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This likely won't mean much to anybody, but my sixth great-grandmother's gravesite has been lost, practically since she was buried in the spring of 1780. She had just given birth to her tenth child and was suffering complications, when the family got word of an Indian uprising. It was necessary for them to 'fort'. John got his wife and ten children to the fort, six very bumpy miles, away. Sarah didn't fare too well, but she made it. Early one morning she passed away. That same evening, she was buried in the forest near the fort. The militia, including her husband and their ten children, snuck into said forest after evening had fallen. Sarah was buried before midnight amidst thunderstorms, lightning and rain. The men were very careful to smooth over the gravesite so that the Cherokee wouldn't find it and defile it, scattering leaves over the spot to make it appear untouched. Problem is, they did too good a job. John couldn't find the spot later on.
To this date, nobody has really known where she was laid to rest. While John and his second wife were re-interred in the lawn of the Old Knoxville County courthouse, Sarah merely has a marker next to her husband. If there are remains, it would be very timely to re-inter her as well. She was his first wife, after all, and since they married when he was only 16, she 15, she helped to shape him into the man he became.
The Family Reunion is set for 29 June to 1 July. On Saturday 30 June, two of the men who did the research will give a talk on what they did. Also, the family will be given a guided tour to the newly discovered gravesite! Besides flowers, I'm bringing a box of tissue.
I am totally beside myself. Thanking God for this momentous discovery! What an announcement for my very first family reunion! (My first time to attend, that is. The family has been doing this bi-annually since 1957.)
To this date, nobody has really known where she was laid to rest. While John and his second wife were re-interred in the lawn of the Old Knoxville County courthouse, Sarah merely has a marker next to her husband. If there are remains, it would be very timely to re-inter her as well. She was his first wife, after all, and since they married when he was only 16, she 15, she helped to shape him into the man he became.
The Family Reunion is set for 29 June to 1 July. On Saturday 30 June, two of the men who did the research will give a talk on what they did. Also, the family will be given a guided tour to the newly discovered gravesite! Besides flowers, I'm bringing a box of tissue.
I am totally beside myself. Thanking God for this momentous discovery! What an announcement for my very first family reunion! (My first time to attend, that is. The family has been doing this bi-annually since 1957.)
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I hope Sarah finally gets a proper burial.
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It's said they left sometime after the 27th of November and arrived at their destination, the Island on the Holston, on 25 Dec. 1773. We're talking three weeks on bumpy roads that weren't really roads but mostly Indian trails, through backwoods, Indian hunting grounds, etc. . This area was part of North Carolina, at the time, but eventually became East Tennessee. It was the furthest fringe of the colonies. About as far west, at that time, the white men had forged. I believe in my heart my sixth great-grandfather would be gratified to know his descendants moved even further west over time. My grandson was born in Honolulu, HI. What a legacy, eh?
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5th GGfather was born around Bedford VA in 1753, he died in Knox Co, TN on 17 June 1830.
They didn't travel the same route as yours, but they were very close and about the same time.
Wow, that's quite a story you've got! My seventh great-grandmother may have been a Quakeress. Jury is still out. This would be the mother of Sarah, also named Sarah. I have a Hawkins relative who tipped my world over with that revelation. I'm now wondering if the will presented as that of Sarah's father was indeed my Joseph Hawkins' will! One thread pulled is all it takes sometimes, to unravel the entire sweater. Yikes. Bedford County is where my sixth great-grandfather's maternal grandparents were from. John Goad (pronounced good). That branch is a mess, currently. I have lots of 'weeding' to do. LOL Many Virginians made that trek to what became the Southwest Territory, prior to becoming a full fledged state in 1796. It's an interesting story how that state was founded. They started off with their Watauga Association, which was their 'charter' if you will. They decided to self-govern, as Virginia denied they were part of that state, and North Carolina's government was over the mountains and too far away. This group is credited with being the very first white government in the colonies, which were under British rule at the time.
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Yes...I've got some Goads -- a lot of Goads in my familiy. My great-great grandmother was a Goad. (Her father was a John Goad married to Lucretia Phillips -- can't access ancestry right now to get dates/town).
We could be related.
Edit: I sent you a PM