Elizabeth "Betsy" Minter

1771 - 1838  (67 years)

• Name	Elizabeth "Betsy" Minter
  Nickname	Betsy
  Birth	10 May 1771	Faquier, Virginia, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  _UID	41347DBA23354C548D4EA929EAB7E1BD90D4
  Death	11 Aug 1838	Broad Run, Lewis County, Virginia, USA   [1]
  Notes	Not all US researchers have the link from Elizabeth to Watson Obediah Minter. It would appear that Watson was born illegitimately around the time Elizabeth married her first husband Luther Obediah DuPuy. One source that has these details is the 2012ScottFile tree at Ancestry (April 2012). In his 'Minter Notes, Some descendants of Anthony Minter of Caroline County, Virginia', Don Chamberlayne has the following extensive note about Elizabeth: The first child of John and Susannah Minter, according to virtually all known listings, was Elizabeth "Betsy" Minter, of whom it has been said that she was born "about 1772." [John Minter: I have taken the date shown from www.cottagehill.com] No original source is known, however, and the implication in the will of Susannah's father, John Williams, that his daughter had not yet married by 1772 ..., suggests that Susannah's first child might have arrived a bit later, probably between 1773 and 1775. Betsy Minter married Luther Obediah Dupuy, who was born about 1775, almost surely a member of some branch of the extensive Dupuy family descended from Huguenot immigrant Bartholomew Dupuy, outlined in Brock's survey of the Huguenot settlement at Manakin-Town. This was the second marriage of a Minter woman to a Dupuy. .... Betsy's aunt of the same name, John Minter's sister, Elizabeth "Betsy" Minter ..., married the Reverend John Dupuy and moved to Kentucky. It must be noted, however, that Brock's genealogy of the Dupuys lists children of John and Elizabeth (Minter) Dupuy and the name Luther Obediah is not among them. Luther and Betsy Dupuy had a son in 1795, to whom they gave the name William Obediah Dupuy. Luther died that same year, of unknown cause, said to have been "in the service of his country." Soon thereafter, the child went to live on the farm with his grandparents, John and Susannah Minter, and his surname was changed to Minter. An interesting explanation was provided by a Dorothy Ann Minter of Charleston, West Virginia, in a letter written in 1956 to "A. T.," published in the Minter Genealogical Bulletin: " ... a Minter gal married a Dupays [sic] man and when he died young, she was forced to return to her father's farm. Her father, Mr. Minter required her to give the Minter name to the son to enable him to inherit the property, now these names can be in reverse." His name has been listed in a wide variety of ways, with agreement only on the name Obediah. He has been called William Obediah Minter, by Jane Duffy; William Obediah (Watson Minter) Dupuy, by Ken Storm; and Obediah Dupuy Watson/Minter, by Walter M. Minter. The 1850 census listed him simply as Obediah Minter (age 55). We will call him Obediah (Dupuy) Minter, which retains his original surname parenthetically and the one given name that appears to be most firmly established. [John Minter: I have adopted 'Watson Obediah Minter' as in www.cottagehill.com]. Jane Duffy, a descendant of Obediah, is the person to contact <http://webpages.charter.net/chamberlayne/minter/sources.htm> regarding this line, and, as in the case of many other such contacts, other facets of the larger Minter tree as well. According to her and others, Obediah married Frances "Fannie" Walker Covington and they had seven children (known). From them has followed a substantial descendancy, of which Storm provides a good overview. Ironically, the Minter surname traces to Obediah's mother's side of the family and not the male side; he was, in terms of male bloodlines, a Dupuy, not a Minter. Thus, if his surname had not been legally changed by his grandparents, the name Dupuy would replace Minter throughout his descendancy. One of the children of Odediah and Fannie was Daniel Leftwich Minter [6], born in 1834 (age 16 in the 1850 census), who died in 1862 of wounds sustained at the battle of Cedar Run, according to a note found in the family Bible of his granddaughter (who was also Jane Duffy's grandmother) [Duffy, email of Oct-15-2006]. Some listings show Daniel's middle name as Leftridge, rather than Leftwich. Daniel married Hester Ann Jefferson, and in 1857 they had a son, John James Minter [7], who would marry Maralda Jane Davis in the mid-1870s. A daughter of this couple, Nannie Jane Minter [8], married Hamilton Roundtree Adkins around the turn of the century and they had four children, of whom one was John Nathaniel Adkins, Jane Duffy's father. A photograph of the family <http://webpages.charter.net/chamberlayne/minter/mn2ph02.htm>, taken about 1910, according to Jane, who made it available to us, shows her father John Nathaniel and his sister, Faturia Mae, as children, their brother Cecil not having been born yet. A brother of Nannie Jane Minter was James Leftridge (or Leftwich?) Minter, known as "Leffie." In a letter written in 1939, addressed to a "Miss Odom," recounted in the Minter Genealogical Bulletin, Leffie Minter's wife described the line as she knew it: "My husband is: James Leffie Minter; His father is: John Jim Minter and will be 82 this July [thus born 1857]. My husband's grandfather was Obediah Leftrich Minter, called Leff who was killed in the Confederate War. His father and namesake was: Obediah Leftrich Minter, he being the great grandfather of my husband." [Bulletin p.160] The Obediah Leftrich Minter identified as her husband's grandfather is usually cited as Daniel Leftwich [6] (or Leftridge) Minter, and he was listed as Daniel L. in the 1850 census. The writer's use of the name Leftrich adds a third variation to the mix, but we know of no other such spelling. She also identified her husband's great-grandfather as Obediah Leftrich Minter [5], as noted earlier, and this, too, appears to be a one-of-a-kind reference. Another child of Obediah (Dupuy) and Fannie (Covington) Minter was James Fontaine Minter [6], born in 1829, who married America Delaware Jefferson, of Pittsylvania County, born in 1834. Their son Isaiah Thompson Minter [7], born in 1854, married, first, Alice Wingfield, and after her death, Josephine Umberger, about the mid-1890s. Isaiah was listed in the census of 1920 as age 65, a grocer with his own business in Roanoke. He and Josephine had three children, the youngest of whom was a daughter born in 1901/02, named Josephine Katherine Minter [8]. In 1925, Josephine married James Lindsay Almond, Jr., who served as Attorney General of Virginia, 1948-57, as Governor of Virginia, 1958-62, and later as Judge of the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, appointed by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, until his death in 1986.
  Person ID	I116	America
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2015

  
  

  Father	John Minter,   b. Abt 1750, Powhatan County, Virginia, USA d. Abt 1833, Henry County, Virginia, USA (Age ~ 83 years)
  Mother	Susannah WILLIAMS,   b. Abt 1755   d. Aft 1850, Henry County, Virginia, USA (Age ~ 96 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1772
  Family ID	F24	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Luther Obediah DUPUY,   b. 1775   d. 1795 (Age 20 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1795	Henry County, Virginia, USA   [1]
  Children	1. Watson Obediah Minter,   b. Abt 1795, Leatherwood, Henry County, Virginia, USA d. 18 Jan 1855, Mount Vernon, Henry County, Virginia, USA (Age ~ 60 years)
  Family ID	F400	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2012

  
  

  Family 2	Jeremiah Michael GRIGGS,   b. 1776   d. 1858 (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	30 Nov 1799	Henry County, Virginia, USA   [1]
  Children	1. Jeremiah Michael GRIGGS, Jnr,   b. 25 Sep 1800, Henry County, Virginia, USA d. 6 May 1871, Henry County, Virginia, USA (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F401	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2012

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 11 Aug 1838 - Broad Run, Lewis County, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S60] 2012ScottFile tree at Ancestry.com, April 2012.