John SEHON OR SEHORN, JR.
Name also recorded as Seahorn.
John and Mary came from Oak Grove, Tenn. soon after marriage. In the early
1800s located at the south side of what is now the Cumberland Turnpike and some
2 1/2 miles west of the historic Standing Stone Monument (near Monterey, Tenn.)
There was an inn (hotel) known as the Sehon Inn or Standing Stone Inn. The
Cumberland road (Walton Road) was the boundary line between Overton Co. and
White Co., Tenn. Sehon Inn was on the South side of the road in White Co. but
the land records indicate that the 198 3/4 acre tract of land owned by the
Sehons was in Overton Co. The remains of the Standing Stone is now in
Whittaker Park in Monterey.
The Sehorn land owned by Nicholas was located north of Valentine Seiver's land,
east of the north fork of the Shenandoah River and the main road cut through
one piece of property. The land was very close to the present town of New
Market, Virginia. John & Elizabeth were in Shenandoah Co. VA in 1784. They
established the Sehorn Ferry, east of Dandridge, Tenn.
Known by nickname "Polly". Very common name for Mary.
John died suddenly leaving Mary with five very young children. She continued
to keep the Standing Stone Inn to support herself and small children. Anytime
they looked out the east window of the inn they could see covered wagons from
the east on their trek to the west. One wagon brought a bachelor, Benjamin
Walker, on the way to Arkansas, stopped, spent the night at the inn, fell in
love, married Widow Sehon (Seahorn
Buried in Liberty Cemetery, Newton County, Arkansas
Information from Alva M. Smith, 1153 Rock Creek Drive, Garland, TX 75040
Left with all eight children at home ages 1 thru 17 when husband died in 1844.
Known as Kitty
Buried in Carrolton Hollow Cemetery.?
Pearl Coffman McLean, born 11 Dec 1891, remembers seeing her grandmother, Nancy
Chaney. She described her as small, a little dried-up woman who had a cancer
by her nose and no teeth. The children all loved to get her to sing "Old Black
Joe" because her chin almost touched her nose. Then they would laugh.
The 1880 census shows Nancy Chaney living with Columbus and Winnie in Osage.
Nancy was 72 years of age at this time.
She was 87 when she died.
Pearl Coffman McLean says there was a Spanish Land Grant involved but she was
not sure where it came in. She was very positive there was a grant, however.
Jesse Gerald Chaney told Evelyn Fons that Nancy Sehorn may be "Black Dutch".
His father said one of her grandmothers was Black Dutch..a descendant of the
Spanish who conquered Holland. This could be where the land grant comes in.
The government approved the grant which was very large. The whole family lived
on the property from this grant. Alice Wright Stokes also mentioned that Nancy
D. Sehorn was Dutch from Holland.
Richard Stokes 's mother spoke of visiting Nancy Dilckey Seahorn and said of her to be a loveable dutch lady. Many dutch immigrated into Penn. and there has been publilshed speculation that the Seahorns immigrated From Penn to Carolinas
Nancy was black dutch. descendant of the spanish who conquered Holland..
He married Mary Polly Graham 22 Oct 1799 at Jefferson, Tennessee . Mary Polly Graham was born at Botecourt, Virginia Abt 1784 .
They were the parents of 12
children:
Priscilla Sehon
born 10 Jan 1805.
Blocked
Nancy Dickey Sehon
born 25 Jul 1809.
Blocked
Blocked
Elizabeth Graham Seahorn
born Abt 1801.
Elizabeth Seahorn
born Abt 1811.
Priscilla Graham
born 10 Jan 1805.
Catherine "Kitty" Sehorn
William G. Seahorn
born Abt 1807.
Eliza Seahorn
born 1807.
Nancy Dickey Seahorn
born 25 Jul 1809.
John Sehon or Sehorn, Jr. died 11 Dec 1809 at Overton Co., Tn .
Mary Polly Graham died 28 Oct 1857 at Overton, Tennessee .