Person:Cutliff Harman (1)

Into the valley of Cove creek in 1791 came Cutliff Harmon, from Randolph county, and bought 522 acres from James Gwyn, to whom it had been granted May 18, 1791, his deed from Gwyn bearing date August 6, 1791. Cutliff married Susan Fouts, and was about ninety years of age when he died in 1838, his wife having died sev- eral years before, and he having married Elizabeth Parker, a widow. He had ten children by his first marriage, none by his second. Among his children were Mary, who married Bedent Baird; Andrew, who married Sabra Hix; Eli, who married the widow Rhoda Dyer (born Dugger); Mathias, who married and moved to Indiana; Catherine, who mar- ried Benjamin Ward, and went west; Rebecca, who married Frank Adams and moved to Indiana; Rachel, who married Holden Davis; Sarah, who married John Mast; Nancy, who married Thomas Curtis, and Rev. D. C. Harmon, born April 17, 1826, and died December 23, 1904. Among those who came about the time Cutliff did were the Eggers, Smith, Councill, Horton, Dugger, Mast and Hix families. The farm Cutliff bought is now owned by M. C, D. F. and D. C. Harmon. "Patch farming" was the rule, the settlers going to the Globe on Johns river for corn, as they raised only rye, buckwheat, Irish potatoes, cabbages, onions and pump- kins on the new and cold land of Watauga river. A common diet was milk and mush for breakfast and soup and cider for dinner and supper, according to Maiden C. Harmon in the Watauga Democrat of April, 1891. The intermarriage of these families has brought about a neighborhood of closely related citizens, and Cove Creek and Valle Crucis are spoken of as the Valley of Cousins, Sugar Grove being also a part of Valle Crucis. Excerpt from ^S6 dated 1914

1. ↑ #25422102 , in Find A Grave.
2.   Harman, Terry L. The Harmon family, 1670-1984: the genealogy of Cutliff Harmon and his descendants. (Minor's Pub. Co., 1984).
3. ↑ Arthur, John Preston. A history of Watauga County, North Carolina: with sketches of prominent families. (Richmond: E. Waddey Co., 1915)
   214, 1915.
4.   Smith, Betty N. Jane Hicks Gentry: a singer among singers. (University Press of Kentucky, 1998)
   1998.

   Excerpt: "It was after his marriage that Cutliff became employed by Daniel Boone, the frontiersman, and a Colonel Robinson to transport goods from the Yadkin Valley in North Carolina to Sycamore Shoals near Elizabethton, Tennessee and from the mountains of Western North Carolina to the state of Franklin (now east Tennessee)."

5.   Orville Hicks: mountain stories, mountain roots.

   Orville Hicks is a descendant of Cutliff Harman. This book contains some biographical information about Cutliff.

6.   Arthur, John Preston, and North Carolina) Daughters of the American Revolution. Edward Buncombe Chapter (Asheville. Western North Carolina : a history (from 1730 to 1913). (Tucson, Arizona: W.C. Cox Co., 1974)
   1914.