THIRD GENERATION

7. Samuel Wesley PRENTICE was born on Jan 20 1809 in Kentucky. He died on Oct 18 1901 in Marshall Co., Alabama. He was buried on Oct 20 1901 in Marshall Co., Alabama at Brashiers Chapel Methodist. Uncle Sammy, as he was known in the community, built the Buckhole Mill in 1880 located about 1/4 mile from the Ragsdale Falls.  The power for the mill was furnished by a creek and transportation by wagon.. According to Cecil Prentice Sr., Samuel Wesley Prentice
homesteaded a farm at New Canaan. The modern New Canaan Baptist Church is located inside the boundaries of that homestead. His house was in the clump of woods that border the modern cemetery's north boundary. Is known as the "Old Watwood Home"and is now owned by Clinton Skelton. ..
Deed Book E of The Alabama Records on page 43 notes' "Page 219. Nathaniel Majors and wife,
Sarah Majors of Jackson County to Samuel Pruntin (or Puntin) 11 Feb. 1834.  Compiled by Paulin Jones Gandrud, copyright 1981, Southern Historical Press, Easley, S.C.Old Huntsville Land Office Records & Military Warrants 1810-1854, compliled by Marilyn Davis Barefield, copyfight 1985 by Marilyn Davis Barefield, 1108 South 28th Street, Apr. 1, Birmingham, AL 35205, published by Southern Historical Press, Inc. c/o Teh rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., PO Box 738, Easley, S.C. 29641. An entry on page 81 in this book appears as " "12/20/1836 Samuel Prentice Marshall Co. 9 7 3E " Date Purchaser Residence Sec TSP RNGOn page 151 of that book under, "Militaryh Land Warrants, Register of Recipts, Ledger 171 is the following entry: "9615 11/30/51 William Precise Jackson 31 2 5E 9615 refers to the Military Land Warrent number. Otherwise same as the above entries.On page 37 of that book under "Huntsville Land Office, Register of Receipts, 1820-1841, Book 400, is found the following entry: "10/25/1832 Samuel Prentiss, Jackson Co. Sec 10 Tnp 7 Rng 3E"
On the 1860 Alabama Census, his real estate was valued at $200 and his personal estate was valued at $760.
Samuel was a hard drinking man who loved to fight.  Cecil Prentice Sr. has one of Samuel's bills for one gallon of whisky.  Cecil Sr. tells the story that heard in the family of Samuel having beaten everyone in the saloon in Warrenton, AL was himself beaten pretty badly by five King Brothers.  May have been because of his political views.  He was pro Union or as known in the community, a "Black Republican". The family always maintained that they had never owned slaves after leaving Virginia.  We think that when things got too hot in valley where the secessionist movement was strong, Samuel sold his land and moved on top of the mountain which was mostly uninhabited at the time. 
He was a hunter, famer. and mill operator.  Wore size 13 shoes.  He used to laugh as he told the story of spending a whole day tracking a big man before he realized that he was tracking himself.
He built his last home with a hidden entrance in the hall closet to the attic.  An English side saddle, Pennsylvania rifle, blunderbuss, double barreled shotgun and other flintlock rifles were in that attic along with his wife's spinning wheel and weaving rack.  Lost all when his grandson, Daniel W., moved to town and rented the house.  Only one truck left when he died
He was married to Malinda CRUMER after Aug 14 1847 in Marshall Co., Alabama. Malinda CRUMER was born on Mar 8 1816 in Greenville Co., South Carolina. She was buried in 1896 in Brashiers Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery. She died on Mar 25 1896 in Marshall County, Alabama. Samuel Wesley PRENTICE and Malinda CRUMER had the following children:

child+27 i. Samuel David PRENTICE.
child+28 ii. James Franklin PRENTICE.
child+29 iii. Daniel I. PRENTICE.

Jane Morrow GRIFFIN (daughter of W. W. GRIFFIN andAdella or Adrian H. UNKNOWN) died before 1847 in MARSHALL COUNTY, ALABAMA. She was buried in Union Methodist Church, Marshall County, Alabama. Last name may have been Griffin. In Tuttle Thompson's business diary, he listed her father as W.W. Griffin. Morrow would then be her middle name, first marriage name or possibly her mother's maiden name. Samuel Wesley PRENTICE and Jane Morrow GRIFFIN had the following children:

child+30 i. Louisa Jane. PRENTICE.
child+31 ii. Lucinda Frances PRENTICE.
child32 iii. Polly PRENTICE was born in 1834.
child+33 iv. Elizabeth J. PRENTICE.

Home Return to Table of Contents