This is a complicated story and I am not certain I am going to be correct on everything. The Harbison family have better information but may not come on line to give some basic information; therefore, I will try to give the basics. I do have information on Thomas Harbison Shaw in storage so will relate as much from memory. He was the son of Ann Porter Harbison Shaw and Wm. Shaw of Lincoln/Mercer Co., KY. Sometime after 1800, perhaps about 1810/11 when the Harbison siblings' mother, Rachel Porter Harbison died, a large group of the neighbors and inter-related families migrated from KY to Lincoln Co., TN. (LCT) I believe John Silvertooth was in LCT earlier than 1810. John Silvertooth was one of perhaps 5 children who were bonded out to several Lincoln Co., KY families when his father George Silvertooth died. For years, we assumed that the mother had died, but I believe later records suggested she was still living but perhaps unable to take care of all of the children. Some records suggest that she also went to LCT. I am not certain whether John Silvertooth went to LCT first, preparing the way for the others, or whether the Silvertooth and at least some of the Harbison siblings and the inter-related families went at the same time. I understand they settled near Mulberry, in LCT. John Silvertooth and Ann Porter Harbison Shaw had several children. With Wm. Shaw, she previously had two children, Thomas Harbison Shaw and Rachel Shaw - I believe that was her name. My husband 's purported ancestor, disproven by DNA, Jonathan Looney married Ann P.'s sister, Jane Harbison. Jonathan and Jane H. Looney were part of the Harbison siblings and friends' migration to LCT after or within a year or two of Rachel Porter Harbison's death. I have been told by a Harbison researcher who is on this list that after the migration to LCT, Thomas Harbison Shaw lived with his Aunt Jane Harbison Looney and her husband, Jonathan Looney. He is the male listed on the 1820 LCT census as the 16-26 year old in the Jonathan Looney household. That solved a long disputed Looney supposition that this male was of the Looney family. After Jonathan Looney's death, Thomas H. Shaw was given the Looney land with the stipulation that his aunt, Jane Harbison Looney be taken care of for by him for her lifetime. Yes, Maxine, your Thomas Harbison Holt was no doubt named after Thomas Harbison Shaw although they were not genetically related but he was considered a stepson of John Silvertooth. In my original post below, only the Park(s) family is not inter-related with the others. The Park connection is through the McDaniel family conundrum and is the unknown connection with my husband's Randolph Co., AR, Joseph Looney. Joseph Looney's wife was Thena Stubblefield. Aaron Park married a Oney Stubblefield. Somehow these two Stubblefield families are closely related but we have not a clue how. Not certain how Rountree fits into this group but may have married one of the Harbison girls. Also Routon. The records are unclear and these two names may be the same person with different interpretations by the record keepers. I hope this long e-mail gives you a little more information. I have been away and in and out. I do have several charts with the Silvertooth connection sent to me long ago stored. If this information is not enough, I will try to resurrect my material later this week if you will contact me privately at n5bry@aol.com. Nita Fry, -----Original Message----- From: tnlincol-request@rootsweb.com To: tnlincol@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, Jun 13, 2010 2:01 am Subject: TNLINCOL Digest, Vol 5, Issue 76 Today's Topics: 1. Re: Holt, Shaw, Silvertooth (Peggy Coleman) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:58:32 -0700 From: Peggy Coleman <graciepmarvel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [TNLINCOL] Holt, Shaw, Silvertooth To: tnlincol@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <AANLkTikT9FhrCJ418U-KkeuKo4EzDtdRFHBbHXAbPZwz@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Is there anything on a James Louis Rountree who married Musadora Flack? Info on him is unknown but she was born 1807 in TN and died in 1849 in Canton, Madison, Mississippi. Peggy On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Maxine Odle <maxseen@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > > Nita (or anyone), do you know of a family connection (child, step-child, > adopted) between Thomas H. Shaw (b. 1797) and John Silvertooth (b. 1777)? > I > am wondering why Thomas Shaw Holt (great-grandson of this John Silvertooth) > was named for Thomas Shaw. The Wright Frost book infers that Thomas H. > Shaw > might have been a step-son of John Silvertooth, but maybe he was just a > neighbor. > > > Re: Thomas H. Rountree's middle name. > > I suspect that the "H" is for Harbison. The Shaw, Harbison, Silvertooth, > Rountree and Parkes(s) families intermarried and are really interesting > early pioneers of Lincoln County, TN. Enjoyed reading from the website > post > regarding their early days. Nita Fry > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNLINCOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------ To contact the TNLINCOL list administrator, send an email to TNLINCOL-admin@rootsweb.com. 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Thank you so much!!! You have cleared up a lot of mystery, and created MORE! I will contact you personally for more information. Maybe I can help you with something..............Thanks again, Maxine -----Original Message----- From: tnlincol-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tnlincol-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of n5bry@aol.com Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 9:13 AM To: tnlincol@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TNLINCOL] TNLINCOL Digest, Vol 5, Issue 76 This is a complicated story and I am not certain I am going to be correct on everything. The Harbison family have better information but may not come on line to give some basic information; therefore, I will try to give the basics. I do have information on Thomas Harbison Shaw in storage so will relate as much from memory. He was the son of Ann Porter Harbison Shaw and Wm. Shaw of Lincoln/Mercer Co., KY. Sometime after 1800, perhaps about 1810/11 when the Harbison siblings' mother, Rachel Porter Harbison died, a large group of the neighbors and inter-related families migrated from KY to Lincoln Co., TN. (LCT) I believe John Silvertooth was in LCT earlier than 1810. John Silvertooth was one of perhaps 5 children who were bonded out to several Lincoln Co., KY families when his father George Silvertooth died. For years, we assumed that the mother had died, but I believe later records suggested she was still living but perhaps unable to take care of all of the children. Some records suggest that she also went to LCT. I am not certain whether John Silvertooth went to LCT first, preparing the way for the others, or whether the Silvertooth and at least some of the Harbison siblings and the inter-related families went at the same time. I understand they settled near Mulberry, in LCT. John Silvertooth and Ann Porter Harbison Shaw had several children. With Wm. Shaw, she previously had two children, Thomas Harbison Shaw and Rachel Shaw - I believe that was her name. My husband 's purported ancestor, disproven by DNA, Jonathan Looney married Ann P.'s sister, Jane Harbison. Jonathan and Jane H. Looney were part of the Harbison siblings and friends' migration to LCT after or within a year or two of Rachel Porter Harbison's death. I have been told by a Harbison researcher who is on this list that after the migration to LCT, Thomas Harbison Shaw lived with his Aunt Jane Harbison Looney and her husband, Jonathan Looney. He is the male listed on the 1820 LCT census as the 16-26 year old in the Jonathan Looney household. That solved a long disputed Looney supposition that this male was of the Looney family. After Jonathan Looney's death, Thomas H. Shaw was given the Looney land with the stipulation that his aunt, Jane Harbison Looney be taken care of for by him for her lifetime. Yes, Maxine, your Thomas Harbison Holt was no doubt named after Thomas Harbison Shaw although they were not genetically related but he was considered a stepson of John Silvertooth. In my original post below, only the Park(s) family is not inter-related with the others. The Park connection is through the McDaniel family conundrum and is the unknown connection with my husband's Randolph Co., AR, Joseph Looney. Joseph Looney's wife was Thena Stubblefield. Aaron Park married a Oney Stubblefield. Somehow these two Stubblefield families are closely related but we have not a clue how. Not certain how Rountree fits into this group but may have married one of the Harbison girls. Also Routon. The records are unclear and these two names may be the same person with different interpretations by the record keepers. I hope this long e-mail gives you a little more information. I have been away and in and out. I do have several charts with the Silvertooth connection sent to me long ago stored. If this information is not enough, I will try to resurrect my material later this week if you will contact me privately at n5bry@aol.com. Nita Fry,