Cummings Family Files
John Blair Cummings
John Blair Cummings Martha Miller
Born ca. 1790 Born?
Birthplace: Stokes Co NC Birthplace?
Death date: shortly after 16 Apr 1861 Death date: probably ca. 1827
Burial place: Unknown Burial place: Unknown
John B. Cummings & Martha Miller were married 24 December 1818 in Madison County Alabama
(information provided by Elaine Myers, a descendant of this couple)
M. George Washington Cummings 15 Apr1820-26 May 1876 Married Hulda Barrett
M. Newton A. Cummings 1822-after 16 Mar 1878 Married Nancy J. Davenport???
John Blair Cummings Martha Miller
Father: CPT John C. Cummings Father: Unknown
Mother: Jane Blair Mother: Unknown
Contributed by Dick Wood
John Blair Cummings (2nd marriage) & Eunice Hunter Family
John Blair Cummings Eunice Hunter
Born ca. 1790 Born 25 Jul 1796
Birth place: Stokes Co., NC Birth place: South Carolina
Death place: Marshall County TN Death Place: Dyer, Gibson Co TN
Death date: Unknown but after 16 Apr 1861 Death date: 19 Feb 1867
Burial place: Unknown Burial place: Bobbit Cemetery Gibson County
John Blair Cummings and Eunice Hunter were married date unknown but probably 1827 in Bedford County Tennessee.
M. Thomas Ebaneezer Cummings 7 Jan 1828-1 Sep 1864 m. Narcissa Smiley
John Blair Cummings Eunice Hunter
Father: John C. Cummings Father: Robert Hunter
Mother: Jane Blair Mother: Rebecca McNickle
Notes: John Blair Cummings & Eunice Cummings separated when son, Thomas, was 3 or 4 years old. Neither ever remarried. Eunice was a school teacher who taught classics such as Greek and Latin.
John C. Cummings & Jane Blair Family
John C. Cummings Jane Blair
Born ca. 1742 Born 20 Aug 1746
Birthplace: Probably PA Birthplace: At Sea
Death date: Unknown ca. 1800-1816 Death Date: 21 Apr 1839
Burial place: Unknown, NC Burial Place: Round Hill Cemetery near Belfast
Military Service: RW CPT, NC Milita,
John C. Cummings & Jane Blair Were Married after Aug 1778, but before 9 Feb 1779. Probably in Surry Co. NC.
- M. Hugh Cummings* ca. 1779-before 4 Jan 1847
- M. George Cummings* ca. 1780-before 6 Feb 1843
- M, Thomas Cummings 15 May 1781-18 Oct 1868 m. Isabel Lowry
- F. Sarah Cummings 1 Oct 1782-21 Sep1853 m. Samuel McCuiston
- M. John Blair Cummings ca. 1790-after 16 Mar 1861 m. 1st Martha Miller 2nd Eunice Hunter
Parents of John C. Cummings: Parents of Jane Blair:
Father: John Cummings Father: Hugh Blair
Mother: Unknown Mother: Mary Dawson
The placement of Hugh and George Cummings is not proved, but highly likely. The genealogical record of their Mother, Jane Blair (Endsley) Cummings is well known and so is that of her Cummings children, Thomas, Sarah and John Blair Cummings. That there was a son, George Cummings, is proved by his being named a co-executor of Andrew Endsley’s will in Stokes County, NC in 1816 and by his being referred to as “my brother, George Cummings” in Andrew Endsley’s will. What is not generally known is what became of George Cummings after he completed his duties as co-executor of the will in Stokes County, NC.
Hugh Cummings has never been mentioned in any Family Group Record of the John C. Cummings & Jane Blair known to date, yet close study of the 1830 Bedford and 1840 Marshall County Censuses, coupled with land plat maps of the area settled by other members of the extended Cummings/Endsley/Lowry families present an overwhelming amount of circumstantial or indirect evidence supporting the inclusion of Hugh Cummings within this Family Group Record.
An article researched and written by Donald C. Jeter with an accompanying land plat map also prepared by Mr. Jeter was especially helpful in understanding the relationships, both proved and probable among these extended families. The article is “Land Between Head Springs and Petty’s Cave – Mt. Zion,” beginning on page 36 of the Summer 1986 issue (Vol. XVII, NO. II) of the MARSHALL COUNTY HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Published by Marshall County Historical Society, Lewisburg, TN 37091.
Hugh, George and John Blair Cummings all died in Marshall County TN. Their exact death dates and burial places are not known. There are records of estate settlements for Hugh and George Cummings in Marshall Co, TN. There are deed records of two deeds of gift from John B. Cummings to his sons in Marshall County TN deed records.
Thomas Cummings and his wife, Isabel, were buried at Round Hill Cemetery.
Sarah (Cummings) McCuistion and her husband, Samuel, migrated from Bedford Co TN to Ray Co, MO.