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Family of Oswell Eve - Pennsylvania and Georgia

10 Paul Fitzsimmons Eve

Paul Fitzsimmons Eve was born on the 27th June 27, 1806 in Georgia. He died on the 3rd Nov.1877 in Tenenssee. His father was Oswell Eve jnr (3)

He married twice

  • Louisa Twiggs. She married on the 16th Dec 1832 in Richmond County, Georgia. She died on the 10th April 1851.
  • Sarah Ann Duncan - He married Sarah on "Tuesday morning, 13th Jan. 1853 in Barnwell District", He was by the Rev. H. D. Duncan who was the father of the bride.

He had the following children.

First Marriage

  • George Twiggs Eve (19) - He was born on the 3rd April 1835. He married Jennie Sutherland on the 6th May 1869.. Jennie Sutherland was born on the 2nd March 1844. She died on the 16th May 1924.
  • Anna Louise Eve - born about 1838. She married Col W K Stevenson.. They had three children, Paul Eve Stevenson, Maxwell Stevenson and a daughter who married James Kernighan.

Second Marriage

  • Dr Duncan Eve (20) - He was born in 1853 and died in 1957.He married Alice Horton on the1st Nov 1876.
  • Paul F. Eve (21) - born 1857, he married Jennie W. Brown. They married on the 15 Apr 1884.
  • Sarah Eve - born about 1860. She married Edward Drane

Background

The genealogy of Louisa Twiggs is well documented in the TWIGGS family bible off John and Anna Ball of Virginia. - see extract below

John and Anna Ball had four children–three daughters and one son. Ann, married Job Williams, Jan. 28, 1668; daughter, born May 12, 1672; baptized June 25, 1672, "Ann." Eunice married Thomas Twiggs, June 1, 1670; son, born April 2, 1672; baptized April 2, 1672, "George." Eunice Twiggs died at early candle light, April 2, 1672; buried April 4. On March 9, 1728, George Twiggs married Ann Williams. Eunice's boy, Ann's daughter. The other children of John and Ann Ball were John III., Dorothy IV. The above records were furnished by Eugenia Williams..

George L. Twiggs, the son of John Twiggs and Ruth Emanuel, married Sarah Low. Will of George L. Twiggs is in Augusta, Ga.

George L. Twiggs' daughter, Sarah Louisa Twiggs, born May 12, 1815; died April 10, 1851; married Paul Fitzsimons Eve, Dec. 20, 1832. Paul F. Eve, born June 27, 1806; died Nov. 3, 1877.

Paul Fitzsimmons Eve was a surgeon. A biographical extract from the The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV is reproduced below:

EVE, Paul Fitzsimmons, surgeon, was born in Richmond county, Ga., June 27, 1806; son of Oswell and Aphra Ann Eve; and a cousin of Dr. Joseph Adams Eve, professor of obstetrics in the Georgia medical college, Augusta. Paul was graduated at Franklin college (University of Georgia) in 1826, and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1828. He was in Europe, 1828-31, and besides hospital practice in Paris and London served as ambulance surgeon in the French revolution of 1830, and as regimental surgeon in the insurrectionary war in Poland the same year. He was elected professor of surgery in the Medical college of Georgia at its organization in 1832, in Augusta, and served until 1849. He succeeded Prof. S. D. Gross to the chair of surgery in the University of Louisville in 1849, and in 1850 became professor of surgery in the newly established University of Nashville. He removed to St. Louis, Mo., in 1868, to accept the chair of surgery in the University off Missouri, but was obliged to resign for climatic causes. He filled the chair of operative and clinical surgery in the University of Nashville until 1877, when he became professor of surgery in the Nashville medical college. He was made surgeon-general of the Confederate army in 1861, and served on the medical examination board and with the army in the battles of Shiloh and Columbus, and at Atlanta and Augusta. His reputation as a surgeon was world-wide, and he introduced methods never before known to surgical science in America. He was president of the American medical association in 1857 and of the Tennessee state medical society in 1870. He edited the Southern Medical and Surgical Journal and the Nashville Medical and Surgical Journal. Among his six hundred articles published in book form, pamphlets or in medical journals, are: Remarkable Cases in Surgery (1857); One Hundred Cases of Lithotomy in the Transactions of the American medical association for 1870; What the South and West have done for American Surgery; and reports of twenty amputations and thirteen resections at the hip-joint performed by Confederate surgeons, contributed to the Medical History of the War. He died in Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 3, 1877.

References to Paul F Eve's military career are reproduced below;

TENNESSEE IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES—CONFEDERATE ADMINISTRATION OF ISHAM G. HARRIS - It will be remembered that the Legislature passed an act empowering the governor to place the state on a war footing. Under the provisions of that act the following named military officers of the Army of Tennessee were appointed: Gideon J. Pillow and Samuel R. Anderson, major-generals; Felix K. Zollicoffer, Benjamin F. Cheatham, Robert C. Foster, (III), John L. T. Sneed, and William R. Caswell, brigadier-generals. The staff of officers were: Daniel S. Donelson, adjutant-general; V. K. Stephenson, quartermaster-general; R. G. Fain, commissary-general; William Williams, paymaster-general; Paul F. Eve, surgeon-general; W. H. Carroll, inspector-general; James D. Porter, W. C. Whitthorne, Hiram S. Bradford, and D. M. Key, assistant adjutant-generals. Later many other officers were appointed. A military and financial board was also appointed consisting of Neill S. Brown, James E. Bailey, and W. G. Harding.

Other references include

  • Eve, Paul Fitzsimons US surgeon; performed 1st known hysterectomy in US.
  • Eve, Paul F., (S) p. 197 Southern Historical Society Papers - Army proceedings of the Medical Board of the Provisional Army of Tennessee

In it's manuscript collection the Tennessee State Library and Archives hold the papers of Paul F Eve. They include letters and a biographical note.

For his help during wars in Poland in 1830, the Polish Government erected a statue to Paul Eve in Georgia. Click link below for picture which was kindly provided by Frankie E. Hodges and a link to Frankie's site.

Photograph of the Paul F Eve Monument

Frankie's Confederate Monuments Web site

Paul F Eve appears in the following Census records

  • Georgia Census 1840 - EVE PAUL F. Richmond County GA 280 398th District 3rd Ward Federal Population Schedule GA 1840 Federal Census Index GAS4a854586 & GAS4a854587
  • Tennessee Census 1860 - EVE PAUL F. Davidson County TN 254 5 W. Nashville Slave schedule & Federal Population Schedule TN 1860 Slave Schedule TN16710947 & TNS5a548184/5

His wife is also recorded in the 1860 census.

Extract from the 1840 census

Free White

  • Males - 1 male aged 5 to 10 years. 1 male aged 30 to 50 years.
  • Females - 2 females aged 5 to 10 years. 1 female aged 20 to 30 years.

Slaves

  • Males - 1 male aged 10 to 24 years.
  • Females - 2 females aged 10 to 24. years

See link below for articles on Paul F Eve.

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11 William Eve

William Eve was born in about 1790 in Georgia. The date of his death is unknown. His father was William Eve (4)

Whether he married or had children is unknown.

A census listing exists for a William Eve in 1830 and 1840. If this is him he may have had two children.

  • 1830 EVE WILLIAM - Richmond County GA 278 Augusta Ward 3 us Index no - GA560129522.
  • 1840 EVE WILLIAM - Richmond County GA 302 123rd District. Index no GAS4a854592/3.

Extract from the 1830 census

Free White

  • Males - 1 male aged 30 to 40 years.
  • Females - 1 female aged 5 to 10 years. 1 female aged 10 to 15 years. 1 female aged 30 to 40 years. 1 female aged 40 to 50 years.

Slaves

  • Males - 1 male aged 10 to 24 years. 2 males aged 24 to 36 years.1 male aged 55 to 100 years.
  • Females - 1 female aged 10 to 24 years

Extract from the 1840 census

Free White

  • Males - 1 male aged 10 to 15 years. 1 male aged 40 to 50 years.
  • Females - 1 female aged 20 to 30 years.

Slaves

  • Males - 5 males aged 0 to 10 years, 12 males aged 10 to 24 years, 2 males aged 24 to 36 years, 13 males aged 36 to 55 years, 8 males 55 to 100 years.
  • Females - 11 females aged 0 to 10 years, 8 females aged 10 to 24 years, 14 females aged 26 to 36 years, 11 females aged 36 to 55 years, 6 females aged 55 to 100 years.

12 Joseph Clark Eve

Joseph Clark Eve - He was born about 1793 either in the Bahamas or Georgia. He died in 1838 in Jefferson Co Georgia. His father was William EVE (4)

He married on the 26th Jan 1825 in Richmond County, Georgia He had the following children

  • Joseph Clark Eve (22) - He was born about 1830. He married Anne Pearsall. He died between 1880-5 in San Marcos Hayes Co Texas.
  • Emma Eve (40)- born July 1830. She never married.
  • Mary Eve
  • Louisa Eve

A census listing for 1830 shows a Joseph C Eve in Richmond County, Augusta Ward 3. Index no GA560129518 An extract from the 1830 census shows.

Free White

  • Males - 1 male aged 0 to 5 years, 1 male aged 20 to 30 years, 1 male aged 30 to 40 years.
  • Females - 3 females aged 0 to 5 years, 1 female aged 20 to 30 years.

Slaves

  • Males - 2 males aged 1 to 10 years, 1 male aged 24 to 36 years, 3 males aged 36 to 55 years.
  • Females - 1 female aged 0 to 10 years, 1 female aged 10 to 24 years.

There is no record of Joseph C Eve in Georgia census records after 1830

There is however a record of a Joseph C Eve being successful in a land lottery in 1827

REPRINT of OFFICIAL REGISTER of LAND LOTTERY OF GEORGIA 1827 - 59th DAY'S DRAWING- May 14. Fortunate Drawers: - Joseph C. Eve, Captains District: Hands, Number: 190,District: 8. Troup County