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- Notes for Johnathon Fine:
Jonathan Fine, son of Peter Fine, helped organize Rhea County in 1807. As a
homesteader, he had 300 acres on the bank of Piney River. He was Justice of
the Peace from 1813 to 1829, and served in the 10th Tennessee General Assembly 1813-1815. In 1829, he left for Missouri on his way to California, where he was a minister and a rancher.
The following article appeared in the STAR newspaper of Johnson County,
Missouri, probably shortly after June 4, 1933: The FineFamily Played Important Part in Early History of County ........... by J. L. Ferguson
The following is taken from the article as written by Miss Laura Woodruff and
Frank Woodruff and read by the latter at the blackwater Memorial services
June 4, 1933.
The original home of Jonathan Fine was Cocke County,
Tenn., in the Eastern part of the state. A sister of Jonathan Fine married John T. Kendrick,(wrong name believed to be Edom Kendrick Jr.) who were the ancestors of the Kendrick family
of Knob Noster. In recent years J. Mont Kendrick has visited in Cocke
County,Tennessee, and found there the old Fine home still used as a
dwelling place. The house is typical of its period, a rectangular
structure, beautiful in its simplicity and having the huge chimneys at
each end, adding beauty as well as utility. When Jonathan Fine and
his wife Hannah R., came to Missouri and settled in the neighborhood of
this Blackwater church
( about 1828 or 29 ), there were ten children: Recter, Abram, Baldwin,
David, Quinn, Narcissa, Claricy, Holt and Mary, twins, and Elizabeth
Jane, or rather Betsy Jane as she was always called. The mother of this
family of ten, Hannah Recter Fine, died in 1830 when Betsy Jane, the
youngest, was seven, just a few years after the family came from
Tennessee. There was no cemetery when she died and her grave is not in
the cemetery proper but just outside.
Gave Land For Church Of course, Jonathan Fine was
one of the pioneers of this Blackwater community. He was a farmer and a
Methodist preacher. he soon saw to it that there was a church for the
community through which the spiritual life might be developed and no
doubt to provide a pulpit for himself. He gave the land, a part of his
farm, as a site for a church and the adjoining cemetery. This church, as
we have it through traditions of the family was of logs built by men of
the community with one door and a section of one log sawed out to provide
a window but without glass.The building served as a schoolhouse as well
as a church. There was a fireplace in one end and huge logs to feed the
fire were across the floor. Betsy Jane Fine, Mary Anna Cockrell ( sister
of Senator Cockrell ) and Mary Murray were three little chums who sat on
the puncheon seats burning their faces before the fire as they received
instructions in the three R's taught by Zachary Davis, the grandfather of
Dr. J. I. Anderson. Jonathan Fine lived in the community until
1849 when he joined the Forty-Niners and moved to California. He died at
the house of his son, Abram, in Santa Rosa in 1864.
More About Johnathon Fine:
Fact 1: buried Pleasant Hill Cemetery - Sebastopol, Sonoma Co., CA
Marriage Notes for Johnathon Fine and Hannah Rector:
He married Hannah Recter,
and they spent the early part of their lives in Cocke Co., TN.
Later they moved, with their ten children, to MO., settling in the
neighborhood of the Blackwater Church, Columbus township, where Mrs. Fine d.
in 1830.
Jonathan Fine, was one of the pioneers of the Blackwater community, he was a
farmer and a Methodist preacher. He lived in the community until he joined
the Forty-niners and moved to CA, settling in Sonoma Co. Three of his
children, Abram, Narcissa and Holt came to CA., with their father.
issue:
Facts about this person:
Alt. Born May 22, 1779
Shenandoah Valley VA.
Alt. Died May 11, 1862
Santa Rosa Sonoma Co. CA.
Burial
Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California
Source: philippeter.FTW
Medium: Other
Date of Import: Apr 28, 2000
Alt. Burial Unknown
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Name (Facts Pg)
Johnathon Fine
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1779 - 1862 (82 years)
Has 5 ancestors and 83 descendants in this family tree.
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Abt 1756 - 1802 (46 years)