James
"Jim"
Blevins
Born about in Tennessee, United States
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of Joseph Josiah Blevins Sr
and Rebecca Guinn
Brother of
John Blevins [half], Aginys Blevins, Armstead Elza Blevins Sr, Rebecca (Blevins) Abbott, Catharine (Blevins) England and Joseph Josiah Blevins Jr
Husband of
Rachel (Nesmith) Blevins
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Isabella (Davis) Blevins
— married
30 Jan 1822 in Morgan Co, Alabama, United States
Husband of
Rebecca (Martin) Blevins
— married
26 Feb 1824 in Morgan County, Alabama, USA
Descendants 
Father of
Nathaniel Blevins, Jacob Jonathan Blevins, Josiah Blevins, Rebecca (Blevins) Abbott, Jane Katherine (Blevins) Campbell, Rachel (Blevins) Campbell, William F. Blevins, Dillard Blevins and Sabrina A (Blevins) Wiley
Died about
at about age 61
in Winston County, Alabama, United States [uncertain]
[uncertain]
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Biography
James Blevins was born to Joseph Josiah Blevins and his Native American wife in Sullivan County, Tennessee, where this mother died almost immediately after James' birth.
Josiah brought James to what was soon to become Cotaco County,(now Morgan County) Alabama, on the Tennessee River in 1803. Josiah soon married again and had many more children. James was one of the first men to claim land in Winston County, Alabama in 1832.
During the American Civil War, James was tending his and his son's fields, John, Nathaniel, and Josiah, who were fighting with the Union in the 1st Alabama Calvary, Company K. A group of Bushwhackers come upon him, beat him senseless, and threw him over one of the numerous high bluffs famous in Winston County.
James younger children and grandchildren found him under the bluff, and brought him to the house, where he died three days later, after telling the family what had happened to him.
He died, at the age of 60-61, in 1861 in Winston County, Alabama. He is buried at the Blevins Family Cemetery, Wilson Bend, Winston County, Alabama. [1]
Much of his family is buried in the Blevins Family Cemetery, near Rock Creek (now Smith Lake), Wilson Bend, Arley, Winston County, Alabama.
Sources
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/165337397/james-blevins: accessed 08 November 2022), memorial page for James “Jim” Blevins (1800–1861), Find A Grave: Memorial #165337397 citing Blevins Family Cemetery, Wilson Bend, Winston County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Debra Baird (contributor 47645627) .
See Also:
- Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950, database with images, FamilySearch, James Blevins and Isabella Davis, 1822. Accessed online November 16, 2016.
- Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950, database with images, FamilySearch, James Blevins and Rebecca Martin, 1824. Accessed online October 7, 2014.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Gary Blevins
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup E-M35, FTDNA kit #933466
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~3.12%
Andrew Dill :
AncestryDNA
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~3.12%
Elizabeth Mudd-Connelly :
AncestryDNA
+
Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch A694005 [compare]
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~3.12%
Lynn (Webb) Tyler :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch B179651 [compare], Ancestry member LynnWebbReidTyler
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~0.78%
Bocca Sue McKellar :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA
+
MyHeritage DNA
-
~0.78%
Lily (Wallace) Stoffell :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch KM6544235 [compare], yourDNAportal LILd61967c3, Ancestry member lmwallace221
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Blevins-589 and Blevins-791 appear to represent the same person because: Same bith/death date, same parents
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Rejected matches › James Grant Blevins (1897-1984) › James Blevins Sr (abt.1802-bef.1870) › James Torbett Blevins (abt.1802-1849)
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