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Personal data John (John "Jack") "Jack" Apperson 

• Nickname is Jack.
• He was born on March 8, 1783 in East Bend, Surry County, North Carolina.
• He died about 1835 in Pisgah, Cooper County, Missouri.
• A child of William E. Apperson and Elizabeth Kerr
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

Household of John (John "Jack") "Jack" Apperson

He is married to Celia Mitchell.

They got married in the year 1810 at Overton County, Tennessee, he was 26 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Elizabeth Apperson  1812-1834 
2. Peter Apperson  1812-1865 
3. Luanna Apperson  1815-± 1848 
4. Sarah Apperson  1819-< 1850
5. Martha Apperson  1822-> 1881 
6. Minerva Apperson  1824-1932 
7. Mary Apperson  1826-????
8. Nancy Apperson  1829-1887
9. John Jr. Apperson  1830-1900 
10. Emily M. Apperson  1832-???? 
11. Charles Milton Apperson  1835-> 1880 

Notes about John (John "Jack") "Jack" Apperson

John left North Carolina about 1807 with his brothers, Peter, Francis and Doctor Alexander. They traveled through Overton County, Tennessee to deliver a runaway boy, Obediah Ray, whom they found along the way. A book on Sam Houston of Texas said that Sam was a playmate of Obediah Ray when a lad in Tennessee.
Eli Mitchell, Celia's father, settled in Overton County on Kettle Creek but later moved to Kentucky where John, Francis and Peter settled. Doctor Alexander lived with his brother, John, who on 19 September 1807 was granted a patent on fifty acres of land on the north fork of McFarland Creek in Cumberland County, Kentucky. The 1810 Census showed the families of John and Francis living there.
In 1914 a descendant named Lilburn B. Apperson of California, Missouri provided information on John and Celia's family. He wrote that John and Celia had three sons and eight daughters. Tradition in Lilburn's branch of the family states that when the Apperson sons left North Carolina, they promised their mother, Elizabeth Kerr Apperson, they would name their first daughter after her

Keeping that promise, John named his oldest daughter Elizabeth. Francis named his oldest daughter Mary Elizabeth. Peter named his first daughter Elizabeth; unfortunately, she died in infancy. Doctor Alexander had only one daughter, and he named her Elizabeth. All the Elizabeth cousins except Peter's daughter lived to have families.
About 1812, John and Francis Apperson, whose wives were daughters of Eli Mitchell, moved their families to Overton County, Tennessee, settling near their father-in-law. John and Celia's son Peter was born here as was Francis' daughters, Mary Elizabeth and Polly. They later returned to Monroe County, Kentucky for a short period, and in 1819 both families moved to Cooper County, Missouri. They settled near Pisgah where John and Cely were charter members of Pisgah Baptist Church which was organized in August 1819.
Cely's date of death is unknown. She last appeared in the 1860 Census for Mineral Township, Missouri. At the Census she would have been about seventy years old. After her husband, John, died about 1835, she lived in Cole, Miller, Jasper and Barton Counties, Missouri. According to information supplied Andy Apperson to the "Liberal, Missouri News" for an article on pioneer settlers, Cely moved to Barton County in 1842.
Cely's grandson, John, Jr., participated in the California gold rush. After his return from the gold fields, he deeded Cely a farm in 1861 for the sum of $1. On 13 May 1869, John, Jr., probably as Executor of her estate, divided the land between himself, his brother Charles and his sister, Martha Martin. The land was taken for unpaid taxes during the Civil War. It is speculated that John, Jr., Charles and Martha paid these taxes to retrieve the land and the reason John's other child, Minerva, was not an heir to the land. John, Jr. is said to have been one of the wealthiest men in Barton County at this time.

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