Thomas Rountree (c1733 – 23 March 1895) Thomas Rountree was the son of Charles Rountree and his wife Lydia, according to the 1867 letter by his youngest son Joseph Rountree.  That letter suggests that Thomas traveled to America sometime in the 1750s, apparently working in the shipbuilding industry that was concentrated around Philadelphia at the time, before returning to Ireland to marry his wife Eva Sturgis.  He returned to America in 1760.  According to a Belfast newspaper, Thomas Rountree and John Sturgis of Rich-hill, County Armagh, were scheduled to sail on 15 June 1760 in the ship Willey, bound for Philadelphia and New Castle.¹ It seems likely that Thomas Rountree was newly married to Eva Sturgis in 1760.

They must have lived in Pennsylvania for a time, probably near Philadelphia where the local shipbuilding firms were located at the time, as the 1880 census of his son John Rountree’s youngest son lists his father’s 1762 birthplace as “Pen”.  However, records of the Rountrees in Pennsylvania are elusive and perhaps no longer existent.  The first record of them in North Carolina was not until 16 years after their arrival in America, though this is partly explained by the near total loss of Orange County records from 1767 to 1777.  (Courthouse records were buried in the woods in 1781 when Cornwallis occupied the area and many were never recovered. Others were destroyed in a 1789 courthouse fire.)

Sometime in that ten-year period Thomas Rountree purchased land, for on 10 December 1776 he was listed among the county’s freeholders voting for members of the Continental Congress.²  The 1780 tax list tells us that his plantation was “130 acres deeded”.³  He is thereafter mentioned frequently in Orange County, North Carolina records.

Although his acquisition of the 130 acres is among the missing records, two 1778 grants to adjacent landowners place his holding in northeastern Orange County on the Flat River quite near the border with present-day Person County which was then part of Caswell County.⁴  A 1777 road order charged him and the same neighbors with maintaining a road from the Caswell (later Person) County line to the south fork of Little River.⁵

Thomas Rountree qualifies as a D.A.R. patriot.  On 12 December 1781 he was paid £2:6:3 for an unspecified Revolutionary claim (probably supplies to the troops) approved by the Hillsborough District.⁶

Thomas Rountree and his family were members of the Little River Presbyterian Church, located near the north fork of Little River in northeastern Orange County about a mile southwest of the town of Caldwell and about four miles south of Person County.   In 1784 Thomas and his son William witnessed the will of John Hall, one of the men who had founded the church in 1761.⁷  Thomas and Eva were buried in the church’s graveyard, along with their sons Charles and (probably) William.

Unfortunately, both the 1787 state and 1790 federal censuses for Orange County are lost, as are all tax lists for the period.  The 1800 census enumerated Thomas Rountree with two sons and a daughter still at home, as well as an unidentified older woman.⁸

Thomas Rountree wrote his will on 13 September 1803 about nineteen months before he died.⁹  He left his plantation to his youngest son Joseph Rountree, who was to provide for his mother during her widowhood.  John, Thomas, Lydia Cate and Rachel Jacobs were each given five shillings.  After his wife’s death the residual estate was to be divided into eight shares;  two shares each to Andrew and Thomas and one share each to John, Charles, Joseph and Lydia.  Rachel was to receive a cow in two years.  A cow was bequeathed to his granddaughter Elizabeth Hannah, and Joseph Rountree was charged with raising a horse for her.   Sons John and Charles were named executors.

Thomas is buried in the Little River Church cemetery with an old stone reading “T. Rountree died March the 23 1805 aged 72 Years“.  Eva is presumed to have been buried there as well.   J. G. Rountree reported in his 1959 book that he visited their graves in 1952 and added a bronze plate to Thomas Rountree’s grave.¹⁰  That plaque reads “Thomas Rountree born in Ireland 1733. Emigrated to USA 1752. Died in N. Carolina 1805. Has many descendants.”

1. William Rountree (c1760 – 1791?)  The earliest record of him is a 29 October 1784 list of clerks employed by the Board of Auditors for the Hillsborough District of North Carolina, which encompassed northern Orange County.¹¹  In late 1784 he and his father witnessed the will of  John Hall, one of the founders of the Little River Presbyterian Church.¹². On 25 February 1790 he witnessed a bill of sale to a neighbor of Thomas Rountree.¹³. He does not appear in any subsequent record.  A gravestone in the Little River Church graveyard, nearly impossible to read, may be his.  It appears to record a T(?) Rountree who died in 1791 with the number “30”, perhaps an age.¹⁴ This seems likely to be the grave of William Rountree, who was dead before Thomas Rountree made his will in 1803.  Joseph Rountree’s letter states that his brother William did not “raise a family.”
2. John Rountree (12 October 1762 – 1842)  The earliest record of him is his appearance on the 1790 tax list of Hillsborough District.  He married Jealsy Thompson by bond dated 23 February 1793.¹⁵  Two months later he bought 200 acres in adjacent Person County with his father a witness.¹⁶  He was thereafter taxed annually on those 200 acres in Person County through 1817. He was enumerated in the 1800 census of Person County with a family of seven and in 1810 with a family of ten plus 15 slaves.¹⁷On 23 July 1817 he sold his 200 acres¹⁸ and moved more than 500 miles westward to Maury County, Tennessee.
   On 5 May 1819 he bought 106 acres on Carter’s Creek, just over the Williamson County border, where he lived the rest of his life.¹⁹ The 1820 census showed him heading a household of eleven.He was a blacksmith, as his inventory included a set of blacksmith tools and an earlier accounting of the estate of his brother-in-law John Cates listed a payment to John Rountree for “smithing”.²⁰. The 1850 and 1860 censuses list his occupation as “Blacksmith”. John Rountree wrote his will on 7 December 1841, leaving his plantation and most of his slaves and equipment to his wife for her lifetime with reversion to his son William Denardeus Rountree.²¹. The other children or their heirs were as listed below.He and his wife are both buried in the Carter’s Creek Cemetery (also known as the Jameson-Rountree-McKee Cemetery) though the stones are unreadable.  When he died is uncertain, but the inventory of his estate was dated in March 1842, so it must have been within weeks of the will.²²Note:  A large number of internet postings and genealogies erroneously claim that John Rountree had an earlier wife named Nancy Manning, who bore him sons named Reuben and George and a daughter named Nancy who emigrated from North Carolina to Georgia.  This claim apparently stems from a comment in J. G. Rountree’s 1959 book but it erroneously conflates this John Rountree with a different and unrelated John Rountree (c1750-1821) who was from the unrelated “Nansemond Rountree” lineage.²³ See the “Nansemond Rountree” pages for details.
   1. Sarah Rountree (27 May 1794 – 7 November 1851) She married John Satterfield (1790-1852) in Person County, North Carolina by bond dated 5 April 1815.  They moved to Williamson County, Tennessee and both are buried in the Carters Creek cemetery in Maury County.  Sarah predeceased her busband, who left a will dated 28 January 1852 leaving his estate to children named Carter Satterfield, Addison Satterfield, Alvis Satterfield, Sarah A. Satterfield (Church), Joseph Satterfield, Louisa Satterfield, Rebecca Ann Satterfield and Gustavus Satterfield.²⁴ A son named John Satterfield predeceased his parents.
   2. Thomas Rountree (29 March 1796 – 24 April 1864). He married Sarah Elizabeth Campbell (1796-1864) on 9 December 1824 in Maury County.  He was a blacksmith like his father according to the 1850 and 1860 censuses.  He may have had a middle name, as he appears in at least one record as “Thomas J. Rountree”.²⁵ He and his wife were both buried in the Carters Creek cemetery (also known as the Jameson-Rountree-McKee cemetery) with death dates just five days apart.  He died intestate and the estate was declared insolvent, with few assets that were insufficient to pay debts.²⁶ Five children appear in the 1850/1860 census households: Benjamin Franklin Rountree, John Alexander Rountree, Tennessee Sophronia Rountree and Margaret Adeline Rountree. The oldest was Thomas J. Rountree (1825-1864) who died a Confederate prisoner of war in Maryland according to his gravestone next to his parents in the Carters Creek cemetery.
   3. Joseph T. Rountree (c1798 – 1837)   Joseph T. Rountree married a young widow named Frances Odell (ne McKerall) by bond dated 5 October 1825 in Williamson County, Tennessee.   He was enumerated there in 1830 with two young males and two young females in the household, which included a daughter by his wife’s previous marriage.²⁷  He was in Crawford (later Greene) County, Missouri in 1832 when he witnessed his brother-in-law Shannon’s will.  He was in Yazoo County, Mississippi in time to be taxed in 1834 and by January 1836 was an acting J.P. there.²⁸ He was dead by 26 June 1837 when Alexander Calder was appointed to administer his estate, which included two lots in the river town of Satartia and a 100-acre plot in neighboring Washington (later Issaquena) County that he had acquired a few months earlier.²⁹The children were taken in by their mother’s sister Elizabeth (McKerall) Bacon and her husband the Rev. Sumner Bacon of San Augustine County, Texas.  In 1839 the Rev. Sumner Bacon, acting as their guardian, announced his intention to sell the Mississippi property.³⁰ However, the Yazoo County court determined that the estate was insolvent and ordered the real estate sold to pay creditors.³¹ The children, Joseph Thompson Rountree (1829-1887) and Silena Adaline Rountree (1833 – ?) were still living with Elizabeth Bacon in 1850 in San Augustine County.  The will of Joseph T. Rountree’s father instructed that “Should the heirs of my deceased son Joseph T. Rountree come to this country that they should have one share with the balance of my children.”
   4. Anna Rountree (c1800 – 1836)   Anna was probably the second young female in her father’s 1800 census household.   She was the second wife of Finis Washington Shannon who left a will on 30 June 1832, proved on 29 September 1832,  in Crawford (later Greene) County, Missouri naming his wife Anna and children named Mary Evalina Shannon, Melisa Jane Shannon, Martha Ann Shannon, John R. Shannon, and Jealsy T. Shannon.³²  Anna was apparently the mother of only the last named child, who was evidently named after her mother Jealsy Thompson.³³ On 9 September 1834 in Greene County, Anna was appointed guardian to Jealsey T. Shannon while others were made guardian of the other Shannon children.³⁴  Anna was deceased by 7 November 1836 when the court appointed William Townsend to administer her estate and appointed Joseph Weaver guardian of her daughter Jealsy.³⁵.  Her father’s will in 1841 bequeathed a slave girl to “my granddaughter Jelcy Thompson Shannon… it being a girl that I would have given to my daughter Anna Shannon deceased.”  In 1850 Jealsy Shannon was living in Maury County, Tennessee with her uncle John Rountree.
   5. Mary (Polly) Rountree (c1802 – c1830?)  She married Joseph H. Miller in Maury County on 21 October 1822.  She was deceased when her father wrote his will which bequeathed a slave to William James Miller “son of my deceased daughter Polly Miller… not subject to the control of his father Joseph. H. Miller.”  Her husband was evidently the same Joseph H. Miller who was married to her sister Jincy Rountree when the will was written in 1841.  If so, they must have married before Miller left Maury County for Missouri in the early 1830s.  Which of the Miller children were born by which mother is not clear, though there seems to be a gap between Rufus Miller (born in 1826) and Thomas F. Miller (born in 1832).
   6. Jincy Rountree (? – by 1848)  She was married to (apparently her sister’s widower)  Joseph H. Miller when John Rountree wrote his will, which left a slave to her “not subject to be sold or conveyed by her husband Joseph H. Miller.”  She was dead herself by 4 March 1848 when her husband married again in Greene County, Missouri to a widow named Elizabeth Horn.  On 4 December 1849  Joseph H. Miller made bond as guardian of Rufus M. Miller, Thomas F. Miller, Selena T. Miller, R. S. Miller, Joseph H. Miller Junior, Arlena Miller, Louisa B. Miller and Orlena Ann Miller “minor heirs of John Rountree Senr., dec’d late of the State of Tennessee in Maury County.”³⁶. The 1850 census of Greene County listed Joseph H. Miller with the last six of those children still in the household.  Rufus (born 1826 and Thomas F. (born 1832) were out of the household.  Her husband was evidently the same Joseph H. Miller who was married to her sister Mary Rountree in 1822.  If so, they must have married before Miller left Maury County for Missouri about 1830.  Which of the Miller children were born by which mother is not clear, though there seems to be a significant gap between the births of Rufus Miller and Thomas F. Miller.
   7. John “Jack” Rountree (6 April 1805 – 11 April 1882).  Several records refer to him as  “Capt. Jack Rountree” perhaps to distinguish him from his cousin John Jackson Rountree.³⁷  He remained in Maury County, where he married Sarah Ann Scott on 30 September 1834.  He married again to a 35 year-old spinster named Mary R. McKee on 28 October 1852 in Maury County.  She was the sister of the wives of his cousins David Rountree and John J. Rountree.³⁸ Note that the 1880 census lists his father as born in “Pen”.   He died intestate, with the widow Mary administering the estate.  He and his first wife are both buried in the Carters Creek Cemetery.  They had several children according to the 1850 and 1860 censuses and other records: John F. Rountree, Scott LeFavre Rountree, Martha T. Rountree, Caroline Rountree, James R. Rountree, Mary J. Rountree, Salina Rountree and Louisa Rountree. By his second wife he had a daughter named Virginia A. Rountree.
   8. Louisa Rountree (c1809 – aft 1880). She married James C. Sparkman on 28 October 1832.  Censuses suggest a birth in 1809 or 1810.  The couple was in Lawrence County, Tennessee in 1850 and Wayne County in 1860 through 1880.  They had three children, all sons: William Thomas Sparkman, John William Sparkman, and James Harris Sparkman.
   9. Charles S. Rountree (28 December 1811 – aft1880)   He was executor of his father’s estate and co-administrator of his mother’s estate.  He married Ann O. Crutcher in Williamson County on 1 December 1842 by bond dated 29 November 1842.  He is listed in the 1850 and 1860 censuses of Williamson County as a merchant with five children named Margaret J. Rountree, Mary A. Rountree, John P. Rountree, Sarah E. Rountree. and Emily T. Rountree.  His wife apparently died in the 1860s, as he was a single man in the Williamson County censuses of 1870 and 1880.  I found no probate records for him there.
   10. Salena Byrd Rountree (c1813 – c1853)  As “Salina B.” she was married to William M. Keeton in Maury County by license dated 10 November 1836.  The 1850 census of Maury County listed her as age 36. She was deceased by 1854 when her husband remarried to a younger woman named Amanda West.  Censuses and William M. Keeton’s 1869 will suggest children named John H. Keeton, Lucy Adeline Keeton, Warner C. Keeton, Mary V. Keeton, William A. Keeton, and Sarah Ann Keeton.  Interestingly, he named a daughter by his second wife “Salina Bird” Keeton.
   11. Aurilla Adaline Rountree (12 January 1816 – 4 December 1864)  Although her father’s will calls her “Orrilla” she was married as “Aurilla” A. Rountree to  John J. Mangrum on 11 December 1839.   The 1850 (Adaline) and 1860 (A. A.) censuses of Maury County list five children: William J. Mangrum, Mariah S. Mangrum, Jane Mangrum, Eliza Mangrum, M. E. Mangrum, F. W. Mangrum, and C. E. Mangrum.
   12. William Denardeus Rountree (c1820 – 18 January 1875).  He never married, was enumerated as a single man, a store clerk, in the 1860 and 1870 censuses of Maury County.  His death was reported in a Maury County newspaper.³⁹
3. Charles Rountree (24 September 1769 – 3 January 1816)  His birth and death dates are memorialized on his gravestone in the Little River Church cemetery.  He received a warrant for 50 acres on Little River in 1786, although it was not granted until 1800.⁴⁰  He was called a blacksmith when he bought 246 acres on the Flat River in northern Orange County  on 20 January 1794, which was later identified as “the plantation on which he lived and died“.⁴¹   Two months later he married Nancy Robinson by bond dated 27 March 1794.⁴² In 1797 he added an adjacent 87 acres to his holdings.⁴³  He died at the age of 46 leaving Nancy and several young children.  His will, dated 29 December 1815 just a few days before his death, provided for his wife Nancy and divided his estate “among my children as they come of age“, but did not name them.⁴⁴ The will suggested that he may have been a smith, as it directed that “my still and smith tools” be sold.  It appointed “my brothers Thomas Rountree and Joseph Rountree” as executors, but when Joseph left the area several months later only Thomas qualified.  On 18 November 1818 Thomas Rountree, as executor, sold the three plots of land.⁴⁵  Thomas Rountree died before settling the estate and William Bowles, who married the widow Nancy Rountree by bond dated 16 September 1818, assumed administration of the estate in September 1820⁴⁶
   A February 1820 estate accounting lists legacies paid to the following children.⁴⁷  The 1833 division of the land of Thomas Rountree also named the heirs of Charles Rountree.  Note that only one of his children perpetuated the Rountree name.
   1. Sarah Rountree (c1798 – 1840?)  She married Alexander Robinson (1795-1851) by bond dated 25 November 1818.⁴⁸  She may have died in the 1830s, as the eldest female in her husband’s 1840 census household was too young to be Sarah and was likely her daughter Nancy Jane (Guess) who was born in 1819.⁴⁹  Her husband does not seem to have remarried.  He wrote his will on 17 January 1851 naming sons William Robinson and David Robinson, a daughter Jane Robinson Guess and four minor children named Caroline Robinson, Rebecca Robinson, Sarah Robinson and Alexander Robinson.⁵⁰.  The youngest of these children, Alexander, was born in 1840, raising the possibility that Sarah died in childbirth too early in the year to be counted in the census.  Alexander Robinson  is buried in the Little River Church cemetery, but it isn’t clear if Sarah is buried there as well.
   2. Elizabeth Rountree (13 September 1800 – 2 May 1872)  She married Charles Wilson (1799-1866) by bond dated 10 August 1824.   The final settlement of Charles Wilson’s estate on 4 October 1870 identifies his heirs as his widow Elizabeth and four children:  Charles Rountree Wilson, Felix G. Wilson, Elizabeth Ann Wilson, wife of Joseph W. McKee, and Harriet Jane Wilson, wife of Peter A. Ray.⁵¹. Elizabeth is buried in the Little River Church cemetery.
   3. David R. Rountree (15 August 1802 – 15 June 1851)  He married Sarah Wilson, sister to Charles Wilson, by bond dated 19 December 1825.   When Samuel Wilson wrote his will on 5 April 1840 he named both Charles Wilson and Sally Rountree among his children.⁵²   David Rountree left a will in Person County dated 22 May 1851 and probated shortly thereafter listing Sarah,  his sons Harvey Rountree and John W. Rountree and daughter Elizabeth F. Rountree (who had married John l. Brown five months earlier) and minor children named Thomas Charles Rountree, Harriet Rountree, Mary Jane Rountree and Nancy Rountree.⁵³. His son-in-law John L. Brown was appointed executor and guardian of the four minor children.  John L. Brown died before completing the administration and on 13 November 1869 the Person County Court appointed Robert J. Tilly as administrator, listing the heirs with claims on the estate as Sally, Thomas Charles Rountree, Mary Jane Rountree wife of Robert J. Tilly, Elizabeth F.  Brown and Harriet Rountree wife of Robert Brown.   David Rountree is buried in the Little River Church cemetery, though its  Find-a-Grave entry has errors, most significantly in the date of death.
   4. Rebecca Rountree (1804-1831) She married William Miller (1798-1830) by bond dated 28 April 1824.  They both died quite young, she surviving him by several months.⁵⁴  Her brother-in-law Charles Wilson made bond as her administrator on 9 May 1831.⁵⁵ They had two sons named James Rountree Miller (1825-1898) and Charles Rountree Miller (1826-1897)
   5. Frances Rountree  (18 December 1806 – 16 March 1852). She married Adnah Campbell Foushee (1801-1887) by bond dated 31 March 1827.  (This marriage bond has been misread as 1823.) They raised a large family in Person County, where both are buried in the Adnah Campbell Fouchee Cemetery near Roxboro in Person County.  The 1850 census lists eleven children.⁵⁶
   6. Janette Rountree (12 February 1809 – 12 April 1889)  She was called “Jane” in early records and “Jenet” later.  Her obituary calles her “Janette”.⁵⁷  She married John W. Wilson, brother of Charles and Sarah above, and had several children named Levi Dempsey Wilson, Samuel W. Wilson, Amy Edney Wilson, Martha Wilson, Charles Rountree Wilson, Philo David Wilson, Thomas Harvey Wilson, and John Lotin Wilson.  She is buried in the Little Creek Church cemetery.
   7. Harvey J. Rountree (c1811 – 1847) He wrote his will on 29 October 1847 stating that “having no companion neither heirs of my own body” his estate would be left to Harvey Rountree and John W. Rountree, the eldest sons of his brother David R. Rountree.⁵⁸
   8. Mary (Polly) Rountree. (c1811 – 1843). She married John Ray by bond dated 26 May 1821.⁵⁹  Twelve years later in March of 1834 she petitioned the Superior Court for a divorce on the grounds that her husband “for the last several years has been a habitual drunkard” who had routinely “beaten her violently”⁶⁰.  While they may have been granted a separation but when John Ray died intestate in 1840 Mary was  referred to as his widow;  Charles Wilson, Mary’s brother-in-law administered the estate.⁶¹    Charles Wilson was appointed administrator of Mary’s estate on 29 August 1843 and was later guardian of her children, Nancy W. Ray, George M. Ray, Mary Ann Ray and Eliza J. Ray.⁶²
4. Andrew Rountree (23 April 1772 – 14 July 1841)  He married Mary (Polly) Robertson (1782-1864) by Person County bond dated 5 March 1799.  (This marriage is widely misreported to have taken place in Tennessee.)  He was the first to move to Tennessee, following his father-in-law David Robertson to Williamson County, Tennessee where he was first taxed in 1801 on one white poll and one black poll.⁶³ He was subsequently taxed in Williamson County annually through 1815 then moved to adjacent Maury County.On 19 August 1817 he bought 1,043 acres lying partly in Williamson County and partly in Maury County.⁶⁴  That he was the same Andrew Rountree formerly of Orange County, North Carolina was proven when on 31 May 1836, as a resident of Maury County, he appointed his nephew Newell Cates his attorney to collect from the Orange County estate of his brother Thomas Rountree.⁶⁵ Andrew Rountree left a detailed will dated  23 June 1841 providing for his wife Mary and thirteen children listed below.⁶⁶. The will was proved in court on 6 September 1841 and his son John qualified as executor.⁶⁷ Andrew was buried in the Carters Creek cemetery, also known as the Jameson-Rountree-McKee cemetery, where his gravestone is legible. His widow Mary (1782-1864) survived until 31 January 1864. Several months later the life estate in land and slaves that she had been bequeathed was divided among the heirs by John J. Rountree who administered  the estates of his parents.An 1865 chancery case, in which the heirs petitioned to partition the real estate that had been left to Mary for her lifetime, identified nine living children and the heirs of the four who were deceased.⁶⁸  Birth dates of the children are from a family Bible.⁶⁹
   1. Elizabeth Rountree (5 January 1800 –  27 August 1868) She married John W. Jamison.  Her husband died intestate in Maury County in 1861, where records of his estate list children named Willam A. Jamison, Sarah Amanda Jamison (wife of John S. Caldwell),  Mary Jane Jamison (Overton), Ellen W. Jamison (wife of G. W. C. Mangrum), Ida Jamison (wife of John W. Parks), Robert C. Jamison, John W. Jamison Jr., Thomas E. Jamison, Emily E. Jameson, Rachel Talitha Jamison (wife of James W. Foster), and Martha T. Jameson.⁷⁰  Elizabeth Jamison died intestate in 1868, where the records of her estate further identify the then living children and their heirs.⁷¹ Elizabeth is buried in the Jameson-McKee Cemetery in Maury County.
   2. Thomas Rountree (28 May 1801 – 1 June 1870).  He married first to Rhoda Donaldson, by whom he had children named Andrew Rountree, Cooper Bates Rountree, Franklin Rountree, Sarah Amanda Rountree, Emily Jane Rountree, John Fern Rountree, Joseph Gus Rountree and Rhoda Melvina Rountree.  A grandchild, Joseph Gus Rountree II, authored the 1959 Rountree book referred to elsewhere.  That book has more detail on the children of Thomas Rountree.  He married second to Permelia Buckner but had no issue by her. He married a third time to a younger woman named Elizabeth Downey and had children named Mary Elizabeth Rountree, Martha Alice Rountree, William Thomas Rountree, James Grant Rountree, Tabitha E. Rountree, and Charles C Rountree.
   3. David Rountree (10 October 1802 – 1863?) He married Victoria McKee in Maury County by bond dated 18 August 1827.  (A daughter of William McKee, she was sister to the wives of Capt. John Rountree and John J. Rountree.)  J. G. Rountree wrote that they moved to Missouri, then back to Tennessee, then to Polk County, Missouri about 1854.  The family was in Polk County, Missouri in 1840, sold their land in 1847, were in Marshall County, Tennessee in 1850 and back in Polk County, Missouris in 1860.  He died intestate before 7 August 1867 when Victoria was appointed administratrix.⁷².  However, a petition by his heirs to partition the real estate reads that he died “some time in the year 1863.”⁷³  That 1879 petition names fourteen heirs:  David J. Rountree, Rufus Rountree, Thomas B. Rountree, John W. Rountree, William Robert Rountree, Joseph C. Rountree (deceased) , Charles W. Rountree, Elizabeth A. Rountree (wife of James Ferguson), Emily L. Rountree (wife of Riley Lindley), the heirs of Mary J. Rountree and her husband Jacob Lindley (namely Robert, Martha, Bettie and Sarah Lindley), Margaret M. Rountree (wife of S B. Neil),   Tabitha Rountree (wife of John W. Franklin), Martha Rountree (widow of Houston Chandler), Sarah A. Rountree (who married Mark L. Thomas).  An earlier deed of a partial interest names the same heirs as of 1869.⁷⁴  Family Tree #65
   4. William Wallace Rountree (18 September 1804 – 23 May 1872).  He was apparently the William W. Rountree who married Margaret Jane Ray on 3 May 1827 in Maury County. She must have died shortly afterward, as he then married Susan W. H. Rhodes two years later by bond dated 3 September 1829 in adjacent Williamson County, where he appears in the 1830 census.  The 1850 census of Hickory County, Missouri lists him (apparently miscopied as “Richard”) with the first nine children below.⁷⁵ He died intestate in Hickory County in 1872, where his son William W. Rountree was appointed administrator on 13 April 1875⁷⁶ and listed the heirs as Richard  A. Rountree, Pauline A. Rountree, William W. Rountree, Sarah E. Rountree (Reed), Emily J. Rountree, Charles M. Rountree, James K. P. Rountree, Susan Moore Rountree, Joseph C. Rountree, Christopher C. Rountree and Mary E. Rountree.   A Find-a-Grave entry lists his full name as William Wallace Rountree, matching the name of his son, though I could not find a record identifying his middle name.  His whereabouts were apparently unknown to much of the family, as  J. G. Rountree’s book mentions only that “he moved away from Tennessee (where he moved is unknown)“.⁷⁷
   5. Sarah Rountree (21 February 1806 – c1846)  She was married to George Washington McKee of Maury County about 1830.  In the 1865 Chancery case her six living children, heirs of her father, were listed as John F. McKee, William A. McKee, Thomas V. McKee, Robert R. McKee, George W. McKee Junior, Charles W. McKee and Emily E. Trimble wife of Elijah J. Trimble, who resided in Maury County in 1865 except for WIlliam who lived in Williamson County and Robert R. and John F. McKee who lived in California.⁷⁸ Sarah evidently died sometime after the birth of her son Charles in January 1845 and her husband’s remarriage to Jane Taylor on 2 July 1847.  Sarah’s children were living in the household of their grandmother Mary Rountree in the 1850 census.  Sarah is buried in the Jameson-McKee Cemetery in Maury County but the stone is largely destroyed.
   6. Jane Rountree (1 March 1808 3 January 1808 – 22 July 1864) She married William Francis Anderson Shaw on 15 July 1835 and lived in Williamson County, Tennessee. She was represented in the 1865 Chancery case and settlement of her father’s estate by six children, all of whom lived in Williamson County: Mary O. Shaw (wife of O. L. Davis), Emily E. Shaw (wife of John M. Dodson), Thomas B. Shaw, James P. Shaw, Margaret E. Shaw, and W. F. A. Shaw Jr..  The Chancery petition, filed on 16 August 1865, mentions that Jane Shaw “died intestate in July 1864” with her husband and the same six children surviving her.
   7. Joseph T. Rountree (3 August 1809 – October 1844)  He was taxed in Williamson County in 1830 living on his father’s Carter’s Creek land.   He married Orpha Griffin in Maury County on 10 October 1838.   By 1840 he was enumerated in Polk County, Missouri with his brother Charles apparently in his household.  He and Charles jointly claimed several tracts of land in Polk and Hickory counties.  On 3 August 1843 he married again to a woman named Jane Akins — he died  a year later and she remarried two years later on 18 September 1845 to Thomas Gillihan.   The 1844 tax list of Polk County lists Joseph Rountree’s estate with Thomas Rountree as administrator — Thomas Rountree had been appointed administrator of the estate on 5 November 1844.⁷⁹. On 6 March 1848 the Gillihans petitioned for partition of the real estate and slaves, listing the heirs of Joseph Rountree as his widow Jane (now Gillihan) and minors Andrew George Rountree, John Riley Rountree, and James K. Polk Rountree.⁸⁰ James K. P. Rountree was aged 5 in the 1850 household of Jane’s parents James Akins, thus evidently a son of Jane. In 1849 Charles Rountree was the first guardian of John R. Rountree and Andrew G. Rountree “minor heirs of Joseph Rountree dec’d.”⁸¹  but was replaced when he died in 1851.  Later records identify their full names as John Riley Rountree and Andrew George Rountree.⁸²  In an 1853 court case back in Maury County listing the heirs of his brother Andrew M. Rountree, the two older sons were identified as children of Orpha Griffin and James K. P. Rountree, by then deceased, was identified as the child of an unnamed “2nd wife” (Jane Akins being unknown in Maury County).⁸³  David Rountree was guardian of the other two sons.⁸⁴   John R. Rountree died as a youth, as according to the 1865 Chancery case, Joseph Rountree  died “leaving no widow and an only child who resides in the State of Missouri named Andrew G. Rountree.”  Andrew G. Rountree died without heirs according to an 1874 partition suit filed by the heirs of his aunts and uncles.⁸⁵. Sadly, Joseph Rountree’s sons all died without issue.
   8. Charles Rountree (28 December 1811 – 1851)   He was probably the second male aged 20-30 (sic) in his brother Joseph’s household in the 1840 census of Polk County, Missouri. He bought land from Joseph in 1841.⁸⁶  Charles Rountree was enumerated next door to his brother Thomas Rountree in the 1850 census of Polk County.  He had been since 1849 the guardian of the two sons of his brother Joseph by Orpha Griffin⁸⁷  He was dead by 3 February 1851 when Thomas Rountree was appointed to administer his estate.⁸⁸.  Charles was unmarried and had no issue.  On 22 April 1854 Thomas Rountree filed a petition to partition his real estate, listing the heirs as his brothers and sisters and the children of those who were deceased, thus clearly identifying Charles as the son of Andrew Rountree.⁸⁹

      Note:  There is a significant error in J. G. Rountree’s 1959 book, in which he states that his grandfather’s brother Charles Rountree moved to California and then Arizona “where I visited him in 1898.” ((J. G. Rountree, p58-9.)) Mr. Rountree either misremembered who he had visited 60 years earlier or misread his notes, since Charles Rountree had died in 1851.  The only person who fits the description was Jasper McDonald Rountree, who had moved to California and then Arizona, dying in Maricopa County in 1905, but who was not related to J. G. Rountree.

   9. Andrew Jones Rountree (25 November 1813 – ?) J. G. Rountree’s book reported that he went to Missouri.  However, this child must have died in childhood.  He was not mentioned in Andrew Rountree’s will, nor was he or his issue mentioned as a heir in the records of the estates of his parents or his brother Andrew M. Rountree.
   10. John Jackson Rountree (18 August 1815 – 18 October 1888 ). He married Margaret McKee on 21 March 1838 by license dated 19 March 1838.  A daughter of William McKee, she was sister to the wives of David Rountree and Capt. John Rountree.⁹⁰  He was executor of his father’s estate and administrator of his mother’s estate, and is frequently mentioned in Maury records.  He married a second time to Susan H. Borders on 18 September 1872.  A brief biography in Goodspeed’s History of Maury County says he had eight children by his first wife and two by his second wife.  A Chancery case in 1890 gives his death date and notes that while he left a small personal estate insufficient to pay his debts, he died with real estate that was divided among the heirs.⁹¹ The suit identified the heirs by his first wife as Charles W. Rountree, William Andrew Rountree of Texas, John M. Rountree, Thomas F. Rountree, Kansas L. Rountree (wife of Ashberry Jones)., Emma (Emily) Jane Rountree deceased (represented by her children Maggie Lou Ragsdale and Freddie Lee Ragsdale),  Margaret Josephine Rountree deceased (represented by her child Edna Moss) and Mary Angie Rountree, the wife of R. B. Church.  The children by his second wife were minors Ida Regina Rountree and Johnnie Eva Rountree.
   11. Mary Rountree (23 April 1817 – 1865)  She married Robert McKee, remained in Maury County.  The petition in the 1865 Chancery case states that she “departed this life intestate in 1865” leaving her husband and six children named Mary L. McKee, James P. McKee, Sarah A. McKee, Charles R. McKee, John R. McKee, and Columbus J. McKee all of Maury County.
   12. Cicero Rountree (31 December1818 – 1850) He married Martha A. Priest in Maury County by license dated 24 May 1845.  The 1850 census lists three children but only two,  Ellen P. Rountree (later the wife of William W. Stanley) and Mary M. Rountree (later the wife of Francis A. Mays) were listed as his heirs in the 1865 Chancery case and settlement of his father’s estate.  Cicero died in Williamson County shortly after the 1850 census and W. F. A. Shaw, was appointed administrator in September 1850.   Shaw was made guardian of the children in 1852.  One record in the 1865 Chancery case states that “Cicero Rountree died prior to said Andrew Rountree his brother…”⁹²  This is confirmed by an account of the settlement of his brother’s estate, which also names his two surviving children.⁹³ His widow remarried Robert W. McNight of Williamson County but the children were evidently been taken in by their aunt Jane Shaw, as they were represented by their guardian W. F. A. Shaw in the 1865 case and were living with him in 1865.⁹⁴
   13. Emily Rountree (27 October1821 – 18 October 1899) She married Nelson McKee in Maury County by license dated 29 December 1841.  The newspaper notice of her death notes that she was survived by four children.⁹⁵.  Her husband died in 1863 according to court records (and his gravestone in the Jameson-McKee Cemetery) leaving a will dated 7 December 1861 but not proved until 7 June 1864.⁹⁶  Their children, from census records, were Lydia Elizabeth McKee, Andrew J. McKee, Mary J. McKee, William R. McKee, Francis M. McKee, Sally Ellen McKee, John W. McKee, Emily Alice McKee, Robert H. McKee, Martha Ann McKee, Lou Etta McKee, and Esther McKee.  Nelson McKee’s will directed that the lifetime estate left to Emily be divided among the children at her death; those records were not examined.
   14. Andrew Marion Rountree (12 July 1823 – c1850)   J. G. Rountree’s book states that he died in a snowstorm in California in 1850.⁹⁷  However, in what may have been a legal device to administer his estate in Missouri, on 1 November 1852 the Maury County court found that Andrew M. Rountree “late a citizen of Maury County, Tennessee is dead (and) that he died in said county intestate leaving an estate.”⁹⁸ His brother John J. Rountree was appointed administrator.  According to the 1865 chancery case regarding his mother’s estate, he “left neither wife nor child surviving him.”⁹⁹
   15. George Washington Rountree (29 December 1825 – 3 February 1863)  He was in his mother’s 1850 household.  He married Margaret Jane Riggs in Maury County by license daed 22 June 1853.  He died during the Civil War, and his brother-in-law W. F. A. Shaw administered his estate.  In the records of his father’s  1865 settlement, his wife “Peggy J.” had remarried to Robert Pate of Green County, Missouri.  His heirs were two young children named Mary G. Rountree and Andrew J. Rountree.¹⁰⁰ His brother David was their guardian.
5. Thomas Rountree (1776 – July 1820).  He was evidently the male aged 16-26 still in his father’s household in 1800.   He had purchased 174 acres adjacent to his father  in 1799, which he supplemented with the purchase of an adjacent 194 acres in 1806, part of which bordered the line between Orange and Person counties.¹⁰¹. He married Victory Robertson (sometimes Victoria) by bond dated 4 September 1804.   The 1810 census recorded the couple with a second male aged 26-45 but no children.   Thomas was executor of his brother Charles Rountree’s will and administered the estate until his pwn death.He wrote his own will on 28 July 1820, leaving everything to his wife Victory and setting free his slaves.¹⁰².  He wrote the will on his deathbed, evidently in his own hand, according to testimony.¹⁰³The  will lacked a second witness as required by law which led to a dispute over the its validity, with his siblings declaring themselves his heirs in the absence of children of his own.  The Court of Equity ruled in 1833 that Thomas Rountree’s real estate should be sold and the proceeds divided among his brothers and sisters (or their heirs).¹⁰⁴  The widow Victory remarried to William Lipscombe by bond dated 7 March 1823  and died about 1833.
6. Rachel Rountree. (c1770? – ?by1839. She married David Wylie Hannah by bond dated 4 November 1787.  He was dead by 24 May 1791 when Rachel posted bond as his administratrix.¹⁰⁵. She was left with two children named Elizabeth Hannah and William Hannah.  She remarried more than ten years later in Person County to William Jacobs by bond dateed 8 December 1802.  She had one child by this marriage named Sarah Jacobs, who as the wife of Jarrett Curls claimed a share of the estate of Thomas Rountree in 1839.  Just before the marriage, on 25 November 1802, John Rountree was appointed guardian of William Hannah and Charles Rountree was appointed guardian of Elizabeth Hannah.¹⁰⁶. Both William Jacobs and Rachel were deceased by 1839.
7. Lydia Rountree. (19 January 1779 – 1816).   Her birth date is quoted in several internet trees as 19 January 1770 , though that is only four months after the birth of her brother Charles.  She married John Cates by bond dated 5 November 1799.¹⁰⁷  John Cates left a will in Person County, dated 12 January 1816 and proved the following month, leaving his plantation to Lydia during her widowhood and naming his children as Ransom Cates, Elizabeth Cates, Susannah Cates, Sally Cates, Rufus Cates, Lucretia Cates, Newel Cates and Jane Cates.¹⁰⁸  “Friends” Jesse Evans Of Person County and Joseph Rountree of Orange County were appointed executors.  Lydia apparently died about the same time as her husband, as the executors sold the plantation on 24 December 1816.¹⁰⁹  Lawrence V. Hargis executed bonds as guardian of the children in May 1816 and filed accountings for them for at least the next ten years.¹¹⁰ His management of their estates resulted in suits and when Ransom Cates later sued Hargis for an accounting of his share, he claimed that Hargis had become “much addicted to excessive drinking of spirits”.¹¹¹
8. Joseph Rountree (14 April 1782 – 25 December1874)  He married Nancy Nichols (1786-1857) by Person County bond dated 17 November 1806.¹¹²  (The biography mentioned below inexplicably places the marriage date several months earlier as 24 August 1806.)  The 1810 census shows them with two young sons and the 1816 tax lists shows him with the 130 acres he inherited from his father.  He moved to Maury County, Tennessee about 1819,  then to Greene County, Missouri in January 1831 where he was a justice and schoolteacher. On 29 August 1837 Joseph Rountree of Greene County, Missouri appointed David R. Rountree his attorney to collect from the estate of Thomas Rountree “of which I am a lawful heir being brother to the deceased”¹¹³
   A biography in The Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, Vol. 5 (page 404) does not mention his parents or grandparents, nor do newspaper obituaries.¹¹⁴  However, an extensive treatment of Joseph Rountree and his family is given in Marsha Hoffman Rising, Opening the Ozarks: First Families of Southwest Missouri 1835-1839, Vol. 3, pages 1871-1890.  The children below are listed from that book and his family Bible.   A modern-era gravestone in the Bowers Chapel Cemetery in Urbans, Dallas County, gives his birth and death dates as above.  Both Joseph and his wife were originally buried in a family cemetery in Greene County and were later moved.
   1. Louisa Rountree (16 August 1808 – 10 June 1809) Died in infancy.
   2. Junius Meredith Rountree (20 March 1810 – 25 October 1888). He moved to Greene (then Crawford) County with his father and remained there all his life.  He married Martha J. Miller on 7 August 1831 and had twelve children: Mary W. Rountree, Ophelia V. Rountree,  Sarah J. Rountree,  Naomi Rountree,  Lafayette M. Rountree, Ann Eliza Rountree,  Nancy Matilda Rountree,  Martha J. Rountree,  Louisa A. M. Rountree,  John J. Rountree, Frank P. Rountree,  Orcania/Oriana H. Rountree.      See the referenced article.  He married again in 1873 to a widow named Rachel Breedlove.
   3. Zenas Marion Rountree ( 8 June 1812 – 13 December 1889)  He also remained in Greene County, known there as “Uncle Buck”.   On 24 August 1857 he married Elizabeth Massey and had eleven children: Newton M. Rountree,  James H. Rountree,  Clarissa F. Rountree,  Nancy J. Rountree,  William Worth Rountree,  Florence Louisa Rountree,  Margaret E. Rountree,  Alice Mary Rountree,  Joseph W. Rountree, Witlis Rountree   MISSING ONE.  His wife survived him, dying in 1907..
   4. Lucius Amadeas Rountree (25 February 1814 – 2/3 December 1906.)  He also remained in Greene County.  He married Rebecca McClelland on 25 September 1845 and had five children: Virginia F. Rountree,  Mary E. Rountree,  Joseph E. Rountree,  Josephine Rountree and Clara L. Rountree.
   5. Louisa Amanda Rountree ( 31 August 1816 – 16 March 1886)  She married James Henry Slavens on 17 June 1832.
   6. Caroline Faith Rountree (13 December 1818 – 6 February 1819) Died in infancy.
   7. Marzavan Jerome Rountree (24 March 1820 – 26 October 1900). He married Mary L. Winton on 7 March 1844. He married Lizzie Shackleford.
   8. Almus Linneus Rountree (25 or 28 October 1822 – 26 January 1891). He married Delilah Mitchell on 3 November 1846.  After her death he married Elizabeth Ellen Hildreth.  Almus died in Santa Cruz, California.  His only surviving child by the first marriage was William J. Rountree (1847-1934) who died in San Jose, California.
   9. Allen Jones Rountree ( 25 December 1824 – 8 July 1848)  He was unmarried.
   10. Almarinda Caroline Rountree (9 July 1828 – October 1872). She married William Massey in 1845.

1. Belfast News-Letter, issue of 27 May 1760, page 3, column 1. Also in issues of 20 May and 13 June. [↩]
2. North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2, p102. [↩]
3. North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4, p232. [↩]
4. North Carolina Land Patent Book 32, p415 and loose papers associated with File #863 (a grant to Thomas Rutherford) and North Carolina Land Patent Book 32, p415 and loose papers associated with File #839. Grant recorded in Orange County Deed Book 2, p284. (a grant to Daniel McMahon.) [↩]
5. Orange County Court Minutes 177-1782, p15 and p20. [↩]
6. NC Revolutionary Pay Vouchers 1779-1782, Hillsborough District: “This may certify that Thos. Roundtree(sic) exhibited his claim and was allowed £2:6:3.” [↩]
7. Orange County Will Book A, p319. [↩]
8. Orange County 1800 census, p844: Thomas Roundtree    0 1 1 0 1 – 1 0 0 1 1 [↩]
9. Orange County Loose Wills, FHL Film #4770549, image 476 of 686. [↩]
10. Joseph G. Rountree II, Rowntree and Rountree Family History 1521-1953 (Self-published, 1959), p51.  Hereafter referred to as “J. G. Rountree” [↩]
11. Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, Vol. 19, p734. [↩]
12. Orange County Will Book A, p319. [↩]
13. Orange County Will Book B, p84. [↩]
14. Gravestone in Little River Presbyterian Church Cemetery, reported at https://cemeterycensus.com/nc/orng/cem039.htm along with photo at findagrave. [↩]
15. Orange County Loose Marriage Bonds. [↩]
16. Person County Deed Book A, p143. [↩]
17. Person County, 1800 census page 217:  John Roundtree: 2 0 1 1 0 – 2 0 0 1 0.   Person County 1810 census page 143:  John Roundtree  1 2 0 0 1 – 3 1 1 1 0 [↩]
18. Person County Deed Book E, p32. [↩]
19. Maury County Deed Book H, Deed #221. [↩]
20. Person County Wills, Inventories, Taxables 1817-1820, p62. [↩]
21. Maury County Will Book Z, p328. [↩]
22. Maury County Will Book Z, p550. [↩]
23. That John Rountree was the son of Jesse Rountree, who moved from eastern North Carolina to Georgia in 1793. [↩]
24. Williamson County Estate Files: Peay-Yeargen, image 655. [↩]
25. Maury County Deed Book R, Deed No. 107. [↩]
26. Maury County Inventories and Settlements, Vol. C, p277. [↩]
27. A daughter named Emily Odell born in 1819 married John Rigby in Yazoo County, Mississippi in 1836 according to D.A.R. records.  See D.A.R. Grandparent Genealogical Forms N-O, Vol. 333, image   96. [↩]
28. Yazoo County tax lists 1834, 1835 and Yazoo County Deed Book G, p247. [↩]
29. Yazoo County Probate Minute Book A, p329. [↩]
30. Yazoo County Pribate Court record abstracted in Mississippi Genealogical Exchange, Vol. 25, p70. [↩]
31. Yazoo County Probate Minute Book A, p605. and Washington County Deed Book L, p218. [↩]
32. Crawford County Will Book A, p1. [↩]
33. Greene County Probate Records Volume. A, p36.  Anna was guardian of only Jealsey Shannon and was reimbursed for boarding the other four children, a clear indication that she was not their mother. [↩]
34. Greene County Probate Records, Vol. A, p21.  John D. Shannon was guardian of John R. Shannon, while Kindred Rose was guardian of the other three daughters. [↩]
35. Greene County Probate Recors Vol. A, pp37. [↩]
36. Greene County, Missouri Curator Bonds 1834-1864, p112. [↩]
37. For instance, the Columbia Herald and Mail issue of 26 November 1875 calls him “Capt. Jack” Rountree.  and the Maury County Probate Estate Records Reams – Rutledge, FHL Film 004727867, image 2699 of 3101 refers to him as “Capt. Jack Rountree”. [↩]
38. Maury County Minute Book 11, p347. [↩]
39. Columbia (Tennessee) Herald and Mail, issue of 26 January 1875, page 4. [↩]
40. NC Land Grants Loose Images in Grant File #2473. [↩]
41. Orange County Deed Book 10, p209. [↩]
42. Orange County Marriage Bonds. [↩]
43. NC Land Grants Loose Images in Grant File #2146. [↩]
44. Orange County Loose Wills, FHL Film #4770549, image 468 of 686.  A copy made by the clerk is recorded in Will Book D, p467. [↩]
45. Orange County Deed Book 17, p97. [↩]
46. FHL Film #7384121, image 138 of 1828. [↩]
47. Orange County Estate Papers, FHL Film #7384121, images 92 etc. of 1828. [↩]
48. Orange County Marriage Bonds. [↩]
49. The oldest woman in his household was aged 20-30. Orange County 1840 census p3:  Alex. Robinson 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 – 1 1 1 2 1 [↩]
50. Orange County Will Book F, p478. [↩]
51. Orange County Record of Settlements, Vol. 1868-1882, p95. [↩]
52. Orange County Will Book F, p63. [↩]
53. Person County Will Book 13, p447. [↩]
54. She petitioned for a year’s supply in November 1830 but was dead herself by early May 1831. [↩]
55. Orange County Probate Estate Files, FHL Film 007384110, images beginning at 1810. [↩]
56. See 1850 census of Person County pages 417-8. [↩]
57. The Roxboro Courier, issue of 18 April 1889, p3. [↩]
58. Orange County Loose Wills, FHL Film 007665371, image 1712 of 1770. [↩]
59. Orange County Inventories, Sales & Settlements 1826-1843, p459. [↩]
60. Orange County Divorce Records 1824-1908, FHL Film 008357273, image 1269 of 2121. [↩]
61. Orange County Probate Estate Files, FHL Film 007384118, image 754 of 1921. [↩]
62. Orange County Probate Estate Files, FHL Film 007384118, images 788 and 990 of 1921. [↩]
63. David Robertson was taxed in 1800 but Andrew Rountree was not taxed until the following year. [↩]
64. Maury County Deed Book G-1, Deed No. 331. [↩]
65. Paper in the referenced Chancery Case File, FHL Film #7384121, image 186 of 1828. [↩]
66. Maury County Will Book Z, p229. [↩]
67. Maury County Court Minutes Vol. 8, p104. [↩]
68. Maury County Chancery Case Files, Files Roberts-Scott, FHL Film 007642670, images beginning at 1233. [↩]
69. Maury County Cousins: Bible and Family Records, Vol. 1 (Maury County, Tennessee Historical Society 1967), p533. [↩]
70. Maury County Probate Records, Files: Jaggers – Kerr, FHL Film 004727860, beginning at image 437. [↩]
71. Maury County Probate Records, Files: Jaggers – Kerr, FHL Film 004727860, beginning at image 297. [↩]
72. Polk County Letters of Administrators, Vol. B, p229. [↩]
73. Polk County Circuit Court  Records, Col. L,  p492. [↩]
74. Polk County Deed N+Book N, p693. [↩]
75. The census record is likely an error introduced in copying the raw information into the final form, as he appears in no other records as Richard.  He does, however, appear once as “William R.” in one record of the 1865 Chancery case. [↩]
76. Hickory County Probate Record Book D, p168. [↩]
77. J. G. Rountree, p58. [↩]
78. See the referenced 1865 Chancery case. [↩]
79. Polk County Letters of Administrators, Vol. a, p87. [↩]
80. Polk County Probate Record Book B, p72. [↩]
81. Polk County Probate Record Book B, p146. [↩]
82. Polk County Probate Record Book B, p208. [↩]
83. Maury County Minute Book 1852-1858, p132. [↩]
84. Polk County Probate Record Book D,p52. [↩]
85. Polk County Circuit Court Record Book I, p592. [↩]
86. Polk County Deed Book C, p94 and p98. [↩]
87. Polk County Probate Record Book B, p146. [↩]
88. Polk County Letters of Administrators, Vol. A, p167. [↩]
89. Polk County Circuit Court Records, Volume. B, p258. [↩]
90. Maury County Minute Book 11, p347. [↩]
91. Maury County Chancery Cases 2875-1899, FHL Film 007643087 image 947 of 1322. [↩]
92. Maury County Court Enrollment Book M, p2555. [↩]
93. Maury County Minute Book May 1855-January 1858, p132.  Also Maury County Chancery Court Minute Book 8, p191. [↩]
94. See the referenced Chancery case. [↩]
95. The Columbia Herald issue of 20 October 1899, page 5. [↩]
96. Maury County Will Book F, p267. [↩]
97. J. G. Rountree, p64. [↩]
98. Maury County Court Minutes, Vol. 10, p480. [↩]
99. Chancery Case File, FHL Film 007642670, image 1239 of 3198. [↩]
100. Maury County Enrollment Book 1867-1872, p276 as well as the referenced Chancery case. [↩]
101. Orange County Deed Book 7,  p367 and Orange County Deed Book 12, p367. [↩]
102. Orange County Wills Vol. 11, FHL Film #4770549, image 478.  A copy of the will was made in Will Book D, p148. [↩]
103. Orange County Estate Files, FHL Film #7384121, images 269-271 of 1828 [↩]
104. Orange County Estate Files, FHL Film #7384121, images 172 etc. of 1828 [↩]
105. Orange County Probate Estate Files, FHL Film 007384084, images starting 1328 of 1890. [↩]
106. Orange County Court Minutes 1795-1800, unnumbered, FHL Film 008182057(image 542 of 684. [↩]
107. Orange County Marriage Bonds. [↩]
108. Person County Wills, Inventories, Taxables 1815-1817, p88. [↩]
109. Person County Deed Book E, p132. [↩]
110. Person County Probate Estate Files, FHL Film 005515405, images beginning at 1015 of 2056. [↩]
111. Person County Probate Estate Files, FHL Film 005515405, images beginning at 1015 of 2056. [↩]
112. Person County Loose Marriage Bonds, Ragan-Ryley, FHL Film 102471860, image 1786 of 716. [↩]
113. Paper in the Chancery Case file, FHL Film #7384121, image 178 of 1828. [↩]
114. Springfield Weekly Patriot, issue of 31 December 1874. [↩]