Marsha Cope Huie (Marsha Huie), San Antonio & Newbern-Yorkville, West Tenn., is licensed to practice law in Texas and Tennessee. Please confer a favor by informing me of errors and omissions at MarshaHuie@aol.com
For information about the McCorkle Cemetery (west of Yorkville and east of Newbern, Tennessee), please see down below.
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This webpage aims to preserve the genealogy and correspondence (from 1829) of these families, and of many more: immigrants Alexander & "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery McCorkle; William Morrison (1704-1771) & wife Margaret (maiden name unknown), who were the paternal grandparents of Margaret Morrison McCorkle alias Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770-1848, buried McCorkle Cemetery east of Newbern, Dyer County, Tennessee; James Huie & son Benjamin Huie, 1798-1879, known to have been in Cabarrus then Rowan-Iredell Counties, NC; and Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard (Thomas) of Rowan/Iredell County, NC. Many allied lines are considered. The above-mentioned families mostly came from Pennsylvania down the Great Wagon Road of the 18th century to Rowan County, North Carolina; then to Tennessee.
I. Correspondence of (“Peggy”) Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle), 1770-1848.
This correspondence includes letters to and
from one of her daughters,
Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roache.
Margaret called her new home in Dyer County, Tennessee, “Verdant
Plain,”
and later a son, Robert Andrew Hope or
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Alexander McCorkle Genealogy (1722-1800) Introduction to the people who engaged in the McCorkle Correspondence that begins with Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770-1846, born Margaret Morrison of Rowan County, NC. Margaret Morrison's paternal grandfather, William Morrison, 1704-1771, referred to himself as the first white "inhabitor" of the Third Creek area, now Loray community near Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. The grandfather Wm. Morrison, 1704-1771, attended parleys with the Indians and was active (with his son Andrew Morrison) at Fort Dobbs during the era of the French & Indian Wars. Fort Dobbs lies just outside Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. Robert McCorkle's 1st wife, Elizabeth Blythe (McCorkle) died (I think near Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church nearby Lexington, Kentucky, but may be wrong about this place of death) some time after giving birth to "Aleck" Alexander McCorkle, who died in infancy, & Elizabeth McCorkle (who later became Mrs. Thomas Anderson of Lebanon, Wilson Co., Tenn.); whereupon Robert returned to Rowan-Iredell County and claimed the hand of Margaret Morrison, whose Morrison land in what is now Iredell County adjoined some of the McCorkle lands. Margaret Morrison McCorkle after marriage in Rowan County, NC, to Robert McCorkle (as Robert McCorkle's 2nd wife) removed to Rutherford County, Tennessee, where they lived at Bradley's Creek and Stone's River--and, it is thought, where some of Margaret's Morrison family members also lived at least temporarily, including her sisters Miss Rebecca Morrison and Mrs. Mary Morrison Morrison (who married her own Morrison 1st cousin); then finally Margaret Morrison McCorkle and her blind husband Robert McCorkle removed, with their living, grown children, to Dyer County, Tennessee, near the Gibson County Line and Yorkville.
The above hyperlink attempts to explain who Alexander McCorkle & wife "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery (McCorkle) were: Scots-Irish immigrants from Northern Ireland to, first, Pennsylvania, down the Great Wagon Road to Virginia, then to the Piedmont of North Carolina (Rowan County, a part of which was carved off in 1788 as Iredell County). This chapter explains as much as the author knows about the antecedents of Alexander and Agnes Montgomery McCorkle; then proceeds to examine genealogy of their children. The writer's (Marsha Cope Huie 's) direct ancestor happens to be their son ROBERT McCorkle (born mid-1760s and died in the spring of 1828); but all of Robert's siblings are listed and, it is hoped, their children as well.
Click for: The Nomadic Nature of our McCorkle Ancestors, and allied families. Was James McCorkle the father of our immigrant Alexander McCorkle (1722-1800)? Why did so many Scots leave Scotland for Northern Ireland circa 1700?
Click for: All I know about Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800, and wife "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery McCorkle and their Descendants This may be repetitious.
Click for: Second Part of Old Letters, Part II beginning in 1853 after death of Edwin Alexander McCorkle
Click for: JANE M. THOMPSON WILLIAMS (Mrs. Benjamin Williams), a granddau. of Margaret Morrison McCorkle
Click for: First membership book of the old family church, then called Lemalsamac Christian Church
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People in this photograph whose names are known are:
1. John Flatt
2. E. B. Wiley
3. Geo. Holder
4.
Ira Mitchell Cope
5. Lee Garner
6. Arthur Van Eaton
7. Ewing McCorkle
8. John McCormick
9. Dorsey Hendricks
10. Ina (Ira?) Flatt
11. Johnnie Grills
12. Kitty Franklin
13. Ola Allen
14. Tommie Henley
15. Sophie McCorkle (Huie), grandmother
16. Minnie Green
17. Cattie Morrow (Flatt),
18. Jennie Wright
19. Mary Trout
20. Myrtle Hendricks
21. Minnie Flatt
22. Jennie McCorkle (Mrs. E. E. Carter) dau. of Finis A. McCorkle
23. Allie Dickey
24. Charlie Garner
25. Lou Allen
26. Avie Trout
27. Muncie Smith,
actually GEORGE Muncie Smith
Above Munsey was Onis Franklin (blurred beyond recognition)--Onis
Franklin became a medical doctor and ended up in Oklahoma.
28. ____ Charles
29. Rosa Charles
30. May Lancaster, sister of Nettie Jackson
31. Maud Yates
32. Lula Morrow (?), Mrs. Elmer Headden
33. Connie Green
34. Mollie Flatt
35. Bessie Brady (Boady?)
36. Emma Grills
37. Zula Smith, Mrs. Rice
37. Lula Townes [Stevenson or Stephenson]
39. Notie Headden (Cope)
40. Warner Spence
41. Reuben Mayo
42. Albert Jackson
43. Clifford Litton
44. Newt Hendricks
45. Myrtle Hood
46. ____ Charles
47. Clyde Grills
48. Walter Grills
49. Irl Hendricks (?)
50. Franklin Hall
51. Ernest Moore
52. Verna Pope (Mrs. Buck Arnold), a McCorkle-Pope descendant
53. Willie Binkley
54. Cecil Hall
55. Leonard Scobey
56. Willie Travis
57. Jay Trout
58. Algie Woods
59. Clyde Litton
60. Errett Cotton McCorkle, 1888-1976
61. Willie Edmiston
62. Mollie Scobey
63. Bettie Edmiston (?)
64. Fleetie Taylor (?)
65. Katie Woods
66. Vada Spence (Trimble), mother of Menthia Trimble Hicks & Spence
Trimble.
67._____ ?
68. Gladys Headden (Mrs. Muncie Smith)
69. Ben Anna Spence (Hundley), grandmother of inter alia LaNita Hall VanDyke
70. Alice Mayo
71. May Spence
72. Ethel Moore
73. Rada Headden (Mrs. B. Allmon, his 2nd wife).
75. "Cap" Smith
76. Otha Pope
77. Frank Henley
78. Oliver Alexander
79. Charlie Headden
80. Frank Smith
Click below for:
Maury Adolphus Huie's Typed Family Record from his mother's and aunts' records
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Edwin Alexander McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle, including her Purviance roots. The family of John Purviance & Mary Jane Wasson Purviance
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Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle & Tirzah Scott McCorkle
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The SCOTT family of James Scott (1777-1853) & Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838), York District, South Carolina, then to the Dyer-Gibson County line .
Nota Bene. I think I erroneously placed the death date as 1872 for "Jimps" James Scott (born 1810). He appears in the 1880 census so probably died circa 1882, but I'm no longer sure about any date of his death. I erroneously thought the little, almost-gone stone (shown above, listing somebody's date of birth as 1810) that I found in the old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery showed the date of death of "our" James "Jimps" Scott. I must have been wrong. But at least I did get a marker erected.
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The Dickey Family of Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838), a daughter of Sarah Robinson Dickey & of John Dickey of York District, South Carolina.Click below for:
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Hiram McCorkle--just a teaser from one of HRA McCorkle's Civil War journals
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Benjamin Huie/ Julius M. Huie/ Howard Anderson Huie/ Howard EWING Huie Home, built circa 1830. Situated just east of the Dyer-Gibson County Line on Highway 77, the Newbern-Yorkville Highway. Today, Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie (Mrs. Ewing Huie) lives there.
Also: my Parents, Howard Ewing Huie, 1907-1971, and Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie, born 1915.
My parents, Howard Ewing Huie & Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie
Photo Gallery: Left to right: I think this is either Benjamin Huie, 1798-1879 or James Scott, 1777-1753, or James Scott's son "Jimps" James Scott, born 1810;
then: Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle;
then a montage with Bettie Huie Gregory and John Bowden (bottom right) and left UNKNOWN, top right a James Scott and in the center a little Maury Adolphus Huie, born 1895; blank; then a Jim Scott in a hat--but is it James Scott born 1777, or his son "Jimps" James Scott born in 1810 or "Jimps" Scott's son James Allen Scott born 1839?
Far right: I think this is the James Allen "Jim" Scott born in 1839 as twin to SADE Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie but it may be his father born 1810
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Left: William Leander A. McCorkle, a son of Tirzah Scott & RAH McCorkle
Blank but supposed to be Deana Glen and brother Jimmy Glen, grandchildren of Gentry Purviance McCorkle
Howard Harris Roahce, died around Trenton at train station from mortal wound incurred at Battle of Shiloh; his brother Robt. Quincy Roache & Sunderland wife; and another photo of HOward Harris Roache
Blank but supposed to be my husband Ralph Ervin Williamson and his father J C in 1963 in Midland, Texas
Far Right: Sarah Zarecor Dunagan and her three children Nancy, Nick, and Anita. Descendants of "Becky" REBECCA McCorkle Zarecor (Mrs. John C Zarecor, a Daughter of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle
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Some Records of Our People in Middle Tennessee
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Morrison Genealogy of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848
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Frelinghuisen
McCorkle; Caleb
McCorkle;
Miscellany. Former Chapter 14.
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Parker
Louis Cashdollar Blackwell, pictured above on 31 October, Halloween, 2009.
We thank a
gracious God for the birth on November 20, 2009, of Parker Louis Cashdollar
Blackwell's baby brother:
WYATT EWING Cashdollar Blackwell.
Above: Baby Wyatt Ewing Cashdollar Blackwell, almost 3 months, Feb. 2010, held by father Brian Louis Blackwell.
Baby Wyatt descends from WYATT folks. We know that way way back in Mocksville, Davie County, North Carolina, occurred intermarriages between Joyce Cope Huie's (my mother's) Cope and Wyatt folks; and Cope and Banks folks. Little WYATT's "Ewing" comes from his mother's grandfather Howard EWING Huie, 1907-1971, my father and the father of Sophie Joyce Huie Cashdollar, little Wyatt's maternal grandmother. ---Jennifer Jones Kinnard and her late sister Mary Llew Jones McGuire, as well as Diane Wyatt and Diane's sister Sarah Blanche WYATT Bundy, descend also from Wyatt-COPE folks (as well as from the marriage of Sarah "Sallie" COPE to Ransom Rivers BANKS). Well, the point is made: Baby WYATT Ewing Cashdollar Blackwell got himself FOUR (4) family names, and that's special for him.
Above: Diane Wyatt, as Assistant Dean of University of Tennessee Health Sciences Allied Sciences. Descendant of Sarah "Sallie" Cope & Ransom Rivers Banks. Dianne's sister is Sarah Blanche Wyatt BUNDY, who (Sadie) had one son: Christopher Wyatt Bundy. above right: unnamed subject was in personal album of "Sade" Sarah SCOTT Huie (Mrs. Julius M. Huie), 1839-1893. Was she a SCOTT ? a HUIE? a friend?
This webpage aims to preserve the genealogy and correspondence (from 1829) of the following families, and of many more:
Immigrants circa 1730 to Pennsylvania (from Northern Ireland): Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800, & wife "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery McCorkle, d. 1789. Although parentage is as yet unproven, Alexander was probably the son of Scots-Northern Irish immigrant James McCorkle who with his wife Jane (??maiden name??) McCorkle ventured into the American colonies with son Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800. We know that either Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800, or Alexander's father (James? McCorkle) had a sister who became Mrs. ?first name unknown??? McCorkle Sloan (This sister was the mother of Elizabeth Sloan Morrison alias Mrs. Andrew Morrison, the Andrew Morrison who died after 1815 in Middle Tennessee). Source: an old letter from Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach (a daughter of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848, Margaret being daughter-in-law of Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800).
The other candidates besides James McCorkle for being father of the 1722-1800 Alexander McCorkle are Samuel McCorkle and William McCorkle. Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800, did name a son each Samuel and William, perhaps not after his father but after uncles; I do not know. (Parenthetically, record of a James McCorkle exists--is he in fact "ours?"--in the area of Mecklenburg County, NC, around today's Charlotte, which was also the locale in the mid-1750s of my Huie ancestors.)
Major Francis McCorkle: Assuming arguendo that James McCorkle begot Alexander McCorkle (1722-1800), and I'm far from certain about that, then Alexander McCorkle (1722-1800) was not as some have written a brother to Francis McCorkle. (Francis McCorkle was a Revolutionary War major in the North Carolina line.) That would make Francis McCorkle, rather, a 1st cousin to "our" Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800. Francis McCorkle married a Brandon woman; and Alexander McCorkle (1722-1800) himself took a second wife named Rebecca (McNee?) Brandon. Francis & Alexander (1722-1800) would have been what southerners call "own" cousins.
Mr. Joe M. McCorkle in Ireland has an excellent web site investigating McCorkles-McCorkells on the other side of the pond, at this hyperlink: https://sites.google.com/site/ulstermccorkells/welcome He gives clues to the parentage of "our" Alexander McCorkle in that he shows parish marriages and christenings in Eire (Ireland) & Ulster (Northern Ireland).
Discussed on this web site, also, are the ff. people, and more:
'Nancy" Agnes McCorkle's MONTGOMERY ascendants: John Montgomery & Martha FINLEY (Montgomery).
Has anybody been to the town of MORRISON situated between Manchester and McMinnville, Tennessee?
William Morrison (1704-1771) (son of JAMES MORRISON) & William Morrison's wife Margaret (maiden name unknown) Morrison, were the paternal grandparents, by their son ANDREW MORRISON who married Elizabeth SLOAN, of:
granddaughter (1) Margaret Morrison McCorkle alias Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770-1848, buried in the McCorkle Cemetery some 5 miles east of Newbern, in Dyer County, Tennessee. William & Margaret Morrison's other grandchildren included, through their son ANDREW MORRISON & his wife ELIZABETH SLOAN (Morrison), not in proper birth order:
grandson (2)William Hays Morrison, 1767-1837 (buried McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer Co., Tennessee, right next to his sister Margaret McCorkle). This William Hays Morrison m. Mary Haynes (who predeceased him and is buried easterly in Bedford Co., Tenn., part of which county was carved out as Coffee County, Tennessee); and
grandson (3)Andrew Sloan Morrison who on 11 March 1801 married Mary Haynes' sister Sarah Haynes, born Dec. 31, 1780.
A preacher, presumably Presbyterian, Andrew Sloan Morrison wandered into Tennessee on his journeys and appears as owning property in several places, including the Chilhowee Mountains. His sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle wrote daughter Elmira Sloan McCorkle (Roache) in 1838 that she --Margaret--thought her brother ANDREW was probably in Virginia "attending to an old lawsuit there." One of the children of Andrew Sloan Morrison was Presbyterian minister Andrew Alfred MORRISON (1807-1884), who was born in Iredell Co., NC, and died in Salina, Kansas. Andrew Sloan(e) Morrison himself may have died a resident in Indiana, but as to his meanderings I must defer to his descendant, today's Jean Morrison of Cincinnati.
Here is a hyperlink to a web site that includes Andrew Alfred Morrison: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jcplummer/clotiaux/2/50172.htm; and
grandson (4)George Morrison, 1771-1854 who remained behind in Iredell Co., NC, and fathered, inter alia, George Milton Morrison, who sired several children; and
granddaughter (5) Elizabeth Morrison Lowrie of Iredell Co., NC; and
granddaughter (6) Rachel Morrison Brown alias Mrs. Robert Brown(e) who died 1 July 1835 (probable date of Rachel's death according to an old letter from Rachel's sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle to Margaret's daughter Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache). Rachel Morrison Brown's only daughter (I think) was Matilda McKee Browne, who in good Iredell County, North Carolina, MORRISON late 18th-century and early 19th century fashion married her Morrison 1st cousin (first-cousin-once-removed). Matilda Brown(e) married a son or grandson of her uncle William Hays Morrison, 1767-1837: either Joseph Pinckney Morrison or a son of Joseph Pinckney Morrison; and
granddaughter (7) Mary Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison) who m. a son of her uncle Patrick Morrison; and
granddaughter (8) Rebecca Morrison who probably never married (for her last name remained Morrison; but note (above) that Rebecca's sister Rebecca Morrison married a first cousin, John MORRISON), and Rebecca died between 1851 (mentioned in 1851 letter as being alive) and 1860 (by 1860 she was no longer present in the Coffee County, Tennessee, census although her sister Mary was). Presumably Rebecca Morrison died as resident near Hillsboro in Coffee County, Tennessee. Noted here is Mary Morrison Morrison's statement in a letter transcribed herein that her nephew EDWIN ALEXANDER McCORKLE (my g-g grandfather) had, not too long before Edwin's death in early 1853, generously sent his aunts Mary and Rebecca Morrison one whole U.S. dollar. I also note herein that Margaret Morrison McCorkle stated in a letter to her daughter Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache that Edwin had loaded up a wagon in Dyer County, West Tennessee, and trekked all the way easterly to Coffee County in a vain hope to remove his two aunts from their penury and take them with him to reside with Morrison-McCorkle family pioneers residing in West Tennessee (then the "frontier).
Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache's letter to her nephew, Dr. James Scott McCORKLE of Newbern, Tennessee, stated that her Elmira's grandfather, ANDREW Morrison, had raised eight (8) children; also that these Morrisons were "strict Presbyterians."
It is a good thing for us today that the above George Morrison, 1771-1854, did remain behind in Rowan-Iredell County, North Carolina, because a Dr. Langenaur ?? or Langenhauer? ? (I think that's who did it) dutifully recorded what he could of the relatives of George Morrison and placed this information for the public to use, in the genealogy room of the Statesville public library (Iredell County).
Hyperlink
to MORRISONs of MONTGOMERY County, TENNESSEE:
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The immediately above hyperlink (MORRISONs of MONTGOMERY County, TENNESSEE) picks up:
Generation I. James Morrison, born circa 1675 in Scotland. Wife: MARY---;
Generation II. William Morrison, 1704-1771, who called himself the "first inhabitor" of Loray community near Statesville, in what is now Iredell County, North Carolina. [Iredell Co. was carved from ROWAN County in 1788.] This William Morrison's Wife: MARGARET ____-- ;
III. Patrick Morrison, a brother to "my" Andrew Morrison. That is, this Patrick Morrison was brother to the Andrew Morrison who married Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison). This PATRICK MORRISON was therefore an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle), 1770-1848. The life of Margaret MORRISON McCorkle began in the Iredell County (carved from Rowan in 1788) part of ROWAN COUNTY, North Carolina, and ended at what she called VERDANT PLAIN, now Churchton community in eastern Dyer County, Tennessee, just west of the Gibson County line. I think her father, the Andrew Morrison who married Elizabeth SLOAN(e) (Morrison), died in 1815 in Bedford County, Tennessee, probably in the part that was to be carved out as COFFEE COUNTY.
Source of the ff. information is an old letter from Elmira Sloane McCorkle (Roache) to her mother Margaret Morrison (McCorkle): Elmira inquired, Whatever happened to Uncle Patrick's son [the son's name was JOHN MORRISON, but Elmira didn't name him] and "Aunt Mary" 's "poor children," if there were any? --That meant Margaret Morrison McCorkle's sister MARY MORRISON married John Morrison (yes, I'm afraid it's true: the bride Mary Morrison and the groom John Morrison were, in the usual MORRISON fashion back then, first cousins). It turns out that the "son of Uncle Patrick" who married his first cousin was John Morrison --this John Morrison was the son of Margaret Morrison McCorkle's uncle, Patrick Morrison (Patrick being a son of "first inhabitor" William Morrison, 1704-1771). I do not know if Mary Morrison Morrison had a son named James Morrison in Coffee County, Tennessee; but it's likely because this James was the family with whom Mary Morrison Morrison and sister Rebecca Morrison were living, in penury (the poverty is according to Mary's wailing letters to West Tennessee to her nephew RAH McCorkle, Margaret Morrison McCorkle's son RAH McCorkle). It's likely but just speculation now, by me at least, that the James Morrison with whose family Mary & her sister Rebecca Morrison lived in their oldest ages, in Coffee County, Tennessee, was a son of John Morrison & Mary Morrison.
IV. William Morrison
V. Josiah Morrison -- environs of Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee.
Also discussed on this web site:
James Huie (flourished 1800) & son Benjamin Huie, born c.1798 in Cabarrus County, NC - d. 1879 in Newbern, Tennessee, in the home of his son Joseph G. Huie--James Huie & son Benjamin Huie each known to have been in Cabarrus then Rowan-Iredell Counties, NC. I hope "my" James Huie, father of Benjamin Huie, was not the slave-trader in the area of Iredell County circa 1800, but I'm afraid he was, for I've wondered how "my" Benjamin Huie got the money to come to West Tennessee and buy up land in Dyer.
The Huguenot Cross of Languedoc, France, to the right:
Revolutionary War veteran Jacob Thomas & wife Margaret Brevard (Thomas) of Rowan/Iredell County, NC, whose son William Thomas married Elizabeth Purviance. Quaere: Was Margaret BREVARD (Thomas) a daughter of ZEBULON BREVARD, as some have written in handwritten and/or typed files placed in the Statesville Public Library in Iredell County, NC, in the genealogical room in Iredell County, North Carolina? I do not know who the parents of Margaret Brevard (Mrs. Jacob Thomas) were, but if she was (subjunctive mood: were) a daughter to Zebulon Brevard & Ann Templeton, that makes her a TEMPLETON descendant of a passenger on the Mayflower. From Winchester, Tennessee, Sir John Templeton of the Templeton Growth Investment Fund went on to endow Templeton College at Oxford University in England. Good grief, BREVARD relatives!!! He graduated from Winchester high school in 1930.
Templeton Foundation Press Five Radnor Corporate Center, Suite 120 100 Matsonford Road Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087 www.templetonpress.org HERMANN, author. art II: The Making of a World-Class Investor 93 8. The Winchester [TENNESSEE] Years 95 A trip through Winchester • John’s parents and grandparents • Reminiscing with John’s brother • A remarkable upbringing • Educational trips • Marriage to Irene Butler • Eight weeks in Europe in a Volkswagen bus •John’s mother’s spiritual influence 9. Reaching Out: Yale, Oxford, and across the World 109 Selling magazines to raise money for college • Studying economics at Yale • Attending Oxford as a Rhodes scholar • Founding Templeton Foundation College at Oxford years later • A post-graduation around-the-world tour • This book chronicles the life of a man of extraordinary vision. John Templeton set the pace on Wall Street with an astounding record of mutual fund achievement, and also startled his contemporaries with his keen insights about market forces and his optimism about the growth of the economy. But John Templeton has made the real goal of his life the elaboration of a new concept of spiritual progress. While recognizing and appreciating the great religious insights of the past, he envisions a new era of spiritual discovery that may rival the astounding physical discoveries of the past few centuries brought to us through science. "Sir John Templeton drove a small red rental car out of the long sweeping drive of the big brick house at 600 South High Street in Winchester,Tennessee, and proceeded down High Street. It was the beginning of two days of travel down memory lane—to recount for me some of his experiences growing up in a small town in middle Tennessee. The big brick house had been built by John’s father for his parents, Dr. John Wiley Templeton of Beech Grove, Tennessee, and Susan Jones Templeton, formerly of Canton, Mississippi. Dr.Templeton had received one year of medical training in Nashville, and had been a regimental surgeon in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. After the war he practiced general medicine for some forty years in Wartrace, Tennessee, and then retired to live in Winchester. His mother VELLA's family. Her father, Robert Clinton Handly, had been a businessman in Winchester, with a busy grain mill on Boiling Fork Creek. The Handlys were also prominent politically. John’s maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Marks, was the sister of Colonel Albert Marks, governor of Tennessee. John can even boast of a Revolutionary War-hero ancestor, Virginia-born Samuel Handly, whose parents emigrated from northern Ireland in 1740.
Elizabeth Purviance (Mrs. William THOMAS) was a daughter of "colonel" John Purviance of the North Carolina line in the Revolutionary War & of John Purviance's wife, Mary JANE WASSON (Purviance). John Purviance Snr was, I think, a lieutenant in the NC line, although his brother Captain James Purviance ranked higher. ] [John Purviance and Mary Jane Wasson Purviance had a son also named John Purviance. In 1792 this son John Purviance was scalped by hostile Indians near today's GALLATIN in Sumner County, Tennessee, leaving a widow who had watched the murder. John Purviance Jnr's widow was "Mattie" Martha King Purviance. Mattie King (Mrs. John Jnr. Purviance)(then, soon, Mrs. William McCorkle) died all too soon, before 1800, after re-marrying and becoming Mrs. William McCorkle, becoming therefore daughter-in-law to immigrant Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800, & wife "Nancy" Agness Montgomery McCorkle. SAMUEL KING had signed, as A.D. 1800 witness back in Rowan-Iredell County, NC, the will of Mattie King (McCorkle's) new father-in-law Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800. A King Family Genealogy is on the Internet from the Cumberland Presbyterian organization which includes these King folk.
Two of the THOMAS daughters of Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard (Thomas) married brothers named SHERRILL. Elizabeth Thomas m. Samuel Wilson Sherrill (Elizabeth Thomas Sherrill). And Elizabeth's younger sister Anne alias Annie Thomas m. Abel Sherrill (Anne Thomas Sherrill). The youngest from the union of Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard were JACOB THOMAS, Jr.; and ANNE THOMAS SHERRILL. My ancestor, WILLIAM THOMAS who m. ELIZABETH PURVIANCE, was one of the children of Jacob & Margaret BREVARD THOMAS, also. (Click here for BREVARD, THOMAS, and SHERRILL Families of the piedmont of North Carolina.) --Ora Huie and Katie Pearl Fox were McCorkle sisters: my Aunt Ora McCorkle Huie and Aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle Fox's records list an Ann Thomas (Sherrill) but fail positively to identify Anne Thomas SHERRILL as a child of Jacob & Margaret Brevard Thomas (which Anne was). Our old McCorkle/Huie genealogical records kept in Dyer Co., West Tennessee, contain Sherrill records, but in the midst of them my Aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle (Fox) has interlineated: "I don't understand all of this."
Click below for a hyperlink to ZEBULON BREVARD, probably the father of Margaret Brevard (Mrs. Jacob THOMAS). I did not write any of the following; this is merely a hyperlink: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~passages/Brevard.html
Many allied lines are considered in this web site, e.g., the Scott family of James Scott, 1777-1853, and Sarah Dickey (Scott), 1777-1838, Sarah Dickey Scott being a daughter of John Dickey & Sarah Robinson Dickey of York District, South Carolina; James & Sarah Dickey Scott having lived at one time in York District, South Carolina. I suspect that James Scott, 1777-1853, began his life in Pennsylvania and that his father was the immigrant, but am not certain. --Their descendant Glenn Smith Scott of Yorkville, Tennessee (Gibson Co.) died in the spring of 2009, leaving behind children and his brother Wm. Aaron Scott. --Annie Maude Scott (Mrs. Brown) died in Henderson, Tennessee, in the year 2009; born in West Tennessee, Annie Maude married a man from Guntown, Mississippi, then moved to Henderson to be near the family of her brother's widow, Yvonne Scott (Mrs. Rev. THOMAS Elihu Scott).
Another example of allied lines is the Archibald Wasson -Elizabeth Woods Wasson family. Someday I hope to include a section on the WOODS-WASSON genealogy.
Stuart Hoyle Purvines's big red PURVIANCE / PURVAIANCE book of the year 1984, to which I provided much information about the Tennessee descendants of Revolutionary War "colonel" John Purviance (serving as soldier in the North Carolina line during the war) and wife Mary JANE Wasson (Purviance), of Rowan Co., NC, says the "colonel" 's parents, JOHN PURVIANCE who m. Miss McKNIGHT came from people who were originally Huguenots at Royan near La Rochelle, west coast of France, and who had fled up to Castlefinn in Northern Ireland to escape the Roman Catholic persecution. Also, someone has placed on www.ancestry.com that James MORRISON came from Castle Finn. This JAMES MORRISON was father of our WILLIAM MORRISON, who called himself the "first inhabitor" of the Loray community area near Statesville, Rowan County (later, in 1788, IREDELL county), North Carolina. This Castlefinn business--of the immigrant John Purvaiance / Purviance/ who m. McKnight, and of immigrant James Morrison: I do not know anything about. Nevertheless, here's the WIKIPEDIA information on Castlefin alias Castlefinn of County Donegal in the northwestern-most part of Ireland. County Donegal is yet a part of EIRE, the REPUBLIC of Ireland; County Donegal is not a constituent part of the Northern Ireland that is a part of the United Kingdom but is part of Eire (the Republic of Ireland):
"Castlefin (Irish: Caisleán na Finne), (sometimes spelt Castlefinn) is a market town in the Finn Valley of County Donegal, Ireland, an Ulster county within the Republic of Ireland. The town has a population of 810 (2006) and is located between Ballybofey and Lifford. The River Finn flows by the town. The town is located in along the main N15 national primary road, which runs from Bundoran to Lifford. The town lies 6 miles from Lifford and 8 miles from the twin towns of Ballybofey /Stranorlar. It has close links to the twin towns of Ballybofey/ Stranorlar, Letterkenny and has strong links with West Tyrone in Northern Ireland, especially with the towns of Strabane and Castlederg." ... ... ... "Castlefinn is in the parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe, 4.5 miles from Lifford."
The above is from the Wikipedia entry, at <http:www.wikipedia.org>. Look to the central right boundary of County Donegal to see Castlefinn.
John Purviance m. Mary Jane Wasson, my, Marsha Cope Huie's, ancestors. This John was son of another John Purviance (who m. McKnight). One of John & Jane Wasson Purviance's children was Elizabeth Purviance alias Mrs. William Thomas, and another child was church "elder" David Purviance, who aided in starting the Disciples of Christ/ Church of Christ at Cane Ridge, Kentucky. Elizabeth Purviance m. William Thomas and produced, inter alia: (1) Sarah Purviance Thomas who m. Eleazor Woods and (2) Jane Maxwell Thomas who m. Edwin Alexander McCorkle. William Thomas died in 1833 very soon after removing westerly to Dyer County, and his widow applied for a Revolutionary War widow's pension from Dyer County, with the help, the application states, of her son-in-law Edwin Alexander McCorkle, 1799-1853, who was a Justice of the Peace for Dyer County.
The John Purviance who married Mary Jane Wasson was in 1775 a member of the Rowan County, NC, Committee for Safety, meaning that he was a revolutionary. Yet, he would not leave his Presbyterianism and join the new "restoration movement" of Barton W. Stone and his own son, "elder" David Purviance, the latter of whom is considered a co-founder of the Christian Church / Church of Christ in that he spread the movement in Kentucky and, partially because of opposition to slavery, northward to Ohio (settling in "New" Paris, Preble County, Ohio). This John Purviance did, however, join the new CUMBERLAND Presbyterian movement begun in 1810 in Middle Tennessee. --So, the reader may wonder, was this "colonel" John Purviance really a revolutionary; or did he like many Scots-Irish in the American colonies merely jump on a chance (the revolutionary movement) to get back at the British who had long discriminated against Presbyterianism in favored of an established anglican church?
It's not clear to me why he--"our" "Revolutionary War colonel" John Purviance--is of 1811 record in Giles County, Tennessee, which is down on the southern border of Tennessee, a border shared with Alabama, Giles County's main city today being Pulaski, Tennessee. "Colonel" John Purviance deeded 450 acres of land to Samuel Woods, grantee, who by then was up in New Paris, Preble County, Ohio, near "elder" David Purviance, son of John & Mary JANE Wasson Purviance. I suppose "colonel" John Purviance had received this acreage as remuneration for his Revolutionary War efforts, but this is speculation. -- New Paris, Preble County, Ohio, was the locale to which John & Mary Jane Wasson Purviance 's son "church elder" David Purviance had removed, from, first, Rowan Co., NC; to, second, Sumner County, Tennessee, in or near Old Shiloh Presbyterian Church just outside today's Gallatin; to, third, near Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky (because John & Mary Jane Wasson Purviance's son named John Purviance Jr. had been scalped in 1792 in Sumner County, Tennessee); to, fourth, New Paris, in Preble County, Ohio.) Please see Deed Book A, page 205, Giles County, Tennessee, Deed Books, this deed having been registered on 25 Sep 1811. The 450 acres lay on a tributary of the Elk River called Indian Creek. Acting as witnesses to grantor John Purviance's deed were brothers of the grantee: William Woods and David Woods. --Parenthetical note about land-owning in Giles County, Tennessee: "our" Alexander McCorkle Jr, son of immigrant "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery d. 1789 & immigrant Alexander McCorkle, 1722-3 to 1800, lived at one time after moving from the Piedmont of North Carolina in GILES COUNTY, TENNESSEE, also. This Alexander McCorkle Jr.--brother to "our" Robert McCorkle, the Robert who m. Margaret Morrison, then moved on to Henry County, Tennessee, the main city of which is Paris, Tennessee. There, after having a son also named Alexander McCorkle, he began to refer to himself as Alexander McCorkle Sr. I know he was in Giles County for a while because he wrote a letter back home to his sister McCorkle-Ramsay which appears in the RAMSAY papers housed in the U of North Carolina Archives at Chapel Hill.
Click here for a bit of information about DAVID PURVIANCE.
Click below for an excerpt from Levi Purviance's biography of his father, "elder" David Purviance, describing his--Levi's--grandfather, Revolutionary War soldier "colonel" John Purviance who married Mary JANE Wasson (Purviance). This John might have been born at Castle Finn, Northern Ireland, as his father (another John Purviance) had been; but probably was born in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. Was "colonel" John Purviance who m. JANE WASSON (Purviance) an emigrant from Northern Ireland? The de PURVAIANCE family in France had become Huguenots seeking refuge in the west coast city of La Rochelle, France, after Louis XIV stupidly revoked the toleration implied by the Edict of NANTES; and from Royan / La Rochelle, the Purviances had sailed seeking freedom in Scotland and Northern Ireland. In France, a name using "de (plus a locale)" implies nobility; so I suppose at some point Jacques de Purvaiance, or some kinsman, had been "made" noble in return for some favor bestowed. That fits, as "Purvaiance" means "purveyor" or "purveyance."
Click to the right for: Levi Purviance's description of his grandfather JOHN PURVIANCE & his grandmother Mary JANE WASSON Purviance
The above-mentioned families mostly came from Pennsylvania down the Great Wagon Road of the 18th century to Rowan County, North Carolina; then westerly to Tennessee. Tennessee attained statehood in 1796 (take that, you Johnny-come-lately Texans who appropriated not only "UT" but also our mascot orange color); the western-most lands of Tenn. were not opened for white settlement until decades later.
This web site includes some of the
Correspondence
of (“Peggy”) Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle),
11th August 1770 - 21 Nov. 1848.
This correspondence includes letters to and
from one of her daughters,
Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roache.
Margaret Morrison McCorkle called her new home in Dyer County, Tennessee, “Verdant Plain,”
and later one of her sons, Robert Andrew
Hope alias
Please hold down "CTRL" & click here for: CHOLERA Strikes in 1833, on August 10th, presumably in ROCKVILLE, INDIANA, to which town Margaret Morrison McCorkle's daughter ELMIRA SLOAN McCORKLE ROACH had removed from Dyer County, Tennessee.
Please hold down "CTRL" and Click for the information outlined below: Frontispiece.1984 Letter from Bowden Cason (Casey) McCorkle to Marsha Cope Huie. Provenance of Old McCorkle Letters. Solicitation of Funds for McCorkle Cemetery east of Newbern, West Tennessee.
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The Peregrinations of Robert McCorkle. His grandmother Martha Finley Montgomery's Finley / Princeton University / Connection. His maternal uncle Rev. Joseph Montgomery (1733-1794), a brother of "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery McCorkle and a brother-in-law of Dr. Benjamin Rush.
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Alexander McCorkle Genealogy (1722-1800) Introduction to the people who engaged in the McCorkle Correspondence included here that begins with Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770-1846, born Margaret Morrison of Rowan County, NC. Margaret Morrison's paternal grandfather, William Morrison, 1704-1771, referred to himself as the first white "inhabitor" of the Third Creek area, now Loray community near Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. The grandfather Wm. Morrison, 1704-1771, attended parleys with the Indians and was active (with his son and/or brother Andrew Morrison) at Fort Dobbs during the era of the French & Indian Wars. Fort Dobbs lies just outside Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina.
Click for: The Nomadic Nature of our McCorkle Ancestors, and allied families. Was James McCorkle the father of our immigrant Alexander McCorkle (1722-1800)? Why did so many Scots leave Scotland for Northern Ireland circa 1700?
Here, someday, will be a link to records from the Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church, an early church in Kentucky, in southeastern Fayette County not far from Lexington. Elmira Sloan McCorkle (Mrs. Dr. Stephen Roach) wrote that her father Robert McCorkle was in the second company of white men to foray into Kentucky. And we know that, before 1800, brothers Robert McCorkle, John McCorkle, and Joseph McCorkle were all three at Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church. For now, here is the website of Walnut Hill church--but it's not a hyperlink: http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/lexington/wal.htm
THYARITA Presbyterian Church, Rowan County, North Carolina, in Mill Bridge community near Mooresville near Salisbury, North Carolina. A Sloan's Mill stands nearby. Preacher of note: Dr. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, son of "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery & husband Alexander McCorkle. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle graduated from the precursor of Princeton College, having studied at Nashua Hall under his maternal uncle Dr. Joseph Montgomery, 1733-1799, who--Joseph Montgomery--was a member of the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle's brother was my ancestor, Robert McCorkle. Samuel's wife was nέe Gillespie. Her father was killed at Fort Dobbs outside today's Statesville, NC. Her mother remarried and became Elizabeth Maxwell STEELE, after whom a DAR chapter was named as she gave all her specie to General Nathaniel Greene at a low point in the Revolutionary cause. --There was once a Thyatira Presbyterian Church (now, defunct) in Cannon County, Tennessee, near the Rutherford County line. It is now only Thyatira burial ground and is situated a bit north and west of Bradyville, near the Rutherford County line. As mentioned, there is a MORRISON, Tennessee, which lies on the road from McMinnville running southwest to Manchester, in Warren County, Tennessee.
Click for: All I know about Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800, and wife "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery McCorkle and their Descendants This may be repetitious. Pictured below is one of their grandchildren, through their son Robert McCorkle by Robert's 2nd marriage, to Margaret Morrison (McCorkle), viz., Margaret Permelia McCorkle (Scott):
Does Ray Scott of Yorkville, Tennessee, look like his Scott-McCorkle ancestors, above? For the answer see him below, bottom right. Ray stands bottom right, in the front row, amongst some of the 1952 Matriculants at Yorkville School, and the Yorkville High School Class of 1964, Yorkville, Gibson County, Tennessee, at their gathering held 19 October 2008.
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McCorkle-Anderson-McMurry-Leath Excursus: Progeny of my ancestor Robert McCorkle by 1st wife Elizabeth Blythe McCorkle (not my ancestor). Those children were: Infant Aleck; and daughter Elizabeth McCorkle Anderson, whose children by her husband THOMAS ANDERSON were: Martha ( Mrs James T Leath). Julia Anderson. Elizabeth (Mrs. Rev. John MITCHELL McMurry) (Cumberland Presbyterians).
The children by his first wife Lizzie BLYTHE (McCorkle) of "our" Robert McCorkle ended up being more "high society" than did the children by Robert's second wife, my ancestor Margaret MORRISON McCorkle. The Robert McCorkle about whom I'm writing now is Robert the son of Alexander & "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery (McCorkle), that is, the Robert who died in 1828 really soon after removing from Middle Tennessee to Dyer County, in the newly opened Western District of Tennessee. James T Leath, e.g., was ruling elder for the whole Memphis area of the Presbyterian Church. --I suppose we were "no class" because where the second set of children, speaking generally, ended up living, and the area where I was born, has NO SOCIETY. Farmers aren't big on "class," just on getting the crops planted and harvested--or that's my impression at least. I do have to admit, though, that in my childhood--the 1950s--the white McCorkle descendants around home thought they were Big Cheese.
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Also, here is a
hyperlink to the Montgomery
Co., Tennessee, descendants of Margaret Morrison McCorkle's uncle Patrick Morrison:
www.lulu.com/items/volume_1/114000/114011/1/preview/Family_Tree_
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Genealogy of Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard Thomas, parents of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle née Jane Maxwell Thomas. William & Elizabeth Purviance's son DAVID Thomas was first attorney general (ad interim) of the Republic of Texas. He's buried outside Houston, at San Jacinto Battleground, in the de Zavala Cemetery, in a hero's grave.
At roughly the same time that David Thomas was acting secretary of war and attorney general for the nascent Republic of Texas, David Thomas's first cousin-once removed JAMES HOUSTON THOMAS was attorney general of the State of Tennessee (1836-1842). According to the Political Graveyard source, this James Houston THOMAS then became U.S. Representative from Tennessee 6th District, 1847-51, 1859-61; Delegate from Tennessee to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62. James Houston Thomas died near Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tenn., August 4, 1876. Interment at St. John's Cemetery, Ashwood, Maury County, Tennessee.
Quoting the Nashville Daily American: August 6, 1876 "James Houston Thomas born N.C., 1808; moved with family to Maury Co., Tenn. about 1815; an attorney-general for several middle Tennessee counties; elected to U. Congress in 1846 and 1848. Died recently. [BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY OF THE AMERICAN CONGRESS, 1774-1971, Washington, D.C., 1971, pages 1805-1806: THOMAS, James Houston, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Iredell County N.C. September 22, 1808; attended the rural schools; was graduated from Jackson College, Columbia Tenn., in 1830; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1831 and commenced practice in Columbia, Tenn.; attorney general of Tennessee 1836-1842; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1851); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859- March 3, 1861); resumed the practice of law in Columbia, Tenn.; died near Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tenn., on August 4, 1876; interment in St. John's Cemetery, Ashwood, Maury County, Tenn.]
Hyperlink to DAVID THOMAS, Texas Politician on Wikipedia
One of Jacob & Margaret Brevard Thomas's great-grandsons was Hiram Robert A. ("HRA") McCorkle. HRA McCorkle was a son of Jane Maxwell THOMAS McCorkle. The "Hiram" in HRA McCORKLE is from his mother's brother, Hiram Jacob Thomas, M.D., of Lebanon, Wilson County, Tenn; then of Vernon, Miss.; and last of Yazoo, Mississippi.):
Click to the right for: Old Letters from Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1848) dating from 1829 to 1848; others' letters up to 1853 ,the year of death of my great-great grandfather Edwin Alexander McCorkle, of Edwin A.'s sister Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott (Mrs. Lemuel Locke Scott), and of Margaret Permelia McCorkle's father-in-law James Scott (1777-1853).
This James Scott was the husband of first, the mother of his children, Sarah Dickey, 1777-1838, of York District, South Carolina, born to John Dickey & wife Sarah Robinson (Dickey), York District, South Carolina, then, second, husband of Mary Landers (Scott). It is this James Scott (1777-1853), whom "old friend Scott" (James Scott) married circa 1838 in Gibson County, Tennessee "to the satisfaction of all his friends."
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S e c o n d P a r t of O l d L e t t e r s, Part II beginning in 1853 after death of my great-great grandfather Edwin Alexander McCorkle on 10th February 1853.Letter from Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle. Click right for:
Year 1845: Admonitory Letter about the Latter Day Saints from RAH alias Robert McCorkle to his nephew Robert QUINCY Roache (son of Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache).Included here is the much later Obituary of RAH McCorkle's son Joseph Smith "Joe" McCorkle. I note that my own father, Howard EWING Huie, 1907-1971, served as a pallbearer for this man whom he called "Uncle Joe McCorkle." The obituary erroneously lists my father Ewing as grandson to Joe; Ewing Huie's grandfather John Edwin McCorkle was a first cousin to Uncle Joe.
END OF OLD LETTERS.
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The two daughters of Rebecca Cowden McCorkle alias Mrs. Gideon Thompson (Rebecca who died circa 1819 being a sister to my great-great grandfather Edwin Alexander McCorkle, and sister to RAH or Robert McCorkle, and sister to Jehiel Morrison McCorkle alias Major JM McCorkle of the Dyer County militia, and sister to Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott alias Mrs. Lemuel Locke Scott), JANE M. THOMPSON WILLIAMS (Mrs. Benjamin Williams) was a granddaughter of Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Jane is interred 1850 in the McCorkle Cemetery as "Jane, consort of Benjamin Williams") about 4 miles east of Newbern, just north of the Newbern-Yorkville Highway) Jane Williams's sister was Mary C. [Cox? Cowden?] Thompson alias Mrs. Matthew Dickey (Mary's inhumation was at the Poplar Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery, just east of Newbern on the Newbern-Yorkville Highway, also known as Highway 77.) A.D. 2010 update: long-seasoned now in the old McCorkle letters, I have come to believe Mary C. Thompson Dickey (Mrs. Matthew Dickey of Dyer Co., Tenn.) was the MARY COX about whom her grandmother wrote in an early letter just after settling in Dyer County, in the newly opened Western District of Tennessee. Margaret Morrison McCorkle apprised her daughter Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache that Mary Cox had finally recovered from the ague.--Some COX people appear as do these McCorkles in the Rutherford County, Middle Tennessee, land records of the early 1800s.
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First membership book of the old family church, then called Lemalsamac Christian Church
Click to the right for: Sue McCorkle Lee: recollections of Lemalsamac and Churchton circa 1925; with lovely note appended by Linda Kelley of Chattanooga; also a newspaper article on the McCorkle Family of Churchton
Click for: circa 1890 community contributions to construction of Mt. Carmel Methodist Church about 5 miles east of Newbern & northerly just a tad on the Trimble-Lemalsamac road. Below: Mrs. Ira Mitchell Cope alias Notie Headden Cope, 1886-1983, devout member at Carmel Church after she moved there when the nearby Union Grove Presbyterian Church gave out for lack of membership, & her only surviving child on the right, daughter Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie, born 11 Nov. 1915 & died late in the night of 24 Dec. 2009 (my mother, of blessed memory);
and on the left Joyce's Cope 1st cousin Mildred Grills Caldwell (daughter of Delia Cope Grills and Riley Matthus Grills)
Click for: 1850 Census of the Churchton, Dyer County, community, including HENDRICKS alias Hendrix folks
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John Edwin McCorkle (1839-1924): (1) one of his Civil War diaries, this one written just before and during the Civil War. (He goes to the battle up at Columbus, KY; and (2) a sampler of his brother Hiram R A McCorkle's journals; and (3) a sampler of his daughter’s, Katie Pearl McCorkle (Fox)’s journals. Across the Mississippi River on the Missouri side, it is thought that John Edwin McCorkle & Hiram HRA McCorkle's first cousin (a son of their aunt, Jane M Thompson (Mrs. Williams)) was killed in battle; this is family lore.
CHURCHTON COMMUNITY, east of Newbern & west of Yorkville, Tennessee.
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Union Grove Schoolhouse 1897 Photograph. Update: 1905 photograph of UNION GROVE SCHOOL.
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Excursus on family of George Washington Smith & Cornelia Davie Smith of Churchton Community.Also, a bit is included here on the Miller family of Churchton Click to the left, please. As far as I know they are not kin to me except for Mrs. James Allen Scott (née Jennie E. Miller) whose husband Jim Scott removed to Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas. (It's possible Jennie had died before her husband removed to the glory land promised by the Texas publicity.)
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Maury Adolphus Huie's Typed Family Record from his mother's and aunts' records. This is difficult to read. Uncle Mutt incorrectly read the birth date of Margaret Morrison McCorkle as 1772. It's beyond cavil, from Margaret's own letters transcribed herein, that she was born in August of 1770.
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Edwin Alexander McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle, including her Purviance roots. The family of John Purviance & Mary Jane Wasson Purviance.
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Robert Andrew Hope or RAH McCorkle & wife Tirzah Scott McCorkle, a daughter of James Scott (1777-1853) and wife Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838) of York District, South Carolina, then of the Yorkville-Newbern community.
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SCOTT family of James Scott (1777-1853) & Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838), removing from York District, South Carolina, to, ultimately, the Dyer-Gibson County line.
This photo of the old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, above, can be better seen on the web page entitled "photos."
Nota Bene. I think I erroneously placed the death date as 1872 for "Jimps" James Scott (born 1810). Jimps Scott appears in the 1880 census so probably died circa 1882, but I'm no longer sure about any date of his death. I erroneously thought the little, almost-gone stone (shown above, listing somebody's date of birth as 1810) that I found in the old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery showed the date of death of "our" James "Jimps" Scott. I must have been wrong. But at least I did get a marker erected to honor these people, however ridded with inaccuracies it is.Click below for:
The Dickey Family of Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838), a daughter of Sarah Robinson Dickey & of John Dickey of York District, South Carolina. Sarah Robinson Dickey and John Dickey are also ancestors of Vice President Dick Cheney; would they claim him, do you think?
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John & Jane Tongue. William Tong & Ellen Ford. Joseph Ford Tong. Juliet Tong Cotton & John Cotton of Botland near Bardstown, Nelson Co., Kentucky.Click for:
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Hiram McCorkle--just a teaser from one of HRA McCorkle's Civil War journals
Update: Now, his journals have been microfilmed by the Tennessee State Archives in Nashville. They are in pencil and extremely hard to read, unfortunately. Hiram rode with Nathan Bedford Forrest. -- Somewhere in one of his journals he writes that his brother Finis Alexander McCorkle has ridden off to find "Old Bedford." When Hiram cannot or does not write in his own journals, his brother John Edwin McCorkle's handwriting often makes entries.
Above: My parents, Howard Ewing Huie, 1907-1971, and Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie, 1915-24 Dec. 2009.: My parents, Howard Ewing Huie & Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie, of blessed memory
The true addict who enjoys footnotes (like me) should click below for: Old, superseded version of "Old McCorkle Letters." (Contains endnotes inadvertently omitted from later version. For the addicted these endnotes will be important.)
Howard Anderson Huie, 1870-1935, married Sophie King McCorkle (Huie). She was named after the wife of her mother's first cousin, viz., Sophia Woodruff King (Mrs. Gideon King) of Eminence, Kentucky. Howard & Sophie Huie are my paternal grandparents. Some of his business records lie in the Archives of the University of Tennessee at Martin Library:
MS 028 | |
AUTHOR : | W. R. Ozier & Co. |
TITLE : | W. R. Ozier & Co. records, |
DATES : | 1890-1901. |
SIZE : | 1 volume (70 pages); 22 x 36 cm. |
ARRANGEMENT: | Ledger in series; arranged by author. Inventory avaliable online. |
HISTORY NOTE : | W.R. Ozier & Co. was a hardware merchandise store that conducted business in Yorkville and Newbern, Tennessee during the later part of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century. The company was founded by W.R. Ozier and H.A. Huie in 1890. The company changed names to Huie Bro. & Co. in 1895 and to Huie's & Pope's Trading in 1899. H.A. Huie was one of the initial founders of the Dyer County Cattle Company. |
CONTENTS : | Account balance sheets, stock investments, expenditures, and miscellaneous financial records. Includes the mission statement, constitution, and by-laws of the Dyer County Cattle Company. |
SUBJECT : | Gibson County (Tenn.) -- Manuscripts.
Dyer County (Tenn.) -- Manuscripts. Yorkville (Tenn.) -- Manuscripts. Newbern (Tenn.) -- Manuscripts. Tennessee -- History -- Sources. Hardware stores -- Tennessee -- Gibson County. Hardware stores -- Tennessee -- Dyer County. Dyer County Cattle Co. W. R. Ozier & Co. Huie Bros. & Co. Huie's & Pope's Trading Co. |
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Last Will & Testament of the Husband of Sarah Huie (Mrs. Wilson Hall)--emigrants from Rowan County, North Carolina, to Dyer County, western Tennessee. Sarah Huie Hall was a sister to, inter alia, Benjamin Huie (1798-1879). Her husband's will was transcribed by Natalie Huntley, manager of the Dyer County rootsweb website. I think Sarah Huie Hall is buried in the CENTER CHURCH CEMETERY east of Newbern. Also included are some more wills.
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In 1882 the Railroad Comes to Newbern
Please help me post photos of the Civil-War Era McCorkle Siblings of eastern Dyer County, Tennessee, east of Newbern & west of Yorkville:
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Hiram R. A. McCorkle, who according to the journals of his brother, John Edwin McCorkle, "made a company" during the war. Of HRA's nephews, the one whom I knew who looks most like the above picture of HRA McCorkle was Glenn Roache McCorkle, father of Annie Glen McCorkle & Sue Alice McCorkle Lee.
John Edwin McCorkle, 1839-1924. Born in prime years for becoming Civil War cannon fodder, just after receipt of a baccalaureate from the soon-defunct Bluff Springs Academy. (The situs of the Bluff Springs Academy? I think it was in Milan or nearby McLemoresville, Gibson County, West Tennessee.)
--His first wife was "Tennie" Scott (Tennessee Alice Scott, born to William Scott of Hardeman County (ultimately, although he was a sojourner in Gibson/Dyer County); William Scott being a son of JAMES SCOTT, 1777-1853, & wife Sarah DICKEY Scott, 1777-1853. Wm's siblings: Tirzah Scott McCorkle of Dyer Co, Lemuel Locke Scott of Dyer-Gibson Co., James "Jimps" Scott of Gibson-Dyer Co., John Dickey/Dickie Scott ofGibson/Dyer then Hardeman Co.
John Edwin McCorkle's 2nd wife Mary Elizabeth Cotton (McCorkle), below. She is my father Ewing Huie 's maternal grandmother, that is, Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle was mother to, inter alia, Sophie King McCorkle (Huie). She died in 1929:
above: Mary Elizabeth Cotton (Mrs. John Edwin McCorkle, his second wife, after "Tennie" Tennessee Alice Edwards Scott McCorkle, 1850-1879). "Mollie" Mary was born in Nelson Co., Kentucky (in Botland near Bardstown) to John Cotton (died 1852, Botland, Nelson Co., KY) & Juliet TONG Cotton (Juliet was interred while visiting her daughter in Tennessee in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer Co., Tenn.).
Finis A. McCorkle:
[Under construction--to be added later-]twin to "Latina" or "Tina" Margaret Latina McCorkle (Mrs. John T. Gregory)
First wife: "Sallie Jo" Sarah Josephine JACKSON (McCorkle), who is interred at Mt., just north of Newbern, Tennessee, in contiguous OBION County. We do not know whether Finis himself is buried there with his first wife, or in the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County (west of Yorkville and east of Newbern)
Second wife: "Mag" Margaret HART, about whom I've heard nothing good. Finis's son GILLUM McCorkle around the turn of the century committed suicide in his bed, which he shared with brother HOMER McCorkle. In 1984 I telephoned Finis's last surviving child, centenarian Maida McCorkle Montgomery, then living in California, whose mind sounded lucid. Maida or MADA told me, no, she had no memory of the burial place of her father FINIS McCORKLE. Maida was Mrs. Howell Montgomery and she had one daughter Margaret Montgomery, a librarian who died after 1984 without issue, in California.
Generally
Finis's twin Margaret Latina "Tina" McCorkle (Mrs. John T. Gregory)
[Under construction--to be added later-]
"Becky" Rebecca McCorkle Zarecor (Mrs. John C. Zarecor):
Under construction--to be added as I can. PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS !!!!!
In 1873 a John ZŰrcher of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, received a U.S. patent on a certain improvements on looms for weaving. This was at a time when I know "our" John C. Zarecor (who m. "Becky" Rebecca McCorkle) was already living in Dyer-Gibson County, Tennessee). I do wonder, though, if the Pennsylvania inventor was kin to our Zarecors. The diary of my g-great grandfather, John Edwin McCorkle, records that he ate many a dinner with his sister "Becky" McCorkle Zarecor and her husband, John C. Zarecor, around the time of the Civil War; so many meals that I would imagine that John C. Zarecor was relieved when his brother-in-law, John E. McCorkle, married.
Why did the Zarecor family quit being interred in the family McCorkle Cemetery? "Aunt" Becky McCORKLE Zarecor, their ancestor, is interred there. It is a sadness to me that they went elsewhere for family interment. It was usual back then for the bride to leave her religion and take up her groom's. Thus "Becky" McCorkle became a Cumberland Presbyterian.
Please click here for hyperlink to Aunt Becky Zarecor information.
Elizabeth McCorkle Reeves who removed to Gadsden near Humboldt, Gibson County, Tennessee, Click here
Some names to watch for coming from Elizabeth McCorkle REEVES: Priestly, Jones
Until about 1986 I was proud to correspond with an elderly lady, Kate Priestley BLANCHARD (Mrs. Fred Blanchard), a descendant of Elizabeth McCorkle REEVES. She died in 1988. Kate had to move from Gibson County, Tennessee, to El Paso, Texas, because Mr. Blanchard was afflicted with tuberculosis, and in the early 20th century Tennessee physicians liked to send TB patients for the dry air of Texas. We should all read Leonardo daVinci on physicians; basically, he cautioned Stay Away!. Kate's husband, Fred Ewing Blanchard, 1891-1932, was not cured, sad to say.
Restlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, El Paso Texas:
1000 | BLANCHARD | Earl G. | 8/26/2002 | ||
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1001 | BLANCHARD | Charles A. | 1869 | 1933 | |
1002 | BLANCHARD | Lilly | 1866 | 1950 | |
1003 | BLANCHARD | Fred Ewing | 1891 | 1932 | |
1004 | BLANCHARD | Kate Priestley | 1898 | 11/3/88 | |
1005 | BLANCHARD | Margaret A. | 1878 | 11/29/59 | |
1006 | BLANCHARD | Fletcher Joseph | 1914 | 12/16/1959 | |
1007 | BLANCHARD | Ida E. | 1/1/1975 | ||
1008 | BLANCHARD | Katheryn | 3/9/1903 | 11/20/1977 |
TEXAS CHURCHES - EL PASO "Brief History of the Montana Street Church of Christ" by Kate Priestly Blanchard (1951 booklet), STORED BY THE CENTER FOR RESTORATION STUDIES AT ABILENE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE.
David Purviance McCorkle, who removed a bit north to Obion County in the environs of Mt. Moriah. If you find the old cemetery you will see his marker at Mt. Moriah. His first wife was Margaret SCOTT, who died in 1862. Margaret Scott McCorkle was a sister to, inter alia, my Scott-Huie great-grandmother Mrs. Julius M. Huie ("Sade" Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie). David Purviance McCorkle then married ELIZABETH JACKSON. (I think Elizabeth Jackson (Mrs. David Purviance McCorkle) was a sister to the first wife of Finis Alexander McCorkle (Sarah Josephine Jackson), but may be wrong about this.
[Under construction--to be added later-]
Anderson Jehiel McCorkle, Confederate States of America soldier during the Civil War: My My My My father Ewing Huie's father, Howard ANDERSON Huie, was in part named after Anderson J. McCorkle. Howard Anderson Huie's mother, Sarah Elisabeth Scott, was a sister to the first wife of A J McCorkle.
AJ McCorkle's first wife was a Scott. So, back to the Scott family of James Scott, 1777-1853, & his first wife Sarah DICKEY (Scott), 1777-1838.--of York District, South Carolina. -- James & Sarah Dickey Scott had one child who was "Jimps" James Scott, born circa 1810 and died circa 1886. This "Jimps" Scott married as first wife VIOLET B. RODDY. I've not been able to discover Violet's RODDY family, although I have gleaned a clue: somewhere, after futile research I read that Violet B. Roddy came from Dancyville in Fayette/Hardeman Co., Tennessee, down toward Memphis. This would make sense (although I'm not sure about it) because William Scott (father of the first Mrs. John Edwin McCorkle: Tennie Scott) and William Scott's brother JOHN DICKEY / DICKIE SCOTT who m. a Williams woman--each removed from Gibson-Dyer County, Tennessee, where their parents had finally settled down to Hardeman County, Tennessee.
One of the daughters of JIMPS Scott & wife Violet B. RODDY (SCOTT) was MARTHA SCOTT. This Martha Scott was the first wife of A J McCorkle. Second, AJ McCorkle married Lou FOX.
[Still under construction--more to be added later-]
Generation IV. Hiram Robert Andrew McCorkle: 1827 - 1907 Confederate States of America soldier during the Civil War: I call HRA McCorkle "Uncle Hiram" because my father Ewing Huie did. Uncle Hiram died in 1907, the very same year my father Howard EWING Huie was born, but believe me most of the West Tennessee relatives used to talk about their other relatives both alive and long-dead. And my father often mentioned his "Uncle Hiram," usually in the context of Civil War stories. There IS a "Yankee" (that's what they said in my childhood) buried in our (defunct) pond toward the highway (the Newbern-Yorkville Highway, Highway 77), loosely in front of the little house (originally built in 1952 for my maiden aunt, Sarah Elisabeth BETH Huie. My daddy always told me the victim of gun violence buried in the pond was a Yankee renegade scaveging along the road. Now, in my old age, I'm not sure what that meant exactly. -- Actually, to set the family record straight, Hiram R. A. McCorkle was my father's great-uncle.
1st wife: Margaret A. L. Cowan; 2nd wife: Jenette Menzies (mother of Mr. Eddy McCorkle, i.e., V. Edwin Archibald McCorkle, who m. Dona McCutchen)
HRA McCorkle's children by 1st wife Margaret Cowan: V.O.P. or O.F. McCorkle, infant; V. Winfield Purviance McCorkle, who removed to Eminence, Ky., where he m. Mary "Mamie" King, daughter of Gideon King & 2nd wife Sophia Woodruff (King), Gideon King being a COTTON first cousin to the 2nd wife of Generation IV John Edwin McCorkle: Mary Elizabeth Cotton (McCorkle). V. Almeda McCorkle POPE (Mrs. Eugene Priest Pope); V. Elizabeth Jane McCorkle m. Johnny CAWTHON V. Lula McCorkle m. her 2nd cousin, Johnny R. Woods, died young; V. Tolbert McCorkle, killed when young.
More on V. Winfield Purviance McCorkle (who according to his father's journal cried during the Civil War when the Yankees stole his mule) & Winfield's wife Mary "Mamie" King (McCorkle): VI. their son Graham King McCorkle became president of Illinois Bell Telephone Co. & he was a contemporary of my great-uncle Errett Cotton McCorkle, 1887-1976, and I know they used to meet and visit when each was working in Chicago; they were first cousins-once-removed, as IV. HRA McCorkle was V. Graham's grandfather & IV. John Edwin McCorkle was V. Errett Cotton McCorkle's father. V.
More on V. Elizabeth Jane McCorkle Cawthon, who m. Johnny Cawthon. Her children were VI. Kate Kurl Cawthon (Mrs. B. W. PACE), mother of VII. Harry Pace; VI. Daisy Lou Cawthon (Mrs. John Israel Rodgers, mother of VII. William Rogers and VII. John Rogers; VI. William I. Cawthon, who m. Olive Noel and had 3 children, VII. Norma Cawthon, VII. Carolyn Cawthon, & VII. Kate Noel Cawthon; VI. Mamie McCorkle Cawthon (Mrs. Clint ATKINS), mother of VII Bettie Jane Atkins Caldwell (Mrs. Charles Caldwell), VII Bettie Jane being mother of one child Generation VIII David Walker Caldwell; and VI. Bettie Love Cawthon, who died young.
More on V. Edwin Archibald McCorkle 1873-1950, who married in 1897 Dona McCutcheon, 18877-1967. Eddy & Dona's four children were:
VI. Lula MADGE McCorkle, 1901-1972, who m. "Rich" Richard F. Smith, 1900-1967, a brother to, inter alia, Mr. OK Smith & Leland Smith & Muncie Smith; Rich & Madge McCorkle Smith had VII. Eddie Sue Smith Dunnevant, born 1917 (Mrs. Charles Dunnevant) (no issue); VII. Helen Smith, b. July 16, 1919, and Helen Smith m. 1st Norvell L. Williams; and 2nd Joe Phillips of Starkville, Mississippi. Helen Smith's children by Norvy Williams: VIII. Sarah Ruth Williams & VIII. Norvell Scobey Williams. Helen Smith's children by Joe Phillips: VIII. Joe Samuel Phillips & Eddie Sue Phillips. And Rich & Madge Smith had: Generation VII. Sarah Catherine Smith, b. 1913, who married Ray Phillips, Junior, and Sarah & Ray Phillips had one child, namely, VIII. Richard Ray Phillips.
More descendants of VI. Lula MADGE McCorkle, 1901-1972, & Rich Smith: VIII. Sarah Ruth Williams, b. 1939, m. 1st Warren Kleban & had 4 children (immediately below) then m. 2nd Arthur Falbo.
VI. Mamie Porter McCorkle, born 1907 & married Albert Gallatin "Spoots" HARRIS, Jr. son of Edith Wadlingson & husband Albert G. Harris. Mamie & Spoots Harris had VII. Virginia HARRIS (Mrs. James L. McClain), mother of & and VIII. Edith "Edie" HARRIS (Mrs. Jere FORD)(Mrs. Phillip Turner); and Mamie & Spoots Harris had VII
VI. Tommye McCorkle, female; and
VI. Hiram Robert Andrew McCorkle II.
[more to be added later, God willing...]
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McCORKLE CEMETERY on McCorkle Cemetery Road. Located about 5 miles east of Newbern, just north of the Newbern-Yorkville Highway (Hwy 77). Inscriptions were read by the late James Woodley May 2000.
With much gratitude to the late Mr. Woodley, I am attempting to begin adding what I know--more aptly, what my mother Joyce Cope Huie knows--about the folks interred in the McCorkle Cemetery. http://www.marshahuie.com/index.htm
Please help us add to the store of information about the people buried here. Many old markers have disappeared. Please email me at MarshaHuie@aol.com with any applicable information. Also, I welcome corrections.
Click below for:
Some MONTGOMERY-FINLEY McCorkle Pennsylvania Musings
Click here for: Some Freed-Men & Freed-Women connected to the McCorkle - Scott- Huie families
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1952 Matriculants of Yorkville School Get-together Oct. 2008
To the Right Are supposed to be: Photos. (Please click here)
Below: Claude Monet La Señora de la Sombrilla Verdeas depicted in Jose Pijoan's Historia del Arte, 3 volumes, published by Salvat Editores, Barcelona, 1949
Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, who moved up north, became wealthy; while her siblings who remained down in Tennessee did not. The lives of the descendants of Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach (who removed up north to Indiana with her husband), on the one hand; and, on the other hand, the bucolic siblings, sister Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott (who died in late 1853, the same year as her brother Edwin), & brothers Edwin Alexander McCorkle (my father's great-grandfather who died in early 1853) & Jehiel Morrison McCorkle (who died in 1849), took dramatically different turns, as best I know.
The cosmopolites became wealthy, and the farmers scraped by. Even though the farmers may have become land-rich, they would nonetheless have been cash-poor, the fate of many white folks in the post-bellum South, while at the same time the black folks were abandoned by promisors of 40 acres and a mule and forced relentlessly back into near-slavery by twisted enforcement, or by outright non-enforcement of post-war laws that had been enacted with the intent of aiding them. Perhaps the whites' poverty paid but an inadequate installment on the longtime debt incurred by their ancestors' sin, and their sin, of fostering antebellum slavery. If ever an historic epoch showed the danger of good citizens' sitting idly by, afraid to speak out, it is the time after post-war Reconstruction when decent white folk allowed the Negro to be betrayed and pushed back into near-slavery and fear of being lynched. The election of 1876 ended de facto although not de jure the Civil War, when Tilden who had won the popular vote swapped his victory for getting an agreement to end Reconstruction occupation of the South. Rutherford B. Hayes became president, and the northern troops left the South.
Somewhere I've read that Elmira's husband, Dr. Stephen Roach, did not like the South in which he had been born (NC) before 1800, because of the institution of slavery, and determined to move northerly. There, mostly in Indiana, his children who survived became educated and wealthy, while as far as I know Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott's and Edwin Alexander McCorkle's & Jehiel Morrison McCorkle's children possessed little access to formal education--although the Dyer County parents sent them off to school to Yorkville (5 miles) and a place called Bluff Springs Academy (in Gibson County, I think, near Milan? perhaps in McLemoresville?). We are certain that Edwin's son John Edwin McCorkle, 1839-1924, at least, received a baccalaureate, because I possess his B.A. diploma from Bluff Springs Academy; and we know John Edwin McCorkle's brother Finis Alexander McCorkle attended Bluff Springs Academy, but Finis's college education would have been interrupted by the Civil War, during which Finis rode with Nathan Bedford Forrest. --Generally, for the most part, the Tennessee farmers were a very long way removed from the Princeton College in which their Finley-Montgomery-McCorkle elders had been educated; and their fortunes declined after the Civil War and bitter Reconstruction, except for the few who were smart enough to head north, e.g., my great-uncle Errett Cotton McCorkle. John Edwin McCorkle's son, Errett Cotton McCorkle, 1887-1976, I've been told by my elders, was pushed by his mother Mary, née Cotton and a native Kentuckian, to go live at her sister Laura Cotton Hunter's alias Mrs. John Crittenden Hunter's home in Louisville and read law. And sure enough, Uncle Errett prospered as he moved on to St. Louis and then Chicago, as the personnel manager for Renard Linoleum & Rug Co. He lost his fortune twice during "panics" but twice regained it. But most of Margaret's and Edwin's children remained on the land in Dyer and Gibson Counties of West Tennessee. I've read in the old papers that uncle Hiram R. A. McCorkle made a good bit of money during and after the war by trading horses and generally being a good mercantilist, but Hiram was the exception, I think, of his generation in post-war West Tennessee. And times for the grandchildren of the Civil War fighters did not improve by much, if at all, for they might have been land-rich but were cash-poor. It really wasn't until the next generation (mine; I was born in 1946) that the Tennessee farmers' children were able to get the kind of educations available to Elmira's children in Indiana; correspondingly it is my generation of McCorkle descendants who have prospered in time. Of course, I am speaking above in sweeping generalities; exceptions to the rule, as always, existed.
above: "Ellie" Ellington __x__ : Becky Huie Cornelius's granddaughter by daughter Beth. Ellington "Ellie" __X___ is Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle's descendant. Ellie comes to us through John Edwin McCorkle & 1st wife Tennessee Alice Scott, 1850-1879, by their daughter Ora, that is through "Dolph" Julius Adolphus Huie & Ora Alice McCorkle (Huie). Ora and Dolph Huie were parents of Maury Adolphus Huie, 1895-1973, and Maury & Nell Campbell Huie were parents of Rev. Bill Huie, who died in 2001. Bill Huie was father of Billy Huie who m. Jeanne Kegley and of Iris Rebecca "Becky" Huie Cornelius. Becky Huie Cornelius is the mother of Beth, and Beth & husband Steve are parents of "Ellie" ...
Easter 2008 photograph of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle's descendants through their son John Edwin McCorkle, 1839-1924. Descended through Julius Adolphus Huie & "Dolph" Huie's wife Ora Alice McCorkle (Huie): John Beverley __ (living) __ IV, left, & Jackson Huie ___(living)_____, sons of Mackenzie Huie & husband John Beverly __X___ III. These fine boys are grandsons of John Ewing Huie, born 1952, & wife Joan; and great-grandsons of Edward Campbell Huie (died 2001) & Drucilla Garner Huie (d. July 2008). On horses: John Ewing Huie's granddaughters: Aubrey Huie (on the left) and Allie Huie; their little sister is MADELEINE HUIE.
BREVARD-THOMAS-McCORKLE family information. I did not write this at all, either.
For safety--in fear of rootsweb freepages not keeping the following material on the Internet--I copied the above two files (HAYNES-MORRISON & BREVARD-THOMAS-McCORKLE). I, Marsha Cope Huie, had absolutely nothing to do with compiling this information.
Chronic Fatigue. Epstein Barr Virus. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Recently, in August 2009, a blood test revealed I had a very high number of active Epstein Barr Virus; my score was 30 times what it should have been (30 times high-normal).
Treatment was infusions of Alpha Lipoic Acid for 5 days (an anti-oxidant, as best I understand it); followed by oral dosage (pills) of Alpha Lipoic Acid (purchased from the health-food store) and Pantothenic Acid (3 pills twice a day), plus lots of vitamins to bolster my immune system.
Here is what I took, but please note that I am NOT giving medical advice, merely describing the course of treatment administered to me:
PANTOTHENIC ACID 500 MG. I take 3 PILLS TWICE DAILY.
Rebuild-- osteopososis formula: a multivitamin from Metabolic Maintenance Company: 6 capsules daily.
Selenium 22 mcg tablets. I took two a day.
Vitamin D --I take the 5000 IU strength because I suffer from chronic/acute pain. People without pain wouldn't want to do that, I imagine.
Magnesium Citrate from Metabolic Maintenance Co. 500 mg.
Alpha Lipoic Acid --Carlson Co. or Metabolic Maintenance Co.Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is no joke. For months before diagnosis--yes, I went to several doctors who did not test for Chronic Fatigue--I slept and slept yet still wanted to sleep even more. Four months later, in December 2009, I don't feel the desperate need to sleep. I'm not a medical professional, and make absolutely no warranties or guarantees, but I want to give some help to anyone suffering as I was. There is hope. I am posting this in the hope that this information will help somebody somewhere.
Yorkville, Tennessee, YORKVILLE, TENNESSEE, in Gibson County. is an historic little village. [<<<Please click to the left for Marsha Cope Huie on Yorkville.]
Hyperlink: Yorkville, Tennessee. See also: http://coolplaces2go.com/tn/dyer/mccorkle-cemetery.html
McCORKLE CEMETERY: McCorkle Cemetery Index collected by Natalie Huntley 's Dyer County, Tennessee, web site. The McCorkle Cemetery is located in Dyer County, TN ... On McCorkle Cemetery Rd, off Hwy 77 East From Newbern & west from Yorkville. Before the Civil War and more particularly before the railroads, Yorkville was the better town. First grave there: Robert McCorkle, 1764-1828, husband of Margaret Morrison (McCorkle), 1770-1848, also interred there; also beside Margaret Morrison McCorkle lies her brother William Hays Morrison, 1767-1837. Recently discovered: a brick in the pre-Civil War "black folks" portion of the cemetery that reads BEAN. That means JOYCE COPE HUIE, 11 Nov. 1915-24 Dec. 2009, my mother, was correct in telling me long ago that JEFF & ELLA [McCORKLE] BEAN and perhaps their son ROSCOE BEAN are interred in the McCorkle Cemetery. -- The McCorkle Cemetery some 5 miles east of Newbern, in Dyer County, and west of Yorkville. First grave in April 1828: Robert McCorkle, 1764-1828, husband of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848
... McCorkle, Moses Headden, Alexander McCullough, Edwin Alexander McCorkle, Dr. Stephen Roach m. Elmira Sloane McCorkle (Roache), ...
End of Index. End of Index. End of Index to www.MarshaHuie.com
PHOTOS BELOW -- Top left: EWING McCORKLE, alias John Ewing McCorkle, died 27 February 1900 at age 16. Son of John Edwin McCorkle & Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle, Ewing was born 14 November 1884 and died 17 Feb. 1900. 15 years 3 months; height 6 feet weight 153. Photo found in effects of Ewing's younger brother Errett Cotton McCorkle upon Errett's death.
Top right photo from Churchton community, Dyer County, Tennessee: Left--
Fred Hunt; center: Errett Cotton McCorkle, 1888-1976, Beaure Townsend on right; little girl belonged to? Orta Bond or? Octa Bord. Names written on back of photo by Errett C. McCorkle. Botton photo: Bettie McCorkle, wife of Jehiel McCorkle and mother of Hall McCorkle. Picture made in Greenfield, West Tennessee. Bettie's husband Jehiel was son or grandson of Jehiel Morrison McCorkle (Major J M McCorkle of the first Dyer County militia) and wife "Lizzie" "Betsy" Elizabeth Smith (McCorkle).
Whose house was this? I have two ideas but do not know: one, was it the old Mose Headden - Elizabeth Boyette Headden house? two, was it Glen Roache McCorkle's house?
Uncle ERRETT COTTON McCORKLE's best friend in St. Louis/ Chicago/ was John S. Moore; John S. Moore's son was James W. Moore, pictured above in 1945 (WWII uniform)(in aviation) I found a 1918 ad in the New York Times saying to BUYERS that Renard Linoleum & Carpet Co. (St. Louis, Chicago) would be in New York City on a certain date. Uncle Errett Cotton McCorkle was personnel manager for Renard Co.
Above: Family of Joseph Headden Huie & wife Ann Livingston Huie at the old Charles & Dona Headden Garner House, Cool Springs community near Trimble-Yorkville, Gibson Co., Tenn., July 2008 or '09. Joe Huie's mother, Drucilla Garner Huie, was nέe Drucilla GARNER. Drucy's mother Dona HEADDEN Garner and my mother Joyce Cope Huie's mother, Notie HEADDEN Cope, were first cousins. Dona was born to Uncle Dave a k a David Crockett Headen and Notie was born to Winfield Scott Headden.
Above: Little John Warren (grandson of John & Joan Huie),
one of two sons of Mackenzie Huie (Warren) & John Warren
Above: Ellie, granddaughter of Becky Huie & Bill Cornelius Christmas 2009
Billy & Jeanne Kegley Huie at Montgomery Bell State Park --John Edwin McCorkle Reunion. Their two daughters: Kathryn Huie, Vanderbilt graduate biologist, US Forest Service; Heather Huie Hatley, SMU grad living in Wisconsin; and son Jay Huie, Case Western Reserve U engineering graduate.
Whatever became of the VAUGHAN family of Yorkville? There used to be a Vaughan house about a mile west of Yorkville on the Newbern-Yorkville Highway. The 1900 census, Civil District 8, Gibson County, Tennessee, lists the people in the household of HUGHIE Vaughan; one census spells it (Huie Vaughan): Son Roger M. Vaughan, 17 (1882); son Ran J. Vaughan, 15; son Frank Vaughan, age 13; Lucy Vaughan, 26; and Fred Vaughan, aged 6.
Ralph E. Williamson taking photo of Jane Brown (left) and his wife, Marsha Huie (right). This is how the wrong side of 60 looks.
Click below to view documents from notes taken by Marsha Cope Huie, May 2008, UNC Chapel Hill Archives--the Robert Ramsay Papers. N.B. the McCorkle Place edifice at UNC:
Document_01 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill ARCHIVES: Ramsay Papers. Generation II Agnes "Nancy" McCorkle married Robert Ramsay.
Document_02 Letter from Generation TWO Alexander McCorkle (Iredell Co., NC; to Giles Co, Tennessee; to Henry Co., Tennessee) who m. Catharine MORRISON.
Document_03 Letter from William Graham, Upper Oxford, Chester County, Pennsylvania, about land
Document_04 Letter from Hugh & Hannah Robinson in Middle Tennessee to Robert Ramsay in Iredell Co., NC
Document_05 Same--letter from Hugh ROBINSON
Document_06 Letter from Generation Two Alexander McCorkle (son of Alexander, 1722-1800)
Document_07 Generation II Alexander McCorkle (traveling from western NC to Middle Tennessee); James McCorkle Generation TWO--last to be born and last to die of Generation II.
Document_08 Some Latta genealogy; some John Gen II to son Gen III Joel to Gen IV John FINLEY McCorkle
Document_09 Letter from Betsy ANDREWS to Gen. II Agnes "Nancy" McCorkle RAMSAY in Iredell Co., NC
Document_10 Letter from Generation II Agnes "Nancy" McCorkle Ramsay (then, spelled R-a-m-s-E-y) to her brother James McCorkle by then removed from Indiand to OHIO (I think recipient is JAMES)
Document_11 Letter from Joseph KNOX to Robert Ramsay (husband of Gen. II Agnes "Nancy" McCorkle RAMSAY)
Document_12 Letter from Generation III Joel McCorkle (son of II. John McCorkle) to his father John McCorkle's brother-in-law, Robert Ramsay.
Mentions land bought by II. Alexander McCorkle; mentions a Dr. Newman.
Document_13 Letter from Thomas Knox in Rutherford County, Middle Tennessee; to Robert Ramsay in Iredell Co., North Carolina;
mentions impoverished condition of Gen. II. WILLIAM McCorkle in Middle Tenn.
Document_14 Record of a Mr. Samuel B. Judah, McCorkle descendant in Vincennes, Indiana. Please see also Document 17 infra.
Document_15 Brief McCorkle Genealogy in the Ramsay Papers Collection
Document_16 Mentions Thorntown, Indiana; mentions William A. McCorkle, former governor of West Virginia (or Virginia?)
Document_17 Continuation of Document 14 above--record of a Mr. Samuel B. Judah, McCorkle descendant in Vincennes, Indiana
Document_18 Some genealogy (some of which is in error); mentions Colonel Francis McCorkle of N.C.
Document_19 Miscellaneous. Joseph McCorkle (Gen. II) married Margaret SNODDY, for example.
Document_20 Miscellaneous. Generation II James McCorkle (Ohio at death); Gen. II Joseph McCorkle (Ohio at death).
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Letter 01 John Edwin McCorkle to Mary Elizabeth Cotton 1880
Chapter One. Welcome to my web site !!!
The actual old letters themselves, with
explanations of who the writers were, as well as of the people-written-about in
the letters. --This is a huge file that takes a seemingly endless time to load
so please be patient. It's worth the wait, I promise.
Please contact me with information you would like to add,
at MarshaHuie@aol.com
McCorkle Correspondence beginning with Mrs. Robert McCorkle (1770-1848), née Margaret Morrison of Rowan County (Iredell County after 1788), NC, then Rutherford County, Middle Tennessee, then finally of Dyer County, Tennessee, near the Gibson County Line & the then-better town of Yorkville
--transcribed, compiled, and edited by Marsha Cope
HUIE
(alias
Mrs. Ralph Ervin Williamson)
Copyright claimed not
of the old letters themselves, which should be distributed and enjoyed by all,
nor of work herein attributed
to other people, but of all
expression written by M. C. Huie,
including her explanations of relationships & of who the
people
in the letters were.
(c) 2011 by M C Huie
Also, happy reading from my niece Jessica Huie Cashdollar (Mrs. Brian Louis Blackwell) of Cordova, Tenn., and Little PLC Blackwell, born 14 April 2006
:
With significant contributions by
(1)
Natalie Cockroft Ragon &
husband James Ragon of Jackson,Tennessee;
(2) Mr.
and Mrs. James
M. Richmond of
Napierville, Illinois; and
(3)
Margaret Dickey, seekr@flash.net,
the person who placed the Dickey
Genealogy. Internet at http://members.fortunecity.com/gen4m/Dickey8.htm entitled: Descendants
of Robert Dickey (1463 - 1538) Glasgow,
Scotland.
Genealogy Report 1463 – 1900; [1] and
by
(4)
Joseph H. Howard --Margaret
Dickey in turn makes attribution to the work of Joseph H. Howard
e-mail: jhhoward@erols.com Their
Dickey work astounds me; how could they have done such a masterful,
comprehensive job with a name so hard to research? I
found the name “Dickey” as hard to research as “Thomas,” and I had almost given
up on Sarah Dickey Scott’s lineage until James Ragon of Jackson, Tennessee, told
me of the above work. Please read
the Endnote below citing more Dickey work of the above people. [End of
Marsha Huie’s Acknowledgment to Dickey
Family Researchers.]
And
with special thanks to Carol
McCorkle Branz (Mrs.
Roger Branz) of Spokane,
Washington, for copies of old McCorkle relics/correspondence/ supplied for
transcription by me. Carol is a descendant of
Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle & wife
Tirzah Scott McCorkle, through their
son Joseph
Smith
McCorkle & wife
Mary
Frazier McCorkle, who lived in
"downtown" Yorkville, Gibson County, Tennessee.
Published by Marsha Huie in March
2005.
First, how is your compiler Marsha Cope Huie kin to Alexander
McCorkle &
wife "Nancy" Agnes(s) Montgomery McCorkle; and their son Robert
McCorkle &
Robert's 2nd wife Margaret
Morrison McCorkle?
Answer:
The compiler Marsha Cope Huie's paternal g-g-g-g-grandfather
was Alexander McCorkle [Sr.]
of Rowan County, NC. This is the Alexander McCorkle who died in 1800 and
is buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church cemetery outside Mooresville, North
Carolina.
This kinship is through:
Marsha Cope Huie's father, Howard EWING HUiE,
1907-1971, who married Joyce Rebecca Cope,
11 November 1915-24 Dec.. 2008.
Marsha Huie's paternal g-g-g grandparents were Robert
McCorkle &
wife Margaret
Morrison,
each originally of Rowan County, North Carolina, then residents in
Rutherford County, Middle Tennessee, and at the last residents of Dyer County,
West Tennessee.
One of Alexander & "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery McCorkle's sons, Robert
McCorkle,
& Robert's 2nd wife, "Peggy" Margaret
Morrison (McCorkle),
finally settled around 1825-7 in Dyer County, Tennessee, when the Western
District was opened for white settlement.
You will find many of their land transactions in Deed Book "A" of Dyer
County.
Margaret Morrison McCorkle considered their principal town to be Yorkville in Gibson County.
Her husband Robert McCorkle died in the spring of 1828 (April), very soon
after losing land-title litigation in Murfreesboro, Rutherford County,
Tennessee, a lawsuit involving his father Alexander' McCorkle's Revolutionary
War Land Grant.
Loss of the Rutherford County Revolutionary War land grant, marked
off initially near
"Murphreesborough,"
caused Robert
McCorkle &
Margaret
Morrison
McCorkle in old age, after he was
blind, and accompanied by their
surviving (grown) children, to have to remove to Dyer County in West Tennessee
in order to accept land substituted in lieu of the lost Middle Tennessee land.
Many more folk as named
herein descend from Robert
& Margaret Morrison McCorkle.
In
particular, Marsha
Cope
Huie and her sister
Sophie Joyce Huie Cashdollar, and
others, descend from Robert
& Margaret Morrison McCorkle's son Edwin
Alexander McCorkle.
Edwin A. McCorkle was
born to Margaret Morrison McCorkle
circa 1799 in
Rowan County, NC, and EA McCorkle
died in Dyer County West Tennessee) on 10th January 1853.
Edwin's wife, Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle),
was born in 1801 or 1802 and
died in 1855;
Jane
was born in Wilson County, Middle Tennessee, to parents William
Thomas (son of Hiram Jacob Thomas &
wife Margaret Brevard). (William Thomas, who died in 1833 in Dyer County, had
been a soldier in the NC continental line, Revolutionary War).
William Thomas's wife was: Elizabeth
Purviance (Thomas), Elizabeth being a daughter of Revolutionary War soldier
"colonel" John
Purviance &
Mary
Jane
WASSON (Purviance) of Rowan Co., NC.
Mary Jane Wasson Purviance & husband John Purviance were last of Middle
Tennessee. She died in 1810 (the
year of formation of the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination) and he died in
1843, a CUMBERLAND Presbyterian (no longer just a Presbyterian).
This John who m. Mary Jane Wasson was a son of another
John
Purviance and wife
Margaret
McKnight (Purviance), from
Castlefinn, County
DONEGAL,
Ireland.
--Mary Jane Wasson and her sister married two PURVIANCE brothers, viz.,
"colonel" John Purviance and his older brother James Purviance (a captain--a
true captain--in the NC line of the Revolutionary War).
I think "my" John Purviance (father of Elizabeth Purviance THOMAS) was
not really a colonel but was given an honorific after the Revolutionary War.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents. I. :
ΆΩ
At the end of Chapter One is the first
membership book of Lemalsamac Christian Church,
as it was then known, typed with annotations by me.
In a sense this was a THOMAS-MORRISON-McCORKLE family church, but it was
formed for God, not family.
I. Correspondence
of (“Peggy”) Margaret
Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle)
This correspondence includes letters to and from one of her daughters, Elmira
Sloane McCorkle Roache. Margaret
called her new home in Dyer County, Tennessee, “Verdant Plain,” and
later a son, Robert Andrew Hope or RAH McCorkle,
was to pen letters as having been written from “Verdant Grove.”
These old letters are mostly in Chapter Two of this compilation.
In
colonial times (1762), Margaret
Morrison McCorkle’s father, Andrew Morrison [wife: Elizabeth
Sloan Morrison]
had received a land grant from the Earl
of Granville
for
certain land in North
Carolina. Andrew's
father, William
Morrison,
born circa 1704 and died in
1771, & Andrew's mother, a Margaret
(maiden
name unknown) Morrison,
were at Third
Creek, Rowan-Iredell County, at
least as early as around 1750 A.D.,
and William and Andrew Morrison took shelter at Fort
Dobbs (just
outside Statesville,
now in Iredell Co., NC) in the time of the French & Indian Wars (in Europe
called the Seven Years War, ending in 1763).
-- Fergus
Sloan owned
land at the site of Fort Dobbs and is buried in an early grave in the Fourth
Creek Meeting House Cemetery,
which now lies in the center of the town of
Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina.
I suspect kinship between Fergus
Sloan and Elizabeth
Sloan (Mrs. Andrew Morrison),
the latter being the mother of Margaret
Morrison McCorkle, inter
alia;
but I cannot prove kinship of Fergus Sloan & Elizabeth Sloan Morrison. --
In colonial times, at least in the South, only the Anglican
denomination was allowed to call its worship place a "church." Presbyterians had
to be content with the cognomen "meeting house."
An example of the correspondence in this compilation, mostly in Chapter Two:
In this series of correspondence transcribed herein, Margaret
Morrison McCorkle wrote
her brother-in-law James McCorkle:
“I
think you do me injustice to imagine me opposed to the abolition scheme
at least I know that I
am unfriendly
to slaveholding amongst us. I
am not sufficiently acquainted with the politics of the times to judge of the
measures pursued by the abolitionists therefore
I wish them success only just so far as they are trying in a right manner to do
what I believe to be a good work, one thing I can say with certainty that it
would truly rejoice me to see all my dear posterity settled in a free state.”
--The
above is quoted from a letter written by Margaret Morrison McCorkle to her
brother-in-law James McCorkle, the youngest brother to Robert McCorkle et
al.
James McCorkle was born 4
May 1768. James McCorkle moved
to Ohio [John
Hale Stutesman wrote
that his removal was to escape slavery], but James
McCorkle died residing in Frankfort, Indiana, dying
on 2
December 1840.
This correspondence reveals that Margaret’s daughter, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache,
was in Indiana near
her uncle James McCorkle, at least for a while.
Another example of the correspondence in this compilation, mostly in Chapter
Two:
One of Margaret's letters is to her grandson, Addison
Locke Roache, Senior, depicted
below as justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
Below
is a sampler, a
letter from Addison
Locke Roach
aged about ten years at the time of writing. Addison's family--Elmira
Sloane McCorkle Roach(e) & Dr. Stephen Roach(e)--had moved up north to (I think)
Indiana. The letter is written to his uncle Edwin
Alexander McCorkle in Dyer
County, Western District of Tennessee. Edwin's sister Elmira Sloan(e)
McCorkle (Roache) was mother to the young writer Addison:
Letter to Edwin
Alexander McCorkle in Dyer County,
Western District of Tennessee, from his nephew (Edwin’s sister Elmira’s son) Addison
Locke Roache, Senior
"Dyer Co. Ten
1827
"Dear
uncle we are well in common health,
father has had the ague, he had three very severe shakes, at first we thought it
was the influenza for 4 or 5 days
We have moved up to Andrews Creek and
are living in the house that Humphrey
Tome-llson [Tomlinson?
Tomelson?] used to live in.
James Franklin [Travers?
Roache?] &
myself are going to school to Mr. Absolam Knot [Absalom Knox?], James can
read tolerable well and father has promised to give him a penknife if he will
get to the pictures and I am sure he will get to the pictures
Jane
M. Thomson [Thompson]
is going to school to Mr Alamer
Hill to learn the grammar the short
way.
[Jane M. Thompson is a 1st cousin
to Addison. Jane Thompson (Mrs. Benjamin Williams) was one of the two orphaned
daughters of Addison’s
mother Elmira’s sister Rebecca Cowden
McCorkle (Thompson), Jane M. Thompson being a child of Mrs. Gideon Thompson
& Gideon Thompson.] Jane M. Thompson Williams named her first child "John
Gid Williams." The other
orphaned daughter was Mary "Polly" Cowden Thompson (Mrs. Matthew Dickey), who is
buried in the Poplar Grove CP Church Cemetery just outside Newbern, Dyer Co.,
Tennessee. Jane M. Thompson
Williams is interred McCorkle Cemetery east of Newbern.]
I must close my short epistle.
Give my respect to [your
wife] Aunt
Jane & all who may inquire after me.
Yours
sir with affection
Addison L Roach
May
the 14th 1827
Another example of the correspondence contained in this compilation, mostly in
Chapter Two:
Here is part of a Letter from Margaret
Morrison McCorkle (Mrs.
Robert McCorkle) in Dyer County, Western Dist. of Tenn., to her daughter Elmira
Sloane McCorkle Roache (Mrs.
Dr. Stephen Roach, Jr.), presumably living at the time in Indiana:
Dear Elmira,
Your
letter to [your
son residing with us in West Tenn.] Quincy and myself dated
January 26th [18[?3][?]] came
to hand in due time. I feel glad to hear that you
enjoy health, peace, and competence in your new residence, and
it gives me still greater pleasure to have reason to hope that you
bear the absence of your children with fortitude.----- have
some knowledge how a mother feels to be parted from one or more of her children, but
I have not realized that odd situation you mention you are in, viz, that of
having none to call you mother.----I suppose the thought of having them
qualified for acting in a high sphere of life; that is that forthcoming great,
and respectable men, buoys up your mind, and enables you to bear with [firmneß ?
] [finesse?] the present privation-----
Well
I suppose this is a laudable wish, and therefore, I say, may fortune favor your
most sanguine anticipations. I need not hardly
remind you of the neceßity of always striving to impreß upon their minds, that
in order to be truly great, they must be good.
However this piece of advice by the way, is more to evince my anxiety about
their welfare, than to excite you to duty-----for in reality a desire to have
them become worthy citizens, lies near my heart-----and my decided opinion is,
that the most expanded intellects, and splendid acquirements, must be united
with goodness of heart, and a strict adherence to moral rectitude in order to
form an eminent character-------And
now my dear child, will you suffer your mother to give you a word of [to
page 2] exhortation.
Table of Contents. II. :
II. Letters of
Margaret’s son Robert Andrew
Hope McCorkle,
variously Robert McCorkle
[Jr.] or RAH McCorkle, who
married Tirzah Scott [McCorkle]. Tirzah
Scott McCorkle was born in South Carolina to James
Scott (1777-1853)
& wife Sarah
Dickey Scott (1777-1838). Sarah
Dickey Scott's parents were John
Dickey of
York District, SC, and wife Sarah
Robinson (Dickey), not "Nancy"
Purviance as
I had earlier thought.
--These letters are in Chapter Two of this compilation.
A letter-poem written by RAH McCorkle to Mormon leader Joseph Smith
lies in the Mormon archives in Salt Lake City Utah.
Google this and you will find it.
Table of Contents. III. :
III.
۞ Letters of
Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s grandson John
Edwin McCorkle
– John E. McCorkle's correspondence concerning the estate of his maternal uncle David
Thomas.
David Thomas of Republic of Texas fame
was a brother of Mrs. Edwin
Alexander McCorkle, née Jane
Maxwell Thomas.
[Jane Maxwell Thomas was a daughter-in-law of Margaret Morrison McCorkle. Jane’s
father was William
Thomas,
a Revolutionary War soldier in the Piedmont of North Carolina, and Jane Maxwell
Thomas McCorkle’s mother was Elizabeth
Purviance Thomas, née Elizabeth Purviance.] Jane
Maxwell Thomas McCorkle’s husband, Edwin
Alexander McCorkle, was born in
N.C. on the 18th of
March 1799 and died in Dyer
County, Tennessee, on the
10th of January 1853.
At the time David Thomas (son of William Thomas & Elizabeth Purviance) was
attorney general of the nascent Republic of Texas, his THOMAS
cousin-once-removed was attorney general of the State of Tennessee.
Table of Contents. IV. :
IV. ۞
One of the Civil
War-time
Diaries of John
Edwin McCorkle,
1839-1924, a grandson of Margaret
Morrison McCorkle; also a sampler
of the journals kept by John E. McCorkle’s daughter “Aunt Kate” Katie Pearl McCorkle (Fox).
John E. McCorkle was my father H. Ewing Huie's maternal grandfather.
– The Civil Wartime journal transcribed here covers parts of 1860 and 1861,
also 1863. Other
journals kept by John E. McCorkle, which my sister and I view to have been
wrongfully converted initially, are now in the possession of the University of
Tennessee at Martin Archives; ditto some of the records of our paternal
grandfather Howard
Anderson Huie (1870-1935) particularly
his HUIE
& OZIER HARDWARE
COMPANY records of Newbern,
Tennessee, circa 1900.
The wartime diaries of
John Edwin McCorkle’s brother HRA
(Hiram) McCorkle are
generally not included,
although a "teaser" is inserted after Chapter
Fifteen of this compilation. In
July 2007 the Tennessee State Library and Archives microfilmed Uncle Hiram's
diaries so that they are now available to the public.
In the year 2003, Hiram R.A. McCorkle’s diaries are in the possession of David
Caldwell of Newbern, Tennessee,
the only child of Betty Jane Atkins &
Charles Caldwell.
[Generation 1.Robert McCorkle;
2. Edwin A. McCorkle;
3. Hiram R.A. McCorkle; 4.
Bettie McCorkle Cawthon;
5. Mamie Cawthon Atkins;
6. Betty Jane Atkins Caldwell; 7. David Caldwell ]
In the summer of 2006, Tanya
Messer Sandlin (maternal
great-granddaughter of John Edwin McCorkle through Uncle Will McCorkle & Will’s
daughter Julia McCorkle Montgomery) and Earl
Willoughby (local Dyer County
historian) photocopied Hiram’s diaries, and we hope to transcribe them for the
public.
The following offers a sample
of Hiram McCorkle’s journal entries,
about six (6 ) years before Hiram died in 1907:
September
12, 1901: DEATH
OF FRELIN
McCORKLE.
“ Frelinghuisen McCorkle (col’d)
died, aged 57 years and 8 days.”
Next entry: “We
attended Frelin’s funeral at
the McCorkle cemetery.
Quite a number of colored people there as also were a goodly number of white
neighbors. All of his young Masters and Mistresses in slave time who were
in reach were there. Frelin was born andraised and married and
raised a large family on the old McCorkle farm.
[Hiram means his grandparents’ - Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s -- farm,
I guess.] Never lived anywhere else except, I think, maybe he was hired
out a few times when he was fifteen or sixteen years old. Frelin was
a good boy, a good obedient slave and after being freed he was a
good colored citizen. Always
polite, truthful, honest and industrious, providing well for his wife and a
large family of children, all girls, but one.
Although he had been a believer in the Christian religion for quite a number of
years, he never obeyed the gospel until a few years ago. Since which time, up
to his death he has lived, as best he knew how, a Christian life. Let us
all drop a tear and let the curtain fall. Frelin’s gone
where good negroes go.
A freedman named Caleb
McCorkle was
buried there, too.
And it is beyond cavil that freedman JEFF
BEAN,
and wife ELLA
McCorkle BEAN,
respected farmers in the Churchton community, are interred in front of the
white-folks' fence at the old McCorkle Cemetery, in the old section reserved for
slaves and former slaves.
--My mother Joyce Cope Huie's "Aunt
Tempe" McMahan (widow Bean)
Hendricks brought
Jeff Bean with her when she came
down from Ohio or Indiana to marry my
mother's paternal great-grandfather, Uriah
C.
Hendricks,
originally of Mocksville, Davie County, NC, as his 2nd wife. Aunt Tempe's
sister, Mary
McMahan Hendricks,
had been Uriah C. Hendricks' 1st wife; Uriah had gone from NC up to Clermont
County, Ohio, to marry Mary McMahan
after her people had moved northwardly from Rowan-Davie County, NC. They married
in 1833 in Clermont County, Ohio.
Mary McMahan (Hendricks)
(whose family once had been near Mocksville in Davie County, NC,
next to the Hendricks family--spelled
variously: Hendrix)
was the mother of Narcissus
Hendricks Cope,
Narcissus "Sis" being the mother of Ira
Mitchell Cope,
my maternal grandfather; and the mother of Daisy
Cope Henley and Delia
Cope Grills.
I think Mary "Polly" MacMahan's father's name was
George MacMahan of
Clermont
County,
Ohio, and I think the mother's name
was Harriet Harbin MacMahan, but I'm
not certain.
Tennessee State Library and Archives - History & Genealogy - Recent Additions
[July 2007] Recent Additions to the Tennessee State
Library and Archives ... H.R.A.
McCorkle Journals,
written from 1848-1907-- Dyer County [microfilm #1834]; |
20th TN Cavalry
CSA -- Biographical Information [M]
H.R.A. McCorkle Company
G. Enlisted December 1, 1863 in Dyer Co., TN,
by Col. [Tyree Harris] Bell for 3 years or the war. Roan horse valued at
$900. ... |
20th TN Cavalry
CSA -- Rosters
Rosters (by company) of Russell's 20th Regiment Tennessee Cavalry
CSA. ... Finis
Alexander McCorkle [1,9].
"Clay" Henry Clay McCorkle [2], Hiram
Robert A. McCorkle [1],
Ed M. Smith [1, 6D] ...
[ [My, Marsha Cope Huie's, great-grandfather's journal (John Edwin
McCorkle's) states at one point during the Civil War that his brother
Hiram "is making a company."]
McCorkle, H.R.A.,
to Douglas Anderson, n.d. [1897], re: ordering first part of Centennial
Album, 13-10
McCorkle, H.R.A.,
to Douglas Anderson, n.d. [1897], re: ordering first part of Centennial
Album, 13-10
McCorkle, H.R.A.,
to Douglas Anderson, n.d. [1897], re: ordering first part of Centennial
Album, 13-10
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The Dyersburg, Tennessee, State Gazette - July, 1907 reprints
Hiram R. A. McCorkle's obituary from the Newbern Tennessean:
DEATH OF H.
R. A. McCORKLE;
NEWBERN TENNESSEAN--On Monday morning, July 1st, 1907 |
The obituary is unsigned, but I know from the muy flowery writing style
that it was composed by Hiram's niece, Ora
Alice McCorkle Huie (Mrs.
"Dolph" Julius Adolphus Huie), a daughter of John Edwin McCorkle. Ora's
pen name was "Victor." : The
"Hiram" was for his mother Jane Maxwell Thomas's brother, Dr. Hiram Jacob
THOMAS, medical doctor of Lebanon, Wilson Co., Tennessee; then Vernon,
Mississippi; then Yazoo, Mississippi.
The Robert was for his father Edwin Alexander McCorkle's father, Robert
McCorkle (1764-1828). The "Andrew"
was for his father Edwin Alexander McCorkle's mother's father:
Andrew Morrison (the one who m. Elizabeth Sloan).
DEATH OF Hiram Robert Andrew McCORKLE; NEWBERN TENNESSEAN
--On Monday morning, July 1st, the spirit of H. R. A. McCORKLE was called from
the tenement of clay to return to God, who gave it. When the sad news, "Uncle
Hiram is dead, " was flashed across the wires, many hearts were saddened. Had
Mr. McCORKLE lived until November 6, 1907, he would have reached the 80th
milestone of life's journey. More than 50 years ago he accepted Christ as his
Savior and was buried in baptism by Elder James HOLMES. On Tuesday morning, the
funeral was held at the church [Lemalsamac Christian Church] where "Uncle
Hiram's" seat was seldom vacant, conducted by Elder N. B. HARDEMAN. His body was
then taken to the McCorkle Cemetery to Mother Earth. Three children, several
grandchildren and great-grandchildren are left to mourn his loss.
This introductory chapter, Chapter
One, includes a genealogy
of Alexander & Nancy Agnes(s)
Montgomery McCorkle and
as many of their children as practicable. I don't know how to do an Ahnentafel.
This introductory chapter, Chapter One, also
includes a genealogy
of Margaret Morrison McCorkle's Morrison
Family of
Rowan-Iredell County, North Carolina.
Genealogical discussion is given of the Jacob
Thomas & Margaret Brevard Thomas family
of Iredell County, NC; and of the family of John
Purviance & Mary Jane Wasson Purviance;
and of the James
Scott (1777-1853) & Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838) family.
Several photographs are
placed at the end of this Chapter One. Placed after the 1897
Union Grove Schoolhouse Picture, Dyer County, Tennessee,
naming as many of the pictured students as are known, comes a discussion
of the Churchton community family
of George
Washington Smith & wife Cornelia Davie Smith.
V. Frontispiece
۞ Letter from Bowden Cason (Casey) McCorkle in San
Leandro, California, to me, Marsha
Cope Huie, Sept.
7, 1984, when
I was living in Memphis, just before
moving to Cambridge, England,
then moving in August of 1986 to San
Antonio, Texas.
We can begin only with proper attribution to
the honored memory of
our cousin Casey
McCorkle, late
of San
Leandro, California:
FRONTISPIECE
1983
Dear
Miss Marsha:
I enclose herewith a sampling of the Roach-McCorkle
letters.
There are many more as it seems there was an extensive correspondence carried on
for several generations. I have no idea how these originals were preserved
and came to my branch of the family. They are now collected in a display
folder. Some of them are fairly delicate but in general well preserved.
Copying has been haphazard or what remains is the residue from extensive copying
the disposition of which is unknown to me.
Obviously these
papers should not be the exclusive property of any branch of the McCorkle family.
I should think complete copies should be made and the originals preserved and made
available to all. So far many
have expressed agreement but no one has expressed interest in doing the job.
Perhaps you may have some ideas along these lines.
I realize there may be much similar material in existence and available to you.
I will be interested in hearing from you and your reaction to the letters.
It was a pleasant surprise to hear from you and I will be looking forward to
hearing from you again. [It was tedious work, back then before the
Internet, but I dialed so many telephone numbers in California that
I finally located Casey McCorkle. He was a gracious gentleman, I thought.]
We will be out of town for a month but will return early in October. I
hope this finds you and yours well and happy.
Kindest personal regards,
B.C.
McCorkle
[San Leandro, California,
1983]"
Casey” McCorkle was a son of Homer McCorkle (who
moved from Newbern, Tennessee, to Center Point near San Antonio, Texas, and
finally to California), & Casey was a paternal grandson of Finis A. McCorkle of
Dyer Co, Tenn., & of Finis’ 1st wife
Sarah “Sallie” Josephine “Jo” Jackson (McCorkle).
Casey McCorkle was a great-grandson of Edwin Alexander McCorkle &
wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle;
and a g-g-grandson of Margaret
Morrison McCorkle (died 1848) & Robert McCorkle (died
1828). --a
photograph I possess of Homer
McCorkle in
his last years bears a remarkable resemblance to Homer's 1st cousin,
my father's maternal uncle Errett
Cotton McCorkle,
1888-1976.
Casey McCorkle’s 1st wife
was Floy Disney (mother
of Carter McCorkle,
male; and of Lynn McCorkle,
female) and his 2nd wife
was Lois Miller.
His children: Carter
McCorkle, son; Lynn McCorkle,
daughter; and Kathleen
McCorkleBrudno.
Below: Photograph taken in 1895 of the John Edwin McCorkle Home, Built circa 1868, Newbern-Yorkville Highway (now Tennessee Highway 77 |
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These
folks were Scots-Irish
emigrants from Northern
Ireland to:
(1) Lancaster County & Harrisburg, Pennsylvania [Harrisburg is
now in Dauphin County]. Please see references
to Robert McCorkle’s maternal uncle Rev. Joseph Montgomery, 1733-1794,
in Dauphin County.
A Presbyterian minister, Joseph Montgomery was a member of the Continental
Congress, was connected with Princeton University, and married as one of his
wives Rachel Rush (widow
of Angus Boyce),
a sister to the Dr.
Benjamin Rush of
Revolutionary Era fame (and of a wee bit of notoriety for improvident
persistence in using leeches to bleed hapless patients);
(2) down the Great
Wagon Road of the 18th century
to Rockbridge County, Virginia,
in the area of Lexington,
whence the McCorkle and Thomas and Houston families
are thought to have traveled together; some remained there; others (ours)
migrated on down to:
(3) Rowan County,
NC (Iredell Co.
was carved off in 1788) and other sites in the Piedmont of North
Carolina near Salisbury and Statesville near
Charlotte—particularly around the Thyatira Presbyterian Church near
today's Mooresville. Samuel
Eusebius McCorkle,
the eldest son & fortunate enough to have studied at the precursor of Princeton
with his uncle Joseph
Montgomery, was a founder
of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
[2007 update: This past winter I found a piece of paper from
Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, at my mom's old house, which states that her
father Robert McCorkle
was "educated at Chapel Hill."]
I believe it was from Rowan County NC that Robert McCorkle and
two of his brothers (Joseph and William)
went directly exploring into Kentucky in
the environs of today's Lexington.
They appear on the records in the formation of Walnut
Hill Presbyterian Church.
Some records, but not ours, indicate that at least three McCorkle brothers
joined Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church, viz., Joseph, William,
and Robert McCorkle. Elmira
Sloan McCorkle Roache wrote that her father Robert
McCorkle, with brothers
Joseph and William, was in the
"second company" of [white] men to move into Kentucky, that they had many
perilous adventures during their insurgency, often taking refuge within a
primitive fort. I doubt Elmira meant that her father was in the militia.
Evidently, some of these folks, excluding Robert, William, and Joseph McCorkle, went directly from Rowan County, NC, to Middle Tennessee. Most of Northern Middle Tennessee at that time was known as Sumner County (today, the county seat of Sumner Co. is Gallatin, and the county seat of Wilson Co. is Lebanon); and they lingered a while
(4)
Sumner County, Tennessee,
near Lebanon and Gallatin (Northern
Middle Tennessee excluding Nashville and Davidson County).
When Wilson County . We should look for some of them at the
organization circa 1793 of Shiloh Presbyterian Church just
outside today's Gallatin.
The Barr family was prominent amongst the members of Shiloh Presbyterian Church, but I'm not sure exactly of the degree of kinship these Barr folks had to Robert McCorkle's sister Elizabeth McCorkle Barr (I think she herself was at Shiloh Presbyterian Church, and I know her brother William McCorkle, died 1
WILSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, EXCURSUS:
Some of our McCorkle -
Thomas -
Purviance- Sherrill People in Wilson
County, Tennessee.
WILSON COUNTY
was carved from SUMNER COUNTY, TENNESSEE.
The ff. is from Goodspeed's History of Tennessee:
"WILSON is one of a group of counties which form the bottom of the great Silurian basin of Middle Tennessee. The Cumberland River washes the northern boundary of the county for a distance of twenty-five miles, and besides the numerous springs all over the county there are the following important creeks: Cedar Lick, Spring, Cedar, Barton, Spencer, empty into the Cumberland; Sugg, Stoner, Hurricane and Fall empty into Stone River; Smith Fork, Round Lick, Spring and Fall Creeks have their source near each other in a group of hills in the southeastern part of the county, while the other creeks head in the numerous valleys. Beyond an occasional migratory and venturesome hunter, trapper or scout, who passed through the vast forests and canebrakes in quest of the abundant game or in pursuit of marauding bands of Indians, the presence of white man was unknown in Wilson County previous to l790. At the close of the Continental war the State of .North Carolina made grants of large bodies of land to her soldiers in pay for gallant service in time of battle. The land so granted was situated in Tennessee, then a portion of North Carolina, and it was by the owners of the land that Wilson (then Sumner) County was settled. The following are the names of the parties to whom land was granted in Wilson County during the years between 1780 and 1790: William Ray. 1,000 acres; Isadore Skerett, 640 acres; James Kennedy, 640 acres; Cornelius Dabney, 640 acres; John Burton, 1,168 acres; John Williams, 640 acres; John Conroe, 640 acres; Hardy Murfree, 1,000 acres; Nicholas Conroe, 640 acres; Thomas Evans, 640 acres; John Davidson, 274 acres; Stephen Merritt, 640 acres; James C. Montflorence, 1,000 acres; John Kain, 571 acres; Walter Allen, 912 acres; Redmond T. Barry, 640 acres; William Hogan, 500 acres; and Andrew Bostane, 220 acres. Between 1790 and 1800: Robert Stewart, Jonathan Green, John Boyd, Philip Shackler, John Haywood, William Lytle, Alexander Mebane, Jeremiah Hendricks, James Rodgers, John Brown, William Fleming, Bennett Searcy, Ambrose Jones, Edward Harris, Henry Barnes, George Kennedy, Jacob Patton, Reeves Porter, James Menees, Thomas Evans, Gideon Pillow, Delilah Roberts, David Douglas, Johnson Hadley, Joseph Cloud, Daniel Wilbourn, James Barron, Vachel Clark, Jesse Cobb, Samuel Churchhill, Boyd Castleman, Ephraim Payton, and Alexander Denny, 640 acres each; William Hogan, 500 acres; Willie Cherry, 228 acres; Archibald Lytle, 1,000 acres; Lazarus James, 337 acres; John Wright, 2,000 acres; Henry Ross, 274 acres; John Dabney, 228 acres; William Martin, 1,280 acres; David Gibson, 1,000 acres; Thedford and George Brewer, 1,000 acres; John Boyd, Jr., 228 acres; Samuel Barton, 1,000 acres; and Absolom Tatum, 300 acres.
Many of the above never became settlers of the county and numbers of the pioneers of Wilson County purchased of them the lands on which they settled. The first settlement of Wilson County was made in the year 1797 at Drake's Lick, near the mouth of Spencer Lick Creek on Cumberland River, which was afterward the northeast corner of Davidson County, by William McClain and John Foster. Two years later John Foster, William Donnell and Alexander Barkley made a settlement of Spring Creek, seven miles southeast of the present town of Lebanon. During the same year settlements were made on Hickory Ridge, five miles west of Lebanon, by John K. Wynn and Charles Kavanaugh, both of whom came from North Carolina, and on the waters of Round Lick Creek, by William Harris and William McSpadden, of North Carolina, and James Wrather and Samuel King, of Virginia, and also on the waters of Spring Creek, about eight miles south of Lebanon, by John Doak. John Foster, David Magathey, Alexander Braden, the Donnells, and probably others. At the time of these settlements the land was covered with vast forests and thick canebrakes, and game of every specie from the bear, panther and deer down to the squirrel and rabbit existed in abundance. Several years before, however, the Indians as a tribe had been driven back. and only friendly ones as a class were met with by the settlers.
The man called
Eleazor PROVINE
in the ff. paragraph is really
Eleazor PURVIANCE.
WILLIAM THOMAS
in the ff. paragraph of Goodspeed's History of Tennessee is my father Howard
EWING Huie's mother's (Sophie King McCorkle Huie's)
father's (John Edwin McCorkle's) grandfather.
This William Thomas (fought in NC line in the Revolutionary War) was a
son of Jacob Thomas
& wife Margaret Brevard
(Thomas) of first
Cecil Co.,
Maryland,
then last of
Iredell Co.,
North Carolina.
This William
Thomas married
Elizabeth Purviance (Thomas),
and one of their children was Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle), who in 182_
married Edwin Alexander McCorkle, 1799-1853.
"From
1799 the settlement of the county was rapid.
The lands lying on the waters of the various creeks being the richer and easier
of cultivation were naturally the first settled, and hence in giving the
following list of names of the early settlers, they have been grouped into
creek
neighborhoods.
On Barton Creek: Charles Blaylock, Elijah Trewitt, Levi Holloway, Henry Shannon,
Snowdon Hickman, William Eddings, Thomas Mass, Eleazer
Provine, John Lane, Byrd
Wall, William
Thomas,
Samuel
Wilson, George
Swingler, John
Goldston, Benjamin
Esken, Jeremiah
Still, Thomas
Sypert, George
Wynn, Benjamin
Wineford, William
Peace, James
Mayes, John
Cage, Alexander
Chance, Josiah
Martin, Henry
Reed, William
Elkins, James
Menees [There are MENIUS people buried
at Thyatira Presbyterian Church in Rowan Co., NC.], John
Allcorn, Thomas
Congers
and
probably
others.
On Spring Creek: James Cannon, Soloman Marshall, James Chappell, Walter Carrouth, Martin Talley, George Alexander, Joseph Moxley, Hugh Morris, Bartlett Graves, Spencer Talley, John Forbes, William Bartlett, William Sherrill--two sisters to William Thomas married two Sherrill men: Annie THOMAS Sherrill and Elizabeth THOMAS Sherrill .] John Steinbridge, Josiah Smith, Alligood Wallard, Thomas Williams, Purnell Hearn, John Jones, John Walsh, Samuel Elliott, Benjamin Mottley, Richard Hawkins, Gregory Johnson, William Steele, Henry Chandler, Arthur Dew, Daniel Cherry, Adam Harpole, and others.
The "John Provine" in the ff. paragraph is either the
father of Elizabeth Purviance (Thomas),
Elizabeth being the mother of Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle); or the John
Purviance who was a
brother to Elizabeth
Purviance (Thomas).
The brother
named John Purviance, you will recall, was scalped by hostile Indians in the
year 1792.
The scalping was the
reason the John Purviance whose wife was Mary Jane Wasson took his family up to
the environs of Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, for a while.
And there, Bourbon County, is where John and Mary Jane Wasson Purviance's
son, David Purviance, at Cane Ridge
Meeting House became "co-founder of the Christian Church" behind Barton W.
Stone.
On Cedar Creek:
Hugh Roane,
John
Provine,
Alex
Aston, Samuel
Calhoun, Perry
Taylor, John L.
Davis, Mathew
Figures, David
Billings, Irwin
Tomlinson, Joseph
Trout, Hooker
Reeves, Nathan
Cartwright, Lewis
Chambers, Andrew
Swan, William
Harris, William
Wilson and Joseph
Weir.
On Spencer Creek:
John Walker, William
White, Brittain
Drake, Lewis
Kirby, William
Gray, Joel
Echols, Robert
Mitchell, Philip
Koonce, James
McFarland, Moore
Stevenson, Jere
Hendricks and Richard
Drake.
On Cedar Lick Creek:
Theophilus
Bass, Clement Jennings,
John Everett, John Gleaves, Reuben Searcy, Joshua Kelley, James Everett, James
H. Davis, Thomas Davis, Howell Wren, William Ross, Edmund Vaughn, George Smith,
Harmon Hays and Daniel Spicer.
On Cumberland River: Edward Mitchell, Elijah Moore, William Sanders, Caleb Taylor, Bartholomew Brett, William Johnson, Josiah Woods, W. T. Cole, Joseph Kirkpatrick, Henry Davis, James Tipton, Thomas Ray, Reuben Slaughter, Daniel Glenn, James Hunter, Ransom King, Henry Locke, Ephraim Beasley, Sterling Tarpley and William Putway.
On Stoner Lick Creek:
Blake Rutland, Zebulon
Baird, John
Graves, Benjamin
Graves, Thomas
Watson, John
Wilson, John
Williamson, Henry
Thompson, Thomas
Gleaves, Ezekial
Cloyd, Anderson
Tate, Jacob
Woodrum, Ezekial
Clampet, Andrew
Wilson, James
Cathom and James
Kendall.
On Suggs Creek:
Benjamin
Hooker, Acquilla Suggs, William Warnick, William Rice, Benjamin Dobson, Hugh
Gwynn, Jenkin Sullivan, John
Roach,
James Hannah, Hugh
Telford, Green
Barr, Peter
Devault, John
Curry, Thomas
Drennon, Joseph
Hamilton and Joseph
Castlemen.
On Pond Lick Creek:
Robin Shannon, John
Ozment, Lee
Harralson, John
Spinks and John
Rice.
On Sinking Creek:
Thompson
Clemmons, William
Bacchus, David
Fields, Lewis
Merritt, Frank
Ricketts, Fletcher
Sullivan,
James Richmond,
Robert
Jarmon, John
Winsett, Jesse
Sullivan, William
Paisley, John
Billingsley, Seldon
Baird, Dawson
Hancock and Jonathan
Ozment.
On Hurricane Creek:
William
Teague, John
Gibson, William
Hudson. Nicholas
Quesenbury, Charles
Warren, Jacob
Bennett, Elisha
Bond, Robert
Edwards, John
Edwards, Bradford
Howard, George
Cummings, John
Merritt, Joseph
Stacey, Frank
Young, Henry
Mosier, Charles
Cummings, John
Woolen, Absalom
Knight, Thomas
Miles, Peter
Leath and
Gideon
Harrison.
On Fall Creek: William Warren, Samuel Copeland, Joseph Williams, Jacob Jennings, William Allison, Hardy Penuel, Joseph Sharp, Sampson Smith, Frank Puckett, James Quarles, Roger Quarles, Mathew Sims, Shadrack Smith, James Smith, Charles Smith, Aaron Edwards, Hugh Cummings, Isaac Winston, William Wortham, Burrell Patterson, Absalom Losater, John Alsup, Lard Sellars, Joseph Carson, Charles Gillem, Arthur Harris, Walter Clapton, William Smith, John Donnell, Adney Donnell and William Lester.
On Smith Fork: Dennis Kelley, David Ireland, John Adams, David Wasson, John Armstrong. Isaac Witherspoon, John Allen, Richard Braddock, Edward Pickett, E!isha Hodge, Thomas Flood, James McAdoo, Samuel McAdoo--notable in early Cumberland Presbyterianism-- Abner Bone, Thomas Bone, William Richards, George L. Smith, Samuel Stewart, William Beagle, James Johnson, John Knox, William Knox, John Ward, Solomon George, Reason Byrne, .James Godfrey, Henry Payne, James Thompson, James Thomas--brother to William Thomas, the William Thomas who m. Elizabeth PURVIANCE-- Thomas Word, James Ayers, William Jennings, Charles Rich, Abner Alexander, William Oakley and James Williams.
On Round Lick Creek,
including
Jennings Fork: John W.
Peyton, Arthur
Hankins, James
Wrather,
Samuel King--a Samuel
King in 1800 served as witness to Alexander McCorkle's will in Rowan Co., North
Carolina. Alexander, born 1722,
died in 1800 in Rowan County -,
William
Haines
--?
Is this William
HAINES kin to the two HAYNES sisters, Mary and Sarah, who married two Morrison
brothers of Margaret MORRISON McCorkle, the Margaret who lived 1770-1848:
namely,
Andrew SLOAN MORRISON, who became a
Presbyterian minister and died in Indiana, and
William
Hays
Morrison, 1767-1837, who is buried
in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, West Tennessee, while his wife née Mary
Haynes is interred Bedford Co., Tenn.--
John Bradley, William McSpaddin, William Coe, Abner Spring, William Harris, John Phillips, Benjamin Phillips, Edward G. Jacobs, John Green, Samuel Barton, Alexander Beard, Jordan Bass, Soloman Bass, John Lawrence, Evans Tracy, Joseph Barbee, Shelah Waters, George Clarke, James Shelton, William Neal, Joshua Taylor, Isaac Grandstaff, Daniel Smith, Jacob Vantrase, Duncan Johnson, Joseph Foust, James Hill, Joseph Carlin, George Hearn, John Patton, John Bradley, William New, Robert Branch, James Edwards, William Howard, Edmund Jennings, John White, John Swan, Thomas Byles, William Palmer, Park Goodall, Jerre Brown, Thomas B. Reece--Mary Evelyn Smith, b. circa 1923, daughter of OK Smith & Lady Ruth Herndon Smith, married a REESE man whose roots were near Gallatin, Tennessee -- James Scaby, James Hobbs, James Newbry and John Caplinger.
The
first corn-mill erected in the county was built by Samuel
Caplinger some time in 1798. It was
a small horse-power affair, the horse being hitched to a pole or shaft and
driven around in a circle. The building was a small, unhewn-log house, and stood
on the farm now owned by Roland
Newby,
in the Eighth Civil District. Very good corn meal is said to have been ground by
this mill, and the patronage was drawn from a large scope of country.
Subsequently the mill was removed to a site on Jennings Fork, and converted into
a water-power. The first water-mill is supposed to have been built by Thomas
Conger, some time in the same year, on Barton's Creek, about three miles
northwest of Lebanon. A horse-power mill was also erected about that time by one
of the
Donnells, near Doak's Cross
Roads, eight miles south of Lebanon.
Before these mills were erected the settlers went to Davidson County for their grinding, or converted the corn into meal by means of the old-fashioned mortar and pestle.
The circuit court
clerks have been as follows: Harry L. Douglas, 1810-15; Samuel C. Roane,
1815-17; Henry Shelby, 1817-18; Harry L. Douglas, 1818-21; John S. Tapp,
1821-27; Samuel Yerger, 1827-32; William L. Martin, 1832-42; John W. White,
1842-44; James H.
Britton, 1844-48;
Harris H.
Simmons, 1848-49; Calvin
W. Jackson, 1849-54; Plummer W.
Harris, 1854-58; Joseph T. Manson,
1858-70;
William
McCorkle, 1870-73;*
Samuel G.
Stratton, 1873-82;
W. W. Donnell, 1882-86.
End of WILSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, EXCURSUS
*
This is
not the William McCorkle who
was a son of our immigrants Alexander & "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery McCorkle; that
is to say, this was not the William McCorkle who died in Rutherford Co.,
Tennessee, in 1818.
Update:
James Richmond,
whose wife descends from the
William
McCorkle who died in 1818, recently reported that William's son
MILES McCORKLE
of Middle Tennessee was
physician to
Andrew Jackson.
(5)
then with escape by some [for example, "colonel" John
Purviance & wife Mary Jane
Wasson (Purviance), parents of
Elizabeth Purviance Thomas and
maternal grandparents of
Jane Maxwell
Thomas (McCorkle) ] from Hostilities in Sumner County, Tennessee, up to Cane
Ridge and Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky;
and Logan County,
Kentucky, either before or after John Purviance (a
son of John
& Mary Jane Wasson Purviance)
was “scalped” in Sumner Co., Tennessee, in 1792.
[The John Purviance who
was “scalped” and died tragically in 1792 was a son of Revolutionary War soldier John Purviance and
wife
Mary Jane Wasson (Purviance).
His wife
Martha "Mattie" King
Purviance then married
WILLIAM
McCORKLE, died 1818, a son of Alexander McCorkle & "Nancy" Agnes MONTGOMERY
(McCorkle)]
More
work needs to be done looking for McCorkles' tracks in Kentucky,
certainly around Cane Ridge and Paris,Kentucky;
and at Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church near Lexington;
--and once having been established in Kentucky:
(6) some family members, such as church
“elder” David Purviance (another
son of Rev. War Lt. [“Colonel”] John Purviance and Mary Jane Wasson
Purviance), remained in Bourbon
County, Kentucky, then later on
moved farther north to Preble County, Ohio,
to “New Paris.” It was
from New Paris that church "elder" David
Purviance founded Miami University of Ohio and
often served as its president pro tempore.
(Today's young Garner Huie, son of Joseph Headden Huie & Ann Livingston Huie, is
a recent graduate of Miami University of Ohio.) This David Purviance was
a brother to Elizabeth Purviance Thomas,
the mother of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle of
Dyer County, Tennessee (née Jane Maxwell Thomas).
(--I think Jane
Maxwell Thomas McCorkle was
named after her Purviance-Thomas mother's sister, a Mrs. Jane
Purviance Maxwell.
This Jane Purviance Maxwell lingered a while in Dyer County in West
Tennessee, but removed westerly to Benton Co., Arkansas.)
As examples of the nomadic
nature of these pioneers,
of the nine (9) children born to Joseph
McCorkle, a son of Alexander
& Agnes Montgomery McCorkle-- that is, of the children born to Joseph
McCorkle & wife Margaret
(Snoddy) McCorkle:
(1) an Agnes McCorkle was born 1778 in Rowan County, NC, but died in Miami County, Ohio;
(2) a
John McCorkle (d.
1829) and
(3)
a
Martha McCorkle,
b.
1788, were born in
Fayette Co., Ky.
(4)
a
Mary McCorkle [Edwards]
was born in
Bourbon Co., Ky.
(5)
and an
Amanda McCorkle was
born ca. 1802 in perhaps Tenn. & died in
Cass County, Indiana.
—The
source for the previous sentence about Joseph McCorkle's children is Carol Byler.
Another good example comes from the Morrison family. Andrew
B. Morrison,
born 18th July 1780 in Iredell County,
NC, died in 1853 in Preble County,
Ohio. His marriage was in Bourbon County,
Kentucky. --This Andrew B. Morrison's father, Andrew
Morrison, 1754-1780,
was a 1st cousin
to our Margaret MORRISON McCorkle (1770-1848).
--By the way, it is an uncle
of "our" ancestor Andrew Morrison (the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle)
who is buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church cemetery.
That means that the Andrew buried at Thyatira was born to "first inhabitor" of
Loray Community in what became Iredell Co., NC (carved from Rowan Co.), William
Morrison, 1704-1771.
The Andrew
Morrison (uncle of our Andrew Morrison, who with wife Elizabeth SLOAN was the
father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle) who is buried at Thyatira was a brother to
the William
Morrison (1704-1771)
who settled Third
Creek
in what is today in Iredell County, but was then Rowan County. --;
(7) but with others—such
as Robert McCorkle
(1764-1828) & his 1st wife Lizzie Elizabeth
Blythe McCorkle, and Robert's
brother William McCorkle
[1st wife Peggy Blythe]
and William’s 2nd wife
(“Mattie”) Martha King McCorkle,
the widow of the “scalped” John Purviance),
and we think “colonel” John Purviance
& wife Mary Jane Wasson Purviance—going back southward,
either from the environs of Bourbon & Logan Counties, Ky., or Preble
County, Ohio—to the
area of Gallatin and Lebanon in Middle
Tennessee.
"Colonel" John Purviance & wife Mary Jane WASSON Purviance are buried
somewhere in Middle Tennessee, we think, but we do not know where.
Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache wrote
that her father Robert McCorkle
(1764-1828) and her uncle William McCorkle (d.
1818) lost their wives after
moving back down to Middle Tennessee,
and that William’s 2nd wife
“Mattie” King died on the way from
North Carolina in what was then wilderness and was buried on the trail in a
“rude grave.” James M. Richmond, however, thinks there is evidence Martha
King (widow of the John Purviance
who was
scalped in 1792, then Mrs. William
McCorkle) may be buried at Shiloh Cumberland
Presbyterian Church’s King Cemetery
near Gallatin. (Perhaps
Elmira would have considered that, at the time, a "rude grave.") Then, in Sumner
County, Tennessee, in 1800 William McCorkle
was to marry a 3rd wife, Jane or
"Jennie" Graham.
William’s brother Robert McCorkle,
1764-1828, trekked back to Rowan County, North
Carolina, to marry “Peggy” Margaret Morrison (McCorkle)
and fetch her westward, eventually to Middle Tennessee--Rutherford County in or
near Murfreesborough. By then at least, in Rowan Co., NC,
certain Morrison lands adjoined certain
McCorkle lands;
(8) then, receipt by brothers Robert & William McCorkle
of their father Alexander McCorkle’s
2400+-acre Revolutionary
War land grant which,
they thought, had been set aside for them in Rutherford County (Murfreesborough), Tennessee.
Recipients of land grants had to get precise plats identified and set aside for
them, and often claims conflicted; if so, the race became a question of who got
the claim recorded first.
These McCorkles , and some of the
associated Morrisons including Margaret Morrison McCorkle's sisters -- spinster
Rebecca
Morrison
and
Mary Morrison Morrison, who
married her 1st cousin John
Morrison,
a son of her uncle Patrick Morrison)
settled on Bradley's Creek and/or
Stone’s River.
The Revolutionary War land grant to Alexander McCorkle I was to be lost circa 1826 in
title-dispute litigation.
This Rutherford County land had been devised to the two brothers, Robert
1764-1828 and William d. 1818, upon
their father’s death in 1800 in Rowan County, NC. The father Alexander
McCorkle I , 1722-1800,
was interred at Thyatira Presbyterian Church beside the wife who
predeceased him, “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle, and beside his 2nd wife
and widow Rebecca [McNeeley?] Brandon (McCorkle).
A certain letter in the U North Carolina Archives in Chapel Hill under the
RAMSAY PAPERS collection is of interest to us.
It was written by Alexander
McCorkle II in the year 1820,
from Giles County, Tennessee (Giles
County was formed in 1810 from Maury County and was, and is, bounded on the
south by Alabama) back to homefolk in Rowan County, NC.
Alexander II states indirectly that his brother ROBERT McCORKLE --
1764-1828 -- was blind.
Alexander wrote that Robert had
recognized him, his brother Alexander, only
from his (Alexander's) voice, when Alexander had paid Robert & family a visit in
Rutherford County, Tennessee. From that letter one concludes that Robert
McCorkle was blind at least as early as 1820.
--
Robert's brother Alexander
McCorkle II married Katie Catherine Morrison (a
1st-cousin-once-removedto Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848).
Alexander II's niece Elmira Sloan McCorkle (Roache) said her uncle Alexander II
was "emotional in character and joined the Methodists." (My mother
Joyce Cope Huie, born 1915, remembers when some of the Methodists used to
shout. ) Alexander who by now
referred to himself as "Alexander Snr"
moved on from Giles County a bit north to
Henry County, Tennessee, in or near
the site of the town of Paris. --;
(9) then Robert McCorkle
, 1764-1828, but not his brother William McCorkle who
had died in 1818 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee -- removed westerly
to Dyer
County in the newly opened western
district of Tennessee to
claim land granted in lieu of land
from which they had been disseised in
Rutherford County litigation—with their nearby towns in West Tennessee being
first Yorkville (Gibson
County, Tennessee) and then, after the Civil War, Newbern (Dyer
County), Tennessee.
Robert McCorkle died in
the spring of 1828 (April,
we think), very soon
after removing to Dyer County in the newly opened Western District.
His is the first grave in the
McCorkle Cemetery in
Dyer
County, about 5 miles east of
today's town of Newbern, just north of the Newbern-Yorkville Highway.
We didn't know until recently that Robert McCorkle's elder brother,
Samuel Eusebius McCorkle,
long the preacher at Thyatira
Presbyterian
Church in
Rowan
Co.,
NC, had a claim on the land grant
that ended up being for land in Dyer County, Tennessee.
We don't understand this claim, for in
Alexander McCorkle's will (1800,
Rowan Co.) he left his land-grant claim to his two sons,
William and Robert McCorkle.
Nevertheless, Samuel Eusebius
McCorkle's daughter, Harriet
Evelina McCorkle (Mrs.
Amzi McGinn) removed from Charlotte,
North Carolina, to the Newbern area under Samuel's claim on a land grant for
Dyer County. At some point,
Harriet
McGinn moved back easterly, to a
daughter's in Cannon
Co.,
Tennessee.
Recently, Ann Huddart of Florida, a descendant of Harriet McCorkle McGinn
sent us a copy of a letter written by
Vada Gregory Wyatt about 1920, in which Vada states that her parents (Margaret
LATINA McCORKLE Gregory --daughter of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane
Maxwell Thomas McCorkle-- & John T.
Gregory) had lived east of Newbern on land formerly owned by
Harriet Evelina McCorkle McGinn;
(10) "Nancy"
Agnes McCorkle (Ramsay) --was
one of Robert McCorkle d. 1828 and William McCorkle’s
(d. 1818) sisters.
Alexander McCorkle, our immigrant
who came over as a child, married "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery, and one of their
children was
Nancy Agnes
McCorkle Ramsay.
Agnes remained behind in Rowan
County, North Carolina. Her surname was first
spelled Ramsey then
RAMSAY. (Agnes
became Mrs. Robert Ramsay).
Agnes McCorkle Ramsay and her
husband and progeny engaged in correspondence with family members who had
removed westward into Tennessee.
These
RAMSAY
papers lie in the Archives at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill and are not included here. One
should also check the Archives under
the name of William McCorkle (died
1818)
.--And don't forget that the University
of North Carolina itself has a
McCorkle Place named after a founder:
Samuel Eusebius
McCorkle, a brother to, e.g., "our"
Robert McCorkle, 1764-1828, who removed to West Tennessee.
Alexander & "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery McCorkle 's
children included Samuel Eusebius McCorkle about
whom much has been written . Samuel
Eusebius also remained behind in North Carolina. Samuel, a founder of UNC,
was a Princeton graduate
(actually, of the precursor to Princeton,
Nas(h)ua Hall) and recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.
Samuel's wife Margaret Gillespie McCorkle was
a daughter to Elizabeth Maxwell (the
widow Gillespie) Steele,
1733-1790.
Elizabeth Maxwell Gillespie Steele
was a patriot notable who kept an inn
(an "ordinary") in Salisbury, where she
encouraged General Nathaniel Greene in the dark hours of the Revolutionary War
and for the war effort gave him all the specie she owned. --We think we've
read that General Washington stopped off at this inn on a ceremonial trip to
Salisbury. -- The local Rowan Co. DAR group is the Elizabeth
Maxwell Steele Chapter of DAR.
Margaret Gillespie McCorkle's father,
Mr. Gillespie, was
killed in an
Indian uprising at Fort
Dobbs just
outside today's Statesville, NC
(Iredell County). Elizabeth
Steele & daughter Margaret Gillespie McCorkle--Mrs. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle--
are buried in Thyatira Presbyterian Church. Cemetery;
(11) one of Robert McCorkle’s
putative paternal uncles,
although not in our records, may have been a Francis McCorkle.
(We
doubt it, because we don't think our Alexander McCorkle's --1722-1800-- father
was either a Matthew McCorkle or a
Samuel McCorkle. )
Francis McCorkle was
uncle to our Robert McCorkle (1764-1828) only if Robert's father
Alexander McCorkle I was sired by Matthew
McCorkle, which we
rather doubt, although we do believe
Alexander & Francis McCorkle were surely
cousins. Whatever kin he was, this Francis
McCorkle was a major in
the Revolutionary War “patriot”
army, surviving
the battles of Ramseur’s
Mill --or Ramsour’s Mill--Cowpens, King’s Mountain,
and Torrence’s or Tarrant’sTavern.
It is not yet accepted that this Major
Francis McCorkle was a brother to, inter
alia, “our” Alexander McCorkle,
Sr., the latter having been buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church in 1800. Others’
records (not ours) say that Francis came over with his immigrant parents and is buried beside what
is now Lake Norman (created
by Duke Power Company circa 1960) in a McCorkle family cemetery
near
NC Hwy 150.
We’ve not yet researched the kinship, if
any, of the second wives of Alexander McCorkle
[Sr., 1722-1800] and of Major Francis McCorkle: viz., Rebecca [ possibly:
McNeely] Brandon McCorkle,
the
second
Mrs. Alexander McCorkle (buried
Thyatira Presbyterian, beside Alexander & Alexander McCorkle’s 1st wife
Agnes “Nancy” Montgomery McCorkle) and Elizabeth “Betsy” Brandon McCorkle,
Mrs. Francis McCorkle, buried near
NC Hwy 150 beside Francis. We wouldn't be surprised, though, to learn
these two Brandon-McCorkle women were
sisters.
One anonymous listing on www.ancestry.com shows
Rebecca as Rebecca (McNeely) Brandon (the 2nd Mrs. Alexander McCorkle);
We do not know about this
McNeely
name. Betsy
Brandon [Mrs. Francis McCorkle],
daughter of “Squire” Richard Brandon,
as a 14-year-old girl in 1791 prepared breakfast for General George Washington,
by then President, although she knew not his identity until he had eaten and was
to depart for his reception at Salisbury,
some 6 miles away. The President had ridden from Charlotte on
his way to Salisbury. [NC
Highway Marker at US Highway 29.]
Who was
the immigrant father
of his
immigrant son Alexander
McCorkle I ? --Was
he
Samuel McCorkle?
Matthew McCorkle?
James McCorkle?
Possible Choice One: Samuel McCorkle:
Our West
Tennessee records do not definitively
state the name of the father of Alexander McCorkle,
1722-1800,
but
some other records name Alexander McCorkle's father as Samuel. [We
do not know
about this SAMUEL business, but doubt it.]
Choice Two: Matthew McCorkle of
Mecklenburg County, NC:
Update added in 2007:
this winter I found at my mother Joyce Cope Huie's old house on the Dyer-Gibson
county line in western Tennessee a leaf of paper handwritten in pencil by
Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache
(daughter of Robert McCorkle, 1764-1828, & Margaret Morrison (McCorkle),
1770-1848.
Elmira's husband originally from
North Carolina, you will recall, was a
physician:
Dr.
Stephen Roache (Stephen Roache was a
junior).
The leaf mostly chronicles the
contagion
of cholera and its rapid deaths in her community, presumably in
Gosport, Indiana
(It's not certain that the location was Gosport, as Elmira lived in numerous
places after leaving North Carolina & Tennessee). On one page of this
leaf, someone else's hand, presumably Elmira's sons or one of her grandsons, has
written in pencil beside the name of our
Alexander McCorkle (died in 1800): "father: MATTHEW McCORKLE."
This is interesting but not dispositive of the issue of Alexander McCorkle's
parentage, as mistakes recur in the genealogy as written by the descendants of
the two long-surviving sons of Elmira (viz.,
Addison
Locke Roache, Snr.,
&
Robt. Quincy Roache).
Choice Three: James McCorkle
I think I've read that Roman Catholic priest Louis
McCorkle identified the father of
Alexander as James McCorkle;
but I don't have Msgnr. McCorkle's book. Based on my awareness of his
intensive genealogical studies, I would tend to
go with his decision, although once circa 1980 I dared to telephone him in his
monastery(?) --living quarters--in Missouri (?), I think it was; and he was
grumpy with me; he did sound aged, though, and perhaps he couldn't hear me very
well. Unfortunately, at that particular time in my life, I thought I
didn't have the extra money to spend frivolously on buying his McCorkle book.
Now of course I wish I had splurged....
Quaere:
Who was the
Simeon McCorkle listed
beside "our" 1722-1800 Alexander McCorkle on the
Tax Rolls of Rowan County?
Was he the father of Alexander?
a brother? a cousin?
I’ve tempted time by waiting over 20 years to make all this information publicly
available. The good thing about my procrastination is the advent of the
Internet, which has afforded us much more genealogical information
than our mere old family records kept
in West Tennessee
(Yorkville-Newbern).
Photographs of my husband and of me follow. We
live most of the time in San Antonio, Texas,
but part of my heart is on the county line between Dyer and Gibson
Counties, Tennessee. My theory in
publishing now, finally in 2006, is that it’s better
to make a full effort, replete with errors of commission and omission, than it
is to wait for
a perfect edition.
Any person discovering an error, will confer a favor by making it known to marshahuie@aol.com
Samuel Finley, President of Princeton University, 1761-66.
What kin was he to John
Finley,
the father of Martha
Finley Montgomery,
who was the mother of "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery McCorkle?
--All
of this compilation is sponsored by my husband’s work ethic. Ralph maintains
that he, in 2007 A.D. aged 60 also, will never retire, to which I respond,
“Hear. Hear
Provenance of the McCorkle-Roache Papers Preserved & sent to me in West Tennessee by “Casey” Bowden Cason McCorkle of San Leandro, California:
The Roach(e) line of ELMIRA SLOAN MCCORKLE ROACH died
out in California, to which state ADDISON LOCKE ROACHE, JR.,
had moved from Indiana, along with some sisters—and finally toward the end the
aged father, former Indiana Supreme Court Justice Addison Locke Roache, SR., moved
to California, too. Thus did Addison Locke Roache Senior make the lifetime
journey from the east coast (state of NC) to California, as far westward as he
could travel.
In California some
of their McCorkle cousins inherited their papers. Perhaps it was Mada McCorkle
Montgomery, daughter of Finis
Alexander McCorkle & Finis’ 2nd wife Mag Hart
(McCorkle); or, more likely to me,
it may have been either of Finis Alexander McCorkle's grandsons (by Finis’ 1st wife Sarah
Josephine Jackson McCorkle)
living
in California by the time of the end of the last McCorkle-Roaches, viz., Gentry Purviance McCorkle,
Senior and Homer McCorkle,
half-brothers to Mada [variously Maida].
Gentry Purviance McCorkle, Junior,
at one point added some handwritten notations to the collection of old papers.
Gentry Jr. may have turned over these papers to Homer McCorkle.
--At any rate, I presume Homer
McCorkle was
given the letters by the descendants of Elmira Sloan McCorkle (Roache),
because it was his son Casey
McCorkle who
handed them down to me. –However they
came into his hands, the old letters & papers came into the hands of Casey
McCorkle, who preserved them and left
them to me, and therefore to all who care to read them.
Solicitation of funds for keeping up the McCorkle Cemetery east
of Newbern, Tennessee:
These old papers reveal that all these California emigrants from West Tennessee
continued to contribute to, and corresponded with, trustees of the Dyer County,
Tennessee, McCorkle
Cemetery. Please
note the crafty way in which I here solicit funds for our cemetery from all
whose ancestors lie therein.
CHILDREN
of ALEXANDER McCORKLE &
AGNES Montgomery McCORKLE
Children of Alexander McCorkle,
born circa 1723, emigrant from Northern
Ireland, who died in 1800, and his 1st wife “Nancy” Agnes
Montgomery, who died in
1789…. Each was an emigrant from Northern Ireland, coming over to the
colonies, some records say, on the same ship; and each is buried at
Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rowan County, North Carolina:
-- Alexander
McCorkle’s 2nd wife: After
Agnes “Nancy” Montgomery McCorkle predeceased Alexander McCorkle, he
married Rebecca Brandon (not
the mother of his children); and Alexander died in 1800. –Evidently,
from other sources, not ours in West
Tennessee, Francis McCorkle
may have been a brother to this Alexander. (?) If
so, did brothers, Francis & Alexander, marry Brandon sisters? REBECCA
BRANDON was the 2nd wife of Alexander McCorkle (our ancestor); and in Rowan County, NC, Francis “McCorkel”
married ElizabethBrandon on 12
April 1789, with witnesses Matthew Brandon &
B. Booth Boote. Early
NC Marriage Bonds, 000127335 000887 02-280.
I'm not certain where to place the following entries, notices of deaths
placed in a publication of the Restoration
Movement (Christian
Church). I believe these two people are men, because the "Mrs." title of
respect was added back if the subject was a woman:
"McCorkle,
B Holland's Grove, Illinois
1836
More deaths
reported to the Restoration Movement publication:
1. McCorkle,
Richard Blythe is
brother of Saml. Montgomery McCorkle
(1835); Tazewell county, Illinois. Mar. 20, 1836.
[Sons of Generation II. William McCorkle.]
2. McCorkle, S. M. Springfield, Mo 1841; article in July
1844 issue, no place given.
First son of Alexander & "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery McCorkle:
II.1 Samuel Eusebius McCorkle,
D.D., 23
August 1746-died 21
June 1811. He |
married Margaret Gillespie in 1776.
Born in what was then Harris Ferry, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
on 23 August 1746, Samuel
was educated at a precursor of Princteon College,
and received a Doctor of Divinity
degree (honorary, I think) from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.
–He founded a classics school in Rowan Co., NC, Zion
Parnassus, and
was a founder of
the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. His wife Margaret Gillespie
McCorkle was a daughter of Elizabeth
Maxwell Gillespie Steele, heroine
of the Revolutionary War in North
Carolina. Elizabeth Steele's 1st husband had been killed at Fort Dobbs
during a Cherokee Indian uprising. -- A
2004 article about Samuel Eusebius McCorkle examines his reactions to the Great
Revival: Peter N. Moore; JOURNAL
OF SOUTHERN HISTORY, Vol. 70, 2004,
entitled :Family
Dynamics and the Great Revival: Religious Conversion in the South Carolina
Piedmont .
Also, there’s
a “Steele Creek Presbyterian
Church” in the vicinity of Salisbury, NC.
Early North Carolina Marriage Bonds: Samuel McOrkle [SAMUEL
EUSEBIUS McCORKLE] Elizabeth Gillaspie [Gillespie] Bond
Date: 29 Jun 1776 Bond
Number: 000127350 North
Carolina Marriage Bonds,
1741-1868 Image Number: 002942 Rowan County;
Record Number: 02 281 Witness: Adlai
Osborn . --
Another Rowan County marriage
that may be of interest, but I do not know how, is that of Lewis
McCorkle & Nancy Cowan in
1815. |
II.2 John McCorkle
m. “Katy” Catherine Barr
[ "« John an
elder in the church[121] and member
of the Legislature, useful and much beloved, died in the prime of life leaving
an only son who walked in his father's steps and enjoyed his honors.@ --quoting Elmira Sloan
McCorkle Roache,
John’s niece. –Quaere: Is
son Joel
McCorkleof Rowan County, NC,
in NC legislative records anywhere? did Joel ever stray as far as Bloomington,
Indiana? (I don't think so. Some of Joel's writings are in the Robert/Agnes
McCorkle Ramsay collection of papers at the UNC Archives in Chapel Hill.)]
www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/resources/index/indexm.html
: Is this John a grandfather of
the John
McCorkle of Bloomington, Indiana,
who reported the 1842 death of
his mother, a Mrs. McCorkle, to the Christian Church Restoration Movement
literature? --"McCorkle, Mrs.,
death reported by her son John McCorkle of Bloomington, Ind.
She died Feb. 8, 1842,
in the 75th year of her age, "without a groan or a struggle after an illness of
8 days." -- I really think the John who
reported his mother's 1842 death was a son of Generation II. James McCorkle,
but the dates of the mother's death do not jibe with what someone has placed on www.ancestry.com
- All 3 wives of Generation
II. James McCorkle (brother
of Robert et
al.)
have the 1st name of Elizabeth ["E"]: viz., Elizabeth
Hall, a 2nd Elizabeth Hall, and an Elizabeth Hanna.
II.3. Joseph McCorkle m. “Peggy” Margaret Snoddy
[A «Joseph moved
to Ohio at
an early day B was
a man of ability B but
rather eccentric.”» -- quoting his
niece Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache]
The following is is not my
work but
that of Carol Snoddy Byler..andGerald
K. Byers. Her web
pages are on
the
internet at
http://bellsouthpwp.net/c/s/csbyler/Genealogy/Snoddy/Snoddy.html
csbyler@bellsouth.net See
also: www.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/snoddy2.htm SnoddyFamily
Album Entry …SAMUEL
SNODDY was born circa 1720
possibly in Northern Ireland.
... a few weeks later signing the marriage bond for his sister Margaret
to JosephMcCORKLE. ...—Much Snoddy family
information is posted on the web by byGerald
K. Byers, who wrote the following: |
“On February
11, 1775, Samuel Snoddy was appointed
one of the commissioners to lay off a road from the provincial road at Morrison's Mill [begun
by William Morrison, 1704-1771, near today's Loray in Iredell Co, NC] to the
Lime Kilns on the Catawba River.
On February 21,1775, Samuel's
daughter, Sarah Snoddy (age
22), married Andrew Mitchell in Rowan
County, NC. Sarah took the place
of her sister (Margaret) Snoddy who eloped
with Joseph McCorkle after
a license was issued for Margaret to marry Andrew Mitchell. This was a scandaloushappening
for the strict Presbyterian ideals of 1775.
“[The following is a quote from John Mantle Judah:]
"The well-known story of the elopement and marriage of my grandparents is
that Joseph [McCorkle] was one morning
at work, roofing a house. His father came and said, 'Joe, that old fool Snoddy is
going to marry his girl Margaret[Snoddy]
to so-and-so tomorrow. Maybe you'd better go and see about it.' Whereupon,
Joe hastily clambered down, put on his coat and galloped off several miles to
the Snoddy place. That night after the
stern old father was asleep, Margaret handed
out her bridle and saddle through a window and herself followed. She never
saw her parents again, for old Snoddy never
forgave her, leaving her a shilling* in his will. The story goes on to say that
a younger sister was willing to supply Margaret's place to the bereaved groom
[Andrew Mitchell], so that a wedding took place nevertheless." (Samuel Snoddy's will
actually left his daughter Margaret five shillings, the same amount he left his
other six children.) …
JOHN SNODDY m. AGNES NIBLOCK.
[Marsha Huie adds: Gracie or Gracy Niblock was
a NC Huie cousin
to Julius M. Huie,
who migrated to West Tennessee, son of
Benjamin Huie & Lavinia Cowan Huie. Gracey Niblock in
NC & Julius Huie's daughter Sophronia“Fronie”
Huie Thompson [in West Tennessee]
regularly corresponded: ] [ WALNUT HILL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NEAR LEXINGTON, KY ] In
1778, Samuel Snoddy's son, John Snoddy (age
20) married Agnes Niblock in North Carolina.
Around 1780, John Snoddy migrated to Kentucky and
in June of 1787, John and Agnes were admitted to the Walnut
Hill Presbyterian Church near Lexington, Kentucky (Fayette County).
Agnes died between 1792 and 1795, leaving John with six young children.
He moved to Bourbon County circa 1795and
on February 22, 1796,
John Snoddy married Nancy Neel/McNeel.
He remained there until circa 1829-30 since he was in the 1800 census and land
records show he purchased 133 acres on Rockbridge Creek on April
16, 1803. At this time, he moved to Owen County, Indianaand
bought 60 acres in Wayne township,
near Gosport. [Elmira
Sloan McCorkle Roache, Joseph McCorkle & Margaret Snoddy McCorkle's niece
through her father Robert McCorkle, at one
time lived in or near Gosport, Indiana.
] He (John Snoddy) is listed in the 1830 census and [John Snoddy]
died there on March 22, 1843.
“In Wilkes
County, North Carolina on March
4, 1778, William Snoddy,
Sr. (at age 29) entered 300 acres on the north side of the Yadkin River.
On May 6, 1778, Samuel was appointed a
"justice". "In November 1778, William was a chain-bearer on a survey of
land in Wilkes Countyfor
his brother-in-law, Joseph
McCorkle."
On February 5, 1779, he entered 300
additional acres on Blue Ridge, near
the head of the Buffalo and Elk Rivers.
On May 6, 1779, he was appointed
overseer of a road "from Kerr’s bridge on 3rd Creek through Captain [James?]
Purviance's district, along with Matt Troy,
Joseph Steel and
James Brandon."
“On February
10, 1822 Thomas Snoddy (son
of Samuel) sold 701 acres in NC to ? Alexander for $2100. (This
was part of the state grant to Samuel [Snoddy]
and part of a grant from Earl of
Granville to Andrew Morrison in 1762.)
” [Andrew
Morrison was father of Margaret
Morrison McCorkle, inter alia.] Information
from Heritage Book of Iredell County,
North Carolina - Volume II, page 131. Item #136 – ”
[End of quoted material from Carol Snoddy Byler….]
Another useful web site: McCorkle Marriages
in Ky, NC, & Virginia :
----- Joel McCorkle [son
of the John McCorkle who was a brother of our Robert McCorkle] m./Polly Fauster [Forster?]
[Foster?]
------John
F. McCorkle /
Elizabeth Brown
-----Joseph McCorkle /
Margaret Snoddy. http://www.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lcgs/mcrkmarkyncva.htm |
II.4. Alexander McCorkle II
m. Catherine
“Katy” Morrison
* Aleck was emotional
in character and joined the Methodists
» -- quoting his
niece Elmira.
I think this Alexander McCorkle, a Jr., migrated west first to Giles County then
northward to Henry County, Tenn., in or near Paris, Tennessee.
I think Katy Morrison (McCorkle)
would have been a first cousin-once-removed, that is, a generation removed, to
Margaret Morrison McCorkle
(Mrs. Robert), and a first cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle's father, the
Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan(e). Margaret Morrison McCorkle was
Alexander McCorkle II's sister-in-law. --This Alexander McCorkle II referred to
himself after the death of his father and the birth of his son as "Alexander Snr."
At least one of his letters posted from Giles County, Tennessee, and addressed
back home to NC lies in the Ramsay
Papers in the UNC Archives at Chapel Hill.
III.1 Nancy
McCorkle, b.
circa 1780.
III.2 Mary McC , b. 4th Oct 1781 Rowan
Co, NC; d. 6th June 1783 Rowan Co. (Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery).
III.3. James Morrison McCorkle, b.
24th Seprember 1783.
III.4. Alexander McC, III b.
circa 1789 [note
the 6-year hiatus. (?) ]
III.5. Lewis , b.
circa 1790.
III.6. James H. , b. Abt.
1792.
III.7. John McCorkle , b. circa 1793, Rowan Co,
NC; d. Oct 12, 1813,
Rowan Co.
(Thyatira Cemetery)
III.8. Catherine McC b.
circa 1794.
III.9. Samuel
McCorkle , b. Jan
01, 1795.
II.5. William McCorkle m. 1st “Peggy”
Margaret Blythe, and
2nd “Mattie” [Martha]] King [widow
of John Purviance, Jr., who
was scalped in 1792],
and 3rd in 1800 Jane or Jennie Graham.
This Margaret ‘Peggy’ Blythe was a sister to the first wife of our Robert
McCorkle, who is listed immediately below. Robert
McCorkle first married Elizabeth Blythe (“Lizzie”). [“William,
following Barton Stone, set his negroes free and went to preaching.”—quoting
William’s niece Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache.] William
McCorkle died
in1818 in Rutherford County,
Tennessee; so we know he did not remove to Dyer County, West Tennessee, with his
brother Robert, who died in 1828.
--It may be that some papers of this William McCorkle lie in the archives of UNC
at Chapel Hill; I've not checked yet.
[A Restoration Movement publication reported the following death of interest
here:
McCorkle, Richard Blythe is
brother of Saml. Montgomery McCorkle
(1835); Tazwell County, Illinois, Mar. 20, 1836.]
The modern authority on William McCorkle is James
M. Richmond of Napierville, Illinois,
whose wife is William’s descendant.
William’s children by 1st wife
“Peggy” Margaret Blythe:
III.1. Samuel Montgomery McCorkle,
born circa 1789.
–Is
this the Montgomery McCorkle about
whom Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache writes; Montgomery is
up in Indiana with or near to Elmira, a 1st cousin,
if Elmira’s “Montgomery” is this son of William McCorkle.
III.2. Richard Blythe McCorkle,
born 1786 in Rowan County, N.C.
[A publication of the Restoration Movement reports that Blythe McCorkle died in
1836 on 20th March: "McCorkle,
Richard Blythe is brother of Saml. Montgomery McCorkle
(1835); Tazwell co. Ill. Mar. 20, 1836."
III.3. Asenath McCorkle,
born 27th Oct. 1789.
William’s child by his 2nd wife
“Mattie” Martha King McCorkle:
III.4. Miles McCorkle,
born circa 1796.
Miles McCorkle was a physician in Lebanon,
Wilson County, Middle Tennessee.
William’s children by 3rd wife
Jane “Jennie” Jane Graham, whom he married in Sumner Co, Tenn.,
in 1800:
III.5. John McCorkle,
born circa 1802
--
I do not think this is the “Cousin John McCorkle” about whom Margaret Morrison
writes, saying that he is coming to Dyer County, Tennessee, to make and crop and
will probably take care of Thomas, Jr. ???
I think that "Cousin John" was a son of James McCorkle. If so (Margaret
referred to her brother-in-law James McCorkle's descendants) that gives us a
SLOAN family clue; Margaret Morrison McCorkle's mother was born Elizabeth
SLOAN. That may just mean that Margaret's brother-in-law James McCorkle's
wife Elizabeth Hall whose mother was a Sloan was kin to Margaret Morrison
McCorkle's mother. = Sloan family
clue...
III.6. Amelia McCorkle,
born circa 1805.
III.7. Blanche Locke McCorkle,
born circa 1807.
II.6. Robert McCorkle,
1764-1828 m.
1st Lizzy Elizabeth
Blythe, 2nd Margaret
‘Peggy’ Morrison. Robert
McCorkle was born 29 Oct. 1764 &
died in April, in the spring of 1828.
Parenthetically, 1828 is
the date of the founding of the 1st Presbyterian
Church of Memphis,
where one finds traces of Robt. &
Eliz. Blythe McCorkle’s granddaughter, Martha D. Anderson Leath,
Mrs. James T. Leath.)
Robert McCorkle moved from Rowan Co., NC, to Kentucky. According to his
daughter Elmira, Robert forayed into Kentucky "in
the second company" of white men's
incursion into Kentucky. Carol
Byler writes that Robert
joined Walnut
Hill
Presbyterian Church’s
congregation in1789,
a church also joined
by Robert's brothers Joseph (who
m. Margaret "Peggy" Snoddy)
& William McCorkle.
Our West Tenn. records do not mention Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church.
Then,
Robert moved back down to northern Middle Tennessee (I think); I know he
returned to Rowan Co. to claim and marry his 2nd wife; then
with the 2nd wife removed to the area of Stone’s River, near
or in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; and we
know his brother William went to Stone's River too, in order to take up their
father Alexander McCorkle I ’s Revolutionary War land grant; and finally Robert (but
not William,
who died in 1818) removed farther west to Dyer County,
where he died in 1828. --Again, according to his daughter Elmira, Robert,
who began life in Rowan Co., NC, may not even have lingered in Middle Tennessee
upon leaving Rowan Co., but forayed directly into Kentucky. This latter point is
unclear.
We do know that other
of Robert McCorkle's relatives, circa 1792, removed up to Kentucky from Middle
Tennessee,
from the environs of Lebanon and Gallatin, to escape Indian depredations in
Sumner Co., Tenn. They landed particularly in Bourbon
County (near
Paris), Kentucky;
and that is why they were at Cane
Ridge meeting house in 1801-4,
and attended the birth of the Christian Church / Disciples of Christ/ Church of
Christ / at Cane Ridge, Bourbon County, Kentucky.
Robert had 2 children by his 1st wife
“Lizzie” Elizabeth Blythe, viz., 1. infant
“Aleck” Alexander McC, born and
died circa 1790; and 2. Elizabeth McCorkle (Mrs.
Thomas Anderson),
born 1791. Elizabeth
McCorkle Anderson at death was
living in Lebanon, Wilson Co., Tennessee, I think in the home of her daughter Elizabeth
Anderson McMurry (the daughter
Elizabeth was the wife of a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, John Mitchell McMurry).
I think Thomas Anderson had had a first wife before marrying Elizabeth
McCorkle, daughter of Robert & Lizzie Blythe McCorkle.--Thomas Anderson's mother
was née Mebane,
and there is today a town of Mebane, North Carolina, west of Durham.
Robert’s children by 2nd wife Margaret
“Peggy” Morrison,
a daughter of Elizabeth
Sloan(e) & Andrew Morrison (and
a paternal granddaughter of William
Morrison, 1704-1771, & Margaret (maiden
name unknown) Morrison)
were:
III.3.
Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (Thompson)
born 28th Dec
28 1795 in
Rowan Co., NC & died 1829 in
Middle Tennessee, some 2 years after
the death of her husband Gideon
Thompson. -- Rebecca & Gideon
Thompson left two orphaned daughters, 1st: Jane M.
Thompson (Mrs. Benjamin Williams); Jane M. ThompsonWilliams died in 1850 &
is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery,
Dyer County, Tennessee, as "Jane Williams, consort of Benj. Williams." The 2nd daughter
of Rebecca Cowden McCorkle was Mary
“Polly” Thompson (Mrs. Matthew Dickey).
III.4. Elmira
Sloan(e)
McCorkle
(Roache)
(Mrs. Dr. Stephen Roache),
born 13th Feb. 1797 in
Rowan Co, NC; and died 2nd August 1890,
either in Indianapolis, Marion Co, Indiana,
at the home of her oldest son Justice Addison Locke Roache;
or in the town of California in
the state of Missouri at
the home of a younger son “Quincy” Robert QuincyRoache.
It is mostly to Elmira and the record-keeping of her progeny that we owe this
present collection of old correspondence. [Added
later: "Uncle" Joseph Smith JOE McCorkle of Yorkville and his descendants
retained their McCorkle-Morrison papers, also. We owe much to Uncle Joe's
great-granddaughter Carol
Branz of
Spokane, Washington.]
III.5. Edwin Alexander McCorkle,
born 18th March
1799
in Rowan
County, NC, and died 10th
January 1853 in Dyer
County, Tennessee. Married Jane
Maxwell Thomas of Lebanon,
Wilson County, Tennessee, who died in 1855 in Dyer
County, Tennessee. Edwin is my
great-great grandfather through my father [Howard] Ewing Huie, 1907-1971.
III.6. Jehiel Morrison
McCorkle “JEM,” born 3rd Jan.
1803, buried in the Dyer County, Tenn., McCorkle Cemetery. Born
in Rowan Co., NC, he died in 1849 in Dyer
County, Tennessee. Married
"Betsy" Elizabeth Smith in Rowan
County, NC. Member
of the first Dyer County Court. –I have his children listed elsewhere; and I
note elsewhere Jehiel & Betsy
McCorkle’s loss of at least three sons to the Civil War.
--One
of Jehiel's sister Elmira's grandsons has written in pencil on Elmira's old
records that he believed Betsy Smith (Mrs. Jehiel Morrison McCorkle) was
probably a niece of his father, Dr. Stephen Roache; unfortunately, I do not know
about this, but doubt it ....
Somehow--we don't know how--some of Jehiel Morrison McCorkle's papers have
landed in the University of Tennessee at Martin archives in the late 20th
century, in connection with records of the early
Dyer County court.
He was an early member of the first Dyer County militia. He died in 1849 so we
know this was not Civil War-connected. And evidently Jehiel kept the
minutes for the Dyer County Court, which would have made him today's equivalent,
I guess, of the County Court Clerk; but the truth is hazy. -- Nor do we know how
some of John Edwin McCorkle's papers arrived there.
James "Jimps" Scott, son of James Scott (1777-1853) & Sarah Dickey Scott
(1777-1853) was born, I think, in 1808 or 1809. He died, I think, in 1886,
aged about 76 years--so, I got his dates of living wrong on the new tombstone
(above). Jimps Scott married
Violet Barry Roddy (Scott);
a granddaughter of
Brigadier General Charles Moore of Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Violet's BARRY name comes from an aunt who m. a Barry man. Catherine or KATE
BARRY was a Paul Reviere to the Whigs in her area during the Revolutionary War
and is considered a war heroine.
III.7. Margaret Permelia McCorkle
(Scott) (as
of 1st Jan.
1833: Mrs. Lemuel Locke Scott), b. on
the 14th of June 1805;
d. 19th November 1853,
a few months after the death of her brother Edwin A. McCorkle in January of
1853. Husband Lemuel Locke Scott: 2nd Sept. 1804-17th Sept. 1866. They
lived in Neboville-Yorkville area of Gibson County.
IV.7.1. John A.
Scott b. 3rd November 1833.
IV.7.2. Leander Scott born 3rd July 1835.
--Tuberculosis caused him to move, under doctor's advice, to the mountainous
area of Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, during which time his 1st cousin
John Edwin McCorkle (my great-grandfather) acted as Leander's guardian in West
Tenn. Quaere:
Is Leander Scott buried in Van Buren County, Tennessee?
Two wives: the second was Addie Fernandez (Scott),
who at one point appears in the early membership rolls of Lemalsamac Christian
Church (as Addie Scott). [Wm. AARON Scott
and brother GLENN Smith
Scott of Yorkville-Nebo descend from Leander Scott's son Lemuel Scott who
m. Ella
Bernice Smith (Scott).
Aaron and Glenn Scott's father Lemuel
Scott--a
grandson of Lemuel Locke Scott & Margaret Permelia McCorkle (Scott)--instructed
them never to trust a "Campbellite" [this is kind of a pejorative term for a
member of the Disciples of Christ-Christian Church-Church of Christ] because
his, Lemuel's, uncle Bob--yes, a Campbellite--upon the early demise of Bob's
brother Leander
Scott had
tried to do Leander's heirs out of their rightful inheritance of land. By
now, though, all is forgiven in the interest of family harmony.]
IV.7.3. “Bob”
Robert Quincy Scott , 1837-1907.
Bob Scott was born 18th January 1837; d. Jun
05, 1907;
m. Sallie
Jane Owens on 21st May
1867; and she died 22nd June
1936 in Dyer, Gibson
County, Tennessee.--
I think Bob had a daughter named Elma
Faye Scott,
born 1853 died 1950, aged 97; and a son James
Herbert Scott,
1878-1923, who wrote the weather column for the Memphis newspaper, the
Commercial Appeal. And there was a James
Herbert Scott, Junior,
1914-1928; and a Byron
Estelle Scott, 1906-1946.
This last information about Bob's children comes from Glenn Scott.
IV.7.4. Sallie L.
Scott (Rodgers) ( Locke). Sallie
was born 22nd Feb
22, 1838.
I would hazard a guess that her real Christian name was "Sarah." (?)
In Gibson County,
she married John
A. Rodgers). (Quaere: Did
John A. Rodgers die in the Civil War?)
Then, Sallie L. Scott married again and became Mrs. Richard
W. “Dick” Locke)
She is buried McCorkle Cemetery,
Dyer County, Tennessee, where her
parents Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott & Lemuel Locke Scott are buried.
Although I know Dick Locke served as a trustee for the McCorkle Cemetery, and
although I think Dick Locke's other wife is buried in the Old Yorkville
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, I have not located a tombstone for
Richard W. "Dick" Locke. As he served as a trustee for the McCorkle
Cemetery, he should have a memorial erected there, even at this late date.
IV.7.5. James
J. Scott b. Mar
19, 1840
[presumably named after Lemuel Locke
Scott’s father, James Scott, 1777-1853].
IV.7.6. Margaret
E. Scott, born 18th Dec. 1841.
Presumably named after Margaret Permelia Scott
& her mother Margaret Morrison McCorkle.
IV.7.7. David
E. Scott b. 3rd May 1845.
[Now back to children of Robert & Margaret "Peggy" Morrison McCorkle:]
III.8. Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle [Robert A
H or RAH],
born in Iredell County, NC;
and died in Dyer County, Tennessee.
Married Tirzah Scott. Robert
was born 20th March 1808,
Iredell Co, NC; d. 26th Sept 1873,
Dyer Co, Tennessee. He
and Tirzah Scottmarried
in Gibson County,
Tenn., in 1828.
Children of RAH & Tirzah Scott
McCorkle:
IV.8.1. Sarah Elmira
McCorkle (Algea)
-- I
don't want to write her husband's name because Sarah had to leave separate
herself from him and continue to live, along with her 2 Algea children,
with her father RAH and mother Tirzah Scott McCorkle. --Well, I guess I must: Jonathan Francis
Algea,
M.D. --but according to a letter of his brother-in-law Joe McCorkle, Mr Algea was defrocked from
doctorhood. (Please
see in
these materials the Affidavit of Joseph Smith McCorkle, Sarah's brother,
regarding the shenanigans of Jno. Francis Algea. --Uncle Hiram
McCorkle's antebellum journal entries reveal
close friendship as young men with a "Francis"
who I think was Jno. Francis Algea.)
8.2. Addison Alexander
McCorkle, died young.
His
father wrote about his death, “Addison’s flesh mortified.”
8.3. Susan L.
McCorkle (McNail)
--The last McNail about whom I knew anything was Maurice
M. McNail, who
died in Detroit, Michigan, in--I think--the late 1980s.
8.4. James Scott McCorkle,
M.D., in Newbern, Tenn.; m. Elizabeth Obedience
Clements of
Weakley Co. (Obviously, he was named after his mother Tirzah's father, James
Scott of
Pennsylvania, then York County, South Carolina, then Gibson-Dyer County,
Tennessee (1777-1853).)
8.5. Robert Eusebius
McCorkle, died young; McCorkle Cemetery beside
his parents. Others write his name as
“Robert EDWARD McCorkle” but I’m sticking to Robert EUSEBIUS.
8.6. ?I’m
not sure there was a son born named John McCorkle?
–some records have him, some don’t.
8.7. Joseph Smith
“Joe” McCorkle, died Yorkville, Tennessee;
buried McCorkle Cemetery.
Note the Mormon name. My
father Ewing Huie, 1907-1071, was a pallbearer for his "Uncle Joe McCorkle" who
was in fact a 1st cousin to John E. McCorkle, maternal grandfather of Howard
Ewing Huie.