I will look but the name Cox might run into the Key's seems I found one living with them. Phyllis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Bryan" <c24m48@hotmail.com> To: <TNANDERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 1:55 PM Subject: Re: [TNANDERS-L] John Peters update, Anderson County, Tennessee > >Jerry, I just read Phyllis Peterson's reply to you and wonder about her Key > >relatives!!! Do you think there could be any connection to the Keys who > >might (with a good probability) be connected to our William Cole? > > I have wondered about that several times myself. I really don't know. > > The disconcerting piece of that possibility is that the Keys who showed up > with the Coles in the west part of Knox County moved there from Blount > County. I would be happier with a Cole connection to Phyllis Peterson's Key > family if the Keys who were living next to the Coles had moved to Knox > County from Anderson County instead of from Blount County. > > To those of you who might wonder what this conversation is about, William > Cole and Vesta Clay England were married in Anderson County on 5 Dec 1865. > Ann and I are both descended from William and Vesta. > > Vesta Clay England's ancestry is fairly well known. She was descended from > Henry Peters Sr. and Mary Wiatte who moved to Anderson County in 1797 > (before Anderson County was Anderson County), and she was also descended > from John England and Vesta Zipporah Choate who moved to Anderson County > around 1799 (I have not been able to pin down the exact date, but the > Englands and the Choates were both on the 1802 tax list for Anderson > County). > > But William Cole is a severe brick wall. William and Vesta were enumerated > in the 1870 census in Knox County, living in the Beaver Ridge community. > William's property was at the intersection of what is now Middlebrook Pike > and Lovell Road. Their last child was born in 1873 and William died before > the 1880 census. Vesta was enumerated in the 1880 census in the Concord > community of Knox County, but two of her four young daughters were living in > 1880 with relatives in Anderson County. She married Chesley J. Scarbrough > in Anderson County in 1885, and she was in Anderson County for the 1900 and > 1910 censuses. But I digress. > > There is apparently some connection between my William Cole's family and > Martha M. Key of Blount County. Martha M. Key was the daughter of David Key > and Nancy Bright of Blount County. She was married three times. She > married (1) Warren J. Hyden on 6 Apr 1853 in Blount County, (2) William Cole > on 29 Oct 1867 in Knox County, and (3) Joseph Yarnell on 12 Dec 1872. I > haven't figured out who Joseph Yarnell was yet, but I suspect he was from > Anderson County. I suspect that Martha M. Key's second husband William Cole > was related to my William Cole, perhaps his father or his uncle. But I > haven't yet figured out who either William Cole really was. > > My William Cole bought his land in Knox County from James H. Cox of Knox > County. Martha M. Key bought land in Knox County that was just west of > William Cole's land, and she bought it from A. Cox of Anderson County. > Given that the two pieces of land were adjacent, it seems likely that James > H. Cox of Knox County and A. Cox of Anderson County were related, but I > haven't figured out who they were. > > But in any case, it seems to me that the fact that Martha M. Key and my > William Cole owned adjacent parcels of land, that they both bought their > land from Cox men, and that Martha M. Key's second husband was named William > Cole strongly suggests a connection. > > Here is Martha M. Key age 45 in 1870. At the time, she was living in > Concord and was apparently widowed from William Cole whom she married in > 1867. I believe that William Cole age 24 was her stepson, and possibly > could have been a first cousin of my William Cole. George Cole age 38 was > also probably her stepson. The Hyden children were her children from her > first marriage. > > Dist. 10, p.187b, HN 90, FN 90, 18 Aug 1870, Concord PO > Key David 78 m w farmer $6000/$800 TN > Nancy 70 f w TN > Cole George 38 m w farmer /$600 TN > Elizabeth 38 f w keeping house TN > Margaret 4 f w at home TN > Martha 1 f w TN > Dist. 10, p.187b, HN 91, FN 91, 18 Aug 1870, Concord PO > Martha 45 f w keeping house $1200/$100 TN > Hyden Cordelia 11 f w TN > Victoria 9 f w TN > Roxey 7 f w TN > Margaret 6 f w TN > Cole William 24 m w TN > Dist. 10, p.188a, HN 92, FN 92, 18 Aug 1870, Concord PO > Key Wesley 52 m w /$200 TN > Catharine 36 f w TN > Mary 13 f w TN > David 12 m w TN > Nancy 10 f w TN > Rosa 7 f w TN > Jordan 4 m w TN > Lucy 1 f w TN > > In 1880, Martha M. Key was living on her land in Beaver Ridge adjacent to > what had been my William Cole's land. She was now married to Joseph > Yarnell. I don't know what happened to all the Coles who were with her in > the 1870 census. Surely, not all of them died between 1870 and 1880. > > Dist. 19, Knox County, Tennessee, Jun 1880 > p.417b, HN 224, FN 234 > Yarnell Joseph 50 head m m w farmer TN TN TN > Martha M. 53 wife f m w keeping house TN TN TN > Maggie I. 20 dau f s w TN TN TN > Bell M. 19 dau f s w TN TN TN > Mary P. 15 dau f s w TN TN TN attended school > Thomas D. 13 son m s w TN TN TN attended school > Olly A. 11 dau f s w TN TN TN attended school > Hiten Victory 19 Sdau f s w TN TN TN > Maggie 15 Sdau f s w TN TN TN attended school > > Jerry Bryan > > > > ==== TNANDERS Mailing List ==== > Please do not write your message with CAPS on. It is seen as anger.You may put Surnames in CAPS. > Do not send your letter as a Forward and do not send Attachments. Rootsweb Does Not Accept Attachments. > >