Shadrach McNew
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(Last updated 29 Dec 2024)

Father

Shadrach McNew waa. 

Elia.
Census Records:

1801 TN,

Mother

Mary Clemmons?  was born b
Assumed
Son		 ● Ea.
  • A
 1830 T
Assumed
Dau.		 ● S

Ss.
  • s
  
Assumed
Son		 ● W
  • L
  
Assumed
Son		 ● Jas.
  • Fr
  • Malinda C. McNew was born 1850 in Alabama.
  
Possible
Dau.		 Ae.

● M		  


Churchwell McNew

Brother of
Elijah?

Cousin
of Elijah?

Churchwell McNew was born 3 April 1797 in North Carolina.  He married Mary Jane ???? before 1817 in North Carolina or Tennessee. Churchwell died 22 April 1858 in Pope County, Illinois.
  • James McNew was born about 1817 in Tennessee.
  • Sally McNew was born about 1819 in Tennessee.  She married James Jackson (unverified)
  • Stephen Kilgore McNew was born 1822 in Tennessee.
  • Charles M McNew was born 1823 in Tennessee.
  • Isaiah McNew was born 1826 in Tennessee.
  • Rufus M. McNew was born 1830 in Tennessee.
  • Manuel Jackson McNew was born 1834 in Tennessee.
  • Mary Rebecca E McNew was born 1836 in Tennessee.
  • Thomas Benton McNew was born 1840 in Tennessee.
  • Martha McNew was born 1841 in Tennessee.
 Census Records:

1826 TN, Marion County, land warrant
1827 TN, Marion County, land warrant

1830 TN, Marion County, p. 65

1836 TN, Marion County, tax roll

1840 TN, Sevier County, p. (279)

1850 Illinois, Pope County, p. (278)
The circumstantial evidence supports that Elijah McNew and Churchwell McNew were related.  Marion County, Tennessee sits just above the state border with Alabama.

On 10 March 1865 in Saline County, Illinois Sarah McNew Deaton (wife of Joseph) of Williamson County, Illinois testified in the Civil War "Mother's Pension" case for Mary McNew (widow of Churchwell) the mother of Thomas B McNew .  Thomas B McNew's brother-in-law John G Freezor (married Mary Rebecca McNew) also testified at the same time.