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