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Laura McMahan

Female 1875 - 1933  (57 years)

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  1. 1.  Laura McMahanLaura McMahan was born 2 May 1875, Tennessee (daughter of Wiley Arch McMahan and Nancy A. "Nan" Dickson); died 21 Jan 1933, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee; was buried 22 Jan 1933, Boyds Creek Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.

    Notes:

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    Reference:
    Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 154.

    Laura — Jake Tinker. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. Margaret Ellen Tinker was born 15 Oct 1891, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 9 Jun 1948; was buried Grandview Cemetery, Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee.

    Laura — Newt G. Green. Newt died Bef 21 Jan 1933. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. Green
    2. West Green

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Wiley Arch McMahan was born Tennessee.

    Wiley — Nancy A. "Nan" Dickson. Nancy (daughter of William Henry Dickson and Mary Ann "Polly" McMahan) was born 5 Mar 1855, Tennessee; died 18 Jan 1938, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried 19 Jan 1938, Howard-Campbell Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Nancy A. "Nan" Dickson was born 5 Mar 1855, Tennessee (daughter of William Henry Dickson and Mary Ann "Polly" McMahan); died 18 Jan 1938, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried 19 Jan 1938, Howard-Campbell Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.

    Other Events:

    • Census: 1900, District 13, Sevier County, Tennessee
    • Census: 1910, District 13, Sevier County, Tennessee
    • Census: 1920, Logan County, Oklahoma
    • Census: 1930, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee

    Notes:

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    Reference:
    "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 143.
    Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 6, 152, 154.

    Children:
    1. 1. Laura McMahan was born 2 May 1875, Tennessee; died 21 Jan 1933, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee; was buried 22 Jan 1933, Boyds Creek Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    2. Pinkney Arthur "Pink" Dixon was born 1886, Tennessee; died 1967.
    3. Hettie Frances McMahan was born 2 Oct 1895, Tennessee; died 19 Mar 1975; was buried Oak View Baptist Cemetery.


Generation: 3

  1. 6.  William Henry Dickson was born 4 Nov 1830, Tennessee (son of Alexander Dickson and Elizabeth "Peggy" Bohannon); died 9 Aug 1894; was buried Aaron Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.

    Notes:

    Probably born in South Carolina where parents lived before migrating in Sevier County, Tennessee, Middle Creek, Tennesse and died of stomach trouble.
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    Reference:"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 142, 143.
    Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 July 1983, p 152.
    T. D. W McMahan records, Johnny Scott Large, p 64.
    "Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 369.

    William married Mary Ann "Polly" McMahan Abt 1848/1849, , Sevier County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of James Balford "Jim Bally" McMahan and Mary Ann "Polly" Wilson, "Granny Mack") was born 8 Mar 1832, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 21 Jul 1911; was buried Jones Cove, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]


  2. 7.  Mary Ann "Polly" McMahan was born 8 Mar 1832, Sevier County, Tennessee (daughter of James Balford "Jim Bally" McMahan and Mary Ann "Polly" Wilson, "Granny Mack"); died 21 Jul 1911; was buried Jones Cove, Sevier County, Tennessee.

    Other Events:

    • Census: 1900, District 1, Sevier County, Tennessee

    Notes:

    Died of kidney trouble and buried in Aaron Proffit Cemetery.

    SMHS lists death as 21 July 1914.
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    Reference:
    T. D. W McMahan records, Johnny Scott Large, p 64.
    Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 13, 119, 152.
    "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 142, 143, 189, 199, 253.
    "Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 369.
    "In the Shadow of the Smokies", Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 499.

    Children:
    1. Lucinda Dickson was born 19 Feb 1850, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 11 Jul 1922; was buried Aaron Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    2. James Dickson was born Abt 1852; died Abt 1853.
    3. Sarah E. Dickson was born 1853, Tennessee; died May 1912; was buried Aaron Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    4. 3. Nancy A. "Nan" Dickson was born 5 Mar 1855, Tennessee; died 18 Jan 1938, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried 19 Jan 1938, Howard-Campbell Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    5. Mary Ann Dickson was born 21 Aug 1857, Tennessee; died 19 Apr 1934; was buried Sanders McMahan Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    6. William H. "Bill" Dixon was born 10 Sep 1858, Tennessee; died 24 Nov 1940; was buried Howard-Campbell Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    7. Thomas Jefferson "Tom" Dickson was born 13 Aug 1861, Tennessee; died 13 Jan 1931; was buried Aaron Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    8. David D. Dixon was born 2 Aug 1863, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 20 Feb 1937, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried 21 Feb 1937, Miller Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    9. Celia Cornelia Dickson was born 20 Oct 1864, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 28 Apr 1940, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Middle Creek Methodist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    10. Robert Prentice "Ples" Dickson was born 15 May 1867, Tennessee; died 6 Apr 1957.
    11. Henry C. Dickson was born 25 Jul 1869, Tennessee; died 13 Aug 1932.
    12. Joseph Crockett Dickson was born Jul 1871.
    13. Samuel Wesley Dickson was born 26 Jan 1876, Tennessee; died 5 Jan 1962; was buried Huff Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    14. Margaret M. Dickson was born 25 Aug 1876; died 12 Jan 1934; was buried Howard-Campbell Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.


Generation: 4

  1. 12.  Alexander Dickson was born 1792, Tennessee; died 1860/1870, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Middle Creek Methodist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.

    Notes:

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    Reference:
    "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 139, 142.
    "Clabo Family Tree", Gardner Clabo, p 121.
    Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 July 1983, p 13, 152.

    Alexander — Elizabeth "Peggy" Bohannon. Elizabeth (daughter of Henry Bohanon and Amillia Shotwell) was born 1801, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 1872; was buried Middle Creek Methodist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]


  2. 13.  Elizabeth "Peggy" Bohannon was born 1801, Sevier County, Tennessee (daughter of Henry Bohanon and Amillia Shotwell); died 1872; was buried Middle Creek Methodist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.

    Notes:

    Elizabeth Bohannon was born shortly after her parent's moved to Sevier County, Tennessee.
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    Reference:
    "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 139, 142.
    "Clabo Family Tree", Gardner Clabo, p 121.
    Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 July 1983, p 13, 152.

    Children:
    1. Dickson was born Abt 1818.
    2. Dickson was born Abt 1820.
    3. Sarah Dickson was born 1823, Tennessee; died 1859.
    4. Margaret "Peggy" Dickson was born 1824, Tennessee; died 23 May 1895.
    5. James Dickson was born 1828, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 1901; was buried Middle Creek Methodist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    6. 6. William Henry Dickson was born 4 Nov 1830, Tennessee; died 9 Aug 1894; was buried Aaron Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    7. Thomas Jefferson Dickson was born 1832, Tennessee; died 1888.
    8. Mary Jane Dickson was born Abt 1832, Tennessee; died See Notes.
    9. Dickson was born Abt 1836; died See Notes.
    10. William M. Dickson was born 7 Mar 1836, Tennessee; died 6 Mar 1901; was buried Red Bank Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.

  3. 14.  James Balford "Jim Bally" McMahan was born 1798, , Virginia (son of Archibald McMahan and Elizabeth Byrd); died 14 Dec 1887, , Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried , Sevier County, Tennessee.

    Other Events:

    • AFN: BGW1-D9

    Notes:

    James Balford "Jim Bally" McMahan went from Sevier County, Tennessee to Greenville, South Carolina via Yancy County, North Carolina to help his father, Archibald McMahan II, taking a drove of mules to market. In Yancy County, North Carolina Ned Wilson, father of Polly Ann, had a "stop" (a place for drovers to bed down, and a pen to keep the livestock). Jim Bally and his father stopped at Wilson's. Polly Ann helped serve breakfast the next morning. Jim Bally liked her looks so much that when his father paid him for his work, he bought himself a fine suit of clothes and came back to Wilson's, as Granny Mc said, "this time he came a-courting." Later they were married and he took his bride to Sevier County, Tennessee to live.

    Jim Bally McMahan was at the home of McNulty McMahan, Richardson Cove, Tennessee when he took sick and died (according to what Mrs. Lillie Templin told Fred O. McMahan).

    He was buried in a little cemetery at the top of a hill in Richardson Cove near his brother, David. A native slate stone marks his grave with no inscription.
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    Reference:
    "McMahan Family Tree", Glenn F. McMahan, 10 March 1932, p 1.
    T. D. W McMahan records, Johnny Scott Large, p 63.
    Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 8, 13, 147."Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 143.
    "In the Shadow of the Smokies", Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 426.
    Proffitt GEDCOM, Joe Payne, 14 December 1995.

    James married Mary Ann "Polly" Wilson, "Granny Mack" Yancey County, North Carolina. Mary (daughter of Ned Wilson and Mary Ann Gilbert) was born 24 Nov 1796, Yancey County, North Carolina; died 25 Mar 1894; was buried Aaron Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]


  4. 15.  Mary Ann "Polly" Wilson, "Granny Mack" was born 24 Nov 1796, Yancey County, North Carolina (daughter of Ned Wilson and Mary Ann Gilbert); died 25 Mar 1894; was buried Aaron Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.

    Other Events:

    • AFN: BGW1-FG

    Notes:

    Born on Black Cane River and died of pneumonia.

    Rosa Lee Downey states that Granny Mc's parents came from Ireland, via England, when she was six years of age, and that one of her sisters was buried at sea. She was past 97 when she passed away.
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    Reference:
    T. D. W McMahan records, Johnny Scott Large, p 63.
    Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 8, 13, 147.
    "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 143.
    Proffitt GEDCOM, Joe Payne, 14 December 1995.
    "Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 195.

    Children:
    1. Sarah Annie "Sally" McMahan was born 20 Mar 1825, Tennessee; died 16 Mar 1845; was buried Huff Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    2. Celia McMahan was born 7 Mar 1827, North Carolina; died 5 Jun 1895, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Aaron Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    3. Willis McMahan was born 1830, Tennessee; died Apr 1878.
    4. 7. Mary Ann "Polly" McMahan was born 8 Mar 1832, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 21 Jul 1911; was buried Jones Cove, Sevier County, Tennessee.
    5. Elizabeth "Betsy" McMahan was born 25 Apr 1833, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 27 Nov 1899; was buried , Sevier County, Tennessee.
    6. David Balford McMahan was born 1834, Tennessee; died 1880; was buried Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee.
    7. Clearisa McMahan was born 1840, Tennessee; died 1860.
    8. William Marvin McMahan was born Mar 1843, Tennessee; died Mar 1856.
    9. Lucinda McMahan was born 1850, Tennessee.


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