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- John L. McGlothin is publicized on one family tree as being born in Mooreland, Ireland. However, this same tree shows him married to Dolly Queener so this is not a source that can be relied upon.
The first McGlothin in Morgan County was John McGlothin, who immigrated to the U.S. from Ireland in the early 19th century.
John?s first proven appearance in the U.S. was in Amherst, VA, where he married Mary Chenault October 29, 1839. Mary was the daughter of Caleb Chenault, who signed his daughter?s marriage bond. It was witnessed by Mary?s brother, Caleb Chenault, Jr.
John is next found in Wythe County, VA. The 1850 census lists John and Mary and their children along with some of Mary?s family in the household. John is 38 years old and was born in Ireland, per the census. This would make his birthdate about 1812. Therefore, his immigration to the U.S. was between 1812 and 1839.
John and Mary?s children in 1850 were:
John, 11
Elizabeth, 9
Cornelius, 7
Wesley, 5
Charles, 3
Also in the household were Mary?s father, Caleb, who was 84,Elizabeth, Rosannah, and Mary Chenault. The relationship of the Chenault women to Mary is not clear, but is presumed to be sisters and nieces. Several boarders were in the home. Among them was John Eakin or Aiken, who would become a business partner of John McGlothin. McGlothin and Aiken signed a two-year-note for $450.00, pledging their household goods as collateral in 1851.
In 1852, John?s children were in school in Wythe Co., Virginia. In 1853 his daughter Margaret C (Catherine or Katie) was born while the family was still in Virginia.
By 1860, John had moved to Blount Co., TN, in the Louisville community. Daughter Elizabeth was no longer with the family in 1860.She may have married while in Virginia or while in Blount County or she may have died.
John McGlothin could not read or write. Therefore the spelling of his last name was at the mercy of the person recording the name on a document. Some of the variations of the name that were recorded in association with John McGlothin were:
McClocton
McGlaulon
McGlothlin
McLaughlin
Mary Chenault McGlothin apparently died sometime between 1860 and 1863. In early 1863 John married Margaret Patrick Tuck in Knox County, Tennessee, according to Knox County marriage records. Census records show she was born about 1827-28 and would have been about 36 years old when they married. John would have been about 49.
Margaret had been married previously according to family information. She had a son named Leander who, according to May McGlothin, died young. He reportedly died at about age 14. His grave and details of his death have not yet been found,but he was living in the household of John McGlothin. Margaret was born in North Carolina according to census records of 1870. This may have led to the family legend that John McGlothin lived for a time in North Carolina although there is no evidence to support this story. In 1860 Margaret was living in Blount County in the household of Rachel Caton. There was no mention of Leander, but given that he was 11 years old in 1870, it is quite possible he was born after the census was taken or that he was at another home. Margaret may simply have been visiting Rachel when the census taker came by the Caton home in Friendsville. It should be noted here that Friendsville and Louisville are nearby communities in Blount County and that much of the early Louisville is now under water. The information on Margaret prior to her marriage to John McGlothin is based on assumptions made with sketchy facts and should be researched furthe rbefore citing as fact....by Judy Solis
By 1870, John and Margaret were in Morgan County, TN. It is believed that they lived in what is now the Coal Hill area, not too far from Coal Hill Baptist Church. Their neighbors were the Walls and Fagans.
We do not know why John chose Morgan County. May McGlothin, wife of R.H. McGlothin (son of Wesley, who was the son of John) speculated that John may have known the Fagans in Ireland and followed them to Morgan County. The Fagans and McGlothins were neighbors in the area of Coal Hill, near the Roane County line. There were also Fagans in Amherst VA, who came from Ireland, but there were none listed in Wythe County, VA, during the time John lived in that area. There is no evidence to tie the Fagans to the McGlothins other than being neighbors and having origins in Ireland.
John and Margaret had three children: James, Richard, and Tennessee Belle. John died prior to 1880 since Margaret is listed as a widow in the 1880 census. In this census she says she was born in Virginia and that her father was born in Ireland. This is different than what was reported in earlier census records.
John McGlothin is believed to be buried in the Ritter Cemetery in Coal Hill. However, there is no marker in the cemetery bearing his name.By May Sexton McGlothin, date unknown:
"The migration of Irish to Amerca began 1845 when Potato crops failed.It may have been near this time that great-grandpa and a brother came to America from Ireland. Grandpa John McGlothin came to Tennessee.The brother stayed in Virginia. Grandpa built a log house near where Brenda and Charles (Bit) Jackson's house sits. They used water from the old spring. Harvey did not know his grandmother's name nor where she was buried. Grandpa John married the 2nd time to a Mrs. Tuck at Serville. She had one child by the former marriage. He died when young, maybe 13 or 14 years old. Her name was Margaret. Harvey called her Aunt Mary. She had 3 children. Uncle Jim , who lived in Back Valley, Uncle Richard, called Uncle Dick, and Aunt Belle, who married a Roberts who lived at Jefferson City. She had 2 sons, but she and her husband separated. When she came back here, after Harvey and I were married, she came from Idaho. Uncle Dick was Mayme, Meg,Sadie. Elsie, Martha, Dave, Henry, George and Ezra's father. (Ezra changed his name to Pat McGlothin to play professional baseball.) That made Mayme and Meg Harvey's 1st cousins. Alex's father, Uncle Sam,and Rob's Father, Uncle Andy Walls, were Grandma's brother's. John McGlothin and a brother brought all their belongings in a hand-madewooden chest. Grandma had a cupboard made out of the wood. Uncle Denny gave it to Merle. Donna, Opal's daughter, has it. So the cupboard is made out of lumber that came from Ireland." (Merle's daughter was Opal, whose daughter was Donna Rice of Coalfield.)
Per Sammy Carson: "John L. Mclaughlin (as it was spelled in those days) and a brother came from Ireland to the US about 1835. The brother settled in Virginia and John L. settled in East Tennessee on Little River. He later moved to the Back Valley Community of Morgan County, TN."
Note from Judy Kesterson: Little River is in Blount County, TN. See also Sam Kesterson father of Jesse Kesterson who unsuccessfully attempted to recover property inherited by his mother also on the Little River.
Morgan Co. TN 1870 Census McGLOTHIN
John, 56, Farmer, born Ireland $300, $200
Margaret, 45, housekeeper, born NC
John, 26, Farm Labor, born VA
Cornelius, 23, Farm Labor, born VA
William, 22, Farm Labor, born VA
Catherine, 16, occupation =at home, born TN, which puts the family inTN in 1856.
Leander, 10, Farm labor, botn TN
James, 6, farm labor, born TN
Richard, 4, born tn
Tennessee, 2, born TN
Edward 16, born GA, BLACK
They were household No. 10; William Wall, whose daughter would become Martha McGlothin, was household no. 48 in the First District(Coalfield).
1850 Census Dwelling 1200; family 1200, Wythe, Virginia, census taken the 6th day of September 1850
John McGlothin, 38, Labourer, born in Ireland, cannot read or write
Mary McGlothin, 35, born Virginia, cannot read or write
John, 11, born VA
Elizabeth, 9 "
Cornelius, 7 "
Wesley, 5 "
Charles, 3 "
Calilif Chinalt, 89, (Male) cannot read or write [Caleb]
Elizabeth Chinalt, 40, cannot read or write
Rozannah Chinalt, 35, cannot read of write
Mary Chinalt, 14,
Edward Wright, 33, Labourer, b VA
Samuel Wright, 21, Labourer, b VA
John Stoncifer, 14, Labourer, b VA
John Eakin, 19 M Labourer, b VA
Per May McGlothin to granddaughter Judy Kesterson: "I feel like the Fagans knew the McGlothins before they came to Coalfield because both came from Ireland and both settled in this area. The Fagans were stone cutters. Many cemeteries have markers made by them. They worked with native stone and marble. One of the boys had a business in Knoxville and he took the orders and the other boys made the markers. Uncle Sim's (Sexton) stone in the Potter Cemetery was made by them."
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John McGlothin lived in Amherst VA and in Wythe County, VA.Documentation in binders. J. Solis
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Per Donna Owens, John L. McGlothin has a shrine built in his memory down a dirt road off of Kring Hollow, which is off of Coal Hill Road in Coalfield, TN. There is a concrete pad where a church once stood there also. 06-02-07.
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Per Johnny Tanner, John L. McGlothin's middle name may have been Lincoln, according to what he had heard. (I tend to think it was more likely to be Lewis.) 06-02-07.
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John McGlothin had as a boarder and business partner a man whose last name was Akien while he was in Wythe, VA. Information on the Aikens per the internet is as follows:
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ntblAlthough of remote origin and no longer in possession of any great estates, the Clan Akins represents a significant portion of what has grown into a worldwide Scottish community. Whether in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, wherever the Scots have settled, there can be found descendants of our ancient Scottish Clan. Rooted among the common folk, heirs of the early Picts and Scots who first inhabited Scotland during the time of the Roman Empire, of of the Nordic invaders who came there in the Middle Ages, the earliest origins of the Clan Akins belong to the era of the Viking rulers who controlled the isles off Scotland's coast. from Shetland to the Isle of Man. First ococcuring as a place-name, Akin is found in the west coast of Scotland on the Hebridean Isle of Skye. There in the 13th century, the Viking leader King Hakon IV of Norway swept with his invading army in a fleet of longboats on his way to the finaal defeat of the Norsemen at the hands of Alexander III, King of Scots, at the battle of Largs in 1263 AD.To commemorate his passage through this region, the narrow strait between the Isle of Skye and the Scottish mainland was afterwards known as Kyle Akin, from the Gaelic Caol Acain meaning "the Strait of Hakon" in the native Celtic language of the Scottish people. This area is home to the Skye village of Kyleakin, named for the strait on which it is located. Begun as a planned community in 1811, the area is also the site of Dun Akin castle, an 11th century fortress, now in ruins, long held by the Mackinnon Clan through the marriage of their ancestral chief, Findanus, to a Norse princess known as "Saucy Mary," daughter of Kiing Hakon I of Norway. As a surname, the first recorded appearance of its use occurs in the year 1405 in the court records of a Scottish sea merchant named "John of Akyne" who sought restitution for having been kidnapped by Laurence Tuttebury oof Hull, England, who pirated his ship and goods. Other instances of its use occur in the early records of Scotland where the surname is seen to have undergone a variety of transformations in spelling, accounting for the many variant forms of the name still seen today. Among these early records we find mention of William Ackin, who was a witness in the parish of Brechin in the year 1476. John Eckin was a tenant under the Bishop of Aberdeen in 1511. John Ackyne served as bailie of Stirling in 1520. Robert Aykkyne was admitted to the burgess of Aberdeen in 1529. Bessie Aiken of Leith was found guilty of Witchcraft in 1597, narrowly escaping execution. David Akin of Aberdeen was an early passenger to America, settling in Newport, Rhode Island with his wife and family before 1664. A John Aiken was among those who fought under the banner of the Covenant at the Battle of Bothwell Bridge in 1679. Alexander Aiken of Bo'ness, West Lothian, was among the Scots colonists who took part in the ill-fated Darien expedition in 1699. In 1609 Ireland's northern province of Ulster was opened up for colonization as part of an enterprising scheme by two opportunistic businessmen from Ayrshire, Scotland, by the names of Montgomery and Hamilton. They successfully petitioned King James VI & I for the release of an imprisoned Ulster chieftain, Con O'Niell, in exchange for thousands of acres of land in northern Ireland. These were cleared of the former landlord's native tennants in order to make way for settlement by Protestant colonists from Scotland. Members of the Clan Akins were among the thousands of Scots who settled in that troubled region during that period. With the revolt against the Stuart King, Charles I, during the English civil war, much of the historical information of the Clan Akins was lost when Oliver Cromwell's ships carrying records of all the clans as spoils of war sank off the coast of Berwick on Tweed. After Charles II was restorored to the throne, he instituted a public regifter of all the clans between 1672 and 1676. However the then chief of the Clan Akins having emigrated to Ulster as an exiled supporter of Charles I and later having settled in the American colony of Maryland where he died in 1669, he failed to re-establish his right to the Name and Arms of Akins and as a result the chiefship fell into a period of dormancy lasting for more than three hundred years. In Ireland the name is common only in Ulster, where the Scottish immigrants settled in the 17th century; but here new variations in spelling began to be seen. Aikins in Co. Armagh; Akins in Co. Monaghan; Eaken in Co. Tyrone; Eakin in Counties Derry and Down; Eakins in Co. Cavan; Ekin in Co. Donegal; and Ekins in Co. Sligo. In Co. Antrim where the name was most common, it was found to be most concentrated in the area northwest of Ballymena in the mid 19th century. Dr. Joseph Aiken published a poetic work in 1699 entitled "Londonderias, Or a Narrative of the Siege of Londonderry." The Clan name under its various spellings continued to be prevalent in Scotland, being among the 100 most frequently encountered surnames in 19th century records; ranking 90th in order of ooccurance, with a per capita ratio of 20 individuals per 10,000 bearing the surname, mostly in Lanarkshire and the surrounding counties, totaling an estomated 5,592 Scots bearing the name in one of its many forms. Variations of the name were said to have been common in the parish of Ballantrae, as well as in the counties of Aberdeen, Fife, Lanark, Perth, Angus, Renfrew, Ayr, Dumbarton, Stirling and the Lothians. Among the many friends of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns, was an A Ayrshire gentleman by the name of Robert Aiken, who Burns mentioned in a number of his works, including the prelude to "The Cottar's Saturday Night," and "Holy Willie's Prayer," as well as his "Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq." and "The Farewell." When the British government began to oppress the Scots colonists who had settled in Northern Ireland with heavy taxes and religious persecution, many of them left fleeing to North America as a safe haven where they might start new lives for themselves. It was in this way that many members of the Clan Akins came to America. Between 1717 and 1776, some 250,000 Ulster Scots left Northern Ireland mainly for the United States. In the year 1729 more than 6,000 arrived at the port of Philadadelphia alone. 100,000 more came to America in the two decades following the Revolutionary War. Thus with a total of some 11 million citizens of Scottish and Ulster Scots descent, the United States can claim to have the largest portion of the 28 million Scots worldwide, over twice as many as in Scotland itself, which has a total population of only five and a half million; and it is in the United States that the Clan Akins is its strongest. According to recently gathered statistics frorom the Social Security Administration, the total number of individuals bearing the Clan name in its three most common forms accounts forsome 53,650 persons. The spelling of Akins being the most usual, with a count of 23,586 individuals, followed by Aiken, with 17,924 persons, and Akin with 12,140 people bearing that form of the name.
Article by Judy Kesterson Spradlin in "Generations" regarding the McGlothins. ----To Be Added---
Per May McGlothin as told to Judy Kesterson Spradlin:
"Harvey said that on Sunday mornings Grandpa would get up and get dressed in his good clothes (Sunday clothes) and then would sit in his chair."
The implication was that he was possibly a catholic and could not or would not attend the protestant church his family may have attended. One could also get the impression that he was protestant and could or would not attend the catholic church this his first wife, Mary Chenault, possibly attended. Mary, of French descent, may have been Catholic or Hugenot as the Chenaults fled France when the Catholics attempted to purge the country of anyone who was NOT a catholic.
In a small homage to the St. Patrick's Day holiday, this week we [WBIR TV] traveled to Cocke County to explore the history of a small community on the eastern edge of Newport known as Irish Cut.
The neighborhood is almost entirely residential with the exception of a small church. In the middle of the 20th century, the community's identity was tied strongly with the local grocery store and school that are no longer in operation.
"I went to Irish Cut School from the first grade through the eighth grade," said Jim Shelton, a lifelong resident of Irish Cut. "This was just a three-room school and it did not have any water when it was originally built by the WPA in the 1940s. We had to carry buckets of water about half a mile from a nearby sawmill to the school. Then we put a well in front of the school to get water."
The Irish Cut School shut down almost 50 years ago when small schools consolidated, but its brightly-colored stone walls still stand strong today.
"This is made of sandstone from a quarry about two miles from here," said Shelton. "There are several quarries around this area."
"The limestone and other rock can still be seen in walls around the county," said Duay O'Neil, a retired teacher and historical collector who writes for The Newport Plain Talk newspaper. "My father had a great uncle who was one of the Irish stonecutters shortly after the Civil War. Many of our early settlers here in Cocke County came from Ireland and Scotland."
O'Neil said the first wave of Irish settlers arrived shortly after the Revolutionary War, lured by land grants offered to military veterans. Another sizeable contingent of Irish came to East Tennessee in the years following the Civil War.
"I think part of the attraction for the early settlers is our land is so much like what they were accustomed to in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Many Irish settled on a place called Irish Bottom where the Pigeon River and the French Broad River meet. We also have Dutch Bottoms along the river, too."
While Irish settlers cut a foundation in Cocke County, those early residents have nothing to do with the name of the community Irish Cut. The community's name is also unrelated to the nearby stonecutting operations, according to Shelton.
"The word 'cut' is a railroad term. When the railroad tracks have to be dug out below the surface, they call that a cut. You would cut a path for the tracks on top of hills so that the grade wouldn't be so steep," said Shelton. "On the edge oof our community is s a railroad cut that runs about a mile long. It became known as the Irish Cut because it was Irish laborers who moved the soil and moved the rock. They were brought in here from somewhere else and I don't know of anyone who stayed here who worked on that cut."
There are now around 90 families who live along Irish Cutt Road. Before the road dead ends, you can still see the old Irish Cutt Grocery store building and the Irish Cut School.
"The community is spelled C-U-T. The word 'Cutt' is a misspelling by a guy from California that stuck for the name of the road. The store used the same spelling as the name of the road it was on, but the community itself is spelled Irish Cut," said Shelton. "When I was growing up this was an extremely tight-knit community. There isn't a house on this road that I have not been in as a child. The grocery store was the center of activity around here where everyone met with each other."
"Many of the families in Irish Cut have lived there for several generations," said O'Neil. "There is always that connection for a lot of them that no matter where you go in this world, it's 'Well, I'm from Irish Cut.' It is a unique name."
"It is just a modest community, but there are a lot of fine people. And watching the sun race up and down that hill, it's just a beautiful picture," said Shelton. "Like any small community, there are some folks who grow up here who can't wait to leave and others who want to stay here forever. I love it here and wouldn't want to live anywhere else."
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John McLaughlin/McGlothin is reported to have followed the railroad from Virginia to Tennessee. There is no evidence that he worked at Irish Cut, but this story supports an Irish community that worked for the railroad.
Why did brothers John and James McLaughlin/McGlothin leave Ireland? There appears from records to have been a potato famine prior to the famous mid-nineteenth century potato famine. From an article on http://www.irishancestors.ie/?page_id=7289
"...When old enough to find work, he would have spent his days labouring for the local Protestant landlord. During the early nineteenth century, from about 1816 to 1819, the Province of Connaught suffered from widespread potato crop failures, caused by heavy flooding of the River?s Shannon and Suck. Small pox and typhus fever also became rampant causing many deaths among the poor. In 1822 Ireland suffered a famine caused by a potato blight, followed by a typhus epidemic, which resultted in much poverty, starvation and death. Many fled to the towns in search of food, whilst others...made their way to coastal ports hoping to obtain passage to another country. As was the custom of the labouring classes at this time, [he] would have walked the almost 100 miles from Roscommon to Dublin from where he would have sought passage on a cargo boat sailing for England..."
John would have been approximately 12-14 years old in 1825. The article is not about John McGlothin but may partially explain their exedous from Ireland. 06/23/2016
In Wytheville, Virginia, John Aiken, a boarder in the house with John Lewis McGlothin, appears to be more than just an acquaintence since the two of them interfered in a situation (JUDY DESCRIBE THIS HERE). They were both in Wytheville VA and John Aiken is shown as a boarder in the McGlothin Household. The spelling of John Aiken's name has been changed variously to Eaiken and other similar names, but he appears to have stayed with John and it is possible that he was with John in Ireland as they came to America. I have not researched the Aiken name.
A second person boarded with the McGlothins but his name does not appear but one time in the scant history of the McGlothins, unlike John Aiken, whose name appears several times connected him to John McGlothin.
More research is needed in this area.
J Spradlin 4/18/2019
The question of why John McGlothin left Ireland has been speculated but me er resolved. One of the best rationing is from a Facebook post.
I would say that the main reasons for emigration before the Famine were firstly the expiration of leases in Ulster (the landlords wanted to raise rents too much) and secondly the many minor famines that occurred before the 1840s. The people defeated in 1798, if not killed or captured, would quietly go home; but if they thought somebody would come after them they would emigrate, there was nothing to stop them.
Author: John Goodwillie
Facebook post in Irish Genealogy group, 05/18/2020
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Abt 1812 - 1880 (~ 58 years)
