Part 2 of 6

Anna Eliza Blount Kline

And Her Swamp Land Patent

By her great-granddaughter, Margaret Cline Harmon

Anna Blount’s mother Elizabeth C Tickell-Jones-Moore-Blount married Daniel Mosier on 4 Aug 1849, in Obion County, Tennessee.  This marriage was her fourth, being widowed three times before.  It was this last husband who raised Anna like a daughter.  Anna Eliza was a few months shy of being three years old when her mother married Daniel Mosier, and twenty-nine when he died.  The 1850 Federal Census of Obion County, Tennessee, lists her as age 2, her mother Elizabeth as 39, step-father Daniel Mosier 45, and a step-brother Charles Mosier age 12.  It also listed two half-brothers by her mother’s previous marriages, Edward Jones 17, and George Moore 7.  Four key things happened between the recording of the 1850 and 1860 federal census.

• Elizabeth C. Tickell’s father, William J. Tickell died in Fulton County, Kentucky around 1855.
• The Daniel Mosier family moved from Obion County to Cheatham County, Tennessee between 1850 and 1860, where they are listed in Cheatham County on the 1860 Federal Census of Tennessee.   We do not know the year they moved.
• Daniel and Elizabeth Mosier had a son, W. Mosier, born in 1851.
• Elizabeth’s mother, Lavina Stallcup-Tickell, at some point after her father’s death went to live with the Mosier family as she is on 1860 Cheatham County Federal Census living in their household.  It is possible that the family decided to move upon the death of William J. Tickell too.

In the early period that the Mosier family lived in Cheatham County, Tennessee, was the first and only time that Elizabeth and her children had lived apart from extended members of her Tickell family.  Adding stress to the family, Cheatham County was near Nashville, and they experienced the Civil War firsthand.  My father told me his grandmother Anna used to tell of the awful memories she had of both the Union and Confederate soldiers coming to their farm and taking what little food and livestock they managed to raise between soldier raids.  She said that on one such raid they even took their canned goods from the summer storage shed and some of their cooking utensils.  Sometime between 1860 and 1867, the Mosier family moved to New Madrid County, Missouri, to be near two of Elizabeth’s siblings.  Her brother Madison J. Tickell was a successful businessman and landowner by 1867, and her sister Martha Tickell-Montgomery-Pierce was a widow and a seamstress.  Elizabeth would have been fifty-six years old, her husband Daniel Mosier would have been sixty-two, and Anna Eliza Blount would have been twenty-one in 1867 when they made the trip from middle Tennessee to New Madrid.  It must have been very hard for Anna’s parents to move at that advanced age, back when moving meant using horses and wagons.  For them, it also meant floating on a flatboat down the Mississippi River from Kentucky to New Madrid with all their worldly possessions.

To add perspective, I am adding a segment from the biographical profile of Madison J. Tickell, as published in the 1888 Goodspeed’s History of Southeast Missouri, pages 912-913.  It reads: “Madison J. Tickell, a prominent citizen of New Madrid County, was born in White County, Tenn., on July 16, 1826.  He is the sixth of eleven children born to William and Lavinia (Stallcup) Tickell, natives of Rockingham County, N. C., and of Scotch-Irish and German Linage, respectively.[1]  Probably soon after their marriage, they removed to White County, Tenn., and in 1836 to Obion County, that State, where they remained several years,[2] and went to Hickman County, Kentucky and resided there until their deaths.[3]   Of their eleven children, nine lived to be grown and four are living at this writing: Madison Jackson, Elizabeth C. (widow of Daniel Mosier, deceased), Sallie Louisa (who is married and resides in Arkansas), Martha Caroline (widow of Mr. Pierce, deceased).” 

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[1] The Stallcup family immigrated from Sweden and were founders of the state of Delaware.  This information is published in books and several websites, including www.

[2] We know that they moved to Hickman County by 1840, as recorded on the 1840 Federal Census of Hickman County, Kentucky.  Sometime before 1850, they moved to adjoining county of Fulton, per 1850 Federal Census of Fulton County, Kentucky, and remained there until William J. Tickell died.

[3] The mother, Lavinia, moved in with her daughter Elizabeth after the death of William, as listed in the 1860 Federal Census of Cheatham County, Tennessee.

Part 3 of 6 will be published tomorrow.