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Descendants of Isaac Newton Pierce

Generation No. 1

1. ISAAC NEWTON¹ PIERCE was born June 18, 1816 in Maury, County Tennessee, and died February 25, 1890 in Cleveland County, Arkansas. He married (1) ELIZABETH MCADOO 1840 in Tennessee, daughter of BARNETT MCADOO and SARAH MERRITT. She was born 1818 in Tennessee, and died Abt. 1863 in Grapevine,AR. Cleveland County. He married (2) REBECCA MARY HODGE July 06, 1865 in Grant County, AR.. She was born October 05, 1826, and died 1914 in Cleveland, Arkansas.

Notes for ISAAC NEWTON PIERCE:

NOTE:
Information on Issac Newton Pierce was first provided to me courtesy of Larry Walsh. This information
was confirmed by W. H. Werninger as being the right Information. Thanks to both men!
: James Parker

NOTE:
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Werninger provided this research data to the family. The bulk of what you see here
on the Pierce family was the result of their generosity. : James Parker

More About ISAAC NEWTON PIERCE:
Burial: 1890, Black Cemetery, Cleveland County, Arkansas, USA

Notes for ELIZABETH MCADOO:
NOTE: This is only an excerpt From the referenced book. There is not enough room here for the complete family story.This information was provided by Cathy McAdoo Wilhelm. Included here to show the family relationship of Eliza McAdoo Pierce to this McAdoo family. William J. McAdoo was her brother. Please provide any additional info or corrections you may know about. Thanks..James Parker.

From A Biographical History of Central Kansas, Vol. II, published 1902 by The Lewis Publishing Company, New York & Chicago, pp. 1081-1085

William J. McAdoo
William J. McAdoo, one of the most prominent citizens of Barber County [Kansas on the Oklahoma border about middle of the state east & west], and in whose honor the township of McAdoo was named, was formerly extensively engaged in the stock business, but is now practically living retired from the active duties of life, and is living on the old home farm with his son, Isaac. He was born in Hickman County, Tennessee, forty-two miles south of Nashville, on the old military road blazed out by General Carroll, March 28, 1833. His father, Barnett A. McAdoo, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 13, 1800. In his native city, he served a seven years’ apprenticeship at the carpenter’s trade, and afterward came with his brothers, William, Stevens, Pinkley, Robert, Foster and Ephraim, and a colony, to America, the party first locating in Buncombe county, North Carolina, but after a time the father of our subject and other members of the colony took up their abode in Hickman county, Tennessee. .............................
......... Eleven children were born unto Mr. and Mrs. McAdoo, namely: Eliza, who became the wife of Isaac N. Pierce and died in Arkansas during the Civil war; Stephen, who married a member of the historic Shelby family and died in Arkansas, where he had located previous to the Civil war; .......................
....... William J., the subjec of this review; ..................He remained on the railroad for the following four years, during which time he worked from Galveston to New Orleans, but in 1855 yellow fever broke out in his locality and he went to Monticello, Arkansas, there working at his trade for several years and built many cotton gins during the time............ In the spring of 1861, with his wife and two children, he went with team and wagon to Illinois, his starting point being White Oak bluff, on the Saline river, and after reaching that state he remained for a time with his father and followed his trade. In 1861, business called him to Indiana, and .................

More About ELIZABETH MCADOO:
Burial: 1863, Thought to be unmarked in Black Cemetery, Cleveland County, Arkansas, USA

More About ISAAC PIERCE and ELIZABETH MCADOO:
Marriage: 1840, Tennessee

More About REBECCA MARY HODGE:
Fact 1: 1914, buried in Black Cemetery, Cleveland County Arkansas

More About ISAAC PIERCE and REBECCA HODGE:
Marriage: July 06, 1865, Grant County, AR.

Children of ISAAC PIERCE and ELIZABETH MCADOO are:

2.	i.	JOHN MACK² PIERCE, b. 1841; d. Unknown.
	ii.	SARAH E PIERCE, b. 1843; d. Unknown.
	iii.	DIANNAH J. PIERCE, b. 1847, Tennessee; d. Unknown.
3.	iv.	ISAAC NEWTON-JR- PIERCE, b. June 08, 1848, Tennessee; d. May 07, 1935, Grant County, AR..
4.	v.	JAMES ALBERT PIERCE, b. 1851, Illinois; d. Bet. 1876 - 1880.
5.	vi.	MARTHA TENNESSEE PIERCE, b. August 11, 1849, Illinois; d. March 07, 1940.
6.	vii.	PETER MOTON PIERCE, b. June 24, 1854, Tennessee; d. November 09, 1930, Grant County, AR..
7.	viii.	LOUISE- LOUISA- PIERCE, b. February 26, 1857, Amity, Cleveland County, AR.; d. June 07, 1947, Cleveland County, Arkansas.

Children of ISAAC PIERCE and REBECCA HODGE are:

8.	ix.	REBECCA MALINDA² PIERCE, b. August 25, 1866, Grant County, AR.; d. August 19, 1951, ELLIS County, TX..
9.	x.	AGNES ALETHA PIERCE, b. September 17, 1867, Tennessee; d. February 24, 1938, Grant County, AR. Madison Township.
10.	xi.	VIRGINIA ETTA PIERCE, b. June 12, 1869, Grant County, AR. Madison Township; d. 1938, Pine Bluff, AR..
	xii.	GEORGIA FANTINE PIERCE, b. February 03, 1871, Arkansas; d. Unknown; m. LITES RUFUS; b. May 1872, Arkansas; d. Unknown.
11.	xiii.	FRANKLIN PIERCE, b. August 30, 1874, Grant County, AR.; d. July 25, 1945, grant County, AR..

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