BIBLE: The following ROBERTSON Family Bible record was submitted by Betty Adwell Smith, Rt 3, Box 127, Rockwood, TN 37854. The Bible, now in her possession, came to her from her grandmother, Emma Wassom McCuistion, after having been passed down through the family of Harvey Robertson and Mahalia Pearson. The Bible was published in Cincinnati br E. Morgan and Son in 1837. Several members of the Harvey Logan family are interred in the Lety Cemetery in Rhea County. These graves were removed to the Marsh Cemetery near Spring City during the construction of Watts Bar Dam.
Apr 1820; Roane Co TN Order Book: 1801-20, page 174; Apr 1820 Session; (Hazel L COLLINS) NOTE: On the petition of Joseph PRIGMORE and Thomas PRIGMORE, it is ordered by the court that Thomas PRIGMORE, Joseph PRIGMORE, George ALEXANDER, James GAMBLE, Thomas GAMBLE, Harvey ROBERTSON, and Lewis DeROSSETT, or any five of them being first sworn for that purpose, do view the present road to a new way through Benjamin PAWLEY farm and report to next Court.
Members of both the Benjamin ROBERTSON (1780) and Henry (Harvey) ROBERTSON families were resideing in Polk, by 1850 and were enumerated on that Census. Their surname was spelled with a variant spelling. All but one of the five"ROBERTSON" households enumerated on the 1850 Polk, CENSUS can be identified as a descendant of either Benjamin (1780) or Henry (HARVEY). The one exception was a Benjamin ROBINSON, abt. 1810. He was a lawyer from SOUTH CAROLINA and hadmigrated to MO. before 1834.2. Robertson Family Bible. NOTE: Robertson Family Bible is in possession of Betty Adwell Smith, Rt. 3, Box 127, Rockwood, TN 378543. Amherst, VIRGINIA MARRIAGE RECORDS.
Henry married Elizabeth Frances LOGAN on 28 Aug 1799 in Amherst, Virginia. Elizabeth was born on 25 Apr 1774 in Amherst, Virginia; died on 15 May 1850 in Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]