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Pioneer Families
Photograph owned by Philip Easterly Cleveland 9, OH
Description: The old Easterly Homestead about 18 miles from Greenville
Tennessee. House was replaced in 1919.
Left to right - Rev. Clendeman / William L. Easterly, Dr. Payne Easterly, Mary Catherine Easterly, Philip Marion Easterly and his wife, Mary Lou Smelcen Easterly, the children Alma Easterly, Marie Easterly children of Philip Marion and Mary Lou Easterly. About 1742, three brothers, George, Jacob and Conrad Easterly left Germany
for the United States. It seems that the name was spelled Oesterlen. Papers were
signed for entry Sept. 30, 1743. (Foreigners ported in the Rober and Alice,
Hartly Gussack, Commander, sailed from Rotterdale and later from Cowes.) On list
names George, Christoff and Conrad. George died single a short time after entry.
Jacob settled in Pennsylvania. Records show some of his descendants moved into
Ohio and later into Iowa. Conrad married and settle din Shenandoah or
Rockingham, Va. He had two daughters and a son, George. One daughter married a
man by the name of Nease, the other married a Rinehart.
George Easterly was born May 4, 1749. He married Mary Harpine. They had
seven boys and four girls. All the family move dto Greene County, Tenn.,
settling in October 1796 on the south side of the Nolichuky River, some 18 miles
south west of Greeneville, Tenn., and there entered five or six hundred acres
which was afterward divided among his sons. George's wife died sometime after
1800. He then married the widow Neace, but there were no children. His widow
lived some years afterward but her death date is unknown.
THE CHILDREN OF GEORGE AND MARY EASTERLY
1. Conrad Easterly born Jan. 5, 1776 married Elizabeth Aily
2. Jacob Easterly born 4 May 1777 - died 6 Aug 1851 married Mary
Bible
3. Philip Easterly born 17 Nov 1778 d 5 Sep 1834 married Catherine
Bible
4. George Easterly born 29 Dec 1781 died March 29 1850 m Lydia
Harpine
5. Casper Easterly born 24 Nov 1783 married Elizabeth Bible
6. John Easterly born 18 Nov 1785 married Susan Aily
7. Moses Easterly born 12 Nov 1787 married Charlotte Fudge
8. Catherine Easterly born 16 Oct 1789 married Lewis Curten
9. Mary Easterly born 3 Dec 1793 married Hugh Maloney & Michael
Johnson
10. Margaret Easterly born 19 Nov 1791 married Harvey Conner, Dr. Shannon
& Gross Schruggs
11. Magdaline Easterly born 21 Jul 1796 married William Scruggs
THE CHILDREN OF JACOB EASTERLY AND MARY BIBLE EASTERLY
1. Abraham Easterly born 10 December 1799 died 7 June 1828 married Anna
Parrott
2. Isaac Easterly born 20 October 1800 married Emaline Bible
3. Jacob Easterly born 18 Sep 1802 married Margart Whittenburg
4. Christopher Easterly born 22 Dec 1804 married Mary Burdine & Sarah
c. Burdette
5. Ruth Easterly born 11 Nov 1805 married Jacob Forbias
6. George Easterly born 1 October 1810 married Elizabeth Allen
7. Noah Webb Easterly born 25 July 1812 married Miss Gillispie and Miss
Smith
8. S. Pane Easterly born 28 October 1815 died single
9. Katherine Easterly born 25 Sep. 1818 married David Melindere
10. Clarice Easterly married Wm. Ottinger
THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM EASTERLY AND ANNA PARROTT EASTERLY
1. Frank Marion Easterly born 24 August 1820 died 29 October 1903 married
Mattie Robison
2. Narcissa Easterly born March 23, 1823 died 27 May 1880 married Gross
Scruggs Kesterson
3. Sharon Easterly born 1824 died 1891 married Thoms. Jerrerson
Carson
4. Isaac John Easterly born 23 October 1826 died 21 Oct 1904 married
Elizabeth Emaline Easterly
5. Carolyn Easterly died in her teens
 
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