Volume 9 , Issue 35

McGill Genealogy

"Hi! I'm Billie Watts from Livingston Parish, Louisiana. Im interested in genealogy on the FIELDS side (my Mother and my Father's side). My Grandmother Elizabeth FIELDS is my Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandmother on my Mom's side and my Great-Great-Great-Grandmother on my Dad's side. Her Father was Elijah FIELDS and she married Robert RATCLIFF.

I have a picture that belonged to my Grandpa HENRY MARTIN on my Mom's side, whom is MARY HELTON McGILL. I kept trying to figure out why I have this picture, but I had the picture enlarged, and there was numbers on her hat. The numbers were 556 Crocia Fields, 555 Rannie Fields, 532 John Manor. His number from the Archives say's 2nd FIELD, C. T. FIELDS. Number 558 is Abbie Brown, 557 is Perry Ross.

When I saw your website (ParisTimes Genealogy), I realized you are interested in the McGILL genealogy. I saw that Richard Fields' farm was on Sales Creek and McGill bought it from him. I thought this may be my answer as to why I have this picture. Mary (Helton) McGILL is the daughter of Chief Daniel HELTON -- married to a Robert McGILL.

I thought someone could shine some light on this for me. This is the first time I emailed someone so please excuse the punctuation and the mess." -- Billie Watts, 19089 Hwy. 42, Livingston, LA 70754

[Editor's Note: On our ParisTimes Genealogy website you can view our MCGILL/MAGILL Ancestor's history at the following URL - ParisTimes - McGill Ancestry. This is the paragraph pertaining to the Fields Settlement -- "A well-known historian of Hamilton County (Mrs. Penelope J. Allen) learned in her research that the Sale Creek pioneers bought land in an area known as the "Fields Settlement". It was known as the home of a famous Cherokee Chief (Richard Fields). According to Lucille Bates research completed in 1971, "There is still evidence of a settlement on the west bank of Sale Creek that extends toward Coulterville from its confluence with McGill Creek. It has been told that Fields sold out his improvements to a group of settlers and left Tennessee in 1808 when he moved on to Arkansas and then Texas where he became the leader of the Texas Band of Cherokees.

William and Nancy built their home near McGill and Sale Creeks, close to the trail that led northward to Knox County and southward to Ross's Landing. This path that was used by both the red and white man in the early settlement of Tennessee, has now become the Federal Highway Number 27 and connects Chattanooga with Knoxville, Tennessee.

Along the bottomland that ran along the creek such crops as corn, tobacco, and wheat were grown and the surplus products were freighted by the brother's to Patterson's Place on Opossum Creek. The surplus crops were then sold and Patterson would dispose of them through trade on the Tennessee River."]
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