James Balford "Jim Bally" McMahan^[1]

1798 - 1887  (89 years)

• Name	James Balford "Jim Bally" McMahan
  Born	1798	, Virginia   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  AFN	BGW1-D9
  Died	14 Dec 1887	, Sevier County, Tennessee
  Buried	, Sevier County, Tennessee
  Person ID	I12694	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2006

  
  

  Father	Archibald McMahan,   b. Abt 1773, North Carolina ,   d. 27 Feb 1853  (Age ~ 80 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Byrd,   b. Abt 1777,   d. Abt 1844  (Age ~ 67 years)
  Married	28 Sep 1793	Grayson County, Virginia
  Family ID	F2353	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Mary Ann "Polly" Wilson, "Granny Mack",   b. 24 Nov 1796, Yancey County, North Carolina ,   d. 25 Mar 1894  (Age 97 years)
  Married	Yancey County, North Carolina
  Children	+ 1. Sarah Annie "Sally" McMahan,   b. 20 Mar 1825, Tennessee ,   d. 16 Mar 1845  (Age 19 years) + 2. Celia McMahan,   b. 7 Mar 1827, North Carolina ,   d. 5 Jun 1895, Sevier County, Tennessee  (Age 68 years) + 3. Willis McMahan,   b. 1830, Tennessee ,   d. Apr 1878  (Age 48 years) + 4. Mary Ann "Polly" McMahan,   b. 8 Mar 1832, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 21 Jul 1911  (Age 79 years) + 5. Elizabeth "Betsy" McMahan,   b. 25 Apr 1833, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 27 Nov 1899  (Age 66 years) + 6. David Balford McMahan,   b. 1834, Tennessee ,   d. 1880  (Age 46 years)   7. Clearisa McMahan,   b. 1840, Tennessee ,   d. 1860  (Age 20 years)   8. William Marvin McMahan,   b. Mar 1843, Tennessee ,   d. Mar 1856  (Age ~ 13 years)   9. Lucinda McMahan,   b. 1850, Tennessee
  Family ID	F11715	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1798 - , Virginia Died - 14 Dec 1887 - , Sevier County, Tennessee Buried - - , Sevier County, Tennessee Married - - Yancey County, North Carolina  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• 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. ---------- 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S104] Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, Cocke County Heritage Book Committee, (Walsworth Publishing, 1992), 178. [S94] Sevier County, Tennessee Census, 464b, 17 Jul 1870. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tn/sevier/census/1870/0464b.gif With brother David Crockett. [S94] Sevier County, Tennessee Census, family 51, page 387b, line 35, 15 Aug 1850. ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/census/tn/sevier/1850/pg0384a.txt