Graham family

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Account book (partial) of Absalom A. Kyle, ca. 1849-1853; journal entries made by Absalom Kyle, Rogersville, Tenn., ca. 1861-1862; and family entries for Absalom Kyle [Jr.] and wife Mary Ann Graham Kyle. Mary Ann Graham Kyle was the daughter of Hugh Graham and Catherine Nenney Graham. Journal entries include purchases of slaves. Inside front cover has account of the death of President Garfield, 1881. Typed index at back of volume. AD 1 vol. [80 pp.] (some pages loose).

Scope and Contents F.W. Taylor family papers, including: estate settlement papers of L. D. Franklin (n.d., 1841-1878); Graham family papers; Miller and Taylor family history; cabinet card of David Crockett; Treaty of Dumplin Creek program; Marshall J. Hughes patent papers, 1886; land grants and deeds, mostly in Grainger, Cocke, and Jefferson Counties, Tenn, n.d., 1795-1854 (some signed by William Carroll, Jos. McMinn, and President Franklin Pierce). Photocopies of land records are in folder 38; the donor kept...

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Graham, Jeffries, Swann Bible. Printed by Mathew Carey, Philadelphia, 1807. Hand-bound with cloth cover. The Bible came down in the family through Victoria Graham Swann (descended from William Graham of King’s Mountain Fame and her maternal grandfather was Nathaniel Jeffries, a Revolutionary soldier from Gaffney S.C.). Victoria Graham married James Preston Swann of Dandridge, Tenn, in 1858. Their residence , named Squirewood, was in Dandridge.

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Genealogical research done by Sara Maurer (Mrs. Roy Maurer) on the Graham, Nenney, Patterson, Rogan, Craig, Wier, and related families. The Graham folder contains a photograph of Cavana-Lee, and old Kyle and Patterson home.

Scope and Contents Hugh Graham (1784-1865) was born in Ireland and came to the United States in 1800. He married Catherine Nenney (1797-1883) of Jefferson County, Tenn. He was a merchant in Tazewell, Claiborne County, Tenn. Papers include: personal letters and legal documents; one volume on the Kyle, Graham, and Nenney families by A A. Kyle; the bulk of the collection is business papers (accounts, bills, notes) of Nenney and Graham Company, the Chrisman and Stuarts Company of Tazewell, and others (most...

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The Henderson Family & Their Royal Ancestry contains genealogical information on the Henderson, Fleming, and Graham families, as well as information on kings, the Order of the Garter, and the Magna Carta Surety Barons. The work was commissioned by Elizabeth Taliaferro Sharp and conducted by Mrs. F. Everett Bowen on San Antonio, Tex., in the mid 1960s. 839 pp.

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Documentation for her book of the same name.