Thacker Smith Vivion (abt. 1745 - 1801)

Born about 1745 in Orange, Virginia

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Died 6 Nov 1801 at about age 56 in Jefferson, Georgia, United States

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Biography

From FAG: Some family trees say he was born in Orange County, Virginia.

Rev. Thacker Smith Vivian was a direct descendant of Henry Thacker (1632-1673) from Norfolk, England, to Middlesex, Virginia,and his wife Eltonhead Conway, through whom he was related to numerous notable Southern families, including President James Madison, Gen. Robert E. Lee, Mary Boykin Chesnut, and others. Also President Barak Obama's mother. Eltonhead Conway was the daughter of Edwin Conway and Martha Eltonhead; granddaughter of Edward, 1st Viscount Conway and Lady Dorothy Ann Tracy.

Gary Boyd Roberts wrote: "Eltonhead descendants include Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, signers of the Declaration of Independence, Continental Congress President Cyrus Griffin, Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward Douglass White, Jr., novelist John Dos Passos, Secretary of State Edward Riley Stettinus, Jr., and the wives of Revolutionary statesman Gouverneur Morris, Francis Scott Key, Edwin McMasters Stanton (Lincoln’s Secretary of War), and Senator Harry Flood Byrd. Kinships to living notables are now being traced. Tantalizing possibilities we wish to confirm further include astronaut John Glenn, actor Brad Pitt, filmmaker John Waters, and musicians Justin Timberlake and Loudon and Rufus Wainwright."

Descent: Henry Thacker +Eltonhead Conway Henry Thacker II +Elizabeth Payne Elizabeth Thacker +John Vivian II John Vivian III +Jane Smith Thacker Smith Vivian

EARLY BAPTIST CHURCHES AND PASTORS by Bruce Gourley: "Two of Shubal Stearns disciples: the Reverend Philip Mulkey and the Reverend Daniel Marshal were the first two Baptist ministers to move into the backcountry of South Carolina. ...

"THE REVEREND PHIILIP MULKEY’S PRINCIPAL PASTORAL ASSISTANT, THE REVEREND THACKER VIVIAN Thacker Vivian, son of John and Jane Smith Vivian, was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, in 1745. He married Mary Brock, daughter of Col. Joseph Brock and his wife, Mary Beverly Chew, in 1765, in Spotsylvania, Virginia. She was born in Spotsylvania, Virginia, in 1749. Thacker and his wife, Mary, were still living in Spotsylvania, Virginia, in 1767, when they became guardians for two sons and one daughter, orphans of his brother-in-law, William Brock, and sister-in-law, Mary ? . The children’s names were: Joseph, William and Mary Brock. Thacker Vivian was a member of Fairforest Baptist Church, Craven County (Union District), S. C., and had probably been ordained to the gospel ministry by 1772, when Morgan Edwards visited the church. Lt. Governor William Bull of South Carolina, granted Thacker Vivian 200 acres of land on August 1, 1774. The land was on the north side of Tyger River. He was a Patriot and received pay July 20, 1786, for “Provisions for public use in 1781 and 1782.” He sold his original grant of land in 1786, to Stephen Layton of Greenville County, S. C., and moved his family to Jefferson County, Georgia. While living in Georgia, he sold 400 acres of land to Edward Williams in 1796. The land was on the north side of Tyger River.

Thacker Vivian and Mary Brock Vivian had the following children: (1) Sarah married Benjamin Skrine; (2) Jane married Major John Howard, son of Nehemiah and Edith Smith Howard [She was the grandmother of popular novelist Augusta Evans Wilson]; (3) Molly married William Walker; (4) Elizabeth married ? Greenleaf; (5) Nancy; (6) John; (7) Colonel Thacker Vivian Jr.; (8) Virgil married Selina Mary Ann McCall, daughter of Thomas and Henrietta Fall McCall; (9) Ann. Thacker Vivian was on the Grand Jury list for Jefferson County, Georgia, on July 3, 1797. The Reverend Thacker Vivian died on November 6, 1801, in Jefferson County, Georgia. One source states that his wife, Mary, died in 1844, but the writer cannot confirm this date of death."

His estate was entered in Jefferson County Probate Court in 1801 (indexed as Thacher Vivian).

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Thacker was born before 1770. Thacker Vivian ... He passed away after 1810.^[2]

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1. ↑ Vivion-48 was created by Sandi Dreer through the import of Weaver-Dreer(1)_2014-12-26.ged on Dec 26, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.
2. ↑ A source for this information is needed.

• "Ancestral File v4.19," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/MZ3Y-N83 : accessed 2 September 2012), entry for Thacker Smith VIVIAN.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185014315/thacker-smith-vivian