_John AVERETT __________+
_Murray Alexander AVERETT _|
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|_Mary Ellen SMITH _________|
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_John AVERETT ____+
_Aaron AVERETT _|
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|_Martha RAY ____|
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BIOGRAPHY: John Averett(1780) emigrated to Kentucky and settled in Barren Co. He became acquainted with Jannett Hamilton Gill, born 5 Dec. 1786, daughter of George Gill III (1753) and Jennett Hamilton (1763). SOURCE: Averett Family History, 929.271 Ave 35a, by George W.G. Averett (grandson of George Gill,III and Jennett Hamilton)
BIOGRAPHY: John Averett, was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, 29 April 1780 and died 19 April 1847, in Pleasant Hill, Pike Co., Illinois. He had one or two sisters whose names I never knew. There was one brother, Elijah who was born abt. 1779 in Virginia. Sometime after the Revolutionary War, my grandfather (Aaron Averett) died. My grandmother (Dinah Ray Averett) moved south to Georgia and north to South Carolina. While my father, John, was yet a boy his mother bound him out to learn the "hatter" trade. Being something he did not like, he served out his time and never worked one day at the business. He turned his attention to Shoe and Boot making and wagon making. He always had a farm and taught all of his boys to farm. Some of his sons learned trades; Elisha, Elijah and John learned to lay stone. G.W.G. Averett, was a wheelwright and gunsmith. SOURCE: Journal of George Washington Gill Averett, John's son.
BIOGRAPHY: LIVED: In the book (976.859 P2gj) Maury Co., Tennesse Wills & Settlements, 1807-1824, page 337 it states: Sale of land of David Copeland, deceased, Purchasers: John Averett, Robert Gill, John Gill, & Thomas Gill. I assume the Gills are relatives of his wife Jannett Hamilton Gill. Researcher:
Georgenia Stewart
BIOGRAPHY: LIVED: On 23 Mar 1829, John, through a federal land sale, bought an 80-acre farm in the adjoining Hamilton Co. Illinois for $1.25 and acre. It was located in the Crook/Lasater Township 6S, E2NW of Sec. 10, Range 7E. Researcher: Georgenia Stewart
The journal of George Washington Gill Averett states that their three sons that died in infancy were buried in the same graveyard in the Mayberry settlement south of and near the Averett farm, 9 miles south of McLeansboro, Hamilton County, Illinois.
The journal of Elijah Averett states: "The farm in McLeansboro, Illinois was situated about 30 miles from Shawneetown on the Ohio River. It was on the waters of the North Fork of the Saline River, near a swamp called the Scaters made by the Wheeler's and Tennilles Creek".
BIOGRAPHY: Soon after the birth of their first child, Mary, John went on a surveying party authorized by the government to survey the wilds of Tennessee, in the region of Cumberland and Duck Rivers. After assisting in surveying for some time, he became satisfied with the country and desired to move. On returning to Kentucky, he and my grandfather, George Gill, and his family all emigrated to the state of Tennessee. John settled in Maury County and grandfather George Gill, settled in Jiles County or Hickman. John lived in Maury County for about the year 1809 to 1830. Source: Journal of George Washington Gill Averett.
BURIAL: Journal of George Washington Gill Averett states: They were living in Pleasant Hill, Pike Co., Illinois. He father, mother and other family members are buried in the graveyard known as the McMullin or John Sapp plot. The cemetery is on the bluff of the Mississippi river.
LIVE_LDS_BAPTISM: 6 June 1835 in Hamilton Co., Illinois.
SOURCE: Geneology of the first Generations in America John Averett's mother, as stated, moved with her children from Georgia to one of the Carolinas. There John grew to manhood, and married a woman whose name is unknown. After the birth of a son, this wife became untrue to him, and they ceased to live together. After this, he moved to Barren County, Kentucky, where he met Jennette Gill. They were lawfully married in Barren County, Kentucky, on May 1, 1806, and had born to them a daughter, Mary Averett, on Feb 28, 1807. Soon after the birth of Mary, John was sent with a government surveying party to the wilds of Tennessee, in the region of the Cumberland and Duck Rivers. After surveying there for some time, he became satisfied with the country and decided to move to Tennessee. Shortly after, he brought his wife, child, and his father-in-law, George Gill, to Maury County, Tennessee. There ten other children were born to them.
Soon after the birth of the last child, John Averett went to Illinois with some of his neighbors, to see the country, and bought himself a place in White County, Illinois. He returned and sold his farm in Tennessee to John Commel, and in 1830 moved his family to Illinois. Jennette and her husband, S.A.P. Kelsey, accompanied them. After a short time, they traded this place for one in Hamilton county, nine miles south of McLainsboro, in a place known as Mayberry Settlement, on the north fork of the Saltine River. They were very comfortably situated there, owning 80 acres of land, 40 of which were under cultivation. They seemed contented there until the sprint of 1835 when they were visited by two men, elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), who preached to them the tenets of this religion. John, his wife, Jennett and husband Samuel Alexander P. Kelsey, Eliza, Elijah, and his wife Cherrizade Grimes, Pyrenia, and Elisha all embraced the Latter-Day work.
In 1837, John sold his Hamilton County place and relocated at Caldwell, Missouri, where some of his children were already living. It seems they were persecuted here by border ruffians who did not like religion of any kind, so they went back across the river to Illinos. They crossed the river at Hannibal, Missouri, going two and one-half miles from Payson, Adams County, Illinois, where they rented some ground and stayed for a year. They they moved down to Pike County, Illinois, 12 miles south of the county seat. Later John bought more land near Pleasant Hill and worked there for five or six years until his health began to fail. On April 19, 1847, near sundown he took sick with an old chronic disease, the cramp colic. He died in a short time that same evening.
CENSUS RECORDS: In the 1830 Census of Hamilton Co., Illinois Illinois, film M19-22, Enumerator James Hall, Reference 1 Dec 1830, page 245, line 18 there is an John Averett. Reasearcher: Georgenia Stewart, March 3, 1999. Census records is as follows:
2 males to 5 years (Murray Alexander born 1828,George Washington Gill born 1824) 1 male to 5-10 years (John R. born 1821)
1 male 15-20 years (Elisha born 1810)
1 male 50-60 years (John born 1780)
1 female 5-10 years (Pyrenia born 1819)
1 female 10-15 years (Sarah born 1816)
1 female 15-20 years (Eliza born 1814)
1 female 20-30 years (Mary born 1807)
1 female 40-50 years (Jannett Hamilton Gill Averett, born 1786)
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|_Eliza Pyrenia Tennessee PORTER _|
|_Mary AVERETT ________+
_William TURNBEAUGH _______+
_George Washington TURNBEAUGH _|
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|_Martha PRISBEY _______________|
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_Henry WEBB ____________
_Obed H. WEBB __|
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|_Sarah AVERETT _|
|_Jannett Hamilton GILL _+
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[287] Source: Shawn Gray, P.O. box 155, Muncie, Indiana, 47308.