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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. John Henry Midgett: Birth: 1856 in Kentucky. Death: 11 MAR 1899 in Elkville, Jackson County, Illinois

  2. Emma Alvaretta Midgett: Birth: 6 MAR 1857 in Simpson County, Kentucky. Death: 14 AUG 1942 in Christopher, Franklin County, Illinois

  3. Alonza L. Midgett: Birth: 1859 in Kentucky. Death: BEF 1870 in ?

  4. George Alexander Midgett: Birth: 20 NOV 1861 in Simpson County, Kentucky. Death: 16 JAN 1943 in Sesser, Franklin County, Illinois

  5. James Robert Midgett: Birth: 8 JUL 1865 in Kentucky. Death: 6 MAR 1926 in Ewing, Franklin County, Illinois

  6. Lacy Trobert Midgett: Birth: 1 AUG 1869 in Kentucky. Death: 11 JUN 1896 in Mount Pleasant, Illinois

  7. Neal McPhail C. Midgett: Birth: 23 NOV 1870 in Pilot Knob, Simpson County, Kentucky. Death: 23 APR 1902 in Franklin County, Illinois


Notes
a. Note:   E-MAIL FROM JAMES COCKRUM (10/1/1997):
 JESSE JAMES MIDGET WAS A CARPENTER BY TRADE AND CENSUS RECORDS INDICATE HE WAS
 RAISED IN GRAVES CO., KY. ON A FARM. LITTLE IS KNOWN OF HIS LIFE. THERE IS
 SPECULATION THAT HE DIED AND WAS BURIED IN THE BETHEL CHURCH IN SIMPSON CO.,
 KY. BY CHURCH AND OTHER RECORDS DO NOT SUPPORT THIS THEORY. IN JULY 1965,
 GRACE DELMA REA COCKRUM MADE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT REGARDING HER MEMORIES....
 "MOTHER (Emma Alvaretta Midyette) WAS BORN IN KENTUCKY. THEY CAME TO ILLINOIS
 BY OX CART AND TRAIN. THE BOYS DROVE AN OX CART THROUGH AND GRANDMOTHER AND
 MOTHER CAME BY TRAIN. MY FATHER MET THEM IN CHRISTOPHER, ILLINOIS IN WHAT USED
 TO BE TERMED A `SURREY'. MOTHER'S GRANDMOTHER WAS AN ENGLISH WOMAN. HER NAME
 WAS COUPER (Judith Fulture Cooper). THEY ALSO LIVED IN BOWLING GREEN,
 KENTUCKY. MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER MARRIED A McPHAIL AFTER COMING TO KENTUCKY. MY
 GRANDMOTHER MARRIED A FRENCHMAN NAMED MIDYETTE. HE IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN
 KILLED--SHOT IN A CARD GAME IN KENTUCKY AND BURIED THERE IN PADUCAH, KENTUCKY."
  1860 Simpson Co., KY
 1870 Logan Co., KY Census (Gordonsville); pg. 381A
 Nancy a widow in 1880 Pilot Knob, Simpson Co, Kentucky, p395A


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