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Tennessee derived its name from its principal river. It is an Indian name
signifying "a curved spoon." It was formed from North Carolina in 1790
and admitted to the Union June 1, 1796. "In the spring of 1775 a small
party under James Robertson left Watauga for the purpose of testing the
fertility of the soils on the Cumberand River. Reports favorable, 300 emigrants
followed them in the fall of the same year to the French Lick.
French Lick (Nashville) was from a strong sulphur spring. "Late April
1778, the colony at the Bluffs was largely increased by the arrival of a
flotilla of emigrants under CoL Donaldson. These came via the Holscon from Port
Patrick Henry and entering the Tennessee River committed themselves to the
current of the river. They were beset on both sides of the river by bands of
Chickamaugas who fired into their boats whenever opportunity offered, and were
successful in killing one company of 30 persons, wounding others.
The voyage was continued to the Ohio where most of the boats cook a southerly
direction into the Illinois country and down the Mississippi to Natchez The
Donaldson party faced a difficult task of going up the Ohio, from the mouth of
the Tennessee to the mouth of the Cumberland. It took about four days to make
the short distance. "However, the party ascended the river (Cumberand) and
reached Robertson's settlement at the French Lick (Nashville) on April 24, 1780,
after a eventful voyage of four months."
From "History of Tennessee" by W. H. Carpenter. The writer cannot
imagine, hiving lived on the Mississippi River several years, how these settlers
poled their flat bottom boats from the mouth of the Cumberland Rivet up stream
to Nashville. .
At the close of the Revolution, new settlers began to arrive. By Act of the
North Carolina Legislature in May, 1780, it Promised land in the region West of
the Cumberland Mountains (Tennessee, S.A.T.) to the state's soldiers. In 1782
the rewards for military services were increased. Privates to receive 640 acres,
Captains 3840 acres. Preemption rights to 640 acres were given to each head of
family that had settled on land prior to June 1, 1780. To the student of
American history, and to all that claim Tennessee as the land of their birth or
that of their ancestors, it is remarkable what a century will reveal as to the
migrations of Tennesseeans. Before 1850, the earliest date when these migrations
are considered in the census, the removals to Alabama and Missisippi had reached
their flood and were receding in favor of other states. Many of them did not
even know each other and, after 190 years in Virginia, 1670 to 1800, were rank
strangers and very distantly related and scattered over many counties of
Virginia. To centralize the Thweatt settlers in Tennessee we have chosen three
counties in "Middle Tennessee," for that is the country where my
father and I first saw the light of day. Davidson County, of which Nashville is
the county seat, was created by Act of the North Carolina Legislature April,
1783, including, approximately, the northern half of Middle Tennessee. One of
the first acts of the county court was to order the erection of a court house
and jail. Specifications for the court house: 18 feet square, "lean
to"
shed on one side, 12 by 18 feet, hewed logs, 12 inches square. Rutherford County
was formed from Davidson October 25, 1803.
The census for 1810 (one of the few counties of Tennessee whose census of
1810 is still extant) lists William Thweatt as the head of family. Males: one
under 10, one 10 to 16, one 16 to 18, one 16 to 26, one over 45 (must have been
the father); Females: one under 10, one 16 to 26, one 26 to 45 (no doubt the
wife); slaves: fourteen. . Bedford County, Tennessee, was formed December
3, 1807, out of Rutherford County. The county seat, Shelbyville, was established
in 1810. Several 1,000 acres of land in Bedford County were issued by North
Carolina to the officers and soldiers of the Continental Line. Others were
issued for the state of Tennessee. Salem Academy established at Belle Buckle,
Tennessee, in 1820.
The name "Volunteer State" was given to Tennessee because in each
war in which man power was needed she furnished her quota of volunteers without
conscription. Five years after the infant Bedford County was established, this
county furnished a full company in the "War of 1812," which took part
in the battle of New Orleans. "It furnished troops in about equal
numbers to both Federal and Confederate Armies in the Civil War."
Williamson County was formed from Davidson County, October 26, 1799. Hunters and
explorers went into Williamson County as early as 1784.
There are so many Thweatts, including myself, who have Tennessee as their
native state and who have moved into other parts of the country, reared families
and, in some cases, even second generations, that it is hard to place them in
the state they desire. The writer has lived in seven states and in California
for 21 years, that is two years longer than in Tennessee. The lineage goes
back to Virginia, ties into all three lines in Arkansas, the Williamson County,
Tenn. families, which includes my own. While there are a few errors in the
Virginia part. Letter of Boswell Hutchings written May 6, 1826, from Cloverville,
Virginia, Dinwiddie County to his brother, William Hutchings, of Murfreesboro,
Tenn., "Charles Thweatt's and James Sturdevant's families are well."
Boswell Hutchings' letter written Nov. 24, 1830, from Cloverville, Va., to
William Hutchings of Cane's Fork, Tenn., "Charles Thweatt's widow and her
son, Archable, are at the old place. Allen Thweatt is living at his father's old
place and drinks hard as do many others." Boswell Hutchings' letter written
May 1, 1830, from Cloverville, Va., to William Hutchings of Wilson County Tenn.,
"Betsy Thweatt and Archer are at the old place. Allen Thweatt bought old
Henry Thweatt's old place." Letter from Mrs. Elizabeth Dillin on Feb. 22,
1836, from Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky, to brother and sister, R. R.
Moore and Elizabeth Moore of Sandy Ridge, Tenn., list of her children as
follows: Charles Roper, Susan Elizabeth, James Alexander, Amanda Thweatt,
Benjamin, Felisa, Nancy Harriett, Joseph Rice, Albert Moore. Boswell Hutchings'
letter written June 6, 1818, from Petersburg, Va., to William Hutchings of
Murfreesboro, Tenn., "Deaths, Joseph Thweatt, our sister, Abernatha, wife
of Charles Abernatha, Mrs. David Browder." Letter from Boswell Hutchings
written Sept. 1, 1822, from Cloversville, Va., to William Hutchings of
Murfreesboro, Tenn., "George Thweatt married Miss Areadne, daughter of Mrs.
Nancy Manlove. She is a fine girl and well educated." Letter from David
Thacker on Dec. 26, 1818, from Dinwiddie County, Va., to Capt William Hutchings
of Wilson Co., Tenn., "Allen Thweatt married Nancy Sutherland the first day
of Dec. last." Also contained a letter from his wife, Rhoda Thweatt Thacker
to her aunt, Sarah Thweatt Hutchings, as follows: "My father, Joseph
Thweatt, died on 15 of May 1818. He appeared to suffer more than I ever saw a
person in my life; he thought he was poisoned.
Dear Aunt, you wanted to know how it was with father and Uncle Hutchings with
sorrow I must write they remained to live just as you left them. Sister Betsy
had had a son and a daughter since you left and Eliza had had a son. Ephraim
continues to Preach and I hope it is in the way to Heaven. Our Mother-in-law was
Baptised in your old mill pond last Oct. by Shelburn, the Baptist
preacher." Boswell Hutchings' letter on Aug. 12, 1825, from Cloverville,
Va. to William Hutchings of Murfreesboro, Tenn., "Charles Thweatt's family
is well. Henry Thweatt died within the last 15 days." Boswell Hutchings'
letter written on Nov. 5, 1815, from Clov- erville, Va., to William Hutchings of
Wilson Co., Tenn.,
"Families of Joseph Thweatt and Charles Thweatt are well." Letter
from John M. Sutherland on Nov. 30, 1818, from Din- widdie Co., Va., to Capt
William Hutchings of Wilson Co., Tenn., "When Mr. Joseph Thweatt died he
left Allen his plantation and his daughters he left five hundred dollars apiece
and the rest of his estate to be sold on a credit of 12 months and the money
arising from the sale to be equally divided among all his children. Mrs. Thweatt
has got the negro man by the name of Jesse, one featherbed and furniture, one
horse and chair and two hundred dollars her own property and one negro girl. She
has her life in the land but gave it up to Allen and is living with him."
Doswell Hutchings' letter written on April 9, 1827, from Cloverville, Va., to
William Hutchings of Murfreesboro, Tenn., "George Thweatt has gone to
Georgia."
Letter from Archibald H. Thweatt on Oct. 24, 1810, from Dinwiddie Co., Va.,
to his uncle, William Hutchings, of Cane's Fork, Wilson Co., Tenn., "Capt.
William Scott's widow died a few days ago." Boswell Hutchings' letter
written on lan. 10, 1817, from Cloverville, Va., to William Hutchings of
Murfreesboro, Tenn., "Your youthful companions, George and William Thweatt
are at school at the five forks with a Mr. Eckles R. Thacker. Archer Thweatt is
not in school this year."
Boswell Hutchings' letter written on Sept 18, 1818, from Petersburg, Va., to
William Hutchings of Lebanon, Tenn., "Joseph Thweatt left his estate, the
land, to his wife during her life or widowhood also Jesse and a girl and
$200.00. At her death or marriage the land goes to Allen. And his four daughters
got $500 each. The balance of his estate is to be equally divided among his
children. The widow was dissatisfied and the children have made some arrangement
with her to prevent her taking her third but I don't know what."
Letter from W. C. Thweatt on July 19, 1859, from Claredon, Ark., to his
cousin, R. R. Moore, of Somerville, Tenn., in which he said that his
father had died on the 31st of July, 1858. (This one I cannot line up in any
family group, unless it was W. H. Thweatt instead of W. C., who would have been
19 years old and his father, Peter Booker Thweatt, b. Feb. 22, 1813, making his
father 45 years old at his death. S.A.T.).
Letter from Iuka, Miss., June 17, 1877: "Dear Cecil: Now for the
Thweatts, the grant you let Oscar Thweatt have was given to my mother's
grandfather, he with his family came over and laid out land all around where we
lived. The place we lived on the old people are buried in an apple orchard some
distance from our house. I know I used to be afraid to go about the place. I
don't know how many children they had. I only know of two boys, my grandfather
and one mother called Uncle Hall. His farm was about a mile east of us and
grandfather's home was south of us about a mile. They are buried on their place
and so was Uncle Hall and wife at their place. Uncle Hall had children but I
don't know how many. I think they all went to Haiifax County but one, and he was
living in our county when I can first recollect a grey headed man and I left him
there when I came away. "My grandfather and grandmother had only twelve
children and they are all grown and all married but two. "Love to all and
yourself from your old aunt, (Mrs.) Ann Thweatt Powell."
Sarah Thweatt was born on Jan. 17, 1768, and died on May 17, 1850. She
married William Hutchings. He was born Oct. 6, 1770, and died May 11, 1840. He
was a lawyer and died in Wilson County, Tenn. Their daughter was Elizabeth
Hutchings, b. June 25, 1805, and died June 14, 1868. She was buried at
Somerville, Tenn. Elizabeth married Robert Roper Moore on Dec. 24, 1829.
He was born Apr. 23, 1800, and died May 26, 1869. He is also buried at
Somerville, Tenn. (They were first cousins). Their daughter was Harriett
Cordelia Moore, born Aug. 19, 1842, and died Nov. 30, 1880. She is buried at
Macon, Tenn. She married James Caswell Edenton on Nov. 4, 1874, at Macon, Tenn.
He was born Aug. 30, 1842, and died Aug. 19, 1923, at Jackson, Tenn. Their
daughter was Olivia Cordelia Edenton, born Aug. 1, 1876, at Macon, Tenn., and
married William Carlton Low on April 19, 1898, in Jackson, Tenn.
He was born Nov. 14, 1875, in Saulsbury, Tenn. Their daughters are Mary Elizabeth
Low and Nell Edenton Low. Elizabeth Hutchings and Robert Roper Moore had nine
children. Also find this Thweatt data among my notes copied from the old
letters: Henry Green was grandson of Henry Thweatt. Henry Thweatt was uncle to
Almeda Hutchings -- Peter B. Thweatt of Williamson Co., Tenn. Howard Thweatt was
uncle to Peter B. Thweatt -- Joseph Thweatt of Rich Square, Northhampton, N.C.
Ann M. Thweatt was niece of William Hutchings. Thomas Thweatt was son of Henry
Thweatt of Virginia. The Thweatts of Smith County, Tenn., were headed by William
Thweatt, born in Halifax County, reported to have served in the Revolutionary
War.
Issue: 1-James Thweatt, 2-a daughter who married Jonathon Doss, 3-Henry
Thweatt, died before 1833, 4-a daughter who married James Ward, 5-William Giles
Thweatt, 6-Thomas Thweatt, lived in Haywood Co., Tenn., in 1833. William Giles
Thweatt, b. Jan. 6, 1805, Smith Co., Tenn.; m. Sophia Matilda McKie. Issue: l-Elita
Thweatt; m. (?) Norris, 2- Tiny Thweatt; m. (?) Thompson, 3-Jonathan Thweatt,
4-Adeline Thweatt; m. (?) Adcock, 5-William Giles Thweatt, Jr., 6-Henry Thweatt,
died before marriage, 7-Jane Thweatt; m. (?) Driver. Jonathon D. Thweatt, b.
Sept. 28, 1831, Smith Co., Tenn.; m. Nov. 17, 1859, Mary Jane Lane, b. June 14,
1830, Campbell Co., Va. Issue: 1-Stanton Thweatt, b. Oct. 20, 1860, never
married, 2- Mollie Thweatt, never married, 3-Horace Thweatt, b. Apr. 2, 1866,
never married, 4-John T. Thweatt, b. Apr. 21, 1869; m. Aug. 10, 1892, Stella
Turner, b. Sept. 26, 1877. Eliza Thweatt Norris was grandmother to Mrs. A.
L. Haley, Chattanooga, Tenn.
The William Giles Thweatt of this line is the head of the family of Threets,
under Wyoming.
Smith County, Tennessee, Census, 1820 William Thereatte Males Females Slaves
1 under 10 1 under 10 19 1 10-16 1 16-26 1 16-26 1 45- 1 26-45 1 45- The
majority of the following families and descendants are still in Virginia but
information came from Tennessee.
The Thweatts of Humbolt, Tenn., heads up in Virginia, as do all other
Thweatts, with two Possible exceptions. Dates unrecorded in one family could
show up in other Thweatt lines. Richard Noble Thweatt, residence
"Mantua" Chesterfield Co., Va.; m. Lucy Eppes. Issue: 1-John Thweatt,
2-Archibald Thweatt, 3- James Thweatt, 4-Martha Thweatt, 5-Thomas Thweatt, 6-Dr.
John J. Thweatt, 7-Eliza Thweatt; m. John Augustine Peterson, B-Richard Thweatt.
Thomas Thweatt of "Gatewood" (No. 5 above), b. Apr. 28, 1782, d. Sept
211 1845; m. Sallie Thweatt, dates unknown. Issue: 1-Lucy Osborne Thweatt, b. ?,
2-Archibald Thweatt, b. 1810, 3- Francis Fitzgerald Thweatt, b. ?, 4-Susan Field
Thweatt, b. ?, 5- Sarah Green Thweatt. Lucy Osborne Thweatt; m. Agricola Field.
Archibald Thweatt, b. Jan., 1810, d. Aug. 23, 1877; m. Nov. 7, 1832, Sarah K.
Fitzgerald, b. May, 1814, d. Aug., 1899. Res1- dence: Meadow Bank, Dinwiddie
Co., Va. Issue: 1-Thomas Francis Thweatt, b. Jan. 19, 1834, d. Jan. 23, 1835,
2-Susan Field Thweatt, b. Oct. 23, 1835, d. Sept. 21, 1844, 3-Francis Fitzgerald
Thweatt, b. Aug. 28, 1837, d. 1917, 4Thomas Thweatt, b. Mar. 19, 1839, d. Aug.
20, 1876 or 77, 5-Archibald Thweatt, b. Sept. 7, 1840, d. Aug. 27, 1878,
6-Richard Noble Thweatt, b. Feb. 7, 1842, d. Sept. 12, 1878, 7-Louisa Jones
Thweatt, b. Aug. 29, 1843, d. June 10, 1905, 8-Sarah Green Thweatt, b. Aug. 3,
1845, d. Aug. 30, 1870, 9-Geo. Chas. Thweatt, b. Apr. 3, 1847, d. Apr. 2, 1872,
lO-Mary Thweatt, b. Dec. 11, 1849, d. Apr 10, 1916, ll-Frances Thweatt, b. Dec.
23, 1850, 12-John James Thweatt, b. Apr. 2, 1852, d. July 10, 1853, 19-John
(added James) Thweatt, b. July 28, 1854, d. Apr. 2, 1910, 14-Edmund Thweatt, b.
Mar. 1, 1855, d. 3 weeks old, 15- Edmund Osborne Thweatt, b. Aug. 14, 1856, d.
Jan. 2, 1857, 16- Lucy Katherine Thweatt, b. Oct. 26, 1857.
Susan Field Thweatt (No. 2 above) daughter of Archibald and Sarah; m. Dr.
Geo. Fittgerald. Issue: Lt. Edmund O. Fitzgerald, b. 1830, 3rd Va. Cavalry,
A.N.D. Lt. Fittgerald married Susan Gil- lam. Issue: John, Edmund, Frank, Mary
Eliza, Albenia G., John Peterson Fitzgerald. Sarah Green Thweatt (No. 8 above);
m. Francis Fitzgerald Jones. Issue: Betty, Lucy, George, Thomas F. Frank G.
Cralle, Hat- tie F., Alice, William F., Freeman, James A. and R. Gregory Jones.
Francis Fitzgerald Thweatt (No. 3 above); m. Elizabeth Rowe Baird. Archibald
Thweatt (No. 5 above); m. Mary Epps, no issue. Richard Noble Thweatt (No. 6
above); m. Bettie Green. I5 - sue: Willis Green Thweatt, d. Aug. 28, 1956;
m.
Mrs. Thomas Carlton Edmunds. Louisa Jones Thweatt (No. 7 above); m. A. Thee
Powell. John James Thweatt (No. 19 above); m. Cora Field. John was born July 28,
1854, in Dinwiddie Co., Va. Married Cora on Oct. 10, 1882, and died Apt. 2,
!!!!, at Humbolt, Tenn. Cora was born in Humbolt on Aug. 9, 1860. Lucy Katherine
Thweatt (No. 16 above); m. Thomas C. Bourdon. Issue of John J. and Cora Thweatt:
1-John W. Thweatt, b. Oct. 24, 1888, 2-James R. Thweatt, b. Dec. 19, 1890,
3-Noble Thweatt, b. Jan. 28, 1886, 4Katherine Thweatt, b. Aug. 27, 1884. John W.
Thweatt (No. 1 above); m. June 10, 1914, Annie Deli Marmoth, b. Feb. 9, 1892,
Humbolt, Tenn. Issue: l-Dorothy Delle Thweatt, b. Apr. 9, 1916, 2-June Louise
Thweatt, b. June 20, 1918, 3-Anne Thweatt, b. Dec. 4, 1922.
James R. Thweatt (No. 2 above), never married. Noble Thweatt; m. Oct. 29,
1919, Mary Jarrell, b. Nov. 1, 1895. Issue: 1-Mary Jarrell Thweatt, b. Jan. 21,
1926, 2-Katherine Fox Thweatt, b. Apr. 23, 1929, 3-Sadie Flair Thweatt, b. Jan.
5, 1932. Mary Katherine Thweatt; m. S. T. Anderson, b. Feb. 23, 1873, Chester,
S.C. No issue. Arch Thweatt, son of R. Noble Thweatt; m. Elizabeth Greene of
Memphis, Tenn. (not sure whether there was second marriage to Etta Windsor
Rawlins of Humbolt, Tenn.). Issue: 1-Elizabeth Thweatt; m. John Loch, Memphis,
Tenn., 2- Louise Thweatt; m. Doddridge Nichols, Memphis, Tenn., 3-Dorothy
Thweatt; m. John Renners, Memphis, Tenn. James R. Thweatt, who furnished a
majority of this Thweatt family record, wrote to me May 26 and Oct. 7, 1936.
"My father and some of his brothers went to Memphis, Tenn., shortly after
the Civil War. He had one brother, Noble Thweatt, who was Principal of a school
there in 1870. We have a cousin, Arch Thweatt, living there now. My mother,
sister and two brothers reside here. Most of our relatives, on the Thweatt side,
reside in Dinwiddie Co., Va. Some of whom are: Frank Thweatt, Peter5 - burg,
Va., Chas. G. and Frank T. Zehmer of McKenney, Va., also the Bourdon,
Thee.
Powell and Fittgerald Thweatt families are there now. Richmond Thweatt,
brother of Arch Thweatt, our cousin resided in Chickasha, Okla., before his
death several years ago and his widow and several children live there now. We
still own our father's old home place in Dinwiddie Co., Va." Jane Louise
Thweatt, daughter of John W. and Annie Deli Thweatt, was "Miss Dixie of
1936, Memphis Cotton Carnival. The writer has a full length picture from a
clipping of the "Commercial Appeal", dated Friday, May 15, 1936. I was
shocked to learn, through a news clipping, of her death at the age of 22. This
is the young lady that I mentioned, under Arkansas, who looked enough like
another Thweatt young lady to be her sister.
Richmond Fitzgerald Thweatt, b. Mar. 23, 1875, d. Oct. 9, 1928; m. Apr. 24,
1898, Mary Edith Vance, b. Aug. 27, 1876. Issue: 1-John Vance Thweatt, b. Feb.
18, 1899, died age 12, 2-Batt Fittgerald Thweatt, died in childhood, 3-Dorothy
Thweatt, b. Oct. 19, 1907; m. Bennett Nolen Bond, 4-C. Harold Thweatt, b. June
7, 1910, 5-Richmond F. Thweatt, b. Apr. 22, 1912, 6-Virginia Thweatt, b. Oct. 8,
1915; m. (Ist) H.]. Brownson, Jr., m. (2nd) Lynn O'Neal. C. Harold Thweatt (No.
4 above); m. Oct. 19, 1946, Frances B. Phelps, b. Mar. 21, 1915. Issue: 1-John
Vance Thweatt, b. Aug. 22, 1948, 2-Richard Russell Thweatt, b. Dec. 2, 1950.
Richmond F. Thweatt, Jr. (No. 5 above); m. Jan. 1, 1937, Viola Juanita Mills.
Issue: Richard F. Thweatt III, b. June 29, 1939. The above families, Virginia
ancestry, Tennessee and Oklahoma reared. They are a few among the many Thweatts
that have preserved an excellent family record and can, step by step, trace back
to early Virginia. They tie in with the Humbolt, Tenn., families of whom the
earlier ancestors have been listed elsewhere in this volume.
C. Harold Thweatt is a lawyer, Oklahoma City. Col. R. F. Thweatt, Jrú, is
stationed at Colorado Springs, Cole. Thomas Jefferson's letter to Archibald
Thweatt, Monticello, Jan. 19, 1821, states: "I have long withdrawn my
attention from public affairs. I am sensible of the inroads daily making by the
federal into the jurisdiction of the state governments. (Note: The Civil War was
fought over this question and still is an argument of debate daily in the year
1958. S.A.T.).
Accept with Mrs. Thweatt the assurance of my affectionate and respectful
attachment." From "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson," Vol. 15, p.
306. There is a firm of Thweatt brothers, located in Lucy, Tenn. I am sorry that
I have not been able to contact these families. Register of the General Assembly
of Virginia: Archibald Thweatt, Chesterfield Co. Years 1813-14,
1814-15-16-17-18. R. N. (Richard Noble! S.A.T.) Thweatt, House 1857-1858.
Stewart County, Tenn., Census, 1820: William R. Thweatt Males Females 3
to 10 1 to 10 1 10-16 1 10-16 1 26-45 1 26-45 (This county is next to Kentucky
line. S.A.T.). In Decatur County, Tennessee, there was a Thweatt family, headed
by Patent Luther Thweatt, b. Jan. 2, !; m. Harriett Yar- borough (). Issue: 1.
Alice Thweatt Kelton, b. Aug. 10, 1886, living in 1958 in Parsons, Tenn. 2.
Fanny Thweatt Manus, b. Apr. 1, 1887, living in 1958 in Finley, Tenn. 3. Henry
Patent Thweatt, b. Feb. 29, 1888, deceased. 4. Maggie Thweatt, b. 1890,
deceased. 5. William T. Thweatt, b. Oct. 26, 1891. 6. Dollie Thweatt, b. 1893,
deceased. 7. Mollie Pearl Thweatt, b. 1896, deceased. William T. Thweatt (No. 5
above); m. Mar. 17, 1917, Gu5 - sie A. Brasher, b. Nov. 23, 1892. Issue: l-Dannie
Marie Thweatt, b. Nov. 12, 1918; m. Jan. 14, 1939, William A. Brady, b. Aug. 27,
1915. Issue: l-Gwendolyn Brady, b. Oct. 18, 1945, 2-Arthur Brady, b. Mar. 4,
1947. 2. William James Thweatt, b. Aug. 17, 1919; m. Jan. 14, 1939, Bernice
Marie Madron. Issue: 1-larry Thweatt, 2-Jerry Thweatt, 3-Karen Thweatt. 3.
Walter F. Thweatt, b. June 27, 1921; m. June 1, 1940, Gertrude Bull, b. Aug. 18,
1920. Issue: l-Ronnie F. Thweatt, b. Dec. 18, 1942, 2-Darlene Thweatt, b. Feb.
1, 1945. 4. Lorene A. Thweatt, b. Aug. 15, 1922; m. June 30, 1940, Glen M.
Barker, b. July 27, 1919. Issue: l-Donna M. Barker, b. Feb. 17, 1943, 2-Carey R.
Barker, b. Feb. 2, 1948. 5. Henry L. Thweatt, b. May 12, 1924; m. Nov. 22, 1944,
Velma (?), b. Apr. 12, 1922. Issue: Christine Thweatt, b. July 12, 1954.
6. Thomas Eugene Thweatt, b. July 12, 1925; m. Dec. 23, 1944, Melba Rodgers, b.
Aug. 21, 1928. Issue: l-Gloria Thweatt, b. Sept. 19, 1947, 2-Robert L. Thweatt,
b. Dec. 16, 1948.
William Thweatt, wife Gussie, their children and grandchildren now make their
home in California. There are five related Thweatt families whose names are in
the telephone directory in Clarksville, Tenn. Dr. J. Thweatt, evidently, was
born before the Civil War.
Dr. J. Thweatt, d. Mar., 1907; m. Martha Chester, b. Clarksville, Tenn.
Issue: l-Lelia Thweatt, b. 1876; m. Charlie Smith, 2- F. S. Thweatt, b. Feb. 14,
1875; m. Addie Ferrell, 3-Jennie Thweatt, b. Jan. 23, 1876; m. Will Boghy, 4-W.
C. Thweatt, b. 1877; m. Mamie Griffey, 5-J. G. Thweatt, b. Oct. 3, 1882; m.
Nancy J. Spicer, 6-Bailey Thweatt, b. Feb. 25, 1885, 7-Bertie Thweatt, b. Jan.
15, 1891; m. Emest Roberts. Johnathon Green Thweatt; m. Mar. 22, 1903, Nancy
Jane Spicer, b. Feb. 21, 1885. Issue: 1 Nancy L. Thweatt, b. Oct. 30, 1904,
single, 2-Thursa M. Thweatt, b. Jan. 9, 1907; m. J. P. Dulin, 3-Leonard C.
Thweatt, b. Sept. 25, 1909; m. Mildred F. Shelby, 4- Myrtle C. Thweatt, b. Apr.
8, 1913; m. Lawrence M. Gibbs, 5-Nellie M. Thweatt, b. Sept. 19, 1916; m.
Terrell F. Hicks, 6-William J. Thweatt, b. Oct. 25, 1920; m. Sarah Deason,
7-Coney L. Thweatt, b. Feb. 25, 1922; m. Henrietta Shemwell, 8-Geneva L.
Thweatt, b. Sept 30, 1925; m. Jewel L. Hall.
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