United States Federal Census

1850 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census, 2nd District page 457
(By 1850 the children of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese were long married and out of the home. Daughter Elizabeth had married Wm Ferguson. Both were deceased and their youngest daughter is seen below in the care of her grandparents. Also residing with her grandparents for reasons still unknown is the eldest child of Hiram and Cynthia Deweese Boyd. Cynthia was the eldest daughter of David and Rhoda)
Dw#756/Fm#774 Deweese,
David 66 NC
Rhoda 65 KY
Ferguson,
Elizabeth 6 KY
Boyd, Betsy 18 KY
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1850 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census, 2nd District page 444-445
(Cynthia, nee Deweese, below, is the eldest child of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese)
Dw#577/Fm#590 Boyd
Hiram 55
Cynthia 46
Elizabeth 18
Joseph 12
Olive 15
Martha 14
Cynthia 12
Pocahantas R. 10
Melissa J. 9
Clement 6
Louisa 4
Samuel D. 1
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1850 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census Second Division page 455
("Jincy", nee Jane Deweese, below, was daughter of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese. We believe the census taker became a little carried away with the ditto marks as our understanding is that all children born to John and Jincy were born in Barren Co., Ky. Eldest daughters Lousia and Lucinda have already married and are no longer residing in the family home)
Dw#716/Fm#733 Piper
John 55 Farmer 500 SC
Jincy 44 SC
Albert 17 Farmer SC
Luann 15 SC
Mary 13 SC
Julia 10 SC
Susan 6 SC
John 3 SC
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1850 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census Second Division page 436
("Zilpha", nee Zilphenia Deweese, below, was daughter of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese)
Dw#468/Fm#479 Mc Felia
Thomas 53 Farmer 600 MD
Zilpha 43 KY
Mary J 17 KY
Allen 14 KY
Serena A 12 KY
Martha A 9 KY
John 7 KY
Campbell D 6 KY
Rachel R 4 KY
Susan H 2 KY
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1850 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census, 2nd District page 457
(Samuel, below, is the 5th child and 1st son of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese)
Dw#754/Fm#772 Deweese
Samuel H 38 Ky
Charlotte 29 Ky
John T 8 Ky
Lucy H B 1 Ky
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1850 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census
(Nancy, nee Deweese, was daughter of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese)
Slayton
Holman 50 VA
Nancy 27 KY
Jane 20 KY
Walter 19 KY
Charles H 15 KY
Sally A 14 KY
Susan 13 KY
George 4 KY
Rhoda A 3 KY
Henry 1 KY
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1850 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census, 2nd district page 447
(Mary, nee Deweese, below, was daughter of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese. She has married and has her own large family)
Dw#616/Fm#632 Dunaway
Aquilla 35 Va
Mary 34 Ky
Eliza I 16 Ky
John D 13 Ky
Lucy A 12 Ky
Harriet 10 Ky
Martha 8 Ky
Mary 5 Ky
Charlotte 4 Ky
Henry 2 Ky
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1850 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census, 2nd district page 457
(John Clark, below, was son of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese, seen here with wife Martha, nee Eubank)
Dw#753/Fm#771 Deweese
John C 26 Ky
Martha A 25 Ky
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1850 Morgan County Illinois Federal Census page 211
("C" Deweese, below, is believed to be Cornelius, youngest child of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese. By 1850 he has struck out on his own and he is residing with cousins of his father as labor. This home is anly a few doors away from the family of the parents of Dorothy Ann Cassell, who Cornelius will med a few months later in 1850)
Dw#526/Fm#553 Deweese
Nimrod 48 M Farmer 30,000 Ky
Mary 28 F Va
Lafayette 14 M IL
James 12 M IL
Samuel 10 M IL
Sarah 8 F IL
Martha 8m F IL
Margaret 29 F Tenn
Pierce, William 8 M Mo
Charles 1 M Mo
Coddington, J. 24 M Laborer Ky
Deweese, C. 26 M Laborer Ky
Cress, Martin 30 M Laborer NC
Calwelle, 22 M Laborer Ireland
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1860 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census Glasgow District 1 page 70
("Roda", nee Rhoda Chandler, widow of David Deweese, shown below as an elderly woman residing with her granddaughter Elizabeth Ferguson)
Dw#461/Fm#461 Duese
Roda 76 SC Farmer
Eliz Ferguson 17 KY
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A search of the 1860 Slave Schedule for Barren County Kentucky reveals, on page 11, that the elderly Rhoda Chandler Deweese did not soley reside with her young granddaughter, but had the assistance of two young slaves, aged 20 and 16, in the home, along with, presumably, a son of one of the young slaves, aged 3.
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1860 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census July 7,1860 1st District page 48
(Cynthia, nee Deweese, and her family. It remains unknown where Elizabeth or Joseph have gone by 1860. Daughters Martha and Cynthia have married and Martha remains in the family with her parents and husband while Cynthia is no longer in the family home)
Dw#316/Fm#316 Boyd
Hiram 65 NC Labor
Cintha 56 NC
Oliph 28 Ky
Martha Shuby? 24 Ky
Nimrod 23 Ky
Poka 20 Ky
Melissa J 18 Ky
Clement 16 Ky
Louisa 13 Ky
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1860 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census Glasgow District 1 page 70
(Samuel, below, was son of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese, seen here with wife Cynthia Charlotte, nee Dunaway, and a still growing family)
Dw#465/Fm#465 Duese
Saml H 45 Farmer KY
Sintha C 34 VA
John T 18
Lucy H 11
Wm D 8
Cordelia 4
Sintha E 1
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1860 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census District 1 page 69
(John C. was son of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese, seen here with his growing family)
Fm# 458 Deweese
John C 58
Martha 37
David 8
Ellenese 7
Booker 5
Maranda 3
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1860 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census Glasgow District 1 pages 87-88
(After the death of Callum Slayton in 1856, Nancy Deweese Slayton, daughter of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese, married again to Levi Newberry. She is seen below with her new husband and her children from her marriage with Callum)
Dw#588/Fm#588 Newberry
Levi 75 Farming VA
Nancy H 42 KY
George D 14 KY
Rhoda A 13 KY
Henry 11 KY Eliz 9 KY
Martha 7 KY
Spicia Slayton 5 KY
Chas Slayton 30 Day Laborer KY
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1860 Marion County Iowa Federal Census Summit Township, Newerk PO page 173
(Mary, nee Deweese, below, was daughter of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese. This is the last census upon which she will appear, before her early death the following year. Note the family is apparently practicing charity with a local pauper rooming in the family home)
Dw#1265/Fm#1160 Dunaway
Aquilla 45 Farmer 0/300 VA
Mary 44 KY
John D 22 KY
Mary 15 KY
Charlotte 13 KY
Henry 11 KY
Joseph 6 KY
Jesse 8 KY
William H Goody 36 None KY Pauper
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1860 Jasper County Iowa Federal Census Mound Prairie Township Prairie City PO page 85
("Jincy", nee Jane Deweese, was daughter of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese. We show a death date for husband John Piper of September of this year, and a death date for Jincy of February. By this census, enumerated on the 17th of July 1860, we believe the death dates passed to us are in error and further investigation is merited. Samuel Gooden, farm laborer residing in the Piper family home will soon marry Mary E. Dunaway, dau of Aquilla and Mary Deweese Dunaway, niece of Jincy, whose family relocated to the Marion/Jasper County Iowa area presumably together in the late 1850s)
Dw#556/Fm#538 Piper
Jincy 56 Domestic 800/500 KY
Susan 15 KY
John 13, KY
Martha 10 KY
Samuel Gooden 31 Farm Labor 0/200 KY
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1860 Morgan County Illinois Federal Census Jacksonville Precinct page 206
(Cornelius, below, was Cornelius Henry Deweese, youngest son of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese. Cornelius married Dorothy Ann Cassell in the latter part of 1850 and they are seen here with a growing family)
Dw#1409/Fm#1395 Deweese
Cornelius 32 M Farmer 2,000/400 Ky
Dorothy A. F Ky
Benjamin 9 M IL
William 7 M IL
John 5 M IL
George 9m M IL
Broadhead, John 16 M IL
Stewart, William 53 M Ky
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1870 Barren County Federal Census Glasgow Precinct 16 Jul 1870 page 25
(The family of Samuel and Charlotte Dunaway Deweese has grown by 1870)
Dw#505/Fm#496 Deweese
Sam H. W/M 58 KY Farmer
Charlotte W/F 45 VA House Keeping
John T. W/M 28 Farmer
Lucy H. W/F 21
Wm D. W/F 18
Samuel C. S. W/F 13
Cyntha E. W/F 11
Malissa J. W/F 8
Eugene M. W/M 5
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1870 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census
(The family of John Deweese has grown. By 1870 his mother-in-law is residing with the family)
Deweese
John C 47
Martha 46
David 18
Ellanese 16
Booker 15
William T 10
Henry 5
Eubank Jane 84

1870 Jasper County Iowa Federal Census Mount Prairie Township Prairie City Page 10
(Jincie, below, nee Jane Deweese, is daughter of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese. We are confounded to discover her living in this year since the death date we "all" have for her has been February of 1860! Can anyone shed any light on this "mystery"?)
Dw#69/Fm#67 Piper
Jincie64 Keeping House Ky
John 23 Farming Ky
Martha 20 Ky

1880 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census East Half of Glasgow District June 10,1880
(By 1880 daughter of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese, Zilphania, is deceased. Below is her widowed husband residing still with many of their children who remain unmarried)
McFelea
Thomas 90 Md Ireland France
Martha F 42 atrophy of foot maimed Ky Md Ky
J K 40 Ky Md Ky
Susan 30 Ky Md Ky
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1880 Jasper County Iowa Federal Census
(By 1880 Mary Deweese Dunaway, daughter of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese, had passed away, and widow Aquilla had remarried. Elder Aquilla is seen below with yet more children from his second wife)
Dunaway
A. 74 VA Farmer
Susan Wife 38 OH Keeping House
Nancy Dau 12 IA Attending School
Mary Dau 11 IA Attending School
Aquiller Son 7 IA
Marion Son 5 IA
Melvina Dau 3 IA

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Barren County Kentucky Deeds:

Transcription of the Deed from Heirs of David Deweese to Samuel H. Deweese
Boyd et al to Deweese
October 1852

This indenture witnesseth that Hirum Boyd and Cynthia Boyd his wife formerly Deweese-John Piper and Jincy Piper his wife formerly Deweese, Thomas McFelia and Zelphania McFeliah his wife formerly Deweese Rachel Ferguson formerly Deweese and her husband David Ferguson, Aquilla Dunaway and Mary Dunaway his wife formerly Deweese Holman Slayton and his wife Nancy Holman formerly Deweese and Cornelius H. Deweese children and heirs of David Deweese the late of Barren County Ky of the first part have sold and by these presents do sell and convey unto Samuel Deweese for two hundred dollars paid and secured to each of the heirs aforesaid all right interest and claim in and to the lands and personal estate of said David Deweese for his the Said Samuel Deweese to have and to hold the same forever and the party of the first part unto the said Samuel Deweese will each for themselves and thier heirs and all persons claiming under this or other of them warrant and defend the title to the said Samuel Deweese forever In Testamony whereof the partiy of the first part have hereunto set their hands and seals this 20th day of October 1852

Cornelius Deweese (seal)
Hirum Boyd(seal)
Cynthia Boyd(seal)


State of Kentucky Barren County Sct
I David Cockrill clerk of the County court for the County certify that this deed from Hirum Boyd et al to Samuel Deweese was on this 20th October 1852 acknowledged by Cornelius Deweese to be his act and deed and on the 1st Jany 1853 was acknowledged by Boyd to be his act and deed on this 16th day of September 1854 was acknowledged by H Boyd to be his act and deed and filed for record. __________ with this certificate have recorded in my office Given under my hand this 18th day ofSeptember 1854

David Cockrill CBCC

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Barren County Kentucky Marriage Records

Marriage bond of Cynthia Deweese and Hirim Boyd January 06, 1831, Barren Co., Ky

Marriage bond of Jane "Jincy" Deweese and John Piper February14, 1825, Barren Co., Ky

Marriage bond for Zilphania Deweese and Thomas McFelia July 25, 1831, Barren Co., Ky Marriage bond for Elizabeth Deweese and William Ferguson August 24, 1831, Barren Co., Ky

Marriage bond for Samuel Deweese and Charlotte Dunaway November 03, 1840, Barren Co., Ky

Marriage bond for Rachel Deweese and Lewis Ferguson February 17, 1832, Barren Co., Ky

Marriage bond for Mary Deweese and Aquilla Dunaway February 13, 1833, Barren Co., Ky

All aquired Deweese family marriage records

Barren County Kentucky Death, Will and Probate Records

Barren County, Kentucky Cemetery Records. Edited by Brice T. Leech and Kenneth Beard. 1992, The South Central Kentucky Historical and Genealogical Society, Glasgow, KY 1992.

Deweese Cemetery (Also known as "Mt. Olivet" and "Mt. Olive")
Located off Edmonton Road in Slick Rock Community

David Deweese September 21, 1851
Rhoda Deweese (no stone)
John C. Deweese May 08, 1822-December 02, 1902
(Son of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese)
Martha A. Deweese March 24, 1824-June 10, 1884 wife of J.C. Deweese (nee Eubank)


Personal Cemetery investigation of Deweese Cemetery by Debbie Coulter

Bunch Cemetery
Nancy H. Slayton October 27,1809-September 02,1868
(nee Deweese, Daughter of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese)

Barren County Kentucky Will and Probate Records

Last Will and Testement of Rachel (White) Deweese, wife of Samuel Deweese, mother of David Deweese

1836 Oct 17
proven b C Dewese 1836 Nov 21
proven by Jas M. Deweese and ordered to be recorded Recorded book 3 page 111

In the name of God Amen Feeling that I am drawing close to my dipotuion yet in my perfect senses I hereby make my last will and testament and as Elijah Deweese my son has taken care of me I will therefore that all that I ? belong to him at my death to have and to hold except one chair I give to my daughter Nancy also my wearing clothes to be divided equally among my daughters and further that my son Elijah pay all my lawfull debts if any and defray my burying expenses, and my will is that my last will and testament be religiously attended to as witness whereof I have set my name this 30th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 33 Rachel Deweese

Cornelius Deweese
James M Deweese
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Will of Samuel Deweese
Samuel was father of David Deweese

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In the name of God Amen
I Samuel Dueast of Barren County and State of Kentucky being in my right mind and memory and knowing the certinty of health and the uncertainty of the time do make and constitute this my last will of testament. 1st I desire all my just debts to be paid and my body to be buried in a Christian like manner in hopes in the Resorrection to rise with Christ in Glory as for the wordly goods which it has pleased God to gave me both personal and real. I desire that it may be distribute as follows viz

First I desire that all my Estate both personal and real be left to my dearly beloved wife Rachel Dueast during her widow hood and after the death of my beloved wife Rachel I then desire that the remaining parts of my estate both personal and real to be distributed as follows to wit 1st it is my wish that my daughter Elisabeth Dueas shall have one bed and furniture and one black coalt three years old this spring

2nd it is my wish that my duaghter Polly Dueas shall have one bed and furniture and one sorrel colt about two years old

3rd it is my wish that my son Jonathan Dueast shall have one cow and heifer and eleven head of hogs and one sorrel mare the above property is claimed by the above mentioned children and is ? wright from this state

4th it is my wish that all of the remaining part of my estate both personal and real
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To be equally divided amongst all of my name children Namely David Elisabeth Polly Elijah Elisha Jonathan Anney Nancy and Sally Dueast and lastly I do constitute and appoint William Shirley and my son David Dueast my executor of this my last will and testament made this the fourth day of March 1823

Attest
Cornelius Deweese
Edward Gill Samuel Dueast

1823 April proved ordered to record
Recorded Book 2 page 295

Barren County Court April County Court 1823
The foregoing writing was produced in court and Cornelius Deweese and Edward Gill subscribing witnesses thereto being sworn saith that Samuel Deweese delivered the said writing as his will and they believe he was in his proper sense and of a disposing mind that the subscribe their names thereto as witnesses in his presence and thereupon the said writing was ordered to be recorded as the true last will and testament of the said Samuel Deweese deceased Teste W Logan clk

Will of Hiram Boyd and his wife Cynthia (Deweese) Boyd
Cynthia was eldest child and daughter of David and Rhoda Chandler Deweese December Term 1870

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Know all men by these presents that we Hiram Boyd and Cyntha Boyd his wife of the County of Barren and State of Kentucky in moderate health but in right mind make this our last will and testament 1st we commet our souls to God who gave them and our bodies to the Earth from which it was taken 2nd that our just debts and funeral expenses be paid out of our personal property The remaining portion of it to be equally divided among all our children. 3rd That the land on which we now live to remain after our demise as a homestead for such of our children to live on as may be single at that time and to be a home for the unmarried portion of them so long as any two of them think proper to occupy it If our children should think proper to break up housekeeping at any time our desire is that our youngest son Clement Boyd should be executor to this will provided he should be twenty one years old and also that Clement Boyd shall have the privilige of living on his portion of land though he should marry Given under our hands this 6th Feb 1861

Witness
C Edwards H Boyd
Joseph B Newberry Richard H Munday Cynthia Boyd
John C Deweese
Allen W Durham

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State of Kentucky
Barren County Court
December Term 1870

The foregoing writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Hiram Y. Boyd and Cynthia Boyd his wife both of whom are now deced was presented in open court and proven in due form? of law by the oaths of Joseph B Newberry and John C. Deweese subscribing witnesses thereto as the last will and testement of said decedents whereupon the same was ordered to be recorded as such Att J P Nuckols CBCC

1852 Petition to estate of David Deweese
By son Samuel Deweese for land orally conveyed to Samuel before David's death, but for which no documents were filed before David's death Barren County, Kentucky
Typewritten document, transcription presently not available
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Family group sheet for David Deweese and Rhoda Chandler

Sources for Cynthia Deweese, daughter of David Deweese and Rhoda Chandler

Family Group sheet for Cynthia Deweese and spouse Hiram Boyd

Sources for Jane "Jincy" Deweese, daughter of David Deweese and Rhoda Chandler

Family Group sheet for Jincy Deweese and spouse John Piper

Sources for Zilphania Deweese, daughter of David Deweese and Rhoda Chandler
Family Group sheet for Zilphania Deweese and her spouse Thomas McFelia

Family Group sheet for Elizabeth Deweese and her spouse William "Bill" Ferguson.

Sources for Samuel H Deweese, son of David Deweese and Rhoda Chandler

Family Group sheet for Samuel H Deweese and his spouse Cynthia Charlotte Dunaway

Sources for Mary Deweese and her spouse Aquilla Dunaway.

Family Group sheet for Mary Deweese and her spouse Aquilla Dunaway.

Sources for Nancy H. Deweese and her spouse Callum Holman Slayton.

Family Group sheet for Nancy H. Deweese and her spouse Callum Holman Slayton.

Sources for John C. Deweese and his spouses Martha Ann Eubank and Harriette T. Slinker.

Family Group sheet for John C. Deweese and his spouses Martha Ann Eubank and Harriette T. Slinker.

Sources for Cornelius Henry Deweese and his spouse Dorothy Ann Cassell.

Family Group sheet for Cornelius Henry Deweese and his spouse Dorothy Ann Cassell.

End of notes for the family of David Deweese and Rhoda Chandler