DAVID EVERHART

Ca. 1800 - After 1871

            David Everhart was born about 1800 in Hawkins County Tennessee, the oldest son of Jacob and Catherine Everhart.  He grew to manhood on the family farm on Dodson’s Creek south of the  Holston River.  On July 24, 1825, he married Elizabeth Saylor in Greene County Tennessee.

            When the 1830 census was taken, David and Elizabeth were living in Greene County next to her family.  They had one son and two daughters.  By 1840, they had five daughters and one son in their household and were still living in Greene County, TN.  Elizabeth died sometime after 1840, and David married Malinda Linebaugh.  They were married on June 25, 1846, in Greene County.

            On February 1, 1849, David Everhart obtained a judgement against his brother-in-law, Henry Linebaugh in Green County.  His father-in-law paid the judgment, and “David Everhart then sued again in order to collect twice.”[1]

            Malinda Linebaugh was the daughter of Jacob and Christina Linebaugh of Greene County, TN.  When Jacob Linebaugh died in 1851, he left Malinda Everhart $200.[2]  A law suit concerning the property of Jacob Linebaugh referred to as “the David Everhart tract” was in the courts as early as 1852, and continued there for many years.[3] 

            David was not found on the 1850 census.  He may have moved back to the 15th District of Hawkins County by then.  The 1850, 15th District of Hawkins County census has about 50 families missing from it.  They were the families that were living in the neighborhood that David later (1870) lived in, and his may have been one of those families.  The men that owned land appear on the Agricultural Census Schedule for 1850, but David is not there either. 

            In June 1860, David and his family were living in District # 11 of Hawkins County next door to his youngest brother, Thomas Everhart.  Their post office address was Marble Hall, Tennessee which was north of the Holston River and west of Rogersville.

            Malinda died between April 1862, and December 1864, and David married Sally Ann Clay on December 4, 1864 in Knoxville.  David, age 70, Sally A., age 49 and his five youngest children appear on the 1870 census.  They were living in the 15th District of Hawkins County with a post office address of Persia.  Nearby lived several of David’s cousins that were sons of Chrisley Everhart.

            David was the father of at least thirteen children.

            Children by Elizabeth Saylor:  Louisiana Savanna (ca 1825), Male (ca 1826), Rebecca (ca 1830), Female (1832), Elizabeth (ca 1834) Lydia May (1837).  Children by Malinda Linebaugh:  Emanuel E. (ca. 1848), William (ca 1849), Jacob (ca 1851), Martha (ca 1854), Malinda Melissa (ca 1856), Elizabeth (ca. 1859), John Edward (1862).

            The last record found to date of David Everhart was dated November 28, 1971,[4] when he witnesses the will of Elizabeth Grigsby in Hawkins County.  Mrs. Grigsby was the daughter of Henry Louderback.  Henry Louderback’s land joined David’s father’s property on Dodson Creek when David was a boy.  The Grigsby’s were also neighbors of the Everharts, maybe even back in Virginia.

            No record has been found of the burial place of David Everhart, but he was probably buried at the Persia Cemetery.

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[1] Goldene Fillers Burgner,  Chancery Court Minutes Greene County, Tennessee, p. 135.

[2] Goldene Fillers Burgner, compiler, Greene County, Tennessee Wills 1783-1890, p. 73.

[3] Burgner, Chancery Court Minutes Greene County, Tennessee.

[4] Carolyn S. Gardner and Sheila W. Johnson, compilers, Wills of Hawkins County Tennessee (Rogersville, 1991), p.94