The following is an account of the family history of the Peebles family history, from the perspective of the descendents of Robert Lee Peebles (my grandfather), and his ancestors. The author is my cousin (and, as it turns out. my second grade teacher). Much of the work is based upon the book "Peebles Ante 1600 - 1962" by Anne Bradbury Peebles. In fact, if you are familiar with the book, you will find that several passages are quotes or near quotes. I have not found the sources of all information given here, though most of it can be borne out in the book itself. Later ties of my family to Captain David Peebles¹ descendents are not as solid as I would like them to be at this writing. Perhaps by reading this some of you may be able to confirm or disprove parts of the information given. I have included updated information where necessary and / or possible, as this document was put together in the late 1960¹s. This information is in brackets [like this]. I appreciate your a!
ttention and your help in tying my family lines together.

Peebles Family
(written by Ascenia (Dose) Underwood)

Before the year 1115, a group of refugees settled in Scotland on the River Tweed, where the town of Peebles is located today. They had left Flanders because of civil and religious difficulties. Permission for them to settle in various parts of Britain had been obtained by the mother of Henry I of England, who was Matilda, daughter of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders. They had descendents in Virginia by 1649 and in Texas by 1847.

The earliest Peebles record in Virginia is on David Peebles who received his first grant of land on August 5, 1650. As it took about six months to obtain a grant, or patent, this places his arrival late in 1649 when over 300 adherents of Charles I, condemned to the block by Cromwell, escaped to Virginia.

Parish records in Scotland show that David Peebles and his wife, Elspet Mackie had at least five children born in Scotland. The oldest son, William (1635 - 1704) was the only one to come to Virginia. Elspet was probably dead before David came as he had married Elizabeth Bishopp by 1655. David died 1695 in Charles City County, Va. William took up his father¹s estate in Prince George, Charles City, and Surrey (later Sussex) Counties. William, Jr., son of William, Sr., and his first wife, Judith, were Quakers, and his inherited plantation, still called "Burleigh", gave site and name to the first Quaker Meeting south of the James River. William, Jr. married a Miss Hamlin and they had sons Abraham, William III, Thomas, John, and Peter.

John Peebles (1710 - 1772) took up land in Brunswick. His first wife was Elizabeth Clark, who died in 1755. He married again, to Frances Catoe. His sons were John, Jr., Robert, Samuel, Ephriam, and Henry.

Robert, son of John and Elizabeth, was born in Virginia in 1735. He married in Brunswick, 1757, to Lucy Bass. Robert Peebles still held legal residence in Brunswick in 1768, when he voted there, but records show that he bought land and witnessed other transactions in Northampton County, North Carolina that same year. On February 22, 1776, Robert bought land giving his residence as Northampton, N.C. November 12, 1776 he was a delegate to the Congress at Halifax, N.C. with Howell Edmunds and Allan Jones, all elected from Northampton County. This was the Assembly which framed the Constitution and Bill of Rights for the State of North Carolina. The Colonial and State Records of N.C. show Robert Peebles as Member of the House of Commons of the Legislature 1777-1780, and again in 1787. In 1779 and 1782, he was appointed Major of 200 Light Horse in Halifax District, and in 1788, Fayeteville, Lt. Col. Commandant. Roberts¹s children were: Benjamin, Howell, Priscilla, and Rober!
t, Jr.

Howell Peebles (1765 - ?) married first in Greensville Co., Va., Sept. 9, 1789 to Rebecca B. Fos, and second, in same county, Jan. 20, 1808 to Hannah Peters Dancy, widow of Capt. Francis Dancy. In 1800 Howell Peebles was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons. He had these children: John B., Samuel, Mary Ann, Howell, Jr., Robert, Ingram Blanks, and probably others. [Ingram Blanks¹ relation to Howell, Sr. has been challenged by the gggranddaughter of Sallie B. Peebles, who is mentioned in the second paragraph down.]

Howell, Jr., went to Williamson Co., Tenn., about 1817. There are various land records in that county on which appear the names of Howell, Samuel, and Ingram Blanks Peebles.

Ingram Blanks Peebles was born Aug. 1, 1811, in Northampton Co., N.C. April 23, 1833 he married Miverva A. Scales (b. 1817 in Alabama; d. 1897 in Texas). They had the following children who were born in Williamson Co., Tennessee: William Henry, Feb. 19, 1834 (died young); Samuel Pinckney, born July 24, 1835, died Aug. 16, 1889, String Prairie, Texas; Francis Marion (Frank), July 15, 1837, married Sarah Gardner, died Aug. 2, 1898, Milam County, Texas; Arabella Virginia, June 5, 1841, married George F. Leeper, Nov. 16, 1858; Mary E. (Molly), Nov. 20, 1843, married John E. Eastham Feb. 13, 1866, died Mar. 24, 1920 in Callahan County, Texas. Their last child, Sallie B., was born in Bastrop County, Texas, Nov. 20, 1847, and married Thomas Hadley.

After Ingram Blanks died, his widow married Edward Rudder in Bastrop Co., Texas in the early 1850¹s. She married William Eastham Feb. 10, 1855 in Burleson Co., and died 1897 in Callahan County, Texas.

In 1856 Samuel Pinckney Peebles bought land in Burleson (now Lee) County on the "north or Red Fork of the Middle Yegua". Sept. 25, 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate Army, Company H, 2nd Regiment of the Texas Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded and captured at Pittsburg Landing April 8, 1862 and imprisoned at Camp Douglas, Ill. On April 19 he was sent to the City U.S.A. General Hospital, St. Louis, Mo., for treatment of "gunshot wound". He was returned to prison one month later. Sept. 6, 1862, he was sent back to Vicksburg to be exchanged. Still suffering from his wound, he was sent to the Texas General Hospital in Quitman, Mississippi where he stayed from Nov. 4, 1862 until he rejoined his Regiment Feb. 7, 1863. He was again captured at Vicksburg on July 4, 1863 and "paroled by the Federal authorities". Too badly crippled to fight, he was sent home. But he did not stay there. He continued serving the Confederacy as his company¹s Army Recruiting Officer. On Mar. 18,!
1864 Samuel Pinckney Peebles and Nancy McClanahan, daughter of Milton McClanahan and Dorothea (Dolly) Keyes were married. To this marriage were born: Eugene Marion (Gene), William, and Mary Roberta (Bert). Nancy died Feb. 5, 1873, and Samuel P. married Margaret Sikes Nalley, widow of Jackson Nalley. Their children were: Howell Blanks, Thomas and Ethel, who all died young, and Robert Lee who married Martha Arendal, and Hattie Elizabeth who married C.C. Perry.

Eugene (Mar. 7, 1865 - Feb. 17, 1918) married Ascenia L. Parker, daughter of John William and Nancy Elizabeth Sikes Parker. They had three children: Sam Parker, born May 21, 1890, died Sept. 10, 1963, who married Mary Ann Johnston May 5, 1918; Fred (1892 - 1926) who married Elizabeth Matlock; and Eugenia (1893 - 1894). Eugene and Cenie continued farming and ranching on the Peebles String Prairie land after they moved into Lexington where they opened a general store under the firm name of E.M. Peebles and Sons. The firm is owned and operated today by two sons of Sam Parker: Sam Parker, Jr. and Wyley, who are engaged in ranching on land that includes the original Peebles land bought in 1856. Another descendant, Ascenia Peebles Underwood, holds the rest of the land. [All are now deceased, except Ascenia Peebles Underwood, who is the author of this document.]

Robert Lee (Bob) Peebles and his wife, Martha Arendal, had children: Tom, Blanche, Dal, Doris, Robert, Faye, Alton [my Father], Frank, Ernest and Eugene [twins], and Elder Bess.

Hattie Elizabeth married Clarence Perry and had: Sam, Alph, Clifton, Bess, Bob, Margaret Ann, and Posey [Posey¹s name had been handwritten on the original document, which was typed, as though left out.]

There you have it. I have not been able to determine the sources that my cousin found for this information, other than the worn copy of the Peebles book that my Aunt, Doris Peebles loaned to her, and which I received when Doris passed away in 1996. I hope to quiz her soon, and hope even more fervently that her information is correct. Any light anyone might be able to shed on this is greatly appreciated.

Sincerely

Fred Peebles

Unspecified for Ingram Blanks Peebles