John A Marrs

John A. Marrs, son of Samuel Wayne Marrs Sr. and Lydia Thompson, his 1st wife, was born January 19, 1793 in Kentucky. Largely unsourced genealogies propose different parents. John married Nancy Jenkins Stone. He was shot dead in 1834.

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Constructing Townscapes Space and Society in Antebellum Tennessee by Lisa C. Tolbert pp 64-65

Every year, the merchants travelled down to New Orleans or up to Philadelphia to purchase goods for their stores. In 1818 Shellbyville merchants announced the results of their business trips to each other. John A Marrs opened a general store in "his new frame house" on the northeast corner of the public square. He purchased his "new and well-selected assortment of dry goods, hardware" and groceries in Philadelphia, Baltimore and New Orleans.

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THE WESTERN METHODIST 1833-1834

MURDER AND ROBBERY AT FLORENCE. We are called on to record another crime, one of a most daring character. John Marrs, a respectable citizen of Lauderdale county, Ala., left the public square in Florence about half past two o'clock on Friday last [about April 18, 1834], for his residence about six miles in the country. He proceeded on his way about one mile from the courthouse, in full view of town, and in the immediate vicinity of some of our most respectable citizens when he was shot dead by some villain or villains and robbed of about seven hundred dollars. On this being announced to the citizens of Florence, they immediately assembled at the courthouse and [determined to offer] a reward of six hundred dollars for the apprehension of the murderer on conviction. They appointed a committee of vigilance and call upon the [smeared word] of justice and moral order everywhere to aid them in detecting and bringing to justice the author of this outrage.[1]

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Origins

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Marrs-236

Samuel Wayne Marrs married first Lydia Thompson (1768-1814) on 8 Oct 1788 in Montgomery (now Tazewell) Co, VA. They had nine children: Abijah Thompson (1789-1814); William (1791-1821); John A. (1793-1834); Sinah Fraley (1794-1795); Samuel Wayne, Jr. (1795-?); Elizabeth (1797-1798); Lydia (1799-1839); Henry Bradshaw (1801-1880); Ruth (1803-1817).

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• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Marrs-320

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• Updated from MyHeritage Match via brother Mulkey Watts Marrs by SmartCopy: Oct 11 2014, 1:35:31 UTC
• Western Weekly Review Franklin, Tennessee 1831-1840 May 2, 1834