Name: William Clouse
Birth: 03 JAN 1834 in Washington County, Tenn
Burial: Old Clouse Cemetery, Flag Pond, Unicoi, Tenn
Name: "Little Billie"

Father: Jacob Clouse b: ABT 1804 in Washington CO, TN
Mother: Sarah Tilson b: 15 OCT 1809 in Washington CO, TN

Marriage 1 Sarah E. Carter b: JUL 1840 in TN
Married: 16 JAN 1856 in Washington CO, TN
Children
1. Living Clouse
2. Mary Jane Clouse b: ABT 1858 in Flag Pond, Unicoi, TN
3. Sarah Loretta Clouse b: ABT 1862 in Flag Pond, Unicoi, TN

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I have some corrections that I would like you to consider and make the changes. . . The Death year is wrong (1856) maybe should be 1866. William Clouse and Sarah Carter were married 16 Jan 1856 in Washington, TN according to the Tenn State Marriages 1780-2002. If you look at the Census Record 1860 shows William Clouse living with his wife Sarah Clouse, son Jacob and daughter Mary J in Flag Pond, Washington, TN. Sarah Carter was my GreatGrandMother. Also need her first name changed from Susan to Sarah. Also looking at the birth dates of their 3 children (Jacob 1856, Mary J 1858, and Sarah L 1862 again proves William Clouse's death date wrong. Sarah married John Mount Buckner around 1867, in Buncombe, NC. 1880 Census shows Sarah living with John M Buckner (he went by Mount Buckner) in Ivy, Bumcome, NC with their children Lucinda 13 yrs old, Lilla A E 12 yrs old, Isaac 5 yrs old, and Jacob Clouse 23 yrs old. I hope this helps to clear up these errors. Thanks again

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Son of Jacob and Sarah Tilson Clouse
Birth: 3 JAN 1834 in Washington CO., TN
First person buried in the Old Clouse Cemetery on the mountain in the Flag Pond area of Unicoi CO., TN
Note:
From the book "A Book of Remembrance of The Clouse Family Descendants of George Clouse, I" Compiled and Edited by Prietta Clouse Franklin Rt. 2 Box 408 Cookeville, Tennessee 38501:

"Little Billie, as he was called, was killed by a renegade on his father's old farm in Washington County, Tennessee during the Civil War and was the first person buried in the Clouse Cemetery."

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Married Sarah E. CARTER b: ABT. 1840 on 16 JAN 1856 in Washington CO., TN
Children
Jacob C. b: ABT. 1856 in Flag Pond, Unicoi CO., TN, moved to Buncombe County before 1880

Mary J. b: ABT. 1858 in Flag Pond, Unicoi CO., TN, Moved to Buncombe County, North Carolina where she was living in 1880. She was married to Daniel Smith before 1885, and probably before 1880, because she was not living with her mother who had remarried, as was her brother, Jacob c. Clouse."

Sarah L. b: ABT. 1862 in Flag Pond, Unicoi CO., TN, In 1885, she and her husband signed a deed along with her sister, Mary J. Smith, and her brother, Jacob C. Clouse, for the settlement of their grandfather Jacob Clouse's estate for their interest in said estate

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Petition to Establish a Precinct Election Ground at Greasy Cove, TN

[Transcriber's note: This is a petition filed in 1821 from the residents of Greasy Cove (now Erwin, Unicoi County, Tennessee) to the County Clerk of Washington County, TN. This section of Washington County became Unicoi County in 1875. The original document can be found in the Washington County, TN Courthouse.]

1821 Petition for Election Ground at Greasy Cove

To the worshipful County Clerk of Washington County
The petition of the subscribers humbly represents. That owing to the distance from their several residence to the court known of said County and the interposition of mountains and streams very often impassable they are prevented from attending Elections with regularity and very often prevented exercising the rights and privledges of suffrage and in as much as the election of legislative members is a matter of deep interest to every man in this Elective Government we therefore pray agreably to the act passed October the 31th, 1821 Empowering the County Clerk so to do that your worships would establish a precinct Election Ground and for the information of your worships we the subscribers would deem it most expedient and convenient from ourselves that said Election Ground be fixed at the house of Capt. William Brown in the Greasy Cove and your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray.

William Brown, William Moore
David Carder, David Moore
Peley Tilson, Arnold Shelton
Abraham Tinker, David Ambrose(?)
William Clouse, James Tinker
William Tilson, Hardon Norress
Wm S. Erwin, John Nelson
Jessee Tinker, Harlen Ambrose
James Harris, John Ambrose
Richard Deakins, James Ambrose
William Murry, John Rosse
John Tilson, James Job
John Brown, Joseph Sherrel
Thomas Fortune, George M. Hains
Joseph Tilson, Charles Barry
George Moore,
John Moore