Margaret “Peggy” Carper Brazelton (1789-1874)

Margaret “Peggy” Carper Brazelton

Birth

12 Nov 1789

Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia, USA

Death

4 Jun 1874 (aged 84)

Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, USA

Burial

Ackworth Cemetery

Ackworth, Warren County, Iowa, USA Add to Map

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Margaret and her husband Jacob were a fine stock. They forged their way thru the wilderness with their family and built a home to stand for the generations to look back on. we, their decsendants have much to thank them for.

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This Bio by FAG contributor Joann #47395100

Peggy Carper came from a long line of Virginia folk: Carpers, Pecks, Bordens. With huge land grants came power and the Pecks were a litigious people. The legal land battles went on for over 100 years. Peggy left all that and married Jacob Brazelton on 26 June 1808.

They went to Munroe Co Indiana in 1821, a short stop-over, and then in Fall of 1823, settled into Vermilion Co Illinois.

It was there where Jacob was the first Justice of the Peace in that part of the county. And in 1826 he was the foreman of the first grand jury ever established in the county. He put up the first horse-mill at his place over near "the Vermilion" as it was called, and was also very active in buying up land. Many Brazeltons were there in the area.

In those days a man was wealthy if his occupation was known as hunter rather than farmer. And Jacob was known as a Hunter. While all this was going on, she was busy having children and rustling up good food for the family.

Her children were:
Elizabeth (1809-1840)
Mary C. (1811-1867)
Reed Carper (1813-1894)
Claybourn (1815-1906)
William (1817-1895)
ISAAC (1820-1908)
Edith (1822-1894)
Hester T. (1825-1863)
Achilles (1827-1898)
Jane (1832-1922).

In 1834, several of the sons were sent to Wisconsin to scout out a new area for the family as the game was all gone and, as a hunter, he needed to have game. The boys bought some land up there and the family moved in spring of 1839 to the Brown Deer area of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.

Eventually the family moved around, several to Scott Township in Sheboygan County. Peggy and Jacob stayed in Milwaukee County, being there in Granville at the 1860 census. Their son Reed farmed for some years in Warren County, Iowa, and had his parents living with them there at the 1870 census.

Three years after Jacob died at Reed's home in Iowa, Peggy was up in Wisconsin where she died on 4 June 1874. She was buried, however, with her husband, at the Ackworth Cemetery, in Indianola, Warren County, Iowa.
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