Born ‎ 1726 at Brumfield Parish, Culpeper Co., VA.---see notes, died ‎ 1782 at Culpeper Co., VA.---dates Everton File, see facts‎, 55 or 56 years, buried ‎ at Will enetered into probate 1783, written 1779
Baptism: 20 NOV 1985 SLAKE

Endowment: 22 Aug 1995 JRIVE

Sealing to Parents: 14 DEC 1985 SLAKE Source Call No.: 1396088 Type: Film
MR. MENEFEE / MRS. MENEFEE

Sealing to Spouse: 11 JUL 2000 COCHA

Elizabeth Chew

Everton File Vol I disk 2 10774 sub by Wm H Hopkins, Sr
Jonas' Will: son John and brother of Jonas named as executors
Will dated 2-23-1779
Properly signed and witnessed, was entered for probate Nov. 18,1782. It is recorded in Will Book B, page 533 in Culpeper Co. circuit Court clerk's office:

I, Jonas Manifee [sic] of the Parish of Bromfield in the County of Culpeper, being sick and weak but sound sense and memory thanks be to God for the same do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form as followeth;

Item it is my will all my just debts be paid---

item it is my will that my track of land in Hamshor [Hampshire?] County be should sould to the highest bidder and the money arising therefrom to be in the hands of my beloved wife Elizabeth Manifee for her and the family's support--

item it is my will that my beloved wife Elizabeth Menifee have and enjoy all my estate during her natural life or widowhood--

item it is my will after my wife's death that my hole Estate Euqly divided between all my children then living--

item I do constitute and appoint my beloved wife Elizabeth Manifee executrix and my son Henry as Exr. of this my last will and testament in witness hear of I have set my hand and fixt [sic] my seal this twenty-third day of February in the year of our Lord 1779.
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[Mary Thompson][mthompson@aol.com] Culpeper Co. VA. Deed book E page 39: rented 128 acres of land from Lord Fairfax. In Virginia deed book II page 39. On Page 44 is the will of Jonas of Brumfield Parish. Has record of son Henry. In a deed at Hampshire Co., W. VA. dated 11 Apr 1762, gerrard Menefee buys land adjoining Jonas Menefee, his brother. Brother johb bought land there also in 1765.
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Book "The Undying Past, Shenandoah National Park" by Darwin Lambert. On p. 277 it says that there is a Menefee graveyard between the headwaters of Frazier Hollow & Butterfield Branch. There are about 25-30 graves, several sunken graves. Native rock markers & one engraved granite tombstone for Catherine
Frazier Menefee, wife of BFM. died 1900. To get there you go up Pass Mountain Trail to abandoned Oventrop trail to old road trace & follow it northwest about on mile. Cemetery is in an old orchard about about 150 feet west of chimney & house ruins, the Ben Menefee place.
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copy of e-mail from Margaret Smith nee Menefy, New Zealand to Sue Eagle Sparkman, on Genforum, Menefee Family Genealogy Forum:---4-3-1998

Thanks for your response. It was exciting to make contact with a Menefy in N. America.
The earliest recorded use of the name Menefy or variants that I can find in England [or anywhere else for that matter] is about 1580 in Devon. As far as the variant spelling is concerned, family folklore has it that one of my ancestors decided to change his last letter of his surname from an "I" to a "Y" because he wanted to sign his name with a flourish, but I have no doubt that all the Menefys, Menefees, Menefies, Minifies, and Menifies have a common ancestor somewhere along the line.
Another part of the Menefy Legend says that they were of Huguenot descent. The date 1580 date in Devon fits well with the persecution of Protestants in continental Europe as does the first recorded presence of my ancestor, Richard, in Andover in 1688.
The Menefys who came to New Zealand between 1893 and 1913 were the descendants of the eldest [William Henry Menefy] of two brothers [and five sisters] who were born in Andover, Eng. between 1830 and 1844. Some of the other brother's [Alfred Purver Menefy] descendants are now living in North America. There is one [Sydney] Menefy family still resident in England although there are several Minifies still living in Devon.
Wouldn't it be nice to find that my particular ancestors were descended from a stay-at-home branch of your Menefee ancestors, or that both had a common ancestory in Europe?...
[My note- These names sure run through our family, too; the Menefee's had a propensity of naming children after the previous generations.]

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Born ‎± 1732 at Culpeper Co., VA-----------see notes, died ‎± 1798 at see notes for proof of marriage to Jonas Menefee‎, approximately 66 years, buried ‎ at , possibility father was Larkin Chew, family notes both side indicate Thom
Baptism: 12 OCT 2004 CHICA

Endowment: 17 SEP 2005 CHICA

Sealing to Parents: 07 APR 2006 CHICA

Thomas Chew / Martha Thompson Taylor



Sealing to Spouse: 22 AUG 1995 JRIVE

Jonas MENEFEE
Some controversy about "Chew" as maiden surname. Rose Barnstable, 2028 Old Frederick Road, Catonsville, MD., 21228, phone 64675] He was called Henry Sr. since he was two years older than his cousin who was born in 1756. The younger Henry was a sergeant." Francis Taylor was the son of George Taylor, son of Francis Taylor II.Some controversy about "Chew" as maiden surname. Rose Barnstable, 2028 Old Frederick Road, Catonsville, MD., 21228, phone 301-747-6609 thinks she has virtually disproved it. I personally disagree. There is an Elizabeth Chew who m. Samuel Stiles 4-2-1782, after the Elizabeth who married Jonas was dead, hence, I believe, the confusion. She was a generation younger than Jonas's wife, Elizabeth Chew. The Chew family records show this Elizabeth as being married to Jonas.
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Larkin is a name that came down the Chew family. Valerie Menefee, P.O.Box 664, Brentwood, Tenn. 37024 has found: Larkin Chew, Larkin Menefee, Larkin Reynolds, and Larkin Smith. There has to be a connection. Elizabeth could have been the daughter of LARKIN CHEW who had a daughter Elizabeth who was born in the same time period.