Hurd Edwin Whitten

George married Mary Ann Ridenour 28 Dec 1864, Campbell County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of Alexandor T. Ridenour and Sara T. Loy) was born Abt 1840, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Listed in 1850 Campbell County, Tennessee census with aunt and uncle Peter and Philpena Loy and grandmother Philpena Sharp Loy. 1860 1st District, Campbell County, Tennessee census, worked as domestic for John Phillips-Catherine family.
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Reference:
"One-From-Two", July 1992, p 1.
Delores A. Wood, dawood@usit.net.

Notes:

"http://www.cosmos.org/HTML/d0002/g0000040.htm#11235"

Living in 1840 in Campbell County, Tennessee.

Ancestral File also lists given name as Alex and Eleander.

Alexander Ridenour and John Loy were joint owners of some land in 1st Civil Dist. Campbell Co. TN, their heirs, Henderson Loy and George Whiten, 03071865 Common Pleas Court, Campbell Co. TN, petitioned court, 02101865, to sell land. Land sold 02071866 to James H. Phillips, s/o John Phillips-Catherine. Taxes were unpaid for 1862, 1864 and 1865
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Reference:
"Anna O Sawyer notes", March 1916, p 5.
"One-From-Two letter", 31 July 1992, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 1, 2.
"One-From-Two", 20 January 1991, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 129.

Alexandor married Sara T. Loy Abt 1830. Sara (daughter of John Loy, II and Philopena Sharp) was born Abt 1813, Campbell County, Tennessee; died 1849, Campbell County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: 1CL7-3B6
• Reference Number: 1CL7-3B6

Notes:

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Reference:
"Anna O Sawyer notes", March 1916, p 5.
"One-From-Two", July 1992, p 1.

Other Events:

• Burial: 1935, Bakers Forge Memorial Cemetery, La Follette, Campbell County, Tennessee

Notes:

Henry is believed to have married four times. Not all of his marriage dates are known and most of his children's birth dates are known.

Henry grew up on the Yadkin River at the Boone Settlement, North Carolina. From early youth he was an explorer with Indian traders west of the mountains, learning several Indian languages. He enlisted in the 11th Virginia Continental Line at Hampshire County, Virginia in the Revolutionary War. He was a flatboat man and helped transport goods down the Ohio from present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to French settlements in present-day Illinois and Indiana. In 1788, he was captured by the Northern Indians near Maysville, Kentucky, and taken to Detroit, Michigan. Arthur Campbell secured his release from the Indians. Upon his return, he took a fine horse from Col. Campbell to Squire Boone's Station near Louisville, Kentucky. Later, he was a visitor along the Powell and Clinch Rivers. He visited many times at George Yoakum's Station in Powell Valley, and at Sharp's Station south of the Clinch River in Big Valley.

Near the close of the century, he went to England and Holland. On his return from Europe, he came to Knoxville, Tennessee. Shortly after 1800 he built a log structure near the juncture of Powell and Clinch Rivers to be used as a church and a school for his large family. The church, known as Mt. Moriah Methodist Church, was re-built at the same site three times before it was taken by the TVA in 1935.

A family story said that William was given the family bible, in which all the family was listed, to safeguard. Another story indicated that Barbara was the last known one to have it.

Henry was living in Campbell County, Tennessee in 1815, listed in John Grants Clinch River Ferry account book.

In 1850, Henry was living with his son Daniel Webster and his wife Mary Ann in 16 Subdivision, Anderson County, Tennessee.

Henry was buried in Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Anderson County Tennessee, now under Lake Norris, Tennessee. He was re-interred in 1935 in Bakers Forge Memorial Cemetery, La Follette, Campbell County, Tennessee where a new tombstone is placed:

Henry Ridenour
Born ca. 1760
Died ca. 1840
Pvt. Virginia Line
Revolutionary War
Placed by the Tennessee
Society Sons of the Revolution
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Reference:
"One-From-Two", 20 January 1991, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 39, 129.
Melvin Otho Ridenour Letter, 21 Jan 1995, p 2.
"Ancestors are Forever", Melvin Otho Ridenour, 13 March 1996.
"Ancestors are Forever", Melvin Otho Ridenour, 14 July 1996.

Henry married Cox Bef 1800. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

One record lists 1837 Jacksboro, Campbell County, Tennessee, Miss Cox, a Cherokee Indian.

http://www.geocities.com/brenfoster/Sold8.html
lists her given name as Nancy

Other Events:

• AFN: 1CL6-QKR

Notes:

John and Philopena Sharp Loy, natives of Orange County, North Carolina, first appear in the land records of Campbell County, Tennessee, on October 19, 1811, at which time they purchased 400 acres on the north side of the Clinch River from Conrad Sharp. John Loy died between 1847 (last land record in which I have found him to be a living participant) and 1850 (no longer appears in census). Philopena Sharp Loy died 1850 or later, because she appears in the home of her son, Peter Loy, in the 1850 census.
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Reference:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnunion/loy.htm

John married Philopena Sharp Abt 1790. Philopena (daughter of Isaac Sharp and Maria Philopena Graves) was born 1772, Orange County, North Carolina; died Aft 1850, Hagerstown, Wayne County, Indiana. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: 1CL6-R0F

Notes:

Location of birth not confirmed.

The 1850 Census showed her living with her son - Peter Loy in Campbell County, Tennessee. Actual death date unknown, but after 1850.