Jacob Thomas Deal, (slaveowner)

Jacob Thomas Deal, (slaveowner)

Male 1816 - 1895  (78 years)

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  • Name Jacob Thomas Deal 
    Suffix (slaveowner) 
    Born 14 Nov 1816  Buncombe County, North Carolina, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 19 Mar 1895  Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried New Hope Cemetery, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    Person ID I16037  Complete
    Last Modified 2 Sep 2013 

    Father George Deal,   b. 15 Jun 1772, Rowan County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt. 1853, Catawba County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Mother Mary Bowman,   b. Abt. 1778, Burke County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt. 1850, Newton, Catawba County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 72 years) 
    Family ID F5885  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Frances Lavinia Rudisill,   b. 2 Dec 1822, Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Apr 1872, Prairie, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 49 years) 
    Married 2 Nov 1840  Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • North Carolina Marriages, 1741-2004: "Jacob Deal & Francis [sic] Rudisel [sic], m. 2 Nov 1840 Lincoln County."
    Notes 
    • "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner . . . Counties, Arkansas: A condensed History of the State . . . Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens" (Chicago IL: Goodspeed, 1889), p. 655.

      "John W. Thompson, the youngest of a family of seven children, lived at home until twenty-two years of age, when he commenced farming for himself on the place which he now occupies. He enlisted in the First Trans-Mississippi Regiment of Arkansas during the war, and on July 4, 1862 was captured at the battle of Helena and taken to Alton IL, where he was kept until February 17, 1865, then being sent to Point Lookout for exchange. He was exchanged at Richmond VA, shortly before Lee's surrender in April 1865, after which he returned home and resumed farming on his present place.

      Mr. Thompson was married in 1866 to Fannie Deal, who was born in 1847, a native of North Carolina and daughter of Jacob and Fannie Deal, who came to Arkansas in 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are the parents of three children: Anna, Oren, and Beulah. They are members of the Baptist Church and Mr. Thompson is Deacon. He is a prominent Democrat and a highly respected citizen."

    • Eaker, pp. 133-134:

      "28 May 1838 Lincoln, NC Deed Book 37:497 & 508. William Deal heirs: William Deal; John Stine & wife Caty [Catherine]; George Deal of Buncumbe County, NC; Eli Deal; Jacob Setzer & wife Delia; Martin Arney & wife Lydia; Noah Deal; widow Mary Deal. . . . [134]

      29 Dec 1858 Phillip Rudisill willed to son-in-law Eli E. Deal and wife Eliza; son-in-law Jacob Deal & wife Fanny, with son-in-law Eli E. Deal as Exr."

      Eliza Rudisill & Frances Lavinia Rudisill were daughters of Phillip Rudisill.

      Laban Miles Hoffman, "Our Kin: Being a History of the Hoffman, Rhyme, Costner, Rudisill, Best . . . and Lineberger Families" (Charlotte NC: Queen City Printing, 1915), pp. 291-292:

      "Phillip Rudisill was a prominent citizen of Lincoln County NC and son-in-law of Philip Cansler, Jr. His children were: Marcus m. Fanny Killian; Philip, deceased; Eliza m. Eli Deal (Diehl); William m. Fanny Hallman and [female] Carpenter; Mary (Polly) m. General Joseph Beringer; Anne m. Robert Powell; Fanny m. Jacob Deal. . . . [292]

      Eliza Deal lived at Newton NC. She had two children: Fanny m. [male unknown] and went to Mississippi or Texas; Sylvanus m. [female unknown] and lived in Catawba County NC. I have failed to get the children of Fanny Deal. It is said that Sylvanus Deal, who was a prominent citizen and a Colonel in the Confederate Army, had sons at Newton in the mercantile business, but I have inadvertently overlooked my inquiry on this branch of the family. . . .

      Fanny Deal's husband was a cousin to the husband of her sister, Eliza. She with her husband and family moved to Marshal County MS in 1846, and thence to Prairie County AR in 1852. She died in Arkansas in 1874 [18 Apr 1872]. Her husband lived there until death in 1897 [19 Mar 1895]. She had twelve children . . ."

      Edited by Roy Richard Thomas January 2008
    Children 
    +1. Elizabeth Anna Deal,   b. 21 Feb 1842, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Oct 1862, Prairie, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 20 years)
    +2. Philip Socrates Deal,   b. 1 Nov 1843, North Carolina, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Dec 1929, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
    +3. Sarah Elmina Deal,   b. 30 Sep 1845, North Carolina, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Dec 1884, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 39 years)
    +4. Frances Amelia Deal,   b. 30 Oct 1847, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Apr 1904, Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years)
    +5. Emily Nancy Lavina Deal,   b. 04 Oct 1850, Mississippi, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Apr 1922, Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)
    +6. Martha Jane Catherine Deal,   b. 04 Oct 1850, Mississippi, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 May 1926, Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years)
     7. Jacob Sylvanus Deal,   b. 19 Feb 1853, Marshall, Mississippi, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Aug 1873, Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 20 years)
    +8. Lafayette Deal,   b. 14 Mar 1855, Prairie, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jun 1924, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
     9. Mary Etta Deal,   b. 24 May 1857, Prairie, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Apr 1860, Prairie, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 2 years)
     10. Vardry Deal,   b. 08 Jun 1859, Prairie, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jul 1859, Prairie, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
    +11. Berry Thompson Deal,   b. 23 May 1862, Prairie County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Feb 1922, Faulkner, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years)
    +12. Wade Emmett Deal,   b. 12 Sep 1865, Prairie, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Dec 1905, Malvern, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 40 years)
    Last Modified 5 Sep 2013 
    Family ID F6719  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Catherine Emeline Josephine Anderson,   b. 29 Sep 1856, Marietta, Cobb, GA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Mar 1925, Clovis City, Curry, NM Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years) 
    Married 26 Dec 1874  Prairie, AR Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Census 1880 Prairie, Lonoke, AR: Jacob Deal age 63 b. North Carolina, farmer; wife Catherine age 23 [sic].
    Children 
    +1. Felix Cornelius Deal,   b. 03 Dec 1875, Carlisle, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Mar 1956, Seattle, King County, Washington, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)
    +2. Mittie Margaret Deal,   b. 13 Mar 1877, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Oct 1972, Stratford, Garvin County, Oklahoma, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 95 years)
    +3. Ada Lavina Deal,   b. 16 Sep 1878, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Blanche Eugenia Deal,   b. 04 Mar 1880, Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 May 1882, Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 2 years)
     5. Jesse Marvin Deal,   b. 18 Jul 1881, Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Aug 1882, Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 1 years)
    +6. Golden Hartford Deal,   b. 29 Aug 1882, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location
    +7. Hugh Harrison Deal,   b. 15 Feb 1884, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 03 Jan 1958, Ceres, Stanislaus County, California, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
     8. Alice Lillian Deal,   b. 04 Jan 1886, Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Sep 1887, Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 1 years)
    +9. Joseph Dolphus Deal,   b. 7 Sep 1888, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Jun 1947, Oklahoma, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years)
     10. Nora Deal,   b. 22 Oct 1891, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location
     11. Oscar Deal,   b. 20 Jul 1894, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location
     12. Clide A. Deal,   b. 20 Jul 1894, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef. 1918  (Age 23 years)
     13. John Howard Deal,   b. Abt. 1895, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt. 1896, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 1 years)
    Last Modified 23 May 2008 
    Family ID F3977  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 14 Nov 1816 - Buncombe County, North Carolina, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 2 Nov 1840 - Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 26 Dec 1874 - Prairie, AR Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 19 Mar 1895 - Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
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    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895)
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895)

    Jacob Thomas Deal fathered twenty-five children with two wives.
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895)
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895)

    Jacob Thomas Deal fathered twenty-five children with two wives.

    Documents
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1985) family during the Civil War p. 2
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1985) family during the Civil War p. 2

    More information about the incident with "Doc Raeburn" was provided on page eleven of Nora Deal Foster, "The Origin of the Name (1949)":

    "By Emmadell High William (This account was told to Emmadell by her grandfather, James High, who married Emma Deal, a daughter of Jacob [Thomas] and Frances [Lavina] Deal)

    Doc Raeburn was a Southern spy during the Civil War in this section of the country. He was a terror to the Yankees because at night when they would have meetings, he and his little band of followers would break into them. It is said that he was a small man and would often dress like a woman and go to the Yankee's dances and in that way would often find out some of their plans and then he and his followers would break into them.

    One night he broke into them and did considerable damages. The next morning he was sitting on his horse in front of Grandfather's house, about ten miles north of Brownsville, where the Yankees were stationed. He was talking to a member of the family, when all of a sudden a band of Yankees, who were hunting him, appeared in sight, and began shooting at him. He fell over on the side of his horse, dodging the bullets and started running. They followed him into the woods, but he escaped. They thought he had been hiding at Grandfather Deal's and after they failed to capture him they came back, freed [Grandfather's] slaves, burned his cotton gin, destroyed his brick kilns, took his horses and mules, and drove off his cattle to help feed the Union soldiers. All that was left was one mule. Jacob Deal never recovered financially.

    Doc Raeburn died, still a young man, shortly after the close of the war."

    [This twelve-page document was contributed by Rebekah Canada and edited by Roy Richard Thomas, July 2008]

    Rebekah also supplied this link to the biography of Howel A. "Doc" Rayburn, the Confederate hero who was chased off Jacob Thomas Deal's place by Union troops:

    http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com:80/~arprairi/DocRay.htm

    The incident may have occurred after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect:

    ". . . the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free . . .to wit:
    Arkansas . . ."

    http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/transcript.html

    If so, slaves in Arkansas were legally free, but still in bondage unless Union troops acted to secure their freedom.



    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895) F.A. Sondley, 'A Brief History of Buncombe County, NC' (1927) p. 1
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895) F.A. Sondley, "A Brief History of Buncombe County, NC" (1927) p. 1

    This three-page essay was part of a booklet that was issued by Buncombe County to commemorate the dedication in 1927 of yet another new court house in Asheville, NC.

    Jacob Thomas Deal, according to family tradition, donated land for an early court house in Asheville, NC. Sondley provided the names of donors and sellers of land occupied through 1833 by the town square and court houses, but not those after 1840, when the Deal family arrived in the Asheville, NC area.

    In the first page, Sondley sketched events from the Spanish exploration in 1540 to the formation of Rutherford County in 1779, from which Buncombe was taken later.
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895) F.A. Sondley, 'A Brief History of Buncombe County, NC' (1927) p. 2
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895) F.A. Sondley, "A Brief History of Buncombe County, NC" (1927) p. 2

    Sondley described the formation (1792) of, and subsequent subtractions from, Buncombe County as population increased and other counties were formed from the original Buncombe County.

    The author then devoted the remainder of the essay to a detailed history of the land and buildings used for the town square and court houses. On page two, he described the delays occasioned by disagreements among the members of the committee who would select the exact location of Asheville.
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895) F.A. Sondley, 'A Brief History of Buncombe County, NC' (1927) p. 3
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895) F.A. Sondley, "A Brief History of Buncombe County, NC" (1927) p. 3

    "The first court house of the County [1792] was a log structure across the head of [present day] Patton Avenue at the place where that avenue entered Main Street or the Public Square. At that court house was held the first court which met in what is now Asheville. The land of Samuel Chunn and Zebulen Baird on which this court house was constructed was that part of the Public Square immediately in front of the Thomas building on the western side of the Public Square . . ."

    The original site of the log court house was enlarged twice before the Deal family arrived in 1840: in 1807 for a more permanent structure in a public square and between 1825 and 1833 for the construction of the first brick court house. It appears that the town of Asheville was more settled in 1840 than later generations of Deals believed.

    It is possible that some portion of the land owned by Jacob Thomas Deal was donated in the late 1840s for the expansion of the Public Square to accommodate what Sondley described as "a handsome brick building which was constructed in 1850. . . ." In any case, the Deal family moved to Mississippi before the new court house was completed.

    Sondley provided the name of the builder, but not the names of those who contributed land before construction began. He noted that this "handsome brick building" was gutted by fire in 1865 and was replaced by a lessor structure, "a small one-story house."

    Edited by Roy Richard Thomas July 2008

    Headstones
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895)
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895)

    Ancestry.com

    New Hope Cemetery, Lonoke County, AR

    Histories
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1985)
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1985)

    Nora Deal Foster, "Origin of the Name, 1949" (typescript), Page One:

    ". . . The Deal family, a part of it, migrated to Holland during the Puritan uprising and remained there until after the American Revolution, when three brothers came to North Carolina (1805). Our great-grandfather [Jacob Thomas Deal] remained there.

    One brother went to Ohio. Great Uncle Noah, the batchelor, started to California during the gold rush of 1844 [actually, the gold rush began in January 1848] and was never heard of again. Uncle [Philip] Socrates Deal [b. 1841] used to correspond with some of the Ohio Deals. Strange isn't it that I never heard the names of the two who married and reared families. Grandfather used to talk about his father coming to America and how he could talk Dutch [Deutsch, German], but never told me his given name. Anyhow, he became an American, married a North Carolina girl and they reared a big family. Cousin Fanny (Jacob Deal's oldest grandaughter) used to tell me that grandfather had eleven brothers.

    Our grandfather, your father's and mine, Jacob [Thomas] Deal, was born 14 Nov 1816 on a farm in North Carolina. . . . He married Frances Rudisill 24 Dec 1840. They moved to the present site of Asheville NC, then but little more than a mountain farm. In fact, when Asheville became the county site [seat of government], grandfather gave the land on which the first courthouse was built.

    In 1848 grandfather and his older brother, John took their household goods, their families, their slaves and moved to Mississippi. Think of that trio in Conestoga wagons, no bridges, and very little roads. Women and babies must have been tougher in those days than they are now. There [were] four children [Elizabeth A.E. age 8, Philip S. age 6, Sarah M. age 4, Frances A. age 3 in 1850 Census, Northern Division, Marshall, MS].

    Uncle John remained in Mississippi, [but] after six years grandfather moved to Arkansas. In the autumn of 1854, when Arkansas had been a state just eighteen years, his post office was Old Austin, AR. He lived seventeen miles from the post office. There were no postage stamps at that time. When they called at the office, if there was a letter, they paid the postmaster twenty-five cents and were given the letter.

    My father, Lafayette Deal, [was] born 14 Mar 1855. Five years later the Civil War began. That was five years of devastation for grandfather as well as every other Southerner. His slaves were freed, an invading army burned his cotton gin, destroyed his brick kilns, took his horses and mules, drove his cattle away to feed the northern soldiers. He never fully recovered financially from the misfortunes of this time."

    On page eleven, there is a longer account of this incident during the Civil War.


    [This twelve-page document was contributed by Rebekah Canada and edited by Roy Richard Thomas, July 2008]

    Census Records
    U.S. Census 1850:  Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895)
    U.S. Census 1850: Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895)

    U.S. Census Northern Division, Marshall County, MS 1850: "Jacob Deal, age 33 b. Abt. 1817 North Carolina, farmer, real estate owned $1120, wife Fanny, age 28 b. Abt. 1822 North Carolina; four children b. North Carolina: Elizabeth A.E. 8, Philip S. 6, Sarah M. 4, Frances O. 3."
    U.S. Census Slave Schedules 1850: Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895)
    U.S. Census Slave Schedules 1850: Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895)

    U.S. Census Slave Schedules Northern Division, Marshall County, MS 1850: "Jacob Deal, black male age 12, black male age one."
    U.S. Census 1860:  Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895) p. 1 of 2
    U.S. Census 1860: Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895) p. 1 of 2

    CORRECTION: Ancestry.com transcribed the surname as "Dell," rather than "Deel" as written.

    LDS FamilySearch: U.S. Census Center, Prairie County, AR 1860: "Jacob Deel, age 43 b. Abt. 1817 North Carolina, wife Fany L., age 38 b. Abt. 1822 North Carolina; eight children: three b. North Carolina, Phillip E. 19, Sarah E. 15, Francis L. 13; three b. Mississippi, Emily 10, Martha 10, Sylvanis 8; two b. Arkansas, Lafayette 6, Etty 3."

    U.S. Census 1860:  Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895) p. 2 of 2
    U.S. Census 1860: Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895) p. 2 of 2

    LDS FamilySearch: U.S. Census Center, Prairie County, AR 1860: "Jacob Deel, age 43 b. Abt. 1817 North Carolina, wife Fany L., age 38 b. Abt. 1822 North Carolina; eight children: three b. North Carolina, Phillip E. 19, Sarah E. 15, Francis L. 13; three b. Mississippi, Emily 10, Martha 10, Sylvanis 8; two b. Arkansas, Lafayette 6, Etty 3."
    U.S. Census Slave Schedules 1860:  Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895)
    U.S. Census Slave Schedules 1860: Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895)

    U.S. Census Slave Schedules Center, Prairie County, AR 1860: "Jacob Deel, black male age 50, black female age 40, black female age 28, black male age 20, black male age 10, black male age 8, black female age 7, black male 2, black female one [sic], black female one [sic]."
    U.S. Census 1870:  Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1985)
    U.S. Census 1870: Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1985)

    U.S. Census Prairie, Pulaski County, AR 1870, "Jacob Deal, age 54 b. Abt. 1816 North Carolina, farmer, real estate owned $616 no other property, wife Fanny L., age 47 b. North Carolina; five children: two b. Mississippi, Emily 19, Jacob s. 17; three b. Arkansas, Lafayette 16, Berry T. 8, Wade 5; domestic servant: Lucy Deal, mulatto, age 13 b. Abt. 1857 Arkansas."
    U.S. Census 1880:  Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895)
    U.S. Census 1880: Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1895)

    U.S. Census Prairie, Lonoke County, AR 1880: "Jacob Deal, age 63 b. Abt. 1817 North Carolina parents b. North Carolina, farmer, Catherine, age 23 b. Abt. 1857 Georgia, parents b. North Carolina; five children b. Arkansas: Wade E. 14, Felix C. 4, Millie M. 3, Adam L. 2, Blanche E. three months; domestic servant: Francis Coleman, black, age 9 b. Abt. 1871 Arkansas."