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POTTS, Joseph Brevard Jr.
| Birth Name | POTTS, Joseph Brevard Jr. |
| Unknown | POTTS, John |
| Gender | male |
| Age at Death | 47 years |
Events
| Event | Date | Place | Description | Notes | Sources |
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| Birth | 1815 | Tuscumbia, Colbert Co., AL |
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| Death | 1862 | OK |
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| Cause Of Death |
Cause: Strychnine poisoning |
Parents
| Father | POTTS, Joseph Brevard |
| Mother | GILLESPIE, Polly |
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Families
| Married | Wife | GUNN, Rhoda |
| Children |
Narrative
Probably suffering from malaria he took strychnine, mistaking it for quinine.
Tucker [http://www.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1915225&id=I91525385] gives parent's names as John Potts and Mary Gillespie -- as do many, many others. For the moment, I'm sticking to the names my family told me, although accepting the bulk of Tucker's research.
Just to confuse everyone completely: There is a Joseph B. Potts listed in the "1860 Lands West of Arkansas" census. (This basically was a census of non-Indians living in the Indian Territory.) In Diane Gann's transcription [ http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgarvin/kinard/chickdistrict.html ] of the "Free Inhabitants in Chickasaw District Tishomingo West of Arkansas -- Post Office Arbuckle Indian Territory" we find the following people sharing dwelling no. 35:
Ellen Lawrence, age 35, Female, School teacher, born in New York /
S. Jane Johnston, age 29, Female, School Teacher, born in Massachusetts /
Joseph B. Potts, age 40, Male, Farmer, born in North Carolina.
There has been much discussion (in some on-line circles) of the accurate identity of "my" J B Potts. While I continue to maintain that the information my family passed down to me concerning my great-great-grandfather is correct, I present this fellow as an possible alternative.
