My CLICK Ancestors

My family has lots of connections to the CLICK family from the Mountains of Eastern Tennessee, namely the Bat Harbor area in Cocke, County.

Carolyn WHITAKER has developed a wonderful website that tells about some of this Click Clan and their ties to the novel "Christy" by Catherine MARSHALL. It seems the novel Christy was written about some of these CLICK family members. Check out her site HERE.

My 2nd Great Grandmother Elizabeth WRIGHT daughter of Clayton WRIGHT and Anna SNIDER. First married Preston Whitfield CLICK, son of George Lewis CLICK and Margaret Peggy JONES.

Grandmother Elizabeth and Preston CLICK had one daughter born to their union. Her name was Julie Ann CLICK. Cousin Julie Ann married Amos ACORD. son of Richard Hamilton "Ham" ACORD and Sarah LAMBERT. Now, Julie Ann was my Great Grand Aunt, but she married my 1st cousin, 2x removed so this also makes her not only my aunt but my 1st cousin, 2x removed by marriage! That would also make Cousin Amos, my Great Uncle by marriage. Uncle Ham ACORD as the family called him was my Grandmother Elizabeth's brother! So in a sense Julie married her cousin.

Grandmother Elizabeth had a sister Nancy WRIGHT who married one William CLICK. Therefore Nancy and William were my Great Grand Aunt and Uncle.  Now William was also a son of Margaret Peggy JONES and George Lewis CLICK and brother to Preston, who married my Great x2 Grandmother Elizabeth.

Elizabeth and Nancy had another sister, one Mary Ann WRIGHT, my Great Grand Aunt, Mary married one Harvey E. CLICK also a son of  George Lewis CLICK and Margaret Peggy JONES.

Now, Margaret A CLICK a daughter of George Lewis and Margaret Peggy JONES-CLICK married one Miles Walton WRIGHT. Miles was my 3rd Great, Grand Uncle. Miles was a brother to my 3rd Great Grandfather Clayton WRIGHT and they were sons of Richard WRIGHT Jr and Caroline Cary Kara KITTRELL. So that made Margaret CLICK my 3rd Great Grand Aunt by marriage.

So, as you can see there seems to have been lots of intermarriage between my ACORD, and WRIGHT family members and the CLICK family.  When Preston W. CLICK died, my Great Grandmother Elizabeth WRIGHT relocated with her father and some more family to Hamilton County, Illinois where she met and married my 2nd Great Grandfather Martin Van Buren ACORD son of Job Jacob ACORD and Mary Polly HARPER.