Leander Cornelius Whaley

Other Events:

• Census: 1900, District 2, Sevier County, Tennessee
• Census: 1910, District 2, Sevier County, Tennessee
• Census: 1920, Cleveland Ward 3, Bradley County, Tennessee
• Census: 1930, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee
• Census: 1940, District 4, Bradley County, Tennessee

Notes:

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Reference
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 17, 18, 91, 254,
256.
"Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 203, 204.
Dee Lansford GEDCOM, 24 September 1995.
"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 208.

Leander married Mary Rosetta King 27 Dec 1891, Sevier County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of William Ford King and Martha "Patty" Ownby) was born 20 Aug 1876, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 6 Apr 1958; was buried Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery, Bradley County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

1. Martha E. Whaley was born 22 Jun 1895, Tennessee; died 22 Jul 1981, Bradley County, Tennessee; was buried Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery, Bradley County, Tennessee.
2. William Andrew Whaley was born 7 Jan 1898, Tennessee; died 6 Jul 1969; was buried Hilcrest Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee.
3. Carl R. Whaley was born 30 Apr 1900, Tennessee; died 1 Jan 1902; was buried Plemons Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
4. Wiley Claude Whaley was born 8 Dec 1903, Tennessee; died 24 Mar 1975; was buried Hilcrest Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee.
5. Mable L. Whaley was born 1907, Tennessee; died 1995; was buried Volusia Memorial Park Cemetery, Volusia County, Florida.
6. Lena M. Whaley was born Abt 1910, Tennessee; died Bef 13 Aug 2013.
7. Blanche Whaley was born 8 Feb 1912, Tennessee; died 5 Jun 2008; was buried Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery, Bradley County, Tennessee.
8. Mary Ethel Whaley was born 13 Sep 1914, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 11 Jun 2005, North Carolina; was buried 14 Jun 2005, Sharon Memorial Park Cemetery, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
9. James Otha Whaley was born 5 May 1917, Tennessee; died 15 Mar 1992, Bradley County, Tennessee; was buried Hilcrest Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee.
10. Frances Jewel Whaley was born 21 Aug 1921, Tennessee; died 13 Aug 2013, Bradley County, Tennessee; was buried 16 Aug 2013, Hilcrest Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee.

Other Events:

• Census: 1900, District 2, Sevier County, Tennessee
• Census: 1910, District 1, Bradley County, Tennessee

Notes:

1850 Sevier County, Tennessee census lists name as P. H. Toomy age 1 month.
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Reference
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 10, 17, 129.
"Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 241.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, 186.
"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 208, 295.

Pinkney married Julia Marinda Brackins 27 Aug 1867, Sevier County, Tennessee. Julia (daughter of Andrew Jackson Brackins and Demerius Hamlin) was born 26 Feb 1849, North Carolina; died 15 Sep 1888; was buried Plemons Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 10, 17, 129.
"Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 241.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, 186.
"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 259.

Other Events:

• AFN: B71M-KG
• Census: 1900, District 11, Sevier County, Tennessee

Notes:

Listed in 1850 Sevier County, Tennessee census as farmer $300 property able to read and write.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 180, 288.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 5, 10, 69, 71, 106, 129.
"Ownby-Watson Family History", Percival David Park, May 1985, p .
"Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 30, 307.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, 186.
"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 227.

John married Mourning Ownbey Abt 1834, Sevier County, Tennessee. Mourning (daughter of John Ownby, Jr. and Elizabeth Hill) was born 11 Aug 1817, Buncombe County, North Carolina; died 21 Apr 1870, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried White Oak Flats Cemetery, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: B71M-LM

Notes:

Listed in the 1850 Sevier County, Tennessee census able to read and write.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 180, 288.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 5, 10, 106, 129.
"Ownby-Watson Family History", Percival David Park, May 1985, p .
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, 186.

Notes:

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Reference
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 17.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, 186.
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.
"The Brackin Family in the Southeastern United States", Henry B. Brackin, Jr., MD.

Andrew — Demerius Hamlin. Demerius was born 1824, Transylvania County, North Carolina; died 1906; was buried 1906, Sugarlands Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Surname may be Hawkins, Holcomb, Hamilton, or Hamlin.

One source lists burial in Burt Ogle Cemetery.

Gene Aiken lists surname as Hamblin.
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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.
"The Brackin Family in the Southeastern United States", Henry B. Brackin, Jr., MD.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 17.
"Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 86, 119.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, 186.
"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 259.

Notes:

In the 1880 Mortality Schedule for Sevier County, Tennessee gave the birthplace of William M. Whaley's parents -- father and mother were born in South Carolina.

Some researchers say he was born in Orangeburg District, South Carolina but have not provided the source.

Family traditions say William M. Whaley, his two brothers, John and Middleton, and a sister, Delania, came to Sevier County, Tennessee from South Carolina.

Records of William M. Whaley's military service in the War of 1812 were found in the National Archives, Washington, D.C. He enlisted on 13 November 1814 as a fifer in Captain John Porter's Company, Colonel Edwin E. Booth's Regiment, East Tennessee Drafted Militia and was discharged on 20 May 1815 at Mobile, Alabama.

On 4 November 1850 (aged 62 years) and 2 April 1855 (aged 66 years), William M. Whaley filed applications and received bounty land grants as a result of his service in the War of 1812.

William M. Whaley filed for pension for his War of 1812 service in the East Tennessee Militia. His pension papers give a detailed story of his military service in the War of 1812. It is given below:

"State of Tennessee)
Sevier County SS. On this 22nd day of May A.S. one
thousand eight hundred and Seventy one, personally appeared before me W. H.
Duggan, Clerk of County Court, a court of record within and for the County and
State aforesaid, William Whaley, aged Eighty two years, a resident of 2nd
district, County of Sevier, State of Tennessee who being duly Sworn according
to law declares that he is married that his wifes name was Mary Ogle to whom he
was married in Sevier County, State of Tennessee on the 26th day of December
1811 that he served the full term of Sixty days in the military Service of the
United States in the War of 1812. That he is the identical William Whaley who
was drafted in Captain Wilson Maples Company, Col Booths Regiment -- Brigade --
Division at Sevier County, State of Tennessee on or about the day of November
1814 and was honorably discharged at Mobile, Alabama on or about the day of
March 1815 that he does not recollect the Numbers of the Regiment or Brigade,
that Captain Maples resigned and the Company was then Commanded by Captain John
W. Porter that he at no time during the late rebellion against the authority of
the United States adhered to the Cause of the enemies of the Government giveing
them aid or comfort or exercised the functions of any office whatever under any
authority or pretend authority in hostility to the United States and that he
will support the Constitution of the United States, that he is not in receipt
of a pension under any previous act, that he makes this declaration for the
purpose of being placed on the pension roll of the United States under the
provision of the act approved February 14, 1871 and he hearby constitutes and
appoints with full power of Substitution and revocation M.W. McCown of
Sevierville, Tennessee his true and lawful attorney to prosecute his claim and
obtain the pension certificate that may be issued. And that his post office is
at Sevierville, Sevier County, State of Tennessee and that his domicile or
place of abode is on the big East fork of Little Pigeon river in Greenbyor
Cove"

"Attest His
Jeremiah Chamberlain William X Whaley
John W. Huskey Mark

Applicant

"Also personally appeared Jeremiah Chamberlain residing in 2nd district, County
of Sevier & John W. Huskey residing in 2nd district, County of Sevier persons
whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who being by me
duly Sworn Say, They were present and Saw William Whaley, the claiment make his
mark to the foregoing declaration, that they have every reason to believe from
the appearance of Said claiment and their acquaintance with him that he is the
identical person he represents himself to be, and that at no time during the
late rebellion against the authority of the United States did he adhere to the
cause of the enemies of the Government giving them aid or comfort, and they
have no interest in the prosecution of this claim.

Jeremiah Chamberlain
John W. Huskey

"Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 22nd day of May 1871 and I hearby
Certify that the Contents of the foregoing declaration & c were fully made
Known and explained to the applicant and witnesses before Swearing and that I
have no interest direct or indirect in the prosecution of this claim

"Given under my hand and Seal of office at office in
Sevierville this 22nd day of May 1871

"W. H. H. Duggan, Clear"

In December 1817 when the White Oak Flats Baptist Church was formed as an arm of the Fork of Little Pigeon Baptist Church in Sevierville, William Whaley and his wife were listed as charter members.

At the July 1833 meeting of the Church, William M. Whaley said, "he had been led to think it (is) his duty to Execrcise a public gift where upon the Church grants to him the privileges of Exercising where in the County as duty may call him". At this meeting William M. Whaley was ordained as moderator.

It is not known just when William M. and Mary Ann Ogle Whaley moved to Big Greenbrier, Sevier County, Tennessee (now part of Great Smoky Mountain National Park), but they were well settled between 1830 and 1840.

William Sr. is listed in the 1840 Sevier County, Tennessee census 2 males 0-5, 3 males 5-10, 1 male 15-20, 1 male 50-60, 1 female 5-10, 1 female 10-15, 1 female 20-30 and 1 female 40-50

William M. Whaley died from "abcess of side" and was buried beside his wife Mary Ann.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 143, 288.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 3-5.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, 45, 186, 214.
Wanda Schomp, wjcrafter@email.msn.com, 17 May 1999.

William married Mary Ann Ogle 26 Dec 1811, Sevier County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of William "Billy" Ogle and Martha Jane Huskey) was born 1793, Edgefield County, South Carolina; died 1872/1880, Greenbrier, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Plemons Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Mary moved with the family to Sevier County, Tennessee as early as 1805, soonafter the death of her father.

Verification of her marriage is from William M. Whaley's War of 1812 papers inthe National Archives, Washington, D. C.

Mary and William were members of the White Oak Flats Baptist Church. Theirfamily appears in Sevier County, Tennessee Federal Census Records, 1830 through 1880.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 143, 288.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 5.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, 186, 214.

Other Events:

• AFN: 1TQP-13

Notes:

John Ownby Jr. served in the War of 1812 with the North Carolina malitia. Records from the National Archives show John Ownby as a private in Captain Bradly's Company of North Carolina militia for six months but was not called out until February and continued in actual service for over fourteen days. He was discharged in Rutherford County, North Carolina on 6 March 1815. In 1858 John Ownby applied for a bounty land grant on the basis of his military service. He received a grant of 158 acres in Sevier County, Tennessee.

In 1816, just after the War of 1812 was over, John Ownby Jr. and his family moved from Rutherford County, North Carolina to Sevier County, Tennessee. This Ownby family was the only one listed in the 1830 Federal Census of East Tennessee.

On 4 February 1858, John Ownby Jr. made a will to dispose of his property. In his will, he said, "I give and bequeath to my son John H. Ownby all my property both real and personal consisting of one hundred and twenty five acres of Land, Cattle, Hogs, Horses, household furniture, etc. I have given and bequeath all my property to said son John in consequence of his kindness in taking care of myself and wife in our age and during our infirmity."
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p 13.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 64, 105.
"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 203.

John married Elizabeth Hill 14 Mar 1803, Rutherford County, North Carolina. Elizabeth (daughter of John Hill) was born 6 Nov 1784, Buncombe County, North Carolina; died 24 Aug 1830, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: 1TQP-28

Notes:

Donald B. Reagan has birth date as 6 November 1786.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
13.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 64, 105.
"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 203.

Notes:

Bride: Elizabeth Hill
Groom: John Ownby
Bond Date: 11 Mar 1805
County: Rutherford
Record #: 01 245
Bondsman: Arthur Ownby
Witness: R Lewis, Clerk of Court
Bond #: 000135548

North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868

Notes:

James Brackin is found in the Pendleton District, South Carolina in the 1800
census. The 1810 and 1830 census of Buncombe County North Carolina and the 1840
census of Henderson County North Carolina Apparently he also owned land in
Greenville County South Carolina in the area of Traveler's Rest. There is a deed
of sale of James Brackin, dated 6 February 1822 in Greenville County, South
Carolina. The land James lived on in North Carolina, near the Gloucester
Community, was first in Buncombe County later in Henderson County and is now in
Transylvania County, North Carolina.
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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.
"The Brackin Family in the Southeastern United States", Henry B. Brackin, Jr.,
MD.

James — Elizabeth Barton. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.