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Note: 1820: Thomas Kea, with family of six, was listed in 1820 Darlington Dist., S.C., US Census; Two Males: one aged < 10 yrs [Curtis Ivey]; one aged 26 - < 45yrs (between 1775 - 1794 [Thomas] ; Four Females: three aged < 10 yrs [Mary Ann, Winniford, Nancy]; and one aged 16 - < 26 yrs ['Lanie']. The census is dated February 22, 1820. ref: rootsweb, ~usgenweb/sc/darlington/census/ 1820/0064b.gif 1830: Nancy 1 of 3 females age 10 and under 15 in the Darlington County Census. 1836: (1) Lanie Kea appointed Executrix of Estate of Thomas Kea, Deceased, on March 4, 1836. (2) Curtis Ivey Kea was named Guardian ad Litem for the eight minor children of Thomas Kea, Deceased: NANCY, age 18; Delilah, age 17; James, age 16; Zachariah, age 11; John W., age 9; William, age 6; Margaret E., age 3, and Thomas, age five months; document dated March 4, 1836. 1837: Nancy and Calvin marry 6/1837. 1838: Nancy and Calvin's 1st child, Melia, born 5/1838. 1840: Nancy and Calvin's 2nd child, Eliza, born 8/1840. 1840: Nancy's brother Curtis Ivey and family recorded in the Darlington County, S.C., US census of 1840. (3 males, 3 females: Curtis, (age 28); his wife Gatsey, (age 23); children Francis Albright, (age 6); Nicey, (age 4); Hannah, (age 1); and probably his brother Zachariah, (age 15).) 1840: Nancy Barnes, age 22, wife of Calvin, recorded on the rolls of Hebron Methodist Church, Stokes Bridge, SC. 1840: Nancy, age 22, Darlington Co., census? 1840's: Nancy's sister, 'Liley,' and John Alexander moved to Henry Co., Alabama after 1840, where his brother James Alexander was, however, they returned to SC in 1849. John was a Methodist minister on the Lamar Circuit. 1842: 'When Melissa Shirley was 16, her family left South Carolina in a wagon train; with families: Wingates', Shirleys', Kelleys', Loves', Johnstons', Keys', Herndons', Chanceys', Osteens', Wards', Rallings', and Hudsons'. The Wingates and Hudsons left the wagon train in Georgia, and the remaining families moved to Pike County, Alabama.' [memoirs of Lillie Ruth Wingate McCaskill] Melissa's 2nd marriage was William Key, brother of Nancy Kea Barnes, in 1860. 1843: Nancy and family move to Alabama about 1843. Nancy and Calvin's 3rd child, Emeline, born 12/15/1843 in Alabama. 1845: Calvin purchases tract of land in Dale County, Alabama; Section 13, Township 6N, Range 25E; dated 6/1/1845. This land is located immediately northwest of Echo, 312832N, 852757W. 1850: Calvin and Nancy not recorded in Dale Co., Alabama census. 1850: Nancy's brother Curtis (spelled Kean) Kea and family, recorded in the 1850 Darlington County, SC census; Curtis, 37; Gatsey, 33; Francis, 16; Nicey, 13; Hannah, 11; Margaren, 8; Thomas, 6; Helen, 4; Dora A., 2. [page 279, dated 8/2/1850, lines 6-14]. The John and Leonora O'Kelley family recorded on Lines 18-26. [Nancy's brother, the James Kea family recorded on page 337B, lines 26-31.] [Nancy's sister, Winniford Kea Hicks, and family, recorded on page 327, lines 6-11.] 1850's: Three of Nancy Kea Barnes children marry in Dale County, Alabama; Amelianne, Eliza, and Emeline. 1860: Calvin and Nancy recorded in the 1860 Federal census, Dale Co., Al., Newton Post Office, page 566. 1860: Nancy's brother William and his wife Melissa (Shirley) are recorded with her father in the 1860 Pike County, Alabama census; Orion Post Office, page 152, dated 9/4/1860. In the census, William is recorded as age 29, born in South Carolina, occupation: Dentist. "As a young man in SC, William studied and practiced Dentistry." [from Eleven Generations of Key/Kea] 1865: Nancy, the 4th born child of Thomas and 'Lanie' Kea, was the 2nd to die in 1865, at age 47. 'Nancy and her sons John Calvin and Jesse F died on consecutive days in February, 1865 from food poisoning (eating tainted food).' [from the Cormack family records; Kathy Cormack] 1870: Calvin recorded in the 1870 Federal census, Dale Co., Al., Echo Post Office, page 225.
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