Edward Ketchum
Birthdate: circa 1764
Birthplace: North Carolina, United States
Death: 1836 (67-76)
Bledsoe County, Tennessee, United States
Place of Burial: Bangor, Blount County, Alabama, United States
Immediate Family:
Son of Jacob "Israel" Ketcham and Mary Ketcham
Husband of Mary Martha Ketchum
About Edward Ketchum
Early Settlers of Lee County Virginia and Adjacent Counties, Vol. 2, page 593, names the chi ldren of a Peter and Anna Reasor. They had six children, maybe more, one of which was Danie l Reasor born in Montgomery Co., VA b7/23/1782, one was Christian, and another was Mary who i s listed first among the six children, but no birthdate given for her. The only information g iven for her is that she married Edward Ketchum, and they were in Bledsoe Co, TN in 1811. Bef ore that they were apparently in Knox County, Tennessee.
Land Purchase ? Ralph Shelton (III) ? Deed Book L1, Entry #298, Knox County Tennessee, Apri l 28, 1806, pp. 314-315.Ralph purchased from EDWARD CATCHAM (both of Knox County) for $1,00 0 a 300 acre tract of land in Hinds Valley, including the head waters of Hickory Creek ?- - b eing the second creek that empties into the Clinch below Beaver Creek beginning at two blac k oaks on the Black Oak Ridge running S45W 300 poles to a hickory on conditional lines made b etween the said EDWARD CATCHUM and JOSEPH CATCHUM, then with said conditional line N45W 160 p oles to a stake, then N45E 300 poles to a white oak, from thence a direct line to the beginni ng, it being a part of a 400 acre tract of land granted by patent to William Reed by the Stat e of North Carolina - - ?. Witnesses were Culbert Shelton, Benjamin Crain, West Walker, and G eorge Davis. Recorded July 1806 and registered July 30, 1806.
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