Sgt. John Sinclair Mantooth

ID: I587918397

Name: John MENTEITH

Given Name: John

Surname: Menteith

Sex: M

Birth: in Glasgow Scotland - There is a church in Glasgow with a Menteith tomb. It is called Glasgow Necropolis on Castle Street, Cathedral Square.

Event: Other Name Spelling Unknown Monteith

Event: Other Unknown NW of Stirling Scotland is the Port of Menteith- loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park.

Note:

John Monteith came over from Aberdeen Scotland on a boat called the

"Rebecca" and the Captain was Captain ? . They worked their way over.

Their was way paid for by Samuel Phariss who was their Bondsman.

Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown

Children

Thomas "Cherokee Tom", Sr. MANTOOTH b: 1760

M F
The Monteith / Mantooth Family
The story goes that a son of old Henry Monteith, father of James of Anderston had sons who went to America. It would appear that one of them married a Cherokee Indian causing his brothers to disown him. This then prompted a name change from Monteith to Mantooth. The other brothers returned to Scotland, never to speak of it again.
The name 'Mantooth' is therefore derived from the Scottish name Monteith. Thomas Monteith was born in Scotland about 1694 and records show that he was in Virginia by 1714, in those early, pioneering years and still 80 years before other family members would form the Blantyre Mills.
Thomas was a large landholder in Virginia and was known as Gentleman Thomas the Merchant. Thomas had four children. Magdaline, Elizabeth, James and John.
This was a notable family. Magdaline married Anderson Doniphan and is the Great, great Grandmother of Harry Shipp Truman. John married a Cherokee Indian and at this time the two brothers disowned each other. Marrying a cherokee Indian was clearly frowned upon by the rest of the family. In Thomas Monteith's Last Will and Testament, John was not mentioned as the other three children were.
It was at this time that the name changed. The Monteiths stayed in Virginia until later years and descendants of Thomas (Cherokee Tom) Mantooth migrated south into North Carolina. In the late 1700's and early 1800's the Mantooths came across the mountain from an area west of Asheville, North Carolina known as Sandy Mush to East Tennessee. Cocke County has had a population of Mantooths for many years with some Mantooths migrating west over a period of time.
Conducting good business was clearly in the Monteith genes. Thomas Mantooth with his family, his oldest daughter being married to Austin Vinson, settled in Lufkin Texas in 1857. Thomas was a probate judge in Lufkin for some time. Thomas' son Edwin J. Mantooth attended the Cumberland University, Lebanon Tennessee and studied law, graduating with the class of 1879 before returning to Texas to set up office.
Edwin J. Mantooth was one of two people that founded the Lufkin Telephone Company that is the 16th largest in the United States. The Mantooth and Vinson names are well established in East Texas.
– James Mantooth, Cocke County,

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Ancestry.com U.S. Native American Applications for Enrollment in Five Civilized Tribes, 1896 Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, Utah; Date: 2008;;;

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Ancestry.com U.S. Native American Applications for Enrollment in Five Civilized Tribes, 1896 Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, Utah; Date: 2008;;;

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Ancestry.com U.S. Native American Applications for Enrollment in Five Civilized Tribes, 1896 Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, Utah; Date: 2008;;;

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Historical Data Systems, comp. American Civil War Soldiers Name: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data - Data compiled by Historical Data Systems of Kingston, Massachusetts form the following list of works. Copyright 1997-2000 Historical Data Systems, Inc.;

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