Life History

Notes

• 1850 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 15 November, Prairie Township, page 33 (scan 18), Hse/Fam #51
  C W Belknap 32 M Farmer $3000 Real Estate Value b Penn [b abt 1818]
  Jacksobena Belknap 25 F b Tenn [b abt 1825]
  Mary J Belknap 1 F b Ark [b abt 1849]
  James Holdway 30 M Laborer b Ala [b abt 1820]
  
  In 1860, Jacksobena's name is reported as Jackoline, very clearly written in clear flowing script.  Because of the presence of Susan Dyse in the household, I tend to think that Susan is Jacksobena's mother.  But I can find nothing on anyone with this surname, or with similar names like Dyess that would match these individuals.  One genealogy suggests the family name was Dyer, and has the names of her parents.  But there is no documentaiton.  The name Dyer woudl make sense as an analysis of the handwriting of the Susan's last name in the census, which could be Dyre.
  
  This genealogy has Jacksobena's first name as Jaqueline, which would make sense, and acount for the strange 1860 form of Jackoline.  But both these are quite different from the clear entry of the strange form Jacksobena in two censuses.  It seems unlikley the latter could have been accidentally written so carefully two different times 20 years apart.
  
  Jacquiline [sic] Dyer
  Birth 1825 in Lauderdale Co, Ala,  Death Unknown
  Married Charles W. Belknap, Birth 1818 in Mississippi, Death Unknown
  Father Robert Henry Dyer
  Birth 1774 in Holston River, Grainger, North Carolina
  Death 11 May 1826 in Dyer Co, Tenn
  Mother Susannah M. Mitchell
  Birth 18 Nov 1779 in Boonesboro, Kentucky [1860 census says NC]
  Death Aft. 1860 in Arkansas
  Marriage 27 Jun 1799 Rogersville, Hawkins, Tenn
  --  JH 2014, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/65880568/person/46146542407?ftm=1
  
  1860 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 18 July, Prairie Township, page 57, Hse #413, Fam #393
  Charles W Belknap 42 M Farmer $50,000 Real Estate $8000 Personal born Miss
  Jackoline [sic] Belknap 35 F Housekeeper born Tenn
  Mary S Belknap 11 F born Ark
  Ann C Belknap 6 F born Ark
  Morris D Belknap 2 M born Ark
  Yance Brinkley 15 M $1600 Real Estate born Kentucky
  Charles B Brinkley 11 M born Kentucky
  Susan Dyre [Dyer?] 79 F $1000 Real Estate $3050 Personal born North Carolina
  
  I don't know who these children of the second surname Brinkley are.  In 1870 C W Belknap's wife is again named Jacksobena and she is 45, matching the age of 35 for Jackoline in 1860 and 25 for Jacksobena in 1850.
  
  1870 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 1 July, Prairie Township, PO St Charles, page 6, Hse/Fam #45
  Belknap, Charles W 52 M W Farmer $2000 Real Estate $1000 Personal b PA Cannot read or write [b abt 1818]
  Belknap, Jacksobena 45 F W Keeping House born TN Cannot read or write [b abt 1825]
  Belknap, Molly S 20 F W born AR Cannot read or write [b abt 1850]
  Belknap, Kate 16 F W born AR Cannot read or write [b abt 1854]
  Belknap, Morris 12 M W born AR Cannot read or write [b abt 1856]

Sources

• 1. 1860 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 18 July, Prairie Township, page 57, Hse #413, Fam #393
• 2. 1850 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 15 November, Prairie Township, page 33 (scan 18), Hse/Fam #51
• 3. 1870 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 1 July, Prairie Township, PO St Charles, page 6, Hse/Fam #45
• 4. Ancestry Trees
• 5. 1860 Federal Census, Ashley County, Arkansas
  • 18 July, Prairie Township, page 57, Hse #413, Fam #393
• 6. 1907 Indian Census Rolls, Mojave San Carlos, Arizona
  • 1 Jul, Mohave Tonto-Apache And Apache (Mojave), San Carlos Agency, Arizona
• 7. 1880 Federal Census, La Plata County, Colorado
  • [no date] June, Rio Florida, District 65, page 13 (scan 574), Hse/Fam #8
• 8. 1900 Federal Census, Gila County, Arizona
  • 12 June, Globe, District 18, page 16A,  Hse #422, Fam #429
• 9. Libby Beliew, email correspondence to Orville Boyd Jenkins, October 2008