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Early Proffitt

Male 1887 - 1963  (76 years)

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  1. 1.  Early ProffittEarly Proffitt was born 8 May 1887, Tennessee (son of William M. "Bill" Proffitt and Martha Ellen Walker); died 19 Nov 1963; was buried Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.

    Notes:

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    Reference:
    Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 92, 94.

    Early — Bessie Edna Proffitt. Bessie (daughter of David Jackson Proffitt and Mary Jane Hickam) was born 25 May 1890, Tennessee; died 22 Jan 1962; was buried Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. Estle Herbert Proffitt was born 21 Apr 1910, Tennessee; died 23 Jul 1966; was buried Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    2. Icephene Proffitt was born 11 Aug 1913, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 29 May 2006; was buried Shiloh Cemetery, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    3. Von Harrison Proffitt was born 16 Aug 1915, Tennessee; died 14 May 1988, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Middle Creek Methodist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    4. Evelyn Proffitt was born 6 Jan 1922, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 2 Oct 1991; was buried Williams Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  William M. "Bill" Proffitt was born 8 Aug 1850, Sevier County, Tennessee (son of James Jackson Proffitt and Celia McMahan); died 1908, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Glades Lebanon Baptist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.

    Other Events:

    • AFN: 1TQQ-17

    Notes:

    Died of smallpox.
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    Reference:
    "Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 53.
    "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 69, 78.
    Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 64, 92.
    "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 51.
    "The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 202, 207.
    Proffitt GEDCOM, Joe Payne, 14 December 1995.
    "Proffitt Family History", Jeff Bridgett, p 9.
    Bob Parton Family Group Sheets, 11 January 1996, p 8.

    William — Martha Ellen Walker. Martha (daughter of Terry Walker and Phoebe Caylor) was born 12 Mar 1859, Blount County, Tennessee; died 26 Dec 1950; was buried White Oak Flats Cemetery, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Martha Ellen Walker was born 12 Mar 1859, Blount County, Tennessee (daughter of Terry Walker and Phoebe Caylor); died 26 Dec 1950; was buried White Oak Flats Cemetery, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee.

    Notes:

    Widowed name Howard?
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    Reference:
    "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 51.
    Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 64, 92.
    "The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 207.
    Proffitt GEDCOM, Joe Payne, 14 December 1995.
    "Proffitt Family History", Jeff Bridgett, p 9.
    Bob Parton Family Group Sheets, 11 January 1996, p 8.

    Children:
    1. 1. Early Proffitt was born 8 May 1887, Tennessee; died 19 Nov 1963; was buried Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    2. Harrison Walker Proffitt was born 17 Aug 1888, Tennessee; died 18 Jan 1977; was buried Pigeon Forge Baptist Church Cemetery, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    3. Dexter Proffitt was born 1893; died 14 Sep 1964, Monroe County, Tennessee; was buried Madisonville, Tennessee.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  James Jackson ProffittJames Jackson Proffitt was born 28 Jun 1819, Sevier County, Tennessee (son of Benajah Proffitt and Sarah Byrd Webb); died 20 Jun 1863, Murfreesboro, Tennessee; was buried 1863, Stones River National Cemetery, Rutherford County, Tennessee.

    Other Events:

    • AFN: 1TQN-WF

    Notes:

    Co E, 2nd Regiment of Tn. Cal.

    Died of typhoid fever in Civil War and is buried in National Cemetery.
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    Reference:
    T. D. W McMahan records, Johnny Scott Large, p 64.
    Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 13, 58, 64.
    "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 48.
    Proffitt GEDCOM, Joe Payne, 14 December 1995.
    "Proffitt Family History", Jeff Bridgett, p 8.
    Bob Parton Family Group Sheets, 11 January 1996, p 8.
    "Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 195.

    James married Celia McMahan 4 Mar 1841, Sevier County, Tennessee. Celia (daughter of James Balford "Jim Bally" McMahan and Mary Ann "Polly" Wilson, "Granny Mack") was born 7 Mar 1827, North Carolina; died 5 Jun 1895, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Aaron Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Celia McMahan was born 7 Mar 1827, North Carolina (daughter of James Balford "Jim Bally" McMahan and Mary Ann "Polly" Wilson, "Granny Mack"); died 5 Jun 1895, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Aaron Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.

    Other Events:

    • AFN: 1TQN-XL

    Notes:

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    Reference:
    "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 48.
    T. D. W McMahan records, Johnny Scott Large, p 64.
    Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 13, 58, 64, 105.
    Proffitt GEDCOM, Joe Payne, 14 December 1995.
    "Proffitt Family History", Jeff Bridgett, p 8.
    Bob Parton Family Group Sheets, 11 January 1996, p 8.
    "Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 195.

    Children:
    1. Benijah "Ben" Proffitt was born 25 Nov 1841, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 8 Apr 1899, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Benajah Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    2. Mary Ann "Polly" Proffitt was born 28 Oct 1842, Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 7 Apr 1909, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried 1910, Glades Lebanon Baptist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    3. James McMahan "Jim" Proffitt was born 11 Mar 1844, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 11 Feb 1913, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried P. A. Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    4. Sarah Proffitt was born 28 Oct 1845, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 6 Jan 1934; was buried 7 Jan 1934, Marion Ownby Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    5. David Proffitt was born 14 Feb 1847, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 29 Mar 1909, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Ownby Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    6. Pleasant P. Proffitt was born 2 Jun 1849, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 11 Mar 1925, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Aaron Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    7. 2. William M. "Bill" Proffitt was born 8 Aug 1850, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 1908, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Glades Lebanon Baptist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    8. Proffitt was born 1852; died See Notes.
    9. Elizabeth "Betsy" Proffitt was born 11 Sep 1854, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 15 Mar 1924; was buried Aaron Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    10. Aaron Whaley Proffitt was born 7 May 1857, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 10 May 1913, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Aaron Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    11. Martha S. Proffitt was born 18 Nov 1859, , Sevier County, Tennessee.

  3. 6.  Terry Walker was born Tennessee.

    Terry — Phoebe Caylor. Phoebe was born Tennessee. [Group Sheet]


  4. 7.  Phoebe Caylor was born Tennessee.
    Children:
    1. 3. Martha Ellen Walker was born 12 Mar 1859, Blount County, Tennessee; died 26 Dec 1950; was buried White Oak Flats Cemetery, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Benajah Proffitt was born 1794, North Carolina (son of James Proffitt and Mary Lawson); died 1862, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.

    Other Events:

    • AFN: 1TQP-3F

    Notes:

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    Reference:
    Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 58.
    Proffitt GEDCOM, Joe Payne, 14 December 1995.
    "Proffitt Family History", Jeff Bridgett, p 7.
    Bob Parton Family Group Sheets, 11 January 1996, p 8.
    "Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 325.

    Benajah married Sarah Byrd Webb 1811. Sarah was born 17 Sep 1799, Virginia; died 20 Apr 1879, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Proffitt Cemetery, Jefferson County, Alabama. [Group Sheet]


  2. 9.  Sarah Byrd Webb was born 17 Sep 1799, Virginia; died 20 Apr 1879, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Proffitt Cemetery, Jefferson County, Alabama.

    Other Events:

    • AFN: 1TQP-4L

    Notes:

    In 1850 age 56.

    Some researchers list birth as 1794 and death as 1859.
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    Reference:
    Proffitt GEDCOM, Joe Payne, 14 December 1995.
    Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 58.
    "Proffitt Family History", Jeff Bridgett, p 7.

    Children:
    1. 4. James Jackson Proffitt was born 28 Jun 1819, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 20 Jun 1863, Murfreesboro, Tennessee; was buried 1863, Stones River National Cemetery, Rutherford County, Tennessee.
    2. James Proffitt was born 1822, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 4 Mar 1863, Murfreesboro, Tennessee; was buried Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
    3. Martha Jane "Patsy" Proffitt was born 24 Jun 1827, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 16 Mar 1910, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Proffitt Cemetery, Jones Cove, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    4. Elizabeth Proffitt was born 1828, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 1859; was buried Boogertown Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    5. Sarah Elizabeth Proffitt was born 1836, Sevier County, Tennessee.

  3. 10.  James Balford "Jim Bally" McMahan was born 1798, , Virginia (son of Archibald McMahan and Elizabeth Byrd); died 14 Dec 1887, , Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried , Sevier County, Tennessee.

    Other Events:

    • AFN: BGW1-D9

    Notes:

    James Balford "Jim Bally" McMahan went from Sevier County, Tennessee to Greenville, South Carolina via Yancy County, North Carolina to help his father, Archibald McMahan II, taking a drove of mules to market. In Yancy County, North Carolina Ned Wilson, father of Polly Ann, had a "stop" (a place for drovers to bed down, and a pen to keep the livestock). Jim Bally and his father stopped at Wilson's. Polly Ann helped serve breakfast the next morning. Jim Bally liked her looks so much that when his father paid him for his work, he bought himself a fine suit of clothes and came back to Wilson's, as Granny Mc said, "this time he came a-courting." Later they were married and he took his bride to Sevier County, Tennessee to live.

    Jim Bally McMahan was at the home of McNulty McMahan, Richardson Cove, Tennessee when he took sick and died (according to what Mrs. Lillie Templin told Fred O. McMahan).

    He was buried in a little cemetery at the top of a hill in Richardson Cove near his brother, David. A native slate stone marks his grave with no inscription.
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    Reference:
    "McMahan Family Tree", Glenn F. McMahan, 10 March 1932, p 1.
    T. D. W McMahan records, Johnny Scott Large, p 63.
    Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 8, 13, 147."Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 143.
    "In the Shadow of the Smokies", Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 426.
    Proffitt GEDCOM, Joe Payne, 14 December 1995.

    James married Mary Ann "Polly" Wilson, "Granny Mack" Yancey County, North Carolina. Mary (daughter of Ned Wilson and Mary Ann Gilbert) was born 24 Nov 1796, Yancey County, North Carolina; died 25 Mar 1894; was buried Aaron Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]


  4. 11.  Mary Ann "Polly" Wilson, "Granny Mack" was born 24 Nov 1796, Yancey County, North Carolina (daughter of Ned Wilson and Mary Ann Gilbert); died 25 Mar 1894; was buried Aaron Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.

    Other Events:

    • AFN: BGW1-FG

    Notes:

    Born on Black Cane River and died of pneumonia.

    Rosa Lee Downey states that Granny Mc's parents came from Ireland, via England, when she was six years of age, and that one of her sisters was buried at sea. She was past 97 when she passed away.
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    Reference:
    T. D. W McMahan records, Johnny Scott Large, p 63.
    Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 8, 13, 147.
    "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 143.
    Proffitt GEDCOM, Joe Payne, 14 December 1995.
    "Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 195.

    Children:
    1. Sarah Annie "Sally" McMahan was born 20 Mar 1825, Tennessee; died 16 Mar 1845; was buried Huff Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    2. 5. Celia McMahan was born 7 Mar 1827, North Carolina; died 5 Jun 1895, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Aaron Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    3. Willis McMahan was born 1830, Tennessee; died Apr 1878.
    4. Mary Ann "Polly" McMahan was born 8 Mar 1832, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 21 Jul 1911; was buried Jones Cove, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    5. Elizabeth "Betsy" McMahan was born 25 Apr 1833, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 27 Nov 1899; was buried , Sevier County, Tennessee.
    6. David Balford McMahan was born 1834, Tennessee; died 1880; was buried Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee.
    7. Clearisa McMahan was born 1840, Tennessee; died 1860.
    8. William Marvin McMahan was born Mar 1843, Tennessee; died Mar 1856.
    9. Lucinda McMahan was born 1850, Tennessee.


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