Contributed by Leota Bennett. Transcription typed and formatted by Harold Keisling.

According to the Tennessee State Library and Archives, 5 companies of soldiers served from Overton County. They were: Captains John Kennedy, Abel Willis, James Turney, James McConnell, Wiley Huddelston. The names are extremely difficult to read. You may want to order you own copy to double check the names and spellings.

I acquired two different rolls from the TN state Archives. There was a little different information on each. One copy of the microfilm seemed to be a correction to the other. Each copy of the microfilm had some different information on it. One copy was extremely difficult-to-impossible to read.

Third? Regiment Tennessee Militia, Capt. Wiley Huddelston’s Company

Raised with men from what is today Overton, Pickett, and Fentress County TN. In Service from 13 Nov 1814 to 13 May 1815.

Officers

Wiley Huddelston Capt
Joel Parifs (Parris) 1st Lt
Henry Gore 2nd Lt
Fillip (Seveir?) (Severs?) (Weaver?) 3rd Lt died 19 Dec 1814
John S. Williams Ensign

Sergeants

John Huddelston 1st Sgt
Joel Brock 2nd Sgt
Stephen Townsend 3rd Sgt died 5 May 1815
John Ramsey 4th Sgt
Morgan Parris? 5th Sgt

Corporals

Gorge Owin 1st Corp
Benjamin Pottett 2nd Corp
William Gunnels 3rd Corp
Thomas Garrott? 4th Corpdied 5 May? 1815
Corneilus Douherty? 5th Corp

Privates

William Ashlock
Archibald Arney
James Brock
William Carlan or Carter
Abraham Carlock
Cannady Cooper
Larkin Cox
James Dale
Frederick Deck
Henry Dillion
Joseph England
Enoch Fox
John Flatt
Nicholas Gunnels
James Gunnels
Andrew Highsaw
Isaac Harris
Isaac Hicks
Andrew Harris
Benjimin Harrison
Jeremiah Hinds or Harris on one list not on the other list
Daniel (Irowin?) (Irons?)
Jifesee? (Jessee) Jones
John Kerr
Andrew or Abraham Kerr died 5 Jan 1815
Meril? (Uril?) Little died 14Feb 1815
Joseph Lee
Thomas Lambert
Samuel Loveil? (Lowel?)
Henry Maie? (Man) (Moss)
William Marshal
James Milk?( Meek?) (Meeks) died 10 Feb 1815
Simpson Maxwell
George Oliver
Samuel Patterson
Robert Right died 29 Jan 1815
John Rolls
John Rich
Timothy Roark? Rosek
William Stout
Charles Smith
John Savage
Kindell Savage
Askilis Stephens
Jefesee (Jessee) Sunas? (Subge?)
Joseph Townsend died 17 Jan 1815
Stephen Upton
Benjamin Watkins
Henry Willis died 17 Jan 1815
Samuel Weever (Weaver)
John Westmoreland Sr.
John Westmoreland Jr.
Charles Williams
Joseph Williams
John Young

First Regiment of Col Edward Bradley’s Tennessee Volunteer Militia, Infantry

Capt. John Kennedy’s Company. In service from 4 Oct 1813 to 28 Dec 1813 (raised at Monroe TN)

Officers

John Kennedy Capt
James Harrison 1st Lt
Eki Burden 2nd Lt
David Matlock Ensign

Sergeants

William H. Hugfhlett, First Sgt
Julias C. N. Robinson, 2nd Sgt
Richard Brown,3rd Sgt
Hugh C. Armstrong 4th Sgt

Corporals

Hugh F. Armstrong 1st Corporal
John Woodall, 2nd Corporal
William Robertson 3rd Corporal
Adam Reid 4th Corporal

Privates

(in alphabetical order)
Arnentt, Andrew
Bates, Joseph
Beaty, William
Beaty, William Sr
Belyou, Isaac
Belyou, John
Belyou, William
Bennefield, Robert
Brewer, Merdith
Bristow, Elijah
Brown, John S.
Cannon, David
Carlock, Isaac
Carlock, Reuben
Carpenter, James
Carpenter, Lewis
Cherry, Benjamin
Coffee, Pleasant
Coker, Geroge
Cooper, Jacob
Cooper, John
Copeland, John
Crawford, James
Crocker, Charles
Crockett, William
Daniels, Paul
Davis, Henry
Davis, Jacob
Dockerty, Cornelius
Evans, John
Evins, Nathan
Evins, Patrick
Fanseher, David
Fauscher, Wesley
Ford, William
Gouney, John
Greer, James
Greer, William
Gutherie, Anslem
Harmon, George
Harris, Andrew
Harris, Jeremiah
Hern, George
Hogan, Edwin
Hunt, William
Johnson, Jonathan
Leaton, James
Ledbetter, John
Manor, Levi
Matlock, Vaventine
McConnel, James
Murphy,Dennis
Raybourn, James
Rich, William
Richardson, Abel
Shell, Isaac
Silvoge, Preston
Smith, John
Smith, John Sr.
Smith, Ruben
Taylor, William
Tiptin, Jacob
Townsend, Joseph
Townsend, Nathaniel
Walker, Buckley
West, John
Williams, James
Williams, Jonathan
Williams, Thomas
Witt, Joshua

**Additional note: I was reading the list of men who served in the War of 1812 from Overton County, TN. In Capt. John Kennedy’s unit there was at least one other man who served as a private. He was a carpenter from Monroe, John C. Turnley. After his service in the War of 1812, he returned to his parents home in Jefferson County, TN, and remained there. He had many relatives who remained in Overton County. The Turnley family biography gives a report of this service. A copy of the biography written in 1905 is on a CD at the Overton County archives. The Turnleys … was writen by his son, P. T. Turnley, and published in 1905 with a supplement in 1908. John C. Turnley was a first cousin of Mary “Polly” Graham Sehorn Walker who operated the Standing Stone Inn on the Walton Road.