Tavenor Runyan^[1]

Abt 1787 - 1802  (~ 15 years)

• Name	Tavenor Runyan
  Born	Abt 1787
  Gender	Male
  Died	1802	, Sevier County, Tennessee
  Buried	, Tennessee
  Person ID	I39070	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2013

  
  

  Father	Barefoot Runyan,   b. Abt 1757,   d. Abt 1875, Talladega, Alabama  (Age ~ 118 years)
  Mother	Margaret Rambo,   b. Abt 1755, , Virginia ,   d. Abt 1802, , Tennessee  (Age ~ 47 years)
  Married	19 May 1777	, Rockingham, Virginia
  Family ID	F18712	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Died - 1802 - , Sevier County, Tennessee Buried - - , Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Given name may be Marcus. Killed by band of Indians near his home. (Ref letter by Governor Archibald Roane). "Perhaps the last of the Indian murders in Sevier County occurred at Pigeon Forge in 1800. Young Tavenor Runyan, son of Barefoot and Margaret Rambo Runyan, was killed by an Indian or Indians while standing on a stump searching for a horse. Governor John Sevier made a report ...... et al" [Reunion at the River, Homecoming 1986, Pigeon Forge, TN - Sept. 13, 1986] ---------- Reference: Joe Chilton GEDCOM, 7 November 1994.

  
  

• Sources

  [S47] Sevier County, Tennessee and its Heritage, Sevier County Heritage Book Committee, (1994, Don Mills, Inc.), 331.