Harrison, Audley M.

Audley Harrison and Hannah Elizabeth Dennis are 1st cousins, because Audley''s mother and Hannah Elizabeth''s father are brother and sister.

By acts of the legislature of 1817 Bete Hoodenpyle, Samuel Terry, and William Rainey were authorized to open a Turnpike from Cumberland Mountain to Sequatchie Valley to the foot of the Mountain at McMinnville, TN. (Pikeville to McMinnville) Obediah Jennings was appointed Commissioner of "View". TOLL CHARGES.......wagon & team - .75 cents, carts & drivers .50 cents, man & horse 12 1/2 cents, each loose horse .03 cents, cattle .02 cents, hogs & sheep .01 cents. This charge was for road and ferry across the Collins River at McMinnville, TN.

Later this road was known as Harrison Ferry Road, and as tradition has it - Audley Harrison won the Road and Ferry in a card game with William Rainey. This would be rather easy for Audley as his wife, Hannah was always sitting in the room where the card games were in progress. She was supposedly busy at her spinning wheel. However, as she turned the wheel back and forth, the motions signaled to Audley what cards the other players were holding.


Title: Will of Thomas S. Harrison
Author: Thomas Harrison
Publication: Virginia, 1815
Text: Virginia Will Book #1
"In the name of God Amen, I Thomas Harrison Sr. of the County of Tazewell and State of Virginia being sick and very weak, though of sound mind and disposing memory and calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that is appointed once for all men to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament in the following that is to say; first I recommend my Sole to God who gave it WorldlyEstate that it hath Pleased God help me with I dispose of in the following manner that is to say I give unto my Beloved Wife Hannah all my Estate both real and personal during her natural life and ather decease of my Executors hereinafter named and divided in the following manner: I leave my First Wife''s Children Viz; John Harrison, Elizabeth Harrison......now Elizabeth Eda, Mary Ervin, and Hannah Asbur, Heirs, $50.00 each. That is fifty dollars to be divided equally amongst Hannah Asbury''s Heirs being their mother''s Heirs part; all the balance of my Estate I allow to be equally divided between my last wife''s children, that is: Joseph Harrison, Thomas Harrison, James Harrison, Samuel Harrison, Elenor Thompson, Edley (Audley) Harrison, Nancy
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