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Marie Allen [Female]
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Gregory Cemetery, Sycamore Valley Road, Macon Co., TN
Family tradition states that Enoch Fisher, Mary's father, did not approve of her marriage because he was half Indian. As a result, they ran away to get married and eventually moved to an other county (East TN) and the family lost touch with them for a number of years. She supposedly returned home for a visit with her parents in the Fall before she died. They were living at Defeated Creak, Smith Co., TN when she died. Lucy Jamison, the granddaughter of John Wesley, reports that when Mary Lee died, John took her body by boat and buried her at some unknown location where the Fisher family could not find her. This apparently was the final act as a result of the Fisher family never accepting their marriage. Another report indicated that when she was sick, her father came and got her and took her back across the river (south of Carthage) and when she died buried her where John could not find her. The Fisher family decedants do not know she is buried either. We may never know what really happened.
Aunt Elizabeth Andrews recalled that John traveled a lot. He at one time ran a saloon. He was a member of the church of Christ. Their family was the first family in area to have a sewing machine and silver flatware. Aunt Belle got sewing machine and silver after they died. May be Uncle Colly has them now but no one knows. After Mary Fisher Word died, John married Mollie Perler. Mollie died during child birth. John then married Harriet Smith (Aunt Harriet) and after they raised kids they separated.
Harriet was mean to the kids. John then married Cynthia 'Ciny' Belle Allen Morgan. Aunt Belle married Ciny's son, Colly? Allen. A family picture has John & Harriet, Cordella, Leonard and Belle Word.
Date of death not clear. Feb. 15, 1912 in Sue Sheddan, a cousin, research records and April 13, 1912 in other records. Death and birth dates according to John Westley Word's Tombstone is Mar 25, 1859 - death Feb 15, 1912. This Coley-Word Cemetery is located behind the house and up the small hill from 3150 Sycamore Valley Road, Pleasant Shade, TN (Cemetery is in Macon Co.)
The following recorded is from Lucy Madeline Andrews Jamison, grand-daughter of John Wesley Word in March of 1997 by Joe Jamison her son:
Granddaddy and his brother, Uncle Jim got a saw mill together and ran it for a while. The mill is believed to be in the Defeated Creek area of Macon Co., TN. Then his Uncle Jim went to Texas. Granddaddy then got a saloon. He married again to Mollie who was 21. She died of Typhoid Fever. Mollie was his second wife. He latter married Harriott Smith. We called her Aunt Harriott. Aunt Harriott already had a child. He later married Cythia Belle Morgan and they had a boy.
Tennessee State Death Record No. 56392:
Word, John Macon 191256392
Some sources indicate burial in : Coley-Word Cemetery, Macon Co., TN
However, the Gregory Cemetery is correct.
Coley-Gregory Cemetery, 150 Sycamore Valley Road, Pleasant Shade, TN (Macon Co.)
I personally have visited this cemetery and viewed the marker.
The following record was also found. This would have been about 1900.
#30 John W. Word 41, Verna H. 49 married 21 years
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The information concerning most of the Dilllehay family is from Glenn W.Dillehay. He believe s that Charles immigrated to Maryland in 1663 aboardthe ship The Virgin of Southampton.
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