An interesting article with a confluence of coincidence (or is it).

I was reading a genealogy book and I came across an article which contains so many intersections for me I had to post them. This is a conglomeration of the [[GREER/ROBERSON]] and the [[SWAFFORD families in Bledsoe Tennessee around 1865]] questions. Both of these areas of research I have always thought were separate. Now, for some reason, they seem to come together here.  Could be a coincidence, but very interesting.


It is from a book
SWAFFORDS OF SEQUATCHIE
VALLEY, TENNESSEE
THIRD EDITION
VOLUME 2

on page 1114 there is a photocopy of a newspaper (PAGE 10 - THE BLEDSONIAN BANNER. PIKEVILLE, TENNESSEE 37367 - THURSDAY, JANUARY 29,1987)

Roberson builds "Belleview" around 1820
The old Roberson brick borne, built by James
Roberson around 1820. was located about six
miles south of Pikeville near the Sequatchie
River, on the farm now owned by Clay Greer. The
family pictured is the Samuel H. L. Swafford
family before they moved to west Texas in the
late 1890s. Sam Swafford was s grandson of
James Roberson.
James Roberson a veteran of the War of
1812, was a large landowner and slave owner. The
home, known as "Belleview," stood until around
1930. Margaret Roberson, the fifth daughter of
James and Margaret Worthington Roberson, was
born and reared at the Roberson borne. She was
the great-great-grandmother of US. Congressman
Jim Cooper from the Fourth District of
Tennessee.
The photograph was submitted by the
Bledsoe County Histories] Society. It is owned
by Elizabeth Robnett, county historian.

Need to research the children of this famly:
Roberson-1119

An interesting article with a confluence of coincidence (or is it).

I was reading a genealogy book and I came across an article which contains so many intersections for me I had to post them. This is a conglomeration of the [[GREER/ROBERSON]] and the [[SWAFFORD families in Bledsoe Tennessee around 1865]] questions. Both of these areas of research I have always thought were separate. Now, for some reason, they seem to come together here.  Could be a coincidence, but very interesting.


It is from a book
SWAFFORDS OF SEQUATCHIE
VALLEY, TENNESSEE
THIRD EDITION
VOLUME 2

on page 1114 there is a photocopy of a newspaper (PAGE 10 - THE BLEDSONIAN BANNER. PIKEVILLE, TENNESSEE 37367 - THURSDAY, JANUARY 29,1987)

Roberson builds "Belleview" around 1820
The old Roberson brick borne, built by James
Roberson around 1820. was located about six
miles south of Pikeville near the Sequatchie
River, on the farm now owned by Clay Greer. The
family pictured is the Samuel H. L. Swafford
family before they moved to west Texas in the
late 1890s. Sam Swafford was s grandson of
James Roberson.
James Roberson a veteran of the War of
1812, was a large landowner and slave owner. The
home, known as "Belleview," stood until around
1930. Margaret Roberson, the fifth daughter of
James and Margaret Worthington Roberson, was
born and reared at the Roberson borne. She was
the great-great-grandmother of US. Congressman
Jim Cooper from the Fourth District of
Tennessee.
The photograph was submitted by the
Bledsoe County Histories] Society. It is owned
by Elizabeth Robnett, county historian.

Need to research the children of this famly:
Roberson-1119