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Note for:   Margaret (Peggy) Parsons,   1788 - 10 Jan 1871         Index

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Note for:   Williams Parsons,   1725 - 1778         Index

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Note for:   Martha Hughes,   ABT 1724 -          Index

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Note for:   Joseph Parsons,   1755 -          Index

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Note for:   Mary (Bessie) Elizabeth Mockwitz,   2 Nov 1890 - 7 Jan 1969         Index

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Note for:   Flora (Ida) Theodora Mockwitz,   29 Jul 1893 - 18 Feb 1984         Index

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Note for:   Samuel Coulter (William G.) Mockwitz,   14 Nov 1900 - 11 Nov 1970         Index

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Note for:   Henry Warton Conway,   18 Mar 1793 - 9 Nov 1827         Index

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     Source: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tfconner&id=I15009
CONWAY, Henry Wharton, (cousin of Ambrose Hendley Sevier), a Delegate from the Territory of Arkansas; born near Greeneville, Greene County, Tenn., March 18, 1793; educated by private tutors; enlisted as an ensign in the War of 1812 and was promoted to lieutenant in 1813; clerk in the Treasury Department, Washington, D.C., in 1817; moved to Missouri Territory in 1818 and to Arkansas Territory in 1820; receiver of public moneys in 1820 and 1821; elected a Delegate to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1823, until his death near Arkansas Post, Ark., then the Territorial seat of government, November 9, 1827; interment in Arkansas Post Cemetery.

-- Congressional Biography

Conway County, Ark. is named for him.



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Note for:   James Sevier Conway,   9 Dec 1798 - 3 Mar 1855         Index

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Note: He was Governor of Arkansas, 1836-40.



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Note for:   Elias Nelson Conway,   17 May 1812 - 28 Feb 1892         Index

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Note: He was Governor of Arkansas, 1852-60.



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Note for:   John Sevier,   23 Sep 1745 - 24 Sep 1815         Index

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SEVIER, John, a Representative from North Carolina and from Tennessee; born near Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Va., September 23, 1745; attended the common schools and the academy at Fredericksburg, Va.; moved with his brothers to Watauga County, N.C., in 1773 and settled on the Holston River, N.C. (now Tennessee); county clerk and district judge 1777-1780; elected Governor of the proclaimed State of Franklin in March 1785 and served for three years; elected from North Carolina to the First Congress and served from June 16, 1790, until March 3, 1791; appointed in 1791 as brigadier general of militia for the Washington district of the territory south of the Ohio; upon the admission of Tennessee as a State into the Union was chosen Governor and served from 1796 to 1801, and again from 1803 to 1809; appointed in 1798 as brigadier general of the Provisional Army; served one term in the State senate 1810-1811; elected as a Republican from Tennessee to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, until his death; appointed in 1815 as one of the commissioners to determine the boundary between Georgia and the Creek territory in Alabama and served until his death, near Fort Decatur, Ala., September 24, 1815; interment at Fort Decatur, Ala.; reinterred in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1889.

-- Congressional Biography

Sevier County, TN and the city of Sevierville, TN were named for him.