Individual Details

"William Cantrell spent all his life in Sumner County, Tennessee. He was a wealthy planter, owning a large number of slaves. One of his sons writes: "He was never known to whip a slave, or cause one to be shipped, nor to sell one, not to separate a man and wife." He was highly respected and dearly beloved by all who knew him. He was a man of fine personal appearance, commanding in stature, mild and affable in his manners and a true man in all the relations of life. He was in the War of 1812, served at the Battle of New Orleans and was an officer in Carroll's Brigade." (THE CANTRILL - CANTRELL GENEALOGY, 1908, by Susan Cantrill Christie, page 134.)

Birth	January 22, 1792	Sumner County, Tennessee
Marriage		Sarah Gillespie
Marriage		Mary Bugg
Death		Sumner County, Tennessee

Spouse	Mary Bugg ( - )
Child	Frances Cantrell ( - )
Child	Mary Cantrell ( - )
Child	William L. Cantrell (1825 - 1846)

Spouse	Sarah Gillespie ( - )
Child	Elizabeth Cantrell ( - )
Child	Sophia Cantrell ( - )
Child	Emily Cantrell ( - )
Child	Myra Cantrell ( - )
Child	Sarah Cantrell ( - )
Child	John M. Cantrell ( - 1906)
Child	Charles C. Cantrell (1836 - )
Child	Henry C. Cantrell (1836 - )
Child	George C. Cantrell (1841 - )
Child	Stephen Ota Cantrell ( - )

Father	Stephen Cantrell (1758 - 1827)
Mother	Mary S. Blakemore (1765 - 1849)
Sibling	Stephen Cantrell (1783 - 1854)
Sibling	Sarah Cantrell ( - 1907)
Sibling	Ota Cantrell ( - 1846)
Sibling	Alfred Cantrell ( - 1826)
Sibling	Zebulon Pike Cantrell ( - 1861)
Sibling	John Cantrell ( - )
Sibling	Mary Cantrell ( - )
Sibling	Darby H. Cantrell (1801 - 1883)
Sibling	James Madison Cantrell ( - 1837)
Sibling	George Clinton Cantrell (1805 - 1881)
Sibling	John Cantrell (adopted) ( - )