FIFTH GENERATION
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Elisha5 LUNA (Elisha4, Peter3) was born 5 November 1825 and died 19 July 1889. He was buried in the Indian Mound Cemetery in DeKalb County Tennessee. Elisha was living with his parents in Smith County Tennessee at the time of the 1830 census and in DeKalb County Tennessee at the 1840 census. He was married on 26/27 April 1847 to Manerva Jane EVANS (Marshall County Tennessee Marriages BK I (1839-49) pg 128). Apparently Manerva Jane only lived a short time following their marriage because no proof of children has been found.
Elisha married (2) on 11 December 1851 to Kizzey RIGSBY (bn 1835) (DeKalb County Tennessee Marriage 1848-49 No. 804 pg 48). In the 1860 census the family is listed as follows:
Elisha LUNA bn 1826 in Tennessee Farmer
Keziah LUNA bn 1835
Samuel LUNA bn 25 December 1852
Elisha6 LUNA bn 1856
James D. LUNA bn 1858
Sarah JOHNS bn 1824 (Visitor)
Mary A. LUNA bn 1786 in Virginia (mother of Elisha5)
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David5 LOONEY (Elisha4, Peter3) was born in 1828. He married
Lucinda "Cindy" LEWIS who was born in 1818 in Tennessee and they had the
following children:
Dennis Jay LUNA bn in 1848
Peter LUNA bn 1852
David Jones LUNA bn 26 Aor 1857; md Cora Ann ADCOCK
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Peter2 BranchJohn5 S. LUNA (Elisha4; Peter3) was born about 1827 probably in Smith County Tennessee and was living with his parents in DeKalb County Tennessee at the time of the 1840 census. He was married in Marshall County Tennessee on 8 November 1844 to Catherine LITTLE (bn ca 1826) and their family is listed in the 1850 census for Marshall County as follows:
J.S. LUNA age 23 Mechanic bn in Tennessee
Catherine LUNA age 24
Martha F. Luna age 3
Jefferson S. LUNA age 1
In the 1860 census, John's and Catherine's ages were given as 33 and 31
respectively and they had the following additional children:
James LUNA age 8
William LUNA age 5
Margaret LUNA age 3
Baby LUNA age 1/12
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Peter2 BranchElizabeth5 LUNA (Elisha4, Peter3) was born in 1809 in either Sumner or Lincoln County Tennessee and died in November 1860 in DeKalb County Tennessee. She was married about 1830 to Isaac "Ike" McGinnis, a son of Richard and Elizabeth Hayes. Isaac died about 1848 in DeKalb County.
The will of Elizabeth McGinnis was dated November 1860 and signed by mark in the oresence of Z.B. GRACE and E.L. ATNIP and was proved in December 1860, the executor being T.T. TRAPP.
The children of Elizabeth and Isaac are as follows:
Mary Ann McGINNIS bn 1831; d ca 1860;
md 11 FEB 1851 E. Allen F. McDOWELL
Elisha L. McGINNIS bn 1834; md (1) 7 May 1856 Martha Ann TRAPP
Elizabeth McGINNIS bn 1836; md 11 Oct 1865 Gibson MAYNARD
Ann McGINNIS bn 1838; d 1868 md 14 JAN 1858 Greenberg W. PEDIGO
Richard Wallace McGINNIS bn 1842; md Mary Elizabeth CLARK
Asenith McGINNIS bn 1845; md 2 JUL 1863 Jonathan ATNIP
Nancy McGINNIS bn 1848; d ca 1860; never married
NOTE: The above information from census records, DeKalby County Tennessee
Marriage Records and interview with Luther FUSON as reported by Thomas WEBB.
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Peter2 BranchAndrew5 E. LUNA (Elisha4, Peter3) was brn about 1811, either in Sumner or Lincoln County Tennessee and he was living with his parents in Smith County Tennessee at the time of the census for the years 1820 and 1830. It is evident that about 1831 he was married to Elizabeth WINFREY (bn 1812 in Virginia) daughter of David and Acheka TUCK. In the 1840 census, the Andrew LUNA family was listed in the Sixth District of DeKalb County with one son 5/10 and three daughters under five years. In the 1850 census for the same county, the family is listed as follows:
Andrew E. LUNEY bn 1811 in Tennessee Farmer
Elizabeth LUNEY bn 1812 in Virginia
David W. LUNEY bn 1832
Elizabeth LUNEY bn 1836
Acheka LUNEY bn 1838
Mary A. LUNEY bn 1839
Martha J. LUNEY bn 1842
John C. LUNEY bn 1844
Perry G.M. LUNEY bn 1846
Sarah C. LUNEY bn 1849In the 1860 census, Andrew E. LUNA is listed as living at Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee, and as owning real estate valued at $800.00 and personal property of $500.00. His birth and that of his wife, Elizabeth, were as reported in the 1850 census and the following children were still at home:
Martha J. LUNA Franklin LUNA bn 1850
John C. LUNA Harriett D. LUNA bn 1852
Perry G. LUNA Judah F. LUNA bn 1857
Sarah C. LUNA
An adjacent household in the 1850 census was Martha ATNIP (bn 1818)
with no family.
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