Notes for: Joel Longley

Joel Longley served in in the War of 1812 as a private in captain John B. Long's Company, 39th U. S. Infantry Regiment, commanded by Col John Williams. He fought in the battle of Horseshoe Bend in Alabama in 1815. Joel and Nancy were members of the Forks of the Little Pigeon Baptist Church in Sevier County, Tennessee before 1823. The minutes of this Church show that both had apparently been removed from fellowship, but they subsequently joined another church and were restored to fellowship and given letters of dismission: Nancy in June 1823 and Joel in November of 1824. The family was recorded in the 1830 Census of McMinn County, Tennessee on November 28, 1839, in Polk County, Tennessee. Polk was created from McMinn and Bradley Counties. Joel appears there in the census of the following year as he does in 1850. By 1860, he had relocated to Catoosa County, Georgia. That is where he found his third wife. He had two daughters by his second marriage. Following his death, his widow filed for a widow's pension. She furnished information on Joel's previous marriages from the family Bible. His widow, Jane Lovelady, was still living there in 1880.