Post Office, Vanderburg, Ky. By P.D. Clayton, Ass't. Marshal
Page 150, 10 August, 1860
| House- hold # |
Surname | Family member |
Age/ sex |
Occupation | Real estate/
personal estate |
State of birth |
Data from records of Webster County researchers |
| 1041/1035 | Woods | James | 80 m | farming |
$ 300 |
NC | James Woods, born 1780 NC, came to Hopkins Co KY from TN about 1835; he is listed in the 1840 Hopkins Co census with 11 children. His first wife, whose surname we do not know, may have died in TN or she may have died shortly after they came to KY, but she is not listed with the family in 1840. James Woods married 2) Sally Kearney 3 Nov 1842 Hopkins Co KY. See their 1850 Hopkins census listing. James Woods and his first wife are the 3great-grandparents of Carole Palmer. |
| Sally | 42 f | housekeeper |
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NC | |||
| James | 14 m |
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KY | James Woods married Martha Ann Pate, the daughter of William Pate and Judian Oakley 3 Mar 1865 Webster Co KY. They were the parents of five children, one of whom, Noah Woods (1876-1969) is the grandfather of Glenn Harbin. | |||
| Elijah D. | 11 m |
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KY | Elijah Dempsey Woods married Mary Catherine Pate, the daughter of William Pate and Judian Oakley 24 Oct 1865 Webster Co KY. They were the parents of four children, one of whom, Deller Josephine Woods, born 1873, is the great-grandmother of D.J. Camden. | |||
| Lucy A. | 8 f |
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KY | Lucy A. Woods married William Y. Oakley, son of John H. Oakley and Catherine Woods 6 Mar 1868 Webster Co KY. They became the parents of at least three children. | |||
| 1042/1036 | Oakley | John | 62 m | farmer | $ 420
$ 300 |
NC | John H. Oakley married Catherine Woods 30 Jan 1816 Granville Co NC. They were the parents of at least eight children. John H. Oakley died in 1864 and is buried at Mt. Gilead Cemetery in Webster Co KY. Other known children of John H. Oakley and Catherine Woods were: Walter Oakley, born 1820 NC, married Elizabeth Anderson; John W. Oakley, born 1821 NC, married Nancy Hobgood; Yancey Oakley, born 1823 and a twin of Lewis Oakley, married 1) Sally Cobb, 2) Elizabeth Cobb; Judian Oakley, born 1826 NC, married William Pate; Martha Oakley, born 1827 NC, married Walter Ellis Woods. Some information on this family came from Diana Brown-McCarthy |
| Catharine | 57 f | housekeeper |
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NC | Catherine Woods Oakley is almost certainly connected to James Woods at household 1041/1035 above and is possibly his daughter. | ||
| Lewis | 36 m | farming | $ 420
$ 150 |
NC | Read his 1850 Hopkins County census listing. Lewis Oakley married Leannah Cobb, the daughter of Thomas Cobb and his first wife Eliza Campbell, 16 Aug 1860 Hopkins Co KY. Lewis and Leannah were the parents of at least six children. They are both buried at Mt. Gilead Cemetery. | ||
| James W. | 14 m |
|
KY | ||||
| William Y. | 12 m |
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KY | William Y. Oakley married Lucy Ann Woods 6 Mar 1868 Webster Co KY. | |||
| 1043/1037 | Tompkins | James | 58 m | farmer | $1600
$7685 |
KY | The James Tompkins family is listed in the 1850 Hopkins Co census. Information on this family from Bobby Rakestraw. |
| Prudence | 42 f | housekeeper |
|
AL | After the death of Prudence in 1864, James Tompkins married Lillian Townsend. Prudence is buried at Tompkins Cemetery. | ||
| James W. | 25 m | farmer |
|
TN | Died without heirs before 1874. | ||
| Alcy | 15 f |
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KY | Alcey J. Tompkins married T.F. Brown 21 Mar 1866 Webster Co. | |||
| William P. | 12 m |
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KY | William Tompkins married Georgia Ann Knight 16 Jan 1872 Webster Co KY. | |||
| John | 9 m |
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KY | ||||
| Donna A. | 7 f |
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KY | Fredonia Tompkins married Josiah Rakestraw 17 Jul 1872 Gallatin Co IL. | |||
| Whitsell | James W. | 4 m |
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KY | James W. Whitsell and John G. Whitsell were grandsons of James Tompkins; their father was James P. Whitsell. | ||
| John G. | 3 m |
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KY | ||||
| 1044/1038 | Tompkins | Thomas | 60 m | farmer | $ 2,500
$14,130 |
KY | Thomas Tompkins married Emily M. Hicks 31 May 1836 Henderson Co KY. They are listed in the 1850 Hopkins census. He is listed in the 1870 Webster census, age 70, with children: John, 23, Martha, 15, William, 14, and David, 12. |
| Emily | 44 f | housekeeper |
|
TN | Webster County marriage records show the marriage of Mrs. Emily Tompkins to John T. Harmon 11 Feb 1868, but I do not find them in the 1870 Webster census. | ||
| Mary B. | 21 f | domestic |
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KY | Mary Tompkins married Edward Springfield 20 Dec 1860 Webster Co. | ||
| Thomas L. | 19 m | farming |
|
KY | |||
| Joseph H. | 15 m |
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KY | Joseph H. Tompkins married Leslie Hampton 23 Oct 1889 Webster Co KY. | |||
| John W. | 13 m |
|
KY | ||||
| Frances E. | 9 f |
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KY | There is a Frances E. Mitchell, 15 Feb 1851-14 Mar 1891, buried at Tompkins Cemetery. | |||
| Martha A. | 7 f |
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KY | Martha Ann Tompkins married William Marks 23 Apr 1873 Webster Co KY. They became the parents of eleven children. Martha Ann died in 1898 and William died in 1928; both are buried at Mt. Lebanon Cemetery in Webster Co KY. | |||
| William T. | 4 m |
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KY | ||||
| David G. | 1 m |
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KY | David G. Tompkins married Sarah Catherine Todd 17 Feb 1880 Webster Co KY. | |||
| 1045/1039 | Lynn | Frances | 55 f | housekeeper |
$ 100 |
KY | Frances Tompkins married James Lynn 6 Mar 1828 Hopkins Co KY. There is an 1850 Hopkins Co census listing that anyone researching this family should look at. Hopkins Co records list the following marriages: Catherine Lynn to Henry E. Todd 24 Mar 1856; Patsey Lynn to Isham Williams 19 Aug 1852. |
| James | 17 m | farming |
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KY | |||
| Todd | Sally | 26 f | domestic |
|
KY | ||
| John P. | 10/12 m |
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KY | ||||
| 1046/1040 | Armstrong | R.J. | 38 m | waggonmaker | $ 200
$2000 |
KY | |
| Jane | 30 f | housekeeper |
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NC | |||
| Elizabeth E. | 12 f |
|
KY | ||||
| Brown | Joseph D. | 5 m |
|
GA | |||
| Brooks | Willie | 68 m | grocer |
$ 500 |
NC |