Echoes from the Valley

By Crampton Harris Helms

What began as a list of names, a box of documents, a number of family Bibles, and idle curiosity gradually evolved into a book about the settlement of Virginia and the western conquest of the great Valley of the Shenandoah, the birth of the New River settlements, and the emergence of the Watauga and Holston pioneers on the western slopes of the Appalachian Mountains. Placing the generations into a format of historic events began to bring these fugitives from the European wars and catastrophes into focus as real people.

Since this story concerns the early foundation of this nation, the author did not choose to go back beyond the immigration from Europe. In a few cases, however, where the material was available and explanatory, it was incorporated into these pages. This does not mean that the more remote history of others was not available. It just did not contribute to the integrity of this book.

The book is not a genealogy although it uses that structure to build the generations. And it is not simply a history. It is a perspective of history, demonstrated through the genealogy and migrations of one family. The whole is dependent upon each life among the hundreds of those who made this family possible. Make no mistake about it! The loss of a single onejust one!and the people that followed would never have been born!

The relations are carefully delineated. Children are named where it is possible. To this extent, it is hoped other lineages may find the book useful. The appendix contains copies from books and papers that might be difficult or impossible to obtain.

It is important to realize that as the reader goes backward in time, the numbers of people become fewer. This means that the chances of interrelations increase as the two hundredth year marker of the past is approached. All of us share a kinship in the origin and the destiny of the United States of America!

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Crampton Harris Helms

The author is an eighty-one-year-old semiretired surgeon who still has an active office practice. Married to Ruth Seaman, the couple have three sons with several grandchildren. His interests include astronomy and music. He has written several articles that have been published in the surgical literature. He has built his own observatory and telescope and written music and lyrics for relaxation. He is listed in the National Registry of Who’s Who.

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

FAMILY TREE

ROOTS AND BRANCHES

BIOGRAPHICAL SECTION

THE GAZETTE-MAIL

APPENDIX

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Frontispiece: A facsimile of a circulated flier of the seventeenth century, promoting emigration to the Virginia coasts for settlement by the good citizens of England. Nothing is said about the natives of those coasts or the ownership of those lands

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ECHOES FROM THE VALLEY

The History of an American Family

from

Seventeenth Century Europe to Twenty-

first Century Tennessee

Crampton Harris Helms, MD, CM

To my grandmothers,

Mary Elizabeth Whiteside Helms

and

Quincy Loretta Marshall O’Keefe,

whose

lifelong efforts to retain the records of their families

made this

modest work possible,

it is,

with love and gratitude,

dedicated.

Memoriae tendere

TWILIGHT

Imperceptibly, the twilight spreads across the mountain fastness:

From its lofty, lonely places, down into the sloping forests,

Sifting through the firs and hemlocks, into rocky nooks and crannies;

Down to where the evening darkness gathers in the misty gorges,

Whence the glittering waters, gushing, scour the stones from glen to valley;

Rushing on to join the river, flowing with the soul’s own yearning,

Toward the western light of evening, toward the peace of God’s great promise,

All creation unifying in the glory of the twilight!

—C. H. Helms, 3-13-99

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PREFACE

The silence of a great forest is, perhaps, indescribable. There are many types of silence. There is the silence of an open field beneath the starry sky, familiar to most suburban or rural folk. But the silence that is found on entering a great forest is quite unlike any other. It looms in gigantic proportions all around you. It is stunning. You are compelled to stand and to listen, as if waiting to hear some unknown thing. It is a silence that stifles the civilized mind, a silence that is felt like a cloak wrapped around you.

The Germans have a word for it. The great transalpine forest that existed until after the European Dark Ages was something like the primordial forest of the southeastern United States, though not so large or, perhaps, so old. The Germans knew this forest silence and called it waldeinsamkeit. It means that sense of oneness in the forest, that realization of one’s own isolated self.

It is not to be found in the small woodland. This is the silence of a great forest, one that spreads a thousand miles in all directions. Such was the forest of the southeastern United States, three hundred years ago. For the European settler, it might as well have been infinite. Before his eye, massive trunks of trees, hundreds of years old, towered a hundred feet overhead to a ceiling of leafy boughs, which obliterated the sky. To be sure, here and there, were tiny apertures in the foliage through which mere fragments of blue could be seen, but the sunlight was suffused. The forest floor was essentially clear of vegetation. One might see thirty or forty feet, but after that, the trunks of the trees fused into a continuous wall. Nothing could be seen beyond them. Inside the space of eighty feet, one became engulfed in the silence and the loneliness. It has been described as a religious experience, capable of crushing the human ego.

This was the hardwood forest, which extended from the Gulf of Mexico to the Ohio River and beyond. It stretched from the coast of the Carolinas and Virginia to beyond the Mississippi River. In it, entire river systems were born from unnamed mountains, rivers that rushed down valleys that were engulfed in the silence of the looming foliage.

The tools of that day were useless against such trees. The trunks ranged in size from the occasional small young trees, growing out of the moldering mass of some fallen forest giant, to the giants themselves. Their trunks could measure up to ten feet in diameter. No axe could fell such timber. It waited the advent of the long crosscut saws of a later day to destroy this great domain. Even in the childhood of my father, John E. Helms, around the turn of the twentieth century, parts of it remained. He told me, They said it could never be cut down. Now, look at it! It’s all gone!

Two hundred miles, or so, from the coast of Virginia rises the wall of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a range which parallels the distant coastline. In the north, there is a great gap in the Blue Wall through which emerges the Potomac River as it sweeps to the southeast and the Chesapeake Bay.

Just west of that gap, the Shenandoah River, flowing northward, merges with the Potomac River. It is this gap and these rivers that provided the northern access into the Great Valley of Virginia. As the pioneer traveled up that river, heading toward the southwest, the Blue Ridge rose on his east and the Allegheny Mountains, with their ridges and valleys, extended off to the west. This valley, on average, twenty-five miles wide, is about one hundred miles long. The rising floor of the valley separates the Shenandoah from the headwaters of the James River, which has cut a southern gap through the Blue Ridge.

Below this point, the Continental Divide forms the boundary of the Valley of Virginia, separating it from the Valley of the Tennessee River. Small and tortuous parallel valleys break the mountains in this area. Here the headwaters of the Roanoke River, flowing to the southeast, are scarcely separated from the tributaries of the New River as it flows northward into the Kanawha and still farther north into the Ohio River. Gradually, however, the valleys and ridges settle back into a more regular system, pointing toward the southwest. Here, the Holston is formed and flows to its union with the French Broad River, where, today, it becomes the Tennessee River.

The Valley of the Tennessee continues toward the southwest until the river sweeps around the southern wall of the Cumberland Mountains and heads north-northwest to its confluence with the Ohio River. These rivers and valleys formed the avenues of travel for the pioneer.

The great forest, containing these mountains and rivers, was the home of a diverse people who the European explorers called Indian but who called themselves by many names and in many tongues: Pamunkey, Powhatan, Tutelo, Catawba, Tuscarora, Cherokee, Shawnee, and Muskhoghean. They ranged through the great forest along the rivers and were as much at home as the wild creatures about them: elk, deer, bear, bison, catamount, bobcat, wolf, beaver, otter, martin, mink, and the myriad of smaller creatures that formed the base of the food chain for the forest carnivores.

Our forebearer, Captain Thomas Harris, arrived at Jamestown in 1611, among the first of our lineage that is known to have arrived in America. The members of the Harris line, however, did not enter the Great Valley until Benjamin Harris III and his wife, Jane Crampton, migrated west after the Revolutionary War. Other members of our family were already on the western waters before the French and Indian wars. Colonel William Ingles, my great-great-great-great-grandfather, settled on the New River at Drapers Meadows in 1748, where George Draper, my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, had made the first settlement in August 1746. By that date, when William Ingles arrived at the Meadows, George Draper had already disappeared into the forest on a trip of hunting and exploration, the victim of an Indian skirmish.

Hans Jacob Helsey married Maria Kemmerer in Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Virginia, on September 12, 1765; these were my great-great-great-great-grandparents.

By the time of the Revolution, Michael Massengale was a young man living on the Holston River in that western portion of North Carolina, which is now East Tennessee. He was a member of the company of men under the command of Captain William Bean, which drove the Tories out of the Watauga settlements and over the mountains prior to the battle of King’s Mountain. (See Ramsey’s Annals, the bottom of page 179.) He was my great-great-great-great-grandfather.

Benjamin McFarland, my Sons of the Revolution ancestor, was born in Augusta County, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley, on April 16, 1747, moving into Tennessee after the Revolution. He was, to the best of my knowledge, the first of my ancestors born west of the Blue Ridge.

As my grandmothers Helms and O’Keefe told me stories of these and many others of our progenitors, it became clear to me that our family has long, intimate ties to this Great Valley, dating from the first European settlers. Moreover, there is evidence that suggests that there may be other, much older ties. For a variety of reasons, these may be impossible to prove. Hostility toward the Indians in the older days make it unlikely that such family connections would be recorded. Even today, members of our family have told me that they would rather not have such connections. Yet it is a well-known fact that European women were not always available on the frontier. They were, in fact, scarce. Frontiersmen lived in close association with the Indians and interracial marriages were commonplace. Chief Justice John Marshall was a direct descendant of Pocahontas. His father was one Thomas Marshall of Virginia, a descendant of John Rawlins. Among our ancestors was one Thomas Marshall of Culpeper County, Virginia, who served on a jury in 1749. He may have been related. In many other instances, where names are lost or only first names are remembered, the question of such a relationship must be accepted as a possibility.

I was the youngest grandchild on either side of the family; these stories provided me with a point of departure for my lifelong collection of genealogical information concerning our family. Realizing that much of this material will die with me if not written down, I have undertaken the production of this book. I cannot vouch for the exactitude of all the data. I have tried to render it faithfully, with the same precision as the many ancestors who did not want their names and dates to be forgotten. As they moved west, away from their families, they did not want their children to forget who their parents and grandparents were.

My grandmother Helms had five great family Bibles on the shelf of her bookcase. I have but one of them! I do not know who has the other four. Many handwritten notes by my mother and others of the family have helped me. To a limited extent, I have used material derived from the Internet. In utilizing all these sources, printed and otherwise, I have encountered discrepancies of dates, names, and places. Where it is important, I have chosen the most reliable data and indicated my reasons for doing so. Sometimes, I merely give both views.

The living are but the echoes of the generations already past! In this volume are recorded the waning echoes of our families’ past. It has been my intention to capture them before they fade completely. Perhaps another curious soul may find them helpful. That is to be hoped. Even a brief reading should indicate many points from which new, unexplored lines of descent may prove productive. As the 1609 flier of the Virginia Company still proclaims, this book may be exciting all such as be well affected to further the same.

CHH

THE FAMILY TREE

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Photograph no. 1: Thanksgiving, 1964, at the home of John and Constance Helms, Connie’s Corner. Standing, back row, left to right: John E. Helms III; his wife, Margot Mann Helms; Anne Williams Helms and her husband, William O. Helms; Ruth Seaman Helms and her husband, Crampton H. Helms, MD. Seated, left to right: Constance O’Keefe Helms and her husband, John E. Helms, Jr. Seated on the floor, left to right: Melissa, Eleanor, and John IV, the children of John and Margot Helms; Thomas and Crampton, children of Crampton and Ruth Helms; Constance, William, and Roy, children of William and Anne Helms. Patrick, the third son of Crampton and Ruth, though not seen, was present, being born just four months later. The shadow behind Melissa is Dimanche, the beloved poodle of the Helms family.

THE FAMILY TREE: CRAMPTON HARRIS HELMS, ET AL.

First Generation

Time Line: Present to 1926

Presidents. G. W. Bush; Bill Clinton, G. H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge

Wars. Iraq, Afghanistan, Desert Storm, Granada, Vietnam, Korea, World War II

Socioeconomic features. Primacy of US power, aerospace dominance, computer age, automotive expansion, urbanization, rural electrification, TVA, the decline of rural America, Great Depression

My brothers and I are the following:

John Edward Helms III (#1, MP1)

Born May 26, 1926, Greeneville, Tennessee; died January 6, 1989. Graduate of Yale University, 1947M; attended the University of Zurich and the Sorbonne; editor of the Daily Gazette-Mail, 1952-1976. Jarnigan Cemetery. See Biographical Section.

William O’Keefe Helms (#2, MP1)

Born April 18, 1929, Greeneville, Tennessee; died April 27, 1996, Morristown, Tennessee. US Army, Germany, 1951-1953; business manager, Morristown Gazette-Mail 1953-1976. Became a minister for many years, Christ’s Chapel, Morristown. Author of God’s Judgment: The Coming Holocaust. Jarnigan Cemetery. See Biographical Section.

Crampton Harris Helms, MD (#3, MP1)

Born July 24, 1931, Greeneville, Tennessee; died—AB at Yale University, 1954; MD, CM at McGill University (Montreal), 1958. Certified American Board of Surgery, 1964; Fellow American College of Surgeons, etc. See Biographical Section.

Second Generation

Time Line: 1926 to 1892

Presidents. Calvin Coolidge; Warren G. Harding; Woodrow Wilson; William Taft; Theodore Roosevelt; William McKinley; Grover Cleveland

Wars. World War I (The Great War); Spanish-American War

Socioeconomic features. Development of the highways; railroad dominance; passing of the Frontier

Father: John Edward Helms, Jr. (#4, P2)

Born July 17, 1895, Morristown, Tennessee; died July 14, 1978, Morristown, Tennessee; US Navy 1917-1919; co-owner and publisher of the Daily Gazette-Mail. Jarnigan Cemetery. See Biographical Section.

Married: January 8, 1921, to

Mother: Constance Loretta O’Keefe (#5, M2)

Born December 30, 1892, Greeneville, Tennessee; died 1975, Morristown, Tennessee; co-owner and publisher of the Daily Gazette-Mail. Jarnigan Cemetery. See Biographical Section.

Third Generation

Time Line: 1892 to 1857

Presidents. Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, Chester B. Arthur, James Garfield, Rutherford B. Hayes, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, James Buchanan

Wars. The Plains Indian Wars, War between the States

Socioeconomic features. Transcontinental railroad, settlement of the West, telegraph, reconstruction of the South, Emancipation Proclamation, Centrism versus States’s rights, steamboat navigation of the river from New Orleans to Knoxville.

Parents of J. E. Helms Jr. #4

John Edward Helms Sr. (#6, P3)

Born August 2, 1857, Knoxville, Tennessee; died February 14, 1942, Morristown, Tennessee; publisher and editor of the Morristown Gazette, later Daily Gazette-Mail. Burial in Jarnigan Cemetery. See Biographic al Section.

Married: 1890 to

Mary Elizabeth Whiteside (#7, P3)

Born Nov. 15, 1866, Morristown, Tennessee; died December 7, 1944, Morristown, Tennessee. Children: Margaret Lonas, Harris Whiteside, and John Edward. Burial in Jarnigan Cemetery. See Biographical Section.

Parents of Constance. O’Keefe #5

William Henry O’Keefe (#8, M3)

Born February 21, 1859, Jonesboro, Tennessee; died March 5, 1937, Greeneville, Tennessee; interred Oak Grove Cemetery. Prominent in Freemasonry, he was past Grand Illustrious Master of the Grand Council of Tennessee in 1932. See Biographical Section.

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The original Crockett Tavern in Morristown, Tennessee, was destroyed by the ravages of the years and fire. By the 1930’s, it was long gone but not forgotten. Members of the local Daughters of the American Revolution, under the leadership of Sarah Dougherty, Meta Goodson, and Constance Helms, saw an opportunity to restore this structure as timbers from dozens of log cabins along the Holston River became available. Dismantled for the embayment of the Cherokee Lake, these logs were carefully stored until they were used to erect the present structure. It is a popular tourist attraction in that city, its authentic character, preserving the memory of those pioneer people who opened the Tennessee and Kentucky frontier from 1750 to the 1800’s.

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Photograph 2: The children of John Edward and Margaret Lones Helms as young adults. Standing, from the left, are Lucy, William Thomas, Arthur, and Sally. Lucy and Sally are the twins. Sitting in front are Alice and John Edward. Ashby was not present. The cross on the vest chain identifies the minister, William Thomas.

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Crampton-

This letter is one of many in The Papers of Andrew Johnson. Book 1. 1821-1851, pp 490-491. I thought you would be interested in his interest in John E. Helms. Hope all is well with you. We are still working on AJ. Bob is doing a book—Best to You—

Louise Orr

Louise Robinson Orr of Greeneville, Tennessee, so typical of the accomplished ladies of that city, sent the author this copy of correspondence from President Andrew Johnson regarding the author’s great-grandfather, John E. Helms. Johnson was a friend of the editor Helms. Both were opposed to slavery and were Democrats. They remained friends after the War between the States, President Johnson writing him a letter of best wishes on his beginning the family tenure with the Morristown Gazette. Mrs. Orr was assisting her son in researching the life of the president.

Married: October 17, 1888, to

Quincy Loretta Marshall (#9, M3)

Born May 22, 1866, in the mountains of southwestern Virginia, with the unsurrendered remnant of the Confederate army; died February 17, 1958, Greeneville, Tennessee; interred Oak Grove Cemetery. They had four children: Edith Ingles, Constance Loretta, Mary Draper, and Martha Washington. See Biographical Section.

Fourth Generation

Time Line: 1852 to 1820

Presidents. Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore, Zachary Taylor, James K. Polk, John Tyler, William Harrison, Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams.

Wars. The Mexican war, the Creek Indian wars

Socioeconomic features. Trans Allegheny Railroads are built; the removal of the southeastern Indians by presidential fiat and the Trail of Tears. The Potato Famine in Ireland (1845-1850). Population of Ireland dropped by 25 percent.

Parents of J. E. Helms, Sr. #6

John Edward Helms (#10, P4)

Born April 3, 1827, in Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia, and came with his father’s family to Knoxville about 1833 (Confederate Veteran, Vol. xv, Jan. 1907, no. 1); moved to Morristown about 1866 to publish the Morristown Gazette; died August 25, 1906, Morristown, Tennessee; interred Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tennessee. See Biographical Section.

Married: November 17, 1847, to

Margaret Lawson Lones (#11 P4)

Born December 2, 1829, Knoxville, Tennessee; died January 2, 1878, Morristown, Tennessee. Interred at Gray Cemetery, Knoxville. They had eight children: Alice Coe, William Thomas, Margaret, John Edward Jr., Arthur Crosier, Ashby, Lucy Maye and Sally Maye (twins). See Biographical Section.

Parents of Mary E. Whiteside #7

Foster Whiteside (#12, P4)

Born January 24, 1836, in Pikeville, Tennessee, and was a mere lad when the family moved to Chattanooga. (Genealogy of the Johnson Family and Connections, Allen; published by Mrs. Helen Betts Miller, 1967). Died June 21, 1897, Morristown, Tennessee; interred in City Cemetery, Morristown, Tennessee.

Married: 1859 to

Sarah Miranda Harris (#13, P4)

Born July 22, 1838, Panther Springs, Tennessee; died October 30, 1907, Morristown, Tennessee; Interred City Cemetery. They had five children: Effie Maria, Crampton Harris, Mary Elizabeth, Jennie Maria, and James Anderson. See Biographical Section.

Parents of W. H. O’Keefe #8

Cornelius Thomas O’Keefe (#14, M4)

Born in Glengarriff, County Cork, Ireland, 1825; embarked from Liverpool on board the Parthenon, and arrived in New Orleans, June 27, 1847. He was naturalized in 1847, in Nashville, Tennessee. He served the Confederacy in the Georgia Militia, in the Battle of Atlanta. In 1865, he departed Atlanta for Tampa, Florida, to investigate the possibility of opening a store in that city. Mysteriously, he never returned. Also on the Parthenon were two brothers O’Keeffe (note he spelled his name thus, at that time): Martin, aged 29, and Daniel, aged 19. Daniel went to Augusta, where he became a physician. He has been called the Father of the Atlanta Public School System. An 1860 census shows a Martin O’Keeffe in Davidson County, Tennessee. See appendix 277-282.

Married: December 3, 1857, in Knoxville, Tennessee, to

Sarah H. Ingles (#15, M4)

Born November 18, 1832, in Augusta County, Virginia; died November 26, 1886, Greeneville, Tennessee; interred Oak Grove Cemetery, Greeneville, Tennessee. Children were William Henry and Mary Draper. See appendix.

Parents of Q. L. Marshall #9

John Coleman Marshall (#16, M4)

See Biographical Section. Dr. John Coleman Marshall was born at Orange Courthouse, Virginia, in 1820, and was educated at William and Mary College. He attended medical college in Pennsylvania. He had been practicing in Greene County some time before the Civil War. He enlisted in the Confederate Army, and was commissioned Captain in the Twelfth battalion Tennessee. After the war he practiced medicine in Greene County, where he died December 16, 1878 (The Centennial History of the Tennessee State Medical Association, edited by Philip M. Hamer, 1930, page 233).

Married to

Martha Washington Arnold (#17, M4)

Born 1836, Greeneville, Tennessee; died 1920, Greeneville, Tennessee; interred Oak Grove Cemetery. Their children were Quincy Loretta O’Keefe, Frances Fox, Edith Rosenblatt, Flora Gouchenour, and Elizabeth Landstreet. See Biographical Section. The last names listed are their married names. Oak Grove Cemetery: Marshall monument: dates Dr. J. C. Marshall, 1823-1879. The 1820-1878 dates are from The Centennial History of the Tennessee State Medical Association (Phillip M. Hammer, 1930). My grandmother, Q. M. O’Keefe, said she was twelve years old when he died; she was born in May 1866, which makes the 1878 date of death correct. I suspect that the tombstone in Oak Grove is incorrect. CHH, MD

Fifth Generation

Time Line: 1820 to 1790.

Presidents. James Monroe, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington

Wars. The War of 1812.

Socioeconomic features. Alabama statehood (1819), Mississippi statehood (1817), Louisiana Purchase (1803), Tennessee statehood (1796), Kentucky statehood (1792)

Parents of John E. Helms #10

William Spencer Helms (#18, P5)

Born in Fincastle, Bottetourt County, Virginia, 1794; moved to Knoxville about 1833; died in Morristown, Tennessee, in 1875. Buried in Old Gray Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee. See Biographical Section.

Married Wednesday evening, September 4, 1823, to

Alicia Maria Sharrocks (#19, P5)

Virginia Vital Records no. 1, 1600s-1800s gives the date of their marriage as September 13, 1823. The family Bible gives the date as September 4. The wedding was in Botetourt County. Born Litchfield, England, before 1793; died Knoxville, Tennessee, 1852; interred Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville. Children: John E., William T., Elizabeth Andrews. See Biographical Section.

Parents of Margaret L. Lones #11

John Lonas* (#20, P5)

Born March 25, 1799, Knoxville, Tennessee. Died January 25, 1850, Knoxville, Tennessee. See Biographical Section.

Married: January 23, 1823, to

Eveline Hillsman** (#21, P5)

Born in July 1804, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Died in Knoxville, November 17, 1829 (?). This date must be wrong; the mother would have died sixteen days before the daughter was born! She probably died as a result of the birth of her daughter, Margaret! See Biographical Section.

Parents of Foster Whiteside #12

Col. James Anderson Whiteside (#22, P5)

Born September 1, 1803, near Danville, Kentucky, in Pulaski County. The family removed from that locality and settled at Monroe, Overton County, when James was about ten. He moved to Ross’s Landing, now Chattanooga, in 1838. He practiced law, although he had aspired to medicine, and amassed a considerable fortune before he died on November 12, 1861. He is interred in Forest Hills Cemetery in Chattanooga. See Biographical Section. Married February 5, 1829 (first marriage and our line of descent) to

Mary Jane Massengale (#23, P5)

Born May 17, 1812, in Grainger County, Tennessee, and raised in that part of East Tennessee. Died April 12, 1843, near Knoxville, Tennessee; interred in Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga. Their children were John B., Penelope P., Anderson, Foster,; and Thankful Anderson. See Biographical Section.

Parents of Sarah Miranda Harris #13

Dr. Crampton Smith Harris (#24, P5)

Born June 6, 1802, at the home of his parents near Jonesboro, Tennessee. Built Limestone, the family home near Morristown about 1834. Died August 26, 1883; interred at Panther Springs Methodist Church (now a Baptist church). See Biographical Section.

Married: 1838 to

Maria Jane McFarland (#25, P5)

Born August 6, 1812, in present-day Hamblen County, Tennessee. Died August 10, 1879, interred at Panther Springs Cemetery, near Morristown. They had two surviving children: John Crampton and Sarah Miranda. See Biographical Section.

Parents of Cornelius Thomas O’Keefe #14: unknown

All records of the family were destroyed by the Great Fire of Atlanta during the closing days of the War between the States, when the O’Keefe home was burned to the ground. See the column of Q. M. O. in the Biographical Section. However, the names of both Cornelius Thomas and his brother, Cornelius Daniel, tie the family to Bishop Cornelius O’Keeffe, the bishop of Limerick from 1720 until his death in 1735. During the height of the Penal Laws and resultant persecution, the Catholic Church of Rome appointed Cornelius of the Glenville-Rathcormac-sect of the O’Keeffes. His family tree was traced back to a line of O’Keeffe Chieftains and Kings by Fr. Eoghan O’Keeffe the Genealogist (1656-1726). Cromwell evicted Denis (the bishop’s father) from his estate at Glenville. When evicted, the family after much pain and suffering, finally found refuge on a thirty-acre hill farm at Templeglantine, County Limerick on the estate of William Courtney Sr. The estate according to Fr. T. O. Muirthile SP (Glor Inse Ban 1994) seemed to have been a favorite refuge for despoiled Gaels. The bishop was the youngest of six boys. The family descendants were in Templeglantine until the 1950s and claimed the Fermoy O’Keeffe Chieftains connection right up to the end (From The O’Keeffe Chalice, Paten, and Altar Stone by Dan O’Keeffe). The wife of Denis O’Keeffe was Hanora Daly. There can be little doubt that Cornelius Thomas O’Keeffe descended from the line of the Glenville O’Keeffes.

Parents of Sarah Ingles #15

Capt. William Ingles (#26, M5)

Born January 11, 1795, in Virginia, and is recorded in the Tennessee Census of 1850, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Died (?). Was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Knoxville, Tennessee

Married: September 22, 1818, in Augusta County, Virginia to

Elizabeth R. Betsy Crawford (#27, M5)

Born ca. 1798, in Augusta County, Virginia; died August 4, 1862, in Knoxville. Children were John, Elizabeth, Margaret, Rebecca, Cyrus, Sarah, Marshall, William Jr., and Mary.

Parents of John Coleman Marshall #16

Coleman Marshall (#28, M5)

Born August 20, 1790, probably at Culpepper, Virginia, from whence his father (Thomas) had moved when the children were quite young. He grew up near Orange Court House, where he lived until 1825, in which year he assisted in managing the estate of his father-in-law, Nicholas Bickers. He moved to East Tennessee sometime after his son, John Coleman Marshall, was born, He first came to Flat Creek, a stream emptying into the Holston River near present-day Mascot, Tennessee, where he established an inn. When a small child, the author’s mother used to point out the brick house where this original inn stood, near Blaine, Tennessee, on Old US11W. From there, he moved to Jefferson County at Mossy Creek (present-day Jefferson City) because of Indian troubles with the Cherokee. He was a member of the Richland Church and of the Mossy Creek Baptist Church. He died June 8, 1874. The site of interment is not known.

Married: August 3, 1815, in Orange County, Virginia to

Joanna Bickers (#29, M5)

Born March 2, 1793, Orange County, Virginia. Died after her husband. (Before long Joanna Bickers Marshall followed him in death (Katherine Taylor Horner.) Their children were Thomas W., Mary Jane, John Coleman, Sarah