John Pettus, Sr.

John Jones Pettus Sr.

• BIRTH 2 Sep 1782 - Fluvanna County, Virginia, USA
• DEATH Aug 1822 (aged 39) - Limestone County, Alabama, USA
• BURIAL Burial Details Unknown
• MEMORIAL ID 142656311 · View Source

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John J. Pettus and Alice Taylor Winston were married on the 21st of December, 1807.

The children of John J. Pettus and Alice Taylor Winston, his wife, being four sons and four daughters:

1. Mary Kezia Pettus was born in Wilson Co., Tenn. on the 22nd Sept. 1808. She married Dr. George Morris, and after his death 2nd, Judge Samuel Chapman.
2. Anthony Winston Pettus was born in Franklin Co., Tenn., May 20th, 1810. He married Sallie W. Jones and after her death married Mrs. Maria A.R. Key.
3. Martha Walker Pettus was born in Madison Co., Alabama, on Jan. 21, 1812. She married John Miller Jones.
4. John Jones Pettus was born in Wilson Co., Tenn. on Oct. 9th, 1813. He married Permelia Virginia Winston and married 2nd. Mrs. Susan Potts.
5. Harriet Overton Pettus was born in Madison Co., Alabama, on June 1, 1815. She died unmarried.
6. William Bacon Pettus was born in Limestone Co., Alabama, on Aug. 21, 1817. He married Emilia Robinson Jeter.
7. Judith Eglantine Pettus was born in Limestone Co., Alabama, on Aug. 21, 1819. She married Cornelius R. McCaskill.
8. Edmund Winston Pettus was born in Limestone Co., Alabama, on July 6th, 1821. He married Mary Lucinda Chapman.

Migration of John PETTUS (1782-1822) from Fluvanna, Virginia through Tennessee into the Mississippi Territory [1798 through 1817] which became Madison, Alabama, and then was cut into Limestone, Alabama where he died and was buried.

By 1807, John PETTUS was in Davidson, Tennessee where he married Alice Taylor WINSTON. His eldest child, Mary Kesiah (Kezia) was born in Wilson, Tennessee.
Wilson County was cut out of Sumner county in 1799. In 1810 and 1812, he has two children who claim their place of birth as Franklin, Tennessee. However, in 1810, John PETTUS received two 160-acre grants in Madison county, Alabama. Other receipts of land to PETTUS men went to Freeman, William, and George.

It is believed that these three PETTUS men were distant cousins to John PETTUS.

In 1805, the first white settlers came into what has been Indian accession land. Among those early settlers were three brothers:

1. Freeman PETTUS,
2. "Buck" PETTUS (William Albert "Buck" PETTUS) and
3. William PETTUS.

In the 1810 Land Records for Madison County, are four named PETTUS men:

1. Freeman PETTUS,
2. William PETTUS,
3. George PETTUS, and
4. John PETTUS.

Limestone County was cut from Madison, Alabama. Three of the children of John PETTUS, beginning with William Bacon PETTUS, born in 1817, Judith Eglantine PETTUS, born in 1819, and Edmund Winston PETTUS, born in 1821 all were born in Limestone.
John J. Pettus and Alice Taylor Winston were married on 21 December 1807.

The children of John J. Pettus and Alice Taylor Winston, his wife, being four sons and four daughters: