Gentry Purviance McCorkle, Sr., & ChildrenOld, superseded version of "Old McCorkle Letters." (Contains endnotes inadvertently omitted from later version.)
McCorkle Correspondence
Centered around, first, Yorkville in Gibson County, Tennessee, then, after the Civil War and the railroads, the new town of Newbern, Dyer County, Tennessee. Scots-Irish Immigrants from Northern Ireland to:
(1) Lancaster County & Harrisburg, Pennsylvania;
(2) down the Great Wagon Road of the 18th century to Rockbridge County, Virginia, in the area of Lexington, whence the McCorkle and Thomas and Houston families are thought to have traveled together on down to
(3) Rowan County and other sites in the Piedmont of North Carolina near Salisbury and Statesville near Charlotte—particularly around the Thyatira Presbyterian Church; to
(4) Sumner County, Tennessee, near Lebanon and Gallatin (Northern Middle Tennessee excluding Nashville and Davidson County)—Look for some of them at the organization circa 1793 of Shiloh Presbyterian Church near Gallatin;
(5) Then with escape by some from Hostilities up to Cane Ridge and Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky; and Logan County, Kentucky, after John Purviance was “scalped” in 1792 [The John Purviance who was “scalped” and died in 1792, was a son of Revolutionary War soldier John Purviance and wife Mary Jane Wasson (Purviance).] More work needs to be done looking for their tracks in Kentucky, certainly around Cane Ridge and Paris, Kentucky; and possibly at Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church near Lexington, Ky.;
(6) With some family members, such as “elder” David Purviance (another son of John Purviance and Mary Jane Wasson Purviance), remaining in Bourbon County, Kentucky, then later on moving on to Preble County, Ohio, to “New Paris;”
(7) But with others—such as Robert McCorkle & his 1st wife Lizzie Blythe, and brother William McCorkle [1st wife Peggy Blythe] and William’s 2nd wife (“Mattie”) Martha King the widow of the “scalped” John Purviance), and we think “colonel” John Purviance & wife Mary Jane Wasson Purviance—going back southward to the area of Gallatin and Lebanon in Middle Tennessee. Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache wrote that her father Robert and uncle William McCorkle lost their wives after moving back down to Middle Tennessee, and that William’s 2nd wife “Mattie” King died on the way from North Carolina in what was then wilderness and was buried on the trail in a “rude grave”—however, James M. Richmond thinks there is evidence she may be buried at Shiloh C.P. Church’s King Cemetery near Gallatin. Then, in Sumner County, Tennessee, in 1800 William McCorkle was to marry a 3rd wife, Jennie Graham. William’s brother Robert McCorkle went back to Rowan County, North Carolina to marry “Peggy” Margaret Morrison (McCorkle) and fetch her westward to Middle Tennessee;
(8) Receipt by brothers Robert & William McCorkle of their father Alexander McCorkle’s Revolutionary War land grant in Rutherford County (Murfreesborough), Tennessee (Stone’s River and Bradley’s Creek). This land was to be lost circa 1826 in title-dispute litigation; this Rutherford County land had been devised to the two brothers upon their father’s death in Rowan County, NC, in 1800, and after Alexander McCorkle’s interment at Thyatira Presbyterian Church beside the wife who predeceased him, Nancy Agnes Montgomery McCorkle, and his widow Rebecca Brandon McCorkle;
(9) Then Robert McCorkle, but evidently not his brother William McCorkle, removed westwardly to Dyer County in the newly opened western district of Tennessee to claim land granted in lieu of land from which they had been disseised in Rutherford County litigation—with nearby towns first Yorkville (Gibson County, Tennessee) and then, after the Civil War, Newbern (Dyer County), Tennessee.
(10) One of Robert McCorkle and William McCorkle’s sisters who remained in North Carolina, Nancy McCorkle Ramsay (Mrs. Robert Ramsay), engaged in correspondence with family members who had removed westwardly into Tennessee. These papers lie in the Archives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and are not included here. Nancy McCorkle Ramsay and Robert and William McCorkle’s brother Samual Eusebius McCorkle, Doctor of Divinity, was a founder of UNC.
Compiled by Marsha Cope Huie
with significant contributions by Natalie Cockroft Ragon & husband James Ragon of Jackson,Tennessee; and by Mr. and Mrs. James M. Richmond of Napierville, Illinois.
Published in March 2006.
Any person discovering an error, will confer a favor by making it known to [email protected] I’ve tempted time by waiting over 20 years to make all this available. The good thing about my procrastination is the advent of the Internet, which has afforded us much more genealogical information than our mere old family records. My theory in publishing now, finally in 2006, is that it’s better to make a full effort, replete with errors of commission and omission, than it is to wait for a perfect edition.
I. ۞ Correspondence of (“Peggy”) Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle) and, mostly, one of her daughters, Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roach. Margaret called her new home in Dyer County, Tennessee, “Verdant Plain.”
“I think you do me injustice to imagine me opposed to the abolition scheme at least I know that I am unfriendly to slaveholding amongst us. I am not sufficiently acquainted with the politics of the times to judge of the measures pursued by the abolitionists therefore I wish them success only just so far as they are trying in a right manner to do what I believe to be a good work, one thing I can say with certainty that it would truly rejoice me to see all my dear posterity settled in a free state.”
-- Letter from Margaret Morrison McCorkle to her brother-in-law James McCorkle, a brother to Robert McCorkle. James McCorkle was born 4 May 1768. James McCorkle moved to Ohio [John Hale Stutesman wrote that his removal was to escape slavery], but James McCorkle died residing in Frankfort, Indiana, on 2 December 1840.
II. ۞ Letters of Margaret’s son Robert Hope Andrew McCorkle who married Tirzah Scott and was therefore a son-in-law of James & Sarah Dickey Scott of Yorkville, Gibson County, Tennessee, each – James & Sarah Dickey Scott—having been born in 1777. Tirzah’s parents were interred in the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
III. ۞ Letters of Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s grandson John Edwin McCorkle – his correspondence concerning the estate of his uncle David Thomas. David Thomas of Republic of Texas fame was a brother of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle née Jane Maxwell Thomas. [Jane Maxwell Thomas was a daughter-in-law of Margaret Morrison McCorkle. Jane’s father was William Thomas and her mother née Elizabeth Purviance.] Edwin Alexander McCorkle: 18 March 1799 – 10 January 1853.
IV. ۞ One of the Civil War-Time Diaries of John Edwin McCorkle, a grandson of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.
The one of his journals transcribed here covers parts of 1860 and 1861, also 1863.
Other of his journals, which my sister and I view to have been wrongfully distrained, are in the possession of the University of Tennessee at Martin Archives; ditto some of the records of our paternal grandfather Howard Anderson Huie (1870-1935), particularly his Huie & Ozier Hardware Company records of Newbern, Tennessee, circa 1900.
The wartime diaries of John E’s brother HRA (Hiram) McCorkle are not included. In the year 2003, Hiram R.A. McCorkle’s diaries are in the possession of David Caldwell of Newbern, Tennessee, the only child of Betty Jane Atkins & Charles Caldwell. The following offers a sample of Hiram McCorkle’s journal entries, about 6 years before Hiram died in 1907:
September 12, 1901: Death of Frelin McCorkle.
“ Frelinghuisen McCorkle (col’d) died, aged 57 years and 8 days.”
Next entry: “We attended Frelin’s funeral at the McCorkle cemetery. Quite a number of colored people there as also were a goodly number of white neighbors. All of his young Masters and Mistresses in slave time who were in reach were there. Frelin was born and raised and married and raised a large family on the old McCorkle farm. [He means his grandparents’ farm, I guess.] Never lived anywhere else except, I think, maybe he was hired out a few times when he was fifteen or sixteen years old. Frelin was a good boy, a good obedient slave and after being freed he was a good colored citizen. Always polite, truthful, honest and industrious, providing well for his wife and a large family of children, all girls, but one. Although he had been a believer in the Christian religion for quite a number of years, he never obeyed the gospel until a few years ago. Since which time, up to his death he has lived, as best he knew how, a Christian life. Let us all drop a tear and let the curtain fall. Frelin’s gone where good negroes go.”
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One record says that Alexander McCorkle who m. “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery had an older brother named Francis McCorkle but not Aunt Ora McCorkle Huie’s and not Aunt Katie Pearl Fox’s.
Children of Alexander McCorkle, born 1723, emigrant from Northern Ireland, and 1st wife “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery, who died in 1789, also an emigrant from Northern Ireland, both of whom are buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rowan County, N.C. After Agnes predeceased Alexander McCorkle, he married Rebecca Brandon (not the mother of his children); and he died in 1800.
II.1 Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, D.D., married Margaret Gillespie on 21 June 1811.. Samuel was educated at a precursor of Princteon College; received Doctor of Divinity degree from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. –He founded a classics school called Zion Parnassus. He was a founder of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His wife Margaret Gillespie McCorkle was kin to Elizabeth Steele, heroine of the Revolutionary War in North Carolina.There is a 2004 article about his feelings on the Great Revival: Peter N. Moore; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 70, 2004, entitled : Family Dynamics and the Great Revival: Religious Conversion in the South Carolina Piedmont
II.2 John McCorkle m Katy Barr
[AJohn an elder in the church[121] and member of the Legislature useful and much beloved, died in the prime of life leaving an only son who walked in his father=s steps and enjoyed his honors.@--Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, John’s niece. –Is John in the records of the legislature?]
II.3. Joseph m Peggy Snoddy
[AJoseph moved to Ohio at an early day B was a man of ability B but rather eccentric.”]
II.4. Alexander m Katy Morrison
[AAleck was emotional in character and joined the Methodists@] -- I think he went to Henry County, TN,
II.5. William m 1st “Peggy” Margaret Blythe, 2nd “Mattie” [Martha]] King [widow of John Purviance who was scalped in 1792], and 3rd in 1800 Jennie Graham. This Margaret ‘Peggy’ Blythe was a sister to the first wife of our Robert McCorkle, immediately below, who m. 1st Elizabeth Blythe (“Lizzie”)
[AWilliam, following Barton Stone, set his negroes free and went to preaching@]
The modern authority on William McCorkle is James M. Richmond whose wife is William’s descendant.
II.6. Robert m 1st Lizzy Blythe, 2nd Margaret ‘Peggy’ Morrison, born 29 Oct. 1764-died in the spring of 1828. 1828 is the date of the founding of the1st Presbyterian Church Memphis. Robert’s granddaughter Martha D. Anderson Leath was there as Mrs. James T. Leath.
[Moved from Rowan Co., NC, to Middle Tennessee in the environs of Lebanon and Gallatin; then up to Kentucky to escape Indian depredations; then back down to Middle Tennessee; to Stone’s River, Tennessee, area to take up his father’s Revolutionary War land grant, then to Dyer County.]
II.7. James m 1st Lizzy Hall; [moved to Ohio; but lived at his death in Frankfort, Boone County, Indiana).
II. “Lizzie” to her niece Elmira [“Bettie” in her father’s will] Elizabeth McCorkle Barr—as Elizabeth Barr she appears, I think, in the church records of Shiloh Presbyterian (C.P.) Church near Gallatin, Tennessee. Mrs. William Barr; and II. Nancy McCorkle Ramsay (Mrs. Robert Ramsay)—papers at U N Carolina Archives; and “Mattie” Martha McCorkle Archibald (Mrs. William Archibald)
V. Frontispiece ۞ Letter from Bowden Cason (Casey) McCorkle in San Leandro, California, to me, Marsha Cope Huie, Sept. 7, 1984, when I was living in Memphis, just before moving to Cambridge, England, then to San Antonio, Texas. “Casey” McCorkle was a grandson of Finis A. McCorkle & 1st wife Sallie Jo Jackson McCorkle. Casey McCorkle of California was a great-grandson of Edwin A. McCorkle & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle; and a g-g-grandson of Margaret Morrison McCorkle (died 1828) & Robert McCorkle (died 1828):
We can begin only with proper attribution to the honored memory of our cousin Casey McCorkle, late of San Leandro, California:
FRONTISPIECE
1983
Dear Miss Marsha:
I enclose herewith a sampling of the Roach-McCorkle letters. There are many more as it seems there was an extensive correspondence carried on for several generations. I have no idea how these originals were preserved and came to my branch of the family. They are now collected in a display folder. Some of them are fairly delicate but in general well preserved. Copying has been haphazard or what remains is the residue from extensive copying the disposition of which is unknown to me.
Obviously these papers should not be the exclusive property of any branch of the McCorkle family. I should think complete copies should be made and the originals preserved and made available to all. So far many have expressed agreement but no one has expressed interest in doing the job. Perhaps you may have some ideas along these lines.
I realize there may be much similar material in existence and available to you. I will be interested in hearing from you and your reaction to the letters.
It was a pleasant surprise to hear from you and I will be looking forward to hearing from you again. [It was tedious work, back then before the Internet, but I dialed so many telephone numbers in California that I finally located Casey McCorkle. He was a gracious gentleman, I thought.]
We will be out of town for a month but will return early in October. I hope this finds you and yours well and happy.
Kindest personal regards,
B.C. McCorkle
[San Leandro, California, 1983. -- Casey McCorkle’s 1st wife was Floy Disney (mother of Carter McCorkle, male; and of Lynn McCorkle, female) and his 2nd wife was Lois Miller. His children: Carter McCorkle, son; Lynn McCorkle, daughter; and Kathleen McCorkle Brudno.]
Generation I. Alexander McCorkle & Agnes Montgomery McCorkle
Generation II. Robert McCorkle & 2nd wife Margaret Morrison McCorkle
Generation III. Edwin Alexander McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle
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 Jackson McCorkle:
1. Gentry Purviance McCorkle, born May 31, 1870 – died 28 July 1962. Wives: Maggie Meeks; Ruth Elizabeth Cason of Henderson, Tennessee; and Maude Simons Riley.
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.
Hiram ? Robert Anderson McCorkle, California—I think his name was David McCorkle, not Hiram, but I may be wrong. I think David is the one who was a WWII prisoner of war, according to Aunt Kate Pearl McCorkle (Fox)’s journals.
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.
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.
3. “Jennie” Susan Jane McCorkle, b. 7 July 1874-died in Hot Springs, Arkansas as wife of Dr.
E.E. CARTER of Arkansas, death recorded as October of 1906. B
Below is a photograph of Jennie’s brother Gentry Purviance McCorkle, Sr., with his children:
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Gentry Purviance McCorkle, Sr., & Children
Gentry Purviance McCorkle, Sr. 1904. President of Bandera County Bank, Bandera, Texas.
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. (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; nowdead. –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 (born 1877, Newbern, Tenn. – died 1964 San Leandro, Calif) & wife Helen Hart Cason. What kin if any was she to his father Finis’ 2nd wife Mag Hart?
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 but think he had several children in California;
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.
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Susan
Jane “Jennie” McCorkle (Carter) (Mrs. Dr. E.E. Carter) with
her big brother, Gentry Purviance McCorkle, Sr.
Regarding Homer McCorkle’s son (the same as Finis A. McCorkle and Sallie Jo Jackson McCorkle’s grandson) Horace Jackson McCorkle, M.D., the University of California San Francisco web site says this:
“One hundred years ago the surgical curriculum consisted of lectures on the principles and practices of surgery, demonstrations of surgical technique on the cadaver, and clinical lectures at the college building and the city and county hospital. In 1899, Dr. Thomas W. Huntington of the Department of Surgery performed the first total gastrectomy for carcinoma. The specimen was kept in the museum of the department for many years and it is said that the patient survived for many years without evidence of recurrence.
“Dr. Wallace I. Terry assumed the chairmanship of the Department of Surgery in 1912. The operating room suite in the Herbert C. Moffitt Hospital was named in his honor.
“The modern era of surgical education in the department dated from the appointment of Dr. Howard C. Naffziger as professor and chairman in 1929. Under his dynamic leadership the department quickly became recognized as one of the leading surgical units in the country. Among the many distinctive contributions from the department at that time was the development of the "Naffziger operation" for progressive exophthalmos. For a considerable period of time, this was the standard procedure for preventing the loss of vision in this distressing condition.
“After Dr. Naffziger's retirement, Dr. H. Glenn Bell was appointed chairman. During his tenure, the department produced some of the finest clinical surgeons in the country. A major achievement in the department was the development of a surgical research laboratory headed by Drs. Harold A. Harper and Horace J. McCorkle. A number of distinguished contributions in the field of gastrointestinal physiology came from this laboratory in the 1940's.
Dr. Leon Goldman was appointed chairman in July, 1956, and during his tenure the stage was set for the present structure of the department. By the mid-1960's, the department was well known for its contributions to vascular surgery under the direction of Dr. Edwin J. Wylie; cardiac surgery under the direction of Dr. Benson B. Roe; the transplantation of organs under Dr. John S. Najarian; and experimental and clinical gastrointestinal studies under the direction of Dr. William Silen.
Dr. J. Englebert Dunphy was appointed chairman in January, 1964, and during around that time a number of younger men joined the department. The research activities were broadened to include studies in wound healing, hyperbaric oxygenation, mechanisms of membrane transport, and immunological mechanisms in neoplasia. The development of improved methods of undergraduate education in surgery was the major interest of the chairman. Meanwhile, the tradition of graduate teaching and residency training in surgery initiated by Dr. Naffziger and brought to a high level of fruition by Dr. Bell continued. **** **** **** **** *** [End of quoted material from U California San Francisco web site….]
I’m almost sure I recall having read somewhere that Horace Jackson McCorkle, M.D, was at one time chief of staff at the U California San Francisco Medical School hospital. .. And so, the metaphysical question arises: who did more good [and more correleative harm] overall—he who did not care for an elderly parent as did his two brothers Casey and Tom; or the physician who neglects his family for the sake of advancing Science? I don’t pretend to have The Answer.
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The Peregrinations of Robert McCorkle (who died in Dyer County, West Tennessee, in the spring of 1828):
· We know Robert McCorkle was born in Rowan/Iredell County, North Carolina, to Alexander McCorkle & “Nancy” Agness Montgomery, immigrants to, first, Pennsylvania, from Northern Ireland, then, we think but are not certain to the area of Lexington, Virginia, in Rockbridge County; then, third, the Piedmont of North Carolina near Salisbury and Statesville.
· “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle’s mother was née Finley, and “Nancy” Agness Montgomery (McCorkle) was a sister to Presbyterian minister Joseph Montgomery, born 1733 in Paxtang, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania & died 1794. That sibling relationship between Agness Montgomery McCorkle and Joseph Montgomery, the old family records reflect.
· Broader historical records reveal that our Joseph Montgomery served in the Continental Congress. This Joseph Montgomery, born 1733, is highlighted in the web site of the Presbyterian Church. “The Political Graveyard” says this about him: Montgomery, Joseph (1733-1794) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Paxtang, Dauphin County, Pa., September 23, 1733. Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1780-82; common pleas court judge in Pennsylvania, 1786-94. Died in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pa., October 14, 1794. Interment at Lutheran Church Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa.
· See also: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: MONTGOMERY, Joseph, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born in Paxtang, Dauphin County, Pa., September 23, 1733; pursued classical studies and was graduated from Princeton College in 1755; studied for the ministry; licensed to preach by the presbytery of Philadelphia in 1759 and ordained as a minister in 1761; held several pastorates 1761-1777; commissioned a chaplain in Col. Smallwood’s Maryland Regiment of the Continental Army and served from 1777 until 1780; delegate to the general assembly of Pennsylvania 1780-1782; Member of the Continental Congress 1780-1782; recorder of deeds and register of wills for Dauphin County 1785-1794; justice of the court of common pleas 1786-1794; died in Harrisburg, Pa., on October 14, 1794; interment in the Lutheran Church Cemetery. Bibliography: Forster, John Montgomery. A Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Joseph Montgomery. Harisburg, Pa.: Printed for private distribution, 1879.
Martha Finley Montgomery was the mother of “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle (that is to say, the mother of Mrs. Alexander McCorkle). One record, not ours, says her husband’s name was John Montgomery. The mother née Martha Finley would have been born sometime around 1700. The old handwritten Dyer County family records [kept by Aunt Ora McCorkle Huie (Mrs. Julius Adolphus “Dolph” Huie) and Ora’s younger sister Katie Pearl McCorkle (Fox); and typed up in the 1960s by Ora’s only child Maury Adolphus Huie, 1895-1973] say that this Mrs. Martha Finley Montgomery’s father, named John Finley, was somehow a founder of Princeton University. The Princeton U records reveal that a Samuel Finley was president 1761-1766. – As I (Marsha Cope Huie) write this paragraph, I think the old records say a John Finley was our ancestor’s (Mrs. Martha Finley Montgomery’s) father who was instrumental in founding Princeton; this Finley name must however be checked for accuracy, with which I hereby charge the next generations. Perhaps John Finley was an ancestor of Samuel Finley of Princeton and Samuel Finley was a collateral to our Martha Finley Montgomery—a brother—or perhaps a nephew; I do not know.
“26 April 1791 - James Finley, executor, account (Account Box F, No. 14)
Appended to this document (at the very end) are materials from the Princeton University Internet web site, which say that a Samuel Finley was an early president of Princeton, 1761-1766. – What kin was our ancestor John Finley to this Samuel Finley? We do know, again, that our “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle’s brother, Presbyterian minister Joseph Montgomery (born 1733) served in the Continental Congress, so it is worthy of note that the Princeton web site says the following about its early president John Witherspoon, who also served in the Continental Congress: “ John Witherspoon, eminent Scottish divine who held the office from 1768 to his death in 1794. Witherspoon was the only ordained clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence, and for six years thereafter he was an active and influential member of the Continental Congress….” -- The Continental Congress nexus lends credibility to Ora and Kate’s old family records in Dyer County, as we know “Nancy” Agness Montgomery McCorkle’s brother Joseph Montgomery (a Presbyterian minister born 1733) served in the Continental Congress.
Robert McCorkle’s older brother, Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, had been born in Pennsylvania (Samuel Eusebius McCorkle was a graduate of the precursor to Princeton College; was admitted to the Presbyterian ministry for New York; & received a Doctorate of Divinity from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania). It may be that our Robert McCorkle was born in Pennsylvania, as was his older brother Samuel, but I think that he was born in North Carolina.
We know that Robert moved from North Carolina westerly to Sumner County, Tennessee (then, a generic term for northern middle Tennessee excluding Nashville and Davidson County). Robert married (1st wife) “Lizzie” Elizabeth Blythe and had two children, Aleck McCorkle who died in infancy and Elizabeth McCorkle (Anderson) who was raised by her deceased mother’s mother. Elizabeth McCorkle (Anderson)’s maternal grandparents were, I think: Reverend James Blythe and Elizabeth King (Blythe). Elizabeth McCorkle (Anderson) was raised by her grandmother Blythe [Elizabeth King Blythe] in or near Lebanon, Tennessee. After Elizabeth Blythe McCorkle died, evidently after Robert had moved back down to northern middle Tennessee from having taken refuge up in Kentucky, Elizabeth Blythe McCorkle’s widower Robert McCorkle went back to Rowan County, North Carolina, to marry and fetch westwardly, as his 2nd wife, Margaret “Peggy” Morrison, daughter of Andrew & Elizabeth Sloan Morrison.
[Source: Letter from Robert & Peggy McCorkle’s daughter Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache to her nephew, James Scott McCorkle, M.D., of Newbern.]
We also know that Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison) was herself a McCorkle descendant.
[Same source, Elmira, who thought that her mother Peggy and father Robert McCorkle were 2nd cousins; -- but from Elmira’s descriptions of their consanguinity I read them to have been first cousins-once removed.]
Robert McCorkle [and perhaps his 1st wife “Lizzie” Elizabeth Blythe? ] temporarily moved from Sumner County up to Bourbon County, Kentucky, near Paris, Kentucky, site of the Great 1801 & 1804 camp meetings which resulted in 1804 in the formation of the Christian Church/ Disciples of Christ, a part of which became, after schism around 1900, the Church of Christ. [We should see if Robert was a member of Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church near Lexington, KY; this clue is thanks to James M. Richmond.] Some of the McCorkle & Purviance families moved up to Bourbon County to escape Indian troubles after the 1792 “scalping” of “Mattie” Martha King’s husband, John Purviance. [This scalped John Purviance was a son of an elder John Purviance, the father being the Revolutionary War Lieutenant –called “colonel” Purviance as, I think, an honorific—It was the elder John Purviance (father of the John Purviance who was “scalped” in 1792) who married Mary Jane Wasson (Purviance). The widow of the murder victim John Purviance (Martha King Purviance) then married William McCorkle, becoming William McCorkle’s second wife, as mentioned. -- It can get a bit confusing to discuss William McCorkle as he had 3 wives, born viz., 1st “Peggy” Margaret Blythe; 2nd “Mattie” Martha King (Mrs. John Purviance)); and 3rd married in 1800 in Sumner County, Tennessee: Jennie Graham. -- The scalped John Purviance’s brother, church elder “David Purviance” remained in Bourbon County, Kentucky, for years, and signed the “Last Will and Testament of the Springfield, Kentucky, Presbytery” in order to form the new “Christian Church.” This David Purviance served in the Kentucky legislature then moved on to Ohio where he served in the Ohio legislature and served as a founder and often president pro tempore of Miami University of Ohio. Some of the Purviance and Thomas people removed on to Preble County, Ohio, where “church elder” David Purviance moved, and died and is buried in Preble County in, I think New Paris, Ohio. Others of the Thomas and McCorkle and Purviance families moved back down to northern middle Tennessee after troubles with the indigenous peoples resolved.
This David Purviance who died in “New” Paris, Ohio, was, as mentioned, a son of Mary Jane Wasson [died in 1810 aged 68] & Revolutionary War “colonel” John Purviance, who moved back down to Tennessee from Bourbon County, KY. and are presumably buried in Middle Tennessee; and a brother to Elizabeth Purviance Thomas, the mother of Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle—Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle, who in 1855 was buried in the McCorkle Cemetery; and this “elder” David Purviance was a brother to the “scalped” John Purviance; and to alia). This David Purviance is listed as a co-founder with Barton Stone of the Christian Church/Church of Christ. And, again, it was this David Purviance who was a brother to, inter alia, Elizabeth Purviance (Mrs. William Thomas), who (Elizabeth Purviance Thomas) was the mother of Jane Maxwell Thomas (Mrs. Edwin A. McCorkle), the Jane who died in Dyer County in 1855, after Edwin A. McCorkle had died 10 January 1853. -- The Thomas and McCorkle and Purviance families, and a Scott family, are mixed up together in many ways. And the Thomases were somehow mixed up with old Sam Houston’s family of Houston. [Asenath Houston married Isaac J. Thomas; Isaac J. Thomas was a son of the John Thomas who married Mary Jetton. The John Thomas who married Mary Jetton was himself a son of Jacob Thomas who married Margaret Brevard, Rowan County, N.C.] I wish I could find where David Thomas “read law.” History records that Sam Houston himself read law at Maryville College in eastern Tennessee, but I’ve so far found no record for David Thomas. [The Isaac J. Thomas who married Asenath Houston would have been a first cousin to David Thomas, 1795-1836, David having been the first attorney general ad interim of the Republic of Texas, and acting Secretary of War just before his untimely death from a musket ball wound in 1836.] To sum up: Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard Thomas had four sons, viz., John Thomas who m. Mary Jetton; Henry Thomas who m. ___ McKnight; James Thomas; and William Thomas who married Elizabeth Purviance. It is believed that William and Elizabeth Purviance Thomas are buried in Dyer County, Tennessee.
And so John Purviance [Jr.] had been scalped in 1792 in Sumner County, Tennessee. We know that Robert’s brother, William McCorkle, married as his 2nd wife Martha “Mattie” King, the widow of John Purviance [(John Purviance, Jr.)—I’m denominating the scalped John Purviance as a “Junior” but in truth do not know if his name exactly matched the name of his father, the elder “colonel” John Purviance]. And we know that Martha King Purviance McCorkle died before 1800 because that is the year in which William McCorkle married his 3rd wife, Jennie Graham. -- We know also that the Cumberland Presbyterian schism from the more formal Presbyterians occurred in 1810 just outside Dickson, Tennessee, in what is now a Tennessee State Park: Montgomery Bell Historic Shrine. Mary Jane Wasson Purviance died aged 60 in 1801 so I presume she did not join the Cumberland movement from the Presbyterians; but Levi Purviance’s biography of his father David Purviance (David a son of Mary Jane Wasson) says that “colonel” John Purviance became a Cumberland Presbyterian.
I have found record of an 1810 marriage of a Robert McCorkle in Boone County, Kentucky, to a Miss Keith: Polly KEITH married 15 Mar 1810 to Robert McCORKLE. This is not our Robert, who was a son of Alexander McCorkle (Sr.). It may be this other Robert who became a Cumberland Presbyterian minister. This other Robert who was in Kentucky may even have been a nephew of our Robert McCorkle, but I imagine he was from the Staunton/Lexington/Rockbridge County, Virginia (that area) McCorkles.
It is known that a Robert McCorkle appears in the earliest Presbyterian then Cumberland Presbyterian records of Kentucky and northern Tennessee in trials for the newly formed Cumberland Presbyterian ministry and, even though he would have been over 40 years old at the time, the applicant (licentiate) may have somehow been our Robert McCorkle. The new denomination was desperate for educated clergy. The two reasons for separation from Presbyterianism involved, one, rejection of the Presbyterian insistence upon a college-educated clergy, which was impracticable on the frontier; and, two, rejection of the Presbyterian Doctrine of Predestination. – Our Robert & “Peggy” Morrison McCorkle’s daughter, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache,wrote that her father Robert McCorkle and Robert’s brother William McCorkle had retreated up to Bourbon County, Kentucky, during troublous times with the indigenous population; then moved on back down to Sumner County [Lebanon or Gallatin area] after Indian relations improved. [See the Cumberland Presbyterian web site on the Internet.]
Robert and William McCorkle or their people, or some of them, appear in Sumner County, Tennessee, as members of Shiloh Presbyterian Church near today’s Gallatin. Someday I hope to visit the “King Cemetery” which is sometimes the name given the Shiloh Presbyterian Church Cemetery. -- James M. Richmond, alive today, whose wife is a descendant of William McCorkle (brother to our Robert) has identified the parents of “Peggy” Margaret Blythe as Reverend James Blythe and Elizabeth King (Blythe), parents of: (1) Mrs. William McCorkle, née “Peggy” Margaret Blythe; and (2) the first Mrs. Robert McCorkle, née Elizabeth “Lizzie” Blythe. If so, it was Mrs. Elizabeth King Blythe who raised Robert’s daughter Elizabeth McCorkle (Mrs. Thomas Anderson), who died in Lebanon, Tennessee, in the home of her daughter Elizabeth Anderson McMurry (wife of Cumberland Presbyterian minister John Mitchell McMurry who long preached in McMinnville, Tennessee, then retired to Lebanon).
Our Robert McCorkle and his brother William McCorkle claimed the Revolutionary War land grant made to their father, Alexander McCorkle (who died 1800 in Rowan County, NC, buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery near Mooresville near Salisbury near Statesville). Alexander left this land grant to only these two sons. Robert McCorkle begins to appear on the Rutherford County, Tennessee, deed records in the early 1800s, around 1808, as does William.
It may be that Revolutionary War “colonel” John Purviance, the one who married Mary Jane Wasson, was a member of Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church while they were up in Kentucky after in 1792 the son John Purviance had been scalped by Indians. It may be that some of the McCorkles worshipped there also. Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church is near Lexington, Ky.
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“Constructed
in 1801, Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church has the distinction of being
the oldest Presbyterian Church
building in
Kentucky.
The church was established in 1785 to serve the religious needs of the
early pioneers. The first pastor of the church was the Reverend James
Crawford who also served as a delegate to the Kentucky Constitutional
Convention in Danville in 1792. In 1785, Reverend James Crawford was one
of two ministers ordained at the first meeting of a presbytery in
Kentucky. In 1791 he opened a school at Walnut Hill for Latin, Greek,
and the Sciences. Crawford died in 1803 and is buried in the church
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“The present building was constructed during the "great revival" to replace an earlier log building that stood on the site. The building is stone and as it was originally constructed had eight square windows on two levels that allowed light to enter the sanctuary at the ground level as well as in the galleries that surrounded the inner room on three sides. In 1880 the church was remodeled and eight large Gothic windows were added to replace the square windows and the galleries were removed from the inside. The church continues to serve as an active house of worship. ”
“Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church is located on Walnut Hill Rd. in southeastern Fayette County at the intersection of old Richmond Rd. ”
· Bean, Richard M. The Jewel on Walnut Hill : the Story of the Walnut Hill Church, Lexington, Kentucky, 1784 through 1994. Lexington: Richard M. Bean, 1995. R285.1769 W163b KY 1995
· Daughters of the American Revolution. Kentucky Cemetery Records v. 1-5 Lexington: Kentucky Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1960 - 1986. R976.9 D265k KY (Genealogy Ref. )
· Daughters of the American Revolution. Inscriptions on Tomb Stones of Old Cemeteries of Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky. Lexington: DAR, 1984. R976.947 D265i KY 1984
· The Lexington Kentucky Cemetery. Lexington: Hisle’s Headstones and Kentucky Tree Search, 1986. R976.947 L591 KY 1986
· Milward, Burton. A History of the Lexington Cemetery. Lexington: The Lexington Cemetery Company, c1989. R976.947 L591m KY 1989
· Nash, Leslie. Old Union Christian Church Cemetery, 6856 Russell Cave Road, Lexington, KY 40511.Lexington: Leslie Nash, 1995.R976.947 Ol1 KY 1995
· Pisgah 1784-1984, Woodford County, Kentucky. [Woodford, County?] Pisgah Presbyterian Church, 1984. R285.17694 P674 KY 1984
· Sanders, Robert Stuart. Annals of the First Presbyterian Church Lexington, Kentucky : [1784-1984]. Tallahassee, FL: Rose Printing, 1984. R285.09769 Sa56a KY
· Sanders, Robert Stuart. History of Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church (Fayette Co., Ky). Frankfort, KY: KyHistorical Soc, 1956. R285.1769 Sa56hi KY ”
· It may be that “colonel” [I think he was really a lieutenant but am not certain.] John Purviance and wife Mary Jane Wasson Purviance are buried at Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church in what is called the King Cemetery; but this is speculation as yet. He outlived Mary Jane Wasson Purviance, who died in 1810 aged 68, and he may be buried in Brown Cemetery, Giles Co., TN, as there has been mention made of a Mr. Maxwell (a son-in-law?) who is buried next to a “Mr. Pevines.” Or, John Purviance widower of Mary Jane Wasson may possibly have died when visiting his son David Purviance up in New Paris, Preble County, Ohio. These are our 33 clues: Shiloh Presbyterian Church near Gallatin; Brown Cemetery in Giles County; and possibly up in Preble County, Ohio. Also, somewhere in this document is a statement that a Mr. Donnell or O’Donnell preached his funeral.
· Recall: Reverend James Blythe and Elizabeth King (Blythe) were the parents of two daughters, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Blythe and Margaret “Peggy” Blythe, who married two McCorkle brothers, Robert and William respectively. Elizabeth King (Blythe) was a sister to the Rev. Samuel King who witnessed Alexander McCorkle’s 1800 will in Rowan Co., NC.
Explanations of who Some of the Above-people were
I. More about Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache
-- Much more is discussed further on below about the family of this daughter of Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle, the daughter who, though born in NC, in Middle Tennessee married Dr. Stephen Roache. There is correspondence between her and one of her brothers, RAH McCorkle (Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle) in Yorkville (at first there was no Newbern); and information is presented about the death of her son Howard Harris Roache consequent to mortal injury in the Battle of Shiloh; and about her son Addison Locke Roache, Sr., a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court; and about her son Robert QUINCY Roache, who became a wealthy banker in the town of California in Moniteau County, Missouri.
I I More about Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle (“RAH”) & Tirzah Scott McCorkle.
This Robert McCorkle and wife Tirzah Scott (she died 1865)are interred in the McCorkle Cemetery; Tirzah’s parents James (1777-1853) & Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838) are interred in the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery. -- Just before I was to leave Memphis to study law at Cambridge University in England in 1985, John Shelton and I moved James & Sarah Dickey Scotts’ tombstones from the then-in-ruins Yorkville cemetery over to the then better-kept McCorkle Cemetery. (John Shelton was our beloved African-American “share cropper” for many years on the Gibson- Dyer county line, until laws changed in the 1960s making him able to get a better, salaried, job as a big-machine mechanic.) Now, of course, government monies have restored the old Yorkville cemetery and it is our family cemetery that begs for infusions of cash for restoration.
At the end of this document, the descendants of RAH & Tirzah Scott McCorkle are gathered by James Ragon (husband of Natalie Cockroft Ragon, Natalie being a direct descendant through James Scott McCorkle of Newbern). James Ragon has finally convinced me that Sarah Dickey was not a daughter born in Rowan County, North Carolina, to John Dickey, first a silversmith in Pennsylvania, and born of a Purviance woman; but was instead a daughter of a John Dickey of Virginia then South Carolina (York District) and his wife Sarah Robinson Dickey.
In 2003, James & Natalie Cockroft Ragon live in Jackson, where they were lovingly kind to Jennifer Huie Tucker and me when we were at the Jackson hospital in April of 2005 attending the all-too-slow death May 9, 2005, of Jennifer’s husband Stephen Fisher Tucker after a massive stroke. Steve Tucker, Sr., lived to be almost 65 years old, and was buried in the McCorkle Cemetery. Steve left three grown children, viz., Stephen Fisher Tucker, Jr.; Alison Tucker Keogler; and Mary Brennan Tucker.
III. More about Hiram Robert Archibald or “HRA” McCorkle,
a grandson of Margaret Morrison & Robert McCorkle, through their son Edwin Alexander McCorkle (1799-1853) & Edwin’s wife Jane Maxwell Thomas. The first child, e.g., is listed below as HRA-1. --Hiram Robert A. McCorkle had the ff. children by his 1st wife Margaret Cowan McCorkle, who died in what was then called the “lunatic asylum” in Nashville. Hiram visited her grave when he returned to Nashville for a Confederate veterans’ convention and noted the unkempt state of the cemetery. One of Margaret’s children, Tolbert, had fallen accidenetally from her lap and been overrun by a surrey, a tragedy which certainly would not have helped her mental health.
Uncle Hiram’s diary entry about Frelinghuisen McCorkle, freedman who was buried 12 September 1901, mentioned above at page 2, is intriguing. Theodore J. Frelinghuysen was a German preacher of note in the 1720s who preached in America among the Dutch Reformed. Not only is Frelinghuisen McCorkle buried in the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County, Tennessee; his funeral services were held on the cemetery grounds and attended by Hiram R. A. McCorkle.
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In 1899, Hiram McCorkle records that Jordan McCorkle (“colored”) visited HRA McCorkle’s home. “I raised him from a one-year-old up to nearly manhood. He lives now and has for many years at Trimble, Tennessee.”
And this entry on April 10, 1900: Lightning struck Howard Anderson Huie’s barn and killed one mule. [On March 9, 2006, lightning struck the electrical system of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Yorkville and burned the church down. Almost miraculously, the pulpit did not incinerate.]
Also in the spring of the year 1900, HRA McCorkle and granddaughter Kate Cawthon (Pace), a sister to Mamie Cawthon (Mrs. Clint Atkins), took the train to Eminence, Kentucky to see Hiram’s son Winfield Purviance McCorkle.
In Feb. 1901 Uncle Hiram received1 pair Wyandotte chickens from W.E. [B?] Doak of Russelville, Tenn. [Marsha’s note: a man named Will E. Doak moved on up from Dyer Co., Tenn., to Hickman, Ky, but this may be someone else, and it is someone else if it’s WB Doak.]
Oct. 1901: Hiram R A McCorkle, with John D. Smith and R R Rose, was elected Poor House Commissioner (chosen by the Dyer County Court).
A.L. “Bud” McCorkle shot one Labe Cowsert, who died in May 21, 1901, “just 3 years 2 mo. and 14 days after he was shot by A.L. (Bud) McCorkle.” --This may (or may not) be regarding the boundary line dispute about which I remember my Aunt Beth Huie’s telling me. Bud McCorkle was a grandson of Jehiel Morrison McCorkle & wife Betsy Smith McCorkle, through their son Samuel S. McCorkle. Stated another way, Samuel S. McCorkle was father of this “shootist” Bud McCorkle.
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* * * Some of HIRAM R. A. McCorkle’s Descendants, particularly through his eldest son Winfield Purviance McCorkle:
[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:]
<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[1] 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.
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 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. 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.)
“Did Martha Ann [Gooch Hogrefe] 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.
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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 Juloy 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;
Laura Christine Hogrefe, who in 2006 is getting a master’s degree in music (voice) at the University of Indiana Bloomington.
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:
Anne Davidson Gooch, daughter, born March 25, 1983, Nashville; and
a son James Cowen Gooch II (an attorney turned finance person, in Atlanta).
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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. He 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 Cowan. Generation V. Winfield Purviance McCorkle m. “Mamie” Mary King of Eminence, Ky. Generation VI. Allie May McCorkle McDiarmid. Generation VII. Florence Woodruff McDiarmid Gooch; Errett Weir McDiarmid; and John McDiarmid, Ph.D.
(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.
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 McDiarmid, Yale Office Number (203) 432-5138. Emly May McD, 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.
Weir McDiarmid’s 2nd daughter: Anne McDiarmid (Brahmey), born January 22, 1943. Son before divorce: Michael Weir Brahmey.
Weir McDiarmid’s 3rd daughter: Mary McDiarmid, born June 10, 1947.
Third child of Cousin Allie May McCorkle McDiarmid:
(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. They had two sons and a daughter.
Aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle (Fox)’s record 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 Who’s Who about our John McDiarmid: … … … … … … … * * * * * * * * * * *
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:
1st Nancy McDiarmid Norling, born July 23, 1940. Nancy (Mrs. Perry or Parry Norling) had two children” :
Christine Norling, born August 7, 1967.
Jonathan Norling, born Feb. 13, 1969;
2nd John McDiarmid, married but divorced Candy Cunniberti (1977);
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.
Late-Breaking Update about Cousin Allie May McCorkle McDiarmid’s Descendants that I don’t have time to integrate. So here it is, in the lazy way, until I have time to make it look correct. Here is an update from Nancy McDiarmid Norling sent to Martha Ann Gooch Hogrefe. Many thanks to them for making this information available.
Martha Ann Hogrefe Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006
9:39 AM
To: Marsha Cope Huie (mashlock)
Hi, Marsha. Here is the response from my cousin Nancy McDiarmid Norling to my request for family names and dates. Nan is John McDiarmid's oldest child. 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. 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.
"nan norling"
<[email protected]>
To: "Martha Ann Hogrefe" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Family info
Date: Mon, 24 Apr
2006 10:56:30 -0400
Darice Elmer McDiarmid:: born May 12, 1915, in Trenton, NJ. Died in March, 1990 --
John McDiarmid:
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 WestChester, 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.
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.
I don't have an email address for Anne, so perhaps Mary or Emly could fill in the blanks for her. Or better yet, I would like to have her email address, so send it to me and I'll contact her myself.
Thanks for your help with this. 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.
from] Martha Ann
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.
k Florence McCorkle, born circa 1884, aged 16
[Another child of Winfield Purviance McCorkle & wife Mary King McCorkle]
k 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.
Stephen Graham Mesick
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 King/ his 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:
“ Barb ( 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; the “Newbern Enquirer.”
Why have I concentrated here on Uncle Hiram McCorkle’s son Winfield Purviance McCorkle? -- in part, because Arahwana Ridens [2] 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 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 told me. Her father, John Cotton, died on or about 1852 or 53. I’ve not been able to learn whether her brother Rease Cotton [Pease 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. We acquired for John Cotton, my father’s maternal great-grandfather [father of Mary Cotton McCorkle] a new tombstone in 2003; I think the cemetery is 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 it was wrong to discharge the cook.”
<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.
<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 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….” He 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.
Uncle Hiram McCorkle kept a joural of events in and near Newbern and Yorkville. He lived several miles east of Newbern. The following is an admixture of Uncle Hiram’s entries and recollections of my Aunt Beth Huie and mother Joyce Cope Huie:
Post-Civil War:
1876:
Winfield Purviance McCorkle and W.B. Johnston were elected trustees of the Newbern Academy
1876:
John Edwin McCorkle and Smith Parks were elected Justices of the Peace. –[Benjamin Huie had earlier bought at least one plat of land from Smith Parks.]
In 1879, Prof. C.M. Arnold of Eminence, Kentucky, came to Newbern to take charge of the Newbern school. [ –Surely this is the connection in how Hiram R. A. McCorkle’s eldest son, Winfield Purviance McCorkle, ended up going to Eminence to teach school up there, & marrying Gideon & Sophia Woodruff King’s daughter “Mamie” Mary King.]
In 1881, Benjamin Lafayette Van Eaton [husband of LaMyra Huie, a daughter of Benjamin Huie & 1st wife nếe Lavinia Cowan] sold his land to Hiram R. A. McCorkle; while H. Shoffner granted land to B.L. VanEaton. [This is recorded in Uncle Hiram McCorkle’s diary.]
Evidently, Fate Van Eaton moved
to Newbern from the farm. LaMyra Huie (Van Eaton) was his wife.
Children of Benjamin Huie & Lavinia Cowan (Huie) were: (1) Cornelius Huie
(died as teenager and was carried in a pine box to be buried in the Old
Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery) (2) Julius M. Huie,
(3) Lydia “Liddie” Huie Pierce, (4) LaMyra Huie Van Eaton, and (5)
“Nan” Huie (Tucker, last of Ft. Smith, Arkansas, and buried there
in the city cemetery). All the above were children of
Benjamin Huie of Cabarrus
County, NC, (then Yorkville-Newbern) and of Benjamin’s 1st wife
Lavinia
Cowan (Huie).
Lavinia Cowan Huie was a daughter of Samuel Cowan &
Rachel Lewis Cowan of Rowan County, North Carolina. Evidently
the mother, Lavinia Cowan Huie, never made it west to Tennessee; but we
are not certain about this. There may have been more children, but that’s all I
can think of off the top of my head. Then, in Gibson County, Tennessee,
Benjamin Huie married as his 2nd wife a younger woman, Margaret Betts
or Betz (Huie), the mother of Joseph G. Huie. Joseph G. Huie--who married
Frances “Fannie” C. Franklin--removed to or near Vernon in Wilbarger County,
Texas, and was last known in his old age to be town clerk of Hobart, Oklahoma,
not too far from Vernon, Texas. I expect he took advantage of the “land grab”
when Hobart was opened up for further settlement.
The Saga of Aunt Nan Huie Tucker:
In my childhood in the 1950s we still called the farm about a mile north of the Benjamin Huie /Julius M. Huie /Howard Anderson Huie / Howard Ewing Huie/ place: “the Van Eaton Place,” as we still spoke of the “John May Place” just north of our land.--
Aunt Beth Huie, as a second principle of her Christian belief, passed on virtually no gossip, and told me only reluctantly certain family stories -- only in her old age and only after unmerciful wheedling. Aunt Beth finally yielded me this titbit: Myra Huie (Van Eaton) had a comely young sister “Aunt Nan” Huie (Tucker). Myra’s husband Mr. Van Eaton came to decide he wanted to rid himself of his wife LaMyra Huie [“But how, Aunt Beth?” “Oh, I’m not certain, Marsha; by placing a spider in her cup, or something like that.” ] because he wanted the younger sister Nan. The quick result was that “Aunt Nan” Huie was speedily sent off to Arkansas (where in Arkansas?) to live with Huie or Cowan family members (or perhaps both) who had already moved westwardly into Arkansas. Once in Arkansas, “Aunt Nan” Huie married a Mr. Tucker and was to live out her life in Fort Smith. – A few years ago I found her grave as Mrs. Tucker in the city cemetery of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Ever since hearing this pitiful story, I’ve hoped Aunt Nan Huie (Tucker) managed to have a happy life, as well as Aunt Myra Huie (Mrs. Van Eaton).
LaMyra
Huie Van Eaton, daughter of Benjamin Huie &
Lavinia Cowan Huie of
N.C
Moving to Texas after the Civil War:
In Sept. 1877, Jo Pope, Wesley W. Pope, A.B. Rose, and John Thedford began to move to Texas, they thought; but Joe Pope and Wesley Pope remained in Texas only three months and one week before returning to Newbern.
March 1881: John Edwin McCorkle, William H. Franklin, and H. Shoffner went to Texas. H. Shoffner returned to get his family, then left Newbern, with his family, forever, on Dec. 12, 1882. -- I would expect John E. McCorkle’s trip had something to do with trying to claim the land-grant available to, but not yet claimed by, the heirs of John Edwin McCorkle (and Hiram’s) uncle David Thomas, acting secretary of war for the Republic of Texas and its 1st attorney general, as well as signatory of the Texas Declaration of Independence. David Thomas was killed in 1836 from the result of enemy action and is buried at the San Jacinto Texas State Memorial, in the de Zavala Cemetery.
Then in April 1881, James H. Templeton and family (6 little girls) moved to Texas and so did John L. Dickey. –My mother Joyce Cope Huie, born 1915, still talks about Templeton Community near Newbern, but when I come home for visits I don’t know the location of these defunct communities in Dyer County.
In 1881 Dr. A.F. Bone began practising medicine in Newbern. -- John E. McCorkle’s diary refers to “Cousin Nancy Y. Bone” but I don’t know how he was kin to her. I think it was the Thomas (Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle) line. Some of the Bone family are buried in the old Yorkville C.P. Cemetery. Here goes: Hiram and John Edwin McCorkle’s mother, Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle, was a daughter of William Thomas & Elizabeth Purviance (Thomas). William Thomas’s brother, Henry Thomas m. McKnight [I think he married a McKnight], had a child named Nancy Thomas (Bone). This would make Nancy Bone a first cousin to Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle & a 1st cousin-once-removed to her children, including HRA and John E McCorkle. -- The Henry Thomas who was a brother to the William Thomas who m. Elizabeth Purviance had other known children beside Nancy Thomas Bone, viz., Margaret Thomas Anderson; Jane Thomas Chandler; James Thomas who m. a Miss Donarel [?Donnell?]; and Eleanor Thomas Sherrill.[1] --
April 10, 1900: Lightning struck Howard Anderson Huie’s barn and killed one mule. –Howard Huie, 1870-1935, was father of Beth Huie and my father, H. Ewing Huie, 1907-1971. Howard Huie married Sophie King McCorkle.
In 1900, HRA and granddaughter Kate Cawthon (Pace), a sister to Mamie Cawthon (Atkins) took the train to Eminence, Ky.—By then, Hiram’s oldest son had moved to Eminence, viz., Winfield Purviance McCorkle, who married Mamie King, a daughter of Sophie Woodruff King and her husband Gideon King. Gideon King was founder of Eminence and donated his own land in order to get the railroad to come his way.
October 1901: Hiram R A McCorkle, with John D. Smith and R R Rose, were elected Poor House Commissioners (the Dyer County Court chose them).
In November 1901, H.J Swindler was elected Mayor of Newbern, and one of the aldermen was J.A. Crenshaw. J.A. Crenshaw, whose Sunday School class memorialized him with a stained-glass window at the Newbern Methodist Church, is the great-great grandfather of Parker Louis Cashdollar Blackwell who was born 14 April 2006. J.A. Crenshaw was father of Aline Crenshaw Ditmore, “Tippah” Crenshaw who married and moved to Tulsa; Bush Crenshaw of Newbern; and Jimmy Crenshaw who lived in Dyersburg. Aline Crenshaw (Mrs. Parker Ditmore) was mother of Doris Ditmore Cashdollar (Mrs. Stanford Edward Cashdollar) and Dorothy Ditmore (Winslow) (Holloway). Children of Doris & Stan Cashdollar are: Stanford Edward Cashdollar, Jr., Ph.D.; Parker Ditmore Cashdollar, Ph.D.; Robert Cashdollar who moved to Washington, D.C.; Betty Cashdollar; and Cathy Cashdollar, mother of Audrey of the San Francisco Bay area. Dorothy Ditmore was mother of Dinah Winslow Upton; and of John Holloway. -- At one time, Parker Ditmore Cashdollar’s father, Stan Cashdollar, was mayor of Newbern.; Stan died in November of 1977.
In Dec. 1901, Harry Cotton was elected Circuit Court Clerk. He, Harry Cotton, married a Ledsinger [kinswoman] of “Nobe” Zenobia Ledsinger. Harry Cotton was elected in December 1901 to be clerk of the Circuit Court in Dyersburg. Somehow, and I don’t know how, Harry Cotton was kin to Mary Elizabeth Cotton (the 2nd wife of John Edwin McCorkle) of Botland near Bardstown, Kentucky. The Cottons back then in Newbern/Dyersburg kinda had the name of being “bootleggers” –and no wonder, coming from Jim Beam bourbon country (Bardstown). Harry Cotton and my great-uncle Errett Cotton McCorkle, 1888-1976, claimed kinship; but as mentioned I don’t know how.]
Uncle Hiram R. A. McCorkle died in the year 1907, the year of birth of his nephew Howard Ewing Huie, my father. Requiescat in Pace, Uncle Hiram, in the McCorkle Cemetery.
IV. More about David Thomas, brother of Jane Maxwell Thomas, Mrs. Edwin A. McCorkle of Wilson County, Middle Tennessee, then Dyer County, Tennessee. More about the (successful) effort of David Thomas’ nephew, John Edwin McCorkle of Newbern—Yorkville, to claim the Texas land granted to David Thomas, posthumously, for Mr. Thomas’s service to the Republic of Texas as its acting Secretary of War and first attorney general ad interim. David Thomas was killed in 1836. -- This David Thomas material may be of interest only to the descendants of Robert and Peggy Morrison McCorkle’s son, Edwin A. McCorkle. This may be so because it was Edwin A. McCorkle’s wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle who was a sister to this David Thomas of Republic of Texas fame.
V. More about John Edwin McCorkle and one of the Civil Wartime Diaries of John Edwin McCorkle, a grandson of Robert McCorkle & Margaret Morrison McCorkle, through their son Edwin A. McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas.
Other of John Edwin McCorkle ’s journals, which my sister and I view to have been wrongfully taken, are in the possession of the University of Tennessee at Martin Archives; ditto some of the records of our paternal grandfather Howard Anderson Huie (1870-1935), particularly his Huie & Ozier Hardware Company records of Newbern, Tennessee, circa 1900. We did not give those diaries and other records away, and do not know or approve of how they may have come into possession of the university. -- The chancellor of the University of Tennessee at Martin, Nick Dunnagan, is himself a descendant of Robert McCorkle & Margaret “Peggy” Morrison, also Nick’s sister Nancy Dunnagan Biggs; and another sister whom I never met. John Edwin McCorkle’s sister “Becky”Rebecca McCorkle married John C. Zarecor; and her descendant Sarah Zarecor on down the line married Horace Dunnagan, Junior, of Yorkville-Neboville. They moved to Caruthersville, Missouri, where Horace was a banker. Siblings of Sarah Zarecor Dunnagan: Evelyn Zarecor Austin (Mrs. L. M. Austin of Newbern area); Bob Zarecor of Yorkville m. Frances McKnight; “Billy” George Zarecor who lived at Martin; Jack Zarecor of Yorkville whose 1st wife was mother of Harriett Zarecor; 2nd wife Georgia Legions; and, I think, last came Sarah Z. Dunnagan herself.
[The Diaries of John Edwin McCorkle’s brother Uncle Hiram McCorkle, i.e., diaries of HRA McCorkle (Hiram Robert A. McCorkle), are not included here in full, unfortunately. HRA McCorkle was a 19th-century diarist of Newbern, Tennessee, and his journals descended to his orphaned granddaughter Mamie Cawthon Atkins (a daughter of Elizabeth Jane “Betty” McCorkle (Cawthon), also known as Mrs. Johnny Cawthon); then to Mamie Cawthon Atkins’ daughter Betty Jane Atkins Caldwell, b. circa 1920, of Newbern. Hiram’s diaries are now in the hands of David Caldwell of Newbern, Tennessee, and wife Diane Caldwell; David is the son and only child of Charles & Betty Jane Atkins Caldwell. Uncle Hiram’s diaries are worth reading. For example, one entry upon the death in Newbern in 1879 of Benjamin Huie (born 1798 in Cabarrus County, North Carolina) succinctly noted that the “Newbern Enquirer” newspaper had said, “Benjamin Huie died at the Newbern home of his son Joe G. Huie. One of our ablest men, he came as near as any man I’ve ever known to tending only to his own business.”
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Provenance of the McCorkle-Roache Papers Preserved & sent to me in West Tennessee by “Casey” Bowden Cason McCorkle of San Leandro, California:
The Roach(e) line of Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach died out in California, to which state Addison Locke Roache, Jr., moved from Indiana; and in California some of their McCorkle cousins inherited their papers. The old letters & papers came into the hands of Casey McCorkle, who preserved them and left them to me. Casey McCorkle was a son of Homer McCorkle, & a paternal grandson of Finis A. McCorkle of Dyer Co, Tenn., & Finis’ 1st wife Sarah “Sallie” Josephine “Jo” Jackson (McCorkle).
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.[3] 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” Sarah Josephine “Jo” Jackson, Dyer County, Tennessee. 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 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 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 Gossum McCorkle poisoned him, but he is officially listed as a suicide & is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery east of 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. Susan Jane McCorkle Carter (Jennie) with her brother Gentry Purviance McCorkle, Senior:
Finis A. McCorkle’s child by his 2nd wife “Mag” Margaret HART was Maida 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. 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 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, this information 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 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 he 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.
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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 Latina McCorkle (Mrs. Gregory).
Finis A. McCorkle
should have a marker at the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County, Tennessee, even
if his 2nd wife 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 Glen Glenn of the Glen Glenn Sound Recording Studio in Hollywood. Sad to say, Glen Glenn & wife née McCorkle drowned while on vacation. 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 children Helen, Molly, & David Glenn; but I am 57 years old, & that was probably more than 45 years ago & memory fades. [[I found the following on www.ancestry.com : Glen Glenn [Junior?], born 3 November 1953 in Los Angeles, California. I would presume his grandfather was Gentry Purviance McCorkle, son of Finis A. McCorkle. But perhaps not, for the California Birth Record is reported as listing this Glen Glenn’s mother’s maiden name as Heim. ]] 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 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 Glenn); Gentry Jr; and David McCorkle. Sallie Jo Jackson’s father was Gilliam [Gillum?] Jackson, a minister of Obion County, Tennessee.
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.
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Finis A. McCorkle’s son Gentry Purviance McCorkle in California became a Christian Scientist & 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 & married several wives, the 1st Ruth E. Cason, from Henderson, Tennessee, born March 1870, m. 1 April 1903 in Center Point, Kerr County, Texas; and the second Maggie Loraine Meeks b. 24 Nov 1892 in Tennessee. Gentry had, I think, a 3rd wife whose surname was, I think, “Riley.” Gentry Purviance McCorkle died in 1962 in Glendale, California. Gentry was involved in the Llano del Rio Utopian community experiment, which foundered for lack of water in California.
As a child, I had never heard of Mary Baker Eddy until seeing her tract, sent from Gentry Purviance McCorkle, at Uncle Glenn McCorkle’s home & at Aunt Kate McCorkle’s home, brother & sister who were devout members of the Church of Christ. Gentry, though, had joined the Seventh Day Adventists, not the Christian Scientists.
Although the Lemalsamac crowd, mostly my father’s cousins, succeeded in preaching my father out of the Lemalsamac congregation [he decided to leave, 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 when 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, 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.
Above: Gentry Purviance McCorkle, Sr., with daughter Mary Helen McCorkle (Mrs. Glen Glenn) of Hollywood, California.
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, - .
Gentry Purviance McCorkle ’s children (beside Mary Helen McCorkle Glenn) included HRA McCorkle [Hiram Robert A. (HRA like Gentry’s uncle Hiram Robert Archibald or Alexander McCorkle)]; and David McCorkle, b. 1916. Was David McCorkle a WWII prisoner of war? Another child of G.P. McCorkle [Senior] was Gentry Purviance McCorkle Jr. .– I think I remember seeing that name in the records kept by my great-aunt, Aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle. And I think I remember that Aunt Kate kept this David (or perhaps Gentry Jr’s) World War II photograph in her album at her home, the old McCorkle homeplace in Dyer County, Tennessee, of John Edwin McCorkle 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 was born at the end of the 18th century in Rowan County, NC [I think]; 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.
Gentry Purviance McCorkle, Sr., circa 1925
–I think, but do not know, that Edwin Alexander McCorkle’s brother Jehiel Morrison McCorkle was clerk of court from the county’s nascence on; the only reason I think this is that his papers somehow have ended up in the University of Tennessee at Martin archives. The U’s publicity seems not to know who Jehiel Morrison McCorkle was; and I’m so unhappy with them about having our papers that I may not tell them. I think ‘Jem’ Jehiel Morrison McCorkle died in 1849, before his brother Edwin Alexander McCorkle died Jan. 10, 1853. And their sister Margaret Permelia McCorkle (Mrs. Lemuel Locke Scott) died in late 1853. Also Lemuel Locke Scott (1804-1866) suffered the death of his father James Scott (1777-1853) in 1853, as well as of two children.
I. Alexander McCorkle & “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery. II. Robert McCorkle & 2nd wife “Peggy” Margaret Morrison McCorkle. III. Jehiel Morrison McCorkle & wife Elizabeth Smith McCorkle.
Jehiel Morrison McCorkle (Jem) & Elizabeth Smith McCorkle had these Generation IV children, who would have been first cousins to Edwin Alexander McCorkle’s children, that is first cousins to: viz., Hiram R.A. & John Edwin & Anderson Jehiel & Finis A. & David Purviance & Becky McCorkle Zarecor & Elizabeth McCorkle Reeves & “Tina” Margaret Latina McCorkle Gregory:
IV.1. R.E. McCorkle
IV.2. Samuel S. McCorkle m. Margaret Wharey who I think lived in Yorkville.
SS & Marg’t McCorkle’s children were:
V Mary McCorkle
V Leone McCorkle
V James McCorkle
V David E. McCorkle, who m. Lullie Vaughn & became Dyer Co. Superintendent of Schools. See Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee, biographical entries for Dyer County. ;
V. Frances McCorkle;
V. Ella McCorkle who m. Joe W. Pope. This Ella McCorkle Pope died Oct. 1 1946. ;
V. A.L. “Bud” McCorkle who died 4 Jan. 1935—the “shootist”; and
V. Susan McCorkle.
IV.3. Alexander “Dank” McCorkle –“Dank” was to be progenitor of a Governor. Note that the governor had a 1st cousin “Bud” who was a “shootist.”
Carl E. Bailey of Arkansas. Political Graveyard on the Internet says the following about Carl Edward Bailey, 1894-1948: “ Bailey, Carl Edward (1894-1948) — also known as Carl E. Bailey — of Little Rock, Ark. Born in Bernie, Stoddard County, Mo., October 8, 1894. Son of William Edward Bailey and Margaret Elmyra (McCorkle) Bailey; married, October 10, 1915, to Margaret Bristol (divorced 1942). Democrat. Arkansas state attorney general, 1935-37; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1936, 1940; Governor of Arkansas, 1937-41. Disciples of Christ. Member, American Bar Association. Freemasons. Died October 23, 1948. Interment at Roselawn Memorial Park, Little Rock, Ark.” [End of quoted material from Political Graveyard]
Alexander “Dank” McCorkle and wife Margaret Pitt McCorkle had these children:
V. Jehiel McCorkle m. Bettie Hall (McCorkle) and begot:
VI. Eddie Louise McCorkle (Miller) who m. Robert Miller; and
VI. Hall McCorkle.
Photograph of Jehiel McCorkle & Bettie Hall McCorkle below:
V. Lee McCorkle m. Emma Johnson;
VI. Lee McCorkle & Emma Johnson McCorkle had Ilas McCorkle and another child. Uncle Hiram R.A. McCorkle’s diary records the death of Lee McCorkle.
V. Robert Eusebius McCorkle, Christian Church minister, m. Mrs. Nannie Smith and they had:
VI Anita McCorkle;
VI Robbie McCorkle (Mrs. Frank Chambers), who had son VII Tom Chambers; and
VI Tom McCorkle, who enlisted in U.S. Navy in 1942 aged 17.
V. Alex McCorkle m. 1st a Miss Baker, then 2nd m. Maggie Sturdivant;
Alex McCorkle & Maggie Sturdivant McCorkle had
VI Frank McCorkle and probably other VI children.
V. Margaret Elmira McCorkle (Barnett) (Bailey) m. 1st Mr. Barnett, then 2nd Mr. Bailey—mother of a Governor Carl E. Bailey of Arkansas and probably other children;
V. Howard McCorkle, burnt to death;
V. William S. McCorkle m. Lizzie Sturdivant (McCorkle) and had:
VI. Clara McCorkle (Mrs. John D. Pochler);
VI. Esther (Mrs. Henry J. Wischest [?] [?Winchester?];
VI. Nell McCorkle (Mrs. Will P. Mitchell); --{[Ora McCorkle Huie and Kate McCorkle Fox’s book says:
“Lizzie’s 4th child. [6.] Nell & Will P. Mitchell. [7.] Scott McCorkle Mitchell. [8.] Scott McCorkle Mitchell, Jr.”]}
VI. Wilmer Scott McCorkle;
VI. Edyth McCorkle (Mrs. W.F. Meyers);
VI. Edwin McCorkle m. Alma.
V. Beulah McCorkle (Tucker) m. Mr. Tucker and had
VI. Nell Tucker, who had a child named Scott McCorkle Mitchell
V. Irving Adair McCorkle m. Ida Smith (McCorkle) and had
VI Ruby McCorkle Cowan;
VI. Erin McCorkle Arnett (Mrs. Lynn Arnett)—This brings to mind the connection between Mr. Lynn Arnett and his sister Esther Arnett Poore late of Newbern, Esther May Arnett (Mrs. Aaron Poore) being mother of Jean Poore Palmer of Dyersburg and Jean’s twin sister Jane Poore Yarbrough of Newbern. This connection to the religious stirrings of minister Kenneth McCorkle in my view ultimately led to division in the Newbern First Christian Church, exacerbated by a lunatic-fringe preacher named Walizer, and to the old grand church’s ultimate demise circa 1985;
VI. Kenneth McCorkle, Christian Church preacher who, sad to say, contributed to the division of the Christian Church (from which the Church of Christ had split circa 1900) into the (more liberal) Disciples of Christ and (less liberal) Christian Church. – Kenneth McCorkle had by his 1st wife VII. Kenneth Earl McCorkle who married Rose Marie Moore; and by his 2nd wife VII. Olwin McCorkle; and VII. Kenneth McCorkle, Jr.
IV.4. Locke McCorkle (son of Jehiel Morrison McCorkle & Betsy Smith McCorkle).
Locke McCorkle was killed in or consequent to the Civil War Battle of Atlanta. His parents lost three—yes, three—sons to the Civil War.
IV.5. E.J. (son of Jehiel Morrison McCorkle & Betsy Smith McCorkle) – killed in Civil War – Ed, I think he was. A wartime letter we have from Robert alias RAH McCorkle, E.J.’s uncle, written to RAH’s sister Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache advises her that Ed had not yet returned home from the war, nor had Locke. Nor would either, ever.
IV.6. Clay (Henry Clay) McCorkle (son of Jehiel Morrison McCorkle & Betsy Smith McCorkle), buried Brice’s Crossroads battlefield cemetery, Guntown, Mississippi
IV.7. John Q. McCorkle m. Etheline Ellis [?Was he called Quincy McCorkle?] (son of Jehiel Morrison McCorkle & Betsy Smith McCorkle)
8. M. Caroline McCorkle m. 1. Greer 2. Gregory 3. James O. Roache
9. Margaret B. McCorkle
IV.8. E. McCorkle --It’s possible this was the Ed McCorkle who was killed in the Civil War, instead of the E.J. McCorkle listed above as IV.5. I do not know who this was.
The above Generation III. Jehiel Morrison McCorkle (JEM McCorkle) and Elizabeth Smith “Betsy” McCorkle are interred in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, Tennessee.
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Robert McCorkle and wife Margaret Morrison McCorkle ’s Journey from Rowan County, N.C, to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to Dyer County, Tennessee:
We know Robert McCorkle was born in Rowan/Iredell County, North Carolina, to Alexander McCorkle & “Nancy” Agness Montgomery, immigrants to 1st Pennsylvania from Northern Ireland, then to 2nd North Carolina. Nancy Montgomery McCorkle’s mother, née Finley, was a sister to Presbyterian minister Joseph Montgomery, born 1733.
Robert’s older brother, Samuel Eusebius McCorkle (Princeton graduate; admitted to Presbyterian ministry for New York; Doctor of Divinity, Dickinson College) had been born in Pennsylvania. We also know that Robert moved westerly to Sumner County, Tennessee, where he married (1st wife) Lizzie Blythe [I think they married in Middle Tennessee] and had two children, Aleck who died in infancy and Elizabeth McCorkle (Anderson) who was raised by her mother’s mother in or near Lebanon, Tennessee. When Elizabeth Blythe McCorkle died, Robert went back to Rowan County, North Carolina to marry and fetch westwardly Margaret “Peggy” Morrison, daughter of Andrew & Elizabeth Sloan Morrison. We also know that Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison) was herself a McCorkle descendant.
Robert McCorkle, and perhaps his 1st Lizzie Blythe McCorkle, temporarily moved from Sumner County up to Bourbon County, Kentucky, near Paris, after John Purviance [Junior, son of an elder John Purviance] had been scalped in 1792 in Sumner County. We know that Robert’s brother, William McCorkle, married as his 2nd wife (after 1st wife “Peggy” Margaret Blythe) Martha “Mattie” King, the widow of John Purviance [widow of the younger John Purviance who was “scalped”].
The Cumberland Presbyterian schism from the more formal Presbyterians occurred in 1810 just outside Dickson, Tennessee, in what is now a Tennessee State Park: Montgomery Bell Historic Shrine. It is known that a Robert McCorkle appears in the earliest Cumberland Presbyterian records of Kentucky in trials for the newly formed Cumberland Presbyterian ministry and, even though he would have been over 40 years old at the time, it is possible the applicant is our Robert McCorkle. Please recall though the marriage in 1810 in Boone County, Kentucky, of another Robert McCorkle, to a Keith woman; it is possible this is the Robert McCorkle applying for the C.P. clergy, and he may even have been a nephew of our Robert. The new Cumberland Presbyterian denomination was desperate for educated clergy. -- We are told by Elmira Sloan McCorkle (Roache), that her father Robert (after the families had retreated from Indian hostilities in Tennessee up to Kentucky) moved on back down to Sumner County after Indian relations improved. [See the Cumberland Presbyterian web site on the Internet.]
Robert or his people, or both, appear in what was then called Sumner County, Tennessee, as members of Shiloh Presbyterian Church near today’s Gallatin. Someday I hope to visit the “King Cemetery” which is sometimes the name given the Shiloh Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Mr. OK Smith’s daughter (and “Miss” Lady Ruth Herndon Smith’s daughter), Mary Evelyn Smith Reese, told me just yesterday on the telephone that she lives closeby. (Someday, I’m hoping to find the grave, somewhere in Middle Tennessee ( ?), of Revolutionary War participant John Purviance & wife Mary Jane Wasson Purviance, the grandparents of Mrs. Edwin A. McCorkle, née Jane Maxwell Thomas. Are they buried at Shiloh Presbyterian Church? It is conceivable that Revolutionary War veteran “colonel” John Purviance might be buried up in New Paris, Preble County, Ohio, to which location his son David Purviance, the church minister, had removed--after having moved to Cane Ridge, Bourbon County, Kentucky, near Lexington, and serving in the Kentucky legislature. The reader will recall that David’s brother John Purviance [Jr.] had been scalped by hostile Indians in 1792 in Sumner County, Tennessee, leaving a widow “Mattie” Martha King Purviance, who later married William McCorkle. This murder caused David Purviance and some kinspeople to move up to Bourbon County. Some returned to Middle Tennessee; others did not.)
James M. Richmond, whose wife is a descendant of William McCorkle (brother to our Robert) has identified the parents of “Peggy” Margaret Blythe as Reverend James Blythe and Elizabeth King (Blythe), parents of both: (1) Mrs. William McCorkle, née Margaret Blythe; and (2) the first Mrs. Robert McCorkle, née Elizabeth “Lizzie” Blythe. Quaere: What kin was the wife of Reverend James Blythe (Mrs. Elizabeth King Blythe) to the Samuel King, Samuel King having been an original signator to the new Cumberland Presbytery highlighted immediately below?
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Presbyterian Roots -- from the Cumberland Presbyterian Internet Website
“April 8, 1813. Logan Presbytery formed from Cumberland Presbytery. Also, that another part of the present members of this Cumberland Presbytery shall be, and are hereby directed to constitute a Presbytery to be known by the name of Logan Presbytery; to be composed of the following members, to-wit: the Rev. Messrs. Finis Ewing, William Harris, Alexander Chapman, and William Barnett; to meet on the fifty Tuesday in August next at Red River meeting-house, Logan county, Ky., the Presbytery to be opened by a sermon to be delivered by Mr. Finis Ewing, or Mr. Harris, in cause of his absence.
“The following persons shall be considered under
the direction of said Logan Presbytery when constituted, to-wit: Phillip
McDonnold; Robert McCorkle, Green
P. Rice,
John Barnett, and Daniel Boe
[Buie?] ; the boundaries of said Presbytery to be as follows: Beginning at the
mouth of Duck river, thence a direct line to Cumberland river, so as to include
the settlements of Yellow creek, thence up Cumberland river to the mouth of
Half-Pone creek, thence a direct course to the Kentucky state line, where
the old Kentucky road crosses said line, yet so as to leave Karr's Creek society
in the bounds of said Presbytery, leaving out what is called the
Ridge society; thence eastwadly to undefined boundaries (it is
understood, however, that the counties of Cumberland and Wayne, in Kentucky, are
not to be considered in the bounds of said Presbytery), thence northward and
westward to undefined boundaries from each point. It is expressly understood,
however, that lines striking off from said bounds of said Logan Presbytery are
to include
William and
John Barnett and Philip McDonnold, yet not so as to include any
society in the Cumberland Presbytery, or territory to form one on, and it is
hereby understood that all the congregations, etc., within the natural or
prescribed boundaries of either of the Presbyteries shall be considered under
the care of their respective Presbyteries; and it is hereby expressly directed
and mutually agreed to, that said
Elk and Logan Presbyteries meet this Presbytery with their documents on
the first Wednesday in October at the
Beech meeting-house, in Sumner county, and State of Tennessee, for the
express purpose of constituting a Synod; and it is hereby directed that the
committee appointed to draw up a complete though succinct account of the rise,
doctrines, etc., of the
Cumberland Presbytery, make their report to the Synod when constituted.
[Source: Minutes of Cumberland Presbytery,
April 8, 1813, reprinted in The Cumberland Presbyterian Review,
January 1879] ”
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Cumberland Presbyterian Connections. The CP church began in 1810: February 4, 1810.
“In Dixon [sic.] county Tennessee State, at the Rev. Samuel M'adow's this 4th day of February 1810. “We Samuel M'adow, Finis Ewing, and Samuel King, regularly ordained ministers, in the presbyterian church against whom, no charge, either of imorality, or Heresey has ever been exhibited, before any of the church Judicatures. Having waited in vain more than four years, in the mean time, petitioning the general assembly for a redress of grievances, and a restoration of our violated rights, have, and do hereby agree, and determine, to constitute into a presbytery, known by the name of the Cumberland presbytery. On the following conditions (to wit) all candidates for the ministry, who may hereafter be licensed by this presbytery; and all the licentiates, or probationers who may hereafter be ordained by this presbytery; shall be required before such licensure, and ordination, to receive, and adopt the confession and discipline of the presbyterian church, except the idea of fatality, that seems to be taught under the misterious doctrine of predestination. It is to be understood, however, that such as can clearly receive the confession, without an exception, shall not be required to make any. Moreover, all licentiates, before they are set apart to the whole work of the ministry (or ordained) shall be required to undergo an examination, on English Grammer, Geography, Astronomy, natural, & moral philosophy, and church history. The presbytery may also require an examination on all, or any part, of the above branches of literature, before licensure if they deem it expedient."
“Minutes of Cumberland Presbytery. Cumberland Presbyterian Church] March 20 - 22, 1810
“SUMNER COUNTY, STATE OF TENNESSEE, Ridge Meeting-house, Tuesday, the 20th of March, 1810.
“Presbytery met agreeably to adjournment. Members present: The Rev. Messrs.
Samuel McAdow,
Finis Ewing,
Samuel King, and
Ephraim McLean; elders and representatives, Chatham Ewing, Alexander
Aston, Young Ewing, Witheral Latimore, Henderson Bails, John Wheeler, Benjamin
Lockhart, Hugh Telford, Samuel Donnell, and John Williamson.
” Presbytery proceeded to choose a Moderator and Clerk.
Mr. McAdow was chosen Moderator, and Mr. Young Ewing Clerk. Constituted
by prayer.
” Mr.
James B. Porter delivered a discourse from John viii. 36, preparatory to
his ordination, agreeably to appointment of last Presbytery, which was
unanimously sustained.
” Adjourned, by prayer, to meet to-morrow morning at nine o'clock.
WEDNESDAY
MORNING.
Presbytery met agreeably to adjournment. Members present as yesterday. Opened
by prayer.
“ Mr.
Kirkpatrick delivered a discourse from James ii. 26, which was
unanimously sustained. Whereupon Messrs.
Porter and
Kirkpatrick were examined on English grammar, geography, natural and
moral philosophy, Church history, and astronomy, which examination was
sustained, and, after an ordination sermon was delivered by
Rev. Finis Ewing, from 2 Tim. ii. 15, they were set apart to the whole
work of the ministry, by solemn prayer and the imposition of hands, and were
invited to, and took their seats in, Presbytery.
Adjourned, by prayer, to meet to-morrow morning at eight o'clock.
“THURSDAY MORNING.
Presbytery met agreeably to adjournment. Members present as yesterday. Opened by
prayer.
” Ordered, that Messrs.
McLean and
Kirkpatrick attend Karr's Creek Society, agreeably to the request of
their representative, for the purpose of their organization, and that they
administer the sacrament of the Lord's Supper at that place, at some convenient
time during the ensuing summer, and that they supply the said society, together
with the society on McAdow, with preaching as often as they can.
” Ordered, that
Mr. McLean administer the sacrament of the Lord's Supper in Livingston
county, on the second Sabbath in May, and that
Mr. Robert Donnell attend and
assist upon that occasion.
”Ordered, that it be recommended to all vacant congregations, and they are
hereby authorized, to call before their session any disorderly member, and deal
with him or them in every respect as though there was a preacher present, but
their judgment shall not extend further than suspension.
”Ordered, that Messrs.
Samuel McAdow,
Finis Ewing,
Ephraim McLean,
James B. Porter, and Young Ewing, or a majority of them, draw a circular
letter, as soon as they can, which is to be carefully examined, and superintend
the printing of a thousand copies, to be distributed under the direction of
Presbytery; and it is further directed that all the preachers, exhorters,
elders, etc., collect money from all they can, taking down the persons' names
and sums paid, which collections ought to be made as soon as possible for that
purpose; the surplus, if any, to be put into the hands of a treasurer, to be
appointed by order of Presbytery.
”Ordered, that
Mr. Hugh Kirkpatrick be appointed Treasurer, also Stated Clerk, for this
Presbytery.
” Mr. David McLin having undergone the usual examination, viz.: on
experimental religion, his call to the ministry, etc., and having received a
good report of his moral character, he is now received as a candidate for the
ministry, and ordered to prepare a discourse to be delivered at our next stated
meeting, from Isaiah iii. 10, 11.
Ordered, that an intermediate Presbytery be held on Elk river, in the bounds of
Mr. Bell's congregation, for the purpose of his ordination, on the 20th
of July; and that Messrs.
Finis Ewing,
Samuel King [what
kin was Samuel King to Elizabeth King Blythe, Mrs. Rev. James Blythe, the 1st
mother-in-law of Robert McCorkle?],
James B. Porter, and
Hugh Kirkpatrick hold said Presbytery, and that
Rev. Finis Ewing preach the ordination sermon, also preside, or some
other, in case of absence, inability, etc.
” Ordered, that an intermediate Presbytery be held on Suggs' Creek, on Friday,
the 27th day of July, for the purpose of ordaining
Mr. David Foster, and that Messrs.
Finis Ewing,
Samuel King,
James B. Porter, and
Hugh Kirkpatrick attend and compose said Presbytery; and that
Rev. Hugh Kirkpatrick preach the ordination sermon, and the
Rev. Finis Ewing preside.
” Ordered, that
Mr. Robert Bell prepare a discourse from Romans v. 1, and
Mr. Foster, from Ephesians ii. 8, to be delivered preparatory to their
ordination.
” Ordered, that
Mr. Thomas Calhoon prepare a discourse from Romans i. 16, 17, to be
considered as a popular discourse, preparatory to his licensure, at the
intermediate Presbytery to be held in July, on Suggs' Creek; also prepare to
stand an examination on English grammar. [Letters of Elmira Sloan McCorkle
Roach in Indiana mention the family of Thomas
Calhoun.]
” Whereas, Messrs.
Robert Donnell and
William Barnett have formerly been examined on experimental religion and
their call to the ministry, and having received a good report of their moral
character, they are now received as candidates for the ministry; ordered,
therefore, that
Mr. Donnell prepare a discourse from Matthew v. 8; also
Mr. Barnett, from John x. 9, to be delivered at our next stated meeting.
” Whereas,
Mr. Robert McCorkle has been
formerly [formally?]
received as a candidate for the ministry,
ordered that he prepare a discourse from Isaiah iii. 10, 11, to be
delivered at our next stated meeting.
” Whereas,
Mr. Alexander Chapman has been formerly received as a candidate for the
ministry, ordered that he prepare a discourse from John iii. 16, to be exhibited
at our next meeting.
Ordered, that Messrs.
Samuel King and
David Foster administer the sacrament of the Lord's Supper in the upper
circuit some time (during) the ensuing summer or fall, and that Messrs.
Calhoon and
Barnett assist them.
Ordered, that
Mr. Donnell ride once around the lower circuit, and the balance of his
time to be employed on the Elk River circuit.
Ordered, that
Mr. Barnett ride once round the Nashville circuit, and the balance of
his time on the upper circuit.
Ordered, that Mr. Bumpass ride the Nashville circuit.
Ordered that Mr. McLin ride the Livingston circuit, or what is called the lower
circuit.
Ordered, that Presbytery adjourn until the fourth Tuesday in October next, to
meet on that day at Lebanon meeting-house, as aforesaid.
Closed with prayer.
SAMUEL
McADOW, Moderator. YOUNG EWING, Clerk.
”
“ Minutes of Cumberland Presbytery
[of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church]
October 23-25, 1810
“ LEBANON, Tennessee, Tuesday, the 23d of October, 1810.
“Presbytery met agreeably to
adjournment. Members present: The
Rev. Finis Ewing,
Ephraim McLean, and
Hugh Kirkpatrick; Elders Robert Guthrie, Chatham Ewing, and Young Ewing;
representatives David Baity, from McAdow and Karr's Creek; Samuel Smith, from
Sandy Creek, Piney Fork, and Hopewell; and James Baker, from Big Spring. The
Rev. Finis Ewing was appointed Moderator, and Mr. Young Ewing, Clerk.
The
Rev. Hugh Kirkpatrick preached a sermon from John v. 39.
Presbytery opened by prayer. The minutes from the Intermediate Presbyteries,
held on Elk River and Suggs' Creek, were received and read.
Presbytery adjourned, by prayer, to meet to-morrow morning at nine o'clock.
“WEDNESDAY
MORNING. Presbytery met agreeably to adjournment. Members same as
on yesterday. Opened with prayer. Other representatives appeared and took their
seats, viz.: Josiah Wilson, from Harpeth Lick, Spring Creek, and Rutherford;
Jacob Scott, from Casey's Creek, Blooming Grove, and Means' Societies; and
Robert Smith, elder, from Fall Creek.
“WHEREAS,
The
Rev. William McGee voluntarily suspended his operations as a preacher
for a time, owing to some difficulties in his own mind--did not consider himself
a proper member of Presbytery in that situation, but has since gotten his mind
clear, and feels it a duty to preach again;
“Resolved, therefore (he
being present), That he be considered and recognized as a regular member of
Cumberland Presbytery, and that he be invited to take his seat accordingly.
Concurred in unanimously. Wherefore he was invited to, and took his seat.
Messrs.
McLean and
Kirkpatrick assigned reasons why they did not administer the Lord's
Supper on Karr's Creek, which were sustained.
Upon examination, the committee appointed at last Presbytery to draft a circular
letter, have complied with the order.
“ Messrs.
King and
Calhoon complied with the order of Presbytery, in the administration of
the Lord's Supper in the upper circuit.
“ Mr.
Robert McCorkle's excuse was sustained for not being prepared with a discourse
at this Presbytery as a part of trial. Mr.
McLean complied with the order of last Presbytery in the administration
of the Lord's Supper in Livingston. Mr. David McLin delivered a discourse from
the subject assigned him, which was sustained. Messrs.
Robert Bell and
David Foster, being present, and the minutes of their ordination being
read, they were invited to and took their seats accordingly.
Mr. Ephraim Dickey, Mr. Bell's elder, is now come and took his seat in
Presbytery.
Mr.
Alexander Chapman delivered a discourse from the subject assigned him,
which was sustained.
Adjourned, by prayer, to meet to-morrow morning at nine o'clock.
“THURSDAY
MORNING. Presbytery met agreeably to
adjournment. Members present as on yesterday. Opened by prayer.
A letter to the different churches under the care of Presbytery was adopted,
viz., our circular letter.
A letter to the Presiding Elder of the Methodist Society was adopted, as
follows:
“DEAR
SIR: Having learned by Mr. Clements, that
you have manifested not only a willingness, but a wish, to come to a friendly
understanding with the Cumberland Presbytery, we have had the matter before us,
and have determined, agreeably to your wish, to appoint
Mr. McLean and Mr. William Clements to meet and confer with you on that
subject. As to former causes of umbrage, the Presbytery is sorry they ever
existed on either side, and wishes henceforth that they should subside, and the
effects produced in the mind be buried in oblivion. Nevertheless, the Presbytery
has ordered that the Rev. William McGee, one of its own body, not only because
it is a matter of which our Methodist brethren complain, but because they feel
in effect the whole body (to which he belongs) is, in a certain degree, affected
with the charges against him respecting Mr. Harper, make his defense before our
next stated Presbytery on that subject, of which time and place
Mr. McLean will inform you. But let that trial eventuate as it may, the
Presbytery does not wish it to affect the union between the two general bodies
or societies. Our commissioners will inform you that the Presbytery is cordial
and sincere in its profession of friendship, but wishes it only to be on general
and not particular principles, viz., that each Society feels at perfect liberty
to preach its own sentiments and exercise its own discipline. As to the subject
of proselytizing, the Presbytery condemns the principle, but, notwithstanding,
believes it would not be prudent to lay any particular restrictions on that
subject, but allow the members of each Society to be at perfect liberty to join
whom they please, without jealousy or animadversion from any quarter. The
Presbytery would just add that if any individual preacher or member of either
Society acts improperly in the view of the other Society, that such Society
shall feel at perfect liberty to treat him accordingly, by refusing to let him
preach or commune with them, without extending it to the body to which such
member belongs. The Presbytery would also suggest, in order to prevent future
jealousy, that neither body shall be considered inattentive because they may not
always attend the communions of the other that may be convenient, the Presbytery
having so great a proportion of societies to supply for the number of their
preachers, that they cannot always attend the communions of other Societies when
they would wish to do so, but when the bodies accidentally or designedly meet,
let them be in union. You will see, sir, the above conditions are perfectly
equal. We hope, therefore, they will meet with your approbation and that body
over whom you preside.
FINIS
EWING, Moderator.
YOUNG EWING, Clerk.
October 25th, 1810.
To L. BLACKMAN, P. E., M. S. ”
“Ordered,
that
Rev. Ephraim McLean and Mr. William Clements be a committee to wait on
the Elder with the foregoing letter.
Mr.
William Harris delivered a discourse from the subject assigned him,
which was sustained.
Mr. William Bumpass delivered a discourse from the subject assigned him,
which was sustained.
Mr. Robert Donnell delivered a discourse from the subject assigned him, which
was sustained.
Ordered, that
Mr. Alexander Chapman prepare a popular discourse from Romans x. 4, to
be delivered at our next stated Presbytery, in order to his licensure, and that
he prepare to stand an examination of English grammar.
Ordered, that
Mr. Harris prepare a popular discourse from 2 Corinthians v. 21, to be
delivered at our next stated Presbytery, and that he stand an examination on
English grammar at that time, preparatory to his licensure.
Ordered that
Mr. Robert Donnell prepare a discourse from Romans v. 1, to be delivered
at our next stated Presbytery, preparatory to his licensure, and that he prepare
to stand an examination on English grammar.
“ Ordered,
that Mr. Robert McCorkle prepare a discourse from Isaiah xlv. 22, as part of
trial, to be delivered at our next Presbytery.
Ordered, that Mr. Bumpass prepare a discourse, as part of trial,
from Psalms cxxvi. 5, to be delivered at our next Presbytery.
Ordered that Mr. McLin prepare a discourse, as part of trial, from Hebrews
ii., and first part of the third verse, to be delivered at our next stated
Presbytery.
Ordered, that all the foregoing discourses be delivered in writing.
Ordered, that Messrs.
Barnett and Bumpass supply the upper and Nashville circuits, and that
Mr. Robert Donnell supply the Elk River circuit, until our next
Presbytery.
“
Ordered, that Messrs.
McLean, McCorkle, and
McLin supply the
Livingston
circuit,
including McAdow, until our next stated meeting.
Ordered, that Messrs.
Chapman and
Harris supply the societies in Warren, Logan, and Butler counties as
often as convenient, and that
Mr. Chapman ride once round the lower circuit.
“A call was presented, through
Presbytery, from the
Big Spring congregation, in
Wilson county, to
Mr. Thomas Calhoon, which he accepted. Ordered, therefore, that he
prepare a discourse from Romans iv. 25, to be exhibited at our next stated
Presbytery, preparatory to his ordination.
Mr. McLean is ordered to preach the ordination sermon, or
Mr. Bell, in case of his absence or inability, etc.
Ordered, that our next stated Presbytery be held in Wilson county, at the Big
Spring, to meet on the third Tuesday of March next.
Adjourned, by prayer, this 25th day of October, 1810.
FINIS
EWING, Moderator.
YOUNG EWING, Clerk.”
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * [Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache writes from Indiana to her mother Margaret Morrison McCorkle, by then in Dyer County, Tennessee, about the Calhoun family in Indiana. I wouldn’t be surprised if the McCorkles and Calhouns had been Presbyterians or Cumberland Presbyterians together in Sumner County/Wilson County, Tennessee, and in Kentucky:]
“1816 October 15-17, 1816 Free meeting-house - near Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee Moderator - Rev. Thomas Calhoon Clerk - Rev. David Foster
[ Sad to report, the Yorkville, Tennessee, Cumberland Presbyterian Church burned down on the afternoon of Thursday, 9 March 2006. It is believed that lightning struck the electrical wiring system, during a big rain thunderstorm. Some women of the church were in the kitchen as they were preparing funeral meals for the services of deceased Mrs. Helen Hendricks, wife of Jamie Hendricks. ] The Tyson [old Tyson Store] Community fire truck came; and the Yorkville fire truck; and the Dyer, Tennessee, fire truck came, and several others. Some two hours after the fire started, a huge fire truck came from the west, but by then only the vestibule was standing (but charred). ]
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So, there you have the Cumberland Presbyterian records. When was our Robert McCorkle in Bourbon County and / or Logan County, Kentucky, and when in Sumner County, Tennessee, later Wilson county? Did he supply the C.P. circuit as a minister in Livingston? Or was it a nephew or cousin? Did his 2nd wife “Peggy” Margaret Morrison McCorkle accompany Robert McCorkle to those places? And did he indeed ever preach for the Cumberland Presbyterian church?
We know that Robert and Margaret Morrison McCorkle moved on down to Rutherford County, Tennessee, on Stone’s River near Murfreesboro circa 1808, or at least that he received land there on that date. I’m just not sure about when he was in Bourbon County and when and whether he was in Logan County, Kentucky, or whether his 2nd wife Margaret was up there with him. We do know that Robert and William were the brothers who received their father Alexander’s rights in Revolutionary War land grants, because Alexander’s will (died 1800) devises those landgrants to sons Robert and William. Alexander and “Nancy” Agness Montgomery McCorkle are buried in the Thyatira Presbyterian Church cemetery outside Mooresville, Rowan County, N.C. He died in 1800, after Agnes’s death; in fact Alexander McCorkle the Scots-Irish emigrant from Northern Ireland had acquired a 2nd wife, Rebecca Brandon.
Margaret [“Peggy”] Morrison McCorkle’s daughter, ELMIRA SLOAN McCORKLE ROACH, was born 13 Feb. 1797, and died in 1890. As Elmira was a daughter of Robert and Margaret Peggy Morrison McCorkle, her history is pertinent to that of the McCorkles who stayed behind in West Tennessee, where Elmira and her husband remained only shortly before moving up to Indiana and Iowa, then ultimately to Missouri to live with their son Quincy Roache (Robert Quincy Roache)(President of Moniteau [County] Bank in California, Missouri).
Uncle Hiram Robert A. McCorkle’s journal records that Elmira’s son Addison Locke Roache, Senior, moved at age 12 from West Tennessee up to Indiana. Addison was to become justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, resigning that position to become president of the Indiana & Illinois Central Railroad. His son Addison Locke Roache, Jr., I think also a lawyer, living upon his death in Alhambra, California, established by testamentary trust a lectureship at the University of Indiana Bloomington in the name of the father, Addison Locke Roache, Sr. The history of the Indiana Supreme Court justices records that one son, probably Randolph Roache, tragically died just after qualifying to practise law in Indiana.
Elmira Sloan McCorkle and her husband, Dr. Stephen Roache, lingered in Dyer County only a brief time. I remember once seeing a letter to her mother Margaret Morrison McCorkle in which Elmira urged Margaret McCorkle in Dyer County to move on from “that frog-pondy place.” The peregrinations of Elmira and “the doctor” define the word wanderlust. How could this woman have lived through moving so many times? I think I remember reading something that said they moved away from Dyer County pretty quickly after settling there, then moved back there one more time, but not to linger long before removing again. Elmira McCorkle started life in Rowan County, North Carolina, stopping Lord knows where on the way west, then to Middle Tennessee, then uprooting to migrate to West Tennessee. And West Tennessee marked only the beginning of her pioneer journeys. Elmira’s grandchildren were to end up in California, as far west as they could travel in the continental United States. It is sad to know that none of her descendants survive today. -- All my life I’ve wondered what people really mean when they say as if with special discernment, “He’s from an old family.”
The following was printed in 1890 as Obsequies paid Robert and Margaret Finally, to the obsequies printed for Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach:
“Robert McCorkle’s father [Alexander McCorkle, who married “Nancy” Agness Montgomery] had been a soldier of the [American] Revolution, and had rendered valuable service to his country. As some recompense, the State of North Carolina, which then owned Tennessee, granted to him twenty-four hundred acres of land on Stone River, in Rutherford County, Tennessee. To this land, when Elmira Sloan [McCorkle] was eleven years of age,[4] her father [Robert McCorkle] emigrated, and for some years, with the help of his three boys, Edwin [Edwin Alexander McCorkle], Jehiel [“Jem” Jehiel Morrison McCorkle], and Robert [Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle], and of some family negroes,[5] that had descended to him, he lived a happy frontier life, clearing up a fine farm and surrounding himself with the comforts and conveniences of the new country.
“But a sad stroke of fortune was in store for him. A conflicting claim on his land consumed many years in an expensive and harassing law-suit, ending in his losing his home, and, to pay the expenses of the law-suit, everything was swept away at one fell stroke – lands, live stock, his trusted slaves and all. In addition, he was suddenly stricken with total blindness [macular degeneration?]; but the brave old wife [Margaret Morrison McCorkle] took up the burden. The State of North Carolina had made a grant of land, in lieu of the one lost, in Dyer County, Tennessee, and there the stricken family moved in 1827, and tried to carve out a new home amid the swamps and mighty forests of the western district. In a year the old father died and his wife was left alone, but with sturdy and energetic children around her.”
Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache’s paternal grandparents, Alexander & “Nancy” Agness Montgomery McCorkle, had emigrated from Northern Ireland to today’s Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – then Harris’ Ferry – and migrated south down the 18th-century Great Road, almost certainly stopping off in Virginia, before settling in the Piedmont of North Carolina, near Salisbury, in Rowan/Iredell County.
As to the spelling of the surname Roache: Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach married Dr. Stephen Roach on January 23, 1816, at her parents’ home on Stone River, Rutherford County, Tennessee. Their children Addison and Quincy were to spell their surname “Roache,” and I don’t blame Addison and Quincy Roache for adding the “e.”
The following 1829 letter is from Margaret Morrison McCorkle to her grandson Addison Locke Roach [Sr.], who as an adult spelled his surname Roache.
Verdant Plain[6] May 27th 1829
My dear little son,
Your favor of April 23 came to hand last week. I am exceedingly well pleased with it, although it produced a gust of conflicting passions or feelings resembling a whirlwind at the first reception and reading of it, yet at this present moment my mind is perfectly tranquilized into a pleasing calm full of the idea that my dear little Addison still remembers me with affection.
[¶ ] As it respects news I cannot pretend to do more than barely sketch what I would wish to relate if I could see you. Suffice it to say that I live very comfortably. Your uncle Robert[7] purchased the half of this place. Gave me his note for 200 dollars & answered Jehiel’s [8] claim for moving your Pa [9] & family. I take my half on the west, but I hold a reserve of the unmolested use of half of all the present improvements during my life, I also have another obligation on Robert [Andrew Hope McCorkle] to have me well provided for during life. I occupy the large house, your uncle [RAH McCorkle] lives in the kitchen. He has built his new house in the same yard with us, but will not have it fit to live in before next fall. He is accommodating and his wife [Tirzah Scott McCorkle[10]] makes herself very agreeable amongst us.
[¶] Franklin H. Dixon [Franklin K Dixon ?] [Franklin Dickson ?] has lived with us ever since last fall, he is a good boy, I think I love him almost as well as any of my grandchildren, whenever I get him taught to write, I intend he shall send you a letter.
[¶] Polly Cox[11] [Polly Cos?] [Mary Cox?] was a long time getting well of the ague, but she is very hearty now, and grows fast. Your Aunt Pamela[12] enjoys health & passes time pleasantly with her new sister.[13]
[¶] I have enjoyed much better health through the last winter and spring than usual. I live easy and contented, very often I lie abed till breakfast is ready then rise without a blush and spend the day in moderate exercise or reading just as my inclination dictates. I can card and spin and knit right smart yet, and cook a little, but I don’t offer to go to the cow-pen though we have six cows with young calves and an abundance of milk.
[¶] Jane M. Thompson[14] has grown to be a great fine likely young woman and is as blythe and merry as a lark,
[¶ ] Cousin John McCorkle[15] is raising a crop here this summer and intends moving down again fall. I expect he will keep Thomas Jr. [Jr. ?]
[¶ ] We have had a very cold dry winter and spring, crops are backward, People generally healthy in this country, no musketoes nor gnats nor flies to torment our poor brutes this spring.
[¶ ] Cousin Nancy[16] has a fine son, your aunt Jane[17] a fine son. Your aunt Betsy[18] a fine daughter. All healthy thriving children.
[¶] I suppose Jane Thompson will write to you sometime and tell all about her spinning and weaving etc etc etc. Give my kind respects to your pa. & ma.[19] Tell them I love them dearly and pray for them every day. I wish likewise to be remembered to Mr. Travers and his wife.
[¶] Tell little Quincy & Elmira howday for me.
Oh Addison avoid bad company as you would a mortal foe. Language fails me when I would express my desires that you may excell in steady habits of moral rectitude, so as to become an ornament to society and a comfort to your parents. With these reflections I bid you adieu!
M a r g r e t Mc C o r k l e
Addison L. Roach.
[In the above letter, Margaret McCorkle did not even spell her own name “Margaret.” She later consistently spelled it Margaret). It seems people were very casual about the spelling of names, even their own.]
Margaret Morrison McCorkle was herself of McCorkle blood. Her mother, Elizabeth Sloan (Mrs. Andrew Morrison), was a daughter of a McCorkle woman who became Mrs. Sloan. Thus, Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle) was a first-cousin-once-removed to her husband Robert.
Generation I. Alexander McCorkle..d. 1800. [=siblings=] ..... A sister of Alex- ander McCorkle named __?___McCorkle (Sloan). She married a Mr. ___?__ Sloan. [One of her children was Elizabeth Sloan (Mrs. Andrew Morrison).] Perhaps the McCorkle woman married the Sloan man in Northern Ireland, or perhaps in Pennsylvania, or Virginia, or even North Carolina.
[One version is as stated immediately above. Another version I’ve read somewhere has it that it was Alexander McCorkle’s father to whom Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison)’s mother was a sister. I do not know which version is correct.]
Generation II. Robert McCorkle, son of Alexander ......... [1st cousins] ......... Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison), a child of the above sister of Alexander McCorkle. Elizabeth Sloan(e) became Mrs. Andrew Morrison, and Mrs. Andrew Morrison was the mother of Margaret Morrison (Mrs. Robert) McCorkle.
III. Children of Robert McCorkle.......[=2nd cos.=] ...............Margaret Morrison McCorkle. In other words, the children of Robert McCorkle were a 2nd cousin to their mother on the McCorkle side. Stated another way, Margaret Morrison McCorkle was a 1st-cousin-once-removed to her husband, Robert McCorkle; and a second cousin to her own McCorkle children.[20]
Letter, 1832, from Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle) in Dyer Co, TN, to her daughter Elmira Sloane McCorkle (Mrs. Stephen Roach):
August the 16th 1832
Dear Elmira,
¶ It is with difficulty that [your sister] Pamela [Margaret Permelia McCorkle, Mrs. Lemuel Scott] has prevailed on me this morning to write you a few lines. my infirm state of health, and lack of practice in writing, is all the apology I can make for my backwardness. I love you as tenderly as ever I did, and have always an anxious desire to hear of your welfare.
¶ I need the consolations of kindness and friendly sympathy of my children to comfort me under my bodily afflictions. suffice it to say that they are all very kind and good to me. As to {?} my prospects for futurity I feel an unshaken confidence in the fulness, freeness, and sufficiency, of the gospel offer to everyone that will accept it, but I do not as fully realize my own acquiescence in the offer as I want to do. I feel myself on the verge, and I want my sun to set in, that I may venture down without fear.
¶ I think it is a light matter
to appear religious before the world, and be a strict observer of all the moral
duties, but I can never rest satisfied till I feel a living principle in my
heart, of love to God constraining me to willing obedience. This I think must
be what is meant by the a kingdom of righteousness, peace, love and joy
in the Holy-Ghost set up in the heart, when I look at my short comings I cannot
help feeling difficulties. I would be glad to know your prospects for eternity.
¶ I refer you to Tirzah [the addressee Elmira’s sister-in-law and Margaret’s daughter-in-law, Mrs. Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle, née Tirzah Scott] for family news. Remember my love to all the family.
¶ Pamela [Mrs. Lemuel Scott, daughter of Margaret Morrison McCorkle] says she intends writing to you when the rest come home again.
Margaret McCorkle.
Elmira S Roach.
Letter from Margaret (Peggy) Morrison (Mrs. Robert McCorkle) in Dyer Co., Tennessee, to her daughter Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roache, who had moved on up to Indiana.
...“Possibly you will smile at my infatuation when I attempt to enumerate some of my joys, but would you not rather hear of my being pleased, and thankful for the good things I do enjoy than to hear that I grieved and repined at the want of things out of my reach. good philosophy answers yes.”...
Verdant Plain, April 26 1836
Dear child,
Short as time may seem, since I have seen you it might neverthele¶ occupy pages, to relate all that you would feel interested in hearing from me in that time. Suffice it to say that, that same kind Providence in which I have long trusted has not yet failed me. I think I may venture to say that I enjoy the good things of this world to a degree of satisfaction perhaps rarely experienced by old people. when I thus think and speak, I mean present enjoyment, humbly trusting my future destiny in the hand of unerring wisdom and Goodne¶. Possibly you will smile at my infatuation when I attempt to enumerate some of my joys, but would you not rather hear of my being pleased, and thankful for the good things I do enjoy than to hear that I grieved and repined at the want of things out of my reach. good philosophy answers yes.
[¶ ] My children[21] are all without exception affectionately kind to me, and as far as I can di¶cern friendly and obliging to each other, industriously trying to provide for their families, and I flatter myself that they po¶e¶ steady principles of moral rectitude.
[¶ ] My granddaughters [through my deceased daughter Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (Mrs. Gideon Thompson)] are fine promising girls[22] and I hope will make respectable wemon. [My son] Edwin [Alexander McCorkle] and [Edwin’s wife] Jane [Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle)] are exceeding kind to [Edwin’s niece] Jane [Thompson] and I think she is well satisfied to stay with them, although she expre¶es a great desire to go and see you all. The rest of my grandchildren are all lovely blo¶oms. they afford me a great deal of pleasure with their sweet smiles and innocent prattle[.] [My son] Robert [Andrew Hope McCorkle] has been very fortunate in the choice of a companion. She [Tirzah Scott McCorkle] has been particularly kind to me and if I dare not say that she is the most perfect of women, thus far I will venture to say that hitherto she has supported an uniform line of conduct that fairly entitles her in my estimation, to rank with the most amiable of her sex.
[¶ ] With respect to my circumstances I have joy to observe, that I am generally healthy, I am content, and feel like having an independent claim to a welcome home with my son Robert [Andrew Hope McCorkle] during life. I have entirely given up with the perplexing cares of providing for a family. I am still able to work, but I don’t feel as if nece¶ity drove me on, for I consider my income entirely adequate to my demands.
[¶ ] Give my kindest respects to Dr Roach. tell [your son] Addison [Roach] I would be glad to see a friendly line from him. tell [your children] [Robert] Quincy & Elmira howday from grandma.
From your affectionate mother
Margaret McCorkle
E S R
... I feel daily admonitions of my frailty. the pins of the old tabernacle are loosening perceptibly and I must soon descend to the pale regions of the dead ... . 1837
-- Margaret [Peggy] Morrison McCorkle to her daughter Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roach
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Dyer County March 24 1837
My dear child,
I think often of you, and though I write but seldom I try generally to fill my paper when I do, and that is my excuse for not writing oftener to you. There are many things that frequently occur here, that would do very well for you and I [sic.] to amuse ourselves to chat about if we were together, that I don’t think worth while writing about, therefore will confine myself to write what I think will be most interesting to you.
[¶ ] My own health in the first place, I generally enjoyed moderate good health for about a year past lately I have had a little touch of the influenzy though I was not entirely confined to bed but two days yet I continue weak and my head a little disordered There is pestilence in our country Some call it the cold plague some the influenzy and others it operates on as pleuresy, in this last form it attacked our friend L: Scott [Lemuel Locke Scott (?); if so, the husband of the writer’s daughter Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott] and brought him almost to the borders of the grave. Thanks to our kind preserver who has spared him a little longer, he is recovering slowly.
[¶ ] The rest of our friends here are well. I have nine grandsons and five granddaughters here, all active thriving pretty children. [My daughter] Pamela’s [Mrs. Lemuel Scott ’s] young son was born Jan: 18th. She was up and about in three or four days and is remarkably healthy and stout.
[ ¶ ] [Granddaughter] Mary [Thompson, later Mrs. Dickey] is gone to Mr. Holmes ’s to learn the taylor trade She expects to stay 2 years perhaps longer [Mary’s sister] Jane [M. Thompson, Mrs. Williams] had a son about two weeks before Pamela [McCorkle, Mrs. Lemuel Scott] had hers, she calls it John Gideon [Williams]. [Mary and Jane Thompson’s parents were Rebecca Cowden McCorkle and John Gideon Thompson, who both died in Middle Tennessee, Rutherford County, near Murfreesboro, leaving the two little girls to the care of their uncles Edwin and RAH McCorkle and wives Jane Maxwell Thomas and Tirzah Scott.] I am informed that Jane has recovered health and looks hearty and well and has a beautiful babe. I am told that Mr. Williams and Jane are both extremely fond of it. I would be vastly glad to see it myself though it makes me count one generation older. They did not move as far off, as we expected them to do. his father has given him land within three or four miles of himself.
[ ¶ ] We have got a schoolhouse built by a spring on Mr Hendricks land, the same that cousin Montgomery uses to carry water from, and all our children that are large enough are attending it.
[Presumably “Mr Hendricks” refers to Daniel Hendricks, 1784-1865, originally from Rowan Co., NC, a great-great grandfather of Joyce Cope Huie through her paternal grandmother Narcissus Elizabeth Hendricks, alias Mrs. Wilson Newberry Cope. Daniel Hendricks & wife Isabel Pen(d)ry Hendricks and their son Uriah C. Hendricks are buried in the McCorkle McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, as is a brother of Uriah C. Hendricks: Daniel Roland Hendricks. We need to get these Hendricks folks a new grave marker.
[ --Regarding “cousin Montgomery,” Margaret Morrison’s father-in-law Alexander McCorkle married (1st) Nancy Agness Montgomery; and Margaret’s own mother, Elizabeth Sloane (Mrs. Andrew) Morrison, was a niece-by-marriage of Nancy Agness Montgomery. These people were hopelessly intermarried!]
[ ¶ ] We had an earthquake the 21st inst; the hardest that I have felt since I have been in the district. I received your kind letter of Feb. 26 by last mail. we got all the letters you mentioned in it except one of Addisons. [grandson Addison Locke Roach ’s.] I am sorry to hear of your ill health but I rejoice exceedingly in the goodness of God in raising you up kind friends in a strange country that minister to your necessities they have bestowed on you, I feel like it was kindness shewn to me, and I hope the Lord will recompense them abundantly agreeably to his own words Matth: 25-45 and 10-42 together with several other parallel scriptures.
[ ¶ ] I have lately heard that my sister Rachel [presumably Rachel Morrison ?] died the 1st of July year 35 but I cannot tell anything satisfactory about the rest of my brothers & sister. probably brother Andrew [Andrew Sloan Morrison] has moved into the state of Virginia in order to be convenient to attend an old law suit there
[As mentioned, I wonder if Margaret had a sister named Rachel Morrison COWDEN; the reason I suspect this is that Margaret Morrison McCorkle named a daughter Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (later Mrs. Thompson). ]
[ ¶ ] Mr [Thomas] Anderson[23] wrote to us this winter, says [his daughter] Martha [Anderson (Mrs. James T. Leath, I think] has three fine sons and has moved to the district, and located in Memphis. the old people expect to visit them next fall, and have it in contemplation to call upon us. I think I shall be truly glad to see them
[Margaret Morrison McCorkle writes immediately above of the descendants of her step-daughter, Lizzie McCorkle Anderson. Robert McCorkle, Margaret’s deceased husband, had a 1st wife named Elizabeth “Lizzie” Blythe (McCorkle), by whom Robert begot a son dying in infancy (Alexander or “Aleck”) and one daughter named Elizabeth McCorkle, who married Thomas Anderson in Sumner Co., Tennessee [Middle Tennessee] on the 13th of March 1809. The Sumner County marriage record notes a witness: John H. Bowen.]
(1.) Lizzie Elizabeth Anderson (Mrs. J. Mitchell McMurray, wife of a Cumberland Presbyterian minister in McMinnville then Lebanon, Tennessee. Early Sumner County, Tenn., marriage records show that J. Mitchell McMurray married Elizabeth Anderson on 27 December 1837.
(2.) Martha Anderson Leath (Mrs. James T. Leath of Memphis, I think, although that information was acquired post-2000 A.D. by Marsha Cope Huie, not from old family records) (Martha had three sons and moved to Memphis, where her husband was an attorney. Martha Anderson Leath is listed in the 1850 Memphis census, but by 1860 had been displaced by a new wife so almost certainly died between 1850 and 1860, as people back then almost never divorced;
(3.) Julia Anderson, who never married; and
(4) Robert Anderson –who may have been a lawyer in Lexington or Durant, Holmes County, Mississippi, although that information was acquired post-2000 A.D. by Marsha Cope Huie, not from old family records. I wish I knew if it were true.]
[Early Sumner County, Tennesee, marriage records show there was a connection between the Leath and McCorkle families: On 20 Feb. 1847, an “Eliza McCorcle” married John H. Leath, as witnessed by John W. Brigance.
[Also, Uncle Hiram McCorkle’s diary records in Dec. 9. 1902 that Hatton LEATH of Henrietta, Texas, was in Newbern. Was Hatton Leath perhaps a son of Hiram McCorkle’s first cousin, Martha Anderson Leath? I have no idea. [Robert McCorkle by 1st wife Lizzie Blythe begot Elizabeth McCorkle Anderson, who had a daughter Martha D. Anderson. In Middle Tennessee, Martha D. Anderson married James T. Leath, listed as an attorney in the Memphis census of 1850. Martha D. Leath is listed as James T. Leath’s wife in the 1850 census, but by the time of the 1860 census, he had a new wife, listed as having been born in New Jersey.]
[ ¶ ] I think I begin to run scarce of news however I will turn back and tell you some more about myself a theme that I expect you won’t easily tire with [.] I staid with [my daughter and the addressee Elmira’s sister] [Margaret] Pamela [McCorkle Scott] about two months this winter [.] I went the day before Christmas and staid till her babe was near 5 weeks old[.] little William [ Scott ][1] slept in my bosom almost every night while I was there, and became very fond of me, as likewise I did of him, I brought him home with me kept him ten days but he got sick, teething & worms, so his pa carried him away[.] I took sick in a few days after and have not got to see him since[.] I have not worked any in along time except to mind the to feed them and darn their stockings & such like[.] I read my bible a good and like it still better the longer I read it[.]
[ ¶ ] I find that temperance in diet is my best medicine, vegetables don’t agree with me but I can eat a little meat and eggs milk butter and coffee moderately without injury. nevertheless I feel daily admonitions of my frailty. the pins of the old tabernacle are loosening perceptibly and I must soon descend to the pale regions of the dead [.]
[ ¶ ] if I were in the habit of apologising I would say excuse my crooked lines and bad writing, my eyes are dim and my hand trembles, my strength fails.
I am ever your affectionate mother
Margaret McCorkle
Elmira S Roach
[Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s note to her grandson Addison Roache is written in a spidery hand on the same page as the foregoing letter to her daughter Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roach:]
Dyer March 25 1837
My son Addison
I claim you as such, though I address a line to you with diffidence [.] I fear you are like some young people I have seen who say that old grandmas dont ever know how young people feel [.] my child I tremble when I think over the slippery scenes of youth and what you may be exposed to lest you get seduced and turn from the virtuous course you have been taught from your infancy [ . ] I know that your good education your polished manners and your social turn will gain you a great many acquaintances and perhaps a good many of them not virtuous
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No more is extant of the above letter to Addison Locke Roache, Sr., who became a judge in Indianapolis, Indiana. Addison Locke Roache, Sr., married Emily Wedding[s]. Aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle Fox’s hand-written record states the following:
“The Tennessee relatives looked on the Roaches as their Wealthier kin. Once Cousin Quincy [Robert Quincy Roache, brother to Addison Locke Roache] brought all the West Tennessee male relatives a pocket testament and the females a silver thimble on which was engraved R Q R.”
[(Quincy Roache was president of the Moniteau [County] Bank in the town of California, State of Missouri.)]
“Addison’s children:
C1 1 Mary Roache married _______ Gillespie
C1 2 Emma Roache married _______ Lamma
3 Janie Roache, died 1941 in Alhambra, California. [Jane DePuy or DuPuy?]
· 4 Randolph Roache [this must be the one who died just after beginning to practise law in Indianapolis]
· 5 Addison [Addison Locke Roache, Jr., who died testate in California. Addison Locke Roache Jr. established by testamentary trust a lectureship in his father’s name at the University of Indiana, Bloomington]
“Robert Quincy Roache married Rebecca Sunderland & Isabel Sunderland.
Quincy Roache had no child but reared at least two: Carrie Stephens & her sister Emma Stephens. I think they were his wife Rebecca Sunderland’s nieces.
“Howard H. Roache – killed at Shiloh.”
[End of Katie Pearl McCorkle’s record.]
[ Howard Harris Roache is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer Co., TN. I think I’ve read that his mother, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, erected a memorial stone for Howard Harris Roache up in Missouri where “QUINCY” Robert Quincy Roache, another son, was a banker, Moniteau Bank, city of California, State of Missouri.]
Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roach – was born in 1797 in Iredell County, North Carolina, and died in 1890. She married Dr. Stephen Roach in 1816 in Rutherford County, Tennessee, at her parents’ home, before the parents lost their land near Murfreesboro, TN, and received a land grant in lieu thereof in the newly opened Western District of Tennessee. Elmira recorded in a letter that her parents, Robert and Margaret Morrison McCorkle, had lived on Stone’s River, then on Bradley’s Creek, in Rutherford County, Tennessee, before removal to Dyer County, Tennessee. Her son Addison Locke Roache, Sr., had become a judge in Indianapolis. Elmira died in 1890 residing with her son Quincy, who was a bank president [Moniteau County Bank] in California, a town in Missouri. Our McCorkle family oral history holds that Elmira and Dr. Roach moved to Indiana so that their boys could attend the University of Indiana. Sure enough, Addison graduated from the University of Indiana, Bloomington, in 1836, and his brother Robert Quincy Roache graduated in 1845.
The following information about Elmira’s children is from John Hale Stutesman’s unpublished manuscript which I read in year 1983 – At that time, 20 years ago now, this was his address: John Hale Stutesman, 305 Spruce Street, San Francisco, California:
Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roach’s children:
Addison Locke Roache, Sr.
born 1817 in Rutherford County, Tennessee; died after 1901 in Indiana; please see below. [Added by Marsha Huie: Again, we should note the LOCKE name. The Revolutionary War general Matthew Locke or Francis Locke lived around Thyatira Presbyterian Church in Rowan Co., NC, near Salisbury-Mooresville, NC. And a Richard W. Locke [Dick Locke] moved westward to the Yorkville-Newbern area; I’ve always presumed he was a kinsman of the North Carolinian General Locke. One of Dick Locke’s wives is buried in the Old Yorkville C P Cemetery, and another, I think, in the McCorkle Cemetery; one of the wives was, I think, a Scott woman. [Sade Scott Huie, my paternal greatmother kept a photograph of Dick Locke in her photo album.] Now that the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery has been restored, we can search those records for LOCKE people buried therein.]
Franklin Stone Roache, 1820-1827
James Travers Roache, 1821-1827 – [One of Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s letters to Elmira implores that she be remembered to Mr. Travers.]
Robert QUINCY Roache, 1824-1908.
Born in Rutherford Co., TN, and died in town of California in Missouri. [I don’t think Quincy Roache had issue, but Aunt Kate McCorkle thought Quincy raised 2 of his Sunderland wife’s nieces.]
Stephen McCorkle Roache, 1826-1827
Elmira Jane Roache, 1828-1830
Latina Elmira Roache, 1831-1833
[Edwin A. McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas named one of their daughters Margaret Latina McCorkle (Mrs. John C. Gregory). Had Elmira’s daughter born in 1831 & named Latina lived, that daughter and “Tina” McCorkle Gregory would have been 1st cousins.]
Margaret Joanna Roache, born and died June 1834, Monroe County, Indiana.
Howard Harris Roache, born 20 May 1838 in Monroe County, Indiana. [Died from wound received in battle at Shiloh in 1862 (April 10, 1862).]
[The Battle of Shiloh in West Tennessee occurred on April 6th and April 7th of 1862. Howard’s date of death is listed on his tombstone as the 10th, and his uncle RAH McCorkle writes the mother that he died not in battle but very soon afterwards. I (Marsha Huie) think Howard may have been born in 1836. His tombstone in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer Co., TN., will tell. Actually Howard H. Roache has 2 markers there: a make-do but respectable marker placed there during the Civil War by his uncle Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle, and a grander, taller marker later erected after the war by, presumably, his parents. One wonders why Howard went south from Indiana to West Tennessee to fight with his McCorkle 1st cousins, some of whom would have been the sons of Elmira’s brother Edwin Alexander McCorkle, namely: Finis A. McCorkle; Hiram R. A. McCorkle; John Edwin McCorkle; and Anderson Jehiel McCorkle.
Two, perhaps three, other 1st cousins to Howard H. Roache would have been these sons of “Jem” Jehiel Morrison McCorkle, viz., Locke McCorkle, killed at the Battle of Atlanta; and Clay McCorkle (Henry Clay McCorkle, buried at Brice’s Crossroads, also called the battle of Guntown, Mississippi). And one record lists an E J McCorkle as another, third (! !), son [of Betsy Smith & Jehiel Morrison McCorkle] who was killed in the war.
[– I don’t know if John Edwin McCorkle and Hiram and Anderson’s other brother David Purviance McCorkle enlisted in the Confederate army, but presume he did as he was in the State Legislature of Tennessee after the war, from Obion County.]
John Hale Stutesman’s above list of Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roach’s children would seem to contradict Elmira’s statement in the letter below: “[I have] moreover the skill of my husband to depend on, who has borne me through, successfully three times already.” But perhaps Mr. Stutesman’s list is correct; perhaps Elmira is not counting in her correspondence the children who failed to live to adolescence. I just don’t know the truth of it. I do know the reason I came into these wonderful old letters is that Elmira Sloan McCorkle’s Roache line died out in California. As mentioned, her Roache descendants turned the letters over to Casey McCorkle (Bowden Cason McCorkle) in San Leandro, California, a grandson of Finis A. McCorkle. Then in turn Casey McCorkle entrusted these precious old documents to me, Marsha Cope Huie.
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A despondent Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roach wrote the following letter from Rockville, Indiana, to her mother, Mrs. Robert McCorkle (née Margaret “Peggy” Morrison) in Dyer County, Tennessee. Elmira, who would have been around forty years old at the time, wrote just before the birth of her last child, Howard Harris Roache, a child doomed to die in the Civil War, on April 10, 1862, after he had been wounded at the Battle of Shiloh which lasted two days: April 6 and April 7, 1862. Many soldiers of the era died from infection consequent to injury from munitions or otherwise.
Rockville April 28 1838 [possibly the date is 1836?]
My dear Mother
This may be the last time I ever will have the pleasure of addressing you by letter. I have delayed writing from time to time either from a sense of bodily or mental inability but will put it off no longer seeing life is uncertain, and my situation at present critical. You doubtless will be astonished when you hear, I am again in a state of pregnancy, the issue of which I expect about the fifteenth of May, which will be past before this reaches you.
[ ¶ ] I confess my situation casts a shade of gloom over me which all the philosophy I can muster up, cannot dispel. Oh: what a comfort it would be to have my dear Mother and sisters around at such a season. I feel how deeply they would enter into my sorrows and alleviate my sufferings by their sympathy and kindness. But why trouble you with words of unpleasant import, or consume time either in thinking or writing of impossibilities, I ought rather to be thankful that my prospect is no worse, that I have the necessaries of life around me, no fear of want either of food or clothing, a girl with me now, who does all my drudgery, and has promised to stay while I need her, kind neighbors, who have ever been true in sickness [,] moreover the skill of my husband to depend on, who has borne me through, successfully three times already. I gather strength from these [ ??????]. a ray of hope gleams through my troubled mind and imparts comfort, I love to indulge and cherish it.
There is a promise made to the woman in child bearing but I confess I do not understand it well enough to derive much comfort fom it, but the Lord has promised to be with those who trust in him, in dire troubles, and in seven [?? times seven ???] he will not forsake them.
[ ¶ ] [Robert] Quincy [Roache] has been at home several weeks, and will remain a week yet, it will be a great trial for me to part with but we must submit to present ills for the sake of future good [.] he is called a regular, attentive, and moral student, as far as I can learn. The greatest objection I have to his being absent from home is the danger of contracting immoral habits without a friend to watch over and guide his path.
[ ¶ ] Addison [Roache] left home on Tuesday and has not returned. I am looking for him every minute. The time has arrived when business will often call him from home, and I can expect to enjoy but little of his company. he boards and lodges at home but reads [law] at the home of his Preceptor, to whom he is strongly attached, and I believe with good reason. I rejoice that we were so fortunate as to be able to place him under the care of one so well qualified to guard him through the slippery paths of youth. he appears to take great interest in his welfare and advancement [ . ] Addison took license at the last circuit court but has not practiced any yet, nor will not, I presume untill his term of tuition expires.
[ ¶ ] The Dr had a letter from Uncle James [James McCorkle? James Morrison?]
not long since, he stated he had written to you, I hope you have received the intelligence
so much desired. The old gentleman seems contented and happy and strong in the path
of the Gospel.
{– This would almost certainly be Elmira’s Uncle James McCorkle, brother to Robert McCorkle and therefore brother-in-law to Margaret Morrison McCorkle. [Or maybe – pure speculation-- it could be to Elmira an Uncle James Morrison? ] One person named James McCorkle, known to have been a brother to Robert McCorkle, was born 4 May 1768 and moved to Ohio, but died when residing in Frankfort, Indiana, on 2 December 1840. – How far was Rockville from Frankfort, Indiana? }
[ ¶ ] Montgomery’s family are well at present, but have had sickness occasionally for some three or four years past, he has become so exasperated at the ignorance, and vice of his neighbors, and tired out with sickness in his family, that he has resolved to hunt a new home if he should meet a lion in the way. if he could find a place where he could make his quill support him, it would be a happy circumstance.
1. [I don’t know who this “Montgomery” is, but Elmira’s paternal grandmother was Nancy Agness MONTGOMERY McCorkle, Mrs. Alexander McCorkle, who is buried in Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rowan Co., NC. (Her husband, Alexander McCorkle, lived circa 1722-1800). – Could this be “Montgomery McCorkle?’
2. More on (Nancy) Agness Montgomery: Harriet McCorkle McGinn [a daughter of Samuel Eusebius McCorkle] wrote that Agness (Nancy) Montgomery‘s brother was Dr. Joseph Montgomery, 1733-1794, a Presbyterian minister; and that Agness (Nancy) Montgomery McCorkle’s mother was ___?_____ Finley (Montgomery), the daughter of John Finley. With the Montgomery-Finley line there’s a Princeton University connection, as Princeton began as a seminary for Presbyterian ministers. – A letter in these Roache-McCorkle papers dated 1948 in Ala. and addressed to a Mr. [or Mrs.?] Walter L. Montgomery of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, states that “one Samuel McCorkle and John Montgomery from Scotland came together settling in Pa., I think in Lancaster Co., previous to 1735.” But the author of this letter includes in that one letter errors about the McCorkle genealogy, so the above quoted statement is suspect.
[ ¶ ] The Dr [Stephen Roach] received brother Edwin’s [Edwin Alexander cCorkle’s]
favor of the 4th Feb [.] he [Edwin] speaks of having been in middle Tennessee
[in or near Murfreesboro] and seeing our friends.
[Deed records in Rutherford Co., TN, show that certain land deeds made to Robt. McCorkle, grantee, were “delivered to [Robert’s son] Edwin McCorkle.” Edwin A. McCorkle’s wife was Jane Maxwell Thomas.]
[ ¶ ] I am sorry my Aunts are not more happily situated particularly Aunt Rebecca.
[Did Margaret Morrison McCorkle have a sister or sister-in-law named Rebecca? Did Rebecca marry ____ Morrison, son of Margaret’s brother Patrick Morrison? Did Margaret in fact have a brother named Patrick Morrison, or was it an uncle named Patrick Morrison? These names are speculation, arising from information in this series of correspondence. Margaret did name one of her daughters Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (Mrs. Gideon Thompson). Is this a clue: could Margaret’s sister have been Rebecca Morrison Cowden? This is pure speculation; I have no such record. – Margaret’s letter reveals that she, Margaret Morrison, did have a sister named Rachel Morrison (?????). Margaret wrote her daughter Elmira in 1838, “I have lately heard that my sister Rachel [ Rachel Morrison ? ] died the 1st of July year 35 but I cannot tell anything satisfactory about the rest of my brothers & sister. probably brother Andrew [Morrison] has moved into the state of Virginia in order to be convenient to attend an old law suit there.”
Aunt Mary would not be happy in any situation
[Margaret Morrison had a sister named Mary Morrison. Jean Morrison of Cincinnati, Ohio, has placed a letter on the internet from Mary Morrion to her nephew, Joseph Pinkney Morrison, later a Cumberland Presbyterian minister in California. Mary Morrison was living in 1857 with a nephew in Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee. Herletter is dated 29th July 1857, almost a decade after the death of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, and reports that she, Mary Morrison, had heard no word from the McCorkles since Robert [Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle] had last written to her.]
I know her better than she knows herself. Aunt Rebecca may also have become fretful from age, and long listening to the others complaints. I never could learn whether it was uncle Patrick’s son she married or not, if it was, what became of the poor children.
[Did Margaret Morrison McCorkle have a brother named Patrick Morrison?]
I never can hear of Uncle Andrew, nor any of his family.
[Andrew Sloan Morrison? I think Andrew Sloan Morrison was Margaret’s brother; & her father’s name was Andrew Morrison as well.]
April 29
Addison has just returned. is well. Changed his clothing and putt off for the Presbyterian Church. The Dr and Quincy have also gone, and I am alone except the girl who lives with me. The morning is cold, but the sun shines cheerily on the face of nature and gives encouragement to budding vegetation which the chilling winds seem disposed to check. The month of March came in like a lion according to the old Dutch Saying but after a few days of blustering and cold, exchanged the angry frown for the lamblike aspect, and continued dry and warm; we had no sugary season at all, consequently will be dependent on Orleans this year. Vegetation budded forth delightfully, bloomed out beautifully, but April has been rather chilling throughout, we have had several fine falls of snow, the last on the 6th. I presume the peach and apple orchards have suffered, but our little garden, which is liberally set with fruitshrubs and vines, seems unscathed. the gooseberry, currant, and strawberry present a mantle of bloom.
[ ¶ ] Jonathan Nichols was lying at the point of death on Wednesday: his family will be left destitute indeed.
[ ¶ ] Sister Elizabeth’s [Elizabeth McCorkle Anderson ’s] daughter Elizabeth is married to Mitchell McMurray and old Aunt Anna and the Calhouns are at loggerheads about the property of her defunct son, who married Thomas Calhoun’s daughter, you know the old lady, itching palm for gold.
[The Cumberland Presbyterian website mentions a Thomas Calhoun, early C.P. minister. No doubt that’s the connection. [Elizabeth Anderson McMurry was wife of a Cumberland Presbyterian minister who died in 1875 in Lebanon, Tennessee]]
May 4th
The weather has been wet and cold all this week, quite discouraging to farmers. The Dr would have started with Quincy to Bloomington to day if the rain and deep waters had not prevented. Tell Robert [the author’s brother Robert Hope Andrew McCorkle] to write to Addison, he is constantly looking for an answer to his last; I cannot give up all hope yet of seeing him in Rockville this spring or early in the summer. Give my love to all my brothers, sisters, and their children, tell them that time and space does not in the least abate my affection for them, but I have given up all hopes of ever seeing them in Tennessee.
Yours affectionately
[signature] Elmira S Roach.
Copied from pamphlet printed as Obsequies for Elmira Sloane Roache, 1797-1890:
“Elmira had been married at the old home on Stone River [Rutherford County, Tennessee] to Dr. Stephen Roache, Jan. 23, 1816, and for some years lived near the old homestead, and there were born her sons, Addison L. and R.Q. Roache, who now survive her. Three more, James, Andrew and Stephen, were laid in early graves there, and then Dr. Roache removed with the old people to West Tennessee, remaining there only a short time and then removing to Bloomington, Indiana, for the purpose of educating his children. While residing there, they buried their three daughters, Elmira Jane, Latina Elmira and Margaret Joanna, all in their infancy. Afterwards the family removed to Rockville, Indiana, then to Gosport and then back to Rockville, then for a few years to Oskaloosa, Iowa, and thence back to Tennessee. In 1857 the last move was made to California, Missouri, which was the home of Mother Roache for one-third of a century.
“At this day the descendants of Robert McCorkle [Elmira’s father] are so numerous in Dyer County, Tennessee, and the neighboring counties that they almost form a clan, all bearing the old Scotch-Irish characteristics of sturdy energy, honesty and morality.”
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[Senior] (Twelfth Justice) [Indiana Supreme Court] Justice Roache was born November 3, 1817, in Rutherford County, Tennessee, and died April 24, 1906, in Indianapolis. He moved to Bloomington, Indiana, in 1828. He graduated from Indiana University in 1836 and was admitted to the bar in 1839.458 In 1847, he was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives. On January 3, 1853, he took his seat on the supreme court. He resigned in May 1854 to become president of the Indiana & Illinois Central Railroad. |
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Addison Locke Roache was president of the Indiana University Alumni Association (IUAA), 1902-1903. -- In 1897 (Dec. 13) the Fort Wayne News (Indiana) lists him as a member of the executive committee of the state historical society.
1860 Indiana Census, Marion County, Indiana: Household of Addison Locke Roache:
Household of Addison Locke Roache, Sr., in Indianapolis in 1870 census:
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In the 1910 census, Addison, Jr., lived in San Gabriel, California, aged 45; wife Ella P. Roache was born in Minnesota and her father was born in Vermont, her mother in Ohio. Occupation: “own income.”
Next door to them were: Isabella Roache, head of household, aged 54, born Indiana. Occupation: “own income.” And Roache, Jane (Jane?) Du Puy or DePuy, sister to the head of household, also born Indiana --“own income.”
In the 1920 census, Addison Locke Roache, Jr., is listed as aged 58, and as Red Cross Field Director. He lived with wife Ella P. Roache, aged 54, in San Gabriel township of Alhambra, California.
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Indianapolis City Directory 1889: Addison Locke Roache [Senior]
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The following is on ancestry.com about Dr. Stephen Roach [Junior], husband of Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach. Evidently his father’s name was Stephen Roach d. 1816
“· ID: I2124
“· Name: Stephen Roach · Sex: M · Birth: in NC
“· Death: Jan/Feb 1816 in Davidson Co, Tn
“· _UID: 16C2BF8A50EED411BC4A9E59C39B256D31F8
“Based upon the Davidson County probate records we can be certain that our Stephen Roache Sr. died in Davidson County circa. January/February 1816 because an inventory of his estate was filed there on March 1, 1816 by Lydia Roach and John McCain, administrators of the estate [Will Book 4, page 430]. We also know from those probate records that his children were Polly Dickson, Stephen Roach Jr., Jesse, Eli, Sally, Aaron, Anna, Selah, and Jane [Will Book 10, page 588]. Again, from those records, we know that Sally married John Penix [WB 10, p. 588; and Deed Book 5, page 93]; Selah married John W. Sanders [WB 10, p. 588; DB 2, p. 77], and Jane married a Blackaby [WB 10, p.588].
Father:
William Roach b ca. 1750. Mother:
Cecilia Bridgett Bryan b: ? n Bertie Co, NC
Marriage
Lydia Lovett b: ca 1771
Children 
Polly
Roach
Stephen Roach [Junior]; this is the one who married Elmira Sloan McCorkle and became a medical doctor
Jesse Roach Eli
Sanders Roach Sally
Roach Aaron
Roach Anna
Roach Selah
Roach Jane
Roach
About Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache’s son “Quincy” Robert Quincy Roache:
· ID: I1266 · Name: Robert Quincy ROACHE · Sex: M
· Birth: 16 JUN 1824 in Tennessee 1 –cemetery inscription
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Death: 21 SEP 1908 in California, Moniteau Co., Missouri
Father:
Stephen ROACH b: 1796 in North Carolina
Mother:
Elmira Sloan MCCORKLE
Marriage 1
Rebecca Page SUNDERLAND b: 29 MAY 1826 in Parke Co., Indiana
· Married: 26 NOV 1845 in Parke Co., Indiana 2
· ID: I1329 · Name: Elmira Sloan MCCORKLE · Sex: F · Death: AFT 1880 1 Marriage 1 Stephen ROACH , M.D., b: 1796 in North Carolina
Children
Sarah
ROACHE Addison
Locke ROACHE [Senior] b: BEF 1823 Robert
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McCorkle–Anderson – McMurry–Leath Excursus
Robert McCorkle by his first wife Elizabeth ( Lizzie) Blythe had a daughter named Elizabeth McCorkle, who according to our family records married Thomas Anderson in Sumner Co., Tennessee [Middle Tennessee, north of Nashville]. Elizabeth McCorkle was a half-sister to Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roach, whose corrpespondence appears here. Elizabeth McCorkle (Anderson) was raised in Middle Tennessee by her maternal grandmother Blythe. –It was Elizabeth Blythe McCorkle’s sister, Margaret “Peggy” Blythe, who was the 1st wife of William McCorkle, brother to Robert McCorkle.
Thomas Anderson through Elizabeth McCorkle (Anderson) begot at least four children:
C Elizabeth “Lizzie” Anderson McMurry [Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roach wrote that Elizabeth Anderson married J. Mitchell McMurry: “Sister Elizabeth’s [Elizabeth McCorkle Anderson’s] daughter Elizabeth [Anderson] is married to Mitchell McMurray and old Aunt Anna and the Calhouns are at loggerheads about the property of her defunct son, who married Thomas Calhoun’s daughter. you know the old lady, itching palm for gold.” The Cumberland Presbyterian inernet web site lists a Rev. J. M. McMurry who long preached in McMinnville, Tennessee, but retired with his wife Elizabeth Anderson McMurray to her original home in Lebanon, Tennessee, and died in 1875. At one time, Elizabeth McCorkle Anderson, Elizabeth Anderson McMurry’s mother, is recorded as living with her in Lebanon, Tennessee.]
C Martha Anderson (Leath) [Surname looks more like Keigh or Leigh or Leith in Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache’s letter to her nephew James Scott McCorkle, M.D., of Newbern, Tennessee, but could be Leath]. Martha had three sons and removed from Middle Tennessee to Memphis. --I, Marsha Huie, think she married a Mr. James T. Leath, an attorney. Source: the 1850 Memphis census, in which Martha D. Leath appears as wife of James T. Leath, attorney. By the time of the 1860 census, James T. Leath had acquired a new wife, listed as having been born in New Jersey, so Martha Anderson Leath almost certainly died sometime between 1850 and 1860, as almost no one divorced back then. –I recently learned that the mother of James T. Leath was Sarah Leath, member of the First Presbyterian Church of Memphis, founded in 1828, who founded what became the Porter-Leath Home, still a charitable organization in Memphis today. [Who is the Hatton Leath of Henrietta, Texas, whom Hiram McCorkle mentions in a ost-Civil War journal entry? Uncle Hiram R. A. McCorkle records that Hatton Leath was visiting in Newbern.]
C Julia Anderson -- who never married, according to her aunt, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache; and
C Robert Anderson, who, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache wrote, might have moved to Alabama. -- The following is yet unproven: One person named Robert Anderson appears as an attorney in Mississippi: in the towns of Lexington and Durant, Mississippi (Holmes County).[24] Source: The ff. entry is on www.ancestry.com about Robert Anderson’s father’s family: that is, about Thomas Anderson’s family. The entry is from a James Lawler: [email protected] . I do not vouch for its veracity, but cannot gainsay its contents. It is the only lead I have found regarding our Robert McCorkle’s grandson Robert Anderson:
· Thomas ANDERSON , born circa 1774 in Orange Co., NC · Died 1842 in Tenn.
Father:
James ANDERSON, b: 19 Mar 1731 in
Lancaster Co., PA;
later of Orange Co., NC. Mother:
Elizabeth MEBANE, b: circa 1740 in Pennsylvania; of Orange Co., NC.
Thomas Anderson’s Marriages: 1st
Sarah ATKINSON, b: ca.1780 in Orange Co., NC.--married ca.1802 in Orange
Co., NC.
2nd marriage: Elizabeth McCORKLE, b: ca 1785 in Tennessee. Thomas Anderson & Elizabeth McCorkle married circa 1809 in Sumner County, Tennessee. [See Early Sumner County, Tenn., marriage records online]
[End of McCorkle – Anderson – McMurry - Leath Excursus]
The following is a copy of a copy of a letter written in 1838 by Mrs. Robert McCorkle, née Margaret Morrison. At the end of the copy someone has written, “Copied for Elmira S[loan] [McCorkle] Roache, by S.E. Algea [Sarah E. McCorkle Algea] March 15th 1857.
Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s son Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle through wife Tirzah Scott McCorkle begot Sarah E. McCorkle (Algea), who married Dr. Jonathan Algea. -- In a letter I once read, RAH McCorkle wrote during the Civil War a letter to his brother-in-law Dr. Stephen Roache: that Sarah E. McCorkle’s husband Jonathan Algea wandered around the countryside [RAH didn’t say whether Jno. Algea was in the army and had to be on the move], and dropped in only occasionally to visit his wife and even then stayed only a few minutes. -- And at the end of his life, RAH McCorkle in his last will and testament, made provision for Sarah to have rooms in his house for her lifetime; RAH pointedly referred to his daughter as “Sarah E. McCorkle” but called her two children by the surname Algea. --
At the end of the copied letter, yet another hand has written about Margaret Morrison McCorkle:
“Born N. Carolina, Aug. 11, 1770. Died Tennessee Nov. 21, 1848.”
See her tombstone in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer Co., Tennessee.
Provenance of this letter: Sent in Sept. 1984 by Bowden Cason McCorkle of San Leandro, California, to Marsha Huie. “Casey” (now deceased) was a great-great grandson of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, his grandfather being Finis A. McCorkle, brother to inter alia our John Edwin McCorkle.
Margaret Morrison McCorkle was writing the following letter to her brother-in-law, James McCorkle. I have placed in bold letters phrases which I found particularly felicitous:
[1838]
Dear Brother;
I was glad to receive your kind favor of January 2d, glad I say to receive a friendly line from the only living branch of a once numerous, dear very dear family to me. It is with a mournful recollection that I look back on former times, the companions of my youth in whose society I once delighted, where are they now? gone, some dead, the rest far away, so that my former connections are broken up, & I left in advanced life to form new acquaintances.
However I feel that I am only a passenger who will soon have to quit this vale of sorrow & pass into an untried state of existence & I trust in the promises of the gospel to support me through the little remainder of my life & cheer me through the dark vally & shadow of death. – I am becoming very frail particularly so this spring season, but I am amongst my children who are all very kind to me. I have no worldly care of my own, my children provide for & are very tender of me.
My sons are all married into respectable families & located each on a small piece of land left them by their father. They are not wealthy but are honest, industrious farmers & provide comfortably for their families. They are men of unimpeachable upright character & conduct as far as I know. They & their wives are mostly all professors of religion. My daughter Pamela is married to a man named Lemuel [Locke] Scott[25] a very respectable man. They live within five miles of her brothers. I suppose you have as good a chance to know how my daughter Elmira is coming on perhaps better than I have. Rebecca’s oldest daughter is married & lives near the southern boundary of Tennessee, the other, a young woman, lives amongst us.[26]
My children are all raising children. I have twelve grand sons, one great grandson & eight grand daughters living, & number sixteen more of them amongst the dead. The rest of our friends live at such a distance from me that I have no personal knowledge of them.
With respect to the state of society here I have nothing very flattering to tell you. speculation & the pride of life, I think generally carry the sway, but I am so old & know so little of the world that I perhaps am not a competent judge. – I think you do me injustice to imagine me opposed to the abolition scheme at least I know that I am unfriendly to slaveholding amongst us. I am not sufficiently acquainted with the politics of the times to judge of the measures pursued by the abolitionists therefore I wish them success only just so far as they are trying in a right manner to do what I believe to be a good work, one thing I can say with certainty that it would truly rejoice me to see all my dear posterity settled in a free state.
As respects New schoolmen & measures I am not well enough acquainted with them to hazzard an opinion on the merits of their proceedings so I will say nothing about them only wish them God’s speed if they are doing his work faithfully. I think there is great need of reformation even amongst professors at least they need to be stirred up.
My reading is mostly confined to reading the bible & though accustomed to read & hear it from my childhood yet even now in old age I find that it is an inexhaustible mine that I have scarcely begun to explore. I discover new beauties every time I peruse the good book, knowing that my time here at most is short & uncertain, I incline to spend it in searching the scriptures in preference to any other kind of reading particularly controverted doctrines.
If I live to see the eleventh of next August I will count my threescore & eight, little more than two years behind you. of course I don’t expect ever to see you in this world perhaps we may yet rejoice together in a better world, be that as it may I congratulate you now, on the felicities you enjoy in that happy land of light & liberty. I moreover rejoice to hear that your children all respectable characters in society, tell them I love them for the sake of their worthy ancestors. I hope they will continue to imitate their virtues.
My love to all inquiring friends.[2]
Margaret M McCorkle.
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James McCorkle was the last child to be born to Alexander and (Nancy) Agness Montgomery McCorkle, who are buried in Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Rowan County, NC. James McCorkle was born in 1768 in Rowan County, North Carolina. He married Elizabeth Hall, I think. He moved to Miami County, Ohio, where he married a third wife, I think.
James McCorkle died in 1840 at the home of a child who lived in Boone County, Indiana, and is buried in the Thorntown Cemetery there.
John Hale Stutesman Jr’s unpublished manuscript of 1983 states the above facts and speculates that James moved north, like his brother Joseph McCorkle, to escape the institution of slavery and live in “free” territory. Though his sister-in-law Margaret Morrison McCorkle evidently shared his sentiments, she remained in Dyer County, Tennessee, living out her last years in a slave-holding territory.
Though many of the graves are unmarked and time, if not outright vandalism, has misplaced what markers there once were, the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County, Tennessee, contains a section reserved for Negroes – it used to be the section in front of the fence, before the mowing people tore down the fence – Many of these African Americans buried there were, according to family oral tradition, once slaves. For example, Hiram R.A. McCorkle, on Sept. 12, 1901, recorded in his journal the funeral services and burial of Frelinghuisen McCorkle at the McCorkle Cemetery, a freed slave. For another example, my mother, Joyce Cope Huie, born Nov. 11, 1915, is almost certain that Jeff Bean is buried there. She knows that either her Meemaw’s mother or aunt [either Mary McMahon Hendricks, the mother, or Temperance McMahon (Mrs. Bean) Hendricks, the two Mrs. Uriah C. Hendricks-es, respectively] brought Jeff Bean with her to West Tennessee. Jeff Bean, an African-American, was a respected farmer in the Churchton community of Dyer County.
The following letter was written in 1839 by Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle) to her daughter in Indiana, Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roache, wife of Dr. Stephen Roache.
Dyer County W: T: April 2 1839
Dear child,
I am yet spared to address you a few lines
I feel as though this may be my last attempt to write not so much from any new intimations of a decline of health, as from the certain fact that I am on the very verge of threescore and ten,
I enjoy wonderful good health for one of my age, and not often afflicted with akes and pains as formerly, I cannot judge so well about the decline of my mental powers as that of my body, but so it is and it is to be expected, that what is called dotage is drawing on, and I have been told that I am hard to humour, if so you know that I need all the kindness and affection of my best friends to bear with me, and help to steer me into a smooth passage towards the grave.
I have not attained to the assurance of faith but I have become most feelingly sensible of the necessity of the witness in my heart that I am a child, in order to lay down my clay tenement in peace. Not that death is so terrifying but I wish to feel more of a growing conformity to the Divine likeness in order to be meet for the inheritance of the saints in high
Our friends here are all enjoying health peace and competence as far as I know, Pamela received yours of Feb. 10th
Old friend Scott is married again to a very respectable old lady to the satisfaction of all his friends.[2] The last let-
ter I got from you is dated September 19th 1838
I don’t recollect of writing to you since July 20 18 [??]
Give my kind respects to the Dr. kiss the babe for me
I remain your ever affectionate Mother Margaret McCorkle
Elmira S Roach. )
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The following page was attached to the foregoing letter to Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach:
My dear little son,
Although absent in body I am never the-less present in mind with you
I rejoice to hear that you are progressing in your studies
I flatter myself that you wont rest satisfied with the attainment of
a finished scholar in human literature but that
you will make the book of Gods revealed will your
chiefest study, read it by day and meditate on it by night.
Think of it as a pure revelation from the true [illegible word] fountain of light
apart from which, all your attain-ments in science and knoledge may serve to polish the outside but can never subdue the power of evil in your heart
I say again read the bible treasure it up in your memory and watch and see that you are
bringing forth the correspondendet fruits that are therein required
We have school in our neighborhood kept by a very good teacher
Ten of your little cousins Scholars four from Edwins three from Jehiels three from Roberts including little John Scott who boards there, he makes a fine start to learn well, and in fact there is not one dunce amongst all my grandchildren.
Mary Thompson [Dickey] is in Hardeman [County, Tennessee], Jane [Thompson Williams] had a daughter born about Christmas, we hear from them but seldom, they were all well a few weeks ago
Another written to Elmira 3 days later
[Robert & Morrison McCorkle’s daughter Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (Mrs. Gideon Thompson) left two orphaned daughters: Mary Thompson, later, Mrs. Williams, and Jane M. Thompson, later Mrs. Dickey.]
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Margaret’s son Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle (March 1807- Sept. 1873) and wife Tirzah Scott (daughter of James Scott & Sarah Dickey Scott) sustained many losses by death.
RAH and wife Tirzah Scott McCorkle (Sept. 1806 – August 1865) buried several children, viz.,
Margaret P, McCorkle -- who had died before RAH’s brother Edwin A. McCorkle’s death in 1853: Margaret P. McCorkle, born 11 August 1831; died 02 May 1832, and is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery. [This makes Margaret P. McCorkle’s the 2nd grave in the McCorkle Cemetery, as far as I know, after her grandfather Robert McCorkle and before her paternal grandmother’s brother William Hays Morrison in 1837.]
Addison A. McCorkle (1834- Jan. 1854) who was to die the next year (January 1854) after his uncle Edwin A. McCorkle’s death in 1853;
Robert Eusebius McCorkle (1841- Jan 30 1861);
Parley Pratt McCorkle (28 August 1845-Feb. 12. 1865);
[Children surviving RAH were: Sarah Elmira McCorkle Algea (Mrs. Jno.Francis Algea ); “Willie” Wm Leander A. McCorkle; James Scott McCorkle [named after his Scott grandfather who lived 1777-1853]; Joseph Smith McCorkle; and Susan McCorkle (McNail). – RAH’s Last Will & Testament was to leave the piano to son WLA but his early letter to Elmira says he had bought the “piana” for Susan.]
Robert McCorkle & Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s son Edwin A. McCorkle died on 10 January 1853. Edwin A. McCorkle was my great-great grandfather through his son John Edwin McCorkle, 1839-1924. January and February are usually bitterly cold months in northwestern Tennessee. Edwin’s brother “RAH” Robert McCorkle writes their sister Elmira about Edwin’s death. --
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January 11, 1853, letter regarding the death of Edwin A. McCorkle:
Dyer Co Tenn Jan .. 11 1853
Beloved Sister [Elmira]–
It has ever been my constant delight to correspond with you. Through all the shifting scenes of 24 years of separation none has been more prompt to inform you than I, of the paßing events or dispensations of Providence in our circle of relations either prosperous or adverse–like a faithful mirror I think I have reflected with all that moral honesty that characterized me when quite a child.
To you it is only necessary to speak of actions in our little circle, to bring your mind into lively exercise, and you are yet enabled to look back and view at one glance, more than I could communicate through the dull medium of pen ink and paper in a whole volume.
For several of the first years of our separation it was my highest pleasure to inform you of our prosperity and the all=most uninterrupted health of our country even tho then it fell to my lot a few times to record the fact that death had [swiped? mixed? ?not mißed?] some of our tenderest offspring. at a more recent date [1848] it was revealed to you that our mother [Margaret Morrison McCorkle] had bid adieu to time. A little later, our next brother [“Jem” Jehiel Morrison McCorkle] left the living circle. Still later our niece and now I am called on to communicate the solemn fact that Edwin is gone. –––
It never was my disposition to inflict sorrow on any being. Therefore I will forbear to describe my solitary sensations. [page break]
It is enough to say I am your only living brother, but when we reflect that all our friends have died in hope of a better life, we should feel thankful, and I humbly trust that you and I shall have formed characters that will with our departed relatives, enjoy eternal felicity. ––
Edwin’s health has been infirm for near 3 years– he had to attend to some busineß in Trenton [county seat of Gibson County, Tennessee] better than 2 months since. The weather was inclement then, and there it was he took his death sickneß. Has never been able to be about since. never complained of pain but once or twiste. The Dr. calld his disease Typhoid Pnewmonia. he expired yesterday at 1 oclock and will be interred to day about that time ––
Jane [Edwin’s widow] says he has left a will tho I do not know its arrangement.
–– The family are now enjoying moderate health tho David [David Purviance McCorkle, a son of Edwin and Jane & nephew of the writer], Anderson [Anderson Jehiel McCorkle, also a son of Edwin and Jane & nephew of the writer] & Elizabeth [Elizabeth McCorkle (Reeves), a daughter of Edwin and Jane & niece of the writer] have all been sick this fall & winter ––––
and Hiram [HRA McCorkle, a son of Edwin and Jane & nephew of the writer] is lying low with the same disease at this time. I fear he will not live, tho he appeared some better day before yesterday evening tho at that time I thought [our brother] Edwin was getting well. [Hiram R. A. McCorkle survived this illness, to die some 54 years later, in the next century, in 1907.] ––– I intend to go up and see him as soon as his Pa is buried ––––
Addison [Addison A. McCorkle[3][1] was a son of RAH & Tirzah Scott McCorkle, as was Robert E. McCorkle a son] and Pamelia’s [our sister Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott, Mrs. Lemuel Locke Scott’s son: ] Leander [Scott] are off at school. I think I will send for them to be at the burial. They are only five miles off –––
[Lemuel Locke Scott was the brother-in-law of the writer through the writer’s sister Margaret Permelia McCorkle. Lemuel & Margaret Pamelia McCorkle SCOTT had a son named Lemuel Scott—who was to marry 1st a Cowan woman and then 2nd Addie Fernandez or Fernandes.:]
Lemuel’s health is not good tho he was able to come and see [his brother-in-law] Edwin Sunday. The balance of his family are in good health. ––––
[Elmira, the addressee’s, son] Quincy and [Quincy Roache’s wife] Rebecca [née Sunderland] are well ––
[Robert Quincy Roache was destined soon to move up from Dyer County to the town of California in Missouri and to become president of the Moniteau [County] Bank in California, Mo. Quincy’s mother Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache when elderly lived in Quincy’s home in California, Missouri, as did Elmira’s husband, the retired Dr. Stephen Roache ]
Wednesday the 12th at night:
At 1 [one o’clock] yesterday we assembled at the grave, a solemn scene to me. There lies my Father [Robert McCorkle, died 1828, son of the Northern Ireland Scots immigrants Alexander McCorkle & Nancy Agness Montgomery McCorkle, the latter buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church, Rowan County, North Carolina], Mother [Margaret Morrison McCorkle, died 1848] , Daughter [Margaret P. McCorkle ] , Two brothers [Jehiel Morrison McC & now Edwin A. McCorkle] with some of their tender ones. Oh if you could be here to comfort Jane. Lemuel [Lemuel Locke Scott] and [Lemuel’s wife] Pamelia [née Margaret Permelia McCorkle] said with her last night. She [Jane] went with them up to see [her] poor [son] Hiram. she had not got back late this evening. I must go to see him in the morning ––––
I am thankful to know Jane [Maxwell Thomas McCorkle] has a family of good children. David [David Purviance McCorkle] is boarding at home but works in a black smith shop about 300 yards from the house. His boß lives on David’s place––– Anderson [Anderson Jehiel McCorkle] is an uncommon good man timid [turned?] industrious man he is very large weighs 200. will manage the farm. Rebecca [née Rebecca McCorkle, then Mrs. John C. Zarecor] is living in a half a mile and can be with her mother often. she has a sweet little daughter ––––
Brother Edwin was our most efficient Deacon and will be much mißed in our worshiping aßembly. we have been in the habit of meeting on Lords days for three years. Reading the Scripture, singing psalms, hymns & spiritual songs, prayer and breaking the Loaf has generally been our order of worship and contribution for the poor saints was not forgotten. We seldom have preaching.
I got a letter to day from [presumably: our father’s brother: ] John M cCorkle he said he had seen Addison [Addison Roache, Sr., eldest son of the addressee Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache] a few days before. they were all well ––––
Your affectionate brother
R. A .H. M c C o r k l e
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Elmira S Roache
To the above letter from her last brother RAH McCorkle, Elmira appended this note:
My darling brother, no one knows how I miss him. his letters were always lessons of instruction--& expressions of tenderness & deep felt affection. Oh I feel so lonely since he is gone—a last & withered branch—of the old ! old tree. E.S. Roache
Yorkville, Tenn. ) Robert McCorkle
January 15 )
Mrs. Elmira S. Roache
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Edwin A. McCorkle was a son of Robert McCorkle (1764-1828) and “Peggy” Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1772-1848). Edwin Alexander McCorkle was a paternal grandson of Alexander McCorkle (1722-1800) & Nancy Agness Montgomery McCorkle, Scots immigrants from Northern Ireland to, first, Harris’ Ferry, Pennsylvania, who married in 1745. And Edwin Alexander McCorkle was a maternal grandson of Andrew Morrison & Elizabeth Sloan Morrison, Scots-Irish Presbyterians, also, last of Rowan County, NC. Edwin Alexander McCorkle, born about 1799 in I think Rowan County, North Carolina, is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery east of Newbern, Dyer County, Tennessee; but in 1853 the closest town of any consequence was Yorkville.
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These are the children of Robert & “Peggy” Margaret Morrison McCorkle:
(1) Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (Mrs. Gideon Thompson), both died in Middle Tenn. and Edwin & Jane and Robert & Tirzah raised their two orphaned daughters, Jane M. Thompson (Williams) and Mary Thompson (Dickey);
(2) Elmira Sloane McCorkle m. in 1816 Dr. Stephen Roache in Middle Tenn (Rutherford County);
(3) Edwin A. McCorkle m. Jane Maxwell Thomas on November 28, 1826 -- Edwin died 10 Jan. 1853 and she died in 1855;
(4) “Jem” Jehiel Morrison McCorkle (died 1849) m. Elizabeth “Betsy” Smith (McCorkle); and by my count they lost 3 sons to the Civil War, viz., Henry Clay McCorkle; Locke McCorkle; and Eddie McCorkle.—Recently, I’ve noticed that some of the papers of Jehiel Morrison McCorkle are in the Archives at the University of Tennessee at Martin.
Their publicity doesn’t seem to know WHO JEHIEL M. McCORKLE really was, but says he was probably the first county court clerk of Dyer County, Tennessee. ;
(4) Margaret Permelia or Pamelia McCorkle (Mrs. Lemuel Locke Scott) -- she died at the end of 1853, after the death of two of her children; and after the death in January 1853 of her brother EDWIN A. McCorkle.;
(5) Robert Andrew Hope (RAH) McCorkle m. Tirzah Scott. Tirzah was a daughter of James Scott & wife Sarah Dickey (Scott), each of Tirzah Scott’s parents having been born in 1777.
The above 1853 letter is written by the deceased Edwin Alexander McCorke’s brother, Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle (RAH McCorkle) in Dyer County, Tennessee, to RAH and Edwin’s sister, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache (Mrs. Dr. Stephen Roache). Elmira had been born in Rowan County, NC, but moved with her parents and siblings to the area of Murfreesborough, Tennessee (Stone’s River, Rutherford County), to take up Alexander McCorkle’s Revolutionary War land-grant. (Alexander McCorkle’s NC will left the land-grant to only two of his sons, Robert and William). The land in Rutherford County (Middle Tenn.) was lost in title-dispute litigation. Thereafter Robert & Margaret and their children and grandchildren, including Elmira Sloan McCorkle & husband Dr. Stephen Roache, moved on to Dyer County, part of the newly opened Western District of Tennessee. Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache and husband Stephen did not linger long in Dyer County, moving on northward from Dyer County circa 1829. For a while their son “Quincy” Robert Quincy Roache (wife née Rebecca Sunderland) operated a store in the Newbern area. Quincy and his oldest brother Addison Locke Roache, Sr., graduated from the University of Indiana Bloomington.
Generation One. Alexander McCorkle m. 1st “Nancy” Agness Montgomery (McCorkle), the mother of his children, and they are buried in the Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Rowan County; and Alexander m. 2nd Rebecca Brandon (McCorkle).
Generation Two. Robert McCorkle by his 2nd wife Margaret “Peggy” Morrison (McCorkle). Robert and Peggy are buried in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, Tennessee.
Generation Three. Edwin A. McCorkle who m. Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle). I think Edwin was born in Rowan County, NC, and know he and Jane are buried in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, Tennessee. Edwin died in 1853 and Jane died in 1855.
Edwin Alexander McCorkle left upon his death 10th January 1853 a widow, Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle, the daughter of Elizabeth Purviance and William Thomas. [William Thomas was a son of Jacob Thomas and Margaret Brevard Thomas of Rowan/Iredell County NC.] Soon, in 1855, the widow Jane would follow her husband Edwin into death.
Generation Four. Edwin A. McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle had the following surviving children. I’m not sure I have them in the correct birth order. My direct ancestor, John Edwin McCorkle, came late, just before the twins Finis and Tina.
IV.(1) “HRA” Hiram Robert A. McCorkle; m. 1st Margaret Cowan, mother of all but one of his children, the 1st being Winfield Purviance McCorkle. Margaret suffered severe depression after the accidental death of son Tolbert and died in hospital in Nashville; Hiram’s 2nd wife was Janette Menzies, the mother of only one, Edwin Archibald McCorkle;
IV.(2) son who died young, I think named William Thomas McCorkle.
IV.(3) David Purviance McCorkle m. 1st Margaret Scott; 2nd Elizabeth Jackson
IV.(4) Rebecca Elmira McCorkle m. John C. Zarecor;
IV.(5) “AJ” Anderson Jehiel McCorkle m. 1st Martha Scott, a dau. of Violet B. Roddy & James “Jimpse” Scott, Martha Scott McCorkle a granddaughter of James & Sarah Dickey Scott, each b. 1777; Martha Scott McC was a sister to Sarah (Mrs. Julius M. Huie). Anderson Jehiel McCorkle m. 2nd Lou Fox. He kindly raised several of his Scott wife’s nieces/nephews. Martha Scott’s sister Tirzah “Clementine” Scott (Trimble) left a daughter Bettie Trimble (Mrs. Hundley); and Bettie Trimble (Hundley) had sons "Boss” Elmo Hundley and Bryan Hundley. Also, Clementine’s husband (Trimble) and at least one son (Trimble) lived with Anderson Jehiel McCorkle (or vice versa)
IV(6) Elizabeth Jane McCorkle (Mrs. Wyatt Reeves), of Gadsden near Humboldt, Gibson County, Tennessee.
(7) John Edwin McCorkle m. 1st “Tennie” Tennessee Alice Edwards Scott, a granddaughter of James & Sarah Dickey Scott, each b. 1777; and 2nd Mary Elizabeth Cotton of Botland near Bardstown, Kentucky.
(8a) “Tina” Margaret Latina McCorkle (Mrs. John T. Gregory) and
(8b) Tina’s twin Finis Alexander McCorkle.
The above letter from the above children’s uncle RAH McCorkle refers to the above surviving children of Robert A H McCorkle’s dead brother, Edwin A. McCorkle. We are grateful to RAH’s descendant, Carol McCorkle Branz (Roger Branz), of Spokane, Washington who sent this letter.
Misspellings in the above letter of RAH McCorkle are the author’s (Robert A. H. McCorkle, 11 January 1853) not the scrivener’s (Marsha Cope Huie, 11 February 2006).
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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).[4][2]
III. Edwin A. McCorkle [Edwin Alexander] 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 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. Aunt Nell whose father was a photographer in Florence, Alabama, was a descendant of John Sevier of Turkey ?Gulch? ?Gizzard? of upper northeastern Tennessee. -- Maury & Nell Huie had 3 children: VII. Joseph Howard “Joe” Howard Huie, who was severely afflicted and died aged 8; VII. Bill Huie, d. 2001; and VII. Edward Huie, died before his brother Bill but in 2001 also. 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. Update: they did, and her name is "Ellie" Rebecca Ellington White.
– [ We hopefully expect 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.—named Rebecca Ellington White.]
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) in 1962, they renovated and moved into the old 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, and in 2007 married Marissa, who has children from a prior marriage; Generation IX. Alison Campbell Tucker (Keogler), who lives near Atlanta; and Generation IX. Mary Brennan Tucker, who is a graduate of Middle Tenn. State U in Murfreesboro; and currently lives with my husband and me in San Antonio, where she is a nursing student at the Baptist School of Nursing. She worked for Ralph for over a year before entering nursing school.
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 and Jackson Huie Warren, and Mackenzie is a 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).
Generation VII. Larey McCorkle & Zayda B. McCorkle had 3 children, Generation VIII: two daughters VIII. Natalie, VIII. Lisa, 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 AN ARCHITECT or engineer. Lisa McCorkle (Vish) is to marry Jeff Vish in the pre-spring of 2006. Lisa and Jeff are marrying March 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 ENGINEER or architect. Natalie McCorkle (Erdly) and Mark Erdly. Natalie will marry Mark Erdly on June 3, 2006. and
Generation VIII Sean McCorkle (male) was born Sept. 15, 1977. Sean will graduate from college 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 and VIII. Dana Sandlin.
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. Anne 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).
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.
After the death of Annie Heath McCorkle, Uncle Glenn McCorkle married Irma King, who bore no children but had nephews surnamed Harris.
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.
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. 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 lynchpin
Parker Louis Cashdollar Blackwell, June 2006, at 6 weeks of age. Born April 14, 2006.
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 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 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 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, daughter of Becky Huie.
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The following letter, chronicling hard times and scarcity in Yorkville, Gibson County, Tennessee, during the War Between the States, was sent to me in 1984 by “Casey” McCorkle of San Leandro, California. The letter, 1862, is from Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s son, Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle, to his sister Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roach, living at the time in the town of California in the State of Missouri. At the time of this writing, RAH’s wife Tirzah was still alive; Tirzah was to die just after end of the Civil War, on August 27, 1865. -- RAH’s own son Robert E. McCorkle had just died on Jan. 30, 1861, aged about 20 (born 1841).
Yorkville Tenn. June 24th 1862.
Beloved Sister,
Our paths have been strewn with trials from our childhood to gray hairs. When you and I parted last, little did we then think that our beloved country would be plunged into fratricidal war in our life time. but fates have decreed it otherwise. We were taught to love our country and reverence its constitution and laws. we ever believed no other nation on the habitable globe had such institutions. but alas! alas! we are ruined. We have suffered demagogues to lead, and ru-
in our happy country. I can but believe there are thousands of honest hearts who have ever been for peace, altho evils did exist, yet they could have been cured without so much blood shed and misery. But ‘tis usele¶ for me to dwell on this part of our woes.
On the 11. day of January last Howard [Howard Harris Roache, son of Elmira the addressee] came to my house. I knew him and was glad to see him tho weary and worn. we made him some new warm clothes, and he spent several weeks with us, seemed truly happy in passing among his relations, tho I observed he often thought and sighed for home. at leangth James came home [the writer’s son James Scott McCorkle]. They enjoyed themselves very much together–visited around generally.
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When James went back he went with him, though I dident know he intended to stay until I got a letter fom him stating that he had concluded it was best to remain, from too considerations, first the Mississippi was so full he couldent get back to Gen.l Parsons til late in the spring. The other was he was permited to join Col Wright’s Reg.t with the promise of being released the 2. [?] of June with the Reg.t he intended then to rejoin Prices command. Susan got a letter from him the morning he started into the Shiloah battle. it was full of thought, expressed confidence in his Redeemer tho “before night he might be cal d to eternity.” he esca=
ped unhurt Sunday. but Monday he was struck with a musket ball above the right eye.
The first sugeon pronounced it slight, but when he returned to camp on re examination it was thought dangerous. On Thursday James [James Scott McCorkle] was detailed to go with him and many others. I went Wednesday to Trenton [Tennessee, in Gibson County] to meet the wounded, some came, but our boys dident get there til Thursday night. he died before he got to Trenton. in Trenton, James had him neatly dressed, and a good coffin for him, and procured a hearse and got home Friday. when I saw the hearse coming I was shocked. Aa wounded neighbor drove up in front. I ask him who it was. his reply was “a friend of mine” oh! how my heart throb.d. he then said it was “Howard.” I cant express my feelings.
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we kept him in the parlor that day and night. Then I took him and laid in Our rowe beside Robert. [Our old family records list a Robert E. McCorkle as a child of RAH & Tirzah Scott McCorkle, Robert E. McCorkle having been born in 1841 and dying on Jan. 30, 1861 *] Amidst all the sorrows of the case I feel gratified that we were permitted to thus care for him, for many of our near friends lie bleaching on the plains of Shiloah.
Billy Cowan was one who fell there. Cap t. Wilkins was mortally wounded there. Old Saury [Saury?] Grier’s [Greer’s?] son was wounded, taken prisoner, and has not been heard from since. After the reorganization under the Conscript law, ** many of our boys came home. nor do I
think they will ever go back.
The Federal army is south of us. They hold all Tennessee. The Mobile & Ohio R.R. is being fixed to run the trains in a day or too. The Federals hold the Memphis & Charleston RR. and the mississippi Central. They hold Hernando, Holly-Springs, and many other places in that state.
Yorkville is quiet tho the Federals have visited it several times. They havent mistreated us at all. tho there is a Reg.t of “Jay Hawkers” who are waking up many along the R.R. – Gen.l Quimby’s head qrter is Trenton. The Officials there denounce the conduct of the J.Hawkers. They propose to restore the union and protect the loyal. Many are flocking to the old Union Flag that wavers over Trenton. indeed from every appearance I am conscienciously of the opinion that the unfettered voice of Tennessee spoken out, would be for the Union as it was.
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* Howard Harris Roache, who was mortally injured at the Battle of Shiloh yet lived a brief while afterwards, has two tombstones in the McCorkle Family Cemetery in Dyer County, Tennessee. One is a decent but ordinary rock placed there by his uncle, the above writer R.A.H. McCorkle. The other is a tall, spired monument erected later by his parents, Dr. & Mrs. Roache. In the summer of 1985 we affixed the more modest one, which had for years been lying in neglect against the old iron fence, to the second, more elaborate marker.
** This letter helps restore the honor of my Huie great-grandfather, Julius M. Huie, who would have been about thirty-four years old in 1862. Julius’ daughter “Aunt Phronie” always maintaned, “Paw hid out from the conscript in the corn bin.” Probably that means from the Southern Confederacy conscript, but I don’t know; it could have been just as easily from the Federal conscript. My mother, Joyce Cope Huie, says my father, Ewing Huie, didn’t like his aunt, Sophronia Huie Thompson, to tell that story about his Grandpa Julius Huie. Now it looks as if it might have been the “Federals” whom Grandpaw Julius Huie managed to evade. The Federals and the “Confederals” each roamed in and out of Dyer and Gibson Counties throughout the war, exchanging a few volleys with no major battles; and each side, when it could, tried to “conscript” the men of the community. – I was raised on the story that a “Yankee” was, and is, buried in our front yard, down toward Highway 77, between our house and the highway. He is supposed to have been killed there, and buried in what was then a cow pond.
[Page Four]
We are all in moderate health. hot weather, good crops. Legrand Whary is dead. so is Bill Shaw. & Green Holmes. [***] J.J. Scott is still very feeble, he is at his uncle billies. Jno. McCorkle very feeble.[[27]****] Leander[28] has got home from the army, Locke & Ed havent got back yet.[29]
May 2
Brother’s last letter about Howard
__________________
M rs Elmira S. Roache
..
California
Mo.
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[RAH McCorkle wrote the following on the outside of the letter after folding it:]
There has been no chance hitherto to communicate to you since Howard came here. he said he sent you a letter by private conveyance from Columbus [Kentucky]. Tirzah [wife Tirzah Scott McCorkle] and I went to Union City while they were there. Their Reg.t was ordered away while we were there. We all came together to Rutherford Station. There Howard gave us the parting hand at mid night the 15th March.
Tho. dark, we could see the boys weep----
I trust the way will be open for this to reach you. If so you will write immediately to Rutherford Station Mobile and Ohio R.R. Tenn----I hope to write again. Farewell
R A H M.Corkle
Elmira S. Roache._________________
*** Green Holmes is buried in the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery. Or I should say, I thought I saw his marker there before restoration of the cemetery, but his name does not appear on the new Internet listing of cemetery graves for Gibson County, Tennessee. --In 1983 when I received these McCorkle-Roache papers from Casey McCorkle, the old cemetery was abandoned and overgrown with brush. Fortunately, in the late 1990s, I think because of the efforts of Congressman Ed Jones to have the cemetery declared historic, the cemetery has been restored. –“Miss” Llew Wyatt Jones just told me that Hamilton Parks of Trimble, Tennessee, contributed greatly to her husband’s efforts for restoration.
The horrible aftereffects of Civil War:
Things were to get worse in the Yorkville-Newbern area. It doesn’t appear that the actual participants, and onlookers, during the Civil War hated each other. Post-war events seem to have engendered the bitterness and enmity more than did actual war. I’ve read from distinguished historians of the period that it was the grandsons, not even the sons, who were most bitter about the war, at least in the South, which had felt occupied and then victimized by Reconstruction. Of course, the Radical Republicans, and many northern opponents of slavery, would say that the South only got its due. That would oversimplify the case, though, as many southerners disliked the institution of slavery, and much of northern commerce had been mixed up with the slave trade. It was slave-trading that was, to me, the true evil. Many, many folks, and not all southerners, bear guilt for the sin of slavery.
Provenance of the following letter: Carol McCorkle Branz of Spokane, Washington, who found me from my postings on the Internet. Carol McCorkle Branz is a great-great-granddaughter of RAH McCorkle through Joseph Smith McCorkle (“Joe” was a son of RAH McCorkle & Tirzah Scott McCorkle, and Joe lived in Yorkville). Joseph Smith McCorkle had a son named Robert Jesse McCorkle, who I think moved to Missouri, just across the Mississippi River, and Robert Jesse McCorkle in turn had a son named Robert Frazier McCorkle, who begot Carol McCorkle Branz. On Jan. 30 2006, Carol Branz kindly posted several precious old letters to me in care of my mother in Tennessee (Joyce Cope Huie, 216 Newbern-Yorkville Highway, Newbern, Tennessee 38059). We feel inestimable gratitude to Carol McCorkle Branz ([email protected]) for sharing these relics with the Tennessee McCorkle kin.
Carol McCorkle Branz –descendant of RAH McCorkle & Tirzah Scott through their son Joseph Smith McCorkle, immediately above, sent me the following paper showing the horrific effects of Civil War. The original is in pencil.
The threat on the front side of the leaf of paper is more frightening than the back, as the front side (in mostly all caps, except as shown below) is grammatical and, though twisted and evil, reflects education. Not so the penciled note on the back. First, the penciled note on the front:
“Mr McCorkle. We have asked you as a citizen to get rid of that negro family on your place and it seems as if you are not going to do it.
“Now. [erasure] you must get rid of them. If you don’t, look out. Your house will go UP IN ashes and we will do you more harm than that. He cant make a crop here. If we have to poison every well and pond on the place. and God being our Judge we don’t want to do that. BUT HE MUST LEAVE here.
OVER
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NOTICE TOM PIERCE THOMPSON YOU AND [???]NS HAS BEEN RUNNING [???] HOUSE LONG [????] NOW WE JUST GIVE YOU [????] DAYS TO GET OUT [????] DISTrict or you [ ] to hawl away [ ] WE MEAN TO MOVE [???] THE DAMED NIGER [???] HERE. NOW IF YOU [?]RE WHEN THIS [ ] OUR WHAT [ ] DO WILL A PLINTY.
CITIZENS
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ToM Tompson
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WE Don’t Want To have [written vertically to the right:]
any trouble out of you AND IN 10 DAYS AT THAT
but he must Leave
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[Rough, Penciled Sketch of A Man Hanging from Tree with rope around his neck] |
MR NIGER
THIS IS
YOU IF YOU
IS YOU IF
You STAY HERE
What happened? I do not know about this particular instance. I have read that the “Red House” in which the McCorkle family first settled burned, but don’t know when. We know that the “Red House” was on the north of what is now the Newbern-Yorkville road (Highway 77), across the road from what became the John Edwin McCorkle home. I do not know when the Red House burned. More generally than the specific case above, we do know than numerous African-Americans continued to live in the neighborhood despite such threats. -- It has been told me by old-timers, though, that in the nearby Cool Springs district of Gibson County the radical hate-mongers managed to make their community “lily white.” Not so in the McCorkle land-grant area—although in 1866 after the Civil War Hiram R. A. McCorkle writes in his journal as if in amazement, “My place is clean of Negroes.” --But in 1901 his journal with grief records the death of Frelinghuisen McCorkle, who was buried in the McCorkle Cemetery. Uncle Hiram attended the funeral services held on the cemetery grounds and writes that he shed a tear at the death of Frelin McCorkle.
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Mrs. Robert McCorkle (née Margaret Morrison) : The Morrison Connection is extremely difficult to research. The ff. was added by Marsha Cope Huie in 2003. Source: Internet. Web pages, Roots Web of Mark Freeman of Garland, Texas. Mark Freeman responds by email to Marsha Cope Huie:
“I don’t know if these Morrisons are any kin to Margaret Morrison (Mrs. Robert McCorkle), but will investigate: Children of Sarah Walker and William Morrison are:
214 i. Jean6 Morrison.
215 ii. Samuel W. Morrison.
216 iii. Benjamin W. Morrison, died 02 Feb 1818 in Lock Haven, Clinton, PA. He married Margaret Nichols.
217 iv. John H. Morrison, born Aft. 1782.
218 v. Elizabeth K. Morrison.
+ 219 vi. William Morrison, born 04 Mar 1783; died 03 Oct 1850.
220 vii. Priscilla Morrison, born Abt. 1791. She married Thomas Morrison 27 May 1818; born Bef. 1791.
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Back to Number 219 immediately above: William Morrison [Mark Freeman’s Generation # 6] (Sarah5 Walker, John4 , Henry3 , James2 , Robert1 ) was born 04 Mar 1783, and died 03 Oct 1850. He married Rebecca [Unknown] 14 Mar 1818.
Children of William Morrison and Rebecca [Unknown] are:
472 i. John7 Morrison.
473 ii. William Morrison.
[End of Email from Mark Freeman to Marsha Cope Huie]
I wrote the following in 1983 and distributed this little booklet to our John Edwin McCorkle-Julius M. Huie Family Reunion, before I had been able to ascertain that William Hays Morrison was unquestionably a brother to our Margaret Morrison McCorkle:
Dedication
This collection of papers above is dedicated to the Morrison cousin, William Morrison or possibly Gilliam Morrison, who lived 1767-1837 and was probably the brother, most certainly a kinsman, of Margaret Morrison McCorkle. Margaret was born 11 August 1770, just before the Revolutionary War of 1775-83, and she died 11 Nov. 1848 at over 78 years’ age. Margaret Morrison was the 2nd wife of Robert McCorkle, whose first wife was (Lizzie) Elizabeth Blythe of Lebanon, Tennessee.
Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s parents were Andrew Morrison and wife Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison) of Rowan County, NC. The now-unmarked grave of William Morrison lies next to that of his sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer Co., Tennessee. Once beloved by someone, this William Morrison [now known to be William Hays Morrison] rests somewhere near his tombstone that now lies in ruins against the fence at the McCorkle family cemetery in Dyer County. His epitaph makes him born circa 1767 and reads thus:
Sacred to the Memory of
Wlliam Morrison
____departed this life
____22nd 1837
____70 years
[By 2003, I had read on <www.ancestry.com> that this William Morrison has to be William Hays Morrison; and that William Hays Morrison’s wife is buried in Bedford County, Tennessee. William Hays Morrison, born 7 January 1767 in Rowan County, North Carolina, died 22 August 1837 in Dyer County, Tennessee (McCorkle Cemetery). His wife was Mary Haynes, born 11 Mar 1779 in Rowan County, NC; died 4 Sep 1816 in Bedford County, Tennessee. They married in 1795 in Rowan Co., NC. www.ancestry.com lists their children as the following; but we do not have them in our old records, and I cannot vouch for veracity of the ff:
1 Eliza S. Morrison (Mrs. William Stinnett), born 1797 Iredell County, NC; married 13 Oct 1843 in Ray County, Missouri.
2 John Morrison, born 1798 Iredell County, NC
3 Joseph Pinckney Morrison, born 7 May 1801 Iredell County, NC. Married Matilda McKee Brown; died 28 Sept. 1887 in Glennville, Kern County, California. {He was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, and undoubtedly a nephew of Margaret Morrison McCorkle. – Joseph Pinkney [sic.] Morrison was the recipient of a letter written 29 July 1857 by his aunt Mary Morrison when she was living with another nephew in Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee; Mary expressed concern that Joseph P. Morrison might lose his land in Tennessee to squatters and other claimants.}
4 Elinor Panthea Morrison, born 1805 Iredell County, NC
5 Robert Donnell Morrison, born 14 July 1813 in Bedford County, Tennessee – died 4 June 1888 in Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri. Robert Donnell Morrison m. Sarah E. Sawyer, born 11 April 1817 in Lincoln County, Tennessee; died 7 March 1896 in Sullivan County, Missouri. [The “Donnell” name was shared by an early Cumberland Presbyterian minister. I wonder if this Robert Donnell was named after him and would conclude probably so.]
6 William Mann Morrison, born 1815 in Franklin County, Tennessee. Married Jane Daves, 1819-1880. William Mann Morrison died 1 October 1895 in Marshall County, Tennessee.
[End of William Hays Morrison, brother buried beside Margaret Morrison McCorkle in McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, Tennessee]
This collection of papers is also dedicated to our immigrant ancestors Alexander McCorkle and 1st wife (Nancy) Agness Montgomery McCorkle, who emigrated from in or near Ulster Plantation, Northern Ireland, to Harris Ferry, Pennsylvania. They removed themselves thence down the Great 18th-century migration road to the Piedmont of North Carolina, near Statesville / Salisbury, in Iredell County, this part of which later became Rowan County, North Carolina.
Alexander McCorkle’s gravestone in Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rowan County, North Carolina, near Salisbury and Mooresville, reads:
In Memory of Alexander M’Corkle
who died December 24th 1800
Aged 78 years.
The inscription on the grave of Alexander’s first wife, Nancy Agness McCorkle, the mother of his children, reads:
In Memory of AGNESS McCORKLE
Wife to Alex McCorkle Snr.
Deceased Sept Ye 5 1789
Aged 63 Years.
Agnes Montgomery McCorkle was known in the Scots fashion as “Nancy.” Alexander married again, after the death of 1st wife (Nancy) Agness Montgomery McCorkle. His 2nd wife was named Rebeccah Brandon, by whom he had no issue.
This collection of papers is also dedicated to the numerous African-Americans who lie buried in the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County, Tennessee, in graves now unmarked. Some had probably been slaves, like Frelinghuisen McCorkle, but most were, more likely, descendants of freedmen and freedwomen. My mother [Joyce Cope Huie, born 1915] thinks Jeff Bean is buried there.
[This is the Jeff Bean who came down from Indiana/Ohio when my mother’s Hendricks great-grandfather, Uriah C. Hendricks – who is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery – lost his 1st wife Mary McMahon Hendricks, whom he had married in 1833 in Clermont County, Ohio, Mary (Polly) McMahan having come originally, we think, from Rowan Co., NC. Ira Cope, Uriah’s grandson, said Uriah C. Hendricks rode on a horse up to get his wife. Upon the death of his 1st wife, Uriah went north again, up to Indiana/Ohio to which the McMahon family had by then migrated, to bring south to western Tennessee Mary Polly MacMahan Hendrick’s sister, Temperance McMahon Bean (widow Bean) (Hendricks) (alias “Aunt Tempe.”) The Temperance name can get a bit confusing because Uriah C. Hendricks seems to have had a sister—or perhaps 1st cousin—named Temperance Hendricks (Chaffin), who married Mr. William O. Chaffin in Rowan County, North Carolina in the early 1800s, either 1829 or 1833, I think I remember.]
It is known that Temperance McMahon BEAN Hendricks brought Jeff Bean south with her, where he became well respected in the Churchton community. Whether he had been a slave or not, my mother Joyce Cope Huie cannot now remember. Nevertheless, at the time of death of Uriah C. Hendricks ‘s 1st wife, Mary McMahon Hendricks, Jeff Bean would have been a freedman.
In the 1950s a McCorkle descendant desecrated the graves of the black men and women who had been placed to rest forever in the front of the cemetery, in front of the old iron fence that used to mark the dividing line but which fence has since disappeared. My cousin Edward Campbell Huie who died in March 2001, long a trustee for the cemetery, told me knew who had shamed us all by destroying these markers; but I have no first-hand knowledge of the identity of the appalling miscreant so am reluctant to name him here even though he is long dead now. I hope his soul re-incarnates, if there is such a thing as transmogrification of the soul, into a body of a very dark brown colour. Of one thing I am certain: he will have to do penance somehow, somewhere, before he rests.-- All right, so my 90-year-old mother has counseled [as she proof-reads this in November 2005 before I place it on the Internet] that I can’t mention Joe Hiram Pope, husband of Fannie Fuller Pope. Mother says she never heard that story anyway.
This collection of papers is also dedicated to my mother, Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie, whose love and sacrifice have seen me through various personal pestilences. When cancer struck me as a very young woman and brutal treatment ensued, it was her strength of will & other resources that sustained me. And: to my maiden aunt, Sarah Elisabeth Huie, who I really do believe had a photographic memory. She is the genesis of most of my stories gathered here. Aunt Beth generously shared her knowledge of God and family, but rarely ventured off our farm except for church and grocery-shopping. I’m still a bit raspy at Aunt Beth though for turning in Jennifer Huie (Tucker) & me for smoking in the chicken coop when we were 14.
[In 2005 I would add that it was the profound interest in all learned topics of Ralph Ervin Williamson that re-awakened my thirst for knowledge and desire to make this compilation public. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy & Stanford University (Petroleum Engineering), with the M.S. from the University of Texas in Earth Sciences (not to mention a law degree, which rarely leads to intellectualism), he has enriched my life immeasurably since we married, each aged 53, on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1999. -- If I said the “curiosity” of Ralph inspired me, that although true would be amphibology.]
Note about “Verdant Plain,” Tennessee, & Southern Consanguinity:
According to Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roache, her mother’s mother, Elizabeth Sloane (Mrs. Andrew Morrison) [variously, Elizabeth Sloan] was a 1st cousin to Robert McCorkle. That makes the mother of Elizabeth Sloane Morrison (the mother being __?__ McCorkle Sloane) a sister to the Alexander McCorkle who married Nancy Agness Montgomery. That in turn makes Margaret Morrison McCorkle a 1st cousin-once-removed to her husband Robert McCorkle. – We are hopelessly interbred. – Robert McCorkle died in Dyer County, Tennessee, very soon after making the journey from Rutherford County in Middle Tennessee. Robert is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer Co., Tennessee. – In regard to Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s listing her address as “Verdant Plain,” it is clear to me that she was referring to the McCorkle farm situated in eastern Dyer County, Tennessee, five miles east of Newbern and just west of what is today the Churchton Community. Obviously the name “Verdant Plain” did not catch on. One wishes it had.
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 Agness 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][3]
Samuel King Jurat [Samuel King[30]] *<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]
********* 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. He remained in Rowan County and had a son named JOEL McCorkle;
3. Joseph McCorkle -- he m. Snoddy;
4. Alexander McCorkle [Aleck] -- His niece Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache wrote that Aleck was emotional in character and joined the Methodists. He moved to Giles Co., Tennessee, then Henry County. ;
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; the last to die.
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 the pioneer church WALNUT HILL, a Presbyterian Church congregation near Lexington, 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 in the spring of 1828 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 western 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. Martha Mattie McCorkle,
2. Bettie McCorkle [Elizabeth McCorkle , who received 2 of 11 shares in her father’s will], and
3. Nancy McCorkle --Agnes McCorkle RAMSAY, who remained in Rowan Co., NC.
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:
C 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,[31] 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:
C “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.
C Eleazor Purviance [Eliazor Purviance?] [Eleazer Purviance?]
C 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.
C 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.
C Margaret Purviance (Mrs. James Cropper)
C Martha Purviance (Mrs. Fleming)
C Sarah Purviance (Mrs. Samuel Harris)
C 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.
C 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 in 1792 by hostile Indians in Middle Tennessee !!!
C 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. In her old age she appears in the census as living in the same household as her Thomas-Woods sister and brother-in-law ELEAZOR WOODS.
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.] I'm not certain his middle name was "Purviance."
[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.
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 Maxwell 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) . Jane is my father Ewing Huie’s paternal great-grandmother. 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, Jasper County, Mississippi; then finally to Yazoo, Mississippi.
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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,[32] 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. Their children =Generation II.
Generation II. Children of Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard Thomas:
C John Thomas, the oldest brother. –remained in Statesville, Rowan County, North Carolina; but the other three Thomas brothers migrated into West Tennessee.
Elizabeth Thomas SHERRILL
C James Thomas – John Thomas stayed in Statesville NC (old home-place) but the other 3 came into West Tennessee.
C Henry Thomas – John stayed in Statesville NC (old home-place) but the other 3 came into West Tennessee.
C William Thomas – John stayed in Statesville NC (old home-place) but the other 3 came into West Tennessee. [William Thomas married Elizabeth Purviance = 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 & Elizabeth Purviance begat 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. John Thomas married Mary Jetton. [The wife of this John Thomas, Mary Jetton, was a daughter of Elizabeth Brevard and John Jetton.]
Generation III. A son, Isaac Thomas, who married Hannah McKnight.
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.”
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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,[33] 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 Thomas 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. I remember reading an obituary about him in Mississippi, which 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 to Dr. H J Thomas, Vernon, Mississippi.
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
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, and I give him full credit for authorship:
“ 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. ” ______________________________________________________________
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 Penn down to Rowan County, NC?"
Many thanks to Mark Freeman for placing his information on Internet.
The following transcribes one of the Several Diaries Kept by John Edwin McCorkle, this one written just before and during the Civil War.
Evidently, when John Edwin McCorkle began his journal in this particular little booklet, he was a student at Bluff Springs Academy. I’m not sure of the location of Bluff Springs Academy but think it was near or in Milan in Gibson County, Tennessee. John E. McCorkle graduated in 1860 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, then joined the Confederacy from Dyer County and went up to Columbus, Kentucky, where the South had decided, with futility, to place a chain across the Mississippi River to prevent Federal gunboats from plying those waters.
He records below that he joined “the service of Tennessee” on the 11th of June 1861. Clearly, the sovereign for which he perceived himself to be fighting was the State, and for States’ Rights. John Edwin McCorkle did not own any slaves, nor as far as I’ve been able to discern, did his parents Edwin Alexander & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle. We know that John Edwin McCorkle’s mother’s uncle, David Purviance (who moved from Middle Tennessee up to Bourbon County, Kentucky, to escape Indian Troubles) preached against slavery as a minister, first a Presbyterian “elder,” then a Christian Church-Church of Christ preacher; and that David Purviance advocated abolitionism as a Kentucky then Ohio legislator. By the time of John Edwin McCorkle and the Civil War, though, there were several African-Americans surnamed McCorkle, and John Edwin McCorkle’s paternal great-grandfather Alexander McCorkle, who died in 1800 in Rowan County, North Carolina, and is buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church, made disposition of slaves in his North Carolina will, even while writing this holographic document “in the name of God, amen.”
Our McCorkle-Huie family tradition has it that John Edwin McCorkle contracted dysentery at Columbus which rendered him low for some time. My father Ewing Huie (Howard Ewing Huie), 1907-1971, always told me, “Grandpaw McCorkle got dysentery up at Columbus and had to leave the army, as a First Lieutenant.” Ewing Huie’s sister Aunt Beth Huie said the same thing. A contemporary letter corroborating Beth and Ewing Huie’s story was sent during the War from the diarist’s uncle, Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle, to RAH McCorkle’s sister, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, reporting that John’s health back in Dyer County, Tennessee, was still “very bad.”
The diarist’s parents were:
(1) Edwin Alexander [or is it ARCHIBALD?] McCorkle, born of Robert McCorkle & Robert’s 2nd wife Margaret Morrison McCorkle; Edwin having been born in Rowan/Iredell County, North Carolina on18 March 1799; removed to Middle Tennessee (Rutherford County, Murfreesboro area); then after the family’s losing the McCorkle Revolutionary War land grant for that Middle Tennessee land, Edwin removed with his family to West Tennessee (to eastern Dyer County, about 5 miles east of Newbern). He died in 1853.; and
(2) Jane Maxwell Thomas, born 11 June 1802 in Middle Tennessee and died 30 January 1855; Jane was a daughter of Elizabeth Purviance and William Thomas. She was wife of Edwin Alexander McCorkle.
The ff. journal of John Edwin McCorkle was typed, with editorial comments added, by Marsha Cope Huie, a great-granddaughter of the diarist through the diarist’s daughter Sophie King McCorkle Huie and Sophie McCorkle’s son Howard Ewing Huie.
The journalist’s father, Edwin A. McCorkle [was the A for Alexander or for Archibald?], born 18 March 1799 in Rowan County, North Carolina, had died 10 January 1853. His mother, Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle) had then died 30 January 1855.
Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle: We know her parents were William Thomas and Elizabeth Purviance (Thomas), and we can go back further to lineal ancestors; but researching that common name “Thomas” for collaterals is difficult if not impossible. --Uncle Hiram R. A. McCorkle’s diary gives us one Thomas clue. He writes in 1865 that in 1865, James B. Thomas of Wilson County, Tennessee [Lebanon?] visited him (Hiram). As mentioned, HRA McCorkle was a son of Jane Maxwell Thomas (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle).
Uncle Hiram also writes that in Jan. 1865, J T Burrow of Carroll County moved to “the Montgomery Place.” Recall: “Nancy” Agness Montgomery (the first Mrs. Alexander McCorkle) was nee Montgomery.
Who was “Nobe?” John Edwin McCorkle was a great friend of “Nobe” Ledsinger and mentions her often in this journal. This is who she was: Zenobia F. Ledsinger married (1st) George Fowlkes; and (2nd) Henry Archer Fowlkes. “Nobe” Ledsinger had these children by her 1st husband:
I. Jennie Fowlkes (Mrs. Preston Tipton (Pigtoe) Fowlkes)
I. Charles Fowlkes
I. George Anna Fowlkes
“Nobe” Ledsinger had this child by her 2nd husband:
I. Hilliard L. Fowlkes who m. Lucy Claiborne and had 2 children, Robert Arch Fowlkes and Walter Nick Fowlkes.
Parents of Nobe Ledsinger were
Charles H. Ledsinger, born 1813, and Nancy T. Brown, born 1815. Their children as listed in the 1850 Census:
Mary Elizabeth Ledsinger, m. (1st) James A. Norton & 2nd Col. Alexander Williams of Nashville.– She is the ancestor of Finis Wyatt’s wife, Evelyn Payne (Huffine) (Wyatt), who already had 4 Huffine children but had none by Finis Wyatt.
T.M. Ledsinger
Zenobia F. “NOBE” Ledsinger
R.W. Ledsinger
J.P. Ledsinger
L.J. (Female)
J.Z. Ledsinger; and
Thomas T. Ledsinger, who married Mary Louise “Lubie” Ferguson: children of TT and ML Ferguson Ledsinger were: Thad Ledsinger, who m. Kate Crenshaw and they moved to Oklahoma; Nell Ledsinger who m. Will Hudson.
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[Journal of John Edwin McCorkle]
[Frontispiece] 12 Judges
7 Kings
A casket of thoughts …
J.E. M.cCorkle
[John Edwin McCorkle] [page break]
Joseph McCorkle Hernando Desoto County Mississippi
(( Rev E Covey Swallow ))
(( Rev C. Covey ))
((Swallow’s Bluff ))
((Henderson Co ))
((Tennessee ))
Representation
[page break]
One ?ladies’? Rubber Over Coat $4.00
I love a bright blue
eyed girl of sweet
twenty one here name
I will not disclose.
It is sweet to remember
What I have said
to you in the Parlor at Uncle’s.[[34]]
· I was greatly disap-
pointed in not seeing you when I was up
there, but duty before
pleasure & now I am
confined to the narrow
limits of the school room. [page break]
Bought one book of J.D. Carns [Karnes] $ cts.
Chemistry 1 50
[page break]
Baker [?Balker? Bearer?] will
please come &
give me an acc-
ount of yourself
and of copies [?coffins?] my
visits will be few
but be not mistaken
Think not that my
ardor for you has
abated J.E. Sept. 21 [1860]
August the 15th 1860
J.E. M.c Corkle
at J.C. Zarecor’s [[35]]
Tenn. ) ) ) ) ) [[36]]
God is just & the justifyer of the
Ungodly. [Page Break]
Matt W____
June the first
1860
Will be remem-
bered by one
(((( J.E. M.cCorkle ) ) ) ) )
July the 31st 1860
Stayed with Bro Kindrick
at Sister Sutton’s
last night &
will start to
Oceola[37] today.
(((J.E. M.cCorkle ) ) ) ) [page break]
[On the left of the following page, written vertically is:
Double Bridges [[39] ]
Lauderdale Co.
Tennessee
165
155
60
215
6
275
147 [Page Break]
My last day
in school June 25 1860 [[40]]
((J.E. M.cCorkle ) ) )
Horn
ARK
Homersville
Ark
Locke & Jim [[41]]
One Dollar
Paid in Full. [page break]
Monday the 25th 1860
Stayed at
Perkerr’s [?P e r Kerrs?] [Parkers?]
Friday night
Got home
the 4th of August
I heard some news
this morning from
my second best friend
Nov. 11th 1863 [page break]
Days lost from school [42]—
Sept. 17th went heare
the Elections.
Fair. Four days lost—
Election day
Jan. Went to see
Cousin Bob sick
and lost two days. –
Fannie
Brought mare
home the 28th of October [page break]
$9.50 Nov. 21st 1860
Paid by C.H.L. [page break]
J.S. McCorkle [44] Dr [Debtor]
J E McCorkle Cr [Creditor]
To Loan of $20.
Oct. 23 By cash 12.70
Nov. 1 By cash 7.30
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20.0 [page break]
J.E. McCorkle
To one Sword $50.00
To one Repeater 57.00
Oct. 22 Paid in full [page break]
J. Ed. McCorkle was born the 17th of May 1839
and was mustered into the service of Tenn.
on the 11th of June 1861.
We left Jackson the 5th of June & arrived at Randolph Friday at sunrise.
We left Rand-olph the 26th of July and arrived at New Madrid the next day.
August the 10th We left new Madrid went to fort Pillow [page]
and did not unload, but came back to New Madrid.
On the 17th about sun down, we struck tents & started for Saxton [Sikeston, Missouri] marched until 1 Oclock the next day. We got to Saxton & Campbell [Missouri] for the night.
Tuesday have got to Camp Watkins.
Our provision gave out Tuesday night. We lived off beef and roasen ears[45] two days. [page break]
August 27th 1861
We left Camp Watkins this morning and arrived at Sikestown this eve at sundown & struck up tents or rather pitched tents. --
We are ordered to cook one day’s rations. – Aug. 31st
We left Sikestown the 2nd of September at 9 Oclock.
at 12 Oclock 10 miles from New Madrid.
Hot & dusty. [page break]
Sept 2nd 1861
Sit down on the fence to rest.—
We got to New Madrid about dark – Sept. 3rd We got aboard of the Morrison at 11 Oclock in the night—stayed on the bank of the great Mississippi. [46] Done by loon light [moon or lunar light].
[page break]
We had a battle at Hickman [Kentucky]. Two of Lincoln’s gunboats came upon us. We fired several times. No one hurt. August 4th 1861 There was fifteen guns fired – between the parties -- August 5th We left Hickman a while after sun down -- at least we are at the casons now, to start [me?] [we?] off for Dixie -- August 5th 1861.
[page break]
We left Hickman at 8 ½ Oclock & got to Columbus [Kentucky] at four in the morn-ing – rode on a flat [boat? railway car?] -- camped on the bank of the Miз. –
We had an a Larm [alarm] this morning
being Sunday.
August 8th --
Sept. 12th We are all on Guard to day. Mrs. McCollough & Mrs Wilkins stayed with us last night[47]
Also Mrs. Perch [Penb? Parker?] [page break]
We had an alarm to day – Sept 17th I got a furlough to go home.
We had a storm on the sixteenth did not quite blow our Tent over -- I got to the station at daylight.—Got Fannie [horse] & the Buggy and rode home.
In bed Wednesday and Thursday.
Friday -- Still in the house -- at A J McC[48]
Sept. 28th /61
I was taken with diarrhea this morn-
ing. Very bad all day
29th I am able to be up a little –Sunday
Sunday Oct 6th /61 Went with Miз Mollie McCutchen[49] from Mr. Archibald’s. Finis[50] went with Susan Cawthon
October 7th We started to Columbus Ky. Stopped at the staytion, saw Cousin Nancy Y. Bone. Got to Columbus safe. Carter [???????????????????] is praying. [page break]
At Columbus Ky was my first effort in publick prain [praying].
I have not been well in eight weeks. –
Nov. 1st 1861 I tendered my resignation as
terday – Nov. 1st /61
My ingrading [resignation?] was approved by Gid. [?]
I allow [“allow” is Southern for “think.”] [The rest is not legible: ? resignation to be effective? as of the date of? ] ____ Nov 1st /61
[Editor’s note: Col. Tyree Bell of Newbern--who post-war was shrewd enough to escape the devastation and moved to live post-war in Fresno, California--gave John Edwin McCorkle an exemption from further duty in the Confederate Army on the stated ground of Physical Disability. The inelegant translation: dysentery.]
[page break]
Started home from Columbus Ky. Nov 2nd 1861 at half after twelve Oclock A M
Four killed of Capt. Wilkins camp,
viz: John H. Shaw
Burwell M. Dozier[51] W H Polk and A G Zaricor [52]
17 wounded
I saw Shaw to day. Nov 9th 1861 [Did he mean he saw the corpse? Or that he saw another Shaw person?]
[page break]
Nov. 14th 1861
I have been sick all day -- was at Hirams[53] yesterday at a corn husking –
Cousin Jim Scott[54] came to see me to day –
Nov. 16th 1861
I was in bed half of the day yesterday --But did not fast owing to the fact that I forgot it until too late –
November 18th 1861
I got my mixed [mixed?] coat to day. No buttons on it—
Nov. 19th There is a corn shucking at Uncle Woodss[55] to day—I am going. – J.E. M.cCorkle
[New Page] I went to the general muster on the 30th of November. The respective companies were ordered to have half detailed as malitia [militia] to [go?] into the service of Tenn.
Hiram [McCorkle, also known as HRA or Hiram Robert A. McCorkle]
Elvin Moore & George Blankingship [Blankenship][56] were selected to say who should stay. Some excitement — but no fighting. [signed J.E. M.cCorkle ] [page break]
I went to see Nobe Saturday-night the 30th of Nov. And stay-ed until Sunday evening and left here all alone-- Some good apples to eat. Decem. the 2nd 1861 We had a snow to day. The Moon being one day old, therefore we will have only one snow this Winter. (((( J.E. M.cCorkle ) ) )
[page break]
Dec. 3rd 1861 I was at Yorkville to day
some excitement.
Green Holmes[57] was elected Capt. of the Volunteers—Cumings [Cummings?]
2nd Lt. Dr. Pearce Broll [Brolt?][Brioll or Briolt?] [possibly Holt?]
2nd Lt. J. C. Holmes
Orderly Sergeant --
[It may be that the diarist meant this:
[Cummings elected 1st Lt.
[J.H. Lastley [Lasley?] 2nd Lt.
[Dr. Pearce Holt [spelling?] 2nd Lt.
[J.C. Holmes Orderly Sergeant.]
December 4th [1861]
Went to aunt Betsys [Elizabeth Smith McCorkle, widow of the journalist’s paternal uncle “Jem” Jehiel Morrison McCorkle]
to take a letter, thence to Zarecors[58] for my dinner. Thence home via Hirams with Latina.[59] The malitia [militia] [page break]
was to have started to day, but the order was countermanded
Wm Woods[60] was detailed to go –
Leander [Scott?][61] & Ab Cowan[62] are going to go to Capt [I? J? A ?] Wilkins Company—I am not well this evening – J.E. M.cCorkle -- At home --
Finis [Finis A. McCorkle, brother of the diarist] and Mr. Franklin[63] here.
Anderson [a brother, Anderson Jehiel McCorkle] gone to York. I have
had fever today.— [page break]
P.M. Anderson [brother Anderson Jehiel McCorkle] back from Yorkville
December 6th
Went to the sale
Bought two Books.
Ab. Cowan and myself went to Mr. Holts and got Elnora [Holt?] and went to Mr. James McCutchens Stayed all night --
December 7th
Went home with
Elnora, then to York
then to Uncle Bob s[64]
thence home.
thence to Jim Scotts [page break]
December 8th /61
Come home and
fixed and went to
church, then to
[brother-in-law] John Zarecors for dinner -- Back home.
December 9th 1861 Went to York then to Uncle Lem s[65] for my dinner,
then to Zarecors and found Messrs Cowan, Holt and Scott there.[66]
also Misses Elno [Elnora Holt?] and Mollie McCutchen. -- Had quite a fine time
December 10th 1861 [page break]
Went to Newbern with Abner Cowan. [Brother] Finis [A. McCorkle] went home with Elon[67] and J. [J? John?] Holt went with Mollie McCutchen. –
Back to John’s [John C. Zarecor’s?] for my dinner, then [sister] Latina and myself went to Mr. Strawns[68] and stayed all night -- (Wy gone) [By? Gone? Something is “gone” but illegible] --
J.E. M.cCorkle
December 11th 1861
Went to Yorkville and then to [S? J?] Hall[69] & stayed all night.
Got a letter from [1st cousin] S.S. McCorkle.[70] [page break]
December 12 1861
Ab Cowan,[71] Jo. Hall,[72] and Jim Archibald started to Columbus [Ky.] and came home in company with Finis [brother Finis A. McCorkle]. Eat dinner by myself. J.E. M.cCorkle
December 13th 1861
Went to York & then back home
December 13th 1861 [sic.]
Went to Newbern then back home
Dec. 14th Sunday
Went to Lemalsamac to church then home [page break]
for my dinner, then to [brother-in-law’s] John C. Zarecor. Homer Cowan died on Christmas Eve night—and was buried the day after Christmas.
I was at Uncle Scotts [Surely, this was Lemuel Scott and the diarist’s aunt, Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott] the 25th of Dec. 1861. -- Eat dinner at J.C. Zarecors
Dec. 26th at Uncle [Eleazor] Woods[73] tonight. Susan Cawthon & Susan Smith are here. J.E. M.
[page break]
December 31st 1861
[My sister] Latina and myself stayed at Mr. J. [J?] McCutchens and on New Years day came to J. C. Zarecors. Miss Mollie McCutchen came home with us the first day of 1862.
Old Christmas day
I stayed at home nearly
all day, it being
Sunday. J.E. McCorkle [page break]
[No pages are missing here in this little book, but some 18 months are missing; the diary begins again on August 20th 1863]
August 20th 1863
Went to Uncle Charles Ledsingers Nobe [Zenobia Ledsinger, who was to become a Mrs. Fowlkes in the Dyersburg area] not at home.
21st Went to Dyersburg with Sallie Rodgers[74] --back to Uncle John’s.[75] Went to night meeting with Nobe—
22nd Come [sic.] home 23rd Meeting at Oak-Grove. Went to meeting Monday
25th Started to Ft. Pillow. Stayed all night at McKnights 2 miles below Dyersburg
26th Crossed at Halls ferry. Traipsed [?] through Ripley & camped at [J?] Gillespies.[76]—
27th Got to the Ft and took the oath and come back to Judge Greens saw-mill on Hatchie [River]. 28th Stayed at Double Bridges 29th Got home, being Saturday.
30th To [?No?] meeting. Sunday night singing at Union Grove.[77] 31st Started to Tom Harris[78] only got a mile above Trenton. Come back to Uncle Bobs[79] [page break]
and stayed all night. Sept. 1st Come home
2nd At home -- Wedding at Mrs. Headdens[80]
3rd Mason day at York
4th Went to H. Parkers & then to [brother] A J’s. Saw M. & G.
[Polly? Molly? Sally? Golly?] come [sic.] home with [brother] Hiram. I went to the exhi-bition with her then home with [sister] Latina. J E Mc
Aug. 5th Joined the Masons. Stayed at Uncle Woods.
6th to Oak Grove & Jim Strawn & myself to Bethesda -- to Dr. Cawthon’s[81] then to prayer meeting
7th At home
8th Come to Hurricane Hill & went to [church] meeting. Ben McCluskey preached.
9th Reed preached
10th Capt. Robinson took all between the ages of 18 & 45 [page break]
and carried us home to Bell’s headquarters. Stayed all night with Dr. Harris.
11th Bell released me and I came home.
12th Eat dinner with Dr. J T Bone[82] –
13th [Brother] David[83] & myself went to Stephen Woods’[84] funeral.
14th Went to Weakley [County, Tennessee,] after Jim & Lizzie.[85]
15th Come home by Thos. Harris
16th At home
17th Cas [Caswell] A. Goodloe and [page break]
eat dinner at Sam Sayne’s [Payne’s? Saine?] -- then to York.
Federals in Trenton
Rained and turned cold. 18th Very cold
Stayed all night with Cousin Mag.[86] Had a fine conversation about B. and B. Come home. Mistake about the Fed’s being in Trenton—
19th Frost last night -- Come to Mr. Ledsinger s. Miзes [s-tset] Fowlkes, Johnson, and Finch. Ed. Smith and wife here [page break]
Mark Jones and Tommy are here.[87]
20th Heavy frost last night. S S McC.[88] [S E McC?]
Went to Hurricane [Hill] -- Come to C. H. L.’s Tab. Bettie. Dick and George Segraves here. -- John Ed. Mc
21st Commenced with school—13 scholars—
22nd 15 scholars—I am mighty lonesome.
23rd Dry and dusty
24th still dry
25th Come home
26th Aunt Margaret[89] fixed my coat at [brother] A. J. M [AJ McCorkle’s?]
[new page]
Sept. 1863
26th Sunday went to York, then to Lem’s[90] to Nebo with Mag --
27th Home to A J M’s then to Lem-alsamac to church—then home in company with A S. [A G ? ] Carter.[91] Stopped at John’s Mag and Susan there. Come to C H’s. Doog gone—
28th Monday 1863. Twenty five students at Dr. Whites to night.
29th Heared the fight was still progressing [s-tset] on wednesday -- [page break]
29th Commenced Anatomy [?Pancoast? Pentecost?] Nat. Tarrant here to night.
J. Ed. McCorkle
30th [Brother] Finis brought my trunk to me
Th Oct. 1st 1863-- Rained a little last night – clear to day
2nd Friday I intend to go home to night.
Come to Newbern Lodge, saw three initiated
3rd Took Second degree in Masonry. Come to Uncle [page break]
Woods and went to Union Grove
4th Sunday
Left Uncle Woods’ [Eleazor Woods’] for A J McCorkle’s, to Bethesda [Church] to Union Grove [then, probably then a Cumberland Presbyterian church], to John’s for dinner, then to H.H. [his school at Hurricane Hille] Sarah Harrison & Kate Booths here. I am sick with bad cold.
15th Heavy frost
6th Rained
7th Sick all day. No school to day
8th Martha Hurt here. I am going home after dinner. [page break]
9th At [brother] David’s[92] 10th Stayed all night with [sister] Latina.[93] 11th /63. Come to C H’s 12th Rained no school
13th Resumed school
14th Heavy fogg 15th Dan. HEATH[94] paßed [passed, but what does that mean?] my school house 16th Friday clear and pleasant.
17th Went to Dyersburg—a heavy rain.
18th Robert Mahan preached at Hurricane Hill. Caswell A. Goodloe, James M. Dickey, Addie [page break]
Northern and Salle L. Rodgers at church went home with us for dinner. Then Nobe[95] and myself went with them to uncle John R. I in the buggy with Addie [Northern]. Ben McClusky Tab. Fowlkes and the widow Cooper there. -- We all left early the next morning. 19th Clear and cold. I have thirty students. Cas [Caswell A. Goodwell], Jim, Add., Sallie and Nobe [Ledsinger] got caught in town by Capt. [page break]
Moon’s command and had to stay until after dinner.
20th Cloudy. C. N Lasby started to Mo. Miз [Miss] Angeline Johnson here to night. 21st I went to Newbern to the Lodge. Bob Crenshaw stayed at C.H.’s. 2 fellow Craft degrees conferred--Jim Cole and W.J. Scobey. 22nd Rained 23rd Nobe come [sic.] to the school house & I and her [such grammar, Grandpaw John E. !] went to [page break]
[brother-in-law] John Zarecor. John Gregory [destined to become the diarist’s brother-in-law, marrying his sister “Tina “ Latina McCorkle] & Clay come and stayed until bed-time. 24th [Friend] Nobe, [sister] Latina & [brother] Finis and myself went to Lem’s. I and Sallie, Finis & Nobe went to church. I & Sallie went to Uncle Bobs for dinner. I went to Presbytern with Miз Agnes C. [Cawthon? I don’t know.] With her to church at night. 25th Left Bobs for Lem’s. Went with Nobe to church & back to Lem’s Miз [page break]
Matt Weakly and Dr. Fryer there. After dinner Nobe & myself start to H.H. [Hurricane Hill, to the schoolhouse].
26th Eighteen S. [scholars] paзed [passed] my school.
27th Nothing of note to day. 28th Got a letter from Bob Ledsinger. 29th Mrs. Hambrick Lucy Rodgers & McKnight here last night. Rained last night and to day. 31st Nobe and myself went to Tyne [Tline?] Harris & [page break]
stayed all day—November 1st being Sunday—I went to H.H. [Hurricane Hill] with Nobe—Mark Jones & Tom, Chas. Bewford [Benford ?] here-- 2nd Bob Crenshaw at my school-house 3rd Misting rain 4th Nobe started to see her Aunt. Frank Nat T. & Tom Jones here. 5th Waddy Smith here to night. 6th I am going home this eve. Come to J.C. Z’s [John C. Zarecor’s] – Clay here. [Does he mean his uncle Jehiel Morrison McCorkle’s son Henry Clay McCorkle, who was to die in the Battle of Guntown, Miss., or some other Civil War battle? I don’t know.] 7th Went to York & [page break]
took the 3rd degree in masonry. Went to Lems. The York boys cut a tree for a rac-
coon but he got away. 8th Went to [brother] A.J.s then to [brother] Hiram thence to Lemalsamac [Church]. Then to AJ’s with Cousin Mag.[96] Then to U [Union] Grove –then to C.H.s. Woods afire. 9th Dick Johnson at School-house. 10th Cold. 11th Tom Burk here. 12th Burk still here-- 13th Soldiers come & took John Wynne [John G. Wynne, I think] Wyanie?]-- Ray [page break]
14th Dickerson [unclear: Ray Dickerson?] here for dinner. Aunt Betsy [Mrs. Jehiel Morrison McCorkle], Sallie [Rodgers] & Lucy here. Mrs. Peacock and Mr. Menzies[97] Sr. here to night. Norton and Mary here. 15th Sunday McClusky & Sarah Harrison here for Day [for Day? For din.--short for “dinner?”] Bob Crenshaw here to night. He repeated all of [the biblical book of] Peter by heart to Nobe & myself. 16th Misses [uses s-tset] Hibbits and Alexander here 17th Nothing of note
18th E.T. Klink to be in town
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to day—swaped [swapped] buttons with J.G. Wynne. Nobe [Zenobia Ledsinger (Fowlkes)] sewed the buttons on my coat.
19th Heard that 106 of Richardsons’ [Richardson’s] men were captured at Hamptons. [Hamptons Crossroads?] [
20th came home. Met Tom Ledsinger. 22nd Dr. Buck & myself went to Clements [does he mean to Elizabeth Obedience Clements, Mrs. James Scott McCorkle’s, family in Weakley County?] by the way of Hunters Ferry—swam the Obion [River]. 22nd Buck with Agnes & I with Helen & Fannie [Fannie his horse?]
to Uncle Anthony’s & prayer[98] [page break]
meeting. Then back to Tom Clements for dinner. Then home swam the river. Got to Uncle Bob’s for supper. Then to Lem’s, then to AJ M [to brother Anderson Jehiel McCorkle’s]. 23rd started by day light to school -- Miзes [s-tset] Luby Ferguson and Sallie Rodgers there to night. 24th Luby & Sallie still here. Dab & Sit. [Lit.? “sis” for “Sister”?] here. (George Segraves & Garrett at the School-house. Fry’s squad pass –25th ) [page break]
26th Neely Johnson passed my school-house. Hick Doyle & Ples [Tles?] Tipton here to night.
27th Tab came by school-house 28th Rained & snowed a little. 29th Bob Crenshaw here. 30th Col. Bell at Enoch’s to night. December 1st Tuesday Twenty two C.S. [Confederate Soldiers?] paзed [passed]. 3 McCluskeys stay. with me
2nd Heard that [brother] Hiram[99] was making a company. 3rd Two soldiers came [page break]
to my schoolhouse to conscript me, but I talked them out of it.
4th Road [rode] to school. Expect to go home to night. Eat supper at John’s- & went to Davids [brother David Purviance McCorkle, I suppose]. 5th Went to York. Saw W H Greer initiated - Hall raised. Come to [brother] Hirams. Stayed all night. 6th Soldiers started-- [The diarist’s three brothers:] Hiram, Anderson & Finis. I & W.T. went to C.H.L. stay-
ed all night. 7th [page break]
Capt. F. eat dinner at C.H.L. Come to [sister] Becca’s[100]-- 8th
Ninth Went to [brother] Hirams.
[Now, there are three blank pages in the little booklet]
[On the fourth page thence, the following accounts have been scribbled through in pencil, but are nevertheless barely legible:]
1861
J E McCorkles Expences
On the carrg [?] [carriage?] [credit?] $ .95
Mule & buggy 1.25
Lining for coat 2.00
Trimmings 2.00
Sundries 1.50
Mending Watch 1.00
Dec. 8th Elder Holmes [preacher] 5.00
“ 11th A Letter J.S. Mc .05
[Blank page, next]
|
Killed B.M. Dozier
I H. Shaw [?J.H. Shaw?]
Wm. H. Polk
A.G. Zaricor |
The above was done
on the seventh day
of November 1861
at Columbus Ky.
[Blank page now, but I think he once had a ribbon placed on this page, because the next page says:]
This ribbon was donated to A.H. Algea[101] & myself
By Miз Mollie E. [G?] Hubbard of Jackson [page break]
1862 D.P. McCorkle [brother of the diarist: David Purviance McCorkle]
To J E McCorkle Dr [Debtor]
Jan. 6th Loan [for?] tax $ 7.90
Jan. 6th A.J. McCorkle 12.00
Uncle Bob
Shoes 7.35
Candles 5.60
had 2.36
15.31
Arch a
[end of page]
]This following is the last page of the diary, because several pages afterwards have been torn out:]
Wm T Cowan [or Wm. F. Cowan] to
1861 J E McCorkle, Dr [Debtor]
Nov. 11 To Pistol $50.00
Settled by Cash
1861 Dec. 9th
Loaned [brother] D.P. McCorkle [David Purviance McCorkle]
Ten dollars -- $10.00
Settled by Cash
[Brother Hiram] H.R.A. McCorkle to
J.E. McCorkle Dr [debtor]
Dec. 11th Accounts $53.00 [Then, amount stricken through]
Nov. 11th R.E. Holmes
To J.E. McCorkle, Dr
To a 1st. Sash $3.00
All of the above
accts are settled
Feb. 15th 1862
J.E. M cCorkle
On the inside-back binder, the diarist has written:
Paul Jones
Isolated Post-Civil War events recorded by John Edwin McCorkle’s brother, the journalist Hiram R. A. McCorkle:
In the fall of 1866, Robert Quincy Roache and wife, Rebecca Sunderland Roache, of the town of California, Missouri, came for a visit and remained a week, their first visit since they had left the Newbern area in 1857. Quincy was a son of Elmira Sloan McCorkle & Dr. Stephen Roache.
In 1866 W.L. Woods built a cotton press.
After the war, Hiram wrote: December 17, 1866: “Very cold. My place is clean of negroes.”
And on Oct. 20, 1870, Hiram’s 1st wife, Margaret Cowan McCorkle, died at the Nashville asylum, but HRA does not know this, evidently, as he did not record her death.
The railroad came through Newbern after the Civil War, not to Yorkville. And that helps explain why Yorkville is no longer the “better town” as the Huie emigrants from North Carolina had thought when the western district of Tennessee was opened up for settlement. Many towns that didn’t accept the railroad and wouldn’t give it a right-away withered, as has Yorkville. In fact, in the year 2000, there is almost no commerce in the village of Yorkville, only a telephone company and a bank and one store offering general merchandise. People drive to the Wal-Mart at Dyersburg for provisions, and small retailers cannot compete with the low prices offered.
13 July 1882: the RR began through Newbern to Memphis. The railroad gave a trial tun to Memphis to the leading citizenry [all male] of Newbern, with a photograph of them in the local paper. The following boarded the train in Newbern: the diarist Hiram Robert A. McCorkle; Hiram’s 1st cousin Dr. James Scott McCorkle; Hiram’s brother John Edwin McCorkle; Hiram’s brother Finis Alexander McCorkle; Smith Parks; H.C. Porter; and a Mr. Barrett. The train reached the Hatchie River, where it stopped and a ceremony was held. Hiram R.A. McCorkle received the honor of driving the last spike in the R.R. over the Hatchie River, where speeches ensued and the railroad provided dinner. Then the train then took them all down to Memphis, where they stayed the night at the Hotel Peabody, returning early the next morning and arriving at Newbern at approximately 2 a.m. -- Somewhere I have a newspaper clipping about this great event for Newbern.
John Edwin McCorkle’s daughter, Aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle (Mrs. Ed Lee Fox), also kept journals. Aunt Kate had no children but acquired two grown step-children when she married Ed Lee Fox rather late in her life: Lorraine Fox Puckett and Dr. Edward Fox of Miami, Florida. Aunt Kate died in 1961, when I was 15 years old. Her last surviving sibling was her half-brother, Errett Cotton McCorkle. She wanted to be, and was, buried in the Fox Cemetery in Obion, Obion County.
Katie Pearl McCorkle was a daughter of John Edwin McCorkle & 1st wife Tennessee Alice Scott (Tennie Scott) (McCorkle). My paternal great-aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle (Fox) kept records, as had her father John Edwin McCorkle. She lived most of her life on the McCorkle home-place about 5 miles east of Newbern, Tennessee; but after her late-in-life marriage to Ed Lee Fox of Obion County, Tennessee, she moved with him for awhile to Sultana, California, and perhaps other places in California of which I’m unaware. He is said always to have had a scheme, just one more plan, for making a fortune, which never quite materialized.
Here is Aunt Kate’s list about events in the Churchton-Yorkville-Newbern community. The list is entitled:
U.S. Soldiers 1944
M Fred Banks Jr
Gilbert Brasfield
Crocker
Lonnie Carroll ? not called
Verne Flatt
Charlie Flatt
Marshall Fowlkes
George M. Gibbons
Carl Ridley Grills
Herman Hare [Haire]
Herschel Hendricks
Joe Frank Jackson
Roy Howell Kirby
McKnight
Joe Harris Moore
Leon Morgan
Haywood Pope
Alvin Rose
Ralph Rose
Billy Jack Smith [Willie T. Smith Newsom’s brother]
Wilmere Headden [Baby Boy] Smith
Bill Thomason
James H. Williams
Leon Worley
Aubrey King
A J Grills [AJ Grills died circa 2004; his wife Mayme or Mamie predeceased him. Even more than a century ago, I think, there was an AJ Grills in the community.]
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Major Edward F. Fox
[Aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle’s stepson, a medical doctor in Miami]
Edward Campbell Huie [grand-nephew]
Pat P. McCorkle [nephew]
Noble S. McCorkle [nephew]
Henry C. Moore December 31, 1942.
What of the year just gone? Our country is in war. [Nephew] Pat McCorkle, T.L. Caver [then-husband of niece Una DELL McCorkle], David McCorkle (now in German prison)[descendant of Finis Alexander McCorkle’s son Gentry Purviance McCorkle] and a number of others who I know are in the war. Edward Fox [stepson] is Maj Marine Corps at Camp Forrest. Bob Messer [father of Tanya Sandlin by Julia McCorkle] is at Ft Myers, Fla. He married [niece] Julia McCorkle Dec. 12. 1942.
Today I was at [brother] Glenn’s. Annie Glenn McCorkle, Notie Cope, and Joyce Cope Huie there also.
For the New Year 1943. May we all live nearer to God our Father than ever before.
1. Study to show yourself approved unto God.
2. Be ye kindly affectionate one to another forgiving
3. Let your light so shine that others may see and
4. Overcome evil with good.
5. [blank]
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Jan. 1, 1943 Beautiful day. Ollie Gregory here. [Ollie McCorkle married a son of Margaret Latina McCorkle Gregory and so Ollie’s husband was a 1st cousin to Katie Pearl McCorkle]. Glenn [McCorkle] and Fred Banks went with Joe Harris Moore to take his father to State Hospital in Bolivar, Tenn.
Jan 2. It rained some last night. Partly fair
Jan.3. Clear morning. Windy and cloudy p.m. Maury [Huie], Nell [Huie,] Edward [Huie], Ewing [Huie], Joyce [Huie] and Sophie [Huie][later Sophie Cashdollar] here. Ollie Gregory and Drucilla Garner [later Huie] here in p.m. I went to church. Began reading St. John.
[END of one of AUNT Katie Pearl McCorkle’s numerous notebooks]
More on Descendants of I. Alexander McCorkle & “Nancy” Montgomery; II. Robert McCorkle & Margaret Morrison: III. RAH McCorkle & Tirzah Scott; IV. Sarah E. McCorkle m. Jno. Algea; V. Fannie Agnes Algea m. Wharey; VI. Alta Lorraine Wharey m. Hardeman. – This Hardeman connection may plug Alta Lorraine Wharey (1887-1921] into Freed-Hardeman college in Henderson, Tennessee.
James Ragon & Natalie Cockroft Ragon of Jackson, Natalie a descendant of RAH McCorkle & Tirzah Scott McCorkle: “Alta Lorraine7 Wharey (Hardeman) (Fannie Agnes6 Algea, Sarah E.5 McCorkle, Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle4, Robert McCorkle3, Alexander McCorkle2, ?Samuel1) was born 08 October 1887 in Gibson Co., Tenn, and died 02 August 1921 in Chester Co., Tennessee. She married Thomas Lon Hardeman 04 January 1910. ”
I wonder if this is some Freed-Hardeman College connection. Sad to say, Freed-Hardeman College’s narrow-mindedness mushroomed as the 20th century progressed. A man named Brody Hardeman was a big name in the Church of Christ after the schism from the Christian Church and in my view gave impetus to an unfortunate close-mindedness. My own paternal grandmother, Sophie King McCorkle (Huie) attended a precursor to Freed-Hardeman College, in Henderson, Tennessee: Georgia Roberson College or Georgia Robertson College or Georgia Robinson College; somewhere on the farm in Dyer/Gibson County, we have her valedictory address for that college.
I relate something here that I could never understand as a child, and still don’t: John Wharey of Yorkville (19 August 1897- died 1972) was a contemporary and distant cousin of my father, Ewing Huie, 1907-1971. They talked "Church of Christ talk” a lot, and so it would make sense that John Wharey’s sister, Alta Lorraine Wharey would have married a Hardeman kin to Brody Hardeman; although I’m not sure about this. What I could not understand about the South in general and John Wharey in particular, for he was merely representative of popular sentiment in the 1950s: John Wharey would smile approvingly when regaling us youngsters with stories of the lynchings in Dyersburg circa 1900. I was never more proud of my sister Sophie Huie (Cashdollar), then aged 16, than when she called him on this indecency, reflective of the times, at the Yorkville store. I don’t think John Wharey ever spoke to Sophie again. To my shame, I kept quiet about my beliefs at the Yorkville store. That’s the way it was back in the 1950s. We learned to keep quiet in the South, “we” being women and liberal thinkers who wanted to get along with the empowered structure.]
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One of the sons of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle was David Purviance McCorkle, who moved just north of Dyer County to the contiguous Obion County.
I found the following entry on www.ancestry.com:
Florence Ellen McCorkle (Walker). Born 4 May 1867 in Dyer County, Tennessee, a child of David Purviance McCorkle & wife Elizabeth Anne Jackson, she died 20 July 1937 in Obion County, Tennessee. [Was Elizabeth Anne Jackson a sister to the Josephine Jackson who was the 1st wife of Finis A. McCorkle, a brother to David Purviance McCorkle?] Florence Ellen McCorkle married, in 1888: Waller Bright Walker.
The following is from James Ragon of Jackson, Tennessee. James Ragon is married to Natalie Cockroft (Ragon), a descendant of James Scott McCorkle of Newbern, and his father, Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle & RAH’s wife, Tirzah Scott McCorkle. The following is his work, not mine, although I have added editorial comments and James Ragon, bless him, has allowed me to mix up my work with his.-- Marsha Cope Huie:
Descendants of Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle
Generation No. 1
1. Robert Andrew Hope4 McCorkle (Robert McCorkle & 2nd wife Margaret “Peggy” Morrison,3 Alexander McCorkle2, ?Samuel McCorkle; this “Samuel McCorkle” name is unproven as our ancestor and not in our West Tennessee family records1). Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle was born 23 March 1807 in Rowan County, NC, and died 26 September 1873 in Yorkville, Gibson Co., Tenn. He married Tirzah Scott on 04 December 1828 in Gibson Co., Tennessee, in the newly opened Western District. Tirzah Scott was a daughter of James Scott and Sarah Dickey (Scott), each born 1777. She, Tirzah Scott McCorkle, was born 23 September 1806 in SC, and died 27 August 1865 in Yorkville, Gibson Co., Tennessee. Sarah Dickey (Mrs. James Scott) was a daughter of John Dickey & wife Sarah Robinson (Dickey) of South Carolina.
The following is from Marsha Cope Huie, a great-granddaughter of John Edwin McCorkle through Sophie King McCorkle Huie and Marsha’s father Howard EWING Huie. John Edwin McCorkle was a first cousin to James Scott McCorkle, M.D.:
LEMALSAMAC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, CHURCHTON, Dyer County, Tennessee:
Lemalsamac is a rural church in Dyer County with a long history dating back to 1847.
The charter members of the church were:
1- 2 “Jem” Jehiel Morrison McCorkle and wife “Betsy” Elizabeth Smith McCorkle;
3-4 Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle and wife Tirzah Scott McCorkle;
4-5 Sarah McCorkle Algea; and husband Jonathan Algea (J.T. Algea) --shouldn’t this be “J F Algea? It should if Sarah McCorkle m. Jno. Francis Algea as James Ragon writes infra-- I think I’ve read that they are buried in the Poplar Grove Cemetery by the r.r. tracks just east of Newbern];
Sarah McCorkle Algea was a daughter to RAH & Tirzah S. McCorkle. – RAH was not happy with his son-in-law Jno. Algea during the Civil War, although he did not make a value judgment. This is what he wrote, postmarked “Yorkville, Tennessee,” to his sister Elmira on 2 Sept. 1863, in a footnote below:[5][3]
6. Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle (Mrs. Edwin A. McCorkle) -- Her husband Edwin A. [Alexander or Archibald?] McCorkle, who did not die until 1853, is not listed as a charter member; perhaps he remained a Presbyterian (?) although we know from one of RAH McCorkle’s letters to their sister Elmira that Edwin acted as a deacon for the family gathering. A letter from RAH McCorkle to Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache in January 1853 apprising her of the death of their brother Edwin A. McCorkle told her that for the past 3 years they had been having church services, seldom with preaching. RAH wrote that Edwin was their most efficient deacon at the family church services. Robert A H. McCorkle’s mother Margaret Morrison McCorkle left us correspondence clearly showing that she remained a Presbyterian; she, Margaret Morrison McCorkle did not die until 1848, just 5 years before the death of her grandson Edwin A. McCorkle.
7. “Peggy” Margaret Thomas Dickey [A daughter of Elizabeth Purviance and William Thomas, Peggy Thomas (Dickey) was a sister to Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle, inter alia. Peggy Thomas Dickey is the one who gave the land on which Lemalsamac Church was built]; and
8. Lemuel Scott, a brother to Tirzah Scott McCorkle; husband of Margaret Permelia McCorkle, Permelia being a daughter of Robert McCorkle & Margaret “Peggy” Morrison (McCorkle). Did Margaret Permalia McCorkle (Scott) remain a Presbyterian?
The name Lemalsamac was coined by R.A.H. McCorkle. The names of charter members were: Lem - from Lemuel Scott; Al - from J.T. Algea; Sa - from Sarah McCorkle [Algea]; and Mac - from McCorkle.
Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, born 1799, and husband Dr. Stephen Roach; their children, Addison Roache and Quincy Roache. Elmira was a sister of the writer, RAH McCorkle.
Locke L. McCorkle, evidently killed in Civil War, Battle of Atlanta
Lemuel Scott & Lemuel Scott's son James Scott. Lemuel Scott is the "Lem" in "Lemalsamac" Christian Church - Church of Christ.
David Purviance McCorkle & one of his wives: Margaret Scott McCorkle. I think Margaret Scott McCorkle was D P McCorkle’s 1st wife. Another wife was nee Jackson. -- David Purviance McCorkle was a nephew of the writer RAH McCorkle & a son of Edwin A. McCorkle & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle.
Sue McCorkle (Mrs. McNail). A daughter of the writer RAH McCorkle.
Howard Harris Roache, killed from wound incurred at Battle of Shiloh; buried in McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer Co., Tennessee. Howard was a nephew of the writer & son of the addressee.
John Edwin McCorkle, nephew of the writer & son of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle.
Finis A. McCorkle, nephew of the writer & son of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle; twin to “Tina” Latina McCorkle Gregory.
Tina McCorkle, that is, Latina Elmira McCorkle, later Mrs. John Gregory, & daughter of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle.
"Lizza" Elizabeth McCorkle Reeves (later Mrs. Hiram [or was it Wyatt?] Reeves of Gadsden, Tennessee) & daughter of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle.
Parents of the writer HRA McCorkle were early immigrants to Dyer County: Robert McCorkle & 2nd wife Margaret Morrison (McCorkle).
James [Scott] McCorkle of Newbern, a son of the writer (as was Joseph Smith McCorkle of Yorkville also a son), "is married to Miss Clemment of Weakly County" – Lizzie Obedience Clement McCorkle.
Yorkville, Tenn., Jan. 12th 1863
My dearly beloved Sister,
Yours and the Dr. Was brought from Hickman [Kentucky] last week. I embrace this the first opportunity to reply. I have not received any thing from [your son] Addison [Roache] nor [his wife] Emily. I am glad they got mine, am sorry I did not get theirs. I recd one from [your son] Quincy [Roache] and a little scrap from Becca, and answered them immediately, communication was then cut off, and there have no letters passed since I had not thought of sending by Hickman.
After the Federals got possession of our country and the Rail Road, we became subject to their orders, and were faring tolerably well. True, Jay-hawking was rather annoying, but it might have been worse, when the spirit of guerrillaism sprung up in Dyer, then we fared badly. There have been three little fights in Dyer, which for a while seemed to restore order, but when the Federal army went further south in to Missippy, we were again annoyed by bands. You have no doubt heard of Forrests Raid into Gibson, destroying the R.R. burning a vast amount of property. The Dept's [depots] were all burned [barred?], the Citizens guns been taken by the Federals. They were all burned up. A considerable effort was made to enforce "the conscript," but very few went with them; The Federals have again got the control, they are very much exasperated, their requirements are much more rigid. They are living on the citizens. They will have the cars running through again in a very few days. We hope then to be somewhat relieved. Forest got away safely tho lossed many of his horses and men, and several cannons.
We have no means of news from the wars, only through the Northern papers, to which you have easier access than we. How many of our dear friends have fallen at our Old Murphreesborough God only knows. We learn Eddy died after they left Tupalo, perhaps in Alabama. Locke [McCorkle] went with them to Ky. and the last certain news was, he was left at Georgetown sick. The Northern papers give a list of names of sick southern soldiers, who died in Harrodsburg Ky. among whom, there is a L.J. [L.Q?] McCorkle. It
is not impossible for it to be L.L., that would make it Locke. [Locke McCorkle was mortally wounded at the Battle of Atlanta–Marsha Cope Huie.]
Our health has been good this winter. James [Scott McCorkle, my son] is married to Miss Clemment of Weakly Co. They are in the Office in our yard, have charge of the Academy 55 scollars. She has a sister boarding with in taking lessons on the Piana. Sue [a daughter, Sue McCorkle McNail] has been studying only three months and can perform respectably. You will excuse me for getting her a Piana. They expect to have an examination exhibition and concert the 30th and 31. Inst. [instance, that is, January 30th & 31st ].
Uncle Lem's [Lemuel Scott 's] James is dead. David's Marg. also. [David Purviance McCorkle's wife Margaret Scott is dead, also.] David has 2 children, boy & girl.
I have placed a marble stone at Howard's [Elmira Roache's son’s] head & feet, his name, age, & death–and whose son he was. We have some of his hair and will enclose it to you. I would send you a copy of his last letter to Sue but she is not here and I can't get it, but you shall have it if the way keeps open.
John's [John Edwin McCorkle 's] health is stil very bad. [John E. McCorkle had contracted dysentery at the Columbus, Ky., battlefield.] Finis [A. McCorkle] & Tina [McCorkle, later Mrs. John Gregory] will live with David [their uncle, David Purviance McCorkle; Finis & Tina's parents had died, their parents being Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle & Edwin Alexander McCorkle].
Lizza Reaves [Lizzie McCorkle Reeves, Mrs. Hiram Reeves, who removed to Gadsden, near Humboldt, Gibson County, Tennessee] has a fine Son. None of our connection in Gibson or Dyer are in the army unless it is Locke [Locke McCorkle, son of “Jem” Jehiel Morrison McCorkle & Elizabeth “Betsy” Smith].
From what little observation I have been able to make I conclude the mass of those who are at home, are opposed to the war. As to the justice of the war, or its probable termination, every one has his own opinion. The time was once, when we could boast of the freedom of speech, but it's not prudent here to express too strongly, ones proclivities either way.
My opinion has not in the least changed. But let the termination be as it may, and when it may, our beloved country is ruined. Why is it that the many will be ruled and ruined by the few? "A Nation divided against its self" is obliged to fall. The bearer is waiting.
May God bless you sister
RAH Mc Corkle.
Elmira S. Roache )
[Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle is buried in the family McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer Co., Tenn. beside his wife, Tirzah Scott, who was born of James Scott, born 1777, and wife Sarah Dickey Scott, also born 1777.]
End of Marsha Cope Huie’s language. Now back to James Ragon’s collection of the descendants of RAH & Tirzah Scott McCorkle, with some editorial additions from Marsha:
Children of Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle and Tirzah Scott are:
+ 2 i. Sarah E.5 McCorkle (Mrs. Jno. Algea), born circa 1829 in Dyer Co., TN; died 11 December 1898. Marsha added: Poplar Grove Cemetery? ]
3 ii. Margaret P. McCorkle, born 11 August 1831; died 02 May 1832. Buried McCorkle Cemetery.
4 iii. Addison A. McCorkle, born circa 1833. –Marsha, noted above that RAH McCorkle’s sister Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach named her oldest son “Addison” Roache. [Marsha added: Addison A. McCorkle, born 1834 died Jan. 3, 1854.]
+ 5 iv. Susan L. McCorkle (McNail), born 08 c. April 1835 in Dyer Co., TN; died 08 August 1923.
+ 6 v. James Scott McCorkle, MD, born 16 October 1837 in Dyer/Gibson County, TN; died 11 March 1904 in Newbern, Dyer County, TN.
7 vi. Robert E. McCorkle, born circa 1840. [Marsha added: born 1841; died Jan. 30, 1861.]
+ 8 vii. Joseph Smith McCorkle, born abt. 1843; died 1924. [‘Uncle Joe” lived in Yorkville -- Nota Bene. The name is Mormon. Evidently RAH McCorkle’s foray into Mormonism was before founding Lemalsamac Christian Church (circa 1847).]
9 viii. Parley Pratt McCorkle, born 28 August 1845 -- [note the Mormon name—died Feb. 12, 1865. We don’t know if he was in the war but no record that I’ve seen says he was];
and
+ 10 ix. [“WLA”] William L. McCorkle, born 31 December 1847; died 12 January 1889 -- [This is the ‘WLA’ “Willie” or William Leander A. McCorkle who married Alice Wells and begot Eudora McCorkle Roberson; parents and daughter Eudora are all buried in the McCorkle Cemetery, with some of the finest tombstones lying therein.
Generation No. 2
2. Sarah E.5 McCorkle [Algea] (Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel?1) was born Abt. 1829 in Dyer Co., TN, and died 11 December 1898. She married Jonathan Francis Algea. Buried McCorkle Cemetery.
Children of Sarah McCorkle and Jonathan Algea are:
+ 11 i. Fannie Agnes6 Algea, born 14 July 1857; died November 1943 in Nashville, Davidson Co., TN.
12 ii. Carrie Algea, born 30 December 1859; died 27 July 1921.
5. Susan L.5 McCorkle (McNail) (Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 08 April 1835 in Dyer Co., TN, and died 08 August 1923. She married Robert H. McNail, who was born 13 September 1818, and died 04 November 1899. They are buried in the McCorkle Cemetery.
Children of Susan McCorkle and Robert McNail are:
13 i. Robert Edward6 McNail, born 18 December 1870; died 03 November 1888. McCorkle Cemetery.
+ 14 ii. Will E. McNail, died 25 August 1934 in Detroit, Michigan.
15 iii. McNail m. Kitty Smith.
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6. James Scott5 McCorkle, MD (Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 16 October 1837 in Dyer/Gibson County, TN, and died 11 March 1904 in Newbern, Dyer County, TN. He married Elizabeth Obedience Clement 14 August 1862 in Weakley county, Tenn, a daughter of Thomas Clement and Martha Herndon. She was born 05 March 1843 in Weakley Co., TN1, and died 02 October 1919 in Memphis.
Last Will and Testament of Dr. J.S. McCorkle, deceased, as recorded in the Dyer County, Tennessee, Chancery Court Clerk office, probated April 11, 1904, approved April 11, 1904, recorded April 11, 1904. Tom Ferguson, Clerk.
I, J.S. McCorkle of Dyer county and state of Tennesse, being of sound and disposing mind, do make this my last will and testament namely.
First - I desire that all my just debts be paid. Having heretofore given to my daughters Lula, Mattie and Willie a home each and other valuables, I now will and bequeath to my daughter Iola, my home place on Grayson street, the one I now live on, and her choice of one bed and wardrobe. I will to my daughter Sallie, the lot on Sycamore street, my Brack Herrin lot on which are the tenement houses. I will to my beloved wife all the other property real and personal notes & c. (of which I may die seised and possessed, I want her to have free use and benefit of my home place during her natural life, and at her death, it is to be Iola's. I want Scott Simmons to have my gold watch when he becomes eighteen years of age, if he remains with and takes care of his Mamma and grand Ma. I now own the following lots in addition to the above mentioned, one on the Lake road north west of Newbern, that Bill Wyatt now occupies, and about five acres (vacant) field north of Newbern, and twelve ft. across the east side of the lot I sold to Simmons Atkins and the vacant lot on Grayson and Johnson street west of Mattie Blanks lot, and two building lots in the town of Kenton, Obion County, I have sold (but at this writing) have received nothing, To Frank Bryan the lot at the S.W. corner of the Cemetery. All or any of the above mentioned lots and land I will to my wife to use or sell as she may desire and have need of for her support, and I hereby appoint her my executrix to execute this will, with full power to execute and make as good deeds to the lots herein given to her, as much so as I could was I living. She is not required to give any bond or file any affidavit for same. She will need I expect the counsel and advice of A.L. Rodgers and S.L. Cockroft in the management of her affairs. I presume Iola will make her home with her mother, and take care of her at the old home, and at my wife's death, if there is a horse and buggy on hand Iola could have it. She should have the kitchen furniture, stove and tableware, and her choice of suit of furniture, and two beds and steads beside the one above mentioned, in fact all the furniture will be old, and I want her to have plenty to be comfortable. The unsold lots I want divided equally between my children, in some way to the best advantage.
Witness my signature the 15th day of April 1901.
J.S. McCorkle [James Scott McCorkle]
Witnesses:
J.S. Chapman
L.B. Spencer
CODICIL TO WILL
I, Jas. S. McCorkle, having heretofore made my will now make this as a codicil to the same. I direct that my brother, Jos. S. McCorkle, sell my interest in a track of two hundred and thirty six acres of land we own jointly in Carroll County, Tennessee. And I nominate him, and hereby empower him to sell said land and execute to the purchaser a deed the same as if I were doing it myself. I give to my daughter Sallie the garden lot just north of my residence, instead of the lot on Sycamore street, the lots are simply be exchanged, and I want and give to my daughter Sallie, seven hundred dollars to build a house on said garden lot, but the seven hundred dollars is not to be paid Sallie till after the death of my wife, then it is to be paid out of the lots outside of my home place, which Iola is to have. I give to my wife the George Blanks lot for her use, but she is to pay Life Insurance for benefit of Ola Mai, and Maurine Blanks, as I have been doing.
I direct my wife to sell the lot on Sycamore Street and empower her to do the same, if any money is needed to finish paying debt on the said Carrol county land. I give to daughters Sallie and Iola a lot just north ------------ Cooper, in West Newbern. This March 10th 1904.
Asa Dickey
M.L. Fowlkes
R.H. Gray
James Scott McCorkle, MD, is buried in the Fairview Cemetery, Newbern, Tenn. Death from pneumonia. Medical Doctor. Elizabeth Obedience Clements: Fairview Cemetery, Newbern, TN. She kept a diary, some of which is on the Dyer County, Tennessee, web site.
Children of James McCorkle and Elizabeth Clement are:
+ 16 i. Lula May6 McCorkle, born 01 August 1863 in Dyer County, TN; died 05 August 1943 in Blue Mountain, Tippah Co., MS.
17 ii. Nellie H. McCorkle, born 25 November 1865 in Dyer Co., TN; died 07 January 1875 in Dyer Co., TN. Buried McCorkle Cemetery.
+ 18 iii. Mattie Idell McCorkle, born 11 January 1868 in Newbern, TN; died 01 December 1895 in Newbern, TN.
+ 19 iv. Willie Clay McCorkle, born 06 December 1869 in Dyer Co., Tn.; died 31 August 1907 in Newbern, TN.
20 v. Robert A.S. McCorkle, born 04 September 1871 in Dyer Co., TN; died 24 August 1875 in Dyer Co., TN. Buried McCorkle Cemetery.
21 vi. Tirzah C. McCorkle, born 06 November 1873 in Dyer Co., TN; died 07 January 1875 in Dyer Co., TN. McCorkle Cemetery.
+ 22 vii. Jimmie Iola McCorkle, born 18 October 1875 in Newbern, TN; died 17 August 1907 in Newbern, TN.
+ 23 viii. Sallie A. McCorkle, born 13 October 1878 in Newbern, TN; died 06 November 1916 in Sherman, TX.
8. Joseph Smith5 McCorkle (Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born circa 1843, and died 1924. He married “Mollie” Mary C. Frazier [married August 24, 1871] She was born 1844, and died 1891 in ?Yorkville? Tennessee. Joe McCorkle lived in Yorkville and is buried McCorkle Cemetery.
Children of Joseph McCorkle and Mary Frazier are:
+ 24 i. Tirzah6 Eulalia McCorkle [Karnes], born 27 July 1873 [1872 ?] in Gibson Co., TN; died 18 May 1922 in Yorkville, TN.
+ 25 ii. Walter Frazier McCorkle, born circa 1875 [Oct. 14, 1874] ; died Unknown.
26 iii. Annie Elmira McCorkle, born 17 June 1877 [January 7, 1877] ; died in 14 sep 1934. McCorkle Cemetery.
+ 27 iv. Robert Jesse McCorkle, born abt. January 1880 [February 13, 1880] ; died Unknown. [Didn’t he move to Missouri, across the Mississippi River?] [Carol McCorkle Branz of Spokane, Washington, his granddaughter [great-granddaughter?], can fill in these blanks for us.]
28 v. [ Allen Joseph Scott McCorkle, born December 6, 1882]
9. [WLA McCorkle] William L.5 McCorkle (Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel?1) was born 31 December 1847, and died 12 January 1889. McCorkle Cemetery. He married Alice J. Wells, who was born 18 August 1854, and died 30 November 1900 (McCorkle Cemetery). [Their daughter Eudora McCorkle Roberson was a special friend of Sophie King McCorkle Huie. Eudora and Sophie died as young women. Eudora is buried beside her parents in the McCorkle Cemetery, with larger and more expensive markers than her cousins’. I’m almost certain this is “William LEANDER McCorkle.” I think he taught school awhile in the Neboville Community. And I know he took the census (1880, I think it was) for Yorkville at least once.]
10.
Child of William McCorkle and Alice Wells is:
29 i. Eudora Agnes6 McCorkle (Roberson), born 22 January 1883; died 14 December 1904. She married Charles Robertson. [ – Aunt Beth Huie said Eudora was a special friend of her mother, Sophie King McCorkle Huie, who was Eudora’s cousin. ]
Generation No. 3
11. Fannie Agnes6 Algea (Wharey) (Sarah E.5 McCorkle Algea, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 14 July 1857, and died November 1943 in Nashville, Davidson Co., TN. She married James Albert Wharey 24 December 1884 in Gibson Co., Tenn. Children of Fannie Algea and James Wharey are:
30 i. Lillian Alline7 Wharey, born 14 September 1886 in Gibson Co., TN; died 15 November 1907 in Gibson Co., TN.
+ 31 ii. Alta Lorraine Wharey, born 08 October 1887 in Gibson Co., TN; died 02 August 1921 in Chester Co., TN.
32 iii. John Lipscomb Wharey, born 19 August 1897 in Gibson Co., TN; died 28 December 1972 in Yorkville, Gibson Co., TN. [John Wharey had one son, “Pinky” Wharey, who, I think, became a jeweler and lived in Memphis. John Wharey used to sit around the Yorkville store when I, Marsha Cope Huie, was a child. Story related above.]
14. Will E.6 McNail (Susan L.5 McCorkle McNail, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born Unknown, and died 25 August 1934 in Detroit, Michigan. He married Alice Casey
Children of Will McNail and Alice Casey are:
33 i. Claudia7 McNail.
34 ii. Bobbie McNail.
35 iii. Maurice Moutelle McNail, born Unknown. – I, Marsha Cope Huie, spoke by telephone with him circa 1984, when he lived in Detroit, Michigan. He never married.
36 iv. Clarise McNail.
[ --My Aunt Beth Huie, born 1904, had almost a perfect memory. Indeed, we have report cards reflecting her perfect grades of 100% at the Yorkville High School from which she graduated. Aunt Beth told me some sort of story about a “killing” over a farm boundary very close to our Huie land that straddles the Dyer-Gibson County Line. I have a vague memory that she said around 1900, and that the death involved one of the McNails/McCorkles. I clearly remember that at the same time she related the homicide story she said that the Barham family used to have land by ours. Did she say a Barham-McNail dispute led to a homicide? Or was it a McCorkle-McNail dispute? Oh, how I wish I could remember the good tale. (I hope I’m not libeling one of the deceased McNails.) ]
16. Lula May6 McCorkle (Cockroft) (James Scott McCorkle 5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 01 August 1863 in Dyer County, TN, and died 05 August 1943 in Blue Mountain, Tippah Co., MS. She married Stansul Leonidas Cockroft 27 December 1880 in Newbern, Dyer County, TN, son of William Cockroft and Mary Sawyer. He was born 06 December 1852 in Conway, Leake County, MS, and died 09 March 1920 in Larmie, WY. Lula May McCorkle is buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis, Tn.
Stansul Leonidas Cockroft received a literary education at the University of Mississippi at Oxford, Ms., and the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, where he graduated in 1877, as the valedictorian of his class. After graduation, he was elected superintendent of the Union Seminary at Newbern, Tn., and served three years. During that time he rendered valuable assistance in establishing the common schol system in Dyer Co., Tn. While in Lebanon, Oh., he took a partial course in law which he completed during the time he was teaching. He was admitted to the bar in 1882 and formed a partnership with J.W. Burney at Newbern. In 1886 he was elected to the office of Attorney General of the 13th Judical Circuit of Tennessee and served until 1902. This circuit included Hardeman Co., Tn., at that time. He was a member of the I.O.O.F.K.P., Men's Club, Board of Law Examiners from 1903-1910, and Chairman Board of Elections Commissioners of Shelby Co., in 1906. He is buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis. Education: U Mississippi & National Union Seminary. Teacher and Attorney.
Children of Lula McCorkle and Stansul Cockroft are:
+ 37 i. James Cicero Pericles7 Cockroft, born 01 April 1882 in Leake County , MS; died 19 August 1929 in Memphis.
+ 38 ii. Beatrice Maie Cockroft, born 30 April 1885 in Dyer Co., Tn.; died 1968 in Stanton, Haywood Co, TN.
+ 39 iii. Elizabeth Veeve Cockroft, born 16 September 1887 in Dyer Co., Tn.; died 23 November 1950 in Memphis.
+ 40 iv. Leonidas Still Cockroft, born 05 March 1890 in Dyer Co., Tn.; died 14 November 1965 in Memphis.
41 v. Robert Cormack Cockroft, born 10 March 1895 in Dyer Co., Tn.; died 09 May 1928 in Memphis. He married Bess Bilderback.
42 vi. Thelma Lucile Cockroft, born 11 February 1900 in Dyer Co., Tn.; died 20 May 1923. She married John R. Peeler.
+ 43 vii. William Booth Cockroft, born 12 April 1902 in Dyer Co., Tn.; died 20 March 1987 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN.
+ 44 viii. Lula Maurine Cockroft, born 21 July 1905 in Ms.; died 28 August 1956 in Blue Mountain, Mississippi.
18. Mattie Idell6 McCorkle (Blanks) – (James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 11 January 1868 in Newbern, TN, and died 01 December 1895 in Newbern, TN., buried Fairview Cemetery in Newbern, Tennessee. She married George Blanks 27 November 1889 in Newbern, TN.
Children of Mattie McCorkle and George Blanks are:
45 i. Iola Mai7 Blanks, born Bef. 1895; died Unknown. She married S. V. Bryan 1910 in Carroll Co., TN.
46 ii. Maurine Blanks, born before 1895; died Unknown. She married ? Schroder
19. Willie Clay6 McCorkle (Rodgers) (James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel McCorkle [this Samuel McCorkle is not proven as our ancestor as his name does not appear in our West Tenn. family records]1) was born 06 December 1869 in Dyer Co., Tn., and died 31 August 1907 in Newbern, TN (Fairview Cemetery). She married Albert Laurence Rodgers on the 24th of December 1885. He was born 02 September 1863, and died 27 February 1931 in Memphis.
20. Children of Willie McCorkle and Albert Rodgers are:
+ 47 i. Ludith7 Rodgers, born 02 February 1889; died 19 May 1942.
+ 48 ii. Mary Idell Rodgers, born 09 August 1892 in Newbern, TN; died 27 September 1970.
+ 49 iii. Margaret Elizabeth Rodgers, born 19 December 1895; died 27 July 1960 in Memphis, Tennessee.
50 iv. Ruth Hazel Rodgers2, born 10 January 1904.
+ 51 v. William Noel Rodgers, born 09 June 1907; died 02 February 1968.
22. Jimmie Iola6 McCorkle (James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1)3 was born 18 October 1875 in Newbern, TN, and died 17 August 1907 in Newbern, TN. She married Frank Simmons before 1895. Iola is buried in the Fairview Cemetery, Newbern, TN. A Child of Jimmie McCorkle and Frank Simmons is:
52 i. James Scott7 Simmons, born 09 November 1895; died September 1971 in California.
23. Sallie A.6 McCorkle (Reeves) (James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 13 October 1878 in Newbern, TN, and died 06 November 1916 in Sherman, TX. She married Edgar O. Reeves 20 December 1899 in Newbern, TN. He was born 31 October 1869 in Ga.4, and died 08 June 1927 in Sherman, TX. Sallie A. McCorkle is buried in the West Hill Cemetery, Grayson Co., TX, as is Edgar O. Reeves.
Child of Sallie McCorkle and Edgar Reeves is:
+ 53 i. Gladys Iola7 Reeves, born 22 December 1900 in Sherman, TX; died December 1980 in San Antonio, TX.
24. Eulalia Tirzah6 McCorkle (Karnes) (Joseph Smith5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 27 July 1873 in Gibson Co., TN, and died 18 May 1922 in Yorkville, TN. McCorkle Cemetery. She married Thomas Moses Karnes, who was born 1856, and died 1937 (McCorkle Cemetery). -- John Edwin McCorkle’s 1860 journal, above, mentions a “Carns.”
Children of Eulalia McCorkle and Thomas Karnes were:
54 i. Joseph Allen7 Karnes, born November 1895; he married Clara Bradley.
55 ii. Ruth Dale Karnes, born 1899.
56 iii. Thomas Blaine Karnes, born 13 August 1902. Mortician in Gibson Co., Tenn. Father of T.C. Karnes, also a mortician.
57 iv. Mary Florine Karnes, born 04 July 1908.
58 v. Oscar Abraham Karnes, born 14 November 1908.
59 vi. Harry Cecil Karnes, born 23 June 1912 in Yorkville, TN; died 13 December 1993 in Loudon, TN.
25. Walter Frazier6 McCorkle (Joseph Smith McC5, Robert Andrew Hop McC4, Robert McC3, Alexander McC,2 ?Samuel1) was born circa 1875. He married Cora Mayfield. Children of Walter McCorkle and Cora Mayfield are:
60 i. Mary Elizabeth7 McCorkle.
61 ii. Doris Jean McCorkle.
27. Robert Jesse6 McCorkle (Joseph Smith5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born Abt. January 1880, and died Unknown. He married Vallie Gardner
Children of Robert McCorkle and Vallie Gardner are:
62 i. Robert Frazier7 McCorkle. – [ Daughter: Carol McCorkle Branz of Spokane, Washington.]
63 ii. Mary Frances McCorkle
Generation No. 4
31. Alta Lorraine7 Wharey (Hardeman) (Fannie Agnes6 Algea, Sarah E.5 McCorkle, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 08 October 1887 in Gibson Co., Tenn, and died 02 August 1921 in Chester Co., TN. She married Thomas Lon Hardeman 04 January 1910.
Child of Alta Wharey and Thomas Hardeman is:
+ 64 i. Carl Wharey8 Hardeman. Died 27 May 1959 in Crowley, Louisiana.
37. James Cicero Pericles7 Cockroft (Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 01 April 1882 in Leake County , Miss., and died 19 August 1929 in Memphis, TN. He married Jessie Lee Childress 12 February 1917 in Memphis, TN, daughter of Robert Childress and Emma Duboise. She was born 20 October 1890 in Olive Branch, Miss., and died 29 February 1980 in Bolivar, Tenn.
James Cicero Pericles Cockroft is buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis. Bookkeeper. Jessie Lee Childress is buried Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis. Children of James Cockroft and Jessie Childress are:
65 i. James Lee8 Cockroft, born December 1917; died 09 January 1919 from influenza in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. James Lee Cockroft: is buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis;
+ 66 ii. Robert Stansul Cockroft, born 03 May 1920 in Memphis;
+ 67 iii. William Scott Cockroft, born 03 October 1922 in Memphis;
+ 68 iv. Natalie Cockroft (Ragon), born 01 October 1928 in Memphis. Lived Hardeman County; moved to Jackson.
38. Beatrice Maie7 Cockroft (Martin) (Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott McC5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 30 April 1885 in Dyer Co., Tn., and died 1968 in Stanton, Haywood Co, TN5. She married Dr. Harry Leland MARTIN, Sr6 10 October 1905 in Dyer Co., Tn.. He was born 30 June 1881 in Stanton, Haywood Co., Tn., and died 12 December 1955 in Senatobia, Tate Co, MS7.
Beatrice Mae Cockroft, born April 30, 1885, in Dyersburg, Dyer Co, Tennessee, was the second child of eight born to the Attorney General of the 13th Judicial District of Tennessee, Stansul Leonidas Cockroft and wife Lula Mae McCorkle. She and her eldest brother, Cicero, went to school in Jackson, Tenn. Beatrice's grandmother Lizzie Obedience Clements came from Weakley County, then lived in Newbern, Tenn. [John Edwin McCorkle, a 1st cousin of Lizzie’s husband James Scott McCorkle, in his journals often records swimming the Obion River to go visit the Clements family.] In her dairy for 1901, Beatrice Cockrofr (Martin) (when Beatrice was aged 16 years) is mentioned several times:
Jan 1 - "Beatrice off to school at Jackson." Jan 26 - "Letter from Beatrice at Jackson that Cicero (her oldest brother) is sick." Feb 22 - "Beatrice and Cicero cam home on a visit today."
May 6 - "Mr. Cockroft (Beatrice's father) went to Bolivar to co[u]rt carried Beatrice and Cicero some cake and money." May 27 - "Helped Lula [Beatrice's mother] off to Jackson to attend commencement as Beatrice and Cicero were there." June 7 - "All of Lula children went home and she and Beatrice came from Jackson." June 13 - "Beatrice Cockroft spent the day with us."
July 17 - "Willie [Beatrice's aunt] having a good dinner cooking for Beatrice Cockroft and a young man from Dyersburg." Aug 21 - "Beatrice Cockroft came in to see us on the eleven train. Iola (Beatrice's aunt), Beatrice, and Willie went to town trading. Beatrice made a engagement to go to a party, broke it and went with us to prayer meeting." Aug 22 - "Beatrice and Ludith went to Brother Rodies. Beatrice then took a ride with Mr. Rosenbloom for two hours. Mose Rosenbloom and Farris called on Beatrice at Willies."
Sept 10 - " Beatrice went to Miss to go to school in a female academy.”. (Blue Mountain College for girls in Tippah Co, MS). Nov 6 - "I helped Lula sew made Beatrice a dress and blue chambray skirt, also cut a dress for Lizzie." Nov 8 - "I helped Lula sew all day, we finished Lizzies dress and Beatrices."
Beatrice graduated from Blue Mountain College in 1902(?) and attended the American Conservatory of Music of Chicago. On Independence Day, July 4, 1904 Harry Leland Martin, a Baptist minister, proposed marriage to Beatrice and on October 9, 1905, they were married at Blue Mountain, MS. One anecdote that he likes to tell is that they were married during the middle of a yellow fever scare. Because of this, train travelers had to present credentials. "We had planned a little trip," he recalls. "I had mine (the papers), but Mrs Martin had forgotten hers. When we got married, she had brown hair, gray eyes, a light complexion, was 20 and weighed 116. In the rush at the mayor's office, things got a bit confused. When we gave the papers to the conductor, they read: Hair, gray; eyes, brown; complexion, fair; age, 116; weight, 20."
She was his aide and partner in his ministerial work. She was his soloist, organist, pianist, and choir director. She was active in denominational work as Chairman of the North Mississippi Woman's Missionary Union, state trustee for WMU training school at Louisville, KY, and associational superintendent of the WMU, Deer Creek Association, which includes six delta counties and part of a seventh.
Two years after they were married, they moved to Hollandale, Mississippi, where their son, Harry Jr., and daughter Aileen were born. After four years, they moved to Indianola, MS where they stayed for fourteen years, and Beatrice was instrumental in organizing the 20th -Century Club. Their final call was to Senatobia, Tate Co, Miss., 1933. There she was founder and principal of the Vacation Bible School. Because of their combined efforts, the Church, the Sunday School and the Women's Missionary tripled in membership and the contributions to local and denominational work increased five-fold.
Beatrice lived for 13 years after her husband's death in 1955 with her daughter and son-in-law in Senatobia, MS. There she died in 1968 and was buried in the Martin family plot in Stanton Cemetary, Stanton, Haywood Co. MS.
Dr. Harry Leland MARTIN, Sr. : Leland was born and raised in Stanton, Haywood Co., Tennessee, the son of Tomas Lyle Martin and Anna Jefferson Byrnes. The 1900 Census for Haywood County, TN shows that he was living with his younger sister Anna Lou and his Mother. He was licensed to preach when he was 18 years old. His first pastorates were in Newborn (where he probably met his wife, Beatrice), Stanton, Bells, Grand Junction, and later at Rowan Memorial Baptist Church in Memphis, TN. He attended the Southwestern Baptist University (now Union University), Jackson, TN. He married Beatrice Mae Cockroft, October 9, 1905 at Blue Mountain, Tippah Co., Mississippi.
He and Beatrice settled first in Hollandale, Missippi, here his first child was born: Harry, Jr., in 1908. He is listed in the World War I registration list for Sunflower Co., MS(1917-1918). He graduated from the Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.
In 1907, he and his bride of two years took his first Mississippi pastorate at Hollandale. In 1908, his son, Harry Jr. was born, followed in 1910 by a daughter, Aileen. In 1912, he served in Indianola, MS. In the book "fevers, floods, and faith," the following was described. "A house on Catchings Street next to the Presbyterian Church, known as the 'Hairston House', was bought for the minister's residence and used until the present pastorium was built. Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Martin were the first occupants." In 1921, Mississippi College, Clinton, MS conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity for "outstanding service as a pastor, evangelist and denominational leader". Two years later, he was called to the church at Lexinton where, during the next four years, he erected a new church. In 1931, in Jackson, MS, he was executive secretary for Mississippi Baptist Education Commission. In 1933, he moved to pastor the First Baptist Church, Senatobia, Tate Co, MS, where he retired in 1953. During this time he was very prominent in the Rotary Club, helping to organize the one at Indianola. In 1936-37 he was district governor of the Rotary International, during which time eleven new clubs were formed. He was founder and first president of the Senatobia club. His Rotary nickname was Hal. He also had been Grand Prelate of the Knights Templar, Mississippi Grand Commandery and Grand Chaplain of the Royal Arch Masons of Mississippi.
Dr. Martin was active in many other areas. He was a state representative on the Southern Baptist Home Mission Boards, moderator of the Tate County Baptist Association, and a member of the executive board of the Mississippi Baptist Convention. He held revival services in nearly every Southern State. He served in many capacities in other organizations, including the American Red Cross, the Community Fund, National War Fund. He traveled extensively in Europe, Canada, Mexico, and North Africa.
Dr. Martin died, 12 Dec 1955 in Senatobia, Tate Co, MS of a cerebral hemorrhage shortly after returning home from surgery. Services were held at the First Baptist Church, Senatobia, MS. Senatobia's mayor, E. W. Varner declared a closing of all businesses for 30 minutes out of respect to Dr. Martin. He was buried in the family plot at Stanton Cemetary, Stanton, Haywood Co, TN. -- Dr. Harry Leland MARTIN, Sr.: Occupation: Baptist Minister
Children of Beatrice Cockroft and Harry MARTIN are:
+ 69 i. Harry Leland8 MARTIN, Jr., born 28 October 1908 in Hollandale, Humphreys Co, MS; died 23 December 1958 in Arlington Hospital, Arlington, VA.
+ 70 ii. Aileen Martin, born 13 January 1911; died 06 July 1963 in Senatobia, Tate Co, Mississippi.
39. Elizabeth Veeve7 Cockroft (Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 16 September 1887 in Dyer Co., Tn., and died 23 November 1950 in Memphis, Shelby Co., TN. She married Lawrence T. Lowrey 02 September 1919 in Blue Mountain, Ms.. He was born 08 August 1888, and died May 1965 in Blue Mountain, Ms. Lawrence T. Lowrey: President of Blue Mountain College, MS
Children of Elizabeth Cockroft and Lawrence Lowrey are:
71 i. Robert Booth8 Lowrey, born 14 August 1920.
+ 72 ii. Jean Lowrey, born 21 September 1924 in Memphis; died 03 February 1992 in Vienna, Virginia.
40. Leonidas Still7 Cockroft (Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 05 March 1890 in Dyer Co., Tn., and died 14 November 1965 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. He married Lucy Lee Mosley 12 March 1912 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. She was born 1889, and died 25 December 1966 in Memphis.
Children of Leonidas Cockroft and Lucy Mosley are:
73 i. Harry Leland8 Cockroft, born 05 April 1913 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN; died in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. He married
74 ii. William Leonidas Cockroft, born 25 May 1915 in Co.; died 1984.
75 iii. Rosa May Cockroft, born 04 April 1918; died 27 March 1998 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. She married S.C. Nixon; died 1996 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN.
+ 76 iv. Martha Frances Cockroft, born 10 August 1920 in Wyoming; died 29 March 2002 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tenn.
77 v. Charles Anson Cockroft, born 07 December 1924 in Co.; died 1934.
78 vi. Walter Edward Cockroft, born 24 February 1927 in Co.; died 1944.
43. William Booth7 Cockroft (Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 12 April 1902 in Dyer Co., Tn., and died 20 March 1987 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. He married (1st ) Katherine Hogan 09 October 1929 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. She was born 11 February 1904 in Jackson, Madison Co., Tn., and died 13 February 1938 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. He married (2nd) Gladys Magdalene Blades 30 June 1939 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. She was born 27 February 1913 in Brookhaven, Ms., and died in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. William Booth Cockroft is buried in the Memorial Park, Memphis, TN.
Children of William Cockroft and Katherine Hogan are:
+ 79 i. Katherine Ann8 Cockroft, born 24 January 1932 in Memphis.
+ 80 ii. Janet Cockroft, born 23 June 1934 in Memphis.
+ 81 iii. Don William Cockroft, born 03 February 1938 in Memphis.
Child of William Cockroft and Gladys Blades is living in 2003.
44. Lula Maurine7 Cockroft (Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 21 July 1905 in Ms., and died 28 August 1956 in Blue Mountain, Ms.. She married Thomas Norwood Rice 01 December 1931. He was born Unknown in Madison Co., Tenn., and died in Madison Co., Tenn. Buried Blue Mountain, Mississippi.
Children of Lula Cockroft and Thomas Rice are:
+ 83 i. Betty Lucille8 Rice, born 25 September 1932 in Jackson, Madison Co., Tn..
84 ii. Harriet Rice.
85 iii. Patricia Rice.
86 iv. Thomas Rice.
87 v. William Rice.
47. Ludith7 Rodgers (Willie Clay6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 02 February 1889, and died 19 May 1942. He married Alice Meson before 1911.
Children of Ludith Rodgers and Alice Meson are:
88 i. R. L.8 Jones, born November 1911.
89 ii. William Allison Jones, born 12 May 1912.
90 iii. Albert Lawrence Jones, born 16 April 1913.
91 iv. Margaret Elizabeth Jones, born 05 May 1914.
92 v. Shirley Idelle Jones, born 13 May 1915.
93 vi. Bernice Hazel Jones, born 29 March 1917.
94 vii. Robert Ludith Jones, born 06 November 1918.
95 viii. Clifford Noel Jones, born 23 March 1921.
96 ix. Lois Clay Jones, born 09 May 1925.
97 x. Allen Roy Jones, born 12 June 1927.
98 xi. Warren Jones.
48. Mary Idell7 Rodgers (Willie Clay6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 09 August 1892 in Newbern, TN, and died 27 September 1970. She married William Lee Sumners Bef. 1916. He was born 14 November 1878, and died 30 November 1948. Mary Idell Rodgers SUMNERS is buried in the New Haven Cemetery, Lake County, Tennessee.
Children of Mary Rodgers and William Sumners are:
+ 99 i. William Rodgers8 Sumners, born 28 October 1916.
+ 100 ii. Edith Adell Sumners, born 19 April 1921; died 22 April 1998.
101 iii. Robert Marr Sumners, born 16 June 1928; died 30 September 2002 in Union City, Tenn.
Robert Marr Sumners’ burial: 02 October 2002, New Haven Cemetery, Lake Co., Tenn.
49. Margaret Elizabeth7 Rodgers (Willie Clay6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 19 December 1895, and died 27 July 1960 in Memphis, TN. She married Jewel Wesley Slaughter 20 April 1912 in Dyer Co., TN. Margaret Elizabeth Rodgers is buried in the Memphis Memorial Cemetery.
Child of Margaret Rodgers and Jewel Slaughter is:
+ 102 i. Jewel Wesley8 Slaughter, Jr., born 09 April 1913 in Bardwell, KY; died 19 January 1960 in Memphis.
51. William Noel7 Rodgers (Willie Clay6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 09 June 1907, and died 02 February 1968. He married Ruth ? Unknown.
Children of William Rodgers and Ruth ? are:
103 i. Pattie8 Rodgers.
104 ii. Donald Rodgers.
53. Gladys Iola7 Reeves (Sallie A.6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 22 December 1900 in Sherman, TX, and died December 1980 in San Antonio, TX8. She married Whitley R. Smith circa1922 in Texas. He was born 30 June 1901 in Texas, and died 13 June 1977 in San Antonio, TX.
Children of Gladys Reeves and Whitley Smith are:
105 i. Reeves8 Smith.
+ 106 ii. Whitley R. Smith, Jr., born circa1925 in Texas.
107 iii. Robert L Smith, born circa 1927.
Generation No. 5
64. Carl Wharey8 Hardeman (Alta Lorraine7 Wharey, Fannie Agnes6 Algea, Sarah E.5 McCorkle (Algea), Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born Unknown, and died 27 May 1959 in Crowley, LA. He married Mary Ruby Nolan 08 May 1936.
Children of Carl Hardeman and Mary Nolan are presumed to be living in 2003.
66. Col. Robert Stansul8 Cockroft (James Cicero Pericles7, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 03 May 1920 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. He married Ada Herbert Johnson 10 August 1946 in Lexington, Ms., daughter of Henry Johnson and Mary McBee. She was born 30 January 1920 in Lexington, Ms., and died 09 March 2002 in Columbia, MD. Robert Cockroft attended the University of Tennesse at Knoxville, Tenn., for two years and transferred to the Universtiy of Michigan, where he earned a BS in Forestry. Being in ROTC, he entered active duty in 1941 and served in the Tank Corps where he attained the rank of Colonel. His wife, Ada Herbert Johnson, is buried in the Pohick Episcopal Church Cemetery, Lorton, Virginia.
Children of Col. Robert Cockroft and Ada Johnson are:
+ 114 i. Alice McBee9 Cockroft, and
115 ii. Ada Carolyn Cockroft (Jones) (Brown)
67. William Scott8 Cockroft (James Cicero Pericles7, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 03 October 1922 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. He married Gladys Louise Carpenter 28 August 1953 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. She was born 03 April 1928 in Fulton, Itawamba Co., Miss.
William Scott Cockroft attended Memphis State University before entering the U.S. Navy during WWII where he attained the rack of Lt.JG. After his discharge he entered the Louisiana State University where he earned a BS in Forestry. Military service: Bet. 1943 - 1946, U.S. Navy. Occupation: Lumber Broker and Retailer. Rank: Ensign. Unit: LST 461
Children of William Cockroft and Gladys Carpenter are:
116 i. Carol Ann9 Cockroft (Mrs. Robert Higgins Hughes, Jr.)
+ 117 ii. Susan Kay Cockroft
+ 118 iii. William Scott Cockroft.
68. Natalie8 Cockroft (James Cicero Pericles7, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 01 October 1928 in Memphis, TN. She married James Hugh Ragon 23 November 1951 in Memphis, TN, son of James Ragon and Oza Dorris. He was born 25 June 1926 in Memphis, TN. Natalie Cockroft earned a BS in Home Economics from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1951. She is a Certified Home Economist; a member of American Dietetics Association; a licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist. She was Director Food Services WMHI 1976-1991. She is a member of the DAR: National Society Daughters of American Revolution #0749730. She is a mother, housewife, and dietitian.
Her husband, James Hugh Ragon, spent the years 1944-1946 in the US Army, Co. I, 347 Inf. Regt., 87th Inf. Div. And was discharged as S-Sgt. James Ragon was awarded: 2 Battle Stars , ETO Combat Infantry Badge; a Bronze Star. He earned the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 8 June 1950. Member of: Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Phi (Engineering Honor Society). 1944, U.S. Army Occupation: Professional Engineer.
Rank: S/Sgt. Unit: Co. I, 347 Infantry Regt. 87 Div. ETO
Children of Natalie Cockroft and James Ragon are:
+ 119 i. William Stansul9 Ragon,
+ 120 ii. James Ray Ragon,.
+ 121 iii. Betty Love Ragon,
+ 122 iv. Joseph Lee Ragon,
+ 123 v. Robert Allan Ragon.
69. Harry Leland8 MARTIN, Jr. (Beatrice Maie7 Cockroft, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 28 October 1908 in Hollandale, Humphreys Co, MS, and died 23 December 1958 in Arlington Hospital, Arlington, VA9. He married Montez WEEKS 1930. She was born 08 September 1910 in Doddsville, Sunflower Co, Mississippi. Harry Leland MARTIN, Jr.: In 1925, Harry graduated from High School at Indianola, Sunflower Co, MS as honor student and class president. He obtained his BA degree from Mississippi College, Clinton, MS. finishing the four year course in three years as cum laude with athletic honors. He attended a summer session at the Pulitzer School of Journalism, Columbia University, NY in 1929. He then was a teacher and coach at Moorehead High School, MS, 1928-9, and Hickory Flat Consolidate High School, MS, 1929-30. In April 1930, Harry joined the Evening Appeal, then in 1933 the Commercial Appeal newspaper at Memphis, Shelby Co, TN. He became a columnist and amusements editor with a daily column entitled " Footlights and Flickers". During World War II, he enlisted in the US Navy at Millington NAS, TN. In 1945, He returned to the Commercial Appeal. Strong in the labor movement, in 1936, he founded and was first president of the Memphis Newspaper Guild. In 1947, 1949, and again in 1951, he was elected as President of the American Newspaper Guild. He lost his bid for a fourth term re-election in Sept 1953 by a margin of only 214 votes, 7498 to 7284. In 1948, President Harry S. Truman appointed him as a delegate to the World Conference on Freedom of Information, in Geneva, Switzerland. Later in 1948, he was appointed Labor Information Advisor to Ambassador Averell Harriman for the Marshall European Recovery Plan with Headquarters in Paris, France.
Representing the American Press, in November, 1948, he attended a conference of the International Organization of Journalists (IOJ) in Communist Budapest, Hungary. Although this meeting was behind the then Iron Curtain, and he had reason to fear for his life, he walked out of the conference as a protest against the Communist suppression of information freedoms. After that he was instrumental in founding the IFJ, the International Federation of (Free) Journalists. He received letters of commendation from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Harry S. Truman, Ambassador Averell Harriman and many others for his efforts to promote freedom of the press.
When he resigned August 20, 1953 and left Paris, he and his brother-in-law, Col J. Tom Kizer started a gift import business, Ki-Mart Imports at 2711 Union Extended, Memphis, TN. Lacking success in this business, in November, 1955, he accepted the position in Washington, DC as National Director of Public Information for the American Red Cross. He died in Washingon, DC from Carcinoma of Ascending colon with metasteses. Services were held at the Baptist Church and he was buried in the Stanton Cemetery family plot, Stanton, Haywood Co, TN.
Children of Harry MARTIN and Montez WEEKS are:
+ 124 i. Harry Leland9 MARTIN III, born 26 May 1931 in Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, Shelby Co., TN.
125 ii. Jon Micheal MARTIN, born 11 October 1937 in Baptist Hospital, Memphis, Shelby Co., TN; died 21 November 1937. Lived 1 Month, 10 days
70. Aileen8 Martin (Beatrice Maie7 Cockroft, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 13 January 191110, and died 06 July 1963 in Senatobia, Tate Co, MS10. She married John Tom KIZER on 27th September 1937. He was born in Sarah, MS.
John Tom KIZER was born in Sarah, MS, just a few miles west of Senatobia, where his father, John Thomas (J.T.), was in the lumber business. When he was a small boy, the family moved to Senatobia. Tom graduated from City High School there as valedictorian. He attended college at the University of Colorado, Denve,r where his two sisters lived. During the Depression, Tom returned home to help out the family as his father lost everything. Tom was a Lieutenant in Company A, 106th Quartermaster, 31st Division (the Dixie Division), Mississippi National Guard in Senatobia. With prospect of War in 1940, he was called to active duty, stationed at Camp Blanding, Florida.
Tom spent most of WWII in the South Pacific, and was discharged as a Lt Colonel. He was a recipient of the Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster, the Philippine Government Citation, the Army Commendation Medal, and the Purple Heart. About the Purple Heart, he liked to say modestly that a bomb was dropped on one side of a palm tree with him passing on the other. He was so slim that the only wound he received was his wrist, which protruded from behind the tree (true?).
Returning to Senatobia, MS he was manager of the local Movie House. He invested and was partner in Tate-Co Feed Mill and Ki-Co Hatcheries in Senatobia. In 1954, Tom entered into partnership with his brother-in-law, Harry Martin, in the Ki-Martin Co., a high-style import gift business in a completely remodeled studio building at 2711 Union Ave. Extended, Memphis, TN. Unfortunate circumstances caused the company to close.
Tom, with his Uncle-in-law Dr. Bill Cockroft who had a Holiday Inn franchise, built and became innkeeper for the first Inn in Jackson, MS. That alliance, along with his accountant background and new inn experience, led to the formation of a group with Lawrence Rier, Scharles Sutton, and William White. They formed United Enterprises, which later became United Inns, Inc. They started with an exclusive franchise to build a group of inns in the Atlanta, Ga., area.
With the acquisition of the Gaines Furniture Manufacturing Company, a chain of Mr Pride car washes and the expansion of the Holiday Inns to 38 in ten cities, United Inns went on the New York Stock Exchange. Dr. Cockroft became chairman of the board, and Tom, board vice chairman.
Child of Aileen Martin and John KIZER is:
+ 126 i. Carolyn Ann9 KIZER.
72. Jean8 Lowrey (Eek) (Elizabeth Veeve7 Cockroft, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 21 September 1924 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN, and died 03 February 1992 in Vienna, Va.. She married Lauris Martin Eek, Jr. 26 July 1952 in Blue Mountain, Ms., son of Lauris Eek and Donna Sisson. He was born 22 September 1925 in Maryville, Missouri. Jean Lowrey is buried in the Arlington National Cemetery.
Children of Jean Lowrey and Lauris Eek are:
127 i. Lauris Martin9 Eek III,
+ 128 ii. Donna Veeve Eek,
129 iii. Jeanne Lawrence Eek.
76. Martha Frances8 Cockroft (Leonidas Still7, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 10 August 1920 in Wyoming, and died 29 March 2002 in Memphis. She married (1st) (?) Goad? She married (2nd ) Al Burchfield.
Children of Martha Cockroft and ? Goad are:
130 i. Judy9 Goad,
131 ii. Janet Goad.
79. Katherine Ann8 Cockroft (William Booth7, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 24 January 1932 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. She married John Howard Lammons 17 March 1951 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. He was born 21 March 1929.
Children of Katherine Cockroft and John Lammons are:
132 i. John Howard9 Lammons,
133 ii. Katherine Carol Lammons.
80. Janet8 Cockroft (William Booth7, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 23 June 1934 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. She married (1) Kenneth Dale Menkel, Jr. circa 1952 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. She married (2) Robert E. Tribble, Jr. circa 1958 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. [an attorney, I think] She married (3) Frank Virgin in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. He was born 06 April 1914.
Children of Janet Cockroft and Kenneth Menkel are:
134 i. Kenneth Dale9 Menkel III,
135 ii. William C. Menkel.
Child of Janet Cockroft and Robert Tribble is:
136 i. Robert E.9 Tribble III.
81. Don William8 Cockroft (William Booth7, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 03 February 1938 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. He married Peggy Hargraves circa 1956 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. She was born 22 October 1938.
Children of Don Cockroft and Peggy Hargraves are:
137 i. Debra Kay9 Cockroft,
138 ii. Don William Cockroft, Jr.,
139 iii. Deanne Cockroft.
82. Robert Lawrence8 Cockroft (William Booth7, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) married Sarah Kathryn Caldwell
Children of Robert Cockroft and Sarah Caldwell are:
140 i. Pamela Cile9 Cockroft
141 ii. Lawrence Lee Cockroft,.
142 iii. Kathryn Blades Cockroft,
83. Betty Lucille8 Rice (Lula Maurine7 Cockroft, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 25 September 1932 in Jackson, Madison Co., Tn.. She married Donald Nathaniel Medlin. He was born 27 February 1930 in Blue Mountain, Ms..
Children of Betty Rice and Donald Medlin are:
143 i. Donna Maurine9 Medlin,
144 ii. Teresa Ann Medlin,
145 iii. Patricia Suzanne Medlin
146 iv. Sherrilyn Kay Medlin,
147 v. Melanie Marie Medlin,
148 vi. Betty Margaret Medlin
149 vii. Donald Nathaniel Medlin.
99. William Rodgers8 Sumners (Mary Idell7 Rodgers, Willie Clay6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 28 October 1916. He married Betty White.
Child of William Sumners and Betty White is:
150 i. Michael Robert9 Sumners.
100. Edith Adell8 Sumners (Tanner) (Mary Idell7 Rodgers, Willie Clay6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 19 April 1921, and died 22 April 1998. She married Emerson Beck Tanner on 11 September 1943. He was born 17 June 1921.
Children of Edith Sumners and Emerson Tanner are:
+ 151 i. John Sumners9 Tanner;
+ 152 ii. Robert Tyree Tanner; and
+ 153 iii. Rodger Beck Tanner.
102. Jewel Wesley8 Slaughter, Jr. (Margaret Elizabeth7 Rodgers, Willie Clay6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 09 April 1913 in Bardwell, KY, and died 19 January 1960 in Memphis, TN. He married Mamie Louise Carroll 31 May 1941. She was born 31 May 1926 in Skeen, Miss. Jewel Wesley Slaughter, Jr.: Memphis Memorial Cemetery.
Child of Jewel Slaughter and Mamie Carroll is:
154 i. Jo Carroll9 Slaughter.
106. Whitley R.8 Smith, Jr. (Gladys Iola7 Reeves, Sallie A.6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born Abt. 1925 in TX. He married Mary Margaret Terry 22 December 1948. She was born 04 June 1928, and died 1975.
Children of Whitley Smith and Mary Terry are:
155 i. Terry9 Smith.
156 ii. Whitley R. Smith III.
Generation No. 6
109. Mary Jeanette9 Hardeman (Carl Wharey8, Alta Lorraine7 Wharey, Fannie Agnes6 Algea, Sarah E.5 McCorkle, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) married David Roark Warren in Votow, TX
Children of Mary Hardeman and David Warren are:
157 i. Carla Diane10 Warren,
158 ii. Mary Elizabeth Warren.
114. Alice McBee9 Cockroft (Robert Stansul8, James Cicero Pericles7, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) married John Francis Oates, Jr.
Child of Alice Cockroft and John Oates is:
159 i. Ada Mary10 Oates,
117. Susan Kay9 Cockroft (William Scott8, James Cicero Pericles7, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) married Robert L. Collins, son of Robert Collins and Shirley Hunsucker
Child of Susan Cockroft and Robert Collins is:
160 i. Kathryn Scott10 Collins
118. William Scott9 Cockroft (William Scott8, James Cicero Pericles7, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) married Ann Elizabeth Wade in Memphis, Shelby County, TN.
Children of William Cockroft and Ann Wade are:
161 i. Kelly Louise10 Cockroft,
162 ii. James William Cockroft.
119. William Stansul9 Ragon (Natalie8 Cockroft, James Cicero Pericles7, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born in Oak Ridge, Anderson County, TN. He married Jayne Ann of Bells, TN, daughter of Robert Gaines and Mary Edwards
William Stansul Ragon: U.S. Army. Special Forces, Medic. After military service, William attended the University of Tennessee at Martin, TN., where he earned an Associate Degree of Nursing and later graduated from the Seventh-Day Adventist School of Anesthesia in Nashville, TN. Education: Certificate of Nursing, Univ. of Tennessee at Martin. Military service: U.S. Army. Occupation: Anesthetist Rank: Medic Unit: Special Forces
Children of William Ragon and Jayne Gaines are:
163 i. William Stansul10 Ragon, M.D.
164 ii. Robert Tucker Ragon,
165 iii. Mary Kathryn Ragon,
120. James Ray9 Ragon (Natalie8 Cockroft, James Cicero Pericles7, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) married Mimi Janet Jones daughter of Richard Jones and Betty Shoup. James Ray Ragon attended the University of Tennessee at Martin, where he earned an Associate Degree of Nursing and later graduated from the Seventh-Day Adventist School of Anesthesia in Nashville, TN. Certificate of Nursing, Univ. of Tn. Martin Occupation: Anesthetist
Children of James Ragon and Mimi Jones are:
166 i. Kelly Rae10 Ragon,
167 ii. Janet Rebecca Ragon.
121. Betty Love9 Ragon (Natalie8 Cockroft, James Cicero Pericles7, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott McC5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) married James Bruister LeNoir in Bolivar, Hardeman, TN, son of James LeNoir and Patty Litchfield. Betty attended Blue Mountian College in Blue Mountian, MS., for two years and then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA., earning a BS in Physical Therapy.
BS in Physical Therapy, University of Pennsylvania. Occupation: Homemaker and Physical Therapist
Children of Betty Ragon and James LeNoir are:
168 i. Joseph McGowen10 LeNoir,
169 ii. Jessica Ragon LeNoir,
170 iii. Bruister Caleb LeNoir,
171 iv. Joshua Blake LeNoir.
122. Joseph Lee9 Ragon (Natalie8 Cockroft, James Cicero Pericles7, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) married Renee' Aline Jenkins in Memphis, Shelby County, TN, daughter of Rupert Jenkins and Olivet Sutton
Joseph Lee Ragon attended the University of Tennessee at Martin, TN., for four years before entering the University of Tennessee Medical University at Memphis, earning the MD degree as a Family Practice Physician.
Children of Joseph Ragon and Renee' Jenkins are:
172 i. Jonathan David10 Ragon.
173 ii. Leslie Renee' Ragon,..
174 iii. Paul Joseph Ragon.
123. Robert Allan9 Ragon (Natalie8 Cockroft, James Cicero Pericles7, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) married Amy Lynn Jacobs in Bolivar, Hardeman Co., Tenn., a daughter of Euland Jacobs and Tommie Sain. Robert Allan Ragon earned a BS inf Mechanical Engineering from the Tennessee Technological University at Cookville. Occupation: Mechanical Engineer and Motorcycle Dealer.
Children of Robert Ragon and Amy Jacobs are:
175 i. Jacob Allan10 Ragon,
176 ii. Jordon Lynn Ragon.
124. Harry Leland9 MARTIN III (Harry Leland8, Beatrice Maie7 Cockroft, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 26 May 1931 in Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, Shelby Co., TN11. He married Tasca Jean BAILEY 08 August 1953 in Methodist Church, Shreveport, LA. She was born 07 September 1932 in Pineland, Sabine Co., Texas12.
Harry Leland MARTIN III: Harry (Hal) was born in & lived with his parents in Memphis, until his parents were divorced in 1939. He moved to Senatobia, Tate Co, Mississippi, to live with his paternal grandparents, Dr. Harry L. Martin, Sr., and Beatrice Mae Cockroft Martin. In 1949, Hal graduated from Senatobia City High School summa cum laude as valedictorian, with an overall scholastic average of 98%. He participated in the Marching/Concert Band, the Glee Club, Varsity football, baseball, and debating team. He was awarded the American Legion Scholastic Medal. His graduation present was getting to spend the summer with his father in Paris, France.
Hal then attended the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for two years, where he majored in political science and was president of the sophomore class. In 1951, Harry, as he is now called, joined the US Air Force, attended their Basic Electronics Course, at Keesler AFB, and Atomic Weapons school at Sandia Base, NM. He was primarily stationed at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, assigned to the 301st Bomber Squadron, Strategic Air Command, as a Special Weapons Electronics Specialist.
Upon receiving an honorable discharge from the USAF as Staff Sergeant in 1955, Harry was employed by Philco Corp. as an instructor at Ft. Bliss, Texas, where he taught basic electronics and Nike Ajax/Hercules Missile Tracking Systems. After four years, Harry transferred to the Air Defense Command Radar Surveillance System, first as a technical representative at Angel's Peak, Las Vegas, Nevada, then as Site Engineer at Mt. Laguna, California.
In 1963, Harry transferred to Miles City, MT to work with Lincoln Laboratories, MIT, on the installation and testing of a Large Aperture Seismic Array. This array consisted to 21 Subarrays, each having 25 seismometers buried several hundred feet in the ground. Their purpose was to provide a sensitive enough array that would not only detect earth tremors from all over the world, but would be able to differentiate between natural tremors and those caused by underground nuclear explosions.
During his assignment to Lincoln Labs, Harry made two trips to Norway to assist in the installation of a Seismic Array. He was responsible for training the Norwegians in the operation and maintenance of the electronic modules for the array. His assignment to Lincoln Labs completed, Harry transferred to the Goldstone Deep Space Network Tracking Stations, outside Barstow, California. There he started as an Operation & Maintenance Tech, later as Organizer and Supervisor of a Maintenance & Integration Unit for the entire Complex.
Children of Harry MARTIN and Tasca BAILEY are:
+ 177 i. Montez Aileen10 MARTIN; and
178 ii. Harry Leland MARTIN IV.
126. Carolyn Ann9 KIZER (Aileen8 Martin, Beatrice Maie7 Cockroft, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born in Memphis. She married Robert L. KUBLER.
Children of Carolyn KIZER and Robert KUBLER are:
179 i. Joshua10 KUBLER.
180 ii. Erinn KUBLER.
181 iii. Daniel KUBLER.
128. Donna Veeve9 Eek (Jean8 Lowrey, Elizabeth Veeve7 Cockroft, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) was born 05 June 1957, and died 17 September 2000 in Phoenix, AZ. She married Dennis Edward McMillen.
Children of Donna Eek and Dennis McMillen are:
182 i. Denise10 McMillen,
183 ii. Tim McMillen,
151. John Sumners9 Tanner (Edith Adell8 Sumners, Mary Idell7 Rodgers, Willie Clay6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) married Betty Ann Portis. John Sumners Tanner: Member of US House of Representatives from the 8th Congressional District of Tennessee: Elected: 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996 & 1998. First elected 8 November 1988, succeeding Ed Jones of Yorkville.
Children of John Tanner and Betty Portis are:
+ 184 i. Elizabeth Ann10 Tanner; and
185 ii. John Portis Tanner.
152. Robert Tyree9 Tanner (Edith Adell8 Sumners, Mary Idell7 Rodgers, Willie Clay6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) married (1st ) Kathy Daniel; and 2nd Rhonda Lynn Clanton.
Children of Robert Tanner and Kathy Daniel are:
186 i. Walker Daniel10 Tanner; and
187 ii. Wyatt Tyree Tanner.
153. Rodger Beck9 Tanner (Edith Adell8 Sumners, Mary Idell7 Rodgers, Willie Clay6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel1) married Wanda Kay Daniels.
Child of Rodger Tanner and Wanda Daniels is:
188 i. William Barrett10 Tanner.
Generation No. 7
177. Montez Aileen10 MARTIN (Harry Leland9, Harry Leland8, Beatrice Maie7 Cockroft, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott McCorkle5, Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle4, Robert McCorkle3, Alexander McCorkle2, ?Samuel?1married (1st) Oscar Leonard BINGHAM, Jr., in Barstow , California. Montez married (2nd) Christopher Moore SCHULTZ in Marine Chapel, Barstow; Christopher Moore Schultz was born in Mobile, Alabama.
Child of Montez MARTIN and Oscar BINGHAM is:
189 i. Brenda Larraine11 BINGHAM.
Children of Montez MARTIN and Christopher SCHULTZ are:
+ 190 i. Brenda Larraine11 SCHULTZ; and
+ 191 ii. Christopher Moore SCHULTZ, Jr.; and
192 iii. Tasca Renee SCHULTZ.
184. Elizabeth Ann10 Tanner (John Sumners9, Edith Adell8 Sumners, Mary Idell7 Rodgers, Willie Clay6 McCorkle, James Scott McCorkle5, Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle4, Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle3, Alexander2, ?Samuel?1) married Kyle Carter Atkins.
Children of Elizabeth Tanner and Kyle Atkins are:
193 i. Abby Francis11 Atkins; and
194 ii. Tanner Lantrip Atkins.
Generation No. 8
190. Brenda Larraine11 SCHULTZ (Montez Aileen10 MARTIN, Harry Leland9, Harry Leland8, Beatrice Maie7 Cockroft, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott McCorkle5, Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel? McCorkle1) was born in Apple Valley, CA. She married Joshua Shane DIAL.
Children of Brenda SCHULTZ and Joshua DIAL are:
195 i. Zachary Ryan12 SCHULTZ; and
196 ii. Justin Isaac DIAL.
191. Christopher Moore11 SCHULTZ Jr (Montez Aileen10 MARTIN, Harry Leland9, Harry Leland8, Beatrice Maie7 Cockroft, Lula May6 McCorkle, James Scott5, Robert Andrew Hope4, Robert3, Alexander2, ?Samuel McCorkle? 1) married Feather FRANCIS.
Child of Christopher SCHULTZ and Feather FRANCIS is:
197 i. Trenton12 FRANCIS.
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Endnotes
[Endnotes to descendants of RAH McCorkle & Tirzah Scott McCorkle, as reported by James Ragon, and edited by Marsha Huie.]
1. The Herndons of the American Revolution, 259.
2. E.O. Clement McCorkle Diary, 1904.
3. Will dated: April 1907, Dyer County, TN.
4. 1910 Census of Sherman, Texas.
5. Reese J. Moses, Cemetery List, Stanton, Haywood Co. TN, (Maintained by Mrs. Henryette Maxwell Stuart).
6. Census 1900 - Haywood County, TN, (United States Census).
7. Several "Obituaries of Dr. Harry L. Martin," Memphis Commercial Appeal, Memphis Press Scimitar, Tate County Democrat.
8. Social Security Index.
9. Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death, Arlington, Virginia, (Arlington Hospital, Arlington. VA).
10. Bethesda Cemetery List, Senatobia, MS.
11. Certificate of Birth, State of Tennessee, (Division of Vital Statistics, State Department of Health).
12. Certificate of Birth, Sabine County, State of Texas.
13. Highland Sanitarium, Certificate of Birth. Shreveport, Louisana.
[End of James Ragon’s collection of the Descendants of Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle & wife Tirzah Scott McCorkle]
Some early Sumner County, Tennessee, Marriage Records: Robert McCorkle married Lizzie Blythe in Sumner County, Tennessee (Middle Tennessee). -- Robert McCorkle’s two wives were (1) Elizabeth Blythe; and (2) Margaret “Peggy” Morrison.
Robert McCorkle appears in Presbyterian church congregations in Middle Tennessee and Bourbon County, Kentucky, I think; but I must check this further.
Maxy, Eliza married McCorckle, George. Marriage Date 7 September 1832. Witness to marriage: Twopence, William.
-- I would bet this is Eliza or Elizabeth Maxwell.
Maxwell, Peggy, m. Morgan, Joseph -- I’m trying to find the “Jane Maxwell” after whom Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle) was undoubtedly named. Married: 20 September 1793. Witness: Morgan, Jeremiah.
McCorckle, William, m. [2nd wife, the first wife being ‘Peggy’ Margaret Blythe]: Martha King (Purviance), the widow of the John Purviance, Jr., who was scalped in Sumner County, Tenn., causing the Purviance family to move up to Bourbon County, Kentucky, near or in Paris, Ky. That’s why John Jr.’s brother [Church] “Elder” David Purviance was at the Cane Ridge Meeting House outside Paris, near Lexington, Kentucky, and helped form the Christian Church/Disciples of Christ/Church of Christ. Some remained up in Ky.; others moved back down to Middle Tennessee. The John Purviance, Jr., who was scalped was a son of Revolutionary War Colonel John Purviance [Senior] and wife Mary Jane Wasson (Purviance). -- I believe John Sr. & Mary Jane Wasson Purviance are buried in Middle Tennessee, but do not know where, except for the one clue (mentioned elsewhere) about a Mr. Maxwell’s being buried next to a “Mr. Pevines” in a Brown Cemetery.
The name “Purvaiance” (French) or “Purviance” (anglicized) was usually misspelled, as the following entry shows about the widow of John Purviance who was scalped by hostile indigenous peoples:
Purvoiner, Martha [Mattie King PURVIANCE] Witness: ______King; bride was née Martha King. Martha King (Purviance) married William McCorkle, whose 1st wife was Margaret “Peggy” Blythe. And William’s 3rd wife was Jennie Graham (immediately below).
William McCorckle [a brother to our Robert; this brother William McCorkle married 2nd Martha King, the widow of John Purviance, Jr., who had been scalped by hostile Indians in Sumner County, Tennessee (Middle Tennessee).] William McCorkle married Graham, Jenny as his 3rd wife. Let me see if I can rise to the challenge of naming here the 3 wives I know of William McCorkle: Peggy Blythe (McCorkle); Martha King (Purviance) (McCorkle); and Jenny Graham (McCorkle).] William McCorkle’s niece, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, wrote this: “William McCorkle and his brother Robert McCorkle moved to Kentucky in troublous times with Indians. Then moved from there to Sumner County, Tennessee, and lost their wives.” [The wives whom Elmira mentioned would be William’s 2nd wife Mattie King Purviance McCorkle; and Robert’s 1st wife “Lizzie” Elizabeth Blythe McCorkle.]. Elmira also wrote this: “William’s second wife, Mattie King, died on her way home from North Carolina in what was then called wilderness; was buried in a rude grave there.” [Somewhere else I think I read that Mattie King (Mrs. John Purviance) McCorkle died and is buried in Sumner County, Tennessee. That may be true, but I’m going with Elmira’s version, and Elmira didn’t say her uncle William’s 2nd wife died in Sumner County, Tennessee.]
McCorkle, Harriet N. : Marriage to: Andrew J. Blakemore -- A daughter of our Robert McCorkle’s brother, Samuel Eusebius McCorkle [& wife Margaret Gillespie McCorkle] of Rowan County, NC, was Harriet McCorkle, who married Amzi McGinn. I wonder if Harriet McGinn had a 1st husband named Andrew J. Blakemore; but this is pure speculation. If this is not Harriet McCorkle McGinn, and it’s more than likely not, I don’t know who this is.
Thomas Anderson in Sumner Co., Tenn., m. Elizabeth McCorkle (Anderson) and begot at least four children:
(1) Elizabeth Anderson (Mrs. J. Mitchell McMurry, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister’s wife). Her husband Mitchell McMurry was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister who long preached in McMinnville but retired to and died (in 1875) in Lebanon, Tennessee. At one point her mother, Elizabeth McCorkle Anderson lived with Elizabeth Anderson McMurry in Lebanon.
(2) Martha Anderson (Mrs. James T. Leath). Her husband was an attorney and they moved to Memphis in the Western District. Martha appears on the 1850 census but not on the 1860 one. The 1850 census lists Martha Anderson Leath as “Martha D.” but our records do not include the “D.”
(3) Robert Anderson --perhaps an attorney in Lexington and Durant, Mississippi; but our Dyer-Gibson County McCorkle-Huie records do not reveal this. An old letter from Robert Anderson’s aunt, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach, speculates that Robert Anderson may have removed to Alabama; but Elmira seemed to know in the same letter that Martha Anderson Leath had removed to the Western District of Tennessee; Elmira did not say “Memphis.”
(4) Julia Anderson-- never married, according to her aunt Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach.
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J.M. McMurry, 1875 Husband of Elizabeth Anderson McMurray, who herself was a daughter of Elizabeth McCorkle & Thomas Anderson. He was “Mitchell” McMurry, spelled without the “a” in McMurray. |
Deceased Ministers report: … the following ministers of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church have died |
Rev. J. M. B. Roach, Alabama Presbytery, near McLemoresville, Tenn., died September 10, 1868
-- I wonder if this man was kin (much younger than) Dr. Stephen Roach, who married Elmira Sloan McCorkle in 1816 in Middle Tennessee. |
Cumberland Presbyterian Ministers: , J. M. McMurry of the Presbytery of Lebanon, died 1875.
Where are William Thomas & Elizabeth Purviance Thomas buried? William Thomas was born 3 Sept 1765 and married Elizabeth Purviance on 19 May 1791. I think he died 1 April 1833 in Dyer County, Tennessee. They were parents of Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle, Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle, so her father William Thomas may be buried in the McCorkle Cemetery by her. I just don’t know. Elizabeth Purviance (Thomas) was born 12 May 1765 in Rowan County, NC, and died in Dec. 1849 in, I think, Dyer County, Tennessee.
Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache,
AVain regrets are bitter food.@ B The Old Set of McCorkle:
Descendants of the Scots-Irish Immigrants Alexander McCorkle
and wife Nancy Agness Montgomery McCorkle
Tirzah Scott McCorkle [Mrs. Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle] named one son [James Scott McCorkle] after her father, James Scott, who was born in 1777—I’m not sure where; lived in York District, South Carolina; and removed to the Yorkville-Newbern area of Dyer-Gibson, Tennessee, where he died. James Scott’s wife was Sarah Dickey (Scott), also born in 1777. [James Ragon—husband of Natalie Cockroft—has convinced me Sarah Dickey’s mother was Sarah Robinson of South Carolina, not a woman in Rowan County, North Carolina, surnamed Purviance as I had thought because Stuart Hoyle Purvines so conjectured.]. James & Sarah Dickey Scott were pioneer settlers in West Tennessee interred in the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery; but I moved their markers in 1984 to the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County, to escape the then-disrepair and to lie beside one granddaughter, viz., Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie “Sade Huie” (1839-1893) and Sade Huie’s husband, Julius M. Huie. [Sarah E. Scott Huie was a daughter of James Scott [Junior] and Violet B. Roddy.] Julius M. Huie & Sarah Scott Huie were parents of four children surviving to adulthood: (1) Julius Adolphus “Dolph” Huie, father of only one child: Maury Adolphus Huie, 1895-1973; (2) Howard Anderson Huie, 1870-1935, father of my father, Howard EWING Huie (1907-1971); Aunt Bettie Huie Gregory (Mrs. Ed Gregory of Newbern; no issue); and Aunt Phronie Huie Thompson (Sophronia Huie, Mrs. John Will Thompson late in her life; no issue, although John Will Thompson had issue before his marriage to Aunt Phronie Huie).
The following was written for Dr. James Scott McCorkle,[102] frequent mayor of Newbern, Tennessee, by his aunt, Mrs. Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roache, of, to name a few places, Rowan County, NC; Stone=s River, Tennesse; Bradley=s Creek, Tenn., AVerdant Plain@ in Dyer County, Tenn.; Gosport and other communities of Indiana; and, by the time of writing this letter, of the town of California, Missouri, where her son Quincy {Robert Quincy Roache} had become president of Moniteau [County] Bank.
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Our ancestors were originally from Scotland but immigrated to Ireland during some national trouble. From thence they came to America[103] and settled in Pennsylvania where Harrisburg now stands, Lancaster County. From there my grandfather [Alexander McCorkle] moved to Rowan County, North Carolina. His wife was Nancy alias Agnes Montgomery. [104]
Alexander McCorkle raised ten children B seven sons and three daughters.
Sons B Samuel McCorkle,[105] John McCorkle; Joseph McCorkle, Alexander McCorkle [Jr.], William McCorkle, Robert McCorkle,[106] James McCorkle.
Daughters B Mattie McCorkle Archibald, Elizabeth McCorkle Barr, and Nancy McCorkle Ramsey. Mattie married William Archibald; Elizabeth married William Barr; and Nancy, Robert Ramsey.
Samuel [Eusebius McCorkle, Princeton College; Dickinson College: Doctor of Divinity, Presbyterian minister mostly living, and dying, in Rowan County, NC, buried in Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery] married Margaret Gillespie.[107] John married Katy Barr; Joseph, Peggy Snoddy; Aleck married Katy Morrison [a sister to Robert McCorkle’s 2nd wife, Margaret Morrison?]; William, Peggy Blythe [a sister to Robert McCorkle’s 1st wife Elizabeth Blythe?]; Robert, Lizzie Blythe [Elizabeth Blythe was Robert’s first wife, and was probably a sister to William McCorkle’s 1st wife Peggy Blythe]; James, Lizzie Hall.
The three last [William, Robert, James] lost their wives and married again. William and James married three times. William=s second wife, Mattie King, died on her way home from North Carolina in what was then called wilderness; was buried in a rude grave there. ...
William McCorkle and his brother Robert McCorkle moved to Kentucky in troublous times with Indians. Then moved from there to Sumner County, Tennessee, and lost their wives. Robert McCorkle, who was my father, returned to North Carolina and married [Margaret] Peggy Morrison who was my mother.[108]
Robert and Peggy Morrison, my parents, had seven children: Rebecca Cowden McCorkle [Thompson], Elmira Sloane McCorkle [Roach], Edwin Archibald McCorkle, Jehiel Morrison McCorkle, Nancy Melinda McCorkle (she was between Edwin and Jehiel), Peggy Pamela McCorkle and Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle. My father had two children by his first wife: Alex who died in infancy and Elizabeth McCorkle who was raised by her grandmother Blythe. She [Elizabeth McCorkle] married Thomas Anderson in Sumner County, Tennessee, and raised four children: Lizzy Anderson [McMurray], Martha Anderson, Julia Anderson and Robert Anderson. Lizzy Anderson married Mr. McMurray; Martha, Mr. Leath? [ Leigh? Leith? Keigh?] Julia never married. She and Martha are dead. Lizzy Anderson lives at Lebanon, Tennessee, Robert Anderson in Alabama (I think).
A part of Rowan County, North Carolina, was stricken off and a new county made called Iredell.[109] In that my father [Robert McCorkle] settled on the Yadkin River and lived there until 1808 [?]. [110] He then pulled up stakes and moved to Rutherford County, Tennessee, settled on Stones River, lived there until 1817. There my sister Rebecca [Cowden McCorkle Thompson] and I both married.[111]
That same year [1817] we all moved about 8 miles on to Bradley=s creek and lived there until =27.[112] There my sister Rebecca [Rebecca Cowden McCorkle Thompson] was left a widow, went home to my father=s and in two short years died leaving two little orphans [Jane Thompson (Williams) and Polly Thompson (Dickey)] who were kindly cared for by their uncles Edwin Alexander McCorkle [and wife Jane Maxwell Thomas] and Robert [Andrew Hope McCorkle and wife Tirzah Scott].
It is a great pity we did not have our mother [Margaret “Peggy” Morrison McCorkle] write a history. She knew so much and could write so well that I feel it a great misfortune that we did not avail ourselves of her knowledge. It would be an inestimable treasure to her posterity. Had I been with her in her old days I might have gathered a mine of knowledge that would be invaluable to us all.[113]
We can only regret the lost opportunity, and vain regrets are bitter food. I think your sister Sarah [McCorkle Algea] has Harriet [McCorkle] McGinn=s[114] family record. I have it and will send it if she has not. She knew more about the old set than I do.
They were strict Presbyterians, Uncle Samuel[115] a minister, John an elder in the church[116] and member of the Legislature useful and much beloved, died in the prime of life leaving an only son who walked in his father=s steps and enjoyed his honors. Joseph moved to Ohio at an early day B was a man of ability B but rather eccentric.[117] Aleck was emotional in character and joined the Methodists. William, following Barton Stone,[118] set his negroes free and went to preaching.
James McCorkle was the last [of the children of Alexander and Nancy Montgomery McCorkle] to pass away. He died at Frankfort, Boone County, Indiana where some of his children still live.[119] His youngest son William McCorkle is a Presbyterian minister.
Mother=s name you know was Morrison. They were strict Presbyterians and came over the same time my father did and settled in Iredell County, North Carolina. Grandpa=s name was Andrew Morrison, grandmother=s was Elizabeth Sloane. Her mother was a sister to grandfather [Alexander] McCorkle. My father and mother were second cousins.[120] Grandfather Morrison raised 7 children.
/s/ Elmira Sloan Roach
J.S. McCorkle
The above letter from Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach to James Scott McCorkle was copied November 26, 1899, by Katie Pearl McCorkle, daughter of John Edwin McCorkle who was a first cousin to Dr. James S. McCorkle. Then a grand-niece of Katie Pearl McCorkle, Iris Rebecca (Becky) Huie (Cornelius) of North Haven, Ct., typed this letter in 2000. Then footnotes were added in 2003 by Marsha Cope Huie, another grand-niece of Katie Pearl McCorkle (Mrs. Ed Lee Fox) of Newbern, Dyer County, Tennessee.
I.Alexander McCorkle married Nancy Agness Montgomery [They are buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rowan County, N.C. She predeceased him; he then married Rebecca Brandon (not the mother of his children); and he died in 1800.
II.1 Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, D.D. m Margaret Gillespie educated Princteon College; received Doctor of Divinity degree from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. -- He was a founder of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.
II.2 John m Katy Barr
[AJohn an elder in the church[121] and member of the Legislature useful and much beloved, died in the prime of life leaving an only son who walked in his father=s steps and enjoyed his honors.@]
II.3. Joseph m Peggy Snoddy
[AJoseph moved to Ohio at an early day B was a man of ability B but rather eccentric.@]
II.4. Alexander m Katy Morrison
[AAleck was emotional in character and joined the Methodists@]
II.5. William m “Peggy” Margaret Blythe, 1st B “Mattie” [Martha?] King, 2nd and Jennie Graham ---- 3rd wife. -- I presume this Margaret Peggy Blythe was a sister to the first wife of our Robert McCorkle, immediately below, who m. 1st Elizabeth Blythe (“Lizzie”).
[AWilliam, following Barton Stone, set his negroes free and went to preaching@]
* II.6.. Robert m Lizzy Blythe, 1st B Margaret Peggy Morrison, 2nd.
[Moved to Stone=s River, Tennessee, area, then Dyer County.]
II.6. James m Lizzy Hall, 1st;
James married 3 times. [AJames was the last to pass away. He died at Frankfort, Boone County, Indiana, where some of his children still live. His youngest son William McCorkle is a Presbyterian minister.@]
II.7. Mattie m William Archibald
II.8. Elizabeth m William Barr
II. 9.. Nancy m Robert Ramsey -- See their correspondence in the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, archives ! ! !
Now, to our ancestor Robert McCorkle:
2. Robert McCorkle m Lizzie Blythe (his 1st wife)
3. Alex died in infancy
3. Elizabeth McCorkle m Thomas Anderson. They married in Sumner County, Tennessee.
4. Elizabeth Anderson m Rev. J. Mitchell McMurry; a Cumberland Presbyterian minister who long preached in McMinnville, Tennessee, they retired back to Lebanon, Tennessee.
4. Martha Anderson m Leith -- [Was this James T. Leath, attorney?] and they removed to Memphis in the newly opened Western District.
4. Julia Anderson, never married
4. Robert Anderson -- -- may have moved to Alabama -- [Was he an attorney who removed to Durant and Lexington, Mississippi?]
2. Robert McCorkle m Margaret Peggy Morrison (his 2nd wife) Each born or at least at one time lived in Rowan/Iredell County, North Carolina. Then moved to the Murfreesboro area; what that Rev. War land grant was lost in a land title dispute, the removed to Dyer County, Tennessee, to claim a land grant substituted in lieu of the lost land.
Children of Robert McCorkle and his 2nd wife Margaret Peggy Morrison McCorkle are listed immediately below:
III.1. Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (Thompson) m Gideon Thompson [left small children upon their early deaths in Middle Tennessee, within 2 years of each other, dying before the McCorkle family removed to West Tennessee; Gideon Thompson predeceased Rebecca.]
IV.1. Jane M. Thompson (Williams) m Ben Williams
IV.2. Polly (Mary?) Thompson (Dickey) m Matthew Dickey
III.2. Elmira Sloane McCorkle, m in 1816 in Middle Tenn: Dr. Stephen Roach
4. Addison Locke Roache, Sr. m Emily Weddings. Lawyer then Indiana Supreme Court judge in Indianapolis. Then president of the Indiana lines of the Illinois Central Railroad.
4. Robert Quincy Roache m Rebecca and then Isabel Sunderland. Ran a store in Newbern, Tenn., for awhile. He graduated from the University of Indiana at Bloomington and became president Moniteau [County] Bank, City of California, Missouri.
4. Howard Harris Roache m Mortally wounded and fell at Shiloh, buried by his uncle RAH McCorkle in Dyer County, Tenn.
4. Many other children who did not survive to adulthood
III.3. Edwin Alexander McCorkle m Jane Maxwell Thomas, a daughter of Elizabeth Purviance & William Thomas. Or was his middle name “Archibald?” Edwin’s paternal aunt was mattie McCorkle (Mrs. William ARCHIBALD).
4. Hiram Robert A. McCorkle, Newbern diarist of 19th century, m. Margaret Cowan, mother of all but one of his children, the first being Winfield Purviance McCorkle who moved up to teach school in Eminence, Kentucky, & married Mary King of Eminence; then Hiram McCorkle m. Janette Menzies, mother of the Ed McCorkle who m. Dona McCutchen. -- I thought the “A” stood for Alexander but have read that it stood for “Archibald.” Also, that may be true about HRA’s father Edwin A. McCorkle. I’ve long assumed the “A” stood for “Alexander” but it may stand for “”Archibald.”
4. David Purviance McCorkle, moved to Obion County
4. John Edwin McCorkle m (1st) Tennie Scott, (2nd Mary Elizabeth Cotton). Newbern, Tennessee, area. Tennessee Alice Edwards Scott was a daughter of Willam Scott & Nancy Edwards Wellborn; her father moved to Salisbury/Grand Junction, Tenn., in Hardeman County. Her father’s –William Scott’s -- parents were James Scott, born 1777, and Sarah Dickey Scott, also born 1777; who moved from York District, SC, to the Yorkville, Tenn., area. That made Sarah Elisabeth Scott Huie & Tennie Scott McCorkle 1st cousins.
4. Finis A. McCorkle, twin to Latina Gregory), Newbern area, m. 1st Josephine Jackson (mother of all but one of his children: viz., Gentry Purviance McCorkle, who moved to California; Homer McCorkle, who moved to Center Point, Texas, then moved to California; Jennie McCorkle who m. Dr. E.E. Carter & moved to Arkansas; ; then 2nd Finis A. McCorkle married Mag Gossum, mother of only one child: Maida McCorkle (Mrs. Howell Montgomery), and Maida had only one child, a daughter Margaret Mongtomer, a librarian who lived in Calif. & never married.
4. Anderson Jehiel McCorkle, Newbern area. AJ’s uncle Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle wrote in 1853 about this nephew, ‘Anderson is an uncommon good man.” -- Anderson Jehiel McCorkle married Martha E Scott a Scott sister to Sarah Elizabeth Scott (Mrs. Julius M. Huie). Upon the Scott-McCorkle wife’s death, her brother-in-law Trimble [who had married another Scott sister] lived with Anderson McCorkle; and Anderson raised Bettie Trimble Hundley’s two sons: Elmo Hundley “Boss” who had one daughter Bettie Hundley, who graduated in chemistry from Duke University circa 1960, moved from Yorkville to Houston where she was a chemist for Shell Oil, and never married; and Bryan Hundley who m. Ben Anna Spence and lived in Yorkville and whose children were Janie Hundley Hall (Mrs. Ralph Hall); Buena V. Hundley Sims of Gibson County; and Leah Bryan Hundley (married name not known to me) of Nashville.
4. Lizzie McCorkle Reeves, lived Gadsden near Humboldt, Gibson County
4. “Tina” Margaret Latina McCorkle Gregory (twin to Finis A. McCorkle), Newbern area
4. “Becky” Rebecca McCorkle Zarecor, Newbern area. I recently found a Zarecor cemetery in Middle Tenn. (Sumner County), so presume the McCorkles and Zarecors were early on together in Sumner County.
III.4. Jehiel Morrison McCorkle m E S [Elizabeth “Betsy” Smith].
Jehiel sometimes called himself Jem and is buried as “Jem McCorkle” in the McCorkle Cemetery east of Newbern, Dyer County, Tennessee. Jem & Betsy McCorkle lost at least two sons in the Civil War: Locke McCorkle (Battle of Atlanta) & “Clay” Henry Clay McCorkle, Brice’s Crossroads Cemetery, Mississippi. They probably lost a third son Ed J. McCorkle, but I’m not certain about the 3rd son.
III.5. [Margaret Permelia] “Peggy Pamelia” or Pamela McCorkle (Scott) [alias Permelia McCorkle] [alias] Peggy Pamela McCorkle m Lemuel Locke Scott.
I think they moved to Nebo, south of Yorkville. Lemuel Scott was a son of James Scott, born 1777, and wife Sarah Dickey, also born in 1777; James & Sarah Dickey Scott lived at one time in York District, South Carolina, then moved to the Yorkville-Newbern area, where they died and were interred in the Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery (marker preserved since 1984 in McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County).
III.6. Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle m Tirzah Scott, a daughter of James Scott, born 1777, and wife Sarah Dickey, also born in 1777; James & Sarah Dickey Scott lived at one time in York District, South Carolina, then moved to the Yorkville-Newbern area, where they died and were interred in the Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery (marker preserved by removal in 1984 to the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County). Tirzah was a sister to the Lemuel Scott, immediately above, who married Margaret Permelia McCorkle.
For a time RAH McCorkle joined the Mormon church, but records indicate that he abjured Mormonism. Annie Maude Scott Brown, of Guntown, Miss., then Henderson, Tennessee, a daughter of Horace Scott (who was a son of James Scott & Violet B. Roddy (Scott) ) had possession circa 1990 of Robert A H McCorkle’s Mormon notebooks, which I read.
The following note is added from Marsha Huie’s memory in September 2003 and should be checked for accuracy against the written records: Since TIRZAH SCOTT was a daughter of our James Scott, born 1777, living at least for awhile in York District, South Carolina, who married Sarah Dickey, also born 1777: that makes Tirzah Scott McCorkle a sibling, inter alia, of our “JIMPSE” James Scott who married Viola or Violet B. Roddy and who begot, inter alia, Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie (“Sade,” Mrs. Julius M. Huie); and Sade’s twin James Allen Scott who m. Jennie Miller & moved to Cleburne, Texas near Fort Worth; and Allen or Allan or Alan “Tobe” Scott; and Church of Christ minister Thomas Elihu Scott; and Margaret Scott (Mrs. Anderson Jehiel McCorkle). Did I omit someone here? -- After all this research, I’m 100% certain that “JIMPSE” James Scott and wife Violet B. Roddy Scott are buried, with infant William Scott, in the old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery. We should restore their grave markers. Her [Violet B. Roddy Scott, or Viola B. Roddy Scott] name is missing from grave stone, but the dates match exactly.
David Purviance McCorkle, born 19 May 1830; died 6 May 1884. (Above) Son of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane Maxwell Thomas.
Married 1857 (1) NO. HER NAME WAS MARARET SCOTT and she was a sister to Mrs. Julius M. Huie (Sarah Elizabeth “Sade” Scott” Martha L.? Margaret? Scott, born 15 JULY 1841 & died 15 Dec. 1862; (2nd) Elizabeth Anne Jackson, who was born 17 Sept 1838 and died 15 Dec. 1915. One of the old letters typed above says, “David’s Marg. is gone.”
Children by 1st wife M. Scott --Was M. Scott a daughter of Violet or Viola B. Roddy & husband James Scott, Jr., James Scott Jr. being a son of James Scott, born 1777, & wife Sarah Dickey Scott, also born 1777, who removed from York District, SC, to Yorkville, Tennessee, area?
I found the following on www.ancestry.com but am unsure of accuracy. Aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle Fox’s records, which we have, will accurately list the children of her uncle David Purvianca McCorkle. In the meantime, this is on ancestry.com:
H1 Violet Jane McCorkle, born 23 Sept. 1858 in Dyer County, Tennessee;
H2 James William McCorkle, b. 15 September 1859 in Dyer County;
H3 Margaret Viola McCorkle, born May 1862 [Civil War] -- Did her mother die in childbirth? -- No, she died on 15th December 1862.
Married (2nd) Elizabeth Anne Jackson, born: 17 Sep 1838 in Obion County, Tennessee; died: 15 Dec 1915 in Obion County, Tennessee. Married in 1864 [during the Civil War]. – Was Elizabeth Anne Jackson a sister to the 1st Mrs. Finis A. McCorkle? Did brothers marry sisters?
H4 Gillum A McCorkle , 15 Jul 1865, Dyer County, Tennessee -- David Purviance McCorkle’s brother Hiram R. A. McCorkle named a son Tolbert, also; and D.P.’s brother Finis named a son Gillum, also.
H5 Florence Ellen McCorkle 4 May 1867 Dyer County, Tennessee
H6 David Edwin McCorkle 15 Feb 1870 in Mt Moriah, Obion County, Tennessee
H7 John A McCorkle 16 Jan 1872 in Obion County, Tennessee
H8 Tolbert Fanning McCorkle 20 Apr 1874 in Obion Co., Tennessee
H9 Susan Emma McCorkle 30 Nov 1876 in Obion Co., Tennessee
Gillespie Excursus
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Our ancestor, Robert McCorkle of Rowan County, North Carolina, had a brother there named Samuel Eusebius McCorkle. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle married Margaret Gillespie. (I think she was a widow Gillespie, but must check that.) I note that the following Gillespie people in Rowan County, NC, ended up in many of the same places our Robert McCorkle people did, e.g., Revolutionary War landgrants made in Tennessee on the waters of the Duck River; and residence in Sumner County (Middle Tennessee).
From <[email protected]> 19 July, 1998. From: Larry & Barb Thomas To: "David W. Morgan"
Subject: Family of Thomas Gillespie
This Thomas Gillespie, born 1718, died 1796 in Rowan County, NC; his wife was Naomi Thompson. This Thomas Gillespie is buried in our family’s Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, where Samuel Eusebius McCorkle long preached; so I presume he was kin to the wife of Samuel Eusebius McCorkle. He, too, served in the Revolutionary War, as did our ancestor Alexander McCorkle (died 1800, buried Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery). In 1777 (6 August) he was appointed Sessor in Capt. William Armstrong's Company.
In 1744 he received a land grant from the Earl of Granville for l acreage on Back Creek/Second Creek in Rowan County; and in 1751 received land in Anson County (Second Creek). A son-in-law was Thomas Allison.-- A grandson, Thomas G. Allison, Jr., inherited (1796) some 166 acres on Duck River [that would be Tennessee].
“4. ISAAC 2 GILLESPIE (THOMAS 1) was born March 28, 1750 in Rowan Co., NC,
and died December 24, 1826 in Williamson Co., TN. He married MARY ANNE MCGUIRE April 12, 1791 in Rowan Co., NC, daughter of JOHN MCGUIRE and MARY
BRANDON.” -- Well, our ancestor Alexander McCorkle [father of Robert McCorkle] married as his 2nd wife Rebecca BRANDON. Alexander died in 1800 and is buried at Thyatira beside his 1st wife and mother of his children, Nancy Agness Montgomery McCorkle [also an emigrant from Northern Ireland] and 2nd wife Rebecca Brandon.
An ISAAC GILLESPIE of this bunch also served in the Revolutionary War in NC and is thought to be buried in Sumner County, Tennessee in the old Ezell graveyard. In 1796 he received 748 acres on the Duck River [Tennessee] from his father. Then he moved to Williamson County, Tennessee -- or was Sumner County subdivided so that part of it became Williamson County?
Also, a MARY "POLLY" B. GILLESPIE (Reynolds), b. January 26, 1794, Rowan Co., NC; died March 13, 1860, Williamson Co., Tennessee; married REUBEN REYNOLDS, July 22, 1816, Williamson Co., Tennessee. Burial: Steele Cemetery, Flat Creek, Williamson Co., Tennessee-- Well, our McCorkle ancestors were somehow mixed up with a Steele family.
GEORGE GILLESPIE, SR. (son of Thomas Gillespie) was born July 22, 1751, near Salisbury, Anson County [later Rowan County], NC, and died 1818 in Sumner Co., Tenn. He married (1st) MARY GRAHAM April 18, 1771 in Rowan Co., NC, daughter of RICHARD GRAHAM and AGNES. He married (2nd) MARY on January 01, 1818, in Sumner Co., Tenn. He was in the NC Revolutionary War under Gen. Nathaniel Green; he fought in battle of Guilford Court House and King’s Mountain (SC), as did some of our McCorkle-Purviance-Thomas people. He was buried 1818 in Old Hopewelll Church Cemetery near Gallatin-Bethpage, Sumner County, Tennessee. His wife was buried there in 1815.
--Well, our Alexander & Nancy Montgomery McCorkle’s son William McCorkle married: 1st Blythe; 2nd Martha King, the widow of John Purviance, Jr.; and 3rd GRAHAM. It’s clear to me that the movements of some of these Gillespie people paralled those of our McCorkle ancestors.
I do not know if the ff. Thomas Gillespie fits anywhere in the family of the descendants of Samuel Eusebius McCorkle: “The Rev. Dr. Thomas Gillespie served Princeton Theological Seminary as president and professor of New Testament from 1983-2004. During his presidency, Princeton Seminary established the Center of Theological Inquiry, the Center of Barth Studies, and the Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology. Prior to his ministry at Princeton, Gillespie served as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Garden Grove, Calif., from 1954-66 and as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Burlingame, Calif., from 1966-83. He was adjunct professor at San Francisco Theological Seminary from 1972-73 and at Fuller Theological Seminary from 1973-78. He served on the Committee on Theological Education, and presently serves on the General Assembly Council. Gillespie received his B.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary and Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School, as well as several honorary doctorates. He is the author of The First Theologians: A Study in Early Christian Prophecy (Eerdmans, 1994).”
Our Scott People Known To Be Interred in the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery, Yorkville, Tennessee:
◄ SCOTT, James – [here referred to for convenience as James Scott I] of York District, South Carolina, born Aug. 20, 1777 – died Dec 30, 1853[122]; and James Scott’s wife, Sarah Dickey Scott, almost certainly a daughter of John Dickey of York District, South Carolina, & wife Sarah Robinson Scott:
◄ SCOTT, Sarah Dickey --1777-1838
born 1777; died aged 60 Years 4 Months 23 Days, died 23 March 1838. Although our records do not reveal her parentage, subsequent research, especially by James Ragon of Jackson, Tenn., makes us almost certain that her mother was Sarah Robinson (Dickey) of York District, SC, and her father was John Dickey of SC. This leads to questions about her Robinson lineage. Two likely Robinsons buried in this same Old Yorkville cemetery are:
ROBINSON, Jefferson, 61 Years, 6 Month, 22 Days. September 4, 1865 [born circa 1801]
ROBINSON, Martha T,(Wife of J.) b.2 August 1810 – 12 April 1840
[Is the above James Scott, 1777-1853, the “old friend Scott” to whom Margaret Morrison McCorkle refers in her 1838 letter to her daughter Elmira? If so, James Scott married 1838-1839 a “respectable old lady” as a 2nd wife. I don’t know....]
◄ [Scott, James [JIMPSE], a son of James Scott (I) and Sarah Dickey Scott -- No marker or record exists of his being buried here; but his wife Violet or Viola B. Roddy Scott is buried here, in the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery; and he is, too.]
◄ SCOTT, “Violet” B. Roddy, wife of James Scott II). “Wife of James Scott” V.B. Roddy Scott is listed on the Gibson County, Tennessee, Cemeteries website as: SCOTT, Unknown (Wife of James) Feb 7, 1813 - May 31, 1847. She & James Scott [II] married in Gibson County on 8 Dec. 1832. She lived Feb 7, 1813 - May 31, 1847. This is Violet or Viola B. Roddy (Scott), wife of James Scott Jr. [Was her father John R. Roddy? I never heard Aunt Beth Huie or Uncle Maury A. Huie, or my father Ewing Huie mention the name “Roddy.”] Violet B. Roddy Scott was the mother of: Martha E. Scott McCorkle, 1836-1886; John H. Scott, 1837; Sarah E. Scott Huie, 1839-1893; James Allen Scott, born a twin to Sarah Huie; M.E. Scott, 1841-1873; “Clementine” Tirzah Scott Trimble, 1843-1887; and Rev. Thomas Elihu Scott, born 1845.
SCOTT, James [I]. Aug 20, 1777 - Dec 30, 1853
SCOTT, Sarah [Dickey]. b.1777. 60Y, 4M, 23D died March 23, 1838 [Did he marry a 2nd wife? Was he the “Old Friend Scott who married a very respectable old lady” according to a letter from Margaret Morrison McCorkle dated 1838 or 9?
WILLIAM SCOTT Died 28 March 1835, aged 28 Days. This infant was probably a child of Violet B. Roddy & “JIMPSE” James Scott, who married in Gibson County in 1832. [Does he belong here as a child of James “Jimpse” James Scott Violet B. Roddy Scott??] [Or could he have been a child of Margaret Permelia McCorkle & Lemuel Locke Scott?] This William Scott is buried in the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery and is presumably a child of Violet/Viola B. Roddy Scott: William Scott --if so, he was named after the brother of “JIMPSE” James Scott named William Scott. It was that brother William Scott who m. Nancy Alice Edwards Wellborn & begot, inter alia, the 1st Mrs. John Edwin McCorkle: Tennie Scott (McCorkle) [full name: Tennessee Alice Edwards Scott (McCorkle)]. Or, perhaps—and much less likely to me—this infant child was a son of William Scott & wife Nancy Edwards Wellborn. William (son of James I & Sarah Dickey Scott) & Nancy Scott lived at least for a time, and are buried, near Salisbury, near Grand Junction, Hardeman County, Tennessee, in what used to be called the Scott Cemetery but is now called the Jackson Cemetery by their Jackson descendants. It was a private cemetery, and I’m told that the farmer who owns the land now has recently desecrated the old graves; I hope that’s not true.
Now to the children of James Scott (JIMPSE) Scott & Violet B. or Viola B. Roddy Scott:
1. Martha E Scott (McCorkle), born 3 Sep 1836 in Gibson County, Tennessee. Died 14 January 1886 (at about 50 years old). Married Anderson Jehiel McCorkle, a son of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle). AJ McCorkle was born 27 Jan. 1834 & died 12 Jan. 1922 in Dyer County. Martha E. Scott McCorkle was a sister to “Sade” Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie (Mrs. Julius M. Huie).
Martha Scott McCorkle was the mother of two children: (a) John Thomas McCorkle, born 1859- died 4 Jan. 1893; and (b) Maggie MCCORKLE b: 1862 who died very young. Uncle Maury A. Huie told me “John Tom” McCorkle-- who m. ?Della Smith? (McCorkle) but died without issue—didn’t hear the train coming at the Newbern-Poplar Grove R.R. tracks. “Uncle Mutt,” who was my dad’s double 1st cousin, told me John Tom McCorkle was hard of hearing, plus that fateful day he wore a cap with drop-down ear coverings. –Unc le Anderson Jehiel McCorkle kept Marthe E. Scott’s sister Clementine’s husband, J.T. Trimble, in his home. Source: Census records of Dyer County, Tennessee, and vague memories of my dad’s telling me Uncle Anderson helped raise Elmo Hundley & Brian Hundley. My father Ewing Huie said Uncle Anderson raised Clementine [Tirzah H. Scott] Trimble’s 2 grandchildren, sons of Bettie Trimble Hundley: “Boss” Elmo Hundley and Brian Hundley, each of whom lived in Yorkville. Elmo & Margaret Hundley had one daughter, Bettie Hundley, born circa 1940, who never married. Brian & Ben Anna Spence Hundley had: Janie Hundley (Mrs. Ralph Hall) of Yorkville; Leah Brian Hundley (Mrs. ) of Nashville; and Buena V. Hundley Sims, of Gibson County.
2. John H Scott, born 1837 in Dyer County, Tennessee
3. “Sade Huie” Sarah Elizabeth Scott , alias Mrs. Julius M. Huie, 2nd wife of Julius Huie) 23 May 1839-1893. (Julius M. Huie’s 1st wife McKnight died peri-childbirth and is buried in the Cool Springs C.P. Cemetery, Gibson County). Sade Scott Huie’s twin:
4. James Allen Scott [for clarity if not certitude, I’m calling him James Scott III] b. Dyer County 23 May 1839,
a twin to Sade Huie, he m. Jennie E. Miller (born 1853) and moved to Cleburne, Texas, near Fort Worth.
The children of James Allen Scott & Jennie E. Miller (Scott) children:
Milton E. SCOTT born in 1872 – died 17 SEP 1873;
R. B. SCOTT, born 1874. I think I remember my Aunt Beth Huie referring to her father Howard Anderson Huie’s 1st cousin as “Bruce Scott.” I also think Aunt Beth Huie said there was a Howard Scott who used to come from Texas to West Tenn. to work on Howard Huie’s farm bailing hay. I may have these 2 Scott sons’ names wrong, though.
“Nannie” Nancy E.Scott, b. 1876; I don’t think Nannie Scott ever married, as the Texas census records show her to be living with a brother and still surnamed Scott.
Isaac L. SCOTT, born 1879. I think this may be the brother with whom Nannie Scott lived as an adult. His middle initial may be “H” not “L.” Check the Texas Census records for Cleburne.
5. M.E. Scott, born 28 Dec 1841 in Dyer County, Tennessee. She died 2 January 1873. – Did she marry David Purviance McCorkle? Did she marry Richard W. Locke?
6. “Clementine” Tirzah H. Scott (Trimble), born 22 April 1843 in Dyer County. She died April 14, 1887. She married James Trimble, born 3 December 1831 and died 29 April 1909. This is Clementine Scott (Trimble), who had two children: Elizabeth “Bettie” Trimble (Hundley), born December 1873; and Charley “Charley” Trimble, born Oct. 1876.
Elizabeth “Bettie Trimble Hundley had two children, viz.,
Brian Hundley, born December 1896, who married Ben Anna Spence (Hundley) and lived in Yorkville; they had three daughters, viz., Janie Hundley Hall (Mrs. Ralph Hall of Yorkville); Leah Brian Hundley; and Beuna V. Hundley Sims. Janie Hundley Hall’s two children were: LaNita Hall (VanDyke) of Trenton, mother of Justin VanDyke) and Doug Hall, who died of heart disease in 2005. Doug left one child, Dana Hall Welch, by his 1st wife Susie Austin (Hall).
and
Elmo C. Hundley, born January 1899, who was a football player for the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and married Margaret _____ (Hundley) of Knoxville. She called him “Beau.” He predeceased her and she and he are buried in her hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee. Elmo & Margaret Hundley lived in Yorkville and had one daughter who never married, viz., Bettie Hundley, a graduate of Duke University circa 1960 and chemist for Shell Oil Co. in Houston, where she resides in 2003.
Uncle Anderson Jehiel McCorkle kept Marthe E. Scott’s sister [Tirzah’s] Clementine’s husband, J.T. Trimble, in his home. Source: Census records of Dyer County, Tennessee; and my father Ewing Huie who said Uncle Anderson McCorkle raised Clementine [Tirzah H. Scott] Trimble’s 2 grandchildren, sons of Bettie Trimble Hundley: “Boss” Elmo Hundley and Brian Hundley, each of whom lived in Yorkville. Elmo & Margaret Hundley had one daughter, Bettie Hundley, who graduated from Duke University circa 1960 and became a chemist for Shell Oil in Houston; Bettie Hundley never married. Brian & Ben Anna Spence Hundley of Yorkville had: Janie Hundley (Mrs. Ralph Hall) of Yorkville ; Leah Brian Hundley; and Buena V. Hundley Sims.
Charley “Charley” Trimble, born Oct. 1876, married Vada Spence. They lived in Yorkville area and had two children:
One, James Spence Trimble (father of Patricia Trimble Miller, Mrs. Finis Miller, of Yorkville; and Patricia’s little brother Bobby Trimble, who m. Renita Fletcher of Yorkville). Patricia Trimble Miller had children (a daughter René Trimble Carlton, whose husband is a lawyer), but Bobby & Renita Fletcher Trimble did not have children] and
Two, Mynthia Trimble (Hicks) who m. Claude Hicks and had two children: Claudia Hicks, born 1946 (1st, Mrs. Don Miller; 2nd Mrs. _______) and Larry Charles Hicks.
6. Allen Tobe Scott, born 1844, died 1897. He married Sarah R. Oliver, 1850-1937. One child was Ida Scott, b. December 1874: Ida Scott (Mrs. David Parrish) (Mrs. Moore, and therefore step-mother of Joe Harris Moore). Ida’s children included Scott Parrish of Dyersburg; Roy Parrish who m. Ruby Taylor, no issue; and Leon Parrish who married his step-sibling: Joe Harris Moore’s sister Evelyn Moore. Leon and Evelyn Moore (Parrish) lived in East Tennessee, I think Greenville or Johnson City.
Other children of Tobe Scott were: Allie Scott, born 1873; Margaret Scott Chambers, b. 1898; and Ernest R. Scott, 1884-1934.
7. Thomas Elihu Scott, 20 Oct 1845 in Dyer County, Tennessee. A Church of Christ minister who m. Artie Hall & begot: Lillian Scott (King), no issue, Newbern; Homer Scott; and “Cudd’n Horace” Horace Scott m. Jessie Midyett
[Children of Horace Scott: Annie Maude Scott (Brown) of Guntown, Mississippi, born circa 1907, no issue; Janie Sue (Mrs. Andrew Tilghman) (Mrs. Martin Green) (two children: Terry Tilghman (male) & Doris Ann “D’Ann” Tilghman Davenport of Illinois); and Thomas Elihu Scott, Jr., a Church of Christ preacher in Henderson, Tennessee, who died in his 40s or 50s from leukemia. Rev. Thomas E. Scott had several children, one named Tommy Scott in Henderson; and a daughter Susan; and another son who was adopted. He m. Lavonne Billingsley who lives in Henderson, Tenn., in 2003.
TONG [Tongue or Tonge] Excursus 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 1st 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 2nd wife of John Edwin McCorkle of Dyer County, Tennessee, John E. McCorkle being a 1st 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 ! ! !
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 2nd 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.
I. Alexander McCorkle and 1st wife “Nancy” Agness Montgomery
II. Nancy McCorkle (Mrs. Robert Ramsay) ... Male siblings... Samuel Eusebius...William...Robert...Alexander Jr... James... John m. Catherine Barr... and Joseph McCorkle. Sisters: Mattie McCorkle Archibald; and Elizabeth McCorkle Barr.
McCorkles in North Carolina
Well, somebody has to find and read these old letters coming to NC from McCorkle relatives who had moved west to Tennessee. I hereby charge someone in the coming generations to do so:
“Holdings of the University of North Carolina Libraries: Correspondence and Related Items beginning circa 1790.
“Largely letters to Nancy McCorkle Ramsay and [her husband] Robert Ramsay,
paternal grandparents of James Graham Ramsay, from various family
members.
[Nancy Ramsay is a sister to our ancestor Robert McCorkle, the Robert who died in 1828.]
“The earliest letters are from Betty Andrews to Nancy McCorkle
Ramsay and address personal and religious issues.
Early letters to Robert Ramsay are from friends and family in Tennessee,
notably Thomas Knox and Hugh and Hannah Robinson.
Letters from 1813 on are almost entirely family missives from various male and female McCorkles to their Ramsay counterparts. All of these
originate in Tennessee or Ohio and include descriptions of life
on the western frontier and family relations.
There is one letter from Robert Ramsay to [his brother-in-law] Alexander McCorkle in Tennessee. [This would be Alexander McCorkle Jr., her brother. Elmira, a niece, said Alexander McCorkle Jr. was “emotional in character and joined the Methodists.”
“James Graham Ramsay was born on 1 March 1823 on his father's small plantation in Iredell County, N.C. His parents David (d.1857) and Margaret Foster Graham Ramsay (d. 1855?) were both of Scotch-Irish descent. The Ramsays had emigrated in 1695 to Pennsylvania, and John Graham Ramsay's grandfather had moved toIredell's Coddle Creek community in 1766. Ramsay entered Davidson College in 1838 and was graduated three years later. He taught school for a year, then studied medicine with his brother-in-law before entering the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1848. … Ramsay spent his last years in Salisbury, N.C., with his son
James Hill Ramsay. He died on 10 January 1903 and was buried in the cemetery of the Third Creek Presbyterian Church near Cleveland, where he had been a ruling elder for 49 years.”
“Subseries 4.2. Genealogical Notes
“About 160 items.
“Arrangement: alphabetically by family
“These are miscellaneous notes and a few clipping relating to family history collected by James Graham Ramsay and his son James Hill Ramsay. They are organized by family; notes including information on more than one family are filed with the miscellaneous materials.
“Folder 176-177 Graham family. [William McCorkle, brother to our Robert McCorkle who died in Dyer County, Tennessee, in 1828, married as his 3rd wife a woman née Graham, Jenny Graham (McCorkle).] Next: McCorkle family. ”
[END of quoted material from UNC]
[End of quotation from University of North Carolina archival records]
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 2nd 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 2nd 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 1st 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.
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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.
Siblings of Alexander McCorkle, father of our Robert and grandfather of our Edwin Alexander McCorkle, and great-grandfather of our John Edwin McCorkle.
I recently read that Francis McCorkle was a brother of our ancestor Alexander McCorkle. Alexander McCorkle was an immigrant to the American Colonies from Northern Ireland. Alexander having died in 1800. he is buried Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rowan County, NC, near Mooresville.
Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle, wife of Edwin Alexander McCorkle. She died in 1855, her husband January 10 1853 (or Feb. 10). Jane’s mother was Elizabeth Purviance (Thomas). Elizabeth Purviance (Thomas) had a sister who married a Mr. Maxwell. Evidently, Elizabeth Purviance Thomas named her daughter Jane after a Jane Maxwell.
One of Jane’s brothers was Hiram Jacob Thomas, M.D., who as mentioned above moved to Mississippi and appears on the antebellum Jasper County, Mississippi, census records.
Census 1850, Mississippi: Hiram Jacob Thomas, M.D., a brother to, inter alia, Jane Maxwell Thomas (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle). We have an old tintype of Hiram Jacob Thomas. Something I read said his wife died very soon after marriage, and he never married again. As mentioned, his obituary written in Mississippi stated that although he was a member of no denomination he had led an exemplary Christian life. -- Also listed in the 1850 Mississippi census is a Micajah Thomas, aged 20, overseer, Jasper County, Mississippi.
Micajah THOMAS 21m Overseer MS, in MOUNGER household, Jasper County, Mississippi.
Winfield Purviance McCorkle moved from Dyer County, Tennessee, where he was at home with his father Hiram R. A. McCorkle in the 1870 census, up to Eminence, Henry County, Kentucky, where he became the son-in-law of Sophie Woodruff & Gideon King.. Census records show this:
Winfield Purviance Mccorkle, born about 1851, was living in 1870 in District 9 of Dyer County, Tenn. In the 1910 census, he was living in Eminence, Henry County, Kentucky. The 1920 census lists him as still living in Eminence, Kentucky.
Gideon King is listed in the 1860 census of Eminence, Kentucky, as being 42, his wife Sophia Woodruff King as 34. He is always listed as the founder of Eminence, the one with prescience to grant his own lands in order to get the railroad to come to Eminence. Through his mother néCotton Gideon King was a Cotton 1st cousin to Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle (Mrs. John Edwin McCorkle).
Children of Gideon King of Eminence, Kentucky [son of a Cotton woman (sister to my ancestor John Cotton) & son of Mr. Mountjoy King] & Gideon King’s wife Sophia Woodruff (King):
One. Allie King Haymaker. A sister of Winfield Purviance McCorkle’s wife, “Mamie” Mary P. King McCorkle, was Allie F. King [Mrs. Jesse Newton Haymaker, later of Wichita, Kansas], born circa 1860, a daughter of Gideon King & Sophia Woodruff King. Allie F. King [Haymaker] appears as one year old in the 1860 Eminence, Kentucky, Census.
Two. Mamie King McCorkle (Mrs. Winfield Purviance McCorkle). A child of Gideon & Sophie W. King listed is Mary P., aged 3, daughter [later, Mrs. Winfield Purviance McCorkle]; -- One of Mamie King & Winfield Purviance McCorkle’s children was Graham King McCorkle; another, Allie Mae McCorkle McDiarmid (Mrs. Errett Weir McDiarmid).
Three. James P. King, aged 12.
Four. Also listed is Almedia S. King, aged 28, female.
1st Wife of Finis Alexander McCorkle: Sarah Josephine Jackson, b. 1849; died 25 August 1880, aged 31 years & 9 days, buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Obion County, Tennessee. Parents: “Elder” Gilliam Jackson, born 25 April 1811 in Mecklenberg County, Virginia; moved to Obion County in 1853; and mother Mary Jane “Polly” Kitrell, born January 1813 in Maury County, Tennessee, where Polly Kittrell’s father died. Sallie Jo Jackson m. Finis Alexander McCorkle on 19 December 1867, in Obion County. She was his 1st wife.
People in whom I’m interested whose names have been recorded in the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery.
Algea, Mary Casander, a daughter of Reason & Hessa Algea), died 29 Aug. 1844, aged 10Y, 6M, 7D *
ANDERSON, E. W. Oct 9, 1833 - Jun 25, 1882 *
ANDERSON, Little Annie (Daughter of E.W & N.A) Oct 19, 1871 - May 21,
1876 *
ANDERSON, Nannie A. Feb 1843 - Oct 1901 *
Julius M. Huie & Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie named one of their sons: Howard ANDERSON Huie (1870-1835). I’ve always wondered if he was named after his mother’s brother-in-law Anderson Jehiel McCorkle, a strong possibility, or someone else. -- Sarah Scott Huie had a sister who married Anderson Jehiel McCorkle, so it would make sense that she named her son Howard Anderson Huie after her brother-in-law, Anderson Jehiel McCorkle.
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ATKINS, William M. (Son of Allen A. & E.A. - Killed in Battle of Chickamauga) Feb 25, 1843 Sep 19, 1863 *2
BOBBITT, Leecy (1st Wife of William Wyatt Sep 15, 1822 Jun 16, 1857 * 2nd Wife of Jas. Bobbitt)
John Edwin McCorkle’s diary speaks of Cousin Nancyt Bone.
BONE, Abner Foster Dec 16, 1820 Sep 4, 1838 *
BONE, Abner N. (Son of Hugh Y. & M.J.) Sep 13, 1845 Aug 28, 1869 *
BONE, Hugh Y. Mar 28, 1813 Jun 14, 1853 *
BONE, James Mathew Apr 26, 1852 ??? ??, ???? * [Dr. J. T. Bone, I suppose]
BONE, James T. (Dr.) Mar 10, 1806 Aug 13, 1878 *
BONE, Malvina Norfleet (Wife of Dr. J.T.) Mar 19, 1820 Jul 19,
1885 *
BONE, Nancy R. Feb 5, 1848 Feb 14, 1849 *
HALL, Eliza A. (Wife of Flemming W.) 28Y, 11M, 13D Jan 19, 1855 *
HALL, Francis U. Feb 24, 1848 Jul 17, 1854 *
HOLMES, Adolphus Calvin (Son of J.C. & M.W.) Jan 30, 1857 Sep 5, 1857 *
HOLMES, Ida Launa (Dau of J.C. & M.W.) May 31, 1858 Jul 27, 185? *
HOLMES, Margaret E. (Wife of B.E.) Apr 24, 1824 Mar 17, 1855 *
HOLMES, Mary E. (Dau of B.E. & M.E.) Mar 4, 1853 Mar 4, 1853 *
HOLMES, Mary Louisa (Dau of Robt & P.A.) Jan 22, 1844 Jul 23, 1844 *
HOLMES, Nancy E. (Wife of Wm.) Feb 6, 1792 Jun 8, 1854 *
HOLMES, Polly Ann (Wife of Robert) Jan 15, 1815 Nov 19, 1859 *
HOLMES, R. E. Jul 27, 1834 May 5, 1873 *
HOLMES, Robert Sep 14, 1808 Feb 12, 1883 *
HOLMES, Susanah E. (Wife of Robert E.) Oct 26, 1833 Dec 18, 1858 *
HOLMES, W. H. (m. S.J. Gunter in 1880) Mar 16, 1819 Sep 12, 1885 *
HOLMES, William Mar 8, 1780 - Mar 9, 1859
[I thought there was supposed to be a Green Holmes buried here.]
HOLMES, William M. (Son of Robert & Polly) Dec 14, 1855 Sep 21, 1859 *
CORNELIUS HUIE is buried here. Son of Benjamin Huie (1798-1879) and Lavinia Cowan (Huie) of North Carolina. Aunt Beth Huie said he was carried to this cemetery in a pine box.
KING, Alvin (Aged 33 Years) --- -- ---- Oct 15, 1841 *
KING, William C. (Son of Alvin & Matilda) Sep 14, 1831 Jan 28, 1847 *
KUYKENDAL, Mary Howel --- -- ---- died Jan 6, 1836 *
LOCKE, Ann Elizabeth (Dau of T.D. & M.J.) Dec 23, 1855 Dec 25, 1855 *
LOCKE, Cornelia (Dau of R.W. & Fannie C. ______ Locke) May 27, 1865-
May 27, 1865 * -- I think this must be a child of Richard W. Locke.
LOCKE,
Fannie C. (Wife of R.W.) Mar 17, 1834 Jun 3, 1865 * She lived
to be about 30 years old.
LOCKE, George Dec 14, 1797 Jan 15, 1842 * -- Was this the
father of Richard Locke?
LOCKE, Mary Caroline Jan 1, 1837 Oct 12, 1866 *
LOCKE, Mary Jane (Wife of Thomas D.) Nov 29, 1836 - Mar 10, 1857 *
LOCKE, Richard Turner Jan 10, 1826 - Aug 17, 1842 *
LOCKE, Thomas Sidney (Son of T.D. & S.E.A) Feb 25, 1865 -Jul 3, 1866
*
I’m interested in the following Miller family. One, who was the Jennie E. Miller who m. our James Allen Scott (b. 1839, a twin to Sade Huie) and moved west to Cleburne, Texas?
MILLER, Gilly (Wife of William H. H.) Jun 18, 1799 - Dec 6, 1869
*
MILLER, William H. H. Nov 21, 1798 - Mar 19, 1868 *
n I wonder if the above were the parents of the Jennie Miller who married James Allen [James Scott III, I’m calling him] and moved with him to Cleburne, Texas???
n MILLER, Adelia (Dau of W.H.H. & Gilly) Mar 8, 1834- Feb 15, 1867
n ROBERTS, Julia Ann Tennessee (Wife of R. & Daughter of Wm. H.H. & Gilly Miller) Jan 23, 1836 - Nov 10, 1865 * -- [At the time of her death, the Civil War was over. – The Battle of Appommattox was 9 April 1865, where Lee surrendered. With communications so poor, however, there was a “long surrender” of the Confederacy. Joe Johnston, e.g., didn’t surrender until May/June 1865 at Goldsboro, NC. The last battle of the Civil War was at Palmetto, Texas, near Brownsville and, ironically, was a Confederate victory.]
n
MINTON, Emily Mar 24, 1834 Jul 6, 1843 *
MINTON, George W. (Aged 6Y, 3M, 11D) Aug 17, 184? Nov 28, 184? *
MINTON, Infant (Son of Drury & Elizabeth) Jan 14, 1847 Jan 23, 1847 *"
MONTGOMERY, John M. Dec 7, 1844 - Sep 21, 1868 * [Where is
wife, A.C. Montgomery?]
MONTGOMERY, Leota M. (Dau of J.M. & A.C.) May 13, 1861 - Aug 30, 1865 *
PARKS, Jacob --- -- 1777 - Oct 1, 1841 *
PARKS, William H. H. (Son of Smith Parks & Adaline) Aug 3,
1842 - May 16, 1844 * Note: Benjamin Huie, 1798-1879, bought some
land in Gibson County from Smith Parks.
sibbie (“Sippie?” Hortense PIPKIN Jones of Yorkville was the mother of Congaressman Ed Jones; Lawrence Jones and Wilson Jones. (Wilson Jones was killed in World War II, and his niece Jennifer Wilson Jones Kinnard, M.D., is named in part after him). Jennifer has one child, a daughter, Meghan Kinnard. “Miss” Hortense Pipkin married “Gabe” Jones of Yorkville, whose real name was never known to me until recently: Will Ed Jones. – Ed Jones m. Llewellyn Wyatt, a paternal granddaughter of Harriet Hendricks and a great-granddaughter of Uriah C. Hendricks. Ed and Llewellyn Jones had 2 daughters: Mary Llew Jones McGuire who was born in 1943 and died in 1977, and Jennifer Jones Kinnard, M.D., in Memphis. Gladys and Lawrence Jones had two daughters: Wanda Jones (Partee) and Paula Jones (Matthews). -- Tom McCorkle, a man of color in Yorkville, called Hortense Jones “MissSippie.”-- One of Hortense Pipkin Jones’ brothers in Yorkville was Cleo Pipkin, who had 2 daughters Marilytaine Pipkin (Mrs. W.C. Collins of Paris, Tenn.) and Janice Pipkin, who became a nurse. Another brother was Harry Pipkin, who married “Manie Mac” McCorkle and has the finest tombstone in the [new] Yorkville, Tennessee, cemetery.
There’s a heartbreaking row of little Pipkin children in this old cemetery, many of whose tombstones say “planted on earth to bloom in Heaven.”
PIPKIN, Caty F. (Dau of F.M.) Dec 10, 1865 Jun 24, 1878 *
PIPKIN, Cornell C. (Son of F.M. & D.) Dec 9, 1879 Jul 25, 1881 *
PIPKIN, Delphina (Wife of F.M.) Sep 4, 1840 Jan 25, 1881 *
PIPKIN, Dora L. (Dau of F.M. & D.) Feb 14, 1864 Dec 20, 1881 *
PIPKIN, Eliza J. (Wife of F.M.) Sep 25, 1853 Jul 31, 1887 *
PIPKIN, Kittie S. (Dau of F.M. & E.J.) Oct 15, 1886 Aug 15, 1887 *
PIPKIN, Mar??? (Dau of F.M. & E.J.) Aug 17, 1895 May 28, 1896
PIPKIN, Susie B. (Dau of F.M. & E.J.) May 19, 1885 Sep 28, 1886 *
RAMSEY, Mollie Permealia (Wife of W.D.) 21 Y, 5M,
23D Feb 3, 1871 *
RAMSEY, Nannie Bell (Wife of W.D.) Aug 5, 1853 Nov 18, 1873 *
RAMSEY, Willie Abner (Son of W.D. & N.B.) Feb 3, 1873 May 10, 1877 *"
ROBERTS, Julia Ann Tennessee (Wife of R. & Dau of W.H.H. & Gilly Miller) Jan 23, 1836 Nov 10, 1865 *
ROBINSON, Emma P. 9Y, 9M, 18D
Aug 7, 1862 *
ROBINSON, H. K. P. 22Y, 6M, 15D Apr 8, 1868 *
ROBINSON, Jefferson 61Y, 6M, 22D Sep 4, 1865 *
ROBINSON, John W. 22Y, 8M, 28D Jul 29, 1864 *
ROBINSON, Martha T. (Wife of J.) Aug 2, 1810 Apr 12, 1840 *
ROBINSON, Samuel J. Jul 19, 1854 Dec 22, 1872
SCOTT, Unknown (Wife of James) Feb 7, 1813 - May 31, 1847
* This is Violet B. Roddy or Viola B. Roddy Scott. She is my
ancestor. -- I have no doubt. The dates are exact.
We need to get her a new tombstone.
Violet B. Roddy Scott was the mother of, inter alia, Sarah Elizabeth “Sade” Scott Huie (Mrs. Julius M. Huie), 1839-1893; and her twin brother James Allen Scott, who moved to Cleburne, Texas. Mother of Rev. Thomas Elihu Scott, minister; of Alan “Tobe” Scott; mother of Mrs. Anderson Jehiel McCorkle;
There is a slight possibility (pure speculation) that the following tombstone could be for James Scott or “JIMPSE”, husband of Violet B. Roddy Scott: Unknown (Aged 61Y, 10M & 4 or 14 D) Sep 13, 1810 - Jul 27, 1872 * All I have to do is check the dates.
SCOTT, James [for convenience, called here: James Scott I]
Aug 20, 1777 - Dec 30, 1853. He is my ancestor. He married Sarah
Dickey Scott, probably in York District, South Carolina.
SCOTT, Sarah [Dickey] 60Y, 4M, 23D Born 1777-Mar 23,
1838. Wife of James Scott I, also born 1777. She is our ancestor.
Daughter of John Dickey & Sarah Robinson Dickey of York District,
S.C.
SCOTT, Wm. 0Y, 0M, 28D Mar 28, 1835 -- Presumably a son
of Violet B. Roddy & James Scott II.
SMITH, Elizabeth (Wife of J.H.) ?Y, 3M, 20D ??? ??, 1868 *
SMITH, Hugh A. (Son of James H. & Elizabeth) Dec 11, 1831 Oct 11, 1851 *
SMITH, Infant (of Dr. J.H. & M.M.) --- -- ---- --- -- ----
SMITH, Lizzie Jun 22, 1848 - May 1, 1871 *
SMITH, Margaret Malvina (Wife of J.H.) Dec 2, 1855 Dec 6, 1884 *
SMITH, Victoria A. (Wife of J.W. & Dau of A.J. & S.C. Oliphint) Aug 12, 1855
May 17, 1898 *
TUCKER, Druslia N. (Wife of Stephen & Dau of A.C. & M.R. WILSON) Mar 14, 1843 Mar 3, 1868 *
VAN EATON, Sarah E. (Wife of R.M.VanEaton) Feb 10, 1845 - Mar 15, 1871 * -- Note: LaMyra Huie married Benjamin Lafayette VanEaton. Was this R.M. Van Eaton kin to B.L. VanEaton?
VAUGHN, E. R. (Dr.) Oct 2, 1838 - Jan 8, 1887 *
VAUGHN, Fronie (Wife of Dr. E.R. Vaughn & Dau of Dr. Jas T. & M.N.
Bone) Jul 15, 1846- Jun 11, 1875 *
ZARICOR, Mary N. (Wife of Rev. Wm. M) Jan 28, 1830 - Aug 5, 1889 *
ZARICOR, W. M. Apr 29, 1829 - Mar 10, 1894 *
ZARICOR, William L. (Son of W.M. & M.N.) 2Y, 10M, 29D. Dec 29, 1870
*
BONE, Fronie, dau. of Dr. Jas. T. & M. N. Bone, July 15, 1846 -
June 11, 1875
Unknown (Maybe Bell DODSON or GOODSON) Aug 21, 1795 - Sep 16, 1871 *
Unknown (Last name ends with NON) Apr 15, 1850 - Sep 11, 1869 *
Unknown 14Y, 5M, 23D Feb 27, 1849 *
Two decayed mausoleums with the following plaque: "THIS MOUND IS A BRICK * MAUSOLEUM WHICH HAS CAVED IN. FAMILY & NUMBER OF GRAVES UNKNOWN."
[End of Grave stones of interest to me that lie in the old Yorkville C.P. Church Cemetery]
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Notice in The Kentucky Gazette:815 10 October 1798, vol. XI, no. 629, Thomas Arnold regarding a suit in Paris District Court: Samuel Henderson, Andrew Mitchel, John Purviance, and Jeremiah Frame.
A summary of the Rowan Co NC Deed Book says, “21 Dec 1778 John Purviance enters 500 acres in Rowan County on the north side of Catawba River. Includes improvements where Samuel Oxford and John Oxford Sr. lived.”.
History of the Medical College of the U of Maryland. –[I Marsha Huie in 2005 don’t think this is our John Purviance: --
On that day in March 1826, the talk around the State House in Annapolis was that the legislature was to take over the University of Maryland. Drs. Potter and DeButts were founding members of the school’s board of regents. In the faculty of physic (medicine), they were popular professors of theory and practice of medicine and chemistry, respectively. … … …
The regents reacted. On April 17, they resolved to seek legal counsel for an opinion as to the constitutionality of the state’s action. The counsel were of top quality: William Wirt, a very well known U.S. attorney general; John Purviance, a prominent Baltimore attorney; and Daniel Webster, a rising star in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Robert1 King birth date unknown married Mary Morrison. Their children were: (1) Rebecca R. King b. in Rowan Co., NC.; (2) Margaret King b. in Rowan Co., NC, circa 1766. (3) Martha King b. in Rowan Co., NC, circa 1767; (4) Richard King b. 1768 in Rowan Co., NC, 1768.(5) Anna King b. in Rowan Co., NC, 1773. (6) Rev. Samuel King b. in Rowan Co., NC, April 19, 1775. (7) Mary “Polly” King born in Rowan Co., NC, circa 1775. (8) William M. King b. in Rowan Co., NC, July 17, 1777. (9) Elizabeth King born in Rowan Co., NC, 1779. (10) Davis King in Rowan Co., NC, 1784. (11) Rhoda King born in Rowan Co., NC, October 5, 1787.
Robert King and Mary Morrison had the following children:
Rebecca
R.2 King (Mrs. John
Bell) was born in Rowan Co., NC. Rebecca died October 17, 1843 in Madison Co.,
Tenn. N. John became the father of Elizabeth Weir Bell in Winchester,
Franklin Co., TN, May 16, 1807.
.
Margaret King (Mrs. Thomas Donnell) was born in Rowan Co., NC circa 1766.
Margaret died December 25, 1827 in Sumner Co, TN, at 61 years of age. Her
body was interred after December 25, 1827 in Sumner Co., TN, Rice-Henley
Cemetery. She married Thomas Donnell in Rowan Co., NC, August 26, 1786. Thomas
was born in maybe NC March 18, 1755. Thomas died February 8, 1842 in Sumner Co.,
TN, at 86 years of age. His body was interred after February 8, 1842 in Sumner
Co., TN, Rice-Henley Cemetery.
Martha
King (Purviance)(McCorkle) -- [widow of the John Purviance
who was the “scalped”Purviance] She was born in Rowan Co., NC
circa 1767. She married twice. First, John Purviance in Rowan Co., NC, circa
1768. John was born in Rowan Co., NC 1768. John died March, 1792 in Sumner Co.,
TN, at 23 years of age; John was a son of “Colonel” John Purviance, Sr.,
& Mary Jane Wasson (Purviance). After John Purviance [Jr?] was scalped
in Sumner County, Tennessee, Martha “Mattie” King married William McCorkle
in Sumner Co., TN, on December 25, 1794.
Richard
King was born in Rowan Co., NC 1768, and died July 14, 1834 in Sumner
Co., TN, at 66 years of age. He married Rachel Blythe. Rachel
was born in Rowan Co, NC circa 1774 and died August 16, 1815 in Gallatin, Sumner
Co., TN, at 41 years of age. [Our Robert McCorkle married 1st
Elizabeth Blythe.]
Anna
King (Mrs. Rev. Wm. McGee was born in Rowan Co., NC 1773. Anna died in
MO. She married Rev. William McGee in Sumner Co., TN, May 13, 1796. William was
born in Guilford Co., NC, about 1768. William McGee died September 20, 1817 in
Bedford Co., TN, at 49 years of age. His body was interred after
September 20, 1817 in Bedford Co., Tenn., Three Forks Cumberland
Presbyterian Church Cemetery. His body was moved to Beech Cumberland
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Hendersonville, Tennessee, on February 4, 1993.
He was a C.P. minister.
Rev.
Samuel King was born in Rowan Co., NC April 19, 1775. and died
September 13, 1842 in Johnson Co., MO, at 67 years of age. His body was
interred after September 13, 1842 in Johnson Co., MO, Shiloh C.P. Church
Cemetery. He married Anna Dixon. Anna was born 1779.
Mary
“Polly” King (Mrs. Rev. James Farr) was born in Rowan Co., NC
circa 1775. and died in KY. She married Rev. James Farr in Sumner Co., TN, March
3, 1793. James Farr was born Mecklenburg Co., NC 1767and died September 11, 1834
in Graves Co., KY, at 67 years of age.
William
M. King was born in Rowan Co., NC-- July 17, 1777. William died
September 9, 1814 in Sumner Co., TN, at 37 years of age. His body
was interred after September 9, 1814 in Sumner Co., TN, King Cemetery. He
married Priscilla Hassell in Sumner Co., TN, December 8, 1808.
Priscilla was born in probably Tyrell Co., NC June 13, 1788. Priscilla died
March 3, 1822 in probably Wilson Co., TN, at 33 years of age. Her body was
interred after March 3, 1822 in Sumner Co., TN, King Cemetery.
.
Elizabeth King was born in Rowan Co., NC 1779 and died
September 30, 1820 in Rowan Co., NC, at 41 years of age. Her body
was interred after September 30, 1820 in Rowan Co., NC, Thyatra Cemetery.
Davis
King was born in Rowan Co., NC 1784 and died
February 23, 1813 in Sumner Co., TN, at 28 years of age. He married Sally
Joiner in Sumner Co., TN, January 27, 1808.
Rhoda
King was born in Rowan Co., NC October 5, 1787. She
married John Baker Prendergast in Sumner Co., TN,
circa 1804. John was born in Rowan Co., NC circa 1780 and died
1846 in Limestone Co., Texas, at 66 years of age. At 28 years of age John
became the father of Luke Baker Prendergast in Sumner Co., TN, November 25,
1808.
Westward from Pennsylvania
...
former tavern owner, John Purviance who, sensing the real estate
opportunity
at hand, bought several lots along the road then offered them up for sale.
...
www.newdce.com/westward_from_pennsylvania.htm - 106k
“Mattie” Martha King (Purviance) (McCorkle) born: circa1767 -
Rowan County, North Carolina, 1st married circa 1785 - Rowan County,
North Carolina
1st husband: John Purviance [scalped by hostile Indians while in Middle
Tennessee, then called Sumner County] born: 1768 - Rowan County, North
Carolina, and this John Purviance died: March 1792 - Sumner County,
Tennessee. This John Purviance was a son of Revolutionary War Colonel John
Purviance, Sr., & wife Mary Jane Wasson Purviance. A sister of this
John Purviance who was scalped was Elizabeth Purviance (Mrs. William Thomas);
and another brother was “Elder” David Purviance, a minister and Ky then Ohio
legislator. “Mattie King (widow Purviance) then married William McCorkle
on 25 December 1794 in Sumner County, Tennessee [bondsman:
Samuel King]
This William McCorkle was a brother to our ancestor Robert McCorkle. –William McCorkle’s niece Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache’s letter says Mattie King Purviance (McCorkle)died on the way from North Carolina and is buried in a rude grave on the road. The above entry from the Internet about the King family says Martha King died in 1792 in Sumner County, Tennessee.]
Richard King m. Rachel Blythe. Was this Rachel Blythe a sister to Elizabeth “Lizzie” Blythe McCorkle? Richard King was born: 1768 - Rowan County, North Carolina and died: 14 July 1834 - Sumner County, Tennessee. Richard & Rachel married: 21 July 1794 - Sumner County, North Carolina [bondsman: Andrew Blythe] To repeat, was Rachel Blythe a sister to the 1st wife of our ancestor Robert McCorkle (Elizabeth Blythe) I think Rachel Blythe was a daughter of James Blythe and Elizabeth King—Rachel Blythe King born: c1774 - Rowan County, North Carolina and died: 16 August 1815 - Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee
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Internet news from Washington County,
Pennsylvania: :Crumrine
– Donegal Township
John
Purviance had been keeping tavern in his large log house a number
of years when the preliminary surveys were made for the great National road
from ...
www.chartiers.com/crumrine/twp-donegal.html -
Darke County, Ohio 1825 Census
of Males
...
John Wooden, Moses Woods, John Brawley, John Purviance, Anthony
Woods, William
Wiley, Nathaniel S. McClure, Neal Lawrence, John McClure, Jacob Miller, ...
census.dcoweb.org/1825non.htm - 8k -
Cached -
Similar pages
Maryland Historical Society Library:
J. Hall Pleasants Papers ...
John
Purviance opinion -- Wallis and Company, 1820 January 17. c. from Edward
Canning -- bond, 1820 October 30. Box 10. d. articles of agreement with Thomas
...
Pension: John Bone 1833,
Revolutionary War: Muhlenberg County ...
The other three
months same service, he was under Captain Graham and Lieutenant
John Purviance. The other officers of his company not recollected.
...
ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/
ky/muhlenberg/pension/b5000001.txt
The National Society of the Daughters
of the American Revolution
John
Purviance, as follows: 1. WL McCown (b. 1843) m. 1869 Anna L. Mendenhall
(b.
1850). ... John Purviance (1743-1823) served as lieutenant
in Col.
...
www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/dar.htm
Iowa DAR members. Here is one who claims DAR membership through John Purviance, my ancestor, too:
Volume 100 page 11 Miss Nellie Mccown. DAR ID Number: 99029 Born in Shelby County, Iowa. Descendant of Lieut. John Purviance, as follows:
[Sophie King McCorkle m. Howard Anderson Huie. Children included Howard Ewing Huie, father of Sophie Joyce Huie Cashdollar and Marsha Cope Huie.]
John Purviance (1743-1823)
1. W. L. McCown (b. 1843) m. 1869 Anna L. Mendenhall (b. 1850). [This generation
for Marsha Huie would be: John Edwin McCorkle whose 2nd wife
was Mary Elizabeth Cotton .]
2. William McCown (1809-95) m. 1831 Anna Purviance (1809-65). [For Marsha Huie,
this generation would be: Jane Maxwell Thomas, daughter of Elizabeth
Purviance Thomas. Jane Maxwell Thomas m. Edwin Alexander McCorkle born
in Rowan Co., NC in 1798 or 1799; moved to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, then to Dyer
Co., Tennessee.
3. David Purviance (1766-1828) m. Mary Ireland
(1762-1835). [This David Purviance was a brother to my Elizabeth
Purviance (Mrs. William Thomas).
4. John Purviance m. 1764 Jane Wasson. This John
Purviance (1743-1823) served as lieutenant in Col. Griffith
Rutherford's regiment, Rowan County, North Carolina militia but was given
the honorific “colonel.” He was born in Pennsylvania and died in
Wilson County, Tenn.
http://members.fortunecity.com/gen4m/Dickey8.htm
Here we get to our Dickey ancestors. The Dickeys were mixed up with the Purviances, evidently. I got this from the Internet and edited it. This lists the Dickey generations:
I Robert Dickey
II John Dickey
III John Dickey
IV John Dickey
V William Dickey
VI George Dickey
VII John Dickey
VIII John Dickey (b. 25 Aug. 1740 in Virginia, died 1801 York District, South Carolina; married Sarah Robinson).
IX Sarah Dickey (Scott), born 1777 York District SC, married James Scott, born 1777; died near Yorkville, Gibson County, Tennessee.
Generation 10 below:
X Tirzah Scott (Mrs. Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle,. RAH McCorkle was a son of Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle); and another son of Gen. IX Sarah Dickey Scott was: X. “JIMPSE” James Scott who m. Violet B. Roddy [parents of Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie, Mrs. Julius M. Huie]; and another Generation X. son was William Scott who m. Nancy Edwards Wellborn [parents of Tennessee Alice Scott McCorkle, the 1st wife of John Edwin McCorkle]; and another Generation X son was Lemuel Locke Scott who m. Margaret Permelia McCorkle [a daughter of Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle] and X. John Dickey Scott alia
33. JOHN [generation 8] DICKEY (JOHN7, GEORGE6, WILLIAM [5], JOHN III [4],
JR. DICKEY [3] JOHN, JOHN [2] DICKEY, ROBERT Dickey [1st generation]).
John S. Dickey was born August 25, 1740 in Virginia,and died 1801 in York Co.,South Carolina.
He married SARAH ROBINSON.
Children of JOHN DICKEY and SARAH ROBINSON are:
1. JOHN [9] DICKEY.
2. REBECKAH DICKEY.
1) SARAH DICKEY (Scott).
This is our Sarah Dickey Scott, born 1777; died Yorkville, Gibson County, Tennessee. Sarah Dickey Scott’s children included
Tirzah Scott (Mrs. Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle);
James Scott [II] who m. Violet B. Roddy (Scott), parents of, inter alia, Mrs. Julius M. Huie, née Sarah Elizabeth Scott, 1839-93)
William Scott who m. Nancy Edwards Wellborn, parents of inter alia Tennessee “Tennie” Scott McCorkle;
Lemuel Locke Scott who m. Margaret Permelia McCorkle
?alia?
4). WILLIAM DICKEY.
5) JAMES DICKEY, b. September 02, 1766; d. December 31, 1831.
6) MATTHEW DICKEY, b. 1776, York District, South Carolina;
d. 1810, Franklin Co., Tennessee.
7) DAVID DICKEY, b. Abt. 1785, York CO., South Carolina; d. 1840.
http://members.fortunecity.com/gen4m/Dickey8.htm
Descendants of Robert Dickey (1463
- 1538)
Glasgow,
Scotland
Genealogy Report 1463 - 1900
Generation 8
c.1710 - c.1780
Next Generation 9
Generation No. 8
18. JOHN8 DICKEY (THOMAS7 DICKEY, JR, THOMAS6 DICKEY, WILLIAM5,
JOHN III4, JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born
Abt. 1723 in Muckamore, Cty. Antrim, Ireland, and died 1792
in Baltimore Co., Maryland. He married ANN THOMPSON,
daughter of JOHN THOMPSON and his wife, MARGARET ?? .
Children of JOHN DICKEY and ANN THOMPSON are:
i. JOHN9 DICKEY.
ii. ELIZABETH DICKEY, m. JOHN GORDON,
March 08, 1802, Baltimore, Md.
iii. JANE DICKEY.
40. iv. ROBERT DICKEY.
v. MARY ANN DICKEY.
vi. ANNE DICKEY.
19. GEORGE8 DICKEY (THOMAS7 DICKEY, JR, THOMAS6 DICKEY,
WILLIAM5, JOHN III4, JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2
DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born Abt. 1731 in Muckamore, Cty.
Antrim, Ireland, and died 1800 in Muckamore, Cty. Antrim,
Ireland. He married SARAH THOMPSON June 11, 1765,
daughter of JOHN THOMPSON and MARGARET.
Children of GEORGE DICKEY and SARAH THOMPSON are:
i. ARTHUR9 DICKEY, b. 1766, Muckamore, Antrim,
Ireland; d. 1823; m. ELIZABETH ?.
41. ii. THOMAS DICKEY, b. February 15, 1768,
Muckamore, Antrim, Ireland; d. January 17, 1828,
Marietta, Pennsylvania.
iii. ELIZABETH DICKEY, b. 1770; m. GEORGE SCOTT.
20. JAMES8 DICKEY (THOMAS7 DICKEY, JR, THOMAS6 DICKEY,
WILLIAM5, JOHN III4, JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2
DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born Abt. 1733, and died Abt. 1769 in
Muckamore, Cty. Antrim, Ireland.
Child of JAMES DICKEY is:
i. ALEXANDER9 DICKEY, d. 1786, Muckamore, Cty. Antrim, Ireland.
21. WM. & ESTHER'S CHILD8 DICKEY (WILLIAM7, THOMAS6,
WILLIAM5, JOHN III4, JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY,
ROBERT1). She married JOHN PURVIANCE.
Children of WM. DICKEY and JOHN PURVIANCE are:
i. AGNES9 PURVIANCE.
ii. MOSES PURVIANCE.
22. CATHERINE8 DICKEY (WILLIAM7, THOMAS6, WILLIAM5,
JOHN III4, JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1).
She married HENRY RENICK.
Child of CATHERINE DICKEY and HENRY RENICK is:
i. ESTHER9 RENICK.
23. JOHN8 DICKEY (WILLIAM7, THOMAS6, WILLIAM5, JOHN III4,
JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born
1708, and died 1772 in New Castle Co., Delaware.
He married ELIZABETH COWAN? Abt. 1731.
Children of JOHN DICKEY and ELIZABETH COWAN? are:
42. i. JR. DICKEY9 JOHN, d. May 1771, Guilford Co.,
North Carolina.
43. ii. JAMES DICKEY, d. 1796, Rowan Co.,
North Carolina.
44. iii. MARGARET DICKEY.
45. iv. MARY DICKEY.
v. WILLIAM DICKEY, b. 1736.
46. vi. ROBERT DICKEY, b. Abt. 1740; d. Bef. 1772,
South Carolina.
47. vii. THOMAS DICKEY, b. 1764, Rowan Co.,
North Carolina; d. 1807.
24. MOSES8 DICKEY (WILLIAM7, THOMAS6, WILLIAM5, JOHN III4,
JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born
Abt. 1710 in Muckamore, County Antrim, Ireland, and died
June 01, 1766 in Paxtang, Dauphin, Pennsylvania. He
married (1) MARGARET FOSTER circa 1737. He married
(2) AGNES? WILSON About. 1764.
Children of MOSES DICKEY and MARGARET FOSTER are:
48. i. CATHERINE9 DICKEY, b. 1738, Dauphin Co.,
Pennsylvania; d. 1804, Paxtang, Dauphin Co.,
Pennsylvania.
49. ii. SARAH DICKEY, b. Abt. 1740; d. Aft. 1794,
Lancaster Co., South Carolina.
50. iii. AGNES DICKEY, b. Abt. 1742; d. Abt. 1810, South Carolina.
51. iv. WILLIAM DICKEY, b. 1745, Lancaster, Lancaster Co.,
Pennsylvania; d. Bef. June 09, 1804,
Swatara, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania.
52. v. JOHN DICKEY, b. 1748, Lancaster, Lancaster Co.,
Pennsylvania; d. 1779, Rowan Co., North Carolina.
vi. MARY DICKEY, b. Abt. 1752; d. April 06, 1764;
m. ROBERT ALLISON, May 13, 1774, Lancaster, Lancaster Co., Pa..
vii. MOSES & MARGARET'S CHILD DICKEY, b. Abt. 1754;
d. Aft. 1759.
viii. MOSES & MARGARET'S CHILD DICKEY, b. Abt. 1757;
d. January 07, 1759.
Children of MOSES DICKEY and ? AGNES are:
53. ix. MOSES9 DICKEY, b. 1764; d. 1835, Dutchtown,
Columbiana Co., Ohio.
54. x. GEORGE DICKEY, b. 1766; d. Aft. 1850.
25. JR. DICKEY8 WILLIAM (WILLIAM7 DICKEY, THOMAS6,
WILLIAM5, JOHN III4, JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY,
ROBERT1) was born Abt. 1712. He married MARGARET WILSON
Abt. 1734, daughter of JOSEPH WILSON and his wife,JANET.
Children of JR. WILLIAM and MARGARET WILSON are:
55. i. MARGARET9 DICKEY.
56. ii. JOHN DICKEY, d. 1802, Caswell Co., North Carolina.
iii. WILLIAM III DICKEY.
57. iv. MOSES DICKEY, b. Abt. 1735; d. 1767,
Lancaster, Lancster Co., South Carolina.
58. v. JAMES DICKEY, b. Abt. 1736; d. Abt. 1804,
Orange Co., North Carolina.
26. JAMES8 DICKEY (GEORGE7, THOMAS6, WILLIAM5, JOHN III4,
JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born
March 1712/13 in Muckamore, Antrim, Ireland, and died
October 1792 in Rutherfold Co., North Carolina. Married
(1) CATHERINE HUET Abt. 1737, daughter of ANTHONY HUET.
He married (2) MARY ? (WIDOW) KILPATRICK Abt. 1757.
Children of JAMES DICKEY and CATHERINE HUET are:
i. JOHN9 DICKEY.
59. ii. MARGARET DICKEY, b. Chester Co. Pennsylvania;
d. Aft. 1832, Scotts Creek, Haywood Co., North Carolina.
60. iii. ISABEL DICKEY, b. Abt. 1739, Chester Co.
Pennsylvania; d. April 1831, Lincoln Co.,
North Carolina.
61. iv. GEORGE DICKEY, b. 1743; d. May 02, 1780, Honor
Creek, Rutherford Co., North Carolina.
62. v. ANTHONY DICKEY, b. November 29, 1745,
Chester Co., Pennsylvania; d. Aft. 1832,
Rutherford Co., North Carolina.
63. vi. DAVID DICKEY, b. August 16, 1747, Augusta Co.,
Virginia; d. April 07, 1835, Greenville Co.,
South Carolina.
vii. MOSES DICKEY, b. Abt. 1749; d. 1779.
27. JOHN8 DICKEY (GEORGE7, THOMAS6, WILLIAM5, JOHN III4,
JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born
1724 in Londonderry, Ireland, and died March 20, 1808 in
Statesville, Iredell Co., North Carolina. He married
(1) RACHEL TANNER Bef. 1751, daughter of PHILIP TANNER
and his wife, MARY . He married (2) ELIZABETH LEASEY
November 18, 1793 in North Carolina.
Children of JOHN DICKEY and RACHEL TANNER are:
64. i. ELIZABETH9 DICKEY, b. July 12, 1750,
Londonderry, Ireland; d. November 19, 1803,
Lancaster, South Carolina.
65. ii. MARY 'POLLY' DICKEY, b. October 09, 1759,
Statesville, Iredell Co., North Carolina; d. Aft. 1803.
66. iii. SAMUEL DICKEY, b. August 29, 1765, Statesville,
Iredell Co., North Carolina; d. December 1840,
Etowah, McNinn Co., Tennessee.
Children of JOHN DICKEY and ELIZABETH LEASEY are:
67. iv. MARGARET 'PEGGY'9 DICKEY, b. September 21,
1795, Statesville, North Carolina;
d. Oct. 06, 1855, Iredell Co. North Carolina.
v. JOHN L. DICKEY, b. October 08, 1799,
Statesville, Iredell Co., North Carolina;
d. Bef. 1845; m. JOHN L.'S WIFE.
28. MOSES8 DICKEY (GEORGE7, THOMAS6, WILLIAM5, JOHN III4,
JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born
Abt. 1726, and died 1753 in York Co., South Carolina.
He married MARY ??.
Children of MOSES DICKEY and MARY are:
i. MOSES9 DICKEY.
ii. ROBERT DICKEY.
29. ELIZABETH8 DICKEY (GEORGE7, THOMAS6, WILLIAM5,
JOHN III4, JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1)
was born Aft. 1727, and died 1797 in E. Knottingham Twp.,
Chester Co., Pennsylvania. Married PHILIP TANNER JR.,
son of PHILIP TANNER and his wife, MARY.
Children of ELIZABETH DICKEY and JR. PHILIP are:
68. i. HUGH9 TANNER.
69. ii. PHILIP TANNER JR.'S CHILD TANNER.
30. ADAM8 DICKEY (ADAM7, THOMAS6, WILLIAM5, JOHN III4,
JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born
1722, and died 1781. He married JANE STRAHAN.
Children of ADAM DICKEY and JANE STRAHAN are:
i. MARGARET9 DICKEY.
ii. JOHN DICKEY.
iii. JAMES DICKEY, m. MARY PINKERTON.
iv. ADAM DICKEY, m. SALLY MARSH.
v. BENJAMIN DICKEY, m. ISOBEL MARSH.
vi. SALLY DICKEY.
vii. ELEANOR DICKEY.
viii. ISABEL DICKEY.
ix. JOSEPH DICKEY, m. ANNA BARBOR.
x. THOMAS DICKEY.
xi. JANE DICKEY.
xii. MATTHEW DICKEY, b. 1772; d. 1854; m. ELIZABETH MARCH.
31. ROBERT8 DICKEY (JOHN7, JOHN6, WILLIAM5, JOHN III4,
JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born Abt.
1776, and died 1856.
Children of ROBERT DICKEY are:
i. ELIZABETH9 DICKEY, m. ?? HUDSON.
70. ii. JESSE C. DICKEY, b. 1808; d. 1891.
iii. JOHN DICKEY, b. Abt. 1814;
d. January 28, 1890; m. KATHERINE ??.
32. JANE8 DICKEY (JOHN7, GEORGE6, WILLIAM5, JOHN III4,
JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born
1738, and died 1763. She married THOMAS JAMIESON 1756.
Children of JANE DICKEY and THOMAS JAMIESON are:
i. JAMES9 JAMIESON.
ii. JOHN JAMIESON.
iii. MARTHA JAMIESON.
iv. WILLIAM JAMIESON.
33. JOHN8 DICKEY (JOHN7, GEORGE6, WILLIAM5, JOHN III4,
JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born
August 25, 1740 in Virginia, and died 1801 in York Co.,
South Carolina. He married SARAH ROBINSON.
Children of JOHN DICKEY and SARAH ROBINSON are:
i. JOHN9 DICKEY.
ii. REBECKAH DICKEY.
iii. SARAH DICKEY.
iv. WILLIAM DICKEY.
71. v. JAMES DICKEY, b. September 02, 1766; d.
December 31, 1831.
72. vi. MATTHEW DICKEY, b. 1776, York District, South
Carolina; d. 1810, Franklin Co., Tennessee.
73. vii. DAVID DICKEY, b. Abt. 1785, York CO.,
South Carolina; d. 1840.
34. GEORGE8 DICKEY (JOHN7, GEORGE6, WILLIAM5, JOHN III4,
JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born
April 15, 1742 in Albemarle Co., Virginia, d. August 04,
1817 in Madison Co., Alabama. He married MARY 'POLLY'
SCOTT 1764.
Children of GEORGE DICKEY and MARY SCOTT are:
i. MARTHA9 DICKEY.
ii. MARY POLLY DICKEY, m. SAMUEL DOUGAN,
April 21, 1801, Logan Co., Ky..
74. iii. ELEANOR DICKEY, b. York District,
South Carolina.
iv. NANCY DICKEY, m. PETER BELEW, March 15, 1808.
v. SARAH DICKEY, d. Aft. 1860, Warwick Co.,
Indiana; m. JOHN CARNAHAN, December 10, 1810.
75. vi. JOHN DICKEY, b. Abt. 1765, Albemarle Co.,
Virginia;d. Abt. 1840, Gibson Co., Tennessee.
76. vii. REBECCA DICKEY, b. Abt. 1766; d. 1832.
77. viii. EPHRAIM E. DICKEY, b. Abt. 1771, York Co.,
South Carolina; d.1840, Lincoln Co., Tennessee.
78. ix. JEAN DICKEY, b. May 15, 1778;
d. February 25, 1858, Williamson Co., Texas.
79. x. GEORGE JR. DICKEY, b. February 15, 1785,
York Co., South Carolina; d. October 05, 1870,
Dyer Co., Tennessee.
35. ROBERT8 DICKEY (JOHN7, GEORGE6, WILLIAM5, JOHN III4,
JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born
November 25, 1745 in Albemarle Co., Virginia, d. May 24,
1817 in So. Salem, Ohio. He married (1) MARGARET
HILLHOUSE March 14, 1772 in York Co., S.C., daughter of
WILLIAM HILLHOUSE and WILLIAM'SWIFE. He married
(2) MARY HENRY Jan. 25, 1780 in S. C., daughter of JAMES
HENRY and AGNES MITCHELL.
Children of ROBERT DICKEY and MARGARET HILLHOUSE are:
80. i. JOHN9 DICKEY, b. February 20, 1773, York Co.,
South Carolina; d. Sept. 22, 1850, Giles Co.,
Tennessee.
81. ii. WILLIAM DICKEY, b. December 06, 1774,
Bullock's Creek, York Co., South Carolina; d.
December 05, 1857, Bloomingburg, Fayette Co.,
Ohio.
82. iii. MARTHA 'PATSY' DICKEY, b. December 09, 1776,
South Carolina; d. Abt. 1825, Rock Springs, Tennessee.
Children of ROBERT DICKEY and MARY HENRY are:
83. iv. JAMES HENRY9 DICKEY, b. October 24, 1780,
Halifax Co., Virginia; d. December 24, 1857,
Manard Co., Illinois.
84. v. ALEXANDER BROWN DICKEY, b. October 06, 1782,
York County, South Carolina; d. July 13, 1857.
85. vi. MARY DICKEY, b. September 27, 1784.
vii. ROBERT DICKEY, b. January 24, 1787.
viii. GEORGE DICKEY, b. April 06, 1790.
ix. AGNES MITCHELL DICKEY, b. May 01, 1792.
86. x. ELIZA DICKEY, b. February 17, 1795, Kentucky;
d. December 04, 1870, Clinton, Kansas.
36. MARY ELEANOR8 DICKEY (JOHN7, GEORGE6, WILLIAM5,
JOHN III4, JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1)
was born October 18, 1747 in Albemarle Co., Virginia.
She married JOHN TISDALE in Va..
Children of MARY DICKEY and JOHN TISDALE are:
i. WILLIAM9 TISDALE.
ii. DAVID TISDALE.
iii. MARTHA TISDALE.
87. iv. NANCY TISDALE, d. Bef. 1839.
v. ROBERT TISDALE.
vi. RICHARD TISDALE.
vii. JAMES TISDALE.
88. viii. MARY 'POLLY' TISDALE, b. May 29, 1772.
37. DAVID8 DICKEY (JOHN7, GEORGE6, WILLIAM5, JOHN III4,
JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born
October 18, 1747 in Albemarle Co., Virginia, and died
November 07, 1823 in Washington, Indiana. He married
(1) MARGARET ROBERT(ROBIN)SON March 08, 1775. He
married (2) MARGARET STEPHENSON Sept. 04, 1788 in Ky.,
daughter of ANDREW STINSON/STEPHENSON and
KATHERINE MCALESTER.
Children of DAVID DICKEY and MARGARET STEPHENSON are:
i. JOHN MCELROY9 DICKEY, b. December 16, 1789,
York District, South Carolina; d. November 21,
1849, Pisgah, Washington Co., Indiana; m.
(1) NANCY W. MCKLUSKEY, Nov. 18, 1813, Ky.;
m. (2) MARGARET OSBORNE STEELE, April 02, 1818,
Indiana.
ii. MARTHA B. DICKEY, b. Oct. 28, 1791; d. 1832;
m. JOSEPH H. MCKLUSKEY, February 07, 1811,
Indiana.
89. iii. ELEANOR C. DICKEY, b. Nov. 13, 1793; d. 1813.
iv. SARAH DICKEY, b. Feb.04, 1796; d.July 28, 1797.
v. MARGARET DICKEY, b. April 17, 1798, York Co.,
South Carolina; d. March 06, 1898, Lexington,
Indiana; m. HUGH ALEXANDER WILSON, February 28,
1825, Lexington, Indiana.
38. MARY 'POLLY'8 DICKEY (JOHN7, GEORGE6, WILLIAM5,
JOHN III4, JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1)
was born April 11, 1753 in Albemarle Co., Virginia, d.
December 12, 1834 in Livingston, Crittenden Co., Kentucky.
She married JAMES HILLHOUSE Abt. 1771 in York Co., S.C.,
son of SARAH ? HILLHOUSE, JAMES'S MOTHER.
Children of MARY DICKEY and JAMES HILLHOUSE are:
90. i. JOHN9 HILLHOUSE.
ii. JAMES HILLHOUSE, m. ?? GASTON.
iii. MARGARET HILLHOUSE.
iv. MARY HILLHOUSE.
v. SARAH HILLHOUSE.
vi. MARGARET HILLHOUSE, m. BOLLING THOMPSON.
vii. WILLIAM HILLHOUSE, b. Abt. 1775.
91. viii. GEORGE HILLHOUSE, b. April 17, 1777; d.
September 20, 1834, Giles Co., Tennessee.
92. ix. ROBERT D. HILLHOUSE, b. 1784, South Carolina; d. 1853.
93. x. DAVID HILLHOUSE, b. 1785, South Carolina;
d. Abt. 1850, Choctaw Co., Mississippi.
94. xi. ELEANOR HILLHOUSE, b. 1798, South Carolina.
39. WILLIAM8 DICKEY (JOHN7, GEORGE6, WILLIAM5, JOHN III4,
JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born
May 06, 1764 in Virginia, and died June 28, 1832 in Macon,
Illinois. He married (1) MARY STEPHENSON March 26, 1790
in N.C., daughter of ANDREW STINSON/STEPHENSON and
KATHERINE MCALESTER. Married (2) MARY HENRY Abt. 1811.
Children of WILLIAM DICKEY and MARY STEPHENSON are:
i. SARAH9 DICKEY, b. 1792.
95. ii. JOHN DICKEY, b. Jan. 04, 1793, South Carolina;
d. October 22, 1846.
96. iii. MARTHA DICKEY, b. September 09, 1795; d. 1837.
97. iv. JAMES DICKEY, b. December 23, 1797.
v. EDA DICKEY, b. June 06, 1800; m. JAMES CAIN.
vi. MARY DICKEY, b. November 14, 1802.
98. vii. JR. DICKEY WILLIAM, b. March 09, 1805; d. 1875.
viii. SARAH DICKEY, b. January 05, 1807.
99. ix. JESSE DICKEY, b. Dec.11, 1809; d.July 11, 1888.
Children of WILLIAM DICKEY and MARY HENRY are:
x. MATTHIAS9 DICKEY, b. April 02, 1812; d. 1816.
100. xi. ANDREW DICKEY, b. November 15, 1814.
101. xii. DAVID DICKEY, b. Mar.19, 1817; d. Aug.29, 1877.
102. xiii. ALEXANDER DICKEY, b. 1819, Tennessee.
This is part of the same web site, but the following is evidently not the mother of our Sarah Dickey Scott, born 1777, who married James Scott, also born 1777. They were buried Yorkville Cumb. Presby. Cemetery.
52. JOHN 9 DICKEY (MOSES8, WILLIAM7, THOMAS6, WILLIAM5,
JOHN III4, JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was
born 1748 in Lancaster, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, and
died 1779 in Rowan Co., North Carolina.
He married
(1) JANE POTTS, daughter of ROBERT POTTS. He married
(2) ANN 'AGNES' ?? Bef. February 25, 1775.
Children of JOHN DICKEY and JANE POTTS are:
i. SARAH 10 DICKEY, d. 1729. -- This is the one I used to think might be our ancestor, Sarah Dickey Scott, born 1777, but evidently I was wrong. – Marsha Cope Huie, 2005.
ii. REBECCA DICKEY, m. MICHAEL TROY.
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DAVID9 DICKEY (JOHN8, JOHN7, GEORGE6, WILLIAM5, JOHN III4,
JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born Abt. 1785,
York CO., South Carolina, and died 1840. He married
(1) ELEANOR DICKEY February 25, 1806 in Logan Co., Kentucky,
daughter of GEORGE DICKEY and MARY SCOTT. He married
(2) ANNA NELSON March 23, 1827 in Gibson Co., Tennessee.
Children of DAVID DICKEY and ELEANOR DICKEY are:
163. i. GEORGE W.10 DICKEY, b. Abt. 1808, Logan Co.,
Ke-ntucky; d. June 12, 1890, Dyer Co., Tennessee.
164. ii. ANDREW B DICKEY, b. Abt. 1809, Logan Co.,
Kentucky; d. Giles Co., Tennessee.
165. iii. ROBERT D. DICKEY, b.Abt.1814, Madison Co., Alabama.
iv. SARAH DICKEY, b. Abt. 1814, Madison Co., Alabama;
m. WILLIAM LEONARD, February 05, 1831,
Johnson Co., Arkansas.
v. MARY M. DICKEY, b. 1820, Madison Co., Alabama;
m. RICHARDSON ARNOLD, July 27, 1843, Johnson Co.,
Arkansas.
vi. TIRZIAH E. DICKEY, b.Abt. 1822; m. STEPHEN DUNCAN,
April 08, 1856, Johnson Co., Arkansas.
vii. ANN E. DICKEY, b. 1824, Johnson Co., Arkansas.
viii. MARGARET E. DICKEY, b. Abt. 1826; m. WILLIAM H.
LAWSON, April 09, 1865, Johnson Co., Arkansas.
Children of DAVID DICKEY and ANNA NELSON are:
ix. REBECCA JANE10 DICKEY, b. Abt. 1830, Gibson Co.,
Tennessee; d. Johnson Co., Arkansas; m. ABSOLOM
O'NEAL, December 12, 1848, Gibson Co., Tennessee.
x. DAVID CORNELIUS DICKEY, b. Abt. 1832, Gibson Co.,
Tennessee; m. ELIZABETH A. ALLISON, March 16, 1860,
Gibson Co., Tennessee.
xi. MATTHEW A. DICKEY, b. Abt. 1833, Gibson Co.,
Tennessee; m. MARY W. BARNETT, January 30, 1854,
Gibson Co., Tennessee.
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75. JOHN9 DICKEY (GEORGE8, JOHN7, GEORGE6, WILLIAM5, JOHN III4,
JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born Abt. 1765
in Albemarle Co., Virginia, and died Abt. 1840 in Gibson Co.,
Tennessee. He married (1) REBECCA RUTLEDGE July 09, 1789 in
Madison Co., Kentucky, married (2) MICAL BELL Feb. 03, 1818.
Children of JOHN DICKEY and REBECCA RUTLEDGE are:
166. i. EPHRAIM10 DICKEY, b. Abt. 1790, Madison Co.,
Kentucky; d. 1842, Warwick Co., Indiana.
ii. GEORGE DICKEY, b. July 12, 1790, Madison Co.,
Kentucky.
167. iii. EDY DICKEY, b. Abt. 1793, Logan Co., Kentucky.
iv. ELIZABETH MELISSA DICKEY, b. November 02, 1814,
Madison Co., Kentucky.
Children of JOHN DICKEY and MICAL BELL are:
v. MARY MELVINA10 DICKEY, b. Oct. 13, 1820, Alabama.
168. vi. DAVID CLINTON DICKEY, b. January 30, 1827,
Gibson Co., Tennessee; d. February 1814,
Holladay, Benton Co., Tennessee.
79. GEORGE JR.9 DICKEY (GEORGE8, JOHN7, GEORGE6, WILLIAM5,
JOHN III4, JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born
February 15, 1785 in York Co., South Carolina, and died
October 05, 1870 in Dyer Co., Tennessee.
He married ANNA CALLAHAN.
Children of GEORGE DICKEY and ANNA CALLAHAN are:
175. i. MATTHEW10 DICKEY, b. 1812, Madison Co., Alabama;
d. August 11, 1886, Dyer Co., Tennessee.
176. ii. MADISON DICKEY, b. Abt. 1818, Madison Co., Alabama;
d. 1839, Dyer Co., Tennessee.
177. iii. ANDERSON DICKEY, b. July 31, 1820, Madison Co.,
Alabama; d. January 31, 1867, Dyer Co., Tennessee.
80. JOHN9 DICKEY (ROBERT8, JOHN7, GEORGE6, WILLIAM5, JOHN III4,
JR. DICKEY3 JOHN, JOHN2 DICKEY, ROBERT1) was born
February 20, 1773 in York Co., South Carolina, and died
September 22, 1850 in Giles Co., Tennessee. He married
(1) MARY MITCHELL. He married (2) MARGARET ROSS July 19,
1796 in Logan Co., Kentucky, daughter of JAMES ROSS and
MARY MITCHELL.
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Presbyterianism in Paris and Bourbon
County, Kentucky
Colonel
John Purviance was appointed Collector in the Cane Ridge
congregation.
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[This Colonel John Purviance was the father of the John Purviance [Jr] who was scalped in Sumner County, Tennessee, by Indians. The widow of John Jr then married William McCorkle, a brother to our Robert McCorkle who m. Margaret Morrison. I think this Colonel John Purviance [wife: Mary Jane Wasson] moved on back down to Middle Tennessee after the Indian threat lessened; but somewhere I’ve read he is buried up in New Paris, Preble County, Ohio when visiting his son “church elder” David Purviance, who moved on to Ohio from Cane Ridge, Kentucky. I do not know where our “Colonel” John Purviance is buried, Middle Tenn. or Preble County, Ohio? Nor where his wife Jane Purviance [née Mary Jane Wasson] is buried.
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· PARIS, Kentucky
THE FIRST MEETING OF A PRESBYTERY EVER HELD IN PARIS [Kentucky]
INTERMEDIATE SESSION
Sinking Spring Church, Nov. 12th, 1793. Presbytery met according to appointment & was opened with a sermon on Luke 13,5, by Mr. James Moore.
ROLL U.p.p.s. Messers. David Rice, Robert Finley & Robert Marshall, ministers. John Lucky, William Trotter, Thomas Maxwell, William Henry & Henry McDonald, elders. Absent the Rev. Thomas Craighead, James McConnel, James Crawford, Samuel Shannon, Terah Tamplin, James Kemper, James Blythe.
(p. 12) Mr. Rice is chosen Moderator, pro tempore, & Mr. Marshall, Clerk. Ordered that calls & supplications be presented.
CALL. A call from the united congregations of Cane Ridge &- Concord for the Rev. Robert Finley is presented.
Pby. adjourned to meet at William Henry's this evening at 7 o'clock.
William Henry's Pby. met according to adjournment, u. p.p.s.q.s. except Messrs. Thomas Maxwell & Henry McDonald. [Note: one of Elizabeth Purviance’s Purviance sisters m. a Maxwell—our ancestor Elizabeth Purviance m. William Thomas, who begot Jane Maxwell Thomas (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle), inter alia.]
J. MOORE EXAM. Mr. James Moore's discourse was read at large from his notes & maturely considered & the Pby. are unanimously of opinion that it be not sustained as part of trial. [Poor fellow; his sermon didn’t suit his judges] Mr. Moore is appointed to prepare a sermon against the next meeting on 2nd Corinth, 7,10, as a further part of trial.
The call from the united congregations of Cane Ridge & Concord was presented to the Rev. Robert Finley which he accepts, & Mr. Marshall is appointed to install him in said congregations as soon as convenient. [Our ancestor Mrs. Alexander McCorkle, née Nancy Agness Montgomery, had a mother who was née Finley. Who was this Mrs. _____ Finley Montgomery? One of Nancy Agness Montgomery McCorkle’s brothers was the Presbyterian minister Joseph Finley, born 1733.]
Adjourned to meet at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. Concluded with Prayer. Nov. 13th.
Pby. met according to adjournment, et. p p s q s. Thomas Maxwell present. * * * * *
Paris Citizen Desired To Have The Kentucky Academy Located in Paris At a Meeting at Pisgah of the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Academy March 9th and 10th 1796 we extracted the following facts. Members of the Board present were:
David Rice
Caleb Wallace James Thompson
James Crawford Andrew McCalla
Robert Marshall James Moore
William Calhoon James Welch
Archibald Cameron Stephen Bovelle
Robert Patterson
(p. 13) The Board requested Mr. Moore, Mr. Welch, Mr. Patterson and Mr. McCalla to prepare a financial statement of the Academy.
March 10. In addition to the above who were present yesterday trustee Samuel Shannon was present at this meeting. The board adopted the following resolution:
"Resolved that a permanent seat for the Kentucky Academy Ought to be fixed on as soon as possible;
"And, whereas this Board is not yet possessed of the funds adequate to purchase a seat, Resolved That Mr. Blythe, Mr.Crawford, Mr. Patterson, Mr. McCalla and Mr. Moore or any three of them be appointed a committee to receive proposals from those who may think proper to contribute Land for that purpose and to give assistance in erecting buildings thereon, for the use of the Seminary, or otherwise to increase the funds; and to make a report to the next meeting of the Board, of all the proposals which they may receive, that the Board may be enabled to proceed to fix on a seat without further delay. Resolved that untill it shall be otherwise ordered by this Board, it will hold its sessions at McGowan's Tavern in Lexington."
The Board met on June 3, 1796 at McGowan's Tavern in Lexington. At this time four sites for the Academy were considered. Harrodsburg offered lots in town, about 30 acres and cash subscriptions of about $1,150. Danville offered a brick house, manufactory, two lots and $1,000 in cash. Lexington was willing to sell a lot of four and three-fourths acres for $525. Bourbon had cash subscriptions of $1,576, lots in good location and 97 acres in sight of Paris at $4 per acre.
In June 1797 the Board having considered all propositions decided to locate the Academy at Pisgah.
Paris did not get the Kentucky Academy but a few years later founded Bourbon Academy in which many young people received good classical training.
Revival Days In Paris The Paris Church shared with other churches in Kentucky a great revival from 1826 to 1830. We quote from the Western Luminary dated December 19, 1827, page 196, as follows:
"Revivals in Kentucky, Paris, Bourbon County
"It will be seen by the following extract from a communication, in the Western Citizen, printed in Paris, that the good work of the Lord has commenced at that place. The meeting commenced on Friday, the 7th inst.
"The state of the weather was apparently, very unpropitious, but God in His providence, brought several of the public servants, unexpectedly to the place; and the meeting was peculiarly solemn, from the commencement. The high waters and increasing rains prevented many from attending. The number and the deep interest increased every day. On Sabbath morning 22 persons were admitted to communion on a profession of the faith in Christ. On Monday the serious impression appeared to extend and become more deep and awful-about forty came forward at night, as inquirers for the salvation of their souls. The public exercises were continued on Tuesday afternoon and night, and (p. 14) about sixty came forward. On Wednesday the services being continued the number of INQUIRIES amounted to about ninety; and it appeared that there was not an unconverted person in the house. Nine more were received into the Church on a public profession, and many others gave reason to hope that they found refuge in the Saviour. In all, thirty-two have been visibly added to the followers of the Lamb, and there are more than 100, in this town and vicinity, seriously exercised, for the eternal welfare of their souls. What is a little remarkable, there appears to be but little opposition from the world. Some of the most respectable and influential men in the place, are saying, we cannot oppose the work we cannot, and will not, hinder our relatives and friends from going forward and securing their salvation if we feel not yet disposed to go with them. May He who has begun this good and glorious work continue it, until all shall have its blessed effects."
(p. 14) In the Western Luminary, January 23, 1828, page 236, we have as follows:
8 8 8 8 8 8 88 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
The Revival, 1801-1803, In Paris
Notes from Rev. John Lyle's Diary
One gets a good idea of the great Revival, 1801-1803, in Kentucky from John Lyle's Diary. He tells of three meetings in Paris. One was on the Saturday preceeding the fourth Sabbath in August 1801. The second was the first Sabbath in June 1802, and the third was on the second Sabbath in June 1803.
"The Saturday preceeding the fourth Sabbath in August 1801, I went to Mr. Rannels' Sacrament at Paris. Mr. Crawford was nearly done preaching when I got there. Mr. McNamara preach'd in the afternoon a contradictory jumble of a discourse with a number of good expressions here and there in it. Some people were attentive & seemed pleas'd but others inattentive & some displeas'd. We had society in the woods at night several spoke but no work or liveliness appear'd except in two or three. One poor ignorant man of the (p. 15) name of Rosin was much convulsed but got comfort, Monday evening. Mr. McNamara spoke last on Saturday evening. He stamp'd slapt & roar'd Hell & Damnation loudly but still no crying out or falling that I knew of. I talked to Mr. McNamara about these violences I do not know what effect it will have. He acknowledg'd that stamping slapping &- c. were no gospel institution & as we had no promise of a blessing to attend them & as they were a cause of offense & stumbling to many we had better let them alone. Sunday I preached the action sermon but as there were I suppose 7 or 8 thousand people I extended my voice so loud that I was soon exhausted & thought I would have died or fainted yet not withstanding spoke an hour. While I preach'd about four thousand people seem'd attentive & behaved well but multitudes wandered from place to place as most did all day some singing some one thing some another. I never saw a more confus'd careless audience since the work began. Monday, six ministers deliver'd at three places six discourses but more attended Mr. Howe at the stated place where two or three were struck. After sermon came on rain & in the evening a shower of divine influence. Many young persons wept &- some cried for mercy. Becy Crawford was taken down & when she came to exhorted sinners to come to Christ. Betsy Todd the Doctor's oldest daughter found comfort we would hope in Jesus & invited many to Jesus. Dr. Cogswell's son we hope found peace & little boy about 7 years old whom I saw in distress & then heard him with joyful countenance invite his comrades to Christ. Mr. Mitchell's two sons were much effect'd. Mr. Wright's son found peace & he and his father had a joyful meeting the old man burst out glory to God in the highest & invited all to Christ. The old lady & two daughters wept much & one daughter lay speechless under exercises. It was an affecting time indeed. I understood that several men enter'd arm'd with clubs to drive the people off the grounds but no actual attempt was made. I saw about 5 such men & the people gathered & M. Cameron exhorted & then went to Dr. Todd's about one o'clock. Next morning went to camp found a number there. Old Mr. Patton of Stonermouth was down in a long agony. When he recover'd he told the people his views were too bright for him to bear up under etc. etc. He settle'd into a calm and describ'd his case etc. I deliver'd a discourse as a caution against formality & delusion & exhort'd to get the wisdom that comes from above & that divine ebarity spoken of by Paul I Cor. 13 etc. & came home. The Governor was more moved under this discourse than I had observ'd him before.
"Paris 1st. Sabbath of June 1802. The Sacrament was administered. Ministers present, David Rice, John Campbell, Robert Wilson, Barton Stone, Wm. Robinson, I. Tull, Joseph Howe, Jas. Welch, Rannals & myself. No Methodist Ministers on Sunday & but one Baptist old Mr. Todd. About 3000 people on Sunday. Brother Wilson & Campbell preached on Friday. Brother Robinson Saturday morn. On Isaiah 53d, 3d, 1st clause. He is despised etc. a practical feeling sermon. Br. W. Sat. Even. on Psal. The Lord reigns etc. He aim'd at (p. 16) philosophy & reasoning was dry & cold. Had a cold society in the Meeting house at night. Sunday B. Campbell preached on Jesus Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. Tolerably lively. People all this time were attentive. Some very solemn. Individuals felt tenderly. Some very disorderly people on Sunday. James Welch introduced the tables with a low cold discourse & very long. While the tables were serving Mr. Stone preach'd at another stand. After I had communed & served a table I went & spoke to the people, felt a tender lively frame both at the table & exhorting from the waggon or other stand. I had felt very bad all the time before. When my deliverance began I began to weep &- before all was over I felt my faith & joy increased. Some people seemed affected at the tables. I believe it was a solemn time to Christians. But few fell. Old Elder McConnel fell when waiting on the tables. Sally Martin fell & it was thought might have refrained more than she did etc. Mrs. Young fell. Sunday evening old Mr. Rice spoke on religion false & true. People were very attentive. It rain'd on Sun. Even. part staid at the tent, the others went home & to the Meeting house. I spoke on faith in the meeting house. Felt a kind of . . . a flat dead frame. People seem'd dead. Old Mr. Rice spoke after me. Monday Br. Welch gave us another long sleepy discourse. The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness etc. Several people went to sleep, others heard that there was lively times at the stand where Howe & Stone preached. They left the meeting house & went there. I preached to a small assembly a short sermon on 1st Jon. 1:16. Had some liberty people were attentive & some solemn but nothing remarkable. I heard of no one being newly convicted throughout the Sacramental occasion.
[The following describes DAVID PURVIANCE doing a holy dance. “Elder” David Purviance was a brother to, inter alia, Elizabeth Purviance Thomas, the mother of Mrs. Edwin A. McCorkle.]
"I then with admiration beheld Ireland, David Purviance, Malcolm Wardly leaping up in an unartificial a kind of Dance - clapping their hands & crying glory to God. How many were employ'd in the same exercise I can't say. I looked at them only. I went up & shook hands with them & (p. 18) exhorted them to go to the stand where Bro. Rannals was exhorting. They complyed. I went to the stand & they insisted on me to preach which I attempt'd from 1 Peter 4:8. Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves etc. I observed that charity was not a plant that grows in the natural soil of the human heart. That it was produc'd by the spirit of God, etc. Gave some marks of true brotherly affection. Then after many cautions introduced the subject of order & the impropriety of many praying at once, etc. I spoke above 2 hours to a very attentive audience. There appear'd a solemnity on the minds of many. Mr. Purvience, Col. Smith, Mr. Tull & Mr. Stone seem'd the most hurt because they had been the right leaders & public advocates of those irregularities. Col. Smith soon after I was done speaking begun to pray & in his prayer to use his arguments in favor of all praying at once. He said there was one spirit but a diversity of operations as though the spirit by an unusual operation would excite to an act directly contrary to the word of God. I rose & address'd the people. Told them I hoped they would not suppose___ "Behind the stand two women were agonized & pray'd out. One who appear'd to be a young man of the Methodist society ran in among them & with apparent rage call'd on them to pray out. One of the Irelands, an old man pray'd out with clinched fists, etc., but few comparatively joined.
"A sister-in-law of Doctor Saldon came & shook hands & in a kind of agony told me to set my slaves free. I told her the setting my slaves free depended on the will of another. And if they were free they could not support themselves. Col. Fleming & brother insisted that I would preach upon the subject of emancipation. I told them I would talk to them about that at the proper time. Mr. Welch who had just arrived on his return from Philadelphia, gave us an exhortation & told us of the revival in Delaware & the Jerseys & considerable additions to the churches there & that there is a growing attention to religion in Philadelphia. I then made a short address on the joyful tidings. Told them what satisfaction it gave me to find so many who set out 2 years ago now fervently engag'd etc., urged them to diligence at home & in every walk of life. Afterwards concisely address'd sinners. After I came off the stand Mr. McCune of Stonermouth told me that he always loved me, but that he loved me more today than ever. If ever he had liked to pray out in his life it was today, but, (said he) I never have pray'd out in society because I thought it not agreeable to the word of God. Mr. Patton of Stonermonth told me that he had been trying for a year past to regulate matters but found his labours in vain & when he heard me on the subject he was exercised & fell with joy because God had he hoped excited me to do what he as a private character had failed in.
8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 Paris, Kentucky: Saturday, March 12, 1831: John Todd advertises a Female Academy.
[Sophie King McCorkle, 1882-1915, Mrs. Howard Anderson Huie of Newbern-Yorkville, Tennessee, attended Bourbon College in Paris, Kentucky.]
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Jottings From the Records of the Session of the Paris [Ky., Presbyterian] Church
July 13, 1823, William Holmes McGuffey received from the Flemingburg Church.
September 15, 1823. George W. Ashbridge is dismissed.
December 23, 1823. The church decided to contribute to the support of Samuel Taylor, a member of this church who is a student at Princeton Seminary.
January 2, 1824. Scipio, a Negro slave of Dr. Andrew Todd, disciplined because he did not attend family worship in his master's home.
May 18, 1824. The Session decided that it was proper to take collections at the Church on Sunday. Mr. Joseph Mitchell protested this action.
Harriett Larkin, a woman of color, and a member of the Paris Presbyterian Church, departed this life about the first of December 1830, having been for a number of years in full communion in said Church.
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Presbyterianism in Paris and Bourbon
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CHAPTER I.
His Ancestry. Col. John Purviance. Marriage. Serves in the Revolution. Moves
to Tennessee. His son [a son of John Purviance, Sr., & Mary Jane Wasson
(Purviance) is murdered by the Indians. Removes to Kentucky. Returns to
Tennessee. A Revival and split in the Presbyterian Church. He joins the
Cumberland Presbyterians. His last affliction and death. His family. 7
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CHAPTER II.
Elder David Purviance's birth. Education. Writes in the Clerk's
office, Salisbury.
10
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CHAPTER III.
His marriage. Settlement on the Yadkin River. Emigrates to Tennessee,
and afterwards to Kentucky.
14
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CHAPTER IV.
His settlement on Caneridge. Elected to the State Legislature. Debate
with Breckenridge. Debate with Grundy. He fails to be elected
to the State Convention on account of his opposition to Slavery. Sketch of
the lives of Breckenridge, Garard, and Grundy. The Lexington Insurance Company.
The District Court system. He returns from Political life, and engages in the
Ministry.
17
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CHAPTER V.
A remarkable religious Revival. Leaves Legislation, and becomes a candidate for
the Ministry. A split in the Presbyterian Church. The Springfield Presbytery.
Takes the name Christian. The last Will and Testament of the Springfield
Presbytery, and the Witnesses address.
47
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CHAPTER VI.
His opposition to Slavery. The selection of four young men to aid in the
Ministry.
57
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CHAPTER VII.
His calling as a Minister of the Gospel. He came well nigh destroying his
health. Fasting, Prayer and Meditation. The support of the Ministry. His
preparation to move to Ohio.
61
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CHAPTER VIII.
His Removal to Ohio. The Quaker. A Revival in a Dutch neighborhood.
Marshall and Thompson's return to Presbyterianism. Their attack on the Church.
D. Purviance's reply.
66
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CHAPTER IX.
His election to the State Legislature of Ohio. A Bill to repeal the
Black laws. A part of a colored family kidnapped. A negro man
murdered.
93
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CHAPTER X.
His Pastoral duties. An excitement and division in the Church at Paris.
Elder Stone's visit.
100
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CHAPTER XI.
The character and death of his Companion.
106
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CHAPTER XII.
His employment in old age. His manner of Preaching. His distress on the account
of the lethargy of the Church.
108
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CHAPTER XIII.
His Character as a man. A citizen. A husband. A Father. Punctuality. Kindness to
the oppressed.
110
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CHAPTER IV.
His last trip to Conference. His chills and fever. The death of his Grand
Daughter. His last affliction, death, and funeral. An account of his death and
funeral, by Elder E. Williamson. Obituary, by a Catholic--by O. H. Kendrick; by
his Grand Son.
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· CHAPTER XV.
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[PART FIRST.]
Memoirs of Elder David Purviance--written by himself. His Religion. Early
instructions. His exit from Presbyterianism. The Shaker difficulty. His
views on the subject of Baptism.
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· CHAPTER XVI.
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[PART SECOND.]
Memoirs of Elder David Purviance--written by himself.--The Person, Character,
and Divinity of Jesus Christ.--The Atonement.
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CHAPTER XVI.
Remarks of the Author of B. W. Stone's Biography. Extracts from a letter written
by D. Purviance, and published in Stone's Biography--page 120. A letter to a
skeptical friend.
235
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Biographical Sketch of Elder John Hardy.
CHAPTER I.
His Birth. Marriage. Conversion. Removal to Ohio. His Character. Last sickness
and death.
246
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A Sketch of the Life of Elder Thomas B. Kyle.
CHAPTER II.
His Birth. His Father settles in Kentucky. Profession of Christianity.
Impressions to preach. Labors in Ohio. Ordination. Sickness. Death.
251
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Biographical Sketch of George Shidler.
CHAPTER III.
Elder George Shidler's Birth. Marriage. Removal to Ohio. Conversion. Ordination.
Life and Death.
253
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Biography of Elder William Dye.
CHAPTER IV.
His Birth. Life and Death.
257
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Biographical Sketch of Elder Reuben Dooly.
CHAPTER V.
Birth. Education. Conversion. Preaches to the Indians. The death of his wife.
His removal to Ohio. His second marriage. Trip to Missouri. Sickness and death.
His character and talents as a Preacher. The domestic circle.
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Biographical Sketch of Elder William Kinkade.
CHAPTER VI.
His early life and profession of Christianity--written by himself.
In due time a great Camp-Meeting to be held at Caneridge, in the coming month of August, was published. Such was now the general interest of the public mind, that when the meeting came, it was attended by about 2500 souls. Persons were said to be in attendance from most of the States in the Union. Particularly, were gathered together, on that memorable occasion, the thousands of Israel, from all the religious orders of the land--Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, &c. &c., were there, as one mighty spiritual host, assembled together, to fight the battles of the Lord. They had come up to the help of Zion. THE GREAT MEETING AT CANERIDGE commenced on Friday before the third Lord's day of August, 1801. From the commencement the roads were literally crowded with wagons, carriages, horsemen, and people on foot; all pressing to the appointed place; till by the Sabbath day, the grove that was then open near Caneridge meeting-house, was filled with wagons, tents, and people. It was supposed that there were between twenty and thirty thousand people there. Elder Stone in his journal remarks "A particular description of this meeting would fill a large volume, and then the half would not be told," Stone's Biography pa. 38. For the sake of the present and future generations, I will attempt a faint discription.-- This was not a sectarian meeting, although it was held at a Presbyterian meeting house. Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians were simultaneously engaged. Perfect friendship, unanimity, and brotherly kindness prevailed. They had come together, to the help of the Lord against the mighty, and "Zion was terrible as an army with banners." The meeting lasted six days--the last sermon that was delivered on the occasion, was by a Methodist preacher, by the name of Samuel Hitt. It is known only to God, how many were converted at this meeting. There were no means, by which, even to ascertain how many professed religion. The object of the meeting was not to build up any sect or party; but to bring sinners to the Savior. When the meeting was over, the people returned to their homes and friends.--There were many there from Ohio, and some from Tennessee, and the excitement spread with the people, and the young converts joined the churches of their choice; and the good work of reformation went on with irresistible force, and appeared like carrying every thing before it. Many were fully persuaded that the glorious millennial day had commenced, and that the world would soon become the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. But alas! That enemy of God and man, sectarianism, raised its hydra head, and "made war upon the saints of the most High God and overcame them," and the fair prospects of Zion were in some degree blasted. A cruel jealousy began to show itself among the leaders--some concluded that the spoils were not equally divided; others, that their craft was in danger. This engendered a disposition to draw off from each other, and the mighty army became weak by division, which always has a bad effect. If the preachers had continued in the spirit of the reformation, and all let fall their sectarian names, and united in one tremendous phalanx against sin and all unrighteousness, it is my humble opinion, that before this time, infidelity would have been driven from the world. Notwithstanding the pride and selfishness of little minded men, raised a barrier in the way of the work, and in some degree, obstructed it; yet, where the people
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Baker Cemetery Bios., Tazewell County, IL
Isabella C. Campbell married Richard Blythe McCorkle in
Wilson County, Tennessee on the 10th of January 1811. ...Richard
Blythe McCorkle was a son of William McCorkle [who was a brother to
our Robert McCorkle. The wives of thrice-maried William McCorkle were:
Margaret “Peggy” Blythe; Mattie Martha King (Mrs. John Purviance); Jenny or
Jennie Graham.]
Many thanks to James M. Richmond, who is married to our kin, a descendant of William McCorkle. He has kindly given his permission for using the following work of his as part of the McCorkle Old Letters.
ww.iltrails.org/tazewell/ceme/bak/bakercb.html - This is what he says:
McCorkle
Isabel McCorkle
(Mrs. Richard Blythe McCorkle) Baker
Cemetery, Washington,
Illinois.
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Isabella C. Campbell, as calculated from the inscription on her gravestone, was born on the 31st of March 1796, in Lincoln County, Kentucky, of parents Joseph Campbell and Sarah [Givens] Campbell. Joseph Campbell was a soldier of the Revolution from Virginia. She had five sisters and three brothers. One of her sisters, Mary, who was called “Polly”, married James McClure and was living in a two-room log cabin in Tazewell County, Illinois prior to the arrival of Isabella and her family in October of 1830.
She married Richard Blythe McCorkle in Wilson County, Tennessee on the 10th of January 1811. Thomas Hobbs, husband of her younger sister, Sarah [Sally], was the bondsman. John Allcorn, who lived on Barton’s Creek near Lebanon, in Wilson County, performed the ceremony. From the date of birth calculations from her tombstone, it suggests that she was fourteen years and nine months of age at the time of her marriage.
Some discussion about her birth date is appropriate, as some have been lead to believe that she was born in 1792. A printed obituary, obtained from family members and reported by family researcher Clarke C. Miller on the 31st of December 1951 stated the following: “Her obituary as printed said she was b. in the State of Kentucky in 1791, was married in her 18th year [15th written in]. It said that she was 62 years old at the time of her death [76 written in].” “The John Johnson’s [her daughter Martha Olivia’s family], with whom she was living at the time of her death thought that she was older than she was.” Latina Patrick Crum, a granddaughter, wrote in June of 1924, “Isabel Campbell was born 128 years ago.” This would place her birth in 1796. Also she wrote, “Richard Blythe McCorkle was her senior by ten years.” This would also place her birth in 1796. From the above, and from her gravestone inscriptions, one can conclude that the year of her birth in her obituary was incorrect, and that she was born in the year 1796.
Her husband [Richard Blythe McCorkle, son of William McCorkle] was of Presbyterian stock, as his uncle, Rev. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, was a noted Presbyterian minister in [Thyatira Presbyterian Church] North Carolina and helped start the University of North Carolina. Rev. Richard Blythe McCorkle had listened to the discussions of the day from men such as Walter Scott., . Barton W. Stone, and Alexander Campbell, and soon became a follower of Barton Stone, who had split from the Presbyterian Church, in order to follow the more traditional and strict interpretation of the Bible. The “Restoration Movement” was underway, the Christian Church was created, and Rev. R.B. McCorkle was active in both.
After their marriage in 1811, they moved about the region a great deal. They tried several “Utopian” societies, some of which were promoted by a wealthy individual called Robert Owen. By 1815 they were living in the “Christian Settlement” of Allison Prairie, near Lawrenceville, Illinois, with two sisters and a brother and their families, who had each married into the Berry family. By 1821 they were living in Kentucky. By 1828-29 the family had moved to Monroe County, Indiana, near Bloomington and were living at Blue Springs in an “Owenite” community. At Blue Springs twenty-seven members and their families were living on three-hundred and twenty-five acres in a group of log houses built in the form of a square, including a granary and school. And then just prior to moving to Washington, Illinois, in October of 1830 they tried the “New Harmony” communal living experience for a few days, in New Harmony, Indiana. New Harmony began as a cooperative, where it thrived, but evolved into a commune, which eventually caused its demise.
A description of events that occurred just prior to the McCorkle’s departure from “New Harmony” was reported in a personal letter by Isabella’s granddaughter, Latina Louisa [Patrick] CRUM, in 1927, when Latina was 85 years of age:
“Grandmother did the making, mending, sewing, also from barks of trees colored the wool-that through the loom provided the family clothing. As she, grandmother, looked at a large roll standing by loom, she was justly proud. Presently, in came other lady of "dechex" with scissors in hand, cut off what she wanted without even a By your leave."
When grandfather came in, was told, at once he discovered it wasn't a "with your one-mind crowd." Quietly preparations were made for a removal to Illinois where grandmother's sister lived”
During these years and the next few years in Washington, Illinois, she gave birth to thirteen children. They were: Martha Olivia [who married John Henry Johnson], William, Elizabeth [who married Thadeus Bowman], Eliza Jane [who married Allan Patrick, son of Revolutionary War veteran Edward Fitz Patrick of McLean County], Joseph Byram [who married Cynthia Kice], Mary Amanda [who married Eli Patrick, son of Edward Fitz Patrick], Sarah Eunice [who married John Osbourne McCord], Miles Blythe [who married Martha Lucinda Gorin, daughter of Sanford Pell Gorin], William Milton [who married (1) Mary Smith and (2) Abigail Westerman Zumwalt], Elmira [who married Cyrus J. Gibson], George Washington, Celetia Amelia [who married Alva S. Greman], and Rhoda Louise [who married Martin Henry Hornish].
In about 1847 Ibby [as she was called by her husband], her husband, her youngest son, William, and her two youngest daughters, Elmira and Rhoda Louisa, moved west across the Illinois River to Peoria, where they lived for a few years. They returned to Washington sometime after the 1850 census. Her husband passed away in 1854 in Washington, Illinois. She died on the 7th of January 1873, while she was living with the family of her eldest daughter, Mrs. John Henry Johnson. She lived on this earth seventy-six years, nine months, and seven days. She was buried beside her husband in the Baker Cemetery of Washington, Illinois.
By: James M. Richmond, ©October 2003 -- Again, many thanks to James M. Richmond for the above information which he has kindly allowed us to use here.
Richard Blythe McCorkle, born 1786, to William McCorkle & Margaret Blythe [McCorkle].[William McCorkle was one of the children of Alexander McCorkle & Nancy “Agness” Montgomery McCorkle, immigrants to the colonies. Our ancestor Robert McCorkle married as his 1st wife Elizabeth Blythe, a sister to Margaret Blythe.] Reverend James Blythe married. Elizabeth King and produced (1) Mrs. William McCorkle, née Margaret Blythe; and (2) Mrs. Robert McCorkle, nee Elizabeth “Lizzie” Blythe.
The following is again the work of James M. Richmond, not Marsha Huie, except for Marsha’s comments in brackets:
Richard Blythe McCorkle was the second born son of William McCorkle and Margaret Blythe. He was born in the Salisbury District of Rowan County, North Carolina on the 17th day of November 1786. His mother was the daughter of Rev. James Blythe and Elizabeth King, who were among the earliest settlers of Rowan County. His father was one of ten children born to Alexander McCorkle [a patriot of the Revolution] and Nancy [Agnes] Montgomery.
When Blythe, as Richard was called when he was young, was no more than two years of age his parents, with Blythe’s brother, Samuel Montgomery McCorkle, moved from North Carolina across the mountains to Fayette County, Virginia [now Kentucky, near Lexington], where they were “admitted” to the Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church, on 2nd day of June of 1788. The obvious migration route from Rowan County would have been over the rugged “Wilderness Road” and through the Cumberland Gap. They had many narrow escapes here from hostile natives, and were required to live in a fort, to keep their weapons at the ready, and to be on watch day and night.
The Blythe grandparents also made the move and were also members of Walnut Hill. [Note: This is our, Marsha Cope Huie’s, ancestor, Robert McCorkle.] Blythe’s uncle, Robert McCorkle, who had married Blythe’s mother’s sister, Elizabeth Blythe, also was a member of Walnut Hill, along with his wife. And a second uncle, Joseph, was also admitted at the same time as Blythe’s parents.
The following year, in October of 1789, Blythe’s sister, Asenath McCorkle was born in the wilderness of Fayette County. Asenath was an Egyptian name meaning “gift of the sun-god”. She was named after this Egyptian goddess, mentioned in the Bible. Within a few years Blythe and his family moved south to Tennessee, probably to escape the Indian unrest of the area.
On the 2nd of October 1793 Blythe’s father paid $37.50 to James Wilson for thirty acres of land on the waters of “Station Camp Creek” in Sumner County, Tennessee, north of Nashville. Station Camp Creek flows south through Sumner County and empties into the Cumberland River a few miles south of Gallatin, Tennessee.
The same year, 1793, Blythe and his family were present during the organization of the Shiloh Presbyterian Church, in Sumner County. Rev. William McGee from the Muhlenburg Presbytery organized this church in 1793, and it soon became active in the Great Revival. Within about a year Blythe’s mother passed away, leaving three small children aged 6, 8 and 9. She was buried in the King Cemetery, near Gallatin. The cemetery is also known as the Old Shiloh Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Also a member of the Shiloh Church was Jane Purviance,
[There is a problem here. I think the widow of John Purviance, [the one who was scalped], is being confused with the mother, Jane [Wasson Purviance was the mother of the poor, scalped John Purviance.
, . Martha King, née “Mattie” Martha King , Mattie or Martha King became Mrs. John Purviance [scalped one]; then Mrs. William McCorkle. It was the mother of John Purviance, Jr., who was named JANE: Mary Jane Wasson (wife of “Colonel” John Purviance, Sr.] then Mrs. Purviance, then Mrs. McCorkle. -- Or was the wife of John Purviance, Jr., née Martha JANE King (later Mrs. John Purviance, Jr.) (then Mrs. William McCorkle)?] ,
a widow [the mother of?] of John Purviance, who had been shot, scalped, and left weltering in his own blood by the Indians in Sumner County in May of 1792. She was so near the murder that she could hear the savage yells. Friends prevented her from attempting to stop the attack and restrained her from preventing his demise. The couple’s only child, a daughter, was born a few months later.
[It was John Purviance son of John Purviance & Mary Jane Wasson Purviance who had been scalped; not Colonel John Purviance, Sr., whose wife was Jane Wasson (Purviance), actually Mary Jane Wasson.]
Blythe’s father, William McCorkle, married his second wife, Jane [No;unless the 2nd wife’s name her name was MARTHA Jane King. I thought the 2nd wife’s name was “Mattie” Martha King] Purviance] in Sumner County on Christmas Day, 1794. In October of 1796 Blythe’s father was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Sumner County Militia. In about the same year Blythe’s half brother, Miles McCorkle was born in Sumner County. Miles McCorkle later became a successful Lebanon physician and Tennessee state legislature.
In April of 1799 Blythe’s father again was again met with sadness, as his second wife passed away [Martha ?Jane? King Purviance/McCorkle]. She also was buried in the Shiloh Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Blythe was now about thirteen years of age. His brother was about fourteen, his younger sister was ten, and his half-brother was about three.
[Marsha Huie: Our old letter from Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache to her nephew James Scott McCorkle, M.D., in Newbern, Tennessee, says that her uncle William McCorkle’s 2nd wife died on her way to or from North Carolina and was buried by the roadside in what was then wilderness, in a rude grave.]
Blythe’s father [WILLIAM McCORKLE, brother to our ancestor Robert McCorkle] married, in Sumner County, a third time on June 9, 1800. He married Jenny Graham, who was about thirty years of age at the time. During the next ten years she gave birth to John, Amelia, and Blanche Locke McCorkle. Blythe now had a brother, a sister, two half-brothers, and two half-sisters.
Three years later on the 5th of December 1803 William McCorkle sold his property in Sumner County and moved a few miles south to Rutherford County where he settled on a farm “on the north side of the Main East Fork of Stones River”. [Marsha writes: It was William McCorkle and his brother Robert McCorkle who inherited their father’s Revolutionary War land grant in Ruatherford County; see the will of Alexander McCorkle, who died 1800 in Rowan County, NC, and is buried Thyatira Presbyterian Cemetery there.]
The Great Western Revival religious movement began in 1800 and reached its crest in about 1803. The primary areas of this movement were in Tennessee and Kentucky. On the weekends in May and June of 1801 there were a series of revival meetings near Lexington, Kentucky where as many as 10,000 people attended just one of the meetings. Barton W. Stone emerged from these meetings as a leader of a splinter group that formed the Christian Church. All of these happenings were followed by Blythe’s father [WILLIAM McCORKLE, brother to our Robert McCorkle]and led him in his last years to begin preaching. Young Blythe, no doubt, was influenced by the religious background of his family and of the religious events of the day that were sounded by Stone.
At the age of twenty-four Richard Blythe McCorkle began his married life when he married Isabella C. Campbell, daughter of Joseph Campbell and Sarah Givens of Lincoln County, Kentucky. They were married in Wilson County, Tennessee on the 10th of January 1811.
During the next twenty years Blythe and Ibby, as he called his wife, moved about the country a great deal and tried a number of “utopian” societies. It is likely that their brothers and/or sisters and their families moved with Blythe and Ibby to these experimental cooperatives, communes, or settlements of one type or another.
They were at the “Christian Settlement” at Allison Prairie, near Lawrenceville in about 1815, and in 1821 were in Kentucky. They lived at the Blue Springs “Owenite” Harmony community near Bloomington, Indiana up until about1830; then they were living at “New Harmony”, Indiana for a few days, before moving to Washington in Tazewell County, Illinois in October of 1830. Here in Washington, Blythe started the Christian Church and became a successful farmer on land located in Sections 10, 11, and 15 of Washington Township. Blythe was also a private in the company Captain Charles Dorsey of Tazewell County, Illinois in 1831 during the Black Hawk War.
When Blythe’s father [William McCorkle, brother to our ancestor Robert McCorkle] passed away in Rutherford County, Tennessee in about 1818, Blythe inherited a slave known as “Micah”. Micah was of the same age as Blythe, and the boys grew up together. Blythe did not believe in slavery, so he set Micah free. However, Micah did not want to go, and so he stayed with “Mr. Richard” and his family as they moved about the frontier. Micah was with Blythe and Ibby when they joined Ibby’s sister and husband, Polly and Jim McClure, in Holland’s Grove in October of 1830. And he helped build the McCorkle’s first home in Tazewell County [Illinois].
The wanderlust of Blythe and Ibby did not stop in Washington, as in 1847, with their family of 13 children mostly grown and on their own, Blythe and Ibby moved across the Illinois River to the city of Peoria. Here they lived for a few years, prior to moving back to Washington, where he came to rest on the 11th day of February 1854.
By: James M. Richmond, ©October 2003
George Washington McCorkle,
George Washington McCorkle was born in Illinois
[probably Washington, Illinois] on the 3rd of February 1833
to parents Richard Blythe McCorkle and Isabella [Campbell] McCorkle. He was
one of five boys in a family containing eight sisters.
He moved with his parents from Washington, Illinois to Peoria, Illinois in about 1847, when he was fourteen years of age. At the time of the 1850 census in Peoria he was enumerated with his parents and was listed as a “Carpenter” for his profession.
Washington McCorkle, as he was known, died on the 16th day of September 1850 when he was seventeen years, seven months and eight days old.
By: James M. Richmond, ©October 2003
Sarah Eunice McCorkle,
Sarah Eunice McCorkle was born on the 23rd of March 1823 to Rev. Richard Blythe McCorkle and Isabella [Campbell] McCorkle. She was one of eight daughters born to a family containing thirteen children.
She married John Osbourne McCord on February 12, 1845 in Tazewell County, Illinois. She died seven days later at the age of twenty-one years, eleven months, and twenty-seven days. She was buried in the Baker cemetery of Washington, Illinois, where her parents and other family members were later buried.
By: James M. Richmond, ©October 2003
Children of Joseph Byram McCorkle
Four children of Joseph Byram McCorkle and Cythia Ann Kice were buried in the Baker Cemetery.
James Lafayette McCorkle, also known as Charles Lafayette McCorkle, son of Joseph Byram McCorkle and Cynthia Ann [Kice] McCorkle, a native of Augusta Co., VA, was born on the 15th of December 1841 and died in his first year, on the 17th of March 1842.
Laura J. McCorkle was born on the 16th day of April 1851 to parents Joseph Byram McCorkle and Cynthia Ann [Kice] McCorkle.
And an infant daughter, who died on the 30th of April 1846, was also buried in the Baker Cemetery.
And the fourth child was of unknown name and sex, but died on 23 April 1844 at the age of two years, eleven months.
Their father, Joseph Byram McCorkle, was born in Lawrence County, Illinois, and then as a young boy, settled in 1830 on a farm a few miles north of Washington, Illinois with his parents Rev. Richard Blythe McCorkle and his wife Isabella [Campbell] McCorkle. Joseph B. McCorkle was a farmer for several years and marketed farm products at Fort Dearborn, now Chicago. After moving to Washington County in 1848, he began to build wagons with a successful business. Began preaching in about 1860, was a successful evangelist in the Church of Christ, and organized in 1872 the Christian Church at Roanoke in Woodford County, Illinois. During his public ministry he baptized over one thousand persons.
This McCorkle family had eleven siblings. They included: Josephine Maria, Laura J., Richard H., Mary E., Orpha J., Eunice A., Cyrus B., James Lafayette, and Z. A. McCorkle. There was also an infant sister, and another child of unknown sex, both of whom died young.
They were buried in the Baker Cemetery of Washington, Illinois, with their grandparents.
By: James M. Richmond, ©October 2003
Again, many thanks to James M. Richmond.
Pension List
Pvt John
Purviance, NC Cont'l Cav, 23 Oct 1833, 71. Pvt Howell Sellers, SC Cont'l,
02 May 1833, 72. Pvt James Turley, VA Militia, 16 Mar 1833, 72 ...
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Buffalo Creek, Pennsylvania, mentions a John Purviance as early settler.___________________________________________
Early Sumner County, Tennessee, marriage records.
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Maxy, Eliza |
7 September 1832 |
Twopence, William |
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McCorkle, William |
Purviance, Martha King |
25 December 1794 |
King, Samuel |
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McCorkle, William [3rd marriage] |
Graham, Jenny |
9 June 1800 |
Rutherford, Griffith |
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Blythe, Elizabeth |
Douglass, Robert G. |
20 May 1830 |
Tyree, John P. |
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Blythe, Elizabeth |
King, James B. |
5 August 1830 |
Blythe, Samuel |
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Blythe, Martha |
Graham, Richard |
2 May 1829 |
Blackmore, William M., Montgomery, William, Black, William, Hadly, James H. and Douglass, Y. N. |
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Blythe, Rachel |
King, Richard |
21 July 1794 |
Blythe, Andrew |
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Thomas Anderson |
Elizabeth McCorkle |
13 March 1809 |
Bowen, John H. |
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Anderson, Thomas |
McKorkle, Elizabeth |
13 March 1809 |
Bowen, John H. |
Elizabeth McCorkle was the daughter of Robert McCorkle by his 1st wife Elizabeth Blythe. Robert McCorkle’s 2nd wife was Margaret “Peggy” Morrison of Rowan County, N C.
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Leath, John H. |
20 February 1847 |
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Blakemore, Andrew J. |
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Now, Elizabeth McCorkle married Thomas Anderson and had, I think, 4 children. One of those 4 children was Elizabeth Anderson who married a Cumberland Presbyterian Minister named J. McMurray [earlier spelled McMurry]. Below, this marriage is listed as 1837.
I believe another of the 4 children was Martha Anderson, who below is shown to have married James LEATH: Martha D. Anderson (Mrs. James T. Leath). Julia Anderson never married, according to Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache’s letter to her nephew in Newbern, Tenn., James Scott McCorkle. The son Robert Anderson may have moved to Memphis, according to Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache’s letter; but Elmira was uncertain what had happened to Mr. Robert Anderson, the son of Elmira’s half-sister Elizabeth McCorkle Anderson. –The only other indication I’ve ever found about him (on ancestry.com by a contributor about the parents of Thomas Anderson who m. Elizabeth McCorkle) is that Robert Anderson became an attorney and lived in Lexington and Durant, Mississippi.
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Anderson, Ann |
Hannah, James E. |
20 January 1841 |
Blythe, Samuel M. |
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Anderson, Anna |
Combs, Thomas |
30 May 1829 |
Anderson, John |
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Anderson, Betsey |
Barnes, Turner |
26 March 1817 |
Huffman, William & Bell, John |
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Anderson, Eliza |
Black, George |
8 December 1829 |
Rippy, Jesse |
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Anderson, Elizabeth |
Lindsey, Joseph B. |
18 May 1822 |
Hodge, Samuel H. |
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Anderson, Elizabeth |
McMurry, J. M. |
27 December 1837 |
[Eliz. Anderson was a child of Elizabeth McCorkle & Thomas Anderson] |
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Anderson, Emily |
Austin, Dickinson |
23 March 1835 |
Busby, James H. |
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Anderson, Jane |
Stewart, James |
22 July 1800 |
Goudy, John |
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Anderson, Jane A. |
Potts, James A. |
17 November 1832 |
Barry, Thomas |
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Anderson, Mahalah |
Nowlin, Nathaniel |
27 September 1817 |
Boaz, Edmond |
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Anderson, Margaret |
McReynolds, Joseph, Jr. |
4 June 1818 |
Wallace, William C., Jr. |
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Anderson, Margarett |
Winham, William |
23 October 1817 |
Goyne, Amos |
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Anderson, Martha D. |
Leath, James T. |
16 March 1831 |
Winchester, V. P. |
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Anderson, Mary |
Blythe, Richard |
4 November 1812 |
Blythe, Samuel K. |
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Anderson, Mary |
Morrison, John |
22 March 1834 |
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Anderson, Mary |
Thurmond, James M. |
29 October 1840 |
Carter, Allen |
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Anderson, Melvina J. |
Alexander, Robert |
19 October 1848 |
Brown, Squire |
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Anderson, Milley |
Kirkham. James |
19 May 1808 |
Payton, William |
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Anderson, Nancy |
Alexander, Silas |
29 April 1813 |
Follis, Raven C. |
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Anderson, Nancy |
Pound, Vinyard |
3 March 1828 |
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Carver, Henry |
28 July 1850 |
Heath, Richmond R. |
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Anderson, Rebeccah |
McLin, John |
3 February 1806 |
Anderson, Robert [Thomas Anderson m. Elizabeth McCorkle, 1809; so this is not their son Robert Anderson] |
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Weatherly, Joseph |
6 August 1800 |
Crafford, Hugh & Crafford, William |
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Anderson, Sarah |
Dobb, John |
6 May 1813 |
Wygal, William |
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Anderson, Susan |
Saunders, Lorenzo |
19 April 1836 |
Eustice, John W. |
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Johnson, David |
7 September 1830 |
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Anderson, Aaron |
Dempsey, Margaret |
5 April 1849 |
Anderson, William |
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Anderson, Andrew |
Clark, Darkass |
15 October 1812 |
Griggs, William |
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Haynes, Telitha |
14 December 1844 |
Groves, William |
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Franklin, E. M. |
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Rogers, Peggy |
25 October 1816 |
Cantrell, William & Desha, Robert |
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Biggs, Polly |
13 September 1817 |
Biggs, Adam |
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Old, Charlotte E. |
4 July 1835 |
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Pitt, Louisa |
7 December 1846 |
Bandy, Woodford |
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Buckhanan, Sarah |
2 April 1817 |
Bennet, Joseph, Anderson, Thomas, & Anderson, Isaac |
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Grooms, Nancy |
24 December 1849 |
Sadler, William T. |
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Anderson, John A. |
Austin, Sarah |
28 December 1849 |
White, Robert M. |
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Anderson, John B. |
Stamps, Nancy |
19 September 1816 |
Stamps, John |
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Anderson, Jonathan |
Condon, Elizabeth |
4 April 1813 |
White, David |
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Anderson, Mabin |
McCall, Maria |
4 December 1834 |
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Turner, Francis |
29 March 1830 |
Martin, Enoch |
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Anderson, P. L. |
Carter, Mary |
8 May 1837 |
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May, Mary |
30 July 1827 |
Parker, William |
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Anderson, Robert |
Winham, Permelia |
27 February 1817 |
McLin, John & Scurry, Thomas |
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Anderson, Sampson |
Hinton, Elizabeth |
23 July 1827 |
Holmes, Albert G. |
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Anderson, Samuel |
Bull, Jane |
31 October 1811 |
Anderson, James & Holmes, Albert |
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Anderson, Samuel |
Clark, Ann |
25 August 1812 |
Anderson, Andrew |
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Anderson, Thomas |
McKorkle, Elizabeth [Daughter of Robert McCorkle by his 1st wife Elizabeth Blythe] |
13 March 1809 |
Bowen, John H. |
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Anderson, Thomas H. |
Roney, Lucinda |
11 March 1850 |
Griffin, William D. |
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Anderson, William |
Dempsey, Matilda |
20 January 1848 |
Anderson, Aaron |
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Anderson, William |
Jones, Betsey |
23 November 1791 |
Anderson, Stephen |
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Roberson, Martha |
21 April 1840 |
Perdue, Louis |
Contributed by Linda Carpenter. Compiled by Leslie Garinger and Diane Payne ©1998
To read the History of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Click Here.
Inventory amt of the sale of Nath Latimer decd is rendered into Court by James Gwin and duly proven.
Jacob Thomas records his ear mark a half _ in the right and slit in the left.
[I think our Jacob Thomas remained in Statesville, North Carolina, area. Our Jacob Thomas m. Margaret BREVARD and begot 4 sons, each of whom served in the Revolutionary War, viz., John Thomas (remained in Statesville, NC, I think); Henry Thomas; James Thomas; and our ancestor William Thomas who m. Elizabeth Purviance, a daughter of Revolutionary War “colonel” John Purviance, Sr., and his wife Mary Jane Wasson (Purviance). I have no doubt this 1798 entry records the doings of many of our Thomas-Purviance-Morrison-McCorkle relatives. The names and dates fit with out people. -- John Thomas – Revolutionary War; remained in Statesville, North Carolina (old Thomas home-place). The following three brothers remoed to Western Tennessee, viz.,
James Thomas -- Revolutionary War
Henry Thomas –Revolutionary War
William Thomas -- Revolutionary War * * * * [This William Thomas is our ancestor: Purviance/ Thomas/ McCorkle/ Huie]
Deed from William Cage to Reubin Cage for one acre of land was duly acknowledged.
Deed from Roger Gibson to John Withers for 104 acres of land was proved by Gabriel Black.
Deed from William Brigance to William Stalcup for 50 acres of land was proved by Saml Stalcup.
Deed from John Withers to George Gabriel Black for 52 acres of land was duly acknowledged.
Deed from William Benthall to Laban(r) Benthall for 140) acres of land was proved by James Cryer.
The Court Adjourned until tomorrow 9 o clock Tuesday April the 3 1798
The court met according
to adjournment. Present: Edward Douglass Thomas Mastin
Witheral Latimer
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The court adjourns until tomorrow at 8 oclock
Submitted by Sue Pearson Carpenter Source: Will Book I, pages, 53-54 (TSLA Microfilm)
· SUMNER COUNTY, TENNESSEE, WILL RECORDS
· MCMURRY, John, signed 6-July-1820, recorded August Term 1820
· MCMURRY, Margaret, signed 19-May-1870, recorded April Term 1878
· MCMURRY, Mary, signed 31-Aug-1871
Mr. McCorkle [I expect this is our Robert McCorkle, but do not know of course.]
Jane 96 Browning, Jacob Reese, Mr. 97 Dobbins, Alexander Reese, Susan 98 Dobbins, Mrs. Reese,
Ruth 100 McMurry,
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/sumnsh2.htm
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Compiled by Theda Womack Reprinted with permission.
Gallatin, Tennessee. Is this the grave of John Purviance, Jr., who was scalped by hostile Indians?
PURVIANCE, John. Aged 24 yrs. Fell by Indian Barbarity 7 May 1792.
Sumner Co., TN Bible Records Index
Anderson Bible Record
Contributed by
Rusty Kleine
1999
NOTE:
Copied from Bible dated 1851 owned by Mrs. Kate Miller East Main Street,
Gallatin, Tennessee, Copied by Mrs.
Alice Guthrie. Information taken from LDS film #0024840
Alexander Anderson married Phoebe Hall May 30, 1787
James Anderson married Elizabeth Nemo March 1815
William Anderson married Asenath McCorkle June
1815
Elizabeth Anderson married Samuel Wilson Sept. 7, 1820
T.C. Anderson married R.A. McMurry June 5, 1834
David E. Anderson married Laura Moore Sept. 5, 1871
Alexander Anderson born Oct. 10, 1764
Phebe Hall born May 17, 1762
Elizabeth Anderson
born Mar. 30, 1788 -- This is not Elizabeth McCorkle Anderson, is it???? This
Elizabeth McCorkle m. Thomas Anderson.
Is this the Elizabeth Mebane Anderson who was mother to the Thomas Anderson who
married Elizabeth McCorkle, daughter of Robert McCorkle by his 1st
wife, Elizabeth Blythe?
James Anderson born Oct. 9, 1789
Miller Anderson born Sept 28, 1791
Mebane Anderson born Aug. 25, 1795
Mary Anderson born July 12, 1793
Margaret Anderson born Jan 23, 1798
John Anderson born Jan. 3, 1800
Thomas Anderson born Oct. 21, 1801
Jane Anderson born Mat. 5, 1804
David McMurry born Feb. 1778
Ann Blythe McMurry born Feb 29, 1777
James B. McMurry born Jan 18,1 1803
John M. McMurry born Sept. 30, 1804 -- I
think this is the John MITCHELL McMurry who married Elizabeth Anderson, daughter
of Thomas Anderson and Elizabeth McCorkle Anderson.
Elizabeth E. McMurry
born Apt. 19, 1806 -- The positioning makes me think this is our Elizabeth E.
Anderson McMurry, granddaughter of Robert McCorkle & Elizabeth Blythe
Mary A. McMurry born Aug. 22, 1808
Rachael McMurry born June 6, 1811
David Blythe born May 25, 1827
Ann E. McMurry born Jan. 12, 1840
Mitchel Donnell born Nov. 30, 1835
Asenath Donnell born Aug. 25, 1841
George Donnell born Nov. 1844
Amanda A. Anderson born Nov. 1, 1836
Alexander? Anderson born Nov 23, 1838?
Phebe E. Anderson born Jan. 15, 1837
David B. Anderson born July 19, 1842
Mebena D. Anderson May 12, 1845
James M. Anderson born Feb. 17, 1848
Rev. Alexander Anderson died Feb. 1804 Phebe
Hall , his wife
Mrs. R.A Anderson died Dec. 6, 1849
Mebane Anderson 1954
Jimmie W. Anderson - 1865
Michael A. Anderson died July 3, 1863
Rev. T.C. Anderson died Feb. 3P 1862
Valeria Leath Smith W/O James B Davis I doubt it.
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(Thomas McDonnel) -- In trying to find the grave of “Colonel” John Purviance Sr., the one who married Mary Jane Wasson and begot the John Purviance who was scalped in 1792 in Sumner County, Tennessee: look for this Thomas McDonnel because we are told that McDonnel preached the colonel’s funeral. Where? In Preble County, Ohio? In Middle Tennessee?
I presume this is a daughter of Daniel Hendricks and Isabel Pen(d)ry Hendricks, who were also parents of Daniel Roland Hendricks; and parents of Uriah C. Hendricks:
HENDRICKS, TEMPERANCE AND WILLIAM O. CHAFFIN ON FEBRUARY 13, 1829
iN ROWAN COUNTY BY CASWELL HARBIN. MARCH 3, 1829.
In other words, Temperance Hendricks Chaffin was probably a sister to Uriah C. Hendricks.
N.C. Marriage Records include this:
RODDY, MRS. MARY AND MAJOR A. H. SNEED married in WASHINGTON, GEORGIA. NO DATE GIVEN. FEBRUARY 3, 1829. – Recall: Violet or Viola B. Roddy married James “Jimpse” Scott and one of their children was “Sade” Sarah Elizabeth Scott (Mrs. Julius M. Huie), Sade living from 1839 to 1893. Sade is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County.
TAYLOR, MARY AND ALEXANDER GRAHAM ON JANUARY 29, 1829 IN
MECKLENBURG COUNTY. BY REV. R. H. MORRISON.
1. Benjamin Huie, born 1798 NC - died Newbern, Tennessee, 1879.
?2. HUIE, CATHARINE, DAU. OF JAMES HUIE, married MAJOR JAMES E. KERR on SEPTEMBER 19, 1833 IN SALISBURY, NC. Married by Rev.JOHN MORGAN. ST. LUKES PARISH. SEPTEMBER 23, 1833.
KERR, MAJOR JAMES E. AND CATHARINE HUIE, DAU. OF JAMES HUIE, ON
SEPTEMBER 19, 1833 IN SALISBURY, NC BY REV. JOHN MORGAN
OF ST. LUKES PARISH. SEPTEMBER 23, 1833.
I think the following should be spelled McEachran. If so, the documents reveal that Alexander Huie married Elizabeth McEachran, daughter of John McEachran.
May the 27th 1794--Received of the administrators of my father John
McCachran the gift and full sum of 25 pounds, 10 shillings, 1 pence in part of my share of my said father's estate. I say received by me. Elizabeth McCachren (mark) -- [Is this Mrs. Alexander Huie?]
State of North Carolina
We John McClillan and Robert Harris are hereto formally bound unto Hezekiah Alexander, Esquire, Chairman of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions held for the county of Mecklinburg in the sum of one
hundred pounds currency to be paid by us to the said justices or their
sussessors in office in trust for the benefit of Hector McEachern---minor of John McEachern--deceased to be void on condition that John McLellan—who is appointed guardian of said minors--Hector McEachern--shall well and faithfully discharge his duty as guardian aforesaid in several cases which by law in such case is require to do. Sealed and discharged in presence of
Isaac Alexander
John McClellan (seal)
Robert Harris (seal)
March the 17th 1795 recd of the administrators of John McCaharan decd the just and full sum of twelve pounds in part of my wife Elizabeth McCaharan's share of her father John McCaharan estate--by me--Alexander Huie (mark)
Test. Chas. Alexander
October 27th 1794--Received of the administrators of my father John
McCachran the sum of thirty eight pounds eight shillings in part of my
share of my fathers estate i say received by me.
Hector McEachren
Receipt for Mrs. Peter Huie’s share of her estate of her deceased husband John McEachran’s estate. Mrs. Peter Huie was Mary ____(Mrs. John McEachran) (then Mrs. Peter Huie). One of John McEachran’s daughters was Katherine McEachran.
[1791: by this time, Peter Huie of Meclenburg County, NC, had married Mary ____ (Mrs.John McEachran).]
“ Received August the 6th 1791 by me Peter Huie of Mecklenburg County and state of North Carolina (now husband to Mary the widow of John McCachran) of William Harris, John McClelan and Robert Harris administrators of John McEachran, deceased, of the county and state aforesaid the sum of thirty eight pounds eight shilings and two pence current money of North Carolina in part of the said Mary McCachran (now my wife) share of the said John McCachrans estate agreeable to law of which sum of thirty eight pounds eight shillings and six pence I the said Peter huie do acquit and full discharge the said William Harrish, John McClelan and Robert harris, their heirs executors and administrators and every of them forever by theses presents. In witness where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
sixth day of August 1791.
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of Alex Kimmings
Peter Huie (seal)
Children of John McEachran included:
Mrs. Alexander Huie;
Mrs. Peter Huie;
Mrs. John Cochran
Katherine McEachran was a daughter of John McEachran:
“April 25th 1796--Received of the administrators of John McCachran deceased the swiift and full sum of forty pounds for Katherine McCachran due to her in part from her fathers estate with full interest of thirty five pounds to this present day. John Cochran, Guardian”
July 23, 1796--Recd of the interest of the above 5 pounds for 3 years
--John Cochran
January 16, 1799--Then received of the administrators of John McCachran
deceased the sum of three pounds, six shillings, and eight pence in part ofmy wifes share of her father, John McCachran's estate--I say received by me. Alexander Huie (mark)
Wm. Ferguson
July 26th 1800--Then received of the administrators of John McCachran the
sum of one pound, nine shillings and two pence the remainder of Katherine McCachran's share of her father John McCachran's estate with the interest to this day per me. John Cochran
August 20, 1802--I Joseph Shinn being appointed guardain by the county
court of Cabarus for the three minor legates of John McCachran deceased
viz. Ann McCachran, Shusana Scott McCachran, and Mary McCachran hath this day received of the administrators of said McCachran forty one pounds five
shillings for each of said legatees with the full of the lawful interest
for each share clear of all demands for said legatees (principle interest
174 pounds, 0 shillings, 3 pence) I say recd by me Joseph Shinn guardian
Test. Robert Ferguson
J+uly 27th, 1802 Then received of John Cochran forty one pounds, seven
shillings and two pence together with the whole of the interest due thereon being the share of my wife due her out of her father John McCachrans estate. per me. John Farr
Rob. Harris, Test.
November 14, 1801--Then received of the administrators of John McCachran deceased forty one pounds, five shillings in full being my share of myfather John McCachran's estate due me together with the whole of the interest. Due thereon to this date--I say received by me. Nancy McCheren [McEachran]
April 14/1801--Then received of the administrators of John McCacharn
deceased the sum of 5 pouns, 4 pence and 2 shillings and in trust
the remainder of my full share of the estate of John McCacharans deceased.
The last of my share of the estate unto me by law I say received by me for
my wife Mary the relic[t] of John McCachran, Deceased. Peter Huie
James Huie
State of North Carolina, Mecklenburg County--We the undernamed subscribing
justices for the peace for said county being appointed a committee by the
court of said county for to settle with the administrators of John
McCachran deceased hath this met according to appointment and examined the
vouchers brought forward before us and have approved as followeth viz.
Administrators--To amount of sales as per clerks certificate produced to
us--422 pound, 4 shillings, 4 pence; Supera credit by vouchers
no. 1 123 pounds, 15 shillings
no. 2 41 pounds, 5 shillings
no. 3 3 pounds, 6 shillings
no. 4--2 pounds
no. 5--1 pound, 9 shillings, 2 pence
no. 6 5 pounds, 4 shillings, 4 pence
By a partial settlement oat October sessions 1794 per clerks certificate
164 pounds, 12 shillings, 6 pence
By ditto at October sessions 1790 as per by the comiticertificate 90
pounds, 3 shillings, 10 pence
Total 432 pounds, 13 shillings
Allowance for the 10 pounds
October 21 1882 We examined the enclosed vouchers and find that the
administrators have paid 10 pounds 9 shilling, 2 pence over the
Chas. Alexander
We the undernamed have examined the vouchers produced by the Adm of the
estate of John McCachran and are of opinion that they are ocrrect and out
to be admitted
Adam Week
Chs. Harris
Oct-Sept 1802
And further we find by the receipts that the administrators have overpaid the amt of the estate 10 pounds, 9 shillings, 2 pence Chas. Harris.
State of North Carolina Mecklinburgh County
Know all men by these presents, that we Hector McCachren and Peter Huea [Peter Huie] are held and firmly bound unto his excellency esquire, governor, captain-general, and commander in cheif of the state aforesaid, in the just and full sum of five hundred pounds, current money of this state, to be paid to his said excellency the governor, his successors or assigns; to the which payment well and truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators. Sealed with our seals, and dated this 26 day of July. Anno domini 1791.
Elizabeth Huie married Hector McEachron:
The condition of the above obligation is such, that whereas the above bound Hector McCachron hath made application for a licence for a marriage to be celebrated between him and Elisabeth Huea [Huie] of the county aforesaid: now in case is shall not appear hereafter that there is any lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage, then the above obligation to be void, otherwise
to remain in full force and virtue.
Signed, sealed and delivered, in presence of Hector McCachron, Peter Huie
Alexander
State of North Carolina Mecklinburgh County
James Huie, father of Benjamin (the Benjamin born circa 1798 & died 1879):
Paxtang, Pennsylvania. Early assessment lists:
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Freemen-William Dickey, Patrick McKinney .- Jacob Sheets, Collector.
Transcribed by Judy Warner Bookwalter: 1/31/01 pgs. 12 & 13
Transcribed by Judy Warner Bookwalter :2/3/2001: pgs 14 & 15
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--End of Gideon King and Eminence, Kentucky.
The College Moves to Princeton
“ Publication: The Presidents of Princeton University
President, 1761–66
More from the Internet on the Log College:
From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978).
Tennessee Death Index, 1908-1912
Huie. E.M. Gibson 1911 26998
Huie. Julius M. Gibson 1911 26698
-- Julius M. Huie’s wife Sarah Elizabeth Scott (Huie)
died in 1893.
1915 Death Index for Tennessee:
HUGHEY Geo. Giles 2/14 18 46
HUGHEY Jossie Shelby 1/27 51 74
HUGHEY Sarah Lincoln 2/5 32 320
HUGHIE Earline Humphreys 10/14 28 115
HUIE Sophie (Mrs.) Shelby [St. Joseph’s Hospital] April 30th. 4/30 46 319
Tennessee confederate Pension Applications:
NAME: Vaughn, Elizka Randolph.
WIDOW: Vaughn, Huie J.
PENSION #: W4195
COUNTY: Gibson
Manuscripts in the Tennessee State Library & Archives:
Purviance, Woods, Thomas, McCorkle & Huie Families
1850 Henderson County, Tennessee Census Index - "M" Surnames
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... 3 129B McCorkle Mary E. 10 F Tenn. 5 145B McCorkle Robert 71 M SC 5
146B McCorkle
Sarah ... |
Purviance, Woods, Thomas, McCorkle & Huie Families
1850 Henderson County, Tennessee Census Index - "M" Surnames
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McCorkle Robert 71 M SC 5 146B
McCorkle
Sarah |
SHELBY COUNTY, TENNESSEE NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS THROUGH 1859
Henry County, TN Archives - Voters Lists
1850 Census Index: Henderson County, Tennessee
The names in the following index are listed in "Arkansas
Confederate Pension Index" by Desmond Walls Allen, published
by Arkansas Research, PO Box 303, Conway, AR 72033
501/470-1120 voice and fax
Price: $37.00 softbound, plus shipping.
See http://www.ArkansasResearch.com for more information.
Huie, B. D.
Huie, George M.
Huie, W. H.
McCorkle, D. S.
McCorkle, Robert B.
McCorkle, W. H.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, January 1852.
REGULAR MEMBERS OF THE DIALECTIC SOCIETY. 1795.
· JAMES MEBANE, Speaker of the House of Commons of North Carolina, ..... ORANGE,
· WILLIAM MOORE, ..... ROWAN, ROBERT MOORE, ..... ROWAN,
· *HON. DANIEL NEWNAN, ..... SALISBURY,
· *JOHN L. HENDERSON, ..... SALISBURY,
· *ROBERT LOCKE, ..... ROWAN, *JOHN PHIFER, ..... CABARRUS,
· *WILLIE W. JONES, ..... HALIFAX.
· *JAMES S. GILLASPIE, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of North Carolina, ..... ----
· HON. THOMAS H. HALL, ..... EDGECOMBE, *MOSES A. LOCKE, ..... SALISBURY,
· *ROBERT MITCHELL, ..... CASWELL,
· *JAMES SNEED, M. D. ..... GRANVILLE.
· SAMUEL G. HOPKINS, ..... KENTUCKY, *NATHANIEL HUNT, ..... FRANKLIN.
· *MATTHEW TROY, ..... SALISBURY.
· HON. JOHN R. DONNELL, Judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina, ..... NEWBERN,
· JOHN SWANN, ..... WILMINGTON,
· *JOHN ELLIS, ..... ROWAN, *WILLIAM HILL, ..... WILMINGTON,
· *RANSOM HINTON, M. D. ..... WAKE,
· JOHN D. JONES, Speaker of the House of Commons of North Carolina, ..... WILMINGTON,
· *JOHN OWEN, Governor of North Carolina, ..... BLADEN,
· WILLIAM J. COWAN, ..... WILMINGTON,
· FREDERICK J. HILL, M. D. ..... WILMINGTON, *WILLIAM PEGUES, ..... CABARRUS,
· *JOHN F. PHIFER, ..... CABARRUS, *HORACE B. SATTERWHITE, M. D. ..... SALISBURY,
· SAMUEL SPENCER, ..... ANSON,
· *HON, JOHN GILES, ..... SALISBURY,
· *FREDERICK JONES, ..... WILMINGTON, *GABRIEL L. STEWART, ..... PLYMOUTH.
· *JOHN B. MEBANE, ..... CHATHAM, WILLIAM J. POLK, M. D. ..... RALEIGH.
· EDWARD D. JONES, ..... SOUTH CAROLINA,
· JOHN J. ALSTON, ..... CHATHAM, JAMES LEGRAND, ..... MONTGOMERY,
· *FREDERICK D. SWANN, ..... WILMINGTON, *WILEY YARBOROUGH, ..... SALISBURY.
· JOHN W. ALSTON, ..... SOUTH CAROLINA,
· EZEKIEL HALL, M. D. ..... WILMINGTON,
· *ALFRED ALSTON, ..... WARREN, *THOMAS HILL, ..... ROCKINGHAM,
· *LEWIS TAYLOR, ..... GRANVILLE,
· *JOHN HILL, M. D. ..... WILMINGTON, *** *** ***
· *HON, JAMES GRAHAM, ..... LINCOLN, *GEORGE F. GRAHAM, M. D. ..... LINCOLN,
· *JAMES McCLUNG, ..... TENNESSEE, STOKELY D. MITCHELL, ..... TENNESSEE,
· REV. JAMES MORRISON, ..... MECKLENBURG,
· *HUTCHINS G. MITCHELL, ..... GRANVILLE, SAMUEL B. ROBINSON, ..... CABARRUS,
· JOHN G. A. WILLIAMSON, Charge d'Affaires to Venezuela, ..... PERSON,
· WILLIAM J. ALEXANDER, Speaker of the House of Commons, ..... MECKLENBURG,
· ROBERT HALL, ..... IREDELL, HAMILTON C. JONES, ..... SALISBURY,
· REV. ROBERT KING, ..... IREDELL, [Non-Graduates]
· *ALFRED M. SLADE, Consul to Buenos Ayers, ..... MARTIN WILLIAM B. WOOD, ..... ----
· *REV. ELAM MORRISON, ..... MECKLENBURG,
· REV. ROBERT H. MORRISON, D. D., President of Davidson College, ..... CABARRUS,
· DAVID T. CALDWELL, M. D. ..... MECKLENBURG, REV. WILLIAM A. HALL, ..... IREDELL,
· JOHN C. TAYLOR, ..... GRANVILLE,
· ROBERT B. JONES, ..... VIRGINIA, RICHARD S. JONES, ..... VIRGINIA,
· GEORGR TUCKER, ..... VIRGINIA,
· *RICHARD ALLISON, ..... IREDELL, REV. JAMES G. HALL, ..... CURRITUCK,
· NATHANIEL W. HARRIS, ..... SALISBURY, , THOMAS HILL, ..... WILMINGTON,
· JAMES HOGAN, ..... RANDOLPH, SAMUEL KERR, M. D ...... SALISBURY,
· *WILLIAM T. MEBANE, ..... ORANGE, HON. ANDERSON MITCHELL, ..... WILKES,
· JAMES TAYLOR, ..... GRANVILLE,
· *PHILIP H. THOMAS, M. D. ..... MILTON,
· *ROBERT H. COWAN, ..... WILMINGTON,
· *WASHINGTON MORRISON, ..... CABARRUS,
· JOSEPH P. CALDWELL, ..... NEW YORK, WILLIAM COWAN, ..... WILMINGTON,
· HON RICHMOND M. PEARSON, Judge of Superior and Supreme Courts of North Carolina, ..... ROWAN,
· WILLIAM H. THOMPSON, M. D. ..... CHAPEL HILL,
· JOHN TAYLOR, ..... GRANVILLE.
· RIGHT REV. LEONIDAS POLK, Bishop of Arkansas and Louisiana, ..... RALEIGH,
· WARREN THOMAS, ..... MILTON, *GEORGE W. THOMPSON, M. D. ..... CHAPEL HILL,
· BENJAMIN H. ALSTON, M. D. ..... EDENTON,
· REV. ROBERT HALL, ..... IREDELL,
· WASHINGTON DONNELL, M. D. ..... GUILFORD,
· *MILO A. GILES, M. D. ..... SALISBURY,
· *JAMES A. KING, ..... IREDELL,
· JAMES MARTIN, ..... ALABAMA,
· REV. JAMES E. MORRISON, ..... CABARRUS,
· COLUMBUS MORRISON, M. D. ..... MECKLENBURG.
· MATTHEW B. LOCKE, ..... SALISBURY, *FRANKLIN E. POLK, ..... TENNESSEE,
· RUSSELL M. WILLIAMSON, ..... TENNESSEE,
· Rev. ABSALOM K. BARR, ..... ROWAN County
· LEWIS THOMPSON, ..... BERTIE, [Non-Graduates] JOSEPH S. JONES, ..... WARREN,
· THOMAS P. HALL, ..... IREDELL,
· ALEXANDER A. MEBANE, ..... ORANGE,
· REV. PHILIP W. ALSTON, ..... EDENTON,
· REV. JAMES D. HALL, ..... IREDELL,
· JAMES E. KERR, ..... ROWAN -- A Kerr married a Huie woman at some point.
· *JAMES A. VAUGHAN, ..... RICHMOND, NOAH THOMPSON, ..... BERTIE,
· WHITMELL H. PUGH, ..... BERTIE,
· EDMUND W. JONES, ..... WILKES, PROTHEUS E. A. JONES, ..... GRANVILLE,
· RUFUS M. ROSEBROUGH, ..... IREDELL, THOMAS C. JONES, ..... WAKE,
· ADDI E. D. THOM, ..... GUILFORD,
· *ALEXANDER W. HOGAN, ..... RANDOLPH, JOHNSTON B. JONES, M. D. ..... PITTSBOROUGH,
· FREDERICK W. SWANN, ..... WILMINGTON, -- [a Swann m. a Huie person]
· REV. THOMAS JONES, ..... VIRGINIA, *REV. JOHN C. THOMPSON, ..... MARYLAND.
· GEORGE W. JONES, ..... GRANVILLE, ROBERT B. WATT, ..... ROCKINGHAM.
· LEONARD H. TAYLOR, M. D. ..... OXFORD.
· REV. WILLIAM BARRINGER, ..... CABARRUS,
· *ALEXANDER D. SWANN, ..... WILMINGTON,
· BENJAMIN F. WOOD, ..... ALABAMA.
· *REV. DAVID DICKIE, ..... ORANGE, ,
· WILLIAM P. WATT, ..... ROCKINGHAM,
· ___________ HEADEN .... CHATHAM, ALPHEUS JONES, ..... WAKE,
· REV. COLIN SHAW, ..... FAYETTEVILLE.
· WILLIAM S. HARRIS, ..... CABARRUS, ISAAC B. HEADEN, ..... CHATHAM,
· REV. JOHN C. RANKIN, Missionary to India, ..... GUILFORD,
· CHARLES C. GRAHAM, ..... LINCOLN,
· [Non-Graduates] EDWIN G. THOMPSON, ..... ORANGE, WILLIAM P. WATT, ..... ROCKINGHAM.
· ARCHIBALD H. CALDWELL, ..... SALISBURY, *NATHANIEL JONES, ..... WAKE,
· JAMES F. TAYLOR, ..... RALEIGH,
· SAMUEL HALL, ..... WILMINGTON, WILLIAM H. HILL, M. D. ..... WILMINGTON,
· ALSTON A. JONES, ..... WAKE, JOHN R. WILSON, ..... VIRGINIA.
· JAMES A. CALDWELL, ..... BURKE, THOMAS J. MORRISEY, ..... SAMPSON
· HORATIO M. POLK, ..... TENNESSEE,
· HENRY C. LOGAN, ..... VIRGINIA, *ALBERT Y. McADOO, M. D. ..... GUILFORD,
· HENRY A. SYDNOR, ..... VIRGINIA,
· WILLIAM D. COWAN, M. D. ..... WILMINGTON, RICHARD B. HILL, ..... WILMINGTON,
· JAMES P. IRWIN, ..... CHARLOTTE,
· JOHN COWAN, ..... WILMINGTON, ROBERT H. COWAN, ..... WILMINGTON,
· HENRY W. GRAHAM, M. D. ..... LINCOLN, JOSEPH M. GRAHAM, ..... LINCOLN, ,
· ADOLPHUS G. JONES, ..... WAKE, *EDWARD B. LEWIS, ..... CHAPEL HILL,
· WALTER L. STEELE, ..... RICHMOND, RICHARD DON WILSON, ..... CASWELL.
· JOHN R. THOMPSON, M. D. ..... RALEIGH, RUFUS L. WATT, ..... ROCKINGHAM.
· REV. THOMAS F. DAVIS, ..... SALISBURY,
· LEONIDAS TAYLOR, M. D. ..... OXFORD,
· THOMAS H. TURNER, M. D. ..... HILLSBOROUGH,
· JOHN L. WILLIAMSON, ..... CASWELL.
· RICHARD M. ALLISON, ..... IREDELL,
· JAMES M. McCORKLE, ..... WADESBOROUGH,
· PHILIP A. TAYLOR, ..... TENNESSEE,
· ALEXANDER F. BREVARD, ..... LINCOLNTON
WILLIAM F. MEBANE, ..... GREENSBOROUGH, REV. S. A. STANFIELD, ..... VIRGINIA
· LEWIS F. CARR, ..... SAMPSON,
· JOHN W. LEWIS, ..... CHAPEL HILL,
· JOSEPH G. TURNER, ..... HILLSBOROUGH,
· SAMUEL J. ERWIN, ..... LINCOLNTON,
· ELI W. HALL, ..... WILMINGTON,
· JOSEPH J. W. TUCKER, M. D. ..... RALEIGH,
· DANIEL SHAW, ..... MONTGOMERY,
· GEORGE W. THOMPSON, ..... PITTSBOROUGH,
· RICHARD A. CALDWELL, ..... SALISBURY,
· JAMES W. HICKS, M. D. ..... GRANVILLE,
· PETER McEACHIN, ..... RICHMOND,
· RUFUS E. S. TUCKER, ..... RALEIGH.
· JAMES M. LEWIS, ..... CHAPEL HILL,
· CHARLES McEACHIN, M. D. ..... RICHMOND,
· WILLIAM R. MILLER, M. D. ..... RALEIGH,
· BENJAMIN F. MEBANE, M. D. ..... ORANGE,
· JOHN WILSON, M. D. ..... MILTON.
· LEONIDAS G. BROWN, ..... ROWAN,
· JOHN A. MEBANE, United States Army, ..... GREENSBOROUGH,
· T. W. STEELE, ..... RICHMOND,
· JULIUS A. CALDWELL, ..... SALISBURY,
· PETER M. HALE, ..... FAYETTEVILLE,
· THOMAS J. ROBINSON, ..... FAYETTEVILLE,
· ROBERT W. WILSON, ..... HILLSBOROUGH,
· JAMES F. GRAHAM, ..... CATAWBA, ,
· JOHN T. BANKS, ..... GEORGIA,
· WASHINGTON C. KERR, ..... GUILFORD,
· JOSEPH L. H. ALEXANDER, ..... MECKLENBURG
· RICHARD H. LEWIS, ..... CHAPEL HILL,
· SAMUEL B. MORISEY, ..... SAMPSON,
· JOHN A. TURRENTINE, ..... HILLSBOROUGH,
· JAMES F. BELL, ..... STATESVILLE,
· THOMAS G. HALL, ..... CUMBERLAND,
· JOHN W. LEWIS, ..... HALIFAX, ANGUS D. MORRISON, ..... RICHMOND,
· JOHN M. MORRISON, ..... RICHMOND,
· JAMES M. SPENCER, ..... ALABAMA, WILLIAM M. SPENCER, ..... ALABAMA,
· JOHN T. TAYLOR, ..... GRANVILLE, THOMAS L. WILLIAMSON, ..... CASWELL,
· DAVID S. COWAN, ..... WILMINGTON, E. HAYNE DAVIS, ..... IREDELL,
· ALBERT K. GRAHAM, ..... TENNESSEE, JOHN H. HILL, JUN. ..... BRUNSWICK,
· WILLIAM H. MILLER, ..... VIRGINIA, RUFUS SCOTT, ..... GREENSBOROUGH,
· WILLIAM L. SCOTT, ..... GUILFORD,
· ROBERT M. SLOAN, ..... GREENSBOROUGH,
· JAMES W. WILSON, ..... HILLSBOROUGH.
· JAMES W. EWING, ..... MONTGOMERY, HERBERT GREGORY, ..... GRANVILLE,
· ALEXANDER M. HOGAN, ..... CHAPEL HILL, JOHN R. HOGAN, ..... CHAPEL HILL,
· JOSEPH P. JONES, ..... ANSON, J. A. MONTGOMERY, ..... LEXINGTON,
· *HON. ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, ..... SALISBURY,
· *REV. DAVID KERR, Professor of Languages in University of North Carolina, ..... IRELAND.
· *GEN. JAMES GRANT, ..... TENNESSEE,
· *JOHN HAY, ..... FAYETTEVILLE,
HON. DUNCAN CAMERON, Judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina, ..... ORANGE,
· *THOMAS SCOTT, ..... HILLSBOROUGH,
· *PLEASANT HENDERSON, ..... CHAPEL HILL,
· *EDWARD JONES, Solicitor General, ..... CHATHAM.
*** *** *** *** ** *DANIEL BOON, ..... JOHNSTON, *GEN. CALVIN JONES, M. D. ..... RALEIGH,
*REV. JAMES HALL, D. D. ..... IREDELL
JOHN MORRISON, ..... CABARRUS,
*JOHN SCOTT, ..... HILLSBOROUGH,
EDWIN TAYLOR, ..... CONNECTICUT.
· JOHN P. ERWIN, ..... TENNESSEE,
· REV. SAMUEL L. GRAHAM, D. D., Professor of Hebrew, &c., Union Seminary, ..... GRANVILLE,
· JOHN A. MEBANE, ..... ORANGE,
*REV. SAMUEL C. CALDWELL, A. M. ..... MECKLENBURG,
· HON. WILLIAM DAVIDSON, ..... MECKLENBURG,
· *THOMAS W. SCOTT, ..... RALEIGH,
· *REV. JOHN M. WILSON, D. D. ..... MECKLENBURG,
· *THOMAS G. SCOTT, ..... VIRGINIA,
· GEORGE TUCKER, Professor of Moral Philosophy University of Virginia, ..... VIRGINIA,
· JAMES MORRISON, ..... CABARRUS,
· TIGNAL J. STEWART, ..... MISSISSIPPI,
· *JOHN COWAN, ..... WILMINGTON,
· ANDREW SCOTT, ..... FAYETTEVILLE,
· ALBERT TORRENCE, ..... SALISBURY.
· ALEXANDER W. MEBANE, ..... ORANGE,
· WILLIAM A. TURNER, M. D. ..... PLYMOUTH,
· THOMAS HICKS, ..... HILLSBOROUGH,
· P. H. HUIE, ..... SALISBURY,
· WILLIAM M. McCONNAUGHY, ..... MECKLENBURG,
· SAMUEL W. WILLIAMSON, ..... NORTHAMPTON,
· *GEN. GEORGE L. DAVIDSON, ..... IREDELL,
· *GEN. EDMUND JONES, ..... WILKES,
· WILLIAM B. LOCKE, ..... ALABAMA,
· *HENRY M. MILLER, ..... RALEIGH,
· * BENJAMIN L. TAYLOR, ..... ----
· JAMES TAYLOR, JUN, ..... ----
· REV. ALEXANDER WILSON, D. D., President of Caldwell Institute, ..... GRANVILLE,
· THOMAS W. WILSON, ..... WILKES,
· ROBERT WILLIAMSON, ..... LINCOLN,
· THOMAS WILLIAMSON, ..... LINCOLN,
· *JOSEPH WILSON, ..... MECKLENBURG,
ROBERT H. JONES, ..... WARREN,
· WILLIAM ALEXANDER GRAHAM, M. D. ..... OXFORD,
· THOMAS C. JONES, ..... WAKE,
· WILLIAM C. ERWIN, ..... BURKE,
· JAMES P. HENDERSON, President of Texas, ..... LINCOLN,
· ASHBEL SMITH, M. D., Minister to France, ..... SALISBURY.
· A. B. HOUSTON, ..... IREDELL,
· *COL. MICHAEL HOKE, ..... LINCOLN,
· WILLIAM M. HOUSTON, ..... GUILFORD,
· L. G. JONES, M. D. ..... WILKES,
· *SAMUEL KING, ..... IREDELL,
· *MARCUS W. REINHARDT, ..... LINCOLN,
· ALFRED M. WATT, ..... ROCKINGHAM,
· ALGERNON S. JONES, ..... WAKE,
· SILAS C. LINDSLEY, Professor of Languages in Caldwell Institute, ..... GREENSBOROUGH,
· REV. HENRY N. PHARR, ..... CABARRUS,
· WILLIAM R. SCOTT, ..... ROCKINGHAM,
· JOSEPH H. WILSON, ..... MECKLENBURG,
· JAMES T. HICKS, ..... VIRGINIA,
· JOSEPH T. HICKS, ..... GRANVILLE,
· JOHN SWANN, ..... PITTSBOROUGH,
· *CHARLES THOMAS, ..... VERMONT.
· REV. JACOB D. MITCHELL, ..... VIRGINIA,
· JAMES F. WATT, ..... ROCKINGHAM,
· CHARLES C. McCRIMMON, ..... MOORE,
· *JOHN A. D. McNEILL, ..... MOORE,
· HENRY MORDECAI, ..... RALEIGH,
· JOHN M. ANDERSON, ..... SOUTH CAROLINA,
· GEN. DANIEL L. CRENSHAW, ..... WAKE,
· LEMUEL H. MEBANE, ..... ORANGE,
· ARCHIBALD TAYLOR, ..... GRANVILLE,
· JOHN M. CREENSHAW, ..... WAKE,
· WILLIS LEWIS, M. D. ..... OXFORD,
· ROBERT J. STEELE, M. D. ..... RICHMOND,
· J. A. YOUNG, ..... STATESVILLE.
· REV. J. M. H. ADAMS, ..... IREDELL,
· THOMAS A. MITCHELL, ..... HILLSBOROUGH,
· REV. E. D. MONTGOMERY, ..... VIRGINIA,
· HON. WILLIAM D. WILLIAMSON, ..... MAINE.
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· WILLIAM N. TAYLOR, ..... FLORIDA.
· W. H. H. TUCKER, ..... RALEIGH.
· WILLIAMSON WHITEHEAD, ..... FAYETTEVILLE,
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Darice Elmer McDiarmid:: born May 12, 1915, in Trenton, NJ. Died in March, 1990
Christine McDiarmid Norling, born August 7, 1967 in West Chester, PA.
Jonathan McWhinnie Norling, born February 12, 1969, in West Chester, PA.
Nathaniel Scott Jones, born September 9, 1996., in Atlanta GA.
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By John Braswell at Florida State University
Of the four hundred and sixty-nine graduates of the College from 1769 to 1794, one hundred and fourteen became ministers of the gospel, of whom seventy-five were graduated from 1769 to 1776. After the war began, the candidates for the ministry were much fewer in number in proportion to the whole than they were before that event. Many of these ministers, who were trained under Dr. Witherspoon and his associates in the Faculty, became prominent and influential men in the Church and in the community at large. Among them were the following-named Presidents and Professors of Colleges in the Middle and Southern States. The names are given in the order of their graduation.
1769. Samuel Stanhope Smith, Dr. Witherspoon's successor in the Presidency of the College of New Jersey.
1772. Andrew Hunter, Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in the same College.
1772. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy in the University of North Carolina.
1772. John McMillan, Vice-President of Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, ard Professor of Theology in the same College.
1773. Thaddeus Dod, the Founder and President of Washington Academy, afterwards Washington College, Pennsylvania.
1773. James Dunlap, President of Jefferson Coflege, Pennsylvania.
1773. William Graham, Founder and President of Liberty Hall, afterwards Washington College, Virginia.
1773. John McKnight, President of Dickinson College, Pennsylvania.
1773. John Blair Smith, President of Hampden Sidney College, Virginia, and also of Union College, Schenectady, New York.
1774. Thomas Harris Maccaulle, President of Mount Sion College, South Carolina.
1775. Samuel Doak, President of Washington College, Tennessee.
1783. Ashbel Green, President of the College of New Jersey.
1784. Ira Condit, Vice-President of Queen's College, now Rutgers, New Jersey, and Professor of Moral Philosophy in the same.
1787. Robert Finley, President of the University of Georgia.
1787. Elijah D. Rattoone, President of Charleston College, South Carolina, and a Presbyter of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
1789. Robert Helt Chapman, President of the University of North Carolina.
1791. Joseph Caidwell, President of the same University before Dr. Chapman.
1793. John Henry Hobart, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, New York, and Professor of Pastoral Theology and Pulpit Eloquence in the Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church.
1794. Henry Kollock, Professor of Theology in the College of New Jersey.
Some of those here named were eminent as preachers of the gospel as well as teachers in the higher seminaries of learning.
To this list may be added the names of not a few others who were men of note as able and successful pastors of churches:
1769. Samuel Niles, at Abington, Massachusetts.
1769. Elihu Thayer, at Kingston, New Hampshire.
1770. Nathaniel Irwin, at Neshaminy, Pennsylvania.
1770. Nathan Perkins, at West Hartford, Connecticut.
1771. John Black, at Upper Mars Creek, York County, Pennsylvania.
1771. Samuel Spring, at Newburyport, Massachusetts.
1772. Joseph Eckley, at Bbston, Massachusetts.
1772. James Grier, at Deep Ron, Pennsylvania.
1772. William Linn, at New York City, Reforrned Dutch Church.
1773. John Francis Armstrong,atTrenton,New Jersey; a Trustee of the College.
1773. Ebenezer Bradford, at Rowley, Massachusetts.
1773. Lewis Fenilletean Wilson, at Concord, North Carolina.
1774. Stephei Bloomer Balch, at Georgetown, District of Columbia.
1774. James Hall, at Fourth Creek, Concord, and Bethany, North Carolina.
1775. John Durburrow Blair, at Richmond, Virginia.
1775. Isaac Stockton Keith, at Charleston, South Carolina.
1775. James McCrie, at Steel Creek, North Carolina.
1775. John Springer, at Washington, Georgia.
1778. William Boyd, at Lamington, New Jersey; a Trustee of the College.
1781. Joseph Clark, at New Brunswick, New Jersey; a Trustee of the College.
1783. Gilbert Tennent Snowden, at Cranbuiy, New Jersey.
1784. Joseph Clay, at Savannah, Georgia; Baptist Church.
1787. John Nelson Abeel, at' New York; Reformed Dutch Church.
1788. Aaron Condict, at Hanover, New Jersey.
1789. Thomas Pitt Irving, at Hagerstown, Maryland; Principal of the Academy there, and Rector of the Episcopal Church.
1790. George Spafford Woodhull, at Princeton, and a Trustee of the College.
1793. Isaac Van Dorem, at Hopewell, New York; Reformed Dutch Church, and afterwards Principal of the Newark Academy.
Of the graduates from 1769 to 1794
inclusive, six were members of the Continental Congress, twenty became Senators
of the United States,
and twenty-three members of the House of Representatives.
CONTINETAL CONGRESS
1769. John Beatty, Delegate to the Continental Congress, from New Jersey.
1769. John Henry, Delegate to the Continental Congress, from Maryland.
1771. Gunning Bedford, Delegate to the Continental Congress, from Delaware.
1771. James Madison, Delegate to the Continental Congress, from Virginia.
1773. Morgan Lewis, Delegate to the Continental Congress, from New York.
1773. Henry Lee, Delegate to the Continental Congress, from Virginia.
UNITED STATES SENATORS.
1770. Frederick Frelinghuysen, from New Jersey.
1772. Aaron Burr, from New York.
1773. Aaron Ogden, from New Jersey.
1774. John Ewing Calhoun, from South Carolina.
1774. Jonathan Mason, from Massachusetts.
1775. Isaac Tichenor, from Vermont.
1776. Jonathan Dayton, from New Jersey.
1776. John Rutherford, from New York.
1779. Richard Stockton, from New Jersey.
1780. Abraham R. Venable, from Virginia.
1781. William Branch Giles, from Virginia.
1781. Edward Livingston, from Louisiana.
1784. James Ashton Bayard, from Delaware.
1785. Robert Goodloe Harper, from Maryland.
1788. David Stone, from North Carolina.
1789. Mahion Dickerson, from New Jersey.
1790. John Taylor, from South Carolina.
1791. Jacob Burnet, from Ohio.
1792. George M. Bibb, from Kentucky.
1794. George Washington Campbell, from Tennessee.
MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
1769. James Linn, from New Jersey.
1772. David Bard, from Pennsylvania.
1774. Wm. Stevens Smith, from New York.
1775. John Andrew Scudder, from New Jersey.
1776. Nathaniel Alexander, from North Carolina.
1776. John W. Kittera, from Pennsylvania.
1781. Wifliam Crawford, from Pennsylvania.
1782. Conrad Elmendoff, from New York.
1782. John A. Hanna, from Pennsylvania.
1784. Peter R. Livingston, froin New York.
1785. James Wilken, from New York.
1786. John Henderson Imlay, from New Jersey.
1787. Evan Alexander, from North Carolina.
1788. Nathaniel W. Howell, from New York.
1788. Wm. Kirkpatrick, from New York.
1788. Nicholas Van Dyke, from Delaware.
1789. Isaac Pierson, from New Jersey.
1789. Ephraim King Wilson, from Maryland.
1789. Silas Wood, from New York.
1792. Wm. Chatwood, from New Jersey.
1792. Peter Early, from Georgia.
1792. George C. Maxwell, from New Jersey.
1794. Thomas M. Bayly, from Virginia.
1794. James M. Broome, from Delaware.
Several of the above-named members of Congress had higher offices:
James Madison was the fourth President of the United States.
Aaron Burr was the third Vice-President.
John Henry was Governor of Maryland.
Gunning Bedford was Governor of Delaware.
Henry Lee was Governor of Virginia.
Morgan Lewis was Governor of New York.
Aaron Ogden was Governor of New Jersey.
Isaac Tichenor was Governor of Vermont.
Nathaniel Alexander was Governor of North Carolina.
Wm. Branch Giles was Governor of Virginia.
David Stone was Governor of North Carolina.
Mablon Dickerson was Governor of New Jersey.
John Taylor was Governor of South Carolina.
Peter Early was Governor of Georgia.
And to this list of Governors of several of the States may be added William Richardson Davie, Governor of North Carolina, also Envoy, with EIIsworth, an older graduate, to France.
Of the graduates of this period, three became Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States
1774. Brockholst Livingston, of New York.
1788. Smith Thompson, of New York.
1790. William Johnson, of South Carolina.
[2] The 2nd Mrs. Haskins Ridens. The 1st wife of Haskins Ridens Sr. was a daughter of Lula Stephenson, a best friend of my maternal grandmother Notie Headden Cope. Sam Ridens, father of Haskins Sr., was a member of the Newbern Christian Church, now defunct, although as a child I never saw him there, but he did donate a small organ to our church, for which we were grateful.
[1] I do not know where to put this information that’s in Aunt Ora and Aunt Katie Pearl’s booklet. They appear to be a Thomas family connection: I. Elizabeth Thomas Sherrill, a daughter of Jacob Thomas & wife Margaret Brevard Thomas; and a sister to, inter alia, the William Thomas who m. Elizabeth Purviance and begot Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle, who died in 1855).
Evidently the following are her children: Archibald Sherrill m. Anderson; Margaret Sherrill m. Donnell; Hulda Sherrill m. Chandler.
New entry: Samuel Sherrill m. Sheets; Ann Sherrill m. Chandler; Elizabeth Sherrill m. Amos Bone; Rebecca m. Taliferro; Ruanna or Susanna Sherrill m. Perkins; Hugh Sherrill m. Scobey; and Numon Sherrill m. McQueen.
New entry: Jacob Thomas m. Jewel; Anna Thomas (Mrs. Jewel); James Thomas m. McMinn; Bazzle Thomas m. Vance or Yance; Lucinda Thomas (Bunton); John Thomas m. Bunton; Henry Thomas m. McKay; Jacob Thomas Jr. m. Shelton; and Ann Thomas (Sherrill).
New entry: Ephraim Sherrill m. Bell: Margaret Sherrill (m. a Sherrill); Hulda Sherrill Bone (m. Mr. Bone); William Sherrill (m. Thomas); Mary Sherrill; Abel Rufas Sherrill m. Mosdy or Moody; and Wilson Sherrill.
[4] [1807? 1808? as Elmira was born 1797--but deed records show that Elmira’s father Robert had been granted some land around Murfreesboro in 1804. -- One record I’ve seen reports that the removal to Rutherford County, Tennessee, came in 1808. The sudden blindness sounds like macular degeneration, doesn’t it?
[5] One wonders how “happy” the frontier life was for the “family negroes.”
[6] Margaret Morrison McCorkle called her new home in the newly opened Western District of Tennessee “Verdant Plain.” Her son Robert A.H. McCorkle called it "Verdant Grove." “Verdant Plain” later became “Churchton” in Dyer County.
[7] Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle, who married Tirzah Scott (McCorkle). RAH McCorkle was named after his father, Robert McCorkle. And RAH & Tirzah Scott McCorkle named one son Robert Eusebius McCorkle. We know from a letter of RAH to his sister Elmira that this Robert E. McCorkle is buried in the row beside Howard Harris Roache, killed from a mortal wound incurred at Shiloh Battle. “We buried him [Howard Roach] in our rowe beside Robert,” RAH’s letter instructs his sister.
[8] Jehiel Morrison McCorkle (died 1849) and RAH McCorkle (and Edwin Alexander McCorkle) were brothers, sons of Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle. Jehiel called himself “Jem” sometimes and is buried as such, I think, in the McCorkle Cemetery, beside his wife Elizabeth “Betsy” Smith McCorkle. -- He was a magistrate and member of the early militia of Dyer County. It is likely that Jehiel Morrison McCorkle was one of the first, if not the first, court clerk for Dyer County; I’m not certain about this, though; this bears inquiry.
[9] Dr. Stephen Roach, who married Elmira Sloane McCorkle (Roach) in Rutherford County, Middle Tennessee, in 1816.
[10] Tirzah Scott McCorkle was one of the children of the James Scott, 1777-1853, and Sarah Dickey Scott, 1777-1838, whose markers I moved form the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery to the McCorkle Cemetery. [I did not disinter them from Yorkville. Yorkville was the better town until after the Civil War and the advent of the railroad into Newbern. That is why my Huie ancestors settled closer to Yorkville then Newbern.] Tirzah Scott McCorkle was a sister to the William Scott who m. Nancy Alice Edwards and begot the first wife of John Edwin McCorkle, viz., Tennessee Alice Edwards Scott; and Tirzah was a sister to the James "Jimps" Scott who m. Violet B. Roddy and begot Mrs. Julius M. Huie, 1839-1893 (Sade Sarah Elisabeth Scott).
[11] I wouldn’t be surprised if “Polly Cox” were really a “Mary Cox” as people named Mary were commonly called “Polly” then, just as people named Margaret were called “Peggy.” Rutherford County, Tennessee (Murfreesboro), records show a deed, 1834: Book Q, p. 15, to a James J. Maxwell from Elisha Cox. Was Elisha Cox kin to the Polly Cox (or Cos) whom Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s letters mention raising? Also, in 1829, the dower of Jane Maxwell was laid off, Division of Land Book s, 220. Evidently Mrs. Edwin A. McCorkle (née Jane Maxwell Thomas) was a namesake of this Jane Maxwell. (Jane Purviance Maxwell?--a sister to Elizabeth Purviance Thomas who was mother to Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle?)
[12] Margaret (Peggy) Pamela McCorkle or variously Permelia McCorkle (Mrs. Lemuel Locke Scott).
[13] Presumably Peggy Permalia/Pamela McCorkle Scott’s new “sister” is Tirzah Scott (Mrs. Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle). Margaret Permelia McCorkle's husband was Lemuel Locke Scott, a brother to Tirzah Scott (McCorkle) alias Mrs. RAH McCorkle.)
[14] Margaret Morrison and Robert McCorkle’s daughter, Rebecca Cowden McCorkle, 1795-circa 1827, married Gideon Thompson. They had two daughters: Jane M. Thompson (Williams) [born circa 1820?] who married a Mr. Benjamin Williams and died in Dyer County east of Newbern in the year 1850; and Mary Thompson (Dickey) who married a Mr. Matthew Dickey. In Middle Tennessee, Gideon Thompson died 1st, then in about 2 years Rebecca Cowden McCorkle Thompson died, leaving the two daughters to live with their uncles’ families: Edwin Alexander McCorkle and Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle. – According to a subsequent letter from Rebecca’s sister Elmira, Rebecca Cowden McCorkle Thompson outlived her husband Gideon Thompson just about two short years, after moving back to her parents’ home then-situated on either Stone’s River or Bradley’s Creek in Rutherford County, Tennessee, near Murfreesboro. – See Rutherford County, Tennessee, 1821, Deed Book Q, p. 19, No. 173, Gideon Thompson to Thomas Powell. -- As there is reference in this manuscript to “sister Rebecca” I have to wonder whether Margaret Morrison McCorkle might have had a sister named Rebecca Morrison (Cowden). That’s speculation. Update: Margaret did not, but she had a sister who never married named REBECCA MORRISON; perhaps this Rebecca Morrison's middle name was "Cowden;" I do not know.
[15] Alexander & Nancy Agness Montgomery McCorkle had 7 sons and 3 daughters, and one of the sons was John McCorkle, brother to the author Margaret’s deceased husband Robert McCorkle. She wouldn’t have called her brother-in-law “Cousin John,” would she? No, I think she would have addressed a brother-in-law as “Brother John.” By the way, the “Harriett McGinn” mentioned in some of our old letters was a daughter to a brother of our Robert McCorkle, viz., of Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, Doctor of Divinity (educated as a Presbyterian minister at Princeton College --its precursor, actually--& receiving an honorary doctorate from Dickinson Colleges).
[16] [Nancy ? I don’t know who this is.– a Nancy Maxwell? Nancy Morrison? Nancy Purviance?]
[17] Jane Maxwell Thomas, Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle (daughter-in-law of the author, that is of Mrs. Margaret Morrison McCorkle), died in 1855. Her mother, Elizabeth Purviance Thomas, had a sister who married a Maxwell man. Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle’s son (John Edwin McCorkle’s brother) William T. McCorkle was born 5 Feb. 1829 in Dyer County, Tennessee, and died 18 November 1832. In searching the Rutherford County deed records years ago in Murfreesboro, TN, I found a Jane Maxwell living there, a woman who must have been the namesake of our Jane Maxwell Thomas [McCorkle]: “Division of Land Book S, page 220, 1829: Jane Maxwell, Dower Laid Off (1829).” And then I think I recall that I found her again, this time in Cumberland Presbyterian congregational records up in Kentucky. – Numerous McCorkles and Purviances are in the Murfreesboro, TN, area deed books circa 1825. – Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle’s parents were Elizabeth Purviance, 1775-1849, and husband William Thomas, born 1765. They removed from Middle Tennessee just about 3 years before the death of William Thomas; thereafter, Elizabeth Purviance Thomas, aided by her son-in-law Edwin Alexander McCorkle, applied from Dyer County for a Revolutionary War widow's pension.
[18] Elizabeth Smith (Betsy Smith) married “Jem” Jehiel Morrison McCorkle, a son of the author Margaret Morrison McCorkle. One of Betsy Smith McCorkle’s children was Mary Carolina McCorkle, 1829-1883. Others included Henry Clay “Clay” McCorkle, killed in the Civil War; Locke McCorkle, also killed in the Civil War; and Ed McCorkle, who I also suspect was killed in the Civil War; and perhaps alia….
[19] Dr Stephen Roach & wife Elmira Sloane McCorkle married in Middle Tennessee in 1816.
[20] I’m unsure about this, for I have seen two versions. In one version it is Alexander McCorkle’s sister [__first name unknown__ McCorkle (Mrs. Sloan)] who was the grandmother of Margaret Morrison McCorkle. In the other, it is the mother of Margaret Morrison, a Miss Sloan who married Andrew Morrison, who was a sister of Alexander McCorkle. I cannot resolve this.
[21] Some of Margaret Morrison & Robert McCorkle’s children: Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle m. Tirzah Scott; Edwin Alexander McCorkle m. Jane Maxwell Thomas; Jehiel Morrison McCorkle m. Elizabeth Smith [Betsy Smith]; Rebecca Cowden McCorkle m Gideon Thompson, 1795-circa 1827, who died near Murfreesborough in Middle Tennessee before the parents Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle removed to the newly opened Western District of Tennessee; Rebecca had married Gideon Thompson; Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roach (Mrs. Dr. Stephen Roach); and Margaret Pamela or Permelia McCorkle (Mrs. Lemuel Scott).
[22] Jane M. Thompson (Mrs. Benjamin Williams) (mother of, inter alia, John Gideon Williams); and Mary “Polly” Thompson (Mrs. Matthew Dickey) were left, 1st fatherless, then two years later, motherless, in Middle Tennessee, Rutherford Co, TN, before Robert & Margaret McCorkle removed farther west with sons Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle, Jehiel Morrison McCorkle and Edwin McCorkle, as well as with these Thompson granddaughters to the Western District. –Aunt Kate McCorkle (Fox), d. 1962, records in her journal that finally she had discovered why she referred to John Gid Williams and his daughter Ella Williams Moore in Trimble, Tennessee, as “cousin.” [ I have this right about Ella Williams Moore because I asked my mother Joyce Cope Huie, who remembers it ALL! ]
[23] Thomas Anderson married Elizabeth McCorkle, the only child surviving to adulthood of Robert McCorkle & Robert’s first wife Elizabeth “Lizzie” Blythe. Elizabeth McCorkle Anderson’s children by Thomas Anderson were: (1:) Elizabeth Anderson McMurry (she m. a Cumberland Presbyterian minister named John MITCHELL McMurray, and they retired from McMinnville back to Lebanon, Tennessee); (2:) Robert Anderson, who became an attorney and located in Lexington and Durant, Holmes County, Mississippi, where he is buried in the Mizpah Cemetery; but I cannot 100% verify this information which I found only on www.ancestry.com; (3:) Martha D. Anderson Leath (Mrs. James T. Leath), who moved from Sumner County, Middle Tennessee, to Memphis and appears on the 1850 census as his wife, but on the 1860 census appears a woman who is listed as having been born in New Jersey; and (4:) Julia Anderson who never married. -- I read on www.ancestry.com that THOMAS ANDERSON had a wife before Elizabeth McCorkle, née Atkinson; and that Thomas Anderson’s mother was née Elizabeth Mebane. That's how I got the above clue about attorney Robert Anderson, through the Anderson family listing. That fits with what his mother's 1/2-sister, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, wrote: that she thought Robert Anderson had removed to Alabama (from which Mississippi was carved).
[1] A little William Scott is buried in the Old Yorkville Cumberland Pesbyterian Cemetery, marker having been removed (by me) to McCorkle Cemetery; was interred beside James Scott and wife Sarah Dickey Scott, each b. 1777. Could this William Scott have been a baby of Lemuel Locke Scott (1804-1866) & wife Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott? Perhaps, but I think the infant was more likely born to Lemuel Locke Scott’s brother James “Jimps” Scott who m. Violet B. Roddy, Jimps being (as was Lemuel Locke Scott) a son of James & Sarah Dickey Scott, each born 1777, who were interred there. The infant’s tombstone did lie beside the grandparents’ marker. Jimps” James Scott & wife Violet B. Roddy Scott were interred there, also.
[24] The following Andersons are listed in the Mississippi 1841 State Census: Ephraign ANDERSON, EPHRAIM ANDERSON, HANEY ANDERSON, JOEL D. ANDERSON, JOHN JUN. ANDERSON, JOHN W. ANDERSON, LEVAN ANDERSON, ROBERT ANDERSON, -- Lexington and Durant, Mißißippi, are towns in Holmes County.
[25] Lemuel Locke Scott was a child of James & Sarah Dickey Scott, each born in 1777. James Ragon has identified Sarah Dickey Scott’s mother as Sarah Robinson (Dickey) of York District, South Carolina. Lemuel Locke Scott & Margaret Permelia McCorkle moved to, I think, Neboville, which is a community south of Yorkville.
[26] These two daughters were Jane M. Thompson (Williams) and Mary Thompson (Dickey).
[2] This is exactly the same phrase that Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s sister, Mary Morrison (who married her first cousin John Morrison, a son of Patrick Morrison) used in a letter Mary wrote from Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee, on July 29, 1857, to Mary’s nephew, Joseph Pinckney Morrison.
[2] Could this be the James Scott, 1777-1853, from York District, South Carolina, born 20 August 1777 and died 30 December 1853. (?) James Scott’s known wife was née Sarah Dickey, and Sarah Dickey Scott died 23 March 1838. Margaret Morrison McCorkle writes this letter in 1839, so the dates would fit. James & Sarah Dickey Scott were parents of, inter alia, Tirzah Scott (Mrs. Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle); and James “Jimpse” Scott who m. Violet B. Roddy, Huie ancestors; and John Dickey Scott; and William Scott who was the father of the 1st Mrs. John Edwin McCorkle, Tennie Scott.
[3][1] Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle and Tirzah Scott McCorkle named a son Addison Alexander McCorkle. "Addison's flesh mortified," his father wrote to sister Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache. RAH’s sister, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, also named a son Addison: Addison Locke Roache [Senior].
[4][2] Robert McCorkle’s brother Generation II. William McCorkle (died 1818) is mentioned prominently in this document. William had 3 wives: (1st) “Peggy” Margaret Blythe; (2nd) “Mattie” Martha King (widow of the John Purviance was was scalped in 1792 in the then- wilderness of Sumner County, Tennessee); this murdered John Purviance was a son of Revolutionary War lieutenant (“colonel”) John Purviance & wife Mary Jane Wasson Purviance. The 3rd wife of William McCorkle was Jennie Graham, whom William m. in 1800 in Sumner County, Tennessee.
It was William and Robert McCorkle, brothers, who received the Revolutionary War land grant from their father’s will. The father was Alexander McCorkle, our immigrant McCorkle, who died and left a will in 1800 in Rowan County, North Carolina.
[27] This is John Edwin McCorkle, born 1839, who got a medical discharge at Columbus, Kentucky, because of dysentery.
[28] This could be one of two people: RAH McCorkle had a son William L A McCorkle who, I think, was Leander McCorkle, although WLA's brother Joe McCorkle called him "William." This WLA McCorkle m. Alice Wells and begot one child who died in young womanhood without issue, viz., Eudora McCorkle Rober(t)son. WLA and family are buried in the McCorkle Cemetery.
Or, this “Leander” could be Wm. LEANDER Scott, a son of Lemuel Locke Scott & wife Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott who died I think in the 1880s; I don’t know if Leander Scott’s dates fit for him to have been in the Civil War. I do know he contracted tuberculosis and was sent for recuperation to Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee; and that his first cousin John Edwin McCorkle acted as his guardian in Dyer County, Tennessee. Leander Scott’s 2nd wife was Addie Fernandes or Fernandez—was she perhaps Portuguese? I’ve seen a photograph of her, and she was beautiful.
[29] Locke McCorkle, a nephew of the writer Robert McCorkle, was mortally wounded at the Battle of Atlanta. Locke McCorkle was a son of “Jem” Jehiel Morrison McCorkle & wife Betsy Smith McCorkle. They lost two more sons to the Civil War, viz., “Clay” Henry Clay McCorkle, who is buried at Brice’s Crossroads, Guntown, Mississippi; and E.J., who I guess is RAH McCorkle's nephew Ed “who hasn’t got home yet” from the war.
[3] I suppose this Robert RAMSAY was Alexander’s son-in-law, the Robert Ramsey/ later spelled Ramsay/ who married Alexander’s daughter, “Nancy” McCorkle (Ramsay), whose papers are in the Archives of the University of North Carolina.
[31] Bourbon College was in Paris, Kentucky. My paternal grandmother, Sophie King McCorkle (later Mrs. Howard Anderson Huie) attended Bourbon College. We have a copy of her valedictory address. My father Ewing Huie thought his mother Sophie contracted typhoid fever while in college. -- Coincidentally, one of my mother’s roommates in the 1930s at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, Margaret Russell Dyche (Mrs. Arnold Gregory) , had a mother who attended Bourbon College in Paris, Kentucky. Margaret Russell Dyche first lived at Somerset, Kentucky, then moved to Danville, Kentucky, then finally to Lexington or Louisville. Her children were Gayle Gregory; Dyche Gregory; and another son named Steele Gregory. At least two of Margaret’s children matriculated at Stetson College in Florida.
[32] William Thomas & Elizabeth Purviance were the parents of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle, née Jane Maxwell Thomas. William Thomas was a son of Margaret Brevard Thomas & Jacob Thomas of Rowan-later Iredell --County, in the Piedmont of North Carolina.
[33] William Thomas & Elizabeth Purviance were the parents of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle, née Jane Maxwell Thomas. William Thomas and his father Jacob Thomas (I think) each fought in the NC line during the Revolutionary War; as did William's brothers Henry Thomas and James Thomas, and perhaps more.
[34] “Uncle” seems to be Eleazor Woods (who died 1875 in Dyer County). Eleazor Woods was a brother-in-law to the diarist’s mother, Jane Maxwell Thomas (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle), who was born 11 June 1802 and had died 30 Jan. 1855. One of Jane’s sisters, Sarah Purviance Thomas (Woods), born 22 Jul 1804, married Eleazor Woods, 1813-1875. This was almost certainly John Edwin McCorkle’s “Uncle Woods.” Eleazor Woods was born 8 Jan 1813 in Middle Tennessee (Sumner County) and died 4 Apr 1875 in Dyer County. Children of Eleazor Woods and Sarah Purviance Thomas (who married in 1832, I suppose in Middle Tennessee) would have been first cousins of John Edwin McCorkle, viz., “Billy” William T Woods , who was born 1833 in Dyer County, Tenn. John Edwin’s brother, Hiram R.A. McCorkle, was also a 1st cousin to William T. Woods; and Hiram’s daughter Lulu or Lula McCorkle married the son of “Billy” William T. Woods: “Johnny” John R. Woods. Lulu McCorkle, stated another way, married her second cousin. Nevertheless, Uncle Hiram her father refused to place Johnny Woods’ name on Lulu’s tombstone in the McCorkle Cemetery. Her tombstone lists her as "McCorkle." My Aunt Beth Huie told me when I was an inquiring child that Uncle Hiram condemned Johnny Woods as a drunkard.
An earlier Purviance-Woods connection was this: Anna Purviance, born 1774, married Samuel Woods, 1776-1840. [Isn’t this Samuel Woods’ son the above “Uncle Woods” : Eleazor Woods. That would make the Purviance-Woods-Thomas connection rather inbred.]
The diarist’s father was Edwin Alexander McCorkle, born in Rowan County, North Carolina, 18 March 1799 and diying 10 January 1853.
[35] John Edwin McCorkle’s sister “Becca” "Becky" Rebeccah McCorkle married John C. Zarecor.
[36] Just before the Civil War, Bluff Springs Academy granted John Edwin McCorkle, 1839-1924, a Bachelor of Arts degree in the year 1860. I think Bluff Springs Academy was in Gibson Co., Tenn., near Milan, but am not certain. Reading the 1860 Tennessee census, and the names on the diploma which itself is written in high Latin, I tracked down some of the faculty who signed John E McCorkle’s diploma as living in Milan, Tennessee, but these names’ being in Milan may be mere coincidence. John Edwin McCorkle's 1st wife "Tennie" Tennessee Alice Scott’s 1st cousin Thomas Elihu Scott [a brother to, inter alia, Sade Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie] also attended Bluff Springs Academy, according to GOODSPEED’s History of Tennessee, Dyer County Biographical Section. -- I wonder if the Bluff Springs Academy might have been located in McLemoresville near Milan.
[37] Osceola, Arkansas, across the Mississippi River from western Tennessee.
[38] James Scott McCorkle, M.D., was a son of Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle, RAH McCorkle being a brother to the writer’s father, Edwin Alexander McCorkle. James Scott McCorkle was therefore a 1st cousin to John Edwin McCorkle.
[39] Jennifer Catherine Huie’s husband, Stephen Fisher Tucker, who died in the spring of 2005, was a great-grandson of Dr. Tucker, whose ancestral home was at Double Bridges.
[40] It seems this was John Edwin McCorkle’s last day at Bluff Springs Academy.
[41] Probably the diarist was referring here to Locke McCorkle, a son of “Jem” Jehiel Morrison McCorkle & Elizabeth “Betsy” Smith McCorkle. Locke McCorkle was to be mortally wounded at the Civil War Battle of Atlanta. I’m not sure whether he died in the battle or subsequently. -- I know that John Edwin McCorkle’s 1st cousin, Howard Harris Roache, buried in our McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, Tennessee, was mortally wounded at the Battle of Shiloh (1862) and died shortly thereafter; John E. McCorkle and Howard H. Roache’s uncle, Robert Alexander Hope McCorkle, met either Howard Roache, or Howard’s earthly remains, at the Trenton railroad station and tended to the burial. I think but am not certain that Howard H. Roache’s mother, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, placed a memorial stone for Howard H. Roach in Moniteau County, city of California, State of Missouri. Elmira added a second, grander, tombstone in our McCorkle Cemetery to the simple marker her brother Robert A. H. McCorkle had placed there during the Civil War.
Evidently, “Jim” was the James Scott McCorkle who was a son of Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle & wife Tirzah Scott. Another son of Robert & Tirzah was “Uncle Joe McCorkle,” Joseph Smith McCorkle, obviously named during the father’s (if not the mother’s) short foray into Mormonism. -- I imagine “Uncle Bob” was John Edwin’s father’s brother RAH McCorkle.
[Tirzah Scott McCorkle was one of the daughters of James Scott, born 1777, and wife Sarah Dickey Scott, also born 1777. Another of Tirzah Scott McCorkle’s several siblings was the James Scott who married Viola or Violet B. Roddy (Scott) and who begot “Sade” Sarah Elizabeth Scott (the 2nd Mrs. Julius M. Huie, 1839-1893, Sade Huie being the mother of four surviving to adulthood, viz., Julius Adolphus “Dolph” Huie; Howard Anderson Huie, 1870-1935; “Aunt Bettie” Violet Betty Huie, Mrs. Ed Gregory of Newbern; and “Aunt Phronie” Sophronia Huie, Mrs. John Will Thompson of Obion County, Tennessee). –I presume Howard Anderson Huie got his middle name from Anderson Jehiel McCorkle, who married a sister to the mother of Howard Anderson Huie: Sade Scott Huie.
Another of Tirzah Scott McCorkle’s several siblings was the William Scott who moved to Hardeman County, Tennessee, near Grand Junction, married Nancy Alice Edwards ?Wellborn?, and begot, inter alia, Tennessee Alice Scott (It was this “Tennie” Scott who became the first wife of the diarist John Edwin McCorkle). To state the obvious, Tennie Scott McCorkle and Sade Scott Huie were 1st cousins. ]
[42] Evidently in 1863 the diarist was teaching school, presumably still at Hurricane Hill in Dyer County. Leaves of paper must have been scarce, as he recorded an 1863 incident where he could, mixed in with his 1860 entries.
[43] I have no idea who this was, but I do wonder if it could have been a LOCKE? Richard “Dick” Locke intermarried with the Scotts. Would he have been at Bluff Springs Academy, too? Or could it have been “L” for “Ledsinger?”
[44] James Scott McCorkle, a 1st cousin of John Edwin McCorkle. Parents of James Scott McCorkle were Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle & wife Tirzah Scott McCorkle.
[45] “Roasen ears” is Southern for roasting-ears of corn. I, Marsha Huie, born 1946, grew up thinking “rosenears” with a sibilant “s” was a real term; also, Osch potatoes (Irish potatoes).
[46] For the first double “s” in Mississippi, he uses the old-fashioned s-tset (з).
[47] It was not uncommon during the Civil War for women, including wives of the troops, to accompany the battle. Often, they cooked and rendered domestic services for the soldiers.
[48] One of the brothers of John Edwin McCorkle was Anderson Jehiel McCorkle. John E. usually referred to this brother as “A.J.” Uncle Anderson fought for the Confederacy and was, I think my father Ewing Huie told me, at the Battle of Shiloh (1862); but it may have been that Daddy said his great - “Uncle Hiram” was the McCorkle brother who fought at Shiloh. I cannot remember. I think Ewing Huie said “Uncle Anderson” was rendered deaf in battle; I know Ewing Huie’s 1st cousin Annie Glenn McCorkle has always told me that tall and imposing Uncle Anderson with his big, intimidating ear-trumpet frightened her as a child, as well as her sister Sue Alice McCorkle (later, Mrs. Robert Earl Lee of Chattanooga). – I think Uncle Finis A. McCorkle rode with General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
[49] The 1850 Census of Tennessee reveals many McCutchens living in the area. I don’t know from which family Mollie McCutchen sprang. Eddy McCorkle, a son of John Edwin McCorkle’s brother Hiram R.A. McCorkle, would marry Dona McCutchen.
[50] One of the brothers of John Edwin McCorkle was Finis A. McCorkle. Uncle Finis also fought for the Confederacy. His descendants ended up moving first to Texas, then California.
[51] In the 1850 Census for Gibson County, Tennessee, Burwell Dozier was listed as aged 13 and living with Peter S. Dozier, male aged 41, farmer, born North Carolina; wife Elizabeth Dozier, aged 36, also born in N.C. Children all listed as born in Tennessee: William Dozier, 16; Isaac Dozier, 15 M; Burwell Dozier, 13; Mary Dozier, 8 , F; Joseph Dozier, 6; Amanda Dozier, 5 F; Oscar Dozier, aged 1, male; Adelia Dozier, female, aged 1 month.
Next door to the above Dozier family lived Phillip Dozier, aged 63, farmer, born in North Carolina; Annie Dozier, aged 30 F, born in N C; and Phillip Dozier, aged 16.
[52] Later, on the last page of this diary, he says that B.M. Dozier was killed at Columbus, Ky., on this day.
[53] Hiram Robert A. McCorkle or HRA McCorkle was one of the brothers of John Edwin McCorkle. {I think the “A” was for “Archibald.”] Uncle Hiram also fought for the Confederacy. Hiram’s first wife was Margaret Cowan; alas, she died in Nashville in the state mental asylum. Hiram’s 2nd wife was Janette Menzies. Janet or Jeanette Menzies?
[54] James Scott [I], born 1777, and wife Sarah Dickey Scott, also born 1777, had a son named James “JIMPSE” Scott [II] (a generation older than John Edwin McCorkle) who married Violet B. Roddy or Roddey. [There was a Confederate general from Alabama named Phillip Dale Roddey.] I imagine “Cousin Jim Scott” was the son [denoted here for convenience as James Scott III, but which may not be entirely accurate as this “James Scott III” was actually born James Allen Scott; “James Scott III” (James Allen Scott) was born in 1839 of this son [James Scott II “JIMPSE”] who m. Violet B. Roddy and who was himself the father of, inter alia, Sarah Elizabeth Scott (Mrs. Julius M. Huie) and her twin James Allen Scott, twins who were born 1839. James Allen Scott [here, “James Scott III,” born 1839, married Jennie Miller and moved on to Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas. John Edwin McCorkle’s aunt by marriage was Tirzah Scott (Mrs. Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle), Tirzah being a sister to the James Scott who married Violet B. Roddy and begot the twins, James Allen Scott [“James Scott III” here] & Sade Scott Huie, who were born in 1839. “Cousin Jim Scott” could be James Scott II or III but is probably Jamese Scott III, “James Scott III” being the son of James Scott & Violet B. Roddy who was born in 1839 as the twin to Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie (Mrs. Julius M. Huie). James Scott I died in 1853, so it is not he.
[55] The mother of John Edwin McCorkle was Jane Maxwell Thomas (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle), and Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle was the daughter of Elizabeth Purviance and William Thomas. One of Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle’s brothers was David Thomas, a hero of the Texas Revolution. Another of Jane’s Thomas siblings married Eleazor Woods. This Thomas woman’s husband would surely be “Uncle Woods,” uncle-by-marriage of John Edwin McCorkle.
[56] A Maude Blankenship married Will Morrow of Churchton. They moved to Breckenridge, Texas, and he became some sort of judge there. Will was a brother to Cattie Morrow (Mrs. Will Flatt). Will Morrow’s nephew Carl Flatt from Newbern used to visit him in Texas, and occasionally would get a bit liquored up and release his uncle’s prisoners. –Before leaving Tennessee, Will Morrow had a business with Joyce Cope Huie’s uncle, Elmer Headden (who had married Lula Morrow, a sister to Will Morrow). Imogene Whiteside was a daughter of Elmer Headden & Lula Morrow (Headden). My maternal grandmother, Notie Headden Cope, and grandfather, Ira Mitchell Cope, raised Imogene Headden Whiteside after the death of her mother Lula Morrow Headden. -- Back to the story: When Uncle Elmer & Will Morrow’s business failed, Elmer’s father Winfield Scott Headden paid off their debts, and Will Morrow moved to Texas, I think in reverse order.
[57] I’ve thought Green Holmes is buried in the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery, but newfangled Internet transcriptions of that cemetery fail to list him as interred there; so I may be wrong.
[58] The diarist’s sister, “Becka” Rebecca McCorkle Zarecor.
[59] Twins Latina “Tina” McCorkle (later Mrs. John Gregory) and Finis A. McCorkle were left young without parents (Edwin Alexander McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle) and lived with siblings.
[60] William Woods was a son of Miss Sarah Purviance Thomas and Eleazor Woods; and I think that Eleazor Woods was a son of Anna Purviance & Samuel Woods. The above “Billy” William T. Woods was a 1st cousin to John Edwin McCorkle. I cannot understand this entry of John E. McCorkle, because I thought I had read that Wm T. [?Thomas?] Woods enlisted on the Union side during the Civil War, and I still think so. The Union affiliation would explain why William T. Woods lost his lands in numerous foreclosure lawsuits brought in Dyer County after the war. It would also expain why Uncle Hiram McCorkle despised “Billy” William T. Woods’ son Johnny Woods, even though Uncle Hiram was a 1st cousin to William T. Woods. But: “Miss” Cattie Morrow Flatt’s letter about her Woods direct ancestors said that “Billy” Willy T. Woods never fought in the Civil War, though he had terrible “troubles” during the war. So, I don’t know….] Eleazor Woods’ son Billy Woods [William T. Woods] begot John R. Woods who was to marry Lulu McCorkle, a daughter of Hiram R. A. McCorkle and therefore (Lula was) a neice of the diarist John Edwin McCorkle. Uncle Hiram McCorkle would not place the name of his son-in-law on Lulu McCorkle Woods’ tombstone in the McCorkle Cemetery. If you visit, you see the marker: Lulu McCorkle.
[61] A child of Margaret Permelia McCorkle [an aunt of the diarist] and her husband Lemuel Locke Scott was Leander Scott, who contracted tuberculosis later and lived his last years in, I think, Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, where the doctors sent him; at which time John Edwin McCorkle acted as Leander’s guardian in Dyer County, Tennessee. Here, siblings married siblings: Margaret Permelia McCorkle (Scott) and Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle were siblings; and they married siblings, respectively: Lemuel Locke Scott and Tirzah Scott (McCorkle). The two Scott siblings (Lemuel Locke Scott and Tirzah Scott McCorkle) were children of James Scott, born 1777 from York District, South Carolina, and wife Sarah Dickey Scott, also born 1777. I moved the markers of James & Sarah Dickey Scott in 1984 from the then-in-ruins Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery to the McCorkle Cemetery, a few years before restoration of the Old Yorkville, Tennessee, Cemetery. -- I had thought Sarah Dickey Scott was born of a Purviance woman and a John Dickey, silversmith of Pennsylvania; but lately Natalie Cockroft Ragon’s husband James Ragon has almost proven that Sarah Dickey (Scott) was a child of Sarah Robinson & James Dickey of South Carolina.
[62] Benjamin Huie, 1798-1879, had two wives. His first, and my ancestor, was Lavinia Cowan of Iredell/Rowan County, North Carolina. We do not think Lavinia Cowan (Huie) removed westerly to West Tennessee, but are not certain. I presume these are her Cowan relatives who settled around Yorkville.
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[63] Frances C. Franklin “Fannie” Franklin married Joseph G. Huie, a son of Benjamin Huie by his 2nd wife Margaret Betts. Fannie C. Franklin & Joe Huie moved from West Tenn. to the Vernon, Texas, area of Wilbarger County; then they moved up to Hobart, Oklahoma, where he is last listed on a U.S. census as town clerk of Hobart. They left some children buried in the McCorkle Cemetery of Dyer County. They had at least one child who survived to adulthood, viz., Theckla Huie Hazelwood. On <ancestry.com> the Social Security death records list her as having lived to be almost a centenarian and dying in Oklahoma City. Several Franklins, including I think the parents of Mrs. Joseph G. Huie, are buried in the McCorkle Cemetery. On ancestry.com: Theckla Hazelwood, born 2 August 1881; died Sept 19, 1979, in Oklahoma City. [In the 1920 Census, a Theckla Hazelwood appears in Nashville, Tennessee, but is this the same person? And in the 1930 census, a Theckla Hazelwood appears in Nashville. Why does she not appear on subsequent census records???] |
[64] “Uncle Bob” was probably Robert / RAH / Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle. He was John E’s uncle; he was a brother to Edwin Alexander McCorkle, John Edwin McCorkle’s father.
[65] Lemuel Locke Scott, who married the diarist’s aunt, Margaret Permelia McCorkle. Permelia was a daughter of Robert McCorkle, emigrant from Rowan Co., N.C, and Robert McCorkle’s second wife, Margaret “Peggy” Morrison, also an emigrant from Rowan Co., North Carolina.
[66] Evidently, Abner Cowan; _____ Holt; and Jim Scott [probably the younger Jim Scott, Jamese Allen Scott, who was born in 1839, the son of James Scott the elder and wife Violet B. Roddy.
[68] One son of John Edwin McCorkle & 1st wife Tennie Scott, Will McCorkle who married Una Pace, named one of their children: Hubert STRAWN McCorkle. Hubert Strawn McCorkle moved to and lived in Los Angeles, and never married.
[69] Jonathan and Loumira Hall, buried McCorkle Cemetery, were the parents of Artie Hall, Mrs. Thomas Elihu Scott, who would have been born circa 1850. Perhaps The J. Hall to whom the diarist refers was a brother to Artie Hall (Scott), but this is speculation.
[70] S S McCorkle was a son of “Jem” Jehiel Morrison McCorkle & wife Betsy Smith McCorkle. He eventually moved to Yorkville. One of his sons was David E. McCorkle, superintendent of schools of Dyer County. S S McCorkle was a 1st cousin of John Edwin McCorkle.
[71] Abner Cowan is listed in the 1850 Gibson County, Tennesssee, census. His father was John F. Cowan, aged 47, born in NC; and mother, Elizabeth Cowan, aged 40. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that John F. Cowan was a brother to Benjamin Huie’s first wife, Lavinia Cowan [Huie] from Rowan Co., NC; but this is speculation. John F. Cowan did seem, according to adjacency in the census records, to live next door to Benjamin Huie.
[72] I don’t know who this is, but Jonathan & Loumyra Hall are buried in the McCorkle Cemetery. They were parents of, inter alia, the Artie Hall (Scott) who married Church of Christ minister Thomas Elihu Scott. Thomas Elihu Scott would have been more likely to be the age to join the Confederacy; I would calculate that Elihu Scott’s father-in-law (the Jonathan Hall, herein supra) would have been too old….
[73] The diarist’s mother, Jane Maxwell Thomas [McCorkle], had a sister who married Eleazor Woods. He would have been “Uncle Woods.”
[74] Sallie L. Scott (Mrs. Rodgers) (then she married Richard W. “Dick” Locke). She was a 1st cousin to John Edwin McCorkle. Her mother was Margaret Permelia McCorkle (Mrs. Lemuel Scott); and John E.'s father was Edwin Alexander McCorkle. I’ve always assumed the Lockes around Churchton-Yorkville-Newbern descended from the family of the Revolutionary War general Francis Locke in Rowan Co., N.C. Several Locke folks are buried in the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery.
[75] [This time the diarist used an apostrophe for the possessive case.] JOHN THOMAS was a brother to Jane Maxwell Thomas (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle), the mother of the diarist. John Thomas would’ve been John Edwin McCorkle’s Uncle, but he was dead in 1857. John Purviance Thomas was born 22 Feb 1792 in Sumner Co., TN, USA; in 1816 he m. Catherine Espey. He died in 1857 Coffeeville, Yalobusha County, Mississippi. Another Thomas uncle was Hiram Jacob Thomas, M.D., who ended his years not in Vernon, Mississippi, his first Mississippi residence but in Yazoo; Hiram J. Thomas had no children as his wife died soon after their marriage.
[76] John E. McCorkle’s paternal grandfather, Robert McCorkle who died in 1828, had a brother named Rev. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle who married Margaret Gillespie in Rowan Co., NC. I’ve no idea if these Gillespies were kin to the diarist’s grandfather’s sister-in-law, Margaret Gillespie McCorkle. Sophia Maxwell McCorkle, born of Samuel Euseius McCorkle & wife Margaret Gillespie McCorkle, 1786, in Rowan Co., NC, died 31 July 1864 in Sumner Co., Tennessee.
[77] Back then, it seems, members of the Church of Christ/Christian Church freely mixed with other church denominations at worship. I think at that time Union Grove would have been a Cumberland Presbyterian congregation. When the C P s died out at Union Grove, my maternal grandmother Notie Headden Cope, 1886-1993 (?), though born a Presbyterian (Cumberland), moved over to Mt. Carmel Methodist Church.
[78] Joe Harris Moore’s mother, née Harris, was, I think, from around Trenton.
[79] The diarist’s paternal uncle, Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle, was still alive at this time. So, he was probably “Uncle Bob.” But, this entry reads as if Uncle Bob lived closer to Trenton than to Yorkville. (??)
[80] We can check the Headden Family Bible (in 2003 in possession of my mother Joyce Cope Huie) and see who married in 1863.
[81] Hiram Robert Andrew McCorkle had these children by his 1st wife Margaret Cowan: Winfield Purviance McCorkle (Eminence, KY); Almeda McCorkle (Mrs. Priest Pope); Elizabeth Jane “Bettie” married Johnny Cawthon; Lula (Mrs. Johnny R. Woods); Tolbert (killed young); and these children by his 2nd wife Janette Menzies: Edwin Archibald McCorkle who m. Dona McCutchen.
[82] Dr. James T. Bone is interred in the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery: James T. Bone, born Mar 10, 1806, died Aug 13, 1878. -- A 1st cousin of Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle was Nancy Thomas (Mrs. Bone). I don’t know if Nancy Thomas m. Dr. James T. Bone, but the dates fit.
[83] David Purviance McCorkle, brother of the diarist, moved up a bit to Obion County, contiguous to Dyer County.
[84] I’ve no idea what connection Stephen Woods was to “Uncle” Eleazor Woods’ family.
[85] The diarist’s 1st cousin, James Scott McCorkle, married “Lizzie” Elizabeth Obedience Clemments of Weakley County, Tennessee.
[86] I presume that was Margaret somebody…. [But the diarist's aunt, Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott, Mrs. Lemuel Locke Scott, had died in 1853.]
[87] The diarist’s sister Eliazabth “Lizzie” McCorkle Reeves who removed to Gadsden near Humboldt, Gibson Co., Tenn., had, I think, a daughter who married a Jones, but CHECK THIS.
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[89] Was this Margaret Permelia McCorkle who married Lemuel Locke Scott? She died in 1853.
[90] Lemuel Locke Scott?
[91] Finis A. McCorkle’s daughter Jennie McCorkle married a Dr. E E Carter and moved to Arkansas and, I think, lived in Hot Springs. Kin? Jennie lived with John Edwin McCorkle’s family circa 1900, not with her father and stepmother Mag Hart, who my Aunt Beth Huie said the neighbors gossipped that she had poisoned her stepson and Jennie’s brother, Gillum McCorkle. But uncle Hiram R A McCorkle's diary records that Gillum, sharing a bed with his brother Homer--shot himself. -- I think Dr. Carter’s name was Edward E. or Edwin E. Carter. There is a man with a 2nd wife living in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, in the census records; he would fit. Uncle Hiram records her death and I forget the date but think he said 1902.
[92] David Purviance McCorkle.
[93] Margaret Latina “Tina” McCorkle Gregory, twin to Finis A. McCorkle.
[94] The diarist’s son Glen Roache McCorkle was to marry Ann Heath of Milan, Gibson County, Tennessee. I have no idea if this Dan. Heath was kin to Mrs. Glenn Roache McCorkle.
[95] Is this Nobe Ledsinger? She was Zenobia Ledsinger, and she married a Mr. Fowlkes of Dyer County.
[96] David Purviance McCorkle married as his 1st wife MARGARET SCOTT. Anderson Jehiel McCorkle marred Martha Scott as his first wife, a sister to, inter alia, Sarah Elizabeth “Sade” Scott Huie. And Sade Scott Huie named her son Howard: Howard Anderson Huie, born 1870, evidently after her brother-in-law Anderson McCorkle.
[97] Hiram, HRA, McCorkle married as his 2nd wife after the death of first wife Margaret Cowan (McCorkle), a Jenette Menzies.
[98] [Here, with “Uncle Anthony’s” he actually used the apostrophe correctly.]
[99] Hiram Robert Alexander/or Archibald McCorkle, aka HRA McCorkle.
[100] Rebecca McCorkle Zarecor, a sister of the diarist.
[101] Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle & wife Tirzah Scott McCorkle had a daughter who married Jonathan Francis Algea, probably kin to this A.H. Algea.
[5][3] “…Our health is about as usual. Tirzah’s cough becomes more troublesome. Sarah [Elmira McCorkle Algea] with her two children and Susan [McCorkle, later Mrs. McNail] have gone to Mr. Zarecors to day on a visit. they may meet scouts from either party as they are prowling around every day. … Joseph [“Joe” Joseph Smith McCorkle] will go to Dyer this winter, and settle on a farm. if he can escape “the Conscript” --Perhaps Sarah may live with him and teach school. Jonathan has been roving round over two years. calls but seldom and then stays but a few minutes. …”
[102] The diary of James S. McCorkle=s wife, Lizzie Obedience Clement or variously Clements, is on the roots-web Internet site for Dyer County, Tennessee. J.S. McCorkle=s sister was Sarah Algea and his father was RAH Mccorkle (who married Tirzah Scott). RAH & Tirzah Scott McCorkle had another J S McCorkle: Joseph Smith McCorkle ("Uncle Joe." Jehiel Morrison McCorkle was another of the sons of Robert and Margaret Peggy Morrison McCorkle. BThese footnotes were added by Marsha Huie in 2003.
[103] Family oral tradition has the date of emigration from Ireland as 1770 and as from Northern Ireland, the Ulster Plantation.
[104] Alexander McCorkle & wife, the immigrants to the colonies (1st Pennsylvania, then North Carolina), are buried in Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rowan Co., North Carolina. A pirate is buried there, too, and oral tradition says one of Napoleon=s menas well.
[105] Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, Doctor of Divinity, minister of Thyatira Presbyterian Church, near Salisbury-Mooresville, NC., at one time opened a classics school called Zion Parnassus near Thyatira.
[106] Robert McCorkle is buried beside his 2nd wife Margaret Peggy Morrison (McCorkle) in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, Tennessee. Beside Margaret=s tomb is an almost-destroyed grave marker for a A??? liam Morrison.@ Presumably the name is William Morrison but it might be Gilliam Morrison or something else. -- It turned out to be William Hays Morrison, whose wife is buried in Bedford County, Tennessee.
[107] Samuel Eusebius McCorkle=s records exist at Thyatira Presbyterian Church, Rowan Co., NC., where his descendant Paulina McCorkle Neel(e) and husband Locke Neele have erected a small museum.
[108] Someone has erroneously typed Astep mother.@ But Margaret Morrison McCorkle was the mother, not stepmother, of Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach.
[110] This date (1808) is probably misread from Elmira=s original handwriting and erroneous.
[111] There, at Stone=s River, near or perhaps in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Elmira Sloan McCorkle married Dr. Stephen Roache, whose children surviving well into adulthood (Addison Roache and Quincy Roach) added an Ae@ to the spelling of their surname. One was a lawyer and the other a banker B Moniteau Bank in Missouri as I recall, probably in the town of California in the state of Missouri. I think Addison Roache was a lawyer who became a judge and Quincy Roache the banker, but I may have it backwards.
[112] 1827 must be the year in which Robert McCorkle lost the litigation concerning good-title to the Revolutionary War land grant given his father Alexander for land lying in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Thereafter the State of North Carolina granted land in the Western District in lieu of the land granted twice in Rutherford County, and Robert McCorkle and wife Margaret Peggy Morrison McCorkle started the trek westward to the newly opened Western District, landing in what became Dyer County, Tennessee.
[113] Elmira Roach was living in Indiana when her mother died in Dyer County, Tennessee. Family oral tradition has it that she and Dr. Stephen Roach moved up there for their sons to attend the University of Indiana at Bloomington.
[114] Harriet McCorkle m. Amzi McGinn. She and he moved to Cannon or Cannon County, Tennessee. She was a daughter of Samuel Eusebius McCorkle & wife Margaret Gillespie McCorkle. -- Mrs. Blair Huddart or Huddert of Florida corresponded with me in the 1980s, when I was still living in Memphis, about an old quilt mentioned in correspondence of Harriet McGinn. At that time, descendants in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, owned the old quilt.
[115] Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, q.v.
[116] Is John McCorkle on the roll at Thyatira Presbyterian Church as an elder? Is he in the North Carolina legislature=s records?
[117] Joseph McCorkle
[118] Barton Stone and David Purviance formed a new frontier Protestant denomination, the Christian Church/Disciples of Christ, at the Cane Ridge Meeting House in Bourbon County, Kentucky. David Purviance signed the last will and testament of the presbytery there, dissolving that particular Presbyterian congregation, and then moved north to Ohio to spread the new word, while Barton Stone remained in Kentucky and parts southern. Schism over the use of instrumental music at worship later resulted in formation of the Christian Church on the one hand and the Church of Christ on the other. Given the human need for unity and salvation, and the legal maxim ADe minimis non curat lex@ [The Law does not concern itself with trifles.], I think the schism was too silly for words, but there you have it. William McCorkle had at least 3 wives: “Lizzie” Elizabeth Blythe; Martha King, widow of John Purviance, Jr., who was scalped in Middle Tenessee (Sumner County, I suppose); and Jennie Graham.
[119] This would explain the ADear Brother James@ letter written by Mrs. Robert McCorkle, Margaret Peggy Morrison McCorkle, from AVerdant Plain@ [Churchton], Dyer County, Tennessee, circa 1830, and sent to Indiana. Probably the addressee was Margaret=s brother-in-law James McCorkle; but the addressee could have been a AJames Morrison@ if she had such a brother.
[120] Actually, Robert McCorkle and his 2nd wife Margaret Peggy Morrison were first cousins once-removed, I think but am not certain. Generationally speaking, Robert McCorkle was a collateral to his wife=s mother [a first cousin], but an ascendant to his wife [the wife Margaret being down a generation], which makes them Aonce-removed.@ If one is a Southerner, one must understand this Aonce-removed@ business.
[121] Is John McCorkle on the roll at Thyatira Presbyterian Church as an elder? Is he in the North Carolina legislature=s records? Is his son JOEL McCORKLE?
[122] The year 1853 imposed a deadly winter. E.g., Edwin Alexander McCorkle died in Jan. or Feb. of that winter, then his sister Margaret Permelia McCorkle (Mrs. Lemuel Locke Scott) died at the end of the year, just after burying two of her small Scott children. Also, James Scott I died in 1853.