As we continue to move toward our nation’s semiquincentennial, I’m still focusing on elements of the Revolutionary War effort of attaining independence and the related contributions and connections of families of the Fork, the Knox County lands between the French Broad and Holston Rivers.
While I’m touting my own Fork family connections to Revolutionary War soldiers, let’s talk about the Webbs.
last week’s article, you might remember how my Loveday line goes from Jesse James Loveday (who brought his family to the Fork, where he was a dynamite man in the quarry during the Great Depression) back to the Sevier County Loveday progenitor Edward. Looks like Edward Loveday married Barbara Parrott, daughter of Parrottsville founder John Parrott, another Revolutionary War veteran…