Pack Genealogy - North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee

Marty and Karla Grant

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Welcome to my Pack genealogy pages. I am interested in the Pack surname in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Pack is not a common surname in the United States. It didn’t rank in the top 1000 in either 2000 or 2010.

My most recent Pack ancestor is my 4 times Great Grandmother, Jane Pack, born ca 1803/04 in Rutherford Co., NC. She, some siblings and probably her parents, moved west to Sumner Co., TN where she married James Henderson in 1818. He was also from Rutherford Co., NC, so they may have known each other prior to the move. The frontier must not have suited them, for they, and her relatives went east again right after that, into what is now McMinn Co., TN where they were through ca 1835. Then they moved to Union Co., GA where he died in the 1840s. Jane died there in the 1860s. Her parents are not proven but I think it’s highly likely she’s a child of:

John Pack Sr was born c1770. He was in Spartanburg SC in the 1780s, then in Lincoln Co., NC in 1790 and in Rutherford by 1800. He was in McMinn Co., TN in 1830, but back to Rutherford Co., NC by 1840. John’s 1^st wife is unidentified. She would be my ancestor. His 2^nd wife is Sarah “Sally” Ellison who he married in 1810. He died in the 1840s, she in the 1860s.

My Pack family lived in the part of Rutherford Co., NC that became Polk Co., NC (in 1855), and they were very close to the Spartanburg Co., SC line, where Packs also lived, presumably part of the same extended family, and that is where I found proof of John’s parents:

Samuel Pack died before 15 Dec 1787, for on that date, John Pack, his son, and Jean Pack, Samuel’s widow, sold some of his land in Spartanburg Dist., SC. I haven’t yet found where Samuel and Jean Pack came from. More research is needed.

Revised: January 29, 2026

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