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Lucy Childress (Gaines)

Also Known As: "Childress"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Culpeper, Virginia
Death: October 09, 1834 (58-67)
Chapel Hill, Marshall, Tennessee, United States
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Daughter of Capt. James Taylor Gaines and Elizabeth Gaines
Wife of David Childers, of Sullivan County
Mother of Edmond Pendleton Childers
Sister of Elizabeth Strother Moore; Behethland Lyon; Agnes Everett; George Strother Gaines; Sarah Gaines and 6 others
Half sister of Martha Patsy Everett and Margaret Edgeman

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About Lucy Childress

DESCENDANTS OF DAVID CHILDERS David Childers was born about 1761 in Culpepper Va., married Lucy Gaines in 1787, in Culpepper Va. Virginia. He died in 1849 in Sullivan County, Tenn. His son Edmund Pendleton Childers was born in 1802 in Sullivan Co., Tennessee, and married Louisa Stewart in 1834 in Rhea Co., Tennessee Their daughter Sarah Elizabeth Childers was born in Rhea Co. Tennessee in 1842 and Married Cagen Joshua Thomas about 1859 in Tennessee. Sarah Childers Thomas died Dec 12 1882 in Wright Co., Missouri Their first son was George Pendleton Thomas, born 1861 in White Co., Tennessee. Sources:

Revolutionary Pension File, David Childers, Claim No. 39298, National Archives, Kansas City, Mo. 1840 Census of Revolutionary Pensioners, Sullivan Co., Tennessee

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Lucy Childress's Timeline

1771
1771
Culpeper, Virginia
1803
1803
Sullivan Co, Tennessee
1834
October 9, 1834
Age 63
Chapel Hill, Marshall, Tennessee, United States