Robert "Rob" WALDROP

HUSBAND: Robert "Rob" WALDROP
bir: 25 Apr 1777 child Rutherford Co., North Carolina
bir2: 25 Apr 1777 child Greenville Co., SC
mar: 4 Nov 1800 groom Rutherford Co., North Carolina
bir: 11 Oct 1801 father Spartanburg Co., SC
bir: 1803 father Granville, Granville Co., SC
bir: 1805 father Rutherford Co., North Carolina
bir: 1808 father Rutherford Co., North Carolina
bir: 10 Jun 1810 father Rutherford Co., North Carolina
cens: 1810 resident Rutherford Co., North Carolina
Census yea 1810
bir: 28 Mar 1813 father Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
bir2: 28 Mar 1813 father
bir: 7 Feb 1815 father Christian Co., Kentucky
bir: 1817 father Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
bir: 1817 father Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
bir: 7 Aug 1818 father Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
bir: 1824 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
cens: 1850 household Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
Census yea 1850
Details Federal Census Report
dea: 11 Jul 1851 deceased Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
prob: 28 Jul 1851 deceased Jefferson Co., Alabama
Father: Jechonias (John) WALDROP Sr.
Mother: Margaret HARRISON

WIFE: Nancy MCCLERKIN
bir: 1775 child South Carolina
bir2: CA 1779 child South Carolina
mar: 4 Nov 1800 bride Rutherford Co., North Carolina
bir: 11 Oct 1801 mother Spartanburg Co., SC
bir: 1803 mother Granville, Granville Co., SC
bir: 1805 mother Rutherford Co., North Carolina
bir: 1808 mother Rutherford Co., North Carolina
bir: 10 Jun 1810 mother Rutherford Co., North Carolina
cens: 1810 resident Rutherford Co., North Carolina
Census yea 1810
Census typ Federal Census
bir: 28 Mar 1813 mother Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
bir2: 28 Mar 1813 mother
bir: 7 Feb 1815 mother Christian Co., Kentucky
bir: 1817 mother Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
bir: 1817 mother Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
bir: 7 Aug 1818 mother Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
bir: 1824 mother Jefferson Co., Alabama
cens: 1850 resident Jefferson Co., Alabama
Census yea 1850
Census typ Federal Census Report
dea: 6 Oct 1871 deceased Jefferson Co., Alabama
bur: Oct 1871 interred Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
Cemetery Rock Creek
Father: Richard MCCLURKEN
Mother: Jane 'Jean' DUNWOODY

CHILDREN

1 Name: Jane WALDROP
F bir: 11 Oct 1801 child Spartanburg Co., SC
mar: 7 Nov 1822 bride Jefferson Co., Alabama
to: Rev. Joseph Martin BROWN
bir: 22 Aug 1823 mother Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 5 Apr 1826 mother Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 6 Nov 1827 mother Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 16 Jun 1829 mother Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 15 Jan 1831 mother Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 13 Jun 1833 mother Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 4 Feb 1835 mother Alabama
bir: 31 Aug 1837 mother Alabama
bir: 6 Oct 1840 mother Mississippi
bir: 19 Jun 1842 mother Mississippi
bir: 9 Jan 1844 mother Mississippi
bir: 1846 mother Mississippi
bur: Aug 1868 interred Attala Co., Mississippi
Cemetery Ebenizer
dea: 26 Aug 1868 deceased Attala Co., Mississippi

2 Name: Eleanor WALDROP
F bir: 1803 child Granville, Granville Co., SC
bir2: 1803 child Spartan burg Co., SC
mlic: 19 Oct 1822 fiancee Jefferson Co., Alabama
mar: 24 Oct 1822 bride Jefferson Co., Alabama
to: Tyra D. LOVE
bir: 24 Dec 1822 mother
bir: 1 Mar 1824 mother Alabama
bir: 23 Nov 1825 mother Alabama
bir: 17 Jun 1828 mother Alabama
bir: 6 Jul 1831 mother Alabama
bir: 17 Jul 1833 mother Alabama
bir: 7 Mar 1836 mother Alabama
bir: 19 Jan 1838 mother
bir: 24 Mar 1839 mother
bir: 20 Dec 1840 mother
bir: 8 Apr 1844 mother Alabama
bir: 1849 mother
dea: 1855 deceased Blount Co., AL

3 Name: Albert Galatin WALDROP
M bir: 1805 child Rutherford Co., North Carolina
empl: employee Waldrop's Mill,Owner,and
Operator
empl: miller Waldrop's Mill, Alabama
Territory
Occupation Miller
mar: 14 Feb 1828 groom Jefferson Co., Alabama
to: Linea 'Linney' Philander HUEY
bir: 1829 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 1832 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 4 Nov 1833 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 19 Oct 1834 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
bnty: 01 Oct 1835 applicant Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 14 Feb 1837 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 1839 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
bnty: 20 Sep 1839 applicant Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 1843 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 21 May 1845 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 1848 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
cens: 1850 head of ho Jefferson Co., Alabama
Census yea 1850
Census typ Federal Census Report
empl: 1850 farmer Jefferson Co., Alabama
Occupation farmer
Organizati self
cens: 23 Aug 1870 resident Jefferson Co., Alabama
mar: 14 Jan 1872 groom Jefferson Co., Alabama
to: Angeline RILEY
dea: 16 Jun 1881 deceased Jefferson Co., Alabama

4 Name: Zichoniss 'Zick' WALDROP
M bir: 1808 child Rutherford Co., North Carolina
mar: 28 Oct 1827 groom Jefferson Co., Alabama
to: Elizabeth JOHNSON
bir: 1831 father Alabama
bir: 1835 father Alabama
bir: 1839 father Alabama
bir: 1840 father Alabama
bir: 1842 father Mississippi
resd: 1842 resident Tippah Co., Mississippi
bir: 1844 father Mississippi
bir: 1846 father Mississippi
bir: Jan 1850 father Mississippi
1850: 1850 head of fa Tippah Co., Mississippi
Head Age/S 42
Details Federal Census Report
empl: 1850 employee Tippah Co., Mississippi
Occupation Farmer
dea: deceased

5 Name: Richard S. WALDROP
bir2: CA 1808 child Rutherford Co., North Carolina
M bir: 10 Jun 1810 child Rutherford Co., North Carolina
mar: 19 Sep 1833 groom Jefferson Co., Alabama
to: Mary 'Molly' GOODWIN
bir: 24 Sep 1834 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 21 Dec 1836 father Alabama
bir: 2 Jan 1839 father Alabama
bir: 11 Dec 1840 father Jonesboro, Jefferson Co., AL
bir: 1842 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
mar: 20 Oct 1842 groom Jefferson Co., Alabama
to: Nancy FRANKLIN
bir: 4 Sep 1843 father Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
bir: 22 Feb 1845 father Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
bir: 30 Jul 1847 father Alabama
bir: 18 Dec 1849 father Alabama
cens: 1850 head of ho Jefferson Co., Alabama
Census yea 1850
Census typ Federal Census Report
empl: 1850 farmer Jefferson Co., Alabama
Occupation as a Farmer
bir: 2 Jul 1852 father
bir: 1 Sep 1854 father
lcon: 5 Aug 1855 grantor Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 30 Apr 1857 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 6 Jan 1860 father Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
bir: 29 Oct 1870 father Alabama
mar: 2 Aug 1885 groom Jefferson Co., Alabama
to: Margaret HALL
bur: Jan 1890 interred Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
Cemetery Rock Creek
dea: 21 Jan 1890 deceased Jefferson Co., Alabama

6 Name: Elvira 'Myra' WALDROP
F bir: 28 Mar 1813 child Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
bir2: 28 Mar 1813 child
mlic: 8 Oct 1833 fiancee Jefferson Co., Alabama
mar: 10 Oct 1833 bride Jefferson Co., Alabama
to: Samuel T. HUEY
bir: 1834 mother Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 1837 mother Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 12 Feb 1839 mother Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: CA 1840 mother Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 4 Jan 1842 mother Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 22 Apr 1845 mother Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 18 Aug 1847 mother Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 1848 mother Alabama
dea: 3 Oct 1849 deceased Jefferson Co., Alabama
bur: Oct 1849 interred Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
Cemetery Rock Creek Cemetery

7 Name: Rev. Dr. Andrew Jackson WALDROP
M bir: 7 Feb 1815 child Christian Co., Kentucky
mar: groom
to: Ermine E. MCGAHA
bir: father
resd: 1818 resident Jefferson Co., Alabama
bapt: 1833 baptized Jefferson Co., Alabama
Religion in the Baptist faith
Church/Sit at the Red Creek Baptist Church
mlic: 7 Nov 1835 fiance Jefferson Co., Alabama
mar: 12 Feb 1836 groom Jefferson Co., Alabama
to: Frances LEE
bir: 9 Sep 1836 father Alabama
bir: 16 Sep 1838 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
mlic: 6 Nov 1841 fiance Jefferson Co., Alabama
mar: 8 Nov 1841 groom Jefferson Co., Alabama
to: Sarah HOOD
empl: 1842 minister, Rockville, Alabama
Occupation Minister
Organizati Baptist Church
empl: 1842 minister Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
Occupation Minister
Organizati Red Creek Baptist Church
bir: 1843 father
bir: 12 Aug 1844 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: CA 1845 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 18 Aug 1846 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir2: Jan 1850 father
empl: 1850 employee Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
Occupation Minister
Organizati Baptist Church
cens: 1850 head of ho Jefferson Co., Alabama
Census yea 1850
Census typ Federal
empl: 1870 minister, Rockville, Alabama
Occupation Minister
Organizati Baptist Church
resd: 1872 resident Wood's Station, Alabama
empl: 1872 minister, Wood's Station, Alabama
Occupation Minister
Organizati Baptist Church
mar: 13 Feb 1881 groom Lamar Co., AL
to: Sarah "Sallie" ATWOOD
resd: 1884 resident Woodlawn, Alabama
empl: 1884 minister,
empl: 1884 minister, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL
Occupation Minister
Organizati Baptist Church
mar: 1885 groom Jefferson Co., Alabama
to: Amanda L. McMath SOLMONDS
empl: 1886 minister, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL
Occupation Minister
Organizati Baptist Church
empl: 1889 minister, Woodlawn, Alabama
Occupation Minister
Organizati Baptist Church
empl: 1895 minister, East Lake, Alabama
Occupation Minister
Organizati Baptist Church
dea: 13 Sep 1896 deceased Est Lk,Birminghm,Jffrson Co.,AL
bur: Sep 1896 interred Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL
Cemetery East Lake

8 Name: Jane Lacey WALDROP
F bir: 1817 child Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
mar: bride
to: John POSEY
bir: mother
bir: mother
bir: mother
bir: mother
dea: deceased Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL

9 Name: Jane Lacey WALDROP
F bir: 1817 child Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
dea: deceased Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL

10 Name: Minerva WALDROP
F bir: 7 Aug 1818 child Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL
bir2: 1821 child Jefferson Co., Alabama
mar: 5 Aug 1841 bride Jefferson Co., Alabama
to: Edmund Cape SMITH
bir: 20 Nov 1843 mother
bir: 22 Nov 1845 mother
bir: 17 Jan 1847 mother
de2: 1848 deceased Jefferson Co., Alabama
dea: 5 Apr 1900 deceased Bessemer, Jefferson Co., AL

11 Name: Rev. John Perry WALDROP
M bir: 1824 child Jefferson Co., Alabama
empl: minister
Occupation as a Minister
mar: 1844 groom Jefferson Co., Alabama
to: Mary Jane LACY
bir: 1 Oct 1845 father Alabama
bir: 15 Jan 1847 father Alabama
bir: 13 Sep 1848 father Jefferson Co., Alabama
bir: 5 Feb 1850 father
cens: 1850 head of ho Jefferson Co., Alabama
Census yea 1850
Census typ Federal
bir: 25 Oct 1852 father
bir: 1854 father
dea: Sep 1860 deceased Jefferson Co., Alabama

Individual biographical text for Robert "Rob" WALDROP

TOADVINE IN ITS HEYDAY By: Simon J. Smith CHAPTER 2 EARLY
INHABITANTS WALDROP In 1818 three brothers settled in Jefferson
County; they were from South Carolina. No doubt white people
lived in this area before these dates, but none of them owned
land. Robert 'Rob' Waldrop son of Jechonias (John) Waldrop
entered a forty acre tract one mile from where old Rock Creek
Church now stands, getting his patent in September 1821. Joe,
Rob's brother, got title to a half section in what was to be
known as Waldrop's Mill and would later become known as Toadvine
on February 2, 1823. Joe and Rob's brother Zack, settled on Lick
Creek near what is known today as Virginia Mines. In 1834 Albert
G. Waldrop, Rob's son, entered land in the Short Creek country.
Calvin entered a forty acre tract at the bend of the river in
1836 below what is now Logan Vines Camp. The same year he
acquired forty acres up Black Creek and in 1849 took another
forty in the same area. In 1854 he entered four more forties
including all the land on the north side of the river to
Birmingport. Nancy Waldrop, Calvin's mother, had already entered
two forties, one in 1832 at the site of Logan Vines Camp, and
another in 1833 which adjoined the first one. In 1860 Calvin
Waldrop entered 160 acres which includes the land on which
Alliance School stands, and all the Jasper Vines estate. The
same year he entered a quarter section on the east side of the
river below the mouth of Prescott's Creek. In all he owned 600
acres on and near the Warrior River. Calvin's brothers, Fielding
and Preston, also had land in the Short Creek Country. In 1856
Fielding entered forty acres west of Black Creek near the present
site of Liberty Church, possibly including the present site of
the church. He took another forty in the same area later.
Preston Waldrop acquired forty acres on the Toadvine-Alliance
road between Dr. Hancock's place and Calvin's land. Andrew J.
Waldrop entered a forty acre tract of land in 1836, one half mile
east of Short Creek. He was the noted Baptist minister, who was
later moderator of the Birmingham Baptist Association. In 1851
John P. Waldrop, Rob's son, entered forty acres just east of
Rob's land. John's daughter, Sarena, married Greenberry Vines.
CHAPTER 1 THE NAME, TOADVINE "As goes Toadvine, so goes Jefferson
County." This ws a saying when Toadvine was in its heyday.
"Toadvine, a small farming community - not even a village - lay
near the meandering and picturesque vally Creek which winds its
way from its origin in the Suburbs of Birmingham to the Warrior
River flanked now and then with scenic bluffs towering high above
the creek. The stream teemed with fish and the woods along its
banks abounded with game. The county was dotted here and there
with small fertile farms, occupied by happy carefree people, who
made their living farming, fishing and hunting," so wrote Dr. Bob
Smith in his Memoirs. Nature had created an ideal location for a
watermill on the creek. Sometime after 1823, Joe Waldrop, the
first white settler in what later became known as Toadvine, built
a mill, which later became known as Toadvine Mill. The first
post office of this section took its name from that mill, being
called "Waldrop's Mill, Ala." Sometime in the eighteen seventies
the name was changed to Toadvine. The first census in which the
name occurred was the 1880 census. There are documents that refer
to the post office as Toadvine in 1875. On the plateau
overlooking the creek and the mill my grandfather, Cape Smith,
put up a gun shop sometime before 1860. He entered land there in
1858, so it is supposed he built the shop about that time. He
entered land on the other side of the creek in 1849, but it is
thought that he did not have the shop there. The site of the gun
shop was on the road - or trail - to Elyton, the County seat.
Soon an enterprising citizen, put up a store, making it a cross
road community. This store handled a few of the needs of the
people, such as gun powder, lead, and caps, coffee, tobacco,
salt, quinine, shoes, hats, butons, thread, and horse collars.
Later Bill Crooks put up a saloon in which he sold whiskey in
quarts, pints and half-pints. Dr. Bob Smith says in his Memoirs
it all came out of the same barrel, but he sold it at different
prices. Sometime after Grandpap Smith (Cape) came back from the
war, between the States, he became postmaster of the new post
office established on the new mail route from Elyton to Fayette.
It was then that the post office took the name of Toadvine. Why
named Toadvine? From Dr. Bob Smith's Memoirs we quote again.
"Uncle Cape fought in the War Between the States for a while, but
was captured in one of the battles (Battle of Missionary Ridge)
and sent to Rock Island Prison. Now, Uncle Cape never did like to
hear anybody whistle, and this prison confinement got his nerves
on wire edge. Dick Nash, a fellow prisoner was continually
whistling. The more Uncle Cape would protest, the more Dick
would whistle. One, John Toadvine, another prisoner, sided with
Uncle Cape. He told Nash if he didn't stop whistling, he was
going to beat the daylights out of him. Nash didn't believe
Toadvine could do it, since he was so much smaller than Nash.
Too, he was of a bullying nature and welcomed a fight, so he,
thinking he was aggravating Toadvine as well as Uncle Cape,
whistled all lthe more. Toadvine was not one to make rash
promises so he sailed into Nash and literally mopped up the floor
with him. Nash did not annoy Uncle Cape nor Toadvine with his
whistling any more. This so pleased Uncle Cape that he vowed he
would honor Toadvine in some way when he returned home. He did
so by naming the post office for him." Catherine Franklin tells
me that Grandpap's brother, Jacob, also honored John Toadvine.
She said that Uncle Jake told Mr. Toadvine when they parted that
he, Uncle Jake, would not shave until they met again. They never
met and Uncle Jake went to his grave with unshaven face. At one
time Toadvine was the trading and social center of that section
of Jefferson County along Valley Creek to its mouth and up the
Warrior River to the junction of Mulberry Fork and Locust Fork
and along the Locust Fork to Nichols Fish Trap. Grandpap Smith
as has been stated already had a gun shop in Toadvine. He was
also postmaster from the time the post office was established
until he died in 1900, covering a period of nearly forty years.
He was also Justice of the Peace. Besides the store already
mentioned there was another store, and in addition to the mill
already mentioned two other mills were built. Jake Smith built
one of them and Jim Raney built the other. At those bills both
corn and wheat could be ground, wood and cotton could be carded,
cotton could be ginned and logs could be sawn into lumber.
Besides the business houses in Toadvine, there were several
dwelling houses. Two of them stood near the stores, and across
the grassy plat south of the gun shop stood Grandpap's house.
South of his house on the road to the Toadvine Mill stood two
other houses. One of them was built and occupied by Joe Waldrop.
In them later lived such people as Jim Hyche, Levi Naramore,
Calvin Johnston, and my maternal Grandfathe, Perry Vines. If what
has been said of Toadvine was all there is to sqy, one could
understand why some people are ashamed to say they live in
Toadvine or that they once lived there. But only one side of the
life in this section has been mentioned. There were many people
there who turned their minds and hearts to making Toadvine a
place one could be proud to live in. Such people as my
Grandfather, the Waldrops, the Gilmores, the Vines, the Glazes,
the Rileys, the Paynes and many more of the early settlers began
activities that led to and education and culture that bave the
world some useful and influential men and women. The above are
excerpts taken from the Book "Toadvine in its Heyday" By Simon J.
Smith. Two copies of it are in the Mobile Genealogical Library
in Mobile, Alabama. I took the liberty of leaving out some of
the paragraphs that did not pertain directly to "Waldrops Mill".
There are maps drawn in the late 1800's that show Waldrop's Mill
before Birmingham was ever a city. The land that is Jefferson
County today, more than a century and a half ago was a land of
virgin timber, clear streams and untold wealth of minerals under
the fertle soil. Settlers from other states, in 1817-1819, came
to the valley, soon plantations and small farms thrived. The
dire needs for metals brought on by the War Between the States in
1861 awakened the people to the rich stores of minerals beneath
their feet. After the "Cease fire" in 1865, people, uprooted from
their farms and hom es, came to the area where a livelihood could
be earned by the development of natural resources. The new
railroads and growing industries brought skilled artusabs not
only from the North but also beckoned those from faraway Wales,
England, Germany and many other European Countries. The roads in
Jefferson County in 1870 were the North-South and the East-West
routes which crossed at Elyton. The Huntsville Road, part of the
Tennessee Trail, entered Jones Valley North to South. It forked
as it entered the Valley, one fork going through Roebuck and
Elyton to Tuscaloosa, the other bore left and went by Greens' and
Jonesborough then rejoined the first. Being the main connecting
link between North and South Alabama, it was an important
immigration trail for pioneers. The East-West route, or the
Georgia Road, brought travelers from Georgia via Rome and
Cedartown to Elyton and formed a junction with the Huntsville
Road. Leading South was the Montevallo Road to Montgomery via
Montevallo and Selma. 31 Oct 1842: Robert and his wife Nancy,
Jane McClurkin, Zachariah and his wife Hester, all of Jefferson
Co., AL; an d Micajah Lindsey and his wife Elizabeth of
Tishomingo Co., MS all sold their property in Jefferson Co., AL
to John Smith for the first part and Octavius Spencer for the 2nd
part. - Deed Book 11, Page 80, Jefferson Co., AL.

Robert H. Waldrop, Sr. May 8, 2000