Mary Agnes Bolling Kennon 1700-1762

Mary Agnes Bolling Kennon

1700–1762

Birth 30 NOV 1700 • Charles City, Charles, Virginia Colony

Death AFT 1 JUN 1762 • Chesterfield, Chesterfield, Virginia

Daughter of Col. Robert Bolling and Anne Meriwether Stith Bolling 

She married married c. 1714 to Richard Kennon, Jr. (1690- 1736) 

Their children were:

1. Elizabeth Kennon
2. Anne Kennon
3. Mary Kennon (m. John Clack)
4. Martha Kennon
 

Mary Agnes and Richard Kennon Jr. were grandparents of Lt. Spencer Sterling Clack of Sevier County, TN. 

Mary Bolling had siblings:
  Drury Bolling*
  Rebecca Bolling Pendergrass (1664 - 1714)**
  John Fairfax Bolling (1676 - 1729)**
  Robert Bolling (1682 - 1747)*
  Stith Bolling (1686 - 1727)*
  Edward Bolling (1687 - 1710)*
  Elizabeth Anne Bolling Wynne (1690 - 1750)*
  Mary Agnes Bolling Baker (1702 - 1776)*

 The Bolling parents were:
  Robert Bolling (1646 - 1709)
  Anne Stith Bolling

(The above links are to "Find a Grave sites for each of Mary Agnes' siblings.) 

I'll give more information on Richard Kennon Jr soon.   Her father was Col. Robert Bolling, who immigrated from England to Virginia...his birthday is coming up so I'll give info about him soon also!

They are on my Rogers Family Tree, being my 7th great grandparents.

I just saw another tree over at Ancestry which says she married Nicolas Wilkerson in 1728, and another says she married John Wilkerson in 1728.  On one of those trees there are a lot of Wilkerson children.  But when I went back to Ancestry to read more and see if there was any "primary proof" the entire tree wasn't there.  So since Richard Kennon lived until 1735/6, there's little likelihood that Mary Agnes Bolling Kennon became Mrs. Wilkerson in 1728. That's actually the year my ancestor, Mary Kennon Clack, was born to the Kennons!

Today's quote:

A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

Rachel Naomi Remen

A true matriarch of the Gibbs family - Anne Barnett Gibbs

Anne Barnett Johnson Gibbs 1740–1831

Birth 30 NOV 1740 • Orange County, Virginia Colony,  Death 23 MAY 1831 • Union, Union, South Carolina, US
Wife of Col James Gibbs (see Blog HERE), mother of Hiram Gibbs.

She was my fourth great grandmother on my father George Rogers' tree.
I'm posting this the day before her birthday, because another ancestor was also born on Nov.30.

When Anne Barnett was born on November 30, 1740, in Orange, Virginia, her mother, Marran Frances Gibbs Barnett, was age 36, and her father John Barnett was age 35. Her father passed away on May 15, 1750, in Orange, Virginia, at the age of 45, when Anne was just 9 years old.  Her mother lived until she was 78, dying when Anne was 42 (but Anne herself lived to be 90.)

Anne Barnett married William Johnson in Orange, Virginia, on February 10, 1770, when she was 29 years old. Her husband William Johnson passed away in 1770 at the age of 68.

Anne Barnett Johnson Gibbs married Col. James Gibbs in Orange, Virginia, on July 8, 1771, when she was 30 years old and he was 31.  I haven't checked to see how they might have already been second cousins, because her mother was a Gibbs.  There were many Barnetts and Gibbs who married, so I'd say at best guess that she and Col. James Gibbs were second cousins, maybe in two ways...they had a lot of great grandparents in common!

They had seven children together.
Her husband Col. James Gibbs died on August 7, 1794, in South Carolina at the age of 54, having fought in the American Revolutionary War. They had been married 23 years. She died on May 23, 1831, in Union, South Carolina, at the impressive age of 90.

Their graves are in The Gibbs Cemetery, Union County South Carolina.

Their son, Hiram Gibbs emigrated to Miss.
His children went further west to Louisiana and Texas, and several of them married into my Rogers family tree.

Today's quote:

So often we are sabotaging ourselves by being in our own way without even knowing we are doing so.

 

Wm. H. Cannon moved to Sevier County Tennessee from Virginia

William Henry Cannon

1771–1868

BIRTH 28 NOV 1771 • Cumberland, Virginia, USA

DEATH 11 JUN 1868 • Sevier, Tenn

Ancestry says:

"When William Henry Cannon was born on November 28, 1771, in Cumberland, Virginia, his father, John, was 27 and his mother, Nancy Whitlow Cannon, was 24." I posted about her life on her birthdate Nov. 18 (here on this new blog).

The Cannon family is the same ancestry as the Kennon family of Virginia...not sure who changed the spelling, but there are many ancestors with different spellings, because many of the "record keepers" wrote them as they wished to spell them.

William Henry Cannon married Catherine Henderson Cannon in Sevier, Tennessee, on August 22, 1799, when he was 27 years old. They had eight children in 19 years. 

He died on June 11, 1868, in Sevier, Tennessee, at the impressive age of 96, and was buried in Sevierville, Tennessee.

Graves under a tree, known as The Trundle Family Cemetery, in Sevier County, TN

He was my 4th great grandfather on the Rogers family tree.

I am not sure, but I think the Rogers Family Bible was given to his oldest daughter, Cyntha, when she married Micajah Clack Rogers, for this is one of the early entries in it...

"Cyntha Cannon, Daughter of WIlliam and Catharine Cannon, and Micajah Clack Rogers were married at the residence of William Cannon, in Sevier County, Tennesse, February 4th, 1819."

But then it's also possible the family Bible was a wedding gift to his grandson, George W. Rogers, who married a Gibbs. I do know the Bible was a recording of the ancestors as well as the continuing family entries, thus relied upon the memory of elders for the earliest entries. And it was carried by the Gibbs side of the family for many generations into the future. I don't know who has it now.

I just saw an interesting new book, Smoky Mountain Cemeteries, by Mike Maples, which covers both the TN and NC sides of the Park. It looks very interesting.

Today's Quote:

When we learn to attune ourselves to our inner compass we follow a map that only we can see, our own path.

Job Tyler 1619–1700 Immigrant to Massachusetts

Job Tyler

c. 1619–1700

Birth c. 1619 • Cranbrook, Tunbridge Wells Borough, Kent, England

Death 14 DEC 1700 • Mendon, Worcester, Mass

Before I could share about this ancestor's life, I first had to look at 23 hints about him on his Ancestry site. I already knew his birth, marriage, children, and parents, and his own death dates and places.  But oh my, there were 23 other things about him that I had to check. Some were duplicates, some were the wrong person, some were voluntarily given by members that didn't have any records to go with them.  So off I go, another hour of checking for data!

I list him today because I have no certain date of his birth to celebrate.

The first hint on Acestry I notice is that of him being married to his grandmother.  You wouldn't believe how many times stuff like this happens, which takes sometimes hours to straighten out if you add it to your tree by mistake! That's not one I'll include in my tree.  

The Tyler Homestead in West Boxford, Massachusetts, is the earliest home known of the Job Tyler family. Job, the first Tyler known in America, came to Boxford in 1640 and was one of the very first settlers in the community of Boxford. The first Tyler home was built on a tract of land at the corner of Ipswich Road and Main Street. The hearth of that very early structure is still in the rear of the large white house, sometimes known as the Boxford House. (Listed as "Witch Hollow House")

Next I find a wonderful family history of the Tylers, with Job (or Jobe) as the first immigrant to America.  What luck, pages and pages about him...so unfortunately I can only summarize, because these are included as documents of Ancestry, which don't save in any way except very poor screen shots.

I'll try to keep track of what they say...not the whole 13 pages, but some of the pertinent information that is documented.

He was known in Newport RI arriving on May 20, 1638.  (The dates often are given as the "second month," but I remember that at that time March was the beginning of each year). (Source Rhode Island Collections p. 92)

By 1650 he had moved to Andover, and also spent some time in Roxbury MA, according to several old records.  Earliest settlers to Andover thought he might have been the "solitary man" that was living there when they arrived in 1639-40 (by legend, since no records exist before 1650 in Andover. 

The 1650 date is when he mortgaged his property to John Godfrey of Newbury.  This apparently is considered the "beginning of his troubles." (Source: Boxford History, Andover Rec. Bk iv, p 8) This mortgage is documented several ways, including a description by Job in 1662 of it.

All of the information I'm relating is from "North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000."  It is cited quite often in Ancestry.

However there are more legal documents about Job's troubles.  In 1658 he and his wife Mary brought a complaint of witchcraft to the same John Godfrey who held his mortgage, a suit which continued until 1665.  He also disputed his son's apprenticeship to another man, to the extent that when he lost the case, he was required to post an apology in public places.  However the apology gives very cryptic denouncements of the person he had slandered. It doesn't seem to deal directly with why he didn't want his son, Hopestill to have fulfilled his apprenticeship.  

He continued to have squabbles with his neighbors with various court documents given in "North America, Family Histories" pp 3-16.  

He also in 1662 began to be situated in Roxbury, having some documentation about that area, such as a Native American saying Job cut and carried off his hay.  He was living in the Mendon area by 1669 where a complaint was issued that he refused to help dig the cellar for the minister. In Mendon he took part in a lottery to double his land size in 1671.  He apparently gave satisfaction to those who accused him of not helping with the cellar digging, because in Dec. of that year he helps in the confirmation of the first minister for that area.

Job Tyler family home

He and all the inhabitants of Mendon fled (1676?) at the outbreak of King Phillips War with the Native Americans.  That's also when a grandchild was born in Roxbury.  He may also have had connections still in Andover, (1681) and yet he pays for minister's fees in Mendon in 1688-91 and 1695.  

In 1700 he signed a deed to his son, Moses in Mendon.  There are no further documents with his name.

But the interesting part of the treatise given in "Family Histories" is how it mentioned that there had been about 3000 Tyler descendants in the three centuries since his life.  In 1901 a memorial was erected in Andover, MA in his honor. Prof. Henry Tyler of Smith College (a Tyler descendant) gave the dedicatory address, and his comments are included in the "Family Histories"

Cemetery, North Andover, MA

His son, Hopestill had a daughter, Mary, who married Steven Farnham, and eventually their descendants led to my grandmother Ada Swasey Rogers.  So Job Tyler would be my 9th great grandfather.

Today's quote:

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

Abigail Adams