On This Day - January 22

SAMUEL W RAULSTON was born January 22, 1810 in Marion County, Tennessee. Samuel is the son of James Roulston (1778-1844) and Jane Simmons (1783-1870).  Samuel was the fifth of 14 children in the family.  The Raulston's and Bean's (Beene) were two of the prominent pioneer settlers in the Sequachee Valley and there were several intermarriages between the two families.  Samuel married Mildred "Millie" Beene about 1835.  (Due to a courthouse fire in 1922 there are no marriage or probate records for Samuel Raulston.) In 1840 they are a family of four with a son and a daughter both under five years of age, and Samuel is engaged in agriculture. Samuel received a land grant for 5,000 acres in 1841 in Marion County in Sweeden's Cove. He raised corn, wheat, oats, cotton, timber, cattle, hogs, sheep, horses and mules and had a large orchard.  By 1850 they had added three more sons to the family.  Samuel also has a 21 year old farm laborer living with them. He values his real estate at $2000. In 1860 he estimates a real estate value of $5500 and personal property at $2000. They raised a large family, 10 children born between 1836 and 1864.  Two of their sons fought for the Union and son William Henry Harrison Raulston, age 21, died of typhoid fever in Nashville just three months after enlisting in September 1862.  Three and a half years later, May 1866, Samuel dies in Marion County.

Samuel Raulston is my husband's 3rd great grandfather.