Old McCorkle Letters

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. –From other sources, not ours in West Tennessee, Francis McCorkle may have been a brother to this Alexander, but I think these were first cousins.) Did Francis & Alexander McCorkle marry Brandon sisters? REBECCA BRANDON was the 2nd wife of Alexander McCorkle (our ancestor). And in Rowan County, NC, Francis “McCorkel” married Elizabeth Brandon 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 an early publication of the Restoration Movement (Christian Church). I believe these two people are men, because the "Mrs." title of respect was added back then if the subject was a woman, as I think it should be today. Even though an avid proponent of the "women's liberation" movement of the 1960s & 1970s, which allowed me to attend law school and become a member of the bar (in Texas and Tennessee), I think every human being, Mr. or Ms., Miss or Master, should have an honorific placed before the name.

"McCorkle, B Holland's Grove, Illinois 1836 --Could this be the reporting the death of "Blythe" Richard Blythe McCorkle, a son of "my" Robert McCorkle's brother William McCorkle, who was himself (that is, William) a son of the immigrant Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800. (?)

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 and grandsons of Generation I. Alexander McCorkle & Agnes Montgomery 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. This is overkill, for much has been written about this Presbyterian divine. But here goes nevertheless: He married

Margaret Gillespie in 1776. Born in what was then the environs of Harris Ferry, now in Dauphin but then in 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, which he named Zion Parnassus, and was a founder of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Look there on the campus of U.N.C. for a memorial to him. -- Samuel's wife Margaret Gillespie McCorkle was a daughter of Elizabeth Maxwell (Gillespie)(Steele), heroine of the Revolutionary War in North Carolina, in that she is credited with having rallied Gen. Nathaniel Green at a low military point by giving him all of her coinage. Elizabeth Steele's 1^sthusband (Gillespie) had been killed at Fort Dobbs during a Cherokee Indian uprising. -- A 2004 article about Samuel Eusebius McCorkle examines his reactions to the emotionalism of 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 June 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. [This marriage is of perhaps a bit more interest to me as a Huie, because my direct ancestor, Benjamin Huie 1798-1879, married a Levina or Lavinia Cowan of Rowan Cowan, NC, about this time. Who was Nancy Cowan (McCorkle)?] --And I note here again that Uncle Hiram R. A. McCorkle, Civil War-era journalist for the Yorkville-Newbern area of West Tennessee, married a Margaret A. L. Cowan (M^cCorkle), who I think was living in the Yorkville area. (I deduced from his journals that he headed towards York to court Margaret; and I felt intrusive-through-the-generations figuring out the code Uncle Hiram used in his journals to denote "Margaret." Deciphering his code wasn't difficult as I knew his later-wife's name so worked from there.)

Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical,
Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers:
Electronic Edition. Foote, William Henry, 1794-1869

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services
supported the electronic publication of this title.

Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Tampathia Evans Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Christopher Hill, and Jill Kuhn Sexton First edition, 2001
ca. 1.5M Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.
        © This work is the property of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text.... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...   ***   ***   *** ***   ***   ***   ***   *** ***

Source Description:
CHAPTER XXVI.
THYATIRA AND HER MINISTERS.
Settlement of Thyatira. McAden's course through the settlement, 1755. Visit of Messrs. Spencer and McWhorter. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle. Birthplace. His parents emigrate to North Carolina. Their locations. The Father an Elder and the Son Pastor of the Church. Commences a Classical course. Takes his degree at Nassau Hall, 1772 [Marsha Cope Huie adds: precursor to Princeton University]. Extracts from his diary. His early experience. His exercises during the Revival of 1772. Extract from Boston. Reads Hopkins. Is deeply distressed. Reads Smalley. Mr. Green's Sermon. He commences reading for the Ministry Licensed and called to Thyatira. His Marriage. Anecdote of Mrs. Steele [Marsha Cope Huie adds: Mrs. Steele was the mother-in-law of Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, she being the mother of Margaret Gillespie, whose father, Mr. Gillespie, had been killed at Ft. Dobbs outside today's Statesville, Iredell Co., NC] and General [Nathaniel] Green. Obituary of Mrs. Steele. Her letter to her Children after her death. A prayer from her pen. Mr. McCorkle's residence. Opens a Classical School [which he called Zion-Parnassus]. A Teacher's department. The first Graduates of the University of North Carolina. Is appointed a Professor in the University. Declines the appointment. Bounds of Thyatira. Third Creek formed from it. Rev. J. D. Kilpatrick. His views of the Revival in 1802. Anecdote of him. Back Creek formed. Salisbury Church formed. Mr. McCorkle's Bible Classes. His Pulpit preparations. His printed Sermons. His appearance. Resemblance to Mr. Jefferson. His Pulpit instructions. Delegates to the Assembly. His views of the Revival of 1802. Struck with Death in the Pulpit. His Funeral. Thomas Espy. [One of our THOMAS kinfolk--kin to Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle who was born Jane Maxwell THOMAS--married an Espy.] His birth. His early exercises on Religion. Commences a Classical course. Unites with the Church, 1820. Enters College. Goes to Virginia. Commences preparations for the Ministry. Licensure. Influence of his example. A Missionary to Burke, N. C. Is ordained Evangelist.
Page xxviii
Leaves Centre and goes to Salisbury. Seized with a hemorrhage. His last sickness. A testimony concerning him. His death. . . . . . 349

Marsha Cope Huie here adds for her readers a Thomas excursus: Generation One. Jacob Thomas m. Margaret Brevard; Jacob Thomas fought in the N.C. line of the Continental Army, as did at least 3 of his sons ; Generation II, William Thomas m. Elizabeth PURVIANCE [my particular ancestor was William.] Other sons were II. John Thomas,   I I. James Thomas, II. Henry Thomas, et al. Generation Three, Jane Maxwell Thomas m. Edwin Alexander McCorkle.

Why inclusion here of this little Brevard-Thomas Excursus? because someone surnamed BREVARD --Dr. Ephraim Brevard--is supposed to have written (did he?) in May of 1775 the first declaration of independence (did it in fact exist ???) If it did exist, it predated Jefferson's 1776 Declaration of Independence, which Thomas Jefferson hotly denied. William Henry FOOTE, in his book, included coverage of this Mecklenberg Declaration thus:

CHAPTER I.
THE FIRST DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, MAY, 1775.
The Village of Charlotte, its Situation, and Origin of its Name. The Convention, May 19th, 1775, the Preparatory Steps, its Organization and Object. An Incident related by General Graham. Committee present the Resolutions drawn by Dr. Brevard. THE MECKLENBURG DECLARATION, Unanimously Adopted. THE SECOND MECKLENBURG DECLARATION. Capt. Jack takes the Declaration to Philadelphia, reads the Papers in Salisbury, is opposed by Dunn and Boote. The Delegates decline laying the Declaration before Congress; Circulation and Preservation of the Copies. The Action of the Committee in the Case of Dunn and Boote. Associations first formed according to the Recommendations of Continental Congress. Provincial Council. County Committees of Safety. A Certificate. FIRST DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BY THE CONSTITUTED AUTHORITIES OF A STATE. Inquiry concerning the Origin of the People forming the Convention . . . . . 33

Dr. Ephraim Brevard...

CHAPTER III. A PAPER ON CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, DRAWN UP IN 1775.

        "SHE has seven sons in the rebel army," was the reason given by the British officer for plundering the farm and burning the house of Widow Brevard, in Centre Congregation, while Cornwallis was in pursuit of Morgan and Greene, after the victory of the Cowpens. What a mother! seven sons in the army at one time! all fighting for the independence of their country! And for this glorious fact, the house of the widow plundered and burned, and her farm pillaged!

        One son, Captain Alexander Brevard, a tall, dignified gentleman, independent in his feelings and his manners, rendered signal services in the Continental army. He took part in nine important battles--Brandywine, Germantown, Princeton, Stony Point, Eutaw, Guilford, Camden, Ninety-Six, and Stono. Of all these, he used to say, the battle of the Eutaw was the sorest conflict; in that he lost twenty-one of his men. When the time of hard service was over, he returned to private life, and never sought political promotion; enjoying that liberty for which he had fought, and serving his generation as a good citizen, and the church as a elder, respected and beloved. He laid his bones at last in Lincoln county, the place of his residence for many years, in a spot selected by himself and General Graham. They served as soldiers in the Revolution, and lived as most intimate friends: having married sisters, the daughters of Major John Davidson, one of the members of the Mecklenburg Convention... ... ...

, one of the members of the Mecklenburg Convention, they were brothers indeed; and dying in the hope of a blessed resurrection, they sleep, with their wives and many of their children, in their chosen place of sepulture. You may find the graves of these honorable dead in a secluded place, walled in with rock, about a hundred paces from the great road leading from Beatte's Ford by Brevard's Furnace to Lincolnton, a spot where piety and affection and patriotism may meet and mingle their tears; and youth may gather lessons of wisdom.
        The youngest son of this widow, afterwards Judge Brevard of Camden, South Carolina, was first lieutenant of a company of horse, at the age of seventeen, and held, through life, a corresponding station in the opinions and affections of his fellow men.
Page 69 Ephraim Brevard, another son of this widow, having pursued a course of classical studies in his native congregation, was graduated at Princeton College; and having pursued a course of medical studies, was settled in Charlotte. His talents, patriotism and education, united with his prudence and practical sense, marked him as a leader in the councils, that preceded the convention, held in Queen's Museum; and on the day of meeting designated him as secretary and draughtsman of that singular and unrivalled declaration, which alone is a passport to the memory of posterity through all time.
        Dr. Brevard took an active part in the establishment and management of the literary institution in Charlotte, which was, to all useful purposes, a college, though refused that name by the king and council. His name appears upon the degree given John Graham in 1778, which is carefully preserved at Vesuvius Furnace, the only degree of the institution now known to be in existence. For a time the institution was under his instruction.

        When the British forces invaded the southern States, Dr. Brevard entered the army as surgeon, and was taken prisoner at the surrender of Charleston, May 12th, 1780. The sufferings of the captives taken in that surrendered city, moved the hearts of the brave inhabitants of Western Carolina, and in the tenderness of the female bosom found alleviation. News was circulated among the settlements in the upper country, that their friends and relations were dying of want and disease, in their captivity. The men could not visit them; it would be leaping into the lion's den. The wives, the mothers, the sisters, the daughters, gathering clothing and provisions and medicine, sought through long journeys, the places of confinement, trusting to their sex, under the Providence of God, for their protection. These visits of mercy saved the lives of multitudes; and in some cases were purchased by the lives of the noble females that dared to undertake them. The mother of President Andrew Jackson, returning to the Waxhaw, from a visit made to the prisoners, having been the bearer of medicine, and clothing, and sympathy, was seized with a fever in that wide, sandy wilderness of pines that intervened, and died in a tent, and was buried by the roadside, and lies in an unknown grave. Multitudes perished and found a captive's grave; and multitudes more contracted disease whose wasting influence more slowly, yet as surely, laid them low among their native hills. Of these was Dr. Brevard. On being set at liberty, he sought the residence of John McKnitt Alexander, his friend and co-secretary, for rest and recovery. The air of that mild climate, and the aid of medicine, and the watchful care of
Page 70
friends, all failed to restore him. Struggling for a time against the diseases, with hopes of recovery, he breathed his last, about the time the hostile forces trod his native soil. He gave "life, fortune, and most sacred honor," in his country's service. The first was sacrificed; the last is imperishable. You may search Hopewell graveyard in vain for a trace of his grave. His bones have mouldered beneath the turf that covers Davidson and the Alexanders, but no stone tells where they are laid. No man living can lead the inquirer to the spot.

        There is a paper in his handwriting, preserved for a long time in the family of his friend John McKnit Alexander, and now in the possession of the Governor of North Carolina, William A. Graham, which is as remarkable as the proceeding of the Convention on which it is based. It bears date September 1st, 1775. The first Provincial Congress of North Carolina was then in session in Hillsborough. The delegates from Mecklenburg were his compeers and personal friends,--Polk, Avery, Pfifer and McKnitt Alexander.

"INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DELEGATES OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY, PROPOSED TO THE CONSIDERATION OF THE COUNTY

_________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

Now to another child of Alexander & Agnes Montgomery McCorkle, viz., John McCorkle:

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 [Joel] who walked in his father's steps and enjoyed his honors.@ --quoting Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache, John’s niece. –Quaere: Is John's only son Joel McCorkle of Rowan County, NC, in the NC legislative records anywhere? Yes, JOEL McCORKLE appears in the State Legislature of NC in the year 1816.

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. In his papers preserved there, Joel writes like a lawyer.) I didn't learn until 2009 that the papers of WILLIAM McCorkle, brother to Robert McCorkle and son of Alexander, 1722-1800, lie in the Archives of the U of NC Chapel Hill.]

www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/resources/index/indexm.html : Is this John above a 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 , id. est, that all 3 wives of Generation II. James McCorkle (brother of Robert et al.) have the 1^st name of Elizabeth ["E"]: viz., 1st Elizabeth Hall, a 2nd Elizabeth Hall, and 3rd 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..and Gerald K. Byers. Her web pages are on the internet at http://bellsouthpwp.net/c/s/csbyler/Genealogy/Snoddy/Snoddy.html

csbyler@bellsouth.net See also: www.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/snoddy2.htm Snoddy Family 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 Joseph McCORKLE. ...—Much Snoddy family information is posted on the web by by Gerald 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 [a 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 scandalous happening 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 Sophronia “Fronie” 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 1795 and 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, Indiana and 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 County for 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. [But I must check whether Henry County (northerly) was once a part of Giles County (southerly).] 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 eponymous 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. -- It is from one of Alexander II's letters in the UNC Archives under "Ramsay" that I deduced that "our" Robert, Alexander II's brother, was blind while residing in Rutherford County, Middle Tennessee, before removing westerly to Dyer County in the western district of Tennessee. Alexander wrote that brother Robert recognized him only from his, Alexander II's, voice.

III.1 Nancy McCorkle, b. circa 1780.

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

III.3. James Morrison McCorkle, b. 24^th 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 McCorkle b. circa 1794.

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

II.5. William McCorkle m. 1^st “Peggy” Margaret Blythe, and 2^nd “Mattie” [Martha]] King [widow of John Purviance, Jr., who had been scalped in Sumner Co., Tennessee, in 1792], and 3^rd in 1800 Jane or Jennie Graham. This Margaret ‘Peggy’ Blythe was a sister to "Lizzie" Blythe the first wife of William's brother, "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 in 1818 in Rutherford County, Tennessee; so we know he did not remove to Dyer County, West Tennessee, with his brother Robert, who died westerly in 1828.

--Some papers of this William McCorkle lie under his name in the archives of UNC at Chapel Hill. In a letter or two from Tennessee back to John McCorkle, John the brother who remained in Rowan County, NC, a friend of the family reports that William McCorkle was almost starving upon having removed to Tennessee. Evidently, at least immediately upon emigration from North Carolina, brother William attended to spiritual matters at the expense of practical necessity; yet it was the brother Joseph McCorkle whom niece Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache deemed "eccentric" albeit a "man of ability."

[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 1^st wife “Peggy” Margaret Blythe:

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

–This must surely be the Montgomery McCorkle about whom Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache writes; Montgomery is up in Indiana with or near to Elmira, a 1^st 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 27^th Oct. 1789.

William’s child by his 2^nd 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 3^rd wife Jane “Jennie” Jane Graham, whom he married in Sumner Co, Tenn., in 1800:

III.5. John McCorkle, born circa 1802

-- I'm pretty sure this is NOT the “Cousin John McCorkle” about whom Margaret Morrison writes, saying that Cousin John McCorkle 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 Margaret's brother-in-law James McCorkle. If so --that is, if 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. --I again note that the McCorkle/Locke connection in Rowan County, North Carolina, was a strong one.

____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

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

[This is my great-great-great grandfather on my father Ewing Huie's McCorkle side.]

(Parenthetically, 1828 is the date of the founding of the First Presbyterian Church of Memphis, where traces exist of Robert & Elizabeth Blythe McCorkle’s granddaughter, Martha D. Anderson Leath, alias Mrs. James T. Leath.) I first read Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache's handwriting as "Leigh" but it is indisputable that Elmira should have written "LEATH." --Martha D. Anderson married James T. Leath in Sumner Co., Middle Tennessee, then removed to Memphis. Slaveholder James T. Leath, an attorney in Memphis, which still has a downtown Leath Street, was nevertheless named Ruling Elder for the Western District of Tennessee by 1838, before the Civil War. The following 1887 Goodspeed's History entry refers to a grandson of "Colonel" James T. Leath; but, query, is it a grandson by James T. Leath's 1^stwife (Martha D. Anderson Leath, a granddaughter of Robert McCorkle & Lizzie Blythe McCorkle), or is it a grandson by James T. Leath's 2^nd wife (as far as I know not McCorkle kin)?

[It's a small world: in the early1980s, my next-door neighbor in Memphis was Wharton Jones. Evidently, this H. Leath written up in Goodspeed's (infra) had married Carrie Jones (Leath), daughter of G.W. Jones, who may have been an ancestor of my neighbor Wharton Jones, whose father himself had been noted as a leader in education in Memphis--I think the father of my neighbor had been superintendent of Memphis schools, but may have that wrong.]

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 into Kentucky. " Carol Byler writes that Robert joined Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church’s congregation in 1789, a church also joined by Robert's brothers Joseph (who m. Margaret "Peggy" Snoddy) & William McCorkle (who had 3 wives). Our old West Tenn. records do not mention Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church. -- But in the old McCorkle papers given me in 1984 by "Casey" Bowden Cason McCorkle, I found a sheet of paper in which Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach(e) had written the above-quoted "second company of men into Kentucky" language about her father, Robert McCorkle.

Then, Robert moved back down to northern Middle Tennessee (I think), Sumner County; or he may have gone directly from Kentucky back to his native Rowan County, North Carolina. I know Robert returned to Rowan County, North Carolina, to claim and marry his 2^nd wife, Margaret Morrison (McCorkle).

Robert and Margaret's children were born in Rowan County (please see below). For example, their daughter Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (later Mrs. Gideon Thompson) was born 28^th Dec 28 1795 in Rowan Co., NC. Then, Elmira Sloan McCorkle (later Mrs. Dr. Stephen Roache) was born 13^th Feb. 1797 in Rowan Co, NC. My own great-great grandfather, Edwin Alexander McCorkle was born the 18^th of March 1799 in Rowan County. Then, Jehiel Morrison McCorkle (often called Major J M McCorkle once grown in Dyer County, Tennessee) was born the 3^rd of Jan. in 1803 in Rowan County. I'm not sure where Margaret Permelia McCorkle (Mrs. Lemuel Locke Scott) was born, in I think 1804 or 5, but think it was Rowan County, NC.

Then, some time after this marriage, with this 2^ndwife and their children, and evidently some of Margaret's Morrison relatives (such as her sister Mary Morrison Morrison), Robert removed to the area of Stone’s River, near or in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Margaret Morrison McCorkle's sister Mary Morrison Morrison (Mrs. John Morrison; Mary Morrison married her 1st cousin, a son of her uncle Patrick Morrison, Patrick a son of the "first inhabitor" William Morrison, 1704-1771) wrote toward the end of her, Mary's, life, from near Hillsboro in Coffee County, Tennessee, that she remembered with fondness little QUINCY ROACHE (Robert & Margaret McCorkle's grandson by their daughter Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roach(e) ). Mary recalled in her letter the Quincy Roache who used to play sweetly when they all lived at BRADLEY'S CREEK (presumably Rutherford Co., Middle Tennessee). Also, we know Robert's brother William M^cCorkle went to Stone's River too, in order to take up, jointly, their father Alexander McCorkle I ’s Revolutionary War land grant; and finally Margaret & husband Robert (but not Robert's brother William McCorkle, who died in 1818) removed farther west to Dyer County, where Robert died in April 1828.

--Again, according to his daughter Elmira, Robert McCorkle, who began life in Rowan Co., NC, may not even have lingered in Middle Tennessee (his brother William was a Shiloh Presbyterian Church just outside today's Gallatin) upon leaving Rowan Co., but instead Robert may have forayed directly into Kentucky where he was to join Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church near today's Lexington. This latter point is unclear to me: whether Robert lingered in Middle Tennessee before going to Kentucky, although we know his brother William did linger at Shiloh Presbyterian Church in Sumner County near Gallatin.

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., Tennessee. 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. I assume William McCorkle went on up to Cane Ridge, because he married "Mattie" Martha King (Purviance) the widow of the John Purviance (a junior, a son of Mary Jane Wasson Purviance & Revolutionary War soldier in the North Carolina line, John Purviance), the son John Purviance having been scalped in Sumner County in 1792. It may be, though, that William McCorkle married Mattie King Purviance in Sumner County; records should tell us; "Mattie" was William's second wife, after the Blythe wife who was sister to Robert McCorkle's 1st wife, "Lizzie" Elizabeth Blythe (McCorkle).

Robert McCorkle sired 2 children by his 1^st wife “Lizzie” Elizabeth Blythe, viz., (1.) infant “Aleck” Alexander McCorkle, 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 C. Anderson McMurry. (The daughter Elizabeth McMurry 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 2^nd wife Margaret “Peggy” Morrison, a daughter of Elizabeth

Sloan(e) & Andrew Morrison (and a paternal granddaughter of William Morrison, 1704-1771, & of Margaret (maiden name unknown) Morrison) were:

III.3. Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (Thompson)

born 28^th 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, 1^st: Jane M. Thompson (Mrs. Benjamin Williams); Jane M. Thompson Williams died in 1850 & is buried in the McCorkle Cemetery, Dyer County, Tennessee, as "Jane Williams, consort of Benj. Williams." I just recently found her name as having joined the old family church, Lemalsamac Christian Church as it was then known, in the year 1850, which was also the year of her death. Her husband Benjamin Williams then "removed" from Lemalsamac, but I know not whereto, although I think he returned to Hardeman County, Tennessee.

The 2^nd daughter of Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (and husband Gideon Thompson) was Mary “Polly” Thompson (Mrs. Matthew Dickey).

Elmira was born 13^th Feb. 1797 in Rowan Co, NC; and died 2^nd August 1890, either in Indianapolis, Marion Co, Indiana, at the home of her oldest son Justice Addison Locke Roache, who had become president of the Indiana lines of Illinois Central Railroad; or in the town of California in the state of Missouri at the home of a younger son “Quincy” Robert Quincy Roache, who had removed northerly from living amongst Newbern McCorkle kinfolks to become president of a bank, Moniteau Bank, in the town of California, Missouri. 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, who even has an old trunk containing locks of hair from some of the eldest generation. We suspect hair samples exist from Margaret Morrison McCorkle or at least her children. Oh, the DNA experiments we could now run, with Carol's help! ... ... ...]

III.5. Edwin Alexander McCorkle, born 18^th March 1799. --This is my great-great grandfather

Edwin was born in Rowan County, NC, in 1799 and died on the 10th January 1853 in Dyer County, Tennessee. Edwin married Jane Maxwell Thomas of Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee, who died in 1855 in Dyer County, Tennessee, soon after him. Edwin is my great-great grandfather through my father [Howard] Ewing Huie, 1907-1971. We know from certain old documents that Edwin Alexander McCorkle served as one of the earliest Justices of the Peace of Dyer County. Evidently, he was traveling when his wife Jane joined Lemalsamac Christian Church; but his brother Robert A. H. McCorkle wrote after Edwin's death that the latter had been their most efficient deacon.

I learned three personal things about Edwin Alexander McCorkle when doing this research for this Internet website, each reflecting, I thought, generosity of spirit: one, that he had generously mailed a dollar to his mother's sisters, Mary Morrison Morrison & Rebecca Morrison, very elderly ladies living in penury near Hillsboro in Coffee County, Tennessee--and this was back when a dollar was a dollar; and, two, that Edwin had driven a wagon from Dyer County all the way east to Coffee County in order to rescue these two elderly aunts from their penury--they lived with Mary's son or nephew or relative named James Morrison (exact relationship unknown) in what Mary's letters described as deplorable circumstances; but when Edwin arrived with his offer of escape the old ladies became afraid and refused to accompany him westerly to live with the Morrison/McCorkles; and, three, Edwin & wife Jane took in Edwin's niece Jane M. Thompson (later Mrs. Benjamin Williams) and raised her to adulthood, while Edwin's brother Robert A.H. McCorkle & wife Tirzah Scott took in their niece Mary C. Thompson (later Mrs. Matthew Dickey of Dyer County). And that's really all I know about my great-great grandfather.

III.6. Jehiel Morrison McCorkle “JEM,” born 3^rd Jan. 1803, buried in the Dyer County, Tenn., McCorkle Cemetery. Born in Rowan Co., NC, he died in 1849 in Dyer County, Tennessee, too soon. Married "Betsy" Elizabeth Smith in Rowan County, NC. Member of the first Dyer County Court and in the earliest Dyer County militia; hence the honorific used for him, "Major J M McCorkle." One of Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle's (Jehiel's sister-in-law's) uncles (either James Thomas or Henry Thomas; I forget which one) used "Major J M McCorkle" as a character reference in his Dyer/Gibson County-written application for a Revolutionary War pension. –I have listed Jehiel Morrison McCorkle's children ; and I note elsewhere Jehiel & Betsy McCorkle’s loss of at least three sons to the Civil War, viz., Clay or H.C. McCorkle; Locke McCorkle; and Ed or Eddy or Eddie McCorkle --One of Jehiel's sister Elmira's ROACHE 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.--As stated, an application made in Gibson or Dyer County, Tennessee, by a Thomas kinsman for a Revolutionary War pension for service in the North Carolina line --of either James Thomas or Henry Thomas, I can't remember which uncle it was of Jane Maxwell THOMAS McCorkle alias Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle-- lists as a reference "Major J M McCorkle." That would be Jehiel Morrison McCorkle.

III. 7. Now, to Robert & Margaret McCorkle's daughter, Margaret Permelia M^cCorkle (Mrs. Lemuel Locke Scott). Where was she born? I think she was born in 1804 (or was she born before Jehiel Morrison "JM" McCorkle?).

Margaret Permelia McCorkle (Scott), sister to, inter alia, the above Jehiel Morrison McCorkle, married Lemuel Locke Scott. What a good-looking man Lemuel's photograph reveals !

Lemuel Locke Scott's Scott family is listed on the new tombstone supra placed in the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery.

SCOTT EXCURSUS: James Scott, 1777-1853, & wife Sarah Dickey Scott, 1777-1838, daughter of John Dickey & Sarah Robinson Dickey of York District, South Carolina.

One of Margaret Morrison McCorkle’s letters circa 1838 (transcribed herein, in former Chapter Two/ now named the first part of "Old McCorkle Letters") mentions the re-marriage of “Old Friend Scott,” who almost certainly would have been James Scott (1777-1853), remarriage, she says, to a "very respectable old lady." Sadly, Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott died in late 1853, the very same year of death as her father-in-law's, James Scott's. Official record exists of a marriage in Gibson County, Tennessee, of a James Scott: with license, or marriage vows, taken on 14^th June 1838. The recorded name of the bride is Mary Landers (Scott). If this is the remarriage of Margaret P. McCorkle Scott's father-in-law, James Scott, 1777-1853, and I think it is, then he didn't wait even a year to remarry. Absolutely nowhere else, except in Margaret Morrison McCorkle's letters, had I ever heard that old James Scott married a 2^nd wife after the death of Sarah Dickey (Scott), 1777-1838, the mother-in-law of, inter alia, Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott. No tombstone for Mary Landers Scott exists in the Old Yorkville C.P. Church Cemetery, where the stones of James & Sarah Dickey Scott were originally placed, and where the two were in fact interred. (Please recall that I moved their deteriorating stones in 1984 to the McCorkle Cemetery, unaware that Congressman Ed Jones, & Hamilton Parks of Trimble, would soon work to restore the Old C.P. Cemetery in Yorkville. I set their stones beside that of their granddaughter Mrs. Julius M. Huie, 1839-1893, née "Sade" Sarah Elizabeth Scott, daughter of Violet B. Roddy Scott & James "Jimps" Scott. Now, of course, with the benefit of hindsight I wish I hadn't done it.)

–Old Gibson County marriage records also reveal the marriage or license on 8^th December 1832 of James & Sarah Dickey Scott’s son "Jimps" 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 2^ndwife (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 James is not called "Jimps" on the census records.) Now, I think that the name of the 2^ndwife of my great-great grandfather James "Jimps" Scott was "Margaret Scott," for that's what's listed on the Gibson County census records as the (2^nd) wife's name. Also, census-takers recorded this Margaret Scott as having been born in South Carolina, as was "Jimps" James Scott. I just do not profess to know who was the 2^nd wife of "Jimps." The above is, unfortunately, the best I can offer.

Quaere: What are the years of life of "Jimps" James Scott, who was the husband of 1^st wife Violet B. Roddy (Scott)?

I think the following is "Jimps" James Scott, born I think in 1810--the father of, inter alia, Allen "Tobe" Scott; "Sade" Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie; Tirzah Clementine Scott Trimble, the female TRIMBLE ancestor of James Spence Trimble & Mentia Trimble Hicks of Yorkville, and of Bettie Hundley;

& Rev. Thomas ELIHU Scott.... .... But a problem arises: "Jimps" Scott's original tombstone--so in ruins at the Old Yorkville CP Cemetery as to be almost illegible (in fact, his name is missing)--states, I had thought, his years of life to be 1810-1872; if that is his correct tombstone, perhaps I misread the 1872; perhaps the year of his death if more legible would read 1882. Now, though, I think I just focused on somebody else's tombstone lying in ruins there, someone who lived from 1810-1872, someone who was NOT our "Jimps" James Scott. -- I'm just not certain that the following 1880 census is about "our" James "Jimps" Scott, but almost certainly think it is. The information in brackets is from me, so take it with the understanding of my confusion about the death date:

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

Name: James Scott White Male ["Jimps" Scott????]

Home in 1880: District 9, Dyer County, Tennessee

Age: 71

Estimated birth year: abt 1809 [If it's "Jimps" it's actually, I think, 1810]

Birthplace: South Carolina

Father's birthplace: South Carolina [If it's "Jimps" the father's name is James Scott, 1777-1853]

Mother's birthplace:
South Carolina [If it's "Jimps" the mother's name is:

Sarah Dickey Scott, 1777-1838], a dau. of Sarah Robinson Dickey & John Dickey of S.C.

Neighbors: View others on page

Occupation: Retired Farmer

Marital Status: Married [If it's "Jimps" Scott, this wife listed in census would have to be his 2^nd wife, whose name, I think, was Margaret; not "Jimps's" 1st wife Violet B. Roddy Scott]

Name:	James Scott White Male ["Jimps" Scott????]
Home in 1880:	District 9, Dyer County, Tennessee
Age:	71
Estimated birth year:	abt 1809 [If it's "Jimps" it's actually, I think, 1810]
Birthplace:	South Carolina
Father's birthplace:	South Carolina [If it's "Jimps" the father's name is James Scott, 1777-1853]
Mother's birthplace:	South Carolina [If it's "Jimps" the mother's name is: Sarah Dickey Scott, 1777-1838], a dau. of Sarah Robinson Dickey & John Dickey of S.C.
Neighbors:	View others on page
Occupation:	Retired Farmer
Marital Status:	Married [If it's "Jimps" Scott, this wife listed in census would have to be his 2^nd wife, whose name, I think, was Margaret; not "Jimps's" 1st wife Violet B. Roddy Scott]

Name	Age
Allen Scott [Is this Allen "Tobe" Scott?--Tobe was a child of "Jimps" ]	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 [This must be my father's "Cousin Ida" Scott (Mrs. Parrish) (Mrs. Moore) mother of Leon Parrish; Scott Parrish; and Roy Parrish.	6
Wm T. Oliver [Brother-in-law to "Tobe" Allen Scott? Brother to Sallie Oliver Scott???]	20
T. E. Scott [This must be Thomas Elihu Scott, Church of Christ minister, a son of "Jimps" Scott]	24
Arlis Scott [Artie Hall Scott was the wife of Thomas Elihu Scott]	28
H. W. Scott [Horace Scott or bro. Homer Scott? -- Horace & Homer were sons of "Elihu" Rev. Thomas Elihu Scott, but I can't remember which brother was older, Cousin Horace or Cousin Homer....]	8Mo.
James Scott ["Jimps" James Scott, born 1810 in South Carolina]	71
Margaret Scott [I guess this is the 2^ndwife of "Jimps" James Scott (the James b. 1810). Is it?] [This "Margaret Scott" is NOT to be confused with Violet B. Roddy Scott & Jimps's daughter Margaret Scott who was the 1^st wife of David Purviance McCorkle; Jimps's daughter Margaret Scott (McCorkle) died during the Civil War, in 1862.	72
Joe L. Williams [This JOE L WILLIAMS resident of Jimps Scott's household raises only questions for me: how if at all is he kin to SUSAN or SUSANNAH WILLIAMS, the wife of Jimps/James Scott's brother, John Dickey Scott? Was Joe L. Williams, too--like Susan or Susannah Williams Scott alias Mrs. John Dickey Scott alias Mrs. John Dickie Scott-- a child of Joseph Williams?]	20

The WILLIAMS Family Connection:

Obviously, 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), whose descendants ended up in Hardeman County (I think). 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 was a daughter, please recall, of Rebecca Cowden McCorkle (Thompson); & Gideon Thompson; and Jane was a granddaughter of Robert & Margaret Morrison McCorkle.]

The following Tennessee 1860 Slave Schedule makes me feel sad; but I had known these Scotts were considered a bit more well-to-do than the neighbors, and that there were numerous freedmen surnamed Scott around Newbern post-bellum, and even in my childhood in the 1950s. One, e.g., was "Nellie" or Nelson Scott. Slave schedule Page 302

Name: James Scott [ I think this is "Jimps" James Scott, born 1810 in SC]

County: 1860 Dyer County District 9

Name:	James Scott [ I think this is "Jimps" James Scott, born 1810 in SC]
County:	1860 Dyer County District 9

1850 United States Federal Census about James ["Jimps"] Scott

	James Scott, age 42, male
Estimated birth year:	abt 1808; in South Carolina [I think it was 1810.]
Home in 1850:	District 9, Dyer County, Tennessee

[Now, the following shows the confusion about: whose wife was Mary Landers (Scott)--was she the wife of James Scott, 1777-1853 (almost certainly, yes !), or as this census says (erroneously, I'm almost sure) was she the wife of that James Scott's son, "Jimps" James Scott, born (I think) in 1810?

wife: M.L. Scott, aged 42, born in S Carolina

[But "Jimps" James Scott's 2nd wife was named Margaret, according to the 1860 census; If this is "Jimps" Scott, the 1st wife's name was Violet B. Roddy, Violet being mother of all his children as far as I, Marsha, know. I just don't know who Jimps's 2nd wife was.]

--Now, this "ML SCOTT" business is what gets me confused with the "Mary Landers" who married circa 1838 a James Scott in Gibson County. Did Mary Landers marry the father James Scott, 1777-1853, or the son "Jimps" James Scott, born in 1810? I'm just not certain, but I think she married the father James.]

M.E. Scott, female aged 14 [If the father is "Jimps" this is either Margaret Scott b. circa 1836 or her sister Martha.] [Margaret Scott m. David Purviance McCorkle; and her sister Martha Scott m. Anderson Jehiel McCorkle, as the McCorkle brothers' first wives.]

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

S.A. Scott, female aged 11 [If this is "Jimps" & his children, SA Scott should be: born 1839; Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie, alias "Sade" Huie]--[I wonder if we have been wrong about Sarah Scott Huie's middle name all these years: our records say it's "Elizabeth" but this census says "A" and what really worries me is that the Lemalsamac Christian Church first membertship book records Sarah Scott Huie as being "SA Scott."

[Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie's 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.

[Conclusion: from the above children's names, THIS HAS TO BE THE FAMILY ABOVE OF "JIMPS" JAMES SCOTT born 1810

_______________________

And this same James "Jimps" Scott appears in the 1840 Dyer County, Tennessee, District 9, census;

as does James Thomas appear in the 1840 Dyer County census. James Thomas was a brother of William Thomas and brother-in-law of Elizabeth Purviance Thomas. This James Thomas was an uncle to Jane Maxwwell Thomas McCorkle. Elizabeth Purviance Thomas was the mother of Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle (Jane was to become Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle).

This James Thomas (in Dyer County) lived not too far from Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle. There is, however, a James Thomas listed in the GIBSON County 1840 census; I'm not certain which "James Thomas" is uncle to Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle (and this James Thomas is brother to William Thomas, Jane's father who m. Elizabeth Purviance).

--Also listed in the Gibson County records is the marriage of James & Sarah Dickey Scott’s daughter Tirzah Scott to Robert AH McCorkle on 1^st 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 21^st April 1858. Sallie L. Scott (Rodgers) was to marry a 2^nd 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 (2^nd ) wife is buried. [ I think it was Dick Locke’s 2^nd 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 Susannah or Susan Williams: “SCOTT, John D married WILLIAMS, Susanah C on 01-JUN-1828.” [--John Dickey Scott removed on down to Hardeman County, I think, as did his brother William Scott; I'm not certain that John Dickey Scott went down to Hardeman although I know William did.]

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 1^st 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? Susannah's father was Joseph Williams. Was Joseph perchance the father of Benjamin Williams?--Please recall that a Joe L. Williams , aged 20, lived in the home of "Jimps" James Scott, who was a brother to John Dickey Scott (the John Dickie Scott who married Susannah or Susan Williams, daughter of Joseph Williams).

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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 A 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 "Sade" 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????? I don't really think so. His first wife, and I thought his only wife, was Nancy Edwards Wellborn (Scott), buried in Hardeman County, Tennessee. This 2^nd wife business is pure speculation based on the dates and names. I think one of our Hardeman County Scotts, a descendant of William Scott, married a Pearl Gilchrist, an INA 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 wife Elizabeth or Jane ALEXANDER. Of course, I’ve edited the following just to fill in what I know about the children of Alexander McCorkle & 1^st wife “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery; but I have not called him Alexander G. McCorkle, for that’s not in our record. Nor have I added Alexander McCorkle Sr.’s parents and grandparents, for they are not in our record anywhere. I question whether 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:

“Contact: Unknown

“· ID: I0923

· Name: Alexander G. MCCORKLE

· Sex: M

· Birth: about 1722 in Lanark County. Scotland

· Death: 24 DEC 1800 in Rowan Co. North Carolina
Father: 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. Martha (Mattie) MCCORKLE [Archibald] b: ca. 1745 in Lancaster Co. PA m. William Archibald

2. Samuel Eusebus MCCORKLE b: 25 AUG 1746 in Harris Ferry, Lancaster Co. PA [now in Dauphin County]

3. John MCCORKLE b: 1750 in Lancaster Co. PA.

m. Catherine Barr.

4. Alexander 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. Joseph MCCORKLE b: 4 MAY 1753 in Lancaster Co. PA. m. Margaret Snoddy.

7. Elizabeth 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. William 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. Agnes "Nancy" MCCORKLE [Ramsay] b: 9 FEB 1760 in Rowan Co. NC –papers in UNC Archives; she remained in NC.

10. Robert 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. James 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 1^st 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

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) BRANDON 3 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.

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

Child of Elizabeth ALEXANDER and Samuel MCCORKLE is:

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 from Argyllshire, 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. ”

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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 --The following is from MARGARET DICKEY much of which is about Joseph H. Howard: “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 Dickey, Joe is descended from James' brother David Houston Dickey. 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: jhhoward@erols.com

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.

______________________________________________________________________________________________

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.)

Your letter to Quincy and myself dated January 26^th [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 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 [page 2] exhortation.

Chapter Two The actual old letters themselves, with explanations of who the writers were, as well as of the people-written-about in the letters.

Chapter Three Edwin Alexander McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas (McCorkle).

Descendants of Alexander & "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery McCorkle's grandson, through their son Robert McCorkle & Robert's 2nd wife Margaret Morrison (McCorkle):

that is, descendants of EDWIN ALEXANDER McCORKLE, 1799-1853, who married JANE MAXWELL THOMAS of Lebanon, WILSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, 1801-1855. The Jacob Thomas-Margaret Brevard (Thomas) lineage is discussed, including their son Revolutionary War soldier WILLIAM THOMAS & wife Elizabeth PURVIANCE (Thomas) who removed from Lebanon, Middle Tennessee, to West Tennessee in their old age. The Purviance lineage of Revolutionary War Lieutentant ("colonel") John Purviance, who married Mary Jane Wasson, is examined.

Edwin Alexander McCorkle & Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle would have been proud of descendant Sara Zarecor Dunagan (Mrs. Horace Dunagan, Jr., of first Yorkville then Caruthersville, Mo. In her last year of life she married James Sowell and lived in Jackson, Tennessee.) Sarah who died in late 2006 descended from Rebecca McCorkle Zarecor (Mrs. John C. Zarecor), a daughter of Edwin & Jane McCorkle. From left are pictured Sara's daughter Nancy Dunagan Biggs of Greenfield, Tennessee; Nick Dunagan, Chancellor of the University of Tennessee at Martin; Sara their mother; and Anita Dunagan Roy.

Chapter Four John Edwin McCorkle: (1) one of his Civil War diaries. One of Several Diaries Kept by John Edwin McCorkle, 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 daughter’s, Katie Pearl McCorkle (Fox)’s journals.

Chapter Six McCorkle Miscellany. Begins with "Some early Sumner Co., Tenn., marriage records."

Chapter Seven The Families of James & Sarah Dickey Scott. James Scott, 1777-1853, from Pennsylvania to York District, South Carolina, to Yorkville-Newbern in Gibson and Dyer Counties, Tennessee; and his wife Sarah Dickey Scott, 1777-1838, born to John Dickey & Sarah Robinson (Dickey) of York District, South Carolina. I thought about removing this after learning that descendancy from Sarah Robinson (Dickey) makes us kin to the current vice president of the United States--I shall not type his name--but decided to go on with genealogical verisimilitude.

The above photograph looks west from the Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery. The original Benjamin Huie (1798-1879) home was to the left, across the road, and down the road about 1/4 of a mile, just up a hillock. In my childhood (1950s) the 1^stBenjamin Huie acreage was called the Sid Harris place.

The above photograph is supposed to be of the newly placed (2007) tombstone for Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838) and James Scott (1777-1853). It looks east, towards Yorkville.

It is only due to James Ragon of Jackson, Tennessee, that I can with certainty name the mother of Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838). This Mrs. John Dickey was née Sarah Robinson of York District, South Carolina. (I had erroneously thought, and unfortunately placed on the Dyer County, Tennessee, web site, that the mother of Sarah Dickey Scott was née Purviance.)

Chapter Eight Mary Elizabeth Cotton (the 2nd wife of John Edwin McCorkle), of Botland near Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky.

Chapter Nine DICKEY FAMILY GENEALOGY. You are a Dickey descendant if....

Chapter Ten [Thanks to James Richmond for his contribution to this chapter....]

Pennsylvania Origins, Middle Tennessee, the DAR, and Religion on the Frontier in Kentucky, the Great Revival at Cane Ridge of 1801-1804; Levi Purviance’s Biography of His Father "elder" David Purviance, who was an uncle to Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle of Wilson County, Middle Tennessee, then of Dyer County, Tennessee

2.           Benjamin Huie of Cabarrus County, NC, then Rowan/Iredell Co., NC; then Newbern,-Yorkville, Tennessee, 1798-1879,

died at the home of his son Joseph G. Huie (buried in Poplar Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery just east of Newbern).

 Benjamin’s father was James Huie of North Carolina. I kinda suspect that James Huie was an immigrant but do not know.

  Virginia Jantz, genealogist, thought the Huie grandfather of Benjamin Huie was probably George Huie of North Carolina but could not prove it.

Is the following scan of a daguerreotype a representation of Benjamin Huie, 1798-1879?  If not, I think it's

likely to be one of two James Scott men, either father or son:  either the James Scott who lived 1777 to 1853 & m. Sarah Dickey (Scott)

or their son the James Scott who was born in 1810 & married Violet B. Roddy (Scott).

 I think this because this daguerreotype was in the album of

Mrs. Julius M. Huie (née Sarah Elizabeth Scott). "Sade" or Sarah's father-in-law was Benjamin Huie, and her father

 was the James Scott born in 1810 while her paternal grandfather was the James Scott born in 1777.

3.           A Catherine Huie, Daughter of a James Huie [we know Benjamin Huie’s father

 was a James Huie] married MAJOR JAMES E Kerr in  1833 in Salisbury, NC

4.            Huie-McEachran: Mrs. Peter Huie = Mrs. John McEachran

5.            `````An Alexander Huie married Elizabeth McEachran, daughter of John McEachran.

 An Elizabeth Huie married Hector McEachran.

6.            Some Internet records I’ve excerpting showing our McCorkle-Related family

members in Pennsylvania. -- I’ve tried really hard not to infringe a copyright, and to give

proper attribution to the workers;  but I don’t see how old Pennsylvania public documents can claim a copyright.

1. Frelinghuisen McCorkle, Jeff Bean, & Caleb McCorkle are buried in the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County, Tennessee, on the other side of the fence from the White Folk. Jeff Bean's wife was Ella Bean.

2. Gideon King, founder of Eminence, Henry County, Kentucky, father-in-law of Winfield Purviance McCorkle and 1^st cousin to Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle, the 2^nd wife of John Edwin McCorkle; Mary living 1^stin Kentucky then Dyer County, Tennessee

3. Our Finley-Montgomery-M^cCorkle Princeton University Connection through “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle (Mrs. Alexander McCorkle, last of Rowan Co, NC), and her brother Rev. Joseph Montgomery; and her mother Martha FINLEY Montgomery, Mrs. John Finley;-- what kinship to Samuel Finley, Princeton President, 1761-1766

4. Some Selected Names of Interest to Us from the Early Dialectic Society of the University of North Carolina.

1. "Joe" Joseph Smith McCorkle’s Affidavit about his Brother-in-Law Dr. Jonathan Francis Algea: "Women’s Liberation 1850s -Style: 'Where is the Justis?' "

2. Some Internet Finley Family Records from Pennsylvania (John Finley was father of Martha Finley--Mrs. John Montgomery--who was the mother of “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery (Mrs. Alexander McCorkle)

4. Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee Dyer County Biographical Section entry about David E. McCorkle, grandson of Jehiel Morrison McCorkle & wife Elizabeth Smith McCorkle; and son of Samuel Smith McCorkle

5. Miscellaneous Web addresses that might be of interest; click on them while holding down the Control button on your computer keyboard

6. Detailed Genealogical Information about the Descendants of JAMES SCOTT, 1777-1853, and Sarah Dickey Scott, 1777-1838. Did James Scott marry again in 1838 or '39 in Gibson County, Tennessee, to a MARY LANDERS (Scott) on 4^th June 1838? --This section has been updated by an internet contribution from altonmills@aol.com who, I think, is Scott Mills. Unfortunately, I cannot locate him in the D.C. area.

7. Margaret Brevard Thomas & Jacob Thomas Excursus of interest to the descendants of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle, née Jane Maxwell Thomas. Also, one of Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard Thomas' daughters, Elizabeth Thomas became Mrs. Sherrill: Elizabeth Thomas Sherrill. Note: Sherrill's Ford in NC.

There will be new chapters added, but until I can get help, the following will remain part of Chapter 15:

The new Chapter 16 will be: a teaser from the Civil War part of the journals of Uncle Hiram Robert A. (HRA) McCorkle

The new Chapter 17 will be: Hendricks / Chaffin / McMahan materials found in Mocksville, Davie Co., NC, in 2007

The new Chapter 18 will be: Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard Thomas descendants; Iredell Co., NC

The free Acrobat Reader is required to read the following letters. You can download the free Acrobat Reader here

if you don't already have it.

Old McCorkle Letters

Benjamin Huie; Julius M. Huie & Sarah Elizabeth Scott; Howard Anderson Huie & Sophie King McCorkle; Aunt Beth Huie & brother Howard Ewing Huie & Ewing's wife Joyce Cope (Huie)

Thyatira Presbyterian Church, near Salisbury, North Carolina. Burial site of Alexander McCorkle, the Scots-Irish immigrant to first Pennsylvania then finally to Rowan County, North Carolina; and Alexander's two wives, viz., "Nancy" Agness Montgomery (McCorkle), the mother of his children; and Rebecca Brandon (McCorkle).

Could the person below be James Scott (1777-1853) or his son James (nicknamed "Jimps" --1810-1872); or Benjamin Huie (1798-1879)? This tintype was in the photo album of Mrs. Julius M. Huie (née Sarah Elizabeth Scott); and I think it's of her grandfather James Scott (1777-1853); or possibly of her father James "Jimps" Scott (1810-1872); or possibly of her father-in-law Benjamin Huie (1798-1879).

Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical,
Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers:
Electronic Edition. Foote, William Henry, 1794-1869

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services
supported the electronic publication of this title.

CHAPTER III. A PAPER ON CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, DRAWN UP IN 1775.

"INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DELEGATES OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY, PROPOSED TO THE CONSIDERATION OF THE COUNTY

Acts of Tennessee 1831-1850 Index ...Charles A. Leath, 1841, 45; 53.1; Shelby County--Memphis City Hotel Company;

1850 United States Federal Census about James ["Jimps"] Scott

1. Frelinghuisen McCorkle, Jeff Bean, & Caleb McCorkle are buried in the McCorkle Cemetery in Dyer County, Tennessee, on the other side of the fence from the White Folk. Jeff Bean's wife was Ella Bean.

2. Gideon King, founder of Eminence, Henry County, Kentucky, father-in-law of Winfield Purviance McCorkle and 1^st cousin to Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle, the 2^nd wife of John Edwin McCorkle; Mary living 1^stin Kentucky then Dyer County, Tennessee

4. Some Selected Names of Interest to Us from the Early Dialectic Society of the University of North Carolina.