Subject: Mary Ann Blevins Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 10:47:54 EDT From: BrightStar9136@aol.com To: pabst@btc-bci.com Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1769-1923, Vol. 2    Tennessee the Volunteer State 1769–1923: Volume 2 WILLIAM THOMAS ROBERTS. On the maternal side William Thomas Roberts is likewise descended from Revolutionary stock. Isaac McCammon was born in Surry county, North Carolina, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He married Elizabeth Poindexter Evans, whose first husband was Major Thomas Evans, who won fame for the part he took in the Indian wars in Tennessee and to whom the government made a large grant of land upon which the city of Nashville now stands. At the death of Major Evans, Elizabeth Poindexter Evans married Isaac McCammon and to their union one son and three daughters were born: Margaret, Mary Dewees, Elizabeth and Thomas. Margaret McCammon married Major Francis Pettitt and their children were five in number, namely: Margaret Martha Milner; Francis A.; George D., who was wounded as a soldier of the Confederate forces during the Civil war; Thomas Evans, who also joined the Confederate army and died in the service; and Elizabeth Carolina, who became the wife of Edmund Roberts and the mother of William Thomas Roberts. All of these ancestors migrated from North Carolina to Tennessee, settling in McMinn county. The flintlock gun that Isaac McCammon carried in the Revolutionary war is now in the possession of William Thomas Roberts, who also has in his possession a Confederate flag presented to his maternal uncle, Thomas McCammon Evans Pettit, who was in Captain Gouldy's company, later captain Dick Vandyke's company of the Confederate army. The flag was presented to the uncle by Miss Mary Ann Blevins, who married James Gregory and is still living.