Person:John Pickens (32)

Records in Tennessee

18-328: 20 Nov. 1854, agreement between John Pickens and Margaret Duncan, both of Sullivan Co., that John Pickens for love and good will he has for said Margaret Duncan, to take her child and feed and clothe it and assist in raising it and is to treat said child in all respects as a father; and John Pickens agrees not to have anything to do with any part or portion of property or money that may fall to said child from the estate of Alfred Duncan, decd; and John Pickens not to have anything to do with property or money said Margaret Duncan may have on hand. /s/ John Pickens, Margaret Duncan. Wit. John A. Viars, Micajah B. Hale. Personally appeared 3 Sept. 1855 John Pickens and Margaret Duncan now Margaret Pickens, and acknowledged the agreement. [1]

1.   Pickens, Thomas Mason Monroe, and Kate Pickens Day. Cousin Monroe's history of the Pickens family. (Easley, South Carolina: K. P. Day, c1951)
   pg. 224-225.

   C JOHN PICKENS, son of William Pickens (II), was born August 7th, 1807, in Greene County, Tennessee, but removed to Adair County, Mo., in 1855, and located on Spring Creek, Morrow
   Township, sixteen miles northeast of Kirksville, where he lived until his death, September 24th, 1867. He was married twice: first to Nancy Proffit who was born in Sullivan County, Tennessee, August 22nd, 1807 and died November 18th, 1853. His second wife was Margaret Duncan whom he married in 1854.
   The children of John and Nancy Proffitt Pickens were:
   D William Pickens,
   D John Pickens,
   D David Pickens,
   D Daniel Pickens,
   D Emanuel Pickens,
   D Rhoda Ann Pickens,
   D Hiter Pickens