Photo Album Wright Families of Overton & Fentress Counties, Tennessee This site, created by the astounding genealogical researcher, Jerry Wright Jordan, has a tremendous amount of information about related surnames, but the site has not been updated since December, 2005. … Continue reading →
Photo Album Migration to/from Overton County Contributed by Leota Bennett Some remained in the area. Others moved to Missouri, Arkansas, etc. John WINTON moved from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia to the French Broad Settlement by 1785. He sold … Continue reading →
Contributed by Leota Bennett Most of their descendants remained in the Overton / Putnam County area of TN. John Abishua WATSON and his wife, Mildred HUGHES, lived in Pittsylvania Co. VA. Their son, John Saul WATSON and his wife, Lucy … Continue reading →
Contributed by Leota Bennett Fought in War of 1812 returned to Overton County. The father Benjamin WALKER, Sr., moved westward by 1820 possibly to Jackson County, Ill. Benjamin WALKER, Junior, migrated to Carroll County, Arkansas about 1853-1854. Benjamin WALKER, Sr., … Continue reading →
Contributed by Leota Bennett Henry VERBLE died in Overton County, TN. Phillip W. VERBLE and Maria Dorothea EGENER were married South Whitehall Township, PA, January 20, 1746/47. Their son, Jacob VERBLE was born possibly on a ship coming to NC … Continue reading →
William Stewart and Elizabeth Van Hooser From the extraordinary research of Georgenia Stewart, who sadly passed away in 2012. Elizabeth Van Hooser was born in 1788 in Montgomery County, Virginia, and died in 1843 in Nauvoo, Illinois; her parents were … Continue reading →
Photo Album John Phillips 1745-1827 (often referred to as Daddy John) (Daddy) John Phillips arrived in America at the age of ten with his parents John (the Immigrant) and Mary Phillips from Wales in 1755 at the Port of Philadelphia … Continue reading →
Contributed by C. Ann Slaughter John HARPER is reported to have died in Civil War. His wife, Elizabeth Catherine Campbell HARPER, is listed in 1860 and later moved to Hardin Co., KY, by 1880 living with son John Calvin HARPER … Continue reading →
Contributed by Leota Bennett John SEHORN, Jr., died in Overton County, TN, 1809. Son, William Graham SEHORN, returned to his grandfathers home in the French Broad Settlement by about 1811. One of William Graham SEHORN’s sons returned to Overton County. … Continue reading →
Contributed by Troy Semple James & Mary COLSON Not sure where they came from, they were born in Tennessee. Moved to Henry County, Missouri sometime around 1880 – they are on the 1880 Missouri census. James Madison COLSON 1818-1872 Mary … Continue reading →
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