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Here's a mystery for someone who is up to try and tackle it.
My ancestor is Stephen A White, who was supposedly born in 1794 in Western North Carolina, Yadkin Valley, Marion, McDowell County – parents unknown.
He married Nancy Parkinson (1811-??) around what we suspect was 1830
He first starts showing up in records on the 1830,1840, 1850, and 1860 census as living in Sangamon, Illinois and then spending his final years in Lafayette, Wisconsin
My goal is to try and find records or really anything on his early life, a clue towards his parents? but it's really hard, i've got ancestry membership but I still feel like I've gone as part back as i can. I contacted the McDowell historical society and they told me :
"In that year, 1794, our area (McDowell county) was either Burke or Rutherford counties. McDowell formed in 1842 from those two, so any records would be from one of them. NC didn’t require birth or death certificates until 1913. Wills or land records would be a good place to look"
Anyone at all wanna try and solve this mystery? it's a giant brick wall
I found him in 1842 in Lafayette Wisconsin, & 1850 census, then by 1860 he was in Illinois.
I looked at land records Lafayette, but only Stephen White was deceased at 1854 and his widow Eliza was owner & transferred ownership...it was Maine Militia warrant which would have been helpful.
If there is township & range on 1850 census, I can look up land record. I didn't have time to go back & look.
I didn't see anything in BLM land records Sangamon Illinois for Stephen White.
Ancestry does have NC probate records from 1665 forward. There are many Whites to read through.
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Here's a mystery for someone who is up to try and tackle it.
My ancestor is Stephen A White, who was supposedly born in 1794 in Western North Carolina, Yadkin Valley, Marion, McDowell County – parents unknown.
He married Nancy Parkinson (1811-??) around what we suspect was 1830
He first starts showing up in records on the 1830,1840, 1850, and 1860 census as living in Sangamon, Illinois and then spending his final years in Lafayette, Wisconsin
My goal is to try and find records or really anything on his early life, a clue towards his parents? but it's really hard, i've got ancestry membership but I still feel like I've gone as part back as i can. I contacted the McDowell historical society and they told me :
"In that year, 1794, our area (McDowell county) was either Burke or Rutherford counties. McDowell formed in 1842 from those two, so any records would be from one of them. NC didn’t require birth or death certificates until 1913. Wills or land records would be a good place to look"
Anyone at all wanna try and solve this mystery? it's a giant brick wall
(His children)
Nancy White
1834–?
Angelina White
1843–?
Rachel White
1844–?
William Whitford White
1845–1909
John Barber White
1845–1923
James Carroll White
1846–1929
George White
1849–1849
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I come from the line of James White
Sincerely,
Kate
Try looking in or near Darke County Ohio as an intermediate location. The 1820 & 1830 censuses in that area of the Miami Valley of Ohio look like extensions of East Tennessee & western NC. There was a big influx to that part of Ohio just after 1800. Many of the families were Quakers leaving northern Georgia & South Carolina. Some came from North Carolina & East Tennessee. Not all of the people who went to that part of Ohio were Quakers but a lot were.
Children & grandchildren of those people went to Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, & some may be have gone to Wisconsin later in the 1800s, prior to the Civil War.
Here's a mystery for someone who is up to try and tackle it.
My ancestor is Stephen A White, who was supposedly born in 1794 in Western North Carolina, Yadkin Valley, Marion, McDowell County – parents unknown.
He married Nancy Parkinson (1811-??) around what we suspect was 1830
He first starts showing up in records on the 1830,1840, 1850, and 1860 census as living in Sangamon, Illinois and then spending his final years in Lafayette, Wisconsin
My goal is to try and find records or really anything on his early life, a clue towards his parents? but it's really hard, i've got ancestry membership but I still feel like I've gone as part back as i can. I contacted the McDowell historical society and they told me :
"In that year, 1794, our area (McDowell county) was either Burke or Rutherford counties. McDowell formed in 1842 from those two, so any records would be from one of them. NC didn’t require birth or death certificates until 1913. Wills or land records would be a good place to look"
Anyone at all wanna try and solve this mystery? it's a giant brick wall
at least in their index'ed collection. There are two collections that seemingly have no index but go back further, that would be slow going (though you could try and do a quick scan of some pages within the right time frame
I'd recommend going through the index records there for White names that could fit, or any other connections where they ended up, especially any that later might have birth places listed as North Carolina.
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