Martha "Mattie" Thompson
b. - VA
d. - VA
----- Marriages -----
m01. 1764 - + William Ferrell (5 Children)
m02. 1783 17 Mar - Washington Co., VA + William Harmon Evans (2 Children)
----- Children -----
Richard Ferrell
Thomas Ferrell
Martha Ferrell
William Ferrell, Jr
John Ferrell
Martha Evans [A7]
Ferrell Evans
Martha "Mattie" Thompson was originally married to William Ferrell, an
Irishman who was killed in an Indian attack in 1778 in Russell County VA.
Two of her children with William Ferrell ended up in the Tug Valley -
Richard and John (I think this John was the father of Betty Vance's
children). So she would have been the great great great grandmother of
Devil Anse. She remarried William Harmon Evans and three more children -
Martha Evans, who married our Joseph and moved to Blackberry Creek,
Ferrell Evans, who married Phoebe Musick and also moved to Blackberry
Creek, then across the river to Ferrell Branch, then, after Phoebe died,
to McDowell Co WV. - Ryan Hardesty 17Jun2013
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Ferrell Evans born in the 1780's is the brother to Martha Evans. Martha
and Ferrell Evans were the only two children of Martha Thompson Ferrell
Evans and William Harmon Evans. Martha Thompson Ferrell Evans was the
widow of William Ferrell. William was killed by Shawnee in 1778, at the
New Garden Settlement. William Ferrell and Martha Thompson Ferrell had
six children. Some years after William Ferrell's death she remarried
William Harmon Evans . Martha Thompson Ferrell Evans had two children
with William Harmon Evans making Martha a total if eight children. Martha
Evans and Ferrell Evans. She named her daughter after herself and her son
after her last name of her last husband. This Ferrell Evans was the first
ever Ferrell Evans. Martha Thompson Ferrell Evans losses her second
husband to a Shawnee attack on there home in I believe it was 1787. She
never remarried after this. In the 1790's Martha Ferrell Thompson Evans
son Richard Ferrell , his Cherokee woman and a dog named Mate was long
hunting the Tug Valley near where Matewan would come to be .Richard
Ferrell was the half older brother to Martha Evans and Ferrell Evans.
Richard Ferrell settled on the Tug Fork river around 1800. On one of his
hunting trips Mate was killed in a creek by a black bear. Richard Ferrell
named the creek Mate Creek in honor of his hunting companion. Some time
later the Hatfield's followed Ricard Ferrell into the valley for
settlement . Joseph Hatfield and his Wife Martha Evans Hatfield who was
Richard Ferrell's half sister settled on Black Berry Creek.
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