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John Valentine Bull

14 Feb 1777 – 21 Oct 1840

Birth14 Feb 1777
Death21 Oct 1840
CemeteryJohn Bull Cemetery
Marion County , Alabama , USA
Added byWilliam Smith on 13 Apr 2015
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86764117

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Wife: Fetnah Bean Bull is buried in Texas John was a son of Jacob Bull and Sarah Vincent. Buried near Old Allen shirt factory, go 1 mi. west of Bear Creek on Hwy 172, just past the intersection of Hwy 241 South that crosses Bear Creek. Continue on Hwy 172 West immediately crossing a bridge (Mills or Mill Creek). Just over this bridge and to the right (North)in the curve, John Valentine Bull is buried. This location is east about 1/4 mile of where John Valentine Bull's son, Russell Samuel Sellers Bull is buried. Some info is from: Cemetery Inscriptions of Marion County, Alabama Vol III pg.1 John Valentine Bull was a gunsmith in MD, TN,& AL. John lived in Washington Co, TN by 1800, and ran a stage coach route from Bull's Gap to Bean Station in East TN. Bull's Gap was named after his Uncle John Bull. Bean's Station was on the Wilderness Road where travelers turned north towards Cumberland Gap, the trail to Kentucky and the Northeast. Bean's Station was named for the family of John Valentine Bull's future wife, Fetnah Bean. Her grandfather was William Bean, the first White permanent settler west of the Alleghenies. He was a personal friend of Daniel Boone and accompanied him in his explorations of the region. Fetnah's grandparents were part of the Indian wars of that time, her grandmother, Lydia Russell Bean was captured and put afire by the Indians. She was rescued from death by Indian Nancy Ward, and later restored to her home. See Find A Grave Memorial# 58612708. Fetnah's parents were William Bean and Elizabeth Blair Shaw. John and Fetnah, and other Bull family moved to the now Walker Co, AL area by the early 1820's. John had a gun shop at Warrior Mountain, now Bull Mountain. "In 1829, a frontiersman and famous rifle maker by the name of John Bull engraved two of his masterpieces from the Warrior Mountains. One of the rifles was made for John Jarrett and the other was for David Smith. According to information provided by Mr. Dan Wallace, the exceptional rifle is inscribed on a silver platelet in the stock, "John Bull for David Smith, Warrior Mountain." Surviving rifles have inscribed dates of 1826 and 1829. After the Chickasaw Treaty, John moved a couple of miles slightly east to Bear Creek, Marion Co, AL.

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