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On 31 May 1845 in Cherokee Co., GA, a pension application was filed for a James GILMORE. In that application John and Hannah DENTON were witnesses for him, and we find the following information: ". . . John Denton . . . has always understood and verrily believes that he was born in Granville county State of North Carolina." (this was first written York County South Carolina but is marked through and Granville is noted instead.) ". . . now seventy years of age . . . Hannah Denton (wife of John Denton) aged nearly sixty four years . . . according to her understanding and record she was born in the District of York State of South Carolina the year 1781 and was raised within one mile of the aforesaid James and Easter Gilmore . . ." This proves that John could not have been (as some have believed) the son of Samuel and Elizabeth CHASTAIN DENTON, because he was the same age as Elizabeth. I have wondered if he were the son John named in the will of Samuel DENTON, 12 Apr 1786, York Co., SC. Mr. Krumm, I assume this is the Samuel you suggested might be his father. Samuel names his wife Elizabeth and sons John, Benjamin, and Joshua. I wish there were some way we could prove him to be that John. Location would suggest that to be true.
Going to the next generation, I believe John and Hannah's son Samuel is not the Samuel in Telfair Co., GA, but is the one in Cobb Co., GA, in 1840 and 1850; then in Paulding Co., GA, in 1860, 1870, and 1880. Here is the reason I believe this: in the book Turner, Dover, and Allied Families, by Mrs. Frank Ross Stewart, the author quotes Mrs. Nell DENTON MASHBURN as follows, "John Denton and Hannah McCord moved into the mountains of North Georgia sometime prior to 1810. Their children were born in Georgia. I have the names of their sons, my grandfather among them, James McCord Denton. At the time of the death of John McCord, John and Hannah Denton were too old to make the trip back to South Carolina to receive their part of the estate in question, so a nephew came on horseback to see them as they were living in the home of their oldest son, Samuel Denton, in Paulding County, securing from them a power-of-attorney, signed jointly. That document is in the file containing the papers relative to the settlement of the estate." I have a copy of this document signed in Paulding Co.,
2 Oct 1854. The only difference between what Mrs. Mashburn wrote and what the document says is that it was done after the death of James McCORD, rather than John McCORD. This may not be PROOF, but it is certainly convincing to me that Samuel in Paulding Co. was their son. The will of Samuel of Paulding Co. is dated 15 Apr 1887 and filed on 4 Mar 1889. I would like very much to hear other ideas on this family.
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