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Wataugan Ancestors

Please list your Wataugan ancestors and if possible, where their families migrated to!

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Permalink Reply by Lynn A. Gerving on May 21, 2014 at 4:14pm

Hi, I'm Lynn Gerving and the sixth gr-grand daughter of John Waddell. I just found this site, I had no idea it existed. My gr-gr grandmother, Mary Waddell Davis came to Humboldt Co., CA with her husband, John B. Davis. She was the only member of the family I know of to have come to CA.

Permalink Reply by David Erin Patrick on June 1, 2014 at 3:37am

While I have family ties to several other members of the Watauga Association, Christopher Columbus Cunningham Sr. is my 5th Great Grandfather by way of my father's mother. Currently, many of us are living on the West Coast of the US.

Permalink Reply by Rebekah Williams Cessna on October 23, 2014 at 9:59am

Michael Hyder and is wife Elizabeth Wood through daughter, Mary Polly who married Jesse Millsaps. I am directly descended from three of their children. Triphenia who married William Williams, Jemima who married William Harris and Andrew whose 1st wife is unknown. My folks ended up in Monroe and McMinn Counties, except me, I was born in Texas!

Baptist McNabb and his son David McNabb, David's wife, Elizabeth Taylor and her parents Andrew Taylor Sr. and Elizabeth Wilson. David McNabb is my Patriot ancestor that I became a DAR member with. Again they ended up in McMinn Co. David's son Alban married Rebecca ?, their daughter, Mary Ann married James Taylor Burns, their son Charlie Taylor Burns married Lillie Harris, their daughter Grace married Charles RAY Williams and these are my paternal grandparents.

I'm trying to find out William WIlliams ancestry to see if he is descended from any Williamses who were part of the settlement. His son, James married Susannah Blair. I'm also looking into Susannah's ancestry. Wouldlove help in these two areas. Also looking for any of the Hannah family in the area.

Permalink Reply by April Lee Payne on April 16, 2015 at 5:25pm

Hi, I am April Lee Payne. My sixth great-grandfather was John Sevier. He, as some might know, founded the failed state of Franklin, before it became Tennessee. He remained in East Tennessee for the most part, although he died in Alabama while on a Congressional expedition to ascertain the boundary between the Creek Nation and Alabama. My sixth great-grandmother was John's first wife, Sarah Jane Hawkins. Together they had ten children. Five boys and five girls. Their fourth son, Valentine married Mary Arnett. They had two children.

Valentine's son, also named John Sevier, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. Got married in Cumberland, Kentucky to Anna Friend and eventually settled in Brown, Illinois where he died. His daughter, Helen Elender Sevier was born in Covington Co., Kentucky, got married in Pike, Illinois to Daniel Washington Herring and died in Elsmore, Allen, Kansas. This seems to be where the family settled for a time. My own father was born in KC, Kansas. Had my paternal grandmother not been ill with TB, of which she died, and had her physician not suggested my grandfather move her to a different climate, I may not have been born in California.

So while my sixth great-grandfather has been credited for pushing into the "original wild west", seems his direct line has made it all the way west to the coast.

Permalink Reply by April Lee Payne on December 8, 2016 at 12:13pm

I forgot to mention last year, that the Seviers came from the Shenandoah Valley in the Great Colony of Virginia.

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