The following information is
referenced http://fordgen.tripod.com/maddux and from Martha Maddux
Smith
MADDUX/MOON CONNECTIONS
(The following is excerpted from the
Chattanooga Free Press, TN.)
Adam Maddux acquired a 160 acre grant just after the Indian Removal
in the section of Hamilton County, TN. that was later taken off for James
County. He later acquired part interest in Dallas Island but it was here
he met his death. A son and three sons-in-law fought for the Union in the Civil
War.
Adam Maddux who was born
in the vicinity of Cocke County, TN., in 1816, was
the son of another Adam Maddux and his wife, Rachel.
The Maddux line is
said to go back to the ancient House of Madog in the
district of Brecon, Wales, along the River Usk. Alexander Maddux sailed to America on the
Abraham of London in the latter part of 1635. He married Eleanor White in 1659.
His will in Northampton, VA. lists his sons Thomas, alexander
and Lazarus and daughters Elizabeth and Ann.
Lazarus Maddux died in
Maryland in 1715, leaving sons Thomas, Lazarus, Daniel, alexander
and William and daughters Mary, Sarah, Eleanor and Elizabeth.
When Thomas Maddux died at
Prince william County, VA.,
in 1746, he left sons Thomas, Matthew, Lazarus, Scofield,
william and Nathaniel and daughters Easter, Sally,
Fanny Garrison and Darkes Jones. It was this line
that made its way to the vicinity of Cosby, TN., before Tennessee was a state.
The Madduxes
were members of Big Pigeon Baptist Church. Rachel Maddux is mentioned in the
church records in 1826 when she and Nancy Allen cited Agnes Fry for adultery.
Fifty acres were surveyed for Adam Maddux, Sr., in
1831 on the south side of Big Pigeon River near Ground Hog Creek.
ADAM MADDUX married MARY ANN "POLLY" CAMPBELL. According to the Maddux Bible, they had 9 children. They are:
i. PHOEBE
CAROLINE MADDUX, born 20 Jan 1838 & died 30 July 1898
ii. AMANDA
MADDUX, born 29 Dec 1839 & died 16 Aug. 1870
iii. CYNTHIA
AVALINE MADDUX, born 20 Jan 1842 & died 11 Jan 1920
iv. JOHN CAMPBELL MADDUX, born 24 Nov 1843
& died 16 Apr 1925
v. WILLIAM DENNY MADDUX, born 15 Feb
1845 & died 24 March 1882
vi.
SAMUEL ANDERSON MADDUX, born 31 May 1848 & died May 1891
vii. NANCY
MURTILLA MADDUX, born 26 Oct 1850 & died 18 Oct 1900
viii. . MARY ADELINE MADDUX, born 23 Feb
1853 & died 2 Feb 1871
ix. ROBERT
HYSELOP MADDUX, born 15 Dec 1854 & died 24 May 1916
On my MOON side, which is my maternal side from Tennessee:
My great-grandfather, THOMAS JONAS, born 12 Nov 1845, came from a POSEY MOON, born 26 May 1816 in TN. His full name is JONAS POSEY. He died 14 Aug 1877 in Friendship Community & is buried in the church cemetery. This Posey's father was JONAS & mother was LYDIA "LIDDIE BURKE".
Posey Moon married Lucinda Caroline Johnson & had 11 children (I don't know where my grandmother Moon Hicks got this but in her Bible she has that Lucinda was baptised Marie Caroline so this is a discepancy ...this part was written in in her old age which may explain it somewhat) The children of these 2 are:
i. MARY MOON, born 25 July 1839 &
died 5 July 1859
ii. LYDIA
JANE MOON, born 30 Dec 1841 & died 15 Aug 1890. She married a
SAMUEL J. HENRY.
iii. THOMAS JONAS MOON, born 12 Nov
1845 & died 21 Dec 1921 in Hollis, OK. He married my great
grandmother NANCY MURTILLA MADDUX 13 Oct 1866 in Hamilton Cnty,
TN. (My Grandmother had Nancy's middle name spelled Matilia
but I notice the Bible spelling from Madduxs has it
as Murtilla ) My grandmother Moon Hicks, who descends from these
2 was named Myrtle Viola Moon ( probably derived from Murtilla?) Nancy Maddux Moon died in 1900.
iv. HARRIET
SOPHIA MOON, born 12 Nov 1847 & died 6 Aug 1924. She married WILLIAM
DENNY MADDUX on 22 Feb 1866 in Hamilton Cnty.
v. WILLIAM HARVEY MOON, born 20 May 1850
in TN & died 15 April 1920 in AR. His spouse was MATTIE J.
CRAIGHEAD, born 30 April 1881 in Meigs Cnty. TN. Another researcher had him born in 1848?
vi. NANCY
CAROLINE MOON, born 23 Aug 1853 in TN & died 14 Aug 1902. She
married WILLIAM M HENRY.
vii. JAMES
NOAH MOON, born 29 Oct 1858 & died 14 Sept 1939 in Magazine, AR in Revilee township. He is buried in Old Union Cemetery (as is
my Nancy Maddux Moon) in Logan Cnty, AR and he also
married a Craighead, Georgia Josephine.
viii. INFANT
DTG. MOON, born 17 Nov 1855 & died 27 Dec 1855.
ix. SARAH
E MOON, born 22 Feb 1857 & died 5 Oct 1857.
x. JOHN
P. MOON, born 17 Jan 1861 & died 9 Dec 1939. He married #1 Harriet
Johnson & #2. Betty Rowen.
xi. MARTHA
M MOON, born 20 March 1863 & died 27 Aug 1863.