Age (SCG)

Year

Date

Abt

Place (Wythe, VA unless specified)

Event

1771

Cripple Creek

William & Elizabeth Turk Gleaves settle Cripple Creek, Wythe, VA

1771

Cripple Creek

Births of the following children: Thomas (1171). Matthew (1772), Polly (1774), William, Jr. (1777), Elizabeth (1779), Absalom (1781), Margaret (1784), Esther (1786) to William & Elizabeth Turk Gleaves

1788

2-Feb

Cripple Creek

Birth of father: James Turk Gleaves, Sr. to William & Elizabeth Turk Gleaves

1790

Cripple Creek

Births of the last two children: Sally (1790), Nancy (1792) to William & Elizabeth Turk Gleaves

1800

19-Nov

Crockett's Cove

Birth of mother: Malvina Crockett to Samuel & Elizabeth Campbell Taylor Crockett.  Note: her gramdnother Margaret Campbell was the sister of William Campbell, the hero of King's Mountain, SC Revolutionary War battle

1820

30-Mar

Cripple Creek

Death of grandfather: William Gleaves (age: 70 yrs); son James (age: 32 yrs)

1822

14-Nov

Wythe, VA

Marriage of James Turk Gleaves(age:34 yrs) to Malvina Crockett (age: 21 yrs) marry

0

1823

12-Oct

Cripple Creek

Birth of Samuel Crockett Gleaves

0

1824

Jan

Richmond, VA

Major James Turk Gleaves, Sr. served in the Virginia House of Delegates

2

1826

26-Jan

Cripple Creek

Birth & death of brother: William Turk Gleaves

3

1827

17-Apr

Cripple Creek

Birth of brother: George Wythe Gleaves

5

1829

16-Jan

Bowling Green

Birth of first wife: Maria Louisa Crockett to Charles Lewis & Mary Harrison Bowyer Crockett.  Note: her great grandmother, Susannah Henry was the sister of Patrick Henry and Elizabeth Henry.  Elizabeth's first husband was William Campbell, the hero of King's Mountain, SC Revolutionary War battle.  Her great, great grandfather, Edmund Bowyer, came to Jamestown in 1607 and his father was a director in the London Company that sponsored the Jamestown Settlement.

6

1830

Cripple Creek

Census

6

1830

27-Aug

Cripple Creek

Birth of brother: Charles Allen Gleaves

9

1833

15-Apr

Cripple Creek

Death of brother: Charles Allen Gleaves (age: 2 1/2 yrs)

10

1833

11-Nov

Cripple Creek

Birth of brother: James Turk Gleaves, Jr

12

1836

30-Jan

Cripple Creek

Birth of brother: Robert Harvey Gleaves

14

1838

Jan

Richmond, VA

Major James Turk Gleaves, Sr served in the Virginia House of Delegates

14

1838

Jun

Glade Springs, Washington, VA

Beginning of years at Emory and Henry College

15

1839

6-Mar

The name of Evansham, Virginia was changed to Wytheville, Virginia by Act of the Assembly.  Population was about 500.

16

1840

Cripple Creek

Census

16

1840

15-Jul

Cripple Creek

Death of grandmother: Elizabeth Turk Gleaves (age: 87 yrs); son James (age: 52 yrs)

20

1844

Aug

Abt

Glade Springs, Washington, VA

Conclusion of years at Emory and Henry College

21

1845

Nov

Wytheville

Letter- from: J. P. Mathews, Clerk of Court; to: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; subject: Receipt for recording deed from J T Gleaves & wife, $2.00. (#212)

22

1845

26-Dec

Cripple Creek

Birth of brother: Andrew Jackson Gleaves

20

1846

Abt

Wytheville

Jeb Stuart (age: about 14 yrs) wrote(from "Bold Dragoon: The Life of J. E. B. Stuart" by Emory M. Thomas): “One reason he decided ‘it was not worth my while to go to Patrick until spring,’ was the presence of ‘Miss Maria L. Crockett who was as fat and pretty as ever.’  Like most teenaged boys, James discovered that he much enjoyed the company of girls.  He became intrigued with the subtlety of courtship and tried to act as a go-between for his friends and relatives.  He protested soon after he was fourteen, ‘I have gotten out with the girls.  I believe they were just made for man’s troubles.’  But surrounding this pronouncement were paragraphs devoted to flirtations and rivalries among suitors and comments such as ‘Miss Maria Crockett carried a day (or rather the night) …’  "

22

1846

USA, Mexico

Mexican War

22

1846

8-Oct

Philadelphia, PA

Beginning of years at University of Pennsylvania Medical School

24

1848

27-Apr

Philadelphia, PA

End of years at University of Pennsylvania Medical School

24

1848

Jun

Wytheville

Establishing medical practice and family

25

1849

5-Sep

Bowling Green

Married Maria Louisa Crockett (age: 20 yrs). They were third cousins via his mother and her father, both Crocketts.

26

1850

16-Jul

Wytheville

Census

29

1852

12-Nov

Bowling Green

Birth of son: James Lucian Stuart Gleaves

31

1855

16-May

Cripple Creek

Death of aunt: Nancy Gleaves (age: 63 yrs) In her will, she left her slaves to her nephews. Her nephews purchased and placed her grave stone.

31

1855

13-Aug

Bowling Green

Birth of son: Charles Wythe Gleaves

32

1855

5-Dec

Marriage of brother George Wythe Gleaves (age:28 yrs) to Isabella Campbell Sanders (age: 28 yrs)

36

1860

27-May

Philadelphia, PA Wytheville, VA

Birth of son: Allen Robert Taylor Gleaves

36

1860

7-Jun

Wytheville

Census: family, slave

37

1861

12-Apr

Ft. Sumter, SC

Beginning of the Civil War

38

1861

17-Dec

Winchester, VA

Death of James Turk Gleaves, Jr (age: 28 yrs)

38

1862

5-Jun

Cripple Creek

Death of father: Major James Turk Gleaves (age: 74 yrs)

40

1863

8-Dec

Cripple Creek

Death of brother: Andrew Jackson Gleaves (age: 17 yrs)

41

1865

9-Apr

Appomattox Court House, VA

End of the Civil War with Surrender of General Robert E. Lee to General Ulysses S. Grant

42

1866

Wytheville

Resumes medical practive, becomes active in politics and civic areas, family life

46

1870

14-Jul

Wytheville

Census

47

1870

10-Nov

Cripple Creek

Death of mother: Malvina Crockett Gleaves (age:70 yrs). Tribute found in Samuel's Bible.

48

1872

3-May

Bowling Green

Death of Charles Lewis Crockett, (age: 72 yrs), father of Maria Crockett Gleaves

51

1875

20-Feb

Bowling Green

Newspaper: Death of Mary Bowyer Crockett, (age:73 yrs), mother of Maria Crockett Gleaves

51

1875

President of Virginia State Medical Society; vice president the previous year

52

1876

27-Jan

Guilford, NC

Marriage of brother Robert Harvey Gleaves (age: 39 yrs) to Julia Benbow (age: 23 yrs)

53

1877

2-Aug

Independence, Grayson, VA

Marriage of son James Lucian Gleaves (age:24 yrs) to Susie Lillian Reid (age: 15 yrs)

54

1878

23-Mar

Wytheville

Death of wife: Maria Louisa Crockett (age: 49 yrs).  Tributes for Maria found on the front and inside back and back covers of Samuel's Bible.   Following her death, Samuel had a pair of cuff links made with strands of her hair woven inside the links.

56

1880

1-Jun

Wytheville

Census

57

1881

9-Jun

Baltimore, MD

Marriage of son: Charles Wythe Gleaves (age: 25 yrs) to Laura Keene (age: 23 yrs)

59

1883

6-Jun

Mobile, AL

Marriage to second wife Fannie Dargan McCaa (age: 39 yrs) (her first husband: James Taylor McCaa 1842-1877). Note that her McCaa children were still young.

64

1888

Minnesota

In 1888, J.N. Cross, who served as a Captain in the Seventh Ohio Infantry read a paper before a veteran's organization in Minnesota.  His text dealt with the battle of Kessler's Cross Lanes, a relatively minor encounter in August of 1861, near Charleston, West Virginia.  Captain Cross was wounded in the shoulder and captured by Confederate troops under General Floyd.    At the cross-roads the rebel surgeon-general, Dr. Gleaves, of Wytheville, Virginia, of Floyd's army, took a silk handkerchief from his pocket, tied it to my silk handkerchief, and made a sling for my arm.  The next day I offered him the handkerchief, but he said that I needed it, and told me to keep it till he called for it, which I have done, though I am taking steps to return it to his family.  My mother kept it as long as she lived, as showing what a kind-hearted enemy might do on the battle-field.

66

1889

7-Dec

Wytheville

Will:  written & signed

66

1890

14-Jan

Wytheville

Death of Samuel Crockett Gleaves

1890

15-Jan

Wytheville

Grandpa was very fond of taking the children out with him-The very last time being when the Rev. Mr. Piet presented him with a beautiful gold headed cane.  The day after Grandpa’s death I called Anna and Alice to me, and asked them if they were not quite sure their dear, good Grandpa was in Heaven. "I don’t think he is” Anna solemnly replied. “every nice place he went he always took us children with him, and Heaven is so very nice, I don’t think he’d like to go in without us. Mamma, Alice & I have talked it over and we think Grandpa will wait for us!” (Written by Laura Keene Gleaves)

1890

17-Jan

Wytheville

Newspaper: death of SC Gleaves from Bright's disease (a historical classification of kidney diseases; symptoms could include back pain, blood in the urine; edema, hypertension, vomiting, fever)

1890

17-Jan

Wytheville

Newspaper: Resolutions of respect

1890

24-Jan

Wytheville

Newspaper: SC Gleaves death

1890

Jan

Wytheville

Will:  probated in January term of Wythe County Court

1890

1-Mar

Medical and Surgical Reporter article: death of Dr. Gleaves; Governor appointed Dr. R. E. Moore, of Wytheville to the Board of Visitors of the Medical College of Virginia to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Gleaves

1890

4-Mar

Wytheville

Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Capt. Robert Harvey Gleaves; subject: SC Gleaves estate received from RH Gleaves $150 towards purchase of horse. (#205)

1890

23-May

Anniston, AL

Newspaper: Announcement of Lowndes McCaa, son of Mrs. SC Gleaves, wedding to Miss Addie Noble in Anniston, Ala; Mayor Charles W. Gleaves greeting visitors

1890

18-Jul

Mobile, AL

Newspaper: death of Mrs. Edmund Dargan, mother of Mrs. SC Gleaves, in Mobile.  She was 77 years old. Mrs. Gleaves & son Edwin McCaa left at once for Mobile

1890

26-Sep

Wytheville

Newspaper: J.L. Gleaves improvements to home in West Main Street.

1890

3-Oct

Mobile, AL

Newspaper: Mrs. Gleaves returning to future home in Mobile. At this time Fannie's children would have been: Lowndes, 23years; James, 22 years; Lilly, 19 years; Edwin, 16 years; and John, 14 years old.

1890

Wytheville

Dedication of Stained Glass Window in the Presbyterian Church: To: Dr. S. C. Gleaves (1823-1890), Marie L. Gleaves (1829-1879) by the Gleaves Family 1890

1891

24-Apr

Wytheville

Newspaper: Judson N. Cross letter concerning handkerchief from Carnifex Ferry battle. His mother kept the handkerchief as long as she lived and often showed it to friends, to show what a kind hearted enemy could do on the battle field to relief suffering.

1892

7-Jan

New York, NY

Marriage of son Allen Taylor Gleaves (age: 31 yrs) to Marie Valentine Cucullu (age: 24 yrs)

1894

4-Apr

Mobile, AL

Marriage of Fanny Lilly McCaa, daughter of Fannie Dargan McCaa Gleaves. In the 1910 and 1920 census, Fannie and her sons, James and John, are shown living in daughter Lilly's household. In 1920 Lilly is a widow.

1901

18-Jan

Cripple Creek

Death of brother: Robert Harvey Gleaves (age 64 yrs)

1909

17-Apr

Cripple Creek

Death of brother: George Wythe Gleaves (age:82 yrs)

1913

7-Jan

Wytheville

Death of son: James Lucian Stuart Gleaves (age: 60 yrs)

1920

12-Mar

Roanoke, VA

Death of son: Allen Robert Taylor Gleaves (age: 59 yrs)

1920

11-Aug

Mobile, AL

Death of second wife: Fanny Lilly Dargan (age: 76 yrs)

1935

12-Dec

Wytheville

Death of son: Charles Wythe Gleaves (age: 80 yrs)

1975

Wytheville

Dedication of Stained Glass Window in the Presbyterian Church: To: Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Gleaves and Daughters, Alice and Belisa

Biography: A Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography

Biography: American Medical Biographies

Biography: Contemportary American Physicians and Surgeons

Biography: Biographical Sketches

Biography: Wythe County Historical Review Jul, 1987