[Hooper] Our Hooper/Bird/Bounds Ancestors

[Linda Erland]

Deanna, this is the most amazing information!   The Hooper surname is in 
my maternal line, but this email refers to the Goldman and Humphrey 
Baker and the Goldman family, which is my paternal line.   Ann Goldman 
and Humphrey Baker were my fifth great grandparents!  This just 
reinforces my belief that  the current descendants of the colonists are 
all related to one another.

Deanna Baumgardner wrote:

>This should be of much interest to descendants of Shelby County,  
>Texas Hoopers. Francis Bird Bounds (Joseph Bounds, Jesse Bounds) is  
>the father of Altasarah Bounds, wife of John Jefferson Hooper and  
>Laura Ann Bounds, wife of Benjamin Franklin Hooper. I believe we have  
>found Mary's family.
>
>Dear Deanna:
>As I recall without going through my thousands of notes, your Joseph  
>Bounds
>was the son of Jesse Bounds Sr. and Joseph's wife Mary Bird the  
>daughter of
>my Francis Bird Sr. of Washington Co. VA, c1770's. Jesse Bounds and  
>Francis
>Bird  were evidently close friends as they are mentioned together  
>several times
>in research that I and others have come across. They probably hunted  
>together.
>  It is thought by many Bounds researchers that Jesse's wife was a  
>sister of
>this  Francis Bird. Of course that would mean that Joseph and Mary  
>were cousins
>which  was not unusual in those days.  Francis was a Long Hunter and  
>Indian
>Scout  at times and was affiliated with other Long Hunters such as  
>William and
>Issac  Crabtree who hunted with Daniel Boone. The Crabtree family  
>migrated
>from Old  Baltimore Co. MD to Virginia as it appears this Bird/Byrd  
>line did
>also. Jesse  Bounds line migrated from the Eastern Shore of Maryland  
>to the
>Bedford/Pittsylvania Co area of Virginia and then on to Washington  
>Co.VA also
>spending time across the line in Washington Co. NC which is actually  
>Tennessee
>today. During those days prior to Tennessee becoming a state in I  
>believe 1795,
>NC encompassed all of what is now TN. So many early pioneers that stated
>later  on census records that they were born in NC were actually born  
>in what is
>now  Tennessee. I have pasted an article below that mentions both  
>Jesse Bounds
>and Francis Bird as witness's to the will of Fredrick Starnes who was  
>killed
>by  Indians during a hunt. This took place in Scott Co. VA which  
>previously
>was  a part of Washington Co. VA. Note in the last sentence that  
>Fredrick
>Starnes was  appointed as Constable on the Holstein in 1770. Francis  
>Birds brother
>Thomas T  Byrd was appointed as the Constable in 1772.
>
>  FREDERICK & JOSEPH STARNES  & MICHAEL MOYER KILLED
>[Scott County Herald Virginian, August,  1965]
>
>In his pension statement  Joseph Starnes of Burke County, North  
>Carolina,
>says he was born in November,  1755, on Smith's River, but could not  
>say whether
>in Virginia or North  Carolina.  (Smith's River is the river that  
>runs through
>Martinsville,  VA).  He further states:
>"I was once in a company of four in  the year 1779, April 7th, over on a
>watercourse in Virginia, back of the  settlements towards Boonesboro,  
>where we
>were fired on by about 25 or 30 Indians  and my father, (Joseph,  
>Sr.), my Uncle
>Frederick Starnes, and brother-in-law,  Michael Moyer were shot and I  
>made my
>escape, although they saw me for upwards  of a mile and kept firing  
>on me, but
>I made my escape in the cane and other  undergrowth."
>If  they were hunting as Joseph Starnes states, "on a watercourse  
>back of the
>  settlements toward Boonesboro", then the Starnes brothers and  
>Michael Moyer
>were  killed on the waters of Guest or Powells' Rivers in present  
>Wise or Lee
>County.
>The  Starnes brothers, Frederick and Joseph, were very early settlers  
>on the
>Holston,  with perhaps the first record of their settlement being in  
>Augusta
>County, with  perhaps the first record of their settlement being in  
>the Augusta
>County Survey  Book, which reads: "A survey of 500 acres on the west  
>side of
>Woods (New) River  known by the name of the "Old Starnes Place",  
>dated 30th of
>October, 1746.   Frederick Starnes was living on Holston when he was
>administrator of the estate  of Jacob Goldman, (site of VPI), which  
>was probated May
>28, 1757.
>Mary Goldman, widow of  Jacob, may have been a sister of Frederick  
>Starnes.
>Others think of her to  have been a sister to Humphrey Baker and  
>Annie who
>lived in the bounds of  present day Washington County before 1754.   
>Others
>contend that Mary  Starnes was a daughter of Jacob Goldman, and  
>Annie, wife of
>Humphrey Baker was  born a Goldman.
>The Carlock family also come in for  a strong interconnection with  
>Starnes,
>Goldman and Baker families, for in 1811,  Conrad Carlock leaves his  
>property to
>"his sister's two sons, Adam and Samuel  Starnes", and there is  
>little doubt
>that Conrad Goldman and Conrad Carlock were  named for the same common
>ancestor. (Courtesy of Gordon Aronhime for  genealogical data.)
>The will of Frederick  Starnes was proven in Washington Co., VA on  
>May 18,
>1779.  Witness to the  will were Francis Byrd and Jessee Bounds, both  
>of whom
>lived in present day  Scott County.  Appraisers of the estate were  
>Elisha
>Dungins.  Robert  Reaugh (Ray?) Conrad Henninger and Jessee Bounds,  
>with the widow,
>Mary Starnes  as Executrix.  Children mentioned in the will are Jacob  
>and
>David  Starnes.
>As the same date Katherine Starnes,  widow of Joseph, was granted
>administration of his estate and Jessee Bounds,  William Bates,  
>William Russell, Jr., and
>George Bader as appraisers.
>As further proof  of the early settlement of the Starnes family on  
>Holston
>River a court for  Botetourt County, on the 14th of February, 1770,  
>"Frederick
>Stern is appointed  Constable for that precinct upon Holston where  
>he  lives."
>
>Deanna (Hooper) Baumgardner
>
>
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