Nathan Futrell is listed as the youngest to serve in the North Carolina Militia. He served as a Drummer Boy.
IN 1799, they settled on Donaldson Creek. However in 1820 they removed to the west side of the Cumberland River, in the area from which Trigg Co. had been formed. They bought 2000 acres of land on the waters of Ford Creek. Here they buil a spacious home. The late Mrs. Charles W. Ross, great grandosn of Nathan Futrell rlated in a deposition dated 18 Sep 1960, that the Nathan Futrell Home was built directly opposite what later became the site of Laura Ore Furnace, built in 1855 by Gentry, Gunn and Company. Mr. Ross said, that it was a two story log house with a "Dog trot" through the center of the lower floor. He could distinctly remember the old house, as a child, when his mother took him to visit the grave of her grandfather, Nathan Futrell. He said, that Charity Futrell kept an inn or travern at the old home from about 1855 to 1860 for the frequenting of employees of Laura Furnace.
Having planted the first apple trees in Trigg Co. He erected on of the earliest primitive grist mills in Trigg Co. October 29, 1824, from Governor Joseph Desha.
IN 1799, they settled on Donaldson Creek. However in 1820 they removed to the west side of the Cumberland River, in the area from which Trigg Co. had been formed. They bought 2000 acres of land on the waters of Ford Creek. Here they buil a spacious home. The late Mrs. Charles W. Ross, great grandosn of Nathan Futrell rlated in a deposition dated 18 Sep 1960, that the Nathan Futrell Home was built directly opposite what later became the site of Laura Ore Furnace, built in 1855 by Gentry, Gunn and Company. Mr. Ross said, that it was a two story log house with a "Dog trot" through the center of the lower floor. He could distinctly remember the old house, as a child, when his mother took him to visit the grave of her grandfather, Nathan Futrell. He said, that Charity Futrell kept an inn or travern at the old home from about 1855 to 1860 for the frequenting of employees of Laura Furnace.
Having planted the first apple trees in Trigg Co. He erected on of the earliest primitive grist mills in Trigg Co. October 29, 1824, from Governor Joseph Desha.
Nathan Futrell is listed as the youngest to serve in the North Carolina Militia. He served as a Drummer Boy.
IN 1799, they settled on Donaldson Creek. However in 1820 they removed to the west side of the Cumberland River, in the area from which Trigg Co. had been formed. They bought 2000 acres of land on the waters of Ford Creek. Here they buil a spacious home. The late Mrs. Charles W. Ross, great grandosn of Nathan Futrell rlated in a deposition dated 18 Sep 1960, that the Nathan Futrell Home was built directly opposite what later became the site of Laura Ore Furnace, built in 1855 by Gentry, Gunn and Company. Mr. Ross said, that it was a two story log house with a "Dog trot" through the center of the lower floor. He could distinctly remember the old house, as a child, when his mother took him to visit the grave of her grandfather, Nathan Futrell. He said, that Charity Futrell kept an inn or travern at the old home from about 1855 to 1860 for the frequenting of employees of Laura Furnace.
Having planted the first apple trees in Trigg Co. He erected on of the earliest primitive grist mills in Trigg Co. October 29, 1824, from Governor Joseph Desha.
IN 1799, they settled on Donaldson Creek. However in 1820 they removed to the west side of the Cumberland River, in the area from which Trigg Co. had been formed. They bought 2000 acres of land on the waters of Ford Creek. Here they buil a spacious home. The late Mrs. Charles W. Ross, great grandosn of Nathan Futrell rlated in a deposition dated 18 Sep 1960, that the Nathan Futrell Home was built directly opposite what later became the site of Laura Ore Furnace, built in 1855 by Gentry, Gunn and Company. Mr. Ross said, that it was a two story log house with a "Dog trot" through the center of the lower floor. He could distinctly remember the old house, as a child, when his mother took him to visit the grave of her grandfather, Nathan Futrell. He said, that Charity Futrell kept an inn or travern at the old home from about 1855 to 1860 for the frequenting of employees of Laura Furnace.
Having planted the first apple trees in Trigg Co. He erected on of the earliest primitive grist mills in Trigg Co. October 29, 1824, from Governor Joseph Desha.
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Nathan is my 5th Generation Grandpa.
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