Sunday, May 11, 2008

Notes found in Lauderdale Family Bible

William Lauderdale came to Lincoln co.
some time prior to 1806 from Hamilton Co.
in East Tenn. and settled near Fayetteville
on Elk River on what is known as the
Tillman farm. He had a ferry on the river
and the ford was known as Lauderdale ford.
He married Bettie Willis of the same
community and their children were
William, Samuel, Lewis, and Eliza.
William moved to Missouri in early
manhood and no further knowledge is
known of him. Samuel who helped with the
ferry when William Leigh, changed to Lay
as he didn't care for so many letters in it,
came to Lincoln Co. from near Rome, Ga. He had
some fine fat cattle that Samuel wanted
and one of the daughters was the loveliest girl
he had ever seen. He said he intended to
marry her and did. I don't know about the
cattle. Wm Lay settled in the same
neighborhood and the family burial plot
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is below Harms in the side of a hill now
known as DeFord hill.

Samuel Lauderdale and Elizabeth had one
son William Thomas who married Margaret Fullerton. Sarah Jane oldest daughter married Andrew Wright. Their children were Sue who died young.
Sarah "Sallie" Thomas who married James H. McDaniel,
their children were Mattie Sue (Mrs. Chas. Luker)
one dau. Roberta (Eming)
Charles Carlton and James Harold.
Maggie married P. G. Hamilton
Jennie married John A. Barnes, their children
Wallace-Minnie, Albert, Stella, Edith, and Joe.
Mary Lauderdale married Charles Wilson.
Their children Charles Jr. Beulah and Gussie.
Beulah married William Woodard and had
two sons, Frank and Albert.
Gussie married Tom Wallace and had one
son Nathaniel.
Charles married Agnes Whitaker of Mulberry
and had one son Alvin.
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Eliza Lauderdale married Barnet McWhorter
all that family are dead.
The William Lauderdale who married
Betty Willis had a brother James and
sister Agnes in East Tenn.
(Great grandfather)
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Margaret Lauderdale married William Turley
and had one son William Lay Turley.
He married Lilly Poindexter Gleghorn and
they had three sons, George, William, and
Lawrence.
Lewis Lauderdale brother of Samuel
married Polly Lay, sister of Elizabeth Lay
who came from Oglethorpe Co. Ga.
Their children were John William
who first married Anne Turley, (sister of William)
who died and he then married Willie Branson.
They had five children Sarah Martin,
Lewis, Robert, Annie, and James William.
Sarah Martin - Roy G. Swindell and had
three sons James William, Roy Gardner
and John Lauderdale. Lewis died in infancy.
Robert married Ruth Cashion of Knoxville
they had two children, Annie Martin
and Robert Arnis Jr. Arnie never married,
James William (Bill) married Bess Swafford
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of Pikeville, Tenn., in Sequatchie Valley.
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Samuel Lauderdale married a Miss Patterson
and had one childe Mary Ann who married
a Mr. Burton.
Fannie Lauderdale married William McDaniel
and their children are Coleman, Mollie,
Ellis, John and Lucy. Coleman never married.
Mollie married Hugh Eddins and had four
children, Lucile, Ruth, McDaniel and
Mildred. Lucille and McDaniel are dead.
Hugh and Mollie are dead.
Ellis married Will Clark and had six
children. Two died in infancy Laura McDaniel,
Willa and Rachel.
John married Alice Waite, they had four
children, Charles, Joe, Evelyn and Edith.
Lucy married Robert Barnie, they have three
sons, Gordon, Lewis and Ray moved.

Copied handwritten notes on folded page in family Bible.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

William T. Lauderdale

William T. Lauderdale was born near Fayetteville, Tennessee, April 29,1829, and spent his entire life in this locality, save when he was a member of Forrest's Battery. He united with Cave Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church, under the ministry of Rev. J. B. Tigert about 1885, afterward transferring to Fayetteville. He was industrious, frugal, peace-loving, unassuming, pure, patient in suffering and a friend to the needy. In his death, which occurred February 7, 1900, the church lost an excellent member, and the community one of its best citizens. His wife and daughter survive him.l To them he left a sufficiency of property and the better heritage of the memory of his affection and devotion as a husband and father.
J. R. LAMB, Pastor

From a clipping in the Lauderdale Family Bible