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The Second Census of the United States was taken in 1800. Gustavus
is reported as a resident of Lancaster County, South Carolina, and as the
Head of a Family of 16 persons. He had increased his economic position, as
the Census reports him as the owner of three slaves.
Evidently, he had another family living with him as the ages of the
members of his household make it improbable that he and his wife had had so
many children born to them since the last Census Report.
In 1802 his second daughter, Amelia (or Milly as he called her), was
born in South Carolina,
Then came the call of the Cumberland Country. From over the Great
Smoky Mountains---from the rich bottom lands of the Cumberland and Harpeth
Rivers--came stories of great wealth and lots of land.
Land--especially rich, fertile land--had always been a mark of dignity.
Gustavus was the grandson of a German palatine, and he could still remember
how his folk had always impressed that fact upon him. Because of the diffi-
culty of his language, it was nearly impossible for him to enter public life
or one of the professions. And he had been taught life on the farm all his
life from his farmer father, whose father had in turn been a farmer--. Farm-
ing was all he knew. And land in the backcountry of the Carolinas had filled
up. The price had gone up. With five sons to divide his land among, Gustavus
listened to the call from across the mountains.
Stories were told at the ladies quilting bees and the log rollings. And
invariably the talk would get around t. the Cumberland Country.
Finally the call became too strong, and Gustavus and his family answered-
sometime in 1808.
His son-in-law, Henry Funderburk, who had married Gustavust oldest dau-
ghter about 1802, came along with him.
They packed everything they had in wagons and on horseback and drove
their cattle and oxen along the immigrant trails - - over the Cumberland Gap
in the Great Smoky Mountains - into the land of the Tennessee.
There on July 14, 1808, Gustavus purchased 640 acres of land in David-
son County, Tennessee, on the East Bank of the Big Harpeth River, "about one
mile below the narrows of the Horseshoe, below Fletcherrs Luk." He bought
the land from two famous North Carolinians: John Gray Blount, Beauford County,
and Thomas Blount, Edgecombe County, and paid them $640.00 in cash. The land
lay at the source of a hollow.
Gustavus did not take time to sell all of his land in South Carolina
before he left. Accordingly, Samuel Funderburk traveled from Lancaster Dis-
trict, South Carolina, to visit with Gustavus and Henry Funderburk and ob-
tained a written power of attorney from Gustavus authorizing Gustavus? half
brother, Jacob Shofner, and Jacob Funderburk to sell all of his lands in
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