To Everything A Season: James EDGAR and Selah WITHERINGTON EDGAR Family

Williamson Co,

TENNESSEE

Deed Book R, p 538

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Not Our James EDGAR

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Latest update: Thursday, 12 March, 2015

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IN PROGRESS

Saturday, August 6, 2011

There is at least one other James EDGAR in TENNESSEE circa our James EDGAR, born 10 Sep 1790 and died 29 Apr 1869,

who married Selah WITHERINGTON and established our branch EDGARS in DeWitt Co, TEXAS.

James S. EDGAR -- notice the middle initial S --  of Williamson Co, TENNESSEE, son of John EDGAR is often confused with

our James EDGAR of Maury Co, TENNESSEE. We have yet to find a documented reference to our James EDGAR using the

middle initial S.

James S. EDGAR is identified in this 14 September 1844 document as deeding his interest in

his father John EDGAR's estate to Isaac IVY. This James S. EDGAR was John EDGAR's son,

clearly, however, he was a resident of Williamson County.  In September 1844, our James

EDGAR was married with children and was unquestionably a resident of Maury County. This

document has been misinterpreted, understandably, by other researchers to be our James

EDGAR, thus incorrectly establishing our James as John’s son. (We are working on the theory

James S. EDGAR was our James EDGAR's nephew.)

Our James married Selah WITHERINGTON in Williamson County, TENNESSEE on 06 Jan 1816, but  by 1818, when his older

brother William and his family relocated to ILLINOIS, James and Selah were living in Maury Co, TENNESSEE on the land that

William had bought upon relocating to TENNESSEE about 1809.  In the 1818 purchase of land from is older brother William,

James is recorded as "James Edgar of the County of Maury." (Maury County (TENNESSEE) Deed Book G, p 393)

James, Selah and family were enumerated in Maury Co, TENNESSEE in the 1820, 1830, 1840 and 1850 censuses. (Census

and Sources in the Family Tree Database for James EDGAR.)

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