Re: Battle of Kings Mountain
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Re: Battle of Kings Mountain
D Miller 10/12/03
Hi,
I don't know anything about my North ancestor prior to the 1850 census of Jefferson County, TN. At that time he appeared as a 24yr old farm laborer working & living with a family named Sharp. His name was John C. North.
By 1860 he had married Elizabeth Luster/Lester and had his own farm. They had ten children and lived their entire lives in Jefferson County, where they are buried. (In the Hopewell Cemetery, Dandridge, TN)
My grandmother was their tenth child. She married Oscar Ball in 1898 and they moved to TX. One of my grandmother's sisters married a man named Miller. Her name was Eliza Jane North but she must have gone by "Jennie". Her husband was John Alfred Miller & I've been told by others responding to my inquiry that he died within a few years of their marriage and she was listed in 1900 census living with only her stepchildren. (I've not found that census.)
That's everything I know about them. Somehow, I suspect John came to Jefferson County from some other county but I may be wrong.
I noticed that you responded to my Kings Mountain post. That was a Covey ancestor, not the Norths (as far as I know, but I suppose John's ancestors could have also been there).
Barbara Moore
Dallas, TX