Absolum Harrison McKenzie

Notes:

Married Sarah B. Gibson (1812– ).

Absalom Harrison McKenzie was born 1803 Pendleton District, South Carolina and died after 1860. Absalom won lot 101, district 6, section 5 in Carroll County, Georgia during the 1827 Gold lottery, while living in Rabun County. Absalom sold his lot to Young J. Long on December 9, 1833.
Absalom bought 2 land grants in Randolph county, Alabama, containing 40 acres each in 1838 while he lived in Benton county, Alabama. Also in 1838 Absolum was given power of attorney over his father's estate and his fathers wife (his mother?) is living with Absalom in the 1840 Randolph County, Alabama census (McMinn County, Tennessee deed book F p. 28).

In 1845 Absalom purchased 160 acres in Choctaw County, MS. By 1850 Absalom, wife Sarah, and their 8 children are living in Calhoun County, Mississippi, found in the census p. 409B-410A. Sons Larkin, Jasper, and daughter Evelyn were born in Tennessee while sons Robert 1838, Hugh 1840, Newton 1842 were born in Alabama, daughter Mary was born 1843 in Mississippi to help trace the family trek across the south. Absalom owned 460 Acres in Calhoun County, Mississippi.

Notes:

1810 census for Pendleton, South Carolina.

20 May 1817 • Pendleton Dist., SC: 123 Acres surveyed - Chesley McKinsey named as occupant of land described as Reedy Branch of Chatuga River.

Chesley McKenzie was among the original settlers of Rabun county Georgia.

8 Nov 1823 • Rabun County, Georgia: "Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia" by State of Georgia, pg. 253 In the House of Representatives . . . 8 Nov 1823 Resolved, that Chesley McKenzie, Esq. be and he is hereby appointed a notary public for the county of Rabun.

1827 • Rabun County, Georgia: Georgia Land Lottery - 1827 Chesley McKenzie and son Absalom McKenzie both drew lots for land in Carroll Co., GA

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Source: Pam Smith:
There is no doubt Chesley (#2??) wife Elizabeth was Cherokee. Chesley has a colorful history and was known as an "intruder" into Indian lands in the Ocowee. He was burnt out twice by the military in what became McMinn Co., TN. His children who remained in Monroe Co., TN were known to be Indian. I believe Mary McKenzie was by a first wife and not Cherokee, nor was her brother Absolum Harrison McKenzie who moved from Georgia to Alabama and died in Calhoun Co., MS. I corresponded years ago with Bee & Scott McKenzie on this family. Scott is desc. from Chesley's dau Louisa who had no husband and at least 8 children who were known to be Indian and he has done extensive research into this family.

Chesley McKenzie died in Monroe Co. March 1838 per court records and his widow Elizabeth went with Absolum to Randolph Co., AL and died there.

John married Mary Margaret McLearan. Mary was born about 1755 in Renfrewshire, Scotland; died on 30 Sep 1852 in South Carolina; was buried in Inverness Cemetery, York, Livingston County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]