Name: vanhook99 -- Updated Version for 2005 of the Van Hook Database

Updated: 08-06-2020 00:08:17. Owner: Matthew Van Hook


Individual Page


Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Benjamin Denney: Birth: BET 1818 AND 1820 in Smith Co., TN. Death: 1880 in Dekalb Co., TN

  2. Elizabeth Denney: Birth: DEC 1823 in Denney Branch, Smith Co., TN. Death: ABT 1900 in Colorado

  3. Mathias Denney: Birth: 1824 in Smith Co., TN.

  4. Mattie Denney: Birth: 1824 in Smith Co., TN.

  5. Candiss Denney: Birth: 1827 in Smith Co., TN. Death: 1880 in Putnam Co., TN

  6. Amney Denney: Birth: 1832 in Smith Co., TN.

  7. Mary Denney: Birth: 1834 in Denney Branch, Smith Co., TN.

  8. Athalinda F. Denney: Birth: 1836 in Tennessee. Death: AFT 1870

  9. Clara Narcissia Denney: Birth: 15 FEB 1836 in Denney Branch, Smith Co., TN. Death: BEF 1920 in Smith Co., TN

  10. Francis C. Denney: Birth: 13 DEC 1836 in Smith Co., TN. Death: 1 SEP 1881 in Smith Co., TN

  11. Wiley Brown Denney: Birth: 19 SEP 1839 in Tennessee. Death: 17 FEB 1922 in Dowell Knob, Brush Creek, TN

  12. Amanda Denney: Birth: 1840.

  13. Samuel Denney: Birth: MAY 1843. Death: 1907


Sources
1. Title:   1830 Census of Smith County, TN
2. Title:   1820 Census of Smith County, TN
3. Title:   Will of Wiley Denney
Publication:   Smith County, TN (Found by Matthew Van Hook)
4. Title:   Will of John Denney (Smith County)
Page:   92
Author:   F.C. Key, Sue W. Maggart, Jace Turner, compilers, "Smith County, TN Wills,"
Publication:   Carthage, TN: Key, Maggart, Turner, 1985
5. Title:   Wilson County TN, Deeds, Marriages, and Wills 1800-1902
Page:   263
Author:   Thomas E. Partlow, comp.,
Publication:   Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1987
6. Title:   Brush Creek Church Minutes
Publication:   Posted on the Internet (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mpsmith/V1_1_10.html)
7. Title:   1837 Smith Co., TN Tax List
Publication:   http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnsmith/tngen/1837taxlist.htm
8. Title:   Smith County Wills, 1803-1896
Publication:   Copies sent by Judy M. Berck; 8310-B Streamview Dr., Huntersville, NC 28078

Notes
a. Note:   1830 Census for Smith Co., TN shows a Wiley Denny, age 30 to 40, with
 1 son under 5 years old
 1 son between 5 and 10
 1 son between 10 and 15
 2 daughters under 5
 1 daughter between 5 and 10
 Wife between 30 and 40
  Will probated in April, 1869; children listed in his will
  2(5). Wiley Denney was born about 1794 in Person County, North Carolina. He married Clara "Clary" Enoch around 1817. She was born in 1800 in North Carolina. The 1820 Census of Smith County shows Wiley as a father with two sons under 10 in his household and living in the New Middleton area. In the first non-census reference to Wiley in the Smith County Court records he was serving on the jury for the State of Tennessee Versus Nathaniel Roundtree on August 26, 1824. By 1826 he was established on the Elk Fork of Mulherrin Creek. Wiley received two state grants and amassed considerable land in the area. Before long it was being referred to as the Denney Settlement, as a number of his children lived in homes around his plantation. Today, the Elk Fork of Mulherrin Creek is known as Denney's Branch. By 1828, Wiley and Clara were members of the Brush Creek Baptist Church. He was a witness in a nasty divorce case in 1833, just one year after the legislature began to allow Tennessee Courts to grant them. In February 1835, the court found against Wiley, Thomas Walker, and John Baker in favor of the Chairman of the Board of Common Schools Committee. Later in the same year, Wiley sold 100 acres to J.B. Moores and Francis H. Gordon on which Clinton College was established. The main building to the college survived until the construction of Interstate 40 in the 1960's. The 1837 and 1838 tax lists of District 17 show Wiley owning 100 acres. He lived until 1869 and was survived by his wife Clara, who remained on the farm until May 4, 1887, when she was killed in a freak attack by a fighting ram.
 (Stephen Lee Denney)

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