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Ancestors of Virginia Cecil Lillard


      102. David Collinsworth He married 103. Thebie Fox.

      103. Thebie Fox
     
Child of David Collinsworth and Thebie Fox is:
  51 i.   Eleanor Collingsworth, married Sebastian Wygal February 14, 1785 in Montgomery Co, VA.


      104. Newton Shufflebarger
     
Child of Newton Shufflebarger is:
  52 i.   John Shufflebarger.


      108. Jacob Heinrich Trollinger, born August 03, 1731 in Dietenhausen GER; died 1798 in Montgomery Co, VA. He was the son of 216. Adam Trollinger and 217. Margareta Valencia Beck. He married 109. Barbara ?? 1761.

      109. Barbara ??

More About Jacob Heinrich Trollinger:
Burial: Dublin Ceme., Montgomery Co, VA
     
Children of Jacob Trollinger and Barbara ?? are:
  i.   Margaret Trollinger, married John Server.
  ii.   Mary Trollinger, married (1) Adam Wall; married (2) John Huffman.
  More About Adam Wall:
Occupation: Captain

  iii.   ?? Trollinger, married ?? Beason.
  iv.   Barbara Trollinger, married William McCoy Jr November 23, 1796.
  v.   Henry Trollinger, born March 10, 1762 in Orange Co, NC; died February 28, 1844 in Orange Co, NC; married Mary Thomas March 1789.
  54 vi.   John Trollinger, born 1771 in Haw River, Orange Co, NC; died October 11, 1840 in Dublin, Montgomery Co, VA; married Elizabeth Burris December 30, 1792 in Montgomery Co, VA.
  vii.   Phoebe Trollinger, born 1786; married Philip Martin September 08, 1807.


      110. William Burris
     
Child of William Burris is:
  55 i.   Elizabeth Burris, born 1776 in Montgomery Co, VA; died October 12, 1869 in Dublin, Montgomery Co, VA; married John Trollinger December 30, 1792 in Montgomery Co, VA.


      112. John Dickey, born 1720 in Londonderry, IRE; died March 20, 1808. He married 113. Mary Looney 1745 in Londonderry, IRE.

      113. Mary Looney, born June 12, 1729 in Londonderry, IRE; died in Iredell, NC.

Notes for John Dickey:
      John DICKEY was of Scotch Irish descend. He immigrated from Londonderry, Ireland and settled in Rowan County, North Carolina in 1753.
      In 1775, he was on a venue of grand jurors impaneled in Rowan County, North Carolina. (vol. 10, pp 2-3)
      He was evidently a revolutionist as were most of the early Scotch immigrants and their descendents, while those who came to North Carolina shortly before the Revolutionary War remained loyalists. He was on the Council of Safety of Rowan County, 6 February 1776, having been appointed in November 1775 and serving until November 1776. (vol. 10, page 432).
      He held the commission of Captain in the Revolutionary Army and did military service in the army at an advanced age. Like Washington, Marion and others, he had independence enough to rebel against the best government then in the world and died at an advanced age.

More About John Dickey:
Immigration: 1753
Occupation: Silversmith

More About Mary Looney:
Immigration: 1753, Londonderry, IRE
     
Children of John Dickey and Mary Looney are:
  i.   Elizabeth Dickey, born July 12, 1750 in Londonderry, IRE; died November 19, 1803; married William Johnston November 14, 1770.
  ii.   Mary Dickey, born October 09, 1759 in Statesville, Iredell Co, NC.
  56 iii.   Samuel Dickey, born August 29, 1765 in Rowan Co, NC; died December 1840 in near Etowah, McMinn Co, TN; married Rachel Rebecca Patterson 1788.


      114. James Patterson, born 1699 in Londonderry, IRE; died 1812. He married 115. Emeline McCorcle.

      115. Emeline McCorcle, born 1700.

More About James Patterson:
Immigration: Patterson, NJ
Occupation: Blacksmith
     
Child of James Patterson and Emeline McCorcle is:
  57 i.   Rachel Rebecca Patterson, born 1765; died 1867; married Samuel Dickey 1788.


      118. William Hanley Witten, born November 07, 1761; died 1824 in Bledsoe Co, TN. He was the son of 236. Thomas Witten and 237. Elizabeth Cecil. He married 119. Letitia Laird 1790.

      119. Letitia Laird, born 1765; died 1834. She was the daughter of 238. John James Laird and 239. Lucy Pickens.

Notes for William Hanley Witten:
      William Hanley Witten, youngest son of Thomas Witten and Elizabeth Cecil Witten, while living in Tazewell County, married Letitia Laird, daughter of John and Lucy Pickens Laird. In 1793 William and Letitia and two others organized the first Methodist Church of Tazewell County. In 1805 they sold the farm in Virginia and moved to Sequatchie Valley, Bledsoe County, Tennessee to a new purchase of land recently made from the Indians. In 1822 they moved on to Pond Creek, Monroe County, Tennessee. They were the parents of four sons and seven daughters.
     
Children of William Witten and Letitia Laird are:
  i.   James Witten, born January 05, 1793.
  59 ii.   Jennie Witten, born 1795; married Andrew Lowe 1816.
  iii.   Kizzie Witten, born 1797; married ?? Harmon.
  iv.   John Wesley Witten, born 1800.
  v.   Letitia Witten, born 1802; died 1844; married David Houston Dickey January 06, 1824; born 1799 in Iredel Co, NC; died 1884.
  More About David Houston Dickey:
Occupation: M.D. Maj/Tn Mil

  vi.   Mary Witten, born 1805; married James Patterson.
  vii.   William Abbott Witten, born 1807.
  viii.   Thomas Witten, born 1809.


      120. Darius Browder, died 1812.
     
Child of Darius Browder is:
  60 i.   William Browder, born February 10, 1792 in Chatham Co, NC; died June 29, 1890 in Meigs Co, TN; married Elizabeth Lackey 1814.


      124. Johann Christopher Lotspeich, born October 07, 1751 in Baden Baden, Germany; died March 01, 1830 in Greenville, TN. He was the son of 248. Johann Conrad Lotschberg and 249. Catherina Elizabetha Wilhelmina Landenberger. He married 125. Rebecca Barbara Hartley WFT Est. 1770-1800.

      125. Rebecca Barbara Hartley, born August 11, 1755 in VA; died May 13, 1850 in Cook Co, TN.

Notes for Johann Christopher Lotspeich:
Kentucky Records, Volume II
page 166 - Random Court Records

Bourbon Co., Deed Book C, page 317 -
Lotspeich, J. C. and Jacoby, Fredrica, Settlement.

We, Christopher Lotspeich of Va. in America, Formerly of Frankinthal in Germany, and Frederica Jacoby, widow of Joh Francis Lucus Jacoby, late of Bourbon Co., and State of Va., district Ky., called formerly Joanna Frederica Lotspeich of Frankenthall aforesaid, which said John Christopher Lotspeich and Frederica Jacoby are two of six children of Catherine Elizabetha Wilhelmina Lotspeich ( in a will after mentioned called Catherine Lotspeich) by Conrad Lotspeich, her husband, and Legatee named in the last will of Ralph Landenberg, formerly of Castto Street, parish of St. Martin in Fields within in the Liberty of Westminster in Co. of Middlesex, wine merchant, but lately residing at Salisbury in the Co. of Wilts, deceased, Greetings: Whereas, said Ralph Landenberg in will dated about 7th of April, 1784, did bequeath to six children of his late deceased sister, Lotspeich, one-fifth of remaining estate and apppointed John Widder of Norwich, gent., Mary Blydesteyer (Blyderestryn) of Harp Lane in London, widow, by name and addition of Mrs. Mary Blydesteryn, widow, and Isaac Blydesteryn of Harp Lane near Tower Street, London, by name and addition of Mr. Isaac Blydestryn, executors; Whereas, said Ralph Landenberg departed this life without revoking said will, and said john Widder, Mary Blydesteryn and Isaac Blydesteryn have proved same by Prerogative Court of Archbishop of Canterbury and taken upon selves execution there of --money to Ann Landenberg, wife of Testator, and accounts approved by John Christopher Lotspeich and Frederica, they paid their share as two fo six children of Catherine Lotspeich, deceased and they relieve said executors of all claims. November Court 1795.


Oct 19, 1772. Ship Catharine _ - Sutton, Captain, from Rotterdam, last from London. From ships list Joh. Christoph Lotspeich. Took oaths & qualifications from Mayor of Philadephia, John Gibson, Esquire


LAST WILL OF CHRISTOPHER LOTSPEICH

Monday 26th April 1830, the execution fo the last Will and Testament of Christopher Lotspeich dec'd, was duly proven by the oath of James Williams and Caleb Harrison, subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded, and is as follows:

"In the name of God I Christopher Lotspeich of County of Greene and State of Tennessee being weake in body but sound in minde memory and recolection believing my stay in this world to be short and precarious wishing to do justice and to keep down discord among my legal hairs do make ordain and declare this instrument to be my last Will and Testament utterly revoking all former wills by me made and all former executors by me appointed I declare this to be my last Will and Testament. First of all I recommend and resign my soul into the hands of the good Lord that first gave it and my body to the earth to be intered in a decent christian like manner. And as touching my estate that it hath pleased God to bless me with I dispose of in the following manner.
First I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife all the household furniture that I may die peased and possesed of also my horse and her saddle and bridle in addition of the obligation that I hold on my son Samuel Lotspeitch for her life maintenance. Secondly I give and bequeath unto my oldest daughter Elizabeth Hoover the sum of five hundred dollar to be paid out of my Estate as soon as it can reasonably be collected to her and her children. Third I give and bequeath unto the children of my son Ralph Lotspeitch dec'd the sum of five hundred dollars to be paid as soon as it can be reasonably collected. 4th I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Mary Macken the sum of five hundred dollars to be paid as soon as it can reasonably be collected to go to her and her children. 5th I give and bequeath unto my daughter Sarah Whittenburg the sum of five hundred dollars to be paid when my money is collected to go to her and her children. 6th I give and bequeath unto my daughter Barbary Broyles the sum of five hundred dollars to be paid when my money is collected. 7ly I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Susanne Pardue the sum of five hundred to be paid when my money is collected to go to her and her children. 8ly I give and bequeath unto the children of my Daughter Rachel Earnest Dec'd the sum of five hundred dollars to be equally divided amongst them when my money be collected. 9th I give and bequeath unto my daughter Rebecca Farnsworth the Sum of four hundred dollar to be paid out of my estate when collected. 10ly I give and bequeath unto my grand Daughters Eliza I Wells and Susanne Wells the sum of One hundred dollars that is to day fifty dollars each. 11th The residue do my estate be it little or much to be equally divided amongst all my children or their legal heirs that is to say the children of Ralph Lopspeich on share and the children of Rachel Earnest on share and John Lotspeich, William Lopseich, Samuel Lopspeitch and James Lotspeich, Elizabeth Hoover, Mary Walker, Sarah Whittenburg, Barbary Brolyes, Susanna Pardue and Rebeckah Farmsworth except the following item of my will. 12 My negrow man called Isaac and my Negro woman called Betcy and My negrow gril called Berick I will and bequeath to them their freedon at my decease and enjoin as duty on executons to have it recorded in Court as soon as practable after my decese. 13th I appoint and constitue my trusty friend Stephen Brooks my sole executor of this my last will and testament and do not require that he shall be required to give bond or security for same. Signed sealed and published by the said Christopher Lotspeich as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us the following words was unterlined before signed in Ralph's childrens legacy and words to be in the children of R. Earnest legno the word divided in the eleventh item the word Estate.
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James X Williams
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Hoisah Harrison
Caleb Harrison

NORTH CAOLINA LAND GRANDS RECORDED IN GREENE COUNTY, TENNESSEE COMPILED BY GOLDENE FILLERS BURGNER

Pg. 33
No. 721 Page 279
For 50 shillings per 100 acres - to Christopher Lotspeach 122 acres in Greene County on south side of Chuckey River, adjoining Robert Oneal, Benjamin Williams, where Williams now lives. Samuel Johnston, 11 July 1788

Pg. 61
No. 3597 Page 157
State of Tennessee - to Christopher Lotspeich 50 acres on south side of Nolachucky River - based on Enrty No 1318, 4 June 1812 - founded on warrant No 2666 - Issued by Archibald Roane to Jacob Wilson for 100 acres, 23 March 1811 - 50 acres of which are assigned to Christopher Lotspeich the enterer - adjoinging Haworth, Hughes, Allens corner, Broyles, Barnharts corner, Fox. Sealed 6 October 1815.

No. 3596 Page 159
State of Tennessee - to Christopher Lotspeich 28 acres north side of Horse Creek - Entry No. 1675, dated 6 March 1812 - founded on certificate no 33 - issued by a Roane to heirs of Henry Earnest for 550 acres, dated 18 December 1810 - 28 acres of which are assigned to Christopher Lotspeich the enterer - adjoining Broyles, Sealed 6 October 1815.

GREENE COUNTY, TENNESSEE MINUTES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, 1979-1807
COMPILED BY SANDRA KELTON HOUSTON

Pg. 140
One other )Deed of Conveyance) from Thomas Williamson to Christor Lotspeich dated 25th April 1803 for ninety four acres of land, was duly acknowledged by said Thomas and admitted to record. Paid 84 Cents, 4 Mills

Pg. 74
23 Oct 1798 ?
A Release from John Christopher Lotspeich and Dredereco Jacoby to Mary Blydestign and Isaac Blydestign was duly acknowledged in Court by said John Christopher Lotspeich and admitted to record.
     
Children of Johann Lotspeich and Rebecca Hartley are:
  i.   Elizabeth Lotspeich, born April 09, 1778; died March 05, 1838; married Christopher Hoover February 05, 1795 in Green Co, TN; born WFT Est. 1773-1784; died WFT Est. 1817-1871.
  ii.   Catherine Lotspeich, born October 13, 1779; died WFT Est. 1793-1873.
  iii.   Ralph Lotspeich, born February 15, 1781 in Culpepper Co. Va.; died June 16, 1813 in London, Ohio; married Amelia Rigby April 26, 1808 in OH; born December 12, 1784; died 1849 in Franklin Co., Ohio.
  Notes for Ralph Lotspeich:
From "History of Ross and Highland Counties, Ohio 1880
Ref 977 182 Page 263
It refers to Ralph Lotspeich as a Circuit preacher of Methodist Deer Creek circuit in 1811.

In the same book on page 330 it refers to Mr. Browns farm where the first cemetry in Deerfield was established in 1805. Only two graves are now to be identifed, howeer. One is that of the Rev. Ralph Lotspeich, who died June 16, 1813, and whose funeral was held in the town. The worn sandstone slab which bears his name was erected, as the half-obliterated inscription tells us, "by his female friends."


From the Ohio Conf in Annaul Conf 1814 minutes p 238

Question 13. Who died this year?

1. Ralph Lotspeich - He was of German decent. Born in Bulpeper counvy, Va. but removed with his father's family to the date of ennessee, where he was called to preach the gospel. His natural ----- were not extraordinary; but being deeply piousm and very studious, be became deservedly esteemed as a sound, profitable gospel preacher; frequently weeping over his congragations and enforcing his discourses with tears. Practical and esperimental religion was his theme, while his life and converstaion were a good comment on the truths enforced on others. The fruit of his labours may be found on all the circuits he ever rod, and many will praise God in heaven that he ever lived in the world. He was admitted as a preahcer into the travelling connection in 1803 and appointed to Salt River and Shelby circuit; 1804, Red River; 1805, and 1806, French-Broad; 1807 Holston; 1808 Hockhoking; 1809 and 1810 Fairfield; 1811, Deer Creek, 1812 and 1813 Scioto.
His health began to fail nine months fefore his death; yet he continued to travel till three or four weeks be fore his dissolution, when he was advised to leave his circuit. He then applied to a phiysician, but his complaint bid definace o medical aid; an inflammation turned to a mortification of the kidneys, which terminated in death, June 15, 1813.
He suffered much for nine or ten days previous to his death, but was nevered heard to complain, but often sung with composure and joy these lines;--

Great spoils I shall win
From death, hell and sin;
'Midst outward affiction
Shall fell Christ within.

Having called on A. Cimmins to adjust his temporal business, he told him it was done. On inquiring, and being told what money he had left, with a heavenly smile he said "That will keep my wife and children one year, and the Lord will provide." The day on which he died, being as how how he was he replied, "I can only say I am sure of heaven: not a doubt or cloud has appeared since my sickness began." And just before the solemn scene took place, he said to hose around him," Tell my old friends,m all is well - all is well." So lived and so died our beloved brother Lotspeich, leaving a beloved wife and four childred to mourn the los; but let this be their consolation. - The Loard hath said to his servants, "Leave thy fatherless children; I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me."

  62 iv.   John Lotspeich, born November 09, 1782 in Greene Co, TN; died April 19, 1845 in Sweetwater, TN; married Mary Ann Earnest February 18, 1806 in Greene Co, TN.
  v.   Mary Lotspeich, born November 17, 1784 in Green Co. TN; died January 20, 1870.
  vi.   Sarah Lotspeich, born November 17, 1784 in Greene Co., TN; died 1830.
  vii.   William Lotspeich, born November 09, 1786 in Greene Co. Tenn.; died WFT Est. 1843-1878; married (1) Rebecca Wells WFT Est. 1804-1847; born WFT Est. 1786-1821; died September 28, 1860 in Iowa; married (2) Hannah Doan December 29, 1809 in Green Co. Tenn; born WFT Est. 1773-1796; died WFT Est. 1820-1884.
  viii.   Susannah Lotspeich, born May 25, 1788 in Greene Co. TN; died WFT Est. 1828-1883.
  ix.   Barbara Lotspeich, born January 02, 1790 in Greene Co., TN; died WFT Est. 1814-1884.
  x.   Christopher Lotspeich, born 1791; died WFT Est. 1792-1881.
  xi.   Rachel Lotspeich, born November 17, 1793 in Greene Co. Tenn.; died 1816; married Henry F. Earnest November 18, 1811 in Greene Co. Tenn; born 1793; died WFT Est. 1820-1884.
  xii.   Samuel Lotspeich, born July 09, 1796 in Green Co, Tenn.; died April 23, 1874; married (1) Polly Bitner September 11, 1817 in Greene Co. Tn; born WFT Est. 1782-1806; died WFT Est. 1840-1896; married (2) Lena Montgomery WFT Est. 1845-1858; born WFT Est. 1796-1832; died WFT Est. 1855-1920; married (3) Larceny Evans WFT Est. 1850-1865; born WFT Est. 1797-1842; died WFT Est. 1866-1929.
  Notes for Samuel Lotspeich:
Taken from a book on Holston Methodism Conference of 1852 and 1853.
Page 141 and 142.

About the year 1832 Samuel Lotspeich, a Methodist local preacher, emigrated to Cock County, Tenn., and purchased a farm from William Garrett. Mr
Lotspeich had inherited an ample patrimony, and he seemed to possess all the conditions of a happy life; but misfortune after misfortune came upon him thick and fast. Three of his children, while watching the laborers at work in a field, were forced by a thunder shower to take shelter under a sycamore tree near Big Pigeon River, when and electric current struck the tree instantly killing the girl and smaller boy and severely shocking the larger boy. This clamity was followed in a short time by the death of his wife.

In the meantime his eldest daughter, Barbara was married to Elisha Moore, and they began housekeeping in Jefferson County, just across the line on the north bank of the French Broad River, opposite to the Irish Bottoms in Cocke County. Mr. Lotspeich married again and his second wife was a Miss Gibson,
of Abingdon, Va. The daughter, Jane and her stepmother not harmonizing, the former went to live with her married sister. Elisha Moore owned a slave by the name of Tom, and he and Mr. and Mrs. Moore and Miss Lotspeich constituted the family. One night in June 1853, the negro entered the family room, and with an ax murdered the married couple, then with the same instrument struck down the innocent girl, outraged her, and then completed the triple murder by dashing out her brains. He was soon captured and by torture forced to confess. The details of the confession will not be given here; they are too horrifying. It is impossible to conveived a more fiendish deed. His master and mistress had always been kind and indulgent to him. He had no ill will for them; on the contrary, he had every reason to love them. They were murdered to make way for the gratification of a fiendish lust, which had been provoked by no imprudence on the part of the innocent girl.

The negro was defiant. He expressed on regret for the murder of the girl, but did say that if he had it to do over again he possibly would not have killed Mr Moore and his wife. A lynching bee as formed and a day appointed for burning the negro at a stake. About six thousand people assembled, including about one thousand slaves. While he was being tied to the stake -- a persimmon tree-- he turned and laughed scornfully in the face of the bystanders and refused to call upon God for mercy. The flames did their work quickly, and the soul fo the poor sinner returned to God who gave it. (1) A Northern man having heard of this lynching and having expressed his condemnation of it , one of the eye-witnesses gave him a detailed account of the whole affair, whereupon he remarked: "If I had been there at the time I probably would have taken a hand in the lynching." The New Testament doctrine of demoniacal possession, or rather obsession, I am disposed to believe to be true, and true for the present day as well as for ancient times; and it is quite likely that this negro was thus affected.

(1) A newspaper article fo W. J. McSween, Esq.


Another account of the above incident is from "Over the Misty Blue Hills - The
Story of Cocke Co., TN" By Ruth O'dell. This account goes into more detail.

About the year 1832, Samuel Lotspeich, a Methodist minister, moved to Cocke County, and purchased from William Garrett the farm on which J. H. Susong later resided. Reverend Lotspeich succeeded to a large patrimony, which gave him standing and influence in the community. Not withstanding, his misfortunes fell thick and fast. First three of his children while watching the laborers in the fields were forced by an electric storm to take shelter under a sycamore tree on the bank of a sluice of Pigeon River. As they barely reached their place of supposed safety, an electric current struck the tree, instantly killing the smaller girl and boy, and greatly shocking the larger boy, Benjamin.This calamity was followed by the death of his wife. Then in the meantime, his oldest daughter, Barbara, married Elisha Moore, and they set up housekeeping in Jefferson County, just across the county line on the north bank of the French Broad River, opposite the Irish Bottom, in Cocke County. Reverend Lotspeich again married. A clash between his second daughter, Jane, and the stepmother, forced the former to live with her married sister.

Elisha Moore inherited a slave named Tom; and the four, himself, wife, sister-in-law, and Tom, composed the family. In June, 1853, the inhabitants along the banks of the French Broad were horrified to hear that Moore, his wife and sister-in-law were brutally murdered on the preceding Friday night, and that their bodies were the lying on the floor in a pool of blood, while Tom was missing. There were buried in the Leadvale cemetery.

By this time, an infuriated mob of armed men were scouring the country for the missing slave. A week later, he was captured, after being shot in the leg, in the middle of the Nolachucky river. He was taken immediately to the scene of his fiendish crime and was made by physical tortures to make the following confession to William Evans in the presence of D. A. Mims:

The house in which the bloody deed was committed had two rooms, one occupied at night by Moore, his wife and sister-in-law, the other by the slave. He stated that on the fatal night he procured an ax, ascended a flight of stairs to the loft, then descended a flight of stairs to his master's bedroom. He sat down at the foot of the stairs, laid the ax across his lap, and meditated over the crime he was about to commit. He thought of how good and kind his master had been to him. His heart failed him and without distrubing the sleepers he returned to his room and bed, where he tossed for about an hour. He thought over how he had bored gimlet holes through the partition that separated the rooms and through which he had watched Miss Lotspeich go to bed, night after night. His brutal courage returned, and he reentered his master's room, where he killed him and his wife before they discoverd his identity. This aroused Miss Lotspeich, who began to scream, when he struck her on the shoulder with the ax, knocked her down, outraged her person, and killed her. Barefooted, he left the house, crossed the French Broad River above Ten Islands, crossed the Big Pigeon River just above its mouth, passed through the bottom lands of Colonel John Stuart, where he again crossed the French Broad River, where he got something to eat from Peter Kindrick. He again crossed the French Broad River, traveled down the same until he reached the Fork Farm., where he again crossed the river into the Huff bottoms. From this point he went to the house of James Still, a free Negro, in the bend of the Nolachucky River, where he was fed until he was captured.

Within a day or two, the slave was required to stand before the enraged father and brothers and sisters of his master. In accordance with the sentence they pronunced he was taken to a vise and tortured: First, all the bones of his hands and fingers were crushed; and when he was questions as to the circumstances of the murder, he refused to tell. Thereupon other parts of his body were placed in the vise and smashed, when he stated the facts already mentioned. The only indication of any suffering was the clammy sweat on his brow.

Next, it was announced that he would be burned on the following Thursday at twelve o'clock. He was guarded in the room where he committed the murder and chained to the bloodstained floor. He stated during this time that he did not regret killing Miss Lotspeich, but he might not kill Mr. and Mrs. Moore, were it to be done over again. but was seemingly indifferent to their death. He gave no reason for killing them, but his whole confession disclosed that he was enamored of Miss Lotspeich. Although he was urged to prepare for the event, he seemed more inclined to deride the vengeance of God. On the appointed day, some six thousand people and one thousand slaves assembled. A pen was built around a small persimmon tree. A floor of green, unseasoned logs were laid within the pen, then it was filled around the edges with the richest pine obtainable. At the hour, the culprit was led to the center of the pen, he was handcuffed and chained to the tree, his arms extended above his shoulders and head. He even showed his captors how to bind him and laughed at the bystanders. Two relatives of the deceased stepped forward to light the first torch. The Reverend Lotspeich ignited the north corner fo the pen, the brother of the decased man lighted the opposite corner; then other relatives fired the other corners. A breeze fanned the flanes into a sheet of fire, encircling the body of the doomed Negro. With on piteous yell, "God help me," his head fell upon his chest. (Story repated to W. J. McSween by his old black mammy.)

  More About Samuel Lotspeich:
Fact 1: 1832, Ordained as Minister of Methodist Church

  xiii.   Rebecca Lotspeich, born October 13, 1797 in Greene Co. TN; died January 13, 1870 in Blairstown, Mo; married (1) Joshua Wells May 20, 1817 in Green Co. Tn; born WFT Est. 1772-1798; died Abt. September 22, 1824; married (2) Thomas Farnsworth May 19, 1824 in Greene Co., Tn; born December 07, 1797; died August 05, 1858 in Green Co. Tn..
  xiv.   Grace Lotspeich, born July 09, 1799; died WFT Est. 1800-1893.
  xv.   James Axley Lotspeich, born May 24, 1801; died April 13, 1886 in Green Co., Tenn; married (1) Malinda Farnsworth September 07, 1818 in Greene Co. Tn..15; born September 06, 179915; died May 22, 1869 in Fayetteville, Ark.15; married (2) Elizabeth Whittenberg Bet. 1847 - 1866; born September 30, 182415; died October 21, 1910 in Green Co., Tenn.15.


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