Joab Rolen

b 07 Feb 1808,
d 19 Apr 1895,  
bur , Sevier, Tennessee    
William Rolen  
|     
James Rolen    
|d 1813 |    
|    
|    
Joab Rolen  
|Anna McMahan    
|    
| |    
Sally Smith  
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Anna (McMahan) and Joab Rolen

Children

1 < Jane 'Jennie' Rolen
2 Archibald 'Bachelor' Rolen
3 < James Rolen
4 < Elizabeth Rolen
5 < George W. Rolen
6 < Wilson Rolen
7 < Queenie Agatha Rolen
8 Hyson Harrison Rolen
9 Samuel 'Sam' Rolen
10 Rolen

Notes

Joab was raised by his wifes parents.

It is said that Joab had more land than any one in the 1st district of Sevier County, Tennessee.

Burried in Proffitt Cemetery

Source: 'McMahan Family Tree', Glenn F. McMahan, 10 March 1932, p 1. Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 8, 58. 'Smoky Mountain Family Album,' Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 170. 'A Genealogy of the Rolen Family of Sevier County, Tennessee,' Wilma Rolen Stucker, 1980, p 1. 'In the Shadow of the Smokies', Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 497. 'Joab and Anna (McMahan) Rolen Family', Bonita McMahan Rough, March 1995, p 1. 'Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage', 1994, p 325.


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