Permillia (Sutton) Hess (1820 - 1860)

Born 4 Feb 1820 in Smith, Tennessee, United States

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Died 1860 at about age 39 in Independence Co, Arkansas, USA

Biography

Permillia (Sutton) Hess was a Tennessean.

Permillia was born in 1820 in Smith County, Tennessee to parents Dempsey Sutton and Elizabeth (Donoho) Sutton. She married William Hess.

By 1850, they had removed to the Wallace Township of Independence County, Arkansas.

She passed away in 1860 in Independence Co, Arkansas.

Notations on Revenny (Sutton) Middleton Craighead, daughter of Dempsey Sutton and Elizabeth (Donoho) Sutton, who married Allen C. Craighead: “Allen Craighead was born in the state of Tennessee on December 24th, 1829. The first record of his existence is the 1850 Federal Census for Independence County, Arkansas. There, he is shown living in Wallace Township, (presently in Stone County,) in the household of William & Permelia (Sutton) Hess and her widowed sister, Revenny (Sutton) Middleton.

Revenny and Permelia were both daughters of Dempsey Sutton of Smith County, Tennessee. Revenny was born on Oct 22nd, 1828, on Defeated Creek in that county, not too far from the families of Shelton and Peter Craghead, both of whom it appears they were well acquainted with. Around 1830 Dempsey and wife Elizabeth Donoho left for Arkansas, where Dempsey had patented land in the 1820s.

Dempsey died around 1836, and in 1842, (when she was fourteen,) Revenny married a Middleton in Izard County, Arkansas, his first name is still unknown, but it is believed to be John Alfred Middleton. She proceeded to have three children by him: Brannick born 1842; John Madison, born 184?, and Nancy, born 1849. Sometime in the spring of 1850, her husband died.

The connection of the Sutton family to the Smith County Craigheads is the only clue we have to the whereabouts of Allen prior to 1850 and to his origin and parents.

In August 6th, 1851, Lytle Burford Creswell, J.P., married Revenny and Allen [Craighead] in Washington Township, Independence County. Stories say that the Criswells were connected to Allen's family but this has not been proved yet. Shortly afterwards, on October 14, 1852, their first child was born: Lytle Criswell Craighead. Lytle was followed by Daughter Permelia in 1855.

About this time, Elizabeth Donoho Sutton, who had married Benjamin Cox a few years after Dempsy died, moved to Nolanville, Bell County, Texas. Then her sons Anderson and Logan Sutton decided to follow her there, and Revenny went along with them, bringing Allen and her children from both marriages. There, the Craigheads settled next door to Ben & Elizabeth Cox on South Nolan Creek.”…..excerpted,http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~craighead/genealogy/bios/allen.html

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