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Mary "Polly" Minor McLemore

Female Abt 1817 - Abt 1853  (~ 36 years)


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  • Name Mary "Polly" Minor McLemore  [1
    Nickname Polly 
    Birth Abt 1817  Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death Abt 1853 
    Notes 
    • Marriages from "Early Tennessee Newspapers 1794-1851," edited by The Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., page 375: "Perkins, Mr. William O. married on Wednesday last to Miss Mary McLemore both of Williamson County. The Western Weekly Review - Franklin, Tenn. (Fri., Nov 4, 1831)

      Perkins, Mr. William O. in Williamson County married to Miss Mary M'Lemore. National Banner & Nashville Whig (Mon., Nov 7, 1831)

      (Courtesy of Jane A. "Xan" Alexander)

    • (Research):Description: Digital Library on American Slavery Petition 21483303
      (Courtesy of Melba Gene McLemore)

      <http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/details.aspx?pid=12158>


      Details
      State: Tennessee
      Location: Williamson
      Location Type: County
      Salutation: To the Worshipful the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Williamson County (, )
      Filing Date: circa 1833
      Ending Date: 1834-April-16

      General Petition Information
      Abstract:Eighteen-year-old Polly McLemore Perkins and her husband, William O. Perkins, seek a partition of the slaves remaining in the estate of her late father, Robert McLemore. They inform the court that McLemore's will directed that his slaves be divided among his widow and his children, three of whom are still minors. The Perkinses cite that the slaves were "to be divided when your petitioner Polly M should arrive at the age of eighteen years and should marry." They also note that the widow's "interest in all of said slaves" has been set aside and that Polly is of age and married. Of the belief that they "are entitled under said will to five seventeenths of the value of said slaves," the petitioners pray the court to "order a division of said slaves ... to be made & appoint commissioners to divide the same & set apart to your petitioners five seventeenths of the value thereof."
      Result: granted
      # of Petition Pages: 4
      Related Documents:PARs #21483510, #21484516; Decree, 16 April 1834; Commissioners' Report, 15 April 1834; Decretal Order, ca. 15 April 1834
      Pages of Related Documents: 6
      People Associated with Petition 21483303
      Slaves: 25
      Free Persons of Color: 0
      Defendants: 5
      Petitioners: 2
      Other People: 3

      Citation Information

      Repository: Williamson County Preservation of Records and Archives, Franklin, Tennessee

      Records of the County Court


      Processing Information
      Record Created: 7/17/1998
      Record Final Edited: 8/3/2002
      Record Last Updated on: 6/9/2008 5:47:00 PM



      List of Defendants in Petition 21483303

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      Name..Role in Petition..Enslavement Status..Color Gender Age Birth Death Owned slaves? Occupation


      MALLORY, Peggy McLemore..defendant..white..female..Yes.


      MCLEMORE, Atkins J. defendant white male


      MCLEMORE, John D. defendant..white male


      MCLEMORE, Peggy S. defendant white female


      MCLEMORE, Robert W. defendant white male
      ...........

      List of Petitioners in Petition 21483303


      Name Role in Petition Enslavement Status Color Gender Age Birth Death Owned slaves? Occupation

      PERKINS, Polly M. McLemore petitioner white female 18 years of age in 1833


      PERKINS, William O., Jr. petitioner white male
      ........

      List of Other People in Petition 21483303

      Name Role in Petition Enslavement Status Color Gender Age Birth Death Owned slaves? Occupation


      MCLEMORE, Robert...white..male ..Yes.

      Estate of MCLEMORE, Robert...white..male..Yes.

      PERKINS, William O. and Polly M. McLemore ([the same people])white Yes.

    Person ID I25510  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 28 Feb 2021 

    Father Robert M. McLemore,   b. 30 Nov 1769, Bute County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Jan 1823, Williamson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 53 years) 
    Mother Margaret S. "Peggy" Dabney,   b. Bef 1790, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 8 Jun 1812  Williamson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • The following Family Histories have been taken from the book by Sue Oden titled "Hold Us Not Boastful - History of Thompson's Station, TN." This biographical collection includes 86 histories of pioneer families of Thompson's Station and Southern Williamson County. The stories are about families who are proud of their roots and their place in history. We hope that you will be able to connect your roots with ours, and become part of us. The correctness of this biographical material cannot be guaranteed. It was obtained through interviews with family members, research they had done and my own research at the Williamson County Archives. Research in such detail is always subject to error. Everyone must validate the facts for their own use."

      http://www.tngenweb.org/williamson/history/tsfamhisMO.html

      Robert McLemore and Margarete O. (Peggy) Dabney were married in Williamson County June 8, 1812. They had six (sic) children: Robert Weakly McLemore who married Harriett S. Figures; Atkins Jefferson McLemore (sic) (1801-1849) who married Bethenia S. Dabney (1803-1857) on September 9, 1821, daughter of John Dabney, Sr. (1749-1831) and his second wife, Margaret (Peggy) Smith; John Dabney McLemore who married Elizabeth Marr; Bethenia Anne Green McLemore who married Segar (or Sugars) McLemore; Mary (Polly Minor) who married William O. Perkins; Margaret Smith (Peggy) McLemore who married General Fount de Graffeureio.

      John Dabney was born May 3, 1749 in Albermerle County, Virginia. He was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary War and lived in Prince Edward County from 1777 to the end of the war. He died March 11, 1831 in Williamson County.

      Atkins Jefferson and Bethenia McLemore had nine children: Barbara Ann McLemore who married Thomas B. Bond, Margaret Williams McLemore who married John T. Word, Robert Anderson McLemore who married first Mary McEwen, second Anna Fleming Kinnard and third Rebecca Frierson; William S. McLemore who married Annie Louise Wharton, John Dabney McLemore who married Lucy A. (Lesey) Pope, Sydney S. McLemore who married Eunice Ann Hobbs, Bethenia J. McLemore who married William Bond, Elizabeth Minor McLemore who married James C.Alexander and Lemuel H. M. McLemore who married a Frierson from Maury County, Tennessee.
      Atkins and Bethnia McLemore are buried in the Bond Cemetery in Thompson's Station on land which is now the Cameron Farms development.
      Robert Anderson McLemore married three times: first to Mary H. McEwen, daughter of C. E. McEwen and the former Narcissia F. Newsom; second to Anna Fleming Kinnard, daughter of Claiborne Holmes and Elizabeth A. Fleming Kinnard; and third, to Rebecca Frierson.

      Robert A. and Mary McEwen McLemore had five children, Jefferson, Narcissia, Dora (Mrs. John T. Kesterson), Maggie A. and R. Sallie McLemore.

      Robert and Anna Fleming McLemore were married July 16, 1868 and had Mary McEwen (1870-1871) and Claiborne Kinnard McLemore (1872-1944).

      Claiborne married twice, first to Patti DeGraffenreid (1883-1913) who died when her daughter, also named Patti, was born and second to Nellie Greene (1885-1975) of Dover, Tennessee. Four children were born to this marriage, Margaret Moore, Ann, Claiborne Kinnard, Jr. and Jeff. The only child who lived past childhood was Claiborne, Jr.

      Claiborne Kinnard McLemore, Jr. married Margaret Elizabeth Mefford, daughter of William Archdeacon Mefford (1867-1954) and the former Margaret Elizabeth Hicks (1882-1967) May 28, 1946 in Thompson's Station. Margaret Hicks was from the Burwood Community. Children of this couple are Margaret Elizabeth McLemore who married Thomas K. Pritchett March 17, 1968 in Franklin and Claiborne Kinnard McLemore, III (b. 1955) who married Suzanne S. Grand November 14, 1987 in Nashville.
    Family ID F8479  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family William O. Perkins, Jr.,   b. Bef 1810   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 2 Nov 1831  Williamson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F14342  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Feb 2021 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1817 - Tennessee Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 2 Nov 1831 - Williamson County, Tennessee Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S321] Freeman, Mark (mwfgenealogy@verizon.net) "Mostly Southern" http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=markfreeman ; Ver. 2008-09-19 17:51:13.