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Polly DeMoss Harmon (ca 1795-ca 1840)

06 Sunday Nov 2022

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A likely candidate for a sibling to William DeMoss is Polly DeMoss Harmon. Marriage records from Fleming County, Kentucky have Polly marrying Thomas Harmon in 1814. The family resided in Fleming County until the early 1830s at which time they migrated to Daviess County, Indiana. This is the same time period that William DeMoss’s family also relocated out of Kentucky. Polly is believed to have died sometime between 1839 when her daughter Fannie was born and 1843 when Thomas married Rachel Baker Gibson. A line by line search of the 1840 US Census did not find an entry for Thomas Harmon which would have provided some insight for a more exact date of death for Polly.

Old Union Church and Cemetery, Reeve Township, Daviess County, Indiana. Several members of this family are buried here.

Polly and Thomas had at least seven children during their time together. It’s possible that there were a few more as there is a large gap between William (b. 1819) and Matilda (b. 1829). According to the 1830 Census, there could be two daughters born in the 1820s that have not been accounted for. The children that have been documented are:

  • Elizabeth (1814-) m. Alexander Moren/Moran/Morin
  • Hannah (1816-1902) m. Jacob Hedrick
  • William (1819-1884) m. Indiana Alford
  • Matilda (1829-1860) m. Lewis Isham
  • Rebecca (1831-1859) m. William Edwards
  • David (1836-1870) m. Lavina Hedrick
  • Fannie (1839-1920) m. William Edwards

Thomas remarried in 1843 to Rachel Baker Gibson and added three more children to the family, Lavina, Robert and Lucinda. In 1860, Thomas is living with William’s family in St. Clair County, Missouri. The younger children are not living with them and Rachel cannot be located.

Joanna DeMoss

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Joanna DeMoss was born on May 13, 1813 in Fleming County, Kentucky.  She is believed to be the daughter of William and Polly DeMoss.  She had several siblings including Lewis, Polly, William J, Elizabeth and Sarah.  Joanna was one of the youngest of the DeMoss children.

Joanna married John G Wilson around 1832 likely in Kentucky.  Since most single families did not relocate alone, but rather in a group, it is likely that the Wilsons migrated to Daviess County, Indiana at the same time as her brother William and her sister Polly, who was married to Thomas Harmon.  These families can all be found in Reeve Township living fairly close together in 1850.

Joanna and John are thought to have had seven children: Minerva (m. John Scales), Nancy (m. Frank Malray), James, Sarah Jane (m. Phillip Scales), Rebecca, Deborah (m. Joseph Armes), and Indiana (m. Charles Mattingly).  John died just days before his daughter Indiana was born in October 1852.  It is speculated that Rebecca perished in the mid-1850s since she was missing from the 1860 census.

Joanna continued to work the farm near Alfordsville until her death on March 10, 1867.  She was fifty-three.

 

Joanna DeMoss was my 5th great aunt on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census, 1850, 1860
  • Find a Grave website