She was a school teacher.
Served in the Mexican War 1st. Vol. Mont.
Jonathan was shot and killed by his brother - in - law, John Denton, husband of sister Lavinia Tipton. John was arrested, then escaped. He ran off to evade trial.
Served in the Mexican War 1st. Vol. Mont.
Jonathan was shot and killed by his brother - in - law, John Denton, husband of sister Lavinia Tipton. John was arrested, then escaped. He ran off to evade trial.
Private, Revolutionary War
William (FightingBilly) Tipton. Twin Brother of Captain Abraham Tipton.
William Tipton's Will:
In the name of God Amen. I William Tipton of the County of Blount in the State of Tennessee, being weak in body, but of sound and disposing mind and memory, and understanding, considering the certainty of death and uncertainty of the time thereof, and being desirous to settle my worldly affairs, and thereby be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God to call me home, do therefore make and publish this my last will and Testament, in manner and form following, to wit.
First and principally, I commit my soul into the hands of almighty God, and my body to the earth, to be buried in a christian manner at the discretion of my Executor. and, thereafter my debts and funeral charges are paid, I devise and bequeath as follows:
Item 1. I give and devise unto Samuel Tipton, son of Isaac Tipton, J. W. H. Tipton, son of Jonathan Tipton, dec'd, and Isaac Tipton, son of Jacob Tipton, a certain tract or parcel of land containing 1265 acres, known as the Iron Works tract in Cade's Cove & Count of blount.
Item 2. I gave and devise, if not disposed of prior to my death, twenty acres of land lying and adjointing the land of John Singleton, dec'd & james Freeman, dec'd, to Isaac Tipton, son of Jacob Tipton and also 71/2 acres of land known as Scott's Island to said Isaac Tipton.
Item 3. I will the tract of land in Cade's Cove, containing 500 acres, known as Potato Branch Tract to be sold by my Executor to the best advantage, the proceeds of which tract to be appointed as herein after named.
Item 4. I will that the tract of land known as the Rich Gap survey be sold by my Executors to this will and the proceeds appropriated as herein after named.
Item 5. I will and devise to my grandson Samuel Tipton, son of Isaac Tipton, a negro named Joe, now by my property, to have and to hold as his property for life.
Item 6. I give and devise unto my daughter Martha Hart and her heirs, a negro woman named Lint, to have and to hold as her and their property for life.
Item 7. I will that all my farm stock and farming implements and all my houshold and kitchen furniture be sold by my Executors herein named and the proceeds thereof be appropriated as herein after named.
Item8. I will that in addition to the negro man Joe, Samuel Tipton have one hundred dollars jointly with Isaac Tipton son of Jacob Tipton for the purpose of erecting a neat monument of building over the grave of myself, my wife, my son Jonathan and his wife and William Tipton son of Jacob Tipton.
Ityem 9. I will that after my debts are paid out of the proceeds of the estate, the amount that may remain, If any, be appropriated as follows: Namely the proceeds of the several tracts of land herein named, not otherwise devised & bequeathed, with all the proceeds arising from the sale of my personal estate, be equally divided to & between Ann Stephen, widow of John Stephens, Calvin Stephens, Abraham Tipton, son of Isaac, William Tipton, son of Jonathan & Samuel Tipton, son of Isaac, and lastly, I do hereby constitue and appoint Isaac Hart and Samuel Tipton son of Isaac Tipton to be sole Exectors of this my Last Will and Testament, revolking and annulling all forms wills by me heretofore made, ratifying and confirming this, an none other to be my last Will and Testament.
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal this 21st day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.
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William X Tipton sec (Seal)
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Signed, sealed & acknowledged
in the presence of us.
James Haddox
Joseph Kirby witnessesWill Book# 1 p. 197
blount County, TennesseeSources: Photocopy of Will from Gem Misenar
"We Tipton and Our Kin" by Ervin Charles Tipton pp. 648-649Wiliam married his Step-sister, Phoebe.
Wiliam was a Revolutionary War Captain, and received three wounds at Savannah in 1779. From "The Heritage of Toe River Valley, Volume 1, 1994, Article # 651 - The Tipton Family, page 428.
Cades Cove; A Brief HistoryWithin an hour's drive from Knoxville, Tennessee by way of Highway 321 (Old Highway 73) is one of nature's choicest spots. Cades Cove in one of the largest, and by far the most interesting, coves within the bounds of the Great Smokly mountains National Park. It is reached by following the natural meanders of a beautiful mountain stream for several miles until the road leaves the stream and climbs to enter Cades Cove, which lies imbedded in the midst of sourrounding mountains. The elevation is 870 feet highter that Tuckaleechee Cove, which you have just left.
The cove stretches five miles in lenght and two miles and is completely hemmed in by mountains. As you wind along the modern highway into the cove, you might well wonder how the first man found this secluded spot and how the first settles managed to get their families and belongings over the rugged mountains into this place.
The first reference to Cades Cove is in 1809 when John Smith and William Crowson petitioned the state of Tennessee for entry rights to lands in Cades Cove to which they held North Carolina land grants. In the same year, Hugh Dunlap, an attorney in Knoxville, was issued a grant by the state of Tennessee based on his claim that he held a North Carolina land grantissued in 1794 for 5,000 acres in Cades Cove which had mislaid, and the record lost from Secretary's Office (North Carolina). The grant was issued with the proviso that it should interfer with no occupant right or school reservation.
In 1820, Aaron Crowson, in a petition to the Tennessee legislature, stated that his father, William Crowson and Mr. James Ross, had both possessed "the right of preemption and occupancy" to a tract of land in Cades Cove on the 6th day of February 1796.
The first Tennessee grant ot land in Cades Cove was registered March 23, 1821 in the name of William Tipton for 640 arces in Cades Cove as assignee of Aaron Crowson.
William Tipton was a Revolutionary soldier who came to Cades Cove from Carter County, Tennessee. He was soon surrounded by relatives and friends from Carter Couny. Among those to whom he sold land was his brother Thomas and Thomas's son-in-law Joshua Job; his daughter, Martha Hart; his sons Jacob and Isaac; Thomas Jones and others. Peter and Daniel Cable, Robert Burchfield, James Sparks, and Richard and Willaim Davis are all mentioned as being in the Cove before 1830. In fact, you can find their family names on the tombstones in the cemetery in Cades Cove.
Although we are sure there were people in the cove before 1819 we have reference to two Carolina land grants prior to organization of the state of Tennessee was Cherokee land and it was not legal for settlers to be there until after the Treaty of 1819.
The best description of life and times in the Cades Cove comes from the memoirs of Dr. Abraham Job, which he wrote after he was seventy-five years old.
"My father, Joshua Job, and my mother, Ruth Tipton, were of Virginia stock. Their fathers, David Job and Thomas Tipton, moved from Shenandoah Valley, Virginia shortly before the Revolutionary War...
In 1812, When I was about four years old, he bought 640 acres of fine land in Cades Cove Tennessee, and moved to it.....
Many of our relation and friends also moved to Cades Cove; on account of the fertility of the soil, the superior advantages of raising stock,etc. The Cherokee Indians who had been such a terror to the settlement of the Wautaiga Valley, and surrounding county, causing the settlers to live in forts for safety, were still lingering in small bands, in the mountain fastnesses along the range of the moky Mountains, which lie immediately South of Cades Cove, and form part of ots boundary....
My father and relatives from Carter County were among the first settlers in this part of blount County. And among them was my mother's brother, Jacod Tipton, and his wife and two children, Jacob and Nancy....
My Uncle went out hunting one day and did not return that night and when search was made for him the next day, he was found in a deserted Indian camp.. where he had been murdered by the Indians....
The land when we lived there was very rich and fertile, and produced abundant crops, of everything that could be raised in that climate; but corn was the principle crop. This crop was raised to such an extent after we moved there that I saw corn sell at six cents a bushel, because there was no market for it.....
I was now old enough to go to school. Educational facilities at that day (About 1825) were not very good, especially in such out of the way place as Cades Cove. What schools we had that day were of the most primitive order. At the " Old field schools" as they were called, we had no recess as it is now called. It was study from morning til noon, then an hour for playtime and study from 1 o'clock til turning out time.....
My father cleared up a considerable amount of his 640 acres of land in the cove, and raised a good deal of stock; but after trying it for 10 years, he got dissatisfied because he was so hemmed in by the mountains.
No fruit trees had been planted when we settled in the cove, and for several years we had to get all the fruit we used from Uncle Billy's in Tucaaleechee Cove six miles away. It was two or three years before we had mills suitable to make flour, the only mills we had were tubmills to crack corn. Father built a mill soon after we moved there, but it was seldom one saw wheat bread on any table there.
Gasme was very plentiful; such as bear, deer, and all smaller animals in great abundance...
About the year 1830 the Government of the United States purchased from the Cherokees all their lands lying between the Hiwassee River in Tennessee and the Chattahoochee River in Georgia. It was this purchase that my father moved in the spring of 1830 0r 31. He sold his farm in the cove to James Henry who lived in Little River in Blout County. About the same time William Henry, son of James Henry, married my sister, and moved into the same house that Father vacated when we moved to the Cherokeee Nation in Georgia.
the early 1830's saw a general migration of all those who were dissatisfied with life in Cades Cove into North Georgia. this migration continued into the 1840s. Some families returned to the coves while others moved back and forth with the seasons. The same was true of the other coves. William Davis settle in Walker County, George. A visit to old cemeteries in Catoosa, Walker, and Murray Counties, Georgia will show a surprising number of the same name as those in Cades Cove.
William "Fighting Billy", the fourth child and fourth son of Colonel John and Mary Butler Tipton was born in what was to become Shenandoah County, Virginia 2/i3/1761. He was a fourth generation American; he fought in the American Revolution, (along with his father and four of his brothers) was wounded at Savanna Georgia. After the war he married his step sister Phoebe Moore, William and Phoebe were the parents of 10 children. Four Girls and six boys fought in the War of 1812. William and Phoebe lived in Blout County, near the Blout / Knox County line. He died 11/3/1849 and is buried in a private cemetery (near the Blout Knoxville Highway overlooking the river) that I believe was part of his farm.
"William C. Tipton, JP, State of Tennessee. On 23d April 1844, Mr. William Tipton, aged 83 years, that he is acquainted with Mrs. Mary Denton and husband John Denton. Affiant was married himself in 1781 and well recalls that the marriage of John and Mary Denton took place the followinf year, 1782 William X Tipton.:
William was in Captain Wall's Company, Colonel Richard Parker's regiment and received three wounds at Savannah in 1779.