ohn Clinton Herri
born: 1828 Tennesse
marr: abt. 1848/49, TN
children:
Pinkney
Timothy Sisk
Lucy Jane
Unknown Child
died: 1855 , Putnam County, Tn
John Clinton is as much a mystery as his father, if indeed Richard was his father, not his grandfather. The possibility of him being the son of James, going to live with his grandparents at the time of his parents deaths, has been brought forward. Another mystery
Sources that have been used for John Clinton Herrin are;
1850 Dekalb County, 8th district, Tennessee census
Dekalb County Land Records BK C Pg.12
Dekalb County Land Records BK A Pg. 129
Dekalb County Land Records BK D Pg.11
Putnam County Land Records BK B Pg. 290
It is estimated John Clinton and Sarah Frances married in 1848, or 1849, Putnam or Dekalb County, Tennessee. Legend says their first child, Pinkney, was born in December, making it possible they married in the early months of 1849.
1849 is also the year John Clinton reached the age of majority and became a landowner. A deed recorded in Chancery Court, dated Oct. 8, 1849, shows Richard Herrin transfered 113 acres to Clinton Herrin for the consideration of $100.00 to be paid in six month time. This property lay " in the state of Tennessee, County of Dekalb and District No. 8"
Records on this piece of property have provided us with a wealth of information. It has given us 1855 as the year he died, that the marriage produced 4 children, a trail to follow on Sarah, another of our mystery's.
John Clinton died instate the year of 1855, Putnam County, Tennessee the owner in fee of a tract or parcel of land being & lying in 8th, Civil Dist. of Putnam County, on Mine Lick Creek.'
Thirty-two acres were set aside " as a dower to Sarah Herrin as widow of Clinton Herrin Decd." on the 23 day of May 1857. Another deed shows that by November 11, 1858, Sarah had married Lewis Maynor
