Who Do I Think I Am? Wow! part 21

Jacob B. & Polly Hogshead Trammell's children continued -

2. Thomas R. Trammell (c1821-1873). Thomas married Rebecca Pruett, February 7, 1845. They had two children. Apparently they divorced and Rebecca moved to Oklahoma where she spent the rest of her life. He secondly married Arilla Catherine Riddle and they had six children.

Thomas Trammell is among the names listed n one company mustered in for rounding up Indians, May 1, 1838, and mustered out July 16, 1838, at Franklin, North Carolina (Trail of Tears).

-THE HERITAGE OF MACON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, p5, Macon County Historical Society.

The following was taken from the manuscript "TRAMMELL, THE ANCESTORS, FAMILIES, AND RELATIVES OF THOMAS FRED TRAMMELL AND GERTRUDE ESTELLA LAVELL" by William J. Trammell, Blountstown, Fl, Jan. 1996;

Thomas and wife Rebecca Prewett went to Arkansas about 1848 from Georgia. Their daughter Margaret Jane was born in Georgia. Son Luther was born in Arkansas, 1849. They settled on Flint Creek South of what later became the town of Gentry, Arkansas (this was near the spirng by the Dave Linsey place). They met the requirement for homestead patents. According to deed records of Benton County, Arkansas, a bounty Land Warrant was issued in favor of Thomas R. Trammell, Private in Captain Angells Compnay, NC Volunteers, Cherokee War, in Distict of lands subject to sale at Fayetteville, Arkansas, containing 40 acres on June 13, 1856, by President Franklin Pierce.

Thomas did not beleive in slavery and was called a "Black Republican". During the Civil War he took his family north into Missouri. When they returned their buildings were destroyed and squatters were on their property, so they settled north of what became in 1893, Gentry, Arkansas, in the area to be known as Trammell School District.

I wonder how he and his brother Van got along? Van reportedly killed a man named Lambert when they got into a heated argument about the the Civil War. Lambert fought for the North.

Thomas R. Trammell died of a sun stroke in Gentry, Arkansas and is buried at Blagg-Duckworth Cemetery, between Siloam Springs, and Gentry, near Siloam Springs City Lake, with an unmarked native stone marker.