Hinkles and Hanrahans

From Wikitree.com:
"John Granger Tye III was a soldier from the Revolutionary War. Private in the Revolutionary War, mustered out as a sergeant. He fought under Lt. Col. John Cropper, in Col. Thomas Posey's regiment, and was at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown."

Posted on www.findagrave.com:
"John was reported to be the founder of Whitley County KY and built the first house there in the town of Carpenter on Rte 92."

From "Our Wheeler Family", 1997, by Marshall R. Wheeler

'Not much is known about Molly (also known as Mollie and Mary) and some of
what is "known" may be wrong, e.g., that she was from "the New York Colony."
Once printed, that statement has been repeated over and over, but a
genealogical form for the N.S.D.A.R. for her grandson, George Washington Tye,
states that she was born in Virginia. A marriage record has not been found, but,
she married John. G. Tye (one in a series of father-son John Tye's) probably
@1772 in Virginia. He was from the Baltimore area, born it is said @1737 (if so,
then Molly may not have been his first wife since she was born @1757 as an
estimate). Their first child, Betsy (Elizabeth) was born in Virginia in 1774, son
John @ 1776, George in 1782, Joshua in 1783, and Polly (Mary) @ 1787. There
may have been, also, a Susan Tye, born 1800. Molly died 15 June 1809 and
was buried in the Tye Cemetery, Carpenter, Whitley County, Kentucky. Her
husband married again, to Elizabeth (Betsy) Hamblin, and they had at least four
daughters. There may have been other children as well; -- a descendant said
that "...old John Tye died in bed at age 91, and he fathered so many children that
he lost count." He is also buried in the Tye Cemetery, not far from the mouth of
Golden's Creek where it meets Big Poplar Creek.'

Their daughter Betsy also had quite a reputation. According to Steven Alsip, a
descendant, she "...was a very liberated woman for her time. She ran a ferry
from Tye's ferry to Williamsburg. She cussed like a sailor, and smoked a
corncob pipe." She had a number of children, but no husband, apparently. The
rumour was that their father was Stephen Golden who lived nearby.

"Capt. Young gives in one negro hired of Colo. Davies refuses to given in his
property in a house adjoining J. Hunter's Mr. Abbey Peggy McLine her
daughter and a child also Mr. Tewer a Soldier, works in the laboratory, his
wife and child one horse. Also in the adjoining house assembly house Mr.
Jones, a child, and a negro girl. Also in J. Hunters, Mrs. Roades, Molley Tye,
and four children. Also in Mrs. Streaker's 8 children, four orphan children
(Barkers). Three heard of cattle one mare belonging to her eldest son who
is lame". Richmond, Virginia, 1782 Census.

John Tye, Molly's husband, was a Revolutionary War soldier, and apparently left
her in a rooming house in Richmond, Virginia, while he was gone, as is shown in
this enigmatic entry in the 1782 census of Richmond. The four children
mentioned after her name may have been hers, but this isn't certain. Before
going to Kentucky soon after 1790, they were in North Carolina and Tennessee,
and then settled in Whitley County, Kentucky (still part of Knox County then).
There he and his sons built a 2-story double log house. -- rather like two houses
connected by a breeze-way. It was a famous landmark for decades.

"On the 5th Instant, John Tye, junior, was killed and John Tye, senior, John
Burlinson, Sherard Mays, and Thomas Mays wounded by Indians on the
frontiers of Hawkins County, Tennessee." from The Knoxville Gazette, Vol.
4, No. 2, January 23, 1795

Their son John was killed by Indians while a teenager, and was buried at that
spot. There is a memorial marker for him at the Tye Cemetery. Their son
Joshua, a veteran of the War of 1812, became a rich landowner -- owning as
many as 40+ slaves. He was said to have been relatively kind to them, and
never sold any. When they were all freed, eventually, they stayed with him, and
he ended up a poor man from trying to take care of them all.

George Tye, also a War of 1812 veteran, was the one who helped Sarah
Wheeler. Children of his 2nd marriage went west @ 1866 and eventually
founded Tye Texas, 12 miles West of Abilene.

The Tye Cemetery is located near the mouth of Golden Creek where it meets Big Poplar Creek on Hwy 92, Whitley Co, KY.