Francis Marion McMahan

b 26 May 1843, , , Tennessee
d 24 Feb 1900, , Sevier, Tennessee
bur 25 Feb 1900, , Sevier, Tennessee			Archibald 'Redmond' McMahan
c 24 Mar 1871, , Sevier, Tennessee		Archibald McMahan	McNulty
	David Crockett McMahan	b 1773	George Byrd
	\| b 10 Oct 1796	Elizabeth Byrd	Mary
Archibald D. McMahan	d 04 Apr 1878	b 1777	John Large
\|b 31 Mar 1817	\|	Samuel Large
\|d 18 Aug 1883	Mary Large	b 1770
\|	b 12 Oct 1798	Sarah 'Sallie' Gillian
Francis Marion McMahan	d 29 Mar 1853	b 1780	Archibald 'Redmond' McMahan
\|Nancy P. Townsend		Archibald McMahan	McNulty
\|m 04 Mar 1866	George McMahan	b 1773	George Byrd
\|, Sevier, Tennessee	\|b 1797	Elizabeth Byrd	Mary
Rebecca F. McMahan	d 1850	b 1777
b 1824	\|
d ABT 1870 1871	Susanah
	b 1795
	d 1860

Children

1	<	Mary Rebecca McMahan
2		Nellie L. McMahan
3	<	Fanny McMahan
4		Sanders McMahan
5		Jane McMahan
6		Cad McMahan

Notes

Francis Marion McMahan is said to have enlisted first in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He may have collected a Confederate pension. None of this has been confirmed.

Marion McMahan next served as a Private for the Union in Company E 2nd Tennessee Cavalry. He enlisted in Nicolasville, Kentuckty 1 December 1862 age 21, fair complexion, blue eyes, fair hair with farmer as an occupation. He was mustered out 6 July 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee.

F. M. and Nancy were married by R. R. Ragan, Marriage License issued 2 March 1866 signed by W. H. Duggan, Sevier County, Tennessee County Clerk.

Listed in 1870 Federal Census of 13th District, Sevier County, Tennessee as 27 year old farmer. Henry Weeks 22 is listed in the McMahan household as farm laboror.

Charter member of the Shady Grove Baptist Church in Sevier County, Tennessee. He is also listed as one of the first teachers of the Union Sunday School formed at the church on the third Sunday in April 1884.

Buried in Shady Grove Baptist Church Cemetery.

Rosa Lee Downey lists Marion's birth date as 1841.

Source: 'The Townsend Heritage,' Kathy Townsend, 1984, p 33, 111, 112. 'In the Shadow of the Smokies,' Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 435. Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 12, 33. F. Marion McMahan Civil War pension and military papers, National Archives.

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