Newell Irmal Bacon

Other Events:

• Military: Between 1 Oct and 21 Dec 1918; U.S. Army

Joseph married Nancy Ellen (Nannie) Thompson on 11 Jan 1891 in Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. Nancy was born on 1 Nov 1874 in Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; died on 27 Nov 1945 in New Castle, Henry County, Indiana, USA; was buried in South Mound Cemetery, New Castle, Henry County, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
GRid=103609093; no headstone photo

Died:
Cause: Pneumonia; Senility

Benjamin married Mary Ann Trewhitt on 20 Aug 1858 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. Mary (daughter of Judge Levi Trewhitt and Harriett Lavender) was born on 2 Apr 1836 in Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; died on 3 Feb 1886 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
GRid=162009401; Lists all her children and grandchildren. Grave not found. Her parents and one daughter are buried here, but husband Benjamin Franklin Bacon remarried and moved to Missouri.

Other Events:

• Occupation: Washington County, Tennessee, USA; Farmer
• Possessions: 29 Aug 1849, Washington County, Tennessee, USA; 383 acres, including farm on which he lived

Notes:

Possessions:
Metes and bounds property description has nine sides measured as over 700 poles

Jacob married Elizabeth Keebler on 4 Oct 1821 in Washington County, Tennessee, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Jacob Armay Keebler, II and Mary Barbara Young) was born on 21 Apr 1799 in Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA; died in Oct 1870 in Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I can find no documentation of the death date, or her burial.


Birth:
A Keebler family Bible says 1797, but Elizabeth's own bible (now held by her great*3 grandaughter) says 1799.

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Married:
The marriage bann (an announcement of the impending marriage) says Oct 2, but the marriage register in Elizabeth's Bible (which survives) reports that he wedding took place on Oct 4/

Other Events:

• Occupation: Lawyer, Judge, Farmer
• Probate: Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA; Just an index, but suggests his will was filed in Hamilton County, not Bradley County
• Civil: 1837, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; TN General Assembly chartered Cleveland and appointed Levi Trewitt as a commissioner.
• Possessions: 1862, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; IRS Tax assessment: J.M. Trewhitt, admin of Levi Trewhitt Dec. Acres:389 Valuation $2880, Taxes:$10.08 Penalty:$5.04

Notes:

Judge Trewhitt was a civic leader in Bradley County. In 1861, though he was in his 60's, he was arrested and imprisioned by the Confederacy without trial after Union sympathizers burned several bridges in East Tennessee. Despite numerous appeals for his release and testimony that he actively discouraged participation in the rebellion againts the Confederacy, he was not released, and he died in prison camp in Mobile, Alabama. The "History" media items attached to this record give more details of his case. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Tennessee_bridge_burnings

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Judge Trewhitt's parentage is not documented, and various unsourced online trees differ about who his parents were.

The majority of Ancestry.com trees that include him say that his parents were James Madison Tewhitt and Elizabeth Mumford, and some list his grandparents as Levi Trewhitt (born 1725 in NC) and Mary West. There is a marriage record for Levi Trewhitt(1725) and Mary West, but I cannot find any contemporaneous documentation of James Madison Trewhitt or Elizabeth Mumford. A Jesse Mumford (age 80) was living with 63-year-old Levi Trewhitt and family in 1860.

Other trees and GRid=39690158 say that Judge Trewhitt was the son of Levi Truitt and Susanna Morgan. There is some weak documentation of both Levi Truitt and Susanna Morgan, primarily through generic marriage record sources (e.g. "International Marriage Records"), but only ambiguous information about their birth places. (See their profiles, both linked from this one)

FWIW, the online trees that report Judge Trewhitt's father to be James Madison Trewitt tend to list a brother named Jesse Trewhitt, a physician, who also lived in Morgan Co, TN, and migrated to Arkansas. (See his profile). On the other hand, the online trees that report Judge Trewitt's father to be Levi Truitt tend not to list Jesse Trewhitt as a brother, but do tend to list a brother named James Alford Truitt, who fought in the Texas War of Independence, and served as a justice of the peace and state legislator in Texas for many years.


Buried:
GRid=39690158; headstone

Died:
Confederate Prison

Levi married Harriett Lavender before 1820 in Morgan County, Tennessee, USA. Harriett (daughter of Daniel Simeon Lavender and Elizabeth ?Koonce Adam Howard?) was born on 3 May 1803 in Morgan County, Tennessee, USA; died on 9 Jan 1855 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Fort Hill Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=39690150; inscription: Consort of Levi Trewhitt; Small inscription at bottom not legible in photo

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Married:
Based on birth of first child