Edwin Alexander McCorkle, 1799-1853, & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle, died
1855.
Generation
I. The immigrants to America, Alexander McCorkle & “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle.
Generation II. Robert McCorkle &
Margaret Morrison McCorkle.
Generation
III. Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane Maxwell
Thomas McCorkle.
Generation IV. Hiram R. A. McCorkle
& Margaret Cowan McCorkle.
Now
to McCorkle Generation V: Winfield Purviance McCorkle:]
Note: Just before
going to “press” (placing this on my web site) I found reference from Dyer
County researcher Sam Alsup to an 1850 census that
seems to list as Hiram & Margaret Cowan McCorkle’s 1st
child an O.F. McCorklle. Assuming the census taker was correct and
such a child was born to their union, evidently the child did not live, for
none of us has ever heard of it.
<HRA1: Winfield
Purviance McCorkle who m. Mary
“Mamie” King (McCorkle) of Eminence, Kentucky, where he
had moved to teach school; Mamie King McCorkle was a daughter of Gideon King &
Sophia Woodruff (King) of Eminence, Henry County, Kentucky.
Gideon King was a Cotton 1st cousin to the 2nd wife of
John Edwin McCorkle of Newbern: that is to say, Gideon King was a 1st
cousin to Mary Elizabeth Cotton (McCorkle) of Botland
near Bardstown, Kentucky. Mary
Elizabeth Cotton (McCorkle)’s father was John Cotton and her mother was Juliet Tong (Cotton). This John Cotton was a brother to
Mrs. Mountjoy King, the Cotton-born mother of Gideon
King, Gideon being the father of Mrs. Winfield Purviance
McCorkle (Mary King). Grandma Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle’s father, John
Cotton’s father, was Henry Cotton. There are Crumes
buried in the old cemetery in which John Cotton lies (father of Mary Elizabeth
Cotton McCorkle).
For
example, John W. Crume married Elizabeth
Cotton (Crume), a daughter of Henry Cotton and Mary Harrell on 26 Mar 1811 in Nelson County, Kentucky. Elizabeth Cotton (Crume)
was born on 20 Mar 1789 in Nelson County, Kentucky, and died on 11 Sep 1823 in
Nelson County, Kentucky, and is buried in Poplar Flat Cemetery, Nelson County,
Kentucky.
In 2003 we placed a new grave marker for
John Cotton at Botland, Kentucky, near Bardstown,
in what has become now a Baptist church cemetery; astoundingly, an interstate
highway now runs closeby. John Cotton died in Ky. in either 1852 or 1853 and left a widow, Juliet Tong
Cotton, who died in Dyer County where her daughter Mary E. Cotton McCorkle
lived. -- Winfield Purviance McCorkle
moved from Dyer County, Tennessee [where he resided at his father Hiram R. A.
McCorkle’s in the 1870 census], up to Eminence,
Henry County, Kentucky. Uncle Hiram’s journal records during the Civil
War that little Winfield cried when the Federals stole his horse. Census
records show this:
Winfield
Purviance Mccorkle, born
about 1851, was living in 1870 in District 9 of Dyer County, Tenn. He
moved to Eminence and in the 1910 census is shown as living in Eminence, Henry
County, Kentucky. The 1920 census lists him as still living in Eminence.
A granddaughter living
today, in 2006, of Graham King McCorkle (Winfield Purviance
McCorkle’s son and Uncle HRA McCorkle’s grandson) lives in the Indianapolis area. She is the daughter of Jean and her name is FRAN SEYER.
Gideon King Excursus: Children
of Gideon & Sophia Woodruff King [parents of Mrs.
Winfield Purviance McCorkle]:
One.
Allie King Haymaker. Allie F.
King (Haymaker) was a sister of Winfield Purviance
McCorkle’s wife (the wife was née Mary P. King [McCorkle]). Allie F.
King became Mrs. Jesse Newton Haymaker,
later of Wichita, Kan.. Allie F. King Haymaker was born ca. 1860, a dau of Gideon King & Sophia Woodruff King. Allie
F. King [Haymaker] appears as 1 year old in the 1860 census of Eminence, Ky. Other children of Gideon & Sophie W. King listed
are [Two:] “Mamie” Mary P., aged 3, daughter [later, Mrs.
Winfield Purviance McCorkle]; and [Three:] James
P. King, aged 12. Also listed is [Four:] Almedia
S. King, female aged 28.
Gideon
King is listed in 1860 as being 42, his wife Sophia Woodruff King as 34.
The daughter of Gideon King named Allie
King, who m. Jesse Newton Haymaker, married a Christian
missionary and moved to Wichita, Kansas. -- Grandma Mary Elizabeth Cotton was out in Kansas visiting the Haymakers when Mr. Shumate “broke the
bank” in Newbern, of which Grandpa John Edwin McCorkle was a director; and
Grandma had to come home to West
Tennessee. Back then, bank directors had to make good
the investors’ losses from their personal funds. -- Jesse Newton Haymaker as a missionary moved through Ellis Island circa 1900, traversing the ocean to France and England. One son, Henley
Haymaker’s, name is on a building at Kansas State University in Manhattan. [The daughter of Gideon & Sophie Woodruff King
who m. Winfield Purviance McCorkle was “Mamie” Mary
King. ] Herbert Henley Haymaker
was born 28 Nov. 1892. –I think a
Pat Floersch
is a Haymaker descendant.
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Margaret Gooch, Ph.D., of Tufts University (retiring in the fall of 2006) sent
me the following information in March of 2006:
Allie May McCorkle [McDiarmid] b. May 3, 1877.
Her sister, Bertha McCorkle, was born Dec. 6, 1878 and died sometime after 1937.
Florence Woodruff McCorkle b. Oct. 20, 1883 -- died aged about
21. Margaret Gooch of today has transcribed her Eminence, Ky, personal
journals. It is tragic that Florence died so young, as her life was just
blooming.
Graham
King McCorkle b. Jan 5 (?) 1887
Mary Foster
Haymaker b. Dec.
19, 1858
Herbert
Henley Haymaker, b. Nov. 28, 1892
“These are
from a page my father [Cowen Gooch]
wrote out and left with other genealogical info in Gideon King’s Bible.
“I found a
newspaper clipping reporting Florence McCorkle’s death that said she was about
21 when she died of a sudden illness. I know that Bertha lived some
length of time beyond 1937, when I was born, but I don’t know how many
years. Since she was largely or wholly deaf, she would not have been a
music teacher, so probably that info applies to Allie May rather than to
her. I never heard her referred to as Bertie, but that could have been
her nickname growing up. Also, I have a paperweight showing the name
Allie Mae McCorkle, but otherwise, I never saw my grandmother’s name written other
than as Allie May. (Hope this is helpful, at whatever point you may be
making adjustments.)
“,,,[Please]
mention our mother Florence’s trip to Washington D.C. to be recognized for her Wednesdays
in Mississippi involvement by the Children’s Defense Fund (just a few years
back)…. “ --Florence McDiarmid Gooch, long living in Jackson,
Mississippi, received an award from Marian Wright Edelman of the Children’s
Defense Fund for her work towards interracial understanding in the early civil
rights movement. Story typed and
appended to this document.
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Below are the children
of Winfield Purviance McCorkle & Mary King
McCorkle as listed on the 1900 census for Eminence, Henry
County, Kentucky, with my additions:
Allie May McCorkle (McDiarmid), born circa 1877, aged 23, music teacher; she
was to m. Errett Weir McDiarmid.
Allie Mae McCorkle was a college graduate. Was her college Hamilton College which merged into Transylvania College, now Transylvania University? The Christian Church lists him amongst its “Heroes
of the Faith.”
The 2nd of the two
daughters of W.P. McCorkle & Mary King McCorkle was Allie May
McCorkle who married Errett Weir McDiarmid,
who taught at Hamilton College; then for a time at Texas Christian University, where he was sent for dryer air
(tuberculosis). Allie May McCorkle McDiarmid
lived at the end in Jackson, Mississippi, and upon the death of her husband switched from
membership in the Disciples of Christ-Christian Church to Christian Science. Errett W. McDiarmid & Allie
May McCorkle McDiarmid are listed in the 1930 census
as residing in Fort Worth, Texas, home of Texas Christian University:
E.W. McDiarmid is listed as aged 53 in 1930, having
been born in Canada circa 1877, but an American citizen whose parents had each
been born in Ohio; spouse’s name: Allie May [McCorkle]McDiarmid.
Mr. E.W. McDiarmid is listed as a college
teacher. As mentioned, materials published by the Restoration
Movement list E.W. McDiarmid,
Sr., as a “hero of the faith.”—His son, a “junior,” was called “Weir.”
The children of E.W. McDiarmid, Sr., and Allie May McCorkle are: [(1) Archie Campbell McDiarmid
was born and died in 1906.]
(2) Florence
Woodruff McDiarmid (Gooch), born March 10, 1908; m. in Fort Worth, Texas, on March
15, 1931: “Cowen” Luther COWEN Gooch and Florence lived in Jackson, Mississippi. Luther Cowen Gooch was born 10 May 1903 and died 20 Dec. 1996, with his last residence listed as Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Cowen Gooch served as president of the Mississippi society of accountants. His uncle was Cecil
Gooch of Memphis, who amassed a fortune in the lumber business
and determined to give his fortune away for educational purposes; Mr & Mrs Cecil Gooch
were philanthropists in West
Tennessee, endowing numerous
educational scholarships, and members of Idlewild
Presbyterian Church of Memphis [or was it Evergreen Presbyterian Church?]
The three children of Florence McDiarmid & Cowen
Gooch were:
Margaret Gooch, Ph.D. in Literature and librarian at Tufts University in Massachusetts; born 1 July 1937.
Martha Ann Gooch (Hogrefe) who m.
Charles Hogrefe
(Robert Charles Hogrefe) -- each is
a 1962 graduate of Rhodes College in Memphis (when it was Southwestern at Memphis). She was born July 2, 1940. After graduation
from college, he was stationed in the military in Blytheville, Arkansas, circa 1962, where Martha Ann was asked to teach math
and thus began her teaching career. He worked with computers at, and
retired from, the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, and she taught at a private high school.
They have 3 children:
a daughter Sarah
Ellen Hogrefe, born 1974, who is a nurse in Mississippi;
a son James Errett Hogrefe who is a physicist-engineer who married a
female physicist from Rumania, Oana Hogrefe; to this union of Errett
& Oana Hogrefe was
born, on August 16, 2006, a daughter, Mary Anca Hogrefe; who
weighed 7 lbs. 8oz. and clocked in as 19 ½
in. long.
Laura Christine Hogrefe, who in 2006 is getting a master’s degree
in music (voice) at the University of Indiana Bloomington.
Generation I. James? Matthew? Samuel?
McCorkle; II. Alexander McCorkle; III. Robert
McCorkle; IV. Edwin Alexander McCorkle; V. Hiram
Robert A. "HRA" McCorkle; VI. Winfield Purviance McCorkle; VII.
Allie May McCorkle McDiarmid; Florence McDiarmid
Gooch; Martha Ann Gooch Hogrefe; Errett
Hogrefe.
Added in Summer
2007: Corrigenda:
The following is from Errett Hogrefe, for which I am most
grateful:
" minor additions and corrections to our branch of the
family (chapter 3). I (James Errett Hogrefe) was born in 1971. My wife is
Oana Tataru Hogrefe, and she is originally from Bucharest, Romania. We
have two children. Roy Peter Hogrefe (Roy) was born in September of
2004. Mary Anca Hogrefe (Mary) was born in August of 2006. We are both
educated as physicists (I have a Master's degree, my wife a Ph.D.), but we both
work as engineers (me as an electrical systems engineer, my wife as a software
engineer).
My middle sister (born Sarah Ellen Hogrefe, now Sarah Hogrefe Mabary) was
born in 1974. She is married to Jody Mabary, a general contractor
in Hattiesburg, MS. Sarah is a 2006 graduate of the University of Indiana with
a Master's degree in vocal performance.
My youngest sister (born Laura Christine Hogrefe, now
Laura Hogrefe Knight) was born in 1977. She is married to Jason Lee
Knight, Sr (Jason). They have two children together. Jason Lee Knight, Jr.
(Lee) was born in August
of 2001. Hannah Elizabeth Knight (Hannah) was born in May of 2003. Laura is a
registered nurse in Jackson, MS. Jason works as an EMT in Jackson, MS."
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James Cowen Gooch, attorney in Nashville, born December
27, 1942. The following
appears in the Nashville Post, by David A. Fox, January 2003, about this son of
Florence Woodruff McDiarmid Gooch:
“Best Lawyers in
Nashville
- Trusts & Estates… James
Gooch -- Bass, Berry & Sims Over the past 30 years, has built the best book of trust and estate planning
clients in the city. Began in the U.S. Army’s JAG Corp, then earned an
LL.M. in tax from New
York
University. Relied upon by many of
Nashville’s wealthiest families to handle their complex tax
matters. A former president of the Tennessee Federal Tax Institute. A Fellow of
the American
College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a trustee of the
Southern Federal Tax Institute."
By 1st wife Julia Davidson
(Gooch), there were two children, viz.,
Anne
Davidson Gooch, daughter, born March 25, 1983, Nashville;
and
a son James
Cowen Gooch II or Jr. (an attorney turned finance person, in Atlanta), born in November of 1970.
Nashville attorney James Cowen Gooch Sr.'s second wife is
Jennie Smith.
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PURVIANCE: Elizabeth Purviance (Mrs. William Thomas) was the mother
of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle.
Purviance (French: Purvaiance or de Purvaiance) Huguenots escaped up
to Ireland after revocation of the toleration for Protestants that had been
granted in the Edict of Nantes. Two or three years ago
Ralph and I naively toured old cemeteries in La Rochelle, ancient center of
Huguenot activity, but found no Purviance graves. We should have gone to
the Mairie --to the town official's office to check birth and death
records.
Generation I. Revolutionary war soldier John Purviance
born June 6, 1743 (in
either Lancaster Co., PA, or in Northern Ireland) died
6
August 1823 from infection incurred in a scratch on his heel when
tree branch fell. This story was related
by his grandson Levi Purviance
of Preble County, Ohio (a son of David Purviance,
the preacher), in Levi’s biography of his father “elder” David Purviance. JOHN
PURVIANCE 1743-1823, married
Mary
Jane
Wasson in Rowan County, NC, on August
2, 1764. She died aged
68 in 1810.
Generation II. Elizabeth Purviance m. William Thomas.
Generation III. Jane Maxwell Thomas m. Edwin Alexander McCorkle.
Generation IV. Hiram R. A. McCorkle
m. 1st wife Margaret A. L. Cowan.
Generation V. Winfield
Purviance McCorkle m. “Mamie” Mary King of Eminence, Ky.
Generation
VI. Allie May McCorkle
McDiarmid.
Generation VII. (1)
Florence Woodruff McDiarmid Gooch; Errett Weir McDiarmid, Ph.D.; and John McDiarmid, Ph.D.
VII. (2) “Weir” E.W. McDiarmid Jr.,
born 13 July 1909, a child of Allie
May McCorkle McDiarmid, aged 20 in 1930 and born
in W.Va. [Was this the McDiarmid homeplace? or perhaps the Woodruff homeplace?]
Weir McDiarmid m. Orpha Nelson. was on the faculty at the University of Minnesota. Born 13 July 1909 in Beckley, West
Virginia, he
died 27 April 2000 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He had a PhD from the University of Chicago and was a librarian there. He amassed an impressive collection
of Sherlock Holmes-iana, and was critical to the founding
of the Sherlock Holmes society at the University of Minnesota.
VIII. Weir had three daughters, the first of whom is director of admissions at the
Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences: Emly McDiarmid,
Sage Hall, 205
Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut. Admissions. Emly May McDiarmid, born Jan. 29, 1939, m. SN Klaus by whom she had two children before divorce: Jeffrey
Klaus, born March
28, 1961; and Peter
Klaus, born July 4, 1963.
VIII. Weir McDiarmid’s
2nd daughter: Anne McDiarmid (Brahmey), born January 22, 1943. She had a son
before divorce: Michael Weir Brahmey.
VIII.
Weir McDiarmid’s 3rd daughter: Mary McDiarmid was born June 10, 1947. She has never married.
Third child of Cousin Allie
May McCorkle McDiarmid:
VII. (3) John McDiarmid, child of Allie May McCorkle McDiarmid, then aged
18 and b. in West
Virginia. He
had a Ph.D. and married a woman whose panache greatly aided his career, viz., Darice Elmer McDiarmid:: born May 12, 1915, in Trenton, NJ. Darice died in March1990.
John & Darice McDiarmid
had two sons and a daughter.
Aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle
(Fox)’s record in Dyer
County, Tennessee, says John McDiarmid was a
political-science professor at Princeton. He is in International
Who’s Who, which lists him as
having been at one time director of personnel
for the United Nations.
Unbeknownst to us in 1970-71,
John McDiarmid was at that time director of the U.N.’s programme for India, when my sister Sophie Joyce Huie Cashdollar
and her husband Parker Ditmore Cashdollar
were in India for Parker’s Agency for International Development
grant to study building a dam for Mysore State. -- Sophie kept infant Hunter Huie Cashdollar in the city of Bangalore. During his early childhood years, after returning to
the states, Hunter quoted his ayah Philapena
and made clucking noises to “cluck the bullocks” as he had heard on the streets
of Bangalore.
The
following is in Int’l Who’s Who
about our John McDiarmid: … … … … …[to be added
later] … … * * * * * * * * * * *
John McDiarmid,
Ph.D., was born 12
August 1911 and died November 4, 1982. He is buried in the Titusville N.J. Stakes Vault, Titusville, New Jersey. He had three children:
VIII.1st
Nancy McDiarmid Norling,
eldest, was born July 23, 1940, in Los Angeles. nan norling
<[email protected]> Nan (Mrs. Parry McWhinnie Norling)
had two children. Parry McWhinnie Norling
was born April 17, 1939, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Nan & Parry married September 11, 1965.
IX.1. Christine McDiarmid Norling, born August 7, 1967, in West Chester, Pennsylvania. A photograph of Nan’s
daughter ChristineJones and her family appears below (if I’m lucky;
sometimes my photos do not appear on my web site and I don’t know how to make
it work). Christine's husband Andrew Scott Jones works with CARE, and they have just returned (2006) to the D.C. area from Africa
after a two year (?) assignment where he has been in charge of the CARE operation in Rwanda. Prior to that, he was in Nairobi. Christine has her MA in museum studies and
worked in that field prior to their move to Africa.
She plays and teaches violin, and has taught English in the schools in Africa. -- Christine married
Andrew Scott Jones on October 10, 1992. Andrew
Scott Jones was born on
May 23,
1966, in Darien, CT.
X.
Children of Christine McDiarmid Norling
& Andrew Scott Jones are:
X.1. Nathaniel
Scott Jones, born September 9, 1996, in Atlanta GA.
X.2.
Darice McDiarmid Jones,
born November 17, 1998, in Atlanta.
X.3. Evan
Marshall Jones, born May 22,
2002,
in Nairobi, Kenya.
IX.2. Jonathan Norling,
born Feb. 13, 1969; Nan's child named Jonathan Norling
lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works as a lawyer in
environmental law. Jonathan is also a musician and plays violin with
a blue grass group there. Jonathan married Kelly Jeffries
on September 4, 1999. Kelly was
born on November 22, 1966, in Indiana. She and Jon have
two children:
X.1. Beck Jeffries Norling,
born in Portland OR on Sept. 6,
2001.
X2. Elsa Claire Norling, born in Portland OR on June 30, 2003.
Back
to children of John McDiarmid and Darice
Elmer McDiarmid:
VIII.2nd John McDiarmid, married but divorced Candy Cunniberti (1977)
-- This John is a son of John McDiarmid Sr., Ph.D.;
VIII.3rd
David Weir McDiarmid, born 4 March 1946. Married Margaret Colvin. Three children:
Jeremy McDiarmid, born January of 1974
John Douglas McDiarmid, born April of 1977;
Andrew McDiarmid, born Nov. 14, 1979.
-- How far many of Uncle Hiram’s descendants
have come from the frontier of West
Tennessee!!! Some of their accomplishments certainly make
the rest of us seem a bit rustic, I’m afraid. It shouldn't be
surprising, though, for Uncle Hiram McCorkle's journals reveal valor,
tenacity--even stubbornness--ingenuity, and deep religious belief (he was
always concerned with whether particular people had, as he phrased it, "obeyed
the Gospel"). The journals evince
money-savvy, an interest in swapping horses and mules, in planting and
harvesting crops. During the Civil War his journals reveal
complete lack of fear as he rode a horse relentlessly throughout the South,
evidently enjoying a good skirmish with the "federals." Without emotion he
recorded battle deaths and the weather. Post-war, he heard of a man's
doing a widow out of a horse, and he appeared at the scoundrel's door; and he
got the horse back pretty soon. I just don't find any fear in his journals.
In religion he was ecumenical back then, despite the less liberal attitude of
today's typical member of the Church of Christ. He must have known that his
grandmother's brother, David Purviance, was in on the beginning of the
denomination. He must have known of the remarkable literary talent of his
grandmother, Margaret Morrison McCorkle, some of whose letters are transcribed &
reproduced herein. He incessantly visited around the community attending
all kinds of church services. Even when on duty around Nashville, at a
time surrounded by a battle, he took time off to visit and spend a night with
preacher Tolbert Fanning and discuss religion. --His journals never wallow
in the tragedy it must have been for him to commit his beloved 1st wife née
Margaret A. L. Cowan to the insane asylum in Nashville. Knowing his
strength and intent to achieve moral rectitude (by his lights it was just fine
to kill "federals") it made me sad recently, in the spring of 2007, to find an
old letter written from Eminence, Kentucky, by his eldest son's wife, Mary
"Mamie" King McCorkle, to my great-grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle,
by then living in the Newbern area as Mrs. John Edwin McCorkle & sister-in-law
to Hiram. Mamie King McCorkle discusses that her elderly, perhaps by then
not quite altogether, father-in-law Hiram R A McCorkle had inequitably left his
property only to his youngest child, his son by the Menzies-born 2nd wife
Janette. Mamie King (Mrs. Winfield Purviance McCorkle) up in Eminence,
Kentucky, by correspondence reveals no rancor, but merely hopes that Eddie
McCorkle will do the Christian thing and properly distribute Hiram's property as
Hiram would have done in his more compos mentis days. --And so the
curtain falls, as Hiram once wrote in his diary about freedman Frelin McCorkle,
on what I have been able to write about Uncle Hiram, whom I'm not able to do pay
proper credit.
To
repeat, to remind us where we have been:
1. Alexander McCorkle & “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery of Northern
Ireland then Pennsylvania then Rowan County, North Carolina. 2. Robert McCorkle & Margaret Peggy Morrison of
Rowan County, NC, then Middle Tennessee and perhaps environs of Lexington, Ky; then Dyer County, Tennessee. 3. Hiram
Robert Archibald McCorkle & Margaret Cowan of Dyer County, Tennessee. 4. Winfield Purviance McCorkle & Mary “Mamie” King
of Eminence, Ky. 5. Allie May McCorkle
& Errett Weir McDiarmid. 6. John McDiarmid. & wife. 7. Nancy McDiarmid Norling.
From: Martha Ann Hogrefe
[mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thu 4/27/2006 9:39 AM
Hi, Marsha. Here is the
response from my cousin Nancy McDiarmid Norling to my request for family names and
dates. I hope you can use this information to add to or correct
data. Nan is John McDiarmid's oldest child. When I get the correct information
about her brothers John and David I'll send it on.
I thought you
would like to see the picture she sent of her daughter Christine and her
family. Christine's husband Andrew works with CARE, and they have just
returned to the D.C. area from Africa after a two year - I think
- assignment where he has been in charge of the CARE operation in
Rwanda. Prior to that, he was in Nairobi. I think they are very
glad to be back nearer family, and I know their families are glad to have them
back home. Christine has her MA in museum studies and worked in that
field prior to their move to Africa. She plays and teaches violin, and has
taught English in the schools in Africa.
Nan's other
child, Jonathan, lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works as a
lawyer in environmental law. Jonathan is also a musician and plays
violin with a blue grass group there. If I get any pictures of
Jonathan's family, I'll send them on for you to see.
I'm including
the email addresses I have of the McDiarmid cousins
in case you want to contact anyone directly. I think my cousin Mary McDiarmid (Errett Weir McDiarmid, Jr.'s third daughter)
in St. Paul, MN, is interested in family history - you may have already been in
touch with her.
Charles and I
leave Saturday for a week at the beach with our children. The weather
promises to cooperate, and it should be fun to be have all the grandchildren
together for a few days.
Hope all is
well with you!
Love, MA
________________________________________________________________________From: "nan norling"
<[email protected]>
To: "Martha Ann Hogrefe"
<[email protected]>
Darice Elmer McDiarmid:: born May 12, 1915, in Trenton,
NJ. Died in March, 1990
married John McDiarmid:
Their daughter:
Nancy McDiarmid Norling: born July 23, 1940, in Los Angeles
CA. Married Parry McWhinnie Norling (born April 17, 1939, in
Lincoln, NE) on September 11, 1965.
Christine McDiarmid
Norling, born August 7, 1967 in
West Chester, PA.
Jonathan McWhinnie
Norling, born February 12, 1969, in
West Chester, PA.
Christine married Andrew Scott Jones on October 10, 1992. Andrew was born on May
23, 1966, in Darien, CT. Their children are:
Nathaniel Scott Jones, born
September 9, 1996., in Atlanta GA.
Darice McDiarmid Jones,
born November 17, 1998, in Atlanta.
Evan Marshall Jones, born May 22,
2002, in Nairobi, Kenya.
Jonathan married Kelly Jeffries on September 4,
1999. Kelly was born on November 22, 1966, in Indiana. She
and Jon have two children:
Beck Jeffries Norling,
born in Portland OR on Sept. 6, 2001.
Elsa Claire Norling,
born in Portland OR on June 30, 2003.
I think
that's going to be it for our grandchildren! But here's a picture of some
of them. [information from Nan McDiarmid Norling]
A photograph should follow of some
grandchildren of Nan McDiarmid
Norling:
[This turned out to be my mother Joyce Cope Huie, and I can't fix the mistake.]
PLC Blackwell with his 90-year-old GreatGrandmother Joyce
Cope Huie, 2006
The
above email came from Martha Ann Gooch Hogrefe
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 6:19 PM
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Many
thanks to Martha Ann Gooch Hogrefe of Mississippi and her sister Margaret Gooch of the Boston, Massachusetts, area for helping me gather
information on Cousin Allie May McCorkle McDiarmid’s
descendants. As an example stands this
email from
Martha
Ann Hogrefe to:
[email protected]
;
[email protected]
;
[email protected]
;
[email protected]
;
[email protected]
Dear Cousins, I have been in
touch with Marsha Huie - a realtive of ours through
our King/McCorkle ancestors. Some of you may already be familiar with her
research. She has collected an impressive amount of family history dating
back …to the early 1800's. If you visit her site at
www.marshahuie.com, be sure to explore
the Old McCorkle Letters. … It is nice that someone in the family is
interested in our shared history and is making an effort to make our
family tree accessible to those who might like to know more about their roots.
Back to the children of Winfield Purviance McCorkle & wife Mary King McCorkle:
‘Bertie’ C. McCorkle, Bertha was born circa 1877, aged 21 at time of this
census.
[Bertha was another child of
Winfield Purviance McCorkle & wife Mary King
McCorkle] She contracted scarlet fever and became totally deaf, making
her life tragic. Her sister, Allie May McCorkle McDiarmid,
considered Bertha to be the pretty one.
Florence McCorkle, born circa 1884, aged 16
[Another child of Winfield Purviance McCorkle & wife Mary King McCorkle]
Graham King
McCorkle, born 5 January 1887 in Kentucky; died Nov. 1964 in Chicago, Illinois. He was president of the Illinois Bell
Telephone Company. Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity still lists him as one of its
distinguished “Pike” alumni.
[Another child of Winfield Purviance McCorkle & wife Mary King McCorkle.]
Winfield Purviance McCorkle begot one son, Graham King McCorkle who was
circa 1930 the president of Illinois Bell Telephone Co., Chicago—I know this
because my father’s maternal uncle, Errett Cotton
McCorkle, 1888-1976, kept in touch with his cousin Graham King McCorkle. Errett Cotton McCorkle & Graham King McCorkle were 1st
cousins through their McCorkle fathers (John Edwin McCorkle & Hiram
R.A. McCorkle) and were 2nd cousins-once removed through their Cotton
ancestors: Mrs.
Mountjoy
King (mother of Gideon King) and John Cotton (mother of Mary
Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle, Mrs. John Edwin McCorkle) were 1st cousins. Errett Cotton McCorkle lived in Chicago and St. Louis, having moved from the farm near Newbern up to his
aunt Laura Cotton Hunter’s in Louisville, Kentucky, where Uncle Errett
attended night law school. I found this Social Security Death
Certificate of Graham McCorkle on
www.ancestry.com:
Graham McCorkle, SSN 320-10-1293, born 5 January 1887 in Kentucky; died Nov. 1964 in Illinois.
His World War I draft registration card was issued from Chicago City, Cook County, Illinois.
Graham King McCorkle, son of
Winfield Purviance & Mary “Mamie” King McCorkle,
born January 5, 1887. He married Frances McFarland
on June 7, 1911. Two children were born:
Jean Frances McCorkle Mesick, born August
5, 1913 and died 1984.
She married in 1937: William Mesick , and they had two children:
Frances Louise Mesick (Mrs. John Szyer), who had two sons Szyer. In 2006, FRAN SEYER lives in the Indianapolis area.
Stephen Graham Mesick was born to the
above union
Mary Elizabeth McCorkle Hess, born December 1925. Married in 1946:
Robert L.
Hess.
Gail Graham Hess Meade,
born 1949 (Mrs. Robert G. Meade), who had two sons:
Kristyn Graham Meade and
Evan Joseph Meade.
Philip
Arthur Hess, born 1951, m. Debra Franks.
Lindsey
Hess LaMarche,
born 1955, married Michael Joseph LaMarche. One
daughter: Amber LaMarche.
[Gideon
& Sophie King/ their non-McCorkle daughter Allie King Haymaker/
connection: Floersch? A King/Haymaker kinswoman named Pat Floersch placed the following material on the
Internet about the Haymaker-King connection:
“ … in reply to “Haymakers in Southern Indiana” by Barb W): Check out the Ohio River Valley database prepared by David Distler. It's at
http://www.orvf.com I believe that Anna Crum, dau of John Crum and Elizabeth King, m. John Haymaker 26
Apr. 1824 in Clark Co. Indiana. Their
children were:
1. Joseph M. Haymaker, b. ??
2. John Wesley Haymaker, b. 1829
3. George Washington Haymaker, b. 1831
4. Isaac Newton Haymaker, b. 1836
5. Mary E. b. 1838
6. Margaret E. b. 1844
7. Amanda b.1847
Looking for Crum information may help you with Haymakers as the two
families used the same first names and traveled as part of a group from Quaker
meeting house to meeting house. Also look into the Henley family, Foster family, Newby family
and Mayo family… …”]
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Anyone interested in “uncle”
Hiram R. A. McCorkle should read parts of
his journal
as excerpted by the late Arahwana Ridens
of Newbern. The journal is now in the hands of HRA’s
g-g grandson David
Caldwell of Newbern, Tennessee. My father Ewing Huie, who was born in 1907 the
year of Hiram’s death, called HRA McCorkle “Uncle Hiram,” so I do, too.
Uncle Hiram faithfully kept his journal throughout the Civil War. Occasionally
when he was away from home, his brother, my father’s maternal grandfather, John Edwin McCorkle,
made journal entries for Hiram. One of my treasures, given me by Edward
Campbell Huie (died 2001), probably to deflect me from pestering him for
genealogical information as he became one of our oldest survivors, is an old
ledger book jointly kept by HRA & John Edwin McCorkle. Just after the
Civil War they had a general store that seemed to sell all dry goods.
John E. kept meticulous accounts.
An extant letter from Robert A. H.
McCorkle (son of Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle) writes his
sister Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache of the sad
condition of the mental health of Margaret Cowan McCorkle, that there is no joy in her company.
And RAH then states that his nephew Hiram, Margaret’s
husband, just
goes on making money.
As far as I know, the rest of Uncle Hiram R. A. McCorkle’s children (other
than Winfield Purviance McCorkle, supra,
who moved up to Eminence, Kentucky) remained in the area of Newbern, Tennessee. One entry in HRA McCorkle’s diary concerns his
train trip up to Eminence accompanied by a sister, Kate Cawthon Pace, to his orphaned granddaughter Mamie Cawthon (later
Mrs. Clint Atkins,
the mother of Bettie Jane Atkins,
Mrs. Charles Caldwell of Newbern).
It was a great event for Hiram and granddaughter, perched on reclining leather
seats.
–And when the railroad finally
came through Newbern to go on down to Memphis, it was Uncle Hiram who
got the honor of driving the last spike across the Hatchie River. All the McCorkle brothers living in Newbern at the
time were treated to the train ride from Newbern down to the Peabody Hotel, and
return. Source: Diary of Hiram R.A. McCorkle; and the “Newbern Enquirer.”
Why have I concentrated here on Uncle Hiram McCorkle’s son Winfield Purviance McCorkle? -- in part, because Arahwana Ridens
of Newbern published a book on early
Dyer County families including the descendants of HRA McCorkle other than
those of Winfield Purviance McCorkle. I felt the need
to fill in the Winfield gap. In part, other reasons: My father Ewing Huie’s mother, who died in 1915 when
he was just 7 years old, was née Sophie King McCorkle. When I was
convalescing in the old Huie homeplace and found carefully preserved letters back and
forth from Eminence, Kentucky, I still had not been able to learn why
the Sophie “King.” [As usual, nobody seemed to care but me.] It
took me years to determine that the first Sophie King was née Sophie Woodruff, the wife of Gideon King of Eminence, Kentucky. Gideon King turned out to be a 1st
cousin to Mary Elizabeth Cotton (McCorkle), whose father was John
Cotton, while Gideon
King’s mother was Mrs. Mountjoy King, née Cotton. As mentioned, there were, and are, in the old Huie home
occupied by my mother, old letters to “Mollie” Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle
in Newbern from the Gideon King family in Eminence. The children addressed her
as “May Toffie.”
-- Mary Elizabeth Cotton (McCorkle)
(the 2nd Mrs. John Edwin McCorkle) was displaced by the Civil
War. She sewed for a living, I think my Aunt Beth Huie (her maternal
granddaughter) told me. Her father, John Cotton, died on or about 1852 or
53. My sister Sophie and I got him a new
tombstone recently up in Botland, Kentucky, near Bardstown.
I’ve not been able to learn whether
her brother Rease Cotton [Pease or
Reese Cotton?] was killed in the war, but I know Mary Elizabeth “Mollie”
Cotton at one time had to live with the family of a Christian Church minister,
Brother J. B. Briney, who had at least one
son: Newt Briney. At one time, Grandmaw
McCorkle, as my father Ewing Huie called his maternal grandmother, lived with
the Brineys up in Maysville, Kentucky, near the Ohio border. My dad always said Mary Cotton was kin
to the Jim Beam bourbon family of Bardstown. And sure enough, many
Beams are buried with the Cottons
in the
Botland Cemetery near Bardstown which now lies adjacent to a Baptist Church, as are Crumes.
[The tombstone we recently, in 2003, acquired for John Cotton, my father’s
maternal great-grandfather [father of Mary Cotton McCorkle] is in Mill Creek Cemetery.] -- One old
letter from Juliet
Tong (Cotton) in Kentucky to her newly married daughter who had recently
arrived in Dyer
County, Tennessee, said, “I think you should tell Mr. McCorkle [John Edwin McCorkle] it was wrong
to discharge the cook.” John E McCorkle’s courtin’ letters to Mary Elizabeth Cotton up in KY were arch and seductive, beginning “My highly
esteemed friend.” Evidently, with his 4 living children from his first
marriage, he did not apprise Mary of his intent to fire the cook once she came
on down to West Tennessee as his 2nd wife. One of Mary’s sons, Errett
Cotton McCorkle, in his old age placed on her old tombstone: “She hath done what
she could.”
<HRA2: Almeda McCorkle
(Pope) (Mrs. Priest Pope)—this
is not as I had once thought the McCorkle daughter whose mother chased her
across the corn field in an unsuccessful effort to prevent her marriage, as
Uncle Hiram recorded in one of his journals; that fleeing descendant of Hiram
was née Janette Pope, and she married a Mr. Barkley.
– I think Priest Pope’s full name was Eugene Priest Pope; and I think my Unce Mutt’s (Maury Adolphus
Huie’s) “Cousin Meda” would have been this Mrs.
Priest Pope -- ;
<HRA3: Elizabeth
Jane “Bettie” McCorkle
(Cawthon) married Johnny Cawthon; this is the
ancestor of Mrs. Charles Caldwell, mother of David Caldwell of Newbern
who now has possession of Uncle Hiram’s diaries. We hope to transcribe these diaries for
public viewing in the year 2006.
<HRA4: Lula
McCorkle (Woods)
(Mrs. Johnny R. Woods),
who died peri-childbirth & is buried in the
McCorkle Cemetery as “Lulu McCorkle” because, Aunt Beth Huie said, Uncle Hiram
despised his cousin/son-in-law Johnny Woods as a drunkard, although John R.
Woods was a son of Hiram’s maternal first cousin “Billy” William T. Woods,
and John R. Woods was a grandson of Eleazor
Woods & Sarah Purviance Thomas.
--
Sarah Purviance Thomas (Woods), born 22 July1804, married Eleazor Woods,
1813-1875. [John Edwin McCorkle’s 1860-61 journal refers often to Eleazor Woods as “Uncle Woods.”]
Sarah Purviance Thomas Woods was a sister to Hiram
McCorkle’s own mother, Jane Maxwell Thomas (Mrs. Edwin Alexander
McCorkle).—This sad story about the ill-fated Lulu Woods McCorkle
intrigues me, because I suspect that the real root of the dissonance was
that William Thomas Woods (“Billy” Woods) probably joined the Union Army from Dyer
County, while I know Uncle Hiram McCorkle joined and fought for the
Confederacy. A letter of Billy Woods’ descendant, the beloved “Miss” Cattie Morrow Flatt of my childhood, says not, that Billy Woods never
joined “the army” but she writes of troubling times for Billy Woods. I know from old newspaper
articles that William T. Woods [Is the “T” for “Thomas?”] lost his lands
in Dyer County in numerous foreclosure lawsuits brought after the war. And so I remain to be convinced that William Thomas
Woods did not enlist on the Union side. If he did, I
applaud his courage.
<HRA5: Tolbert McCorkle (died young; I
would guess that his middle name was Fanning, because Tolbert Fanning
was a noted Church of Christ-Christian Church preacher). The family
records of Aunt Ora McCorkle Huie and her younger
sister Aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle (Fox), as updated by Maury A. Huie, state that
Tolbert fell
from his mother’s lap while riding in a buggy
and was mortally wounded by being run over by a surrey-- whether
the culprit was the buggy from which the child fell, or an oncoming one, I
cannot tell. --
and Uncle Hiram R.A. McCorkle also begot:
one child, a son, by his 2nd
wife Janette Menzies:
<HRA6:
Edwin Archibald McCorkle
(a.k.a. Eddie McCorkle)
who m. Dona
McCutchen. Uncle Hiram’s 1st
wife (née Margaret Cowan) died in the “lunatic asylum” at Nashville, Tennessee,
as it was then called, and his own diary records her death, Margaret Cowan’s,
without comment. He visited her grave when attending a Civil War
Confederate Veterans reunion in Nashville and remarked upon the cemetery’s unkempt state.
Sad to say, HRA McCorkle succinctly records lynchings in Dyer County this
way: “Captain Lynch is at work in Dyer….” Unconnected to the shameful lynchings, HRA mentions shedding a tear at the funeral
service conducted on the grounds of the McCorkle Cemetery after the Civil War
for freed slave Frelinhuisen McCorkle,
deciding that Frelin had gone ‘where good Negroes
go.’ So, we know Frelinghuisen McCorkle is one of the
African-Americans buried in the
McCorkle Cemetery whose markers have been lost.
_____________________________________________________________
Descendants of Anderson
Jehiel McCorkle should go here.
Descendants of Elizabeth
McCorkle Reeves should go here.
Descendants of David Purviance McCorkle should go here.
Descendants of Becky McCorkle Zarecor should go here.
And Descendants of Margaret
Latina McCorkle (Mrs. John Gregory) should go here.
I.
Generation One. Alexander McCorkle m. “Nancy” Agness
Montgomery, the mother of his children; and 2nd Rebecca Brandon
II.
Robert McCorkle m. 1st Elizabeth Blythe; then 2nd
Margaret Morrison, a daughter of Andrew Morrison & Elizabeth Sloan
(Morrison).
III.
Edwin A. McCorkle
[Edwin Alexander or
Edwin Archibald?] m. Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle).
IV.
John Edwin McCorkle
m. 1st “Tennie” Scott (Tennessee Alice Edwards Scott) (daughter of
William SCOTT & Nancy Edwards Wellborn and granddaughter of James
& Sarah Dickey Scott, the Scott grandparents having each been born in 1777,
emigrants from York District, South
Carolina, and buried in the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery.
IV. John
Edwin McCorkle m.
2nd Mary
Elizabeth Cotton of
Botland near Bardstown, Kentucky. She was a daughter of John Cotton
& Juliet Tong Cotton. John is buried Mill Creek Cemetery in Botland near
Bardstown; and Juliet is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County, Tennessee.
The following explains why we have a Julius M. Huie – John Edwin McCorkle Reunion
almost every summer in Tennessee. For this purpose (not to be
exclusionary of other relatives, who are always welcome) I’m singling out my
direct ancestor: Generation IV. John Edwin McCorkle who married “Tennie” Scott and then Mary Elizabeth Cotton.
Generation
V. Children of John Edwin McCorkle & Tennie
Scott (McCorkle):
V.
Ora McCorkle (Mrs. Julius Adolphus
Huie—“Dolph” Huie), mother of
VI.
Maury Adolphus Huie, 1895-1973. Maury’s
father was “Dolph” Julius Adolphus
Huie and Dolph Huie was a son of Julius M. Huie (d. 1911) and
Julius’ 2nd wife “Sade” Sarah
Elizabeth Scott (Huie), 1839-1893. Maury married Nell
Campbell of Florence Alabama, whom he met at Milligan College in upper eastern Tenn. Maury & Nell Huie had 3
children: VII. Joseph Howard “Joe” Howard Huie, who was severely afflicted and
died aged 8; VII. Bill Huie; and VII. Edward Huie. Maury & Nell lived on
the old Huie farm on the Dyer-Gibson County line (Newbern-Yorkville highway) but
moved on to the town of Newbern.
VII.
(“Bill”) Reverend William
Maury Huie m. Iris Lathbury. Bill and
Iris are buried in Morehead, KY, where son Bill Huie & wife Jeanne Kegley Huie live. Bill and Iris Lathbury
met in Bible College. Bill died in 2001 but after his
brother Ed had died in early 2001. Bill and Iris had 2 children, Becky and
Billy:
VIII.
Generation
VIII. “Becky” Iris Rebecca (Cornelius), who moved to North Haven, Connecticut. Becky graduated from Milligan College in upper eastern Tennessee where her paternal grandmother Nell
Campbell Huie had received a Bachelor of Philosophy degree. Becky Huie, born
1943, is the mother of one child, viz., Generation IX. Beth Cornelius (White), who lives now
in Lexington, Kentucky. Graduate of the U of Kentucky. Beth’s husband Steve White is an
architect and in the year 2006 they expect to make a contribution to Generation
X. “Ellie”
Ellington White, born Lexington, Ky, in 2006.
– [ We hopefully expect four contributions in 2006 to this new generation from Jessica Huie
Cashdollar (Blackwell), now living in Memphis/Cordova—Update:
Parker Louis Cashdollar
Blackwell, was born 14 April 2006; from Helen Huie (Burns), now
living near Charlotte, NC—“Livi” Livingston Ann Burns, born late April or early May 2006; from Heather Huie Hatley, now living in
Wisconsin; and from Beth Cornelius
(White), now living in Lexington, KY.—to be named Rebecca Ellington
White. – For us, that’s a lot
of children; we are poor breeders.]
Bill & Iris Huie’s 2nd child is: Generation
VIII. “Billy” to me but William
Maury Huie II to others. Generation VIII Bill Huie, born
1946 m. Jeanne Kegley and they have 3
children:
Generation IX. Kathryn, born 1970, Vanderbilt U graduate, in U.S. Forestry
Service, remarried in winter of 2006
in Bandera, Texas: Kathryn Marie Huie
and Christopher Warren Furr
married in a private ceremony on Feb. 18, 2006, in Bandera, Texas. New address: 125 as Sundrift Road, Drasco, Arkansas. 72530. 870 -668- 4020.
Generation IX. Heather
Huie (Hatley), graduate of Southern Methodist
University ; and
Generation
IX. Jay Huie (male), an engineer with IBM in NY, graduate of Case Western Reserve University.
VII. Edward
Campbell Huie, younger
brother of Bill Huie above, married Drucilla
Garner. Ed died in 2001 and is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery. Ed and Drucy
lived in Newbern, then, after the death of Aunt Kate McCorkle (Fox), they
renovated and moved into the old 1863 John E. McCorkle home place about 5 miles
east of Newbern on Highway 77. Ed and Drucy had
3 children, viz., Generation VIII. Jennifer Catherine Huie (Mrs.
Stephen Fisher Tucker, Sr.), born 6 April 1946; Generation VIII. “Joe” Joseph Headden Huie, born 21
June 1949,
undergraduate and law degrees from U Tenn. Knoxville; and Generation
VIII. John Ewing Huie, born 1952, graduated from U Tenn. Knoxville.
Generation
VIII. Jennifer
Catherine Huie and Stephen Fisher Tucker, Sr., had 3
children: Generation IX. Stephen Fisher Tucker, Jr., who lives near Athens, Georgia; Generation IX. Alison Campbell Tucker (Keogler), who
lives near Atlanta; and Generation IX. Mary Brennan Tucker, who lives in Dickson, Tennessee, graduate of Middle Tenn. State U in Murfreesboro.
Generation
VIII. “Joe” Joseph Headden Huie, an attorney in Knoxville, m. Ann Livingston of Knoxville. Each graduated from U Tenn.
Knoxville where they met. Joe and Ann had 3 children: IX. Helen
Huie (Burns), graduate of Vanderbilt U, mother of spring 2006-born “Livi” Livingston Ann Burns; IX. Catherine
Christopher Huie, graduate of Vanderbilt U and to graduate in 2006 from
the U of Tenn. law college; and IX. Garner Huie
(male), to graduate in 2006 from Miami University of Ohio, of which David
Purviance had been a founder and often president pro
tem.
Generation VIII. John Ewing Huie m. Joan Simpson of Newbern and had 3
children: Mackenzie; Walker; and Tyler. Generation IX.
Mackenzie Huie (Warren), mother of John
Beverley Warren IV, graduate of the U of Tenn.; IX. Walker
John Alexander Huie;. Generation IX. Walker John Alexander
Huie m. Kelly Wood and they have two daughters, X. Allie Huie and X. Aubrey Huie. Generation IX. Edward
Tyler Huie is
16 in 2006 and a high-school student in Newbern.
V.
Will McCorkle (son of John Edwin
McCorkle & 1st wife Tennie Scott
McCorkle). In John E. McCorkle’s journals he calls this son “Willie.”
Will McCorkle m. Una Pace. Will McCorkle begot through Una Pace:
VI. Pat McCorkle who
had VII.1. Larey McCorkle who married Zayda Brborich [yes:
Brborich] from Ecuador and VII.2.
Patricia McCorkle (Grimes).
Sean
will graduate from GMU also with a degree in Information Technology.
Generation VII. Larey McCorkle & Zayda B.
McCorkle had 3 children, Generation VIII: two daughters VIII.
Natalie, VIII. Lis a, and
son VIII. Sean McCorkle. One of the daughters has a master’s
degree from Columbia University in New York City.
The Generation VII Larey McCorkle graduated from George Mason University (Virginia)
after being a soldier on the ground in the VietNam
War; and so did Larey’s wife Zayda
graduate. Larey & Zayda's
family are all well-educated and live in the Washington, D.C., area-- Woodbridge, Virginia).
Generation VIII Lisa McCorkle was born Sept. 17, 1969’; SHE IS a civil engineer who graduated from George Washington University. Lisa McCorkle (Vish)
is to marry Jeff Vish in the
pre-spring of 2006. Lisa and Jeff are marrying March 11,
2006 in the Bahamas and all her immediate
family are to attend the wedding ceremony.
Generation
VIII Natalie McCorkle was born Sept.
8, 1973;
SHE IS AN architect. Natalie
McCorkle (Erdly) and Mark Erdly.
Natalie will
marry Mark Erdly on June
3, 2006. Natalie is an architect graduate from Virginia Tech and holds
a Master’s Degree from Columbia University in NYC.
and
Generation
VIII Sean McCorkle (male) was born Sept. 15,
1977.
Sean graduated from George Mason University with a degree in Information
Technology in May 2006.
VI. Pat McCorkle through Virginia begot also: VII. Patricia McCorkle Grimes. Patricia
has one child. VIII Lauren Grimes, in the D.C. area also.
Will McCorkle & Una
Pace’s youngest child was VI. Julia Dale McCorkle (Mrs. Bob Messer) (Mrs. “Monty” Elbert
Montgomery). Julia had only one child, VII. Tanya
Messer Sandlin. After Julia and
her daughter Tanya had both raised their families, they moved back from the Rio Grande Valley around Harlingen, Texas, to Newbern. Tanya Messer Sandlin had two
children: VIII. Benjamin Sandlin, Newbern, Tennessee; and VIII. Dana
Sandlin, Bandera, Texas.
Will McCorkle & Una Pace
had other children who had no issue, viz.,
VI. Hazel Glen McCorkle who is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery; VI. Nobel McCorkle who m. Mary Ellen, a tax
attorney in Washington, D.C.; VI. Hubert who lived in Los Angeles; and VI. Una Dell “Dell”
McCorkle (Mrs. T.L. Caver; Dell was his 1st wife) (Mrs. R.N. Smith
of Harlingen & Mission, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley—Dell was his 2nd wife).
V. Glenn Roache McCorkle
m. Annie Heath of near Milan in Gibson County. They had two daughters, Sue Alice McCorkle Lee
& Annie Glen McCorkle.
VI. Sue Alice McCorkle Lee of Chattanooga (Mrs. Robert Earl Lee) had only one child: VII. Suzanne Lee Gaultney (Mrs. James Dement Gaultney). We lost Suzanne too early, in her 50s.
Suzanne Lee Gaultney had two sons of near Charleston, SC: VIII. Mark Gaultney
and VIII. Robert Gaultney, born 1975.
Generation VI. The
younger daughter of Glenn Roache McCorkle & Annie
Heath McCorkle was Annie Glen McCorkle. Annie G. McCorkle,
born 1916, never married and lives in Nashville, moving there from the Churchton
community at age 25. Annie has always been one of the joys of my life. When I was a child, we used to meet her at
the bus station at Dyer, then Milan, for she usually came from Nashville to spend her vacations with us on the farm in West Tennessee. After she was
much older, Uncle Errett Cotton McCorkle gave her money
with which she purchased an automobile. How times have changed!
After the death of Annie Heath
McCorkle, Uncle Glenn McCorkle married Irma King, who bore no children but had nephews surnamed Harris.
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Generation IV. John Edwin McCorkle and his 2nd wife
Mary Elizbeth
Cotton had these children: Generation
V: Sophie King McCorkle Huie, 1882-1915; twins Jamie & Juliet who died; V. Ralph McCorkle, died 1900
aged 16; and V. Errett Cotton McCorkle,
1888-1976, no issue. Uncle Errett moved
to up Louisville, KY, where he lived with his aunt Laura Cotton Hunter
(Mrs. John Crittenden Hunter) and attended night law school. Then he moved to St. Louis and Chicago, where he was personnel manager for Reynard or Renard Linoleum or Rug Company. He was a successful
investor and businessperson.
V. Sophie King McCorkle (Mrs. Howard
Anderson Huie) gave a valedictory address at either Bourbon College, a female institute in Paris,
Kentucky, or the other college we know she attended: Georgia Roberson College in Henderson, Tennessee. I can’t place my hands on the valedictory
address at the moment. The real tear-jerker is the final letter she
wrote, from her bed of pain at the old St. Joseph’s Hospital in downtown Memphis, to her only living full brother, Errett
Cotton McCorkle, 1888-1976, charging Errett with
caring for the three children she knew she must soon leave behind in life. The
children were left young with her widower, Howard A. Huie. Sophie
McCorkle Huie’s people were told she had a tubercular
kidney, but after my diagnosis aged 30 with ovarian cancer I’ve come to suspect
my paternal grandmother’s true mortal illness was the same. I do not
know, though.
Sophie McCorkle (Huie) had
three children when she passed into heaven in 1915: VI. Sarah
Elisabeth “Beth” Huie, 1904-1993, who never married;
VI. Howard Ewing
Huie, 1907-1971, who had 2 daughters,
Sophie and Marsha; and VI. “Baby Ralph” Ralph McCorkle Huie,
1914-1916.
All three of Sophie &
Howard Huie’s children are interred in the McCorkle Cemetery.
VI. Howard Ewing Huie
m. Joyce Rebecca Cope, born Nov. 11, 1915. They married 2 May 1939 in Milan, Gibson County, Tennessee. Joyce graduated from the U of Tennessee
Knoxville in 1938. After high school in Newbern, she began college with a
scholarship to Milligan College in upper eastern Tennessee and studied there two years. Ewing
attended Abilene Christian College, Milligan and Union U. Joyce and Ewing Huie had:
VII. Sophie Joyce Huie who m. Parker Ditmore Cashdollar,
Ph.D. Sophie, graduate of U of Memphis; MA from Austin Peay State U; and worked for PhD at U Tenn
while teaching English on the faculty there until husband Parker received his
Ph.D. Sophie Joyce Huie Cashdollar
(my only sibling) and Parker Cashdollar had two
children:
VIII. Hunter Huie Casddollar, born May 19, 1970, licensed attorney (Georgetown B.B.A., summa cum
laude, and Vanderbilt J.D. degrees) and a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign
Service; and
IX.
Jessica
Huie Cashdollar (Mrs. Brian Louis Blackwell), born April 18, 1975, occupational therapist (U Tenn. Medical Units) with
MBA degree too, from Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. Mother of Parker
Louis Cashdollar Blackwell, born 14 April 2006 in Memphis.
Our
hopes ride on the New Generation as linchpin
“PLC” Parker Louis Cashdollar Blackwell,
June 2006, at 6 weeks of age, below. Born April 14, 2006. In his first bathing costume ever, at the John
Edwin McCorkle Family Reunion, Montgomery Bell State Park near Nashville.
Soon, Joyce Cope Huie, aged 90, was to quieten
her
great-grandson Little PLC Blackwell.
Ewing
and Joyce Huie also had your compiler, Generation VII,
Marsha Cope Huie, no issue, born 1 August 1946 (please note that I’m
much younger than Jennifer Huie Tucker, supra.) On Thanksgiving
Day, at age 53, Marsha married a 2nd husband, Ralph Ervin Williamson
of Midland and San Antonio, Texas. The marriage was in the old circa 1830 Benjamin
Huie/ Julius M. Huie/ Howard Anderson Huie/ Howard Ewing Huie/ Huie home on the
Newbern-Yorkville
Highway with
a Methodist preacher officiating and “Miss” Llewellyn Wyatt Jones playing the
piano. The following is on the University of Memphis web site about me for Spring 2006: “Marsha Cope Huie Visiting Professor of Law, Herff
Chair of Excellence. B.S., 1968; M.A., 1970, Tennessee; J.D. 1976, Memphis; L.L.M., 1986 Cambridge University.”
This Ewing & Joyce Cope
Huie branch of the family have indeed been poor breeders. With humility
and gratitude to God we announce the birth in Memphis on April
14, 2006, Good Friday, of Parker Louis Cashdollar
Blackwell, born at the Methodist Germantown Hospital to Jessica Huie Cashdollar & Brian Louis Blackwell.
Maury A. Huie’s branch have produced more
children. –Joe & Ann Huie’s daughter, Helen Huie Burns, soon followed suit with
the birth in Charlotte, NC, of a beautiful little white-haired girl, Livingston Ann Burns, whom they plan to call “Livi.”
And we with hope await the
birth in 2006 of Heather Huie Hatley’s
second child, a grandchild of Billy & Jeanne Huie; as well as the
birth of Rebecca Ellington White to
Beth Cornelius White of Lexington, Kentucky, the only child & daughter of Becky (Iris
Rebecca) Huie. Male Jay Huie is supposed to marry in 2007; we
wish for them many happy children.
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Now we go to Uncle Finis McCorkle:
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DESCENDANTS OF FINIS
A. McCORKLE, twin to Margaret Latina McCorkle
(Gregory):
Generation I.
Alexander McCorkle m. ‘Nancy’ Agness Montgomery. They were Scots who lived in or around Ulster
Plantation, Northern Ireland, and both were immigrants to the region of Harris
Ferry, Pennsylvania (now Harrisburg), thence to Iredell-Rowan County, NC. Buried in Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Generation II.
Robert
McCorkle & “Peggy” Margaret Morrison. She was his 2nd
wife. After the death of his 1st wife, Elizabeth Blythe,
in Middle Tennessee, Robert went back to Rowan Co., NC, and married Margaret
Morrison, daughter of Andrew Morrison & Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).
Robert and Margaret may have either moved back to Sumner County around Lebanon, Tennessee, or temporarily gone on back up to Bourbon County, Kentucky--near Cane Ridge Meeting House outside Paris,
Kentucky--to which the Purviance and
McCorkle families, and possibly Thomas family, fled after John Purviance, Jr., had been scalped by hostile Indians in Sumner County in 1792. It is
known that sometime around or after1808, Margaret & Robert removed [either
from the Lebanon area or the Bourbon County, Kentucky, area] to
Stone’s River, Tennessee; thence, to Dyer County, Tennessee)
Generation III.
Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane
Maxwell Thomas McCorkle. (Edwin moved from Rowan Co., NC, to Rutherford County, in Middle Tennessee, to Dyer County, Tennessee, and perhaps had more moves of which I’m
unaware. Jane Maxwell Thomas, daugher of
Elizabeth Purviance and William Thomas, died in 1855,
having been widowed in 1853 upon the death of Edwin. Edwin’s brother RAH McCorkle wrote their sister Elmira that Edwin had died of typhoid pneumonia on the 10th
of January 1853.)
Generation IV.
Finis Alexander McCorkle & first wife
Sallie Jo Jackson -- “Sallie” Sarah
Josephine “Jo” Jackson, Dyer County, Tennessee. I wonder if she is buried in the Mt. Moriah Cemetery
just north of Newbern but in Obion County, where her preacher father & mother
are buried; and is Finis himself buried there? or is Finis buried in the
Dyer County McCorkle cemetery but without a marker? --Once I read an old letter that said: Finis and
John Edwin McCorkle were away at school at Bluff Springs Academy. We have John E.
McCorkle’s diploma (Bachelor of Arts 1860), but I would expect the supervening
Civil War prevented the younger brother Finis from graduating. The war
began very soon after John E’s graduation. Something I recently read made me
think perhaps Bluff Springs Academy was in McLemoresville, Tennessee, not
Milan as I had thought.
I think Sallie Jo Jackson McCorkle is buried in Obion County, perhaps in the Mt. Moriah Cemetery's community of Palestine (?).
Sarah Josephine Jackson’s father, I think, was named Gillum
or Gilliam Jackson, a minister, and we know she named an ill-fated
son Gillum McCorkle. In the 1880 Census of
Tennessee, Finis McCorkle, listed as aged 36, appears with Sallie Jo Jackson
McCorkle (aged 30) in the community of Palestine, with resident children Gentry Purviance McCorkle, aged 10; Gillum McCorkle, aged 7; “Jennie” Susan Jane McCorkle (Carter) (who
later m. Dr. E. E. Carter and moved to Arkansas—I think), aged 5;
and Homer McCorkle,
aged 2.
Finis’ children by his 1st wife included Gentry
Purviance McCorkle who m. a Cason woman (inter
alia; in fact Gentry married at least 2 more alia) (Dyer Co,
Tennessee, to Texas, to California); Homer McCorkle (Dyer Co., TN, to
Texas, to California–a jeweler); Gillum
McCorkle (buried as a teenager in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer Co.,
Tennessee—the neighbors gossiped that his step-mother “Mag”
Margaret HART McCorkle poisoned him, but he is
officially listed as a suicide & is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery east of
Newbern). His uncle Hiram RA McC’s diary recorded
that Gillum had shot himself while in bed with his
brother Homer--the two brothers slept in the same bed in Newbern. ; and Jennie McCorkle Carter (who I know from old
photographs lived with her uncle John Edwin McCorkle & Mary Cotton McCorkle
circa 1900, not with her father and step-mother, and who, according to my Aunt
Beth Huie (Sarah Elisabeth Huie, 1904 –1993) became the wife of a Dr. E. E.
Carter of Hot Springs, Arkansas—I think she said Hot Springs). I think
the doctor’s name was Edward E. Carter, and I think he removed to Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Jennie McCorkle Carter died in Hot Springs in 1906.
Jennie McCorkle Carter: Recently, I found a Dr
Edward E Carter in the 1920 (I think) census records for Arkadelphia,
Arkansas, whom I presume to have been Jennie McCorkle Carter’s widower; but I’m
not certain.—In her 1900 photograph taken of her uncle John Edwin McCorkle’s
home, Jennie McCorkle sits on the porch with a lyre (or mandolin or guitar)
so she must have been musical. Aunt Beth Huie said that Jennie McCorkle Carter
was a special friend, and of course 1st cousin, of my paternal
grandmother, Sophie King McCorkle Huie. -- Aunt Beth Huie lost
track of Jennie McCorkle Carter, so I know nothing more except that she died in
Hot Springs in the year 1906.
Below: Susan Jane McCorkle Carter (Jennie) with her brother Gentry Purviance McCorkle, Senior: Photo courtesy of
Cornelia Taylor, sister-in-law to Deanna Glenn Taylor [Deanna Glenn Taylor
being a daughter to Mary Helen McCorkle (Glenn), a.k.a., Mrs. Glen Glenn, late
of Hollywood]
Jennie McCorkle married Dr. E E Carter of Hot
Springs, Arkansas.
Gentry
P. and little sister Jennie McCorkle
Jennie died young, fairly soon after her marriage.
Gentry Purviance McCorkle with his children.
Gentry
Purviance McCorkle, president of Bandera County Bank, Bandera, Texas, near
San Antonio. His brother Homer also moved from the Newbern,
Tennessee, area to Bandera, where he was a jeweler. Each brother moved on
to California after Texas. Photo
courtesy of Cornelia Taylor sister-in-law of Deana Glen Taylor, daughter of
Gentry's daughter Mary Helen McCorkle.
Gentry
Purviance McCorkle.
"Jennie"
Susan Jane McCorkle lived with her uncle John E. McCorkle & wife Mary
Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle, not her stepmother and father Finis A.
McCorkle. John E McCorkle (my father's grandfather through John E & Mary's
daughter Sophie King McCorkle (Mrs. Howard A. Huie) is thought to have built
this house just after the Civil War, circa 1868.
Finis
A. McCorkle’s child by his 2nd wife “Mag” Margaret HART
was Mada McCorkle Montgomery who
lived to become a centenarian in California. Maida married Howell Montgomery. When I spoke
by telephone with Maida, living in California in 1983, she replied that no, she did not know the
burial site of her father, Finis A. McCorkle. I presume he is interred in the McCorkle Cemetery; if so, Finis is, sad to say, the only brother
without a tombstone; but Finis A. McCorkle may be buried in Obion County where his 1st wife had a church
connection. (I doubt it.) Finis McCorkle last appears in Dyer County, in the 1910 census as living with his 2nd
wife Mag Hart, at which time no children
resided with them. Finis A. McCorkle’s youngest child, Maida McCorkle, had only
one child, a daughter, Margaret Montgomery, who never
married, had no children, was a librarian, lived in California, and is now
[2003] deceased. -- Finis fought for the Confederacy,
so at least should have a “CSA”
grave-marker.
Generation V. Homer
McCorkle m. ?HELEN? Cason (a
sister to the Ruth Cason who was the 1st to marry Homer’s
brother, Gentry Purviance McCorkle) (Homer moved from
Dyer County to Center Point, Texas –near San Antonio–& eventually to California.) The Cason
sisters who married two
McCorkle brothers, Gentry
& Homer, were from Henderson, Tennessee, south of Jackson.
Homer McCorkle appears
on the 1910 Census as being aged 21 and living in Newbern, Dyer county,Tennessee. He appears in the Alameda, California, obituaries: Born 27 Nov. 1879 in Tennessee, he died
at Alameda on 26 June 1964. He
registered for the World War I draft requirement in Kendall County, Texas. I know he lived for years, after leaving West Tennessee, at Center Point, Texas, near San Antonio.
Hiram R. A. McCorkle’s diary
records in October 1892 or ‘93 that a Mrs. M.E. Peacock removed from Center Point,
Texas, to make Newbern her home but makes no connection between her and Hiram’s
nephews, Gentry Purviance
McCorkle and Homer McCorkle who
were later to move to Center Point / Bandera, Texas. On 18 August 1895, Homer McCorkle rode his bicycle, joined by some
friends, out to the Churchton community. The friends
whom Uncle Hiram lists are Ed Braidy, Robert Montgomery, and Earl Arnett.
Generation VI. ‘Casey’ McCorkle
m. (2nd) Lois Miller McCorkle. (removed from Texas, to the San Francisco area.) Bowden Cason McCorkle
died recently, leaving Lois Miller McCorkle his widow in San Leandro, California, and a daughter named Kathleen McCorkle (Brudno) in California, area code 530. Had it not been for Casey
McCorkle, many of these old letters herein would not be available for us all. Requiescat
in Pace, Casey McCorkle.
As
mentioned immediately above, Casey McCorkle had by his first wife
Floy Disney two children, Carter McCorkle and Lynn McCorkle, and by Lois Miller McCorkle a daughter named Kathleen
McCorkle (Brudno). Casey had two
brothers, now deceased:
Generation VI. Horace Jackson McCorkle, M.D., at the University of California San
Francisco Medical College, from whom his brother Casey was estranged. Casey’s
sister-in-law Marjery Manchester McCorkle told me
soon before her death that her other brother-in-law, Dr. Horace Jackson
McCorkle, in the doctor’s old age said he had switched to Casey’s view, that
Casey had been right. Casey had generously assumed an unfairly apportioned
burden to take care of their elderly parent(s) when Casey himself had wanted to
pursue further education but could not. -- . I do not know
the names of the children if any of Horace Jackson McCorkle, M.D.
Generation VI.
Homer McCorkle’s baby son was “Tom” Homer Thomas McCorkle, Ph.D., born 20 July 1914 in Texas; and died 11 April 1994 in
Alameda, California. “Tom” was an anthropologist, University of California Berkeley. Homer’s son “Tom” married Marjery Manchester
(McCorkle) who was also a U California Berkeley graduate. The ff.
records the death of Homer & Helen Cason’s son Tom McCorkle, Ph.D: “McCorkle, Homer Thomas. Born 30 July 1914 in Texas [Center Point?]; died 11 April 1994 in Alameda, California. Mother’s maiden name: Cason
[misprinted as ‘Carson’].”
The children of Tom
McCorkle, by wife Margery Manchester of Berkeley, California, were:
Generation VII. Margery “Maggie” McCorkle
Pinson now of Galveston, Texas; Generation VII. Susan McCorkle [Susannah McCorkle], 4 Jan.1946 - 19 May 2001, an
accomplished & critically acclaimed vocalist; and a 3rd
daughter, Generation VI., Kate McCorkle, of California.
Maggie McCorkle Pinson has
the M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. I'm not having
luck in placing her photo here:
| Maggie Pinson,
International Manager
M.A. Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin 25 years
of experience in international education 10 years of experience at UTMB
Active Member of NAFSA: Association of International Educators Recipient
of National Defense League Fellowship for language and area studies,
1978-1979 Chair Houston Area Forum of Advisors to Internationals,
2002-2003 NAFSA Distinguished Service to International Education Award,
November 2004.
“Providing assistance to UTMB internationals has been
my greatest professional reward” |
Below is a likeness of Maggie's sister Susan
McCorkle, stage name Susannah, who died in 2000 A.D.
Susannah
McCorkle~Biography idely acclaimed as
one of the top jazz-pop vocalist of our time, Susannah McCorkle
was noted for her repertoire of over 3000 songs,
...
susannahmccorkle.home.mindspring.com/bioSM.html
Finis
A. McCorkle of Dyer County, Tennessee, enlisted on the Southern side of the Civil War. I
would assume the initial “A” stands for “Alexander” after the middle name of
his father, Edwin Alexander McCorkle, and after his paternal great-grandfather
Alexander McCorkle, the immigrant to the American colonies who died in 1800 and
is buried in Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rowan County, N.C. The mother of Finis A. McCorkle was Jane Maxwell Thomas
(McCorkle), a daughter of Elizabeth Purviance
& William Thomas. Again, an old
letter records that John Edwin McCorkle and his younger brother Finis A.
McCorkle were away at school at
Bluff Springs Academy. Although John Edwin McCorkle graduated in 1860 just
before outbreak of Civil War, I would suspect that war caused the school to
close. Finis’ twin sister was Margaret Latina McCorkle (Mrs. John T. Gregory). It was unusual that John T. Gregory
enlisted to fight for the Confederacy as did his son; the father was older than
most soldiers.—Nevada“Vada” Gregory Wyatt, an aunt, sent Anna Lois Gregory Kuykendall and her
younger brother Max Edwin Gregory, Ph.D., to college. In 2006 Anna Lois lives in Yorkville, and Max
lives with his wife Ellen in Blowing Rock, N.C.
“Aunt Vada” lived in Washington, D.C., and married Carl Wyatt from back home, too. She gained admission
to the D.A.R. ; therefore many of the McCorkle descendants could use her DAR materials.
Finis A. McCorkle should have a marker at
the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County, Tennessee, even
if his 2nd wife Mag Hart McCorkle dumped
him in the Mississippi River. (Aunt Beth Huie referred to her great-uncle
Finis A. McCorkle’s 2nd wife as “Mag Hart
not Mag McCorkle," for
whatever that’s worth from a woman who never spoke evil of anyone.)
Finis
A. McCorkle had a son other than Homer McCorkle who removed to California, viz., Gentry Purviance
McCorkle. He’s the one I most wish I as an adult could
have met. One of Gentry Purviance McCorkle’s
children, I think I recall, was named Mary Helen
McCorkle (Glenn). I know Gentry Purviance McCorkle’s daughter, whether her name was Helen
or Mary or Mary Helen, married Pervical “Glen” Glenn
of the Glen Glenn Sound Recording Studio in Hollywood. Sad to say, Glen Glenn & wife née
Mary Helen McCorkle drowned while on vacation, in 1959. I think I remember
seeing a Christmas card which Helen McCorkle Glenn sent to Aunt Kate McCorkle (died 1961) in
Dyer County with pictures of Helen and children Molly, Deanna, & David Glenn; but I am 57
years old, & that was probably more than 45 years ago & memory
fades. Mary McCorkle is listed in the 1930 US Census
of California, living in Cucamonga County, San Bernardino, California, as a daughter aged 13 of Gentry Purviance
McCorkle & wife Ruth Cason McCorkle.
Born 1913. --
Sarah Josephine [“Sally Jo”] Jackson (1st wife of Finis A. McCorkle) was born 1849 and died 1880; she was, again, the mother of, inter alia,
Gentry Purviance McCorkle & was the paternal
grandmother of Mary Helen McCorkle (Mrs. Glen [Percival] Glenn); Gentry Jr; and David McCorkle. Sallie Jo Jackson’s
father was Gilliam [Gillum?] Jackson,
a minister of Obion
County, Tennessee. One of Sallie
Jo Jackson McCorkle’s brother(s) was John Jackson; source: 1937 letter from Gentry P McCorkle Sr transcribed below in which he names Uncle John Jackson
as one of his very favorite uncles and mentions the death of that uncle’s son,
another John Jackson.
n
Aunt Katie
Pearl McCorkle (late in life Mrs. Ed Lee Fox) died in 1961 in Dyer County
an aged woman, the last to die of the children of John Edwin McCorkle by his 1st
wife née Tennessee
Alice Scott, Aunt Kate outliving her siblings all but a half-brother, Errett Cotton McCorkle.
Errett Cotton McCorkle was a child of John Edwin
McCorkle & his 2nd wife, Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle of Botland
near Bardstown, Kentucky. Mary Cotton & John Edwin McCorkle married
in Eminence, Kentucky, presumably because Mary’s 1st cousin Gideon King & wife Sophie Woodruff
(King) resided there, and the Kings’ son-in-law was there, viz., Winfield Purviance
McCorkle. Winfield, 1st son of Hiram, was John E’s 1st
nephew. Uncle Hiram’s Civil War diary
records that Winfield cried when the Yankees stole his four-legged animal (I
forget if it was a horse or a mule).
n
Finis
A. McCorkle’s son Gentry
Purviance McCorkle in California became a Seventh Day Adventist & used to irritate his 1st
cousin Uncle Glenn Roache McCorkle back in Dyer County by trying to proselytize. Gentry Purviance
McCorkle got himself into some wonderful money-scheme scandals out in
California (Llano del Rio,
a communitarian utopian endeavor that failed for lack of water) & married 3,
the 1st Maggie
Loraine Meeks (McCorkle), or Ruth E. Cason, from Henderson, Tennessee, born
March 1870, m. 1 April 1903
in Center Point, Kerr County, Texas; and the second, or 1st Maggie Loraine Meeks b. 24 Nov 1892 in
Tennessee. Gentry had, I think, a 3rd wife whose surname was,
I think, “Riley.
[Was she Maude Sim(m)ons Riley?] ” Gentry Purviance McCorkle died in 1962 in Glendale, California.
Religion
& Religiosity at Lemalsamac: Uncle Glenn McCorkle
& at Aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle, brother & sister, were devout members
of the Church of Christ.
Although the Lemalsamac crowd, mostly my father’s
cousins, succeeded in preaching my father out of the Lemalsamac
congregation [he decided to leave while the preacher was lambasting him, so his sister Elizabeth “Aunt Beth” Huie
went with him], they were not successful in running off Uncle Glenn McCorkle,
son of John Edwin McCorkle. When they forbade Uncle Glenn from preaching in public at the
old family church, he responded, “I wasn’t praying to them anyway; I pray to
God.” An evangelist named Stoy [Something] came
through and stirred up the troops upon learning that Ewing Huie (my beloved
father) had dared to lead the singing for his cousin Bill
Huie’s
week-long meeting at the Newbern Christian Church. There, in Newbern,
you see, they sang with a piano, anathema to the Lemalsamac
crowd back in 1952. My daddy went on to Newbern, and we all happily
joined the Christian Church there, and didn’t worry that piano music would
transport us automatically to hell.
-- I’m told that John Edwin
McCorkle’s 2nd wife, Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle, dutifully attended Lemalsamac but that as soon as he died, in 1924, she began
attending the Newbern Christian Church.
Above: Gentry Purviance
McCorkle, Sr., with daughter Mary
Helen McCorkle (Mrs. Glen Glenn)
of Hollywood, California, just before her fatal accident in 1959.
Wasn't she beautiful....! Again, her mother was a Cason from just
south of Jackson: Henderson, Tennessee. In these materials somewhere is a
photograph of a Bowden Cason. (Recall: Finis A. McCorkle & Gentry P.
McCorkle each married a Cason sister.)
A letter from Gentry Purviance McCorkle (son of Finis
Alexander McCorkle & Sarah Josephine Jackson
McCorkle) to his
first cousin Katie Pearl
McCorkle Fox (daughter of John Edwin McCorkle) back in Dyer
County, Tennessee. The typed letter comprises 3 ½ pages:
Provenance: from Aunt Kate to her niece
Annie Glen McCorkle to Marsha Cope Huie:
"Glen Glenn Sound Company
Hollywood
Studios
4516 Sunset Blvd. Olympia
2131
Hollywood
November 16 1937
Dear Katie Pearl:-
“First of all you, and you only, can ever understand how
terrible I feel about the news your letter brought me of [your sister and] my
dear [first] cousin Ora [Ora McCorkle Huie]. After her long life of usefulness and
cheerfulness it is depressing to me to have it end like this [in the insane
asylum at Western State
Hospital in Bolivar, Tennessee].
It makes me pray all the more fervently: “O Lord Thy Kingdom Come”.
For then, our youth will be restored.”
“These two letters of your delight me no little.
They are so filled with the news of my remnant acquaintances and old time
friends in the homeland. It seems but yesterday that I was riding ‘old beck’, uncle Hiram’s mule,
to Lemalsamac [Christian Church, now Church
of Christ] with Ona on a pad behind me and now I’m as old as my
Dad was at the date of his death.
You did not tell me about Kate Cawthon [Mrs. Pace]. How is she?
Still a teacher in the schools? I
always thought a lot o’ her. [--Kate Cawthon Pace’s
husband, Mr. Pace (father of Harry Pace), was killed at the Newbern railroad
tracks by a man from Trimble who did more than merely brandish his walking
stick. This man from Trimble was the
father of “Miss” Mattie ????? who ran the Trimble library until circa
1985. No one was prosecuted; each
participant in the deadly fisticuffs was considered a bit contentious.]
I’m sorry now that I did not write the
letter to cousin Sallie Tobe before
her death. I had it in mind a hundred
times [Quaere: Might
Sallie Tobe have been some connection to “Tobe” Allen Scott, a sister to Mrs. Julius M.
Huie, (Sarah Scott Huie’s dates of life 1839-1893)?]. Eddie [McCorkle, the only child of Hiram R. A. McCorkle by
Hiram’s 2nd wife née Dona McCutchen] is a
first-class rascal: I have written
several letters to him since 1884
when I left uncle Hiram’s to live at home but has he ever answered a single one? Nay Pauline ! ! ! ! His boy Hiram [McCorkle]
was in California but I did not
get to see him.
And, so, Baz Brown is dead; that good
old man;
We ne’er shall see him more;
He used to wear a long tailed coat
All buttoned up before:
With his departure goes my last known
living enemy in the state of Tennessee
and maybe in the USA. He hated me without reason. I never did understand the reason why Mattie McConnell [Brown] ever
married him! He was a goose!! He did not
enjoy first-class principle. I has
always despised him.
Maggie L. [Meeks McCorkle]
and Mattie and I were friends together and had our little happy times together
and after Mattie married him she seemed to be afraid of him and permitted him
to alienate Mattie’s friendly relations from both Maggie and me. I feel sure she is happy to be rid of him and
his nasty vulgarity. The community will
sustain no loss and the world is better off.
If I did not consider it ill manners to tell the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth about the dead, I’d devote another paragraph or two
to that bird.. [At one time in her
life “Miss” Mattie Brown kept a boarding house in Newbern.]
[page two:]
”2”
Just how old is Florene [Hamilton]? Maybe you knew she and I were conducting a
burning courtship once upon a time and then the fire all of a sudden went
out. I saw her once, only, when she was
married to Clennie. She was good-looking then, I thought, and
was favorably impressed. So, in time, Clennie
and Momsie both died and I wrote to her. Was she 15 years or more older than he
was? That was reported by the Hamiltons.
[Florene
Hamilton was the one who had the ladies’ Dixieland band that traveled all over West
Tennessee. She was tall and
thin and, after coming to Newbern where she married Mr. Hamilton, she brought with
her a niece named Florene Wood, who was not so tall as she.]
No, Katie Pearl darling, I’m not married yet but by golly I am
going to be some o’ these days.
As many darling women as there are in this earth and as much as I love a
precious woman, when I does love her, I’ll be dad-blamed if I’m going to spend
the next 35 years o’ my life doin’ without one. SO:
But, they’re difficult to find. That is, the gal I desire to have as a [third] wife is scarce in California. Maybe I’ll have to do as I did the other two times, go back to Tennessee. I am a lookin’ all
the time and a hopin’ and prayin’
for the sort who can love me and whom I also can rave about forever.
She should be a Seventh Day Adventist; Not over 40; Not too fat
nor yet too thin; not too tall and neither too short; a demi-blonde;
not too brilliant and not too dumb; not too rich and never too poor; a pretty
face and a well developed form; auburn hair preferred; brown will do; well
educated; widow; (Old maids above 40 are too exacting) who plays the piano.
There are 12 women to one man in the
SDA
church and if there are any such as this in Tennessee
she might consider me. I’m still as
gentle as a lamb, as light on my feet as a fox; my fingers are as nimble as
those of a boy of 25. There are many
such women as I have enumerated but mostly all married. But whenever I find the gal, which I will,
and she names the day, which I’m sure she will, I’ll send you her picture and
invite you to the wedding. I have one
such in the horizon but have not met her and she does not know what I’m a thinkin’.
Well, Katie darlin’,
the Signs O’ The Times have the
name of the lawyer John Doe in my story but did not want me to use his real
name. I thought you would know him at
first sight but maybe you do not remember him.
I heard him make just the speech at the meeting as described in the
story. He was a brilliant lawyer there for years, was a drunken bum
for a long period of time and then reformed, opened his law-office again, made
good, married a beautiful and talented woman, was supt
of the christian sunday
school at Newbern and was restored
[
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I’m sure uncle John E [John Edwin McCorkle,
1839-1924] would call his name the first name he would pronounce. Think over all the people of that generation
and if you fail to recall him, I’ll tell you in my next letter. He was always a friend o’ mine.
I have not seen [my ½-sister] Mada [Mada
McCorkle Montgomery, a.k.a. Mrs. Howell Montgomery] since she came
back [to California] from Tennessee. She owes me $50.00 borrowed money and
$3000.00 additional which she and Howell and [their daughter] Margaret [Montgomery]
squandered and this makes her shy about coming around since she received her
insurance money from the death of her husband.
[My brother] Homer [McCorkle] is shy also on account of $1600.00
and $250.. and $150.00 which I loaned to him in Texas
in 1905. But it is more blessed to lend than it is to borrow and
I’m thankful enough that I’ve always been on the lending end o’ the pole rather
than the borrowing end.
I’d be very much pleased to hear from Ona. I think I’ll write another letter and take a
chance. Where is her step-mother
now? I believe, also, I’ll write to [our
McCorkle first-cousin] Hiram Reeves
[son of Elizabeth McCorkle Reeves, who was a sister to Finis Alexander
McCorkle, GP’s father]
Well darlin’
cousin o’ mine, I’ll not enter into any controversy with you for remaining with
the church of our fathers.
But I will say this: Quoting
you: “We have the same bible”: The law did indeed bring us to Christ. But which law? Do not forget that there were two laws. The moral law and the ceremonial law. The Earthly Sanctuary question discloses
that. All things revolve about the two
laws and the sanctuary.
The hand of the Lord Himself wrote the
Decalogue. It was laid IN the ark of the
covenant. It is this law whereby we are
to be judged. It stands forever. It has never been supplanted. The ceremonial law brought us to Christ. The high-priest in the Holy of Holies had his
hand raised to slay the sacrificial lamb but dropped his knife when the Lord
Jesus said ‘It is Finished’ and the lamb went free for the reason the moment
Jesus paid the price no further animal blood was efficacious. The ceremonial law was there nailed to the
cross because it had in fact ended when the veil of the temple was rent in
twain.
One other: Acts 20:7 does not recite that His followers are to meet on the first day to break bread in
memory of His death and resurrection. I
believed that once also. It says they
came together to break bread. Another
way of expressing a coming together to have a meal. No change of the Sabbath is suggested.
“4”
The death of my [first] cousin John Jackson saddens me no little. I did not know him very well but always liked
him. He was the son of my uncle John Jackson who was one of my favorite
uncles of them all.
But great scott,
gal: This is such a long and such a dull
letter. I have another story coming out this week or next in the
SIGNS which maybe you’ll like to read and I’ll send one to you. You will recall some of the events and times
and characters. Read it and tell me if
you think it’s “sea worthy”.
Write to me again. I do not like to be forgotten. Neither do I wish to forget any of you. It was a terrible disaster about the Crenshaw bank wreck [in Newbern,
Tennessee],
The paper said the money was stolen by some one inside. Who did it?
Who got the money? Tell me the
inside facts and maybe I’ll write another Newbern Bank Story: With all my love to you and to all the kin I
am
Your cousin,
Gentry
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The McCorkle-ROACHE ROCKING CHAIR
Pictured below is
a daughter of Glen Glenn & Mary Helen McCorkle (Glenn): Deanna Glenn (Taylor). born 1939
and aged about 13 above. Deanna sits in a rocking chair inherited from the Roache family of Elmira Sloan McCorkle (Roache)
& Dr. Stephen Roache. Down in the left-hand corner is her brother, James Lionel Glenn ("Jimmy Glenn"), born
1947 and died 1975.
Photo courtesy of Cornelia
Taylor, sister-in-law to Deanna Glenn Taylor.
Gentry Purviance
McCorkle ’s children (beside Mary Helen McCorkle Glenn)
included HRA McCorkle, Jr. [Hiram Robert A. (HRA
like Gentry’s uncle Hiram Robert Archibald or H.R. Alexander McCorkle)];
and David
McCorkle, b. 1916. David McCorkle was a WWII
prisoner of war. Another child of G.P. McCorkle [Senior] was Gentry Purviance McCorkle Jr. .– I think I remember seeing that
one of the sons was a POW in WWII in the records kept by my great-aunt, Aunt
Katie Pearl McCorkle. And I think I remember that Aunt Kate kept this
David World War II photograph in her album at her home,.
The Old
John Edwin McCorkle homeplace in Dyer County, Tennessee, which, after the death in 1961 of Aunt Kate, Katie
Pearl McCorkle Fox, became the home of Edward C. Huie and wife Drucilla Garner Huie, still inhabited after Ed’s death in
2001 by “Drucy” Huie.
His
daughter Katie Pearl Mccorkle Fox wrote that her father’s house was constructed
in the year 1868.
The
home of Edwin Alexander McCorkle before destruction by fire sat across
the road from his son John E’s house and was known as the “Red House.”
Edwin A. McCorkle (1798-Jan. 10, 1853) was born at the end of the 18th
century in Rowan County, NC; moved with his parents and siblings to receive a
Revolutionary War grant of land situated near Murfreesboro, Tennessee; then
upon losing the land to title-dispute litigation accepted a Revolutionary War
land grant made in lieu to his father Robert and therefore removed with his
parents and living siblings to the newly opened Western District. He was
appointed by the governor of Tennessee (a state stricken off from NC in 1796) as an initial magistrate of Dyer County.
–In
my childhood (1950s and 69s), “Cousin Ollie” Pace Gregory, widow of EDWIN GREGORY,
a son of John T. Gregory
and wife Tina McCorkle Gregory (a daughter of Edwin Alexander &
Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle and wife of John Gregory of Churchton),
lived across the highway, in the field of the burnt Red House. Cousin Ollie Gregory was the mother of three sons, viz., Maurice J.
Gregory, Guy Gregory, and Garrett Gregory. The grandmother, Margaret Latina McCorkle
Gregory, was a twin sister to Finis Alexander McCorkle. I’m almost certain her formal name was
Margaret Latina Gregory but will have to wait and defer to her
great-grandchildren whom I know, Anna Lois Gregory
Kuykendall and Max Gregory, Ph.D. Update: It is with regret that I report the death of
Anna Lois Gregory Kuykendall on or about September 1, 2006, at her home in Yorkville, Tennessee, and interment in the McCorkle Cemetery. She leaves
her husband, Lloyd Kuykendall, and two daughters. Miss Anna Lois was my Home Economics teacher
at Yorkville School and her husband Lloyd Kuykendall was the reason I managed to pass
Chemistry in college. Their daughter, Roseanne K. Spain, was in my class for 12 years
at Yorkville, Tennessee, School, and the little sister, “Kathy” Vada Kathryn Kuykendall was there also. Maurice Gregory’s wife, Robyn Jones Gregory (whose mother was a Herndon) ,
was our beloved 5th –grade teacher at Yorkville. Guy and wife Aline Gregory lived in Trimble
where he ran the cotton gin, and they had one son Bobby Gregory. Garrett and wife Cherry Gregory lived in Newbern and they had one son Eddy Gregory who married Judy Gibbs (Gregory) of Newbern
and died way too young of colon cancer but left children in Newbern.
Gentry Purviance McCorkle, Sr., circa 1925 (photo courtesy of Cornelia Taylor,
sister-in-law to Deanna Glenn Taylor, GP’s granddaughter).
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Some of the following is
duplicative, but here is more about the lineage of
Finis A. McCorkle, twin to Margaret Latina McCorkle Gregory. I’ll have to integrate the two
entries later:
Generation I. Alexander McCorkle & Agnes
Montgomery McCorkle
Generation II. Robert McCorkle & 2nd
wife Margaret Morrison McCorkle
Generation III. Edwin
Alexander McCorkle, born circa 1798 in Rowan Co., NC., and died 10 Feb. 1853 in
Dyer County; & wife Jane Maxwell
Thomas McCorkle, a daughter of William Thomas & Elizabeth Purviance Thomas.
Generation IV. Finis Alexander McCorkle & 1st wife “Sallie Jo” Sarah Josephine Jackson. Something in Uncle Hiram’s (Finis’s oldest
brother’s) diary said that Finis rode on his horse during the Civil War to find
Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. And something in John E. McCorkle’s journal
made me think that Finis attended, with John E., Bluff Springs Academy.
Children of Finis Alexander & Sallie Jo [actually,
Sarah Josephine] Jackson McCorkle:
1.
Gentry Purviance McCorkle, born May 31,
1870 – died 28 July 1962. 3 wives: Maggie L. Meeks; Ruth Elizabeth Cason of Henderson, Tennessee; and Maude Simons Riley. We
have a wonderful letter written in 1937 by GP in California to his 1st cousin Katie Pearl McCorkle
(Fox) back in Dyer County. He had left the family church (Christian Church) and
joined the Seventh Day Adventists, which would not have pleased Aunt Kate. Evidently GP was writing “Signs
o’ the Times” and including stories about Tennessee characters whom he had known. He was not unhappy about the death of a Mr. Bas Brown in Newbern, for, Gentry
wrote, Bas had alienated Bas’ wife Mattie Brown from her friends GP and GP’s
by-then deceased wife. My mother Joyce
Cope Huie says ‘Miss’ Mattie Brown ran a boarding house in Newbern.
Son of Gentry Purviance
McCorkle: Gentry Purviance
McCorkle, Jr., California. Born Center Point, Texas, on June 6,
1903; and died in California in 1983. His
wife was Marguerite Moreman,
born April 2, 1905. G.P. McCorkle, Jr., had one son, named Micnael Moreman McCorkle,
born 29 November 1938.
Son of Gentry Purviance
McCorkle: Hiram Robert Anderson (?) Archibald?) McCorkle, California
Son of Gentry Purviance
McCorkle: David McCorkle, not Hiram,
was I think the one who was a WWII prisoner of war, according to Aunt Kate
Pearl McCorkle (Fox)’s journals.
Daughter of Gentry Purviance
McCorkle: Mary Helen McCorkle (Mrs. Glenn Glen), Hollywood, California. If you’ve watched Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz “I Love Lucy” reruns, you will have noted the Glenn
Glen Recording/Sound Studios name. Actually, “Glenn” Glen’s name was Percival Glenn.
2.
Gillum Edwin McCorkle, b. Aug. 6, 1872--died 21 Feb. 1894. Evidently, the ill-fated Gillum
was named after his Jackson grandfather, Gillum Jackson, a
minister in Obion
County, Tennessee, and his McCorkle grandfather, Edwin A. McCorkle. My
aunt thought his stepmother may have poisoned Gillum,
but no proof exists. Uncle Hiram R.A. McCorkle’s diary records, “Gillum McCorkle shot himself last night (in bed with
Homer).” [Homer was Gillum’s
brother. Evidently some of the neighbors thought poison induced a suicidal
state.]
3.
“Jennie” Susan Jane McCorkle (Carter), b. 7 July 1874 --died in Hot
Springs, Arkansa, in 1906
as wife of Dr. E.E. CARTER of Arkansas, death recorded as October of 1906. Above is a photograph of Jennie’s brother Gentry Purviance
McCorkle, Sr., with his children.
Somewhere farther above in photo of : Gentry Purviance
McCorkle, Sr. 1904. President of Bandera County Bank, Bandera, Texas.
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Now
to HOMER McCORKLE, a son of FINIS A McC
4.
Homer Thomas
McCorkle – I suppose the “Thomas” was for his grandmother Jane Maxwell Thomas
McCorkle’s maiden name.
5.
Jodie L. McCorkle,
August 12, 1880-October 2, 1880.
6.
(only child by
Finis Alexander McCorkle’s 2nd wife (Mag) Margaret F. Hart:) Maida
Maxwell McCorkle (Montgomery), born Jan.
13, 1895 (Mrs. Howell Montgomery). Maida lived over 100 years.
One daughter Margaret Montgomery never married & was a librarian in California; no issue. Born 8 Oct. 1908; Margaret now dead.
–Maida Montgomery told me on the telephone circa 1983 that she had no
knowledge of where her father Finis Alexander McCorkle is buried.
Generation V. Homer McCorkle (1877, Newbern, Tenn. – died 1964 San Leandro, Calif) & wife Helen Hart Cason
Generation VI. Casey McCorkle & Floy Disney (mother of 2 children) and Lois Miller (mother
of Kathleen “Kate” McCorkle Brudno) -- Casey McCorkle, born March 21, 1909,
of sacred memory, had three children, viz.,
Generation VII. Carter McCorkle, b. 22 Feb 1936
-- [Was Carter McCorkle named
after Casey’s father’s sister, Susan
Jane [Jennie] McCorkle Carter of
Hot Springs, Arkansas, Homer’s sister who m. Dr. E E
Carter and moved from Newbern, Tennessee, to Arkansas, dying there in
1906?]. Carter McCorkle’s children: Jamees McCorkle b.
circa 1963; Elizabeth McCorkle b. circa 1964; and Catherine McCorkle b. circa
1968.
Generation VII. Lynn McCorkle, born 1937, married but returned to McCorkle surname
for herself and her three children, viz.,
Debra Jo McCorkle, born circa 1960; Michael McCorkle, born circa 1962; and
Mark McCorkle, born circa 1963.
Generation VII. Cathleen [Kathleen?] McCorkle Brudno, born 8 February 1945; California.
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Casey McCorkle’s
siblings, also sons of Homer &
Helen Hart Cason, were:
Casey’s older brother Horace Jackson McCorkle, M.D.,
born 5 Feb 1905 in Center Point, Texas; removed to San Francisco. I know nothing further about his family;
and
Casey’s younger brother “Tom” Homer Thomas McCorkle,
Ph.D., born b. 30 Aug 1914 in Comfort, Texas; removed to California. Graduate
of University of California Berkeley. Married
Margery Manchester, b. August
13, 1917. –Tom had three daughters, viz., Kate, Susan, & Marjery. As Susannah
McCorkle became famous, the reader can easily find photographs of her; but this
compilation is not about celebrity, although your compiler was amazed at the
genius of her art. In my view, and this is my highest praise, she ranked
with Nina Simone.
|
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Marjery “Maggie” McCorkle Pinson,
| Maggie Pinson,
International Manager
M.A. Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin 25
years of experience in international education 10 years of
experience at UTMB Active Member of NAFSA: Association of
International Educators Recipient of National Defense League
Fellowship for language and area studies, 1978-1979 Chair Houston
Area Forum of Advisors to Internationals, 2002-2003 NAFSA
Distinguished Service to International Education Award, November
2004.
“Providing assistance to UTMB internationals has been my greatest
professional ....." |
M.A.
Latin American Studies, University
of Texas at Austin.
Daughter of
Tom McCorkle, Ph.D., and Marjery
Manchester McCorkle of California; granddaughter
of Homer McCorkle; and great-granddaughter of Finis
Alexander McCorkle & Sarah
Josephine Jackson McCorkle of Tennessee.
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ALL
THE CHILDREN OF EDWIN
& JANE MAXWELL THOMAS McCORKLE:
Rebecca McCorkle Zarecor of Yorkville area -- will go here.
Margaret Latina McCorkle Gregory toward Newbern
--will go here
Elizabeth McCorkle Reeves of Gadsden near Humboldt, Tennessee -- will go in
this chapter.
are To be
placed here…
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END
OF CHAPTER THREE—Edwin Alexander & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle
Alexander McCorkle of Northern Ireland, Scots-Irish Immigrant to
the Colonies
The Last Will and Testament of Alexander McCorkle, dated July 31, 1800,
the year of his death, leaves property to his 2nd wife Rebekah. His first wife “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle had predeceased him. The
amanuensis spells the 2nd wife’s name variously “Rebekah”
and “Rebeca.” The Will of Alexander McCorkle reads thus:
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1101 [certified copy from North Carolina]
Signing
& Sealing Thereof
Thomas
King
Jurat [Thomas King]
A lexander M c Corkle
Robert Ramsey
Jurat [Robert Ramsey]
Samuel King
Jurat [Samuel King]
*<0< SEAL û<;:981
In the name of God Amen
I
Alexander McCorkle of the County of Iredell & State of North Carolina being
of sound & perfect mind & memory bleßed be God do this thirty
first Day of July in the year of Our Lord one thousand Eight hundred make
& publish this my last Will & Testament in manner of allowing that is
to say First. I give & bequeath all my books with all my household
and kitchen furniture excepting one Chest of Drawers also
her Saddle & bridle & horse two Cows two Calves
& four Sheep of her own Chooseing with all
the wool Flax Cotton Yearn & Cloth to me
belonging to her uße
and behoof forever.
[ ¶
] I Do Also bequeath to my Wife Rebecah
Eighty pounds in money to be raised out of my Estate in Case That She
does Relinquish her wright of Dower in land.
But if my Wife Rebekah di¶ents
from this my Will & retains her dower in land then & in that Case I
ordain that the above mentioned Eighty pounds Shall be Divided Among all my
Children eaqually Share & Share. I do also
bequeath to my Wife Rebekah the u¶e benefit
& Servis of the two rooms in the East end of
the [page break] house in which I now live During her
widowhood. I also bequeath to my wife Rebekah
the use benefit & Servis of my Negro man Tom
during her widowhood & at the expiration of her widdowhood
I ordain that the Said negro man Tom shall be under the direction of my son
John. I do also bequeath to my wife Rebekah
the use benefit & Servis of my Negro girl Mary
untill she the sd. girl
shall have an Isue in which case I ordain that
the Said negro girl Mary & her Isue shall be
sold & the money ariseing thereof I bequea[-]th to my wife Rebekah forever & in case the Said negro Mary
shall have no isue before my wife Rebekah’s
Death I Ordain that she Shall then be Sold & the
money[arising there from eaqually divided
amongst all my Children.
[
I am ashamed to type this.]
[ ¶
] I Also ordain & appoint that said [2nd] Wife Rebekah Shall have & receive a comfortable & honourable maintainance on
& from the land on which I now live dureing
her reside in Widdowhood on sd.
lands. I also ordain a suficie[n]t Supp[ort]
to her stock above mentioned which maintainance
I Expect & require my son Robert with the assistance of the
negroes in her Servise to grant & perform.
[ ¶
] I Do also grant & Devise bequeath & make over to
my son Robert & his heirs or assigns forever all that Track [tract]
of [im]proved Land on which I now Live held by a
title from John B[?ef?] bearing date May the
Twenty sixth one thousand seven Hundred & fifty Six [1756].
[Is
1756 the date Alexander McCorkle settled in Iredell Co.? Later, this
part was Rowan Co.]
I also bequeath Devise & make over to my
Son Robert all that tract of land lying & being on the North
Side of the above named land held by a title from the [page 3 begins here] State
of North Carolina bearing Date May the Eighteenth day One Thousand Sevenhundred & Eighty nine. [1789 was the year
of adoption of the US Constitution and the year that George Washington
became President of the US.] I also bequeath to my son Robert all
my Farming & mecanick tools & ]
Negro Gearl Esther to his behoof
forever. I also bequeath to my son
Robert all my farming & Mecanick
tools & Equipage.
[ ¶
] I do also bequeath to my Son Alexander forty pounds in money
I also ordain that my Body Clothes be vandued
among my Sons that Can or may be conveniently Conveined
for that purpose & the money therefrom Ariseing & the monies ariseing
from the Sales of other property not otherwise bequeathed & all monies
to me belonging not otherwise ordained be Divided into Eleven eaqual Shares two of which shares I bequeath to my daughter
Elizabeth & the remaining nine to my other Children eaq[-]ually Share & Share.
[ ¶
] I Do Also bequeath to my sons Wm.
& Robt. all my rite interests
or Claim to a track or parcel of Land entered in John Armstrongs office Located on the watters of Duck River fountain Creek or the reimbursement of the monies or interests
thereon expended to be eaqually divided among
between them or their lawful Heirs.
[ ¶
] And I hereby ordain & Appoint my sons John [,] Alexander
[,] & Robt. McCorcle Executors of this my last Will &
Testament.
In
witneß
whereof I Alexander McCorcle
McCorkle have to this my last Will & Testament Set my Hand &
Seal the day and Year above
Written
Signed Sealed published & Declared by the Said Alexander McCorkle the Testator as
his last Will & Testament in the presence of Us who were Present at the
time of Signing
Alexander
McCorkle
[End
of Will of Alexander McCorkle, Iredell County, North
Carolina]
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Note appended by Marsha Cope Huie:
The above-bequeathed “waters of the Duck River” land -- devised to sons
William McCorkle & Robert McCorkle -- must be the land that had
been granted for Alexander McCorkle’s Revolutionary War service
that placed son Robert McCorkle on Stone’s River, Rutherford Co., TN
[Murfreesboro area]. Robert’s brother William McCorkle also
went there, at least for awhile.
William McCorkle’s wife, nėe
“Mattie” Martha King, had 1st been married to the John Purviance, Jr., who was scalped by
hostile Indians in Middle Tennessee (Sumner County). The scalping incident caused the Purviance family to move on up to Cane
Ridge, Bourbon Co., KY, to find more civilization. If indeed Martha
King (Purviance)(McCorkle) fled to Kentucky her
husband’s murder, I would think the erstwguke Mrs.
John Purviance, Jr. (by then Mrs. William McCorkle)
would have been reluctant to move back down to Middle Tennessee with new
husband William McCorkle, but this is pure speculation on my part. It is
known that Martha predeceased William McCorkle, for he married a 3rd
wife née Jenny or Jennie Graham. [1st wife née
“Peggy” Margaret Blythe, a sister to the Elizabeth Blythe who was the 1st
wife of Robert McCorkle; 2nd wife née “Mattie”
Martha King; 3rd wife née Jenny Graham.]
The sons of the immigrants Alexander & Nancy Agness
Montgomery McCorkle were:
1. Samuel
Eusebius McCorkle, Doctor of Divinity, Presbyterian minister, Thyatira
Church, Rowan Co., NC. The State of North Carolina maintains an historical marker to Samuel McCorkle and
his classics school that was located nearby Thatira
Presbyterian Church, outside Mooresville & Salisbury, NC. He called his school for classical training Zion
Parnassus. He was a founder of the University of North Carolina and is memorialized at Chapel Hill. His education was at a precursor of Princeton College, and his D.D. from Dickinson College (Pennsylvania). His wife was Margaret Gillespie (McCorkle), and they are buried at
Thyatira Cemetery.[Was she a widow? Was Gillespie her maiden or widowed name?)
2.
John McCorkle -- His niece Elmira Sloan
McCorkle Roache described him as “rather
eccentric.” If so, he fits right in with the rest of us. ;
3.
Joseph McCorkle;
4.
Alexander McCorkle [Aleck] -- His niece Elmira
Sloan McCorkle Roache wrote that Aleck was emotional
in character and joined the Methodists. ;
5.
William McCorkle -- His niece Elmira wrote that he became a Christian Church/Disciples of
Christ minister, set his slaves free, and “went to preaching.” He had 3
wives, viz.,Maragaret Peggy” Blythe; Martha
“Mattie” King (widow of “scalped” John Purviance);
and Jennie Graham.
6.
James McCorkle, 1768-1840;
7.
Robert McCorkle.– 1st wife Elizabeth “Lizzie”
Blythe; 2nd wife: Margaret (Peggy) Morrison. Robert was born
in Rowan Co., NC; moved to Middle Tennessee; married Elizabeth Blythe, his 2nd
wife, in Sumner County, Tennessee (then, I suspect, a generic term for “Middle
Tennessee”); at one time was a member of a Presbyterian or
Cumberland Presbyterian Church congregation in Kentucky; removed to the
Murfreesboro area of Rutherford County , where the father’s Revolutionary War
land grant was lost in a land-title dispute litigation; then removed to West
Tennessee, Dyer County, where he died and is buried in the 1st grave
of the McCorkle Cemetery about 5 miles east of Newbern, Tennessee, although it
should be noted that before the advent of railroads in the wesetern
district, and before the Civil War, Yorkville was the better town. A study of
Civil War maps will show Yorkville, but not Newbern. —Aunt Beth Huie
said her Huie family [Benjamin Huie, b. 1798 in N.C.] settled 1st
just west of Yorkville a bit down the road and up the hill from what is now a
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, with a house on the south side of the road;
then moved west about 2 miles, building a house on the north side of the road;
and did not buy the land where the Tigrett family
settled, further toward Newbern, because Yorkville offered more
“community.” One notes that RAH McCorkle [Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle] sends his Civil War-time
letters, reproduced here, with the inside address as “Yorkville.”
The
immigrants’ 3 daughters were:
1. Mattie
McCorkle,
2. Bettie
McCorkle [Elizabeth McCorkle, who received 2 of 11 shares in her
father’s will], and
3. Nancy
McCorkle.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is the county seat of Rutherford County,
Tennessee. In the 1980s I went there to look for family deed and will
records.
Land records of Rutherford
Co., Tennessee, that may or may not
be pertinent, circa 1830:
C
David Morrison to Obadiah Cole [Cale?] , deed
book S, p. 586
C
David Morrison from Thomas Powell, 1832, book S, p. 392.
As mentioned, Robert McCorkle had a granddaughter, Elizabeth Anderson,
by Robert McCorkle’s 1st wife Lizzie Blythe [The
granddaughter Elizabeth Anderson was a dau. of Mrs. Elizabeth
McCorkle Anderson, Mrs. Thomas Anderson, of Middle Tennessee – Sumner Co.
at the time.] The granddaughter, Elizabeth Anderson married J. Mitchell McMurray,
a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, who long preached at McMinnville, Tennessee, but retired to Lebanon, Tennessee, where he died in 1875.
C
Deed to Joseph A. Montgomery from Hugh McMurry.
Deed Book U, page 614.
C
Deed from Robert McMurry to James A. Montgomery.
Deed Book U, p. 54.
C
Deed to Thomas Murry from Benj. Cruch Book T, p. 397.
C
Deed from James A. Montgomery to Robert McMurry,
1834. Mortgage deed, Book U, p. 54.
C
Thomas Murray to Henry Goodloe, Jr. , Book U,
page 232.
[William
T. Woods, born Dyer Co, TN., 1833, married Cattie Doak in 1854. Then in 1862, William T. Woods married
Susan A. Goodlow, the mother of John R.
Woods (who married Lulu or Lula McCorkle, a daughter of Hiram R. A.
McCorkle.-- Eleazor Woods, b. 1813 in
Sumner Co., TN, by wife Sarah Purviance Thomas
(Woods), begot William T. Woods, b. 1833.]
C
Robert Maxwell from Isaac Hendrix [Isaac Hendricks] of Williamson County, Tennessee.
I
wonder if Isaac Hendricks was kin to Joyce Cope Huie’s
great-grandfather Uriah C. Hendricks who is buried
in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer Co., Tenn. Uriah C. Hendricks’ father was Daniel
Hendricks. (A Daniel Hendricks Sr. and a Daniel Hendricks Jr.
[Jr. being a son of Sr. & a brother of Uriah C. Hendricks] are both
interred in the McCorkle family cemetery in Dyer Co., Tenn. I suspect that the grave of Daniel Hendricks, Sr.,
who m. Isabel Pendry or Penry
(Hendricks) is one of the oldest graves in the cemetery, close behind the
grave of Robert McCorkle; but I would have to be there in Tennessee to check
the dates.)
In
an extant Deed Index in Murfreesboro, TN, courthouse: Robert McCorkle, Grantee, from Joseph
Fitzgerald. 1804. Book G, p. 241. But the deed itself was
destroyed with many of the records in the Murfreesboro court house during the Civil War.
This makes one wonder if Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle arrived in Rutherford County, TN, from Rowan County, NC,
in the year 1804. The Obsequies
paid their daughter, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach (1797-1890), state that Elmira was eleven when she moved with her parents to North Carolina, which would have been in the year 1807 or
1808.
We
could trace the following deeds to see what property Robert McCorkle and
family lived on in Rutherford County, Tennessee, couldn’t we?
C
Robert McCorkle, grantee, from Joseph Fitzgerald. 1804.
Deed Book G, page 241. In Deed Index only, Deed Book not extant.
C
Robert McCorkle, grantee, from John Jenkins. 1804? Book G,
313. Actual Deed Book destroyed. [Spelled McKorkle
in Index.]
C
Robert McKorkle, grantee,
from George and Jane F. Pechels. 1816.
Book M, page 122. Deed says “delivered to Edwin McKorkle 20th June 1820.” Edwin
Alexander McCorkle was a son of Robert & Margaret Morrison
McCorkle; and Edwin Alexander McCorkle married Jane Maxwell Thomas.
C
Robert McKorkle,
grantor, to Robert G. Cummings. 1826. Book R, page
87. – [Can we find 1826 litigation records between Cummings &
McCorkle?]
This must
surely mark the date (1826) when
Robert & Margaret “Peggy” Morrison McCorkle lost their land in Rutherford
Co., Tennessee. Soon after this date, they would have moved
westward to take a land grant in the Western District of Tennessee in lieu of the one they had lost to a lawsuit (title
dispute) in Rutherford County, Tennessee. – I suppose we could run title to this piece
of land to see where Robert & Margaret McCorkle lived in 1826 just
before removing to Dyer County. When Robert & Margaret (Peggy) Morrison McCorkle lost the
McCorkle Revolutionary War land grant [presumably granted to Robert’s father
Alexander McCorkle from the State of North Carolina, but perhaps also to
Margaret Morrison’s people], in a land-title dispute, the court
in Rutherford County, Tennessee, would have required that Robert McCorkle deed
the land to the claimant whose land title had been adjudged more worthy.
This is almost certainly the critical deed, if their daughter Elmira Sloane
McCorkle Roach’s death records are correct in indicating that her parents
removed to the Western District of Tennessee in 1827. How sad to
think that Robert McCorkle lived only one year after removing to Dyer County,
Tennessee, leaving an aged widow to cope with frontier living.
Another
deed in the Murfreesboro, Tennessee, courthouse of interest to the McCorkle - Karnes
family:
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John McCorkle to William D. Carns. Book
S, 477. 1830.
Was
the grantor a brother of Robert McCorkle, who most certainly did have a brother
named John McCorkle ? Is the Carns kin to the Karnes
family who married into the McCorkle family in Dyer Co., TN., after they moved
to the Western District of Tennessee. Given all the misspellings of the
time, the answer is very probably “yes.” Blaine Karnes and son T. C.
Karnes were morticians in Gibson County, Tennessee (in the towns of Rutherford and Dyer) during the 20th
century. A Karnes man married one of our McCorkle women; she is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer Co.,Tenn.
Purviance Connection. Excursus added immediately below:
[ I
sent a great deal of Purviance - Thomas - McCorkle -
Huie genealogical information circa 1984 to Stuart Hoyle Purvines
for inclusion in his Purviance Family
book. Stuart Purvines produced a
huge, red volume circa 1986, which if not still available for purchase, should
be available for reading in a genealogical library somewhere.]
Colonel John Purviance [Senior] on August 2, 1764, married Mary Jane
Wasson. For convenience, Col. John Purviance is
referred to here as “John Purviance Senior,”
who fought in the Revolutionary War. (Two Purviance
brothers married twoWasson sisters: Colonel John’s
brother James Purviance married Mary
Jane Wasson’s sister Sara Wasson.) From Pennsylvania, John settled for a while with wife Mary Jane Wasson
(Purviance) on the Yadkin River in Rowan Co., N.C. In 1791 they removed to Sumner
Co., Tenn. [perhaps then just an early generic name for “Middle
Tennessee”], but after the second son, John Purviance
Jr. [whose widow, Martha King Purviance, married
Robert McCorkle’s brother William McCorkle, as her 2nd
husband] was scalped by the hostile Indians, John Purviance
Sr. and some family members at least moved to more civilized territory: up to Cane
Ridge, Bourbon Co., KY, site of the Cane Ridge Meeting House
where the Christian Church / Church of Christ originated circa 1802-1804.
Col. John Purviance [Sr.] and Mary Jane Wasson Purviance [I think] later moved back down to Wilson
County, Tennessee (Middle Tennessee). Their son David Purviance, who remained for a time up near Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, signed the
Last Will & Testament of a certain Presbytery there and in so doing joined Barton
Stone and the “New Light” Doctrine and thus was one of the founders of the
Christian Church. Our David Purviance is often
listed as a co-founder with Barton Stone, with David Purviance
spreading the movement into Ohio [“Elder” David Purviance
died in Preble
County, Ohio]. It appears the Purviance
parents (Col John Purviance [Sr.] and Mary Jane
Wasson Purviance] remained Presbyterians, Cumberland
Presbyterians by then, however. -- Cumberland Presbyterianism began
at a site now included in the lands comprising the Tennessee Montgomery Bell
state park near Dickson).
Something I read in 2003 on Mark Freeman’s website about his Purviance/Maxwell wife – he lives in Garland, Texas--
mentioned a reference he had found; someone once described a Maxwell grave as being in Brown Cemetery,
perhaps in or near Spring Hill, Tennessee, and as being adjacent to
the grave of a “Mr. Pevines.” It is
not impossible that this would be the grave of our ancestor Col. John Purviance, also known sometimes known as John Purviance, Sr.
Col. John Purviance
by wife Mary Jane Wasson begot three sons and eight
daughters, videlicet:
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“Elder” David Purviance – signed the
Last Will & Testament of the Cane Ridge Presbytery to begin with Barton
Stone a new denomination; served in the Kentucky then Ohio state legislature;
and is buried in New Paris Cemetery, Preble Co., Ohio. He also served as needed
as president pro tempore of Miami University of Ohio. In 2003, Garner
Huie, the son of Joseph Headden Huie & Ann Livingston Huie, living in Knoxville
where Joe practices law, is attending Miami University of Ohio.
--Unfortunately, Ann Livingston (Huie) of Knoxville lost her father, Harrison Livingston of Knoxville, who died aged 90 in the year of 2005. Ann L. Huie
has one brother.
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Eleazor Purviance
[Eliazor Purviance?] [Eleazer Purviance?]
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John Purviance
(scalped by Indians; his widow married William McCorkle, a brother of
our ancestor Robert McCorkle, our Robert having died in 1828 soon after removal
to Dyer County, Tennessee. William McCorkle went on to marry again.
William McCorkle’s 3 wives were (1) “Peggy” Margaret Blythe
(McCorkle), presumably a sister to the 1st wife of Robert McCorkle;
(2) “Mattie” Martha King (Purviance) (McCorkle); and
(3) Jennie Graham (McCorkle).
In searching for our “Mattie” Martha King (Purviance)
(McCorkle), I found the following on
www.ancestry.com but don’t know what to do
with it. All I’m certain about is that she is not the wife (2nd
wife) of William McCorkle. : Martha K. McCorkle,
aged 68 in 1880 census [born about 1812]. Home in 1880: Oxford, Lafayette
Co., Mississippi. Widowed. White female. Mother and
father both born in North Carolina.
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Anne Purviance (Mrs. Samuel Woods)
– One might see my Internet entry on the Roots Web pages for Dyer County, Tenn., families. Anne Purviance
Woods moved to Dyer Co., Tenn.,
for a time, but ended her days in Benton County, Arkansas.
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Margaret Purviance (Mrs. James Cropper)
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Martha Purviance (Mrs. Fleming)
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Sarah Purviance (Mrs. Samuel Harris)
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Mary Purviance
(Mrs. Cowan) – I wonder if
this Mr. Cowan was kin to Lavinia Cowan from Rowan
Co., NC, who was the 1st wife of Benjamin Huie, 1797-1879. Pure
speculation. This Mrs. Benjamin Huie was a daughter of Samuel Cowan &
Rachel Lewis (Cowan) of North Carolina.
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Our ancestor, Elizabeth Purviance, 1775-1849,
who married William Thomas, born 1765. One of Elizabeth Purviance and William Thomas’ children was our ancestor, Jane
Maxwell Thomas (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle). Edwin
Alexander McCorkle was a son of Robert and Margaret Morrison McCorkle. –
Just think of it: Elizabeth Purviance Thomas’
brother, John Purviance, was scalped
by hostile Indians in Middle Tennessee !!!
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Jenette Purviance
(Mrs. Richard Maxwell)
– Child of Jenette Purviance
Maxwell: Mary Maxwell, born 16 August 1796 in Bourbon Co., KY, and died 23 July 1860.
Purviance-Thomas Excursus:
I.
William Thomas married Elizabeth
Purviance. Their children are listed as
Generation II immediately below.
Generation Two:
II.1. John Purviance Thomas, Jr., born 1792, married
Kitty Espey [?Catherine?]
[Now I’m wondering about a Thomas connection
with historic Espy Tavern in Bedford, Pennsylvania, which I visited with
my good friend Steve Dunkle circa 1998. ESPY
HOUSE is a National Historic Landmark. There, President George
Washington established headquarters during the Whiskey Rebellion.]
One of the children of Kitty Espy & John Purviance Thomas, Jr., was David E. Thomas, a lawyer
who moved to Austin, Texas. This David E. Thomas
was a first cousin to John Edwin McCorkle and was the one with whom John E.
corresponded about recovering the Texas-granted lands then-unclaimed by the
estate of their uncle, David Thomas.
II.2.
Peggy Dickey = Margaret Purviance
Thomas (Dickey), born 1793, married a Mr. Dickey.
No issue.
“Peggy” Margaret Purviance Thomas Dickey is the one
who gave the land for building Lemalsamac Christian
Church in Dyer County, Tennessee (now, in 2003, called a Church of Christ). I
do not know the name of Peggy Dickey’s husband.
Just before Christmas of
2006, James Ragon of Jackson, Tennessee, sent me a wonderful
present, the will of “Peggy Dickey.” It
appears below after the email from James Ragon is
reproduced:
Last Will and Testament of MARGARET [Thomas] DICKEY dec'd
Set up and established November Term 1869
State of Tennessee Dyer County I MARGARET DICKEY being in usual good
health of body and of sane mind do this the 20 day of January declare this to
be my last will and testament, 1st I will my body to the Earth whence it came.
And my Soul to God who gave it 2nd It is my will that out of my worldly
effects, at my decease that all my just debts shall be paid and a sufficiency
used to secure my body a decent burial 3rd I then will that my brother HIRAM J. THOMAS
shall have the use of all means belonging to me that he shall have in his hands
at my death for the space of four years by him paying simple interest on same
4th I then will to my nephew
D. P. McCORKLE ESQ. Four hundred dollars in
money
5th I then will to my nephew JOHN E. McCORKLE Three hundred dollars
in money.
6th I then will to my nephew ANDERSON J. McCORKLE the use of my house and lot in the town of Trenton Gibson county
Tenn. Twelve months.
7th I then will to my nephew
FINIS A. McCORKLE Three hundred Dollars in money 8th I then will to
my niece ELIZABETH J. REEVES (wife
of WYATT REEVES) Four hundred dollars in money 9th I then will to my niece LATINA McCorkle GREGORY
(wife of JOHN GREGORY) four hundred dollars in money - 10th I then will to my nephew W.T. WOODS the tract or
parcel of land willed to
me by my Father said land lies adjoining the said WM. T. WOODs land on which he now lives and contains by estimation
Sixty acres more of less I also will to the said nephew W.T. WOODS one half of
my town lot in the Town of Trenton
Gibson county Tenn. (after ANDERSON J. McCORKLE has
the use of it twelve months) which I hold by deed to me from J. P. THOMAS 11th I then will the
other half of the above described house and lot after - after ANDERSON J. McCORKLE has the use of it twelve months) to CORA ALICE daughter of the above
named nephew, WM. T. WOODS 12th I then will to niece my MARTHA ANN
DOAK wife of W.E. DOAK four hundred dollars
in money - 13th I then will to my niece SARAH JANE GREEN (wife of A. GREEN four hundred dollars in
money. 14th I then will to my niece SUSAN A. TROUT (wife of WILEY S. TROUT) Four hundred dollars in money, and
if there be a remainder of my effects after the above distributions are made as
therein specified it is my will that such remainder shall be equally
distributed to the above named legatees. I hereby appoint my nephew DAVID P. McCORKLE Esqr.
As my Sole Executor
to the within last will and testament made and subscribed to by me and my seal
affixed thereto in the presence of the subscribing witnesses this 20th day of
January A.D. 1869
MARGARET DICKEY (SEAL)
Test
M.R. HENDRICKS
W.H. FRANKLIN
____________________________________________________________
I had sent the following email to James Ragon in Jackson.
A retired engineer, James has a very sharp mind and helps keep me straight on
generations and where people should be placed in history. I wish we lived closer to each other.
Dear James:
Direct Descendants of John (Sr.) DICKEY
1 John (Sr.) DICKEY
b: 1703 in Belfast, Coantrim, Antrim, North Ireland
d: Aft. 13 Feb 1789 in York, York County, South Carolina
+Martha McNEELY
b: 1706 in Antrim County, Ireland d: 1895 in Bullock
Creek, York County, South Carolina m: Abt.
1737 in Augusta County, Viriginia
2 Jane DICKEY
b: 1738 in Albemarle Co., VA d: Nov 1763 in Jackson
County, Georgia
2 John (Jr.)
DICKEY b: 25 Aug 1740 in Albemarle Co., VA
d: Bet. 22 Mar - 06 Apr 1801 in York Co., SC
2 George (Sr.)
DICKEY b: 15 Apr 1742 in Albemarle Co., VA
d: 04 Aug 1817 in Madison Co., AL
+Mary (Polly) SCOTT b: 1746 d: 1826
in Wabash, Indiana m: Apr 1762
3 John DICKEY b: Abt. 1765 in Albemarle Co., VA d: Bef. 1870
3 Rebecca DICKEY b: 1766 in
Albemarle County, Virginia d: 19 Sep 1832 in Madison
County, Tennessee
3 Ephraim E. DICKEY b: 1770 in
York County, South Carolina d: 1840 in Lincoln County,
Tennessee
3 Martha Jane DICKEY b: 18 May
1774 d: Unknown
3 Jane DICKEY b: 15 May 1778
in York County, South Carolina d: 25 Feb 1858 in Round Rock,
Williamson County, Texas
3 Mary Polly (Molly) DICKEY b:
11 May 1781 in York County, South Carolina d: 06 Jun 1843 in
Princeton, Gibson County, Indiana
3 George (Jr.) DICKEY b: 15
Feb 1785 in York County, South Carolina d: 05 Oct 1870 in
Dyer County, Tennessee
+Anna CALLAHAN b:
04 Dec 1785 in Alabama d: 27 Aug 1869 in Dyer County,
Tennessee m: Bef. 1812
4 Matthew (Sr.)
DICKEY b: 1812 in Madison County, Alabama
d: 11 Aug 1886 in Dyer County, Tennessee
4 Madison DICKEY
b: Abt. 1818 in Madison County,
Alabama d: 1839 in Dyer County, Tennessee
4 Anderson DICKEY
b: 31 Jul 1820 in Madison County, Alabama d: 31 Jan 1867
in Dyer County, Tennessee
3 Nancy DICKEY b: 1788 in York
County, South Carolina d: Unknown
3 Sarah DICKEY b: Feb 1792 in
York County, South Carolina d: 1892 in Warwick County,
Indiana
3 Eleanor DICKEY b: Dec 1775
in York District, South Carolina d: Sep 1825
2 Ebenezer (Ebner) DICKEY b: 15 Nov 1744 in Albemarle
Co., VA d: Bef. 25 Sep 1784 in
Kentucky
2 Robert (Sr.)
DICKEY b: 25 Nov 1745 in Albemarle Co., VA
d: 24 May 1817 in South Salem, Ross County, Ohio
2 Mary Eleanor
(twin) DICKEY b: 18 Oct 1747 in Albemarle County,
Virginia d: 12 Dec 1834 in Livingston, Kentucky
2 David (twin)
DICKEY b: 18 Oct 1747 in Albemarle Co., VA
d: 07 Nov 1823 in Washington, Daviess County, Indiana
2 Susannah
DICKEY b: Abt. 1751 in Albemarle
Co., VA d: Aft. 1784 in York County, South
Carolina
2 Mary (Polly) DICKEY
b: 11 Apr 1753 in Albemarle Co., VA d: 12 Dec 1834 in
Livingston, Crittenden County, Kentucky
Burial: 15 Dec 1834 Bethany, Livingston County, Kentucky
2 Martha
DICKEY b: 12 Jan 1756 in Albemarle Co., VA
d: Unknown
2 William (Sr.)
DICKEY b: 06 May 1764 in York Co., SC d: 28
Jun 1832 in Macon, Illinois
79. x.
GEORGE JR. DICKEY, b. February
15, 1785, York Co., South Carolina; d. October
05, 1870, Dyer County, Tennessee
James, Could this be the husband of Margaret “Peggy” Thomas (Dickey), who donated the land for Lemalsamac Christian Church???????] The dates fit, as she was born in 1795.
Sincerely, Marsha Cope Huie (Mrs. Ralph Ervin Williamson)
[email protected]
James Ragon responded, This George is a first cousin of our
Sarah [Dickey Scott], and his wife is Anna Callahan. George, Jr., is not
mentioned in Margaret Dickey's will; see
below. Margaret may have married one of the Rowan Co., NC. Dickeys.
Take care and have a Merry Christmas, James
___________________________________________________________End
of Blurb about Margaret “Peggy” Thomas Dickey
II.3.
David Purviance Thomas, born 1795
– died 1836
a hero of the Texas Republic. [Some say he was
main drafter of the Texas Declaration of Independence, but that’s not in our
family records.]
[Other records erroneously say he was
born 1801; but our McCorkle-Huie records say 1795; the State of Texas shrine at San Jacinto near Houston, Texas, lists David Thomas’ birthdate as 1801. I’m going with Ora
McCorkle Huie & Katie Pearl McCorkle Fox’s records. They were 2 sisters who
kept meticulous family records. I might get connections mixed up, but I
don’t think Aunt Ora and Aunt Kate did.]
David Purviance Thomas
was mortally wounded near San Jacinto Battleground, Texas. First attorney general
ad interim, Republic of Texas; and Secretary of War.
I hope to get to visit the Texas State Archives
in Austin to see his handwritten
records. Circa 1998 I met the Texas archivist elsewhere and
she told me, yes, she was very familiar with our David Thomas. She said she
could tell by the degree of shakiness of David Thomas’ handwriting just how
closely approaching was Santa Ana’s Mexican Army.
-- I wish the State of Texas could reassure me it
would preserve the quilt we have that was pieced by this David Thomas’ family.
It came to me from Sue Alice McCorkle Lee, a daughter of Glenn Roache McCorkle, who was a son of John Edwin McCorkle. Sue
said she thought I would treasure the quilt, and I do.
An
entry follows further down, the article I placed on Wikipedia,
the online encyclopedia:
`
II.4.
Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle), b.1802, married Edwin Alexander McCorkle,
an initial magistrate for Dyer County appointed by the
governor of Tennessee. Named after a Jane [Purviance?] Maxwell [an aunt?] who appears in Cumberland
Presbyterian church records in Middle Tennessee and Kentucky. – As mentioned
above, one of Jane’s aunts, a Purviance woman
(Janette Purviance) married a Maxwell man (Richard
Maxwell) . Another aunt married a Mr. Maxwell also. Jane is my father Ewing Huie’s
paternal great-grandmother.Jane’s husband Edwin A. McCorkle died 10th January
in 1853; and Jane died in 1855, both too young.
II.5.
Sarah Purviance Thomas, b ca.1803,
m. Eleazor Woods
See Goodspeed’s History of
Tennessee Dyer County.
II.6.
Hiram Jacob Thomas, M.D., born 1813, married Rebecca
Stephens. He removed from Wilson County, Tennessee, to Vernon, Madison or perhaps Jasper County, Mississippi; and then to Yazoo, Mississippi.
Obituary from The Weekly Clarion,
May 22, 1878, page 3, in the Mississippi Department of Archives & History. Transcribed 13 May 1980 by Evelyn D. Cushman.
“ [1878] Obituary
“Dr. Hiram
J. Thomas died at his residence in
Yazoo County on 17th inst., after a protracted illness, aged 72
years. He was a native of
Wilson County, Tennessee, and removed in early
life to
Vernon, Madison County, Mississippi, where he
successfully practiced his profession until 1835, when he
moved to Yazoo, and continued his
practice in connection with planting. [I don’t think 1835 is correct, for he
received a letter in 1836 from his brother David Thomas, sent from Texas, addressed to Vernon, Mississippi.] In 1852 he married Miss Rebecca
Stephens, who died the following year.
He was for a number of years a member of the legislature from Yazoo
county, and although
without pretensions to oratory, his clear judgement,
accurate information, familiarity with parliamentary rules and urbanity of
address, gave him more weight in that body than could mere gift of words. He is said to have been more
frequently than any other member called to the chair during the absence of the
Speaker.
“In all that
constituted a good citizen and neighbor he was pre-eminent. He was charitable, just, and public spirited,
his purse and hand were ever ready to aid in any work of public good, whether
religious, charitable, social or political.
He was in his convictions and opinions inflexibly firm, yet always
respectful of those of others; without ostentation, he dispensed charity with a
liberal hand. After a long life of
public and patriotic usefulness, he goes down to the grave with a memory
revered and blessed by troops of friends.
He died without an enemy, and his walk and conduct, his justice, his
love of truth, his unvarying integrity in all the relations and duties of life,
his charity, and his kindness to his fellow man, his fidelity to every trust,
show that in its broad and full sense he was a true Christian, although not a member of any church. He met death with that calmness and composure
which a Christian with a conscious sense of the rectitude of his life should
meet the end of earthly things. R.B. “
Back
to: David Thomas Wikipedia online dictionary
entry:
(10 December
1795–1836) was a
signatory of the
Texas Declaration of Independence
and the first
Attorney General (ad interim) and acting
Secretary
of War of the
Republic
of Texas.
Early life and family
David
Thomas was the third of six children of William and Elizabeth (Purviance)
Thomas of
Wilson County, Tennessee. He was born on
10 December
1795 (State of Texas
records say 1801), presumably in
Wilson County, Tennessee. His parents
removed from Middle Tennessee to
Dyer County in the newly opened Western
District of Tennessee.
David
Thomas's father, William Thomas, was from the area of
Statesville, North Carolina, then
Tennessee. His three brothers, Henry, James, and John, were also soldiers in
the Revolutionary War. William's father was Jacob Thomas of
Rowan County, North Carolina, also a
Revolutionary War soldier, who married Margaret Brevard.
David
Thomas's mother Elizabeth was the daughter of
Revolutionary
War soldier John Purviance of Rowan County, who married Mary Jane Wasson.
One of Elizabeth's brothers was
David Purviance,
who is listed as a co-founder with
Barton
Stone of the Christian Church-Church of Christ which originated at the
Cane Ridge Meeting
House in
Bourbon County, Kentucky, outside
Paris,
Kentucky, circa 1804. David Purviance served in the Kentucky and Ohio
legislatures, where he continually advocated
abolitionism,
and founded
Miami University, serving often as its president pro
tempore. Levi Purviance wrote a biography of the father David Purviance.
A
birth quilt made by his family is crafted "D.O. Thomas", but his
middle name is unknown and it is possible that the intent was "DP" for
"David Purviance Thomas", reflecting his mother's maiden name.
David
Thomas later became a
lawyer. It is known that
Sam Houston
read law at
Maryville College in eastern Tennessee, but is
not yet known where his friend and colleague David Thomas read law, whether
with a preceptor or at college.
The independence of Texas
David
Thomas affixed his signature to the
Texas Declaration of Independence
alongside that of Sam Houston, each from
Refugio on
March 2,
1836. His writings in
the Texas State Archives as Secretary of War reveal, by the degree of shakiness
of handwriting, the relative proximity to the Texans of
Santa Anna's
troops heading toward
San Jacinto.
On
3 March
1836, David Thomas was
amongst those appointed to the Constitutional Committee for the nascent
Republic of Texas and is thought to have been a principal drafter of the
Constitution of the Republic of
Texas: on the committee were, inter alia, David Thomas and
Sam Houston
of Refugio, Texas, and Robert Hamilton of Red River and James Collinsworth of
Brazoria.
Death and legacy
Thomas
died 1836 after suffering an accidental mortal wound from a musket ball in the
leg on the steamship Cayuga when fleeing troups of Santa Anna (Antonio
Lopez de Santa Anna) with the new government of the Republic of Texas as part
of the Runaway Scrape. David Thomas is buried in a hero's grave in the de
Zavala Cemetery in the San Jacinto battlefield state shrine near
Houston.
An
extant letter sent from
Groce's Plantation,
some 12 miles below
Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas to
his brother, Hiram Jacob Thomas, M.D., dated just before David Thomas's death
in 1836 states unequivocally, "I am attorney general of Texas." He
reports that their fellow Tennessean Colonel
David
Crockett has been killed at the
Alamo. By 1836, his brother Dr. H. J. Thomas had removed from
Tennessee to
Vernon in
Jasper County, Mississippi. The letter,
in the
University of Texas libraries, is handstamped
"Nashville T," where evidently the recipient paid for and picked up
the letter, in a time before the government issued stamps and when the
addressee had to pay to receive mail:}}
"
Großes Pass [Groce's Plantation]
March 20th 1836
13 miles below Washington [-on-the-Brazos]
"
Dear Brother
"
I have only time to write you a few words Major Green has just arrived and
tells me that he saw you lately at New Orleans, afterwards at Vernon [Mißißippi].
"
The convention has adjourned, and after a declaration of Independence and
adoption of a constitution and electing a President -- one Presidente [sic],
Secratary [sic] of State of War of the Navy of The Treasury, and attorney
general all forming the 3 cabinets--I have not time to write to you in detail.
I am the attorney General of Texas.
"
You will I have no doubt see from the papers a full account of the proceedings
of Texas. The President & his cabinet will find their residence at
Harrisburgh on the Waters of the Trinity on [or?] Galveston Bay where you will
be good enough to direct your letterξ ---------
"
I have not speculated any as yet - times are a little difficult at this time.
Santa Anna is in the country--San Antonia [sic] was stormed on the 8th day of
this month, not a man escaped to tell the news, about one hundred & eighty
Americans were butchered col Croket amongst them and I expect Major Autry of
Jackson [Tennessee? Mississippi?] It is said that there was between two &
three Thousand Mexicans who made the attack. There was according to their own
account upwards of five hundred killed and as many wounded
"
Gen. Houston is in the field with 800 men in the Colorado his force increasing
dayly [sic]. Col Fannis is at Goliad with five or six hundred men, all
volunteers from the United States they have fortifyed [sic] and have, I have no
doubt, been attacked before this time. I am anxious to hear from there All my
acquaintances are there that belong to the army.
"
I have very little doubt but Santa Anna will attempt to storm that force, if he
should succeed they will suffer the fate of those in the Alamo. But I feel
confident this place will be able to sustain itself.
"
I will write to you again soon
Yourξ &c. [et cetera]
David Thomaξ
"
Dr. H.J. Thomaξ " [End of Letter]
[Envelope handstamped as received at "Nashville T."]
Dr. H.J. Thomaξ
Vernon
Mißißippi
U.S.
_______________________________David
Thomas's
land
grant from the State of Texas was posthumously claimed by his nephew in
West Tennessee John Edwin McCorkle (1839-1924), Tennessee state legislator, on
behalf of all the nieces and nephews of David Thomas. One of them was David E.
Thomas, by then an attorney in Austin, Texas, who responded to an inquiry from
McCorkle that the land grant was not worth claiming, for it was subject to
Indian depredations and back taxes amounting to more than its fair market
value. Nevertheless, McCorkle claimed the land for the heirs of the decedent
David Thomas.
This
is what the land-grant document says:
"No.
525-- IN THE NAME of the STATE OF TEXAS: To all to whom these Presents shall
come, know ye: I, :F.R. Lubbock, Governor of the State aforesaid by
virtue of the power vested in me by Law and in accordance with the Laws of said
state in such case made and provided by these presents GRANT to the Heirs of
David Thomas, deceased, their heirs and assigns forever, One Third of a
League of Land, situated and described as follows: In Callahan County,
Survey No. 801, on the waters of Pecan Bayou, a tributary of the Colorado River
and between the East and West Caddo Peaks, by virtue of Headright Certificate
No. 165, issued by the Board of Land Commissioners for Bastrop County, on the
2'd day of November A.D. 1838. ...*********** In Testimony whereof, I
have caused the Great Seal of the State to be affixed, as well as the SEAL of
the General Land Office. Done at the City of Austin on the Twenty Fifth day of
April in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and Sixty Two [1862]
.....[signed] F.R. Lubbock, Governor...."
Sources
See for the presidents of the Republic
of Texas:
David G. Burnet, Sam
Houston, Mirabeau B. Lamar, and
Anson Jones.
The Texas Declaration of Independence online:
www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/republic/odeclar-10.html
Comptroller's Office, Austin, Texas, Certificate of
Redemption No. 675 P. A., April
16, 1880: "Whereas, At a sale of Lands for Taxes for the year
1877 the following described Real Estate was sold for the taxes of said year
and costs of sale, and the same was bid off to the State: Original Grantee:
David Thomas; No. of Acres: 99; Brown County; Unrendered:
This is to certify that John Edwin McCorkle [nephew, 1839-1924, representing
the heirs of David Thomas] has exhibited at this office satisfactory evidence
that he has paid...taxes for which said property was sold...amounting to $4.18
in accordance with 'An act for the relief of all persons whose lands have been
sold for taxes and bought in by the State,approved March 22, 1879.'"
Stuart Hoyle Purvines, PURVIANCE
FAMILY (privately published 1986).
1836 letter from David Thomas to his brother Hiram Jacob
Thomas, M.D., in University of Texas library for American History, donated by
Evelyn d'Arcy Cushman, wife of Alfred Cushman, a descentant
of David Thomas' other brother John Purviance Thomas,
born Middle Tennessee (Sumner County) 22 Feb. 1792, died 1857 Mississippi (and
wife Catherine Espy Thomas). John Purviance Thomas'
children were American J. Thomas (Mrs. Milton Hue Johnson), c.1817-1860, of
Gibson County, West Tennessee, mother of Sarah Jane Johnson McGee, 1845-1892,
grandmother of Henry Johnson McGee, 1869-Memphis 1919, great-grandmother of
Lucille McGee Cushman, born in Gibson Co, Tenn., to Houston, Texas, and gg-grandmother of James Alfred Cushman IV whose wife Evelyn
donated the 1836 letter to the University of Texas libraries; David E. Thomas,
1822-1887, attorney in Austin, Texas, m. Olivia Tulley;
Albert H. Thomas, 1825-1884, Methodist minister in Memphis who m. a daughter of
Judge Greer; and Melvina E. Thomas Riley.
Family photograph of Dr. Hiram Jacob Thomas, brother of
David Thomas; and papers concerning John Edwin McCorkle's redemption of land
grant to David Thomas for back taxes, both in the hands of Marsha Cope Huie.
Purviance-Thomas-McCorkle-Huie
Family Records of Dyer County in West Tennessee,
possessed by Marsha Cope Huie.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thomas_%28Texas_politician%29"
Categories:
1795 births |
1836 deaths |
Texas politicians
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The
following reproduces a 2001 email from Juanita Cook of West Memphis, Arkansas, to Marsha Cope Huie:
“ I do have lots of Thomas info---my gggg-grandfather and William Thomas who
married Elizabeth Purviance, were
brothers. I became a DAR member through my John Thomas. ... I have a
copy of a letter from (as written) Mrs. Ora McCorkle
Huie. I was shocked when I saw your Huie name [on the Dyer County,
Tennessee, web site]!! This was written to a Mr
H. J. McGee in Memphis TN from Mrs. Huie in Newbern TN on Mar 7,
1912. It concerns a [Texas land] dispute in the family, somehow, I don't
understand it--you probably do.
[It
was about the Estate of David Thomas, 1st attorney general ad
interim of the Republic of Texas; signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence
if not the main drafter, his signature inscribed beside Sam Houston’s
signature, each listing himself as representing Refugio, Texas; and Secretary
of War. John Edwin McCorkle circa 1880 succeeded in redeeming the land grant.
He got together the unpaid taxes on the land. By then the only land Texas had to grant was westerly, I think in Brown County near what is now Brownwood, Texas: I have custody of the pertinent old records, given
me as mere bailee by Annie Glen McCorkle, a daughter
of Uncle Glenn Roache McCorkle. John Edwin McCorkle
first inquired by letter to his 1st cousin, David E. Thomas, an
attorney by then in Austin, Texas, whose response is in the old records. David
E. Thomas, Attorney, seemed never to have heard of his 1st cousin
John Edwin McCorkle of Dyer
County, Tennessee. He responded that his Uncle David’s land grant would
be subject to Indian depredations, and that unpaid taxes would have accrued.]
“I also have a copy of an old newspaper page that has
an obituary of William Thomas. Also a small death
notice of Col. David Thomas. Do you have a copy of "
Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses" which has
a long article about David Thomas?
“Most of my info on this line of Thomases
came from Evelyn Cushman of Bedford, Texas. Her husband, James Alfred Cushman, was a
descendant of the Purviance line. Evelyn did
all the research---she helped me so much when I was gathering Thomas info for
my DAR application. I think she and her husband are in
bad health now; they are a bit older than I am and that's OLD! I'm
79 and have been at this for many years and wish that I had started
earlier!
“Marsha, did you know that your William Thomas [who
married Elizabeth Purviance] and 3 other
brothers were in the Revolutionary War? All sons of Jacob
Thomas & Margaret Brevard Thomas: my John was the
oldest, then James--Henry—William. John stayed
in Statesville, NC
(old home-place) but the other 3 came into Tennessee.
“I live in West Memphis, Arkansas, and have been into Gibson, Crockett, and Dyer Co.
many times--I know where the McCorkle Cemetery is located. My dad was from Crockett Co.
and his mother, Cora Lee Thomas, was from Gibson Co. Some
of the Thomas family settled in and around Humboldt-Jackson, Tenn., area. --Thanks for writing---I will be
happy to help you and share any info that I have! Just let me know.
– Juanita ”
[End
of the above Email from Juanita Cook to Marsha Huie]
[Immediately
below is another email transmission from Juanita Cook to Marsha Huie:]
“
My John Thomas married Mary Jetton--she was a
daughter of Elizabeth Brevard and John Jetton. A son of John's, Isaac
Thomas, married Asenath Houston.
My gggg- grandfather and the William Thomas
who married Elizabeth Purviance, were brothers. I became a DAR member through my John Thomas. I have a copy of a letter from
(as written) Mrs. Ora McCorkle Huie.
This was written to a Mr H. J. McGee in Memphis, TN, from Mrs. Huie in Newbern, TN, on Mar 7, 1912. I also have a copy of
an old newspaper page that has an obituary of William Thomas. Also I
have a small death notice of Col David Thomas.
Juanita
Cook writes further:
(1)
“I think the Thomas men did stop over in Middle Tennessee before
stopping in Dyer
County, Tennessee. According to one pension
application, he was living in Sumner Co., but expecting to go to Gibson
Co. I can't remember which Thomas it was.”
(2)
John Thomas, James Thomas, Henry Thomas, and William Thomas – all four Thomas
brothers – were in the Revolutionary War.
And
so begins the Thomas Genealogy:
Generation I. Jacob Thomas and Margaret
Brevard of Rowan
County, NC. Their
children =Generation II.
Generation II.
Children of Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard Thomas:
CII John
Thomas, the oldest
brother. –This John Thomas remained in Statesville, Rowan County, North Carolina; but the other three Thomas brothers migrated into West Tennessee. Generation II. John Thomas
married Mary Jetton. [The wife of this John Thomas, Mary Jetton, was a
daughter of Elizabeth Brevard and John Jetton.]
C II
James Thomas – James
Thomas was in Gibson
County, Tennessee, in 1834, for he gave witness in Dyer County on 2 July 1834 to Elizabeth Purviance Thomas’ (Mrs. William
Thomas’), his sister-in-law’s, affidavit made in applying for a Revolutionary
War widow’s pension. [The brother John Thomas stayed in Statesville NC (old home-place) but the other 3 came into West Tennessee.]
C II
Henry Thomas
– Please recall that the brother John stayed in Statesville NC (old home-place) but the other 3 came into West Tennessee, including this Henry Thomas.
C
IIWilliam Thomas,
born Rowan County, NC, on 3 Sept. 1761, and lived there until end of Revolutionary War; moved
to Wilson County in Middle Tennessee for many years,
then circa 1830 moved westward to Dyer County where he
died 1 April 1833. – William’s brother John stayed in Statesville NC (old home-place) but the other 3 came into West Tennessee. [William Thomas married
Elizabeth Purviance in Rowan County,
North Carolina, on 19 May 1791. = ancestors of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle (Jane
Maxwell Thomas). Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle’s children: John Edwin
McCorkle; Anderson Jehiel McCorkle; David Purviance McCorkle; Finis A. McCorkle; Hiram R. A.
McCorkle; Rebecca (Becky) McCorkle Zarecor;
Elizabeth Lizzy Reeves (Mrs. Hiram
Reeves of near Humboldt, Gibson County, Tennesssee).
Thus William Thomas by Elizabeth Purviance begot a
host of descendants, including my only sibling, Sophie Huie Cashdollar
and her 2 children, Jessica Huie Cashdollar &
Hunter Huie Cashdollar; and me, your compiler, Marsha
Cope Huie.]
Generation II.
Elizabeth Thomas (Sherrill),
daughter of Jacob Thomas, was born circa 1763, married on 17 January 1782 Samuel Wilson Sherrill, born 1758.
Bondsman: James Thomas, her
brother. Aunt of Mrs. Edwin Alexander
McCorkle (Jane Maxwell Thomas). –It
took me forever to figure out what the Thomas-Sherrill connection was, for even
Aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle Fox in her collection wrote, “I don’t really
understand all these Sherrill entries.”
I, Marsha Huie, even placed the Sherrill details (Elizabeth Thomas
Sherrill’s children) on
www.ancestry.com
, anonymously of course.
Generation II. Annie
Thomas (Sherrill), daughter of Jacob Thomas, sister of Elizabeth Thomas
Sherrill and of William Thomas, inter alia.
Annie Thomas (Mrs. Able Sherrill) was born 16 August 1772 in Lincoln or Rowan County, NC. Able Sherrill
& wife Annie Thomas Sherrill moved to Wilson County, Tennessee. Their
descendants moved to Independence County and Isard
County, Arkansas, viz.,
Samuel Wilson Sherrill.
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Generation III. John Thomas and Mary Jetton
Thomas had a son, Isaac Thomas, who married Hannah
McKnight. Or is this correct: Isaac Thomas, son of John Thomas
and Mary Jetton, married Asenath
Houston.
Juanita Cook writes, “I'm not sure but I think her, Asenath Houston’s, family tied to old Sam Houston some
way.”
***
*** ***
Generations
Later: The “John Thomas married Mary
Jetton” union produced Juanita Cook. John Thomas was her gggg-grandfather. This John Thomas and Marsha Huie’ss William Thomas, who married Elizabeth Purviance, were brothers. Juanita Cook became a DAR member through this John Thomas, and says we could do the same through
William Thomas.
I
think the ff. is repetitious, but have spent way too much time editing
this document, so here it may be again, with apologies to the reader:
Generation I. Jacob Thomas and Margaret Brevard. [
Their children = Generation II.]
Generation
II. William and Elizabeth ( Purviance)
Thomas:
Their
children = Generation III:
C
Generation III.
John
Purviance Thomas,
b 1792 married Kitty Espy –“ Juanita, I’ve been
to see an old Espy Tavern in Pennsylvania [ Bedford, Pa.]. The old records from West Tennessee, to which I don’t have access in Tulsa, mention a story about an Espy Tavern. George
Washington visited it, I think. – Juanita Cook says: “John Purviance Thomas’s son, David E. Thomas, was a lawyer and
moved to Austin TX.” Marsha Huie says, “I have a letter from this
Attorney David E. Thomas to my paternal great-grandfather John Edwin McCorkle
about the estate of their uncle David Thomas. (David Thomas was David E.
Thomas’ paternal uncle and John Edwin McCorkle’s maternal uncle.)”
Generation
IV. David E. Thomas,
attorney in Austin, Texas.
C
Generation III.
Margaret Thomas, b 1793 m Mr Dickey – the “Peggy” Dickey who
provided land for the building of Lemalsamac
Christian Church, later after the schism the Lemalsamac
Church of Christ, which still stands in the year 2003. She was herself a Purviance descendant, from the Purviances who began their life in America in the colony of Pennsylvania. Mr. Dickey’s ancestors, if not he himself, came from
Pennsylvania as well. – [The following of the Scott-Huie
line was also born a Dickey: James Scott, b. 1777, m. Sarah Dickey, also born
1777 but died Yorkville, Tennessee. (Tombstones moved circa 1984 from old
Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery, then in terrible disrepair, to
McCorkle Cemetery in 1984 by me); James Scott m. Violet B. Roddy;
Sarah Elizabeth Scott m. Julius M. Huie; Julius Dolph
Huie and Howard Anderson Huie, brothers, married two McCorkle sisters, Ora McCorkle Huie and my grandmother Sophie King McCorkle
Huie, respectively. Maury A. Huie, 1895-1973, and my father Howard Ewing
Huie, 1907-1971, double-first-cousins, son of Ora and
son of Sophie, respectively. Maury fathered Bill Huie & Edward C.
Huie, each of whom died in 2001, and an afflicted son named Joe Huie who lived
to be aged about 8; Ewing Huie, 1907-died 1971, married in 1939 Joyce Cope Huie
and begot Sophie Huie Cashdollar & Marsha Cope
Huie. Sophie Joyce Huie Cashdollar of Dyersburg, Tennessee, married Parker Ditmore Cashdollar, Ph.D., whose children are Hunter Huie Cashdollar & Jessica Huie Cashdollar
(Mrs. Brian Louis
Blackwell).
Generation III.
C
David Thomas, born 1795 according to my great-aunt’s
records, that is, the records of Katie Pearl McCorkle (Mrs. Ed Lee Fox), who
lived until her death circa 1963 on the old McCorkle Home-place in eastern Dyer
Co., Tennessee. Aunt Kate’s records supplemented those of her sister Ora McCorkle Huie (Mrs. Julius Adolphus
Huie).
o
Texas
records state David Thomas was born 1801. – It’s very clear to me that
David Thomas and Sam Houston had some connection. – As mentioned, Juanita
Cook has written the ff. about Isaac Thomas, a son of her John
Thomas: “Isaac Thomas married Asenath
Houston.” Her John Thomas was an older brother of our WILLIAM THOMAS, who
married ELIZABETH PURVIANCE. As mentioned, Juanita Cook wrote by email
to Marsha Huie:
“My John Thomas
married Mary Jetton--she was a daughter of Elizabeth Brevard
and John Jetton. A son of John's, Isaac Thomas, married
Asenath Houston. …My gggg- grandfather and the William Thomas
who married Elizabeth Purviance, were brothers.”
Generation
III.
C
Jane Maxwell Thomas, born 1802, married Edwin Alexander
McCorkle. They removed from Rutherford County, Tennessee (Murfreesboro area) and settled with his parents, Robert &
Margaret Morrison McCorkle in the newly opened Western District of Tennessee.
[I don’t know for certain about Jane Maxwell Thomas’ parents, William Thomas
& Elizabeth Purviance Thomas – whether they
came to West Tennessee or not, but I’ve seen records saying they died in Dyer County, Tennessee.] Edwin A. McCorkle was the son of Robert McCorkle and Margaret
Morrison McCorkle, buried McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, Tennessee.
Generation
III.
C
Sarah Purviance b
circa 1803, m Eleazor
Woods. Sarah P and Eleazor Woods are
in Goodspeed’s History of
Tennessee, biographies of Dyer Co, Tennessee.
Generation
III.
C
Hiram Jacob Thomas, M.D., born
1813, married Rebecca
Stephens. She soon died and he had no issue. An obituary about
him in Mississippi stated that although he was a member of no
denomination, he was an exemplar of Christian behavior. A letter from his
brother, David Thomas, saying “I am attorney general of Texas” was mailed in 1836 to Dr. H J Thomas, Vernon,
Mississippi. We have a
tintype or daguerreotype of him.
1834 Application of Elizabeth Purviance Thomas (Mrs. William Thomas)
for Revolutionary War Widow’s Pension, Number 53780
William Thomas was born to Margaret Brevard & Jacob Thomas in Rowan County, North Carolina,
on 3 September 1761, and died 1 April 1833
in Dyer County, Tennessee, having
removed there, some 3 years prior, from Wilson
County, Tennessee.
[Jane Maxwell Thomas (Mrs.
Edwin Alexander McCorkle) was a daughter of Elizabeth Purviance
(Thomas) and husband, Revolutionary War soldier William Thomas. Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle was therefore a
sister-in-law to Margaret Permelia (Pamela) McCorkle
Scott (Mrs. Lemuel Locke Scott, 1802-1853); to Jehiel Morrison McCorkle (died 1849); to RAH
McCorkle; to Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, to Rebecca Cowden McCorkle Thompson, inter alia.
Dyer County, Tennessee, 2
July 1834
This day appeared before me GEORGE W. TINKLE, one of the acting
justices of the peace for the county of Dyer, ELIZABETH [PURVIANCE] THOMAS, widow and relict of WILLIAM
THOMAS, deceased, late of said county, at the residence of the said
ELIZABETH [PURVIANCE] THOMAS because
from age, said Elizabeth was unable to appear before me, and made the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed the 7
of June A.D. 1832.She states that on the first
of April 1833 her husband WILLIAM THOMAS departed this life
being then a citizen of Dyer county where he had resided about 3 years having removed from the county of WILSON where he had lived for many
years, to the county of Dyer where he died.
She states that she intermarried with the said WILLIAM THOMAS, deceased, some time
about 19 May 1791 in the state of
North Carolina. She further
states that the said William Thomas in his life time made his declaration to
avail himself of the benefits of the aforesaid act of Congress and departed
this life, which declaration was returned for informality. She further states that [her son-in-law] EDWIN A. McCORKLE, one of the executors
of the said WILLIAM THOMAS, deceased, in like manner made an amended
declaration which was in like manner returned.
And the said ELIZABETH [PURVIANCE] THOMAS,
widow and relict of the said WILLIAM THOMAS, deceased, further declares and
says that the said WILLIAM THOMAS has always been held and taken for a soldier
of the Revolution and a man of good character and undoubted veracity, and that
the substance of his declaration is herewith embodied and set forth which the
said ELIZABETH THOMAS believes to be true, having often many years heretofore
heard the said WILLIAM THOMAS repeat the same, the substance of which is as
follows:
Declarant
[William Thomas] stated that he was born
in the county of Rowan, North Carolina,
on the 3rd day of September 1761, where he continued to
reside until the close of the revolutionary war and he stated that he
entered the service of the United States and served under the following
officers; that sometime in the year 1780
he was drafted to go into South
Carolina to ??serve??? a tour of three
months against the British. The
company to which declarant belonged was commanded by James Purviance,
Lt. Abel Armstrong, Ensign John Lucky [?]. He rendezvoused at Salisbury, North
Carolina,
where the command of the regiment was taken by Col. MARTIN ARMSTRONG. At this place the
troops joined Gen l Rutherford who took command of the whole. After lying there awhile, they were marched
on to meet Gen l Gates whose army they fell in with after crossing Peedee River in South Carolina from when they proceeded to HUGULY’s (?) mills not far from Camden, where he was detached under Colonel Graves (Isaacs?) to join Gen l Sumter who was lying at the Catawba River. After lying here awhile, they heard of the
defeat of Gen l Gates,
when they were marched up the Catawba
River where they were
overtaken by a body of British who attacked the troops and defeated them. From thence the declarant
went home.
“ Shortly after this, declarant
was again called out, his time of service not having expired, by Gen l
Davidson, when they went to Mecklenburg where he remained until the expiration of his tour of
service and he was regularly discharged by Maj JOHN JOHNSON, which discharge has since been
lost.
“Declarant further stated that
some time in 1780 he was called into
service to go against the Loyalists in N.C. under Col. HUGH BREVARD. They were
marched towards the south fork of the Catawba.
Here they were engaged for some time against the tories
some of whom they took prisoners and dispersed others. He further stated that they then returned
home. He further stated that within the
last of 1780 or the first of 1781, they were again drafted to serve a tour
under Gen’l DAVIDSON
against the British under Cornwallis, who were pursuing Genl
MORGAN [Swamp Fox: Francis
Marion Morgan] after the battle of COWPENS.
They were marched under Gen’l DAVIDSON
to the Catawba river in N.C. and were stationed at the
ford to oppose the crossing of Cornwallis.
Shortly after they took their station here, the British came up and
commenced a passage of the river at day-break, when the action commenced, the
British repulsed them and in their retreat he saw Gen’l
DAVIDSON a few minutes before he
fell. After this event, they were ordered to retreat by
Maj. WM. POLK. He stated that he then
returned home. He was again called into
service under Col. FRANCIS LOCKE to
join Gen’l GREEN in Virginia. They accordingly marched from the Yadkin
[River] in N.C. and shortly after joined GREEN.
He remained with the army till his term of 3 months expired, and was
discharged and returned home.
“He stated that he then remained in Iredell County, N.C., until the year 1791, when he removed to SUMNER COUNTY, Tennessee, where he
remained until 1799, when he removed to Wilson County, Tenn., where he remained
till the year 1830, when he removed to Dyer County, Tenn., where he resided at
the time of his death. He stated that he
was 71 years of age on the 3rd
of September 1832, according to a copy of the record of his father’s [Jacob
Thomas’s] family bible in N.C. which he had in his possession; that
he had no documentary proof to prove his service, his discharge being
lost. He referred to [his brother] HENRY
THOMAS to prove 3 months of the service, whose affidavit proved
3 months of service time mentioned in said affidavit and the said [widow of the
declarant] ELIZABETH [PURVIANCE THOMAS] states that
the said HENRY THOMAS is now dead. He
stated that his name was not on the roll of pension agency for any state and
the said ELIZABETH hereby
relinquishes all claim whatever for a pension or annuity except the
present. And the said ELIZABETH THOMAS
refers to DANIEL
HENDRICKS [then aged 51; Joyce Cope Huie’s
great-great grandfather through her father Ira Mitchell Cope’s mother, “SIS”
Narcissus Elizabeth Hendricks Cope (later Mrs. Forcum)
and EDWIN A. McCORKLE [then aged 35 her son-in-law], citizens of Dyer county
as to the reputation of the character
and services of the said WILLIAM
THOMAS, dec’d, as well as to her intermarriage
with the said WILLIAM. She further
refers to [her brother-in-law] JAMES THOMAS .of Gibson county, whose
affidavit will be hereto attached.
“Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2nd day
of July 1834
George W. Tinkle, J.P.
“[signed] ELIZABETH THOMAS ”
[…Pension Application also contains Affidavits of reputation
for veracity of William Thomas and wife Elizabeth Purviance
Thomas made by affiants Daniel Hendricks
and Edwin A. McCorkle….]
[The related affidavit of James Thomas of Gibson
County was made on 2 July 1834, aged about 78 years, at
the residence of Elizabeth Purviance Thomas in Dyer
County. He avers that he is a brother to William
Thomas and that the latter was twice drafted during the Revolutionary War for
3-month periods.
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Some
Maxwell marriages in Preble County, Ohio, of interest to the Purviance family are:
C
Thomas Purviance to Nancy Maxwell, 15 March 1810, 001 008 by John Fleming, JP [presumably,
Justice of the
Peace].
C
Richard Maxwell, son of William Maxwell, was b. in Va. in 1776
and married (1st ) Jennette
“Janie” Purviance, daughter of John Purviance and Mary Jane Wasson Purviance,
Jennette b. aft. 1776. He m.(2nd) Anna
McCutcheon in Bourbon Co., KY.
Nancy
Purviance (Mrs. Thomas Maxwell) –
In
Sept. 2003, on the Internet [[email protected]],
I found information about the Maxwell families that were attached to the
Purviance family, and by extension to the Thomas
and McCorkle families. This is the crux of Mark Freeman on Thomas
Maxwell and Nancy Purviance Maxwell, at <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~markfreeman/maxwell
>:
Re:
Nancy Purviance: Eleazor
Purviance lived two doors from Thomas Maxwell
in the 1820 or 1830 census for Giles Co., TN. [Then, kind of a generic term for
Middle Tennessee, I think.] Nancy Maxwell’s will, executed by her in 1839
and probated in 1839 – meaning she died in 1839 – lists her
children as Cynthia Maxwell, Sarah Maxwell, Thomas Mulky Maxwell, David Purviance
Maxwell, John Purviance Maxwell, Jane
Purviance Maxwell, and James W. Maxwell.
Executors of will of Nancy Purviance Maxwell: two
sons John Purviance Maxwell & David
Purviance Maxwell.
More
about the children of Nancy Purviance Maxwell (Mrs.
Thomas Maxwell):
C
1. Cynthia
Maxwell, oldest daughter, born about 1811 in Bedford Co., TN. She
married [unknown] Carl.
C
2. Sarah
Maxwell, youngest daughter
C
3. Thomas [Mulky] Maxwell, youngest son– Thomas [Mulky] Maxwell, born 23 Dec. 1813 in Giles Co., TN, died on the way to Oregon. He married [Unknown] Newton. According to Calloway Leander Maxwell,
in Memoirs dated 22 April 1926, Thomas Mulky Maxwell was
known as such and was a Presbyterian preacher. He moved to Benton
Co., Ark., for a short time. He may later have moved to Illinois. He then set out for Oregon and died on the
way.
C
4. David Purviance Maxwell.
C
5. John Purviance Maxwell – born 18 April 1812, died 16 Aug. 1882 in Benton Co., Arkansas.
C
6. Jane P.
Maxwell, born 27 March 1814 in TN, died Nov. 1871 in
Hunt Co., TX [This would be near Greeneville, TX, which is about 60
miles east of Dallas.]
C
7. James
W. Maxwell, born 21 Jan 1816 in Giles Co., TN, died 1st
July 1890 in Benton Co., Arkansas.
Thomas
Maxwell, born 1792 = the generation 4
denoted by Mark Freeman’s web pages. Father of Thomas Maxwell =
generation 3 and is unknown. Generation 2 = William Maxwell.
Generation 1 is unknown.
Thomas Maxwell, b.1792, d. about 1828 [?] in Giles County, Tennessee. Thomas Maxwell married Nancy Purviance on 15 March 1810 in Preble County, Ohio.
Nancy Purviance [Mrs. Thomas Maxwell] was a daughter
of [Rev. War Colonel] John Purviance [Sr.] and
Mary Jane Wasson Purviance. Nancy Purviance Maxwell was born before 1795 and died after 1839
in Benton County, Arkansas. – But, Mark Freeman’s Internet pages say in
the year 2003, Thomas Maxwell may have been in Arkansas in 1836
with his wife.
Alternatively, records show a Thomas Maxwell buried in Giles Co.,
Tennessee, listed in the “Brown Cemetery” in Giles Co., Tennessee,
records as having died in 1831; this Thomas Maxwell is buried in
“Brown Cemetery” adjacent to a Mr. Pevines.
This name is probably some variation of Purviance.
If this 1831 death in Giles Co., TN., is our Thomas Maxwell, then his
father-in-law was a Mr. Purviance. In
fact, the name of Thomas Maxwell’s father-in-law would have been John Purviance. Therefore, according to the
above, this could be where our ancestors, Col. John Purviance and wife Mary Jane Wasson Purviance, are buried. A likely spot,
then, is Brown Cemetery, Middle Tennessee, formerly Giles County, Tennessee. This bears further investigation. [Today, this
site seems to be in Spring
Hill, Tennessee; but I’m not sure.]
1839, Will of Nancy Purviance Maxwell, Will Book A, page 36, Benton County, Arkansas:
I Nancy Maxwell of the County of Benton and State of Arkansas being in bad health but sound in mind and memory do
make and ordain this my last will and testament. First of all I resign my
body to the dust from whence it came and my soul to God who gave it.
Second I give and bequeath to my oldest daughter Cynthia two beds and
bed cloths one cow and one side saddle.
Third I give and bequeath to my youngest daughter Sarah two beds and bed
cloths one cow and one stand of curtains, one set of plates and one set of cups
and saucers, one set of knives and forks, one bedstead, one trunk and two head
of sheep. I also want her to have three months of schooling.
Fourth I give and bequeath to my youngest son Thomas my bay colt a good
saddle and one cow. I also wish him to have five months of schooling.
Fifth I wish all my just debts paid and then what remains divided equally
between all my children and last of all I do hereby appoint my two sons John
P. Maxwell and David P. Maxwell executors.
Acknowledged and signed in the presence of us this 14 day of July 1839:
Witnesses: [signed] W i
l l i a m H. W o o d s
[signed] Samuel
Whitehead
End of Purviance Excursus
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McCorkles in Virginia:
Our McCorkle people were almost certainly in the Lexington, Virginia, area (Rockbridge County) for a time on their migration from Pennsylvania down to Rowan County, North Carolina. Some of them would have probably have remained in Virginia. My husband, Ralph Ervin Williamson,
recently read a biography of Sam Houston, dated in the early 20th
century and now out-of-print, which said the Houston family traveled with the McCorkle family, and
settled for a time, at least, around Lexington, Virginia.
This would explain “Peggy” Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s references in her
correspondence to the likelihood of various relatives’ being in Virginia to “settle old lawsuits.” This
would also explain the obvious connection in Texas in the early 19th century between Sam
Houston and our David Thomas, brother of Mrs. Edwin
Alexander McCorkle of Dyer
County, Tennessee (Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle).
David Thomas and Samuel Houston seemed to appear in Texas at the same places until our David Thomas was
mortally wounded by a musket ball not actually in, but sometime around the time
of, the Runaway Scrape, fleeing Santa Anna’s army, rushing toward what became
the San Jacinto Battlefield, near Houston, Texas.
Our David Thomas is buried in a hero’s grave, at the San Jacinto state park, in the de Zevala Cemetery.
Texas has listed David Thomas’ birth date erroneously, at
least according to our records, as 1801. Sam Houston and David Thomas
each signed the Texas Declaration of Independence as being from Refugio, Texas. Their signatures are adjacent on the
document. Sam Houston read law at Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee. This makes me wonder if that’s where our David
Thomas studied law, but that’s mere speculation. As mentioned, our David
Thomas was both Secretary of War and 1st attorney general ad
interim of the Republic of Texas. He died, I thought, in the de Zavala home at San Jacinto, Texas,
from an injury received around the time of the Runaway Scrape; but Texas
official entries debate whether he was killed immediately or was carried
injured to the private home. I hope to see what I’ve been told, that David
Thomas’ handwriting at the Texas State Archives became steadily more shaky as
the Mexican army approached. –It’s ironic to think that by the late 1800s
General Santa Ana was up in New York City peddling questionable bonds and other securities.
I got the following McCorkle family in Virginia information from Mark Freeman’s Roots Web pages, 2003
A.D. These data place the McCorkle family in the same area (Lexington, Virginia) as the family of Sam Houston, which might explain
why David Thomas and Sam Houston seemed to appear in Texas at the same places until David Thomas was killed
heading toward San Jacinto Battlefield, Texas. For example, Sam Houston & David Thomas signed
their names side by side to the Texas Declaration of Independence and listed
themselves each as representing Refugio, Texas:
I pulled the following information regarding Rockbridge County, Virginia, from Mark Freeman’s web pages:
“
Rebecca Anderson5 McNutt
(John4th Generation , Alexander3rd Generation , Alexander2nd
Generation , John 1st generation One MacNauchtan) was born circa 1755 in Augusta Co., Va, & died Jan 1818 in Rockbridge Co., Va. She married (1st ) a John McCorkle in 1772 in Rockbridge
Co., VA. John
McCorkle was born 1750 in Rockbridge Co., Va, and died 1781 from the Revolutionary War Battle in Cowpens.
She married (2nd ) Arthur Glasgow ca. 1782; Glasgow born ca.1750 in Scotland; d..May 1822 Rockbridge
Co., Va. ”
Mark Freeman lists the children of Rebecca McNutt and John Mc Corkle as:
“
64 i. Rev. Alexander6 McCorkle,
born 07 Aug 1773 in
Rockbridge Co., VA; died 01 Mar 1851.
“65
ii. Rebecca McCorkle, born 03 May 1781 in Rockbridge Co.,
VA;died 11 Feb 1862 in Grant Co., Indiana. Rebecca McCorkle married Joseph
C. Walker 19 Apr 1804 in Rockbridge Co., VA; Joseph C. Walker, born 13 Oct 1782.
Mark
Freeman then lists the children of Rebecca McNutt by her 2nd
husband, Arthur Glasgow:
“66 i.
Joseph6 Glasgow, born 14 Oct 1783 in "Green Forest",
near Lexington, Rockbridge, Va; died in Rockbridge Co.,
Va.
“67
ii. John Glasgow, born
1785. ”
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Mark Freeman lists the following information about the surname Morrison.
[I searched because Margaret Morrison McCorkle was née Margaret Morrison]:
“Sarah5 Walker (John4 , Henry3 , James2
, Robert1 ) was b. 1755 in Derry Twp., Lancaster, Pennvylvania, and d. 30 Oct 1798. She married William Morrison after1782,
William Morrison being the son of Samuel Morrison and Mercy Mayse. Wm.was born 1747 in
Bucks Co., Pa; died Aug 1810. ”
----- END of Topic of: “Were our McCorkle people in the Lexington,
Virginia,
area for a time on their migration from Pennsylvania
down to Rowan County,
North Carolina?”
Many thanks to Mark Freeman for placing his information on
the
Internet. [End of Chapter Three]
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APPENDIX to CHAPTER THREE
Sent from Marsha Huie to Conny Green. Provenance of letter:
Gentry Purviance McCorkle to his 1st cousin Katie Pearl McCorkle (Fox) to Aunt
Kate's niece Annie Glen McCorkle; to Marsha Cope Huie, a daughter of Annie Glen
McCorkle's 1st cousin Howard EWING Huie.
Cornelia Taylor Correspondence by Email with Marsha Cope Huie
"Glen
Glenn Sound Company
Hollywood Studios
4516 Sunset Blvd. Olympia 2131
Hollywood
November 16 1937
Dear Katie Pearl:-
“First of all you, and you only, can
ever understand how terrible I feel about the news your letter brought me of
[your sister and] my dear [first] cousin Ora [Ora
McCorkle Huie]. After her long
life of usefulness and cheerfulness it is depressing to me to have it end
like this [in the insane asylum at Western State Hospital in Bolivar,
Tennessee]. It makes me pray all the more fervently: “O Lord Thy Kingdom
Come”. For then, our youth will be restored.”
“These two letters of your delight me
no little. They are so filled with the news of my remnant acquaintances and
old time friends in the homeland. It seems but yesterday that I was riding
‘old beck’, uncle
Hiram’s mule, to Lemalsamac [Christian
Church, now Church of Christ] with Ona
on a pad behind me and now I’m as old as my Dad was at the date of his
death.
You did not tell me about
Kate Cawthon
[Mrs. Pace]. How is she? Still a teacher in the schools? I
always thought a lot o’ her. [--Kate Cawthon Pace’s husband, Mr. Pace
(father of Harry Pace), was killed at the Newbern railroad tracks by a man
from Trimble who did more than merely brandish his walking stick. This man
from Trimble was the father of “Miss” Mattie ????? who ran the Trimble
library until circa 1985. No one was prosecuted; each participant in the
deadly fisticuffs was considered a bit contentious.] I’m sorry now
that I did not write the letter to cousin
Sallie Tobe before her death. I had it in mind a hundred times [Quaere:
Mmight Sallie Tobe have been some connection to “Tobe”
Allen Scott, a sister to Mrs. Julius M. Huie, (Sarah Scott Huie’s
dates of life 1839-1893)?].
Eddie [McCorkle,
the only child of Hiram R. A. McCorkle by Hiram’s 2nd wife
n ée Dona McCutchen] is a first-class rascal: I have written several
letters to him since 1884 when I left uncle
Hiram’s to live at home but
has he ever answered a single one? Nay Pauline ! ! ! ! His boy
Hiram [McCorkle] was
in California but I did not get to see him.
And, so,
Baz Brown is dead; that good old
man;
We ne’er shall see him more;
He used to wear a long tailed coat
All buttoned up before:
With his departure goes my last known
living enemy in the state of Tennessee and maybe in the USA. He hated me
without reason. I never did understand the reason why
Mattie
McConnell
[Brown] ever married
him! He was a goose!! He did not enjoy first-class principle. I has always
despised him.
Maggie L. [McCorkle]
and Mattie and I were friends together and had our little happy times
together and after Mattie married him she seemed to be afraid of him and
permitted him to alienate Mattie’s friendly relations from both Maggie and
me. I feel sure she is happy to be rid of him and his nasty vulgarity. The
community will sustain no loss and the world is better off. If I did not
consider it ill manners to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but
the truth about the dead, I’d devote another paragraph or two to that
bird.. [At one time in her life “Miss” Mattie Brown kept a boarding house
in Newbern.]
[page
two:]
”2”
Just how old is
Florene
[Hamilton]? Maybe you knew she and I were conducting a
burning courtship once upon a time and then the fire all of a sudden went
out. I saw her once, only, when she was married to
Clennie. She was good-looking
then, I thought, and was favorably impressed. So, in time, Clennie
and Momsie both died and I wrote to her. Was she 15 years or more
older than he was? That was reported by the Hamiltons.
[Florene Hamilton was the one who had
the ladies’ Dixieland band that traveled all over West Tennessee. She was
tall and thin and, after coming to Newbern where she married Mr. Hamilton,
she brought with her a niece named
Florene Wood, who
was not so tall as she.]
No, Katie Pearl darling, I’m
not married yet but by golly I am going to be
some o’ these days. As many darling women as there are in this earth
and as much as I love a precious woman, when I does love her, I’ll be
dad-blamed if I’m going to spend the next 35 years o’ my life doin’ without
one. SO:
But, they’re difficult to find. That
is, the gal I desire to have as a [third]
wife is scarce in California. Maybe
I’ll have to do as I did the other
two times, go back to Tennessee. I am a lookin’ all the time and a
hopin’ and prayin’ for the sort who can love me and whom I also can rave
about forever.
She should be a
Seventh Day Adventist; Not over 40;
Not too fat nor yet too thin; not too tall and neither too short; a
demi-blonde; not too brilliant and not too dumb; not too rich and never too
poor; a pretty face and a well developed form; auburn hair preferred; brown
will do; well educated; widow; (Old maids above 40 are too exacting) who
plays the piano.
There are 12 women to one man in the
SDA church and if there are any such as this in Tennessee she might consider
me. I’m still as gentle as a lamb, as light on my feet as a fox; my fingers
are as nimble as those of a boy of 25. There are many such women as I have
enumerated but mostly all married. But whenever I find the gal, which I
will, and she names the day, which I’m sure she will, I’ll send you her
picture and invite you to the wedding. I have one such in the horizon but
have not met her and she does not know what I’m a thinkin’.
Well, Katie darlin’,
the Signs O’
The Times have the name of the lawyer John Doe in my story
but did not want me to use his real name. I thought you would know him at
first sight but maybe you do not remember him. I heard him make just the
speech at the meeting as described in the story. He
was a brilliant lawyer there for years, was a
drunken bum for a long period of time and then reformed, opened his
law-office again, made good, married a beautiful and talented woman, was
supt of the christian sunday school at Newbern and was restored [
`````````````````````````````````````````”3”
I’m sure uncle John E [John
Edwin McCorkle, 1839-1924] would call his name the first name he
would pronounce. Think over all the people of that generation and if you
fail to recall him, I’ll tell you in my next letter. He was always a friend
o’ mine.
I have not seen [my ½-sister]
Mada [Mada
McCorkle Montgomery, a.k.a. Mrs. Howell Montgomery] since she
came back [to California] from Tennessee. She owes me $50.00 borrowed money
and $3000.00 additional which she and Howell and [their daughter]
Margaret [Montgomery]
squandered and this makes her shy about coming around since she received her
insurance money from the death of her husband. [My brother]
Homer
[McCorkle] is shy also on account of
$1600.00 and $250.. and $150.00 which I loaned to him in Texas in 1905. But
it is more blessed to lend than it is to
borrow and I’m thankful enough that I’ve always been on the lending end o’
the pole rather than the borrowing end.
I’d be very much pleased to hear from
Ona.
I think I’ll write another letter and take a chance. Where is her
step-mother now? I believe, also, I’ll write to [our McCorkle first-cousin]
Hiram Reeves [son
of Elizabeth McCorkle Reeves, who was a sister to Finis Alexander McCorkle,
GP’s father]
Well darlin’ cousin o’ mine,
I’ll
not enter into any controversy with you
for remaining with the church of our fathers. But I will
say this: Quoting you: “We have the same bible”: The law did indeed bring
us to Christ. But which law? Do not forget that there were two laws. The
moral law and the ceremonial law. The Earthly Sanctuary question discloses
that. All things revolve about the two laws and the sanctuary.
The hand of the Lord Himself wrote the
Decalogue. It was laid IN the ark of the covenant. It is this law whereby
we are to be judged. It stands forever. It has never been supplanted. The
ceremonial law brought us to Christ. The high-priest in the Holy of Holies
had his hand raised to slay the sacrificial lamb but dropped his knife when
the Lord Jesus said ‘It is Finished’ and the lamb went free for the reason
the moment Jesus paid the price no further animal blood was efficacious.
The ceremonial law was there nailed to the cross because it had in fact
ended when the veil of the temple was rent in twain.
One other:
Acts 20:7 does not recite that His
followers are to meet on the first day
to break bread in memory of His death and resurrection. I believed that
once also. It says they came together to break bread. Another way of
expressing a coming together to have a meal.
No change of the Sabbath is suggested.
“4”
The death of my [first] cousin
John Jackson saddens
me no little. I did not know him very well but always liked him. He was
the son of my uncle
John
Jackson who was one of my favorite uncles of them all.
But great scott, gal: This is such a
long and such a dull letter. I have another
story coming out this week or next in the SIGNS which maybe you’ll
like to read and I’ll send one to you. You will recall some of the events
and times and characters. Read it and tell me if you think it’s “sea
worthy”.
Write to me again. I do not like to
be forgotten. Neither do I wish to forget any of you. It was a terrible
disaster about the Crenshaw
bank wreck [in Newbern, Tennessee],
The paper said the money was stolen by some one inside. Who did it? Who
got the money? Tell me the inside facts and maybe I’ll write another
Newbern Bank Story: With all my love to you and to all the kin I am
Your cousin,
Gentry
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1. Bush
Crenshaw, a brother to Aline Crenshaw (Mrs. Parker Ditmore) (Aline, the
maternal grandmother of Parker Ditmore Cashdollar) took the hit --he went to
jail--for the bank troubles in Newbern. Because of the influence of
Hattie Carraway, one of the few women congresspersons (was she a senator
from Arkansas or a U.S. congresswoman from Arkansas?), Bush Crenshaw
received a presidential pardon. --The story refined:
Hattie Carraway's son was visiting someone in Newbern, Tennessee. The
son was injured (killed?) in Newbern. Bush Crenshaw and wife Glades
took the child into their home and cared for him. They didn't know
Hattie Carraway as I understand the story. She was understandably
grateful. And Bush got a great reward, indeed.--My grandfather Ira
Mitchell Cope, 187-1949, thought the world of Bush Crenshaw, who managed to
keep from foreclosing on the poor farmer's land when times got tough.
He felt that Bush Crenshaw was treated unjustly by the courts. I
imagine Bush broke some banking regulations but have not been able to find
anything written about the case.
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Pictured
below is a daughter of Glen Glenn & Mary Helen McCorkle (Glenn):
Deanna Glenn (Taylor).
She sits in a rocking chair inherited from the Roache family of
Elmira Sloan McCorkle (Roache) & Dr. Stephen Roache. In the left-hand
corner is her brother, -. Photo courtesy of Cornelia Taylor
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Above:
Gentry Purviance McCorkle, Sr., with daughter Mary Helen
McCorkle (Mrs. Glen Glenn)
of
Hollywood, California.
