from the book Tennessee Cousins by Worth S. Ray Page 658 HERE IS A LIST OF SOME OF THE FIRST SETTLERS IN SUMNER COUNTY Following herewith is a list of SOME (not all) of the earliest settlers in SUMNER COUNTY, compiled from various sources, and numbered so that they may be referred to hereafter: 1. ISAAC BLEDSOE 2. ANTHONY BLEDSOE 3. ROBERT DESHA 4. JORDAN GIBSON 5. HENRY LOVING 6. WILLIAM MORRISON 7. JOHN MORGAN 8. JOHN SAWYER 9. ROBERT STEELE 10. JACOB ZEIGLER 11. HENRY RAMSEY 12. WILLIAM HALL 13. HUGH ROGAN 14. DAVID SHELBY 15. GEO.D.BLACKMORE 16. JAMES WIN CHESTER 17. GEORGE WINCHESTER 18. ROBERT PEYTON 19. JOSEPH WILSON 20. MICHAEL SHAFER 21. JAMES HAYES 22. CHARLES MORGAN 23. GABRIEL BLAC?? 24. JOHN CARR 25. ROBERT BRIGHAM 26. CHARLES CAMPBELL 27. WILLIAM CRAWFORD 28. ??IMOR?? DOUGLASS 29. JAMES FRANELIN 30. RICHARD HOGAN 31. ROBERT LOONEY 32. DAVID LOONEY 33. GEO. MANSKER 34. BENJ. KUYKENDALL. 35. JOSEPH KUYKENDALL. 36. THOMAS SHARPE SPENCER 37. JOHN PEYTON 38. BENJ. PORTER 39. JOHN WITHERS 40. JOHN HAMLLTON 41. JOHN LATHAM 42. WILLIAM SNODDY. 43. JAMES CARTWRIGHT. 44. JAMES McCANN 45. JOHN BYRNES 46. JOSEPH BYRNES 47. JAMES TRUESDALE. 48. BENJ. WILLIAMS 49. JOHN EDWARDS 50. SAMUEL WILSON 51. JOHN HALL 52. WILLIAM MONTGOMERY 53. DANDEL SMITH. _______________________________________________________________________ page 659 SOME VETERANS OF THE WAR WITH MEXICO WHO WERE BORN IN SUMNER COUNTY The following young men, all of whom died in the service of the United States as volunteers in the War with Mexico in 1846, were born in SUMNER COUNTY, and whose parents, of course, were residents of the county at the time they were born, are all buried in the old GALLATIN CEMETERY with appropriate markers. This list gives the names of their families, all of whom can be classed among the early, if not the earliest settlers of the County: (All died in 1846) BRISCOE HATCHETT, aged 21 JOSEPH MARSHALL, aged 21 RICHARD LATHAN, aged 26. THOMAS YOUNG (Mason co) aged 28. KING CARR, aged 23 BOOKER DALTON, aged 30 THOMAS E. HARRIS, aged 27 GEORGE BARKER, aged 21. WILLIAM GAMBEEL, aged 21 JULIUS E. ELLIOTT, aged 21 PETER HYNDS MARTIN, aged 22. EDWARD PRYOR, aged 23 BENJAMIN SOPER, aged 21 ISAAC I. ELLIOTT aged 22. SAMUEL W. LAUDERDALE, aged 21. JOHN D. WATSON, aged 22 WILLIAM L. CANTRELL, aged 21 WILLIAM BRADLEY, aged 24. ** ZACHEUS D. WILSON, aged 23. PLEASANT V. HELL, aged 28. POWHATTAN CHILDRESS, aged 19. JOSEPH HENRY, aged 19. HENRY W. PERRY, aged 22 PATRICK SAUNDERS, aged 18. JOSEPH S. TENNISON, aged 19. MARLEY YOUNG, aged 22 JOHN G. KIRBY, aged 26 JOSEPH ??HODES, aged 21 JOSEPH BLAIR, aged 23 WILLIAM CURRY, aged 19. ALEXANDER SCHELL, aged 17 ALBERT KING, aged 33 RICHARD C. AINSWORTH, aged 26 JOSEPHUS ZARECOR aged 22. ASER LEMONS, aged 21. STEPHEN GOURLEY, aged 18. JAMES T. LEDDY, aged 20. WILLIAM TURNER, aged 22. *ELI ROBERTSON (d. 1848)aged 22 *JAMES H. HAGAN(d. 1848) aged 21 *WILLIAM HENRY (d. 1848) age not given. * Died from effects of service, but reached home and all three died at the homes of their parents in SUMNER COUNTY. **Probably a son, grandson or nephew of ZACHEUS WILSON, the signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, who died in Sumner County, in 1824. There is more about the Keeling, Head, Seay ,Greer and Smith families of Sumner Co. Right now I have internet access to this book if I can help anyone. Pam Vick