Jacob Isaac HARKLEROAD

Birth:
14 Feb 1789
Sullivan, Tennessee
Death:
1876
Burial:
Fair Riley Cem, Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennessee
Marriage:
4 Dec 1828
Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennessee
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
Rosanna RILEY
Birth:
20 Jun 1804
Sullivan, Tennessee
Burial:
Fair Riley Cem, Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennessee
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Notes:
                   INFORMATION ON BIRTH AND BURIAL FROM RICHARD HARKLEROAD
Children
Marriage
1
James Henry HARKLEROAD
Birth:
7 Oct 1829
Death:
26 Feb 1884
Fannie Emaline HICKS 
Marr:
8 Apr 1849
Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennesse 
Notes:
                   BURIAL FROM RICHARD HARKLEROAD
2
Mary Ann HARKLEROAD
Birth:
1831
Death:
 
Marr:
 
3
George Washington HARKLEROAD
Birth:
7 Feb 1833
Sullivan, Tennessee
Death:
2 Jun 1917
Elizabethton, Carter, Tennessee
Martha  
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   BIRTH, DEATH INFORMATION FROM RICHARD HARKLEROAD
CIVIL WAR PENSION APPLICATION # 10657 ON LDS FILM 0969675.  HE ENLISTED BUT BECAUSE OF WEAK EYES WAS DETAILED TO RUN A SAW MILL FOR THE CONFEDERACY.  THE LUMBER FROM THE MILL WAS USED TO REPAIR RAILROAD TRACKS ON THE EAST TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA & GEORGIA RAILROAD BEING RUN BY THE CONFEDERACY.  IN A LETTER IN THE FILE, JAMES I. HARKLEROAD NAMES THE SAW MILL AS THE HARKLEROAD SAW MILL, LOCATED ABOUT ONE MILE UP THE RIVER FROM BLUFF CITY,TN.
IN 1910 HE APPLIED
FOR A PENSION BECAUSE HE WAS BLIND (AND HAD BEEN FOR 30 YEARS ACCORDING TO HIS TESTIMONY) AND COULD NOT WORK.  HE STATES THAT HIS WIFE WAS DEAD AND THAT HE MOVED AMONG HIS CHILDREN TO LIVE. HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE SOLDIERS HOME IN NASHVILLE,ON 12 JULY 1910.  DURING A VISIT HOME HE BECAME TOO FEEBLE TO RETURN. HE LIVED WITH HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. A. J. ROE, WHO TOOK CARE OF HIM. A LETTER FROM W.D. LYON REQUESTS A SUM OF TEN DOLLARS PER MONTH FOR MRS. ROE TO HELP HER MEET EXPENSES.
4
Andrew R. HARKLEROAD
Birth:
1835
Death:
20 Apr 1880
Elizabeth COMBS 
Marr:
21 Sep 1856
 
Notes:
                   DEATH INFORMATION FROM RICHARD HARKLEROAD - HE LISTS BIRTH AS 1834
5
Eliza Jane HARKLEROAD
Birth:
1 Apr 1836
Death:
James HAWK 
Marr:
31 Mar 1874
Sullivan, Tennessee 
Notes:
                   MARRIAGE FROM LDS 972684.  MARY F. CARTER LISTS THE BIRTH DATE GIVEN. INFORMATION FROM RICHARD HARKLEROAD WHO LISTS BIRTH YEAR AS 1836.
6
Jacob Isaac HARKLEROAD
Birth:
22 Nov 1837
Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennessee
Death:
13 Jan 1924
Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennessee
Bashie HUGHES 
Marr:
12 Nov 1907
 
Notes:
                   A CIVIL WAR VETERAN.  HE ENLISTED IN 1862 AND SERVED IN THE NITRE AND MINING BUREAU NEAR BLUFF CITY, TN.   HE SAW ACTION AT THE BULLS GAP BATTLE AND AT THE SMALL BATTLE AT HAMILTON'S RIDGE IN SULLIVAN COUNTY.
IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION "...WHAT IS THE SIZE OF YOUR FAMILY LIVING TOGETHER?" ON THE PENSION APPLICATION, HE ANSWERED "WIFE & 6 CHILDREN, WIFE IS DERANGED MENTALLY, OF THIS TIME PUT IN ASSYLUM"  ON THE AGES OF HIS FAMILY AND SEX OF HIS CHILDREN HE LISTS " WIFE, 33, CHILDREN 14, 12, 10, 8, 6 & ONE ABOUT 5 MONTHS OLD.  5 BOYS, 1 GIRL, THE 8 YEAR OLD ONE IS THE GIRL" HE LISTS HIS PROPERTY AS " 39 ACRES OF LAND VALUED AT $300.00, 1 HORSE  1 COW ALL WORTH ABOUT $50.00"
THE FILE CONTAINS A LETTER WRITTEN BY W.D. LYON, LAWYER, BLUFF CITY, TN DATED 30 APRIL 1906 TO HON FRANK A. MOSES IN NASHVILLE REQUESTING ACTION ON SEVERAL CASES, AMONG THEM THE CASE OF J.I. HARKLEROAD, "WITHOUT FAIL HIS WIFE IS CRAZY AND HE HAS HOUSE FULL OF LITTLE CHILDREN"
J.I. HARKLEROAD DESCRIBES THE STATE OF IS HEALTH AS  " AT PRESENT I HAVE REHEUMATISM IN MY SHOULDERS AND BACK ARM (?) AND HAVE BEEN FOR A LONG TIME UNABLE TO DO BUT LITTLE WORK"
HIS SOLDIER'S APPLICATION FOR PENSION NUMBER WAS 7908 HIS PENSION FILE CAN BE FOUND ON LDS FILM 0969792

HE FATHERED 21 CHILDREN BY THREE WIVES. CALLED "YOCK" INFORMATION FROM RICHARD HARKLEROAD (BIRTH, DEATH, BURIAL) STATE OF TN, DEATH CERTIFICATE PAGE 9

FROM NEIL HARKLEROAD "HIS (HENRY HARKLEROAD SR.) 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."
7
William Dulany HARKLEROAD, SR.
Birth:
20 Mar 1841
Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennessee
Death:
26 Jan 1929
Kingsport, Sullivan, Tennessee
Irena COMBS 
Marr:
1 Jan 1867
Sullivan, Tennessee 
Notes:
                   HE WAS A CONFEREDATE VETERAN  HIS APPLICATION FOR A PENSION IS NUMBER 12033 INFORMATION FROM RICHARD HARKLEROAD   MARRIAGE FROM LDS 972684 TN STATE DEATH CERTIFICATE NUMBER 3647, FILE NO. 28 1910 SULLIVAN CENSUS LISTS HIM LIVING WITH HIS DAUGHTER ELIZABETH AND HER HUSBAND JOHN R. TATE.
8
Sarah Berellen HARKLEROAD
Birth:
23 Apr 1842
Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennessee
Death:
30 Oct 1900
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   BIRTH, DEATH INFORMATION FROM RICHARD HARKLEROAD.
MARY F. CARTER LISTS BIRTH DATE AS 29 OCT 1839.
9
Catherine Elkins HARKLEROAD
Birth:
10 Apr 1844
Sullivan, Tennessee
Death:
1920
George W. LITTLE 
Marr:
21 Oct 1866
Sullivan, Tennessee 
Notes:
                   INFORMATION FROM RICHARD HARKLEROAD   MARRIAGE FROM LDS 972684
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Jacob Isaac Harkleroad - Rosanna Riley

Jacob Isaac Harkleroad was born at Sullivan, Tennessee 14 Feb 1789. His parents were Henry Harkleroad and Elizabeth Emmert.

He married Rosanna Riley 4 Dec 1828 at Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennessee . Rosanna Riley was born at Sullivan, Tennessee 20 Jun 1804 .

They were the parents of 9 children:
James Henry Harkleroad born 7 Oct 1829.
Mary Ann Harkleroad born 1831.
George Washington Harkleroad born 7 Feb 1833.
Andrew R. Harkleroad born 1835.
Eliza Jane Harkleroad born 1 Apr 1836.
Jacob Isaac Harkleroad born 22 Nov 1837.
William Dulany Harkleroad, Sr. born 20 Mar 1841.
Sarah Berellen Harkleroad born 23 Apr 1842.
Catherine Elkins Harkleroad born 10 Apr 1844.

Jacob Isaac Harkleroad died 1876 .