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Note: Moses parents are probably Peter Renfrow and Mary McIlroy. Came to Illlinois from Kentucky (See note under grandson, Albert Allen Renfro).
Moses probably had two wifes, the first wife bearing the 1st four children. See notes under the 1820 census.
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In the Butler Co. 1810 census, Peter, Mark, Joseph, John and William Rentfro living adjacent to each other.
note: Moses could have been living with one of his brothers as his father died in 1799.
1820 Census: Moses Renfroe living in Morgantown Twp., Butler Co., Kentucky (film M33_16, p330)
free white males: free white females
under 10 3 1
10 thru 15 1
16 thru 25* 1 *includes heads of household 26 thru 44 1 number people engaged in agriculture: 1 total free white people: 7 total all persons, white, slaves, colored, other: 7 living adjacent to brothers James, Peter, and John Renfroe (all 26-44_
-In the above 1820 census of Moses household, the 3 males under 10 could be Amos, Nathan and John; 1 male 16-25 Head-Moses (some think Moses was born in 1794); 1 female under 10-Sarah; the female 10-15 is not identified.
-This census supports that Moses' 1st wife died and is the mother of the first 4 children; and that Moses later married Elizabeth who bore him 9 additional children. Melvin Ridenour, whose Renfro research is in the LDS records in Salt Lake City, has that Moses married Elizabeth Jackson. In the 1840 Wayne Co. census, son Nathan Renfro is living adjacent to William Jackson.
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Moses, Peter, Mark & Joseph Renfrow, all of Butler Co., Kentucky, heirs to Peter's Renfro 640 acres on south side of Cumberland River in Davidson Co., Tennessee sold 4/10 of that 640 acres to Thos. Raiborne on Jan 14, 1823. (Butler Co., Will Book B:517 (as researched by Dr. D. O. Manshardt of Peoria, Illinois)
Do not know whether or not Moses son John, born 1818, survived until adulthood; perhaps Moses first wife and John died in childbirth.
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1830 Census: Moses Rentfrow living in Wayne Co., Illinois (film M19_25, p83) free white males free white females
under 5 1 1 5 thur 9 2
10 thur 14 2 30 thru 39 1 1 total free white people: 8 total free white, slaves, free colored: 8 living adjacent to Asa and Reuben and Walker Atteberry
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From the HISTORY OF WAYNE CO. page 94 "extract the following items in the account book of David Wright" "This day book as commenced January 1, 1834."
Moses Renfro, By 10 lb. Deerskins................ $1.00 To 1 1/2 yds. bleached muslin @ $ .37 1/2 To 2 1/2 yards calico @ .43 3/4 To 2 lb coffee @ .50 To 2 lb sugar @ .33 To 1 gal. whiskey @ 1.00 Page 195 "Other early settlers of Barnhill were William Watkins, Asa Haynes, Walker Atteberry, Nathan Arteberry, Renfro brothers,"
Page 197 "The Renfro brothers settled on Section 7, in the southern part of the township"
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Federal Public Land Purchases, Illinois, Wayne Co., Moses Renfrow, $1.25 acre (Illinois State Archives site, the dates on the actual land records are different, but the land descriptions are the same)
80.00 acres E2SW, section 05, Twp. 3S, Range 8E, 3rd Meridan, $100, 10 Dec, 1831, Vol 110/p015
40.00 acres SWSW, section 05, Twp. 3S, Range 8E, 3rd Meridan, $50, 1 Jan 1836, Vol 110/p036
40.00 acres NENW, section 08, Twp. 3S, Range 8E, 3rd Meridan, $50, 1 Jan 1836, Vol 110/p036
note: I later found the land sale records which give different dates for the sales, but with the same lot descriptions.
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1840 Census: Moses Renfrew living in Wayne Co., Illinois (film M704-72, p261)
free white males: free white females
under 5 1 1 5 thur 9 1 1 10 thur 14 1 1 15 thru 19 2 40 thur 49 1 50 thru 59 1 persons employed in agriculture: 4 no. white persons over 20 who cannot read or write: 2 total free white persons: 10 total all persons free white, free colored, slaves: 10 living adjacent to Walker-, Kitty-, and John Atteberry; George- and Arthur Close, William Murphy.
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1850 Census: M. Renfro, 55, male, farmer, $110 real estate, born South Carolina, cannot read and write; B., 54, female, born Illinois, cannot read or write; M., 18, male, farmer; E., 16, female; W., 12, male; N. 11, female (all children born Illinois); living in 11th district, Wayne Co., Illinois (film M432_131, family 669, p229, 16 Sep).
living next to son N. (Nathan) Renfro
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1855 Wayne Co., Ill. State Census: Moses Renfro (Abstract on Illinois Gen Web, p15)
males females
10-19 1 1
50-59 1 60-69 1
value of livestock: $175 lbs. of wool: 9 living near daughter Sarah Atteberry and son Nathan Renfro
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1865 Wayne Co., Ill. State Census: Moses Renfrow Sr. (Abstract on Illinois Gen Web, p88-91, Barnhill Twp.)...
males females 20-29 1 70-79 1 value of livestock: $25 where are the 1860 and 1870 federal census for Moses?
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