Alexander P Shults (abt. 1822 - 1917)

Born about 17 Feb 1822 in Emerts Cove, Sevier, Tennessee, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth Catherine (Combs) Shultz — married 2 Jan 1845 in Sevier County, Tennessee, USA

Descendants

Died 12 Nov 1917 at about age 95 in May Spring, Grainger, Tennessee, USA

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Mary Dayle Shults [send private message] and Nicholas Loweth [send private message]

Biography

Alexander Preston Schultz was born on 17 February 1822 and died 12 November 1917. He married Elizabeth Catherine "Betsy" Combs on 02 January 1845. They had nine children, including three children who died in infancy:^[1][2]

J.M. Schultz, b. 11 December 1845 - d. 26 December 1845; Joseph Schultz, b. 05 December 1847; Barbara M. Schultz, b. 02 December 1850 - d. 07 April 1887; William Schultz, b. 01 April 1852 - d. 29 November 1931; George W. Schultz, b. 07 June 1854 - d. 16 March 1920; __________ Schultz b. circa 1856 (died in infancy); Mary Isabelle Schultz, b. 01 January 1858 - d. 04 August 1939;[3] Caldonia D. Schultz, b. 18 May 1863 d. 10 October 1963

From Jim Shults's Files: "Even though he was forty years old and already had a family of seven children at the time of his enlistment, Alexander was a Union Army veteran of the Civil War. He was a Sergeant in E Co., 2nd Tenn Cavalry, serving from 1862-1865. He returned to Emerts Cove after the war and remained there until after his mother's death. In 1876, he moved to Grainger County, to a farm on the Holston River, just below the present Cherokee Dam and lake. All his children moved with him except Joseph, who was already married and had a home of his own in Sevier County. His second marriage, to Jerusha, ended in divorce after a very short time."

Note: Alexander Preston Shults received a state land grant of 1,000 acres and

another of 4,000 acres in the early 1840s. This is the largest grant

known to this author in Sevier County. It is not clear to this author

upon what basis the grants were made. Perhaps it was because his

grandfather had participated in the Revolutionary War and his father in

the War of 1812. The land was bounded by the East Prong of the Pigeon

River, Webb's Creek, the Cocke/Sevier County line, and a line well up on

the slope of the Western escarpment of the Smoky Mountains. Shortly

after 1870, Alexander Preston moved to Grainger County where the farm

land was much better and where some of his offspring lived. From

historical documents, he had difficulty in selling all of his Sevier

County land. William Williams (1843-1917) bought 600 acres from him at

one dollar per acre. The sales receipt, which my mother, Mamie Williams

Davenport (1911-), had in her possession in the 1970s was a simple

statement of the acreage and selling price, handwritten on simple ruled

notepad paper. The Williams acreage was on the East side of the Shults

land grant, bounded by the original line on the mountain, the

Cocke/Sevier county line, Dunn's Creek, and a line well down into Rocky

Flats. See also state land grant to Phillip S. Shults.

Preston moved from Sevier County to Grainger County, TN in 1876 after his mother died. All children except the eldest son, Joseph, moved with him and his wife.^[3][4] Several years after Elizabeth's death, Preston married Jerusha Rankin who had several children by a former marriage. They did not have children. Preston went back to live with his daughter, Isabelle.^[5] He was buried at Shiloh Cemetery in Grainger, TN.

Sources

1. ↑ Reagan, Donald B. (DATE). Smoky Mountain Clans: Shultz, McCarter, Trentham, Bradley, Watson, Conner, Swearingen, Oakley and Clabaugh Families, Vol. 2, Revised Ed.
2. ↑ Schultz, Earl K. (DATE). Descendants of the Schultz Families" An Early American Family.
3. ↑ 1870 United States Federal Census; Census Place: District 2, Sevier, Tennessee; Roll: M593_1559; Page: 345A. Accessible at ancestry.com.
4. ↑ Schultz, Earl K. (DATE). Descendants of the Schultz Families" An Early American Family.
5. ↑ Schultz, Earl K. (DATE). Descendants of the Schultz Families" An Early American Family.

Birth: Title: Family Data Collection - Births; Author: Edmund West, comp. Publisher: Ancestry.com Operations Inc: Publisher Date: 2001; Publisher Location: Provo, UT, USA Wedding Date: Source number: 2835.070; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35345780/alexander-preston-schultz
• Marriage: Source number: 2835.070; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1