Jane (Simmons) Roulston (1783 - 1870)

Born 27 Mar 1783 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of James (Raulston) Roulston — married 1 Jan 1802 in Tennessee, Jefferson County, Tennessee

Descendants

Died 12 May 1870 at age 87 in South Pittsburg, Marion, Tennessee, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Father, Lieutenant Robert Simmons was in Revolution. Went west to settle lands granted for war services . Stopped in Abbeville district of SC and decided to go by water to Louisiana.

He and his family stopped in Knoxville to build boats for voyage.

While waiting for spring rains, daughter Jane met Colonel James Raulston, who had been living with his father Matthew on his farm about 20 miles upriver in Jefferson Co. where the Nolichucky and the French Bend meet.

James met Jane Simmons about 1801 when he was working on his "Uncle" George's newspaper, the Knoxville Gazette. Jane's parents were waiting for the river to rise so their flat boats could move up the Tennessee River on the first leg of their river journey to Louisiana. Traditionally, Jane never saw her family again, except for John who returned with Colonel Raulston to Tennessee after the Battle of New Orleans.

They were married in 1801 in Knoxville and stood on the banks of the Tennessee River and watched her parents leave by raft for Louisiana never to see them again. Her father, Lieut. Robert Simmons, a soldier of the Revolution, planned to travel down the Tennessee to the Ohio, thence to the Mississippi and on to New Orleans. They were on their way to take up lands in Franklinton, Louisiana which had been granted to him for military service.(More research needed, in 1801 this area was Spanish West Florida)

Jane Simmons was the great granddaughter of Andrew Pickens of the old Waxhaw settlement of South Carolina. It was in this settlement that Andrew Jackson was born and lived for a considerable part of his boyhood on the farm of Jane’s grandfather.

James and Jane moved to Sequatchie Valley in 1808, and he and Captain Robert Bean entered over 57,000 acres of land. There opened an inn in the Chestnut Mound area which was known as Raulston’s Stand.He successfully operated with his brother-in-law, Mark Young, (husband of Ruth Roulston), his inn, a powder mill, a distillery, and a very large farm.^[1] Their home was built on what was later found to be the Tennessee-Alabama line when the boundaries were surveyed in 1817.

Colonel James Raulston and Jane's brother, John Simmons, served in the war of 1812.

John Simmons returned to Tennessee with James and married James' niece, [Jared-131 | Naomi Jared], daughter of Capt. William Jared.

Colonel Roulston terminated his military service after the War of 1812, and returned to his large holdings in the Sequatchie area. In 1828 he declared his domicile to be in Alabama and was elected representative of Jackson County to the Alabama legislature.

Census

Name: Jane Roulston Residence: Marion county, Marion, Tennessee Age: 60 years Calculated Birth Year: 1790 Birthplace: North Carolina Gender: Female Race (original): Race (expanded): Death Month: Death Year: Film Number: 444845 Digital GS Number: 4206047 Image Number: 00405 Line Number: 17 Dwelling House Number: 542 Family Number: 542 Marital Status: Free or Slave: Household Gender Age Sampson W Roulston M 37y Jane Roulston F 60y Jane Hasket F 8y Lucinda A Frame F 22y Mary Frame F 1y James W Roulston M 27y 1850 United States Federal Census

Death

Burial: Bean-Raulston Graveyard ^[2]

Close-up of inscription on Grave for Jane Simmons Roulston the wife of Colonel James Roulston, Colonel Roulston is buried in Doran's Cove near Russell Cave and Bridgeport, Alabama.

Sources

1. ↑ Sequatchie, A Story of the Southern Cumberlands By J. Leonard Raulston and James W. Livingood - 1974 The Raulston Family Pgs. 246 & 248
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #15011763

Source S00188

Title: 1850 Marion TN census index

NOTE1850 Marion TN census index.

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