| Migration from Person
County, North Carolina to Henderson, Hopkins, Union, and Webster Counties, Kentucky |
| This page serves as a place to
collect information about migrations from Person County, NC (and Caswell, Orange, and
Granville counties) to four Western Kentucky counties. If your family made this migration
please email me as many details as you will, and I will add them to the page. Particularly
appropriate would be names, dates, sources, email address for offline contacts, and web
page addresses to pages that contain additional information. What's new? February 1 - I added a few additional entries at the bottom of the table from the Heritage of Hopkins County, Kentucky. Ed Clayton |
| Family | Date of Move | Comments / Details / Contact |
| Seven of the nine children of Solomon Clayton, Sr | 1850 - 1855 |
Seven families migrated from Person Co, NC to Western Kentucky. Ed Clayton (21 Sep 2002) |
| Wm.
Springfield / Elizabeth Buchanan |
1840 - 1860 |
Appear in 1840 Person Co, NC census and 1860 Hopkins Co, Ky census. Contact: Deborah Gammon (and many other researchers). (21 Sep 2002) |
| William
Buchanan / Mary Ann Gentry |
Arrived Hopkins County on Christmas Day 1846 |
“William Buchanan and his wife Mary Ann Gentry arrived in Hopkins County, Kentucky on Christmas Day 1846.” William Buchanan had been born in Cumberland County, PA. He married in Person County, North Carolina in 1799 and when he and his wife moved to Kentucky they had five children all born in Person County, North Carolina. The Heritage of Hopkins County, Kentucky 1806 – 1988, page 65. |
| Arthur Buchanan (Brother of William Buchanan) | See Heritage of Hopkins County, Kentucky, page 65. | |
| Robert Clayton / Lucretia Tapp |
approx 1833 |
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| Winstead | ||
| Buntin | 1839 | See Heritage of Hopkins County, Kentucky, page 65. John W. Buntin (1811 - 1883) married Jane/Gincy Buchanan (1805 - 1879) in Person County, NC on 24 December 1830. |
| Bouldin/Bauldin | Before 1818 | Power of Attorney, Caswell County, NC. C.R. 020.928.3 NC Archives,
Raleigh, NC. Edward Bauldin, Hopkins County, Ky to Hiram Bouldin, son; 26 Sept 1818. (added 23 Sep 2002 by Ed Clayton) |
| Cox | Before 1818 | Temperance Bailey Cox, born in Person Co. NC 18 Oct 1803, died 31 Dec.
1875 in hopkins Co. Ky. Married to William D. Tompkins, 1 June 1818 in Hopkins Co. Ky. Her
Father was Samuel Cox, born 1753 died 1820 in Hopkins Co. Ky. Mother Temperance was
born in Henrico Co., Virginia 16 Dec. 1761, died 1823 in Hopkins Co., Ky. The will of
Samuel Cox appears in Will Book 1, Pages 351-353 Hopkins County, Kentucky Danny Clark dhclu58@aol.com (23 Sep 2002) |
| Hicks / Peed | 1846 | JAMES JONES HICKS was born September 02, 1820 in Person County, NC,
and died December 06, 1890 in Providence, KY. From: Kentucky, A History of the
State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin. 2nd ed., 1885, Webster Co. Anne (Brown) Pyle annepyle@ipa.net (23 Sep 2002) http://www.rootsweb.com/~kywebste/biogs/biogs9.htm#1 |
| A. G. Brown | fall of 1850 | A first person account --
Excerpts from a bio of A. G. Brown from notes taken by his granddaughter before his death
in 1929 "My father died in the fall before I came to Kentucky with my brother,
mother, and sister. My father's name was William Brown. I was born twelve
miles from Hillsboro, Orange County on June 3,1836. I came to Kentucky in the fall
of 1850 in company with my mother, Mary Morrison Cummins Brown; and my sister, Margaret
Jane Brown, who afterward married Chester Dossett who came out here at the same time; and
brother Robert Brown who was older than I. Brother John came with us to Tennessee,
and stayed there until the next fall, then came to Poole, Kentucky where he located first.
Brother Dave Brown came one year before I did and married Mary Thornsberrie, Russell's
daughter,the next year after I came. ..." |
| Judge P. D. Clayton | 1835 | Judge P. D. Clayton, Webster County, born 1811 in Person County. Son of Richard and Nancy Day Clayton. Family moved to Sumner County, TN in 1813 and moved to Hopkins County in 1835. More at http://www.rootsweb.com/~kywebste/biogs/biogs5.htm#1 |
| Vincent Tapp | 1833 | Vincent Tapp, a native of Person County, N.C., was born in 1825, and removed with his parents, in 1833, to Hopkins County, Ky., where he died in 1865. He was a merchant and farmer. He was the son of Eli Tapp, who was born in North Carolina in 1797, and died in 1852. His wife, Sarah Lunsford, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Lunsford, was born in Person County, N.C., 1797, died 1841. http://www.rootsweb.com/~kywebste/biogs/biogs18.htm#4 |
| Wiley Ashley | 1859 | Wiley Ashley, Hopkins County, born 1824 in Granville County, North Carolina. Moved to Hopkins County in 1859. |
| James Chandler | 1828 | James Chandler, Hopkins (later became Webster), born 1827 in Person
County, North Carolina. Moved to Kentucky with his parents, Washington Chandler and Lethey
Morrow, in 1829. http://www.rootsweb.com/~kywebste/biogs/biogs4.htm#2 |
| William M. Chandler | 1829 | William M. Chandler, born January 16, 1829 in Person County. Brother of James Chandler. Moved to Kentucky with his family in 1829. http://www.rootsweb.com/~kywebste/biogs/biogs4.htm#3 |
| STEPHEN R. HORNER | STEPHEN R. HORNER, Webster County, was born in Orange County, N.C., February 13, 1838. In 1857 he began serving a three-years' apprenticship to the harness-making trade, and afterward continued that business and farming in his native State until 1867. He then came to Webster County, Ky. He was appointed postmaster at Sebree in 1877, and still retains that position. He was married, in 1866, to Miss Martha J. Bolin, of North Carolina. http://www.rootsweb.com/~kywebste/biogs/biogs9.htm#4 | |
| JAMES HENRY QUALLS | 1858 | SQUIRE JAMES HENRY QUALLS was born April 2, 1836, in Granville County,
N.C., and in 1858, came to Webster County Ky., where he has since resided. His father,
James Qualls, a native of North Carolina, was born in 1810, and died at this place in
1872. http://www.rootsweb.com/~kywebste/biogs/biogs16.htm#3 |
| William Morrow | See Heritage of Hopkins County, Kentucky, page 207, "Morrow - Winstead." and page 302, "Winstead - Morrow." | |
| Manley Winstead | See Heritage of Hopkins County, Kentucky, page 303, "Manley Winstead." | |
| Betty Brinkley Duncan | "As a small childe, Betty traveled with her family from North Carolina to Kentucky in a covered Wagon." Heritage of Hopkins County, Kentucky, page 102, "Duncan - Parish." | |
| Virginia Ann Ford David Monroe Durham |
1853 | Heritage of Hopkins County, Kentucky, page 103. "Durham." John Laban Ford of Caswell County, NC. |
| Daniel | Heritage of Hopkins County, Kentucky, page 89. "Daniel." | |
| James Carnal | 1830 - 1840 | James Carnal, born NC ca 1800/1801;
died July 1874 Hopkins County, KY. (source: Hopkins County, KY Vital Statistics Deaths,
1874, page 1, microfilm) He married Lucy Wood 11 Jan 1818 Granville County, NC (source:
Marriages of Granville County, NC 1753-1868 by Brent Holcomb, Gen. Pub. Co., 1981).
Bondsman for the marriage was Wm. Terry. James Carnal is found on the 1830 Granville County, NC census index. James Carnal does not appear in Hopkins County until 1840, when he shows up on the Hopkins County census and tax list. He continues to appear on the tax lists through at least 1849. The 1841 Hopkins County tax lists shows him with no land and 4 children between the ages of 7 and 17. He also appears on the 1850 Hopkins County census and then appears on the 1860 Webster County census. The 1870 Webster County census shows him in Vandersburg Dist. http://www.rootsweb.com/~kywebste/surnames/carnalresearchnotes.htm |
| SIDNEY T. MORROW | 1840 | Link to bio |
| J. H. LUNSFORD | 1836 | Link to Bio |
County Formations Information about the formation of the four Kentucky counties of interest here should be helpful in understanding the migration from Person County. More importantly, an understanding of the dates of the formation of these counties is necessary in order to know where to look for county records. This information is from Wendell H. Rone, Sr., An Historical Atlas of Kentucky and Her Counties (Mayfield, KY: Mayfield Printing Co., 1965)
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Last updated on 06 July 2003.
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