Jeremiah Proctor's remains are not actually located in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Scottsboro. He was buried in the Proctor Family Cemetery in nearby Maynard Cove. Although the present-day Proctor Family Cemetery has a number of marked and unmarked graves that date back into the 1800s, this is not the ORIGINAL Proctor Family Cemetery. The original cemetery lies in an adjacent field and is no longer marked with any stones. This original cemetery fell into disrepair and the stones -- many of them crude fieldstone/limestone markers of the earliest pioneers -- were eventually piled up and overgrown with blackberry bushes. All that remains today are just a few small stone fragments on a low rise in a corn field. In the mid-20th century, some of the legible tombstones were moved to at least two different cemeteries: Cedar Hill Cemetery in Scottsboro and Harmony Cemetery near the head of Mud Creek in nearby Fackler.
In June 1959, Annie Elizabeth Coleman Proctor -- family historian, wife of Jeremiah Proctor's great-grandson Jesse Alexander Proctor, and a member of the Thomas Gold Chapter of the National Society United States Daughters of 1812 -- applied for a government War of 1812 marker for Jeremiah at the Proctor Family Cemetery. At some later date, this marker was moved to Cedar Hill Cemetery, as were markers for several other family members including his wife, Jane Davis Proctor, and her father, William Davis.
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Around 1800 Jeremiah was living near his father Micajah in eastern Kentucky; they are both listed on the tax rolls 1792-1801. Jeremiah Proctor was a soldier in the War of 1812 in Tennessee. It is known that in 1818 he was still residing in Tennessee as that is where his daughter Eliza Jane was born. By 1825, with the birth of his daughter Elizabeth Ann, the Jeremiah Proctor family had settled in Jackson County, Alabama. Jeremiah is listed in the Jackson Co. census of 1830, where he died in 1839.
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On the evening and night of Monday, March 21, 1932, a historic tornado outbreak struck in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, killing hundreds. In Jackson County, Alabama, 32 people were killed and hundreds injured. Jeremiah Proctor's home was among the many damaged or destroyed, and the Family Bible -- the repository of most genealogical information -- was blown away during this storm. Only a few pages were ever found. This event was the impetus for family historian Annie Elizabeth Coleman Proctor to spearhead a massive genealogy project to gather family data from extended family members throughout the country. The Annie E. Coleman Proctor Collection is permanently archived in the Scottsboro, Alabama library.
In June 1959, Annie Elizabeth Coleman Proctor -- family historian, wife of Jeremiah Proctor's great-grandson Jesse Alexander Proctor, and a member of the Thomas Gold Chapter of the National Society United States Daughters of 1812 -- applied for a government War of 1812 marker for Jeremiah at the Proctor Family Cemetery. At some later date, this marker was moved to Cedar Hill Cemetery, as were markers for several other family members including his wife, Jane Davis Proctor, and her father, William Davis.
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Around 1800 Jeremiah was living near his father Micajah in eastern Kentucky; they are both listed on the tax rolls 1792-1801. Jeremiah Proctor was a soldier in the War of 1812 in Tennessee. It is known that in 1818 he was still residing in Tennessee as that is where his daughter Eliza Jane was born. By 1825, with the birth of his daughter Elizabeth Ann, the Jeremiah Proctor family had settled in Jackson County, Alabama. Jeremiah is listed in the Jackson Co. census of 1830, where he died in 1839.
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Note:
On the evening and night of Monday, March 21, 1932, a historic tornado outbreak struck in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, killing hundreds. In Jackson County, Alabama, 32 people were killed and hundreds injured. Jeremiah Proctor's home was among the many damaged or destroyed, and the Family Bible -- the repository of most genealogical information -- was blown away during this storm. Only a few pages were ever found. This event was the impetus for family historian Annie Elizabeth Coleman Proctor to spearhead a massive genealogy project to gather family data from extended family members throughout the country. The Annie E. Coleman Proctor Collection is permanently archived in the Scottsboro, Alabama library.
Jeremiah Proctor's remains are not actually located in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Scottsboro. He was buried in the Proctor Family Cemetery in nearby Maynard Cove. Although the present-day Proctor Family Cemetery has a number of marked and unmarked graves that date back into the 1800s, this is not the ORIGINAL Proctor Family Cemetery. The original cemetery lies in an adjacent field and is no longer marked with any stones. This original cemetery fell into disrepair and the stones -- many of them crude fieldstone/limestone markers of the earliest pioneers -- were eventually piled up and overgrown with blackberry bushes. All that remains today are just a few small stone fragments on a low rise in a corn field. In the mid-20th century, some of the legible tombstones were moved to at least two different cemeteries: Cedar Hill Cemetery in Scottsboro and Harmony Cemetery near the head of Mud Creek in nearby Fackler.
In June 1959, Annie Elizabeth Coleman Proctor -- family historian, wife of Jeremiah Proctor's great-grandson Jesse Alexander Proctor, and a member of the Thomas Gold Chapter of the National Society United States Daughters of 1812 -- applied for a government War of 1812 marker for Jeremiah at the Proctor Family Cemetery. At some later date, this marker was moved to Cedar Hill Cemetery, as were markers for several other family members including his wife, Jane Davis Proctor, and her father, William Davis.
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Around 1800 Jeremiah was living near his father Micajah in eastern Kentucky; they are both listed on the tax rolls 1792-1801. Jeremiah Proctor was a soldier in the War of 1812 in Tennessee. It is known that in 1818 he was still residing in Tennessee as that is where his daughter Eliza Jane was born. By 1825, with the birth of his daughter Elizabeth Ann, the Jeremiah Proctor family had settled in Jackson County, Alabama. Jeremiah is listed in the Jackson Co. census of 1830, where he died in 1839.
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Note:
On the evening and night of Monday, March 21, 1932, a historic tornado outbreak struck in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, killing hundreds. In Jackson County, Alabama, 32 people were killed and hundreds injured. Jeremiah Proctor's home was among the many damaged or destroyed, and the Family Bible -- the repository of most genealogical information -- was blown away during this storm. Only a few pages were ever found. This event was the impetus for family historian Annie Elizabeth Coleman Proctor to spearhead a massive genealogy project to gather family data from extended family members throughout the country. The Annie E. Coleman Proctor Collection is permanently archived in the Scottsboro, Alabama library.
In June 1959, Annie Elizabeth Coleman Proctor -- family historian, wife of Jeremiah Proctor's great-grandson Jesse Alexander Proctor, and a member of the Thomas Gold Chapter of the National Society United States Daughters of 1812 -- applied for a government War of 1812 marker for Jeremiah at the Proctor Family Cemetery. At some later date, this marker was moved to Cedar Hill Cemetery, as were markers for several other family members including his wife, Jane Davis Proctor, and her father, William Davis.
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Around 1800 Jeremiah was living near his father Micajah in eastern Kentucky; they are both listed on the tax rolls 1792-1801. Jeremiah Proctor was a soldier in the War of 1812 in Tennessee. It is known that in 1818 he was still residing in Tennessee as that is where his daughter Eliza Jane was born. By 1825, with the birth of his daughter Elizabeth Ann, the Jeremiah Proctor family had settled in Jackson County, Alabama. Jeremiah is listed in the Jackson Co. census of 1830, where he died in 1839.
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Note:
On the evening and night of Monday, March 21, 1932, a historic tornado outbreak struck in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, killing hundreds. In Jackson County, Alabama, 32 people were killed and hundreds injured. Jeremiah Proctor's home was among the many damaged or destroyed, and the Family Bible -- the repository of most genealogical information -- was blown away during this storm. Only a few pages were ever found. This event was the impetus for family historian Annie Elizabeth Coleman Proctor to spearhead a massive genealogy project to gather family data from extended family members throughout the country. The Annie E. Coleman Proctor Collection is permanently archived in the Scottsboro, Alabama library.
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JEREMIAH PROCTOR
TENNESSEE
PVT 1 REGT WEST TENN MILITIA
WAR OF 1812
1777 - 1839
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