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According to the "GENEALOGY OF THE GREENLEE FAMILIES" published in 1908 by Ralph Stebbins Greenlee and Robert Lemuel Greenlee and other sources, comes the following: about the decendants of JAMES GREENLEE OF TENNESSEE, James Greenlee married Nancy (surname unknown) They came Ireland and setttled in Virginia on the Potomac River. He spent some time in Pennsylvania before he went to Virginia Some of his sons served in the revolutionary war. James and Nancy were the parents of the following children:>> John Greenlee born: Oct. 1775, married Elizabeth Sunderland 1797 Jefferson Co. Tenn.>>Alexander Greenlee; settled at or near Tazwell , Claiborne Co. Tenn prior to 1800.>> James Greenlee married Ruth Sunderland. >>William Greenlee >>>Louis Greenlee born Dec.28,1791, married Elizabeth Hunt.>>Violet Greenlee married Mathew McCullow: died when their only child was very young.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX JOHN GREENLEE, son of James and Nancy Greenlee, was born Oct.1775 in North Carolina; died Oct. 1858 or March 1859 in at Rutledge, Grainger County, Tennessee. John Greenlee married on July 1797 to Elizabeth Sunderland in Jefferson Co. Tennessee. Elizabeth was the daughter of David and Elizabeth Sunderland of Jefferson Co. Tennessee. John Greenlee and Elizabeth Sunderland were the parents of the following children:>> Nancy Greenlee born in 1798 ; married Edward Mayes. >>James Greenlee born; Nov.1, 1800 ; married Phebe Mayes.>> >>John Greenlee born; April 8,1803 or 1802; married 1822 to Mary Polly Mayes, (sister to Phebe)and daughter of Ligion Mayes and wife Esther Daniel.>>Eli Greenlee Married Mary Daniel.>>Mary Greenlee born; 1807; married to Henry Mayes. >>Hamiliton Greenlee born; 1809 ; married Mary Sunderland >>Elizabeth Greenlee born: 1811 married to Charles Biddle. ( they had son John Biddle ).>>>Lovisa Greenlee married Joseph Daniel moved west had son John Daniel.>>George Greenlee born 1814 married to Mary Hilton.>>>William Greenlee born 1815; married in 1841 to Nancy Smith; moved to Missouri about `1869 or 1870. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX JOHN GREENLEE Father of all the above, emigrated from North Carolina to Kentucky, thence to Tennessee about 1790, and is found in records of Jefferson County and Grainger County Tennessee, where he purchased several hundred acres of land. His life long occupation was farming and stock raising. He was a Whig in politics, and a Missionary Baptist in religion. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and a brave and fearless man. He resided near Rutledge Tennessee. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX JOHN CALVIN GREENLEE SR. the son of John Greenlee and Elizabeth Sunderland (Southerland), was born: April 8, 1802 or 1803, Near Rutledge Tennessee. He died in 1888 at 86 years of age. John Calvin Greenlee married in 1822 at Rutledge to Mary Polly Mayes, born 1806 near Rutledge Tennessee, the daughter of Ligion Mayes and Esther Daniel,(Esther was the daughter of Edward Daniel whose last will and testament is listed below.)The Mayes and the Daniel were both orginally of Henry Co. Virginia. John Calvin Greenlee was a farmer. In politics he was a Republican. In Religion a Baptist; John and Elizabeth resided six miles south from Rutledge Tennessee. They were the parents of the following children:>>>>Esther, born 1822: married Josiah Kidwelld >>>>Rev. James Sterling Greenlee, Born Aug 17,1824; married Sarah Jane Callison in 1843, 2nd to (name unknown) Mallicoat, 3rd to (Name unknown) J.S. Greenlee died June 12,1898. >>>>>John Calvin Greenlee Jr. born July 8, 1826; married to Amanda Callison, ( sister of Sarah listed above ) Jolhn Calvin Greenlee Jr.is buried in the Greenlee Cemetery.>>>>> Caroline Greenlee, bortn in 1828, Married Henderson Kidwell. >>>>>Elizabeth Greenlee, born 1830 married William West. >>>>>Pleasant L. Greenlee born in 1832 married Mary Douglas Pleasant is buried in the Greenlee Cemetery.>>>>> Jane Greenlee born; 1833, married Robert Hammer, lived at Blackwell Tenn. >>>>>William A. Greenlee born 1835, married Martha Dalton >>>>>George A. Greenlee born in 1837 married Eliza or Louisa James, lived in Grainger co. Tenn.>>>>>Victoria Greenlee married Colby Dalton; Victoria and Colby are buried in the Greenlee Cemetery.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Last Will and testament of Edward Daniel Sr. (1833 Grainger County, Tennessee) XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX In the name of God, Amen::::: I Edward Daniel senr. of the State of Tennessee and the County of Grainger, being of perfect memory and having in mind the mortality of my body. After committing my soul to God, and my flesh to the earth in hopes of a sure resurrection do here by make and publish and declare this my last will and testament revoking all others. Item 1st. That all my just debts should there be any at my decease be faithfully paid. Item 2nd. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Anna Daniel, the full and entire possession and enjoyment of all and every part of my estate both real and personal, during the term of her natural life. Item 3rd. I give and bequeath to my son Isaac Daniel after the decease of my wife Anna, the tract of land that I now live containing One hundred acres (more or less) With all its improvements and apprtainences & further do here by require the execution of justice when ever said Isaac Daniel shall become sezed and possession of said premises according to the purpose of this instrument. That he pay to my daughter Jemima Daniel the sum of one hundred dollars. Item 4th. Whereas I hold a bond on my son William Daniel for the amount of five hundred dollars in the distribution of which I require the following order, that is to say I give and bequeath the amount of the said five hundred dollars to the following named legatees observing the order of their ages in the following list and that each one recieve their individual part there of as here after mentioned (Viz) ::: Easter Mayes, Elizabeth Mary Mayes, Anna Hodge, John Daniel, Joseph Daniel, Edward Daniel, Mary Mayes, Rebecca Sunderland, Sally Mayes, and Jemima Daniel, & be it further understood that the above named ten legatees recieve equal shares in said five hundred dollar bond. viz, fifty dollars each. Item five. I require that after the death of my wife Anna Daniel there be a public sale made for the disposition of my negroes, horses, cattle, hogs, and all and singular of my perishable property and that collection of my debts which may be due my estate be made and added to the amount of the sale proceeds, and that equal division and distribution be made of said proceeds among all and singular of legal heirs in my family of children there being twelve in number whose names are refered to in the course of this instrument. Item 6. I do hereby choose nominate and appoint my two sons Edward Daniel and William Daniel my true and lawful executors to execute and faithfully fulfill this my last will and testament. In witness of which I here-to affix my seal - and subscribe my name this 4th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty. Signed and acknowledged: Edward Daniel, In Presents of: James Kennon, James Lacey, James Greenlee, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Letter from John Calvin Greenlee Jr. to His Uncle Eli. Greenlee XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX State of Tennessee Grainger County August 1, 1869 Dear Uncle & family it is with great pleasure that I seat my selfe to answer your kind letter it has bin some dayes since I got your kind letter but I have bin verry busy hawling in my wheat and oats and working with the (mathing) and I hope you will pardon me for not writing sooner I was glad to hear that you was well and had plenty of this worles goods to sender you comefortable in this life and a hope in the life to come You desire in your letter that I write to you how time is in Tennessee and you want general news about your brothers and sisters relations and friends Uncle George is dead he was taken prisnor at barbersvill kentucky and taken to knoxville and from there to Richmond virginia and sent from there to salsberry north caolina whare he was ill treated and starved he was engaged before he was captured a carrying out men out of Tennessee in to kentuckey and redruiting for the federal army His wife is living on her fathers land Three of the children is married Samuel and Marthy and francis and marthy is dead She died in a year or so after she married. William is living in Jefferson County in back of new market one of his children is married. father is still living but mother is dead She died last August all my brothers and sisters is married. William married marthy Dalton George married Squire James,es daughter elisa vistory maried Colby Dalton and Jane she married Robbert Hammers a son of Abraham hammers. I do not remember wheather you have eaver learned that Uncle James Greenlee is dead Uncle James Greenlee and aunt feby is both dead uncle was gratley misst in this communty as a minister. brother James is stil living and preaching away He is a great revivalist he is jest out of a revival whare there was 15 or 20 professors. his son preston is married to Molissa Allen Preston was a soldier in the federal army three years Marshel Greenlee is also married to a Miss Collins a daghter of George Collins Aunt Elisabeth Biddle is stil living Her son Robbert went in the rebble army and died Aunt livisa is a living in kentuckey uncle Joseph died in the State of kentuckey while a soldier in the federal Army. Old. uncle John Daniel is dead he died last June was a year ago William Daniel is living on James Sunderlands land and Hanner and Elisabeth Daniel is a living whare there father died on James Sunderlan,s land also Coesen John and Lou's at desires to know if her father and mother is stil living and how they are getting along well they stil a live and wel was the last time I saw them I have not saw them for some weeks I was in hopes that I would get to see them before I rote this letter Coesen William Greenlee is a living at New Market a shoe and boot making. James Mayes and his wife is a living in the neighborhood of Eli Mcdaniel,s he is a farming for a living his eldest son was married last week I learned to day. Dear Uncle I have a Grate deel that i desire to write a bout but it is now nearly Sun Set and I want to put this in the office ;in the morning I can say to you that I have saw a Grat many upes and downs Since I saw you last and a specally during the rebelion I was a union man died in the wool and I am stil one and a posed to cecession and rebelion I was not a soldier during the war but was a part of the time a prisnor in madison Georgia and after I was releast and came home I went though the rebble lines in to kentucky Expecting to Join the federal army but was taking sick and had like to have died after I got well and the opportunity I Came back home and hired a boy to make a little somthing to support my family and I lay in the bresh in connection with many others hid from the rebbles Soldiers Whoo was at that time plundering and Robbing though Eastennessee it was During thie seasen that they Caught Brother William and George and Taken them to Knoxville and when they Refused to take the oath they put tem out in a lot and run them down and forsed them to take the oath and then sent ;them to port hudson missiippi and from there to raimon whare they Had a fight and the rebes got whiped and while they ware reteating the boys got a way from them and got with the yanks and the boyes has a heavey suit of damage against them in Court that is expected to come off this Court which is the fourth monday in this month We have a gradeel of excitement in Tennessee at this time our Election comes off Naixt thursday for Govener and legislators the Conservitives is in faver of universal sufferage while the radicals is opposed to it I must bring my letter to a close my Wife sins her best respects to you all She Sayes that She would like to see you all and converse with you fase to face. Well uncle a word to you about my yong orchard I think that it prodused over five hunded bushels of fruit last season Dear uncle and aunt I would like to Convese with you face to face I have bin thinking of Coming out and loocking at that portion of the to see how I would like I want you to Write to me a letter as long as your arm and give me a full description of that contry the price of land the the health of your Contry the price of eavry thing and how many of your children is married Give me the general News earvy day A work while I think I do not know wheather you know Whare Coesin pleasant is I can say to you if you dont that he is a living in pensilvania the last accont I had and was doing well Geting his four dollars a day after the war ended he sent a man in hear after his family I must Close so no more at presant but Remains your dear dear friend and Nephew til Death write write a full leter and give me all the information you can John C Grenlee and family to Eli Greenlee and family XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX THE FAMILY OF REV. JAMES STERLING GREENLEE LISTED AS FOLLOWS:>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> REV. JAMES STERLING GREENLEE WAS BORN AUG.17,1824 IN RUTLEDGE TENNESSEE, THE SON OF JOHN CALVIN GREENLEE AND WIFE MARY (POLLY) MAYES. REV. JAMES STERLING GREENLEE MARRIED MARRIED SARAH JANE CALLISON ON MARCH 3rd OF 1843, IN RUTLEDGE TENNESSEE, GRAINGER COUNTY. SARAH JANE CALLISON WAS THE DAUGHTER OF SAMUEL CALLISON AND WIFE ELENDER MORGAN. REV. JAMES STERLING GREENLEE DIED JUNE 12,1898 AND IS BURIED IN THE CALLISON/HAMMER CEMETERY SOUTH OF RUTLEDGE TENNESSEE. HE IS BURIED NEXT TO HIS FIRST WIFE SARAH JANE CALLISON. REV. JAMES STERLING GREENLEE AND SARAH CALLISON WERE THE PARENTS OF SIX CHILDREN LISTED AS FOLLOWS: > > SHERIFF SAMUEL PRESTON GREENLEE: BORN MARCH 18,1844 IN RUTLEDGE TENN. MARRIED MAY 30,1867 RUTLEDGE TENN. SHOT AND KILLED IN CRACKER NECK VALLEY APRIL 10,1889 BURIED IN THE METHODIST CHURCH YARD, RUTLEDGE TENNESSEE. SPOUSE WAS MALISSIA ALLEN > > JOHN MARSHALL GREENLEE: BORN JAN. 27,1847 RUTLEDGE TENNESSEE. MARRIED MAY 28,1867 RUTLEDGE TENNESSEE. SPOUSE MARY COLLINS > > SARAH JANE GREEENLEE: BORN DECEMBER 05,1850 RUTLEDGE TENNESSEE. MARRIED ABT.1870 TO JOHN SINATE HANCOCK AT RUTLEDGE TENNESSEE. SARAH DIED MAY 27,1904 BURIED AT THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CEMETERY, RUTLEDGE TENNESSEE. > > JAMES NOAH GREENLEE: BORN APRIL 29,1853 RUTLEDGE TENN. MARRIED ABT.1876 TO SARAH (SALLEY) HODGES, DAUGHTER OF FIELDING HODGES AND PENEY SHELTON. JAMES AND SARAH WERE MARRIED IN GRAINGER CO. TENNESSEE. JAMES NOAH DIED ABT.1930 RUTLEDGE TENNESSEE. > > MARGARET ELIZABETH GREENLEE: BORN SEPT.09,1859 IN RUTLEDGE TENN. MARGARET MARRIED ROBERT FIELDING HODGES IN 1875 AT CENTRAL POINT BAPTIST CHURCH. MARRIAGE WAS PERFORMED BY REV. SAMUEL CALLISON JR.(UNCLE OF MARGARET GREENLEE). ROBERT FIELDING HODGES WAS THE SON OF FIELDING HODGES SR. AND WIFE PENNY SHELTON. MARGARET ELIZABETH GREENLEE DIED FEB.25,1926 IN ROGERS COUNTY OKLAHOMA, AND IS BURIED NEXT TO HER HUSBAND ROBERT IN THE PARK GROVE CEMETERY , BROKEN ARROW, OKLAHOMA. > > EFFIE (EFFA) GREENLEE: BORN SEPT.1876 IN RUTLEDGE TENNESSEE. EFFIE GREENLEE MARRIED FEB.13,1894 TO ANDREW LOVIN.IN RUTLEDGE TENNESSEE. DEATH UNKNOWN/ > > REV. JAMES STERLING GREENLEE WAS LISTED IN THE BOOK "PIONEER BAPTIST MINISTERS OF TENNESSEE" AS WAS HIS UNCLE THE ELDER JAMES GREENLEE. > > THE ANCESTRY OF REV. JAMES GREENLEE IS AS FOLLOWS; > > JAMES AND NANCY GREENLEE OF ULSTER IRELAND WERE THE PARENTS OF JOHN GREENLEE; JOHN GREENLEE MARRIED ELIZABETH SUNDERLAND 1797 IN JEFFERSON CO. TENN. ELIZABETH WAS THE DAUGHTER OF DAVID AND ELIZABETH SUNDERLAND OF JEFFERSON CO. TENN. > > JOHN GREENLEE AND ELIZABETH SUNDERLAND WERE THE PARENTS OF JOHN CALVIN GREENLEE. JOHN CALVIN GREENLEE MARRIED MARY (POLLY) MAYES IN 1822 IN RUTLEDGE TENN. GRAINGER COUNTY. MARY POLLY MAYES WAS THE DAUGHTER OF LIGION MAYES AND ESTHER DANIEL. LIGION MAYES AND ESTHER DANIEL WERE ORGINALLY OF HENRY CO. VIRGINIA. THEY WERE MARRIED THERE IN 1792. > > JOHN CALVIN GREENLEE AND MARY POLLY MAYES WERE THE PARENTS OF REV. JAMES STERLING GREENLEE, MISSIONARY BAPTIST MINISTER OF EARLY TENNESSEE. JAMES STERLING GREENLEE MARRIED SARAH JANE CALLISON, THE DAUGHTER OF SAMUEL CALLISON AND ELENDER MORGAN. SAMUEL CALLISON AND ELENDER MORGAN WERE MARRIED IN 1809 IN GRAINGER CO. They are also believed to be buriend in the Callison and Hammer Cemetery , south of Rutledge Tennessee.......................................... TENNESSEE.>>ELENDER (ELLEN) MORGAN IS THOUGHT TO BE THE OF WILLIAM MORGAN AND SARAH INMAN OF BEDFORD CO. VIRGINIA.
