'A Maples Leaf' page 500:
Jesse Maples was born in 1786, Pittsylvania Co. VA; died 28 Apr 1866, Cleveland, Bradlye Co. Tenn. of smallpox, son of Josiah Maples, Sr. and Ruthea Sweeney. Jesse married first Jeminah 'Mimy' (surname unknown); she died on 12 may 1847, Bradlye Co. Tenn and is buried in Macedonia Cemetery about 5.5 miles southwest of Cleveland, Tenn. Jesse maples was married second on 19 Nov 1847 in Bradley Co. Tenn. by Isaac Crisman, M. G., to Mrs Mildred Haggard, a widow of Martin Haggard, at mrs. Haggard's home on the farm of Martin Langston five miles south of Cleveland, Tenn. Martin Langston, her landlord, and his iwfe were witnesses.

Sevier Co. TN 1850 census 388A
13 MAPLES ABIJAH 46 SOUTH C

g384a.txt 388A 14 MAPLES ELIZABETH 43 TENNESSEE
g384a.txt 388A 15 MAPLES GEORGE 18 TENNESSEE
g384a.txt 388A 16 MAPLES JAMES 12 TENNESSEE
g384a.txt 388A 17 MAPLES ANN 14 TENNESSEE
g384a.txt 388A 18 MAPLES DAVID 10 TENNESSEE
g384a.txt 388A 19 MAPLES JOHN 7 TENNESSEE
g384a.txt 388A 20 MAPLES REDMAN 6 TENNESSEE
g384a.txt 388A 21 MAPLES SAMUEL 4 TENNESSEE
g384a.txt 388A 22 MAPLES SARAH 1 TENNESSEE
g384a.txt 388A 24 MAPLES ARCHABOLD 21 TENNESSEE
g384a.txt 388A 25 MAPLES SYNTHA 20 TENNESSEE
g384a.txt 388A 26 MAPLES WILSON 5 TENNESSEE
g384a.txt 388A 27 MAPLES REBECAH 3 TENNESSEE
g384a.txt 388A 28 MAPLES MARVEL 8/12 TENNESSEE
g384a.txt 388B 2 MAPLES MARY 30 TENNESSEE
g384a.txt 388B 37 MAPLES SARAH 65 N. C.
g384a.txt 388B 38 MAPLES WILSON 42 TENNESSEE
pg384a.txt 392B 16 MAPLES LINDA 23 TENNESSEE
pg384a.txt 398B 32 MAPLES ADEMPSY 46 TENNESSEE
pg396a.txt 398B 33 MAPLES RACHEL 32 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 398B 34 MAPLES SARAH 16 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 398B 35 MAPLES LAYFAETT 14 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 398B 36 MAPLES McCAGER 13 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 398B 37 MAPLES DEBBORAH 6 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 398B 38 MAPLES REBECAH 4 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 398B 39 MAPLES ADEMPEY 1 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 399A 11 MAPLES PRESTON 30 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 399A 12 MAPLES NANCY 32 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 399A 13 MAPLES WILLIAM 9 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 399A 14 MAPLES JAMES 6 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 399A 15 MAPLES GILBERT 4 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 399A 16 MAPLES THOMAS 2 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 399A 17 MAPLES MARY 15 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 399A 18 MAPLES BLALOCK 21 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 399A 19 MAPLES MARCENY 27 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 399A 20 MAPLES MARTHA 2 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 399A 21 MAPLES MARY 5/12 TENNESSEE
g396a.txt 405B 26 MAPLES WILLIAM 22 TEN
g396a.txt 405B 27 MAPLES LUCINDA 24 TEN
g396a.txt 405B 28 MAPLES ELENDER 4 TEN
g396a.txt 405B 29 MAPLES ABIJAH 3 TEN
g396a.txt 405B 30 MAPLES SARAH U TEN
g396a.txt 414A 11 MAPLES NANCY 64 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 12 MAPLES RUTHA 34 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 13 MAPLES MITCHELL 16 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 14 MAPLES MOSES 12 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 15 MAPLES RILEY 11 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 16 MAPLES ASA 10 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 17 MAPLES ELIZABETH 6
g408b.txt 414A 18 MAPLES AMANDA 4 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 19 MAPLES JAMES 9/12 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 20 MAPLES ELIJAH 67 VIRGINIA
g408b.txt 414A 21 MAPLES ELIZABETH 35 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 22A MAPLES JANE 18 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 22B MAPLES REBECAH 11 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 23 MAPLES NANCY 5 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 24 MAPLES THOS.. SR. 60 VERGINIA
g408b.txt 414A 25 MAPLES LYDIA 56 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 26 MAPLES CATHARINE 11 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 27 MAPLES THOS. JR. 24 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 28 MAPLES MANURVA 24 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 29 MAPLES MARY 1 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 30 MAPLES CAMPBELL 21 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 31 MAPLES A**A 24 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 32 MAPLES NANCY 2 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 414A 33 MAPLES ELENDER 3/12 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 415A 41 MAPLES ANNA 37 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 415A 42 MAPLES MARGARET 14 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 415B 1 MAPLES MACK 7 TENN
g408b.txt 415B 2 MAPLES JAMES 3 TENN
g408b.txt 416B 14 MAPLES G. R. 31 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 416B 15 MAPLES ELENDER 21 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 416B 16 MAPLES DAVID 4 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 416B 17 MAPLES MARY 1 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 416B 18 MAPLES G. M. 27 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 416B 19 MAPLES NANCY 20 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 416B 20 MAPLES ELIZABETH 1 TENNESSEE
g408b.txt 433B 4 MAPLES WILLIAM 28 TENNESSEE
g433b.txt 433B 5 MAPLES JANE 21 TENNESSEE
g433b.txt 433B 6 MAPLES JAMES 6 TENNESSEE
g433b.txt 433B 7 MAPLES MARY 4 TENNESSEE
g433b.txt 433B 8 MAPLES DAVID 2 TENNESSEE
g433b.txt 433B 9 MAPLES NANCY 8/12 TENNESSEE
g433b.txt 433B 10 MAPLES AMANDA 23 TENNESSEE
g433b.txt 434A 29 MAPLES JAMES 30 TENNESSEE
g433b.txt 434A 30 MAPLES THURSEY 22 TENNESSEE
g433b.txt 434A 31 MAPLES THOMAS 5 TENNESSEE
g433b.txt 434A 32 MAPLES PINKENEY 2 TENNESSEE
g433b.txt 434A 33 MAPLES EDWARD 18 TENNESSEE
g433b.txt 436A 3 MAPLES HENRY 23 TENNESSEE
g433b.txt 436A 4 MAPLES LYDIA 16 TENNESSEE

Jesse Maples served in War of 1812, was a private in Captain An drew Lawson's Co. of the Thrid Tennessee Militia, drafted 20 September 1814 at Knoxville River, Sevier River for term of 6 months, discharged 3 May 1815 at Mobile Alabama according to Mildred Maples bounty land record dated 11 April 1878. In 1878 Mildred Maples was living in Whitfield County, Georgia. The affidavit states that Jesse Maples died at Cleveland, Tennessee on 28 April 1866 and that "her said husband's first wife Jemimah died in Bradley Co. Tenn on the 12 day of May 1847.

In a deposition dated 3 March 1855 and signed Jese Maples his mark, Jesse Maples aged about 69 years says he was a corporal in Captain Wilson Maples and then in Captain John Porter's Regiment of Tennessee drafted men commanded by Collard (Colonel) Boothe. That he was drafted at Sevierville in Sevier County Tennessee on or about the 30th day October 1814 and was mustered into the service of the United States for the term of six months and was honorably discharged at Sevierville in Sevier County Tennessee on or about the first day of June AD 1815.

Jesse Maples actual 1812 record says Corporal Jesse Maples enlisted in Captain Wilson Maples Co. 15th of November 1814 for 6 months and was discharged 18th of May 1815.

In affidavit dated 28 February 1879Physician L. B. McNabb age 41 states he attended Jesse Maples at his death probably in the month of April 1866 "I am a practicing physician, and was such in the eyar 1866, and then residing in Cleveland, Bradley County Tennessee; & at that time the small pox was prevailing in that locality, especially in the winter of 1865 & ?? and the spring thereafter; among those I attended for said disease during that time was Jesse Maples, husband of Mildred Maples. He was then an old man and died of the disease, early in 1866, as near as I can recollect."

In affidavit dated 2d day of January 1879 Bradley County TennesseeRev Wm. J. Witcher a Minsiter of the Gospel age 72 years post office Cleveland Tennessee states that he was wll aquinted with Jesse Maples and his wife Jamimah for more than 30 years, that Jamimah died in Bradley Co. Tennessee sometime between 1840 and 1850, may have been in 1846 or 1847 and he attended her burial at Macedonia burial ground about 5 1/4 milse SE of Cleveland in Bradley Co. Tenn and preached her funeral sermon. She was known by the name of Mimy Maples. He also preached the funeral of her husband Jesse Maples who died in Cleveland Tennessee soon after the War.

Jesse, at his enlistement, was described as 6 feet tall, dark hair, dark eyes, dark complexion, and he was a hatter.

Sevier County, Tennessee Land Records, Survey Book page 50; Thirty acres surveyed to Jesse Maples 26 June 1824 on Waters of Flat Creek adjoining land of James Woods, Richard Woods and John Moon. Chain carriers were William Atchley and Charles Pate.

Survey Book, page 146: Jesse Maples and John Moon were adjoining landowners wehn survey for William Trotter was made on 3 oct 1825.

Land Grant Number 10.55 was made to Jesse Maples on 25 Jan 1825.

Land records from A Maples Leaf, 1980 by Mary Ford Southworth and Joann Thomas Elkin.

1862 Tax List for Bradley Co. TN, in Bradley Co. TN Genweb archives online has
Jesse Maples 61 Lot, 300 acres, 1.05 valuation, 18 mf???
This is quite confusing, but I think it means Jesse Maples owned lot 61 in the town of Cleveland. I do not know what the 300 acres means, as I do not think he owned 300 acres.

Sevier Co. Tn
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Bk 1 p 146 No 287
Trotter, William: 3 Oct 1825 24 Feb 1826
6 acres on the waters of Flat Creek on both sides of said creek. Adj: Moon, John; Maples, Jesse.
SCC. Trotter, Henry; Trotter, Claiborn.
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Bk 1 p 155 No 395
Atchley, Daniel 12 Jan 1826 21 Mar 1826
50 acres on Flat Creek.
S.C.C. Dunn, Thomas; Atchley, Jesse

• Married: Abt 1815

1. Alexander Preston Maples b: 1816 in Sevier Co., Tennessee
2. Americus Bonaparte Maples b: 23 Mar 1818 in Tennessee
3. James Gunter Maples b: 19 May 1820 in Sevier Co., Tennessee
4. William Atchley Maples b: 1822 in Tennessee
5. Mary Maples b: Abt 1822 in TN
6. Rachel Maples b: 1825
7. Martha Maples b: 1825
8. Sarah Maples b: 1831
9. Anderson Maples b: 1832
10. Andrew Jackson Maples b: 10 Aug 1835 in McMinn Co., Tennessee

• Married: 18 Nov 1847 in Bradley Co., Tennessee