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Irene Ryan

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Alfred W. Noblitt

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• • Grandfather of Irene Ryan — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Noblitt 
  • Mother:
  • Priscilla Vaughn   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1828 
  • Birth Location:
  • North Carolina 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Dec 1855 
  • Death Location:
  • Burke County, North Carolina 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Thompson
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1849 
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  • Children:
  
  

  John Calvin Noblitt

  James Merritt Noblitt (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • Alfred Noblitt was tried and convicted in 1855 for the murder of John Davis who was killed between Sunday evening, September 4th, 1854, and the following morning when his body was discovered. Alfred was said to have been hanged for the murder in December 1855.

• Sources for Alfred W. Noblitt

  • ¹ Federal Census, NC, McDowell County, 1850, Image 35 of 115.
  • ² Lexington and Yadkin Flag (Lexington, North Carolina), 07 DEC 1855, p. 3, "To be Hung".
  • ³ North Carolina, U.S., Death Certificates, 1909-1976, Death certificate for son John Calvin Noblitt.
  • ⁴ North Carolina, U.S., Land Grant Files, 1693-1960, Land record for Alfred W Noblett.
  • ⁵ Gripshover, Peggy and Chris Groves, "Between a Rock and a Radio Place: The Case of the Irene Ryan Signature Mystery in Mammoth Cave.
  • ⁶ Jones, Hamilton C., Reports of Cases at Law Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina from December Term 1854 to . . ., Salisbury: Printed by J. J. Bruner (1855), 418-436.
  • ⁷ Noblit, John Hyndman, Genealogical Collections Relating to the Families of Noblet, Noblat, Noblot and Noblets, of France; Noblett and . . ., n. p.: Printed for Private Circulation by Ferris and Leach (1906), 294.
  • ⁸ Noblitt, Loren Scott and Minnie Walls Noblitt, Down the Centuries with the Nobitts, 1180-1955: Genealogy - Biography - History of the Families of Noblet, Noblett, . . ., 35.
  • ⁹ Phifer, Edward W., Jr., Burke County: A Brief History, Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Division of Archives and History (1979), 138.