1. JOHN1 HERON was born 1680 in Ireland.
Notes for JOHN HERON:
Mountain crests around Herrenburg stretch upward to 3,000 feet, and villages are described as being tucked in tiny valleys beneath spectacular peaks. Small shops, narrow streets, and friendly townspeople are the hallmarks of this region known for it’s craftsmanship, mineral spas, and breathtaking scenery.(2)
These geographic landmarks are believed to be the location of the first family to use the HERREN name. In the late Middle Ages when family names first originated, families living at well known geographic sites commonly adopted the s called “place name” to identify themselves. The mountain, in particular, which is known as Herrenalb is believed to be the physical place used to identify the HERREN family.
Historically, very little is known about Herren-Spa, it’s village, or it’s mountain, but the mineral spas in the region have been known and acclaimed since the Middle Ages. As early as 1155 A.D., the entire area between Stuttgart and Baden-Baden was used as a rest and recreation area by the Roman Legions who occupied this western portion of the Roman Empire. Even 1155 A.D. is not the beginnings of the area’s habitation because the recorded history of the upper Black Forest goes back alot farther, several centuries earlier at least.
For example, the city of Stuttgart dates from the first century when it was called Cannstatt by the Romans. The Germanic tribes known as Alemanni’s successfully invaded the region and drove the soldiers out in the fourth century, but Rome managed to retain some control, particularly in the mountainous area outside the city. In the middle of the tenth century, Duke Luitpold (Leopold), son of the Holy Roman Emperor, began his famous stud farm along the Neckar River from which the city of Stuttgart is said to have derived it’s name. It was not until the thirteenth century, however, that the city was chartered and officially became the seat of government for the Counts and Dukes of the province of Wurttemberg.(3)
About this same time, the area around Baden-Baden was being occupied by soldiers of the Roman army who had been sent to establish a military garrison. The soldiers, however, with their uncanny knack for personal comfort and pleasure, also discovered the wonderful mineral and thermal spas. The named the settlement Aqua Aurelia, after the famous public baths in Rome.
Later, the Alemanni tribesmen invaded and overran the garrison at Baden-Baden and managed to drive out the Roman armies completely. The Alemanni held the area for about a hundred years only to be defeated and driven out by the Christian Franks in the fourth century. The Christian Frank are credited with naming the village Baden, building the first castle there, and with developing the mineral spas into commercial attractions. Since that time, Baden-Baden has been acclaimed around the world for it’s thermal baths and mineral spas.(4)
This historical sketch provides a general background of the people, the activity, and the geographical features of the upper Black Forest region. Even though none of the villages are specifically mentioned, most date from the era of roving Germanic tribes and were known to be populated by clansmen from these tribes. Knowing the similarities of the people living in the area, it is reasonable to assume that they began to use family names just as other European peoples did, during that time. One of the most widely recognized methods of family identification was placement” which denoted location as the origin of the group.
Placement is used by linguists in the study of language and orates in the study of names, meanings, and origins to identify words and names from their usage. The most common origin of family names was the patronym which signifies “son of” and descriptive names such as “long”, “short”, or “brown”. These are followed by site, location, or “placement” names; and finally by trade or craft names such as “smith”, “carpenter”, and “farmer”.(5) Our family name, HERREN, lends itself quite easily to both location and area usage. In fact, our name is a classic example of “placement” as a method of identification.
One of the first questions that arises in almost any discussion of the family concerns the variety of spelling given to the name. Questions usually involve who is kin to who and what relationship this group or that group has with each other; not related to so and so...they’re a different family. If our family name was an extremely common name such as Jones, Smith or Brown, this statement might be true, but the fact is that the not related line is incorrect with respect to the HERREN name, especially families of Western Kentucky, Western Tennessee, Southern Illinois, and Southern Indiana. Research to date indicates a common lineage irrespective of the individual spelling. The relationship may be several generations removed, but the origin of more than one family with the HERREN name has NOT been found. Evidence to the contrary will be found in Europe rather than America, if it is ever found, because there is fairly good documentation on those who migrated to the new world. There is much evidence of correspondence, travel, and even marriages between the different branches in the colonies. It is quite apparent that they knew each other and kept in regular contact.(6)
To understand the variations in spelling, it is necessary to know how family names evolved. Family names did not come into general use until late in the Middle Ages. Very early in history, people used only a single name and that was quite adequate. As the population increased, however, the tribes and clans began to interact and this created a need for better identification in order to communicate.
The first expansion from a single name was the patronym which simply added the name of the father to the given name. An example would be William which, as a patronymic form, becomes William, son of John; then to William, John’s son; and finally William Johnson. Another type of patronym is the “Mc” names of the Irish and the (Mac) names of Scotland which literally mean son of; or the (Von) names from Germany and northern Europe which mean "from".
As more names were needed, some groups began to use location or place names as our family did while others chose trade or craft names such as Carpenter, Smith or Cooper. Still other groups referred descriptive names such as White, Black, or Armstrong. Different languages and dialects provided still more diversity and more family names.
Variations in spellings did not occur until the original families grew large enough to create the need to identify different members within the related group. Few people could read or write, but there were traveling scribes who recorded important documents and information for the people. These scribes were responsible for spelling names as they sounded or were used, so they were primarily responsible for the variations in spelling. To distinguish one family member from another, one or more letters of the name would be changed or extra letters could be added or taken away. A widely used method of variation was to change a vowel in the name. This is precisely what happened with the HERREN name.
The Germanic spelling of the word for gentlemen is Herron, the masculine form, while the Herrin form is considered the feminine case. HERREN is the “classic” spelling when used as a family name. The most common alteration is the last vowel which provided the four most widely used spellings: Herr(a)n: Herr(e)n; Herr(i)n; and Herr(o)n. All four are found in our family and in some cases seem to be interchangeable. These four spellings do seem to be the most common, aside from recording errors and mistakes which have been accepted in some branches of the family. By an accepted error or mistake, we mean cases where a father and son use different spellings even though their relationship is well known.
To illustrate the system of vowel alteration used by early scribes, think of four brothers living in the same approximate location and all having similar land holdings and other entries in official records. To distinguish between them, the one living on the stream might use one vowel, the one living on the hill another, the one at the edge of the forest might use another, and the one living closest to the parents might keep the original spelling. From this simple variation, a multitude of branches could evolve from a single family.
The latest count lists about a dozen different spellings in common use. The primary spellings are the Herren, Herrin, Herran, and Herron. Variations include Herin, Heron, Hearin, Hearon, Hearrin, Hearron, Hearrion, and even a few instances of the letter “g” being added to form Hering and Herring. The Herring and Hering variations used by some of our family member son occasion are northern Germany near the Baltic Sea.
It appears that members of the family coming directly to the colonies from Germany during 1730’s used all of the primary spellings. Family members who left Germany around 1600 and were settled in Ireland before coming to America used the Herron spelling for the most part. The variations of Herin and Heron appear to be mistakes in spelling because other documents and records of the same person are usually found which use the primary forms.
Also, associated with the name is the word “Alb” which means mountain and “burg” which is the German word for village. Herrenalb, being a primary geographic feature, would probably be translated a men’s mountain or the mountain of men. The village itself would have a literal translation of the men’s village or the village of the men.
Our forefathers were probably identified as the “men or gentlemen from the mountain” or the “men or gentlemen from the village at the mountain”. With a geographic landmark such as a mountain named HERREN, it is almost a certainty that the people living there or in a village at the base would adopt the name. This is a classic illustration of geographic placement, a family simply adopting the name of a physical landmark as a family name. The word “Herren” is used extensively in the German language as a name for locations and attractions. For example, “Mad Ludwig’s” castle in Bavaria is called Herrenschiemsee, and the city of Hanover is the home of the famous Herrenhausen Gardens and Museum.
With prima facie evidence such as the location of a physical landmark, documented use of the word at or near the location, and an established family using the name, the logical deduction is that the HERREN family name originated at or near Herrenalb in Germany.
Another piece of supporting evidence for this theory is well known in our family lore. HERREN’S seem to have an affinity for naming geographic features, especially hills, after the family. In Webster County, Kentucky, there is both a “Herrin Hill” and a “Herrin Community” at its base, named around 1830 by an early settler, Daniel Herrin. In North Carolina where many of our forefathers lived, there is supposedly both a “Herrin Hill” and a “Herrin Creek” which date back to the 1700’s. And in Southern Illinois, near the city of Herrin, there is an area which was called “Herrin’s Prairie” or “Herring’s Prairie” when it was established about 1815. The naming of physical features and landmarks appears to lend itself or establish some form of permanency and continuity for the family.
With nearly all variations including mistakes in spelling, there is usually evidence to show a relationship to the family.
The last major or radical change in usage occurred in the 1880 census of Webster County, KY. Due to a very obvious reporting error, every family member in the Dixon district was shown as spelling their names HEARON, even though, different spellings are used before and after that census. This mistake did have some effect, however, since some of the family chose to accept the new spelling and one group even reverted to a variation used by a part of the family who settled in South Carolina, the HEARIN form.
Another relationship is shown in Western KY. Two of the earliest settlers were from Pennsylvania, while a third was from North Carolina, yet all of them settled land within a few miles of each other almost in a direct line on the same trace or trail. Ten years or so later, another family with the same name but a different spelling stopped in the area on their way to Southern Illinois. A few years later another family from North Carolina migrated to the same area, and a few years after that , four members of a Tennessee family migrate back eastward to settle there. Such diverse movement seems unlikely to be accidental or random.
With this type of evidence it seems logical to conclude that some relationship existed between these people. In addition, these same people can be traced to Herren family members who settled with German immigrants in North Carolina, South Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Between 1400 and 1700, Europe underwent what has been called a rebirth or Renaissance. The period included the Protestant Revolt, the Catholic Reformation, the Peasants Uprising, and the Wars of Religion. From the beginning of the Christian Era, the provinces of southern Germany had been criss-crossed by armies, overrun first by one nation and then another. But with the introduction of Protestantism by Martin Luther, in 1520, the rebellion of the peasantry began in earnest.
In 1524, the peasants, long abused and held in bondage by the wealthier classes, rose in revolt. Devastation was so complete during the uprising that losses of life and property in Germany would not be exceeded until the Thirty Years War over a hundred years later.(7) Over 130,000 peasants died during the warfare and more than 10,000 others were executed. Hundreds of castles and monasteries were totally destroyed; entire towns and villages were depopulated and wiped out; and over 50,000 homeless persons roamed the countryside hiding in woods and along the roads. Charity was nowhere to be found because everyone was poverty stricken and starvation was a fact of life. The entire Reformation movement itself almost ended as a result of the Peasant Revolt because destruction was so complete. (8) For over a hundred years, wars and armed conflict between minor principalities were a part of everyday life. The nation was totally impoverished, cities and towns were wasted ruins, and the common people were reduced to wretchedness.(9)
At the same time, the new religionist concept of Protestantism, taken in part from the teachings of Martin Luther, was gaining popularity. Religious reformers including Ulrich Zwingli, John Knox, and John Calvin found followers in Germany, Switzerland, France, and England. The middles classes were most inclined to accept this new form of religious thinking and they supported the peasants in their uprising. As a result most of the towns and villages in the countryside became Protestant. This new teaching gave them the opportunity to express their opposition to the rich nobility and the clergy.(10) It is quite evident that the HERREN family embraced the Protestant movement because there is no record of any religious affiliation other than Protestantism in our history.
With the political upheaval, social unrest, and religious intolerance of the period the peasantry was not really in the forefront of the controversy. The overwhelming factor in the first major German migration around 1600 was the grinding poverty. The peasants simply could no longer survive. Facing starvation with no hope for improvement, these people looked to the “new world” as their only hope. The first of these German immigrants arrived in England shortly after 1600, just as the colonization of American lands were beginning. Most of these immigrants were farmers and artisans but they came to the colonies as indentured servants and redemptioners who were bound or indebted to the trading companies. By joining a company which provided their transportation they were obligated to follow the dictates of that company with respect to where they settled. This type of obligation lead to the Irish branch of the HERREN family which will be discussed later.
About a hundred years after this first immigration, continuing poverty and unrest in Germany brought about the largest and most significant migration to America. In the early 1700’s, Germany was still in turmoil and wars continued to ravage the land. Many sects of the “pietistic” types of religion had attracted followers and they sought relief from religious persecution. The chance for English naturalization and a new life in the colonies provided all the ingredients for a mass exodus. It began with the movement of German peasants out of the province of Palatinate, and by 1709 some 13,000 families entered England on their way to America. These immigrants were to become the so called Pennsylvania Dutch in the colonies. A number of HERREN family members were among this group, along with some of their kinsmen who had been settled in Ulster, Northern Ireland following the first migration.
It is important to distinguish between the first and second migrations of Germans because branches of our family participated in both movements. In the 1600 migration, family members came to England, but were then settled in Northern Ireland as well as America. In 1700, some of the HERREN family came directly to Pennsylvania from Germany because records show them taking the “Oath of Allegiance” upon their arrival in the colonies.
Profit motives of the merchant class began to surface quite rapidly as news of tea, spices, coffee, gold and silver, and even tobacco reached the homeland. In 1606, the first trading company was organized for the purpose of colonization. The result was the founding of Jamestown a year later by about a hundred settlers sponsored by the London Company.
Contrary to what is generally taught, the English colonies were not founded solely because of religious persecution. Rather, they were founded for economic reasons and the desire of trading companies to exploit the newfound wealth plus, the desire of many lower and middle class common people to escape the political and economic turmoil in England.(11)
Between 1625 and 1630, a severe depression took place in England as wool markets collapsed, the Thirty Years War began in Europe, thousands of immigrants fled from Germany, France and the Low Countries, and political unrest continued as the government dealt with crises after crises.
With all these problems, especially the overflow of people, colonization seemed most attractive. By 1620 the feasibility of sustaining colonies had been demonstrated and in the next twenty years some seventy thousand people came to America. According to official estimates, some 12,000 persons came to Virginia, Maryland, and Bermuda; 18,000 came to the New England colonies; and 37,000 came to Barbados which included the Carolinas as well as the Caribbean Islands.(12) This earliest colonization includes the first HERREN immigrants.
In 1635, the first members of the HERREN family are believed to have come to the new world, even though the spelling of the name is one of the derivations rather than the classic spelling.
English maritime records show two passengers named “Heron” who sailed for the new world in 1635. One manifest lists the following entry:
On the ship ‘Paule’ of London, Leonard Betts, Master, bound for Virginia, a passenger certificate from the minister of Gravesend Church showing conformity to the Church of England, issued to John Heron, 18. Sailed on July 6th, 1635.
and a second entry states:
“Ship record and ‘license to sail’ granted to John Heron, age 20, as ‘being found by the clergy to be a devout Anglican and faithful to the King and the Church of England fit to sail for the Barbados.’ Manifest of Her Majesty’s ship, Expedition, Peter Blacker, Master, which sailed from England, November 20th, 1635.”
These records match the requirements of colonists who were required to swear allegiance to the King of England and be confirmed as members in good faith of the Church of England in order to obtain a “license to sail”.
There are no valid records to document the exact relationship of these two young men to our family, nor do we have any record of their lineage. The only connection is the name. The spelling is one of the common variations used by many members of the family. It is also known that some of the early family arrivals lived in the Virginia Colony; and that Barbados was a colony name used by the London Company to include North Carolina and the southern parts of the mainland as well as the islands in the Caribbean.
If a direct connection is found to document the lineages of these two men, they will be the forefathers of a long line of HERREN’s in America. Because of their ages, they were probably babies during the first migration or among the first sons born outside the homeland, perhaps, to members of the group who settled in Ulster, Ireland. There is no record to show exactly how long the family lived in England and Ireland before coming to America, but it is known that some went to Ireland and remained there while others continued to the colonies.
Even today there is a HERREN lineage in England which includes the four primary spellings of the name and some of the variations. This indicates that not all of the family went to Ireland or America. The exact connection of these branches has not been established.
An Irish branch of a German family migrating to America may sound complicated, but it really is not. The Irish connection of our family actually refers to Northern Ireland rather than Ireland, per se. The fact that our family is found in Northern Ireland is even more evidence the origins of the HERREN’S was in some other location. The reason is that few, if any, of the people who settled Ulster, Northern Ireland were natives, or even Irish. They were Protestant rather than Catholic, which is the religion of Ireland. And they were relocated rather than being native to the area.
When the first HERREN family members migrated to England, probably in the early 1600’s, they most likely joined a “trading company” in order to obtain passage to the colonies. In exchange for their transportation they became “redemptioners” and were obligated to the company for a specific number of years, usually seven, or until the fees were repaid. It is obvious that our family joined the Virginia Company because that trading company was also responsible for the settlement of Ulster, Northern Ireland.
The Ulster Settlement began about the same time as the colonization of Virginia. Under King James I and King Charles II, the border between Catholic Ireland and Protestant Scotland was the source of constant problems. In an attempt to reduce tensions and avert hostilities, Northern Ireland, Ulster in particular, was established as a buffer zone between the two factions. Settlers in the area became known as Scotch-Irish, even though they were not Irish. Primarily, they were descendants of Scottish clans who lived in the Lowland areas plus German and French Huguenot Protestants who had joined the Virginia Company to become colonists.
The involvement of the Virginia Company within Ulster occurred because some of the financial backers of the company were Scottish. This group of backers became known as the “Fifty-nine Scottish Undertakers” and they were rewarded with land grants in Ulster. The condition for granting the land was that the area be settled by Protestants, preferably Scots. To comply with terms of the agreement they settled persons of various nationalities who had become redemptioners with their trading company. Members of the HERREN family were apparently among this group and became the Irish Branch of the family.
One of the stories that has been handed down in our family “lore” concerns the migration from Ireland and seems to substantiate this historical record. Family “lore” or verbal history is usually fairly accurate, even though, it sometimes embellishes to some degree. Our family story tells of the group sailing for the colonies aboard two separate ships. One of the vessels encountered a heavy storm and was forced to return to England for repairs. Upon returning to England, the family was resettled in Ireland, and it took seven years for them to accumulate enough money to make another crossing.(14) As you can see, our story closely approximates the historical account of the settlement of Ulster, especially the use of redemptioners as settlers. Our account was reportedly told by one of the grandmothers in the family and handed down from generation to generation, and it varies only by the personalization.
Irish family records are scarce, particularly about direct lineage, but it is well recognized that the Irish branch used the Herr(o)n spelling of the name for the most part. Information that is available from Ireland is generally found in Presbyterian Church records and among the lists of Scotch-Irish who migrated to America.
Church records show many familiar family names that also appear in colonial records. For example, Hugh Herron of Nagherally Down was a ruling elder of the church in 1700; James of Newry Down, a ruling elder in 1711 and James of Venecash an elder in 1710; Sammuel of Lisburn and Antrim was a witness in 1704 and a ruling elder in 1706, while Sammuel of Ballee Down was an elder in 1706, and yet another Sammuel Herron of Sea Patrick Down was a petitioner in 1716 and a commissioner in 1718; and William of Menterburn and Tyrons was an elder in 1710. Note that there are duplicate listings of both James and Sammuel. These are probably the same persons since terms of office do not overlap and they are listed separately. Most of these same names appear later in North Carolina records.
These so called Scotch Irish settlers began migrating to the colonies in large numbers just after 1700, about the time the second group of German immigrants began to take advantage of the Immigration Act of 1709, which granted naturalization and English citizenship to foreign protestants coming to America. Our family was a part of both the Scotch Irish and German groups since some came from Ireland some directly from Germany. The ones from Ulster, North Ireland apparently came afterward since they settled primarily in North Carolina and the first groups came to Pennsylvania. Records show, however, that both groups communicated and started appearing in several colonies.
In effect, our family came to America as Pennsylvania Dutch, although, they were German, and not Dutch; and as Scotch Irish though they were not Irish and certainly not Scottish.
Child of JOHN HERON is:
2. i. THOMAS2 HERRON, b. 1700, Ireland; d. Unknown.
2. THOMAS2 HERRON (JOHN1 HERON) was born 1700 in Ireland, and died Unknown. He married ELIZABETH LNU. She was born Unknown in Wales, and died Unknown.
Notes for THOMAS HERRON :
Although, there are maritime records from 1635 showing that two young men named Heron sailed for America, there is no evidence in colonial records to establish their exact connection to our family or their lineage. This lack of documentation arises primarily from a lack of records in the early settlements. Prior to 1700 there were almost no business or governmental records. Even the grants of land by the English Crown to original settlers were seldom recorded, because there was so much land available that everyone just settled where they wished, at least for the first few years.
It is believed that the two Heron’s from 1635 were, in fact, family members and that our lineage in America begins with them, but there are no confirming records to validate this conjecture. The earliest verified family member in the colonies is William Elisha HERRIN, born in 1730 either in North Carolina or Pennsylvania. His parents are not verified, but it is believed that he was one of the first born sons following the migration of the post 1700’s.
The greatest influx of HERREN family members into the colonies occurred between 1710 and 1730. This corresponds to the German migration in response to William Penn’s efforts to bring colonists to Pennsylvania. Part of these new settlers, including our forefathers, entered through Philadelphia into Pennsylvania; through North Carolina around Pamlico Sound; and through Charleston, South Carolina following the Charleston River inland.
There are entry records from Pennsylvania showing German arrivals named Herorn (obviously an error) and Herring (one of the spellings given to the family name in the colonies but shown later without the “g”) being administered the “Oath of Allegiance” for naturalization purposes. There are records of John and Thomas Herron, both of Ireland, arriving in North Carolina as well as an entry for Francis Herron of Ireland entering Pennsylvania in 1734.
The immigration of German families to the colonies continued at such a pace that the Pennsylvania legislature enacted a law to restrict their number. The law was vetoed by the governor and the migration continued. It is estimated that one third of the residents of the colony were German by the start of the Revolutionary War. About half of the HERREN family arrivals were to Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania records from 1790 show the family in York County near present day Dover; in Dauphine County; farther west in Franklin County; and on the extreme western edge of the colony in Westmoreland County in Derry and Armstrong Townships. This movement follows the pattern of most of the Pennsylvania settlers as they pushed west and southward along the great valley of the Alleghenies. By 1727, German and Scotch-Irish settlements had been established along the Shenandoah, south through the passes of the Blue Ridge Mountains into the Piedmont section of Virginia and into North Carolina to the upper branches of the Tennessee River.
Members of our family followed this route and each branch can be traced by the spelling of the name according to the last vowel. In York County, farthest east, we find Jacob Herren as well as John and Henry Herrin. Dauphin County lists Michel Herrin. Franklin County shows Patrick and James Herran along with John Herren. And in Westmoreland County, just east of Pittsburgh, we find James, William and Margaret Herron. Margaret is apparently a widow since she is listed as the head of the household with three sons and a daughter. This Pennsylvania listing indicates that that no less than four family members immigrated to the colony, since all four regular spellings of the name are shown. In addition, most of these same given names are found later in Tennessee and Kentucky.
In North Carolina, the earliest settlements were along Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds, but these settlements were actually extensions of the Virginia colony. When the German, Scotch-Irish, and French Huguenots began to arrive around 1730, most of the coastal areas were already populated. The new colonists followed the rivers inland all the way to the Allegheny Mountains where they met their countrymen moving south from Pennsylvania and northward up the Holsten River from South Carolina. The interior of North Carolina was considered crude and backward by the Virginia and coastal settlers, even to the point of being called “Lubberland” by many, but settlers continued to find the land attractive. By the beginning of the Revolutionary War, some three hundred thousand people were living in North Carolina.
The census of 1790, actually the first real record of population in the new nation, shows the HERREN family primarily in Rowan; Guilford, and Mecklenburg Counties. Around Greensboro in Guilford County, some twenty listings are noted:
Anthony
Bridget
David
Elisha
Frederick
George
Henry
Jacob
Jane
Jesse
Joel
three John’s
Michail
Mitchell
Villy
Samuel
Sarah
Simon
William
It should be noted that all of this group spelled the name Heron and that the record has a notation that the name was changed from Hering.
Even thoug our forefathers disagreed with other settlers in the colony and wanted to leave, they apparently supported the American cause, because many answered the “call to arms” during the Revolutionary War. Records show that Private Allen Herron of the Salisbury District of Mecklinburg County served as a militiaman with the North Carolina Militia. Certificates #5912 and #4915 were issued to him as payment for service plus he drew a pension of $74.34 beginning March 4, 1831 when he was 76 years old.
Hugh Herron of the Salisbury District and James Herren of the Newbury District also served with the North Carolina unit and there are certificates of payment to both of them.
Matthew Herron enlisted as a corporal in Herron’s Company on July 8, 1777. He was taken prisoner on July 1, 1778, released from prison and mustered out of service in November 1779, and then re-enlisted in Major Murfree’s Company of the 2nd North Carolina Battalion. The story of “Old Matt” is one of the “family lore” tales that has been handed down, only in the family version he escaped from the British rather than being released as the military records indicate.
Another family member, Armwell Herron, served as a Captain with the 10th North Carolina Battalion from April 18, 1777 to June 1, 1788 when he retired. And last but even more relevant to Western Kentucky family members, John Herron who helped to settle the area just north of Nebo in Hopkins County in 1800 was a veteran of the Revolution. He was the oldest Revolutionary War pensioner living in Kentucky when he died in 1840 at the age of 102. He is not shown in North Carolina military records, but is believed to have served with a unit from Pennsylvania.
Several family members who fought in the Revolution received grants of land for their service instead of payment, and many of these are shown in land records of both Tennessee and Kentucky. It must be remembered that neither Kentucky nor Tennessee was a state at the time of the Revolution and that the Colonies of Virginia and North Carolina claimed land to the west as far as the Mississippi River. Most of these land grants for military service were disputed, especially in Kentucky, because the boundaries were unclear and the same land was “granted” several times to different people. Court records abound with cases concerning land granted to more than one peron and many “family feuds” began as a result.
After the failed attempts to set up new colonies on land that actually belonged to Virginia, the Carolina colonists who had made up the Watauga Association and the Transylvania Company lead the exploration efforts into the lands west of the mountains. Hunters and explorers led by men like Daniel Boone marked the Wilderness Road through Cumberland Gap and made regular trips into the territory.
Between 1785 and 1790 the westward migration began to flourish as the groups of German and Scotish-Irish from Pennsylvania made their way southward along the Great Valley until they met their fellow countrymen and kinsmen coming up from South Carolina and across North Carolina. Joining forces, they spearheaded the flow of settlers into presend day Kentucky and Tennessee. As this group was following the Wilderness Road, other kinsmen of the same group were making their way down the Ohio River from the Pittsburg area on flatboats.
The extreme eastern portions of both Kentucky and Tennessee were populated quickly because both North Carolina and Virginia provided land grants in those areas for military service in the Revolutionary War and for other services to the colonies. The actual boundary for this westward migration was along the Kentucky River with Shelbyville as an assembly point for most of the people coming into Transylvania Company lands.
The term “Transylvania Company Lands” is naturally a misnomer since the land claims of Colonel Richard Henderson were declared invalid. In addition, land he supposedly purchased from the Indians in central and western Tennessee and Kentucky was not recognized because the Indians who allegedly sold the land didn’t own it. Even with these setbacks, Colonel Henderson’s Transylvania Company is credited with opening the land for settlement. Henderson did receive over two hundred thousand acres of land for his service. This grant was called the Transylvania Landed Estates and is centered in the area settled by the HERREN family in western Kentucky.
The boundaries of the Transylvania Company land was the Kentucky River on the East, the Cumberland River on the west, the Ohio River on the North and Fort Nashboro, later Nashville, on the Cumberland on the South. Early records from Tennessee and Kentucky show family members at various locations in both states, but most of them and up toward the west central sections. The largest concentration in Tennessee was from Nashville west to Benton County near Camden, an area called Rushing Creek. The largest settlement in Kentucky was inside the land given to Colonel Henderson, in present day Webster County and corners of Hopkins, Union and Henderson Counties.
One of the first listings in Kentucky records is the entry of John Herron in Nelson County in 1790. This is probably the “Old” John who settled in Hopkins County around 1800 because records show letters waiting at the post office in Bardstown (Nelson County) for David Herron, the name of one of “Old” John’s sons. John could have lived around Bardstown for a period of time or he could have stopped at the famous “salt licks” of the area to reprovision his group as he traveled west. Another John Herron is shown arriving in Shelby County on August 25, 1800
followed by Sammuel Herron, another name well known in the family, who arrived on August 30, 1800.
The 1800 tax roll of Kentucky shows James Herren, Andrew Herrin, and Francis Herrin in Gerrard County; Smith and William Herrin in Harrison County; Daniel Herrin in Jefferson County; and Rueben Herrin, an ancestor on whom we have thorough records, in Henderson County, KY. These tax rolls show only the names of the head of household and their taxable tithes (servants, apprentices, etc.), but early court records list some of their business transactions.
William Herrin of Harrison County died in 1814 and his Will was recorded in Book A, page 224 of that county’s record. His wife was Anna and his sons were George, Ezerrah, and Sammuel. The Will was dated December 23, 1813 and probated in January 1814. The witnesses were Aquilla Perkins and Jonathan Marsh. It is believed that the sons of William migrated to Tennessee and settled among our immediate family.
Kentucky Court of Appeals land records show David Herron of Shelby County was granted a deed to a plot of land, probably a lot since acreage is not listed, in Shelbyville. James Herron of Richmond County received two deeds from the court; one for 1000 acres and another for a 1200 acre tract of land on Skaggle Creek. These two deeds for James indicate either an inheritance or a grant for military service during the Revolution.
In western Kentucky, Rueben Herrin is shown in Henderson County in 1800. He had made an earlier trip to the area just south of present day Poole, Kentucky in 1796 or 1797, then returned to his home near Pittsburg. Shortly before 1800, Rueben and his brother, William, and their families migrated to Kentucky coming by flatboat down the Ohio River. Their exact route isn’t known but most of the settlers coming down the river from Pennsylvania did not attempt to negotiate the “falls” at Louisville except during the summer months when the river was at its lowest point. While waiting for the low river stage, most turned their boats into the Kentucky River and anchored near Shelbyville and used Fort William, later called Carrolton, as the embarkation point. Many families used this area as an assembly point before moving west and this is a very likely scenario for our family.
About the same time that Rueben and William were coming through Red Banks (Henderson) to what is now Webster County, John Herron (Old John) was settling land a few miles to the south near present day Nebo. Both of these areas were in Henderson County at the time since present boundaries had not been set. John, coming from North Carolina, probably followed the Wilderness Road to Shelbyville, then to Nelson County around Bardstown, then to Russelville, called “Rogue’s Harbor” because of its rowdyness, which was the next stop on the settler’s trail, and then to Nebo.
It is apparent that these two sets of HERREN’s knew each other because of the settlement pattern and because of correspondence between the family in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. (It is my belief that “Old” John was the uncle of William and Rueben and also the uncle of my forefathers, Beverly, Wesley, George and Enoch as well as Daniel who also came from Tennessee. “Old” John was probably the oldest of the group in Western Kentucky and the only first born American member of the family to make the trek to the new west.)
The acquisition of land by the family in Western Kentucky seems to have followed a well known “buffalo trace” or trail which was used by the Shawnee Indians when they traveled across Kentucky from Southern Illinois to the “Rogue’s Harbor” area to trade. The route became known as the Shawnee Trace and runs roughly parallel to presentday Hwy. 41A through Webster and Hopkins Counties. William, Rueben and “Old” John acquired land along or adjacent to this “trace” almost in a line from just south of Poole to Nebo. Land records show the purchase or claiming of land along creeks and streams such as Silent Run, Highland Creek, and Rose Creek as well as other animal “traces” which led into the Shawnee Trace. One of the most prominent geographical features of the “trace” in Webster County was the “salt lick” near Jonesstand (present day Tilden). This is the same area that figured prominently in the escapades and folk stories about the outlaw Harpe Brothers who ravaged the area around Cave In Rock in Southern Illinois and Western Kentucky between 1798 and 1800. The head of one of the slain outlaws was displayed on land owned by Rueben Herrin.
HERREN land formed sort of a triangle which began with Rueben Herrin’s land at roughly the intersection of “Highway 41A and 57; running south through William Herrin’s land roughly along Hwy 41A to “Old” John’s just north of Nebo. Returning, the line would run just to the east of Shiloe (Lisman), crossing near Luzon (Little Zion) on to “Herrin Hill”; then to the starting point running near Boardly and Jonesstand. Of course, not all the land in this triangle was owned by family members, but this method gives a point of reference to show the settlement pattern of our forefathers.
As the west Kentucky settlement occurred, other members of the family were moving through central and west central Tennessee to Benton County near Camden. The relationship between these two groups is well documented. For example, four Herrin brothers migrated from the Rushing Creek settlement in Benton County back eastward to Webster County, Kentucky in 1846. And the Herrin’s who settled Southern Illinois around Herrin came from Davidson County, Tennessee to Hopkins County, Kentucky before moving to Illinois.
Early Tennessee records list numerous family names. As early as 1805, Issac Herrin is shown in Anderson County, near Knoxville. This is believed to be the same Issac who moved to Illinois to settle Herrin’s Prairie. His daughter, Sally, married David Herrin, son of “Old” john. The grandson of David and Sally was one of the founders of Herrin, Illinois.
By 1811, members of the Herren family are found in seven counties across Tennessee. John and James Herrin are listed in Williamson County in 1810. The next year, Heli, who later moved to Hopkins County, is shown in Sumner County; David and James Herron in White County; and Beverly, Sammuel or Lemmuel, and Calib Abimilick Herrin, one of my grandfathers, are found in Davidson County, around Nashville. In later years, Abimilick and his family moved to Benton County to join Joseph Rushing’s group in the community called Rushing Creek, near Camden.
From this point forward, each family group will be presented individually to show lineage and kinship.
Western Kentucky is one of the few areas where multiple branches of the family settled together. By multiple branches we mean family members farther removed in kinship than brothers and sisters. In most areas outside Pennsylvania and the Carolinas, the family moved along in groups of one or two as they did across Tennessee and eastern Kentucky. Each successive census report shows one or two of the same names or some other well known family name a little farther west or in an adjoinnging county.
But in Western Kentucky, no less than five different branches of the family settled in a triangular area basically centered in what is now one county. Two brothers, and possibly a third, from Pennsylvania joined a relative from North Carolina, probably an uncle, to settle is what was then Henderson and Christian Counties. About fifteen years later, another group from North Carolina stopped in the area enroute to Southern Illinois and part of the group remained in what was by that time Hopkins County. Ten years after that, around 1825 or 1826, a fourth branch of the family, also from North Carolina, migrated to the area a few years later found brothers of yet another group from Western Tennesse migrated back eastward to join the family in Western Kentucky.
Such a scenario sounds complicated but it has been verified. In 1800, Rueben Herrin from Pennsylvania is shown arriving in Henderson County. Shortly afterward he was joined by his brother, William Herrin, and possibly a third brother which is not verified. About the same time, John Herron, believed to be an uncle of Rueben and William, was settling in what was still Christian County, but only a few miles to the south. In 1810, after Hopkins County had been established from parts of Henderson and Christian Counties, the census shows a total of thirty seven family members in the area.
Toward the close of the War of 1812, another Herrin family from North Carolina stopped off in the Hopkins County settlement as they were migrating to Southern Illinois. This was Issac Herrin and his family. Issac, also believed to be a nephew of “Old” John, is shown in North Carolina records as spelling his name Herrin, but later Illinois records add a “g” to the name. It is not known how long they remained in Hopkins County, but it was long enough for “Old” John’s young son, David, to court and marry Sarah Herrin, Issac’s daughter. The couple was married February 21, 1814 by Reverend John Bourland.
A few years later, in 1825 or 1826, another relative of the group, Daniel Herrin, brought his family from North Carolina. Daniel, believed to be a cousin, moved first to Tennessee and then to Hopkins (now Webster) County to settle the area called “Herrin Hill”. By 1830 there were about one hundred thirty HERREN family members in Henderson, Hopkins and Union Counties, not including slaves owned by some of the family.
The final migration came in 1846 when four brothers from another branch of the family migrated back eastward from Benton County, Tennessee to settle around Boardly and Jonesstand, probably on land owned by and between “Old” Reuben, “Old” William, and Daniel. These brothers were Beveryly, Wesley, George and Enoch, sons of Calib Abimlik, grandsons of William Elisha Herrin, who is believed to have been a brother of “Old” John. These brothers came from their home in the Rushing Creek Community near Camden, Tennessee with a caravan led by William Watson who later settled the area called “Oak Heights”. Beverly, the oldest, was married to William Watson’s daughter, Sarah, and Wesley was married to another of his daughters named Elizabeth. George and Enoch were unmarried at the time of the journey. But George later married Sarah Crews, daughter of another early settler in the area, in 1849, and Enoch married a third daughter of William Watson’s, named Polly Ann, in 1852.
This, then, is how such a large contingent of HERREN’s came to Western Kentucky. By 1860, over two hundred family members were living in Henderson, Hopkins, Union and Webster Counties with Webster as the hub of the settlement. By this time, however, the group was beginning to spread out again with some moving farther west in Kentucky, some crossing the Ohio River into Southern Illinois, and others just moving into counties adjacent to the original settlement.
To illustrate, Matthew, a son of “Old” John, had married Eleanor Herrin, the daughter of “Old” William, and this couple moved to Hickman in the far western part of Kentucky. Heli, who had moved from Tennessee and settled in Hopkins County, had moved to Princeton, Kentucky. David, son of “Old” John, and Sarah, daughter of “Old” Issac, were living near Harrisburg, Illinois. Another of “Old” Issac’s sons, Issac, Jr., was living near Uniontown in Union County. As these descendants moved farther away from the original settlement, it did not decline because the family continued to multiply until almost every county in central and western Kentucky and Tennessee, Southern Illinois and Indiana, and Eastern Missouri has direct descendants of this original group.
In addition to direct descendants, the HERREN family has two and perhaps three “adjunct” family groups who bear the name. Those are the black families in western Kentucky named HERREN. Most negroes did not have family names during the period of slavery, so upon being freed they simply chose a surname for their family group. Many, particularly those who had close ties to their white family, adopted that family’s name. This is what happened in the HERREN family. Slaves were held by both “Old” John’s and Daniel’s families when they came to Kentucky but they were freed around 1850. The 1850 census reports the family of Syre Herrin and his wife, Lucy, living in Hopkins County with their five children. Two other families are listed later: Matthew Herron, a farmer, with his wife, Eva, and their children; and Jacob Herren, a blacksmith, with Amanda, his wife, and their children.
Having explored the ‘how” of the HERREN settlement in western Kentucky, we are left with the question of “why” the area was chosen? First, land records indicate that “Old” William settled on some unclaimed land because his request for appropriation is entered in the court record. It is also known that “Old” Rueben claimed land from a grant certified by the Henderson County Court in 1802, but it is not known how the land grant was acquired. A good guess might be that he was given land in payment for his service with the Transylvania Company in exploring the area, but this is not certain. It is also fairly well documented that “Old” John had a grant of land for some reason. It is not believed that his grant was for service in the Revolutionary War, however, since he did not serve with a Virginia detachment which made such grants. Some other HERREN family members did receive Revolutionary War land grants from Virginia but these were in the eastern part of the state.
Since grants of land were apparently small, they are not considered to be a primary reason for the settlement in Western Kentucky. The other possibility, and probably the most likely, was simple “site” selection. “Old” Rueben is known to have been in the area around 1796 and 1797 before he returned to his family in Pennsylvania. It is reasonable to assume that he was scouting for a suitable site for family location. Many other pioneer families did this same thing before starting a migration. It is also understandable why Henderson County would be chosen since the first settlers in the county were two German families, the Sprinkles and the Upps, who were listed as grantees of Colonel Richard Henderson. The Sprinkles and Upps settled near Red Banks in 1791 and they were originally from Pennsylvania, so it is not inconceivable that these families knew each other.
Once the area for settlement had been selected, Rueben returned to Pennsylvania for his family and the migration began toward this Henderson County site. If this conjecture is correct (and I believe it is, based on my research), our family followed a pattern quite typical of other settlers in the area. Example after example can be shown where individuals and even parties of scouts were sent ahead to locate suitable sites for settlement of families and even entire towns. Consider the “Shaker” community in Central Kentucky, the Rappites of New Harmony, Indiana, the founders of Tell City, Indiana, and even the Mormons on their cross-country trek.
No matter what the reason for the western Kentucky settlement, one pertinent fact is quite evident. All of the HERREN’s who settled or came through the area knew each other and/or were aware of the others. The accidential or co-inccendential convergence of over a hundred people with the same name in an area of fifteen to twenty miles from a given point is highly unlikely. This, plus the fact that members of this settlement arrived from several different directions and locations lends credence to the belief that they were related in some way.
This over view of the family in Western Kentucky provides some insight into the various branches who settled the area. Next, we will present the family lineage of each of these original settlers in order to identify the different groups and their descendants and to further clarify areas of settlement and relationships.
Alot of the information which has been discovered cannot be verified. Records and documentation is incomplete or non-existant in some areas. Bits and pieces of material come from divergent sources. Names are spelled incorrectly and changes or alterations are made without explanation. These myriad factors not only complicate the research, but can lead to inaccurate conclusions. The facts presented have been verified as far as possible and speculation is clearly listed.
****All of the HERREN information that is presented in this text and GEDCOM files was gathered over 10 years of research by: James Gordon Hearon of Clay, Kentucky and was typed out by himself on October 20, 1989.
I have attempted to only put it in a format as to share with other family members and do not and will not receive anything for doing this. I believe James Gordon Hearon deserves many thanks for all of his hard work and efforts.
REFERENCES
1. Fedor’s Germany, page 32.
2. Germany At It’s Best, Robert Kane, page 39.
3. ibid, page 347.
4. ibid, page 53.
5. Family Names, J. N. Hook, page 13.
6. C. J. Herron’s “Collection of Family Papers.”
7. Human Advancement, M. Petrovich/P. Curtin, pp. 161-162.
Child of THOMAS HERRON and ELIZABETH LNU is:
3. i. WILLIAM ELISHA3 HERRIN, b. July 07, 1730, Herrin Grove, Kings Mt. Area, NC; d. May 11, 1803, Rushing Creek, Benton County, TN.
Notes for WILLIAM ELISHA HERRIN:
Records do not show the disposition or migration of Wm. Elisha and Mary or their children, but it is known that part of the family moved into the "new west", probably through Cumberland Gap. Some of the children are shown in TN records around Nashville and as far west as Benton County, near Camden.:
To date, we have no documented records on any child of Wm. Elisha and Mary Agniss except our direct ancestor, Calib Abimlick.:
It is believed that at least 4 of the children, the daughter and sons who married Joseph Rushing's family members as well as Calib Abimlick all settled in the Rushing Creek area near Camden, TN.:
Following Elisha's military service with Gen. Sumpter's S.C. Brigrade during the Rev. War, the couple migrated to the new lands west of the Appalacian's. They acquired over 400 ac. of farm land in Humphrey Co. and land belong to family members on all sides.:
Ties between the HERRIN-RUSHING families began in VA & N.C. Colonies. Early records from Isle of Wight Co., VA. show both families in that area since 1715. At that time HERRIN was spelled "HERRING" and RUSHING was "RUSSIAN". Past these early connections & the marriage of Emily HERRIN to Joseph RUSHING, three of Wm. Elisha's children married RUSHING family members:
Wm. Elisha & Mary Agniss HERRIN came to W. TN. around 1794 where his uncle, Joseph RUSHING, had been instrumental in founding the Rushing Creek Community. Rushing Creek Cemetery
More About WILLIAM ELISHA HERRIN:
Burial: Lick Cemetery, Rushing Creek, Benton Cty, TN
Fact 1: The oldest fully documented & verifiable forefather in the HERREN family.
Fact 2: Probably one of the first generation of American born family members.
Fact 3: He lived around the Herrin Creek area of Mecklinburg County, NC.
Fact 4: Was a schoolmaster, a preacher as well as a farmer.
Fact 5: A hearing in a court in NC determined him to be a schoolmaster.
Fact 6: The petition in NC determined his ancestry.
Fact 7: NC Court found he was the same person who was son of Thomas Herron of Ireland.
Fact 8: Thomas Herron was the son of John Heron of Ireland.
Notes for MARY AGNESS ABIMLICK:
Oldest tombstone in Benton Co., TN
More About MARY AGNESS ABIMLICK:
Burial: September 03, 1825, Rushing Creek Cemetery
Children of WILLIAM HERRIN and MARY ABIMLICK are:
4. i. THOMAS JASPER4 HERRIN, b. August 27, 1767, Herrin Grove, Kings Mt. Area, NC; d. April 08, 1840, Rushing Creek, Benton Cty, TN.
ii. NANCY ANN HERRIN, b. January 09, 1770, Kings Mountain, Mecklenburg, NC; d. May 21, 1844, NC; m. BENJAMIN HANSIL, June 06, 1789, NC; b. Abt. 1766, Kings Mountain, NC.
iii. MARY AGNISS HERRIN, b. September 20, 1773, Herrin Grove, Kings Mt. Area, NC; d. February 07, 1838, Nashville Area, Davidson County, TN; m. WILLIAM RYAN, July 23, 1790, NC; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
iv. MARTHA RUTH HERRIN, b. March 10, 1776, Herrin Grove, Kings Mt. Area, NC; d. July 26, 1827, Rushing Creek, Benton County, TN; m. JAMES BAKER, November 20, 1795, Rushing Creek, Benton Co., TN; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
v. JOHN WILLIAM HERRIN, b. September 30, 1778, Herrin Grove, Kings Mt. Area, NC; d. December 08, 1850, TN; m. MARTHA BOYD, August 14, 1799, Rushing Creek, Benton Co., TN; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
5. vi. JAMES ELISHA HERRIN, b. May 13, 1780, Herrin Grove, Kings Mt. Area, Mecklenburg, NC; d. September 03, 1855, Rushing Creek, Benton Cty, TN.
vii. RACHEL LEAH HERRIN, b. October 20, 1783, Herrin Grove, Kings Mt. Area, NC; d. May 28, 1853, Nashville Area, Davidson County, TN; m. WILLIAM EVANS, May 29, 1801, Rushing Creek, Benton Co., TN.
viii. ISSAC NOAH HERRIN, b. April 05, 1786, Herrin Grove, Kings Mt. Area, NC; d. October 15, 1860, Rushing Creek, Benton City, TN; m. MARY HARPER, May 11, 1808, Rushing Creek, Benton Co., TN.
6. ix. SARAH JANE HERRIN, b. March 20, 1788, Herrin Grove, Kings Mt. Area, NC; d. November 29, 1857, Rushing Creek, Benton County, TN.
7. x. CALEB ABIMLICK HERRIN, b. July 13, 1789, Kings Mtn. Area, Mecklinburg County, NC; d. July 13, 1862, Rushing Creek, Benton County, TN.
xi. MARGARET LOUISA HERRIN, b. May 13, 1791, Herrin Grove, Kings Mt. Area, Mecklinburg County, NC; d. February 04, 1800, Rushing Creek, Benton County, TN.
Child of THOMAS HERRIN and SOPHIA RUSHING is:
8. i. BEVERLY5 HERRIN, b. 1795, TN; d. 1858, Benton Co., TN.
5. JAMES ELISHA4 HERRIN (WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born May 13, 1780 in Herrin Grove, Kings Mt. Area, Mecklenburg, NC, and died September 03, 1855 in Rushing Creek, Benton Cty, TN. He married SARAH RUSHING June 15, 1801 in Nc, daughter of ROBERT RUSHING and JEMIMA JACKSON. She was born November 13, 1781 in NC, and died February 01, 1836 in Rushing Creek, Benton County, TN.
Notes for JAMES ELISHA HERRIN:
Shortly after his 21 birthday, "Elisha" was m. to Sarah RUSHING on June 15, 1801. Sarah's sister, Sophia was m. to her husband's bro. Thos. Jasper, & her brother Abel, was m. to his sister, Sarah Jane (HERRIN). Additionally, Sarah was a niece of Joseph RUSHING, a founder of Rushing Creek & James Elisha was his nephew. Sarah & James Elisha's marriage created the 3rd family of "double-cousins" & one of the largest inter-related families in the area.
The couple moved east to Franklin Co., TN. during the first years of their marriage but returned to Rushing Creek in 1823 where they lived the remainder of their lives. In 1823, James Elisha & SArah are listed as charter members of the Rushing Creek Baptist Church hwere "Elisha's" cousin, Lemuel HERRIN became the first pastor.
As well as church activity, James Elisha was involved in local gov. On Nov. 26, 1826 he was commissioned as a Magistrate for the Humphreys Co. dist. which was later instrumental in the formation of Benton Co & served in several other offices of the county gov.
Land records show that James Elisha & Sarah bought & sold land extensivley, but always retained the family "homeplace" of some 200 ac. which adjoined other family holding in Rushing Creek. James Elisha is listed in various records as a builder, a mechanic, or carpenter and a farmer. Following Sarah's death, he finished raising the family at the "homeplace" next door to his brother, Caleb Abimlick.
Sarah & James Elisha had 10 children, many of whom remained in W. TN. & have descendants here today. Their children were: Eliz. who m. Laben RICE; Wm. G.; Sopheen who m. James MCGILL; Mildred who m. her cousin, Beverly HERRIN; Elisha N. who m. Mary WYATT; Uriah Martin; Peyton G. who m. Nancy HORTON; Sarah Agniss who d. at age 18; Parthena who m. W. K. PERKINS; & Abner Calvin who m. his cousin Nancy HERRIN.
Sarah d. in 1836 at the age of 55 & James Elisha d. Sept 3 1855 at the age of 75. Both were buried in the family plot at Rushing Creek Cem. alongside "Elisha's" mother, Mary Agniss HERRIN.
Their descendants number well into the hundreds & live throughout the country, but many still live in W. Tn.
More About JAMES ELISHA HERRIN:
Burial: Rushing Creek Cem., Benton Co., TN
More About SARAH RUSHING:
Burial: Rushing Creek Cemetery, Benton Co, TN
Marriage Notes for JAMES HERRIN and SARAH RUSHING:
Sarah and James Elisha's marriage created the third family of double cousins and one of the largest inter-related families in the area.
The couple moved east to Franklin Co., TN during the first years of their marriage but returned to Rushing Creek in 1823 where they lived the remainder of their lives. In 1823 James Elisha and Sarah are listed as Charter Members of Ramble Creek Baptist Church. Two years later, in 1825, they are shown as founding and charter members of the Rushing Creek Baptist Church where Elisha's cousin, Lemuel Herrin, became the first pastor.
As well as church activity, James Elisha was involved in local government. On Nov. 26, 1826 he was commissioned as Magistrate for the Humphreys County District which was later partitioned as Benton County. Later he was instrumental in the formation of Benton County and served in several othe offices of the county government. Land records show tat James Elisha and Sarah bought and sold land extensively, but always retained the family homeplace of some 200 acres which adjoined other family holdings. Following Sarah's death, he finished raising the family at te homeplace next door to his brother, Caleb Abimlick. Both are buried in family plot at Rushings Creek. Elisha's mother, Mary Agness Abimlick Herrin, lays alongside them.
Children of JAMES HERRIN and SARAH RUSHING are:
i. ELIZABETH5 HERRIN, b. 1802; m. LABEN RICE.
ii. WILLIAM G. HERRIN, b. 1804.
iii. SOPHEEN HERRIN, b. 1806; m. JAMES MCGILL; b. Unknown.
iv. MILDRED HERRIN, b. 1808; m. BEVERLY HERRIN, 1830; b. 1795, TN; d. 1858, Benton Co., TN.
Notes for MILDRED HERRIN:
Married her cousin.
More About BEVERLY HERRIN:
Burial: Poss. Rushing Creek Cemetery, Big Sandy Tennessee
9. v. ELIJAH N. HERRIN, b. 1812, GA; d. Unknown.
vi. URIAH MARTIN HERRIN, b. 1815.
vii. PEYTON G. HERRIN, b. 1817; d. 1891; m. NANCY HORTON.
10. viii. ABNER CALVIN HERRIN, b. April 01, 1826, Rushing Creek, Benton Co., TN; d. July 13, 1899, Rushing Creek, Benton, TN.
ix. PARTHENA HERRIN, b. Unknown; d. 1846; m. WILLIAM KINNEY PERKINS, March 27, 1839, Benton, TN.; b. 1818; d. 1863.
x. SARAH AGNISS HERRIN, b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
Notes for SARAH AGNISS HERRIN:
Died at age 18.
6. SARAH JANE4 HERRIN (WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born March 20, 1788 in Herrin Grove, Kings Mt. Area, NC, and died November 29, 1857 in Rushing Creek, Benton County, TN. She married ABEL RUSHING July 22, 1807 in Rushing Creek, Benton Co, Tennessee, son of ROBERT RUSHING and JEMIMA JACKSON. He was born November 06, 1787 in Anson Co., NC, and died August 27, 1836 in Benton Co., TN.
More About SARAH JANE HERRIN:
Burial: Rushing Creek Cemetery, Benton County, TN
More About ABEL RUSHING:
Burial: Rushings Creek Cemetery, Camden, Benton Co., TN
Emigration: Original Settler of Benton Co., TN
Military service: Veteran of the War of 1812
Occupation: Farmer
Children of SARAH HERRIN and ABEL RUSHING are:
11. i. JOEL TRAVIS5 RUSHING, b. July 11, 1810, Humphreys Co., TN; d. June 29, 1892, Madison Co., TN.
12. ii. ROBERT T. RUSHING, b. February 29, 1812, Stewart, TN; d. February 21, 1854, Benton Co., TN.
iii. JACKSON RUSHING, b. February 13, 1816, Humphreys Co., TN; d. 1849, Benton Co., TN.
Notes for JACKSON RUSHING:
Never married.
More About JACKSON RUSHING:
Burial: Rushings Creek Cemetery, Benton Co., TN
Tax Roll: 1836, Henry Co., TN
13. iv. NANCY RUSHING, b. November 29, 1816, Rushing Creek, Benton Co., TN; d. Unknown, Prairie, AR.
v. WILLIAM G. RUSHING, b. August 08, 1819, Humphries Co., TN; d. July 27, 1838, Benton Co., TN.
Notes for WILLIAM G. RUSHING:
Never married.
More About WILLIAM G. RUSHING:
Burial: Rushings Creek Cemetery, Benton Co., TN
14. vi. NOAH TENNESSEE RUSHING, b. January 22, 1822, Humphrey's Co., TN; d. December 23, 1907, Benton Co., TN.
15. vii. JEMIMA RUSHING, b. January 01, 1827, Rushing Creek, Benton Co., TN; d. February 1874, Henry County, Tn.
viii. SARAH ANN RUSHING, b. July 18, 1827, Humphreys Co., TN; d. February 19, 1863, Benton Co., TN; m. (1) ELIAS B. BOYD; m. (2) WILLIAM ARMER, March 08, 1845, Benton, TN.; b. May 21, 1818, TN; d. July 01, 1888, Mississippi Co., MO.
More About SARAH ANN RUSHING:
Burial: Farmer Family Cem., Mississippi Co., Mo
More About WILLIAM ARMER:
Burial: Farmer Family Cem., Mississippi Co., Mo
Individual Note: Married by Hezekiah Greer JP
7. CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN (WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born July 13, 1789 in Kings Mtn. Area, Mecklinburg County, NC, and died July 13, 1862 in Rushing Creek, Benton County, TN. He married SARAH MCWHORTER September 02, 1810 in Davidson County, TN, daughter of JEREMIAH MCWHORTER and SARAH BARNETT. She was born December 20, 1790 in Rushing Creek, Benton, TN, and died September 01, 1864 in Rushing Creek, Benton County, TN.
Notes for CALEB ABIMLICK HERRIN:
As a young man he journeyed from his home in NC into TN, probably moving with his family or at least some members of the family. Abimilick, as he was called, is shown in 1811 on the TN Tax Rolls of Davidson County. At the time of this tax listing he is a young man of 22 with a young wife and a new baby daughter.
The Davidson County Tax Roll of 1811 also lists 2 other Herrin family members, Beverly and Lemuel, although their exact relationship is not clear. It is know that Lemuel settled later in the Rushing Creek area just as Abimlick did , and that he was one of the first preachers at the Rushing Creek Baptist Church.
The notation concerning Beverly & Lemuel is made because they, along with Abimlick, are known to have been around Nashville for a few years because they are shown together on the "muster" rolls of Captain Adams Nashville Company during the War of 1812. Exactly what duty and where Abimlick served during the war is not known but his service record is recorded.
Following the War of 1812, Abimlick and his family moved farther west in TN to Benton County. Some 6 miles north of Camden, TN, Joseph Rushing had established the community called Rushing Creek and this is where the Herrin family settled. Joseph Rushing had married Emily Herrin who was probably related to Abimlick and 3 of brothers and sisters had married Rushing family members. From this profile, it is obvious that Rushing Creek was a clannish and inter related community which is typical of other HERREN settlements.
Abimlick and Sarah are listed as early settlers of the area in Benton County records and several members of the family became prominent citizens of the community. They had 12 children and lived the remainder of their lives there. Moss laden tombstones mark their graves in the churchyard of the Rushing Creek Baptist Church.
The family record of Abimlick and Sarah Herrin was preserved in a songbook entitled "Songs of David", published in 1711 in Scotland. The book was handed down to a fourth generation grandson, George W. E. Herrin, who moved to Ada, OK in 1920, then passed along to his son, Penn Herrin of Seattle, Washington, over a hundred and seventy years later. Four of Abimlick and Sarah's sons moved north to KY in 1846 and joined other members of the Herrin family in western KY along the Shawnee Trace. The brothers were part of a group of settlers led by William WATSON who made their way from Benton County, TN to the area around Jonesstand in Henderson County, KY. Wm WATSON, who later established the community around Oak Heights, was the father in law of 2 of the Herrin brothers, Beverly and Wesley, at the time of the migration and later a third brother, Enoch, married one of his daughters.
The brothers settled on land in and around Boardly that was probably owned by either Daniel or William Herrin while other members of the party went a few miles farther to Jonesstand and Oak Heights. The reason for the move to KY in not known, but it is apparent that the group knew exactly where these other Herrin family members were located and that was their destination.
As a young man he traveled back eastward to the Nashville or Fort Nashboro area. He is shown in the Davidson County Tax Roll near Fort Nashboro in 1811. At the time of this Tax listing he was a young man of 22 with a young wife and a baby daughter. There is some confusion concerning Abimlick's time around Nashville because he is shown as having been married to Sarah Frazier around 1807 and then as being married to Sharah McWhorter three years later. Since Sarah Frazier is not listed in any other record and there is no documentation of any issue from the marriage, it is believed that Sarah Frazier either died shortly after the marriage or that "Frazier" was the middle name of Sarah McWhorter and that these earlier records have incorrectly listed the date of their marriage.
More About CALEB ABIMLICK HERRIN:
Burial: July 16, 1862, Rushing Creek, Benton County, Tennessee, Rush. Creek Cem
Military service: War of 1812
More About SARAH MCWHORTER:
Burial: Rushing Creek Cemetery
Children of CALEB HERRIN and SARAH MCWHORTER are:
16. i. NANCY5 HERRIN, b. December 12, 1825, Rushing Creek, Benton, TN; d. October 26, 1896, Rushing Creek, Benton, TN.
ii. EUNICE HERRIN, b. August 12, 1811, Nashville, Davison County, TN.
Notes for EUNICE HERRIN:
Eunice died as a young woman.
17. iii. BEVERLY HERRIN, b. May 04, 1812, Nashville, Davidson County, TN; d. May 02, 1881, Clay District, Webster County, KY.
18. iv. GEORGE WASHINGTON HERRON, b. October 09, 1814, Rushing Creek, TN; d. 1891.
v. JAMES E. HERRIN, b. April 23, 1815, Nashville, TN.; d. 1821, Nashville, TN..
Notes for JAMES E. HERRIN:
James is listed on one record as having died in childhood at the age of 5. This same record simply states that he died in 1821. Since this was before the family moved from Nashville to Rushing Creek, it is believed that this child was buried in the Nashville area, probably with or near the McWhorter family.
More About JAMES E. HERRIN:
Burial: 1821, Nashville, TN.
vi. JOHN D. HERRIN, b. September 25, 1817, Nashville, Davidson Co., TN; d. June 06, 1839, Rushing Creek, Benton County, TN.
Notes for JOHN D. HERRIN:
Died at the Age of 22/24 He moved to Rushing Creek as a youngster and spent the remainder of his short life there. John D. died June 8, 1839 at the age of 22 and is buried beside his mother, Mary Agniss in the Rushing Creek Cemetery. the only discrepancy in the records on this child is that one old death record states that John D. died in 1837 instead of 1839.
More About JOHN D. HERRIN: Burial: June 09, 1839, Rushing Creek Cemetery, Benton County, TN
19. vii. ABIMLICK WESLEY HERRIN, b. October 20, 1819, Nashville, Davidson Co, TN; d. 1865, Dixon, KY.
viii. MARY HERRIN, b. August 26, 1821, Rushing Creek, Benton County, TN; m. B. J. HOLDEN.
20. ix. ENOCH C. HERRIN, b. January 11, 1828, Rushing Creek, Bemton Co., TN; d. January 05, 1892, Diamond, Webster County, KY.
x. ALEXANDER HERRIN, b. November 21, 1829, Rushing Creek, Benton County, TN; d. 1836, TN.
Notes for ALEXANDER HERRIN:
Alexander died as a youth.
21. xi. WILLIAM ALLEN HERRIN, b. April 10, 1832, Rushing Creek, Benton County, TN; d. May 29, 1895, Benton County, TN.
xii. WILLIAM OLIVER HERRIN, b. January 18, 1835, Rushing Creek, Benton Co., TN; d. Unknown; m. MARY HUDSON; b. September 02, 1833; d. February 21, 1917, Rushing Creek, Benton Co., TN.
More About MARY HUDSON:
Burial: Hudson Cemtery, Benton Co., TN
More About BEVERLY HERRIN:
Burial: Poss. Rushing Creek Cemetery, Big Sandy Tennessee
Notes for MILDRED HERRIN:
Married her cousin.
More About ELIZABETH COLE:
Census: 1880, 60 Widow Dist 8, Benton, TN
Children of BEVERLY HERRIN and ELLENOR LOGUE are:
22. i. WILLIAM RILEY6 HERRIN, b. October 09, 1821, Mancoe's Creek, Davidson Co., TN; d. September 20, 1896, Benton Co., TN.
ii. ANGELINE HERRIN, b. 1824, Benton Co., TN.
iii. ELENDER HERRIN, b. 1825, Benton Co., TN; m. RICHARD NANCE, July 06, 1843, Benton, TN.; b. 1823, SC.
iv. FRANCIS ELINOR HERRIN, b. August 19, 1829, Benton Co., TN; d. 1861.
Children of BEVERLY HERRIN and ELIZABETH COLE are:
v. BEVERLY ALLEN6 HERRIN.
vi. JOHN RANDOLPH HERRIN.
vii. NATHAN ALEXANDER HERRIN.
23. viii. CLABORNE HERRIN, b. 1835, TN.
ix. PRISCILLA C. HERRIN, b. 1840, TN; d. Unknown; m. JAMES F. EDINGTON, March 05, 1861, Benton, TN.; b. Unknown.
x. SOLOMON V. HERRIN, b. 1855, TN; d. 1933; m. ARTAMIS LNU; b. 1862, TN; d. Unknown.
More About SOLOMON V. HERRIN:
Census: 1880, 25 living with mother, Dist 8, Benton, TN
xi. STEPHEN HERRIN, b. 1857, TN.
More About STEPHEN HERRIN:
Census: 1880, Living with mother 23 single, working on farm, Dist 8, Benton, TN
9. ELIJAH N.5 HERRIN (JAMES ELISHA4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born 1812 in GA, and died Unknown. He married MARY WYATT 1834 in Benton, TN.. She was born 1814 in GA, and died Aft. 1880.
Children of ELIJAH HERRIN and MARY WYATT are:
i. RHEBA JANE6 HERRIN, b. 1833.
ii. MARGARET HERRIN, b. Abt. 1840.
iii. JOHN HERRIN, b. 1842.
iv. WILLIAM HERRIN, b. Abt. 1843.
v. ELISHA HERRIN, b. Abt. 1844.
vi. TABITHA HERRIN, b. Abt. 1846.
vii. MATILDA HERRIN, b. Abt. 1848.
viii. WILLY HERRIN, b. Abt. 1852.
ix. JOSEPH HERRIN, b. Abt. 1855.
x. EDWARD HERRIN, b. Abt. 1855.
xi. TIMOTHY HERRIN, b. Abt. 1856.
10. ABNER CALVIN5 HERRIN (JAMES ELISHA4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born April 01, 1826 in Rushing Creek, Benton Co., TN, and died July 13, 1899 in Rushing Creek, Benton, TN. He married NANCY HERRIN September 03, 1849 in Benton, TN., daughter of CALEB HERRIN and SARAH MCWHORTER. She was born December 12, 1825 in Rushing Creek, Benton, TN, and died October 26, 1896 in Rushing Creek, Benton, TN.
Notes for ABNER CALVIN HERRIN:
Married his cousin.
More About ABNER CALVIN HERRIN:
Burial: July 1899, Rushing Creek Cemetery
Notes for NANCY HERRIN:
Nancy married her cousin, Abner C. HERRIN.
More About NANCY HERRIN:
Burial: Rushings Creek Cemetery, Camden, Benton Co., TN
Children of ABNER HERRIN and NANCY HERRIN are:
i. GEORGE WILLIAM E.6 HERRIN, b. September 14, 1850, TN; d. August 19, 1888; m. HARRETT ISABELL RUSHING, May 19, 1880, TN; b. January 19, 1853, Benton Co., TN; d. August 25, 1903.
More About GEORGE WILLIAM E. HERRIN:
Burial: Rushing Creek Cem., Benton Co., TN
More About HARRETT ISABELL RUSHING:
Burial: Rushings Creek Cemetery, Camden, Benton Co., TN
24. ii. GEORGE WAHINGTON EDGAR HERRIN, b. July 26, 1850; d. September 23, 1923.
iii. THOMAS NEWTON HERRIN, b. December 09, 1851, TN; d. December 01, 1935.
iv. MARY H. HERRIN, b. 1853.
v. JAMES MONROE HERRIN, b. 1855, TN.
25. vi. WILLIAM E. HERRIN, b. September 14, 1858, TN; d. August 19, 1880.
vii. SARAH A. HERRIN, b. September 29, 1861; d. July 29, 1863.
More About SARAH A. HERRIN:
Burial: Rushings Creek Cemetery, Benton Co., TN
11. JOEL TRAVIS5 RUSHING (SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born July 11, 1810 in Humphreys Co., TN, and died June 29, 1892 in Madison Co., TN. He married (1) EMILY GRIFFIN HERRIN January 30, 1831 in Henry Co., TN, daughter of ABNER HERRIN and KEZIAH HERNDON. She was born February 03, 1809 in GA, and died September 09, 1852 in Madison Co., TN. He married (2) SARAH PREWETT February 03, 1838 in Madison Co., TN. She was born in VA, and died 1875 in Madison Co., TN. He married (3) MARY ELIZABETH GOODELL June 17, 1876 in Madison Co., TN. She was born Abt. 1828 in NY State, and died Unknown.
More About JOEL TRAVIS RUSHING:
Burial: Cotton Grove Cem., Madison Co., TN
Census: 1850, Dist 17, Henry, TN
Occupation: Farmer and Coroner
Notes for EMILY GRIFFIN HERRIN:
Emily Griffin Herron was the daughter of Abner and Kaziah Herron of the Moses Herrin Group from Oglethorpe Co., GA. She was born around 1809, probably in Franklin Co., TN before the family moved to Rushings Creek, the couple had 10 children before Emily's death in 1857 Following her death, he married Sarah Prewett on Feb 3, 1838 and the tird time to Mary Elizabeth Goodell on June 17, 1876 and they were together until his death in 1892. He was 82.
He is buried in Cotton Grove Cemetery in Madison Co., TN beside his first wife, Emily G. His other wives, Sarah and Mary Elizabeth, are also buried in Jackson, Madison Co., TN
More About SARAH PREWETT:
Burial: Jackson, Madison County, TN
More About MARY ELIZABETH GOODELL:
Burial: Jackson, Madison County, TN
Census: 1880, Jackson, Madison, TN
Children of JOEL RUSHING and EMILY HERRIN are:
i. ELIZABETH6 RUSHING, b. November 24, 1832; d. October 31, 1853.
Notes for ELIZABETH RUSHING:
Never married.
ii. ANDREW J. RUSHING, b. May 27, 1835, Humphreys Co. TN; d. October 27, 1840, TN.
Notes for ANDREW J. RUSHING:
Twin to Pervilla and died in childhood.
iii. PERVILLA RUSHING, b. May 27, 1835; d. December 27, 1920; m. JOHN J. BETTES, January 04, 1851.
26. iv. ABEL RUSHING, b. January 16, 1837, Benton Co., TN; d. September 16, 1915, Madison Co., TN.
v. KIZIAH RUSHING, b. July 06, 1839; d. September 17, 1850.
vi. SARAH JANE RUSHING, b. March 28, 1840; d. October 01, 1844.
More About SARAH JANE RUSHING:
Burial: Ralls - Hebron Cem., Henry Co., TN
27. vii. MOSES GRIFFIN RUSHING, b. September 18, 1843, Henry Co., TN; d. March 25, 1891.:
viii. SIMEONE BOLIVAR RUSHING, b. September 22, 1845; d. February 26, 1938; m. CALLIE A. SYKES, December 29, 1870.:
ix. ABNER SAMUEL MARTIN RUSHING, b. July 28, 1847; d. November 22, 1884.:
Notes for ABNER SAMUEL MARTIN RUSHING::
Never married.:
28. x. JOEL TRAVIS RUSHING, JR., b. August 23, 1848; d. July 12, 1933.:
12. ROBERT T.5 RUSHING (SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born February 29, 1812 in Stewart, TN, and died February 21, 1854 in Benton Co., TN. He married SARAH ANN WALTERS October 17, 1839 in Henry Co., TN, daughter of WILLIAM WALTERS and ELIZABETH BALL. She was born January 01, 1824 in Henry Co., TN, and died November 13, 1878 in Benton Co., TN.:
More About ROBERT T. RUSHING::
Burial: Hernden Cem., Benton County, Tn:
Census: 1860, Dist 10, Benton, TN:
More About SARAH ANN WALTERS::
Alias: Sallie:
Children of ROBERT RUSHING and SARAH WALTERS are::
i. THOMAS J.6 RUSHING, b. 1840, Benton Co., TN.:
ii. WILLIAM L. RUSHING, b. 1842, Benton Co., TN.:
iii. AMERICA JANE RUSHING, b. 1844, Benton Co., TN; d. Unknown; m. JAMES C. LINDSEY, September 03, 1860, Benton, TN.; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.:
iv. ELIZABETH RUSHING, b. 1846.:
v. MARY A. RUSHING, b. September 1850; m. WILLIAM H. BRUMMIT; b. Abt. 1850.:
vi. ROBERT SCOTT RUSHING, b. 1852, Benton Co., TN.:
13. NANCY5 RUSHING (SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born November 29, 1816 in Rushing Creek, Benton Co., TN, and died Unknown in Prairie, AR. She married JOHN WESLEY UTLEY June 15, 1837, son of SETH UTLEY and BATHSHEBA WOOD. He was born December 02, 1817, and died 1863 in Paririe County, Arkansas.:
More About NANCY RUSHING::
Census: 1910, Grassy, Williamson, IL:
Residence: Aft. 1849, Prairie Co., AR:
Notes for JOHN WESLEY UTLEY::
They moved to Paririe County, Arkansas where he died in 1863.:
Child of NANCY RUSHING and JOHN UTLEY is::
i. JESSEN6 UTLEY.:
14. NOAH TENNESSEE5 RUSHING (SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born January 22, 1822 in Humphrey's Co., TN, and died December 23, 1907 in Benton Co., TN. He married (1) SARAH A. YOUNG February 17, 1854, daughter of THOMAS YOUNG and MARTHA WALTERS. She was born January 22, 1830 in Henry Co., TN, and died March 12, 1863 in Henry, TN. He married (2) MARGARET FRANCIS DANLEY July 16, 1865. She was born January 12, 1844 in Henry Co. TN, and died April 14, 1926 in Benton Co., TN. :
More About NOAH TENNESSEE RUSHING::
Burial: Rushing Creek Cemetery, Benton County, TN:
More About SARAH A. YOUNG::
Burial: Rushings Creek Cemetery, Benton Co., TN:
More About MARGARET FRANCIS DANLEY::
Burial: Rushings Creek Cemetery, Benton Co., TN:
Children of NOAH RUSHING and SARAH YOUNG are::
i. MARTHA G.6 RUSHING, b. 1854.:
ii. EMMA PERMITA RUSHING, b. January 24, 1857; d. February 16, 1923; m. THOMAS MADISON LOCKHART, December 08, 1881.:
iii. JOHN H. RUSHING, b. February 28, 1859; d. June 14, 1872.:
Notes for JOHN H. RUSHING::
Never married.:
:
More About JOHN H. RUSHING::
Burial: Rushings Creek Cemetery, Camden, Benton Co., TN:
Cause of Death: Killed by lightning.:
iv. THOMAS ABEL RUSHING, b. April 16, 1861; d. June 08, 1942; m. MARY JANE LOCKHART, November 04, 1885.:
Children of NOAH RUSHING and MARGARET DANLEY are::
v. WILLIAM NOAH6 RUSHING, b. April 20, 1866, Henry Co. TN; d. November 14, 1939; m. VIOLA GREER, April 17, 1916; b. Abt. 1868.:
29. vi. MARY MARGARET RUSHING, b. December 09, 1867, Henry Co. TN; d. September 20, 1951, Dallas, Dallas Co., TX.:
30. vii. CLAY RUSHING, b. November 06, 1869; d. August 13, 1956.:
15. JEMIMA5 RUSHING (SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born January 01, 1827 in Rushing Creek, Benton Co., TN, and died February 1874 in Henry County, Tn. She married OBADIAH WALTERS March 10, 1842 in Pleasant Valley, Benton Co., TN., son of WILLIAM WALTERS and ELIZABETH BALL. He was born September 01, 1822 in Henry Co., TN, and died May 1883 in Henry Co., TN.:
More About JEMIMA RUSHING::
Burial: Haymes Cem., Henry County, Tn:
More About OBADIAH WALTERS::
Burial: Haymes Cem., Henry Co., TN:
: Medical Information: Blind for the last 20 years of his life.:
Children of JEMIMA RUSHING and OBADIAH WALTERS are::
31. i. ROBERT SPENCER6 WALTERS, b. February 1846, Henry Co., TN; d. November 30, 1911, Henry Co., TN.:
ii. SARAH ANN WALLTERS, b. July 18, 1847, Henry, TN; d. October 09, 1908, Clarksville, Montgomery, TN; m. EDWARD THEODORE EDGE, February 06, 1868; b. August 17, 1847, GA; d. August 02, 1935, TN.:
: More About EDWARD THEODORE EDGE::
Census: 1860, Dalton, Whitfield, GA:
32. iii. WILLIAM HENRY WALTERS, b. March 1850, Henry, TN; d. March 15, 1912, Henry, TN.:
iv. ELIZABETH ANN WALTERS, b. October 18, 1853; d. November 04, 1940; m. JAMES EDWARD GURIEN, December 24, 1867.:
v. J. F. WALTERS, b. 1862; d. February 10, 1874.:
Notes for J. F. WALTERS::
Invalid and died in childhood:
16. NANCY5 HERRIN (CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born December 12, 1825 in Rushing Creek, Benton, TN, and died October 26, 1896 in Rushing Creek, Benton, TN. She married ABNER CALVIN HERRIN September 03, 1849 in Benton, TN., son of JAMES HERRIN and SARAH RUSHING. He was born April 01, 1826 in Rushing Creek, Benton Co., TN, and died July 13, 1899 in Rushing Creek, Benton, TN.:
: Notes for NANCY HERRIN::
Nancy married her cousin, Abner C. HERRIN.:
More About NANCY HERRIN:
Burial: Rushings Creek Cemetery, Camden, Benton Co., TN
Notes for ABNER CALVIN HERRIN: Married his cousin.
More About ABNER CALVIN HERRIN:
Burial: July 1899, Rushing Creek Cemetery
Children are listed above under (10) Abner Calvin Herrin.
17. BEVERLY5 HERRIN (CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born May 04, 1812 in Nashville, Davidson County, TN, and died May 02, 1881 in Clay District, Webster County, KY. He married SARAH E. WATSON 1834 in Nashville, TN, daughter of WILLIAM WATSON and URA FIPPS. She was born March 24, 1817 in Nashville, TN., and died August 11, 1894 in KY.
Notes for BEVERLY HERRIN:
As a youngster, his mother and father moved from the Nashville area to Rushing Creek, TN and he grew to adulthood there. Around 1834, he married Sarah Watson, a daughter of Wm. WATSON who led the caravan to the Webster County, KY area a few years later.
In 1850, the couple is shown living on a farm in Union County, KY probably near Boardly, and probably on land owned by either Daniel or William Herrin.
In the 1860 census, they are shown owning land in the Claysville District in the Montezuma (White Oak) Section. Beverly is shown with real estate valued at $1,672 and personal property worth $720. He continued to expand his land holdings in the area and was considered a very prominent farmer in the county.
He was one of the founders and original members of the White Oak General Baptist Church, even helping to build the original "meeting house" and donating part of the land on which the church and cemetery now stand. Beverly and Sarah's homeplace was about a half mile from the White Oak Church on the old Montezuma Road at the intersection of Bob Hatley Road. Both are buried in family plots in the White Oak Cemetery.
More About BEVERLY HERRIN:
Burial: Clay District, Webster County, Ky, White Oak Cem
Census: August 1850, Dist 2., Union Co., KY
More About SARAH E. WATSON:
Burial: August 13, 1894, White Oak Cem, Webster Co., Kentucky
Children of BEVERLY HERRIN and SARAH WATSON are:
33. i. ERRE JANE6 HERRIN, b. March 24, 1834, TN; d. May 15, 1921, Webster Co., KY.
ii. A. ISABELLE HERRIN, b. 1835; d. Unknown; m. JOSIAH BOARDLEY; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
iii. SARAH E. HERRIN, b. 1837.
34. iv. JOHN W. HERRIN, b. March 09, 1839, TN; d. Unknown.
v. JAMES BENJAMIN HERRIN, b. 1845.
More About JAMES BENJAMIN HERRIN:
Alias: Bemmey
vi. MARY ANN HERRIN, b. 1848, KY.
More About MARY ANN HERRIN: Alias: Polly
35. vii. THOMAS HERRIN, b. 1850, KY; d. Unknown.
viii. ENOCH HERRIN, b. 1853, Union Co., KY; d. December 29, 1854, Union Co., KY.
More About ENOCH HERRIN: Cause of Death: Cramp Colic
ix. WILLIAM HERRIN, b. 1841.
More About WILLIAM HERRIN:
Census: August 12, 1850, Dist 2., Union Co., KY
18. GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON (CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born October 09, 1814 in Rushing Creek, TN, and died 1891. He married (1) SARAH A. CREWS Bet. 1849 - 1850, daughter of WILLIAMSON CREWS and MARGERY MARKS. She was born 1823 in KY, and died 1871. He married (2) ELIZABETH REBECCA CURRY Aft. 1871 in KY, daughter of JAMES CURRY and REBECCA MORGAN. She was born March 03, 1845 in KY., and died March 08, 1923 in Cave In Rock, IL.
Notes for GEORGE WASHINGTON HERRON:
At age 22 he joined 3 of his brothers to make the migration from Benton County to Western KY. Being single, probably lived with either Beverly or Wesley, his older brothers, when he first arrived. He moved a little farther to the east during the first 3 years., however, because the 1850 Census shows him in Henderson County, KY rather than Hopkins or Union, County, KY.
The reason for George W.'s move to the east is fairly clear. Her name was Sarah A. Crews, the 17 years. old daughter of Williamson and Margery Crews, whom he married late in 1849 or 1850. The young couple is shown living next door to Wm. Crews in the 1850 Census in the Caborn District. It should be pointed out that Caborn was located just east of Highway 41-A at the junction of Highway. 56, so in actuality, George & Sarah lived only about 5 miles or so from Jonesstand and probably less than a mile from Rueben Herrin's family.
Sarah A. Crews, born in 1832, was the daughter of Wm A. Crews & Margery Marks Crews. Williamson, a farmer & Baptist minister, was born in 1793 in Virginia and came to KY with his parents shortly before 1800. His father, Wm, was also a minister and is credited with establishing one of the first churches in what was then Christian County, KY. His wife, Margery Marks, was born in Loudon County Virginia in 1796 and came to the area when her father, John Marks, Jr. brought his family to homestead a grant of land which was awarded to him for services in the Revolutionary War.
In the 1860 Census, George and Sarah are shown with 5 children: David, age 9; Beverly, age7; Nancy, age 5; Henry H., age 3; and William W., age 5 months. They are also shown with personal property valued at $300, but no real estate. The lack of real property indicates that the family was still living on land owned by Sarah's father, Williamson.
Four more children were born to George & Sarah before her death in 1870 or 1871. These 4 known children were: George W., Jr., c. 1862; Frances, c. 1865; Jacob, c. 1868; and Robert, born in May, 1870, it is believed that they were living with Williamson Crews and his family.
After the death of Sarah, George W. married Elizabeth Thompson Curry, a widow. Elizabeth was born in 1835, and had a daughter, Kathleen, from her previous marriage. The couple moved to Dixon following their marriage around 1872 and are shown in the 1880 Census with 3 of the 4 children born to the union. The listed children are: James, age 7; WILLIAM HARVEY, age 5, and Benjamin, age 1. Their fourth child, a daughter named Rissie was born in 1888.
George W. died as the result of an accidental fall from a horse in 1891. The most credible version of the accident is that George W. was an avid coon hunter and that he was hunting at night on the edge of his brother, Beverly's property in Clifty Bottoms near Clay, KY. The horse he was riding ran too close to a tree and he fell from the horse and broke his hip. Other members of the party went to Beverly's home for help and he was taken to his home near Little Zion. Complications developed as he was recovering and he succumbed to pneumonia. He is buried at White Oak Church Cemetery.
Following George's death, his family had a very difficult time. The children from his first marriage were grown and apparently "on their own." But the second set of children were all at home. The 2 older boys, James and Harvey, were 19 and 17 respectively, but Benjamin was only 11 and Rissie, the youngest, was just barely 3 years old.
A year or so after George's death, James and Harvey moved to Cave In Rock, IL where they worked for their brother in law, Dr. George W. Hill, who had married their half sister Kathleen Curry. Later, Elizabeth and the younger children also moved to Illinois and continued to live there.
Elizabeth died at the age of 88 in 1923 in Cave In Rock where she was known as "Old Grandma Herr." She is buried at Cave Hill Cemetery.
More About GEORGE WASHINGTON HERRON:
Burial: White Oak Baptist Church Cemetery, Near Dixon, KY
Fact 1: At 22, he joined his 3 brothers on the migration to west KY.
Occupation: Carpenter and Tobacco Farmer.
More About SARAH A. CREWS:
Alias: Sallie
More About ELIZABETH REBECCA CURRY:
Burial: Masonic Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
Children of GEORGE HERRON and SARAH CREWS are:
i. DAVID6 HERRIN, b. November 04, 1852.
Notes for DAVID HERRIN:
More About DAVID HERRIN:
Fact 1: 1860, Census: listed him as 6 years old.
36. ii. BEVERLY HERRIN, b. November 04, 1852, Caborn Area, Benton Co., TN; d. 1937.
37. iii. NANCY P. HERRIN, b. March 08, 1855, Near Caborn. KY; d. May 17, 1932, Webster Co., KY.
iv. HENRY HIRAM HERRIN, b. 1857; m. ARRETA WALTON, 1876, Webster Co., KY; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
38. v. WILLIAM WESLEY HERRIN, b. May 14, 1859, Webster Co., KY; d. November 10, 1942, Webster Co., KY.
vi. GEORGE WASHINGTON HERRIN, JR., b. July 18, 1864, Henderson, KY.; d. January 20, 1903, Wheatcroft, Webster Co., KY; m. ENDORA F. OVERBY, January 01, 1885.
More About GEORGE WASHINGTON HERRIN, JR.:
Fact 1: Probably born around Poole.
Fact 2: Was called "Uncle Wash" or "Wash" and he lived in Henderson area.
Fact 3: Wash was the forefather of group including Elmer Herron & Paul Herron & families
vii. FRANCES HERRIN, b. 1867, KY; m. (1) JOSEPH JUSTICE; m. (2) FOREST WATSON; b. 1873, KY.
viii. JACOB HERRIN, b. 1868, KY; m. PEACHIE W. WALKER; b. Unknown.
Children of GEORGE HERRON and ELIZABETH CURRY are:
ix. BENJAMIN6 HERRIN, b. 1877, KY; d. Unknown; m. TRINNIE LNU; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
More About BENJAMIN HERRIN:
Fact 1: Buried at Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
Military service: Corporal 9th IL Inf. Co. D Spanish American War
Occupation: Salesman for International Harvester.
39. x. JAMES HERRIN, b. February 11, 1873, Little Zion, KY; d. July 22, 1942, Cave In Rock, IL..
40. xi. WILLIAM HARVEY HERRIN, b. July 25, 1875, Little Zion, Webster County, KY; d. January 20, 1955, Cave In Rock, IL. at Dr. Oxford's Office..
41. xii. LARISSA RISSIE HERRIN, b. January 1881, KY; d. January 13, 1903.
19. ABIMLICK WESLEY5 HERRIN (CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born October 20, 1819 in Nashville, Davidson Co, TN, and died 1865 in Dixon, KY. He married ELIZABETH WATSON 1840 in TN, daughter of WILLIAM WATSON and URA FIPPS. She was born 1825 in TN, and died 1880 in Dixon Area, Webster, Kentucky.
Notes for ABIMLICK WESLEY HERRIN:
Second oldest of the brothers who migrated to KY, he grew up in TN, married there, and his oldest daughter was born there.
In the 1850 census, Wesley & Elizabeth are living around Dixon, KY probably near Oak Heights where Elizabeth's father had settled. 2 children are listed at this time: Lotty, born 1846 in TN & Wm A. who is only 6 months old.
By 1860 the couple has 2 more children, Harvey born in 1854 and Thomas Edward, born in 1858. One of the other children, however, is not listed in the 1860 census. It is apparent that Wm A. has died during the period. The couple is shown as having $1,600 in real estate and personal property valued at $835.
Wesley died between 1860 and 1870, but there is no record on the settlement of his estate. Elizabeth is shown as the head of the household in the 1870 census with Harvey and Thomas Edward at home. Lotty, the daughter, is no longer listed because she was married to James N. Bumpus on Nov. 20, 1866.
Elizabeth is still shown as the head of the household in the 1880 census, but Thomas Edward and his wife, Gracie A., along with a granddaughter, Lotty B., are still living there. Harvey is not listed so it is assumed that he has moved from the area.
Elizabeth died after 1880 but the exact date is not known. None of the family is reported later, but it is known that Thomas Edward and his family moved into the Clay district.
More About ELIZABETH WATSON:
Burial: Dixon Area, Webster, Kentucky
Children of ABIMLICK HERRIN and ELIZABETH WATSON are:
i. LOTTY6 HERRON, b. 1846, TN; m. JAMES M. BUMPUS, November 20, 1866, Webster Co., KY.
ii. WILLIAM A. HERRIN, b. 1850.
More About WILLIAM A. HERRIN:
Fact 1: Died in childhood.
iii. HARVEY HERRIN, b. 1854, KY; d. Unknown.
42. iv. THOMAS EDWARD HERRIN, b. 1858, Webster Co., KY; d. Abt. 1897.
43. v. WILLIAM THOMAS HERRIN, b. 1885; d. 1940.
vi. BERTHA HERRIN.
44. vii. TENIE HEARIN.
20. ENOCH C.5 HERRIN (CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born January 11, 1828 in Rushing Creek, Bemton Co., TN, and died January 05, 1892 in Diamond, Webster County, KY. He married MARY ANN WATSON November 25, 1850 in Webster/Union Co., KY, daughter of WILLIAM WATSON and URA FIPPS. She was born March 03, 1826 in Nashville Area, Davidson County, TN, and died February 14, 1905 in Webster Co., KY.
Notes for ENOCH C. HERRIN:
The youngest of the brothers who migrated to KY in 1846.
Lived with older brother, Beverly for the first few years. He is shown living with Beverly's family in the 1850 Census at age 21.
Enoch & Polly lived in Union County after Beverly & Sarah moved to Clayville. In 1860 census, Enoch is shown as a laborer in the house of James Blackwell, so the family is not listed individually. It is apparent that Enoch and his family, which by now included 2 children, either worked for, or share cropped with Mr. Blackwell.
Later, Enoch & Polly acquired their own land and lived most of their lives in the general area of Boardly. It is believed that they moved to the Providence area in their later years. Enoch died in 1892 at the age of 64 and Polly Ann lived with her son, Beverly, until her death in 1905 at the age of 79.
More About ENOCH C. HERRIN:
Burial: January 08, 1892, Watson Cem.
More About MARY ANN WATSON:
Alias: Polly
Burial: Diamond, Webster County, KY, Watson Cemetery
Children of ENOCH HERRIN and MARY WATSON are:
i. SALLY SARAH6 HERRIN, b. 1862, Webster Co., KY; d. Webster Co., KY; m. JAMES H. HARVEY, 1880, KY; b. Abt. 1858, Webster Co., KY; d. Unknown.
More About SALLY SARAH HERRIN:
Burial: White Oak Baptist Church Cemetery, Near Dixon, KY
45. ii. WILLIAM OLIVER HEARRIN, b. February 1859, Boardley, Union County, KY; d. November 1919, Blackford (near), Rural Webster Co, KY.
46. iii. BEVERLY HERRIN, b. October 09, 1859, Near Broadley, Union County, KY; d. March 27, 1946, Webster Co., KY.
47. iv. FANNIE HERRIN, b. 1868, Webster Co., KY; d. 1952, Webster Co., KY.
21. WILLIAM ALLEN5 HERRIN (CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born April 10, 1832 in Rushing Creek, Benton County, TN, and died May 29, 1895 in Benton County, TN. He married MARTHA WISEMAN August 07, 1855, daughter of MELTON WISEMAN and ELENDOR LNU. She was born June 10, 1830 in Benton County, TN, and died November 26, 1910 in Benton County, TN.
More About WILLIAM ALLEN HERRIN:
Burial: Rushing Creek, Benton County, Tennessee, Rushing Crk Cem
More About MARTHA WISEMAN:
Burial: Rushing Creek Cemetery, Benton County, TN
Children of WILLIAM HERRIN and MARTHA WISEMAN are:
48. i. SARAH FRANCIS6 HERRIN, b. December 03, 1855, Benton County, TN; d. September 23, 1908.
49. ii. NANCY HERRIN, b. 1858, Benton County, TN; d. 1910.
iii. A. M. HERRIN, b. Abt. 1860.
iv. M. E. HERRIN, b. Abt. 1862.
v. N. E. HERRIN, b. Abt. 1864.
50. vi. ROBERT LEE HERRIN, b. 1866, Rushing Creek Area, Benton County, TN; d. January 19, 1897, Benton County, TN.
51. vii. JOHN WESLEY HERRIN, b. October 09, 1866, Benton County, TN, near Rushing's Creek Community; d. March 07, 1912, Buried at Pleasant Hill Methodist Cemetery. viii. ALLEN CALEB HERRIN, b. June 17, 1871; d. November 05, 1873, Benton County, TN.
More About ALLEN CALEB HERRIN:
Burial: Rushing Creek Cemetery, Benton County, TN
More About WILLIAM RILEY HERRIN:
Burial: Rushing Creek Cemetery, Benton County, TN
Children of WILLIAM HERRIN and MARTHA STONE are:
52. i. THOMAS BEVERLY7 HERRIN, b. February 04, 1845; d. November 06, 1920.
ii. WILLIAM F. HERRIN, b. February 1854, Union Co., KY; d. September 07, 1854, Union Co., KY.
23. CLABORNE6 HERRIN (BEVERLY5, THOMAS JASPER4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born 1835 in TN. He married MARTHA LNU. She was born 1837 in TN.
More About CLABORNE HERRIN:
Census: 1880, 45 Farmer Dist. 8, Benton, TN
Children of CLABORNE HERRIN and MARTHA LNU are:
i. HORACE7 HERRIN, b. 1869, TN.
ii. LAUDER HERRIN, b. 1873.
iii. LAURA HERRIN, b. 1875.
24. GEORGE WAHINGTON EDGAR6 HERRIN (ABNER CALVIN5, JAMES ELISHA4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born July 26, 1850, and died September 23, 1923. He married (1) HARRETT ISABELL RUSHING, daughter of DAVID RUSHING and SARAH MOORE. She was born January 19, 1853 in Benton Co., TN, and died August 25, 1903. He married (2) MARY MARGARET RUSHING September 24, 1905, daughter of NOAH RUSHING and MARGARET DANLEY. She was born December 09, 1867 in Henry Co. TN, and died September 20, 1951 in Dallas, Dallas Co., TX.
Notes for GEORGE WAHINGTON EDGAR HERRIN:
GWE HERRIN did marry Harriet when she became her brother's widow. Wm E. Herrin was 22 when he died. I can find no record that he had any children. We dont know for sure, because of the grave marker for Harriet conflicts with other research, so it is assumed that George married her after he passed away if they were ever in fact married at all. Was Harriet and Mary Margaret sisters? They were both Rushings. It would be interesting if GWE married his brothers widow, then when she passed away her sister marries GWE. The reason I say this is because we know:
Harriet died in 1903 Mary Margaret married GWE in 1905 GWE had a first wife and family before Mary Margaret.
GWE sired my grandfather in 1907 when he was 57 yrs old. My grandfather had older grown half siblings that is hinted at being his cousins.
I assume that his half siblings were the children of Harriet and GWE and if they were his cousins, that would mean that Harriet was his aunt and possible sister of his mom, Mary Margaret.
More About HARRETT ISABELL RUSHING:
Burial: Rushings Creek Cemetery, Camden, Benton Co., TN
More About MARY MARGARET RUSHING:
Alias: Molly
Children of GEORGE HERRIN and MARY RUSHING are:
53. i. GEORGE RUSHING7 HERRIN, b. March 13, 1907, Camden, TN; d. Bet. 1976 - 1977.
54. ii. LOUISE HERRIN, b. Ida, Oklahoma.
25. WILLIAM E.6 HERRIN (ABNER CALVIN5, JAMES ELISHA4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born September 14, 1858 in TN, and died August 19, 1880. He married HARRETT ISABELL RUSHING, daughter of DAVID RUSHING and SARAH MOORE. She was born January 19, 1853 in Benton Co., TN, and died August 25, 1903.
More About WILLIAM E. HERRIN:
Burial: Rushing Creek Cemetery, Benton County, TN
More About HARRETT ISABELL RUSHING:
Burial: Rushings Creek Cemetery, Camden, Benton Co., TN
Child of WILLIAM HERRIN and HARRETT RUSHING is:
i. JAMES7 HERRIN, b. 1881; d. 1918; m. MAUDE I. LNU; b. 1882; d. 1961.
More About JAMES HERRIN:
Burial: Rushings Creek Cemetery, Benton Co., TN
More About MAUDE I. LNU:
Burial: Rushings Creek Cemetery, Benton Co., TN
26. ABEL6 RUSHING (JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born January 16, 1837 in Benton Co., TN, and died September 16, 1915 in Madison Co., TN. He married MARY ELIZABETH GILES February 02, 1865. She was born September 1843 in Madison Co., TN, and died July 07, 1923 in Madison Co., TN.
Children of ABEL RUSHING and MARY GILES are:
55. i. EUGENE JACKSON7 RUSHING, b. 1866, Madison Co., TN; d. 1941, Madison Co., TN.
56. ii. ROBERT ALVIN RUSHING, b. 1869, Madison Co., TN; d. 1939, Jackson, TN.
iii. LUDY RUSHING, b. 1871; d. 1936.
57. iv. FRANKLIN HAMILTON RUSHING, b. July 1873, Jackson, TN; d. March 1942, Cooter, MO.
v. MINNIE RUSHING, b. 1878.
vi. ALLEN LORRANCE RUSHING, b. 1882; d. 1943.
27. MOSES GRIFFIN6 RUSHING (JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born September 18, 1843 in Henry Co., TN, and died March 25, 1891. He married EMERLINE FRENCH Bef. 1871 in McCrory, Woodruff Co., AR. She was born 1852, and died December 07, 1894 in Jackson, Madison Co., TN.
Notes for MOSES GRIFFIN RUSHING:
1880 Census shows his name as Griffen Rushiing age 36 born TN Head of Household living with Emerline, wife age 28; William son age 8; Lizabeth dau age 6; Reba dau age 2. Griffen's father born in NC.
More About MOSES GRIFFIN RUSHING:
Census: 1880, District 8, Madison, TN
Children of MOSES RUSHING and EMERLINE FRENCH are:
58. i. JACK ARTHUR RANGE7 RUSHING, b. Abt. 1871, TN.
59. ii. WILLIAM LEE RUSHING, b. February 05, 1872, TN; d. 1936.
60. iii. FRANCES LIZABETH RUSHING, b. May 29, 1873; d. December 12, 1954.
iv. REBA DOVE RUSHING, b. 1878, TN; d. 1960.
61. v. WALTER HERRIN RUSHING, b. May 30, 1884, Jackson, TN; d. Unknown.
vi. RUTH RUSHING, b. Unknown, Jackson, TN; d. Unknown.
28. JOEL TRAVIS6 RUSHING, JR. (JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born August 23, 1848, and died July 12, 1933. He married EMILY N. SMETHWICK November 11, 1875 in Madison Co., TN. She was born 1849 in TN, and died Unknown.
Children of JOEL RUSHING and EMILY SMETHWICK are:
i. HOMER T.7 RUSHING, b. 1876, TN; d. Unknown.
ii. FLORENCE E. RUSHING, b. 1881; d. Unknown.
29. MARY MARGARET6 RUSHING (NOAH TENNESSEE5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born December 09, 1867 in Henry Co. TN, and died September 20, 1951 in Dallas, Dallas Co., TX. She married GEORGE WAHINGTON EDGAR HERRIN September 24, 1905, son of ABNER HERRIN and NANCY HERRIN. He was born July 26, 1850, and died September 23, 1923.
More About MARY MARGARET RUSHING:
Alias: Molly
Notes for GEORGE WAHINGTON EDGAR HERRIN:
GWE HERRIN did marry Harriet when she became her brother's widow. Wm E. Herrin was 22 when he died. I can find no record that he had any children. We dont know for sure, because of the grave marker for Harriet conflicts with other research, so it is assumed that George married her after he passed away if they were ever in fact married at all. Was Harriet and Mary Margaret sisters? They were both Rushings. It would be interesting if GWE married his brothers widow, then when she passed away her sister marries GWE. The reason I say this is because we know:
Harriet died in 1903 Mary Margaret married GWE in 1905 GWE had a first wife and family before Mary Margaret.
GWE sired my grandfather in 1907 when he was 57 yrs old. My grandfather had older grown half siblings that is hinted at being his cousins.
I assume that his half siblings were the children of Harriet and GWE and if they were his cousins, that would mean that Harriet was his aunt and possible sister of his mom, Mary Margaret.
Children are listed above under (24) George Wahington Edgar Herrin.
30. CLAY6 RUSHING (NOAH TENNESSEE5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born November 06, 1869, and died August 13, 1956. He married SELETA ANN STIGALL January 01, 1891 in Benton, TN.. She was born October 10, 1868, and died April 17, 1955.
Children of CLAY RUSHING and SELETA STIGALL are:
i. ROBERT CLAY7 RUSHING, b. March 23, 1928; m. JAMIE BRITE, April 01, 1950.
ii. IRA C. RUSHING, b. December 1891; d. Unknown; m. PATSY BOMAR, May 26, 1912, Benton, TN.; b. Abt. 1894; d. Unknown.
iii. INA F. RUSHING, b. August 1893; d. Unknown; m. BOB WEATHERLY; b. Abt. 1890; d. Unknown.
iv. HENRY FREEMAN RUSHING, b. December 1895; d. Unknown; m. RUTH JOSEPHINE CORBITT, July 29, 1920, Benton, TN.; b. May 20, 1893; d. Unknown.
v. PAUL X. RUSHING, b. 1903; d. 1942; m. OLIVE FLORENCE, December 18, 1925, Benton, TN.; b. Abt. 1905; d. Unknown.
vi. NOAH L. RUSHING, b. Abt. 1905; d. Unknown; m. MAVIS CORBITT, May 02, 1920, Benton, TN.; b. November 02, 1900; d. Unknown.
vii. JAMES C. RUSHING, b. Abt. 1907; d. Unknown.
31. ROBERT SPENCER6 WALTERS (JEMIMA5 RUSHING, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born February 1846 in Henry Co., TN, and died November 30, 1911 in Henry Co., TN. He married NANCY VANDORA BUSH November 02, 1865 in Henry Co., TN. She was born November 15, 1852 in Benton Co., TN, and died April 14, 1930 in Henry Co., TN.
Child of ROBERT WALTERS and NANCY BUSH is:
62. i. WILLIAM HENRY7 WALTERS, b. May 09, 1870, Henry Co., TN; d. September 11, 1940, Henry Co., TN.
32. WILLIAM HENRY6 WALTERS (JEMIMA5 RUSHING, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born March 1850 in Henry, TN, and died March 15, 1912 in Henry, TN. He married MARY JANE WINSETT March 27, 1873. She was born February 1853 in Henry, TN, and died 1923 in Henry, TN.
Child of WILLIAM WALTERS and MARY WINSETT is:
i. GEORGE L.7 WALTERS.
33. ERRE JANE6 HERRIN (BEVERLY5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born March 24, 1834 in TN, and died May 15, 1921 in Webster Co., KY. She married WILLIAM BLACKWELL. He was born May 05, 1829, and died April 08, 1911.
Notes for ERRE JANE HERRIN:
In the 1870 Webster Co. Census, she and her husband, William Blackwell, live right next door to Beverly and Sarah Herron. She is buried in the Fraser-Blackwell Cemetery on Bob Hartley Road.
Information On Erre Jane Herrin and her descendants provided by Alicia Dorris Wyatt at dawyatt@vci.net
More About ERRE JANE HERRIN:
Burial: May 16, 1921, Blackwell Grave Yard, Webster Co., KY
Cause of Death: Senility
More About WILLIAM BLACKWELL:
Burial: Fraser-Blackwell Cem., Clay, KY
Child of ERRE HERRIN and WILLIAM BLACKWELL is:
63. i. NICEA JANE7 BLACKWELL, b. October 12, 1860; d. February 19, 1927.
34. JOHN W.6 HERRIN (BEVERLY5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born March 09, 1839 in TN, and died Unknown. He married MARTHA J. LNU 1860. She was born July 30, 1842 in KY, and died April 28, 1918.
More About JOHN W. HERRIN:
Census: 1880, Clayville, Webster Co., KY
Children of JOHN HERRIN and MARTHA LNU are:
i. JAMES ELUHUE7 HERRIN, b. 1862.
ii. CERNILIA HERRIN, b. 1864.
iii. MOLLIE HERRIN, b. 1866.
More About MOLLIE HERRIN:
Fact 1: Died in infancy.
iv. NANCY L. HERRIN, b. 1868, KY.
v. ELIZABETH H. HERRIN, b. 1869, KY.
vi. LOTTIE HERRIN, b. 1872; m. DANIEL MOORE, 1897.
vii. EDWARD W. HERRIN, b. 1874, KY; d. 1954; m. FANNY HATLEY, 1893, Webster Co., KY; b. 1877; d. 1970.
viii. WILLIAM T. HERRIN, b. February 05, 1876, KY; d. March 06, 1913.
ix. LURA HERRIN, b. 1878.
More About LURA HERRIN:
Fact 1: Died in childhood.
x. ENICE HERRIN, b. 1880.
35. THOMAS6 HERRIN (BEVERLY5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born 1850 in KY, and died Unknown. He married EMMA LNU. She was born Abt. 1860 in Ky, and died Unknown.
Children of THOMAS HERRIN and EMMA LNU are:
i. ELIZABETH7 HERRIN, b. 1877.
ii. ANN HERRIN, b. 1880.
36. BEVERLY6 HERRIN (GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born November 04, 1852 in Caborn Area, Benton Co., TN, and died 1937. He married (1) MOLLY MURPHY. He married (2) MALISSA TAPP January 16, 1872 in Webster Co., KY, daughter of SAMUEL TAPP and ELIZABETH LNU. She was born June 11, 1850, and died 1932.
Notes for BEVERLY HERRIN:
By age 17, "Bev" was working as a farm laborer as shown in the 1870 census which lists Beverly Herren, age 17, and Zedic Weldon, age 15, as farm laborers living in the home of Wiley Tapp, a prominent farmer in the Jonesstand area. Just looking at the census record by itself, the conclusion might be that "Bev" was already "on his own", but in actuality, Wiley Tapp was actually "Uncle Wiley", to Beverly. Wiley Tapp was married to Nancy Crews, Sarah's sister, which made his an uncle of Bev's and brother in law of George W. and Sarah. In addition, the farm owned by Wiley Tapp was only a mile or two from the Caborn area where Bev was raised.
Also, living with Wiley Tapp in 1870 was his niece, Malissa Tapp, who was 19 years. old. 2 years later, in 1872, Malissa and Beverly were married, with Wiley Tapp signing the consent statement and marriage bond for the couple. Grandpaw used to tell the story of "him and Malissa living together for a year before they got married"; then he'd laugh and Grandmaw would grin and say, "Bev!" The reference, of course, was to his living and working with Wiley Tapp when they were courting.
Between 1880 and 1890 Bev expanded the home place, obtaining some land from his father and purchasing land to the south and west toward Free Union Church until the farm totaled almost 200 acres.
Other land records indicate that Bev and Malissa owned other property and bought and sold several tracts. For example, the couple sold 2 parcels of land on Highland Creek, one of 45 acres and on of 18 acres to Henry F. Tapp, Malissa's cousin. This is the land believed to have been inherited by Malissa from her uncle and the site where the couple lived when they were first married.
The 1900 Census shows Beverly & Malissa in the same place; owned the farm, but still had a mortgage; that both of them could read and write; and that William E., Charles, Clarence, Ora, & Ida were still at home. The same report shows that James E., the older son, is married to Cora Taylor, daughter of Joseph D. Taylor, and living in Blackford with their 2 sons, Clarence, age 2 and Benjamin, age 11 months. In addition, Noah and Bell are shown with 3 children; Eugene born in 1891, Finnis born in 1894 and Malissa born in 1898. Following the marriage of Ernest & Sally Taylor, also a daughter of Joseph D. and Lillie Taylor, the couple moved to Clay and opened a retail store under the name of "B. Hearon, Gen. Merchandise." Beverly & Malissa were still living at the home place near Little Zion, but they sold the Dixon farm later and moved to Clay.
In Clay, Beverly & Malissa purchased land on Lisman St. adjacent to the I.O.O.F. Cemetery and that became the new home place. The cemetery now encompasses all the land where they lived and several family members are now buried in what was called "the horse lot" and the "garden plot."
Once the move was completed, Beverly also began a cartage business which carried perishable merchandise from the railroad depot to retail stores in the area. In addition, he purchased 162 1/2 acres of land on Craborehard Creek from Wesley Herrin. This land fronted on Montezuma Rd., now called White Oak Rd, and was part of the original Beverly Herrin land. Grandpaw's Uncle Beverly, Grandpaw & William Ernest later opened a small coal mine on the land and mined for a short time.
During this period, the other children of Beverly and Malissa were growing to adulthood. Alonzo had married Sally Smith in 1898 and Charles had married Katie Chaffin. Clarence was about 15, Ora was 12 or 13, and Ida was 9 or 10.
Beverly and Malissa lived the rest of their lives in Clay, at the "new" home place. They owned and sold several pieces of property during their later years; saw the first retail store burn during the Wall Street fire in Clay; saw the rebuilding of the new store in the location it remained in for over 50 years; saw the store name change from B. Hearon & Son to W. E. Hearon's Grocery & Hardware; and saw some 30 grandchildren born to their family.
More About MOLLY MURPHY:
Fact 1: The grandmother of Beverly's grandson, Simpson's, wife.
Fact 2: Lived on Lisman Street until Grandpaw's death in 1937.
Fact 3: Remained in the homeplace until her death.
Fact 4: The homeplace was sold to J. D. Blackburn who lived there for several yrs.
Fact 5: The house was removed to expand the cemetery.
Fact 6: 1880, Census: Dixon District, altered the spelling of the family name to Hearon.
Fact 7: 1880, The change in the spelling of the name was an obivious error.
Fact 8: Beverly adopted the change almost immediately & started using it exclusively.
Fact 9: Bev's brothers & sisters used both the Herrin & the Herron spellings.
Fact 10: Bev's influence caused a number of the family to change the spelling.
Notes for MALISSA TAPP:
Malissa with her brothers and sisters were raised by their uncle, Wiley D. Tapp, because they were orphaned at an early age. Her parents, Samuel & Elizabeth Tapp, along with their other children; Stacy Ann, John, Sarah, and Hiram migrated to Missouri in the late 1850's. During the Civil War, Samuel enlisted in the Confederate Army and during his absence, Elizabeth became ill & subsequently died.
Samuel returned to his children, probably by deserting, to care for them and his farm. Shortly after he came home, a party of "Yankee" soldiers raided his farm in an attempt to steal his horses. Samuel resisted and during the skirmish which ensued in the horse lot of the family farm he was shot and killed as the children watched. When word of the incident reached KY, his brother Wiley drove a wagon to Missouri and brought the children back to Jonesstand to live with him.
More About MALISSA TAPP:
Fact 1: Buried at Little Zion
Children of BEVERLY HERRIN and MALISSA TAPP are:
64. i. JAMES E.7 HEARIN, b. March 06, 1873; d. 1950.
65. ii. NOAH W. HERRIN, b. October 14, 1875.
66. iii. WILLIAM EARNEST HEARON, b. August 01, 1878; d. December 12, 1966.
67. iv. ALONZO HERRON, b. March 11, 1880; d. 1920.
68. v. CHARLES HERRON, b. September 23, 1881; d. 1963.
69. vi. CLARENCE HERRIN, b. March 27, 1886; d. November 1964.
70. vii. ORA HERRIN, b. May 06, 1888, Little Zion; d. February 08, 1910.
viii. IDA HERRIN, b. October 23, 1891, Little Zion; d. 1988; m. (1) WILFORD E. COBB; b. 1897; d. February 05, 1966; m. (2) HENRY POLLY; m. (3) LEONERT GLAZEBROOKS, 1906.
More About IDA HERRIN:
Fact 1: Grew up in Clay.
Fact 2: Marriage to Lehonest ended in divorce.
Fact 3: Moved to Flint, MI after marrying Wilford Cobb where she lived most of her life.
Fact 4: After Wilford retired, the couple moved back to Clay until his death in 1966.
Fact 5: Lived in Dixon until Henry Polly's death.
Fact 6: She died in 1988 at the age of 97.
37. NANCY P.6 HERRIN (GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born March 08, 1855 in Near Caborn. KY, and died May 17, 1932 in Webster Co., KY. She married JOHN D. DILBECK September 11, 1873 in Webster Co., KY. He was born December 09, 1854 in KY, and died September 18, 1924 in Union Co., IL.
More About NANCY P. HERRIN:
Burial: Rock Springs Cem., Wheatcroft, Webster Co., KY
Fact 1: She was called "Sis" and "Aunt Sis" by the family.
More About JOHN D. DILBECK:
Burial: Rock Springs Cem., Wheatcroft, Webster Co., KY
Census: 1880, Boxville, Union Co., KY
Children of NANCY HERRIN and JOHN DILBECK are:
i. BEVERLY7 DILBECK, b. 1877, Webster Co., KY; d. March 11, 1877, Webster Co., KY.
ii. MARY A. DILBECK, b. 1880.
More About MARY A. DILBECK:
Census: 1880, 9 Months old. Boxville, Union Co., KY
iii. BOYD DILBECK, b. March 03, 1881, KY; d. March 15, 1905, Webster Co., KY.
iv. HARRISON CLAUDIE DILBECK, b. February 24, 1883, Union Co., IL; d. March 02, 1966, Sturgis, Union Co., KY.
More About HARRISON CLAUDIE DILBECK:
Burial: March 05, 1966, Rock Springs Cem., Wheatcroft, Webster Co., KY
v. WILLIAM FLAUDIE DILBECK, b. February 24, 1883, Union Co., KY; d. January 06, 1925, Providence, Webster Co., KY.
More About WILLIAM FLAUDIE DILBECK:
Burial: White Oak Cem., Webster Co., KY
vi. ROBERT L. DILBECK, b. April 05, 1888, Webster Co., KY; d. December 07, 1925, Henderson, Henderson Co., KY.
More About ROBERT L. DILBECK:
Burial: December 09, 1925, Fernwood Cem., KY
vii. CLARENCE DILBECK, b. April 20, 1890, Webster Co., KY; d. May 05, 1961, Sturgis, Union Co., KY.
More About CLARENCE DILBECK:
Burial: Pythian Ridge Cem., North of Sturgis, KY
viii. TIMOTHY DILBECK, b. May 02, 1892, Union Co., KY; d. May 12, 1946, Chicago, IL.
More About TIMOTHY DILBECK:
Burial: Rock Springs Cem., Wheatcroft, Webster Co., KY
ix. HENRY BAXTER DILBECK, b. March 02, 1894, KY; d. January 23, 1965, Wheatcroft, Webster Co., KY.
More About HENRY BAXTER DILBECK:
Burial: Rock Springs Cem., Wheatcroft, Webster Co., KY
x. NELLIE WINSTON DILBECK, b. May 13, 1897, Webster Co., KY; d. December 21, 1977, Wheatcroft, Webster Co., KY.
More About NELLIE WINSTON DILBECK:
Burial: Rock Springs Cem., Wheatcroft, Webster Co., KY
38. WILLIAM WESLEY6 HERRIN (GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born May 14, 1859 in Webster Co., KY, and died November 10, 1942 in Webster Co., KY. He married (1) FLORIDA BURGESS 1877. He married (2) RACHEL MARKS Abt. 1887 in KY. She was born October 24, 1862, and died September 30, 1904.
More About WILLIAM WESLEY HERRIN:
Fact 1: Called "Wes".
Fact 2: The name of children and order of birth from this marriage is not known.
Children of WILLIAM HERRIN and FLORIDA BURGESS are:
i. OTIS7 HERRIN, b. 1878.
ii. INEZ HERRIN, b. 1880.
iii. GERALDINE HERRIN, b. 1882.
Children of WILLIAM HERRIN and RACHEL MARKS are:
71. iv. HENRY GREGSTON7 HERRIN, b. November 24, 1888; d. April 09, 1976.
v. ROY HERRIN, b. 1890.
vi. MAZIE HERRIN, b. 1892.
vii. C. C. HERRIN, b. 1895.
viii. EFFIE HERRIN, b. 1899.
ix. LENA HERRIN, b. 1901.
x. ETHEL HERRIN, b. 1904; d. 1944.
39. JAMES6 HERRIN (GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born February 11, 1873 in Little Zion, KY, and died July 22, 1942 in Cave In Rock, IL.. He married MYRTLE JENKINS 1917, daughter of WILLIAM JENKINS and MARY WILLIE. She was born September 1889, and died August 14, 1951 in Cave In Rock, IL..
Notes for JAMES HERRIN:
Following the death of his father, George W., Jim and his younger brother, "Harve", made their way to Cave In Rock, IL to work for Dr. George W. Hill, who was married to their older sister, Kathleen.
He and Harve bought the Farmers Implement Co. a few years later and the business was run by the family for over 50 years. Jim also owned a sizable farm on Saline Creek, the Herrin Funeral Home, the Ohio Theater, and was president of the Hardin County State Bank.
Biographical records indicate that Jim was the first in Cave In Rock to have a "horseless carriage", the first to have electricity and first to have running water piped into his house. He owned a 175 acre farm on Saline Creek, The Ohio Theatre and The Herrin Funeral Home.
In 1918 he bought land that he sold to Naylor and Co. of New York which became Benzon Fluorspar Mining Co.
More About JAMES HERRIN:
Fact 1: Buried at Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
Fact 2: Grew up in the midst of his relatives in the Little Zion Area.
More About MYRTLE JENKINS:
Fact 1: Buried at Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
Children of JAMES HERRIN and MYRTLE JENKINS are:
72. i. KATHLEEN7 HERRIN, b. January 25, 1920; d. April 01, 1980.
73. ii. NORMA FRANCES HERRIN, b. August 13, 1926; d. September 1990.
40. WILLIAM HARVEY6 HERRIN (GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born July 25, 1875 in Little Zion, Webster County, KY, and died January 20, 1955 in Cave In Rock, IL. at Dr. Oxford's Office.. He married (1) FLORA HUNTER April 05, 1900 in Hardin Co., IL. He married (2) ELSIE TAYLOR November 15, 1908 in Her house, Battery Rock, Bend of The River, Hardin County, IL., daughter of WILLIAM TAYLOR and CLARA LANIER. She was born December 07, 1877 in Hardin County, IL, and died May 21, 1961 in Methodist Home, Lawrenceville, IL.
Notes for WILLIAM HARVEY HERRIN: Made the trip to Cave In Rock, IL with his older brother, Jim, following the death of George W. in 1891. Both he & Jim worked for their brother in law on his farm and at other jobs around the town. Later, the brothers brought their mother, Elizabeth & a younger brother & sister, Benjamin & Rissie to Cave In Rock, IL
Purchased a half interest in a merchantile business with Charles Lavender. Later, Lavender sold his interest to Mr. & Mrs. John Blee.
He owned a half interest in the grain elevator at Shawneetown, IL. and owned controlling interest in the St. Thomas Coal Mines in Gallatin County, IL.
He filled various interests of trust in the county and was County Commissioner for many years. He also served on the Board of Education for 3 terms.
He was teacher of the Men's Bible Study Class for twenty-five years at the United Methodist Church and also Chairman of the Church Board. Mr. and Mrs. Herrin's staunch and liberal support contributed largely to the construction of the New Methodist Church in Cave in Rock, IL.
Witnesses to Harve & Elsie's marriage were Ethel Hensel & Lily Plew. By whom Certified, J. B. Driskille.
More About WILLIAM HARVEY HERRIN:
Burial: Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
Cause of Death: Smoke inhalation from house fire.
Fact 1: Buried at Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
Fact 2: Marriage to Flora Hunter ended in divorce.
Residence: 1908, Crittenden Co., KY/ merchant.
More About ELSIE TAYLOR:
Burial: Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
Cause of Death: Cogestive Heart Failure.
Fact 1: buried at Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
Children of WILLIAM HERRIN and FLORA HUNTER are:
74. i. OTIS TURNER7 HERRIN, b. March 21, 1901, Cave In Rock, IL.; d. February 22, 1944.
75. ii. WILLIAM CLARENCE HERRIN, b. March 24, 1903, KY; d. March 11, 1943, Gallatin County, IL.
Children of WILLIAM HERRIN and ELSIE TAYLOR are:
iii. JAMES HARVEY7 HERRIN, b. October 20, 1909, Hardin County, IL; d. 1918, Hardin County, IL.
More About JAMES HARVEY HERRIN:
Burial: Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave in Rock, IL
Cause of Death: Flu Epidemic
Fact 1: Died in childhood of pneumonia.
iv. ERTHEL RUTH HERRIN, b. 1920, Cave in Rock, Hardin Co., IL; d. 1960, Metropolis, Massac Co., IL; m. OREN CONRAD RUTHERFORD; b. August 16, 1918, IL; d. September 21, 1988, Metropolis, Massac Co., IL.
More About ERTHEL RUTH HERRIN: Burial: Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
Fact 1: Died of suicide.
Fact 2: No children.
v. CLARA BERNICE HERRIN, b. October 19, 1913, Hardin County, IL; d. March 1985, Carrier Mills, Saline Co., IL; m. (1) RAY OXFORD; b. February 16, 1908, Hardin County, IL; d. June 27, 1978, Evansville, Vanderburgh, IN; m. (2) HAROLD SMITH; b. Vincennes, IN; d. Harrisburg, Saline Co., IL.
More About CLARA BERNICE HERRIN:
Burial: Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
Cause of Death: Cervical Fracture from fall.
More About RAY OXFORD:
Burial: Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
More About HAROLD SMITH:
Burial: Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
Cause of Death: Congestive Heart Failure.
Medical Information: Died at home in sleep.
Military service: Marine Sargent, WWII
76. vi. WILFORD HORACE HERRIN, b. May 12, 1912, Cave In Rock, IL.; d. October 28, 1981, Royal Oak, MI..
77. vii. WALTER EARLO HERRIN, b. November 11, 1915, Cave in Rock, IL; d. June 20, 1980, Carrier Mills, Saline County, IL.
41. LARISSA RISSIE6 HERRIN (GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born January 1881 in KY, and died January 13, 1903. She married JOHN HORACE TYER 1897, son of JOHN TYER and RUFINA VINYARD. He was born March 1867 in IL, and died Unknown.
More About LARISSA RISSIE HERRIN:
Alias: Rissie
Children of LARISSA HERRIN and JOHN TYER are:
78. i. JEWELL7 IRENETYER, b. September 1898; d. 1993, Sikeston, MO.
ii. CLEO TYER, b. 1902, IL.
Notes for CLEO TYER:
Married 2 times and had one son;
42. THOMAS EDWARD6 HERRIN (ABIMLICK WESLEY5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born 1858 in Webster Co., KY, and died Abt. 1897. He married PERNICIA A. COBB February 14, 1878 in Webster Co., KY, daughter of THOMAS COBB and FRANCES THOMPSON. She was born 1858 in KY.
More About PERNICIA A. COBB:
Alias: Priscella
Children of THOMAS HERRIN and PERNICIA COBB are:
79. i. LOTTIE B.7 HEARIN, b. 1879.
80. ii. CROCKETT HERRIN, b. 1882; d. 1940.
iii. DANIEL HERRIN.
iv. ELBY HERRIN, b. KY; m. EVELYN LNU.
More About ELBY HERRIN:
Alias: Jellybean
v. WILLIAM EDWARD HERRIN.
43. WILLIAM THOMAS6 HERRIN (ABIMLICK WESLEY5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born 1885, and died 1940. He married AUDIE W.. She was born 1891, and died 1973.
Children of WILLIAM HERRIN and AUDIE W. are:
i. WILLIAM EARNIE7 HERRIN, b. 1926; d. 1974; m. BETTY JOE LNU; b. 1931.
81. ii. PAULINE HERRIN, b. Unknown.
44. TENIE6 HEARIN (ABIMLICK WESLEY5 HERRIN, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) She married WILLIAM TAYLOR 1910.
Children of TENIE HEARIN and WILLIAM TAYLOR are:
82. i. ALSADEAN7 TAYLOR, b. Unknown.
83. ii. WILMA TAYLOR.
45. WILLIAM OLIVER6 HEARRIN (ENOCH C.5 HERRIN, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born February 1859 in Boardley, Union County, KY, and died November 1919 in Blackford (near), Rural Webster Co, KY. He married MARGARET F. RODGERS December 10, 1881 in Graves Co., KY, daughter of ALBERT ROGERS and REBECCA MCCUAN. She was born 1857 in Mayfield Area, Graves Co., KY, and died March 1923 in Providence, Webster Co., KY.
More About WILLIAM OLIVER HEARRIN:
Alias: Buck
Burial: IOOF Cemetery, Clay, Webster Co., KY
More About MARGARET F. RODGERS:
Alias: Emma
Burial: March 1923, IOOF Cemetery, Clay, Webster Co., KY
Children of WILLIAM HEARRIN and MARGARET RODGERS are:
84. i. ENOCH A.7 HEARRIN, b. December 25, 1884, Near Bradford, Gibson Co., TN; d. 1950, Providence, Webster Co., KY.
ii. THOMAS HEARRIN, b. 1887, Blackfork Area, Wesbster Co., KY; d. 1887, Blackford Area, Webster Co., KY.
85. iii. LUCY KATHERN HEARIN, b. February 1890, Mayfield Area, Graves Co., KY; d. 1943, Evansville, IN.
iv. WILLIAM OLIVER HERRIN, b. February 04, 1897, Blackford (near), Webster CO., KY; d. January 14, 1970, Princeton, Gibson County, IN; m. NOVA DUNHAM, November 20, 1920, Eldorado, Saline Countyy, IL; b. 1903, Hamburg, Saline Co., IL; d. January 13, 1991, Princeton, Gibson Co., IN.
More About WILLIAM OLIVER HERRIN: Alias: Bill
86. v. TIP HERRIN, SR., b. February 16, 1900, Blackford Area, Webster Co, KY; d. September 08, 1990, Providence, KY.
46. BEVERLY6 HERRIN (ENOCH C.5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born October 09, 1859 in Near Broadley, Union County, KY, and died March 27, 1946 in Webster Co., KY. He married (1) DORA WISEMAN. She was born Abt. 1863 in Near Broadley, Union Co. KY, and died 1949. He married (2) DRUCIE DYE December 06, 1882. She was born May 29, 1859 in Near Broadley, Union Co. KY, and died March 24, 1946. He married (3) STACEY ANN STANLEY December 30, 1890. She was born March 02, 1866 in Near Broadley, Union Co. KY, and died June 12, 1923.
Notes for BEVERLY HERRIN:
Beverly Herrin obituary - 1946
Posted by on Fri, 10 Dec 1999
Surname: Herrin, Johnson, Cook
Beverly Herrin, 87, prominent farmer of Crittenden county and former Webster county farmer, died at 5 A.M. Wednesday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cook, near Marion. The body was taken Wednesday to the home of a son, Allen Herrin, near White Oak church.
Survivors are the wife, Mrs. Dora Herrin; two daughters, Mrs. Ray Johnson, Morganfield, and Mrs. Walter Cook, near Marion; five sons, George, Calvin, and Stanley Herrin, Crittenden county, Carson Herrin, Evansville, and Allen Herrin, near Clay; one sister, Mrs. W.R. Nesbitt, near Clay; twenty-five grandchildren; and thirteen great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 11 A.M. today in White Oak church, of which he was a member, with the Rev. Clyde Dempsey of Sturgis officiating.
Burial was in White Oak cemetery.
More About BEVERLY HERRIN:
Burial: White Oak Baptist Church Cemetery, Near Dixon, KY
Children of BEVERLY HERRIN and DRUCIE DYE are:
87. i. BURLEY7 HERRIN, b. November 16, 1883; d. March 09, 1916.
88. ii. MAMIE HERRON, b. April 26, 1886; d. August 19, 1908.
iii. GAMMON HERRIN, b. October 30, 1888; d. November 16, 1889.
Children of BEVERLY HERRIN and STACEY STANLEY are:
iv. ALLEN ALDRIGE7 HERRIN, b. February 04, 1892; d. October 02, 1967; m. MINNIE BAKER, 1916; b. February 22, 1899.
89. v. GEORGE RUSSELL HERRIN, b. September 15, 1893; d. February 24, 1973.
90. vi. LENA GERTRUDE HERRIN, b. January 08, 1896; d. December 27, 1979.
91. vii. CARSON HERRIN, b. May 11, 1898; d. December 05, 1975.
92. viii. CALVIN HERRIN, b. May 13, 1900, Crittenden Co., KY; d. October 10, 1997, Vanderburgh Co., IN.
93. ix. HARPYE HERRIN, b. August 11, 1903; d. March 04, 1929.
x. LOUISE STANLEY HERRIN, b. January 18, 1906; m. LULA SPENCER, March 03, 1929; b. January 08, 1897.
47. FANNIE6 HERRIN (ENOCH C.5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born 1868 in Webster Co., KY, and died 1952 in Webster Co., KY. She married WILLIAM NESBITT 1890. He was born Abt. 1864 in Webster Co., KY, and died Unknown.
More About FANNIE HERRIN:
Burial: IOOF Cemetery, Clay, Webster Co., KY
Children of FANNIE HERRIN and WILLIAM NESBITT are:
i. LILA7 NESBITT, m. TOM JOHNSON.
ii. OPAL NESBITT.
iii. CHRISTINE NESBITT.
48. SARAH FRANCIS6 HERRIN (WILLIAM ALLEN5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born December 03, 1855 in Benton County, TN, and died September 23, 1908. She married SEABORN ABEL RUSHING April 25, 1877 in Benton County, TN. He was born 1853 in Benton Co., TN, and died in Imboden Ark.
Notes for SEABORN ABEL RUSHING:
They moved to Ark in 1885 by way of IL.
Children of SARAH HERRIN and SEABORN RUSHING are:
i. MARY BELLE7 RUSHING, b. December 02, 1875, Big Sandy, Benton County, TN; d. January 05, 1877, Illinois.
ii. SHERMAN RUSHING, b. June 17, 1877, Big Sandy, Benton County, TN; d. Imboden, Randolph County, AR.
iii. LOGAN G. RUSHING, b. September 02, 1882, Big Sandy, Benton County, TN; d. April 29, 1962, Harriman, Roane County, TN.
iv. CLAUDE LEE RUSHING, b. September 02, 1884, Big Sandy, Benton County, TN; d. August 02, 1950, Memphis, Shelby County, TN.
49. NANCY6 HERRIN (WILLIAM ALLEN5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born 1858 in Benton County, TN, and died 1910. She married (1) JOSEPH RILEY BAIN March 19, 1876 in Benton County, TN, son of JOSEPH BANE and MARY HURSEY. He was born June 06, 1853 in Benton County, TN, and died March 04, 1893. She married (2) TOAB GREER 1895. He was born 1860, and died 1895.
Notes for JOSEPH RILEY BAIN:
Buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Benton County, TN
Children of NANCY HERRIN and JOSEPH BAIN are:
94. i. GEORGE C.7 BAIN, b. 1876; d. 1927, Benton, TN.
ii. PRENTICE BAIN, b. 1877, Benton County, TN.
Notes for PRENTICE BAIN:
He is in the 1880 census book with his brother Joseph Newton.
95. iii. JOSEPH NEWTON BAIN, b. September 20, 1878, Benton County, TN; d. January 16, 1955, East Praire, MO.
96. iv. MARY ELIZABETH BAIN, b. November 24, 1880, Benton County, TN; d. October 02, 1964, Buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
50. ROBERT LEE6 HERRIN (WILLIAM ALLEN5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born 1866 in Rushing Creek Area, Benton County, TN, and died January 19, 1897 in Benton County, TN. He married GERALDINA ISADORA CROSSNOE September 28, 1888 in Benton County, TN, daughter of ALLEN CROSSNOE and FRANCES PRESSON. She was born April 03, 1867 in Pleasant Hill/Rushings Chapel area, Benton County, TN, and died March 14, 1937 in Benton County, TN.
Notes for ROBERT LEE HERRIN:
Died of pneumonia, on Sandy River Bottom, on what is now (1997) The Wade Luther Farm, where he was a mill worker. Body carried to Pleasant Hill Cemetery on an ox-drawn wagon. (Pioneer Families; Camden Chronicle; June 19, 1997, p13a)
More About ROBERT LEE HERRIN:
Burial: Pleasant Hill Methodist
Children of ROBERT HERRIN and GERALDINA CROSSNOE are:
97. i. MARSHAL CURTIS7 HERRIN, b. July 25, 1889, Benton County, TN; d. May 29, 1975, Benton County, TN.
98. ii. ZORA LEE HERRIN, b. July 25, 1892, Benton County, TN; d. February 16, 1973, Benton County, TN.
51. JOHN WESLEY6 HERRIN (WILLIAM ALLEN5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born October 09, 1866 in Benton County, TN, near Rushing's Creek Community, and died March 07, 1912 in Buried at Pleasant Hill Methodist Cemetery. He married ROSA LEE CROSSNOE September 17, 1888 in Benton County, TN, daughter of ALLEN CROSSNOE and FRANCES PRESSON. She was born October 03, 1871 in Benton County, TN, and died October 17, 1953 in Benton County, TN.
Notes for JOHN WESLEY HERRIN:
The Camden Chronicle.
John Herrin of Wyly visited this community Sunday. Garfield Community, Dec. 7, 1898. Rosa Ellis and Purlina Cresa (Harvey) were guest of Rosa Herrin Sunday. Garfield, Jan. 7, 1898 John Herrin and Rosa Herrin and Ada Black of Vale visited Garfield yesterday.
Smith College, March 2, 1900: John Herrin says its a long lane with no turns. It's a girl this time, named Erda Lee Herrin.
Smith College, April 13, 1900 John Herrin lost $40.00 last week but found it in a corn crib where he had been measuring corn.
Camden Chronicle, March 15, 1912 says, "There was a tragic accidental death of John Herrin last Thursday afternoon while cleaning his gun. John Herrin was a big hearted man and was ever willing to lend a helping hand to his neighbors and will be missed by all who knew him. A large number attended his funeral at Pleasant Hill.
Children of JOHN HERRIN and ROSA CROSSNOE are:
i. EPHRIUM MADISON7 HERRIN, b. June 25, 1889; d. March 02, 1977, Buried Pleasant Hill Cem.; m. RUTH VIA, April 25, 1926; b. January 01, 1905.
More About EPHRIUM MADISON HERRIN:
Military service: Pvt. U.S. Army WW I
ii. CLEATIS ALLEN HERRIN, b. 1892; d. May 27, 1975, Buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery; m. EUNICE PRESSON, July 12, 1912; b. 1895; d. 1969.
99. iii. THURMAN GREEN HERRIN, b. 1894; d. 1954.
iv. JOE INGERSOL HERRIN, b. October 05, 1897; d. April 04, 1974, Buried Camden City Cemetery; m. RUBY ELMORE, September 14, 1916; b. 1896; d. 1980.
v. ERDA LEE HERRIN, b. February 24, 1901; d. December 14, 1971, Buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery; m. CARLOS WISEMAN, 1918.
vi. CLEO HERRIN, b. November 22, 1903; m. (1) CHESTER PARM; m. (2) OSCO HICKS.
Notes for CLEO HERRIN:
She is buried beside her 2nd husband Osco Hicks. Camden Chronicle, Oct. 23, 1896.Garfield Community.
Notes for THOMAS BEVERLY HERRIN:
"Tubby" HERRIN later seperated from Fredonia & she lived alone for several years near Bud & Bertie near the Bain community. Tubby was a wanderlust type of person who served with the Confederate So. Army in Capt. Barbee's Co. In a letter written to the Board of Pensions he stated he was sworn into Nathan Bedford Forrest's unit in Dec. 1863 for 12 mos. & he furnished his own horse, clothes and money, & did not draw any money or suit of clothes from the Confedate gov. & began service as a recruit in Nov. 1863. In Sept of 1864 their company was detailed & sent behind enemy lines to Benton Co., their home, by Gen. Forrest to spy & plan how he could get the enemy at Ft. Henry & Johnsonville. They did this work in Oct. of 1863 & Tubby reported they gave Forrest a map & plan how to get to the river above & below Johnsonville. They did this work in Oct of 1863 & Tubby stated Gen. Forrest fixed them in Nov. He says that after Forrest had gone up the Tn. river from Ft. Hymen to Johnsonville, Tubby reported to his company on a hill near Eva, & the river at Johnsonville was a blaze of burning boats. About Christmas of 1864 his horse was taken from him by some of our scouts where Big Sandy is now & he was given a job watching gov. property at Blanting Mill in Henry Co. Later, Tubby rode & walked around the countryside selling wares.
More About THOMAS BEVERLY HERRIN:
Alias: Tubby
Burial: Rushing Creek Cemetery, Benton County, TN
More About FREDONIA ANN LOCKHART:
Burial: Baker's Chapel, Benton Co., TN
Children of THOMAS HERRIN and FREDONIA LOCKHART are:
i. IDA8 HERRIN, b. July 1868; d. October 08, 1868.
More About IDA HERRIN:
Burial: Rushing Creek Cemetery, Benton County, TN
ii. DOLLIE ANN HERRIN, b. July 11, 1870; d. January 29, 1943; m. HARRISON LAFAYETTE LOCKHART, December 21, 1892; d. November 06, 1940.
iii. RICHARD H. HERRIN, b. July 07, 1872; d. March 24, 1957; m. BERTHA BERRY; b. July 18, 1875; d. September 15, 1964.
More About RICHARD H. HERRIN:
Alias: Bud
Burial: Rushing Creek Cemetery, Benton County, TN
Degree: Mason
More About BERTHA BERRY:
Burial: Rushing Creek Cemetery, Benton County, TN
iv. W. J. HERRIN, b. October 1874; d. October 1876.
More About W. J. HERRIN:
Burial: Rushings Creek Cemetery, Benton Co., TN
100. v. EPHRIAM HOMER HERRIN, b. February 06, 1876; d. 1944.
vi. M. M. HERRIN, b. May 1876; d. 1878.
More About M. M. HERRIN:
Burial: Rushing Creek Cemetery, Benton County, TN
101. vii. DELLA ANNE HERRIN, b. 1882; d. April 20, 1949.
viii. J. T. HERRIN, b. July 1889.
Notes for J. T. HERRIN:
7 Days.
More About J. T. HERRIN:
Burial: Rushings Creek Cemetery, Camden, Benton Co., TN
53. GEORGE RUSHING7 HERRIN (GEORGE WAHINGTON EDGAR6, ABNER CALVIN5, JAMES ELISHA4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born March 13, 1907 in Camden, TN, and died Bet. 1976 - 1977. He married IVAN WOODSON SEAY, daughter of SAMUEL SEAY and DAISY HERRIN.
More About IVAN WOODSON SEAY:
Adoption: McCoy after mother remarried.
Children of GEORGE HERRIN and IVAN SEAY are:
i. PENN GEORGE8 HERREN, b. November 14, 1930, Ada, OK; d. August 17, 1995, Seattle, King, WA.
102. ii. JERRY HERRIN, b. November 22, 1933.
54. LOUISE7 HERRIN (GEORGE WAHINGTON EDGAR6, ABNER CALVIN5, JAMES ELISHA4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born in Ida, Oklahoma.
Notes for LOUISE HERRIN:
Moved to Texas and had a son named Bob. Info from Paige Herrin paige_aloha@yahoo.com on Feb. 21, 2004.
Child of LOUISE HERRIN is:
i. BOB8 LNU, b. TX.
55. EUGENE JACKSON7 RUSHING (ABEL6, JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born 1866 in Madison Co., TN, and died 1941 in Madison Co., TN. He married DORA CULP. She was born 1872 in TN, and died October 1929 in Madison Co., TN.
Children of EUGENE RUSHING and DORA CULP are:
i. EULA8 RUSHING, b. Unknown.
ii. BROOKS RUSHING, b. Unknown.
iii. HOWARD RUSHING, b. Unknown.
iv. NONA M. RUSHING, b. 1889.
v. ROBERT M. RUSHING, b. 1893, Madison Co., TN; d. Unknown.
vi. ELSA D. RUSHING, b. 1894, Madison Co., TN; d. Unknown.
vii. DAISY RUSHING, b. 1897, Madison Co., TN; d. Unknown; m. FNU BURLEY; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
103. viii. VIRGIL EUGENE RUSHING, b. October 28, 1907, Jackson, TN; d. November 11, 1988, Jackson, TN.
56. ROBERT ALVIN7 RUSHING (ABEL6, JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born 1869 in Madison Co., TN, and died 1939 in Jackson, TN. He married KATHERINE BUMPUS. She was born February 03, 1878 in Madison Co., TN, and died 1940 in Jackson, TN.
Children of ROBERT RUSHING and KATHERINE BUMPUS are:
i. GRACE8 RUSHING, b. September 06, 1902; d. February 12, 1979; m. (1) CLARENCE CANTRELL; b. Unknown; d. Unknown; m. (2) DEWEY HOUSE; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
ii. BESSIE RUSHING, b. October 06, 1907, Jackson, TN; d. Unknown; m. CECIL EWELL; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
iii. EDITH RUSHING, b. March 04, 1910, Jackson, TN; d. Unknown; m. JOE BURKHEAD; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
iv. PAULINE RUSHING, b. July 31, 1913, Jackson, TN; d. Unknown; m. WILLIAM L. STEWMAN; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
More About PAULINE RUSHING:
Alias: Polly
57. FRANKLIN HAMILTON7 RUSHING (ABEL6, JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born July 1873 in Jackson, TN, and died March 1942 in Cooter, MO. He married (1) ELLA KAY KENDALL. She was born Unknown, and died Unknown. He married (2) CORA WILSON. She was born Unknown, and died Unknown. He married (3) VELMA HAYS August 29, 1902 in Cooter, MO. She was born 1882 in TN, and died 1910.
Children of FRANKLIN RUSHING and VELMA HAYS are:
i. LOIS8 RUSHING, b. March 28, 1905, Pemiscot Co., MO; d. May 29, 1929, Flint, MI; m. FLOYD J. MORRIS, May 22, 1922; b. December 1898, Steele, MO; d. April 1965, Little Rock, AR. ii. LONNIE CLAY RUSHING, b. October 29, 1903, Cooter, MO; d. February 14, 1934, Steele, MO; m. RUBY BROOKS; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
58. JACK ARTHUR RANGE7 RUSHING (MOSES GRIFFIN6, JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born Abt. 1871 in TN. He married NANNIE BELL.
More About JACK ARTHUR RANGE RUSHING:
Census: 1930, Metropolis, Massac, IL
Child of JACK RUSHING and NANNIE BELL is:
i. ALICE8 RUSHING, b. Unknown.
59. WILLIAM LEE7 RUSHING (MOSES GRIFFIN6, JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born February 05, 1872 in TN, and died 1936. He married (1) MONTIE TODD. He married (2) MARY EMMA LEE.
More About WILLIAM LEE RUSHING:
Census: 1880, Madison Co., TN
Children of WILLIAM RUSHING and MONTIE TODD are:
i. EULA8 RUSHING.
ii. LAUREL LEE RUSHING.
iii. ROY L. HALLIS RUSHING. iv. KATHERINE Rushing.
v. ELBERT RUSHING.
vi. HAZEL MARIE RUSHING.
Children of WILLIAM RUSHING and MARY LEE are:
vii. WILLIAM MAY8 RUSHING.
viii. RUSSELL RUSHING.
ix. VELMA RACHEL RUSHING.
x. ANNIE LOUISE RUSHING.
xi. LARRY KENT RUSHING.
60. FRANCES LIZABETH7 RUSHING (MOSES GRIFFIN6, JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born May 29, 1873, and died December 12, 1954. She married SAMUEL EDLEY REAVIS July 03, 1893. He was born December 14, 1871, and died June 08, 1910.
Children of FRANCES RUSHING and SAMUEL REAVIS are:
i. EARL LEWIS8 REAVIS, b. September 04, 1895, Madison, TN; d. August 10, 1962; m. FRANCES HARRIS.
More About EARL LEWIS REAVIS:
Military service: WWI
ii. EDITH MAY REAVIS, b. July 27, 1903; m. THOMAS N. ALEXANDER, January 21, 1922; b. March 15, 1897; d. March 27, 1974.
61. WALTER HERRIN7 RUSHING (MOSES GRIFFIN6, JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born May 30, 1884 in Jackson, TN, and died Unknown. He married (1) CHRISTINE RAINEY. She was born 1914, and died 1959. He married (2) AMY LEE SMITH December 22, 1907, daughter of JOSEPH SMITH and MELVINA LNU. She was born November 19, 1885 in Jackson, TN, and died Unknown.
Child of WALTER RUSHING and AMY SMITH is:
i. EVELYN RUTH8 RUSHING, b. Unknown, Jackson, TN; d. Unknown.
62. WILLIAM HENRY7 WALTERS (ROBERT SPENCER6, JEMIMA5 RUSHING, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born May 09, 1870 in Henry Co., TN, and died September 11, 1940 in Henry Co., TN. He married ANNA ELIZABETH SMITH November 04, 1893 in Henry Co., TN. She was born April 15, 1870 in Henry Co., TN, and died November 06, 1906 in Henry Co., TN.
Child of WILLIAM WALTERS and ANNA SMITH is:
104. i. HOMER EDWIN8 WALTERS, b. February 09, 1904, Henry Co., TN; d. August 29, 1959, Henry Co., TN.
63. NICEA JANE7 BLACKWELL (ERRE JANE6 HERRIN, BEVERLY5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born October 12, 1860, and died February 19, 1927. She married (1) EDWARD SKINNER. He was born October 05, 1855 in Union Co., KY. She married (2) JOHN BRADEN.
Children of NICEA BLACKWELL and EDWARD SKINNER are:
105. i. EMMA DREW8 SKINNER, b. August 17, 1880; d. September 12, 1931, Webster Co., KY.
ii. AUBREY SKINNER, b. Unknown.
iii. NELLIE R. SKINNER, b. 1875; d. 1948; m. JOHN W. EVANS, 1904.
More About NELLIE R. SKINNER:
Burial: Salem Cemetery, Hopkins Co., KY
64. JAMES E.7 HEARIN (BEVERLY6 HERRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born March 06, 1873, and died 1950. He married CORA TAYLOR 1897, daughter of JOSEPH TAYLOR and LILLIE LNU. She was born May 1872, and died 1935.
Notes for JAMES E. HEARIN:
An interesting observation about Jim & Cora is that they probably double dated with Jim's younger brother, Ernie, and Cora's younger sister, Sally, because Sally & William Ernie were married 3 years. later. The brothers didn't have too far to travel to see the Taylor sisters, however, because they just had to walk across their dad's farm to the backside and cross the old Dixon Clay road. The girls just had to come down the lane from their home place to meet the boys at the well which still stands at the entrance of the lane.
Cora & Jim are shown in the 1900 census living in Blackford with their 2 sons: Clarence, age 2; and Lloyd, age 11 months. Jim is listed as a farmer and renting land.
Later they moved to Mounds, IL where the entire family remained. Both Jim & Cora are buried at Mounds. Cora was killed following a fire in the couples home which burned her severely. Jim died in 1950.
More About JAMES E. HEARIN:
Fact 1: 1900, Census: Living in Blackford.
Children of JAMES HEARIN and CORA TAYLOR are:
i. CLARENCE8 HERRIN, b. January 02, 1898.
ii. LLOYD HERRIN, b. June 1899.
65. NOAH W.7 HERRIN (BEVERLY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born October 14, 1875. He married BELL ALLEY.
Notes for NOAH W. HERRIN:
1900 Census: Shown living across the road from his mother and father, probably next to the Little Zion Church.
It is not known exactly how long the couple lived in the Little Zion Community but they had 3 children who died in infancy or early childhood and are buried at Little Zion. The couple moved from KY to Sikeston, MO where Noah joined the police department. They lived there the remainder of their lives.
Children of NOAH HERRIN and BELL ALLEY are:
i. ALTA8 HERRIN, m. HENRY ISABELL.
ii. FOREST HERRIN.
iii. LEE HERRIN.
Notes for LEE HERRIN:
Died in childhood.
iv. MADGE HERRIN.
Notes for MADGE HERRIN:
Died in childhood.
v. NAOMI HERRIN.
Notes for NAOMI HERRIN:
Died in childhood.
vi. NELL HERRIN.
vii. EUGENE HERRIN, b. 1891.
viii. FINNIS HERRIN, b. 1896.
ix. MALISSA HERRIN, b. 1898.
66. WILLIAM EARNEST7 HEARON (BEVERLY6 HERRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born August 01, 1878, and died December 12, 1966. He married (1) MAUDE NEWCOMB. He married (2) SARAH TENNESSEE TAYLOR December 26, 1900, daughter of JOSEPH L. TAYLOR. She was born October 08, 1877, and died October 09, 1956.
Notes for WILLIAM EARNEST HEARON:
He grew up on the farm near Little Zion and went to Rayburn School near Free Union Church.
It is interesting to note that even though Papa Ernie spelled his name Hearon, like his father, later on, the marriage license is issued to W. E. Herron and Sally Taylor. The reason these differences has never been determined.
Ernie and Sally moved to Clay after they were married and opened a grocery store on Main Street. In 1903 his father, Beverly, came into the business with him and the name of the fledgling business was changed to "B. Hearon & Son, Gen. Merchandise." Later, after Grandpaw moved form Little Zion to Clay. Most of the kids were born during this time and Papa Ernie and Momma Sally added six children, four boys and two girls, to the family: Alla Mae; Joel Elbert; Everett Pride; Gordon T.; Addie Lee; and Maurice Simpson.
The store stayed on Main Street until the Wall Street fire which destroyed an entire city block in the early 1920's. The irony of the less was that the store was on Main Street and the major portion of the fire was in the building next door and down a side street. Papa Ernie, his children, and other townsfolk moved all the merchandise out of the store and across the street to safety. The fire was extinguished and all the inventory was moved back into the building. Everybody went home except for a few firemen and watchmen, but during the night the fire flared up again and burned everything that had been saved earlier. Every time Papa Ernie was around when the story was told, he would lean back a little, lace his fingers across his stomach, roll his thumbs, and say, "Hummph", which was his favorite way of saying he really didn't care to discuss it anymore.
But, like the Phoenix, the store rose again, this time, on Green Street where Ernie or members of his family operated it for the next 50 years. Rarely did any of the customers ever refer to the business by its actual name. It was always called "Mr. Ernie's" or "Ernie's", even though the business name was W. E. Hearon's, then W. E. Hearon & Sons, and later, Hearon Brothers. There was no business slogan because one wasn't needed. Ask anyone who traded with Ernie, and they would simply say, "If you can't find it at Ernie's, you can't find it." A general store can ask for no better advertising than that.
Over the years, Ernie acquired a reputation as a very astute businessman. He bought and sold alot of property, business and residential, and he owned several diverse businesses in the area. Papa rarely sold anything outright, because selling on the contract as he called it, was the best way. He'd look up over the top of his glasses, roll his thumbs, and say, "I can buy a house, sell it a dozen times, and still own it." And that's what he usually did.
Papa Ernie retired, so to speak, in the early 1950's and turned the business over to the boys as he called it. But, he never did really quit. You could find him at the store almost every day and he always had his chair up near the front of the store.
Mama Sally died in 1956 & is buried in what was "the horse lot" at Grandmaw and Grandpaw's new home place which by that time was a part of the IOOF Cemetery in Clay. That's where Papa Ernie thought the family should be buried.
More About SARAH TENNESSEE TAYLOR:
Census: 1880, Puncheon, Allen Co., KY 3 years old father John L. Taylor
Children of WILLIAM HEARON and SARAH TAYLOR are:
106. i. JOEL ELBERT8 HEARON, b. Unknown.
107. ii. ALLA MAE HEARON, b. 1901; d. 1972.
iii. EVERETT PRIDE HEARON, b. 1906; d. 1970; m. LAURA DAVID; b. 1909.
108. iv. GORDON T. HEARON, b. March 24, 1908; d. January 13, 1967.
67. ALONZO7 HERRON (BEVERLY6 HERRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born March 11, 1880, and died 1920. He married SALLY SMITH March 31, 1898.
More About ALONZO HERRON:
Fact 1: "Lon" was what most people called him.
Fact 2: Probably lived around Dixon for first few yrs. of his marriage.
Fact 3: Moved to Sikeston, MO area abt. same time as older brother, Noah & family.
Fact 4: Buried at Sikeston, MO.
Children of ALONZO HERRON and SALLY SMITH are:
i. CLYDE8 HERRON.
ii. DORSIE HERRON.
iii. BESSIE HERRON.
iv. ZOREA MAE HERRON.
v. MILDRED HERRON, m. FNU SULLIVAN.
68. CHARLES7 HERRON (BEVERLY6 HERRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born September 23, 1881, and died 1963. He married (1) KATIE CHAFFIN. He married (2) BIRDIE DUNCAN. He married (3) LOLA DUNAWAY.
More About CHARLES HERRON:
Fact 1: Moved to Henderson, KY after marriage to Katie Chaffin
Fact 2: Marriage to Kate ended in divorce.
Fact 3: Charles & Lola Dunaway lived the remainder of their lives in Henderson, KY.
Children of CHARLES HERRON and KATIE CHAFFIN are:
i. ERSKIN ALONZO8 HERRIN.
ii. CARRIE HERRIN, m. ELDRIDGE MARTIN.
iii. ERNIE HERRIN, m. TRUMAN SUTTON.
Child of CHARLES HERRON and BIRDIE DUNCAN is:
iv. LILLIAN8 HERRIN, m. RAY CAVANAUGH.
69. CLARENCE7 HERRIN (BEVERLY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born March 27, 1886, and died November 1964. He married (1) JULIA HAYNES. He married (2) KATE LNU. She was born Unknown, and died Unknown. He married (3) LORETTA LNU. She was born Unknown, and died Unknown.
More About CLARENCE HERRIN:
Fact 1: Clarence & Julia moved to Metropolis, IL where Clarence lived all his life.
Children of CLARENCE HERRIN and JULIA HAYNES are:
i. IRENE8 HERRIN, m. JOHN GREEN.
ii. CARVEL HERRIN.
70. ORA7 HERRIN (BEVERLY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born May 06, 1888 in Little Zion, and died February 08, 1910. She married (1) EDGAR PARKER. She married (2) GOOCH WILEY.
More About ORA HERRIN:
Fact 1: Moved to Clay with her parents after 1900.
Child of ORA HERRIN and EDGAR PARKER is:
109. i. MABLE8 PARKER.
Children of ORA HERRIN and GOOCH WILEY are:
ii. VERBAL8 WILEY, m. GENE GRIFFIS.
iii. ROLAND WILEY.
71. HENRY GREGSTON7 HERRIN (WILLIAM WESLEY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born November 24, 1888, and died April 09, 1976. He married ODESSA THRELKELD. She was born August 18, 1888, and died December 27, 1975.
Children of HENRY HERRIN and ODESSA THRELKELD are:
i. BESSIE M.8 HERRIN.
ii. HENRY GREGSTON HEARON, JR..
iii. GORDON HERRIN.
iv. H. T. HERRIN.
v. AUSTIN HERRIN.
vi. KELLEY HERRIN.
72. KATHLEEN7 HERRIN (JAMES6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born January 25, 1920, and died April 01, 1980. She married PORTER ROSE. He was born November 17, 1916, and died October 1985 in Eldorado, Saline County, IL.
More About KATHLEEN HERRIN:
Burial: Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
More About PORTER ROSE:
Burial: Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave in Rock, IL
Cause of Death: Viral Pneumonia
Child of KATHLEEN HERRIN and PORTER ROSE is:
i. NORMA KAY8 ROSE, b. August 31, 1958.
73. NORMA FRANCES7 HERRIN (JAMES6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born August 13, 1926, and died September 1990. She married (1) LOREN A. FRAYSER. He died December 2000. She married (2) WILLIAM ZINN 1946.
More About NORMA FRANCES HERRIN:
Burial: Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave in Rock, IL
Cause of Death: Cancer
More About LOREN A. FRAYSER:
Burial: Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave in Rock, IL
Cause of Death: Cancer
Child of NORMA HERRIN and WILLIAM ZINN is:
110. i. KATHLEEN ELAINE8 ZINN, b. February 23, 1948.
74. OTIS TURNER7 HERRIN (WILLIAM HARVEY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born March 21, 1901 in Cave In Rock, IL., and died February 22, 1944. He married NINA ELOISE GORMAN July 10, 1920 in Elizabethtown, Hardin Co., IL, daughter of JOSEPH GORMAN and ETHEL HASTINGS. She was born September 02, 1903 in Kansas City, MO, and died March 02, 1986.
Notes for OTIS TURNER HERRIN:
Joined the Army Oct. 3, 1917 and was discharged 3 months later on Jan. 1, 1918 as he had lied about his age.
He acquired his teacher's certificate and taught at Central School.
Preacher.
Ran the movie projector at Cave in Rock when "Gone With the Wind" first came out.
Ran a dry cleaning business.
Worked in the mine.
More About OTIS TURNER HERRIN:
Burial: Masonic Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
Notes for NINA ELOISE GORMAN:
Moved to Detroit, MI after Otis died and then moved back to Cave in Rock, IL in 1965 after she retired from working in a Nursery School. Was very active in the United Methodist Church at Cave in Rock.
A Carlton Music System was installed in the church in her memory.
Moved to Detroit, MI after Otis died and then moved back to Cave in Rock, IL in 1965 after she retired from working in a Nursery School.
Was very active in the United Methodist Church at Cave in Rock.
A Carlton Music System was installed in the church in her memory.
Children of OTIS HERRIN and NINA GORMAN are:
111. i. JAMES GORDON8 HERRIN, b. April 11, 1921 d. 2007.
112. ii. RICHARD HARVEY HERRIN, b. December 10, 1922; d. July 10, 1952.
113. iii. WANDA VIRGINIA HERRIN, b. February 04, 1924.
75. WILLIAM CLARENCE7 HERRIN (WILLIAM HARVEY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born March 24, 1903 in KY, and died March 11, 1943 in Gallatin County, IL. He married NIGEL BLAINE November 13, 1924. She was born March 04, 1906 in Hardin County, IL, and died August 02, 1994 in Harrisburg, Saline Co., IL.
Notes for WILLIAM CLARENCE HERRIN:
Lived with his Grandma Herrin after his father's remarriage. After his grandmother's death he moved in with his Uncle Jim. Attended grade school in Cave in Rock and finished high school at The Normal University in Carbondale, IL.
During the Depression he taught a year of school in a one room school at Simpson Co. School. In 1936 he was appointed Post Master by Claude V. Parsons from 24th District serving until his death. He was killed in a car/train collision on Rt. 1 near the Old Slave House in Gallatin Co., IL. A friend, Edgar Davis died with him in the car. His wife Nigel was then appointed Post Master and served for 8 years
More About WILLIAM CLARENCE HERRIN:
Burial: Masonic Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
Cause of Death: Train accident on Rt.1 at R.R. Crossing close to Old Slave House.
Fact 1: Killed in auto-train crossing accident at Junction, IL on Rt. 1.
More About NIGEL BLAINE:
Burial: Masonic Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
Occupation: Librarian
Children of WILLIAM HERRIN and NIGEL BLAINE are:
114. i. PEGGY JEAN8 HERRIN, b. September 04, 1925; d. January 04, 1983.
115. ii. ROGER DEAN HERRIN, b. Private. 76. WILFORD HORACE7 HERRIN (WILLIAM HARVEY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born May 12, 1912 in Cave In Rock, IL., and died October 28, 1981 in Royal Oak, MI.. He married CLARA FLETCHER October 25, 1933. She died 2007 and was a daughter of GEORGE FLETCHER and CLARA BAUGHER.
Notes for WILFORD HORACE HERRIN:
Obituary: Horace Herrin, 69, died at his home in Royal Oak, Mich., Wednesday night.
He was retired from Jones and Laughlin Steel Co. He was born and lived many years in Cave in Rock. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Herrin, who preceded him in death. Mr. Herrin was married to the former Clara Fletcher of Cave in Rock, who survives. Also surviving are two daughters and a son, Mrs. Jack (Betty Ann) Stimsonn of Canton, Mich., Miss Jane Herrin of Troy, Mich., and George B. Herrin, Westchester, Ky.; a sister, Mrs. Bernice H. Smith of Harrisburg and four grandchildren. He was preceded in death by four brothers and a sister.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
More About WILFORD HORACE HERRIN:
Burial: Royal Oak, MI.
Cause of Death: Heart Failure.
Medical Information: Had TB in the 1960's.
More About CLARA FLETCHER:
Residence: 2001, Williamston, S.C.
Children of WILFORD HERRIN and CLARA FLETCHER are:
116. i. BETTY ANN8 HERRIN, b. 1934.
ii. FLORENCE JANE HERRIN, b. 1942.
117. iii. GEORGE BENNET HERRIN, b. 1945.
77. WALTER EARLO7 HERRIN (WILLIAM HARVEY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born November 11, 1915 in Cave in Rock, IL, and died June 20, 1980 in Carrier Mills, Saline County, IL. He married (1) CLEO ELIZABETH MASON 1935 in Hardin County, IL., daughter of CHARLES MASON and LILLIAN PATTON. She was born April 10, 1915 in Cave In Rock, IL., and died September 11, 1990 in Carrier Mills, IL.. m. (2)Mary who was 22 years younger than him.
More About WALTER EARLO HERRIN:
Burial: North America Baptist Church, Saline Co., IL
Cause of Death: Congestive Heart Failure.
Fact 2: Iron Worker.
More About CLEO ELIZABETH MASON:
Burial: Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
Cause of Death: Cancer of Pancreas.
Fact 1: Buried at Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
Children of WALTER HERRIN and CLEO MASON are:
118. i. ROBERT HARVEY8 HERRIN, b. January 01, 1938, Rosieclaire, IL; d. August 02, 1971, St. Petersburg, FL.
119. ii. ELIZABETH EARLENE HERRIN, b. Private.
78. JEWELL7 IRENETYER (LARISSA RISSIE6 HERRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born September 1898, and died 1993 in Sikeston, MO. She married OLIF ALLEN.
Child of JEWELL IRENETYER and OLIF ALLEN is:
120. i. AUDREY8 ALLEN.
79. LOTTIE B.7 HEARIN (THOMAS EDWARD6 HERRIN, ABIMLICK WESLEY5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born 1879. She married DANIEL MOORE 1897.
Child of LOTTIE HEARIN and DANIEL MOORE is:
i. WILLIE8 MOORE.
80. CROCKETT7 HERRIN (THOMAS EDWARD6, ABIMLICK WESLEY5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born 1882, and died 1940. He married OMA LEE. She was born 1890, and died 1914.
Children of CROCKETT HERRIN and OMA LEE are:
i. DAN8 HERRIN.
ii. ELBY LEE HERRIN, b. June 11, 1913; d. June 1970, KY; m. ELIZABETH ANNA SIGLER, 1940, Webster Co., KY; b. Caldwell Co., KY.
More About ELBY LEE HERRIN:
Burial: Clay, Webster Co., KY
More About ELIZABETH ANNA SIGLER:
Burial: Clay, Webster Co., KY
iii. WILLIAM EDWARD HERRIN.
81. PAULINE7 HERRIN (WILLIAM THOMAS6, ABIMLICK WESLEY5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born Unknown. She married OYD HESS VAUGHN. He was born Abt. 1911 in Clay, KY, and died January 31, 2006 in San Angelo, TX.
Notes for OYD HESS VAUGHN:
Friday, February 03, 2006
SAN ANGELO, Texas –– Oyd Hess Vaughn, 95, of San Angelo, and formerly of Clay, Ky., died Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006, at Park Plaza Nursing Center in San Angelo. He was a cabinet maker. He was a member of Clay First Baptist Church in Clay for over 60 years.
He is survived by one daughter, Sherry Roland of San Angelo; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Vanover Funeral Home in Clay, with Bro. Jeff McMain officiaing. Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Clay. Visitation will be from 5 until 8 p.m. Saturday and from 8 a.m. until service time Sunday at the funeral home.
Child of PAULINE HERRIN and OYD VAUGHN is:
i. SHERRY JEAN8 VAUGHN, b. Unknown.
82. ALSADEAN7 TAYLOR (TENIE6 HEARIN, ABIMLICK WESLEY5 HERRIN, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born Unknown. She married HERMAN VAUGHN. He was born Unknown.
Child of ALSADEAN TAYLOR and HERMAN VAUGHN is:
i. L. D. SONNY8 VAUGHN, b. Unknown; m. BETTY F. WATSON.
83. WILMA7 TAYLOR (TENIE6 HEARIN, ABIMLICK WESLEY5 HERRIN, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) She married KENNETH MCCLANAHAN.
Child of WILMA TAYLOR and KENNETH MCCLANAHAN is:
i. MARK8 MCCLANAHAN.
84. ENOCH A.7 HEARRIN (WILLIAM OLIVER6, ENOCH C.5 HERRIN, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born December 25, 1884 in Near Bradford, Gibson Co., TN, and died 1950 in Providence, Webster Co., KY. He married MAMIE HERRON 1905 in Webster Co., KY, daughter of BEVERLY HERRIN and DRUCIE DYE. She was born April 26, 1886, and died August 19, 1908.
More About ENOCH A. HEARRIN:
Burial: 1950, IOOF Cem., Clay, Webster Co., KY
More About MAMIE HERRON:
Burial: White Oak Baptist Church Cemetery, Near Dixon, KY
Children of ENOCH HEARRIN and MAMIE HERRON are:
i. JERUSHA NEVELYN8 HERRIN, b. June 12, 1906; d. November 16, 1953.
ii. IRENE HERRIN, b. June 08, 1908.
85. LUCY KATHERN7 HEARIN (WILLIAM OLIVER6 HEARRIN, ENOCH C.5 HERRIN, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born February 1890 in Mayfield Area, Graves Co., KY, and died 1943 in Evansville, IN. She married RICHARD WILLIAM JONES September 21, 1910 in Sullivan, Union Co., KY, Joe Hughes Home, son of JASPER JONES and LAURA GRAHAM. He was born August 26, 1883 in Van Buren, Crawford Co., Arkansas, and died March 21, 1962 in Providence, Webster Co., KY.
More About LUCY KATHERN HEARIN:
Burial: 1943, Evansville, IN
Divorced: 1921, From Richard William Jones
More About RICHARD WILLIAM JONES:
Burial: March 24, 1962, Blackford Cem., Blackford Area, Webster Co., KY
Children of LUCY HEARIN and RICHARD JONES are:
i. INFANT8 JONES.
121. ii. GORDON JONES, b. Abt. 1915.
122. iii. MAMIE MARGARET JONES, b. March 07, 1917, Blackford Area, Webster Co., KY; d. March 05, 1961, Clovis, Curry Co., NM, Cannon AFB Hosp..
iv. LUCY KATE JONES, b. December 20, 1913, Wheatcroft, Webster Co., KY; d. January 26, 1914, Wheatcroft, Webster Co., KY.
More About LUCY KATE JONES:
Burial: January 27, 1914, Blackford Area, Webster Co., KY
86. TIP7 HERRIN, SR. (WILLIAM OLIVER6 HEARRIN, ENOCH C.5 HERRIN, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born February 16, 1900 in Blackford Area, Webster Co, KY, and died September 08, 1990 in Providence, KY. He married NANCY E. COWAN 1930. She was born January 1904, and died November 25, 1995 in Providence, Webster Co., KY.
Notes for TIP HERRIN, SR.:
News Article:
Sunday, July 27, Mr. and Mrs. Tip Hearrin, Sr., celebrated thier 60th wedding anniversary with a picnic held at their home. Those who attended were their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and friends.
Their children are Mrs. Inez Hoggard of Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hearrin of Chicago, Mrs. Ruthie Lawson of Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burnett, Mr. and Mrs. Tip Hearrin, Jr., Mr and Mrs. Franklin Hearrin, Mr. and Mrs Edward Hearrin, Mr. and Mrs. Elston Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Hearrin, and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Hearrin, all of Providence. Mr. and Mrs. Hearrin also have 31 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren, most of whom attended the picnic.
Mrs. Hearrin's nieces, Agnes Cissra of Wheatcroft and Jan Stone of Dixon, also were present. Friends of the couple who attended were Mr. and Mrs. Junior Branson, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Conley, Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Pryor, and Jody Anderson.
9 living children 2006.
Children of TIP HERRIN and NANCY COWAN are:
i. MARGRET INEZ8 HEARRIN, b. August 19, 1920, Providence, Webster Co., KY; d. May 18, 1993, Henderson, Henderson Co., KY; m. FNU HOGGARD.
ii. ROBERT HERRIN, b. September 06, 1939, Providence, Webster Co., KY; d. February 05, 1996, Providence, Webster Co., KY.
More About ROBERT HERRIN:
Alias: Bobby Joe
Burial: February 08, 1996, Clay, Webster Co., KY., White Oak Cem.
iii. RUTHIE HERRIN, m. FNU LAWSON.
iv. FNU HERRIN, m. ROBERT BURNETT.
v. TIP HERRIN, JR..
vi. FRANKLIN DELANO HEARRIN, b. November 16, 1932, Providence, Webster Co., KY.
Notes for FRANKLIN DELANO HEARRIN:
Franklin is a retired Navy man and presently living in Idaho. Info rec'd August 2001 by E Blancher eblancher@socal.rr.com
No children.
vii. EDWARD HERRIN.
viii. FNU HERRIN, m. ELSTON JONES.
ix. BILLY HERRIN.
x. EVERETT HERRIN.
87. BURLEY7 HERRIN (BEVERLY6, ENOCH C.5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born November 16, 1883, and died March 09, 1916. He married MYRTLE M. FRASER. She was born September 05, 1888, and died 1976.
Children of BURLEY HERRIN and MYRTLE FRASER are:
123. i. VERDA HAZEL8 HERRIN, b. September 13, 1909.
124. ii. REBA HERRIN, b. September 01, 1911.
125. iii. GAMMON HERRIN, b. November 23, 1914; d. 1989.
88. MAMIE7 HERRON (BEVERLY6 HERRIN, ENOCH C.5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born April 26, 1886, and died August 19, 1908. She married ENOCH A. HEARRIN 1905 in Webster Co., KY, son of WILLIAM HEARRIN and MARGARET RODGERS. He was born December 25, 1884 in Near Bradford, Gibson Co., TN, and died 1950 in Providence, Webster Co., KY.
More About MAMIE HERRON:
Burial: White Oak Baptist Church Cemetery, Near Dixon, KY
More About ENOCH A. HEARRIN:
Burial: 1950, IOOF Cem., Clay, Webster Co., KY
Children are listed above under (84) Enoch A. Hearrin.
89. GEORGE RUSSELL7 HERRIN (BEVERLY6, ENOCH C.5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born September 15, 1893, and died February 24, 1973. He married MINNIE C. MARVEL. She was born February 22, 1898.
Children of GEORGE HERRIN and MINNIE MARVEL are:
i. BEVERLY EWING8 HERRIN, b. August 10, 1927.
ii. CARROLL RUSSELL HERRIN, b. October 25, 1930.
90. LENA GERTRUDE7 HERRIN (BEVERLY6, ENOCH C.5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born January 08, 1896, and died December 27, 1979. She married ROY G. JOHNSON. He was born January 19, 1892, and died December 05, 1975.
Children of LENA HERRIN and ROY JOHNSON are:
i. ROY ALLEN8 JOHNSON, b. September 1918.
ii. NAOMI JOHNSON, b. January 1920; m. (1) FNU MCCONNEL; m. (2) JACK WATSON.
iii. STACY EVELYN JOHNSON, b. March 10, 1925; m. (1) ENCIL DAVENPORT; b. Unknown; m. (2) DEAN TUTHILL.
iv. LOTTA FAYE JOHNSON, b. June 21, 1927; m. STANLEY BELLAMY.
91. CARSON7 HERRIN (BEVERLY6, ENOCH C.5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born May 11, 1898, and died December 05, 1975. He married (1) CARRIE MAY HOLT. She was born June 08, 1902, and died December 03, 1922. He married (2) MARGARET SHARP. He married (3) LOUISE LNU. She was born Unknown, and died Unknown. He married (4) MINNIE HERRINGTON 1924 in Webster Co., KY.
Child of CARSON HERRIN and CARRIE HOLT is:
i. RUBY CATHERINE8 HERRIN, b. August 19, 1921; m. CHARLES SHARER.
Child of CARSON HERRIN and MINNIE HERRINGTON is:
ii. NORMA CONDA8 HERRIN, b. May 1928.
92. CALVIN7 HERRIN (BEVERLY6, ENOCH C.5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born May 13, 1900 in Crittenden Co., KY, and died October 10, 1997 in Vanderburgh Co., IN. He married DELLA FRANCES UNDERDOWN July 23, 1922 in Crittenden Co., KY, daughter of ROBERT UNDERDOWN and NANCY WINDERS. She was born October 15, 1899 in Crittenden Co., KY, and died July 20, 1981.
Children of CALVIN HERRIN and DELLA UNDERDOWN are:
i. FRANCES IRENE8 HERRIN, b. June 08, 1923; m. TOMMY MCCONNEL.
ii. CHARLES STANLEY HERRIN, b. June 18, 1926; m. GLADYS WALKER; b. Unknown.
iii. DORSEY RAY HERRIN, b. June 18, 1931; d. July 15, 1931.
iv. LEONA FAYE HERRIN, b. December 20, 1933; m. HAROLD NELSON.
93. HARPYE7 HERRIN (BEVERLY6, ENOCH C.5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born August 11, 1903, and died March 04, 1929. She married IRA WALKER COOK December 23, 1923. He was born June 14, 1898, and died October 07, 1972.
Children of HARPYE HERRIN and IRA COOK are:
126. i. LENA RUTH8 COOK, b. September 22, 1924.
127. ii. DAVID AUSTIN COOK, b. January 14, 1926.
128. iii. FANNIE LOUISE COOK, b. September 24, 1928.
94. GEORGE C.7 BAIN (NANCY6 HERRIN, WILLIAM ALLEN5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born 1876, and died 1927 in Benton, TN. He married MARY FRANCIS BLACK, daughter of JOHN BLACK and SARAH CROSSNOE. She was born 1878 in Benton, TN, and died 1941 in TN.
Notes for GEORGE C. BAIN:
Farmer. Owned his own farm free of mortgage. All of his children were born in Benton County, TN
Children of GEORGE BAIN and MARY BLACK are:
i. JOHN HERMAN8 BAIN, b. March 28, 1900.
ii. JOSEPH HUBERT BAIN, b. April 29, 1904.
iii. MAUDIE AILLENE BAIN, b. June 09, 1904.
iv. THOMAS HOWARD BAIN, b. September 21, 1909.
95. JOSEPH NEWTON7 BAIN (NANCY6 HERRIN, WILLIAM ALLEN5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born September 20, 1878 in Benton County, TN, and died January 16, 1955 in East Praire, MO. He married DELLA ANNE HERRIN August 29, 1906, daughter of THOMAS HERRIN and FREDONIA LOCKHART. She was born 1882, and died April 20, 1949.
Notes for JOSEPH NEWTON BAIN:
Buried at East Prairie Cemetery in MO. with his wife.
Children of JOSEPH BAIN and DELLA HERRIN are:
i. SWANHILDA8 BAIN, b. May 29, 1902, TN; d. May 1980, E. Prairie, MO; m. VERNER DAVIS, East Prairie, MO..
Notes for SWANHILDA BAIN:
The couple is buried at E. Prairie, MO.
ii. BLAINE BAIN, b. May 20, 1907; d. October 14, 1974; m. JANE LNU, January 23, 1954; b. March 02, 1905; d. November 14, 1963.
Notes for BLAINE BAIN:
Both buried East Prairie Cemetery in MO.
iii. HAZEL DARE BAIN, b. February 14, 1910, Benton County, TN; m. JOHN FINES CRISEL, December 16, 1939, East Prairie, MO..
iv. JOSEPH RALPH BAIN, b. April 09, 1913, Benton County, TN; d. January 20, 2000, E. Prairie, MO; m. GERTRUDE THRESHER, December 09, 1951, East Prairie, MO..
v. MILDRED FREDONIA BAIN, b. November 26, 1917, Benton County, TN; m. PAUL SYLVAN MCCARVER, July 14, 1935, East Prairie, MO..
vi. TRUEDEAN BAIN, b. September 20, 1920, TN; m. WILLARD SAM COLE, 1938, East Prairie, MO..
96. MARY ELIZABETH7 BAIN (NANCY6 HERRIN, WILLIAM ALLEN5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born November 24, 1880 in Benton County, TN, and died October 02, 1964 in Buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery. She married JAMES H. HALL January 01, 1900, son of JACK HALL and MARTHA BEASLEY. He was born October 11, 1876, and died May 26, 1964.
Notes for MARY ELIZABETH BAIN:
Buried Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
Notes for JAMES H. HALL:
Couple is buried at Pleasant Hill, Benton County, TN
Children of MARY BAIN and JAMES HALL are:
i. MARY FRANCIS8 HALL, m. LELAND LOCKHART, December 06, 1935.
Notes for LELAND LOCKHART:
Took his own life in Muskegon, MI.
ii. HELEN HALL, m. CLYDE MABREY.
Notes for HELEN HALL:
Live in Cincinnati, OH.
iii. AARON HALL, b. 1899; d. 1968; m. VERDIE SIMMONS, May 11, 1919; b. 1898; d. 1975.
Notes for VERDIE SIMMONS:
Buried Pleasant Hill, Benton Co., TN
iv. DELLA HALL, b. 1901; d. 1986; m. ERNIE PAFFORD; b. 1901; d. 1981.
Notes for DELLA HALL:
Buried at Liberty Methodist Church, Benton Co., TN
v. JOSEPH HALL, b. September 20, 1903.
Notes for JOSEPH HALL:
Still living in 1997.
vi. REALIS HALL, b. July 30, 1906; d. October 23, 1983.
Notes for REALIS HALL:
Buried Pleasant Hill, Benton Co., TN
vii. CLYDE HALL, b. March 06, 1909; d. October 08, 1992; m. INEZ WEATHERLY, June 27, 1930; b. July 05, 1913, Benton Co., TN; d. Bef. 2005.
Notes for CLYDE HALL:
Buried Camden City Cemetery & wife.
viii. JAMES W. HALL, b. 1917; d. 1964; m. REBA SANDERS.
97. MARSHAL CURTIS7 HERRIN (ROBERT LEE6, WILLIAM ALLEN5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born July 25, 1889 in Benton County, TN, and died May 29, 1975 in Benton County, TN. He married ANNIE MAY BOMAR November 23, 1913 in Benton, TN., daughter of JAMES BOMAR and ALEN HARVEY. She was born April 05, 1897 in Benton Co., TN, and died January 05, 1990 in Benton Co., TN.
More About MARSHAL CURTIS HERRIN:
Burial: Camden City Cemetery, Benton Co., TN
More About ANNIE MAY BOMAR:
Burial: Camden City Cemetery, Benton Co., TN
Children of MARSHAL HERRIN and ANNIE BOMAR are:
129. i. ALVA LEE8 HERRIN, b. May 21, 1915.
ii. DORA ARTELIA MARIE HERRIN, b. July 15, 1917, Benton City, TN; d. Bef. 2005; m. DONNIE WADE LUTHER, October 10, 1936; b. September 28, 1913; d. Unknown.
iii. A C HERRIN, b. January 15, 1922; d. November 18, 1997, Muskegon, MI; m. BETTY COWELL, February 02, 1946, Benton, TN..
More About A C HERRIN:
Alias: Jim
iv. OPAL MAY HERRIN, b. May 03, 1924; d. September 21, 1998, GA.; m. HEATH STATON, June 03, 1945.
130. v. ODIE NELLINE HERRIN, b. June 01, 1927, Benton Co., TN.
vi. AUDREY BELVA HERRIN, b. September 22, 1919, Benton City, TN; d. May 10, 1967, Nashville, Davidson Co., TN; m. RALPH WALKER, December 14, 1945, Corinth, MS; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
vii. MOSES AARON HERRIN, b. February 08, 1931; d. Unknown; m. (1) PAULINE KEE, 1951; m. (2) KELLY CURTIS, 1980; b. Unknown.
131. viii. JANICE EARLINE HERRIN, b. May 14, 1933, Benton Co., TN.
ix. TED BOMAR HERRIN, b. October 10, 1939; m. (1) JENNIE SMITH, 1962; m. (2) DOROTHY BEECHEM, 1969.
98. ZORA LEE7 HERRIN (ROBERT LEE6, WILLIAM ALLEN5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born July 25, 1892 in Benton County, TN, and died February 16, 1973 in Benton County, TN. She married DOSS GREEN WEATHERLY September 17, 1912 in TN, son of SAMUEL WEATHERLY and NANCY CARTER. He was born October 06, 1889 in Benton City, TN, and died January 16, 1959 in Benton City, TN.
Children of ZORA HERRIN and DOSS WEATHERLY are: i. INEZ8 WEATHERLY, b. July 05, 1913, Benton Co., TN; d. Bef. 2005; m. CLYDE HALL, June 27, 1930; b. March 06, 1909; d. October 08, 1992.
Notes for CLYDE HALL:
Buried Camden City Cemetery & wife.
ii. SAMUEL LEE WEATHERLY, b. October 09, 1914, Benton County, TN; d. May 20, 1981, Benton County, TN.
132. iii. HAZEL MARIE WEATHERLY, b. October 24, 1920, Benton County, TN; d. March 24, 1974, Camden, Benton County, TN.
iv. LINDAL WEATHERLY, b. October 03, 1922, Benton Co., TN; d. January 21, 1993.
v. ALICE LORENE WEATHERLY, b. August 24, 1924, TN; d. July 07, 1986; m. JOHN W. SHORT; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
vi. MELBA LOUISE WEATHERLY, b. March 31, 1927, Benton Co., TN; d. August 01, 1993, Benton Co., TN.
vii. NANCY GERALDINE WEATHERLY, b. October 06, 1927; d. May 31, 1973.
viii. ALINE WEATHERLY, b. March 20, 1930.
ix. CARNELL WEATHERLY, b. Unknown.
x. ODELL WEATHERLY, b. Unknown.
99. THURMAN GREEN7 HERRIN (JOHN WESLEY6, WILLIAM ALLEN5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born 1894, and died 1954. He married MAMIE LEE HICKS 1913. She was born July 19, 1894, and died June 30, 1990 in Benton Co., TN.
More About THURMAN GREEN HERRIN:
Alias: Boss
Burial: Pleasant Hill Methodist Cem., Benton Co., TN
More About MAMIE LEE HICKS:
Burial: Pleasant Hill Methodist
Children of THURMAN HERRIN and MAMIE HICKS are:
133. i. NELLIE8 HERRIN, b. December 31, 1913.
ii. JOHN CHARLES HERRIN, b. February 05, 1919; d. December 17, 1991; m. LAVERGNE W., July 04, 1946; b. 1917.
More About JOHN CHARLES HERRIN:
Military service: PFC U.S. Army WW II
Notes for IDA LOCKHART:
Ida died a few days after giving birth to twins (boy and girl) who died shortly afterwards and they were all buried together in the same casket. Their grandmother, Fredonia Herrin, came to live with them and care for their needs after their mothers’ death until she died in 1922. She and her husband, Thomas Beverly “Tubby” Herrin, were separated. He made his living as a traveling salesman driving his buggy all over the country selling and giving away his products and spending the nights along his route.
Vernon Rushing related that he spent many nights at their home when he was a boy and that Tubby would get up early in the morning about daybreak and get in his buggy, crow like a rooster, and go on his merry way (after waking up the household as he left). Mr. Eph as he was affectionately known, was a sawmill operator, taught Sunday School at Bakers Chapel and played the banjo. He never remarried and suffered a stroke and after his death, John and ‘Bitsy’ bought the homeplace where she had been born.
After their marriage, John worked in a barber shop and lived in Big Sandy. They moved to Cleveland, Ohio in 1936 where he owned and operated his shop on Kinsman Ave. He always cut all the southern people’s hair as they came from near and far for a good hair cut and to catch up on the news. John loved his occupation and he was a very friendly, outgoing person with many friends.
In 1947 they returned to Benton County where he became a farmer and part-time barber, having worked in shops in Camden (for A.W. Bridges), in Big Sandy with several different barbers and lastly with Clyde Warmack in Paris. They had also barbered together before John went to Ohio. His nickname was “little John” which he carried all his life. He passed away 3-30-68 having had heart trouble and finally lung cancer. although we had heavy rains all day for his funeral, the Bakers Chapel Church could not hold all the people who came to show their love for him.
Audry, better known as “Bitsy,” was a full-time housewife and mother. In August 1968, after her husband’s death, she worked with the Northwest Economic Opportunity with the Senior Citizens Center in Big Sandy and later in Camden. She loved her work and did not retire until she was 72 years old. --Susan Corbin --- eaglerst@usit.net
Children of EPHRIAM HERRIN and IDA LOCKHART are:
134. i. CHLOE9 HERRIN, b. 1904; d. 1984.
ii. AUDREY HERRIN, b. July 26, 1906.
iii. MARY EMMA HERRIN.
101. DELLA ANNE8 HERRIN (THOMAS BEVERLY7, WILLIAM RILEY6, BEVERLY5, THOMAS JASPER4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born 1882, and died April 20, 1949. She married JOSEPH NEWTON BAIN August 29, 1906, son of JOSEPH BAIN and NANCY HERRIN. He was born September 20, 1878 in Benton County, TN, and died January 16, 1955 in East Praire, MO.
Notes for JOSEPH NEWTON BAIN:
Buried at East Prairie Cemetery in MO. with his wife.
Children are listed above under (95) Joseph Newton Bain.
102. JERRY8 HERRIN (GEORGE RUSHING7, GEORGE WAHINGTON EDGAR6, ABNER CALVIN5, JAMES ELISHA4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born November 22, 1933. He married JO BESTY ROBERTSON.
Child of JERRY HERRIN and JO ROBERTSON is:
i. PAIGE9 HERRIN.
103. VIRGIL EUGENE8 RUSHING (EUGENE JACKSON7, ABEL6, JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born October 28, 1907 in Jackson, TN, and died November 11, 1988 in Jackson, TN. He married (1) EUNICE MAE UPTON September 13, 1927. She was born May 1912, and died July 1935. He married (2) KATHERINE BLACKWELL December 11, 1937. She was born October 1906, and died Unknown.
Children of VIRGIL RUSHING and EUNICE UPTON are:
i. BILLIE EUGENE9 RUSHING, b. December 16, 1928, Madison Co., TN; d. December 19, 1928, Madison Co., TN.
ii. BERNICE LOUISE RUSHING, b. Private; d. Unknown; m. GRADY DOYLE; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
135. iii. GEORGE HENNING RUSHING, b. Private; d. Unknown.
Children of VIRGIL RUSHING and KATHERINE BLACKWELL are:
136. iv. VIRGIL LEON9 RUSHING, b. Private.
137. v. JERRY FRANKLIN RUSHING, b. Private; d. Unknown.
138. vi. JIMMY THOMAS RUSHING, b. Private; d. Unknown.
139. vii. ROBERT LEE RUSHING, b. Private.
140. viii. HENRY RAY RUSHING, b. Private.
ix. SHIRLEY JEAN RUSHING, b. Private.
x. BRENDA KAY RUSHING, b. Private.
141. xi. VIRGIL EUGENE RUSHING, JR., b. Private.
104. HOMER EDWIN8 WALTERS (WILLIAM HENRY7, ROBERT SPENCER6, JEMIMA5 RUSHING, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born February 09, 1904 in Henry Co., TN, and died August 29, 1959 in Henry Co., TN. He married CALLIE IDELLA WATSON November 03, 1947 in Alcorn, MS, daughter of DAVID WATSON and LOUZELLA WATSON. She was born September 15, 1905 in Benton Co., TN, and died October 24, 1994 in Henry Co., TN.
Child of HOMER WALTERS and CALLIE WATSON is:
i. BRENDA JANE9 WALTERS, b. April 20, 1950, Paris, Henry, TN.
105. EMMA DREW8 SKINNER (NICEA JANE7 BLACKWELL, ERRE JANE6 HERRIN, BEVERLY5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born August 17, 1880, and died September 12, 1931 in Webster Co., KY. She married ROBERT BURLE DORRIS August 17, 1902 in Webster Co., KY. He was born August 22, 1871, and died December 02, 1932 in Webster Co., KY.
More About EMMA DREW SKINNER:
Burial: Fraser-Blackwell Cem., Clay, KY
More About ROBERT BURLE DORRIS:
Burial: Fraser-Blackwell Cem., Clay, KY
Children of EMMA SKINNER and ROBERT DORRIS are:
i. WALTER RAY9 DORRIS, b. June 19, 1903.
ii. SUDIE DORRIS.
iii. CLAY W. DORRIS, b. March 11, 1906; d. April 12, 1911.
iv. EDWARD E. DORRIS, b. April 11, 1908; d. April 06, 1911.
v. PRUDIE L. DORRIS.
142. vi. ROBERT OTIS DORRIS, b. September 12, 1917; d. May 14, 2002, Hopkins Co., KY.
106. JOEL ELBERT8 HEARON (WILLIAM EARNEST7, BEVERLY6 HERRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born Unknown. He married (1) OMA L. HANOR. He married (2) LOLA SHELTON.
Children of JOEL HEARON and OMA HANOR are:
143. i. LOUISE9 HEARON.
144. ii. WANDA GUSTAVA HEARON.
Child of JOEL HEARON and LOLA SHELTON is:
iii. ROGER9 HEARON, m. LORRAINE LNU.
107. ALLA MAE8 HEARON (WILLIAM EARNEST7, BEVERLY6 HERRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born 1901, and died 1972. She married CHARLES B. HEARIN. He was born 1895, and died 1977.
Children of ALLA HEARON and CHARLES HEARIN are:
145. i. BILLY BRUCE9 HEARIN, b. February 09, 1922.
ii. BILLY JOHN HEARIN, b. December 11, 1947.
108. GORDON T.8 HEARON (WILLIAM EARNEST7, BEVERLY6 HERRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born March 24, 1908, and died January 13, 1967. He married NEVA FORD PLAYL. She was born August 24, 1909.
Children of GORDON HEARON and NEVA PLAYL are:
146. i. ADDIE LEE9 HEARON.
147. ii. MAURICE SIMPSON HEARON.
148. iii. JAMES GORDON HEARON, b. April 07, 1933.
109. MABLE8 PARKER (ORA7 HERRIN, BEVERLY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) She married (1) RUPPERT BLACKBURN. She married (2) RANDALL RUSHING.
Child of MABLE PARKER and RUPPERT BLACKBURN is:
149. i. CHARLES BAILEY9 BLACKBURN.
110. KATHLEEN ELAINE8 ZINN (NORMA FRANCES7 HERRIN, JAMES6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) private.
111. JAMES GORDON8 HERRIN (OTIS TURNER7, WILLIAM HARVEY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born April 11, 1921. Died 2007. He married ANN GRACHAL Private.
Children of JAMES HERRIN and ANN GRACHAL are:
i. JAMES ALLEN9 HERRIN, b. private.
151. ii. JUDITH ANN HERRIN, b. Private.
112. RICHARD HARVEY8 HERRIN (OTIS TURNER7, WILLIAM HARVEY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born December 10, 1922, and died July 10, 1952. He married RUTH MAGDALENE SHELTON July 10, 1952. She was born May 04, 1922.
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Cause of Death: Congestive Heart Failure and Lung Cancer
Children of RICHARD HERRIN and RUTH SHELTON are:
152. i. ROBERT CHARLES STALLARD9 HERRIN, b. Private.
153. ii. ROGER FRED HERRIN, b. Private.
iii. RICHELLE HERRIN, m. FNU LESKUN.
113. WANDA VIRGINIA8 HERRIN (OTIS TURNER7, WILLIAM HARVEY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born February 04, 1924. She married FRANK HURLING August 11, 1944.
Children of WANDA HERRIN and FRANK HURLING are:
154. i. CHERYL FRAN9 HURLING, b. Private
155. ii. CHANNA LYNN HURLING, b. Private
114. PEGGY JEAN8 HERRIN (WILLIAM CLARENCE7, WILLIAM HARVEY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born September 04, 1925, and died January 04, 1983 in Unknown. She married MAION WALKER January 20, 1945. He was born May 12, 1924, and died August 29, 1985 in Unknown.
Children of PEGGY HERRIN and MAION WALKER are:
156. i. MICKEY9 WALKER, b. Private
157. ii. PENNY WALKER, b. Private
iii. RICKY JOE WALKER, b. Private
115. ROGER DEAN8 HERRIN (WILLIAM CLARENCE7, WILLIAM HARVEY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) Private.
116. BETTY ANN8 HERRIN (WILFORD HORACE7, WILLIAM HARVEY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born 1934. d. abt 2005. TN. She married JACK C. STIMPSON in MI..
Children of BETTY HERRIN and JACK STIMPSON are:
i. SARA JANET9 STIMPSON.
ii. DWIGHT ALLEN STIMPSON.
117. GEORGE BENNET8 HERRIN (WILFORD HORACE7, WILLIAM HARVEY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) Private
18. ROBERT HARVEY8 HERRIN (WALTER EARLO7, WILLIAM HARVEY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born January 01, 1938 in Rosieclaire, IL, and died August 02, 1971 in St. Petersburg, FL. He married (1) NANCY JANE BURNS 1957 in Center Line, MI.. She was born Private. He married (2) BETTY BROWN Abt. 1960 in Tampa, FL.
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Burial: Cave Hill Cemetery, Cave In Rock, IL.
Cause of Death: Died as the result of falling in a construction accident.
Fact 1: Iron Worker.
Notes for BETTY BROWN:
Ned and Carmen Brown were adopted by Robert Herrin when he married Betty Brown. Robert was divorced from Betty when he died, but Ned was still living with him.
Child of ROBERT HERRIN and NANCY BURNS is:
159. i. JODY ANN9 HERRIN, b. Private
Children of ROBERT HERRIN and BETTY BROWN are:
ii. NED BROWN9 HERRIN.
iii. CARMEN BROWN HERRIN.
119. ELIZABETH EARLENE8 HERRIN (WALTER EARLO7, WILLIAM HARVEY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born Private. 120. AUDREY8 ALLEN (JEWELL7 IRENETYER, LARISSA RISSIE6 HERRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) She married ALLEN KELLEY.
Child of AUDREY ALLEN and ALLEN KELLEY is:
i. RAY9 KELLEY, m. SUE LNU.
121. GORDON8 JONES (LUCY KATHERN7 HEARIN, WILLIAM OLIVER6 HEARRIN, ENOCH C.5 HERRIN, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born Abt. 1915. He married ALMA MURIEL MILLIGAN, daughter of THOMAS JEFFERSON MILLIGAN.
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Still Living: August 2001
Child of GORDON JONES and ALMA MILLIGAN is:
i. HELEN9 JONES, b. Equality, Gallatin Co., Illinois; m. ED BLANCHER.
122. MAMIE MARGARET8 JONES (LUCY KATHERN7 HEARIN, WILLIAM OLIVER6 HEARRIN, ENOCH C.5 HERRIN, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born March 07, 1917 in Blackford Area, Webster Co., KY, and died March 05, 1961 in Clovis, Curry Co., NM, Cannon AFB Hosp.. She married CARL ALLEN in Providence, Webster Co., KY. He was born Abt. 1913 in Providence, Webster Co., KY, and died Abt. 1957 in Providence, Webster Co., KY.
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Burial: March 1961, Clovis, Curry Co., NM., Mission Garden Cem.
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Burial: Providence, Webster Co., KY
Children of MAMIE JONES and CARL ALLEN are:
i. LIVING9.
ii. LIVING.
iii.LIVING.
123. VERDA HAZEL8 HERRIN (BURLEY7, BEVERLY6, ENOCH C.5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born September 13, 1909. She married WILLIAM THERLKELD, SR..
Children of VERDA HERRIN and WILLIAM THERLKELD are:
i. WILLIAM9 THERLKELD, JR..
ii. CHARLOTTE THERLKELD.
124. REBA8 HERRIN (BURLEY7, BEVERLY6, ENOCH C.5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born September 01, 1911. She married EMORY FRASER.
Children of REBA HERRIN and EMORY FRASER are:
i. JOHN9 FRASER.
ii. ALLEN FRASER.
125. GAMMON8 HERRIN (BURLEY7, BEVERLY6, ENOCH C.5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born November 23, 1914, and died 1989. He married EDNA PHELPS. She died August 13, 2000 in Providence, Webster Co., KY.
Notes for EDNA PHELPS:
Obiturary: Aug. 13, 2000
Edna Phelps Herrin, 78 of Providence, died Aug. 13 at Regional Medical Center in Madisonville. She operated Edna's Fabric Shop in Providence for 10 years and she did custom sewing for many years. She was a member of White Oak General Baptist Church for over 57 years.
Surviving are three Daughters, Jeannie Driver and Dorothy Hatler, both of Providence, and Martha Wheeler of Madisonville; two sons, Burley Herrin of Dieterick, Ill., and Emory Herrin of Morganfield; a sister, Nelda Phelps of arion; two brothers, Eugene Phelps of Marion and Earl Phelps of Adamsville, Tenn; seven grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Gammon Herrin, and a brother, J. D. Phelps.
Funeral services were hel Aug. 16 at General Baptist Church in Providence with burial in Fraser-Blackwell Cemetery near Clay
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Burial: August 16, 2000, Fraser-Blackwell Cem., Clay, KY
126. LENA RUTH8 COOK (HARPYE7 HERRIN, BEVERLY6, ENOCH C.5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born September 22, 1924. She married HARRY M. WALDON April 24, 1945. He was born Unknown.
127. DAVID AUSTIN8 COOK (HARPYE7 HERRIN, BEVERLY6, ENOCH C.5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born January 14, 1926. He married FRANKIE B. HUGHES December 23, 1948.
128. FANNIE LOUISE8 COOK (HARPYE7 HERRIN, BEVERLY6, ENOCH C.5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born September 24, 1928. She married VIRGIL R. WELDON April 12, 1947.
129. ALVA LEE8 HERRIN (MARSHAL CURTIS7, ROBERT LEE6, WILLIAM ALLEN5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born May 21, 1915. She married EDWARD PORTER LOCKHART.
130. ODIE NELLINE8 HERRIN (MARSHAL CURTIS7, ROBERT LEE6, WILLIAM ALLEN5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born June 01, 1927 in Benton Co., TN. She married (1) FRED HOLLAND. She married (2) JIM POTTER.
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Residence: 2003, Michigan
131. JANICE EARLINE8 HERRIN (MARSHAL CURTIS7, ROBERT LEE6, WILLIAM ALLEN5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) b. Private.
132. HAZEL MARIE8 WEATHERLY (ZORA LEE7 HERRIN, ROBERT LEE6, WILLIAM ALLEN5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born October 24, 1920 in Benton County, TN, and died March 24, 1974 in Camden, Benton County, TN. She married WILLARD STERLING LUTHER May 16, 1936 in Benton County, TN, son of WILLIAM LUTHER and DELLA MARCHBANKS. He was born May 03, 1915, and died August 21, 2000.
133. NELLIE8 HERRIN (THURMAN GREEN7, JOHN WESLEY6, WILLIAM ALLEN5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born December 31, 1913. She married JAMES WRIGHT November 27, 1932. He was born 1912.
Child of NELLIE HERRIN and JAMES WRIGHT is:
i. JAMES ARTHUR9 WRIGHT.
135. GEORGE HENNING9 RUSHING (VIRGIL EUGENE8, EUGENE JACKSON7, ABEL6, JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born Private, and died Unknown. He married MILDRED SLOAN. She was born Private, and died Unknown.
136. VIRGIL LEON9 RUSHING (VIRGIL EUGENE8, EUGENE JACKSON7, ABEL6, JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born Private. He married FAYE COLLINS. She was born Unknown.
Children of VIRGIL RUSHING and FAYE COLLINS are:
i. GREGORY10 RUSHING, b. Unknown.
ii. ALISON RUSHING, b. Unknown.
137. JERRY FRANKLIN9 RUSHING (VIRGIL EUGENE8, EUGENE JACKSON7, ABEL6, JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born Private, and died Unknown. He married CLAUDIA HENDERSON. She was born Unknown.
138. JIMMY THOMAS9 RUSHING (VIRGIL EUGENE8, EUGENE JACKSON7, ABEL6, JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born Private, and died Unknown. He married RUBY FUSSELL. She was born Private.
139. ROBERT LEE9 RUSHING (VIRGIL EUGENE8, EUGENE JACKSON7, ABEL6, JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born Private. He married THELMA COX. She was born Private.
140. HENRY RAY9 RUSHING (VIRGIL EUGENE8, EUGENE JACKSON7, ABEL6, JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born Private. He married PATRICIA ROBINSON. She was born Private.
141. VIRGIL EUGENE9 RUSHING, JR. (VIRGIL EUGENE8, EUGENE JACKSON7, ABEL6, JOEL TRAVIS5, SARAH JANE4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born Private. He married LAURA POPE. She was born Private.
142. ROBERT OTIS9 DORRIS (EMMA DREW8 SKINNER, NICEA JANE7 BLACKWELL, ERRE JANE6 HERRIN, BEVERLY5, CALEB ABIMLICK4, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born September 12, 1917, and died May 14, 2002 in Hopkins Co., KY. He married MARY ANN BRUCE. She was born May 09, 1920, and died September 1999 in Hopkins Co., KY.
143. LOUISE9 HEARON (JOEL ELBERT8, WILLIAM EARNEST7, BEVERLY6 HERRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) She married (1) TED LYLES. She married (2) NORMAN ARTMAN 1938.
144. WANDA GUSTAVA9 HEARON (JOEL ELBERT8, WILLIAM EARNEST7, BEVERLY6 HERRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) She married CHARLES D. KEMP.
145. BILLY BRUCE9 HEARIN (ALLA MAE8 HEARON, WILLIAM EARNEST7, BEVERLY6 HERRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born February 09, 1922. He married BETTY JANE MOLDOVAN. She was born September 01, 1924.
146. ADDIE LEE9 HEARON (GORDON T.8, WILLIAM EARNEST7, BEVERLY6 HERRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) She married (1) ROBERT BOYD. She married (2) MERTON HASSARD.
147. MAURICE SIMPSON9 HEARON (GORDON T.8, WILLIAM EARNEST7, BEVERLY6 HERRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) He married RUBY COWAN. She was born May 05, 1917, and died July 08, 1983.
148. JAMES GORDON9 HEARON (GORDON T.8, WILLIAM EARNEST7, BEVERLY6 HERRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born April 07, 1933. He married DAISY J. BLACKBURN. Private..
149. CHARLES BAILEY9 BLACKBURN (MABLE8 PARKER, ORA7 HERRIN, BEVERLY6, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) He married JONELL MARSHALL.
Notes for JOHN FRENCH:
John William and Audry French were married 4-12-1925 in a buggy at the home of Magistrate Will Byrn. Two children were born to them, a stillborn son 1-13-26 and a daughter, Billa Jean 5-20-31.
John was born 12-8-1903, the son of John Wesley French (1872-1950) and Angie Cherry French (1875-1904). His mother, having died when he was 6 months old, his aunt helped care for the children Elbert, Elvis, Nell and John. His aunt, Nancy Thomas Cherry 1881-1953 married John Wesley and to this union were born four children: Lathan, Douglas, Louise and Robert. They were a loving and caring family and many were musically inclined. Almost all of them had nicknames, some of which were ‘LIttle John’, Highpocket, Fatty, Shorty, Flip and Dave. They are all buried at Bakers Chapel Cemetery
164. JERRY ANN10 HEARON (MAURICE SIMPSON9, GORDON T.8, WILLIAM EARNEST7, BEVERLY6 HERRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON5 HERRON, CALEB ABIMLICK4 HERRIN, WILLIAM ELISHA3, THOMAS2 HERRON, JOHN1 HERON) was born September 21, 1933. She married GEORGE M. MITCHELL.