Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameJohn White CRUZE 
Birth Date19 Dec 1824
Death Date9 Feb 1905 Age: 80
Death PlaceKnox County, Tennessee
Burial PlaceKnoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, Woodlawn Cemetery
OccupationMexican War Soldier, Private Company I, 13th Regiment, Colonel Eckle & Colonel Fay
Spouses
Birth Date4 Feb 1826
Birth PlaceBlount County, Tennessee
Death Date10 Apr 1906 Age: 80
Death PlaceKnoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
Burial PlaceKnoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, Woodlawn Cemetery
FatherJohn BRAKEBILL (1798-1859)
MotherAnn E. THOMAS (1798-1877)
Family ID1119
Marr Date25 Mar 1849
Marr PlaceBlount County, Tennessee
ChildrenAnn E. (?-)
Sarah Caroline (1850-1851)
James H. (?-)
Emily Harriet (1855-1856)
Rachel (?-)
Joseph Alexander (1859-1860)
Elizabeth (?-)
John W. (?-)
Cristopher Columbus (?-)
Notes for John White CRUZE
John Cruse served in the Mexican War as a private in Company I, 13th Regiment, first under Colonel Eckle and then under Colonel Fay. He was discharged at Mobile, Alabama on July 11, 1848.47
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"NOTE BY FRED CRUZE - Peter Brakebill came from Pennsylvania to Blount County, Tennessee in 1796. He settled his family on the south slope of Bays Mountain, on Nails Creek just a few miles from the foothills of the Smokey Mountains. Likewise James cruze, son of the Revolutionary War soldier for 7 years, moved from Prince Edward County, Virginia into Knox County in 1808. There is evidence that he lived at one time near Wildwood whre he or his son, John W. Cruze operated a water powered saw mill. In 1791 the city of Knoxville consisted on a log stockade located where the present Knox County Court House stands at the corner of Gay and Main Streets. Few if any inhabitants lived in what was later to become Knoxville and the area surrounding was inhabited by Cherokee Indians and a few white settlers who were brave enough to risk their lives and those of their families."
On ancestry from tcruze_1.
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"NOTE BY FRED CRUZE - Peter Brakebill came from Pennsylvania to Blount County, Tennessee in 1796. He settled his family on the south slope of Bays Mountain, on Nails Creek just a few miles from the foothills of the Smokey Mountains. Likewise James cruze, son of the Revolutionary War soldier for 7 years, moved from Prince Edward County, Virginia into Knox County in 1808. There is evidence that he lived at one time near Wildwood whre he or his son, John W. Cruze operated a water powered saw mill. In 1791 the city of Knoxville consisted on a log stockade located where the present Knox County Court House stands at the corner of Gay and Main Streets. Few if any inhabitants lived in what was later to become Knoxville and the area surrounding was inhabited by Cherokee Indians and a few white settlers who were brave enough to risk their lives and those of their families."
On ancestry from tcruze_1.
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