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Note: Will of SAMUEL BAYLES(S) August 5, 1825 To wife, Susannah, � land (220 acres) to include house and barn, small pot, large oven and skillet. To son William - surveying instruments. To son Daniel - price of a cow he owes me for. Children of my daughter Polly Brown, decd. - 150 Acres where Samuel Brown and John Helibe? now live. Samuel to pay his brothers, Hezekiah and Henderson $94, and sisters Elizabeth Brown, Polly Rice, Matilda Slyger, Hannah Brown, Martena Brown. To Reuben Brown. To Reese Brown. To John Bayles - oldest note he owes me. To daughter Hannah Hoss - land adjoining John Lamons and David Lamons (200 Acres) out of which is to come 1� Acres for Meeting House and Burying Grounds. My son Reuben Bayles, the youngest. Daughters Phebe White, Martena Hunts, Alice Tabor. Executors: John and Reuben Bayles. Wit.: Henry McCray, William Thompson, John McCrary. Proven October Sessions, 1825. Signed: Samuel Bayles.
Samuel Bayless (1751-1825) owned the land on which Cherokee Baptist Church stands. In his will, he gave his daughter, Hannah Bayless Hoss (1784-1859) "a certain tract of land out of which is excepted one and one-fourth acres more or less for the (Cherokee) meeting house and burial ground." In 1840, Hannah deeded this land to the church.
Hannah is in the 1830 census with 3 boys and 2 girls.
see http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/tn/washington/1830/part1.txt
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