Sources for family of Mary Deweese and Aquilla Dunaway
Transcriptions and links to images for sources utilized to document the present understanding of their family
United States Federal Census
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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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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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
All Deweese Family Census
Guardianship Record of infant orphan of John Dunaway, decd. Sureties were provided by Samuel Anderson and Hiram Boyd. Dated May 20, 1839.
(sister of Aquilla)
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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