Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameJohn BRAKEBILL 47
Birth Date17 Apr 1798
Birth PlaceSullivan County, Tennessee
MemoU.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Death Date5 Oct 1859 Age: 61
Death PlaceBlount County, Tennessee
MemoU.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Burial PlaceBlount County, Tennessee, Brakebill Cemetery
OccupationWar Of 1812 Soldier, Prosperous Farmer
FatherPeter BRAKEBILL , 178 (1760-1844)
MotherKatherine ROREX , 179 (1760-1850)
Spouses
Birth Date16 Oct 1798
Birth PlaceBlount County, Tennessee
Death Date25 Mar 1877 Age: 78
Death PlaceBlount County, Tennessee
Burial PlaceBlount County, Tennessee, Brakebill Cemetery
Family ID75
Marr Date17 Feb 1817
Marr PlaceBlount County, Tennessee
Marr MemoTennessee, Compiled Marriages, 1784-1825
ChildrenHenry (1817-1884)
 Katherine (1819-1892)
 Peter (1820-1909)
 Anna (1822-1893)
 Susan (1824-1907)
 Margaret E. (1826-1906)
 Elizabeth Margaret (1827-1884)
 Sarah (1829-1920)
 James M. (1831-1851)
 Lucinda (1832-1873)
 Adam (1835-1895)
 John A. (1836-1913)
 Martha Jane (1837-1925)
 Caroline (1840-1927)
 Sarepta (1842-1880)
 Selena (1845-1932)
Notes for John BRAKEBILL
BD Also Listed 11 Mar 1798

Johannes was anglicized to John because all of the Brakebills were patriotic Americans and they desired to speak the language of their country.

When Peter Breakbill died in 1844, he and his wife, were living with their son, John, on the John Brakebill farm on Nails Creek. Because there were very few church cemeteries in 1844, it was general custom to bury the early pioneers on the property where they lived. Thus, Peter Brakebill was the first person to be buried in the Brakebill Cemetery on Nails Creek, across from the present day Cedar Grove Baptist Church. Several members of the Brakebill family are buried in the small Brakebill Family Cemetery.

The burials in the Brakebill Cemetery on Bays Mountain, just north from Nails Creek, nine and one-half miles northeast from Maryville, Tennessee, are from the Parham Cemetery Records, pages 13-14, published in 1947 by Will E. Parham, a noted genealogist who lived in Maryville, Tenessee. He did extensive research on the Brakebill Families. His records may be found in the McClung Room of the Lawson-McGhee Library, Knoxville, Tenneessee.47

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Marriages of Blount CO TN 1795-1859

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