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The 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.

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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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The true addict who enjoys footnotes (like me) should click below for: Old, superseded version of "Old McCorkle Letters."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:

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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)

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"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
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.

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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.

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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, Dyer County, Tennessee, east of Newbern and west of Yorkville. Who lies therein? according to Joyce Cope Huie, 1915-2019, and her daughter Marsha...

McCORKLE CEMETERY on M^cCorkle 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.

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Some MONTGOMERY-FINLEY McCorkle Pennsylvania Musings

Click here for:  Some Freed-Men & Freed-Women connected to the McCorkle - Scott- Huie families

John Conwell  alias John Conwill, Civil War veteran from Bibb Co., Alabama. Not kin to me, but paternal great-grandfather of my husband Ralph Ervin Williamson

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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.

    "PLC" Parker Louis Cashdollar __x__, living child born 14th April 2006 to my niece Jessica Huie Cashdollar, as infant:

Ellie

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.

HAYNES-MORRISON  This is a link to HAYNES information I found on the Web and did not write AT ALL.  Please recall: HAYNES-MORRISON. Two Morrison brothers, William Hays Morrison and Andrew Sloan Morrison, married two HAYNES sisters.

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.

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

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).

Click below for:

Letter 01 John Edwin McCorkle to Mary Elizabeth Cotton 1880

Letter 02

Letter 03

Letter 04

Letter 05

Letter 06

Letter 07

Letter 08

Letter 09

Letter 10

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

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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.

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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 1^st 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 14^th 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 26^th [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.  

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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.

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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 18^th  of March 1799 and died in Dyer County, Tennessee, on the 10^th 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.

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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 M^cCORKLE.

            “ 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

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The Dyersburg, Tennessee, State Gazette - July, 1907 reprints Hiram R. A. McCorkle's obituary from the Newbern Tennessean:

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’ 1^st 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 1^st cousin, my father's maternal uncle Errett Cotton McCorkle, 1888-1976.

Casey McCorkle’s 1^st wife was Floy Disney (mother of Carter McCorkle, male; and of Lynn McCorkle, female) and his 2^nd wife was  Lois Miller. His children: Carter McCorkle, son; Lynn McCorkle, daughter; and Kathleen McCorkleBrudno.

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 18^th 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