Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameGrizzel "Grace" MATHES 
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266Birth Date?
FatherGeorge MATHES (1741-1788)
MotherNancy Elizabeth WOOD , 181 (1764-1841)
Notes for Grizzel "Grace" MATHES
Genealogies of Virginia Families: From Tyler's Quarterly ..., Volume 1 By Tylers Quarterly Historical and Geneaollogical Magazine
4. GEORGE MATHES. From Lost State of Franklin, by Samuel Cole Williams:
"Occurrences on the Border-1788. On Friday Aug. 8, a party of 31 under Captain Fain, a part of the guard of Houston Station, joined a party of the settlers, crossed the Little Tennessee at a point about nine miles distant. . . . T h e Indians surrounded them, drove them into the river, killed 16 and wounded 4. The Indians had taken possession of the ford, and as the whites endeavored to swim across the stream many were slaughtered in the water." George Mathes was one of the 16 killed.
George Mathes m. Nancy Elizabeth Wood. She m. (2) Anthony Patton, bond issued Aug. 3, 1795.
Children:
i. Grizzie ( o r Grizzel), m. George Clemens.
ii. William, b. July 20, 1787, d. May 25, 1844, said to have been the first white child born in Jonesboro, Term. He was a magistrate and held the office of county trustee; m. Oct. 25, 1808 (Marriage License and Bond Bk., Jeff. Co., Tenn., 1792-1840) Rachel Patton Balch, b. Jan. 12, 1791. d. July 19, 1877, daughter of John Balch, b. 1760. His will dated Mar. 7, 1839, is of record Will Bk. IV, p. 42, Jefferson Co., Tenn. Records.
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4. GEORGE MATHES. From Lost State of Franklin, by Samuel Cole Williams:
"Occurrences on the Border-1788. On Friday Aug. 8, a party of 31 under Captain Fain, a part of the guard of Houston Station, joined a party of the settlers, crossed the Little Tennessee at a point about nine miles distant. . . . T h e Indians surrounded them, drove them into the river, killed 16 and wounded 4. The Indians had taken possession of the ford, and as the whites endeavored to swim across the stream many were slaughtered in the water." George Mathes was one of the 16 killed.
George Mathes m. Nancy Elizabeth Wood. She m. (2) Anthony Patton, bond issued Aug. 3, 1795.
Children:
i. Grizzie ( o r Grizzel), m. George Clemens.
ii. William, b. July 20, 1787, d. May 25, 1844, said to have been the first white child born in Jonesboro, Term. He was a magistrate and held the office of county trustee; m. Oct. 25, 1808 (Marriage License and Bond Bk., Jeff. Co., Tenn., 1792-1840) Rachel Patton Balch, b. Jan. 12, 1791. d. July 19, 1877, daughter of John Balch, b. 1760. His will dated Mar. 7, 1839, is of record Will Bk. IV, p. 42, Jefferson Co., Tenn. Records.
On Ancestry posted by ceejo3.
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Notes for George (Spouse 1)
Genealogies of Virginia Families: From Tyler's Quarterly ..., Volume 1 By Tylers Quarterly Historical and Geneaollogical Magazine
4. GEORGE MATHES. From Lost State of Franklin, by Samuel Cole Williams:
"Occurrences on the Border-1788. On Friday Aug. 8, a party of 31 under Captain Fain, a part of the guard of Houston Station, joined a party of the settlers, crossed the Little Tennessee at a point about nine miles distant. . . . T h e Indians surrounded them, drove them into the river, killed 16 and wounded 4. The Indians had taken possession of the ford, and as the whites endeavored to swim across the stream many were slaughtered in the water." George Mathes was one of the 16 killed.
George Mathes m. Nancy Elizabeth Wood. She m. (2) Anthony Patton, bond issued Aug. 3, 1795.
Children:
i. Grizzie ( o r Grizzel), m. George Clemens.
ii. William, b. July 20, 1787, d. May 25, 1844, said to have been the first white child born in Jonesboro, Term. He was a magistrate and held the office of county trustee; m. Oct. 25, 1808 (Marriage License and Bond Bk., Jeff. Co., Tenn., 1792-1840) Rachel Patton Balch, b. Jan. 12, 1791. d. July 19, 1877, daughter of John Balch, b. 1760. His will dated Mar. 7, 1839, is of record Will Bk. IV, p. 42, Jefferson Co., Tenn. Records.
On Ancestry posted by ceejo3.
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4. GEORGE MATHES. From Lost State of Franklin, by Samuel Cole Williams:
"Occurrences on the Border-1788. On Friday Aug. 8, a party of 31 under Captain Fain, a part of the guard of Houston Station, joined a party of the settlers, crossed the Little Tennessee at a point about nine miles distant. . . . T h e Indians surrounded them, drove them into the river, killed 16 and wounded 4. The Indians had taken possession of the ford, and as the whites endeavored to swim across the stream many were slaughtered in the water." George Mathes was one of the 16 killed.
George Mathes m. Nancy Elizabeth Wood. She m. (2) Anthony Patton, bond issued Aug. 3, 1795.
Children:
i. Grizzie ( o r Grizzel), m. George Clemens.
ii. William, b. July 20, 1787, d. May 25, 1844, said to have been the first white child born in Jonesboro, Term. He was a magistrate and held the office of county trustee; m. Oct. 25, 1808 (Marriage License and Bond Bk., Jeff. Co., Tenn., 1792-1840) Rachel Patton Balch, b. Jan. 12, 1791. d. July 19, 1877, daughter of John Balch, b. 1760. His will dated Mar. 7, 1839, is of record Will Bk. IV, p. 42, Jefferson Co., Tenn. Records.
On Ancestry posted by ceejo3.
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