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William Hedrick

30 Saturday May 2020

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William Hedrick was born May 30, 1827 in Fleming County, Kentucky to Michael Dungan Hedrick and Elizabeth DeMoss. He had one sister named Amanda.

On September 10, 1850, William married Nancy West in Nicholas County, Kentucky. Their first son, Walter B. was born in Kentucky in 1851. Laura, their only daughter, was born in Indiana in 1854 and the family was found in Howard County in the 1860 Census. By the birth of their son Robert in 1861, the family was back in Nicholas County and had relocated to Fleming County by 1870. The family was still in Kentucky in 1876 when Laura married John Jones. At some point after that it would seem the family would make the journey westward to Cass County, Missouri. Based on birthdates, it’s not likely that everyone traveled together. Laura’s daughter was born in September 1878 in Missouri, but Bruce’s daughter Emma was born the same month in Kentucky. Everyone was in Cass County by 1880.

Unfortunately, William died on May 28, 1880 at the age of fifty-two. He is buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery.

William Hedrick was my 1st cousin, 5x removed.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census: 1860, 1870, 1880
  • Kentucky County Marriages
  • Find a Grave website
  • Cass County Missouri Obituary Index

Florence Thompson

14 Thursday May 2020

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Florence Thompson was born on May 14, 1859, the first child of Stewart Thompson and Margaret Jones.  The new family was living in Madison Township in Pike County, Indiana in 1860, so it was likely Florence was born there.  She had five younger sisters and two brothers: Alice, Eleanor, Thomas, Nancy, Maggie, William, and Emma.  Alice, Nancy and Maggie died as children.

By 1870, Stewart had relocated the family to Johnson Township in Knox County where they continued to farm.  On September 2, 1879, Florence married John Leveron and they set up their household near Decker.  Over the next twenty years, they would build a family of eight children, seven of which lived to adulthood: sons Shirley, Levi , and Stewart and daughters Margaret, Annie, Ruth, Grace and Hilda.  Grace died shortly after her first birthday in 1898.

In March 1904, Florence’s father died at the age of seventy-one from tuberculosis.  Seven years later, at the age of sixty-nine, her mother died apoplexy.  Florence and John continued to raise their family in the Decker area, only for John to succumb to kidney failure in December 1917.  Shirley, Levi, and Stewart continued to help work the farm; Levi going so far as to be separated from his wife and seven children in Vincennes to assist.

On September 26, 1933, Florence passed away at home from a cerebral hemorrhage after several weeks of poor health.  She is buried at the Warth Cemetery in Decker Chapel next to her husband.

 

Florence Thompson was my 1st cousin 4x removed on my mom’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census – 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1930
  • Indiana Death Certificates
  • Indiana Marriage Collection
  • Find A Grave website
  • Princeton Daily Clarion, September 27, 1933 via Newspapers.com
  • Vincennes Sun Commercial, September 27, 1933

Ruby Jewell Jones

12 Tuesday May 2020

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Ruby Jones

On May 12, 1913, a daughter was born to Cleburn Jones and Ruby Sims in Oklahoma.  She was named Ruby Jewell.  Because she shared her first name with her mother, some documents refer to her as Jewell, especially during her adult years.  A couple years later, Jewell was blessed with a sister, Estella, however, their father died suddenly while in Ft Worth, Texas.  The girls were raised by their mother, with the help of her Sims grandparents.  They mostly lived in the Beckham County, Oklahoma area, however, they did spend a few years in Kerrville, Texas, around 1930.  They returned to Oklahoma when the elder Ruby married John C Jones in 1934.  John was Cleburn’s younger brother.

It was in Washita, Oklahoma, where Jewell met Jesse Vernon Keas and they were married on October 28, 1938.   Jewell and Jesse started a family and raised their children to adulthood.  Jewell’s mother died in 1954.  The couple lived out their lives in Oklahoma until Jewell’s death on September 26, 1995.

Ruby Jones

Ruby Jewell Jones was my 4th cousin 2x removed on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census – 1920, 1930, 1940
  • Oklahoma County Marriages
  • Find a Grave website
  • United States Social Security Death Index
  • Texas Death Certificates

 

 

Henry and Nancy Cunningham Thompson

24 Wednesday Dec 2014

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My 4th great grandparents are Henry and Nancy Cunningham Thompson.  They are the grandparents of John Frank Thompson.

Henry was born on March 9, 1803 in Virginia.  Some researchers have identified his parents as Robert Thompson and Margaret Gray.  He ventured westward at some point prior to 1830, settling in Washington Township in Gibson County, IN.  He married Nancy Cunningham on April 20, 1830 in Gibson County.  Not a lot is known about Nancy since she died prior to 1850 when the Census listed each person individually.  She is thought to have been born between 1805 and 1810 and died between 1846 and 1850.  Henry died in 1853 and is buried in Vermillion County, IL.  It’s not obvious what he was doing that far from home since the boys remained in the Knox-Gibson area for the duration of their lives.

Henry and Nancy had six children that were alive in 1850 or later.

  • Stewart (1832-1904) married Margaret Jones (1841-1911) in 1858 in Knox County.  They had eight children – Florence, Alice, Eleanor, Thomas, Nancy, Maggie, William and Emma.  According to newspapers of the time, Stewart was a prominent farmer in Johnson Township.
  • Margaret (1835-?)
  • Robert C (1837-1880) married Sarah Roderick (1837-?) in 1860 in Knox County.  They had six children – Charles, Riley, Ora, Frank, James and Robert.
  • Sally (1840-?)
  • Elenor (1843-?)
  • Henry G. (1846-?) married Isadore Jones in 1866.  They had one daughter named California.  After 1870, Isadore and California cannot be found in any of the databases.  Henry disappears until the 1910 census which lists him as a widower working as a cook for the Anthis household in Decker.

The whereabouts of the girls is unknown after their father died in 1853.  They are not showing up in the 1860 census records or the Indiana marriage index.

It doesn’t appear that any of Henry’s sons fought in the Civil War, based on a quick glance of the 80th Indiana Infantry rosters.  Most of the men living in the Knox, Gibson area belonged to that regiment, although it’s not out of the question for them to have  joined up with another unit.

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Washington Township is in the north central part of Gibson County, IN, bordered by the White River on the north.  It sits east of Patoka.

Vermilion County IL is west of Lafayette, IN along the Indiana-Illinois border.