Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18
AN INTERESTING BOOK.

| Gen. Marcus ]. Wright has recently
completed very entertaining work
entitled %The life and services of
William Blount with full account of
his impeachment and trial in Con-
gress, and his expulsion from the Uni
ted States Senate" The book is pub
lished by E. ]. Gray Washington, and
the price is only 81.
Gov. William Blount was one of those
strong pioneer characters who figured
conspicnlously in the early history of
Tennessee. HIS biOgrapher considers
him much abused man and the Oh
ject of the book is to do justice to his
memory, as well as 20 elucidate an in
teresting event in our national history.
The subject of the book was
brother of Gov. Wiley BIount whose
remains are inferred in Greenwood
cemetery, near tins city, and was con-
nected with other families in Mont
gomery county, whose defendants are
still living in this section.
The first chapter of the interesting
volume Is devoted to "A graphic account
OF tbs family lineage OF Governor
Blount, from which it appears that he
WAS born in Berthe county, North Car
DINA, ON the 26th OF March, 1746, and
Was descended from an English stock
which has given birth to three distincs
races OF peers-the Lords of tiuisins,
lV1E ro,,nA. - =:
Suffolk and the Barons Montjoy, OF
Thurveston, county Derby, embracing
IN the line William, Earl OF Warwick
Sir Robert lie Blount and Sir William
lie Blount, two sons of Rudolph,
Count OF Guisins, accompanied Will
liam the Norman III his invasion of
England A. ID. 1866. Sir Robert had
command OF the Conqueror's ships OF
war, and his portion of the "spolia
optlna" embraced thirteen manors in
Suffolk. The family in eastern North !
Carolina Is large, and its blood flows in |
the veins OF many of the worthiest |
citizens of that honored State. Out OF |
such stock sprung William Blount, |
an officer of the revolutionary army, IL |
member of the constitutional Con- |
gress and OF the convention which |
framed the constitution OF the United |
States, and of that which framed the |
first constitution of Tennessee; the |
Governor of the territory south of /
the Ohio river, and Senator in Con-
greSs, 17S3-1797. In the old church
yard of the First Presbyterian church
IN Knoxville, a little to the left of the
path that leads to the church door, the
remains OF this remarkable man have
been quietly reposing under an old
fashioned slab, for more than eighty
years. His residence was in the
Southwest corner OF Hill and State
streets-!or many years the family
of the late Judge Boyd,
whose widow still occupies the prop
erty. The wife and sister of Gov
ernor Blount were buried in 1902 and
1919, respectively, by his side. He
lett six children. Anne, who married
Henry j. Toole, or North Carolina,
and after his death became the wife of
-Hadley, OF that State. Mary
Louisa, who married Pleasant NJ.
Miller, then of knoxville-and be-
came the mother of Mai. Albert S.
Miller. United States army-Gen.
VIM. b. Miller; Malvina, wife OF
Charles McCiung, OF Knoxville; Dar-
5hula, wife OF Gen. Alexander b. Brad
lord a distinguished lawyer and SOL
her; Susan, wife of Joel H. DYER, Il :
lawyer; Barbara, wife of Hon. VIM. III.
stephens, once of jackson Tennessee,
now OF California. Margaret Granger
Miller, Mary Anne Miller and John :
Jacob Miller. The third child of !
Governor blount, was William Grain
Tlr RICrlnt n ntlnpnn,, - Oh L | 81
merit, who twice represented the
knoxville District in Congress, and ,
lied in 1897, unmarried. The fourth :
vas Richard Blackiedge Blount, who \
married Catherine Miner, of Mont >
'emery county, Tennessee, and died :,
n 1861 leaving children. The fifth :;
hlld was Barbara Blount, who married
he distinguished old soldier, Gen.
Pendletor Gains, United :,
states Army and died leaving chill :
ren, of whom only Mary Wyatt Ayres Il
surviving widow of Joseph
Ayres-lnd now of Colorado. The =
ounty of Blount and the town OF !
Ilountvllle, were named in honor of =
Governor Blount, and the county OF !,
iralnger and the town of Maryyille, 4
ere named IN honor of his excellent -
Granger Blount. Gov -
lount first came to East Tennessee -
n the 10Th of October, 1890 He had -
cen previously commissioned by n
resident Washington as Governor of "
ne vast territory which then embrace u
1 Tennessee-and Superintendent of -;
ldlan Affairs. His first headquarters -
ere at the house OF VIM. Cobb at the l.
'rks OF Holston and Watuga. His 81
rst official act was to ask the Presi- ~
emit to commission John Sewer and " "
'mes Robertson rs Brigadier Gener- y;
5, which WAS done. His two private -,
cretarles were his brother Wiley H.
lount, afterwards Judge of the Su- "a -;
'eme Court and Governor of Ten 3,
essee-and Hugh Lawson White %
forwards, one OF the most eminent a. a.
American statesmen. ~