Pilgrim, Isaac Timms
Isaac Timms Pilgrim and his family came to Upshur County in 1870 from
Rome in Floyd County, Georgia in a wagon train.
He was a Confederate Veteran, serving from June 1861 until the war?s
end in April 1865. Isaac?s first wife was Hannah
Berry Davis. Isaac and his family first settled where Pleasant Grove
Cemetery is located today.
After Hannah passed away in September of 1878, Isaac married Sarah Emmaline
Powell, a daughter of Benjamin James
Lucas Powell and Anna Adams, in March of 1879. The Pilgrim home
stood where the north gate of Willow Oak Cemetery
is located today.
At some point in the 1880?s they sold the land at Willow Oak Community
and moved a few miles northwest to Pine in
Camp County. Isaac served as a deputy sheriff of Camp County.
He and a son-in-law, Thomas Jefferson ?Tobe?
Sworfford, who had married Isaac?s daughter Florence Rebecca Pilgrim,
operated a cotton gin in the late 1880?s. The
exact location of the gin is unknown but it is believed to have been
near and south of the Willow Oak Baptist Church. In November of 1891,
the gin house and all of the cotton ginned for that year was lost in a
fire (Pittsburg Gazette, November 1891). Apparently Tobe had had enough
and shortly thereafter he and Florence Rebecca moved to Duncan, Arizona
where they resided until their deaths. Issac died in Pine in 1906
at the age of 63.
Another of Isaac?s daughters, Annie Lou Pilgrim, who was born in the Pilgrim house at Willow Oak Community, married Dr. William Thomas Efurd. She was a charter member of the Pine Baptist Church, serving as church clerk for thirty five years. Dr. Efurd owned a grocery store at Pine and was a Postmaster there.
Compiled by: Billy
King Pilgrim
Houston, Texas
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Porter, John C - This contains about 50 pages on his life. Area counties involved are Camp & Upshur.
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