| Stringfield, of the Coastal CarolinasWe are looking for connections between this STRINGFIELD group, and the families of Richard Stringfield and Ezekiel Stringfield, that are found in northeast Tennessee and western North Carolina; the family of James Jefferson Stringfield, that is found in centeral and southern Tennessee. I've seen turn-of-the-century photographs of members of the W.W.Stringfield family, from Ashville, N.C., and there is little doubt that they are related to my grandfather, a descendant of James Jefferson Stringfield -- the problem is figuring out exactly where !!
Our first documentation on the family is the will of Richard Stringfield, that was filed in Northampton Co., N.C. in 1747. From that point, there are at least two separate groups: one that goes west to Rutheford County; and another that goes south to New Hanover County, and on into South Carolina and Georgia. This page will follow this second group.
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Eastern N.C. Stringfields
The primary source for this genealogy is a 53-page booklet printed in 1912 and sold for $1.00 by Henry Calhoun Stringfield, called "The Stringfield Boys of New Hanover County, North Carolina", which detailed his life and the life of his extended family.
 H.C. (as he called himself) described, in narrative form, his memories and what he was told by relatives. He describes the family life in the mid-1800's along the Black River, 40 miles north of Wilmington in New Hanover County (now Pender County), N.C. The "genealogy" was extracted by reading the entire booklet, and then diagraming out the actual family relationships, using the dates that H.C. supplies. Cross-referencing H.C.'s details with available civil records, provides more detail and expanded relationships. It generally confirms his dates of when things occurred, but it points out that he was sometimes wrong about where the events occurred.
 The most interesting difference I've noted is the disparity between H.C.'s description of the family settling in New Hanover County after the Revolutionary War, and descendants moving from there to the south, and the civil record. The Census record indicates NO Stringfield family in either coastal area before 1820, when they simultaneously appear in South Carolina, in Barnwell and Edgefield Counties, and in North Carolina, in New Hanover and Hertford Counties !! It is interesting to note that there are three Fellows families listed in that general area, in the 1790 census. . . . . so there may be some truth to the stories that defies the civil records.
 The following is H.C.Stringfield's description of his ancestry. The words and punctuation are his; the bold names are mine:
| I remember my Grandfather told me that his Father was a Virginian, of Dutch descent, a soldier in the Revolutionary War. After the war, married a Miss Fellows in Duplin County North Carolina, settled there, raised six children: John, the eldest moved to Alabama; William, to Augusta, Georgia; Elisha didn't know where; Edward and his sister Rachael, to Barnwell County South Carolina. She married a Youngblood. My grandfather Joseph Stringfield, the youngest of the family, stayed home and married a Miss Powell, died at the place he first settled at the age of eighty-six, forty-three miles north of Wilmington, New Hanover County on Black River, North Carolina. My father Peyton Randolph Stringfield was the first child born to Grand-papa Joseph. I have forgotten the month but the year 1807. My mother was a Miss Jones, born twenty miles above Wilmington, the youngest child in the family born in 1810. All mothers family except one brother died before I was born. Papa P.R. and mother Susan Jane, had thirteen children, I am the sixth. The two first died before I was born. I, Charles Henry Calhoun Stringfield, so recorded in the old Bible was born April 9th, 1841. When I grew up I left off the Charles, for no reason that I know of unless it was so long. |
The Stringfields of Eastern North Carolina
1 Stringfield
. +Fellows
........ 2 John Stringfield 1773 -
........ 2 William Stringfield 1774 -
........ 2 Elisha Stringfield 1775 -
........ 2 Edward Stringfield 1776 -
........ 2 Rachael Stringfield 1777 -
........... +Youngblood
........ 2 Joseph Stringfield 1779 - 1865
........... +Pherabe Powell 1781 - 1850
.................. 3 Peyton Randolph Stringfield 1807 - 1862
..................... +Susan Jane Jones 1810 - 1872
............................ 4 Malvina Carolina Stringfield 1834 - 1837
............................ 4 Anna Evalina Stringfield 1835 - 1904
............................... +Stephen H. Averitt
...................................... 5 Theodosia E. Averitt
......................................... +Randall A. Melvin
............................ 4 James Peyton Stringfield 1837 - 1900
............................... +Helen Marshburn
...................................... 5 Neva L. Stringfield 1875 -
...................................... 5 Joseph H. Stringfield 1881 -
............................ 4 David Ione Stringfield 1839 - 1864
............................ 4 Charles Henry Calhoon Stringfield 1841 - 1912
............................... +Bridget Kelly 1851 - 1912
...................................... 5 M. Peyton Stringfield 1876 -
......................................... +L.V. Gruver
...................................... 5 child two Stringfield 1877 -
...................................... 5 child three Stringfield 1880 -
...................................... 5 child four Stringfield 1882 -
...................................... 5 child five Stringfield 1885 -
...................................... 5 child six Stringfield 1888 -
...................................... 5 Henry Grady Stringfield 1892 -
............................ 4 Joseph Haywood Stringfield 1842 - 1866
............................ 4 infant Stringfield 1844 - 1844
............................ 4 William Thomas Stringfield 1845 -
............................... +Susan Pounds
............................ 4 Susan Jane Stringfield 1847 - 1901
............................... +Issac McGee
............................ 4 Clinton Franklin Stringfield 1849 - 1853
............................ 4 Oliver Larkin Stringfield 1851 - 1930
............................... +Edie Carus Beckwith
From the Census Records . . . .
N.C. - 1790:- Ezekiel Stringfield: 3rd Company, Morgan District, Rutheford County; 1 male over 16 years, no females under 16 years, 4 females total.
- James Stringfield: 14th Company, Morgan District, Rutheford County; 4 males over 16 years, 1 female under 16 years, 2 females total.
- John Stringfield: 14th Company, Morgan District, Rutheford County; 2 males over 16 years, 1 female under 16 years, 1 female total.
- William Stringfield: code #53 - didn't collect location data (oops!); 1 male over 16 years, 2 females under 16 years, 4 females total.
- Richard Stringfellers: Henderson's Company, Hillsboro District, Hanover County; no data on census page !!!
N.C. - 1800: No Stringfields listed !N.C. - 1810: No Stringfields listed ! N.C. - 1820: - Joseph Stringfield: New Hanover County; detail not collected yet.
- William Stringfield: Hertford County; detail not collected yet.
N.C. - 1830: - Joseph Stringfield: New Hanover County; pg 154, detail not collected yet.
- Samuel Stringfield: Hertford County; pg 395, data not collected yet.
- William Stringfield: Person County; pg 007, detail not collected yet.
N.C. - 1840: - James Stringfield: Currituck County; pg 128.
- James Stringfield: New Hanover County; pg 034.
- Joseph Stringfield: New Hanover County; pg 034.
- P.R. Stringfield: New Hanover County; pg 034.
- William Stringfield: Hertford County; pg 068.
N.C. - 1850:- Joseph Stringfield: New Hanover County; pg 367:
- Joseph (M), age 70
- Ferribee (F), age 69
- Peggy (F), age 40
- Rachael (F), age 30
- Joseph (M) age 23
- Mary (F) age 1
- P.R.Stringfield: New Hanover County; pg 388:
- P.R. (M), age 43, Farmer
- Susan (F), age 40
- Anna (F), age 18
- James (M), age 13
- David (M), age 11
- Henry (M), age 9
- Joseph (M), age 7
- William (M), age 5
- Susan (F), age 3
- Hinton (M), age 1
- Mary Stringfield: Currituck County; pg 218:
S.C. - 1790: Not Searched !S.C. - 1800: No Stringfields listed ! S.C. - 1810: No Stringfields listed ! S.C. - 1820: - Elisha Stringfield: Barnwell County; pg.005, 1 male under 10 years, one male 16-26 years, 1 female 16-26 years.
- James Stringfield: Barnwell County; pg.005, 5 males under 10 years, 4 males 26-45 years, 1 female under 10 years, 1 female 10-16 years, 1 female 16-26 years.
- Rebecca Stringfield: Barnwell County; pg.05a, 1 male over 45 years, 2 females under 10 years, 2 females 10-16 years, 1 female 16-26 years, 1 female 26-45 years.
- William Stringfield: Barnwell County; pg.005, 4 males under 10 years, 3 males 10-16 years, 1 male 26-45 years, 2 females under 10 years, 1 female 26-45 years.
S.C. - 1830:- Hardy Stringfield: Edgefield Twnshp, Edgefield County; pg.191.
- William Stringfield: Barnwell Twnshp, Barnwell County; pg.155.
S.C. - 1840:- Edward Stringfield: Barnwell Twnshp, Barnwell County; pg.240.
- Lee Stringfellow: Barnwell Twnshp, Barnwell County; pg.240.
S.C. - 1850: No Stringfields listed !S.C. - 1860: - Edmond (Edward?) Stringfield: Aiken P.O., Barnwell County; pg.427.
- Edmond (Edward?) Stringfield: Hammond P.O., Barnwell County; pg.432.
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