Husband: John DINNING (1)
Birthdate: Abt 1756
Birthplace: Ballylanders, Limerick, Munster, Ireland (2,3)
Death date: Nov 1837
Place of death: , , Tennessee, USA (4)
Burial:
Father: Andrew DINNING (Abt 1730-Between 1775/1785) (5)
Mother: Margaret ??? (Abt 1730-After 1804) (5)
Other spouses: Mary HUNTER (1790-?) (7) Date: Abt 1813 (8)

Marriage date: 2 Oct 1781
Marriage place: , Orange, North Carolina, USA (6)

Wife: Elizabeth BOYLES (9)
Birthdate: Abt 1762
Birthplace: (10)
Death date: Between 1802 and 1813
Place of death: (11)
Burial:
Father: John BOWLES (Abt 1732-1815) (12,13)
Mother: Martha ??? (Abt 1735-?) (14)

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: John DINNING Jr. (14)
Sex: M
Birthdate: Abt 1783
Birthplace: , , North Carolina, USA (14)
Death date: Aft 1820
Place of death: , Sumner, Tennessee, USA (14)
Burial:
Marriage dates:
Marriage places:
Spouses' names:

Child No. 2: Phebe DINNING (15)
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1785
Birthplace: , , North Carolina, USA (16)
Death date: 1822
Place of death: (16)
Burial:
Marriage dates: 1802 (16)
Marriage places:
Spouses' names: Cader HUNTER (Abt 1768-Bef 1837) (15)

Child No. 3: Andrew DINNING (17)
Sex: M
Birthdate: Abt 1787
Birthplace: , , North Carolina, USA (14)
Death date: Aft 1834
Place of death: , Weakley, Tennessee, USA (17)
Burial:
Marriage dates: 18 Sep 1806
Marriage places: , Sumner, Tennessee, USA (18,19)
Spouses' names: Mary GROVES (Abt 1790-?) (14)

Child No. 4: Anna DINNING (17)
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1791
Birthplace: , Sumner, Tennessee, USA (20)
Death date: 8 Sep 1863
Place of death: , Monroe, Missouri, USA (17,20)
Burial: White Cloud Cemetery, Nodaway County, Missouri
Marriage dates: Jan 1805
Marriage places: , Sumner, Tennessee, USA
Spouses' names: Thomas GROVES Jr. (1774-1845) (17,21)

Child No. 5: William DINNING (22)
Sex: M
Birthdate: Abt 1792
Birthplace: , , North Carolina, USA (23,24)
Death date: Abt 1860
Place of death: (25)
Burial:
Marriage dates: 15 Jul 1816
Marriage places: , Sumner, Tennessee, USA (27,28)
Spouses' names: Nancy MOODY (1800-Abt 1840) (26)

Child No. 6: Peggy DINNING (14)
Sex: F
Birthdate: Abt 1793
Birthplace: (29)
Death date: Deceased
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage dates: 8 Feb 1808
Marriage places: , Sumner, Tennessee, USA (14,30,31)
Spouses' names: Richard SMITH (Abt 1790-After 1837) (14)

Child No. 7: Nancy DINNING (17)
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1794
Birthplace: , , North Carolina, USA (14)
Death date: Deceased
Place of death: , Polk, Texas, USA (17)
Burial:
Marriage dates: [1] 28 Oct 1811 [2] Abt 1836
Marriage places: [1] , Sumner, Tennessee, USA (18,31)
Spouses' names: [1] James THOMPSON (1792-1849) (14,17) [2] John GARNER (Abt 1797-Bef 1898) (14)

Child No. 8: Mary DINNING (17)
Sex: F
Birthdate: Abt 1795
Birthplace: , , North Carolina, USA (14)
Death date: Aft 1850
Place of death: , Hickman, Tennessee, USA (14,17)
Burial:
Marriage dates: 14 Jul 1822
Marriage places: , Sumner, Tennessee, USA (32)
Spouses' names: James MAYS (Abt 1785-After 1837) (17)

Child No. 9: James DINNING (15)
Sex: M
Birthdate: Abt 1798
Birthplace: , , North Carolina, USA
Death date: Deceased
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage dates:
Marriage places:
Spouses' names:

Child No. 10: Tabitha DINNING (14)
Sex: F
Birthdate: Abt 1802
Birthplace: , , Tennessee, USA (33)
Death date: Abt 1880
Place of death: , Sumner, Tennessee, USA (14)
Burial:
Marriage dates: 17 Feb 1826
Marriage places: , Sumner, Tennessee, USA (31)
Spouses' names: William ANDERSON (Abt 1804-Abt 1870) (33)


Documentation:
  1. Anonymous (This person does not wish to be identified as a source.), John Dinning.
  2. Anonymous (This person does not wish to be identified as a source.), John Dinning. abt 1756, Ireland.
  3. Hutchison, Frieda, John Dinning. Ballylanders. to John Dinning, [fkhutch at lvcm.com]
  4. Denning, John, John Dinning. Nov 1837, Tennessee. John sent me a document on the Lee family and we exchanged email correspondence. Much of his information is from Anonymous.
  5. Anonymous (This person does not wish to be identified as a source.)
  6. North Carolina Marriages to 1825 (Ancestry.com), Dinning, John. m. 02 Oct 1781, Orange Co., BOYLES, Elizabeth. Index
  7. Denning, John, Mary Hunter.
  8. Denning, John, Dinning, John. abt 1813.
  9. North Carolina Marriages to 1825 (Ancestry.com), Dinning, John. BOYLES, Elizabeth. Index
  10. Anonymous (This person does not wish to be identified as a source.), Elizabeth Boyles. abt 1862.
  11. Denning, John, Elizabeth Boyles. abt 1812.
  12. Lynch, Judith.
  13. Hunter, Scott L, http://www.gbnf.com/genealogy/huntersl/html/d0004/I681.HTM [no longer extant].
  14. Denning, John.
  15. Whitley, Edythe Johns Rucker, Sumner County Will Abstracts, 1788-1842 (Genealogical Pub. Co, 1980, 75 pages), Will Book 2, Pp 64-65.
  16. Hunter, Scott L, http://www.gbnf.com/genealogy/huntersl/html/d0000/I605.HTM [no longer extant].
  17. Denning, Michael, The Denning Family of Sumner County Tennessee and Their Kin, Section 1, page A.
  18. Tennessee Marriages to 1825 (Ancestry.com).
  19. Early Tennessee Settlers, 1700s-1900s, page 283.
  20. Groves, Dr. William E.
  21. Brackin, Henry B Jr, "Brackin Family",(1979) https://www.tngenweb.org/sumner/groves.htm.
  22. Anonymous (This person does not wish to be identified as a source.), William Dinning.
  23. Anonymous (This person does not wish to be identified as a source.), William Dinning. abt 1792.
  24. 1850 Federal Census, Kentucky, Simpson, pg 31B. age 50, North Carolina.
  25. Anonymous (This person does not wish to be identified as a source.), William Dinning. abt 1860.
  26. Sumner Co, TN Marriages (TNGenWeb.org), Dinning, William. "m. ... Moody, Nancy." https://sites.rootsweb.com/~providence/marrgr88-89.htm
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~providence/marrndx86-95.htm
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~providence/marrbr88-89.htm
  27. Tennessee Marriages to 1825 (Ancestry.com), Dinning, William.
  28. Sumner Co, TN Marriages (TNGenWeb.org), Dinning, William. "m. 15 Jul 1816 Moody, Nancy - Bondsmen: Hunter, Burwell."
  29. Sumner Co, TN Marriages (TNGenWeb.org), Dinning, William. "m. 15 Jul 1816 Moody, Nancy - Bondsmen: Hunter, Burwell."
  30. Tennessee Marriages to 1825 (Ancestry.com),
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/2099a.htm.
  31. Sumner Co, TN Marriages (TNGenWeb.org).
  32. Sumner County Marriage Records, Selected Marriages from 1791-1925
(http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~we3sumneritesjblcsf/mrg_di-don.htm) [no longer extant].
  33. Sumner County Marriage Records, Selected Marriages from 1791-1925
(http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~we3sumneritesjblcsf/mrg_di-don.htm) [no longer extant].

Notes:
* Will of John Dinning -
$10.00 to the heirs of Cader Hunter dec'd begotten of the body of my daughter Phebe.
To Thomas Groves $10.00.
To Richard Smith $100.00.
To Henry Williams $100.00.
To George Watwood $100.00.
To heirs of Andrew Dinning dec'd $10.00.
To my son William Dinning $100.00.
To James Mays $150.
To William Alderson $150.00.
To by deed of gift to my son James Dinning some negroes said James not to have property until after death of John and Polly Dinning the father and mother of said James.
To my son James Dinning 340 acres of land to have posession at my death. James to support his mother Polly during her life.
After my debts are paid any remainder to be equally divided between Henry Williams, William Alderson, James Mays and William Dinning.
Appoints Joseph McGlothlin Jr. and Wm. Lovell as executors.
Signed 17 Feb 1837
Witnesses: James Granger, Andrew McGlothlin.
Proved Nov 1837 Sumner Co., Tennessee. (pp. 225-226)
Source: Genealogical Records: Early Tennessee Settlers, 1700s-1900s;
* Sumner County Will Abstracts, 1788-1842, Abstracts of Will Book 2, pp. 64-65
* Source: "The Denning Family of Sumner County Tennessee and Their Kin", by Mike Denning, Section 1, pp B-C (transcript)
* In the "Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution", it states that John Dinning served as a Lieutenant and acted as a Captain under Colonel Kimball. He served as a horseman in the militia under Captains Barry and Gray, and as a footman under Captain Richards, and General Pickens, during 1779. He was in the Battle at Stano and the Siege of Charleston.
Most of John Dinning's children stayed in Sumner Co., Tennessee, except for a few; Anna Dinning Groves moved to Nodaway Co., Missouri; Mary Dinning Mays moved to Hickman Co., Tennessee; Andrew Dinning moved to Weakley Co., Tennessee about 1827; and Nancy Dinning Thompson went to Polk Co., Texas.
* Source: "The Denning Family of Sumner County Tennessee and Their Kin", by Mike Denning, Section 1, p A. Dinning, John
* Source: 1790 NC Orange Co., Tax Lists - Rootsweb File: 1790casdt.txt. Dinning, John
* Source: Orange Co., NC 1790 First Federal Census Index, NARA Microfilm M-637, p 93

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