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This page contains work on family branches who lived in Tennessee. This especially includes the Strain family and their relations who lived there in the 19th century.

Histories here will refer to no living people. If you have any information which might amplify these histories--documents, pictures, or references--PLEASE get in touch! You are free to browse and download. If you cite or use them elsewhere, however, please give credit. To view the articles on this page, you will need to download Adobe's (free) Acrobat Reader.

This obituary for Allen Strain is preserved in
his Family Bible.

The Strains and their Bible

Allen Strain migrated from Augusta Co., VA to Blount County, TN in 1811. His is the first name in the Strain Family Bible. This essay refers to his family history and relations, including the Higgins, Houston, Strain, and Wimberly families. (Note that some history of the Strain family also appears in the essays by and about John Lansdale, Sr. on the Maryland Histories page.)

The Strains and their Bible (I'm working on this. Some specific queries about this project can be found on the Tennessee Mysteries page. If you have any information, please get in touch!)

The Wimberlys

Eliza Chloe Wimberly married James Strain in October, 1851. Her family came from North Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia. Her mother, Elizabeth Childress, was the sister of Sarah Childress, who married President James Polk. This marriage provides a coincidental connection between two threads of the family which would converge two generations later: "Polk" is a variation of the name "Pollock," and Eliza Wimberly's grandson, John Lansdale Sr., would marry a daughter of Sarah Pollock, a fourth cousin (one generation removed) of the President.

The Wimberly Family Genealogy site is an excellent website which contains genealogical history and documents about the Wimberly family tracing it back to the fifteenth century.