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Person · Louisa Quisenberry Chenault
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationLouisa Quisenberry Chenault
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
How to read this record
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Most family trees flatten everything into the same confident typeface. This one does not.
The three research tags below are the whole point of the exercise: they say what a document
proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
ConfirmedAttested by a document that was actually retrieved and read — a census sheet, a
government index, a grave marker, a family-written obituary.
ProbableStrongly supported but not nailed down: a user-contributed tree, a masked index field,
or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
Not foundSearched for and not located. This is a statement about the search, not about the
person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
DNA evidenceBiological evidence consistent with a claim. It corroborates origins; it does
not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
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shown, and at most a year the family has already published. Full dates of birth, ages,
places of residence and record identifiers are held back.
Research in progressA branch that is actively being worked on. The node exists in the structure so the
shape of the family is honest; the detail is simply not in yet.
- Born
- 29 September 1811
- Married
- David Chenault
- Sources
- 7
Research status
Evidence: 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 →
Life in the order the records give it
Birth1811
Born
29 September 1811, Madison County, Kentucky, per a published 1900 Quisenberry family history
S333Census1850
In 1850 in David's Sumner County, Tennessee household, aged 39, with Nancy, 6
S97; in 1860, aged 48, with Nancy, 15
S206Death1915
The family history lists a daughter
Nancy, who married a Martin S333Nannie Chenault. Nannie's 1915 death certificate gives her mother as “Lizzie Eastberry”, probably a misheard Quisenberry
S208 Record1827
🆕 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
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it
Probable
Probable, not Confirmed: the family history is a compiled secondary source
Probable
🆕 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.
In the record
Generation 5 — the immigrants and the frontier
- S96KY County Marriage Records — David Chinault [Chenault] + Louisa Quishinberry, 25 Oct 1827, Madison County, Kentucky. Ancestry record 902385342. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026: Madison County marriage register, p. 166, the return of the minister David Chinault Senr., “October the 25th day 1827 was David Chinault and Louisa Quishinberry married.” CONFIRMS Nannie Chenault's parents' marriage. The return gives no ages, parents or bond. "Senr." hints that the groom was the minister's son, but the return does not say so. Film no. 000183302.
- S971850 US Federal Census — David Chenault household, District 3, Sumner County, Tennessee. David Chenault, 50, b. KY; Louisa, 39, b. KY; Nancy, 6, b. TN (Nannie G. Chenault); plus 9 other children. NARA M432, Roll 897, Page 150b. Ancestry collection 8054, record 6857140. Shows the full Chenault household with Nancy age 6 — Nannie G. Chenault. Also records David Chenault household in Sumner Co., TN.
- S2061860 U.S. Federal Census — David Chenault household, District 3, Sumner County, Tennessee (P.O. Gallatin). Ancestry record 22605797; page 48, dwelling 323. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. David Chenault, 60, farmer, born Kentucky, RE $52,600, PE $31,120; Louisa, 48, born Kentucky; Nancy, 15; with Harvy 23, [Lucy?] 12, Milton 11, Mariah 8 and William 6. 🔑 Nannie at fifteen in her father's house, ten years after [S97]. ⚠ The household may continue on page 49 (not fetched); one sister's name is not certain.
- S208Tennessee death certificate, Sumner County, Reg. No. 41 — Mrs Nannie C. Martin, 14 April 1915. Ancestry record 320718. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Mrs Nannie C. Martin, widow, born 26 January 1844, died 14 April 1915, 10th Civil District, three miles east of Gallatin; father D. Chenault (Ky.); mother "Lizzie Eastberry" (Ky.); buried Gallatin Cemetery 16 April; informant J. [R.?] Martin. 🔑 A primary record of Nannie's birth and death. ⚠ The mother's surname is hard to read. Nannie's card now carries these dates, 26 January 1844 – 14 April 1915, replacing a user-tree estimate a decade too late.
- S333A. C. Quisenberry, Memorials of the Quisenberry Family (1900), p. 67. Ancestry collection 62282, image 4297925964. Louisa Quisenberry, born 29 September 1811, married David Chenault 25 October 1827; children include “7. Nancy, m. Martin”. A compiled secondary source, not an original record.
- S3971870 U.S. Federal Census — David Chenault household, 3rd Civil District, Sumner Co., Tennessee, P.O. Castalian Springs, page 5, lines 35–40. Ancestry record 10638827. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed David Chenault, 70, farmer, real estate $50,200, personal estate $14,000, born Kentucky; Louisa, 58, keeping house, with her own real estate of $8,200, born Kentucky; Milton W., 21, farmer, born Tennessee; Mima L., 18; Wm, 16, at school; Fillmore, 14; enumerated 19 July 1870. The household runs on to the next sheet (see S385).
- S961Tennessee certificate of death, state no. 15453 — Mrs Maria Louise Barry, 2nd Civil District, Sumner County, 13 July 1933. Ancestry record 30376385. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Mrs Maria Louise Barry, white, widow, housekeeper, born 15 July 1851 in Tennessee, died 13 July 1933 at 1.15 p.m. in the 2nd Civil District of Sumner County, aged 81 years 11 months 28 days, of angina pectoris. Father David Chenault, born Kentucky; mother's maiden name Quinesberry, born Kentucky. Informant Mr. Henry Dun[…] of Gallatin; buried in the Barry graveyard 14 July 1933; undertaker John R. Harris, Gallatin. Her birth date and her parents come from the informant, 82 years after her birth; the death date and place are primary. "Quinesberry" is a spelling of Quisenberry, as "Lizzie Eastberry" on her sister Nannie's certificate (S208) seems to be. Collection: Tennessee, U.S., Death Records, 1908–1965.