Anyone researching the Cannon family of Rockingham County, NC?
Pat
Geod7(a)aol.com wrote:
I am still looking for Feruby Cannon who was the second wife of
James
McElwee. She was born between 1765 and 1770 in York District, SC or Lincoln CO, NC.
She married James McElwee about 1811. James was living in Roane CO,
Tennessee at the time of his first wife's death. He reportedly was also from York
District, SC or Lincoln CO, NC. Whether he went back to the area of his
birth to marry Feruby or whether her family had also migrated to Tennessee, I do
not know. According to family tradition he married his first wife Nancy
Johnson/Johnston at the Watauga settlement in East Tennessee. Sources state that
one of James and Nancy's children was the first white child born in the
settlement of Knoxville (TN). James was much older than Feruby Cannon and died
in 1818. He was buried in the Rockwood, TN Cemetery and his grave was later
moved to Oak Grove Cemetery. Stone states was a veteran of Kings Mountain.
Feruby and James named their children: Julia Rather McElwee, Hulda McElwee,
and Thomas Brown McElwee. The names Rather and Thomas Brown appear to come
from the spouses of James's children of his first wife. I do not know any
sources for Julia and Hulda.
Feruby is living with her daughter Julia and her husband Charles King at the
time of the 1850 McMinn CO, TN census and is listed as age 85.
Possibilities: She was the daughter or wife of one of James McElwee's
friends who died as an "Indian Fighter" with John Sevier or at Kings
Mountain.
That Feruby's parents were from SC and she was born in Tennessee. The spellings
of Feruby vary. Her daughter Julia names a daughter Ferobe. Julia also has
son's names William, James, Jerome, Thomas and Charles, (in that order).
James is the name of the second son. The oldest daughter's name is Nellie
Irvine King, second Ferobe, third Mary Jane, forth Ellen, fifth Addie and sixth
Julia.
Any help with my brick wall would be greatly appreciated.
Debby Neves
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