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  1. Mary Jane (Sarah?) Huckaby: Birth: 1845 in Anderson, Tennessee, United States. Death: 10 Apr 1875 in Wayne, Iowa, United States


Sources
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Notes
a. Note:   er $200 TN; Emilia 45 f w TN cannot R/W; Mary J. 5 f w TN.
  From RootsWeb
  From: "Charles Daugherty" <[email protected]@msn.com>
 Subject: Re: [TNANDERS-L] Jane Bray Settlement, 1851
 Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:53:48 -0500
 References: <[email protected]@phx.gbl>
  Jerry: My gg grandmother was Elizabeth Jane Bray b. 1838 m. 1865 to John Daugherty b. 1816. Their son, Edward P. Daugherty b. 1878/1875 was my grandfather. My grandfather's eulogy stated, "Was left an orphan at an early age and raised by relatives and deprived of a chance of education." I wonder if anyone has any documentation to confirm this claim? And, does anyone know who the relatives might be that took in Edward P. Daugherty? Census and draft records list Edward P. Daugherty's birth year as 1878 but his death certificate and tombstone list birth year as 1875 (day and month the same). Is there a chance that Elizabeth Jane Bray was married twice? Both times to two different John Daughertys. I have Edward P. Daugherty's bible and it lists his parents as Betty Jane Bray and John Daugherty. But, It lists John Daugherty's parents as Ell Daugherty and Sarah Daugherty. This information deviates from the commonly believed ancestry in New River,TN during this time per!
 iod. I am on my way to Ireland to attend the O' Dochartaigh reunion. I should be able to check email while there. Thanks
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: Jerry Bryan<mailto:[email protected]@hotmail.com>
 To: [email protected]@rootsweb.com<mailto:[email protected]@rootsweb.com>
 Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 10:21 AM
 Subject: [TNANDERS-L] Jane Bray Settlement, 1851
  The 1851 settlement of my gggg grandmother Jane, wife of John Bray, may be
 found in Anderson County Will Book 1847-1852, pp.265-266. Curiously, there
 is also a Settlement Book, but this particular settlement was recorded in
 the Will Book.
  I transcribed the settlement a long time ago, but I just recently was
 looking at it again. As Yogi Berra said, you can observe a lot just by
 watching (or in this case, by looking). In looking at it again, I noticed
 some things I hadn't noticed before.
  What I noticed anew was that the settlement seems to designate varying
 amounts for various people who were owed money from the estate, but it seems
 to designate $2.00 for each of several heirs. There is nothing in the
 settlement that lays it out quite that clearly. But it is certainly the
 case that $2.00 was given to Joshua J. Bray, $2.00 was given to "retained
 for Admins" who was Edward Payne Bray, and $2.00 was given to heirs of
 Thomas Bray. Then, $2.00 each was given to Solomon Disney, Archelaus
 Huckaby, and William J. Bradshaw. The new thing I noticed was that William
 J. Bradshaw married Rachel Bray, so I wondered if William was Jane Bray's
 son-in-law. I now think he was. I previously just thought that William
 must have been owed some money and that he had no real connection to the
 family. William and Rachel were married 14 Nov 1843.
  Most marriage indexes for Anderson County say that Archelaus Huckaby married
 Emilia Brag. But armed with the knowledge that William J. Bradshaw was
 probably a son-in-law of Jane Bray, I went to the courthouse and looked at
 the marriage book, and there is no doubt that Archelaus Huckaby married
 Emilia Bray. It turns out that Mary Harris has a marriage index at the
 court house (the best marriage index I have ever seen for Anderson County)
 that goes from the beginning all the way through 1999. In the bride's
 index, Emilia's name was spelled Brag, but in the groom's index it was
 spelled Bray. Mary Harris looked at the marriage book, agreed that it said
 Bray, and subsequently corrected the bride's index. So I think that
 Archelaus Huckaby was also a son-in-law of Jane Bray. Archelaus and Emilia
 were married 22 Sep 1842.
  That's two out of three. Solomon Disney and his wife Sarah were married
 about 1820, and I know of no extant record for their marriage. But I'm
 going out on a limb and saying that based on the settlement, Sarah must have
 been Sarah Bray.
  The next problem is that the ages didn't seem to work for Jane, wife of John
 Bray, to have been the mother of Sarah, Rachel, and Emilia. Here are the
 three women in the 1850 census.
  16th subdivision, Anderson County, Tennessee, 7 Sep 1860
 p.20a, HN 280, FN 820
 Huckaby Archelaus 26 m w farmer $200 TN
 Emilia 45 f w TN cannot R/W
 Mary J. 5 f w TN
  16th subdivision, Anderson County, Tennessee, 10 Sep 1860
 p.21a, HN 297, FN 297
 Dizney Solomon 48 m w farmer TN
 Sarah 50 f w TN cannot R/W
 Rachel 24 f w TN
 Joseph 14 m w TN
 Thomas 8 m w TN
 Thompson Mary 6 f w TN
 Monday Robert 4 m w TN
 James 3/12 m w TN
  16th subdivision, Anderson County, Tennessee, 12 Sep 1850
 p.24b, HN 345, FN 345
 Bradshaw William J. 35 m w farmer $50 TN cannot R/W
 Rachel 48 f w TN cannot R/W
 Polly 13 f w TN attended school
 George 11 m w TN attended school
 Alesy 9 f w TN attended school
 Milly J. 5 f w TN
  It's significant to note that Emilia Bray and Rachel Bray both married in
 their 40's, they both married much younger men, and they both had only one
 child. The older children in the home of William J. Bradshaw were his
 children with his first wife, whose name I have not been able to figure out.
 It's also significant to note that all three of the Bray women were born
 in Tennessee, whereas other siblings in the family were born in Kentucky.
 So a timeline for the family has to take the varying birth places into
 account.
  But as I said, there are problems associated with the ages of Jane with
 respect to these daughters. The 1830 census entry for the family in
 Anderson County is usually listed in indexes as John Brey, 00210001-1002001.
 These ages don't work, neither for the males nor for the females.
 However, I checked the microfilm. The correct 1830 census entry for the
 family is 000210001-1002001. In other words, indexes seem to leave out one
 zero for the males which makes the ages too young. The corrected census
 entry can be annotated as follows:
  p.174a, line 8, Anderson County, Tennessee, 1830
 John Brey 000210001-1002001
  00-04 0 1 1826-1830 daughter of Thomas Bray?
 05-09 0 0 1821-1825
 10-14 0 0 1816-1820
 15-19 2 2 1811-1815 Edward Payne Bray, Joshua Bray, Rachel Bray, Emilia
 Bray
 20-29 1 0 1801-1810 Joseph Bray
 30-39 0 0 1791-1800
 40-49 0 1 1781-1790 Jane
 50-59 0 1771-1780
 60-69 1 1761-1770 John Bray
  I would emphasize that this is a correct transcription and contains "the
 same number of zeros" as the actual microfilm. It does not attempt in any
 way to "correct" errors. Nevertheless, based on the 1850 census data for
 the family (see above) and on the 1840 census data for the family (see
 below), I believe that the enumerator himself made an error, leaving out a
 zero for the females. So I think that the original microfilm reflects an
 enumerator's error. I believe that if correctly enumerated, the census
 entry would read as follows.
  p.174a, line 8, Anderson County, Tennessee, 1830
 John Brey 000210001-10002001
  00-04 0 1 1826-1830 daughter of Thomas Bray?
 05-09 0 0 1821-1825
 10-14 0 0 1816-1820
 15-19 2 0 1811-1815 Edward Payne Bray, Joshua Bray
 20-29 1 2 1801-1810 Joseph Bray, Rachel Bray, Emilia Bray
 30-39 0 0 1791-1800
 40-49 0 0 1781-1790
 50-59 0 1 1771-1780 Jane
 60-69 1 1761-1770 John Bray
  Edward, Joshua, and Joseph were all born in Kentucky. Rachel, Emilia,and
 Sarah (already married in 1830) were born in Tennessee. There are early
 records for John Bray in Anderson County (e.g., 1802 tax list, and the
 1808/1810 land surveys for Roane County list an entry for John Bray in
 Anderson County). John was born in North Carolina. I previously thought he
 must have moved from North Carolina to Kentucky where his sons were born,
 and then moved to Anderson County. But I now think he must have moved from
 North Carolina to Anderson County, Tennessee where his daughters were born,
 then moved to Kentucky where his sons were born, and finally moved back to
 Anderson County.
  But I don't like "fixing" data that doesn't match otherwise good theories.
 Normally, we should fix our theories to match the data. But a lot of
 genealogical data does have errors, so let's look at the 1840 census for the
 family.
  p.20, line 4, Anderson County, Tennessee, 1840
 Joshua Bray 21001-00001
  00-04 2 0 1836-1840 Joseph D. Bray, Joshua F. Bray
 05-09 1 0 1831-1835 John H. Bray
 10-14 0 0 1826-1830
 15-19 0 0 1821-1825
 20-29 1 1 1811-1820 Joshua J. Bray, Annie M. (Annie) Hall
  p.21, Anderson County, Tennessee, 1840
 Joseph Bray 10001-10001
  00-04 1 1 1836-1840 John Bray, Elizabeth J. Bray
 05-09 0 0 1831-1835
 10-14 0 0 1826-1830
 15-19 0 0 1821-1825
 20-29 1 1 1810-1820 Joseph H. Bray, Sarah L. Duncan
  p.27a, line 25, Anderson County, Tennessee, 1840
 Edwin Bray 00001-2000102001 7 total, 1 engaged in agriculture
  00-04 0 2 1836-1840 Emilia Bray, Rachel Malinda Bray
 05-09 0 0 1831-1835
 10-14 0 0 1826-1830
 15-19 0 0 1821-1825
 20-29 1 1 1811-1820 Edward Payne Bray, Anna F. Messamore
 30-39 0 1801-1810
 40-49 2 1791-1800 Rachel Bray, Emilia Bray
 50-59 0 1781-1790
 60-69 0 1771-1780
 70-79 1 1761-1770 Jane (widow of John Bray)
  Joshua, Joseph, and Edward were brothers, sons of Jane, and all were newly
 married since the 1830 census. The census entry of most note is the one for
 Edward Payne Bray. Based on the 1830 census, I had assumed that one of the
 females age 40-49 in 1840 was Jane, that the other female age 40-49 was
 unknown, and that the female age 70-79 was unknown (possibly a grandmother).
 That would make Jane much too young to have been the mother of Sarah,
 Rachel, and Emilia. But based on the 1850 census entries for Rachel and
 Emilia and based on the fact that they were married in 1843 and 1842,
 respectively, I think that the two females age 40-49 must have been Rachel
 and Emilia. Therefore, the female age 70-79 must have been Jane and all the
 ages suddenly make sense.
  Well, Rachel and Emilia were almost too old in the 1840 census. I think
 they must have been born right on the cusp of 1800, and their 1850 census
 entries probably understate their ages by a year or two or three. That's
 very common anyway, and remember that both of them had much younger
 husbands. So between the 1850 censuses and the 1840 census, I think the
 1830 enumerator must have been "off by a zero" for the females in the
 family. That's the only thing that makes any sense.
  The astute reader will have noticed that I haven't listed the 1850 census
 entry for Jane, wife of John Bray, and she died in 1851. That's because she
 appears not to have been enumerated in 1850. She was clearly living with
 her son Edward in 1840. Her son Joshua appears not to have been enumerated
 in 1850. Her sons Edward and Joseph were enumerated in 1850, and she was
 not living with either one of them. So she was probably living with Joshua
 in 1850.
  Milton Tate received $13.00 "as per a/e" in Jane's settlement. In the 1850
 census, he was listed as a doctor, age 38, living alone. He was living a
 couple of houses away from Joseph H. Bray. I suspect that Milton Tate had
 attended Jane prior to her death, and that the $13.00 was a bill for medical
 services rendered. "a/e" looks something like "accounts payable" except
 that I can't figure out what the "e" really stood for. Does anybody know?
  Alfred Cross received $5.00 "One Note". The 1850 census listed Alfred Cross
 as a farmer, but he was a wealthy farmer, he was a lawyer, and at one time
 he served as sheriff of Anderson County. In the 1850 census, he was living
 very close to Solomon Disney and Archelaus Huckaby, who in turn were living
 very close to each other. I doubt that Alfred Cross had any connection to
 the Bray family other than possibly being a source of a loan, and the loan
 was paid from Jane's estate.
  W.W. Walker received $8.00 "proven a/s". I can't figure this one out at
 all. In the 1850 census, Wilbern Walker appears to have been a wealthy
 merchant, and he was living next door to John Key who was the County Court
 clerk. I don't know what "proven a/s" means except that it must have been
 some variation on the theme of "accounts payable". I assume that Wilbern
 must have provided some service to the Bray family, and was was paid for
 that service from the proceeds of Jane's settlement. I wonder if he was the
 undertaker, or some such.
  The only other name mentioned was John Key, county clerk. But that's just
 normal. His name appeared on a lot of wills and settlements and other legal
 documents.
  A curious omission is that Joseph H. Bray, one of Jane's sons, is not
 mentioned in settlement. I don't know why. I also note with curiosity that
 Jane's settlement is the only record I know of with respect to Jane's son
 Thomas Bray. Thomas is very mysterious. He apparently died before 1851 and
 had heirs. A potential daughter of Thomas showed up in the 1830 census
 entry for John Bray, but that's only a guess.
  I am curious if anybody knows exactly what "a/e" or "a/s" might have meant,
 and if anybody knows what Wilbern W. Walker might have been up to that the
 Bray family would have owed him $8.00.
  Finally, I would point out that because Jane Bray died in 1851, the 1850
 census was an invaluable resource in sorting out the various people listed
 in the settlement. Most of them were living very close to each other, with
 Milton Tate living very close to Joseph Bray; with Archelaus Huckaby,
 Solomon Disney, and Alfred Cross living very close to each other; with
 Edward Payne Bray and William J. Bradshaw living very close to each other;
 and with all of them living in Dist. 6 (north of the Clinch River, in and
 around Clinton).
  Jerry Bryan

Note:   He appeared in the census in 1850 in Anderson County, Tennessee. 16th subdivision, Anderson County, Tennessee, 7 Sep 1850; p.20a, dwelling number 280, family number 820; Huckaby Archelaus 26 m w farm


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