Walked to Nashville to join Capt. John Kennedy's company to fight the British in the War of 1812.
Married Mahala Taylor (1792-1844) on 10/9/1817 in Jefferson Co., to their union 9 children were born. They are: Amanda M., Caroline M, Permenas T., Elvira A., Elizabeth C., Lisbourn George, Mary Jane, Miranda A., & Cinderella L.
Some years after Mahara died, he married the widow of James Hays, Corcas Hays, on 10/24/1855.
John died at age 79, from blood poisoning, as the results of a serious injury when his ankle was crushed 13 days earlier, in a wooden barge accident on the French Broad River.
Walked to Nashville to join Capt. John Kennedy's company to fight the British in the War of 1812.
Married Mahala Taylor (1792-1844) on 10/9/1817 in Jefferson Co., to their union 9 children were born. They are: Amanda M., Caroline M, Permenas T., Elvira A., Elizabeth C., Lisbourn George, Mary Jane, Miranda A., & Cinderella L.
Some years after Mahara died, he married the widow of James Hays, Corcas Hays, on 10/24/1855.
John died at age 79, from blood poisoning, as the results of a serious injury when his ankle was crushed 13 days earlier, in a wooden barge accident on the French Broad River.
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