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=== DNA === | |||
{{DNA}} DNA has been collected from men claiming descent from the following Knox County residents. Attempts have not been made to verify the lineages of those tested. <br> | |||
*'''[Brown]''' Descendant of John Brown, b. 1799, d. aft 1860 of Knox County, Tennessee. Y-DNA 37 Marker Test, FTDNA (Kit 7512). Genetic signature available [http://brownsociety.org/browndna/groups21thru29.htm online] (labeled Group No. 25), genealogical description available [http://brownsociety.org/browndna/earliestancestorsGroupsOnethru50.htm online], courtesy: [http://brownsociety.org/browndna/overview.htm Brown/Browne/Braun DNA Study]. Matches have been found. | |||
*'''[Brown]''' Multiple descendants of William Brown, b. abt. 1730 of Augusta County, Virginia, d. 1807 Knox County, Tennessee. Y-DNA 12, 25, 37, and 67 Marker Tests, FTDNA (Kits 3996, 4020, 12719, 88144, 20243, 61359). Genetic signatures available [http://brownsociety.org/browndna/groupsOnethruNine.htm online] (labeled Group No. 2), genealogical description available [http://brownsociety.org/browndna/earliestancestorsGroupsOnethru50.htm online], courtesy: [http://brownsociety.org/browndna/overview.htm Brown/Browne/Braun DNA Study]. | |||
=== General === | === General === | ||
'''Gordon Aronhime''' (1911-1983) collected information on hundreds of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee pioneers. His note cards, which reference more than 4,000 early settlers of the Holston-Clinch River area and East Tennessee (1770s-1790s), are held at the [[Library of Virginia|Library of Virginia]]. The cards have been digitized and made available [http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/aronhime/ online].<ref>[http://virginiagenealogyblog.com/2008/10/12/original-virginia-records-imaged-and-indexed-online/"Original Virginia Records Imaged and Indexed Online,"] ''Arlene Eakle's Virginia Genealogy Blog,'' 12 October 2008.</ref> {{CommunityTree}} As of August 2010, a query for [http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=Search&includedb=&lang=en&ti=&surname=&stype=Exact&given=&bplace=Knox+Tennessee&byear=&brange=0&dplace=&dyear=&drange=0&mplace=&myear=&mrange=0&father=&mother=&spouse=&skipdb=&period=All&submit.x=Search persons born in Knox, Tennessee] at ''[[World Connect|World Connect]]'', results in more than 90,000 entries. | |||
For early settlers (pre-1796), start with: | |||
*East Tennessee Historical Society. ''First Families of Tennessee: A Register of Early Settlers and Their Present-day Descendants''. Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, 2000. {{FHL|974123|item|disp=FHL Book 976.8 H2}}. | |||
=== Bibliography === | |||
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It is anticipated that this bibliography will eventually identify all known family histories published about residents of this county. Use this list to: | |||
*Locate publications about direct ancestors | |||
*Find the most updated accounts of an ancestor's family | |||
*Identify publications, to quote [[Elizabeth Shown Mills|Elizabeth Shown Mills]], about an ancestor's "FAN Club" ['''F'''riends, '''A'''ssociates, and '''N'''eighbors] | |||
*'''[Alldredge-Aldridge]''' Lester, Memory Aldridge ''Alldredge-Aldridge-Bracken-Nesmith families and their kin'' Chapel Hill, North Carolina : M.A. Lester, 1957 {{FHL|202048|item}} 929.273 AL52L; digital version available at [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH36&CISOPTR=32805&REC=1 Family History Archives]. | |||
*'''[Alldredge]''' Sausaman, William Amel ''Nathan Alldredge (1739-1826) of North Carolina and Tennessee and his descendants.'' Springfield, Illnois : W.A. Sausaman, 1971. {{FHL|202078|item}} 929.273 AL52s; digital version available from [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH36&CISOPTR=31727&REC=11 Family History Archives]. | |||
*'''[Ayers]''' Gart, Jeanne Brooks. ''The Families of Joseph and Charlotte (Shelton) Ayers: Knox County, Tennessee and Macon County, Missouri, Including Ralph Shelton, Middlesex County, Virginia and Reuben M. Dunnington''. Boston, Mass.: Newbury Street Press, 1997?. {{FHL|720113|item}} 929.273 Ay24g | |||
*'''[Bates]''' Bates, Madison C. ''Bates, a Brief History and Genealogy of Joseph Harrison Bates''. Galesburg, Ill.: Wagoner Printing Co., 1915. FHL/VAULT US/CAN Film 1145782 Item 3; digital version at [http://books.google.com/books?id=PHExAAAAMAAJ Google Books]. | |||
*'''[Belieu]''' Rust, Elma Sprague. ''Belieu: Micajah Belieu and Some of His Descendants, 1795 Wilkes County, NC, to 1990''. Blachly, Oregon: E.S. Rust, 1999. FHL FAM HIST Book 929.273 B412r. | |||
*'''[Bell]''' Bell, Eldon Raymond. ''Bells History: of Shenandoah Valley, VA and Knox County, TN''. Springdale, Arkansas: E.R. Bell, 1994. {{FHL|737313|item}} 929.273 B413ber | |||
*'''[Blackley]''' Perry, Gregory M. ''The Charles Blackley Family of Knox County, Tennessee''. Decorah, Iowa: Anundsen, 1991. {{FHL|495935|item}} 929.273 B565p | |||
*'''[Blount]''' Wright, Marcus Joseph. [http://www.archive.org/details/someaccount00wrigrich ''Some Account of the Life and Services of William Blount...'']. Washington,D.C.: E.J.Gray, 1884. Free digital copy. | |||
*'''[Bracken]'''See Alldredge-Aldridge. | |||
*'''[Brownlow]''' ''Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, the Tennessee Patriot: Together with His Last Editorial in the Knoxville Whig; Also, His Recent Speeches, Rehearsing His Experience with Secession, and His Prison Life''. Indianapolis: Asher & Co., Publishers, 1862. Digital versions at [http://books.google.com/books?id=c-wDAAAAYAAJ Google Books] and [http://www.archive.org/details/someaccount00wrigrich Internet Archive]. | |||
*'''[Campbell]''' Daughters of the American Revolution. ''Campbell Family of Knox Co., Tenn. [ca. 1800-1900]''. Typescript, National Library of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C. Microfilmed in 1971. {{FHL|115190|item}} 872778 Item 3 | |||
*'''[Campbell]''' Fassnacht, Grace Spencer. ''Campbell Kith and Kin: Descendants of Archibald Campbell and Elizabeth Baker Who Came from Campbell County, Virginia to Knox County, Tennessee, 1796''. Chattanooga, Tenn.: G.S. Fassnacht, [198-?]. {{FHL|556129|item}} 929.273 C152fg | |||
*'''[Campbell]''' Schlotterbeck, Mrs. W.K. ''Archibald Campbell''. Typescript, Dallas, Texas. Microfilmed 1991. FHL US/CAN Film 1787180 Item 15. | |||
*'''[Chapman]''' Ristau, Patricia. ''Chapman Family History and Genealogical Records, 1796-1926''. Typescript, microfilmed 1986. FHL US/CAN Film 1321077 Item 24. | |||
*'''[Chesney]''' Orcutt, Joel Thomas. ''Our Tennessee Chesneys: A Genealogy of the Families of John Chesney 1794-1876 Early Settler of Grainger County, Tennessee & Nathaniel Richard Chesney 1796-1885 Early Settler of Knox County, Tennessee''. Terlton, Oklahoma: J.T. Orcutt, 2006. {{FHL|1506275|item}} 929.273 C425o | |||
*'''[Claiborne]''' Burns, Annie Walker. ''Historical Records of the Claiborne Family: Variously Spelled Clayborne, Cliborne, Cleborn & etc.'' Washington, D.C.: A.W. Burns, 1943. {{FHL|224968|item}} 1703890; digital versions available at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=17746 Ancestry] ($); and [http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/books/results/fullcitation?urn=urn%3Aproquest%3AUS%3Bglhbooks%3BGenealogy-glh20376739%3B-1%3B-1%3B Heritage Quest Online] ($). | |||
*'''[Clark]''' Spoden, Muriel Millar Clark. ''An American Ancestry of the Clark--Morton and Tayman--Millar--Adams Families''. [Kingsport, Tenn.]: M.M.C. Spoden, 1995. FHL FAM HIST Book 929.273 C547sm. | |||
*'''[Claybourn]''' Claybourn, Verner Marvin and Harriette Pinnell Threlkeld. ''The Claybourn Family: The Descendants of Ephraim Claybourn of Tennessee and William Divine Claybourn of Jefferson County, Illinois''. McKinney, Texas: H.P. Threlkeld, 1969. FHL FAM HIST Book 929.273 C579t. | |||
*'''[Davis]''' Valgardson, Florence Davis. ''James Jordan Davis Family History: Consisting of Biographical Sketches of James Jordan Davis, His Posterity and Ancestry''. Provo, Utah: J. Grant Stevenson, 1970. FHL FAM HIST Book 929.273 D29j. | |||
*'''[England]''' Austin-Raichart, Deb and Fodrocy, Jan ''Descendants of Aaron England'' Sparta, Tennessee : D. Austin-Raichart, [199?] {{FHL|703061|item}} 929.273 En34; digital version at [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH12&CISOPTR=46615&REC=3 Family History Archives] | |||
*'''[Eppes]''' Johnson, Mary Lou Shoemaker. ''Family of Edward Eppes of Knox County, Tennessee.'' Fountain City, TN?: Unknown, 1951. Digital version at [http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/books/results/image?urn=urn%3Aproquest%3AUS%3Bglhbooks%3BGenealogy-glh307478806%3B-1%3B-1%3B Heritage Quest Online] ($). | |||
*'''[Ferguson]''' Steiger, Grace Ferguson. ''The John Miller Ferguson Family History''. Perrysburg, New York: G.F. Steiger, 1976. FHL FAM HIST Book 929.273 F381s. | |||
*'''[Gist]''' Dorsey, Jean Muir. ''Christopher Gist of Maryland and Some of His Descendants, 1679-1957,'' Chicago, IL: J.S. Swift Co., 1958. {{FHL|408089|item}} 929.273 G447; digital version at [http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/books/results/image?urn=urn%3Aproquest%3AUS%3Bglhbooks%3BGenealogy-glh299171013%3B-1%3B-1%3B Heritage Quest Online] ($). | |||
*'''[Goodpasture]''' Goodpasture, Albert Virgil; Goodpasture, William Henry. [http://www.archive.org/details/lifejeffersondi00goodgoog ''Life of Jefferson Dillard Goodpasture.'' ]Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing House, 1897. | |||
*'''[Graves]''' Neal, Thomas Howe R. ''Harbison, Graveston, Knox County, Tennessee and Graves Genealogy''. Knoxville, Tenn.: Neal, 1973. {{FHL|13556|item}} 929.273 G783n; Index: {{FHL|13556|item}} 929.273 G783n index | |||
*'''[Gredig]''' Dockter, Albert W. ''A Family History and Descendants of Jeremiah Gredig: With Roots in Knox County, Tennessee''. [Alcoa, Tenn.]: A.W. Dockter, 1991. {{FHL|551517|item}} 929.273 G799d | |||
*'''[Green]''' Adams, Edward Ewing. ''Green Family Historical Collections, a History of James Green (or Greene) and His Descendants: A Resident of Old Tryon and Rutherford Counties, North Carolina; Knox County, Tennessee and Madison and Bond Counties, Illinois''. Springfield, Ill.: Midwest Microfilm Co., 1967. {{FHL|342886|item}} 477574 | |||
*'''[Hansard]''' Bell, Annie W.B. ''Hansard-Christian Family History Records''. Knoxville, Tenn.: Hansard Family Register, 1978. FHL US/CAN Film 1445967. | |||
*'''[Harmon]''' Burris, Gloria Fay Harmon. ''The Descendants of Hiram Harmon & Sarah York, & Oda Agee Harmon''. [Lake City, Tenn.]: G.F. Burris, 2000. {{FHL|991857|item}} 929.273 H228bg | |||
*'''[Harris]''' Harris, Madison M. ''Family History of Col. John Sawyers and Simon Harris and Their Descendants''. Knoxville, Tenn.: Knoxville Lithographing Co., 1913. FHL US/CAN Film 1421635 Item 4; digital versions at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=23622 Ancestry] ($), [http://books.google.com/books?id=qTdPAAAAMAAJ Google Books], and [http://www.archive.org/details/familyhistoryofc01harr Internet Archive]. | |||
*'''[Hewitt]''' Tompkins, Norma Louise Pritchett ''Hewitt:three hundred years form Jamestown to Wyatt Switch.'' [Dallas, Texas] : N.L. Tompkins, c1992. {{FHL|670253|item}} 929.273 H497; digital version available at [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH12&CISOPTR=19691&REC=5 BYU Family History Archives.] | |||
*'''[Johnson]''' Johnson, Katherine Baker. ''The Family of the Reverend William Johnson of Virginia and Knox County, Tennessee''. Typescript, 1971. {{FHL|323251|item}} 877505 Item 2 | |||
*'''[Lane]''' Williams, Lyle Keith. ''The Lane-Robertson Families of Amherst County, Virginia and Descendants.'' Fort Worth, Texas: L.K. Williams, 1991. {{FHL|929.273 L24wi}} | |||
*'''[Lovell]''' Steed, Cecilia Giauque. ''Sketch and Record of Mary Ann Lovell, Born 1852, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee''. MSS., 1924. {{FHL|319305|item}} 6018518 | |||
*'''[McCampbell]''' McCampbell, Nellie Pearl, David Babelay, and Marian W. McCampbell. ''Samuel Shannon McCampbell [and] Sarah Prudence Smith McCampbell, Ancestors and Descendants''. Knoxville, Tenn.: N.P. McCampbell, 1965. FHL US/CAN Film 982117 Item 3. | |||
*'''[Nesmith]''' ''See Alldredge-Aldridge''. | |||
*'''[Park]''' ''The Family Record of James Park, Deceased, from His Marriage in 1804 Down to March, 1907''. 1907?. FHL US/CAN Fiche 6017361. | |||
*'''[Plumlee]''' Houp, J. Randall. ''The Descendants of Isaac & Margaret (Bradshaw) Plumlee, White County, Tennessee''. Alma, Ark.: J. Randall Houp, 1991. {{FHL|398127|item}} 929.273 P735h | |||
*'''[Pritchett]''' Horlacher, Doris Melissa Pritchett. ''Edward & Catherine (Scroggins) Harner Pritchett of Wake Co. NC; Knox Co and Roan Co, TN; Camden Co, MO''. Salt Lake City, Utah: D. Horlacher, 2001. {{FHL|1025816|item}} 929.273 P939hdp; Supplement: {{FHL|1025816|item}} 929.273 P939hdp supp. | |||
*'''[Reagan]''' Reagan, Donald B. ''Smoky Mountain Clans.'' 3 vols. Knoxville, Tenn.: D.B. Reagan, 1978-1983. {{FHL|185808|item}} 929.273R22b 1978 [The Reagan family is discussed in Vol. 1.] | |||
*'''[Robbins]''' Gray, Shawn. ''Descendants of Isaac Robbins.'' Muncie, Indiana : S. Gray, [2003]. {{FHL|1155848|item}} 929.273 R535; digital version at [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH27&CISOPTR=93220&REC=4 Family History Archives]. | |||
*'''[Russell]''' Pencin, Gaye Phipps. ''Russell, James H.: Born ca. 1780, Prob. North Carolina, to Odin Township, Chicot Co., Ark. by 1828, to Texas in May 1837, Died ca. 1840. (Possibly Son of William Russell, Sr. of North Carolina and Later Knox Co., Tennessee.)''. Woodland, Calif.: G.P. Phipps, 1986. {{FHL|471864|item}} 929.273 R914p | |||
*'''[Sawyers]''' Harris, Madison M. ''Family History of Col. John Sawyers and Simon Harris and Their Descendants''. Knoxville, Tenn.: Knoxville Lithographing Co., 1913. FHL US/CAN Film 1421635 Item 4; digital versions at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=23622 Ancestry] ($), [http://books.google.com/books?id=qTdPAAAAMAAJ Google Books], and [http://www.archive.org/details/familyhistoryofc01harr Internet Archive]. | |||
*'''[Schenck]''' Schenck, Harry A. ''Schenck Family History: Henry Schenck and Meta Flemming Family: From Tennessee and Wisconsin to San Diego, California''. n.p.: H.A. Schenck, 2009. FHL FAM HIST Book 929.273 Sch27shh. | |||
*'''[Sevier]'''Turner, Francis Marion. ''[http://www.archive.org/details/lifegenjohnsevier00turnrich Life of General John Sevier]'' New York: The Neale Publishing Co., 1910. Free digital copy. | |||
*'''[Smith]''' McCampbell, Nellie Pearl, David Babelay, and Marian W. McCampbell. ''Samuel Shannon McCampbell [and] Sarah Prudence Smith McCampbell, Ancestors and Descendants''. Knoxville, Tenn.: N.P. McCampbell, 1965. FHL US/CAN Film 982117 Item 3. | |||
*'''[Tarwater]''' Tarwater, Charles B. ''A Brief History of the Tarwater Family''. Knoxville, Tenn.: C.B. Tarwater, 1957. FHL US/CAN Film 1206499 Item 47. Supplement: FHL US/CAN Film 1206499 Item 48. | |||
*'''[Thomas]''' "Abram Thomas, Welsh Ironmaster," ''Tennessee Ancestors'', Vol. 7, No. 2 (Aug. 1991). | |||
*'''[Toole]''' Craig, Joe Mason and Mary Marcie. ''John Toole, Ruth Ann Rankin, and Their Descendants.'' Oceanside, Calif.: J.M. and M. Craig, c1984 (Natchitoches, La.: Mayfield Printing). {{FHL|193485|item}} 929.273 T618c; digital version at [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH42&CISOPTR=42524&REC=8 Family History Archives]. | |||
*'''[Walker]''' Bowman, G. Ralph. ''Some Descendants of Captain George Walker, 1745-1833: of Fauquier, Virginia; Burke County, North Carolina; Knox, Rhea & Bledsoe Counties, Tenn''. n.p.: G.R. Bowman, 1978, 2004. {{FHL|1175141|item}} 929.273 W152bg | |||
*'''[Walker]''' Walker, Mary and David Walker. ''Ballard Ira Walker's Family''. Tenn.?: M.B. Walker, 1988. FHL FAM HIST Book 929.273 W151wm. | |||
*'''[Wallace]''' Seivers, Edna Wallace. ''The Ancestors and Descendants of Robert Wallace''. Knoxville, Tenn.: E. Seivers, 1989. FHL FAM HIST Book 929.273 W155se. | |||
*'''[White] '''Scott, Nancy N. ''[http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=supreme%20court%20tennessee%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts&page=2 A Memoir of Hugh Lawson White, Judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, Member of the Senate of the United States...]''Philadalphia: J.B.Lippincott, 1856. Free digital copy. | |||
*'''[Young]''' Stein, Carl F. ''Some Descendents of James Pickens Young 1815: of Polk, Rhea, Hamilton, Blount, & Knox Counties, Tenn., Cherokee, & Gaston Counties, North Carolina''. Family Group Sheets. {{FHL|787567|item}} 2055385 Item 2 | |||
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