Joel Gunter, I

• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jan 3 2017, 16:04:46 UTC

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From Tennesseeans in the Revolutionary War: Warren and White Counties, Tennessee (including descendant counties of Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Grundy & Van Buren):

http://www.tngenweb.org/revwar/counties/warrenetal.html

Joel GUNTER, Private, North Carolina Continental Line,

• $96.00 Annual Allowance, $533.60 Amount Received, April 16, 1819 Pension Started, Age 76, Suspended May 1, 1820, Restored September 8, 1825,
• Died August 29, 1829; applied 9 Aug 1825, Warren Co, TN, aged 71 [see below], and had originally applied 29 Jul 1818 (also in Warren) (RW Pension File S38780).

Joel GUNTER, d 22 Aug 1839, Warren Co, TN,

• was the son of John and Amy TILLOTSON Gunter of Chesterfield Co VA, later in Guilford Co NC.
• He also resided in Spartansburgh Co SC where he is listed on the 1790 Census of Spartansburgh Co.
• By 1812 he was in Warren Co., TN along with brothers James Glass GUNTER, Augustus GUNTER, & Claiborne GUNTER. These brothers migrated to Warren Co., TN via Burke Co., NC. On 1812 Warren Co TN tax lists were two John GUNTERS, one of whom was the son of Augustus. The other was possibly John GUNTER, another brother to Joel, who was a Cherokee Indian trader, and ancestor of American humorist, Will ROGERS.
• Joel died at the home of his daughter, Frances WADE in Warren Co., TN.

(Sources: Gunter Researcher George Baumbach, KLW Gunn, 1995, John Gunter of Chesterfield Co., VA & Guilford-Rockingham Cos., NC & Some of His Descendents, privately published, Raleigh, NC)