by Rocky Macy
David Granville NUTT was born on December 15th, 1797, in Orange County, North Carolina, the son of David and Rachel (CATES) NUTT. He married Sarah Ann LANDERS in the state of Tennessee in 1826. David Granville NUTT died in Granbury, Hood County, Texas, on April 11th, 1872.
Sarah Ann LANDERS was born December 21st, 1807, in Bedford County, Tennessee, the daughter of Christopher and Phoebe (LEE) LANDERS. She died on February 27th, 1890, in Hood County, Texas.
David Granville and Sarah Ann (LANDERS) NUTT were my g-g-g-g-grandparents.
David Granville NUTT migrated to Bedford County, Tennessee, at an early age. According to information contained in Ancestry.com’s “Family Data Collection - Individual Records,” he married Sarah “Sally” Ann LANDERS, a native of Bedford County, in 1826. At that time they would have already been the parents of four children: Mary Ann NUTT (1822-1827), Henry Lee NUTT (my ancestor) (1824-1899), Jasper F. NUTT (1825-?), and Robert L. NUTT (1825-1848). Jasper and Robert may have been twins.
David and Sally had twelve more children in the years that followed: Elizabeth Paralee NUTT (1827-1867), Patty NUTT (1829-1843), Phoebe Lee NUTT (1832-?), Jesse Franklin NUTT (1833-1913), Jacob NUTT (1835-1912), John M. NUTT (1838-1865), Abel N. NUTT (1839-1880), Abram NUTT (1840-1850), Sarah Ann NUTT (1841-1915), Mary NUTT (1843-1843), Susan Ann NUTT (a twin to Mary) (1843-1881), and David Lee NUTT (1848-1929).
The known spouses of the children of David and Sally are: Henry Lee NUTT (Celana RUTLEDGE), Elizabeth Paralee NUTT (Andrew Jackson WRIGHT), Phoebe Lee NUTT (M.F. LANDERS), Abel N. NUTT (Indiana RYLIE), Susan Ann NUTT (1. Henry A. LANDERS*, and 2. Ray HOPPING), and David Lee NUTT (Susan A. GARLAND).
(*According to information contained in “The Lone Star State, author unknown, Lewis Publishing Co, Chicago, IL, 1896, Henry A. LANDERS was killed in the battle of Mansfield, Louisiana, in 1863.) (Henry A. LANDERS was Susan’s cousin, the son of her mother’s brother, Abel LANDERS.)
The 1840 US census located David NUTT and his family in Bedford County, Tennessee. It listed ten free white persons and no slaves. Of the ten family members, two were males under the age of 5 (John and Abel), two were males ages 5-9 (Jesse Franklin and Jacob), one was a male aged 15-19 (Henry, Jasper, or Robert), and one was a male aged 40-49 (David). Not captured by the census taker were two of the sons between the ages of 15-19. (Jasper F. might possibly have been deceased.)
The four females in the household of David and Sally NUTT in 1840 included one aged 5-9 (Phoebe Lee), two ages 10-14 (Elizabeth Paralee and Patty), and one aged 30-39 (Sarah Ann “Sally”). There were no females left unaccounted for on that census.
The family of David Granville and Sarah Ann “Sally” (LANDERS) NUTT had migrated to Newton County, Missouri, by the time of the 1850 census. “The Lone Star State,” cited above, said the move to Missouri occurred in 1844, and that once they were there the family bought land which was cultivated by the sons while David worked at his trade as a blacksmith. Missouri land records reveal that he purchased 40 acres in Newton County in 1850 through the land office in Springfield.
The 1850 census showed the family residing in Van Buren Township of Newton County, Missouri. Present in the household were David Nutt (aged 53), Sarah Ann Nutt (43), Jesse Nutt (15), Jacob Nutt (14), John Nutt (11), Abram Nutt (10), Susan Nutt (7), and David Nutt (2). Also present in the household were an older daughter, Elizabeth Wright (23), her husband (Andrew) Jackson Wright (22), and their son, George M. Wright (2).
(The oldest son, Henry Lee NUTT, was married to Celana RUTLEDGE sometime around 1850 and at the time of the census he was residing with his bride in the home of her parents, Thomas and Angeline (GRINDSTAFF) RUTLEDGE in Newton County, Missouri.)
According to the narrative on the NUTT family in ”The Lone Star State,” information which was undoubtedly provided by family members, Jesse F. NUTT moved to Texas in 1858 and located in Hood County. (It was actually Johnson County but became Hood after the Civil War.) His parents, David and Sally, followed the next year with four of their children: Jacob, Abel, Susan L., and David Lee. Upon arrival in Texas, David purchased a “small tract” of land located near what is now the city of Granbury. (Today Granbury is less than forty miles southwest of the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex.)
(Also included in that family migration to Texas was Sally’s brother, Abel LANDERS, and his family. Abel LANDERS had been a prominent politician in southwest Missouri having served three terms in the Missouri House from Newton County (1842, 1846, and 1852), as well as one term in the Missouri State Senate (1848). At one time in Newton County he was also the county assessor, district road supervisor, and a justice of the peace. The LANDERS family moved to Johnson (later Hood) County, Texas, in 1858, and soon after the Civil War Abel was serving there as a county judge. As a county judge, Abel LANDERS helped to establish the town of Granbury, some of it on land that belonged to his relatives, the NUTTs.)
The 1860 census found the family of David and Sally residing in Johnson County (later Hood County), Texas, with a post office at Comanche Peak. David's occupation was listed as a blacksmith. Present in the household were David Nutt (aged 64), Sarah A. Nutt (55), Jacob Nutt (23), and Abel Nutt (21). It is unclear where 12-year-old David Lee NUTT was during that census.
David and Sally have not been located on the 1870 census as of this time. David died in Granbury, Texas, on April 11th, 1872, and is buried in Granbury. “The Lone Star State” had this to say about the final years of David Granville NUTT:
“Subsequently he settled in Granbury, where he lived until his death, which occurred in 1872, when he attained the age of seventy-five years. He was well advanced in life when he reached Texas, and until the end of his days he lived in retirement, cared for by his sons, who quickly became important business factors in the locality and highly prosperous men.”
The US census for 1880 found “Sallie” Nutt (aged 69) living in the home of her youngest son, D.L. (David Lee), (aged 32). Also in the residence were David Lee’s wife, Sudie A. Nutt (25), children Mattie E. Nutt (6), Sallie L. Nutt (4), and Henry L. Nutt (2), and David Lee’s older brother, “Jake” Nutt (42).
Sarah Ann “Sally” LANDERS NUTT passed away on February 27th, 1890. “The Lone Star State” had this to say about her:
“Mrs. Nutt departed this life in 1890, aged eighty-three years. She was a lady of sterling Christian qualities and was an acceptable member of the Baptist Church. She was the daughter of Christopher and Phoebe (Lee) Landers, who removed from Kentucky to Tennessee in the early settlement of that state. The Lee family was originally from Virginia and tradition states was connected with the family of that name so distinguished in the affairs of the Old Dominion.”
At the time “The Lone Star State” history was published in 1896, it reported that only four of David and Sally’s children survived: “Jesse F.; Jacob; Henry, who resides in Neosho, Missouri,; and D.L.” The article listed the couple's deceased children as: “Robert L.; Elizabeth P., wife of A.J. Wright; Mary, died unmarried; “Phoeba,” who was the wife of M.F.. Landers, Abel, Susan Ann, John M.; and an infant daughter (Mary), a twin to Susan Ann.
David Granville NUTT migrated from North Carolina into Tennessee at a very young age. When he was 46 and Sally was 36, in 1844, they loaded eleven children and all of their worldly possessions into wagons and headed for a new life in southwest Missouri. While in Missouri they had one additional child. Then, fifteen years later, when David was in his early sixties and Sally was in her fifties, they again packed up and moved (this time with four children, the youngest of whom was ten) to the state of Texas, and that is where they finally ended their long and arduous journey through life..
A pair of true pioneers had made their way across much of America and left a legion of descendants scattered along the way! Today their legacy lives and thrives across much of the United States and undoubtedly even further.
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