Roling Hester b. 23 Jan 1807 Granville Co., North Carolina d. 19 Jul 1882 Franklin Co., Alabama: Wm. L. Gann's Genealogy Site

1807 - 1882 (75 years)

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Name	Roling Hester [1, 2]
Born	23 Jan 1807	Granville Co., North Carolina [1, 2, 3]
Gender	Male
Census	1830	Franklin Co., Alabama [4]
Residence	1830	Franklin Co., Alabama [4]
	With a boy under age 5 and a woman age 20 to 29
Census	1840	Franklin Co., Alabama [5]
Residence	1840	Franklin Co., Alabama [5]
	With a boy and a girl under age 5, two boys aged 5 to 10, a boy aged 10 to 15 and a woman aged 30 to 40
Census	1850	Dist. 6, Franklin, Alabama [3]
Occupation	1850	Dist. 6, Franklin, Alabama [3]
	Farmer
Residence	1850	Dist. 6, Franklin, Alabama [3]
	With wife Lucinda (Richardson), nine children and two brothers
Census	1860	Eastern Subdiv., Franklin, Alabama [6]
	Frankfort P.O.
Occupation	1860	Eastern Subdiv., Franklin, Alabama [6]
	Farmer
Residence	1860	Eastern Subdiv., Franklin, Alabama [6]
	With wife Lucinda (Richardson) and six children
Residence	1867	Precinct 1, Franklin, Alabama [7]
	Election district 42
Census	1870	Twp. 6 Range 12, Franklin, Alabama [8]
	Frankfort P.O.
Occupation	1870	Twp. 6 Range 12, Franklin, Alabama [8]
	Farmer
Residence	1870	Twp. 6 Range 12, Franklin, Alabama [8]
	With wife Lucinda (Richardson) and three sons
Census	1880	Twp. 10 Range 13, Franklin, Alabama [9]
	Enumeration District 88
Occupation	1880	Twp. 10 Range 13, Franklin, Alabama [9]
	Retired
Residence	1880	Twp. 10 Range 13, Franklin, Alabama [9]
	With son William C Hester and family
Died	19 Jul 1882	Franklin Co., Alabama [2]
Buried	Franklin Co., Alabama [2]
	Malone Cemetery
		Roling Hester (1807 - 1882) - Find A Grave Memorial Includes portrait, biographical information and headstone photos. Maintained by: Johnna Hirigoyen Originally Created by: preston malone Record added: Sep 08, 2008 Find A Grave Memorial# 29662232
Notes	Roling Hester was born 23 January 1807 in North Carolina. He was the oldest child of William H. (Buck) Hester Sr. and Amy Malone Hester. In the spring of 1818, the year before Alabama became a state, young Roling, a lad 11 years of age, traveled by ox cart with his father, William H. (Buck) Hester Sr., from North Carolina to northwest Alabama. They settle five or six miles east of Russellville, Alabama, near the Gaines Trace at Tharp Springs. They cleared land, planted a small corn crop and erected a log cabin for themselves. William H. (Buck) Hester Sr. secured a section of land in 1818 in Franklin County from the Bureau of Land Management. Franklin County was created February 4, 1818 by the Alabama Territorial Legislature at St. Stephens. In the latter part of 1818, Roling and his father returned to North Carolina to bring Roling's mother, Amy Malone Hester, and her six other children to their new home in Alabama. On the trip to Alabama, the Hester family was accompanied by Pumphrey and James Malone, who were brothers of Amy Malone Hester. They traveled in an ox cart caravan from Person County, North Carolina to their new home in the Territory of Alabama. In Alabama, the number of children of William H. (Buck) Hester Sr. and Amy Malone Hester grew to a total of 16. Subsequently the Hester famly left their first settlement east of Russellville to relocate near the banks of Tollison creek, near Frankfort, Alabama. Descendants think the reason for the move was that the eastern part of Franklin County was becoming too heavily populated. largely as a result of the finalizing of the 1817 Indian treaties. This increase in population lessened the supply of fish and game in east Franklin County. There was a bountiful supply of wild game in the unsettled wilderness and an abundance of fish in Tollison creek. This area was bounded on the western side by the Chickasaw Indian Territory, which followed the course of Cane Creek through what is today Colbert County (created 1867) and continued southward through Franklin County. According to old land records, Roling Hester purchased over 200 acres of land in this area between 1834 and 1855. At the age of 22, Roling married Lucendy Richardson, a native of Georgia who was 17 at the time. They reared nine children to adulthood. Eight of these children parented large families. Their third child, James Goodloe Hester never married. Much of the seventy five year life span of Roling Hester was spent along Tollison Creek. He and his wife Lucendy Richardson Hester, are buried in that area of Franklin County, Alabama, in the Malone Cemetery. At least four sons of Roling Hester (b. 23 Jan 1807 NC, d. 20 Jul 1882 AL) and Lucinda Richardson (b. 9 Dec 1805 GA, d. 9 Oct 1875 AL) served in the Confederate Army. Roling was the son of William "Buck" Hester (b. 27 Jan 1780 NC, d. 5 Oct 1847 Franklin Co., AL) and Amy Malone. "Buck" Hester and Amy Malone were married 18 Oct 1805 in Person County, North Carolina. Amy was born 17 March 1789 in North Carolina and died 23 Jan 1840 Franklin County, Alabama. She was the daughter of John Malone (b. abt 1763 North Carolina) and Anne Blackwell who married 25 Jul 1786 in Granville County, NC. John was a son of Daniel Malone (b. about 1725 Virginia). Buck Hester was the son of Robert Hester (will written 22 Aug 1820 and probated June 1827, Person Co., NC). Buck came to Franlin county in 1818, first settling east of Russelville, around Tharp Springs. He later moved near Frankfort along Tollison creek. Buck and Amy Hester were the parents of sixteen children, four of whom were known to have served in the Confederate army: Sgt. William Carroll Hester, Pvt. Roland Benton Hester, Sterling Richardson Hester (rank unknown) and Pvt. Wiley Robertson Hester. Probate records of Franklin Co., Alabama were destroyed in 1890 and are not available for earlier years (26 Sep 2017)
Person ID	I030	Wm L Gann Ancestors
Last Modified	26 Sep 2017

Father	William H Hester, b. 27 Jan 1780, Saint Luke Dist., Person, North Carolina , d. 5 Oct 1847, Franklin Co., Alabama (Age 67 years)
Mother	Amy Malone, b. 17 Mar 1789, North Carolina , d. 23 Jan 1840, Frankfort, Franklin, Alabama (Age 50 years)
Marriage License	17 Oct 1805	Person Co., North Carolina
Married	18 Oct 1805	Person Co., North Carolina [1]
Family ID	F032	Group Sheet

Family Lucinda Richardson, b. 9 Dec 1805, Georgia , d. 9 Oct 1875, Alabama (Age 69 years)

Marriage License 10 Dec 1828 Maury Co., Tennessee [10]

Married 11 Dec 1828 Maury Co., Tennessee [1, 10]

Officiated by Alex Johnson, J.P. [10]

Children

	1. William Carroll Hester, b. 14 Oct 1829, Franklin Co., Alabama , d. 21 Nov 1908, Belgreen, Franklin, Alabama (Age 79 years)
	2. John Chesley Hester, b. 28 May 1832, Franklin Co., Alabama , d. 23 Feb 1907, Franklin Co., Alabama (Age 74 years)
	3. James Goodloe Hester, b. 26 Sep 1833, Franklin Co., Alabama , d. 20 Dec 1905 (Age 72 years)
	4. Mary Ellender Hester, b. 22 Aug 1838, Franklin Co., Alabama , d. 11 Feb 1892, Franklin Co., Alabama (Age 53 years)
	5. Roland Benton Hester, b. 20 May 1840, Franklin Co., Alabama , d. 11 Oct 1900, Hamilton, Marion, Alabama (Age 60 years)
	6. Sterling Richardson Hester, b. 9 Aug 1842, Franklin Co., Alabama , d. 15 Feb 1914 (Age 71 years)
	7. Wiley Robertson Hester, b. 25 Jul 1844, Franklin Co., Alabama , d. 28 Aug 1928, Belgreen, Franklin, Alabama (Age 84 years)
	8. Nancy Lucretia Hester, b. 26 Sep 1846, Franklin Co., Alabama , d. 14 May 1907 (Age 60 years)
	9. Robert McGara Hester, b. 26 Aug 1848, Franklin Co., Alabama , d. 21 Aug 1928, Russelville, Franklin, Alabama (Age 79 years)

Last Modified 11 May 2012

Family ID F023 Group Sheet

Photos
Hester, Roling - Portrait c. 1870

Sources

[S07808] Hester Family Bible (transcript), William H. Hester et al..
[S08143] Franklin Co., AL Cemeteries Group 1, John W. Harris Chapter 2437 United Daughters of the Confederacy, (1975), http://www.rootsweb.com/~alfrankl/h.html.
[S34621] 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), fam. 761, p. 226A, Dist. 6, Franklin, Alabama (Reliability: 2), 19 Jul 2010.
[S40180] 1830 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), p. 43, Franklin Co., Alabama (Reliability: 2), 25 Aug 2010.
[S40179] 1840 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), p. 269, Franklin Co., Alabama (Reliability: 2), 17 Aug 2010.
[S40178] 1860 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), fam. 576, p. 79, Eastern Subdiv., Franklin, Alabama (Reliability: 2), 29 May 2010.
[S69] Alabama 1867 Voter Registration Records, Alabama Department of Archives and History, (Montgomery, AL: Alabama Department of Archives and History) (Reliability: 3), 29 Oct 2014.
[S34634] 1870 United States Federal Census, United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), fam. 2, p. 1, Twp. 6 Range 12, Franklin, Alabama (Reliability: 2), 04 May 2010.
[S34622] 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005), fam. 98, p. 14, ED 88, Twp. 10 Range 13, Franklin, Alabama (Reliability: 2), 31 Mar 2010.
[S40218] Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008), Maury Co., 1829, p. 108 (Reliability: 3), 11 May 2012.