Warren, and finally Jefferson County in 1796.

Adaran's mother, Margaret Hannah was the daughter of William Hannah. William Hannah died at his daughter's home, Ellendor McKigney in Jefferson County, Georgia just prior to the marriage of his daughter, Margaret and Mitchell Walden who married on March 4, 1830. William Hannah's father was Thomas Hannah, a Revolutionary Soldier of Georgia. Thomas Hannah's father was William Hannah (ca.1725), the immigrant who came to Georgia in 1771. According to the Belfast NewsLetter, November 1, 1771, William Hannah was aboard the Ship Britannia from Belfast, Ireland to Savannah, Georgia.

The ship arrived on January 18, 1772 in Savannah and the Hannahs were transported to Queensborough which was established as an Irish community in the rural County of Burke later known as Louisville, Jefferson County, Georgia. There was an Indian Trading Post near Queensborough although relations with the Creek Indians were still somewhat hazardous in those early days. Numerous accounts of Indian raids are found in Washington County, Georgia, the bordering neighbor of Jefferson (then Burke) prior to 1800 and some even after. According to the History of Jefferson County, Old St. George's Parish, by Mrs. Z.R. Thomas, 1978, pg. 40, most of the immigrants who settled in Queensborough were from "North Ireland and were Presbyterians".

Adaran Walden was born in a small, rural agricultural community near present day Avera, Jefferson County, Georgia in the 76th Militia District. Her parents had settled on part of the original Hannah Plantation that Margaret inherited from her father's estate. There Mitchell Walden built his family a two story log cabin near a little stream called Rock Springs, named surely because of the large rocks formed as the basin that holds the stream. This stream flows into present day Hannah's Branch, a much larger water source that served as the boundary line of Mitchell Walden's property containing about 1200 acres by the time Adaran had reached adulthood. The Hannahs are thought to be the first white people to occupy this property as the name of the branch implies.

Adaran had two sisters, Sarah Elizabeth Walden born two years earlier than herself, about 1833, and Margaret N. Walden, born later on April 26, 1840. Her only half sister, Della T. Walden was not born until almost thirty years after her own birth in 1864 and all other siblings both full and half, were all boys, brothers of Adaran. Their father, Mitchell Walden had remarried in 1856 and again a third time to Elizabeth Daniels about 1860.

With a second stepmother and a house full of men to care for, Margaret N. Walden made her decision to join her sister, Adaran in Baldwin, Florida. With the use of rail, she traveled alone from Georgia to reach Adaran's home in Baldwin, Duval County, Florida where she lived her remaining life until August 22, 1898. Surely Margaret was a blessed help with Adaran's young babies. Both Adaran and Margaret were Mitchell's only children to leave their birth home in Jefferson County of all his eighteen. Margaret is buried with her sister's family in the Upton family cemetery in Baldwin, Duval County, Florida. She never married or had children.

Adaran's mother died when she was about 18 years old and prior to her marriage to Benjamin Upton. It is not known what faith Adaran was schooled in during her youth but a year before she left her parent's home, in 1854, her father founded Walden's United Methodist-Episcopal Church and donated ten acres from his own property for the church building and cemetery. Later in 1873 he donated another five acres which by 2004 was surveyed as a little over sixteen total acres for Walden's Church. There have been no records recovered for any other churches near the Walden Property prior to 1854.

Marriage of Benjamin UPTON and Adaran WALDEN

Marriage records from Jefferson County, Georgia show that Benjamin Upton and Adaran Miranda Walden were married on November 18, 1855 in Jefferson County, Georgia. Travers/Ivey/Cleary Researcher Bernie Cleary of Savannah indicates that Eliza Upton was born in 1857 in Davisboro, Washington County, Georgia just across the Ogeechee River from Jefferson County. This would indicate that Ben left Jefferson County between 1857-1860.

Census records from July 9, 1860 place Benjamin in Starkeville, Lee County, GA: Benjamin age 27, overseer RR, value of real estate $200, value of personal property $800; Adaran M age 25; Eliza J M age 3. (M653, roll 129, pg. 693). A daughter, Sissy, was born 16 Jul 1859 and died later that same year. It appears that Ben moved to Starkeville to work on the railroads. Walden/Hannah researcher Beverly Black wrote: "Several of the Walden cousins also worked with the railroad and moved around in those same places. The only life in Jefferson was farming and it doesn't appear Benjamin was a farmer."

Lee County, Georgia, A History, 1983, pg.100, gives us a glimpse of what life in Starkeville was like in 1860. "Three miles east of Leesburg is Starkeville, in ante-bellum days, one of the most important towns in the county seat of Lee County.... It was the wartime county seat…Starkeville was known as a 'wide-open town' where every man carried a gun and didn't hesitate to use it...it lead in the number of homicides in proportion to its size at the time. When the town was at it's best, it boasted of between 1800 to 2000 inhabitants, including slaves. There were more than 20 stores, 13 saloons and several poker joints. Once each month they had horse races, cock fights and other sporting events."

Benjamin was an overseer with the Southwestern Railroad. In July 1863 he and his brother George enlisted in the Georgia Confederate State Guards in Macon, Georgia. A muster roll dated July 25, 1863 reads: Benj. Upton 5 Sgt, Capt. Walden's Company, RR Guards, for local defense, to serve as guards for Southwestern Railroad. Georgia Inf. Joined for duty and enrolled: July 25, 1863, Macon, Ga. by Col. Whittle for 6 months. George did the same but was a Private. This company was also known as Company H, 14th Battalion Georgia State Guards. Ben is listed in the 1864 Census for Re-Organizing the Georgia Militia: Benjamin Upton, 30 yrs 9 mos, RR overseer, exempt. This census of all white males between the ages of 16-60 was to determine who was available for the defense of the state and it's occupants. "Exempt" status meant he would not be recruited for fighting outside Georgia.

Ben and George were lucky; their brothers were not. Jordan and Franklin served with the Quitman Greys, Company I, 11th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry. Jordan was killed 10 Dec 1864 at the Battle of New Market. Franklin was hospitalized 3 times in 1862. It's hard to know what Benjamin Upton looked like but descriptions in his brothers' service records may give us a clue. Both brothers had blue eyes, light hair and fair complexion. Jordan was 5'11" and Franklin was 5'7."

Baldwin, Duval County, Florida

Ben and his family probably arrived in Florida, between April 1867 and July 1868. Ben is not listed in the Index to Georgia's 1867-1868 Returns of Qualified Voters and Registration Oath Books, John David Brandenburg and Rita Binkley Worthy, 1995. This is significant because registration officers were to administer an oath to all male citizens over the age of 21 in the county and district in which they would vote between April 1, 1867 and July 30, 1868. Since Ben is not listed, he is not in Georgia. Florida was also included in this registration, but according to Florida Voter Registration Lists 1867-1868, Carol Cox Bouknecht, 1992: "For all their value to genealogists, it is regrettable that the 1867-68 voter records of twenty of Florida's counties were lost or destroyed long before the state committed itself to the preservation of its history." Duval County was one of the counties destroyed.

These excerpts from History of Duval County by Pleasant Daniel Gold (pgs.153-164) give an idea of what Ben and his family found upon arriving in Duval County: "[by the end of the war] many of the houses had been destroyed...every sawmill in Jacksonville had been burned excepting Scott's mill....In other parts of the county conditions were much the same. Baldwin...had suffered…and the one railroad in the county was practically useless…Nothing had been done in Duval County toward the building of new railroads since 1860. In 1868, the first gesture was made toward new construction in Duval…Upon completion of the Florida Railroad and Navigation Company's line, from Jacksonville to Pensacola and from Fernandina to Cedar Key, Baldwin, where the roads crossed, grew in importance."

It is likely that the rebuilding of these roads brought Ben Upton to Baldwin. The 1870 Census for Baldwin Voting Precinct, Duval County, FL recorded on July 15 shows: Opton Benjamin age 26, RR Station Master, value of real estate $200; Miranda [Elizabeth Jane Miranda] age 13, b.GA; Annie age 10, b.GA; Emma age 7, b. GA; Florence age 5, b.GA; Eliza age 3, b.GA (M593, roll 129, pg. 435 B). A son, Jordan, was born 9 May 1868 and died in July of that same year. Two items of interest: Adaran is not listed, and the 1870 census for Savannah, Chatham County, GA, lists daughter Eliza Upton as a pupil at the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy in Savannah, GA. Perhaps Adaran was with her in the city and was just missed.

In Webb's Jacksonville Directories 1876-77 and 1878-79 there is a listing for a Benjamin F. Upton, photographer, living in Jacksonville. This is not the same Ben Upton of Baldwin, but a well known photographer who's name can be found on many stereoviews taken of Jacksonville land areas and buildings from that period.

The History of Baldwin, 1976, pg.11, contains a quote from, George M. Tanner, a resident who actually knew the Uptons: "…Mr. B. Upton was a roadmaster for the Florida Railroad, a sawmill operator or owner and a saloonkeeper. His saloon was near the depot." The 1880 Census of the Village of Baldwin, Duval County, Florida reflects that three children have been born since the 1870 census, Elizabeth has married, and Eliza is no longer in the household. Benjamin Upton age 47, lumberman; Adrienne M age 45, keeping house; Anna L age 19; Emma N age 17; Florence M age 15; John D age 9, attended school within the year, b. FL; Marietta V age 8, attended school within the year, b. FL; James Alex age 5 b. FL; Margaret Walden age 34, sister in law. (T9, roll 126, pg. 460B). By 1880 Ben's occupation is now listed as a lumberman.

This excerpt from the Story of Florida Railroads 1834-1903, George W. Pettengill, Jr., 1952, gives us glimpse of life in Baldwin in 1881: "The following scene met the eye of a traveler awaiting, at Baldwin...on a brisk winter morning in 1881. After listening to the gossip…in the tiny waiting room...we [stepped] outside for a look at the junction layout. At the northwest corner of the station platform is observed a ninety-degree crossover, at which point the lines from Lake City, Fernandina, Jacksonville, and Cedar Key intersect. The brisk January air is filled with the pungent scent of pine smoke, which is drifting across the tracks from a nearby sawmill, and the music of the saws meets the ear…It is observed that there are four wyes arranged about the cross-over, so that trains approaching from any of the four lines can proceed directly to any one of the other three. There are several side tracks, also spurs leading to the sawmills, warehouses, etc…Soon the shrill whistle of a locomotive is heard and …our train is seen approaching from the north…Smoke pours from the huge stack, as the engineer closes his throttle and the locomotive rolls past the station and comes to a stop by the woodrack at the far end of the platform. The train is made up of three coaches, a baggage car, and several box cars and flats, two or three of which are switched from the train and left here in the yard."

In January of 1884, Ben Upton's son in law Milton Ivey committed suicide and a story about the event was printed in the Florida Times Union on January 19, 1884. It states: "…M. M. Ivey, of Baldwin and a son in law of Mayor Benjamin Upton of that place, killed himself by taking morphine." This is the only reference that indicates that Ben was once Mayor of Baldwin. According to The History of Baldwin, pg. 11, "Baldwin City Hall and all the records, therein, burned to the ground in 1910…"

The Florida 1885 State Census provides this information on the Upton household: Ben age 52, Ada age 50, Anna age 24, Florence age 20, Jno D. age 14, Mary V. age 13, Jas. A. age 10, Margarett Walden age 44. (Duval County, pg. 547). In the 1885 Census of Jacksonville, we find Mary Upton age 14, listed as a boarder and scholar in the Convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph, at 83 Pine Street [present-day Main Street]. (Duval County, pgs. 751-752). The census also contains Productions of Agriculture for the 4th District, Duval County. Benjamin and his daughter Eliza also appear in this schedule on pgs. 996-997. Ben Upton: Milk Cows: 7, Other: 35, Forest Production: Amount of wood cut in 1884 - 15 cords. Value of all ? in 1884 - $3000.

Webb's Historical, Industrial and Biographical Florida Part I, 1885, pg. 44, published that same year includes a section on Baldwin which mentions Ben. "Baldwin has an advantageous location at the crossing of the F.Ry. & Nav. Co's [Florida Railway & Navigation Company] roads running from Jacksonville to Pensacola and Fernandina to Cedar Keys…County schools, six stores, telegraph, express and post office, G. W. Ford, Esq., postmaster. Prominent citizens are A. B. Clark, W. J. Dupray, B. Upton, Nathan Fourakers, Robert Parish…and George Ford, Esq., is a land agent." Jan H. Johannes Sr., in his book Yesterday's Reflections Nassau County, Florida A Pictorial History published in 1978 writes: "…The Webb publication cites that by 1885 three million feet of timber were being cut annually by a number of local men. In business and listed were G. W. Bryce, Clarke & Company, Cook & Nostrand, Upton & Arnold and Mr. Wadleigh - all milling or having some lumber-related activity." Confirmation of this partnership has not been found, perhaps it was short lived.

By 1886 Ben Upton and Burton Dyal of Nassau County had formed the partnership of Dyal & Upton and appear to be very successful in the lumbering business in North Florida and South Georgia. Webb's Jacksonville Directories 1886-1890, show Ben's business at Waycross lumber wharf B. [Brooklyn] and his residence in Wainwright, GA. At first glance the information seems inaccurate, as the family is still living in Baldwin, however, in the book, Upton Family Records, 1893, pg. 390, William Henry Upton writes: "The following are given as present or recent addresses of Uptons: B. Upton, Dyals Station, Fla., B. Upton, Wainwright, Ga." Since the family is still living in Baldwin at the time, it would lead one to conclude that they had at least two homes at this time.

Historical maps of the Charlton County confirm that Ben probably did have a residence in Wainwright. The town of Uptonville can be found on an 1895 map of Charlton County, Georgia, located alongside the S.F.& W. R.R. (Savannah Florida & Western Railroad) just north of Folkston. An 1899 map of the area shows the town as Wainwright with Uptonville Sta. in parentheses. To view these maps go to www.cviog.uga.edu/projects/gainfo/histcountymaps/ and search Charlton County for the years listed. In checking current maps of the area, Uptonville still exists in Charlton County, Georgia. Alex S. McQueen in the History of Charlton County, 1978, pgs. 77-78, writes: "The Savannah, Florida & Western…was constructed through Charlton county and several small towns sprang up along the railroad....Uptonville was for several years a thriving little town. There was a large sawmill and turpentine plant there after the coming of the railroad, and it was for a number of years an incorporated town. Its close proximity to Folkston caused it to gradually decline and is now only a flag-station on the A.C.L.Ry. The town charter was never legally abolished and the citizens of the community just agreed among themselves that the town would cease to function as a municipality." I believe this sawmill and turpentine plant was perhaps the "lumber business" that the City Directories in Jacksonville are referring to. Speaking about the descendants of Jake Carter, the author also mentions, "...Hansel lives on the old Upton place near Uptonville..."

Adaran Miranda Walden Dies

Adaran Upton died 14 June 1891 at home in Baldwin, Florida. A beautiful article written about her appeared in The Florida Times Union June 19, 1891.

IN MEMORIAM.
A Tribute to the Life and Christian Character of Mrs. A. M. Upton.
Died at Baldwin, Fla. on the 13th day of June 1891 in the 58th year of her age, Mrs. A. M. Upton, wife of Benjamin Upton. Mrs. Upton was born in Jefferson County, Ga. where she joined the Methodist church and professed religion in her Lord and Savior early in life. At the age of 22 years she married Mr. Upton and became a devoted and affectionate wife and mother, living a quiet and Christian life. Her health was generally good up to about eight months ago when her lungs becoming affected she rapidly failed in health, and for the last three months had been confined to her room lashed by the unrelenting scourge consumption. And while she well knew that the dreaded monster must soon claim his victim, yet she opened not her mouth in complaint, but was resigned to her Maker's will, and on nearing death, when she realized that she must soon leave the present and those who were near and dear to her here, being in a most rational condition, she called her husband and those of her children who were near to her bedside, and with a smile on her lips and love beaming from her eyes, the windows of a patient soul, she told them that Christ was waiting for her, that she would soon be gone, and that she wanted them to remember what she was about to say to them. She then proceeded to admonish them to be good to each other, to live honest, virtuous and Christian lives and to strive to meet her in heaven. After this she said but little, soon breathing her last without a struggle when the unfettered soul winged its way to its abode of rest and joy. Her remains were interred in the silent city near Baldwin, there to await the awakening trump of God, when all must stand before the great white throne to receive of the things done in the body. The funeral services were conducted at the grave by Rev. Mr. Snyder of Jacksonville, Fla. in a beautiful manner. Peaceful be her silent slumber, in the gloomy vault below, Until the resurrection morning, when all in Christ we hope to know. D.J.P.

Adaran died from consumption, more commonly known as tuberculosis. She would have suffered much, and as her obituary indicates, she must have been a very strong, loving mother and faith-filled woman to meet death as she did. She appears to have held fast to her Methodist-Episcopalian faith to the end. The Rev. Mr. Snyder mentioned in her obituary, was E. B. Snyder, pastor of Trinity M.E. Church in Jacksonville for whom the Snyder Memorial Methodist Church was named.

The DJP who penned Adaran's obituary was Daniel J. Parish of Baldwin. George Tanner, George Wilkerson and he witnessed her will May 25, 1891. All were prominent members of the Baldwin community and no doubt friends of the family.

Adaran was buried in the Upton family cemetery in Baldwin, FL. Her tombstone reads:

Adaran M. Wife of Benjamin Upton Died June 14, 1891 aged 56 years.
Silently slumbering I am here, Beneath the dreary sod,
Waiting the summons from on high, To arise and meet my God.

Her stone is beautiful white marble with carved stalks of wheat and sprigs of Ivy. For directions and photos go to members.cfl.rr.com/imonly712/UptonCemetery.htm. Adaran's will (file 2102-D) was probated in Duval County, August 1891. The will is quite long, but these are a few interesting excerpts:
…to my daughter Eliza Travis one cow named "Bob" and calf
…to my daughter Mary Beal one cow named "white" and calf
…to my granddaughter Emma Keen one cow named "Padgett" and calf
… to my son John D. Upton one Texas mare
…to my son James Upton one horse colt
…to my husband Benjamin Upton one bull named "Magruder"
…to my children James A. Upton, Eliza Travis wife of Owen Travis, Mary Beal, wife of William Beal, John D. Upton and my Grand-daughter, Emma Keen, and their heirs, all my real estate… in the State of Georgia and the lands situated on the Black Creek Road and my lands situated at Wildwood Florida…"

Marriage of Benjamin UPTON and Elizabeth SMITH

The Duval County Marriage Records 1885 to 1891, 1940, lists: Groom: Upton, Benjamin, Bride: Smith, Elizabeth, li Dec 29 1892, nc, rf book 2 ns, p 161. While the records indicate that no marriage certificate was filed, Marriage Records of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church prove otherwise: "Die vigesima nona Decembris 1892 ego infrascriptus a proclamatiore bannorum prof?t? causa omissa et dispensatione ab impedimento mixtae religionis obtenta Efis? obtenta Benjamin Upton acatholicum baptizatum et Elizabeth Smith Catholica in matrimonium conjunxi. Testes fuerent Jeremiah Travers et Catharine Smith. Gulielmus J. Kenny, VG."

Basically, Benjamin is not Catholic but Elizabeth is and Father makes a point of mentioning the impediment that the marriage is one of mixed religion. Jeremiah is Owen Travers' brother and Catharine Smith is Elizabeth's sister. It is thought that the Ben was probably Baptist due to his great grandfather Benjamin Upton's involvement with the Baptist Church in Warren County, Georgia. That is probably why he did not become Catholic when he married Elizabeth, as had his daughters when they married Irish Catholics Neil Gildea and Owen Travers.

Baptismal Records of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church Jacksonville, Florida, 1947 pg. 298, show that Benjamin Upton, age 63, was baptized Catholic in November 1895 by Father William J. Kenny, probably at the time of his death and probably at the request of his wife, Elizabeth.

Ben does not appear in the 1891-1894 Jacksonville City Directories indicating that he did not have a business or residence in the city. It is possible that Ben was no longer involved in lumbering by this date and either living in Baldwin or in the home in Uptonville, Georgia. Webb's 1895 Jacksonville Directory, pg. 201, shows Ben's occupation as painter and address West Monroe near the bridge.

Webb's 1896 Jacksonville Directory, pg. 331, shows Elizabeth, widow of Benj., 520 West Monroe. A brief statement in The History of Baldwin, pg. 11, mentions that George Tanner bought the Upton home in 1896, indicating that perhaps Ben and his new wife may have lived there before his death. Benjamin Upton died November 19, 1895, and an article about his passing appeared in the Florida Times Union, Jacksonville, Florida, pg.8, the following day:

Death of Benjamin Upton.
One of Duval County's Oldest Citizens Dies of Congestion.
Benjamin Upton aged 64 years one of the oldest settlers and best known citizens of Duval County, died at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his residence, 520 West Monroe street of congestion of the liver. The deceased had been ill only a few days. Mr. Upton was a native of Jefferson County, Georgia, and came to Florida shortly after the civil war. He has resided in this county during that entire time, principally at Baldwin. He leaves a wife and infant child besides several grown sons and daughters by his first wife. The funeral will take place this morning at 7:45 from the Church of the Immaculate Conception, at which the Requiem Mass will be celebrated. The body will then be sent to Baldwin for interment in the family cemetery.

Ben's tombstone reads:
Benjamin Upton
Born May 26, 1833
Died Nov. 19, 1895.
Ye living men as you pass by, As you are now so once was I.
As I am now you too must be, Prepare for death and eternity.

It is obvious that Benjamin Upton followed in the footsteps of his Great Grandfather Benjamin Upton for whom he was named. He was a leader, a hard worker, and a smart businessman, respected and remembered by people in Baldwin, Jacksonville and South Georgia.

1 Benjamin Upton (26 May 1833 - 19 Nov 1895) buried in Baldwin
   Married: Adaran (Adrian) Miranda Walden (5 Mar 1835 - 14 June 1891) buried in Baldwin
   Date: 18 Nov 1855 - Jefferson County, Georgia

   1.1 Elizabeth Jane Miranda UPTON (15 Apr 1857 - 16 Mar 1912) buried in Savannah
         See Milton M. Ivey this publication for Elizabeth's spouses and descendants

   1.2 Sissy UPTON (16 Jul 1859 - 30 Nov 1859) gravestone marker in Baldwin.
                  (Ben and Adaran were not living in Duval County at the time of Sissy's death.
                  I believe they erected a tombstone for her in Baldwin.)

   1.3 Annie (Anna) L UPTON (21 Apr 1861 - 6 Dec 1885) buried in Baldwin

   1.4 Emma L (N) UPTON (26 Feb 1863 - 14 Dec 1886) Married: David W. Keene (Apr 1859 - ?)
         Date: 26 Nov 1882 - Duval County

        1.4.1 Emma L. Keene (July 1886 - ?)

   1.5 Florence M UPTON (1 May 1865 - 23 Oct 1887) buried in Baldwin Married: Rufus G. McNorrell

        1.5.1 Benjamin Lafayette McNorrell (5 Sep 1887 - 12 Nov 1887) buried in Baldwin

   1.6 Eliza UPTON (abt 1867 - bef 1880)

   1.7 Jordan A. J. UPTON (9 May 1868 - 7 Jul 1868) buried in Baldwin

   1.8 John D UPTON (abt 1871-1939)
        Married: Hattie Nobles (abt 1873) Date: 20 Dec 1893 Divorced: ca. 1895

   1.9 Marietta (Mary) (Mollie) V. UPTON (abt 1872 - aft 1903)
        Married: William L. Bealle Date: 26 Jan 1891

   1.10 James Alex UPTON (1 Feb 1875 - 2 Feb 1903) buried in Baldwin

   1.11 Jessie Fay UPTON (28 Sep 1876 - 6 Sep 1877) buried in Baldwin
         

Married: Elizabeth Smith Date: 29 Dec 1892

   1.12 Unknown Upton (b.1893-1895)

Biography of Adaran & Margaret Walden Submitted by Walden/Hannah Researcher: Beverly Walden Black Great, great, niece of Adaran Walden

Written June 2004 by Kim Marie Peters.