Person:Sylvester Nuchols (1)

from Evilsizer3@@aol.com: "Descendants from Robert Donald Nuckols-bnuchols@@@@usit.net information on. I have found documents that show him as being a minister,and performing marriage ceremonies for several people, including more ofthe Nuchols Family. Of course their names were spelled several different ways. estates being probated, and as a purchaser of goods being sold at theseauctions. The 1810 Warren County Census shows Silvester with five malesand six females in his household, along with nine slaves. SilvesterNuchols was also shown as taxed in the year of 1811, in Smith's Creek District, in North Carolina, along with a John Nuchols. In the following years however, John was still there, but Silvester was gone. We believe this is the time that he, Salley, and Thomas came to Blount County,Tennessee, and settled in the Crooked Creek Community. Courthouse documents show they were one of the first families there. Nuchols, that he was listed with in 1811, but have not proven this as yet. Since descendants have been told that Silvester is buried at the Crooked Creek Church Cemetery, several met there on October 1, 1990. Earl Adams dowsed for the graves and the church site. The area is just acrossCrooked Creek ford near Hubbard. A house once sat beside the main road,and a drive leads off in the corner of a pasture toward the church on a small hill. Two adults are buried to the left of the drive, and a cemetery containing about 15 people (mainly children) is just over the hill. Pleasant, Texas, wrote a letter, that stated that Silvester was married twice, and had thirteen children. If this is correct, then that would explain a lot of things......"

"One of the grandchildren of Richard, wrote the following, on an unknown date; Nuchols was Silvester Nuchols. He came to Blount County, died around1830, and was buried in an old cemetery on Crooked Creek. Grandfather Richard volunteered for the Confederate Army; did not serve very long andhe was called home because of his wife's sickness. But while in the army,he made friends by helping his army buddies write letters to their homefolk. When at home, he helped the wives to write letters to their husbands in the army, because they could not read or write. History notes in the White Family describe this good deed. his farm during that year. living and working in a Veterans Home in Waynesville, North Carolina, and he helped widows secure their pensions. As a part of his work, he helped Rachel Massey Davis, (Mrs. William Davis), to secure her 1812 war pension. While helping Rachel, he met her daughter Mary Anne Davis, who became his wife in 1865. Tennessee's State Legislature in 1885. he was a man of strong Christian character and his church preference was the Baptist. He reared his family on Crooked Creek and his second family at Wellstown, in Blount County. A short time before he died, Mary Anne bought land near the railroad in East Maryville, now near Union School, so their sons could use the train to and from Knoxville each day for their University work.

I live; jns. John Russell, James Hall, Grindstaff, et al; also, my stockand personality; I owe W.H. Clemens, security with B.T. Nuchols, and with J.P Nuchols, to James B. Russel, owe Frank Hannah,Dr; John W. Cates; wit. M.H. Lane, Thomas Baker; ack. 4/7/1865, Thos Sanderson, clerk; reg. 4/7/1865, R.E. Tedford, reg.' 'Richard Nuchols to Henry Russell 10/11/1850 $200.00 pd., 104 1/2 ac. on waters of Crooked Creek; jnsmyself, Jesse Wallace's entry, James Grindstaff, Isaac Russell; wit. Jacob Long, James H. Grindstaff; ack. 10/11/1850, Robert A. Tedford, clk reg. 11/24/1850, and McClain, reg.' Rebecca: Rebecca's full name has been given as Sarah Rebecca and Nancy Rebecca, but I have no proof of this at this time."

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