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Vandevender, Christopher
Submitted by
Patricia J. Michel
I can give you some updates on Christopher Vandevender
and wife, Mary Akers/Achors of Kemper County, Mississippi.
1. Christopher Vandevender was born December 19, 1813 in Marion County,
Alabama.
He married Mary McDonald ca 1838 in Kemper County, Mississippi, the
daughter of Daniel McDaniel. He died August 12, 1840 in Caldwell County,
Texas during the battle of Plum Creek. Felix Huston's militia caught up
with renegade Indians near what is now known as Lockhart, Texas.
Christopher was visiting his brother, Hugh, when the skirmish took
place. Mary was living with some of her family in Montgomery County and
pregnant at the time. She had a son, Christopher, born 1840 in
Montgomery County, Texas and he died in 1855 in Walker County, Texas.
2. Hugh Vandevender was September 27, 1815 in Marion County, Alabama. He
died in Texas in 1846 during the war with Mexico.
3. William Levi Vandevender born June 17, 1818 in Washington County,
Alabama; married Sarah Evans Stennett ca 1839. He died August 31, 1847
in Tishomingo County, Mississippi. Their children, who were all born in
Tishomingo County, Mississippi are as follows:
a. Benjamin Christopher Vandevender mar'd Zelenetto Hodges.
b. Mary Elizabeth Vandevender mar'd. John Willis Green and 2nd George
Washington Finch.
c. James Knox Polk Vandevender mar'd Agnes Hughes.
d. Sarah Susannah Vandevender mar'd William David Floyd.
e. William Levi Vandevender mar'd. Frances Elizabeth Miller.
Patricia J. Michel
23407 Decker Prairie-Rosehill Rd.
Magnolia, Texas 77355
COMMENT:
Kemper County Vandevenders
First Van Deventer emigrants came
into New York in the 1600's; settled in Brooklyn; named there manor,
"Flatbush." See book, The Van Deventer Family 1550-1977 by Paul J.
Vandevander. The Honorable Willis Van Deventer, Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States of America and Ida Christobelle Van
Deventer compiled most of the material.
Families migrated to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, (W) Virginia,
Later, my ancestor migrated to Alabama and then into Kemper County,
Mississippi.
I descend from William Levi Vandevender and Sarah Evans Stennett.
As a child, Sam Vandevender, grandson of Christoper and Mary Achors
Vandevender lived his these grandparents. Later Sam had written down
from memory of what he heard his grandfather speak about the family.
Even his grandfather might not have known how for back the family
actually went in America. Jan (John) Pietersz van Deventer and wife,
Maria Hoogeboom, were the first mmigrants. From there, we Vandevenders
descend.
Sam's notes have circulated around to many descendants that is not the
whole picture.
ALSO SEE
Van Devender, Christopher,
Submitted by Janelle Floore Craig 6-4-2001
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