Evelyn Rector Schmidt wrote in the March 2000 issue of Beyond Germanna (page 679) of her search for Cumberland Rector, who was not identified correctly by Dr. Salmans, Dr. Holtzclaw, or Larry King. Taking Larry King's " Rector Records " as an example, there is no Cumberland in the index. After a long search with excellent help, Ms. Schmidt compiled a chronology of Cumberland Rector.
Cumberland was born ca 1774 to Charles and Elizabeth ( ___ ) Rector in Fauquier County, Virginia. Cumberland was in Baird's Company of the Knox County Regiment in the Hamilton District Militia for the Territory South of the Ohio in the period after the Revolutionary War. In 1794, a daughter, Mary ("Polly") was born to Cumberland and his wife, whose name is not known. A son, Landon, was born 4 Feb 1798. Cumberland signed a petition prior to 29 Sep 1801 asking for the creation of Gallatin (later called Roane) County. Presumably, as a signer of the petition, he was living in what was then Knox Co., Tennessee.
Cumberland was called for jury duty in 1801, 1802, and 1803 in Roane Co. He appears on the Gax Lists of 1805 and 1808, and perhaps in 1802. A son, Charles, was born in 1804. George Preston deeded 30 acres on 7 Jan 1804 to Cumberland Rector of Roane Co. The land was located on Hines Valley Creek. A witness was Joseph Looney.
Mary Rector married James Bailey on 17 Feb 1810 in Roane Co., and she was given as a daughter of Cumberland Rector. This family moved to Missouri in about 1837. In 1812 Cumberland Rector of Roane Co. bought 500 acres in Rhea Co. In about this same year, Charlotte was born. Cumberland enlisted 5 Oct 1813 as a private under Col. John Brown and Capt. James Preston, in the East Tennessee Militia Regiment. In 1819, 1825, and 1829 Cumberland was listed with 350 acres. In 1825, Landon Rector paid taxes on 150 acres located on Piney River.
In 1828, Charlotte Rector married Wm. H. Stockton. In the next year, Charles Rector appears on the 1829 Tax List for one poll and no land. The 1830 Rhea Co. Census data taken for Cumberland shows one male (5-10), 2 males (15-20), one male (40-50), and one female (15-20). Cumberland sold 82 acres in 1833 to Archelaus Vaughn. In 1833 also, the Tax List shows Cumberland with 350 acres, Wm. Rector with no land and one poll, and the same for Charles Rector and Landon Rector (on Piney River), with one poll but no land. In 1835 Malinda Rector (born ca 1815 according to the 1850 Census) married Hezekiah McPherson on 14 Nov. The couple moved very soon to Missouri, where their first child, Hardin, was born.
(To be continued)
(23 Sep 05)
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