PEAK HISTORY
Pulled together by Bryan Ross
4-23-2006
Thanks to those who have provided information. Please send
corrections or additions. Of course this is not complete.
Note tie to Isaac Rice Ross.
1. John Cass Peak
1847-1928? ( A blacksmith)
(M) Jennie
(could this be Virginia?) Minter 1854-1935
2. Robert
Newton Peak 1874-1928
(M) Martha (Mary) Elizabeth (Mattie) Ross
1878-1927 (daughter
of Isaac Rice
Ross and Mary Rutha Barton)
3. Ethel Lee Peak b. 12-18-1898 d. 12-22-1977
(M) Archie Delouis (Doc) Miller b. 2-4-1894 d.
1-14,
1969
4. Roy Lee Miller b. 8-8-1927
(M) Carrie Jane Mote Peak b. 7-1-1928 Married
8-28, 1946
(daughter of Bell Fisher Mote Peak and Buster Mote. Also
adopted daughter of
Sylvester Thomas Peak)
Belle Peak b. 1-12-1905. Sylvester b. 10-9-1904
d. 6-5-1985
5. Rocky Syl Miller b. 4-11-1949
(M) Linda Kay Higgins 6-6-1969
b. 7-19-1949
6. Jason Michael Miller b. 4-11-1975
6. Rachel Lynn Miller b. b. 5-16-1976
3. Martha (Mary) Elizabeth (Mamie) Peak b. 5-19-1901
d. 12-10, 1976
(M) Othur Earnest Collins b. 8-28, 1879
d. 4-6, 1936
4. Lloyd Darrel (L.D.) Collins b. 9-1-1926
d. 1-24, 1976
4. Merle Dell Collins Pierce b. 7-23, 1923
(M) Ruben Pierce b.
5. Jimmy Lewis Pierce b. 1-25, 1940
5. Gary Edward Pierce b. 12-27, 1944
(Mamie married Mr. Webb when Othur died. She married Knox
Gilbert when
.
Mr, Webb died)
3.Isaac Newton Peak b. 9-21, 1902 d.
5-29,1969
(M) Vera Mae Jackson 4-21, 1925 b. 6-30,1908
d. 7-21, 1997
(her parents were Dio C. and Oma M. Runyon
Jackson)
4. Marcella Elizabeth Peak b. 1-22, 1926
(M) Douglas L. Patterson b.
died about 1985
5. Dorotha Elaine Patterson
(M) Sidney Jordan
6. Cindy Jordan
(M) Billy Childers
7. Chris Childers
7. Kailee Childers
6. Dana Jordan
(M)
Skinner
5. Michael(Mike) Patterson
5. Donna Patterson Webb
4.Floyd Orel Peak b. 5-5, 1930
(M) Barbara Worth Littlefield b. 3-26, 1936
5. David Peak b. 11-21, 1960
(M) Sherrie Lynn Brummett
6. Cori Lynn Peak b. 4-20, 1987
6. Abigale Elaine Peak b. 10-7, 1991
6. Jondavid Brummett Peak b. 12-15, 2000
4. Ira Ray Peak b.7-15, 1932
(M) Joan
5. Joe Peak
d.
5. Diann
4. Lloyd Doyle Peak 2-4, 1928
d. 1-3, 2002 m. 9-11, 1848
(M) Dorotha Jean Walker b. 7-11, 1930 d.
6-17, 2001
(Pearl Morris and Lawrence Walker)
5. Tony Peak
5. Danny Peak
5. Sonny Peak
(M) Gayland Wells
5. Judy Edwards
3.
Sylvester Thomas Peak b. 10-9, 1904 d.
6-5, 1985
(M) Belle Fisher Mote b. 1-12, 1905
Married 1931
4. Carrie Jane Mote Peak (Adopted by Sylvester and Belle)
b. 7-1,1928
(M) Roy Lee Miller, . b. 8-8, 1927
Married 8-28, 1946
(Sylvester and Belle did not have any other children)
3. Ira
Hampton Pear, Sr. b. 8-30, 1907 (or 1911?)
d. 4-11, 1973
(M) Mattie Lou Oxford
Her father: Jerry William “Buck” Oxford. Mother:
Lillie Rebecca Knight.
4. Ira Hampton Peak, Jr. b. 7-9, 1942
(M) Ashlie Cartwright b. 11-9, 1942
5. Sydney Michelle Peak b.2-7, 1969
4. Rebecca Lou Peak
(M) John W. Walker,
Jr.
5. Brenda Walker
5. Brandon Walker
5. Barrett Walker
5. Sybil Anne Walker
4.
James Pryor Peak
(M) Brenda Karen Pratt
5.
Aaron Mitchell Peak
5. Nathan Tyler Peak
Notes:Martha (Mary)
(Mattie) Ross Peak was the ggranddaughter of Rice Farrar
Ross(12-3-1776 to 4-8-1865) and Sarah Bonham (8-5-1787 to
3-29-1849). She was the granddaughter of William W. Ross
(12-5-1815 to about 1865) and Mary Ann Hendrix (3-25-1825
to 7-23-1904). She was the daughter of Isaac Rice Ross
(1851-1943) and Mary Rutha Barton (1850-1929).
Mary Rutha Barton was
the g-g-granddaughter of Joseph Barton (August 19, 1718)
and Jane Dubart Barton. She was the g-granddaughter of
David Barton (March 15, 1744) and Hanna Hill Barton. She
was the granddaughter of Thomas Barton (November 26, 1844)
and Tabitha Hodges Barton. She was the daughter of William
Hill Barton (about 1815, Wilson or Rutherford County,
Tennessee) and Susan Allen Barton. Mary Rutha Barton
married Isaac Rice Ross, November 31, 1873, in McNairy
County, Tennessee.The 1860 census of Jacks Creek,
Henderson County, Tennessee, shows William H. as age 47
and Mary Rutha age 10. She seven brothers and sisters.
The 1880 census, for
McNairy County, Tennessee lists I.R. Ross age 26, Mary R.
Ross, age 29, Martha E. Ross, age 3 and Mary Susan, age 6.
I do not have the 1890 census.
In the 1900 census of
Hunt County, Texas, these were listed in the
home:I.R. Ross, born June of 1852, Mary R., born December
of 1850, Martha E., born 1877, Susan, age 25, William T.,
born August , 1882, Charlotte L, born February, 1885, John
A., born November, 1887, James C., born December of 1891,
and Ivy L., born May of 1893. All of the children were
listed as single.
