Category: My father’s ancestors
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94 Mark Whitaker, 1760-1812
Mark Whitaker (1760-1812) was a leading Methodist circuit-riding minister at a time when this denomination was booming, especially in frontier areas. He was born in Frederick County, Maryland and moved with his parents to Surry County, North Carolina. Mark’s career as a minister began in about 1780 in Castlewood in Russell County, Virginia, where he…
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92 Drury Puckett Jr, 1777-1815
In 1777, he was born in what is today Russell County, Virginia. He was the seventh of nine children of Drury Puckett Sr (1733-1794) and Judith Lowry (1737-1794). By the mid-1790s, Drury had migrated to Kentucky, settling in an area that today is near a town called Burning Fork in Magoffin County. At the time,…
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88 and 89 William John Cockerham, 1794-1852, and Elizabeth Hill, 1798-1880
Elizabeth Hill was born in North Carolina, in about 1796 anddied in Lee County, Kentucky, after the 1880 census,probably in 1881.1 She is believed to have been the daughterof Joel Hill (1763-1843) and Anna Watson (1773-1855). On29 Mar 1821, Elizabeth married William John (or JohnWilliam) Cockerham (1794-1852) in Wilkes County, NorthCarolina. They migrated to Breathitt…
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87 Susanna Brown, 1776-1853
Susanna Brown was born in 1784 or 1785 in Woodford County, Kentucky, the daughter of John Brown (1753-1822) and Paulina Talbott (1755-1805). Her parents had married in 1778 in their native Amherst County, Virginia. They migrated to Woodford County, Kentucky, where they settled on Glenns Creek. Susanna married Roderick Perry II (1776-1821) on 11 December…
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86 Roderick Perry, 1776-1821
Roderick Perry II was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia on 5 October 1776, just three months after the American colonies declared independence on 4 July 1776. His parents were Roderick Perry I (1738-1808) and Jane Randolph (1750-1816). They migrated to Shelby County, Kentucky, when he was a small boy. He married Susanna Brown (1785-1853) in…
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