Bertie County NcArchives Biographies.....Outlaw, John Alexander Jr 1847 - 1924
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John Alexander Outlaw, Jr. was born, March 9 1847, Coleraine, Bertie County,

North Carolina, the son of Christian Freeman and her 2nd husband, John Alexander

Outlaw, Sr.  Both had previously been married.  Christian Freeman to Whitmell B.

Ruffin who died in Bertie County by Feb Term 1844 had two sons, John B. and

Thomas Ruffin.   John Alexander Outlaw Sr had been previously married with

children: Sally Ann, Joseph, William Joshua, Christiana Eliza, Victoria Rachael. 



John A. Outlaw, Jr. and Tentoretta "Aunt Puss" were born to John Alexander

Outlaw Sr. and Christian "Kiddy".



John A. Outlaw, Jr. married Mary Sarah Matthews on 1 Feb 1872 in Colerain,

Bertie, North Carolina.  She was the daughter of Jacob O. and Sallie Matthews.



Their children include: Claude Raymond (1873); Mary Elizabeth (1875); Paul

Repton (1878), John Augustus (1880), Rose Lee (1882), Agnes Johnson (1885ca),

Edward Ralph (1887ca), Larry Clayton (1892).



Birth places of these children indicate that they may have traveled between 1860

- 1880 and lived in Virginia and Starkville, MS.   By 1880, they were in Roxobel

Township, Bertie County. His occupation was "wood workman".



On October 30, 1883, he was granted US patent 287,571 for a "hame" (A "hame" is

"a stable gear consisting of either two curved supports that are attached to the

collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces".  At that time he listed his

address as "Lewiston, N.C.".



In the Journal of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the

State of North Carolina, 1885, there are two listings for John A. Outlaw as

being nominated to be Justice of the Peace for Woodville Township beginning Aug

1885 and for a period of 6 years.   



He briefly served as mayor of Lewiston, from May 1889 to Dec 1889. [Source:

Windsor Ledger May 15, 1889; Dec. 18, 1889.  This Dec paper indicates he and his

family moved to Norfolk VA.  In Norfolk city directories he is listed as  a

carpenter and later as a wheelwright.



He died July 17, 1924, Norfolk, buried in Riverside Cemetery, but moved to Cedar

Wood Cemetery in 1960.

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