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John Hilyard Family ca. 1909

Friday, March 24, 2023

"As We Are Now Living Apart": the Second Marriage of Samuel Glenn

Way back in 2018, I wrote up my findings on the real parents of my ancestor Samuel Glenn. I ended the post with a teaser, claiming to have more information to share--a claim I never followed up on. 

Until today: here I will present information on Samuel Glenn's ill-fated second marriage. As a refresher, Samuel Glenn was born between 1776 and 1780 in Maryland. His first wife is reported to be Catherine Hickson, who died in Clermont County, Ohio on 11 Mar 1833. They had eight children together, some still at home when Catherine died.

I found a marriage record for a Samuel Glenn occurring in Campbell County, Kentucky in 1839. Campbell County is situated right across the river from Samuel's land in Clermont County, Ohio. Could this be the right Samuel? (Click any image to enlarge.)

Samuel Glenn to Sarah Colby Marriage Bond

"KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That We, Samuel Glenn and Wyatt Baxler, are held and firmly bound, unto the commonwealth of Kentucky, in the just and full sum of fifty pounds, current money, to the payment of which well, and truly to be made, We bind ourselves, our heirs, &c. jointly and severally, by these presents, sealed and dated this 9th day of Jany 1839. The condition of the above obligation, is such, that whereas, there is a marriage shortly intended to be solemnized, between the above bound Samuel Glenn and Sarah Colby, widow, now should there be no legal cause to obstruct the same, then the above obligation to be void, else to remain in full force and virtue.
Witness                    Saml Glenn
                                 W. Baxter"

Samuel Glenn to Sarah Colby Marriage License

"COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY, Campbell County, to wit,
To any legally authorized Minister of the Gospel,
These are to license and permit you to join together in the holy state of matrimony Samuel Glenn, Widower, and Sarah Colby, Widow, and in so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant, bond and security having been given.
Given under my hand this Ninth day of January 1839.
                                  John N. Taliaferro, Ck"

Record of Marriage
Campbell County, Kentucky Marriage Book 1830-1851, p. 91

"720: Samuel Glenn to Sarah Cobly (sic). Married by Revd C. L. Southgate January 9, 1839"

Samuel Glenn died in 1841 and does not appear in the Will Index in Clermont County probate records. His entry in the 1840 census lists only him, no one else in the household. Not looking good to find anything further about this mysterious widow Colby.

I shelved this information until a later date. I was perusing the dry and dusty deeds of Clermont County, Ohio, and uncovered the whole (or as much as was put into public record) story.

Clermont County, Ohio Deed Book 40
Page 27: “Know all men by these presents that I Sarah M Glenn wife of Samuel Glenn of Clermont County State of Ohio Do hereby relinquish all my right to and acquit my said husband Samuel Glenn his heirs executors and administrators of any claim whatsoever to him of any maintainence Dower allimony or any other claim on account of the marriage contract that now exists between himself and me to any of his Real or personal property both in law or equity that he now holds or may own at any time for the remainder of his natural life upon the following condition that Samuel Glenn my husband and me cannot by some means and for some difficulties live together as we now are living apart and mutually agree so to live so long as God shall spare our lives this day my said husband made to Dennis Smith my Trustee a Deed of General Warrantee for thirty acres of land lying in Stonelick Township in said County gave me one Cow worth about ten Dollars one half of the rent (Page 28) Wheat that he received last year the farm that I now live on last year and paid the Costs of a suit that was commenced by me against him in the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio for allimony all of which I acknowledge the receipt for as one equal third part of all he possesses and agree to leave the premises on which I now reside immediately and to never trouble him any more Witness my hand and seal this 31st day of March 1841
                                                                                        Sarah M Glenn
Executed in presence of
Wm. Roudebush
Elizabeth her X mark Stagton
State of Ohio
Clermont County
Before me Wm. Roudebush a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared the above name Sarah M Glenn and acknowledged the signing and sealing of the above Release to her husband to be her voluntary act and deed this 31st day of March 1841
                                                                                       Wm Roudebush JP
Recorded July 23d 1841”
Page 369: “Know all men by these presents that I Samuel Glenn of the County of Clermont & State of Ohio in consideration of the sum of one dollar and a full release from Sarah M. Glenn my present wife to me of all her legal right both in law and equity to me my heirs executors and administrators of all the property I now or shall own at any time during my natural life either real or personal have bargained and sold and do hereby bargain sell release and aquit all my title to (Page 370) Dennis Smith Trustee for Sarah M. Glenn my present wife in fee simple her heirs and assigns forever to the undivided half of the following premises situate in the County of Clermont and State of Ohio bounded and described as follows beginning at a white oak & 2 beeches south corner to Daniel Dumford thence running north 45o E 37⅓ poles to a stone thence S 50o E 107½ poles to a white oak & 2 beeches thence S 45o W 37⅓ poles to two ashes and a beech thence N 50o W 112 poles to the beginning Containing sixty acres this deed to convey thirty acres only of the above described land off of the south end next to where Samuel Waldren now lives to have and to hold the said premises with the appurtenances unto the Said Sarah M. Glenn said Trustee for her only use and the use of her heirs and assigns forever and etc.  Samuel Glenn for himself & his heirs doth hereby covenant with the said Dennis Smith Trustee for the said Sarah M Glenn for her use and the use of her heirs and assigns that he is lawfully seized of the premises aforesaid and that the premises are free and clear from all incumbrances whatsoever and that he will forever warrant and defend the same with the appurtenances unto the said Dennis Smith the Trustee above named for the use of the said Sarah M Glenn her heirs and assigns against the lawful claims of all persons whomsoever In Testimony whereof the said Samuel Glenn has hereunto set his hand and seal this 31st day of Mar 1841
Executed in presence of 
Wm Roudebush
William Tarr
Saml Glenn {seal}
State of Ohio Clermon County, SS
Before me Wm Roudebush a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared the within named Samuel Glenn and acknowledged the signing and Sealing of the within conveyance to be his voluntary act and deed this 31st day of March 1841
Recorded April 6, 1842                             Wm. Roudebush JP”

So, the records tell us that Samuel and Sarah were married in January of 1839. By the time of the 1840 census, they were living apart. At some point, Sarah filed for divorce with the Supreme Court of Ohio, but agreed to drop the suit when, in March of 1841, Samuel gave her the real estate and personal property outlined above.

Samuel died three months later, on July 1, 1841.

I have not yet been able to find out more information on the widow Sarah M. Colby--maiden name, first marriage, or when she died. She went on to sell her 30 acres in 1845. A next step in research would be to find any of the divorce proceedings, if they exist. Those might give more detail as to why the couple could not get along.

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

A Tale of Two Properties, Part 1: John and Alice Hilyard of Muncie, Indiana

 Last July, my intrepid partner in crime DD and I decided to look into our more recent ancestry, closer to home. My great-grandparents, John and Alice (Holtzapple) Hilyard, lived for a time in Muncie, Indiana. They are the featured family on my cover page, and I believe that photo was taken shortly before they moved to Muncie. We still have some family there and met up with local cousin CC to investigate. 

Some years ago, I located an address for John and Alice in a 1913 city directory: 1802 E. 12th Street in Muncie. I ran right over to Google Maps and was disappointed to see this area is a commercial zone with some buildings and parking lots there now. I asked cousin CC about it at the time, and she confirmed the house no longer existed. The red balloon on the right shows the address; I'm leaving in Heekin Park for further reference. Note that 12th Street is now called Memorial Drive. Reminder: click on any image to enlarge it.

Google Maps Snip of 1802 E. 12th Street Today
Google Maps View of 1802 E. 12th Street Today

I was able to find an ad in a 1912 newspaper showing this property, with 7 rooms, was for rent. 

The Star Press 10 Mar 1912

We can assume they took the house for rent, as the 1913 City Directory is based on the prior year's residents. The directories were printed every two years, and the Hilyards were there again in 1915, 1917, and 1919. During this time period, John Hilyard worked as a carpenter for Ball Bros., famous manufacturer of Ball glass jars.

1913 Muncie City Directory


And that's where I left it. With the house gone, what more could I learn?

Until 2022, when I started to prepare for our trip that is. I thought I should revisit the records and see what I might have missed. Since we were going to be in the county seat, I should look up the deed to this property while we were there. Checking online for information before heading out, I found the Delaware county deeds were already digitized and available for free online! Check out the wonderful Muncie Public Library for more. 

Delaware County, Indiana Deed Book 161 p. 80

Rather than a street address, the deed gives a lot number: Lot 10 in block 56 of Goshorn and Lupton's subdivision. I noticed John and Alice bought the property (the one they had lived in for 4 or 5 years as renters) from the owners for $1 and other consideration. The sellers' names are not familiar to me. I don't know why the Hilyards got the house for a dollar, and this is an area I should explore further.

There are many historical maps available online, so I thought I would look up this specific lot number. I found a great high-resolution map from Ball State University's website and was able to locate lot 10 Block 56, outlined in blue here.

If you compare this to the Google Maps screenshot above, there is a big discrepancy. Using Heekin Park as a reference point, the current location of 1802 is east of the park and on the same street. But at the time the Hilyards lived there, it was west of the park, and a block down!

I dug through my photos and found some pictures I believed to be John and Alice's Muncie home, included here.
John and Alice Hilyard

Seated, Alice Hilyard. Daughter Tessie on far right, son Vaughn standing next to Tessie

Armed with this new information, I set out with cousins DD and CC to do some recognizance work. We cruised up and down the street, parking and peering at the current homes, trying to determine which one was "ours". While we were there, we convinced ourselves it was this one, and that it had been added on to considerably:
Oops, wrong house!

However, after we got home and really thought it over, this house was located on lot 11, right next door to lot 10.

Now we are convinced that the house John and Alice Hilyard is still standing, and looks like this:
Would they mind if we cut some bushes back so we could see the place better??

The east side of the house is totally obscured by bushes and trees, and that is the angle the old photos would have been taken from. But if you imagine it without the front porch, it has the abrupt cut-off of the front as in the old photos. We didn't try to take a lot of photos of this house because were focused on the one next door, but I feel certain this is it based on the old city map, and that the photos I have are of this home.
Current location using Beacon website, courtesy of cousin DD

Lesson here: just because you have an address for a location doesn't mean it translates to the current address. Streets get renamed. Dig a little deeper, find some old maps. Check deeds for more information. 


 













Wednesday, November 3, 2021

VERDICT: William G. Bryant--NOT My Ancestor


I started this project to determine if William G. Bryant (1765-1840), son of James and Jane (Guerrant) Bryant of Powhatan County, Virginia, was the same William Bryant who married Barbara Alspaugh on 13 Mar 1799 in Lincoln County, Kentucky. William and Barbara (Alspaugh) Bryant were the parents of my 4x great-grandmother Susannah Bryant who married Edward Windsor Moore. I wrote a series on this couple and the effects of the Civil War on their lives beginning with this post.

Preliminary information suggested these two men were one and the same. William G. Bryant received land from his father in Lincoln County, and appeared on tax lists there around the 1799 marriage date. He was of the right age to be married. However, I will show through several documents left behind by William G. Bryant that he could not have been the husband of Barbara Alspaugh. 

William G. Bryant was born in 1765 in Cumberland County, Virginia to James and Jane (Guerrant) Bryant, descendants of French Huguenots. In 1777, this part of Cumberland became Powhatan County. This birthdate and place information comes from William’s application for a pension for service during the American Revolution. This is an example of the handwriting from the application:


William G. Bryant testifies as to his birth. Click to enlarge.

William’s father James Bryant wrote a will which was entered into probate in Powhatan County, Virginia on 16 Dec 1807 (Book 1, p. 88). In it, he wrote: “Having already given to my son William Bryant a moiety of my lands in the state of Kentucky…”  Moiety means part or portion. The lands referred to are found in the deed books of Lincoln County, Kentucky. The deed was for 260 acres in Lincoln County on the waters of Boone’s Mill Seat Creek, a branch of Dick’s River, and was written in 1793. This is important to help follow the correct William through tax records.


William G. Bryant first appeared in his father’s tax record in Powhatan County in 1784. He was listed by name as age 16-21, and was also taxed the same in 1785. In 1786, however, he was still in his father’s list but age 21 and over, which correlates with his 1765 birth year. He was still in his father’s list in 1787.


1784 Powhatan County, Virginia Tax List
Click to enlarge

In 1788, William and his brother John are found in the tax lists of Lincoln County, which was still a part of Virginia until Kentucky became a state in 1792. John Bryant, born in 1760 and his father’s oldest son, may have been in Lincoln County as early as 1785, when his father gave him power of attorney to act on his behalf to sell land located there.


The easiest way to verify these two were the same would be to find the deed where William sold the land. I believe William and Barbara (Alspaugh) Bryant moved to Orange County, Indiana around 1816, so I thought that would be a good time frame to check. I looked through the entire deed index for Lincoln County, Kentucky and never found the entry for the sale of the Boones Mill Seat Creek land. That was odd, but not much I could do about it. 


I made a timeline for all the facts I had about William Bryant, to help sort out his movements. This helped keep track of where he was, and also showed gaps where I needed to find more information. At this point, I could still believe the two men might be the same person.


However, on a research trip to the Library of Virginia in Richmond, I found a deed that convinced me otherwise.  On 17 July 1811, John Bryant and Mary his wife of Garrard County, Kentucky and William G. Bryant and Mary his wife of Putnam County, Georgia sold any interest they had in their father James Bryant’s land in Powhatan County, Virginia to Peter Dupuy (Powhatan County, Virginia Deed Book 4, pp. 277-278). In 1811, my William and Barbara his wife were still living in Lincoln County, Kentucky with my seven-year-old 4x great-grandmother Susannah. Still trying to make the theory work, I ran through scenarios where William divorced Barbara, or just left her and ran off to Georgia.


Researching in Putnam County, Georgia, I learned that William Bryant had married the widow Mary Flournoy on 26 February 1811. She was the former Mary Ashurst who had married John Francis Flournoy in Goochland County, Virginia on 24 Dec 1787. John Flournoy had died just a year before she married William Bryant. There is much more to tell about this marriage, but I will just note here that a John Flournoy witnessed the 1794 deed in which James Bryant sold the Boon’s Mill Seat Creek land to William.


So, William was married in 1811. But by this time he was 45. Had he been married before? Online trees suggested he had but were mostly unsourced. The FamilySearch family tree had an intriguing set of transcriptions though. They showed that William G. Bryant had a daughter who had been accused and acquitted of murdering her husband, in Alabama of all places. I knew from his pension application that William G. Bryant was living in Marion County, Indiana shortly before he made the application in 1834 from Ripley County, Indiana. This daughter, Ann Minerva Higginbotham, moved to Indianapolis (Marion County) after the acquittal, and William G. Bryant is mentioned in her probate that took place there in 1833.


Research on Ann Minerva Bryant showed she married Caleb Higginbotham in 1812 in Elbert County, Georgia. From this, I estimated she was born around 1791, indicating at least one other wife for William G. Bryant. Online research has not yet uncovered a marriage record. 


I needed to find the deed for when William G. Bryant sold the Boon’s Mill Seat Creek land. If he had a wife alive at the time he sold it, she would have to be mentioned. I went back to Kentucky records. I hadn’t done a thorough workup on the tax records yet, so I started there. The last year I found William in the Lincoln County lists with his acreage on Boon’s Mill was 1796. There were entries for a William after that, but never with the land. I remembered that William’s brother John had moved to Garrard County, so I thought I might check there to see if William followed.


BINGO! They didn’t move at all, the boundaries changed. Garrard County was formed from parts of Lincoln, Madison, and Mercer counties in 1797! 


Once I knew that, it was a snap to find William and his land in Garrard County tax lists. Then in the deed records, I found the sale of the land. On 3 June 1799, William Bryant and his wife Frances sold the land to William Dunn. My ancestor William Bryant married Barbara Alspaugh in Lincoln County, Kentucky on 13 Mar 1799, three months before this deed mentioning a wife named Frances. 


Garrard County, Kentucky Deed Book A, p. 225
Click to enlarge

I still have much to do regarding this family. Since I’ve done all the work to trace William G. Bryant, I’m going to transcribe the documents I’ve found and post them to FamilySearch. I have tried in vain to find a probate that I’m fairly certain exists for him. There is one reference to an "executrix" in his pension file.


I still feel that my William Bryant may be related to this family. There are very few Bryants in Lincoln County in the 1790s, and in 1792 there are two William Bryants listed consecutively. The first is William G.; is the second one my ancestor? Are they connected? Also, Ancestry suggests a few ThruLines that might connect me to James Bryant of Powhatan County, though that far back the segments are very small and could be false.


1792 Tax List Lincoln County, Kentucky
Click to enlarge.



Sunday, July 12, 2020

James Edwards, the Brick Wall I Built All By Myself


I had the disdainful task of pruning off a large branch of my family tree last month. This article explains why I believe that my ancestor James Edwards is NOT James McClanahan Edwards, son of Thomas and Mary Ann (McClanahan) Edwards, as has been perpetuated throughout countless family trees. Settle in.

I was given a great deal of information on the Edwards branch of my family tree in some papers belonging to my great-grandfather Christopher "Carson" Wilson. Carson Wilson was one of many victims of an elaborate scam promising descendants of a certain Robert Edwards a share of money they were entitled to relating to land Edwards purchased on Manhattan in the 1700s. Family trees were fabricated with no documentation, linking potential "heirs" to this estate. All the heirs had to do was pay a fee to get their piece of the pie. Trust me, Carson Wilson never got his share of the Manhattan fortune. Perpetrators of the fraud did serve time.
Poor photocopy of Carson Wilson's claim to the Edwards fortune

So, back to these fake family trees. They seem to be taken as gospel these days, with hundreds of online trees containing the links back to the Manhattan Edwards clan. Let me place my family in this web. The above Carson Wilson was the grandson of Susan T. Edwards and Andrew McIntyre. Much of this family's business took place in Grayson County, Kentucky where most old courthouse records have been lost to fire. However, it is known that Susan T. Edwards was indeed the daughter of James Edwards and Nancy England. The Edwards Heirs fraud claims that this James Edwards was the same person as James McClanahan Edwards who was the son of Thomas Edwards and Mary Ann McClanahan of Greenville County, South Carolina. I claim they are not the same man. Let me start with what I know about my ancestor, James Edwards

James Edwards and Nancy England were granted a license to marry in Garrard County, Kentucky on 1 Jun 1805. I have not yet been able to find the original record, but a transcribed record book exists.  The couple later moved to Grayson County, Kentucky which has precious few records, so I decided to search Garrard County for any crumbs I could find on this couple. 

Fortunately, FamilySearch has Garrard County tax lists and deeds available online. I located a deed in which James Edwards and Nancy his wife sold 50 acres of land on Paintlick Creek to Samuel Reed on 25 Oct 1806. I then found the deed where James purchased the land on 11 Jan 1799 from David Rice. Using this information, I was able to track the "right" James Edwards on the Garrard County, Kentucky tax lists, which list his 50 acres on Paintlick Creek. He was taxed on the land from 1800 to 1806, at which time he stopped appearing on the Garrard County lists. There is a James Edwards on earlier lists, but without any land, so I cannot at this time confirm it is my James Edwards.

Now I have a slight gap in the tax records before picking up James in Grayson County, Kentucky tax lists. A James Edwards first shows up in Grayson County tax lists in 1815. He appears there many years, lastly in 1851. The first time he is taxed for land was 1842. I have census records for James in Grayson County for 1820, 1830, and 1840, with the right number and ages of children. I have NOT been able to locate James and Nancy Edwards in the 1850 census, nor found a true record of James' death. Nancy's gravestone still stands in what is now called Sandrock Hill Cemetery in Ohio County, Kentucky.
Gravestone of Nancy England Edwards taken by Vonda Heverly

James and Nancy England Edwards had nine children that I am aware of. Of the children that lived to be enumerated in the 1880 census, they listed the birthplaces of both parents as Virginia.

From all of these records, my ancestor James Edwards seems to have lived his entire adult life in the state of Kentucky. In NONE of these records does he use a middle initial or middle name.

Now, let me tell you what I know about James McClanahan Edwards. The Edwards Heirs group seems to have picked up this name from the will of Thomas Edwards, which was written 8 Jul 1825 and entered probate in 1832, in Greenville District, South Carolina. Thomas Edwards left a very detailed will, outlining what he had already given to each of his children. He wrote: "I have given to my son James McC Edwards at his marriage and afterwards" items including a tract of land valued at $400.

I located the deed for the land that Thomas Edwards mentioned in his will. It is for 400 acres in Greenville District, South Carolina and was deeded in 1821. It specifically says "my son" and calls him "James McClanahan Edwards"; it also describes the land as the parcel "where he [James] now lives". I have not yet located a deed where James McClanahan Edwards sold this land.

What I have outlined so far is enough proof to me that my ancestor James Edwards, who was living in Grayson County, Kentucky in 1820, is NOT James McClanahan Edwards (son of Thomas and Mary Ann McClanahan Edwards) who was deeded land that he currently lived on in 1821 in Greenville District, South Carolina.

I did find further records for a James McClanahan Edwards that I believe to be the son of Thomas and Mary Ann. I found a land grant in St. Clair County, Alabama to James McClanahan Edwards for 40 acres.
Land record for the REAL James McClanahan Edwards

From this point, this man was fairly easy to find more information on. He was the subject of a paper written up in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly on manumission. Because the middle name "McClanahan" is so unusual, I feel certain this is the son of Thomas and Mary Ann, cementing the fact that he is not my ancestor living in Kentucky.

I have not included extensive sources for this article at this time so I can get it published and online for others to read. I have all of the documents I mention on my computer and am happy to share them with others.

Sunday, June 9, 2019

Crawford Research Project Part 3: Summary of Known Facts

I'm continuing on with my latest research project using the Research Like A Pro method developed by Diana Elder and Nicole Dyer of Family Locket.

In my last post, I stated my research objective. In a nutshell, it is to determine if my ancestor Elizabeth Crawford Torr is the daughter of Alexander and Mary (McPheeters) Crawford of Augusta County, Virginia.

The next step in the process is to create a summary of known facts. I'm not a big fan of spreadsheets, so I put my information into a table, arranged chronologically. In it, I included what I know to be true about Elizabeth Crawford Torr. I also included the death date for her proposed parents.

The second table is a summary of possible DNA connections to Alexander and Mary Crawford. 

The next step of my research project is to create a locality guide for Augusta County, Virginina.


CRAWFORD RESEARCH PROJECT SUMMARY OF KNOWN FACTS

DATE
ITEM
PLACE
SOURCE
NOTES
Est. 1752
Birth of Elizabeth Crawford
Unknown

Best guess based on her being about 21 at the birth of her first child, estimated to be in 1773
29 Sep 1764
Death of Alexander and Mary McPheeters Crawford
Buffalo Gap, Augusta County, Virginia
The Pennsylvania Gazette, published 15 Nov 1764; available online at newspapers.com
“In a Letter from Stanton, in Virginia, dated October 26, it is said, that on the 29th of September the Indians killed one Crawford and his Wife, and burnt their House and Barn, with a great Quantity of Grain in it.”
29 Oct 1792
Tax List
Elizabeth Tar
Fayette County, KY
Tax Rolls of Fayette County, Kentucky, Fayette County, Kentucky, Oct. 29, 1792, DGS #7834426, Film #7957, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. accessed on FamilySearch.org
Oct. 29, 1792
Person's Names Charged With the Tax: Tar, Elizabeth
Horses, Mares etc: 2
Cattle: 2
25 Oct 1793
Tax List
Elizabeth Tore
Fayette County, KY
Ibid
Oct. 25, 1793
Person's Names: Elizabeth TORE
White males 16-21: 2
Horses, mares, etc: 1
Cattle: 4
24 Aug 1795
Tax List
Elizabeth Tore
Fayette County, KY
Ibid
Aug. 25, 1795
Person's Names: Elizabeth TORE
White males 16-21: 1
Horses, mares, etc.: 1
Cattle: 9
8 Jun 1796
Tax List
Betty Toor
Fayette County, KY
Ibid
Jun 8, 1796
Person's Names: Betty TOOR
White males above 21: 1
White males above 16: 1
Horses, mares, etc.: 4
Cattle: 8
16 Jun 1797
Tax List
Elizabeth Tore
Fayette County, KY
Ibid
Jun 16, 1797
Person's Names: Elizabeth TORE
White males over 21: 1
Horses, mares, etc: 4
2 Nov 1807
Permission for daughter to marry
Elisabeth Tarr
Shelby County, KY
Shelby County, Kentucky Marriage Bonds, loose paper, Phillip Pearce and Else Tarr, 2 November 1807; Shelby County Courthouse, Shelbyville, Kentucky
"Sir
You have my consent to issue Licance of marriage betwen my Daughter and Philip perce. my Daughter is of full age, and her father is dead.
I am Sir yours
Elisabeth her X mark Tarr
To the Cleark of Shelbey County
Test
A.M. Gaughey"




SUMMARY OF POSSIBLE CRAWFORD DNA MATCHES

Using Ancestry DNA’s ThruLines feature, these are possible connections to Alexander and Mary McPheeters Crawford. The kits belong to my mother and uncle.

Through Which Child
Match on Which Kit
Ancestry User
Predicted Relationship

John
RH, WM
CC
6th cousin


RH, WM
LS
6th cousin






William
RH, WM
RP
6th cousin


RH
RB
6th cousin


RH
JN
6th cousin


RH, WM
MN
6th cousin


RH
JB
6th cousin


RH
RR
6th cousin


WM
JLK
6th cousin






Edward
RH, WM
GKW
6th cousin


RH, WM
JDF
6th cousin






Alexander
RH, WM
AS
6th cousin


RH, WM
DN
6th cousin






Rebecca
RH
GA
6th cousin






Mary
RH, WM
RB
6th cousin






Samuel
RH, WM
RH
6th cousin


RH, WM
SFC
6th cousin


RH
CH
6th cousin


RH, WM
JuH
5th c 1 rem


RH, WM
JoH
6th cousin


RH
MW
5th c 1 rem


WM
SR
6th cousin






Robert
RH, WM
JI
6th cousin


RH, WM
NL
6th cousin


RH
BR
6th cousin


RH
KR
6th cousin


WM
CB
6th cousin






James
RH, WM
GW
6th cousin


RH, WM
RP
6th cousin


RH, WM
PJ
6th cousin


RH
JG
6th cousin


WM
DT
6th cousin


WM
GH
6th cousin


WM
IL
6th cousin