Henry M Marrs (1762 - 1830)


Born: July 6, 1762 in Virginia
Died: 1830 in Virginia (Age 68)

Henry became a fierce Indian fighter after the death of his mother at their hands.
He was involved in many Indian battles and was given the name "Big Creek" by the Indians.


He is refered to in an unpublished manuscript, Indian Atrocities Along the Clinch, Powell and Holston Rivers.
Henry Marrs is the oldest son of Samuel and he stayed in Tazewell County, VA when his father Samuel and most of the rest of the family moved to KY in 1793 and operated the family mill.


Father: Samual Marrs b.1740
Mother: Francina (Bradshaw) Marrs b.1741

Wife
Elizabeth (Maxwell) Marrs (1767 - 1850)
Married: 1785

Children
Sarah Anne (Marrs) Workman b. 1785
Samual W. Marrs b. 1788
James Marrs b. 1789
Jane (Marrs) Brooks b. 1790
Thomas Abijah Marrs b. 1791
Henry Marrs b. 1791
Charlie Marrs b. 1794
Mary Polly (Maxwell) Marrs b. 1796
Robert Marrs b. 1796
James Maxwell Marrs b. 1797
Rebecca (Marrs) Brooks b. 1802
William Marrs b. 1807
Sina Marrs b. 1809
John Marrs b. 1816

This family was close to the Workman and Brooks families

Four of the siblings are married to Brooks

  • Maxwell marries Nancy Brooks on March 18, 1819
  • Rebecca marries a male Brooks
  • William married Sally Brooks Feb 26, 1835
  • Jane marries a male Brooks

  • Sarah Anne marries Moses Workman on July 11, 1820
  • James marries Sarah Workman on 26 Dec 1810
    Records of Tazewell County Virginia (Book 1p40) dated 6 day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one where he and his wife deeded his brother Christopher Marrs for five pounds. "..... a certain parcel or track of land lying on the north side of clinch river containing53 acres thirty poles being part of a tract of one hundred acres granted to Henry Mars land patent bearing date the second day of May one thousand seven hundred-eighty seven and bounded by followeth toward beginning at a large white oak corner to a track of land patent to William Maxwell thence N 38 W74 poles to a black oak and two beaches N 88 W 92 poles to two blackoaks, a white oak and gum saplings S 7 E 6 poles to a stake. N 85 E 174 poles to the beginning with its appenteances and every part and parcel there of to have & to hold........ " 29 and 230 " Whereas Henry Marrs late of the County of Tazewell in the state of Virginia was in his lifetime siezed in fee simple of and in the following estate in the said County of Tazewell to wit about five hundred and seventy acres of Land lying two miles west of Tazewell Courthouse about one hundred rods lying on the head of Clusters(?Bluestone) in the County for said and about fourteen or fifteen hundred acres ____ Crockett's Cove in the County uence where of the same has decended and passed to his nine childrenwith Widows right of dower, and I Samuel Marrs being one of the children and heirs of said Henry Marrs Be it known to all men by these present that I the Samuel Mars of the County and State aforesaid have made ordained authorized constituted and appointed and in my place and stead put James Wynn of the County and state aforesaid my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name and in my behalf to enter into recover and take possession of my part of theaforesaid land ................"affixed my seal this 24th day of September in the year of Christ 1831. Samuel Marrs (his mark)"