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Rick, I also have Julius as having married Martha Gist in Lawrence County. The following is part of a letter written by Julius' Great Grandson and published in the Brewer Annual Reunion booklet:
"I received your letter inquiring about my great grandfather, Julius. From stories I have heard over the years, mostly from my father, Wiley, I will attempt to bring you up to date. He moved from North Carolina to Lawrence County Tennessee when he was very young with his full brother, Wiley. They lived in the same area in Southwest Lawrence County in the same area Davy Crockett lived and became friends. They later moved to Wayne County somewhere around Iron City. They both joined the army during the War of 1812. They are listed in the Wayne County records as being in the war from Wayne County. Davy Crockett also joined about that same time. If there is any connection, I don't know. They were in the Battle of New Orleans with Davy Crockett and Andrew Jackson against the British and later all were in the Indian War together at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in Alabama. later, Julius named one of his sons Crockett for Davy. My father was named for his Uncle Wiley. Julius made a career of the army. He married the first time in Wayne County and fathered one daughter, Hulda Jane. He and his wife split and he later moved back to North Carolina. His mother was a Cherokee Indian (Lanier Jrs. last wife). In 1838, he was called by the army to come to Cherokee and help with the Indian round-up as an interpreter. When they left for Oklahoma, he was a captain in charge of the 445 wagons that translported the Indians. On the trip he chose an Indian Squaw to be his maiden and kept her in his covered wagon. When the trip ended her brought her back to North Carolina. Being about 43 years of age and after 27 years in the army, he mustered out and married his squaw of 15. He fathered some children. Billy, Crockett and Riley (my grandfather) were the only ones I ever heard of. I have always understood that my grandfather, Riley, was 7 years old when they mnoved back to Wayne County in 1855. Although my sister states that my father told her that his father, Riley, was born in Wayne County. Just prior to the Civil War, with all the turmoil, he moved his family to Itawamba County, MIssissippi, just across the state line from the Bull Mountain community of Alabama. I have an idea that this is where he is buried. My grandfather partly grew up there and married a Davis girl from across the line and settled down in Marion County, Alabama after part of his family was born in Mississippi. Riley's first wife had eight children and died. Riley married again in 1888 and my fatrher, Wiley, was the oldest of eight born to Sarah Stidham, my grandmother".
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