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I am so pleased to be able to post here on this forum. My ancestor, Elizabeth A. Madox, was born 12 Oct 1797 in VA. I don’t know where in VA; however, she has a mt/dna match at the same time period in Wise County VA. She married Aaron W. Hawkins 17 Nov 1814. They lived in Anderson Co TN probably on the East Fork of Poplar Creek. The East Fork of Poplar Creek runs through the Roane Co/Anderson Co line. She and her husband, Aaron, left Anderson Co for the Yellow Banks (Owensborough, Daviess Co KY) ca 1818. The names of their children are: James Dixon, Upton Willson, Mahala Jane, Ruhama Marietta Narcissa, Amanda Melvina, Abiah, Lucy Ann, Aaron Benjamin (died young), Joseph Edward, John Alexander, Susan Elizabeth (died young). Mahala Jane married James McGray/McCray 13 June 1844 Davierss Co KY. In 1859 they moved across the Ohio River to Posey Co (Mt Vernon) IN. By 13 Feb 1863 James is found dead and leaves no widow. The estate is sold and the money pocketed by the lawyers that sold and admr’d it. The children are declared destitute and are scattered. Their oldest child, Elizabeth C. , is taken in by Johannes and Katarina Becker, Hessian. Elizabeth becomes their servant. Elizabeth married their oldest son, Wilhelm Georg Becker, and they were disowned. Their oldest son, John, is my dad’s grandfather, who raised him. I have a portrait of Elizabeth McGray Becker. She says in her family papers that her mother was Cherokee. According to her mt/dna she is U2 Eurasian, Siddi – Melungeon.
Her father, James McGray (b 1821, VA) appears in Ohio Co KY on 5 Oct 1836 when he is jailed on the charge of “enticing away a slave”. He was tried by a jury and acquitted of the charge. I read the dockets backward and forward and found nobody else ever charged with this crime. Is anyone familiar with this charge?
A James McGray was on the Cherokee Emigration Rolls 1817-1835, transcribed by Jack D. Baker. A few of the people listed on this roll are: Alexander McGray- 3 males und 10, 1 male 10-25, and 2 females under 10. James McGray, 2 males und 10, 3 females und 10, 1 female 10-25 and 1 female 25-50. Alexander McGray, 1 male und 10, 1 male 10-25, 1 female und 10, 1 female 25-50. James McGray with 3 males undr 10, 2 males 10-25, 1 male 25-50, and 3 females under 10, 1 female 10-25, and 1 female 25-50. It looks to me that one of the males in this household could be James McGray that married Mahala Jane Hawkins. There are several more McGrays. Among them is Thomas McGray with 1 male 25-50. In 1842 Cherokee Claims Talaquah District , Thomas McGray is a witness for Jessee Wolf concerning property that was left behind. There are Wolf families on the list, but not Jessee. He very probably is enumerated as a male 10 -25 in a Wolf family on the roll.
I would be most happy for any information on the McGray family and the Madox/Maddox/Maddux etc… family.
I would be glad to check this list and answer any questions anyone may have. There are some names that are Melungeon names. There are many Native American names. Black Fox, aka Moses Looney – but I don’t know if this is the one and the same – is listed with 1 male 25-50 and 2 females under 10 just before the 1st James McGray I listed. Thanks, Jeanne
What an interesting family you have. What do you think was going on with the sale of that father’s estate? It sounds like an Indian man with property died and some white folks stole his wealth, left his children destitute and forced them into servitude. Does that seem to be the gist of it? What does Elizabeth look like? Do you and Vance connect? This is a very evocative story. Sounds like a good mini series to me. Thanks for sharing it.
Thank you for responding. Yes, that is the gist of it. You have it correct. I have the court documents. Elizabeth has a round face, epicanthal eyelids, thin hook nose, black hair, black eyes, thin lips, pleasant countinance, about 4 feet tall and very tiny feet – as described by her family. If I had a scanner, could I scan the picture? or would it be better to send a copy of it to you. I would like to also send a picture of her son, John – dad’s grandfather, and myself.
I have another Melungeon/Indian connection. It is with Aaron Hawkins’ father, Matthew Hawkins. He is European. I have proved this with Y/DNA. However, because of the behavior of Matthew Hawkins, I believe his wife, or mate, or whatever, was Melungeon, ie., Indian. The reasoning behind my conclusion: He came to the North of Holston area before 1774 and after 1768-69. His father was Nathan Hawkins and mother was Ruth Cole of Baltimore Co MD. Their children were: Matthew (I will talk about later); Aaron, whom I believe had a wife named Margaret (I will talk about later); Wilson, who lived close to his sister, Rebecca, later in life in Gibson Co TN and is said to have gone to the Mississippi Territory earlier in life; John, Nicholas and Nathan who married the Gray sisters, d/o Robert Gray and Margaret Wilson Gray from Northern Ireland, lived Sullivan Co TN; Joseph, who m Esther Davis and stayed in the area and lived Greene Co TN; Ruth, who m Jonathan Webb; Mary Elizabeth, who m David Lewis, and went up into Franklin and Dearborn Cos IN; Rebecca, who m John Crockett and had “Davy”, among other children.
Matthew and Aaron Hawkins were born in Baltimore Co MD in the mid 1750’s. When they got to the North of Holston area, they served in the same militias for the same amount of time and signed the same petitions – always Matthew and Aaron. Then in the middle 1780’s, Matthew is enumerated in Wilkes Co NC state census with 1 white male 21-60, 1 white male under 21 and above 60, and 1 white female all ages (I believe this is Matthew and his son, Edward, and the only mention anywhere of a possible wife) – close by is Margaret Hawkins, who has 5 girls. Aaron is nowhere to be found. In the mid 1790’s Matthew and Margaret Hawkins are living south of the Pacolet River in SC. on adjacent land. When they are in Wilkes Co. , (The people in Wilkes at this time thought they were in TN. Actually some of them were. Wilkes took back this area after the 1790’s and it became NC again) close by are the Stonecyphers – Henry and sons. When Margaret bought her land in SC, Daniel Stonecypher signed as a witness. When Matthew bought his land it was adjacent to Margaret’s and she is referred to as a widow. By 1799, Edward Hawkins, son of Matthew, sells his land and has to account for how he got it and in so doing names Margaret and says she “left” it to him. Matthew signed as a witness for Edward on this document. Matthew and Edward left SC and went back up to Knox Co TN and bought land on the East Fork of Poplar Creek that ran across the county lines of Roane and Anderson. When Matthew bought his land, Michael Stonecypher signed as his witness in Anderson Co TN. The Stonecyphers and Hawkins and Whites and Brasels and Halls moved together from place to place. Edward Hawkins, son of Matthew, was named the admr. of the will of Moses White. These Whites were also very close to Matthew Hawkins and family beginning in the 1770’s and ending ca 1824 when Matthew died on his way to Fountain Co IN for land – William White, out of Anderson/Roane Cos TN- had gone there about the same time, also.
For numerous and various sundry reasons I believe Margaret Hawkins, above mentioned, was a Stonecypher and was the wife of Aaron, brother of Matthew, sons of Nathan Hawkins and Ruth Cole, and the wife of Matthew, was Melungeon/Indian. It looks as if Matthew tried to “blend” her into these European people. She is never named or referred to, yet he has these children, and looks after them very closely.
Matthew’s children are: Aaron (my ancestor born 1793 TN, Y/DNA match to Matthew); Morgan (Y/DNA match to Aaron and Matthew; Garrett (travels with him and is closely alligned with Morgan and Rhoda; Rhoda (her grandson names Matthew in his county history as Rhoda’s father); and in my opinion Phoebe and Fanny – there probably are more children. These are children who were with him when he arrived in Daviess Co KY, out of Anderson Co TN, in ca 1818, and followed him up to Vigo Co IN, where he died, and then they continued on to Fountain Co IN, where he was originally headed.
I don’t really expect to ever know who the wife of Matthew Hawkins was. I don’t think I have anything to go on. She is truly a “ghost”. I understand the cultural behavior of people trying to blend into the dominant European culture. Matthew’s behavior is a “fit”.
Again and always, if you have any questions, please ask. There are some people in this Hawkins family who are not happy with my research, but cannot prove me wrong because of the Y/DNA matches I have in this Hawkins’ family. Sometimes lines with “famous” people are incorrect and seem to take on a life of their own. Best wishes:), Jeanne
Jeanne,
I am not sure how the link works here, but somewhere online, I found a link from the Crocketts to someone I have investigated a lot, Rev. John Thomson. (His son-in-law, Rev. Richard Sankey is a mystery in my Sinkey/Sankey family. I have serious doubts that he is part of the family. He may be someone from whom my family borrowed a name. He and John Thomson both preached in locations of my ancestors.)
Check out : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sassytazzy/family/surnames/thompsonjohngennotessogrl.html and http://www.joepayne.org/crockett.htm#Daviddavy
If you follow all the locations of John Thomson’s preaching, they are very interesting to this forum: Lancaster, PA; Martinsburg, WVA; Prince Edward County, VA; and Mecklinburg County, NC.
Anyway, thought you might be interested.
Techteach
Hi, Jeanne,
There are now three people on this forum with Madox/Maddox’s via Ky and all three live in Indiana.
You’ve obviously done a great deal of work so these questions may be redundant but let me “pick” at it ……
Did Nathan Hawkins and Ruth COLE marry in Md (which would exclude her from the Cherokee Cole’s of NE Tenn and SW Va and later Ky)?
Is the SC reference, Abbeville District?
Where did Elizabeth Madox and Aaron Hawkins marry in 1814?
Have you been able to account for their firstborn (?) son’s middle (sur-)name of DIXON?
Bill
Linda, I confused you. I am sorry. It is my suspicion that Margaret is the wife and then widow of Aaron Hawkins, brother of Matthew Hawkins. It is my suspicion that a Melungeon/Indian is the wife of Matthew. Matthew and Margaret were so close after she becomes a widow, that I am convinced she is Matthew’s brother, Aaron’s widow.
Bill, I love to be picked at. That is how I learn. To answer your questions: Nathan Hawkins and Ruth Cole were married in MD. The record appears in St. Pauls in Baltimore City and, also, in Sts. George and John Parishes. Sts. John and George are up north of St. Paul’s between Philadelphia and Baltimore, in MD. They were married on Valentine’s Day, 14 Feb 1744. I suspect Joseph Cole is part of Ruth Cole’s family. The first court of Sullivan Co TN was held at his house. I have not been able to find her birth record. She was probably born in the 1720’s in MD – including the lower counties in PA that border MD today. Penn took those from Lord Baltimore. There are Cole families in those lower counties of PA.
No, the SC reference is not Abbeville. My Matthew, Edward and Margaret Hawkins are in Greenville, SC. The John Hawkins of Abbeville District SC is married to Elizabeth Jones. He is a son of John Hawkins and Mary Simkins. John Hawkins, whose wife is Mary Simkins, is a son of Joseph Hawkins and Elizabeth Ricaud. Joseph Hawkins is a brother of Matthew Hawkins. Now follow this carefully – This Matthew Hawkins married 2 times. His first wife is Ann Parrish. They had a son, Matthew Hawkins. Ann died, Matthew then married her sister, Mary Parrish. Matthew and Mary Parrish had a daughter, Rebecca. Rebecca and an unnamed Hawkins male of her family had a son, Nathan, who married Ruth Cole.
A direct male descendant of Matthew Hawkins and Ann Parrish’s son, Matthew Hawkins (mentioned above), a direct male descendant of Aaron Hawkins, b 1793, a direct male descendant of Morgan Hawkins, b 1801, – mentioned in earlier posts – Y/DNA matches. (Mind boggling) This oldest Matthew and Joseph and Thomas and John and Augustine (who married Susannah Carr) and Anne (who married Charles Gorsuch) are the children of John Hawkins, Mariner, of New England who immigrated into Maryland in 1651. His wife, Mary, did not come to MD until 1660. There is another John Hawkins who immigrated about the same time and lived close to my John Hawkins in Anne Arundel Co MD and even died about the same time. However, his wife’s name was Sarah who left after his death (he was murdered by his servants) for Manhattan, where they had been before MD. People have gotten these two men confused.
Just a short note about John Hawkins of Abbeville SC. He also had a son, Matthew. I have documented his perambulations. Matthew ended up in IN buried in Wiley Chapel Cemetery, d 1838. Lived Bartholomew County/Fayette Co IN. He married Esther Little, had a brother James who married her sister, Rachel. I can give you a lot of information on that family if you want. I have pics of the stones in the Cemetery. This is on the Ohio border. My Matthew died on the Illinois border, Vigo Co ca 1824. (He disappears out of Daviess Co KY about this time and also sold his land back in Anderson Co TN through his attorney, Samuel Dickey. Matthew had intended to buy land in Fountain Co IN, but died on the way there on a flood plain of the Wabash.
Wow! I need to find out who the other Maddox’s are on this forum.
I don’t know where Aaron Hawkins, b 1793, and Elizabeth A. Madox were married. Once I found a reference of a person who had no recollection of how they came on the information that they were married in Marion Co TN. There is absolutely no records of where. The date is from their Bible.
Aaron, b 1793, was mustered out of the 1812 War in Washington Rhea Co TN and there was no reference of how far that was from home. He was at Fort Strother on the Coosa River in Alabama. These people were also at Horseshoe Bend. He was enlisted at Isaac Lewis house in Anderson Co TN. The only other Lewis connection is a question in a letter in1886 from Aaron’s oldest son, James Dixon, about Dr. George Lewis and his brother, Frederick Lewis. He asked about their health and such. It was written from Candela, Coahuila, Mexico, back to the Postmaster in KY and given to the family of Upton Willson, his brother. I have documented the family of James Dixon Hawkins who married Isabella Niera, in Mexico. I also have pictures of his family.
I have never been able to account for the names of the children of Aaron, b 1793, and his wife, Elizabeth A. Madox. I have often suspected that the girls names came from the Maddox side, but really have no idea. I probably should go into that in another post. Thank you so much for your interest 🙂 🙂 Jeanne
Thank you, Techteach, for your reply. I found the sites you listed very good. I want to read the Rev’s site more. I find these migrations very interesting. I have read the Crockett site before. I have tried to keep out of the Crocketts, pretty much, as I have my hands full with my Hawkins and Madox’s. Phew! I do keep on the lookout for other families that migrated together because many times it is possible to pick up tidbits that make all the difference. For example, Patterson Crockett, brother of Davy, (mother was Rebecca Hawkins d/o Nathan Hawkins and Ruth Cole Hawkins) signed as witness to an indenture (1809) between Robert Gray and Mary Gray, his wife of Christian Co KY and Nathan Hawkins of the same place. Patterson married Nancy Gray a niece of Nancy Gray who had married John Hawkins who lived Franklin Co, IN., son of Nathan. The land above mentioned was a dowery from the father of Nancy Gray who was Robert Gray who immigrated from Northern Ireland to Sullivan Co TN and then to Christian Co KY. Abovementioned John and Nathan are sons of Nathan and Ruth Cole Hawkins that I talked about in an earlier post. I keep wondering if there are any family letters that have survived within these families somewhere that would shed light on them. 🙂 Jeanne
Hi, Techteach, I maybe should have included in my earlier post that John Crockett was a witness to the inventory of Nathan Hawkins 1781-83 in Sullivan Co NC/TN along with John Cox (of MD). The admrs. were Ruth, his wife, and Aaron Hawkins (brother of Matthew I have talked so much about). The will was burnt during the Civil War. Bummer. John Crockett is on several of the same payrolls and militia lists for that area from 1774 to 1777 with Nathan Hawkins and his sons, and many of the same people that came down out of MD and the lower counties of PA that I mentioned earlier that Penn took from Lord Baltimore, are on these lists. Many of these lists read like a census out of Baltimore Co MD. Baltimore Co. was huge then. Several of the sons of John Hawkins, the mariner, lived on the north side of the Patapsco River that was something like a dividing line between Ann Arundel and Baltimore – and of course, they moved the line back and forth.
Thanks for your interest always, 🙂 Jeanne
Jeanne — glad you made it here.
you said —
John Hawkins, whose wife is Mary Simkins, is a son of Joseph Hawkins and Elizabeth Ricaud.
Anytime I see a French name associated with one of my surnames I get curious. Dad always said he had some French blood, but that he didn’t have a clue where it came from. I have never seen a French surname in our family so I am always curious when I see one.
From resarching where my family lived I think it is probably some French Huguenots. Those Crocketts you mentioned were French Huguenots, weren’t they? I think I recall hearing we might be related to Davy in some off beat way, maybe related to people who were related to him, or something like that, nothing like a close relation, nd I don’t recall any detail. Are you saying Davy Crockett had an ancestor that was a Hawkins?
Jeanne, you might be giving me confidence to take that y-DNA test back to some early day Hawkins. Dad always said our Hawkins went back to Ireland, not England as I would have guessed. Most of the things I try are dead ends, bt the only way to rule them in/out is to test and see.
Again, good to see ya here. I know people here can help you.
Vance
Jeanne:
Well, like I said, I am not sure if these people are related or not. I know that they must be connected, because the locations were the same as my ancestors and there are records of my ancestors being part of the Presbyterian Church. But about the time Rev Richard Sankey, John Thomson’s son-in-law and something like an uncle to the Crocketts, went to Prince Edward County, VA from Lancaster, PA was about the time my Richard Sinkey appears in Huntington, PA. We are having a DNA test done on a cousin’s father. Rev Richard Sankey is documented as coming from Ireland with the Thomsons and possibly the Crockett’s too, according to some web site, but we cannot determine the connection with Richard Sinkey, my gg-something grandfather.
Techteach
Hi, Vance, I’m so glad you encouraged me when I could not figure out what I was doing wrong to get here. I had about given up. I hope I can help you back.
Joseph Hawkins whose wife was Elizabeth Ricaud, was a son of John Hawkins, Mariner, of New England. Joseph had a brother, Matthew, whom I descend from. Joseph Hawkins’ wife, Elizabeth Ricaud, was the widow of Christopher Rawles, and d/o Benjamin and Elizabeth Ricaud. Their children were: John, who married Mary Simkins (I mentioned them previously in an earlier post; Augustine, who lived Burke Co NC, and Jackson Co TN, where he died (he lived to be of an ancient age, over 100, was a crippled man and did not serve in the American Rev, but his son did); Ruth, who married Josephus Murray, son of James and Jemima (Morgan) Murray; Sarah, who married Morgan Murray, bro of Josephus Murray, sons of James and Jemima; Jemima; Elizabeth. Joseph Hawkins was b 1664/65 and died 13 Jan 1726, will written 7 Dec 1725. When his brother, Matthew, died 1705, (who was the father of Rebecca (b ca 1704) the mother of Nathan who m Ruth Cole), Matthew asked in his will that Joseph help raise his children after his death. Matthew gave to Joseph Brothers Kindness, a land tract of 90 acres.
I don’t remember if I mentioned that this family of Hawkins DNA is I1b. They are Vikings (Danes) who went to Ireland and then down into England. I saw a program on the Science chanel about archeological findings in Northern Ireland of when the Vikings lived there along side and possibly mixed with the Pics – the first people of Ireland. Previously, I had seen a program about the Pics that related they were called this name because of the pictures on their bodies. Gee whiz – the more we change the more we stay the same. I believe people have not changed, just the circumstances inwhich they have lived changed, especially the changes caused by technology have affected people.
Yes, the Crocketts were French Huguenots. Nathan Hawkins and Ruth Cole had a daughter, Rebecca, who married John Crockett. They had a son, the “Davy” Crockett who died at the Alamo in Texas in 1836.
I know how it is. you wonder if the Y/DNA will help and really don’t have a clue. I certainly didn’t. All I was sure of is that Morgan and Aaron were brothers and wanted to prove it. Brent Kennedy has a great piece on cultural evidence and ruling on evidence from people outside the Euro mainstream. (Can’t you just see a Native American family parent approaching Lord Botetourt and asking if he could register his families’ records? )
I am thinking of trying to find a direct female descending from Rhoda Hawkins, whose grandson said her father was my Matthew Hawkins. Perhaps her mt/dna will tell us something? Another shot in the dark – but, you just don’t know until you do it.
There is one family of Hawkins I don’t have a clue about. It is Thomas Hawkins who was an early Indian Trader among the Congerees. He is referred to as the Cherokee Indian Secretary of State by SC authorities. He lived with a Crawford and associated with a Priest. (surname, not religious) He apparently lived in the Cherokee Middle Settlements. This was in the middle 1700’s. I can’t put my hands on these records right now. These records were found in the SC Archives. He generally was in trouble with the Indians and the SC Militia. He had some trouble walking the fence. The English did not trust him and the Indians gave him a very hard time – they didn’t trust him either, and administered corporal punishment. After an encounter, he always went back to the Middle Settlements.
If you are a match, a direct male to male to male, etc. there can be no females in the descendancy, with a line on record on the Worldwide Hawkins Y/DNA site, I would think you would be pleased. You would have a good start at the family you belong in.
Good luck, also, they started a fund to help with the cost of the test,
🙂 Jeanne
Hi Jeanne,
Welcome to the forum. I am one of the Maddox’s that Bill was referring to. (My last name is Maddox.) I live in Kokomo. My 2GGrandfather came to Kokomo sometime around 1870 to 1875 from Oldham and Jefferson Counties in Kentucky. One of his brothers went to Evansville (Vanderburgh Co.) and two others supposedly went to Terre Haute (Vigo Co.) and Lebanon (Boone Co.). I haven’t searched for them in census records yet to prove it.
Like I have mentioned to Bill before, on the other lines in my family, I was told my Joneses were Indian, my Fishers and Warners were German, my Shrocks were Amish, my Holdermans were Pennsylvania Dutch, my Davis’s and Stones were Scottish-Irish, etc., etc., but no one ever mentioned what the Maddox’s were (or even where they were from other than Kentucky).
Stacey
Stacey, Thank you for writing. I am so glad to make your acquaintance. I expect to be in Kokomo at some point in time as there is a group of folk musicians from Kokomo who have asked me to join them on occassion that I met at the Ohio Valley Gathering this year. I was born in Evansville.
Some of the Maddux’s who were in Daviess/Ohio Co KY at the same time my ancestor Elizabeth A. Madox was there (1818-1870’s) left when Matthew Hawkins set out for Fountain Co IN (ca 1824)and stopping on Honey Creek Prairie, died – that was in Vigo Co IN. They stayed in Vigo Co IN for a while and then went to Clay and Sullivan Cos. They were Churchill and Baptist Mattox. Churchill’s 1st wife was Fanny Hawkins – who I believe was a daughter of Matthew Hawkins. There was a Daniel Maddox who was living on land that Edward Hawkins (son of Matthew)was living on in 1811 in Anderson Co TN., from wence my Hawkins came from, to Daviess Co KY. Edward assigned the land to him. There are no other references to Daniel other than he was appointed to oversee several road orders that he never shows up for. On occassion, other men are appointed to act in his stead.
Elizabeth Jones is the mt/dna match of Wise Co VA. of my ancestor Elizabeth A. Madox, b 1797, who married Aaron W. Hawkins and lived Anderson Co TN until 1818 when they came to Daviess Co KY, the Yellow Banks. Some of Elizabeth Jones’ family live around Pineville KY. , Sweetwater, TN, Bell Co KY – that general SW VA /TN area. Jones, Marsee, Gibbs are some of her family’s surnames.
What are the names of your Maddox people who came to IN? There is a Daniel Maddox who is supposed to be a brother of Wilson Maddox of Shelby Co KY. Daniel came up to Jennings Co IN.
A possible brother of my ancestor, Elizabeth A. Madox, b 1797, is Nelson A. Maddux of Ohio Co KY. He was b 1801 in VA. He had a son, Tapley, who signed Elizabeth A. Madox’s husband’s 1812 War Bounty Land Application in 1855. His father, Nelson, was dead at the time. Nelson had a son Daniel. Tapley, b 10 May 1820 Shelby Co KY, was a son by Nelson’s first marriage to Narcissa Beauchamp. Elizabeth had a daughter, Ruhamma Marietta Narcissa. Nelson also m Martha Beauchamp and Susan Baughn/Vaughan, dau of William of Shelby Co KY. Patrick D. Baughn was the exr. of the estate of Wilson Maddox, son of Daniel in Jennings Co IN.
I believe Nelson had a brother, Preston Maddux, b 1807, VA. He m Sarah Malinda Swope ca 1840. Nelson and Preston lived next door to each other in Daviess Co KY. at one time.
There is a William Maddox, whose son, Thomas, married Delilah Shepherd 25 May 1840 whose father is William Shepherd, who is living in the household of of Nelson Maddux on the 1850 Census, along with a possible brother, Anderson Shepherd. William Maddox also had a son, Daniel.
Nelson’s dau, Laura m Granville C. Brown. Granville and Laura had a daughter, Laura, who is living in Nelson’s household on the 1850 Census. After Laura’s death, Granville m Zerelda Beauchamp.
The George Swope of Spencer Co KY looms large in the family of Nelson and Preston.
I have a lot of records of interaction of people, but cannot establish a relationship – if any exists.
Also, there is a Matthew Maddux in Fountain Co IN. who lived in Cocke Co TN. He married Dicy Guinn/Gwin there and served in the 1812 War. He went to Fleming Co KY and then to Fountain Co IN. He lent $50.00 to Morgan Hawkins, son of Matthew Hawkins. After his death, most of Matthew Maddux’s family went to Fort Leavenworth Kansas and they are buried in Cloud County, Kansas.
In Cocke Co TN is also Valentine Maddox who came to Daviess Co KY before Matthew Hawkins and his family came in 1818. In 1817 Valentine issues a POA to William Squires in case of Settlement of Estate of James Cundiff of Adair Co KY. (James Cundiff, son of George Cundiff d Bullitt Co KY, son of Richard Cundiff and wife, Mary Brown. James died 12 Aug 1817. These Cundiffs, Squires and Valentine Maddox were from Bedford Co VA. Valentine Maddox died ca 1824 Ohio Co KY.
Also, in Cocke Co TN at the same time as Valentine and Matthew was Schofield Maddox. He also served in the 1812 War. In 1816, he m Ritty Clift.
He died in Claiborne Co TN.
I thought I would give an overview of several of these people, perhaps some of the names would be significant in your research? Thanks again for responding, 🙂 Jeanne
Hi Jeanne,
My great-grandparents were Charles Courtland MADDOX and Clara Belle MILLIGAN. Charles was born 1889 in Kokomo, Indiana and died 1977 in Kokomo, Indiana. He was one of nine children born to James Thomas MADDOX and Rosanna GREER. James was born 1853 in Oldham County, Kentucky and died 1923 in Kokomo, Indiana. He was the son of Elias H. MADDOX and America SMITH. Elias was born about 1810 in Kentucky (possibly Jefferson County). Besides James, Elias and America had the following known children: Robert, Lucy, Mary, Charles, John, Newton, and William. This is the farthest I have gotten on this line; although, I do have Gordon F. Maddox pencilled in as Elias’ father. Gordon was born about 1787 in Charles Co., Maryland. The last census record that I have found for him is 1860 in Oldham Co., Kentucky. I do not know who the mother of his children was, but he was married to Lucy CANADY in 1858 in Oldham Co.
As far as the other ones that went to Indiana, I was told that John was in southern Indiana, William went to Terre Haute, and Charles went to Lebanon. The only one that I have found was Newton and he was in Evansville, which is also where he is buried.
Stacey
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