Re: Johnson/Kittrell marriage.
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In reply to:
Johnson/Kittrell marriage.
Clement Rose 12/22/06
We have a John Johnson married to an Eleanor Kittrell and a John Riley Johnson married to a Sarah Kittrell or so the best Kittrell researcher of that line has determined.That researcher believes that there has been a mistaken merger of these two women and two men into one couple.It seems quite possible if not probable that the researcher is correct.
Each married in the 1830's and each may well have married in Maury County, Tennessee.The two women were from different lines and are thought to be first cousins (and strangely) twice removed.Not so strange is the fact that neither line was thought to have been from South Carolina or even traveled through South Carolina.South Carolina Kittrells contributed much less to the Tennessee Kittrells than North Carolina due to its more southerly location which sent them to the Deep South if they elected to leave South Carolina, including the majority of Kittrell immigrants in all probability, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and a minority in Texas and maybe one or two in the northern southern states.North Carolina is the prior point of emigration for all those in South Carolina, many in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma, and later California, which major line is from a Kittrell who went during a generation from North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee and whose son was married (unexpectedly in modern Kittrell eyes) in Louisiana before moseying on to Arkansas and Texas.
Whether we are correct here or not as to two couples and not just one, keep your eyes open for the possibility that two families have been merged and one named women became a single woman with a presumed middle name.There were many Kittrell lines living in Maury County during the mid-nineteenth century.
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