Maryland Family Group Sheet for the John Granger TYE (3) Family *********************************************** Copyright Michael Glasscock. All rights reserved. http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml *********************************************** Submitted by: Michael Glasscock Email address: Husband: John Granger Tye (3) Birthdate: Abt. 1742 Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland Death date: 16 Mar 1833 Place of death: Carpenter, Whitley, Kentucky Burial: Golden Cemetery, Whitley, Kentucky Father: John Tye (2) Mother: Prescotia Hitchcock Marriage date: 1770 Marriage place: Richmond, Virginia Wife: Mollie Wheeler Birthdate: 04 Mar 1747 Birthplace: Richmond, Virginia Death date: 15 Jun 1809 Place of death: Carpenter, Whitley, Kentucky Burial: Golden Cemetery, Whitley, Kentucky Father: John Wheeler Mother: Elizabeth CHILDREN Child No. 1: John Tye Sex: M Birthdate: 1766 Birthplace: North Carolina Death date: Oct 1784 Place of death: killed by Indians Burial: Golden Cemetery, Whitley, Kentucky Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 2: Mary Tye Sex: F Birthdate: 1786 Birthplace: Whitley, Kentucky Death date: Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Joseph Prichard Child No. 3: John Tye Sex: M Birthdate: 1770 Birthplace: Richmond, Virginia Death date: 23 Jan 1795 Place of death: Hawkins, Tennessee Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 4: George Tye Sex: M Birthdate: 11 Feb 1782 Birthplace: Hawkins, Tennessee Death date: 09 Feb 1845 Place of death: Knox County, Kentucky Burial: Golden Cemetery, Whitley, Kentucky Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Nancy Elizabeth Mays Pearce Child No. 5: Elizabeth Tye Sex: F Birthdate: 19 Mar 1774 Birthplace: Richmond, Virginia Death date: 18 Dec 1848 Place of death: Carpenter, Whitley, Kentucky Marriage date: 1790 Burial: Golden Cemetery, Whitley, Kentucky Marriage place: Whitley, Kentucky Spouse's name: Drury Tye Child No. 6: Joshua Tye Sex: M Birthdate: 21 Dec 1783 Birthplace: Hawkins, Tennessee Death date: 29 Mar 1870 Place of death: Whitley, Kentucky Burial: Golden Cemetery, Whitley, Kentucky Marriage date: 12 Mar 1805 Marriage place: Whitley, Kentucky Spouse's name: Elizabeth Cummins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Documentation: MOLLY WHEELER TYE AND THE TYE FAMILY OF CARPENTER KENTUCKY From "Our Wheeler Family", 1997, by Marshall R. Wheeler Not much is known about Molly (also known as Mollie and Mary) and some of what is "known" may be wrong, e.g., that she was from "the New York Colony." Once printed, that statement has been repeated over and over, but a genealogical form for the N.S.D.A.R. for her grandson, George Washington Tye, states that she was born in Virginia. A marriage record has not been found, but, she married John. G. Tye (one in a series of father-son John Tye's) probably @1772 in Virginia. He was from the Baltimore area, born it is said @1737 (if so, then Molly may not have been his first wife since she was born @1757 as an estimate). Their first child, Betsy (Elizabeth) was born in Virginia in 1774, son John @ 1776, George in 1782, Joshua in 1783, and Polly (Mary) @ 1787. There may have been, also, a Susan Tye, born 1800. Molly died 15 June 1809 and was buried in the Tye Cemetery, Carpenter, Whitley County, Kentucky. Her husband married again, to Elizabeth (Betsy) Hamblin, and they had at least four daughters. There may have been other children as well; -- a descendant said that "...old John Tye died in bed at age 91, and he fathered so many children that he lost count." He is also buried in the Tye Cemetery, not far from the mouth of Golden's Creek where it meets Big Poplar Creek. Their daughter Betsy also had quite a reputation. According to Steven Alsip, a descendant, she "...was a very liberated woman for her time. She ran a ferry from Tye's ferry to Williamsburg. She cussed like a sailor, and smoked a corncob pipe." She had a number of children, but no husband, apparently. The rumour was that their father was Stephen Golden who lived nearby. "Capt. Young gives in one negro hired of Colo. Davies refuses to given in his property in a house adjoining J. Hunter's Mr. Abbey Peggy McLine her daughter and a child also Mr. Tewer a Soldier, works in the laboratory, his wife and child one horse. Also in the adjoining house assembly house Mr. Jones, a child, and a negro girl. Also in J. Hunters, Mrs. Roades, Molley Tye, and four children. Also in Mrs. Streaker's 8 children, four orphan children (Barkers). Three heard of cattle one mare belonging to her eldest son who is lame". Richmond, Virginia, 1782 Census. John Tye, Molly's husband, was a Revolutionary War soldier, and apparently left her in a rooming house in Richmond, Virginia, while he was gone, as is shown in this enigmatic entry in the 1782 census of Richmond. The four children mentioned after her name may have been hers, but this isn't certain. Before going to Kentucky soon after 1790, they were in North Carolina and Tennessee, and then settled in Whitley County, Kentucky (still part of Knox County then). There he and his sons built a 2-story double log house. -- rather like two houses connected by a breeze-way. It was a famous landmark for decades. "On the 5th Instant, John Tye, junior, was killed and John Tye, senior, John Burlinson, Sherard Mays, and Thomas Mays wounded by Indians on the frontiers of Hawkins County, Tennessee." from The Knoxville Gazette, Vol. 4, No. 2, January 23, 1795 Their son John was killed by Indians while a teenager, and was buried at that spot. There is a memorial marker for him at the Tye Cemetery. Their son Joshua, a veteran of the War of 1812, became a rich landowner -- owning as many as 40+ slaves. He was said to have been relatively kind to them, and never sold any. When they were all freed, eventually, they stayed with him, and he ended up a poor man from trying to take care of them all. George Tye, also a War of 1812 veteran, was the one who helped Sarah Wheeler. Children of his 2nd marriage went west @ 1866 and eventually founded Tye Texas, 12 miles West of Abilene. .