Judge Sherman MITCHELL

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William married Mary Margaret STEWART. Mary was born in 1792 in North Carolina; died in 1865 in Dickson, Dickson, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• census 1830: 1 Jun 1830, Dickson County, Tennessee

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This location would have to be just down the road from the Mitchell, Joslin, and Rooker families. Jesse is listed next door to his brother Albert and just down the road from Alsey. Also listed on the same page is Shaderick Bell and James Robertson. Robert Duke and Burwell Jackson are shown living in the same neighborhood. Sources say that Jesse and Sarah had some eight children.

In the 1840 Dickson County Census Jesse M. Speight is listed as head of a household consisting of 1 male 30 to 40, 2 females under 5, 2 females 5 to 10, and 1 female 15 to 20. His first wife, unk Harris died in 1840.
In the Dickson County Census of 1850, Jesse M. Speight, 45, farmer, and his second wife Sarah, 40, are listed as having nine children, viz.: Julia - 19, Evaline - 18, Almyra - 15, Guilford - 14, Matilda - 12, Jesse - 8, Edithy - 6, Nancy - 4, and Elizabeth - 2.

In the 1850 Slave Schedule, Jesse M. Speight is listed right under Moses Parker, with Jesse owing 6 Slaves, 4 adults, 2 children.

Jesse M. Speight's obituary was printed in the Nashville and Louisville Christian Advocate, Thursday, July 22, 1853, and reads as follows:
Died, at his residence in Dickson county, Tenn, May 19, 1852, Mr. Jesse M. Speight, in the 47th year of his age.
Brother Speight was for fifteen years an acceptable member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, which he has left to join the church triumphant on high.
Methodist preachers, as well as those of his own communion, received at his house a hearty welcome and were kindly and hospitably entertained and cared for.
His last illness was short, though severe; but he bore it with Christian fortitude and resignation, and met the last enemy with the courage of the true soldier, saying to weeping friends in his last hours, that he was not afraid to die, and that he was ready for the change of worlds.
He has left behind a bereaved widow, (sister of Rev. L. C. Bryan of Tennessee Conference,) and nine children. May God administer comfort in this dark hour, and enable them, by his grace, so to pass the waves of this weeping world, as ultimately to meet their loved and lost in the climes of light and love.

census 1830:
The listing is: Spright, Jessee 00001-1001, page 342. This
location would have to be just down the road from the Mitchell,
Joslin, and Rooker families. Jesse is listed next door to his brother
Albert and just down the road from Alsey. Also listed on the same page
is Shaderick Bell and James Robertson. Robert Duke and Burwell Jackson
are shown living in the same neighborhood.

Jesse married Milley Ann HARRIS in 1828. Milley (daughter of Silas HARRIS and Mary JACKSON) was born in 1808 in North Carolina Or Tennessee; died in 1840 in Dickson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1st wife of Jesse.

Information on Milley Harris is circumstantial and 'best prospect' or 'most likely' without documentation. This lineage is a compilation from unrelated research by others and sorted for errors as best as possible.