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151	Birth: Aug. 28, 1875 DeKalb County Missouri, USA Death: Sep. 21, 1926 Emporia Lyon County Kansas, USA Son of Angeline and Bluford Collyer. Married to Verna Leona Mechtley. 2m to Grace Simmons. Family links: Spouse: Verna Leona Mechtley Collyer (1892 - 1926) Children: Esther Emelie Collyer Grimmett (1919 - 2006)* Carl Otis Collyer (1923 - 1992)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Maplewood Memorial Lawn Cemetery Emporia Lyon County Kansas, USA Plot: 12 - 61 - 5	Charles Otis Collyer
152	Birth: Aug. 28, 1919 Emporia Lyon County Kansas, USA Death: Apr. 21, 2006 Council Grove Morris County Kansas, USA Married to Olen Harley Grimmett Family links: Parents: Charles Otis Collyer (1875 - 1926) Verna Leona Mechtley Collyer (1892 - 1926) Spouse: Olen Harley Grimmett (1916 - 1962)* Sibling: Esther Emelie Collyer Grimmett (1919 - 2006) Carl Otis Collyer (1923 - 1992)* *Calculated relationship Inscription: Mom Burial: Greenwood Cemetery Council Grove Morris County Kansas, USA Plot: S9	Esther Emilie Collyer
153	William Collier was a soldier in the Union army and was killed in battle.	William Collyer
154	From website of Jean Colyer Grumbling: this Power of Attorney of son Alexander Colyar (son of William) which states that William Colyar and wife Nancy may have been living in Pulaski County Kentucky at the date of their death : Power of Attorney dated February 26, 1839 reads as follows: Know all men by thesse present that I, alexander Colyear of the County of Franklin and State of Tennessee hereby nominate, constitue and appoint my son, George T. Colyer of said county and state, my true and lawfull Attorney in fact for me and in my name to do and attend to all business I have any interest in in the state of Kentucky and more particularly to ask for, receive from and receipt for all money coming to me from the estate of my deceased Father, William Colyear late of the County of Pulaski and state of Kentucky or from the estate of my deceased mother, Nancy Colyear of said county and state and my said Attorney is also hereby authorized to bring suit or suits as he may think proper for the recovery of the same or to compromise the same in such way as he may think best and to give such receipts in my name as may be necessary hereby satisfying and confirming all the acts of my said Attorney may do in pursuance of this poser the same as if I was present and done the same myself. Given under my hand and seal this 26th day of February 1839. Alexander Colyear (his mark) ? State of Tennessee Franklin County I, John R. Paterick(?)an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforsaid hereby certify that Alexander Colyear personally appeared before me this day and acknowledged the within power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the purpose therein expressed. Given under my hand and seal this 26th day of February, 1839. John R. Patrick Justice of the Peace State of Tennessee Franklin County I, William W. Brazelton, clerk of the County Court of said County certify that John R. Patrick is and was at the time of making the above (unreadable) an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned, legally qualified as such and entitled to (unreadable) and credit in all of his official acts. In Witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at office, the 26th day of February, A.D.1839 William W. Brazelton, Clerk State of Tennessee Franklin County I, Wallis Estill (?) Jr., chariman and presiding magistrate of the county court of said county certify that William W. Brazelton whose name is signed to the foregoing certificate is and was Clerk of said county of the time of signing the same and that his attestation is in due form of Law and sealed with the county seal. Given under my hand and seal this 26th day of February A.D. 1839. W. Estill Jr. Chairman of Franklin County Court (followed by another certification by Will Fawcett! Copy of Power of Attorney, now on file with Jean Colyer Grumbling.POA located in Book 10, Page 147. "Tennessee" by Moore, pg. 102	Alexander Colyar
155	Selected Papers From The 1989 And 1990 George Rogers Clark Trans-Appalachian Frontier History Conferences NPS Logo The Social World of Middle Tennessee, 1780-1840 David C. Hsiung University of Michigan "The combination of fertile land and population growth led to prodigious agricultural development, which was commented upon by travelers and residents alike. Anne Newport Royall passed through the Nashville region in 1817. "[I]t is an open plain of uninterrupted good land; and the farmers raise corn, tobacco and pumpkins in great abundance. They rear great numbers of hogs and horses, and have a great many distilleries in operation. In this way they convert their surplus produce into cash." [15] Emigrants to the area, even as late as 1829, were not disappointed with their situation. "I have every fine prospect of a crop," wrote Alex Colyar from Franklin County, south of Nashville, "and I do believe that there is a better incouragement here for a farmer to bee indoustrous than any place I ever saw[.] [P]roduce sels here for cash[;] there is great deal of cotton raised her... [W]e are verry well satisfied with our move." [16]" 16. Alex Colyar to James Sevier, 30 June 1829, in Washington County Court Records, Box 75:2 "Circuit Court 1820 Civil/Criminal," Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee.	Alexander Colyar
156	According to : Notable men of Tennessee: Personal and genealogical, with portratis, Volume 1 edited by John Allison page 64, He was a prominent member of the Nashville Methodist Episcopal Church.	Arthur St. Clair Colyar
157	Concerning the lawyer who schooled Arthur St. Clair Colyar to become a lawyer in Winchester TN, Col Micah Taul: Micah Taul (May 14, 1785 - May 27, 1850) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, grandfather of Taul Bradford. Born in Bladensburg, Maryland, Taul moved to Kentucky with his parents in 1787. He attended private school. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1801 and commenced practice in Monticello, Kentucky. He served as clerk of Wayne County Courts in 1801. He served as a colonel of Wayne County Volunteers in the War of 1812. Taul was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth U.S. Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1816. He resumed the practice of law. He moved to Winchester, Tennessee, in 1826 and continued the practice of law. He moved to Mardisville, Alabama, in 1846 and engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death there on May 27, 1850. He was interred on his plantation at Mardisville. It if of interest to note that Mr. Taul started in Monticello Ky so near the place and time that Col Arthur St. Clair Colyar's uncle, John Colyer was settling very close on the banks of the Cumberland River in current Somerset Ky. Did Micah Taul know John Colyer in Somerset before moving to Winchester TN and schooling John Colyer's nephew ?	Arthur St. Clair Colyar
158	During years of Arthur Colyar's time organizing and working with Tenneessee Coal Iron and Railroad, he recruited a fellow member of the confederate congress in the post war period to be President of TCI. This was a fellow named James Cartwright Warner. This Mr. Warner had moved to Nashville pennyless from Chattanooga as a result of the Civil War devastation. After working at TCI he continued on in mining interests and became quite wealthy. Mr. Warner had a son named Percy Warner, who continued in his father's steps as a mine and Iron works venturer and at his death, his children donated 1000 acres in Nashville to form Percy Warner park and Edwin Warner Park. (Source TN state library archives : Warner-Cartwright-Phillips Genealogical collection 1791-2016) TN state archives WHITE, MARGARET (WARNER) (1889-1981) PAPERS, CA. 1777-1962 in discussing James Cartwright Warner lays out: 1868-1875 Became Secretary and later General Manager of the Tennessee Coal and Railroad Company of which Arthur St. Clair Colyar was president. Iron industry made large advances under his management, new furnaces were built and other bought. The Chattanooga and Sewanee furnace at Cowan and those at Ensley, Alabama, were built and also the Southern States Coal, Iron, and Land Company; the Pratt Mines; the Alice Furnace; the DeBardelaben Coal and Iron Company; and the Cahaba Coal Company 1876-1885 President of the Tennessee Manufacturing Company. He continued throughout this period to increase the number if iron furnaces and other businesses 1882-1885 President of the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company. Directors were Nat Baxter, Jr., Samuel J. Keath, John P. White, John P. Williams,A.S. Colyar, Thomas Steger, and George A. Washington	Arthur St. Clair Colyar
159	https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/arthur-st-clair-colyar/ Arthur S. Colyar, attorney, political leader, newspaper editor, and industrialist, was born in Jonesborough, one of thirteen children of Alexander and Katherine Sevier Sherrill Colyar. Colyar received his education in the Washington County common schools, and in 1828 he moved with his parents to Franklin County. He was first employed as a teacher and later read law before his admission to the bar at Winchester in 1846. Politically, Colyar supported the Whigs in a traditionally Democratic stronghold. By 1860 he owned approximately thirty slaves and was a member of the Constitutional Union Party. Colyar opposed secession until Tennessee joined the Confederacy in 1861. In October 1861, while campaigning for a seat in the First Confederate Congress, Colyar contracted pneumonia. He recuperated and practiced law in Winchester until 1863. One anecdote holds that he defended a Unionist unlawfully jailed by Confederate authorities at the risk of his own life. He left Winchester soon after the abortive Confederate General Assembly met there, following the Tullahoma offensive by General W. S. Rosecrans in June 1863. In November 1863 Colyar was elected to the Confederate Congress and served from May 1864 until March 18, 1865. Although he supported direct taxation, the agricultural tax-in-kind, and taxes on corporate profits, he opposed economic controls, a stance he repudiated after the war. He opposed the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. Colyar recognized the wisdom of opening peace talks and refused to support a motion to banish Senator Henry S. Foote for undertaking peace negotiations in early 1865. At the end of the war Colyar received a quick presidential pardon in September 1865. Thereafter, he lived in Nashville, where he returned to his law practice, engaged in state politics, and became involved in a variety of political and industrial matters. On three occasions Colyar ran unsuccessfully for governor on an independent ticket: in 1870 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the gubernatorial nomination of the Conservatives and Democrats; in 1871 he allied with the Reunion and Reform Association; and in 1872 abandoned that organization and ran as an independent before retiring from the election in favor of John C. Brown. In 1876 he was one of the organizers of the Greenback Party, a delegate to that party's national convention, and an unsuccessful candidate for the general assembly. He was elected as an independent to represent Davidson County for the first and extra sessions of the 1877 legislature. In 1878 he ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. His political activities always were associated with his diverse business interests in industry, mining, and commerce. Colyar's interest in coal mining and the iron furnace industry began in 1858, when he purchased the Old Sewanee Mining Company, which became the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company after the war, and later developed into Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railway Company, one of the region's most important firms. Colyar sold ownership interest in 1881, but his interest in the company remained substantial. In 1882 he joined with Joseph B. Killebrew and others to organize the Rockdale Company and the Rock City Real Estate Company to acquire and develop mineral rights in Maury County. He also had interests in Rising Fawn Furnace, the Chattanooga Furnace, and Soddy coal mines. In 1881 he purchased controlling ownership of the Nashville American, which he edited and published until 1884. A New South proponent, Colyar encouraged industrial development through the promotion of northern capital, agricultural diversification, and foreign immigration. As vice-president of Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railway Company, he avidly supported the state program of convict leasing, which supplied convict labor to replace free miners. In 1885 the Nashville Banner exposed Colyar's involvement in the convict lease system. A legislative investigation and a libel suit resulted. Colyar successfully thwarted an early penal reform movement and escaped censure. Colyar's interests were varied. He was involved in the building of the University of the South at Sewanee in the postwar years. In 1904 he published the two-volume Life and Times of Andrew Jackson. At an unknown date Colyar married Agnes Erskine Estill of Winchester; they were the parents of eleven children. Two years after the 1886 death of his first wife, Colyar married Mrs. Mary McGuire of Louisville, Kentucky. Colyar died in Nashville in 1907 and is buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery.	Arthur St. Clair Colyar
160	Sewanee Tennessee History: facebook page 09/25/17: Arthur St. Clair "A.S." Colyar was a lawyer and a resident of Winchester, Tennessee. He was also the son-in-law of Dr. Wallace Estill. He helped secure Sewanee as the site for the University of the South. He became the owner of the Sewanee Mining Company after the Civil War. There was a stipulation made by the Mining Company that if the school was not opened within 10 years, the Sewanee Mining Company's land would be forfeited back to the Mining Company. Arthur wrote in a letter that "The ten years had almost elapsed and the title to the property would revert if the school was not opened. Major George R. Fairbanks of Florida had located here in the meantime, and build the famous log house known as "Rebel's Rest". A few days before the ten years elapsed, he assembled a few mountain boys and formally opened this school, and thereby held the title of the property." Arthur sent his letter to the University of the South in 1907 for their 50th year celebration of the laying of the cornerstone. It was also known as the the Semi-Centennial Celebration of the University of the South.	Arthur St. Clair Colyar
161	[ColyerV2.FTW] Subject moved with parents to Franklin County, c.1828; after leaving father?s farm From the Procedings of the Bar Association of Tennessee. REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON OBITUARIES AND MEMORIALS,? I-Ion. Foster V. Brown, President: The Special Committee appointed to draft memorials of the members who have died since the former meeting, to be inserted in the published pro-ccedings of the Tennessee Bar Association, beg leave to submit the following : ARTHUR ST, CLAIR COLYAR. ? Col. Arthur St. Clair Colyar was born in a dwelling sit-uated on the banks of the historic Nolachucky River, in Washington County, seven miles west of Jonesboro, June 23, 1818, and died at Nashville, December 13, 1907. His long life, therefore, extended over a period of more than 89 years. During this lapse of time, beginning almost with the infancy of the country, what a kaleidescope of change passed before his discerning eyes ! When he was about nine years old his father, Alexander Colyar, removed to Hillsboro in what is now Franklin County, -and, as the father was a farmer, Arthur began industrial life as a plow boy, and received only such education as could be had in a pioneer country. -At the age of ?22 he entered the office of Col. Micah Taul, of Winchester, as a law student. In 1846 he obtained his license and formed a partnership with W. P. Hickerson, at Winchester. Here he soon made a reputation which encouraged him to venture into wider fields ; he removed in a few years to Winchester, and formed a partnership with his kinsman, A. S. Marks, who was afterwards Governor, and with John Frizzell, who afterward became a prominent man. Col. Colyar?s public spirit led -him into active politics, State and National. He was a member of the? national convention in 1860, which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice-President respectively, on ?the Whig ticket, and made an active canvass in favor of the ticket in the hope of saving the Union. He opposed secession, but at the parting of the ways . he cast his destiny with the South. He was elected to the Confederate Congress, in which he served with ?the same zealand energy that always characterized the man. After the Civil \Var he settled at Nashville and practiced law, at one time in partnership with Henry S. Foote, and at other times alone, or in association with various other attorneys. * A fen- years after the close of the war he came connected as stockholder, director and president, of the Tennessee Coal and Railroad Railroad Company. afterward the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. He was not especially gifted as a business man, but by his efforts he saved the company from wreck, and so inspired the financial world with his confidence in the industry that it was placed on .he way to a success that has finally brought it to a very high place among the industries of the country. About this time he was very aggressive in his fight against a ring rule in the city of Nashville, which resulted in the city being placed in the hands of a receiver and in its complete relief from its distressing condition. In 1881 he took charge-of the American, a leading paper throughdut the State. His last important work was of a historic and ?literary character, and in this, as a fitting climax to his laborious and zealous life, he left behind him the fruit of years of painstaking labor. Nothing that he ever did was perhaps more pleasing and gratifying to him than his authorship of the "Life and Times of Andrew Jackson", which is truly a monument to his industry in his old age. Col. Colyar was always prominent as a lawver especially as an advocate, being eloquent, strong in debate, and forceful in pursuit of what was right. He was a participant in many of the most important suits in both State and Federal Courts. Among other important cases, he represented the State in the United States Supreme Court in the boundary line case between Virginia and Tennessee, which he won in 1893. One of Col. Colyar?s most pronounced characteristics was his strong and enthusiastic interest in everything pertaining to public well-being and moral welfare. He was in deep sympathy with everything tending to the material prosperity of the country, and the intellectual, moral and religions culture of society, and was found among the active promoters of schools, colleges and churches, and was an ardent advocate of the establishment and construction of railroads,manufactories, mines and commercial and financial enterprises. He was an uncompromising? friend of law and order, sobriety and purity -in individuals and government. He was a total abstainer and was the author of the Four Mile Law, one of the: most unique and successful bits of legislation that the country has known. His courage was almost unlimited. Like all positive characters he occasionally fell into mistakes of judgment, and was sometimes criticised even when he was in the right. As might be expected of such an one, he sacrificed himself, so far as public office was concerned, and died a poor man, being in active practice almost to the end of his days. The objects and purposes of the Bar Association fell naturally in line with Col. - Colyar?s instincts and principles, for whatever organization tended or purposed to cultivate right dealing, right thinking and professional ethics could not fail to meet with his warm and enthusiastic sympathy and support To the end of his life these things were his guilding stars. [Collierj.ftw] Arthur St. Clair Colyar came from a poor family which eventually moved to Franklin co., Tennessee. He was self-educated and studied law. He maintained a law office in Nashville but did not live in that city until 1866. (His son, John B. Colyar, wrote A Boy's Opinion of General Lee). A Whig, he became a Constitutional Unionist and opposed immediate secession. In 1863, he risked his life by defending Tennessee Unionists who had been unlawfully arrested. He was elected to the second House in May, 1864. He served on the Ways and Means Committee, generally supported the administration, and favored extending the tax-in-kind. He was a staunch opponent of any special priveliges for Southern corporations. Along with John B. Baldwin of Virginia, he tried to pressure Congress into negotiations with the North even before the Hampton Roads meeting. After the war, Colyar became an important Democratic party leader but lost the race for governor in 1878. Colyar was an active lawyer who wrote for the Confederate Veteran. He also reorganized the Tennessee Coal and Railroad Company and became its president. He was considered a conservative because of his 1867 appeal to allow the freedman the vote. From 1881 to 1884, he edited the Nashville American. He also wrote the Life and Times of Andrew Jackson. He died in Nashville December 13, 1907. from Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy Jon L. Wakelyn Westport, CT 1977 Arthur St. Clair Colyar came from a poor family which eventually moved to Franklin, Tennessee. He was self-educated and studied law. He maintained a law office in Nashville but did not live in that city until 1866. (His son, John B. Colyar, wrote A Boy's Opinion of General Lee). A Whig, he became a Constitutional Unionist and opposed immediate secession. In 1863, he risked his life by defending Tennessee Unionists who had been unlawfully arrested. He was elected to the second House in May, 1864. He served on the Ways and Means Committee, generally supported the administration, and favored extending the tax-in-kind. He was a staunch opponent of any special priveliges for Southern corporations. Along with John B. Baldwin of Virginia, he tried to pressure Congress into negotiations with the North even before the Hampton Roads meeting. After the war, Colyar became an important Democratic party leader but lost the race for governor in 1878. Colyar was an active lawyer who wrote for the Confederate Veteran. He also reorganized the Tennessee Coal and Railroad Company and became its president. He was considered a conservative because of his 1867 appeal to allow the freedman the vote. From 1881 to 1884, he edited the Nashville American. He also wrote the Life and Times of Andrew Jackson. He died in Nashville December 13, 1907. from Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy by Jon L. Wakelyn, Westport, CT 1977 He moved with parents to Franklin County, c.1828; after leaving father?s farm From the Procedings of the Bar Association of Tennessee. REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON OBITUARIES AND MEMORIALS,? Hon. Foster V. Brown, President: The Special Committee appointed to draft memorials of the members who have died since the former meet.ing, to be inserted in the published proceedings of the Tennessee Bar Association, beg leave to submit the following : ARTHUR ST, CLAIR COLYAR. Col. Arthur St. Clair Colyar was born in a dwelling situated on the banks of the historic Nolachucky River, in Washington County, seven miles west of Jonesboro, June 23, 1815, and died at Nashville, December 13, 1907. His long life, therefore, extended over a period of more than 89 years. During this lapse of time, beginning almost with the infancy of the country, what a kaleidescope of change passed before his discerning eyes ! When he was about nine years old his father, Alexander Colyar, ?removed to Hillsboro in what is now Franklin County, -and, as the father was a farmer, Arthur began industrial life as a plow boy, and received onlysuch education as could be had in a pioneer country. -At the age of ?22 he entered the office of Col. Micah Taul, of Winchester, as a law student. In 1846 he obtained his license and formed a partnership with W. P. Hickerson, at Winchester. Here he soon made a reputation which encouraged him to venture into wider fields ; he removed in a few years to Winchester, and formed a partnership with his kinsman, A. S. Marks, who was afterwards Governor, and with John Frizzell, who afterward became a prominent man. Col. Colyar?s public spirit led -him into active politics, State and National. He was a member of the? national convention in 1860, which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice-President respectively, on ?the Whig ticket, and made an active canvass in favor of the ticket in the hope of saving the Union. He opposed secession, but at the parting of the ways . he cast his destiny with the South. He was elected to the Confederate Congress, in which he served with ?the same zealand energy that always characterized the man. After the Civil \Var he settled at Nashville and practiced law, at one time in partnership with Henry S. Foote, and at other times alone, or in association with various other attorneys. * A fen- years after the close of the war he came connected as stockholder, director and president, of the Tennessee Coal and Railroad Railroad Company. afterward the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. He was not especially gifted as a business man, but by his efforts he saved the company from wreck, and so inspired the financial world with his confidence in the industry that it was placed on .he way to a success that has finally brought it to a very high place among the industries of the country. About this time he was very aggressive in his fight against a ring rule in the city of Nashville, which resulted in the city being placed in the hands of a receiver and in its complete relief from its distressing condition. In 1881 he took charge-of the American, a leading paper throughdut the State. His last important work was of a historic and ?literary character, and in this, as a fitting climax to his laborious and zealous life, he left behind him the fruit of years of painstaking labor. Nothing that he ever did was perhaps more pleasing and gratifying to him than his authorship of the "Life and Times of Andrew Jackson", which is truly a monument to his industry in his old age. Col. Colyar was always prominent as a lawyer especially as an advocate, being eloquent, strong in debate, and forceful in pursuit of what was right. He was a participant in many of the most important suits in both State and Federal Courts. Among other important cases, he represented the State in the United States Supreme Court in the boundary line case between Virginia and Tennessee, which he won in 1893. One of Col. Colyar?s most pronounced characteristics was his strong and enthusiastic interest in everything pertaining to public well-being and moral welfare. He was in deep sympathy with everything tending to the material prosperity of the country, and the intellectual, moral and religions culture of society, and was found among the active promoters of schools, colleges and churches, and was an ardent advocate of the establishment and construction of railroads,manufactories, mines and commercial and financial enterprises. He was an uncompromising? friend of law and order, sobriety and purity -in individuals and government. He was a total abstainer and was the author of the Four Mile Law, one of the: most unique and successful bits of legislation that the country has known. His courage was almost unlimited. Like all posi-tive characters he occasionally fell into mistakes of judgment, and was sometimes criticised even when he was in the right. As might be expected of such an one, he sacrificed himself, so far as public office was concerned, and died a poor man, being in active practice almost to the end of his days. The objects and purposes of the Bar Association fell naturally in line with Col. - Colyar?s instincts and principles, for whatever organization tended or purposed to cultivate right dealing, right thinking and professional ethics could not fail to meet with his warm and enthusiastic sympathy and support To the end of his life these things were his guilding stars. [Colyer.FTW] Subject moved with parents to Franklin County, c.1828; after leaving father?s farm Mr. A.S Colyar book entitled "Life and Times of Andrew Jackson" on page 27, Vol I, says that he was the great-grandson of Samuel Sherill.	Arthur St. Clair Colyar
162	This husband and wife are cousins, Marcus Lashbrook’s mother was Ursula Colyar sister to Alexander Colyar.	Charity Colyar
163	21 S.W. 659 COLYAR et al. v. SAX et al. DUNCAN et al. v. SAME. Supreme Court of Tennessee. February 7, 1893. Appeal from chancery court, Grundy county; McConnell, Chancellor. Bill in equity by E. F. Colyar and others against Max Sax, trustee, and others, and a bill by W. M. Duncan and others against the same defendants. The two causes were consolidated, and heard on pleadings and proofs. From the decree entered all parties appeal. Reversed. J. H. Holman, for E. F. Colyar and others. Vertrees & Vertrees, for Duncan and others. Brown & Spears, for Spears. N. Cohn, for Sax and others. Steger, Washington & Jackson, for W. D. Spears. John A. Pitts and W. C. Shelton, for A. S. Colyar. J. B. Fergusson, guardian ad litem. J. C. Bradford, for Fall and others. WILKES, J. The first-named bill was filed to cancel certain deeds made by E. F. Colyar to Max Sax, trustee, and to set up a resulting trust in the lands conveyed in E. F. Colyar. The second bill was filed to sell the same lands for partition, to fix the rights of parties therein, and divide the proceeds. The chancellor, Hon. T. M. McConnell, fixed the rights of the parties, by decree, and ordered a sale of the lands. There was no dissatisfaction with, or appeal from, the decree for sale, but none of the several parties interested were satisfied with the decree fixing their rights inter sese, and all have appealed and assigned errors, which raise simply the question as to the proper distribution of the proceeds of the lands, when they shall be sold. The facts, so far as necessary to be stated, are found to be as follows: About 1882, E. F. Colyar, who resided at Tracy City, Grundy county, conceived the idea of buying up a large number of tracts of mineral lands, with a view of consolidating them into one body, and enlisting capitalists in their development. Soon after he began operations, he associated with him E. O. Nathurst and W. D. and Page 660 N. B. Spears; the first named being very familiar with the mineral wealth of the region, and the two latter being attorneys familiar with the titles of the lands in that section. A. S. Colyar soon became interested, and furnished some money to be used in the purchase of the lands, $1,500 of which he obtained from Richardson, Fall, and Longhmiller, upon an agreement with said A. S. Colyar that, to the extent of the money furnished, they were to have an interest in the lands. Still the parties could not command the necessary funds to carry out their designs, and on 21st day of June, 1884, Benton and John McMillan accepted a written proposal from E. F. Colyar and E. O. Nathurst to go into the enterprise upon terms that they were to furnish not exceeding $20,000 to pay for the...	Elbert Franklin Sevier Colyar
164	[Colyer.FTW] [Collierj.ftw] Wrote A Boy's Opinion of General Lee. [ColyerV2.FTW] [Collierj.ftw] Wrote A Boy's Opinion of General Lee. How the president of Washington College appeared to a shy young freshman from Tennessee is told by John B. Colyar. Appears on page 477 of The Robert E. Lee Reader by Stanley F. Horn Impressions as a student at Washington College Lexington " The morning after we reached Lexington we repaired to the office of General Lee for the purpose of matriculation and receiving instructions as to the duties devolving upon us as students. I entered the office with reerential awe, expecting to see the great warrior whose fame then encircled the civilized globe as I had pictured him in my own imagination. General Lee was alone, looking over a paper. He arose when we entered and received with a quiet, gentlemenly dignity that was so natural and easy and kind that the feeling of awe left me at the threshold of his door. General Lee had but one manner in his intercourse with men. It was the same as to the peasant as to the prince, and the student was received with the easy courtliness that would have bestowed on the greatest imperial dignitary of Europe. When we had registered, my brother asked the General for a copy of his rules. General Lee said, "young gentleman, we have no printed rules. We have but one rule here and it is that every student must be a gentleman." I did not until after years fully realize the comprehensiveness of his remark and how completely it covered every essential rule that should govern the conduct and intercourse of men." ...........	John B. Colyar
165	http://www2.volstate.edu/cbucy/History%202030/suffrage.htm Lulu Colyar Reese, Memphis (1860-19 ) Lulu Colyar Reese had her first introduction into the political world at the age of seventeen, when she joined other Nashville women in an appearance before the Tennessee General Assembly to secure the property of Andrew Jackson, the Hermitage, for the state. The effort was successful and the Ladies Hermitage Association was founded. After her marriage to Isaac B. Reese, she had regular meetings and gatherings in their home to bring together society leaders, Vanderbilt professors, and other thinkers of the city for conversation and interaction. As many as 300 persons attended these gatherings which were described as a “Parisian salon.” When the Reese family moved to Paducah, Kentucky, she founded a similar group there. In 1900, the Reese family moved to Memphis where she became active in the Federation of Women’s Clubs as president of the Nineteenth Century Club. She used her experience in the women’s clubs of Memphis to become active in the political problems of her day and worked for suffrage. She led the fight for women on the Memphis City Board of Education and was one of the first two women elected to the Board, running for the office on the Non-Partisan ticket. While on the school board, she fought for free textbooks and anti-child labor laws. Lulu Reese was in Nashville at the Hermitage Hotel in August, 1920 when the 19th amendment was passed. She was active in the National American Woman Suffrage Association as well as the National Women’s Party.	Lula Colyar
166	[Colyer.FTW] Two Daughters of Tennessee By GILBERT R. ADKINS Franklin County Historical MARTHA COLYAR: MRS. ROSEBORO' It was natural that Martha Clarissa Colyar should regard Franklin County - a refuge in time of trouble. She was born here. the twelfth of thirteen children. on April 20.1834, while her parents were temporarily living in a portion of Franklin County that is now in Coffee County. Because she thought herself so excellently educated she maintained that instruction in Tennessee was the beat in the country, and she was intensely fond of Winchester and its schools all her life. Her undated diploma from the Winchester Female Academy1 signed by Jno. G. Biddle. J.W. Tyler. P.S. Decherd. and F.A. Foughmiller. was a treasured keepsake.(2) Samuel Reed Roseboro, who prepared for the ministry at college in Lebanon. was born in Lincoln County. son of John Alexander Roseboro (3) The family was one of obvious substance, generosity, and culture It was in Winchester that Samuel saw Martha Colyar for the first time. when they passed on a sidewalk. True to his Presbyterian background. Samuel claimed he was not swayed by Martha's attractively fussy clothes, sapphire blue eyes. or faint violet perfume: it was the look on her face, "as if she had just left off prayer." Later, when they became well acquainted, he asked her to share his manse In Selma, Alabama Martha objected on the ground that a devout Method let with an appetite for the fiction of Sir Welter Scott should not be the wife of a Presbyterian minister who drew the line at poetry of Pope and Shelley. The courtship nevertheless progressed toward wedding plans after settlement of a difference of opinion about the officiating clergy- _ 32 man's denomination. Miss Martha (Mattie) Colyar1 whose parents were dead, married Reed Roseboro' on January 8, 1857, near Winchester, In the humble surroundings of an unpainted country home on the aide of a hill. Martha was clutching a Scott novel as the couple left for a short journey down the Mississippi River. Reed and Mattie returned to live in Pulaski, Tennesee. Dr. Houston by request had omitted the word "obey" from their marriage ceremony,(4) and It was whispered among the women that Martha, "with that Colyar 1ook111 told her beat Winchester friend, Lou Murrell, that she would never accept a letter addressed to Mm. S. R. Roseboro'. She Insisted on her Identity as Mrs. Martha Colyar Roseboro', a radical position at the time.(5) Her husband signaled capitulation by buying his wife a eat of the Waverley novels. In those prewar years, Martha, an emancipationist, goaded her husband on what to say in his slavery sermons. He occasionally took a walk In order to get away from the barrage only to return four hours later and have Martha pick up at her monologue's breaking-off point. Reed and the Pulaski neighbors listened while Mat talked. She actually kept a blue notebook in which she recorded what he said he thought he had said on slavery from the pulpit. Martha Was successful In radicalizing her husband on the Issue, although he had presumably heard silmilar arguments from his seminary professor. Because of Martha's suasion, her husband consented to move to Missouri, and when war came, Martha refuged to Mattoon, Illinois, while the minister enlisted as chaplain on the Union side The Yankee enlistment resulted In his parents disowning him.(6) POSTWAR RNANCIAL STRAITS When the war w- over, Martha Colyar Roseboro fled a cramped Illinois hotel room and returned to family and friends in Tennessee. Her chaplain-husband was discharged from the United States Army on July 33 _ 34 12, 1865, and joined his wife in 8 round of visits to relatives The trip had to be brief because Mr. Roseboro had already been appointed pastor of a Congregational church in Macon, Missouri. Mrs. Roseboro, that fail, put down roots by purchasing a small Missouri farm with money earned during the war from teaching school, sewing, and working in a hotel at Mattoon, Illinois in part because of this investment, by the spring of 1868 the young family was financially distressed. and Martha made plans to return to Tennessee to consult her brother, for If he could not help personally he would at least advise her. "Arthur", she said, "has a genius about money." Foremost in Martha's mind was the hope that Arthur would help with her daughter's education. Martha had not received a letter from Arthur Colyar since her last visit, nor had she heard from her friends in Winchester. Whether in communication or not1 relatives have a way of sensing inopportune times for visits. Colonel Colyar was attempting to effect governmental reform in Nashville by openly striking the Alden ring1(7) and he well knew that public reaction to his entertaining a sister with abolitionist sympathies could be damaging. To get Martha out of Nashville he planned a sightseeing trip to his Sewanee Mine. From them he would urge that she visit relatives in Coffee County while he returned to Nashville In later life Martha's daughter, Viola1 described Tennessee as it appeared that day she and five relatives rode a train toward Cowan. Our part of Tennessee had escaped the worst of war's ravages All over the wide south the fallen walls of houses heaped around gaunt. Smokeless chimneys standing straight in desolate dignity made the land strange to the eyes. Strange one would think, to the very birds who were flying so busily in the sky: but here in middle Tennessee, many a man came back to a home little altered: the old roof still stood, and still sheltered his own people; his own fields lay about him, and it was a striking evidence of the metaphysical character of life that these accustomed and solid realities often but sharpened in men's souls the sense of ruinous revolution , and made the glowing sunlight glare the stranger in their eyes. By contrast, the same trip between Nashville and Cowan had Impressed Martha Roseboro as leading through an exhausted and poverty-stricken part of Tennessee; as she recalled it, innumerable signs of military conflict scarred the earth. In addition to observing the countryside, there was ample opportunity during the ride for Martha to register objection to her brothers hiring _ 35 convict labor in the Sewanee Mines. Arthur Colyar reacted with assumed cheer, pointed out that he had started operations at Moffat, Tracy City, and beyond1 in order to help the state, and that the business would soon be on a firmer basis. Recovery was underway from the twin setbacks of war and the outlay of almost two million dollars over a six-year period for railroad construction up Sewanee Mountain to Tracy, during which the company received no monetary return whatsoever. Colyar referred to his company railroad from Cowan as "that darling line of track," and remarked that "already them are summer boarders living up on that high perch of ours." At Cowan there was a primitive ticket office. Colyar led his party peg it with a wave to his employee, the structure's lone occupant, and followed a sooty trainman down the tracks, the rest of the party walking with difficulty over the rough. At last they entered a queer little car that nevertheless had cushioned mats. There was a tin cooler marked "liquid ice water" and a chained, nickel-plated cup "all in grimy completeness." A mountaineer in blue homespun and strew hat who had been down into the valley was mated next to an old woman in a bonnet. In whispers Colonel Colyar told his niece a story about another old mountaineer who thought them was a devil inside the company's train engine, and it was the devil that made the train climb. Almost immediately we found ourselves ascending the mountain --our little car clinging to a long empty coal train that. in its turn. fast to the puffing. straining locomotive as far before and above us. it climbed a zigzag track up '. mountainside. The sight was a novel one and to those Of our number who repeatedly had crossed me Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains. giving, as if felt a startlingly distinct Impression of climbing. The trip into the mines never took place. Tracy City had received a telegraphic message that Colonel Colyar was needed in Nashville. He departed while his wife, Agnes,(1O) and relatives scattered to Coffee County. Martha returned to penury in Missouri. A second daughter born to her did not survive infancy.	Martha Clarissa Colyar
167	This husband and wife are cousins. James Lashbrook’s mother was Ursula Colyar sister to Alexander Colyar	Susan Colyar
168	The Newrivernotes.com shows an extract of the 1782 personal property tax records for Washington County in Col. Arthur Campbell's precinct and shows a William 'Coller' (which I suspect is really Collier) with 1 tithe and 5 horses	William Colyar
169	Presumed older brother to William = Captain Thomas Collier who signed oath of allegience in 1777 in Henry County VA: A HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, BY E. POLK JOHNSON, LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY VOL. III, PAGE 1621 PUBLISHED 1912 FOUND IN HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY: "Captain Thomas Collier was a son of John Collier, )r., and Sarah Collier, his cousin and wife. John,Jr..was the son of John Collier, Sr., and a Miss Gaines, his second wife. John Collier, Sr., was the son of Charles and Mary Collier, and Charles Collier was born in Eng land about 1660. and resided in King and Queen county, Virginia."	William Colyar
170	Washington cty TN deeds book 18 PG 10 (per notes of Plano Tx researcher given to Janis Ragar) shows transfer by William Colyar jr 1/12/1826 of Negro boy named Issac about 11-12 years old to Joseph Hunter. Same source refers to Deed BK 18 page 303 wherein William Colyer sells a negro girl about 12 years old named Hannah to Thomas j. Brown.	William Colyar
171	Another possible father of William Colyar 1754 is William Colyar 1732 from Montgomery County MD.: http://fzsaunders.com/allison.html Thomas ALLISON and Barbara BURCH had children: 1. Charles ALLISON15 b. ca. 1720;15 m. Barbara19 MOORE;17 living 179541 2. John ALLISON20 m. Elizabeth;21 died between 12 Aug. and 10 Dec. 1793 Montgomery Co., MD21 3. Thomas ALLISON23 m. Sarah;22 d. between 16 Feb. and 16 June 1774 Frederick Co., MD;22 left 5 shillings each to "brothers" [not named] and residue to wife; his widow secondly married Zachariah THOMPSON24 4. Benjamin ALLISON25 m. Mary;26 d. ca. 1810 Burke Co., NC27 5. Richard ALLISON18,28 m. Sarah35 CHESHIRE;29 he d. between 5 Apr. and 5 Sep. 1808 Bullitt Co., KY30 After the death of her husband Thomas ALLISON, his widow Barbara secondly married William COLLIER/COLYAR.14 In his will (not dated) William COLYAR stated his son William was to be free at 18 to possess his land, and that he shall allow his mother her living on the land.31 Child of William COLLYAR and Barbara BURCH: 1. William COLLYAR b. ca. 1732 (sic, age 44 in 1776 census);32 m. Sarah34 RAY33 5 Aug. 1754;33 d. between 4 Jan. 1792 and 15 Jan. 1794 Montgomery Co., MD34 footnote source: 14. Thomas Allenson inventory, MD inventories 17:349-350. Liber 27, folio 69 9 July 1748 COLYAR, WILLAM, dweller of Prince George's Co., planter. To sun William, who shall be free at 18 & allow his mother her living on the land, all my land, & if he d. s. p., to grdson Richard; one part of the land was taken out of Dan, another of Stub Hill, & one of 50a out of Elders Delight. To dau. Mary, 5-yrs. rent of Dann. To sun Richard, 5 sh. Witn: John Leech, Elener Leech, Francis Abston 8 Aug. 1749, sworn to by all 3 witn. in presence of Wm. Collyar, son to testator.	William Colyar
172	Greene County, TN Deed book 2 page 172-173. 20 May 1792 William Colyar and Ann his wife sold to William Scruggs 130 acres of land lying below Andrew Leepers on the north side of Nolichuckey River.	William Colyar
173	Some researchers have expounded on this William Colyar's full name as "William J.P. Colyar" . This researcher suspects this is misguided having been pulled from references in certain court documents in Washington County TN referring to William Colyar of 1754's son, William Colyar. William Colyar Jr. , who lived in Washington County TN was a justice of the peace there. Some documents refer to him as William Colyar JP.......I think referring to his office and this may have been misinterpreted and attributed to his father as his name. THE A.E. HART BOOK THE "RICHARD CALLOWAY FAMILY" IN SPEAKING OF JOHN COLLIER OF 1742 WHO WAS MARRIED TO GRIZZELDA TAYLOR, SAID THAT JOHN OF 1742'S FATHER WAS A JOHN COLLIER A PROSPEROUS PLANTER. THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN JOHN COLLIER OF 1707. IT SAYS THAT JOHN OF 1707 HAD MANY SONS AND DAUGHTERS, ONE OF WHICH WAS A WILLIAM (THIS WOULD BE WILLIAM OF 1754) MOVED TO TENNESSEE AND WAS LOST TO ALL KNOWLEDGE OF THE KINDRED. THIS IS THE ONLY INDICATION OF WHO WAS WILLIAM OF 1754'S FATHER I HAVE FOUND. HOWEVER IT IS BORN OUT BY THE SEVERAL INDICATORS. FIRST THE QUESTION OF WHY WOULD JOHN OF 1707'S WILL NOT INCLUDE THIS CHILD WILLIAM IF HE WAS IN FACT A CHILD. THE REASON WAS THAT JOHN OF 1707'S WILL WAS DRAWN IN 1746 BEFORE WILLIAM OF 1754 WAS BORN, AS WAS THE CASE OF ANOTHER DOCUMENTED CHILD OF JOHN OF 1707---MARY....WHO THE VIRGINIA COUSINS BOOK SAYS WAS BORN IN 1756. NOTE THAT THIS JOHN OF 1707 DIED IN 1759. IF IN FACT WILLIAM COLYAR'S FATHER WAS JOHN COLLIER OF 1707, IT MAKES SINCE THAT WILLIAM MAY HAVE LEFT AND GONE TO TENNESSEE LOSING ALL CONTACT WITH HIS VIRGINIA COLLIER RELATIVES, FOR HE WOULD HAVE BEEN BUT 5 YEARS OLD WHEN HIS FATHER DIED AND BUT 10 WHEN HIS MOTHER DIED. WILLIAM COLYER from Dean Hunter Lexington Ky gedcom: WILLIAM COLYER of Greenbriar County, Virginia was living in Montgomery County, Virginia in the neighborhood of Roanoke, married a woman named St.Clair and had several sons, among them JOHN COLYER. Some of these sons of William Colyer were killed by Indians on the frontier of Virginia and in Kentucky. From a letter from Dr. Welby Colyer (a son of St.Clair Colyer) of Garrett, Ill., 1937, who died in 1940; Delia Colyer Powers, his sister, said that Dr. Welby Colyer had two daughters. A letter from Dr. Welby Colyer was found in a library in Salisbury, N. C. said that a Mrs. Bales in Pennington Gap, Virginia, said that William Colyer married a St.Clair woman and said that it was on file in Abingdon. . . Stella Colyer said that she checked and was told that the records don't go back that far. Mrs. Bales said that when CHARLES COLYER died, that a Mrs. William Colyer was one heir. She also said that St. Clair lived in St.Clair's Bottoms, near Powell Valley, Virginia. WILLIAM COLYER owned land in Washington County, Tennessee. (Washington County, Tenn., Deeds, Vol. 17, pg. 210, Oct. 18, 1821) JOHN COLYER of Pulaski County, Kentucky to Alexander Colyer of Washington County, Tenn., . ..a11 of my share in the estate of WILLIAM COLYER, deed., my father, to the three tracts of land in Washington County, Tennessee,on the south side of the Nolachucky River. -- This must have been JOHN'S brother, who stayed in Tennessee. Vol. 19, pg. 38, Washington Co., Deeds, April 9, 1827, . ..John Calvert and his wife Dorcas, (formerly Dorcas Colyer of Copper County, Missouri, convey land from the estate of her father WILLIAM COLYER, Sr. . I late of Washington County, Tenn. JOHN, Alexander, William and Dorcas are children of William Colyer. Stella Colyer Early tax records show a WILLIAM COLYER was living on the Nolachucky River in 1790, owned land and was paying a pole. so he was under 50. All free white men at that time between 21 and 50 had to pay a white poll." ____-________---__-__ List of taxables for years 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1797, 1798, 1799, and 1801 list WILLIAM COLYER, on the Nolachucky River, in Washington County, Tennessee.3 _____-_________-____-- WILLIAM COLYER was a Justice of the Peace in Washington County, Tenn. in 1821. 1 . Letter from Stella Colyer to Gail Myers, April 23, 1973. 2 From Mrs. Wallace Tilden, Johnson City, Tenn. 3 . Mary H. McCowen, WASHINGTON CO. TENN. RECORDS, vol. 1, 1964 ABOVE INFO FROM GEDCOM OF CREATED BY DEAN HUNTER OF LEXINGTON KY. __________________________________________________________________________________ email from Clark Sinclair at University of Texas at Austin sinclair@tenet.edu dated 7/22/1998 refers to a deed book 2 page 506 entry wherein Agnes St. Clair sells her inherited share of St. Clair Bottom. This may be Washington Co. TN or Augusta Co. VA deed book __________________________________________________________________________________ Washington County Historical Association http://www.uriel.com/history/ironwork.htm Embreeville Ironworks In July 1820?a few months before Elihu's death?the Embree brothers bought a mine, forge, and 260 acres of land on the Nolichucky River in Washington County, near the mouth of Bumpass Cove. Bumpass Cove, which is about 10 miles from Greasy Cove, seems to have been named after one Isaac Bumpass who lived in Washington County before 1770. However, he does not seem actually to have owned the land. The name is sometimes spelled Bumpres, Bumphers, and Bumbers [23]. Mining in Bumpass Cove started in the 1770s in a mine owned by William Colyer. Lead from the mines is reported to have been used to make bullets for the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. The ore was said to be so rich that it could be smelted over an open wood fire and molded into bullets [24]. In 1791 Colyer sold the property, which then consisted of 550 acres of land, to Louis Newhouse and Andrew Leuthold for £400. This and adjacent land, totaling 3,100 acres was sold in 1800 to John Sevier, Jr.?the son of General John Sevier?for $3,000. In 1812 they sold it to William P. Chester who, in turn, sold it to the Embrees in 1820 for $4,500 [25]. However, Chester excluded from this sale 200 acres, which apparently included a lead, mine. ______________________________________________________________________ Re: Military record: Ms. Janis Ragar indicated that she had info that William was a private in the 6th Virginia Regiment under Capt. Samuel Hopkins. Per Richard Curtis search of 6th Virginia Regiment microfilm service records from National Archives copy in TN state library and archives, no William Collier/Colyer/Colyar appears 8/15/98. In Revolutionary War Records of Mecklenburg County Virginia by Katherine B. Elliott published by Southern Historical Press, Inc., page 43 refers to a William Collier b 1753 Enlisted in Meck. Co. for 2 years under Capt. Samuel Hopkins. Re-inlisted for three years in Company of Horse under Col. Thomas Bland. Pen. S-39334. White's Abstracts of Rev. War Pension Files Vol I page 713 shows a William Collier, S39334, VA Line, appl 20 Jul 1818 Mecklenburg Cty VA aged 58 & had lived there at enl. I looked at copy of this pension extract in TN state library and archives 8/15/98 and noted that his man was crippled from war and had no family. Says he testified he was 61 6/19/1820 and after serving with Hopkins re-enlisted with company of horse in regiment of Col. Thomas Bland for 3 years. Says he is rough carpenter, without family and incapable of supporting himself from age and effects of wound received through his knee during war. Was placed on pension roll 7/20/1818 Cert # 12731 was issued 7/22/1819. There for these records do not show direct war service of William Colyar of Washington County TN Property: Per Dessie Simmons Johnson city TN from book North Carolina land grants in TN 1778-1791 by Goldien Burgner pub. Southern Historical: page 78 : 1788 grant of 130 acres North side of Nolichucky River Washington co. TN page 33 grant # 882: 1789 200 acres on Bumpus creek on southside of Nolichucky. 200 acres both sides of Nolichucky river page 34: 1790 150 acres in Bumpus cove/creek. page 137 grant 462 to a William Collier in 1782 640 acres on south side of Red River in what is now Davidson County TN?? this one not verified as connected to William Colyer of Washington Co. TN Per Dessie Simmons 8/8/98; many people who got these grants served in the Revolution but none of the North Carolina grants were for war service as in other states. She said that North Carolina grants were all paid for at the rate of about 50 schillinngs per 100 acres. She said that even John Sevier had to pay for his land. This is confirmed by deeds I have copies of supporting the land grants above that show that William Colyar paid for the land in these grants. See imaged article on Arthur St. Clair Colyar of article in Tennessean newspaper in 1907, stating that his grandfather (William) fought in the battle of King's mountain. I have not found William in any of the official lisings of soldiers at that battle, however following info from the National Park Service website for OverMountain Victory National Historic Trails at http://www.nps.gov/ovvi/troops.htm states that "The Patriot commanders did not keep or report official rosters of their men engaged against Ferguson at Kings Mountain. Dr. Lyman Draper's King's Mountain and its Heroes, combined with pension applications filed by veterans and their survivors well after the battle, are the main sources of information about the army. Per email from Pat Ross who works for the Bassett Virginia Historical library in Henry County VA, she stated per review of records there these folks are recorded as having take the Oath of Allegiance in Henry County VA: "Thomas Collier, William Collier, Charles Collier, Jesse Collier...no other spellings were listed. No date was given. The heading was "Citizens of Henry County who took the Oath of Allegiance" and it stated "The General Assembly of Virginia, when The United States was in its infancy, passed an Act to oblige all free male inhabitants of the State above sixteen years of age to give assurance of allegiance to the same. The following is a list of those who took the oath from the original record among the files in the Clerk's Office. At the time some were away fighting Indians, others hunting, and there were a few who refused to take the oath." " See the PDF documents section of this site referenced off the home page that says this Charles Colyer is of same family as A.S. Colyar descended. This is stated in Andrew Michaux?s Travels in the Tennessee Country contain reference to him in March 1796 arriving at Charles Collier?s 10 miles from Jonesborough. A footnote to this comment states that this Charles Collier was of the family from which descended Col. Arthur St. Clair Colyar. You can see the Michaux's book in PDF section. This connects this Charles Colyer/Colyar to William Colyar of Washington Cty TN. Therefore, since Charles' pension file shows he was from Henry County VA, (see PDF section of site) it follows that the William Colyar showing up in Henry County VA signing an oath of allegience there with Charles in 1777 (see PDF section fo site) is brother to Charles. Thus it seems that the Colyer/Colyar/Coliar of Henry County VA is in fact the family of William Colyar of Washington County TN. The only land records I could find in Henry County VA is for a John Colliar on Leatherwood Creek off Smith River in Henry county VA. I believe this to be either brother or Father to William Colyar. http://www.roanetn.com/Holland_early.htm A List of the Company of Militia Under the Command of Capt. Joseph Martin in PITTSYLVANIA CO.VA 1774 Joseph Martin, Captain; John Cunningham, Lieutenant, David Chadwell, Ensign, William Cox and John Turner, Sergeants, Robert Perryman, Clerk Benja Dillion, Carter Dillion, Henry Dillion, Edmd Lyne, Michael Barker, John Barker, Mordicai Hoard, Henry Bradbury, Robert Searcy, John Witt(en)?, John Stamps, WILLIAM HOLLAND, THOS HOLLAND, James Short, James Spencer, John Walker, Henry Tate, Nathl Tate, Edmond Graves, Joseph Baker, John Palphrey, Humphry Posey, John Noe Senr, John Barker, Joel Barker, Chars Barker, Josiah Cox, Prier Noe, James Godard, William Dotson, Alex Jarves, Wm. Collyer, Jos Laurence, Chas Foster, John Turner Geo Reaves, Daniel Smith, Josiah Turner, Wm Turner, Josh Byrd, Richd Baker, Wm Mullins Senr, William Mullins Junr, John Mullins, Ambrose Mullis, Wm Standly Sr, Wm Standly Jur, Richd Standly, John Standly, Saml Packwood, Baine Carter, Pleasant Duke, Charles Dunkan, Wm Reed, John Goin, Richd Colliar, William Bays The majority of information shown on these pages (other than individual contributors as noted), comes from the writings of Snyder E. Roberts, and his wife, Pauline Halburnt Roberts. The most frequently-quoted book is his Roots of Roane County, TN - 1792- , published in 1981. Also his first book, Roberts Families of Roane County, TN, published in 1969-now out of print. (Reprints of Roots available from Oliver Springs Historical Society) http://www.victorianvilla.com/sims-mitchell/local/clement/mc/abb/06.htm Note above that William Collyer in Joseph Martin Militia Company Pittsylvania County VA 1774. Henry county was formed out of Pittsylvania County VA in 1775-1776. In "General Joseph Martin, of Virginia, An Unsung Hero of the Virginia Frontier" found in The Filson Club History Quarterly Vol 10 Louisville KY April 1936 No. 2 ; it says that Joseph Martin retired to his property on Leatherwood Creek ( SAME AS JOHN COLLIAR ABOVE). Volume II of Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlment in Virginia--Augusta County Original Court Records 1745-1800 by Lyman CHalkley. Pub. by Mary S. Lockwood, 1912......states in VOl II page 76 Judgements. Simon Eli vs. Robert and William Davis and Alexr. Wiley--O.S. 36; N.S. 12-- Bill 27th Oct 1800. In 1771 William McGhee (McGaughey) made a settlment in the Turkey Cove in Powell's Valley in the present Lee County, and obtained a certificate from the Commissioners in 1779, etc. William Collier deposes that in the winter and spring preceding Christian's campaign he remained at the campt of Thomas Lovelady. William was a hunter and trapper. the Indians became troublesome and the people had to leave. From website of Jean Colyer Grumbling: this Power of Attorney of son Alexander Colyar (son of William) which states that William Colyar and wife Nancy may have been living in Pulaski County Kentucky at the date of their death : Power of Attorney dated February 26, 1839 reads as follows: Know all men by thesse present that I, alexander Colyear of the County of Franklin and State of Tennessee hereby nominate, constitue and appoint my son, George T. Colyer of said county and state, my true and lawfull Attorney in fact for me and in my name to do and attend to all business I have any interest in in the state of Kentucky and more particularly to ask for, receive from and receipt for all money coming to me from the estate of my deceased Father, William Colyear late of the County of Pulaski and state of Kentucky or from the estate of my deceased mother, Nancy Colyear of said county and state and my said Attorney is also hereby authorized to bring suit or suits as he may think proper for the recovery of the same or to compromise the same in such way as he may think best and to give such receipts in my name as may be necessary hereby satisfying and confirming all the acts of my said Attorney may do in pursuance of this poser the same as if I was present and done the same myself. Given under my hand and seal this 26th day of February 1839. Alexander Colyear (his mark) ? State of Tennessee Franklin County I, John R. Paterick(?)an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforsaid hereby certify that Alexander Colyear personally appeared before me this day and acknowledged the within power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the purpose therein expressed. Given under my hand and seal this 26th day of February, 1839. John R. Patrick Justice of the Peace State of Tennessee Franklin County I, William W. Brazelton, clerk of the County Court of said County certify that John R. Patrick is and was at the time of making the above (unreadable) an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned, legally qualified as such and entitled to (unreadable) and credit in all of his official acts. In Witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at office, the 26th day of February, A.D.1839 William W. Brazelton, Clerk State of Tennessee Franklin County I, Wallis Estill (?) Jr., chariman and presiding magistrate of the county court of said county certify that William W. Brazelton whose name is signed to the foregoing certificate is and was Clerk of said county of the time of signing the same and that his attestation is in due form of Law and sealed with the county seal. Given under my hand and seal this 26th day of February A.D. 1839. W. Estill Jr. Chairman of Franklin County Court (followed by another certification by Will Fawcett! Copy of Power of Attorney, now on file with Jean Colyer Grumbling.POA located in Book 10, Page 147. "Tennessee" by Moore, pg. 102 Richard Curtis note: based on info in this power of attorney, it appears that William Colyar and his wife Nancy had gone to live with their son John Colyer living in Pulaski County in the region of Buck Creek and Cumberland River in Jugornot Hollow. It appears that William died and Nancy died there. John had deeds to about 150 acres at least in that area. He sold it to his first born son, Bluford Colyer in 1842 after having moved up Pittman creek to Ruth. My guess is that I suspect that this power of attorney that Alexander, John's brother, filed in 1839 coincided with the death of his mother Nancy Ann St. Claire Colyar. William is reported to have died 20 years earlier in 1819. Ancestry.com reports in the Tennessee Census of 1810's that in 1814, Wm Colyar Sr. and Wm Colyar Jr. and Alexander Colyer are still living in Washington County TN. It must be some time after this and before 1819 William Colyar Sr. moves to Kentucky with son John in Pulaski County. They had likely gone to live with their most financially secure son, John....who like his father William had amassed land along a river likely in search of mineral rights. Not finding much, John was farming instead in this very mountainous region. The only flat tillable land in the area was the jugornot Hollow off what is now highway 769 leading to Buck Creek boat dock. John's other brother Alexander had migrated from East TN to Franklin County TN (winchester) and was farming on leased land. His house had burned down on the Nolichucky river in Jonesboro TN area so migrated to Winchester TN. Since he had no deeded land in area....it appears he was not financially successful. The other son of William ( William Jr.) had become a justice of the peace in Jonesboro and was not a large land owner. So it appears John was the largest land owner by pioneering property and obtaining first deeds along the cumberland river in Pulaski county KY.	William Colyar
174	http://www.roanetn.com/Holland_early.htm A List of the Company of Militia Under the Command of Capt. Joseph Martin in PITTSYLVANIA CO.VA 1774 Joseph Martin, Captain; John Cunningham, Lieutenant, David Chadwell, Ensign, William Cox and John Turner, Sergeants, Robert Perryman, Clerk Benja Dillion, Carter Dillion, Henry Dillion, Edmd Lyne, Michael Barker, John Barker, Mordicai Hoard, Henry Bradbury, Robert Searcy, John Witt(en)?, John Stamps, WILLIAM HOLLAND, THOS HOLLAND, James Short, James Spencer, John Walker, Henry Tate, Nathl Tate, Edmond Graves, Joseph Baker, John Palphrey, Humphry Posey, John Noe Senr, John Barker, Joel Barker, Chars Barker, Josiah Cox, Prier Noe, James Godard, William Dotson, Alex Jarves, Wm. Collyer, Jos Laurence, Chas Foster, John Turner Geo Reaves, Daniel Smith, Josiah Turner, Wm Turner, Josh Byrd, Richd Baker, Wm Mullins Senr, William Mullins Junr, John Mullins, Ambrose Mullis, Wm Standly Sr, Wm Standly Jur, Richd Standly, John Standly, Saml Packwood, Baine Carter, Pleasant Duke, Charles Dunkan, Wm Reed, John Goin, Richd Colliar, William Bays The majority of information shown on these pages (other than individual contributors as noted), comes from the writings of Snyder E. Roberts, and his wife, Pauline Halburnt Roberts. The most frequently-quoted book is his Roots of Roane County, TN – 1792- , published in 1981. Also his first book, Roberts Families of Roane County, TN, published in 1969—now out of print. (Reprints of Roots available from Oliver Springs Historical Society) http://www.brinkfamily.net/tree/p49.htm The call had been directed in response to reports of British attempts to stir the Indians into active warfare against the western settlements of the Colonies. This campaign against the overhill Cherokees lasted a year and involved an extended overland trek as far west as what is now Knoxville, Tennessee. Armstead would have become knowledgeable of the Cumberland Gap and Tennessee Valley during this campaign. He served under the command of Capt James Lyon. No record of Capt Lyon's company has been found. Upon completing this campaign he joined the company of Joseph Martin (also of Pittsylvania county) in protecting the property of the Powell Valley settlers. Joseph Martin had just two years earlier attempted to start Martin's Station in the Powell Valley and had been driven out by hostile Indians. He had returned to Pittsylvania county and had been instrumental in the political campaigning to initiate the campaign against the Indians. He had left his associate John Redd in Powell Valley at Martin's station. Upon the arrival of the militia in the Holston Valley, John Redd became the sergeant major of Joseph Martin's company. Details of Martin's company actions in this campaign are available from the writings of John Redd and from the Draper Papers. Joseph Martin's orderly book from these campaigns is in the manuscript division of the Library of Congress. I provide some descriptions below to give the reader a sense for the 'action' of this campaign. [Source: The Gulf States Historical Magazine, Vol I, Sept 1902, page 141.] The opposing Indian forces were under the command of Chief Dragging Canoe. He retreated down the Tennessee rather than engage the 1,500 men under General Christian and subsequently established the Chickamaugua tribal settlement and continued in later years to oppose the white intrusion into Cherokee lands. As the Indians retreated before the militia several Indian villages were burned along the tributaries of the Tennessee River. Singled out was the village, which earlier that year, had burned a white captive alive. At one river crossing, believed to be the French Broad, the militia anticipating that the Indians would await the crossing and attack as they were in the water, Joseph Martin's company (30 men) was placed in the lead. Martin personally carried two of his ill militia across the river ford. Another 600 men were sent up river the evening before to ford the river and be prepared to attack the Indian positions. However the Indians had fled and the crossing was uneventful. As the crossing was made a tremendous uproar could be heard in a nearby wood and the militia thought that this was the Indians preparing to attack. Upon investigating it turned out to be a frightened heard of Eastern Buffalo. On another occasion two of Martin's militiamen played a practical joke on one who was exceptionally frightened of Indians. They led him away from his guard post one night with stories of a strayed horse. One of the men slipped away and discharged his weapon, the other fell as if struck dead, while the first rushed toward the unnerved man crying 'Indians!' As the two of them rushed toward the camp, the fallen trooper, rose from behind them and discharged his weapon, at which point the other conspirator fell as if dead, leaving the terrified picket to rush toward the camp alone to alert it to the 'Indian attack'. They had intended according to later testimony to stop him before he got to camp, but were unable to catch him in pursuit. The 'joke' was not amusing to Gen. Christian who had the two arrested. Martin arg ued for there release as they were good men, and eventually had to force their release at sword point. This act of insubordination damaged Martin's opportunities with the militia. General Christians order book contains the order prohibiting the firing of weapons at night which was issued in response to this incident. After the burning of the Indian Villages, the elderly chiefs of the Cherokee sued for peace and the Treaty of 1777 was signed at Long Island, Tennessee. This ceded all the northeastern lands of the Cherokee Indians to the United States. Joseph Martin was established as Indian commissioner for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and moved to Long Island, TN the following year where he lived with his Indian wife, Nancy Ward half-sister of Dragging Canoe. During the latter part of 1777, Joseph Martin, John Redd and Armstead Anderson and 80 or so militiamen were stationed at Rye Cove to guard the Powell and Clinch Valleys against Indian raids. This was a small settlement on a plateau of the Allegany mountains. Enroute they were ambushed by Indians under Little Fellow, while proceeding single file along a steep hill. One of the company was wounded by 5 or 7 balls. Later another ambush killed another militiaman. Armstead mentions an attack that killed one of his fellow militiamen. This is potentially the same incident. It is interesting to compare John Redd's relating of these stories to Armstead's. Clearly the similarity substantiate Armstead's pension testimony http://www.kentuckykinfolkorganization.com/kenburksupdate.html 3/19/05 1783 deed mentions lines of Roland Horslee Birks on Goblingtown Creek 1785, he sold 100 @ to Richard Collear. ( Goblintown Cr. is in Patrick Co. today.) Above two parcels of land received by patent 1 Mar 1781 as recorded in Henry County Patents, Book D, p. 715. http://www.kentuckykinfolkorganization.com/kenburksupdate.html A look at Henry County records reveals, that the last mention of Rowland Horsely Birk and wife Sarah, is in 1785 when he sold 100 acres of land "where said Burke now lives" to Richard Collier - recorded 24 Mar 1785. Henry County became a county in 1777, formed from Pittsylvania County (formed from Halifax Co. 1767) so he could have been in Pittsylvania and just the county name changed.	Richard Colyar?
175	The Callaway family genealogy work by Mrs. A.E. Hart 1925 on this site, states that "Richard Collier, of Henry County VA, who i 1776 was paid for bacon furnished the army" citing Land Grants, Index Patents, From Virginia Colonial Militia.	Richard Colyar?
176	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Adaline Colyer
177	Ad Colyer also ran a store at Alcade, KY Jane Holt Whitis: I think Add Colyer took over as postmaster at the Alcalde post office when my father sold the store there around 1952. Dexter Alexander: Add Colyer was Ruth postmaster from 1937 to 1944. He took over from my grandfather, John E Alexander, who operated the store and post office beginning in 1925.	Add N. Colyer
178	According to Cliva Colyer Minton 06/2005 who lives in Jugornot Hollow Pulaski County TN, she said that Ad Colyer ran the grocery store for years that was at Ruth Kentucky.	Add N. Colyer
179	According to Mr. Meece, who attends Clay Hill Baptist Church in 2013 who ran a auto garage about 2 miles out hwy 192 from Pitman Creek on left of 192, in interview at the 192 market 08/02/13 said he remembered Add Colyer who ran the Ruth Store awhile. Mr. Meece said he would go into the old store often. Mr. Meece is 78 in 2013. Mr. Meece said that Add Colyer lived back Mayfield Hollow Road.	Add N. Colyer
180	Alonzo Denny Colyer, who was a jeweler in Somerset for years.	Alonzo Denny Colyer
181	Census: 1870 Pulaski Co., KY Note: Lived on a farm in Frankfort, Indiana.	Andrew Alexander Colyer
182	Harold Colyer 07/18/16 told of his father Neal, working for Andrew on his farm in Indiana shucking corn to earn enough for Neal to purchase his farm on Strawberry Rd in Somerset Ky. Harold told of Neal telling him that Andrew's son, Duard would take Neal out on the town every so often when Neal was living / working on Andrew's farm in Indiana. Harold told of tale his dad Neal told him of when working on Andrew's farm, Neal and Andrew happened upon a murder suicide scene of one of Andrew's farm neighbors in Indiana. Harold said it had been raining so no work, and Andrew told Neal, they'd eat some lunch and then perhaps the rain would stop and they'd go to neighbors house to pick up his boar pig to breed it with Andrew's pig. Neal related that upon arrival at neighbors house, they tied up their horses on the fence post to walk to the door, and as they went, the came upon the headless body of a woman....her head having been blown off in a gun blast. They then walked to the door and opened it, and heard no one, but then heard dripping. The looked and blood was dripping down from upstairs through the board floor into the living room. The left to get police and it was determined the farmer had killed his wife and then killed himself.	Andrew Alexander Colyer
183	Commonwealth Journal newspaper Aug 5, 1937(reprint 05/31/14) Robert Gwinn, Danville contractor, this week purchased the rock quarry on Reservoir Hill from A. J. Colyer, who has been operating it since 1922. Mr. Gwinn plans to move his wife and three children to Somerset. H. H. Benson, who has been manager of the quarry for several months, will retain his posi- tion.	Andrew Jackson Colyer
184	per Robert Sears via "You know you're from Pulaski County/Somerset Ky if" facebook page: The big farm, now long subdivided across from Pulaski High was the Jay Colyer farm. Originally it was the Frazure (correct spelling) and the Woodcock farm owned by his in-laws. At one time there were several grave stones from their families in the area between the Pepsi plant and the convenience store which stand there now. Colyer ran the old Somerset quarry which was on the Reservoir Knob which is now adjacent to the 80-bypass. You can still see remnants of the quarry pit. He was known to be something of a wild man when it came to dynamite blasting at the quarry. Herb Jasper who had driven a truck for him said it was not uncommon for bowling ball size boulders to be blown to Crab Orchard St. from one of his blasts. Colyer's equipment was kept in big open shed behind the brick house he lived in on Ky 39. I spent the first five years of my life living in sight of it. for a kid fascinated by machinery it was tantalizing to see. However my Mom had threated to wear me out if she as much as caught my foot on the fence bordering his place. colyer seldom left his house in his latter years. He had paid employees who lived with him and cooked and kept house for him. I saw him one time when he stopped at Littrell's old store to buy gas and he was too drunk to get out of the car. Oh yes,one more story here.. Herb Jasper said that Colyer's trucks were involved in the building of east Ky 80. They were old hard tired Macks, little better than a jolt wagon with a motor according to Jasper. He said he was literally worn out after a shift of being jostled in one of them.	Andrew Jackson Colyer
185	http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Bluegrass/2867/ Tennessee History Resource Page brought to you by James B. Jones, Jr. Telephone: +1 (615) 896-9575 1916, Memphis. The eccentric and arrant son of millionaire Colonel A.S. Colyar of T.C.I and newspaper fame, was committed to the West Tennessee Mental Hospital in Bolivar, after a hearing in Memphis presided over by Judge Tom Harsh. Colyar, despite his advantages, left a promising career as a newspaperman working at his father's paper the Nashville American and at papers in Knoxville and Chattanooga. He began a history of carrying out confidence games. At one time he entered Mexico as the Vice President of the United States and he carried out one fraud after another, as an investigative reporter during the Mary Fagan trial in Atlanta and as an evangelist preacher in Kentucky. He left a trail of bad checks. At one time, for example, he pardoned a prisoner in West Tennessee while he portrayed himself as Governor Rye in Florida. He apparently remained in the hospital and died there, saving his family any further embarrassment. Records of his trial in Memphis in July, 1916, cannot be found, perhaps the result of his family's influence. The records detailing his life are held at the West Tennessee Mental Health Hospital Records' Center in Bolivar are protected by privacy rights and hence may not be viewed by the general public or qualified historians. http://www.tngenweb.org/wilson/wilson1.htm SOME WILSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE CHANCERY COURT LOOSE RECORDS Abstracted by Judy Henley Phillips - Nov. 1989 This is number ONE of SEVEN files. Several years ago I was part of a project to arrange these Wilson County records for filming by the Tennessee State Library and Archives. The project did not go forward because of lack of help. These abstracts are only a portion of the records that were located in a small vault in the courthouse. At the time of this project, there were numerous boxes of Plea and Quarter Session records stacked in the storage room. Those records dated to the beginning of the county and were wonderful! I understand that there is now a preservation project for the loose records in Wilson County. These Chancery records were in numbered folders. The Clerk and Master wanted the numbers to remain with the file. That number is located at the beginning of these abstracts. The boxes were not all together, so the numbers are not consecutive. Some abbreviations I have used are: A lower case "a" for acreage and lower case "p" for poles. (Ex. 62a 5p). 1930 - 1897 July 17 - (O.I.B.) Mrs. Sallie A. COLYAR, a married woman and citizen of Davidson Co., TN, who brings this bill by her next friend, S.B. BATES, citizen of Wilson Co., TN Against The Capital City Bank, principal office in Davidson Co., A.S. COLYAR, Jr. and J.H. ZARICOR, citizens of Davidson Co., and D.J. BARTON, of Wilson Co., TN. She and A.S. COLYAR, Jr. married in Wilson Co., TN on 29 Apr. 1891 and moved to Davidson Co. She was the owner of an interest in certain real estate in Civil District 1 of Wilson Co., TN and that a marriage contract was executed in which they conveyed all her property to defdt. D.J. BARTON, as trustee, in trust for the sole and separate use and benefit of complt. Her father, Berry SCOBEY, dec'd. ... her mother Sallie B. SCOBEY ... her sister, Mary J. SCOBEY died testate ... property bounded by Wilson M. YOUNG, W.T.M. SMITH, C.C.H. BURTON, Cedar Creek, and J.E. FRAZER. Complt. had inherited 1/6 interest from her father and another 1/6 devised by her sister Mary J.... J.H. ZARICOR held the legal title to the land in trust for A.C. BROWN.... BROWN was to deliver 15 shares of the "Nashville Tyson Sanitarium" ... stock in Cumberland Island Georgia Corp.... Mrs. Sallie B. SCOBEY, mother of complt. died on 7 June 1897.... 1890 July 2 - Will of Mary J. SCOBEY: "... my brothers Jas. B. SCOBEY and R.Y. SCOBEY ... my only sister Sallie A. SCOBEY." Wits.: J.N. TABLER; C.C.H. BURTON. The COURIER October 2005 Vol. XLIII, No. 3 TENNESSEE HISTORICAL COMMISSION, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE ARTHUR S. COLYAR, JR.: TENNESSEE’S GREAT PRETENDER By James B. Jones, Jr., Public Historian On August 4, 1916, Arthur S. Colyar, Jr., son of A. S. Colyar of Tennessee journalism and industrial fame, was ordered committed to the West Tennessee Mental Hospital near Bolivar, Tennessee. He was known as the “Super-confidence man of Tennessee and the country at large, acclaiming himself governor, preacher and lunatic in turn.” He scattered worthless checks and operated successfully, particularly in the south and in Mexico. Colyar had impersonated newspaper reporters, clergymen, governors and even the vice president of the United States. His escapades took place all over the nation. Colyar was closely connected with several of the most prominent families in Memphis and Nashville. He was incarcerated after spending five months fighting extradition to Oklahoma and Kentucky. He explained to the press that he was held in jail by his family, who wished to put him “away” on account of his drinking. In early February 1914 a story in the Knoxville Sentinel announced that Colyar had been apprehended in Raleigh, North Carolina. He had been circulating in that city impersonating Tennessee Governor Ben. W. Hooper “when sober, but as plain Thompson while apparently drunk.” A few years earlier Colyar had impersonated Gov. M. R. Patterson, while on a journey across Lake Erie from Detroit to Buffalo. There he received the formal attentions as a result of his charade, using his borrowed persona to his financial advantage. He impersonated Governor Tom Rye on a number of occasions, but during the administration of Governor Ben W. Hooper he arrived at Memphis on a steamboat in great state with a following of kindred spirits, impersonating Governor Hooper and staff. Soon thereafter, sans staff, he extended his role as the governor and arrived in New York and bounced a number of checks. He was gone before anyone was the wiser. Confidence man extraordinary, he even during the Mexican Revolution visited Mexico purporting to be the vicepresident of the United States. Though he crossed the Rio Grande in state, he recrossed in haste, urged by the hostile rurales. Colyar’s adventures, however, were more amusing than remunerative. Few men in Tennessee had broken into print with the frequency of A. S. Colyar. According to the Knoxville Sentinel, Few men for their age, and he is now a middle-aged man, have been as busily engaged in getting in and out of trouble as young Colyar. He isn’t at all particular over the location where the trouble has origin. And his adventures were as varied as his habitat. POLICE HOLD A. S. COLYAR read the headline in the Chattanooga Daily Times of January 5, 1915. A. S. Colyar, notorious throughout the country and particularly well known in Tennessee, is again in the toils of the law. A warrant from Oklahoma caused his arrest at a hospital where he had taken the cure the week before. He had been drinking for a day or more until he was physically exhausted and endangered with delirium. He was moved to the city jail. Colyar was about 48. According to the Times: “It is usually a safe bet that he would play some prominent part in any criminal case that might develop country-wide interest. Colyar insists he does not court the limelight, but the limelight has wooed him incessantly. He is an authority on prisons and asylums and his experience with the authorities of the law is not altogether domestic.” He was cool as the proverbial cucumber on the night following his arrest. He admitted to the press that the matter in Oklahoma was most likely true. According to Colyar: “I was on a big spree in Oklahoma, and may have given checks the banks dishonored. When men put too much drink into their system it is very likely to result in grand larceny of brains.” His problems in Oklahoma stemmed from his impersonating a man of the cloth as the Rev. A. S. Colyar, Jr. In this capacity he had conned a few wealthy parishioners to invest in a bogus clay mining/pottery manufacturing business while simultaneously promoting a revival and then absconding with all the receipts, to say less about passing bad checks. While in jail he bragged about some of his connections. “Ben” Hooper, as he familiarly referred to Tennessee's retiring chief executive, would never embarrass him according to Colyar, because of his links with politicos such as Newell Sanders and “Old Man” [B. F.] Stahlman. Stahlman was an intimate of Col. Colyar, Sr., the industrialist and journalist, and by reason of that relationship he had frequently indulged the wayward son. Ex-U. S. Senator Newell Sanders was likewise a good friend of a relative of Colyar, “and in consequence evinces more than passing interest in the vagaries of the irresponsible scamp.” In addition to these connections public men throughout Tennessee knew Colyar well. He had pursued work in a number of professions, most notably law and journalism. He had worked in almost every section of the state. Once in upper East Tennessee he was editor-in-chief of five successful weeklies, subsidized, so he stated, in the interest of the late W. P. Brownlow. Like his adventures in Oklahoma, Methodism, republicans and democrats, even progressives, appeared alike to Colyar when he engaged in characteristic, untiring “search for adventure and the piffle some called ill-gotten gains or pelf.” Colyar was eager to tell of his lighthearted life and that he had twice been judged insane. His character was difficult to characterize. According to a newspaper report: “It would be difficult to find just such a man of his character. His profuse vocabulary is of widest extent, and amid everyday environment his cursing is spectacularly profound. Should his auditor, however, happen to be a minister or even a sinner, and Colyar’s conversation is chaste and as elegant as the purest, acceptable English will permit. If … his tongue slip a wee ‘drat it’ or ‘doggone’ issue, he is quick with profound obeisance and apparently abject humiliation will pray pardon for his impropriety.” He was a confidence man of no small talent. “You cannot take me back,” Colyar told the Oklahoma deputy sent to retrieve him to face justice. I am under criminal bond to appear before a court of this state and cannot legally be taken across the state line. If you get requisition papers and force me to leave I will not return and they know they cannot make me return. If this should fail I can get any number of people to swear that I am crazy…and everyone knows I am crazy sometimes.” Ensconced in the Hamilton County jail, he was temporarily safe from extradition to Oklahoma. The governor would have to determine if the admitted crazy man would remain in Tennessee or leave for Oklahoma. The technicalities of the law seemed, for the time being at least, to sustain his position. Colyar won the assistance of two local judges, Floyd Estill and Lewis Shepherd, who had agreed to prevent his extradition to Oklahoma. Judge Shepherd and Judge Estill were prepared to fight the issuance of requisition papers by Gov. Hooper. His hearing was set for 9 AM before City Judge Fleming on January 7, 1915. At the hearing Arthur S. Colyar, Jr.’s representatives initiated habeas corpus proceedings and Colyar continued to deny the Oklahoma charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. According to his legal representatives the con-man was at that time…insane and incapable of committing any crime… He has been insane from youth up to the present time and has been repeatedly adjudged insane in the in the courts of Tennessee and confined in insane asylums. He is permanently insane and has no lucid intervals that would give him the capacity to commit any crime.” Additionally, Governor Hooper had not signed the warrant, making it null and void. He told the history of the prisoner’s father, of his service to the Confederacy and his later life spent in Winchester and Nashville. Colyar heard himself denounced as a degenerate without batting an eye. Later, he joined the court and spectators in hearty laughter when his attorney, Judge Estill, compared Colyar to a “summer coon not fit to eat and that his hide was worth nothing.” Two days later, as he waited for the court’s decision on the habeas corpus matter, the defendant Colyar indulged in a bit of doggerel about his plight sung to the tune of “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary:” It’s a long way to Oklahoma, It’s a long way to go; It’s a long way to Oklahoma, To the damndest jail I know. Good-by Chattanooga, Dear old courthouse square, It’s a long, long way to Oklahoma But they want me out there. The Oklahoma authorities were disappointed. Colyar’s case was decided on legal technicalities. The Judge agreed the governor’s warrant was null and void. Colyar would escape the prospect of going on trial in Oklahoma. But his machinations in Kentucky suddenly had caught up with him. Immediately after being set free Colyar was re-arrested upon the Kentucky charges. Matt “Old Matt” Spencer, Sheriff of Breathitt county sent a telegram to police officials in Chattanooga that Colyar was wanted for “emmpexxlement” from the Bank of Jackson. Colyar’s attorneys quickly filed yet another petition of habeas corpus. Sheriff Spencer’s cable continued: “Hold Colyar till I get there. I’m comin’ after him.” Colyar testified in his own behalf at the next day’s hearing. His testimony proved that he had “to be about the smartest man who ever went on the witness stand here and swore that he was crazy.” He was the very caricature of a character. There was hardly a town in Florida of any size but where some local tycoon had been bamboozled by the Tennessee trickster and held one of the “governor’s” checks. While in Florida he successfully pardoned a prisoner in West Tennessee. As an ersatz governor he often sent telegrams to sheriffs of Tennessee commuting sentences, convincing his duped victims could have the honor of filing it for him. At New Orleans a prolonged drinking binge put him in one of the hospitals for some time. As “Gov. Rye of Tennessee,” he obtained the finest suite and recuperated under the care of a special Crescent City nurse. Texas was next visited, and Texans, too, were taken in and cashed his checks on various occasions. Though he openly came back to Chattanooga after he had exhausted his resources there, no attempt was made to take out requisition papers for him, as the west had had experience with him in that line. According to the Times: His story, related on the witness stand yesterday, if reduced to a scenario, would be a “scream” from start to finish and would deserve the patronage of all movie fanatics. He has been an inmate at the insane asylum in Tennessee…nine times….He…had spent nine months in a Florida institution, six months in the asylum in Ohio...considerable time in an institution of that character in Virginia and twice in Georgia asylums. At one point of his cross-examination the prosecuting attorney looked him in the eye and asked: “Colyar, you ain’t crazy, are you?” He replied: “You can’t find a man in Lyon’s View that will tell you he is crazy.” His first visit to Lyon’s View was when he was a boy, 19 years of age. While he was nonplussed about his father placing him there, he didn’t stay long. His inclination for writing bad checks was initiated soon after he escaped from the institution. He went directly to Knoxville, to the supreme court room when the court was in session, and drew a draft on his father for $10 - which his father’s friend, Chief Justice Peter Turney, cashed for him. He testified further that he had been in similar disputes before and always won. This, most likely due to his father’s influence and acquaintance with governors Buchanan, Taylor, McMillin, Frazier and Cox who all had refused to honor extradition papers for Colyar A medical expert testified that Colyar was of unsound mind, a “moral crank with a mania for financial dealings ”but expressed no opinion on Colyar’s sanity. Judge Estill, Colyar’s attorney and a childhood comrade, said that in his opinion Colyar did know right from wrong, but did not have the power of resistance to control himself when his mind became set on a specific goal. The upshot was that Colyar’s case was sent to the Appeals Court in Knoxville. Apparently he won the appeal and was set free without having to stand trial in Oklahoma, Kentucky, or even in Franklin County, Tennessee. Yet this was only the groundwork for the end of his story. His insanity would become less a shield from imprisonment and more a rationale for treatment. In July 1916 he was arrested while recuperating from excessive alcohol consumption on charges of passing bad checks. Pronounced insane by Memphis courts, Colyar had been confined in the state asylum at Bolivar. The Bolivar Bulletin of August 4, 1916 remarked, perhaps unfairly, of his incarceration: One time city editor of the Nashville American, formerly owned by his father, Colyar has been regarded as a man of extraordinary though perverted talents. As a scion of one of the most respected families in the state, with every advantage, it has been freely said that he could have risen to a high measure of success. It is regarded as the irony of fate that the ground on which he had so many times evaded the law has been used as the instrument of his downfall and landed him behind the bars of an asylum. Many who know Colyar predict that he will shortly be the greatest Roman of them all in the Bolivar institution, and either lead a successful revolt of the Napoleons, Julius Caesars, etc., confined therein, or in some manner regain his liberty. Whether or not he ever regained his liberty is not known, as all records relating to his case are sealed in perpetuity. His burial site is not known. Colyar’s story is an instance of the observation that history should be portrayed, blemishes and all. Certainly he was a colorful character from a distinctive lineage. Yet while his lively part in our past was marginalized due to social conventions and bygone deference for family connections, he nevertheless played a role in the Volunteer State’s past, and Colyar’s life reads much like the plot of an. O. Henry short story, as the basis for one of his ironic, fictional characters.	Arthur St. Clair Colyer, Jr.
186	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Blanche Elizabeth Colyer
187	903.) Patent #: 14823 Grantee: Colyer, Bluford Grant Book & Pg: 29 259 Acreage: 75 County: Pulaski WaterCourse: Buck Cr. Survey Name: Ping, John Survey Date: 11/21/1848 Grant Date: 05/01/1850 904.) Patent #: 14824 Grantee: Colyer, Bluford Grant Book & Pg: 29 260 Acreage: 55 County: Pulaski WaterCourse: Buck Cr. Survey Name: Ping, John Survey Date: 11/21/1848 Grant Date: 05/01/1850 905.) Patent #: 14825 Grantee: Colyer, Bluford Grant Book & Pg: 29 261 Acreage: 70 County: Pulaski WaterCourse: Cumberland R. Survey Name: Ping, John Survey Date: 11/22/1848 Grant Date: 05/01/1850 906.) Patent #: 14826 Grantee: Colyer, Bluford Grant Book & Pg: 29 262 Acreage: 60 County: Pulaski WaterCourse: Cumberland R. Survey Name: Ping, John Survey Date: 11/21/1848 Grant Date: 05/01/1850	Bluford Colyer
188	According to many deeds I have examined found in Pulaski County Court House, Bluford bought the property that was originally patented to this father John Colyer along the Cumberland River and Buck Creek in about 1846. Bluford later apparently lost most of the land in the Jugornot Area of Pulaski County via court ordered sale as the result of lawsuit. Not sure in 2005 of nature of suit. In a any event, it appears from deeds that friends bought the property at auction and later transferred it back to Bluford Colyer wife--Rebecca Colyer. She owns land in the the area until at least 1895 when she donated small lot to enable the contruction of Jugornot school. This school , now torn down in 2005, use to site right on highway 769 (Rush Branch Road). She also gave land to son Bluford Kirtley Colyer for his home place next to other son William Colyer.	Bluford Colyer
189	http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/nonmilitary/patentseries/cocourtorders/ccoadvsearch2.asp?searchby=warrantnum&searchstrg=%25&show=1000&sortby=&order=&page=8&keywordtype=AND&within=&oldsearch=[county]+LIKE+%27%25%25%25%27 7137.) Patent #: 07844 (5 Images) Grantee: Colyer, Bluford Grant Book & Pg: 17 81 Acreage: 17 County: Pulaski WaterCourse: Buck Cr. Survey Name: Colyer, Bluford Survey Date: 09/03/1845 Grant Date: 07/05/1846 Warrant #1: 403 7138.) Patent #: 07845 (3 Images) Grantee: Colyer, Bluford Grant Book & Pg: 17 82 Acreage: 100 County: Pulaski WaterCourse: Cumberland R. Survey Name: Colyer, Bluford Survey Date: 12/30/1844 Grant Date: 07/05/1846 Warrant #1: 284 7139.) Patent #: 07846 (5 Images) Grantee: Colyer, Bluford Grant Book & Pg: 17 83 Acreage: 100 County: Pulaski WaterCourse: Cumberland R. Survey Name: Colyer, Bluford Survey Date: 12/30/1844 Grant Date: 07/05/1846 Warrant #1: 284 7140.) Patent #: 07847 (3 Images) Grantee: Colyer, Bluford Grant Book & Pg: 17 84 Acreage: 83 County: Pulaski WaterCourse: Cumberland R. Survey Name: Colyer, Bluford Survey Date: 09/03/1845 Grant Date: 07/05/1846 Warrant #1: 403	Bluford Colyer
190	There has been confusion on First name. However, see deeds on site AND death certificate of son William Memes Colyer on this site that shows than First Name was BLUFORD, not Buford.	Bluford Colyer
191	According to Jugornot Hollow long time resident (family there for generations) Shirley Bray, June 2005, BK Colyer was known as Blufie Colyer. She said he is buried in abandoned cemetery off Ponderosa Drive which is right off highway 769 (Rush Branch Rd) in Pulaski county near Buck Creek Boat dock. I found his grave stone in this abandoned cemetery 06/24/05	Bluford Kirtley Colyer
192	according to Cliva Colyer Minton 2005, grand-daughter of Buford Wesley Colyer.....Wes is buried at Wesley Chapel in the Jugornot area of Pulaski county.	Bluford Wesley Colyer
193	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Brenda C. Colyer
194	André Michaux in North America: Journals and Letters, 1785?1797 "69. Charles Colyar (Colyer or Collier, 1757-ca. 1840) had a land grant of 640 acres in Limestone Cove, then Washington (now Unicoi) County, Tennessee. A Collier family member briefly guided the 1799 North Carolina-Tennessee boundary survey party in the Iron Mountains, memorably providing the insect-plagued surveyors with two gallons of good whiskey that eased their suffering (or made them oblivious to it). Charles Colyar and other family members later moved to Kentucky (Griffey 2000, 144; Williams 1920, 46-57; [Revolutionary War] Pension Application of Charles Colyer, dated August 17, 1834, available at persi.heritagequestonline.com)"	Charles Colyer
195	Charles Colyer moves near Erwin TN on Limestone Cove in about 1780 where he acquires assignment of land grant for 640 acres from Richard Caswell. Bio of Richard Caswell from historicsites.nc.gov : Richard Caswell's career began at an early age. At only the age of 17, he was appointed as an apprentice to Surveyor General James Mackilwean, and learned the art of surveying, a very profitable trade in the Eighteenth Century. Surveyors would purchase newly opened land as the frontier expanded and sell tracts to settlers at higher prices. Colonists held surveyors in suspicion but Caswell remained popular with the people throughout his political career. Today, students visiting the Richard Caswell Memorial can experience Eighteenth Century surveying with a hands-on activity with authentic instruments. Caswell's career landed him in numerous government offices and eventually into the Colonial Assembly, the North Carolina legislature under British rule. Caswell is appointed Deputy Clerk of Johnston County at the age of 18, in 1748, and then Surveyor General in 1750. He presented a bill to establish the town of Kingston, North Carolina's 20th official town, and applied his surveying skills when planning the town layout. Caswell Street in present-day Kinston links the streets' names honoring the families of his wives: Mackilwean Street for the family of the then-deceased Mary Mackilwean and Herritage Street for the family of his current wife, Sarah. In 1784, after the Revolution, Caswell initiated the new town name of Kinston to sever ties to its namesake King George III. When the relationship between the British government and the American Colonies strained, Caswell attended the First Continental Congress in 1774 and the Second Continental Congress in 1775. John Adams said of him, "We always looked to Richard Caswell for North Carolina. He was a model man and a true patriot." Royal governor Josiah Martin held a less flattering opinion of him, calling him "the most active tool of sedition." Caswell presided over the Fourth Provincial Congress, preventing him from participating in the drafting and signing of the Declaration of Independence. In November 1776 Caswell presided over the committee that drafted the state Constitution in the Fifth Provincial Congress. He was appointed acting governor in December 1776 and elected governor in April of 1777, by the First General Assembly. This was the first of three one-year terms. He also entertained the Marquis de Lafayette and Baron Johann de Kalb in New Bern. After the Revolutionary War, Caswell served North Carolina as Controller General (Treasurer) and faced the difficult task of settling the state's post-war finances. He served again as governor for three one-year terms between 1785-1788. During the term of Caswell's predecessor Alexander Martin, North Carolina territories west of the Blue Ridge split from the state and formed the new state of Franklin. While Governor Martin had pursued an aggressive policy of intimidation, Caswell was more diplomatic towards the "Franklinites." Through delicate negotiations and peacekeeping, he prevented civil war and the state of Franklin again reunited with North Carolina. In 1789, these lands were ceded to the Union as the state of Tennessee. Illness prevented Caswell from participating in the 1786 Constitutional Convention, and he sent William Blount?who favored the adoption of the Constitution over the Articles of Confederation?in his stead. In 1789 Caswell was elected Speaker of the Senate in the North Carolina Assembly. On 5 November of that same year he suffered a stroke while in session at Fayetteville; he died five days later.	Charles Colyer
196	1778 tax records Henry County VA:1784 Oct 27: Deed pgs 65 and 66: Charles Colyar of Henry Co to George Sumpter of the Same for 90 pounds sells all that part of a Tract on Bowen?s Creek on of the orders of the Smith River, beg. At the whole tract patented by Jacob Adams for 295 acres and deeded out of the said 295 acres. This deed of 73 and ¾ acres and joins the old lines of Anglin: Charles Collier (X) Wit: John Salmon James Baker Absalom Adams. Proved 1784 Nov 25 Henry County	Charles Colyer
197	Appears as 1st Mayor of Mt. Vernon Ky. According to Kentucky Legislative Record, was a Ky Legislator from at least 1833-1838 based on record examined. His primary efforts as Legislator were in improving roads of Laurel and Rockcastle counties, including toll establishment on the Wilderness Road, and River traffic on the Rockcastle River.	Charles Colyer, Jr.
198	curtisamerica.com note: From the underlying documents of various researchers beginning with the 1925 Calloway Family by Mrs. A.E Hart research paper on the family of John Colyer born 1744, I do not think it is clear whether Charles Eve Colyer, who was married to Mary Renfro is the son of John Colyer born 1744 or Charles Colyer Sr. born 1757 living per census in Mt. Vernon Ky Rockcastle county. Charles Colyer Sr. is brother of William Colyar father of John Colyer born 1781. Census records of Rockcastle county Ky show living there both a Charles Colyer Sr. and a Charles Colyer Jr. Other records may show John Colyer born 1744 having son named Charles, but many Colyer families in the area at the time had son's name Charles.	Charles Colyer
199	HEAD OF FAMILY INDEX FOR THE 1840 CENSUS OF ROCKCASTLE COUNTY, KENTUCKY : Colyer, Charles Jnr. 3 Colyer, Charles Snr. 10 Colyer, Duke 8 Colyer, Micajah 5 Colyer, Richard 8 Colyer, Stephen 4 Colyer, Susanah 14 Colyer, William 4	Charles Colyer
200	http://genealogytrails.com/tenn/carter/historygoodspeed.html Source: "History of Tennessee", Volume 2; By Goodspeed Publishing Company Staff; pub 1887; tr. by C. Walters On April 9, 1795, the General Assembly divided Washington County, and erected the eastern part into Carter County, which then included all of Johnson and part of Unicoi. The court of pleas and quarter sessions was organized on the 4th of July, 1796, at the house of Samuel Tipton. The magistrates present were Andrew Greer, Landon Carter, Nathaniel Taylor, David McNabb, Lochonah Campbell, Guttredge Garland, John Vaught, Joseph Lands and Reuben Thornton. They qualified in the following manner: Landon Carter administered the oaths to Andrew Greer, who in turn administered them to Col. Carter, and the remainder of the court, The following officers were then elected: Godfrey Carriger, register; Joseph Lands, ranger; George Williams, clerk; John Macun, trustee Nathaniel Taylor, sheriff, and Charles Colyer, Aaron Cunningham, Samuel Musgrove, Thomas Whilson, Solomon Campbell and John Robertson, constables.	Charles Colyer