Notes for Hugh Crumbliss

Notes for Hugh Crumbliss

!Most of this is from descendant, Cora Lee (McAbee) Brashears, living near Jackson, TN, in 1968, and interviewed by Charles Brashear. Some of the family legend is documented by records:
******NOTE: Name seems to be interchanged with CROMBY*********

On June 3, 1815, Joshua Eddington obtained a judgment against Hugh
Crumbliss in Roane County Court. In December, the Roane County Sheriff was ordered to arrest Hugh and hold him until he paid the debt. Hugh evidently left Roane Co before he could be arrested.

In the 1820 Lawrence Co., TN, Census, Hugh Crumbliss is a head of household, with 2 males under age 10, 1 male 16 to 45, 2 females under ten,
1 female 16-45. No slaves indicated. That's one girl child under ten too many,
but perhaps they had another child who died young? It looks like Hugh and
Betsy joined her nephews on the frontier. Three other sons of Isaac Brashears-- John, Jesse, and Zadock-- were in Giles Co, TN (borders
Lawrence Co on the east), at the same time, c1818-c1822; Walter, John, Jesse, and Zaddock Brashears and the Crumblisses moved to Perry Co in western Tennessee in the early 1820s.

In 1830, a Hugh Cromby (with wife, Elizabeth, according to descendants) is listed as head of household in the Perry Co, TN, census (p. 236), next door to
Isaac Brashears, two houses away from Samuel Brashears, and a short distance from Absalom, Walter, and Zadock Brashears (all sons of Isaac), in the area that became Decatur Co, in 1846. Later records indicate that this
Hugh and Betsy had at least four sons, two of them named Absalom and
Walter, given names of two of Betsy's brothers and names that "run" in this
branch of the family. So we believe strongly (without documentary proof) that
Hugh Cromby is the same man as Betsy married in 1810, and that they
moved west with the rest of the Isaac Brashears clan in the early 1820's.