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Hash genealogy, August Drive, Clemmons, NC (2025)

01/24/2024

This old Ward home was started following the purchase of the "ol John" Hash farm by Zachariah Ward. He bought the farm from the sons of "OL John" Hash around 1818. He married the great granddaughter, Tabitha Hash, of "ol John" Hash in 1818.

After serving in the CSA, his son, Silas Ward, took over the farm and built the 2nd half of the old log home. His father died in the same part of the house he had built. Both Zachariah and Silas plus more members of their families are buried in the Silas Ward Cemetery.

01/24/2024

The Ward family closely follows the Hash clam early in the 1800's. I would like to show one instance of these family connections by presenting photos of the old Ward home that was built on the lands of "ol John" Hash at Bridle Creek. Many followers on this site comment on being related or that they know of the older places their families were connected to.

I will post each photo and describe it on the particular page.

01/19/2024

This is from the Hash Family Historian dated 1983. It is what was represented in 1947. Some facts are misrepresented.

01/19/2024

I have more info on my 4th great grandfather, William Horton Hash, Sr. He was born around 1747 around Baltimore, MD and died just after 1821, from the deed he signed in 1821 giving his homeplace to Joseph Hash, his son. There is no later mention of him or his wife, Eleanor Osborne. He died about the age of 74 years and was buried in the graveyard on his father's homeplace on Bridle Creek.

My immediate family reworked this cemetery in 2011 and became very familiar with it. This originally was the Hash Cemetery and was soon occupied with members of the "ol John" Hash family. This included slaves brought from Swift Run Creek in Orange County, VA. "ol John's" second wife owned slaves and carried them with the Hash family to Bridle Creek.

We do not have written proof of the burial of "ol John" Hash and his 2nd wife, but it seems reasonable to assume they occupied a central position in the new cemetery. "ol John" died in 1784 and his wife after that.

We do have proof that his son, William Horton Hash, Sr and Eleanor Osborne, were buried in this cemetery. An affidavit by Rose Ward Kirk, dated July 6, 1947, states that she knew that the Wm Hash and Eleanor Osborne were buried in this cemetery with her father, Silas Ward and his father, Zachariah Ward. She indicated that Zachariah had purchased the old Hash farm after "ol John" Hash died and willed it to his sons, John Jr and Thomas.

When Silas Ward inherited the same land from his father, Zachariah, he took over the care of the cemetery and renamed it the Silas Ward Cemetery.

The old cemetery was used as a Ward cemetery while the farm was occupied by Zachariah and Silas Ward. The Hash graves are in the central portion of the cemetery while all of the Ward graves were placed between the Hash graves and the river. There is a dividing line of markers that is prominent in the cemetery. The area around the Hash graves has several unmarked graves of other Hash people and probably some slave graves.

The last owners of the cemetery are also buried closer to the entrance of the cemetery. Andrew Rice and his wife, Nancy Sexton, are in well-marked newer graves there. Mr. Rice maintained the cemetery for many years before his death. The children of this 😀Rice family currently maintain this cemetery very well. Nancy Sexton descends from the Ward family.

01/13/2024

Some of my early family attended school at St Clair's Creek in Smyth County, VA. around 1900, if they went to school at all!! I found this photo of the Piedmont School some years ago and was told this was the location of the school.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1Nmp30BojQBjXP4amf1tgKtdQBME&usp=sharing

This picture is dated 1913 and is a class photo of the Piedmont G. School.

01/10/2024

Good morning, leaving the 3 Hash brothers' history, I would like to tell about the William Horton Hash, Sr who is certainly a son of "ol John" Hash and his first unknown wife.

This William was born around 1747 near Baltimore, MD although this city was just a wide place in the road. We know "ol John" Hash was taxed very early in Gunpowder Hundred/White Marsh, MD - just north of Baltimore.

The first written mention of this William is in the survey made for him at the foot of Buck Mountain in 1774.

Researchers support this following story about Wm as the best scenario of his marrying days.

As his father explored southwest Virginia at the New River, he and his brothers stopped at the Osborne Trading Post at the forks of the Yadkin River in Rowan County, NC. This link takes you to that trading post https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1v83xRAB8ohZgqdC7xvlt9YRDeJmYCnsb&usp=sharing

The large Osborne family had come into that area around the late 1740's. There is a deed for Caleb Osborne, showing that location, in the courthouse in Rowan County. Caleb is a s/o Jonathan Osborne and Gretta Holman. There are 5 known children for Jonathan and Gretta.

The Osborne family was English and of nobility status in England until their land holdings were lost. They moved to America and settled at Jamestown. Jonathan married Gretta in 1722 at Williamsburg, VA. All of their children were born around Williamsburg.

Ephriam married Elizabeth Howard in 1743 and their first children were born in Rowan County, NC beginning around 1745.

Ephrain build his home/fort near the later Ancella Post Office in Fincastle Co, VA when he moved to Virginia.

Ephriam and Elizabeth Osborne had 8 known children including Enoch and Eleanor, both well known in our Hash lines. The youngest daughter was Nancy Osborne.

Nancy Osborne married George Livesay. They were close neighbors of "ol John" Hash on New River.

Enoch Osborne married Jane Hash, a d/o "ol John" Hash, about 1765. Enoch established the Osborne Fort on New River and was a Captain in the local militia.

Eleanor Osborne married William Horton Hash, Sr about 1763. It is possible that they met at the Trading Post and later married there. No record exists of any such event.

Wm and Eleanor had 6 kids between 1764 and 1785.

At some point between 1763 and 1774, William claimed 430 acres of land at the foot of Buck Mountain on Bridle Creek in the then Fincastle County, VA. We have the survey dated 12/14/1774.

Use this link to see the original 430 farm of Wm Horton Hash, Sr.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1-thTNH1XlV1Z_Mk_QdUt1Cec0YI&usp=sharing

William and Eleanor had their first 5 kids at this Buck Mountain farm. By the time their daughter, Margaret, married Joseph Fields in 1781, plans were being made to sell this farm to the young Fields couple.

The birth of Wm's last child, Joseph Hash, in 1785 is assumed to be on Big Fox Creek. See the location at this link https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1Gx6Dh2pPMsxUjri-a9hNikYbaxE&usp=sharing

William and Eleanor Hash lived their last years at this 52-acre farm on Fox Creek.

William was a member of the local militia headed up by his brother-in-law, Enoch Osborne. He signed the "Oath of Allegiance" on 9/30/1777. He was a large landowner, ardent hunter, and splendid marksman.

Both Willaim and Eleanor signed the 52-acre tract over to their youngest son, Joseph Hash, in 1821. We do not know either of the birth or death dates for Wm and Eleanor. We do know that both were buried in the Hash Cemetery, later called the Silas Ward Cemetery, on the farm of his father at Bridle Creek. https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1-LjJMNEXuM_wKj0nYfPQPLZR69Q&usp=sharing

01/08/2024

Robert C. Anderson has offered his research results in collusion with me (on the Hash part). His years of research has qualified him as a respected genealogist, and he serves the Anderson line well. The following is his text he emailed me and asked me to post it on my site.
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Anderson and Hash

Y DNA testing has connected the Fox Creek Anderson’s to the Anderson family of New Castle County, Delaware and proven our Swedish origins. Our southwest Virginia line progenitor was Jonas Anderson b. 1708 in New Castle County, Delaware and d. aft. 1780 in Henry County, Virginia. Jonas Anderson sold all of his St. George Creek, New Castle County, Delaware lands by 1730 and moved into Virginia where we find him in Lunenburg County, Virginia by 1746 living on Rockcastle Creek which flows into Goose Creek. Living near Jonas Anderson on Goose Creek were William Vardeman and Israel Peterson, both of New Castle County, Delaware. William Vardeman had a daughter Maria Vardeman b. 1724 and baptized at Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church who came of age during William Vardeman’s migration into the Virginia frontier. I believe Maria Vardeman to be the mother of the Fox Creek Anderson’s due to the naming of a son, Vardeman Anderson recorded on the 1788 Montgomery County, Virginia Tax List. Jonas Anderson later moves to the Blackwater River with his sons, who own land on both sides of the Blackwater River. This area became Botetourt and Bedford County on the north side of the Blackwater River and Halifax/Pittsylvania/Henry on the south side. Here we find son Peter Anderson b. 1756 in Bedford County, Virginia leaving us record with his Revolutionary War Pension Application S2912. The last record of Jonas Anderson is for him being excused from taxation in Henry County, Virginia in 1780. His death likely was the reason for his sons to migrate to the Fox Creek of the New River where they are first recorded in 1782 on the Montgomery County, Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists and Militia Rosters. I believe Jonas Anderson's children to be John Anderson, m. Mary, Jacob Anderson, m. Susanna, William Anderson, James Anderson, m. Mourning Wallen, Peter Anderson, m. Margaret, Vardeman Anderson, m. Nancy, Nancy Anderson, m. George Livesay, and Mary Anderson, m. Thomas Testerman. I refer to them as the Fox Creek 8. Any Anderson researcher who has read this far needs to wipe the slate clean of all the Internet assumptions and mistakes. The Anderson and Hash families did not connect until they reached the New River settlements. Find a living male Anderson to take the Big Y DNA test and move forward using documentation.

John Hash b. abt. 1720 left Gunpowder Hundred, Baltimore County, Maryland with an unknown first wife, possibly a Horton who died about 1760 in Maryland. John Hash b. abt. 1720 had his first son, John Hash and second son, William Horton Hash both born in Maryland. He migrated to Swift Run Creek of the James River, near Parker's Mountain in Orange County, Virginia by 1760 where he met his second wife, Elizabeth Stodgill. They had a son, John Hash b. 1763 near Swift Run Creek in northern Virginia. John and Elizabeth Stodgill Hash migrated to the Forks of the Yadkin, near the Osborne Trading Post in Rowan County, North Carolina. John Hash had 250 acres surveyed on Bridle Creek of the New River in 1774 where he settled in what was then Fincastle County, Virginia. John Hash b. abt. 1720 lived out the rest of his life on his Bridle Creek lands, dying April 13, 1784. William Horton Hash b. abt. 1747 in Maryland, m. Eleanor Osborne and they had sons William Horton Hash Jr., m. Nancy Anderson and John Hash, m. Rebecca Anderson. Nancy and Rebecca Andeson were the daughters of Jacob Anderson, m. Susanna. John Hash b. 1763 in Virginia, m. Theodocia Sturgill/Stodgill.

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His research endorses the idea that "ol John" Hash was not married to Nancy Anderson, but indeed it was his grandson, John Hash, who married Rebecca Anderson around 1793. They had 10 children. John and Rebecca Hash are buried in the Anderson -Hash Cemetery at the junction of old Bridle Creek and Flat Ridge Road about 5 miles northwest of his father's home at the foot of Buck Mountain (Wm Horton Hash, Sr).

01/06/2024

To continue the three Hash brother's story---

The William Hash, said to be a brother of "ol John" and James Hash cannot be found in any court records, census records, or tax records. The only thing that might show him viable is in the retelling of a story around the time of the Revolutionary War.

As you may know, Will Daniel, an attorney in Huntington, WV wrote many letters to his cousins asking about Hash relatives. Letters were the only way to correspond over long distances in 1938.

Will's mother is Clarissa Virginia Hash Daniel 1854-1932. I must say the Will's middle name is Horton -- William Horton Daniel 1884-1958.

The Will Daniel letter shown here is dated January 31, 1938.

The fall of 1980 copy, the Hash Family Historian, written by Richard O. Johnson, is copied here last to show support for Mr. Daniel's letter.

There has not been any additional information made in this brother of John and James Hash, the three Hash brothers.

01/05/2024

We know that the three Hash brothers, John, William, and James, came into the southwest mountains of Virginia around 1764. They had explored into the New River area the previous year and probably had marked their sections of land as was the custom. Surveys would not be done until after an Order of Council was issued by the Loyal Land Company on December 16, 1773.

John Hash was the only brother to which a land survey was issued for 250 acres of land on Bridle Creek on December 16, 1774. That location and survey is well proven.

James Hash was born around 1740. His birthplace is assumed to be in Jew Jersey?? He married a Hanna Osborne and they had two children, one son and one daughter. A marriage date of around 1765 can be assumed but no record exists of this union.

Old folks tell that James settled near New River in the same area, maybe on Saddle Creek??

It is said that the only son of this James and Hanna went west with other explorers early on and was never heard from again.

Their only daughter was named Jane Hash and she was born around 1769 in Rowan County, NC. This probably puts the marriage of James and Hanna at the Osborne Trading Post near the Forks of the Yadkin River. We do not know the lineage of Hanna Osborne but the Osborne clan had settled here in the early 1750's.

Jane (Jean) Hash married Benjamin Phipps on July 5th, 1782, in Grayson County. This Phipps couple set up housekeeping on Saddle Creek and lived there their entire lives.

Jean Hash Phipps, 1769-1848, had 9 children with Benjamin Phipps, 1762-1838. Their home still stands today and is well photographed. Thie couple died on Saddle Creek and established the Benjamin Phipps Cemetery close to their home.

Many researchers report that James and Hanna Osborne Hash are buried in this Phipps cemetery but there is no record of this.

James Hash does not leave any Hash male heirs.

01/04/2024

There are numerous other family researchers. past and present, who spend or spent an awful lot of their time gathering family histories. As you know, my Hash line deals mostly with Hash males and their immediate families. You must realize that with each Hash marriage, the range of other family surnames increases. Although I have over 30,000 direct Hash family members in my data base, that number is just a fraction of the total.

With each additional generation, the number of grandparents doubles. Take 20 generations going back about 500 years and you would have 2,097,150 grandparents.

I post this because I welcome all family history (related to my Hash line). Feel free to use this blog to point out relations and ask questions that others might answer.

Point in mind is the prominent Anderson researcher, Robert C. Anderson. He has researched his lines half of his life and is well published. He offers a lot of color to our related families.

Share with us. That is how genealogy works.

12/27/2023

Early Hash possibilities by other researchers

12/27/2023

record of "ol John" Hash's death in Jean Phipps book

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Psalm book of Jean Hash Phipps

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survey for "ol John" Hash on Bridle Creek

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The will of "ol John" Hash 1784

12/27/2023

As this Hash family returned to the New River to establish their claims, somewhere in this process, the second son of "ol John", William Horton Hash, met a young daughter of Ephriam and Elizabeth Howard Osborne.

The Osborne family was a large, once wealthy, English family that has traveled to Rowan County, NC from Williamsburg City, VA about 1745. A survey for Caleb Osborne, a brother of Ephriam and both sons of Jonathan and Greta Holman Osborne, was recorded in Rowan County, NC. This location was identified at the Forks of the Yadkin. Several generations of the Osborne family were connected to this Osborne Trading Post.

William Horton Hash and Eleanor Osborne married around 1763, probably at the Osborne Trading post. This marriage formed an alliance between the Hash and Osborne families. Younger members of the Osborne family soon joined the Hash family along the New River in southwest Virginia.

As "ol John" Hash began establishing his claim on Bridle Creek about 1764, his large family included some 7 children, ranging from 1 year to 16 years, and also included an unknown number of Stodgill slaves.

Bridle Creek runs from the New River to its sources at the foot of Buck Mountain, a distance of about 5 miles due north. Much of the entire length of Bridle Creek was occupied by members of the Hash family and its in-laws and still is today.

As the Hash family settled in on Bridle Creek, William Horton Hash and his bride, Eleanor Osborne, choose 400 acres at the foot of Buck Mountain on Bridle Creek. This area is a beautiful expanse of meadows in the valley surrounding the creek.

With settlers beginning to reestablish control of the lands once occupied by Indians tribes, numerous other families picked their claims on the same area of the New River.

Enoch Osborne married Jane Hash about 1765 and this couple claimed and built a fort on the Osborne Settlement to help deflect Indian raids. Enoch was a brother of Eleanor Osborne and Jane was a sister of William Horton Hash. Enoch took riverfront land just below Bridle Creek where his father-in-law, "ol John" Hash lived.

"ol John" Hash and William Horton Hash both were members of the local militia led by Capt. Enoch Osborne. Enoch resigned his role in this militia in 1787.

Little is recorded about the family of "ol John" until his death in 1784 in his home on Bridle Creek. His will gave the members of his family and most of his worldly possessions. His death was recorded in the psalm book of Jean Hash Phipps as the 13th of April, 1784. Jean is a d/o James Hash and Hannah Osborne. James is a brother of "ol John".

We find the graves of "ol John" Hash and his second wife in the Silas Ward Cemetery located on the original land of "ol John" Hash.

12/23/2023

As "ol John" Hash was starting his second family at Swift Run Creek, the dates are fuzzy but was probably in the mid 1760s. "ol John" would have been around 40 years of age and may have been the same age as James Stodgill, his brother-in-law.

The three Hash brothers and James Stodgill left their families to explore deeper into Virginia.

The trails they followed were indeed crude. Axes and shovels were necessary in the early travels. The route from northern Virginia taken south thru Virginia would be later become Rt 11 and even later parts of I-81.

The initial trip led this Hash group to the Osborne Trading Post located near the Forks of the Yadkin River near Salisbury, North Carolina, a distance of over 220 miles. Enoch Osborne and his family had ventured into the area in the late 1750s.

The Osborne and Hash families became familiar with each other here in a link that still exists today.

Once in North Carolina, this group of Hash/Stodgill explorers turned northwest into southern Virginia and upon reaching the New River, they followed it to find a suitable new home.

To claim a tract of land, a survey was required. In order to survey, the land had to be marked with its boundaries and the settler had to mark his place with a cabin of sorts. Each of these explorers set about marking their new home place.

"ol John" Hash claimed 250 acres on New River where Bridle Creek emptied into the river. James Stodgill claimed his land on New River just across the NC line, about 5 miles southeast of "ol John".

Each of these new surveys would soon be joined by members of the Osborne, Cox, Phipps, Livesay, and Howell families.

As soon as the claims were marked, these men returned to Swift Run Creek to gather up their families and return to the mountains of southwest Virginia. This process would take many months, but the men were becoming familiar with the trails and each trip was a bit easier.

The Hash men returned immediately to the New River. James Stodgill remained in northern Virginia to dispose of his estate. He would return to the New River the next year.

Actual surveys were made December 16, 1774, after the Loyal Company was set up and authorized to grant lands in Fincastle Co, VA on December 16, 1773. Fincastle County would become Grayson County in later years.

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