Barefoot Runyan^[1]

Abt 1757 - Abt 1875  (~ 118 years)

• Name	Barefoot Runyan
  Born	Abt 1757
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt 1875	Talladega, Alabama
  Buried	Alabama
  Person ID	I50482	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2013

  
  

  Father	John Runyon,   b. 15 Aug 1705, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey ,   d. Abt 1797, Brocks Gap, Rockingham, Virginia  (Age 91 years)
  Mother	Anna Barefoot
  Married	Abt 1757	Brocks Gap, Virginia
  Family ID	F18799	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Margaret Rambo,   b. Abt 1755, , Virginia ,   d. Abt 1802, , Tennessee  (Age ~ 47 years)
  Married	19 May 1777	, Rockingham, Virginia
  Children	1. John Wesley Runyan,   b. 1778, , Shenandoah, Virginia ,   d. 23 Nov 1851, , Hamilton, Tennessee  (Age 73 years) + 2. Aaron Alexander Runyan,   b. 1786, Rockingham County, Virginia ,   d. 6 Jun 1869, Sevier County, Tennessee  (Age 83 years)   3. Tavenor Runyan,   b. Abt 1787,   d. 1802, , Sevier County, Tennessee  (Age ~ 15 years)   4. Ware Runyan,   b. Abt 1791, , Jefferson, Tennessee ,   d. 23 Oct 1837, , Alabama  (Age ~ 46 years)   5. Isaac Runyan, II,   b. 17 Mar 1793, , Jefferson, Tennessee ,   d. 13 Aug 1873, , Clark, Arkansas  (Age 80 years)   6. Loami Wesley Runyan,   b. Abt 1802, , Sevier County, Tennessee
  Family ID	F18712	Group Sheet

  
  

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• Notes

  "Barefoot Runyan, Revolutionary soldier, witnessed the will of his neighbor, Marshall Lovelady, in 1792. Barefoot Runyan's land was located between lands belonging to John Moore on the north and John Fryer on the south. The present Old Mill is on the site of a 151 acre grant to Mordecia Lewis; his land joined the land of Isaac Runyan, son of Barefoot, and the land of Richard Fanshire. The plat shows a road to Lewis Mill". [Reunion at the River, Homecoming 1986, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee - September 13, 1986, author Beulah D.Lynn (current Sevier County Historican)]. Isaac as son of Barefoot is believed in error. Barefoot Runyan was granted 168 acres of land on the West Fork of the Little Pigeon River on 27 July 1808 No 332, surveyed 27 Jan 1807. Survey plot shows Mill Creek in plat.Isaac Runyan was granted 151 acres on the Pigeon River on 5 August 1812, No.2544, and surveyed 10 Jan 1807. Survey has with Mullendores line on the North. Isaac's grant was under the Act of Assembly on Nov. 23, 1809. Marie Runyan Wright published book "Descendants of Isaac Barefoot Runyan - Tracking Barefoot Runyan" in 1980. Mrs. Wright in error with photographs as being Barefoot's land. The "old rock chimney" and "dam" over river, are near or on land of Aaron Runyan Sr. just south of Sevierville. Barefoot's land was further south in now Pigeon Forge. Transcript of Marshall Lovelady will dated 10 April 1792 is published in the SMHS Newsletter, Vol XVI, No.2, Winter 1990, page 86. Barefoot Runyan, Joseph Lovelady, and John Mahon were witness. "Barefoot RUNION listed in Colonel Doherty's Regiment of Militia, Territory South of the Ohio, 1793-94" (Ref: SMHS NL 1988, Vol XIV, No 4, page 124). ---------- Reference: Joe Chilton Pedigree Chart, 7 November 1994, p 1.

  
  

• Sources

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