Photograph,Jane Bell (Martin)
TennesseeConfirmed3rd-great-grandmother · Sumner County, Tennessee
⚠ NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH Jane Bell (c.1879–1955, Texas), Earl's great-grandmother and the wife of William Leonard Proeger Sr. Two different women, four generations apart, with the same name. This is the 3rd-great-grandmother, wife of Peter Hines Martin of Sumner County, Tennessee.
- 🔑 Born TENNESSEE — written on her own line by two enumerators ten years apart S98 S161, and on the 1850 sheet hers is the only birthplace filled on the household's seven lines. The Ancestry tree is now corrected to Tennessee (22 September 2026), on these two schedules S98 S161. Nothing read in this research gives Virginia for her; that was her husband's birthplace S105, copied across to her.
- ⚠ Birth year UNSETTLED — c.1794 or c.1797–98. The 1850 census gives her age as 56 (born 1793–94) S98; the 1860 census gives 62 (born 1797–98) S161. Ten years apart the ages advance only six, and they cannot both be right. The 1818 marriage favours the earlier year — a bride of about 24 rather than 20 S162; the 1820 tally puts her in the 16–25 bracket and leans later S163; the 1840 bracket, 40–49, contains both and is neutral S164. No record read gives a month or a day. A row stands in the research review queue.
- Married Peter Hines Martin (1793–1849) on 2 July 1818. 🔑 The county MARRIAGE REGISTER has now been read S162: the licence issued and the rite solemnized the same day, certified by Rev. William Hume, V.D.M. — the officiant named for the first time. It is the record behind the Dodd compiled index S106.
- 🔑 She ran the farm as a widow, in her own name. Farmer stands in her own occupation column on both schedules: $6,000 of real estate in 1850 S98, and $9,240 real with $11,840 personal — better than $21,000 — in 1860 S161, in a household of three.
- Widowed 4 July 1849 at Gallatin, Sumner County S105; still heading her own household in District 12, Sumner County at the 16 June 1860 enumeration S161.
- 🔑 Her son Joseph Daniel Martin is named in his father's will S172 — "To Joseph D Martin I give unto a light bay filly now two years old", inside the passage disposing of the estate for the benefit of my children. He is in her household in 1850 at 18 S98 and again in 1860 at 27, by then a farmer in his own right S161. A census names a household, not a parentage, and neither sheet says "son" — and neither does the will: the filiation is carried by the structure of the bequest. The Probable comes off on the document; the caveat stays.
- ⚠ The family was larger than the record names. The 1820 tally shows a daughter under 10, never named S163; the 1840 sheet shows six sons born roughly 1821–1835, of whom only David and Joseph are named anywhere S164. Tallies, not names.
- 🔑 William Bell, 65, under her roof in 1850 S98 was her BROTHER — her husband's will S172 leaves "Mr. Wm Bell … a house and a support with his Sister as long as he Shall choose to accept it." Born about 1785, nine years older than Jane; the arithmetic had withdrawn the father reading and the will names the relationship. It is also why he is in her house: Peter provided for it.
- ⚠ The 1830 census S174 puts one female aged 30–40 in the household and settles nothing about her birth year — the bracket contains both c.1794 and c.1797–98. It is not cited for either.
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James Harris Timberman Sr.
New JerseyConfirmedLouise's grandfather · 1858–1919
- He is the father of James Harris Timberman Jr.,
and the two men are easy to confuse: the son is 1886–1919 and died in
Ohio; this man is 1858–1919 and died in Pennsylvania. They died
four months apart in the same year. The son's 1919 Ohio death certificate names him
as "J. H. Timberman Sr", born New Jersey, which is what ties the two records
to each other S79
- Born June 1858 Confirmed —
and settled across three independent sources. The tree carried
4 January 1858 and was wrong. His 1919 Pennsylvania death certificate writes
line 6 out in words — June / Fourth / 1858 — and its age-at-death
field, 60 yrs 11 mos 30 ds against a death of 3 June 1919, agrees with itself
S93. The 1900 census of
Wilkes-Barre, taken nineteen years earlier while he was alive, records him as
born June 1858 and gives age 41 at the 1 June 1900 census date — right
for the fourth of June, and wrong for the fourth of January
S139. The 1860 census has him
at 2 years old at Salem, New Jersey, which agrees again
S94
- The day, 4 June, is now settled. The Upper Alloways Creek township return of births, made on 15 July 1858, gives June 4 1858 at Allowaystown and names his parents John Timberman & Rebecca, his father a carpenter S374; added 24 September 2026.
- A Veterinary Surgeon Confirmed
— and the trade is recorded twice, nineteen years apart: on the 1900 census as
his occupation at 41 S139, and
again on line 8a of the 1919 death certificate
S93. ⚠️ On both records
the occupation exists only in the image — Ancestry's transcription of neither
carries it. It is the clearest thing this line has to show for reading pages at full
resolution instead of trusting an index
- 🆕 In the 1884 Wilkes-Barre directory, aged about 26, he was a veterinary surgeon with office and home at 96 Public Square, and advertised as “Dr. J. H. Timberman … Member of Penn'a College of Veterinary Surgeons” S375 — sixteen years before the 1900 census; added 24 September 2026.
- 🆕 His sister Rebecca Timberman Harbauer (1864–1944) married Henry C. Harbauer; her death certificate names the same parents, John Timberman and Rebecca Harris S579. So a Timberman brother and sister both married Harbauers. That Henry C. was Louise Emma's brother is not yet proven. added 25 September 2026.
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- His parents are confirmed by his own death certificate: father
John H. Timberman (b.~1826), mother Rebecca Anna Harris (b.~1823)
S93
Confirmed. His middle name
Harris is his mother's maiden name, carried forward — and then given to his son
as well, which is why three generations answer to the same three words
- The 1860 census puts the whole household at Salem, Salem County, New
Jersey: John Timberman 34, Rebecca A. 37, James H. 2, Esther A. 14 and
John H. 7/12 S94. ⚠️ That
places the family at Salem in 1860; it is not itself a statement of where the
two-year-old was born. New Jersey is confirmed by the 1900 census's nativity
column and by the son's Ohio certificate; Salem County is the household's
place, and the stronger of the two claims
- He married Louise Emma Harbauer — on the site's older reading of the dates she
is simply "1863–1934"; the 1900 census fills her in. She was born June 1863 in
Pennsylvania of two German-born parents, and the same sheet records
three children born, three living
S139
- Louise first appears at seven in Philadelphia in 1870 S175, and in 1880 at 17 in the house of her widowed mother Eva Harbauer, 149 Noble Street S176. A Jas Timberman, 22, boarded in the next house, 151 Noble Street — his age, and identified by name and age only.
- In 1900 the directory lists him as a veterinarian, business and house at 8 E. Union, Wilkes-Barre S178; by 1910 the family lived at 293 North Main Street, where the census gives his trade as doctor in general practice S177.
- At twelve, in 1870, he worked in a cotton mill at Gloucester City, New Jersey S189. By 1914 he practised as Timberman & Church, veterinary surgeons, rear 15 N Main S190; his son Albert N. named him next of kin in 1916 at 60 S. Washington St. S200.
- The marriage is dated to about 1886, and the derivation is worth stating
plainly: the 1900 schedule records them as married 14 years, which counts back
to 1886 S139.
⚠️ No marriage record has been retrieved, and a years-married column is a
round number given to an enumerator, not a register entry. It is corroborated from an
unusual direction — their eldest son was born October 1886 — which brackets the
wedding tightly but also means the census figure and the son's birth are describing
one and the same year with no room to spare
- The 1900 household is the only place all three sons appear together: James
H., Oct 1886, at school at 13; George W., Feb 1892; and Albert, Aug
1893 S139. They are at
house 8, dwelling 38, family 44, Ward 5, 2nd Division, enumerated 1 June
1900 by John Shadrach. Only the eldest has a page of his own here; George
and Albert are recorded and not yet traced
- He died 3 June 1919 at Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, one day
before his sixty-first birthday, of carcinoma of the prostate of a year's
duration, at 60 South Washington Street. He was buried at Mt. Greenwood
Cemetery on 5 June 1919; the undertaker was W. E. Doran & Sons and the return
was filed on the 4th — certificate 69731, registered 642, district 667
S93
Two small things on the certificate are deliberately not turned into facts. The
informant is a W. Timberman of West Virginia — the surname is legible at full
resolution, the given initials are not, and they have not been expanded into a
guess. And Ancestry indexes the entire 1900 household as "Limberman"; the
enumerator's looped capital is a T, so that is a transcription artefact and not a
name variant to be recorded. What is still open above him is his father: John
H. Timberman's own parents are not found, and he is absent from the 1850 New Jersey
census index across 194 Timberman results. The New Jersey Births and Christenings Index
(1660–1931) is the next place to look, and it would also be the only document that could
put a second, independent source behind 4 June.
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Eva Harbauer
ConfirmedEarl's 3rd great-grandmother · born 1825
- Born June 1825, Germany; immigrated 1829; by 1900 she had borne eleven children, five living S330
- In 1880, widowed, head of the household at 149 Noble Street, Philadelphia, aged 55; her daughter Louise is in the house, and the census states the relationship as mother S176
- Mother of Louise Emma Harbauer, wife of James Harris Timberman Sr. S176
- The 1870 census gives her birthplace as France (possibly Alsace); unproven S175
- 🆕 Her marriage to Ludwig, written Ludwig Halbauer with Eva Jung, both of the Northern Liberties, is dated 9 September 1844 in a typed transcript of a Philadelphia church register S582. added 25 September 2026.
- 🆕 Her parents: Jacob Jung (Young) and Eve Jung (Young) Probable confirm or correct →. In 1850 Jacob Young, 69, tailor, and Eve, 54, both born in France, headed a family in the Northern Liberties that runs onto the next page with Lewis and Eve Harbour and their children S838, and a widows' pension index names her Eva Young Harbauer S839. What is weak: the census has no relationship column, and no document read calls her their daughter. added 28 September 2026.
- 🆕 The 1850 census page with her own household has now been read from the image: Lewis Harbour, 27, a cabinet maker born in France; Eve, 24, born in France; and Lewis 5, Harriet 3 and Sarah 4 months, born in Pennsylvania Probable confirm or correct → S969S838. Evidence: her exact age (born June 1825), France as in 1870, the same Northern Liberties neighbourhood as her 1880 home on Noble Street, and a cabinet-maker husband. What is weak: the census states no relationships, and nothing on the page names Louise. Know a record? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
- 🆕 A Philadelphia directory indexed as 1874 lists “Harbauer Eva, wid Lewis, h 152 Pegg”, with Louis Harbauer, finisher, at the same house Probable confirm or correct → S1047. Evidence: the rare surname, the widowhood and the city fit her. Weak: the year is from the index only, and a directory gives no age or birthplace. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
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James Harris Timberman Jr.
PennsylvaniaConfirmedLouise's father · 1886–1919
- On the record he is "J. H. Timberman, Jr."
Confirmed — the 1915 Sumner County
marriage book gives initials and the suffix, nothing more
S29
- Married Nancy L. Martin — licence issued 15 June 1915, solemnised
17 June 1915 at Gallatin, Tennessee; clerk Moon, officiant
H. L. Olmstead S29.
🆕 Corrected 26 September 2026: the book was first read as the 10th and the 11th; set beside a second scan of the same page, both read the 15th and the 17th, which agrees with the marriage bond S261.
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- His WWI draft registration card, signed "James Harris Timberman Jr."
in his own hand at East Orange, New Jersey in 1917, settles the full given name and
the birth date of 23 October 1886; it has him at 30, a deputy real-estate agent
for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad at Hoboken
S80
Confirmed
- His Ohio death certificate, read from the image, carries him the rest of the
way: Jas. H. Timberman, born 23 October 1886 in Pennsylvania, a
B&O Railroad inspector, died 24 January 1919 at 9 p.m. at Cambridge,
Guernsey County, Ohio, of influenza after four days — the 1918–19 pandemic,
exactly as the family remembered. The informant was his widow, reporting from
Gallatin, Tennessee, where he was buried three days later. It names his parents
J. H. Timberman Sr (born New Jersey) and Louise Harbauer (born
Pennsylvania) S79
Confirmed
- ⚠️ Philadelphia is the one thing still Probable. The draft card names the city;
the death certificate says only "Pa." Two cautions on the certificate's own
face: its stated age of 31 is an arithmetic error for 32, and the cause of death is a
handwritten word on 1919 microfilm, read as Influenza rather than transcribed
from type S79
- His death when Louise was 21 months old is what the obituary describes — "at
the age of two her family moved to Gallatin" — and by 1930 Nancy is enumerated as
widowed. Two independent sources, one of them family-written, agree
S26S27
The gap this note used to describe is closed. The draft card and the Ohio
certificate together give the full name, the birth date, the death and both parents, so
nothing now waits on the New Jersey birth certificate for Louise, Vol. 59 p. 95
(Orange, 10 April 1917) — only the index was ever retrieved. It would still add
his mother's maiden name and both parents' ages as stated in 1917, and it is worth
having for that. It is not online; the New Jersey State Archives holds it.
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Nancy Louise Martin
TennesseeConfirmedLouise's mother · 1878–1967
- Nancy L. Martin on the 1915 marriage record
S29
- 1930 census, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee — "Timberman, Nancy, 52,
widowed, head, high-school teacher," with her daughter Louise M., 13
S27
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- Her maiden name Martin is proved from that same page rather than from a tree:
her own unmarried sister, "Martin, Emma, 59, single, teacher," is enumerated in
the household S27
- Born 5 November 1878, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee
Probable — age 52 in the 1930 census is
consistent S27S30
- Died 17 May 1967, at 811 Garner, Pasadena, Harris County, Texas
Confirmed — Texas death certificate
31838; she had lived there ten years, and was taken home to Gallatin Cemetery,
Tennessee S262. The FamilySearch
tree had placed her death in California S30
- Her parents, Joseph Daniel Martin (1832–1899) and Nannie Chenault
(1844–1915), married 10 January 1866 at Castalian Springs, Sumner County, are
Probable — but corroborated sideways by
the boarder in her 1930 household, "Chenault, Ermin, 28", a woman, a saleslady in dry goods: a Chenault living
with the family S27S30
- 🆕 Her grandparents are now named too, 18 September 2026 — and on 22 September
Peter Hines Martin's own will names Joseph in the children's division
S172, so that link no longer rests on a census household (the will does
not write son; the bequest's structure carries it): Joseph Daniel
Martin's own parents were Peter Hines Martin (4 Nov 1793 – 4 July 1849,
Gallatin, Sumner Co., TN) S105 and
Jane Bell, married 2 July 1818 in Davidson County
S106. Two pencilled boxes on
Robert William Coffman's pedigree chart S103
gave the names; the records confirmed the man, the marriage and the widow's household
S98
That 1930 household is the single best document of the run that found it. One page puts
Louise, her widowed mother, her mother's unmarried Martin sister and a Chenault relative
under one roof — and in doing so it named two generations that had been blank.
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Louise Martin Timberman
New JerseyConfirmedMaternal grandmother · 1917–2008
- Maiden name: TIMBERMAN. Full maiden name Louise Martin Timberman. This
was the last blank on the maternal side and it closed on 13 September 2026
S25S26S28
- Born 10 April 1917, East Orange / Orange, Essex County, New Jersey — read off
the printed Index of Births in New Jersey, 1915–19, Orange: "Timberman,
Louise M. — Apr. 10, 1917 — Vol. 59, p. 95" S25.
A printed index, not a transcription, and the date is exact.
- 🆕 Already at Ward-Belmont School in 1934–35, in the F. F. Club in the 1935 Milestones S395; added 24 September 2026.
- 🆕 She is also in the French Club photograph in the same 1935 Milestones, bottom row, eleventh from left S490. added 25 September 2026.
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- Died 20 January 2008, Deltona, Volusia County, Florida
S26S30
- Married Robert William Coffman on 8 June 1939, Sumner County, Tennessee — bond
dated the 6th, solemnised on the 8th by the groom's own older brother, James
Burton Coffman, M.G. S28
- Parents: James Harris Timberman Jr. (1886–1919) and Nancy Louise Martin
(1878–1967), married at Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee on 17 June 1915
S29S27
- Raised in Gallatin, Tennessee from the age of two — her father died in January
1919, when she was 21 months old, and by 1930 her mother is enumerated as widowed
S26S27
- M.A. Library Science, Peabody College; librarian at Milby High School,
Houston, then North Shore Junior High; member, Daughters of the American Revolution
S26
- Interment at Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, Houston, is stated in her obituary
Probable — but
no FindAGrave memorial exists for her
Not found. All sixteen Coffman
memorials at that cemetery were checked, under both surnames. Her husband is there;
she is not. The grave exists; the memorial has simply never been created
S26S15
Why this is certainly the right woman. Her 2008 obituary names her surviving
children as "Ginger Clayton, Nancy Proeger, David Coffman and James Coffman" — an exact
match for the 1950 census household, plus David, who was born after it. It names her late
husband as Robert W. Coffman, married fifty years
S26S10.
⚠️
One disagreement, recorded rather than hidden. Zoomed to 5× on three separate
passes, the bride's surname in the 1939 Sumner County marriage bond reads
"Tuckerman" to this researcher — a
ck where FamilySearch's indexers read
an
mb and transcribed
"Timberman" S28.
Timberman still stands, because it does not rest on that handwriting at all: the
printed New Jersey birth index, the family-supplied obituary, the 1930 census and
the 1915 marriage record in a different clerk's hand all read Timberman
S25S26S27S29.
Four sources, three of them not handwriting-dependent, against one 1939 clerk's cursive.
⚠️ A second conflict, also unresolved: the
1930 census gives her birthplace as
Tennessee, not New Jersey, as it does for everyone in that household
S27. Her mother had been back in Gallatin for a
decade by then and the enumerator most likely wrote the family's state. The 1950 census,
the New Jersey birth index and the obituary all say New Jersey — three to one.
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Photograph,David Chenault
ProbableEvidence: Nannie's 1915 death certificate, which names her father only as “D. Chenault” of Kentucky. Weak or missing: No first name on it; nothing yet spells out David as her father. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Father of Nannie Chenault
- Research status: PROBABLE — her death certificate names only "D. Chenault" of Kentucky. What would confirm it: a record spelling out David as her father (marriage bond, probate, or an 1850 census naming relationships).
- Married Louisa Quishinberry, 25 October 1827, Madison County, Kentucky (written Chinault) S96
- Head of a Sumner County, Tennessee household in 1850: David, 50, born Kentucky; Louisa, 39; Nancy, 6 S97
- In 1860, P.O. Gallatin, a farmer aged 60 with real estate of $52,600; Louisa 48, Nancy 15, and Harvy, Milton, Mariah and William S206
- His headstone, an obelisk in an iron-fenced plot, reads “DAVID CHENAULT, BORN Feb. 15, 1800, DIED Dec. … 188[3?]” — the day and last digit of the death year are hidden by grass in the only photograph we have. Photograph shared on Ancestry by SMitchell7866; Probable until a burial record is read.
- Father of Nannie Chenault
- 🆕 A compiled genealogy, Colonial Families of the United States, says Louisa Quisenberry, born 29 September 1811 in Madison County, Kentucky, married David Chenault “of the same county” on 25 October 1827, and that they settled in Sumner County, Tennessee, and had 14 children S426. Two of his sons' death certificates name him: Milton's (1917) as D. Chenault of Kentucky S427, and Charles's (1936) in full as David Chenault, born Kentucky, with Louise Quisenberry as the mother S425. added 25 September 2026.
- 🆕 His daughter Maria Louise Barry, born 15 July 1851, died in Sumner County on 13 July 1933; her death certificate (no. 15453) names her father David Chenault, born Kentucky Confirmed S961. His 1827 marriage is now read from the register image S96. added 29 September 2026
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Louisa Quisenberry Chenault
ProbableEvidence: The 1900 Quisenberry family book, her 1827 marriage (read from the register image), the 1850 and 1860 censuses, and her daughter Maria Louise's 1933 death certificate, which gives the mother's maiden name as Quinesberry. Weak or missing: Her birth date and parents come from the compiled book; no record of her birth has been read. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Earl's 2nd great-grandmother · born 1811
- Born 29 September 1811, Madison County, Kentucky, per a published 1900 Quisenberry family history S333
- Married David Chenault on 25 October 1827, Madison County, Kentucky S96S333
- In 1850 in David's Sumner County, Tennessee household, aged 39, with Nancy, 6 S97; in 1860, aged 48, with Nancy, 15 S206
- The family history lists a daughter Nancy, who married a Martin S333 — Nannie Chenault. Nannie's 1915 death certificate gives her mother as “Lizzie Eastberry”, probably a misheard Quisenberry S208
- Probable, not Confirmed: the family history is a compiled secondary source
- 🆕 Probable mother of Maria Louise Chenault Probable confirm or correct →, born 1851: “Mima L.”, 18, is in David and Louisa's 1870 household S397. Accepted by Earl as probable; what is weak: Maria Louise's 1933 death certificate names her mother only as “Quinesberry”, from an informant S961. added 28 September 2026.
- 🆕 Two records read from their images: the Madison County marriage register, “October the 25th day 1827 was David Chinault and Louisa Quishinberry married,” in the return of the minister David Chinault Senr. Confirmed S96; and her daughter Maria Louise Barry's 1933 Tennessee death certificate (no. 15453), which gives the mother's maiden name as “Quinesberry” S961. added 29 September 2026
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John Martin
ProbableEvidence: A grave record that gives his given name only. Weak or missing: Nothing yet names Peter Hines Martin as his son. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Father of Peter Hines Martin
- Research status: PROBABLE — the grave record S105 gives his given name only. What would confirm it: a record naming Peter Hines Martin as his son (probate, deed, or a pre-1850 census household).
- Father of Peter Hines Martin (4 November 1793 – 4 July 1849) S105
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Louise Bell Martin Harsh
ConfirmedDaughter of Joseph Daniel Martin · born 1866
- Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
- Daughter of Joseph Daniel Martin and Nannie Chenault; sister of Nancy Louise Martin
- Born 13 November 1866, Tennessee; the Louisa, 3, of the 1870 census and Luisa B., 13, of 1880 S202S207
- Married Nathan James Harsh (born 2 December 1860, died 1934) S204
- Died 13 February 1935 at 250 College Drive, Abilene, Texas, and buried at Gallatin; her death certificate names both parents S191
- 🆕 Married 17 October 1888 at Gallatin, as Louisa B. Martin to N. J. Harsh, by R. W. Harsh, minister S401. She and Nathan farmed in the 1st Civil District of Sumner County for forty years: in 1900 with four children, Kenneth, Joe D., Nannie M. and Nathan S402; in 1910 she had borne 8 children, 5 living, now including Louise B. and Richard K. S403; in 1920 on Harsh Road as Louise M. S404; and in 1930, aged 63, with her son Kenneth's family S405. The 1900 census gives her birth as May 1867, against 13 November 1866 on her death certificate; not settled. added 24 September 2026.
- 🆕 Nathan died on 10 September 1934 at Gaston Hospital, Lebanon, and was buried at Gallatin. His death certificate names his parents as George Harsh and Talitha Newby S503; in 1870 he was 10, in their household in Davidson County, where George was a dry goods merchant born in Pennsylvania S504. added 25 September 2026.
- 🆕 In 1880 Nathan, 19, was at home in the 1st Civil District of Sumner County with his father George Harsh, 53, a farmer born in Pennsylvania to a father from “Offenheim”, Germany; George's wife then was Elizabeth, 30, and a stepson, James Polk, 6, was in the house S588. added 25 September 2026.
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Mary Jane Martin
ConfirmedDaughter of Joseph Daniel Martin · born 1868
- Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
- Daughter of Joseph Daniel Martin and Nannie Chenault; sister of Nancy Louise Martin
- Born 8 September 1868, Sumner County, Tennessee; Mary, 1, in the 1870 census and Mary, 11, in 1880 S202S207
- 🆕 Married Philip Harsh Rutherford (1858–1914) about 1890; the family history gives her birth as 8 September 1868 and her father as Joseph Martin of Sumner County, and lists eight children S408. In 1900 they farmed in the 10th Civil District of Sumner County with son Homer S409; the two eldest children were born in Texas. Their daughter Nannie Bell died at Nashville on 20 August 1906, aged 12; her death certificate names her mother as Mary Martin S410. In 1910 they owned a farm on Long Hollow Pike S411. By January 1920 she was a widow running a dairy farm near Cordell, Washita County, Oklahoma S412, and she stayed in Cordell with her youngest children Martin and Mary Bell through 1930, 1940 and 1950 S413S414S415. The records call her husband P. H. or Philip H.; the “Mrs. T. H. Rutherford” on the back of her childhood photograph is taken to be a misread P. The licence was issued on 31 December 1890 S572; her death is not yet sourced. added 24 September 2026.
- 🆕 The Sumner County licence for P. H. Rutherford and Mary Martin was issued on 31 December 1890 S572. In 1940 her son Martin Rutherford, born at Gallatin on 2 April 1908, gave her, Mrs. P. H. Rutherford, as his contact on his draft card; they lived at 417 West 11th, Cordell S568. added 25 September 2026.
- 🆕 Philip Harsh Rutherford's parents were probably C. C. Rutherford and Lydia Rutherford, probably née Harsh Probable confirm or correct →: the 1860 census of the 5th District, Davidson County, Tennessee (post office Nashville), read from the image, lists P. H. Rutherford, 2, directly after C. C. Rutherford, 27, a farmer, and Lydia Rutherford, 25, with Griffith Rutherford, 1, in the household of Nathan Harsh, which fits a Harsh-born mother and Philip's middle name S880. What is weak: the 1860 census states no relationships; no document read names Philip's parents, gives Lydia's maiden name or spells out C. C. (Cheselton Cathey in family trees), and the birth and death dates offered for both are unsourced. Accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. added 28 September 2026.
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Emma Lee Martin
ConfirmedDaughter of Joseph Daniel Martin · born 1870
- Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
- Daughter of Joseph Daniel Martin and Nannie Chenault; sister of Nancy Louise Martin
- Born 10 March 1870, Tennessee; Emma, 10, in the 1880 census S207
- Died 11 December 1934, Nashville, Tennessee
- 🆕 She left a will. Letters testamentary on the estate of Emma L. Martin, late of Sumner County, were issued on 15 December 1934 by Hub Perdue, clerk, to Nancy M. Timberman as executrix Confirmed S1019. added 29 September 2026
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Kate Martin
ConfirmedDaughter of Joseph Daniel Martin · born about 1873
- Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
- Daughter of Joseph Daniel Martin and Nannie Chenault; sister of Nancy Louise Martin
- Born about 1873, Tennessee; Kate, 7, in her parents' household in the 1880 census, which states each child's relationship S207
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Martha “Mattie” Martin McConnell
ConfirmedDaughter of Joseph Daniel Martin · born 1874
- Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
- Daughter of Joseph Daniel Martin and Nannie Chenault; sister of Nancy Louise Martin
- Born 26 August 1874, Sumner County, Tennessee; Mattie, 5, in the 1880 census S207
- Married Arthur Harris McConnell, 12 April 1911
- Died 12 July 1957 at 406 South Water Street, Gallatin, his widow, and buried in Gallatin Cemetery; her death certificate names both parents S203
- 🆕 The marriage bond of 12 April 1911 names her Martha Elizabeth Martin, with her brother J. D. Martin as surety S390. In 1920 she and Arthur were farming in Drummond Precinct, Fremont County, Idaho, with William M., John M. and Margaret M. S391; in 1930 they owned 716 Lincoln Place, Spokane, where Arthur was superintendent at a telephone company S392; added 24 September 2026.
- 🆕 Her husband Arthur Harris McConnell, born at Iowa City on 25 June 1872, commercial superintendent of the Interstate Telephone Co., died at Spokane on 29 June 1938; she was the informant, “Mrs. Martha M. McConnell” Confirmed S1044. The certificate names his parents as William C. McConnell and Cynthia Kennedy. added 29 September 2026
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Joseph Daniel Martin Jr.
ConfirmedSon of Joseph Daniel Martin · born 1876
- Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
- Son of Joseph Daniel Martin and Nannie Chenault; brother of Nancy Louise Martin
- Born 21 December 1876, Gallatin, Tennessee; Joe, 3, in the 1880 census S207
- Married Pauline (surname not yet found); living in Memphis in 1950 S370
- Died 7 May 1959, Memphis, Tennessee S371
- 🆕 In September 1918 he was manager of the sundry department at Van Vleet-Mansfield Drug Co. in Memphis; nearest relative Olga Norvell Martin S368. In 1940 a manufacturers' agent in drug sundries, owning a farm at Rosemark, Shelby County, with his wife Olga Norvel S369; added 24 September 2026.
- 🆕 By 1950 retired at 1646 Harbert, Memphis, with his wife Pauline E. S370. His 1959 death certificate names his parents, J. D. Martin and Nancy Chenault S371.
- 🆕 In 1930 he owned 1845 Cowden Avenue, Memphis, an agent in druggist sundries, with his wife Olga S376; added 24 September 2026.
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Milton Waller Chenault
ConfirmedSon of David Chenault · born 1849
- Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
- Son of David Chenault and Louisa Quisenberry; brother of Nannie
- Born 1 June 1849, Tennessee; Milton, 11, in his father's household in 1860 S206
- Married Nannie E. Dunn, 26 February 1874
- Died 27 January 1917, Castalian Springs, Sumner County, Tennessee; buried in the Chenault Graveyard S427
- 🆕 In 1870, aged 21, still farming in his father's household at Castalian Springs; his mother Louisa held $8,200 of real estate in her own name S397. The Sumner County licence to marry Nannie E. Dunn is dated 26 February, but the year's last digit was never written; 1874 fits his being single in July 1870 S399. In 1880 he farmed next door to his parents with Nannie, born Kentucky, and their children Henry and Mary S398; in 1910, aged 60, he was a general merchant, married 36 years, and Nannie had borne 9 children, all living S400. The 1910 sheet gives Tennessee for Nannie's birthplace and 1880 gives Kentucky; not settled. added 24 September 2026.
- 🆕 His death certificate: Milton W. Chenault, farmer, born 1 June 1849 in Tennessee, died 27 January 1917 at Castalian Springs of Bright's disease, and was buried the next day in the Chenault Graveyard. It names his father as D. Chenault of Kentucky and his mother as a Quinsberry of Kentucky. That is a second child's certificate pointing to the Quisenberry family S427. added 25 September 2026.
- 🆕 His wife Nannie’s probable parents: in August 1870 a Nancy, 16, born Kentucky, was in the household of Woodruff Dunn, 45, farmer, and Mary, 37, in the 2nd Civil District of Sumner County (P.O. Enon College), with brothers Luther and Leo and sisters Eliza, Artemisia and Alice Probable confirm or correct → S1050. Evidence: name, age, Kentucky birth (as in 1880) and the district, four years before the marriage licence. Weak: one census, no relationships stated, and no record yet names her parents. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
- 🆕 His son Luther Dunn Chenault was born on 10 August 1887 in Tennessee and died in Memphis on 12 July 1950, a retired travelling salesman. His death certificate gives his mother’s maiden name as Nancy Dunn and leaves his father blank Confirmed S1131. He is the Luther D., 24, at home with Milton and Nannie in 1910 S400.
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Maria Louise Chenault
ConfirmedDaughter of David Chenault · born 1851
- Research status: CONFIRMED (index) — added 24 September 2026 from an index record that names her father; entered in the family tree the same day.
- Daughter of David Chenault; sister of Nannie
- Born 15 July 1851, Tennessee; the Mariah, 8, of her father's household in 1860 S206
- Married Benjamin C. Barry, licence 9 August 1875, Sumner County S554
- Died 13 July 1933, Sumner County, Tennessee
- 🆕 In 1910, as Mariah Louise Barry, 58 and widowed, she owned her farm free of mortgage in the 2nd Civil District of Sumner County, with her daughters Mamie, 27, and Jessie May, 24; she had borne 5 children, 2 of them living S586. added 25 September 2026.
- 🆕 Her mother: probably Louisa Quisenberry Chenault Probable confirm or correct →, David's only wife seen from 1850 to 1880. In 1870 “Mima L.”, 18, is in David and Louisa Chenault's household at Castalian Springs S397, as Mariah, 8, was in 1860 S206. Accepted by Earl as probable; what is weak: the censuses state no relationships, “Mima L.” is not plainly “Maria L.”, and her 1933 death certificate gives her mother only by the maiden name “Quinesberry”, from an informant S961. added 28 September 2026.
- 🆕 Her death certificate, as Mrs Maria Louise Barry, died 13 July 1933 in the 2nd Civil District of Sumner County, gives her birth as 15 July 1851 in Tennessee and names her father David Chenault and her mother, maiden name Quinesberry, both born in Kentucky Confirmed S961. She was buried in the Barry graveyard. added 29 September 2026
- 🆕 In January 1920 she was still head of her own farm, owned free, in the 2nd Civil District of Sumner County: Mariah Barry, 68, widowed, with her daughter Jessie, 33, and her grandchildren Louise Barry Cecil and Roy Barry Cecil Confirmed S1064. added 29 September 2026
- 🆕 In June 1880 Mariah, 28, was keeping house in the Second District of Sumner County with her husband, entered as B. P. Barry, 33, a farmer, and their sons Albert, 4, and Wallace, 1 Confirmed S1163. In June 1900, widowed and 48, she owned her farm free in the 2nd Civil District, born in July 1852 by that census, mother of five children, two living, with her daughters Jessie May and [Hannie?] Confirmed S1164. Her given name is partly illegible on the 1900 page; Albert and Wallace are not in the house by then.
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Charles Coker Chenault
ConfirmedSon of David Chenault · born 1858
- Research status: CONFIRMED (index) — added 24 September 2026 from an index record that names both parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
- Son of David Chenault and Louisa Quisenberry; brother of Nannie
- Born 28 December 1858, Castalian Springs, Tennessee
- Married Maudante Bradley, 15 November 1893, Wilson County, Tennessee S424
- Died 19 March 1936, Castalian Springs, Sumner County, Tennessee; buried Gallatin Cemetery S425
- 🆕 In 1870, aged 11, at school in the 3rd Civil District of Sumner County (Castalian Springs post office) S385. He farmed his own land in the First Civil District for the rest of his life: in 1900 with his wife Maudante (entered as Mordalite) and their children Neil, Mildred and Marian S386; in 1910 with a fourth, Eugenia, and his brother William next door S387; in 1920 aged 61 S388; and in 1930 aged 71, first married at 34, with his daughter Eugena Kelly and a granddaughter S389. Each census gives his wife as Mordante or Mordalite; added 24 September 2026.
- 🆕 The Wilson County return shows he married Mandante (or Maudante) Bradley on 15 November 1893, the day the licence was issued at Lebanon; the minister was T. B. Larimore; the clerk was Wm. Harkreader S424. His death certificate gives him as Charlie Cornelius Chenault, a widowed farmer, born 28 December 1858, son of David Chenault and Louise Quisenberry, both born in Kentucky. He died at Castalian Springs on 19 March 1936 and was buried in Gallatin Cemetery S425. The middle name Cornelius came from an informant in Murfreesboro and the tree has Coker; both are kept until a second record decides. added 25 September 2026.
- 🆕 In 1880 he was Charlie Chenault, 21, single, farming in the 1st Civil District of Sumner County S587. added 25 September 2026.
- 🆕 He is C. C. Chenault, 35, on the 1891 Tennessee list of male voters for Sumner County, District 1 S638. That age points to about 1856, but the 1870 and 1930 censuses support 28 December 1858, which is kept. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 The 1880 agriculture schedule for the First District of Sumner County lists him as owner of his farm S654. His wife, entered on her death record as Mordant Chenault, was born 20 February 1873, a daughter of Thomas Bradley and Eugenia Huddleston. She died at St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville, on 24 June 1935 and was buried at Gallatin S656. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 His administrators qualified in the Sumner County Court on 6 April 1936, less than three weeks after his death, and filed the final settlement of his estate that December Confirmed S802. Besides the farm's wheat, the accounts show $863 in the bank, a Fidelity Mutual Life policy worth $2,035.65, rent on a restaurant and upstairs room, and a gasoline rental from Pan American Petroleum. His son Neil appears in several entries. added 27 September 2026
- 🆕 In June 1860, aged 2, Charles was at the head of page 49 with his brother Millard F., 4, the last two of the David Chenault household that begins on the previous page Confirmed S1162S206, P.O. Castalian Springs.
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Colby Burris Quisenberry
ProbableEvidence: The 1900 Quisenberry family book names Louisa as his daughter; his 1810 marriage register and two sons' death certificates have been read. Weak or missing: No record names Louisa as his child, and his own parents come only from SAR and DAR lineage books. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Probable father of Louisa Quisenberry · born 1788
- Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; Quisenberry Memorials (1900), p. 67 S333, a compiled family book rather than a record, names Louisa as their daughter and gives her 1827 marriage to David Chenault; the couple's own marriage register, 16 December 1810, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, has been read from the image
- Probable father of Louisa Quisenberry Chenault, born 29 September 1811, and so grandfather of Nannie Chenault
- Married Lucy Bush, 16 December 1810, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky; born about 1788 and died about 1870, both years from the family book
- 🆕 Colonial Families of the United States gives his birth as 7 July 1788, Fayette County, Virginia (now Clark County, Kentucky). Kentucky was still part of Virginia then, which is why sources say both. It makes him the sixth of thirteen children of James Quisenberry's first marriage, with eleven half-siblings, and has him dying on 30 December 1870. Quisenberry Memorials says 31 December S451S333. added 25 September 2026.
- 🆕 The census has him and Lucy in Clark County, Kentucky: farming in District 2 in 1850 with Tandy, Elkanah and John M. S495; near Winchester in 1860 with Elkanah, Martin and Sarah S496; and still alive in August 1870, aged 80, a retired farmer marked “Insane” S497. Two sons' death certificates name him and Lucy Bush as parents: Colby B. Jr. (1822–1907) and John Martin (1833–1914) S493S494. An SAR application and two DAR entries give his parents as James Quisenberry and Jane Burris; they are compiled lineages, so this is probable S498S499S500. These records prove other children, not Louisa, so the couple's status stays probable. added 25 September 2026.
- 🆕 The Clark County register of births for 1858 records Mariah, a Black girl born enslaved on 30 December near Winchester, with “Colby B. Quisenberry” entered as her owner S726 Probable confirm or correct →. He was living near Winchester in 1860 S496. What is weak: his son Colby B. Jr had the same name, and the register does not say which Colby it means. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 In 1840 “C B Quisenberry” headed a Clark County household with a man and a woman aged 50–59, which fits Colby, born 1788, and Lucy, four men in their twenties, and eight younger people; Thacker and Jackson Quisenberry headed young families a few lines below S741 Probable confirm or correct →. The head is too old to be his son Colby B. Jr., who signed the same way in 1847. What is weak: the 1840 census names only the head, so the initials, the ages and the county are the only link. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 The family Memorials of 1900, in its “A Constructive Descent” on page 7, gives him born in Clark County, then Fayette County, Virginia, on 7 July 1788, dead there on 30 December 1870, and married to Lucy Bush on 16 December 1810 S761. That agrees with Colonial Families S451, so the 31 December credited to the Memorials is the book disagreeing with itself. A compiled book, not a record. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 Probably him in 1830: Colby B. Quisenberry headed a Clark County household in 1830 with a man and a woman aged 40–49 and eleven children under 20 Probable confirm or correct → S1060. Evidence: the name and county, and a head aged 40–49 fits a birth in 1788. Weak: only the head is named, and the page with the enslaved and free coloured columns is not on the image. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
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Lucy Bush
ProbableEvidence: The 1900 Quisenberry family book names Louisa as her daughter; two sons' death certificates prove her name Bush. Weak or missing: No record names Louisa as her child; her parents come only from SAR and DAR lineage books. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Probable mother of Louisa Quisenberry · born about 1790
- Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; Quisenberry Memorials (1900), p. 67 S333, a compiled family book rather than a record, names Louisa as their daughter and gives her 1827 marriage to David Chenault; the couple's own marriage register, 16 December 1810, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, has been read from the image
- Probable mother of Louisa Quisenberry Chenault; wife of Colby Burris Quisenberry, married 16 December 1810, Winchester, Kentucky
- Born about 1790 and died about 1872, both years from the family book
- 🆕 Her maiden name, Bush, is now on two death certificates, both of her sons: Colby B. Quisenberry Jr. (1907) and John Martin Quisenberry (1914). The second gives her birthplace as Clark County, Kentucky S493S494. She is in the Clark County censuses of 1850, 1860 and 1870 S495S496S497. An SAR application and a DAR entry name her parents as Francis Bush and Rachel Martin, his second wife; they are compiled lineages, so this is probable S498S500. added 25 September 2026.
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Ludwig Harbauer
ProbableEvidence: A sister's 1863 baptism naming Ludwig Harbauer and Eva Jung, the 1870 Philadelphia census, and a typed transcript of their 1844 church marriage. Weak or missing: Nothing names Louise Emma herself as his child, and the 1844 marriage is known only from a later typed copy. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Probable father of Louise Emma Harbauer
- Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; Louise Emma's sister Henriette Harbauer's baptism, Salem Zion United Church of Christ, Philadelphia, 29 March 1863 (born 28 May 1848), names her parents as Ludwig Harbauer and Eva Maria Jung; the 1870 Philadelphia census has Eva with the children, among them Louisa, 7, and Henrettia S175
- Probable father of Louise Emma Harbauer, wife of James Harris Timberman Sr.; husband of Eva Harbauer
- Philadelphia, Ward 11, aged 43, a cabinet maker, in the 1863 Pennsylvania septennial census. Died before June 1880, when Eva is a widow at 149 Noble Street S176; no death record has been read
- 🆕 A typed transcript of a Philadelphia church marriage register records Ludwig Halbauer and Eva Jung, both of the Northern Liberties, married on 9 September 1844 S582. It is a later copy; the original register page has not been seen. added 25 September 2026.
- 🆕 Probably the Lewis Harbour, 27, cabinet maker, born France heading a household with Eve, 24, and three young children in the Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, in August 1850 Probable confirm or correct → S969. What is weak: the census gives no relationships, and his age there points to about 1823 where the 1863 septennial census points to about 1820. Know a record? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
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Samuel Timberman
ProbableEvidence: John H. Timberman's 1857 Swedesboro marriage record, “son of Samuel Timberman”. Weak or missing: Index records only; Samuel's own dates are not documented. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Probable father of John H. Timberman
- Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; the marriage of John H. Timberman and Rebecca A. Harris, 16 August 1857, Swedesboro, New Jersey, gives the groom as a carpenter and a widower, son of Samuel Timberman; the county marriage index names “Saml Timberman” in the family field. Index records only; his own dates are not yet documented
- Probable father of John H. Timberman, and so great-grandfather of James Harris Timberman Jr.
- 🆕 His probable wife: Mary Burroughs Timberman Probable confirm or correct → — Samuel Timberman, 71, and a Mary head a Pilesgrove household in 1850 S861, and are named as Harriet Timberman's parents in a marriage index S862; a Mary Timberman, 70, daughter of Benjamin Burroughs, died on 6 June 1858 at Upper Alloways Creek S860. No record names her as Samuel's wife, and a Samuel Timberman–Mary Ann Applegate marriage is also indexed. added 28 September 2026.
- 🆕 Probably him in 1830: Samuel Timberman, 40–49, heading a household of 12 in Upper Alloways Creek Township, Salem County, with two sons 15–20; William and Ann Timberman lived next door (Upper Alloways Creek Township, 1830) Probable confirm or correct → S996. Evidence: the name, and the township where Mary Timberman died in 1858 S860. Weak: 1830 names only the head, and the age bracket is a decade younger than his 71 in 1850 S861. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
- 🆕 Probably him in 1840: Samuel Timberman, 60–69, in Upper Alloways Creek Township, Salem County, with a woman 50–59, a boy 10–14 and a girl 5–9. He is listed between Benjn Timberman and Samuel Timberman Jr, both 20–29, who may be older sons Probable confirm or correct → S1017. Evidence: his age fits the 71 of 1850 S861, the woman fits Mary, and the boy fits John H., born about 1830. Weak: 1840 names only the heads, and the 1830 entry gives him an age of 40–49, which does not agree. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
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John H. Timberman
ConfirmedFather of James Harris Timberman Sr. · born about 1825
- Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026; entered in the family tree the same day. His son's 1919 Pennsylvania death certificate names him as father, John H. Timberman, born New Jersey S93, and the 1858 Upper Alloways Creek birth return names the parents John Timberman & Rebecca, the father a carpenter S374
- Father of James Harris Timberman Sr.; husband of Rebecca Anna Harris
- Married Rebecca A. Harris, 16 August 1857, at Swedesboro, New Jersey, by Geo. Hitchens, minister; the Woolwich Township marriage return, read from the image, gives him as Jno. Timberman, 32, carpenter, of Gloucester, a widower, son of Saml. Timberman
- John Timberman, 34, at Salem, New Jersey, in 1860 with Rebecca A., James H., Esther A. and the infant John H. S94; a house carpenter, 40, at Gloucester City in 1870, a widower again, with James H., John H. and a younger Rebecca S189
- Probable son of Samuel Timberman. His own birth and death dates are not yet documented
- 🆕 A daughter, Rebecca Timberman Harbauer, was born on 10 August 1864 in New Jersey and died on 23 April 1944 at 4840 Pine Street, Philadelphia. Her death certificate names her parents as John Timberman and Rebecca Harris, both born in New Jersey; she was the widow of Henry C. Harbauer S579. In June 1863 he was enrolled for the Civil War draft at Salem City: John Timberman, 38, carpenter S583. added 25 September 2026.
- 🆕 In 1880, as John Timmerman Sen., 56, a widowed carpenter, he boarded in Clayton Township, Gloucester County, in the house of Alexander Peacock. His son John, 21, was there too, married to Peacock's daughter S619. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 His mother: probably Mary Burroughs Timberman Probable confirm or correct →. Mary Timberman, married, 70, daughter of Benjamin Burroughs, died on 6 June 1858 at Upper Alloways Creek S860; a Samuel and Mary Timberman head a Pilesgrove household in 1850 S861 and are named as Harriet Timberman's parents S862. Accepted by Earl as probable; what is weak: no document names Mary as Samuel's wife or as John's mother. added 28 September 2026.
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Colby Burris Chenault
ProbableEvidence: The 1850 Sumner County census (“Colly”, 19, in David and Louisa's home), the 1900 Quisenberry family book, and a 1942 headstone application giving his death on 4 April 1918 and burial at Gallatin. Weak or missing: The census states no relationships, the book is compiled, and the War Department could not find the Civil War unit given on the headstone application. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Son of David Chenault · born about 1831
- Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; the 1850 Sumner County, Tennessee, census (District 3, dwelling 336) has “Colly” Chenault, 19, in the household of David, 50, and Louisa, 39 S97; and Quisenberry Memorials p. 67 S333 lists Louisa Quisenberry and David Chenault's children as “1. John. 2. Colby. …”. A death on 4 April 1918, first seen only in other users' tree media, is now given by a 1942 headstone application S561
- Son of David Chenault and Louisa Quisenberry; elder brother of Nannie Chenault, Milton Waller, Maria Louise and Charles Coker
- Born about 1831; died 4 April 1918; buried Gallatin Cemetery S561
- 🆕 He married Araminta Harper; their bond was entered in Sumner County on 8 May 1854 S445. They farmed in Sumner County for more than fifty years: District 2 in 1860, with $8,000 in land S446; the 3rd Civil District, near Castalian Springs, in 1870 S447; the 1st District in 1880 with ten children, when he gave both his parents as born in Kentucky S448; and Trousdale County in 1900. The 1900 census gives his birth as May 1831 and says Araminta had borne nine children, all living S449. In 1910 they were on the Coles Ferry Pike, married 55 years, and he was marked “Ca”, a Confederate veteran S450. His unit has not been found yet. added 25 September 2026.
- 🆕 His son Jacob Anderson Chenault, a minister, was born in Sumner County on 12 June 1870 and died at Nashville in 1952; the death certificate names his parents as Colby Chenault and Ariminta Harper S549. added 25 September 2026.
- 🆕 A 1942 veteran's headstone application for Colby Chenault Sr. gives his death as 4 April 1918 and his burial in Gallatin Cemetery, and his service as a private in Co. G, 9th (Ward's) Tennessee Cavalry, from 1 November 1862 S561. The applicant was a Mrs. D. C. Harper of Gallatin; his wife was Araminta Harper, but the page does not say how they were related. The War Department could not find the unit in its own records, so the service is the family's claim. added 25 September 2026.
- 🆕 A daughter, Alice Chenault Bullock, wife of Nathan Bullock, was born at Gallatin on 24 August 1862 and died at Nashville on 3 April 1943. Her death record names her parents as Colby Chenault and Araminta Harper, both born in Sumner County S672. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 The 1860 slave schedule for District 2 of Sumner County lists Coleby Chenault as holding one enslaved girl, aged 10. The schedule does not give her name S686. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 Araminta Harper's parents: probably Benjamin S. Harper and Nancy Tinsley Probable confirm or correct →. In 1850 “Arminta”, 13, was in Benj. S. Harper's household in District 14 of Sumner County, four years before her marriage S866. Benjamin gave bond to marry Nancy Tinsley on 30 November 1825 S867S868 and married Jane Bell on 9 November 1841 S869, so Nancy was his only known wife when Araminta was born, about 1837. Accepted by Earl as probable; what is weak: the census states no relationships, no record names Araminta's parents, and nothing shows Nancy was still living in 1837. The dates and middle name Find a Grave gives Benjamin are not used. added 28 September 2026.
- 🆕 In January 1920 his widow, entered as “Ira M.”, 83, widowed, lived on Dobbins Road in Civil District 9 of Sumner County with their unmarried children John W., 54, who owned the farm, Jewell, 52, and Sallie, 44, a public school teacher Confirmed S1159.
- 🆕 The 1860 farm schedule for Sumner County lists Colby Chenault with about 100 acres improved and 92 unimproved, the farm valued at $4,000 Confirmed S1161. The film is faint, the livestock columns cannot be read, and the schedule gives no age or family.
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Rebecca Anna Harris
ConfirmedMother of James Harris Timberman Sr. · died 1866
- Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026; entered in the family tree the same day. Her son's 1919 Pennsylvania death certificate names her Rebecca Anna Harris, born New Jersey S93, and his middle name is her maiden name
- Mother of James Harris Timberman Sr.; wife of John H. Timberman; daughter of James and Rachel Harris
- Married John Timberman, 16 August 1857, at Swedesboro, New Jersey; the marriage return gives her as 18, single, of Salem County, daughter of James & Rachel. Rebecca A., 37, at Salem in 1860 S94
- Died 8 July 1866, City of Salem, New Jersey, aged 37, of consumption — the Salem death return, read from the image; the index's 1867 is the year the return was filed. Her birth year conflicts (about 1839 by the marriage age, earlier by the census and death ages), so none is given
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James Harris
ConfirmedFather of Rebecca Anna Harris
- Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026; entered in the family tree the same day. Rebecca Anna Harris's 1857 Woolwich Township marriage return and her 1866 Salem City death return, both read from the images, name her parents as James & Rachel Harris
- Father of Rebecca Anna Harris, and so great-grandfather of James Harris Timberman Jr.; husband of Rachel
- Of Salem County, New Jersey. His own dates are not yet documented
- 🆕 In 1870 he was 73, living with Rachel in Gloucester City in the home of Joseph K. and Georgianna Frazer S622. That puts his birth about 1797, in New Jersey. The census does not say how the Frazers were related. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 In 1860 he was James Harris, 63, a labourer, living with Rachel in Upper Alloways Creek, Salem County S653. The census leaves birthplaces blank. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 In August 1850 he was James Harris, 53, a labourer, in Upper Alloways Creek, Salem County, with Rachel, 39, Benjamin, 16, and Charlotte E., 10, all born in New Jersey Confirmed S1167. The census states no relationships. Rebecca Anna, about 27, was no longer at home.
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Rachel Harris
ConfirmedMother of Rebecca Anna Harris
- Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026; entered in the family tree the same day. Rebecca Anna Harris's 1857 Woolwich Township marriage return and her 1866 Salem City death return, both read from the images, name her parents as James & Rachel Harris
- Mother of Rebecca Anna Harris; wife of James Harris
- Her maiden name and dates are not yet documented
- 🆕 In August 1850 she was Rachel Harris, 39, born New Jersey, in James Harris’s household in Upper Alloways Creek, Salem County, with Benjamin, 16, and Charlotte E., 10 Confirmed S1167. That age puts her birth about 1811, which sits awkwardly with Rebecca Anna’s birth about 1823: either Rebecca was born later than her 1860 age says, or Rachel was James’s second wife. Both of Rebecca’s own returns name her mother as Rachel, so the card stands; if you know more, use “Add to this record”.
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Robert B. Martin
ProbableEvidence: Peter H. Martin's 1849 will, a gift “for the benefit of my children”. The 1870 Shreveport census (S1046) has D. B. Martin, 37, a Tennessee-born merchant, with the same make-up as the 1860 Rusk household (S429). Weak or missing: The will never says “son”; no census or estate record names him as one. The 1870 ages run two to three years young, and nothing on that page names Peter H. Martin, so David B. as Robert's brother is not proven. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Probable son of Peter Hines Martin
- Research status: PROBABLE — added to this record 24 September 2026; on the family tree, labelled probable there too. He is named in Peter H. Martin's 1849 will S172 in a gift “for the benefit of my children”, but the will does not say “son”; a census household or a guardianship or estate record naming him as a son would confirm it. The will also records his $370 advance and his share in the shoe store
- Probable son of Peter Hines Martin and Jane Bell; brother of Joseph Daniel Martin
- Married Urilda P. Morgan, 4 September 1849, Sumner County, Tennessee — two months after Peter's death
- 🆕 A Robt. B. Martin was appointed postmaster at Gallatin on 20 April 1848 and held the office until August 1849. The page does not say he is the Robert B. of the will S432. In 1850 Robert B. Martin, 23, was a merchant in Sumner County with Urilda, 21, and their son Charles H., 4 months S428. Between about 1852 and 1854 the family moved to Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas. In 1860 he farmed there, and a D. B. Martin, 29, merchant, born Tennessee, lived next door S429. In 1870 he was a merchant in Rusk with Urilda P., Charlie H., Jennie B., Clarra B. and Percy S430. By 1880 he was a widower, 53, farming in Rusk with his sons Charles H., a schoolteacher, and Percy. He gave his father's birthplace as Virginia and his mother's as Tennessee, which matches Peter Hines Martin and Jane Bell. He is still Probable, because no record names his parents S431. added 25 September 2026.
- 🆕 By 1870 the D. B. Martin of the 1860 Rusk household was a merchant at Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, 37, with S. N., Ella and Clarance Probable confirm or correct → S1046. Evidence: the same Tennessee-born merchant, North Carolina-born wife and Texas-born Ella as 1860. Weak: the ages run 2–3 years young, and nothing names Peter H. Martin, so David B. as Robert’s brother stays Probable. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
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Urilda P. Morgan
ConfirmedWife of Robert B. Martin · married 1849
- Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026; entered in the family tree the same day. Tennessee State Marriages record Robert B. Martin and Urilda P. Morgan, married 4 September 1849, Sumner County, Tennessee; a second index entry reads “Milda P.”
- Wife of Robert B. Martin, and so sister-in-law of Joseph Daniel Martin
- Her own dates are not yet documented
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Rev. James Quisenberry
ProbableEvidence: SAR application 27139 and the DAR Lineage Book, which make him Colby Burris Quisenberry's father; his epitaph, as a Quisenberry family book copies it, which gives his marriage to Jane Burrus and thirteen children by her; Colonial Families and a Burris typescript, which name his parents as Aaron and Joyce Quisenberry. Weak or missing: Compiled lineage books only; no original record has been read; the Memorials calls his descent 'constructive' and gives Joyce's surname, Dudley, only 'as is supposed'. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Father of Colby Burris Quisenberry · 1759–1830
- Research status: PROBABLE — from compiled lineage books only: SAR application 27139 S498 and the DAR Lineage Book S499 make him Colby Burris Quisenberry's father. No original record has been read
- Probable father of Colby Burris Quisenberry, and so great-grandfather of Louisa Quisenberry Chenault
- Born 1759, Spotsylvania County, Virginia; married Jane Burris in 1776; died 1830, Clark County, Kentucky (lineage books)
- 🆕 A Revolutionary War burial index card gives Rev. James Quisenberry's dates as born 13 June 1759 and died 5 August 1830, aged 71, and says he was buried on his farm in Clark County, Kentucky, and was a “defender of Fort Boonesboro” S728. It is a compiled card, not an original record. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 A Clark County marriage register records the marriage of a James Quisenberry and Cloey Ship on 24 December 1811, performed by James Haggard S727 Probable confirm or correct →. It may be a second marriage for this James after Jane Burris died; on the next page of the register a James Quisenberry officiates at three marriages, which fits a minister. What is weak: the register gives no ages or parents, so it does not show which James this is; Jane Burris's death, 3 November 1811, comes only from a book's copy of her stone S750; and the original bond has not been read. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 His epitaph, as copied into a Quisenberry family book, says he was born in Orange County, Virginia, “of English parentage”, on 13 June 1759; married Jane Burrus in his eighteenth year and had seven sons and six daughters by her; married Chloe Shipp of Clark County on 24 December 1811 and had eleven more children; moved to Kentucky in 1783; and died on 5 August 1830 S750 Probable confirm or correct →. This names the 1811 bride of the Clark County register as his second wife. What is weak: it is a book's copy of the stone; and it puts his birth in Orange County, where a family history puts it in Spotsylvania, so the card keeps Spotsylvania. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 Colonial Families of the United States calls him the founder of the Kentucky branch: after service in the Orange County militia he settled in 1783 in what is now Clark County, was in the garrison of the fort at Boonesboro under Daniel Boone, and was an ordained Baptist minister. It names his first three children by Jane Burris: Joyce, born 1777, who married James Duncan; Frances, born 1779, who married John Bruner; and Jane, born 1782, who married Ambrose Bush S762. A Burris typescript says his family moved from Spotsylvania to Orange when he was ten, and names his parents as Aaron and Joyce Quisenberry S763; the family Memorials makes him the son of Aaron Quisenberry (about 1715–1795) and of Joyce Dudley, “as is supposed” S761 Probable confirm or correct →. What is weak: all three are compiled books; the Memorials author calls his own descent “constructive” and hedges Joyce's surname; and two of the books give James Jane's 5 July birthday, one also a 24 December wedding, where the stones say 13 June and 4 December. If you know more, use “Add to this record”. added 26 September 2026.
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Jane Burris
ProbableEvidence: SAR application 27139, the DAR Lineage Book, her father Thomas Burrus's 1788 will, which names 'my daughter Jane Quisenberry', and her tombstone as a Quisenberry family book copies it: born 5 July 1759, died 3 November 1811; a Burris family typescript agrees on her marriage and death. Weak or missing: The will names neither her husband nor her age; her dates come from a book's copy of the stone, not the stone itself, and one DAR entry gives 1739. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Mother of Colby Burris Quisenberry
- Research status: PROBABLE — from compiled lineage books only: SAR application 27139 S498 and the DAR Lineage Book S499. The two disagree on her birth: the SAR says 1759, the DAR 1739. Her tombstone, as copied in a family book, and a second DAR entry both give 1759 S750S751
- Probable mother of Colby Burris Quisenberry; wife of Rev. James Quisenberry, married 1776
- Born 5 July 1759, Orange County, Virginia; died 3 November 1811, Clark County, Kentucky (her tombstone, as a family book copies it S750); one DAR entry's 1739 is not supported by anything read
- 🆕 Her father's will, written 2 October 1788 and proved 23 March 1789 in Orange County, Virginia (Will Book 3), names “my daughter Jane Quisenberry” and “my grand Daughter Frances Quisenberry the Daughter of Jane Quisenberry” S645. It is the first original record for her. It shows that she was Thomas Burrus's daughter and married to a Quisenberry by 1788, but it does not name her husband or give her age, so her birth year is still open. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 Her tombstone in Clark County, Kentucky, as copied into a Quisenberry family book, calls her the consort of Rev. James Quisenberry, married 4 December 1776, the mother of thirteen children, born in Orange County, Virginia, on 5 July 1759, and dead on 3 November 1811, aged 52 years, 3 months and 27 days S750 Probable confirm or correct →. A second DAR entry, for Lilla May Duncan, also gives her as 1759–1811 S751. What is weak: this is a book's copy of the stone, not the stone itself; but the age at death checks out against both dates. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 A typescript history of the Burris family lists her as the ninth of Thomas Burris's children, married at seventeen on 4 December 1776 to James Quisenberry, “who was the same age”, and dead on 3 November 1811 S763. It prints her birth year as 1755, a slip, since it makes her James's age and her stone says 1759. Her sister Frances Tandy Burris married William Bush, “Captain Billy Bush” (1746–1815), son of Philip Bush Sr., on 9 December 1778, and her sister Mourning married Thomas Graves Jr. in 1791. A compiled typescript, not a record. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 Her mother: Frances Tandy Probable confirm or correct →, by DAR Lineage Book no. 112604, “Thomas Burris m. Frances Tandy” S751; her father's 1788 will names his wife Frances S645. Accepted by Earl as probable; what is weak: only compiled books give the name Tandy, and the will does not say Frances was Jane's mother. added 28 September 2026.
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Francis Bush
ProbableEvidence: SAR application 27139, DAR Lineage Book no. 141325, and a Francis Bush on a 1778 roll of the 2nd Virginia Regiment; a compiled chart in Ridge Runners (1978) names his first wife, Lucy Davis, and his parents, Philip Bush and Mary Bryan. Weak or missing: The 1778 roll is a name match only; nothing yet shows Lucy was the child of his second wife, Rachel, rather than his first. The Ridge Runners chart cites no sources and its dates (20 February; died about 1824) disagree with the lineage books (23 February; 1836). Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Father of Lucy Bush · 1750–1836
- Research status: PROBABLE — from compiled lineage books only: SAR application 27139 S498 and DAR Lineage Book no. 141325 S500, which calls Rachel Martin his second wife. No original record has been read, and nothing yet shows whether Lucy was Rachel's child or the first wife's
- Probable father of Lucy Bush, and so great-grandfather of Louisa Quisenberry Chenault
- Born 23 February 1750, Orange County, Virginia; died 1836, Clark County, Kentucky (lineage books). Married Rachel Martin as his second wife; his first wife is not named here
- 🆕 A Francis Bush enlisted on 14 February 1778 for one year in Capt. William Taylor's company of the 2nd Virginia Regiment, and was present in September 1778 S649. Probable confirm or correct → This is the first original record of service behind the lineage books, and he would have been 27. But a roll gives only a name, so the match rests on the name alone. A pension or bounty-land file would settle it. If you know more, use “Add to this record”. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 A compiled ancestor chart in Ridge Runners (1978) names his first wife, Lucy Davis, born about 1750, married about 1770 in Orange County, died before 1794, and his parents, Philip Bush and Mary Bryan S772 Probable confirm or correct →. What is weak: the chart cites no sources, and it gives his birth as 20 February and his death as about 1824, where the lineage books say 23 February and 1836. If Lucy Bush was born before 1794, Lucy Davis may be her mother rather than Rachel. added 26 September 2026.
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Rachel Martin Bush
ProbableEvidence: SAR application 27139 and DAR Lineage Book no. 141325, which calls her Francis Bush's second wife; a Rachel Bush, 45 or over, heading a Clark County household in 1820; Rachael Bush, 93, blind, with Fielding Bush in Clark County in 1860; a supplemental SAR application naming her parents as John Martin and Rachel Pierce. Weak or missing: She may be Lucy's stepmother, not her mother; the 1820 house has no older man though Francis is said to have lived to 1836; her mother is given here as Rachel Pierce (SAR and DAR), with Rachel Pace (a Pace family book) as the alternate reading. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Mother of Lucy Bush · 1767–1860
- Research status: PROBABLE — from compiled lineage books only: SAR application 27139 S498 and DAR Lineage Book no. 141325 S500. The DAR book makes her Francis Bush's second wife, so she may be Lucy's stepmother rather than her mother. Her parents: John Martin and Rachel Pierce by a supplemental SAR application and the DAR S764S500, the Pace family book says Rachel Pace S749. This record goes with Rachel Pierce as probable and keeps Pace as the alternate reading
- Probable mother of Lucy Bush; second wife of Francis Bush
- 1767–1860 (lineage books)
- 🆕 In 1820 a Rachel Bush, 45 or over, headed a household in Clark County, Kentucky, with two young men and a girl, among the Martin households S650. Her age fits a birth in 1767. The index gives her ten slaves; the image shows none. Probable confirm or correct → What is weak: there is no older man in the house, yet the lineage books have Francis living until 1836. Either he was away or dead by 1820, or this is another Rachel. If you know more, use “Add to this record”. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 On 26 June 1860 Rachael Bush, 93, blind, born in Virginia, was living in Clark County, Kentucky, with Fielding Bush, 63, a farmer, probably her son S702. It is the first record made in her lifetime that fits the lineage books' 1767 birth and 1860 death. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 A Pace family book gives her birth as 22 August 1768 in Fluvanna County, Virginia, her death in 1860, and her parents as John Martin and Rachel Pace, and calls her Francis Bush's second wife S749 Probable confirm or correct →. What is weak: it is a compiled book, not a record; it leaves the marriage year blank; and her age of 93 in 1860 points to 1767, not 1768. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 Her mother: probably Rachel Pierce; the alternate reading is Rachel Pace. A supplemental SAR application on number 27139, approved in 1915, gives her parents as John Martin (1746–1830), a private in Capt. Samuel Hawes's company of the 2nd Virginia Regiment from 16 September 1775, who settled in Clark County, Kentucky, and was pensioned in 1820, and Rachel Pierce S764. DAR no. 141325 also says Rachel Pierce S500. The Pace family book says Rachel Pace S749. Probable confirm or correct → Why Pierce leads: a lineage application that sets out its evidence for the Revolutionary service, and was checked and approved on it, outweighs a compiled family book that cites nothing for the name, and the DAR entry agrees with it. What is weak: none of the three is a record made in her lifetime, none cites a marriage record for John Martin, and Pierce and Pace could be one name misread. A marriage or probate record naming John Martin's wife would settle it; if you have one, use “Add to this record”. added 26 September 2026; Pierce made the lead reading 27 September 2026.
- 🆕 Her parents: Lieut. John Martin and Rachel Pace (or Pierce) Probable confirm or correct →. A FamilySearch index of Virginia christenings has a Rachel Martin born 22 August 1768 and christened 15 October 1768 in St James Northam Parish, Goochland County, daughter of John Martin and Rachel Pace S857, and a John Martin married Rachel Peace or Pace in that parish on 3 January 1757 S858. This record, independent of the lineage books, leans to Pace; Earl accepted both parents as probable. What is weak: both are indexes with no image read, and the 1768 child is matched to her by name, parish and date only. added 28 September 2026.
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Colby B. Quisenberry Jr.
ProbableEvidence: His Lexington death certificate, which names Colby B. Quisenberry and Lucy Bush as his parents; the 1900 Quisenberry Memorials, which call him Colby Burris Quisenberry's seventh child. Weak or missing: Louisa's own tie to those parents is still probable, so the sibling link shares that doubt. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Brother of Louisa Quisenberry · 1822–1907
- Research status: PROBABLE (as Louisa's brother) — his Lexington death certificate names his parents as Colby B. Quisenberry and Lucy Bush S493. Louisa's own link to those parents is still probable, from a compiled family book, so the sibling tie shares that doubt
- Son of Colby Burris Quisenberry and Lucy Bush; probable brother of Louisa Quisenberry Chenault
- Born 31 August 1822, Madison County, Kentucky; died 20 March 1907, Avon, Kentucky
- 🆕 His marriage bond, dated 12 July 1847 in Madison County, Kentucky, is for his marriage to Miss Sarah Tribble of that county. He signed it “C B Quisenberry”, and a John B. Bush also signed S644. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 The 1900 family Memorials lists him as the seventh child of Colby Burris Quisenberry. It says he married Sarah Tribble, daughter of Dudley Tribble, on 15 July 1847 and settled in Fayette County near David's Fork church, and it names four children: Ellen, Lucy Belle, Madison and Dudley Tribble S693. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 A later son, Colbey M. Quisenberry, was born at Lexington on 19 July 1866 and died, a retired farmer, at Hendersonville, North Carolina, on 20 December 1936. His certificate calls his mother “Mary” Tribble, but she was Sarah S694S644. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 The censuses show him farming near Lexington in Fayette County for twenty years: in 1860, 37, with Sarah and five children and D. M. Thompson, 14 S756; in 1870, 48, with his land worth $20,000 and the youngest, Colby M., 7 S757; and in 1880, 57, at Brier Hill, with “Sallie”, three of their children, and their married daughter Lucy B. Carr and her two small children S758. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 In 1900, aged 77, born August 1822 and widowed, he still owned his farm in Fayette County (entered “Colby Quisenburg”). With him were his unmarried sons Maddison, 48, Dudley, 43, and Colby Jr., 36, his widowed daughter Bell Cass, 49, and her children Lizzie and Colby Cass Confirmed S1061. The census gives Colby Jr.’s birth as July 1863; his death certificate says 19 July 1866 S694. added 29 September 2026
- 🆕 The 1870 farm schedule for Fayette County (P.O. Lexington) shows his farm: 145 acres improved and 20 of woodland, valued at $13,000, with 5 horses, 5 milch cows, 25 other cattle and 40 hogs; that year it made 85 bushels of wheat and 1,000 of corn Confirmed S1158. The schedule gives no age or family, so the match rests on name and place.
- 🆕 In June and July 1863 the provost marshal for Kentucky’s 7th District entered Colby Quisenberry, 39, a farmer of Fayette County born in Kentucky, with no former service, on the Class II draft list Confirmed S1173. His father, born 1788, was over age, so this is Colby Jr.; the age is a year or two low.
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John Martin Quisenberry
ProbableEvidence: His 1914 Kentucky death certificate, which names Colby B. Quisenberry and Lucy Bush as his parents. Weak or missing: Louisa's own tie to those parents is still probable, so the sibling link shares that doubt. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Brother of Louisa Quisenberry · 1833–1914
- Research status: PROBABLE (as Louisa's brother) — his 1914 Kentucky death certificate names his parents as Colby B. Quisenberry and Lucy Bush S494. Louisa's own link to those parents is still probable, from a compiled family book, so the sibling tie shares that doubt
- Son of Colby Burris Quisenberry and Lucy Bush; probable brother of Louisa Quisenberry Chenault
- Born 26 April 1833, Clark County, Kentucky; died 10 March 1914, Montgomery County, Kentucky
- 🆕 He married Sarah Moore on 25 October 1859 S689. Their daughter Cora was born in Clark County on 6 November 1861; the register names her parents as Martin J. Quisenberry and Sarah F. Moore, born in Montgomery County S695. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 The Montgomery County marriage list for 1859, copied by the clerk in May 1860, dates the wedding 24 October 1859: John M. Quissenberry, 24, of Clarke County, and Sarah F. Moore, 21, born in Montgomery County, both marrying for the first time S708. The family book says 25 October S689. The list's age of 24 would put his birth about 1835; the card keeps 26 April 1833. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 The 1900 family Memorials says he lived at Ewington in Montgomery County and was “named for his maternal great-grandfather, John Martin”, and gives the births of Cora (1861), Ivanora (16 September 1863) and Audley (27 January 1865) S752. In 1880 “Mart” Quisenberry, 47, was farming at Howards Mills with Sarah and their children, and with her mother, Emily Moore, 78, born in Virginia S753. In 1900 he and Sarah F. had been married 40 years; she had borne nine children, seven living S754. In 1910, at 76, he lived with Sarah in their son Earl's home, married 50 years; the census wrote him as “James M.” S755. added 26 September 2026.
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James Francis Quisenberry
ProbableEvidence: SAR application 27139, which traces a descent through him and his wife Emily Cameron Chenault; his own 1847 marriage bond with Emily C. Chenault; the 1900 Quisenberry Memorials, written by his son, which call him Colby Burris Quisenberry's eighth child. Weak or missing: The bond proves the marriage, but his parentage rests on two compiled sources; no record made in his lifetime names his parents. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Brother of Louisa Quisenberry
- Research status: PROBABLE — SAR application 27139 (James Marvin Hinkle, 1914) traces a descent through James Francis Quisenberry, son of Colby Burris Quisenberry and Lucy Bush, and his wife Emily Cameron Chenault S498. A second compiled source, the 1900 family Memorials written by his son, calls him Colby Burris Quisenberry's eighth child S689
- Son of Colby Burris Quisenberry and Lucy Bush; probable brother of Louisa Quisenberry Chenault
- Married Emily Cameron Chenault (about 1832–1904); the SAR application says 1846, but their marriage bond is dated 11 October 1847 S643. Her parents were probably Anderson Chenault and Emily Cameron (below)
- 🆕 His own marriage bond survives. On 11 October 1847, in Madison County, Kentucky, he gave bond, with David W. Chenault as surety, for his marriage to Miss Emily C. Chenault, and signed it “James F. Quisenberry” S643. The SAR application's 1846 is probably a year early. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 The 1900 Memorials of the Quisenberry Family, written by his son Anderson Chenault Quisenberry, calls him the eighth child of Colby Burris Quisenberry. It gives his birth in Madison County on 15 October 1824, his death in Clark County on 3 February 1877, and his marriage on 14 October 1847 S689. Colonial Families of the United States gives the same dates S688. Both are compiled books. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 Emily Cameron Chenault was born in February 1832; in 1900 she was living with her son Waller in Clark County, the mother of four children, three then living S690. A 1915 SAR application by her grandson names her parents as Anderson Chenault (1788–1854) and Emily Cameron, and her grandfather as William Chenault, a Revolutionary soldier S691; Colonial Families agrees S688. Probable confirm or correct → Evidence: two compiled sources name her parents. What is weak: no record made in her lifetime names them. If you know more, use “Add to this record”. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 Their daughter Emma Alice Hinkle, born 26 October 1848, died in Robertson County, Tennessee, on 4 January 1931. Her death certificate names her parents as James F. Quisenberry and Emmily C. Chenault S692. She had married Joseph (or Josiah) Addison Hinkle in 1870 S689S691. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 Their son Walter (Waller) Quisenberry, born in Clark County on 12 January 1853, died at Winchester on 6 November 1914. His death certificate names his parents as Jas. Quisenberry and “Emma” Chenault S698S690. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 A Jas. F. Quisenbury, 38, a white farmer born in Kentucky and living in Clark County, is on the June–July 1863 Civil War draft list for Kentucky's 7th District, just below Thos. J., 40, and Roger T., 37 S725 Probable confirm or correct →. The age fits his 15 October 1824 birth and the county fits his home. What is weak: the list gives only a name, an age and a county. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 The censuses show the family in Clark County: in 1860 James, 35, and “Emma”, 28, with Alice, 12, Anderson, 9, Waller, 7, and Francis, 5 S759; in 1870 Jas. F., 45, farming land worth $26,000, with Emma C., Alice, Walter and Francis, three houses from Golding Quisenberry, 52, whose kinship is not known S760. Emily went by Emma in both. added 26 September 2026.
- 🆕 Emily Cameron Chenault's mother: Emily Cameron Probable confirm or correct →. Another page of the 1915 SAR application gives “Anderson Chenault, born 1788, died 1854, and his wife Emily Cameron, born 1796, died 1836, married 1816” S859; the Madison County marriage bond of 1847 names Anderson Chenault as “father of Emily C. Chenault” S870. Accepted by Earl as probable; what is weak: the bond names the father only, and the mother rests on the compiled SAR application; the day and place of birth and death that trees give her are not in any record read. added 28 September 2026.
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Joseph Daniel Martin
TennesseeProbableEvidence: His headstone, the 1870 census and his father's 1849 will. Weak or missing: The will never writes “son”; the family tree's dates are withdrawn. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Great-grandfather · 1832–1899
- Born 1832, Tennessee — the year on his double headstone S86; aged 37 in the 1870 census, District 12, Sumner County, a farmer with Nannie, 26, Louisa, 3, and Mary, 1 S202
- Died 1899 — the headstone S86. The FamilySearch tree's later dates S12 are withdrawn: the headstone, the 1870 census and his father's 1849 will all place his birth in the early 1830s.
- Father of Nancy Louise Martin (Timberman line) S12
- Married Nannie Chenault S12
- 🔑 Named in his father's will, 30 June 1849 S172 — "To Joseph D Martin I give unto a light bay filly now two years old", inside the passage disposing of Peter H. Martin's estate for the benefit of my children, beside David B. and after Robert B. Martin. His parentage no longer rests on two census households S98 S161. ⚠ The will never writes the word son; the structure of the bequest carries it.
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Nannie Chenault
TennesseeConfirmedGreat-grandmother · 1844–1915
- Father: David Chenault Probable confirm or correct →
- Mother: Louisa Quisenberry Probable confirm or correct → S333S97S206
- Born 26 January 1844, Tennessee — her own death certificate S208, and the same day is cut on her headstone S86
- Died 14 April 1915, 10th Civil District, three miles east of Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee; buried Gallatin Cemetery 16 April S208. ⚠️ The headstone reads the day as APR. 4 S86; the certificate, written at the time, is followed. The earlier about 1849 – 1924 on this card came from a user tree and is withdrawn.
- Wife of Joseph Daniel Martin, mother of Nancy Louise Martin
S12
- The Chenault name appears as a boarder in Nancy's 1930 household —
"Chenault, Ermin, 28", a woman boarder, a saleslady in dry goods — corroborating the family connection
S27
- 🆕 Widowed by 1900 and farming her own farm in District 10, Sumner County; mother of 8 children, 7 living; her parents both born in Kentucky. At home were her daughters E. L., a school teacher, M. E., a music teacher, and Nanie, and her son John, born August 1880 S377; added 24 September 2026.
- 🆕 In 1910, aged 66, still on her own farm with her daughter Emma and her sister-in-law Martha Gillispie, 75 S378.
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Jacob Jung (Young)
ProbableEvidence: In the 1850 Philadelphia census Jacob Young, 69, tailor, born France, and Eve, 54, head a family that includes Lewis and Eve Harbour and their children; Eva's 1844 marriage calls her Eva Jung and a widows' pension index names her Eva Young Harbauer. Weak or missing: The census has no relationship column and no document read names Eva as Jacob's daughter; a 1782 New Hanover, Pa., baptism in online trees belongs to another man. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Probable father of Eva Harbauer
- Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. In the 1850 census of Northern Liberties Ward 3, Philadelphia, Jacob Young, 69, tailor, born in France, and Eve, 54, head a family that runs onto the next page with Lewis Harbour, Eve Harbour and three Harbour children S838; Eva's 1844 marriage calls her Eva Jung S582, and a Civil War widows' pension index names her Eva Young Harbauer S839. What is weak: the 1850 census has no relationship column, and no document read names Eva as Jacob's daughter
- Probable father of Eva Harbauer; husband of Eve (Eva) Jung
- Born about 1781, in France, by his age of 69 in 1850 S838. A Lutheran baptism at New Hanover, Pennsylvania, of 2 August 1782, which some trees give him, belongs to another man: this Jacob was born in France
- A tailor in the Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, in 1850, with Eve, 54, and Louisa, 17, born in Pennsylvania S838
- His death is not found
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Eve (Eva) Jung (Young)
ProbableEvidence: In the 1850 Philadelphia census Eve Young, 54, born France, lives with Jacob Young in a family that includes Lewis and Eve Harbour; Eva's 1844 marriage calls her Eva Jung and a widows' pension index names her Eva Young Harbauer. Weak or missing: The census has no relationship column, no document names Eva as her daughter, and her own maiden name is unknown. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Probable mother of Eva Harbauer
- Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. In the 1850 census of Northern Liberties Ward 3, Philadelphia, Eve Young, 54, born in France, lives with Jacob Young, and the family runs onto the next page with Lewis Harbour, Eve Harbour and three Harbour children S838. Her daughter carries her given name, and the maiden name Young is backed by Eva's 1844 marriage as Eva Jung S582 and a widows' pension index naming her Eva Young Harbauer S839. What is weak: the census has no relationship column, and her own maiden name is unknown
- Probable mother of Eva Harbauer; wife of Jacob Jung (Young)
- Born about 1796, in France, by her age of 54 in 1850 S838
- Her death is not found; no record of it has been read
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Frances Tandy
ProbableEvidence: DAR Lineage Book no. 112604 names Frances Tandy as Thomas Burris's wife in Jane Burris's numbered line, and Thomas Burrus's 1788 will names his wife Frances, a son William Tandy and a daughter Frances Tandy Bush. Weak or missing: Only compiled lineage books give her maiden name; the will gives no surname and does not say Frances was Jane's mother, and no original record has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Probable mother of Jane Burris · wife of Thomas Burris
- Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. The DAR Lineage Book entry for Miss Lilla May Duncan (no. 112604) gives the line “James Quisenberry m. 1776 Jane Burris (1759–1811). Thomas Burris m. Frances Tandy”, Thomas a sergeant in the 3rd Virginia regiment who died in Virginia in 1789 S751. Thomas Burrus's own will of 1788 names his wife Frances, a son William Tandy and a daughter Frances Tandy Bush, besides “my daughter Jane Quisenberry” S645. A 1940 SAR application by another Burrus descendant, Ollie Ezekiel Reed, was read too, but the image is only its cover and references sheet S856. What is weak: only compiled lineage books give her maiden name as Tandy; the will names Thomas's wife Frances without a surname and does not say she was Jane's mother; FamilySearch has no independent record.
- Probable mother of Jane Burris, and so grandmother of Colby Burris Quisenberry; wife of Thomas Burris (Burrus) of Orange County, Virginia, whose will was written on 2 October 1788 and proved on 23 March 1789 S645
- Her birth and death dates, and the middle name some online trees give her, are not in any record read and are not used here
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Lieut. John Martin
ProbableEvidence: DAR Lineage Book no. 141325 and the 1915 SAR supplemental on no. 27139 name John Martin as Rachel Martin Bush's father, and a FamilySearch christening index has a Rachel Martin born 1768 in St James Northam, Goochland, to John Martin and Rachel Pace. Weak or missing: All compiled or index-only; no will, deed or register names Rachel as his daughter, the 1768 christening matches her only by name, place and date, and the mother is Pierce in the books but Pace in the index. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Probable father of Rachel Martin Bush
- Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. DAR Lineage Book no. 141325 (Mrs. Electra Helm Withers) descends from “Lieut. John Martin”: “Francis Bush m. 2d Rachel Martin (1767–1860) … John Martin m. Rachel Pierce”, and says he “served as 2d lieutenant in the Fluvanna County, Virginia militia. He was born in Fluvanna County, Va.; died in Clark County, Ky.” S500. The 1915 SAR supplemental on no. 27139 names Rachel's parents as John Martin (1746–1830) and Rachel Pierce S764. A FamilySearch index of Virginia christenings has a Rachel Martin born 22 August 1768 and christened 15 October 1768 in St James Northam Parish, Goochland County, daughter of John Martin and Rachel Pace S857. What is weak: the books are compiled and the christening is an index with no image; no will, deed or register names our Rachel as John's daughter; the 1768 child matches her only by name, parish and date; and the books call the mother Pierce where the christening says Pace.
- Probable father of Rachel Martin Bush, and so grandfather of Lucy Bush; probable husband of Rachel Pace (or Pierce). A John Martin married Rachel Peace or Pace in St James Northam Parish, Goochland, on 3 January 1757, by an index of a printed register S858
- The SAR supplemental gives him as born in Virginia in 1746, a private in Capt. Samuel Hawes's company of the 2nd Virginia Regiment from 16 September 1775, settled in Clark County, Kentucky, and pensioned in 1820 S764; the DAR book makes him a 2nd lieutenant of the Fluvanna County militia S500. Both are compiled sources
- Not shown to be the same man as John Martin, father of Peter Hines Martin. The birth date and place, middle name and death date that online trees give him are not in any record read
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Rachel Pace Martin
ProbableEvidence: A FamilySearch christening index names Rachel Martin (born 22 August 1768, St James Northam, Goochland) as the daughter of John Martin and Rachel Pace; an index of a printed register has a John Martin marrying Rachel Peace or Pace there in 1757; the Pace family book agrees. Weak or missing: Both are indexes with no image; the 1768 child matches our Rachel only by name, parish and date; the SAR supplemental and DAR no. 141325 call the mother Rachel Pierce. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Probable mother of Rachel Martin Bush · Pace or Pierce
- Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. A FamilySearch index of Virginia births and christenings has Rachel Martin, born 22 August 1768 and christened 15 October 1768 in St James Northam Parish, Goochland County, daughter of John Martin and Rachel Pace S857. A John Martin married Rachel Peace or Pace in the same parish on 3 January 1757, by an index of a printed register S858. The Pace family book also names her Rachel Pace and gives the same 22 August 1768 birth S749. What is weak: both records are indexes with no image read; the 1768 child is matched to our Rachel only by name, parish and date (her age of 93 in 1860 points to 1767); and the SAR supplemental and DAR no. 141325 call the mother Rachel Pierce S764S500. The christening leans to Pace, but it does not settle the name.
- Probable mother of Rachel Martin Bush; probable wife of Lieut. John Martin, married 3 January 1757 by the index S858
- The DAR entry prints “(1750–1821)” after Rachel Pierce's name, and it is not clear whose dates they are S500. The birth in Middlesex County and the death date that online trees give her are not in any record read
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Mary Burroughs Timberman
ProbableEvidence: Mary Timberman's 1858 New Jersey death return names her parent as Benjamin Burroughs; a Samuel and Mary Timberman head a Pilesgrove household in 1850 and are named as Harriet Timberman's parents, and John H. Timberman's 1857 marriage names his father Samuel. Weak or missing: No document names Mary Burroughs as Samuel's wife or John H.'s mother; the 1850 Mary is written as 32, John H. is not in the house, and a Samuel Timberman x Mary Ann Applegate marriage is also indexed in Salem County. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Probable mother of John H. Timberman · about 1788–1858
- Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. The New Jersey return of deaths for Upper Pittsgrove Township, Salem County, records Mary Timberman, married, 70, who died on 6 June 1858 at Upper Alloways Creek, born in Upper Pittsgrove, parent Benjamin Burroughs, of consumption S860. In 1850 Samuel Timberman, 71, a farmer, headed a Pilesgrove household with a Mary Timberman S861, and Harriet Timberman's marriage names her parents as Sam'l and Mary Timberman S862. John H. Timberman's 1857 marriage names his father as Samuel Timberman. What is weak: no document names Mary Burroughs as Samuel's wife or as John H.'s mother; the 1850 Mary is written as 32, not about 62, and John H. is not in that house; and FamilySearch indexes a Samuel Timberman marriage to Mary Ann Applegate in Salem County, a second Samuel or a second wife.
- Probable mother of John H. Timberman; probable wife of Samuel Timberman
- Born about 1788 at Upper Pittsgrove, New Jersey, a daughter of Benjamin Burroughs, who now has a card; died 6 June 1858 at Upper Alloways Creek, aged 70 S860. Her probable grandson James Harris Timberman Sr. was born at Allowaystown two days earlier, on 4 June 1858 S374
- On 5 September 1850, in Pilesgrove Township, Salem County: Samuel Timberman, 71, farmer; Mary Timberman, “32”; Jonathan, 22, farm hand; Judith, 30; Harriet, 20; Charles, 6; all born in New Jersey S861. The census states no relationships
- 🆕 A FamilySearch index of New Jersey church records gives a Mary Burroughs born 8 June 1788 at Salem, daughter of Benjamin Burroughs and Judith; the year agrees with her age of 70 at death. It is an index only, the image being restricted, and it is not yet read S1076. added 30 September 2026
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Benjamin Burroughs
ConfirmedFather of Mary Burroughs Timberman · Salem County, New Jersey
- Research status: CONFIRMED as the father of Mary Burroughs Timberman. The New Jersey return of deaths for Upper Pittsgrove Township, Salem County, read from the image, records the death of Mary Timberman, married, 70, of consumption, at Upper Alloways Creek on 6 June 1858, gives her birthplace as Upper Pittsgrove, and names her parent Benjamin Burroughs S860. A FamilySearch index of New Jersey church records independently gives a Mary Burroughs, daughter of Benjamin Burroughs and Judith, with a Salem birth of 8 June 1788, the year agreeing with her age at death S1076
- Father of Mary Burroughs Timberman. Her wife-of and mother-of links to Samuel Timberman and John H. Timberman are Probable, so his place in Earl’s line rests on hers
- His wife is Judith by the church-record index alone S1076; she has no card. His own birth and death are on no record read. The “K., Jr.”, the birth of 20 July 1764 and the death of 14 March 1826 that online trees give him are not used
- A later Benjamin Burroughs of Salem, father of a Mary born in 1830 to a wife Hannah, is a namesake in the same index and is kept apart
- 🆕 Probably his marriage: a later fair copy of a church marriage register, indexed to Daretown, Pittsgrove, Salem County, has “Benjamin Borans to Judah Lummus” on 30 March 1784 Probable confirm or correct → S1150. The evidence is the year, both names and the place, which fit Benjamin and Judith, parents of Mary born at Salem in 1788 S1076, and a published family history’s Judith Loomis, married 1784. What is weak: the spellings are phonetic, the copy names no church, and the family history is not a primary record. If you know more, use “Add to this record”.
- 🆕 Probably his will: on 6 January 1826 Benjamin Burroughs of Pilesgrove Township, Salem County, “weak in body”, left his clothes to his son James, a furnished bed, a looking glass, chairs and silver teaspoons to his daughter Hannah, and the rest to “my children” equally, with his son Cornelius as sole executor Probable confirm or correct → S1168. The evidence is the county and the generation: Upper Pittsgrove, where Mary was born in 1788, was split from Pilesgrove. What is weak: the will does not name Mary or a wife, and its proof, on the next page, has not been read, so it gives no death date. A Salem County record naming Mary among his heirs would settle it. If you know more, use “Add to this record”.
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