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From: "Charles A. Wyly" <>
Subject: Re: [SouthernTrails] The Ramsey House, Knox Co, TN
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 21:51:16 -0500


Thanks for correction.

Now, one more question: Where the island some sources called "The Long
Island of the Holston"? Jeremiah Jack claimed it but could not prove his
claim. Also Col. Ben Cleveland claimed a n island and could not prove
clear title. His son in law James Wyly had also lived on the Island. When
James.s son James Rutherford Wyly married Sarah Hawkins Clark, Gov.
Sevier's granddaughter, in his Knoxville or Marble Springs home( The
Governor's mansion was not finished but they may have married in an
unfinished house. ) Also, was J.R. and Sarah basing their claims on the
island abandoned by his grandad Col. Ben Cleveland, or was it a different
island. James Sr. lived at Landin (Louden) , Tennessee when he died and
had land and a home in Cass & Gordon County, Ga. where he married Barbara
Fuqua then Mary Whittenburger.

We found furnishings in the Blount house behind his "Mansion" AND in the
Ramsey with gold nametags indicationg that John Sevier and Jeremiah Jack
had donated desk or table , one from each in each location.

Take care,
Charles A. Wyly

On Tue, 01 May 2001 21:41:32 -0400 ""
<> writes:
> 5/1/01 9:35pm EDT
>
> Charles,
>
> >Hi, Judy, when we visited the childhood home of Dr. J.G.M.Ramsey,
> in Swan
> >Pond, near the Holston and Hiawasse forks and the old Holston
> presbyterian
> >Church- or rather remains from a fire and the cemetery My wife's
> ancestor
> >Jeremiah Jack was one of the first Elders there. The river and
> gravel
> >barges and Long Island were a beautiful site.
>
> A few minor corrections: The Ramsey House is near the forks of the
> Holston
> and French Broad Rivers and the island near the forks is Pickle
> Island.....I pass by these places several times a month.
>
> Larry Shahan
> Kodak, TN
>
>
>
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