Chapter Eight

John Edwin McCorkle’s 2^nd wife Mary Elizabeth Cotton (McCorkle) of Botland near Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky.  Cotton and Tong[ue] Families.

Hendricks Excursus:  Daniel Hendricks & Isabel Pendry of Rowan County, NC and their Dyer County, Tennessee Descendants.

TONG [Tongue or Tonge] Excursus of probably of interest only to my sister Sophie Joyce Huie Cashdollar and me. We are the last descendants of Juliet Tong Cotton:

Siblings of Juliet Tong Cotton:

Emily Tong (b. 1809); Columbus Tong (b. 1811); [Juliet, 1812, Mrs. John Cotton]; Elizabeth Tong (1814); Cyrus Tong (1817); Eleanor Tong (1819, Mrs. Reese Wilson); Remus Tong (1821, m. Laura Protsman); Matilda Tong (1824).

Tong Generation I:     John & Jane Tong[ue].

Generation II.         William Tong & Ellen Ford.  --  Lord, I wonder if she gets us mixed up with the Ford/Jesse James Boys crowd.

Generation III:        Joseph Ford Tongue m. Elizabeth Lewis (dau. of Thomas Lewis who was b. 1783);

Generation IV.         Juliet Tong m. John Cotton of Nelson County, Kentucky.

                       John & Juliet Cotton had 4 children:

        1: Rease Cotton, male, killed in, or at least around, the time of the Civil War  --  Was Rease Cotton named after his mother’s sister Eleanor Tong’s husband, Reese Wilson?  -- ;

        2:  Laura Cotton (Mrs. John Crittenden Hunter) who moved to Louisville, Ky. Laura & John Hunter had at least 2 children: a son, and “Miss” Maud Hunter who worked in a department store and never married [Maude Hunter provoked my father Ewing Huie as a young man when she corrected his usage of a napkin in a Nashville restaurant; he was visiting Maude in Nashville with his beloved maternal uncle Errett Cotton McCorkle, who was a 1^st cousin to Maude Hunter. I think Maud Hunter was a buyer for a big Nashville department store like Harvey’s or Cain-Sloan.  Uncle Errett Cotton McCorkle was personnel manager in St. Louis/Chicago – for “Renard?” Reynard Rug or Linoleum Company.]

        3: “Lou” Lucretia Peeke (Mrs. George Peeke, Peak, Peek); that Cotton-Tong line died out, too. I think Lou & George Peeke moved from Botland/Bardstown to Louisville, Kentucky.

        4:  Mary Elizabeth Cotton (McCorkle) who became the 2^nd wife of John Edwin McCorkle of Dyer County, Tennessee, John E. McCorkle being a 1^st cousin to Winfield Purviance McCorkle, who had moved from the Newbern area to Eminence, Kentucky.

It’s eerie to me that my sister Sophie Joyce Huie Cashdollar and I  -- and Sophie’s two children, Hunter Huie Cashdollar and Jessica Huie Cashdollar  --  are all that remain of the union of John Cotton and  Juliet Tong (Cotton). John Cotton predeceased his wife, Juliet Tong Cotton, who is by serendipity buried in the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County, Tennessee, where her daughter Mary had migrated through marriage.

Generation V:          Mary Elizabeth Cotton m. John Edwin McCorkle of Newbern, Tenn.;

Generation VI:         Sophie King McCorkle (Mrs. Howard Anderson Huie);

                       Errett Cotton McCorkle, 1888-1976, no wife no issue;

                       & Ewing McCorkle, died 1900 aged 16.

Generation VII.        Beth Huie, 1904-1993, no issue); and

                       Ewing Huie, 1907-1971 [Howard Ewing Huie]; and

Generation VIII.       Sophie Joyce Huie Cashdollar and Marsha Cope Huie;

Generation IX.            Hunter Huie Cashdollar and Jessica Huie Cashdollar (Mrs. Brian Louis Blackwell of Memphis);

Generation X.          ???As I write this in late February 2006, I hope Parker Blackwell will be born in Memphis in April 2006?   He came:  Paker Louis Cashdollar “PLC” Blackwell, April 14, 2006 ! ! !

The father of Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle was: John Cotton, who is buried in the Botland community, near Bardstown, Nelson County, Ky. He lies in an old cemetery beside what has become a Baptist church. Now, a Kentucky turnpike runs about a mile west of the Botland Community, and Botland’s only store has closed. We gave him a new tombstone recently. I haven’t been back up north yet to see the new grave marker.

John Cotton m. Juliet Tong (b. 1812), a daughter of Joseph Ford Tong(ue) & Elizabeth Lewis. [Benjamin Huie of Rowan County, NC, then Gibson-Dyer counties, West Tennessee, married Lavinia Cowan of Rowan County, NC, and Lavinia was the daughter of Samuel Cowan and Rachel Lewis; surely there’s no Lewis connection here, from NC to KY, but it is not impossible.]

Joseph Ford Tong (born 2 April 1786 in Prince George’s County, Maryland) was a son of William Tong[ue] and wife Ellen Ford.

        Joseph Ford Tong married Elizabeth Lewis in Nelson County, Kentucky, and had lots of children, including our ancestor Juliet Tong (Cotton), b. 20 Dec. 1812, m. John Cotton, who predeceased her.  Juliet Cotton died while visiting her daughter Mary Elizabeth Cotton (Mrs. John Edwin McCorkle) east of Newbern, Tenn.

        We have a wonderful old letter in which Juliet Tong Cotton from Botland near Bardstown, Kentucky, writes her newly married daughter Mary in Tennessee, “I think you must tell Mr. McCorkle he was wrong to discharge the cook.” Mary by marriage had acquired John Edwin McCorkle’s children by deceased wife Tennie Scott McCorkle, viz., Ora, Will, Glenn, & Katie Pearl McCorkle.  Then Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle began to bear her own children, some of whom did not survive infancy but 3 who did, viz., Sophie King McCorkle (Huie), 1882-1915; Ewing McCorkle, died 1900 aged 16; and Errett Cotton McCorkle, 1888-1976.  Truth is, we kinda laughed at Uncle Errett Cotton McCorkle circa 1970 when he got in a stir, not long before his death in 1976, to add these words to his mother Mary’s tombstone in the Dyer County McCorkle Cemetery:  “She hath done what she could.”  Now, having acquired 3 stepchildren of my own via a 2^nd marriage, I understand Uncle Errett’s vigor to add the epitaph.  – My father Ewing Huie used to say that the Civil War ravages of the male population in Kentucky had almost rendered his Grandmaw McCorkle an “old maid” – a phrase  no longer fashionable, but my father Howard Ewing Huie never strove to be what is now called politically correct.

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  Hendricks Excursus:  Isabel Pendry & Daniel Hendricks of North Carolina, Pioneers to Dyer County, Tennessee, buried in the McCorkle Cemetery; ancestors of Joyce Cope Huie, my mother.

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Hendricks Excursus:

  A letter of Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s transcribed above mentions a Mr. Hendricks in what she called Verdant Plain.

        I placed an erroneous statement on the Dyer County web site about the 2^nd wife of Uriah C. Hendricks: I erroneously said she was Temperance McMahon (Mrs. Chaffin)(Mrs. Hendricks). She was not the widow of Mumford Bean, and she was not the widow of Wm. O. Chaffin.

The 2^nd wife of Uriah C. Hendricks (not the mother of his children) was “Aunt Tempey” Temperance MacMahan BEAN (Hendricks).  Uriah C. Hendricks went up to Clermont County, Ohio, to marry his 1^st wife, Mary “Pollie” MacMahan (Hendricks).  Uriah and Mary Hendricks moved to Dyer County, as did Uriah’s father Daniel Hendricks & mother Isabel Pen(d)ry.

Uriah C. Hendricks was a son of Daniel Hendricks [for convenience I call the father Daniel Hendricks, Sr.]   Daniel Hendricks Sr.’s wife was Isabel Pen[d]ry Hendricks, and husband and wife were, at least before coming to West Tennessee, of Rowan County, North Carolina—later Davie County, NC.  A brother to Uriah C. Hendricks, another son of Daniel & Isabel Pendry Hendricks, was Daniel Roland Hendricks, who is also buried in the Dyer County, Tennessee, McCorkle Cemetery.

The following Temperance Hendricks (Chaffin) is evidently a sister of Uriah C. Hendricks:

HENDRICKS, TEMPERANCE & WILLIAM O. CHAFFIN married on 13 Feb. 1829, in Rowan County, NC,  by CASWELL HARBIN. MARCH 3, 1829. Hendricks.  North Carolina marriage records show this marriage in 1829 of Temperance Hendricks:  HENDRICKS, TEMPERANCE* & WILLIAM O. CHAFFIN married on 13 Feb. 1829, in Rowan County, NC, by CASWELL HARBIN. MARCH 3, 1829.

After Uriah C. Hendricks was widowed (by death of Mary “Pollie” MacMahan Hendricks), he went up to Indiana/Ohio to claim Temperance McMahan, the sister of his deceased wife Mary McMahan (Hendricks). It was the first wife of Uriah who was the mother of his children, who called the new Mrs. Uriah C. Hendricks “Aunt Tempey.”  Dyer County, Tennessee, marriage records show the marriage of Uriah C. Hendricks to Temperance [MacMahan] Bean.

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