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Below: Claude Monet La Señora de la Sombrilla Verde as depicted in Jose Pijoan's Historia del Arte, 3 volumes, published by Salvat Editores, Barcelona, 1949
This webpage aims to preserve the genealogy and correspondence (from 1829) of the following families, and of many more: immigrants Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800, & wife "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery McCorkle; William 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 (fl. 1800) & son Benjamin Huie, 1798-1879, each known to have been in Cabarrus then Rowan-Iredell Counties, NC; and Revolutionary War veteran Jacob Thomas & wife 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), August 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
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.
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Alexander McCorkle Genealogy (1722-1800) Introduction to the people who engaged in the McCorkle Correspondence 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. Robert McCorkle's 1st wife, Elizabeth Blythe (McCorkle) died (I think near Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church nearby Lexington, Kentucky, but I may be wrong about this place of death). Lizzie Blythe McCorkle expired some time after giving birth to "Aleck" Alexander McCorkle, who died in infancy, & to daughter Elizabeth McCorkle (who later became Mrs. Thomas Anderson of Lebanon, Wilson Co., Tenn.); whereupon Robert McCorkle returned to Rowan-Iredell County and claimed the hand of Margaret Morrison (1770-1848), 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 County, Tennessee, 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: Scots-Irish 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. 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):

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
Pictured below is Jacob & Margaret Brevard Thomas' great-grandson Hiram Robert A. ("HRA") McCorkle (HRA McCorkle was a son of Jane Maxwell THOMAS McCorkle & Edwin Alexander McCorkle. The "Hiram" is from his mother's brother, Hiram Jacob Thomas, M.D., of Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee; then of Vernon, Mississippi; and last of Yazoo, Mississippi.):
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 granddaughter of Margaret Morrison McCorkle; Jane Williams was sister to Mary Thompson alias Mrs. Matthew Dickey
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Click for: First membership book of the old family church, then called Lemalsamac Christian Church
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.
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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 Muncie/Munsey was Onis Franklin (blurred beyond recognition)--Onis
Franklin became a medical doctor and ended up in Broken Arrow/Tulsa, 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. This is difficult to read.
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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. Easter 2008 photograph below of their descendants John Beverley Warren IV, left, & Jackson Huie Warren, sons of Mackenzie Huie Warren & John B. Warren III, and grandsons of John Ewing Huie, born 1952, & wife Joan; and great-grandsons of Edward Campbell Huie (died 2001) & Drucilla Garner Huie (died July 2008)
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Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle & wife Tirzah Scott McCorkle, a daughter of James Scott (1777-1853) and wife Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838)
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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 to honor these people.
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Hiram
McCorkle--just a teaser from one of HRA McCorkle's Civil War journals
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Huie
Home
Benjamin Huie/ Julius M. Huie/ Howard Anderson Huie/ Howard EWING Huie & Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie/ Home, built circa 1830, a "Plantation Ell" home straight from the North Carolina pattern. Situated just east of the Dyer-Gibson County Line on Highway 77, also known as the Newbern-Yorkville Highway. Today, Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie (Mrs. Ewing Huie) lives there.

above: My parents, Howard Ewing Huie & Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie
Howard Anderson Huie, 1870-1935, married Sophie King McCorkle. 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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Photo Gallery below: 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 J
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
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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 Roache, died around Trenton at train station from mortal wound incurred at Battle of Shiloh; his brother Robt. Quincy Roache & Quincy's 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 at Miscellany. Former
Chapter 14.-- for information on:
Frelinghuisen McCorkle;
Caleb
McCorkle;
Click here, to the right: Miscellany. Formerly my Chapter 14.
Click to the right for: Will of Samuel Rosebrough. Mentions: Benjamin Huie &
Jacob Huie ("Hughey"). Also, a JOHN DICKEY attests to 1820 will.
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Photograph of Notie Headden Cope & her daughter Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie; and Joyce's 1st cousin Mildred Grills Caldwell (daughter of Delia Cope Grills) [Under construction: to be added later]
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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. Also included are some more wills.
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Please help me post photos of the Civil-War Era McCorkle Siblings of eastern Dyer County, Tennessee, east of Newbern & west of Yorkville:
Hiram R. A. McCorkle, who according to the
journals of his brother, John Edwin McCorkle, "made a company" during
the war:
John Edwin McCorkle --his 2nd wife Mary Elizabeth Cotton (McCorkle), below:

Finis A. McCorkle: ______________________________
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Finis's twin Margaret Latina "Tina" McCorkle (Mrs. John T. Gregory):
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"Becky" Rebecca McCorkle Zarecor (Mrs. John C. Zarecor):
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Elizabeth McCorkle Reeves who removed to Gadsden near Humboldt, Gibson County, Tennessee:
Some names to watch for coming from Aunt Becky: Priestly, Jones,
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David Purviance McCorkle, who removed a bit north to Obion County:
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Anderson Jehiel McCorkle:
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Hiram Robert A. McCorkle:
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McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, Tennessee, east of Newbern and west of Yorkville. Who lies therein?
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 MarshaHuie@aol.com with any applicable information. Also, I welcome corrections.
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