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Quillin - Vineyard Connections

 Edna Campbell Vineyard

There really is a method to this madness 😁! My plan for this blog was to NOT start with my parents. The information about them will be long and complete a little later on. I have so much love and respect for both of my parents: Truman Bryan Quillin Sr. and Carolita Jones Quillin. Since they are my parents, I will have so much information to share. 

But my plan is to initially cover the ancestors in my direct brackets, starting with my grandparents and showing proof of my connections through sources.  I have so much accumulated information for ALL of my ancestors so I will be doubling back once I complete the initial information on each direct ancestor. 

I started at the top of my brackets again on September 9, 2023. The top of those brackets is my QUILLIN line. These people would all be my great-great grandparents. I have completed the surface information on Ira D. Quillin born 1831. Today was the day to start with Ira's wife Edna Vineyard, the Vineyard line, the next bracket down. But as I opened the information about Edna and the Vineyards, the true researcher in me came out, just like it always does. I get so darned sidetracked because I'm so interested in the research. Today, when I began to put together a history sheet for Edna, I see further connections between the Vineyard line and the Quillin line.  Because my tree is so complete, I can filter down and see how the different lines connect on different levels. 

I will continue with Edna tomorrow because as the famous line from Gone With the Wind says, "After all, tomorrow is another day." I realized this morning that Edna's older sister Polly married into the Coley family and their grandson, Isaac Grady Coley born 1891 married back into the Quillin line. Isaac Coley married Anna Elizabeth Quillin born 1891. Anna is a granddaughter of Martin Bird Quillin who is MY IRA D QUILLIN'S older brother.  

I have always felt connected to Edna and now I see that there is a double connection. 

Finding A New Direction

 At the start of the new year, and after a few bad years since 2020, I am seeking a new direction. My love of family research, of family roots and my closest family connections are near to my heart.... the most important thing in the world for me. I treasure the relationship between me and my husband. It is the most valuable asset I have. It has been a great love story. I always thought that my other immediate family was on that same level. However, I have found that to not be the case. It is heartbreaking. This post contains my thoughts in Jan. 2023, as we began yet another year.

In the early morning hours when I’m working on other projects, usually researching my family history, my mind often takes me to my innermost thoughts. It’s a place where I try to sort out the madness of my own family or what’s left of it. It has caused much angst and I’ve grown weary over the years since I’ve lost my mother.  I don’t give up easily on people nor does my love fade quickly. As my mother, who gave me MUCH advice in subtle ways, a thought comes clearly to my mind about the hurt and rejection I feel and have felt over the years since my mother's passing. I've tried WAY too hard to keep the family together. It’s like a brick wall that is strong and steady, as I have always thought my bonds with family were strong.  Yet over time when you are hurt or rejected or taken advantage of, these things are like taking a pickaxe to that wall and chipping away. Chip chip chip and soon there is a hole in that wall. Here today, I’m wondering, is it a hole big enough that I’m willing to step through? I keep getting pushed into that hole, which I have never wanted to step through. I have never wanted to admit that THAT is where I am. I’ve always had hope that these thoughts were over exaggerated in my mind. But over and over again, I go back to this hole, that now feels bigger than ever. I need to find a new course for my own soul to survive. My life is a good one with the love of a husband so vast that it covers me like a blanket of joy and wonder. I must find a way to be happy with that warm blanket of comfort…and that may mean….leaving the others behind. I’m needing to do it for myself.
 
Here are a few quotes that have recently appeared for me to ponder. For some reason, these quotes have spoken loudly to me. Is it time for me to consider myself?
 
Perhaps some detours are not detours at all. Perhaps they are actually the path.  ~Katherine Wolf (I don’t want to leave my road, but perhaps I must, so that I can find peace.)
 
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. ~James Russell Lowell
 
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ~Maya Angelou
 
That’s enough today, for setting a new course.

My suggestion for others...leave alcohol on the shelf. It has affected my life in countless ways, and I'm NOT the one who imbibes.

Proof of My Great Great Grandfather's Connection

 This is the birth record of Beverly Johnson Quillin. This index was recorded on 31 Dec 1858 in Fowlers Branch, Scott Co. VA. 

B.J. is found on line 26. His father is listed as Ira D. Quillin. His mother is listed as Edney Quillin.

Robert Quillen's Letter 1993

 
In the early 1990s as I began my research on the Quillin Family, I contacted a distant cousin, Robert H Quillen, 22333 Ivanhoe Road, Bristol VA 24202.  At that time, I was teaching school and researching family history on the side in my spare time.  Robert was very helpful as he lives in the area from where my Quillin roots began.  He owned and operated a cemetery where family members were buried and he often begged me to come visit the old homestead of Beverly J Quillin, my great grandfather.  Of course, I was too busy to make such a trip.  Robert and his wife toured Texas in the mid 1990s and I was able to visit briefly with him.  I wish now that I had been a better genealogist with this ready source available.  Robert gifted me the old stove front of Edna's oven.  He had mounted it on a stained wooden plank. 
 
Robert's father was William "Willie" Isaac Quillen, son of Patton Presley Quillen who would have been a brother to my Beverly Johnson Quillen. I regret that I never fully documented his family.  I only connected the dots up to and with Ira D. Quillen and Edna Vineyard Quillen. 
 
Below is a transcription of another letter (verbatim) from Robert Quillen.
 
March 31, 1993
Dear Nancy
               This is hoping you are well & looking forward to some sunshine as I am. March here has been one cloudy month.
               In responce to your letter 3-8-93 I will pass on all information I have been able to come up with.
Edna Vineyard Quillen died in 1897 on Flowers Branch, Scott Co. VA.  There is no death cert. on file at Scott Co. court house. I have no wreton records on my cemetery. There is only one headstone & that is for Ira D. Quillin, Jr.
               We have a conflect on Edna's mother & father. I have them as being Elisha Vineyard & Polly Agner.  I have not verified this. (This is incorrect. NCL)
               I am inclosing a copy of the 1850 cences listing George Vineyard, Jr. Family. Edna is not listed, this might be due to her & Ira D getting married on Oct. 18, 1849. I will check the cences again to see if they were listed as a family.  I could have mist it.
               I went to the Scott Co Public Libary & checked the 1870 census & found EDNEY Quillen Family.  The libary had no way to copy same.  I transposed the information on inclosed sheet.
               The Vineyards lived about 3 miles north of Gate City. I understand that there are two cemeteries there.
               Inclosed is a copy of an artical in The Gate City Hearld dated July 14, 1904 by Joel Shelley stating the unit & list of men. Ira D. Quillin's name is not listed. This concerns me as Mr. Shelley told my dad that he was with Ira when he died.
               Walmer Gardner, my cousand, has been talking to a Mr. Gary Walker, a civial war writer in Roanoke, VA. about Ira D.. Yesterday we sent him a copy of the newspaper artical. He stated that he would do some research on same. A good chance for information, I hope.
               It is too late to contact Aunt Glenna. She is past remembering anything. She is 98 years old.
               You stated that you were working long distans. Make plans to work short distans. Love to have you visit us.
               Will keep looking for information.
                              Sincerely
                              Robert H. Quillen

Fellow Researcher Validates My Research

 SALLY WISE

Sally Wise from Honolulu, Hawaii is a retired Microsoft Senior Technical Analyst and uses her analytical skills to research her ancestors in Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. She attended Boston University's Online Genealogical Research Program and is currently working towards certification from the Board for Certification of Genealogists. You can also find her on Twitter, Facebook and publishing family genealogy books.

Name and marriage - QF pp. 58, 131.  Name, marriage - WLSR p. 18.
Surname, Quillen in QF, should be Quillin for Ira D. and all descendants - Nancy Q. Long - 8/20/1990.
Scott Co Census: 1850 (#1053), 1860 (#2), 1870 (Fulkerson #199, w/o Ira, $1200, 4 ch present plus Henry Quillen, 2 - son?).
Scott Co Marriage Records 1-113.

He was said to have died of disease in the Civil War and was buried in some unknown

 location, thought to be near Manassas, Va.  He was captured and conscripted into the

 Confederate Army.

 Note: Have not found any documents in Folder3 to support Confederate Army, but not all documents were kept.

IRA QUILLIN CEMETERY

 https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2679389/ira-quillin-cemetery

Find a Grave Cemetery: #2679389
The Information about this cemetery was added on 25 Jan 2019  by:
Phyllis Peterson
MEMBER FOR 10 years 
Phyllis Peterson’s FIND A GRAVE ID is: 47360019
 
Ira Quillin Cemetery
LOCATION      
West End of CR 697
Hiltons, Scott County, Virginia, USA
 
This cemetery is located slightly to the west of due north of Herman Chap Methodists Church, on the old QUILLIN farm on Fowlers Branch. It is located on the hillside a few hundred yards past the end of the maintained Route 697. The cemetery is unfenced and clean. It is marked by two large cedar trees which were placed at the head and foot of CICERO QUILLIN's grave. TROY DORAN took GUY SANDERS and me to the cemetery and gave us a list of six of the eleven or more persons buried there. Troy made the list by discussing it with his mother, AUDREY QUILLEN DORAN. TROY presently leases the farm from his uncle, ROBERT QUILLEN, who owns it. ROBERT said that his father gave him a list of eleven people who were buried there, but the list was lost long ago. IRA QUILLIN SR died during the Civil War and is thought to have been buried near Manassas, VA. [From Donald W. Lane, Jan 2003]
 
8 people were added:
 
Cicero Columbus Quillin
BIRTH  1855
Scott County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 4 Apr 1890 (aged 34–35)
Scott County, Virginia, USA
BURIAL
Ira Quillin Cemetery
Hiltons, Scott County, Virginia, USA
Drowned in the Clinch River. (Marked by two large cedar trees at head and foot of the grave)
MEMORIAL ID 196357272 ·
Created by: Phyllis Peterson
Added: 25 Jan 2019
Find a Grave Memorial 196357272
 
Patton Presley Quillin
BIRTH  10 Jan 1860
DEATH 10 Mar 1933 (aged 73)
BURIAL
Ira Quillin Cemetery
Hiltons, Scott County, Virginia, USA
Created by: Phyllis Peterson
Added: 25 Jan 2019
Find a Grave Memorial 196357210
 
Elizabeth Isabell Reynolds Quillin  (wife of Patton Presley Quillin)
BIRTH  16 Apr 1871
DEATH unknown
BURIAL
Ira Quillin Cemetery
Hiltons, Scott County, Virginia, USA
Created by: Phyllis Peterson
Added: 25 Jan 2019
Find a Grave Memorial 196357688
 
Martha Virginia Hart Quillin  (wife of Patton Presley Quillin)
Gravesite Details Marked with a fieldstone
BIRTH  11 Sep 1863
DEATH Dec 1896 (aged 33)
BURIAL
Ira Quillin Cemetery
Hiltons, Scott County, Virginia, USA
Created by: Phyllis Peterson
Added: 25 Jan 2019
Find a Grave Memorial 196357220

Ira D. Quillin Jr.
BIRTH  14 May 1863
DEATH 11 Sep 1928 (aged 65)
BURIAL
Ira Quillin Cemetery
Hiltons, Scott County, Virginia, USA
Created by: Phyllis Peterson
Added: 25 Jan 2019
Find a Grave Memorial 196357184
 
Henry Clay Quillin
Not on Audrey Quillen's list, but known to be buried here according to his grandchildren
BIRTH  1868
DEATH 1894 (aged 25–26)
BURIAL
Ira Quillin Cemetery
Hiltons, Scott County, Virginia, USA
Created by: Phyllis Peterson
Added: 25 Jan 2019
Find a Grave Memorial 196357596
 
 
Billy Vineyard   A Baby
BIRTH  unknown
DEATH unknown
BURIAL
Ira Quillin Cemetery
Hiltons, Scott County, Virginia, USA
Created by: Phyllis Peterson
Added: 25 Jan 2019
Find a Grave Memorial 196357368 
 
Mrs Wright
BIRTH  unknown
DEATH unknown
BURIAL
Ira Quillin Cemetery
Hiltons, Scott County, Virginia, USA
Created by: Phyllis Peterson
Added: 25 Jan 2019
Find a Grave Memorial 196357317