Henry HARKLEROAD

Birth:
21 Oct 1746
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Death:
19 Feb 1836
Burial:
Beelers Cem, Weaver Pike, Bristol, Tennessee
Marriage:
1786
Notes:
                        HIS NAME WAS ORIGINALLY HEINRICH HERCHELROTH.  A REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN HE FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF KINGS MOUNTAIN AS A MEMBER OF JAMES MONTGOMERY'S COMPANY.
     HENRY SOLD HIS GRANDFATHER'S FARM IN PA AND SETTLED FIRST IN VIRGINIA AND THEN IN TN.  "HE MIGRATED 1771-72 SOUTH ALONG THE EASTERN FACE OF THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS ALONG THE GREAT INDIAN WARPATH TO SOUTH WESTERN VA.
WHERE IN 1773 HE PURCHASED 113 ACRES IN FINCASTLE CO.  THAT COUNTY WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE COUNTIES IN 1776, ONE OF WHICH WAS WASHINGTON CO., WHERE HENRY LIVED NEAR ITS COUNTY SEAT, ABINGDON ALONG BEAVER CREET IN 1775.  LATER. SOUTH OF ABINGDON, HE ACQUIRED SEVERAL THOUSAND ACRES ALONG BEAVER CREEK SOUTH TO WHERE IT FLOWED INTO THE HOLSTON RIVER, AN AREA THAT BECAME TENNESSEE." - FROM NEIL HARKLEROAD
     HENRY WAS A MEMBER OF BUELER'S CHURCH AND REPRESENTED SULLIVAN COUNTY AT THE ORGANIZATION OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERN TENNESSEE SYNOD.
     THE BOOK "GRAVES OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOTS" LISTS HIS GRAVE AT BUTLER CEMETERY, BRISTOL, TN.

FROM NEIL HARKLEROAD
       HENRY HARKLEROAD OF BEAVER CREEK
       HENRY HARKLEROAD, A SADDLER BY TRADE, A PIONEER AND ORIGINAL SETTLE IN EASTERN TENNESSEE-THEN NORTH CAROLINA-BROUGHT HIS FAMILY TO BEAVER CREEK ABOUT 1793 FROM ABINGDON, VIRGINIA WHERE HE HAD LIVED SINCE 1772.
       HENRY OWNED VIRGINIA ACRES ON BEAVER CREEK PLUS THREE SQUARE MILES OF LAND WHICH STRADDLED BEAVER CREEK IN NORTH CAROLINA ON THE VIRGINIA STATE LINE; THEREFORE, HENRY OWNED PRIME ACREAGE IN WHAT BECAME THE CENTER OF BRISTOL, VIRGINIA, AND ALSO THE ACREAGE WHICH BECAME BRISTOL, TENNESSES, BY HIS PURCHASES OF LAND PATENTS FROM THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.  ALTHOUGH HIS 2,200 ACRES IN NORTH CAROLINA PURCHASES PEAKED IN 1792, HE CONTINUED BUYING ON THE HOLSTON RIVER.  HIS HOLDINGS INCLUDED WHERE BLUFF CITY IS AND HARKLEROAD ISLAND JUST UP RIVER.  THIS ISLAND WAS SOLD BY GRANDSON JACOB IN 1875 FOR FIFTY DOLLARS AND A RIFLE.
       HENRY, BORN 7-14-1746 IN LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, OF GERMAN IMMIGRANT PARENTS, WAS ORPHANED YOUNG.  HE REMAINED IN LANCASTER, MARRIED AND SOLD HIS GRANDFATHERS FARM TO MOVE SOUTHWEST.  HENRY ARRIVED IN ABINGDON, VIRGINIA, IN 1772 WITH HIS BROTHER LAWRENCE AND HIS FAMILY.  HE PURCHASED 112 ACRES AND RAISED FIVE CHILDREN.  THE DESCENDANTS OF THESE TWO BROTHERS, HENRY'S THIRTEEN AND LAWRENCE'S FIVE CHILDREN, ACCOUNT FOR TODAY'S VIRGINIA/TENNESSEE HARKLEROADS - MORE THAN 100 FAMILIES.
       IN 1780, HENRY WAS ONE OF THE PATRIOTS WHO FORMED THE MOUNTAINEER RIFLEMEN UNDER COL. WM. CAMPBELL THAT DEFEATED THE BRITISH FORCES OF ELEVEN HUNDRED MEN, KILLING THEIR LEADER, COL. PATRICK FERGUSON AT "KINGS MOUNTAIN" ACROSS THE LINE IN SOUTH CAROLINA ON OCTOBER 7, 1780.  IMMEDIATELY, THESE PATRIOTS RUSHED HOME TO PROTECT THEIR FAMILIES FROM THE UPRISING INDIANS.  HENRY'S TWO-STORY BLACK WALNUT LOG CABIN STANDS ON A KNOLL OVERLOOKING BEAVER CREEK, EAST OF VOLUNTEER HIGHWAY OFF TYLER ROAD.
       HENRY'S FIRST FAMILY BY CATHARINE EBY, WERE DANIEL BORN 1769, DIED 1840; MARTIN BORN 1771, DIED 1840; REBECCA BORN 1772; HENRY BORN 1774, DIED 1858; AND WILLIAM BORN 1775.  CATHARINE EBY HARKLEROAD 1749-1780 DIED AND HENRY'S SECOND WIFE REBECCA SAVIERRE ALSO DIED WITHOUT ISSUE.
       LATER, HE AND HIS THIRD WIFE-ELIZABETH EMMERT, OF A LOCALLY PROMINENT EMMERT FAMILY, RAISED SIX SONS AND TWO DAUGHTERS.  THEY WERE HENRY BORN 1788 DIED 1869 (WHO WENT TO ARKANSAS); JOHN; JACOB ISAAC BORN 1799 DIED 1876; LUCY; ISAAC J. BORN 1801 DIED 1881; HIRAM; EMMA AND WILLIAM L. BORN 1809 DIED 1877. MOST OF HENRY'S CHILDREN MOVED ON WEST AND ALSO BECAME PIONEERS IN KENTUCKY, MISSOURI, ILLINOIS, IOWA AND ARKANSAS.  ONE SON, JACOB ISAAC, WITH HIS NINE CHILDREN REMAINED ALONG THE HOLSTON WHERE SOME DESCENDANTS LIVE TODAY.
       THIS STURDY MAN LIVED ALMOST NINTY YEARS.  SOME LATER GENERATIONS HAVE SIX FOOT MEN AND SOME WITH RED HAIR.  COULD HENRY HAVE BEEN A RED-HEADED SIX-FOOTER?  HIS TWO WIVES CONTRIBUTED THEIR SHARE TO A STRONG STOCK THAT HAS GENERATIONS OF LARGE FAMILIES WITH MOST REACHING OLD AGE --BUT NO KNOWN CENTURIANS.
       HENRY DIED FEBRUARY 19, 1836 AND WAS BURIED ALONGSIDE HIS WIFE ELIZABETH EMMERT HARKLEROAD (BORN 4-10-1746 DIED 6-14-1829) IN BEELER'S CEMETERY OFF WEAVER PIKE.
FROM HISTORIC SITES OF SULLIVAN COUNTY -"HARKLEROAD-MILLARD PLACE" THE LILLIAN AND CECIL HATCHER PLACE, AN ALUMINUM SIDING COVERED LOG HOUSE, LOCATED AT THE INTERSECTION OF WEAVER PIKE AND ROYLES LANE, WAS FORMERLY THE HOME OF ELHANAH MILLARD, SOLDIER OF THE WAR OF 1836.  BEFORE THE MILLARD FAMILY OCCUPIED THE PROPERTY, IT WAS THE PLANTATION HOUSE OF HENRY HARKLEROAD, OWNER OF MUCH PROPERTY AND A REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO.  THIS EDIFICE IS REPUTED TO CONTAIN A FRIENDLY GHOST, DATING BACK TO THE CIVIL WAR DAYS.
Elizabeth EMMERT
Birth:
10 Apr 1764
Death:
14 Jun 1829
Burial:
Beeler Cemetery, Weaver Pike, Bristol, Tennessee
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Notes:
                   BIRTH, DEATH, BURIAL INFORMATION FROM RICHARD HARKLEROAD
Children
Marriage
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Henry HARKLEROAD
Birth:
23 Dec 1788
Abingdon, Virginia
Death:
18 Dec 1869
Fulton, Alaska
Margaret Adeline BERRY 
Marr:
11 May 1837
Washington, Virginia 
Notes:
                   DEATH PLACE AND DATE FROM RICHARD HARKLEROAD, BIRTH DATE AND PLACE FROM NEIL HARKLEROAD, MARRIAGE INFORMATION FROM LDS 1126445 FROM NEIL HARKLEROAD " IN 1850 AT AGE 62 HE MOVED HIS FAMILY WITH FIVE YOUNG CHILDRED TO FULTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS.  HE DID OBTAIN TWO 80 ACRE BOUNTY LAND PLOTS.  HE SETTLED 5 MILES SOUTH OF TODAY'S SALEM WHERE HE FARMED, SET UP A BLACKSMITH SHOP AND A STORE.  THOUGH ILLITERATE, HE DONATED LAND FOR A SCHOOL AND SOUGHT TO HAVE THE COMMUNITY NAMED MT. PLEASANT."

FROM NEIL HARKLEROAD
       HENRY HARKLEROAD JR. OF ARKANSAS
       YOUNG HENRY HARKLEROAD JR. CAME TO SULLIVAN COUNTY WITH HIS PARENTS, HENRY SR. AND ELIZABETH EMMERT HARKLEROAD IN 1793 FROM ABINGDON, VIRGINIA, WHERE HE WAS BORN 12-23-1788.
       HE BECAME A MILLWRIGHT AND WAS INVOLVED IN VARIOUS SULLIVAN COUNTY LAND DEALINGS.  HENRY WAS SIX FEET TALL, HAD DARK HAIR AND BLUE EYES WITH A FAIR COMPLEXION.
       HENRY SERVED AS A PRIVATE UNDER CAPT. JOSEPH SCOTT'S COMPANY, 3RD REGIMENT, EAST TENNESSEE MILITIA OF THE TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS THAT FOUGHT UNDER GENERAL JACKSON IN THE INDIAN BATTLE OF HORSESHOE BEND ON THE TALLAPOOSA RIVER MARCH 27, 1814 MIDWAY TO MOBILE, THAT LED TO THE BRITISH DEFEAT AT NEW ORLEANS.
       LATER, HE LEFT SULLIVAN COUNTY AND FARMED A WHILE IN DIXON COUNTY IN 1830. ON MAY 5, 1837, HE MARIED MARGARET ADELINE BERRY AT HER HOME IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA.  THEIR FIRST CHILD GEORGE WASHINGTON 1838-1872 WAS BORN IN VIRGINIA.  THEY LIVED IN SULLIVAN COUNTY UNTIL 1850 WHERE THEIR NEXT FOUR CHILDREN JAMES HENRY 1843-1902, JOSEPH TAYLOR 1846-1924, WILLIAM HENDERSON C., AND SIDNEY KENTRON 1848-1931 WERE BORN.  HE THEN TOOK HIS FAMILY TO ARKANSAS WHERE THEIR DAUGHTER MARGARET ELIZABETH 1852-1936 WAS BORN.  HE WAS FIRST IN INDEPENDENCE COUNTY ALONG WITH HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW THOMAS W. BERRY AND HIS FAMILY, BEFORE GOING ON TO FULTON COUNTY.  HERE HE LIVED OUT HIS LIFE, DIED 12-18-1869, AND WAS BURIED ON HIS LAND IN A FAMILY HARKLEROAD CEMETERY.  FROM THIS FARM HE DONATED LAND FOR A SCHOOL AND A CHURCH.
       HENRY WAS THE ELDEST CHILD IN HENRY SR.'S SECOND FAMILY WHO LIVED ALONG BEAVER CREEK.  HIS BROTHER JOHN, LIKE HENRY, LEFT SULLIVAN COUNTY FOR WESTERN ILLINOIS AND HAD A SON KILLED THERE IN THE BLACKHAWK WAR IN 1832.  LATER JOHN AND FAMILY LIVED IN IOWA ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI.  ANOTHER BROTHER JACOB ISAAC BORN IN SULLIVAN COUNTY 1799 DIED 1876 REMAINED IN BLUFF CITY AND RAISED A FAMILY OF 5 SONS AND 4 DAUGHTERS; JAMES HENRY 1829-1884, MARY ANN 1831-1846, GEORGE WASHINGTON 1831-1867, ANDREW RILEY 1834, ELIZA JANE 1836, JACOB ISAAC (YOCK) 1836-1924, SARAH B. 1839, WILLIAM DULENY 1841-1928 AND CATHERINE ELIZA 1844.  JACOB ISAAC'S DESCENDANTS ACCOUNT FOR MANY OF TODAYS SULLIVAN COUNTY HARKLEROADS.
       WE DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT LUCY AND HIRAN, BUT ANOTHER BROTHER ISAAC 1801-1881 ALSO LEFT FOR ILLINOIS AND RAISED A FAMILY EAST OF ST. LOUIS.
ANOTHER SISTER EMMA MARRIED A DAVIDSON AND MOVED TO LAUREL COUNTY, KENTUCKY. THE YOUNGEST BROTHER WILLIAM L. 1809-1877 WITH FAMILY ALSO LIVED NEAR EMMA IN KENTUCKY.
       HENRY JR. HAD AN OLDER HALF BROTHER DANIEL 1769-1840, WHO WAS THE ELDEST IN HENRY SR.'S FIRST FAMILY.  DANIEL WAS BORN IN LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.  DANIEL'S FIRST DAUGHTER ELIZABETH WAS BORN IN ELIAZBETHTON NORTH CAROLINA.  DANIEL'S SISTER REBECCA WAS BORN IN YORK COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA AND THE LATER SIBLINGS WERE BORN IN ABINGDON, VIRGINIA BEFORE HENRY SR. MOVED SOUTH TO BEAVER CREEK IN 1793.
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Notes:
                   FROM VRB. HIS SON WILLIAM WAS 11 WHEN FRANCIS DIED.  FRANCIS MOVED TO DALLAS, TX WITH HIS WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN.  SIX MORE CHILDREN WERE BORN IN TEXAS
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Jacob Isaac HARKLEROAD
Birth:
14 Feb 1789
Sullivan, Tennessee
Death:
1876
Rosanna RILEY 
Marr:
4 Dec 1828
Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennesse 
Notes:
                   BIRTH, DEATH, BURIAL INFORMATION FROM RICHARD HARKLEROAD HE HAD BUSINESS MAKING BOATS AND RAFTS TO GO DOWN THE HOLSTON RIVER MARRIAGE PLACE FROM VRB

FROM HISTORIC SULLIVAN "RIVER TRAFFIC"
       BEFORE THE BUILDING OF THE RAILROADS THERE WAS MUCH SHIPPING BY BOATS. BOAT-YARDS WERE STRING ALONG THE RIVER FRONTS THROUGH THE COUNTY, THE PRINCIPAL ONE BEING AT KINGSPORT WHERE THERE WERE ALSO DOCKS.  WHEN THE TIMBER SUITABLE FOR GUNWALES BECAME EXHAUSTED THERE OR WAS TOO FAR INLAND FOR CONVENIENCE IN HANDLING, CONTRACTS WERE MADE WITH BUILDERS TO PUT BOATS TOGETHER FURTHER UP THE RIVER AND START THEM DOWN EMPTY AT THE BEGINNING THE OF TIDE, AND BY THE TIME THEY WERE LOADED AT KINGSPORT THE RIVER WAS NAVIGABLE AND THEY COULD CONTINUE THEIR JOURNEY.
       THESE VESSELS WERE OF THE FLAT-BOAT PATTERN, WITH A SMALL CABIN.  THEY WERE SIXTY TO SEVENTY FEET LONG AND SIXTEEN TO EIGHTEEN FEET WIDE, AND ABOUT FIVE MEN WERE REQUIRED TO HANDLE THEM.  EACH BOAT USUALLY CARRIED FROM ONE THOUSAND TO FOURTEEN HUNDRED BUSHELS OF GRAIN.  LARGE QUANTITIES OF IRON, SALF AND MEAT WREE ALSO SHIPPED.  NO ACCOMMODATIONS OR CABINS WERE TO BE HAD FOR PASSENGERS EXCEPT IN SPECIAL CASES, AS THE BOATS MADE NO RETURN TRIPS.
ARRIVING AT THEIR DESTINATION AND THE CARGO BEING DISPOSED OF THE VESSELS WERE SOLD FOR WHATEVER THEY WOULD BRING--FROM THREE TO FIVE DOLLARS--THE OWNER BEING AT THE MERCY OF THE BUYER.
       BOATING WAS BEGUN WITH THE SPRING TIDES AND CONTINUED AS LONG AS THE RIVER WAS FLUSH.
       AMONG THE OLD BOATMEN ON THE HOLSTON WERE JACK MILHORN, W.K. CROSS, TOM CRAFT, ABRAHAM SANDERS, JOHN R. SPURGEON, E.S. MILLARD, HEZEKIAH LEWIS, JACOB HARKLEROAD, JOHN LINDAMOOD, JAMES WEBB AND JOHN MCCRARY.  THE BOATMEN SOMETIMES RETURNED HOME FOR A TRADING TRIP BY STAGE; FREQUENTLY THEY WOULD BUY HORSES AND RIDE BACK, BUT THE RETURN JOURNEY WAS MORE OFTEN MADE ON FOOT.  HEZEKIAH LEWIS, AFTER TAKING HIS BREAKFAST IN KNOXVILLE ONE DAY, WOULD BREAKFAST AT HIS HOME IN KINGSPORT THE NEXT MORNING, MAKING THE TRIP ON FOOT IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.

BY OLIVER TAYLOR, 1909, PAGE 230
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John HARKLEROAD
Birth:
1792
Death:
KING 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   FROM NEIL HARKLEROAD "JOHN HARKLEROD AND HIS CHILDREN, AFTER LEAVING SULLIVAN COUNTY, TENNESSEE, WERE IN WESTERN ILLINOIS POSSIBLY AS EARLY AS 1830.  AT THE OUTBREAK THERE OF THE BLACK HAWK WAR ALONG THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI TO THE WISCONSIN BORDER, TWO OF HIS SONS ENLISTED, JOHN AND GEORGE.  AFTER BLACK HAWK, THE WHITES CROSSED THE MISSISSIPPI INTO IOWA TERRITORY AND JOHN'S CHILDREN SETTLED IN DES MOINES COUNTY, BURLINGTON, IOWA."
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Isaac HARKLEROAD
Birth:
30 Oct 1807
Death:
6 Aug 1881
Sarah Ann HARRIS 
Marr:
23 Jun 1836
St. Louis, Madison, Illinois 
Notes:
                   INFORMATION FROM JO ANN BURKETT
DEATH, BIRTH INFORMATION FROM RICHARD HARKLEROAD
FROM VRB "IN 1824 AT AGE 23 HE RODE TO ILLINOIS"
FROM NEIL HARKLEROAD - ...RAISED A FAMILY EAST OF ST. LOUIS.
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Notes:
                   INFORMATION FROM JO ANN BURKETT
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William L. HARKLEROAD
Birth:
10 Apr 1809
Tennessee
Death:
12 Oct 1877
Kentucky
Notes:
                   0INFORMTION FROM JO ANN BURKETT AND VRB  BIRTH/DEATH FROM NEIL HARKLEROAD

POB/POD/POB FROM JUDY MORRISSETTE WHO STATES HIS OCCUPATION WAS WAGONMAKER. 1870 CENSUS LISTS OCCUPATION AS FARMER
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Notes:
                   INFORMATION FROM JO ANN BURKETT
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Notes:
                   INFORMATION FROM JO ANN BURKETT
FROM NEIL HARKLERAOD - MOVED TO LAUREL COUNTY KENTUCKY.  HER BROTHER WILLIAM L. LIVED NEAR HER
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Henry Harkleroad - Elizabeth Emmert

Henry Harkleroad was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania 21 Oct 1746. His parents were Johan Heinrich Herchelroth and Joen Elizabetha Ley.

He married Elizabeth Emmert 1786 . Elizabeth Emmert was born at 10 Apr 1764 .

They were the parents of 9 children:
Henry Harkleroad born 23 Dec 1788.
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Jacob Isaac Harkleroad born 14 Feb 1789.
John Harkleroad born 1792.
Isaac Harkleroad born 30 Oct 1807.
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William L. Harkleroad born 10 Apr 1809.
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Henry Harkleroad died 19 Feb 1836 .

Elizabeth Emmert died 14 Jun 1829 .