Craven County, NC - Christian Isler, 1710-1747 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Descendants of Christian Isler (by Sybil Hyatt) Generation I Mr. Council S. Wooten, Mount Olive, NC tells the tradition that the first Isler ancestor, Christian, housed himself the first season in a hollow tree, planted and raised a record corn crop. The Palatines left England for America January 1710. DeGraffenried had the choosing of them and he picked out young, healthy and industrious persons of various trades. He writes that in eighteen months they had become more prosperous than many of the English inhabitants who had been in Carolina several years. Deed - Craven Precinct - Bath Co., Sept. 16, 1730 - Christian Isler to Francis Brice, a certain parcel, Racoon Neck, formerly sold to John Kinsey, south side of Neuse at the head of Coleman's Creek, mine own property right as a good perfect and absolute estate of inheritance. Test: Wm Handcock, James C. Metcalf Deed - Craven Precinct - Bath Co., March 16, 1736, Christian Isler, planter to John Martin Franck, 400 acres on River Trent, Jemy's Creek, Samuel's Creek, 800 pounds Test: John Bryan, Wm Herritage, John Rogers Generation II Will - Christian Isler, Craven Co., October 4, 1747, November 7, 1747. Sons: John, William; daughters: Elizabeth and Susannah Isler. Wife Elizabeth. Executors: Frederick Isler (brother), John & William Isler (sons) Witnesses: Melcher Remm, James Marshall, Sarah Lickblat; Proven before E. Hall, C.Y. Generation III Will - William Isler, Jones County, February 27, 1784, December term, 1784. Wife: Hester; daughters: Ann Hargett, Christian Loftin, Susannah Herring, Elizabeth Isler, Ferebe Isler, Hester Isler. Son: Williams Isler "plantation I Now live on." Executors ("beloved sons-in-law") Peter Harget, Shadrack Loftin, Bright Herring, (son). Williams Isler Test: Jno. Becton, Susannah Becton, Simon McLendon, C.C. Lew Bryan The colonial and state records of North Carolina, Vol IV, page 884, William Isler is recorded as Lieutenant of Militia. Date of Commission Jan. 1755. This record confers "eligilibility of descent" for membership in the North Carolina Society of Colonial Dames. William Isler married Hester, the sister of Col. John Pugh Williams of the Revolution. Generation IV Will - William Isler, Jones Co., Dec. 3, 1833. March term of court 1834. Wife: Ann Isler. Sons: Simmons Isler, Edwin B. Isler (to E.B.S. "tract" purchased of John Isler"). Daughters: Eliza Wooten, Rebeccah Herring. Executor: Council Wooten, C.C.H. Bryan William Isler was a very handsome man, with superb figure, tall, well- proportioned and graceful. He married, 1st. Rebecca Harrison, and Simmons H. Isler was her only child. He married 2nd. Nancy or Ann Becton, who had four children: Edwin B., Eliza, Rebecca & Evelyn. Generation V Simmons H. Isler, married twice. By his 1st. wife he had John W. Isler, Susan Isler (Dawson), Rebecca Isler (Wooten). Susan Isler married Levi Dawson and has three living children: Simmons Dawson of Alabama, Levi Dawson of Memphis, TN, and A. Dawson of Craven County, NC. Rebecca Isler married John Wooten and had six children, all dead. Their names were: William, Simeon, Mary, Susan, Cora & Bettie. Cora Wooten married Council S. Wooten, Mt. Olive and left one child, Eliza, who married R.J. Southerland. Simmons H. Isler married 2nd., Barbara Miller, of Duplin Co. They had Stephen W. Isler, Kinston, NC. Simmons Harrison Isler married Elizabeth Williams, Goldsboro, NC. George Isler & Richard Isler. All are dead. Eliza Isler married Council Wooten, Lenoir Co., had 12 children, all are dead except Mr. Council S. Wooten, Mt. Olive. The eldest, John Pugh Williams Wooten was 1st. Lieutenant in the 27th Regiment of the Confederate Army and was killed at Sharpsburg, September 17, 1862. The eldest daughter, Sarah Wooten married John Joyner, Pitt Co., died in 1863, left six children: the youngest is Dr. J.Y. Joyner, Superintendent of Public Instruction. Evelyn Wooten married Judge Faircloth and left no children. Eliza Wooten married Rev. G.W. Sanderlin, who left four children. The youngest daughter married J.F. Oliver, Mt. Olive and left three children. The youngest son had 11 children; 9 now living. Edwin B. Isler, Kinston, NC died in 1890. Rebecca Isler married William Herring, Lenoir County. She has a son killed at Sharpsburg, 1862. Evelyn Isler married W.B. Fort, Wayne County, has one son now living, Col. W.B. Fort (of Confderate Navy). Generation IV Ferebe Isler, daughter of William Isler, married John Sutton. He had a sweetheart before he went to the war of the Revolution. When he returned after seven years, she was engaged to another man. At that time he owned nothing but a musket and a suit of clothes somebody gave him. He is buried between Buckleberry and LaGrange, back of Wm. I. Sutton's old home. They had eight daughters and two sons: James Sutton married Susan Warters; Annie Sutton; Winnie Sutton married Richard Sutton; Harriet Sutton married John Stroud; Susan Sutton; William Sutton married Sally Rouse (Mr. John Willis Sutton, LaGrange, is their son). Generation V James Sutton married Susan Warters, lived one mile from LaGrange. Their children: 1. Eliza Sutton married Henry Fields, Johnston County 2. Richard Sutton, LaGrange, served in the Confederate Army, married 1st. Mary Catherine Hill; 2nd. Susan Hardy 3. John Sutton, Bucklesberry, lost a foot in the Civil War, married Nancy Waters 4. James Sutton died at three years 5. Nancy Jane Sutton married Needham Walters 6. Jesse Sutton, wounded in the neck in the Civil War, Walter's Station, married 1st. Betty Warren, 2nd. Nim Sutton 7. Elizabeth Sutton married Wm Casey 8. Evelyn Sutton died when two or three years old 9. Mary Susan Sutton married Bennett Cirby Fields, Goldsboro 10. Harriet E. Sutton married Abner Dawson 11. William Sutton, Lenoir County 12. Thomas Sutton, died 21 years ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Guy Potts - record found at the Wayne County Public Library ___________________________________________________________________