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Welcome to https://marshacopehuie.com
This webpage aims to preserve the genealogy and correspondence (from 1829) of these families, and of many more: Scots – Northern Irish immigrants Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800, & wife “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery (McCorkle), died 1789; immigrants William Morrison (1704-1771) & wife Margaret Hays (Morrison), who were the paternal grandparents of Margaret Morrison McCorkle alias Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770-1848, buried McCorkle Cemetery east of Newbern, Dyer County, Tennessee; James Huie (dates uncertain; perhaps circa 1770-circa 1850) & son Benjamin Huie, 1798-1879, known to have been in Mecklenburg-later Cabarrus County, then Rowan- later Iredell Counties, North Carolina; and Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard (Thomas) of Rowan-later Iredell County, NC. Many allied lines are considered. The above-mentioned families mostly came from Pennsylvania down the Great Wagon Road of the 18th century to Rowan County, North Carolina; then to Tennessee. Iredell County was carved off Rowan County in a.d. 1788.
I. Correspondence of (“Peggy”) Margaret Morrison McCorkle (Mrs. Robert McCorkle), 1770-1848. This correspondence includes letters to and from one of her daughters, Elmira Sloane McCorkle Roache. Margaret called her new home in Dyer County, of the Western District of Tennessee, “Verdant Plain,” and later a son, Robert Andrew Hope or RAH McCorkle, was to pen letters as having been written from “Verdant Grove.”
Please hold down “CTRL” and Click for the information outlined below: Frontispiece.1984 Letter Bowden Cason (Casey) McCorkle to Marsha Cope Huie. Provenance of Old McCorkle Letters. Solicitation of Funds for McCorkle Cemetery east of Newbern, West Tennessee.
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Alexander McCorkle Genealogy (1722-1800) Introduction to the people who engaged in the McCorkle Correspondence that begins with Mrs. Robert McCorkle, 1770–1846, born Margaret Morrison of Rowan County, North Carolina. Margaret Morrison’s paternal grandfather, William Morrison, 1704-1771, referred to himself as the first white “inhabitor” of the Third Creek area, now Loray community near Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. The grandfather William Morrison, 1704-1771, attended parleys with the Indians and was active (with his son Andrew Morrison) at Fort Dobbs during the era of the French & Indian Wars. Fort Dobbs lies just outside today’s Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. Robert McCorkle’s 1st wife, Elizabeth Blythe (McCorkle) died (probably not near Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church nearby Lexington, Kentucky, but probably just outside today’s Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee, near “Old Shiloh” Presbyterian Church–Robert McCorkle’s daughter by second wife Margaret Morrison wrote that Lizzie Blythe McCorkle died and was buried in a primitive area. Elizabeth Blythe McCorkle, first wife of Robert McCorkle, died some time after giving birth to son “Aleck” Alexander McCorkle, who died in infancy, & daughter Elizabeth McCorkle (who later became Mrs. Thomas Anderson of Lebanon, Wilson Co., Tenn.); whereupon Robert McCorkle, 1764-1828, returned to Rowan-Iredell County and claimed the hand of Margaret Morrison, whose Morrison land in what is now Iredell County adjoined some of the McCorkle lands. Margaret Morrison McCorkle after marriage circa 1794 in Rowan County, NC, to Robert McCorkle (as Robert McCorkle’s 2nd wife) removed to Rutherford County, Tennessee, where they lived at Bradley’s Creek and Stone’s River–and, it is thought, where some of Margaret’s Morrison family members also lived at least temporarily, including her sisters Miss Rebecca Morrison and Mrs. Mary Morrison Morrison (who married her own Morrison 1st cousin, a son of her uncle Patrick Morrison); then finally Margaret Morrison McCorkle and her by then-blind husband Robert McCorkle removed, with their living, grown children, to Dyer County, Tennessee, near the Gibson County Line and Yorkville.
The above hyperlink attempts to explain who Alexander McCorkle & wife “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery (McCorkle) were: Scots–Irish immigrants from Northern Ireland to, first, Pennsylvania, down the Great Wagon Road to Virginia, then to the Piedmont of North Carolina (Rowan County, a part of which was carved off in 1788 as Iredell County). This chapter explains as much as the author knows about the antecedents of Alexander and Agnes Montgomery McCorkle; then proceeds to examine genealogy of their children. The writer’s (Marsha Cope Huie ‘s) direct ancestor happens to be their son ROBERT McCorkle (born 1764 and died in the spring of 1828); but all of Robert’s siblings are listed and, it is hoped, their children as well.
Click for: The Nomadic Nature of our McCorkle Ancestors, and allied families. Was James (John James) McCorkle the father of our immigrant Alexander McCorkle (1722-1800)? Why did so many Scots (including our McCorkle ancestors) leave Scotland for Northern Ireland circa 1700?
Click for: All I know about Alexander McCorkle, 1722-1800, and wife “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle and their Descendants This may be repetitious.
Click for: Genealogy of Jacob Thomas & Margaret Brevard Thomas, paternal grandparents of Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle née Jane Maxwell Thomas (whose parents were WILLIAM THOMAS, Revolutionary War veteran, and Elizabeth H. Purviance (Thomas), born 1765 in Rowan County, NC, and died 1849 in Dyer County, Tennessee )
Old Letters I. Click for: Old Letters from Margaret Morrison McCorkle from 1829 to 1848; others’ letters up to 1853, year of death of Edwin Alexander McCorkle, Margaret Permelia McCorkle Scott, and James Scott (1777-1853)
Old Letters II. Click for: Second Part of Old Letters, Part II beginning in 1853 after death of Edwin Alexander McCorkle
Click for: JANE M. THOMPSON WILLIAMS (Mrs. Benjamin Williams), a granddau. of Margaret Morrison McCorkle
Click for: First membership book of the old family church, then called Lemalsamac Christian Church
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People in this photograph whose names are known are:
1. John Flatt
2. E. B. Wiley
3. Geo. Holder
4. Ira Mitchell Cope
5. Lee Garner
6. Arthur Van Eaton
7. Ewing McCorkle
8. John McCormick
9. Dorsey Hendricks
10. Ina (Ira?) Flatt
11. Johnnie Grills
12. Kitty Franklin
13. Ola Allen
14. Tommie Henley
15. Sophie McCorkle (Huie), grandmother
16. Minnie Green
17. Cattie Morrow (Flatt),
18. Jennie Wright
19. Mary Trout
20. Myrtle Hendricks
21. Minnie Flatt
22. Jennie McCorkle (Mrs. E. E. Carter) dau. of Finis A. McCorkle
23. Allie Dickey
24. Charlie Garner
25. Lou Allen
26. Avie Trout
27. Muncie Smith, actually GEORGE Muncie Smith Above Munsey was Onis Franklin (blurred beyond recognition)–Onis Franklin became a medical doctor and ended up in Oklahoma.
28. ____ Charles
29. Rosa Charles
30. May Lancaster, sister of Nettie Jackson
31. Maud Yates
32. Lula Morrow (?), Mrs. Elmer Headden
33. Connie Green
34. Mollie Flatt
35. Bessie Brady (Boady?)
36. Emma Grills
37. Zula Smith, Mrs. Rice
37. Lula Townes [Stevenson or Stephenson]
39. Notie Headden (Cope)
40. Warner Spence
41. Reuben Mayo
42. Albert Jackson
43. Clifford Litton
44. Newt Hendricks
45. Myrtle Hood
46. ____ Charles
47. Clyde Grills
48. Walter Grills
49. Irl Hendricks (?)
50. Franklin Hall
51. Ernest Moore
52. Verna Pope (Mrs. Buck Arnold), a McCorkle-Pope descendant
53. Willie Binkley
54. Cecil Hall
55. Leonard Scobey
56. Willie Travis
57. Jay Trout
58. Algie Woods
59. Clyde Litton
60. Errett Cotton McCorkle, 1888-1976
61. Willie Edmiston
62. Mollie Scobey
63. Bettie Edmiston (?)
64. Fleetie Taylor (?)
65. Katie Woods
66. Vada Spence (Trimble), mother of Menthia Trimble Hicks & Spence Trimble.
67._____ ?
68. Gladys Headden (Mrs. Muncie Smith)
69. Ben Anna Spence (Hundley), grandmother of inter alia LaNita Hall VanDyke70. Alice Mayo
71. May Spence
72. Ethel Moore
73. Rada Headden (Mrs. B. Allmon, his 2nd wife).
75. “Cap” Smith
76. Otha Pope
77. Frank Henley
78. Oliver Alexander
79. Charlie Headden
80. Frank Smith
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Maury Adolphus Huie’s Typed Family Record from his mother’s and aunts’ records
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Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle & Tirzah Scott McCorkle
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Nota Bene. On the tombstone I gave for James “Jimps” Scott, set in the Old Yorkville (Tennessee) Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, I erroneously placed the death date as 1872 for “Jimps” James Scott (born 1808 – 1810). He appears in the 1880 census so probably died circa 1882, but I’m no longer sure about any date of his death. I erroneously thought the little, almost-gone stone (shown above, listing somebody’s date of birth as 1810) that I found in the old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery showed the date of death of “our” James “Jimps” Scott. I must have been wrong. But at least I did get a marker erected. I learnt after erecting this monument that James “Jimps” Scott’s wife, Violet Barry Roddy, had Moore-Roddy antecedents at Walnut Grove Plantation, on the Tigre River near Roebuck near Spartanburg, South Carolina.
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The Dickey Family of Sarah Dickey Scott (1777-1838), a daughter of Sarah Robinson Dickey & of John Dickey of York District, South Carolina. Sarah Dickey Scott and husband James Scott, 1777-1853, were interred in Old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, but I moved their markers to the McCorkle Cemetery east of Newbern circa 1984.
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John & Jane Tongue. William Tong (Revolutionary War soldier) & Ellen Ford. Joseph Ford Tong. And Juliet Tong Cotton & John Cotton of Botland near Bardstown, Nelson Co., Kentucky, parents of Mary Elizabeth “Mollie” Cotton McCorkle, alias the second Mrs. John Edwin McCorkle.
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Hendricks or Hendrix Excursus. Daniel Hendricks & Isabel Pendry Hendrix. of Mocksville, Rowan-Davie County, NC; Uriah C. Hendricks & the two McMahan sisters. Narcissus Elizabeth Hendricks Cope; Harriet Hendricks Wyatt; Mark Hendricks of Trimble; George Hendricks of Trimble; Albert Hendricks; JC “Jerry” Hendricks. These Hendrix or Hendricks people are ancestors of my mother, Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie of sacred memory, 1915-1909.
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Hiram McCorkle–just a teaser from one of HRA McCorkle’s Civil War journals
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Benjamin Huie/ Julius M. Huie/ Howard Anderson Huie/ Howard EWING Huie Home, built circa 1830. Situated just east of the Dyer-Gibson County Line on Highway 77, the Newbern-Yorkville Highway. Today, Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie (Mrs. Ewing Huie) lives there.
Also: my Parents, Howard Ewing Huie, 1907-1971, and Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie, born 1915.
Photo Gallery: Left to right: I think this is either Benjamin Huie, 1798-1879, or James Scott, 1777-1753, or James Scott’s son “Jimps” James Scott, born 1810. This photo was in the collection of Mrs. Julius M. Huie, nee Sarah Elizabeth Scott, 1839-1893, so it’s likely the subject of the photograph is either her father James “Jimps” Scott or her father-in-law Benjamin Huie (father of Julius M. Huie);
then: Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle alias the second Mrs. John Edwin McCorkle;
then a montage with Bettie Huie Gregory and John Bowden (bottom right) and left UNKNOWN, top right a James Scott and in the center a little Maury Adolphus Huie, born 1895; blank; then a Jim Scott in a hat–but is it James Scott born 1777, or his son “Jimps” James Scott born in 1808 or 1810 or “Jimps” Scott’s son who moved to Cleburne, Texas, James Allen Scott born 1839?
Far right: I think this is the James Allen “Jim” Scott born in 1839 as twin to SADE Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie but it may be his father born 1808 or 1810.
Left: William Leander A. McCorkle, a son of Tirzah Scott & RAH McCorkle and a grandson of Robert McCorkle, 1764-1828, and Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1828
Blank but supposed to be Deana Glen and brother Jimmy Glen, grandchildren of Gentry Purviance McCorkle (a son of Finis Alexander McCorkle and 1st wife).
Howard Harris Roahce, died around Trenton at train station from a mortal wound incurred at the Battle of Shiloh; his brother Robt. Quincy Roache & Sunderland wife; and another photo of Howard Harris Roache
Blank but supposed to be my husband Ralph Ervin Williamson and his father J C in 1963 in Midland, Texas
Far Right: Sarah Zarecor Dunagan and her three children Nancy, Nick, and Anita D. Roy. Descendants of “Becky” REBECCA McCorkle Zarecor (Mrs. John C. Zarecor, a daughter of Edwin Alexander McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle)
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Some Records of Our People in Middle TennesseeClick below for:
Morrison Genealogy of Margaret Morrison McCorkle, 1770-1848
Click below for information on Frelinghuisen McCorkle or Frelin McCorkle; and Caleb McCorkle; and Jeff Bean who married Ella McCorkle. These people are buried in the old non-white section of the old McCorkle Cemetery. I added tombstones for those whom I could ascertain circa 1990.
Gideon King, founder of Eminence, KY.
Early Members of N.C. Dialectic Society.
Letter from Elmira Sloan McCorkle Roache to Dr. James Scott Roache in Newbern, detailing her ancestors.
Our Finley-Montgomery-McCorkle Princeton University Connection through “Nancy” Agnes Montgomery McCorkle (Mrs. Alexander McCorkle, last of Rowan Co, NC).
Where in Dyer or Gibson County, Tennessee, are Revolutionary War soldier William Thomas & wife Elizabeth H. Purviance Thomas buried? Where in Middle Tennessee (I presume) is her father, Colonel John Purviance, 1743-1823, buried? John Purviance’s wife “Jane” Mary Jane Wasson Purviance, who died in 1810? –All the above are under Miscellany, below. Former Chapter 14. Click here, below:
Some early Sumner Co., Tenn., Marriage Records.
Miscellany. Former Chapter 14.
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Will of Samuel Rosebrough. Mentions: Benjamin Huie; Jacob Huie (“Hughey”). And a JOHN DICKEY attests to 1820 will. Benjamin Huie, 1797-1879, pioneer to the Western District of Tennessee, had a first wife named Levina Cowan. Levina Cowan Huie had a sister who married a Rosebrough.
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