_____________________
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_David Fransen ALBRIGHT _|
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| |_____________________
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|--Amanda K. ALBRIGHT
| (1974 - 1975)
| _Edward Lee MABIE ___+
| | (1923 - 1969)
|_Lynee Adell MABIE ______|
|
|_Edra Mae BLEVINS ___+
(1922 - 1971)
_Richard BLEVINS ___________+
| (1763 - 1845)
_Stephen Ausborn (Osborne?) BLEVINS _|
| (1787 - 1851) m 1810 |
| |_Hannah AUSBORN (OSBORNE?) _+
|
|
|--Jonathan BLEVINS
| (1815 - 1890)
| _John KIRKLAND _____________
| |
|_Nancy KIRKLAND _____________________|
(1789 - 1873) m 1810 |
|_Mary DELOT ________________
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This story was published in "Blevans-Burks History" in 1932. Theauthor was Ruth Blevans Ping. It is thought that Jonathan, son ofStephen Ausborn Blevans(ins) and Nancy
Kirkland, wrote this story prior to his death in 1890.
Story By Jonathan Blevans [born 1815]
"My Great Grandfather was an Englishman. He and two brothers emigratedto America in an early day, and settled in Virginia when it was aninfant colony. He raised a large family of boys, six in number, andone daughter, namely, Will, Dill, John, Jim, Jonathan and Richard, thelast two twins. Richard was my grandfather. He was a tall and robustman, six feet three
inches high; he was a raw boned man, and weighed 190 pounds, andprobably if not the stoutest , as stout a man as I ever saw. - - - -
He married a woman by the name of Hannah Ausborn, by whom he had twosons, Stephen and Jonathan, and seven daughters. Polly married a manby the name of John Lay. Jane
married Hezekiah Austin. Mary Ann married henry Canatyn. Rebeccamarried Jesse Roberts. Richard and Hannah had two Sallies, the firstdied in infancy, and the second married a man
by the name of Patrick Evans.
Richard married a second time to a woman whose name I have forgotten.She was an Irish woman, and we called her Granny Molly Dick for short.One daughter was born to him by his
second wife. She married Hiram Maxwell.
My father, Stephen Ausborn Blevans, was born in Buncombe County, NorthCarolina, October 10, 1787, from whence he emigrated with his parentsto the state of Kentucky, and settled in Wain Wayne County where hegrew to manhood and was married to a Miss Francis by whom he had oneson and a daughter, Richard and Mahala. My mother's name was NancyKirkland. Her father was a Scotchman. He came across the deep andsettled in South Carolina while it was a colony. He was a soldier inthe Revolution. My mother's father was also a Scotchman, his name wasDelot, my grandmother's name was Mary Delot.
I was born in an Indian hut in Marin [Marion] County, Tennessee (atthat time the correct county would have been Bledsoe). Before I was ayear old, my father moved to Jackson County Alabama, where we remainedabout seven years. He then moved back near where I was born, where welived for eight years. - - -
On March 24, 1830, my father pulled up stakes and set his face for thegreat northwest. After traveling for about six weeks he pitched histent in Bond County, Illinois, where we remained about eighteenmonths. Owing to the severe winter of 1830-31 , he becamedissatisfied, so on November 15, 1831, he broke camp , and bent hiscourse for the then territory of Arkansas. After traveling for abouttwo weeks winter set in on us so we could not travel, so he stopped onthe Casconade River in Pulaski County Missouri to wait for the winterto moderate. Before spring came he decided to settle there. Weremained there for three years during which time sister Betsy(Elizabeth) died. From there he moved to Miller County, Missouri wherehe remained for seven years.
- - - From Miller County my father moved to the Platte Purchase, hisbusiness being unsettled in Miller County, I went back to attend to itfor him. While there I was married to my first wife, Julia Ann Allen.She bore me five sons, and died August 5, 1854. On April 1, 1855, Imarried my present wife, Julia Ann Coats. Grandmother was living inKentucky at the time, I believe near Mammoth Cave, with hergrandparents (?). This union with my present wife was opposed almostto the shedding of blood, but we were not intimidated. I thought itwas the
best thing I could do under the circumstances. I think so yet. I havemore than realized my fondest expectations.
I would here say that my father died in Cass County, Missouri onDecember 14, 1851 of pneumonia, and was burried near Nancy Reads - - -My mother died within a mile and a half of where my father died on the22nd day of November, 1873, shouting the praises of God to the top ofher voice. She was in her 83rd year when she died. We laid her by theside of my
father - - -"
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_Abner Wilson BLEVINS ___+
| (1816 - 1898) m 1837
_James Calhoun BLEVINS _|
| (1858 - 1927) m 1877 |
| |_Margaret A. MADDOX _____+
| (1816 - 1888) m 1837
|
|--Kenneth W. BLEVINS
| (1884 - ....)
| _Kenneth Murcheson ROSS _
| | (1831 - ....)
|_Francis Clarissa ROSS _|
(1858 - 1910) m 1877 |
|_Elizabeth Jane JOHNSON _
(1835 - ....)
__
|
_William H. H. BLEVINS _|
| (1842 - 1925) m 1870 |
| |__
|
|
|--Lillie E. BLEVINS
| (1881 - 1895)
| __
| |
|_Jemima E. JONES _______|
(1844 - 1911) m 1870 |
|__
_Israel A. BLEVINS __+
| (1858 - ....) m 1881
_Henry J. BLEVINS ___|
| (1883 - 1938) m 1909|
| |_Eliza Jane WELLING _
| (1858 - ....) m 1881
|
|--Marie BLEVINS
|
| _____________________
| |
|_(Esta) Fay YORK ____|
(1892 - 1943) m 1909|
|_____________________
_unknown BLEVINS ____
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_John D. BLEVINS ____|
| (1811 - ....) m 1832|
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Oliver C. BLEVINS
| (1836 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Catherine __________|
(1811 - ....) m 1832|
|_____________________
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_John LONG __________|
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| |__
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|--Tobias LONG
| (1785 - 1862)
| __
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|_____________________|
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___________________________
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_Samuel MEERS _______|
| (1866 - 1929) m 1886|
| |___________________________
|
|
|--Margaret Elizabeth "Mamie" MEERS
| (1897 - ....)
| _Jacob William BLEVINS ____+
| | (1844 - ....) m 1866
|_Rose Anna BLEVINS __|
(1868 - 1935) m 1886|
|_Margaret Emaline YEAKLEY _+
(1847 - 1920) m 1866
_Valentine SEVIER ___+
| (1711 - 1803) m 1738
_John "Nolichucky Jack" SEVIER ____|
| (1745 - 1815) m 1780 |
| |_Joanna GOAD ________+
| (1723 - 1773) m 1738
|
|--Samuel SEVIER
| (1785 - 1849)
| _Samuel SHERRILL ____
| |
|_Catherine "Bonnie Kate" SHERRILL _|
(1754 - 1836) m 1780 |
|_Mary PRESTON _______
_unknown SIZEMORE ___
|
_Willis SIZEMORE ____|
| (1811 - 1870) m 1843|
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Eliza SIZEMORE
| (1836 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Nancy ______________|
(1814 - ....) m 1843|
|_____________________
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