John J. was likely the eleventh child of, and the second son named for, his father. Consequently, he seldom was referred to as "John". In the historical record, he was variously "John J.", Jonathan", "Johnson", or "Johnson J.". His elder half-brother John18 was usually "John" or "John Jr.".
John1B J. was born about 1800 in Carter County, Tennessee.' During his earliest years, his parents, John, and Elizabethl.2 (Helvey) (Davis) Casebolt, evidently moved around quite a bit in the eastern Tennessee (Carter and Sullivan counties), western North Carolina (Buncombe and Washington counties), and southeastern Kentucky (Floyd [present-day Perry] county) area. Finally, when he was six or seven, they seem to have moved for good back east through the Cumberland gap to Lee County in the southwestern tip of Virginia. Here John J. would have grown up on the family farm in the Powell River valley.
Unfortunately both Lee County tax lists for 1814-1826 and marriage records before 1830 are missing, so we don't know as much as we otherwise would about his young adulthood. John1B J. married Nancy Friend(?) about 1818 probably in Lee County. Their first three children likely were born here: Thomas1B1 W. about 1819, Henry1B2 about 1822, and
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1 He may have been born as early as 1799: Dyer, Kenneth e-mail to rak, 15 October 2001: "Pike County Marriage Bond File No. 1449: License issued September 16, 1858 for marriage of Johnson J. Casebolt and Sarah Ann Ramsey ... Groom born Carter Co., Tenn., age 59 yrs." However, most census records indicate an 1800 birth.
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