Individual Details

Elizabeth Echols [838.3.10] married Daniel Easley (c.1720-1786) by 18 April 1765 when her father gave Easley 50 acres in Halifax County.
Daniel married first Ann David, a daughter of Peter David who left “Negro woman Diana” to daughter Ann in his 1729-will in Goochland County. As Ann Easley she inherited £10 pounds for schooling from her mother, Ann who left a will in Cumberland County in 1750. Daniel and Ann were the parents of Mary Ann Easley (3 July 1747), who married Daniel Parker in Halifax County 15 March (bond) 1781, and Martha Easley (20 July 1750). Cumberland County charged Easley on two tithables in 1759.

“Betty” relinquished her dower right when Daniel deeded a tract of land to his son John Easley for the nominal consideration of £5 on 21 May 1778.
Daniel, who was head of a household of five whites in Halifax County in 1785, wrote a will that remembered wife, Elizabeth, and children Daniel and Isaac Easley, Mary Ann Parker, and Phoebe Adams, and made bequests also to Elizabeth and Robert Easley, and unnamed children of his dead son John (will dated 12 Jan. 1786, recorded 19 Jan. 1786).

Father	William Echols (1702 - 1771)
Mother	Sarah Turner ( - )
Sibling	John Echols (1721 - 1795)
Sibling	Hannah Echols (1740 - )
Sibling	Ruth Echols (1735 - 1813)
Sibling	William Echols ( - 1794)
Sibling	Judith Echols ( - 1765)
Sibling	Ann Echols ( - )
Sibling	Daughter Echols ( - )