Name: Isaac Conger
Sex: M
Birth: 08 NOV 1779 in Rowan Co., North Carolina
Burial: Conger Cemetery, Fayetteville, Lincoln, TN
Death: 30 MAR 1847 in Lincoln Co., Tennessee
Note:
FOUND ON TN GEN WEB SITE
Nashville Christian Advocate, May 21, 1847
Rev. ISAAC CONGER born Rowan Co., N.C., Nov. 8, 1779; moved to Lincoln Co., Tenn., 1799; joined Methodist Church, 1804; licensed to preach in Methodist Church, 1810; ordained deacon, 1814; ordained elder, 1821; local preacher;. he "left" $500 to the American Bible Society. Died March 30, 1847.
From the 1911 book by Anne Mims Wright:
A Record of the Descendants of Isaac Ross and Jean Brown and the Allied Families.
"As to a sketch of my grandfather, I am unable to give you very much. My father, Sion Moores Conger, died when I was 12 years of age, and, being the last of his race - a very modest man, with quit manner, seldom speaking except questioned - it happened that I learned very little from him about his father or antecedents.
Through letters which I found in grandfather's library, from his relatives and from mother, I learned the following:
Isaac Conger, son of John Conger, Jr., and Mary Ross, left his home in Rowan County, N. C., and went to Kentucky, after the death of his mother, and was for a time with his uncle and aunt (Henry Moores married Jane Ross.) He married Mary Moores, his cousin, and came to Tennessee, settling in Lincoln County, around 1800, which was then a canebrake wilderness.
They were both deeply religious, and members of the Methodist Church. Their home was about seven miles from Fayetteville, and their nearest neighbor was four miles away.
Jane Brown Moores (b. 1800 - Mary's youngest sister) lived with them (she died a spinster in 1858) about 1800 or 1810. Isaac became convinced that he must preach the Gospel, and so decided. So he made preparation, and was licensed by the Elk Conference in 1811. I have some of his diaries, kept while at this work, that indicate that his wife strenuously opposed his missionary work, which greatly depressed him. Being, however, deeply impressed with responsibility of saving sinners, he persisted in the work while his helath would permit, preaching and teaching whereever he went. His usual circuit covered the territory now occupied by eight or more counties, and did not seem to be confined to that especial territory, for he preached at times in almost every settlement the State.
Sometimes he took horseback trips to Kentucky and Ohio and visted relatives, preaching on the way going and coming. One trip I recall that reached Danville, Ill., where Isaac Ross Moores lived. Several trips were made through West Tennessee and North Mississippi, where Betsy Payne lived, and on down to John B. Conger's home at Grand Gulf, Mississipp, and to New Orleans. He made one or more trips to South Carolina and through North Georgia, and I recall reading about his being for a time with Lorenzo Dow, and mention of his "powerful preaching." I think I have now a letter to the home folks describing Mammoth Cave, which he visited on one of his trips to Kentucky. One trip to North Carolina is mentioned in a fragment of an old diary about 1812, that refers to having received news, when about half way home on the return, of the death of one of the children, (Matilda, perhaps.)
Isaac "entered" several bodies of land in what is now Lincoln County, and purchased others, and held oat one time some large tracts. Various frms were sold later, and my brothers, D. L., Charles and R. A., live on the old home place, which has not been changed in many years comprising now about 1300 acres.
About 1815 he built what has been said to have been the first brick house in the county, sending to North Carolina and Virginia for the artisans. This house still stands and is part of the old home, has had little repairs except roofing, and the first roof lasted over fifty years. He built a log church near his home about the same time, which still stands, unused, however. He was very energetic, doing much of the work of building himself. Was an untiring preacher, often preaching twelve to fifteen sermons a week, and rarely less than two hours at a time. He died in 1847. He was opposed to slavery, and "turned his members out of society" for "trading in black meat." His wife survived him ten years, dying in 1857. Her maiden sister, who had always lived with them, died in 1858, and my father, Sion M., being the last of his race, decided to get married. He was married in 1859, at the age of nearly 49. He was a planter, and following the custom of the times, was a slave owner, as was also his aunt, Jane Brown Moores. Being possessed of considerable lands in cultivation, and having inherited the slaves belonging to his aunt as well as his own, he had at the outbreak of the Civil War perhaps thirty slaves to til his soil." ILIFF CONGER
Father: John C. Conger Jr. b: 1734 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Mother: Mary "Polly" Ross b: 28 JAN 1751 in North Carolina
Marriage 1 Mary Ross Moores b: 15 NOV 1782 in North Carolina
Married: DEC 1800 in Lincoln Co., Tennessee
Children
Nancy Conger b: 1804 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Malinda Conger b: 1806 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Matilda Conger b: 1807 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Has No Children Delilah Conger b: 1808 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Sion Moores Conger b: 1810 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Felix H. Conger b: 1812 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Isaac Conger b: 1817 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Isaac Conger (93828536)
Suggested edit: Jonathan Conger (1732-1793) Memorial # 23762305 is not the farther of this Isaac Conger. This Isaac Conger's father was John Conger, Jr. 1751-1793 (grave site unknown at this time.)
Jonatha Conger Memorial #23762305 mentioned above is actually there father of Isaac Conger (1759-1831) Memorial #6074815 - I will use Suggest Edit option on his memorial to make suggested edits there.
Contributor: Marlene Simoneaux (47829411) • [email protected]
Sex: M
Birth: 08 NOV 1779 in Rowan Co., North Carolina
Burial: Conger Cemetery, Fayetteville, Lincoln, TN
Death: 30 MAR 1847 in Lincoln Co., Tennessee
Note:
FOUND ON TN GEN WEB SITE
Nashville Christian Advocate, May 21, 1847
Rev. ISAAC CONGER born Rowan Co., N.C., Nov. 8, 1779; moved to Lincoln Co., Tenn., 1799; joined Methodist Church, 1804; licensed to preach in Methodist Church, 1810; ordained deacon, 1814; ordained elder, 1821; local preacher;. he "left" $500 to the American Bible Society. Died March 30, 1847.
From the 1911 book by Anne Mims Wright:
A Record of the Descendants of Isaac Ross and Jean Brown and the Allied Families.
"As to a sketch of my grandfather, I am unable to give you very much. My father, Sion Moores Conger, died when I was 12 years of age, and, being the last of his race - a very modest man, with quit manner, seldom speaking except questioned - it happened that I learned very little from him about his father or antecedents.
Through letters which I found in grandfather's library, from his relatives and from mother, I learned the following:
Isaac Conger, son of John Conger, Jr., and Mary Ross, left his home in Rowan County, N. C., and went to Kentucky, after the death of his mother, and was for a time with his uncle and aunt (Henry Moores married Jane Ross.) He married Mary Moores, his cousin, and came to Tennessee, settling in Lincoln County, around 1800, which was then a canebrake wilderness.
They were both deeply religious, and members of the Methodist Church. Their home was about seven miles from Fayetteville, and their nearest neighbor was four miles away.
Jane Brown Moores (b. 1800 - Mary's youngest sister) lived with them (she died a spinster in 1858) about 1800 or 1810. Isaac became convinced that he must preach the Gospel, and so decided. So he made preparation, and was licensed by the Elk Conference in 1811. I have some of his diaries, kept while at this work, that indicate that his wife strenuously opposed his missionary work, which greatly depressed him. Being, however, deeply impressed with responsibility of saving sinners, he persisted in the work while his helath would permit, preaching and teaching whereever he went. His usual circuit covered the territory now occupied by eight or more counties, and did not seem to be confined to that especial territory, for he preached at times in almost every settlement the State.
Sometimes he took horseback trips to Kentucky and Ohio and visted relatives, preaching on the way going and coming. One trip I recall that reached Danville, Ill., where Isaac Ross Moores lived. Several trips were made through West Tennessee and North Mississippi, where Betsy Payne lived, and on down to John B. Conger's home at Grand Gulf, Mississipp, and to New Orleans. He made one or more trips to South Carolina and through North Georgia, and I recall reading about his being for a time with Lorenzo Dow, and mention of his "powerful preaching." I think I have now a letter to the home folks describing Mammoth Cave, which he visited on one of his trips to Kentucky. One trip to North Carolina is mentioned in a fragment of an old diary about 1812, that refers to having received news, when about half way home on the return, of the death of one of the children, (Matilda, perhaps.)
Isaac "entered" several bodies of land in what is now Lincoln County, and purchased others, and held oat one time some large tracts. Various frms were sold later, and my brothers, D. L., Charles and R. A., live on the old home place, which has not been changed in many years comprising now about 1300 acres.
About 1815 he built what has been said to have been the first brick house in the county, sending to North Carolina and Virginia for the artisans. This house still stands and is part of the old home, has had little repairs except roofing, and the first roof lasted over fifty years. He built a log church near his home about the same time, which still stands, unused, however. He was very energetic, doing much of the work of building himself. Was an untiring preacher, often preaching twelve to fifteen sermons a week, and rarely less than two hours at a time. He died in 1847. He was opposed to slavery, and "turned his members out of society" for "trading in black meat." His wife survived him ten years, dying in 1857. Her maiden sister, who had always lived with them, died in 1858, and my father, Sion M., being the last of his race, decided to get married. He was married in 1859, at the age of nearly 49. He was a planter, and following the custom of the times, was a slave owner, as was also his aunt, Jane Brown Moores. Being possessed of considerable lands in cultivation, and having inherited the slaves belonging to his aunt as well as his own, he had at the outbreak of the Civil War perhaps thirty slaves to til his soil." ILIFF CONGER
Father: John C. Conger Jr. b: 1734 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Mother: Mary "Polly" Ross b: 28 JAN 1751 in North Carolina
Marriage 1 Mary Ross Moores b: 15 NOV 1782 in North Carolina
Married: DEC 1800 in Lincoln Co., Tennessee
Children
Nancy Conger b: 1804 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Malinda Conger b: 1806 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Matilda Conger b: 1807 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Has No Children Delilah Conger b: 1808 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Sion Moores Conger b: 1810 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Felix H. Conger b: 1812 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Isaac Conger b: 1817 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Isaac Conger (93828536)
Suggested edit: Jonathan Conger (1732-1793) Memorial # 23762305 is not the farther of this Isaac Conger. This Isaac Conger's father was John Conger, Jr. 1751-1793 (grave site unknown at this time.)
Jonatha Conger Memorial #23762305 mentioned above is actually there father of Isaac Conger (1759-1831) Memorial #6074815 - I will use Suggest Edit option on his memorial to make suggested edits there.
Contributor: Marlene Simoneaux (47829411) • [email protected]
Name: Isaac Conger
Sex: M
Birth: 08 NOV 1779 in Rowan Co., North Carolina
Burial: Conger Cemetery, Fayetteville, Lincoln, TN
Death: 30 MAR 1847 in Lincoln Co., Tennessee
Note:
FOUND ON TN GEN WEB SITE
Nashville Christian Advocate, May 21, 1847
Rev. ISAAC CONGER born Rowan Co., N.C., Nov. 8, 1779; moved to Lincoln Co., Tenn., 1799; joined Methodist Church, 1804; licensed to preach in Methodist Church, 1810; ordained deacon, 1814; ordained elder, 1821; local preacher;. he "left" $500 to the American Bible Society. Died March 30, 1847.
From the 1911 book by Anne Mims Wright:
A Record of the Descendants of Isaac Ross and Jean Brown and the Allied Families.
"As to a sketch of my grandfather, I am unable to give you very much. My father, Sion Moores Conger, died when I was 12 years of age, and, being the last of his race - a very modest man, with quit manner, seldom speaking except questioned - it happened that I learned very little from him about his father or antecedents.
Through letters which I found in grandfather's library, from his relatives and from mother, I learned the following:
Isaac Conger, son of John Conger, Jr., and Mary Ross, left his home in Rowan County, N. C., and went to Kentucky, after the death of his mother, and was for a time with his uncle and aunt (Henry Moores married Jane Ross.) He married Mary Moores, his cousin, and came to Tennessee, settling in Lincoln County, around 1800, which was then a canebrake wilderness.
They were both deeply religious, and members of the Methodist Church. Their home was about seven miles from Fayetteville, and their nearest neighbor was four miles away.
Jane Brown Moores (b. 1800 - Mary's youngest sister) lived with them (she died a spinster in 1858) about 1800 or 1810. Isaac became convinced that he must preach the Gospel, and so decided. So he made preparation, and was licensed by the Elk Conference in 1811. I have some of his diaries, kept while at this work, that indicate that his wife strenuously opposed his missionary work, which greatly depressed him. Being, however, deeply impressed with responsibility of saving sinners, he persisted in the work while his helath would permit, preaching and teaching whereever he went. His usual circuit covered the territory now occupied by eight or more counties, and did not seem to be confined to that especial territory, for he preached at times in almost every settlement the State.
Sometimes he took horseback trips to Kentucky and Ohio and visted relatives, preaching on the way going and coming. One trip I recall that reached Danville, Ill., where Isaac Ross Moores lived. Several trips were made through West Tennessee and North Mississippi, where Betsy Payne lived, and on down to John B. Conger's home at Grand Gulf, Mississipp, and to New Orleans. He made one or more trips to South Carolina and through North Georgia, and I recall reading about his being for a time with Lorenzo Dow, and mention of his "powerful preaching." I think I have now a letter to the home folks describing Mammoth Cave, which he visited on one of his trips to Kentucky. One trip to North Carolina is mentioned in a fragment of an old diary about 1812, that refers to having received news, when about half way home on the return, of the death of one of the children, (Matilda, perhaps.)
Isaac "entered" several bodies of land in what is now Lincoln County, and purchased others, and held oat one time some large tracts. Various frms were sold later, and my brothers, D. L., Charles and R. A., live on the old home place, which has not been changed in many years comprising now about 1300 acres.
About 1815 he built what has been said to have been the first brick house in the county, sending to North Carolina and Virginia for the artisans. This house still stands and is part of the old home, has had little repairs except roofing, and the first roof lasted over fifty years. He built a log church near his home about the same time, which still stands, unused, however. He was very energetic, doing much of the work of building himself. Was an untiring preacher, often preaching twelve to fifteen sermons a week, and rarely less than two hours at a time. He died in 1847. He was opposed to slavery, and "turned his members out of society" for "trading in black meat." His wife survived him ten years, dying in 1857. Her maiden sister, who had always lived with them, died in 1858, and my father, Sion M., being the last of his race, decided to get married. He was married in 1859, at the age of nearly 49. He was a planter, and following the custom of the times, was a slave owner, as was also his aunt, Jane Brown Moores. Being possessed of considerable lands in cultivation, and having inherited the slaves belonging to his aunt as well as his own, he had at the outbreak of the Civil War perhaps thirty slaves to til his soil." ILIFF CONGER
Father: John C. Conger Jr. b: 1734 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Mother: Mary "Polly" Ross b: 28 JAN 1751 in North Carolina
Marriage 1 Mary Ross Moores b: 15 NOV 1782 in North Carolina
Married: DEC 1800 in Lincoln Co., Tennessee
Children
Nancy Conger b: 1804 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Malinda Conger b: 1806 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Matilda Conger b: 1807 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Has No Children Delilah Conger b: 1808 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Sion Moores Conger b: 1810 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Felix H. Conger b: 1812 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Isaac Conger b: 1817 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Isaac Conger (93828536)
Suggested edit: Jonathan Conger (1732-1793) Memorial # 23762305 is not the farther of this Isaac Conger. This Isaac Conger's father was John Conger, Jr. 1751-1793 (grave site unknown at this time.)
Jonatha Conger Memorial #23762305 mentioned above is actually there father of Isaac Conger (1759-1831) Memorial #6074815 - I will use Suggest Edit option on his memorial to make suggested edits there.
Contributor: Marlene Simoneaux (47829411) • [email protected]
Sex: M
Birth: 08 NOV 1779 in Rowan Co., North Carolina
Burial: Conger Cemetery, Fayetteville, Lincoln, TN
Death: 30 MAR 1847 in Lincoln Co., Tennessee
Note:
FOUND ON TN GEN WEB SITE
Nashville Christian Advocate, May 21, 1847
Rev. ISAAC CONGER born Rowan Co., N.C., Nov. 8, 1779; moved to Lincoln Co., Tenn., 1799; joined Methodist Church, 1804; licensed to preach in Methodist Church, 1810; ordained deacon, 1814; ordained elder, 1821; local preacher;. he "left" $500 to the American Bible Society. Died March 30, 1847.
From the 1911 book by Anne Mims Wright:
A Record of the Descendants of Isaac Ross and Jean Brown and the Allied Families.
"As to a sketch of my grandfather, I am unable to give you very much. My father, Sion Moores Conger, died when I was 12 years of age, and, being the last of his race - a very modest man, with quit manner, seldom speaking except questioned - it happened that I learned very little from him about his father or antecedents.
Through letters which I found in grandfather's library, from his relatives and from mother, I learned the following:
Isaac Conger, son of John Conger, Jr., and Mary Ross, left his home in Rowan County, N. C., and went to Kentucky, after the death of his mother, and was for a time with his uncle and aunt (Henry Moores married Jane Ross.) He married Mary Moores, his cousin, and came to Tennessee, settling in Lincoln County, around 1800, which was then a canebrake wilderness.
They were both deeply religious, and members of the Methodist Church. Their home was about seven miles from Fayetteville, and their nearest neighbor was four miles away.
Jane Brown Moores (b. 1800 - Mary's youngest sister) lived with them (she died a spinster in 1858) about 1800 or 1810. Isaac became convinced that he must preach the Gospel, and so decided. So he made preparation, and was licensed by the Elk Conference in 1811. I have some of his diaries, kept while at this work, that indicate that his wife strenuously opposed his missionary work, which greatly depressed him. Being, however, deeply impressed with responsibility of saving sinners, he persisted in the work while his helath would permit, preaching and teaching whereever he went. His usual circuit covered the territory now occupied by eight or more counties, and did not seem to be confined to that especial territory, for he preached at times in almost every settlement the State.
Sometimes he took horseback trips to Kentucky and Ohio and visted relatives, preaching on the way going and coming. One trip I recall that reached Danville, Ill., where Isaac Ross Moores lived. Several trips were made through West Tennessee and North Mississippi, where Betsy Payne lived, and on down to John B. Conger's home at Grand Gulf, Mississipp, and to New Orleans. He made one or more trips to South Carolina and through North Georgia, and I recall reading about his being for a time with Lorenzo Dow, and mention of his "powerful preaching." I think I have now a letter to the home folks describing Mammoth Cave, which he visited on one of his trips to Kentucky. One trip to North Carolina is mentioned in a fragment of an old diary about 1812, that refers to having received news, when about half way home on the return, of the death of one of the children, (Matilda, perhaps.)
Isaac "entered" several bodies of land in what is now Lincoln County, and purchased others, and held oat one time some large tracts. Various frms were sold later, and my brothers, D. L., Charles and R. A., live on the old home place, which has not been changed in many years comprising now about 1300 acres.
About 1815 he built what has been said to have been the first brick house in the county, sending to North Carolina and Virginia for the artisans. This house still stands and is part of the old home, has had little repairs except roofing, and the first roof lasted over fifty years. He built a log church near his home about the same time, which still stands, unused, however. He was very energetic, doing much of the work of building himself. Was an untiring preacher, often preaching twelve to fifteen sermons a week, and rarely less than two hours at a time. He died in 1847. He was opposed to slavery, and "turned his members out of society" for "trading in black meat." His wife survived him ten years, dying in 1857. Her maiden sister, who had always lived with them, died in 1858, and my father, Sion M., being the last of his race, decided to get married. He was married in 1859, at the age of nearly 49. He was a planter, and following the custom of the times, was a slave owner, as was also his aunt, Jane Brown Moores. Being possessed of considerable lands in cultivation, and having inherited the slaves belonging to his aunt as well as his own, he had at the outbreak of the Civil War perhaps thirty slaves to til his soil." ILIFF CONGER
Father: John C. Conger Jr. b: 1734 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Mother: Mary "Polly" Ross b: 28 JAN 1751 in North Carolina
Marriage 1 Mary Ross Moores b: 15 NOV 1782 in North Carolina
Married: DEC 1800 in Lincoln Co., Tennessee
Children
Nancy Conger b: 1804 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Malinda Conger b: 1806 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Matilda Conger b: 1807 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Has No Children Delilah Conger b: 1808 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Sion Moores Conger b: 1810 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Felix H. Conger b: 1812 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Isaac Conger b: 1817 in Wilson Co., Tennessee
Isaac Conger (93828536)
Suggested edit: Jonathan Conger (1732-1793) Memorial # 23762305 is not the farther of this Isaac Conger. This Isaac Conger's father was John Conger, Jr. 1751-1793 (grave site unknown at this time.)
Jonatha Conger Memorial #23762305 mentioned above is actually there father of Isaac Conger (1759-1831) Memorial #6074815 - I will use Suggest Edit option on his memorial to make suggested edits there.
Contributor: Marlene Simoneaux (47829411) • [email protected]
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