Amanda Hinton Byerly & children. Picture shared by M. Slack

Amanda Hinton & William Byerly & children. Picture shared by M. Slack

This family, originally from Blount County, migrated to Kansas in the late 1800s.  Descendant M. Slack has more information on her Ancestry.com tree if you have a membership.

Today on Flickr, I found a picture of the Moses Gamble house.

Moses Gamble House. Digital image. Flickr. WallandBoy, 13 Oct. 2009. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallandboy7777/4007879348/>

The Moses Gamble House is located in Maryville, Tennessee.  It was built in 1892 and one of the original owners was Moses Houston Gamble (1871-1934).  They have a great website that I only just learned about while putting together this blog post, so it is worth checking out.

Ruth Carver and her brother recently photographed tombstones in Harris Cemetery on Roddy Branch Road. This is the tombstone for Mariah Harris, wife of Andrew W. Harris.  She lived from 1811 – 1845.  Visit FindAGrave to see the other headstones in the family cemetery.  Thank you Ruth for sending in the information!

Thanks to researcher Alice  Foster Blevins, some new deeds have been added to the Deeds page.  Namely, the following:

• Nicholas & Caroline Blevins to Wm. McTeer
• I.H. Farr to D.G. Farr
• Abraham & Martha Lane to D.G. Farr
• J.M. & Mary T. Rose to C.T. Cates

Back in June 2008, I posted about the availability of a new book about William Keeble of Bounty County.  In that post, I also pointed out another, smaller book about him; this one titled William Keeble of Blount County, Tennessee.  I recently discovered that this second book is searcheable over at Google Books so go check it out. You may find something of interest.  The book index begins at page 83.

New on the Wills page is the following index to the book Estate Settlements in Blount County, Tennessee Naming Heirs.  This book by Albert W. Dockter contains extracts from

• Execution Book, II, Chancery Court  Feb 1872-Feb 1893
• Execution Book, II, Chancery Court Apr 1893-Feb 1915
• Workbook of James A. Greer, Clerk and Master Chancery Court 1885-1890

If this is of interest, you can order the book from the Blount County Genealogical Society for $16.  Ordering information is located on their website.

If you are unable to purchase the book, check with a library that holds it for their policies on providing photocopies of specific pages.
Index to Estate Settlements BlountCounty, Tennessee

New on the Deeds page on the Blount County TNGenWeb site is the following index to Blount County Deeds from 1795-1819.  This book contains abstracts gathered by Jane Kizer Thomas and is published by the Blount County Genealogical Society.  Of note is that each of the numbers refer to DEED numbers, not page numbers.

You can purchase the book from the Society for $20.  Further information is available on their website.

If you’re not able to purchase the book and would like to obtain the information in it, check with a library that may have the book for their policies on requesting photocopies of specific deeds.

Index to Blount County, Tennessee, Deeds: Deed Book 1 – 1795-1819

The Tennessee Genealogical Society has recently placed online a handy index to articles that have appeared in their journal that is arranged by county.  The list can be access by going here.

Articles concerning Blount County are as follows:

• 1795-1800 Will Book I, WPA index, Vol. 19 (1972)
• 1795-1820 marriage bonds, Vol. 27 (1980)
• 1795-1834 misc. court records, Vol. 35 (1988)
• 1799 petitions to GA (164 names); three 1813 petitions (150 names), Vol. 38 (1991)
• 1801 petitions to GA, Vol. 39 (1992)
• Land on top of Smokies sold for unpaid 1839 taxes, Vol. 44 (1997)
• 1816-17 penitentiary petition list, Vol. 50 (2003)

To access these articles, you can either order the full issue from the society using their order form or request the article via your public library’s interlibrary loan departmet.

Charles T. Cates, Sr. One of the old members of the bar of east Tennessee, Colonel Cates lacks only two years of having completed a half century as a lawyer.  He has had a varied and useful life, and has been a soldier, lawyer, legislator, and otherwise identified with the public life of this home of Maryville and east Tennessee.

Charles T. Cates was born in Maryville, Tennessee, January 8, 1840 and was one of the family of eight children born to Rueben L. and Amanda (Wilkinson) Cates.  The father was a nativ of North Carolina, and died in 1866, having been a saddler by trade during his early life.  Mr. Cates received his early educational advantages in the public schools of his native county, and it is noteworthy that he is one of the living alumni of old Maryville College, as that institution existed in antebellum days.  He was graduated from the college with the class of July, 1857.   Soon afterward he took up the study of law under the well known attorney,  Jesse G. Wallace, but the war came on to interrupt his studies.  He enlisted on September 1 in Company G of the battalion of calvary commanded by George D. McClellan. In 1862 he was promoted first lieutenant of Company G, then a part of the First Tennessee Calvary, commanded by Col. I.E. Carter. His service in the army continued until 1865, and the close of the war found him on parole.  He at once resumed his law studies and was admitted to the bar in 1865, and was admitted to practice in all the local courts in 1866.  Since that time he has been in active practice and one of the leaders of the Blount county bar.  He was appointed attorney general during the administration of Governor Brown in 1875, and served one term in the state legislature of 1875.

Mr. Cates was married February 24, 1862, to Miss Martha V. Kidd, a daughter of William Kidd of Maryville, Tennessee.  Their four children, now all established in life in home of their own, are: C.T. Cates, Jr., Mrs. Lula C. Knabe, wife of W.A. Knabe of Knoxville, Tennessee; and Mrs. M.J. George, widow of S.L. George, deceased.

The family all worship in the Methodist church South.  Mr. Cates is a director in the Maryville bank, and is affiliated with the Masonic order.  He is a grandson on his mother’s side of John Wilkinson, who was one of the early attorney generals of Tennessee, and who died in 1829.

Source: Hale, Will T., and Dixon Lanier Merritt. A History of Tennessee and Tennesseans; The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co, 1913.

I’ve added to the Bibliography page a link to the index  to Volume 1 of:

Moore, John Trotwood. Record of Blount County, Tennessee, County Court Records. [Nashville, Tenn.?]: Works Progress Administration, 1936.

You can view the index online here.