Mary Walling

Mary Blevins, born c 1714 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. Married Elisha Walling Bet. 1732-1734 in Prince George County, Maryland.

Some unsourced trees, and an earlier version of this profile, state that she died in Surrey County, Virginia, which is unlikely to be correct, since Elisha was living much further west (on the frontier in what was eventually to become Pittsylvania County) by the early 1740s and until his death in the 1780s.

Biography

Mary Blevins (3rd. gen.) (William#2-2, William#1-1) b. abt. 1711. She married Elisha Wallen Sr. abt. 1730 in Prince George Co., MD.

Elisha Wallen Sr. was born July 26, 1708 in Salem Co., NJ and died ca 1785 in Henry Co., Va. by Indian attack.

Elisha and Mary migrated, abt 1735, to frontier VA and were living there in 1745. Their son Elisha Jr. became a famed long hunter and it was Elisha Wallen Jr. who eventually migrated to Missouri. Elisha Jr. and some of his descendants are interredin the Wallen Cemetery on the family homestead near Irondale in Washington Co., Missouri. His father Elisha Wallen Sr. was the pioneering long hunter who first hunted with his father in law, William Blevins #2, from the 1740s well into the 1760s era.

Children of Mary Blevins and Elisha Wallen Sr. were:

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1. Elizabeth Wallen (1727, married William Roberts),
2. Sarah Wallen (1728, married Moses Johnson),
3. Joseph Wallen (1729),
4. Thomas Wallen (1731, married Mary Cox)
5. Elisha Wallen, Jr. (1732, married Catherine Blevins),
6. Joseph Allen Wallen (1734, married Milly Jones),
7. Mary Wallen (1740, married John R. Weddle),
8. Margery Wallen (1738, married Isaac Rice),
9. James W. Wallen (1746) and
10. John Wallen (1750, married Elizabeth Roberts).

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Of these, Margery, Betsy, Sarah, John, Joseph, and Thomas (and their spouses) are named in the Bible Notes of Mattie Elisabeth (Rice) Howard.[3]

In addition, Carolyn Wallin identifies "Allen" as a possible additional child.[11]

Disputed children

Disputed Origins

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Many published sources and online family trees incorrectly identify the father of Mary and her brothers as William ‘Old Bill’ Blevins. The earliest researcher known to have made this claim is Bill Dwayne Blevins, in his book Blevins Ancestry, self-published in 1972. Blevins does not identify his source.[17] Other researchers have repeated this claim, but all appear to ultimately be relying upon Bill Dwayne Blevins.[18]

This claim has been disproven. For details, see the profile of William Blevins, the profile of James Blevins, and "The Unique Signature Marks of Two James Blevins: A Key Clue to the Origin of the Southern Blevins Family".

Some have also identified her mother as Anna Bunch, or as Mary Bean. These claims are disproven for the same reasons.

Although there is no direct proof of the relationship, the claim that Mary is the daughter of James Blevins and Margery Tosh is probable based on the following:

• Mary Blevins is identified as the wife of Elisha Walling in the 1868 Mattie Rice Howard bible notes, which provide detailed descriptions of both Elisha and Mary and are likely based on stories told to Mattie by older family members who remembered them.[3]
• James Blevins brought his family from Westerly, Rhode Island, to the Monocacy Hundred before 1733. He appears there as the head of his household in 1733-4. He and Margery Tosh are almost certainly parents of the Blevins family who appears in the Monocacy Hundred.[2]
• Elisha Walling also appears in the Monocacy Hundred in 1733-4.[12]
• The only other Blevins man who appears in Monocacy Hundred in 1733 is Daniel Blevin, who appears as an adult male in James' household and is likely his oldest son and Mary's brother.[13][14][15]
• Elisha Walling was closely associated with the Blevins family, and the Wallings and Blevins both migrated from the Monocacy Hundred in Maryland to the southwestern Virginia frontier beginning in the late 1730s.[16]

References

• Reference: Family Tree Maker
• Sources from Rootsweb/ancestry.com: Martin-Huntzberg Connections Contact: Donna Martin Email: ggydonna gmail.com
• Reference: Ancestry
• This source lists Birth: 1710 in Price Georges Co., MD Sources:
• 1. Title: Noah Smothers Family Tree, Url: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=nsmother... Abbrev: walden003; Walden family line Author: Noah Smothers, Compiler: WorldConnect Project Publication: 10 Feb 2001 Note nsmother mail.llion.org Repository: Name: Unknown
• 2. Title: Re: Elisha Walden of VA/TN, Subject: Elisha Walden, Listserve: Genforum, Walden message 88 Abbrev: walden009:Elisha Walden Family Author: Lisa Alexander Publication: 3 Jan 2002, Original Date, 23 Jul 1998
• 3. Title: On the Trail of Colonel Charles Cocke, the Cox, Wallen, Blevins and Osborn Families, Url: http://home.southwind.net/~crowther/Cocke/Cox.htm Abbrev: walden011:Wallen Family Publication: 2 Jan 2002
• Reference: Fam Gen
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jul 17 2016, 18:59:44 UTC
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Feb 27 2017, 16:51:07 UTC
• Reference: Find-A-Grave
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Mar 18 2019, 1:24:29 UTC
• From the Draper Papers Chapter 4, p. 76 “In 1761 - Following the Cherokee surrender in April, Elisha Wallen headed a party of long hunters, among which was his father-in-law William Blevins and John and James Blevins. They hunted for about 18 months in the Powell and Clinch River Valleys and well into Kentucky using the Cumberland Gap. The party rediscovered and renamed Coones Gap as Cumberland Gap.”
• John Redd in Draper Manuscripts wrote - ...Elisha Wallen, son-in-lawof William Blevins lived in 1774, at the ‘Round-About’ on Smith’s River, two miles west of what is now Martinsville, Henry Co., VA
• Edmund West, comp. Title: Family Data Collection - Births Publication: *U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Publication:
• Edmund West, comp. Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records Publication:
• https://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/TennesseeFamilies&Places/Wa...
• “The Blevins Men of Monocacy and Goochland: The Southern Migration of the James Bliven Family.” Robert P. Blevins (June 1, 2020) < PDF > Page 23
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Blevins-40