Family: Elias Wills Napier/Judy (F43)  ^{[1, 2]} 

• Father | Male Elias Wills Napier

  
  

  Born	05 Mar 1783
  Died	07 Aug 1848	Dickson County, Tennessee
  Buried
  Married
  Type	never married
  Other Spouse	Miss Williams | F104
  Married
  Father	Richard Napier | F57 Group Sheet
  Mother	Mary Wills | F57 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Judy

  
  

  Born	abt. 1800	Tennessee
  Died	abt. 1895
  Buried
  Father
  Mother

  
  

  Child 1 | Male > William Carroll Napier

  
  

  Born	24 Sep 1824	Tennessee
  Died	05 Jan 1896
  Buried		Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
  Spouse	Jane Elizabeth Watkins | F37
  Married	1844
  Spouse	Angeline Yeats | F273
  Married

  
  

  Child 2 | Female > Fanny Napier

  
  

  Born	abt. 1823	Tennessee
  Died
  Buried
  Spouse	Mr. Lott | F44
  Married

  
  

  Child 3 | Male > James Monroe Napier

  
  

  Born	abt. 1825	Tennessee
  Died
  Buried
  Spouse	Catherine | F201
  Married

  
  

  Child 4 | Male Thomas Benton Napier

  
  

  Born	abt. 1830	Tennessee
  Died
  Buried

  
  

  Child 5 | Male Andrew Jackson Napier

  
  

  Born	abt. 1830	Tennessee
  Died
  Buried

  
  

• Notes

  Judy was his slave seamstrees whom he emancipated in his will. Judy had five children. It is documented that William Carroll was his son, so it's likely that her other kids may have been his as well. Judy and her family moved to Ohio in 1949. [3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S39] Dickson County, Tennessee, Will Book, Volume 2, (Simmons Historical Society), WorldVitalRecords.com.. [S48] African-American business leaders : a biographical dictionary, John N. Ingham, (Greenwood Press, ©1994). [S47] James Carroll Napier (1845 - 1940): From Plantation to the City, Lovett, Bobby L., (The Southern Elite and Social Change, University of Arkansas Press, 2002), 75.