April 4, 2012 will mark the passage of two centuries since Bryant T. Ferrill, in Georgia, was granted a federal passport to "travel through the Creek Nation to the Western County, which “Western Country’ would on December 18 of that year be named the Mississippi Territory. In August of that year Bryant, wife Susannah Williamson Ferrill, seven children and eleven black slaves travelled across to the “Western County” by way of a four-foot wide trail to what we now know as George County Mississippi. Every possession was moved on animal backs, wheelbarrows and ground sleds. The youngest child in the movement was about six months old, and he appears to have made the movement without special problems. His name was John Wesley Ferrill, and he lived another 91 years, most of that time as a Methodist ordained minister, preaching in churches across the coastal plain of Mississippi.

It has been said that John Wesley Ferrill was the namesake of John Wesley, widely credited as being the founder of Methodism.

Eleven children were born to the marriage of Bryant and Susannah Williamson Ferrill.

Born In Georgia:

Mary, born 1800. She married Claiborn Chatham.
Elizabeth, born 1802. She married Robert Dixon.
George Washington, born 1804. He married Mary McDonald.
Lucy, born 1806. She married Chauncey Stevens.
Amelia Emil Ferrill, born 1808. She married Daniel L Pickett Jr.
Archelous Adolphus Ferrill, born 1810. He married Martha Hough.
John Wesley, born 1812. He married twice:

[First marriage: Emaline Hough, born 1823. She died in 1868.
Second marriage: Louisa Baptiste Raneger, born 1850. She died in 1937. John Wesley Ferrill died in 1893.]

Born in Mississippi:
Benjamin, born 1814. He married Matilda Ward.
Martha, born 1818. She married Lewis Hogan.
Susan, born 1820. She married John Hogan.
Abigale, born 1822. We do not know of any marriage.

CHILDREN OF BRYANT AND SUSANNAH FERRILL,
….AND THEIR CHILDREN:

Born to Mary and Claiborn Chatham:
Bryant Chatham, born 1822. He served in the Confederate Army. He married Anne B. McCaskill.

Born to Elizabeth and Robert Dixon:
We do not know have information on children to this marriage.

Born to Mary McDonald and George Washington Ferrill”
C. C. Ferrill, born 1833. He served in the Confederate Army.

Born to Lucy and Chauncey Stevens:
William, born 1826. He served in the Confederate Army.
Emily Stevens, born 1828.
Benjamin Stevens, born 1820. He served in the Confederate Army.
Sara h Stevens, born 1838.
Martin Van Buren Stevens, born 1842.
John Bigelow Stevens, born 1848.
Lucy Stevens, born 1852.

Born to Amelia and Daniel L. Pickett Jr:
Hannah Ann Picket, born 1831.
Joseph Pickett, born 1834.
Robert Tilden Pickett, born 1836

Born to Archelous and Martha Ferrill:
Sydney, born in Alabama.
Adolphus Milton , born 1837, in Alabama.
Melissa Elizabeth, born 1838.
Levicey Emerline (sp?), born 1841.
Francis Virgil Ferrill, born 1845.
John B, born 1848.
Sara Louise, born 1861.
Alfred C. Ferrill, born in Alabama.

BORN TO JOHN WESLEY AND EMALINE HOUGH FERRILL:

Wesley Francis, born 1842. He married Sarah Kirkwood.
Dalmanutha, born 1844.
Isabella Geraldine, born 1845.
Thomas Alhanan, born 1847. he married twice (details appear in Chapter Four, CLAN FERRILL in Texas.)
Unity Hough, born 1849. She married Elias Smith.
Vicey Susannah, born 1851. She married a man whose surname was Moore.
Cyrennius, born 1852, died at age 16, in 1868, within a month after the death of his mother.
Alson b, born 1854.
John Towles, born 1856. He married Lula Dorsett.
Emaline Cate, born 1858. She married Thomas Peter Rawles.
Sarah Amelia, born and died on same day, 1860.
Laura Jane, born 1861.

BORN TO JOHN WESLEY AND LOUISA RANEGER FERRILL:
Anola Pearl, born 1877. She married William Faulkner.
Lula Esther, born 1879. She married Charles Prevost.
Maggie Edwina, born 1882. She married Madison Tanner.
Winnie Jeanette, born 1883. She married William Jones.
Jacob Martin Ferrill, born 1884.
Susan Corene, born 1886. She married Edward Terry.