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  • THEY WERE ISSUED Their MARRIAGE LICENSE On: Info From Their TENNESSEE STATE MARRIAGE RECORD

  • Marriage: Their MARRIAGE WAS PERFORMED By JOHN WILLIAMS, JUSTICE Of The PEACE....info From The TENNESSEE STATE MARRIAGE RECORD Of JAMES BLEVINS And NANCY CRAWLEY

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  • HER OLDEST SON WAS NAMED After Her STEP-FATHER, GODFREY CARRIGER: ...HER 2ND SON WAS NAMED After Her FATHER, WILLIAM CRAWLEY.

  • Story: SCROLL DOWN: PROOF That NANCY CRAWLEY'S MOTHER, ELIZABETH LOVELACE (CRAWLEY)'s 2ND HUSBAND Was GODFREY CARRIGER JR

    <p>Biography of Godfrey Carriger family copied from the book, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Carter County, Tennessee and Its People, 1796-1993</span>, by Carter Co. History B Committee, pp. 181-182</p> <hr> <pre> GODFREY CARRIGER FAMILY<br><br> Godfrey Carriger Sr. (German spelling: Godfried <br>Kercher) was born March 7, 1732 and died<br>October 8, 1811. He was a Revolutionary War<br>soldier who came to the Watauga Settlement (Carter Co. Tn.) in<br>1782 from Brunswick County, Pennsylvania. His wife was<br>Margaret Hanspaugh. Carriger was on one of the<br>wealthiest men in the area. He brought from<br>Pennsylvania six wagon loads of supplies<br>which included fine furniture, an iron cook<br>stove-the first in the territory, over $35,000<br>dollars in gold, and a number of slaves. The<br>1792 tax roll shows Carriger owning nearly<br>3,000 acres of land, which reached from the<br>mouth of Stoney Creek to Winner Community.<br> During the 1790's, Carriger prepared the<br>roll for his community and returned it to the<br>office in Jonesborough, Tn.. He was overseer of the<br>wagon road from Sycamore Shoals, through his<br>property to the foot of the Holston Mountain.<br>Godfrey and his sons appear to have been<br>experienced iron workers, and they were<br>instrumental in developing this industry on<br>Stoney Creek which continued until 1891. The<br>Carrigers were also involved in county and<br>state politics.<br> A Tennessee historical marker in the Hunter<br>Community is a reminder of this industrious<br>German family. On the Carriger property where<br>Stoney Creek empties into Watauga River, was<br>a loading ramp known as Carriger's Landing<br>During times of high water Gunnel boats were<br>loaded with iron bars, grain, ginseng roots and<br>cured pork packed in barrels for shipment to<br>towns downstream.<br><br> 1A21<br> CARRIGER'S LANDING<br> Here, where Stony Creek empties<br> into Watauga River, corn, wheat,<br> wrought iron etc., were loaded on<br> flat boats for shipment in the<br> late 1700's and early 1800's.<br> Western emigrants also embarked<br> here. The brick house nearby was<br> built by Christian Carriger, son of<br> the original settler; Godfrey Carriger Sr.<br> (Historic Marker at Carriger's Landing, Hunter Community)<br><br> The Bible record of the Carriger family was<br>entered in German. It was translated in 1845<br>and showed the following eight children:<br> 1. Nicholas Carriger (b 28 Feb., 1761).<br>Records show that he served jury duty, made<br>bond for the sheriff in 1797 and owned 450<br>acres in 1796.<br> 2. Michael Carriger (27 April, 1764-d. 1809).<br>The tax roll of 1796 shows him on 750 acres in<br>Watauga Valley. One of his daughters was<br>married to Caleb Cox.<br> 3. Leonard Carriger (b. 3 Jan., 1766).<br> <span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>4. Godfrey Carriger, Jr. (b. 13 May, 1769-</strong></span><br><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span style="color: #ff6600;">1827</span>).</strong></span> He was Register of Deeds;<br>served as Constable; was a Major in the<br>Revolutionary War. He donated land for the first<br>school at Hunter in 1800 where he owned 320<br>acres including the Carriger homeplace. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>He</strong></span> <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">married</span></strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> Elizabeth Lovelace Crawley, widow of</strong></span><br><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>William Crawley.</strong></span> <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Two sons were born to this</strong></span><br><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>union, Jackson D. Carriger and Allen T.</strong></span><br><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Carriger, both of whom were Unionists during</strong></span><br><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>the Civil War.</strong></span><br> 5. Elizabeth Carriger (b. 14 Feb., 1771).<br>In 1797 she married John Nave, son of Teter<br>Nave who lived in Siam Valley. They bought the<br>Andrew Greer farm and also owned land on<br>Stoney Creek. In 1806 Mr. Nave, along with<br>Christian Carriger and Charles Basendine<br>started the iron industry on Stoney Creek. The<br>six children of John and Elizabeth were: John<br>Nave, Jr.; Lavina, who married Solomon Ellis;<br>Godfrey Nave, who served both as a<br>Representative and a Senator to the<br>Tennessee General Assembly; Henry Nave and<br>his brother Isaac Nave who were killed in the<br>Civil War by Capt. Dan Ellis and his troops<br>when they refused to surrender; and a daughter<br>who married Isaac Brown in 1836.<br> 6. Henry Carriger (b. 26 Feb., 1774).<br> 7. John Carriger (b. 14 Feb., 1777).<br> 8. Christian Carriger (b. 28 July 1779).<br>Christian was a Colonel in the War of 1812,<br>where he severd under John Fremont. He built<br>the first brick house in Carter County in the<br>Hunter Community and server two terms in the<br>Tennessee General Assembly. In 1846 he<br>moved to Misouri for a while and then set out<br>for California, but died enroute and was buried<br>in the Rocky Mountains.</pre> <p>&nbsp;</p> <!-- text below generated by server. PLEASE REMOVE --> <p>geovisit(); &lt;img src="http://visit.geocities.yahoo.com/visit.gif?us1200847537" alt="setstats" border="0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</p>

 
 
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