SHANKS-PRICE-TERRY BIBLE (Rogersville, Hawkins Co., TN): Part 1

 A researcher sent to me a very old family bible with pages in it for marriages, births, etc. The researcher was not sure why or how the Bible had come into the hands of his family but he wondered if I would be interested in it and then share the information found.  The Bible is an old oversize type Bible, a type popular during the 1870's to early 1900's with a few Dore style illustrations. Some pages are beginning to crumble, the publisher information part of the cover sheet is largely missing (so no publisher or date).  There was a section of 4 pages for family records.

Page 1 of the section is of information about the marriage of Thomas Jefferson SHANKS and Elizabeth PRICE.  They married at the home of the bride's father, Isaac PRICE on 3 January 1869. Witnesses were: Henry C. SHANKS. Isaac PRICE and possibly the clergy marrying them, John Altom, Esp.

Page 2 of the family section is a list of SHANKS born to the union:

T.J. Shanks, born in Hawkins Co., Tennessee, 8 Feb 1842, md. 1869, died 2 Feb 19---[unclear]

Elizabeth Price, born in Hawkins Co., TN, 15 April , md 1869 and died May 10, 1923

J.D. Shanks

L.C. Shanks, born in Hawkins Co., TN, Sept. 1869

I.E. Shanks, born in Hawkins Co., TN, 

H.T.? Shanks, born in Hawkins Co., TN

Martha J Shanks, born in Hawkins Co., TN, April 18

Page 3 of the family section is a list of TERRY births related to C.N. Terry who married Mattie SHANKS Jan 12, 1900 (his sister and her brother also married that same day)

C.N. TERRY born Rogersville, TN, 18 Jan 1878, md 12 Jan 1900

Mattie Shanks Terry b. Rogersville, TN, 18 April 1880, md 12 Jan 1900 [Note this is the same date for the Martha J Shanks listed on the other page.)

Walter Terry  - all born Rogersville, TN, Aug. 19, 1901

Joh? Terry - Dec 28, 1906 ;md Mar 29,1932

Mcdavis Terry- Dec 7, 1909; ,md Mar 27, 1937

Reid Terry-May 18, 1914; md July 12, 1937

Pauline Terry- 

Infant Terry- - 12, 1917/1919 d. - 23, 1917/1919 (hard to read if a 17 or a 19)

There were also many clippings and a photo in the old Bible. I will list and describe those in a second story. 

---Marilyn A. Hudson, Researcher

THE DEATH OF SARAH TERRY, D/O Martin and Mary Ann Terry

 Searching trees can be complex and confusing, more so when so many people were named the same names and often lived in the same areas. People tended to honor relatives and friends creating a confusing overlap of similar named people. 

One case of the eldest daughter of Martin and Mary Ann Reed Terry: Sarah Terry.

Some have set her a later death date but we are informed by the words from an old family letter, collected by Jed Terry into his vital Terry Family History volumes.  

According to a letter from Mary Ann Terry to her sister Lucinda Terry in Texas,  she was recounting all that has happened since they last wrote in early 1861. During the war years they were unable to communicate and so "caught up" after the war as postal services were restored. 

On June 23, 1861, she wrote, the family loaded what they could and hurriedly escaped the converging armies of the north and the south on Barry County soil.

"We have been completely broke up and turned out of the house and home when I scarely had life or strength enough to walk out of the house and back again, having buried Sarah a few months before (Family Bible Record indicated 3 Jan 1861). Elizabeth and Jane was my chance for help in the house. Little but little children you may say. I have heard of robbing the dead but never witness the scene before. Sarah's clothing was put in a box and set on some pegs over the head of bed and left for a few days. The box was so completely robbed I never saw one of her garments any more that was worth the name..."

 Mary Ann Reed Terry to her sister Lucinda King Reed Terry, 1867.

This, then indicates that Sarah Terry had died early in the same year the family had to flee advancing armies and spent several years bouncing from place to place to avoid the conflicts.  Another letter will recount the death of two sons on the old Shockly farm place where they had found refuge in Gasconde Co., Missouri. 

ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW: COCHREN TREE

Since the DNA test came back and established a link between one generation and the next there has been some reshuffling of assumptions and lines. 

As a result, a daughter was found. Problem is - her grave is harder to find. She married when the family stopped off in Miami Co., Ohio heading west to Indiana from New Jersey.

My COCHREN line now goes from 

• George Daniel Cochren and wife Annie B. Brown. Had children: Elva, Velma, George Valjean Cochren.
• Newton Jasper Cochren and his wife Lucinda Drake. Had children: John H., Wm, Charles E., Lydia, Emma, Mary, George D. James I. Cochren.
• John H. Cochren and his wife Orpha Martha Green. Jad children: Joseph K., Philip, Harriet Emily, Newton Jasper, Marilla J., Levi, John H. Orpha Jane Cochren.
• Philip Cochren and wife Susannah Martha Sturgis. Had children: Daniel, Hiram, John H., Martha, Lucinda, Malinda, Susannah, James Madison, Marietta/Mary Etta, Philip B. Cochren. 
• Daniel Cochren of Morris Co., NJ. wife Agnes had children: John, Daniel, Philip, Sarah and Betsey.

Phillip and Susannah settled in Delaware Co., Indiana and their progeny through George Daniel Cochren largely lived in the same area. Newton Jasper took his family to Kansas in the early 1870's when land opened up there. 

Priest History

 

Melvin Marion Priest, Melvin Daniel Priest, Lawrene Priest

Melvin Marion Priest

Melvin Daniel Priest with his mother Velma Cochren Priest, he was about 4 years old. 

Priest History

Melvin Daniel Priest with wife Shirley Anne Kane Priest, Melvin Daniel Priest Jr. Michael Priest, Vickie Sue Priest, photo taken in Wellington, Kansas about 1967.

Melvin Dnaiel Priest about 10

Melvin Daniel Priest Jr. about 18.

Roy Terry, back row, Melvin Daniel Priest, Shirley Kane Priest, Louis Priest, children in front L to R: Michael Priest, Martin Priest, Marilyn Terry. Wellington, Kansas about 1961.

Shirley Ann Kane Priest, with son Melvin Daniel Priest Jr., husband Melvin D. Priest, Wichita, Kansas about 1953. 

Thomas Plymworth Mortimore Family

THOMAS PLYMWORTH MORTIMORE

He was born in Guilford Co., North Carolina to David Mortimore and wife Hannah Worth Mortimore, 2 October 1803 and died in Sugar Creek, Miami Co., Kansas in 6 Jan 1870 (aged 66).

Known by some lines simply by the name "Plymouth" or 'Plymouth",  he was Thomas Plymworth Mortimore.   He was a Methodist minister (local or ordained) and served in several civic capacities in Wapello Co., Iowa before transferring to eastern Kansas. 

Several family members moved with them from North Carolina to Ohio to Indiana to Iowa and then Kansas.  “Plymworth” is believed to be an archaic term meaning “Of Worth” and indicates his mother’s family. 

He married Patsy Deshil (sometimes referred to as Driskoll - but marriage record of Fayette Co., OH uses 'Deshil') in 5 Nov 1826.   They had six children: William (1827-1900), Elizabeth (1829-1862), David (1832-1905), Eliza Jane (1835-1907), Mary (1837-),Patsey  (1839-)

Children:

William Mortimore 1827 – 1900

Elizabeth I. Mortimore (PAUL) 1829 – 1862

David Mortimore – 1905

Eliza Jane Mortimore (FENTON) 1835 – 1907

Mary Mortimore (PLUMMER) 1838 – 1914

Patsy Alice Mortimore (SHEROD) 1839 – 1928

His Father:

David Mortimore and Hannah Worth- (DNA indicates a connection the family of Mary Gardner and Francis Worth).

His Siblings:

Nancy Mortimore (JOHNSON; CRAB) 1796 – 185-

William Mortimore1800 – 1844

Patsy Mortimore ( ) 1809 –

Alfred M. Mortimore1812 – 1874

Patsy Alice Mortimore 1815 – 1850

David Mortimore Jr.
1819 – 1875

His grandfather: William Mortimore, Guilford Co., NC

His uncles/aunt:

Robert Mortimore 1771 – 1840

Sally Mortimore 1773 – 1774

Israel Mortimore 1775 – 1800

HUDSON AND RAY FAMILY

Date About 1924 

Place: Probably Butler Co., Mo 

Description: L-R: Jesse Freeman "Red" Conner, eldest child of Effie from first marriage, possible sister to Effie? possibly named Carter?; Jess Hudson, Effie Ray Hudson; Julius H. Ray wife Florence, his mother Harriet Rowe Ray.  Children in front: Keith Eugene Hudson, cousin Jesse Marvin Hudson, and possibly cousin Curtis Hudson (infant).

Notes: They family of Jess Hudson, made several trips to see family in Butler Co., Mo. Jess's mother lived there as did Effie's mother and some siblings. Nearby was Jess' brother Louis Eugene Hudson. Family of Effie Ray lived in Scott County and some of Jesse's mothers family had or did live in Mississippi Co., Mo. All are close to Cairo, Alexander Co., IL where the Hudson family had lived (there and Puluski Co.,IL).

Effie was a strawberry blonde and Julius was said to have red hair. This came from the family of their mother who had a brother who was red haired.