Ahnentafel #92 - Ennis Maulding, ver. 4

Ennis Maulding

Born: ca. 1783 in either Tennessee or Kentucky
Died: ca. 1843 in Wayne Co., Illinois

Buried: probably in Maulding-Mayberry Cemetery, no stone

Married 1) Fanny Crissel on December 4, 1804 in Logan Co., Kentucky, 2) Sophia Burbank on March 1, 1820 in White Co., Illinois & 3) Matilda (Collingsworth) Medley ca. 1841

Religion: Methodist - Charles Koker and Thomas Cottonham, both Methodist preachers from McLeansboro, Illinois visited the people here in an early day, and they organized the first Methodist Church, and preached at the house of Ennis Malden, which was located on a spot included with the limits of Wayne City.  [History of Wayne & Clay Counties, Illinois]



Occupation: Miller, ran Maulding's Mill just east of Wayne City on Skillet Fork, just east of the current city water plant and near Maulding-Mayberry Cemetery.  He ran this mill with his son-in-law George Mayberry.  The mill was used for both a sawmill and grist mill.

A son of Ambrose, settled west of present McLeansboro.  Ennis Maulding served as supervisor on some of the early trails, such as the Carmi-Kaskaskia, that coursed through [Hamilton] county.  He represented this county in the State Senate 1830-1834.  Ennis later removed to Wayne County, Illinois where he built a mill on the Skillet Fork, north of present Wayne City. The place was on early maps designated as Maulding's Mill. [Harrelson, Ralph. A New Geography of Hamilton County, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, Feb. 1978]

The state capitol was in Vandalia during Ennis' terms in the senate.

Kornmeyer, Paul. "Ennis Maulding in Hamilton County," Goshen Trails, April 1971

Account of Ennis Maulding begins with his marriage to Fanny Crissel in Logan County, Ky., on Dec. 4, 1804.  Perhaps this was a second marriage for Ennis Maulding, but records otherwise are devoid of specific data for his family until the territorial census of Illinois in 1818.

Ennis Maulding Family in 1818: The White County, Illinois census enumerator, Daniel Hay, on June 3, 1818, recorded that Ennis Maulding was the head of a family of six and no slaves. The final tabulation showed 3595 souls then residing in White County. Richard Maulding (uncle of Ennis), James Maulding (brother of Ennis), Ambrose Maulding (father of Ennis) and John Anderson (brother-in-law of Ennis) and their families were enumerated in this same census. Although the aborigines had been ousted from the area, the environment was still primitive and, perhaps, at times, hostile. Nevertheless, Ennis Maulding patented 90 acres in what is now Knights Prairie Township, Hamilton County, on Apr. 3, 1819.

Captain of Militia: Militia service was not unknown to the Mauldings. On Nov. 9, 1819, Ennis Maulding was commissioned Captain of Militia of the Second Brigade of the Second Division, Illinois. At the same time, John E. Maulding, brother of Ennis, was commissioned as lieutenant in the same organization.  Ennis remained in the militia for some time afterward, but his name is next encountered in the US Census of 1820.

Ennis Maulding Family in 1820: Jesse C. Lockwood, later Hamilton County Clerk, was commissioner of the census of White County, Illinois, Nov. 22, 1820, when Ennis Maulding was entered as head of a family of eight including two sons over 21 years of age. Here arises a clue to the approximate age of Ennis Maulding and an indication that Fanny Crissel may have been a second spouse. Assuming a valid and reliable tabulation, Ennis, therefore, was previously married, before 1798, and his age is estimated at about 43 years, eg., his birth about 1777. Advent of two children to the family is recorded for the years 1818-1820. A growing family requires to be sustained. How did Ennis Maulding support a family of the size indicated in teh census of 1820?

Horse-powered Mill: In 1821 in Illinois generally and in Hamilton County particularly, the facility for grinding grain was probably in some limited demand. Job Standerfer, son of a very early settler, reported, later, that Ennis Maulding operated a gristmill powered by horses. Income from milling probably would have been rather small since the local population was sparse. What other source of income could then be drawn upon?

Gallatin-Vandalia Road: Ralph Harrelson, reporting a Goodspeed account, tells of John ferguson, henry Wheeler and Ennis Maulding, appointees to view a road from the Gallatin County line across Hamilton County, Illinois in June 1821. Road "viewing" might command about $1.50 per day, and there would be other roads to view, mark and lay out. Index to the laws of 1823, Illinois, page 133, refers to Ennis Maulding's commission to lay out a road from Vandalia to Shawneetown.  Page 16 of the Laws of 1833 refers to payment. And there would be other income.

 Inspector of Militia: Ennis Maulding was "getting on" in the military.  On Jan. 10, 1824, he was commissioned inspector of militia Third Brigade, Second Division of Illinois Militia. How long he was enrolled in the militia has not been ascertained. However the progress of Ennis Maulding in the military, another contract of significance is made in the same year, 1824.

Elizabeth Maulding-George Mayberry: On July 31, 1824, Elizabeth Maulding, daughter of Ennis Maulding, and George Mabury (Mayberry) were married, probably by Benjamin Hood, justice of the peace, Hamilton County, although the name of the official was not recorded. Thenceforth, the names of George & Elizabeth (Maulding) Mayberry disappear from the records not to appear again until in the 1830s in Wayne County. The Mayberrys had at least three children: William, Ennis and Jan Carzadd. Among the descendants of the Reverend William and Elizabeth (Brown) Mayberry is the Reverend Harold H. [Harrolle Halsey] Mayberry of Wayne City, Illinois, who recounts that George Mayberry, in the early days of Wayne County, built flatboats to ferry farm products for sale at Shawneetown.

Although more account of George Mayberry is entered subsequently herein, his apparent removal from Hamilton County should not be overlooked. Can it be supposed that Ennis Maulding would engage his son-in-law to build and operate a grist-and-sawmill on the waters of Wayne County? Possibly. Ensues, then a four-year period during which naught is recorded of Ennis Maulding, until Aug. 4, 1828 and his election to the Illinois House of Representatives. Obviously, he would be busy with legislative matters, the intervening US Census of 1830 notwithstanding.

Ennis Maulding Family in 1830: Be it remembered that two sons had been recorded as over 21 years of age in the census of 1820 and that daughter, Elizabeth, married George Mayberry in 1824 and thereafter probably removing from Hamilton County. Beginning at line 24, page 240 of the census of Hamilton County is the tabulation for the Maulding household:

• 2 sons under 5 yrs.
• 2 sons between 10 & 20 yrs.
• 1 male between 40 & 50 yrs.
• 1 daughter under 5 yrs.
• 2 daughters between 10 & 15 yrs.
• 1 female between 30 & 40 yrs. 

It is here noted that the date of 1820 and 1830 can not be entirely reconciled. A short discussion of the marital alliances of some of the sons and some of the daughters of Ennis Maulding appears in the subdivisions treating the Maulding Mills settlement, Chapter III. While account of the growth and development of the family of Ennis Maulding is, at least in part, germane to the essay, yet another event of the year of 1830 bears equal or exceeding weight in the history of the "Miller of Wayne County:" The election of August 1830.

Clay, Hamilton & Jefferson Counties Choose a Senator: But several years would elapse before Senator Maulding would become, in fact, the "Miller of Wayne County." The siren of politics still beckoned. On Aug. 3, 1830, the district comprised of the above named three counties indicated its preference for Ennis Maulding as state senator. Israel Jennings of Clay County provided the opposition.  That Jennings suffered defeat by a margin of almost two to one evidences the nature of the choice of the district. Here, before the chapter survey, it may be noted that the essay exhibits a merging or confluence with respect to the chronology of events.

Summary: A long period of historical darness supervenes the marriage of Maulding-Crissel and the territorial census of 1818, e.g. from 1804 to statehood for Illinois. The census of 1818 and the census of 1820 indicate growth of the Maulding family. Meanwhile Ennis Maulding was commissioned in the militia. He was gathering some experience in the milling business and in the laying out of roads.

Six months after Maulding's promotion in the militia, his daughter, Elizabeth, and George Mayberry were married and apparently moved to Wayne County. Although the 1830 census enumeration indicated that Maulding was between 40 and 50 years old, such data could not be reconciled with the previous census of 1820. Maulding was probably about 53 years of age when he went to the General Assembly as state senator. 

Harrelson, Ralph. "'Possum Creek Lore," Goshen Trails, Vol. 15, No. 1, January 1978.

Many of Hamilton County's Ancient Pioneers: Mauldings, Cokers, Bond, Echols, Stelles, Huffstutlers and others, lived on or near 'Possum Creek. The land adjacent to the creek was once considered part of the home and hunting grounds of the Shawnee.

Some early settlers reported that "Indian Charley," a medicine man of great reputation among the red race was the last of the Shawnee to leave the banks of the 'Possum. He reluctantly removed from its waters and the graves of his ancestors. Indian Charley was resigned to go, believing the Great Spirit had given the country to the "Paleface."

Ennis Maulding, son of Ambrose, settled in an early day in the west part of White, which in 1821, was organized into Hamilton County, Illinois. The 160 acres purchased in 1819 from the government by Ennis, was the north-west quarter of Section 12, Township 5 South of Range 5 East. 'Possum Creek, a tributary of Big Creek, flowed eastwardly through this tract of land. 

Ennis Maulding served as senator in the seventh and eighth General Assemblies of Illinois, 1830-34. In 1834 Maulding sold the west one-half of the above mentioned tract to Isaac Shirley, at which time he gave his address as Wayne County, Illinois.  In 1840, Shirley sold the same land to pioneer Thompson Stelle, who lived on the purchased tract. 

After the founding of Hamilton County, at the June 1821, term of the County Commissioners' Court, Ennis Maulding, Henry Wheeler, and John Ferguson were appointed to view a new road. This road was to begin at the Gallatin County line and run from a road laid off by Elias Chaffen through Gallatin. (Goodspeed). The latter, ostensibly , is the road reported at the September, 1820, term of the Gallatin County Commissioner's Court as viewed by Elias Chaffen, surveyor; William Strickland and George Parker (Gallatin County Court Records, pages 353 & 354). 

The new Hamilton County road was to run from Section 13, Township 7, range 7, on the nearest and best ground to McLeansboro, thence to the county line in a direct line as nearly as the ground would permit toward Vandalia. Is it any wonder that this road, west from McLeansboro, ran through the Ennis Maulding tract, and by his homesite?

On a bluff forming the south bank of 'Possum Creek, a part of the land purchased from the government by Maulding, one finds the remains of an old homesite. The McLeansboro-Vandalia roadway, also designated in the county commissioners' records as the Old Mt. Vernon Road, ran northwesterly and forming the south border of the grounds of the homesite. The present buildings are old, but evidently of more recent date than Maulding's original domicile.

Near the old homesite, on the present township road running north and south, there is, for Hamilton County, an unusual crossing. It is a concrete ford-culvert combination crossing. The creek on either side of the ford is extremely rock strewn and very picturesque.

The old state roadway, the Vandalia (alias Old Mt. Vernon Road), running in front of the old homesite, and on the near south side of the ford, is deeply cut into the bluff. The road runs parallel with the south bank of the 'Possum as it courses northwestward toward the location of the old Shady Grove Schoolhouse, and from thence toward the Oliver Hills. It made intersection with the Goshen Road near the pioneer Abram Irvin homesite, approximately where the new road now runs north from the Goshen Road to Dahlgren.  

Census/Records:
1790 not on census, the family lived on the road from Russellville to Adairville, Kentucky in 1789 or 1790 Ennis would have been about six years old.

1800 not found on census

1810 Kentucky, Henderson Co. - Ennis Maulding aged about 27 with wife and two children

1818 Illinois, White Co. - Ennes Maulding family on state census with 1 male 21+, 5 other whites in the household

1819, Apr. 3 Illinois, Hamilton Co. - Ennis purchased W 1/2 of NW 1/4, Sec. 12.  This is land he was squatting on.

1820 - March 1 - Illinois, White Co. - Ennis married Sophia Burbank and his son Andrew officiated at the ceremony.

1820, Nov. 22 - Illinois, White Co. - Ennis Malden family - 3 males 21+, 5 other whites

1821 - April 23 Hamilton County Commissioners meeting held at the house of John Anderson.  William B. McLean, Moses Shirley and Daniel Burbanks were appointed trustees.  Enniss Maulding summoned to serve on petit jury. 

1830 Illinois, Hamilton Co. - age 47 living with Sophia and eight others in the home:

• 2 males under 5 - Ennis Jr. & Lusten
• 2 males 15-20 - Andrew, unnamed child?
• 1 male 40-50 - Ennis
• 1 female under 5 - Louvina
• 2 females 5-10 - Frances, Beulah
• 1 female 10-15 - Salina
• 1 female 30-40 - Sophia

1837 - Feb. 3 - Ennis appointed postmaster of Maulding's Mills which later became Wayne City.  He held the position until September 16, 1841. 

1840 Illinois, Wayne Co. - Ennis Maulding family:

• 1 male under 5 James age 5
• 1 male 5-10 George age 10
• 1 male 10-15 Ennis Jr. age 12
• 1 male 10-15 Lusten age 13
• 1 male 50-60 Ennis
• 1 female 10-15 Lavina age 10
• 1 female 10-15 (--?--)
• 1 female 15-20 Louvina age 17
• 1 female 15-20 Frances age 20
• 1 female 30-40 Sophia 
• 4 engaged in agriculture

Children of Fanny Crissel:
Mary Elizabeth / Eliza J. b. ca. 1805, d. ca. 1860 md. 1) George Mayberry 7/13/1824 & 2) Martin Mayers ca. 1846

• Polly Ann b. 4/29/1826, d. 4/5/1886 md. 1) William Garrison, divorced; md. 2) (--?--) Hendershott.  Children: Martha J. Garrison, Angaline Garrison, George P. Garrison
• Salina Mayberry b. 3/23/1827, d. 9/1/1897 md. 1) John Boswell ca. 1845, 2) John Stroud 1/27/1881 & 3) Hugh Hutchinson 11/12/1893 Children: Mary Boswell, Phoebe Boswell, Eliza J. Boswell, William Boswell, Priscilla Boswell, Thomas Boswell, Sarah Boswell, Ann Boswell, Lorena Boswell & Matilda Boswell
• Martha Mayberry b. 1/9/1828, d. 11/5/1915 md. 1) William Cazadd & 2) John Brown Children: George, Margaret & Joseph Cazadd
• son? or nephew? John Henderson b. 1828, d. ? md. Elizabeth Little 1848, children: Wesley, Druzella, Ennis
• William Ambrose Mayberry b. 10/9/1835, d. 2/8/1910 md. Elizabeth Brown ca. 1853 children: Mary, Bertha, George, Eliza, John, Joseph, Josephine, William & Martha
• Ennis Mayberry b. 4/191/1838, d. 12/22/1886 md. Elizabeth Griffin, Children: Bird, William, John, Liza Ann, Polly, Andrew, James, Don Carlis
• Priscilla Mayberry b. 1840
• Margaret Mayberry b. 1842
• Andrew Myers b. 1848

Unnamed child b. ca. 1807
Andrew
Salina b. 1817 d. between 1861 & 1865 md. Jahalon Tyler

• son b. 1835-1840
• Frances b. 1837
• Eliza Jane b. 1839
• Henry b. 1841
• Jahalon b. 1844, d. 1919 md. Mary Harman Children: Annis, Ermina
• Dicy b. 1848
• Wellington b. 1851, d. 1923 md. Cornelia Hood 4/22/1894, Child: Ernest
• William b. 1853
• Selena b. 1859, d. 1927 md. John Watson 1889 Children: child, Alice, Loren, Lothe, Blanche
• Ada b. 1861

Children of Sophia Burbank: 

Beulah b. 1820, d. 3/25/1883 md. Clinton Hopkins ca. 1838

• Hampton b. 1839 md. Mary Truitt 1860, divorced
• John b. 1841, d. 9/27/1863, drowned during the Civil War, age 22
• Charles b. 1843, d. ca. 1865 a member of Company G, 40th IL Infantry
• William b. 1845
• Vitura b. 1847
• Sarah b. 1849
• Artemecia b. 1851
• Sanorah b. 1853
• Thomas b. 1854
• Maria b. 1855, d. 1859

Frances b. 12/3/1820, d. 4/22/1894 md. Henry Trotter ca. 1839 

• Mary Sophia b. 10/29/1841 md. Robert Taylor Children: James, Robie 
• Eliza b. 3/4/1843, d. 9/12/1895
• Edward b. ca. 1846 md. Charlotte (--?--), children: Henry, Millie, Charles, Cora
• Delilah b. 1847 md. William Tombs, children: Alanson, Joel, Zilphia
• Hannah b. 1849
• Louvina b. 1850 md. Phillip Peer 1868
• Charles b. 1845
• Margaret b. 1/31/1857, d. 10/14/1893 md. 1) John Hill 1872, 2) W.C. Hendershott 4/17/1879 & 3) J.E. Buchanan 9/5/1881, children: Walter Hendershott, Elsie, Ina, Cora, Myrtle, Ida, Frances & Margaret Buchanan
• George b. 10/15/1860, d. 12/25/1916 md. Effie Flint 1880
• William b. ca. 1865
• Andrew b. 9/20/1866, d. 8/3/1955

Louvina b.1823 md. William B. Reed

• William b. 1846, never married
• Mary Ann b. 1849 md. Abraham Stroud 1871 Child: Gertrude 
• Franklin P. b. 1854
• Martha A. b. 1860, d. 1873 age 14
• Lavina F.  b. 1863

Lusten b. 1827 md. 1) S. (--?--) and 2) Elizabeth Weber
Child by S. (--?--)

• M.E. (f) b. 1847

Children by Elizabeth Weber:

• Benjamin b. ca. 1850, never married
• Jackson b. ca. 1852 never married
• Pena Elizabeth / Betsy b. 3/15/1853, d. 6/5/1923 md. 1) Isaac Thompson 1882 & 2) William Logan 1890  Children: Andrew Thompson, Em Ennis Thompson (male), Addie Fair Thompson, Annie Logan, John Logan 
• Ennis b. ca. 1854 md. Sarah Shirley 1885
• John b. 12/16/1854, d. 1125/1884
• Sarah b. ca. 1855, never married
• Samuel b. ca. 1858, never married
• William b. ca. 1864

Ennis Jr. b. 10/7/1828, d. 4/21/1855 md. Hannah Trotter 

• George b. 10/28/1854, d. 1/19/1932 md. Rachel Shelton 1876, children: L.V., J.E., Hannah, Laura, Arthur

Lavina b. 1830
George b. 1830 md. 1) Hannah (--?--) & 2) Henrietta (--?--)

• Sophia b. 1853
• William b. 1865

James b. 1835

No children with Matilda Medley

Revised 4/24/2023