Research on our Valentine Ancestors
The second generation William Valentine was born to the first generation William Valentine and Sarah Martin in the year 1783. In 1806 the second generation William married Elizabeth Moore in South Carolina. During the next 15 years they had seven children. The children were Allen, Benjamin, Levi, Darrell, Drew, Mary Marzilla, and our subject which is the third generation William Patrick. Some time before 1830, the family moved to Mississippi. This date is arrived at by the marriage of Allen who married in 1830 in Mississippi. Not much is known about Drew, so he could have died young. Levi, Benjamin, Mary, and Darrell were found in the 1850 census in Different locations, but none of the Valentines from this line at that time came to Texas except William Patrick.
All above information on the family was given to us by W. R. Harper, who resides in Soso Mississippi. He was a great grandson of Allen. His mother lived to be 101 years old and had a book that had been handed down to her from her mother. He said she still had a sharp mind when she passed on.
Allen and all of his children spelled their name, Volentine and most all of them stayed in the area of Jones County, Mississippi.
William Patrick Valentine and Julia Ann Baldwin married July 22, 1841 in Macon County, Alabama, and daughter Mary was their first born. Her death record has her birth place in Pike County, Alabama. Sometime after Mary was born, the family moved back to Mississippi where Daniel was born in 1847. The family was not found by us in any census records of the southern states in 1850. We did find them in 1860 in what was then Trinity County. We are assuming that they arrived in Texas between 1849-1851. The land records and birth of Annie Jane would indicate this.
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