"Great-great-great-great-great-grandpa Ezell"
James Ezell
Born February 16 1751/52 in Sussex County, Virginia.
Date of death unknown, but he probably died in South Carolina.
Son of Timothy and Anne Ezell.
"Great-great-great-great-great-grandma Ezell"
Anne (maiden name unknown)
Date and place of birth and death unknown.
Parents unknown.
James and Anne had 12 children. Nine daughters (whose names are unknown), and three sons: Ephraim (or Euphram), James, and Samuel.
James moved to South Carolina from Virginia sometime in the 1790s. He lived on Pacolet River near Parris Bridge. He was a shoemaker by trade.
James Ezell, Sr. is not listed in the 1790 census of South Carolina. But in Deed Bk C, p. 351, Union County Court House, Union, South Carlina, there is recorded a deed dated 1791, where in James Ezell sold a tract of land on Fair Forest, Buffalo Creek......This indicates he had brought the land either earlier in that year or soon after the 1790 census of South Carolina was taken.
The oldest records of deeds in Spartanburg County, South Carolina records a deed dated in 1808 in which James Ezell sold 100 acres of land on Pacolet River to James Scott.