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Marsha Cope Huie (Marsha Huie), San Antonio & Newbern-Yorkville, West Tenn., is licensed to practice law in Texas and Tennessee.  Please confer a favor by informing me of errors and omissions at [email protected]


For information about the McCorkle Cemetery (west of Yorkville and east of Newbern, Tennessee), please see down below.


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Above: Parker Louis Cashdollar Blackwell.


Below: Claude Monet – Camille Claude Monet, La Senora de la Sombrilla Verde; as depicted in Jose Pijoan‘s Historia del Arte, 3 vol., Published by Salvat Editores,  Barcelona (1949).


This webpage aims to preserve the genealogy and correspondence (from 1829) of these families, and of many more: immigrants Alexander & “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkleWilliam Morrison (1704-1771) & wife Margaret (maiden name unknown), who were the paternal grandparents of Margaret Morrison McCorkle alias Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770-1848, buried McCorkle Cemetery east of Newbern, Dyer County, Tennessee; James Huie & son Benjamin Huie, 1798-1879, known to have been in Cabarrus then Rowan-Iredell Counties, NC;  and Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard (Thomas) of Rowan/Iredell County, NC.  Many allied lines are considered. The above-mentioned families mostly came from Pennsylvania down the Great Wagon Road of the 18th century to Rowan County, North Carolina; then to Tennessee.


 

I. Correspondence of (“Peggy”) Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle), 1770-1848.

This correspondence includes letters to and from one of her daughters, Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roache.   Margaret called her new home in Dyer County, Tennessee, “Verdant Plain,” and later a son, Robert Andrew Hope or RAH McCorkle, was to pen letters as having been written from “Verdant Grove.”

Please hold down “CTRL” and Click for the information outlined below:  Frontispiece.1984 Letter Bowden Cason (Casey) McCorkle to Marsha Cope Huie. Provenance of Old McCorkle Letters. Solicitation of Funds for McCorkle Cemetery east of Newbern, West Tennessee.

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 The Peregrinations of Robert McCorkle. His grandmother Martha Finley Montgomery’s Finley Princeton University Connection. His maternal uncle Rev. Joseph Montgomery (1733-1794), a brother of “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle and a brother-in-law of Dr. Benjamin Rush.

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Alexander McCorkle Genealogy (1722-1800)    Introduction to the people who engaged in the McCorkle Correspondence that begins with MrsRobert McCorkle, 17701846, born Margaret Morrison of Rowan County, NC.  Margaret Morrison’s paternal grandfather, William Morrison, 1704-1771, referred to himself as the first white “inhabitor” of the Third Creek area, now Loray community near Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina.  The grandfather Wm. Morrison, 1704-1771,  attended parleys with the Indians and was active (with his son Andrew Morrison) at Fort Dobbs during the era of the French & Indian Wars.  Fort Dobbs lies just outside Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina.  Robert McCorkle’s 1st wife, Elizabeth Blythe (McCorkle) died (I think near Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church nearby Lexington, Kentucky, but may be wrong about this place of death) some time after giving birth to “Aleck” Alexander McCorkle, who died in infancy, & Elizabeth McCorkle (who later became Mrs. Thomas Anderson of Lebanon, Wilson Co., Tenn.); whereupon Robert returned to Rowan-Iredell County and claimed the hand of Margaret Morrison, whose Morrison land in what is now Iredell County adjoined some of the McCorkle lands.   Margaret Morrison McCorkle after marriage in Rowan County, NC, to Robert McCorkle (as Robert McCorkle’s 2nd wife) removed to Rutherford CountyTennessee, where they lived at Bradley’s Creek and Stone’s River–and, it is thought, where some of Margaret’s Morrison family members also lived at least temporarily, including her sisters Miss Rebecca Morrison and Mrs.  Mary Morrison Morrison (who married her own Morrison 1st cousin); then finally Margaret Morrison McCorkle and her blind husband Robert McCorkle removed, with their living, grown children, to  Dyer County, Tennessee, near the Gibson County Line and Yorkville.

The above hyperlink attempts to explain who Alexander McCorkle & wife “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery (McCorkle) were: ScotsIrish immigrants from Northern Ireland to, first, Pennsylvania, down the Great Wagon Road to Virginia, then to the Piedmont of North Carolina (Rowan County, a part of which was carved off in 1788 as Iredell County). This chapter explains as much as the author knows about the antecedents of Alexander and Agnes Montgomery McCorkle; then proceeds to examine genealogy of their children.  The writer’s (Marsha Cope Huie ‘s) direct ancestor happens to be their son ROBERT McCorkle (born mid-1760s and died in the spring of 1828); but all of Robert’s siblings are listed and, it is hoped, their children as well.

Click for: The Nomadic Nature of our McCorkle Ancestors, and allied families. Was James McCorkle the father of our immigrant Alexander McCorkle (1722-1800)? Why did so many Scots leave Scotland for Northern Ireland circa 1700?

Click for: All I know about Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800, and wife “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle and their Descendants  This may be repetitious.

Click for:  McCorkle-Anderson-McMurry-Leath Excursus: Progeny of Robert McCorkle by 1st wife Elizabeth Blythe McCorkle. Elizabeth McCorkle Anderson. Mrs James T Leath. Julia Anderson. Mrs Rev John MITCHELL McMurry. What happened to descendants of Robert Anderson of Holmes County, Mississippi (Mizpah Cemetery)?

Click for:  Genealogy of William Morrison (1704-1771), “1st inhabitor” of Third Creek, Rowan-Iredell Co., NC, and paternal grandfather of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848

Click for:  Genealogy of Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard Thomas, parents of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle née Jane Maxwell Thomas

Click for:  Old Letters from Margaret Morrison McCorkle from 1829 to 1848; others’ letters up to 1853, year of death of Edwin Alexander McCorkle, Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott, and James Scott (1777-1853)

Click for:  Second Part of Old Letters, Part II beginning in 1853 after death of Edwin Alexander McCorkle

Click for JANE M. THOMPSON WILLIAMS (Mrs. Benjamin Williams)a granddau. of Margaret Morrison McCorkle

Click for:  First membership book of the old family church, then called Lemalsamac Christian Church

Click for:  JOHN EDWIN MCCORKLE (1839-1924):  (1) one of his Civil War diaries, this one written just before and during the Civil War.  (He goes to the battle up at Columbus, KY); and  (2)  a sampler of his brother Hiram R A McCorkle’s journals; and (3) a sampler of his daughter’s, Katie Pearl McCorkle (Fox)’s journals.


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Union Grove Schoolhouse 1897 Photograph. Excursus on family of George Washington Smith & Cornelia Davie Smith of Churchton Community.

People in this photograph whose names are known are:   
1. John Flatt   
2. E. B. Wiley   
3. Geo. Holder   
4. Ira Mitchell Cope   
5. Lee Garner   
6. Arthur Van Eaton    
7. Ewing McCorkle 
8. John McCormick   
9. Dorsey Hendricks   
10. Ina (Ira?) Flatt   
11. Johnnie Grills   
12. Kitty Franklin   
13. Ola Allen   
14. Tommie Henley   
15. Sophie McCorkle (Huie), grandmother    
16. Minnie Green   
17. Cattie Morrow (Flatt),    
18. Jennie Wright   
19. Mary Trout   
20. Myrtle Hendricks   
21. Minnie Flatt   
22. Jennie McCorkle (Mrs. E. E. Carter) dau. of Finis A. McCorkle   
23. Allie Dickey   
24. Charlie Garner   
25. Lou Allen   
26. Avie Trout   
27. Muncie Smith, actually GEORGE Muncie Smith    Above Munsey was Onis Franklin (blurred beyond recognition)–Onis Franklin became a medical doctor and ended up in Oklahoma.   
28. ____ Charles   
29. Rosa Charles   
30. May Lancaster, sister of Nettie Jackson   
31. Maud Yates   
32. Lula Morrow (?), Mrs. Elmer Headden     
33. Connie Green   
34. Mollie Flatt   
35. Bessie Brady (Boady?)   
36. Emma Grills   
37. Zula Smith, Mrs. Rice     
37. Lula Townes [Stevenson or Stephenson]   
39. Notie Headden (Cope)   
40. Warner Spence   
41. Reuben Mayo   
42. Albert Jackson   
43. Clifford Litton   
44. Newt Hendricks    
45. Myrtle Hood   
46. ____ Charles   
47. Clyde Grills   
48. Walter Grills   
49. Irl Hendricks (?)   
50. Franklin Hall   
51. Ernest Moore   
52. Verna Pope (Mrs. Buck Arnold), a McCorkle-Pope descendant   
53. Willie Binkley
54. Cecil Hall   
55. Leonard Scobey    
56. Willie Travis   
57. Jay Trout   
58. Algie Woods   
59. Clyde Litton   
60. Errett Cotton McCorkle, 1888-1976   
61. Willie Edmiston   
62. Mollie Scobey   
63. Bettie Edmiston (?)   
64. Fleetie Taylor (?)   
65. Katie Woods   
66. Vada Spence (Trimble), mother of Menthia Trimble Hicks & Spence Trimble.    
67._____ ?
68. Gladys Headden (Mrs. Muncie Smith)   
69. Ben Anna Spence (Hundley), grandmother of inter alia LaNita Hall VanDyke  
70. Alice Mayo   
71. May Spence   
72. Ethel Moore   
73. Rada Headden (Mrs. B. Allmon, his 2nd wife).             
75. “Cap” Smith   
76. Otha Pope   
77. Frank Henley   
78. Oliver Alexander   
79. Charlie Headden   
80. Frank Smith


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Maury Adolphus Huie’s Typed Family Record from his mother’s and aunts’ records

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Edwin Alexander McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle, including her Purviance roots.  The family of John Purviance & Mary Jane Wasson Purviance

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Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle & Tirzah Scott McCorkle

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The SCOTT family of  James Scott (1777-1853) & Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838), York District, South Carolina, then to the Dyer-Gibson County line .

Nota Bene. I think I erroneously placed the death date as 1872 for “Jimps” James Scott (born 1810). He appears in the 1880 census so probably died circa 1882, but I’m no longer sure about any date of his death. I erroneously thought the little, almost-gone stone (shown above, listing somebody’s date of birth as 1810) that I found in the old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery showed the date of death of “our” James “Jimps” Scott.  I must have been wrong. But at least I did get a marker erected.

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The Dickey Family of Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838), a daughter of Sarah Robinson Dickey & of John Dickey of York District, South Carolina.

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John & Jane Tongue. William Tong & Ellen Ford. Joseph Ford Tong. Juliet Tong Cotton & John Cotton of Botland near Bardstown, Nelson Co., Kentucky.

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Hendricks or Hendrix Excursus. Daniel Hendricks & Isabel Pendry Hendrix. of Mocksville, Rowan-Davie County, NC; Uriah C. Hendricks & the two McMahan sisters. Narcissus Elizabeth Hendricks Cope; Harriet Hendricks Wyatt; Mark Hendricks of Trimble; George Hendricks of Trimble; Albert Hendricks; JC “Jerry” Hendricks.

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Hiram McCorkle–just a teaser from one of HRA McCorkle’s Civil War journals

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Old, superseded version of “Old McCorkle Letters.” (Contains endnotes inadvertently omitted from later version. For the addicted these endnotes will be important.)

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Parker Louis Cashdollar Blackwell (born 14 April 2006) to Brian Louis Blackwell & Jessica Huie Cashdollar)

Benjamin Huie/ Julius M. Huie/ Howard Anderson Huie/ Howard EWING Huie Home, built circa 1830. Situated just east of the Dyer-Gibson County Line on Highway 77, the Newbern-Yorkville Highway.  Today, Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie (Mrs. Ewing Huie) lives there.


Also: my Parents, Howard Ewing Huie, 1907-1971, and Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie, born 1915.

My parents, Howard Ewing Huie & Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie

Photo Gallery:    Left to right: I think this is either Benjamin Huie, 1798-1879 or James Scott, 1777-1753, or James Scott’s son “Jimps” James Scott, born 1810;

then: Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle;

 then a montage with Bettie Huie Gregory and John Bowden (bottom right) and left UNKNOWN, top right a James Scott and in the center a little Maury Adolphus Huie, born 1895;  blank; then a Jim Scott in a hat–but is it James Scott born 1777, or his son “Jimps” James Scott born in 1810 or “Jimps” Scott’s son James Allen Scott born 1839? 

Far right:  I think this is the James Allen “Jim” Scott born in 1839 as twin to SADE Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie but it may be his father born 1810

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Left:  William Leander A. McCorkle, a son of Tirzah Scott & RAH McCorkle

Blank but supposed to be Deana Glen and brother Jimmy Glen, grandchildren of Gentry Purviance McCorkle

Howard Harris Roahce, died around Trenton at train station from mortal wound incurred at Battle of Shiloh; his brother Robt. Quincy Roache & Sunderland wife; and another photo of HOward Harris Roache

Blank but supposed to be my husband Ralph Ervin Williamson and his father J C in 1963 in Midland, Texas

Far Right:  Sarah Zarecor Dunagan and her three children Nancy, Nick, and Anita.  Descendants of “Becky” REBECCA McCorkle Zarecor (Mrs. John C Zarecor, a Daughter of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle


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Some Records of Our People in Middle Tennessee

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Morrison Genealogy of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848

Click below for information on Frelinghuisen McCorkleCaleb McCorkleand Jeff Bean are buried in the McCorkle Cemetery. Gideon King, founder of Eminence, KY. Early Members of N.C. Dialectic SocietyOur Finley-Montgomery-McCorkle Princeton University Connection through “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle (Mrs. Alexander McCorkle, last of Rowan Co, NC). Letter from Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache to Dr. James Scott Roache in Newbern, detailing her ancestors.  Some early Sumner Co., Tenn., Marriage Records. Where are William Thomas & Elizabeth Purviance Thomas buried? Where is her father, John Purviance, buried? John’s wife Mary Jane Wasson Purviance, who died in 1810?   –All the above are under Miscellany, below. Former Chapter 14. Click here, below:

Miscellany. Former Chapter 14.

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Will of Samuel Rosebrough. Mentions: Benjamin Huie; Jacob Huie (“Hughey”). And a JOHN DICKEY attests to 1820 will.

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Somebody else’s PURVAIANCE / Purviance Record of “Col.” John Purviance, 1743-1823. Husband of Mary Jane Wasson and father of inter alia Elizabeth Purviance Thomas (Mrs. Wm. Thomas) and grandfather of inter alia Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle (née Jane Maxwell Thomas)


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Parker Louis Cashdollar Blackwell, pictured above on 31 October, Halloween, 2009.
We thank a gracious God for the birth on November 20, 2009, of Parker Louis Cashdollar Blackwell’s baby brother: WYATT EWING Cashdollar Blackwell
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Above:  Baby Wyatt Ewing Cashdollar Blackwell, almost 3 months, Feb. 2010, held by father Brian Louis Blackwell. 

Baby Wyatt descends from WYATT folks.  We know that way way back in Mocksville, Davie County, North Carolina, occurred intermarriages between Joyce Cope Huie’s (my mother’s) Cope and Wyatt folks; and Cope and Banks folks.  Little WYATT’s “Ewing” comes from his mother’s grandfather Howard EWING Huie, 1907-1971, my father and the father of Sophie Joyce Huie Cashdollar, little Wyatt’s maternal grandmother. —Jennifer Jones Kinnard and her late sister Mary Llew Jones McGuire, as well as Diane Wyatt and Diane’s sister Sarah Blanche WYATT Bundy, descend also from Wyatt-COPE folks (as well as from the marriage of Sarah “Sallie” COPE to Ransom Rivers BANKS).  Well, the point is made:  Baby WYATT Ewing Cashdollar Blackwell got himself FOUR (4) family names, and that’s special for him.

Dianne Wyatt     

Above: Diane Wyatt, as Assistant Dean of University of Tennessee Health Sciences Allied Sciences. Descendant of Sarah “Sallie” Cope & Ransom Rivers Banks. Dianne’s sister is Sarah Blanche Wyatt BUNDY, who (Sadie) had one son: Christopher Wyatt Bundy. above right:  unnamed subject was in personal album of “Sade” Sarah SCOTT Huie (Mrs. Julius M. Huie), 1839-1893. Was she a SCOTT ? a HUIE? a friend?


This webpage aims to preserve the genealogy and correspondence (from 1829) of the following families, and of many more:

Immigrants circa 1730 to Pennsylvania (from Northern Ireland): Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800, & wife “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle, d. 1789. Although parentage is as yet unproven, Alexander was probably the son of Scots-Northern Irish immigrant James McCorkle who with his wife Jane (??maiden name??) McCorkle ventured into the American colonies with son Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800. We know that either Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800, or Alexander’s father (James? McCorkle) had a sister who became Mrs. ?first name unknown??? McCorkle Sloan (This sister was the mother of Elizabeth Sloan Morrison alias Mrs. Andrew Morrison, the Andrew Morrison who died after 1815 in Middle Tennessee). Source: an old letter from Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach (a daughter of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848, Margaret being daughter-in-law of Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800).

The other candidates besides James McCorkle for being father of the 1722-1800 Alexander McCorkle are Samuel McCorkle and William McCorkle.  Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800, did name a son each Samuel and William, perhaps not after his father but after uncles; I do not know. (Parenthetically, record of a James McCorkle exists–is he in fact “ours?”–in the area of Mecklenburg County, NC, around today’s Charlotte, which was also the locale in the mid-1750s of my Huie ancestors.)

Major Francis McCorkle: Assuming arguendo that James McCorkle begot Alexander McCorkle (1722-1800), and I’m far from certain about that, then Alexander McCorkle (1722-1800) was not as some have written a brother to Francis McCorkle.  (Francis McCorkle was a Revolutionary War major in the North Carolina line.) That would make Francis McCorkle, rather, a 1st cousin to “our” Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800.  Francis McCorkle married a Brandon woman; and Alexander McCorkle (1722-1800) himself took a second wife named Rebecca (McNee?) Brandon.  Francis & Alexander (1722-1800) would have been what southerners call “own” cousins. 

Mr. Joe M. McCorkle in Ireland has an excellent web site investigating McCorkles-McCorkells on the other side of the pond, at this hyperlink: https://sites.google.com/site/ulstermccorkells/welcome  He gives clues to the parentage of “our” Alexander McCorkle in that he shows parish marriages and christenings in Eire (Ireland) & Ulster (Northern Ireland).

Discussed on this web site, also, are the ff. people, and more:

Nancy” Agnes McCorkle’s MONTGOMERY ascendants: John Montgomery & Martha FINLEY (Montgomery).


Has anybody been to the town of MORRISON situated between Manchester and McMinnville, Tennessee? 

William Morrison (1704-1771) (son of JAMES MORRISON) & William Morrison’s wife Margaret (maiden name unknown) Morrison, were the paternal grandparents, by their son ANDREW MORRISON who married Elizabeth SLOAN, of:

granddaughter      (1) Margaret Morrison McCorkle alias Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770-1848, buried in the McCorkle Cemetery some 5 miles east of Newbern, in Dyer County, Tennessee.  William & Margaret Morrison’s other grandchildren included, through their son ANDREW MORRISON & his wife ELIZABETH SLOAN (Morrison), not in proper birth order:

grandson                 (2)William Hays Morrison, 1767-1837 (buried McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer Co., Tennessee, right next to his sister Margaret McCorkle). This William Hays Morrison m. Mary Haynes (who predeceased him and is buried easterly in Bedford Co., Tenn., part of which county was carved out as Coffee County, Tennessee); and

grandson                    (3)Andrew Sloan Morrison who on 11 March 1801 married Mary Haynes’ sister Sarah Haynesborn Dec. 31, 1780.

preacher, presumably Presbyterian, Andrew Sloan Morrison wandered into Tennessee on his journeys and appears as owning property in several places, including the Chilhowee Mountains. His sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle wrote daughter Elmira Sloan McCorkle (Roache) in 1838 that she –Margaret–thought her brother ANDREW was probably in Virginia “attending to an old lawsuit there.” One of the children of Andrew Sloan Morrison was Presbyterian minister Andrew Alfred MORRISON (1807-1884), who was born in Iredell Co., NC, and died in Salina, Kansas.  Andrew Sloan(e) Morrison himself may have died a resident in Indiana, but as to his meanderings I must defer to his descendant, today’s Jean Morrison of Cincinnati.

Here is a hyperlink to a web site that includes Andrew Alfred Morrison: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jcplummer/clotiaux/2/50172.htm; and

grandson                  (4)George Morrison, 1771-1854 who remained behind in Iredell Co., NC, and fathered, inter aliaGeorge Milton Morrison, who sired several children; and

granddaughter         (5) Elizabeth Morrison Lowrie of Iredell Co., NC; and

granddaughter         (6) Rachel Morrison Brown alias Mrs. Robert Brown(e) who died 1 July 1835 (probable date of Rachel’s death according to an old letter from Rachel’s sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle to Margaret’s daughter Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache).  Rachel Morrison Brown’s only daughter (I think) was Matilda McKee Browne, who in good Iredell County, North Carolina, MORRISON late 18th-century and early 19th century fashion married her Morrison 1st cousin (first-cousin-once-removed). Matilda Brown(e) married a son or grandson of her uncle William Hays Morrison, 1767-1837: either Joseph Pinckney Morrison or a son of Joseph Pinckney Morrison; and

granddaughter         (7) Mary Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison) who m. a son of her uncle Patrick Morrison; and

granddaughter         (8)  Rebecca Morrison who probably never married (for her last name remained Morrison; but note (above) that Rebecca’s sister Rebecca Morrison married a first cousin, John MORRISON), and Rebecca died between 1851 (mentioned in 1851 letter as being alive) and 1860 (by 1860 she was no longer present in the Coffee County, Tennessee, census although her sister Mary was).  Presumably Rebecca Morrison died as resident near Hillsboro in Coffee County, Tennessee.  Noted here is Mary Morrison Morrison’s statement in a letter transcribed herein that her nephew EDWIN ALEXANDER McCORKLE (my g-g grandfather) had, not too long before Edwin’s death in early 1853, generously sent his aunts Mary and Rebecca Morrison one whole U.S. dollar. I also note herein that Margaret Morrison McCorkle stated in a letter to her daughter Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache that Edwin had loaded up a wagon in Dyer County, West Tennessee, and trekked all the way easterly to Coffee County in a vain hope to remove his two aunts from their penury and take them with him to reside with Morrison-McCorkle family pioneers residing in West Tennessee (then the “frontier).

Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache’s letter to her nephew, Dr. James Scott McCORKLE of Newbern, Tennessee, stated that her Elmira’s grandfather, ANDREW Morrison, had raised eight (8) children; also that these Morrisons were “strict Presbyterians.”

It is a good thing for us today that the above George Morrison, 1771-1854, did remain behind in Rowan-Iredell County, North Carolina, because a Dr. Langenaur ?? or Langenhauer? ? (I think that’s who did it) dutifully recorded what he could of the relatives of George Morrison and placed this information for the public to use, in the genealogy room of the Statesville public library (Iredell County).   

Hyperlink to MORRISONs of MONTGOMERY County, TENNESSEE:  Click for www.lulu.com/items/volume_1/114000/114011/1/preview/Family_Tree_Preview.pdf –

The immediately above hyperlink (MORRISONs of MONTGOMERY County, TENNESSEEpicks up:

Generation I. James Morrison, born circa 1675 in Scotland.  Wife:  MARY—;

Generation II. William Morrison, 1704-1771, who called himself the “first inhabitor” of Loray community near Statesville, in what is now Iredell CountyNorth Carolina. [Iredell Co. was carved from ROWAN County in 1788.]  This William Morrison’s Wife:  MARGARET ____–  ;

 III. Patrick Morrison, a brother to “my” Andrew Morrison. That is, this Patrick Morrison was brother to the Andrew Morrison who married Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison). This PATRICK MORRISON was therefore an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle), 1770-1848. The life of Margaret MORRISON McCorkle began in the Iredell County (carved from Rowan in 1788) part of ROWAN COUNTY, North Carolina, and ended at what she called VERDANT PLAIN, now Churchton community in eastern Dyer County, Tennessee, just west of the Gibson County line. I think her father, the Andrew Morrison who married Elizabeth SLOAN(e) (Morrison), died in 1815 in Bedford County, Tennessee, probably in the part that was to be carved out as COFFEE COUNTY. 

Source of the ff. information is an old letter from Elmira Sloane McCorkle (Roache) to her mother Margaret Morrison (McCorkle):  Elmira inquired, Whatever happened to Uncle Patrick’s son [the son’s name was JOHN MORRISON, but Elmira didn’t name him] and “Aunt Mary” ‘s “poor children,” if there were any?  –That meant Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s sister MARY MORRISON married John Morrison (yes, I’m afraid it’s true: the bride Mary Morrison and the groom John Morrison were, in the usual MORRISON fashion back then, first cousins).  It turns out that the “son of Uncle Patrick” who married his first cousin was John Morrison –this John Morrison was the son of Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s uncle, Patrick Morrison (Patrick being a son of “first inhabitor” William Morrison, 1704-1771). I do not know if Mary Morrison Morrison had a son named James Morrison in Coffee County, Tennessee; but it’s likely because this James was the family with whom Mary Morrison Morrison and sister Rebecca Morrison were living,  in penury (the poverty is according to Mary’s wailing letters to West Tennessee to her nephew RAH McCorkle, Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s son RAH McCorkle).  It’s likely but just speculation now, by me at least, that the James Morrison with whose family Mary & her sister Rebecca Morrison lived in their oldest ages, in Coffee County, Tennessee, was a son of John Morrison & Mary Morrison.

  IV. William Morrison

V. Josiah Morrison  — environs of Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee.


Also discussed on this web site:

James Huie (flourished 1800) & son Benjamin Huie, born c.1798 in Cabarrus County, NC – d. 1879 in Newbern, Tennessee, in the home of his son Joseph G. Huie--James Huie & son Benjamin Huie each known to have been in Cabarrus then Rowan-Iredell Counties, NC.  I hope “my” James Huie, father of Benjamin Huie, was not the slave-trader in the area of Iredell County circa 1800, but I’m afraid he was, for I’ve wondered how “my” Benjamin Huie got the money to come to West Tennessee and buy up land in Dyer.

The Huguenot Cross of Languedoc, France, to the right:

 

 


Revolutionary War veteran Jacob Thomas & wife Margaret Brevard (Thomas) of Rowan/Iredell County, NC, whose son William Thomas married Elizabeth Purviance.  Quaere:  Was Margaret BREVARD (Thomas) a daughter of ZEBULON BREVARD, as some have written in handwritten and/or typed files placed in the Statesville Public Library in Iredell County, NC, in the genealogical room in Iredell County, North Carolina?  I do not know who the parents of Margaret Brevard (Mrs. Jacob Thomas) were, but if she was (subjunctive mood: were) a daughter to Zebulon Brevard & Ann Templeton, that makes her a TEMPLETON descendant of a passenger on the Mayflower.  From Winchester, Tennessee, Sir John Templeton of the Templeton Growth Investment Fund went on to endow Templeton College at Oxford University in England.  Good grief, BREVARD relatives!!! He graduated from Winchester high school in 1930.

Templeton Foundation Press     Five Radnor Corporate Center, Suite 120   100 Matsonford Road   Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087  www.templetonpress.org    HERMANN, author.  art II: The Making of a World-Class Investor 93    8. The Winchester [TENNESSEE] Years 95    A trip through Winchester • John’s parents and grandparents • Reminiscing    with John’s brother • A remarkable upbringing • Educational trips •    Marriage to Irene Butler • Eight weeks in Europe in a Volkswagen bus John’s mother’s spiritual influence    9. Reaching Out: Yale, Oxford, and across the World 109    Selling magazines to raise money for college • Studying economics at Yale •  Attending Oxford as a Rhodes scholar • Founding Templeton Foundation    College at Oxford years later • A post-graduation around-the-world tour •  This book chronicles the life of a man of extraordinary vision. John Templeton set the pace on Wall Street with an astounding record of mutual fund achievement, and also startled his contemporaries with his keen insights about market forces and his optimism about the growth of the economy. But John Templeton has made the real goal of his life the elaboration of a new concept of spiritual progress. While recognizing and appreciating the great religious insights of the past, he envisions a new era of spiritual discovery that may rival the astounding physical discoveries of the past few centuries brought to us through science.   “Sir John Templeton drove a small red rental car out of the long sweeping drive of the big brick house at 600 South High Street in Winchester,Tennessee, and proceeded down High Street. It was the beginning of two days of travel down memory lane—to recount for me some of his experiences growing up in a small town in middle Tennessee. The big brick house had been built by John’s father for his parents, Dr. John Wiley Templeton of Beech Grove, Tennessee, and Susan Jones Templeton, formerly of Canton, Mississippi. Dr.Templeton had received one year of medical training in Nashville, and had been a regimental surgeon in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. After the war he practiced general medicine for some forty years in Wartrace, Tennessee, and then retired to live in Winchester.  His mother VELLA’s  family. Her father, Robert Clinton Handly, had been a businessman in Winchester, with a busy grain mill on Boiling Fork Creek. The Handlys were also prominent politically. John’s maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Marks, was the sister of Colonel Albert Marks, governor of Tennessee. John can even boast of a Revolutionary War-hero ancestor, Virginia-born Samuel Handly, whose parents emigrated from northern Ireland in 1740.

Elizabeth Purviance (Mrs. William THOMAS) was a daughter of “colonel” John Purviance of the North Carolina line in the Revolutionary War & of John Purviance’s wife, Mary JANE WASSON (Purviance). John Purviance Snr was, I think, a lieutenant in the NC line, although his brother Captain James Purviance ranked higher. ] [John Purviance and Mary Jane Wasson Purviance had a son also named John Purviance. In 1792 this son John Purviance was scalped by hostile Indians near today’s GALLATIN in Sumner County, Tennessee, leaving a widow who had watched the murder. John Purviance Jnr’s widow was “Mattie” Martha King Purviance.  Mattie King (Mrs. John Jnr. Purviance)(then, soon, Mrs. William McCorkle) died all too soon, before 1800, after re-marrying and becoming Mrs. William McCorkle, becoming therefore daughter-in-law to immigrant Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800, & wife “Nancy” Agness Montgomery McCorkle. SAMUEL KING had signed, as A.D. 1800 witness back in Rowan-Iredell County, NC, the will of Mattie King (McCorkle‘s) new father-in-law Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800. A King Family Genealogy is on the Internet from the Cumberland Presbyterian organization which includes these King folk.

Two of the THOMAS daughters of Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard (Thomas) married brothers named SHERRILL.  Elizabeth Thomas m. Samuel Wilson Sherrill (Elizabeth Thomas Sherrill). And Elizabeth’s younger sister Anne alias Annie Thomas m. Abel Sherrill (Anne Thomas Sherrill). The youngest from the union of Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard were JACOB THOMAS, Jr.; and ANNE THOMAS SHERRILL. My ancestor, WILLIAM THOMAS who m. ELIZABETH PURVIANCE, was one of the children of Jacob & Margaret BREVARD THOMAS, also. (Click here for BREVARD, THOMAS, and SHERRILL Families of the piedmont of North Carolina.) –Ora Huie and Katie Pearl Fox were McCorkle sisters: my Aunt Ora McCorkle Huie and Aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle Fox’s records list an Ann Thomas (Sherrill) but fail positively to identify Anne Thomas SHERRILL as a child of Jacob & Margaret Brevard Thomas (which Anne was). Our old McCorkle/Huie genealogical records kept in Dyer Co., West Tennessee, contain Sherrill records, but in the midst of them my Aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle (Fox) has interlineated: “I don’t understand all of this.”

Click below for a hyperlink to ZEBULON BREVARD, probably the father of Margaret Brevard (Mrs. Jacob THOMAS).  I did not write any of the following; this is merely a hyperlink: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~passages/Brevard.html


Many allied lines are considered in this web site, e.g., the Scott family of James Scott, 1777-1853, and Sarah Dickey (Scott), 1777-1838, Sarah Dickey Scott being a daughter of John Dickey & Sarah Robinson Dickey of York District, South Carolina; James & Sarah Dickey Scott having lived at one time in York District, South Carolina I suspect that James Scott, 1777-1853, began his life in Pennsylvania and that his father was the immigrant, but am not certain.  –Their descendant Glenn Smith Scott of Yorkville, Tennessee (Gibson Co.) died in the spring of 2009, leaving behind children and his brother WmAaron Scott. —Annie Maude Scott (Mrs. Brown) died in Henderson, Tennessee, in the year 2009; born in West Tennessee, Annie Maude married a man from Guntown, Mississippi, then moved to Henderson to be near the family of her brother’s widow, Yvonne Scott (Mrs. Rev. THOMAS Elihu Scott).

Another example of allied lines is the Archibald Wasson -Elizabeth Woods Wasson family. Someday I hope to include a section on the WOODS-WASSON genealogy.

Stuart Hoyle Purvines‘s big red PURVIANCE / PURVAIANCE book of the year 1984, to which I provided much information about the Tennessee descendants of Revolutionary War “colonel” John Purviance (serving as soldier in the North Carolina line during the war) and wife Mary JANE Wasson (Purviance), of Rowan Co., NC, says the “colonel” ‘s parents, JOHN PURVIANCE who m. Miss McKNIGHT came from people who were originally Huguenots at Royan near La Rochelle, west coast of France, and who had fled up to Castlefinn in Northern Ireland to escape the  Roman Catholic persecution. Also, someone has placed on www.ancestry.com that James MORRISON came from Castle Finn.  This JAMES MORRISON was father of our WILLIAM MORRISON, who called himself the “first inhabitor” of the Loray community area near Statesville, Rowan County (later, in 1788, IREDELL county), North Carolina. This Castlefinn business–of the immigrant John Purvaiance / Purviance/ who m. McKnight, and of immigrant James Morrison:  I do not know anything about. Nevertheless, here’s the WIKIPEDIA information on Castlefin alias Castlefinn of County Donegal in the northwestern-most part of Ireland. County Donegal is yet a part of EIRE, the REPUBLIC of Ireland; County Donegal is not a constituent part of the Northern Ireland that is a part of the United Kingdom but is part of Eire (the Republic of Ireland): 

Castlefin (IrishCaisleán na Finne), (sometimes spelt Castlefinn) is a market town in the Finn Valley of County DonegalIreland, an Ulster county within the Republic of Ireland. The town has a population of 810 (2006) and is located between Ballybofey and Lifford. The River Finn flows by the town. The town is located in along the main N15 national primary road, which runs from Bundoran to Lifford. The town lies 6 miles from Lifford and 8 miles from the twin towns of Ballybofey /Stranorlar. It has close links to the twin towns of BallybofeyStranorlarLetterkenny and has strong links with West Tyrone in Northern Ireland, especially with the towns of Strabane and Castlederg.” … … … “Castlefinn is in the parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe4.5 miles from Lifford.”

 centerMap highlighting County Donegal

The above is from the Wikipedia entry, at <http:www.wikipedia.org>. Look to the central right boundary of County Donegal to see Castlefinn.


John Purviance m. Mary Jane Wasson, my, Marsha Cope Huie’s, ancestors.  This John was son of another John Purviance (who m. McKnight).  One of John & Jane Wasson Purviance’s children was Elizabeth Purviance alias Mrs. William Thomas, and another child was church “elder” David Purviance, who aided in starting the Disciples of Christ/ Church of Christ at Cane Ridge, Kentucky.  Elizabeth Purviance m. William Thomas and produced, inter alia (1) Sarah Purviance Thomas who m. Eleazor Woods and (2) Jane Maxwell Thomas who m. Edwin Alexander McCorkle.  William Thomas died in 1833 very soon after removing westerly to Dyer County, and his widow applied for a Revolutionary War widow’s pension from Dyer County, with the help, the application states, of her son-in-law Edwin Alexander McCorkle, 1799-1853, who was a Justice of the Peace for Dyer County.

The John Purviance who married Mary Jane Wasson was in 1775 a member of the Rowan County, NC, Committee for Safety, meaning that he was a revolutionary.  Yet, he would not leave his Presbyterianism and join the new “restoration movement” of Barton W. Stone and his own son, “elder” David Purviance, the latter of whom is considered a co-founder of the Christian Church / Church of Christ in that he spread the movement in Kentucky and, partially because of opposition to slavery, northward to Ohio (settling in “New” Paris, Preble County, Ohio).  This John Purviance did, however, join the new CUMBERLAND Presbyterian movement begun in 1810 in Middle Tennessee.  –So, the reader may wonder, was this “colonel” John Purviance really a revolutionary; or did he like many Scots-Irish in the American colonies merely jump on a chance (the revolutionary movement) to get back at the British who had long discriminated against Presbyterianism in favored of an established anglican church?

It’s not clear to me why he–“our” “Revolutionary War colonel” John Purviance–is of 1811 record in Giles County, Tennessee, which is down on the southern border of Tennessee, a border shared with Alabama, Giles County’s main city today being PulaskiTennessee. “Colonel” John Purviance deeded 450 acres of land to Samuel Woods, grantee, who by then was up in New Paris, Preble County, Ohio, near “elder” David Purviance, son of John & Mary JANE Wasson Purviance. I suppose “colonel” John Purviance had received this acreage as remuneration for his Revolutionary War efforts, but this is speculation. — New Paris, Preble County, Ohio, was the locale to which John & Mary Jane Wasson Purviance ‘s son “church elder” David Purviance had removed, from, first, Rowan Co., NC; to, second, Sumner County, Tennessee, in or near Old Shiloh Presbyterian Church just outside today’s Gallatin; to, third, near Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky (because John & Mary Jane Wasson Purviance’s son named John Purviance Jr. had been scalped in 1792 in Sumner County, Tennessee); to, fourth, New Paris, in Preble County, Ohio.)  Please see Deed Book A, page 205, Giles County, Tennessee, Deed Books, this deed having been registered on 25 Sep 1811. The 450 acres lay on a tributary of the Elk River called Indian Creek.  Acting as witnesses to grantor John Purviance’s deed were brothers of the grantee: William Woods and David Woods.  –Parenthetical note about land-owning in Giles County, Tennessee: “our” Alexander McCorkle Jr, son of immigrant “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery d. 1789 & immigrant Alexander McCorkle, 1722-3 to 1800, lived at one time after moving from the Piedmont of North Carolina in GILES COUNTY, TENNESSEE, also.  This Alexander McCorkle Jr.–brother to “our” Robert McCorkle, the Robert who m. Margaret Morrison, then moved on to Henry County, Tennessee, the main city of which is Paris, Tennessee.  There, after having a son also named Alexander McCorkle, he began to refer to himself as Alexander McCorkle Sr.  I know he was in Giles County for a while because he wrote a letter back home to his sister McCorkle-Ramsay which appears in the RAMSAY papers housed in the U of North Carolina Archives at Chapel Hill.

Click here for a bit of information about DAVID PURVIANCE.

Click below for an excerpt from Levi Purviance‘s biography of his father, “elder” David Purviance, describing his–Levi’s–grandfather, Revolutionary War soldier “colonel” John Purviance who married Mary JANE Wasson (Purviance). This John might have been born at Castle Finn, Northern Ireland, as his father (another John Purviance) had been; but probably was born in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania.  Was “colonel” John Purviance who m. JANE WASSON (Purviance) an emigrant from Northern Ireland? The de PURVAIANCE family in France had become Huguenots seeking refuge in the west coast city of La Rochelle, France, after Louis XIV stupidly revoked the toleration implied by the Edict of NANTES; and from Royan / La Rochelle, the Purviances had sailed seeking freedom in Scotland and Northern Ireland. In France, a name using “de (plus a locale)” implies nobility; so I suppose at some point Jacques de Purvaiance, or some kinsman, had been “made” noble in return for some favor bestowed. That fits, as “Purvaiance” means “purveyor” or “purveyance.”

Click to the right for: Levi Purviance’s description of his grandfather JOHN PURVIANCE & his grandmother Mary JANE WASSON Purviance


The above-mentioned families mostly came from Pennsylvania down the Great Wagon Road of the 18th century to Rowan County, North Carolina; then westerly to Tennessee.  Tennessee attained statehood in 1796 (take that, you Johnny-come-lately Texans who appropriated not only “UT” but also our mascot orange color); the western-most lands of Tenn. were not opened for white settlement until decades later.

This web site includes some of the Correspondence of (“Peggy”) Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle), 11th August 1770 – 21 Nov. 1848.  This correspondence includes letters to and from one of her daughters, Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roache.   Margaret Morrison McCorkle called her new home in Dyer County, Tennessee, “Verdant Plain,” and later one of her sons, Robert Andrew Hope alias RAH McCorkle, was to pen letters as having been written from “Verdant Grove.”

Please hold down “CTRL” & click here for:  CHOLERA Strikes in 1833, on August 10th, presumably in ROCKVILLE, INDIANA, to which town Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s daughter ELMIRA SLOAN McCORKLE ROACH had removed from Dyer County, Tennessee.

Please hold down “CTRL” and Click for the information outlined below:  Frontispiece.1984 Letter from Bowden Cason (Casey) McCorkle to Marsha Cope Huie. Provenance of Old McCorkle Letters. Solicitation of Funds for McCorkle Cemetery east of Newbern, West Tennessee.

Please hold down “CTRL” and Click for the information outlined below: Title Page and Vague Table of Contents.  Copyright Notice.  Welcome to site of Marsha Cope Huie !!!

Please hold down “CTRL” and Click for the information outlined below:

The Peregrinations of Robert McCorkle. His grandmother Martha Finley Montgomery’s Finley  / Princeton University /  Connection. His maternal uncle Rev. Joseph Montgomery (1733-1794), a brother of “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle and a brother-in-law of Dr. Benjamin Rush.

Hold down “CTRL” and Click for the information outlined below. This is a huge file so please wait:

Alexander McCorkle Genealogy (1722-1800) Introduction to the people who engaged in the McCorkle Correspondence included here that begins with Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770-1846, born Margaret Morrison of Rowan County, NC.  Margaret Morrison’s paternal grandfather, William Morrison, 1704-1771, referred to himself as the first white “inhabitor” of the Third Creek area, now Loray community near Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina.  The grandfather Wm. Morrison, 1704-1771,  attended parleys with the Indians and was active (with his son and/or brother Andrew Morrison) at Fort Dobbs during the era of the French & Indian Wars.  Fort Dobbs lies just outside Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina.

Click for: The Nomadic Nature of our McCorkle Ancestors, and allied families. Was James McCorkle the father of our immigrant Alexander McCorkle (1722-1800)? Why did so many Scots leave Scotland for Northern Ireland circa 1700?

Here, someday, will be a link to records from the Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church, an early church in Kentucky, in southeastern Fayette County not far from Lexington. Elmira Sloan McCorkle (Mrs. Dr. Stephen Roach) wrote that her father Robert McCorkle was in the second company of white men to foray into Kentucky.  And we know that, before 1800,  brothers Robert McCorkle, John McCorkle, and Joseph McCorkle were all three at Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church.  For now, here is the website of Walnut Hill church–but it’s not a hyperlink: http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/lexington/wal.htm

THYARITA Presbyterian Church, Rowan County, North Carolina, in Mill Bridge community near Mooresville near Salisbury, North Carolina. A Sloan’s Mill stands nearby. Preacher of note:  Dr. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, son of “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery & husband Alexander McCorkle.  Samuel Eusebius McCorkle graduated from the precursor of Princeton College, having studied at Nashua Hall under his maternal uncle Dr. Joseph Montgomery, 1733-1799, who–Joseph Montgomery–was a member of the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle’s brother was my ancestor, Robert McCorkle.  Samuel’s wife was nGillespie.  Her father was killed at Fort Dobbs outside today’s Statesville, NC.  Her mother remarried and became Elizabeth Maxwell STEELE, after whom a DAR chapter was named as she gave all her specie to General Nathaniel Greene at a low point in the Revolutionary cause.   –There was once a Thyatira Presbyterian Church (now, defunct) in Cannon County, Tennessee, near the Rutherford County line. It is now only Thyatira burial ground and is situated a bit north and west of Bradyville, near the Rutherford County line.  As mentioned, there is a MORRISONTennessee, which lies on the road from McMinnville running southwest to Manchester, in Warren County, Tennessee.


Click for: All I know about Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800, and wife “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle and their Descendants This may be repetitious.  Pictured below is one of their grandchildren, through their son Robert McCorkle by Robert’s 2nd marriage, to Margaret Morrison (McCorkle), viz., Margaret Permelia McCorkle (Scott):

 

Does Ray Scott of Yorkville, Tennessee, look like his Scott-McCorkle ancestors, above? For the answer see him below, bottom right. Ray stands bottom right, in the front row, amongst some of the 1952 Matriculants at Yorkville School, and the Yorkville High School Class of 1964, Yorkville, Gibson County, Tennessee, at their gathering held 19 October 2008.

 


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McCorkle-Anderson-McMurry-Leath Excursus:  Progeny of my ancestor Robert McCorkle by 1st wife Elizabeth Blythe McCorkle (not my ancestor). Those children were: Infant Aleck; and daughter Elizabeth McCorkle Anderson, whose children by her husband THOMAS ANDERSON were:  Martha ( Mrs James T Leath). Julia Anderson. Elizabeth (Mrs. Rev. John MITCHELL McMurry) (Cumberland Presbyterians).

What happened to descendants of their brother,  Robert Anderson of Holmes County, Mississippi (interred Mizpah Cemetery)?

The children by his first wife Lizzie BLYTHE (McCorkle) of “our” Robert McCorkle ended up being more “high society”  than did the children by Robert’s second wife, my ancestor Margaret MORRISON McCorkle.  The Robert McCorkle about whom I’m writing now is Robert the son of Alexander & “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery (McCorkle), that is, the Robert who died in 1828 really soon after removing from Middle Tennessee to Dyer County, in the newly opened Western District of Tennessee.  James T Leath, e.g., was ruling elder for the whole Memphis area of the Presbyterian Church. –I suppose we were “no class” because where the second set of children, speaking generally, ended up living, and the area where I was born, has NO SOCIETY.  Farmers aren’t big on “class,” just on getting the crops planted and harvested–or that’s my impression at least. I do have to admit, though, that in my childhood–the 1950s–the white McCorkle descendants around home thought they were Big Cheese.

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Genealogy of William Morrison (1704-1771), who called himself the “1st inhabitor” of Third Creek, Rowan-Iredell Co., NC, and of William’s granddaughter  Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848.

Also, here is a hyperlink to the Montgomery Co., Tennessee, descendants of Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s uncle Patrick Morrison: www.lulu.com/items/volume_1/114000/114011/1/preview/Family_Tree_Preview.pdf –

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Genealogy of Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard Thomas, parents of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle née Jane Maxwell Thomas. William & Elizabeth Purviance’s son DAVID Thomas was first attorney general (ad interim) of the Republic of Texas. He’s buried outside Houston, at San Jacinto Battleground, in the de Zavala Cemetery, in a hero’s grave.

At roughly the same time that David Thomas was acting secretary of war and attorney general for the nascent Republic of Texas,  David Thomas’s first cousin-once removed JAMES HOUSTON THOMAS was attorney general of the State of Tennessee (1836-1842). According to the Political Graveyard source, this James Houston THOMAS then became U.S. Representative from Tennessee 6th District, 1847-51, 1859-61; Delegate from Tennessee to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62. James Houston Thomas died near Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tenn., August 4, 1876. Interment at St. John’s Cemetery, Ashwood, Maury County, Tennessee.

Quoting the Nashville Daily American:  August 6, 1876  “James Houston Thomas born N.C., 1808; moved with family to Maury Co., Tenn. about 1815; an attorney-general for several middle Tennessee counties; elected to U. Congress in 1846 and 1848. Died recently.  [BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY OF THE AMERICAN CONGRESS, 1774-1971, Washington, D.C., 1971, pages 1805-1806: THOMAS, James Houston, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Iredell County N.C. September 22, 1808;  attended the rural schools; was graduated from Jackson College, Columbia Tenn., in 1830; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1831 and commenced practice in Columbia,  Tenn.; attorney general of Tennessee 1836-1842;  elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1851);  unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859– March 3, 1861);  resumed the practice of law in Columbia,  Tenn.; died near Fayetteville,  Lincoln County,  Tenn., on August 4, 1876;  interment in St. John’s Cemetery, Ashwood, Maury County, Tenn.]


Hyperlink to DAVID THOMAS, Texas Politician on Wikipedia

One of Jacob & Margaret Brevard Thomas’s great-grandsons was Hiram Robert A. (“HRA”) McCorkle.  HRA McCorkle was a son of Jane Maxwell THOMAS McCorkle. The “Hiram” in HRA McCORKLE is from his mother’s brother, Hiram Jacob Thomas, M.D., of Lebanon, Wilson County, Tenn; then of Vernon, Miss.; and last of Yazoo, Mississippi.):

THe following Letters You DO NOT WANT TO MISS:

 Click to the right for:  Old Letters from Margaret Morrison McCorkle (1770-1848) dating from 1829 to 1848; others’ letters up to 1853 ,the year of death of my great-great grandfather Edwin Alexander McCorkle, of Edwin A.’s sister Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott (Mrs. Lemuel Locke Scott), and of Margaret Permelia McCorkle’s father-in-law James Scott (1777-1853).

This James Scott was the husband of first, the mother of his children, Sarah Dickey, 1777-1838, of York District, South Carolina, born to John Dickey & wife Sarah Robinson (Dickey), York District, South Carolina, then, second, husband of Mary Landers (Scott).  It is this James Scott (1777-1853), whom “old friend Scott” (James Scott) married circa 1838 in Gibson County, Tennessee “to the satisfaction of all his friends.”

Click for: S e c o n d P a r t of O l d L e t t e r sPart II beginning in 1853 after death of my great-great grandfather Edwin Alexander McCorkle on 10th February 1853.

Letter from Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle. Click right for:  Year 1845: Admonitory Letter about the Latter Day Saints from RAH alias Robert McCorkle to his nephew Robert QUINCY Roache (son of Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache).

Included here is the much later Obituary of RAH McCorkle’s son Joseph Smith “Joe” McCorkle. I note that my own father, Howard EWING Huie, 1907-1971, served as a pallbearer for this man whom he called “Uncle Joe McCorkle.” The obituary erroneously lists my father Ewing as grandson to Joe; Ewing Huie’s grandfather John Edwin McCorkle was a first cousin to Uncle Joe.

END OF OLD LETTERS.


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The two daughters of  Rebecca Cowden McCorkle alias Mrs. Gideon Thompson (Rebecca who died circa 1819 being a sister to my great-great grandfather Edwin Alexander McCorkle, and sister to RAH or Robert McCorkle, and sister to Jehiel Morrison McCorkle alias Major JM McCorkle of the Dyer County militia, and sister to Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott alias Mrs. Lemuel Locke Scott),  JANE M. THOMPSON WILLIAMS (Mrs. Benjamin Williams) was a granddaughter of Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Jane is interred 1850 in the  McCorkle Cemetery as “Jane, consort of Benjamin Williams”) about 4 miles east of Newbern, just north of the Newbern-Yorkville Highway) Jane Williams’s sister was  Mary C. [Cox? Cowden?] Thompson alias Mrs. Matthew Dickey (Mary’s inhumation was at the Poplar Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery, just east of Newbern on the Newbern-Yorkville Highway, also known as Highway 77.)    A.D. 2010 update:  long-seasoned now in the old McCorkle letters, I have come to believe Mary C. Thompson Dickey (Mrs. Matthew Dickey of Dyer Co., Tenn.) was the MARY COX about whom her grandmother wrote in an early letter just after settling in Dyer County, in the newly opened Western District of Tennessee.  Margaret Morrison McCorkle apprised her daughter Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache that Mary Cox had finally recovered from the ague.–Some COX people appear as do these McCorkles in the Rutherford County, Middle Tennessee, land records of the early 1800s.

Please click here for the April 2009 contribution of Thad Williams of Bolivar, Tennessee, about the Williams Family of BENJAMIN P. WILLIAMS, consort of McCorkle grand-daughter, Jane M. Williams Thompson (Williams)


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First membership book of the old family church, then called Lemalsamac Christian Church

Click to the right for: Sue McCorkle Lee: recollections of Lemalsamac and Churchton circa 1925;  with lovely note appended by Linda Kelley of Chattanooga; also a newspaper article on the McCorkle Family of Churchton

Click for:  circa 1890 community contributions to construction of Mt. Carmel Methodist Church about 5 miles east of Newbern & northerly just a tad on the Trimble-Lemalsamac road.  Below: Mrs. Ira Mitchell Cope alias Notie Headden Cope, 1886-1983, devout member at Carmel Church after she moved there when the nearby Union Grove Presbyterian Church gave out for lack of membership, & her only surviving child on the right, daughter Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie, born 11 Nov. 1915 & died late in the night of 24 Dec. 2009 (my mother, of blessed memory);

and on the left Joyce’s Cope 1st cousin Mildred Grills Caldwell (daughter of Delia Cope Grills and Riley Matthus Grills)

Click for: 1850 Census of the Churchton, Dyer County, community, including HENDRICKS alias Hendrix folks


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JOHN EDWIN MCCORKLE (1839-1924):  (1) one of his Civil War diaries, this one written just before and during the Civil War.  (He goes to the battle up at Columbus, KY; and  (2)  a sampler of his brother Hiram R A McCorkle’s journals; and (3) a sampler of his daughter’s, Katie Pearl McCorkle (Fox)’s journals. Across the Mississippi River on the Missouri side, it is thought that John Edwin McCorkle & Hiram HRA McCorkle’s first cousin (a son of their aunt, Jane M Thompson (Mrs. Williams)) was killed in battle; this is family lore.


CHURCHTON COMMUNITY, east of Newbern & west of Yorkville, Tennessee. 

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Union Grove Schoolhouse 1897 Photograph. Update: 1905 photograph of UNION GROVE SCHOOL.

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 Excursus on family of George Washington Smith & Cornelia Davie Smith of Churchton Community.

 Also, a bit is included here on the Miller family of Churchton Click to the left, please.  As far as I know they are not kin to me except for Mrs. James Allen Scott (née Jennie E. Miller) whose husband Jim Scott removed to Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas. (It’s possible Jennie had died before her husband removed to the glory land promised by the Texas publicity.)


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Maury Adolphus Huie’s Typed Family Record from his mother’s and aunts’ recordsThis is difficult to read. Uncle Mutt incorrectly read the birth date of Margaret Morrison McCorkle as 1772. It’s beyond cavil, from Margaret’s own letters transcribed herein, that she was born in August of 1770.

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Edwin Alexander McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle, including her Purviance roots.  The family of John Purviance & Mary Jane Wasson Purviance.

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Alternate Version of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle. Contains some photographs I couldn’t get in the above version.

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Robert Andrew Hope or RAH McCorkle & wife Tirzah Scott McCorklea daughter of James Scott (1777-1853) and wife Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838) of York District, South Carolina, then of the Yorkville-Newbern community.

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The SCOTT family of  James Scott (1777-1853) & Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838), removing from York District, South Carolina, to, ultimately, the Dyer-Gibson County line.

This photo of the old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, above, can be better seen on the web page entitled “photos.”  Nota Bene. I think I erroneously placed the death date as 1872 for “Jimps” James Scott (born 1810). Jimps Scott appears in the 1880 census so probably died circa 1882, but I’m no longer sure about any date of his death. I erroneously thought the little, almost-gone stone (shown above, listing somebody’s date of birth as 1810) that I found in the old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery showed the date of death of “our” James “Jimps” Scott.  I must have been wrong. But at least I did get a marker erected to honor these people, however ridded with inaccuracies it is.


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The Dickey Family of Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838), a daughter of Sarah Robinson Dickey & of John Dickey of York District, South Carolina.  Sarah Robinson Dickey and John Dickey are also ancestors of Vice President Dick Cheney; would they claim him, do you think?

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John & Jane Tongue. William Tong & Ellen Ford. Joseph Ford Tong. Juliet Tong Cotton & John Cotton of Botland near Bardstown, Nelson Co., Kentucky.

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Hendricks or Hendrix Excursus.  Daniel Hendricks (Hendrix) & Isabel Pendry Hendrix of Mocksville, Rowan-Davie County, NC; Uriah C. Hendricks & the two MacMahan sisters, Mary & Temperance. Uriah C. Hendrick’s children: Narcissus Elizabeth Hendricks Cope; Harriet Hendricks Wyatt; Mark Hendricks of Trimble; George Hendricks of Trimble; Albert Hendricks; & JC “Jerry” Hendricks.

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Hiram McCorkle–just a teaser from one of HRA McCorkle’s Civil War journals

Update:  Now, his journals have been microfilmed by the Tennessee State Archives in Nashville.  They are in pencil and extremely hard to read, unfortunately. Hiram rode with Nathan Bedford Forrest. — Somewhere in one of his journals he writes that his brother Finis Alexander McCorkle has ridden off to find “Old Bedford.” When Hiram cannot or does not write in his own journals, his brother John Edwin McCorkle‘s handwriting often makes entries.


Above: My parents, Howard Ewing Huie, 1907-1971, and Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie, 1915-24 Dec. 2009.My parents, Howard Ewing Huie & Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie, of blessed memory


The true addict who enjoys footnotes (like me) should click below for: Old, superseded version of Old McCorkle Letters.” (Contains endnotes inadvertently omitted from later version. For the addicted these endnotes will be important.)


Howard Anderson Huie, 1870-1935, married Sophie King McCorkle (Huie). She was named after the wife of her mother’s first cousin, viz., Sophia Woodruff King (Mrs. Gideon King) of Eminence, Kentucky.  Howard & Sophie Huie are my paternal grandparents. Some of his business  records lie in the Archives of the University of Tennessee at Martin Library:

MS 028 
AUTHOR :W. R. Ozier & Co.
TITLE :W. R. Ozier & Co. records,
DATES :1890-1901.
SIZE :1 volume (70 pages); 22 x 36 cm.
ARRANGEMENT:Ledger in series; arranged by author. Inventory avaliable online.
HISTORY NOTE :W.R. Ozier & Co. was a hardware merchandise store that conducted business in Yorkville and Newbern, Tennessee during the later part of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century. The company was founded by W.R. Ozier and H.A. Huie in 1890. The company changed names to Huie Bro. & Co. in 1895 and to Huie’s & Pope’s Trading in 1899. H.A. Huie was one of the initial founders of the Dyer County Cattle Company.
CONTENTS :Account balance sheets, stock investments, expenditures, and miscellaneous financial records. Includes the mission statement, constitution, and by-laws of the Dyer County Cattle Company.
SUBJECT :Gibson County (Tenn.) — Manuscripts.
Dyer County (Tenn.) — Manuscripts.
Yorkville (Tenn.) — Manuscripts.
Newbern (Tenn.) — Manuscripts.
Tennessee — History — Sources.
Hardware stores — Tennessee — Gibson County.
Hardware stores — Tennessee — Dyer County.
Dyer County Cattle Co.
W. R. Ozier & Co.
Huie Bros. & Co.
Huie’s
 & Pope’s Trading Co.
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Last Will & Testament of the Husband of Sarah Huie (Mrs. Wilson Hall)–emigrants from Rowan County, North Carolina, to Dyer County, western Tennessee. Sarah Huie Hall was a sister to, inter alia, Benjamin Huie (1798-1879).  Her husband’s will was transcribed by Natalie Huntley, manager of the Dyer County rootsweb website. I think Sarah Huie Hall is buried in the CENTER CHURCH CEMETERY east of Newbern. Also included are some more wills.

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In 1882 the Railroad Comes to Newbern


Please help me post photos of the Civil-War Era McCorkle Siblings of eastern Dyer County, Tennessee, east of Newbern & west of Yorkville:

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Hiram R. A. McCorkle, who according to the journals of his brother, John Edwin McCorkle, “made a company” during the war. Of HRA’s nephews, the one whom I knew who looks most like the above picture of HRA McCorkle was Glenn Roache McCorkle, father of Annie Glen McCorkle & Sue Alice McCorkle Lee.


John Edwin McCorkle, 1839-1924. Born in prime years for becoming Civil War cannon fodder, just after receipt of a baccalaureate from the soon-defunct Bluff Springs Academy.  (The situs of the Bluff Springs Academy?  I think it was in Milan or nearby McLemoresville, Gibson County, West Tennessee.)

 –His first wife was “Tennie” Scott (Tennessee Alice Scott, born to William Scott of Hardeman County (ultimately, although he was a sojourner in Gibson/Dyer County); William Scott being a son of JAMES SCOTT, 1777-1853, & wife Sarah DICKEY Scott, 1777-1853. Wm’s siblings:  Tirzah Scott McCorkle of Dyer Co, Lemuel Locke Scott of Dyer-Gibson Co., James “Jimps” Scott of Gibson-Dyer Co., John Dickey/Dickie Scott ofGibson/Dyer then Hardeman Co.

John Edwin McCorkle’s 2nd wife Mary Elizabeth Cotton (McCorkle), below. She is my father Ewing Huie ‘s maternal grandmother, that is, Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle was mother to, inter alia, Sophie King McCorkle (Huie). She died in 1929:

    

above: Mary Elizabeth Cotton (Mrs. John Edwin McCorkle, his second wife, after “Tennie” Tennessee Alice Edwards Scott McCorkle, 1850-1879). “Mollie” Mary was born in Nelson Co., Kentucky (in Botland near Bardstown) to John Cotton (died 1852, Botland, Nelson Co., KY) & Juliet TONG Cotton (Juliet was interred while visiting her daughter in Tennessee in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer Co., Tenn.).


Finis A. McCorkle:

[Under construction–to be added later-]twin to “Latina” or “Tina” Margaret Latina McCorkle (Mrs. John T. Gregory)

First wife: “Sallie Jo” Sarah Josephine JACKSON (McCorkle), who is interred at Mt., just north of Newbern, Tennessee, in contiguous OBION County. We do not know whether Finis himself is buried there with his first wife, or in the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County (west of Yorkville and east of Newbern)

Second wife: “Mag” Margaret HART, about whom I’ve heard nothing good.  Finis’s son GILLUM McCorkle around the turn of the century committed suicide in his bed, which he shared with brother HOMER McCorkle.  In 1984 I telephoned Finis’s last surviving child, centenarian Maida McCorkle Montgomery, then living in California, whose mind sounded lucid. Maida or MADA told me, no, she had no memory of the burial place of her father FINIS McCORKLE. Maida was Mrs. Howell Montgomery and she had one daughter Margaret Montgomery, a librarian who died after 1984 without issue, in California.

Generally


Finis’s twin Margaret Latina “Tina” McCorkle (Mrs. John T. Gregory)


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“Becky” Rebecca McCorkle Zarecor (Mrs. John C. Zarecor):

Under construction–to be added as I can. PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS !!!!!


In 1873 a John ZŰrcher of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, received a U.S. patent on a certain improvements on looms for weaving.  This was at a time when I know “our” John C. Zarecor (who m. “Becky” Rebecca McCorkle) was already living in Dyer-Gibson County, Tennessee). I do wonder, though, if the Pennsylvania inventor was kin to our Zarecors.  The diary of my g-great grandfather, John Edwin McCorkle, records that he ate many a dinner with his sister “Becky” McCorkle Zarecor and her husband, John C. Zarecor, around the time of the Civil War; so many meals that I would imagine that John C. Zarecor was relieved when his brother-in-law, John E. McCorkle, married.

Why did the Zarecor family quit being interred in the family McCorkle Cemetery? “Aunt” Becky McCORKLE Zarecor, their ancestor, is interred there. It is a sadness to me that they went elsewhere for family interment. It was usual back then for the bride to leave her religion and take up her groom’s. Thus “Becky” McCorkle became a Cumberland Presbyterian.

Please click here for hyperlink to Aunt Becky Zarecor information.

Elizabeth McCorkle Reeves who removed to Gadsden near Humboldt, Gibson County, Tennessee, Click here

Some names to watch for coming from Elizabeth McCorkle REEVES: Priestly, Jones


Until about 1986 I was proud to correspond with an elderly lady, Kate Priestley BLANCHARD (Mrs. Fred Blanchard), a descendant of Elizabeth McCorkle REEVES.  She died in 1988.  Kate had to move from Gibson County, Tennessee, to El Paso, Texas, because Mr. Blanchard was afflicted with tuberculosis, and in the early 20th century Tennessee physicians liked to send TB patients for the dry air of Texas.  We should all read Leonardo daVinci on physicians; basically, he cautioned Stay Away!. Kate’s husband, Fred Ewing Blanchard, 1891-1932, was not cured, sad to say.

Restlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, El Paso Texas:

1000 BLANCHARDEarl G. 8/26/2002 
1001 BLANCHARDCharles A.18691933 
1002 BLANCHARDLilly18661950 
1003 BLANCHARDFred Ewing18911932 
1004 BLANCHARDKate Priestley189811/3/88 
1005 BLANCHARDMargaret A.187811/29/59 
1006 BLANCHARDFletcher Joseph191412/16/1959  
1007 BLANCHARDIda E. 1/1/1975 
1008 BLANCHARDKatheryn3/9/190311/20/1977

TEXAS CHURCHES – EL PASO    “Brief History of the Montana Street Church of Christ” by Kate Priestly Blanchard (1951 booklet),  STORED BY THE CENTER FOR RESTORATION STUDIES AT ABILENE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE.


David Purviance McCorkle, who removed a bit north to Obion County in the environs of Mt. Moriah.  If you find the old cemetery you will see his marker at Mt. Moriah.  His first wife was Margaret SCOTT, who died in 1862.  Margaret Scott McCorkle was a sister to, inter alia, my Scott-Huie great-grandmother Mrs. Julius M. Huie (“Sade” Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie).  David Purviance McCorkle then married ELIZABETH JACKSON.  (I think Elizabeth Jackson (Mrs. David Purviance McCorkle) was a sister to the first wife of Finis Alexander McCorkle (Sarah Josephine Jackson), but may be wrong about this.

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Anderson Jehiel McCorkle, Confederate States of America soldier during the Civil War: My My My  My father Ewing Huie’s father, Howard ANDERSON Huie, was in part named after Anderson J. McCorkle.  Howard Anderson Huie’s mother, Sarah Elisabeth Scott, was a sister to the first wife of A J McCorkle.

AJ McCorkle’s first wife was a Scott.  So,  back to the Scott family of  James Scott, 1777-1853, & his first wife Sarah DICKEY (Scott), 1777-1838.–of York District, South Carolina.  —  James & Sarah Dickey Scott had one child who was Jimps” James Scott, born circa 1810 and died circa 1886.  This “Jimps” Scott married as first wife VIOLET B. RODDY.  I’ve not been able to discover Violet’s RODDY family, although I have gleaned a clue:  somewhere, after futile research I read that Violet B. Roddy came from Dancyville in Fayette/Hardeman Co., Tennessee, down toward Memphis.  This would make sense (although I’m not sure about it) because William Scott (father of the first Mrs. John Edwin McCorkle: Tennie Scott) and William Scott’s brother JOHN DICKEY / DICKIE SCOTT who m. a Williams woman–each removed from Gibson-Dyer County, Tennessee, where their parents had finally settled down to Hardeman County, Tennessee.

One of the daughters of JIMPS Scott & wife Violet B. RODDY (SCOTT) was MARTHA SCOTT.  This Martha Scott was the first wife of A J McCorkle.  Second, AJ McCorkle married Lou FOX.


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Generation IV. Hiram Robert Andrew McCorkle: 1827 – 1907 Confederate States of America soldier during the Civil War: I call HRA McCorkle “Uncle Hiram” because my father Ewing Huie did. Uncle Hiram died in 1907, the very same year my father  Howard EWING Huie was born, but believe me  most of the West Tennessee relatives used to talk about their other relatives both alive and long-dead.  And my father often mentioned his “Uncle Hiram,”  usually in the context of Civil War stories.  There IS a “Yankee” (that’s what they said in my childhood) buried in our (defunct) pond toward the highway (the Newbern-Yorkville Highway, Highway 77), loosely in front of the little house (originally built in 1952 for my maiden aunt, Sarah Elisabeth BETH Huie.  My daddy always told me the victim of gun violence buried in the pond was a Yankee renegade scaveging along the road.  Now, in my old age, I’m not sure what that meant exactly.  — Actually, to set the family record straight, Hiram R. A. McCorkle was my father’s great-uncle.

1st wife: Margaret A. L. Cowan; 2nd wife: Jenette Menzies (mother of Mr. Eddy McCorkle, i.e., V. Edwin Archibald McCorkle, who m. Dona McCutchen)

HRA McCorkle’s children by 1st wife Margaret Cowan: V.O.P. or O.F. McCorkle, infant; V. Winfield Purviance McCorkle, who removed to Eminence, Ky., where he m. Mary “Mamie” King, daughter of Gideon King & 2nd wife Sophia Woodruff (King), Gideon King being a COTTON first cousin to the 2nd wife of Generation IV John Edwin McCorkle: Mary Elizabeth Cotton (McCorkle). V. Almeda McCorkle POPE (Mrs. Eugene Priest Pope); V. Elizabeth Jane McCorkle m. Johnny CAWTHON V.  Lula McCorkle m. her 2nd cousin, Johnny R. Woods, died young; V. Tolbert McCorkle, killed when young.

More on V. Winfield Purviance McCorkle (who according to his father’s journal cried during the Civil War when the Yankees stole his mule) & Winfield’s wife Mary “Mamie” King (McCorkle):  VI.  their son Graham King McCorkle became president of Illinois Bell Telephone Co. & he was a contemporary of my great-uncle Errett Cotton McCorkle, 1887-1976, and I know they used to meet and visit when each was working in Chicago; they were first cousins-once-removed, as IV. HRA McCorkle was V. Graham’s grandfather & IV. John Edwin McCorkle was V. Errett Cotton McCorkle’s father.  V.

More on V. Elizabeth Jane McCorkle Cawthon, who m. Johnny Cawthon.  Her children were VI.  Kate Kurl Cawthon (Mrs. B. W. PACE), mother of VII. Harry Pace; VI. Daisy Lou Cawthon (Mrs. John Israel Rodgers, mother of VII. William Rogers and VII. John Rogers; VI. William I. Cawthon, who m. Olive Noel and had 3 childrenVII. Norma Cawthon, VII. Carolyn Cawthon, & VII. Kate Noel CawthonVI. Mamie McCorkle Cawthon (Mrs. Clint ATKINS), mother of VII Bettie Jane Atkins Caldwell (Mrs. Charles Caldwell), VII Bettie Jane being mother of one child Generation VIII David Walker Caldwell; and VI. Bettie Love Cawthon, who died young.

More on V. Edwin Archibald McCorkle 1873-1950, who married in 1897 Dona McCutcheon, 18877-1967.  Eddy & Dona’s four children were:

VI.  Lula MADGE McCorkle, 1901-1972, who m. “Rich”  Richard F. Smith, 1900-1967, a brother to, inter alia, Mr. OK Smith & Leland Smith & Muncie Smith;   Rich & Madge McCorkle Smith had VII. Eddie Sue Smith Dunnevant, born 1917  (Mrs. Charles Dunnevant) (no issue); VII. Helen Smith, b. July 16, 1919, and Helen Smith m. 1st Norvell L. Williams; and 2nd Joe Phillips of Starkville, Mississippi.  Helen Smith’s children by Norvy Williams:  VIII. Sarah Ruth Williams & VIII.  Norvell Scobey Williams.  Helen Smith’s children by Joe Phillips: VIII.  Joe Samuel Phillips & Eddie Sue Phillips.  And Rich & Madge Smith had: Generation VII. Sarah Catherine Smith, b. 1913, who married Ray Phillips, Junior, and Sarah & Ray Phillips had one child, namely, VIII. Richard Ray Phillips.

More descendants of VI. Lula MADGE McCorkle, 1901-1972, & Rich Smith:  VIII.  Sarah Ruth Williams, b. 1939, m. 1st Warren Kleban & had 4 children (immediately below) then m. 2nd Arthur Falbo.

VI.  Mamie Porter McCorkle, born 1907 & married Albert Gallatin “Spoots” HARRIS, Jr. son of Edith Wadlingson & husband Albert G. Harris.  Mamie & Spoots Harris had VII. Virginia HARRIS (Mrs. James L. McClain), mother of & and VIII. Edith “Edie” HARRIS (Mrs. Jere FORD)(Mrs. Phillip Turner);  and Mamie & Spoots Harris had VII

VI.  Tommye McCorkle, female; and

VI.  Hiram Robert Andrew McCorkle II.


[more to be added later, God willing…]


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

McCORKLE CEMETERY on McCorkle Cemetery Road.  Located about 5 miles east of Newbern, just north of the Newbern-Yorkville Highway (Hwy 77).  Inscriptions were read by the late James Woodley May 2000.

With much gratitude to the late Mr. Woodley, I am attempting to begin adding what I know–more aptly, what my mother Joyce Cope Huie knows–about the folks interred in the McCorkle Cemetery.     http://www.marshahuie.com/index.htm

Please help us add to the store of information about the people buried here.  Many old markers have disappeared.  Please email me at [email protected] with any applicable information.  Also, I welcome corrections.

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Some MONTGOMERY-FINLEY McCorkle Pennsylvania Musings


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

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


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1952 Matriculants of Yorkville School Get-together Oct. 2008 

To the Right Are supposed to be: Photos. (Please click here)


BelowClaude Monet La Señora de la Sombrilla Verdeas depicted in Jose Pijoan‘s Historia del Arte, 3 volumes, published by Salvat Editores, Barcelona, 1949

 


Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, who moved up north, became wealthy; while her siblings who remained down in Tennessee did not. The lives of the descendants of Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach (who removed up north to Indiana with her husband), on the one hand; and, on the other hand, the bucolic siblings, sister Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott (who died in late 1853, the same year as her brother Edwin), & brothers Edwin Alexander McCorkle (my father’s great-grandfather who died in early 1853) & Jehiel Morrison McCorkle (who died in 1849), took dramatically different turns, as best I know.

The cosmopolites became wealthy, and the farmers scraped by. Even though the farmers may have become land-rich, they would nonetheless have been cash-poor, the fate of many white folks in the post-bellum South, while at the same time the black folks were abandoned by promisors of 40 acres and a mule and forced relentlessly back into near-slavery by twisted enforcement, or by outright non-enforcement of post-war laws that had been enacted with the intent of aiding them. Perhaps the whites’ poverty paid but an inadequate installment on the longtime debt incurred by their ancestors’ sin, and their sin, of fostering antebellum slavery.  If ever an historic epoch showed the danger of good citizens’ sitting idly by, afraid to speak out, it is the time after post-war Reconstruction when decent white folk allowed the Negro to be betrayed and pushed back into near-slavery and fear of being  lynched.  The election of 1876 ended de facto although not de jure the Civil War, when Tilden who had won the popular vote swapped his victory for getting an agreement to end Reconstruction occupation of the South. Rutherford B. Hayes became president, and the northern troops left the South.

Somewhere I’ve read that Elmira’s husband, Dr. Stephen Roachdid not like the South in which he had been born (NC) before 1800, because of the institution of slavery, and determined to move northerly.  There, mostly in Indiana, his children who survived became educated and wealthy, while as far as I know Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott‘s and Edwin Alexander McCorkle‘s & Jehiel Morrison McCorkle‘s children possessed little access to formal education–although the Dyer County parents sent them off to school to Yorkville (5 miles) and a place called Bluff Springs Academy (in Gibson County, I think, near Milan? perhaps in McLemoresville?). We are certain that Edwin’s son John Edwin McCorkle, 1839-1924, at least, received a baccalaureate, because I possess his B.A. diploma from Bluff Springs Academy; and we know John Edwin McCorkle’s brother Finis Alexander McCorkle attended Bluff Springs Academy,  but Finis’s college education would have been interrupted by the Civil War, during which Finis rode with Nathan Bedford Forrest.  –Generally, for the most part, the Tennessee farmers were a very long way removed from the Princeton College in which their FinleyMontgomeryMcCorkle elders had been educated; and their fortunes declined after the Civil War and bitter Reconstruction, except for the few who were smart enough to head north, e.g., my great-uncle Errett Cotton McCorkle.  John Edwin McCorkle’s son, Errett Cotton McCorkle, 1887-1976, I’ve been told by my elders, was pushed by his mother Mary, née Cotton and a native Kentuckian, to go live at her sister Laura Cotton Hunter’s alias Mrs. John Crittenden Hunter’s home in Louisville and read law.  And sure enough, Uncle Errett prospered  as he moved on to St. Louis and then Chicago, as the personnel manager for Renard Linoleum & Rug Co.  He lost his fortune twice during “panics” but twice regained it.  But most of Margaret’s and Edwin’s children remained on the land in Dyer and Gibson Counties of West Tennessee.  I’ve read in the old papers that uncle Hiram R. A. McCorkle made a good bit of money during and after the war by trading horses and generally being a good mercantilist, but Hiram was the exception, I think, of his generation in post-war West Tennessee.  And times for the grandchildren of the Civil War fighters did not improve by much, if at all, for they might have been land-rich but were cash-poor.  It really wasn’t until the next generation (mine; I was born in 1946) that the Tennessee farmers’ children were able to get the kind of educations available to Elmira’s children in Indiana; correspondingly it is my generation of McCorkle descendants who have prospered in time.  Of course, I am speaking above in sweeping generalities; exceptions to the rule, as always, existed.


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

        

 Ellie

above: “Ellie” Ellington __x__ : Becky Huie Cornelius’s granddaughter by daughter Beth. Ellington “Ellie” __X___ is Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle’s descendant.  Ellie comes to us through John Edwin McCorkle & 1st wife Tennessee Alice Scott, 1850-1879, by their daughter Ora, that is through “Dolph” Julius Adolphus Huie & Ora Alice McCorkle (Huie). Ora and Dolph Huie were parents of Maury Adolphus Huie, 1895-1973, and Maury & Nell Campbell Huie were parents of Rev. Bill Huie, who died in 2001. Bill Huie was father of Billy Huie who m. Jeanne Kegley and of Iris Rebecca “Becky” Huie Cornelius. Becky Huie Cornelius is the mother of Beth, and Beth & husband Steve are parents of “Ellie” …

  

Easter 2008 photograph of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle‘s descendants through their son John Edwin McCorkle, 1839-1924. Descended through Julius Adolphus Huie & “Dolph” Huie’s wife Ora Alice McCorkle (Huie): John Beverley __ (living) __ IV, left, & Jackson Huie ___(living)_____, sons of Mackenzie Huie & husband John Beverly __X___ III.  These fine boys are grandsons of John Ewing Huie, born 1952, & wife Joan; and great-grandsons of Edward Campbell Huie (died 2001) & Drucilla Garner Huie (d. July 2008). On horses: John Ewing Huie’s granddaughters: Aubrey Huie (on the left) and Allie Huie; their little sister is MADELEINE HUIE.


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

BREVARD-THOMAS-McCORKLE family information. I did not write this at all, either.

For safety–in fear of rootsweb freepages not keeping the following material on the Internet–I copied the above two files (HAYNES-MORRISON & BREVARD-THOMAS-McCORKLE). I, Marsha Cope Huie, had absolutely nothing to do with compiling this information.


Chronic Fatigue. Epstein Barr Virus. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Recently, in August 2009, a blood test revealed I had a very high number of active Epstein Barr Virus; my score was 30 times what it should have been (30 times high-normal).

Treatment was infusions of Alpha Lipoic Acid for 5 days (an anti-oxidant, as best I understand it); followed by oral dosage (pills) of Alpha Lipoic Acid (purchased from the health-food store) and Pantothenic Acid (3 pills twice a day), plus lots of vitamins to bolster my immune system.

Here is what I took, but please note that I am NOT giving medical advice, merely describing the course of treatment administered to me:

PANTOTHENIC ACID 500 MG. I take 3 PILLS TWICE DAILY.

Rebuild— osteopososis formula:   a multivitamin from Metabolic Maintenance Company:  6 capsules daily.

Selenium 22 mcg tablets.  I took two a day.

Vitamin  –I take the 5000 IU strength because I suffer from chronic/acute pain. People without pain wouldn’t want to do that, I imagine.

Magnesium Citrate  from Metabolic Maintenance Co. 500 mg.

Alpha Lipoic Acid   –Carlson Co. or Metabolic Maintenance Co.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is no joke.  For months before diagnosis–yes, I went to several doctors who did not test for Chronic Fatigue–I slept and slept yet still wanted to sleep even more.  Four months later, in December 2009, I don’t feel the desperate need to sleep. I’m not a medical professional, and make absolutely no warranties or guarantees, but I want to give some help to anyone suffering as I was.  There is hope.  I am posting this in the hope that this information will help somebody somewhere.


Yorkville, Tennessee, YORKVILLE, TENNESSEE, in Gibson County.  is an historic little village.  [<<<Please click to the left for Marsha Cope Huie on Yorkville.]

Hyperlink: Yorkville, Tennessee.   See also:  http://coolplaces2go.com/tn/dyer/mccorkle-cemetery.html

McCORKLE CEMETERY:  McCorkle Cemetery Index collected by Natalie Huntley ‘s Dyer County, Tennessee, web site. The McCorkle Cemetery is located in Dyer County, TN … On McCorkle Cemetery Rd, off Hwy 77 East From Newbern & west from Yorkville.  Before the Civil War and more particularly before the railroads, Yorkville was the better town. First grave there:  Robert McCorkle, 1764-1828, husband of Margaret Morrison (McCorkle), 1770-1848, also interred there; also beside Margaret Morrison McCorkle lies her brother William Hays Morrison, 1767-1837.  Recently discovered:  a brick in the pre-Civil War “black folks” portion of the cemetery that reads BEAN. That means JOYCE COPE HUIE, 11 Nov. 1915-24 Dec. 2009, my mother, was correct in telling me long ago that JEFF & ELLA [McCORKLE] BEAN and perhaps their son ROSCOE BEAN are interred in the McCorkle Cemetery.  —  The McCorkle Cemetery some 5 miles east of  Newbern, in Dyer County, and west of Yorkville. First grave in April 1828: Robert McCorkle17641828, husband of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848

hyperlink  for Inventory of Cemeteries, Dyer Co., TN Inventory of cemeteries located in Dyer County TN … McCorkle. Dist. 9. Map. See Inventory. McCoy. Dist. 12. Map. See Inventory. McCullough Chapel

 McCorkle, Moses Headden, Alexander McCullough, Edwin Alexander McCorkle, Dr. Stephen Roach m. Elmira Sloane McCorkle (Roache), 

End of Index. End of Index. End of Index to www.MarshaHuie.com



PHOTOS BELOW —  Top left: EWING McCORKLE, alias John Ewing McCorkle, died 27 February 1900 at age 16.  Son of John Edwin McCorkle & Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle, Ewing was born 14 November 1884 and died 17 Feb. 1900. 15 years 3 months; height 6 feet weight 153. Photo found in effects of Ewing’s younger brother Errett Cotton McCorkle upon Errett’s death.

Top right photo from Churchton community, Dyer County, Tennessee:  Left–Fred Hunt; center: Errett Cotton McCorkle, 1888-1976, Beaure Townsend on right; little girl belonged to? Orta Bond or? Octa Bord. Names written on back of photo by Errett C. McCorkle. Botton photo:  Bettie McCorkle, wife of Jehiel McCorkle and mother of Hall McCorkle. Picture made in Greenfield, West Tennessee. Bettie’s husband Jehiel was son or grandson of Jehiel Morrison McCorkle (Major J M McCorkle of the first Dyer County militia) and wife “Lizzie” “Betsy” Elizabeth Smith (McCorkle).

 

 


Whose house was this?  I have two ideas but do not know:  one, was it the old Mose Headden – Elizabeth Boyette Headden house? two, was it Glen Roache McCorkle’s house?

Uncle ERRETT COTTON McCORKLE’s best friend in St. Louis/ Chicago/ was John S. Moore; John S. Moore‘s son was James W. Moore, pictured above in 1945 (WWII uniform)(in aviation)  I found a 1918 ad in the New York Times saying to BUYERS that Renard Linoleum & Carpet Co. (St. Louis, Chicago) would be in New York City on a certain date.  Uncle Errett Cotton McCorkle was personnel manager for Renard Co.

Above: Family of Joseph Headden Huie & wife Ann Livingston Huie at the old Charles & Dona Headden Garner House, Cool Springs community near Trimble-Yorkville, Gibson Co., Tenn., July 2008 or ’09. Joe Huie’s mother, Drucilla Garner Huie, was nέe Drucilla GARNER. Drucy’s mother Dona HEADDEN Garner and my mother Joyce Cope Huie’s mother, Notie HEADDEN Cope, were first cousins.  Dona was born to Uncle Dave a k a David Crockett Headen and Notie was born to Winfield Scott Headden.

 

Above:  Little John Warren (grandson of John & Joan Huie),

one of two sons of Mackenzie Huie (Warren) & John Warren

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Above:  Ellie, granddaughter of Becky Huie & Bill Cornelius Christmas 2009

Huie, Billy & Jeanne Kegley 

Billy & Jeanne Kegley Huie at Montgomery Bell State Park –John Edwin McCorkle Reunion. Their two daughters: Kathryn Huie, Vanderbilt graduate biologist, US Forest Service; Heather Huie Hatley, SMU grad living in Wisconsin; and son Jay Huie, Case Western Reserve U engineering graduate.

Whatever became of the VAUGHAN family of Yorkville?  There used to be a Vaughan house about a mile west of Yorkville on the Newbern-Yorkville Highway.  The 1900 census, Civil District 8, Gibson County, Tennessee, lists the people in the household of HUGHIE Vaughan; one census spells it (Huie Vaughan):  Son Roger M. Vaughan, 17 (1882); son Ran J. Vaughan, 15; son Frank Vaughan, age 13; Lucy Vaughan, 26; and Fred Vaughan, aged 6.


 



Ralph E. Williamson taking photo of Jane Brown (left) and his wife, Marsha Huie (right).  This is how the wrong side of 60 looks.


Click below to view documents from notes taken by Marsha Cope Huie, May 2008, UNC Chapel Hill Archives–the Robert Ramsay Papers.  N.B.  the McCorkle Place edifice at UNC:

Document_01 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill ARCHIVES:  Ramsay Papers.  Generation II Agnes “Nancy” McCorkle married Robert Ramsay.

Document_02  Letter from Generation TWO  Alexander McCorkle (Iredell Co., NC; to Giles Co, Tennessee; to Henry Co., Tennessee) who m. Catharine MORRISON.

Document_03  Letter from William Graham, Upper Oxford, Chester County, Pennsylvania, about land

Document_04  Letter from Hugh & Hannah Robinson in Middle Tennessee to Robert Ramsay in Iredell Co., NC

Document_05  Same–letter from Hugh ROBINSON

Document_06  Letter from Generation Two Alexander McCorkle (son of Alexander, 1722-1800)

Document_07  Generation II Alexander McCorkle (traveling from western NC to Middle Tennessee); James McCorkle Generation TWO–last to be born and last to die of Generation II.

Document_08  Some Latta genealogy; some John Gen II to son Gen III Joel to Gen IV John FINLEY McCorkle

Document_09  Letter from Betsy ANDREWS to Gen. II Agnes “Nancy” McCorkle RAMSAY in Iredell Co., NC

 Document_10 Letter from Generation II Agnes “Nancy” McCorkle Ramsay (then, spelled R-a-m-s-E-y) to her brother James McCorkle by then removed from Indiand to OHIO (I think recipient is JAMES)

Document_11  Letter from Joseph KNOX to Robert Ramsay (husband of Gen. II Agnes “Nancy” McCorkle RAMSAY)

Document_12  Letter from Generation III Joel McCorkle (son of II. John McCorkle) to his father John McCorkle’s brother-in-law, Robert Ramsay.

  Mentions land bought by II. Alexander McCorkle; mentions a Dr. Newman.

Document_13  Letter from Thomas Knox in Rutherford County, Middle Tennessee; to Robert Ramsay in Iredell Co., North Carolina;

mentions impoverished condition of Gen. II. WILLIAM McCorkle in Middle Tenn.

Document_14  Record of a Mr. Samuel B. Judah, McCorkle descendant in Vincennes, Indiana.  Please see also Document 17 infra.

 Document_15 Brief McCorkle Genealogy in the Ramsay Papers Collection

Document_16  Mentions Thorntown, Indiana; mentions William A. McCorkle, former governor of West Virginia (or Virginia?)

Document_17  Continuation of Document 14 above–record of a Mr. Samuel B. Judah, McCorkle descendant in Vincennes, Indiana

Document_18  Some genealogy (some of which is in error); mentions Colonel Francis McCorkle of N.C.

Document_19  Miscellaneous.  Joseph McCorkle (Gen. II) married Margaret SNODDY, for example.

Document_20  Miscellaneous.  Generation II James McCorkle (Ohio at death); Gen. II Joseph McCorkle (Ohio at death).


Click below for:

Letter 01 John Edwin McCorkle to Mary Elizabeth Cotton 1880

Letter 02

Letter 03

Letter 04

Letter 05

Letter 06

Letter 07

Letter 08

Letter 09

Letter 10


Chapter One. Welcome to my web site !!!

The actual old letters themselves, with explanations of who the writers were, as well as of the people-written-about in the letters. –This is a huge file that takes a seemingly endless time to load so please be patient. It’s worth the wait, I promise. Please contact me with information you would like to add, at [email protected]

McCorkle Correspondence beginning with Mrs. Robert McCorkle (1770-1848), née Margaret Morrison of Rowan County (Iredell County after 1788), NC, then Rutherford County, Middle Tennessee, then finally of Dyer County, Tennessee, near the Gibson County Line & the then-better town of Yorkville

–transcribed, compiled, and edited by Marsha Cope HUIE (alias Mrs. Ralph Ervin Williamson)

Copyright claimed not of the old letters themselves, which should be distributed and enjoyed by all, nor of work herein attributed to other people, but of all expression written by M. C. Huie, including her explanations of relationships & of who the  people in the letters were.

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(c) 2011 by M C Huie


Also, happy reading from my niece Jessica Huie Cashdollar (Mrs. Brian Louis Blackwell) of Cordova, Tenn., and Little PLC Blackwell, born 14 April 2006


With significant contributions by

(1)       Natalie Cockroft Ragon & husband James Ragon of Jackson,Tennessee;

(2)       Mr. and Mrs. James M. Richmond of Napierville, Illinois; and

(3)       Margaret Dickey [email protected], the person who placed the Dickey Genealogy. Internet at http://members.fortunecity.com/gen4m/Dickey8.htm  entitled: Descendants of Robert Dickey (1463 – 1538)  Glasgow, Scotland. Genealogy Report 1463  1900; [1] and by (4) Joseph H. Howard –Margaret Dickey in turn makes attribution to the work of Joseph H. Howard  e-mail: [email protected]  Their Dickey work astounds me; how could they have done such a masterful, comprehensive job with a name so hard to research?  I found the name “Dickey” as hard to research as “Thomas,” and I had almost given up on Sarah Dickey Scott’s lineage until James Ragon of Jackson, Tennessee, told me of the above work.  Please read the Endnote below citing more Dickey work of the above people. [End of Marsha Huie’s Acknowledgment to Dickey Family Researchers.]

 And with special thanks to Carol McCorkle Branz (Mrs. Roger Branz) of Spokane, Washington, for copies of  old McCorkle relics/correspondence/ supplied for transcription by me.  Carol is a descendant of Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle & wife Tirzah Scott McCorkle, through their son Joseph Smith McCorkle & wife Mary Frazier McCorkle, who lived in “downtown” Yorkville, Gibson County, Tennessee.


Published by Marsha Huie in March 2005. 

 

First, how is your compiler Marsha Cope Huie kin to Alexander McCorkle & wife “Nancy” Agnes(s) Montgomery McCorkle; and their son Robert McCorkle & Robert’s 2nd wife Margaret Morrison McCorkle?

Answer:

The compiler Marsha Cope Huie’s paternal g-g-g-g-grandfather  was Alexander McCorkle [Sr.]  of Rowan County, NC.  This is the Alexander McCorkle who died in 1800 and is buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church cemetery outside Mooresville, North Carolina.

This kinship is through:

Marsha Cope Huie’s father, Howard EWING HUiE, 1907-1971, who married Joyce Rebecca Cope, 11 November 1915-24 Dec.. 2008.

Marsha Huie’s paternal g-g-g grandparents were Robert McCorkle & wife Margaret Morrison,  each originally of Rowan County, North Carolina, then residents in Rutherford County, Middle Tennessee, and at the last residents of Dyer County, West Tennessee.

     One of Alexander & “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle’s sons, Robert McCorkle, & Robert’s 2nd wife, “Peggy”  Margaret Morrison (McCorkle), finally settled around 1825-7 in Dyer County, Tennessee, when the Western District was opened for white settlement.  You will find many of their land transactions in Deed Book “A” of Dyer County.

     Margaret Morrison McCorkle considered their principal town to be Yorkville in Gibson County.  Her husband Robert McCorkle died in the spring of 1828 (April), very soon after losing land-title litigation in Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee, a lawsuit involving his father Alexander’ McCorkle’s Revolutionary War Land Grant.

     Loss of the Rutherford County Revolutionary War land grant, marked off initially near “Murphreesborough,” caused Robert McCorkle & Margaret Morrison McCorkle in old age, after he was blind, and accompanied by their surviving (grown) children, to have to remove to Dyer County in West Tennessee in order to accept land substituted in lieu of the lost Middle Tennessee land. 

Many more folk as named herein descend from Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

In particular, Marsha Cope Huie and her sister Sophie Joyce Huie Cashdollar, and others, descend from Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s son Edwin Alexander McCorkle.

Edwin A. McCorkle was born to Margaret Morrison McCorkle circa 1799 in Rowan County, NC, and EA McCorkle died in Dyer County West Tennessee) on 10th January 1853.

        Edwin’s wife, Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle), was born in 1801 or 1802 and died in 1855;  Jane was born in Wilson County, Middle Tennessee, to parents William Thomas (son of Hiram Jacob Thomas & wife Margaret Brevard). (William Thomas, who died in 1833 in Dyer County, had been a soldier in the NC continental line, Revolutionary War).  William Thomas’s wife was: Elizabeth Purviance (Thomas), Elizabeth being a daughter of Revolutionary War soldier “colonel” John Purviance & Mary Jane WASSON (Purviance) of Rowan Co., NC.  Mary Jane Wasson Purviance & husband John Purviance were last of Middle Tennessee.  She died in 1810 (the year of formation of the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination) and he died in 1843, a CUMBERLAND Presbyterian (no longer just a Presbyterian).  This John who m. Mary Jane Wasson was a son of another John Purviance and wife Margaret McKnight (Purviance), from Castlefinn, County DONEGALIreland.  –Mary Jane Wasson and her sister married two PURVIANCE brothers, viz., “colonel” John Purviance and his older brother James Purviance (a captain–a true captain–in the NC line of the Revolutionary War).  I think “my” John Purviance (father of Elizabeth Purviance THOMAS) was not really a colonel but was given an honorific after the Revolutionary War.


Table of Contents:

Table of Contents. I. :

ΆΩ                   At the end of Chapter One is the first membership book of Lemalsamac Christian Churchas it was then known, typed with annotations by me.  In a sense this was a THOMAS-MORRISON-McCORKLE family church, but it was formed for God, not family.

I.                Correspondence of (“Peggy”) Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle)

This correspondence includes letters to and from one of her daughters, Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roache.   Margaret called her new home in Dyer County, Tennessee, “Verdant Plain,” and later a son, Robert Andrew Hope or RAH McCorkle, was to pen letters as having been written from “Verdant Grove.”   These old letters are mostly in Chapter Two of this compilation. 

In colonial times (1762), Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s father, Andrew Morrison [wife: Elizabeth Sloan Morrison] had received a land grant from the Earl of Granville for certain land in North Carolina. Andrew’s father, William Morrison, born circa 1704 and died in  1771, & Andrew’s mother, a Margaret (maiden name unknown) Morrison, were at Third Creek, Rowan-Iredell County, at least as early as around 1750 A.D., and William and Andrew Morrison took shelter at Fort Dobbs (just outside Statesville, now in Iredell Co., NC) in the time of the French & Indian Wars (in Europe  called the Seven Years War, ending in 1763).

 Fergus Sloan owned land at the site of Fort Dobbs and is buried in an early grave in the Fourth Creek Meeting House Cemetery, which now lies in the center of the town of     Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina.  I suspect kinship between Fergus Sloan and Elizabeth Sloan (Mrs. Andrew Morrison), the latter being the mother of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, inter alia; but I cannot prove kinship of Fergus Sloan & Elizabeth Sloan Morrison. — In colonial times, at least in the South, only the Anglican denomination was allowed to call its worship place a “church.” Presbyterians had to be content with the cognomen “meeting house.”

An example of the correspondence in this compilation, mostly in Chapter Two:

In this series of correspondence transcribed herein, Margaret Morrison McCorkle wrote her brother-in-law James McCorkle:

       “I think you do me injustice to imagine me opposed to the abolition scheme at least I know that I am unfriendly to slaveholding amongst us I am not sufficiently acquainted with the politics of the times to judge of the measures pursued by the  abolitionists therefore I wish them success only just so far as they are trying in a right manner to do what I believe to be a good work, one thing I can say with certainty that it would truly rejoice me to see all my dear posterity settled in a free state.” 

The above is quoted from a letter written by Margaret Morrison McCorkle to her brother-in-law James McCorkle, the youngest brother to Robert McCorkle et al. James McCorkle was born 4 May 1768.  James McCorkle moved to Ohio [John Hale Stutesman wrote that his removal was to escape slavery], but James McCorkle died residing in Frankfort, Indiana, dying on 2 December 1840.  This correspondence reveals that Margaret’s daughter, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, was in Indiana near her uncle James McCorkle, at least for a while.

Another example of the correspondence in this compilation, mostly in Chapter Two:

One of Margaret’s letters is to her grandson, Addison Locke Roache, Senior, depicted below as justice of the Indiana Supreme Court

Below is a sampler, a letter from Addison Locke Roach

aged about ten years at the time of writing.  Addison’s family–Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roach(e) & Dr. Stephen Roach(e)–had moved up north to (I think) Indiana.  The letter is written to his uncle Edwin Alexander McCorkle in Dyer County, Western District of Tennessee.  Edwin’s sister Elmira Sloan(e) McCorkle (Roache) was mother to the young writer Addison:

Letter to Edwin Alexander McCorkle in Dyer County, Western District of Tennessee, from his nephew (Edwin’s sister Elmira’s son) Addison Locke Roache, Senior

 “Dyer Co. Ten  1827

Dear uncle        we are well in common health, father has had the ague, he had three very severe shakes, at first we thought it was the influenza for 4 or 5 days

We have moved up to Andrews Creek and are living in the house that Humphrey Tomellson [Tomlinson? Tomelson?] used to live in.  

James Franklin [Travers? Roache?] & myself are going to school to Mr. Absolam Knot [Absalom Knox?], James can read tolerable well and father has promised to give him a penknife if he will get to the pictures and I am sure he will get to the pictures

 Jane M. Thomson [Thompson] is going to school to Mr Alamer Hill to learn the grammar the short way.

[Jane M. Thompson is a 1st cousin to Addison. Jane Thompson (Mrs. Benjamin Williams) was one of the two orphaned daughters of Addison’s mother Elmira’s sister Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (Thompson), Jane M. Thompson being a child of Mrs. Gideon Thompson & Gideon Thompson.] Jane M. Thompson Williams  named her first child “John Gid Williams.”  The other orphaned daughter was Mary “Polly” Cowden Thompson (Mrs. Matthew Dickey), who is buried in the Poplar Grove CP Church Cemetery just outside Newbern, Dyer Co., Tennessee.  Jane M. Thompson Williams is interred McCorkle Cemetery east of Newbern.]

 I must close my short epistle.

Give my respect to [your wife] Aunt Jane & all who may inquire after me. 

 Yours sir with affection

 Addison L Roach

 May the 14th 1827


Another example of the correspondence contained in this compilation, mostly in Chapter Two:

Here is part of a Letter from Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle) in Dyer County, Western Dist. of Tenn., to her daughter Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roache (Mrs. Dr. Stephen Roach, Jr.), presumably living at the time in Indiana:

Dear Elmira,

Your letter to [your son residing with us in West Tenn.] Quincy and myself dated January 26th [18[?3][?]] came to hand in due time.  I feel glad to hear that you enjoy health, peace, and competence in your new residence, and it gives me still greater pleasure to have reason to hope that you bear the absence of your children with fortitude.—– have some knowledge how a mother feels to be parted from one or more of her children, but I have not realized that odd situation you mention you are in, viz, that of having none to call you mother.—-I suppose the thought of having them qualified for acting in a high sphere of life; that is that forthcoming great, and respectable men, buoys up your mind, and enables you to bear with [firmneß ? ] [finesse?] the present privation—–                                                         

     Well I suppose this is a laudable wish, and therefore, I say, may fortune favor your most sanguine anticipations.  I need  not hardly remind you of the neceßity of always striving to impreß upon their minds, that in order to be truly great, they must be good.  However this piece of advice by the way, is more to evince my anxiety about their welfare, than to excite you to duty—–for in reality a desire to have them become worthy citizens, lies near my heart—–and my decided opinion is, that the most expanded intellects, and splendid acquirements, must be united with goodness of heart, and a strict adherence to moral rectitude in order to form an eminent character——-And now my dear child, will you suffer your mother to give you a word of [to page 2] exhortation.  

Table of Contents. II. :

II.    Letters of Margaret’s son Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle, variously Robert McCorkle [Jr.] or RAH McCorkle, who married Tirzah Scott [McCorkle].  Tirzah Scott McCorkle was born in South Carolina to James Scott (1777-1853) & wife Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838).  Sarah Dickey Scott’s parents were John Dickey of York District, SC, and wife Sarah Robinson (Dickey), not Nancy” Purviance as I had earlier thought.  –These letters are in Chapter Two of this compilation. 

 

A letter-poem written by RAH McCorkle to Mormon leader Joseph Smith lies in the Mormon archives in Salt Lake City Utah.  Google this and you will find it.

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III.  ۞   Letters of  Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s grandson John Edwin McCorkle

                          – John E. McCorkle’s correspondence concerning the estate of his maternal uncle David Thomas.   David Thomas of Republic of Texas fame was a brother of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle, née Jane Maxwell Thomas.  [Jane Maxwell Thomas was a daughter-in-law of Margaret Morrison McCorkle. Jane’s father was William Thomas, a Revolutionary War soldier in the Piedmont of North Carolina, and Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle’s mother was Elizabeth Purviance Thomas née Elizabeth Purviance.]  Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle’s husband, Edwin Alexander McCorkle, was born in N.C. on the 18th  of March 1799 and died in Dyer County, Tennessee, on the 10th of January 1853.

At the time David Thomas (son of William Thomas & Elizabeth Purviance) was attorney general of the nascent Republic of Texas, his THOMAS cousin-once-removed was attorney general of the State of Tennessee.

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IV. ۞      One of the Civil War-time Diaries of John Edwin McCorkle, 1839-1924, a grandson of Margaret Morrison McCorkle; also a sampler of the journals kept by John E. McCorkle’s daughter “Aunt Kate” Katie Pearl McCorkle (Fox).  John E. McCorkle was my father H. Ewing Huie’s maternal grandfather.

   – The Civil Wartime journal transcribed here covers parts of 1860 and 1861, also 1863. Other journals kept by John E. McCorkle, which my sister and I view to have been wrongfully converted initially, are now in the possession of the University of Tennessee at Martin Archives; ditto some of the records of our paternal grandfather Howard Anderson Huie (1870-1935) particularly his HUIE & OZIER HARDWARE COMPANY records of Newbern, Tennessee, circa 1900.

The wartime diaries of John Edwin McCorkle’s brother HRA (Hiram) McCorkle are  generally not included, although a “teaser” is inserted after Chapter Fifteen of this compilation.  In July 2007 the Tennessee State Library and Archives microfilmed Uncle Hiram’s diaries so that they are now available to the public.

In the year 2003, Hiram R.A. McCorkle’s diaries are in the possession of David Caldwell of Newbern, Tennessee, the only child of Betty Jane Atkins & Charles Caldwell.

[Generation 1.Robert McCorkle;   2. Edwin A. McCorkle;    3. Hiram R.A. McCorkle;   4. Bettie McCorkle Cawthon;    5. Mamie Cawthon Atkins;    6. Betty Jane Atkins Caldwell;     7. David Caldwell ]

In the summer of 2006, Tanya Messer Sandlin (maternal great-granddaughter of John Edwin McCorkle through Uncle Will McCorkle & Will’s daughter Julia McCorkle Montgomery) and Earl Willoughby (local Dyer County historian) photocopied Hiram’s diaries, and we hope to transcribe them for the public.

The following offers a sample of Hiram McCorkle’s journal entries, about six (6 ) years before Hiram died in 1907:

            September 12, 1901: DEATH OF FRELIN 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 andraised and married and raised a large family on the old McCorkle farm. [Hiram means his grandparents’ – Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s — farm, I guess.]  Never lived anywhere else except, I think, maybe he was hired out a few times when he was fifteen or sixteen years old.  Frelin was a good boy, a good obedient slave and after being freed he was a good colored citizen.  Always polite, truthful, honest and industrious, providing well for his wife and a large family of children, all girls, but one.  Although he had been a believer in the Christian religion for quite a number of years, he never obeyed the gospel until a few years ago.  Since which time, up to his death he has lived, as best he knew how, a Christian life.  Let us all drop a tear and let the curtain fall.  Frelin’s gone where good negroes go. 

A freedman named Caleb McCorkle was buried there, too.

And it is beyond cavil that freedman JEFF BEAN, and wife ELLA McCorkle BEAN, respected farmers in the Churchton community, are interred in front of the white-folks’ fence at the old McCorkle Cemetery, in the old section reserved for slaves and former slaves.

–My mother Joyce Cope Huie’s “Aunt Tempe” McMahan (widow Bean) Hendricks brought Jeff Bean with her when she came down from Ohio or Indiana to marry my mother’s paternal great-grandfather, Uriah C. Hendricks, originally of Mocksville, Davie County, NC, as his 2nd wife.  Aunt Tempe’s sister, Mary McMahan Hendricks, had been Uriah C. Hendricks’ 1st wife; Uriah had gone from NC up to Clermont County, Ohio, to marry Mary McMahan after her people had moved northwardly from Rowan-Davie County, NC. They married in 1833 in Clermont County, Ohio. 

Mary McMahan (Hendricks) (whose family once had been near Mocksville in Davie County, NC, next to the Hendricks family–spelled variously: Hendrix) was the mother of Narcissus Hendricks Cope, Narcissus “Sis” being the mother of Ira Mitchell Cope, my maternal grandfather; and the mother of Daisy Cope Henley and Delia Cope Grills.

I think Mary “Polly” MacMahan’s father’s name was George MacMahan of Clermont CountyOhio, and I think the mother’s name was Harriet Harbin MacMahan, but I’m not certain.

Tennessee State Library and Archives – History & Genealogy – Recent Additions

[July 2007] Recent Additions to the Tennessee State Library and Archives  H.R.A. McCorkle Journals, written from 1848-1907– Dyer County [microfilm #1834]; 
www.state.tn.us/tsla/history/recent.htm – 11k

20th TN Cavalry CSA — Biographical Information [M] 

H.R.A. McCorkle Company G. Enlisted December 1, 1863 in Dyer Co., TN, by Col. [Tyree Harris] Bell for 3 years or the war. Roan horse valued at $900. 
home.olemiss.edu/~cmprice/cavalry/bio_m.html

20th TN Cavalry CSA — Rosters

Rosters (by company) of Russell’s 20th Regiment Tennessee Cavalry CSA.  Finis Alexander McCorkle [1,9]. “Clay” Henry Clay McCorkle [2], Hiram Robert A. McCorkle [1], Ed M. Smith [1, 6D] 
home.olemiss.edu/~cmprice/cavalry/rosters.html

[ [My, Marsha Cope Huie’s, great-grandfather’s journal (John Edwin McCorkle’s) states at one point during the Civil War that his brother Hiram “is making a company.”]

TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

James Douglas Anderson Papers, collection of the Tennessee Historical Society, …… McCorkle, H.R.A., to Douglas Anderson, n.d. [1897], i.e., 1897:  letter from Hiram Robt. A. McCorkle ordering first part of Centennial Album:  at 13-10.

www.state.tn.us/tsla/history/manuscripts/findingaids/ths379.pdf

McCorkleH.R.A., to Douglas Anderson, n.d. [1897], re: ordering first part of Centennial

Album, 13-10

McCorkleH.R.A., to Douglas Anderson, n.d. [1897], re: ordering first part of Centennial

Album, 13-10

McCorkleH.R.A., to Douglas Anderson, n.d. [1897], re: ordering first part of Centennial

Album, 13-10

 

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

DEATH OF H. R. A. McCORKLE; NEWBERN TENNESSEAN–On Monday morning, July 1st, 1907
www.rootsweb.com/~tndyer/newspapers/gazette43.html

The obituary is unsigned, but I know from the muy flowery writing style that it was composed by Hiram’s niece, Ora Alice McCorkle Huie (Mrs. “Dolph” Julius Adolphus Huie), a daughter of John Edwin McCorkle.  Ora’s pen name was “Victor.” :  The “Hiram” was for his mother Jane Maxwell Thomas’s brother, Dr. Hiram Jacob THOMAS, medical doctor of Lebanon, Wilson Co., Tennessee; then Vernon, Mississippi; then Yazoo, Mississippi.  The Robert was for his father Edwin Alexander McCorkle’s father, Robert McCorkle (1764-1828).  The “Andrew” was for his father Edwin Alexander McCorkle’s mother’s father:  Andrew Morrison (the one who m. Elizabeth Sloan).

DEATH OF Hiram Robert Andrew McCORKLE; NEWBERN TENNESSEAN

–On Monday morning, July 1st, the spirit of H. R. A. McCORKLE was called from the tenement of clay to return to God, who gave it. When the sad news, “Uncle Hiram is dead, ” was flashed across the wires, many hearts were saddened. Had Mr. McCORKLE lived until November 6, 1907, he would have reached the 80th milestone of life’s journey. More than 50 years ago he accepted Christ as his Savior and was buried in baptism by Elder James HOLMES. On Tuesday morning, the funeral was held at the church [Lemalsamac Christian Church] where “Uncle Hiram’s” seat was seldom vacant, conducted by Elder N. B. HARDEMAN. His body was then taken to the McCorkle Cemetery to Mother Earth. Three children, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren are left to mourn his loss.


This introductory chapter, Chapter One, includes a genealogy of Alexander & Nancy Agnes(s) Montgomery McCorkle and as many of their children as practicable.  I don’t know how to do an Ahnentafel.

This introductory chapter, Chapter One, also includes a genealogy of Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s Morrison Family of Rowan-Iredell County, North Carolina.                               

Genealogical discussion is given of the Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard Thomas family of Iredell County, NC; and of the family of John Purviance & Mary Jane Wasson Purviance; and of the James Scott (1777-1853) & Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838) family.

Several photographs are placed at the end of this Chapter One.  Placed after the 1897 Union Grove Schoolhouse Picture, Dyer County, Tennessee, naming as many of the pictured students as are known, comes a  discussion of the Churchton community family of George Washington Smith & wife Cornelia Davie Smith. 


 V.   Frontispiece   ۞        Letter from Bowden Cason (Casey) McCorkle in San Leandro, California, to me, Marsha Cope Huie, Sept. 7, 1984, when I was living in Memphis, just before moving to Cambridge, England, then moving in August of 1986 to San Antonio, Texas. 

We can begin only with proper attribution to the honored memory of our cousin Casey McCorkle, late of San Leandro, California:

FRONTISPIECE

1983

Dear Miss Marsha:

I enclose herewith a sampling of the Roach-McCorkle letters.  There are many more as it seems there was an extensive correspondence carried on for several generations.  I have no idea how these originals were preserved and came to my branch of the family.  They are now collected in a display folder.  Some of them are fairly delicate but in general well preserved.  Copying has been haphazard or what remains is the residue from extensive copying the disposition of which is unknown to me.

Obviously these papers should not be the exclusive property of any branch of the McCorkle family.  I should think complete copies should be made and the originals preserved and made available to all.  So far many have expressed agreement but no one has expressed interest in doing the job.  Perhaps you may have some ideas along these lines.

I realize there may be much similar material in existence and available to you.  I will be interested in hearing from you and your reaction to the letters.

It was a pleasant surprise to hear from you and I will be looking forward to hearing from you again.  [It was tedious work, back then before the Internet, but I dialed so many telephone numbers in California that I finally located Casey McCorkle.  He was a gracious gentleman, I thought.]


We will be out of town for a month but will return early in October.  I hope this finds you and yours well and happy.

                        Kindest personal regards,

                        B.C. McCorkle

[San Leandro, California, 1983]”

Casey” McCorkle was a son of Homer McCorkle (who moved from Newbern, Tennessee, to Center Point near San Antonio, Texas, and finally to California), & Casey was a paternal grandson of Finis A. McCorkle of Dyer Co, Tenn., & of Finis’ 1st wife Sarah “Sallie” Josephine “Jo” Jackson (McCorkle). Casey McCorkle was a great-grandson of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle; and a g-g-grandson of Margaret Morrison McCorkle (died 1848) & Robert McCorkle (died 1828).  –a photograph I possess of Homer McCorkle in his last years bears a remarkable resemblance to Homer’s 1st cousin, my father’s maternal uncle Errett Cotton McCorkle, 1888-1976.

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 McCorkleBrudno.

Below:  Photograph taken in 1895 of the John Edwin McCorkle Home, Built circa 1868, Newbern-Yorkville Highway (now Tennessee Highway 77

 

These folks were Scots-Irish emigrants from Northern Ireland to:

(1)      Lancaster County & Harrisburg, Pennsylvania [Harrisburg is now in Dauphin County].  Please see references to Robert McCorkle’s maternal uncle Rev. Joseph Montgomery, 1733-1794, in Dauphin County.  A Presbyterian minister, Joseph Montgomery was a member of the Continental Congress, was connected with Princeton University, and married as one of his wives Rachel Rush (widow of Angus Boyce), a sister to the Dr. Benjamin Rush of Revolutionary Era fame (and of a wee bit of notoriety for improvident persistence in using leeches to bleed hapless patients);

(2)      down the Great Wagon Road of the 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;  some remained there; others (ours) migrated on down to:

(3)      Rowan County, NC (Iredell Co. was carved off in 1788) and other sites in the Piedmont of North Carolina near Salisbury and Statesville near Charlotte—particularly around the Thyatira Presbyterian Church near today’s Mooresville.  Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, the eldest son & fortunate enough to have studied at the precursor of Princeton with his uncle Joseph Montgomery, was a founder of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

 [2007 update:  This past winter I found a piece of paper from Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, at my mom’s old house, which states that her father Robert McCorkle was educated at Chapel Hill.“]  I believe it was from Rowan County NC that Robert McCorkle and two of his brothers (Joseph and William) went directly exploring into Kentucky in the environs of today’s Lexington.  They appear on the records in the formation of Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church.  Some records, but not ours, indicate that at least three McCorkle brothers joined Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church, viz., Joseph, William, and Robert McCorkle.  Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache wrote that her father Robert McCorkle, with brothers Joseph and William, was in the “second company” of [white] men to move into Kentucky, that they had many perilous adventures during their insurgency, often taking refuge within a primitive fort.  I doubt Elmira meant that her father was in the militia. 

     Evidently, some of these folks, excluding Robert, William, and Joseph McCorkle, went directly from Rowan County, NC, to Middle Tennessee.  Most of Northern Middle Tennessee at that time was known as Sumner County (today, the county seat of Sumner Co. is Gallatin, and the county seat of Wilson Co. is Lebanon); and they lingered a while

(4)      Sumner County, Tennessee, near Lebanon and Gallatin (Northern Middle Tennessee excluding Nashville and Davidson County).  When Wilson County .  We should look for some of them at the organization circa 1793 of Shiloh Presbyterian Church just outside today’s Gallatin.

      The Barr family was prominent amongst the members of Shiloh Presbyterian Church, but I’m not sure exactly of the degree of kinship these Barr folks had to Robert McCorkle‘s sister Elizabeth McCorkle Barr (I think she herself was at Shiloh Presbyterian Church, and I know her brother William McCorkle, died 1



WILSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, EXCURSUS:

Some of our McCorkle – Thomas – Purviance- Sherrill People in Wilson County, Tennessee.

WILSON COUNTY was carved from SUMNER COUNTY, TENNESSEE.  The ff. is from Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee:

      “WILSON is one of a group of counties which form the bottom of the great Silurian basin of Middle Tennessee. The Cumberland River washes the northern boundary of the county for a distance of twenty-five miles, and besides the numerous springs all over the county there are the following important creeks: Cedar Lick, Spring, Cedar, Barton, Spencer, empty into the Cumberland; Sugg, Stoner, Hurricane and Fall empty into Stone River; Smith Fork, Round Lick, Spring and Fall Creeks have their source near each other in a group of hills in the southeastern part of the county, while the other creeks head in the numerous valleys. Beyond an occasional migratory and venturesome hunter, trapper or scout, who passed through the vast forests and canebrakes in quest of the abundant game or in pursuit of marauding bands of Indians, the presence of white man was unknown in Wilson County previous to l790. At the close of the Continental war the State of .North Carolina made grants of large bodies of land to her soldiers in pay for gallant service in time of battle. The land so granted was situated in Tennessee, then a portion of North Carolina, and it was by the owners of the land that Wilson (then Sumner) County was settled. The following are the names of the parties to whom land was granted in Wilson County during the years between 1780 and 1790: William Ray. 1,000 acres; Isadore Skerett, 640 acres; James Kennedy, 640 acres; Cornelius Dabney, 640 acres; John Burton, 1,168 acres; John Williams, 640 acres; John Conroe, 640 acres; Hardy Murfree, 1,000 acres; Nicholas Conroe, 640 acres; Thomas Evans, 640 acres; John Davidson, 274 acres; Stephen Merritt, 640 acres; James C. Montflorence, 1,000 acres; John Kain, 571 acres; Walter Allen, 912 acres; Redmond T. Barry, 640 acres; William Hogan, 500 acres; and Andrew Bostane, 220 acres. Between 1790 and 1800: Robert Stewart, Jonathan Green, John Boyd, Philip Shackler, John Haywood, William Lytle, Alexander Mebane, Jeremiah Hendricks, James Rodgers, John Brown, William Fleming, Bennett Searcy, Ambrose Jones, Edward Harris, Henry Barnes, George Kennedy, Jacob Patton, Reeves Porter, James Menees, Thomas Evans, Gideon Pillow, Delilah Roberts, David Douglas, Johnson Hadley, Joseph Cloud, Daniel Wilbourn, James Barron, Vachel Clark, Jesse Cobb, Samuel Churchhill, Boyd Castleman, Ephraim Payton, and Alexander Denny, 640 acres each; William Hogan, 500 acres; Willie Cherry, 228 acres; Archibald Lytle, 1,000 acres; Lazarus James, 337 acres; John Wright, 2,000 acres; Henry Ross, 274 acres; John Dabney, 228 acres; William Martin, 1,280 acres; David Gibson, 1,000 acres; Thedford and George Brewer, 1,000 acres; John Boyd, Jr., 228 acres; Samuel Barton, 1,000 acres; and Absolom Tatum, 300 acres.

                Many of the above never became settlers of the county and numbers of the pioneers of Wilson County purchased of them the lands on which they settled. The first settlement of Wilson County was made in the year 1797 at Drake’s Lick, near the mouth of Spencer Lick Creek on Cumberland River, which was afterward the northeast corner of Davidson County, by William McClain and John Foster. Two years later John Foster, William Donnell and Alexander Barkley made a settlement of Spring Creek, seven miles southeast of the present town of Lebanon. During the same year settlements were made on Hickory Ridge, five miles west of Lebanon, by John K. Wynn and Charles Kavanaugh, both of whom came from North Carolina, and on the waters of Round Lick Creek, by William Harris and William McSpadden, of North Carolina, and James Wrather and Samuel King, of Virginia, and also on the waters of Spring Creek, about eight miles south of Lebanon, by John Doak. John Foster, David Magathey, Alexander Braden, the Donnells, and probably others. At the time of these settlements the land was covered with vast forests and thick canebrakes, and game of every specie from the bear, panther and deer down to the squirrel and rabbit existed in abundance. Several years before, however, the Indians as a tribe had been driven back. and only friendly ones as a class were met with by the settlers.

 

The man called Eleazor PROVINE in the ff. paragraph is really Eleazor PURVIANCE. WILLIAM THOMAS in the ff. paragraph of Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee is my father Howard EWING Huie’s mother’s (Sophie King McCorkle Huie’s)  father’s (John Edwin McCorkle’s) grandfather.  This William Thomas (fought in NC line in the Revolutionary War) was a son of Jacob Thomas & wife Margaret Brevard (Thomas) of first Cecil Co., Maryland, then last of Iredell Co., North Carolina.  This William Thomas married Elizabeth Purviance (Thomas), and one of their children was Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle), who in 182_ married Edwin Alexander McCorkle, 1799-1853.

From 1799 the settlement of the county was rapid. The lands lying on the waters of the various creeks being the richer and easier of cultivation were naturally the first settled, and hence in giving the following list of names of the early settlers, they have been grouped into creek neighborhoods. On Barton Creek: Charles Blaylock, Elijah Trewitt, Levi Holloway, Henry Shannon, Snowdon Hickman, William Eddings, Thomas Mass, Eleazer Provine, John Lane, Byrd Wall, William Thomas, Samuel Wilson, George Swingler, John Goldston, Benjamin Esken, Jeremiah Still, Thomas Sypert, George Wynn, Benjamin Wineford, William Peace, James Mayes, John Cage, Alexander Chance, Josiah Martin, Henry Reed, William Elkins, James Menees [There are MENIUS people buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church in Rowan Co., NC.], John Allcorn, Thomas Congers and probably others.

On Spring Creek: James CannonSoloman Marshall, James Chappell, Walter Carrouth, Martin Talley, George Alexander, Joseph Moxley, Hugh Morris, Bartlett Graves, Spencer Talley, John Forbes, William BartlettWilliam Sherrill–two sisters to William Thomas married two Sherrill men:  Annie THOMAS Sherrill and Elizabeth THOMAS Sherrill .]  John Steinbridge, Josiah SmithAlligood Wallard, Thomas WilliamsPurnell Hearn, John Jones, John Walsh, Samuel Elliott, Benjamin Mottley, Richard Hawkins, Gregory Johnson, William Steele, Henry Chandler, Arthur Dew, Daniel Cherry, Adam Harpole, and others.

The “John Provine” in the ff. paragraph is either the father of Elizabeth Purviance (Thomas), Elizabeth being the mother of Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle); or the John Purviance who was a brother to Elizabeth Purviance (Thomas)The brother named John Purviance, you will recall, was scalped by hostile Indians in the year 1792.  The scalping was the reason the John Purviance whose wife was Mary Jane Wasson took his family up to the environs of Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, for a while.  And there, Bourbon County, is where John and Mary Jane Wasson Purviance’s son, David Purviance, at Cane Ridge Meeting House became “co-founder of the Christian Church” behind Barton W. Stone.

On Cedar Creek: Hugh Roane, John Provine, Alex Aston, Samuel Calhoun, Perry Taylor, John L. Davis, Mathew Figures, David Billings, Irwin Tomlinson, Joseph Trout, Hooker Reeves, Nathan Cartwright, Lewis Chambers, Andrew Swan, William Harris, William Wilson and Joseph Weir.

On Spencer Creek: John Walker, William White, Brittain Drake, Lewis Kirby, William Gray, Joel Echols, Robert Mitchell, Philip Koonce, James McFarland, Moore Stevenson, Jere Hendricks and Richard Drake.

On Cedar Lick Creek: Theophilus Bass, Clement Jennings, John Everett, John Gleaves, Reuben Searcy, Joshua Kelley, James Everett, James H. Davis, Thomas Davis, Howell Wren, William Ross, Edmund Vaughn, George Smith, Harmon Hays and Daniel Spicer.

On Cumberland River: Edward Mitchell, Elijah Moore, William Sanders, Caleb Taylor, Bartholomew Brett, William Johnson, Josiah Woods, W. T. Cole, Joseph Kirkpatrick, Henry Davis, James Tipton, Thomas Ray, Reuben Slaughter, Daniel Glenn, James Hunter, Ransom King, Henry Locke, Ephraim Beasley, Sterling Tarpley and William Putway.

On Stoner Lick Creek: Blake Rutland, Zebulon Baird, John Graves, Benjamin Graves, Thomas Watson, John Wilson, John Williamson, Henry Thompson, Thomas Gleaves, Ezekial Cloyd, Anderson Tate, Jacob Woodrum, Ezekial Clampet, Andrew Wilson, James Cathom and James Kendall.

On Suggs Creek: Benjamin Hooker, Acquilla Suggs, William Warnick, William Rice, Benjamin Dobson, Hugh Gwynn, Jenkin Sullivan, John Roach, James Hannah, Hugh Telford, Green Barr, Peter Devault, John Curry, Thomas Drennon, Joseph Hamilton and Joseph Castlemen.

On Pond Lick Creek: Robin Shannon, John Ozment, Lee Harralson, John Spinks and John Rice.

On Sinking Creek: Thompson Clemmons, William Bacchus, David Fields, Lewis Merritt, Frank Ricketts, Fletcher SullivanJames Richmond, Robert Jarmon, John Winsett, Jesse Sullivan, William Paisley, John Billingsley, Seldon Baird, Dawson Hancock and Jonathan Ozment.

On Hurricane Creek: William Teague, John Gibson, William Hudson. Nicholas Quesenbury, Charles Warren, Jacob Bennett, Elisha Bond, Robert Edwards, John Edwards, Bradford Howard, George Cummings, John Merritt, Joseph Stacey, Frank Young, Henry Mosier, Charles Cummings, John Woolen, Absalom Knight, Thomas Miles, Peter Leath and Gideon Harrison.

On Fall Creek: William Warren, Samuel Copeland, Joseph Williams, Jacob Jennings, William Allison, Hardy Penuel, Joseph Sharp, Sampson Smith, Frank Puckett, James Quarles, Roger Quarles, Mathew Sims, Shadrack Smith, James Smith, Charles Smith, Aaron Edwards, Hugh Cummings, Isaac Winston, William Wortham, Burrell Patterson, Absalom Losater, John Alsup, Lard Sellars, Joseph Carson, Charles Gillem, Arthur Harris, Walter Clapton, William Smith, John Donnell, Adney Donnell and William Lester.

On Smith Fork: Dennis KelleyDavid Ireland, John AdamsDavid Wasson, John Armstrong. Isaac Witherspoon, John Allen, Richard Braddock, Edward Pickett, E!isha Hodge, Thomas Flood, James McAdoo, Samuel McAdoonotable in early Cumberland Presbyterianism– Abner Bone, Thomas Bone, William Richards, George L. Smith, Samuel Stewart, William Beagle, James Johnson, John Knox, William Knox, John Ward, Solomon George, Reason Byrne, .James Godfrey, Henry Payne, James ThompsonJames Thomas–brother to William Thomas, the William Thomas who m. Elizabeth PURVIANCE— Thomas Word, James Ayers, William Jennings, Charles Rich, Abner Alexander, William Oakley and James Williams.

On Round Lick Creek, including Jennings Fork: John W. Peyton, Arthur Hankins, James WratherSamuel King–a Samuel King in 1800 served as witness to Alexander McCorkle’s will in Rowan Co., North Carolina.  Alexander, born 1722, died in 1800 in Rowan County  -, William Haines  Is this William HAINES kin to the two HAYNES sisters, Mary and Sarah, who married two Morrison brothers of Margaret MORRISON McCorkle, the Margaret who lived 1770-1848:  namely, Andrew SLOAN MORRISON, who became a Presbyterian minister and died in Indiana, and William Hays Morrison, 1767-1837, who is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, West Tennessee, while his wife née Mary Haynes is interred Bedford Co., Tenn.–

 John Bradley, William McSpaddin, William Coe, Abner Spring, William Harris, John Phillips, Benjamin Phillips, Edward G. Jacobs, John Green, Samuel Barton, Alexander Beard, Jordan Bass, Soloman Bass, John Lawrence, Evans Tracy, Joseph Barbee, Shelah Waters, George Clarke, James Shelton, William Neal, Joshua Taylor, Isaac Grandstaff, Daniel Smith, Jacob Vantrase, Duncan Johnson, Joseph Foust, James Hill, Joseph Carlin, George Hearn, John Patton, John Bradley, William New, Robert Branch, James Edwards, William Howard, Edmund Jennings, John White, John Swan, Thomas Byles, William Palmer, Park Goodall, Jerre Brown, Thomas B. Reece–Mary Evelyn Smith, b. circa 1923, daughter of OK Smith & Lady Ruth Herndon Smith, married a REESE man whose roots were near Gallatin, Tennessee — James Scaby, James Hobbs, James Newbry and John Caplinger.

 The first corn-mill erected in the county was built by Samuel Caplinger some time in 1798. It was a small horse-power affair, the horse being hitched to a pole or shaft and driven around in a circle. The building was a small, unhewn-log house, and stood on the farm now owned by Roland Newby, in the Eighth Civil District. Very good corn meal is said to have been ground by this mill, and the patronage was drawn from a large scope of country. Subsequently the mill was removed to a site on Jennings Fork, and converted into a water-power. The first water-mill is supposed to have been built by Thomas Conger, some time in the same year, on Barton’s Creek, about three miles northwest of Lebanon. A horse-power mill was also erected about that time by one of the Donnells, near Doak’s Cross Roads, eight miles south of Lebanon.

Before these mills were erected the settlers went to Davidson County for their grinding, or converted the corn into meal by means of the old-fashioned mortar and pestle.

The circuit court clerks have been as follows: Harry L. Douglas, 1810-15; Samuel C. Roane, 1815-17; Henry Shelby, 1817-18; Harry L. Douglas, 1818-21; John S. Tapp, 1821-27; Samuel Yerger, 1827-32; William L. Martin, 1832-42; John W. White, 1842-44; James H. Britton, 1844-48; Harris H. Simmons, 1848-49; Calvin W. Jackson, 1849-54; Plummer W. Harris, 1854-58; Joseph T. Manson, 1858-70; William McCorkle, 1870-73;*   Samuel G. Stratton, 1873-82; W. W. Donnell, 1882-86.

End of WILSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, EXCURSUS

* This is not the William McCorkle who was a son of our immigrants Alexander & “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle; that is to say, this was not the William McCorkle who died in Rutherford Co., Tennessee, in 1818.


Update:  James Richmond, whose wife descends from the William McCorkle who died in 1818, recently reported that William’s son MILES McCORKLE of Middle Tennessee was physician to Andrew Jackson.


(5)      then with escape by some [for example, “colonel” John Purviance & wife Mary Jane Wasson (Purviance), parents of Elizabeth Purviance Thomas and maternal grandparents of Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle) ] from Hostilities in Sumner County, Tennessee, up to Cane Ridge and Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky; and Logan County, Kentucky, either before or after John Purviance (a son of John & Mary Jane Wasson Purviance) was “scalped” in Sumner Co., Tennessee, in 1792. 

     [The John Purviance who was “scalped” and died tragically in 1792 was a son of Revolutionary War soldier John Purviance and wife Mary Jane Wasson (Purviance).  His wife Martha “Mattie” King Purviance then married WILLIAM McCORKLE, died 1818, a son of Alexander McCorkle & “Nancy” Agnes MONTGOMERY (McCorkle)]

       More work needs to be done looking for McCorkles’ tracks in Kentucky, certainly around Cane Ridge and Paris,Kentucky;

and at Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church near Lexington

   –and once having been established in Kentucky:

(6)      some family members, such as church “elder” David Purviance (another son of Rev. War Lt. [“Colonel”] John Purviance and Mary Jane Wasson  Purviance), remained in Bourbon County, Kentucky, then later on moved farther north to Preble County, Ohio, to “New Paris.”  It was from New Paris that church “elder” David  Purviance founded Miami University of Ohio and often served as its president pro tempore.  (Today’s young Garner Huie, son of Joseph Headden Huie & Ann Livingston Huie, is a recent graduate of Miami University of Ohio.) This David Purviance was a brother to Elizabeth Purviance Thomas, the mother of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle of

 Dyer County, Tennessee (née Jane Maxwell Thomas). 

(–I think Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle was named after her Purviance-Thomas mother’s sister, a  Mrs. Jane Purviance Maxwell.  This Jane Purviance Maxwell lingered a while in Dyer County in West Tennessee, but removed westerly to Benton Co., Arkansas.)

     As examples of the nomadic nature of these pioneers,

     of the nine (9) children born to Joseph McCorkle, a son of Alexander & Agnes Montgomery McCorkle– that is, of the children born to Joseph McCorkle & wife Margaret (Snoddy) McCorkle:

       (1)  an Agnes McCorkle was born 1778 in Rowan County, NC, but died in Miami County, Ohio;

       (2)  John McCorkle (d. 1829) and

       (3)  Martha McCorkle, b. 1788, were born in Fayette Co., Ky.

       (4)   Mary McCorkle [Edwards] was born in Bourbon Co., Ky.

       (5) and an Amanda McCorkle was born ca. 1802 in perhaps Tenn. & died in Cass County, Indiana.

—The source for the previous sentence about Joseph McCorkle’s children is Carol Byler.

Another good example comes from the Morrison family.  Andrew B. Morrison, born 18th July 1780 in Iredell County, NC, died in 1853 in Preble County, Ohio.  His marriage was in Bourbon County, Kentucky.  –This Andrew B. Morrison’s father, Andrew Morrison, 1754-1780, was a 1st cousin to our Margaret MORRISON McCorkle (1770-1848).

–By the way, it is an uncle of “our” ancestor Andrew Morrison (the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle)  who is buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church cemetery. That means that the Andrew buried at Thyatira was born to “first inhabitor” of Loray Community in what became Iredell Co., NC (carved from Rowan Co.), William Morrison, 1704-1771.

The Andrew Morrison (uncle of our Andrew Morrison, who with wife Elizabeth SLOAN was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle) who is buried at Thyatira was a brother to the William Morrison (1704-1771) who settled Third Creek in what is today in Iredell County, but was then Rowan County.   –;

(7)      but with others—such as Robert McCorkle (1764-1828) & his 1st wife Lizzie Elizabeth Blythe McCorkle, and Robert’s brother William McCorkle [1st wife Peggy Blythe] and William’s 2nd wife (“Mattie”)  Martha King McCorkle, the widow of the “scalped” John Purviance), and we think “colonel John Purviance

& wife Mary Jane Wasson Purviance—going back southward, either from the environs of Bourbon & Logan Counties, Ky., or Preble County, Ohioto the area of Gallatin and Lebanon in Middle Tennessee.

          “Colonel” John Purviance & wife Mary Jane WASSON Purviance are buried somewhere in Middle Tennessee, we think, but we do not know where.

     Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache wrote that her father Robert McCorkle (1764-1828) and her uncle William McCorkle (d. 1818) 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.”  James M. Richmond, however, thinks there is evidence Martha King (widow of the John Purviance who was scalped in 1792,  then Mrs. William McCorkle) may be buried at Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church’s King Cemetery near Gallatin.  (Perhaps Elmira would have considered that, at the time, a “rude grave.”) Then, in Sumner County, Tennessee, in 1800 William McCorkle was to marry a 3rd wife, Jane or “Jennie” Graham.

William’s brother Robert McCorkle, 1764-1828, trekked back to Rowan County, North Carolina, to marry “Peggy” Margaret Morrison (McCorkle) and fetch her westward, eventually to Middle Tennessee–Rutherford County in or near Murfreesborough.  By then at least, in Rowan Co., NC,  certain Morrison lands adjoined certain McCorkle lands;

(8)      then, receipt by brothers Robert & William McCorkle of their father Alexander McCorkle’s 2400+-acre Revolutionary War land grant which, they thought, had been set aside for them in Rutherford County (Murfreesborough), Tennessee 

Recipients of land grants had to get precise plats identified and set aside for them, and often claims conflicted; if so, the race became a question of who got the claim recorded first. 

 These McCorkles , and some of the associated Morrisons including Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s sisters — spinster Rebecca Morrison  and  Mary Morrison Morrison, who married her 1st cousin John Morrison, a son of her uncle Patrick Morrison) settled on Bradley’s Creek and/or   Stone’s River.

 The Revolutionary War land grant to Alexander McCorkle I was to be lost circa 1826 in title-dispute litigation.  This Rutherford County land had been devised to the two brothers, Robert 1764-1828 and William d. 1818,  upon their father’s death in 1800 in Rowan County, NC.  The father Alexander McCorkle  I , 1722-1800,  was interred at Thyatira Presbyterian Church beside the wife who predeceased him, “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle, and beside his 2nd wife and widow Rebecca [McNeeley?] Brandon (McCorkle).

A certain letter in the U North Carolina Archives in Chapel Hill under the RAMSAY PAPERS collection is of interest to us.  It was written by Alexander McCorkle II in the year 1820, from Giles County, Tennessee (Giles County was formed in 1810 from Maury County and was, and is, bounded on the south by Alabama) back to homefolk in Rowan County, NC.  Alexander II states indirectly that his brother ROBERT McCORKLE — 1764-1828 — was blind.  Alexander wrote that Robert had recognized him, his brother Alexander,  only from his (Alexander’s) voice, when Alexander had paid Robert & family a visit in Rutherford County, Tennessee.  From that letter one concludes that Robert McCorkle was blind at least as early as 1820. 

 — Robert’s brother Alexander McCorkle II married Katie Catherine Morrison (a 1st-cousin-once-removedto Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848).  Alexander II’s niece Elmira Sloan McCorkle (Roache) said her uncle Alexander II was “emotional in character and joined the Methodists.”  (My mother Joyce Cope Huie, born 1915, remembers when some of the Methodists used to shout. ) Alexander who by now referred to himself as “Alexander Snr” moved on from Giles County a bit north to Henry County, Tennessee, in or near the site of the town of Paris.  –;

(9)         then Robert McCorkle , 1764-1828,  but not his brother William McCorkle who had died in 1818 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee — removed westerly 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 their nearby towns in West Tennessee being first Yorkville (Gibson County, Tennessee) and then, after the Civil War, Newbern (Dyer County), Tennessee.  

        Robert McCorkle died in the spring of 1828 (April, we think), very soon after removing to Dyer County in the newly opened Western District.  His is the first grave in the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County, about 5 miles east of today’s town of Newbern, just north of the Newbern-Yorkville Highway.  We didn’t know until recently that Robert McCorkle’s elder brother, Samuel Eusebius McCorkle,  long the preacher at Thyatira Presbyterian Church in Rowan Co., NC, had a claim on the land grant that ended up being for land in Dyer County, Tennessee.  We don’t understand this claim, for in Alexander McCorkle’s will (1800, Rowan Co.) he left his land-grant claim to his two sons, William and Robert McCorkle.  Nevertheless, Samuel Eusebius McCorkle‘s daughter, Harriet Evelina McCorkle (Mrs. Amzi McGinn) removed from Charlotte, North Carolina, to the Newbern area under Samuel’s claim on a land grant for Dyer County.  At some point, Harriet McGinn moved back easterly, to a daughter’s in Cannon Co., Tennessee.  Recently, Ann Huddart of Florida, a descendant of Harriet McCorkle McGinn sent us a copy of a letter written by Vada Gregory Wyatt about 1920, in which Vada states that her parents (Margaret LATINA McCORKLE Gregory –daughter of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle– & John T. Gregory) had lived east of Newbern on land formerly owned by Harriet Evelina McCorkle McGinn;

(10)       “Nancy” Agnes McCorkle (Ramsay)  –was one of Robert McCorkle d. 1828 and William McCorkle’s  (d. 1818) sisters.        Alexander McCorkle, our immigrant who came over as a child, married “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery, and one of their children was Nancy Agnes McCorkle Ramsay

Agnes remained behind in Rowan County, North Carolina. Her surname was first spelled Ramsey then RAMSAY.  (Agnes became Mrs. Robert Ramsay).  Agnes McCorkle Ramsay  and her husband and progeny engaged in correspondence with family members who had removed westward into Tennessee.  These RAMSAY papers lie in the Archives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and are not included here. One should also check the Archives under the name of William McCorkle (died 1818)

.–And don’t forget that the University of North Carolina itself has a McCorkle Place named after a founder:  Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, a brother to, e.g., “our” Robert McCorkle, 1764-1828, who removed to West Tennessee.

Alexander & “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle ‘s  children included Samuel Eusebius McCorkle about whom much has been written .  Samuel Eusebius also remained behind in North Carolina. Samuel, a founder of UNC, was a Princeton graduate (actually, of the precursor to Princeton, Nas(h)ua Hall) and recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.     Samuel’s wife Margaret Gillespie McCorkle was a daughter to Elizabeth Maxwell (the widow Gillespie) Steele, 1733-1790.  Elizabeth Maxwell Gillespie Steele was a  patriot notable who kept an inn (an “ordinary”) in Salisbury, where she encouraged General Nathaniel Greene in the dark hours of the Revolutionary War and for the war effort gave him all the specie she owned.  –We think we’ve read that General Washington stopped off at this inn on a ceremonial trip to Salisbury. — The local Rowan Co. DAR group is the Elizabeth Maxwell Steele Chapter of DAR.

Margaret Gillespie McCorkle’s father,  Mr. Gillespie, was killed in an Indian uprising at Fort Dobbs just outside today’s Statesville, NC (Iredell County).  Elizabeth Steele & daughter Margaret Gillespie McCorkle–Mrs. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle– are buried  in Thyatira Presbyterian Church. Cemetery; 

(11)       one of Robert McCorkle’s putative paternal uncles, although not in our records, may have been a Francis McCorkle.  (We doubt it, because we don’t think our Alexander McCorkle’s –1722-1800– father was either a Matthew McCorkle or  a Samuel McCorkle. )

Francis McCorkle was uncle to our Robert McCorkle (1764-1828) only if Robert’s father Alexander McCorkle I was sired by Matthew McCorkle, which we  rather doubt, although we do believe Alexander & Francis McCorkle were surely cousins.  Whatever kin he was, this Francis McCorkle was a major in the Revolutionary War “patriot” army, surviving

the battles of  Ramseur’s Mill –or Ramsour’s Mill–Cowpens, King’s Mountain, and Torrence’s or Tarrant’sTavern

     It is not yet accepted that this Major Francis McCorkle was a brother to, inter alia, “our” Alexander McCorkle, Sr., the latter having been buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church in 1800.  Others’ records (not ours) say that Francis came over with his immigrant parents and is buried beside what is now Lake Norman (created by Duke Power Company circa 1960) in a McCorkle family cemetery  near NC Hwy 150.

      We’ve not yet researched the kinship, if any, of the second wives of Alexander McCorkle [Sr., 1722-1800] and of Major Francis McCorkle: viz., Rebecca [ possibly: McNeely] Brandon McCorkle,  the second Mrs. Alexander McCorkle (buried Thyatira Presbyterian, beside Alexander & Alexander McCorkle’s 1st wife Agnes “Nancy” Montgomery McCorkle) and Elizabeth “Betsy” Brandon McCorkle, Mrs. Francis McCorkle, buried near NC Hwy 150 beside Francis.  We wouldn’t be surprised, though, to learn these two Brandon-McCorkle women were sisters.

One anonymous listing on www.ancestry.com shows Rebecca as Rebecca (McNeely) Brandon (the 2nd Mrs. Alexander McCorkle); We do not know about this McNeely name.  Betsy Brandon [Mrs. Francis McCorkle], daughter of “Squire Richard Brandon, as a 14-year-old girl in 1791 prepared breakfast for General George Washington, by then President, although she knew not his identity until he had eaten and was to depart for his reception at Salisbury, some 6 miles away. The President had ridden from Charlotte on his way to Salisbury.  [NC Highway Marker at US Highway 29.]


Who was the immigrant father of his immigrant son Alexander McCorkle I ?  —Was he Samuel McCorkle? Matthew McCorkle? James McCorkle?

Possible Choice One:  Samuel McCorkle:

Our West Tennessee records do not definitively state the name of the father of Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800,  but some other records name Alexander McCorkle’s father as Samuel [We do not know about this SAMUEL business, but doubt it.] 

Choice Two:  Matthew McCorkle of Mecklenburg County, NC:

Update added in 2007:  this winter I found at my mother Joyce Cope Huie’s old house on the Dyer-Gibson county line in western Tennessee a leaf of paper handwritten in pencil by Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache (daughter of Robert McCorkle, 1764-1828, & Margaret Morrison (McCorkle), 1770-1848.  Elmira’s husband originally from North Carolina, you will recall, was a physician:  Dr. Stephen Roache (Stephen Roache was a junior).  The leaf mostly chronicles the contagion of cholera and its rapid deaths in her community, presumably in Gosport, Indiana (It’s not certain that the location was Gosport, as Elmira lived in numerous places after leaving North Carolina & Tennessee).  On one page of this leaf, someone else’s hand, presumably Elmira’s sons or one of her grandsons, has written in pencil beside the name of our Alexander McCorkle (died in 1800):  “father: MATTHEW McCORKLE.”

This is interesting but not dispositive of the issue of Alexander McCorkle’s parentage, as mistakes recur in the genealogy as written by the descendants of the two long-surviving sons of Elmira (viz., Addison  Locke Roache, Snr., & Robt. Quincy Roache).

Choice Three: James McCorkle

I think I’ve read that Roman Catholic priest Louis McCorkle identified the father of Alexander as James McCorkle; but I don’t have Msgnr. McCorkle’s book.  Based on my awareness of his intensive genealogical studies, I would tend to go with his decision, although once circa 1980 I dared to telephone him in his monastery(?) –living quarters–in Missouri (?), I think it was; and he was grumpy with me; he did sound aged, though, and perhaps he couldn’t hear me very well.  Unfortunately, at that particular time in my life, I thought I didn’t have the extra money to spend frivolously on buying his McCorkle book.  Now of course I wish I had splurged….

Quaere:   Who was the Simeon McCorkle listed beside “our” 1722-1800 Alexander McCorkle on the Tax Rolls of Rowan County?  Was he the father of Alexander?  a brother?  a cousin?


     I’ve tempted time by waiting over 20 years to make all this information publicly 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 kept in West Tennessee (Yorkville-Newbern).

     Photographs of my husband and of me follow.  We live most of the time in San Antonio, Texas, but part of my heart is on the county line between Dyer and Gibson Counties, Tennessee. 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.  

Any person discovering an error, will confer a favor by making it known to [email protected]

 

Samuel Finley, President of Princeton University, 1761-66.

What kin was he to John Finley, the father of Martha Finley Montgomery, who was the mother of “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle?

   –All of this compilation is sponsored by my husband’s work ethic. Ralph maintains that he, in 2007 A.D. aged 60 also, will never retire, to which I respond, “Hear. Hear

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., had moved from Indiana, along with some sisters—and finally toward the end the aged father, former Indiana Supreme Court Justice Addison Locke Roache, SR. moved to California, too.  Thus did Addison Locke Roache Senior make the lifetime journey from the east coast (state of NC) to California, as far westward as he could travel.

 

In California some of their McCorkle cousins inherited their papers. Perhaps it was Mada McCorkle Montgomery, daughter of Finis Alexander McCorkle & Finis’ 2nd wife Mag Hart (McCorkle); or, more likely to me, it may have been either of Finis Alexander McCorkle’s grandsons (by Finis’ 1st wife Sarah Josephine Jackson McCorkle) living in California by the time of the end of the last McCorkle-Roaches, viz., Gentry Purviance McCorkle, Senior and Homer McCorkle, half-brothers to Mada [variously Maida].  Gentry Purviance McCorkle, Junior, at one point added some handwritten notations to the collection of old papers. Gentry Jr. may have turned over these papers to Homer McCorkle.

–At any rate,  I presume Homer McCorkle was given the letters by the descendants of Elmira Sloan McCorkle (Roache), because it was his son Casey McCorkle who handed them down to me.  –However they came into his hands, the old letters & papers came into the hands of Casey McCorkle, who preserved them and left them to me, and therefore to all who care to read them. 

 

Solicitation of funds for keeping up the McCorkle Cemetery east of Newbern, Tennessee:

These old papers reveal that all these California emigrants from West Tennessee continued to contribute to, and corresponded with, trustees of the Dyer County, Tennessee, McCorkle Cemetery Please note the crafty way in which I here solicit funds for our cemetery from all whose ancestors lie therein.


CHILDREN of ALEXANDER McCORKLE &

AGNES Montgomery McCORKLE 

Children of Alexander McCorkle, born circa 1723, emigrant from Northern Ireland, who died in 1800, and his 1st wife “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery, who died in 1789…. Each was an emigrant from Northern Ireland, coming over to the colonies, some records say, on the same ship; and each is buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rowan County, North Carolina: 

 —  Alexander McCorkle’s 2nd wife:  After Agnes “Nancy” Montgomery McCorkle predeceased Alexander McCorkle, he married Rebecca Brandon (not the mother of his children); and Alexander died in 1800. –Evidently, from other sources, not ours in West Tennessee,  Francis McCorkle may have been a brother to this Alexander. (?)  If so, did brothers, Francis & Alexander, marry Brandon sisters?  REBECCA BRANDON was the 2nd wife of Alexander McCorkle (our ancestor); and  in Rowan County, NC, Francis McCorkel” married ElizabethBrandon on 12 April 1789, with witnesses Matthew Brandon & B. Booth Boote Early NC Marriage Bonds, 000127335    000887    02-280.


I’m not certain where to place the following entries, notices of deaths placed in a publication of the Restoration Movement (Christian Church). I believe these two people are men, because the “Mrs.” title of respect was added back if the subject was a woman:

  “McCorkle, B       Holland’s Grove, Illinois          1836
   McCorkle, E.     
 Dyersburgh, [sic] Tenn.         1832 ”  – – Who would this be?

More deaths reported to the Restoration Movement publication:

1.   McCorkle, Richard Blythe is brother of Saml. Montgomery McCorkle (1835);  Tazewell  county, Illinois. Mar. 20, 1836.  [Sons of Generation II. William McCorkle.]

2.  McCorkle, S. M.  Springfield, Mo 1841;  article in July 1844 issue, no place given.
3.  McCorkle,
 Mrs.,  death reported by her son John McCorkle of Bloomington, Ind. She died Feb. 8, 1842, in the 75th year of her age “‘without a groan or a struggle after an illness of 8 days.”


First son of Alexander & “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle:

    II.1  Samuel  Eusebius McCorkle, D.D., 23 August 1746-died 21 June 1811 He 

married Margaret Gillespie in 1776.  Born in what was then Harris Ferry, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on 23 August 1746, Samuel was educated at a precursor of Princteon College, and received a  Doctor of Divinity degree (honorary, I think) from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. –He founded a classics school in Rowan Co., NC, Zion Parnassus, and was a founder of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His wife Margaret Gillespie McCorkle was a daughter of Elizabeth Maxwell Gillespie Steele, heroine of the Revolutionary War in North Carolina.  Elizabeth Steele’s 1st husband had been killed at Fort Dobbs during a Cherokee Indian uprising.  — A 2004 article about Samuel Eusebius McCorkle examines his reactions to 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 .   Also, there’s a “Steele Creek Presbyterian Church” in the vicinity of Salisbury, NC. 

Early North Carolina Marriage Bonds:  Samuel McOrkle  [SAMUEL EUSEBIUS McCORKLE]      Elizabeth Gillaspie  [Gillespie]  Bond Date: 29 Jun 1776   Bond Number: 000127350 North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868  Image Number: 002942   Rowan County; Record Number: 02 281  Witness:  Adlai Osborn .   

 

Another Rowan County marriage that may be of interest, but I do not know how, is that of Lewis McCorkle & Nancy Cowan in 1815.


II.2    John McCorkle                   m.        “Katy” Catherine  Barr

[ “« John 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.quoting Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, John’s niece. –Quaere: Is son Joel McCorkleof Rowan County, NC,  in NC legislative records anywhere? did Joel ever stray as far as Bloomington, Indiana? (I don’t think so. Some of Joel’s writings are in the Robert/Agnes McCorkle Ramsay collection of papers at the UNC Archives in Chapel Hill.)]

 www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/resources/index/indexm.html   :   Is this John  grandfather of the John McCorkle of Bloomington, Indiana, who reported the 1842 death of his mother, a Mrs. McCorkle,  to the Christian Church Restoration Movement literature?  –“McCorkle, Mrs.,  death reported by her son John McCorkle of Bloomington, Ind.   She died Feb. 8, 1842, in the 75th year of her age, “without a groan or a struggle after an illness of 8 days.”  — I really think the John who reported his mother’s 1842 death was a son of Generation II. James McCorkle, but the dates of the mother’s death do not jibe with what someone has placed on www.ancestry.com  –  All 3 wives of Generation II. James McCorkle (brother of Robert et al.) have the 1st name of Elizabeth [“E”]:  viz., Elizabeth Hall, a 2nd Elizabeth Hall, and an Elizabeth Hanna.


II.3.         Joseph  McCorkle       m.        “Peggy” Margaret Snoddy

[A «Joseph moved to Ohio at an early day B was a man of ability B but rather eccentric.”»   quoting his niece Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache

The following is is not my work but that of Carol Snoddy Byler..andGerald  K. Byers.  Her web pages are on the internet at

http://bellsouthpwp.net/c/s/csbyler/Genealogy/Snoddy/Snoddy.html

[email protected]  See also: www.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/snoddy2.htm SnoddyFamily Album Entry …SAMUEL SNODDY was born circa 1720 possibly in Northern Ireland. … a few weeks later signing the marriage bond for his sister Margaret to JosephMcCORKLE. …—Much Snoddy family information is posted on the web by byGerald K. Byers, who wrote the following:

 “On February 11, 1775, Samuel Snoddy was appointed one of the commissioners to lay off a road from the provincial road at Morrison’s Mill [begun by William Morrison, 1704-1771, near today’s Loray in Iredell Co, NC] to the Lime Kilns on the Catawba River.  On February 21,1775, Samuel’s daughter, Sarah Snoddy (age 22), married Andrew Mitchell in Rowan County, NC.  Sarah took the place of her sister (Margaret) Snoddy who eloped with Joseph McCorkle after a license was issued for Margaret to marry Andrew Mitchell.  This was a scandaloushappening for the strict Presbyterian ideals of 1775.

“[The following is a quote from John Mantle Judah:] “The well-known story of the elopement and marriage of my grandparents is that Joseph [McCorkle] was one morning at work, roofing a house. His father came and said, ‘Joe, that old fool Snoddy is going to marry his girl Margaret[Snoddy] to so-and-so tomorrow. Maybe you’d better go and see about it.’   Whereupon, Joe hastily clambered down, put on his coat and galloped off several miles to the Snoddy place. That night after the stern old father was asleep, Margaret handed out her bridle and saddle through a window and herself followed. She never saw her parents again, for old Snoddy never forgave her, leaving her a shilling* in his will. The story goes on to say that a younger sister was willing to supply Margaret’s place to the bereaved groom [Andrew Mitchell], so that a wedding took place nevertheless.”  (Samuel Snoddy’s will actually left his daughter Margaret five shillings, the same amount he left his other six children.)    

       JOHN SNODDY m. AGNES NIBLOCK. [Marsha Huie adds: Gracie or Gracy Niblock was a NC Huie cousin to Julius M. Huie, who migrated to West Tennessee, son of Benjamin Huie & Lavinia Cowan Huie.  Gracey Niblock in NC & Julius Huie’s daughter SophroniaFronie” Huie Thompson [in West Tennessee] regularly corresponded: ] [ WALNUT HILL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NEAR LEXINGTON, KY ]     In 1778, Samuel Snoddy’s son, John Snoddy (age 20) married Agnes Niblock in North Carolina.  Around 1780, John Snoddy migrated to Kentucky and in June of 1787, John and Agnes were admitted to the Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church near Lexington, Kentucky (Fayette County).  Agnes died between 1792 and 1795, leaving John with six young children.  He moved to Bourbon County circa 1795and on February 22, 1796, John Snoddy married Nancy Neel/McNeel.  He remained there until circa 1829-30 since he was in the 1800 census and land records show he purchased 133 acres on Rockbridge Creek on April 16, 1803.  At this time, he moved to Owen County, Indianaand bought 60 acres in Wayne township, near Gosport.  [Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, Joseph McCorkle & Margaret Snoddy McCorkle’s niece through her father Robert McCorkle, at one time lived in or near Gosport, Indiana. ] He (John Snoddy)  is listed in the 1830 census and [John Snoddy] died there on March 22, 1843.

“In Wilkes County, North Carolina on March 4, 1778, William Snoddy, Sr. (at age 29) entered 300 acres on the north side of the Yadkin River.  On May 6, 1778, Samuel was appointed a “justice”.  “In November 1778, William was a chain-bearer on a survey of land in Wilkes Countyfor his brother-in-law, Joseph McCorkle.  On February 5, 1779, he entered 300 additional acres on Blue Ridge, near the head of the Buffalo and Elk Rivers.  On May 6, 1779, he was appointed overseer of a road “from Kerr’s bridge on 3rd Creek through Captain [James?] Purviance’s district, along with Matt Troy, Joseph Steel and James Brandon.”

“On February 10, 1822 Thomas Snoddy (son of Samuel) sold 701 acres in NC to ? Alexander for $2100.  (This was part of the state grant to Samuel [Snoddy] and part of a grant from Earl of Granville to Andrew Morrison in 1762.)  ”   [Andrew Morrison was father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, inter alia.] Information from Heritage Book of Iredell County, North Carolina – Volume II, page 131.  Item #136 – ”

 [End of quoted material from Carol Snoddy Byler….]

 Another useful web site: McCorkle Marriages in Ky, NC, & Virginia :

—– Joel McCorkle [son of the John McCorkle who was a  brother of our Robert McCorkle] m./Polly Fauster [Forster?] [Foster?]  

—–-John F. McCorkle / Elizabeth Brown

—–Joseph McCorkle / Margaret Snoddy. http://www. freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lcgs/mcrkmarkyncva.htm

 


II.4.  Alexander  McCorkle II       m.        Catherine “Katy” Morrison

* Aleck was emotional in character and joined the Methodists  » — quoting his niece Elmira.

I think this Alexander McCorkle, a Jr., migrated west first to Giles County then northward to Henry County, Tenn., in or near Paris, Tennessee. I think Katy Morrison (McCorkle) would have been a first cousin-once-removed, that is, a generation removed, to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert), and a first cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s father, the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan(e).  Margaret Morrison McCorkle was Alexander McCorkle II’s sister-in-law. –This Alexander McCorkle II referred to himself after the death of his father and the birth of his son as “Alexander Snr.” At least one of his letters posted from Giles County, Tennessee, and addressed back home to NC lies in the Ramsay Papers in the UNC Archives at Chapel Hill.

 

III.1             Nancy McCorkle,                  b. circa 1780.

III.2             Mary McC ,                           b. 4th  Oct  1781 Rowan Co, NC; d. 6th June 1783 Rowan  Co.                                                            (Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery).

III.3.            James Morrison McCorkle,  b. 24th Seprember 1783.

III.4.            Alexander McC, III                      b. circa 1789  [note the 6-year hiatus. (?) ]

III.5.            Lewis                     ,              b. circa 1790.

III.6.            James H.               ,              b. Abt. 1792.

III.7.            John McCorkle      ,              b. circa 1793, Rowan Co, NC; d. Oct 12, 1813, Rowan Co.                                                                              (Thyatira Cemetery)

III.8.            Catherine McC                      b. circa 1794.

III.9.            Samuel McCorkle ,                b. Jan 01, 1795.


II.5.  William  McCorkle          m.      1st “Peggy” Margaret Blythe and 2nd Mattie” [Martha]] King [widow of John Purviance, Jr.,  who was scalped in 1792], and 3rd in 1800 Jane or Jennie Graham.  This Margaret ‘Peggy’ Blythe was a sister to the first wife of our Robert McCorkle, who is listed immediately below.  Robert McCorkle first married Elizabeth Blythe (“Lizzie”).     [“William, following Barton Stone, set his negroes free and went to preaching.”—quoting William’s niece Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache.] William McCorkle died in1818 in Rutherford County, Tennessee; so we know he did not remove to Dyer County, West Tennessee, with his brother Robert, who died in 1828.    

–It may be that some papers of this William McCorkle lie in the archives of UNC at Chapel Hill; I’ve not checked yet.

[A Restoration Movement publication reported the following death of interest here:

McCorkle, Richard Blythe is brother of Saml. Montgomery McCorkle (1835);  Tazwell County, Illinois, Mar. 20, 1836.]

The modern authority on William McCorkle is James M. Richmond of Napierville, Illinois, whose wife is William’s descendant.

William’s children by 1st wife “Peggy” Margaret Blythe:

III.1.                            Samuel Montgomery McCorkle, born circa 1789.

  –Is this the Montgomery McCorkle about whom Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache writes; Montgomery is up in Indiana with or near to Elmira, a 1st cousin, if Elmira’s “Montgomery” is this son of William McCorkle.

III.2.                            Richard Blythe McCorkle, born 1786 in Rowan County, N.C.

[A publication of the Restoration Movement reports that Blythe McCorkle died in 1836 on 20th March:  “McCorkle, Richard Blythe is brother of Saml. Montgomery McCorkle (1835);  Tazwell co. Ill. Mar. 20, 1836.”

III.3.               Asenath McCorkle, born 27th Oct. 1789

William’s child by his 2nd wife “Mattie” Martha King McCorkle:

III.4.                          Miles McCorkle, born circa 1796.  Miles McCorkle was a physician in Lebanon, Wilson County, Middle Tennessee.

 

William’s children by 3rd wife Jane “Jennie” Jane Graham, whom he married in Sumner Co, Tenn., in 1800:

III.5.            John McCorkle, born circa 1802

  — I do not think this is the “Cousin John McCorkle” about whom Margaret Morrison writes, saying that he is coming to Dyer County, Tennessee, to make and crop and will probably take care of Thomas, Jr. ???  I think that “Cousin John” was a son of James McCorkle.  If so (Margaret referred to her brother-in-law James McCorkle’s descendants) that gives us a SLOAN family clue;  Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s mother was born Elizabeth SLOAN.  That may just mean that Margaret’s brother-in-law James McCorkle’s wife Elizabeth Hall whose mother was a Sloan was kin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s mother.  =  Sloan family clue…

III.6.            Amelia McCorkle, born circa 1805.

III.7.            Blanche Locke McCorkle, born circa 1807.

 


 

II.6.         Robert McCorkle, 1764-1828  m. 1st Lizzy Elizabeth Blythe, 2nd Margaret ‘Peggy’ Morrison.   Robert McCorkle was born 29 Oct. 1764 & died in April, in the spring of 1828.

Parenthetically, 1828 is the date of the founding of the 1st Presbyterian Church of Memphis, where one finds traces of  Robt. & Eliz. Blythe McCorkle’s granddaughter, Martha D. Anderson Leath, Mrs. James T. Leath.)

Robert McCorkle moved from Rowan Co., NC, to Kentucky.  According to his daughter Elmira, Robert forayed into Kentucky “in the second company” of white men’s incursion into Kentucky.  Carol Byler writes that Robert joined Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church’s congregation in1789, a church also joined by Robert’s brothers Joseph (who m. Margaret “Peggy” Snoddy) & William McCorkle. Our West Tenn. records do not mention Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church.

 Then, Robert moved back down to northern Middle Tennessee (I think);  I know he returned to Rowan Co. to claim and marry his 2nd wife; then with the 2nd wife removed to the area of Stone’s River, near or in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; and we know his brother William went to Stone’s River too, in order to take up their father Alexander McCorkle I ’s Revolutionary War land grant; and finally Robert (but not William, who died in 1818) removed farther west to Dyer County, where he died in 1828.  –Again, according to his daughter Elmira, Robert, who began life in Rowan Co., NC, may not even have lingered in Middle Tennessee upon leaving Rowan Co., but forayed directly into Kentucky. This latter point is unclear.

     We do know that other of Robert McCorkle’s relatives, circa 1792, removed up to Kentucky from Middle Tennessee, from the environs of Lebanon and Gallatin, to escape Indian depredations in Sumner Co., Tenn.  They landed particularly in Bourbon County (near Paris), Kentucky; and that is why they were at Cane Ridge meeting house in 1801-4, and attended the birth of the Christian Church / Disciples of Christ/ Church of Christ / at Cane Ridge, Bourbon County, Kentucky. 

     Robert had 2 children by his 1st wife “Lizzie” Elizabeth Blythe, viz.,  1.  infant “Aleck” Alexander McC, born and died circa 1790; and 2.  Elizabeth McCorkle (Mrs. Thomas Anderson), born 1791.  Elizabeth McCorkle Anderson at death was living in Lebanon, Wilson Co., Tennessee, I think in the home of her daughter Elizabeth Anderson McMurry (the daughter Elizabeth was the wife of a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, John Mitchell McMurry).

 I think Thomas Anderson had had a first wife before marrying Elizabeth McCorkle, daughter of Robert & Lizzie Blythe McCorkle.–Thomas Anderson’s mother was née Mebane, and there is today a town of Mebane, North Carolina, west of Durham.

Robert’s children by 2nd wife Margaret “Peggy” Morrison, a daughter of Elizabeth Sloan(e) & Andrew Morrison (and a paternal granddaughter of William Morrison, 1704-1771, & Margaret (maiden name unknown) Morrison) were: 

III.3.                                   Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (Thompson)

born 28th Dec 28 1795 in Rowan Co., NC &  died 1829 in Middle Tennessee, some 2 years after the death of her husband Gideon Thompson. — Rebecca & Gideon Thompson left two orphaned daughters, 1st Jane M. Thompson (Mrs. Benjamin Williams); Jane M. ThompsonWilliams died in 1850 & is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, Tennessee, as “Jane Williams, consort of Benj. Williams.” The 2nd daughter of Rebecca Cowden McCorkle was Mary “Polly” Thompson (Mrs. Matthew Dickey).  

III.4.     Elmira Sloan(e) McCorkle (Roache) (Mrs. Dr. Stephen Roache),

born 13th Feb. 1797 in Rowan Co, NC; and died 2nd August  1890, either in Indianapolis, Marion Co, Indiana, at the home of her oldest son Justice Addison Locke Roache; or in the town of California in the state of Missouri at the home of a younger son “Quincy” Robert QuincyRoache.  It is mostly to Elmira and the record-keeping of her progeny that we owe this present collection of old correspondence.  [Added later:  “Uncle” Joseph Smith JOE McCorkle of Yorkville and his descendants retained their McCorkle-Morrison papers, also.  We owe much to Uncle Joe’s great-granddaughter Carol Branz of Spokane, Washington.]

III.5.            Edwin Alexander McCorkle, born 18th March 1799

in Rowan County, NC, and died 10th January 1853 in Dyer County, Tennessee. Married Jane Maxwell Thomas of Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee, who died in 1855 in Dyer County, Tennessee. Edwin is my great-great grandfather through my father [Howard] Ewing Huie, 1907-1971.

III.6.                  Jehiel Morrison McCorkle “JEM,” born 3rd Jan. 1803, buried in the Dyer County, Tenn., McCorkle Cemetery. Born in Rowan Co., NC, he died in 1849 in Dyer County, Tennessee.  Married “Betsy” Elizabeth Smith in Rowan County, NC.  Member of the first Dyer County Court. –I have his children listed elsewhere; and I note elsewhere Jehiel & Betsy McCorkle’s loss of at least three sons to the Civil War.  –One of Jehiel’s sister Elmira’s grandsons has written in pencil on Elmira’s old records that he believed Betsy Smith (Mrs. Jehiel Morrison McCorkle) was probably a niece of his father, Dr. Stephen Roache; unfortunately, I do not know about this, but doubt it ….

Somehow–we don’t know how–some of Jehiel Morrison McCorkle’s papers have landed in the University of Tennessee at Martin archives in the late 20th century, in connection with records of the early Dyer County court.   He was an early member of the first Dyer County militia. He died in 1849 so we know this was not Civil War-connected.  And evidently Jehiel kept the minutes for the Dyer County Court, which would have made him today’s equivalent, I guess, of the County Court Clerk; but the truth is hazy. — Nor do we know how some of John Edwin McCorkle’s papers arrived there.

 

James “Jimps” Scott, son of James Scott (1777-1853) & Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1853) was born, I think, in 1808 or 1809.  He died, I think, in 1886, aged about 76 years–so, I got his dates of living wrong on the new tombstone (above).  Jimps Scott married Violet Barry Roddy (Scott); a granddaughter of Brigadier General Charles Moore of Spartanburg, South Carolina.  Violet’s BARRY name comes from an aunt who m. a Barry man. Catherine or KATE BARRY was a Paul Reviere to the Whigs in her area during the Revolutionary War and is considered a war heroine.

III.7.            Margaret Permelia McCorkle (Scott)              (as of 1st Jan. 1833: Mrs. Lemuel Locke Scott),  b. on the 14th of June 1805; d. 19th November 1853, a few months after the death of her brother Edwin A. McCorkle in January of 1853. Husband Lemuel Locke Scott: 2nd Sept. 1804-17th Sept. 1866  They lived in Neboville-Yorkville area of Gibson County.

               IV.7.1.            John A. Scott                                       b. 3rd November 1833.  

               IV.7.2.            Leander Scott                                      born 3rd  July 1835.  –Tuberculosis caused him to move, under doctor’s advice, to the mountainous area of Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, during which time his 1st cousin John Edwin McCorkle (my great-grandfather) acted as Leander’s guardian in West Tenn.  Quaere:  Is Leander Scott buried in Van Buren County, Tennessee?

Two wives:  the second was Addie Fernandez (Scott), who at one point appears in the early membership rolls of Lemalsamac Christian Church (as Addie Scott).  [Wm. AARON Scott and brother GLENN Smith Scott  of Yorkville-Nebo descend from Leander Scott’s son Lemuel Scott who m. Ella Bernice Smith (Scott).  Aaron and Glenn Scott’s father Lemuel Scott–a grandson of Lemuel Locke Scott & Margaret Permelia McCorkle (Scott)–instructed them never to trust a “Campbellite” [this is kind of a pejorative term for a member of the Disciples of Christ-Christian Church-Church of Christ] because his, Lemuel’s, uncle Bob–yes, a Campbellite–upon the early demise of Bob’s brother Leander Scott had tried to do Leander’s heirs out of their rightful inheritance of land.  By now, though, all is forgiven in the interest of family harmony.]

               IV.7.3.            Bob” Robert Quincy Scott , 1837-1907. 

Bob Scott was born 18th January 1837 d. Jun 05, 1907; m. Sallie Jane Owens on 21st May 1867; and she died 22nd June 1936 in Dyer, Gibson County, Tennessee.—  I think Bob had a daughter named Elma Faye Scott, born 1853 died 1950, aged 97; and a son James Herbert Scott, 1878-1923, who wrote the weather column for the Memphis newspaper, the Commercial Appeal.  And there was a James Herbert Scott, Junior, 1914-1928; and a Byron Estelle Scott, 1906-1946.  This last information about Bob’s children comes from Glenn Scott.


             IV.7.4.            Sallie L. Scott  (Rodgers) ( Locke).                Sallie was born 22nd  Feb 22, 1838.

 I would hazard a guess that her real Christian name was “Sarah.” (?)

 In Gibson County, she married  John A.  Rodgers).  (Quaere:  Did John A. Rodgers die in the Civil War?)

Then, Sallie L. Scott married again and became  Mrs. Richard W. “Dick” Locke)

She is buried McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, Tennessee, where her parents Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott & Lemuel Locke Scott are buried.

Although I know Dick Locke served as a trustee for the McCorkle Cemetery, and although I think Dick Locke’s other wife is buried in the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, I have not located a tombstone for Richard W. “Dick” Locke.  As he served as a trustee for the McCorkle Cemetery, he should have a memorial erected there, even at this late date.

               IV.7.5.            James J. Scott                                     b. Mar 19, 1840

 [presumably named after Lemuel Locke Scott’s father, James Scott, 1777-1853].

               IV.7.6.            Margaret E. Scott,                  born 18th Dec. 1841.

 Presumably named after Margaret Permelia Scott & her mother Margaret Morrison McCorkle. 

               IV.7.7.            David E. Scott                                       b. 3rd May 1845.

 

[Now back to children of Robert & Margaret “Peggy” Morrison McCorkle:]

 

III.8.                Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle [Robert A H or RAH], born in Iredell County, NC; and died in Dyer County, Tennessee. Married Tirzah Scott.  Robert was born 20th March 1808, Iredell Co, NC; d. 26th  Sept 1873, Dyer Co, Tennessee.  He and Tirzah Scottmarried in Gibson County, Tenn., in 1828.

Children of RAH & Tirzah Scott McCorkle:

   IV.8.1.            Sarah Elmira McCorkle (Algea

—  I don’t want to write her husband’s name because Sarah had to leave separate herself from him and continue to live, along with her 2 Algea children, with her father RAH and mother Tirzah Scott McCorkle. –Well, I guess I must: Jonathan Francis Algea, M.D. –but according to a letter of his brother-in-law Joe McCorkle, Mr Algea was defrocked from doctorhood. (Please see in these materials the Affidavit of Joseph Smith McCorkle, Sarah’s brother, regarding the shenanigans of Jno. Francis Algea.  –Uncle Hiram McCorkle’s antebellum journal entries reveal close friendship as young men with  a “Francis” who I think was Jno. Francis Algea.)

   8.2.            Addison Alexander McCorkle, died young.

                                  His father wrote about his death, “Addison’s flesh mortified.”

   8.3.            Susan L. McCorkle (McNail)  –The last McNail about whom I knew anything was Maurice M. McNail, who died in Detroit, Michigan, in–I think–the late 1980s.

   8.4.            James Scott McCorkle, M.D., in Newbern, Tenn.;  m. Elizabeth Obedience Clements of Weakley Co.  (Obviously, he was named after his mother Tirzah’s father, James Scott of Pennsylvania, then York County, South Carolina, then Gibson-Dyer County, Tennessee (1777-1853).)

    8.5.           Robert Eusebius McCorkle, died young; McCorkle Cemetery beside his parents.  Others write his name as “Robert EDWARD McCorkle” but I’m sticking to Robert EUSEBIUS.

   8.6.            ?I’m not sure there was a son born named John McCorkle? –some records have him, some don’t.

   8.7.            Joseph Smith “Joe” McCorkle, died Yorkville, Tennessee; buried McCorkle Cemetery. Note the Mormon name. My father Ewing Huie, 1907-1071, was a pallbearer for his “Uncle Joe McCorkle” who was in fact a 1st cousin to John E. McCorkle, maternal grandfather of Howard Ewing Huie.

   8.8.           Parley Pratt McCorkle, died young; note this Mormon name, too.

   8.9.            William Leander A. McCorkle, died too young but left a wife, Alice J. Wells (McCorkle); and “Willie” or “William” left a daughter Eudora McCorkle Roberson, who had moved to Marshall County, TN, with her husband.  All but Eudora’s husband are buried McCorkleCemetery, Dyer County, Tennessee. I don’t know what happened to Eudora’s widower after her death.

 

[…END of Children of Robert McCorkle, a son of immigrants Alexander & “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle.  Now to the immigrants’ son James McCorkle:]

 


 

II.7.         James McCorkle  m. 1st Lizzy Elizabeth  Hall dau. of Elizabeth Sloan & Thomas Hall of Rowan Co, NC and 2nd another Elizabeth Hall, daughter of Hugh Hall & Margaret King (Hall); and James’ 3rd wife was  Elizabeth Hanna (widow Johnson) (McCorkle).  JamesMcCorkle was born 4th May 1768 in Rowan, North Carolina. He moved to & lived in Ohio a while (Piqua County, Ohio).  In the UNC Archives (on campus in Chapel Hill), I read a letter from him, having removed from Rowan Co., NC, to Piqua County, Ohio, a letter written in Ohio back to his brother-in-law in Rowan County: Robert Ramsay (husband of “Nancy” Agnes McCorkle Ramsay).  In this letter, James McCorkle extolled the air of freedom  [although he carefully did not say freedom from slavery] and egalitarianism up in Ohio.  Not much difference was noticed up there between rich and poor, he adjudged. –James McCorkle died in Franklin, Boone County, Indiana,  2nd  Dec 1840.  Perhaps he moved from Ohio to Indiana in old age to live with a child; I do not know.

James moved from NC to Ohio; but lived at his death in Frankfort, Boone County, Indiana. James’ niece Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach(e) lived, at least for a while, nearby her uncle James in Indiana. James is the recipient of a letter from his sister-in-law Margaret Morrison McCorkle, a letter I presume to have been preserved by Elmira.)

 One of our old records lists Elizabeth Hall two or three times as his wife; I have never understood this and used to figure it a mistake.   Evidently, though, JAMES McCORKLE, brother-in-law to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle), in fact  married two Elizabeth Halls, women with different parents; and then a 3rd wife named, others’ records say, Elizabeth Hanna (widow Johnson). If so, he had 3 wives named Elizabeth, which must have made his married life serene. Someone has cited a book listing Elizabeth Hanna’s genealogy:  Jerry Lavern Larson, The Sons of Lars, Privately Printed in 1987 in Universal City, Texas, a suburb of San Antonio.  241 Flintstone Lane, Universal City, Texas 78148-4343, phone 210 658-0489

James McCorkle by first wife, whom he married circa 1790 in Iredell County, NC  Elizabeth Hall, 1770-1794, daughter of  THOMAS  Hall and Elizabeth SLOAN (Hall).  This 1st wife named Elizabeth Hall (the 1st of 2 with that same name) is said by submitters to ancestry.com to have died in the year 1794; I do not have records on this. Now, here’s more confusion.  Some submitters on www.ancestry.com say that this 1st wife had a son named Levi McCorkle, born on b: 27 JAN 1793 Evidently, I would presume but do not know, this Levi McCorkl born in 1793 died because his father James McCorkle, by his 2nd wife, names another child Levi, below, the later one being Levi A. McCorkle, born in August of 1800.  I do not know how to resolve this LEVI issue. 

–There is one McCorkle instance of which I’m aware in which one father had two sons named the same first name;  according to my father’s McCorkle 1st cousin, Annie Glenn McCorkle, an elderly Ida McCorkle –who lived around 1930 across from what was then the Newbern High School–regretted that her son had allowed his second wife to name her son the same name (these are descendants of Jehiel Morrison McCorkle); Kenneth McCorkle was a Christian Church minister–I think in Kentucky.

 

James McCorkle by  second wife Elizabeth Hall, daughter of Hugh Hall & wife Margaret KING (Hall).  One submitter on ancestry.com says this Elizabeth Hall McCorkle was born 19th August 1777 in Iredell County, NC, and died 2nd June 1817 in Piqua County, OHIO.  If the birth date of Benoni [Benjamin?] A. McCorkle, below, is correctly listed as 2nd June 1817, that means this Elizabeth Hall McCorkle died in childbirth. 

1.                 Thomas Jay MCCORKLE b: 5 FEB 1797

2.                 Lavinia M. MCCORKLE b: 30 OCT 1799

3.                 Levi A. MCCORKLE b: 21 AUG 1800  [But why would he name two sons Levi; something seems to be amiss here??????]

4.                 Hugh Hall MCCORKLE b: 26 NOV 1801

5.                 John A. MCCORKLE b: 26 JUN 1804

6.                 Louisa W. MCCORKLE b: 6 AUG 1805

7.                 Margaret King MCCORKLE b: 9 MAY 1808

8.                 Samuel Eusebius MCCORKLE b: 20 APR 1811 –named after an uncle.

9.                 John Quincy Adams MCCORKLE b: 26 MAR 1814

10.               [Benjamin?] Benoni A. MCCORKLE b: 2 JUN 1817 

This mother named Elizabeth Hall (McCorkle) died in 1817 Poor thing; she bore one too many children.  How dreadful was childbearing for women back then.  To save time, because I must finish these chapters this week, I’ll list again the children of the 2nd wife Elizabeth Hall (James McCorkle):

Back to the 2nd marriage:  Now to the marriage 12th April 1796 to the Elizabeth HALL who was a daughter of Hugh Hall and Margaret KING Hall This Elizabeth Hall is listed by someone on www.ancestry.com as being born 19th August 1777 in Iredell County, NC, and dying 2ndJune 1817 in Piqua [County], Ohio.   This contributor to ancestry.com says that JAMES McCORKLE married this Elizabeth Hall on 12th April 1796 in Iredell County, NC.   — I just don’t know…; here, I’m relying entirely on others’ records, which makes me nervous.]

Her children by James McCorkle: 

1.            Thomas Jay MCCORKLE b: 5th February  FEB 1797 –His son surely must have been the Thomas McCorkle, Jr., about whose custody Margaret Morrison McCorkle wrote her daughter Elmira—Margaret presumed Cousin John [A.?] McCorkle would come down to Dyer Co,Tenn., and make a crop that year; and that he would probably take Thomas, Jr.  –. Here’s, I guess, the father of the THOMAS Junior about whom Margaret Morrison writes when she says that Cousin John [A?] McCorkle will  probably take Thomas Jr. into his custody when he comes down to Dyer County, Tenn.,  to make a crop that next spring.    Somebody has placed on the Internet that the mother of Thomas McCorkle, Jr., was née Mary Noble; I have no independent knowledge of this (no West Tenn. records).

2.           Lavinia M. MCCORKLE b: 30th October 1799

              

3.            Levi A. MCCORKLE b: 21 AUG 1800 –His mother was the Elizabeth Hall born of Hugh Hall and Margaret KING Hall. 

4.            Hugh Hall MCCORKLE b: 26 NOV 1801

5.            John A. MCCORKLE b: 26 JUN 1804 b. Jun 26, 1804  — Again, could this be the “Cousin John McCorkle” who, his aunt by marriage Margaret Morrison McCorkle, writes:  plans to come down to Dyer County, Tennessee, and make a crop; and she expects him to take [his nephew] Thomas, Jr.  (?) Yes, I think it is.

6.            Louisa W. MCCORKLE b: 6 AUG 1805

7.            Margaret King MCCORKLE b: 9 MAY 1808

8.            Samuel Eusebius MCCORKLE b: 20 APR 1811 (named after an uncle in Rowan Co., NC)

9.            John Quincy Adams MCCORKLE b: 26th 27th  MAR 1814

10.          Benoni A. MCCORKLE [Benjamin McCorkle, perchance?)  b: 2 JUN 1817; died 1817 The mother, this Elizabeth Hall (McCorkle), according to others’ records died in 1817, evidently in childbirth.  Poor thing. 

 

Then, James McCorkle married a 3rd wife, Elizabeth Hanna (widow JOHNSON), 1783-1857.  They married 21st August 1821 in Miami County, Ohio.  She bore one son by James McCorkle, viz., William Augustus McCorkle, born 2nd November 1822. William Augustus McCORKLE

As mentioned, the Restoration Movement lists certain deaths, including that of a Mrs. McCorkle, in 1842, as reported by her son John McCorkle of Bloomington, Indiana:   “McCorkle, Mrs., death reported by her son John McCorkle of Bloomington, Ind.  She died Feb. 8, 1842, in the 75th year of her age, ‘without a groan or a struggle after an illness of 8 days.’ “

 

And, as mentioned, who are these two:  McCorkle, E.     Dyersburgh [sic.], Tenn.      1832; and

McCorkle, B       Holland’s Grove, Ill      1836   ? ? ? 


Submitters on Ancestry.com say the following about the one child of James & third wife Elizabeth Hanna (widow Johnson) (Mrs. James McCorkle). I myself knew, and know, nothing about her from our old records. These other people name a son as:

William Augustus McC, born 2nd 1822.

One entry on www.ancestry.com says:  one wife, Elizabeth Hall, 17711794, was daughter to Thomas Hall, circa 1719-1748 and wife Elizabeth SLOAN, circa 1728-1751; I do not know.  She married James McCorkle in Rowan County, NC on, this entry says in 1790 in Iredell County, NC:

Elizabeth HALL   1770-1794  Father: Thomas HALL b: WFT Est. 1719-1748 ;  Mother: Elizabeth SLOAN b: WFT Est. 1728-1751.  

Marriage 1 James MCCORKLE b: 4 MAY 1768 in Rowan Co, NC

One child: Children:   Levi MCCORKLE b: 27 JAN 1793 [Is this a mistake, for James McCorkle already had a son named Levi McCorkle.  ?????]

 

 

 

So, above, we get a SLOAN family clue about who might have been kin to “our” ancestor, Elizabeth Sloan Morrison (Mrs. Andrew Morrison), the mother of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, inter alia.  To repeat:  James McCorkle (brother to our Robert McCorkle) had a first wife, whom he married circa 1790 in Iredell County, NC , named Elizabeth Hall, 1770-1794, and she was a daughter of  THOMAS  Hall and Elizabeth SLOAN (Hall).  — Was this Elizabeth Sloan (Hall) kin to “our” ancestor Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison)?

Another clue: We should keep in mind the early grave (the earliest?) in the Fourth Creek Presbyterian Meeting House cemetery in what became downtown Statesville, Iredell County (formerly Rowan County), North Carolina: that of one  Fergus SLOAN. It was this Fergus Sloan on whose land (I think I read this somewhere) Fort Dobbs was erected during the French & Indian War(s) era.

 

Now to the DAUGHTERS of the Immigrants to the Colonies Alexander & Agnes Montgomery McCorkle:

 

II.8.                         Elizabeth McCorkle Barr, born in Rowan Co., NC.  Mrs. William or James Barr;  other records say ‘James” but mine say “William”– Others’ records say she married James Barr on 18th December 1774 in Rowan County, and that he was a son of WILLIAM BARR and Catherine MORRISON; also that James Barr was born in  1745 in Chester Co., PA, and died on 22nd May 1788 in the Salisbury area of Rowan County.   Some records, not ours, say Elizabeth McCorkle (Barr) also married a 2nd husband named Andrew Kilpatrick? –quaere: was he perhaps a 1st husband? There’s something wrong here; it’s just not in our records, but is on www.ancestry.com and in other relatives’ records.                                                        This Elizabeth McCorkle Barr/Kilpatrick was Lizzie”  to her niece Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache and “Bettie” in her father Alexander McCorkle I’s  will  As Elizabeth Barr she appears, I think, in the church records of Shiloh Presbyterian (C.P.) Church near Gallatin, Tennessee. My record says “William” but other records say Elizabeth McCorkle married James Barr, who was born in 1745 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and died 22 MAY 1788 in Salisbury Dist., Rowan Co. North Carolina. On  www.ancestry.com, someone has contributed the following children for Elizabeth Barr; I do not have records of these children, so I don’t know the veracity….

1.               Elizabeth Barr

2.               Alexander Barr            b: 1776

3.               Catherine Barr             b: 1780

4.               Hannah Barr                b: 8 Oct 1775 in Rowan Co. North Carolina

5.               William Hampton Barr b: Aug 1778 in Rowan Co. North Carolina

??? 2nd husband  Andrew Kilpatrick Born: 28 Mar 1745 in Salibury Dist, Iredell, North Carolina, USA  Died: 27 Mar 1813 in Iredell, North Carolina, USA.  Marriage: circa 1792 in North Carolina.   Child:  ALEXANDER KILPATRICK, male, 4th March 1794 in Rowan County, NC. [But that’s 16 years after the birth of William Hampton Barr in 1778.  ??????]


II.9                         “Nancy” Agnes McCorkle Ramsay (became Mrs. Robert Ramsay on 21 Feb. 1790) (also known as Agnes Ramsay), born in Rowan Co., NC, 1760 on 9th Feb.; d. 21st April 1822 & is buried where her parents are buried, in Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rowan Co., NC.  Robert Ramsay (earlier spelled Ramsey) was born in 1741, in Rowan County, and died 7th Nov. 1828 in Iredell County (carved from Rowan County in 1788).  — Her papers are in the University of  North  Carolina Archives, and in the spring of 2007 anno domini I was finally able to get there and read some of them!!!   The precise date of the 1790 marriage bond of Robert Ramsey, later spelled “Ramsay,” and Agness McCorkle was 18th Feb. 1790; bond number 0000128700, North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868.  Image Number 005230.  Rowan County, NC.  Record Number 02 367; bondsman was James McCorkle, presumably the bride’s brother.   Carol Byler lists the children of Nancy McCorkle Ramsay as:

1.            Agnes Montgomery Ramsay                  b. Dec 17, 1790.

2             David Ramsay      b. Dec 17, 1792, Iredell Co, NC; d. Jun 08, 1857, Iredell Co, –It was either this son David Ramsay or his son James Graham Ramsay who went up to Philadelphia and graduated from the venerable old Thomas Jefferson medical college there, then returned to North Carolina; I can’t remember which, but I read the papers at UNC.

3.            Mary                                                    b. circa 1795.

4.            Infant male,  b. Oct 14, 1799, Rowan Co, NC; d. Nov 18, 1799, Rowan Co, NC (Thyatira Cemetery).

5.            Martha                                                 b. circa  1800.

6,            Mary                                                    b. circa  1795.


II.10        The eldest:         “Mattie” Martha McCorkle Archibald (m. in 1765 William Archibald).            NC Marriage Bonds: Martha McCorkle, Rowan County, NC.  Witnesses:  “John Frohock, Alexr McCorkel, & Jno Archbald.”  Groom & Bride: “William Archbald” “Martha McCorkell. ” Marriage bond number 000122720, bond date: 08 Jan 1765. Image number 005230 in NORTH CAROLINA MARRIAGE BONDS, 1741-1868.  Bondsmen: “Alexr McCorkel; Jno Archbald.”  — Mr. Frohock seems to have been some sort of notary or land-records official in Rowan Co., NC, around this time; his name frequently appears as witness to legal transactions such as this taking out of marriage licence.

According to www.ancestry.com, not our West Tenn. records, Mattie McCorkle Archibald’s children were:

Alexander Archibald,                    born circa 1766 in Rowan Co., NC;

William Archibald,                         born circa 1768 in Rowan Co., NC

Agness [“Nancy?”] Archibald,         born circa 1770 in Rowan Co., NC

Margaret Archibald,                      born circa 1772 in Rowan Co., NC

Elizabeth Archibald,                        born ?????


I think I placed a good bit of the following information on www.ancestry.com, although not all of it, so I don’t have qualms about reproducing it here, immediately below:

Agnes “Nancy” Montgomery 

Born: 1726 [Scots-Irish] [Northern Ireland or U.K.], Northern Ireland
Died: 5 Sep 1789, buried in Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rowan, North Carolina, USA

Marriage: circa 1742 in Rowan Co., North Carolina, USA [to immigrant Alexander McCorkle]


Martha “Mattie” McCorkle (Archibald)

b. circa 1745 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. Married 1765 to Archibald, born Scotland 1728-died 1777

in Rowan Co., NC. She died circa 1801.

She married on 8 Jan 1765 in  Rowan, North Carolina, WILLIAM ARCHIBALD, born circa 1728 in Scotland,

died Nov 1777 in Rowan Co., North Carolina.  Her children were: 

 Alexander Archibald

M

abt 1766 in Rowan, [county], North Carolina, USA

William Archibald

M

abt 1768 in Rowan, [county], North Carolina, USA

Agness Archibald

F

abt 1770

Margaret Archibald

F

abt 1772 in Rowan, [county], North Carolina, USA

Elizabeth Archibald

Samuel Eusebius McCorkle

M

23 Aug 1746 in Harris Ferry, then Lancaster co, now Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania, USA

 

John McCorkle

M

abt 1750 in Paxton [Paxtang?], Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA

 

Alexander McCorkle

M

1751 in Rowan County, North Carolina, USA. Marsha adds:  He went west to Giles Co., Tenn; then to Henry Co., TN.  married Catherine “Katie” Morrison, either a first-cousin-once removed or a first cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle)

Joseph McCorkle

 

M

4 May 1753 in Paxton, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. married Margaret Snoddy in Rowan Co., N.C.

Elizabeth McCorkle [Barr, Kilpatrick]

 

F

abt 1754 in Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, USA. 

“Nancy” Agnes McCorkle [Ramsay]

 

F

9 Feb 1760 in Rowan Co., North Carolina, USA

Mrs. Robert Ramsay.  See her papers in the UNC Archives at Chapel Hill.

William McCorkle

M

circa 1762 in Rowan County, North Carolina, USA; died 1818 in Rutherford County, Tennessee  [he did not move to West Tenn. with his brother Robert]

Robert McCorkle

M

29 Oct 1764 in Rowan-Iredell Co., North Carolina, USA. Died in Dyer County, West Tennessee, in the spring of 1828 (April). Buried in the McCorkle Cemetery of Dyer County east of Newbern.  Wives:  Elizabeth Blythe (McCorkle); Margaret Morrison (McCorkle)

James McCorkle

M

4 May 1768 in Rowan Co., NC, and died 2 DEC 1840 in Boone County, Indiana. He marriedElizabeth HALL circa 1790 in Iredell County, N.C., daughter of Thomas HALL and ElizabethSLOAN. She was born 1770, and died 1794. As 2nd wife he then married Elizabeth HALL 12 APR 1796 in Iredell County, N.C., daughter of Hugh HALL and Margaret KING. She was born 19 AUG 1771 in Iredell County, North Carolina, and died 2 JUN 1817 in Piqua, Ohio. He marriedElizabeth Hanna JOHNSON 21 AUG 1821 in Miami County, Ohio. She was born 1783, and died 1857.

 

Our old West Tennessee records do not state the parentage of the immigrant Alexander McCorkle. —  James McCorkle?  Samuel McCorkle?  Matthew McCorkle?

If the father of Alexander were Matthew–and I doubt it–Alexander would have had a brother named Francis McCorkle.  Evidently, some of others’ records say that the Alexander McCorkle who m. “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery had an older brother named Francis McCorkle,  but not Aunt Ora McCorkle Huie’s records and not Aunt Katie Pearl Fox’s.  It is this Francis McCorkle who was a major in the “patriot” or Whig army. Because of Francis McCorkle’s military status, much will, I suppose, have been written about Francis McCorkle, but I’ve not yet researched Francis.  We read from others’ records that Francis McCorkle’s wife was (2nd wife?)  was “Betsy Brandon (McCorkle); also, we know that our immigrant Alexander McCorkle’s 2nd wife was Rebecca Brandon (McCorkle), buried at Thyatira, and that Rebecca Brandon was not the mother of Alexander Sr.’s children.

 

 – Perhaps I should note here that Meigs County, Tennessee, marriage records include these two, much later, marriages:   Francis McCorkle & Mary E. Newton, 16 Dec. 1875; and Evander McCorkle & Emaline Witt, 19 July 1860.

 

Other early NC marriage bonds that may, or may not, be of interest ( I don’t know who all these people were) :  a James McCorkle who m. Margaret Kennedy on 14 Feb. 1804 in Mecklenburg County, NC, with witness Shared Gray and bondsman Wm. Givens;

a Stephen McCorkle who m. Mary Martin on 7 Nov. 1795 in Lincoln County, NC with witnesses Wm. Martin & Jo Dickson.

I do know who this Joel McCorkle was; Joel was a son of the immigrant Alexander McCorkle’s son John McCorkle:   Joel McCorkle m. Polly Fauster [Foster? Forster?] on 23 Sept. 1801 in Rowan County, with Thomas L. Cowan as either witness or bondsman or officiating person.  Joel McCorkle, son of John, remained in Rowan Co., NC.  Some of his papers lie within the Ramsay collection at the UNC Archives in Chapel Hill.

And here are two Revolutionary War deaths recorded. I do not know how these men fit into the McCorkle family:

McCorkle, John          Ensign      [But where?]                          Killed 1781

McCorkle, Samuel        Ensign North Carolina                            Died 12th Aug. 1777.

 

THE PEREGRINATIONS OF ROBERT McCORKLE (who died in Dyer County, West Tennessee, in April, in the spring of 1828):

               We know that Robert McCorkle was born in North Carolina in Rowan-Iredell County (Iredell County was carved out of Rowan in the year 1788); was born to immigrant parents Alexander McCorkle & “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery, the parents coming, first, to Pennsylvania, from Northern Ireland, then, we think but are not certain, to the area of Lexington, Virginia, in Rockbridge County. Then, the parents removed to the Piedmont of North Carolina near Salisbury and Statesville, probably coming down the Great Wagon Road of the 18th century.

·         “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle’s mother was née Martha 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 Agnes Montgomery McCorkle and Joseph Montgomery, the old family records reflect. [Please see my contribution to someone else’s Wikipedia entry on this Joseph Montgomery.]

·         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, now 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.   See also Wikipedia, the online dictionary, its entry on Joseph Montgomery.

Aunt Ora McCorkle Huie‘s and her sister Aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle Fox‘s Records of West Tennessee indicate a connection between Dr. Benjamin Rush and “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle.  And, sure enough, here it is:  Agnes’ brother, Rev. Joseph Montgomery, married as one of his wives a sister of Dr. Rush: viz., Rachel Rush (widow of Agnus Boyce).

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 Martha Finley Montgomery’s husband’s name was John Montgomery. The mother, néeMartha Finley, would have been born sometime around 1700.  The old handwritten Dyer County, Tennessee, 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 byOra’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 the grandfather (?)  of Princeton president Samuel Finley of Princeton, as well as father of Martha Finley Montgomery and grandfather of Nancy Agnes Montgomery (McCorkle);   or perhaps Samuel Finley was a brother (collateral ) to our Martha Finley Montgomery (Martha the mother of Rev. Joseph Montgomery and of Mrs. Alexander McCorkle).  I do not  know the precise relationship between Princeton president Samuel Finley and our Martha Finley (Montgomery), which further research should establish. [Material quoted from the Internet about Samuel Finley & Princeton will be placed toward the rear of this document.]

 Appended to this document (near the very end) are materials from the Princeton University Internet web site, which say that a Samuel Finley was an early president of Princeton, 17611766. – What kin was our ancestor John Finley to this Samuel Finley?  Grandfather?  Dates don’t seem to fit for John to have been Samuel Finley’s father (?).  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 aunts Ora and Kate’s old family records in Dyer County, as we know “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle’s brother Joseph Montgomery (a Presbyterian minister living 1733-1794) 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, and most records say,  that he was born in North Carolina. –A book about Samuiel Eusebius that my father had is: Samuel M. HOUCK, , “To receive the morning star: Thyatira Presbyterian Church, 1752-1976.” 
 

Thyatira Church is in the Statesville, NC, area, but nearer Mooresville.  Its address is Salisbury, NC:  Thyatira, 220 White Road, Salisbury, NC 28147.  Directions:  To get to Thyatira from Mooresville, NC, go toward East Iredell Avenue, go 2.6 miles; bear left on NC HWY 152 West and stay on that road a very short distance, less than a mile, until it becomes NC HWY 150 / NC Hwy 152. Go left on NC Hwy 150.  Now drive for 8.7 miles.  You will turn left on White Road and there is the Church in 0.1 mile.  –In late May 2007 our daughter Elizabeth Ann Williamson‘s graduation party held by Davidson College took place in an abandoned but scenic quarry about 2 miles from Thyatira Presbyterian Church.

 

Rowan County was formed in 1753 from Anson County, and was named for Matthew Rowan (d. 1760), acting governor at the time the county was formed. The county seat is Salisbury. Initially Rowan included the entire northwestern sector of North Carolina, with no clear western boundary, but its size was reduced as a number of counties were split off. The first big excision was to create Surry County in 1771. Burke and Wilkes Counties were formed from the western parts of Rowan and Surry in 1777 and 1778, respectively, leaving a smaller Rowan County that comprised present-day Rowan, Iredell (formed 1788), Davidson (1822), and Davie (1836). Surry, Burke and Wilkes subsequently fragmented further as well. Depending on where your ancestors lived, you may want to look at records for some of these later counties also. Records of very early land grants in the Rowan County area will be found with Anson County.”       … … … … … …

“Thyatira is one of the oldest Presbyterian churches west of the Yadkin River.” […End of quoted material from Internet, provided by Expedia.com Travel….]  In the summer of 2007 I learned that the Yadkin River is called the Pee Dee River in South Carolina. We know that Robert McCorkle moved from North Carolina westerly into Kentucky.  I’ve come to doubt that he lingered in Sumner County, Tennessee (then, a generic term for northern middle Tennessee excluding Nashville and Davidson County) on his way to exploring Kentucky.  Only in the winter of 2007 did I discover a leaf of paper, at my mom’s in West Tennessee, written by daughter Elmira, which said that her father Robert was in the second company of men to move westward into Kentucky.  Finally, that explains to me his membership in 1789 of Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church near Lexington, Kentucky.  I guess his first wife Elizabeth Blythe McCorkle went into Kentucky with him. (?)

Robert married (1st wife) “Lizzie” Elizabeth Blythe 11th  Sep 1788 in Rowan County, N.C., and had two children, Aleck McCorkle who died in infancy and Elizabeth McCorkle (Anderson) who was raised by her deceased mother’s mother.  I think the children may have been born in Kentucky but do not know. Surviving child Elizabeth McCorkle Anderson’s maternal grandparents were Reverend James Blythe and Elizabeth King (Blythe). [Please note that Samuel KING witnessed the will of Robert McCorkle’s father, Alexander McCorkle, who died in Rowan Co., NC, in 1800.]

Something I read lately made me think the in-law Blythes moved into Kentucky with Robert & Elizabeth Blythe McCorkle, also–I’m not sure about this–but returned to Middle Tennessee. I know the Blythes were at Shiloh Presbyterian Church near Gallatin for a time.

Elizabeth McCorkle (Anderson) was raised by her grandmother Blythe [Elizabeth King Blythe] in or near Lebanon, Tennessee. After Robert McCorkle’s first wife Elizabeth Blythe McCorkle died, evidently after Robert had moved back down to northern middle Tennessee from Kentucky, Elizabeth Blythe McCorkle’s widower Robert McCorkle went back to Rowan County, North Carolina, to marry circa 1794 and fetch westwardly, as his 2nd wife, Margaret “Peggy” Morrison, daughter of ANDREW & ELIZABETH SLOAN MORRISON. At one time the Morrisons and the McCorkles were adjoining landowners in Rowan County. –Some of the other relatives must have moved from Rowan Co., NC, directly to northern Middle Tennessee, then called Sumner County. (Later, Wilson Co. was carved from Sumner, taking in the town of Lebanon, but the town of Gallatin remained in Sumner Co.).  There in Sumner Co., in 1792, occurred the scalping of John Purviance II, a son of John Purviance & Mary Jane Wasson Purviance.  Young John Purviance’s widow married William McCorkle, Robert’s brother.  –I guess but do not know that Robert McCorkle himself lived awhile in Sumner County. (?)

[Source:  Letter from Robert & Peggy McCorkle’s daughter Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache to her nephew, James Scott McCorkle, M.D., of Newbern, Tennessee.]

Mrs. Andrew Morrison:  We also know that Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison)–mother of Margaret Morrison (McCorkle), Robert McCorkle’s 2nd wife–was herself a McCorkle descendant.  Elizabeth Sloan Morrison’s mother (I think); that is, I think it was Mrs. [somebody] McCorkle Sloan–was a sister to our immigrant Alexander McCorkle (1722 or 1723 – 1800).

[Same source, Elmira, who thought that her mother “Peggy” Margaret Morrison McCorkle and father Robert McCorkle were 2nd cousins; — but from Elmira’s descriptions of their consanguinity I read them to have been first cousinsonce removed Quaere: were Robert McCorkle & his 2nd wife Margaret Morrison McCorkle first cousins or 1st cousins-once-removed?]

From the year 1789, Robert McCorkle was already in Kentucky, not Middle Tennessee, and was a member of WALNUT HILL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH near LEXINGTON, KY.

But some of the Purviances (a related family) and some of the other McCorkles (evidently not Robert McCorkle and his 1st wife “Lizzie” Elizabeth Blythe, who died before 1794) temporarily moved directly from Sumner County up to Bourbon County, Kentucky, nearParis, 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.  (Robert McCorkle married his 2nd wife, MargaretMorrison, in Rowan Co., NC, circa 1794.  He had married his 1st wife, Elizabeth Blythe, on 11th September 1788 in Rowan County, N.C.   I do not know if 2nd wife Margaret was ever up in Kentucky with Robert but suspect she was.)  As mentioned, some of the McCorkle &Purviance families moved from Sumner County, Tennessee,  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 older 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 (namely, 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, viz., née, 1st  Peggy” Margaret Blythe; 2nd “Mattie” Martha King (Mrs. John Purviance));  and 3rd married in 1800  in Sumner County, Tennessee: Jennie or Jane Graham.  —

The scalped John Purviance’s brother, church elder David Purviance, remained in Bourbon County, Kentucky, for some years, and signed the “Last Will and Testament of the Springfield, Kentucky, Presbytery in order to form the new “Christian Church-Disciples of Christ.”

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. 

 “Elder” David Purviance was a brother to Elizabeth Purviance Thomas, alias Mrs. William Thomas, née Elizabeth Purviance; and Elizabeth Purviance Thomas was the mother of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle, née Jane Maxwell Thomas “Elder” David Purviance died and is buried in Preble County in the old cemetery of, I think New Paris, Ohio.

Many family members remained in Ohio, but others of the Thomas and McCorkle and Purviance families moved back down to northern middle Tennessee after troubles with the indigenous peoples resolved Some went north; others went back south; and their grandchildren were to end up within fewer than fifty years in an internecine civil war that divided loyalty generally between the two geographic regions, the industrial north and the south whose agrarian economy was based on the immoral practice of slavery.

This “church elder” David Purviance who died in “New” Paris, Ohio, was, as mentioned, a son of Mary Jane Wasson (Purviance) [she died in 1810 aged 68, the year of formation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church].  I think, but do not know for certain, that it is she who is listed as “Mrs. Purviance” on the earliest church rolls as recalled by later members of Shiloh Presbyterian Church located just outside today’s Gallatin, Tennessee, in Sumner County.

Church “elder” David Purviance’s father  John Purviance  —  was a soldier in the North Carolina continental line:  Revolutionary War “colonel” John Purviance, who moved back down to Tennessee from Bourbon County, Ky.

The father John Purviance did not convert to his son’s new “Christian Church.”  The father remained a Presbyterian, albeit later, at least after 1810, a Cumberland Presbyterian.

Mary Jane Wasson Purviance & husband John Purviance are presumably buried in Middle Tennessee. But where?  Shiloh CP Church?    –Again, this “church elder” David Purviance was a brother to Elizabeth Purviance Thomas, the mother of Jane Maxwell ThomasMcCorkle—alias Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle, who (Jane) in 1855 was buried in the McCorkle Cemetery.  Also, therefore, this “elder” David Purviance was a brother to the “scalped” in 1792 John Purviance; and to  alia).

As mentioned, this “elder” David Purviance is listed as a co-founder with Barton Stone of the Christian Church/ later subdivided into a Church of Christ.  [I think I’ve written this ad nauseum, so this will be it:  David Purviance was a brother to, inter alia,  Elizabeth Purviance(Mrs. William Thomas), who (Elizabeth Purviance Thomas) was the mother of Jane Maxwell Thomas (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle), the Jane who died in Dyer County in 1855, soon after her husband Edwin Alexander McCorkle had died 10 January 1853. ]

—  The Families Jacob Thomas & wife Margaret Brevard Thomas and Alexander McCorkle & wife Nancy Agnes(s) Montgomery McCorkle and John Purviance (descended from Jon de Purvaiance on the west coast of France in what became Huguenot territory), and a James Scott (1777-1853) family, are mixed up together in many ways. And the Thomases were somehow mixed up with old Sam Houston’s Houston family.  It’s very clear to me that Sam Houston and David Thomas (the latter a brother of Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle, alias Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle) were connected as they each signed the Texas Declaration of Independence, one signature beside the other; and as David Thomas was appointed the first attorney general of Texas (the nascent Republic of Texas) before his untimely death in 1836. [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 (Thomas), Rowan County, N.C., later Iredell County.]

 This script now jumps for a moment into a brief THOMAS-MCCORKLE EXCURSUS.

 

  I. Jacob Thomas m. Elizabeth Brevard (Thomas)–Rowan & Iredell Co., NC;

II. William Thomas m. Elizabeth Purviance (Thomas);

III. Jane Maxwell Thomas m. Edwin Alexander McCorkle….

 

 One William Thomas (son of Jacob Thomas & wife Margaret Brevard Thomas), was originally of Rowan County, NC (later Iredell County as carved off in 1788), then of Wilson County, Tennessee, in or near Lebanon.  This William Thomas was the father of, inter alia,Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle.  This William Thomas was, as mentioned,  a son of the Jacob Thomas who married Margaret Brevard (Thomas).  There is evidence of a Jacob Thomas‘s living in Wilson County, Tennessee (Lebanon), and I think this would have been a son of the Jacob Thomas who m. Margaret Brevard (Thomas), not the father Jacob Thomas; but I’m just guessing about this Jacob Thomas who left tracks in legal documents of Wilson County, Middle Tennessee.

 

Margaret Brevard (Mrs. Jacob Thomas) was somehow kin to the man who is alleged to have written the alleged Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence in NC.  If authentic, the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence predated the declaration of Thomas Jefferson, who hotly contested the historicity of the Mecklenburg Declaration. –Is All Life always just about good Public Relations? — William Thomas, with his wife Elizabeth Purviance Thomas, in his last three years removed from Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee, to Dyer County, Tennessee, evidently to be with his McCorkle daughter Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle, and he lived in Dyer County only some three years before his death.

 

It was from Dyer County that William Thomas’ widow Elizabeth Purviance Thomas applied for a Revolutionary War widow’s pension.  Elizabeth’s son-in-law Edwin Alexander McCorkle lent his aid to her application.  It’s pretty clear that William & Elizabeth PurvianceThomas moved to Dyer County in order to be with their daughter Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle) & other Thomas children who had migrated to the newly opened western district of Tennessee. –One of William Thomas’s brothers by that time residing in Gibson County acted as witness and supporter of his brother’s widow’s cause in seeking a Revolutionary  War pension.

 

David Thomas, 1795-1836, signator of the Texas Declaration of Independence, first attorney general of the Republic of Texas, and acting Secretary of War:  a brother to, inter alia, Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle of Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee then, last, of Dyer County, Tennessee


Alongside Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle), another one of the children of William & Elizabeth Purviance Thomas was this David Thomas, 1795-1836.  Evidently David Thomas went straight from Middle Tennessee to Tejas/Texas. (Hemay have gone from Wilson County, Middle Tennessee, for a brief time to West Tennessee, but I don’t think so.) Nor do I think another of William & Elizabeth Purviance Thomas’ sons (Jane Thomas McCorkle & David Thomas’ brother), Dr. Hiram Jacob Thomas, went to live in West Tennessee.  Rather, Hiram Jacob Thomas, M.D., removed from Wilson County in Middle Tennessee down to Mississippi—Jasper County, Miss., & then to Yazoo, Mississippi. Dr. H J Thomas had no children, as his wife died pretty soon after the marriage.  ( Please see my Wikipedia(online encyclopedia) entry on this David Thomas.)

   I wish I could find where “our” David Thomas “read law.” Perhaps, though, he studied under a preceptor.  [We should check Queen’s College near Charlotte, NC, where Andrew Jackson is supposed to have read law; and check Maryville College in eastern Tennessee.] History records that Sam Houston himself read law at Maryville College near Knoxville in eastern Tennessee, but I’ve so far found no record for David Thomas.

—  [The Isaac J. Thomas who married Asenath Houston (supra) would have been a first cousin to David Thomas, 1795-1836, David Thomas 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.  He signed the Texas Declaration of Independence and some sources indicate he may have been its principal drafter.  He is buried in a hero’s grave in the de Zavala Cemetery at the San Jacinto Battle State Shrine (State of Texas) outside Houston, Texas.  I’m in possession now of the quilt his Tennessee family made for him; it’s framed for preservation, and I hope to pass it on to some family member who will cherish and preserve it.]

TO SUM UP JACOB THOMAS & MARGARET BREVARD THOMAS had one daughter named Ann Thomas, according to the father’s will; and one daughter named Elizabeth Thomas SHERRILL, & five sons, viz., John Thomas who m. Mary Jetton; Henry Thomas who m. ___ McKnight; James Thomas whose life ended in Gibson County, Tennessee; and [my ancestor] William Thomas who married Elizabeth Purviance (living in Dyer County at the end).  According to the father’s will, there was another, fifth, son, named Jacob Thomas after the paternal grandfather.  [There is a good bit of information about these Thomas-es in the history room of the Iredell County Public Library in Statesville, NC.  One researcher speculates that the father of Margaret Brevard (Mrs. Jacob Thomas) was a Zebulon Brevard; others disagree. I myself do not know.]

 

My great-aunt Katie Pearl McCorkle (Fox), who died in very old age about 1962, had dutifully copied by hand a long SHERRILL genealogical section of births, marriages, and deaths; and at some point she wrote in obvious frustration, “I don’t understand all of this.”  After ponderous reflection on the Thomas line, I think Aunt Kate didn’t understand that a Thomas woman (Elizabeth Thomas Sherrill, a daughter of Jacob Thomas & wife Margaret Brevard Thomas) who married a Sherrill man (Elizabeth Thomas SHERRILL), was a sister to Aunt Kate’s great-grandfather,  William Thomas, who was the father of Aunt Kate’s paternal grandmother,  Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle).  Aunt Kate didn’t have the Internet to help her; nor did her older sister who long pre-deceased her, Ora Alice McCorkle Huie, have modern-day genealogical aids.  –There is a Sherrill’s Ford in the Piedmont of North Carolina.

 

It is believed that William and Elizabeth Purviance Thomas are buried in Dyer County, Tennessee.  But where?

 

…  …  …  …  END OF THOMAS-BREVARD EXCURSUS …  …  …  …  …  …  


   And so John Purviance [Jr.] had been scalped in 1792 in Sumner County, Tennessee. We know that Robert McCorkle’s brother, William McCorkle, married as his 2nd wife Martha “Mattie” King, the widow of John Purviance [(John Purviance, Jr.)—I’m denominating thescalped 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, participant in North Carolina in the Revolutionary War and husband of Mary Jane Wasson (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, Jane Jennie” Graham (in Sumner County, Tennessee).  Robert McCorkle married his 2nd wife, Margaret Morrison, in Rowan Co., NC, circa 1794

–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 (Mrs. “colonel” John Purviance) died aged 60 in 1810 [or was it 1801] so I presume she did not join the Cumberland movement from the Presbyterians;  Levi Purviance’s biography of his father “church elder” David Purvianc(David a son of Mary Jane Wasson & John Purviance) clearly states that “colonel” John Purviance, father of David, became a Cumberland Presbyterian, but did not adopt the teachings of Alexander Campbell and Barton Stone, (and of his son “elder” David Purviance) nor their RESTORATION MOVEMENT (early 19th-century genesis of the Christian Church – Disciples of Christ – Church of Christ).

 

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.  I do not know.

 

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.  (Please recall his daughter Elmira’s handwritten note that her father Robert McCorkle had been educated at Chapel Hill.) The new denomination was desperate for educated clergy.  The two reasons forseparation 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 & Margaret “Peggy” Morrison McCorkle’s daughter, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, wrote that her father Robert McCorkle, and presumably Robert’s brother William McCorkle, had explored into Kentucky in the second company of men to make inroads so far west; and we know that their relatives who had settled in Sumner Co., in northern Tennessee retreated circa 1792 up to Bourbon County, Kentucky, during troublous times with the indigenous population; then (some of them) moved on back down to Sumner County, Tennessee [Lebanon or Gallatin area], after Indian relations improved.  [See the Cumberland Presbyterian web site on the Internet.] 

 

William McCorkle–Robert’s brother–or some of his people, 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.  And so it was Mrs. Elizabeth King Blythe who raised Robert’s daughter Elizabeth McCorkle (later 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, Tennessee).

A letter, discussing William McCorkle’s distressing economic situation soon after William had removed from NC into Tennessee, lies in the University of North Carolina Archives at Chapel Hill amongst the Ramsay papers.  The letter is written by a Ramsay friend or relative who had moved westwardly into Tennessee also, and is sent back to Rowan County, NC, addressed to Robert Ramsay, the husband of Agnes McCorkle (a sister to “our” Robert McCorkle who m. 1st Elizabeth Blythe and 2nd Margaret Morrison). (This “Nancy” Agnes McCorkle Ramsay was a daughter of the immigrants Alexander McCorkle & “Nancy” Agnes(s) Montgomery McCorkle.)  The writer informs William McCorkle’s Ramsay brother-in-law, Robert Ramsay, that William had not been able to make a crop of corn nor to do productive work and implied that William was near starvation. (I hope to return to the UNC Archives and photocopy this letter; somehow, I suspect William McCorkle was more interested in religious subjects and religious life than in making a crop to feed himself; but this is speculation.)

 

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 Millbridge near Mooresville near Salisbury and Statesville).  Alexander in Rowan County, NC, by his last will and testament, 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 his brother William McCorkle.  Unfortunately, William McCorkle died in 1818 in Rutherford County near or in Murfreesborough, Tennessee, and did not remove to Dyer County, West Tennessee, with his brother Robert McCorkle.

               It may even 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 1792 when  the son John Purviance [was he really a Jr.?] had been scalped by Indians in Sumner County, Tennessee, in 1792.  I speculate on this point.  We know that some of the Robert McCorkle family worshipped there also, including brothers Joseph “Joe” McCorkle and William McCorkle.  As mentioned, Joseph (m. “Peggy” MargaretSnoddy) was to move on up north, to Piqua Co., Ohio,  to escape slavery, as his descendant John Hale Stutesman writes.  Carol Byler writes that Robert McCorkle joined the Walnut Hill congregation in 1789, before John Purviance Jr. was scalped in Middle Tennessee in 1792–was his 1st wife Elizabeth Blythe (McCorkle) with him then?–; that Joseph “Joe” McCorkle had joined in 1788 with wife Margaret Snoddy McCorkle; and that William McCorkle joined in 1790.  —Again, 1790 is before John Purviance Jr. was scalped in 1792 in Sumner County, Middle Tennessee.

We need to read the books listed below to see what they tell us about the earliest members. 

Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church (est. 1785) is near Lexington, Ky.


“Constructed in 1801, Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church has the distinction of being the oldestPresbyterian 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 cemetery. Walnut Hill PresybeterianChurch, as seen from the east. Photograph from National Register collection, courtesy of H.Lynn Cravens

“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   

·           The above was quoted directly from the Internet web site for Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church; the above writing about Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church is most emphatically not my work. I’ve not yet had a chance to examine the above books on Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church to look for traces of the sons of the immigrant Alexander McCorkle Sr.


Where are John Purviance & wife Mary Jane Wasson Purviance buried?

·                     It may be that North Carolina Revolutionary War “colonel” [I think he was really a lieutenant but am not certain; but a James Purviance was a captain or colonel] John Purviance and wife Mary Jane Wasson Purviance are buried at ShilohCumberland Presbyterian Church in Middle Tennessee in what is sometimes called the King Cemetery; but this is speculation as yet.  John Purviance outlived Mary Jane Wasson Purviance, who died in 1810 aged 68.  Now to rank speculation: he may be buried in Brown Cemetery, Giles Co., Tennessee as there has been mention made of a Mr. Maxwell (a son-in-law of the Purviances?) who is buried next to a “Mr. Pevines.”  Or, John Purviance (widow of Mary Jane WassonPurviance ) may possibly have died when visiting his son “church elder” David Purviance up in New Paris, Preble County, Ohio.

·                     These then are our 3 clues Shiloh Presbyterian Church near Gallatin, Tennessee; Brown Cemetery in Giles County, Tennessee, adjacent to a Maxwell son-in-law or cousin; and possibly up in the old cemetery in Preble County, Ohio. 

·                     The KING/ BLYTHE /McCorkle CONNECTION

·                     Please Recall:  Reverend James Blythe, Presbyterian minister, and Elizabeth King (Blythe) were the parents of two daughters, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Blythe and Margaret “Peggy” Blythe. These Blythe sisters married two McCorkle brothers, Robert McCorkle and William McCorkle, respectively.   Their mother, Elizabeth King (Blythe), was a sister to the Rev. Samuel King who witnessed Alexander McCorkle’s 1800 will in Rowan-Iredell Co., NC.

The CHILDREN of ROBERT McCorkle who died in 1828 in Dyer County, Tennessee:

FIRST WIFE Elizabeth Blythe McCorkle:

Robert McCorkle & his 1st wife Elizabeth “Lizzie” Blythe had two children, viz., Aleck (male who died in infancy; and Elizabeth McCorkle (Anderson). 

 — Update:  Finally, in 2007 I located Robert McCorkle & Lizzie Blythe McCorkle’s grandson, Robert A. Anderson, an attorney, who removed from Middle Tennessee to Durant and Lexington, Mississippi.  Robert A. Anderson is buried in theMizpah Cemetery in Holmes County, Mississippi. — To repeat, Robert A. Anderson was a son of Elizabeth McCorkle (Mrs. Thomas Anderson).  I’m told the old Anderson home of this Robert A. Anderson grandson of “our” Robert McCorkle (1764-1828) is of local interest in Holmes County, Mississippi. I got the middle initial “A” from the Mississippi census, which may not be correct.

SECOND WIFE of Robert McCorkle was Margaret Morrison McCorkle:

These are the children of Robert & “Peggy” Margaret Morrison McCorkle (his 2nd wife):

1)           Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (Mrs. Gideon Thompson),

 Both husband and wife died in Middle Tennessee, within 2 short years of each other, before the removal to West Tennessee.  Then, Edwin Alexander McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle, and Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle & wife Tirzah Scott McCorkle, raised the two orphaned daughters of Rebecca Cowden McCorkle Thompson.  These two daughters were: Jane M. Thompson (Williams) and Mary Thompson (Dickey). 

Recently I was able to identify a deteriorating grave marker that was unfortunately lying against the fence at the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County, as being that of  Jane M. Thompson Williams, CONSORT OF BENJAMIN WILLIAMS.”  (I hired a man to glue the marker back together and place it close to Jane’s grandmother’s, Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s, tombstone; along with gluing together some other deteriiorating tombstones; but I know my periodic unilateral efforts to shore up the old cemetery probably do not have long-term significance.

A granddaughter of Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle, this Jane Williams should have a new marker, or at least we should try better to shore up the existing one.  Sad to report, Jane M. Thompson Williams died young, in 1850 according to her tombstone.   As blithe and merry as a lark,” her maternal grandmother Margaret Morrison McCorkle had described her as a child removed to West Tennessee, in some of the letters copied here, infra. (Margaret spelled it “blythe.”)

 –In the 2nd winter I spent teaching at the U of Memphis law school, the winter of 2007, Annie Glen McCorkle gave me her grandfather (and my great-grandfather) John Edwin McCorkle‘s old plantation desk. Inside was the first membership book of the family church, Lemalsamac. Therein,  Jane M. Thompson Williams &Benjamin Williams are listed, in the first membership book of Lemalsamac Christian Church. They joined the Lemalsamac congregation in the year of Jane’s death, 1850; and thereafter Benjamin Williams is noted as having “removed.”  Where this Benjamin Williams went, I do not know.

(2)           Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roache m. in 1816 Dr. Stephen Roache in Middle Tennessee (Rutherford County). The Internet site www.ancestry.com has entries regarding the Roache family of Dr. Stephen Roache. Elmira & Stephen Roache have no descendants surviving today, sad to say.

(3)           Edwin A. McCorkle married Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle) on 28 November 1826 in Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee. —  Edwin died in early 1853 and Jane died soon thereafter,  in 1855.— 

 [   Names of their children to be placed here…

….  Hiram R. A. McCorkle–the “Hiram” is for the mother Jane’s brother, Dr. Hiram Jacob Thomas;

      Rebecca McCorkle Zarecor –alias Mrs. John C. Zarecor;

      Elizabeth McCorkle Reeves;

     Anderson Jehiel McCorkle (an “uncommon good man,” his uncle RAH McC wrote to his aunt Elmira);      David Purviance McCorkle;

     John Edwin McCorkle, 1839-1924;

     the twins Margaret Latina McCorkle Gregory –Mrs. John T. Gregory– &

     Finis Alexander McCorkle;         ]

DAVID PURVIANCE McCORKLE:     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, where he’s buried in Mt. Moriah Cemetery. Something I read recently listed him as a member of the Confederate Congress (Confederate States of America), but I had never heard that and we have no record of it.

         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 & [2nd] wife Elizabeth Anne Jackson, she died 20 July 1937 in Obion County, Tennessee.Florence Ellen McCorkle married, in 1888: Waller Bright Walker.

 [David Purviance McCorkle’s 1st wife was Margaret Scott (McCorkle), a daughter of James “Jimps” Scott and Violet B. Roddy Scott. Margaret Scott McCorkle was a sister to my great-grandmother “Sade” Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie a.k.a. Mrs. Julius M. Huie.  Margaret Scott McCorkle died during the Civil War, in 1862.  [“Dave’s Marg is gone,” reported Dave’s uncle RAH McCorkle to RAH’s sister Elmira in 1862.] 

       Was David Purviance McCorkle’s 2nd wife, Elizabeth Anne Jackson (McCorkle), a sister to the Sarah Josephine Jackson (McCorkle) who was the 1st wife of Finis A. McCorkle, Finis being a younger brother to David Purviance McCorkle? If so, their father was a Baptist minister named Gillum or Gilliam Jackson of Obion County, Tennessee; –I know the name of “Sallie Jo” Jackson McCorkle’s father.] 

 (4)           Jem Jehiel Morrison McCorkle m. in NC  Elizabeth “Betsy” Smith (McCorkle); by my count they lost 3 sons to the Civil War, viz.,  HC or Henry Clay McCorkle, Brice’s Crossroads, Guntown, Mississippi; 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.  He died in 1849, so was unaware that he would lose 3 sons in the Civil War. He was a member of the first county court of Dyer County, Tennessee, and evidently served as clerk of the first courts.  His court records lie in the archives at the University of Tennessee at Martin.

[I again refer to the grand tombstone erected by Mr. & Mrs. Harry Pipkin in the “new” Yorkville Cemetery, Gibson County, Tennessee. Mrs. Harry Pipkin was née “Manie Mack” Mary McCorkle, and she was a descendant of Jehiel Morrison McCorkle. Tombstone contains genealogical information….]

(5)              “RAH” Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle  m. Tirzah Scott I’ve listed their children several places in this compilation, but choose to list them here:

 Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle [Robert A H or RAH], born in Iredell County, NC; and died in Dyer County, Tennessee. Married Tirzah Scott.  Robert was born 20th March 1808, Iredell Co, NC; d. 26th  Sept 1873, Dyer Co, Tennessee.  He and Tirzah Scott married in Gibson County in 1828. (Tirzah Scott McCorkle was a daughter of James Scott (1777-1853) and 1st wife Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838).)  This James Scott (the father of James or “Jimps” Scott, inter alia) took a second wife in Gibson County, Tennessee, in 1838 or 1839: viz., Mary Landers (Scott).


Children of RAH & Tirzah Scott McCorkle:

   1.            Sarah Elmira McCorkle (Algea

She had to leave her husband and live, with her Algea children, with her father and mother.  Jonathan Francis Algea. More aptly, most of the time she was married to Dr. Algea she remained in the home of her parents, and the doctor visited occasionally, if and when he wished, even after birth of two little Algea girls, Fannie and Carrie. 

   2.            Addison Alexander McCorkle, died young

   3.            Susan L. McCorkle (McNail)

   4.            James Scott McCorkle, M.D.  m. Elizabeth Obedience Clements of Weakley County, Tennessee. 

James Ragon & wife Natalie Cockroft Ragon have transcribed Lizzie O. C. McCorkle’s journal kept in Newbern around the turn of the 20th century.  A big part of Lizzie’s life revolved around “the doctor” (her husband) and the Newbern First Christian Church, now defunct.

   5.            Robert Eusebius McCorkle, died young; McCorkle Cemetery by his parents.

   6.            ?I’m not sure there was a son born named John McCorkle? –some records have him, some don’t.

   7.            Joseph Smith “Joe” McCorkle, died Yorkville, Tennessee; buried McCorkle Cemetery.

He m. Miss Frazier and had a sister-in-law named Missouri Frazier, all buried in the McCorkle Cemetery. — He was a 1st cousin to my great-grandfather John Edwin McCorkle, although my father called him “Uncle Joe McCorkle.”  –Someday I hope to meet Joe’s great-granddaughter Carol McCorkle Branz who lives in Spokane, Washington.  Carol has a brother who lives in Texas.

   8.            Parley Pratt McCorkle, died young; note this Mormon name, too.

   9.            William Leander A. McCorkle, died too young but left a wife, Alice J. Wells (McCorkle) and a daughter Eudora McCorkle Roberson All are buried McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, Tennessee.

Robert A H McCorkle referred to the McCorkle Home Place as Verdant Grove, Tennessee; but his mother had at first called the spot Verdant Plain.


James Scott-Sarah Dickey Scott:  James Scott, 1777-1853; Sarah Dickey Scott, 1777-1838 

               Here, I’ll take the opportunity to add information about the parentage of Mrs. RAH McCorkle, née Tirzah Scott in South Carolina, whose James Scott – Sarah Dickey Scott Family  is intimately entwined with the McCorkles

              RAH McCorkle was a son-in-law of James Scott (17771853) & Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838) of York District, South Carolina, then (last) of Yorkville, Gibson County, Tennessee, but living actually, I think, just across the line, in Dyer County.   I think this James Scott was born in Pennsylvania, then moved to York District, South Carolina, then finally to West Tennessee.  –I think it is this JAMES SCOTT who appears in the 1800 York County, South Carolina, census; as do a John Dickey and a Matthew Dickey. 

                 Tirzah Scott McCorkle’s parents James & Sarah Dickey Scott were interred in the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, but their markers were moved for preservation in 1984 to the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County (now that the old CP cemetery has been restored, I’m sorry I did it. — “Miss” Llewellyn Jones tells me that Congressman Ed Jones worked closely with Hamilton Parks of Trimble for restoration).

The siblings of SARAH DICKEY SCOTT (Mrs. James Scott), 1777-1837, were:

I don’t think the following are in the correct birth order.

•••••JOHN  DICKEY, son of John Dickey & Sarah Robinson (Dickey);

•••••REBECKAH  DICKEY;

•••••William Dickey;

•••••James Dickey;

•••••David Dickey, circa 1776-1831; and

•••••Matthew Dickeyborn circa 1776 – and died 1810 in Franklin County, Tennessee.

•••••[“our” Sarah Dickey Scott, 1777-1838];

[Sarah Dickey Scott & her siblings are listed in the Margaret Dickey DICKEY GENEALOGY

gathered on the Internet as that compiler’s Generation number Nine (9).]


 –In the spring of 2007 we placed a new marker for this Scott family in the old Yorkville C P Cemetery.

To the right in the photograph below is the back of a tombstone newly placed for Cornelius Huie, who lived circa 1835-1850 and was a son of Benjamin Huie & wife Lavinia Cowan Huie (or Levina Cowan Huie).

 

[I’m not optimistic as I don’t have much luck here with photographs. Perhaps the reader can click on the space and the photo will appear??]

One of Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s letters circa 1838 (transcribed herein, in Chapter Two) mentions the re-marriage of “Old Friend Scott” who very likely would have been James Scott (1777-1853). And, indeed, there is record of a marriage in Gibson County, Tennessee, of a James Scott:  with  license, or marriage vows, taken on 14th June 1838. The name of the bride is listed as Mary Landers (Scott).   But absolutely nowhere else had I ever heard that James Scott married a 2nd wife after the death of Sarah Dickey (Scott).

 

Old Gibson County marriage records also reveal the marriage or license on 8th December 1832 of James & Sarah Dickey Scott’s son James Scott [II] to Violet B. Roddy [misspelled as “RODDY, Vilett B”].  They are my direct ancestors, through my father EWING HUIE, 1907-1971, whose paternal grandmother (Howard Anderson Huie’s mother) was James & Violet B. Roddy Scott’s daughter, “Sade” Sarah Elizabeth Scott (Mrs. Julius M. Huie), 1839-1893.

 

I made a mistake on one side of the above-photographed tombstone, unfortunately for posterity.  Erroneously, I listed the second wife of James “Jimps” Scott (born 1810) as Mary Landers (Scott). In fact, Mary Landers Scott was the 2nd wife (I think) of “Jimps” Scott’s father, the James Scott who lived 1777-1853 and who was probably Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s “old friend Scott.” One reason for my mistake is that M.L. Scott is listed in at least one old Gibson County census as living with the son “Jimps” James Scott. (The son is not called “Jimps” on the census records.) 

 

1880 Census, District 9, Dyer County, Tennessee:  James Scott, head of household. 

Name:

James Scott      White Male

Home in 1880:

District 9, Dyer County, Tennessee

Age:

71

Estimated birth year:

abt 1809 [actually, 1810]

Birthplace:

South Carolina

Relation to head-of-household:

Something other than a direct relationship (Other)

Father’s birthplace:

South Carolina  [James Scott, 1777-1853]

Mother’s birthplace:

South Carolina [Sarah Dickey Scott, 1777-1838]

Neighbors:

View others on page

Occupation:

Retired Farmer

Marital Status:

Married  [2nd wife; not 1st wife Violet B. Roddy Scott]

Name

Age

Allen Scott [Is this Allen “Tobe” Scott?]

35

S. R. Scott  [Allen “Tobe” Scott m. Sallie Oliver. Is this Tobe’s wife?]

29

Allie G. Scott  [Allen TOBE Scott had a son named Allen Gray “Gray” Scott, M.D.]

7

I. J. Scott

6

Wm T. Oliver  [Brother-in-law to “Tobe” Allen Scott?]

20

T. E. Scott  [Thomas Elihu Scott, Church of Christ minister]

24

Arlis Scott  [Artie Hall Scott, wife of Thomas Elihu Scott]

28

H. W. Scott  [Horace Scott?  Homer Scott?  — sons of Thomas Elihu Scott]

8Mo.

James Scott  [“Jimps” James Scott, born 1810 in S.Carolina]

71

Margaret Scott  [I guess this is the 2nd wife of “Jimps” James Scott (the James b. 1810). Is it?]

72

Joe L. Williams

20

I don’t know who the above Joe L. Williams was.  We do know that a brother of the above “Jimps” James Scott, head of the above household, was John Dickey Scott (variously, John Dickie Scott). And we know that John Dickey Scott married SUSAN or SUSANNAH C.WILLIAMS (Mrs. John Dickey Scott) (born circa 1816) a daughter of a Joseph Williams.  [I wonder if these Williams folks were kin to the Benjamin Williams who married Jane M. Thompson (Williams), Jane being a daughter of Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (Thompson) & granddaughter of Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle.], 

Name:

James Scott  [“Jimps” James Scott, born 1810 in SC]

State:

TN

County:

Dyer County

Township:

District 9

Year:

1860

Record Type:

Slave schedule

Page:

302

Database:

TN 1860 Slave Schedule

1850 United States Federal Census about James [“Jimps”] Scott

Name:

James Scott, age 42

Estimated birth year:

abt 1808; in South Carolina

Gender:

Male

Home in 1850:

District 9, Dyer County, Tennessee

wife:  M.L. Scott, aged 42, born in S Carolina  [Margaret, according to 1860 census]

M.E. Scott, female aged 14 [b. circa 1836]

J.H. Scott, male aged 13  [born circa 1837]

S.A. Scott, female aged 11 [born 1839; Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie, alias “Sade” Huie]

[her twin:] James Allen Scott, male aged 11 [born 1839]

M.L. Scott, female

Tirzah Clementine Scott [Trimble], female aged 7

Thomas Elihu Scott, male aged 5.


And this same James “Jimps” Scott appears in the 1840 Dyer County, Tennessee, District 9, census; as does James Thomas, brother of William Thomas and brother-in-law of Elizabeth Purviance Thomas (the mother of Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle, alias Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle).

 

–Also listed in the Gibson County records is the marriage of James & Sarah Dickey Scott’s daughter Tirzah Scott to Robert AH McCorkle on 1st December 1828

–Listed, too, is the first marriage of Sallie or Sarah L. Scott, a daughter of Margaret Permelia McCorkle (Scott) & Lemuel Locke Scott Sarah (Sallie) L. Scott  married John A. Rodgers on 21st April 1858. Sallie L. Scott (Rodgers) was to marry a 2nd husband, Richard W.Locke, who was a trustee for McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County.  He should have a marker there, I think—either there, or in the Old Yorkville CP Cemetery, where his (2nd ) wife is buried. [ I think it was Dick Locke’s 2nd wife who is buried at Yorkville, but may be wrong about the order of marriage, and it’s possible he’s buried there with her at Yorkville; but I’ve found no marker for him in either cemetery, and that’s a shame.  Clearly, he was a substantial citizen of worth.] 

–Listed also is a Gibson County record of the 1828 marriage of “our” John Dickey Scott or John Dickie Scott [a son of James & Sarah Dickey Scott] to Susan Williams:   SCOTT, John D married WILLIAMS, Susanah C on 01-JUN-1828.” 

     I’m suspicious there’s another McCorkle-Williams connection here that I’ve only just now recognized: is there a connection between this SUSAN or SUSANNAH C. WILLIAMS (Mrs. John Dickey Scott) and the Benjamin Williams who married Jane M. Thompson (Williams), the granddaughter whom Margaret Morrison McCorkle fondly described thus, in this correspondence herein, infra: “as blithe and merry as a lark.” –except that Margaret spelled it “blythe,” the way her husband Robert McCorkle’s 1st wife had spelled her last name (“Lizzie” Elizabeth Blythe).  Quaere:  Could perchance each Williams (Susannah C. Williams Scott, wife of John Dickey Scott; and Benjamin Williams, husband of Jane M. Thompson Williams) have been a child of Joseph Williams of Gibson County?


I frankly don’t have a clue what to do with the following Gibson County Scott marriages, but here they are for somebody else to figure out someday:

SCOTT, Elisha      to            SCOTT, Elizabeth G J on 12-JUL-1852

SCOTT, Elizabeth                               ELEW, Governoron 13-NOV-1850

SCOTT, Elizabeth            MATHIS, Wm T on 12-JUL-1848

SCOTT, Elizabeth G J         SCOTT, Elisha  on 12-JUL-1852                 

SCOTT, James W                               HARRIS, Emeline on 06-DEC-48

SCOTT, Levina                   PETTIT, James on 15-AUG-1844

SCOTT, Lions C                                 CHAFERO, Martha  on 22-FEB-1838

SCOTT, Margarette            MATHIS, Lebanon D   on 18-APR-1841

SCOTT, Sarah E.                                 MORTON, John V      on 27-APR-1853. [This is most emphatically not the Sarah Elizabeth Scott who married Julius M. Huie.]

SCOTT, Sterling B               BIGGS, Mary E       on 23-NOV-1847

SCOTT, Thos                                      MULLINS, Nancy      on 21-JAN-1856

SCOTT, Wm                         KING, Biddy         on 24-SEP-1846

SCOTT, Wm D                     GILCHRIST, Amanda G   on 09-JUN-1835  –Now, about this one, I’m wondering if it’s possible that William Scott, the father of Tennessee Alice Edwards “Tennie” McCorkle (Mrs. John Edwin McCorkle) married a second time?????  His first wife, and I thought only wife, was Nancy Edwards Wellborn (Scott), buried in Hardeman County, Tennessee. This 2nd wife business is pure speculation based on the dates and names.  One of our Hardeman County Scotts, a descendant of William Scott,  married a Pearl Gilchrist….

            SCOTT, Wm D                       WEBB, Sutelda E          on 30-APR-1849

            SCOTT, Wm P                        LITTLE, Elizabeth A       on 24-JAN-1852


More on the parentage of the immigrant Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800

               Here’s an entry on www.ancestry.com  that came from “unknown” source.  It says our Alexander McCorkle, the immigrant who lived circa 1722-1800 and died in Rowan Co., NC, buried at Thyatira, was Alexander G. McCorkle, a son of SAMUEL McCorkle and wifeElizabeth or Jane ALEXANDER. Of course, I’ve edited the following just to fill in what I know about the children of Alexander McCorkle & 1st wife “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery; but I have not called him Alexander G. McCorkle, for that’s not in our record.  Nor have I addedAlexander McCorkle Sr.’s parents and grandparents, for they are not in our record anywhere I simply do not know if the following entry on ancestry.com is correct about the antecedents of our Alexander McCorkle, but here it is for perusal.—My reader can punch “Control” and click on the computer mouse to follow the Internet links below, particularly the Ahnentafel:

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·  ID: I0923

·  Name: Alexander G. MCCORKLE

·  Sex: M

·  Birth: about 1722 in Lanark County. Scotland

·  Death: 24 DEC 1800 in Rowan Co. North CarolinaFather: Samuel McCorkle b: about 1700 in Argyleshire, Scotland [But how and when did he get to Northern Ireland?]Mother: Elizabeth Alexander b: WFT Est. 1682-1708

Marriage 1
 Agnes Nancy MONTGOMERY b: 1726 in N. Ireland

·         Married: about 1745 in Harris Ferry, Paxton PA

Children [I, Marsha Cope Huie, have added to the following information, although I doubt the above parentage as listed.  I just don’t think “our” Alexander McCorkle, who did have the following listed children, was a son of a Samuel McCorkle; but I may be wrong.]

1.       Has ChildrenMartha (Mattie) MCCORKLE [Archibald]    b: ca. 1745 in Lancaster Co. PA                       m. William Archibald

2.       Has No ChildrenSamuel Eusebus MCCORKLE                                  b: 25 AUG 1746 in Harris Ferry, Lancaster Co. PA [now in Dauphin County]

3.       Has ChildrenJohn MCCORKLE                                                   b: 1750 in Lancaster Co. PA.

        m. Catherine Barr.

4.       Has ChildrenAlexander MCCORKLE , Jr.                                    b: 1751 in Lancaster Co. PA                            m. Catherine Morrison [1st cousin-once-removed (or 1st cousin; I forget which) to the 2nd wife of Robert McCorkle; two McCorkle brothers, Robert & Alexander II, married two Morrison first (or first-once-removed) cousins, Margaret and Catherine “Katie” Morrison.]

5.       Has No ChildrenJoseph MCCORKLE                                                b: 4 MAY 1753 in Lancaster Co. PA.             m. Margaret Snoddy.

6.     

7.       Has ChildrenElizabeth MCCORKLE [Barr]                                  b: ca. 1754 in Rowan Co. NC

                         m. Mr. Barr;   I have his name as William Barr, but absolutely everybody else writes JAMES BARR, so I must be wrong. His father’s name may have been William. ?

8.       Has ChildrenWilliam MCCORKLE b: ca. 1762 in Rowan Co. NC. Died 1818 near Murfreesborough, Rutherford County, Tennessee, before father’s Rev. War land grant was lost in land-title dispute litigation and before brother Robert McCorkle removed from Rutherford County to Dyer County in the newly opened western district of Tennessee.

9.       Has No ChildrenAgnes “Nancy” MCCORKLE [Ramsay] b: 9 FEB 1760 in Rowan Co. NC –papers in UNC Archives; she remained in NC.

10.   Has No ChildrenRobert MCCORKLE b: 29 OCT 1764 in Rowan Co. NC [Marsha adds–my ancestor in West Tennessee. The one who claimed his father’s Rev. War land grant substituted for the land grant lost to litigation in Rutherford County, Tennessee (Murfreesborough).]

11.   Has No ChildrenJames MCCORKLE                         b: 4 MAY 1768 in Rowan Co. NC, the last child to be born, and the last to die.


Marriage 2 of the immigrant Alexander McCorkle was to Rebecca (McNeeley) BRANDON b: about  1748

 [ I, Marsha Cope Huie, do not have the “McNeeley” as her maiden (or perhaps 1st married) name.  Nor do I recall the McNeely name on her tombstone at Thyatira in NC.  –How, if at all, was she kin to Betsy Brandon, a wife of Francis McCorkle (a putative brother to the immigrant Alexander Sr.)   ?]

 

This is the AHNENTAFEL www.ancestry.com gives for the above information, as follows:

Ahnentafel, Generation No. 1


1.

Alexander G. McCORKLE was born about 1722 in Lanark Co., Scotland, and died 24 DEC 1800 in Rowan Co., NC. He was the son of 2. Samuel MCCORKLE and 3. Elizabeth ALEXANDER [Jane? Alexander?] [The foregoing is the part I, Marsha Cope Huie, question.]

 

 Alexander married Agnes “Nancy” MONTGOMERY about 1745 in Harris Ferry, Paxton PA, daughter of John MONTGOMERY and Martha FINLEY. She was born 1726 in N. Ireland, and died 5 SEP 1789 in Rowan Co. NC. He married Rebecca (McNeeley) BRANDON3 MAY 1791 in Rowan Co. NC. She was born circa1748, and died 27 DEC 1801 in Iredell Co. NC.


Ahnentafel, Generation No. 2


2.

Samuel MCCORKLE was born ABT. 1700 in Argyleshire Scotland, and died WFT Est. 1726-1791.

3.

Elizabeth [Jane?] ALEXANDER was born WFT Est. 1682-1708, and died WFT Est. 1725-1796.

Child of Elizabeth ALEXANDER and Samuel MCCORKLE is:

1.

  i.

Alexander G. MCCORKLE was born circa 1722 in Lanark Co. Scotland, and died 24 DEC 1800 in Rowan Co. NC. He married Agnes “Nancy” MONTGOMERY ABT. 1745 in Harris Ferry, Paxton PA, daughter of John MONTGOMERY and Martha FINLEY. She was born 1726 in N. Ireland, and died 5 SEP 1789 in Rowan Co. NC. He married Rebecca (McNeeley) BRANDON 3 MAY 1791 in Rowan Co. NC. She was born ABT. 1748, and died 27 DEC 1801 in Iredell Co. NC.


Carol Byler writes the following about the parentage of the immigrant Alexander McCorkle who died in 1800.  And here I must give proper attribution to Dave Woody:

 1. JAMES  MCCORKLE was born 1694 in Argyll, Scotland, and died Oct 28, 1760 in Augusta, VA. He married MARY JANE GILLESPIE.

Children of JAMES MCCORKLE and MARY GILLESPIE are:

2. i. SAMUEL2 MCCORKLE, b. abt. 1710, Scotland; d. abt. 1750, PA; Adopted child.

ii. WILLIAM MCCORKLE.

iii. MATTHEW MCCORKLE.

iv. JAMES MCCORKLE.

Generation No. 2

2. i. (above) SAMUEL2 MCCORKLE (JAMES1) was born abt. 1710 in Scotland, [Scotland is across the Irish Sea from Northern Ireland—Marsha Huie queries:  did this Samuel McCorkle move from Argyllshire, Scotland, across the short sea and settle in Northern Ireland?– and died abt. 1750 in PA. He married (1)    ?    ALEXANDER in PA. She was born 1714 in PA. He married (2) JANE ALEXANDER in PA. She was born 1714 in PA.

From DAVID WQODY:

Notes for SAMUEL MCCORKLE:

In 1895,  William Egle wrote that a Samuel McCorkle, from the north of Ireland, settled in Paxtang PA prior to 1735. Derry Church (originally Spring Creek) was built in 1720 at a site 14 miles east of Harrisburg and Paxtang Church (originally called Fishing Creek) was located about 3 miles east of Harrisburg.

The record of the Rev. John Roan’s Pennsylvania Congregation of Derry, Paxtang, and Mt. Joy (1745-1775) includes Samuel and Alexander McCorkle, as well as, several Montgomerys and Alexanders. Even though claims that these early Pennsylvania McCorkles came fromArgyllshire, Scotland, have been published, I have never seen any evidence at all to substantiate this assertion. This information was provided by:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dwoody/mccorkle/

Child of SAMUEL MCCORKLE and JANE ALEXANDER is:

3. i. ALEXANDER G.3 MCCORKLE, b. 1722, Scotland Co, NC; d. Dec 24, 1800, Iredell Co, NC 

Dave Woody writes: “Hearth tax lists from 1685 County Donegal [Ireland] contain almost all the same surnames found in early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and a little later in Augusta and Rockbridge Counties, Virginia. In fact, James and Andrew M’Corckle were enumerated at this time in the Laggan region of County Donegal.” 

[ End of material quoted from Carol Byler’s work]  ”

Here is a brief quotation from DAVE WOODY’s  web site (above).  The reader can, I hope, go directly to his web site by  pointing to the citation, holding down the CONTROL button and clicking on the citation.

 “McCorkle Family Roots

“ The History and Genealogy of Samuel & Sarah McCorkle and their Descendants (including McCorkel, McCorkell, McCorcle, McCorkhill, McCorkill, McCarcle, McKorkle etc.)
Hosted by Dave Woody 

(A link to the McCorkle database & pedigree is located at the end of the historical section.)  

“The Ulstermen       About 1700,  a clan of McCorkles and other Scots-Irish Presbyterians immigrated to America through Philadelphia and by 1713 had settled  near the Susquehanna River in the Derry and Paxtang region of Lancaster County (now Dauphin County), Pennsylvania. Although some of these immigrates may have come directly from Scotland and else where, most of them were undoubtedly Ulster Scots that had moved from Scotland to [Northern] Ireland during the “plantation” period [begun by King James I] of the 17th century. Contrary to the popular American image of the kilted, Gaelic speaking, bagpipe playing, Highland Scot, the immigrant “Ulstermen” were mainly descendants of Lowland Scots.     ” 


Now, to some MORRISON Genealogy –Margaret Morrison McCorkle (2nd wife of Robert McCorkle):

 

As best I can figure it, here is some genealogy for MARGARET MORRISON McCORKLE

–Update:  The following has been updated at the end of Chapter 15, after my trip in May 2007 to the history room of the IeRedell County Public Library in Statesville, North Carolina.


The following information is in part based upon a chart that Stuart Hoyle Purvines placed in a huge genealogical collection he published privately in 1984 on the Purviance Family.  —  To my amazement, I just learned in 2007 that a brother of my cousin Diane White married a daughter of Stu Purvines.  My mother’s mother, Notie Headden Cope (1886-1984) had a mother named Ada TAYLOR Headden (Mrs. Winfield Scott Headden of Dyer County, Tennessee).  Ada Taylor Headden had a sister named Dora Taylor (Mrs. White) who moved across the Mississippi River to Missouri.  So, my mother Joyce Cope Huie’s Taylor-Headden cousin Diane White (granddaughter of Aunt Dora Taylor White of Dorena, Missouri) has a brother who married a daughter of Stuart Hoyle Purvines of Missouri.  Small world, indeed.

Some of this information may be wrong.  I’ve added some information, e.g., the siblings I know about of Margaret Morrison (Mrs. Robert McCorkle).  Also, I’ve used materials on file in the history room of the Iredell County, North Carolina, public library in Statesville, as well as an Internet placement about the Morrisons of Montgomery County, Tennessee.  Here goes, with a primitive version:

It begins with brothers William, Thomas, James, & Andrew (Morrison)= my Morrison generation one.

MORRISON Generation One Siblings:  my ancestor WILLIAM MORRISON, born in 1701 or 1704 & died 1771, (m. Margaret ____)–this William is the paternal grandfather of Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle) last of Dyer Co., Tennessee;

Morrison Generation One: Siblings:   THOMAS Morrison  —  This Thomas Morrison is an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s father, that is, this generation one Thomas Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison). ;

Morrison Generation One Siblings: JAMES MORRISON (1702-????) (m. Mary ______).  –This James Morrison is an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s father, that is, this generation one James Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison). ;

Morrison Generation One Siblings:  ANDREW Morrison,  born 1718, and died 5 FEB 1770 in Iredell Co., NC, Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, married Mary McKnight Purviance, born 1734 in Northern Ireland and died 5 Oct. 1784 in Rowan-Iredell County, North Carolina.  — This Andrew Morrison is an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s father, that is, this generation one Andrew Morrison is an uncle to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).  When I first saw his tombstone at Thyatira, I incorrectly thought he was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle; in fact, he was her father’s uncle.


Generation I.    William Morrison, 1704-1771, m. Margaret (maiden name unknown) (Morrison)

                            Their Children=Generation Two=  Hugh, Patrick, Martha Morrison Foster, Sarah, Nancy, Margaret, George Erwin Morrison, Andrew Morrison and William Morrison Jr., immediately below.

          Generation II: 

                              Generation  II Hugh Morrison–an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

Generation II   Patrick, m. Ann Foster. [I know Patrick had at least one son: Generation Three John, who m. his 1st cousin Mary Morrison, a daughter of Generation Two Andrew Morrison & wife Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).  This generation two Patrick is an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, inter alia.]

                           II Martha Morrison, m. John Foster  — aunt to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

                           II Sarah Morrison       — aunt to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

                           II Nancy Morrison       — aunt to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

                           II Margaret Morrison  –an aunt of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848 (inter alia)

                           II George Erwin Morrison    —an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

                           II Andrew Morrison, m. Elizabeth Sloan (parents of Margaret M. McCorkle et al.)  —  This generation two Andrew Morrison is the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle).

(It is this Elizabeth Sloan Morrison –this Mrs. Andrew Morrison, immediately above–whose Sloan mother, Mrs. __X_? McCorkle Sloan(e), was herself a  sister to Alexander McCorkle the immigrant to the colonies, 1st to Penn. then finally Rowan Co., NC, where he died in 1800.  Source:  a letter of Elmira Sloan(e) McCorkle Roach(e) to her nephew in Newbern, Tennessee: James Scott McCorkle, M.D.) 

                                  Generation III.   a dau. of Andrew & Elizabeth Sloan Morrison:  Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770 – d. 1848;   Margaret married Robert McCorkle in Rowan County, N.C. Finally they removed to and died in Dyer County, TN.

                                    III.   son Andrew  Sloan Morrison [did he move back up to Virginia “to attend an old law suit” there, as sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle speculated in a letter to her daughter Elmira that is transcribed in this collection?– some records I found in Iredell Co. say that Andrew Sloan Morrison became a minister & removed to Indiana but I do not know;]

 

                                    III.   dau. Rachel Morrison Brown (Mrs. Robert Brown) — died 1st July 1835, or so Margaret M. McCorkle thought about this sister as revealed in a letter to Margaret’s daughter Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach(e)

 

                                    III.   son William Hays Morrison, 1767-1837–  this William Morrison is buried in Dyer Co. next to his sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle; William Hay(e)s Morrison’s wife née Haynes predeceased him & is buried in Bedford County, Tennessee;

 

                                    III.   dau. Mary Morrison Morrison, who married a son of her Uncle Patrick Morrison (yes, in this instance 1st cousins married ! ).  Along with her older sister Rebecca Morrison, Mary ended her days in the home of a James C. Morrison, perhaps a son or nephew, near Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee.  — It is this aunt Mary Morrison that Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache accused of “constant complaints,” and she asked her mother by letter “what happened to the poor children?”  Elmira opined that Aunt Rebecca [who lived in her extreme old age with a sister, Elmira’s AuntMary, in somebody else’s home near Hillsboro, Tennessee] had probably grown fretful from long listening to the other’s [Aunt Mary’s] complaints.  –So, quaere:  what did happen to the “poor children?” 

Two of “Aunt Mary’s” letters are gathered in this collection. She was living in the home then of a young man named James C. Morrison; it is unclear what her relationship was to him.  Was he a son? a nephew? a cousin?  Please recall Mary’s niece’s (Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache’s) query in a letter posted to her, Elmira’s, mother Margaret Morrison about Mary Morrison Morrison:  Elmira inquired, if it was uncle Patrick’s son that aunt Mary married, “what happened to the poor children?” One wonders….

 Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s son Edwin Alexander McCorkle from West Tennessee once sent Aunt Mary to the east a dollar bill, according to Aunt Mary Morrison’s letter to Edwin’s brother Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle dated 1851.  –And upon one occasion Edwin Alexander McCorkle, having heard of the penury of his mother’s sisters Rebecca and Mary Morrison, drove a wagon to eastern Tennessee (Hillsboro, Coffee County) from Dyer County in West Tenn. expecting to rescue his elderly aunt Mary and older aunt Rebecca and take them to his mother’s people in Dyer County; but the two old ladies were afraid and would not travel westwardly with their nephew Edwin. Source of the latter story:  a letter from Margaret Morrison McCorkle to a child. 

III. Rebecca Morrison:  a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle who evidently never married; Rebecca Morrison died near Hillsboro, Coffee Co., Tennessee (see Rebecca’s sister Mary Morrison Morrison, supra), attended by her younger, and complaining, sister Mary Morrison Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison, John being a son of Patrick Morrison, this Mary’s uncle)–Translation:  Mary Morrison (Morrison) married her 1st cousin John Morrison.

III.  Records in Iredell County, NC (Statesville Public Library) say there was an Elizabeth Morrison (Lowrie), a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle but remaining in Loray Community, Iredell County, NC.  According to records in the Statesville, NC, public library, this sister left her worldly goods to brother George Morrison who remained in Rowan-Iredell County, NC.  From this one can infer that she left no surviving children;.

III.  George Morrison  — remained at Third Creek, Iredell Co., NC–near or in community of Loray, NC. This George had a son:  George Milton Morrison…. Records in the Statesville Public Library’s family and local history room say that of the several children of this George Morrison, mostly females, only the son George MILTON Morrison procreated. –A letter from Mary Morrison Morrison transcribed in this Marsha Cope Huie collection says that she has recently heard from Mary Amanda Morrison, a daughter of her brother George Morrison…. I think this Mary Amanda Morrison (a daughter of this III. George Morrison) is the Mary Morrison on the Rowan County-Iredell Co., NC, census that brings confusion with the Mary Morrison Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison), who was sister to George Morrison, and also sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, as well as being sister to all these other siblings listed here under Roman Numeral III, immediately above.  This would answer the query kindly placed on the Tennessee rootsweb genealogical web site by Jean Morrison of Cincinnati, Ohio, about there being two Mary Morrison ladies connected to George Morrison of the piedmont of NC.  Indeed there were:  a sister Mary Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison) and a daughter Mary Amanda Morrison.

 

Generation II.  William Morrison, who married Martha Miller (Morrison)– this William was an uncle to, inter alia, Margaret Morrison McCorkle, as this William Morrison (the 2nd) was a brother to Margaret’s father ANDREW MORRISON, who m. Elizabeth Sloan.

III.  Rebecca Morrison m. Samuel Harris  1st cousin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle

Children of Rebecca Morrison (Harris) and Samuel Harris:

 Generation IV.  Rebecca Harris (Mrs. Andrew Provine or Purvine) = formerly  Purviance or in France PURVAIANCE;

IV.  Samuel Harris (m. Sarah PURVIANCE)

IV.  Margaret Harris m. William Roseboro or Roseborough 

back to Morrison Generation I.     THOMAS MORRISON had one known son, John Morrison who m. Sarah Potts (the son is listed as Gen. II immediately below)

                                                 II.  JOHN MORRISON m. Sarah Potts

                               I.    JAMES MORRISON m. MARY _______ 

II.  Andrew Morrison [a 1st cousin, e.g., to the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770; that is, this Andrew Morrison was a first cousin to another Andrew Morrison.  What a confusing nomenclature the Morrison s chose for their children ! ]

II.  JAMES Morrison, m. Elizabeth PURVIANCE  [This is not the Elizabeth Purviance who became Mrs. William Thomas, mother of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle alias Jane Maxwell Thomas.] More confusion…  This is a 1stcousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

II.  JOHN Morrison  –This is a 1st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

II.  MARY MORRISON, married JAMES MORRISON  —  The Morrisons were prone to marry their 1st cousins. [This is not the Mary Morrison who married a son, John Morrison, of her uncle Patrick Morrison; this latter Mary was a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle. The Mary Morrison who m. James Morrison was not a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle]  —This is a 1st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

II.  Martha Morrison, m. James McKee   –This is a 1st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770.

II.  WILLIAM Morrison m. Elizabeth Murdock  –This is a 1st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770.

II.  CATHERINE “KATIE” MORRISON m. JOHN McCORKLE, a brother to “our” Robert McCorkle.  — Do I have the following wrong:  is Catherine “Katie” Morrison (Mrs. John McCorkle) a first cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle? [I think so.] Or, is she a first cousin to Andrew’s daughter, Margaret Morrison McCorkle?  — Now, I’m confused and will have to stop to figure this out.   ….    We know that two  McCorkle brothers (John & Robert McCorkle) married Morrison cousins–but what was the degree of consanguinity?    If the former–Katie Morrison McCorkle & Margaret Morrison McCorkle were 1st cousins-once-removed):  then two McCorkle brothers married two women who were 1st-cousins-once-removed.  Conclusion:  –This Catherine “Katie” Morrison, later Mrs. John McCorkle, is a 1st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770; and ranks therefore as a first-cousin-once-removed to Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle).–I’m still a bit hesitant about this, though.

II.  Sarah Morrison, who m. James POTTS   –This is a 1st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

II.  Margaret MORRISON who m. John McCLELLAND  — This is a 1st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770; so, our Margaret Morrison McCorkle had a 1st cousin-once-removed  —  named Margaret Morrison McClelland.

II.  THOMAS Morrison  –This is a 1st cousin to, e.g., the Andrew Morrison  who was the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, b. 1770

GENERATION I.  ANDREW MORRISON m. Mary McKnight Purviance, a daughter of {John Purviance & wife Margaret McKnight Purviance}.  Born in Northern Ireland in 1734, she moved with her parents to Third Creek, NC.  This  ANDREW MORRISON is buried atTHYATIRA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CEMETERY in NC.  He died in 1770.    Their children:

II.  Margaret Morrison (Mrs. James ADAMS)  He died in Preble County, Ohio, in 1821.  –1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

II.  Sarah (Mrs. James MURDOCK)  —-1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

II.  Martha (m. 21st June 1794: Henry McHenry) —-1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

II.  Mary Morrison (Mrs. ABSALOM KNOX —- 1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

Please recall young (approximately ten-years-old) Addison Locke Roache Sr’ 1827 letter (probably written from Indiana) to his uncle Edwin Alexander McCorkle in Dyer County, saying that Absalom Knox was teaching school up north. [As delineated in this chapter’s Morrison Genealogy, Absalom Knox married a Morrison woman kin to Margaret Morrison McCorkle, grandmother of young Addison Locke Roache.To repeat: One of the many “ANDREW MORRISONs  married Mary McKnight Purviance, a daughter of {John Purviance & wife Margaret McKnight Purviance}.  Born in Northern Ireland in 1734, she moved with her parents to Third Creek, NC. This ANDREW MORRISON is buried at THYATIRA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CEMETERY in NC.  He died in 1770.  —  His & Mary McKnight Purviance Morrison’s daughter Mary Morrison m. Absalom Knox. Mary Morrison was the 2nd wife of Absalom Knox; so Mary Morrison Knox was Elmira’s 1st-cousin-twice-removed and Addison’s 1st-cousin-thrice-removed.  –But that letter was written in 1827, so the foregoing cannot be right about this Absalom Knox, because this particular Absalom Knox lived 1738-1808. (I cannot resolve this.) ] Absalom Knox was son of Jean GRACEY & John Knox. Had 3 children:  III. William KNOX m. Margaret Armstrong; and III. Andrew Knox m. Margaret Adams.  Andrew Knox had 2: generation IV. Milton Knox and IV. Agnes Knox (Mrs. Hill McCorkle).

II.  JOHN Morrison   died 20th January 1790. —-1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

           John Morrison married in 1784 Frances Wilson, 1757-1832, a stepdaughter of Samuel Harris; then Frances Wilson (widow Morrison) married George Niblock. [Now, the Huie folk in Rowan-Iredell Co. somehow are kin to Gracie/Gracey Niblock. Aunt Phronia, that is Sophronia Huie Thompson, used to correspond with her father Julius M. Huie’s Niblock cousins.]

III. Children of John Morrison & Frances Wilson (Morrison): IV. Andrew Morrison; IV. Josiah Morrison, b. 11th May 1797, died Fayette Co., Tennessee (near Memphis) in 1880; married a woman named Margaret who died in Fayette Co., TN, in 1878. IV. Elam Morrison; IV. Mary Morrison.

II.  James Morrison   Married ELIZABETH PURVIANCE.  –1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.   This James was born a posthumous child of his father. 3 children:

III.  Zeno Morrison (Ireland) 1798-1861 [Zenobia?]  m. Dorcas Ireland; Polly Dickey; and Mary D. Jones.

III. John Morrison

III. Malinda Morrison, b. 24th Feb. 1796 (Mrs. Fleming Mitchell)


II. ANDREW Morrison —  a 1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle. This Andrew Morrison was born 19th January 1754 and died 7th Feb. 1780 in Iredell County, NC.  Wife:  Rosanne Alexander [This “Alexander” name is of significance because some sources, not our old West Tenn. records say that “our” immigrant Alexander McCorkle, the one born ca.1722- & d.1800, was born to a Mrs. Samuel McCorkle, née ___ ALEXANDER.  So, here is an Alexander clue for us.

III. Andrew B. Morrison, born 1780 (18th July 1780) in Iredell County, NC, and died in 1853 in Preble County, Ohio.  His marriage was in Bourbon County, Kentucky.  –His father Andrew Morrison, 1754-1780, was a 1st cousin to our Margaret MORRISON McCorkle. Here we see some MORRISONs followed the NC to Bourbon Co., Ky., to Preble Co., Ohio, route, the shared route of the Purviances and some McCorkles.

II. David Morrison–1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

II. William Morrison, who died before 1808–1st cousin to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle..

Morrison Genealogical Update added in the summer of 2007:

A lot of this information is from an anonymous contribution made to the Morrison file in the History Room of the Iredell Public Library in Statesville, NC.  I would like to make proper attribution, but cannot do so. The material in brackets was added by me, and some of it may be off-base.

 First:

Generation Zero (0) is James Morrison. –I think this James Morrison had a brother named Andrew Morrison. 

Generation One is William Morrison, 1701 or ’04 – 1774, Iredell County, North Carolina, whose wife’s first name is Margaret (surname unknown) Morrison, 1715-1767. [This is the man who referred to himself as the “first inhabitor” of the Third Creek region that became Loray, Iredell County, NC.  He erected a mill there.  He didn’t want to be dug up and reburied, but was to be re-interred at Centre Church]  [I think but am not certain that this William Morrison’s brothers were  Thomas, James, & Andrew. — I’m in great danger of being confused here and of  having this wrong, so read it “cum grano salis,” as a pontificating lawyer once wrote and made me laugh.]

Generation Two is the Andrew Morrison who married Elizabeth Sloan.

Generation Three is Margaret Morrison McCorkle who m. Robert McCorkle.

 

Generation Two

II.1.   Margaret Morrison who m. Mr. George Erwin 

 This Margaret Morrison Erwin would be a sister to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, wouldn’t it? I’m iffy about this…Note the Erwin name at Fort Dobbs.

 

Generation Two  [This Rebecca Morrison Harris would be a sister to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, wouldn’t it? I’m iffy about this….]

2.  Rebecca Morrison (Harris), born _______ and died 1776.  She married on 7th Aug. 1758 Samuel Harris.  They had 10 children and lived a tiny bit north of Loray, NC.  [This is what the anonymous source says: they lived]  “…on plantation owned by family of Lewis F. Stevenson; buried at foot of grave of parents where a rough stone inscribed ‘”R.H. 1776″‘ marks her resting place.”

 

Generation Two    [This Hugh  Morrison would be a brother to Andrew Morrison the father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, wouldn’t he? I’m almost sure but a bit iffy about this…. ]

3.  Hugh Morrison  — [an uncle to Margaret Morrison McCorkle.  Nothing is said about him in Statesville.]

 

Generation Two. [This is the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan and was father of Margaret Morrison McCorkle.] The following is quoted verbatim from the anonymous piece in the Statesville library:

“4.  Andrew Morrison, 3rd, was granted 493 acres of land on both sides of 5th Creek / North Fork / and on both sides of Turnersburg Road, including the crossing at the “Five Mile Branch.”  His home was north of the Turnersburg Road and west of the Olin Road.  In 1790 he deeded to his son George Morrison a tract including the old Milton Morrison place, south of the 5 Mile Branch, now owned by George Wesley Morrison, a great-grandson, whose children are of the 5th generation on this tract. [I guess this means “old Milton Morrison place” means George Milton Morrison, 1828-1902, a grandson of Andrew Morrison (3rd), & a son of George Morrison, George Morrison being Andrew Morrison 3rd’s son; but I am not sure.]   Here at the large oaks on the hill, south of the crossing, George Milton Morrison settled and raised his family of children.

 

“Children of Andrew were

[III]    Rachel       [Rachel Morrison Brown, alias Mrs. Robert Brown]

[III]    William     [William Hay(e)s Morrison, buried beside his sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle in the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer Co., Tenn., although his wife née Haynes who predeceased him is buried in Bedford County, Tennessee. William Hays Morrison lived 1767-1837.] 

[III]    Margeret  [sic]  [Margaret Morrison McCorkle, alias Mrs. Robert McCorkle, McCorkle Cemetery 

[III]    Rebecca 

[in old age Rebecca Morrison lived with her sister Mary Morrison Morrison in the home of a James C. Morrison near Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee, relationship to James C. Morrison unknown. Evidently, Rebecca never married.]

[III]    Elizabeth —  [“Elizabeth, mar. John Lowrie.  1850 made will to bro. George Morrison”]

 

[III]    Mary             [Mary Morrison Morrison, alias Mrs. John Morrison; m. a son of her uncle Patrick M.]

 

[III]    Andrew        [I guess this is Andrew Sloan Morrison]

                                  [This Iredell County NC source writes later, “Andrew a preacher, went to Indiana.”]

 and

[III]    George.

[George Morrison m. a Martha Morrison. Evidently, she was a cousin; they remained in Iredell Co., NC.]

“a1. Rachel, mar. Robert Brown

 

a2  William [William Hay(e)s Morrison]

       b1 Joseph    b2 Eliza  b3 Elinor   b4 John   b5 William

[According to a letter dated 1857 from Mary Morrison Morrison, Mrs. John Morrison, this b5 William Morrison (a son of the writer’s brother William Hays Morrison and of the wife born Haynes), this b5 William Morrison had the following children:

1st    Eliza Elenor aged 15 [?] years [in 1857],

2nd    William Bell [Morrison] 14 [?],     [in 1857]

3rd    Joseph Pinkney [Morrison] 12,     [in 1857]

4th    George Columbus [Morrison] 10,  [in 1857]

5th     Sarah Elizabeth [Morrison] aged 7,  [in 1857]

 6th    Mary Catharine [Morrison] age 3   [in 1857].

a3 Margeret [sic] mar. Robert McCorkle

 

a4  Rebecca

a5 George Morrison, Aug. 10, 1771 – 1854, married in Sept 1806, Martha Morrison, dau [end of line, words may be missing] of Wm., son of James;  1779-1851.

     b1 Elizabeth                        Aug 30th 1807

     b2 Hiram Andrew,             1809-1844

     b3 Rufus                               1811-1844

     b4 Mary Amanda                1814-1879

     b5 Rebecca Athea               1816

     b6 Sarah Adaline                1819-1871

     b7 Martha Clementine       1819-1905

     b8 George Milton Morrison,     1828-1902,     m. 1856 Emiline Nicholson [Morrison], 1832-19__.

    “Of the children of George Morrison, this [child, George Milton Morrison, was the] only one to raise a family.  A family tree and interesting relics in the family.”

c1   Mary Louise, 1837-1937

c2  Martha Emeline

c3  Florence Angeline 1862

c4  Elizabeth Jane 1866- ____

c5  George Wesley  1867-19__, m.  Lives at the old homestead, has children

c6  Sidney Reece, 1870-19__, m.  

a6  Elizabeth, mar. John Lowrie.  1850 made will to bro. George

a7  Mary Morrison, mar. John Morrison [her 1st cousin, a son of Patrick the son of Wm.]

a8    Andrew a preacher, went to Indiana

         b1  Eli Morrison, went to Ohio

         b2 George McKnight Morrison, mar. and went to Va.

         b3   [I couldn’t read this]

         b4   [I couldn’t read this]

         b5   Joseph, went to Louisiana

         b6   NIEL Morrison

               c1  Mary.   c2 Sarah E.    c3  Georgiana    c4 Sidney   c5  David Nelson, went to Indiana

 

5. Patrick Morrison, mar. lived 1st on Snow Creek, then Ky. or Tenn.    [It was Patrick’s son John who m. John’s 1st cousin Mary Morrison, a daughter of Andrew Morrison & Elizabeth Sloan Morrison.]

    [This Patrick was a sibling of the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).]

6. Mary Morrison, mar. Robert King.

    [This Mary Morrison King was a sibling of the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).]

7. Martha Morrison mar. John Foster

    [This Martha Morrison Foster was a sibling of the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).]

8. William Morrison, 2nd, 17__ – 1822  mar. Martha ______  “

    [This William Morrison was a sibling of the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison).]

 * * * *     * * * *   * * * *  * * * *  * * * *  * * * * 

 [End of material quoted directly from anonymous source’s placement in the History Room of the Public Library of Iredell County in Statesville, North Carolina.]


We discern the following from the 1857 letter, transcribed in Chapter Two of this compilation, from Mary Morrison Morrison (a sister to Margaret Morrison McCorkle) to one of her nephews; and from facts your compiler (Marsha) has acquired over the years:

 

William Hays Morrison, 1767-1837, who is buried beside his sister Margaret Morrison McCorkle in Dyer County, Tennessee (McCorkle Cemetery) had a son Joseph Pinckney Morrison; [evidently a son named John Morrison]; and a son named William  [Morrison] ; [and a daughter  named Eliza Morrison and another daughter named Elinor Morrison].

Mary Morrison Morrison (who m. her 1st cousin John Morrison, a son of the Patrick Morrison who was a brother to the Andrew Morrison who m. Elizabeth Sloan (Morrison), writes in 1857 from Hillsboro, Coffee County, Tennessee, a letter to her nephew Joseph Pinckney Morrison :  “I had a letter from your brother William dated April 17th [1857]. I had made particular enquiries about all his family, he answered me pretty well about his children,

1st        Eliza Elenor aged 15 [?] years,

2nd      William Bell 14 [?],

3rd      Joseph Pinkney 12,

4th     George Columbus 10,

5th     Sarah Elizabeth aged 7,

 6th     Mary Catharine age 3.”

 

The anonymous source in Iredell County, NC, Statesville Public Library had listed the children of William [Hays] Morrison [1767-1837] as:  Joseph    b2 Eliza  b3 Elinor b4 John  b5 William

 

Someday, I hope to work the above Morrison Genealogy into the information available on the Internet regarding the Morrison family of Montgomery County, Tennessee [and into Kentucky]. These Montgomery County people (Clarksville, Tennessee) belong in our Morrison family tree.  Frankly, I dread the work involved. If and when I ever get it done, I’ll make it a Chapter Nineteen of this compilation, or thereabouts.

Perhaps Dave Woody’s web site tells us who this Robert McCorkle in Kentucky was, the one who applied to become a very early Cumberland Presbyterian minister: The following is not the man whom some consider to be “our” SAMUEL–the alleged father of Alexander [I personally don’t think our immigrant Alexander McCorkle I’s father was a Samuel McCorkle],  but the following Samuel was almost certainly kin to our Alexander who moved from PA down to NC. This Samuel in Augusta Co., VA, died in 1788; son Samuel Jr.; wife Sarah; son Robert who m. Elizabeth Forrest in 1785; and John who m. a Forest woman from Orange Co., NC.

“The three McCorkles brothers did not seem to make the journey from Augusta County, Virginia, to Ohio and Kentucky at the same time.” 

He goes on to say that this Samuel McCorkle bought 200 acres in Green County, Kentucky, in the year 1802. And he says that Samuel’s son ROBERT McCorkle trekked to OHIO from the Rockbridge County, VA, area. Furthermore, he mentions a MORRISON family, who I guess were kin to our Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert):

“Robert McCorkle’s journey from Augusta County [VA] to Ohio took about fifteen years. On February 19, 1807, Polly, the oldest daughter was married to John Morrison in Greenbrier County, Virginia and on January 2, 1811 Robert’s oldest son, James, was married in Montgomery County. So the family lived in Bath, Greenbrier and possibly Montgomery Counties for several years… [Daughter Sarah McCorkle married … “A John Morison and family were recorded in the 1810 Kanawha census just three listings away from the McCorkle family. Three census pages away from the McCorkle’s were John Cantrill and family. The Morrison and Cantwell families continued on to Ohio with the McCorkles.”

[Recall that Margaret Morrison McCorkle from West Tennessee writes her daughter Elmira that Margaret’s brother ANDREW MORRISON is probably in VIRGINIA to attend to an old law suit.]

 [DaveWoody writes that these McCorkles settled in Lawrence County, Ohio. Alas, he finds this ROBERT McCORKLE in Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1817 and writes: ] “In 1820, Robert and his family were enumerated in Union Township, Lawrence County, Ohio.” [–So, I guess this is NOT the Robert McCorkle who appears on the early rolls of CP ministers in Ky. –Does that mean it was OUR Robert McCorkle who tried for the CP ministry in Kentucky circa 1810? — However, this VA Robert McCorkle had a brother, a Samuel, who had land in Green Co., Ky. ]

See also the Catholic priest/ monsignor Louis W McCorkle’s book:

From Viking Glory: Notes on the McCorkle Family in Scotland & America (Herff Jones Co., Marceline, Missouri, 1982)

 

[1] Resources for Dickey Genealogy Report   “A vast portion of this Dickey Genealogy Report is the result of many years of research by a cousin whom I “met” via telephone and email after discovering a publication of his of John Dickey’s Store Account Book at the DAR Library in Washington, D.C. in 1991. [paragraph] We stayed “in touch” and I contributed the James Madison Dickey (b.1795) descendants to the effort. While I descend from James Madison, Joe is descended from James’ brother David Houston. Joe published his works about a year ago. The following is a summary of what is to be found in the four volumes.”

——————————-Best regards,   Margaret Dickey—————————————-

The Dickey Source Book 

by Joseph H. Howard    e-mail: [email protected]

Comprehensive genealogy in four 8 ½ x 11 volumes for those interested in Dickey/Dickie families…Other Publications Available: The Dickey Family

Transcription, with added index and Descendant Chart, of a manuscript from the LDS Library covering early Scottish and Northern Ireland Dickeys and their descendants, chiefly in PA, NC, SC and OH, beginning with Robert (c1463-c1536) who is the progenitor of volume 1 Dickeys in the Dickey Source Book.


John Dickey (died 1817) Store Account Book

Photocopy, interleaved with a transcription of his mercantile store daybook of 1784-1796, with entries from Charles County MD, St. Mary’s County, MD and Rowan County, NC.

L to R: Nancy Dunagan Biggs, Nick Dunagan, Sara Frances Zarecor Dunagan (very late in life , Mrs. Sowell), and Anita Dunagan Roy. This photo was made years ago  here in my home at Mom’s birthday (2-1-03) Her date of death is 12-18-06. Here are the addresses you requested:

Linda Drone (Burney Zarecor’s daughter)    2121 Saline Ave   Eldorado, Il 62930   618-273-9789

[email protected]  

Gene Austin also has a lot of info:   Gene Austin 731-286-5940  36 Scarlet Circle Dyersburg, Tn 38024

Harriet Zarecor Kampfer   2985 Coles Way   Atlanta, Ga 30350  770-698-8269 [email protected]

 

Letter from Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle) in Dyer County, Western District of Tennessee, to her daughter Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roache (Mrs. Dr. Stephen Roach, Jr.)

Dear Elmira,

Your letter to Quincy and myself dated January 26th [18  ] came to hand in due time.  I feel glad to hear that you enjoy health, peace, and competence in your new residence, and it gives me still greater pleasure to have reason to hope that you bear the absence of your children with fortitude.–I have some knowledge how a mother feels to be parted from one or more of her children, but I have not realized that odd situation you mention you are in, viz, that of having none to call you mother.–I suppose the thought of having them qualified for acting in a high sphere of life; that is that forthcoming great, and respectable men, buoys up your mind, and enables you to bear with [firmneß ? ] [finesse?] the present privation–

 

Well I suppose this is a laudable wish, and therefore, I say, may fortune favor your most sanguine anticipations. I need not hardly remind you of the necessity of always striving to improve upon their minds, that in order to be truly great, they must be good.  However this piece of advice by the way, is more to evince my anxiety about their welfare, than to excite you to duty–for in reality a desire to have them become worthy citizens, lies near my heart–and my decided opinion is, that the most expanded intellects, and splendid acquirements, must be united with goodness of heart, and a strict adherence to moral rectitude in order to form an eminent character–And now my dear child, will you suffer your mother to give you a word of [page 2] exhortation.


Subject:

Morrison Family of William Morrison, 1704-1771, at Fort Dobbs outside Statesville, NC.  The following is from the website http://www.fortdobbs.org/history.htm 

Residents of Fort Dobbs

MorrisonAndrew

 Morrison, James

 Morrison, William

 Oliphant, John Potts,

 James Potts, John …

Sloan, Fergus   (land portions used for Ft. Dobbs)

Stevenson, William …www.fortdobbs.org/history.htm

 

” REGIONAL GENEALOGY

” Attacks on the vulnerable Pennsylvania and Virginia frontiers, by French and Native American forces eager for territory, forced many settlers to flee south down the Great Wagon Road to the Carolinas.

When war began, North Carolina leaders fortified the coast against possible invasion. However, unprotected western frontier settlements were considered at risk from Native Americans friendly to the French until the construction of Fort Dobbs. Thereafter, during periods of extreme danger, colonists occasionally left their homes and camped near the protective log walls of the fort.

Were your ancestors here? Did they follow the Great Wagon Road? Please check the following listing of Fourth Creek settlement property owners between the years of 1750-1762. If you have documentation regarding your own ancestors in the Fourth Creek area during that period, we would appreciate hearing from you. Contact us today.

 

Fourth Creek Settlement Property Owners 1750-1762

Alexander, Allen
Allison, Adam
Allison, Andrew
Allison, Robert
Allison, Thomas
Archibald, John
Archibald, William
Barry, Andrew
Black, David
Bowman, Hugh
Bowman, William
Carson, William
Cavin, Robert
Cavin, Samuel
Davis, Joseph
Edwards, John
Edwards, John Col.
(land portions used for Ft. Dobbs)
Elliott, George

Erwin, Christopher
Erwin, George
Erwin, William
Fleming, John
Fleming, Peter
Hall, George
Hall, Hugh
Hall, James
Hall, Thomas
Harris, Samuel
Ireland, John
Ireland, William
Jack, John
Lawson, Roger
Leech, John
Lewis, Richard
Lindsey, Walter
 (1764 Militia Major, Rowan County Justice of Peace)

McCulloch, John
McDonald, George
McIlwaine, James
McKee, John
Miller, James
Mordah, James
Mordah, John
Morrison, Andrew
Morrison, James
Morrison, William
Oliphant, John
Potts, James
Potts, John
Reed, Alexander
Reed, Andrew
Reed, George
Reed, Robert
Reed, Samuel

Robinson, Michael
Robinson, Richard
Roseborough, James
Simonton, Robert
Simonton,
 Theophilus
Simonton, William
Sloan, Fergus
 
(land portions used for Ft. Dobbs)
Stevenson, William
(dismantled Ft. Dobbs wood used to build Stevenson Schoolhouse)
Thomas, Jacob
Thornton, Samuel
Waddell, Hugh
 (Fort Dobbs Commander of provincial rangers)
Watt, James
Watt, William

End of Fort Dobbs quoted from the Fort Dobbs (NC) web site on the Internet…..

 

UNION GROVE SCHOOL, DYER COUNTY, Tennesse

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Original belonged to Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle (the 2nd Mrs. John Edwin McCorkle)

1. John Flatt
2. E. B. Wiley
3. Geo. Holder
4. Ira Mitchell Cope, father of Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie (my grandfather)
5. Lee Garner
6. Arthur Van Eaton  —  son of LaMyra Huie & B. Lafayette Van Eaton
7. Ewing McCorkle  –son of John Edwin McCorkle & 2nd wife née Mary Elizabeth Cotton
8. John McCormick
9. Dorsey Hendricks
10. Ina (Ira?) Flatt
11. Johnnie Grills
12. Kitty Franklin
13. Ola Allen
14. Tommie Henley
15. Sophie McCorkle (Huie), grandmother of Sophie Joyce Huie Cashdollar & Marsha Cope Huie

16. Minnie Green
17. Cattie Morrow (Flatt), mother of Marion Moore & Charles Flatt & Carl Flatt (father of Dr. Jimmy Flatt & Dr. Billy Flatt) & Kathryn Flatt last of Iowa & [the mother of Linda Jo Tackett Miller & Joyce Ann Tackett Whitfield] … … …
18. Jennie Wright
19. Mary Trout
20. Myrtle Hendricks
21. Minnie Flatt
22. Jennie McCorkle (Mrs. E. E. Carter) dau. of Finis A. McCorkle  –she died in Hot Springs, Ark.
23. Allie Dickey
24. Charlie Garner, father of Drucilla Huie and 8 more daughters
25. Lou Allen
26. Avie Trout
27. Muncie Smith, actually GEORGE Muncie Smith, father of Maxine Stanfield & “Baby Boy” Wilmere Headden Smith & George Scott Smith. 

Uncle Muncie married Gladys Headden, a daughter of Ada Taylor Headden & Winfield Scott Headden.  Muncie’s daughter, Edna MAXINE Smith Stanfield died June 25, 2007, aged 84, and is buried in Newbern Fairview Cemetery.  Maxine’s husband who predeceased her was John Louis Stanfield.  Maxine Stanfield’s two sons are:  John Louis Stanfield II of the Denver, Colorado, area; and George Chester Stanfield of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Above 
Munsey was Onis Franklin (blurred beyond recognition)–Onis Franklin became a medical doctor and ended up in Oklahoma.
28. __________ Charles
29. Rosa Charles
30. May Lancaster, sister of Nettie Jackson
31. Maud Yates
32. Lula Morrow (?), Mrs. Elmer Headden  — mother of Imogene Headden Whiteside, who died in Gary, Indiana, as Mrs. “Mike” Marion Whiteside and who had three children:  “Jim” James Whiteside; John Ray Whiteside; and Gina or Jeana Whiteside.
33. Connie Green
34. Mollie Flatt
35. Bessie Brady (Boady?)
36. Emma Grills
37. Zula Smith, Mrs. Rice  —  a sister to George Muncie Smith above–each of the numerous Smith brothers said, There were [ten?] of us brothers and each had a sister [Zula[
37. Lula Townes [Stevenson or Stephenson]
39. Notie Headden (Cope), mother of Joyce Huie. My maternal grandmother.
40. Warner Spence
41. Reuben Mayo
42. Albert Jackson
43. Clifford Litton
44. Newt Hendricks  — he was kin to Narcissus Elizabeth Hendricks Cope, mother of Ira Mitchell Cope.
45. Myrtle Hood
46. ____________ Charles
47. Clyde Grills
48. Walter Grills
49. Irl Hendricks (?)  — he married Lillie Burkett Hendricks but had no children. He was a banker in, last, Dyersburg. 1st cousin to Ira Mitchell Cope.
50. Franklin Hall
51. Ernest Moore
52, Verna Pope
53. Willie Binkley
54. Cecil Hall
55. Leonard Scobey  –General Herbert Leonard Grills, son of Delia Cope Grills & Riley M. Grills, received the “Leonard” from Leonard Scobey.
56. Willie Travis
57. Jay Trout
58. Algie Woods
59. Clyde Litton
60. Errett Cotton McCorkle, 1888-1976  –my paternal grandmother Sophie King McCorkle Huie’s brother
61. Willie Edmiston
62. Mollie Scobey
63. Bettie Edmiston (?)
64. Fleetie Taylor (?)
65. Katie Woods
66. Vada Spence (Trimble), mother of Menthia Trimble Hicks & Spence Trimble. Minnie Hicks’ children: Claudia Hicks (Miller) and Larry Charles Hicks.  Spence Trimble’s children:  Patricia Trimble (Mrs. Finis) Miller of Yorkville and Bobby Trimble, who married Renita Fletcher (Trimble) of Yorkville-Neboville.
67. __________ ?
68. Gladys Headden (Mrs. Muncie Smith)  — she died rather young from complications from diphtheria, leaving three children. A Dr. Jones of the Churchton community attended the stridor and awaited the ultimate distress but with his scalpel missed the mark for the planned tracheotomy. Her name was pronounced as if the “a” were long, not short.
69. Ben Anna Spence (Hundley), LaNita Hall VanDyke’s grandmother, 
inter alia
70. Alice Mayo
71. May Spence
72. Ethel Moore
73. Rada Headden (Mrs. B. Allmon, his 2nd wife).  B. Allmon’s daughter by his 1st wife was Margaret Allmon Hassell of the Yorkville community.
74. Ethel Woods
75. Cap Smith
76. Otha Pope
77. Frank Henley
78. Oliver Alexander
79. Charlie Headden
80. Frank Smith

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Of interest to the early Churchton (Dyer County, Tenn.) community were the family of George Washington Smith and wife Cornelia DAVIE Smith.   (I suspect he was of the age to fight in the Civil War but do not know whether he did.) “Old” Mr. & Mrs. Smith lived on a farm roughly equidistant from the McCorkle Cemetery and the Carmel Methodist Church in eastern Dyer County. They are interred in Mt. Carmel Methodist Church Cemetery and were good Methodists, although they appear briefly on the very early records of the neighborhood Lemalsamac Christian Church, now called Lemalsamac Church of Christ.

I cannot name all their children, who are long deceased now, but here’s a try.   One of the sons, the youngest I think, named Rich Smith, married Madge McCorkle, a daughter of  Eddie McCorkle, who was the only child of Hiram R. A. McCorkle by HRA McCorkle’s 2nd wife: Janette Menzies (McCorkle). [HRA McCorkle by his 1st wife née Margaret Cowan had several children as named elsewhere herein.]

These Smith children are probably not in proper chronological order:

Ambrose MARIE Smith.  He was called Marie Smith. Marie Smith married,  had a son, and as an adult lived in, I think, Louisiana.  A fine deacon’s chair at the Carmel Methodist Church, according to its commemorative inscription, was donated by A.M. Smith in honor of his mother–;

Zula Smith Rice (last of Nashville).  Zula had two sons, viz., George Marie Rice who was a newspaperman in Chattanooga, as was his wife, but had no children; and David Rice, an engineer who never married–;

George MUNCIE Smith, who married Gladys Headden (Smith). Three children:  George Scott Smith, “Baby Boy” Wilmere Headden Smith, and Edna Maxine Smith Stanfield (died summer of 2007 living in Albuquerque, buried Newbern). George Scott Smith adopted his wife’s grandson Jerry Smith who died rather young.  Baby Boy and Helen Legions Smith had three children, viz., Linda Smith, born 1949 [sons Alan Kolwyck &  Scott Kolwyck]; Randy Smith, an engineer in D.C. who has not yet married, born circa 1951; and Robert Louis Smith who died of a heart attack in his 50s in the Churchton community in the year 2007 and had one son named Chris Smith.  –;

Mack Smith, who moved to, perhaps, Louisiana. He was a physician and had one child, Mattie Maxine Smith–;

“Cap” Smith. This was not his real name. “Cap” Smith was at least at one time a captain in the U.S. military.  He had one son–;

Homer Smith–Homer taught school, at the end, perhaps, at Trimble in Dyer County. Homer had an only child, a  son, who died rather young in Michigan. This son married Vera (_____) Smith.

Leland Smith –lived in Newbern at the end, in the Newbern Hotel  which he had purchased.  –For some reason we never understood, in his old age Stanford Edw. Cashdollar (my brother-in-law Parker’s father) bought the Newbern Hotel which was by then ramshackledy.–  Leland Smith never married; his nephew Dr. OK Smith Jr. named a son after Leland.  At one time Leland and brother OK Smith owned a large grocery store in the Churchton community.  Leland and my mother’s father, Ira Mitchell Cope, used to take tours on the train around the U.S.  Sadly, liquor got the better of Leland toward the end of his life, but everybody seemed to love him –;

Frank Smith married Alma Parker (Smith), who had a sister named Pearl Parker (or vice versa). Whichever Parker sister it was who married Frank, these two Parker sisters came south with the Mengle or Mengel Farm near Trimble to live in Dyer County. Frank had no children– ;

 OK Smith  — m. Lady Ruth Herndon (Smith). Max Edwin Gregory tells me Miss Lady Ruth was a 1st cousin to Max’s mother, Robyn Gregory.  Mr. OK & “Miss” Lady Ruth’s children:  Mary Evelyn Smith (Mrs. Dick) Reese of Gallatin; Rose Marie Smith Smith (Mrs. Dale Smith of Florida); and OK Smith Junior, M.D., of Union City/Martin.   –At one time Mr OK had a store in Mason Hall south of Yorkville.  At his death he had a good grocery store in “Smitty City” about a mile or 2 west of Lemalsamac church on the Newbern-Yorkville Highway.  My grandmother Notie Headden Cope and I used to take in chickens to trade Mr OK for groceries. Grandmother Notie went to town to “trade” not to “shop.”

Rich Smith, who married Hiram R A McCorkle’s granddaughter Madge McCorkle (Smith), a daughter of Eddie McCorkle.  Rich & Madge had Suzy Smith (Mrs. Charley) Dunevant; Helen Smith (Mrs. Norville Williams) (Mrs. ______ ); and a son Max Smith.

 

 1897, Union Grove School
Churchton Community, Dyer Co., Tenn.

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Original belonged to Mrs. John E. McCorkle (my great-grandmother Mary Cotton McCorkle)
and was copied by me in 1984.

1. John Flatt
2. E. B. Wiley
3. Geo. Holder
4. Ira Mitchell Cope, father of Joyce Huie (my grandfather)
5. Lee Garner
6. Arthur Van Eaton
7. Ewing McCorkle
8. John McCormick
9. Dorsey Hendricks
10. Ina (Ira?) Flatt
11. Johnnie Grills
12. Kitty Franklin
13. Ola Allen
14. Tommie Henley
15. Sophie McCorkle (Huie), grandmother of Sophie Cashdollar & Marsha Huie Ashlock
16. Minnie Green
17. Cattie Morrow (Flatt), mother of Marion Moore
18. Jennie Wright
19. Mary Trout

20. Myrtle Hendricks
21. Minnie Flatt
22. Jennie McCorkle (Mrs. E. E. Carter) dau. of Finis McCorkle
23. Allie Dickey
24. Charlie Garner, father of Drucilla Huie
25. Lou Allen
26. Avie Trout
27. Munsey Smith, father of Maxine Stanfield & Baby Boy & Geo. Scott Smith
Above Munsey was Onis Franklin (blurred beyond recognition)
28. __________ Charles
29. Rosa Charles
30. May Lancaster, sister of Nettie Jackson
31. Maud Yates
32. Lula Morrow (?), Mrs. Elmer Headden
33. Connie Green
34. Mollie Flatt
35. Bessie Brady (Boady?)
36. Emma Grills
37. Zula Smith
37. Lula Townes
39. Notie Headden (Cope), mother of Joyce Huie. My maternal grandmother.

40. Warner Spence
41. Reuben Mayo
42. Albert Jackson
43. Clifford Litton
44. Newt Hendricks
45. Myrtle Hood
46. ____________ Charles
47. Clyde Grills
48. Walter Grills
49. Irl Hendricks (?)

50. Franklin Hall
51. Ernest Moore
52, Verna Pope
53. Willie Binkley
54. Cecil Hall
55. Leonard Scobey
56. Willie Travis
57. Jay Trout
58. Algie Woods
59. Clyde Litton
60. Errett Cotton McCorkle
61. Willie Edmiston
62. Mollie Scobey
63. Bettie Edmiston (?)
64. Fleetie Taylor (?)
65. Katie Woods
66. Vada Spence (Trimble), mother of Menthia Hicks & Spence Trimble
67. __________ ?
68. Gladys Geadden (Mrs. Munsie Smith)
69. Ben Anna Spence (Hundley), LaNita Hall VanDyke’s grandmother
70. Alice Mayo
71. May Spence
72. Ethel Moore
73. Rada Headden (Mrs. B. Allmon)
74. Ethel Woods
75. Cap Smith
76. Otha Pope
77. Frank Henley
78. Oliver Alexande
79. Charlie Headden
80. Frank Smith

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ALEXANDER McCORKLE, by Agnes Montgomery (McCorkle), was the father of :

*“Mattie” Martha McCorkle Archibald, born circa 1745 in Pennsylvania;

*Samuel Eusebius McCorkle –born 1746 in Pennsylvania. After moving to NC he remained in Rowan County, NC;

*John McCorkleborn circa 1750 in Pennsylvania, John moved to and remained in Rowan County, leaving an only son named Joel McCorkle who lived out his life in NC. Joel may or may not have been a lawyer, but his papers I saw in the UNC

Archives in the Ramsay-McCorkle-Graham papers certainly sounded lawyer-like;

*Alexander McCorkle II–born 1751 in either Pennsylvania or Rowan Co., NC., Alexander migrated to West Tennessee, first Giles County then Henry County.  His letter dated 1820 lies in the UNC Archives amongst the papers of his brother-in-law Robert Ramsay & Robert Ramsay’s grandson Dr. Graham Ramsay;

*Joseph McCorkle  –born 1753 in Pennsylvania, he removed to Rowan Co., NC, then to Ohio — Piqua County, I think;

*Elizabeth McCorkle Barr Kilpatrickborn circa 1754 in Salisbury, NC. As the widow Barr, she remarried.

*Agnes “Nancy” Ramsay, born 1760 in Rowan Co., NC, she  married Robert Ramsay (then spelled Ramsey) & remained in Rowan Co., NC. I’ve read her & her progeny’s papers lying in the archives at UNC Chapel Hill;

*William McCorkle–born 1762 in Rowan Co., NC, he went westward to Kentucky then Middle Tennessee & died in 1818. I think some of his papers lie in the UNC Archives at Chapel Hill but have not seen them;

*Robert McCorkleborn 29 October 1764 in Rowan Co. & died in West Tenn. in 1828; he is my direct ancestor; &

*James McCorkle, born 4 May 1768 in Rowan Co., NC, he went north to Ohio but died in Indiana in 1840, the last to be born and the last sibling to die. A letter from him is transcribed in this collection.

 

EVENTS and Correspondence are centered around, first, YORKVILLE in GIBSON COUNTYTENNESSEE; then, after the advent of the railroads and the Civil War, the new town of NEWBERN, DYER COUNTY, TENNESSEE.

 

Much of the life story of ROBERT MCCORKLE1764 1828, is implicitly told in the isolated McCORKLE CEMETERY east of Newbern, Tennessee, where the first grave dug, in April of 1828 in a verdant field in the newly opened Western District, is his.

 

Similarly, THYATIRA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH cemetery near Mill Bridge, near Mooresville, near Salisbury & Statesville, in the Piedmont of NORTH CAROLINA, tells much of the life story of Robert’s IMMIGRANT father, ALEXANDER McCORKLE, b. circa1722- d. 1800, and of Robert’s immigrant mother, née “NANCY” AGNES MONTGOMERY17261789.

 

This Robert McCorkle’s mother’s (Agnes Montgomery McCorkle’s) parents were MARTHA FINLEY (MONTGOMERY), born circa 1715 (I think it was 1715 but do not really know; we have no old records from West Tennessee on this)

the daughter of JOHN FINLEY in Ulster, Northern Ireland (I think it was Ulster) and Martha Finley Montgomery

died circa 1789 in NC (I think she died in NC but am far from certain; did she, rather, die in Pennsylvania?);

and JOHN MONTGOMERY, born (I think but have doubts) in 1711 in Londonderry and died (I think but am doubtful)

in the Charlotte NC, area in 1778

 

Below My nephew Brian Louis Blackwell & son Parker Louis Cashdollar Blackwell of Memphis/Cordova., 2006.

 Below: My sister’s daughter Jessica Huie Cashdollar ‘s son PLC Blackwell; PLC at 14 months, below:

Below some grandchildren of Nan Norling.

I.  Alexander & Agnes Montgomery McCorkle. II.  Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle. III. Edwin Alexander & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle.

IV. Hiram R. A. McCorkle & Margaret Cowan McCorkle. V.  Winfield Purviance McCorkle & Mary MAMIE King McCorkle.VI.  Allie May McCorkle McDiarmid.

VII.  John McDiarmid. VIII.  Nan McDiarmid Norling.  IX.  Jones.

 

Nan Norling descends from Edwin & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle through their son, Hiram R. A. McCorkle,

by wife Margaret A. L. [or is it Margaret L.A. ? ]Cowan McCorkle.   HRA McCorkle’s son Winfield Purviance McCorkle

of Dyer County, Tennessee,

 married Mary “Mamie” King McCorkle of Eminence, Kentucky.

One of their children was Allie May McCorkle (McDiarmid) who m. Errett Weir McDiarmid,  Nan’s direct ancestors.

Nan’s father, John McDiarmid, Ph.D., was a son of Allie May McCorkle

 McDiarmid & Errett Weir McDiarmid.

—  Nan is also my Cotton cousin:  Nan and I both descend from Henry Cotton of Botland near Bardstown, Kentucky.

Here’s how:  My great-grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Cotton (2nd wife of John Edwin McCorkle, a brother to Hiram R A McCorkle), was a Cotton 1st cousin to Gideon King, founder of Eminence, Kentucky.  Mary’s father’s father was Henry Smith COTTON, and Gideon King’s mother was Mary Cotton  (Mrs. Mountjoy King).  Henry Smith Cotton and Mary Cotton King were siblings.    Gideon King’s daughter Mary “Mamie” King m. Winfield Purviance McCorkle, eldest son of Hiram R. A. McCorkle of Newbern, Tennessee. As a little boy east of Newbern, Tennessee, during the Civil War, young Winfield cried when the “federals” stole his favorite horse (source:  journal of Winfield’s father, Hiram R A McCorkle) Gideon King is Nan’s ancestor; Gideon King’s mother , Mrs. Mountjoy King, was née Cotton (daughter of Henry Cotton),

and Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle’s father was John Cotton (son of Henry Cotton).

I. Alexander McCorkle &Agnes Montgomery (McCorkle); II.  Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle; III.  Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle); IV.  Hiram Robert Andrew McCorkle & Margaret A. L. Cowan (McCorkle); V. Winfield Purviance McCorkle & “Mamie” Mary King (daughter of Gideon King & Sophia Woodruff (King); VI.  Allie May McCorkle & Errett Weir McDiarmid; VII.  John McDiarmid, Ph.D.;  VIII.  Nan NorlingIX.  the Jones family (represented above).

Above:  John Edwin McCorkle’s maternal uncle: Hiram Jacob Thomas, M.D., last of Yazoo, Mississippi; first of Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee–a brother to Jane Maxwell Thomas (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle.  Hiram Jacob Thomas was born to Elizabeth Purviance (Thomas) & William Thomas.)

 

Howard Anderson Huie, 1870-1935, was my father’s father.  Howard Anderson Huie m. Sophie King McCorkle (Huie).

MS 028

1 volume (70 pages) ; 22 x 36 cm.

AUTHORs:

W. R. Ozier & Co., Howard Anderson Huie.

DATES:

1890-1901.

ARRANGEMENT:

Ledger in series; arranged by author. Inventory avaliable online. University of Tennessee at Martin. Library. Archives.

HISTORY NOTE:

W.R. Ozier & Co. was a hardware merchandise store that conducted business in Yorkville and Newbern, Tennessee during the later part of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century. The company was founded by W.R. Ozier and H.A. Huie in 1890. The company changed names to Huie Bro. & Co. in 1895 and to Huie’s & Pope’s Trading in 1899. Howard Anderson Huie was one of the initial founders the Dyer County Cattle Company; the Bank of Yorkville; and the Yorkville Telephone Co-operative.

CONTENTS:

Account balance sheets, stock investments, expenditures, and miscellaneous financial records. Includes the mission statement, constitution, and by-laws of the Dyer County Cattle Company.

SUBJECT:

Gibson County (Tenn.) — Manuscripts. 
Dyer County (Tenn.) — Manuscripts.
 
Yorkville (Tenn.) — Manuscripts.
 
Newbern (Tenn.) — Manuscripts.
 
Tennessee — History — Sources.
 
Hardware stores — Tennessee — Gibson County.
 
Hardware stores — Tennessee — Dyer County.
 
Dyer County Cattle Co.
 

W. R. Ozier & Co.
 
Huie Bros. & Co.
 
Huie’s & Pope’s Trading Co.

 



Final recap of the children of the immigrant 
ALEXANDER McCORKLE, by his immigrant wife “Nancy”Agnes(s) Montgomery (McCorkle):

*“Mattie” Martha McCorkle Archibald, born circa 1745 n Pennsylvania;

*Samuel Eusebius McCorkle –born 1746 in Pennsylvania;

*John McCorkleborn circa 1750 in Pennsylvania;

*Alexander  McCorkle II–born 1751 in either Pennsylvania or Rowan Co., NC., then to NC, then to West Tennessee, first Giles County then Henry County;

*Joseph McCorkle  –born 1753 in Pennsylvania, he removed to Rowan Co., NC, then to Piqua County, Ohio; *Elizabeth McCorkle (Barr)(Kilpatrick)born circa 1754 in Salisbury, NC.

*Agnes “Nancy” McCorkle Ramsay, born 1760 in Rowan Co., NC.;

*William McCorkle–born 1762 in Rowan Co., NC;

*Robert McCorkle, born 29 October 1764 in Rowan Co. & died in West Tenn. in 1828; and

*James McCorkle, born 4 May 1768 in Rowan Co., NC, he went north to Ohio but died in Indiana in 1840.

 

End of chapter one  —  McCorkle Correspondence Beginning with MRS. ROBERT McCORKLE (1770-1846), née MARGARET MORRISON of Rowan County, NC, then Rutherford County, Tennessee, then finally of Dyer County, Tennessee, near the Gibson County Line  — transcribed, compiled, and edited  by  MARSHA COPE HUIE


Lemalsamac Christian Church–First Membership Book. Typed and annotated by Marsha Cope Huie.

Copyright 2008; all rights reserved by Marsha Cope Huie. No reproduction is to be tolerated (and Marsha Cope Huie is a lawyer licensed in Tennessee and Texas with plenty of time on her hands to enforce this prohibition).

Unfortunately, I must announce that no reproduction is allowed without violation of the law of copyright, as I’ve been astounded at the number of people, including a Church of Christ minister, who have copied and reproduced my earlier works as their own, without attribution to me. Perhaps “PLAGIARISM” is no longer pointed out to the younger generation in the schools as a wrong, perhaps even a crime.

Provenance of this the First Membership Book of Lemalsamac Christian Church, located about 5 miles east of Newbern in Dyer County, Tennessee:  Edwin Alexander McCorkle, 1799-1853, & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle, died 1855; their son John Edwin McCorkle, 1839-1924; John E McCorkle’s son Glen Roache McCorkle; Glen McCorkle’s daughter Annie Glen McCorkle, born 1916; Annie Glen McCorkle’s first cousin-once-removed Marsha Cope Huie, born 1946.

I typed what was in the old book and added explanations in brackets attempting to identify the early members, almost all of whom were McCorkles either by consanguinity (blood) or affinity (marriage).

I, Marsha Cope Huie, descend from Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle; from their son Edwin Alexander McCorkle & his wife Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle); and from Edwin & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle’s son John Edwin McCorkle & John E’s 2nd wife Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle.  The paternal grandparents of Sophie Joyce Huie Cashdollar & Marsha Cope Huie-Williamson were also members of the Lemalsamac Church:  viz., a daughter of John Edwin & Mary Cotton McCorkle: Sophie & Marsha’s grandmother Sophie King McCorkle (Huie), 1882-1915, a member along with her husband Howard Anderson Huie, 1870-1935.  Until 1952, Sophie and Howard’s children Sarah Elisabeth Huie, 1904-1993, and Howard EWING Huie, 1907-1971, were members of Lemalsamac, by then called Lemalsamac Church of Christ. As a child, for the first ten years of her life, Sophie Joyce Huie (Cashdollar) attended Lemalsamac with her father, Howard EWING Huie, 19-7-1971, and Ewing Huie’s sister “Aunt Beth” Sarah Elisabeth Huie,  while Marsha Cope Huie attended Mt. Carmel Methodist Church with her mother, Joyce Cope Huie. In 1952 Ewing Huie reluctantly left the old family church, and so did his sister Beth Huie.  Although leaders of the congregation also attempted to run off Ewing & Elizabeth Huie’s uncle, Glen Roache McCorkle, Uncle Glen refused to leave his old family church.  When interdicted from praying publicly in the church, Uncle Glen R. McCorkle responded, “That’s all right with me. I wasn’t praying to them anyway.  I pray to God almighty.”  And so he stayed.  –When I used to say that my father and aunt were run out of their own family’s church, my mother (a Methodist) would always respond, “No, Marsha. The church belonged, and belongs, to God, not to the McCorkle family.”  Mama always had more common sense than I. My father’s main sin:  he had led the singing in 1952 at a piano-playing Christian Church in Newbern at worship services conducted by his double-first cousin’s son, Christian Church/Disciples of Christ minister “Bill” Wm. Maury Huie.

It is, I adjudge, worthy of note that one of the earliest members of Lemalsamac Church –my great-great grandmother Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle) —  was a niece of [ through her mother Elizabeth Purviance (Mrs. William Thomas) ] “elder” David Purviance, who is counted after Barton W. Stone as a co-founder of the Christian Church/Disciples of Christ/Church of Christ.  An autobiography of David Purviance, written by his son Levi Purviance, is available for reading on the Internet. Also of interest is the web-site of Cane Ridge Meeting House, near Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, site of the beginning of the Christian Church in about the year 1804.

The “Restoration Movement” proposed to restore the tenets and practice of Christianity to only those stated in the New Testament; the movement began in earnest, influenced by Scotsman Alexander Campbell, at the Cane Ridge camp meetings held periodically from 1801-1804 outside Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky.  David Purviance was one of the signators of the Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery; but many who at first joined the new movement eventually returned to Presbyterianism, and to the Baptist Church.


First Membership Book of

The Lemalsamac Christian Church,

Dyer County, Tennessee, established August 1847-9

Elsewhere in this compilation of materials is presented a Letter from RAH McCorkle to his sister Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roache stating that the family members had long met in their private homes; but lately had begun meeting together, reading the Scripture, singing hymns and not forgetting the poor saints (taking up a collection for them). RAH McCorkle’s brother, Jehiel Morrison McCorkle, was selected as the first elder.  But note that “Jem” Morrison died in 1849. Jehiel was a magistrate and a member of the first Dyer County Court, evidently being the clerk of the Dyer County Court as his handwritten court-minutes now lie in the archives of the University of Tennessee at Martin.  Local Dyer County historian Earl Willoughby recently told me that JMM Morrison was, he thinks, a member of the first Dyer County Militia. As stated, Jehiel Morrison McCorkle died in 1849.  RAH McCorkle’s letter to his sister noted farther that their brother Edwin Alexander McCorkle, 1799-1853, was “our most efficient deacon.” (Edwin was my great-great grandfather.)

It is said that Green Hill organized the church in 1847, and mention is made of a Mr. Van Dyke, 1848-1849.  The people met in [Eleazor Woods & wife Sarah Purviance Thomas (Woods)] Woods’ School House (Churchton Community). “RAH” Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle manufactured the name by taking parts of names of the charter members. Margaret “Peggy” Thomas Dickey gave the lot, 3 ½ acres of land, for construction of the worship house, which was built in 1856-1857.  Peggy Dickey’s husband’s name is not known to me at present, but she died childless and her will is of record in Dyer County and will give clues. Peggy Margaret Thomas Dickey was a sister to Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle); the sisters were born to Elizabeth Purviance (Thomas), Elizabeth Thomas being a sister to Restoration Movement co-founder David Purviance.

Jonathan Hall and Joe Gray Moore were the contractors for the new building.  (Jonathan & LouMira Hall were parents of, inter alia, the wife of Church of Christ preacher Rev. Thomas Elihu Scott; the Hall parents are buried in the McCorkle Cemetery.)

Some of the early preachers were Messieurs: HolmesBentonBob TrimbleAlex Cook; and Alf Carter, 1885-86.  Madison Fanning lectured in the graveyard when was refused the Presbyterian Church.  A noted Christian Church minister during the Civil War era was Tolbert Fanning, namesake of several McCorkle children.  During the war itself, “HRA” Hiram R. A. McCorkle when in Nashville as one of the Confederate soldiers (“Confederals”) went out to spend the night at the home of Tolbert Fanning; and HRA’s young son named Tolbert Fanning McCorkle suffered an early death when falling from his mother’s (Margaret A. L. Cowan McCorkle’s) lap in a surrey. I do not know the relationship to Madison Fanning to Tolbert Fanning, but assume kinship.

The year  1917 saw formulation of plans for a new church building, and the appointed committee began the next day to solicit funds.  Committee members were: J.L. Moore; J.C. [Clint] Rose (grandfather of inter alia Cheryl Rose Baker, born 1945); my father’s father Howard Anderson Huie (wife:  née Sophie King McCorkle, granddaughter of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Edwin’s wife Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle); and J. W. Pope and Joe Hiram Pope (the latter being McCorkle-Pope descendants of “HRA” Hiram R A  McCorkle).

The last meeting in the old building was on 22nd July 1917.  The congregants then began meeting in a hall over the Churchton village blacksmith’s shop on 29th July 1917, continuing there until the second Sunday in December of 1917.  A heavy snow prevented the intended opening of services in the new house of worship.  Elder T. M. Carney of Union City, Tennessee, was one of those present, who were viz., Mr. Tom Miller and his three sons:  Ollie Miller, Richmond Miller, and Melvin Miller; Holland Moore and Eulen Moore; Mrs. Ora McCorkle Huie (widow of  Julius Adolphus “Dolph” Huie) and son Maury Adolphus Huie (a grandson of John Edwin McCorkle).  The scant crowd observed Communion. No, they did not call it “eucharist” and they did not believe in trans-substantiation.

Miller Note:  Ollie Miller married Miss Irva London (Miller) and they had numerous children, most of whom live(d) in the Churchton-Newbern-Yorkville community.  My “Uncle Mutt” Maury Adolphus Huie, 1895-1973, was baptized in the pond of Mr. Tom Miller.  Quaere:  What kin was Mr. Tom Miller to Jennie Miller who married James Allen Scott, James having been born in 1839 as twin to Sarah “Sade” Scott Huie (Mrs. Julius M. Huie)?  Jennie Miller Scott & James Allen Scott removed to Cleburne, Texas.  Who were Jennie’s parents?

 The cornerstone of the new building was laid on August 26, 1917.  A Bible, and the names of the officers, elders, and deacons, were placed under the cornerstone.  “AJ” Anderson Jehiel McCorkle (son of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle), then aged 84, was given the honor, as the oldest member of the congregation, of breaking the first shovel of earth for the church’s foundation.

 

Now to the entries in the old book:

 

Name                                       Date When Joined:       How:                            Remarks

 

J.M. McCorkle                    August 26, 1849                                   died Dec. 6th 1849

 

[Jehiel Morrison McCorkle,

a son of Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle;

“JEM” McCorkle’s wife was Elizabeth “Betsy” Smith.  (It may be that Betsy Smith (McCorkle) was a niece of the husband of Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache (that is, a niece of Dr. Stephen Roache Jr., of Middle Tennessee).  Jehiel & Betsy’s children:  R E McCorkle; Samuel Smith McCorkle who m. Margaret Wharey;Alexander “Dank” McCorkle, grandfather of inter alia Gov. Carl Bailey of Arkansas; Locke McCorkle (killed in  Civil War Battle of Atlanta); E.J. “Ed” McCorkle (killed in Civil War); “Clay” Henry Clay McCorkle (killed Civil War Battle of Brice’s Crossroads, Guntown, Mississippi); M. Caroline McCorkle (Greer) (Gregory) (Roach), a charter member of Lemalsamac; John Quincy McCorkle who m. Etheline Ellis; Margaret B. McCorkle; and an E. McCorkle.]

 

R.A.H. McCorkle                August 26, 1849                                   died Sept. 26th 1873

 

[Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle,

a son of Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle, and grandson of:  (1) Alexander & “Nancy” Agness MONTGOMERY McCorkle, who are buried as Presbyterians in the Thyatira Presbyterian Church outside Mooresville near Salisbury, Rowan County, NC; and (2) RAH McCorkle was a grandson of Andrew Morrison & wife Elizabeth Sloan Morrison, Rowan-Iredell County, North Carolina.

RAH McCorkle’s wife:  Tirzah Scott (McCorkle), a daughter of James Scott (1777-1853) and Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838) (Sarah Dickey Scott being a daughter of John Dickey of Pennsylvania and Albemarle, Virginia, then York District, South Carolina, and of John Dickey’s wife Sarah Robinson Dickey of York District, S.C., then the Newbern-Yorkville area.  –Addition of November 2007:  back in Yorkville, Tennessee, for the funeral of “Miss” Llewellyn Wyatt Jones, I tried to explain to the current U.S. Congressman for western Tennessee, John Tanner, that he descends from this Tirzah Scott McCorkle & RAH McCorkle.  I’m shamefacedly hoping he can help us get the old McCorkle Cemetery declared to be an historic spot, as it truly is.

Earlier, RAH McCorkle had flirted with, but soon abjured, Mormonism. ]

 

J.F. Algea                                        August 26, 1849                                   withdrawn from July 25th 1858

 

[Jonathan Francis Algea,

errant husband of Sarah Elmira McCorkle,

a daughter of Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle & Tirzah Scott McCorkle. Two children by Sarah McCorkle: Fannie A. Wharey & Carrie Algea.  Because of his escapades and long absences, Sarah Elmira McCorkle separated from him; we don’t know if she and Francis Algea divorced.]

 

Jane McCorkle                          August 26, 1849                                                   died Jan 20th 1855

 

[Jane Maxwell Thomas, married in 1802 in Lebanon, Wilson County, Middle Tennessee: Edwin Alexander McCorkle; Jane was a daughter of Elizabeth Purviance Thomas & William Thomas of NC then Wilson Co., Middle Tennessee. Jane’s siblings:  David Thomas, 1st attorney general of Republic of Texas and acting Secretary of War, and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence; John Purviance Thomas who m. Catherine Espy; Hiram Jacob Thomas, M.D., who removed to Yazoo, Mississippi and died there in 1878; “Peggy” Margaret Thomas Dickey, who granted the land for Lemalsamac Church; Sarah ThomasWoods (Mrs. Eleazor Woods).  Their mother Elizabeth Purviance Thomas’s brother, David Purviance, was a co-founder of the Christian Church-Church of Christ, at Cane Ridge Meeting House in Bourbon County, Kentucky in 1804, born of the Great Camp Meetings there at Cane Ridge from1801-1804.

 

Tirzah McCorkle                          August 26, 1849                                                   died August 27th 1865

 

[Tirzah Scott, Mrs. Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle;

daughter of the above James Scott, 1777-1853 & wife Sarah Dickey Scott, 1777-1838.

Tirzah Scott McCorkle’s Siblings:

 (1st sibling of Tirzah Scott) Lemuel Locke Scott who m. Margaret Permelia McCorkle;

 (2nd sibling of Tirzah Scott) James “Jimps” Scott, who m. Violet B. Roddy and was the father of Rev. Thomas Elihu Scott, of “Sade” Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie & of Sade’s 1839-born twin James Allen Scott who married Jennie Miller and removed to Bastrop then Cleburne, Texas; of Allen “Tobe” Scott (father of Dr. Allen Gray Scott & Ida Scott (Parrish)(Moore); and of Clementine Tirzah Scott (Mrs. James)Trimble; and of Martha E. Scott who married Anderson Jehiel McCorkle; and of  Margaret Scott (died 1862), the first wife of David Purviance McCorkle;

(3rd sibling of Tirzah Scott) William Scott who removed to Hardeman County in the early 1800s, m. Nancy Edwards Wellborn (Scott) and fathered the 1st wife of John Edwin McCorkle, “Tennie” Tennessee Alice Edwards Scott McCorkle as well as other children who remained in Hardeman County.

(4th sibling of Tirzah Scott McCorkle)  John Dickey or Dickie Scott who married a Williams woman and moved down to Hardeman Co., there his brother William had settled.  –I’ve come to wonder if the wife of John Dickey Scott  was somehow kin to the Benjamin Williams who married Jane M. Thompson (Williams), a granddaughter of Margaret Morrison & Robert McCorkle.

 

Sarah E. McCorkle                      August 26, 1849   married J F Algea                               [blank]

 

[This is Sarah Elmira McCorkle, a daughter of RAH & Tirzah Scott McCorkle. She had two daughters, viz., Fanny Algea Wharey and Carrie Algea.  After separation from Jno. Francis Algea, Sarah E. McCorkle returned to her parents’ home, that of RAH & Tirzah Scott McCorkle.  I believe she and her two daughters are buried in the Poplar Grove C.P. Church Cemetery just east of the railroad tracks on the Newbern-Yorkville Highway.]

 

Mary C. McCorkle                        August 26, 1849   : married O. Roach. Died.                  [blank]

 

[Mary Caroline McCorkle,

daughter of Jehiel Morrison McCorkle & “Betsy” Elizabeth Smith McCorkle;

Caroline married (1) Mr. Greer; (2) Mr. Gregory; then (3) James O. Roache, whom she married 6th March 1883.

 She lost three brothers in the Civil War, viz., “Clay” Henry Clay McCorkle, Brice’s Crossroads, Guntown, Mississippi; and Locke McCorkle (Battle of Atlanta);  and Ed J. McCorkle.]

 

Margaret R. McCorkle                 August 26, 1849                                                   died Nov. 15th 1855

 

[ Who is Margaret R. McCorkle ??????  I suspect this to be Margaret B. McCorkle, a daughter of Jehiel Morrison & Elizabeth Smith McCorkle but am not sure.  I think there is confusion about (at least) the date of death of this Margaret R. McCorkle, confusion with the date of death of  Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott, who was born 14 January 1805, married Lemuel Locke Scott on 19 January 1833,  and died 19th November 1853; this latter Margaret–Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott—was a daughter of Robert & Morrison Morrison McCorkle.

Three good possibilities arise about the identity of Margaret R. McCorkle, all from the family of Jehiel Morrison “JEM” McCorkle & wife “Betsy” Elizabeth Smith McCorkle:

 (1st possibility) their daughter who is listed in our old family records as Margaret B. McCorkle (no dates available);

(2nd possibility) Margaret Wharey McCorkle, the wife of Samuel Smith McCorkle, a son of JEM & Elizabeth Smith McCorkle; and

(3rd possibility) Margaret Pitt McCorkle who married Alexander Dank McCorkle,  a son of Jehiel Morrison & Elizabeth Smith McCorkle. (It was this Dank McCorkle whose grandson was the Governor Carl Bailey of Arkansas.) Children of Alexander “Dank” & Margaret Pitt McCorkle were: Jehiel McCorkle who m. Bettie HallLee McCorkle who m. Emma Johnson; Robert Eusebius McCorkle, Christian Church minister who m. Nannie Smith; Alexander McCorkle who m. a Miss Baker; then Maggie Sturdivant; Margaret McCorkle (Mrs. Barnett)(Mrs. Bailey), the mother of Gov. Carl Bailey of Arkansas; Howard McCorkle who burnt to death; William S. McCorkle who m. Lizzie Sturdivant; Beulah McCorkle (Tucker); and Irving Adair McCorkle who m. Ida Mai Smith.]

 

Susan L. McCorkle                       Sept 13th 1829        married R.H. McNail            [blank]

 

[Susan L. McCorkle, Mrs. Robert McNail,

was a daughter of RAH & Tirzah Scott McCorkle

and a paternal granddaughter of Robert and Margaret Morrison McCorkle.

Children of Susan McCorkle & Bob McNail:  Robert Ed McNail; Will E. McNail who m. Alice Casey and moved to Detroit, Michigan; Thomas Addison McNail who m. Kitty Smith.]

 

Lemuel Scott                                   Sept 13th 1849                                                        died Sept  th 1866

 

[Lemuel Locke Scott was a son of James & Sarah Dickey Scott, of York District, S.C., then this area, Presbyterians then after 1810 Cumberland Presbyterians.  He died 17 September 1866.  Some of his children by Margaret Permelia McCorkle: William Leander Scott, 1835-1885, who married Mattie J. Cowan then Addie Fernandes; “Bob” Robert Quincy Scott, 1837-1907 who married Sallie Owen; and Sarah “Sallie” L. Scott (1838-1876) who married Mr. Rodgers 22 April 1858 then “Dick” Richard W. Locke on Oct. 18th 1866.

Other children of Lemuel Locke & Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott were:  John A. Scott, 1833-1854; James J. Scott, 1850-1853; David E. Scott, 1845-1853L.E. Scott; and Margaret EScott, 1841-1873.

 

S. S. McCorkle                                                Sept 13th 1850                                                       

 

[Samuel Smith McCorkle, a son of Jehiel Morrison & Elizabeth “Betsy” Smith McCorkle; and a grandson of Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle.  S S McCorkle m. Margaret Wharey (McCorkle) and moved to Yorkville. Their children:  Mary McCorkle; Leone McCorkle; James McCorkle; David E. McCorkle, superintendent of Dyer County Schools, Dyersburg, who m. Lulie Vaughn; Frances McCorkle; Ella McCorkle (Mrs. Joe W.) Pope, who died Oct 1, 1946; A.L. McCorkle (“Bud”) who shot but did not kill a man named Labe Cowsert; and Susan McCorkle.]

 

E.A. McCorkle                                 March 9th 1850                                      died Jan 10th 1853

 

Baptized on March 8th 1850, Edwin Alexander McCorkle was a son of Robert & Margaret MorrisoMcCorkle. He was born in Rowan County,   North Carolina, in 1799, then moved to near Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., Tennessee; then to Dyer County in the newly opened Western District of Tennessee.  He married Jane Maxwell Thomas in Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee.

Their children:  Hiram Robert Andrew McCorkle, 1827-1907; William Thomas McCorkle, 1829-1832; David Purviance McCorkle, 1830-1884, a member of the Confederate States of America Congress who m. (1st) Margaret Scott, a daughter of James “Jimps”  Scott & Violet Barry Roddy Scott, and (2nd wife )Bettie Jackson of Obion County; Rebecca Elmira McCorkle Zarecor (Mrs. John C. Zarecor, 1832-1908); Anderson Jehiel McCorkle, 1834-1922; Elizabeth J. McCorkle (Mrs. Wyatt Reeves) of Gadsden near Humboldt, 1836-1905; John Edwin McCorkle, 17th May 1839-1st January 1924, married (1st) “Tennie” Scott on 14th January 1868–Tennie Scott was a daughter of William Scott, brother to Lemuel Locke Scott, “Jimps” James Scott, & Tirzah Scott McCorkle, John Edwin McCorkle then married (2nd) on 1stSept. 1880 in Eminence, Kentucky, at the home of his nephew, Winfield Purviance McCorkle: John Edwin McCorkle married Mary Elizabeth Cotton of Botland near Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky; and finally to Edwin A. & Jane M. Thomas McCorkle, twins were born 8th January 1844: twin Finis Alexander McCorkle  (died 16 July 1912) and twin “Tina” Margaret Latina McCorkle (Mrs. John Gregory) (died 22nd July 1883).

 

No. 13  Elizabeth McCorkle                       March 10th 1850                                                    died May 1879

 

[This is “Betsy” Elizabeth Smith McCorkle, Mrs. Jehiel Morrison McCorkle, a daughter-in-law of Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle.  Something I read in the papers of the children of Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache (Elmira being another daughter of Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle) speculates that Elizabeth Smith (McCorkle) was a niece of Dr. Stephen Roache, husband of Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roache. That would probably mean that she hailed from North Carolina.]

 

14.  A.J. Goodloe                                                                                                                             Removed & died

 

15.  Johannah Goodloe                                                                                                              Removed & died

 

[Eleazor Woods married Sarah Purviance Thomas (Woods), a sister of Jane Maxwell Thomas (Mrs. Edwin Alexander) McCorkle.  They were daughters of Elizabeth PURVIANCE & William Thomas.  Eleazor Woods married his first cousin when he married Sarah Thomas.  One of Eleazor & Sarah Woods’ children was WILLIAM THOMAS “BILLY” WOODS.  The first wife of W.T. “Bill” Woods was CATTIE DOAK or Doake (Woods); the 2nd wife of W.T. “Bill” Woods was SUE GOODLOE (Woods).]  

 

16.  Margaret Dickey                                     March 31st 1850                          died

 

[Peggy” Margaret Thomas Dickey was a sister to, inter alia, Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle, née Jane Maxwell Thomas.  Peggy Dickey gave the land for construction of Lemalsamac Church. Her will is of record in Dyer County, Tennessee.  I  do not know the name of her Dickey husband, alas !  She would have been born either in Rowan Co., NC, or Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee, because those two locations are where her parents were.]

 

17.  Jonathan Hall                                        April 15th [1850]   

                                                               

18.  Lemira L [or T]  Hall                              April 15th

 

Jonathan & Loumira Hall are parents of Artie Hall (Scott), who married Rev. Thomas Elihu Scott.  They are buried in the McCorkle Cemetery.  Thomas Elihu Scott (a son of James & Violet B. Roddy Scott) was a paternal grandson of James Scott (Pennsylvania, York District SC, to Yorkville-Newbern), 1777-1853, & Sarah Dickey Scott, 1777-1838.  Thomas Elihu Scott was a brother to, inter alia, “Sade” Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie (Mrs. Julius M. Huie); Allan “Tobe” Scott; Clementine Tirzah Scott (Mrs. James) Trimble; James Allen Scott who m. Jennie Miller; Martha E. Scott (Mrs. Anderson Jehiel McCorkle); and Margaret Scott (Mrs. David Purviance McCorkle).

 

19 Jane M. Williams                     June 12th 1850                                                                       died

 

Jane M. Thompson was a daughter of Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (Thompson) and Gideon Thompson, who died within two years of each other in Middle Tennessee, circa 1814, leaving two orphaned daughters, viz., this Jane M. Thompson (later Mrs. Benjamin P. Williams; or was Benjamin Franklin Williams?) and Mary “Polly” Thompson (later Mrs. Matthew Dickey).  Jane M. Thompson & Mary Thompson were raised by their uncles Edwin Alexander McCorkle (and wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle) and Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle (and wife Tirzah Scott McCorkle), with considerable influence from their mother’s mother, Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle) until the grandmother’s  death in 1848.  Jane was born circa 1814 or 1815; she died in 1850 and is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery as “Consort of Benjamin Williams.”  His name may have been “Benjamin Franklin Williams, Sr.”

After Jane’s death, Mr. Benjamin F. or Benjamin P. Williams (born 1814evidently returned south to Hardeman County, Tennessee, where his father had given them land upon their marriage.  Mr. Williams married several more times in Hardeman County.

Most women  joined their husband’s church back then, so I presume Jane’s sister Mary “Polly” Thompson (Mrs. Matthew Dickey) married a Presbyterian (Cumberland Presbyterian after 1810).

 

A letter from Jane’s  grandmother Margaret Morrison McCorkle notes that Jane’s sister Mary “Polly” Thompson (later Mrs. Matthew Dickey) had gone to live at a Mr. Holmes’ to learn the tailor trade (in Yorkville?); Mary Thompson lived out her life as Mrs. Matthew Dickey and is interred Poplar Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery.

 

Children of Jane M. Thompson Williams & Benjamin Williams:

John Gideon Williamsborn 3 Dec 1836 down in Hardeman Co. Died 1927.   I think he lived in Trimble, Dyer Co., Tennessee, but he may have resided in Newbern.

 

Rebecca Jane Williams, female, born 1838 in Tennessee married on 1 June 1867: Elisha Hardcastle Burgett.  They lived in Marshall Co., Alabama.  Evidently no children.

 

Benjamin Franklin Williams., born 1840 in Tennessee. Died 1904… .. —was he a junior?  A photo of him as a Civil War soldier is extant.

Robert Eusebius Williams  1843-1861 –“Eusebius” is a McCorkle name, at least since the time Alexander McCorkle (1722-1800) & “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery (McCorkle) named their eldest son “Samuel EUSEBIUS McCorkle.”

James K. Polk Williams  1844 – 1931

 

Stephen Randolph Williams, born 1847; I think he removed across the Mississippi River into Missouri.  He was probably in the Civil War Battle  in Missouri across from Columbus, Kentucky.

 

 20.  Margaret P. Scott                 June 13th 1850                                                        died Nov. 19th 1853

 

Margaret Permelia McCorkle married Lemuel Locke Scott.  She was a daughter of Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle.  They were instrumental in starting a church in Neboville, south of the village of Yorkville, but evidently retained their membership at Lemalsamac.

 

  21 James Scott                                              Aug 12th 1850                                                        died

 

This is one of three possible James Scotts

Choice Onegrandfather (1777-1853),  or

Choice Twoson nicknamed “Jimps Scott” (1810-1886), or

Choice Three grandson James Allen Scott (born 1839), a twin to Sarah E Huie. 

 

I think it is the son (1819-1886) who was nicknamed “JIMPS”  Scott because at least some of the son’s children were members of this denomination (viz., my Huie great-grandmother“Sade” Scott Huie; Thos. Elihu Scott; “Tobe” Allen Scott, father of e.g., Dr. Allen Gray Scott….)  The James Scott (son) who lived circa 1810 to 1886ish was nicknamed “Jimps” Scott and was a brother to inter alia  Lemuel Locke Scott, Lemalsamac charter member and husband of Margaret Permelia McCorkle (Scott).  The “son”  “Jimps” James Scott (1810-1872) first married Violet Barry Roddy (from Spartanburg, South Carolina) and Jimps was the father of Sade Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie; Rev. Thomas Elihu Scott; Allen “Tobe” Scott and others listed above in entry number 18.

 –I cannot tell whether this is the son “Jimps” James Scott who married Violet Barry Roddy then [evidently] 2nd  married someone named (Miss) Margaret L Scott.  But JIMPS Scott is my best guess.

 

Jimps’s father, another James Scott [the grandfather] lived from 1777-1853 and his first wife was Sarah Dickey (Scott), 1777-1838; I’m almost certain the grandfather James Scott (1777-1853) married as 2nd wife in 1838 in Gibson County: Mary Landers (?).  I think the grandfather James Scott b. 1777 was a Presbyterian, then after 1810 a Cumberland Presbyterian; he was interred in the old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, with first wife Sarah Dickey (Scott), 1777-1838.

 

It is possible but very unlikely to me that this is the third James Scott, that is, James Allen Scott who was born in 1839 (as a twin brother to Sade Sarah Scott Huie); but this is extremely unlikely as the grandson James Allen Scott has his own listing in the Lemalsamac membership booklet (below).

 

    – I’m certain it’s one of the above three James Scott grandfather-son-grandson line.  I’m surprised to find any one of the three James Scotts here, because the older two  (the one born 1777 and the one born circa 1810) are buried in the old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Church cemetery, and James Allen Scott, born 1839 after marrying Jennie Miller, removed westerly to Cleburne, Texas.

 

22.    John B. McGinn                                     Aug 12th 1850                removed by letter

 

This is a McCorkle descendant.  The oldest child of Scots-Irish immigrants Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800, & wife “Nancy” Agness Montgomery McCorkle (d. 1789) was Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, D.D.,  long a Presbyterian minister at Thyatira Church, Rowan Co., NC.  Samuel Eusebius McCorkle & wife Margaret Gillespie McCorkle had a daughter Harriet Evelina McCorkle (Mrs. Amzi McGinn).  Harriet E. McCorkle McGinnn was a 1st cousin to Edwin Alexander McCorkle, to RAH McCorkle, to Jehiel Morrison McCorkle, to Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott, Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, et al.

Harriet McGinn removed from Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., North Carolina, where Amzi McGinn was postmaster,  to the Newbern-Yorkville area for awhile to claim her father Samuel Eusebius McCorkle’s part of the land grant in Dyer County, but then she moved on, to die at a daughter’s in Cannon County, Tennessee.

    Perhaps this is a son of Harriet Evelina McCorkle (McGinn)?

 

23.           Benjamin Williams                       August 12th 1850                                  removed by letter

 

This is a McCorkle in-law.  Benjamin Williams was a son-in-law of Rebecca Cowden McCorkle Thompson (Rebecca was  a sister of Edwin Alexander McCorkle, of RAH McCorkle, of Jehiel Morrison McCorkle, of  Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott, and of Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, et al.).  

Gideon Thompson & Rebecca Cowden McCorkle had two daughters, Jane M. Thompson Williams (Mrs. Benjamin Williams), who died in 1850 and is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery; and Mary Thompson Dickey (Mrs. Matthew Dickey).  Benjamin Williams moved on after the death of his wife Jane, probably back down to Hardeman County near Memphis. 

  

24 E.W. Moore                                               Aug. 13th                                died March 1884

 

[Could this be Eulen Moore ?]   EW Moore is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery.  

 

25.  J. S. [G?[B?]] Moore                                   Sept 29th 1850                        died Oct 28th 1876

 

26.  A. J. McCorkle                                         Nov 11th 1850 [died 17th Jan 1922]

 

Anderson Jehiel McCorkle was a son of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle).  1st wife: married on 1st Nov 1855 Martha E. Scott, a daughter of “Jimps” James Scott & Violet B. Roddy (Scott).  2nd wife: Lou Fox.  Son by Martha Scott Mccorkle:  John Thomas “John Tom” McCorkle who married Della Smith, and who was killed by oncoming train at Newbern-Yorkville R.R. tracks. John Tom taught school and left no issue. 

 

27.  John A. Scott                                           Nov 11th 1850.. died  July 12th 1854

John A. Scott was a son of Margaret Permelia McCorkle & Lemuel Locke Scott.  John A. Scott was born 3rd Nov 1833 and died 12th July 1854.  His siblings were:  William Leander Scott, born 7th March 1835-died 22nd Nov 1885; “Bob” Robert Quincy Scott, born 18th Jan 1837- died May 1907;  James J Scott, 1850-1853;  David E. Scott, 1845-1853;  L.E. Scott … ;  Sallie L. Scott, 22nd April 1838-8th March 1876 (became Mrs. Rodgers on 22nd April 1858) (then became Mrs. Richard W. Locke—Dick Locke died 3rd May 1884); and (last sibling) Margaret E. Scott, born 28th Dec 1841-died 27th Jan 1873.

 

28.  J.S.B. Algea  [G S B?]                                Nov 11th 1850                                       died 1862

I presume this is some kin to Jno. Francis Algea, M.D., husband of Sarah Elmira McCorkle Algea. ?

 

29. Addison A. McCorkle Nov 11th 1850                died June 5th 1854

Addison Alexander McCorkle, who died young, was a son of Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle & wife Tirzah Scott (McCorkle). He is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery.  His father wrote his sister Elmira about Addison’s  death, “Addison’s flesh mortified.”

 

30.  A.F. McCorkle                                          Nov 11th 1850                                       removed

A grandson of Jehiel Morrison McCorkle & wife Elizabeth Smith (McCorkle). A F McCorkle was a son of Jehiel & Betsy’s son Samuel Smith McCorkle & wife Margaret Wharey (McCorkle).      

   

 The following pages are copied from the notebook of my “Uncle Mutt,” Maury Adolphus Huie, 1895-1973. The handwritten notes and the tracings over Uncle Mutt’s sometimes-almost-illegible typewritings are mine, Marsha Huie’s.  He typed up the records, as best he could, of his mother Ora McCorkle Huie & Ora’s sister Katie Pearl McCorkle (Fox).

 Alexander McCorkle & wife “Nancy” Agness Montgomery (McCorkle) are listed as Generation One.  This old record does not attempt to name the father of Generation One Alexander McCorkle.  Page two concerns the children of Generation Three Edwin Alexander McCorkle who m. Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle).  Generation Four, the grandfather of Maury A. Huie, is John Edwin McCorkle, born 1839.  First are listed children by John Edwin McCorkle’s 1st wife, “Tennie Tennessee Edwards Alice Scott McCorkle (a granddaughter to James Scott, 1777-1853, & wife Sarah Dickey Scott, 1777-1838, through their son William Scott, who married Nancy Edwards Wellborn of Early Grove, Mississippi.  Second are listed children by John Edwin McCorkle’s  2nd wife, Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle,  daughter of John Cotton & Juliet Tong Cotton of Botland community east of Bardstown, Kentucky (Nelson County, Kentucky).  It was John Edwin McCorkle’s daughters, Ora McCorkle Huie and Katie Pearl McCorkle Fox, who maintained the handwritten family records.  After retirement, Uncle Mutt attempted to type up his mother and aunt’s records.  And I have attempted to bring more order to, and update, Uncle Mutt’s typewritten record.

  

  

Now, the text jumps to a daughter of John Edwin McCorkle & 2nd wife Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle, viz.,

Sophie King McCorkle (Mrs. Howard Anderson Huie):

Sarah Elisabeth Huie, 1904-1993–never married;

Howard EWING Huie, 1907-1971;

“Baby” Ralph McCorkle Huie, died in infancy.

Ewing & Joyce Cope Huie married May 2, 1939, in Milan, Tennessee, at the home of a Methodist minister Dr. Holt.  Their children:

(second child:)  Marsha Cope Huie, born 1 August 1946. No children. B.S., M.A., Tennessee; J.D., Memphis; Magister Legis (Master of Law), Cambridge University. Law professor.

Sophie Joyce Huie, b. 12 August 1942–B.S., M.A., doctoral work; married Parker Ditmore Cashdollar, Ph.D., born 6 September 1942.  Married 5 July 1964 in the Newbern First Christian Church. Their children:

Hunter Huie Cashdollar, BBA (Georgetown U, summa cum laude); J.D. (Vanderbilt U.); in U.S. Foreign Service for ten years.  Born May 1970.

Jessica Huie Cashdollar, B.S. (University of Tenn. Medical Units at Memphis; Occupational Therapy). MBA, Union University.  Married Brian Louis Blackwell.  Two children:   Parker Louis Cashdollar Blackwell, born April 2006, Memphis. and Wyatt EWING Cashdollar Blackwell, born 2008.

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RALPH ERVIN WILLIAMSON was born 1946 in Midland, Texas, to Lois Geraldine “Jerry” Haskins Williamson & “JC” John Conwell Williamson (Actually Pop’s birth name was John Cicero Williamson, but he didn’t like that and changed it; and his mama always called him “Charley” anyway.) Ralph is a graduate of the Philips Exeter Academy, Stanford University (Petroleum Engineering), the University of Texas (M.S. in Petroleum Engineering), and he has a J.D. from St. Mary’s University Law in San Antonio.  Yes, he was in one of my classes, the Law of the European Union—but in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1994, when we were both 46. He tells people I took advantage of his youth and inexperience.  By his first marriage he has three beautiful girls, viz., Charlotte Amalie “Amy” Williamson; “Liz” Elizabeth Anne Williamson; and Barbara Halina Williamson  Ralph’s dad was an early wildcatter in West Texas, based in Midland.  Several “pay zones” for oil & gas out there in the Permian Basin bear the name Williamson Zone. When James Michener was researching for his planned book “Texas” he visited Pop to learn about “wildcatting.”

Ralph Ervin Williamson is named for his father JC Williamson‘s first cousin: Ralph I. Williamson, who volunteered to fly with the Canadian Air Force against Nazi Germany, before the U.S. entered WW II. World War II fighter pilot Ralph I. Williamson is interred in the American Cemetery just outside Cambridge, England, having left behind in Lubbock, Texas, a wife and one daughter, Karen Del Williamson.  Ralph Ervin Williamson is also named for his paternal grandfather, Ervin or “E” Williamson of Lubbock (a.k.a. “Popsy”), who m. Ruby Rae Conwell (Williamson), a.k.a. “Momsy.” Momsy’s mother was née Josephine Albina McCrimmon [Mrs. John Conwell]. One of Momsy’s more interesting brothers was “Uncle Augie,” alias Cornelius A. Conwell, M.D., a frontier physician born circa 1874 after the parents had left Bibb County, Alabama, to head to Texas. Uncle Augie, I think, appears on the 1920 New Mexico census as Cornelius A. Conwell, in La Jara, Sandoval County. Family legend is that Augie was a physician who tired of having to watch his patients die under primitive medical conditions, and of being paid in chickens and geese.  The farther west he removed, though, the more the indigent folks beseeched him for medical aid.  The last that nephew JC Williamson knew of Uncle Augie, the uncle resided in Regina, New Mexico.–Momsy Ruby Rae Conwell Williamson’s other brothers were Uncle Howard Conwell, Uncle Ernest Conwell, & Uncle Errett Conwell.  The first two brothers lived down in Thomaston, Texas, north of today’s Victoria, Texas.

Pictured below is Cornelius Augustus Conwell, M.D.:

Momsy & Augie’s father John Conwell (variously Conwill) had fought in the eastern theatre in just about every battle of the Civil War. Enlisting in the confederal troups from Bibb County, Alabama, “Paw Connie” fit his way up to Gettysburg and skedaddled back down as he was able to on trains running south. He participated in the stacking of arms at Appomattox. Family tradition is that Appomattox is where Paw Connie lost a finger, from trying at the last minute to shoot just one more Yankee. Much later in his life, in the early 20th century, he admitted to being glad the South had not seceded, because the United States as such had achieved greater strength than secession would have brought for the South. (By then he was established in Texas, not having remained any significant time in Randolph, Bibb Co., Alabama, after returning home there at the end of the war.  Except for that brief time, before the departure to Texas, he did not live under the boot of Alabama Reconstruction.)