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children OF CORNELIUS Autry , IMMIGRANT

OF EDGECOMBE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.

ALL BORN IN NORTH CAROLINA.

ABSALOM (AUTREY) Autry b. Ca. 1740 d. 1827 in St. Clair County, Alabama. Wife unknown. See Chapter Two.

JOHN Autry born. 1741 d. 2-3-l778 in Georgia m. in l759 to Elizabeth Ann, See Chapter Three.

JAMES Autry b. Ca. 1742 d. before 1830 in Tennessee. Wife unknown. See Chapter Four.

ALEXANDER Autry b. Ca. 1743 d. after 1781. See Chapter Five.

WILLIAM PAGE Autry b. Ca. 1745 d. before 1790 m. Rachel. See Chapter Six

CORNELIUS Autry b. Ca. 1747 d. 1810 m. in 1765 to Sophia Keen of Duplin County, North Carolina. See Chapter Seven.

DRURY Autry b. Ca. 1749 d. after 1808. Wife unknown. See Chapter Eight. ISOM Autry b. Ca. 1750 d. after 1800. See Chapter Nine.

MARTHA Autry b. 1-10-1753 d. 12-30-1852 m Neil Culbreth b.  Ca. 1740 in Scotland d. ca. 1838 in Sampson County, N.C. See Chapter Ten.

SARAH Autry b. Ca. 1755 d. before 1790 m. George Vickers before 1790. See Chapter Eleven. 

JACOB Autry b. Ca. 1756 d. Ca. 1827 fib Elizabeth Runnells. See Chapter Twelve.

Autry -CULBRETH CHARACTERISTICS

Many of stoics arc told of the religious and political differences among Culbreth- Autry husbands and wives, children and parents. These tales indicate strong tendencies toward individuality. The Autry men were big, tall, physically strong, of ruddy complexion, and daring. The Culbreths were called little-blue-eyed Scotchmen and very strong willed. Other family tales are about husbands and wives who refused to ride together to the pol1s at election time if they were supporting opposing political parties. A myth about the Falcon Culbreths is that they were all shouting Pentecostal Holiness people. In fact, Uncle Julius, a very religious man, was the only member of William and Nancy Autry Culbreths family so persuaded. He was a refined, sophisticated man whom I considered an upward-mobile. All of his brothers and sisters remained members of the Methodist Church. It is no myth, however, that Uncle Julius did name the town of Falcon, establish a Holiness children's home, a Holiness school, a Holiness church, and the Falcon Camp Meeting Association. In their religious affiliations, Culbreths- Autry s represented the extreme right to the extreme left; they have beenness Jehovahs Witness, Quakers, Jewish, Catholic, Mormons and agnostic as well as of all the major Protestant denominations.

Members of the family who became cantankerous, moody, adamant, stubborn and hard to tolerate are said to be having a Culbreth spell, and/or an Autry spell, whichever might fit the family Situation at the time.