Notes:

John P. and Mary Ann (Rucker) Gailey were newlyweds when the Lawrence County 1840 census was taken.  Ten years later John was employed as a plantation overseer and the family had grown to seven persons.  John began to purchase land in Lawrence County in 1852.  A deed of conveyance was made by Robert P. and Elizabeth Ann Henderson to John P Gailey for 120 acres of land in Lawrence County.  The deed was recorded in July, 1852.
Mary Ann (Rucker) Gailey's widowed mother, Mary I. Rucker, died intestate in 1852.  The Lawrence County Probate Court appointed her son-in-law John F. Goodwin, as Administrator of Mary Rucker's estate.  John R. Bristow, Gandy Key and George W. Alexander submitted an inventory of the estate to the Court on 28th August, 1852.  The Probate Court issued a decree during the December term, 1852, ordering the Administrator to offer at public sale the estate of Mary Rucker.  The sale was held on 15th January, 1853.  The following names appear in the court document as persons who made purchases during the sale: William Mullennix, John P. Gailey, J. N. Sandlin, Elisha Rucker, Thomas R. Free, Mrs. John Goodwin, G. W. Alexander, James Wise, David Filyow, Peter J. Key, Joseph Terry, Jacob Free, Fae Fore, Mrs. John P. Gailey and Thomas W. Free.
John Goodwin, by decree of the court, sold the land of the deceased Mary Rucker at public sale held in 1853.  Mary's daughter, Elitia, bought the land.  John P. Gailey signed her note for the land.
John F. and Martha Goodwin made a deed of conveyance to John P. Gailey for 80 acres of land.  The deed was recorded on 26th January, 1857.  Martha Goodwin was a sister to Mary Ann Gailey.
On the 7th March, 1857, Henry J. and Eliza J. Key made a deed of conveyance to John P. Gailey for the North West Quarter of Section 24 in Township 6 and Range 8 West together with improvements.
John P. Gailey purchased a little over 100 acres of land in Lawrence County on 1st March, 1858.  The land was purchased from the US Land Office in Huntsville, AL.
John Moore sold to John P. Gailey the East one-half of South East one-fourth of Section 28 and West one-half of South West one-fourth of Section 27 and North East one-fourth and South West one-fourth of North West one-fourth of Section 27, all in Township 6 of Range 8 West.  The deed was recorded on 16th January, 1860.
End Notes:  Lawrence County, AL 1840 census, p 214.
                    Lawrence County, AL 1850 census, p 404.
                    Lawrence County, AL Probate Court Minute Book, 1852.
                    Lawrence County, AL Deed Book C, PP 186, 187, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 572.
                    US Government Land Office, Huntsville, AL, Certificate Nos. 27235 and 18909A.
                    Alice Rucker Allen, Rucker Heritage, (Morgan Printing Company, Austin, TX, 1993) p 193.

John married Mary Ann Rucker Jan 19, 1840, Moulton, Lawrence county, Alabama, USA. Mary (daughter of Reuben Rucker and Mary J. Love) was born 1816, Lawrence county, Alabama, USA; died Aft 1872, Moulton, Lawrence county, Alabama, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Military: 1808
• Military: 1812

Notes:

Moses was eighteen when his parents left Blount County, TN and moved into the middle of the state.  They stopped for a few years in Smith County, TN.  Moses joined with his father and over 300 other persons in signing a petition dated 6th August, 1806 and addressed to the TN General Assembly.  The petition asked for a division of Smith County to form another county.  Warren County was created by the General Assembly on 26th November, 1807.  On 8th December, 1808, Moses was commissioned a Lieutenant in the 29th Regiment, Warren County Militia.
Moses went back to Knox County, TN and married Margaret Keyhill on 2nd June, 1812.  The marriage bond was signed by Richard Keyhill.
Moses and Margaret (Keyhill) Gailey lived in Blount County, TN for several years and Moses became active in local governmental affairs.  When Andrew Jackson called for volunteers to fight the British and Creek Indians in the War of 1812, Moses answered the call.  He enlisted on 10th January, 1814 as a Private, 2nd Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, East Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Infantry, Capt. John Childs, Regimental Captain, and Col. John Brown, Commanding.  At the close of the fighting, Moses returned to Blount County.  A son, John W. Gailey, was born to Moses and Margaret in Blount County, TN in 1815.  A second son, John P. Gailey, was born in Blount County, TN in 1816.  A daughter named Sarah was born in Blount County, TN in 1818.  The remaining children of Moses and Margaret were born in AL.
Moses and Margaret migrated from East Tennessee into Lawrence County, AL between 1818 and 1820.  Moses and his brother, Andrew, had participated in Jackson's campaign through the Mississippi Territory and both seemed to have decided that the area which became Lawrence County, AL would be a nice place to settle down and raise their families.  Moses and Margaret lived the remainder of their lives in Lawrence County.  Moses died in May, 1852.  The date of Margaret's death is unknown.
NOTE:  All of the children of Moses and Margaret (Keyhill) Gailey have been documented with the exception of John P. Gailey.  While no documentation has been found that names John P. Gailey as a son of Moses, circumstantial evidence presents a strong case for making the connection.  I am a descendant of John P. Gailey and I have placed him in the Moses Gailey family where he will remain until documentation can be found to prove his parentage.
End Notes:  The Petition to Form Warren County, transcribed by James A. Dillon, Warren County
                    Historical Journal, Vol. 5, p 29, 30.
                    Warren County, TN Genealogical Association, Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 30.
                    Knox County, TN Marriage Bonds, 1812.
                    Microfilm, War of 1812, Box 77, Roll 602.
                    Lawrence County, AL 1820 census, p. 45.
                    The US Land Records, Huntsville, AL Office.

Moses married Margaret Keyhill Jun 02, 1812, Knox county, Tennessee, USA. Margaret (daughter of Richard Keyhill and Elizabeth Anderson) was born 1799, Knox county, Tennessee, USA; died Aft 1852, Lawrence county, Alabama, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Reuben Rucker, Sr. and his second wife, Mary J. Love, were both born in VA.  They were married in Greenup County, KY, on October 18, 1808.  Charles Love, probably Mary's father or brother, was bondsman.  Reuben had migrated into KY in about 1799.  He and Mary migrated into Davidson County, TN in about 1810.
By 1818 Reuben, Sr., and his sons, Reuben Jr., Edmund, and Ambrose Rucker were buying land in Lawrence County, AL.
Reuben Rucker was probably dead by 1830, because his wife, Mary, was purchasing land from the State on March 18, 1830.
Reuben Rucker, Sr., was assigning land in Lawrence County, AL, to his son, Reuben Rucker, Jr., on February 19, 1825.
Mary J. Rucker died intestate sometime in 1852.  Probate Court Records for the settlement of her Estate are in the Moulton, Lawrence County, AL, Archives.  Her son-in-law, John F. Goodwin was the Administrator for the Estate.  John Brislow, Tandy Key, and George Washington Alexander were the appraisers of the Estate.  Their appraisal was sworn before James Seward, a Justice of the Peace in Lawrence County, AL.  H. A. McGhee was Probate Judge.
End Notes:  Alice Rucker Allen, Rucker Heritage, (Morgan Printing Company, Austin, TX, 1993)  PP 125 -
                  194.
                  Lawrence County Probate Court Minutes, August, 1852.

Reuben married Mary J. Love Oct 18, 1808, Greenup county, Kentucky, USA. Mary was born circa 1780, Virginia, USA; died 1852, Lawrence county, Alabama, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Mary Love's middle initial is entered as I. in Alice Rucker Allen's book, Rucker Heritage.  The Lawrence County, AL court documents and land deeds contain the letter J. as the middle initial.

Other Events:

• Military: North Carolina Militia, Salisbury District, Lincoln county, North Carolina, USA

Notes:

Records and documents contain a variety of spellings for the Gale surname.  Two or more different spellings may be found within the same document.  The variety include Galey, Gayley, Gayly, Gaily, Gailey and Gealy.  The Gailey spelling has been used by this researcher because that is the spelling which has been used in his family for five generations.
James Gailey left his parent's home in Virginia sometime around 1770.  The parting seems to have been amicable since James made several return visits and he was named an executor in his father's will.  After his father's death, his mother relinquished all rights to her husband's estate and delivered it into the hands of James.
James migrated south into the Salisbury District of NC into an area that later became Lincoln County.  He married Sarah Gilkey, daughter of William Gilkey, around 1779.  Another Lincoln County citizen named Moses Justice married the sister of Sarah at about the same time.  Her name was Mary Gilkey. The James Gailey and Moses Justice families would remain together over several decades as they migrated onto the western frontier.  They were living on adjoining farms in the Eastern District of NC by 1780.  The area was identified later as Washington County, NC, Hawkins County, TN, and Knox County, TN.  James and Sarah Gailey's first documented child, named Moses, was born in East TN in 1785.
James Gailey and Moses Justice both signed a petition in 1788 which was filed by the inhabitants of Hawkins County, TN requesting a division of the county.  These brothers-in-law later entered into a partnership for the purchase of land in what was identified as Knox County, TN, later named Blount County, TN, and finally determined to belong to the Cherokee Indian Nation.
James and Sarah Gailey's second documented child, Andrew, was born in 1790.  James was commissioned as a Constable in Knox County, TN on 16th June, 1792.  He was a participant in several lawsuits heard in Knox County, TN during the 1790s.  He also served on several juries, including the Grand Jury.
During the middle 1790s, James Gailey and Moses Justice moved their families into an area in the southern section of Blount County, TN.  They lived along Baker Creek near where it joins the Little Tennessee River.  James was soon appointed a Constable for Blount County.  He was also ordered by the Blount County Court to work with several other citizens to view and mark the nearest and best way leading from Maryville to the Tellico Block House.
Under the Treaty of Holston (1791), the Cherokees had relinquished their title to all lands east of the Clinch River and north of a line from near Kingston, TN to the NC boundary.  The line, however, was not surveyed till 1797 by Benjamin Hawkins.  The survey revealed that a number of settlers were over the line and living on Indian lands.  James Gailey and Moses Justice found themselves, along with many neighbors, caught in the crossfire of purposes between the state of Franklin, the Cherokee Nation, the state of NC, the fledgling territorial and US governments and the new state of TN.  James and Moses were forcibly removed from their homes in October, 1797, by Lt. Colonel Thomas Butler's military detachment.  They had to obtain passports from Governor John Sevier to go into Indian territory to harvest their crops and collect their stock and belongings.  There followed a series of petitions to the TN General Assembly in an effort to obtain clear title to the lands claimed by the settlers.  Final resolution of the land title issue was not reached until the 1820s.  In 1803, a number of Blunt County, TN citizens including James Gailey, Moses Justice, John Clemons, William Hitchock, Prettyman and Zachariah Jones, George and William Skile and David Wallace were still in limbo regarding clear title to their land.  They decided enough was enough and packed their belongings in their wagons and headed west.  Their next stop would be Buffalo Valley in Middle TN.  Moses Gailey was eighteen and Andrew was thirteen when James moved his family to Smith County, TN.  James Gailey's widowed mother, Sarah, moved her belongings and seven children from Chesterfield County, VA to Smith County, TN to live near her eldest son.
The next few years were a busy time for James.  He was appointed Constable for Smith County in June, 1804.  He was buying and selling land.  His mother relinquished the estate of her deceased husband into the hands of James.  He submitted an updated inventory of Josiah Gale's estate to the Smith County Court and followed this with a division of the estate among his brothers and sisters.  He had guardianship over his sister, Polly, and his brothers, Robert and Thomas because they were under age.
James, his eldest son, Moses, and his brother, Robert were among 313 persons who signed a petition dated 6th August, 1806, requesting that the TN General Assembly divide Smith County for the purpose of forming new counties.  Warren County was formed on 26th November, 1807.  More research is needed to determine whether James found himself living in Warren County when it was formed from Smith County or he moved south into the new county.  Records prove that he was living in Warren County by 1808.  This is where James and Sarah probably lived the remainder of their years.  They were listed in the Warren County 1830 census.  Both were in their mid-seventies.
End Notes:  Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution, p. 384.
                    Pierce's Register, pp 313, 341.
                    The will of William Gilkey, Lincoln County, NC, September 10, 1789.  Probated January 1,
                    1790.  Lincoln County, NC Original Wills, 1769 - 1926.  NC Archives and Records Section,
                    Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC.  File No. CR 060.801.10
                    Microfilm:  NC Land Grants, Vol. 3, p 147.  NC Land Grants, Bk. 8, p 538, Bk. 67, p 355
                    and Bk. 80, p 301.  NC Grant No. 130, Entry No. 2016, Bk. No. 79, p 289.  NC Land
                  Grants, Bk. 9, p 276.
                  Hawkins County Land Grants, Bk. 1, p 24.
                  1788 Hawkins County Petition for County Division, transcribed by Cherel Bolin Henderson,
                  East TN Historical Society, "Tennessee Ancestors", Vol. 18, No. 1, April, 2002, pp 16 - 18.
                  Original Petition archived in NC General Assembly Session Records, Box 2, Nov. - Dec.
                  1788, Folder 48.
                    Knox County, TN Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Docket Nos. 99, 100, 101, 138 and
                    152, Box 1.
                    Records of Superior Court, Hamilton District, 1792, Docket Nos. 233 and 160.
                    Knox County, TN County Court Minutes, Bk. O, 1792 - 1795, PP. 4, 5, 60, 75, 83, 92, 100,
                    117, 170 and 196.
                    Records of Superior Court, Hamilton District, 1795, Docket Nos. 91 and 110.
                    Knox County, TN Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1795, Docket No. 305.
                    Knox County, TN Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Bk. D, Box 1A, pp 385 - 388.
                    Superior Court, Hamilton District, Minute Book of the Court, Vol. 1, October, 1793 - March,
                    1808, pp 27, 30, 48, 60, 91, 119 - 122.
                    Superior Court, Hamilton District, Minute Book of the Court, Vol. 4, April, 1794 - September,
                    1798, pp 224, 225.
                    Knox County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, April Term, 1795.
                    Blount County, TN Court Records, Vol. 1, 1795 - May, 1804, pp 3, 11, 13, 102, 211, 240 -
                    244, 333 and 430.
                    Inez E. Burnes, "History of Blount County, Tennessee, From War Trail to Landing Strip,
                  1795 - 1955", (The Tennessee Historical Commission (1957), pp 32, 36.
                  Stanley Folmsbee, et al., "Tennessee: A Short History", (The University of Tennessee
                  Press, Knoxville, TN, (1969) p 146.
                  Cherel Bolin Henderson, "The Story of the South of the French Broad Settlements, 1783 -
                  1829", Tennessee Ancestors, Vol. 17, No. 3, December, 2001, pp 195 - 207.
                  Governor John Sevier Papers, Box 5, Folder 9, Archives Division, Tennessee State Library
                  and Archives.
                  Dorothy Williams Potter, "Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770 - 1823", Gateway
                  Press, Inc., Baltimore (1982).
                    Blount County, TN Tax List, 1800, p 72 and 1801, pp 93, 152.
                  The Upper Cumberland Genealogical Association, Vol. XVII, No. 2, p 56.
                  Smith County, TN Deeds, 1800 - 1807, Book B, pp 216, 268, 269, 364, 365, 488, 489, 550,
                  551.
                  Smith County, TN Minute Book, 1804 - 1835, p 135.
                  Barbara Crumption, "Deeds, Smith County, TN, 1807 - 1811", Vol. 1, p 81,Duncan, OK,
                  Creative Copies (1987).
                  Barbara Crumption, "Deeds,Smith County, TN, 1807 - 1811", Vol 2, pp 15, 71, Duncan, OK,
                  Creative Copies (1987).
                  Laura Willis, Transcriber,"Smith County, TN Wills & Inventories, 1805 - 1809", pp 18 - 30.
                  Laura Willis, Transcriber, "Smith County, TN Wills & Administration, Vol. 1, Dec, 1805 - Dec,
                  1808", Melber, KY, Simmons Historical Publications (1999) pp 9 - 12.
                  Laura Willis, Transcriber, "Smith County, TN Wills & Administration, Vol. II",  Melber, KY,
                  Simmons Historical Publications (1997) p 26.
                  Smith County, TN Will Book A, pp 18 - 30.
                  Smith County, TN 1820 census.
                  The Petition to Form Warren County, transcribed by James A. Dillon, Warren County, TN
                  Historical Journal, Vol. 5, pp 29, 30.
                  Warren County, TN Deeds, Vol. C, 1818 - 1820, p 2, 3.
                  Warren County, TN 1820 census, p. 10.
                  Warren County, TN 1830 census, p. 303.
Researched by Raymond A. Shirley, Sr.
1990 - 2004

James married Sarah Gilkey circa 1779, Lincoln county, North Carolina, USA. Sarah (daughter of William Gilkey and [dau] (__)) was born Between 1760 and 1770; died Aft 1830, Warren county, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet]

Richard married Elizabeth Anderson. Elizabeth was born Between 1770 and 1780; died Between 1840 and 1850, Knox county, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet]

Peter married Elizabeth Terrell Bef 1751. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert Terrell and Mary Foster) was born circa 1730, Orange county, Virginia, USA; died Bef 1773, Orange county, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]