James Gill Eanes (aft. 1806 - aft. 1880)

Born after 2 May 1806 in Chesterfield, Virginia, United States

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Died after 1880 at about age 73 in Blountville, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States

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Private James Eanes served in the United States Civil War.
Side: CSA
Regiment(s): Whites Sullivan County Tenn reserve local troops

James was born 2 May 1806 in Chesterfield County Virginia, the 5th child of Edward Eanes and Nancy Hill. He was a tailor in Blountville Tennessee at the time of us mother’s death in 1842 and served as a private in the Civil War in Whites Sullivan County Tennessee reserve local troops. ^[1][2]. He had a first unrecorded wife but she died apparently without children when they lived in Kingsport Tennessee. James then married his 2nd wife Eliza Ann Cloud and settled in Blountville, Sullivan Co.^[3], where they raised four children.

1. Sarah (Sallie) Ann 1828-1913, not married
2. Thomas Benton 10 Oct 1834
3. Joseph Cloud 1840
4. Robert Patton 1844

James Eanes was the Deputy Sheriff of Sullivan County.^[4] Eliza and her husband both died after 1880. ^[5]

^[6] EANES, JAMES GILL, son of Edward and Nancy Ann Hill Eanes, b. Chesterfield County, Virginia, May 2, 1806; m. 1st, party unknown, but they migrated to Kingsport, Tenn. where the wife died. There was no known issue, m. 2nd Elizabeth Cloud, dau. of Jeremiah and Judith Henderson Cloud, who was born in Tenn. James Gill Eanes was mentioned in his father's will in 1813 and again in his mother’s will in 1842, In the latter she stated that he lived in a western state. He is found in the 1860 census in Blountville, Sullivan County, Tennessee. His business was then that of a tailor. His descendants still live in or around Blountville.

• 1860 census Civil District 5, PO Blountsville, Tennessee, July 5, 1860^[7]

Eans James G. 54 M W Tailor Va

Eliza 55 F W House Keeper Tn

Sarah A. 24 F W House Keeper Tn

Robt. P. 14 M W Tn

(Also lists a convict and the county clerk at his residence- apparently the jail and/or courthouse)

• 1870 census Residence Sullivan, Tennessee, occupation tailor & jailer^[3]
• 1880 census Blountville, Sullivan, Tennessee County Jail, occupation jailer^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Descendants of Edward Eanes
2. ↑ NPS Civil War Soldiers Sullivan County Reserves Tennessee Local Defense
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} James and Eliza living with daughter Sarah and family in Tennessee "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MD8W-RXX : 12 April 2016), Jas J Eanes, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States; citing p. 6, family 36, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 553,064.
4. ↑ Tennessee Samplers Sampler sewn by Eliza Ann Cloud circa 1817 in Kingsport, TN w Biography.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MDWX-3RZ : 15 July 2017), Eliza Canes in household of James G Canes, Blountville, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district ED 26, sheet 502C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1281; FHL microfilm 1,255,281.
6. ↑ The descendants of Edward Eanes of Henrico and Chesterfield counties in Virginia / compiled by Richard Henry Eanes with the assistants of other descendants. by Eanes, Richard Henry, Publication date 1940, c1940 (not renewed), Person 4-37, Page n45.
7. ↑ 1860 Census Sullivan Tennessee