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Caleb Garrett

Male 1795 - 1841  (46 years)

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  • Name Caleb Garrett
    Birth 1795  VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male
    _MILT 1812 
    War of 1812: Private in Tennessee Volunteers 
    _MILT Between 1815 and 1817 
    Seminole War (Florida) 1815-1817: Corporal in Crouch's Company of the 1st Tennessee Mounted Militia 
    _MILT 07 Oct 1822 
    Commissioned as Ensign: Caleb Garrett, October 7, 1822, 21st Regiment. 
    _MILT 13 Aug 1825 
    Commissioned as Ensign: Caleb Garrett, August 13, 1825, 9th Regiment. 
    _MILT 20 Oct 1831 
    Commissioned as Ensign: Caleb Garrett, October 20, 1831, 97th Regiment. 
    Death 30 Jul 1841  Franklin, Williamson Co, TN Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Obituary 06 Aug 1841 
    See Notes 
    Person ID I2073  Butler Family Tree
    Last Modified 6 Jun 2026

    Father John Garrett,   b. 1750, VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 14 Apr 1806, Williamson Co, TN Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 56 years)
    Relationship natural
    Mother Jane Taylor,   b. Bef 1755, VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 01 Jun 1818, Williamson Co, TN Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 63 years)
    Relationship natural
    Marriage Abt 1770  Amelia Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F557  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Elizabeth Betsy Hamilton-xx,   b. 1796   d. 1821 (Age 25 years)
    Marriage 24 Dec 1816  Williamson Co, TN Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 

    • Children:

      dau Mary Jane Garrett 10/30/1817 Franklin, Williamson Co, TN
      dau Elizabeth M Garrett 7/30/1819 Franklin, Williamson Co, TN
      dau Nancy M Garrett 1822 Franklin, Williamson Co, TN
    Family ID F1239  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Jun 2026

    Family 2 Elizabeth ???-xx,   b. 27 Apr 1804
    Marriage 16 Sep 1830  Franklin, Williamson Co, TN Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1240  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Jun 2026

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1795 - VA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 24 Dec 1816 - Williamson Co, TN Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 16 Sep 1830 - Franklin, Williamson Co, TN Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 30 Jul 1841 - Franklin, Williamson Co, TN Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 

    • - ** See marriage notes for list of children **

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      found at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=112210update&id=I00578

      •ID: I00578
      •Name: Caleb Garrett
      •Sex: M
      •Birth: 1795 in VA
      •Death: 30 JUL 1841 in Franklin, Williamson Co, TN
      •Note:
      War of 1812: Private in Tennessee Volunteers, Infantry under Major William Carroll, Captain Daniel M. Bradford, and Captain Lewis Dillahunty. Caleb Garrett also served in Cocke's 2nd Regiment West Tennessee Militia. (Additional research required.)
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      War of 1812 Service Records

      Name: CALEB GARRETT
      Company: 1 REG'T (METCALF'S) W. TENNESSEE MILITIA.
      Rank - Induction: PRIVATE
      Rank - Discharge: PRIVATE
      Roll Box: 78

      Source: Ancestry.com
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      Seminole War (Florida) 1815-1817: Corporal in Crouch's Company of the 1st Tennessee Mounted Militia.
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      Marriage dates:
      1) 12/24/1816 Williamson County, Tennessee - To Elizabeth "Betsy" Hamilton
      2) 9/16/1830 Williamson County, Tennessee - To Elizabeth Hambleton (Hamilton)
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      Deed Book "E" - Williamson County, Tennessee:
      Page 391 - Caleb Garrett from Benjamin Gholson. 15 Jan 1818. For $120 lot no. 16 in the town of Franklin. It is being on the southeast corner of the town (except the spot of ground on said lot where the school house chimney now nd chimney stands.)
      Wit. : Phillip Maury and Robert M. Carter. Reg.: 10 Nov 1818.
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      1820 census: Williamson Co, TN; Town of Franklin; Book 1; Page 116; Line 17.

      Caleb Garrett 000100-20100-0001

      1 male - 16 to 26 (Caleb)
      2 females - under 10 (Mary & Elizabeth)
      1 female - 16 to 26 (Elizabeth)
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      1829 July Session

      Caleb Garrett and Benj. R. White, carpenters, doing business as Garrett/White sue George White for an account on the old house and one on the new,
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      1830 census: Williamson Co, TN; Page 196.

      Caleb Garrett

      Males
      0-0-0-0-1-1

      Females
      0-0-0-0-0-0

      There was also a female slave listed; with age of thirty-six and under fifty-five.
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      1830 census: Wayne Co, TN.

      There is a Caleb Garrett listed in this census. It is believed that Caleb Garrett listed in the 1830 census of Williamson Co, TN is this subject; however, this raises the question as to the identity of Caleb Garrett in the 1830 census of Wayne Co, TN.

      (Additional research is required, because Caleb's brother George W. Garrett was also listed in the 1830 Wayne Co, TN census.)
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      March 1837 - Williamson County, Tennessee:
      Roderick Temple charges that Thomas Garrett struck him in the mouth and knocked out 3 teeth.
      (Was Thomas Garrett related to Caleb Garrett?)
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      Elizabeth Hamilton (1796-1821) married Caleb Garrett (1795-1841) in Franklin in 1816 at age 20. She died at age 25 and left three young daughters, all under age five. (Mary, b. abt. 1817; Elizabeth, b. abt. 1819; Nancy, b. aft. 1820)

      Caleb married Elizabeth after serving under Gen. Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans in 1814-1815, then in the Florida Seminole War in 1816.
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      Obituary - Williamson County, Tennessee:

      31 May 1833 W. W. R.
      Mrs. Elizabeth Garrett d. on Thursday the 16th, age 29 yrs. 19 days, wife of C. Garrett. (This is the 2nd wife, Elizabeth Hambleton, and if the age of 29 years, 19 days is correct, her date of birth was 4-27-1804.)

      Source, Mrs. Joe Bowman, reported that the birth date on the cemetery stone of Caleb's wife shows b. 11-15-1796 and d. 3-21-1822. (This is the 1st wife, Elizabeth "Betsty" Hamilton.) She is buried in the Garrett Cemetery. The cemetery location is reported by Mrs. Joe Bowman as being in the 5th District, in the yard to the right of old Sandy Brown house on old Charlotte Road; now owned by Samuel Sweeney. There is only one marked stone and part of the name on the stone is missing.
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      Elizabeth, the 2nd wife of Caleb Garrett, had been married to a brother of Elizabeth, the 1st wife. She was Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton at the time she married Caleb, and it is unknown if she was a widow or divorcee at the time. (The marriage record shows her name as Elizabeth Hamilton.)
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      Commissioned as Ensign: Caleb Garrett, October 7, 1822, 21st Regiment.

      Commissioned as Ensign: Caleb Garrett, August 13, 1825, 9th Regiment.

      Commissioned as Ensign: Caleb Garrett, October 20, 1831, 97th Regiment.
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      DEATH NOTICES FROM THE WESTERN WEEKLY REVIEW,
      FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE 1841-1851
      Abstracted by Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith
      Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2004

      1841

      (Page 4)

      August 6, 1841

      Caleb Garrett died in Franklin, Tennessee on July 30, 1841
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      Excerpt from "Old Homes and Sites" (Franklin, Williamson Co, TN)

      Rainey-Lawrence House

      "It is known, however, that the house was built in 1839 by Robert Rainey on a lot purchased from Caleb Garrett four years previously."
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      Excerpt from "Old Homes and Sites" (Franklin, Williamson Co, TN)
      Cottonwood

      "An old cemetery in the side yard contains the remnants of one tombstone. Although the name is broken and the dates faded, one line declares the stone to be in memory of the consort of Caleb Garrett, a prominent citizen in Franklin in the 1820s."
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      From newspaper, Tennessean:

      Williamson County, Tennessee - Slow down at mile 3.7 and check out the historic home on the right called Cottonwood or Hamilton Place, but also known as Caleb's Consort. The home reportedly was built in 1800, making it one of the oldest in this area. It derives its latter name from one grave in a nearby graveyard that reads to the memory of the "consort of Caleb Garrett," a prominent citizen in the early 1800s.

      Internet source: http://www.tennessean.com/sii/00/11/06/whittheroad006.shtml (Williamson Co, TN)
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      Father: John Garrett b: ABT 1750 in VA
      Mother: Jane Taylor b: BEF 1755 in VA

      Marriage 1
      Elizabeth Hamilton b: 15 NOV 1796 in TN
      •Married: 24 DEC 1816 in Franklin, Williamson Co, TN
      Children
      1.Has Children Mary Jane Garrett b: 30 OCT 1817 in Franklin, Williamson Co, TN
      2.Has No Children Elizabeth M. Garrett b: 27 JUL 1820 in Franklin, Williamson Co, TN
      3.Has No Children Nancy M. Garrett b: 1822 in Franklin, Williamson Co, TN

      Marriage 2
      C. Elizabeth Unknown b: 27 APR 1804
      •Married: 16 SEP 1830 in Franklin, Williamson Co, TN
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