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Question: Need help looking up family history!?
maybe a good website!.!.!. I would like to know my heritage but for some reason i can look up one strand of my family all the way back to Germany and yet cant make it past greatgrandparents on another!.

the names that i cant find (maybe one of you can) are:
Carter Devoti and his wife Leona (Strine) Devoti
the parents of Martha (King) Wills wife of Lewis Wills
the parents of Jemima (Ricker) Wills wife of Simon P Wills
the parents of Catharine Freshour wife of Stephen Lawson

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I found 3 birth years for Martha King: one born in 1766, 1779, and the one in 1799!.:

http://www!.rootsweb!.ancestry!.com lists her this way--with 2 husbands:
Martha Ellen King --b!.ABT 1764 -1766 in NC; d!. 22 APR 1853 in Greene CO, Tennessee
Marriage 1 Lewis Wills , Sr b: 1744 in Strausburg, Alsace, Germany (another listing shows FRANCE)
Date: AFT!. 1803; he died 5 MAR 1832 in Greene Co!.,TN; his first
wife was Catherine Dick b: 1747 in Frederick Co, Va & they married
in Lancaster Co!. Pa!. His Children with Catherine:
John Wills b: 1772
Peter Lewis Wills b: 23 DEC 1776 in Frederick Co!., Virginia
Elizabeth Wills b: 1778
Mary Wills b: 1779
Barbara Wills b: 1782
Lewis Wills , Jr b: 1 APR 1784 in Frederick County, Va

Yet ANOTHER listing for them shows different marriage dates/places:
15 OCT 1792 in Nash CO, North Carolina (with her first name as Elinder and/or Ellender)
15 OCT 1808 in New River, Ashe, North Carolina (with her name as
Martha Ellen)
Martha & Lewis' Children:
Jacob J WILLS b: 1804 in Tennessee
Robert WILLS b: ABT 1806 in Carter CO, Tennessee
Sophia WILLS b: ABT 1811 in Tennessee
Ellen WILLS b: ABT 1815 in Tennessee
Martha WILLS b: ABT 1817 in Tennessee

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Martha ANDREWS--b!. About 1800, North Carolina
Spouse: Samuel KING
Marriage: About 1820 ,North Carolina

Another listing shows: SAMUEL KING
Marriage: 23 NOV 1804 , Rowan, North Carolina to MARTHA ANDREWS

http://www!.rootsweb!.ancestry!.com shows these listings for Samuel King:
1!. Birth: 9 APR 1779 in Rowan Co, NC
Death: 27 JUL 1850 in Birmingham Twp, Schuyler, IL
Burial: Schuyler, IL (Round Prairie Cem)
Occupation: Teacher
His parents: Father: Thomas KING b: 25 SEP 1750 in NJ
Mother: Mary HALL
Married: 24 NOV 1804 in Rowan Co, NC to Martha ANDREWS b: 2 MAR 1779 in Rowan Co, NC; d!.: 1 FEB 1850 in Birmingham Twp, Schuyler, IL ;Burial: Schuyler, IL (Round Prairie Cem)!.
Her parents: Father: James ANDREWS b: 1735 in Ireland
Mother: Martha NIBLOCK b: 1744 in Newark, Essex, NJ
Martha & Samuel's Children:
Feuilleteau Wilson KING b: 13 FEB 1807 in Iredell Co, NC
Margaret KING b: 31 MAY 1809 in Iredell Co, NC
James G!. KING b: 14 SEP 1811 in IL
Thomas D!. KING b: 13 FEB 1813 in IL
Richard Kerr KING b: 28 MAR 1815 in IL
Mary S!. KING b: 31 MAY 1818 in Rowan Co, NC


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Jemima Ricker
Birth: 5 MAR 1890 in Greene County, Tennessee
Death: 1 AUG 1936 in Greene County, Tennessee
Burial: 1936 Pine Springs Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee
Her Parents: Father: Christopher H!. Ricker b: 27 MAR 1860 in Greene County, Tennessee; d!. 25 SEP 1928 in Greene County, Tennessee; Burial: 1928 River Hill Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee; Married: 14 JAN 1883 to:
Mother: Julia Cutshall b: 5 OCT 1865 in Greene County, Tennessee;
d!. 12 FEB 1952 in Greene County, Tennessee
Jemima was one of 10 children

Jemima married Simon Peter Wills b: 19 FEB 1884 in Greene County, Tennessee; d!. 28 OCT 1969 in Greene County, Tennessee
Burial: 1969 Pine Springs Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee
His parents: Father: Jacob Asbury Wills b: 20 JUN 1849 in Greene County, Tennessee; 4 MAR 1930 in Greene County, Tennessee
Burial: 1930 Pine Springs Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee; &
Mother: Lavina Lawson b: 2 OCT 1856 in Greene County, Tennessee; d!.
4 OCT 1940 in Greene County, Tennessee!.
Simon was one of 9 children!.

Simon's maternal GRANDPARENTS:
Stephen Lawson
Birth: 1811 in North Carolina
Death: 12 SEP 1893 in Greene County, Tennessee
Married: 15 JUL 1832 to:
Catherine Freshour
Birth: 2 OCT 1813 in Greene County, Tennessee
Death: 12 AUG 1890 in Greene County, Tennessee

Catherine's parents:
Father: John FRESHOUR b: 30 APR 1763 in Littlestown, Adams, Pennsylvania ; d!. 1866 - Cocke, Tennessee, USA
Mother: Catherine UNKNOWN b: ABT!. 1770 in Pennsylvania
(most of the listings on rootsweb and ancestry!.com show her mother listed as such--last name unknown)

However, ANOTHER family tree listing for her married to a JOHN BOWERS shows this for Catherine (different dates, but same counties):
Catherine Freshour
Birth: 8 Aug 1816 ,Cedar Creek, Greene, Tennessee, USA (3 yrs!. difference than above)
Death: 3 Jun 1865 ,Greene, Tennessee (25 years difference)
Parents: John Freshour & Margaret M Peters (Birth: 1793 ,Pennsylvania, Death: 1870 ,Greene, Tennessee )
(his birth/dates given here as b: 1784 in Littlestown, Adams, Pennsylvania; d!. 1867,Greene, Tennessee--same place for birth, but 21 years difference; 1 year difference for death, but different county)


Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
Name: Carter Devoti
Spouse: Leona Strine (on original view it shows STURM as her maiden name 5 different places on the license)
Marriage Date: 26 Aug 1939
Marriage County: Greene
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