The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-11
Daughters of the
 American Revolution

wife Frances Wilcox. daughter of John Wilcox of Middlesex county. and Anne Jennings his wife; and grandson of Maj. Philip .Rootes of "Rosewall,' ,'' King and Queen county, and Mildred Reade, his wife. This Mildred Reade was a daughter of Thomas Reade and his wife Lucy Gwynn; grand-daughter of Col. George Reade, Col. Wm. Der nard, Captain Nicholas Martian and great-grand-daught of Capt. Robert Higginson.
 . Sarah Jennings and her husband, Dr. Philip Jennings Rootes. moved with the family of stephen Davis from Vir- ginia to Kentucky, and settled in Scott county, where Dr. Rootes died. Stephen Davis with his wife and fami- ly, settled in Fayette county, Ky. After the death of Dr. Rootes his fami- ly moved to Madison county, Ala. and settled near Huntsville. They lived at place afterwards owned by Mir. Alcuin Eason, whose father married the daughter (2nd wife) of Mrs. Sarah Rootes.
 Mrs. Rootes after 1920 moved with her daughter. Mrs. James w. Drake, to Pontotoc, Miss. and is buried there. Some of her descendants are still liv- ing in Pontotoc. e
 Issue of (4) Sarah Davis Rootes; {5) Frances Wilcox, married her cousin. John Rootes. Further history un- known; (5) Honora Rootes. married Col. James w. Drake, U. s. Land Com missioner; moved from Madison coun- ty, Ala, to Pontotoc, Miss.
 Issue of (5) Honora Rootes Drake; (6) Mrs. R. B. Haynes. Gainesville. Tex. (6) Mrs. s. R. Carr. died in Gaines vile. Tex; her daughter CD Mrs J. R. Drake. lives in Bowling Green, Ky.
 6. Richard Drake, married in 1872. Fannie Lanier of Memphis, Tenn; now lives in Arkansas; has two 'chjldren CD James w.: CD Imogene. /
 6. Annie Lavinia Rootes. daughter of (D Sarah Davis Rootes. born in Scott county. Ky, in 1900; died on her husbands plantation near Huntsville, Ala, in 1885. She married in 1920 Major or William Eason. second son of Stephen Eason and his wife Rebecca Eason, grandson of Isaac Eason and his wife Mary. William Eason was born in 17S1 and died in 1886; buried on his plantation, near Huntsville; moved prior to 1920 from North Caro- lima to Madison county, Ala. Anne Lavinia Rootes was the second wife of Major William Eason; his first wife was Millicent Thomas Eason, widow of his cousin John Eason; by the first
 
 Thomas
 Issue of (5) Anne Lavinia Rootes Eason:
 (6.) Isadore died in infancy. (s.) Williametta, born Aug. IT, 1S2f; died April 4, 1889; married in 1S40 in Hunts vile, Ala, her second cousin once re- moved, Zebulon Pike Davis. son of Nicholas Davis and Martha Hargrave, his wife. Williametta Eason Davis was noted for her devotion, not only to her husband and children, but to her entire family connection, especial ly those unblessed by prosperity and success. Her appearance was very handsome and stately; her life most domestic and exemplary; her character noble and elevated. Her memory is prized by her children as their most precious inheritance.
 Issue of Williametta Eason Davis given in line of Nicholas Davis. (4.)
 6. Edmund Wilcox, son of Anne La- vinia Rootes EasonS married Frances Caldwell: died in Huntsville, Ala, in 1874; left seven children.
 G. Henrietta Dupree Eason, daugh- terSof (5) Anne Lavinia Rootes Eason, named for her fathers maternal grandfather. Sterling Dupree Eason. of North Carolina, was born on her fath- CTS plantation near Huntsville Tn 1S26, Jan. 12 died at her plantation, "Fofest Home" in DeSoto county, Miss, Sept. 25, 1865; married in Huntsville, Ala, July Is, 1842, John Clarke Thompson, Judge of Probate Court, Madison coun- ty; Major of 44th Mississippi Regi- ment; fell at Chicamauga Sept. 20, 1863; admitted to the bar in Huntsville in 1928; commissioned by Gov. c. c. Clay Quartermaster General in Creek War of 1886; son of Jesse Thompson of the Georgia line In the Revolution and his wife Nancy clarke, Daughter of General Elijah Clarke and his wife Hannah Arlington. Of extreme States Rights views Judge Thompson gave his, fortune and his life to the Con- federacy. His devotion was shared by his wife, whose beautiful home was open during the entire Civil War to the soldiers. who sought rest and refresh ment. health and strength in the ref uge furnished by her unshaken love and constancy. She survived the shock of her husbands death only two years. She left five children. Judge and his wife moved from to DeSoto county. Miss, in 1S47.
 (6.) Wm. Pitt Eason, son of (5) Anne Lavinia Rootes Eason, born near