| RICHARD OLIVER & MARY JANE BUTLER |
| Namesake of Oliver Springs, Tennessee |
The Story of Oliver Springs and Its People, Vol IV, by Snyder E. Roberts devotes about 15 pages to this family. At this point I am going to just list their children, and perhaps add more later.
Richard Oliver was the son of RWS Douglas Oliver, Sr. and Catherine Durrett Oliver. He was born June 26, 1800 in Knox County (now Anderson) TN on East Fork of Poplar Creek, in the present downtown Oak Ridge area. He married about 1822, MARY JANE BUTLER of Poplar Creek, who was the daughter of wealthy Thomas Butler, Sr.
Richard Oliver was buried in a family graveyard on or near the present site of Community Baptist Church. Oldtimers can remember this graveyard when it had 15 to 20 graves, but the graves have been desecrated. A monument has been erected in the Community Baptist Church yard to the memory of Richard Oliver (1800-1861) and to his son, George Wyatt Oliver (1829-1853). Richard and Mary Jane Oliver had the following issue.
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- SARAH E. OLIVER was born in present Oliver Springs, April 18, 1823. She married (5/2/1844 Anderson) JACOB G. CARMICHAEL (1810-aft 1860). Five children.
- ANDREW JACKSON OLIVER was born April 18, 1825 in present Oliver Springs. He died July 13, 1903 in Pittsburg, Pierce County, and was buried in Alderton, Washington. He married (1/1/1864) SARAH F. STONE. - one son, 8 daughters.
- GEORGE WYATT OLIVER was born in Oliver Springs, February 18, 1929. He probably never married. He died in Oliver Springs, December 21, 853 and is buried beside his father in the Community Baptist Church yard.
- ELIZABETH OLIVER was born about 1833-34, in Oliver Springs. She married BEN BARKSDALE. They had at least one daughter, Charlotte who married Oliver Sale.
- CHARLOTTE OLIVER was born in present Oliver Springs about 1835, and died May 24, 1869. She married (9/2/1860) Dr. THEODORE SIENKNECHT (1833-1915). Dr. Sienknecht served in the Civil War and later assisted in the settling of the Richard Oliver estate. They had 5 children, including twins. Dr. Sienknecht married secondly, Matilda A. Muecke.