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Individual Record for: William Kilgore (male)

Notes:

Virginia and William Kilgore had a son named Clayton.
Notes Source: Dixon Family History Book

Notes:

CANZADA KILGORE DICKSON --our wonderful Grandma

There are a lot of stories in our family about Grandma Dickson. She was alleged to be an Indian squaw that William picked up on a trip down to northwest Georgia. others said she was a tough taskmaster who knew to do nothing but work. other stories I have heard make her the epitome of the frontier woman --- big" strong, could pull the plow when the mule got tired, washed, cleaned, spun thread and made clothes for the kids. Take your pick --- no one in today's generation remembers her as she passed away shortly after 1900 in northwest Georgia. After very extensive study of records to find Canzada in Grundy and surrounding counties, I was referred to a very wonderful lady, Mrs. Catherine Flury in Tracy City, Tennessee, whom I was told was doing a genealogy study on Kilgore family. This turned into the kind of experience all of us who do this kind of work love. Come to find out, her grandfather and Canzada were brothers and sisters. She provided me the following information.

Five brothers who were great, great grandsons of Lord Douglas Kilqore came to America in 1763 from Scotland. Charles Kilgore, a gallant and brave soldier in the American Revolution was wounded at the Battle of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, where the Americans defeated the British General Ferguson. His brother, Hiram Kilgore, was killed in this fierce battle. The other three brothers were Robert, william and James.

Our Grandma's line is via Robert. Robert was born in Scotland in the 1740's and died in 1783. He married Winnie Clayton. Robert obtained land on Falling Creek, in Scott county, Virginia in 1772, returning from Orange County, North Carolina. The children of Robert and Winnie were:


1. Charles, Jr. b. 1-4-1764
d.
m. Avarilla Simpson They had a daughter, Winnie


2. Reverend Robert (Robin) (Story later in this section) b. 1765 Orange cty., N;C.
d. 29 May 1854
m. Jane Porter Green (widow of James Green)

3. Steven b. 1766-1768 Orange cty., N.C.
d. 1840-1845 Marion cty., TN.
m. Rebecca Sayler before 1807
b. 1770-1780 Western, N.C.

They came to Tennessee in 1805
(page 80)

4. William b. 1769 Orange cty., N.C.
d. 1857 m. Virginia Jane Osborn Named son, Clayton


5. Hiram b. 1771 Orange cty., N.C.
d.
m. Rebecca Renfro Named daughter, Winnie


6. Ralph b. 1773 in what's now Scott cty., VA.


d.
m. Nancy Gray Named daughter, Winnie


7. Ester b.
d.
m. 1783 Lewis Green, Jr. (A brother to James Green)



About Steven Kilgore and Rebecca Salyer Kilgore

Steven Kilgore was born in Orange County, North Carolina between 1766-68 to Robert Kilgore and Winnie Clayton Kilgore of western North Carolina.
Steven Kilgore's name appears on the Russell County, Virginia tax roll in 1788 indicating that he probably had accompanied the Salyer brothers to the Copper Creek area in Russell County. Steven Kilgore married Rebecca salyer around 1788, probably in Russell County. Steven Kilgore appears to have resettled in Marion County, Tennessee in 1808. He came down through Bledsoe County where he stopped for awhile with a Joe Kilgore. (Joe Kilgore has not been identified as to his relationship to Steven Kilgore.) He then continued down Sequatchie Valley to what is now Victoria in Marion county. (Not a county until 1817.) At that time the territory was Cherokee Indian land and the white people who came in were considered intruders.
Steven and Rebecca Kilgore had three sons when they came to Tennessee. Charles born in 1790, William and Joseph born between 1800 and 1810. When Steven came to Victoria he settled on the Cowan farm and adjacent property. Besides being a farmer he also practiced his profession as a preacher. Steven and Rebecca had eight children of which many descendants still live throughout Sequatchie Valley and surrounding counties. Steven died between 1844-45 in Marion County and was buried in the family plot in Kilgore Cemetery on the foothills of ( page 81 )
Walden's Ridge in the Valley.
Rebecca was still living at the age of ninety according to the 1860 census. She was living with her daughter, Rebecca Layne. The exact time of her death is not known, but she was buried beside her husband.
Notes Source: Dixon Family History Book

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