Mary MANTOOTH Elizabeth PHARISS Mini tree diagram
Thomas Cherokee MANTOOTH

Thomas Cherokee MANTOOTH1

between 1760 and 17651 - between 1832 and 18361

Life History

between 1760 and 1765

Born in King George, North Carolina.1

3rd Sep 1785

Married Elizabeth PHARISS in Shenandoh County, Virginia.1

1788

Birth of daughter Mary MANTOOTH in Shenandoah County, Virginia.2,3

between 1832 and 1836

Died in Cocke County, Tennessee.1

Notes

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    THOMAS (MONTEITH) MANTOOTH, SR
    (JOHN (MANTOOTH) MONTEITH
    GENTLEMAN THOMAS
    JAMES
    JAMES MENTEITH
    JAMES
    WILLIAM
    ALEXANDER
    JAMES
    WILLIAM
    WILLIAM
    WILLIAM MENTETH

    THOMAS (MONTEITH) MANTOOTH, SR was born Bet. 1760 - 1765 in King George, North Carolina and died Bet. 1832 - 1836 in Cocke County, Tennessee. He married ELIZABETH PHARISS 03 Sep 1785 in Shenandoh County, Virginia, daughter of SAMUEL PHARISS and ELIZABETH. She was born 09 Sep 1765 in Virginia, and died Aft. 1850 in Cocke County, Tennessee.:

    Thomas "Cherokee Tom" served in the military as records show. War of 1812, NC Muster Rolls, 8th Regiment, 14th company, detached from 3rd, Pvt. of 1st Burke Regiment. (Question on this due to his age of 52.)

    Information received from the Brenda Schwall states that on an Indian Application is there the name Cherokee cam from. It also states that he died a year after his son Thomas Jr. died.

    Thomas Mantooth was known as "Cherokee Tom". The nickname was found on a 1907 "Indian Application" that two of his great grandchildren filed out. It was stated that this was Thomas Mantooth's nickname in the neighborhood where he lived. It was said that "from his looks and color and his general deportment he was half Indian blood."

    The earliest proven documentation for the Mantooth branch of the family is the marriage bond of Thomas "Cherokee Tom" and Elizabeth Phariss who was married under the name Montuth/Mantuth in Shenandoah County, Virgina, in 1785 (bond dated September 3, 1785, bondsman: Samuel Phariss). Thomas Mantooth appeared in the 1787 Shenandoah County, Virginia Tax List owning two horses and two cattle.

    Thomas Mantooth joined Big Pigeon Baptist Church in December 1792 by letter. Moved to Cocke County, Tennessee along with the parents of his wife in 1791 or 1792. Thomas is found in the 1830 census of Cocke County, Tennessee.
    --  Jeanne's Genealogy, "Thomas "Cherokee Tom" Mantooth," http://mysite.verizon.net/resqpagv/jeannesgenealogy/id16.html
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    The Monteith/Mantooth Family

    The name Mantooth is derived from the Scottish name Monteith. Thomas Monteith was born in Scotland about 1694 and records show that he was in Virginia by 1714. Thomas was a large landholder in Virginia and was known as Gentleman Thomas the Merchant. Thomas had four children Magdaline, Elizabeth, James and John. Magdaline married Anderson Doniphan and is the GG Grandmother of Harry Shipp Truman. John married a Cherokee Indian and at this time the two brothers disowned each other. In Thomas Monteith's Last Will and Testament John was not mentioned as the other three children were.

    One of the children of John and the Grandson of Thomas Monteith was Thomas (Cherokee Tom) Mantooth. It was at this time that the name changed. The Monteiths stayed in Virginia until later years and descendants of Thomas (Cherokee Tom) Mantooth migrated south into North Carolina. In the late 1700's and early 1800's the Mantooths came across the mountain from an area west of Asheville, North Carolina known as Sandy Mush to East Tennessee. Cocke County has had a population of Mantooths for many years with some Mantooths migrating west over a period of time.

    Thomas Mantooth with his family, his oldest daughter being married to Austin Vinson, settled in Lufkin Texas in 1857. Thomas was a probate judge in Lufkin for some time. Thomas' son Edwin J. Mantooth attended the Cumberland University, Lebanon Tennessee and studied law, graduating with the class of 1879 before returning to Texas to set up office. Edwin J. Mantooth was one of two people that founded the Lufkin Telephone Company that is the 16th largest in the United States. The Mantooth and Vinson names are well established in East Texas.
    --  James Mantooth, Cocke County, TNGenWeb, http://www.tngenweb.org/cocke/mantooth2tree.htm
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