James Franklin M 'Frank' Sutton, 18281894 (aged 66 years)

Name
James Franklin M 'Frank' /Sutton/
Given names
James Franklin M 'Frank'
Surname
Sutton
Birth
Unique identifier: 561188DED7D80A8FA4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF14366
Birth of a sister
1832 (aged 3 years)
Unique identifier: 561188E5BF6A681E44494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41933
Birth of a brother
1834 (aged 5 years)
Unique identifier: 561188E5BF94281E84494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41935
Birth of a sister
1836 (aged 7 years)
Unique identifier: 561188E5BFCDB81EC4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41937
Birth of a brother
1840 (aged 11 years)
Unique identifier: 561188E5C038881F44494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41941
Birth of a brother
1842 (aged 13 years)
Unique identifier: 561188E5C069581F84494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41943
Marriage
Unique identifier: 5611890762E0A3DB04494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:FF5852
Death of a mother
1849 (aged 20 years)
Unique identifier: 561188E5BF31F81DF4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41930
Death of a sister
before 1850 (aged 21 years)
Unique identifier: 561188E5C008781F04494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41939
Birth of a daughter
Unique identifier: 561188DF53829E8224494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF22461
Death of a father
about 1851 (aged 22 years)
Unique identifier: 561188E5BF06D81DB4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41928
Birth of a son
Unique identifier: 561188E5C2F5182304494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41975
Death of a son
Unique identifier: 561188E5C302182314494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41976
Birth of a son
Unique identifier: 561188DF53A60E8274494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF22464
Birth of a son
Unique identifier: 561188DF53C8AE82C4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF22467
Birth of a son
Unique identifier: 561188DF53F54E8324494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF22471
Birth of a daughter
Unique identifier: 561188E5C34CC82384494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41979
Birth of a daughter
Unique identifier: 561188E5C0A8B81FD4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41945
Birth of a daughter
Unique identifier: 561188E5C38B0823D4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41982
Birth of a son
Unique identifier: 561188E5C424682494494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41990
Marriage of a daughter
Unique identifier: 5611890774B8B439B4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:FF6613
Birth of a son
Unique identifier: 561188E5C4601824E4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41993
Marriage of a son
Unique identifier: 561189075514F38BC4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:FF5222
Birth of a son
Unique identifier: 561188E5C4A7982544494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41997
Death of a son
Unique identifier: 561188E5C431A824A4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41991
Death of a son
Unique identifier: 561188DF53AF9E8284494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF22465
Death of a daughter
Unique identifier: 561188DF538C3E8234494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF22462
Marriage of a son
Unique identifier: 561189072979928E74494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:FF3197
Marriage of a daughter
Unique identifier: 561189075536738C44494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:FF5226
Marriage of a son
Unique identifier: 561189071788E227A4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:FF2374
Marriage of a daughter
Unique identifier: 5611890866E3882634494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:FF14607
Marriage of a daughter
Unique identifier: 56118907552E238C24494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:FF5225
Death of a daughter
Unique identifier: 561188E5C359E82394494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41980
Death of a daughter
Unique identifier: 561188E5C3994823E4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41983
Burial of a daughter
Unique identifier: 561188E5C3A62823F4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF41984
Marriage of a son
Unique identifier: 56118907176C222714494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:FF2370
Reference Number
Unique identifier: 561188DED7EFAA8FE4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF14369
Shared note: 5782
Death
Unique identifier: 561188DED7E03A8FB4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF14367
Burial
Unique identifier: 561188DED7E80A8FC4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF14368
Record ID number
Family with parents
father
18051851
Birth: 1805VA
Death: about 1851Marshall Co, TN
mother
Marriage Marriage
himself
18281894
Birth: February 18, 1828 23 23 Bedford Co, TN
Death: February 18, 1894Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
15 years
younger brother
-11 months
younger brother
-5 years
younger brother
-11 months
younger sister
sister
younger sister
Family with Ann 'Annie' Noblin
himself
18281894
Birth: February 18, 1828 23 23 Bedford Co, TN
Death: February 18, 1894Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
wife
18321910
Birth: August 11, 1832 27 22 Bedford Co, TN
Death: August 10, 1910Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
Marriage MarriageJanuary 18, 1849Marshall Co, TN
7 years
son
18561916
Birth: January 15, 1856 27 23 MO
Death: July 18, 1916Randolph Co, AR
-4 years
son
18521852
Birth: June 29, 1852 24 19 Marshall Co, TN
Death: September 1, 1852Marshall Co, TN
17 years
son
18691875
Birth: May 29, 1869 41 36 Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
Death: February 21, 1875Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
-4 years
daughter
18651884
Birth: August 8, 1865 37 32 Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
Death: June 21, 1884Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
-4 years
daughter
18611883
Birth: August 31, 1861 33 29 Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
Death: January 23, 1883Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
14 years
son
18751896
Birth: February 14, 1875 46 42 Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
Death: April 12, 1896Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
-3 years
son
18721932
Birth: July 29, 1872 44 39 Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
Death: June 5, 1932Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
-14 years
son
18581931
Birth: April 23, 1858 30 25 Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
Death: February 6, 1931Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
-8 years
daughter
18501875
Birth: October 3, 1850 22 18 Marshall Co, TN
Death: November 2, 1875Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
13 years
daughter
18631947
Birth: March 18, 1863 35 30 Randolph Co, AR
Death: March 15, 1947Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
-10 years
son
18531875
Birth: July 20, 1853 25 20 Marshall Co, TN
Death: September 5, 1875Pocahontas, Randolph Co, AR
Reference Number
Shared note

Frank lived in Marshall Co, TN, where he married Ann Noblin, until 1852, at which time he settled in Southwest Missouri. He settled in Randolph Co, AR three years later and this is where he made his home. The community in which he settled his large family was named after him - the Sutton Community.

Frank joined the Confederate forces in 1861, becoming a member of Company H, Colonel Shaver's Regiment of Infantry. When he returned from his duties, he returned to the duties of farm life. Politically he was a Republican.

Family members have different stories about Frank. Most agree that he was on furlough from his duties and did not ever return to his unit during the Civil War. Everett Lee Sutton says that he was told as a small child that when the soldiers came to Frank's house to see if he was home, that he would go into a trap door in the floor of the cabin. Ann would pull a braided rug over the door and put her rocker over it and sit there when the soldiers came to the door. When they asked her where her old man was, she would tell them that "he's where Dick's dollar is". Louise Kincade Jansen was told a similar story, that he lived in the old homeplace, grandpa Sutton dug a hole and made a trap door. When the soldiers came to the house, he would climb into the trap door, go out the back of the house, and hide in the woods until they left. He was sure that if they found him that he would be killed for desertion. The soldiers would steal the chickens and cows.

CASE OF JAMES McNEESE AND ANDREW J. McNEESE VS. ISAAC A. McNEESE AND WILLIAM McMILLION

Giles County, Tennessee; case 774 - Deposition of James F. Sutton:

 The deposition of James F. Sutton taken by defendants at the office of James McCollum, Cler and Master, in Pulaski, Tennessee on the sixth of October 1849 in presence of parties and counsel to be used in the above case now pending in Chancery at Pulaski, Tennessee.  The said witness being first duly sworm forth. That he is acquainted with the parties to this suit.  He is also acquainted with the land in controversy.  That in the year 1847 somewhere between July and September at the Barren Spring (spelled Barn Spring in other documents) on Pigeon Roost, I heard a conversation between James McNeese, Andrew J., and Isaac McNeese in which the said Andrew J. and James said that Isaac A. had paid them up for the land and have over (meaning overpaid).  Then said Andrew J. and James said they would not pay Isaac A. McNeese anything back because he had got the land cheap enough without their doing so.  The conversation was in reference to the fifty acre tract of land in dispute.  I had before on several occasions heard them say they had sold the land to Isaac A. McNeese.  I had before the conversation at the Barren Spring heard James and Isaac. A. say the latter had let James McNeese have fifty dollars to buy him a hatter's kettle (?) and this at the Barren Spring was admitted to both to have been toward the payment of the land. I know that William Hall took the benefit of the Bankrupt Law and before he did so he placed in the possession of Isaac A. McNeese a horse to indemnify him as his (Hall's) security in a debt to Jo McMillion.  After he had given up the horse to Isaac A. he applied to him to get him again per the ground he had no horse to make a crop.  Isaac A. lent him the horse to make the crop and was to have him back when he called for him.  Hall refused to let him have him.  And Isaac took the horse away from him and Hall Thompson had a warrant issued against Isaac A. for horse stealing. I am a nephew of said Andrew J., James, and Isaac A. McNeese.  My mother was their sister. 

Cross examination: I shall be 22 years old eigthteenth day of February next. I now live in Marshall County, Tennessee. I have lived there 12 or 15 years and it is about 26 miles from where the said Andrew J., James, and Isaac A. lived. I lived in Giles before I moved to Marshall. My mother is dead. I was in the habit of visiting my relations in Giles some two, three, four times, and sometimes more a year and was in Giles some three or four times in 1847. I heard awhile after their father died that there had been some trading as to the land in dispute between complainants and Isaac A. I am unable to say how long their father has been dead but would suppose some seven or eight years. I can't say that there was anybody present at the conversations at the Barren Spring or the other conversation given in this deposition except complainants, Isaac A., and myself. All the conversations I heard were either at the hatter's shop or the Barren Spring. There was no one living at the Barren Spring at the time. The parties had no pen, ink, or paper at the Spring. They made calculations in their heads and totaled accordingly. None of them could write. They sat awhile and stood awhile. It was in the evening. The land in dispute is fifty acres and lies on the bridge.
I can't say I am unfriendly to complainants at this time. When my deposition was not being taken in Marshall County sometime before this, James McNeese jumped on Isaac A. McNeese and I struck James with a stick. Before then I was generally friendly with all of them. I hit him with the stick but most of the lick was knocked off by then. He had me arrested and it cost me $5.00 on the next morning. The Barren Spring is in sight of the old residence where their mother lived and was fine water where people passing generally stopped to get water.
An further he saith not. His Sworn to and subscribed before me 6 October 1849.
James F. X Sutton
James McCollum, C&M