The picture (BELOW) above Wyatt John Thomas St. John, Nellie Whiteside, Florence Whiteside,
and Payne Bluford St. John is the picture of:
 
William Edward St. John "Ed" or "One Arm Ed" St. John
 
Auska St.John Profit Roberts, later confused and would say that his name was Thomas Edward St. John, and that
was what they did when they put his headstone at Adam Singer Cemetery. Her daughter, even said, don't you think
she knew her own dad's name?  But by the time of Auska's birth, things were very strained in the St. John 
household and Gilliam did what his pa told him to do, the others well let's just say, Ed was fond of the strap
and has also been told would hit "Molly" as well. Anyway, Lecil, Homer, Erbie, Emma and Fanny ran their father
off.  They considered Gill to have no backbone in the matter, even thou he was the eldest. (Looking back, later,
I see he just saw things differently, and was more a quiet do as your told type of individual) Bluford St. John,
and Neil St. John are very much like that same manner, so to say its no backbone, no, I would say, he was holding
to his own convictions and they just differred with his siblings. He had to have been a good man, for D. S. 
Steadman to give him and Eleanor two big forties, when all of the other girl Steadman's only recieved one plot
of 40 acres.  Anyway, Auska grew up with her siblings and "Ed" was not around.  "Ed" in the the years after being
seperated from his family was welcomed into only a sparse few of his children's homes, Fanny St. John Coddington,
in Halley, Arkansas.  Willis Coddington, remembers him coming over and visiting while he had fruit trees in the
back of his buggy that he was selling.  There was a family he lived with off Church street that he rented a room
while he was delivering mail from his buggy on the Fordyce Route.  It has also been told he also had a lady 
friend, and just after his death at the Southern Hotel, his grandson Willis Coddington went to the Bradley Camp
to pick up his mail. (Willis, just this past April 2004, stated that after 75 years this was the first he ever 
brought it up, and wanted to know how I had found out about the other woman) anyway, the letter was picked up and
as he attended the funeral with his Uncle Homer and Great Uncles and their families, those in his immediate family
did not go to his funeral, he felt he had the right to open the letter.  Well as a young man, he read it, and now
he states he can't remember who it was from.  He said, just because it was another woman, he put it in the fire 
and let it burn.
 
Carolann Stanton-Taylor St. John

2-Payne Bluford ST JOHN

Description: St. John brothers and Whiteside sisters married and produced double cousins.
Payne Bluford St. John, Nellie Whiteside, Florence Whiteside, Wyatt John Thomas St. John

2-Josephine Aurelia ST JOHN b: Feb 1860, , , Georgia, d: 3 Jan 1949, , Bradley County, Arkansas, bur: Adams Singer Cemetery,Bradley Co, Arkansas

2-Wyatt John Thomas ST JOHN b: 3 Aug 1862, , Troup Co, Georgia, d: 29 Nov, Hermitage, Bradley Co, Arkansas

2-Emma ST JOHN b: , Troup Co, Georgia, d: , Troup Co, Georgia

My husband's branch is decendant from William Thomas Edward St. John

1-William Thomas Edward ST JOHN b: Feb 1858, Georgia, d: 1916, Adams Singer Cemetery, Bradley Co, Arkansas

+Mary Martha "Molly" Saline BEASLEY b: 4 Oct 1866, Lousiana, d: 22 May 1953, Saline Cemetery, Sumpter, Bradley Co,Arkansas, m: 1884, par: John T. BEASLEY and Mary B (Polly Anna) FORREST

BEASLEY FAMILY: Back: Walter and Ira Dean
Front: Molly (St. John) Fannie (Steadman) Nettie (Trussell) Letha (Colvin)

2-Gilliam Bluford ST JOHN b: 23 Jan 1885, Bradley, Arkansas, d: 31 Jan 1963, Saline Cemetery, Sumpter, Bradley Co, Arkansas

2-Edna Downey ST JOHN

2-Homer ST JOHN b: 13 Mar 1894, d: 15 Feb 1954

2-Fannie B ST JOHN b: 9 Aug 1892, Arkansas, d: 11 Jun 1911

2-Nina Belle ST JOHN b: 1900, d: 1917

2-Lecil ST JOHN
2-Erbie Wilson ST JOHN b: 6 Sep 1906, Arkansas, d: 17 Nov 1981, Saline Cemetery, Sumpter, Bradley Co, Arkansas

2-Auska ST JOHN

My husband's branch is decendant from Gilliam Bluford St. John

1-Gilliam Bluford "Gill" ST JOHN b: 23 Jan 1885, Bradley, Arkansas, d: 31 Jan 1963, Saline Cemetery, Sumpter, Bradley Co, Arkansas

+Nannie Eleanor Penolia STEADMAN b: 21 Feb 1895, Home, Sumpter, Bradley Co, Arkansas, d: 12 May 1987, Saline Cemetery, Sumpter, Bradley Co, Arkansas, m: 22 Dec 1917, Sumpter, Bradley, Arkansas, par: David Samuel STEADMAN and Robert Penolia HILL

2-Samuel Bluford "Bluford" ST JOHN Sr. b: 17 Aug 1919, Sumpter, Bradley, Arkansas, d: 5 Nov 1976, Saline Cemetery, Sumpter, Bradley Co, Arkansas



My husband's branch is decendant from Samuel Bluford "Bluford" St. John

1-Samuel Bluford "Bluford" ST JOHN Sr. b: 17 Aug 1919, Sumpter, Bradley, Arkansas, d: 5 Nov 1976, Saline Cemetery,Sumpter, Bradley Co, Arkansas
+Thelma Amelia BEDSOLE b: 21 Aug 1922, Clayton, Barbour Co, Alabama, d: 16 Mar 1998, Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co, Arkansas,bur: 18 Mar 1998, Saline Cemetery,Sumpter, Bradley Co, Arkansas, m: 16 Apr 1942, Mobile, , Alabama, par: William Harvey BEDSOLE and Hattie Marie ZORN

2-Living Daughter One ST JOHN b: 20 Feb 1943, Mobile, , Alabama
2-Living Daughter Two ST JOHN b: 28 Dec 1945, Mobile, , Alabama
2-Living Daughter Three ST JOHN b: 22 May 1953, Warren, Bradley Co, Arkansas
2-Living Son One ST JOHN Jr. b: 25 Apr 1957, Warren, Bradley Co, Arkansas
2-Living Son Two ST JOHN b: 19 Jun 1961, Warren, Bradley Co, Arkansas

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"State of Georgia, County of Newton" Submitted by Dennis Elder


On the 24th day of December in the year Eighteen hundred & thirty-two personally appeard before me in open court before the justices the Inferior Court, said County, now sitting, James St. John, a resident of the County of Newton & State of Georgia, aged Seventy-Seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on this oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated (viz) under Colonel Morgan, Captain Thos. Collier, Lieutenant Duglass (or Dugy) Watson, Joshua Morris ensign, that he entered the service about the first day of May 1775, and that he left the service about the last day of December 1775, that he resided in Charlotte County, Virginia, when he entered the service as a volunteer (called minute men.) That he was at the driving off of Lord Dunmore and his Fleet from Gwinns Is! land, that he was marched to the Potomac in order to assist in driving Lord Dunmore from the Potomac, he was ordered in pursuit of the Cherokee Indians and marched to the Long Island of Holston River and stationed there for a considerable time, from there he was marched back to Virginia and discharged, that Captain Bates Company from Halifax & Captain Dickson Company from Lunenburg County were two companys engaged in the forementioned service, that he now has a recollection of, that he afterwards entered the service under Captain James Jamison, Col. Skippoth and General Lawson, some time in April 1781 that he served the said tour, three months, and was discharged (?) from the last of July 1781 a short time after an engagement at Jamestown, that he was discharged at a place called Morbin Hills on James River in Virginia, the he engaged in the last mentioned service as a volunteer, that he was born in Essex County Virginia on the 23rd day of January 1756, that he has no r! ecord of his age, that he resided in Charlotte County Virginia when he entered the service, that he has resided in North Carolina, South Carolina & Georgia since the revolutionary war & he now lives in the County of Newton & in the state of Georgia, that he received a discharge from each of the aforesaid services but does not recollect by whom the same were signed, that the said discharged have been lost or destroyed, that he has no documentary evidence, nor does he know of any person by whom he can prove his service. Aforesaid sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.


James St. John
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JAMES ST JOHNS
NEWTON COUNTY
PRIVATE
VIRGINIA MILITIA
$36.22 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE
$108.66 AMOUNT RECEIVED
SEPTEMBER 3, 1833 PENSION STARTED
AGE 79