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Volume 15 , Issue 18

2013

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Doing some genealogy searches along the lines, connections to my paternal MCGILL family, I ran across the CRAIGHEAD family, who would probably be considered "in-laws" in connection to my MCGILLs.

My ties to the Craighead family run through William Craighead (1778-1835). William had a son, Samuel Geddes Craighead (1814-1889), who married Nancy McGill (1814-1898) (my 2nd great grand aunt). Nancy McGill was the daughter of William Nathan McGill, Jr. (1783-1832) and Nancy Anne Luttrell (1787-1860). Nancy McGill had a brother David Milton MCGILL (1808-1850) (my 2nd great grandfather), also a son of William Nathan MCGILL Jr.

That brings us to my great grandfather, William Pearson MCGILL (1835-1918), son of David Milton McGill (1808-1850) and Nancy McKelvy Pearson (1816-1908). nancy Pearson was the daughter of Jacob Pearson (1789-1844) and Jane Douglas (3rd great grandparents). Jacob Pearson was the son of Abel A. Pearson and Elizabeth Doyle (my 4th great grandparents).

My grandfather, William "Bill" Jacob MCGILL (1880-1959) we have mentioned earlier, who married Constance Estella Warwick, and had two sons: Gene M MCGILL (1914-1986) and Robert Lee McGill (1916-1954).

My MCGILLs settled in Hamilton county, Tennessee, near a community called "Soddy." In 1969 Soddy and Daisy, Tennessee were combined into Soddy-Daisy, located north of Chattanooga, Tennessee on Highway 27, in a rapidly growing area of Hamilton County. Daisy, Tennessee was the site of Poe's Tavern, where the first courts of Hamilton county were held. Hasten Poe, a veteran of the war of 1812, erected the tavern. It stood at the intersection of two heavily traveled highways and was a noted stopping place. The tavern was torn down about 1915.

Soddy, Tennessee took its name from Soddy Creek which runs through the community. Soddy is a corruption of the Cherokee word "Sauta" which is a form of Echota. Rev. Able Pearson (I believe this Able Pearson to be my 4th great grandfather) organized the Mt. Bethel Presbyterian Church there in 1 December 1828 with the help of Benjamin Wallace, that helped establish the community of Soddy, TN. Col. William Clift, a large landowner and Hamilton county's first millionaire, was a pioneer citizen of this area and built his residence there in 1825.

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