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knoxcotn-digest Monday, December 6 1999 Volume 01 : Number 017
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 00:36:01 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Fwd: [TN] Seven Islands Methodist Church near Knoxville Now that we have a Knox County list, someone might be able to help this lady....
>Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:41:30 EST >From: Billie Duncan <Binksdun@AOL.COM> >Subject: [TN] Seven Islands Methodist Church near Knoxville > >can some one tell me where this church is located or where it was located >thanks ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 00:38:58 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Fwd: Re: [TN] Kelly and Prigmore An old message from TNRoots.... >Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 07:48:07 +0100 >From: Carolyn Atkinson <catkinsn@ecity.net> >Subject: Re: [TN] Kelly and Prigmore > >YOU HAVE MY COMPLETE ATTENTION!!!!! I latched on the Prigmore. I have a >Margaret PRIGMORE b 1743 in TN, probably Greene Co, who married James >KNIGHT in April 5, 1790 Greene Co, TN according to his Rev War Pension >Papers. I have yet to find marriage record. Their grandchildren married >into HOGUE lines which come from IN, and I do not know where they were >before IN. This possibly might be HOGE, as I have been told this HOGUE >line also was spelled HOGE. > >Do you have any information which might add to my meager bit? My KNIGHT >family ended up in Edgar Co, IL. James KNIGHT was b in Abington, >Philadelphia co, PA Aug 20, 1750 and enlisted in the military from Bedford >Co, PA. He served three enlistments. He died 1838. Margaret died 1843. > >The Knight family lived in Greene, Knox, and Blount Counties in TN, then >briefly in Washington Co, IN and then went to Crawford Co, IL which turned >into Clark Co, then into Edgar Co, IL without them moving in the counties >in IL. > >I eagerly look foward to hearing from you. > > > > >Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:46:50 -0500 > >From: Georgia M Cummons <cummons@JUNO.COM> > >Subject: Sequatchie-KELLY > > > >Alexander KELLY was born about 1750 in Armagh County, North Ireland, and > >was brought to America in infancy. His place of residence during the > >Rev. War was at Greenbriar, VA. He served as a private in Capt. Thomas > >PARRAMORE's company, 9th VA Regiment, commanded by Col. Thomas FLEMINGS > >and later by Col. George MATTHEWS. He enlisted July 9, 1776, and was > >taken prisoner Oct. 4, 1777, at Germantown. The records show that on > >Nov. 21, 1785, he received from Col. CROPPER a certificate for the > >balance of his pay amounting to twenty-three pounds and four shillings. > > > >After the war Alexander KELLY moved to the TN country and served as > >Lieutenant coloner of Knox County Regiment, Hamilton District Militia, > >Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio, which is now > >Tennessee. His name appears on the muster roll for Aug. 27, 1794. > > > >Kelly became prominent both in business and political affairs. > >Acknowledgment of his business acumen is the fact the Knox County Court > >of June 16, 1792, ordered roads to be laid out from Knoxville to his mill > >and to David CRAIG's, which was on the Nine Mile Creek. In April 1783 > >the General Assembly of NC divided Washington County the second time and > >formed Greene Country; Alexander KELLY was appointed assessor for the > >Third District. Knox County sent KELLY as a delegate to the Territorial > >Legislature on Aug 25, 1794. The first legislature of TN met March 28, > >1796, and was represented by eleven counties; KELLY served as the senator > >from Blount County. He was re-elected Sept. 18, 1797. > > > >Alexander KELLY was one of the first to enter land on the TN River in > >Marion County-in 1824; his parcel amounted to almost 3,000 acres. > >Unfortunately, soon after coming to the Sequatchie Valley, he drowned in > >the Sequatchie River. He had six children: John, who married Nancy > >MAYO; Alexander, Jr., who married Sally PRIGMORE; William who married > >Ruth PRIGMORE; Viny, who married Adam LAMB; Annie, who married Richard W. > >STONE; and Margaret, who married Joe PRIGMORE. > > > >Alexander KELLY, Jr., and Sally PRIGMORE were married on Feb. 17, 1817. > >They were the ancestors of W.J. LEWIS, Dr. PRICE, and Bob KELLY of > >Sequatchie County. > > > >William KELLY (the third son) and Ruth PRIGMORE were married Jan, 7, > >1812. They were the ancestors of Mrs. S.H. BENNETT, Mrs. M. HARRIS, and > >Crit and Will KELLY of Bledsoe County. > > > >Viny and Adam LAMB are buried in an old graveyard near Palo Station in > >Sequatchie County. They were the ancestors of the LAMBS who live in that > >community. > > > >Margaret and Joe PRIGMORE were the ancestors of the PRIGMORES and PRYORS > >of Marion County. > > > >John KELLY, Alexander's oldest son, was born June 2, 1779. On April 8, > >1798, in Monroe County he married a woman of Scotch-Irish descent named > >Nancy MAYO, a native of NC, born in 1777. In 1808 John KELLY, his wife > >and two children, Easter and Alexander, and two Negro children, moved > >down the TN River in a flat boat to the mouth of Battle Creek while the > >Indians were still in possession of the country. John KELLY later moved > >to Bledsoe County to a farm owned by the LAMB family. In 1817 he moved > >to Liberty, Marion County, and in 1820 to the David HOGE farm. In 1838 > >he built the home, which still stands at KELLY's Ferry. He died there > >November 26, 1845, and is buried within a short distance of the house. > > > >In 1826 John KELLY was granted a charter by the state to build a turnpike > >road to ROSS's Landing (Chattanooga); at this time he constructed the > >first bridge across the Sequatchie River. He was the first to advocate > >the building of a road around the base of Lookout Mountain, following the > >route that is used by the N.C.&St.L. Railroad. He and his son-in-law, > >Ignatius HALL, also had a government contract to remove obstructions, > >from the TN River. > > > >In politics, John KELLY was a Whig. He was a member of the > >Constitutional Convention of 1834, served as a circuit court clerk, and > >held other public offices. He helped to organize the Olive Branch Lodge > >F.&A.M. at Jasper. He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian > >Church; his wife was a methodist. They were the parents of 13 children, > >some of whom are mention in the following paragraphs. > > > >Easter KELLY married Ignatius HALL Jan 6, 1820. She died on Jan 12, > >1888. They had nine children, the youngest of who, Thomas P. HALL died > >on May 5, 1931, aged ninety yrs and 8 months. A daughter, Polly, lived > >to be ninety-three years and 5 months. > > > >Alexander KELLY married Elizabeth OATS, daughter of Col David and Sarah > >GRIFFITH OATS. Alexander was a farmer by occupation. He also kept the > >KELLY's Ferry and had a store at different times. He owned 25 slaves > >before the war. In the Ebenezer Cumberland Presbyterian Church he served > >as a ruling elder. His death occured about the year 1878. > > > >Adeline married Daniel RAWLINGS. She died on Ap 15, 1831. They were the > >grandparents of Mrs. Maggie GODDIER. > > > >Thomas KELLY married a FOSTER; he died Nov 1, 1885. > > > >Marth KELLY married James HOGE. She died Nov 28, 1834. They were the > >grandparents of Julia HOPKINS. > > > >Not much is known of the other children. Valentine went west. James > >married a BRIDGES and went to TX. Margaret died Oct 25, 1838, and > >William married Sarah Ann HOGE on Jan 20, 1846. > > > >Taken from the book "Sequatchie" by Raulton and Livingood. > >Sincerely > >Carolyn Leverich Atkinson / email: catkinsn@ecity.net >1602 York /In replying send copy of our correspondence. >Des Moines, IA 50316 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 01:33:39 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Fwd: [TN] Morgan-Byerley-King-Sanborn >Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:34:57 -0500 >From: Wes Morgan <jmorgan@TXDIRECT.NET> >Subject: [TN] Morgan-Byerley-King-Sanborn > >I am researching the following names in Rhea and Knox County: >William Nelson Morgan >Amanda Parthenia Byerley Morgan >Michael Byerley >Susan King Morgan >Clarence Delmer Sanborn >If anyone else is working on these families, please contact me. >Jackie Morgan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 01:28:12 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Love family From TNRoots list: In a message dated 8/1/99 8:43:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time, bird@SCRTC.COM writes: > My Love family lived in East Tennessee 1760 up into the 1850's I descend > from > Joseph Love who was married to Mary Teas . He died in Knox County in 1804. > I > am interested in hearing from any Love surname researcher. > Meeting of Love researchers is being held in Nashville Tennessee > Oct 15.16 , 1999 for info contact > Mary Russell bird@scrtc.com > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 00:47:50 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Fwd: [TN] Multiple Knox County names This gentleman posted a lengthy message about Monday/Mundy families in East TN to the TNRoots list a while back. Here is his signature line, for those who might want to contact him about any of his families:
Fred Salter mailto:fsalter@alaska.net http://www.alaska.net/~fsalter ICQ 1519809 Researching:G*IBBS,H*OLLOWAY,L*EMMONS,M*ILES,M*ORRIS,N*EWBY,T*HURMAN,W*ALDEN , W*ALLACE(W*ALLIS) in TENNESSEE. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 00:45:58 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Fwd: [TN] Middlebrook Cemetery Unfortunately, Thelma didn't give her great-grandmother's name....wonder if she ever got her answer? >Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 22:22:40 -0700 >From: Don Cooper <randall@RIDGECREST.CA.US> >Subject: [TN] Cemetery > >Help TN Rooters: > >Can you help me find where my great-grandmother is buried. According to >her death certificate, she is buried in the Middlebrook Cemetery, which >I think is in Knoxville, although, I can't find a listing for it in the >yellow pages. She lived at 603 Maynard Ave. which I am assuming is in >Knoxville. I don't know that for sure either. > >Can anyone living in the Knoxville area help me, please. > >Thank you, Thelma--lost in CA ------------------------------ End of knoxcotn-digest V1 #17 ***************************** |