In Potter Profiles, Volume 10, January 1987, page 8, I published this bit. I had found this bit in Ansearchin News for Jan/Mar 1972. It was a bit contributed by Alfred C. Potter:
Thomas Potter, Christian Minister, born in 1791, died 24 January 1865, served in the War of 1812 from Overton County, Tennessee. He was a Pvt. in the company of Capt. William Evans, 3rd Regiment, Tennessee Militia, under the command of Col. Copeland. He was discharged at Fayetteville, Tennessee, on 16 May 1814.
He married Elizabeth Wilkerson, born 1793 and died 26 May 1868. She was the daughter of Thomas Wilkerson and a Mrs. Pemberton.
The couple had seven children: Phoeba, born 1818; William, born 1819; John, born 1822; Henry, born 1824; Elisha, born 1826; Bennata, born 1828; and Elijah, born 1830.
Thomas Potter left Jackson County, Tennessee, and went to Montgomery County, Illinois and then to Dallas County, Missouri in 1823. He returned to Montgomery County, Illinois, and then to Green County, Missouri in 1820.
Both Thomas and Elizabeth are buried in a private family plot twelve miles east of Springfield, Missouri.
I hope this query-bit will be of help to some Potter/Wilkerson researcher. Good luck.
I am a Thomas Potter/Elizabeth Wilkerson descendant. They are 4th great-grandparents.
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