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Dean Family

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The Dean name in England dates back to the Anglo-Saxon tribes of that country. The name is derived from the old English name “denu” meaning a valley. West Dean in Sussex, England; Deane in Hampshire, England; and Dean in Essex, England derive their names from this surname. Earliest record of Deans can be found in Sussex where a Ralph Dene had a manor and estates in that shire. Coat of Arms were granted to Sir William Deane of Essex (Parliamentary Roll); Sir Henry Deane, Northants, at the first Dunstable tournamen, in 1308; Sir Johan de Deen, at the battle of Boroughbridge, in 1322; and Robert Deane of Sussex.

Earliest record of a Deane in Delaware is of a Peter Dean who is listed in the New Castle County, Delaware Tax Assessment of the inhabitants, in 1693.

The progenitor of the Dean family of Haywood, Gibson, and Crockett County was John Dean who settled in Broadkiln Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware and is recorded in a listing of the inhabitants of the hundred, in 1785. The administrator of John Dean’s Will was Jesse Dean, no doubt a son, and an uncle of the Jesse Dean who migrated to Haywood County, Tennessee between 1830 and 1840.

No marriage record has been found for John Dean but there is a strong indication that his wife’s surname was Wilson. Wilson is used as a given name in many of the descendants and there were Wilson families found in Sussex County, Delaware, Monongalia County, West Virginia and Haywood County, Tennessee in areas where the Deans settled.

Broadkiln Hundred, in Sussex County, is located on Delaware Bay. Broadkiln creek flowes through the central part of the hundred and is navigable as far as Milton. Shipbuilding has been one of the industries in Sussex County, and some of the census reports indicate that some of the children of John Dean were engaged in commerce and manufacturing before becoming landowners.

The family of John Wilson Dean seemed to have migrated to Monongalia County, Virginia around 1800. West Virginia had not been formed at that time.

Generation 1

  1. John1 Dean , born c1720 in Unknown; died 1793 in Broadkiln, Sussex, Delaware. He married Unknown (—) .

Notes for John Dean

Thomas J. Scharf, “History of Delaware, Capter LXIX, Broadkiln Hundred, List of Broadkiln Hundred for the year 1785 contained the following names: John Dean

Sussex County, Probate Records, 1680-1800: John Dean, 08 Dec 1793, Administrator, Jesse Dean (Will Book, Arch, Vol A68, Page 21)

Children of John Dean and Unknown (—) were as follows:

  • 2 i John Wilson2 Dean , born 1747 in Broadkiln, Sussex, Deleware. He married Mary Walton .
  • 3 ii Charles2 Dean , born c1748. He married unknown.

4 iii Jesse2 Dean , born c1746 in Delaware; died Jun 1789 in Broadkiln, Sussex, Delewaree. He married unknown. 4 Mar 1786: Jesse Dean, Aaron Burton, and John Carey were witnesses to the Will of Robert Stevenson (Sussex County, Deleware Probate Records, 1680-1800, Will Book, A100, Liber D, page 177, folio 293-294) 1800 Census, Sussex, Delaware: Jesse Dean 1120101-201003.

Generation 2

  1. John Wilson2 Dean (John1), born 1747 in Broadkiln, Sussex, Deleware; died May 1813 in Morgantown, Monongalia, Virginia. He married on 28 Nov 1768 in Delaware, Mary Walton , born 22 Mar 1748 in England; died c1814 in Monongalia, Virginia.

Notes for John Wilson Dean

1784: John Clowes, Esq. and John Wilson Dean are listed as witnesses to the Will of Benjamin Mifflin. (Sussex County, Deleware Probate Records, 1780-1800, Will Book A88, Liber D, Page 157, folio 145)

20 Aug 1784: John Wilson Dean, John Tam and Benedict Pennington were withes to the Will of John Chowes.(Sussex County, Deleware Probate Record,1680-1800, Will Book A65, Liber D, Pages 56-58, folios 288-289)

15 Aug 1786: John W. Dean, Rhoda Mason, and Sarah Mason were witnesses to the Will of John Ponder, Yeoman. (Sussex County, Deleware Probate Records,1680-1800, Will Book A93, Liber D., page 181, folios 152-153)

21 Nov 1788: John W. Dean, James Wiley, and Levin D. Newton were witnesses for the Will of Sarah Dickerson, Widow of Somerset Dickerson. (Sussex County Probate Records, 1680-1800, Will Book A69, Liber D, Page 72, folio 199)

5 Mar 1788: John W. Dean was administrator for the will of Bethia Starr (Sussex County, Deleware Probate Records, 1680-1800, Will Book A100, pae 113))

1810 Census, Monongalia County, West Virginia, Page 494, Sheet 413B: No. 7 John W. Dean, with 3 males 16 25 years of age; one male 45 years and over; 1 female, under 10; 1 female 10-16; 1 female, 16-25; 1 female, 26-45; 1 female, over 45.

1820 Census, Monongalia, (West) Virginia: John Dean, 1 male under 10, 2 males 10-16, 1 male 16-26, 1 male 45+; 1 female 10-16, 2 females 16-26; 1 foreigner/not naturalized.

Notes for Mary Walton

4 Apr 1787: Nephew, William Walton; neices, Mary Dean (wife of John W. Dean); and Sarah Conwell (wife of Abraham) are listed in the Will of Thomas Groves. (Sussex County, Deleware Probate Records, 1680-1800, Will Book A73, Liber D, pages 159-160, folio 137-138)

Children of John Wilson Dean and Mary Walton were as follows:

5 i Sarah Elizabeth3 Dean, born in Broadkiln, Sussex, Delaware.

6 ii Mary3 Dean , born 15 Nov 1781 in Broadkiln, Sussex, Delaware. She married on 16 Jun 1800 in Monongalia, (West) Virginia, Jonathan Seaman .

7 iii John W.3 Dean, born 1785 in Virginia. John and Isaac Dean served in Captain Samuel Wilson’s Co., 1813, Monongalia, Virginia. 1810 Census, Monongalia County, West Virginia, Page 494, Sheet 413B: No. 24 John Dean, 2 males under 10; 1 male 10-16; 1 male 26-45; 1 female under 10; 2 females 10-16; 1 female 26-45.

  • 8 iv Jesse3 Dean, born 8 Jan 1786 in Broadkiln, Sussex, Deleware. He married Elizabeth Hodges .

9 v William3 Dean, born 12 Jun 1787 in Virginia; died 20 Jun 1868 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Crockett Mills First Christian Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee. He married on 31 Dec 1803 in Monongalia, (West) Virginia, Sophia Houston . 1810 Census, Monongalia County, West Virginia, Page 494, Sheet 413B: No. 8 William Dean, 2 males under 10; 1 malee 26-45; 3 females under 10; 1 female 26-45.

  • 10 vi Isaac3 Dean, born 1788 in Delaware. He married (1) Mary Houston . He married (2) Anna (—) .
  1. Charles2 Dean (John1), born c1748; died 1787 in Sussex, Delaware; buried in Sussex, Delaware. He married unknown.

Notes for Charles Dean

16 Feb 1779: John Flower, Charles Dean and Ebe Dean were witnesses to the will of Henry King, planter. (Sussex County, Deleware Probate Records, 1680-1800, Will Book A82, Liber D, pages 100-101, folio 153)

08 Dec 1793: Charles Dean’s Will probated; administrators, Isaac Reed and his wife, Ibe. (Sussex County, Deleware Probate Records, 1680-1800, Will Book, Arch, Vol, A68, page 212)

Children of Charles Dean were as follows:

11 i Ibe3 Dean , born in Broadkiln, Sussex, Deleware. She married on 1 Jan 1787 in Sussex, Deleware, Isaac Reed .

Generation 3

  1. Jesse3 Dean (John Wilson2, John1), born 8 Jan 1786 in Broadkiln, Sussex, Deleware; died 17 Apr 1860 in Haywood, Tennessee. He married on 18 Apr 1805 in Monongalia, West Virginia, Elizabeth Hodges , born 1 Jan 1789 in Morgantown, Monongahalia, Virrginia; died 21 Dec 1850 in Haywood, Tennessee; buried in Koonce Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee, daughter of Robert Hodges .

Notes for Jesse Dean

1820 census, Monongalia, West Virginia, Western Division: Jesse Dean with 1 male under 10; 1 male 26-45; 2 females under 10; 1 female, 26-45, 1 person engaged in agriculture; one person engaged in manufacturing.

1830 Census, Monongalia, West Virginia, Western Division: 1 male under 5; 1 male 5-10; 1 male 10-16; 1 male 40-50; 1 female 10-15; 1 female 15-20; 1 female 30-40; 1 female 50-60

Sometime between 1830 and 1840 Jesse Dean moved his family to Tennessee. All of the Tennessee censuses list the children of Jesse Dean and his oldest son, Asa’s birthplaces as North Carolina. A search has been made of the available North Carolina records and the location of where they might have settled was not located. However, the available census records confirm that many of them were born in Monongalia, West Virginia that this was their birth place. By 1820, Asa had been born and by 1830, Asa, Samuel and James were born. Asa Dean consistently list his birthplace as North Carolina so it is a puzzle as to why.

1840 Census, Haywood County, Tennessee: Jesse Dean with 1 male 5-10, 1 male 15-20, 1 male 40-50; 1 female 5-10, 1 female 10-15, l female 20-30, 1 female 40-50. Living in the same vicinity were David Wilson, Joseph Harget, Joane Koonce, John Powell and David Nunn.

1850 Census, Haywood County, Tennessee: 591-591 Jesse Dean, age 65, born in North Carolina; Elizabeth Dean, age 61, born in North Carolina; Elizabeth Dean, age 30, born in North Carolina; Levidor Dean, age 17, born in North Carolina; John Dean, age 14, born in Tennessee

Notes for Elizabeth Hodges

Sussex County, Delaware Court Housee Ophran’s Docket Index, 1737-1847: Elizabeth and John Hodge, minors, petition for account of value of their lands, 1775, p. 77.(The Elizabeth Hodge in this court hearing is not the one who married Jesse Dean, but she is probably connected in some way)

Crockett County Web Site listing for Koonce Cemetery: Elizabeth Dean, b. 1 Jan 1789; d. 21 Dec 1850 (maiden name Hodges) wife of Jesse Dean

Children of Jesse Dean and Elizabeth Hodges were as follows:

  • 12 i Samuel4 Dean, born 3 Jan 1811 in Monongalia, (West) Virginia. He married Indeus (—) .
  • 13 ii Asa4 Dean, born 8 Feb 1809 in Monongalia, (West) Virginia. He married Harriet Perry .

14 iii James4 Dean, born 13 Jan 1813 in Monongalia, (West) Virginia.

15 iv Martha Ann4 Dean , born 10 Apr 1815 in Monongalia, (West) Virginia. She married Theophilus G. Hamil .

16 v Hodges4 Dean, born 1 Jan 1821 in North Carolina.

  • 17 vi Alfred4 Dean, born 27 Jan 1824 in North Carolina. He married Mary Ann (—) .

18 vii Mary Elizabeth4 Dean, born 13 May 1827 in North Carolina.

19 viii Olivia Avesta4 Dean, born 30 Sep 1830 in North Carolina.

20 ix Levidon4 Dean, born 1833 in North Carolina.

21 x John4 Dean, born 26 Oct 1834 in North Carolina.

  1. Isaac3 Dean (John Wilson2, John1), born 1788 in Delaware; died in Monongalia, West Virginia. He married (1) on 5 Oct 1813 in Monongalia, (West) Virginia, Mary Houston . He married (2) Anna (—) , born 1817 in Virginia; died 1908 in Morgontown, Monongalia, West Virginia; buried in Oakgrove Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia.

Notes for Isaac Dean

Isaac and John Dean served in Captain Samuel Wilson’s Co., 1813 in Monongalia Militia.

1820 Census, Monongalia, (West) Virginia: Isaac Dean, 1 male 10-16, 1 male 26-45; 3 females 10-16, 1 female 45+; 1 foreigner/not naturalized; 1 person engaged in commerce.

1830 Census, Monongalia, (West) Virginia: Isaac Dean, 4 males under 5, 2 males, 5-10, 1 male 15-20, 1 male 45-50; 1 female 20-30.

1850 Census, Monongalia, West Virginia,37th District: 154-155 Isaac Dean, age 62, born in Delaware; Anne Dean, age 33, born in Virginia; James Dean, age 23, born in Virginia; Phillip D. Dean, age 20, born in Virginia

Isaac Dean, age 17, born in Virginia; Jeaney Dean, age 14, born in Virginia; George E. Dean, age 3, born in Virginia; Nancy M. Dean, age 1, born in Virginia; Enoch E. Cobron, age 10, born in Virginia; Marcellus Cabron, age 8, born in Virginia; Frances C. Cabron, age 6, born in Virginia

Children of Isaac Dean and Mary Houston were as follows:

22 i James4 Dean, born 1827 in Virginia.

23 ii Phillip D.4 Dean, born 1830 in Virginia.

24 iii Isaac4 Dean, born 1833 in Virginia.

25 iv Jeaney4 Dean, born 1836 in Virginia.

Children of Isaac Dean and Anna (—) were as follows:

26 i George E.4 Dean, born 1847 in Monongalia, (West) Virginia.

27 ii Nancy M.4 Dean, born 1849 in Monongalia, (West) Virginia.

Generation 4

  1. Samuel4 Dean (Jesse3, John Wilson2, John1), born 3 Jan 1811 in Monongalia, (West) Virginia. He married Indeus (—), born 1805 in Virginia.

Children of Samuel Dean and Indeus (—) were as follows:

28 i Sarah5 Dean, born 1827 in Tennessee.

29 ii Samuel5 Dean, born 1829 in Tennessee.

30 iii Richard5 Dean, born 1833 in Tennessee.

31 iv Tabitha5 Dean, born 1837 in Tennessee.

32 v John5 Dean, born 1841 in Tennessee.

33 vi Adaline5 Dean, born 1844 in Tennessee.

34 vii George5 Dean, born 1848 in Tennessee.

  1. Asa4 Dean (Jesse3, John Wilson2, John1), born 8 Feb 1809 in Monongalia, (West) Virginia; died in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Dean Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee. He married Harriet Perry , born 12 Feb 1812 in North Carolina; died 21 May 1889; buried in Dean Cemetery, daughter of Noah Perry (Sr.) and Millie Crocker .

Notes for Asa Dean

1840 Census, Haywood, Tennessee: Asa Dean with 2 males under 5, 1 male 5-10, 1 male 20-30; 1 female under 5, one female 15-20.

1850 Census, Haywood County, Tennessee, District 12: 497-497 Asa Dean, age 41, born in North Carolina; Hariiett Dean, age 38, born in North Carolina; James R. Dean, age 17, born in North Carolina; Ann Dean, age 15, born in North Carolina; George W. Dean, age 13, born in North Carolina; Joseph Dean, age 11, born in Tennessee; Sarah Dean, age 8, born in Tennessee; Milly F. Dean, age 5, born in Tennessee; Samuel Dean, age 1, born in Tennessee.

1860 Census, Haywood County, Tennesse, District 14: 1220-1099 Asa Dean, age 57, Farmer, Justice of the Peace, born in North Carolina; Harriet Dean, age 48, born in North Carolina; James R. Dean, age 27, born in North Carolina; George W. Dean, age 23, born in North Carolina; Joseph Dean, age 21, born in Tennessee; Sarah E.Dean, age 18, born in Tennessee; Milly F. Dean, age 14, born in Tennessee; Sam A. Dean, age 9, born in Tennessee; Isabell Dean, age 7, born in Tennessee; Martha L. Dean, age 5, born in Tennessee

1870 Census, Haywood County, Tennessee, District 14: 43-42 Acy Dean, age 61, born in Tennessee; Harriet Dean, age 58, born in North Carolina, Joseph Dean 30, born in Tennessee; Sam Dean, age 20, born in Tennessee; Margaret Dean, age 17, born in Tennessee; Martha Dean, age 16, born in Tennessee; William McGavock, age 20, born in Tennessee, hired hand. Living in same vicinity: J. L. Perry, William Elmore, William Little, T. F. Conyers, and Ph. H. Reece families

Children of Asa Dean and Harriet Perry were as follows:

35 i James R.5 Dean, born 1833 in North Carolina.

36 ii Armissa Ann5 Dean, born 7 Aug 1835 in North Carolina.

  • 37 iii George Waller5 Dean, born 1837 in North Carolina. He married Frances Conyer .

38 iv Joseph5 Dean, born 1840 in Tennessee.

39 v Sarah Elizabeth5 Dean , born 1842 in North Carolina. She married in 15 Sep 1860 (Bond) in Haywood, Tennessee, Franklin M. Farmer .

  • 40 vi Millie Frances5 Dean , born 1845 in Chestnut Bluff, Haywood, Tennessee. She married John Alexander Hamil .
  • 41 vii Samuel A.5 Dean, born 1850 in Haywood, Tennessee. He married Alice Wyse .

42 viii Margaret Isabel5 Dean , born 1853 in Tennessee. She married on 5 Dec 1876 in Crockett, Tennessee, Wes Avery .

43 ix Martha J.5 Dean , born 1855 in Tennessee. She married John D. Hamil, born 27 Feb 1824; died 24 Mar 1861; buried in Lebanon United Methodist Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee.

  1. Alfred4 Dean (Jesse3, John Wilson2, John1), born 27 Jan 1824 in North Carolina. He married Mary Ann (—) , born Apr 1835 in Tennessee.

Notes for Alfred Dean

1870 Census, Gibson County, Tennessee, District 20, Robinsonville and Quincy: 4-4 Alford Dean age 46, born in North Carolina; Mary Dean, age 36, born in Tennessee; Biddie Dean, age 16, born in Tennessee; Lucy Dean, age 13, born in Tennessee; John Dean, age 11, born in Tennessee; Fanny Dean, age 9, born in Tennessee; Rufus Dean, age 6, born in Tennessee; and Gussie Dean, age 3, born in Tennessee. Living in the same vicinity: J. M. Burt, A. D. R. Swindle, Joseph Moss and J. F. Robinson families.

Children of Alfred Dean and Mary Ann (—) were as follows:

  • 44 i John S.5 Dean, born 1859 in Haywood, Tennessee. He married Laura Bell (—) .

45 ii Mary Fannie5 Dean, born Mar 1865 in Haywood, Tennessee.

46 iii Rufus E.5 Dean, born 1864 in Haywood, Tennessee. He married on 14 Dec 1884 in Crockett, Tennessee, Callie Hill .

  • 47 iv Isaac A. (Gus)5 Dean, born Jul 1868 in Haywood, Tennessee. He married Florence Shivers .

48 v Asa5 Dean, born Mar 1871 in Haywood, Tennessee; died 1952 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Alamo City Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee. He married on 26 Dec 1900 in Crockett, Tennessee, Ola King, born 1882 in Crockett, Tennessee; died 1952 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Alamo City Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee.

49 vi Altha5 Dean , born Jan 1880 in Haywood, Tennessee; died 1943 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Crockett Mills First Christian Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee. She married on 26 Mar 1905 in Crockett, Tennessee, Edward G. Swanson, born 1874 in Tennessee; died 1951 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Crockett Mills First Christian Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee.

Generation 5

  1. George Waller5 Dean (Asa4, Jesse3, John Wilson2, John1), born 1837 in North Carolina. He married in 20 Dec 1860 (Bond) in Haywood, Tennessee, Frances Conyer , born 1841 in Tennessee.

Notes for George Waller Dean

1870 Census, Haywood County, Tennessee: 28-28 G. W. Dean, age 33, born in North Carolina; Frances Dean, age 29, born in Tennessee; Virginia Dean, age 8, born in Tennessee; Georgean Dean, age 7, born in Tennessee; Sarah Dean, age 5, born in Tennessee; Adella Dean, age 7 months, born in Tennessee; Steph Howard, age 11, born in Tennessee; Eliza Conyers, age 69, born in Tennessee. Living in the same vicinity were: A. Phillips, F. M. Farmer, R. L. Hamil and W. D. Moore families.

1880 Census, Crockett County, Tennessee, Maury City, District 7: George W. Dean, born 1838, North Carolina; France Dean, born 1841, Tennessee; Virginia H. Dean, born 1862, in Tennessee; Georgia A. Dean, born 1863, in Tennessee; Sarah F. Dean, born 1866, in Tennessee; Martha A. Dean, born 1870, in Tennessee; Senora J. Dean, born 1873, in Tennessee; William A. Dean, born 1877, in Tennessee (This census was very dim and difficult to read)

Children of George Waller Dean and Frances Conyer were as follows:

50 i Virginia H.6 Dean , born 1861 in Haywood, Tennessee; died 1926 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Lebanon United Methodist Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee. She married on 24 Jan 1882 in Crockett, Tennessee, Edward H. Speights, born 1854 in Tennessee; died 1941 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Lebanon United Methodist Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee.

51 ii Georgia A.6 Dean, born 1863 in Haywood, Tennessee.

52 iii Sarah Francis6 Dean , born 22 Aug 1865 in Haywood, Tennessee; died 2 Jan 1948 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Lebanon Untied Methodist Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee. She married on 24 Dec 1889 in Crockett, Tennessee, Joe Speed Vaughan, born 9 Jan 1866 in Tennessee; died 9 Jan 1948 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Lebanon United Methodist Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee.

53 iv Martha A.6 Dean, born 1870 in Haywood, Tennessee.

54 v Senora J.(Nora)6 Dean , born 28 Oct 1872 in Crockett, Tennessee; died 25 Aug 1961 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Lebanon United Methodist Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee. She married on 20 Dec 1894 in Crockett, Tennessee, Ernest White, born 26 Nov 1870 in Haywood, Tennessee; died 10 Feb 1952 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Lebanon United Methodist Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee.

55 vi William A.6 Dean, born 12 Jun 1876 in Crockett, Tennessee; died 20 Jun 1968 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Crockett Mills First Christian Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee. He married on 12 Oct 1904 in Crockett, Tennessee, Willie Lee Hamlett .

  1. Millie Frances5 Dean (Asa4, Jesse3, John Wilson2, John1), born 1845 in Chestnut Bluff, Haywood, Tennessee. She married on 19 Dec 1867 in Haywood, Tennessee, John Alexander Hamil, born 1839 in Lauderdale, Tennessee; died 1881 in Crockett, Tennessee.

Notes for John Alexander Hamil

Information concerning John Alexander and Millie Frances Dean Hamil taken from Crockett County,Tennessee, Civil War Widow’s Indigent Pension Application for Millie Frances (Dean)Hamil.

John Alexander Hamil enlisted at Friendship, Tennessee, May 1861, Co. B. 12th Regiment. He was wounded at Corinth, Mississippi and furloughed.

Children of Millie Frances Dean and John Alexander Hamil were as follows:

56 i Ida Bell6 Hamil, born in Crockett, Tennessee.

57 ii J. H.6 Hamil, born in Crockett, Tennessee.

58 iii Lillian6 Hamil, born in Crockett, Tennessee.

59 iv J. T.6 Hamil, born in Crockett, Tennessee.

60 v Olivia6 Hamil, born in Crockett, Tennessee.

  1. Samuel A.5 Dean (Asa4, Jesse3, John Wilson2, John1), born 1850 in Haywood, Tennessee. He married on 13 Jan 1871 in Haywood, Tennessee, Alice Wyse , born c1860 in Tennessee.

Notes for Samuel A. Dean

Haywood County Marriages, 1850-1900: Sam Dean and Alice Wyse, 13 Jan 1871

1872 Tax List, Book 1, Crockett County, Tennessee, District 10: S. A. Dean.

Children of Samuel A. Dean and Alice Wyse were as follows:

  • 61 i Edna Mae6 Dean , born 28 Nov 1882 in Crockett, Tennessee. She married (1) Heazia White . She married (2) William Frank Young .
  1. John S.5 Dean (Alfred4, Jesse3, John Wilson2, John1), born 1859 in Haywood, Tennessee; died 1919 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Providence Cemetery, (Old Section), Crockett, Tennessee. He married Laura Bell (—) , born 1871 in Tennessee; died 1903 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Providence Cemetery, (Old Section), Crockett, Tennessee.

Children of John S. Dean and Laura Bell (—) were as follows:

62 i Bernard Herbert6 Dean, born 1896 in Crockett, Tennessee; died 1928 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Providence Cemetery (Old Section), Crockett, Tennessee. He married in 11 A[r 1909 in Crockett, Tennessee, Minnie Reece .

63 ii Mary L.6 Dean , born 1898 in Crockett, Tennessee. She married on 17 Dec 1915 in Crockett, Tennessee, J. H. Mansfield .

64 iii William A.6 Dean, born 1901 in Crockett, Tennessee.

65 iv Annie6 Dean, born 1904 in Crockett, Tennessee.

  1. Isaac A. (Gus)5 Dean (Alfred4, Jesse3, John Wilson2, John1), born Jul 1868 in Haywood, Tennessee; died 1945 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Crockett Mills First Christian Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee. He married on 26 Jan 1890 in Crockett, Tennessee, Florence Shivers , born May 1878 in Tennessee; died 1959 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Crockett Mills First Christian Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee.

Children of Isaac A. (Gus) Dean and Florence Shivers were as follows:

66 i Sam6 Dean, born Aug 1891 in Crockett, Tennessee; died 1976 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Providence Cemetery, (Old Section), Crockett, Tennessee. He married on 21 Jul 1921 in Crockett, Tennessee, Ola Rice, born 1893 in Crockett, Tennessee; died 1976 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Providence Cemetery, (Old Section), Crockett, Tennessee.

67 ii Jesse6 Dean, born 24 May 1894 in Crockett, Tennessee; died 23 Nov 1975 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Crockett Mills First Christian Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee. He married Helen P. (—) , born 1 May 1886 in Crockett, Tennessee; died 7 Oct 1905 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Crockett Mills First Christian Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee.

68 iii Dewey6 Dean, born 14 Sep 1897 in Crockett, Tennessee; died 1 Jan 1992 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Crockett Mills First Christian Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee. He married on 25 Jul 1920 in Crockett, Tennessee, Winnia A. Avery , born 7 Dec 1898 in Crockett, Tennessee; died 24 Jul 1985 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Crockett Mills First Christian Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee.

69 iv Gracie6 Dean, born 1904 in Crockett, Tennessee.

70 v Alger6 Dean , born 17 Jul 1906 in Crockett, Tennessee; died 5 Mar 1998 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Crockett Mills First Christian Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee. She married on 23 Dec 1921 in Crockett, Tennessee, John W. Woods, born 25 Mar 1900 in Crockett, Tennessee; died 23 Oct 1985 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Crockett Mills First Christian Church Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee.

Generation 6

  1. Edna Mae6 Dean (Samuel A.5, Asa4, Jesse3, John Wilson2, John1), born 28 Nov 1882 in Crockett, Tennessee; died 31 Aug 1952 in Crockett Tennessee; buried in Crockett, Tennessee. She married (1) on 6 Jun 1897 in Crockett, Tennessee, Heazia White, born Feb 1877 in Tennessee. She married (2) in 1910 in Crockett, Tennessee, William Thomas Young, born 26 Sep 1883 in Crockett, Tennesseee; died 10 Dec 1956 in Crockett, Tennessee, son of Wlliam Frank Young and Laura E. (—) .

Notes for Edna Mae Dean

1900 Census of Crockett County, Tennessee list the followingin District #10: Acton White, Feb 1877 in Tennessee; Edna White, born May 1882 in Tennessee; and Alice Dean, born Aug 1857 in Tennessee, mother-in-law.

1910 Census of Crockett County, Tennessee, list the following in District #10: 20-20 Buck Cathey, age 37, born in Tennessee; Neelie Cathey, age 37, born in Tennessee; Alice Dean, age 54, mother-in-law. In the next household, 21-21 the following were listed: Will Young, age 27, born in Tennessee; Edna Young, age 27, born in Tennessee; Herman White, age 8, born in Tennessee, stepson; Bernice White, age 3, born in Tennessee, stepson; and Ben Fromer, age 19, born in Tennessee, hired hand.

Notes for William Thomas Young

1910 Census, Crockett County, Tennessee, District #10: 21-21 Will Young, age 27, born in Tennessee, father born in Tennessee, mother born in Tennessee; Edna Young, age 27, born in Tennessee,father born in Tennessee, mother born in Tennessee; Herman White, age 8, stepson, born in

Tennessee, father born in Tennessee, mother born in Tennessee; Bernice White, age 3, stepson, born in Tennessee, father born in Tennessee, mother born in Tennessee; Gus Froman, age 19, hired man, born in Tennessee, father born in Tennessee, mother born in Tennessee.

1820 Census, Crockett County, Tennessee, District #10: 109-116 William F. Young, age 37, born in Tennessee, father born in Tennessee, mother born in Tennessee; Edna M. Young, age 37, born in Tennessee, father born in Tennessee, mother born in Tennessee; Woodrow W. Young, age 7, born in Tennessee, father born in Tennessee, mother born in Tennessee; Maxine Young, age 4 1/2, born in Tennessee, father born in Tennessee, mother born in Tennessee; Joe Thomas Young, age 1 9/12, born in Tennessee, father born in Tennessee, mother born in Tennessee.

1930 Census, Crockett County, Tennessee, District #10: 186-199 Will F. Young, age 47, born in Tennessee, father forn in Tennessee, mother born in

Tennessee; Woodrow W. Young, age 19, born in Tennessee, father born in Tennessee, mother born in Tennessee; Maxine Young, age 15, born in Tennessee, father born in Tennessee, mother born in Tennessee; Jodie Young, age 12, born in Tennessee, father born in Tennessee, mother born in Tennessee; William Young, age 9, born in Tennessee, father born in Tennessee, mother born in Tennessee.

Children of Edna Mae Dean and Heazia White were as follows:

71 i Herman7 White, born 1902 in Crockett, Tennessee.

72 ii Bernice7 White, born 1907 in Crockett, Tennessee.

Children of Edna Mae Dean and William Thomas Young were as follows:

  • 73 i Woodrow W.7 Young, born 1912 in Crockett, Tennessee. He married (1) Lillie Ruth (—) . He married (2) Louise Latham .
  • 74 ii Maxine7 Young , born 14 Feb 1915 in Crockett, Tennessee. She married Jesse D. Hopkins .
  • 75 iii Jodie Thomas7 Young, born 7 Apr 1918 in Maury City, Crockett, Tennessee. He married Living .
  • 76 iv William Madison7 Young, born 22 Dec 1919 in Crockett, Tennessee. He married (1) Ophelia P. Ross . He married (2) Margaret Brassfield .

Generation 7

  1. Woodrow W.7 Young (Edna Mae6 Dean, Samuel A.5, Asa4, Jesse3, John Wilson2, John1), born 1912 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Ripley Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Lauderdale, Tennessee. He married (1) Louise Latham, born in Tennessee. He married (2) Lillie Ruth (—) , born 1923 in Tennessee; died 1989 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Ripley Memorial Garden Cemetery, Lauderdale County, Tennessee.

Children of Woodrow W. Young and Louise Latham were as follows:

77 i Living, born in Crockett, Tennessee.

78 ii Living, born in Crockett, Tennessee.

  1. Maxine7 Young (Edna Mae6 Dean, Samuel A.5, Asa4, Jesse3, John Wilson2, John1), born 14 Feb 1915 in Crockett, Tennessee; died 11 Sep 1968; buried in Oakview Cemeetery, Brownsville, Haywood, Tennessee. She married Jesse D. Hopkins, born 22 Jul 1898 in Haywood, Temmessee; died 27 Apr 1977; buried in Oakview Cemetery, Brownsville, Haywood, Tennessee.

Children of Maxine Young and Jesse D. Hopkins were as follows:

79 i Living, born in Tennessee.

  1. Jodie Thomas7 Young (Edna Mae6 Dean, Samuel A.5, Asa4, Jesse3, John Wilson2, John1), born Apr 1918 in Maury City, Crockett, Tennessee; died, 5 Mar 2006; buried, 7 Mar 2006, in Alamo City Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee. He married on 12 Oct 1947 in First Methodist Church, Alamo, Crockett, Tennessee, Living , born 16 Feb 1922 in Alamo, Crockett, Tennessee.

Children of Jodie Thomas Young and Living were as follows:

  • 80 i Living, born 31 Jul 1955 in Jackson, Madison, Tennessee.
  • 81 ii Living, born 19 Apr 1957 in Prather Clinic, Alamo, Tennessee
  • 82 iii Living, born 5 Apr 1958 in Alamo, Crockett, Tennessee.
  1. William Madison7 Young (Edna Mae6 Dean, Samuel A.5, Asa4, Jesse3, John Wilson2, John1), born 22 Dec 1919 in Crockett, Tennessee; died 8 Sep 1994; buried in Maury City Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee. He married (1) Ophelia P. Ross , born 6 Jan 1917 in Tennessee; died 14 Dec 2005 in Crockett, Tennessee; buried in Oak View Memorial Cemetery, Crockett, Tennessee. He married (2) Margaret Brassfield , born in Crockett, Tennessee.

Children of William Madison Young and Ophelia P. Ross were as follows:

83 i Living, born in Crockett, Tennessee.

84 ii Living, born in Crockett, Tennessee.

Margaret Nolen Nichol – 2007

Perry W. Davis Biography

Posted on by Jim Daniel

Perry Winston Davis (b. Dec.29, 1855- d. May 17, 1940) was the seventh of seven children born of James Edward Davis (b. Aug.10, 1817- d. Apr. 27, 1859) and Mary Ann Ellington (b. Dec. 3, 1815- d.July 17, 1899) who were married Dec. 25,1838, in Madison Co., Tenn. James Edward was born in North Carolina and moved to Madison County at a very early age with his father, Hugh Davis, who farmed in Madison Co. Mary Ann was born in Virginia and her father was Richard Ellington.
Perry Winston was married Dec. 31, 1879 in Crockett Co. Tn. to Callie Drucilla Sherrod (b. 1853-d. June 4, 1909). Callie’s parents were born in Missouri, she was born in Tennessee and was a young widow with two children, Nora and Walter Gooch at the time of their marriage. She an Perry Winston had six children:George Perry, Dora Bessie, Wilton Thomas, Herman Ervin, Van Owen, and Harry Lee. Perry Winston and Callie Drucilla Davis bought a farm in District 4 of Haywood County, Oct. 23, 1897. Perry Winston was noted throughout the county for raising large watermelons and took great pride in being the first to sell a wagon load. He had a great sense of humor, enjoyed using the slingshot, and played the fiddle for his own entertainment. Callie Drucilla was buried in Chestnut Grove Cemetery, in Haywood County.

Perry Winston was married Feb. 23, 1910 in Haywood County, to Laura Parker McBride, (b. Sept.4, 1858-d. Nov. 6, 1948) who was a widow, by his son-in-law, William Harvey Joyner, Justice of the Peace, District 6.

Perry Winston lived to be eighty-four years old. He died at the home of his son, Wilton Thomas Davis, in Crockett Co., Tennessee, of pneumonia and was buried in Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Haywood County.

Copied from a newspaper article and submitted at this time by great-granddaughter (Hilda Joyce Rinks) aka Joyce Butler.

2007 – Joyce Butler

Col. David Crockett Biography

Posted on by Jim Daniel

Tennessean

(1786-1836)

David Crockett, pioneer, patriot, soldier, trapper, explorer, legislator, congressman, and martyr, was born in a small cabin near the junction of Limestone Creek and the Nolichucky River in Greene County, North Carolina (later Tennessee), August 17, 1786. He was the fifth son, of nine children, born to John and Rebecca Hawkins Crockett.

On July 5, 1776, a Petition was sent to the Honorable, the Provisional Council of North Carolina from the settlers in the Watauga area. This petition explained the situation that the settlers found themselves in at the time, and ask recognition of their efforts toward establishing a form of government for the area. The inhabitants explained to the Council of the Colony of North Carolina the type of government and military establishments that they had, and ask the colony’s candid and impartial judgment in annexing them. David Crockett, Sr., and William Crockett signed the petition.

John, William, and Robert Crockett fought in the Battle of King’s Mountain during the Revolutionary War. During this time, the Indians attacked their parents’ homestead and killed David and Elizabeth Crockett, as well as all their siblings except two sons, who they took prisoner, and one daughter, who was scalped, but survived.

John Crockett married Rebecca Hawkins in Maryland and migrated, with the rest of the family, to the East Tennessee area. Rebecca Hawkins Crockett was to move many times, including the relocation during her marriage, and as she followed her son, David through his moves to several locations in Middle Tennessee, before moving to live near him in Gibson County, Tennessee.

John Crockett served under Colonel Isaac Shelby in the Battle of King’s Mountain, and was presiding magistrate when Andrew Jackson received his license to practice law. He was a commissioner for building roads and, in 1783, a Frontier Ranger. His name appears on the 1783 Tax List of Greene County, North Carolina. John Crockett lived on Limestone Creek in Greene County when David Crockett was born, and a few years later moved to a place in the same county ten miles north of Greenville. The next move was to Cove Creek, where he built a mill in partnership with Thomas Galbraith. In 1794, a flood destroyed his mill and house leaving him without shelter or resources.

John Crockett moved his family to Jefferson County (now Hamblen County), built a log cabin-tavern (still in existence today) on the road from Abingdon, Virginia to Knoxville, Tennessee, and continued to live there until his death. David Crockett was eight years old when the family located there.

David Crockett remained with his family until he was the age of twelve. He had grown in size so his father, John, signed him on with a cattle drive to Front Royal, Virginia. After arriving at Front Royal, he worked for farmers, wagoners, and a hat maker. He was offered a job driving cattle to Baltimore, which he accepted and he lived in Baltimore until he reached the age of fifteen.

David Crockett returned to his families’ home to find his father in debt. Davy was six feet tall, by this time, and well able to do the work of a man. He obligated himself for a year to Colonel Daniel Kennedy, his father’s creditor. David Crockett often borrowed the rifle of his employer and became an excellent marksman. From wages earned, he bought new clothes, a rifle of his own and a horse. He began to take part in the local shooting contests. At these contest, the prize was often quarters of beef. A contestant would pay twenty cents for a single shot at the target, and the best shot won the quarter of beef. Davy Crockett’s aim was so good that more than once, he won all four quarters of beef.

The son of his employer, conducted a school nearby, and David Crockett worked out an arrangement with him to attend school for four days and work for two days. This education, except for the four days he had attended school at the age of twelve, was the only education David Crockett had.

On August 12, 1806, David Crockett and Mary Polly Finley were married. David, and his new wife, moved into the Duck and Elk River area of Lincoln County, Tennessee. They located near the head of Mulberry Fork, where he began to distinguish himself as a hunter. They lived at this site during the years of 1809-1810. His two sons, John Wesley and William Finley, were born there.

The Crockett family moved, in 1811, to the south side of Mulberry Creek, near Lynchburg. David Crockett built a log house and his family lived in this home, until 1813. He hunted and cleared a field three miles northwest of his homestead on Hungry Hill. When bear and other game became scarce, he moved to better hunting grounds in Franklin County where he settled on Beans Creek and built a homestead, which he called “Kentuck”. This was the Crockett home until the close of the War of 1812. A well, standing in a field three and one half miles south and to the east of U. S. Highway 64, in Franklin County, Tennessee, marks the place where the homestead stood.

During this period, events in the Alabama territory, were taking place that would influence the lives of David Crockett and his family. For almost one hundred years, the white settlers and Creek Indians had lived in peace, trading and intermarrying within their two cultures. However, in 1811, the Shawnee Warrior, Tecumseh, arrived in the area and began inciting the native Creeks, called Red Sticks, to return their territories to its original glory. The Spaniards, in Florida, who sought to gain politically and financially by the discord, augmented Tecumseh’s incitement.

In order to carry out their purpose of regaining their territories from the settlers, the Red Sticks sent a large party of eighty Creeks, with packhorses, to Pensacola to purchase guns and gunpowder from the Spanish. On their return home, on July 27, 1813, they were attacked by one hundred eighty white militia under the command of Colonel James Caller, and Captain Dixon Bailey. Hearing of the purchase, the Colonel hoped to disrupt the flow of arms to the Creeks.

The Battle of Burnt Creek resulted in the Creeks forcing the militia to retreat, leaving the settlers in the area only one recourse, to seek safety at the best-fortified place in the area, Fort Mims. The fort was the homestead of Samuel Mims. It stood on high ground on the east bank of Tensaw Lake, and was composed of seventeen buildings, including one blockhouse and a log palisade. The 1st Mississippi Volunteers, composed of one hundred seventy men under the command of Major Daniel Beasley, garrisoned the fort.

On 30 Aug 1813, the Creeks attacked the fort with approximately one thousand warriors. Inside the fort, two hundred forty five men, three hundred eight women and children, and their slaves awaited their fate. Less than fifty settlers survived. The massacre sent shock waves throughout the frontier.

David Crockett enlisted for ninety days service in September 1813. This enlistment expired on Christmas day of that year.

In early October 1813, Andrew Jackson, with an army of two thousand three hundred men met at Fayetteville, Tennessee and marched into Alabama. David Crockett, serving as a Sergeant under Captain James Conway’s Company was a part of this army. Captain Conway’s Company was under the command of Major William Russel’s Separate Battalion of Volunteer Mounted Gunmen. The battalion was composed of volunteers from Franklin, Bedford, Blount, Madison (Alabama), Rutherford, Warren and Wilson Counties. There were approximately five hundred men in Major Russel’s battalion.

Andrew Jackson, and his volunteers, crossed the Tennessee River at Ditto’s Landing and established a supply base nearby, which they name Fort Deposit. Moving his forces on to the area of Ten Islands, on the Coosa River, General Jackson began the construction of Fort Strother. It became the main assembly point for his troops during the Creek War.

David Crockett was among the soldiers who were sent by General Jackson to attack the Red Sticks assembled in large numbers in the village of Tallushatchee, about fifteen miles from Fort Strother. Crockett’s company was under the command of General John Coffee who led an army of one thousand men with the objective of destroying the town. On the morning of 3 Nov 1813, the troops attacked the village after strategically positioning themselves around the village. They overpowered the Creeks in a fierce battle after which General Coffee was later to remark, “the enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: no one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.” The battle lasted for about thirty minutes and the Red Sticks losses numbered, at least two hundred warriors with some women dead, and nearly one hundred prisoners, mostly women and children. General Coffee’s losses were five killed and about forty wounded. In his first taste of battle, David Crockett could only remark, “We shot them down like dogs.”

David Crockett was in the army of one thousand two hundred men who, upon receiving a plea from a tribe of allied Creeks at Talladega, set out to give aid. On the ninth of November, using the same tactics used at the village of Tullahatchee, they accomplished the same results. This battle lasted fifteen minutes with three hundred Creek warriors killed and fifteen soldiers killed with eighty-six wounded.

On 28 Sep 1814, David Crockett enlisted, with the rank of third sergeant. He attained the rank of fourth Sergeant before his discharge in 1815. Upon David’s return to his homestead, Polly Crockett gave birth to their daughter, Margaret. She never fully recovered from childbirth, and died shortly afterwards. An old cemetery overlooking Bean’s Creek, in Franklin County, Tennessee is her resting place.

Left with an infant and two small sons, David Crockett married Elizabeth Patton, in 1816. She had two small children of her own. Elizabeth Patton was the widow of George Patton. David and Elizabeth Crockett lived in “Kentuck” until 1817, when he moved to Lawrence County, Tennessee.

In the Treaty of 1816, with the Chickasaw Indians, the United States annexed the territory, and on 21 Oct 1817, the Tennessee General Assembly passed an act to establish Lawrence County. In 1818, the county established their local government. David Crockett was instrumental in helping to lay out the county, and selecting the county seat, Lawrenceburg, in 1819. They chose the site because of its proximity to the center of the county, and the fact that Jackson’s Military Road ran on the eastern edge of the town. In April 1821, the inhabitants rebuilt the road to go through the center of the town. This road was a major thoroughfare from Nashville, Tennessee to Natchez, Mississippi, and played a significant role in the development of the county.

David Crocket was one of the first commissioners and justices of the peace in Lawrence County. He ran a water-powered gristmill, powder mill and distillery in the area of the county that is now David Crockett State Park. The local militia elected him Colonel of a regiment, and the settlers elected Colonel Crockett to serve in the Legislature, in 1821. After his term in office, he returned home and shortly thereafter, a flood destroyed his installation and bankrupted him. With the support of his wife, Elizabeth, he decided to move further west, and he left the remains of his property to his creditors.

David Crockett took his eight year old son, John Wesley Crockett, and, in the company of another young man named Abram Henry and one packhorse, set out for the territory that had been purchased from the Chickasaw Indian, in 1818. Their travels took them one hundred and fifty miles into the wilderness, along unbeaten paths, to the banks of the Obion River. Their destination was fifty miles beyond any white settlement. He chose a spot a few miles from where the Obion River emptied into the Mississippi and set up a camp on the eastern side of the Obion. David made contact with his nearest neighbor, a Mr. Owens, and secured his help, along with some boatmen in building his cabin.

Reconstructed Crockett home at Rutherford, Tennessee
Original photo by Margaret Nichol
After David, and his son, had a comfortable place to live, they planted a field of corn, which he hoped to harvest after returning with the rest of the family. Leaving John Wesley and Abram Henry well supplied with provision to last until his return, Crockett set out to travel the long distance back to his home, where he was immediately summons to another session of the Legislature. After serving his term, David and his family set out, in late October, for their new home. They traveled by foot with David leading the way. Following, in single file, were his family, his two packhorses and his many dogs. Upon their arrival at their new home, the family found a new cabin and a field of corn ready for harvesting.

The town of Rutherford, Tennessee reconstructed the cabin home of the Crockett family using many of the logs from the original cabin. This cabin resembles the cabin at Limestone, Green County, North Carolina where he was born. The mother of David Crockett, Rebecca Hawkins Crockett, is buried on the grounds.

David Crockett ran for the Legislature, in 1823, and his keen and quick wit earned him the respect of the frontiersmen in the area. He used his backwoodsman persona to entertain his audiences wherever he spoke. His opponent was Dr. W. E. Butler, who was married to the niece of Mrs. Andrew Jackson. However, the new settlers liked the man that they called their own and elected him. It was David Crockett who introducted the bill to form Gibson County, in 1823.

During a trip to Philadelphia, in 1823, David Crockett was presented his famous long rifle “Betsy” which contained the following inscription, “Presented to the Honorable David Crockett of Tennessee by the young men of Philadelphia.” This inscription is on the barrel in gold, and near the sight is the motto, “Go Ahead” in letters in silver.

In 1826, David Crockett ran against Colonel Adam Rankin Alexander and Major General William Arnold, both of Jackson. His opponents ran a joint campaign and chose not to mention David Crockett in their speeches. The people did not ignore him, but reelected him by a majority of two thousand seven hundred and forty-eight. He was their advocate for their “squatters rights” in the district. Davy preferred to call them settlers.

In 1829, the popularity of David Crockett was at such a peak, his opposition look for a man that they thought could beat him. Captain Joel Estes, of Haywood County and Colonel Adam Alexander were his opponents. The heated races received wide publicity over a wide region. The results at the polls were Crockett, eight thousand five hundred and twenty-five;; Alexander, five thousand; and Estes, one hundred and thrity-two. David Crockett felt that he was in a position to promote some his preferences. He broke with the administration on the Bank question, and the Cherokee relocation. His dislike of Andrew Jackson probably dated back to the Creek War and Jackson’s rigorous treatment of his Tennessee troops. However, the break was not received well back in his frontier country. The people of the area had a strong liking for Andrew Jackson, as well. When David Crockett returned home, he found that some strong feelings had developed against him for his stands.

When Election Day arrived, Davy Crockett found that he had lost the election, by a narrow majority, to his opponent, William Fitzgerald, of Dresden. The election had been called, by David Crockett, a campaign of “trickery”. His opponents had announced that he was to speak at several places, and the candidate, not knowing of the arrangement, did not appear. This left the settlers displease and it showed at the poles.

When the 1833 elections came, supporters of Andrew Jackson passed legislation that reconstructed the district in such a way as to give advantage to his opponent, William Fitzgerald. This gerrymandering was called by David Crockett, “the most unreasonable every laid off in the nation, or even in to-total creation.” However, he won the election, after a hard fought battle. Once more in Congress, he boasted, “Look at my neck, and you will not find any collar with a label, ‘My Dog, Andrew Jackson.”

David Crockett ran for re-election, in 1836. He lost the election by a narrow majority. Tired of politics, despondent, frustrated, and weary, he retired to his frontier home to contemplate his future. Feeling the inhabitants in his district had deserted him, he looked westward for the opportunities to further his fortune.

By 1830, more than 20,000 Americans had migrated to Texas seeking a place to settle and David Crockett, ever looking for new frontiers to conquer, was a prime candidate to assist in the settlement. “As the country no longer requires my services, I have made up my mind to go to Texas. I start anew upon my own hook, and God grant that it may be strong enough to support the weight that may be hung upon it.” He left behind wife, children, mother and siblings to take his place in American history.

Accompanying him on his journey were William Patton, Abner Burgin, and Lindsey Tinkle. The route the four men took was down the Mississippi River to the Arkansas River where they traveled up that river to Little Rock, At Little Rock, David Crockett’s traveling companions turn back toward their homes, and David proceeded overland to Fulton, Arkansas where he went by river along the northern boundary of Texas, crossing the river to Clarksville. The last leg of his travels took him down the Red River to Nacogdoches and then to St. Augustine.

At Nacogdoches, David Crockett enlisted, 14 Jan 1836, in the Texas Volunteer Auxiliary Corps for a six months tour of duty. By the time his group arrived at the Alamo, they were known as the Tennessee Mounted Volunteers.

David Crockett’s last known letter, addressed to his son and daughter, was dated, 9 Jan 1836, from St. Augustine. The letter, sent to his daughter and son-in-law, Wily and Margaret Flowers, in Wilson County, Tennessee, ask his daughter to show the letter to his son, William, and his brother, John.

David Crockett’s fame had preceded him to Texas, since he wrote that he received a “harty welcom to the country” with a cannon salute upon his arrival. He mentioned invitations to the dinners and parties, both at Nacogdoches and St. Augustine held in his honor.

David Crockett disclosed that he hoped to settle on the Bordar or Chactaw Rio of Red River where he believed was the richest country in the world with good land, plenty of timber, the best springs and mill steams, and every appearance of plentiful game. His spirits were high at the prospects before him, and his expectations to make his fortune in the new country.

His last words were, “Do not be uneasy about me. I am among my friends. I must close with great respects. Your affectionate father, Farewell, David Crockett.”

In 1718, at a Native American village in a pleasant wooded area of spring fed streams, at the southern edge of Texas Hill country, Spain established the Mission San Antonio de Verlero (later called The Alamo). To protect the mission, Spain build a barracks called San Antonio de Bexar. This was more than half a century before the founding of the United States.

In December 1835, San Antonio de Bexar was under the control of Mexican General Perfecto de Cos with about one thousand two hundred soldiers from Mexico. At daybreak, on the fifth, Texans who had been camped outside the fort, begin a siege of the fort. Against heavy odds, both men and artillery skirmished for the next two days. On the seventh, the Texan leader, Colonel Benjamin Rush Milam, was killed, and the Texans, inspired to avenge his death, engaged in house to house combat that continued for two more days. At daybreak, on the ninth, General Cos signaled a Mexican truce. The Texans gained all the public property, guns and ammunition.

Lieutenant Colonel James Clinton Neill was in command of the Texas army at San Antonio. On 8 Jan 1836, Colonel Neill sent a letter to the convention, taking place at Washington-on-the-Brazos, relating to them a message he had received from the Comanche nation that informed him the nation was in an attitude of hostilities toward the Texans. This put another enemy at their doorsteps.

Mexican General Santa Anna was determined to retake San Antonio, and impress upon the settlers the futility of further resistance to Mexican rule. The vanguard of his army arrived in San Antonio, February 23, 1836. The one hundred forty-five Texans, in the area, took refuge in the fortified grounds of the old mission known as “The Alamo.” Their leaders were Lieutenant Colonel William Barret Travis, for the regulars; and Colonel James (Jim) Bowie, for the volunteers. Leaving his post at Bexar, Colonel Neil turned over his command to Colonel Travis.

On February 23, 1836, Colonel Travis sent a letter to Judge Andrew Ponton and the citizens of Bexar informing them that that Santa Anna and his men were in sight of the fort. He stated that he had one hundred fifty men in the fort and needed reinforcements and provisions in order to defend them. In addition, he asks Judge Ponton to send a message to San Felipe with the news of their situation.

On the same day, Colonel Travis and Colonel Bowie sent a letter to General James W. Fannin at Goliad asking for reinforcements immediately. They restated to Fannin that their plight was extreme and hoped that he would send help as soon as possible.

On the following day, February 24, 1836, Lieutenant Colonel Travis sent a message addressed to The People of Texas and All Americans in the World stating that the fort had been under bombardment for twenty-four hours by a force of a thousand or more Mexicans who were receiving reinforcements daily. Colonel Travis wrote that the enemy had demanded surrender, and he had answered with cannon shot signaling that the fort would not be surrender. The colonel stated that he would sustain the defense of the fort as long as possible. He signed the message with “Victory or Death” William Barret Travis, Lt. Col. Comdt.

On February 25, 1836, Lieutenant Colonel Travis sent a letter to Major-General Sam Houston apprising him of the situation in Bexar and the Alamo. He informed General Houston that the town of Bexar, which he did not have the soldiers to defend, was in the hands of the Mexican army. On the day of the letter, around ten o’clock, from two to three hundred of the enemy crossed the river below and under cover of the existing houses and launched an attack on the fort. A heavy barrage of grape and canister shots and some small artillery met the attackers and after a battle of two hours or so, the enemy retreated in disarray.

On the 26 Feb 1836, four hundred twenty men, with four pieces of artillery, very little provisions, and in dire need of clothing set out to help relieve the situation at Bexar. They left behind at the fort at Goliad, one Company of Regulars. Disaster struck when attempting to forge the San Antonio River, three of the wagons were lost. They saved the artillery after much labor and peril. The men faced the situation of having their artillery on one side of the river and their ammunition on the other. Horses being a scarce commodity, the army secured oxen to pull the wagons. This proved to be an additional disaster when some of the ox wandered off during the night.

The following day, the men held a Council of War on the banks of the River to assess their situation. After a review of the facts that the possibility of an attack by the Mexican Army on Goliad might be eminent, the army decided, with heavy hearts, to return to their fort. About twenty men volunteered to continue on to The Alamo to give assistance to the fort.

During the engagement with the attackers, the main forces of Santa Anna had kept up a bombardment of the fort. Colonel Travis reported that there were no fatalities from the skirmishes on the side of the defenders, but observed casualties among the enemy. He mentioned Lieutenant Cleveland K. Simmons, Captains William R. Carey, Alameron Dickinson, Samuel C. Blair, Charles Despallier and Robert Brown deserving special recognition in the account. In addition, he mentioned that he observed the Hon. David Crockett appearing at all points animating the men to do their duty.

General Santa Anna’s army continued to grow over the following two week to about two thousand troops. Colonel Travis made an appeal for aid from the other Texans in the area. A few reinforcements arrived, making the final total of one hundred eighty-nine men.

On March 3, 1936, Colonel Travis sent a letter addressed to the Convention meeting at Washington-on-the-Brazos, stating that in the present confusion of the political authorities of the country, and in the absence of a Commander-in chief, he had directed the letter to the Convention. The letter covered the events that had taken place since his last letter to General Sam Houston, written, February 25, 1836. The army of Santa Anna had kept up a continual bombardment of the fort using two howitzers and a heavy cannonade from two long nine-pounders. During the bombardment, they had begun digging heavy entrenchments around the fort. In spite of the almost seclusion of the fort, on the first of March, thirty-two men from Gonzales arrived and Colonel J. B. Bonham, a courier from Gonzales arrived, later in the morning, without interference.

Colonel Travis reminded the Convention that the fort had been under siege for ten days. The enemy numbered from fifteen hundred to six thousand. He reported that the spirits were still high and the defenders had helped fortify the fort by entrenching inside the fort and strengthening the walls with the dirt.

Evidently, realizing that the situation was worsening with the defense of the fort, Colonel Travis wrote his last letter to a friend, David Ayers, on March 3, asking him to take care of my little boy. If the country should be saved, I may make for him a splendid fortune; but if the country be lost and I should perish, he will have nothing but the proud recollection that he is the son of a man who died for his country.

After bombarding the mission, the Mexican stormed it walls. At six thirty in the morning, on March 6, 1836, The Alamo fell to its attackers. Losses in the battle have been placed at one hundred eighty-nine Texans and one thousand, six hundred Mexicans.

Several conflicting stories recount the final hours of the storming of The Alamo. The debate as to whether Colonel David Crockett was killed in battle, or whether he was taken a prisoner and slaughtered by the Mexican army after his capture, is still being waged today. However, there is general agreement that the remains, of the defenders, were piled in a pier and burned in the square. In November 1836, Colonel Juan Sequin, of the army of the Republic of Texas, reoccupied San Antonio and, in February 1837, he held a funeral for the defenders. He reported finding two small heaps and one large heap of ashes. Ashes from the small heaps were put in a coffin and used in a funeral procession to the church and back. Salutes were fired over each heap and a service was read at the large heap. A specific burial place has not been determined. Some cremated remains unearthed on the grounds of San Fernando Cathedral are entombed near the front entrance of the church.

Forty-six days after the siege of The Alamo, April 21, 1836, at the Battle of San Jacinto at Goliad, seven hundred and eighty-three men led by General Sam Houston defeated General Santa Anna’s one thousand five hundred Mexican troops. The battle lasted only eighteen minutes. Nine Texans lost their lives. The losses for the Mexicans were six hundred and thirty dead, and seven hundred and thirty prisoners. General Huston’s army captured General Santa Anna the following day. To save his life, General Santa Anna signed the agreement giving Texas to the Texans. The Battle of San Jacinto won the independence for the Texans and the settlement of the new republic began. The government granted all who had fought for independence six hundred and forty acres.

In 1853, Elizabeth Patton Crockett arrived in Texas to claim her grant. She was accompanied by her children: Robert Patton Crockett, and his family; George Patton, and his family; and Rebecca Halford, and her family. After the cost of the survey, the land grant had shrunk to 320 acres. Their grant was located about four miles north of a trading post, now called Acton, in what now Hood County. Elizabeth Crockett was sixty-five years old, but continued to do her share of the frontier work. She died at the age of seventy-two, and her remains, with several members of her family, are buried in Acton State Park and Monument, the smallest state park in Texas. A monument of Elizabeth Crockett shows her looking to the west, eyes shaded.

Children of David Crockett and Polly Finley Crockett were John Wesley Crockett, born, 1808; William Finley Crockett, born, 1809; and Margaret Finley (Polly) Crockett, born, 1812. Children of David Crockett and Elizabeth Patton Crockett were Rebecca Elvira Crockett, born, 1815; Robert Patton Crockett, born, 1816; and Matilda Crockett, born, 1821.

After David Crockett left for Texas, John Wesley Crockett, won two terms in Congress, the seat his father had held.

Revised Biography by , Neptune Beach, Florida, 9 Sep 2008

William Colston Descendants

Posted on by Jim Daniel

Generation No. 1

  1. WILLIAM (BILL) COLSTON was born 1805 in Virginia and died 1880 in Texas
    or Tennessee.
    He married MARTHA A. MINATRA 1835 in Tennessee. She was born 1820 in South
    Carolina or Virginia.

Notes for WILLIAM (BILL) COLSTON:
He was a tailor and a farmer in Giles County, Tennessee and
Lincoln County, Tennessee between 1840 – 1880.
William “Bill” Colston:
Birth: Gives age as 45 on 1850 Lincoln County, Tennessee census, a
household #1100; page 131, transcribed by Shirley Cato, 1991.
Gives age as 45 on 1860 Giles County, Tennessee Census, household 331/328, page 14 or 74 (not clear)

Gives age as 57 on 1870 Giles County, Tennessee Census, D-17, H#-120.
Death: It is possible that William and Martha Colston moved with their
son, David Colston, and family to Ellis County, Texas after the 1880 Lincoln
Co., Tennessee Census.
General (6,7,8,9,1); *No proof that William “Bill” Colston is the son
of Issac and Eliza “Paine/Payne” Colston, but time-frame and locations to
allude to that conclusion; further research needed. (Gladys Colston Shannon
9/1999).
William is shown on 1840 Marshal County, Tennessee census; page 42
with two children, one female and one male, each under the age of 5 years.
1 male: 20 – 30
1 female 20 – 30.
He is also living next door to James Colston who, I believe to be his
brother. James married Almyra Edwards in Marshal County, Tennessee; and they were living next door to the Edward’s family.
William and Martha Colston are shown on 1850 Lincoln County, Tennessee
census with Sarah and Solomon being the two oldest children. Could be a
descrepancy in Solomon’s age. William and Martha Colston are listed on 1860

  • 1870 Giles County, Tennessee Census. William and Martha Colston are listed
    on 1880 Lincoln County, Tennessee census and William is listed as a retired
    tailor by trade. Oral family history states William was a tailor. Martha’s
    name listed as “Martha A.” on the 1880 census. Nickname “Bill” given for
    William on son’s (Sam) death record.
    He is consistent through the census as being born in Virginia.

Notes for MARTHA A. MINATRA:
Birth:
Gives age as 40 on 1850 Lincoln County, Tennessee census, household Believed to be sister of David Minatree, Giles County, Tennessee 1850.

Census, no proof.
General (10,3,11,12,1): There is no proof that Martha is the daughter of
David James and Martha Minatree, but migration pattern of both families
implies this. William and Martha Colston were in Giles County, Tennessee in
the same community with the Minatree family. She also named her children
the same names as the Minatree children, thus her grandchildren carried on
the same names.
David Colston, their son, left Giles County,Lincoln County, Tennessee after
the 1880 census, as did some of the Minatree families moving to Texas. There
is no further proof of William or Martha Colston that I have found after the
1880 Lincoln County, Tennessee census living near their son, David, and his
family.

Children of WILLIAM COLSTON and MARTHA MINATRA are:

  1. i. SOLMON M. COLSTON, b. December 14, 1838, Tennessee; d. February 26,
    1923, Dyersburg, Dyer County, Tennessee.
  2. ii. SARAH ANNE COLSTON, b. 1839, Marshall County, Tennessee; d. Bef.
    1900, Limestone Co., Alabama.
    iii. JAMES F. (PHILLIP) COLSTON, b. 1840; m. (1) NANCY C. PAINE, July 29,
    1866; m. (2) NANCY MARLOW, September 12, 1875.

Notes for JAMES F. (PHILLIP) COLSTON:
James F. (Phillip) Colston was in the CIVIL WAR.
No date of death available.
His spouses were:
Nancy C. Paine (married July 29, 1866)
Nancy Marlow (married Sept. 12, 1875)
Birth: Age varies on census records; 1860 – 70 – 80;
Giles County, Lincoln County, Tennessee.
Military (21); Confederate States Army, Pvt. in K-Co., 6th Tn. Cav.
Confederate States Army.
On 1880 Lincoln County, Tennessee census, James appears to have no
wife; this is questionable.

  1. iv. DAVID FRANKLIN COLSTON, b. March 15, 1843, Tennessee.
    v. CALDONIA ELVIRIA COLSTON, b. 1844, Tennessee m. IRA C. COWAN
    September 12, 1875; b. Tennessee.

Notes for CALDONIA ELVIRIA COLSTON:
Caldonia Elviria Colston was married to Ira C. Cowan in Sept.12, 1875.
General (31, 3): Listed as 6 years of age on the 1850 Lincoln County,
Tennessee census. Name appears as “Caldonia”, the “Elivria” on the next
census, and as “Caldonia” when she marries.

vi. MARY ELIZABETH COLSTON, b. 1846; d. 1939 m. W.T. PAINE.

Notes for MARY ELIZABETH COLSTON:
Child notes: Mary Elizabeth Colston
General (32,3):

  1. vii. CHESTER MONROE COLSTON, b. March 1849, Lincoln County, Tennessee; d.
    January 14, 1914,
    Lincoln County, Tennessee.
    viii. NANCY JANE COLSTON, b. 1851, Lincoln County, Tennessee
    ix. ; m. ALAN NICHOLS,
    December 08, 1870; b. , Tennessee.
    Notes for NANCY JANE COLSTON:
    Nancy Jane Colston born about 1851 in Lincoln County, Tennessee.
    She was married to Alan Nichols on Dec. 8, 1870 ix. MARTHA MELVINA (PATSY) COLSTON, b. Abt. 1854, Lincoln County,
    Tennessee; d. 1939,
    Dyersburg, Dyer County, Tennessee; m. W.T. PAYNE/PAINE, September 18, 1873.
    Notes for MARTHA MELVINA (PATSY) COLSTON:
    Martha born in Giles County, Tennessee.
    Death (38): Cause of death, pallegra; death certificate.
    Occupation (39) General (3)

More About MARTHA MELVINA (PATSY) COLSTON:
Burial: Dyer County, Tennessee

  1. x. SAMUEL H. COLSTON, b. January 09, 1855, Giles County, Tennessee; d.
    September 16, 1921,
    Flintville, Lincoln County, Tennessee.

Generation No. 2
Descendants of Solmon M. Colston
Generation No. 1

  1. SOLMON M. COLSTON (WILLIAM (BILL)1) was born December 14, 1838 in
    Tennessee, and died February 26, 1923 in Dyersburg, Dyer County, Tennessee.
    He married ELIZA LOUISA CORA RAINEY November 15, 1866, daughter of ROBERSON
    RAINEY and FRANCIS BIVENS.
    She was born August 19, 1845 in Tennessee, and died November 27, 1928 in
    Tennessee.
    Notes for SOLMON M. COLSTON:
    Solomon M. COLSTON was born on 14 Dec 1842 in Marshall Co., Tennessee. He
    appeared on the census in 1850 in Lincoln Co., Tennessee. He appeared on the
    census in 1860 in
    Giles Co., Tennessee. 1860 Census Book Tennessee, Giles Co., p207, #528:
    William Colston 45 M Taylor, value personal property $25, VA
    Martha 41 F TN; Solomon M. 19 M farm laborer TN; Elvira 17 F TN; James
    F. 14 M TN; David G. 13 M TN; Mary E. 12 F TN; Chesley M. 9 TN.; Nancy J. 7
    F; Martha 6 F; Samuel 3 M. He appeared on the census in 1880 in Williamson
    Co., Tennessee.
    1880 Census Soundex: District #7, Williamson Co., TN, Vol 35 ED234,
    Sheet1: Solomon Colston w m 38 TN; Louisa, wife, 33 TN; Walter son 11
    TN; Cora dtr 9 TN; Luther son 8 TN; Claude son 3 TN; Nora dtr 11/12 TN.

He appeared on the census in 1900 in Henderson Co., Tennessee. 1900 Census
Henderson Co., TN: Colston, Solomon, head, wm, Dec 1842,
57, married 31 yrs, TN NC VA farmer rent farm; Louiza wife wf Feb 1846
54 yrs married 31 yrs, mother of 8, 7 living, TN VA NC; Lady daughter wf
June 1879 20 single TN farm laborer; Jose Dine daughter wf June 1884 15
single TN; Sarah M. daughter wf Feb 1887 13 single
TN; Smith, William boarder wm March 1882 18 single TN TN TN farmer
rent farm. He appeared on the census in 1910 in Dyer Co., Tennessee. 1910
Census District 2,
Dyer Co. TN, SD9, ED16 Sheet 13B, 30 Apr 1910,
p199B: #191 #194 Colston, Sol, head,mw, 70, married 1 time, 45 yrs.,TN,
farmer, general farm, works own account, owns free farm; L. C.,
wife, fw ,64, married 1 time, 45 years, mother 8 children, 7 living, TN;
Mercer, Josie, daughter fw 26 widowed mother 2 children, 2
living, TN, housekeeper; Mercer, Virgil, grandson mw 3 single TN; Mercer,
Lue E. granddaughter fw 23/12 single TN TN TN; Mercer,
Oscar, stepgrandson mw 12 single TN. He died on 26 Feb 1923 in Dyer Co.,
Tennessee.
Death Certificate #69, 1923 Tennessee: S. Soloman Coulston, place of
death Dyer Co., Civil District 5, Dyersburg, TN; Registration District No.
231, Primary Registration District No. 5, File No 191, Registered No. 175.
Male, white, married, age 90 years, occupation: farmer, name of father W.
Coulston born Tennessee, maiden name of mother Miss Minentree,
birthplace blank. Informant R. L. Coulston, Dyersburg, TN. Date of death:

February 16 1923. Attended deceased from Jan 19 1923; cause of death:
senility. Signed Jno. B. Berry, Dyersburg, TN. Place of burial: Church
Grove. Date of burial Feb 17 1923. Undertaker J. W. Curry & Son of
Dyersburg. He served in the military Civil War (CSA) in Tennessee. United
Daughters of the
Confederacy: Memorandum of Facts for an Award
of a Cross of Military Service. Name of proposed recipient: SOL COLSTON;
address R#1, Box 107, Finger, TN 38334 (McNairy Co.); date of birth 21
Feb 1895; occupation farmer. Served in WWI; entered service at Center
Point, TN as Private in Co. L 45th Infantry on July 5 1918 and continued
to serve until honorably discharged 4 June 1919 at Camp Gordon, GA as a
Private. Date of death: 28 July 1986, Finger, TN of pneumonia. Name of
ancestor: Solomon M. Colston, grandfather who served in the Confederate
States CSA Co. F & A, 32nd Reg. TN Inf., rank Private. Entered CS service
5 Nov 1861 at Trousdale TN. Honorably discharged at Exchanged TN 1 Oct

  1. Served under command of Lt. Hunt. Roll of prisoners of war Sep
    22 1863 at Bridgeport AL. Sol Colston and wife Ida Pearl Walker (her
    maiden name). His father: Walter L. Colston and his wife Mary Addie Holt.
    Walter L. son of Solomon M. Colston and Liza (Louisa) Rainey.
    Marriage Certificate Marshall Co TN Book 4, p42:
    Solomon Colston to Louiza C. Rainey, issued Sep 21 1867. Executed by
    me Sep 24 1867, L. L. Farmer, J of P.
    The Roster of Confederate Soldiers 1861-1865, Vol IV, TN Archives
    E548.H4, 1995: Colston, Solomon, TN 32nd Inf., Co. F
    GC, Don Redman, Exie Coates Visit 10/1996 to Church Grove United
    Methodist Church Cemetery, Newbern, TN:
    Tombstone inscriptions:
    Solomon M. Colston Dec 14 1842 – Feb 7 1923
    Liza R. Colston Aug 19 1845 – Nov 27 1929
    War Memorial: In memory of Solomon M. Colston, Pvt. Co A 32 Tenn Inf,
    Confederate States Army 1841 – 1909.
    Buried nearby are Tom Burkhead Oct 25 1876 – Nov 1 1935
    Ruth Burkhead Jun 5 1923 – Jan 24 1929
    J. C. Welch May 29 1813 – Jan 18 (?) 1881
    Military Papers: Confederate:
    Solomon Colston, Pvt. Co A, 32 Reg’t TN Infantry. Appears of Company
    Muster Roll Oct 19 1861 to Jan 1 1862; enlisted Nov 5 1861 at Trousdale
    by Lt. Hunt for 12 months. Present or absent: not stated.
    Solomon Colston company muster roll June 7 to Oct 30 1862: present.

Last paid by Maj. Boid July 5 186-.
Solomon Colston company muster roll Nov & Dec 1862; present.
Solomon Colston company muster roll Jan & Feb 1863; present.
S. Colston appears of roll of Prisoners of War at Camp Morton, Ind., June

  1. Not dated 1863. Where captured: Fort Donelson; when captured Feb
    16 1863.
    Solomon Colston, Pvt. Co. F, 32 Reg’t TN Infantry. Appears of Company
    Muster Roll Mch & Apr 1863. Enlisted Nov 5 1861 at Trousdal, TN by Lt.
    Hunt for period of 12 months. Last paid by Capt. Shepard to Mch 1 1863.
    Absent. On detach service since the 21 April 1863 on the McMinville R. R.
    Soloman Colston, Pvt. Co F, 32 Reg’t TN Infantry. Appears on a muster roll
    of detached men from the organization above for Mch & Apr 1863.
    Enlisted 7 Oct 1861 at Trousdale by Lt. Hunt for period war. Last paid by
    Capt. Shapard to Feb 28 1863; present.
    Solomon Colston, Pvt. Co. F, 32 Reg’t TN Infantry. Appears of Company
    Muster Roll May & June 1863; enlisted Nov 5 1861 at Trousdale by Lt.
    Hunt for 12 months. Last paid by Capt. Shepard to Apr 30 1862; present.
    Muster roll July & Aug 1862: present.
    Solomon Colston muster roll Sep & Oct 1863; deserted Sept 19 1863.
    Solomon Coulston appears of roll of deserter who have taken the oath of
    allegiance at Bridgeport, ALA on Sep 23 1863. Remarks: works on R.R. at
    Nashville.
    Solomon Colston appears on a register of Prisoners of War, Dept. of the
    Cumberland. When captured: Sep 22 1863 near Bridgeport, ALA. To what
    point forwarded: Louisville KY Oct 1 1863. Remarks: for exchange. He was
    buried in Church
    Grove Cemetery, Dyer Co., Tennessee. The cemetery is near Newbern, TN He was
    a Farmer.
    8/1996 Visit with Gladys Colston Shannon, Ardmore TN: Solomon M.
    Colston born 14 Dec 1842, Marshall Co. TN (resource: CSA Military
    Record); Military service: between 1862-1865 Confederate Service
    Army; died 26 Feb 1923, Dyer Co., TN; burial Nov 1928 Oak Grove Cem,
    Dyer Co., TN; farmer; married Eliza (Louisa) C. Rainey 15 Nov 1866
    Davidson Co. TN; father William (Bill) Colston born about 1815; mother
    Martha A. Minatree born about 1809. Ten children listed: Walter Leon;
    Cora Jane; Robbin Luther; William Claude; Nora Frances (Laddie); Hester
    (Het); Josephine (Josie); Sarah Maudie; William Luther; and Daniel Hester.
    Solomon Colston: CSA Co. F & A, 32nd Infantry Regiment, TN.
    Walter Leon Colston said to have died day son Sol was born. They were
    travelling in a covered wagon with Solomon and Louisa, his parents; they
    stopped in McNairy Co., TN for his wife to have baby. He got sick, died; was
    buried in Mt. Moriah Cem., in McNairy Co., TN. This info was told to Gladys
    Shannon by Rev Morris Colston Strain. Believe she wrote this for the McNairy
    Co. TN news to be entered for the TN Bicentennial.
    Exie Coate notes: Solomon Colston born 14 Dec 1842 in Florida. Died Feb
    7 1923 at 81 yrs 2 mos 7 days. Born on Wed., died on Wed.
    Civil War Records Giles Co. TN Web Page: Solomon Colston served in
    Confederate Co. A later Co. F of the 32 Reg. TN Infantry. He enlisted 5
    Nov 1861 at Trousdale, TN. he was captured at Fort Donaldson Feb 16,
  2. After being released he returned to his regiment. he worked on
    detach service on the McMinville railroad in April 1863. Paid by Capt.
    Shapard through Aug 1863. Was listed as deserted on Sep 19 1863 and
    was listed as prisoner of war Dept. of the Cumberland Sep 22 1863. No
    further service record from that time. Solomon Colston was the son of
    William and Martha Colston. Born 14 Dec 1842, married Louisa C. Rainey
    21 Sep 1867. Died 16 Feb 1923, buried Church Grove Cem., Dyer Co. TN.
    Submitted by Jean Bell. Parents: William (Bill) COLSTON and Martha A.
    MINATRA.

He was married to Eliza (Louisa) Cora RAINEY on 15 Nov 1866 in Marshall Co.,
Tennessee.
Some sources set date as 24 Sep 1867. Children were: W. L. Walter COLSTON,
Cora J. COLSTON, Robison Luther COLSTON, William Claud COLSTON, Nora Frances
(Lady) COLSTON, D. H. Hester COLSTON, Jossie D. COLSTON, Sarah Maudie
COLSTON.

Gladys Shannon’s notes:
Birth (20):
On 1840 Marshall County, Tennessee census, William and Martha (Minatree)
Colston had 2 children listed under the age of 5 years: 1 male and 1 female.
This would be Solomon M. Colston and Sarah Colston per 1850 Lincoln
County, Tennessee census. Death: Death, Burial Record
Military : Confederate States Army, Co. F & A, 32nd Infantry Regiment,
Tennessee.
General : CSA Military records (b – 1842) and 1850 Lincoln
County, Tennessee, Tennessee census (b – 1838) differ for birth year.
William and Martha (Minatree) Colston are listed on 1840 Marshall County,
Tennessee census with 2 children under the age of 5 years. 1 female and 1
male. This would tend to lean toward 1838 as the birth year for Solomon.

More About SOLMON M. COLSTON:
Burial: February 26, 1923, New Church Grove Cemetery, Dyer County, Tennessee

Notes for ELIZA LOUISA CORA RAINEY:
Eliza Cora Rainey was full blooded Cherokee Indian according to Exie
Thelma Redding who was her granddaughter and knew her.
More About ELIZA LOUISA CORA RAINEY:
Burial: Church Grove Cemetery, Dyer County, Tennessee

Children of SOLMON COLSTON and ELIZA RAINEY are:

  1. i. WALTER LEON3 COLSTON, b. November 11, 1868, McNairy County, Tennessee;
    d. February 01, 1898, Henderson, Tennessee.
  2. ii. ROBINSON LUTHER COLSTON, b. May 12, 1872, McNairy County, Tennessee;
    d. January 01, 1945, Friendship, Crockett County, Tennessee.
  3. iii. CORA JANE COLSTON, b. April 17, 1876, Davidson County, Tennessee; d.
    January 11, 1918, Dyersburg, Dyer County, Tennessee.
  4. iv. WILLIAM CLAUDE COLSTON, b. July 28, 1877, Williamson County,
    Tennessee; d. September 19, 1962, Crockett County, Tennessee.
    v. NORA FRANCES (LADIE) COLSTON, b. June 21, 1879; d. December 20, 1946.

More About NORA FRANCES (LADIE) COLSTON:
Burial: Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Crockett County, Tennessee

vi. DANIEL HESTER COLSTON, b. May 03, 1881; d. April 16, 1916, Missouri.
vii.    JOSEPHINE DOROTHY "JOSIE" COLSTON27,28, b. June 02, 1882, McNairy

County, Tennessee29,30; d. January 07, 1914, Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Crockett
County, Tennessee31,32; m. DANIEL MERCER; b. December 19, 1869; d. February
22, 1950.

More About JOSEPHINE DOROTHY “JOSIE” COLSTON:
Burial: January 1914, Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Friendship, Crockett County,
Tennessee

  1. viii. SARAH MAUDIE COLSTON, b. February 10, 1887, Davidson Co., TN; near
    Nashville; d. July 26, 1963, Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee.

Generation No. 2

  1. WALTER LEON3 COLSTON (SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1) was born November 11,
    1868 in McNairy County, Tennessee, and died February 01, 1898 in Henderson,
    Tennessee. He married MARY ADLINE “ADDIE”HOLT May 01, 1887 in McNairy
    County, Tennessee. She was born May 25, 1866 in McNairy County, Tennessee,
    and died February 08, 1952 in Chester County, Tennessee.

Notes for WALTER LEON COLSTON:
Burial: February 03, 1898, Henderson County, Tennessee

Notes for MARY ADLINE “ADDIE”HOLT:
Mary Holt was buried at Pesgeih Cemetery, Henderson, Chester County,
Tennessee.

Children of WALTER COLSTON and MARY “ADDIE”HOLT are:
i. J.C.4 COLSTON, b. January 08, 1888, McNairy County, Tennessee; d.
January 11, 1892, McNairy County, Tennessee.
ii. ANNIE LAURA COLSTON, b. January 05, 1890, McNairy County, Tennessee; d.
August 29, 1901, McNairy County, Tennessee
iii. CORIS J. COLSTON, b. October 16, 1891, McNairy County, Tennessee; d.
January 11, 1918, Crockett County, Tennessee.
iv. SOL COLSTON, b. February 21, 1895, McNairy County, Tennessee.
v. WALTER BEN COLSTON, b. January 27, 1897

  1. ROBINSON LUTHER3 COLSTON (SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1) was born May 12,
    1872 in McNairy County, Tennessee, and died January 01, 1945 in Friendship,
    Crockett County, Tennessee. He married MARTHA JANE PIERCE July 10, 1893 in
    Tennessee. She was born January 01, 1872 in Henderson Co., Tennessee, and
    died March 21, 1963 in Henderson Co., Tennessee.

Notes for ROBINSON LUTHER COLSTON:
R. L. Coulston of Dyersburg is the informant on his father’s death
certificate #69 in Feb 16 1923.

Exie Coates Genealogy Book 1: Deaths in the Colston Family:
Robinson Luther Colston died 1 Jan 1945, age 73; buried Stanton Cem.
Tombstone picture 1977: Robison L. Coulston May 12 1872-Jan 1 1945
with Martha Jane Coulston Jan 1 1872.
Uncle Luther & Aunt Jannie: Martha Jane Coulston died March 21 1963.
1880 Census Soundex: District #7, Williamson Co., TN, Vol 35 ED234,
Sheet1: Solomon Colston wm 38 TN; Louisa, wife, 33 TN; Walter son 11
TN; Cora dtr 9 TN; Luther son 8 TN; Claude son 3 TN; Nora dtr 11/12 TN.

1910 Census, District 2, Dyer Co., TN, SD9 ED16 Sheet 6A, p192, 22 Apr: 84 #84 Colston, R. L. head mw 38 married 1 time 16 yrs. TN

farmer own account owns free; Martha J. wife 36 married 1 time 16 yrs.
mother of 8, 6 living TN ; Wallie L., daughter fw 12 single
TN; Allie L., daughter fw 10 s TN ; William L., son 8 s TN;
James M., son 5 s TN; Annie M., daughter 2 s TN; Viola, dtr
7/12 s TN.

More About ROBINSON LUTHER COLSTON:
Burial: January 03, 1945, Stanton Cemetery, Haywood County, Tennessee
Census: 1880, Williamson Co., Tennessee
Occupation: Covington, Tennesee; Occupation: Farmer

Gladys Colston Shannon notes: Jane Pierce and Cynthia Pierce married to
Wm. Claude Colston are sisters.

Obit Mrs. Coulston Dies near Keeling, Henderson, TN (written above 21
Mar 1963): Mrs. Martha Jane Coulston, 91, died Thursday at the residence of
her daughter, Mrs. C. D. Reed near Keeling. She had been ill for five
weeks. Services Friday at Keeling Baptist Church. Burial Stanton Cemetery
with Brownsville Funeral Home. Mrs. Coulston born in
Henderson Co., but lived most of her life in Tipton County. Mrs. Coulston
was the wife of the late Robert L. Coulston, Tipton Co. farmer and
landowner. Besides the daughter with whom she was living, she leaves one
son, W. L. Coulston Sr. of Mason; four other daughters, Mrs. J. O. Davis of
Keeling, Mrs. Newt Burkhead of Dyersburg, Mrs. Morgan Savage of Chicago, IL,
and Mrs. H. Starpe of Stanton; 31 grandchildren, 65 great grandchildren and
8 great great grandchildren.

Tombstone picture 1977: Robison L. Coulston May 12 1872-Jan 1 1945
with Martha Jane Coulston Jan 1 1872.
Uncle Luther & Aunt Jannie: Martha Jane Coulston died March 21 1963.

Exie Coates Genealogy Book 1: Deaths in the Colston Family:
Martha Jane Pierce Colston March 21 1963, age 91; buried Stanton Cem.
1910 Census, District 2, Dyer Co., TN, SD9 ED16 Sheet 6A, p192, 22 Apr: 84 #84 Colston, R. L. head mw 38 married 1 time 16 yrs. TN

farmer own account owns free; Martha J. wife 36 married 1 time 16 yrs.
mother of 8, 6 living TN; Wallie L., daughter fw 12 single TN;
Allie L., daughter fw 10 s TN; William L., son 8 s TN;
James M., son 5 s TN; Annie M., daughter 2 s TN; Viola, dtr
7/12 s TN

More About MARTHA JANE PIERCE:
Burial: March 22, 1963, Stanton Cemetery, Haywood Co., Stanton, Tennessee
Census: 1910, Dyer Co., Tennessee

Children of ROBINSON COLSTON and MARTHA PIERCE are:

  1. i. VALLIE LEE4 COULSTON, b. Tennessee.
  2. ii. CALLIE VIOLA COULSTON, b. Tennessee.
  3. iii. JAMES MACLIN COULSTON, b. Tennessee; d. Bef. 1982.
    iv. ANNIE MAE COULSTON, b. Tennessee89,90; m. BURKHEAD.

More About ANNIE MAE COULSTON:
Residence: 1982, Friendship, Tennessee

  1. v. KATIE BELL COULSTON, b. Tennessee.
  2. vi. SR. WILLIAM LUTHER “BIG DADDY” COULSTON, b. November 22, 1901,
    Tennessee; d. June 03, 1982, Tipton Co. Hospital, Covington, Tennessee.
  3. CORA JANE3 COLSTON (SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1) was born April 17, 1876
    in Davidson County, Tennessee, and died January 11, 1918 in Dyersburg, Dyer
    County, Tennessee96. She married WIILIAM ALEXANDER “TOBE” MCALISTER96
    December 07, 1891 in Giles County, Tennessee. He was born December 10, 1869
    in Tennessee96, and died 1950 in Dyer County, Tennessee.

More About CORA JANE COLSTON:
Burial: January 1918, Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Crockett County, Tennessee96

Notes for WIILIAM ALEXANDER “TOBE” MCALISTER:
William Alexander “Tobe” McAllister parents are:
Nathan Billions McAllister and “Catherine” Katie Scott.
Burial: Tennessee96

  1. WILLIAM CLAUDE3 COLSTON (SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1) was born July 28,
    1877 in Williamson County, Tennessee, and died September 19, 1962 in
    Crockett County, Tennessee. He married CYNTHIA PIERCE October 03, 1900 in
    Tennessee, daughter of WILLIAM PIERCE and SUSAN BISHOP. She was born April
    22, 1881 in Henderson County, Tennessee, and died April 30, 1965 in Dyer
    County, Tennessee
    Notes for WILLIAM CLAUDE COLSTON:

This is the obituary for William Claud Colston:
W. C. COLSTON 9/19/62
W. C. Colston, longtime resident of Bonicord and Friendship, died at
the home of his daughter, Miss Ethel Colston at Bonicord Wednesday.
Mr. Colston’s body was at the Sudbury Funeral Home at Friendship until time
for the funeral services. Final rites were said at 3 o’clock Friday
afternoon at the Mt. Moriah Primitive Baptist churc near Friendship. The
Rev, J. D. Holder of Corinth, Miss., pastor of the church, officiated.
Burial was in the church cemetery with Sudbury’s in charge of the
arrangements. Born in 1877 in Williamson County, Tenn., Mr. Colston had
lived in this West Tennessee area for 55 years. He was married to Mrs.
Cynthia Pierce Colston, who survives him, in 1900. Mrs. Colston, who is 81,
makes her home with her daughter at Bonicord. She is presently confined to
the home with a broken hip.
Besides his wife and daughter, he is survived by two other daughters, Mrs.
Johnny Fisher of Maury City and Mrs. Thomas Davis of Chestnut Bluff; two
sons, J. B. Colston of Tigrett and Wirth Colston of Memphis; a sister, Mrs.
Maud Redden of Jackson, Tennessee; 18 grandchildren and 7 great-
grandchildren.

More About WILLIAM CLAUDE COLSTON:
Burial: September 21, 1962, Crockett County, Tennessee
Notes for CYNTHIA PIERCE:
She is buried at Mt. Moriah Cemetery near Friendship, Tennessee in
Crockett County.
She died of kidney poison.
Married William Claud Colston
This is her obituary:
5/6/65
Services were held Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Mt. Moriah
Primitive Baptist Church near Friendship for Mrs. Cynthia Pierce Colston.
Wylie Sammons of Memphis officiated. Burial was in the church with Sudbury
Funeral Home in charge.
Mrs. Colston, age 84, died at the home of her daughter, Ethel Colston at
Bonicord, Friday. She had lived in the Bonicord community for 58 years.
She is survived by two other daughters, Mrs. Ruth Fisher of Maury City, Mrs.
Hygiene Davis of Chestnutt Bluff; two sons, J.B. Colston of Tigrett and
Wirth Colston of Memphis; two brothers, Bob Pierce of Turell, Arkansas and
J.J. Pierce of Mt. Rainier, Maryland; 18 grandchildren and 13 great-
grandchildren.

More About CYNTHIA PIERCE:
Burial: May 02, 1965, Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Crockett County, Tennessee

Children of WILLIAM COLSTON and CYNTHIA PIERCE are:
i. ETHEL4 COLSTON, b. July 21, 1901, Henderson County, Tennessee; d. August
07, 1988, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee; m. PAUL JILIAN MCCULLOUGH, May
20, 1946, Hernando, Missippi; b. September 1889.

Notes for ETHEL COLSTON:
Ethel “Sis” kept a diary from age 21 yrs until 1986 before she went into
nursing home.
She was in nursing home at: Mid-South Christian Nursing Home in
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee.

Burial: August 09, 1988, Sudbury Cemetery, Friendship, Crockett County,
Tennessee
Divorced: January 15, 1958

  1. ii. WILLAM WIRTH COLSTON, b. October 29, 1907, Dyer County, Tennessee;
    d. November 02, 1975, Millington, Shelby County, Tennessee.
    iii. NINA FAY COLSTON, b. May 11, 1910, Crockett County, Tennessee129,130;
    d. June 15, 1911, Crockett County, Tennessee.
  2. iv. JIM BOB COLSTON, b. October 19, 1912, Judsonia, White County,
    Arkansas; d. October 15, 1972, Shelby County, Tennessee.
  3. v. RUTH CLELL COLSTON, b. April 20, 1915, Dyer County, Tennessee; d.
    December 26, 1994, Haywood County, Brownsville, Tennessee.
    vi. CLYDE PIERCE COLSTON, b. April 07, 1917, Dyer County, Tennessee135,136;
    d. September 30, 1921, Crockett County, Tennessee.

Notes for CLYDE PIERCE COLSTON:
Clyde was born Saturday April 7, 1917 in Bonicord, Dyer County, Tennessee.
He was delivered by Dr. C. T. Nash.
Died Friday September 30, 1921 at the age of 4 yrs., 5 months, 23 days.
He is buried at Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Crockett County, Tennessee.

More About CLYDE PIERCE COLSTON:
Burial: October 02, 1921, Crockett County, Tennessee

  1. vii. EDITH HYGIENE COLSTON, b. June 21, 1919, Dyer County, Tennessee; d.
    March 11, 1998, Alamo,Crockett County, Tennessee.
  2. SARAH MAUDIE3 COLSTON (SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1) was born February
    10, 1887 in Davidson Co., TN; near Nashville, and died July 26, 1963 in
    Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee. She married WILLIAM ALBERT REDDING, SR.
    January 08, 1906 in Dyersburg, Dyer County, Tennessee. He was born June 24,
    1887 in Hardin Co., TN, and died March 25, 1965 in Tennessee.

Notes for SARAH MAUDIE COLSTON:
She was buried in 1963 in Ridgecrest Cemetery, Madison Co., Jackson,
Tennessee.
She died on 27 Jul 1963 in Tennessee.
Sarah Maudie Colston Redding was said to have been a very religious lady,
(furnished by Lucille Redding Perrydore). Sarah’s husband was a minister,
and son U. L., Harrell, and daughter, Exie Thelma.

More About SARAH MAUDIE COLSTON:
Burial: July 28, 1963, Ridgecrest Cemetery146

More About WILLIAM ALBERT REDD ING, SR.:
Burial: March 27, 1965, Ridgecrest, Jackson, Tennessee

  1. VALLIE LEE4 COULSTON (ROBINSON LUTHER3 COLSTON, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM
    (BILL)1) was born in Tennessee. She married (1) MARSHALL REED. She
    married (2) ? MARSHALL.

Notes for VALLIE LEE COULSTON:
Vallie’s first husband was a Marshall (last name). According to
Exie Thelma Redding Coate, he left to go to the store and never returned
home. Nobody looked for him, so he was declared legally dead after 7 years.
She then married a Reed.

More About VALLIE LEE COULSTON:
Residence: 1982, Mason, Tennessee
Children of VALLIE COULSTON and MARSHALL REED are:
i. ALMOS5 REED.
ii. ELTON REED.

  1. CALLIE VIOLA4 COULSTON (ROBINSON LUTHER3 COLSTON, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM
    (BILL)1) was born
    in Tennessee. She married a man with last name of SAVAGE.

More About CALLIE VIOLA COULSTON:
Residence: 1982, Stanton, Tennessee

Children of CALLIE COULSTON and SAVAGE are:
i. PORTER MORGAN5 SAVAGE.
ii. VIRGINIA SAVAGE.
iii. BETTY SAVAGE.
iv. JOHN SAVAGE.
v. MIKE SAVAGE.

  1. JAMES MACLIN4 COULSTON (ROBINSON LUTHER3 COLSTON, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM
    (BILL)1) was born
    in Tennessee, and died Bef. 1982.

Children of JAMES MACLIN COULSTON are:
i. DOROTHY MAY5 COULSTON.
ii. FRANCES COULSTON.
iii. PEGGY COULSTON.
iv. HELEN COULSTON.
v. PETE COULSTON.

  1. KATIE BELL4 COULSTON (ROBINSON LUTHER3 COLSTON, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM
    (BILL)1) was born in Tennessee. She married SHARP
    More About KATIE BELL COULSTON:
    Residence: 1982, Keeling, Tennessee
  2. SR. WILLIAM LUTHER “BIG DADDY”4 COULSTON (ROBINSON LUTHER3 COLSTON,
    SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1) was born November 22, 1901 in Tennessee203,204,
    and died June 03, 1982 in Tipton Co. Hospital, Covington, Tennessee. He
    married ZORA MAE “BIG MAMMA” WEBB July 20, 1920 in Tennessee. She was born
    December 19, 1903 in Tennessee, and died February 06, 1979 in Haywood park
    Hospital, Mason, Tennessee.

Notes for SR. WILLIAM LUTHER “BIG DADDY” COULSTON:
Exie Coates Genealogy Book 1:
Robinson Luther Colston & Martha Jane Pierce family, 9 children:

  1. William Luther Colston born 22 Nov 1901. “Bouge”
    Obit of Mr. W. L. Coulston, Sr., age 81 [MISPRINT FOR AGE???]:
    Died in Tipton Co. Hospital in Covington Thursday June 3 1982 following
    a long illness, Mr. W. L. Coulston, Sr., age 81. Funeral services Chapel of
    the Brownsville Funeral Home Sat. June 5. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery in
    Mason, TN. Pallbearers: Grandsons: William R. Coulston, Lawrence D.
    Coulston, Jr., Robert Coulston, Jeff Coulston, Joe Coulston, Terry Coulston,
    Andy Coulston, Jimmy Coulston. Survivors: 8 sons: W. L. Coulston, Jr., Paul
    J. Coulston, Lawrence Dennis Coulston, Bobby E. Coulston, Donnie Coulston,
    all of Mason, Tenn; David Coulston, L. J. Coulston, both of Brownsville;
    Earl Coulston, Atlanta, GA. Two daughters: Mrs. Velma L. Reimert, Mrs.
    Martha S. Sharp, both of Fort Worth, Tex.; four sisters: Mrs. Vallie Reed,
    Mason, Mrs. Katie Bell Sharp, Keeling, Mrs. Viola Savage, Stanton, Mrs.
    Annie Mae Buckhead, Friendship, and 35 grandchildren, and 41 great
    grandchildren.

Exie Coates Genealogy Book 1:
Deaths in the Colston Family:
William Luther Colston June 3 1982.
1910 Census, District 2, Dyer Co., TN, SD9 ED16 Sheet 6A, p192, 22 Apr: 84 #84 Colston, R. L. head mw 38 married 1 time 16 yrs. TN

farmer own account owns free; Martha J. wife 36 married 1 time 16 yrs.
mother of 8, 6 living TN; Wallie L., daughter fw 12 single TN; Allie L.,
daughter fw 10 s TN; William L., son 8 s TN; James M., son 5 s TN; Annie M.,
daughter 2 s TN; Viola, dtr 7/12 s TN.

More About SR. WILLIAM LUTHER “BIG DADDY” COULSTON:
Burial: June 05, 1982, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Mason, Tennessee
Census: 1910, Dyer Co., Tennessee
Residence: 1979, Mason, Tennessee
Social Security Number: 409-54-8520

Notes for ZORA MAE “BIG MAMMA” WEBB:
Zora Colston Webb was 100 % full blooded Cherokee according to Exie
Thelma Redding Coate, who was her granddaughter.
Obit for Mrs. Zora Webb Coulston: Feb 6 1979:
Died in emergency room at Haywood Park Hospital Tuesday evening Feb.
6th following a long illness, Mrs. Zora Webb Coulston, age 75. Funeral in
Chapel of the Brownsville Funeral Home Thurs Feb 8 1979. Pallbearers:
William R. Coulston, Lawrence D. Coulston Jr., Benny Coulston, Jeff
Coulston, Joe Coulston, Terry Coulston, Larry Reimert, Ronnie Reimert.
Survivors: husband William L. Coulston, Sr., Mason, Sons, R. L. Coulston,
Covington, W. L. Coulston Jr., Mason, L. J. Coulston, Brownsville, Paul
James Coulston, Mason, Lawrence Dennis Coulston, Mason, Bobby E. Coulston,
Mason, Earl Coulston, Charleston, S.C., David Coulston, Brownsville, Donnie
Coulston, Mason; daughters Mrs. Velma L. Reimert, Mrs. Martha S. Davisson,
both of Ft. Worth, Tex., 35 grandchildren, and 31 great-grandchildren.

More About ZORA MAE “BIG MAMMA” WEBB:
Burial: February 08, 1979, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Mason, Tennessee

Marriage Notes for WILLIAM COULSTON and ZORA WEBB:
Exie Coates Genealogy Book1:
William Luther Colston Jr. born 22 Nov 1901; married Zora Webb, born 19
Dec 1903; married July 20 1920. Twelve children:

  1. ADLEE (GENERAL)4 MCALISTER (CORA JANE3 COLSTON, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM
    (BILL)1). He married (1) NELLIE POWELL in Dyer County, Tennessee. He
    married (2) RUTH TIBBS.

Children of ADLEE MCALISTER and NELLIE POWELL are:
i. THELMA5 MCALLISTER.
ii. MARY NELL MCALLISTER.
iii. NATHAN ISSAC MCALLISTER.
iv. ERMA POWELL MCALLISTER.

  1. WILLAM WIRTH4 COLSTON (WILLIAM CLAUDE3, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1)
    was born October 29, 1907 in Dyer County, Tennessee, and died November 02,
    1975 in Millington, Shelby County, Tennessee. He married (1) LORENE PERRY
    February 16, 1932 in Obion County, Tennessee. She was born March 03, 1914
    in Crockett County, Tennessee. He married (2) LOUISE INGLE March 12, 1942
    in Hernando, Mississippi. She was born December 20, 1924 in Marion County,
    Alabama.

Notes for WILLAM WIRTH COLSTON:
William “Wirth” was married Louise by E. R. McCall (justice of the peace)
in Hernando, Mississippi
Marriage Notes for WILLAM COLSTON and LORINE PERRY:
married by Esq. S. A. McDade in Obion County, Tennessee

Notes for LOUISE INGLE:
Louise parent’s:
H. C. Ingle born in Alabama
Leona Webb Ingle born in Kentucky. Leona died December 20, 1954.

William Wirth Colston’s obituary:
WILLIAM W. COLSTON — 11/3/1975
William W. Colston, 68, of 1279 Locke Cuba Road, retired employee
of General Motors Corp. in Memphis, yesterday at his home. He leaves his
wife, Mrs. Louise I. Colston; three sons, W.H. Colston, D.W. Colston, and
P.R. Colston, all of Memphis; three sisters, Ethel Colston of Bonicord,
Tennessee, Mrs. Hygiene Thomas of Dyersburg, Tennessee,
and Ruth Colston and one grandchild. Memphis Funeral Home on Union.

Mrs. Hygiene Thomas is actually Mrs. Hygiene Davis (her husband’s first
name is Thomas), this was a misprint. Ruth Colston is actually, Mrs. Ruth
Fisher of Maury City, Tennessee.
This is also a missprint.

Wirth died of Hypertensive cardiovascular disease.
He was retired refrigerator salesman.

William “Wirth” was married Louise by E. R. McCall (justice of the peace)
in Hernando, Mississippi

Marriage Notes for WILLAM COLSTON and LORINE PERRY:
married by Esq. S. A. McDade in Obion County, Tennessee

Notes for LOUISE INGLE:
Louise parent’s:
H. C. Ingle born in Alabama
Leona Webb Ingle born in Kentucky. Leona died December 20, 1954.

More About WILLAM WIRTH COLSTON:
Burial: November 04, 1975

Notes for LORENE PERRY:
Lorene’s parents:
Bob Perry and Hattie Goforth Perry
Hattie died February 20, 1926

  1. JIM BOB4 COLSTON (WILLIAM CLAUDE3, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1) was
    born October 19, 1912 in Judsonia, White County, Arkansas, and died October
    15, 1972 in Shelby County, Tennessee. He married LOUISE BURSE September
    01, 1934 in Crockett County, Tennessee. She was born March 12, 1913 in
    Tennessee, and died May 22, 1979 in Jackson Madison County Hospital,
    Tennessee.

Notes for JIM BOB COLSTON:
Jim Bob, also known as J.B., was 59 yrs, 11 months, and 26 days old when he
died. He was baptized at the Friendship Church of Christ in Friendship,
Tennessee in Crockett County on September 9, 1926 by H. M. Phillips. Dr.
Henderson delivered him at birth in Judsonia, Arkansas.
This is his obituary from the newspaper:
TIGRETT — 10/16/1972
J. B. Colston, 59, Tennessee Highway Department employee, died at
4 p.m., yesterday in his home. Services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow
at Friendship Church of Christ with burial in Belle Vernon Cemetery with
Friendship Funeral Home in charge. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Louise Colston;
a duaghter, Mrs. Shirley Meeks of Ypsilanti, Michigan, three sisters, Miss
Ethel Colston of Friendship and Mrs. Ruth Fisher and Mrs. Hugh Davis, both
of Halls and a brother, Wirth Colston of Millington.

*Mrs. Hugh Davis has to be Hygiene Davis-husband is Thomas Davis.
This was a missprint.

More About JIM BOB COLSTON:
Burial: October 17, 1972, Bell Vernon Cemetery, Crockett County, Friendship,
Tennessee

Notes for LOUISE BURSE:
Louise’s obituary:
MRS. LOUISE COLSTON — 5-30-1979
Services for Mrs. Louise Colston, 66, of Tigrett were held at 3 p.m.
Thursday at Friendship Church of Christ with Jack Parham officiating.
Burial in Belle Vernon Cemetery with Friendship Funeral Home.
Mrs. Colston died Tuesday at Jackson Madison County Hospital after
a short illness.
She was the wife of J. B. Colston, who preceeded her in death about 6 years
ago.
She leaves one daughter, Mrs. Shirley Meeks of Ypsilanti, Michigan;
one sister, Mrs. Lottie Poston of Maury City; one brother, Ernest Jones of
near Halls.

More About LOUISE BURSE:
Burial: May 24, 1979, Belle Vernon Cemetery, Friendship, Tennessee

  1. RUTH CLELL4 COLSTON (WILLIAM CLAUDE3, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1)
    was born April 20, 1915 in Dyer County, Tennessee293,294, and died December
    26, 1994 in Haywood County, Brownsville, Tennessee294. She married JOHNNIE
    PATTERSON FISHER June 30, 1929 in Crockett County, tennessee297, son of
    DANIEL FISHER and LOTTIE STEPHENSON.
    He was born January 08, 1909 in Crockett County, Tennessee, and died May 10,
    1996 in Jackson-Madison County, Tennessee.

Notes for RUTH CLELL COLSTON:
Ruth died of heart attack. She was in the hospital at Brownsville, Haywood
County, Tennessee. She is buried at OldField Cemetery also known as FLOYD’S
CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH CEMETERY , Chestnut Bluff, Crockett County,
Tennessee. Buried 12 – 28 – 91
Married in Crockett County by E. I. Hellen, J.P.

More About RUTH CLELL COLSTON:Burial: December 28, 1994, Crockett County,
Tennessee

Notes for JOHNNIE PATTERSON FISHER:
This is from the Obituary in the newspaper:
Johnie Patterson Fisher
Johnie Patterson Fisher, 87, of Maury City, died Friday at
Jackson-Madison County General Hospital.
He was a retired farmer and a member of the Maury City Church of
Christ.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the chapel of halls Funeral
Home. Burial will be in the Floyds Chapel Cemetery near Maury City.
The widower of Ruth Colston Fisher, he leaves seven daughters,
Sue Massengill of Dyersburg, Doris Stutts of Humboldt, Joan Burks of
Maury City, Bobbie Nell Stephenson and Cynthia Eaton, both of Bartlett, Ava
Morgan of Collierville and Bonnie Williams of Bells; six sons, James Fisher
of San Angelo, Texas, Dan Fisher of Aberdeen, Miss., Leroy Fisher , Johnny
Ray Fisher and Marty Fisher, all of Memphis, and Roy Fisher of Starkville,
Miss.;two sisters, Mattie Riddick of Alamo and Mamie Lou Muncher of Maury
City; a brother, Asa Fisher of Maury City; 27 grandchildren and 13
great-grandchildren.

FLOYD’S CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH CEMETERY (Also known as Oldfield
Cemetery) in Chestnutt Bluff,
Crockett County, Tennessee.

  1. EDITH HYGIENE4 COLSTON (WILLIAM CLAUDE3, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1)
    was born June 21, 1919 in Dyer County, Tennessee, and died March 11, 1998 in
    Alamo,Crockett County, Tennessee. She married THOMAS DAVIS325,326 March
    07, 1940 in Marion, Arkansas. He was born September 12, 1914, and died
    February 07, 1992 in Crockett County, Tennessee.

Notes for THOMAS DAVIS:
Thomas’s parents were:
Ambro Davis and Lubie Dunn Davis

Generation No. 4

  1. RUBY5 SHARP (KATIE BELL4 COULSTON, ROBINSON LUTHER3 COLSTON, SOLMON
    M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1)
  2. SR. ROBERT LUTHER (R.L.)5 COULSTON (WILLIAM LUTHER “BIG DADDY”4,
    ROBINSON LUTHER3 COLSTON, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1) was born September
    15, 1923 in Tennessee, and died Bet. 1979 – 1982 in Covington, Tennesee. He
    married SYLVIA JANET CRANFORD.

More About SR. ROBERT LUTHER (R.L.) COULSTON:
Residence: 1979, Covington, Tennesee

  1. JR. WILLIAM LUTHER5 COULSTON (WILLIAM LUTHER “BIG DADDY”4, ROBINSON
    LUTHER3 COLSTON, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1) was born August 21, 1925, and
    died January 2000 in Tennessee. He married FRANCES WOODY.

More About JR. WILLIAM LUTHER COULSTON:
Residence: 1979, Mason, Tennessee

  1. VELMA LEE5 COULSTON (WILLIAM LUTHER “BIG DADDY”4, ROBINSON LUTHER3
    COLSTON, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1) was born October 29, 1927 in
    Covington, Tennesee. She married WALTER GEORGE REIMERT January 26, 1945 in
    Arkansas. He was born March 18, 1921 in Lower Macungie Twp., Lehigh Co.,
    Pennsylvania

More About VELMA LEE COULSTON:
Occupation: Real Estate Broker

Although, Walter’s family normally attended church in Lehigh County, all the
children were baptized in Kutztown, Berks Co.
Walter was stationed in Arkansas Walter lived in the same household with his
mother and father, and his paternal grandparents.

More About WALTER GEORGE REIMERT:
Baptism: April 03, 1921, Kutztown, Maxatawny Twp., Berks Co., Pennsylvania
Military: 1945, United States Army
Occupation: Farmer / Welder
Residence: Bet. 1960 – 1998, Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas
This is where Walter was stationed when he was in the army.

  1. LITTLE JIM5 COULSTON (WILLIAM LUTHER “BIG DADDY”4, ROBINSON LUTHER3
    COLSTON, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1)was born December 25, 1929 in
    Covington, Tennesee. He married ROSY NELL CONNOR August 27, 1948.
    More About LITTLE JIM COULSTON:
    Residence: 1979, Brownsville, Tennessee
  2. MARTHA SUE5 COULSTON (WILLIAM LUTHER “BIG DADDY”4, ROBINSON LUTHER3
    COLSTON, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1) was born June 12, 1932 in Covington,
    Tennesee. She married SR. ROY STANLEY DAVISSON. He was born October 23,
    1925, and died December 21, 1968 in Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas.

More About MARTHA SUE COULSTON:
Residence: 1998, Bridgeport, Texas

  1. PAUL JAMES5 COULSTON (WILLIAM LUTHER “BIG DADDY”4, ROBINSON LUTHER3
    COLSTON, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1) was born August 22, 1934 in Covington,
    Tennesee. He married BETTY ANN WILLIAMS November 25, 1953.

More About PAUL JAMES COULSTON:
Residence: 1979, Mason, Tennessee

  1. SR. LAWRENCE DENNIS5 COULSTON (WILLIAM LUTHER “BIG DADDY”4, ROBINSON
    LUTHER3 COLSTON, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1)was born July 30, 1937 in
    Covington, Tennesee. He married BARBARA ANN WOODS August 16, 1955. She was
    born June 24, 1937.

More About SR. LAWRENCE DENNIS COULSTON:
Residence: 1979, Mason, Tennessee

  1. BOBBY EUGENE5 COULSTON (WILLIAM LUTHER “BIG DADDY”4, ROBINSON LUTHER3
    COLSTON, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1) was born October 02, 1939 in
    Covington, Tennesee.
    He married ANNA TAPP February 22, 1958. She was born February 18, 1940.
    More About BOBBY EUGENE COULSTON:
    Residence: 1979, Mason, Tennessee
  2. ALFRED EARL5 COULSTON (WILLIAM LUTHER “BIG DADDY”4, ROBINSON LUTHER3
    COLSTON, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1) was born February 22, 1942 in
    Covington, Tennesee.
    He married NELLIE SUE YARBROUGH August 11, 1961. She was born July 22,
    1943.
    More About ALFRED EARL COULSTON:
    Residence: 1979, Charleston, South Carolina
  3. DAVID CARL5 COULSTON (WILLIAM LUTHER “BIG DADDY”4, ROBINSON LUTHER3
    COLSTON, SOLMON M.2, WILLIAM (BILL)1) was born August 14, 1944 in Covington,
    Tennesee.
    He married CAROLYN MARIE BARLOW August 30, 1963. She was born June 25,
    1943.
    More About DAVID CARL COULSTON:
    Residence: 1979, Brownsville, Tennessee

John Climer and Gracy Simpson Descendants

Posted on by Jim Daniel

JOHN W. CLIMER was born about 1826 in NC, and died before the 1880 census. He married 27 Nov 1843 in Madison Co, TN, to GRACY SIMPSON. She was born in 1816 in TN, died in 1899, and is buried in the Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN. Please view the Ancestors of John W. Climer, which was provided by .

The Children of JOHN W. CLIMER and GRACY SIMPSON
(1) NANCY C. CLIMER was born in 1845 in TN, died in 1908, and is buried in the Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co, TN. She married 11 Aug 1870 in Haywood Co., TN, to JIM BRICE, who died before the 1880 census

Children of NANCY C. CLIMER and JIM BRICE
(a) Magnolia (Nola) Brice b: Dec 1873 in TN
(b) John William Brice b: 1875 in TN d: 1959 Burial: Archer’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN
………………+Genora Ardella (Jennie) Gilliland b: 1884 in TN d: 1916 Burial: Archer’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN m: 10 Jan 1904 in Crockett Co., TN Father: John F. Gilliland Mother: Sarah Ann Hathcott

(c) Marion Jasper Brice b: 1875 in TN d: 1948 Burial: Maury City Cemetery, Maury City, Crockett Co., TN [view tombstone and view obit]

(d) James E. (Jimmie) Brice (female) b: 1877 in TN d: 1942 Burial: Maury City Cemetery, Maury City, Crockett Co., TN [view tombstone]
………………+Henry L. Manning b: 1878 in TN d: 1939 Burial: Maury City Cemetery, Maury City, Crockett Co., TN [view tombstone] m: 5 Dec 1900 in Crockett Co., TN Father: Ruben Thomas Manning Mother: Rosa Bell Pearson

(2) MARGARET J. CLIMER was born about 1849 in TN. She married 1st 18 Aug 1870 in Haywood Co., TN, to J. D. BRICE. She married 2nd 13 Dec 1879 in Crockett Co., TN, to JOHN W. FELTS. He was born about 1829 in TN

Children of MARGARET J. CLIMER and J. D. BRICE
(a) George W. Brice b: Abt. 1871 in TN
………………+Emma b: Apr 1877 in TN m: 12 Sep 1894 in Crockett Co., TN
(b) Milton F. Brice b: Abt. 1873 in TN d: Bef. Jun 1900
………………+Sallie S. Climer b: 1876 in TN d: 1912 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN m: 25 Apr 1895 in Crockett Co., TN Father: Milton C. Climer Mother: Martha E. Floyd

(3) MILTON C. CLIMER was born in 1853 in TN, died in 1936, and is buried in the Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN [view tombstone]. He married 17 Mar 1875 in Crockett Co., TN, to MARTHA E. FLOYD, the daughter of Washington Floyd Mother: Emerline _. She was born in 1853 in NC, died in 1929, and is buried in the Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN

Children of MILTON C. CLIMER and MARTHA E. FLOYD
(a) Jenetta Climer b: Abt. 1876 in TN
(b) Sallie S. Climer b: 1876 in TN d: 1912 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN [view tombstone]
…………..1st Husband of Sallie S. Climer: ………………+Milton F. Brice b: Abt. 1873 in TN d: Bef. Jun 1900 m: 25 Apr 1895 in Crockett Co., TN Father: J. D. Brice Mother: Margaret J. Climer …………..2nd Husband of Sallie S. Climer:
………………+William J. Lents b: 28 Jun 1878 in TN d: 26 Jan 1941 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN m: 20 Aug 1902 in Crockett Co., TN, date of license Father: William Lents Mother: Amanda S. __

(c) James Washington (Jim) Climer b: 1879 in TN d: 1961 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN [view tombstone]
…………..1st Wife of James Washington (Jim) Climer: ………………+Maggie “Villa” Richardson b: 21 Feb 1884 d: 8 Apr 1922 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN m: 4 Nov 1900 in Crockett Co., TN Father: Robert (Bob) Richardson Mother: Elizabeth Anne (Annie) Sanders …………..2nd Wife of James Washington (Jim) Climer:
………………+Margaret Eugenia (Jennie) Robbins b: 21 Nov 1895 in Crockett Co., TN d: 18 Mar 1983 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN [view tombstone] m: 28 Jul 1926 in Crockett Co., TN Father: John Henry Robbins Mother: Nancy E. Cochran [Margaret Eugenia (Jennie) Robbins was married 1st to Albert Hutchison]

(d) William Milton Climer b: 3 May 1881 in Crockett Co., TN d: 23 Jan 1970 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN [view tombstone]
…………..1st Wife of William Milton Climer: ………………+Dora Frances Cates b: 1877 in TN d: 1930 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN m: 16 Jul 1899 in Crockett Co., TN Father: Richard G. Cates, Jr. Mother: Martha Lewis [ adds that William & Dora had a daughter, Ollie Mae Climer, b: 21 Mar 1908 in Crockett Co., TN, d: 26 Aug 1945 in Crockett Co., TN, and is buried in the Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN. She married 27 Dec 1924 in Crockett Co., TN, to J. B. Wright, the son of Louis C. (Bud) Wright and Ella Pate. He was b: 21 Mar 1907 in Crockett Co., TN, d: 18 Mar 1980 in Flint, MI, and is buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Clio, MI. …………..2nd Wife of William Milton Climer:
………………+Estelle Ellison b: 1900 d: 1987 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN

(e) Martha Tennessee (Tennie) Climer b: 8 Jan 1888 in TN d: 22 Jan 1957 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN [view tombstone]
………………+William Henry Chronister b: 17 Mar 1878 in TN d: 23 Mar 1948 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN m: 13 Mar 1904 in Crockett Co., TN Father: James W. Chronister Mother: Elizabeth Butterry

(f) Lula Mai Climer b: 16 Sep 1890 in TN d: 14 Dec 1979 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN [view tombstone]
………………+Clarence C. White b: 25 Aug 1883 in TN d: 27 Aug 1971 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN m: 4 Dec 1910 in Crockett Co., TN Father: James Henry White Mother: Margaret Elizabeth (Lizzie) Jones

(g) Maggie Ethel (Bedie) Climer b: 21 May 1895 in Crockett Co., TN d: 8 Aug 1983 Burial: Maury City Cemetery, Maury City, Crockett Co., TN [view tombstone]
………………+Uron “Otis” Mansfield b: 18 May 1888 in Crockett Co., TN d: 30 Jan 1962 Burial: Maury City Cemetery, Maury City, Crockett Co., TN m: 18 Jan 1914 in Crockett Co., TN Father: James Henry (Jack) Mansfield Mother: Nancy E. Swain

(4) FRANCIS M. CLIMER was born about 1854 in TN , died before the 1900 census. He married 14 Sep 1872 in Crockett Co., TN, to MARY A. E. FLOYD, the daughter of James Floyd and Sarah F. (Sallie) _. She was born about Sep 1849 in NC.

Children of FRANCIS M. CLIMER and MARY A. E. FLOYD
(a) Alice Climer b: Abt. 1874 in TN
(b) John B. Climer b: 31 Jul 1876 in Crockett Co., TN d: 8 Feb 1938 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN [view tombstone]
………………+Lucy Ann Bates b: 27 Jan 1879 in AL d: 11 Jan 1948 in Friendship, Crockett Co., TN Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN m: 30 Nov 1897 in Crockett Co., TN Father: John W. Bates Mother: Mary Jane Standland

(c) M. Jasper Climer b: 1881 in TN d: 1952 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN [view tombstone]
………………+Tempie J. Glenn b: 1884 in TN d: 1963 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN m: 26 Jun 1904 in Crockett Co., TN Father: James Glenn Mother: Artie Lithey

(d) Sarah “Gracie” Climer b: 1888 in TN d: 1924 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN [view obit]
………………+William Wesley Collins b: 5 Mar 1869 in TN d: 2 May 1944 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN m: 20 Jul 1902 in Crockett Co., TN [view tombstone]

(5) Mary T. Climer b: Abt. 1857 in TN

Natalie Huntley – 2008

John W. Climer Ancestors

Posted on by Jim Daniel

Ancestors of John W. Climer
Generation 1

  1. John W. Climer son of Aaron Climer and Forby Forbis was born in 1826 in North Carolina. [Click here for his descendants]

Gracy Simpson was born in 1816 in Haywood, Tennessee, USA. She died in 1899 in Crockett, Tennessee, USA.

John W Climer and Gracy Simpson were married on 27 Nov 1843 in Madison County Tennessee. They had 5 children.

Generation 2

  1. Aaron Climer son of John Climer and Elizabeth was born about 1785 in North Carolina. He died about 1836 in Guilford County, North Carolina.
  2. Forby Forbis.

Aaron Climer and Forby Forbis were married on 27 Nov 1823 in Guilford County, North Carolina. They had the following children:

  • 1. i.
    John W Climer was born in 1826 in North Carolina. He married Gracy Simpson on 27 Nov 1843 in Madison County Tennessee.

ii.
Milton Climer was born about 1829 in North Carolina. He married Barbara Oliver on 25 Dec 1854 in Madison County Tennessee. He died between 1880-1900.

iii.
Carroll Climer was born about 1831 in North Carolina. He married Mary C. Vandygriff in Jan 1853 in Hardeman County, Tennessee.

iv.
Polly Climer was born in North Carolina.

Generation 3

  1. John Climer was born about 1746 in Guilford County, North Carolina. He died on 18 Sep 1826 in Guilford County, North Carolina.
  2. Elizabeth was born about 1750 in North Carolina, USA.

John Climer and Elizabeth married. They had the following children:

i.
Sarah Climer was born about 1772 in Guilford County, North Carolina.

ii.
Mary B. Climer was born about 1774. She married John Schoolfield on 23 Apr 1816.

iii.
Thomas Climer was born in 1778 in Guilford County, North Carolina. He married Margrait Henece on 10 Sep 1792 in Guilford County, North Carolina. He died in North Carolina, United States.

iv.
Dudly Climer was born about 1780 in North Carolina, USA. He married Mary Orman on 28 Nov 1797 in Guilford County, North Carolina. He died after 1836 in prob Hickman County Tennessee.

v.
John Climer was born about 1782. He married Cresa Caps on 29 Jul 1812 in Guilford County, North Carolina. He died before 1826.

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Ancestors of John W Climer
Generation 3 (con’t)
vi.
Charles Climer was born about 1783 in Guilford County, North Carolina. He died before Sep 1826 in Guilford County, North Carolina.

  • 2. vii.
    Aaron Climer was born about 1785 in North Carolina. He married Forby Forbis on 27 Nov 1823 in Guilford County, North Carolina. He died about 1836 in Guilford County, North Carolina.

viii.
William Climer was born in 1790 in Guilford County, North Carolina. He died between 1867-1870 in Guilford County, North Carolina.

ix.
Elizabeth Climer was born in 1791 in North Carolina, USA.

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Life with Grandmother Cates

Posted on by Jim Daniel

My Dad and I came to live with my Grandmother Cates in spring of 1926 after my mother’s death and lived there until he re-married September 20, 1928. I was a little less than 2 years old when we came to live with Mama and between 4 and 5 years when he remarried.
As young as I was, I can remember much about the circumstances of Mama’s life and things she told me then and later. Things she told me as well as other people. Mama said my grandfather knew he was going to die after he had the flu in 1919. Mama had two small girls and my father who was a teenager. My father had to go on his own but my grandfather was worried about Mama with 2 little girls.

My grandfather on his death bed planned and had had built a house in Alamo and had my grandmother and family moved from a farm on the Norville Cemetery Road to the house on what was and still is known as “Goat Hill”. However, Mama disliked the nickname very much. The house was about a block and half west of “Little Kings” business. The property consisted of the whole front of the block it was located on except the lot on the east side of the house.

Mama was as the old saying goes ‘you can take the girl out of the country, but not the country out of the girl’ and did not like people too close to her. On the west side of the house, she had a space for a barn and a space for a cow and hog. In her backyard she had a chicken house and some small chicken houses for little chicks just hatched. These little chicken houses only came out once a year. I used to set mud pies on top of them. One time Mama sent me out to collect my mud pies as she would turn these little chicken houses over to air and clean. Behind the backyard, she had a rather large garden with an outhouse just inside the gate to the right, which had a peach tree next to it. When I did something bad, she would not say a word but head for the peach tree. Then she would take a limb, strip it of leaves and I knew what was coming. I would start screaming although she just swatted my legs.

Well, Mama did not like living to someone else so she rented the lot to her East of house, which she did not Own, planted it in cotton, which she and the girls picked and with the proceeds bought the lot and used it for a cow pasture. This was the situation when I arrived.

I can never forget people’s ingenuity in those days.

I forgot to say in the back yard, there was a well-house which consisted of an open space with a roof and in which was a long handled pump. Dad put me a rope swing here but attached to this sheltered space was a smoke house with rock salt for preservation of meat and a place to hang hams and then another room used for other different purposes. In the yard, there was a coal storage building, which was west of the well house and more to the front. (I have to mention that everything looked much bigger in those days than what was actually the case.)

Now, remembering above, I thought the front yard was huge, which it was not. Nevertheless, there was big oak tree to the west of a front porch that went all across the front of the house. Dad put me another swing there and then there was a vacant yard in front of the barnyard.

The house had several steps to climb before reaching the porch level. Then there was a big swing on each end of the porch. In the summer, Mama would bank pots of flowers all across the front porch and I was alerted if I began to get too close. There were also bush trees in front of the porch in the ground.

I faintly remember one year Dad digging a room like hole in the back yard with shelves around it. Mama put her flowers there for the winter with glass over the top so sun could get in.

In the fall, she would take apples, cut them in pieces, place them on an empty flour sack and spread them on top of smoke house to dry so we could have dried apples for different purposes. I might add that in the Fall, Mama always had a bowl full of baked sweet potatoes on her kitchen table which we could eat any time.

As Mama had a cow, she fixed her own milk and sold some to neighbors. She had a small well outside her kitchen window with a cover. But inside, there were narrow boards around the top with nails protruding. She or sometimes me if a small bucket would lower little buckets with lids on them into the well, which had a string, attached. Then we would fasten the string to a nail and when we wanted one, all we had to do is untie the string and pull the particular bucket up. The milk was always cool when pulled up.

We could only get ice on weekends and had to place signs in the window as to how much we wanted which usually used for making ice cream. I sometimes turned the freezer when the turning was easy but when the turning got difficult, someone else would and I would take turns sitting on the freezer top to hold it down.

Mama churned her own milk into buttermilk and separated the butter. I would churn for a while but would not last long. She put the butter into round molds that had designs for the butter.

Another thing in those days was that wash day was Monday. There was a big iron kettle in the back yard where fire was lit around it after it was filled with water and clothes. Clothes were boiled. Another use for the kettle was making lye soap. I can’t remember all the ingredients. After it was done, it was poured into pans and cut with a big knife. This was strong soap.

Mama had a big screened in back porch covered with a wild rose vine and that was where we kept our drinking water with a gourd or dipper. It was always cool. At Christmas, mama would put buckets of boiled custard out there when all the family came home.

Inside the house, we had a family room in the front. Mama quilted a lot of quilts but all the neighbors would come in and help. Dad made her quilting frames attached to ropes 4 poles like that fastened on each corner. These had ropes on each corner and when the women weren’t quilting, the quilt could be pulled to the ceiling and locked someway. As the women quilted, they could roll each side as it was finished to the next place to quilt or work until they would have only the middle of the quilt. Once in a while I would want to help and Mama would tell me I could work in a particular corner. (I am sure she pulled the stitches out later as all the women were good in stitching.)

Also, there was a carding process for the cotton that went between the quilt and lining. Two paddles about the size of Ping- Pong paddles had nails driven through the top to protrude a certain length. The raw cotton was placed between these nailed paddles and worked until the cotton was soft and the seeds were gone. It must have taken much work to get enough carded cotton for a big quilt! These nailed paddles were kept from me.

The fireplace in this room was somewhat small but what I remember was her banking the fire at night. The ashes would fall beneath the grate and Mama take the ashes and cover the top of the blaze. This would give some heat off all night and then she would rake the ashes off the next morning where there would be live coals and she just added more logs or coal.

In the room behind that, she had a dining room in the early days where she had a jelly cupboard. The front doors were all glass and her jelly could be seen so clearly and was so clear with their contents. She always tied cloth over the top, which added beauty.

I have to tell you this. Papa had a long barreled pistol. Mama slept with it under her mattress and we all, without exception, knew we were not to go near her bed. And if we even looked like we would like to!!!

When I was older staying with her and maybe had done this before, she went out on the porch and was shooting at night, all by herself. When she came in, I said, Mama, what were you shooting at? She replied “nothing”. I was letting people know I have a gun and will use it, if necessary. This time period had followed the Post Civil War, World War I and Depression Time, which were far different than today in the South.

There are two stories that Mama told me but it was before my time.

One was about log rolling. When fields needed to be cleared, all the men in the Community would come together at a particular person’s place and work to clear the land. Their wives and families would come to help with preparing dinner. It was a real Community Project.

Another was about the cotton bolls. The farmers would get more money if the cotton had been picked but when the weather got too cold and the fingers too stiff to pick the cotton, they would clear the living room of all furniture, pull the bolls and dump the bolls in the middle of the floor into a big heap. Then all the neighbors would come in and sit on the floor and pull the cotton out of the bolls so they could get more money. WHAT A COMMUNITY SPIRIT!

If anyone can add to this story, I would enjoy it and sure others would too.

2002 – Sister Mary Francis (Rachel Cates)

Cates Family

Posted on by Jim Daniel

SIBLINGS OF BRODIE FRANCIS CATES
I. MATTIE CATES MOORE

MATTIE CATES MOORE born 27 August 1891 and died 20 February 1970. She was daughter of FANNING AND ELLA CATES. She married WILLIAM THOMAS MOORE whom she later divorced but they were parents of a boy and girl before divorce.

Mattie was a housewife before the divorce but later went to Court and got custody of three granddaughters at the time , she went to work for the Postal Service from which she retired after about 20 years of service. She was always smiling and very sweet and one would never think she had a single problem. My Dad took her to the hospital when she died.

Aunt Mattie once visited us in Memphis and I complained that the boys could get by with things I could never have gotten by with. She just smiled and said “Rachel, we get more mellow when we get older.” She lived in a different town so I was not with her that much. I asked my Dad if I could go to see her one time and he said “you can go see Mattie anytime as long as her son is not there.” Her son was a teen ager.

II. GLEN OLA CATES (RANDOLPH)
GLEN CATES, born 28 February 1893 and died 6 November 1966. Aunt Glen was the matriarch of the Cates Family. She married ANDREW RANDOLPH 18 September 1911 but never had any children. She did raise a foster child, a boy by name of Billie Bell.

When my mother was so sick before she died, Aunt Glen was the one he called for help and the others did likewise when they had problems. Dad got too much to drink one time and his brother arrested him and put him in jail. Aunt Glen went up and bailed him out. A Cousin in WWII left all his business for her to take care of. When he was Missing in Action, she traced him to a Hospital in England through the Red Cross.

She taught my youngest Aunt, Oleve the Banking Business and also one of my cousins. She offered to teach me. When I was young and growing up, times were hard. I used to hear her talking about the “Bank Holiday” and had no idea what it meant. If I wanted something I knew Dad could not afford, I would ask Aunt Glen if she would go half with Dad. She would say “yes”. That was how I got my first wrist watch and she bought me a beautiful blue dress to go to the State Latin Tournment.

I was on the verge of engagement to a Sailor before my Religious Call and Aunt Glen made a special trip to Memphis. She said she approved him and then we broke up.

Aunt Glen went through a divorce when I was about 16 years old. She had had serious surgery and I would go by her house to see about her. She would be by herself. Her husband was drinking and going with another woman. Aunt Glen swore me to secrecy and said I was the only one she would let stay with her but I must not tell my father. She said her husband was scared to death of my Dad and would not dare to touch or hurt me in any way. So I would stay every night just telling Dad Aunt Glen needed help but never told him about Uncle Andrew. He usually came in about midnight and we could hear him but they were living in separate parts of the house. When the divorce came up in Court, I was the “Star Witness” as no one else knew what was happening. The attorney met with me first and told me the questions he would ask. He said “do not be afraid” and I wasn’t. The fear was her husband would contest the property arrangement and there were a few pieces of property involved. After the divorce, she went back to her maiden name.

Aunt Glen worked over 30 years as Vice President of a Bank and in her “Obituary” it mentioned she was fonding known as “Miss Glen.” After she retired, she did come and work with me a short time in the Accounting Office in the hospital at Chicago Heights, Ill. Dad used to do his banking where she worked and we all knew when we took things to the bank to give them to “Aunt Glen.”

III. MYRTLE MAMIE CATES COMPTON
MYRTLE MAMIE CATES was born 14 September 1896 in Alamo, Tennessee and died 28 October 1953 in Jackson, Tennessee. She married HENRY AUBREY COMPTON on 1 November 1919. Aunt Myrtle was a School Teacher in her young days but due to health problems she had to quit. She had one child, Henry Aubrey Compton, Jr., the same age as me. They first lived in Halls, then in Covington and she died in Jackson, TN.

This was the sister where my father stopped first on his way back from Texas. She always called me in my young days her little girl and made me cute little dresses. I usually spent two weeks after Christmas with her and some in the summertime. Aunt Myrtle kept me for a year after I was in the hospital and had my tonsils out when I was eleven years old. She lived in Covington, TN and we did not see her as often as some of the others.

Aunt Myrtle was very, very ill when I was about 12 years old and was in St. Joseph Hospital in Memphis. They informed my Dad and all his brother and sisters. He husband had pneumonia at home and they had to take her son in with appendecitis. Dad went right away and took me with him. I was scared to death of the Nuns and my cousin would tease me. They were especially kind to him as they knew the situation.

Aunt Myrtle lost her only son and child in his 20’s. She really never got over the grieving. When she died, she was sitting on the bed and just fell over dead with a heart attack.

She was somewhat like Aunt Glen in that she was somewhat of a quiet person and gave appearances of being very serious minded. She was very devoted to the Church of Christ and at the ttime I lived with them, her husband was the Song Leader.

IV. ALBERTA FAYE CATES BOYETTE
ALBERTA FAYE CATES was born 5 October 1906. at Alamo, Tennessee and died 29 March 1932. She married RALPH BOYETTE 6 July 1924.

I was seven years old when Aunt Faye died and had whooping cough and pneumonia and did not get to go to see her.

Aunt Faye was a beautiful woman with blonde hair and brown eyes. She had a congenital heart problem and had to take long walks. When I was a little girl, she used to take me with her. She was very religious and had the reputation of being one of the best Bible Scholars in the area. Aunt Faye was the one that sat me down after my stepmother sent me to Sun Beams at Baptist Church and asked me if I wanted to see my mother in Heaven and then told me I would not if I kept going to those Sunbeams. I was confused but she was a devout Church of Christ Member and they were strict. I can attest to that as I was formerly a member.

A cousin of my Dad died and the mother gave all her children away except the baby. I suppose she did not know how she could raise them. Aunt Faye went to his home when he died and brought his next to youngest home with her which was a little girl. Uncle Ralph really fell in love with her and asked Aunt Faye if they could keep her. They adopted Sue, this little girl. Sue had an attack of appendicitis when she was five years old and died. Aunt Faye never got over it. When I would go by her house, she was sitting on the front porch crying and I am sure, eventually grieved herself to death. At least that is what most members of the family thought.

V. MARGARET E. CATES
MARGARET E. CATES was born 3 February 1895 and died 10 October 10 1895. I have never heard anyone say anything about her except she died young.

VI. HATTIE FRANCES CATES
HATTIE FRANCES CATES died when born on 1 August 1904.

VII. TOLBERT WILLIAM CATES
TOLBERT (TOLLIE) WILLIAM CATES was born 4 October 1898 and died 28 October 1953. He married MARY WORRELL on 1 September 1919.

My Dad, Brodie Cates and Tolbert (Tollie) were very close being the only two boys of the Family. My grandmother Cates used to have a picture of the two together when young. Uncle Tollie had a basketball and Dad a rifle. Mama said she had it made because all Uncle Tollie studied was basketball and all Dad studied was hunting. Uncle Tollie played on the State Championship Team. He was very proud of that.

When my baby half sister was born, I was sent to Uncle Tollie’s. I can still see and hear them saying I had a baby sister named Ruth Elizabeth but she was born dead. There was a picture of me holding her and she was almost as big as me. It was all I could do to hold her on my lap.

. I remember one thing when we lived in Alamo and I was in the band. We played for everything including political rallies. Uncle Tollie was running for sheriff. When we reached the location for the rally, they did not have a speaker’s place so they asked Dad if they could use the back of his truck. He said “yes”. During the rally, they were saying all kinds of things about Uncle Tollie, like he accepted money from bootleggers I was furious. I was expecting Dad to start fighting someone but he was calm. I said something to Dad and he said that it was politics.

The next thing I remember is before WWII. Uncle Tollie lived in Bells as he worked in Milan Arsenal. I stayed with my grandmother Cates to finish my first seme and semester of 10th Grade. I got real sick and Mama did not know what to do nor did Aunt Donie, her sister who lived with her. So they called the theatre and had them stop the show and make an announcement that Dad should come. Uncle Tollie’s family were there too and took the boys with them. It turned out to be the measles after they called the doctor.

After school was out, I moved to Bells and started school. There was an urgent request for school children to help pick cotton as the WWII was threatening. So they rescheduled us at school starting school early and getting out at 12:30 PM. Uncle Tollie would pick us his kids and us to go pick cotton. Dad would come pick us up after he got home from work in Milan.

It was during this time that I got my only scolding from Uncle Tollie. He was always very good to me. A whole group had gone up to get their cotton sacks weighed but I did not think I was ready and did not go. But my sack really got heavy eventually and nobody was ready to be weighed. Finally, I got nerve enough to ask Uncle Tollie. Without hesitation or anything, he started toward the scales. I tried to get my sack on my shoulder and could not lift it. Uncle Tollie looked back and saw me. He started toward me to help me but really scolded me to never do that thing again and I should ask to weigh before my sack go that heavy. Of course, he was right.

During this time, Uncle Tollie and family were going to Jackson shopping and he asked me if I wanted to go with them. I was working for a coat but did not think I had enough money and I told him I could not go because I did not have enough money for my coat. I did not have one at all. He said I should go anyway and he would lend me whatever I needed and I could pay him back when I had made enough. I went and found a coat I could get at the cost of money I had.

We moved to Memphis and I later entered the Convent. There were many things that happened while I was in Memphis and after entering Convent. It would only be heresay if I told them.

Uncle Tollie was busy with law enforcement which he loved but then things happened and he went to the County Farm where he died. While he was so ill with cancer at County Farm, Jean told me he needed medicine and Dad went to Drug Store to get it and when Malcolm Cates filled it, he told Dad that it would be all Uncle Tollie would need for he would be gone by that time. Jean said Dad came back white as sheet as he told them. The County Home People really loved him and he loved them.

I will enclose his Obituary: From the Jackson Sun, August 13, 1962:

Tolbert W. Cates
Crockett County Farm Head To Be Buried Today

Tolbert “Tolly” William Cates, manager of Crockett County Farm, died Sunday night at 9 at his home after a brief illness. He was 63.

Mr Cates was born in Crockett County and was a former marshall of Bells. He had been a lifelong resident of Crockett County and had been in charge of the Crockett County Farm for more than a year. He was a member of the Church of Christ.

Services will be Tuesday afternoon at 3 at the Bells Church of Christ. Burial will be in the Alamo Cemetery under the direction of Ronk Funeral Home.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Mary Worrell Cates; two sons, Frederick Cates and Fanning Cates of Alamo; two daughters, Mrs. Jean Morphis of Memphis and Mrs. Faye Kail of Bells; a brother, Brodie Cates of Alamo; three sisters, Mrs. Mattie Moore of Maury City, Miss Glen Cates of Alamo and Mrs. John Hugueley of Trenton, and six grandchildren.

JOHNNY OLEVE CATES HUGUELEY
JOHNNY OLEVE CATES was born 6 September 1913, the youngest child of TOLBERT FANNING CATES AND ELLA FAULKNER CATES in Alamo, Tennessee. Oleve married JOHN HUGUELEY (known fondly as Uncle Johnnie) on 16 December 1934 at Milan, Tennessee.

Oleve worked in Banks for thirty seven years and almost all of them were at Bank of Commerce, Trenton, Tennessee from which she retired as Vice President. At her funeral many people said she had helped them with loans. She was deeply loved by all and known by almost all people.

Another Cause to which she was very dedicated was the Trenton Chapter of Eastern Star. She was a State Officer and traveled many miles, especially after her retirement and helped the group in different ways. A Past President of the Eastern Star was a very dear friend of hers.

Oleve was also a Daughter of the American Revolution, a descendant of JOSHUA CATES, WILLIAM SHEARIN, WILLIAM COLCLOUGH, DRURY CHRISTIAN AND WILLIAM BALTHROP who have been proven in some service of the Revolutionary War. Oleve also served as Treasurer of the Trenton Chapter of DAR.

She was faithful to the Trenton Church of Christ until the end and attended Church even when she was not able. (She left me a Collection of Teapots which I gave in her Memory to the Church).

Oleve was especially close to me as she was the only sibling of my father at home when he brought me back from Texas after my mother died. She was more like a sister. She claims she wagged me around so much. But we also had our fights.

After my father died in 1976, she cooked Christmas Eve Meal for our Family for 25 years with the help of Rebecca Andrews. Dad had had her to his home after Mama died until circumstances prevented it. In many ways, she took Aunt Glen’s place as Matriarch of the Family. She kept up with everyone and kept the family together.

Oleve was very outgoing and cheerful and interested in everyone. She was often thought of or called “Mother” and “Mrs. Johnnie.” One thing she did was help bury the dead. I have heard her tell me of them in sympathy of these people. I am sure there are many other ways she helped people.

May she rest in Peace!

Rachel Louise Cates
(AKA Sister Mary Francis Cates)
(Niece and sister-like)

2001 – Sister Mary Francis Cates

Lycurgus Cage

Posted on by Jim Daniel

1818-1876

Lycurgus Cage, the man Cageville, later Alamo, was name in honor of seems to be only a footnote in the available histories of the early settlement of the town of Alamo. Isaac Johnson, in his memoirs, did not mention his partner in the mercantile business. So we are left to conjecture as to who this man was that came and left his mark on the community. By researching some available records, I will strive to bring Lycrugus Cage out of the shadows and into the limelight of our early heritage.

Lycurgus Cage was born, 17 Jun 1818, at Cage’s Bend in Sumner County, Tennessee. He was the sixth son and eight child of William Cage, Jr. and his wife, Frances (Fanny) Street. His paternal grandfather, Major William Cage, Sr. had settled in the Cages Bend area of Sumner County, in 1785, while the Indian massacres were still prevalent in the Middle and other parts of Tennessee. He took a leading role in developing the area. Lycurgus Cage’s maternal grandfather, William Street, help defend the early settlements in the Middle Tennessee area and was granted 640 acres of land for his service.

Major William Cage served in the Revolutionary War, and for his service he received land grants that included 200 acres in Greene County; 640 acres in Sumner County; 1800 acres in the Middle District; and 228 acres in Sumner County. The place he settled was later called Cage’s Bend. In this area were the Douglas, Dillard, Crain, and Lindsay families, all Methodist converts, who began holding services in the Dillard home until a log cabin was built to meet the needs of the congregation. This log cabin was on the land of Lewis Crain and was called Crane’s Meeting house. Francis Asbury and Leaner Blackmon preached at Crane’s Meeting House. The name was later changed to Rehoboth Methodist Church.

When the Territorial Government was formed, in 1790, Major William Gage became the first Sheriff of Sumner County. He served for six years when he was succeeded by his son Reuben Cage, who was succeeded by his brother, James Cage.

William Cage, Jr., the father of Lycurgus married Frances (Fanny) Street, 12 Mar 1806, in Sumner County. William Cage, Jr. was in the mercantile and trade business. Along with his father, Major William Cage and General James Winchester 150 acres of land was purchased on the north bank of the Cumberland River about three quarters of a mile below Bledsoe’s Creek for the purpose of having a town on the river for receiving and sending goods down the river to New Orleans. Lots were offered for sale and the town flourished. The town was incorporated in 1815. It was named Cairo for the city in Egypt. Steamboats plying the river between Nashville and New Orleans stopped regularly at the little town and by 1834, it contained thirty families, with two physicians, an academy and church, one tavern, one cabinet maker, one machine maker, one cotton and wool factory, one rope walk, two tailors, two blacksmiths, one gunsmith, and two shoemakers. Lycurgus Cage was probably born in Cairo.

It could only have been an adventurous spirit that compelled Lycurgus Cage to remove from Sumner County to the wilderness area that was to become Crockett County. He was born in 1818 and had probably arrived in the area around 1838. He remained there until around 1842. Goodspeed erred in his history when he indicated that Isaac Johnson and Lycurgus Cage were in business in 1846. An early reference in “The Grand” newspaper, Holly Springs, Marshall County, Mississippi, dated, 3 Jan 1843, confirms that he had migrated there by that time.

The first reference to Cage and Company, was the above item which read: Rev. T. Bartholomews, M. D., Expectorant, This syrup is superior to any invention ever before offered to the public. It never fails, when used according to directions, to cure the above complaints, enabling the patient to raise freely without pain. Many certificates extol of the wonderful effects of this syrup. For Sale by Cage and Company, Agents, Holly Springs, Mississippi.

Marshall County, Mississippi had been form, 9 Feb 1836. However it development had begun long before the county was recognized as a result of the Chickasaw Session in 1834.

Lycurgus Cage would have used the old Buffalo Path between the Mississippi and Tennessee River to travel to the new territory in Mississippi. This path had been used by the Chickasaw Indians for centuries. His destination was Holly Springs where his sister, Marie Elizabeth Cage Crutcher Nelson, was already living with her second husband, James H. Nelson.

Holly Springs, sometimes called, “The City of Flowers” had been a poplar camping ground for the Indians and early hunters and had received its name from the many holly trees and numerous springs that were found in the area.

Lycurgus Cage married Elizabeth Lyman James, 19 May 1844 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She was born, 20 Oct 1827, in Tennessee. The 1850 Census of Marshall County, Mississippi, Northern Division lists the following household: 179-179, James H. Nelson, age 40, Clerk, born in Virginia; Maria Nelson, age 40, born in Tennessee; William C. Nelson, age 9, born in Mississippi; Thomas H. Nelson, age 2, born in Mississippi; Lycurgus Cage, age 30, Trader, born in Tennessee; Elizabeth L. Cage, age 23, born in Tennessee; Foster Cage, age 5, born in Tennessee; Lyman J. Cage, age 3, born in Mississippi; and Mary C. Cage, age 3 months, born in Mississippi.
Maria Nelson, sister of Lycurgus Cage, married, first, Foster Crutcher and they evidently moved to the Holly Springs area shortly after it became a county. She married for the second time, James H. Nelson.

Lycurgus and Elizabeth Cage had the following children: Foster Crutcher Cage, Lyman James Cage, Mary Courtney Cage, Edwin Cage, Lucille Beatrice Cage, Bettie James Cage, and William Cage.


Lycurgus Cage, b. 17 Jun 1818, d. 20 Sep 1876, is buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Holly Springs, Mississippi. Buried along with him is his wife, Elizabeth Lyman James Cage, b. 20 Oct 1827, d. 1 Apr 1869; Lyman James Cage, b. 12 Jul 1848, d. 8 Feb 1881, in Helena, Arkansas; James Crutcher Cage, d. 12 Jan 1895; Bettie James Cage, b. 23 Jun 1861, d. 25 Sep 1862; and William Cage, b. 4 Sep 1864, d. 5 Sep 1864.

It would seem that Lycurgus Cage had retained the qualities that exemplified his ancestors and the township named for him can be proud of the honor they bestowed on him, however it is sad that the town was renamed, in 1872, before his death in 1876.

Margaret Nolen Nichol – 2007

Jessie Weathers Burrow Family

Posted on by Jim Daniel

JESSIE WEATHERS (J. W.) BURROW, the son of JAMES BURROW and ELIZABETH (BETSY) WEATHERS, was born 6 Nov 1804 in NC, died 17 Dec 1871 in Gibson Co, TN, and is buried in the Providence Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN. He married about 1823 to MARY A. __, who was born 3 Mar 1805 in TN, died 18 Oct 1882, and is also buried in the Providence Cemetery.

The Children of JESSIE WEATHERS (J.W.) BURROW and MARY __
(1) MARTHA J. BURROW was born 15 Oct 1826 in TN, died 30 Oct 1886, and is buried in the Fairview Cemetery, Newbern, Dyer Co., TN [view tombstone]. She married 12 Feb 1846 in Gibson Co, TN to MOSES P. HURLEY. He was born about 1825 in AL. Martha & Moses lived in Dyer Co., TN.

CHILDREN OF MARTHA J. BURROW and MOSES P. HURLEY
(a) J. A. Hurley, b: abt 1846 (female)
(b) A. J. Hurley, b: abt 1848 (male)

(c) Millie E. Hurley, b: in 1852, died in 1919, and is buried in the Fairview Cemetery in Newbern, Dyer Co., TN [view tombstone]

(d) Jesse B. Hurley, b: abt 1854 (male)

(e) Alice Hurley, b: abt 1858

(f) Moses “Pick” Hurley, b: in 1862, died in 1918, and is buried in the Rehoboth Cemetery in Dyer Co., TN

(g) Aaron T. Hurley, b: 25 Apr 1863, died 3 Dec 1909, and is buried in the Fairview Cemetery in Newbern, Dyer Co., TN [view tombstone]

(h) Emma Hurley, b: 23 Dec 1864, died 5 Oct 1886, and is buried in the Bowen’s Chapel Cemetery, Dyer Co., TN

(i) Andrew B. Hurley, b: 14 Dec 1867, died 4 Mar 1931, and is buried in the Fairview Cemetery in Newbern, Dyer Co., TN [view tombstone]

(2) JAMES L. BURROW was born in 1826, died before 1858.

(3) MILLY (or AMELIA) BURROW was born in 1828, died before 1858.

(4) SARAH ELIZABETH BURROW was born 9 Sep 1829 in TN, died 11 May 1884, and is buried in the Lebanon Church Cemetery, Crockett Co, TN. She married 18 Dec 1850 in Gibson Co., TN to JONATHAN BETHEL (BETH) AGEE, the son of JOHN DANIEL AGEE and SARAH BURTON. He was born 9 Sep 1828 in Madison Co, AL, died 23 Oct 1912 in Crockett Co, and is buried in the Antioch Church Cemetery, Crockett Co.

(5) TELITHA EMMALINE (EM) BURROW was born 15 Jan 1832, died 16 Nov 1882 in Quitman, Cleburne Co., AR. She married 13 Jun 1854 in Gibson Co. to WILLIAM GEORGE WARD. He was born in Mar 1827 in NC. They were in VanBuren Co., AR, for the 1870-1880 census.

CHILDREN OF TELITHA EMMALINE (EM) BURROW and WILLIAM GEORGE WARD
(a) Mary Ward, b: abt 1855 in TN
(b) Jesse B. Ward, b: abt 1859 in TN

(c) Clara F. Ward, b: abt 1861 in TN

(d) William H. Ward, b: abt 1863 in TN

(e) James H. Ward, b: abt 1864 in TN

(f) Joseph L. Ward, b: abt 1866 in TN

(g) Newton A. Ward, b: abt 1868 in AR

(h) Benjamin Ward, b: abt 1870 in AR

(i) Robert Ward, b: abt 1872 in AR

(6) WILLIAM J. BURROW was born in 1834 in TN. He married 20 Sep 1854 in Gibson Co, TN to MARY E. NEW. She was born about 1834 in TN. William & Mary were in VanBuren Co. AR in 1860, and in Benton Co. AR in 1870-1880.

CHILDREN OF WILLIAM J. BURROW and MARY E. NEW
(a) Sarilda Burrow, b: abt 1856 in TN
(b) Margaret S. (Margie) Burrow, b: abt 1867 in AR

(c) John N. F. Burrow, b: abt 1869 in AR

(d) Emily E. Burrow, b: abt 1871 in AR

(e) Rebecca H. R. Burrow, b: abt 1873 in AR

(f) William L. Burrow, b: abt 1878 in AR

(g) Ada Burrow, b: abt 1880 in AR

(7) NEWTON L. BURROW was born in 1836 in TN, died in 1917, and is buried in the Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co, TN [view tombstone]. He married in 1866 to MARGARET JANE BOON, the daughter of SION BOON and MARY ANGELINE HATCHETT. She was born in 1846, died before 1910, and is buried in the Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery.

CHILD OF NEWTON L. BURROW and MARGARET JANE BOON
(a) Lida Pearl Burrow, b: 1879 in TN d: 1954 Burial: Floyd’s Chapel Cemetery, Crockett Co., TN [view tombstone]

(8) REUBEN BURROW was born about 1840 in TN.

(9) NANCY BURROW was born about 1842 in TN. She married 26 Sep 1860 in Gibson Co., TN, to WILLIAM L. MAYS. He was born about 1836 in TN (WILLIAM L. MAYS was married 2nd to ELVA SKIPPER).

CHILDREN OF NANCY BURROW and WILLIAM L. MAYS
(a) Mary “Dawsie” Mays, b: 17 Dec 1861 in TN (Married John Franklin (Frank) Agee)
(b) Soloman Mays, b: abt 1864 in TN

(c) John Mays, b: abt 1866 in TN

(d) Mattie Bet Mays, b: 12 Feb 1869 in TN (Married 1st Andrew J. Gatlin, 2nd John Dean Agee)

(10) MARY BURROW was born about 1843 in TN. She married 31 Jan 1859 in Gibson Co, TN, to ABRAHAM GURGANES. He was born about 1838 in NC.

(11) JOHN B. BURROW was born in 1844 in TN, died in 1900, and is buried in the Antioch Cemetery, Crockett Co, TN [view tombstone]. He married first 20 Dec 1865 in Gibson Co, TN, to EMILY FRANCES (FANNY) AGEE, the daugther of JOHN DANIEL AGEE and SARAH BURTON. She was born 23 Mar 1848 in Gibson Co, TN, died in 1893, and is buried in the Antioch Cemetery. He married second 25 Apr 1894 in Crockett Co. to SARAH ELEN MANSFIELD (she was married first to JOHN W. AGEE, the son of JONATHAN BETHEL (BETH) AGEE and SARAH ELIZABETH BURROW, and second to J. S. MAY). She was born about 1860 in TN.

(12) TENNESSEE ANN (TENNEY) BURROW was born 12 Jan 1848 in TN, died 14 Mar 1901, and is buried in the Antioch Cemetery, Crockett Co, TN [view tombstone]. She married 4 Jul 1865 in Gibson Co. to JOHN DEAN AGEE, the son of JOHN DANIEL AGEE and SARAH BURTON. He was born 5 Apr 1841 in Gibson Co, TN, died 24 Feb 1923 in Crockett Co, and is buried in the Antioch Cemetery.

Natalie Huntley – 2000-2006