Theodore Washington Brevard

Theodore Washington Brevard

• Father: Alexander Brevard b. 17 April 1755, d. 1 November 1829
• Mother: Rebecca Davidson b. 20 March 1762, d. 24 December 1824

• Theodore Washington Brevard was born on 24 September 1804 in Lincoln County, North Carolina.
• He married Caroline Ann Hopkins, daughter of James Hopkins and Keziah Goodwyn, circa 1826.
• Theodore Washington Brevard became a widower at the 11 March 1828 death of his wife.
• He married Caroline Elizabeth Mays, daughter of Samuel Mays and Nancy Grigsby, on 7 May 1831 in South Carolina. A possible alternative marriage date is 26 April, but this probably was the date of the license..
• Following the deaths of their parents William Chambers and Jane Green Paul LeGrand in the early 1840s, the LeGrand children were taken into various families. Mary Jane, the eldest, spent time with Charles and Sarah Norman Rush and with Theodore and Caroline Mays Brevard. She and Green Mark Wood were married by Judge Brevard, and they named their first child Rush Brevard Wood. Margaret was raised as the only child of Letitia Ann Wood McNair (daughter of Green Wood’s cousin Ashley Wood) and her husband Edward McNair. Cornelia was raised in the household of Charles and Sarah Norman Rush, and Virginia William “Willie” was raised from infancy as the only child of John Henry and Mary Harris Gindrat (whose niece Sarah Anne Harris later married Willis Breazeal Wood). Likely son Milton Paul LeGrand also was taken into the Rush family, but no record has been found of his earlier years; by 1850, at age 17, he was serving as an apprentice in the household of druggist Henry F. Godden in Marion, Alabama.
• Judge Theodore W. Brevard officiated at the marriage of Green Mark Wood and Mary Jane Legrand on 9 April 1846 in Tuskeegee, Alabama.
• Theodore Washington Brevard and Caroline Elizabeth Mays appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Leon County, Florida. Other members of the household included Theodore Washington Brevard Jr., Ephraim A. Brevard and Samuel Mays Brevard.
• He was a farmer, according to the 1850 census.
• Brevard County, established by an act of the Florida Legislature
  in 1854, was named for Judge Theodore Washington Brevard, State Comptroller from 1853-1861.
• Theodore Washington Brevard and Caroline Elizabeth Mays appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida. Other members of the household included Ephraim A. Brevard, Samuel Mays Brevard, Robert Joseph Brevard and Thomas Sumter Mays Jr.
• He was a lawyer, according to the 1860 census.
• Theodore Washington Brevard and Caroline Elizabeth Mays appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina, and also in the household a dozen teenage students, three teachers, other boarders, and a few domestic servants.. Other members of the household included Ephraim A. Brevard and Robert Joseph Brevard.
• He was a retired lawyer, according to the 1870 census.
• Theodore Washington Brevard died in 1877.
• His wife Caroline Elizabeth Mays became a widow at his death.
• He was interred at Machpelah Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Machpelah, Lincoln County, North Carolina.

• Last Edited: 22 Jul 2014