

This project is part of the State of Tennessee Portal. ==About the Project=Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from Tennessee. You can add profiles for:* People born in Tennessee* People who lived in Tennessee* People who died in TennesseeWhen you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can benefit.If you have project...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Loudon County, Tennessee.= Official Website =Loudon County was formed on May 27, 1870. Originally, it was named Christiana County, but a few days later the name was changed to Loudon in honor of nearby colonial-era Fort Loudoun. The fort was named for John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun and a commander of British forces during the Fren...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Tennessee.= Official Website =Jefferson County was established on June 11, 1792, by William Blount, Governor of the Southwest Territory.[8] It had been a part of Caswell County during the State of Franklin period (1784–1789). During the Civil War, a railroad bridge at Strawberry Plains was among those targeted by the...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grainger County, Tennessee.= Official Website = History Grainger County was formed from Knox and Hawkins Counties in 1796, the year Tennessee became the sixteenth state of the United States. It is named for Mary Grainger Blount, wife of William Blount.During the American Civil War, a state of near-guerrilla warfare brought economic, p...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Official Website Rutherford County was formed in 1803 and was named in honor of Griffith Rutherford (1721–1805). Rutherford was a North Carolina colonial legislator and an American Revolutionary War general, who settled in Middle Tennessee after the Revolution. He was appointed President of the Counci...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Unicoi County, Tennessee. Official Website Unicoi County was created in 1875. The name is a Cherokee word meaning "white," "hazy," "fog-like," or "fog draped." Adjacent Counties Carter County Washington County Mitchell County, NC Yancey County, NC Madison County, NC Greene County Towns & Communities
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.Knoxville is the county seat of Knox County and was the first capital of Tennessee.= Official Website = History Wikipedia One of the oldest artificial structures in Knoxville is a burial mound constructed during the early Mississippian culture period (c. A.D. 1000-1400). By the 18th century, the Chero...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Knox County, Tennessee.= Official Website == History =Knox County was created after the American Revolutionary War on June 11, 1792, by Governor William Blount from parts of Greene and Hawkins counties. It was one of the few counties created when this area was still known as the Southwest Territory. It is one of nine United States cou...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hardin County, Tennessee.= Official Website =Hardin County was formed in November, 1819. The county was named for Revolutionary War veteran, Joseph Hardin, a former colonial assemblyman for the Province of North Carolina, Speaker of the House for the unrecognized State of Franklin and a territorial legislator of the Southwest Territor...
Baugh Cemetery,Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Beasley Cemetery,Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Warren County, TN.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Trousdale County, Tennessee. Official Website = Trousdale County was formed in 1870. It was named for William Trousdale (1790–1872), Brigadier General in the Mexican War, Governor of Tennessee, 1849–1851, and U.S. Minister to Brazil, 1853–1857. On December 7, 1862, the Battle of Hartsville occurred within the boundaries of the cou...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Campbell County, Tennessee. History Campbell County was formed in 1806 from parts of Anderson and Claiborne counties. It was named in honor of Colonel Arthur Campbell (1743–1811), a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and an officer during the American Revolutionary War.New Mammoth Cave, located in Elk Valley, just west of Jelli...
Beasley Cemetery #2,Poplar Hill, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Note: African-American Cemetery African American Cemetery. Highway 31 south, right into Prospect Road, Aspen Hill to Liberty to Poplar Hill.
This project is for those buried in Roller Cemetery, Indian Springs, Sullivan County, Tennessee. From TN GenWeb : Roller Cemetery is located between Bristol & Kingsport, Tennessee. From 1-81, access Hwy. 126 to the north. From Bristol stay on Hwy. 126 to Fall Creek Road and turn left. Go a short distance to Bridwell Heights Road and turn right. The cemetery and Old Roller Memorial Church are ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sullivan County, Tennessee. Official Website Sullivan is Tennessee's second-oldest county; it was established in 1779 when the area was still part of North Carolina. From 1784 to 1788, it was part of the extra-legal State of Franklin. It was named for John Sullivan, a Patriot general in the Revolutionary War. Adjacent Counties ...
Aymett-Leatherwood Creek Cemetery, Aymett Town, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Note: African-American Cemetery African American Cemetery. 64E, right on Leatherwood, left 1 mile. Go down lane, cross creek, in trees at Hickory Cut Hollow. These are said to be Aymett slaves. Fieldstones only.
Austin Whitt Property, Ardmore, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Surname Index : First 6/9/2022
Austin-Harlow-Croney Cemetery,Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Bachelor Roberts Family Cemetery,Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Bank of Elk River Cemetery, Bryson, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Barrett Cemetery,Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Bass, Pitts Family Cemetery,Pisgah, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Batts Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Pioneers of Giles County, Tennessee:
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tipton County, Tennessee. Official Website Due to topographic changes caused by the 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes, part of what is now Tipton County was cut off from the state of Tennessee by a change in the course of the Mississippi River. The earthquake changed the course of the river near the settlement of Reverie, Tennessee. T...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lauderdale County, Tennessee. Official Website Lauderdale County was created in 1835 and was named for Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale, who was killed at the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. Planters developed large cotton plantations along the waterways, and used slaves in gangs to work and process this commodity cro...
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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Shelby County, Tennessee. Official Website This area along the Mississippi River valley was long occupied by varying cultures of indigenous peoples. In historic times, the Chickasaw controlled much of this area. They are believed to be descendants of the important Mississippian culture, which established fortified and complex citi...
This project is for all those interred in Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee.The cemetery has also been known as Memorial Park Funeral Home and Cemetery and Memphis Memorial Park. It is located on 5668 Poplar Avenue. Notable Interments *James Pinckney Alley (1885-1934) - Cartoonist*J. Blackfoot (1946-2011) - Musician* Cecil Stamps Blackwood (1934-2000) - Gospel Singer (...
Antioch Cemetery, Prospect, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Highway 31S, right into Prospect Road; east at Antioch Church. (African American Cemetery) The Cemetery is now called Old Antioch Cemetery
Aspen Hill Cemetery 1, Aspen Hill, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Aspen Hill Cemetery 2,Giles County, Tennessee, USA : Note: African-American Cemetery
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cannon County, Tennessee.= Official Website =Cannon County was established by the Tennessee state legislature on January 31, 1836. It was formed from portions of Rutherford, Smith, Wilson, and Warren counties and was named for Governor Newton Cannon. Adjacent Counties * DeKalb County * Warren County * Coffee County * Rutherford County...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, Tennessee.= Official Website = History Cumberland County was formed in 1856 from parts of several other counties. During the Civil War, the county was nearly evenly split between those supporting the Union and those supporting the Confederacy.In 1787, the North Carolina legislature ordered widening and improvements ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Monroe County, Tennessee.= Official Website =During the early part of the 18th century, this area was known as part of the traditional homelands of the Cherokee Nation.In 1756, during the French and Indian War (the North American front of the Seven Years War), the British established Fort Loudoun on the Little Tennessee River near its...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Carter County, Tennesee.= Official Website = History The area was originally claimed by Britain as part of the Clarendon settlements of the Province of Carolina, although actually populated at the time by the Cherokee.The county is named for General Landon Carter,[4] the son of John Carter of Virginia, who was "chairman of the court" ...
Wikipedia Tennessee State University (Tennessee State, Tenn State or TSU) is a public land-grant university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1912, it is the largest and only state-funded historically black university in Tennessee. It is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Tennessee State University is a comprehensive urban institution offering 38 ba...
Wikipedia Tennessee Wesleyan University (TWU) is a small university founded in 1857, located in the city of Athens in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is affiliated with the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church. Current enrollment is over 1,100 students, and the student-to-faculty ratio is 12:1. In February 2016, the school announced that they would change their name to Tennessee W...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Maury County, Tennessee.= Official Website = History The county was formed in 1807 andwas named in honor of Abram Maury, Sr. (1766-1825), a member of the Tennessee state senate from Williamson County. The rich soil of Maury County led to a thriving agricultural sector, starting in the 19th century. The county was part of a 41-county ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Greene County, Tennessee.= Official website = History Greene County developed from the "Nolichucky settlement," established by pioneer Jacob Brown on land leased in the early 1770s from the Cherokee people. The Nolichucky settlement was aligned with the Watauga settlement, centered in modern Elizabethton.Greene County was formed in 17...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Roane County, Tennessee. Official Website History Roane County was formed in 1801, and named for Archibald Roane, the second Governor of Tennessee. Upon the creation of the Southwest Territory in 1790, the territory's governor, William Blount, initially wanted to locate the territorial capital at the mouth of the Clinch River, b...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sevier County, Tennessee. Official Website History In the mid-16th century, Spanish expeditions led by Hernando de Soto (1540) and Juan Pardo (1567) passed through what is now Sevier County, reporting that the region was part of the domain of Chiaha, a minor Muskogean chiefdom centered around a village located on a now-submerged...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Coffee County, Tennessee.= Official Website =Coffee County was formed in 1836 from parts of Bedford, Warren, and Franklin counties. It was named for John Coffee, a prominent planter, land speculator, and militia officer. Similar to other counties in this area of the state, planters here cultivated mostly tobacco and hemp, produced by...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Nashville, Tennessee.Nashville is the county seat of Davidson County and is the state capital.Named for Francis Nash, a general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, the city was founded in 1779. The city grew quickly due to its strategic location as a port on the Cumberland River and, in the 19th century, a r...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Davidson County, Tennessee. It contains the state capital of Tennessee, Nashville . History Davidson County is the oldest county in the 41-county region of Middle Tennessee. It dates to 1783, shortly after the end of the American Revolution, when the North Carolina legislature created the county and named it in honor of William Lee Da...
Wikipedia = Find a Grave Nashville National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Madison, a suburb of Nashville, in Davidson County, Tennessee. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 64.5 acres (26.1 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 34,637 interments.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Meigs County, Tennessee.= Official Website = History Before 1819, the area that is now Meigs County was part of the Cherokee nation.Especially following the American Revolutionary War, land-hungry European-American settlers began to enter this territory in greater number. They established ferries across the Tennessee River from Rhea C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Claiborne County, Tennessee. History Claiborne County was established on October 29, 1801, created from Grainger and Hawkins counties and extended the southern boundary to Anderson County. It was named for Virginia tidewater aristocrat William C. C. Claiborne, one of the first judges of the Tennessee Superior Court and one of the firs...
This project is used to relate all units from Tennessee who served in the Confederate Army.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in White County, TN.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grundy County, Tennessee.= Official Website =The county was formed January 29, 1844 and is named after U.S. Attorney General Felix Grundy (1777–1840).Grundy County is known for its spectacular views, saltpeter mines. It was also known for arson starting in 1917 and continuing off and on until 1990. These fires and explosions destroyed...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bedford County, Tennessee.= Official Website = History The county was created in 1807 when the citizens of Rutherford County living south of the Duck River and the Stones River successfully petitioned the governor to split Rutherford County in two. The new county was named after American Revolutionary War officer and large landowner i...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Franklin County, Tennessee.= Official Website = History White settlement began around 1800, and the county was formally organized in 1807 and named for Benjamin Franklin. One of the most notable early settlers was frontiersman Davy Crockett, who came about 1812 but is not thought to have remained long.The University of the South, foun...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sumner County, Tennessee. Official Website History British colonial longhunters traveled into the area as early as the 1760s, following existing Indian and buffalo trails. By the early 1780s, they had erected several trading posts in the region. The most prominent was Mansker's Station, which was built by Kasper Mansker near a s...
Stones River National Battlefield Within park boundaries is Stones River National Cemetery, 20.09 acres with 6,850 interments (2562 unidentified). Find a Grave
Anguish Graveyard, Lynnville, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Anthony Cemetery,Giles County, Tennessee, USA :
Anthony Samuel Gravesite,Brick Church, Giles County, Tennessee, Buford Sta USA : The only known grave in this cemetery is that of Anthony Samuel a Revolutionary War Soldier who came to Giles County, Tennessee around the time of the founding of the county. Instructions to find the cemetery: From Hwy 31 Alt. go west on Buford Station Road abt 2 miles and to the John Thomas Yokley (1899-1970)...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Stewart County, Tennessee. Official Website History Stewart County was created by European Americans in 1803, and was named for Duncan Stewart, an early settler and state legislator. The first County Court met in March 1804. According to Goodspeed's history of Stewart County, "Stewart County was settled principally by North Caro...
Anderson Cemetery, Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Center: 35.2106degrees N 87.0966 degrees W Go west from Pulaski on Hwy 64. Go past Hwy 166 and when you see a high area that has the appearance of an old Indian mound the cemetery is in that thicket. The only inscribed stone Wayne Austin found is for an Anderson child and is very near the road in the middle of the cemetery. Wayne Aus...
Anderson Creek Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Location: Highway 64W, right to Campbellsville, left onto Factory Creek Road, then right on to Anderson Creek Road. Cemetery is on the right near the Lawrence County line.
Andrew Yokley Family Cemetery,Rich, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Rose Hill Cemetery is located in Columbia, Maury, Tennessee. The large cemetery was established in 1853. During the American Civil War, both Union and Confederate fallen were interred here. In 1867, the Union soldiers were reinterred at Stones River National Cemetery in Murfreesboro, TN. The Rosemount Cemetery section was created in 1873 by Columbia African Americans for those of their communit...
Greenwood Cemetery is located in Columbia, Maury, Tennessee. The cemetery is small, containing a little over 600 graves. "Greenwood Cemetery, although not the oldest cemetery in Maury County, is the original burial grounds in the city of Columbia. It was created on November 14, 1809 by the commissioners designated by the governor of Tennessee to lay out the county seat for Maury County. Greenw...
This project is for those buried in Smith Cemetery, Lincoln County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Riverview Memorial Gardens, Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tennessee. Located on 119 River Drive, the cemetery is also known as Riverview Cemetery . Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Lincoln Cemetery, Lincoln, Lincoln County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
This project is for those who are buried in Shiloh Cemetery, New Dellrose, Lincoln County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
This project is for those interred in Oak Ridge Memorial Park, Oak Ridge, Anderson County, Tennessee. Notable Interments Sara Louise Johnson (Cabaniss) (1926-2000) - Member of the Manhattan Project Ernest Omar Wollen (1902-1984) - Physicist, Pioneer in Nuclear Science Links Official Website Find a Grave
Melungeon (pronounced /məˈlʌndʒən/ or "muh'lun-jun" or "muh-lun'jun") is a term traditionally applied to a tri-racial isolate group centered in Newman Ridge and Blackwater in Hancock County, Tennessee. They are found mainly in the Cumberland Gap area of central Appalachia, which includes portions of east Tennessee (Hancock and Hawkins Counties), southwest Virginia (Lee County), and eastern Kent...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Anderson County, Tennessee. History Before the formation of Anderson County, Tennessee, that territory was initially land of what is today called the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, which had been settled by several pioneer families including the Wallace, Gibbs, Freels, Frost and Tunnell families. Although the Treaty of Holston, sig...
The Battle of Missionary Ridge was fought on November 25, 1863, as part of the Chattanooga Campaign of the American Civil War. Following the Union victory in the Battle of Lookout Mountain on November 24, Union forces in the Military Division of the Mississippi under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Missionary Ridge and defeated the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by Gen. Braxton B...
This project is for those who were born, lived, or died in Giles County, Tennessee.= Wikipedia =The county is named for Hon. William Branch Giles .
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hamilton County, Tennessee.= Official Website = History Hamilton County was formed on October 25, 1819 and was named after Alexander Hamilton, an officer in the American Revolutionary War, member of the Continental Congress, the first US Secretary of Treasury, and one of the founding fathers of the United States.The area was originall...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lincoln County, Tennessee.= Official Website =Lincoln County was created in 1809 from land occupied by the Cherokee and Chickasaw Peoples.The Lincoln County Process, used in the distillation of Tennessee whiskey, is named for this county, as the Jack Daniel Distillery was originally located there. Adjacent Counties * Bedford County * ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Moore County, Tennessee.Moore County was established in 1871 and named in honor of General William Moore, an early settler and long-time member of the state legislature.Beginning in the 1820s, whiskey distilleries were developed in what is now Moore County. By 1875, fifteen distilleries were operating in the county. At the end of the ...
University of Tennessee (also referred to as the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, UT Knoxville, UTK, or UT) is a public sun-grant and land-grant university headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee entered the Union as the 16th state, it is the flagship institution of the statewide University of Tennessee system with nine undergraduate ...
Allen Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Location: Highway 31S, right at Prospect Road at Aspen Hill, right across railroad.
Allen Family Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Allen-Carpenter Family Cemetery,Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Location: Highway 64W, right into Campbellsville Road, right into Minnow Branch Road. The cemetery is on left side of road, enclosed by a chain link fence.
Wikipedia Rhodes College is a private, predominantly undergraduate, liberal arts college located in Memphis, Tennessee. Affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), Rhodes is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and enrolls approximately 2,000 students. Alumni
Wikipedia Sewanee: The University of the South, also known as Sewanee, is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Sewanee, Tennessee, United States. It is owned by 28 southern dioceses of the Episcopal Church, and its School of Theology is an official seminary of the church. The university's School of Letters offers graduate degrees in American Literature and Creative Writing....
Middle Tennessee State University, commonly abbreviated as MTSU or MT, is a comprehensive coeducational public university in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.Founded in 1911 as a normal school, the university is composed of eight undergraduate colleges as well as a college of graduate studies, together offering more than 80 majors/degree programs through more than 35 departments. MTSU is most prominentl...
Disclaimer: This project is not endorsed by Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry and is for genealogical purposes.Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry, Nashville, TN: Wikipedia
Wikipedia =Lipscomb University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It is affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The campus is located in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville between Belmont Boulevard to the west and Granny White Pike on the east. Student enrollment for the fall 2015 semester is 4,680 which includes 3,030 undergradua...
Wikipedia =Fisk University is a historically black university founded in 1866 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The 40-acre (160,000 m2) campus is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places.In 1930, Fisk was the first African-American institution to gain accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Accreditations for specialized programs q...
Wikipedia =Cumberland University is a private university in Lebanon, Tennessee, United States. It was founded in 1842, though the current campus buildings were constructed between 1892 and 1896. Notable Alumni
Wikipedia =Austin Peay State University /ˈɔːstən pi/ is a four-year public university located in Clarksville, Tennessee, and operated by the Tennessee Board of Regents. The University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and is the fastest-growing university in Tennessee. Notable Alumni
Wikipedia =Belhaven University ("Belhaven" or "BU") is a private Christian liberal arts university located in Jackson, Mississippi. Founded by Lewis Fitzhugh and later donated to the Presbyterian Church in the United States, the school has been independently run by a Board of Trustees since 1972. Belhaven is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award Associate, Bacc...
Wikipedia Belmont University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It is the largest Christian university in Tennessee and the second largest private university in the state, behind nearby Vanderbilt University. Notable Alumni
Wikipedia =Bethel University is a Christian institute of higher education in Tennessee, accredited to bestow degrees to the master's level. Bethel University’s main campus is located in McKenzie, Tennessee, with satellite campuses located in Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Jackson, Paris, and Clarksville.
Wikipedia =Bob Jones University (BJU) is a private non-denominational Protestant university in Greenville, South Carolina, known for its conservative cultural and religious positions. It has approximately 2,800 students, and is accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. In 2008, the university estimated the number of its graduates at 35,000. The university's ...
Springer Cemetery, Lewis County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McNairy County, Tennessee.= Official Website =McNairy County was formed in 1823 from parts of Hardin County, and was named for Judge John McNairy.Buford Pusser served as the sheriff of McNairy County from 1964 to 1970. The courthouse and jail in Selmer were his base of operations. He gained prominence for his fight against illegal dis...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Scott County, Tennessee. Official Website Scott County was formed in 1849 and is named for U.S. Army General Winfield Scott, a hero of the Mexican War. During the Civil War, the county was a Southern Unionist bastion, voting against secession from the Union in Tennessee's June 1861 referendum by a higher percentage (521 to 19, or ...
According to the Tennessee State Constitution of 1870, the General Assembly is a bicameral legislature and consists of a Senate of thirty-three members and a House of Representatives of ninety-nine members.The representatives are elected to two-year terms; according to a 1966 constitutional amendment the senators are elected to four-year terms which are staggered, with the districts with even n...
Traders in Some Southeast Indian Nations 1750 ~ 1754==* from First People of Tennessee ===Traders to the Catawbas===* Robert Steel * Robert Tool * Mathew Toole===Licensed Traders to the Cherokee from Carolina===* James Adair * The Augusta Company * James Baldridg * Charles Banks* William Bates * James and Thomas Beamer * Samuel Benn * Robert Bunning* John Butler * Cornelius Daugherty * Anthony ...