Deeds, Knox County, Tennessee

I do not know who this George Coal/Cole was, nor if he was related to my second great grandfather William Cole.  The only George Coal/Cole in the 1830 census in Tennssee was in Warren County, born 1791/1800.  Warren County is in Middle Tennessee, but I have found other East Tennessee families in the Warren County census in 1830.

I do not know who this Reuben Cole was, nor if he was related to my second great grandfather William Cole.  I cannot find a Reuben Cole in the 1830 census in Tennessee.

I do not know who this Thomas Coal/Cole was, nor if he was related to my second great grandfather William Cole.  There were Thomas Coles in the 1830 census in Tennessee in Hickman, Humphreys, and Washington counties.  None of them appear likely to be the same person as the Thomas Coal in Knox County.  There were no Thomas Coals in the 1830 census in Tennessee.  However, Thomas Cole married Margaret Tillery in 1827 in Knox County.  I do not know why he would not have appeared in the 1830 census.

Sampson David Cole was the son of Alexander Cole and Ms. McNabb.  Sampson was the grandfather of Thomas Clyde (Clyde) Cole who married my grandfather's sister Ella Mae Peters.  There is no known connection between the Sampson Cole line and the line of my second great grandfather William Cole.

Sampson David Cole was the son of Alexander Cole and Ms. McNabb.  Sampson was the grandfather of Thomas Clyde (Clyde) Cole who married my grandfather's sister Ella Mae Peters.  There is no known connection between the Sampson Cole line and the line of my second great grandfather William Cole.

Sampson David Cole was the son of Alexander Cole and Ms. McNabb.  Sampson was the grandfather of Thomas Clyde (Clyde) Cole who married my grandfather's sister Ella Mae Peters.  There is no known connection between the Sampson Cole line and the line of my second great grandfather William Cole.

Sampson David Cole was the son of Alexander Cole and Ms. McNabb.  Sampson was the grandfather of Thomas Clyde (Clyde) Cole who married my grandfather's sister Ella Mae Peters.  There is no known connection between the Sampson Cole line and the line of my second great grandfather William Cole.

I'm guessing (but have not verified) that this is a typographical error, and that this deed was for Sampson David Cole.  Sampson David Cole was the son of Alexander Cole and Ms. McNabb.  Sampson was the grandfather of Thomas Clyde (Clyde) Cole who married my grandfather's sister Ella Mae Peters.  There is no known connection between the Sampson Cole line and the line of my second great grandfather William Cole.

Sampson David Cole was the son of Alexander Cole and Ms. McNabb.  Sampson was the grandfather of Thomas Clyde (Clyde) Cole who married my grandfather's sister Ella Mae Peters.  There is no known connection between the Sampson Cole line and the line of my second great grandfather William Cole.

Sampson David Cole was the son of Alexander Cole and Ms. McNabb.  Sampson was the grandfather of Thomas Clyde (Clyde) Cole who married my grandfather's sister Ella Mae Peters.  There is no known connection between the Sampson Cole line and the line of my second great grandfather William Cole.

William Cole was my second great grandfather.  The land was in District 19 of Knox County.  My William Cole was enumerated in District 19 of Knox County in the 1870 census, and the 1870 census lists the value of his real property as $300.  I have found no record of William (or anybody else) selling the land.

I further believe that there was not really a James Cole involved in the transaction.  The indenture was between "James H. Cox and James Cole".  All other references to Mr. Cole were to William Cole.  So I think the court clerk made a clerical error and simply used the name James twice in the same sentence.  The indexer in turn found the both the name James Cole and the name William Cole in the text, and therefore indexed both names.

This William Cole was born about 1846 in England, and was enumerated in the 1870 census in the 6th Ward of Knoxville.  His wife Ann was born in Wales.

My second great grandfather William Cole was born about 1847 in Tennessee, and was enumerated in the 1870 census in Dist. 19 of Knox County, which is the Beaver Ridge community of West Knox County.

Aside from having the same name and being born at approximately the same time, the two William Coles seem totally unrelated.

This William Cole was born about 1846 in England, and was enumerated in the 1870 census in the 6th Ward of Knoxville.  His wife Ann was born in Wales.

My second great grandfather William Cole was born about 1847 in Tennessee, and was enumerated in the 1870 census in Dist. 19 of Knox County, which is the Beaver Ridge community of West Knox County.

Aside from having the same name and being born at approximately the same time, the two William Coles seem totally unrelated.

The index of deeds at the Knox County archives does indeed say Worth Cole, but a careful examination of the deed itself reveals that the index should say Marth Cole.  At one place in the deed the name is listed as Marth Cole.  The indexer read the "M as" a "W", and read the "a" as an "o".  At numerous other places in the deed, the name is spelled out as Martha Cole, and the main entry for the deed lists her name as Martha Yarnell.

Martha M. Key was the daughter of David Key and Nancy Bright.  She married first Warren J. Hyden, married second William Cole, and married third Joseph Yarnell.  Her second husband William Cole was probably related to my second great grandfather William Cole.  If they were related, I think it was more likely that the two men were uncle and nephew than that they were father and son.  In any case, Martha's land was just north of the land that my William Cole purchased in 1869.

This deed reflects the sale of 50 acres purchased by William Cole and also the sale of 25 acres purchased by William's widow Martha M. Key subsequent to William's death.  William was Martha's second husband.  The land was sold in 1904 by Martha's four daughters with her first husband Warren J. Hyden; to wit, Cordelia Hyden and her husband Bradley J. Norman, Victoria C. Hyden and her husband Benjamin L. Gray, Roxey Hyden who in 1904 was the widow of Thomas J. Coram, and Margaret J. (Maggie) Hyden and her husband John B. May.  The four sisters apparently inherited the land from their mother, although no will or settlement has been found for Martha M. Key.  Martha died in 1901, about three years before the land was sold.

For a very long time, I was convinced that the 50 acres were purchased by my second great grandfather William Cole.  This deed seems to prove otherwise.  The fact that the four women who sold the land were daughters of Martha M. Key and her first husband Warren J. Hyden seems to prove that the land had been owned by Martha's second husband William Cole rather than by my William Cole.

I believe that the William Cole who purchased this land was the first cousin of my William Cole.  It seems clear that my William Cole lived on the land for a while after the death of the William Cole that owned the land.  It also seems clear that my William Cole paid taxes on the land for a few years after the death of the William Cole that owned the land.

Mollie Peters on this deed was Mollie I. Cole who married Robert A. Peters.  Robert died in 1905, so Mollie would have been a widow at this point.  Mollie was the sister of my great grandmother Sallie Jane Cole who married my great grandfather Alva Edward Peters.  Alva and Robert were brothers.

E.L. Peters was my grandfather Ernest Lester (Lester) Peters Sr.  Sam Letsinger was Lester's brother-in-law, and Sam's wife ("et ux") was Lester's sister Elza.

(see Mollie Peters above)

(see Mollie Peters above)

(see Mollie Peters above)

(see Mollie Peters above)

See above for Mollie Peters.  Elmer Peters was her son.

Elmer Peters was the son of Mollie I. Cole and Robert A. Peters.

(see Elmer Peters above)

(see Mollie Peters above)

This was probably William Daily (Will) Peters, brother of my great grandfather Alva Peters.  Will Peters died in 1937 and is buried in Knoxville.

(see Elmer Peters above)