Mark Allen Arnold

Family/Spouse: Amy LNU. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Albert married Jo Ann Roberts Jo (daughter of Joseph Summerfield Roberts and Lula Ann Hennessee) was born on 25 Aug 1943 in McMinn County, Tennessee; died on 14 Jul 2014 in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee; was buried on 18 Jul 2014 in Union Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery, McMinn County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Address:
  Jo Ann Roberts
  henhut@comcast.net

Notes:

Jo Ann Arnold Roberts, 70, of Athens, Tenn. went to be with the Lord, Monday, July 14, 2014, at Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga.

She was a lifelong resident of McMinn County and was the daughter of the late Joe Summerfield Roberts Sr.

She attended First Baptist Church of Athens. She served 28 years in the McMinn County Property Assessors Office as Chief Deputy until her retirement. After her retirement she was co-owner and Vice President of Roberts Bros. Motors.

She is survived by two sons, Mark Allen (Amy) Arnold and Joel M. (Stephanie Anne) Arnold all of Soddy-Daisy, Tenn.; her mother, Lula Belle Hennessee Roberts of Athens, Tenn.; one brother, Joseph Summerfield (Carol) Roberts Jr. of Riceville, Tenn.; two granddaughters, Mary Grace Arnold and Emily Catherine Arnold; niece and nephew, Justin and Lauren Roberts.

A funeral service will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, July 18, in the chapel of Smith Funeral Home with Rev. Oran Creasman officiating. Interment will follow in Union Chapel Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m.
Pallbearers will be Rodney Peeler, David Small, Justin Roberts, Johnny Coffman, Phillip Arnold, Jon Wilkey, Tim Giles and Jim Cooper.

Jo Ann Arnold Roberts, 70, of Athens, went to be with the Lord, Monday, July 14, 2014 at Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga.

She was a lifelong resident of McMinn County and was the daughter of the late Joe Summerfield Roberts, Sr.

She attended First Baptist Church of Athens. She served 28 years in the McMinn County Property Assessors Office as Chief Deputy until her retirement. After her retirement she was co-owner and Vice President of Roberts Bros. Motors.

A funeral service will be conducted, 10:30 am, Friday, July 18, 2014 in the chapel of Smith Funeral Home with Rev. Oran Creasman officiating. Interment will follow in Union Chapel Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Thursday from 5-7pm.

Joseph married Lula Ann Hennessee on 26 Dec 1942 in McMinn County, Tennessee. Lula (daughter of James William Hennessee and Anna Bell Hutsell) was born on 30 Jun 1924 in Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee; died in MONDAY, 9 Sep 2019 in her home in Athens, Tennessee; was buried in Union Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery, McMinn County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2014, Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee

Notes:

Lula Ann Hennessee Roberts, 95, of Athens, died Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, at her home.

She was a lifelong resident of McMinn County and was a daughter of the late James William and Anna Belle Hutsell Hennessee.

She was also preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Summerfield Roberts Sr.; a daughter, Jo Ann Roberts Arnold Roberts; and five brothers and three sisters.

She was a member of First Baptist Church of Athens and had been associated with Sears and Proffitt’s as a sales clerk for many years.

She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Joseph Summerfield Jr. and Carol Faris Roberts of Riceville; a granddaughter, Lauren Ashlee Roberts; three grandsons, Mark Allen (Amy) Arnold, Joel (Stephanie) Arnold and Justin Roberts; two great-granddaughters, Emily Catherine Arnold and Mary Grace Arnold; sister-in-law, Evelyn Roberts of Athens; and one nephew, T.A. (Bud) Roberts (Kay Bush).

A funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14, at Union Chapel United Methodist Church with Dr. Bill Henard officiating. Interment will follow in Union Chapel Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Saturday from 10 to 11 a.m. at the church prior to the service. Pallbearers will be Jeff Price, Steve Norwood, Steve Faris, Mike Stephens, Joe Ray and Derrick Vestal.

Gus married Nannie Belle Lewis. Nannie died in 0___ 1893 in (Athens) McMinn County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Anna Bell Hutsell on 9 Sep 1906 in Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee. Anna (daughter of David Marcellas "Morris" Hutsell and Sarah Ann Barb) was born on 26 Mar 1886 in McMinn County, Tennessee; died on 23 Jan 1966 in McMinn County, Tennessee; was buried in Union Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery, McMinn County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 0___ 1940, McMinn, Tennessee, United States

Notes:

Residence:
Civil District 5,

Christopher married Rella Bishop(McMinn County) Tennessee. Rella was born on 13 Nov 1849 in Commonwealth of Virginia; died on 23 Dec 1919 in McMinn County, Tennessee; was buried in Upper Spring Creek Cemetery, McMinn County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Note: without Christopher...

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Methodist Minister
• Alt Birth: 1858, Tennessee
• Residence: 1860, Valley Town, Cherokee County, North Carolina

Notes:

Mattie Belle Hennessee Cate, granddaughter (1924-, Telecon May 1991.

Family lore has it that JDH was a wood's colt son by one of two brothers who came from Ireland. The mother is thought to have been an Indian with family name of "Beavers". JDH settled in Sweet Water Valley; the Athens-Knoxville area.

JDH had half-brother & sister: Wesley & Ann Dalton...

Editor's Note:Some of this family went west, c. 1890, to Arkansas.

JDH was enumerated in his grandfather Beaver's household during the 1850 & 1860 Vallytown, Cherokee Co., NC census records.

JDH appears later in the 1880 McMinn Co.,TN census.

Later comments by great-grandson, Luther:

"Telephone interview with Luther Hennessee, April 19, 1991. Lived in Richmond Hill, GA.

"...His father, James, told him that his grandfather, John David, left North Carolina with two half-sisters, names unknown (Dalton? - name now confirmed), but married names were "Beavers" and "Roberts", because his father (unknown - later uncovered as David Hennessa) made brew and John David could not abide that because he was a preacher and tee-totaler..."

1880 MC MINN TENN.

HENNESSEE JOHN D. 32 1848 MC MINN TN.
ANN 20 1860 TENN
CATHERINE 3 1873 '' CATHINE
DAVID 1 1879
DALTON 48 1832 TEN. MOTHER

1900 MCMINN CO. TN.
HENNESSEE JOHN D. 50
MARY 41
MIRLA C. 23
DAVID 21
JAMES 18
HENRY 16 FRANK
IDA L. 14
FLOYD L. 12
MARY E. 9
HARLY 7 SON
ADA 5
MORGAN ELLEN 15 STEP CHILDREN
STELLA 12
TOWNZIN 9
ADA 5
1910 MCMINN TEN.

HENNESSEE JOHN D. 59
MARGERAT 46
FRANK 25
FLOYD 22
LISSIE 19
HARL 17
ADA 15

FRANK M. FANNIE M. VINCENT

FLOYD M. MINNIE SWAFFORDS

NOTE LE ANN SHOOK AND JOHN D. MARRIED 1875

INFO. SAYS NELLIE SHOOK M. JOHN D. AND ONE YEAR LATER SHE DIED ,AND JOHN D. M. SISTER LEANN. IN THE SHOOK CENSUS WE CAN'T FIND A NELLIE .

I HAVE A LITTLE STORY FOR YOU .

WHEN JOHN D. HENNESSEE WAS A LITTLE BOY HE WAS OUTSIDE PLAYING AND A LADY IN A BUGGIE CAME BY AND GAVE JOHN D. A HAT , HIS G.MA CAME OUT AND TOLD THE LADY TO LEAVE . SHE TOLD JOHN D. NOT TO TALK TO THE LADY ANYMORE AND THE HAT WAS GONE FOREVER .

THE STORY GOES THAT JOHN H. HENNESSEE WAS THE FATHER AND MELINDA AND HIM WAS VERY MUCH IN LOVE BUT THE BEAVERS WOULDN'T LET HER MARRY HIM BECAUSE HE WAS IRISH AND HE WAITED ON HER FOR YRS. TO LEAVE HOME BEFORE HE HIMSELF MARRIED .

Name: John Hennessee
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: District 8, McMinn, Tennessee, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race (Original): W
Occupation: Farmer
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Self
Birth Year (Estimated): 1858
Birthplace: Tennessee, United States
Father's Birthplace: Tennessee, United States
Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee, United States
Sheet Letter: C
Sheet Number: 345
Person Number: 0
Volume: 1


Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
John Hennessee Self M 22 Tennessee, United States
Ann Hennessee Wife F 20 Tennessee, United States
Catharine Hennessee Daughter F 3 Tennessee, United States
David Hennessee Son M 1 Tennessee, United States
Dalton Hennessee Mother F 48 Tennessee, United States

District: ED 65
Sheet Number and Letter: 345C
Household ID: 13313422
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: T9
Affiliate Film Number: 1268
GS Film Number: 1255268
Digital Folder Number: 005162502
Image Number: 00194

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD75-4ZJ : 15 July 2017), Dalton Hennessee in household of John Hennessee, District 8, McMinn, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district ED 65, sheet 345C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,268.

end of this census record

The 1880 McMinn County census cites this family as all being born in Tennessee...

Name: John D Hennessee
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1900
Event Place: Civil District 8, McMinn, Tennessee, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 51
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race (Original): W
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head
Years Married: 18
Birth Date: Nov 1849
Birthplace: North Carolina
Marriage Year (Estimated): 1882
Father's Birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace: North Carolina


Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
John D Hennessee Head M 51 North Carolina
Mary Hennessee Wife F 41 Tennessee
Mira C Hennessee Daughter F 24 Tennessee
David Hennessee Son M 22 Tennessee
James Hennessee Son M 19 Tennessee
Henry Hennessee Son M 17 Tennessee
Ida L Hennessee Daughter F 15 Tennessee
Floyd L Hennessee Son M 12 Tennessee
Mary E Hennessee Daughter F 10 Tennessee
Harley Hennessee Son M 8 Tennessee
Ada Hennessee Daughter F 6 Tennessee
Ellen Morgan Stepdaughter F 16 Tennessee
Stella Morgan Stepdaughter F 13 Tennessee
Townzin Morgan Stepson M 9 Tennessee
Ada Morgan Stepdaughter F 5 Tennessee

District: 82
Sheet Number and Letter: 11A
Household ID: 191
Line Number: 19
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: T623
GS Film Number: 1241585
Digital Folder Number: 004118687
Image Number: 00415

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSCX-2JG : accessed 14 November 2019), Ada Morgan in household of John D Hennessee, Civil District 8, McMinn, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 82, sheet 11A, family 191, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,585.

end of this census record

Name: John D Hennessee
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1910
Event Place: Civil District 5, McMinn, Tennessee, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 59
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race (Original): White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head
Birth Year (Estimated): 1851
Birthplace: North Carolina
Father's Birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace: North Carolina
Sheet Letter: A
Sheet Number: 7


Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
John D Hennessee Head M 59 North Carolina
Margeret D Hennessee Wife F 46 Tennessee
Frank Hennessee Son M 25 Tennessee
Floyd L Hennessee Son M 22 Tennessee
Lizzie Hennessee Daughter F 19 Tennessee
Harl Hennessee Son M 17 Tennessee
Ada L Hennessee Daughter F 15 Tennessee

District: ED 115
Sheet Number and Letter: 7A
Household ID: 138
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: T624
Affiliate Film Number: 1510
GS Film Number: 1375523
Digital Folder Number: 004985566
Image Number: 01255

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGXQ-22C : accessed 14 November 2019), Ada L Hennessee in household of John D Hennessee, Civil District 5, McMinn, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 115, sheet 7A, family 138, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1510; FHL microfilm 1,375,523.

end of 1910 census

Name: John D Hennessee
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1920
Event Place: Civil District 5, McMinn, Tennessee, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 70
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race (Original): White
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head
Own or Rent: Own
Birth Year (Estimated): 1850
Birthplace: North Carolina
Father's Birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace: North Carolina
Sheet Letter: A
Sheet Number: 8


Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
John D Hennessee Head M 70 North Carolina
Margaret D Hennessee Wife F 56 Tennessee

District: ED 62
Sheet Number and Letter: 8A
Household ID: 145
Line Number: 11
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: T625
Affiliate Film Number: 1753
GS Film Number: 1821753
Digital Folder Number: 004968805
Image Number: 00444

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNGZ-3FT : accessed 14 November 2019), Margaret D Hennessee in household of John D Hennessee, Civil District 5, McMinn, Tennessee, United States; citing ED 62, sheet 8A, line 12, family 145, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1753; FHL microfilm 1,821,753.

end of the 1920 census

John married Lee Ann "Ann" Shook on 18 Nov 1875 in (McMinn County, Tennessee). Lee (daughter of William Shook, Jr. and Margaret Robinson) was born on 24 Jul 1859 in Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee; died on 29 Sep 1897 in McMinn County, Tennessee; was buried in Upper Spring Creek Cemetery, McMinn County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

United States Census, 1900 for Mary Hennessee

Name: Mary Hennessee
Titles:
Residence: Civil District 8, McMinn, Tennessee
Birth Date: May 1859
Birthplace: Tennessee
Relationship to Head-of-Household: Wife
Spouse Name: John D Hennessee
Spouse Titles:
Spouse Birth Place: North Carolina
Father Name:
Father Titles:
Father Birthplace: Tennessee
Mother Name:
Mother Titles:
Mother Birthplace: Tennessee
Race or Color (expanded): White
Head-of-household Name: John D Hennessee
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Years Married: 18
Estimated Marriage Year: 1882
Mother How Many Children: 5
Number Living Children: 4
Immigration Year:
Enumeration District: 0082
Sheet Number and Letter: 11A
Household ID: 191
Reference Number: 20
GSU Film Number: 1241585
Image Number: 00415
Household Gender Age
Spouse John D Hennessee M
Mary Hennessee F
Child Mira C Hennessee F
Child David Hennessee M
Child James Hennessee M
Child Henry Hennessee M
Child Ida L Hennessee F
Child Floyd L Hennessee M
Child Mary E Hennessee F
Child Harley Hennessee M
Child Ada Hennessee F
Child Ellen Morgan F
Child Stella Morgan F
Child Townzin Morgan M
Child

David married Sarah Ann Barb in 0___ 1876 in McMinn County, Tennessee. Sarah (daughter of Francis M(arion) Barb and Sarah Elizabeth Bedford) was born on 5 Apr 1856 in (McMinn County) Tennessee; died on 22 Oct 1931 in McMinn County, Tennessee; was buried in Union Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery, McMinn County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Residence (Family):
ED 82, Civil District 8...

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Minister of God
• Alt Birth: 3 Sep 1806
• Residence: 1835, Cherokee County, North Carolina

Notes:

Juror in trial of Frankie Silver, 1831-33.

Appears in 1850 Census, Cherokee Co., NC

Went to live in Cherokee Co., NC in about 1835.

From: "Nita Shepard"
To: "David Alden Hennessee"
Subject: Raleigh Archives Inf
Date: Saturday, August 03, 2002 1:54 PM

Hi, David:

Are you interested in copies of the information found in Archives above about John Hennessee's son David and his trespass causing $1,000 damage on John's property after John's death? Summons was issued 1845 with judgement made against David. Among the same papers was summons against Tisdale Spencer & his son Samuel in 1847.

Judgement appeared to be against Tisdale & Samuel also but it is noted they were out of state & insolvent. (They were in Gilmer Co., Ga.- later went to Texas) Abraham Sudderth, Jr. (husband of Elmina - Elmira) and Patrick II were executors.

As I remember I saw where the suit against Tisdale & Samuel was dropped - some thought because Patrick II had died. Elizabeth Wilson Spencer, John's wife at the time of John's death, was called to testify on behalf of Abraham, Jr. It appears she came but was not used to testify. She wanted to be paid for her trip (she was out of county), was not paid. When Elizabeth died in Forsyth Co., N. C. in 1855, she made bequests to her side of the family only.

Looks like David got into a lot of trouble after his Dad's death - son David - plus the trespassing & damage charge. Guess David did not like the choices father John gave him when John wrote his will in 1844.

If you read John's will closely, you can see John was apprehensive about David's reaction. Probably David could not be reached at that time so John had to make decisions without consulting David.

These were, of course, all problems on John's side and you may not want to worry about them. The handwriting on the papers is faint & difficult to read. I wish I had more details but all I can do is read between the lines. I know John's will was not settled for 6 years.

Cuz Nita

From: "Nita Shepard"
To: "David Alden Hennessee"
Subject: David and John David
Date: Friday, November 22, 2002 11:36 AM


Hi, David: You may remember I have tried from time to time to find 1870 Cherokee Co., N. C., census on the Internet. I finally located a Patty Brock who had a copy of it and was willing to look up one name. I contacted her inquiring about John David at

abrock@cinci.rr.com

Below is what I received:

"August 4, 1870 Murphy Township
HH#121 Hennessee, John 41 NC Dry Goods Dealer, Nancy 29 Ga, Caroline 9 NC, Catharine 3 NC" I am sure I do not need to tell you that John above is John H. Hennessee, s/o David Hennessee and Catherine Sudderth; Nancy is John's wife N. Josephine Goodrune (or Nancy Josephine Goodrune); Caroline is Elizabeth or C. E. Hennessee (or Caroline Elizabeth Hennessee), d/o John H. above; Catharine is Victoria (or Catharine Victoria or Victoria Catherine ? - probably Catharine Victoria, maybe Victoria
Catharine) d/o John H. above

"HH#136 Hennesa, David 62 NC County Commissioner, Catharine 72 NC, Taylor, Nancy 21 Ky, Step, William 20 NC, Stewart, Thomas 11 NC (black)." Again, no doubt I do not need to offer any further inf. re above but - David would be David Hennessee, s/o John Hennessee and Elmina Thompson; Catharine would be Catherine Sudderth, d/o Abraham Sudderth, Sr., and w/o David. I do not know the others at this moment. Perhaps you do.

John David Hennessee, illegitimate son of David Hennessee, was listed with the Benjamin Beaver family in Cherokee Co NC censuses of 1850 and 1860 but his name is not in the 1870 Cherokee Co NC census per Patty Brock with the Beavers or otherwise:

"August 10, 1870 New Section of Valley Town Township
HH#35 Beaver, Benjamin 67 NC, Nancy 65 NC, Martha 28 NC, Patterson, Benjamin 9 NC, Beaver, Cornelia 6 NC." I have in my files: Martha, age 11, 1850; 21 1860.


"Living next door at HH#36 Beaver, Stuart 23 NC, Catherine 22 NC, Rowan 2 NC, Ann 1 NC (This probably is son of Benjamin above.)" I have in my files: Benjamin S. age 7, 1850; as Stuard, age 14 1860.

I am trying to find out what happened to John David after 1860 census until Nov 18 1875 when he married Lee Ann Shook in McMinn Co., Tenn. Do you have anything in this time frame?

I woke up this morning to our first rather heavy snow. I understand Nick H was to go to Gettysburg this weekend with his son and grandchildren to have a private tour of the battlefield. I would have liked to go too (was invited) but naturally couldn't. If there is snow at Gettysburg too, this weekend may not be the best of times. Cuz Nita

Birth:
Map & History of Burke County, North Carolina http://bit.ly/Rd17uM

Religion:
faith is unkinown...

David married Josey Beaver. Josey (daughter of Benjamin Beaver and Nancy LNU) was born in 1832 in (Cherokee County) North Carolina; died before 1900 in (McMinn County, Tennessee). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 1832, Tennessee
• Residence: 1880, McMinn County, Tennessee

Notes:

Josey is enumerated as, "Dalton Hennessee", in the household of her son, John Hennessee. during the 1880 McMinn Co., TN census. Curious is that her birth-state is cited TN not NC...DAH

end of this notation

John David Hennessee had half-brother & sister: Wesley & Ann Dalton...

I've been unable to locate any records for either person in North Carolina or Tennessee... DAH

end of this notation

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: CSA - KIA

Notes:

BEAVERS - SHOOK

Posted by Judy Smith on Sat, 12 Feb 2000, in response to Beavers, posted by Kaye Nail on Wed, 06 Oct 1999

Surname: BEAVERS, SHOOK, ROBINSON, HENNESSEE, GIBBS

Kaye,

Today I received a copy of records that my deceased aunt had kept for a number of years on our ancestors. You guessed it! Bingo! Below is the documentation she has recorded word by word.

William SHOOK married Margaret ROBINISON on March 9, 1848 in Athens, TN. He was killed in the Civil War and is buried in Shilo Cemetary (Military Cemetary) near Memphis, TN.

Margaret ROBINSON SHOOK lived in Athens, TN and was in the real estate business. She owned property in downtown Athens, which she sold for four dollars an acre. She is buried somewhere in Athens.

Their children:

1. Nellie SHOOK - married John David HENNESSEE in Athens, TN. Occupation - Methodist Minister. He was born November 10, 1849 in Murphy, NC, and died June 22, 1921 in Athens, TN. Nellie died within a year of marriage, and John David HENNESSEE then married Nellie's sister Lee Ann SHOOK.

2. Lee Ann SHOOK - born July 24, 1859, died September 29, 1896. Married John David HENNESSEE November 18, 1875 in Athens, TN.

3. Elizabeth (Lizzy) SHOOK - Married James L. BEAVERS, son of Hiram BEAVERS. John BEAVERS was the brother of Hiram BEAVERS.

4. Tobe SHOOK - Married Sallie GIBBS February 26, 1878 in Athens, TN.I do believe we have a connection. What's the chances of two Elizabeth SHOOKs marrying two James BEAVERS from McMinn county, TN around the same time peroid?

Hope this has helped!

Judy

Birth:
or Virginia...

Died:
The Battle of Shiloh - History... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh

William married Margaret Robinson on 9 Mar 1848 in Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee. Margaret was born in 1824 in (McMinn County) Tennessee; was buried in Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Francis married Sarah Elizabeth Bedford(Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee). Sarah was born on 16 Jul 1837 in (Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee); died in (Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee); was buried in Francis Barb Family Cemetery, McMinn County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
unknown...

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 1780, Burke County, North Carolina
• Probate: 1843, Cherokee County, North Carolina
• Alt Death: 1844, Caldwell County, North Carolina
• Probate: 1844, Caldwell County, North Carolina
• Will: 17 Jun 1844, Caldwell County, North Carolina

Notes:

The Last Will and Testament of John Hennessee of Caldwell County, North Carolina.

I, John Hennessee, considering uncertainty of this mortal life and being of sound mind and memory blessed be Almighty God for the same as make and publish this my last will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say

Item first.

I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Elizabeth Hennessee during her natural life my negro boy Philip or any other she may choose and my negro girl Sopshonia aged about thirteen years also my grey mare and colt also two cows and calves also what hogs I have and what few sheep I have and the increase of the stock The stock and its increase to be disposed of as she thinks best at her death and to have the use of the increase of the negro girl Sopshonia during her lifetime only; I also leave her all my household and kitchen furniture except two feather beds and furniture. I also give her my wheel and loom and one woman's saddle. also one Sett of horse gear one plow hoe and I give her the above bequest including all and every article she brought with her after her marriage I also give her her lawful dower in my Land where David Hennessee lives in Cherokee County but if my son David Hennessee and wife Catherine will make a good and sufficient deed to the tract of land given to them by Abraham Sudderth Jr called the Staples place during her natural life time and my life time. If my son David and his wife complies with the foregoing condition she is to have that for her Dower in land inlieu of the land in Cherokee County.

Item Second.

I give to my son Patrick Hennessee his choice of the negroes after my wife takes the two I bequeathed to her. If he takes my negro woman Dolly he is to have her youngest child Tom with her and Dolly's increase The above I give with all I have heretofore given him as his share of my estate also one feather bed

Item 3rd.

I give to my son David Hennessee all my interest in the tract of land where he now lives and all my other lands in Cherokee County subject to the Dower of my wife. but if my son David Hennessee will comply with the matter named in the first Item and make a Deed to land named therein (viz the Staples place) then my wife is to have the Staples place during her lifetime for dower and to have no dower in the land in Cherokee. I also give him choice of one of my negroes after what I have already bequeathed are taken out also one feather bed and furniture.

Item 4th.

I give Abraham Sudderth's children my Grand children the one half of my negroes remaining after the above bequests are taken out. and. also the boy my wife has during her lifetime.

Item 5th.

I give to my daughter Ailsey Johnson my negro Girl Sophsonia and her increase after the death of my wife and also any increase she may before my wife's death and also the one half of the negroes remaining after first those bequests are take out of which I have bequeathed Abraham Sudderth's children the other half.

Item 6th.

My will and desire is that all the balance of my property that I have not disposed of above of every description whatsoever to be sold and the proceeds after all my just debts are paid to be divided equally between all my children viz Patrick Hennessee, David Hennessee, Elmina Sudderth, Children & Ailsey Johnson.

Item 7th.

I nominate and appoint Abraham Sudderth Jnr. and Patrick Hennessee my executors of the last will & testament revoking all former wills by me made

Item 8th.

And lastly my express will and meaning is and I do hereby order and appoint that if any differences disputes questions or controversy shall be arise or happen concerning any gift bequest matter or thing in the my will given and bequeathed expressed or contained that then no suit or suits in Law or Equity or other wise shall be brought, commemced or prosecuted for and concerning the same shall refund wholly to the award order and determination of my friends Wm. Greenway and James Harper both of the County & State aforesaid and what they shall order direct & determine therein shall be binding and conclusive to all and every person or persons therein concerned In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 17th day if June, 1844.

Published and declared by the above named John Hennessee to be John his mark Hennessee his last will & Testament in presence of the Testator

the Testator Wm. Greenway Jurat Wm. C. Tate Jas. Harper Jurat


Codicil to the above will this day as above written It is further my will and desire that if my son David Hennessee complies with the condition of the aforesaid will (viz) to make a sufficient deed as before stated to the Staples place that he also is to build a comfortable double house each Sixteen feet square with a passage between one and a half Story high with a chimney with one fire place at each end the chimnies to be built of stone or brick Two twelve windows in each room and otherwise furnished in comfortable manner & also to build a Kitchen smoke house and corn crib all to be finished by the 1st day of Jany. next

Item 2nd.

It is further my will and desire that out of the proceeds of sale of the balance of my property in my will there be paid to Mrs. Elizabeth Spencer wife Tisdell Spencer the sum of one dollar and no more

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of the 17th day of June 1844

Wm. Greenway Jurat
Wm. C. Tate John Hennessee (his mark)
James Harper Jurat

(Burke County Tax List of 1815 list John as owning 850 acres valued at $3000.)

end of will

Text of speech given by Nita Hennessee Shepard during the Hennessee Reunion held in McMinnville,TN, July of 1991:

Hello-o-o Tennessee Hennessees! And my Hennessee cousins from the various States of the Union. It's nice to see you! It's nice to be with you! I am Nita Raye Hennessee Shepard.

I've been asked to speak on John Hennessee, Sr., son of our elder Patrick, and brother to your James.

When brother James decided to leave western North Carolina for Tennessee, John decided to stay on, buying James' land on the Catawba River.

John was my great-great grandfather - born about 1775. If John's birth date is reasonably accurate, John was 9 years younger than brother James. This makes me wonder about the accuracy of the date of John's birth or if there were other brothers or sisters born in those intervening 9 years. However, I was told today that there were other children between James and John, so we will leave the year of his birth as about 1775.

It is thought John's mother was Ailsey McDowell, possibly a sister to Generals Charles and Joseph McDowell. It is said the McDowells came from Virgina with the Hennessees.

I became especially interested in John Hennessee because of two articles in the Burke Co., N.C. Historical Society volumes. One article said John had 4 children and his wife's name was Elizabeth. The other article said Elizabeth Wilson, born Feb.13, 1782 married John Hennessee and had an only child.

Senator Sam Erwin of Morganton,N.C., who had written the second article, said his information came from his mother and her information from a friend. Both were long deceased.

We know from John's will dated, June 7, 1844, that his wife then was an Elizabeth. He mentions sons Patrick and David, daughter Elmira's children (Elmira was already deceased, having been struck by lightning), and he mentioned daughter Ailsey Johnson. As a codicil 10 days later - June 17, 1884 - he disinherits Elizabeth Spencer by leaving her the sum of $1.00.

In trying to conciliate the two Burke Co. articles, I have come the conclusion, rightly or wrongly, that John may have been married 3 times. I think his first wife was possibly Elizabeth Sumpter from Kentucky. I believe she was the mother of my great-grandfather, Patrick, Jr., who was born about 1793, and Ailsey, born 1795.

Since son David was not born until 11 years later and David's sister, Elmira, until 13 years later, I believe David and Elmira's mother was not Elizabeth Sumpter - unless of course there had been other children in those 11 years that did not live to maturity.

We do know when John died his wife was an Elizabeth - Elizabeth Wilson Hennessee - and their 1 child was the Elizabeth Spencer disinherited in the will. I can only speculate that Elizabeth Spencer married against her father's wishes and was left with $1.00.

Of interest, you might like to know that Elizabeth Wilson Hennessee was a descendant of John Howland and wife Elizabeth Tilley who came to what is now America on the Mayflower in 1620. Of further interest, while on board ship, John Howland was washed overboard, nearly drowned, but was miraculously saved. John Howland is described as being young and strong who was able to survive in the waters unitl he could be rescued.

John Hennessee evidently died soon after his June, 1844, will because John's last will and testament was proved July 11, 1844, with his wife "Eliza" appearing in court to admit his will for probate.

John was buried in the Fairfield Cemetery at Lenoir, N.C. His headstone has not been seen for many, many years so the exact location of his grave is not known. My husband and I, along with a Sudderth-cousin and her husband, went to the cemetery a few years ago and made a valiant effort to find the grave - but if his headstone was there somewhere, it had fallen is buried deeply.

The Fairfield Cemetery, once the former cemetery of the 1st Methodist Church, goes back to the late 1700's and is said to hold the remains of 70 slaves and about 100 white people. We were told it is believed that John's father, the elder Patrick, is buried there too.

When my husband and I tried to locate John's grave, we found the cemetery to be a small jungle, located at the back yards of a nice development of homes. A number of hours later, bent, sometimes on our hands and knees, with clothes snagged, hot and dirty, and many insect bites, we gave up trying to locate John (and Patrick too).

Upon coming back home to Arlington, VA, I was hopeful that Fairfield would be cleared of underbrush and fallen stones. We pinned our hopes on the fact that the cemetery was to be turned over to the Caldwell County Genealogical Society. But, alas, in 1989, through what was charitably said to be a misunderstanding, a company brought heavy equipment into the cemetery, cut trees, and pulled the trees out across graves. There were, of course, many complaints.

Since then, we have not heard of any further developments at the cemetery but perhaps good will come from this unhappy event.

I wish I know more about John. I don't have a physical description nor a picture. I don't know whether he was kind and good. I must assume that John was industrious and brave. One had to be in what was a dangerous, undeveloped area of western North Carolina. He had to be industrious because he had land, slaves and obviously a standing in the community. I wish we had letters written by John. Then we could know him better. But,nevertheless, we are grateful to you, John, for being!

Thank you very much for your time!

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John Hennessee (b c 1775 - d June, 1844, Caldwell County, North Carolina) was the son of pioneer Patrick Hennessee I and the husband of Elizabeth Wilson Hennessee (b February 13, 1782, Randolph County - d September 21, 1855, Forsyth County). Records indicate that an "only child" was born of that union. It is known that John had at least an older brother, James David (b 1766) who about 1805 moved with his family to Tennessee, and two sisters unidentified but married by 1780.

A widower when he married Elizabeth Wilson, John had five other children. Some believe the mother of these children was Elizabeth Sumter (Sumpter) from Kentucky. Other names are offered. John's June 7, 1844, Caldwell County will names and makes bequests to his children Patrick (b c 1793), Ailsey (b c 1795), David (b September 3, 1805), and the children of his daughter Elmina (b October 20, 1808). (Tragically, Elmina was deceased, struck by lightning June 2, 1841.) A June 17, 1844, codicil disowns Elizabeth Spencer, wife of Tisdale Spencer. Although the codicil does not identify Elizabeth as his child, it is almost certain this Elizabeth was John's oldest - born c 1791. John named son Patrick II and son-in-law Abraham Sudderth, Jr., executors. When he died near the end of June, John was buried in Fairfield Cemetery, Lenoir. With his gravestone missing for many years, the location of John's grave is unknown. Patrick died August 29, 1845, just a little over a year after the death of his father, leaving Abraham sole executor. With some delays, John's estate was accepted for settlement in 1850, almost six years after his death.

Senator Sam Ervin, Jr., wrote (Article 766 Burke Heritage Volume 1): "Elizabeth Wilson born February 13, 1782. She married John Hennessee of Caldwell County, North Carolina and had an only child." Questions remain as to the identity of the "only child". John's will did not include this child, leaving the conviction he or she predeceased John. Some time after John's death, Elizabeth, probably wishing to be near her own people, moved to Forsyth County. Here her April 29, 1855, will was dictated to and written by George C. Mendenhall, prominent attorney and husband of Elizabeth's niece, Delphina E. Gardner. It was not surprising that Elizabeth's bequests were to close family members mainly. Surprising were Elizabeth's bequests "to my daughter Louisa Kerr and her son Thomas Kerr." This leads one to question if the "only child" was alive and identified as Louisa or misidentified in the telling.

Known to have had at least 300 acres of land through early Burke County land grants, January 14 and March 12, 1794, as well as other acreage, John's will included slaves, live stock, farm equipment, furnishings, etc. Inventory sale dated November 1, 1844, listed many buyers whose names would be recognized in Burke and Caldwell Counties even today. Slave Philip, left to Elizabeth Wilson Hennessee by John 11 years previously, appears on an inventory of the property and estate of Eliza W. Hennessee taken by John Watson, her executor, and returned to the March Term of Forsyth Court in 1856.

The Hennessees and the Sudderths were good friends. Three of John's children married three children of Abraham Sudderth, Sr. Patrick married Nancy, David married Catherine, and Elmina married Abraham, Jr. Ailsey married Jacob Johnson, son of Philip Johnson and Martha Bassett.

Descendants of John and his brother James were in touch at times over the years but their first known reunion was held in July, 1991, 186 years after James moved away. Over 260 family members representing 19 states came together at Shell's Ford Baptist Church, McMinnville, Tennessee, at the invitation of and hosted mainly by David Alden Hennessee, descendant of James.

Sources:

"Burke County, North Carolina, Land Records and More Important Miscellaneous Records 1751-1809, Excerpts from Miscellaneous Papers of Civil and Criminal Cases 1755-1790", Volume 3, Page 103, by Edith Warren Huggins;

"Burke County, North Carolina, Records 1755-1821 (Including Wills Index 1784-1900), Tax Records 1794-1795", Page 112, Tax Records 1794-1798, Page 122"; "Land Grants, Burke County, North Carolina, 1787, 1794";

"Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Caldwell County, North Carolina, First Six Years 1841-1847", Volume 1, Second Edition, Pages 37-38, 40-41, and 55 by Linda M. Staley and John O. Hawkins;

"Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Caldwell County, North Carolina, 1847-1852", Volume 2, Page 51, Compiled by John O. Hawkins; North Carolina Archives, Raleigh;

Research of David Alden Hennessee, West Palm Beach, Florida,

Manassa Nixon (Nick) Hennessee, III, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Elaine Gordon, San Antonio, Texas.

Nita H. Shepard, 206 Treetop Place, Holland, Ohio 4352 (419) 867-7439


Pg# Ln# Head of Household to-10 10-16 16-26 26-45 45+
to10 10-16 16-26 26-45 45+ Others Slaves Remarks
Last Name First Name (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12)
==================================================================================================================================================
0 0 1 0 0 0
754 17 Hinsy John H 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2

This census is from Microcopy No. T-498 Roll 2

Hensy, Patrick, 1,1,1,0,3,I

1790 Census North Carolina Burke County Morgan District

1 of 1st # free white males 16 year upwards and head of families (Patrick)
1 of 2nd # free white males under 16 years (Ailsey)
1 of 3rd # free white females and head of families (John)
0 of 4th # all other free persons (no other children)
3 of 5th # slaves

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MESSAGE FROM TOMBSTONE PICTURE VOLUNTEER: "I went back today Oct 29, 2009 and walked this small cemetery. About half of the markers are legible, but the other half are not...many are just broken off. I was not able to locate a marker for either John or Elizabeth Hennessee."

- Sandra "Spiritwalker" Selph-Hunter

Added: Oct. 29, 2009

January 26th, 2018: "SEEKING ADDITIONS/CORRECTIONS Contact Sandy (Email: sandyspiritwalker@hotmail.com)

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August 29, 2015:

I found a record for "John Henesy" who is enumerated in the 1790 Burke County, North Carolina Index:

97-52 Henesy, John 2 . 2 . . . 7th Co.

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1844 Probate record for John Hennessee:

John Hennessee
North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979
Name: John Hennessee
Event Type: Probate
Event Year: 1844
Event Place: Caldwell, North Carolina, United States
Number of Names with File: 1
File Name: John Hennessee
First Image Number: 00799
Last Image Number: 00875
Number of Images: 77

Source citation:

A second probate record for John ... this time in Cherokee County in 1843. It looks like there was a dispute:

John Hennesee
North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979
Name: John Hennesee
Event Type: Probate
Event Year: 1843
Event Place: Cherokee, North Carolina, United States
Number of Names with File: 1
File Name: John Hennesee
First Image Number: 01151
Last Image Number: 01219
Number of Images: 69

Source citation:

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John Hennessee
BIRTH 1780 Burke County, North Carolina, USA
DEATH 1844 North Carolina, USA
BURIAL Fairfield Cemetery Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina, USA
MEMORIAL ID 40749002

Birth and death dates are estimates.
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Wife: Elizabeth Wilson

Children: Alsey, David, Elmina
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Father:
Mother:

Siblings:
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Paternal G/P's:
Maternal G/P's:
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SEEKING ADDITIONS/CORRECTIONS

Contact Sandy
(Email: sandyspiritwalker@hotmail.com)
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Family Members
Spouse
Elizabeth Wilson Hennessee*
1770–1840

Children
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Patrick Hennessa*
1793–1845

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Alsey Hennesse Johnson*
1795–1865

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Elmira Hennessee Sudderth*
1808–1841

*Calculated Relationship

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Birth:
Map & History of Burke County, North Carolina http://bit.ly/Rd17uM

Will:
Map & History of Caldwell County, North Carolina.. http://bit.ly/PiwwME

Buried:
Map & History of Caldwell County, North Carolina.. http://bit.ly/PiwwME

John married Elmina Thompson(Burke County, North Carolina). Elmina was born in (~ 1774) in (Burke County, North Carolina). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From: "Nita Shepard"
To: "David Alden Hennessee"
Subject: John Hennessee
Date: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:45 PM

Hi, David: Glad you gave me a little nudge about above. I hope it will "pay off." For instance, I took John Hennessee:

Oldest son, Patrick II, named after father's father: Patrick I Second son, David, named after mother's father: According to grants received there is a David Thompson, under Storage File Folder #4094, Grant #3852, (not that far from Patrick's property and that of Bartlett Berry (He - a son in law - took over Nancy Sudderth Hennessee's plantation when she lost the plantation.) (Now we think David's mother was Elmina Thompson. Was David Thompson her father?? David Hennessee's sister was Elmina Hennessee.) I understand the file folders are at the Burke Library and N. C. Archives.

Oldest daughter, Elizabeth, named after mother's mother. Mother might have been Elizabeth Sumter from Ky. - would Elizabeth Sumter's mother also be an Elizabeth? Second daughter, Ailsey, named after father's mother. Was father's mother Ailsey McDowell as some have said? 3rd daughter, Elmina, named after mother. Was her mother Elmina Thompson?

Have it said this too confusingly? It is to me.

When I have time will further study James.

For now, some think Patrick I's father could be Thomas. If so, then according to naming process neither James nor John would be the oldest child. The oldest would need to be a Thomas. However, if James was the oldest son of Patrick I, then perhaps, and only perhaps, the story that I received: That James and Alexander Hennessee left Co. Cork and landed in Norfolk, Va., in 1740 might have some truth to it.

I am now trying to get some inf on David Thompson or anything more on the Thompsons in an effort to find Elmina Thompson's people. Will forward E-mail from Robert McNeeley sent to me Aug. 29. He seems to feel that Elmina Thompson's father might be George Thompson. Cuz Nita


From: "Nita Shepard"
To: "David Alden Hennessee"
Subject: John Hennessee
Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 1:37 PM

Hi, David:

This pertains to John rather than James H. but I am attaching a typewritten copy of undated letter to me from Meb Sudderth Hendrix, of Cherokee Co., N. C.

I happened to run across the handwritten letter again of Meb'syesterday. I believe you will be particularly interested in paragraph 3. I don't know why I had not noted her reference to John's wife as Elmina Thompson Hennessee much earlier. How could I have missed it??? I did some research yesterday on an Elmina Thompson yesterday
through yahoo.com but nothing special came up although I did not pursue that site for more than 60 listings. I see a Thompson article in the Caldwell Co. Historical Volume but see no reference to an Elmina. I will continue to look further. Perhaps you will join in when you can???

My first thought in rereading Meb's letter was that she might be alittle mixed up. She was well into her 80's in the early 1900's. I imagine Meb is dead now. If I can find an address for Dale, I will write her. She appeared to be much younger than Meb. Also, Meb's daughter Mildred might be living in Meb's home now. Meb had mentioned that Mildred was going to retire and would probably live there. Hope the attachment comes through okay. Cuz Nita


Copy of Undated Letter from Meb Sudderth Hendrix

Dear Nita:
It was good to hear from you; it's springtime here. I have been spending a lot of time outside among my flowers. The tulips have been most beautiful. Now the iris is making a show along with other blooming flowers. The peony's (sic) are budding and so many pansies along with bleeding heart and the money plant. A lot of shrubs are also in bloom. The dogwood trees are at their best now.
My sisters are doing very well but I lost two brothers last year, Aude and Neal. I am O.K. except for arthritis and my hearing. I have some help with my flowers and housekeeping.
You ask about David Hennessee. He was the son of John Hennessee and wife Elmina Thompson Hennessee. He was a brother to Elmina Hennessee Sudderth, wife of Abraham Sudderth, Jr. (my great grandfather). He was the father of John Hennessee who was the first mayor of Murphy. His wife was Catherine Sudderth, sister to Abraham Sudderth, Jr. and daughter of Abraham Sudderth, Sr.
You will find the Hennessee Family History in Cherokee County Heritage - page 233 - number 311. This was worked up by Jean Davis Hennessee.
From David and Catherine Sudderth Hennessee, came some of our most prominent early Cherokee County families. (The Poseys, Brittains, Abernathys, Goodrune and many more.) I hope this will help to place him in his place in family history. You remember we went to the Harshaw Chapel where the Hennessee Clan was buried when you were here.
I have not done too much more in the search for our ancestors since you were here. I have been helping out with my family down home since Dale is left alone with sister Mae who will be 91 May 1st.
My daughter Mildred and several of the family will be spending this weekend with me. I have been cooking cakes and making a lot of rolls and freezing them for quick eating while they are here so we can visit and not have too much cooking to do. Mildred lives in Arlington, Texas, now. Others will be coming from Memphis, Tenn., and Columbus, Ga. So we will have a lot of family fun for a few days.
Hope to see you again soon. A letter recently from Jessie Campbell of Caldwell Co. says she has some early history of Sudderth family. Some one had been abroad.
Sincerely
(signed) Meb




Note: The above letter probably was written in 1991, possibly a little later. Since Meb's great grandmother is cited by Meb as Elmina and not Elmira, it is my belief we should stop listing Elmira as an alternative for Elmina. In referring to her father's will of June 17, 1844, spelling could be either Elmina or Elmira, I suppose - but my leaning was to Elmina.
Nita H. Shepard, August 13, 2002

Notes:

From: "Butch & Marie Salmons"
To:
Subject: hennessee
Date: Sunday, July 27, 2003 8:22 AM

GOOD MORING,

HERE IS WHAT I HAVE .

1850 MURPHY , CHEROKEE CO. N. C
BEAVERS BENJ. 46 1804 N.C.
NANCY 44 1806 ''
MARLINDA 20 1830 TN.
JOSEY 18 1832
LENA 15 1835
MARTHA 11 1839
JOSEPH W. 9 1841
BENJ S. 7 1843
FREEMAN W. 2 1848
HENNESSEE JOHN D. 2 1848 G. SON


1860 VALLY TOWN CK. CO. N.C.
BEAVERS BENJ. 55
NANCY 53
MARTHA 21
JOESPH W. 17
STEWART 17
W.F. 10
HENNESSEE JOHN D. 9

1870 VALLYTOWN CK. CO. N.C.
BEAVERS BENJ. 67
NANCY 65
MARTHA 25
CORNELIA 6
PATTERSON BENJ. 9

1880 MC MINN TENN.

Benjamin married Nancy LNU(Cherokee County) North Carolina. Nancy was born in 0___ 1806 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Tennessee Trails" through Bedford County

PIONEER FAMILIES

THE SHOOK FAMILY

Like the "Keith Hollow" and the "Norman Thicket," the "Shook Graveyard," during the writer's childhood years, was a not-too-definitely, located landmark to which reference was often made without its significance being fully explained. There was a vague idea in his mind that these places were named for families whose names had otherwise disappeared long ago from the Flat Creek Community; but the writer had not the slightest suspicion that the names were for distant relatives or even for ancestors as in the case of the Shooks. Not until he learned that his great­grandfather, George Allen Reagor, was buried in the Shook Graveyard, did he ever take the trouble to pay it a visit. To any reader who might like to make a similar visit, a few directions are given. If the approach is from Shelbyville, he should travel a little less than a mile after passing through the junction of roads at Flat Creek on the way to Lynchburg and park his car in front of the house across the creek to the right of the highway. By following a path almost perpendicular to the highway for about three-fourths of a mile, most of the way parallel to a wire fence, the Shook Graveyard will be reached just over the crest of the hill which hides it from view on the highway.

To the writer's surprise on his first visit in the spring of 1958, the name Shook was not found on a single tombstone. To any present-day observer the cemetery would more appropriately be named the Reagor Graveyard, for Reagor is found on quite a number of the monuments. Most, if not all of the inscribed monuments are for Anthony and Margaret Shook Reagor descendants and their families. It is assumed that the earliest Shooks in Bedford County, William Shook, his two sons, William, Jr., and Abraham, and their wives, are buried in some of the graves which are marked only by three hewn limestone rocks placed upon them. If there were ever any inscriptions on these stones, they are not discernible now. The graves of Margaret and Anthony Reagor, ancestors of all the Reagors in and from to Flat Creek area, presumably were buried also in graves with such marker or with only a small limestone headstone without any inscription. The earliest inscriptions on monuments in the Shook Graveyard are these: "David Floyd, born June 19, 1786; Died Dec. 18, 1856, Aged 70 yrs and 6 months and "Mary Magdalene Floyd, Consort of David Floyd, born Dec. 9, 1793 died Nov. 22, 1856, aged 62 yrs., 11 mo., 13 days." Mary Magdalene Floyd was the daughter of Anthony and Margaret Shook Reagor granddaughter of William Shook, Sr., who was the progenitor of all Shooks who once lived in Bedford and Franklin Counties. It is believed that the last burial in the Shook Graveyard was that of Edd Coleman, a bachelor descendant of the Shooks and Reagors. He died November 29, 1926, but a monument was not erected for him until 1960. Until recent years, loyal Shook and Reagor descendants saw to the care of this family cemetery even it had long been off a public road. Although the Shook name seems to have been lost to the Flat Creek Community by the time of the Civil War and although the name of Reagor seems likewise destined to be lost to the Community within another generation perhaps more than half the children born within the Flat Creek Community during the past hundred and fifty years had Shook and Reagor ancestry whether or not they ever knew it.

Although the Shook family had an appeal of its own to the writer because of its significance to his ancestry, a more careful study of the Shook family has resulted from efforts to unravel the mysteries of the ancestry of Anthony Reagor, who married Margaret Shook. It was fortunate indeed to find that other Shook descendants had already done considerable study on the Shook family, thereby greatly reducing the need for original research. With this glimpse at the climax of its interest, we turn now to the Beginning of the story of the Shook family as it is believed to have been established in this country and follow our own line from Hermanus Shook,who is believed to have been our earliest progenitor in America, to Margaret Shook, through whom the Reagor descendants get their Shook ancestry.

The earliest of his Shook ancestors with whom the writer has become acquainted through records and stories is Hermanus Shook. According to tradition, Hermanus Shook came to America from Holland before , and it is thought that his forebears were of German origin. One of his grandsons, Abraham Shook, in a letter on June 19, 1868, spoke of his lather as, "a Dutchman, could read no English, though a Dutch Scholar. Although this Abraham Shook of Franklin County, Tennessee, spoke thus of his "Grandfather Shook," the context of the letter strongly says that he may have been speaking of his great-grandfather, Hermonous Shook. His lack of a command of written English accounts largely, for the great variety in the spelling of his name. The first name has been given such variations as, Hearmon, Harmonous, Herman, Harfand perhaps others. Shook has also been spelled Shuch, Shock, and Schrook. There are instances in which the name is spelled more than one time in the same document. Due to the efforts of the Shook family to become like their English friends and neighbors while not giving up all of culture and traditions, it is possible that the pronunciation of the name varied from time to time as much as the spelling. We shall refer to this ancestor, presumably our earliest Shook in America, as Hermanus except where quotations from documents require it to be spelled otherwise. This particular spelling has been selected from the available largely because it seems to be a compromise between the Dutch English. His namesake son will be referred to as Harmon, Jr., for the simple reason that this spelling seems to be used most frequently for him in documents and other records.

The earliest record on Hermanus Shook seems to be found among those of Augusta County, Virginia, where on August 28, 1750, "Hermanm Skout," along with his neighbors of later years, Anthony Reagor and Anthony Reagor, Jr., was added to the list of tithables (Abstracts of Records of Augusta Co., Va. by Lyman Chalkley, Vol. 1, p. 42). Taken out of context, the name Hermanus Skout would have made little impression; but alongside the names of two Reagors, it leads to the conclusion that an error has been made in spelling or in copying this name and that it refers to the "Hearman Shuck" who was named executor in the will of "Anthony Reagor" in 1769 and the "Herman Shuck" who was recognized by the Hampshire County Court as the executor of "Anthony Reagor" when the will was proved on May 8, 1770, and the "Hearmon Shuck" who on October 27, 1775, was made executor of the will of "Anthony Reagor" of Hampshire County who signed his name as "Anthony Reagors." With such variations of spelling as in these documents, the use of "Skout" instead of a more usual spelling does not seem sufficient reason to exclude a man from a list of his neighbors!

It is likely that in 1750 Hermanus Shook was already living on the land where he made his home for the balance of his life. At any rate, the fact that his name is found in the records of three counties does not indicate necessarily that he changed the place of his residence. Hampshire County, in which Hermanus Shook was a resident when he made his win in 1780, was carved out of Augusta and Frederick Counties on December 13, 1753-4; and Hardy County, in which his will was proved on June 8, 1798, was formed from Hampshire County. (Hampshire and Hardy Counties were in Virginia before the Civil War but are now a part of West Virginia.) In his will (Hardy County Will Book No. 1, p. 35) Hermanus Shook indicated the location of his home as being "situate on the South Fork," now called the South Branch, of the Potomac River. Wills and other documents indicate that the Sears as well as the Reagors (Reagors) were Hermanus Shock's neighbors. James Sears' daughter Catherine married Hermanus Shock's oldest son, William Shook, as evidenced by the Sears will in which he directed his son William Sears, "to pay to his Sister Catherine Shook twenty pounds current money" (Hampshire County Will Book No. 2, p. 61).

The relationship between the Shook and Reagor families also appears to have been more than that of friendly neighbors. There are strong indications that Anthony Reagor, Jr., married Catherine Shook, Hermanus Shock's sister. It has also been suggested that Hermanus Shook may have married Anthony Reagor, Jr.'s, sister Barbara or their half-sister Anna Shobe. While no firm verification has been found for any of these probable marriages, documentation which strongly hints at the brother-in-law relationship is offered and explained in the section, Early History of the Reager* in America, in Chapter V.

Although his wife was mentioned for her "lawful thirds," her name is not found in Hermanus Shock's will. Children named in the will, in addition to his "eldest son William Shook," are John Shook, Hermonos (Jr.) Shook, and David Shook, the latter two being made executors of the will. Mentioned also are "all the rest of my children both Boys and Garls-

John Shock's will, a fifth son of his father is identified. John Shook, no natural heirs, named in addition to his wife, Elizabeth Shook,step-daughter Mary, and his "affectionate brothers." These brothers included in addition to those named above, Peter Shook (Hardy County Will if No. 1, p. 60). The names of the other "Boys and Garls" mentioned Hermanus Shock's will may never be known; but this is not of great significance to the study of William Shook and his descendants whom the writer is attempting to follow from "the South Fork of the Potomac River" in Hampshire County, Virginia, to "the waters of Big Flat Creek" in Bedford County, Tennessee.

When Hermanus Shook made his will in 1780, all of his sons seem to have been living in what was then Hampshire County, Virginia, though the fact that his "eldest son William Shook" was not made one of the executors of the will indicates that a migration of some sort was already contemplated. When a census of Hampshire County was taken in 1784, none of them had moved away. In 1786, however, the List of Tax payers of Hardy County, formed in 1785, included the names of Harmon (Hermanus) Shook and his three sons, David, John, and Peter; but the names of William Shook and Harmon Shook, Jr., are not found on the list. Neither are any Shooks found on the lists for Hampshire County after Hardy County was carved out of it. What became of Harmon Shook, Jr., has not been determined by the writer; but it is assumed that, if William Shook had not already settled in Tennessee by 1786, his migration in that direction was at least already under way. William Shook

It is thought that William Shook, son of Hermanus Shook, was born Virginia about 1745; but there is no verification for either the location of the date from any records which have come to the attention of the writer. Like his father, William Shook was a pioneer. Twice after the age of forty he left a settled community to begin life anew in a sparsely settled wilderness.

Tennessee had not been organized as a territory when William Shook is believed to have arrived in what is now Knox County. The land on which he settled had not been recognized by the United States Government as open for settlement, though the Cherokee Indians had relinquished it to the State of Franklin by the Treaty of Dumplin Creek. A comparison of records indicates that "Shook Mill Creek," along which William Shook's land lay, is now known as Burnett's Creek, south of the French Broad River, about nine miles from Knoxville. No recorded titles were made to land in this territory until 1806, when the State of Tennessee opened the land for entry. Those already occupying the lands were permitted to have a survey made and to gain title to their property through the "right of occupancy and possession."

The earliest record which has been found for any Shook in Knox County, Tennessee, is in J. M. G. Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, Pages -593. Ramsey relates that on April 22, 1794, William Casteel, wife, and children were killed by Indians in their home south of the French Broad River, nine miles from Knoxville and two miles from the residence of Dr. James Cozby. Their bodies were found by Anthony Reagan, who had gone to the Casteel home to go hunting with Casteel. Another child Elizabeth, later Mrs. Dunlap, was badly wounded and "was taken to Mr Shock's, who then owned Major Swann's Mill, where Dr. Cozby dressed her wounds," while Reagan alarmed the settlement. To the writer, the name Anthony Reagan (Reagan) is more significant than "Mr. Shock's," for it is his firm conviction that here is another error in spelling or copying and that William Casteel's hunting pal and discoverer of his tragic end was in fact Anthony Reagor, who married William Shook's daughter Margaret Shook Brock in 1789. (For another reference to this event, turn to the Anthony Reagor of Tennessee section of Chapter V.)

The early marriage records of Knox County provide further evidence of the residence of the Shook family. Between 1796 and 1808, names of four of William Shock's children, Sarah, Magdalene, Mary Ann, Jemima, and Harman, are included in the marriage records; and another of his children, Abraham Shook, was bondsman for two of these marriages (C. A. T. H. M., Vol. 6, pp. 11-16). Dates and other details are included in the list of William Shook's children which will be presented later.

More than twenty years after he is thought to have made his home south of the French Broad River and more than ten years after Tennessee became a state, William Shook finally gained legal possession of his land, and record was made of it. On February 10, 1807, a survey was made of 148 acres on Shook Mill Creek in the "District south of French Broad and Holston Rivers." He received the land under the "right of occupancy and possession" clause. It was recorded as Grant No. 602 on June 8, 1809 (Tennessee Grant Book 1, p. 602). Meanwhile, it had been recorded with a drawing of the plat on May 4, 1807, in the Knox County records (South French Broad Entries, 1806-1807, p. 474). Earlier, in 1806, William Shook and his four sons, William, Jr., Isaac, Jacob, and Harman, were included in Captain Hazilet's Company of Knox County Tax Lists; but William, Jr., and Isaac were the only sons who owned land.

On Burnett's Creek, near the 1960 home of James B. Bolin, are evidences of an old mill dam. This is thought to have been the site of William Shock's mill on the creek which once was known as Shook Mill Creek.

The Census Report of Hampshire County, Virginia, in 1784 indicates that William Shook had eleven children. Since family Bible records give May 29, 1766, as the birth date of his daughter Margaret, he probably married not later than 1765. If he was twenty years of age at the time of his marriage, he must have been born about 1745. This would place him between forty and forty-five when he first settled on the creek which later bore his name. Although the name of the creek has been changed, his name has been preserved in Shocks Gap, a community within the general vicinity of where William Shook settled.

On October 11, 1811, William Shook sold what must have been the last remaining twenty-one-and-one-half acres of his land to Joshua Mofl' day (Knox County Deed Book 0-1, p. 139) and apparently moved shortly thereafter again to the wilderness—this time to the neighborhood of Flat Creek, in Bedford County, Tennessee. His estimated age at this time was approximately sixty-five. This move probably would not have been made (fed it not been accompanied by his son Abraham Shook and preceded by another son, William Shook, Jr., and by his daughter Margaret who had married Anthony Reagor.

Marshall Wilson, a Shook descendant of Knoxville, Tennessee, who included a section on the Shook family in his book, You Take It From Here, Suggested that William Shook probably died in Knox County shortly after 1811; but since the name of "William Shook, Senior," appears on the Bed­ford County Tax List of 1812 along with the names of his sons, William and Abraham, and his son-in-law, Anthony Reagor (Reagor), was living in Bedford County at the time of his death that he was probably the first adult buried in the Shook Graveyard, unless it was his wife Catherine. No way has been found to determine if Catherine was living at the time of his removal to Bedford County; but the ^Bedford County Census Report for 1820 does not indicate that either William or Catherine Shook were living at that time. The Shocks included E that census report were William Shook (Jr.), age "45 and over," William Shook (III), age "16-26," and Abraham Shook, who apparently accompanied his father to Bedford County.

The writer is indebted to Marshall Wilson fort the preparation of a fist of William and Catherine Sears Shock's children. Except for a few minor corrections, omissions, and additions, the list is copied in form similar to that used in You Take It From Here.

1. Margaret Shook, first child of William and Catherine Sears Shook, Was born May 29, 1766, and died September 18, 1838. As she is the greet Shook ancestor of the writer and many other natives of Flat Creek, [Tennessee, her story is told in greater detail in the next section of this chapter.

2. William Shook, Jr., was born in Hampshire County, Virginia, December 11, 1767, and died about 1840 in Bedford County, Tennessee. March 20, 1792, he married Blender Waters, whose parents were early settlers of East Tennessee. He and his family moved from Knox County to Flat Creek, in Bedford County, in 1807. There were ten children whom a number of distinguished descendants have come.

3. Abraham Shook, according to the Census Report of 1850 for Bed­ ford County, was born about 1770. He moved to Bedford County from County late in 1811 or early in 1812. He appears to have died in ford County between 1850 and 1860. His wife's name is not known, tore about him is found in a subsequent section, Shook Relatives and neighbors.< P>

4. Isaac Shook received Tennessee Land Grant No. 992 for 64 acres, surveyed February 11, 1807, which he sold to Jacob Tarwater, December 1810. He received another tract of land on the headwaters of Shocks in 1828. Whom he married or when he left Knox County is not known.

5. Sarah Shook was born in Hampshire County, Virginia, in 1774. She married her cousin, Isaac Willson, in Knox County, Tennessee, November 28, 1796, and bore him twelve children. Her brother Abraham was bondsman on her marriage license. She died soon after 1850, according to Marshall Wilson, a descendant, mentioned earlier as the author of You Take It From Here.

6. Jacob Shook was born December 17, 1777, and died December 22 1834. On July 24, 1810, he married Eleanor Veach, of Sevier County' Tennessee, who became the mother of his seven children. He was a Baptist minister and settled in Harrison County, Indiana

7. Magdalena Shook married Samuel Montgomery in Knox County on July 19, 1797. Abraham Shook was bondsman, and Hugh Allen White was witness.

8.Mary Ann Shook was born December 21, 1782, and died before 1845. She married Thomas Carpenter HI in Knox County, Tennessee, on June 13, 1801. A descendant of this union was Colonel William T. Carpenter, whose research into Shook family history has provided much of the information used in this chapter.

9. Harmon Shook married Margaret McMillan on February 16, 1808, in Knox County, Tennessee. The family removed to Harrison County, Indiana, in 1814, accompanying Thomas and Mary Ann Shook Carpenter.

10. Jemima Shook married Rowley McMillan on March 8, 1807, in Knox County, Tennessee.

11. John Shook married Catherine Wilson on August 7, 1816, in Knox County, Tennessee. She was probably a sister of Isaac Willson who married Sarah Shook. John and Isaac Shook are listed in the United States Census Report for Monroe County, Tennessee, in 1830; but there are no land records for either name in that county. It is assumed, but not verified by any document, that John and Isaac Shook of Monroe County were the sons of William and Catherine Sears Shook.

Although in 1962 there were Shook descendants living in Knox County, the Shook name had disappeared through migration to Bedford County, Tennessee, Harrison County, Indiana, and elsewhere by 1830. After the Civil War a new Shook family came to Knox County from North Carolina. They were the progenitors of later generations of Shocks in Knox County. Margaret Shook (1766-1838)

Margaret Shook, first child of William and Catherine Sears Shook, according to Bible record, was born May 29, 1766, and died September 18, 1838. Her parents are thought to have been living in Hampshire County, Virginia, at the time of her birth. She had been living in Bedford County, Tennessee, more than thirty years at the time of her death. Family tradition that Margaret Shock's first husband was a man by the name of Brock is verified by the Bible record of a son, George Allen Brock, who was born February 17, 1787. In the absence of any documentary evidence, however, the writer is unwilling to agree with Marshall Wilson's report that the name of her first husband was James Brock. It is likely that Margaret's husband was a brother of the James Brock who was bondsman for the marriage of Willoughby Robertson and Mary Brock in Knox County, Tennessee, on September 3, 1793. When the census was taken in 1820, there lived in Franklin County, Tennessee, a George A. Brock, age 26-45, 5 a James Brock, age above 45. It is reasonable to assume that the former was Margaret's son by her first marriage and that he had accomplished his uncle, James Brock, and his first-cousin, Abraham Shook, to Franklin County. There is a tradition in the Reagor family that George Brock later lived in Paint Rock, Alabama, in Jackson County, which borders Franklin County, Tennessee. Jackson County records prior to 1850 have been lost, and none since that date have been found for George Allen Brock. Unless assistance comes from his descendants, none of whom have been discovered, the mystery of the Shook-Brock-Reagor relationship may never be solved. The most intriguing part of the mystery is the naming of Margaret's seventh child by her second husband James Brock Reagor. It is not likely that this son would have been the namesake of his mother's previous husband, whereas he might well have been named for a friend of the family, conceivably a brother of Margaret's first husband.

According to Bible record, Margaret Shook Brock married Anthony Reagor on December 11, 1789. The writer has made a number of attempts to find a public record of each of Margaret Shock's marriages but has never been able to do so in Knox, Green, or Hawkins Counties of Tennessee or in any of the counties of Virginia where either of the marriages might have been suspected of having taken place. Margaret and Anthony Reagor had nine children. All of them are thought to have been born before the family left Knox County to settle on land along Big Flat Creek in Bedford County, Tennessee. It is through Margaret Shook that the writer shares with many other natives of Flat Creek, Tennessee, the Shook blood and interest in the Shook story. So far as is known, Margaret Shook is the only member of the Shook family who had descendants living in Flat Creek in 1962. More about Margaret Shook and her descendants is found in Chapter V in the sections, Anthony Reagor of Tennessee (1746-1824), The Children of Anthony and Margaret Shook Reagor, and others which follow. Shook Relatives and Neighbors

Since Margaret Shook was the last in the line of Shooks whom the write can claim as an ancestor, the Shook chapter might well have ended with her story. The influence of the Shook family upon the Flat Creek Community during the first half century of its development from a wilderness, however, justifies the inclusion of information on other Shook relations. Although Margaret's father, William Shook, Sr., was the earliest generation of the Shook family to settle in Flat Creek, he was not the first his family to do so, as has been indicated earlier. There are no records to pin point the arrival in Bedford County of Anthony and Margaret Shook Reagor with their children; but the very lack of such records indicates they preceded William Shook, Jr., for whom the year, 1807, has sufficient. verification to be accepted. As has been pointed out previously, William Shook, Jr., was included in the Knox County Tax List of 1806- but on December 3, 1807, "William Shook, Jr., late of Knox County,"' gave power of attorney to James Montgomery for the purpose of transferring certain land to Francis Ramsey (Knox County Deed Book M-L p. 307). Evidence that Flat Creek was his new location is found in an excerpt from a grant which he later received "on the east waters of Big Hat Creek, a south branch of Duck River, adjoins 24 1/2 acre tract of said William Shook . . . surveyed 20 Oct. 1809. Signed by Governor 3 Oct. 1810. Recorded 11 Nov. 1811," (Tennessee Grant Book D, p. 528). More specific, if less authoritative, is a letter written in 1868 by William Shook, Jr.'s son, Abraham Shook, in which he stated that all of his father's family, except the two youngest, were born in Knox County and then "emigrated to Bedford County in 1807 and were raised there." The Bedford County Tax List of 1812 which designates the elder William Shook as "Senior," rather than the younger as "Junior," is further indication that the younger Shook had been in the Flat Creek Community longer and that his name had become better established there than his father, who had arrived just a short while before the Tax List was compiled.

William Shook, Jr.'s home is thought to have been on land later known as the D. D. Hix Farm, which was owned in 1962 by Richard Gordon. Other Shocks are thought to have lived within the general vicinity of the Shook Graveyard. Although William Shook, Jr., left no descendants in the Flat Creek Community, a short sketch on each is presented from family records and traditions.

1. Abraham Shook, first son of William and Blender Waters Shook, was born in Knox County, Tennessee, January 18, 1793, and died in Franklin County, November 7, 1868. He served in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. By 1820, he had settled in Franklin County where on December 14, 1817, he married Martha Keith. This is the Abraham Shook who, from Winchester, Tennessee, on June 16, 1868, wrote his nephew, William B. Shook in Illinois, that his father, William Shook, Jr., had "emigrated to Bedford County in 1807." Some of his other letters have helped to identify other members of the Shook family. One of his distinguished descendants is the central figure in the Life and Achievements of Alfred Montgomery Shook, a book by Anne Kendrick Walker. Others are Alfred Montgomery Shock's son, Paschal Green Shook, who made the book available to the writer, and Mrs. Lora Shook Francis, of Winchester, Tennessee, who provided considerable information for Anne Kendrick Walker. In studying the Shook family, care must be taken to distinguish this Abraham Shook, son of William Shook, Jr., from his uncle, Abraham Shook, who lived in Bedford County from 1812 until 1850.

2. Anna Waters Shook, daughter of William and Elender Waters Shook, was born in Knox County, Tennessee, November 16, 1794. On September 23, 1813, she married Enoch Floyd, a Methodist preacher and a very fine cabinet maker. Enoch Floyd was a brother of David Floyd who married Anna Waters Shock's first-cousin, Mary Magdalene Reagor. Enoch and Anna Waters Shook Floyd are reported to have moved to Jackson County, Alabama, about 1835.

3. William Shook III, son of William and Elender Waters Shook, was in Knox County, Tennessee, February 19, 1796. He married Margaret Beard on November 3, 1818. Little else is known about him, but he probably was the father of the William B. Shook of Illinois to whom Abraham Shook wrote a letter in 1868.

4. James Shook, fourth child of William and Elender Waters Shook, s born in Knox County, Tennessee, January 19, 1798, and married Nancy Cross on October 26, 1820. Little else is known about him.

5. Levi Shook, fifth child of William and Elender Waters Shook, was born in Knox County, Tennessee, October 30, 1799, and married Elizabeth Cannada, November 4, 1828. They were living near Flat Creek in 1830 it later moved to Missouri. Levi S. Reagor, son of Anthony Wayne Reagor, was born about 1843 and apparently was named for this cousin.

6. John Shook, sixth child of William and Elender Waters Shook, was born in Knox County, November 27, 1801. He married Mary Keith, Martha's sister, September 7, 1826. Like his brother Abraham, he was teacher in Franklin County, Tennessee. Later he moved to Jackson County, Alabama, where he reared a family.

7. Isaac Shook, seventh child of William and Elender Waters Shook, born in Knox County, October 30, 1803, and married Mariah Shipman, August 6, 1835. They had a daughter, Julia,, who married John Baker who was living in New Market, Alabama, in 1915. Isaac Shook was living in Flat Creek in 1850 and was one of the early ministers of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church which was organized there in 1855. :Kendrick Walker reports that Isaac Shook was"' editor of the Banner of Peace, official organ of that church, when he died after the Civil War.

8. Jacob Shook, eighth child of William and Elender Waters Shook, born in Knox County, April 8, 1806, and married Elizabeth Bell, November 6, 1828. They seem to have left the Flat Creek Community between 1830 and 1840. Two sons were killed in the Civil War, and their daughter was living in Lincoln County, Tennessee, in 1868, according to a letter written by Abraham Shook of Franklin County.

9. Elender Shook, ninth child of William and Elender Waters Shook, was born February 16, 1808, after her parents had moved to Flat Creek, February 6, 1829, she married Robert C. Morgan. By 1859, Elender Shook Morgan had died, and Abraham Shook, executor of her father's was having difficulty in locating her daughter, Sally Morgan.

10. Jonathan Shook, last child of William and Elender Waters Shook, born in Flat Creek, March 6, 1810. Nothing further is known about He probably died young.

Abraham Shook, brother of William Shook, Jr., and Margaret Shook Reagor, appears to have been accompanied by their father, William Shook, St., when he came to Flat Creek in 1811 to 1812 to make his future home. This Abraham Shook, not to be confused with his nephew Abraham Shook who settled in Franklin County, already had a family when he moved to Flat Creek. Earlier, he had acquired legal title to land on Bakers Creek (now Hines Creek) in Knox County "by right of occupancy and possession." This he sold on December 10, 1811 (Knox County Deed Book 0 p. 338), a few weeks after his father had sold his land in apparent preparation for migration to Bedford County, where they could enter their new land grants and join other members of the Shook family already settled near Flat Creek. They arrived early enough for both father and son to be included in the 1812 Tax List of Bedford County.

An interesting side light on the transfer of Abraham Shock's land in Knox County to Isaac Beane was the reservation of "two acres containing meeting house and graveyard and likewise allowing the congregation liberty of the spring." No present-day church seems to be located on this two-acre reservation; nor has the graveyard been identified positively.

Although public records firmly establish Abraham Shook as a resident of the Flat Creek Community from 1812 until 1850, the writer has been unable to identify a single present-day descendant of this pioneer kinsman; and the utter lack of family records on this branch of the Shook family complicates any search for them. The 1850 Census Report for Bedford County lists Abraham Shook as eighty years of age. This places his birth date at about 1770, when his parents, William and Catherine Sears Shook, lived in Hampshire County, Virginia. Included in his household in 1850, were a William Shook, age twenty-five, presumably a son or grand­son, and Katherine Shook, age nineteen, presumably William's sister or his wife. Also in the household, was seventy-one-year-old Sarah Rambo. It is a conjecture of the writer that she was Abraham Shock's widowed sister who had formerly been married to her cousin Isaac Wilson in Knox County on November 28, 1796. Who had been Abraham Shock's wife is not known; but she probably was living in 1840 when the census report indicated that there was a female in the household who was between fifty and sixty years of age, as well as one between seventy and eighty years old. Some explanation is due those who are not familiar with census reports. In 1850 the names of all members of a household were listed with their ages. Prior to that time, the names of only the heads of families were listed; but other members of the household were indicated by the number in each age group for male and female.

The reference to Sarah Rambo brings to mind a paragraph in a privately owned paper, Notes and Reminiscences from Uncle William Floyd Given to Charles E. Gowen in the Summer of 1904 in His 84th. Year. The following is quoted.

Sallie Skidmore, Sallie Rambo and Peggy Howlin were the old "witches whom the Reagors and others so much feared. They verily believed in their power to Hoodoo and bewitch. But to make a picture of the "witch" and shoot it with a "silver bullet," they believed would "break the spell." This Abraham Reagor once did to "set right" the deformed twins, Isaac and Jacob. Uncle Tommy Dean performed the same "feat" when a thief had stolen his horse. So the old Salem "witchcraft" creeps down the centuries.

Sallie Skidmore is thought to have been Sarah Keith, who married William Skidmore. She was sister of Daniel Keith, who married Catherine Reagor, daughter of Anthony and Margaret Shook Reagor. The other "witch," Peggy Howlin, has not been identified. Of course, the only significance was that they were old women whom people did not know or understand very well.

Benjamin Shook, head of another Shook family in 1850, was a farmer, over thirty-five. It is assumed that he was a son of his eighty-year-old neighbor, Abraham Shook. His wife's name was Sarah. They had three sons, Benjamin, William, and James, ages ten, eight, and two, respectively.

In 1860 the census taker did not list a single Shook in the Flat Creek Community where the Shook family had figured so prominently during the first half century of its development from a wilderness. It would be interesting to know what became of Benjamin Shook and his family and of the William Shook who was living with Abraham Shook in 1850.

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Birth: 1770
Hampshire County
West Virginia, USA
Death: 1853
Bedford County
Tennessee, USA

Son of William Shook (1746-1811) and Catherine Sears (1745-1812)

Family links:
Parents:
William Shook (1745 - 1811)
Catherine Sears Shook (1747 - 1818)

Siblings:
Margaret Shook Reagor (1766 - 1838)*
Abraham Shook (1770 - 1853)
Elizabeth Shuck Nida (1779 - 1849)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Shook Cemetery
Flat Creek
Bedford County
Tennessee, USA

Maintained by: kelly greer
Originally Created by: Deb
Record added: Dec 17, 2007
Find A Grave Memorial# 23453643

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"Tennessee Trails" through Bedford County

CEMETERY RECORDS

Shook Cemetery

Located about 1 mile south of Flat Creek
Photos by Joe Blanton at Find-A-Grave

See further Photos and more details

The cemetery used to be on the land of James D. "Bo" Wilson who sold it many years ago. The cemetery is on "Private Property" now owned by Austin Stokes so if you want to go visit be sure and get his permission.
Mrs. Ruth Reagor, now deceased, had the stone and plaque erected.

Shook Family History

Excerpt - Chapter VI Pg. 150

Frost and Related Families by Wright R. Frost 1961

NAME BIRTH DEATH SPOUSE PARENTS
CASTLEMAN, Clara E.
Headstone Photo 16 Sep 1875 25 Apr 1876 W.S. & Rhoda E. Castleman
CASTLEMAN, Rhoda Ellen (Reagor)
Headstone Photo 31 Oct 1849 19 Aug 1902 W.Scott Castleman Abraham and Elizabeth (Lacy) Reagor
CASTLEMAN, W. Scott
Headstone Photo 1850 1923 Rhoda Ellen Reagor
COLEMAN, Eliza Catherine (Floyd)
Headstone Photo 14 Mar 1824 14 Jan 1856 Jesse Coleman David & Mary (Reagor) Floyd
COLEMAN, Ellen G.
Headstone Photo 04 Feb 1883 29 Aug 1883
COLEMAN, Eveline G. 08 Jan 1882 26 Oct 1882
COLEMAN, Jane (Floyd)
Headstone Photo 16 Jan 1831 20 Dec 1880 David & Mary (Reagor) Floyd
COLEMAN, Jesse 17 Sep 1818 22 Frb 1891 Jane Floyd
COLEMAN, John
Headstone Photo 08 Dec 1855 16 Jun 1889 Mattie Mullins Jesse & Eliza (Floyd) Coleman
COLEMAN, Joseph N. 11 Feb 1861 25 Nov 1881
COLEMAN, Mary F. 18 Apr 1854 01 Sep 1892
COLEMAN, Thomas Edward
Headstone Photo 1863 1927 Jesse & Jane (Floyd) Coleman
COLEMAN, Thurman 20 Jun 1888 25 Feb 1889 John & Mattie Coleman
COLEMAN, William J. 17 May 1854 29 Oct 1881
DANCE, Mary R. 09 Oct 1862 25 Aug 1881 Thomas H. Dance
DEAN, Nancy Caroline
Headstone Photo 21 Jun 1828 30 Nov 1899 John Pinkney Dean
DRISKILL, Andrew Jackson
Headstone Photo 13 Feb 1826 17 Apr 1873 Mary Margaret Reagor
DRISKILL, Mary Margaret (Reagor)
Headstone Photo 23 Jan 1842 28 Jul 1893 Andrew Jackson Driskill Abraham and Elizabeth (Lacy) Reagor
DRISKILL, Milton M. (Minnie Mae)
Headstone Photo 07 May 1871 20 May 1881 Andrew Jackson and Mary Margaret (Reagor) Drisckill
FARRAR, Orrie
Headstone Photo 09 Jan 1870 09 Sep 1870 James & S.J. (Parker) Farrar
FARRAR, Rebecca
Headstone Photo 26 Nov 1818 26 Nov 1858 James Franklin Farrar David & Mary (Reagor)
FARRAR, Ruth E. 09 Oct 1865 21 Sep 1879
FLOYD, Ara L.
Headstone Photos 26 Oct 1887 02 Feb 1888 James & Mary Floyd
FLOYD, David
Headstone Photos 19 Jun 1786 18 Dec 1856 Mary Magdalene Reagor David & Margaret (Norman) Floyd
FLOYD, Edgar 28 Dec 1867 24 Jul 1886 George & Elizabeth Floyd
FLOYD, Elizabeth Tabitha (Reagor)
Headstone Photos 11 Apr 1838 25 Mar 1881 George W. Floyd
m 30 Jun 1861 Abraham & Elizabeth (Lacy) Reagor
FLOYD, George W.
Headstone Photos 20 Nov 1832 14 Feb 1870 Elizabeth Tabitha Reagor Children: Laura, Edgar, George W.
FLOYD, James K.
Headstone Photos 11 Sep 1832 02 Sep 1871 Mary Jane Gowan
FLOYD, James David 16 Aug 1864 11 Jan 1888
FLOYD, Mary Jane (Gowan)
Headstone Photos 15 Dec 1840 13 Aug 1875 James K. Floyd
FLOYD, Mary (Reagor)
Shook Family History
Headstone Photos 09 Dec 1793 22 Nov 1856 David Floyd Anthony & Margaret (Shook) Reagor
GODWIN, S.J.
Headstone Photo 5th TN Cav.
GUTHRIE, Lucinda
Headstone Photo 24 Jul 1858 20 Feb 1889 Marion & Jane Guthrie
PARKER, Annie A.
Headstone Photos 21 Jan 1878 22 Jan 1878 J.B. & E.V. Parker
PARKER, Edgar
Headstone Photos 01 May 1880 20 May 1880
PARKER, John Benjamin 01 Jul 1837 12 Aug 1873 Rosanah M. Reagor
REAGOR, Abraham
Headstone Photos 24 Oct 1802 21 Feb 1863 Elizabeth Lacy Anthony and Margaret (Shook) Reagor
REAGOR, Anthony
Shook Family History 1760 1824 Margaret Shook
REAGOR, David Ekels 24 Sep 1828 17 Jul 1858 Abraham & Elizabeth (Lacy) Reagor
REAGOR, Elizabeth (Covey) 27 Dec 1806 21 Dec 1894 James Brock Reagor
m 8 Sep 1825 Joseph and Rosannah (Barringer) Covey
REAGOR, Elizabeth (Lacy)
Headstone Photos 08 Nov 1809 23 Jan 1873 Abraham Reagor
REAGOR, George A. 20 May 1830 18 Mar 1862
REAGOR, Isaac Newton 16 Dec 1845 15 Aug 1880 Abraham & Elizabeth (Lacy) Reagor
REAGOR, Jacob Newton
Headstone Photos 16 Dec 1845 27 Jan 1871 Abraham & Elizabeth (Lacy) Reagor
REAGOR, James Brock 22 Oct 1800 12 May 1863 Elizabeth Covey
REAGOR, John Bell 22 Feb 1852 17 Dec 1875 Mary Caldonia Farrar Abraham and Elizabeth (Lacy) Reagor
REAGOR, Margaret (Shook)
Shook Family History 29 May 1766 18 Sep 1838 James Brook
m 1 Dec 1785 Hampshire VA
Anthony Reagor
11 Dec 1879 Wm. & Catherine (Sears) Shook
REAGOR, Mary R. (Berry) 26 Nov 1838 30 Aug 1872 Samuel Lacy Reagor
REAGOR, Mary Caldonia (Farrar)
Headstone Photos 09 Feb 1854 09 Jan 1876 John Bell Reagor
m 22 Nov 1873
REAGOR, Samuel Lacy 26 Mar 1831 18 Feb 1876 Mary L. Berry Abraham and Elizabeth (Lacy) Reagor
No Headstone found
REAGOR, William J. 09 Mar 1832 25 Oct 1874 James & Elizabeth (Covey) Reagor
SHOOK, Abraham
Shook Family History 1770 aft 1850 Mary Donaldson Wm. & Catherine (Sears) Shook/No Marker
SHOOK, Abraham Died in War of 1812
SHOOK, Catherine (Sears)
Grandmother of Isaac Shook
1749 1812 William Shook James and Sarah (Coffman) Sears
No Marker
SHOOK, William
Grandfather of Isaac Shook 1745 1812 Catherine Sears Hermaneous and Anna (Shaub) Shook
No Marker
WATSON, Earnest W.
Headstone Photos 22 May 1875 25 Nov 1876 J.F. & M. Watson
WATSON, Mathew W.
Headstone Photos 25 Sep 1873 25 Nov 1873 J.F. & M. Watson
WATSON, Rebecca E. 02 Dec 1871 07 Jan 1876 J.F. & M. Watson
WATSON, Tom Luther 14 Jun 1882 31 Jan 1883
WILLIAMS, Infant
Headstone Photos 28 Jul 1914 W.H. & A.E. Williams

Abraham married Mary Donaldson(Bedford County, Tennessee). Mary was born in ~ 1785 in (Bedford County, Tennessee); died before 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not enumerated with Abraham in the 1850 Tennessee Census...

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Revolutionary War Patriot
• Military: 3 Jul 1754; Battle of the Great Meadows
• Military: 1755; Braddock's Defeat
• Military: 1758; Bedford Militia, Bedford County, Virginia
• Residence: 1761, New London, Campbell County, Virginia
• Military: 10 Oct 1774; Battle of Point Pleasant
• Residence: 1781, Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina
• Probate: 0Oct 1796, Burke County, North Carolina

Notes:

From: Nick Hennessee
To: David Hennessee
Subject: Re: Check-in
Date: Thursday, March 12, 1998 12:32 PM

David,

Here is what I have on Patrick I in the Revolution. Emmett White found his name (with spelling only close to Hennessee) in "NC Rev Army Accts, Vol III, BKG-16 (Haun, Part V)." Emmett said he has yet to extract from the source the data that he will use in his Volume III. I encouraged him to add to his data before he shares with us at our reunion April 19.

My source is the November 1997 issue of the "Journal of Burke County Historical Society" and a section, "Revolutionary War Soldiers of Burke County, NC." Pages 8-13 are a "Roster of 500 Participants with Service Documentation." The roster has 325 names with sketches in Dr. White’s first two volumes, Revolutionary War Soldiers of Western North Carolina : Burke County, NC. The remaining 175 names are eligible to be sketches in Vol. III.

Southern Historical Press, Greenville, SC published the first two volumes. The sketches are of "partisans of the American Revolution, including Loyalists, who resided in, served in, or later moved to Burke County." Among those with sketches in Vol. I are the Kincaids, James, John Sr. and Robert. Also Thomas Sumter and Charles McDowell. Vol. II includes William Sumter.

Dr. White’s explanatory note for "NC Rev Army Accts" reads: "Revolutionary Army Auditors’ Accounts. Since payments due both soldiers and civilians were spotty during the Revolution, vouchers were often given, or no remuneration at all. Boards of auditors were set up in each of the Military-judicial districts of NC. The records of the accounts are extant and, in many cases, establish proof of service. The auditors were to settle all Revolutionary claims by direct payments. Land warrants were issued to Continental Line veterans (in Tennessee Military District). Printed versions of these accounts are available from Weynette Parks Haun of Durham (243 Argonne Drive, 27704-1423)."

If you need more, let me know

Best regards,

Nick

At 11:34 AM 3/11/98 -0500, you wrote:

Dear Cuz - Thanks for e-mailing the letter re Patrick I and Emmet White. Keep in touch and best regards to Betty...

Sincerely yours...

David Hennessee
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16 Sep 2009:

http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/burke/census/morgandis.txt

This census is from Microcopy No. T-498 Roll 2

"Hensy, Patrick, 1,1,1,0,3"

1790 Census North Carolina
Burke County Morgan District

1 of 1st # free white males 16 year upwards and head of families (Patrick)
1 of 2nd # free white males under 16 years (Ailsey)
1 of 3rd # free white females and head of families (John)
0 of 4th # all other free persons (no other children)
3 of 5th # slaves (unnamed)

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"Kegley's Virginia Frontier: The Beginning of the Southwest - The Roanoke of Colonial Days: 1740-1783", by F. B. Kegley, p. 322: "New London in Bedford (County, Virginia) became a new western frontier town. Lots were laid off in 1761 and a good percentage of the purchasers came from the up country. The original owners were Col. Wm. Callaway...Patrick Henacie.
Besides a sufficient number of stores there was an Academy of learning in operation as early as 1765."

It is not known at this point whether Patrick had siblings. Given the average size of families in the 18th century if would seem likely that he did. There are several Hennessees appearing in census records and tax rolls during the late 18th century in and around the Virginia and North Carolina areas, i.e., David and Sarah appear in the Wilmington District (eastern North Carolina) well before 1800.

"Thomas" is another Hennessee name rife in Colonial Virginia history and appears frequently during Patrick's early lifetime. If we consider the fact that there are several traditional forenames in our family, i.e., Patrick, James, David, John, Alexander and Thomas, to name but a few, Patrick's first son, John had a David, James' middle name was David, etc. It is likely that the aforementioned were brothers to Patrick. Other children of Patrick may have been Alexander and Richard, who both appear the 1800 Burke County, NC census. Reference my work titled, "Unlinked Hennessees".

View document: http://thehennesseefamily.com/media/Early%20Unlinked%20Hennessees.pdf

"Burke County, North Carolina, Land Records and More Important Miscellaneous Records: 1751-1809", Vol.III, p. 103;

"John and Mary Ballew vs. Hensey, Oct.15. Affid. of sd. Ballews: In 1780 he was at Patrick Henesys on Catawba River and saw a field of mares, and Henesy said his sons in law sent them, and later saw a similar mare delivered to Mr. Wm. Heartgrove."

...interesting passage in the fact that it implies Patrick had daughters. If he did, we have yet no knowledge of them...DAH*

In 1761, Patrick shows ownership of a Land Grant in Bedford County, Virginia (see document). Later in 1774-1775, court records list many purchases for Patrick around the Catawba River. Also refer to "Petition of North Carolina Congress", 1775; many signatories: i.e., "David Crockett" and "Patrick Hennesey".

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Patrick's will was proven October 25, 1795, in Tryon,Polk Co., NC. Will has been lost...Nita Shepherd

Hamilton Mortimer Hennessee cited that his great-grandfather was from Ireland as was reported in his Civil War Veteran Interview...

View his questionnaire: http://thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I904&tree=hennessee

*Posted By: Nita Shepherd
Email:
Subject: Patrick Hennessee, 1700's, Va. & N. C.
Post Date: November 03, 1998 at 11:26:08
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/va/messages/1364.html
Forum: Virginia Genealogy Forum
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Need parentage and names of children of Patrick Hennessee who owned lot 31 in Bedford, Va., who left Va., settling in western N. C., whose will was probated in N. C. but whose will cannot be located, even in the N. C. Archives at Raleigh. His father may have been Thomas who fought in the French & Indian War. Patrick had sons James & John, possibly Peter who had schooling in Bedford, Va., and at least two daughters, names of daughters and sons-in-law not known.

...Nita was one of the earliest HENNESSEE researchers and a joy to work with. We spent many happy hours conjecturing early Hennessee heritage. Nita passed away 6 May 2003...

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Received via E-mail Dec. 23, 1999, information on Patrick Hennessy, from Jim Hamlin:

"Nita, here is some info from Bedford County Court orders:

25 May 1763 Youile & Co vs Henicie. Charles Pattison represented Youile & Co and stated he had sold a Negro for the debt, but more was owed and Patrick Henicie's estate was in disrepute (Bedford Co., Va. OB 3 1763 - 71 pg 36). "Gar" was used after Pattison's name.

25 May 1763 Alice* Henicie allowed 3 days in Matlock v Walker (Bedford Co. Va OB 3 1763 - 71 pg 37).

Later he was in Burke Co., NC.:

April 1784 Charles Ballow vs Patrick Henesy re horses. Deferred to court to be held 3rd Monday in July 1784. John and wife Mary were subpoenaed, with Wm Welch, John Harper, and Esther McMullin (NC Archives Series CRO 14.325.2 Box: Civil Action. Folder: 1784 (#2).

Margaret Hawkins was summoned to give testimony for Patrick Henesy at the January 1784 court (1784 #1).

April 1785 Patrick Henesy made oath that William Dalton, a material witness was sick and unable to appear in court (1785 #2). The suit was continued. In July 1785, Henesy swore that Dalton was summoned, but did not appear and he (Henesy) cannot come safely to trial (1785 #2).

Came across Patrick while researching Ballew family who were also in Bedford & then Burke Co., N. C. The Ballews were from Goochland, Albemarle, and Amherst Counties. Have not seen Patrick there, though.

Not much, but all I have. Hope it helps some. Jim Hamlin"

* First and only record of Ailsey's Christian name being cited as "Alice".

item:

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/bedford/military/mil1758b.txt

Bedford County Militia, 1758 (part 2)

Submitted by Gwen Hurst

Transcribed from: Hening, William Waller

1820 The Statutes at Large; Being A Collection Of All The Laws Of Virginia, From The First Session Of The Legislature In The Year 1619. Volume VII. Franklin Press, Richmond, Virginia.

"...Patrick Hensey (¹0.5.0 each) ...five shillings"

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A conclusion: Apparently, Patrick went to Bedford Co.,VA before 1758 and was there through 1763

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PATRICK HENNESSEE

INSIGHT FROM LAND GRANTS

BURKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA

INTRODUCTION

Patrick Hennessee (c.1735-1796), the Patriarch of his family in America, had several land grants in Burke County, North Carolina during the era of the Revolutionary War. Patrick settled on them and raised a family, which has over 3,700 descendants.

This paper is in two parts. Part I: Summarizes the settlement problems and grant difficulties existing in rebellious colonial North Carolina before and just after the Mecklenburg Declaration. It gives a glimpse into this time of terrible turmoil during the period when Patrick was making entries for land grants. Then, his land grant data are presented in tabular form. Part II: Describes the grants and highlights new insight and significant knowledge about Patrick and his family from the grants and collateral data.

The work is an extension of research about Hennessee land grants by Fred and Carl Hennessee and others. It is dedicated to Nita Hennessee-Houk Shepard and her brother Dr. Albert Hennessee Houk, both children of Dr. E. A. Hennessee of Glen Alpine, North Carolina. Late in her life, Nita (my aunt) "discovered" a need for knowledge of her "roots". She then spent twenty years of inquiry in the noble search. Her work -- is an inspiration to all!

For comments, please contact Gene Hennessee at (937) 864-7047.

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(Author's note: The first computerized compilations of survey maps of Patrick's and his neighbors' grants are featured in the article. The mapping is part of research in progress concerning Burke County by Dr. Robert McNeely. Earlier work had been initiated by the Burke County Genealogical Society.)

PART I: HENNESSEE LAND GRANTS

ROYAL GRANTS IN NORTH CAROLINA (1578-1777)


The history of Royal land grants in colonial North Carolina is one of failure for many reasons.

In 1578, Queen Elizabeth I of England granted a large territory in America, including present North Carolina, to Sir Gilbert. Following his unsuccessful venture in colonization, the Queen granted the territory to Sir Raleigh in 1584. He was not successful either. So, the territory was next granted in 1606 to the Virginia Company. However, this grant was revoked in 1629. At that time, King Charles I granted a large region south of Virginia to Sir Heath. Failure in colonization happened again.

Finally in 1663, Charles II granted large separate tracts of this region to eight loyal supporters of his restoration. Most of these proprietors' colonization efforts were failures. So, these tracts were returned to the Crown. An exception was made for the grant, which eventually became known as the Granville District, in the northern part of the Royal Province of North Carolina.

The district was bounded on the north by the North Carolina-Virginia border and on the south by an east-west survey line designated the "Granville Line". The line was just to the south of the "old" Burke County. Patrick's grants were located entirely in the Granville District. However due to (perhaps because of "creative") surveying, there was often confusion about the location of the line between Granville and the Crown lands bordering Burke County. Burke County was formed from Rowan County in 1777. At that time, Burke County contained all or part of 16 future counties including present Burke County.

INDIANS AND SPECULATION IN BURKE COUNTY (1752)


In 1752, at the invitation of Lord Granville, Bishop August Spangenburg became one of the early explorers of Burke area. His purpose was to assess the suitability of several locations for a Moravian settlement there. The Bishop recorded the first written description of the area. He noted in the Burke area many buffalo, deer, and hunters including white ones, but not settlements.

Others described the area as part of a "hunting ground" between the Cherokees and the Catawba Indians. The Bishop also claimed that "…the forest had been ruined by the Indians who are accustom to setting fire to large tracts to drive deer to a given spot [in order to easily kill them] and that keeps the trees from growing." (This was very likely to have been the case on the home grant of Patrick Hennessee based on the salient features of his grant area.)

According to E. Phifer Burke: History of a North Carolina County, 1977, "Spangenburg chose his fourth tract, 6,000 acres beginning seven or eight miles above the mouth of Middle Creek because the land between the mouth of the river [was] already taken up". (This is of special interest because some of the later Hennessee grants were in this "taken up area".)

EARLY SETTLEMENT IN BURKE COUNTY (1753-1776)


In 1753, the Crown's legislators established Rowan County. At once, Granville land promoters began selling the "cheap" land in the Burke County area, then a part of Rowan County. They sold to speculators, immigrants just off the boats in port cities, settlers who had been "late" in other areas, and to those who had settled on marginal farmland elsewhere. Phifer, in his history emphasizes the promoter's appeal to the "pinched" settlers in the northeast. They found many in Pennsylvania eager to buy in North Carolina because land prices in Pennsylvania were very high. Other colonies contributing significant number of pioneers, settlers, and speculators to Burke County were Virginia, Maryland, and the North and South Carolina coast cities according to Burke County Heritage, 1981, Volume 1, published for the Burke County Historical Society. (Both books are highly recommended by the writer as 'the' sources of information about Burke County.)

Many settlers did not acquire formal title to the land. They were "squatters" who "tried-it-out" or "avoided-the-taxes". Some eventually sought grants for the land; others just moved "on" or "back". However, the migration into the Burke area certainly did not really begin until after the French and Indian War in 1754-1763. During this period, several forts were built along the Indian frontier areas in the Appalachian Mountains, including Burke County for defense. Fear of the Cherokees caused many frontier families to "go-back". Many had died "at the hands of the Cherokees" or from diseases. In fact, Phifer writes, "Between 1756 and 1759, taxable persons in the fairly large Rowan County (which at that time included Burke) diminished from over 1,500 to fewer than 800."

NC'S "FREEDOM" VOIDS ALL ROYAL GRANTS (1777)


In 1771, a military force of the North Carolina Regulators engaged Royalists near Greensboro. This was the first overt action in the Colonies against the British. More significantly, in 1775, the North Carolina General Assembly in Charlotte passed the Mecklenburg Declaration proclaiming independence from the Crown. So, this Colony was the first colony to formally declare "freedom" from Royal English rule. (Patrick lived during an exciting time in history!)

North Carolina's Assembly declared all previous Royal derived land grants void in 1777. To be valid, all the Crown and Granville grants and all new land entries were required to be entered in a new procedure with new records. Having just become a county in 1777, Burke County commissioned Joseph MacDowell as entry taker and Christopher Beekman as surveyor for North Carolina grants in Burke County. Patrick's land transactions were with them.

"SQUATTERS" ON ROYAL LAND


There are no known records of Crown/Granville land grants to Hennessees in old Burke County. The date Patrick entered North Carolina is as yet unknown. This writer believes it's most likely that Patrick Hennessee could have been among the early hunters/squatters that did not make any land entries. Apparently, many early pioneers did not apply for grants in the Burke area.

I speculate that Pat had disdain for the Granville rights derived from the Crown and preferred not to pay "rent" or the taxes required by them. Or possibly he was one of the many whose land entries were lost by the inefficient and very corrupt Granville system. Another possibility is corrupt Crown officials, who supposedly "unknowingly" sold land in the Granville District, never properly recorded the grants.

NORTH CAROLINA GRANTS TO HENNESSEES (1778-1898)


There were at least 13 land entries granted by North Carolina to Patrick (b c1735-d 1796) and other Hennessees. Of these, at least four were to Patrick and are listed in Table I. The grants are located on or near the Catawba River about three miles north east of Morganton. Pat's home place, grant #226, was on the south bank of the Catawba River. Other grants in Burke County were taken by James (1766-1851), Patrick's older son; and John (before 1775-1844), the younger son; and Patrick's grandson, Patrick (II) (c.1793-1845) the son of John. The final grant was to R. J. Hennessee (1845-1902), a descendent of Patrick II. Discussions of these other grants and their ramification are beyond the scope of this paper.

INTRODUCTION TO PART II


In Part II, Patrick's and his neighbors' land grants are presented in map form. A summary description of his neighbors follows this. Then, comes a brief but "grim" account of the regional war waged by the Cherokee Indians. The local war in the Catawba valley was during the period when Patrick was probably "squatting" on the land for which he was to make a land entry. Next, his wise selections of a home site and other land grants are described. Finally, Patrick's family and progeny beginning are summarized.

PART II: INSIGHT ABOUT PATRICK

INTRODUCTION


Patrick Hennessee, the Patriarch of his family with over 3,700 descendants, had several North Carolina land grants in Burke County during the Revolutionary War. Part I of this paper in the previous issue of the Journal contains a concise history of the Royal grants issues, settlement problems, and background for Pat's grants. It also cataloged the Hennessee grants. Part II, given below, highlights significant insight and knowledge about Patrick from the grants correlated with the latest genealogical and other data sources.

MAP OF HENNESSEE LAND GRANTS


(In the final draft of this paper) Patrick's land grants listed in Table I are presented in map form in Figure 1. The location of his grants listed in Table I and other grants can readily be determined from Figure 1. This map is from "Burkemap." It is the work of Dr. Robert L. McNeely. His pioneer ancestors had several grants in Burke County. For copies of the Hennessee grants and survey descriptions, see Carl Hennessee's enhanced packet of grant data. These maps, data, and additional grant information are available at the Burke County Library and partially available at the State Archives.

PATRICK'S NEIGHBORS (1771-1810)


The location of Pat's and his neighbors' grants are shown in Figure 1. There are several rewarding "clues-about Pat" that have been derived or confirmed from grantees' names and collateral information. The clues are rewarding in knowledge about the early Hennessees. For example, near Pat's home:
--To the south, was a grant to Charles McDowell, of military fame.
--To the north, across the Catawba, was Patrick's grant, which "changed hands" and became the home of Col. John Suddreth (his sister married Patrick(II), the grandson of Patrick, the Patriarch); and also, Thomas Wilcher (his daughter married James).
--To the east, John Ballew*, whose affidavit, indicated Patrick Hennessee, his neighbor, had at least two married daughters (Burke County: Land and Misc. Records 1771-1809, Volume III, Page 103); and also, Abraham Harshaw, alleged loyalist, indicted by the State of North Carolina in 1782.
--To the west, John Hughes, selected as justice of the County Court.

Did Pat travel to Burke with any of them? From where? When? etc, Hopefully, more will be learned by future research into these and other clues from the past about Patrick of North Carolina. (Note: *In 2005, Peggy Hennessee and her husband Ralph Ballew were living near Patrick Hennessee's grant on the north side of the Catawba River.)

PATRICK BOLDLY CLAIMED LAND: WAR RAGED (1778-1794)


One of Patrick's North Carolina land grants was entry # 185. It was located on the south bank of the Catawba River. (Note this is his west grant on the river in Figure 1). This early entry indicates several characteristics of Pat. Apparently, he was quick to adapt to change (and the War for Independence and the new freedom of North Carolina from English rule were major changes).

In 1776, the situation of Pat and his family on the south bank of the Catawba River bank was grim. Now, threats on their lives from the Cherokees had always existed. But during that summer, the Cherokees boldly struck the Burke area in force. Down the Catawba and then to the east of Morganton, the Cherokees savagely destroyed and dealt death to those not in the forts or strong houses.


Later that year, a large joint colonial military action on the western frontier of North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia devastated the Cherokees. Most of their large villages and crops were destroyed and the Cherokees scattered. The following year 1777, as Burke became a county, North Carolina even placed a bounty of 15 pounds for each prisoner and 10 pounds for each scalp. Finally, the Cherokee by treaty ceded all claims to land east of the Blue Ridge. (The above is a condensed summary of the area's history from Heritage of Burke, 2001, Volume I, Article 1 and Volume II, Article 53.) Patrick and his family probably were relieved at this new freedom from fear of the Cherokee tomahawk. So following the military action, the entry rush for land grants began!

Pat acted and made several entries! A land entry required an oath of allegiance to North Carolina, not the king. (No Tories Need Apply!)The decision to make early land entries beginning in 1778 certainly highlights the confidence he had that the Colonies would win the War. At that time, the threat in Burke County from the Tories and the British was yet to come.

HOMESITE WISELY SELECTED


Again, consider Patrick's homeland grant on the south bank of the Catawba River below the mouth of Hunting Creek (It is his west grant on the river shown in Fgure 1). As he probably lived there at the time, most likely, he was the first to place an entry for the parcel. However, the description of the grant indicates Pat was probably not the first to have been there. The land survey description noted an "Allen's Bottom". This probably indicated that somebody had previously been there. A search of available Burke County records, in that time frame, provided no additional information about Allens. He was possibly a hunter who quartered there and moved on west. Less likely, he was killed by the Indians, was frightened, or was "worked out" and had moved back to "civilization" or "followed a hope" for better land elsewhere. (However in 1771, there is record of a John Allen who signed a petition to form a county west of Rowan County).

For that period, the location of Pat's home on the south bank of the Catawba River, near his river bank grant to the east, was a very desirable one. Consider the advantages of the location. There were easily defended high sites for a cabin and other buildings. They could readily be built using logs from trees located thereon or from the flat ridge to the south. (The cabin site has probably been identified.) The relatively flat bottom, next to the river, appears better for corn than the steep slope rising to higher level ground, which was probably treed. However, this slope and ridge top most likely supplied wood for poles, fences, and fireplaces from an uphill location. The hunting technique of "burning-over" used by the Indians most likely had cleared the bottom. The method was typically used during their hunting in the region.

The easy access to the river and the adjacent streams made the location ideal for canoe and raft travel. The main north-south road passing through the property had a rocky ford on the river to his grant on the north bank. The ridge road to the south connected with the main east-west wagon road. While to the north, the road was to Fort Defiance and other east-west roads.

PATRICK'S NORTH BANK GRANT


Another example of Patrick's wise selection of property was his only grant on the north bank of the Catawba River. It had outstanding development potential with some low bank frontage and a ford for the 'south-to-north' road that passed through both the north bank grant and his grant on the opposite bank.

As noted in Table I above, Entry #1015 (or #22 from Phifer) was between Middle Creek (now the John's River) and Lower Creek. Both of these were hardy waterways with banks that could readily support grain and lumber mills. Timber was available or could be "floated" to the mill from more than one direction or transported by road. This valuable property was acquired by Col. John Suddreth as his home place. He developed the potential of the property by building mills there. The Colonel was a master investor, land speculator, horse breeder, and had other enterprises. For example, he, with the Hennessees, initiated a ferry operation near the Catawba River ford by their homesteads. According to Phifer, …"the ferry was still operating in 1846 and probably in 1861."

Between the two families, there were three marriages within a generation and there were more interesting happenings. But that is another story.

PATRICK'S POSTERITY


The name(s) of Patrick's wife (wives) has yet to be confirmed. Some say that she was a McDowell. Their two sons, James and John, assured the Hennessee posterity. In addition, there were at least two married daughters with little more being known at this time. Patrick's date of birth is essentially undocumented. He died ca 1796 (his will has not been "found" but is said to have been "proven" then).

James, the elder son, married Sally Wilcher. After Sally died, James married Jane McGee of Tennessee. He had a total of at least 14 children. John, the younger son, remained on his grant in Burke County. He had at least two wives and probably four children. From these two families, Patrick has at least 3,700 descendants without consideration of the children of his daughters. (The best compilation of the descendants is David Hennessee's Hennessees in America, 1991, located in the Burke County Library). There are several informal family histories about the Hennessees that provide information about branches and families of Patrick's descendants. Proper judgement to resolve certain conflicts in these histories concerning Patrick's early life can not be made because the available evidence is inadequate at this time. The histories are mainly in possession of family members.

JAMES MARRIED AND MOVED WEST


As was customary and practical because of transportation limitation, marriages were often between neighbors. This was true for the Thomas Wilchers, with their grants on the north bank of the Catawba just to the west and adjacent to Patrick's north bank grant (see Figure 1). They were the parents of Sally, the bride of James. In 1804, the Wilchers sold 600 acres to William Walton, a trader who also trained servants, from Charleston, South Carolina. Then, the Wilchers "moved over the mountains" to Tennessee. James and his new family went with them to the less settled and "more promising land".

More can be derived about James from the move. The wills of the early Tennessee Hennessees and Wilchers have given some insight into the situation at that time and their characteristics. The status of Thomas Wilcher in Tennessee is attested to as he held the first court for the area in which he lived at his home. It is hoped that future inquiries into Hennessee/Wilcher genealogical data may document more information about Patrick's family in North Carolina.

JOHN REMAINED IN BURKE COUNTY


John, Patrick's younger son, made an entry for a land grant on the north side of the Catwaba River in Burke. The grant was "one-land grant" north of Patrick's grant as shown in Figure 1. It is believed that John procured the land of the Alan Derryberry grant, which was between his grant and his father's grant. John acquired James' grant and his other land when James moved to Tennessee. The will of John is available.

John's son, Patrick (II), also made entries for land grants adjacent to Patrick's homestead grant as shown in Figure 1. The Hennessees who today are located in Burke County, surrounding counties, and those originating in Burke County and moving elsewhere are mostly descendants from the John and Patrick (II) line.

CONCLUSION


Hopefully, Patrick, the Patriarch of the Hennessee family in America, is now better known from the insight provided by this paper in terms of the turmoil from the War during his time, his decisions, land grants, family, and neighbors. However, there is much that is unknown and even difficult to speculate about Patrick.

Patrick Hennessee was definitely on the banks of the Catawba River in Burke County, North Carolina. But from where did he come? Who was his wife? His daughters? His military service? His description? Personal characteristics? Etc, Etc?

Again, hopefully, this paper has provided clues for leads to sources that will furnish some answers in the future.

By Eugene L. Hennessee Jr.
4237 West Enon Drive
Enon, OH 45323
ehennessee@aol.com
(937) 864-7047

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The earliest Hennessee in America, as far as we know, landed in Maryland about 1690. He had guessed wrong at the Battle of the Boyne in the English Civil War. He had supported the ambitions of James II. He had fought at the Saarsfield brigade at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland. And for his part in that, after James II lost his throne, the principal officers were exiled, including him. He was exiled and lived in Maryland. As far as we know he was a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

He brought his wife to Maryland and had one son. And this son married in Virginia into a family by the name of Courtney who were members of the Episcopal Church. This son at,...this son had a son, who was killed at the Battle of Fort Necessity, in Washington's Company, in 1754 or 1755, I'm not sure which. He in turn left a boy seven years old. And this boy fought through the Revolution and then came down near Morganton and settled in Burke County.

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In the Bedford Militia in the 1750s were Thomas Hennesey and Patrick Henicie. In the French and Indian War, the Virginia Militia on the western frontier consisted mostly of the Bedford Militia. It was under command of celebrated land surveyor, map maker and college professor Colonel Joshua Fry, Major (later Colonel, General and President) George Washington and Captain (later Colonel) William Calloway, wealthy Bedford County merchant, land developer and manufacturer.

Virginia records report that Thomas Hennesey survived the first battle of the war at Fort Necessity, PA, in 1754 and that Patrick Henicie received militia pay in 1758.

A 1761 indenture evidences that Patrick paid "one pound, one shilling and six pence" to Colonel Calloway for a lot in New London. Four months later, Patrick sold it back at a good profit.

In 1763, he and Alice were sued in Bedford Court for non-payment of debt.

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December 31, 2015;

Are you aware that the 1775 Joshua Frye & Peter Jefferson map of Virginia and northern North Carolina shows two surveys in North Carolina made for Moravian Bishop Spangenburg:

(1) land for Salem, settled by the Moravians in the central Piedmont's Yadkin River watershed to begin metropolitan Winston-Salem in present Forsyth County, and

(2) a western Piedmont tract east of present Morganton in the Piedmont's upper Catawba River watershed where pioneer settler Patrick Hennessee purchased in Burke County?

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This first one I believe belongs to this Patrick based on some of the documents within it which have initials of some of his heirs:

The dates you have and the dates on the record appears to be off though but as best as I can tell, that seems to be him. I couldn't swear to it though.

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Sorry for so many emails but I seem to be on a roll lol. I found this 1781 military service pay voucher for Patrick Hennesy. It is from Salisbury, Rowan County, NC



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Patrick Hennessee was born in 1725 in Ireland. [2]He died in 1795 in North Carolina.[3]He served in the Revolutionary War from his enlistment in 1781 at Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, in the Continental Army.[4][5] He married Ailsey McDowell in 1763. [6] [7] [8]

Proven Children

John Hennessee, b. 1764, Sudderth Family Cemetery, Burke County, North Carolina d. 1844, North Carolina
James Hennessee, b. 1766, Burke County, North Carolina , d. 03 Mar 1851, Warren County, Tennessee.


Sources

? Virginia's Colonial Soldiers By Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck, pg 208
? The Heritage Book of Burke County, NC" by The Burke County Historical Society, p. 329
? http://www.harrison-hennessee.com/getperson.php?personID=I706&tree=001
? 1790 Census
? https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-GR16
? https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:94FN-RPW
? Burke County, North Carolina land records indicate Patrick was a plantation owner
? "Hennessee Family History" by D. A. Hennessee, p. 1


Citing this record: 1790 Census does show Patrick Hensy in Burke County, NC with 1 free white male over 16, 1 free white male under 16, 1 free white female and 3 other persons with no details. I can only assume these were slaves as the family had slaves listed on other census records.

Citing this record: "The Heritage Book of Burke County, NC" by The Burke County Historical Society, p. 329: "The Hennessee (O'hennessa, Hennesey, Hency) family is of Irish decent, a sect of the Colgon Clan of Ireland. They have been in Burke County, NC for at least 200 years, possibly longer. Patrick Hennessee, Sr. was the beginning of the family in Burke County.

"Burke county, North Carolina, Land Records and more Important Miscellaneous Record: 1751-1809, Vol. III, p. 103: "John and Mary Ballew vs. Hensey, October 15, 1780. Affidavit of said Ballews: In 1780 he was at Patrick Henesy's on Catawba River and saw a field of mares, and Henesy said his sons in law sent them, and later saw a similar mare delivered to Mr. Wm. Heartgrove." Note: This implies Patrick had daughters.

"In 1761, Patrick was granted ownership of a Land Grant in Bedford County, Virginia. Later in 1774-1775, records list many purchases for him around the Catawba River. Also the "Petition To North Carolina Congress" 1775; co-signatories are David Crockett & Patrick Hennesey." Note: This researcher finds the David Crockett in this document can not be the Davy Crockett as the popular title "King of the Wild Frontier" who represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the age of 49 at the Battle of the Alamo as this Davy Crockett was not born until 1786. It also could not be his father as his name was John.

Citng this record:

Burke County, North Carolina land records indicate Patrick was a plantation owner. Item Name Ref Date Reference

70 Patrick II Hennessee Grant 5647 03 Oct 1831 Catawba River
470 Patrick II Hennessee Grant 5615 26 Jan 1830 Catawba River S
1173 John Hennessee Grant 2295 14 Jan 1794 Catawba River N
20 Patrick Hennessee Grant 0267 02 Oct 1778 Catawba River S
63 Patrick Hennessee Grant 2304 14 Jan 1794 Wards Branch
67 Patrick Hennessee Grant 0226 28 Jan 1778 Catawba River S
479 Patrick Hennessee Grant 0320 11 Dec 1778 Lower Creek Mouth

Additional land entries for Burke County, North Carolina 1778-1779 Entry # Settler or Enterer Acres Description

22 Patrick HENNESSEE 150 N side of Catawba River from mouth of Lower Crk. to mouth of Middle Creek, both sides of river
185 Patrick HENNESSEE 300 South side of Catawba River below mouth of Hunting Creek
292 Patrick HENNESSEE 150 South side of Catawba River, joining William WAKEFIELD and Arthur LOCKHART's improvements

Citing this record:

"Hennessee Family History" by D. A. Hennessee, p. 1: " Patrick's will was proven October, 1796, in Tryon County, NC." Fact: Tryon ceased to exist as a county in 1799 when it was divided into Lincoln County and Rutherford County, which are just south of Burke County. Tryon did remain a town to present day and therefore this information may be difficult to prove. Hennessee Family History, D. A. Hennessee, (D. A. Hennessee ).

Patrick Hennesy North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers Name Patrick Hennesy Event Type Military Service Event Date 1781 Event Place Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States Event Place (Original) Salisbury, , North Carolina, United States Gender Male

Citing this Record:

"North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-GR16 : accessed 17 August 2017), Patrick Hennesy, 1781; citing Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh.

Citing this record:

http://www.harrison-hennessee.com/getperson.php?personID=I706&tree=001

Patrick Samuel Hennessee. View Tree Sex Male Birth from 1720 to 1730 Ireland Birth from 1720 to 1730 Birth from 1720 to 1745 Burke Cty, NC Death 1796 Burke Cty, NC MARRIAGES (1) Spouse Ailsey McDowell Marriage 1763 NOTES (1) Patrick is AFN P659 F6 and Ailsey is AFN 1FBT DOG One LDS has Sally Welcher as his wife. Will recorded Oct 25, 1795 In Burke Cty, NC Ailsey may have been sister of Generals Charles and Joseph

CITING THIS RECORD:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:94FN-RPW : accessed 2017-08-17), entry for Patrick Samuel Hennessee, submitted by fbradley2737624. ANCESTRAL FILE Ancestral File Number 4902-J5S PEDIGREE RESOURCE FILE Person Count 1,294 Submission ID MM9R-937. (Editor's Note: Full & maiden names cited on this link are NOT proven)

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Hennessee

<<
o John 1722-1756 &1746 Catharine Moore 1713-
o Patrick 1745-1796 &1763 Ailsey McDowell ca 1742-1800
o John 1764-1844 &ca 1790 Elizabeth Sumpter
o Elizabeth 1791-1865 &/1812 Tisdale Spencer 1792-/1870

email sent March5th, 2019:

Hello James.



You reported on Geneanet:



"o John 1722-1756 &1746 Catharine Moore 1713-


o Patrick 1745-1796 &1763 Ailsey McDowell ca 1742-1800
o John 1764-1844 &ca 1790 Elizabeth Sumpter
o Elizabeth 1791-1865 &/1812 Tisdale Spencer 1792-/1870"

I was delighted to find this registry. Can you please cite source material? I would like to investigate further. Please use my email address: dah@classroomfurniture.com

Thnak you,

David Hennessee
561.352.1052

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Birth:
Hamilton Mortimer Hennessee (1845-1939) responded to the "Confederate Soldiers Questionaire", 1922;

"My father Archibald Hennessee was the son of James Hennessee. My great grandfather came from Ireland and settled in N. C.

View Hamilton's page: http://thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I904&tree=hennessee

Military:
The Battle of the Great Meadows, also known as the Battle of Fort Necessity was a battle of the French and Indian War fought on July 3, 1754 in present-day Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It, along with the Battle of Jumonville Glen, are considered the opening shots of the French and Indian War which would spread to the Old World and become the Seven Years War. It was the only time George Washington ever surrendered on the battlefield.

source: http://www.patriotfiles.com/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=8988&page=1

Military:
The Braddock expedition, also called Braddock's campaign or, more commonly, Braddock's Defeat, was a failed British military expedition which attempted to capture the French Fort Duquesne (modern-day downtown Pittsburgh) in the summer of 1755 during the French and Indian War. It was defeated at the Battle of the Monongahela on July 9, and the survivors retreated. The expedition takes its name from General Edward Braddock, who led the British forces and died in the effort. Braddock's defeat was a major setback for the British in the early stages of the war with France and has been described as one of the most disastrous defeats for the British in the 18th century.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braddock_Expedition

Military:
Map & History of Bedford County, Virginia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford,_Virginia

Residence:
Notes & History for New London, Virginia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London,_Virginia

Military:
The Battle of Point Pleasant — known as the Battle of Kanawha in some older accounts — was the only major action of Dunmore's War. It was fought on October 10, 1774, primarily between Virginia militia and Indians from the Shawnee and Mingo tribes. Along the Ohio River near modern Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Indians under the Shawnee Chief Cornstalk attacked Virginia militia under Colonel Andrew Lewis, hoping to halt Lewis's advance into the Ohio Valley. After a long and furious battle, Cornstalk retreated. After the battle, the Virginians, along with a second force led by Lord Dunmore, the Royal Governor of Virginia, marched into the Ohio Valley and compelled Cornstalk to agree to a treaty, ending the war.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Point_Pleasant

Probate:
Will proved by Thomas Lain...

Map & History of Burke County, North Carolina http://bit.ly/Rd17uM

Died:
Map & History of Burke County, North Carolina http://bit.ly/Rd17uM

Buried:
Map & History of Polk County, North Carolina... http://bit.ly/1ebUmzJ

Patrick married Alice "Ailsey" LNU(Virginia). Alice was born in (ABT 1735) in (Virginia); died after 1800 in (Burke County) North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Ailsey" is a dimunitive for "Alice"...DAH

Suggested by some as a sister of Generals Charles and Joseph McDowell according to Dr. Emmet White, a Revolutionary War Historian, however Helen Money could find NO McDowell-Hennessee relationship in early NC.

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Died:
Map & History of Burke County, North Carolina http://bit.ly/Rd17uM

Notes:

Residence (Family):
Citing this record: 1790 Census does show Patrick Hensy in Burke County, NC with 1 free white male over 16, 1 free white male under 16, 1 free white female and 3 other persons with no details. I can only assume these were slaves as the family had slaves listed on other census records.

Christopher married Katherina Katy Treese. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Death: 1811, Knox County, Tennessee

Notes:

Family Members
Parents
Hermanous Shook/Schuck
1718–1789

Anna Shobe/Schaub Shook
1719 – unknown

Spouse
Photo
Catherine Sears Shook
1747–1818

Siblings
David Shook
1765–1849

Children
Margaret Shook Reagor
1766–1838

Abraham Shook
1770–1853

Sarah Shook Wilson
1774–1850

Jacob Shook
1777–1834

Photo
Elizabeth Shuck Nida
1779–1849

Photo
Isaac Shook
1787–1844

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Some Issue of William Shook: ... http://www.geni.com/people/Anna-Shobe-Schaub/6000000003541209692

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William married Catherine Sears in 1765 in Hampshire County, West Virginia. Catherine (daughter of James Sears and Sarah Coffman) was born in ~1747 in Hampshire County, West Virginia; died in 1818 in Bedford, Bedford County, Tennessee; was buried in Shook Cemetery, Flat Creek, Bedford County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth: 1747
Virginia, USA
Death: 1818
Bedford
Bedford County
Tennessee, USA

Daughter of James Sears (1720-1783) and Sarah Coffman (1725-1783)

Wife of William Shook (1745-1811) son of Hermanus Shook (1718-1789) and Anna Schaub (1719-1780). William Shook was one of my gr, gr, gr, gr, great grandfathers and Catherine Sears, his wife, was one of my gr, gr, gr, gr, great grandmothers.

Family links:
Spouse:
William Shook (1745 - 1811)

Children:
Margaret Shook Reagor (1766 - 1838)*
Abraham Shook (1770 - 1853)*
Elizabeth Shuck Nida (1779 - 1849)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Shook Cemetery
Flat Creek
Bedford County
Tennessee, USA

Maintained by: kelly greer
Originally Created by: Deb
Record added: Dec 17, 2007
Find A Grave Memorial# 23453644

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Talbot County, Maryland
• Immigration: 8 Mar 1679, Youghal, Ireland

Notes:

Philip Popplestone craves [claims] Rtts for 1150 Acres of Land due to him for importation of 23 persons into this Province to Inhabit according to the following Catalog: viz.

A Catalogue of the names of what Servants were brought in the Shipp called the Increase of Youghale, Philip Popleston, Commander, Anno Domini 1679:

Cornelius Nevill
Mary Buchan
Ann Barry
Piers Wally
Dennis Donnavan
Margarett Duohy
Darby Quick
Cornelius Lynch
Robert Kearny
Dennis Murphy
Edward Kirby
John Clancy
Cornelius Hible
Katherine Leary
Hana Neal
Margarett Joflynger
Darby Sullivan
Joan Dally
Daniel Murphy
Thomas Corcran

Thomas Henesy

John Haghiesen
Joan Ronayne

The Persons above specified were imported by me Philip Popleston and never made use of the rtts for their transportation untill assigned by me unto William Sharp. Witness my hand this 19th of March 1679: s/ Philip Popleston

March 19, 1679:

Warrant: then granted by the Rtt Honorable: the Lord Proprietor to William Sharp of Talbott County for 1150 Acres for and in consideration of the foregoing rtts of Assignment :
__________________ Ret. in Six Months.

Phil:
129

Philip Poplestone craved Rtts to One Thousand Acres of Land for Importacon from Ireland into this Province to Inhabitt according to the following Catalogue viz

Anno 1679

William Newmarch
Morrish Keally
Timothy Connor
Adam Merritt
Thomas White
Joan English
Habia Loftus
John Legge
Thomas Gelliburne
James Smyth
Dennis Nunane
Edmund Goremond
John Haghieren

Thomas Henery (sp)

Honor Mulrean
Thomas Bullen
Robert Hawkins
Corneluis Sheehane
John Brendevill
Katherine Londry

The persons above specified were imported by me Philip Poplestone and never made use of the rights for their transportation untill Assigned by me unto John Stevens Witness my hand this nineteenth Day of March 1679

s/ Philip Popleston

and underneath was thus written vis

Do hereby Assigne and make over all my right and Interest to the Rtts above specified unto John Stephens and his Assigns as witness my hand and seal the 19th March 1679:

Philip Popleston (Seale)

March 19th: 1679
Warrant then granted unto John Stevens of Dorchester County by the Rtt Honorable the Lord Proprietor for and in consideration of the foregoing Rtts and Assignment from Philip Poplestone for one Thousand Acres of Land. ___
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Thom:
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[ Preceeding Item Omitted from this Transcription ]
Maryland Ss:
Know all men by these presents that William Sharpe of Talbott County and Phillip Poplestone, Master of the Ship Encrease of Youghal are holden and firmly bound to the right Honorable Charles Lord Baltimore in the sum of One hundred pounds Sterling money to be paid to the said Charles Lord Baltimore the said Sum of One Hundred Pounds or his certain Attorney Executors and Administrators or Assignees To which payment well and trulely to be made We bind us and either of us, our and either of our heirs executors and Administrators and every of us joyntly and severally by Himself for all and in the whole firmly by these presents. Signed with our hands and Sealed with our Seals dated this eight and twentieth day of March One Thousand six hundred seventy nine and in the fourth Year of the Dominion of the Said Charles Lord Baltemore over Maryland ?? ____

WHEREAS the persons in the Catalogue mentioned were lately brought over by the above bound Philip Poplestone in the Ship above mentioned and their rights to him assigned to the above bound William Sharpe as by the said Catalogue may appear due. Whereas upon their Humble request the the above named Charles Lord Baltemore hath the day of the date above written promised a grant to the said William Sharpe by his generall Warrant to take up Land in this Province for the rights of the said severall Persons mentioned and named in the said Catalogue or any or either of them have not formerly been mad use of in order to their rights nor shall hereafter be made use of that purpose otherwise than according to the Interest that is herein and hereby declared Then this obligation to be void and of none Effect otherwise to remain in full force and Virtue ____

Sealed and delivered by the said William Sharpe in the presence of William Sharpe Vincent Sower Rich Recii Thomas Greenway?

Annexed to the above Obligation was this Catalogue followingn Viz.

(667) Catalogue of all the Servants Nameds which came out of Ireland into Maryland in the Ship the Encrease of Youghall Philip Poplestone, Master

I????
John Coverane 1
Morrish Magrath 2
Morgan Caduell 3
Edward Burke 4
Thomas Smith 5
Patrick Sacey 6
Patrick Freeman 7
David Dally 8
Morish Doulen 10
Rich Ashwood 14
Dorris Brothers 12
Coriel Driskols 13
Dave Gallahoe 14
John Jones 15
John Feakine 16
Thomas Nanury 17
Patrick Cahane 18
Mortagh Murphey 19
Tim Hartaggue 20
Thomas Sherwin 21
William Heage 22
John London 24
John Tye 25
Norris Fitzgerald 26
John Mushhave 27
Catherine Magralis 28
her young daughter 29
Alice Green 30
Catherine Haloorans 32
Margaret West 33
Catherine Kennedy 34
Mary Ireland 35
Catherine Ahagh 36
Elizabeth Fostor 37
Alice Quaine 38
Houdra Neale 39
Mary Bower 40
Mary Carrous 41

Catherine Henesy 42

Helena Mulreau 43
Marg Gerrald 44
Joan Pully 45
John Bughlaus 46

Underneath the aforegoing Catalogue was thus written ???
This)

( 185)

This is a true Account of the names of what Servants I brought to Maryland as above said and do by these Presents assign all my right Title of this Forty-six Servants by name above said unto William Sharpe being never before assigned nor made over to any other person as Wittness my hand

Witness George Sullivan Philip Poplestone (Signed)


Maryland Ss: Know all men by these presents that Samuel Groome the Younger as owner Commander of the Globe of Soudou are holden and firmly bound to the right Honorable Charles Lord Baltimore in the value? of One hundred and fifty pounds Sterling to be paid to the said Charles Lord Baltimore or his order Attorney Executors of Assignees To which payment well and trulely to be made We bind us, our heirs executors and Administrators firmly by these presents. Signed with my hand and Sealed with my Seal dated this five and twentiety day of April One Thousand six hundred seventy nine.........................

WHEREAS the persons mentioned in the Catalogue annexed were brought over in the Ship above mentioned by Samuel Groome the Elcer, father of the above bound Samuel Groome as by the said Catalogue ??? appear and Whereas upon the Humble request of the said Samuel Groome the above named Charles Lord Baltemore hath promised against? Warrant to take up Lands for the rights of the said Several Persons amounting in the whole to four Score and Three Now the Conditionn of this obligation is such that if the said persons mentioned in the Catalogue annexed or any or either of them have not formerly been made use of [or?] in order to use? their rights ??? shall hereafter be made use of to that purpose by Consent or Knowledge of the said Samuel Groome the Elder of Samuel Groome the Younger or either of them or by any other under them or by their Title otherwise before mentioned then this present Obligation to be void and of none Effect or else it to Stand and abide in full force and Virtue _________ Samuel Groome ??? (Sealed)

Sealed and delivered in the presence of

Thomas Green???. Annexed to the above Obligacion was the following Catalogue Viz

Servants imported into Maryland by the Owners of the Ship Globe .. Viz

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5 Jun 1995:

There is no proof that this Thomas HENESY is our progenitor. I include him as he is the earliest HENNESSEE found in records and the fact that "Thomas" is a re-occuring forename in our family...DAH

30 Jul 2009:

Nick Hennessee confirms that "Thomas & Catherine" are the parents of Patrick. This fact has been long suspected but not proven until now...

Through a serendipitous web search, Nick found:

"An 1820 publication that I found in a 2009 internet search, A Collection Of All The Laws Of Virginia, From The First Session Of The Legislature In The Year 1619, Volume VII, documents that Patrick was son of Irish natives, Thomas and Catherine, who immigrated in 1688 and 1689 to Maryland. Colonial Maryland records confirm the immigration: Thomas was indentured to John Stevens of Dorchester County and Catherine to William Sharpe of adjacent Talbot County under arrangements made by Philip Poplestone, Captain of the ship Increase of Youghale (Ireland), with the employers of Thomas and Catherine and with Lord Baltimore, Proprietary Governor of Maryland."

Note:

Nick & I suspected that there was an intermediate generation between Thomas and Patrick because of the considerable age disparity between the two. I still feel uncomfortable with their pairing for that same reason. In addition, I wonder why we've not been able to locate more issue for Thomas & Catherine given their assumed Catholic heritage and its cultural invective to procreate large families. An Irish Catholic family with one child? If that is the case, then there must have been some tragic circumstance regarding their union, i. e., a death of one of the spouses or infertility for either...

30 Aug 2009 Nick's response:

"I can agree with your comment with the addition that ages of Thomas and Catherine at time of marriage or conception ...if after they had fulfilled the indentures... could be a factor in family size. Also, if other children had been female, poor people, colonial practices did not honor female identity for posterity as much as later periods (witness Ailsey McDowell)."

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Hennessee pioneer genealogy questions and answers by Nick Hennessee relating to Thomas Hennessee (the immigrant), Thomas (son of the immigrant), Thomas (possible grandson of the immigrant) and Patrick of Burke County, North Carolina

CONCLUSIONS 9/9/2009:

(1) It can reasonably be assumed and concluded (but is not completely documented) that 1688 Maryland immigrant Thomas Henesy was forebearer of Patrick Hensey of Bedford County, VA, and Burke County,NC.

(2) Whether there were one or more generations between late 17th Century Maryland immigrant Thomas and mid 18th Century Bedford resident Patrick depends on assumptions (no birth year records found) of birth years of Maryland immigrant Thomas, of other Henesys named Thomas and of Patrick.

(3) The Thomas christening reported in Middlesex County, VA, in 1736, while not identifying the christened person by age, has other value because it shows location then of the Hennessee family near the Chesapeake Bay after the earlier Maryland locale and before their migrating west (a pattern common in that century) to Bedford County.

(4) Was the 1736 christening of an adult or an infant? With other evidence of Thomas and Patrick at Bedford, an adult christening in Middlesex County in 1736 would fit supposed age of the adult Thomas of Bedford, and an infant christening would fit a reasonably calculated age of child Patrick. Whatever the answer, a reasonable assumption is that Thomas was father and not brother of Patrick.

(5) The father-son (not brother) relationship assumption also extends from (a) historic records of community popularity and honor from serving in the Bedford Militia that would likely attract any male old engough to be eligible and (b) Militia records that Thomas of the Militia survived the French and Indian War initial battle at Fort Necessity in Pennsylvania in 1754 before (c) the earliest record of Patrick in the Militia in 1758.

(6) Therefore, I propose to report in an article for a Burke County book:

18th Century Burke County, NC, settler Patrick Henesy was son of French and Indian War militiaman Thomas, who had earlier migrated from coastal Middlesex County, VA, to western frontier Bedford County, VA, and who likely descended one or two generations from Thomas and Catherine Henesy, 1688 and 1689, immigrants to Maryland from Ireland.

DISCUSSION:

Early Hennessee History documentations:
Thomas, Irish immigrant indentured to Maryland 1688
Thomas christening, Middlesex County, VA, 1736
Thomas, member Bedford Militia, French and Indian War, 1754
Thomas, land grant (for Militia service) 1755 in Bedford County
Patrick, Bedford Militia, 1758
Patrick, homesteader in North Carolina, 1775 (Polk) and 1778 (Burke)

Thomas Hennessee, the immigrant in Maryland as an indentured servant in 1688, would have worked off his indenture by 1691 or 1695 (3 to 7 years per Wikipedia extract below).

How old was he in 1695? (Maybe 25, if born 1670. Maybe 45, if 1650 birth as assumed in http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/bedford/military/mil1758b.txt).

Were there one or two Henesys named Thomas between Thomas the immigrant and Patrick of Burke?

To me, the Thomas christening reported in Middlesex County, VA, in 1736, has greatest riddle-solving value of the listed Hennessee documentations because it shows location then of the Hennessee family near the Chesapeake Bay. Irish immigrant Thomas, if still living in 1736, could then be 66 or 86 years old when member-of-Bedford-Militia Thomas was 20 years old and Patrick was an infant. That leaves a large age gap that supports existence of a generation or more between immigrant Thomas and member-of-Bedford-Militia Thomas. The christening makes sense to me now only if it:

(A) was an adult christening (a) of immigrant Thomas or (b) of son of immigrant Thomas or (c) of member-of-Bedford-Militia Thomas or

(B) if it was an infant christening of Patrick, who was in the Bedford Militia in 1758 (age 22 if Christened 1736). Presumed also is that some time after the christening, the family (particularly family of member-of-Bedford-Militia Thomas) migrated from Middlesex County (near Chesapeake Bay) to Bedford County (just east of the Blue Ridge Mountains).

Scenario 1: Where does the 1736 Patrick christening premise put birth year for his father Thomas, who was in the Bedford Militia in 1754? If father of Patrick were to be 20 before the presumed christening of Patrick, that would make father-of-Patrick's birth in 1716 and his age 38 at Fort Necessity in 1754. In this scenario, immigrant Thomas would have been 46 or 56 when father of Patrick was born in 1716. That suggests greater possibility but not certainty that immigrant Thomas was grandfather, not father, of Thomas, the father of Patrick.

Scenario 2 assumes another generation, between Thomas, the immigrant (1650 or 1660-?), and Thomas (possibly 1716-?), father of Patrick. This alternative implies younger ages for births in generations from the immigrant Thomas to father of Patrick.

Scenario 3 supports assumption by some Hennessee genealogists that Thomas in Bedford County was brother of Patrick in Bedford County and accepts, without identifying intermediate kin, that both descended from immigrant Thomas.

From Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servant

"Indentured Servant"

An indentured servant is a laborer under contract of an employer for usually three to seven years, in exchange for their transportation, food, drink, clothing, lodging and other necessities. Unlike a slave, an indentured servant is required to work only for a limited term specified in a signed contract.[1]

The labor-intensive cash crop of tobacco was farmed in the American South by indentured laborers in the 17th and 18th centuries.[2] Indentured servitude was not the same as the apprenticeship system by which skilled trades were taught, but similarities do exist between the two mechanisms, in that both require a set period of work.

In addition to slaves (who were mostly from Africa), Europeans, including Irish,[3] Scottish,[4] English, and Germans,[5] were brought over in substantial numbers as indentured servants,[6] particularly in the British Thirteen Colonies.[7] Over half of all white immigrants to the English colonies of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries may have been indentured servants.[8

In Colonial North America, employers usually paid for European workers' passage across the Atlantic Ocean, reimbursing the shipowner who held their papers of indenture. In the process many families were broken apart. During the time living with their masters, their fellow indentured servants took the role of family.[citation needed]

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HENNESSEE FAMILY OF BURKE COUNTY

In three trips in September and October 1791, Patrick Hennessee and his teenage son, John, patronized The Morganton Store, "the only store for miles around." Then they either walked or rode on horseback or in a horse- or mule-drawn wagon or buggy. It was a 4 to 6 hour or more roundtrip from their home six miles northeast of Courthouse Square. That was long travel time for purchases of 100 10-penny nails, stirrup irons and spurs as well as three pints of rum and a bushel of Indian corn.
Patrick (circa 1735-1796) was forebear of the Hennessee family in Burke County. Records of the State of North Carolina show he was paid for Revolutionary War army service. In 1778, his first land grant in Burke was on both sides of the Catawba River between Johns River and Lower Creek. In his home, up from the south bank of the Catawba at Hunting Creek, he lived with his wife Alice, (nicknamed Ailsey), and sons James and John. Two daughters had married.
Long after Patrick of Burke was alive and available to answer questions, descendants wanted to know more about him and his forebears. Was he an Irish immigrant or a descendant of immigrants? Was Patrick of Burke the Patrick of Bedford County, VA?

LURE OF INEXPENSIVE FERTILE CAROLINA LAND

Vagueness continues in the record, but helpful perspective and inspiration came in 2006. Then Virginia and North Carolina frontier historian Dr. Christopher Hendricks published The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia, one of which was New London in Bedford County. Data and patterns emphasized by Professor Hendricks would logically relate Patrick of Bedford to the large colonial migration through Virginia to North Carolina via the store of William Calloway in New London. That perspective plus studies of 17th Century maps available to militiamen in that era and internet-enabled finding in 2009 of data previously not as accessible to or appreciated by family historians make plausible conclusions not earlier reached about Patrick of Burke and his heritage.
In the Bedford Militia in the 1750s were Thomas Hennesey and Patrick Henicie. At the beginning of the French and Indian War, the Virginia Militia (on the western frontier consisting mostly of the Bedford Militia) was under command of celebrated land surveyor, map maker and college professor Colonel Joshua Fry, Major (later Colonel, General and President) George Washington and Captain (later Colonel) William Calloway, wealthy Bedford County merchant, land developer and manufacturer. Official Virginia records report Thomas Hennesey survived the first battle of the war at Fort Necessity, PA, in 1754 and Patrick Henicie received militia pay in 1758.
A 1761 indenture evidences that Patrick Henicie paid "one pound, one shilling and six pence" for a lot in New London owned by Colonel Calloway. Within a year, he sold it back at a good profit.
Some have suggested--and some questioned--the kinship of Patrick and Thomas (whether father-son or brothers) while proposing that one or both descended a generation or two from Thomas and Catherine Henesy, 1688 and 1689 immigrants to Maryland from County Cork, Ireland; Maryland records confirm the immigration. Some others have argued that Patrick descended from James Hennessee, who left County Cork and landed in Norfolk, Va., in 1740; they were influenced (1) by the Irish tradition that the oldest son is named after the father's father and (2) by Patrick's first-born son being named James. Another claim: Confederate war veteran Hamilton Mortimer Hennessee said that his great grandfather, Patrick of Burke, migrated from Ireland.
Regardless of the ancestry, pre-Revolutionary-War records show in addition to Thomas of Bedford, VA, (1) some Thomas Hennesey and other Hennesey families who continued to be residents of Maryland, (2) other Hennesys who located in coastal Virginia and North Carolina counties early in the 18th Century and (3) great migrations later in the century of many families from coastal counties in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania not only to the western frontier of Virginia (including Bedford County) but also south to the western North Carolina Piedmont (including Burke County).

GREAT WAGON ROAD TO NORTH CAROLINA

A 1752 map of Virginia, Maryland and northern North Carolina had been surveyed by Militia Colonel Fry and Peter Jefferson. It informed migrating settlers about the Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia via the Valley of Virginia to inexpensive fertile North Carolina land. The primary route in Virginia went through the Roanoke Gap of the Blue Ridge Mountains. However, many settlers -- as many as 300 one week - went through the James River Gap. They continued toward North Carolina through Bedford County via Colonel Calloway's New London store, where many paused to buy provisions. Understandably, the great enthusiasm of the settlers en route to North Carolina opportunities would be contagious to New London witnesses such as Patrick Henicie.
Other maps also added to the lure. A 1752 Moravian Church survey described fertile Burke County land on the Catawba River, Lower Creek, Johns River and Upper Creek. The Mouzon 1775 North Carolina map showed an old Cherokee Indian trail between Virginia and South Carolina crossing the Catawba River north of present-day Morganton near Quaker Meadows. From the river, the Indian trail went south on the path later followed by the old Rutherfordton road. Just north of the South Carolina line, the trail went through the remote Green River wilderness, where land was even less expensive than in Burke County. It was in that wilderness, southeast of Chimney Rock, that Patrick Henecy obtained a 200 acre grant February 28, 1775. (Acting under Patrick's will proven October 25, 1796, son John, executor of the estate, sold the Green River tract in 1800.)

PIONEER VOCATIONS

Twentieth Century descendant Elizabeth Hennessee Finger, heralded as a talented school teacher, as a diligent family historian and as a founding officer and life member of the Burke County Historical Society, shared her conclusions. She said that typical of the times for poor first-arriving settlers on the frontier wildernesses (as recorded by many families in the American colonies), Patrick initially was a trapper and hunter, trading animals and pelts for food and income. Most likely, she said, he devoted full time to trapping and hunting … in Green and Broad River forests and other frontier wilderness forests in and west of Burke … before he was able to acquire fertile Catawba River land, and he continued trapping, hunting and trading while farming in Burke County.
Owning river-and-creek-enriched bottom land, it was natural that Patrick and his sons and grandsons were farmers (and at least one was also a blacksmith) in Burke County into the 20th Century. Until after the War Between the States, Patrick, John and their descendants farmed their Catawba river-front acreage.
"The location of Patrick's home on the south bank of the river (below the mouth of Hunting Creek) was a very desirable one," wrote descendant Eugene L. Hennessee Jr. "There were easily defended…sites for a cabin and other buildings…. The relatively flat bottom, next to the river, appears better for corn than the steep slope rising to higher level ground…. However, this slope and ridge top … supplied wood for (house logs), poles, fences and fireplaces…. (Already cleared, Allen's Bottom, as shown on the land survey, suggested a previous occupant.)… The easy access to the river and the adjacent streams made the location ideal…. The ridge road to the south connected with the main east-west wagon road. The main north-south (Old Wilkes Road) passed through the property at a rocky ford on the river and went to Fort Defiance and other east-west roads." Evidence of the Old Wilkes Road still exists (2009) on a steep grade through the former Hennessee farm.
It was a good neighborhood. General Charles McDowell had a grant to the south. North across the Catawba (on land previously Patrick's that in the 20th Century became the Burke County landfill) was Colonel John Suddreth (his sister married Patrick II). Also north was Thomas Wilcher (his daughter married James). To the east were John Ballew and Abraham Harshaw. West was John Hughes, Justice of the Burke County Court.
About 1805, Patrick's older son James (1766-1851) and family, his Wilcher in-laws and other Burke residents moved west to even cheaper land. They went from Morganton via the old Indian Road south past Patrick's Green River grant into South Carolina and then west across Georgia and north to McMinnville in less-crowded middle Tennessee.

Younger son John (circa 1775-1844) had two sons, Patrick II (1793-1845), who maintained the Hennessa plantation until his death, and John II, who moved to Murphy in Cherokee County. Beginning in 1833, Patrick II and John Sudderth, his brother-in-law on the north side of the Catawba, operated a ferry to carry Old Wilkes Road traffic.

GOLD RUSH AND CIVIL WAR

The two oldest sons of Patrick II, John Alexander and Emanuel Augustus (Manuel) Hennessee, followed the lure of the 1852 California Gold Rush. John remained and died there. Manuel returned home to resume his cabinetmaker trade and to marry Elizabeth Caroline Johnson, daughter of Isaac Wilburn and Catherine Louisa Kincaid Johnson.
Elizabeth's cousin, Lt. William Joseph Kincaid, recruited Manuel to join the 11th NC Regiment of the Confederate Army. Also in the Army were four of Manuel's brothers. Thomas A. was killed in action, Manasa Sudderth died in a Yankee prison camp, and Patrick Waightsill surrendered with General Lee at Appomattox but did not return home.
Two brothers did return home, Robert Jones (RJ) of the Burke Rifles and Manuel. RJ had been captured July 3, 1863 at Gettysburg near "the angle," the farthest advance of Pickett's Charge. Freed in early 1864, RJ won promotion to sergeant. In the Fall of 1864 in the Battle of Peebles Farm near Petersburg, VA, Manuel was gravely wounded and left to die on the battlefield. But he did not die. The next day, one may conclude from hospital records, RJ got him from the battlefield to the first of a series of hospitals.
Among many wounds, Manuel had a hole in his forehead and suffered "paralysis of right arm and leg and loss of power of speech." However, he outlived all of his brothers, dying in 1903. Then the Morganton News Herald heralded him as best known of Burke's Civil War survivors. Also, ex-lieutenant Kincaid, by then a Georgia textile manufacturer, praised Manuel for his service in the war and example after the war and added: "The Hennessees are a good old Burke family and were among the valiant North Carolinians who won for our dear old state, during the Civil War, everlasting renown."

FARM SOLD, FAMILY RELOCATES

Not in the army were brothers William Richard, who managed his in-law family farms in North Cove and was a Confederate quartermaster supplier, and James David, farmer and blacksmith who managed the Burke farm for his mother until it was sold. Sisters were Martha H. (Mrs. John) Ferree, Levinia Hennessee and Myra H. (wife of Sheriff Bartlett A.) Berry. Sheriff Berry acquired part of the riverfront Hennessee farm, and in the 20th Century, Duke Power Company bought all of it along with miles of Catawba riverfront south from the upper reaches of Lake James into South Carolina.
By the time of the sale of the Hennessee Hunting Creek farm, the family of Patrick II had relocated. RJ continued nearby, a leader in the Zion Church community. Manuel and James David moved their families to farms near Gilboa Methodist Church in Silver Creek Township. Widow Nancy Sudderth Hennessee went to live with son William in North Cove. She took with her family heirlooms and records which could later have informed and enlightened family historians had they not been destroyed when the 1916 Catawba River Flood washed downstream the family's North Cove home, barns, etc.
Manuel's children were Sarah (Mrs. George) Farr, Idalia (Mrs. Horace) Kincaid, Florence (Mrs. John) Ferree, Alice (Mrs. Thomas P.) Satterwhite, Manassa Nixon (Nas), Dr. Emanuel Augustus (Gus) MD, Joseph Richardson, Daniel Lafatte, William L. and Russell Kimsey Hennessee. All resided in Burke County. After US Army service and college medical education, Gus returned to Burke in 1902 to practice medicine, and in the 1920s, Spanish American War veteran Russell moved to Sunshine in Rutherford County.
Children of RJ were Patrick Lee, James Phifer, Robert Avery, Ella H. Thompson, John and Margaret H. Garrison. Children of William Richard were Robert Horace Sr., James Patrick, William Lee, Paralee H. Brown, Wade Hampton and Samuel Arthur Hennessee. Children of James David were Martha Jo H. Duckworth, Thomas Patrick, Mary, Lois May and Ophelia Hennessee.
Much more data about these and other descendants of Patrick are included in the 1981 and 2001 editions of Burke County Historical Society's Heritage of Burke County.

SPELLINGS AND PRONUNCIATION

Henesy, Henacie, Hensy, Hennessy, Henicie, Hennessa, Henessee, Henecy, Henessey and Hennessee are spellings found in documents from colonial to current times. Near consensus among later descendants of Patrick to spell the name "Hennessee" may be attributed not only to increasing familiarity with the spelling of Tennessee but also to the greater number of Tennessee Hennessees than North Carolina Hennessees. The name derives from the ancient Irish "O'haonghusa" (son of Angus) as also does Guinness -- the actor Alec, the stout beer and the world records.
However the name is spelled, pronounce it Hen'-i-sy.
Never never rhyme the last syllable with Tennessee.

COINCIDENCES, PRECEDENTS, INCIDENTS

Patrick's great great grandson Nas in the late 19th Century began his mercantile career on the old Cherokee Indian Road south of Morganton toward Rutherfordton. At the store, just south of Conley Road and north of Mount Olive Church Road, Nas bought Silver Creek gold and served Brindletown area residents and patrons of the nearby Glen Alpine Springs Hotel. In 1889, he relocated his store near the Glen Alpine railroad depot to compete more productively for the hotel-bound trade and to serve the town's growing population. Nas was also Town of Glen Alpine Treasurer and Justice of the Peace and proprietor of the Linville Hotel, which additionally was his family residence until 1930. At both Brindletown (1888) and Glen Alpine (1893-1897), Nas was postmaster as was his son Paul at Glen Alpine (1939-1972). Also, both Nas (1898-1900 and 1917-1918) and Paul (1936-1939) were Burke County Commissioners.
Reflecting the zeal of their mother and wives for childhood education, Gus and Nas Hennessee were among Glen Alpine leaders who won, 44-2, a 1906 public tax vote for a new school. Gus was Chairman and Nas Treasurer of the building committee to set a leadership precedent followed by school-teaching descendants, by Charliemae H. Hamilton (Morganton School Board member for 14 years) and by her sister Nelle's advocating college for talented students and, as warranted, providing scholarship aid.
Incidents in Glen Alpine in 1913 in Pitts Store and in 1918 at the railroad depot resulted (a) in deaths of two men, including Dr. Gus Hennessee in 1918, (b) in trials that attracted extensive interest and newspaper coverage both in Morganton and across North Carolina and (c) in life-long emotional trauma for witnesses and the victims' families.
Nas purchased the Pitts building in 1926 and made it his primary store location. After he died in 1946, the business continued as partnership of Paul and Nelle until, after Nelle died, Paul closed the 100+ year-old Hennessee business in 1996.

WHERE IS HENESSEY?

Henessey was on early 20th Century US postal maps. It identified a post office established in 1896 in the store of John C. Landreau in the former home of Manuel and Elizabeth Caroline Hennessee at the intersection of US 64 and Bollinger Loop. The office served postal patrons south of Chambers, north of Brindletown and east of Rollins until rural free delivery began in 1903.

SPECULATION

Paddy's Creek flows into Lake James. Because of trapping and hunting ventures of Patrick before and after he settled in Burke, some 20th Century Hennessees speculated that Paddy's Creek was named for him. (What other men named Patrick and nicknamed Paddy were in Burke in the North Carolina Colony?)

REUNIONS

Toward the end of the 20th Century, descendants of Patrick Hennessee began annual reunions, with descendants of son John convening initially at Gilboa Methodist Church in Burke's Silver Creek Township and descendants of son James convening at McMinnville in Warren County, Tennessee. John and James descendants had a joint reunion in McMinnville in 1991. Reunions of descendants of John have also been held at Chesterfield (close to Patrick's farm and to Sudderth Cemetery), at Glen Alpine and Morganton in Burke County and at Sunshine in Rutherford County.

SOURCES:

The Back country Towns of Colonial Virginia, by Dr. Christopher E. Hendricks, 2006, University of Tennessee Press/Knoxville; "New London," pages 72-76 et al.

"A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia (and) the Whole Province of Maryland With Parts of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina Drawn by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson in 1775," an update based on their 1751 original and including the 1752 Moravian Church survey of Catawba River and tributaries in what since 1777 has been Burke County, NC.

"An Accurate Map of North and South Carolina With Their Indian Frontiers…from Actual Surveys by Henry Mouzon and Others, London, 1775."

"Patrick Hennessee, Insight from Land Grants, Burke County, NC," by E. L. Hennessee Jr., 4237 West Enon Drive, Enon, OH, ehennessee@aol.com. ww.http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/bedford/military/mil1758b.txt. Hening, William Waller 1820, The Statutes at Large; Being A Collection Of All The Laws Of Virginia, From The First Session Of The Legislature In The Year 1619; VolumeVI; Franklin Press, Richmond, VA.

"Hennessee Family in America", 1991 and revisions since, compiled by David A. Hennessee, including "Hennessee Pre-Revolution Chronology," Patrick, homesteader in North Carolina, 1775 (Polk) and 1778 (Burke), Transcript of answers by Hamilton Mortimer Hennessee on government questionnaire for Tennessee Civil War veterans.

Fort Necessity National Battlefield Roster of Virginia Militia: Thomas Henacy (pre-battle), Thomas Hennesey (list of survivors) (http://www.nps.gov/archive/fone/rostercmb.htm#h).

Archives, Colony of Maryland, documentation of passengers 1688 and 1689 by Philip Poplestone, Captain of the ship Increase of Youghale (Cork County, Ireland).

North Carolina Atlas & Gazetteer, Fourth Edition, Copyright 2000, pages 33, 54.

Bedford Co., Va. OB 3 1763 - 1771 pg 36-37, court cases involving Patrick Henicie and Alice Henicie, furnished Nita Hennessee by Jim Hamlin in 1999.
Book of Patents, Colony of North Carolina, 1765-1775, County of Rowan, 200 Acres to Patrick Henecy, February 28, 1775, on both sides of the south fork of White Creek of the Green River (land in Polk County since it was established in 1855). Burke County: Land and Misc. Records 1771-1809, Volume III, Page 103. BURKE,

The History of a North Carolina County, 1777-1920, 1982, by Edward William Phifer, Jr., pages 179-180, 364, 367, 369. North Carolina Wills: A Testator Index, 1665-1900;
Corrected and Revised Edition by Thornton W. Mitchell including: "Hennessa, John/Heslip, Thomas/Deed/10-11/533/1800 and Hennessy, John/Heslip, Thomas/Deed/ 10-11/536/1800" (deeds of Green River land to Thomas Heslip by John Hennessa, executor of estate of Patrick Hennessa I). http://files.usgwarchives,org/nc/rutherford/deeds/h2grntor.txt. http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/n/North_Carolina_Land_Grants_and-Deeds.html.

CSA Army records 1861-1865--regiment: "E A Hennessee" (spelling used by Manual); hospitals (1864): "E A Hennessa" (spelling favored by RJ Hennessa).

My Dearest Friend, Civil War Correspondence of Cornelia McGimsey and Lewis Warlick, page 184. The Heritage of Burke County 1981, published by The Burke County Historical Society, Morganton, NC, pages 225-226, sketches 100,152, 221, 304, 329, 359, 408, 413, 596, 612, 650, 661,724 and 763.

The Heritage of Burke County 2001, published by The Burke County Historical Society, Morganton, NC, articles 10, 24, 29, 31, 63, 80, 136, 173, 295, 365, 404, 413, 414, 416-428, 466, 488, 532, 534, 617,645, 676, 678, 717, 718,727 and 775.

NC Rev Army Accts (Rev. Army Auditors Accounts),Vol III,BKG-16(Haun,Part V). North Carolina Atlas, 1975, University of North Carolina Press, Pages 13, 16.

North Carolina Yearbook 1902, published by News & Observer, Raleigh ttp://www.archive.org/stream/northcarolinayea1902/northcarolinayea1902_djvu.txt.

Interviews, conversations and correspondence with Elizabeth Hennessee Finger, Jean Davis Hennessee, Nita Hennessee Shepard, David A. Hennessee, Eugene L. Hennessee, Jr., Keith C. Hennessee, Philip H. Hennessee, Fred Hennessee, Carl D. Hennessee, R. Floyd Hennessee, Nelle Augusta Hennessee, Margaret Hennessee Williams, Peggy Hennessee Ballew, Dewey W. Hennessee, Caroline Hamilton Ervin, Nixon Scott Hennessee, James D. Spainhour, Robert T. Pitts, et al.

By Manassa Nixon (Nick) Hennessee III,

Descendant of Patrick, John, Patrick II, Emanuel Augustus (Manuel), Manassa (Nas) Nixon and Manassa Nixon (Nick) Hennessee Jr.,

Father of Nixon Scott Hennessee,

Grandfather of Sean Alexander, Ryan Augustus and Aidan Patrick Hennessee

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From: Helen R Money
To: schoolstuff@worldnet.att.net
Subject: Archibald W. Hennessee
Date: Saturday, March 07, 1998 1:27 PM

David,

The other day when I talked to you, I mentioned that someone had moved to TN when they were 6 yrs. old. I said that it was Patrick but I was WRONG. It was Archibald W. Hennessee. Could you tell me where you found that fact. Reference in your notes: See testimony. What testimony and do I have it? I have not seen anything in detail on Archibald at all. Where are you getting this? I realize that you said that you did not have references on some of the things but if you have this, I would like to have it. I do have the rest of the references.

The Revolutionary War........

In the book VIRGINIA'S COLONIAL SOLDIERS by Lloyd Bockstuck, it lists

Thomas Henacy, pg 129, 12 March
Thomas Henacy, pg 134,
Thomas Hennesey, pg 47, 50
Thomas Hennessey, pg 131
Patrick Hensey, pg 208 0.5.0

REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS Vol. I VA by Gaius M. Brumbaugh

Wm. Henesey #4803 3 yrs. pg. 448

This was all they had at the Family History Library here. It is very small. Don't know if you are interested in this "poop" or not. I printed off the Hennessee family that they had at the FHL-BC. I do not use it but only as a reference to look for something.

I am really having a problem with Ailsey McDowell. Can't find doodley-squat on her. Will continue to look...................

Helen

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"An 1820 publication that I found in a 2009 internet search, A Collection Of All The Laws Of Virginia, From The First Session Of The Legislature In The Year 1619, Volume VII, documents that Patrick was son of Irish natives, Thomas and Catherine, who immigrated in 1688 and 1689 to Maryland. Colonial Maryland records confirm the immigration: Thomas was indentured to John Stevens of Dorchester County and Catherine to William Sharpe of adjacent Talbot County under arrangements made by Philip Poplestone, Captain of the ship Increase of Youghale (Ireland), with the employers of Thomas and Catherine and with Lord Baltimore, Proprietary Governor of Maryland."

The full Virginia citation: Hening, William Waller 1820, The Statutes at Large; Being A Collection Of All The Laws Of Virginia, From The First Session Of The Legislature In The Year 1619. VolumeVII. Franklin Press, Richmond, Virginia. “Patrick Hensey, Bedford County Militia, 1758, Parents (Thomas Henesy) #26192 born (circa 1650), (Ireland), died (MD or PA), married in (VA), (Catherine) #26193, born (circa 1650), Ireland, died (MD or PA).”

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http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/scotsirish/hennessey.htm

"Hennessy" and all its corruptions;

The early homeland of one O'hAonghusa sept, ancestors of families named Hennessy, was in the barony of Lower Philipstown, Co. Offaly, along the present border of that county and Co. Westmeath.
Hennessy is a name from which the prefix O has been dropped in modern times, though O'Hennessy was still widely used in the seventeenth century and may be retained by some families today. In Irish it is O'hAonghusa, i.e. descendant of Aonghus of Angus. The principal sept of the name was located near the town of Kilbeggan and the hill of Croghan, their territory being chiefly in the northern part of Co. Offaly, where they shared with O'Holohan the lordship of Clan Cholgain: a branch of this was located nearer to Dublin, the head of it being chief of Gailenga Beg on the north side of the River Liffey on the borders of Counties Meath and Dublin. The latter was displaced by the Anglo-Norman invasion. The Offaly O'Hennessys spread into Tipperary and Clare - in the later county they are now called Henchy, formerly Hensey.

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Immigration:
on the ship, "Increase"

(Thomas married (Catherine LNU)(Ireland). (Catherine was born in (1650-1660) in Ireland; died in (Maryland). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Talbot County, Maryland
• Immigration: 8 Mar 1679, Youghal, Ireland

Notes:

"...Know all men by these presents that we William Sharpe of Talbot County and Phillip Poplestone master of the ship Encrease of Youghall are holden and firmly bound to the right honorable Charles Lord Baltimore in the sum of one hundred pounds sterling to be paid to the said Charles Lord Baltimore the said sum of one hundred pounds or his certain attorney, executors and administrators or assigns to they which payment well and truly be made we bind us and either of us our and either of our heirs executors and administrators and every of us jointly and severally by himself for all and in the whole firmly by these presents signed with our hand and sealed with our seals dated the eight and twentieth day of March one thousand six hudred seventy nine and in the fourth year of the Dominion of the said Charles Lord Baltimore over Maryland.

Whereas the persons in the catague(sic) mentioned were lately brought over by the above bound Phillip Poplestone in the ship above mentioned and their rights by him assigned to the above bound William Sharpe as by the said catalogue may appear and whereas upon their humble request the above named Charles Lord Baltimore hath the day of the date above written promised a grant to the said William Sharpe by his general warrant to take up land in the province for the right of the said several persons now the condition of this obligation is such that if the said persons mentioned and named in the said catalogue or any or either of them have not formerly been made use or in order to their rights nor shall be hereafter made use of to the purpose otherwise then according to the intent that is herein and hereby declared then this obligation to be void and of none effect otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.

Sealed and delivered by the said Wm. Sharpe in the presence of William Sharpe, Vincent Lowe, Rich Keen, Thos. Greening. Annexed to the above obligation was this catalogue follow viz and catalogue of all the servants names which came out of Ireland into Maryland in the ship Encrease of Youghall Phillip Poplestone master, March 8, 1679.

...42. Cath Hennesy"

(Data taken from a photocopy of the original record, located at the Maryland Hall of Records (Patents, Liber 20, folio 184). Photocopy. Personal library of Eric Shawn, Oak Grove, Oregon. This reference to Thomas Shehawne is also found in Harry Wright Newman's To Maryland from Overseas. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986, p. 156.)

Immigration:
on the ship, "Increase"

Peter married unnamed spouse. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 1718, Holland

Notes:

Hermanus Shook
Birthdate: January 1, 1718 (71)
Birthplace: Canton,Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
Death: June 8, 1789 (71)
Hardy, Bedford County, Virginia, USA
Immediate Family:
Son of Herman Schoock/Schoch
Husband of Barbara Shook and Anna Shook
Father of Catherine Rueger; Herman Schuck; William I. Shook, Sr.; Peter Shook, Sr; Katherine Brake (Shook) and 5 others
Managed by: Private User
Last Updated: December 16, 2014

Immediate Family

Barbara Shook
wife

Anna Shook
wife

Catherine Rueger
daughter

Herman Schuck
son

William I. Shook, Sr.
son

Peter Shook, Sr
son

Katherine Brake (Shook)
daughter

David Shook
son

John Shook
son

Elizabeth Neff
daughter

Priscilla Mary Carr
daughter

Hermanus Schoch
son
About Hermanus Shook
Wife: Anna- (1719-1789) Shook (born Schaub)

Wife: Barbara Shook (born Reagor)

Children: William-(1745-1811) Shook, Peter-(1752-1824) Shook, Elizabeth-(1754-1816) Neff, (4G) (born Shook), Harmonous Shook, Priscilla-(1755-1815) Mary Carr (born Shook), Harmon-(1757-?) Shook, Katherine-(1763-1838) Shook, David-(1765-1849) Shook, John-(1770-?) Shook

Hermanus Shook's records indicated that the family first settled in Virginia in the 1700s and then migrated to Tennessee. The records also indicate that the Shook family were pioneer settlers of both states.
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Hermanus Shook's Timeline
1683
1683
Birth of Herman Schuck
1713
1713
Birth of Catherine Rueger
Benken, Arlesheim, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
1718
January 1, 1718
Birth of Hermanus
Switzerland
1718
Birth of Hermanus Schoch
Basel, Switzerland
1745
1745
Age 27
Birth of William I. Shook, Sr.
Hardy County, West Virginia, United States
1752
1752
Age 34
Birth of Peter Shook, Sr
Possible, Hampshire, Virginia, USA
1753
December 10, 1753
Age 35
Birth of Priscilla Mary Carr
Augusta (now Grant), Virginia (now West Virginia), United States
1760
January 1760
Age 42
Birth of Elizabeth Neff
Hampshire, , Virginia, USA
1764
1764
Age 46
Birth of Katherine Brake (Shook)
Hampshire, Hardy County, Virginia (now West Virginia), USA

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His Christian name is more likely, "Hieronymous", which is Latin for "William"...DAH

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Harmonious married Anna Shobe in ~1735 in Virginia. Anna was born on 31 Jan 1719 in Wittinsburg, Kanton Basel, Landschaft, Switzerland; died in ~ 1790 in Hampshire County, West Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her blood-line goes to Jacob Schaub (1576-1625) in Switzerland: http://www.geni.com/people/Anna-Shobe-Schaub/6000000003541209692

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 1720

James married Sarah Coffman(Gloucester County, Virginia, British Colonies of America). Sarah was born in ~1720 in Gloucester County, Virginia, British Colonies of America; died in 1783. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Birth: 1725
• Alt Death: 1783, Kentucky

Notes:

Alt Death:
It is hard to believe this assertion...

Notes:

In comparing Y-DNA 25 marker results, the probability that Mr. John Andrew Close and Mr. David Alden Hennessee shared a common ancestor within the last...

James Close, b 1618: might be a sibling to our unknown O'Sheal antecedent

COMPARISON CHART

Generations Percentage

4 61.17%
8 84.92%
12 94.15%
16 97.73%
20 99.12%
24 99.66%


John Andrew Close
andy@closeancestry.com
R-M269
Y-DNA HAPLOGROUP
N/A
mtDNA HAPLOGROUP
Earliest Known Ancestors Paternal: James Close, b 1618
Maternal:Emma Steels, b 1872
About Me No information entered.

Ancestral Surnames

Close (Swaledale) Close (Grinton) Graham (Cumberland) Peacock (Swaledale)

FNU married unnamed spouse. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Photos & History of Hirschland ... http://hasenpfeffer.us/long.hair/bieber/hirschland/main.html

Lorentz married unnamed spouse. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt Death: 1753

Notes:

Click this link to view Theobald's antecedants ... http://www.wikitree.com/treewidget/Bieber-68/9

Birth:
Photos & History of Hirschland ... http://hasenpfeffer.us/long.hair/bieber/hirschland/main.html

Theobald married Sarah Ludmann on 14 Jan 1717 in (Hirschland) Alsace, Germany. Sarah was born about 1692; died in 1764 in Richmond, Berks County, Province of Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]