By Peg Niedholdt
Title: Ferebee Genealogy Collection, 1860s-1990s
Predominant Dates:1910-1954
ID: 001/01/MSS 0000-012
Primary Creator: Ferebee, Annie Adelia (1878-1941)
Other Creators: Ferebee, Sarah Cason (1894-1991)
Extent: 27.0 Boxes
Arrangement: The first part of the collection contains the research for the Ferebee Family book. The book is divided into Sections #1 through #64, and the research is filed the same way. The second part of the collection is research for the female lines filed alphabetically. The third part of the collection contains additional notebooks, calendars, photographs, and the Ferebee Family Bible, ending with an oversized assortment of genealogical charts and diplomas.
Date Acquired: 03/24/2005. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Family trees, Ferebee family, Genealogy, Genealogy--Research, Norfolk (Va.), Virginia--Genealogy
Forms of Material: Bibles, Booklets, Calendars, Certificates, Clippings (information artifacts), Daguerreotypes (photographs), Diaries, Diplomas, Genealogies (histories), Maps (documents), Notebooks, Obituaries, Pedigrees, Photocopies, Photographs, Sketches
Languages: English
A genealogical collection of the Ferebee family, created by Annie Adelia Ferebee and continued by her niece, Sarah Cason Ferebee. This collection contains their research manuscripts, notes, photographs, correspondence, obituaries, articles, and Sarah's personal copy of the Ferebee book with her many notations. Most of the items in this collection are photocopies and research copies acquired from various sources.
The Ferebee Genealogy Collection includes information organized by Annie that her family compiled in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The collection also includes mid-1930s correspondence in which Annie mailed letters to the Ferebees descended from John Ferebee, Gentleman (circa 1630-1705) and his eldest son Thomas Ferebee (1682-1739). Also included are records from Annie’s and Sarah’s genealogical trips throughout Virginia and North Carolina where they researched records, interviewed relatives, and discovered family gravesites. The collection includes genealogical research and notes on the male Ferebee line, started by Annie Ferebee, and successively published in 1954 by Sarah Ferebee in the book Ferebee Family. Remarkably, this duo of family genealogists also researched the female lines of the Ferebee family; their research notes on the female lines are also included.
The collection contains comprehensive research dating to 1360 England with the ancestors of John Ferebee, Gentleman; his lineage is covered in the first part of the Ferebee book. The American lineage starts with John Ferebee, Gentleman, surveyor of the City of Norfolk in 1688. The first 54 sections were researched by both Annie and Sarah, and the remaining sections were added by Sarah and published in 1954. Sarah also did extensive work on both sides of her mother's family, Annie Terrell Cook Ferebee (1863-1826). From the handwriting, some of the notes may have been done by Mrs. Ferebee. Sarah Cason Ferebee was dedicated to recording, correcting, and compiling information on the Ferebee family up to her passing at the age of 97. All of this research is included in the Ferebee Genealogy Collection.
Ferebee family members also assisted with this collection through the years. Notebooks and diaries of family research trips are included in this collection. The first item in the Ferebee Genealogy Collection is an alphabetical index of names with book Section #s and their corresponding box and folder number, which was compiled by the finding aid author.
Repository: Sargeant Memorial Collection
Accruals: Connolly Phillips donated an additional box of genealogy research materials to SMC on July 22, 2016.
Access Restrictions: This collection is open to all researchers.
Use Restrictions: The status of copyright for these materials is governed by Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U. S. C.) Copyright restrictions may apply.
Acquisition Source: Mrs. Betsy Ferebee Phillips by donation
Related Publications: Ferebee, Annie A. and Sarah C. Ferebee. Ferebee Family. Norfolk, VA: Sarah C. Ferebee, 1955.
Preferred Citation: Ferebee Genealogy Collection, MSS 0000-012, Sargeant Memorial Collection, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Virginia.
Processing Information: Processed January 2019.
The following is an exact transcription of the index in the aforementioned manuscript.
Copies of records from the following FAMILY BIBLES (date indicates first marriage):
MARY FEREBEE and Joseph Baxter m.1772
Isaac Baxter and Mary Bell and Letitia Glasgo m.1806
Enoch W. Baxter and Margaret M. Baxter m.1889
Enoch F. Baxter and Amanda C. Wilson m.1854
James O. Baxter and Virginia Ann Smith m.1852
Capt. JOSEPH FEREBEE and Mary Daúge and Nancy Herbert and Mary Creekmore m.1774
Horatio Seth Creekmore and Elizabeth Morse and Sarah Hutchings and Susan Morse and Mary A. Miller m.1828
MARIA FEREBEE and William Old m.1827
Benjamin Franklin Ames and Elizabeth Bagley m.1861
James Bell and Elizabeth Turten m.1814
Mary Fannie Grandy and James R. Bell. m.1889
William F. Humphries and Elenor Etheridge m.1821
SAMUEL FEREBEE and Sarah Daúge and Peggy Daúge and Jane Brockett m.1787
WILLIAM FEREBEE, SR. (son of Samuel Ferebee, Sr.) and Mary Etheridge m.1789
EDMUND E. FEREBEE (son of Wm. Ferebee Sr.) and Meddy G. Lamb m.1815
James McBride Old and HULDA E. FEREBEE m.1847
Sarah Etheridge and Tully L. Dozier, Gent. m.1835
Rev. SAMUEL FEREBEE and Nancy Simmons, Dorothy Taylor, Jan Bray and Mary Harrington and Amelia Leary m.1816
MITCHELL SIMMONS FEREBEE and Charlotte T. Bell and Sarah Jane Hutchings and Lucinda H. Owens m.1848
SAMUEL OWENS FEREBEE and Modecia Sykes m.1884
Josephus S. Waters and FRANCES LUCINDA FEREBEE m.1898
ZACHARIAH O. FEREBEE and Angerona Patridge m.1878
Lancelot Woodhouse and Mary m.1809
Samuel McHorney and Fanny Filen m.1805
DR. ENOCH D. FEREBEE and Mary Callis Jones and Courtney H. McPherson and Hester C. Bell m.1821
Tulley Bell and PENELOPE L. FEREBEE m.1821
Samuel Ferebee Bell and Emelda T. Gray and Sarah E. Neal m.1848
FRANCES FEREBEE and Edward B. Ives m.1877
Dennis D. Overman and Narcis Morgan m.1880
T.D. Walker and L.A. Burfoot m.1872
Apollos Oscar Dey and MISSOURI A. FEREBEE m.1862
Elizabeth W. Dey and A.B Williams m.1881
William B. Dey and Susan m.1807
JENNIE FEREBEE and John Barnard m.1865
AMANDA M. FEREBEE and Benjamin Cowell m.1827
Wilson Sanderlin and Sarah Ferebee Cowell m.1849
Charles Agustus Moore and Martha F. Humphries m.1848
Thomas Cooper Humphries and Mary Frost m.1856
James A. Wilson and Minnie Peed m.1886
Col. DENNIS D. FEREBEE and Sarah R. McPherson (and Mary Davenport - not in bible) m.1842
Col. DENNIS D. FEREBEE and Mary E. Davenport m.1878
Willie McPherson (pronounced Wiley) and Kezia McPherson m.1806
THOMAS COOPER FEREBEE and Lydia Humphries and Margaret C. Williams and Judith G. Mackie m.1796
THOMAS COOPER FEREBEE, JR and Mary Elizabeth Wallace m.1857
Peter Daúge and Elizabeth Williams m.1739
Ferebee research notes for:
Mathias Bell and Nancy ________ m.1804
Calvin Bonney Cason and Ann H. Jones m.1848
Benjamin Cowell and Amanda M. Ferebee m.1827
James C. Ferebee and Polly Bartlett m.1842
James B. Ferebee and Alice E. Bell m.1889
Miles Lamb and Matilda Grandy m.1824
Wilson Sanderfin and Sarah Ferebee Cowell m.1849
Folder of miscellaneous Bible notes.
