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64. Abraham Byler, born May 1767/8, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Most published genealogies give his date of birth as May 1775, but this is incorrect. Abraham served in the Washington County, North Carolina Militia in 1788 in a campaign against the Cherokees and entered land in Burke County, North Carolina in 1789. Thus, he had to have been at least 21 years of age in 1789 to have legally entered the land. Of course, he could have lied about his age, but it seems more likely that he was actually born in 1768 or before. Abraham Byler died at his home "Byler Bottoms" on 27 December 1826, following a bout with the influenza. He is buried in the Byler Cemetery, Rover, Bedford County, Tennessee. His tombstone was destroyed many years ago by a falling tree. Abraham Byler married Nancy Love (see number 65) about 1795 probably in Buncombe Co., NC or possibly in Washington County, North Carolina (now Tennessee).
65. Nancy Love, born 11 April 1775, Augusta County, Virginia. She died at Byler Bottoms, Bedford County, Tennessee on 3 May 1842 and is buried in the Byler Cemetery at Rover, Bedford County, Tennessee.
66. John S. Atkinson, was born 9 July 1773 reportedly in Virginia, exact location not determined. He married first in Cumberland County, North Carolina before 3 August 1793, to Hannah Dunn (see number 67). John married second about 1810-1811 probably in Bedford County, Tennessee to Nancy McLaren. John S. Atkinson served as a Senator in the Tennessee Legislature representing Bedford and Rutherford Counties, 1819-1821. Also served in Tennessee Militia during War of 1812. He died 9 March 1829 near Chapel Hill, Bedford County (now Marshall County), Tennesee.
67. Hannah Dunn, was born about 1773/4 probably in Cumberland County, North Carolina. She died about 1810/11 in Bedford County, Tennessee. Place of burial not determine. Hannah was raised a Quaker and was "disowned" on 3 August 1793 by the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting (Cumberland Co., NC) for marring outside the faith.
68. Shadrack Wren, born about 1760, exact location not determined, but probably in North Carolina. He married in Rutherford County, North Carolina in 1789 [only date on marriage license] to Elizabeth Runnels (see number 69). Family moved from Rutherford County, North Carolina to Warren County, Kentucky about 1816/7 and then to Boone County, Missouri by 1818. Shadrack Wren died in Boone County, Missouri about 1845. Exact date and place of death not determined. Place of burial not determined.
69. Elizabeth Runnels, born 1768 in North Carolina, exact location not determined. Died in Boone County, Missouri between 1850 and 1860. Please of death and burial not determined.
70. Thomas Hightower, born 5 February 1736, Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia. He moved with parents to Anson County, North Carolina before 1758. Married first to Susannah (maiden name possibly Harrington), who was brutally murdered in 1780 in South Carolina, by the notorious Bill Cunningham. Thomas Hightower was at the time serving in Col. Roebucks Regiment, South Carolina Militia. After the Revolutionary War, and before 1786, Thomas married his second wife, a young Indian woman named Jinsey (or Jane) (see number 71). The family resided in Spartenburg County, South Carolina until 1794 when the moved to Warren County, Kentucky. Thomas Hightower died in Warren County, Kentucky after 1807 but before 1810. Exact date and place of death and burial have not been determined. Thomas Hightower was a Revolutionary War Veteran serving the cause of the new Confederacy.
71. Jinsey or Jane (no maiden name found at present) is thought to have been born in either North Carolina or South Carolina about 1760-65. She may have been married prior to her marriage to Thomas Hightower (see number 70), but no record has been found. Family tradition in my line as well as other descendants of Jinsey, claims that she was Native American. No proof has yet been found. Following the death of Thomas Hightower, she moved with her children to Izard County, Arkansas in November 1829. It has been reported, but not proven, that she later moved to what is today Oklahoma where she died sometime after 1840. No other information available.
72. Andrew Downing, was born in 1768 in either Pennsylvania or Chester County, South Carolina. He married about 1788 in Chester County, South Carolina to Elizabeth Jones (see number 73). They resided in Chester County, South Carolina until 1815 when they moved to Tennessee and eventually settled near Hazel Green, Madison County, Mississippi Territory (Alabama). In the summer of 1828 they moved with their children to a farm just east of Houston, Wayne County, Tennessee. Part of the old log house built by Andrew Downing in 1828/29, was still standing in 1980. Andrew Downing died on his farm in 1844 and is buried in the Downing row, Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Wayne County, Tennessee.
73. Elizabeth Jones, was born in South Carolina, probably Chester County, in 1774. She died in Wayne County, Tennessee in 1847 and is buried beside her husband in Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Wayne County, Tennessee.
74. Jesse Hinkle, was born 15 December 1763 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Moved with family to Frederick, Maryland in 1783 and then to Lincoln County, North Carolina in 1785. Living in 1790 in Camden District, Chester County, South Carolina. Moved to Madison County, Alabama probably about 1815/6 and then to Wayne County, Tennessee in 1828. He died in Wayne County, Tennessee after 1836 but before 1840. His place of burial has not been found. It is reported (by family tradition) that he married about 1788/9 to Frances Riley (see number 75), but no documentation has been found.
75. Frances Riley [?] no other information available.
76. William Morrow, was born about 1755-60 in North Carolina. He moved to Tennessee about 1795-1800 and settled later in Lawrence County, Tennessee by 1816. By 1820 he was in Wayne County, Tennessee living on a farm on Green River just south of the present city limits of Waynesboro and on the old Waynesboro - Florence Road. (East side of Green River). He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and represented the Green River Congregation at the founding meeting of the Richland Presbytery in 1836. He married about 1790 to Lydia [Watts?] (see number 77). William died between 1840 and 1847 and is buried in the Morrow Cemetery, Greeson Hollow, Wayne County, Tennessee.
77. Lydia [Watts?], was born in 1766 in North Carolina, exact location not determined. Her maiden name is believed to have been Watts because her granddaughter, Lydia Watts Morrow Downing (see number 19), was named for her. Lydia died after 1850 but before 1860 in Wayne County, Tennessee and is buried beside her husband in the Morrow Cemetery, Wayne County, Tennessee.
78. Jesse Cypert, was born 1 June 1784 probably in Chatham County, North Carolina. He came to Tennessee in the 1790's with his parents, settling in Overton County, Tennessee. He married on 14 February 1805 in Warren County, Tennessee to Jemima Worthen (see number 79). After their marriage, the family moved to what is today Jackson County, Illinois with the Worthen family. Following the death of his father-in-law in 1812, Jesse and family moved back to Tennessee where he volunteered for service in the War of 1812 and fought at the Battle of New Orleans. After his return from New Orleans, the family moved in 1816 to what became Wayne County, Tennessee. Jesse and family settled on a farm at Copeland’s Bluff and he died there in June 1856. He is buried in the Cypert-Copeland-Lay Cemetery (Wayne County, Tennessee) which is located behind his old home.
79. Jemima Worthen, was born 23 July 1786, possibly in Mechlenburg County, Virginia. She moved with her parents to Warren County, Tennessee before 1805. Jemima died in 1853 Wayne County, Tennessee and is buried beside her husband in the Cypert-Copeland-Lay Cemetery, Wayne County, Tennessee.
80. ______Dunn. To date I have been unable to determine the parents of Malcolm Dunn (see number 40.) [Maybe he was found under a rock!]
82. ______ Burrows. To date I have been unable to determine the parents of Esther Burrows (see number 41). [Esther was born in Ireland so anything is possible. She may have been dropped off by the Leprechauns].
84. ______ Foster. To date I have not found the parents of Robert Foster (see number 42).
86. ______ Routledge. Working on this.
88. ______ Tilley. Have just learned that James Tilley (see number 44) married in Kingswinford, Stafford, England. A whole new county to search !!!!!
90. ______Millington. Same statement as number 88.
92. Jonathan Young. No other information at this time.
96. Joshua Gallion, born about 1770 probably in Surry County, North Carolina. He married probably in western North Carolina or what is now Tennessee about 1793, name of wife not determined at this time. Was living in Grainger County, Tennessee in 1806 and had moved to Lincoln County, Tennessee by 1810. Moved to Wayne County, Tennessee before 1830 and supposedly settled on a 640 acre land grant. While record of the grant has been found in the Survey records of Wayne County, Tennessee, no record of the actual grant has surfaced. It is believed that he died about 1844 probably in Wayne County, Tennessee.
97. Unknown.
98. William Westmoreland, was born near New Bern, North Carolina in 1774 or 5. He moved with his widowed mother to Spartenburg County, South Carolina sometime between 1775 and 1780. He married first about 1800 probably in Spartenburg County, South Carolina. The name of his first wife is Unknown (see number 99) at present. He moved to Laurens County, South Carolina about 1818 and then to Catawba County, Alabama in 1821/2, finally settling on Middle Cypress Creek, Lauderdale County, Alabama in the fall of 1822. On 12 August 1833 in Lauderdale County, Alabama he married as his second wife, Milly House. They moved to Wayne County, Tennessee in late 1836 and William died in Wayne County, Tennessee in 1853/4 and is believed to be buried at Friendship Cemetery, Middle Cypress Creek, Wayne County, Tennessee.
99. Unknown. Have not been able to determine a name. She was born about 1774-1780 and died in Lauderdale County, Alabama after 1830 but before 1833.
100. _____ Murphy. Now this is a mess. I don’t have any record of the parents of Calvin B. Murphy (see number 50). There are two possibilities: 1. John Murphy, ca. 1765 - 1852 is one; and 2. Ephraim Murphy, b. ca. 1780, is another. At present, your guess is as good as mine.
102. John Linville, born Laurens or Newberry County, South Carolina in 1797/8. Moved to Wayne County, Tennessee in 1832. John died on 5 June 1865 while enlisted in Company B, 2nd Tennessee Mounted Infantry, USV. Place of burial not determined. He married about 1817 in Laurens County? South Carolina to Nellie Ellen ______ [maiden name not determined] (see number 103).
103. Nellie Ellen ________?, born 1795 probably in Laurens County, South Carolina, died after 1870 but before 1880 in Wayne County, Tennessee. Place of burial not determined. Maiden name still a mystery.
104. George Wilson, born about 1780 in South Carolina. No other information available. Married about 1805-1810 to Katherine ______? (see number 105). Date and place of death not determined. Was living Cherokee County, Georgia in 1850.
105. Katherine______?, born about 1785 in South Carolina. Maiden name not determined. No other information available.
106. Henry Willson, was born 7 June 1787 in Sparta District (Spartenburg Co) South Carolina. He married on 6 January 1823 in Jackson County, Georgia to Jensie J. Walraven (see number 107). Henry served in the War of 1812 according to his son’s Confederate Veterans’ Questionnaire on file at the Tennessee State Library and Archives. Henry moved to Cherokee County, Georgia about 1836 and to Murray County, Georgia about 1844. He married his second wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Dean, in Murray County, Georgia on 25 August 1851. He died in Murray County, Georgia in 1863. Place of burial not determined.
107. Jensie J. Walraven, was born about 1800, probably in Jackson County, Georgia and died after 1844 but before 1850 in Murray County, Georgia. Place of burial not deteremined.
108. Alexander "Sandy" W. Stults, was born in Surry County, North Carolina about 1815. He moved with his parents to Warren County, Tennessee before 1820 and then to Wayne County, Tennessee about 1837. About 1829 he married Mary "Polly" Baskins (see number 109). Sandy died on his farm on Stults Branch, Wayne County, Tennessee in 1883. He is buried at Whitten’s Chapel (old Mt. Bethel Methodist Church) Cemetery, Wayne County, Tennessee.
109. Mary "Polly" Baskins, was born about 1815, in Tennessee, exact location not determined. She died in 1885, Wayne County, Tennessee and is buried at Whitten’s Chapel (old Mt. Bethel Methodist Church) Cemetery, Wayne County, Tennessee.
110. Jacob Linville, was born 1806 in Laurens County, South Carolina. He married about 1836 probably in Laurens County, South Carolina to Martha J. Davenport (see number 111). The family moved to Lauderdale County, Tennessee by 1836 and Jacob died there after 1850 but before 1857. Place of death and burial not determined.
111. Martha J. Davenport, was born 1814 in Laurens County, South Carolina. After the death of her husband, Jacob Linville (see number 110) she moved with her children from Lauderdale County, Tennessee to Wayne County, Tennessee. She died after 1880 but before 1900. Exact date and place of death and burial not determined.
112. Charles Whitten, born about 1760, probably in Virginia. Was living during the Revolutionary War in Newberry District, South Carolina. Is thought to be one of three Charles Whittens who served in the South Carolina Militia during the War. He married about 1785 to Unknown (see number 113). Moved to Lauderdale County, Alabama about 1824 and then to Wayne County, Tennessee by 1828. Died in Wayne County, Tennessee about 1845-48 and is buried at Whitten’s Chapel (old Mt. Bethel Methodist Church) Cemetery, Wayne County, Tennessee.
113. Unknown. Name not yet determined, but was born about 1765 and died after 1850 but before 1860 Wayne County, Tennessee. Believed to be buried at Whitten’s Chapel (old Mt. Bethel Methodist Church) cemetery, Wayne County, Tennessee.
118. Robert Chaffin, Jr., was born 20 March 1768 probably in Orange County, North Carolina. Was living in Washington County, Virginia in 1790 and in Maury County, Tennessee in 1808. Was appointed one of the commissioners to set up the county government of Lawrence County, Tennessee and served as a Justice of the Peace until his death on 27 July 1833, Lawrence County, Tennessee. Place of burial not determined. Married about 1788/9, place not determined, to Amelia Nichols (see number 119).
119. Amelia Nichols, was born 15 January 1768, place not determined, and died in Lawrence County, Tennessee about 1830. Exact date of death and place of burial not determined.
120. John Hays, Sr., no other information.
126. William Cate, born before 1755, probably in Virginia, married about 1774/80 to Elizabeth Messersmit (or Messer Smith) (see number 127). Died in Orange County, North Carolina in 1803. Place of burial not determined.
127. Elizabeth Messersmit (or Messer Smith), no dates available.
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128. Jacob Byler, born about 1738-1740 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Married about 1763/4 probably in Berks County, Pennsylvania to Katherine _____ (see number 129). Moved to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania in 1779 and served in the Northumberland County militia in 1781 and 1782. Have not been able to determine his trail between 1782 and 1794 when he appears in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Settled on a farm on Big Ivey River, just south of Bernardsville, Buncombe County, North Carolina where he also operated a gunpowder mill. Went out with a bang when his powder mill exploded and burned on 15 May 1804. Buried in the Burleson Cemetery which is located on his old farm.
129. Katherine ______, born about 1742, was still living in 1826 in Cooper County, Missouri. Date of death and place of burial not determined. It has been reported that her maiden name was Kish, Kisch or Gish. However, research into the Gish/Kish Family has shown that Katherine wasn’t a member of this family. Her maiden name remains unknown.
130. Joseph Love, was born about 1728 probably in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He married about 1750 probably in Augusta County, Virginia, to Mary Teas (see number 131). Migrated from Augusta County, Virginia through North Carolina to South Carolina and then to Knox County, Tennessee where he died 10 November 1804/6. Served in the Virginia Line during the Revolutionary War.
131. Mary Teas, born October 1734 in Pennsylvania, exact location not determined. Died in July 1815 probably in Knox County, Tennessee. Exact place of death and burial not determined.
134. Joseph Dunn, date and place of birth not determined. Died between 1790 and 1799 probably in Cumberland County, North Carolina. Married Ruth _____ (see number 135), date and place of marriage not determined.
135. Ruth_____ , date and place of birth and maiden name not determined. Died in Moore County, North Carolina in 1799 leaving will. No other information available at this time.
136. James Wren, died in present day Rutherford County, North Carolina before 1780. Married before 1765 to Sarah______ (see number 137). No other information available.
137. Sarah______, no other information available.
140. Thomas Hightower, born 20 March 1712, Richmond County?, Virginia. Married before 1733 to his first wife, Frances ______, who died before 1735. Married second before 1736 to Kindness Prentess (see number 141). Moved to Anson County, North Carolina by 1758 and died there in 1761. Exact date of death and place of burial not determined.
141. Kindness Prentess, no other information available.
144. John Downing, reportedly born in Ireland about 1740. Married about 1763 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to Mary Pagan (see number 145). Moved to Chester County, South Carolina before 1770. Served as Quartermaster in Col. George Gill’s Regiment of South Carolina Militia during the Revolutionary War. Died May 1802 in Chester County, South Carolina and is buried at Fishing Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Chester County, South Carolina.
145. Mary Pagan, born about 1746, probably in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Died in Chester County, South Carolina 19 March 1832 and is buried at Fishing Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
146. William Jones, died 1811, Chester County, South Carolina. Married to Catherine Simpson (see number 147). No other information available.
147. Catherine Simpson, born in New Jersey. Date of birth and death not determined.
148. Jacob Balthazar Hinkle, born about 1732 in Colebrookdale, Berks County, Pennsylvania. He married 26 November 1760 at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church, Germantown, Pennsylvania to Elizabeth Grove, (see number 149). Jacob married second in 1779 to Christina ______. Jacob died between March 1789 and July 1789 in Lincoln County, North Carolina.
149. Elizabeth Grove, date of birth undertermined. Died in either Pennsylvania or Maryland before 1779.
152. William Morrow, born about 1725, reportedly in Ireland. Place and date of death not determined. Married Mary "Polly" Dunlap (see number 153), about 1750. No other information available.
153. Mary "Polly" Dunlap. No other information available.
156. Francis Cypert, born about 1750 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Moved to Augusta County, Virginia and then to Orange County, North Carolina by 1755. Married in either Orange or Chatham County, North Carolina in 1783 to Abigail Johnson (see number 157). Moved to Overton County, Tennessee about 1790-1800, then to Madison County, Mississippi Territory by 1816. Moved to Wayne County, Tennessee late 1816 early 1817. Died in Wayne County, Tennessee on 12 November 1839 and is reported buried in the old Providence Baptist Church cemetery at Three Churches, Wayne County, Tennessee.
157. Abigail Johnson, born about 1753-60, place not determined. Died in Wayne County, Tennessee in September 1828 and buried in the old Providence Baptist Church Cemetery.
158. James Worthen, born about 1760 in Virginia. Married 16 June 1785 in Warren County, North Carolina to Nancy Puckett, (see number 159). Settled in Warren County, Tennessee by 1800 and then moved to the area of present day Jackson County, Illinois about 1808. James died there in 1812. Exact date and place of death and burial not determined.
159. Nancy Puckett, born about 1766, Virginia, died after 1840 but before 1850 in Jackson County, Illinois.
192. Jacob Gallion, born 11 December 1733, St. George Parish, Baltimore, Maryland. Married 24 February 1755, Baltimore, Maryland to Elizabeth Arnold (see number 193). Jacob died in Surry County, North Carolina in 1812. Place of burial not determined.
193. Elizabeth Arnold, no other information available.
196. John Westmoreland, born about 1725 in Virginia. Married probably in Brunswick County, Virginia about 1750 to Ann "Nancy" Lenoir (see number 197). John died in 1775 as the result of a snakebite received while surveying his grant in Sparta District (Spartenburg County) South Carolina. Reportedly buried on the grant land.
197. Ann "Nancy" Lenoir, born 28 June 1731, Brunswick County, Virginia?, moved with her children to a farm on the Enoree River, Spartenburg Co., South Carolina about 1776/7. Because of her service to Gen. Nathaniel Greene’s troops prior to the Battle of Cowpens, Ann is considered a Patriotess of the American Revolution. She died about 1826 in Spartenburg County, South Carolina. Exact place of burial not determined, but a memorial stone erected in the Wofford Methodist Church Cemetery, Wofford, Spartenburg County, South Carolina.
204. ______Linville, thought to be Evan Linville, but no proof found.
212. William Willson, born 30 June 1747 "on the Potomac River" Fairfax County, Virginia. Married about 1768 in Bute County, North Carolina to Anna ______(see number 213). Served in South Carolina Militia during Revolutionary War, from York District. After the war, moved to Sparta District, South Carolina and eventually settled in Jackson County, Georgia where he died 18 April 1842.
213. Anna _____, date and place of birth not determined. Died in Jackson County, Georgia 29 May 1823.
214. John Walraven [?] born 1766-1776, Georgia. Married about 1800-04 to Nancy Elizabeth_____ (see number 215). Died 1846 Cass/Bartow County, Georgia. Reportedly buried at Trimmer’s Bluff, Gordon County, Georgia. Tombstone, erected much later gives dates as born 1766, died 1850, but definitely died 1846 as will probated that year.
215. Nancy Elizabeth ______, b. 1786, died 1866 Gordon County, Georgia. Reportedly buried at Trimmer’s Bluff, Gordon County,Georgia. No other information.
216. George Stults, born about 1783, Surry County, North Carolina. Married 7 September 1815 in Surry County, North Carolina to Hannah Forkum (see number 217). Moved to Warren County, Tennessee about 1818. Moved to Wayne County, Tennessee about 1836. Died after 1850 but before 1860. Probably buried Whitten’s Chapel (old Mt. Bethel Methodist Church) Cemetery, Wayne County, Tennessee.
217. Hannah Forkum, born about 1790 in Surry or Wilkes County, North Carolina. Died in Wayne County, Tennessee after 1860 but before 1870. Probably buried at Whitten’s Chapel (old Mt. Bethel Methodist Church) Cemetery, Wayne County, Tennessee.
218. Walter Baskins, born between 1781 and 1784 somewhere in Tennessee. Married his first wife, Unknown (see number 219). Married second wife, Mary Saunders about 1833. Died in Lauderdale County, Alabama in April 1860. Place of burial not known.
219. Unknown, died before 1833, probably Wayne County, Tennessee.
220. Same person as number 204.
222. Thomas Davenport, born about 1759, Spottsylvania County, Virginia. Married first about 1787 in Spottsylvania County, Virginia to Sarah Partlow who died about 1798. Married second about 1799 in Laurens County, South Carolina to Letitia (Lettice) Wharton (see number 223). Thomas died in Laurens County, South Carolina in 1816.
223. Letitia (Lettice) Wharton, born 1773, South Carolina, died after 1830 place not determined.
236. Robert Chaffin, Sr., born ca. 1735-40, died 1817 in Wilson County, Tennessee. No other information.
238. John Nichols, born about 1735-40, died February 1816, Maury County, Tennessee.
254. Conrad Messersmit (or Messer Smith), died 1799, Orange County, North Carolina. Married to Rhitte_____ (see number 255).
255. Rhitte _______. No other information.
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