UPDATE: 1993-05-04
!PARENTS-BIRTH-SPOUSE: Joyce Reagan to Terry McLean; ; email message outlining
her desc. from Hezekiah and Rebecca. Family group sheet Malcolm and Rebecca; ;
; FILE: Enc #P-011.
UPDATE: 1993-05-04
!MARRIAGE: Joyce Reagan to Terry McLean; ; email message outlining her desc.
from Hezekiah and Rebecca. Family group sheet, Malcolm and Rebecca; ; ; FILE:
Enc #P-011.
UPDATE: 1997-02-19
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E. M. Sharp, PICKENS FAMILIES OF THE SOUTH:
p. 55. "... The mission [to the Chickasaw Indians at Cotton Gin Prt [Fort?]
on Tombigbee River in MS] obtained some support from the US Govt for its
educational program and reports had to be made to the Dept. of Indian Affairs.
In those old reports we find:
''Mr. PICKENS and family consisted of eight in number and have been living
at this place."
Mrs. Mary PICKENS moved to Fayette Co., Tenn. where she is shown on the
census of 1830 with her five children, four sons and 1 daughter... "
p. 56. "David G. PICKENS, b. 1801 in SC moved to Natchez Mississippi. Shows
in 1860. m. S. C. ? b. 1814 in TN. [names 5 children]..."
UPDATE: 1998-05-25
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E. M. Sharp, PICKENS FAMILIES OF THE SOUTH:
p. 56. "David G. PICKENS, b. 1801 in SC moved to Natchez Mississippi.
Shows in 1860. m. S. C. ? b. 1814 in TN. [names 5 children]..."
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UPDATE: 1996-02-10
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LETTER from E. M. Sharp, Memphis TN, to Martha Hawkins, Monticello AR, dated 31
Aug 1977; ; ; ; transcript provided by John C. Pickens, St. Augustine FL, to
Terry McLean, Anaheim CA; FILE: Enc #P-300 (jcp disk 1nov94, S-KERR.txt).
"Rev. Israel Sidney PICKENS, youngest son of Andrew and Margaret GILLESPIE
PICKENS.... was converted and decided to enter the Ministry while he was working
with the Cumberland Presbyterian Mission in what is today Monroe Co., MS about 8
miles west of Amory. It was a school called Charity Hall, intended to educate
CHICKASAW youth. His brother Andrew PICKENS was a teacher there as was a
daughter of Andrew. Both of them died one summer of fever..."PICKENS FAMILIES OF THE SOUTH
p. 55. "Andrew...was born about 1780 and died 1824 in Monroe Co., Miss.
m. Mary ____? She later married William MCCLAIN, Dec 5, 1839, Hardeman Co.,
Tenn. Obtaining records of this family is difficult. The Cumberland Presbyterian
Church established a mission to the Chickasaw Indians at Cotton Gin Prt [Fort?]
on Tombigbee River about 7 miles west of the present Armory, Miss. The mission
obtained some support from the US Govt for its educational program and reports
had to be made to the Dept. of Indian Affairs. In those old reports we find:
Dec 10 1823, the information that Mr. Andrew PICKENS, Mrs. PICKENS, Miss Jane
PICKENS, and Isza PICKENS, arrived at Charity Hall to begin their work The name
of the mission was Charity Hall.
Report for 1824 states: "In the summer of this year Mr. Andrew PICKENS died of
inflamatory fever, also his daughter, Miss Jane PICKENS, instructor of the
female students. Mr. PICKENS and family consisted of eight in number and have
been living at this place."
Mrs. Mary PICKENS moved to Fayette Co., Tenn. where she is shown on the census
of 1830 with her five children, four sons and 1 daughter..."
UPDATE: 1996-02-09
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PICKENS FAMILIES OF THE SOUTH
p. 55. [Andrew's widow, Mary] ... later married William MCCLAIN, Dec 5,
1839, Hardeman Co., Tenn. [prior to that] ..Mrs. Mary PICKENS moved to Fayette
Co., Tenn. where she is shown on the census of 1830 with her five children,
four sons and 1 daughter...[1 daughter, Jane, had died in MS of the same
illness that took the life of her father]"
UPDATE: 1997-02-19
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PICKENS FAMILIES OF THE SOUTH, by E. M. Sharp:
p. 55. ... The mission [to the Chickasaw Indians at Cotton Gin Prt [Fort?]
on Tombigbee River] obtained some support from the US Govt for its educational
program and reports had to be made to the Dept. of Indian Affairs. In those
old reports we find:
Dec 10 1823, the information that Mr. Andrew PICKENS, Mrs. PICKENS, Miss
Jane PICKENS, and Isza PICKENS, arrived at Charity Hall to begin their work
The name of the mission was Charity Hall...."
Mrs. Mary PICKENS moved to Fayette Co., Tenn. where she is shown on the
census of 1830 with her five children, four sons and 1 daughter..."
"...Isabella, living in Arkansas in 1850, is "Isza" of the mission report.
She and her brother Elbert were living together [in Indpendence Co, AR]."
UPDATE: 1996-02-10
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LETTER from E. M. Sharp, Memphis TN, to Martha Hawkins, Monticello AR, dated
31 Aug 1977; ; ; ; transcript provided by John C. Pickens, St. Augustine FL,
to Terry McLean, Anaheim CA; FILE: Enc #P-300 (jcp disk 1nov94, S-KERR.txt).
"Rev. Israel Sidney PICKENS, youngest son of Andrew and Margaret GILLESPIE
PICKENS.... was converted and decided to enter the Ministry while he was
working with the Cumberland Presbyterian Mission in what is today Monroe Co.,
MS about 8 miles west of Amory. It was a school called Charity Hall, intended
to educate CHICKASAW youth. His brother Andrew PICKENS was a teacher there as
was a daughter of Andrew. Both of them died one summer of fever..."PICKENS FAMILIES OF THE SOUTH
p. 55. ... The mission [to the Chickasaw Indians at Cotton Gin Prt [Fort?]
on Tombigbee River] obtained some support from the US Govt for its educational
program and reports had to be made to the Dept. of Indian Affairs. In those
old reports we find:
Dec 10 1823, the information that Mr. Andrew PICKENS, Mrs. PICKENS, Miss
Jane PICKENS, and Isza PICKENS, arrived at Charity Hall to begin their work
The name of the mission was Charity Hall.
Report for 1824 states: "In the summer of this year Mr. Andrew PICKENS died
of inflamatory fever, also his daughter, Miss Jane PICKENS, instructor of the
female students. Mr. PICKENS and family consisted of eight in number and have
been living at this place."
Mrs. Mary PICKENS moved to Fayette Co., Tenn. where she is shown on the
census of 1830 with her five children, four sons and 1 daughter..."
"...Miss Jane PICKENS, apparently an older child, died in Monroe Co., Miss.
at Charity Hall in 1824..."
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PICKENS FAMILIES OF THE SOUTH
p. 55. [Andrew's widow, Mary] ... later married William MCCLAIN, Dec 5, 1839,
Hardeman Co., Tenn. [prior to that] ..Mrs. Mary PICKENS moved to Fayette Co.,
Tenn. where she is shown on the census of 1830 with her five children, four sons
and 1 daughter...[1 daughter, Jane, had died in MS of the same illness that took
the life of her father]"
"... Alexander PICKENS moved from Fayette County about 1842 and has been
lost..."
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PICKENS FAMILIES OF THE SOUTH
p. 55. [Andrew's widow, Mary] ... later married William MCCLAIN, Dec 5, 1839,
Hardeman Co., Tenn. [prior to that] ..Mrs. Mary PICKENS moved to Fayette Co.,
Tenn. where she is shown on the census of 1830 with her five children, four sons
and 1 daughter...[1 daughter, Jane, had died in MS of the same illness that took
the life of her father]"
Andrew F. PICKENS died in Fayette County [TN] 1848, his uncle Rev. Israel
PICKENS serving as administrator of his estate."