NameNancy Jane TAYLOR
Birth Date4 Feb 1848
Birth PlaceGreene County, Tennessee
Death Date23 Apr 1917 Age: 69
Death PlaceKnoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
Burial Date25 Apr 1917
Burial PlaceKnoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
Notes for John A. (Spouse 1)
From September 1, 1862 until August 3, 1865, John served in the Union Army during the War Between the States. He was a corporal in Company A, 3rd Tennesse Cavalry at the time of his discharge. Sometime during the war, he was captured but managed to escape within a short time. He went for five days without food. When John returned to his regiment, he was offered a commission but declined the appointment.
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His middle initial does not represent a name. The initial “A” was added to distinguish John A from his father John (Johannes).
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John Brakebill lived at the Perry Franklin place and reared a large family. They were very prolific and it looked for a while like they were going to populate this common wealth; but they have scattered until only a few remain to represent that large family. Mrs. Sallie Cunningham, being the only one of the original family left here. John Jr. lives in Knoxville and is 75 years old. Most of them are dead. Uncle Peter lived to be 87 and reared a good sized family but William H. and George W. are the only ones left in this neighborhood. They lived on their father’s farm, to-wit, the Stephen Porter place, or earlier the Gordon White place. Gordon White was living there when our time began. He had a son, John, who died a young man and was buried on that slate knoll between the present homes of William and George Brakebill. It was during a wet season and water rose in the graves so much that it was necessary to bail it out before lowering the coffin. Some years later when the farm passed into other hands the Whites wanted to remove John’s remains to this place. Accordingly, they reopened the grave to find the body a solid rock. It had petrified and weighed 500 pounds or more. Samuel McCamy tried to cut the body with his knife, but it was like marking a stone. A story goes that his grave was robbed a few years ago and the body taken away, supposedly to be put in a museum; but we do not know if this is true. Several members of the White family are buried here.
From James McCamy’s 1911 history of Logan’s Chapel.
Posted on Ancestry by Donny Anderson.
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