| b 19 Sep 1816, , Blount, Tennessee | ||||
| d 10 Sep 1882, | bur Maryville, , Tennessee | James McTeer | ||
| Robert McTeer | b 1697 | |||
| | b 25 Jan 1740 | Margaret Anderson | |||
| Robert McTeer | d 06 Apr 1824 | d ABT 1740 1745 | ||
| |b 28 Oct 1769 | | | William Martin | ||
| |d 05 Oct 1827 | Agnes Martin | b 1718 | ||
| | | b 26 Apr 1740 | Margaret | ||
| William McTeer | d 05 Aug 1823 | |||
| |Margaret J. Tedford | |m 25 May 1837 | |||
| |, Blount, Tennessee | | | |||
| Mary Sherrill | ||||
| b 19 Sep 1779 | | | |||
| d 13 May 1825 | ||||
| 1 | Mary Priscilla McTeer | 2 | < | Joseph Tedford McTeer | 3 | William Grabner McTeer | 4 | Theodore H. McTeer | 5 | < | Charles Erskine McTeer | 6 | < | Richard Prez McTeer | 7 | George Pearl McTeer |
In youth William McTeer was apprenticed to a tailor; later he became a merchant and hotel keeper in Maryville. He served as Postmaster there, as Trustee for Blount County, and as major of the local militia.
In the 1850 census of Blount County, 9th Civil District, William McTeer aged 34 years was listed as a tailor, with wife Margaret aged 33 years, and six children aged one to twelve years. In addition to the McTeer family, this household included four more 'tailors' as well as other tradesmen and lodgers to a total of 27 persons.
About the close of the Civil War William and his family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where they remained until 1876, when they returned to Knoxville, Tennessee, and were thereafter engaged in the wholesale clothing business.
Much information on activities and descendants is abstracted from newspaper clippings filed under the name McTeer in the McClung Collection, Lawson-McGhee Library.
Buried in Magnolia Cemetery.
Source: McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis McTeer, 1975, p 90.