Re: Grenades Smith Co., TN
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In reply to:
Re: Grenades Smith Co., TN
9/17/01
I don't know why I've never noticed some of these older posts....yours especially seems to solve at least one problem.My ggggggggrandfather was Enos Harrell and he married Asenath Lee before 1790.They were on the Jones cty. N.C. census of 1790.Sometime after 1790 many area families migrated to Smith cty. Tenn.Enos has showed up on Smith cty documents as early as 1802.Somewhere, sometime, Enos and Asenath were made the wards of Elizabeth Grenade, about 9.Why...who were her parents and what happened...perhaps she was the unknown daughter referred to.I too corresponded with the Lubbock researcher and got an earlier Harrell researcher who speak of Resonover, Harrell and others as a "40 waggon load" train to Smith Cty.Why the exodus...probally new cheap or free land, as the frontier and veteran land opened up.
I don't believe my Elizabeth is the one who married into the Sandersons, as she married my gggggggrandfather Asa Harrell.There are a LOT of Elizabeths in that family.There are Grenades if my memory serves, on the 1790 Jones cty census, and likely Grenades were neighbors to Harrells.
I'd like to hear any input at all from Grenade (Granade) family researchers.
Gary Stella,
Georgetown, Texas