Charles Stuart Speed
1817 - 1856 (39 years)
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Name Charles Stuart Speed Born 4 Mar 1817 Montgomery County, Tennessee, USA 
Gender Male Residence 1850 District 3, Weakley, Tennessee, USA [1] Died 26 Aug 1856 Weakley County, Tennessee, USA Buried Sharon, Weakley County, Tennessee, United States of America [2] Person ID I14472 Brown Genealogy Last Modified 19 Sep 2024
Father James Stewart Speed, b. 16 Mar 1775, Anson County, North Carolina, USA , d. Dec 1816, Montgomery County, Tennessee, USA (Age 41 years) Relationship natural Mother Nancy Hinson, b. 17 Mar 1784, North Carolina, USA , d. 1869, Henry County, Tennessee, USA (Age 84 years) Relationship natural Married Abt 1800 Richmond County, South Carolina, USA Family ID F3904 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Martha Ann Cowell, b. 19 Jan 1819, Alabama, USA , d. 21 Feb 1872, Weakley County, Tennessee, USA (Age 53 years) Married 10 Jan 1847 Weakley County, Tennessee, USA Children 1. George Speed, b. Abt 1846, Tennessee, USA [natural]2. Mary Elizabeth Caroline Speed, b. 20 Nov 1848, Weakley County, Tennessee, United States of America , d. 4 Feb 1929, Compton, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America (Age 80 years) [natural]3. Robert Stuart Speed, b. 12 May 1851, d. 14 Dec 1893 (Age 42 years) [natural] 4. Henry Andrew Lewis Speed, b. 22 Nov 1852, Martin, Weakley County, Tennessee, USA , d. 21 Mar 1917, Clarendon, Texas, USA (Age 64 years) [natural]Last Modified 19 Sep 2024 Family ID F3898 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Charles Stuart Speed was the youngest of seven children. Full family information is available from Chuck Speed of Texas.
Abstracts of deeds for Montgomery Co., Tennessee (Book O, pg.220, 1835) show that William Speed deeded to Charles S. Speed on Dec. 20, 1834, 86 acres on Spring Creek. This was an original land grant from the state of N. Carolina to David Lewis and later sold. Proved Jan. 19, 1835 by Wm. Speed. These records also show that Charles S. Speed deeded to Wm. D. Merriweather (Book S, pg.21) on Dec. 24, 1840, 86 acres on Spring Creek for $450. Proved by oath of witness Jan. 4, 1841.
Sometime before the 1850 census, Nancy Speed, the widow of James Stuart Speed, moved in with the family of her son, Charles Stuart Speed. Charles had moved to Weakley County, Tennessee sometime between 1841 and 1850. The 1850 Weakley County census showed Charles (age 33) , his wife, Martha (age 32), a twin son and daughter, Mary and George (age 4), a son, Robert (age 5), and Charles? mother, Nancy (age 65).
Unfortunately, Charles Stuart Speed died on 26 August 1856 leaving his wife, Martha, to raise five children. Twins Mary (called Puss) and George were eight years old, son Robert was five years old, Henry Lewis (called Lute) was three years old, and the youngest son, Charles, was ten months old. This left Martha Cowell Speed with a formidable task in raising their young family alone. Charles was buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery located across from the Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church formed in 1835 just south of Martin, TN at the intersection of Troy Road and Pleasant Hill Road. This was quite near the old Speed farm between Troy Road and Mud Creek just west of Hwy 45E.
When I first found my great great grandfather's grave, the top half of the tombstone was missing and you could not read the name. I had a local monument company probe the ground around the grave and they found the missing upper half of the tombstone. I then had an additional marker made and, along with the upper half of the original tombstone, had both placed in cement on the grave. I had my own name also placed in the marker in hopes that some other family member who might be researching this family line, would contact me if they saw who placed it there. I have since had two contacts made by distant cousins researching relatives buried in that old cemetery.
- Charles Stuart Speed was the youngest of seven children. Full family information is available from Chuck Speed of Texas.
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Sources - [S62] 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M432; Residence Date: 1850; Home in 1850: District 3, Weakley, Tennessee; Roll: 899; Page: 430a.
- [S2400] U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61165527/charles-stewart-speed
- [S62] 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M432; Residence Date: 1850; Home in 1850: District 3, Weakley, Tennessee; Roll: 899; Page: 430a.