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RESEARCHER-DESCENDANTS: Information sent to T.Mason from Katherine Kerr [kerrjk@earthlink.net] on 26Aug2002.
REFERENCE: All information about descendants of Isaac Decatur Wear in my records come from Dorothy B. Harlan Wear [Dwear28920@cs.com].
County was once Blount.
Isaac Decatur Wear was an influential land owner in Loudon, formerly Blount, with over 2,000 acres of land. He raised sugar cane, cotton, corn, and cattle. His farm was located facing the Tennessee River. In the 1930's, the Tennessee Valley Authority began taking over the farms in the area to control the floods from the Ohio River to the Gulf of Mexico. The Tennessee River was part of this plain. While controling the floods, the people were forced to sell their land for less than value. The Wear family fought the TVA for over forty years. In 1974, the last heir to live on the land, Mrs. Mayme Wear gave in sold the land to the TVA.
After their purchase, the TVA refused to let the family visit the cemetery or cross the land to the cemetery. Mayme and her daughter, Virginia Robinson, wrote to President Nixon and received permission to enter the land to the cemetery forever,as did any descendents of person buried in the cemetery.
While flooding this beautiful land, the TVA also buried or let go to ruin old family burial grounds. The TVA did take the time to record the data from tombstones and tried to remove most of the remains to other area cemeteries. The WEAR family cemetery was not one of those removed. The remains are ???
Susanna Ann J. Shelton was mentioned in her father's will of 1848 to receive upon the death of her mother, Eva Ann a slavegirl, Emery; one bedstead, furniture and either a wheat farm or wheat fan; the will was not legible enough to know which one.
TOMBSTONE: The stones are readable and the stones of Isaac and Susannah Shelton Wear are next to each other, as are most of the family.
Marriage Notes for Isaac Decatur Wear and Susannah A. J. Shelton-10667
Federal Census for Blount Co. [now Loudon Co.], TN. shows thatIsaac and Susannah were married within the year. The census wastaken on 29 June 1860
REFERENCE: All information about descendants of Isaac Decatur Wear in my records come from Dorothy B. Harlan Wear [Dwear28920@cs.com].
County was once Blount.
Isaac Decatur Wear was an influential land owner in Loudon, formerly Blount, with over 2,000 acres of land. He raised sugar cane, cotton, corn, and cattle. His farm was located facing the Tennessee River. In the 1930's, the Tennessee Valley Authority began taking over the farms in the area to control the floods from the Ohio River to the Gulf of Mexico. The Tennessee River was part of this plain. While controling the floods, the people were forced to sell their land for less than value. The Wear family fought the TVA for over forty years. In 1974, the last heir to live on the land, Mrs. Mayme Wear gave in sold the land to the TVA.
After their purchase, the TVA refused to let the family visit the cemetery or cross the land to the cemetery. Mayme and her daughter, Virginia Robinson, wrote to President Nixon and received permission to enter the land to the cemetery forever,as did any descendents of person buried in the cemetery.
While flooding this beautiful land, the TVA also buried or let go to ruin old family burial grounds. The TVA did take the time to record the data from tombstones and tried to remove most of the remains to other area cemeteries. The WEAR family cemetery was not one of those removed. The remains are ???
REFERENCE: All information about descendants of Isaac Decatur Wear in my records come from Dorothy B. Harlan Wear [Dwear28920@cs.com].
County was once Blount.
Isaac Decatur Wear was an influential land owner in Loudon, formerly Blount, with over 2,000 acres of land. He raised sugar cane, cotton, corn, and cattle. His farm was located facing the Tennessee River. In the 1930's, the Tennessee Valley Authority began taking over the farms in the area to control the floods from the Ohio River to the Gulf of Mexico. The Tennessee River was part of this plain. While controling the floods, the people were forced to sell their land for less than value. The Wear family fought the TVA for over forty years. In 1974, the last heir to live on the land, Mrs. Mayme Wear gave in sold the land to the TVA.
After their purchase, the TVA refused to let the family visit the cemetery or cross the land to the cemetery. Mayme and her daughter, Virginia Robinson, wrote to President Nixon and received permission to enter the land to the cemetery forever,as did any descendents of person buried in the cemetery.
While flooding this beautiful land, the TVA also buried or let go to ruin old family burial grounds. The TVA did take the time to record the data from tombstones and tried to remove most of the remains to other area cemeteries. The WEAR family cemetery was not one of those removed. The remains are ???