Dewitt Sumrell and Matilda, his wife
These are my most difficult brick walls. I know they had two sons, James Henry born in 1846 and Joseph Franklin born in 1848. According to James's death certificate, both he and Dewitt were born in "Lanor" County. The death certificates of both sons have a whole lot of "Don't Know" about Matilda. And that is the sum total of my knowledge of Dewitt and Matilda, my 3rd great-grandparents.
I think that James and Frank are living in the household of William and Argent Sumerell in Lenoir County in 1860. William and Argent at 25 and 27 respectively are too young to be their parents. I know that James lived in Craven County in 1870 in the household of Freeman Waite Stilly, his future father-in-law, and I think that Frank was still in Lenoir, but in the household of Peter and Nancy Sumrell.
I know that Peter was the son of Washington Sumrell and William was, probably, Washington's baby brother, both being sons of James Sumrell and Nancy Susan King. But how Dewitt would fit in that family, I don't know. And Matilda is even a bigger mystery.
