Person:John Tillery (5)

Information on John Tillery

John Price Tillery, was of Scotch-Irish descent, born in Virginia, in 1754, and died February 24, 1834, in Knox County, Tennessee. He married Miss Lettitia(Lettice) Mathews, born about 1759, in Virginia, and died October 30, 1843, in Knox County, Tennessee. Both are buried in a family cemetery adjoining the Sterchi Farm, known also as the Callahan or Lonas Farm, Dante, Knox County, Tennessee. This cemetery is located on a high hill with beautiful trees, but many of the stones have been broken, through age or vandalism, and are lying on the ground(1965). Among other Tillerys buried in this cemetery are: John(son of John and Lettice) and wife, Rebecca Yarnell Tillery, their son Caswell, and daughter, Letty; also Sampson, son of John and Lettice. John Price and Lettice Tillery had ten children, and their many descendants now live in several of these United States of America, whose freedom he fought for so bravely. Family tradition states that he was an excellent marksman.

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