Anderson Ivie in Bedford County, Tennessee

Compiled by Len Evans

(revised 7/02)

While James, William, and William Allred jr appeared on the Tax List of Bedford County of 1812. The first record of Anderson Ivie is not until 1815, when he recorded the purchase of land in Bedford county, TN. The last recorded information on Anderson Ivie before this was his dismissal from Groves Level Baptist Church in Franklin county, GA in 1807.

Anderson Ivie was apparently a member of the Rock Creek Primitive Baptist Church by 1815. In June Brother Ivey and Brother Sherwood are cited to give reasons why they had not been attending church. Brother Ivey was cited again in July to attend the next meeting and give reason for not Attending. In August Brother Ivey gave satisfaction for not attending church meeting. Anderson and Sarah Ivie were listed as members of the Rock Creek Primitive Baptist Church, in 1817.

Old Shilo or Rock Creek Primitive Baptist Church was 4 miles west of Lewisberg, on the left of the old Columbia Road. In 1958, there remained about 50 graves with illegible markers of crude native stone. The church was near the old dividing line between Maury and Bedford counties, and lies within present day Marshall county.

While the Ivies, Allreds and Sanders lived in Bedford County, and the Faussetts and McKees lived in Maury County, they lived in close proximity to each other. All of their properties would eventually become a part of Marshall county. The Ivies and Sanders were members of the Rock Creek church, while the Faussetts had some connection to it. The Fausett property after 1812 was about 12 miles southeast of Columbia on Silver Creek, in Maury County, near the Rock Creek church. Nancy Fausett (daughter of Richard) was married to Alexander Baldridge by Zion Record who was connected to the church.

Anderson Ivie recorded the purchase of more land in Bedford county in 1819, and on 19 December of that year, Ezekiel Billington jr married Polly Ann Ivie (daughter of Anderson Ivie) in Bedford county. Anderson and Sarah Ivie are again listed as members of Rock Creek Baptist Church in 1821. The next year James Russell Ivie signed a petition to dam the Duck River at Shelbyville in Bedford county. The petition of William Galbreath, was submitted to the General Assembly, State of Tennessee. He purchased a lot in Shelbyville, together with a wood carding machine for which he paid the sum of $2,500. The said machine was on the north side of Duck River in the town of Shelbyville. The sought a permit to build a dam across Duck River, it was signed by James R Ivie, and Thomas Allred among others.

Elizabeth Ivie, a sister of James R. Ivie, was married to William Hackley Allred, in Bedford county, on 25 March 1824. In June, James Russell Ivie and Eliza McKee Fausett, the daughter of Richard Fausett and Mary McKee, are also married in Maury County, TN. James was 22, Eliza 16.

Hettie M Robins, a great granddaughter of James R and Eliza McKee Ivie relates the following memory. "Just where they met we don't know. This is the tale she told, only it has lost its soft southern accent that was so pleasing in the way she would tell it: “I was milking my fathers cow one evening, the first time pop came a'calling on me. He says, Eliza, I've came a'courting you. I ' looked up and there I saw a boy, plenty big enough to be wearing britches, and there he stood with a doe shirt on. I told him right out if I was to be his girl he better go home and ask his mother to make him some britches. The next time he came he wore britches."

On 28 January 1828, Anderson Ivie conveyed to James Ivie, both of Bedford county, for love and affection for my son James Ivie, 50 acres of land on West Fork of Rock Creek. Borders Wilson's Road, Wm Miller, Abednge Robertson of Sink Hole Spring. Wit. John A Ivie and Ezekiel Billington. Registered 3 November 1829.

Sometime after the transfer of this property the Ivie and Allred families must have made a decision to move to Missouri, for Anderson Ivie, James R. Ivie and James and Isaac Allred all sold their property in Bedford county, to James L. Ewing during 1829-30.

In September of 1829, a letter from Brother Anderson Ivy and Brother Ezekiel Billington and wives prayed letters of dismission from the Rock Creek Primitive Baptist Church, which was granted. A letter of dismission, was actually a letter of introduction to a church in the local where they intended to settle, stating that they were members in good standing at the church they had left.

According to family sources William Allred died in Bedford County about 1829. His widow Elizabeth Thrasher Allred, lived with her daughter and son-in-law Anderson and Sarah Allred Ivie, and moved with them to Monroe County, MO in 1829, where she is thought to have lived to the age of 87, dying around 1847.

Nothing is known of the Ivie and Allred family migration to Missouri. It probably took place in the fall or winter of 1829, as was usual for farmers who migrated between the time of Fall harvesting and Spring planting.

The Family of Eliza McKee Fausett,

wife of James Russell Ivie

taken from

“Ancestry of Moses Martin Sanders and Amanda Armstrong Fausett”

Compiled by

Elden G. Hurst

Richard Fausett (elder) is the father of David Fausett who is the father of Richard Fausett (younger), who married Mary Mckee, and is the father of Eliza McKee Fausett who marries James R Ivie in Bedford county, Tennessee in 1824.

1756 The first record of a Fausett in North Carolina, is when a James Fausett is replaced as road superintendent in Orange County, NC.

1768 Richard Fausett (the elder) purchased what will become known as Fausett's Mill, along with two parcels of land, one of 50 acres and the other of 100 acres, on the Eno River in Orange County, North Carolina, from Isaac Low. The mill, which began operation in 1758 continues to operate until 1918, and was owned by a Fausett as late as 1870.

1777 August - Richard Fausett (the elder) was selected to sit on the Grand Jury,

Orange County, NC.

1779 August - Richard Fausett (the elder) was appointed overseer of the road from Hillsborough, NC. to the six mile tree.

13 March - Alexander McKee purchased 2391/2 acres on the Eno River in Orange County, N.C. for £450. Land registered 1795. Alexander McKee was or soon became the father-in-law of Richard Fausett (younger)

1784 David & Richard Fausett (the elder) were witnesses to the will of William Fausett who may have been a brother of Richard Fausett (elder).

1792 David Fausett son of Richard Fausett (the elder) purchased Fausett's Mill, including the two parcels of land, from his father for £400.

Alexander McKee was listed on the Orange County tax rates as owning three slaves.

1795 March - Alexander McKee purchased from Thomas O'Neil 220 acres of land on which he was living, together with a still, with the provision that O'Neil could buy the land and still back at the same price within 16 months. On the same day McKee purchased land from O’Neil lying on Turkey Creek on the Cumberland River in Tennessee. McKee and probably Richard Fausett (the younger) moved to Tennessee at this time.

1796 Alexander McKee was appointed to jury duty in Sumner county, Tennessee. He was also made overseer of the road from Red River to the Kentucky state line. His property was approximately 13 miles north and slightly east of Nashville.

1797 Alexander McKee and Richard Fausett (younger) served on the Grand Jury, Sumner county. Not certain when Richard Fausett married Mary McKee, the daughter of Alexander McKee, but likely before they moved to Tennessee.

1798 April - A rule of court was made for judicial attachment to issue and to summon Alexander McKee as garnishee which issued in form following to wit thereon the Sheriff made return to July 1798 thus Alexander McKee summoned as a garnishee of John Franklin. McKee land speculation appears to begin to go bad at this point.

1800 Alexander McKee gave Richard Fausett (younger) a gift of 200 acres of his 640 acre parcel of land in Sumner county. Did he make this gift at this time to forestall losing it to his debtors?

1803 Richard Fausett (the elder) transfered land, on which he was living in Orange County, NC, to Samuel & Richard Fausett for £20, with the right to live on the property until his death. Samuel & Richard were likely sons of Richard, as was David, and possibly Thomas and Ralph. Richard Fausett (the elder) died sometime between 1803-10.

6 April - Benjamin Bashaw vs Alexander McKee - debt jury impaneled, found defendant has not paid his debts, and that the plaintiff pay cost of this suit.

1804 19 March - Alexander McKee is named defendant in seven separate court actions, each one reading similar to the first: "The plaintiff, Metherall having obtained sundry judgement against the defendant before a single magistrate to the amount of three hundred & twenty six dollars twelve cents together with three dollars fifty cents cost on said judgment on which judgments executors issued & sworn all levied on 440 acres of land the property of the defendant including the said defendants plantation which land on motion of the plaitiff by his attorney is condemned for the use of said judment and ordered to be sold to satisfy the same.”

Plaintiff Judgment amount Costs

John Metherall 326.12 3.50

Thomas Perry 250.00 3.00

Kaspar Mansker 148.70 1.50

Jesse Eatherly 49.99 .50

William Bowen 43.89 .50

Exec. Of William McWhirter. Dec’d 72.78 ½ 1.00

Christopher Stump & Co 53.20 2.00

$944.68 ½ $12.00

One of the seven plaintiff's in the suit against Alexander McKee was Kaspar Manshar, an early & prominent Tennessee pioneer. Manshar was born on a ship in the mid Atlantic to German parents, was a hunter on the mid-Cumberland River c1770, where he had a legendary meeting with Daniel Boone.. As Tennessee was Indian country, frontiersmen usually maintained a low profile, but apparently overcome by loneliness, and possibly encouraged by liquor, Manshar came upon Boone in a clearing with a roaring fire bellowing out the tunes of the day.

Manshar was the first to settle on the Middle-Cumberland, on Manshar Creek, some twelve miles north of French Lick (Nashville) in 1779. He abandoned the settlement after repeated Indian attacks but returned in 1789. Andrew Jackson stayed there at this time, and it was in the vicinity that Alexander McKee would settle in 1796.

Gift of 200 acres of land from Alexander McKee to Richard Fausett registered.-Gift made four years earlier, likely registered at this time to keep it from being attached as property of Alexander McKee.

19 June - William Derris appointed road overseer in place of Alexander McKee.

1807 Richard Fausett sold the 200 acres of land that was a gift of Alexander McKee to Thomas Ryan Butler of Robertson County, Tennessee for $ 100. ( Not certain if sold for $100 or $1.).

Maury County, Tennessee

1808 Eliza McKee Fausett, future wife of James Russell Ivie, was born near Columbia, Maury County. She was the daughter of Richard Fausett and Mary McKee. Also present in Maury County at this time were Alexander McKee, Jacob McKee. James Trousdale. Thomas McKee and Sarah McKee Purcell. According to Nathan Vaught, Richard Fausett came to Columbia in 1809 or 1810, and settled about 1 1/2 miles southeast of town.

1810 £21 June - James Purcell, husband of Sarah McKee Fausett, purchased town lot 66 in Columbia, Maury County, where they were married.

13 August - Nathan Vaught, age 10, was bound as an apprentice to James Purcell. Vaught will become the most famous architect of his time in this part of Tennessee.

1811 List of taxable property - Richard Fausett, two black polls, one white poll.

1812 Maury County Tax List

land where W/P B/P Lot

Richard Fauchett 180 Silver Creek 1 1

McKee, Alex 1

Andrew 1

Jacob 150 Lytles Creek 1

Thomas 1

1813 21 December - Deed from Newton Cannon to Richard Fausett proved and registered. 180 acres on Silver Creek for $360. Richard Fausett property was on Silver Creek about 12 miles southeast of Columbia. While the Ivies, Allreds and Sanders lived in Bedford County, and the Faussetts and McKees lived in Maury County, they lived in close proximity to each other. The Ivies and Sanders were members of the Rock Creek church, while the Faussetts had some connection to it. The Fausett property after 1812 was about 12 miles southeast of Columbia on Silver Creek, in Maury County, near the Rock Creek church. Nancy Fausett (daughter of Richard) and Alexander Baldridge were married by Zion Record who was connected to the church.

1816 Vaught states that in 1816 Mr. Purcell built a one story log house for himself on Garden Street northwest from the public square. In 1817, Purcell put a second story over his shop for his family. They lived in the rear of the shop from 1811-1817. Located on Northside of Market Street. He said Purcell died 22 October 1821

1818 Maury County Tax List

land where w/p* b/p* lots studs carriages

Fuacet, Richard 180 1 1

Alex 1

McKey, Alex 70 Little Bigby 1

McKee, David W 216 1 4 3

Thomas 175 1

Jacob 280 1 1

William 1 1

Purcell, James 1 1 3

*W/P - White Poll B/P - Black Poll

1820 Vaught described leaving Columbia in 1820, at the age of 21 for schooling 12 miles from Columbia on Silver Creek, likely at the Fausett's

1823 12 November - Richard Fausett gave 14 1/2 acres of land on Silver Creek

to his son Alexander Fausett.

Richard Fausett sold property on Silver Creek to son-in-law James Baldridge for $75.

1824 Richard Fausett gave 75 acres of land on Silver Creek to his son David

Richard Fausett sold a negro man Jack, about 25, for $500.

1830 John McKee Fausett and Moses H Sanders families migrated to Montgomery County, IL.

1834 15 February - Richard Fausett sold Michael Steel 54 acres of land for $220.

1835 Richard Fausett sold land, some adjoining Polks, for $1,084 to Baldridge

William S. Ivie with Holmes traveled to Bedford county, TN as a missionary. It is presumed that he visited and proselytized his grandfather Richard Fausett and other members of the Fausett family. His uncle William Fausett living in Montgomery county, Illinois, became a Mormon about this time, and would soon migrated to Far West, Caldwell, MO. Apparently Tennessee was not particularly fertile ground for conversions.

1837 28 November - Richard Fausett married Ann Shelton, by Rev. H.R. Warren. According to Amanda A. and William McKee Fausett, Richard Fausett "started to gather (as a Mormon to Far West, Caldwell county, MO), but turned back." Most likely would have been at this time.