Samuel STARNES

• Name	Samuel STARNES
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	LZZK-TWN
  Notes	(1) Starnes, H. Gerald & Starnes, Herman, Of Them That Left a Name Behind - A History of the Starnes Family, Baltimore, MD, Gateway Press, 1983, pp. 194-195: By 1790 the brothers, Adam II and Samuel Starnes, were the leading members of the family still living in Washington County, Virginia as the others sought land elsewhere in the new nation whose frontiers had moved quickly westward. These two men, who, we believe, were the sons of Adam I and Caroline Carlock Starnes, lived on in the Holston Valley on the middle fork for almost thirty years. . . . Samuel Starnes married Eliza Letitia Fletcher. They had six daughters and two sons [not necessarily in birth order]: [i] Hannah [ii] Jane [iii] Mary [iv] Margaret m. Benjamin Coogins on August 18, 1819 [v] Rachel [vi] Elizabeth m. David G. McCarty on April 7, 1813 [vii] William m. Jane Crockett [viii] Adam III (2) Steelman, Sanford, The Starnes Family Four Generation Project <http://web.archive.org/web/20011224030918/http://www.trellis.net/steel/sta/fourgen.htm>: Samuel Starnes married Eliza Letitia Fletcher. Their children: a. Hannah Starnes. b. Jane Starnes. c. Mary Starnes. d. Margaret Starnes married Benjamin Coogins on August 18, 1819. e. Elizabeth Starnes married David G. McCarty on April 7, 1813. f. William Starnes married Jane Crockett. g. Adam Starnes. h. Rachel Starnes married Finch French on July 7, 1818. NOTE: The information on the descendants of Samuel Starnes is from group sheets prepared by Bechel D. Strong. (3) Van Wagenen, Avis Stearns, Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns and Their Descendants, Vol. 2, Syracuse, NY: Courier Printing Co., 1901, p. 423: SAMUEL STEARNS . . . , b. in Washington Co., Va.; md. Eliza Letitia Fletcher; had two sons and six daus.: [i] HANNAH STEARNS. [ii] JANE STEARNS. [iii] MARY STEARNS. [iv] MARGARET STEARNS. [v] RACHEL STEARNS. [vi] ELIZABETH STEARNS. [vii] WILLIAM STEARNS. . . . [viii] ADAM STEARNS.
  Person ID	I34539	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Adam STARNES, I,   b. Abt 1732, German Flatts, Present-Day Herkimer County, NY d. Abt 1816, TN (Age ~ 84 years)
  Mother	Caroline CARLOCK,   b. Abt 1717, Germany or Netherlands
  Family ID	F2666	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eliza Letitia FLETCHER
  Marriage	Greene County, TN
  Children	1. Adam STARNES,   b. 21 Jun 1792   d. 11 Dec 1844, Jackson County, IL (Age 52 years)   2. William STEARNS,   b. 15 Nov 1793, VA d. 28 Feb 1858, Union County, IN (Age 64 years)   3. Hannah STARNES   4. Jane STARNES   5. Mary STARNES   6. Margaret STARNES   7. Elizabeth STARNES   8. Rachel STARNES
  Family ID	F15014	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2024