Nicholas Susong (abt. 1764 - 1824)

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Contents 1 Biography 2 Research Notes 2.1 Alsace-Lorraine, France Geographic Notes 2.2 Susong Memorial Cemetery Greeneville 3 Sources

Biography

Nicholas Susong is believed to have been born in 1764 at Lothringen, Holy Roman Empire - known today as Alsace-Lorraine, France. (see research notes). He was the son of Andrew Susong (abt.1738-abt.1826) and Barbara Susong (1738-abt.1817).

The Susong family emigrated from Alsace-Lorraine, France to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Colonial America. At that time, the family included Nicholas born 1764, Jacob born 1767, and Catherine born 1771. (need citation) By November 1777, they were living in Rockingham County, Virginia. In 1789, they lived near Lexington in Rockbridge County, Virginia. In 1794, the Susong family moved to Goodson, Virginia (now Bristol, Virginia) and Kings' Meadows (now Bristol, Tennessee) in a wagon train.

No other family had such a spectacular entry nor was to play a more important role in the history of Bristol than did the Susong. The coming to Bristol of the Susong family on a giant caravan in 1794 happened on the day of another event. It was the day of the burial of Gen. Evan Shelby, who had founded the original community by erecting Shelby's Fort and stockade overlooking Beaver Creek in Sapling Grove...The arrival here of the Susong family was to say the least a bit "peeving" to the people. They had to make a choice -- to go to the burial of General Shelby or watch the arrival of the amazing Susong clan. The unusually large and wealthy Susong wagon train, which had originated in Rockbridge County, Virginia consisted of more than 100 persons, including a large company of slaves; numerous wagons and carriages; outriders and herds of livestock.^[1]

In 1817, Andrew Sr., Barbara, Nicholas and wife Elizabeth McCauley, and Andrew Jr. and wife Elizabeth Eason migrated to Greene, Tennessee, settling on Pigeon Creek located southwest of Greeneville, Tennessee, where it flows from the northeast in a southwest direction before crossing the Old Kentucky Road and emptying in the Nolicucky River.

Elizabeth (McCauley) Susong (abt.1766-abt.1851) was the "Consort of Nicholas Susong." ^[2] (Consort is another term for spouse.) Children were:

1. John Susong (1791-1865)
2. Andrew Susong (1792-1877)
3. Alexander Susong (1795-1875)
4. Rebecca (Susong) Roberts (1795-1878)
5. Jacob Susong (1800-1894)
6. Charlotte Susong (1802-1858)
7. Chatherine Susong (1803-1882)
8. Anna Susong (1804-1877)
9. Nancy Susong (1806-1898)
10. Mary Nancy Susong (1808-1873)

Nicholas passed in July 1824.^[2] and is buried at the Susong Memorial Cemetery, located six miles from Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, on property of the Susong Memorial Presbyterian Church on the Allen's Bridge Road.

Research Notes

Alsace-Lorraine, France Geographic Notes

The Herzogtum Lothringen (Duchy of Lorraine) was a state of the Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation (Holy Roman Empire).

During the Thirty Years' War, Lorraine was fought over between France and Habsburg and occupied by France. In the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, it remained unconsidered and continued to be subject to France; in 1661, the withdrawal of the French was regulated by treaty.

In 1735, Francis of Lorraine exchanged his land for the Grand Duchy of Tuscany to end the War of the Polish Succession.

Result:

- Francis became Grand Duke of Tuscany, married Maria Theresa, and then became Roman-German Emperor in 1745

- Stanislaus I Leszczyński, King of Poland-Lithuania received the Duchies of Lorraine and Bar for life and renounced the Polish royal crown; he was thus Imperial Prince of the Holy Roman Empire; after his death in 1766 Lorraine fell to France

- Elector August of Saxony thus became Polish king

This means that at the time of Nicholas Susong's birth in 1764, the Duchy of Lorraine was part of the Holy Roman Empire. (provided by Dieter Lewerenz-9)

Susong Memorial Cemetery Greeneville

Nicholas Susong, son of Andrew Susong & Barbara, born in Alsace France 1764. Husband of Elizabeth Elizabeth McCauley, married 1789 in Virginia; had at least 9 children, 3 sons and 6 daughters.

Sources

1. ↑ Bristol Herald Courier, 4 March 1962: "Susong Family Came Here in a Caravan.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Susong Memorial Cemetery, Tombstone Record, Transcribed by Robin Marshall, copied by Daley S Bowman, 28 September 1937; (https://www.tngenweb.org/greene/cemetery/wpa-susong-mem.htm)

See also:

• Find A Grave: Memorial #45292410 Nicholas Susong (1764-1824)
• FamilySearch Record: LZBG-7QD profile of Nicholas Susong