John
Birdsong
"Long Jack"
Stribling
Born in Union, South Carolina, USA
Ancestors 
Son of Sigismund Stribling
and Nancy (Birdsong) Stribling
Brother of
Thomas Farr Stribling
Husband of
Hannah (White) Stribling
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
James Madison Stribling, Andrew Hampton Stribling, Judge Carventer and Mary Frances (Stribling) Boswell
Died
at about age 93
in Union, South Carolina, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 4 Mar 2015
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Biography
Born in Union, South Carolina, USA in 1789 to Thomas Stribling II and his second wife Nancy Birdsong. John Birdsong married Hannah White and had 3 children. May have been the first of his family to move to Tennessee. " Long Jack" Stribling surveyed Lawrence County, Tennessee and in 1851 settled in Wayne County, Tennessee. He eventually became a dry goods merchant at Pleasant Valley.
The oldest child of John Birdsong "Long Jack" Stribling and his wife Hannah White was James Madison Stribling, who was born in 1812. James Madison Stribling married his cousin Mary Leah"Polly" Stribling, daughter of James Clayton Stribling, I, and Mary "Molly" Beckham.
Long Jack passed away in 1882 in Union, South Carolina, USA, the oldest citizen of the county and the oldest Mason in the US
Sources
- T.S. Stribling: A Life of the Tennessee Novelist
By Kenneth W. Vickers
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Ann (Stribling) Spiess
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup E-L117, FTDNA kit #N72968
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~3.12%
~12.50%
Lisa (Horton) Kennon :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member glkenn
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~1.56%
Kevin Connor :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch Na1777885 [compare]
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~0.78%
Gerry Gieger :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #304712
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