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Robert Orr
1811 – 1875
| Birth | 1811 |
| Death | 1875 |
| Cemetery | Zion Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery Benton , Polk County , Tennessee , USA |
| Added by | Marian Presswood on 21 Jun 2016 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5614837 |
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Bio
Our records at the Polk County Historical & Genealogical Society say Robert was born about 1811 (1850 census) and was married to Amelia Dunn. He probably is the Robert Orr who purchased land in the Ocoee District at the same time as William Orr in April 1842, both paying only a penny an acre. At that time Robert and 'Emely' had 2 sons (W. F. and Hiram) under five years of age, and one daughter, (Rachel) under ten. In the 1840 Polk census, an elderly Margaret Dunn is living next door to Robert, which is a good candidate to be Emely's mother. Also the last child to be at home with Robert and Emely is Margaret (1870), who may be the Sarah (Margaret ?) (5)at home with them in the 1860 census. In the 1850 census Robert and Amelia 'Emma' had children Rachel E. J., William Franklin 'Samp', Hiram, Sion, Robert Ransom, James K. P. and Elijah. By 1860 they had one more daughter, Sarah. Oral history may have errors but our oral history gathered by Uncle Billy Harrison says their daughter Lucindy married William Lingerfelt, Rachel married Joe Runions, Sampson (William Franklin) married Sarah Evans. Brothers Jack and Sion (absentees from their Co. E., Tennessee Cavalry unit) were hung as deserters, while working in their field by Bill Harbison and a squad of Confederate soldiers. Neither Robert nor Emma have a grave marker but they are known to be buried in Zion and are on all the old lists. Robert is in the 1870 census and not the 1880, therefore his death date is between those years, and having no proof we 'guesstimate' it to be 1875. The reasoning is that there are two daughters of Emely in the 1880 census Nancy 7, Josephine, 5, so if they were fathered by Robert, he was alive in 1875. Findagrave has no way to put an estimate, but please note that these are not 'hard facts' for we have none. Bio and links by Marian Bailey Presswood, Polk County historian.
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Children
- William Franklin "Samp" Orr 1833–1914
- Hiram J. "Jack" Orr 1838–1863
- Robert Ransom Orr 1840–1921
- Sion C. Orr 1841–1863
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