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William Anthony CULPS was born about 1799 in North Carolina, (Virginia?). Decendent, Geo. Dewey Culps (deceased), my father visited with some of the Tennessee family members in about 1978. He made notes of his informal interviews and it is from these notes that the statements in this file are made.

William began his life between 1790 and 1800. He was born in North Carolina or eastern Tennessee.

He and his family and two other families crossed over the mountains and settled near Ardmore in Giles county on the Alabama and Tennesse border. One of these families was of Italian decent, which probably had some influence on some of the names of their decendents.

I have no information regarding his birth or marriage date but I have entered them to give some perspective of his life. The Federal Census of 1850 for Giles Co., TN shows Wm A to be 29. This is apparently William Augustis or (Arthur), William Anthony's son. That would mean the son was born about 1821. (See more complete notes under the family of William Augustis Culps). If William Anthony was, say 22 years old when his son was born, then his own birth would be about 1799. If he was, say 21 years old when he married then his marriage date would be about 1820. I used 1802 as a birthdate for Martha, making her 2 or 3 years younger than he.

Julia (Culps) Smith has information, from the family, that it was William Anthony's son, William Augustis (Arthur) or (George Washington Culps) who crossed over the mountains into Tennessee about 1840 and married a local girl, Margaret (Eliza) King. As Julia points out in her letter and genealogy that some of our material may still be questionable because of conflicting reports, etc.

My father talked with Mae Rolland, granddaughter of Ann Elizabeth 'Eliza' King and obtained some information in written form on the King family. These records show that Arthur King and Margaret Ann King were the parents of Ann Elizabeth. They came to Giles County, TN in the 1820's from North Carolina, where they had lived for several years, after moving there from Virginia. Arthur and Margaret were both King's; she was a distant relative.

In searching Federal Census records I have not found any records on William Anthony Culps, however I did find a William Culp in the 1830 Virginia Census, showing him to be between 30-40 years old, and a female between 20-30 years of age. (Hampshire Dist 252). These records contained very little information.

This was my great, great, great-grandfather.

Article taken from Wallace Culps website: Decendants of William Anthony Culps.