Archibald D. McMahan

b 31 Mar 1817, , , Tennessee
d 18 Aug 1883,
bur , Sevier, Tennessee
c 24 Mar 1871, , Sevier, Tennessee		Archibald 'Redmond' McMahan
	Archibald McMahan	b 1731
	\| b 1773	McNulty
David Crockett McMahan	d 27 Feb 1853
\|b 10 Oct 1796	\|	George Byrd
\|d 04 Apr 1878	Elizabeth Byrd
\|	b 1777	Mary
Archibald D. McMahan	d 1844
\|Rebecca F. McMahan		John Large
\|	Samuel Large
\|	\|b 1770
Mary Large	d 1837
b 12 Oct 1798	\|
d 29 Mar 1853	Sarah 'Sallie' Gillian
	b 1780
	d 1840

Children

1		Francis McMahan
2		McMahan
3	<	Francis Marion McMahan
4		Nancy McMahan
5		Elender 'Nellie' McMahan
6		George McMahan
7	<	Gilbert R. 'Gib' McMahan
8	<	Angeleta 'Jetty' McMahan
9		Blackburn McMahan
10		Mary Rebecca McMahan
11		Sarah McMahan
12		Martha C. McMahan
13		Laura McMahan

Notes

Mary Beck, age 40, is listed with Rebecca and Archibald in the 1860 census.

Archibald D. McMahan (53, farm laboror) and his wife Rebecca are listed in the 1870 Federal Census of the 13th district of Sevier County, Tennessee under Gilbert and Mary McMahan's household.

A. D. McMahan was received as candidate for baptism at the Shady Grove Baptist Church in Sevier County, Tennessee at the first meeting 24 March 1871 (the name was changed from 'The Baptist Church of Christ at Pleasant Hill' on 7 December 1872). A. D. McMahan was chosen as the first clerk and served with James Townsend as the first ordained deacon. A. D. McMahan was clerk from 1871 through 1877.

Archibald McMahan's grave is marked with a slate tombstone in the Shady Grove Baptist Church Cemetery.

Rosa Lee Downey has birth date as 3 March 1817 and death as 4 April 1878.

Source: 'McMahan Family Tree', Glenn F. McMahan, 10 March 1932, p 1. Kate (Shields) Maples family group records. Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 11, 12, 32, 33. 'The Townsend Heritage,' Kathy Townsend, 1984, p 111, 112. 'In the Shadow of the Smokies,' Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 435.

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