Post Office, Wisemill, Ky. By P.D. Clayton, Ass't. Marshal
Page 41, 21 June, 1860
| House- hold # |
Surname | Family member |
Age/ sex |
Occupation | Real estate/
personal estate |
State of birth |
Data from records of Webster County researchers |
| 285/281 cont |
Osburn | Frances C. | 3 f |
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KY | Frances C. Osburn married George W. Pate 6 Nov 1872 Webster Co. | |
| Mary J.E. | 1 f |
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KY | M.J.E. Orsburn married Wm. Pressley 1876 Webster Co KY. | |||
| 286/282 | Yates | John M. | 36 m | farmer | $ 600
$ 200 |
NC | Martin Yates, age 26, b NC is listed in the 1850 Henderson Co census with wife Harriet, 22, b NC and daughter Jane, age 1, b KY. John Martin Yates married Sarah Martha Hill 10 Jan 1857 Henderson Co KY. |
| Sarah A. | 20 f | housekeeper |
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KY | Martha Hill, age 10, is listed in the 1850 Henderson Co KY census with her parents Elias and Elizabeth (Shelton) Hill, who were married 20 Apr 1837 in Henderson County. | ||
| Minerva J. | 10 f |
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KY | Minerva Jane Yates is the daughter of John Martin Yates and his first wife Harriet; they are listed in the 1850 Henderson Co KY census. | |||
| Mary S. | 7 f |
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KY | ||||
| George | 5 m |
|
KY | ||||
| William B. | 1 m |
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KY | ||||
| Hill | William | 15 m |
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KY | William Hill was the son of Elias and Elizabeth (Shelton) Hill, and the brother of Sarah Martha Yates. | ||
| 287/283 | Melton | Brice | 44 m | farmer | $ 600
$ 200 |
NC | John Brice Melton was the son of John Melton, who left an 1846 Henderson Co KY will. He married Mary Catherine Davis 30 Jun 1846 Henderson Co. KY. |
| Mary | 40 f | housekeeper |
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OH | |||
| Lewis A. | 19 m | farming |
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KY | Lewis and Elizabeth were children of Brice Melton's first wife, who may have been Mary Stevens. | ||
| Elizabeth | 17 f | domestic |
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KY | Lewis and Elizabeth were children of Brice Melton's first wife, who may have been Mary Stevens. Elizabeth Melton married Will Seay 1869 Webster Co KY. Seay, a 27-year-old carpenter from Tennessee, is living with the Melton family in the 1870 Webster Co census. By 1880, Elizabeth and Seay are divorced; she is living with her parents and has two children, Sallie Seay, 8, and Will Seay, 7. | ||
| Jennetta | 13 f |
|
KY | Jennetta Melton married 1) Jasper M.L. Hunter 9 Feb 1870, Webster Co KY; they had one son, David Oscar Hunter who married Ella Bell Bridwell. Jasper Hunter, b 1847, the son of Ephraim Hunter and Susan C. Orsburn, died in 1874. Jennetta Melton married 2)John M. Hunter, son of Andrew J. Hunter & Sarah A. Watson, 9 Feb 1870 Webster Co KY and they had four children. | |||
| Jesse J. | 11 m |
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KY | Jesse J. Melton married 1) Ann Eliza Johnston/Johnson 12 Aug 1869 Webster Co and they are listed in the 1880 Webster Co census with four children; he married 2) Martha A. Dunahoo 6 Mar 1884 Webster Co and in the 1900 Webster census they had two children. | |||
| Sarah | 8 f |
|
KY | Sarah F. Melton married John Gordon Ezell, son of William E. Ezell & Susan Jane Griffin, 4 May 1870 Webster Co KY. | |||
| Mary C. | 5 f |
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KY | Mary Ellen Melton married George W. Grayson, son of William Grayson and Uriah K. Marks, 13 Feb 1873 Webster Co KY. | |||
| 288/284 | Hoskins | James C. | 25 m | farming |
$ 100 |
VA | |
| Frances | 23 f | housekeeper |
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KY | |||
| Joel M. | 6 m |
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KY | ||||
| James A. | 4 m |
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KY | ||||
| Thomas J. | 1 m |
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| Whitsell | James P. | b-smith |
$ 500 |
KY | James P. Whitsell married Sarah Tompkins, the daughter of James Tompkins; Sarah died in 1859 and is buried at Tompkins Cemetery. James and Sarah's sons, James W. Whitsell and John G. Whitsell are living with Sarah's parents in the 1860 Webster Co census. James P. Whitsell married Virginia Crenshaw 4 Feb 1868 Webster Co and they are listed in the 1870 Hopkins Co census with their son, Dudger, 1, and James and Sarah's children, James, 15 and John, 13. Information on this family from Bobby Rakestraw. | ||
| Hoskins | B.R. | 14 m |
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TN | |||
| 289/285 | Crowley | G.W. | 37 m | farmer | $1000
$ 600 |
KY | George W. Crowley was the son of Prior and Susan Crowley. We have not found his marriage record. George W. Crowley and Elizabeth Bland were the parents of at least 8 children. |
| Elizabeth | 25 f | housekeeper |
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IL | Tom Watson has discovered Elizabeth's maiden name was Bland. It is listed on the 1935 death certificate of her son Robert Zeke Crowley, b 1870. R.Z. Crowley's wife Thula was the informant for his death record information. Elizabeth Bland Crowley lived until after 1920. We have her photo online. | ||
| Perry W. | 5 m |
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KY | ||||
| Margaret | 2 f |
|
KY | ||||
| Susan V. | 3/12 f |
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KY | ||||
| 290/286 | Crowley | Charles | 26 m | farmer | $ 500
$ 300 |
KY | Charles Crowley, the son of William Madison Crowley and Elizabeth Crowley, married Mary Ann Grayson 26 Jan 1857 Henderson Co KY. They had two daughters, Elizabeth Alice (see below) and Pernettie (1864-1907) before Charles Crowley died 28 Apr 1866. We have much information online regarding the Crowley family of Webster, Hopkins and Henderson County KY. |
| Mary A. | 22 f | housekeeper |
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KY | Mary Ann Grayson was the daughter of William Grayson and Uriah K. Marks. She married (2) Wilkins Royster Jr 7 Aug 1877 Webster Co KY. | ||
| Elizabeth A. | 1 f |
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KY | Elizabeth Alice Crowley married John Norman Royster, son of William Marshall Royster and Eliza H. Norman, 26 Jan 1881 Webster Co KY. She died 24 Jul 1915 and is buried at Royster Cemetery in Henderson Co KY. | |||
| 291/287 | Croley | William W. | 47 m | farmer | $ 800
$ 600 |
KY | William Madison Crowley, son of William Crowley and Mary "Polly" Elder, married Elizabeth Crowley 9 Oct 1832 Hopkins Co KY. Elizabeth Crowley died 15 Aug 1855 and William Madison Crowley died 28 May 1861. Both are buried at Zion Brick Cemetery in Hopkins Co KY. We have much information online regarding the Crowley family of Webster, Hopkins and Henderson County KY. |
| Pernette | 21 f | domestic |
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KY | Pernettie Crowley married Virgil Austin Moody, son of John J. Moody and Judith Railey, 27 Mar 1870 Webster Co KY, and they had 4 children. Pernettie (1836-1913) and Virgil (1836-1897) are both buried at Zion Brick Cemetery. Information from the late Shirley Moody, Evansville IN. | ||
| William | 19 m | farming |
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KY | William Crowley married Nancy A. Oglesby, household 297/293 of this census, and dau of Stephen Decatur Oglesby and Louise Betty Knight, 8 Nov 1871 Webster Co KY; they had three children. William Crowley died in 1878. | ||
| Susan | 16 f | domestic |
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KY | Susan Crowley never married. In the Apr 1897 will of her brother-in-law Virgil Austin Moody, Susan is provided a home "as long as she desires to stay." Shirley Moody, Evansville IN. Susan Crowley died 17 Aug 1912; she is buried at Zion Brick Cemetery. | ||
| David E. | 7 m |
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KY | David Elder Crowley married Miranda Johnson 21 Nov 1872 Webster Co KY. They had two children before David Crowley died 23 Apr 1876; he is buried at Zion Brick Cemetery. | |||
| 292/288 | Joiner | John C. | 29 m | farmer |
$ 200 |
TN | John C. Joiner married Emily S. Ballard 24 Aug 1856 Henderson Co KY. Tina Hall |
| Emily S. | 29 f | housekeeper |
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KY | |||
| Sarah E. | 2 f |
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KY |