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Note: He was a Union Army veteran of the Civil War, Private, E County, 2nd Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry (16 Sep 1862-6 Jul 1865). He was a wagoneer and teamster and saw extensive action in Middle Tennessee. According to his pension application he was wounded in the shoulder and breast and drew a pension for his wounds and other service-connected disabilities. After his death Margaret received his pension, $12.00 per month, until her death. John, his first wife Martha, and son Samuel were living in Polk County, TN in 1860 but returned to Sevier County before 1866. John divorced Martha in Sevierville in July of 1866 and his children remained with him. John then married Margaret Wheat, the daughter of Levi and Catherine (Dillon) Wheat of Roane County, TN. Margaret's first husband, William Tudor, had been conscripted by the Confederates, forced into military service, and was killed in action near Atlanta, GA. Counted with John and Margaret in the 1870 census were Samuel, Martha, Celia , Mary (Mary TUDOR, see her record), John, and Rebecca. Between 1880 and 1890 John, Margaret, and his remaining family moved to Cosby (his pension papers dated July 1890 have his address as "Cosby, Cocke County". In May 1902, J. M. Sutton and Samuel Large, residents of Newport, attest that they had been his "close neighbors" since May 1901, so he apparently moved to Newport at that time.
The RELATIONSHIPS of some of the children listed in John's h/h in the 1900 Cocke County, TN census are questionable. Later letters between family members indicate that the 16-year old Joseph M. is John's son and the 14-year old Della (incorrectly transcribed in the census as Dolly) is John's daughter. The two younger children, David L, 7; and Ida M, 2, probably should be grandchildren.
Martha was the daughter of William and Martha Yarberry and apparently had children before and after she was divorced by John that were NOT John's but used the SHULTS name: Queenie (listed here), William (listed here), and George (not listed here; his only appearance is in the 1870 census). Martha married Robert Ball on 10 Aug 1878, and had one son, Columbus Ball. Those three appear together in the 1880 Sevier County, TNcensus. Oral history and tradition has it that Robert Ball raised the out -of-wedlock children of Martha's but the census records don't support this. Queenie and George were with Martha in the 1870 census as YARBERRY's and Queenie was counted with another family in 1880 as a SHULTS, but they were NEVER listed with Mart ha and Robert (I don't find William in the census until 1900 when he was a grown man with a family)[jrs].
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