James Rolen

d 1813, Cosby, , Tennessee


	\|
William Rolen
\|	\|
\|
\|
James Rolen
\|Sally Smith
\|m 1807
\|	\|

	\|

Children

Joab Rolen

Notes

James Rolen of North Carolina married Sallie Smith in the early 1800's. Sallie's parents moved to Alabama and she wanted to go too but James did not want to go. So she went anyway and took their son Joab with her. When Joab was about 5 years old, the Smith family was moving to Indiana. Sallie wrote James that she was going with the family to Indiana and if he wanted Joab he could come to Alabama and get him. James rode a black horse with a blaze face to Alabama and got Joab. On their way back to North Carolina they spent the night with a McMahan family in Sevier County, Tennessee. It rained that night and Cosby Creek got up so people could not cross it. James left Joab with the McMahans. James said his horse could swim any waters so he road into Cosby Creek. He was drowned and was buried in Cosby.

The McMahan's raised Joab.

Joab's will dated 19 June 1894 was probated 3 June 1895 and recorded in Will Book 1, pages 473-474.

Source: '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. 'Joab and Anna (McMahan) Rolen Family', Bonita McMahan Rough, March 1995, p 1. 'Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage', 1994, 325.

Index Previous Next