Unamed Fine

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Alt. Born Abt. 1842

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Burial
Brentwood Cemetery in Brentwood, Washington County, Arkansas

William married Millie Mankins about 1836 in Washington Co. AR. Millie (daughter of Peter Mankins, Sr. and Rachel Bracken) was born on 10 Jul 1817 in Floyd County, Kentucky; died on 20 Apr 1894 in Washington County, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Alt. Born September 10, 1817
floyd County, KY

Burial
Brentwood Cemetery in Brentwood, Washington County, Arkansas

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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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FLASHBACK, Published by the Washington County, AR Historical Society
February 1988

Mankins, Peter, SR and Rachel
by Ouida Hunter Harkreader

Peter Mankins, who lived for more than 111 years, was one of the early
pioneers in Arkansas and the progenitor of many Washington Co. families. As a
child he played near George Washington's home. He lived through The
Revolutionary War, The War of 1812, and The Civil War.

Arkansas (Indian word meaning "downstream people") became the 25th state on
June 15, 1836. Fayetteville was incorporated the same year, and a chain
bearer for the surveyors was named Mankins.

Fayetteville had few houses when the Peter Mankins family came to the
Territory. Peter cleared the cane breaks along the west fork of the White
River, built a home and lived there for the rest of his life. In 1834, three
parcels of land were listed under his name in the Township 15 29th West and
5th meridian, known as White River Township.

Peter welcomed statehood in 1836, helped build schools and churches, worked
for good government, always voted -- first as a Whig, later Democrat. He
voted for Thomas Jefferson, General Hancock and 13 others. In 1861 he saw the
division of families and friends as Arkansas joined The Confederacy. At age
90 he was taken prisoner by
Union troops. In 1868 when Arkansas was readmitted under the Reconstruction
act, Peter was present.

Peter Mankins, Sr. was born Sept. 19, 1790 at Cedar Creek, MD, almost exactly
where the Kennedy Center is now. He died Dec. 30, 1881 and is buried in the
Reese Cemetery. His death was duly reported by Col. J.H. Hoose, who wrote, "I
daresay he never uttered an untruth willfully in the whole course of his
life; there was no deceit or hypocrisy in him. He was always plain and
outspoken, honest in his dealings with his fellow man, and ever ready to
assist the needy and distressed. If he ever had an enemy he outlived them all
for he left only friends."

But Arkansas was not the only state Peter helped settle. He had watched
George Washington's army as it marched through Alexandria, VA to meet
Cornwallis.
In 1803, in Orange County, NC he married Rachel Bracken Lewis, widow of
Zachariah
Lewis and mother of three children: George, Lydia, and Bracken Lewis. Peter
and
Rachel had eleven children, six sons and five daughters. Three sons, John B.,
William and Walter (named for his uncle) were born in Orange Co. NC.

In 1809 the Mankins and the Lewis children came through the Cumberland
Gap to the Block House, a rude fort near Prestonburg in Kentucky. Peter
cleared a Beech forest and built near the fort. During the War of 1812 with
England, Mankins was in charge of Harmonies Station, repaired its blockhouses
to protect the women in case of Indian trouble. In 1827 Peter sold his farm
to Samuel Porter, went to newly opened country in Illinois for a year,
returned to Kentucky, and purchased a big farm near Paintsville. Later it
was sold to Moses Preston. He then went back to Illinois for a short stay
before moving to the White River. Rachel bore eight children in Kentucky:
Peter Jr., Henry, Samuel, Edith (Enos Mills), Rachel (Jonathan Fine), Millie
(William B. Fine), Sarah, and Elizabeth.

Rachel was the daughter of Isaac Braken and Rachel Stalcop, whose marriage is
recorded in the Old Swedes Church, Wilmington, DE, Aug. 31, 1769

Members of the Price family (owner of the farm in White River Township) think
it is Rachel who is buried on the farm they call "Homeplace".

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Alt. Died December 30, 1881
Sulpher City, Washington Co. AR

Burial Unknown
Reese Cemetery, on middle fork

Name (Facts Pg)
Peter Mankins

Peter married Rachel Bracken on 23 Sep 1803 in Orange County, NC. Rachel was born about 1776 in Orange Co. NC; died about 1849 in Washington Co. AR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Rachel Brackin

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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.

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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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