Name: BranchWilliamson

Updated: 08-02-2021 06:08:22.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. David Shults: Birth: 15 SEP 1792. Death: 7 OCT 1833

  2. Catherine Shults: Birth: 5 FEB 1794 in Tazewell, Claiborne County, TN. Death: 16 JAN 1883 in Severy, Greenwood County, KS

  3. George Benton Shults: Birth: 1798 in Tennessee. Death: 19 OCT 1876

  4. Jacob Shults: Birth: 30 JUN 1799 in Claiborne County, TN. Death: 16 AUG 1863

  5. Elizabeth Shults: Birth: ABT 1802.

  6. John Shults: Birth: ABT 1804.

  7. Henry Shults: Birth: ABT 1806.

  8. Martin Shults: Birth: ABT 1808.

  9. Joab Shults: Birth: ABT 1810.

  10. Sarah Ann Shults: Birth: 1 DEC 1816 in Claiborne County, TN. Death: 20 OCT 1879 in Shelby County, IL

  11. Elizabeth Mahulda "Hulda" Shults: Birth: 4 NOV 1828 in Claiborne County, TN. Death: 4 JAN 1913


Notes
a. Note:   Jacob owned land in Sullivan Co as early as 1793 (at that time it was the Territory South of the River Ohio, now Tennessee). He was listed in the 1796 Tax List of Sullivan Co but in November of 1796 he bought 200 acres on Sycamore Creek in what was then Hawkins County but is now Claiborne County, TN. Jacob also appears in 1799 in the Tax List of Grainger County but this may have simply been a factor of shifting boundaries as counties were split up. Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" lists him as "...among the first settlers in Claiborne County...".
 It's not certain where Jacob and Mary died and are buried. Don Reagan, in "Smoky Mountain Clans, Vol 2" says that Jacob and Mary "died and were buried in the Sycamore Creek area, Claiborne County.....". However, no headstones have been found for them (if they ever had headstones it's possible they were destroyed during the Civil War when many Claiborne County cemeteries were demolished!). Earl K. Schultz, in his "An Early American Family", reproduces a letter of Myrtle Braun's, who had copied the family records of Jacob and Louisiana's daughter, Mary Anne. Her records said, writing of Jacob's daughter Catherine (Shults) Hanson moving to Illinois, "Her father Jacob and his wife Mary went with them to Illinois."! However, among the Hanson (and NEIL) descendants today I have found no record, no tradition, no hint, that Jacob and Mary were ever with either of their married daughters in Illinois. [jrs].

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