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Facts and Events
Jacob Routh and Martha Redfern
- Posted by: Sam Redding
- Date: 10 Aug 2005
- Subject: Jacob and Martha Redfern Routh
- "Jacob and Joseph Routh were sons of Edward and Deborah Routh [another source says they were sons of Jeremiah Routh, and they married sisters. Jacob married Martha Redfern (or Redfarn), and Joseph married Mary Redfern.
- "Isaac Redfern, the brother of Martha and Mary, in July 1788 received 200 acres in Randolph County, North Carolina, by a State Grant, located on Flat Branch adjacent to Edwards and the County Line. [From Randolph County, NC Land Deed Abstracts, Books 1-5, 1779-1794 by Barbara Newsome Grigg. Copied at Randolph County Library, Ashboro, NC.
- " Jacob Routh was born in 1745-47 in North Carolina, married Martha Redfern, and migrated to East Tennessee with other families in the 1790s. In 1802, according to minutes of the Paw Paw Hollow Baptist Church in Sevier County, Tennessee, Jacob and Martha [Redfern] Routh were among the original members in 1802. This was evidently while the church was located in Knox County and before its 1820 move to Paw Paw Hollow in Sevier County, Tennessee.
- "The following excerpt from an article (1820 Baptist Church moves from Knox County, TN to Sevier County, TN IN THE SHADOW OF THE SMOKIES, Sevier County, Tennessee Cemeteries published by the Smoky Mountain Historical Society. Page 45) reports:
- " In March 1820 the church members met and agreed "to move her residence to a place called Pappaw Hollow in Sevier County." Previously the church had been located in Knox County. In the minutes of Paw Paw Hollow Baptist Church for May, 1822 we find where the church appointed a committee to "view a place for a graveyard." The committee, made up of "Brothers" John Lockhert, Moses Long, Jacob Routh and Zachariah Routh, made a report in the same meeting that they had viewed and laid off a burying place. The report goes on to say that many of the early families are buried there and mentions specifically the "Ruths" and the Douglas families but it also says that none of the stones are marked and there is no exact information on those buried there. It does not reveal the exact location or the name of this church before it was moved to Paw Paw Hollow or why the congregation decided to move.
- "General RouthS1, S2 says Jacob's son Zaccheus and wife Nellie joined the church in 1820. Jacob's son John and his wife Elizabeth Mashman were members by 1821 and that "Other members of Jacob's family were his brother Isaac and his wife Mary W., who were members until they were dismissed by letter in Aug. 1821." Note: Kenna Routh of Baldwin, KS has read these church records and relates that there was no specific relationship stated between Jacob and Isaac Routh in these records. Male members were all called "brother", but it was only in relation to the common membership in the congregation. Internet information indicates that the Paw Paw Hollow Baptist Church was an offshoot of the Boyd's Creek (Sevier County) Baptist Church and was formed "in the forks of the Holston and French Broad Rivers, Knox County December 22, 1802".
- " Jacob Routh died on June 29, 1827 in Jefferson County, Tennessee. In his will written September 26, 1826, Jacob is a cabinetmaker from Jefferson County and leaves his estate to his wife, Martha, with his son John as executor.
- " While Jacob Routh stayed in Tennessee, many members of his brother Joseph’s family migrated to Ohio with the “Moon Colony” between 1806 and 1811".
References
- Routh, Ross H. (Ross Holland). Our Routh family : descendants of Jacob Routh (1745-1827). (El Paso, Texas: R.H. Routh, 1983).
- Ross Holland Routh, in Find A Grave.
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