Grainger-Jefferson-Hawkins County TN Archives Biographies.....Cude, John 1774 - July 1845 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Vernon Cude JOJOVERN1@MSN.COM January 24, 2007, 9:03 pm Author: Vernon Cude At least three of Timothy and Linda (Horner) Cude/Coode’s ten children moved to Tennessee, around the time it became a state. Their oldest daughter Mary, who married Tidence Lane Jr., William their oldest son and John their second son. Tennessee didn’t become a state till 1796. What is now Tennessee was originally part of North Carolina. Many early grants in present day Tennessee were made by North Carolina. After North Carolina became a state, it ceded its western lands to the U.S. Government which organized them and the ceded lands of other states into the "Southwest Territory". (A Northwest Territory was also created. It was surveyed using the Public Land section/township/range system.) . Its borders ran to the Mississippi River, but much of the state, particularly in the west, was Indian Land and therefore not subject to the state government. (The federal government considered the Indian lands to be those of a foreign power, and expected the states to treat them accordingly. Through the Constitution, Congress reserves the right to make treaties with other nations.). The first minister who preached regularly to a Tennessee congregation Tidence Lane Sr., pastor Buffalo Ridge, 1779 . Goodspeeds History of Washington Co TENN" The first Baptist Church organized in the county was the Cherokee Creek Church, constituted in 1783 by TIDENCE LANE Sr.. A List of Insolvents Living Within the Indian Boundary for the Year 1797, Which the County Court of Grainger Co. Tenn. Released the Sheriff from Collecting. Tidance Lane (Jr.) and Isaac Lane, Isaac whose parents were John Fuller Lane and Elizabeth Cloud was Tidence Jr.’s first cousin.. Tidence Jr. was also the twin to Sarah LANE who married Thomas Nelson HORNER. William Horner and Elizabeth Allred. Were the parents of Thomas (Spouse Sarah Lane), George (spouse Jemima Russell) and John Horner (spouse Elizabeth RUSSELL) William was a Deacon of the Bent Creek Baptist Church. He was a surveyor and came to Greene County, Tennessee in 1782. He donated the land which became the Bent Creek Cemetery in 1810, near Whitesburg, Jefferson County, Tennessee." "The earliest records in Tennessee show William and Elizabeth’s residence in Washington County, Tennessee, on lands in the 'Holstein' on Sinking Creek." John Cude who was born 1776 in Randolph Co. NC. He was listed in 1798 in Knox Co. Tenn. John Cude would have been 22 years old in 1798 with a son Horner Cude, who was born in 1796, and a daughter Elizabeth, who was born in 1798. I have his first wife listed as Nancy Lomax Gordon, born 1774 in Randolph Co. NC. There were a lot of Gordon’s in NC at this time. I have no records to prove this. A notice of Western Dist. Christian Conference at Gordon's Ferry on Duck River, Hickman Co. Tenn. 1830. This is where John Cude lived and shows how the Gordon and Cude families traveled together from Randolph Co. NC. To Hickman Co. Tenn. Grainger County was created in 1796 from parts of Hawkins Co, (Now Jefferson), TN. and Knox Co. The county is bounded on the Northwest by the Clinch River (and Norris Lake) and on the Southeast by the Holston River (and Cherokee Lake). -John Cude-1800 Jefferson Co. Tenn. John Cude and Tidence Lane Jr. were both in Jefferson Co. in 1805. (Wonder if they knew Davey?) A Marriage license that belonged to Davy Crockett and Margaret Elder, dated October, 1805 was found in Dandridge, Jefferson Co. Tn. court house. The marriage never took place because Margaret eloped with another man. Davy Crockett married Polly Finley a year later when he was just 20 years old. Davey Crocket had a neighbor Reubin Trippe in Tennessee. The family tradition was that Davey was bad at managing his money. On several occasions his property was ordered to sold. He circumvented the law by selling the farm to his Tripp neighbor until he could make restitution. In Larry Southard’s research he found that there were two occasions in which the Crockett farm was deeded to said Tripp and at a later date deeded back. Rubin’s relationship to Nicholas Trippe (Timothy Cude’s step-father) is unknown. 16 Jul 1799 - 19 Apr 1800 (Jefferson Co, TN Deed Book E, p. 212) Mark MITCHELL of Hawkins Co. to Samuel WHITE, 42 acres, $70 on the waters of Bent Creek adjoining Dr. ___ERWIN, John CUDE, Samuel WHITE. Test: Frederick PANGEL, John CUDE. Signed: Mark MITCHELL. Recorded 04/19/1800. 16 Jul 1799-21 Apr 1800 (Jefferson Co, Tennessee Deed Book E, p. 213). Mark MITCHELL of Hawkins Co. to John CUDE, 38 acres 100 Poles, $57.00 on the waters of Bent Creek (I have sold six acres out of this deed, which six acres I do not sell in this deed, nor am bound only to the first sale). Test: Frederick PANGLE, Solomon MITCHELL. Signed: Mark MITCHELL. Recorded 04/21/1800. 16 Jul 1799-21 Apr 1800 (Jefferson Co, Tennessee Deed Book E, p. 213) Mark MITCHELL of Hawkins Co. to Frederick PANGLE, 153 acres, $300 in Jefferson Co. Adjoining Dr. ___ ERWIN, Samuel WHITE, John PANGLE, John CUDE. Test: John CUDE, Solomon MITCHELL. Signed: Mark MITCHELL. Recorded 04/21/1800. 16 Jul 1803 - 22 Jan 1803. (Jefferson Co, Tennessee Deed Book F, p. 473) John CUDE of Grainger Co., to John PANGLE, 155 acres 100 poles, $400 on HANESES Branch of Bent Creek. Test: Wm HORNER, Sr, Jessee JAMES. Signed: John CUDE. Recorded 01/22/1803.John Cude-1803-1805 Granger Co. Tenn. JOHN CUDE State: TN County: Grainger County Township: 1805 Record Type: Tax list Database: TN Early Census Index. We also have WILLIAM (Cude) COAD State: TN County: Anderson County Township: No Township Listed Year: 1805 Record Type: Tax list Database: TN Early Census Index. WILLIAM (Cude) COOD State: TN County: Grainger County Township: No Township Listed Year: 1810 Record Type: Tax List Database: TN Early Census Index. William may have taken over the lands of John Cude who moved to the Hickman Co., (Middle TN.) area when Horner was about 10 years old (1806). In 1805, John Cude would have been about 31 years old with seven children-Horner (1796 married Temperance Lomax ), Elizabeth (1798 married Asa Bird ), Linda (1799 married John Blackwell), Lavena (1800 married Clement Wilkins ),Nancy (1802 married Thomas Wilkins), John (1803 married Mary Bird) and William (1804married Rebecca Blackwell ). He had two more boys Timothy (1808 married Linda Horner) and James (1814 married Temperance Lomax Wilburn) for a total of Nine children. John (Cude) Coode appeared on the 1805 Grainger county tax list. According to Spence's 1900 History of Hickman County, John Cude settled Cude's Bend on the Duck River about 1815, which is now called Burchard Town Bend. Cude's Bend was named for John Cude. Hickman County was established in December 1807. The county was named for Edwin Hickman, who was part of a surveying party that came here in 1791. Edwin Hickman was killed by the Indians and buried near the outskirts of what is now Centerville. Vernon, on the Piney River, was the first county seat. Several new counties were carved out of Hickman and by 1823, the new town of Centerville was named as the county seat. John Cude received a deed for 83 acres of land on Sugar Creek, Hickman Co. on March 10, 1810, and an additional 67 acres on April 4, 1810. John Cude sold 67 acres in Oct. 1815 to Elijah Horner. This was on Sugar Creek, Hickman Co. -Jesse Brown and John Horner (father of Catherine Horner Cude) were the witnesses. He sold it for $300.00. He sold 83 acres to John Horner, Sr. in November 1815 on Sugar Creek. That same month and year, he bought 274 acres from Lewis Russell on Duck River below Pine River. John Lomax (brother to Temperance, wife of Horner Cude) signed as witness. From Spence's History of Hickman County, Tennessee, 1965, Nashville, TN: p. 26 indicates that one John CUDE operated a cotton gin at Cude's Bend in 1815. John (Cude) Coode Township: Not Stated County: Hickman State: Tennessee Year: 1820 Roll: M33_122 Page: 183 Image Number: 141.--The last on in this book is 1825 John Cude to Clement Wilkins (Spouse of Lavena Cude) in June of 1825, he sold 130 acres on Duck River. Jesse and John Blackwell (spouse of Linda Cude) were witnesses. -- John (Cude) Code: Township: Not Stated County: Hickman State: Tennessee Year: 1830 Roll: 176 Page: 284. In a will he wrote in 1832 John mentions his wife Catherine Cude, mentioned in the deed reg. in Hickman Co. 12-5-1832, by John Cude ,to sons John and James and beloved wife Catherine (Horner) Cude. This would have been his second wife Catherine Horner, Birth: ABT 1789 in Hawkins Co. (now Jefferson Co)., TN Death: in Hickman Co., TN (Mary Jane Cude would have been John Horner’s Sister-in-Law. He was a son of William Horner.). John Cude died in 1845; his will was listed in the Hickman County Guardian on the first Monday of July 1845. His estate was settled in July 1845 with Jesse Blackwell as administrator. (Jesse Blackwell was probably his grandson from Lydia Cude and John Blackwell.) William Horner’s son George had a daughter Mary Lydia/Lidiah Horner, born 1809 in Perryville, Perry County, Tennessee; died 1859. She married Timothy Cude, born 1808 ( Son of John Cude (1774 - 1832.) Will Book 1, 1792- 1810: John Horner attended the estate sale of John Smith, Sr. on Aug. 30,1793.Grainger county, Tn. Land Records: p. 68: William Russell to John Horner; $30; 3 3/4 acres....land on Buffalo Hide Creek including the said Horner's house whereon he now lives.1799, Grainger County, Tn.: Jan. 17, 1799, in Grainger County, Tn., Capt. John Horner signed a petition to the effect that it would not be an advantage to add any part of Grainger County to Jefferson County, Tn. His brothers-in-law, George, Lewis, and William Russell also signed. John Horner is listed on the 1800 tax list for Grainger Co. with 300 acres and 1 white poll. Also listed is James Horner with 100 ac. & 1 white poll. Jefferson County, Tn. Court Minutes 1792-1795: p. 40, Feb. Sessions, 1794: John Horner served on grand jury. On August 1,1802, John Horner ,was in ,what was to become, Dickson Co. Tn. On that date, John Horner, of Robertson Co., Bought 250 acres, from James Watson, on the west fork, of Jones Creek Robertson Co., for $ 320. John, sold the same land, the next year, to Charles Walker. Jones Creek is between Charlotte and Montgomery Bell State Park. On March 23, 1781, Isaac Lane received a grant from the state of North Carloina for 100 acres of land in the Washington County, Tenn. on Sinking creek at Watauga, joining William Bean, Sr. and Cato West's lands, including a spring, and this was surveyed Aug 6, 1782. In May, 1782, he married Sarah Russell, daughter of Capt. George Russell, under whom he had fought at King's mountain, and the young couple set up housekeeping in a new cabin on the Sinking creek grant. Moves to Hawkins Co. As the settlement expanded, many of the inhabitants moved farther and farther into the wilderness and new counties were formed in the North Carolina territory west of the mountains. Isaac Lane moved with his family to Hawkins county, which was erected in 1786, Isaac Lane's home was in the part which fell into the new county of Grainger, and for a number of years, until another county division was made, he was active in the affairs of Grainger county. He was a captain of a company as long as he lived in Grainger county, which lay between Clinch mountain and Clinch river. In 1797 Isaac Lane bought from James Berry, of Hawkins county, 320 acres of land in Grainger county, on the north fork of Sycamore creek, which adjoined his home at Big Spring, and here he lived until about the year1820. Sarah (Russell) Lane, wife of Isaac Lane, was born in 1760 and died in June, 1857. Horner Cude, John’s first son moved over into Perry Co. Tenn. The county of Perry was created by an act of the General Assembly of the State, passed in November, 1819. The act provided "that a new county be established north of Wayne, west of Hickman, and south of Humphreys, by the name of Perry County, beginning at the southeast corner of Humphreys, running west, thence south, thence east, thence north to place of beginning, and to include all the territory lying between Humphreys, Hardin, Wayne and Hickman Counties. It can not be said who was the first settler of Perry County. The settlements were made in the valleys along the water-courses, and have ever-since been confined to those localities. There is no account of settlements prior to 1818, but it is evident that a number of individuals settled in the territory of the county before that date. Robert Patterson, whose son William was born on Tom Creek in 1818; Ferney Stanley, who taught the first school in the county, on the same creek, in 1820; Rev. Wm. Hodge, Rev. Samuel Atkins, John Stanley, Wm. O. Britt, Enoch Hooper and John Young, all settled on Tom Creek about the year 1818. 'William Patterson, now deceased, if not the first, was among the first born in the county. The family of Whitwells, Thomas, John, Samuel and James Lomax, Homer Cude, James Salmon, John Anderson, Rev. Joseph Kelley and Jesse Depriest were among the first settlers on Cane Creek. Jacob Huffstedler, born on board of a sailing ship en route from Germany to America in 1775, settled with his family on Cane Creek in 1821. John Horner, Elbert Matthews, Jerry Holligan and James Wilkins and their families settled on Buffalo River, near Beardstown about the year 1824. History of Perry Co. quoted from The Goodspeed Publishing Co., “History of Tennessee“, 1886. The eastern and central portions of Perry County lie on the western slope of the Highland Rim, and the western portion in the valley of the Tennessee River. It is bounded north by Humphreys, east by Hickman and Lewis, south by Wayne, and west by the Tennessee River, which separates it from the county of Decatur. Its area is about 400 square miles, or 256,000 acres, with a very small portion under cultivation. Perry County Deed Book H, page 68: This indenture made this day and entered into between Horner Cude & Joseph G. Smith both of this county of Perry and state of Tennessee witnesseth that the said Horner Cude for and in consideration of the sum of six hundred and fifty dollars to him in hand paid the receipt where of is hereby acknowledged hath this day bargained aols and conveyed and by these presents doth bargain sell alien convey and release unto the said Joseph G. Smith his heirs and assigns forever a certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the county and state aforesaid on buffalo river in range 9 & section 5 containing by survey nine acres more or less and bounded as follows.... (Begining on the n. e. corner of a one hundred acre entry in the name of Robert Walker....mentions Wm. F. Doherty's south est corner,,,,,,mentions Andrew Cude's line....guarantees unto Smith all "privilegs and wrights there unto belonging Mills dwellings orchards and herditaments.." in witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal this the 4th day of June 1850. Horner Cude (Seal) Isaac Russel - John (x his mark) Hoding (or Hading?) Perry County, Tn., Deed Book H, page 368: I Horner Cude of the county of Perry and state of Tennessee consideration of the sum of Five hundred dollars in hand paid, the receipt whereby acknowledged I have this day bargained and sold and conveyed and by these presents doth sell and convey unto William H. Cude of the county and state aforesaid Two certain tracts or parcels of Land situated lying and being in County of Perry and State of Tennessee on buffalo River, the first tract.......containing by survey forty and 1/2 acres....the second tract Bounded as follows ....containing by survey 38 acres....this 31st of May 1852.- --Signed in the presents of test Josiah Wilburn - A. C. Cude (no signature present)--Deed filed for registration 2nd May, 1852 ( Josiah Wilburn was Temperance Wilburn,s brother) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/grainger/bios/cude18gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/tnfiles/ File size: 17.1 Kb