This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FROST, DANIEL, DENNEY, JONES, RAINS, MASSENGALE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jAB.2ACI/1836.1 Message Board Post: Below are notes from Lorna Gheen a researcher of the Parmley family. The spelling of the last name gets a lot of abuse but that is the case in family history. Dale Jones John was an American Revolutionary Veteran, pension # 530-637, bounty land warrent #36619-160-55. He and his wife donated land for the Baptist Church in the Parmleysville area. Information came form Linda Murtaugh. John and Rebecca had at least 13 children; he and Elizabeth had one child. John Parmley was born June 4, 1762 in Elizabeth, Essex Co., NJ, and died April 25, 1848 in Clinton Co., KY. He was son of Giles Parmley and wife, Margaret Frazee. He married (1) Rebecca Cross Dec 1, 1785 in Wilkes Co., NC, daughter of Edward Cross and Elizabeth Gibbons. She was born about 1765 in York Co., VA and died after 1830 in Russell Co., KY. He married 2) Elizabeth Pittman on January 1, 1845 in Clinton Co., KY. He married a third time when he was 80 years old, the young brides name is unknown to me at this time. Children of John Parmley and Rebecca Cross were: (1) John Parmley b about 1787 Hawkins Co., TN, d. about 1841 Roane Co., TN. m. Catherine Gibson; (2) Eleanor/Elander Parmley b. about 1788, m. Francis Biggs March 20, 1808 in Cumberland Co., KY; (3) Robert Parmley b March 4, 1789, NC d. September 12, 1875, Monticello, Wayne Co., KY. Married 1) Barbara Adair, m2) Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Hurt; (4) Rebecca Parmley b. about 1791, m. Lewis Foust on February 19, 1810 in Wayne Co., KY; (5) Elizabeth Parmley b. October 14, 1793 Wayne Co., KY, d. March 20, 1892, married Samuel Ingram; (6) Mary "Polly" Parmley born about 1795, m. John Holt in Wayne Co., KY (7) Henry Parmley born about 1798 in NC, married Loueza Unknown; (8) Garner Parmley born about 1801, died August 1874 Wayne Co., KY, married Mary Adair; (9) Aladdin Muhlenberg "Berg" Parmley born about 1803, d 1852 Kimbell, Marion Co., TN, married Lucinda Christal; (10) Diza Parmley b November 13, 1804 Wayne Co., KY, d March! 23, 1864 Metcafe Co., KY, married Elijah Stephens; (11) Ellen/Eleanor Parmley b. about 1808, no further information (12) Hiel C. Parmley, born about 1810 in Wayne Co., KY, d. after 1880, married Nancy Lane; (13) Jane Parmley born about 1812, married William Hereford on September 2, 1835 in Russell Co., KY. Child of John Parmley and Elizabeth Pittman is (14) Nancy Evaline Parmley b. November26, 1845 Clinton Co., KY, d. November 1, 1927, married Henry Lawson ( Lorna Gheen ) John Parmley was my 4th. great grandfather . My line : John Parmley - Rebecca Parmley m: Lewis Foust sr. : Lewis Foust jr. m: Telitha Phipps : Henderson Foust m. Avey Smith - Dorah Ellen Foust m. Marion Kidd . My Mom was Fronie Ellen Kidd m. Willie Guffey Dobbs . (Edna Dobbs) In 1778, John enlisted as a substitute for his father, Giles. At that time, he was living at home with his parents and was still there in 1781. In 1784 he was on the tax list in Wilkes county, NC. After the Revolutionary War, he marched to Georgia, where he remained for a year. Next, he moved to Hawkins Co., TN, where he resided for 8 years. Then it was on to Claiborne Co., TN for a year and from there into Cumberland Co., KY, for four or five years. Finally, he came to Wayne Co., KY, where he lived at Parmleysville in the eastern part of Wayne, and later about 1815 he moved on to the western part of Wayne, near the Clinton Co. border. John was a great hunter and hunted bear on the Clinch Mountain, coming to KY from the Clinch River. In the 1810 census of Wayne, was in Missouri for 1 year, but returned to Russell Co., KY, where he was in 1830 and 1838. John and Rebecca were amoung the founders of the Bethel Baptist Church on the Little South Fork, near Parmleysvill ! on the 3rd. Saturday in July 1810. He had bought land on the Little South Fork 19 December 1809 and was granted a letter of dismission from the Bethel Church in Steptember 1828. John sold land in Hawkins Co., TN, 18 September 1797. He was one of the men in the Counties of Washington and Sullivan in arrears of pay for services in the Revolutionary War. He had a Revolutionary War pension. (Edna Dobbs) The circumstances of his burial are interesting. None of his kids attended, as they were estranged because they didn't think he should have taken a child bride at age 80. The account goes on to tell how his body was taken to the grave on a sled - and that he was buried on the Pittman Farm, (his father-in-law by wife #2). (Lorna Gheen)