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- !MARRIAGE-RELATIONSHIP: Beulah Henry Anderson, et.al., JOHN AND ESTHER
MONTGOMERY 1719-1973; Maryville TN, Montgomery Publishing, Brazos Printing Co.,1974; pg. 447; US & Canada Book Area of LDS Genealogical Library, Salt Lake City UT, 929.273, M766a.
!RELATIONSHIP: D.B. Montgomery, THE MONTGOMERYS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS; 1903
(Reprinted 1985); pg. 351; Book in possession of John C. Montgomery of
Atlanta GA.
!COMMENTS: There is considerable doubt regarding the exact spelling of this woman's name. It is recorded differently in various places as Margaret/Margrate/Margate McCameron/McCorete/McCorrette. The records in the
Blount County (TN) County Clerk's office do not help since the name is written three ways on the documents there. The name on the outside cover of the marriage license is written as Margaret McCorete. The first name on the actual marriage license is written as Margrate, but the surname is smudged so badly it is impossible to read, even with a magnifying glass. However, it appears to be something like McCameron (or perhaps McCammon?). According to a book entitled "Marriages of Blount County, Tennessee 1795-1827" which is located in the library at Samford University in Birmingham, AL, there is a register in the County Clerks' office where the name is spelled Margate McCameron. Mrs. Edith Little, a DAR historian in Maryville, has listed the spelling as Margrate McCammon in a book of Blount Co. marriages that she compiled.
I, John C. Montgomery, personally believe that the proper spelling of the surname is McCammon for the following reasons:
1. There were no McCamerons or McCoretes in Blount County on the 1800 or 1801tax lists, and there are no land records for people by those names. A book in the Clayton Library in Houston TX entitled "Early Tennessee Tax Lists" which was compiled in 1977 by B.Sistler indicates that there were no McCamerons or McCoretes paying taxes anywhere in eastern Tennessee during the period 1787 -1827. However, there were at least 3 McCammon families living near the Montgomery land on Baker's Creek according to these same tax and land records.
2. The list of marriages contained in the book in the Samford University library lists the McCammon name (one record) marrying a Montgomery but does not show any McCorete marriages or any other instance of a McCameron marriage.
3. On page 444 of the book on John and Esther Houston Montgomery, a marriage is mentioned between Elizabeth Caroline Montgomery and Samuel A. McCammon, so we know that these two families did intermarry.
ACTION:
1. Place a query on Prodigy and in other publications in re the proper spelling.
2. Investigate the McCammon family records in Blount County to see if Margaret/Margrate can be found.
3. Write Mrs. Little & see if she remembers why she spelled it McCammon.
(Done; no answer received.)
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