Nettie Shultz: Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest

Generation: 1

1.	Nettie Shultz was born 1889 (daughter of William Shultz and Julia Cockrum); died 1944. Notes: ---------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 47. Nettie — Ernest Lowe. [Group Sheet]

Generation: 2

William Shultz was born 1 Apr 1852, Tennessee (son of Alexander Preston Perry Shultz and Elizabeth Catherine Combs); died 29 Nov 1931; was buried , Hamblen, Tennessee.

Notes:

Buried in the Pleasant View Cemetery.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 46, 47.

William — Julia Cockrum. Julia was born 21 Sep 1852; died 19 Feb 1913; was buried , Hamblen, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Julia Cockrum was born 21 Sep 1852; died 19 Feb 1913; was buried , Hamblen, Tennessee.

Notes:

Buried in the Pleasant View Cemetery.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 46, 47.

Children:

Preston Shultz was born 6 Jan 1876; died 6 Sep 1966.
Deborah Shultz was born 5 Feb 1878; died 8 Jun 1941.
Arthur Shultz was born 19 Dec 1879; died 20 Mar 1913.
Henry Shultz was born 1882; died 1940.
Lula Shultz was born 19 Mar 1884; died 7 Apr 1971.
Maggie Shultz was born 9 Mar 1887; died 17 Apr 1963.
1. Nettie Shultz was born 1889; died 1944.
James Shultz was born 1890; died 1949.

Generation: 3

Alexander Preston Perry Shultz was born 17 Feb 1822, Sevier County, Tennessee (son of Martin S. E. Shults, Jr. and Barbara Ann Emert); died 12 Nov 1917; was buried Shiloh Methodist Church Cemetery, Grainger County, Tennessee.

Other Events:

AFN: MC7S-SK

Notes:

Listed in 1850 Cocke County, Tennessee census as farmer with land valued at $500.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 16, 46.
http://www.liberty.com/home/hannibal/censuss.txt

Alexander — Elizabeth Catherine Combs. Elizabeth was born 5 Jan 1826, Tennessee; died 26 Dec 1885; was buried Shiloh Methodist Church Cemetery, Grainger County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Elizabeth Catherine Combs was born 5 Jan 1826, Tennessee; died 26 Dec 1885; was buried Shiloh Methodist Church Cemetery, Grainger County, Tennessee.

Notes:

Listed in 1850 Cocke County, Tennessee census unable to read or write.

Buried in the Shiloh Cemetery.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 16, 46.
http://www.liberty.com/home/hannibal/censuss.txt

Children:

J. M. Shultz was born 11 Dec 1845; died 26 Dec 1845; was buried Emerts Cove Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
Joseph Shultz was born 5 Dec 1847, Tennessee; died 3 Oct 1913; was buried Arch Shultz Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
Barbara M. Shultz was born 2 Dec 1850, , Tennessee; died 7 Apr 1887.
2. William Shultz was born 1 Apr 1852, Tennessee; died 29 Nov 1931; was buried , Hamblen, Tennessee.
George W. Shultz was born 7 Jun 1854, Tennessee; died 16 Mar 1920; was buried Shiloh Methodist Church Cemetery, Grainger County, Tennessee.
Shultz was born Abt 1856; died See Notes.
Mary Isabelle Shultz was born 8 Jan 1858, Tennessee; died 4 Aug 1939.
Deborah V. Shultz was born 13 May 1860, Tennessee; died 25 Jan 1880; was buried Emerts Cove Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
Caldonia D. Shultz was born 18 May 1863; died 10 Oct 1863; was buried Emerts Cove Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.

Generation: 4

Martin S. E. Shults, Jr. was born Abt 1773, Tryon County, North Carolina (son of Johan Martin "Martin" Shults and Juliana Stentz); died 11 Nov 1846, Emerts Cove, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Emerts Cove Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.

Other Events:

AFN: MC7S-CB

Notes:

Martin Shults Jr. moved to Sevier County, Tennessee from Sullivan County, Tennessee circa 1794/1795 with his mother, Juliana Shultz, and his brothers and sisters.

During the period of 1796-1806, records show Martin Shutlz Junior owned lands in the area of Webb's Creek by right of occupancy. He sold it to Joseph Anderson in 1808 prior to the issuance of land grants by the State of Tennessee. The records read in part as follows:

(1) "State of Tennessee District South French Broad and Holston

"In pursuance of the law in such cases made and provided and by virtue of a Deputation from Robert Wear Esq surveyor for the district Aforesaid I have surveyed for Martin Shults 11 Acres 1 Rood 1 Chains of land held and Claimed by right of occupancy Situate in Sevier County on the waters of Webbs creek having such form and Boundaries as represented surveyed 2nd May 1807 Given under my hand this 6th day June 1807

"Variation of the Needle 5 Degs East Laid down by a Scale 40 chs to the inch

Thomas Price, D S

"I Martin Shults for and in Consideration of the sum of Twenty five dollars to me in hand paid the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged do hereby assign over the within Survey of Lane unto Joseph Anderson In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 4th day February 1808

Test
William Freazier Marting Shults (Seal)
Isaac Love

"State of Tennessee Sevier County Court February Sesions 1808

"This was the Execution of the above Transfer of land being duly proven in open Court by the oaths of William Feasher and Isaac Love the subscribing Witnesses thereto and the same is admitted to record

Test Saml Wear C S C"

(2) "State of Tennessee District South French Broad and Holston

"In pursuance of the laws in such cases made and provided and by virtue of a Deputation from Robert Wear Esqr surveyor for the District Aforesaid I have surveyed for Martin Shults 42 Acres 2 roods 3 Chains of land held and Claimed by right of Occupancy situate in the County of Sevier on the water Webbs creek having such form and Boundaries as represented Surveyed 1st May 1807 Given under my hand this 6th day June 1807

"Magnetic Variation 5 degs Laid down by a scale 40 chs to the inch

Thomas Price, D S

"I Martin Shults for and in Consideration of the sum of Seventy five Dollars to me in hand paid the Receipt Whereof is hereby Acknowledged do hereby Assign over the Within Survey of land to Joseph Anderson In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 4th day of february 1808

Test
William Freasher Marting Shutls (Seal)
Isaac Love

"State of Tennessee Sevier County Court February Sessions 1808

"This was the Execution of the above transfer of Land being duly proven by the oaths of William Freasher and Isaac Love the subscribing witnesses thereto and the same is admitted to record

Test Saml Wear C S C"

There is another land grant for Martin Shultz from the State of Tennessee. He entered 55 acres 1 rood 5 chains on the waters of East Fork of Little Pigeon River. It was surveyed on 29 August 1807 and granted on 9 May 1810. This land joined vacant lands and lands of Frederick Emert in the Emert's Cove area.

Martin Shultz Junior was commissioned as a Captain in the militia for Sevier County, Tennessee according to Sevier County, Tennessee Surveyors Book #1 - 5,000 Acres of land entry for William Roberts and Isaac A. Miller dated 12th day of May 1830. It reads as follows:

"State of Tennessee) "By virtue of Entry No. 760 dated 12th
Sevier County ) day of May 1830

"I have surveyed for William Roberts and Isaac A. Miller as joint entrees five Thousand acres of land in said County on the waters of Birds Creek and the west fork of little Pigeon River

"Begining on a Pine at the ford of the Glade Branch near Captain Shults muster ground...Surveyed 23 day of November 1838.

D. Emmitt )
& ) C C John Mullendore, Cty Curveyor
Thos. McCarter)

In 1813, Martin Shultz Junior signed a petition aksing the Tennessee General Assembly for redress on the validity of land claims in Sevier County, Tennessee. This petition is in Tennessee State Library and Archives,
Nashville, Tennessee.

Martin Shultz Junior entered numerous land entries in Sevier County, Tennessee during his lifetime. They include: 160 acres-5 August 1824; 15 acres-12 August 1824; 50 acres-28 August 1824; 222 acres-28 August 1829; 69 acres-28 August 1829; 31 acres-28 August 1829; 50 acres-28 February 1832; 31 acres-16
October 1836; and 113 acres-11 March 1839
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Martin Shultz Junior and his wife, Barbara Ann Emert, were listed in the 1830 and 1840 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tennessee.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 6, 70.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 6, 16.
"Ownby-Watson Family History", Percival David Park, May 1985, p 32.
Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 42.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 407.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 341.

Martin married Barbara Ann Emert 1797, Sevier County, Tennessee. Barbara (daughter of Frederick Emert and Barbara Ann Neidig) was born 27 Dec 1778, Berks County, Pennsylvania; died 23 Sep 1875, Emerts Cove, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Emerts Cove Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Barbara Ann Emert was born 27 Dec 1778, Berks County, Pennsylvania (daughter of Frederick Emert and Barbara Ann Neidig); died 23 Sep 1875, Emerts Cove, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Emerts Cove Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.

Other Events:

AFN: MC7S-DH

Notes:

First name may be Barbary. Barbara Ann Emert, widow of Martin Shultz Junoir, was listed with her children in the 1850 through 1870 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tennessee.

Lived in Emert's Cove area.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 6, 70.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 6, 16.
Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 42.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 196, 341.

Children:

Phillip S. Shultz was born 26 May 1798, , Sevier County, Tennessee; died 12 Feb 1871, , Tennessee; was buried Anderson County, Tennessee.
Jacob Whitten Shultz was born 20 Dec 1800, Tennessee; died 22 Jan 1878, Cocke County, Tennessee; was buried Holders Cemetery, Cocke County, Tennessee.
Barbara Shults was born 20 Mar 1803, , Sevier County, Tennessee; died 21 Sep 1834, , Madison, Missouri.
Elizabeth Shultz was born 1804, , Sevier County, Tennessee.
Shultz was born 1806, , Sevier County, Tennessee; died 1806, , Sevier County, Tennessee.
Mary Shultz was born 1808, , Sevier County, Tennessee.
Martin M. Shultz was born 15 Dec 1810, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 7 May 1841; was buried Huff Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
Frederick Jackson Shultz was born 15 Feb 1813, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 11 Mar 1898, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Pigeon Forge Methodist Church Cemetery, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee.
Pleasant Wear Shultz was born 5 Jan 1815, Emerts Cove, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 11 Mar 1884, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Old Shults Family Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
John R. Shultz was born 30 Mar 1817, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 9 Jun 1889, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Old Shults Family Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
Shultz was born 1819, , Sevier County, Tennessee; died 1819, , Sevier County, Tennessee.
4. Alexander Preston Perry Shultz was born 17 Feb 1822, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 12 Nov 1917; was buried Shiloh Methodist Church Cemetery, Grainger County, Tennessee.
Anna Caroline Shultz was born 24 Jul 1826, , Sevier County, Tennessee; died 5 Sep 1902, , Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried , Sevier County, Tennessee.