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Waightstill Avery (1741-1821) —
of Burke
County, N.C.
Born in Groton, New London
County, Conn., May 10,
1741.
Lawyer;
colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of North
Carolina house of commons, 1776, 1782-83, 1793; North
Carolina state attorney general, 1777-79; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1796.
Fought a pistol
duel with Andrew
Jackson in 1788; neither man was injured.
Died in the judge's
chambers at the Burke County
Courthouse, Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., March
13, 1821 (age 79 years, 307
days).
Interment at Swan
Ponds Plantation Cemetery, Morganton, N.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Jerusha (Morgan) Avery and Humphrey Avery; married, October
3, 1778, to Leah Probart Franks; father of Elizabeth Avery (who
married William
Ballard Lenoir); grandfather of Isaac
Thomas Lenoir and William
Waigstill Avery; granduncle of Lorenzo
Burrows; first cousin four times removed of Horace
Billings Packer; second cousin once removed of Noyes
Barber; second cousin twice removed of Daniel
Packer, Asa
Packer, Edwin
Barber Morgan, Christopher
Morgan, Edwin
Denison Morgan and Alfred
Avery Burnham; second cousin thrice removed of Judson
B. Phelps, Morgan
Gardner Bulkeley, William
Henry Bulkeley, Robert
Asa Packer and William
Frederick Morgan Rowland; second cousin four times removed of Henry
Brewster Stanton, Jonathan
R. Herrick, Erskine
Mason Phelps and Spencer
Gale Frink; second cousin five times removed of D-Cady
Herrick, Herman
Arod Gager, Walter
Richmond Herrick and Burdette
Burt Bliss; third cousin twice removed of Nathan
Belcher, Samuel
Townsend Douglass, Silas
Hamilton Douglas and Joshua
Perkins; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Phelps Huntington, George
Mortimer Beakes, George
Douglas Perkins, Chauncey
C. Pendleton, Daniel
Parrish Witter, Albert
Lemando Bingham, Cornelia
Cole Fairbanks, Llewellyn
James Barden and Henry
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| ![](hand.gif) | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
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| ![](hand.gif) | Avery County,
N.C. is named for him. |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Lenoir (1751-1839) —
Born in Brunswick
County, Va., May 8,
1751.
School
teacher; surveyor;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of North Carolina state legislature, 1781-95; delegate
to North Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1789.
French
Huguenot ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died May 6,
1839 (age 87 years, 363
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Caldwell County, N.C.
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William Ballard Lenoir (1775-1852) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Wilkes
County, N.C., September
1, 1775.
Cotton mill
business; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1815-17.
Baptist.
Slaveowner.
Died in Roane County (part now in Loudon
County), Tenn., December
14, 1852 (age 77 years, 104
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Loudon County, Tenn.
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Samuel E. Hogg (1783-1842) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Caswell
County, N.C., April
18, 1783.
Democrat. Physician;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1813-15; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1817-19.
Baptist.
Slaveowner.
Died in Rutherford
County, Tenn., May 28,
1842 (age 59 years, 40
days).
Interment at Nashville
City Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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Isaac Thomas Lenoir (1807-1875) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Wilkes
County, N.C., May 16,
1807.
Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1843-45; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1845-47.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Sweetwater Valley, Roane
County, Tenn., December
4, 1875 (age 68 years, 202
days).
Burial location unknown.
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