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- James Rolen of North Carolina married Sallie Smith in the early 1800's.
Sallie's parents moved to Alabama and she wanted to go too but James did not
want to go. So she went anyway and took their son Joab with her. When Joab was
about 5 years old, the Smith family was moving to Indiana. Sallie wrote James
that she was going with the family to Indiana and if he wanted Joab he could
come to Alabama and get him. James rode a black horse with a blaze face to
Alabama and got Joab. On their way back to North Carolina they spent the night
with a McMahan family in Sevier County, Tennessee. It rained that night and
Cosby Creek got up so people could not cross it. James left Joab with the
McMahans. James said his horse could swim any waters so he road into Cosby
Creek. He was drowned and was buried in Cosby.
The McMahan's raised Joab.
Joab's will dated 19 June 1894 was probated 3 June 1895 and recorded in Will
Book 1, pages 473-474.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 170.
"A Genealogy of the Rolen Family of Sevier County, Tennessee," Wilma Rolen
Stucker, 1980, p 1.
"Joab and Anna (McMahan) Rolen Family", Bonita McMahan Rough, March 1995, p 1.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, 325.
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