Rev. Luke Lea

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lea-26

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68821647

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Little is known about this Luke Lea who moved west from Caswell County. His first stop westward apparently was Surry/Wilkes County, North Carolina, where he had one or more children. He then proceeded further west into Tennessee, where a child, Pryor Lea, was born in 1794 (Knox County, Tennessee). Some believe Luke Lea moved south from Tennessee to Mississippi, where additional children were born, and where he died in 1813.

The son born 1783 in Surry County, North Carolina, also is named Luke Lea, and we will refer to him as Luke Lea, Jr. This Luke Lea, Jr., remained in Tennessee, in 1816 married Susan Wells McCormick (1787-1847), and had numerous children.

http://records.ancestry.com/Luke_Lea_records.ashx?pid=13759285

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Feb 13 2019, 18:11:44 UTC

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Married May 4, 1759, in Caswell County, North Carolina. He died at Tcufunctu River, Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana, but is buried in Huron, Amite County, Mississippi.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Sep 10 2022, 7:00:18 UTC

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Sep 10 2022, 7:01:15 UTC

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GEDCOM Note

Re: Luke Lea b VA died LA about 1813 Posted by George Davis on Feb 06, 1999 Luke is listed as "Baptist Minister & Tory Captain, B. Nov 26, 1739, St. George Parish, Spottsylvania Co. Ca., died on Tchfunctu(transcription error I suspect) River, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, 1813, buried Amite County, Mississippi, married May 4, 1759 in Orange (now Caswell( Co., NC to Elizabeth (Betsy) Wilson dau of Zaccheus Wilson Sr., Of Mecklenburg Co.,m NC. Married 2nd Nancy about 1793 in Tenn. There are sdome other notes about patenting 174 acres on the South Fork of County Line Creek in 1761, baptism (Luke and Elizabeth) into Mulberry Forks Branch (now Wilkesboro, NC) of the Dutchman's Creek Baptist church, "a strong Tory and Moravian Baptist neighborhood." On June 20, 1780, Capt Luke Lea was in charge of Tory forces in the Battle of Ramsour's Mill (Draper MSS, Univ. Wisc. P. 623, 30D, 308=10 G. A. Hobbs) and Major Lee was in Charge of Tory forces in the subsequent SC campaign (Ref. Drapers Kings Mt. Men)

Luke Lea, son of James Lea, the Emigrant, and Anne Tolbert Lea, was born December 26, 1739. This was probably before his parents left England He became a Baptist minister. He moved in 1790 to Grainger County, Tennessee, and Lea Springs bears his name. While still in Caswell County, North Carolina he married, May 4, 1759, Elizabeth Wilson born November 26, 1739. He lived until 1813.