64. Samuel Hilton
1. Most information from "Hiltons of Scott Co., Virginia" pp. 6-9.
!2. 1850 U.S. Census Scotts Co.
!3. Gravestone, Hilton Cem. Scholten, Barry, Mo.
!4. Most information of Enos from family Bible of A.Lance Hilton of
Neosho, MissouriSamuel Hilton was born in St.Mary's County, Maryland, and moved during his teenage years with his father and older brothers to North Carolina. The move was made during the Revolultionary War and no later than 1778. Family tradition says that as a boy Samuel was trained to stand at the head of the table and return thanks. In North Carolina the Hiltons apparently attended the Abbotts Creek Church of Rowan County. This church was located just two or three miles north of father John Hilton's farm. One suspects that it was here that the Hiltons experienced a change in religious denominations from Episcopalian to Baptist.
Samuel married his wife Nancy about 1787. Their first child was born in 1788. Like Samuel, Nancy is also reported to have been born in St. Mary's County, Maryland. No record of their marriage or of her maiden name has been found. Samuel and Nancy and two sons were still living in North Carolina at the time of the first U.S. census in 1790. He may have started visiting the western settlements shortly thereafter, but he and his brothers were together in North Carolina in 1794. On December 20, 1795, he sold the farmland he had inherited from his father to David Jones of Randolph County. He is presumed to have moved across the mountains either prior to or at that time to begin his ministry to the "near Mockison Gap" inhabitants. However, the first actual reference to his presence thereabouts is in 1803 (according to information from E. Frank Hilton).
Reverend Samuel was the first preacher in this section of the western settlements. He and Reverend Jesse Wilson traveled widely by horseback to minister to the scattered families settling along the Wilderness Trail. In 1803 the two preachers and eleven others from Washington and Russell Counties helped organize the Double Springs Church of Tennessee [near the Sullivan High School in Kingsport]. Two yeaars later, on October 26, 1805, the "United Baptist Church of Christ at Big Moccasin Gap" was founded. It was the first church established in Scott County.
Reverend Samuel died April 24, 1830. His funeral was preached by Elder David Jesse who took his text from Job 19:23-25. Nancy born 1764, died February 5, 1835 at age 71. For her funeral Elder Jesse chose his text form the first verse of Corinthians. Grave sites of Samuel and Nancy are not known. The family cemetery at Hiltons, Virginia, has two river rock, unscribed stones, that Esther Hilton speculated were graves of the founders. This author suspects the small graveyard in Dowell Gap at the most probable burial site.
The family folklore about Samuel's extensive land holdings is not substantiated by either public or private records.Unfortunately Federal troops in December of 1864 destroyed the minute books of Washingtyon County for the period 1786-1819. The tradition is that Samuel settled abut 1795 on the north bank of the river upstream about 200 yards from the Hilton Gap and that the site remained under family ownership until 1995. "Tradition" seems to have blended Samuel with his son John who was eventually the largest land holder of all the Hiltons and did with certainty live at the traditional home site. One suspects that the Reverend Samuel was much more interested in pursuing his ministry that in acquiring land.
Reverend Samuel and Nancy had five sons. Between 1836 or 1837 and certainly before 1840, two sons move to Missouri and another moved probably to an adjacent county in Tennessee. A fourth son move to Missouri when quite elderly. Only the oldest son stayed in Scott County where he became the biggest land owner of all six Hilton generations
James L. Hilton, HILTONS OF SCOTT COUNTY, VIRGINA(1998), pp.41 ff
David to Jennt Wear-Oct 18 1796, Security: Hugh Wear,Greene Co.
(WILSON-NETWORK_Tennessee_Wilson_Marriage_Data)
74. James W. Culton
James W. Culton. The"W" may stand for "Wood". His son James W. Culton, Jr. is known as James Wood Culton.
Recorded in the 1850 census of McMinn County, TN, page 235. #188 Recorded as James Cotton
Age listed as 90, but should be 70, (actual age was 72) born VA. Also recorded, Margaret, age 66, born TN, Jane, age 20, born TN and Sarah, age12, born TN.Living next door was the family of Hugh Cotton (Culton), age 25, wife Sarah, age 25, James age 6, Mary line, age 8, Clint C. Cotton, age 4 and Henry age 2. All born in TN.
James Culton came to the county and settled where Mrs. Netherland now lives, but later moved to Mouse Creek on the farm now owned by Charles Ensminger and from there he moved to the farm now owned by Mrs. R.A. Ellis. He finally removed to Bradley County, where he died in 1862, and was brought back to Mount Cumberland for burial, where he sleeps beside his wife, surrounded by a numerous posterity, who have also fallen asleep. He was born in 1777, during the Revolution , and his wife was born in 1783.
THE ATHENS POST (May 11, 1901) LDS microfilm #020458 (near end of roll).
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996
Isaac Barefoot Runyan, born ca 1757 in Virginia died in 1875 (age 117) in the Alpine area of Talladega County, Alabama; son on John Runyon Sr., of Brock's Gap, Virginia and Anna Barefoot; married May 19, 1777 in the Brock's Gap church in Rockinham County, with John Alderson, Jr., MG, officiating, Margaret Rambo, born ca 1755 in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, area; died 1802; daughter of Jacob Rambo, born ca 1727 in Pennsylvania and Deborah Allen. Her grave is thought to be by the side of her son, Aaron Runyan, in the Shiloh Cemetery, Pigeon Forge, Sevier county, Tennessee.Wright, p. 73.
93. Margaret Rambo
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
Source: Olga Jones Edwards, EAST TENNESSEE PIONEERS, p. 215.
Abraham Mullendore came early to East Tenn. A note regarding him is in the Jerrerson Co. records dated 1794. The Mullendores were either Dutch of German. All Mullendores in the United States seem to have descended from Jacob who made his will in 1771 in Frederick, Maryland. The above is taken from an unpublished manuscript, "The Mullendore Family", by Naome Hougham of Franklin, Ind.
98. Joseph Ingle
The Joseph Ingle who was a son of Paulser, the Gernan immigrant, died before 1816, as shown by the fact that on Feb 20, 1816. William Dickson, James Holman and Benjamin Boone were appointed as commissionesrs in Lincoln County "to lay off one year's allowance for the widow and children of Joseph Ingle, deceased." These three men would do the same for his brother Jacob's widow and children on May 2, 1816. This action indicated that Joseph and Jacob's estates were being handled by the court.
Joseph, like John, had a daugher named Elizabeth. She was 13 when she married Reuben Logan on Dec 30, 1811.Elizabeth must have been Joseph's only child. Otherwise, why would Reuben Logan not have applied for his wife's siblings' portions during his quest for a share of Paulser Ingle's estate?
Reuben and Elizabeth were the parents of about 11 children. One of them Byais Logan, married Sariah Philps, a daugher of Brittain Philps and Susannah Waggoner. Byais and Sariah's daughter Susan Elizabeth Logan [1845-1891] married John Neece Sullivan in 1865. Nancy Logan [1816-1904], a daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth, married Jepha Harrison Shofner in 1837. Reuben Logan died June 3 1845. In 1850, Elizabeth Logan, 52 [born in South Carolina] was head of her household, which included Berry 23, Mary 18, Benjamin F. 16, Frances 13 and Caledonia 11.
Ingle, PETER INGLE 1761-1849. p 26.
102. James Ellis
At the time James was born in Albany Co., NY in 1758, it was located on the state line of western MA, taking in all of the present day NY counties of Renselaer, Columbia and others. There was a natural progression of people from MA into NY.He served in the New York Militia, Second Battalion, as 2nd sergeant under Captain Mynderse's Company.Deed records of Hawkins and Jefferson Counties of eastrern TN show that some of the Riggs boys, Reuben, Edward, and Samuel, were there in the 1780s. however, the first record we have of James Ellis in that area in in Hawkins Co....relating to land which later became part on Jefferson Co. when that county was established from hawkins in 1792. This indicates that Ellis was already established and owning property there by 1790. Migration from NY to TN is rather unusual, as it does not follow the ordinary migration routes known to genealogical researchers. So we naturally assume that there were several stops at various places along the way.
Some descendants have estimated the marriage of James and Sarah as of 1780 in Hawkins or Jefferson Co, TN. Keep in mind that Sarah's father was still alive in Surry Co, NC until around 1794. It is not likely that a young single girl, age 19 or 20 would travel into the wilds of the west with her brothers, leaving her home and parents behind. It is more likely that Sarah married James Ellis in Surry Co, NC in 1780 and then traveled westward with her husband and other members of her family into TN to establish their new home and raise their family.
The last court record found for James in Jefferson Co is Oct. 1806 and the first record for him in Lincoln Co. TN is Mar 1811. So we know that the ffamily moved further west sometime between 1806 and 1811.James died of cancer on his face. His will mentions: wife, Sarah; sons, James, William and Jesse; daus. Hulda Ness (Neece), Elizabeth Massey and Polly Curry. The seven known children of James and Sarah were all probably born before the family left Jefferson Co. TN for Lincoln Co.
Source: James MIlton Rush, 3610 Townsend Drive, Dallas, Texas 75229. Phone 214-358-5191 (kindredkonnection.com)