Re: Mears/Elkins/Tedder/Bogle marriages, Cannon & Marshall Cos, TN
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In reply to:
Mears/Elkins/Tedder/Bogle marriages, Cannon & Marshall Cos, TN
7/20/07
NOTE:Tedder researchers inform me that the correct marriage information for James Mears and Mary K (Church) Tedder is as follows.
Mary K. Church was born abt 1815/1820 in TN or NC.On 29 Sep 1834 she married William Tedder in Rutherford Co, TN.They had 2 and possibly 3 daughters:Mary, b abt 1836 in TN, Eliza, b abt 1840 in TN, and possibly Leana, b abt 1844 in TN.William Tedder died btw 1844/1848.Later, on 14 Nov 1848, Mary C(hurch) Tedder, widow of William Tedder, married James Mears.Btw 1849/1858 Mary and James Mears had the 4 previously mentioned children, William, James, Margaret, and Dillard E.Mary K. Church Tedder Mears died abt 1880.
Lingering questions remain:
1. Was the Nancy Elkins who married James Mears the daughter or granddaughter of Gabriel Elkins?I have seen claims for both.
2. Was it the Nancy Elkins who had been married to James Mears who went on to marry Thomas Bogle in Marshall Co, TN?
3. Was the child known in later records as Mary Elizabeth Bogle, b abt 1845, in fact the daughter of Nancy Elkins and James Mears?
4. I think the Nancy Elkins who married John Prater is a third "Nancy Elkins" who is readily distinguished from the two "Nancy Elkins" I have been discussing.But I have not found clear records to indicate her ancestry or dates of birth, marriage, and death.Can anyone help with that?
Bob