The Amos Cabe Family

AMOS Cabe, mentioned in the will of John Cabe to share equally with his beloved children. b 1771; d 4 June 1855, age 84. m Esther Sharpe, b 1789'. d 12 Feb. 1844. Both are buried in the Old Savannah Cem., located Jackson Co. The first census on which Amos Cabe appears as head of the house is the 1810 Haywood Co. As his eldest child was born ca. 1809, it is assumed he was married sometime during the period between the 1800 census and the 1810 census. The 1810 census was the first census taken after Haywood Co. was cut off from Buncombe Co. in 1808.
 
 

Children:

CATHERINE b ca. 1809; m 8 Nov. 1831 Jason Baker - bond Blackburn Mills; wit. John Hall.
• JAMES b ca. 1810.
• ELIZABETH b 1812; m 7 Jan 1852 Jacob Mason - bond John Dills, wit. W.H. Roan. Married by Joseph Ammons.
• STEPHEN b 1813; m ca. 1836 Janetta Simonds.
• HANNAH b ca. 1815; m 19 Mar. 1838 Warren Baker - bond Thos. Cabe. wit. JohnHall.
• NANCY b ca. 1816; m 30 Dec. 1850 James Reynolds - bond George F. Caler; wit. T.P. Siler.
• THOMAS B. b Dec. 1818; d July 1894; m Parthena Wilson.
• MARY b ca. 1820; m 2 Feb. 1857 Jacob Deitz.
• SARAH b ca. 1823; m 4 July 1849 James Buchanan.
• ISABELL b ca. 1824; m 27 Jan 1852 Pleasant Green - bond Silas Green; wit. J.F. Slagle.
• WILLIAM RILEY b 1825; m 14 Jan 1845 Joanna Sutton.
• OLLIF LUCINDA b 1828; m 6 Dec. _____John Dills, Jr. b 1826 (son of Thos. Dills and Betty Martin).

The early land grants on record at Macon Co. Courthouse contain information which places Amos Cabe in the Savannah Section of present Jackson Co., then Macon Co., which is where many of his descendants are still living at the present time.

For more information on this family, see the link to Amos Cabe on  John Burbage's Cabe Page