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1.	Title: Denney Correspondence Author: Steven Lee Denney Publication: sdenney@@multipro.com (He still might be contacted through Smith County Genealogical Society)
2.	Title: Winfree Correspondence Author: Clarence Winfree Publication: Personal Letter; 28031 Lorraine, Warren, Michigan 48093
3.	Title: 1830 Census of Smith County, TN
4.	Title: Smith County, TN, Slave Schedule of 1860 Page: 44 Author: Thomas E. Partlow, comp. Publication: Lebanon, TN: Thomas E. Partlow, 1996
5.	Title: "Granny's" Bible Author: Louise Granstaff Winfree Publication: transcribed 1998 Wilson Co., TN
6.	Title: A Bicentennial History of DeKalb County, TN Page: 324 Author: Thomas Gray Webb Publication: Smithville, TN: Bradley Printing Co., 1995
7.	Title: Smith County Winfree's and Some Connections to Granville Co. N.C. Page: 71 Author: Clarence Winfree Publication: Smith County Historical and Genealogical Society Newsletter 8 (Spring 1996); He has the David Winfree Record Book passed down to him
8.	Title: 1860 Census of Smith County, TN
9.	Title: Winfree Record Book of Family Data, DeKalb Co., TN Publication: Record Book in the possession of Clarence H. Winfree, 28031 Lorraine, Warren, Michigan 48093
10.	Title: 1837 Smith Co., TN Tax List Publication: http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnsmith/tngen/1837taxlist.htm
11.	Title: Winfree Record Book of Family Data, DeKalb Co., TN Page: 2 Publication: Record Book in the possession of Clarence H. Winfree, 28031 Lorraine, Warren, Michigan 48093

Notes

Note: Allen Winfree was a Unionist during the war and, while he owned slaves, he was at least ambivalent toward the issue of slavery. This is suggested not only by his Union loyalities but also family tradition.
The tradition that originates from Granberry Pinkney, says that Allen Carey treated the slaves very well and when the war was over he freed them but they refused to go and stayed with him until they died. In fact, one of them took Allen's name and his descendants are still in Wilson County today. Slavers would pass by seeing the slave family work and want to buy them. Each time the family begged Allen not to do it and each time Allen refused the slavers' offers. After the war, Allen was a member of the Union Free State Convention.
From Stephen L. Denney, of Cookville: The article which placed Allen as a member of the Union Free State Convention can be found in the Nashville Daily Press on January 10, 1865. It included members from all over the state, but no one with other than an absolutely impecable union record was allowed to serve. Some counties were denied representation and many individual delegates were not allowed because of doubt of their solid support of the Union.
[President Lincoln�s formula for reconstructing the Southern states required only that ten percent of a state�s voters take the oath of allegiance and form a loyal government before that state could apply for readmission. In January of 1865, after Andrew Johnson departed for Washington to become Lincoln�s vice president, a largely self-appointed convention of Tennessee Unionists met in Nashville to begin the process of restoring the state to the nation. They nominated William G. Parson Brownlow of Knoxville for governor, repudiated the act of secession, and submitted for referendum a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery. A small turnout of voters, about 25,000, approved the amendment and elected Brownlow as governor, more or less meeting the requirements of Lincoln�s plan. Tennessee thereby became the only one of the seceded states to abolish slavery by its own act.]
Smith County's representatives were Dr. John W. Bowen, Capt E.S. Williams, Wm. H. Snapp, E. Tipton, T.W. Williams, J.B. Anderson, J.M. Bond, Ira W. King, A.C. Winfree, J.T. Armstrong, and Capt. Wm. Van Dorn. Dr. William Corley and Leonard H. Cardwell were added to our representation on the 11th. All of these individuals were either members of the Union Army, or were officers in the military government of Tennessee which stretched down to include county officers for the counties under Union controll such as
Smith County. The only two who I am not certain held an office during the war are J.B. Anderson and Allen. They absolutely could not have participated in the convention if their credentials were not unquestionable. The convention was convened to discuss Tennessee's readmission to the Union and eventually changed itself into a constitutional convention and wrote a new constitution, ratified the amendment to the American Constitution which abolished slavery, and then changed to a nomination convention to select the candidates for the first state-wide election to occur after the end of the War. It was the actions of this convention in cooperation with Governor Andrew Johnson which got Tennessee readmitted into the Union. You can find a full discussion of the details of the convention in the Messages of the Governor's of Tennessee Volume 5.

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