Thomas Atchley

Thomas Atchley was a soldier of the colonial army of 1776 and a veteran of the American Revolution from 1776 to 1781. In 1794 he served alongside private Andrew Jackson under the command of Brigadier General James Robertson in the Indian Wars of the lower Tennessee led by Major Ore. During the State of Franklin, Thomas Atchley and his wife, Lydia Richards (1762-1850,) settled along Alder Branch, a tributary of the French Broad River, in 1786. The Atchleys were farmers and had twelve children. Forty-four years after their arrival in Sevier County, they and others organized and chartered the Alder Branch Baptist Church in their home in 1830.

Sevierville, Tennessee · United States