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Former Chapter Six  More McCorkle Miscellany

Some early Sumner County, Tennessee, Marriage Records:  Robert McCorkle married Lizzie Blythe in Sumner County, Tennessee (Middle Tennessee).  -- Robert McCorkle’s two wives were (1) Elizabeth Blythe; and (2) Margaret “Peggy” Morrison.

Robert McCorkle appears in Presbyterian church congregations in Middle Tennessee and Bourbon County, Kentucky, I think; but I must check this further.

Maxy, Eliza  married McCorckle,  George.  Marriage Date 7 September 1832.  Witness to marriage:  Twopence, William.

--  I would bet this is Eliza or Elizabeth Maxwell.

Maxwell, Peggy, m. Morgan, Joseph --  I’m trying to find the “Jane Maxwell” after whom Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle) was undoubtedly named. Married: 20 September 1793.  Witness:  Morgan, Jeremiah.

McCorckle, William, m. [2^nd wife, the first wife being ‘Peggy’ Margaret Blythe]: Martha King (Purviance), the widow of the John Purviance, Jr., who was scalped in Sumner County, Tenn., causing the Purviance family to move up to Bourbon County, Kentucky, near or in Paris, Ky.  That’s why John Jr.’s brother [Church] “Elder” David  Purviance was at the Cane Ridge Meeting House outside Paris, near Lexington, Kentucky, and helped form the Christian Church/Disciples of Christ/Church of Christ. Some remained up in Ky.; others moved back down to Middle Tennessee.  The John Purviance, Jr., who was scalped in 1792 was a son of Revolutionary War Colonel John Purviance [Senior] and wife Mary Jane Wasson (Purviance).  --  I believe John Sr. & Mary Jane Wasson Purviance are buried in Middle Tennessee, but do not know where, except for the one clue (mentioned elsewhere) about a Mr. Maxwell’s being buried next to a “Mr. Pevines” in a Brown Cemetery. (1) in what used to be Giles County? (2) in Shiloh Presbyterian Church "King Cemetery" near Gallatin? (3) possibly when John Purviance was up in Preble Co., Ohio, at New Paris, when visiting his preacher son?

            The name “Purvaiance” (French) or “Purviance” (anglicized) was usually misspelled, as the following entry shows about the widow of John Purviance who was scalped by hostile indigenous peoples:

Purvoiner, Martha [Mattie King PURVIANCE]  Witness:  ______King; bride was née Martha King.  Martha King (Purviance) married William McCorkle, whose 1^st wife was Margaret “Peggy” Blythe.  And William’s 3^rd wife was Jennie Graham (immediately below).

William McCorckle  [a brother to our Robert; this brother William McCorkle married 2^nd Martha King, the widow of John Purviance, Jr., who had been scalped by hostile Indians in Sumner County, Tennessee (Middle Tennessee).]  William McCorkle married Graham, Jenny as his 3^rd wife.  Let me see if I can rise to the challenge of naming here the 3 wives I know of William McCorkle:  Peggy Blythe (McCorkle); Martha King (Purviance) (McCorkle); and Jenny Graham (McCorkle).]  William McCorkle’s niece, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, wrote this: “William McCorkle and his brother  Robert McCorkle moved to Kentucky in troublous times with Indians.  Then moved from there to Sumner County, Tennessee, and lost their wives.” [The wives whom Elmira mentioned would be William’s 2^nd wife Mattie King Purviance McCorkle; and Robert’s 1^st wife “Lizzie” Elizabeth Blythe McCorkle.].  Elmira also wrote this: “William’s second wife, Mattie King, died on her way home from North Carolina in what was then called wilderness; was buried in a rude grave there.”  [Somewhere else I think I read that Mattie King (Mrs. John Purviance) McCorkle died and is buried in Sumner County, Tennessee.  That may be true, but I’m going with Elmira’s version, and Elmira didn’t say her uncle William’s 2^nd wife died in Sumner County, Tennessee.]

McCorkle, Harriet N. :  Marriage to:  Andrew J. Blakemore --  A daughter of our Robert McCorkle’s brother, Samuel Eusebius McCorkle [& wife Margaret Gillespie McCorkle] of Rowan County, NC, was Harriet McCorkle, who married Amzi McGinn.  I wonder if Harriet McGinn had a 1^st husband named Andrew J. Blakemore; but this is pure speculation.  If this is not Harriet McCorkle McGinn, and it’s more than likely not, I don’t know who this is. 

Thomas Anderson in Sumner Co., Tenn., m. Elizabeth McCorkle (Anderson) and begot at least four children:

(1)  Elizabeth Anderson (Mrs. J. Mitchell McMurry, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister’s wife). Her husband Mitchell McMurry was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister who long preached in McMinnville but retired to and died (in 1875) in Lebanon, Tennessee. At one point her mother, Elizabeth McCorkle Anderson lived with Elizabeth Anderson McMurry in Lebanon.

(2)  Martha Anderson (Mrs. James T. Leath).  Her husband was an attorney and they moved to Memphis in the Western District.  Martha appears on the 1850 census but not on the 1860 one. The 1850 census lists Martha Anderson Leath as “Martha D.” but our records do not include the “D.”

(3)  Robert Anderson  --perhaps an attorney in Lexington and Durant, Mississippi; but our Dyer-Gibson County McCorkle-Huie records do not reveal this.  An old letter from Robert Anderson’s aunt, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach, speculates that Robert Anderson may have removed to Alabama; but Elmira seemed to know in the same letter that Martha Anderson Leath had removed to the Western District of Tennessee; Elmira did not say “Memphis.”

(4)  Julia Anderson--  never married, according to her aunt Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach.

Cumberland Presbyterian Ministers:  , J. M. McMurry of the Presbytery of Lebanon, died 1875.

Where are William Thomas & Elizabeth Purviance Thomas buried?  William Thomas was born 3 Sept 1765 and married Elizabeth Purviance on 19 May 1791.  I think he died 1 April 1833 in Dyer County, Tennessee.  They were parents of Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle, Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle, so her father William Thomas may be buried in the McCorkle Cemetery by her. I just don’t know. Elizabeth Purviance (Thomas) was born 12 May 1765 in Rowan County, NC, and died in Dec. 1849 in, I think, Dyer County, Tennessee.

Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache,

    AVain regrets are bitter food.@ B The Old Set of McCorkle:

  Descendants of the Scots-Irish Immigrants Alexander McCorkle

  and wife Nancy Agness Montgomery McCorkle

Tirzah Scott McCorkle [Mrs. Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle] named one son [James Scott McCorkle] after her father, James Scott, who was born in 1777—I’m not sure where; lived in York District, South Carolina; and removed to the Yorkville-Newbern area of Dyer-Gibson, Tennessee, where he died.  James Scott’s wife was Sarah Dickey (Scott), also born in 1777.  [James Ragon—husband of Natalie Cockroft—has convinced me Sarah Dickey’s mother was Sarah Robinson of South Carolina, not a woman in Rowan County, North Carolina, surnamed Purviance as I had thought because Stuart Hoyle Purvines so conjectured.].  James & Sarah Dickey Scott were pioneer settlers in West Tennessee interred in the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery; but I moved their markers in 1984 to the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County, to escape the then-disrepair and to lie beside one granddaughter, viz., Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie “Sade Huie” (1839-1893) and Sade Huie’s husband, Julius M. Huie.  [Sarah E. Scott Huie was a daughter of James Scott [Junior] and Violet B. Roddy.]  Julius M. Huie & Sarah Scott Huie were parents of four children surviving to adulthood:  (1) Julius Adolphus “Dolph” Huie, father of only one child: Maury Adolphus Huie, 1895-1973; (2) Howard Anderson Huie, 1870-1935, father of my father, Howard EWING Huie (1907-1971); Aunt Bettie Huie Gregory (Mrs. Ed Gregory of Newbern; no issue); and Aunt Phronie Huie Thompson (Sophronia Huie, Mrs. John Will Thompson late in her life; no issue, although John Will Thompson had issue before his marriage to Aunt Phronie Huie).

The following was written for Dr. James Scott McCorkle,[102] frequent mayor of Newbern, Tennessee, by his aunt, Mrs. Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roache, of, to name a few places, Rowan County, NC; Stone=s River, Tennesse; Bradley=s Creek, Tenn., AVerdant Plain@ in Dyer County, Tenn.; Gosport and other communities of Indiana; and, by the time of writing this letter, of the town of California, Missouri, where her son Quincy {Robert Quincy Roache} had become president of Moniteau [County] Bank.

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Our ancestors were originally from Scotland but immigrated to Ireland during some national trouble.  From thence they came to America[103] and settled in Pennsylvania where Harrisburg now stands, Lancaster County.  From there my grandfather [Alexander McCorkle] moved to Rowan County, North Carolina.  His wife was Nancy alias Agnes Montgomery. [104]

Alexander McCorkle raised ten children B seven sons and three daughters. 

Sons B Samuel McCorkle,[105] John McCorkle;  Joseph McCorkle, Alexander McCorkle [Jr.], William McCorkle, Robert McCorkle,[106] James McCorkle.

Daughters B Mattie McCorkle Archibald, Elizabeth McCorkle Barr, and Nancy McCorkle Ramsey.  Mattie married William Archibald; Elizabeth married William Barr; and Nancy, Robert Ramsey.

Samuel [Eusebius McCorkle, Princeton College; Dickinson College: Doctor of Divinity, Presbyterian minister mostly living, and dying, in Rowan County, NC, buried in Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery] married Margaret Gillespie.[107]  John married Katy Barr; Joseph, Peggy Snoddy;  Aleck married Katy Morrison [a sister to Robert McCorkle’s 2^nd wife, Margaret Morrison?]; William, Peggy Blythe [a sister to Robert McCorkle’s 1^st wife Elizabeth Blythe?]; Robert, Lizzie Blythe [Elizabeth Blythe was Robert’s first wife, and was probably a sister to William McCorkle’s 1^st wife Peggy Blythe]; James, Lizzie Hall.

The three last [William, Robert, James] lost their wives and married again.  William and James married three times.  William=s second wife, Mattie King, died on her way home from North Carolina in what was then called wilderness; was buried in a rude grave there.   ...

William McCorkle and his brother  Robert McCorkle moved to Kentucky in troublous times with Indians.  Then moved from there to Sumner County, Tennessee, and lost their wives.   Robert McCorkle, who was my father,  returned to North Carolina and married [Margaret] Peggy Morrison who was my mother.[108]

Robert and Peggy Morrison, my parents,  had seven children:  Rebecca Cowden McCorkle [Thompson], Elmira Sloane McCorkle [Roach], Edwin Archibald McCorkle, Jehiel Morrison McCorkle, Nancy Melinda McCorkle (she was between Edwin and Jehiel), Peggy Pamela McCorkle and Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle.  My father had two children by his first wife:  Alex who died in infancy and Elizabeth McCorkle who was raised by her grandmother Blythe.  She [Elizabeth McCorkle] married Thomas Anderson in Sumner County, Tennessee, and raised four children:  Lizzy Anderson [McMurray], Martha Anderson, Julia Anderson and Robert Anderson.  Lizzy Anderson married Mr. McMurray; Martha, Mr. Leath? [ Leigh? Leith? Keigh?] Julia never married.  She and Martha are dead.  Lizzy Anderson lives at Lebanon, Tennessee, Robert Anderson in Alabama (I think).

A part of Rowan County, North Carolina, was stricken off and a new county made called Iredell.[109]  In that my father [Robert McCorkle] settled on the Yadkin River and lived there until  1808 [?]. [110]   He then pulled up stakes and moved to Rutherford County, Tennessee, settled on Stones River, lived there until 1817.  There my sister Rebecca [Cowden McCorkle Thompson] and I both married.[111]

That same year [1817] we all moved about 8 miles on to Bradley=s creek and lived there until =27.[112]  There my sister Rebecca [Rebecca Cowden McCorkle Thompson] was left a widow, went home to my father=s and in two short years died leaving two little orphans [Jane Thompson (Williams) and Polly Thompson (Dickey)] who were kindly cared for by their uncles Edwin Alexander McCorkle [and wife Jane Maxwell Thomas] and Robert [Andrew Hope McCorkle and wife Tirzah Scott].

It is a great pity we did not have our mother [Margaret “Peggy” Morrison McCorkle] write a history.  She knew so much and could write so well that I feel it a great misfortune that we did not avail ourselves of her knowledge.  It would be an inestimable treasure to her posterity.  Had I been with her in her old days I might have gathered a mine of knowledge that would be invaluable to us all.[113] 

We can only regret the lost opportunity, and vain regrets are bitter food.  I think your sister Sarah [McCorkle Algea] has Harriet [McCorkle] McGinn=s[114] family record.  I have it and will send it if she has not.  She knew more about the old set than I do.

They were strict Presbyterians, Uncle Samuel[115] a minister, John an elder in the church[116] 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.  Joseph moved to Ohio at an early day B was a man of ability B but rather eccentric.[117]  Aleck was emotional in character and joined the Methodists.  William, following Barton Stone,[118] set his negroes free and went to preaching.

James McCorkle was the last [of the children of Alexander and Nancy Montgomery McCorkle] to pass away.  He died at Frankfort, Boone County, Indiana where some of his children still live.[119]  His youngest son William McCorkle  is a Presbyterian minister.

Mother=s name you know was Morrison.  They were strict Presbyterians and came over the same time my father did and settled in Iredell County, North Carolina.  Grandpa=s name was Andrew Morrison, grandmother=s was Elizabeth Sloane.  Her mother was a sister to grandfather [Alexander] McCorkle.  My father and mother were second cousins.[120]  Grandfather Morrison raised 7 children.

/s/ Elmira Sloan Roach

J.S. McCorkle

The above letter from Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach to James Scott McCorkle was copied November 26, 1899, by Katie Pearl McCorkle, daughter of John Edwin McCorkle who was a first cousin to Dr. James S. McCorkle. Then a grand-niece of Katie Pearl McCorkle, Iris Rebecca (Becky) Huie (Cornelius) of North Haven, Ct., typed this letter in 2000.  Then footnotes were added in 2003 by Marsha Cope Huie, another grand-niece of Katie Pearl McCorkle (Mrs. Ed Lee Fox) of Newbern, Dyer County, Tennessee.

I.Alexander McCorkle married Nancy Agness Montgomery [They are buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rowan County, N.C.  She predeceased him; he then married Rebecca Brandon (not the mother of his children); and he died in 1800.

II.1  Samuel   Eusebius McCorkle, D.D.              m        Margaret Gillespie  educated Princteon College; received Doctor of Divinity degree from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. --  He was a founder of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.

II.2  John                    m        Katy Barr

[AJohn 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.@]

II.3.  Joseph              m        Peggy Snoddy                              

[AJoseph moved to Ohio at an early day B was a man of ability B but rather eccentric.@]

II.4.  Alexander         m        Katy Morrison

 [AAleck was emotional in character and joined the Methodists@]

II.5.  William               m         “Peggy” Margaret Blythe, 1^st  B “Mattie” [Martha?] King, 2^nd  and Jennie Graham ---- 3^rd wife.   --  I presume this Margaret Peggy Blythe was a sister to the first wife of our Robert McCorkle, immediately below, who m. 1^st Elizabeth Blythe (“Lizzie”).

[AWilliam, following Barton Stone, set his negroes free and went to preaching@]

*   II.6..  Robert                m        Lizzy Blythe, 1^st  B Margaret Peggy Morrison, 2^nd.

[Moved to Stone=s River, Tennessee, area, then Dyer County.]

      II.6.  James                m         Lizzy Hall, 1^st;   

James married 3 times. [AJames was the last to pass away.  He died at Frankfort, Boone County, Indiana, where some of his children still live.  His youngest son William McCorkle is a Presbyterian minister.@]

      II.7.  Mattie                 m        William Archibald

      II.8.  Elizabeth                       m        William Barr

     II. 9..  Nancy               m        Robert Ramsey  --  See their correspondence in the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, archives ! ! !

Now, to our ancestor Robert McCorkle:

      2.  Robert McCorkle   m         Lizzie Blythe (his 1st wife)

3.  Alex died in infancy

3.  Elizabeth McCorkle         m        Thomas Anderson.  They married in Sumner County, Tennessee.

     4.  Elizabeth   Anderson             m  Rev. J. Mitchell McMurry; a Cumberland Presbyterian minister who long preached in McMinnville, Tennessee, they retired back to Lebanon, Tennessee.

     4.  Martha Anderson                   m         Leith  --  [Was this James T. Leath, attorney?]  and they removed to Memphis in the newly opened Western District.

                  4.  Julia Anderson,   never married

     4.  Robert Anderson  -- --  may have moved to Alabama  --  [Was he  an attorney who removed to Durant and Lexington, Mississippi?]

      2.  Robert McCorkle  m  Margaret Peggy Morrison (his 2^nd wife) Each born or at least at one time lived in Rowan/Iredell County, North Carolina. Then moved to the Murfreesboro area; what that Rev. War land grant was lost in a land title dispute, the removed to Dyer County, Tennessee, to claim a land grant substituted in lieu of the lost land.

Children of Robert McCorkle and his 2^nd wife Margaret Peggy Morrison McCorkle are listed immediately below:

III.1.  Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (Thompson)      m     Gideon  Thompson [left small children upon their early deaths in Middle Tennessee, within 2 years of each other, dying before the McCorkle family removed to West Tennessee; Gideon Thompson predeceased Rebecca.]

 IV.1.  Jane M.  Thompson (Williams)   m     Ben Williams

            IV.2.  Polly (Mary?) Thompson (Dickey)      m     Matthew Dickey

III.2.  Elmira Sloane  McCorkle, m  in 1816 in Middle Tenn: Dr. Stephen Roach

     4.  Addison Locke Roache, Sr.                           m     Emily Weddings.  Lawyer then Indiana Supreme Court judge in Indianapolis. Then president of the Indiana lines of the Illinois Central Railroad.

     4.  Robert Quincy Roache               m     Rebecca and then Isabel Sunderland.  Ran a store in Newbern, Tenn., for awhile.  He graduated from the University of Indiana at Bloomington and became president Moniteau [County] Bank, City of California, Missouri.

     4.  Howard Harris Roache              m     Mortally wounded and fell at Shiloh, buried by his uncle RAH McCorkle in Dyer County, Tenn.

     4.  Many other children who did not survive to adulthood

             III.3.  Edwin Alexander McCorkle       m     Jane Maxwell Thomas, a daughter of Elizabeth Purviance & William Thomas. Or was his middle name “Archibald?”  Edwin’s paternal aunt was mattie McCorkle (Mrs. William ARCHIBALD).

     4.  Hiram Robert A. McCorkle, Newbern diarist of 19^th century, m. Margaret Cowan, mother of all but one of his children, the first being Winfield Purviance McCorkle who moved up to teach school in Eminence, Kentucky, & married Mary King of Eminence;  then Hiram McCorkle m. Janette Menzies, mother of the Ed McCorkle who m. Dona McCutchen.  --  I thought the “A” stood for Alexander but have read that it stood for “Archibald.”  Also, that may be true about HRA’s father Edwin A. McCorkle. I’ve long assumed the “A” stood for “Alexander” but it may stand for “”Archibald.”

     4.  David Purviance McCorkle, moved to Obion County

    4.  John Edwin McCorkle    m (1^st) Tennie Scott, (2^nd Mary Elizabeth Cotton). Newbern, Tennessee, area.  Tennessee Alice Edwards Scott was a daughter of Willam Scott & Nancy Edwards Wellborn; her father moved to Salisbury/Grand Junction, Tenn., in Hardeman County.  Her father’s –William Scott’s -- parents were James Scott, born 1777, and Sarah Dickey Scott, also born 1777; who moved from York District, SC, to the Yorkville, Tenn., area.  That made Sarah Elisabeth Scott Huie & Tennie Scott McCorkle 1^st cousins.

    4.  Finis A. McCorkle, twin to Latina Gregory), Newbern area, m. 1^st Josephine Jackson (mother of all but one of his children: viz., Gentry Purviance McCorkle, who moved to California; Homer McCorkle, who moved to Center Point, Texas, then moved to California; Jennie McCorkle who m. Dr. E.E. Carter & moved to Arkansas; ; then 2^nd Finis A. McCorkle married Mag Gossum, mother of only one child: Maida McCorkle (Mrs. Howell Montgomery), and Maida had only one child, a daughter Margaret Mongtomer, a librarian who lived in Calif. & never married.

4.  Anderson Jehiel McCorkle, Newbern area.  AJ’s uncle Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle wrote in 1853 about this nephew, ‘Anderson is an uncommon good man.”   --  Anderson Jehiel McCorkle married Martha E Scott a Scott sister to Sarah Elizabeth Scott (Mrs. Julius M. Huie).  Upon the Scott-McCorkle wife’s death, her brother-in-law Trimble [who had married another Scott sister] lived with Anderson McCorkle; and Anderson raised Bettie Trimble Hundley’s two sons:  Elmo Hundley “Boss” who had one daughter Bettie Hundley, who graduated in chemistry from Duke University circa 1960, moved from Yorkville to Houston where she was a chemist for Shell Oil,  and never married; and Bryan Hundley who m. Ben Anna Spence and lived in Yorkville and  whose children were Janie Hundley Hall (Mrs. Ralph Hall); Buena V. Hundley Sims of Gibson County; and Leah Bryan Hundley (married name not known to me) of Nashville.

4.  Lizzie McCorkle Reeves, lived Gadsden near Humboldt, Gibson County

4.  “Tina” Margaret Latina McCorkle Gregory (twin to Finis A. McCorkle), Newbern area

4.  “Becky” Rebecca McCorkle Zarecor, Newbern area.   I recently found a Zarecor cemetery in Middle Tenn. (Sumner County), so presume the McCorkles and Zarecors were early on together in Sumner County.

III.4.  Jehiel Morrison McCorkle   m      E S  [Elizabeth “Betsy” Smith].

                        I think that Jehiel sometimes called himself Jem and may even be buried as “Jem McCorkle” in the McCorkle Cemetery east of Newbern, Dyer County, Tennessee.  Jehiel & Betsy McCorkle lost at least three sons in the Civil War:  Locke McCorkle (Battle of Atlanta) & “Clay” Henry Clay McCorkle, Brice’s Crossroads Cemetery, Mississippi. They lost a third son Ed J. McCorkle, I think, but I’m not certain about the 3^rd son.

             III.5. [Margaret Permelia] “Peggy Pamelia” or Pamela McCorkle (Scott)   [alias Permelia McCorkle]  [alias] Peggy Pamela McCorkle   m  Lemuel Locke Scott.

I think they moved to Nebo, south of Yorkville.  Lemuel Scott was a son of James Scott, born 1777, and wife Sarah Dickey, also born in 1777; James & Sarah Dickey Scott lived at one time in York District, South Carolina, then moved to the Yorkville-Newbern area, where they died and were interred in the Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery (marker preserved since 1984 in McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County).

     III.6. Robert Andrew  Hope McCorkle          m      Tirzah Scott, a daughter of James Scott, born 1777, and wife Sarah Dickey, also born in 1777; James & Sarah Dickey Scott lived at one time in York District, South Carolina, then moved to the Yorkville-Newbern area, where they died and were interred in the Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery (marker preserved by removal in 1984 to the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County).  Tirzah was a sister to the Lemuel Scott, immediately above, who married Margaret Permelia McCorkle.

For a time RAH McCorkle joined the Mormon church, but records indicate that he abjured Mormonism. Annie Maude Scott Brown, of Guntown, Miss., then Henderson, Tennessee, a daughter of Horace Scott (who was a son of James Scott & Violet B. Roddy (Scott) ) had possession circa 1990 of Robert A H McCorkle’s Mormon notebooks, which I read.

                The following note is added from Marsha Huie’s memory in September 2003 and should be checked for accuracy against the written records:  Since TIRZAH SCOTT was a daughter of our James Scott, born 1777, living at least for awhile in York District, South Carolina, who married Sarah Dickey, also born 1777:  that makes Tirzah Scott McCorkle a sibling, inter alia, of our “JIMPSE” James Scott who married Viola or Violet B. Roddy and who begot, inter alia, Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie (“Sade,” Mrs. Julius M. Huie); and Sade’s twin James Allen Scott who m. Jennie Miller & moved to Cleburne, Texas near Fort Worth;  and Allen or Allan or Alan “Tobe” Scott; and Church of Christ minister Thomas Elihu Scott; and Margaret Scott (Mrs. Anderson Jehiel McCorkle).  Did I omit someone here?  --  After all this research, I’m 100% certain that “JIMPSE” James Scott and wife Violet B. Roddy Scott are buried, with infant William Scott, in the old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery.  We should restore their grave markers. Her [Violet B. Roddy Scott, or Viola B. Roddy Scott] name is missing from grave stone, but the dates match exactly.

David Purviance McCorkle, born 19 May 1830; died 6 May 1884. (Above)  Son of  Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane Maxwell Thomas.

Married 1857 (1) NO. HER NAME WAS MARARET SCOTT and she was a sister to Mrs. Julius M. Huie (Sarah Elizabeth “Sade” Scott”   Martha L.? Margaret? Scott, born 15 JULY 1841 & died 15 Dec. 1862;   (2nd) Elizabeth Anne Jackson, who was born 17 Sept 1838 and died 15 Dec. 1915.   One of the old letters typed above says, “David’s Marg. is gone.”

Children by 1^st wife M. Scott  --Was M. Scott a daughter of Violet or Viola B. Roddy & husband James Scott, Jr., James Scott Jr. being a son of James Scott, born 1777, & wife Sarah Dickey Scott, also born 1777, who removed from York District, SC, to Yorkville, Tennessee, area?

I found the following on www.ancestry.com but am unsure of accuracy.  Aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle Fox’s records, which we have, will accurately list the children of her uncle David Purvianca McCorkle. In the meantime, this is on ancestry.com:

H1            Violet Jane McCorkle, born 23 Sept. 1858 in Dyer County, Tennessee;

H2            James William McCorkle, b. 15 September 1859 in Dyer County;

H3            Margaret Viola McCorkle, born May 1862 [Civil War]  --  Did her mother die in childbirth? --  No, she died on 15^th December 1862.

Married (2^nd) Elizabeth Anne Jackson, born: 17 Sep 1838 in Obion County, Tennessee; died: 15 Dec 1915 in Obion County, Tennessee.  Married in 1864 [during the Civil War].  – Was Elizabeth Anne Jackson a sister to the 1^st Mrs. Finis A. McCorkle? Did brothers marry sisters?

H4         Gillum A McCorkle , 15 Jul 1865,  Dyer County, Tennessee    -- David Purviance McCorkle’s brother Hiram R. A. McCorkle named a son Tolbert, also; and D.P.’s brother Finis named a son Gillum, also.

H5            Florence Ellen McCorkle 4 May 1867 Dyer County, Tennessee 

H6         David Edwin McCorkle 15 Feb 1870 in Mt Moriah, Obion County, Tennessee

H7         John A McCorkle 16 Jan 1872 in Obion County, Tennessee

H8         Tolbert Fanning McCorkle 20 Apr 1874 in Obion Co., Tennessee

H9         Susan Emma McCorkle 30 Nov 1876 in Obion Co., Tennessee

Gillespie Excursus 

         Our ancestor, Robert McCorkle of Rowan County, North Carolina, had a brother there named Samuel Eusebius McCorkle. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle married Margaret Gillespie.  (I think she was a widow Gillespie, but must check that.) I note that the following Gillespie people in Rowan County, NC, ended up in many of the same places our Robert McCorkle people did, e.g., Revolutionary War landgrants made in Tennessee on the waters of the Duck River; and residence in Sumner County (Middle Tennessee).

From <[email protected]> 19 July, 1998. From: Larry & Barb Thomas   To: "David W. Morgan"

Subject: Family of Thomas Gillespie

         This Thomas Gillespie, born 1718, died 1796 in Rowan County, NC; his wife was Naomi Thompson. This Thomas Gillespie is buried in our family’s Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, where Samuel Eusebius McCorkle long preached; so I presume he was kin to the wife of Samuel Eusebius McCorkle. He, too, served in the Revolutionary War, as did our ancestor Alexander McCorkle (died 1800, buried Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery). In 1777 (6 August) he was appointed Sessor in Capt. William Armstrong's Company.

         In 1744 he received a land grant from the Earl of Granville for l acreage on Back Creek/Second Creek in Rowan County; and in 1751 received land in Anson County (Second Creek).  A son-in-law was Thomas Allison.--  A grandson, Thomas G. Allison, Jr., inherited (1796) some 166 acres on Duck River [that would be Tennessee].  

         “4.  ISAAC 2 GILLESPIE (THOMAS 1) was born March 28, 1750 in Rowan Co., NC,

and died December 24, 1826 in Williamson Co., TN.  He married MARY ANNE MCGUIRE April 12, 1791 in Rowan Co., NC, daughter of JOHN MCGUIRE and MARY

BRANDON.”  -- Well, our ancestor Alexander McCorkle [father of Robert McCorkle] married as his 2nd wife Rebecca BRANDON. Alexander died in 1800 and is buried at Thyatira beside his 1st wife and mother of his children, Nancy Agness Montgomery McCorkle [also an emigrant from Northern Ireland] and 2nd wife Rebecca Brandon.

         An ISAAC GILLESPIE of this bunch also served in the Revolutionary War in NC and is thought to be buried in Sumner County, Tennessee in the old Ezell graveyard. In 1796 he received 748 acres on the Duck River [Tennessee] from his father. Then he moved to Williamson County, Tennessee --  or was Sumner County subdivided so that part of it became Williamson County?   

         Also, a MARY "POLLY" B. GILLESPIE (Reynolds), b. January 26, 1794, Rowan Co., NC; died March 13, 1860, Williamson Co., Tennessee; married REUBEN REYNOLDS, July 22, 1816, Williamson Co., Tennessee. Burial: Steele Cemetery, Flat Creek, Williamson Co., Tennessee-- Well, our McCorkle ancestors were somehow mixed up with a Steele family.

         GEORGE GILLESPIE, SR. (son of Thomas Gillespie) was born July 22, 1751, near Salisbury, Anson County [later Rowan County], NC, and died 1818 in Sumner Co., Tenn. He married (1st) MARY GRAHAM April 18, 1771 in Rowan Co., NC, daughter of RICHARD GRAHAM and AGNES. He married (2nd) MARY on January 01, 1818, in Sumner Co., Tenn. He was in the NC Revolutionary War under Gen. Nathaniel Green; he fought in battle of Guilford Court House and King’s Mountain (SC), as did some of our McCorkle-Purviance-Thomas people. He was buried 1818 in Old Hopewelll Church Cemetery near Gallatin-Bethpage, Sumner County, Tennessee. His wife was buried there in 1815.

         --Well, our Alexander & Nancy Montgomery McCorkle’s son William McCorkle married: 1st Blythe; 2nd Martha King, the widow of John Purviance, Jr.; and 3rd GRAHAM.  It’s clear to me that the movements of some of these Gillespie people paralled those of our McCorkle ancestors.

I do not know if the ff. Thomas Gillespie fits anywhere in the family of the descendants of Samuel Eusebius McCorkle:  “The Rev. Dr. Thomas Gillespie served Princeton Theological Seminary as president and professor of New Testament from 1983-2004. During his presidency, Princeton Seminary established the Center of Theological Inquiry, the Center of Barth Studies, and the Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology. Prior to his ministry at Princeton, Gillespie served as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Garden Grove, Calif., from 1954-66 and as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Burlingame, Calif., from 1966-83. He was adjunct professor at San Francisco Theological Seminary from 1972-73 and at Fuller Theological Seminary from 1973-78. He served on the Committee on Theological Education, and presently serves on the General Assembly Council. Gillespie received his B.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary and Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School, as well as several honorary doctorates. He is the author of The First Theologians: A Study in Early Christian Prophecy (Eerdmans, 1994).”

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