Thomas Springfield married Martha Upham

Thomas Springfield was born 30 Jun 1741 in Granville County, North Carolina. He married Martha Upham sometime prior to 1761. Thomas and Martha had four children. Thomas apparently hung himself on September 20, 1768 at the age of 27.

Up his death his four children were bound out:

• Elizabeth Springfield, six years old, was bound to Charles Eaton until 18 years. She married a Thomas Snow and lived in Granville County, North Carolina
• Aaron Springfield, eight years was bound to James Currian until 21 years old, to learn trade of blacksmith. Aaron married Elizabeth Potts and lived in Oglethorpe County, Georgia.
• Moses Springfield, age four, was bound to Joshua Yarbrough until he attain to lawful age the said apprentice to learn to read and write and the trade of a cooper. He married Elizabeth Rush and lived in Person County, North Carolina.
• Thomas H. Springfield was the youngest son of Thomas and Martha. He married (1^st) Lavinia Smith and (2^nd) Laodicea Langston and lived in Greenville County, South Carolina.

Moses Springfield married Elizabeth Rush

Moses Springfield married Elizabeth Rush and live in Persons County, North Carolina. Moses fought in the Revolutionary War.

His application for a Revolutionary War pension states that he was born in Franklin County, North Carolina. He was age 69 in 1832. He stated that he entered the service of the United States under Captain Harding. That he was drafted from the militia of the county in which he lived and that under Captain Harding he was marched to Ramsey’s Mills in the county of Chatham and that he was stationed at said Mills for three months. From Ramsey’s Mills he was marched to Hillsborough in the county of Orange in which town and the neighborhood of it he remained with his company five months.

He was afterwards drafted for what was commonly called in the militia “the eighteen months service” and under Captain Dickerson marched down into the southeastern part of this state and at some point on the Cape Fear he was discharged but that he received no written discharge. This declarant was engaged in no battle.

Moses was pensioned at the rate of $20 per annum commencing March 4th, 1831, for 6 months service as a private in the North Carolina militia.

Moses and Elizabeth had the following children:

• Sarah Springfield married Randal Ragan in Person County, North Carolina.
• John S. Springfield married Mary A. Mitchell and lived in Webster County, Kentucky.
• William Springfield married Elizabeth Banks Buchanan and lived in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
• Joanna Bolton Springfield married Moses Jones and lived in Person County North Carolina.
• George W. Springfield married Rebecca Davey Mitchell and lived in Hopkins County, Kentucky.

John S. Springfield married Mary A. Mitchell

John S. Springfield was born about 1797 in North Carolina. He died on 31 January 1863 in Webster County, Kentucky. He married Mary A Mitchell. Mary was born on 22 February 1816 in

North Carolina. She died after 1880.

According to a transcription of the Springfield Family Bible, Hopkins and Webster County, Kentucky posted by Nancy Trice on Rootsweb, Mary had a twin brother named William G. Mitchell. There is also listed a Charles Mitchell born 15 December 1817, who is probably a brother.

John and Mary had the following children:

• Edward Marshall Springfield lived in Kentucky and married (1^st) Mary Isabell Tompkins and (2^nd) Elizabeth C. Winters.
• John C. Springfield married Mary Jane Bailey and lived in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
• Leander Springfield died in Evansville Indiana. He married Martha A. Harralson who was born in Kentucky.
• Benjamin Franklin Springfield lived in Hopkins County, Kentucky and married Henrietta Jane Steen.
• Martha Springfield was born about 1841.
• Moses Springfield married (1^st) Sarah J. Baily and (2^nd) Harriet Catherine Brown. He lived in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
• William J. Springfield married (1^st) Palestine Overton Burns and 2^nd. Brittanice Belle Aull. They lived in Owensboro, Kentucky.
• Garland Cosby Springfield married Sarah Jane Eakins and lived in Webster County, Kentucky.
• Rebecca Jane Springfield married Bartlett Roby Townsend and lived in Webster County, Kentucky

William J. Springfield married Palestine Overton Burns and Belle Aull

William J. Springfield, pictured at right, was a physician in Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky. Dr. was born in Webster (then Hopkins) County, January, 22, 1843. He was brought up on a farm, and educated in the common schools. He graduated from Cincinnati Medical College in June, 1874, and located for the practice of medicine in West Louisville, the same year. In 1875 he removed to his farm in this Daviess County, Kentucky.

He married in 1875, to Palestine Overton Burns. They had two children:

• Aurelia Belle Springfield who married Edward Garland Robertson and lived in McClean County, Kentucky.
• Lewis Iverson Springfield who died in 1880 at the age of two.

Palestine died June 20, 1880, and March 10, 1881, the Doctor Springfield married Belle Aull, daughter of Robert P. Aull. They had one child – Ansel Springfield who never married.

Aurelia Belle Springfield married Edward Garland Robertson

Aurelia and Edward, pictured above, lived in McLean County, Kentucky. See the Robertson Family for more information on their descendants.