tWO OF jACOB'S DAUGHTER MD. AROUND 1750. Catherine md. John wayland and Elizabeth md. Conrad Wilhite. Atsissie1@aol.com wrote: > > Today I took a drive to find my CLICK/GLUCK (German family) family farm in > Washington Co, Tennessee, which I have discovered is located 1/2 mile east > from Broylesville. My family had lived in that same area on 240 acres of land > since at least 1787 that I know of. Our land was adjacent to James Graham, Sr > who died in 1813. I found some research that indicated his wife may have > been Sarah Broyles. I believe my 3rd great grandmother Ruth is James and > Sarah's daughter. Sarah apparently lived to be around 110 years of age, and > the best I can calculate her birth year is approx 1740/50. > > My family has consistently lived neighbors in the early years in Washington > Co. & then in Greene Co. to the families of Conrod Willhoit, Nicholas, > Mathias, Abraham, & Michael Broyles,Solomon Yeager, & Adam Gann. Our Click > family has 28 Broyles marriages and a few in the Willhoit family, and some in > the Gann family all the way through Washington, Greene, & Cocke counties. > > Our Click's are from Shenandoah Co. Virginia and came down about 1785 and > believe they may have first been in Greene county & then moved over to > Washington abt 1787. With the loss of some of the tax lists I can't determine > for sure which county first. A couple of the boys, Martin & Malachi Click, > lived in Greene county and owned land in the Middle Creek & Horse Creek > areas. The Middle Creek area is at the corner of the Hermon Church. > > The question I had to ask myself today was WHY were they living amongst all > of these inter-related families and WHY did they pick this particular > location in which to live. The usual reasons were family. > > My 2nd great grandmother was a Gray who married a Click, and from Culpeper > and Madison Co. Virginia. Her grandmother was ElizabethYOWELL who married > Elias Campbell & Elizabeth is dtr of Christopher YOWELL, Jr. Christopher's > sister Elizabeth is who married Jacob Broyles, son of Jacob Broyles & Mary > Catherine Fleischmann. > > No one has ever known the name of the wife of our Ludwig Henrich Gluck aka > Lewis Henry Click who settled here. And I find it VERY STRANGE that here he > is living amongst all of these German families if we weren't related somehow, > cause I know he didn't come by himself. > > I checked the database for the Broyles families and can't seem to find a > Sarah that fits into the timeframe, but I did find a suspected daughter Mary, > who was a daughter of Jacob Broyles & Mary Fleischmann born abt 1748. And > here is Sarah Graham living among the children of Jacob & Mary. And of course > we have no marriage records. I discovered the Washington co courthouse had a > fire in 1838 and suspect they must have lost some marriage records, cause I > do have a few from the early records of our Click's. > > Another strange thing I find is that members of our family belonged to > Cherokee Baptist church and here they are living amongst Presbyterians. > > Another thing of interest is that I believe some of the Yeager's made > pottery. Some members of our family in Greene county made pottery, and we > suspect that it was carried with our family from Germany due to the type of > pottery they made. So I find it rather coincidental that we are living near > Solomon Yeager. > > If anyone could shed any light on my Sarah Broyles? Graham I would be forever > grateful. I just can't believe there isn't a connection to some of these > families somehow. Thanks for any help. I'll be at the reunion this year, was > in the process of moving in Sept & couldn't come. > > Carolyn Whitaker > Greene Co. Tenn > > ==== BROYLES Mailing List ==== > You can contact the List Manager at: > georgedurman@home.com > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237