Maria Runyan: Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest

Generation: 1

1. Maria Runyan (daughter of Robert Martin "Bob" Runyan and Ruth).

Generation: 2

2. Robert Martin "Bob" Runyan (son of James Aaron Runyan and Geneva Franklin).
Robert — Ruth. [Group Sheet]
3.
Ruth
Children:

1. Maria Runyan

Jama Runyan

Mitchell Runyan

Generation: 3

James Aaron Runyan was born 20 Sep 1905, Sevier County, Tennessee (son of Robert Mitchell Runyan and Dosiafine D. "Dosa" Hardin); died 28 Mar 1990, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried 30 Mar 1990, Holly Hills, Knox County, Tennessee.

Notes:

History of the HAYNES _ RUNYAN HOME in article; Historical Sites, People & Places (Beulah D. Linn, Sevier County Historican); A History of Boyd's Creek by Estalenna Rogers Brabson; "The Early Boyd's Creek Families - Con't.". On file in McClung Collection, Knoxville. Vertical file Newspaper articles. The home was built in 1873 by Col. Milton A. Haynes and his wife, Penelope Brabson Haynes, on property willed to Penelope by her father, John Brabson.
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Reference:
"The Final Irony", Katherine Lane Nichols, 1975, p 192.
Joe Chilton GEDCOM, 7 November 1994.

James — Geneva Franklin. Geneva was born 30 May 1910, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

5.
Geneva Franklin was born 30 May 1910, North Carolina.
Children:

2. Robert Martin "Bob" Runyan

Myra Joan Runyan

Jon Thomas Runyan

Generation: 4

Robert Mitchell Runyan was born 9 Oct 1865, Sevier County, Tennessee (son of Aaron Alexander Runyan, Jr. and Abigail Jane McMahan); died 3 Feb 1952, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Shiloh Cemetery, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee.

Notes:

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

Robert married Dosiafine D. "Dosa" Hardin 12 Jun 1892, , Sevier County, Tennessee. Dosiafine (daughter of James Marion Hardin and Elizabeth Josephine Sarette) was born 1 May 1868, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 17 Dec 1949, Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Shiloh Cemetery, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Dosiafine D. "Dosa" Hardin was born 1 May 1868, Sevier County, Tennessee (daughter of James Marion Hardin and Elizabeth Josephine Sarette); died 17 Dec 1949, Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Shiloh Cemetery, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee.

Notes:

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

Children:

Walter Runyan was born 25 May 1894, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 16 Nov 1970, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Shiloh Cemetery, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee.
Violet Bell "Vola" Runyan was born 31 Oct 1895, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 29 Jan 1988, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee; was buried Smoky Mountain Memory Gardens Cemetery, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee.
Abigail Elizabeth "Abby" Runyan was born 18 Dec 1897, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 3 Jan 1987, Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried 5 Jan 1987, Shiloh Cemetery, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee.
Willie Mae Runyan was born 28 Feb 1900, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 12 Oct 1987, Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried 14 Oct 1987, Shiloh Cemetery, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee.
Grace Runyan was born 26 Nov 1902, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 21 Nov 1973, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee; was buried Shiloh Cemetery, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee.
4. James Aaron Runyan was born 20 Sep 1905, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 28 Mar 1990, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried 30 Mar 1990, Holly Hills, Knox County, Tennessee.
Blanche Ann Runyan was born 12 Oct 1908, Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 29 Apr 2001; was buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.