William Jefferson Gilliland

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Alt. Born October 20, 1839
West Fork, Washington County, Arkansas

Source: philippeter.FTW
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Date of Import: Apr 28, 2000

Burial Unknown
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William married Martha Elizabeth Pearson between 1856 and 1881. Martha was born between 1833 and 1858; died between 1886 and 1947. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Carol L. Gilliland was born on 23 Jun 1870; died between 1871 and 1964.
2. John S. Gilliland was born on 17 Jun 1872 in Greenland, Wash. Co. AR; died between 1889 and 1962.
3. James Roy Augustus Gilliland was born on 27 Nov 1873 in Greenland, Wash. Co. AR; died between 1890 and 1963.
4. Clara Ella Gilliland was born on 28 May 1875 in Greenland, Wash. Co. AR; died between 1889 and 1969.
5. Tolbert C. Gilliland was born on 25 Oct 1876; died between 1877 and 1966.
6. Easter L. Gilliland was born on 21 Feb 1878; died between 1879 and 1972.
7. Daisy C. Gilliland was born on 20 Nov 1879; died between 1880 and 1973.
8. Alta Jane Gilliland was born on 3 Apr 1881; died between 1882 and 1975.
9. Thomas J. Gilliland was born on 11 Feb 1883; died between 1884 and 1973.
10. Minnie May Gilliland was born on 26 Sep 1884; died between 1885 and 1978.

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Notes for James Caroll Gilliland:
JOHN GILLILAND AN EARLY SETTLER IN COCKE COUNTY
A relative of James unsure how connected:

JOHN GILLILAND was on of the early settlers near the mouth of the BIG
PIGEON was JOHN
GILLILAND, was made a crop of corn on his land in 1783, and a year or
two later brought his large
family to the place, where he continued to live until the time of his
death about 1788-89. He left a large
family of children, including eight who were sons. He took an active
part in the organization of the State
of Franklin and was a member of the convention of 1785 who wrote the
Constitution of the new State.
JOHN GILLILAND donated fifty acres of his land for the first county seat
of COCKE COUNTY. It was
called NEWPORT>

The commissioners appointed to locate it and superintend the erection of
the county buildings were:

HENRY REAGAN
WILLIAM JOB
JOHN COFFEE
PETER FINE
JOHN KEENEY
REPS JONES
JOHN McLAUGHLIN

James married Rebecca Fine between 1835 and 1856 in ?unknown. Rebecca (daughter of William Fine and Catherine Sievely, daughter of William Fine and Catherine Sivley) was born on 31 Dec 1820 in Giles, Tenn.; died on 17 Jun 1863. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes for James Caroll Gilliland:
JOHN GILLILAND AN EARLY SETTLER IN COCKE COUNTY
A relative of James unsure how connected:

JOHN GILLILAND was on of the early settlers near the mouth of the BIG
PIGEON was JOHN
GILLILAND, was made a crop of corn on his land in 1783, and a year or
two later brought his large
family to the place, where he continued to live until the time of his
death about 1788-89. He left a large
family of children, including eight who were sons. He took an active
part in the organization of the State
of Franklin and was a member of the convention of 1785 who wrote the
Constitution of the new State.
JOHN GILLILAND donated fifty acres of his land for the first county seat
of COCKE COUNTY. It was
called NEWPORT>

The commissioners appointed to locate it and superintend the erection of
the county buildings were:

HENRY REAGAN
WILLIAM JOB
JOHN COFFEE
PETER FINE
JOHN KEENEY
REPS JONES
JOHN McLAUGHLIN

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Alt. Born December 31, 1820
Giles, Tennessee

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Notes for William Fine:
William and Cathrine Sivley Fine, son Jonathan Fine and his wife moved to TX about 1856. They went way down in TX to visit (Uncle Jake Sivley).

William & Cathrine Sivley Fine moved down to Huntsville before War
1812 and bought 180 acres off the plantation. Lived there until Jacob
died. William was soldier War 1812 and was discharged Dec. 22, 1813, they moved back into Tenn and sold back to plantation. By Lottery in D. C. soldier got 160 acres of the best of land in Ark, Mo & Ill__2 million acres set aside - and
William Fine's land was in a big valley 7 miles below Fayetteville
Ark. They came over land, came up, crossed Miss river on Ferry St.
Louis and turn into Mo down into Ark. Left Tenn 8 of Oct 1828 didn't
reach their land till in Mar 12 1829. Cathrine Sivley Fine lived 17
years longer than her husband. Lived to be 89 years old and her and
her husband buried in a unmark grave in a family graveyard on the land
given him for service war 1812.

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Alt. Born 1781
Shenandoah Valley, Virginia

Alt. Died September 04, 1864
Washington County, Arkansas

William married Catherine Sievely on 2 Apr 1807 in Jefferson County, Tennessee At Her Parent's Home By Reverand Lessee. Catherine was born in 1791 in Tennessee; died in 1881 in Washington County, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Catherine "Kate" Sivley Katie

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2. Vinet2 Fine (Thomas1) was born 1750 in New Jersey (Source: LDS RECORDS/ D.A.R./ Tenn. Cousins ( record book ) Bk. Over the Misty Blue Hills/Broderbund Records), and died 1783 in Fines Creek, North Carolina. He married Effie McElwain (Source: (1) Court records of Franklin and Rockingham Counties, Virginia, Letter From Jacob Wayne, Son of Tunis and Catherine (Propst) McElwain., (2) Letter from Jacob Wayne to the McElwain family written c1892., o Letter from Jacob Wayne to the McElwain family in Webster County, West Virginia, written c1892.) Abt. 1772, daughter of George McElwain and Nancy Rector.

Notes for Vinet Fine:
Vinet Served in the American Revolutionary War and was killed in 1783 in an Indian uprising. Because there was no time for grave digging, Vinet body was placed in a frozen creek with intent to retrieve the body later return, the creek had thawed and Vinet body had washed away and was never found. Henceforth the creek was named Fines Creek and is located on exit -15, I-40 North Carolina.

Colonel John Sevier attacked a party of Indians on Indian Creek in the summer of 1781. The place was near the County Line, on the farm of William Phillips. Seventeen Indians were killed. Peter, John and Vinet participated in this battle. (This battleground was pointed out to W.R. Fine by his father, Isaac, son of Vinett.)

In the spring of 1783 Colonel William Lillard and Major Peter Fine raised a company of thirty men and crossed the mountains to the Overhill Town of Cowee and burned it because from this town had originated the aggressions upon the Big Pigeon and French Broad Rivers. Captain John and his brother Vinett fine were members of the company. Such action antagonized the indians who in the winter of 1783 began to steal horses and cattle from the Big Pigeon settlements.

Major Peter Fine and Captain John McNabb raised a company of men and followed the Indians across the mountains into North Carolina where they killed one Indian and wounded another, but recovered the stolen horses. The Indians fired upon them, killing Vinett Fine and wounding thomas Holland ;and a man by the name of Bingham. Because there was no time for grave digging and apparently no safety in trying to escape with the body, the ice in the creek was broken and the body placed there. Before the men could return for it the creek became flooded by a sudden change in temperature and the body was washed away and never recovered. To this day the creek is known as Fines creek.

Vinett Fine entered and located on the land known as Swaggerty Farm and now owned by the Unaka tannery and James A.T. Wood. His daughter Sally Fine married Abraham Job, born in 1775 the son of David Job. (Also spelled Jobe)

!!!One more possible answer as to where they came from!!!

The fine family is one of the very oldest in Cocke county. In fact they were here long before the county.

The late Lady Ruth O'Dell, in her monumental history " Over the Misty Blue Hills," has given a lengthy account of the "tribe", so what I shall say here will merely supplement her excellent work.

The Fines were, there is some reason to believe, French. The first mention of the name I have been able to find was that of Orontas Fine, a French mathematician and geographer, who accomplished the amazing feat of making Mathematics a popular fad at the gay royal court of Louis I of France (1494--1547).

FATE Magazine, in its May 1966 issue presented a scientific article by Charles H. Hapgood relating that a science panel at Keene State College ( New Hampshire ) undertook a study of acient maps.
This group was startled to discover an extremely accurate map of the Antarctic drawn by Orontes Fine in the year of 1531!! the astounding part of the matter was that the Antarctic Continent was not known to Eurpeans before about 1820. At least it was not known that there was land under the ice.

Map Compiled ??

How and where then did Orontes Fine get his information? The Science group speculated that fine had "compiled" his map from several previous ones. Indication also was that areas now ice covered at some time were dry land.

But in 1531 few Frenchmen knew about, or cared about, the shape of the bottom of the world, and the fancies of the volatile French court turned to other matters. Orontes fine and his wife quietly and respectfully starved to death. They left large number of children, and when King Henry II who had succeeded to the French throne, heard about their deaths he was horrified and granted generous pensions to the children.... This is not to say that there is a certain relationship to this Orontes it is just one of those thing that just might be.....

Vinet married Effaeda McElwain between 1764 and 1781. Effaeda (daughter of George McElwain, II and Nancy Rector) was born between 1735 and 1760 in Franklin County Virginia; died between 1786 and 1848 in Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Effie