HI All To all people researching the Crabtree Surname in Macon Co. These are some of the notes I spoke of A History of the Crabtree Family by Chester Crabtree of Pontiac ,Ill My great-great-great grandfather, John Crabtree, was born and reared in Yorkshire, England. Sheffield, England, is the home of my ancestors. As a young man John Crabtree, with his wife, came to what is now the United States of America, settling in North Carolina. In North Carolina my great-great-grandfather, Samuel Crabtree, was born. Samuel Crabtree,Jr., was born September 10, 1786. On October 4, 1810, he and Elizabeth Russell were united in marriage at Glasgow, Barren Couty, Kentucky. The following children were born to them: Hiram Crabtree Richard Crabtree Preston Crabtree Joseph (Joe) Crabtree Buckner Crabtree Rachel Crabtree Martha Crabtree It appears that there were other children born of this marriage, but I do not have any record of their names. It is thought by some that there was a son named Reese and daughter named Rilla, or some name similar to that name. A short time after his marriage Samuel Crabtree and his wife, and children, moved to a creek that emptied into Jennings Creek at North Springs, Tennessee, where he patened land and built a house. This particular creek is called Crabtree Creek. Sometime after the year 1820, Samuel Crabtree was killed by the Indians. His wife later married a man by the name of Hancock. Right after this marriage the Crabtree children moved off Crabtree Creek onto the upper end of Jennings Creek where they built a log house and the children, under the guidance of their brother, Richard Crabtree, lived as a unit. The old log house was located on the farm later owned by my grandfather and by my father, and where I was born. It stood close by the place where my father operated a saw mill during the year 1834. The brothers and sister remained together in this house, the girls cooking for them until the marriage of one of them, when he or she would move away and establish his or her own home. Hiram Crabtree and his brother, Joseph (Joe) Crabtree, married sisters, their family name being Price. Richard Crabtree and Buckner Crabtree married sisters, daughters of William Richard Hudson. Rachel Crabtree married James Cunningham, while Martha Crabtree married Joseph Seth Carver. Hiram Crabtree moved to Horse Cave, Kentucky, and there reared his family, and died there many years ago. One of his sons, Doctor Frank Crabtree, has lived most of his life at Gamaliel, Kentucky, in Monroe County. He had a large family of many girls and one boy, all of whom I once knew, although they are all older than me. My great -grandfather, Samuel Crabtree, had at least four brothers, namely, Hiram Crabtree, William Crabtree, Anderson Crabtree, and Joseph Crabtree. There were sisters, but I do not have any of their names. I do not believe any of the sisters left North Carolina. Both of my grandparents died many years prior to my birth. I have been told by Marvin, my oldest brother, that my brother, Dallas Crabtree, was very much like my grandfather, Buckner Crabtree, both in build and in his actions. Both of my grandparents are buried on the old farm near Willette, Jackson County, Tennessee, on Jennings Creek. As a very small boy I can recall seeing their tombstones, made of sandstone, with their names, dates of birth, and of their deaths, engraved upon them. The stone was the work of local hands, not experienced engravers. The graves were located just north of the rear end of my father's old buggy house, where he kept his buggy. NOTE: My father's oldest brother was named James Madison Crabtree. The next oldest brother was named Reece Crabtree. These two brothers enlisted in the Union Army at the start of the Civil War, and were in the war from its beginning until its end. Grandfather, Buckner Crabtree, was a Jackson Democrat, who believed in the preservation of the Union at all costs. All the other Crabtree youn men were in the Confederate Army. (Written at Pontiac, Illinois, September 9, 1959, to correct a previous brief history of the Crabtree family written August 30, 1954.) December 11, 1969. I have just located the last will and testament of Thomas Crabtree, who died at Hillsboro, North Carolina, February, 1833. He was our great-great-grandfather. His son, Samuel Crabtree, was our great-grandfather. Our gradfather's name was Buckner Crabtree. I have the marriage license of Samuel Crabtree. He and Elizabeth Russell were married at Glasgow, Kentucky, October 4, 1810. He soon settled on a branch of Jennings Creek, Jackson County, Tennessee, which branch was later called Crabtree Creek. Buckner Russell and his wife, Reachel Russell, moved to Weakley County, Tennessee, where Buckner died during the year 1835. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and was given land in Weakley County by the United States Government. The Russells had to give their consent to the marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth, to Samuel Crabtree. I have a photo copy of this document. She spelled her name REACHEL RUSSELL. Old Samuel signed by his mark. But his father, Thomas Crabtree, signed his will with a legible handwriting. When I speak of "our great-great-grandfather", I am referring to the brothers of both groups of children of our father, Hiram Anderson Crabtree, now deceased. Larry W.Smith Celina,Tn