Barefoot Runyan

b 1757,
d 1875, Talladega, , Alabama
bur , , Alabama

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John Runyon
\|b 15 Aug 1705	\|
\|d 1797
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Barefoot Runyan
\|Margaret Rambo
\|m 19 May 1777
\|, Rockingham, Virginia	\|
Anna Barefoot
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Children

1		John Wesley Runyan
2	<	Aaron Alexander Runyan
3		Tavenor Runyan
4		Ware Runyan
5		Isaac Runyan, II
6		Loami Wesley Runyan

Notes

'Barefoot Runyan, Revolutionary soldier, witnessed the will of his neighbor, Marshall Lovelady, in 1792. Barefoot Runyan's land was located between lands belonging to John Moore on the north and John Fryer on the south. The present Old Mill is on the site of a 151 acre grant to Mordecia Lewis; his land joined the land of Isaac Runyan, son of Barefoot, and the land of Richard Fanshire. The plat shows a road to Lewis Mill'. [Reunion at the River, Homecoming 1986, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee - September 13, 1986, author Beulah D.Lynn (current Sevier County Historican)]. Isaac as son of Barefoot is believed in error. Barefoot Runyan was granted 168 acres of land on the West Fork of the Little Pigeon River on 27 July 1808 No 332, surveyed 27 Jan 1807. Survey plot shows Mill Creek in plat.Isaac Runyan was granted 151 acres on the Pigeon River on 5 August 1812, No.2544, and surveyed 10 Jan 1807. Survey has with Mullendores line on the North. Isaac's grant was under the Act of Assembly on Nov. 23, 1809. Marie Runyan Wright published book 'Descendants of Isaac Barefoot Runyan - Tracking Barefoot Runyan' in 1980. Mrs. Wright in error with photographs as being Barefoot's land. The 'old rock chimney' and 'dam' over river, are near or on land of Aaron Runyan Sr. just south of Sevierville. Barefoot's land was further south in now Pigeon Forge. Transcript of Marshall Lovelady will dated 10 April 1792 is published in the SMHS Newsletter, Vol XVI, No.2, Winter 1990, page 86. Barefoot Runyan, Joseph Lovelady, and John Mahon were witness. 'Barefoot RUNION listed in Colonel Doherty's Regiment of Militia, Territory South of the Ohio, 1793-94' (Ref: SMHS NL 1988, Vol XIV, No 4, page 124).

Source: Joe Chilton Pedigree Chart, 7 November 1994, p 1.

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