William Thomas Trentham^{[1, 2, 3]}

1793 - 1848  (55 years)

• Headstones

  William Trentham Born Mar. 27, 1793 Died Dec. 16, 1843

  
  

• Name	William Thomas Trentham
  Born	27 Mar 1793	Haywood County, North Carolina
  Gender	Male
  Died	10 Dec 1848	Sugarlands, Sevier County, Tennessee
  Buried	Trentham Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee   [4, 5]
  Person ID	I2036	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	13 Jun 2013

  
  

  Father	Robert William Trentham,   b. Abt 1775/1777,   d. 10 Apr 1809, Wilkinson County, Mississippi  (Age ~ 32 years)
  Mother	Lucinda Trentham,   b. Abt 1778/1780
  Married	Abt 1792	, North Carolina
  Divorced	Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F767	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 1	Susannah Hicks,   b. 3 Nov 1797,   d. 23 Jun 1826  (Age 28 years)
  Married	6 Oct 1818	Haywood County, North Carolina
  Children	+ 1. James Madison Trentham,   b. 24 Aug 1819,   d. 1860/1870  (Age 50 years)   2. Nancy Ann Trentham,   b. 30 Dec 1822
  Family ID	F768	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	Easter Ogle,   b. 6 May 1806, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 6 Jan 1883  (Age 76 years)
  Married	1826	Sevier County, Tennessee
  Children	1. Lucinda Trentham,   b. 2 Sep 1827, Tennessee ,   bur. Forks of the River Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee + 2. Mary Elvira "Polly" Trentham,   b. 20 Jul 1829, Tennessee ,   d. 2 Nov 1907  (Age 78 years) + 3. Sophia Trentham,   b. 31 May 1831, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 13 Jan 1919  (Age 87 years) + 4. Robert Lee "Rob" Trentham,   b. 27 Apr 1833, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 16 Feb 1908  (Age 74 years)   5. Benjamin James Trentham,   b. 16 Mar 1835, Tennessee + 6. Isaac Newton Trentham,   b. 16 Jan 1836, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 17 Feb 1931  (Age 95 years) + 7. Lydia Trentham,   b. 29 Oct 1838, Tennessee + 8. David McMahan Trentham,   b. 22 Jul 1841,   d. 31 Dec 1862  (Age 21 years) + 9. Caleb Levator Trentham,   b. 8 Feb 1844, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 23 May 1937, Sevier County, Tennessee  (Age 93 years) + 10. Easter Malinda Trentham,   b. 13 May 1847, Tennessee ,   d. 1 Aug 1937  (Age 90 years) + 11. William McCajah "Cagey" Trentham,   b. 17 Jul 1849, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 11 Mar 1901  (Age 51 years)
  Family ID	F766	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 27 Mar 1793 - Haywood County, North Carolina Married - 6 Oct 1818 - Haywood County, North Carolina Married - 1826 - Sevier County, Tennessee Buried - - Trentham Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Sometime in the early 1820's, William Trentham and his family migrated to Sevier County, Tennessee from Haywood County, North Carolina. They settled in the Two-Mile Branch and Forks of the River area, now part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. William Trentham was one of the early school teachers for the White Oak Flats community. A story handed down for generations about him as the school teacher in White Oaks said -- "William Trentham seems to have known how to enforce order among what must have been a body of turbulent pupils, for it is told of him that he once whipped a daughter of Daniel Wesley Reagan for spitting into the school books of her fellow students. This so incensed the father of the girl that he vowed there should be no more schools of that kind where he lived, so he locked the schoolhouse and took away the key." William Trentham and his wife Easter Ogle were listed in the 1830 and 1840 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tennessee. William Trentham was appointed as the only postmaster for the White Oak Flats community. The post office was organized on 11 November 1840 and was disbanded on 13 June 1844. He also served as the Justice of Peace for the 11th Civil District (White Oak Flats). William Thomas arrived at home after an extended trip in the woodland with a ruptured appendix and without proper medical attention resulted in his untimely. William Trentham was buried with his wife in the Trentham Family Cemetery, now part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. William's grave stone gives 1843 as his date of death. ---------- Reference "Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1974, p 49. "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 164. "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 101-102. "Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 359 Bonnie Trentham Myers, Bltrentham@aol.com, 20 November 2000..

  
  

• Sources

  [S9] Smoky Mountain Historical Society Newsletter, Smoky Mountain Historical Society, Vol. XXVII, No.1, Page 13, 2001. [S84] E-Mail, Jo An Trentham [joan.trentham@gmail.com], 10 May 2004. William Trentham had no middle name but M., T, Thomas, and R. have been used by different researchers. [S84] E-Mail, David D. Trentham [chris_the_game_master@netzero.com], 28 Feb 2006. [S34] In the Shadow of the Smokies, Smoky Mountain Historical Society, (1993), 719. [S147] Find a Grave, (Memorial: 8030366).