Chilton County and her people

Chilton County and Her People is about a area in Alabama that was settled early in the history of the United States of America. Originally Autauga County, then Baker County, then finally it became Chilton County. This modern county today holds the gravesite of a revolutionary veteran and prisoner of war, who was captured by the British at the fall of Charleston, SC. This veteran, Obadiah Moore, symbolizes the migration of people across the nation. This man was born Obediah More II, son of Obediah More I and his wife, Prudence Willoughby in the Chesapeake area of Virginia, Princess Anne County then, Virginia Beach County today. His father died when was five, said by family history to be killed by the Indians. He was termed an orphan, as if the father ...the only legal guardian...died, the mother in that era could not retain property nor the custody of children, as she being female was not a legal person. Prudence almost immediately remarried, to a neighbor, Samuel Elks.Her 1/3 widows dowry and custody of her children, along with all her personal possessions immediately became the property of her new husband. He has been proven to be a Croatan/Hatteras Indian, probably with an English admixture from those survivors of The Lost Colony established in 1587 by Sir Walter Raleigh. He came from an area now being examined by archeologists. They found evidence of the "Lost Colony" and its mixture with the local Croatan/Hatteras tribes, living in the Croatan Fort located in what is now Chocowinnity, North Carolina.

Chilton was the site of wars with local Indians, who took the side of the British in the revolutionary war (who offered $50 bounty for the scalps of revolutionary sympathizers as well as gunpowder and guns). Many Colonial families passed through this old area. Samuel Elks sold any land once owned by Obediah More I and moved his brood to Pitt County, North Carolina.

Obadiah Moore joined the North Carolina Militia when the revolutionary war began, and was at the Battle of Charleston. After the British paroled him, he returned to North Carolina after the war and married at the close of the war. He and his wife, Winney Ventis, went "west" first to Columbia County, GA and then Jasper County, Georgia, then in 1819, just as Alabama became a new state, to Old Autauga County, settling in the Chestnut Creek area. Today, that same region is Clanton, Chilton County, Alabama.

Chilton County and Her People has many stories of the lives of early pioneers to this area.