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11.RUTH10 TILSON (JOHN9, WILLIAM JR.8, WILLIAM SR.7, JANET6MURDOCK, RUTH5BARTLETT, RUTH PABODIE4PEABODY, ELIZABETH3ALDEN, JOHN (MAYFLOWER)2, JOHN SR.1) was born October 27, 1811 in Near Erwin, Tenn., and died Abt. 1882 in Buried Flag Pond, Tenn. (Or after 1900).She married ELLIS HIGGINS February 22, 1834/35 in Flag Pond, Tenn. / Marriage Records 44 of Washington Co., TN, son of WILLIAM HIGGINS and BARBARA HENSLEY.
Notes for RUTH TILSON:
01/20/97By Marlane Faye Howald-Stiver-Saffell
Ruth Tilson is my Great-Great Grandmother on my Mother's Mother side of the family.
Ruth Tilson married Ellis Higgins
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Daughter-Barbara Jane Higgins married James Nelson Carter ^
Daughter-Nancy Rebbecca Carter married Charles Samuel Wiseman
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Daughter- Josephine Wiseman married Werner Alfred Howald
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Daughter-Marlane Faye Howald married Jan Edward Stiver ^
Derek Edward Stiver
08/29/00 Marlane SaffellI found this info at the Unicoi Co. TN Website and pasted it here.
W. E. Tilson, farmer, was born in Washington (now
Unicoi) County, April 29. 1827, the son of Peleg and Nancy (Allen)
Tilson (once spelled Tillotson), the former born in 1795 in Virginia,
the son of William, who became a pioneer of East Tennessee, and a
farmer, and was the son of William, Sr., who came from Ireland, and
was one of Gen. Washington's aides in the Revolution.The father was
a farmer, and died in 1841, in Carter County, having become insolvent
through intemperate habits and surety debts.The mother, born in
Virginia, in 1800, of German lineage, was the daughter of George
Allen, and a devoted Baptist.Her death occurred in 1859, leaving the
following children: George, Ruth, John A.., William E. and James W.
Our subject is largely self-educated, and for several years before the
war was a teacher, and now is a surveyor and successful farmer.He
owns over 4,000 acres, largely timbered and mineral land.March 14,
1852, he married Minerva K., a daughter of James Sams, of Irish-German
origin.She was born September 5, 1831.Their children are Eliza E.,
born March 4, 1853; Leroy S., born August 13, 1854; James F., born
December 21, 1836; Jacob C., born March 14, 1860; )Mary J., born
October 18, 1862; John Q., born April 5, 1866; Lula, born August 20,
1868; and William J., born August 13,1871.Our subject is the present
clerk and master in chancery, and has two sons, who are practicing
physicians, one a prominent educator in North Carolina, and the other
two now inschool, the eldest one of whom graduates in the class of
1888.
Notes for ELLIS HIGGINS:
08/29/00 Marlane Saffell
I found this at the Uncoi County, TN website.They had a link to the postmasters.
FLAG POND
Postmaster Eff. Date
From Washington County.
Josiah B. @3 Jan 1876
Discontinued 3 Oct 1881.
William W. Baley 17 Apr 1882
Lee W. Sams5 Sep 1882
Silvanus H. Gould15 Jan 1883
Calvin Nanney14 May 1883
William C. McCarthy30 Jul 1884
Lee W. Sams7 Apr 1889
William F. Gwinn16 Apr 1889
Armstrong Harris15 Nov 1892
=Thomas C. Hensley5 Jul 1898 ======
James B. Moore15 Aug 1902
William W. Smith8 Dec 1903
William N. Moore3 Jun 1904
Lizzie Crain3 May 1911
Lizzie C. Washburn4 May 1912
William N. Moore17 Feb 1913
Theron E. Sams26 Dec 1914
Ethel Tilson23 Apr 1917=======
Melvin Washburn17 Dec 1932
William W. Smith8 Mar 1933
Ray Tilson28 Nov 1934======
John F. Anderson4 Feb 1935
Olive P. Barnes30 Jun 1959
Ira Lemmon30 Jun 1978
James L. Treadway21 Apr 1979
Children of RUTH TILSON and ELLIS HIGGINS are:
i. | JOHN S.11 HIGGINS, b. December 9, 1835, Unknown; d. September 16, 1892, Flagpond, Tennesee; m. ELIZABETH TILSON, August 2, 1868, Unknown. | ||
18. | ii. | MARY E. HIGGINS. | |
19. | iii. | BARBARA JANE HIGGINS, b. July 13, 1840, Flag Pond, Unicoi Co.TN.; d. October 17, 1910, Limestone,Washington Co. TN.At home.Buried Oct. 20, 1910. | |
iv. | LYDIA MARGARET HIGGINS, b. Unmarried. | ||
v. | WILLIAM T HIGGINS, b. December 10, 1844; m. AMANDA SMITH. | ||
20. | vi. | NANCY REBECCA HIGGINS, b. Unknown, Unknown; d. Unknown, Unknown. | |
vii. | SARAH M HIGGINS, b. April 16, 1849; m. BERRY O.(RUNYON) RUNION. | ||
viii. | SAMUEL E HIGGINS, b. August 20, 1851; m. VESTA RUNION. |
12.NANCY10 TILSON (JOHN9, WILLIAM JR.8, WILLIAM SR.7, JANET6MURDOCK, RUTH5BARTLETT, RUTH PABODIE4PEABODY, ELIZABETH3ALDEN, JOHN (MAYFLOWER)2, JOHN SR.1) was born September 7, 1813 in Unknown, and died Unknown in Unknown.She married (1) WILLIAM DAVIS.She married (2) H. D. BISHOP Unknown in Unknown.
Children of NANCY TILSON and H. BISHOP are:
i. | JOESPH11 BISHOP, b. Unknown, Unknown. | ||
ii. | DAUGHTER BISHOP1, b. Unknown, Unknown; d. Unknown, Unknown. | ||
iii. | DAUGHTER BISHOP2, b. Unknown, Unknown; d. Unknown, Unknown. |