· August 7, 2026
Standwick Winston “Wicks” Hays
The confirmed founding patriarch of the Hays/Hayes family, one of Rockland/Hayden‘s six original settling families. Born about 1782 in or […]
Glossary Type: Person
· August 7, 2026
Alexander Abner Burns Sr.
Born 1747 in Henry County, Virginia; died 1 November 1829. Held a Revolutionary War pension record (R 6770); served under […]
· August 7, 2026
Elijah McAnally Sr.
Born 1767, died 1860 - the documented root of the McAnally/McAnnally family, whose descendants are buried across Guinns Cove, Hogeland, […]
· August 7, 2026
Solomon Murphree
The Murphree family patriarch: a Revolutionary War soldier, born around 1757, died 1854. Had sixteen children across two marriages. His […]
· August 7, 2026
Capt. George McPherson
Born 1 January 1784, died 1869 - buried at Stewart’s Chapel Cemetery alongside his wife, Nancy Ann Kincheloe McPherson (1785-1873). […]
· August 7, 2026
B.H. Vaughn
Built the bridge at Smith Ford by hand himself in 1895. He was seventeen in 1865, and by 1869 had […]
· August 7, 2026
George W. Reid
Born 1834, died 1890 - a landowning family patriarch buried at Reid’s Gap Cemetery, one of two real candidates for […]
· August 7, 2026
W. C. Reid
A Blount County man living near Reid’s Gap, and one of two real candidates for who the place was actually […]
· August 7, 2026
Henry Tidmore
Became postmaster of the settlement then known as Tidmore, named for his family. In 1902 he was reappointed postmaster and […]
· August 7, 2026
Major Hayden
A former U.S. Army officer who moved to Blount County from south Alabama and settled the area before the Civil […]