John A. BONE

                   SOURCES:  1. Main Archive Record

John bone and wife Rebecca moved to Fall Creek, Tenn. near Murfreesboro soon after Elihu was born (1795).
Enos bone and Lucy Herne move to Texas, she was of Tenn.
Elihu Bone moved to Sangannon Co. Illlinois about if not at the same time James Scott came to Macon Co.,
Illinois from Fall Creek, Tenn.
Church letter of Elihu Bone dated 30 August 1824 from Fall Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church of
Rutherford County, Tenn.
Henry Potts Bone  and Narcissus or Nancy Britton were parents of Rev. Heny F. bone of Greenville, Texas.
(From Frank Randall Records).
Nancy bone married 1) James Walker, 2) Calvin Bone her first cousin of Izard County, Arkansas and had
4 children.  Calvin Bone was a widower with 4 children.

John and Rebecca Potts Bone had seven children in Iredell County and 805 moved to Wilson County, Tennessee.

John purchased land southwest of Slatesville on Fall Creek owning land in both Wilson and Rutherford Counties.
Rebecca was living in 1820 but had died before John made out his 1825 will.  John died in the spring of 1827.
Three of their sons seved in the War of 1812.  Three of the children: Elihu, Elizabeth Scott and Jamima moved
to Illinois in 1824.

Nancy Bone went to Arkansas in 1841; and a couple of years later Enos moved to Texas.  The oldest sons
remained in Tennessee.

Enos Houston Bone, Henry Potts Bone and James Hill Bone served in the War of 1812 in the West
Tennessee Militia.