Amanda / Mandy Malvina Oxendine Lumbee American Indians

Born: 1823, Jackson County TN
Died: ?

Amanda Malvina Oxendine is the youngest of four children of Wilson Oxendine. Here are the four siblings:

Jonathan Oxendine, b1807, TN (subject of the Chancery records)
Polly Oxendine, b 1809 Jackson Co TN
Wilson Oxendine, b1810 Jackson Co TN; D 4/21/1862 St Louis MO
Amanda / Mandy Malvina Oxendine, b 1823 Jackson Co TN

Amanda was also known as Mandy. Interestingly, back in 1896 a mulatto male named Charles W. Chestnutt wrote a fictional book called "Mandy Oxendine" that was not published until quite recently. You can Buy Mandy Oxendine from Amazon.com. You can also Read My Review of Mandy Oxendine. In any case, maybe the story is based on her?

But back to OUR Mandy. She was born, as we said, in 1823, in Jackson County, Tennessee.

Amanda Oxendine, unknown date

1830 White Cty Tennessee Census
By 1830, "Omy" Oxendyne is all alone in a household ("aged 30-40") with one daughter ("aged 10-15"). This would appear to be young Mandy who is barely 10 here. Note that I removed the names above her for this image. The other siblings have already flown the coop.

1840 White Cty Tennessee Census
In the 1840 White County Tennessee Census, we have Naomi Oxendine in District 11, Image 3 of 6
Tennessee, WHITE, Roll 536 Book 1, Page 40a

Naomi is listed as between 40-50. She has a female aged 15-20 living with her, and nobody else. This again seems to be Mandy who would now be 20. It also says Naomi is a tradeswoman and cannot read.

1850 Jackson County Tennessee Census
District 11 Family 1160 Page 640
For some reason, Amanda is found in Jackson County in 1850. We have:
Amanda Oxendine 27 F Tenn
Molly Gipson 24 F Tenn
David Gipson 4 M Tenn
William Gipson 1 M Tenn

So why did she move to Jackson County to live with an (assumed) friend and her 3 kids? I don't know what happened to Amanda after this point. Apparently she married William Norman Wash

From drudy *AT* iowatelecom.net:
Amamda Oxendine Washburn is my great great grandmother. she married William Norman Washburn and their daughter Rosella is my great grand mother. and her daug. Hade is my grand mother. .

I did find this record from Mansfield which had:

William Norman Washburn b: 4 Jul 1819 in Milton, VT d: 31 Dec 1890
+Amanda Malvina Oxendine (Martin) b: 10 Feb 1828 in Sparta, TN d: 4 Jan 1891

Sparta is in White County, TN. In 1820, there were only TWO Oxendine families in all of Tennessee. This is the Archibald Clan and the David Clan.

The Archibald Amanda is "under 10" in 1830. So about the same age range.

Both clans had a child called Amanda, but it seems more likely the Amanda Malvina would match this Amanda (actually born 1823) hanging out in White County ...

Amanda isn't part of my direct line; my line traces to Amanda's older brother, Wilson Oxendine.

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