John King(1770-1814) is my 4th Great Grandfather. I know very little about him other than what has been written in the Rover / Bedford Co TN book for the family. My DNA and that of others in the King family back up our connection to him and his wife--- John King & Nancy Brandon According to that article, John King married Nancy Brandon in Buncombe Co NC and had land in Barren Co KY. They had 3 children who were born there in KY before the family began buying land in what is now Wartrace, TN. The family moved to Bedford Co TN abt 1807 after clearing land and building a small cabin. Four more children were born after their move to Tennessee. John would also operate the first grist mill in Bedford Co. which was built using a set of mill stone he had gotten out of the Cumberland Mountains and brought (using logs to move)to the area where they lived. It was known as the Garrison Mill after the area in which they lived(Garrison Fork area of Duck River.)
I really need to work on this family as I do not have any documentation for what is mentioned in the Rover book. It's also been the family story that he was a brother of Samuel King(one of the founders of Cumberland Presbyterian Church) I need to find more on that. John's son John(my 3rd Great Grandfather) was a preacher and did help to organize Jackson Ridge Cumberland Presbyterian Church. I'm hoping that this post will remind me(and other King researchers) of the need for further research on this ancestral line. There is a question of his death year being either 1811 or 1814 which needs to be resolved.
Source: History of Rover and the 10th district of Bedford County: lest we forget the people and things in our corner of the world. 1986. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Pub. Co. p.245 "The King Family" by Gladys Wheeler Farris.
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