John Green Jacobs

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1869, Tennessee

John married Mittie Jones in 1886. Mittie was born in 1871; died in 1929; was buried in Chapel Hill Church Cemetery, Milan, Gibson, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1846, Tennessee

Monroe married Mary Frances "Fannie" Butler on 1 Jan 1867 in Gibson County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of Christopher Columbus Butler and Mary Ann McHaney) was born on 8 Aug 1851 in Coffee County, Tennessee; died on 1 Dec 1926 in Gibson County, Tennessee; was buried in Hope Hill Cemetery, Medina, Gibson, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Milan, Gibson, Tennessee
• Alternate birth: 1852, Tennessee

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• Alternate birth: South Carolina

Greene married Mary Ann H. Wallingsford on 21 Oct 1834 in Gibson County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of Isaac Wallingsford and Nancy) was born about 1816 in Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1815, Alabama
• Alternate birth: Abt 1820, Alabama

Notes:

DNA matches on ancestry.com appear to make it likely that she was a daughter of Isaac and Nancy Wallingsford. An Isaac Wallingsford, spelled that way, was the bondsman for her marriage to Greene Jacobs.

Notes:

Bondsman, Isaac Wallingsford.

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• Alternate birth: 1806, Rutherford County, Tennessee
• Alternate birth: 20 Mar 1810, Gibson, Gibson, Tennessee

Notes:

Death date: Judge Butler says 26 Mar 1857. The Find A Grave page shows a gravestone that clearly says "Mar 20, 1810, DIED Mar 26 1858".

From The Descendants of Thomas Pincerna, Progenitor of the Butler Family:

"Christopher was in the 1840 Rutherford County, Tennessee, census in the 30-40 age group. His wife was in the 20-30 age bracket. They had two sons, both under 5 years of age.

"Christopher C. Butler was apparently named after his grandfather. He was listed in the 1850 Gibson County, Tennessee, census, as C. C. Butler, age 40, from North Carolina, a farmer. His wife was Mary, age 32, from Tennessee. The children were all bom in Tennessee. At home were William, 12; James, 10; John, 8; Van Buren, 6; Benjamin, 4; and Ann, age 2. Nearby were living James Butler, age 48 from North Carolina (and a son named Christopher); Elias T. Butler, age 33 from Tennessee; William Butler, age 61 from North Carolina, and next door to him, W.G. Butler, age 20 from Tennessee; and another C. C. Butler, age 23, from Tennessee.

"One well published history of Gibson County, Tennessee [History of Tennessee, Nashville: Goodspeed, 1887, p. 865] contained the following account of Christopher Butler's family:

"'J. F. Butler is a son of C. C. and Mary A. (McHaney) Butler, who were bom in Rutherford County, Tenn., in 1806 and 1818 respectively. They moved to Marion County, Ill., and became the parents of seven children. The father was a farmer, and came to Gibson County, Tenn., in 1846, where he died, in March 1857. He was a Democrat, and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church....'"

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Note that Judge Butler's birth date and place for Christopher C. Butler (20 Mar 1810, Montgomery, NC) differs from that given in the History of Tennessee that he himself quotes (1806, Rutherford County, TN). Unfortunately this is far from the only place where Judge Butler's massive Butler book contradicts itself.

Judge Butler also has Christopher C. Butler marrying one Eliza Jane Sexton, as his second wife, on 8 March 1851 in Gibson County, TN, which contradicts all the other evidence we have that he was outlived by his wife Mary McHaney. We begin to suspect that we have a case of two C. C. Butler's being conflated. UPDATE, 2 April 2015: Further information from Malania Reynolds, aunt of a person Patrick initially emailed about the parentage of Mary Frances "Fannie" Butler, indicats that it was a Christopher Lafayette Butler who married Eliza Jane Sexton, not the Christopher C. Butler who married Mary McHaney. Malania Reynolds also says she has found no evidence that our Christopher C. Butler's middle name was Columbus.

However, to the question of his middle name, sometime in the 1970s, Patrick's mother interviewed his father's aunt Neville Workman (1904-1986) about her forebears, and we have her pencilled notes from that conversation. Neville stated quite clearly that her mother's mother's father was named Christopher Columbus Butler, and as of 2014 Patrick's mother remembered Neville being quite firm on that point.

Christopher married Mary Ann McHaney on 19 Nov 1836 in Wilson County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of William Wilshire McHaney and Sarah "Sally" Word) was born on 12 Apr 1817 in Wilson County, Tennessee; died after 1880 in Gibson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Judge Butler shows her as "Mary C. McHaney".

The Goodspeed History of Tennessee gives her and C. C. Butler's marriage date as 8 Dec 1836, in Wilson County, Tennessee.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1786, Caswell, North Carolina

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Volume One of Wheeley's or Upper Hico Primitive Baptist Church Minutes from 1790 to 1846, covering the period when the church was simply called Wheeley's Church, says that Caleb Jacobs was "Received by experience 2nd Saturday July 1802" and was baptised the next day, and later states that on the second Saturday of Oct 1817 he "applied for a letter of dismission which was granted". This would appear to mark the point at which he and his family left Person County, North Carolina for Robertson County, Tennessee. He bought 78 acres of land located on Red River in Robertson County from Chas. Brandon, 31 Oct 1822 and registered it 23 May 1823. On 25 Jan 1825 he bought 13 additional acres in Robertson County from the state of Tennessee. On 19 Nov 1832 his wife Mary sold the whole farm to John Ellison and signed the deed as "Mary Jacobs, widow." According to notes left by users on familysearch.org, Mary then removed to Gibson County, Tennessee to live with her daughter Lucinda and family; this would appear to be born out by the 1850 census of Gibson County which shows her, age 66, living with Lucinda and Lucinda's husband William McFarland.

An unsourced Find a Grave page says that he died 5 Apr 1830 (plausible) and that his full name was Caleb Benjamin Jacobs (unlikely). No burial marker is portrayed.

Caleb married Mary Scoggin on 3 Apr 1805 in Person County, North Carolina. Mary (daughter of Nathan Scoggin and Martha Johnston) was born on 8 Jul 1784 in Person County, North Carolina; died in 1865 in Carroll County, Tennessee; was buried in Hope Hill Cemetery, Medina, Gibson, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1781
• Alternate birth: Between 1781 and 1784
• Alternate death: 30 Dec 1865, Gibson County, Tennessee

Notes:

Or Mary Scogon.

The 1850 census of Gibson County, Tennessee shows her, age 66, living in the home of her daughter Lucinda and son-in-law William McFarland.

Notes:

Said to have died 25 Nov 1851 in Gibson, Gibson County, Tennessee.

DNA matches on ancestry.com suggest that he was a son of Nicholas Wallingford and Alice Hayes, although Nicholas's will survives and does not mention a son named Isaac.

Isaac married Nancy. Nancy was born in 1796 in Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said to have been Nancy Ball. Ball appears to have been the middle name of more than one of her children.

She was alive in Gibson County in 1860.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1775, Virginia

Elias married Deborah Simmons about 1797. Deborah was born about 1780 in Virginia; died about 1837 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Between 1780 and 1790, North Carolina
• Alternate death: Between 1835 and 1838, Rutherford County, Tennessee

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1850 census lists him in District 11, Marion, Illinois, occupation "School Teacher."

William married Sarah "Sally" Word on 23 Mar 1812 in Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee. Sarah (daughter of John Word and Frances "Fanny" Collins) was born on 26 Aug 1796 in Halifax County, Virginia; died on 22 Feb 1881 in Marion, Illinois; was buried in Fredonia Cemetery, Odin, Marion, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her grave says that she died on 22 Feb 1881, age 84 years, 5 months, and 27 days, which yields a birthdate of 22 Sep 1796. This is over three years before the 1799 marriage date for her parents given in two different ancestry.com-hosted indices of Virginia marriages.