Misc. Notes
He was probably born on Cat Island in the Bahamas. He was his parent's oldest son.
®1891 He died as a young man, leaving his wife and four children, one of which was Mary Isabel Eve.
®99 They had had seven children. He was in the War of 1812 - he enlisted in 1814 for 14 days in Capt. Musgrove, Glascock, Montgomery or Johnston’s Georgia militia. His wife was denied a pension in 1881. He died at age 46.
®1891 "12 Joseph Clark Eve - He was born about 1793 either in the Bahamas or Georgia. He died in 1838 in Jefferson Co Georgia. His father was William EVE (4)
He married on the 26th Jan 1825 in Richmond County, Georgia. He had the following children:
• Joseph Clark Eve (22) - He was born about 1830. He married Anne Pearsall. He died between 1880-5 in San Marcos Hayes Co Texas.
• Emma Eve (40)- born July 1830. She never married.
• Mary Eve
• Louisa Eve
Joseph Eve lived in Richmond County in 1820 and was the only Eve in Georgia on that census.
®1896 A census listing for 1830 shows Joseph C Eve in Richmond County, Augusta Ward 3. Index no GA560129518 An extract from the 1830 census shows.
®1897 Free White
• Males - 1 male aged 0 to 5 years, 1 male aged 20 to 30 years, 1 male aged 30 to 40 years.
• Females - 3 females aged 0 to 5 years, 1 female aged 20 to 30 years.
Slaves
• Males - 2 males aged 1 to 10 years, 1 male aged 24 to 36 years, 3 males aged 36 to 55 years.
• Females - 1 female aged 0 to 10 years, 1 female aged 10 to 24 years.
There is no record of Joseph C Eve in Georgia census records after 1830 as he died in 1838.
There is a record of a Joseph C Eve being successful in a land lottery in 1827
REPRINT of OFFICIAL REGISTER of LAND LOTTERY OF GEORGIA 1827 - 59th DAY'S DRAWING- May 14. Fortunate Drawers: - Joseph C. Eve, Captains District: Hands, Number: 190, District: 8. Troup County "
®1856(82) Joseph C. Eve.Sacred
To the Memory of
Joseph C. Eve,
oldest son of
William & Mary Eve,
late of Nassau N.P.,
Who died at
Millford, Jefferson County,
February 18th, 1838,
in the 46 year
of his age.
I have waited for thy Salvation
O Lord![M. L. Reese cemetery report, 1933:
Upright Marble Slab; 4 feet high.]
®1891
There is no Milford in Jefferson County, only in Baker County in southwest Georgia. No other Eve’s lived in Georgia in 1820. Where did they live?