Robert GILLILAND family genealogy - Roane Co, TN

I've posted my current research notes on Roane County, Tennessee pioneer Robert GILLILAND (son-in-law of Robert Samuel BRASHEAR/BRASHEARS) at my googlepages site, roane county genealogy - roane county, tennessee kin & kith. He and his wife Mary "Polly" BRASHEAR settled in the future Roane County Sugar Grove Valley area when others of Robert S. BRASHEAR's family members did.

(For more information about my BRASHEAR (or BRASHEARS) family connections, remember that the BRASHEAR Family cemetery photo album with annotated genealogy entries is online in my companion genealogy blog | here |. The full photo album index with links to specific photos is | here |.)

Rockwood and the Roane Iron Company

From tn type's online photo albums

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland : Electronic Edition by Edward King and illustrated by James Wells Champney published in 1875 includes this drawing of Rockwood's Roane Iron Company and a little bit about the early iron industry in Roane County.

The full text is available online | here |. The section on Roane County, Tennessee can easily be located in the document using control f with roane as the search term.

Margaret Abbey Giles Bennecker died 3 Mar 2006

Margaret's obituary (with a photograph) has been published by the Kyker Funeral Home in Harriman, Roane Co, TN, on their website | here |. More information about her and a 2004 photo can be found on the tn type blog |here |.