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- [S78] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), WFT - Vol 3, Ed 1, Tree #0917.
- [S2943] Find a Grave: FUTRELL Charity Futrell 1777-1872, Charity Futrell Futrell.
BIRTH: 5 Feb 1777 Northampton County, North Carolina
DEATH: 5 Aug 1872 (aged 95) Golden Pond, Trigg County, Kentucky
BURIAL: Nathan Futrell Cemetery, Trigg County, Kentucky
MEMORIAL ID: 10445886
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Wife of Nathan Futrell American Revolutionary War Drummer. Charity is the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Bittle Futrell.
Nathan and Charity were the parents of 9 children:
Catherine Ann
Richard (Ricks)
Shadrach
Littleberry
Faitha
Thomas
William
Rebecca
and Daniel.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10445886
- [S12] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT ; Date: 2022;).
- [S315] Family Bibles, Nathan Futrell.
- [S5026] Find a Grave: FUTRELL Nathan 1773-1829, Nathan Futrell (Veteran).
Nathan Futrell is listed as the youngest to serve in the North Carolina Militia. He served as a Drummer Boy.
IN 1799, they settled on Donaldson Creek. However in 1820 they removed to the west side of the Cumberland River, in the area from which Trigg Co. had been formed. They bought 2000 acres of land on the waters of Ford Creek. Here they buil a spacious home. The late Mrs. Charles W. Ross, great grandosn of Nathan Futrell rlated in a deposition dated 18 Sep 1960, that the Nathan Futrell Home was built directly opposite what later became the site of Laura Ore Furnace, built in 1855 by Gentry, Gunn and Company. Mr. Ross said, that it was a two story log house with a "Dog trot" through the center of the lower floor. He could distinctly remember the old house, as a child, when his mother took him to visit the grave of her grandfather, Nathan Futrell. He said, that Charity Futrell kept an inn or travern at the old home from about 1855 to 1860 for the frequenting of employees of Laura Furnace.
Having planted the first apple trees in Trigg Co. He erected on of the earliest primitive grist mills in Trigg Co. October 29, 1824, from Governor Joseph Desha.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10445883/nathan-futrell
- [S78] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;).
- [S2360] Smith, Lawrence C, Find a Grave - Ancestor (Sanderson): BITTLE Sarah Futrell, (Name: SmithLC.com;), BITTLE Sarah Futrell 1752-1817.
Sarah Futrell, the Matriarch of the Futrell Family of Trigg County, Kentucky, was a native of Northampton County, North Carolina. Her maiden name [has been stated] as either Bittle or Ricks, [with Ricks being disproven, and Bittle being supported as was documented by 1xGreat-grandson, L. Shadrach Futrell on 24 Oct 1905] . She was a member of the historic Potecasi Baptist Church in Northampton County.
Sarah's husband, Thomas Futrell, died in Northampton County in 1796; he was a Revolutionary War Patriot.
Sarah Futrell, her adult son, John Futrell, and her younger children left Northampton County, in 1803; they settled in the Western country on Donaldson Creek, in then Christian County, Kentucky. Sarah brought three enslaved African Americans with her.
Several of Thomas and Sarah's older children stayed back in Northampton County when she came to Kentucky in 1803, but, they too, followed her west; Sarah's entire family eventually settled at Donaldson Creek.
Sarah Futrell was a charter member of Dry Creek Primitive Baptist Church which was some four miles south of her Donaldson Creek homestead. Sarah's date of death was entered in the churches' minute book. Donaldson Creek became a part of Trigg County when the latter district was formed in 1820.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103736057
- [S78] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Coalson v18t1909.FTW.
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