y great great grandfather, Jesse Pepper came from Anderson Co., SC.

Both my great great grandfathers, Jesse Pepper and Eaton Mabry owned land in S36 T22 R10E. Jesse Pepper owned the NEĽ of S36 T22 R10E and Eaton Mabry owned the SEĽ of S36 T22 R10E. Eaton also owned 160a. joining, what is now, Webster Co., MS.

A tremendous amount of work has been done on the Pepper family by Jack Pepper who descends from Samuel Pepper, my Jesse Pepper's brother. Also, my cousin Sarah Margaret Few Hallum, a descendant of my Jesse has done a lot of work on the Pepper line. Below is some information that Jack and Sarah have shared with me.

My Jesse Pepper's parents were John and Elizabeth Oldham Pepper. My Jesse's paternal grandparents were Samuel and Elizabeth Ann "Lady" Holton. Jesse Pepper's maternal grandparents were Richard Oldham and Elizabeth Bayse.

Jack Pepper wrote: The earliest Pepper that we have connected to this family is Samuel Pepper, who was born in 1725 in the area that became Prince William County, VA a few years later. He acquired land in Fauquier Co., VA in 1763 and his name appears on a petition to be allowed to worship in a Baptist Church. No date, but 1777 has been the best estimate. With some of his family he moved to Kentucky in 1797. One of his sons is credited with establishing the first whiskey distillery in that state. His son, John, moved to Caswell Co., NC, apparently with his in-laws the Oldhams. John, as well as most of his Oldham brothers-in law participated in the Revolutionary War, particularly, the Battle of Gilford Courthouse, near their home. A John and a William Pepper immigrated to Lancaster Co., VA in the early 1650s. It is logical that one, or both, of these were the ancestor of our Samuel, but more research is needed to establish any connection. Records fail to show the origin of these "immigrant" Peppers, but there have been attempts to connect them to the Peppers and Oldhams, who were in Massachusetts 100 years earlier.

Sarah Margaret Few Hallum wrote:Jesse Pepper came to Choctaw County, MS in the 1830's along with his brother John and sister Elizabeth and brother-in-law, George T. Anderson. He appears on a tax roll for Choctaw County for 1835, which seems to be the first surviving one for that county. Jesse Pepper is not listed by name on the State census of Choctaw, but he is almost certainly the extra male age 21-45 in George Anderson's household. Jesse Pepper was a schoolteacher. Among keepsakes remaining in the hands of descendants is his arithmetic book which he wrote to use in teaching. It opens with the list of rules for his school. Just how long he taught and where all his schools were located are not known. Family information indicates he taught in South Carolina as well as Mississippi. Jesse Pepper is not listed on the 1840 census in either Choctaw or Chickasaw County. But in 1841, the year he and Matilda (Moon) Payne married, he appears for the first time on a Chickasaw County tax roll. The location of his house place is known precisely, located in the Northwest Quarter of Section 36, Township 22, Range 10 East of what at that time was still a part of Chickasaw, but which became a part of Calhoun County in March of 1852.

Sarah Margaret Hallum owns our Jesse Pepper's bible which is covered with deer skin.

I, Beverly Mabry Hannaford, own and treasure Jesse Pepper's arithmetic book. 1826 SC is written in the book. Below are Jesse Pepper's hand written school rules.

you will rise Early on a morning and wash your hands and fase Comb your hare and prepare for School
you will not Idle away your time Coming or going from school
and if you git there be fore your teacher when He comes in you will all Rise and make your bedience to him
and If any person comes that dont belong the School ether white or black male or female you will rise and make your abasence and do the same when they go to Re turn that is one thing must and Shall be complide with or the trans gressers may Expect to suffer for the trans gression
and also another thing must and Shall be complide with that is but two out at a time two boys to gether at a time and two girls at a time and If this Rule is not complide with you may Expect to Suffer for the transgression
Another thing inperticular must be com plid with that the girls and boys must not and Shal not play to gether
if I cetch you, or any of you the Same Shall have no play time til I am satis'ffied
and all that dont comply with the Rules may Expect to Suffer
and as for quarling or fiting they must not nor Shall not while at School or under my Ceare
January the 24th 1832
Jesse Pepper

Matilda Moon's 1/h was Daniel Payne. They had four children.

Matilda Moon b: 15 July 1813 Warren Co., TN d: 27 November 1853 Calhoun Co., MS bu: Chestnut Sprs. Cem. Cal. Co., MS
. +Daniel Payne b: m: 18 December 1832 Lowndes Co., MS d: Bef. November 1837 Lowndes Co., MS
.... Elvira Payne b: Abt. 1834 d: Abt. 1912 Calhoun Co., MS bu: Chestnut Sprs. Cem., Cal. Co., MS
.... James Riley "Jim" Payne b: Abt. 1833 MS
.... Daniel Greenberry "Green" Payne b: Abt.1835 MS
.... Acel Winchester "Pete" Payne b: 1837 MS

Matilda Moon Payne's 2/h was Jesse Pepper. Jesse and Matilda married in the home of her parents, Simon and Elizabeth Tomlin Moon. Simon and Elizabeth Moon lived on what is known as Conner Hill located in the Wardwell community in Calhoun Co., MS.(then it was in Chickasaw Co., MS.)

Pepper Sisters

Margaret Pepper Douglas, Harley Streeter and Frances Pepper Mabry

Jesse and Matilda Pepper raised the four Payne children along with their own six Pepper children.

1 Samuel Pepper b: Abt. 1725 Prince William Co., VA d: Abt. 1798 Mason, KY
. +Elizabeth Ann "Lady" Holton b: 01 April 1730 VA m: Abt. 1750 VA d: 06 July 1820 KY
.... 2 John Pepper b: Abt. 1750 VA d: February 1816 Williamston, Anderson Co., SC
...... +Elizabeth Oldham b: Abt. 1756 Prince William Co., VA m: NC d: Aft. 1850 Anderson Co., SC
......... 3 Jesse Pepper b: 15 July 1795 Williamston, Anderson Co., SC d: 18 December 1863 Calhoun Co., MS bu: Chestnut Sprs. Cem. Cal. Co., MS
........... +Matilda (Moon) Payne b: 15 July 1813 Warren Co., TN m: 21 March 1841 Calhoun Co., MS (Conner Hill So. of Derma) d: 27 November 1853 Calhoun Co., MS bu: Chestnut Sprs. Cem. Cal. Co., MS
.............. 4 Frances Pepper b: 02 January 1842 Chickasaw Co., MS now Calhoun Co., MS d: 12 April 1918 Derma, Calhoun Co., MS bu: Chestnut Sprs. Cem. Cal. Co., MS. See Frances Pepper Mabry's children on Mabry page.
................ +William Harrison "Hash" Mabry b: 24 July 1832 Shelby Co., AL m: 02 April 1865 Calhoun Co., MS d: 25 June 1898 Calhoun Co., MS bu: Chestnut Sprs. Cem. Cal. Co., MS
................... 5 George Clark Mabry, Sr. b: 04 November 1874 So. of Bentley, Calhoun Co., MS d: 09 March 1952 Calhoun City, Cal. Co., MS bu: Oak Springs Cemetery, Calhoun Co., MS.
..................... +Nona Holland b: 19 November 1882 Webster Co., MS NW of Mathiston, MS m: 22 December 1901 Walthall, Webster Co., MS d: 25 June 1959 Houston, Chickasaw Co., MS bu: Oak Springs Cemetery, Calhoun Co., MS
........................ 6 George Clark "G. C." Mabry, Jr. b: 21 January 1910 Derma, Calhoun Co., MS d: 12 July 1984 Memphis, Shelby Co., TN bu: Oak Sprs. Calhoun Co., MS
.......................... +Dora Odean Putnam b: 19 July 1915 Slate Spring, Calhoun Co., MS m: 19 November 1933 Calhoun City, Calhoun Co., MS d: 21 October 1948 Houston, Chickasaw Co., MS bu: Oak Sprs. Calhoun Co., MS
............................. 7 Beverly Ann Mabry b: 23 June 1935 Houston, Chickasaw Co., MS
............................... +Robert Eugene Hannaford b: 08 April 1930 Pittsboro, Calhoun Co., MS m: 10 June 1956 Derma, Calhoun Co., MS
.............. 4 Jesse Pepper, Jr. b: 31 January 1844 d: 02 April 1862 while in Civil War
.............. 4 Margaret Rachel Pepper b: 23 January 1846 m. Thos. J. Douglas d. 21 April 1928
................ +Martin V. Branch m: Abt. 1861 d: 13 August 1862 age 20 yrs. 7 mos. 18 days Died while in Civil War
................... 5 Jefferson Beauregard Branch b: 25 December 1861 d: 18 December 1863 Calhoun Co., MS bu: Chestnut Sprs., Cem. Calhoun Co., MS
................ +Thomas Jefferson Douglas, Sr. b: 13 January 1843 Chickasaw Co., MS m: 15 September 1865 d: 11 July 1887 Bentley, Calhoun Co., MS bu: Chestnut Sprs. Cem. Calhoun Co., MS
................... 5 Anderson Granbury Douglas b: 24 July 1866 d: 07 August 1867 Calhoun Co., MS bu: Chestnut Sprs. Cem. Cal. Co., MS
................... 5 Thomas Oscar Douglas b: 28 October 1867 d: 12 April 1935 Eupora, MS bu: Eupora Cem. Webster Co., MS
..................... +Susie Jarman m: 02 December 1893
................... 5 Mary Frances "Cannie" Douglas b: 17 April 1869 Calhoun Co., MS d: 17 January 1905 Bentley, Calhoun Co., MS bu: Bentley Cem. Cal. Co., MS
..................... +William Clement Few, Sr. b: 8 October 1852 Bentley, Cal. Co., MS m: 02 January 1891 Bentley, Calhoun Co., MS d: Bentley, Calhoun Co., MS bu: Bentley Cem. Cal. Co., MS
........................ 6 Margaret Tabitha Barbara Few b: 1892
........................ 6 Samuel Jefferson Few b: 1893
........................ 6 Marvin Jasper Few b: 1894
........................ 6 William Cement "Bill" Few, Jr. b: 18 October 1895 Bentley, Calhoun Co., MS d: 19 September 1982 Calhoun City, Calhoun Co., MS bu. Calhoun City Cem. Cal. Co., MS
.......................... +Emma Gertrude Burlison m: 24 February 1939 Charleston, MS
............................. 7 Sarah Margaret Few b: 24 April 1941
............................... +Thomas Wayne "Tommy" Hallum b: 07 February 1930 m: 07 February 1984
........................ 6 Mamie Maudine "Sis" Few b: 1896
........................ 6 Infant Son Few b: 1898
........................ 6 Gladys Armarie Few b: 1900
........................ 6 Thomas Oscar Few b: 1904
................... 5 William Allen Douglas b: 09 November 1870 Calhoun Co., MS d: 04 August 1956 Bentley, Calhoun Co., MS bu: Chestnut Sprs. Cem. Calhoun Co., MS
................... 5 Robert Lafayette "Bob" Douglas b: 03 April 1872 Calhoun Co., MS d: 11 December 1939 Lutts, TN bu: Cromwell Crossroads Cem., Lutts, TN
..................... +Lucretia "Lou" Pepper Brown m: Abt. 1898
..................... +Fannie Cromwell m: 19 April 1920
................... 5 Jesse Lee Douglas b: 13 September 1873 Calhoun Co., MS d: 25 August 1876 Calhoun Co., MS bu: Chestnut Sprs., Cem. Cal. Co., MS
................... 5 Sidney Calhoun Douglas b: 01 December 1876 Calhoun Co., MS d: 29 September 1887 Calhoun Co., MS bu: Chestnut Sprs. Cem. Cal. Co., MS
................... 5 Edna Ola Douglas b: 13 January 1878 Calhoun Co., MS d: 28 December 1955 Calhoun City, MS bu: Stephens Fam. Cem. near Griffith , Clay Co.,MS
..................... +Hubert C. Cockrell m: 18 December 1907 Bentley, Calhoun Co., MS
................... 5 Dora Della Douglas b: 17 September 1880 Calhoun Co., MS d: 30 October 1955 Florida bu: Chestnut Sprs. Cem. Calhoun Co., MS
..................... +Thomas Wilson Carter b: 02 November 1878 d: 07 March 1916 bu: Chestnut Springs Cem. Calhoun Co., MS
................... 5 Thomas Jefferson Douglas, Jr. b: 07 September 1886 Calhoun Co., MS d: 11 March 1962 Houston, MS bu: Calhoun City Cem. Cal. Co., MS
..................... +Clara Fielder m: 20 July 1918 bu: Calhoun City Cem. Calhoun Co., MS
.............. 4 George Pepper b: 09 July 1848
................ +Tempy (Howard)Mabry m: 1866 wid. of Thos. T. Mabry (d. while in Civil War) bro. to Wm. H. "Hash Mabry.Tempy Howard's parents were Hardy and Emily Howard.
................... 5 Laura or Lorna Pepper b: Bef. 1865 - 1867
................... 5 Henry Pepper b: Abt. 1867 d: Bef. 1880
................... 5 Lucretia or Sarah Lucresa "Lou" Pepper b: Abt. 1869 d: 1904
..................... +?? Brown
..................... +Lafayette Douglas, M. D. first cousin of "Lou" Pepper
................... 5 Richard Pepper b: Abt. 1872
................... 5 John Pepper b: Abt. 1873
................... 5 George Stanley Pepper b: Abt. 1874
..................... +Julia Posey
........................ 6 Clark L. Pepper b: 1905
..................... +Mattie Hardy
........................ 6 Benjamin F. Pepper b: 1919
........................ 6 Minerver Dell Pepper b: 1920
........................ 6 Mattie Mae Pepper b: 1922
........................ 6 Robert S. Pepper b: 1924
........................ 6 Lon D. Pepper b: 1926
................... 5 Hardy Pepper b: Abt. 1876
................... 5 Allen Pepper b: Bet. 1879 - 1880
.............. 4 Elizabeth Caroline Pepper b: 14 May 1850 d: 19 February 1857 bu: Chestnut Sprs. Cem. Cal. Co., MS
.............. 4 Ruth Ann Matilda Pepper b: 05 November 1853 d: 20 July 1855 bu: Chestnut Sprs. Cem. Cal. Co., MS