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Original source: Barbara Sullivan posting to Genealogy.com
on November 15, 2001
James Shurley b: 1804 in South
Carolina (census); Migrated to Benton Co TN by 1836; He d: February
01, 1875 in Benton Co, TN (possibly the son of Thaddeus
Shurley of York Co SC)
April Term 1882 Supreme Court of Tennessee - GEO C CAMP,
Adm'r de bonis non, v WM and JAS SHERLEY et al AND Jos R HAWKINS
et al v WM SHERLEY et al - CHANCERY PLEADINGS AND PRACTICE Insolvent
estate; In August, 1875, Jas Sherley departed this life,
and at September term, 1875, of the county court of Benton county,
his sons, the defendants, James and William Sherley, were
qualified as his administrators The intestate lefi at his death
a small personal estate and threc tracts of laud, in said county
On the 23d of September, 1875, the administrators, who, 'with
the minor children of a deceased sister, were the heirs at
law of said intestate, filed their petition in the county court
of said county of Benton, for a sale for partition of said three
tracts of land In their petition they allege that the widow was
entitled to dower, and that their sister, in her lifetime, had
been advanced by their deceased father in lands and personalty
in an amount greater than either of them could receive out of
the remainder of his property, and it is propably true she had
been so advanced The heirs of the sister were made parties, a
guardian ad litem appointed for them, and a decree rendered,
upon proof taken, directing a sale of the land, after allotting
dower to widow The land was sold and James Sherley bought
one tract for $400, and William bought the other two tracts at
$450 This sale was confirmed and title vested in the purchasers,
retaining a lien for the purchase money Ten per cent was paid
before confirmation, and nothing has becn paid since [court ruling
continues]
married 1) ________
married 2) Mary Barnes on Jan
6 1849 at Benton Co Tennessee; She was b: Abt 1804 in
Tennessee d: January 1889 in Benton Co, TN
children:
2(i). Mary Shurley b: 1836 d: Bef 1880
married Moses Barnes b: 1827 d: Abt 1873 Mother: Mary
2(ii). Unknown Daughter Shurley b: 1837 d: 1841
2(iii). William M Shurley b: May 1838 in Tennessee
d: 1901
married 1) Elizabeth R Camp b: 1838 in Benton Co TN
d: 1877 in Benton Co TN Father: George Sr Camp Mother: Thursey
Camp
married 2) Lydia Emmaline Cravens b: December 1852
d: Aft 1900
children:
3(i). Nancy Crockett Shurley b: October 29, 1860 in
Benton Co TN d: January 07, 1938 in Benton Co TN
married Samuel Alexander Terry b: 1845 in Tennessee
d: September 1899 in Benton Co TN
Query 1997: Researching Samuel Alexander TERRY b. abt 1845
and d. 1899 Benton Co. he m. Nancy Crockett SHURLEY 1881 Holladay,
TN. Children are Pearl Smith TERRY b. 1886, George Thomas TERRY
b. 1896, Marvin TERRY , William Kibble TERRY b. 1889. By researching
this Terry family I hope to find the ancestors of my Julia H.
TERRY b. Sept , 1860 in Decatur Co. TN ( mother listed as a Terry
and birth father Lud DAVIS) Julia H. Terry and George Thomas
Terry are cousins. Trying to prove that both sets of families
are desc. of Moses Terry (b. abt 1730) and Sarah Keeble of VA.
and that Julia is a granddaughter of Kibble Terry of Bedford
Co., Marshall, Co. and Decatur Co. Julia m. Joseph J. Conrad
in 1883 and most of their desc. live in Benton Co
3(ii). Ada Shurley b: 1862 in Benton Co TN d: 1942
in Benton Co TN
married Perry Allen Dowell b: 1848 in Tennessee d:
1931
3(iii). Elias L Shurley b: June 27, 1865 in Benton Co
TN d: March 20, 1944 in Oklahoma
married Mary Saunders Unknown - b: Unknown
children:
4(i). Izora Shurley b: Abt 1903
married Dukay b: Unknown
4(ii). Archie Green M Shurley b: Unknown
4(iii). James W Shurley b: Unknown
4(iv). Sallie Elizabeth Shurley b: Unknown
married Commsus b: Unknown
4(v). William Coleman Shurley b: Unknown
3(iv). Flavius Shurley b: 1868 in Benton Co TN
3(v). George Shurley b: 1870 in Benton Co TN
3(vi). Coleman Shurley b: 1873 in Benton Co TN
3(vii). Alfonso W Shurley b: February 1876 in Benton
Co TN
2(iii). James W Shurley b: May 16, 1844 in Benton Co
TN d: 1905 in New Mexico
married Elizabeth Ann Phifer b: January 01, 1844 in
Tennessee d: August 20, 1891 in Collinsville, Grayson Co TX Father:
Peter Phifer Mother: Elizabeth Sayles Phifer
children:
3(i). Iverson Lafayette Shurley b: November 09, 1868
in Camden, Benton Co, Tenn d: June 24, 1950 in Weleetka , Okla
married 1) Lura F Thompson b: January 17, 1872 d: March
29, 1914 in Collinsville, Grayson Co, Texas Father: Albert Thompson
Mother: Mary Smith Thompson
married 2) Susan Ann Rebecca Jane Patterson b: April
11, 1898 in Morrilton, Conway Co, Ark d: September 07, 1981 in
Okmulgee, Okla Father: Enoch Wisdom Thomas Patterson Mother:
Mary Holcomb Patterson
children:
4(i). Ona Shurley b: December 18, 1892 d: September
07, 1963 in Weleetka, OK(?)
married _____ Duncan Unknown - b: Unknown
4(ii). Homer Lee Shurley b: April 07, 1905 in Collinsville,
Tx d: May 18, 1981 in San Luis Obispo, CA
married Ollie Mae b: Unknown
4(iii). Willa Mae Shurley b: November 20, 1922 in Weleetka
, Okla d: November 10, 1997 in Hominy, Okla
married Carl Logan Loving b: December 18, 1904 in Calvin,
Okla d: August 21, 1968 in Hominy, Okla Father: Mack Avery Loving
Mother: Eva Wall Loving
4(iv). Fred Lafayette Shurley b: February 05, 1928
in Weleetka, OK d: November 11, 2000 in Weleetka OK
married Margaret Williams b: July 16, 1931 in Weleetka,
OK
3(ii). Mary Shurley b: September 05, 1873 in Tennessee
married George Murray Unknown - b: Unknown
3(iii). Lela Lee Shurley b: July 02, 1878 in Camden,
Benton Co, Tenn d: April 03, 1960 in Phoenix AZ
3(iv). Fleta Ann Shurley b: January 01, 1880 in Benton
Co, TN d: July 21, 1955
married John William Dickey b: 1878 in Tennessee d:
in Phoenix AZ
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James Shurley