JOSEPH
CLIFT
1770-1845
MD -
AR
Joseph Clift III (JOSEPH2, JOSEPH1) was born ca.
1770 in Maryland and lived there with his family until they moved to Guilford
County, North Carolina in the 1780’s.
Joseph had moved to Knox County, Tennessee by 1802 when he married Sarah
(Sally) Guerin.
Sally
was the daughter of Hiram and Susannah Allred
Guerin. Hiram Guerin had been born in
Morris County, New Jersey ca. 1755, and he married Susannah Allred[1]
ca. 1767 at Brush Creek in Orange County, North Carolina.
During the American Revolution while living in North
Carolina, Hiram Guerin served in Capt John Hinds’ Company and
completed a tour of duty in the Regiment of Horsemen commanded by Colonel
Luttrell in 1780, and
was active against the Chickamauga Indians.
The
Guerin family was in Hawkins County, Tennessee as early as November-December
1788, when Hiram signed a petition there for a new county to be formed.
Hiram Guerin died in Knox County, Tennessee sometime
before January 1800, and his wife Susannah died before July 1805.
Joseph Clift III and
wife Sally had five children born in Tennessee before moving to Gunter’s
Landing in Morgan County Alabama after 1810.
Five more children were born to the Clift’s while living in
Alabama. In 1828, they moved for the
last time and settled in the northern part of Hot Spring County, Arkansas.
Joseph Clift III died there on January 4, 1849, and
was buried in the Winter’s cemetery near the Hot Spring and Saline County
Line. Sally died there in 1869. They were the parents of ten children: William W. Clift born
1803 in Knox Co., Tenn.; Hiram Guerin Clift
born 1804 in Knox Co., Tenn.; Harlan Clift born
1805, Knox Co., Tenn.; Mary Clift born
1807 in Roane County, Tenn.; Jane P. Clift born
1809 in Tennessee; James J. Clift born
1814, Morgan Co., Alabama; Harvey Clift born
1818, Morgan Co., Alabama; Melinda Clift born 1818,
Morgan Co., Alabama; Sarah Ann Clift born
1824 in Morgan Co., Alabama; and Norris Calvin Clift born
1825 in Morgan County, Alabama.
[1] Susannah was the daughter of John Allred, Sr., born ca. 1736 in Virginia. He supported the colonists during the American Revolution while living in North Carolina. Helen House Loeb, NSDAR 549641.