Jethro O’Sheal married Lucretia Wooten. Their daughter, Elizabeth, married Tyrie Harrison.
I am writing this post to confirm LUCRETIA WOOTEN did in fact marry Jethro O’Sheal. I have personally spoken to a daughter of Mary Ethel Howell Cotterell, who was the great grand-daughter of Tyrie/Tyree Harrison and Elizabeth O’Shields and great great grand-daughter of Jethro O’Sheal and Lucretia Wooten. Mary did extensive family research many many years ago, establishing her great grand-mother, Elizabeth O’Shields, was the daughter of Jethro O’Shields and Lucretia Wooten.
I informed Mary’s daughter that a myth has persisted on the internet, and this myth claims Elizabeth O’Shields, the daughter of Jethro O’Shields, did not marry Tyrie/Tyree Harrison. Mary Howell Cotterell’s daughter replied, “I can only tell you I rely on my mother’s research, and my mother said Jethro O’Sheal married Lucretia Wooten, and their daughter, Elizabeth O’Shields, married Tyrie/Tyree Harrison.”
Mary’s daughter had no knowledge of the distortion of her mother’s research, especially the perverted suggestion Tyrie Harrison’s wife, Elizabeth O’Shields/O’Sheal was the daughter of Maria Theresa/Treecy O’Shields and not the daughter of Jethro O’Sheal.
Over the years I have placed messages at various genealogical websites about the O’Sheal family. Many of my messages were removed due to the undermining of one individual. Some of my deleted messages were discussions about the wife of Jethro O’Shields. I have stated Henry O’Sheal’s wife was Sarah, and this Sarah was the Sarah O’Shields named in the Friendship Baptist Church Minutes. I have also stated Sarah could have been the wife of John or Jeff O’Shields. Quite frankly, no one has absolute proof– through primary documentation–the true identity of one Sarah O’Shields named in the Friendship Baptist Church Minutes.
If Jethro O’Sheal/O’Shields did not marry Lucretia Wooten, no primary documentation has surfaced to prove this claim. If Elizabeth O’Sheal/O’Shields, the daughter of Jethro O’Sheal and Lucretia Wooten, did not marry Tyrie Harrison, no primary documentation has surfaced to prove this claim. The ONLY evidence presented to refute the research of Mary Ethel Howell Cotterell has been speculation and insolent hyperbole.
Finally, after careful examination of land records, I now believe Lucretia Wooten O’Shields was the daughter of Nathaniel Wooten and the sister of Dudley Wooten.