Sarah Zachary ⁴

  General Notes:

 
William Tyree Pension Request
 
State of Tennessee }
Smith County }
 
On this 19th day of January 1837 personally appeared before me, Exum Whitley one of the Justices of the Peace in an for the said county, Sarah Tyre a resident of the State of Tennessee and county of Smith aforesaid aged eighty one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by thew Act of congress passed July the 4th 1836. That she is the widow of William Tyre who was a pensioner under the law of the United States of the 7th of June, 1832 being entitled hereunto for services rendered as a Private in the army of the revolution as will more fully appear by references to the proofs furnished when he was placed on the Pension List, and also reference to the certificate of J B Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions, which is now before the acting magistrate. Said certificate bears date of the War Office of the United States the nineteenth day of April, 1933 and recorded in the Pension Office in Book E Vol., 7, Pg. 98 by Daniel Boyd, Clerk. She further states that she was legally married to the said William Tyre in the year 1773 or 1774 as well as she can recall, that she had three children born where her husband William Tyre entered the Service. That they were married by the Church Parson in the County of Buckingham, State of Virginia. She knows of no person living that can testify of these facts. She distinctly recollects that her three first children were born before her husband entered the service which places her marriage with William Tyre long before the aforesaid William Tyre died on the 30th Day of September 1833 and that she remains a widow ever since that period. That through old age and body infirmity she is unable to attend at the courthouse to make this declaration in court as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. Sworn to and subscribed on this the day and year above written before me.
 
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Sarah X Tyre
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Exum Whitley { Seal }
Justice of the Peace
 
 
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State of Tennessee }
Smith County }
 
I Exum Whitley, one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said county do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Sarah Tyre the widow of William Tyre that ~~~~ ~~~~ and fully attest is due to her declaration that she is unable to attend the court house, that she has remained a widow ever since her husband's death as above stated this 19th day of January 1837.
 
/s/ Exum Whitley
 
 
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State of Tennessee }
Smith County }
 
This day personally appeared Obadiah Paris before me Nelson Thornton an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said county and made an oath that he has been acquainted with Sarah Tyre and her husband William Tyree for fifty-four years, past. That they had been married and had several children when he first knew them, that William Tyree died on the 30th day of September 1833 and his wife has remained a widow ever since that period. He further makes an oath that on account of old age and bodily infirmity she is unable to make her declaration in open court. Sworn and subscribed before me this 20th day of January 1837.
 
/s/ Nelson Thornton { Seal }
/s/ Obadiah Paris { Seal }
Justice of the Peace
 
 
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State of Tennessee }
Smith County }
April session for Smith County on Monday the Third Day of Four Month 1837
 
Present the Worshipful Leroy Uleage, Exum Whitley, Patrick Ferguson, Edward Bradley, Isaac Toovall, A. Brevare. Personally appear in open court William Patterson and made oath that he has been acquainted with William Tyree in his lifetime and his wife Sarah Tyree. That he has lived a close neighbor for the span of fifteen years & that he always believed them to be legally married in fact. Such question was never made the neighbors and all persons never disputed it. He further states he believed them to have been married before the last Period of the said William Tyree last term of Service. The record of the age of their first children bears the mark of age and also to the genuine writing of William Tyree. The first born was Flanders Tyree on the 19th March 1775 and to follows then in succession six or seven children. He has no doubt of the records being genuine also he has seen two letters written the time the said William Tyree was in the service which he believes to be genuine.
 
/s/ William Patterson
 
Known to in open court
This 3 Apr 1837
/s/ J. J. Butterall
 
William P. Hayes makes an oath that he has known William Tyree in his lifetime and his wife Sarah Tyree for the last fifteen years he has never heard intimated but that they were legally married at the person she described in her declaration, He knows that the appearance of the children are of such an age as the record produced purports to bear date. He has been acquainted with them, has heard William Tyree in his lifetime speak of his Service in the War of the Revolution ~~~
 
 
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West Tennessee (811)
Sarah Tyree, widow of William Tyree (811) Va.
Who died on the 30th Sept 1833
Of Smith Co. in the State of Tennessee
Who was a Sergeant in the company commanded
by Captain Owens of the Regt. Commanded
by Col. Stubblefield in the Virginia Militia
for six months.
 
Inscribed on the Bill of West Tennessee
At the rate of 30 Dollars - Cents per anum
To commence on the 30th Sept. 1833
 
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of May
1837 - and sent to
A Ferguson, Esq., Carthage
 
Arrears to the 4th of
Claimant allowance ending 4 Sept. 1837 $15 -
 
Revolutionary Claim
Act July 4, 1836
Made by /s/ Wm. Williams, Clerk
Vol. 1, Page 224 ⁷

Sarah married William Tyre in 1773 in , Buckingham, Virginia, USA.^{1 2 3} (William Tyre was born in Dec 1751 in , Powhatan, Virginia, USA,^{8 9} died on 30 Sep 1833 in , Smith, Tennessee, USA ^{10 11} and was buried in Oct 1833 in , Smith, Tennessee, USA.)

  Marriage Notes:

 
TYREE FAMILY
 
William Tyree, a soldier of the Revolutionary War and his wife lived in Virginia and had four children. The children's names were Elizabeth, David, Sarah, and Ann.
 
David Tyree, born in the 1770's, and his wife, Patsy, had a son in 1795 that they named Benjamin.
 
On June 23, 1818, David Andrew Tyree was born here in Tennessee and was probably the son of Benjamin. David A's first wife was Catherine Stallings and they had three children, John H. born in 1842, William T. born in 1844, and David A., Jr. born in 1846. David, Sr. served as clerk of Hogan's Creek Baptist Church from 1852 to 1855. After Catherine's death, David, Sr. married Susanna Waggoner and had several children by her.
 
John H. Tyree, David, Sr.'s first child, married Martha Borum in November 1867. They had one son and named him Vollin Walter Tyree. Vollin was born in 1871. John H. married again in August 1873 to Mary Kemp and fathered other children by her.
 
Vollin married Martin Ella Mofield and they had three children, one daughter and two sons. Ella, their daughter, was their first child. Charlie Hale, their second child was born February 1900, and William David, their last was born in March 1905. William David died as an infant in July 1907, after he sustained a head injury at the Old County House. Vollin died in October of 1909.
 
Charlie Hale, their second child, was first married to Corrine Swindle and they had two sons named Bridges and Thomas. Charlie and Corrine were divorced in 1931 and he went on to marry Maude Ella Bowman.
 
Charlie and Maude had three sons, Charles Kenneth, born August 3I, 1933; Morris Wesley, born December 31, 1935 and William Lloyd, born May 13, 1937.
 
Charlie was best known for his many years of service with the City of Carthage Water and Sewer Department. He laid most of the lines in existence in Carthage today with picks and shovels. Charlie died in May 1984.
 
Moris Wesley, their second child, married Katherine Louise Hughes on June 10, 1954. Morris and Katherine have six children as follows: Mary Jean, born August 1, 1955; Marsha Lynn, born April 17, 1957; Myra Dawn, born August 31, 1959; Morris Wesley II (Moose), born September 26, 1961; Molly Marcelle, January 22, 1964; and Michael John, born December 21, 1970.[Morris W. (Moose) Tyree II] ¹²