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From: Ernie Joe Dismukes
Email: lysis10@prodigy.net
Date: Thu, May 27, 1999
Subject: Dismukes Genealogical Information
Check this letter out. Maybe someone in Baltimore and on the Internet could check this out for us.
Ada, Indian Territory
Feb. 26, 1907
Editor of the Sunday Sun,
Baltimore, Md. Dear Sir:
In the issue of your paper bearing date of April 15, 1906, I find an article signed M.E.M., in which there are some mis-state-ments, I will not attempt to correct at this time. My object is to give that of my great-grandfather, and his son George, who is my grand-father, Major George Dismukes married Ann Poe in Virginia in about 1768, and settled in Chatham County, N.C., and raised a family of six sons and five daughters, who lived to be grown and married except George W. Dismukes, his fifth son, died without being married. The names of Major George Dismukes children are William, the oldest son, moved to Georgia and died there; Elisha, the third child was born in 1781, March the 10th, went to Nashville, Tenn. and from there to New Orleans in 1806, and thence back to North Carolina, then returned to Tennessee with his brother John W. Dismukes, who married Vatilda Bogin. Elisha married Anna Petty in Wilson County Tennessee, moved to Madison County, Tennessee, 12 miles west of where Jackson now stands, on Clover Creek where, I, his third child was born August 21, 1827. I remember of shaking hands with David Crockett and Andrew Jackson. My mother and father both moved eight miles east of Jackson, they lived for many years there, and are buried at Cotton Grove, Tennessee. John Walter Dismukes died in Texas, is buried in Fayett Co., not far from Shulerberg. Alexander the next son, married Susan Moore, and lived for many years in his father's old house, had four daughters and one son, who married a Sharkey in Mississippi, and died there. George W. Dismukes was a doctor, he served one term in the House of Commons from Chatham County in the Legislature of North Carolina, and died while a young man.
Charles Pickney Dismukes was the youngest child of Major George Dismukes, he married Miss Patsy Sanders of Catcham County, North Carolina, they had fourteen living children in 1852, when I was there, and I learned since that there were eight sons of his in Confederate armies. Charley and his wife were buried on his father's old farm. I will state here that William, the eldest child of Major George Dismukes married a Miss Pigees, moved to Georgia and raised four daughters and one son. His son was James Alexander, who graduated at two Medical Colleges, and practiced his profession in Leek County Mississippi, and died there leaving two sons and two daughters? His sons were Henry and Harrison, both were killed in Southern Armies, leaving no issues. Their sisters are both dead, and left no children. Elisha Paul Dismukes was born in France and a personal friend of General Marcus D. LaFayette, and was with Gen. LaFayette through the Revolution of 1776, and after the close of the war an American Colonies established their Independence, the Government at Philadelphia give land grants to their soldiers, as a pension for their service in the war of 1776-81. Major Geo. Dismukes of Catcham Co. N.C. took a land grant for services in the army under General Greene. He was in the North Carolina troops, and laid it in West Tennessee on the Ovine River, near the Reelfoot Lake, and near a little lake that is called Corpus Lake. David Crocket and family lived there at that time. My grandfather gave the land to his two sons, Elisha and John Walter, who were at the time in Tennessee, and his will shows that he never gave them any land anywhere else. Paul Dismukes, Major George's father, got a land grant for his service in the Virginian Troops, and laid it in Maryland where Baltimore now stands, and leased it out for a term of years. There is no going behind it, for it came for his services in the United States Army or Colonies. Major George Dismukes and his descents, are the only heirs to Paul's estate. Paul had three other sons,, but none of them any issues.
The foregoing facts have been taught to me by my father, and uncles for the last fifty years. There was another Paul Dismukes, Cousin of my great grandfather who came from France with the Colonists, and settled in Virginia at an early date, and had many descendants, who scattered over Virginia, Kentucky, Tenessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Geogia, Alabama, South Carolina, and Dick Dismukes of North Carolina is a descendant of Elisha Paul. If anyone wishes to know who Paul's heirs are, if they will write me, at Ada, Oklahoma, I surely will inform them.
George W. Dismukes
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