Sherrill

I, Marsha Cope Huie, do not know exactly where to put all the SHERRILL information that’s in Aunt Ora and Aunt Katie Pearl’s booklet that definitely shows a Thomas family connection. It is known that: I. Elizabeth Thomas Sherrill married a Samuel Wilson Sherrill. And it's known that Elizabeth Thomas Sherrill was a daughter of Jacob Thomas & wife Margaret Brevard Thomas; and Elizabeth Thomas SHERRILL was a sister to, inter alia, the William Thomas who m. Elizabeth Purviance and begot Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle (Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle, who died in 1855).
I. ANNE THOMAS SHERRILL (Mrs. Abel Sherrill): Jacob & Margaret Brevard Thomas's daughter ANNE Thomas Sherrill married Abel Sherrill, a brother to SAMUEL WILSON SHERRILL, the husband of Elizabeth Thomas Sherrill. Anne and Abel Sherrill had a daughter named II. HULDA SHERRILL, born 23 April 1801 in the environs of Lebanon, Wilson County in Middle Tennessee. Here comes why John Edwin McCorkle, 1839-1924 (my father Ewing Huie's maternal grandfather) called some of the Yorkville, Gibson County, Tennessee BONEs "cousin Bone": John E. McCorkle's mother was Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle & Jane was first cousin to Hulda Sherrill (Mrs. Azor --Eleazor?-- BONE):
II. Hulda Sherrill m. Azor Bone on 18 December 1821 in Wilson Co. in Middle Tennessee. Azor Bone's parents: Asenath Potts and James R. Bone of Iredell Co., NC.

I suspect we should look for Hulda Sherrill Bone & husband Azor Bone as sojourners in Yorkville, Gibson County, Tennessee, and/or areas adjacent in contiguous Dyer County, but am not certain.

It is known that they migrated farther westerly, probably in the 1840s, and are interred in Independence County, Arkansas, where Azor Bone died circa 1880.

II. Another daughter of Anne Thomas Sherrill & Abel Sherrill was "Peggy" Margaret Sherrill alias Mrs. Alfred Sherrill.

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Generation I. Jacob Thomas b. ca 1742 and Margaret Brevard b. ca 1754

Abel Sherrill d. 1850 in or in the environs of Lebanon, Wilson County, Middle Tennessee; and wife Anne Thomas (Sherrill), 1772-1817, had these children:

1. Isaac Ambrose Sherrill, b. 2 Jun 1796 in Lincoln Co. NC - died 25 Dec 1798.

2. Ephraim Sherrill, Wilson Co., Tennessee. Lived 15 Oct 1797 to 25 September 1823. Wife: Mary "Polly" T. Bell

3. Margaret "Peggy" Sherrill (Mrs. Alfred Sherrill), born 6 May 1799 Wilson Co. Sherrill Cemetery of Independence Co., Arkansas, on Feb 5th in 1855.

4. Hulda W. (?) Sherrill (Mrs. AZOR BONE), 23 Apr 1801 in environs of Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee. She married in 1821.

5. William Thomas Sherrill, b. 30 Mar 1803-d. 1878; remained in or returned to Statesville, Iredell Co., North Carolina. Nota bene. Anne Thomas Sherrill named this son after her brother: the WILLIAM THOMAS who married Elizabeth PURVIANCE. Wife: Eleanor McEwin.

6. Elizabeth Sherrill REED, 9 Jan 1805 in Wilson Co., Tennessee.

7. POLLY Mary Sherrill (Mrs. John PERKINS), 25 Oct 1807- in Wilson Co., Tennessee. Her husband, John Perkins, was a grandson of Richard Perkins and Mary Sherrill, Mary being the sister of Adam Sherrill.

8. Samuel Wilson Sherrill, b. 10 May 1810, in Wilson Co., Tennessee, married Elizabeth Jane Moxley in 1835. Samuel died in Independence Co., Arkansas in 1835, too young.

9. Abel Rufus Sherrill, b. 15 Nov 1811 in Wilson Co., Tennessee, and died 29th December 1834. As he would have been only 22 or 23 years old, he did not marry and he had no issue. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church was formed in Dickson County, Tennessee, at a church in what is now Montgomery Bell State Park just outside Dickson, Tennessee. Check for him on he web site of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

10. Annie Malinda Sherrill, December 29, 1813- 19 October 1819. Poor infant.

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Now to the children of Generation 3. Hulda Sherrill Bone (Mrs. Azor Bone); 2, Anne Thomas Sherrill (Mrs. Abel Sherrill); 1, Asenath Bone Sherrill; 1, Peggy Bone Shaw; 1, James T. Bone; 1, Abel W. Bone; 1, Porter A. Bone; 1, Mary Jane Bone; 1 Henry Crawley Bone; 1, Hulda Sophronia Bone; 1, Azor Rufus Bone; 1, John Bell Bone; 1, Martha May Bone Milligan.

"JACOB SHERRILL, SON OF ADAM AND ELIZABETH AND SOME OF THEIR DESCENDANTS," lists as issue of Hulda Sherrill Bone & Azor Bone:

1. Asenath M. Bone, b. 1821, alias Mrs. Hiram M. Sherrill.

2. Margaret Ann "Peggy" Bone (Mrs. Judge Green W. SHAW) , b. ca. 1822 in Wilson Co., Middle Tennessee.

3. James T. Bone, b. ca 1824 in Wilson Co., m. Mary A. Hess.

4. Fought on the Union side from Arkansas: Abel W. Bone, b. 8 Oct 1826, in Wilson Co., Tennessee. He married: Sarah L. McKee.

5. Porter A. Bone, b. 1 May 1828, in Wilson Co., Tenn.; wife: Sarah J. Milligan. He also fought for the Union and died in 1862 during the war, in Oxford, Mississippi. Porter A. Bone married Sarah Jane Milligan.

6. Mary Jane Bone, b. ca 1832 in Wilson Co., Middle Tennessee.

7. Henry Crawley Bone, b. 22 Aug 1837 in Independence Co., Arkansas. Wife: Sarah M. Johnson.

8. Hulda Sophronia Bone, b. ca 1839 in Independence Co., Arkansas.

9. Another Union soldier: Azor Rufus Bone, b. 1 Jan 1842,Independence Co., Arkansas. Wife: Louisa Melissa Smith. Lived until 1907. Interred near Mt. Pleasant, Arkansas.

10. John Bell Bone, b. ca 1844 in Independence Co., Arkansas. Wife: Martha Ann Gambell.

11. Martha May Bone (Mrs. George Washington Milligan) was born in 1845 in Independence Co., Arkansas.

-- END OF CHILDREN OF Generation 3. Hulda Sherrill Bone (Mrs. Azor Bone); Generation Two, Anne Thomas Sherrill (Mrs. Abel Sherrill): Generation One, Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard Thomas, viz., Generation FOUR, Asenath Bone Sherrill; 4, Peggy Bone Shaw; 4, James T. Bone; 4, Abel W. Bone; 4, Porter A. Bone; 4, Mary Jane Bone; 4, Henry Crawley Bone; 4, Hulda Sophronia Bone; 4, Azor Rufus Bone; 4, John Bell Bone; 4, Martha May Bone Milligan.

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Evidently, but not for sure, the following as listed by Aunt Ora and Aunt Katie Pearl are Elizabeth Thomas Sherrill's children: Archibald Sherrill m. Anderson; Margaret Sherrill m. Donnell; Hulda Sherrill m. Chandler.

New entry by Aunt Ora or Aunt Kate: Samuel Sherrill m. Sheets; Ann Sherrill m. Chandler; Elizabeth Sherrill m. Amos Bone; Rebecca m. Taliferro; Ruanna or Susanna Sherrill m. Perkins; Hugh Sherrill m. Scobey; and Numon Sherrill m. McQueen.

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New entry by Aunt Ora McCorkle Huie or her sister Aunt Kate McCorkle Fox: Jacob Thomas m. Jewel; Anna Thomas (Mrs. Jewel); James Thomas m. McMinn; Bazzle [Basil?] Thomas m. Vance or Yance; Lucinda Thomas (Bunton); John Thomas m. Bunton; Henry Thomas m. McKay; Jacob Thomas Jr. m. Shelton; and Ann Thomas (Sherrill).

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New entry by Aunt Ora or Aunt Kate: Ephraim Sherrill m. Bell: Margaret Sherrill (m. a Sherrill); Hulda Sherrill Bone (m. Mr. Bone); William Sherrill (m. ______Thomas); Mary Sherrill; Abel Rufas Sherrill m. Mosdy or Moody; and Wilson Sherrill.

--As mentioned, he above Thomas/Sherrill/Bone connection is probably why John Edwin McCorkle, 1839-1924, in his journal refers to "cousin" (Dr.) Bone who lived then in Yorkville. Again, John Edwin McCorkle's mother was née Jane Maxwell Thomas in Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee (where she married Edwin McCorkle). Jane M. T. McCorkle was a daughter of William Thomas & wife Elizabeth PURVIANCE Thomas.

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BREVARD: Margaret Brevard m. Jacob Thomas. Was she a daughter of the immigrant JEAN (anglicized to JOHN) BREVARD who m. Katherine McKnitt or McNitt?

Here's what I, Marsha Cope Huie, in fall of 2009, gleaned from a recent visit--September 2009-- to the Statesville, Iredell County, NC, Public Library, Family History Room:

Margaret Brevard married Jacob Thomas. Did they marry in Cecil County, Maryland? in Lincoln County, North Carolina? in Burke County, NC?

Three brothers, sons of the immigrant Huguenot Frenchman Jean Brevard (John Brevard) came from Cecil Co., Md., along with one of the three brothers' sisters and her husband: Elizabeth Brevard ____, came from Cecil County, Maryland, and perhaps more siblings emigrated from Maryland later. In about 1740-1748, these three brothers and one sister, with her husband, were immigrants to North Carolina, coming from Cecil County, Maryland.

I. Zebulon Brevard, 1724-1798; married in 1754. Did Zebulon Brevard marry Ann Templeton? Was a wife the Jane Brevard found of record in 1790 in Lincoln Co., NC?

All three brothers emigrated from Cecil County, Maryland, to immigrate to the piedmont of North Carolina.

Could the MARGARET BREVARD who married JACOB THOMAS have been in this generation as a sister to John, Robert, Zebulon, & Elizabeth BREVARD? Or, if born in 1754, was she a daughter of Zebulon Brevard, 1724-1798?

?Was the father of these three brothers a Generation Zero. JEAN anglicized to "JOHN" BREVARD of Maryland who married a Miss Katherine McKnitt? The writer on record in Statesville, Iredell Co., NC, anonymous to me, thinks so.

More on I. John Brevard: Was John Brevard the father of the famous Dr. Ephraim Brevard, writer of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence? or was one of Ephraim's brothers the father of "my" Margaret Brevard (Mrs. Jacob Thomas)? Ephraim Brevard's feats included LIBERTY HALL ACADEMY; the MECKLENBURG DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; and he was a medical doctor.

I'm not certain that the famous Ephraim Brevard goes here, as a son of Generation I. John Brevard; but I think he does.

One writer on file in the Iredell Co., Public Library says that Generation I. John Brevard came to Iredell Co., NC , when his son Ephraim Brevard (Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence) was four years old.

More on I. Robert Brevard: the anonymous writer on file in Iredell County, NC, library says Margaret Brevard Thomas's age makes it impossible for her to have been the daughter of this I. Robert Brevard; nor, the writer says, are the ages such that Margaret could have been born to the above I. John Brevard. This writer says Margaret had to be the daughter of ZEBULON BREVARD--and, the writer notes, one of Jacob Thomas's sons (John Thomas, the son who remained back in Iredell Co., NC) named a son "Zebulon Thomas."

More on I. Zebulon Brevard. --? Was the JANE BREVARD found in 1709 in records of Lincoln County, NC, the wife of Zebulon Brevard?

The chronology seems to make it possible that Zebulon Brevard was father to Margaret Brevard alias Mrs. Jacob THOMAS. I wish I knew....