Diane M Snow wrote: > The following is the genealogy stuff that I have in my computer program for my Gg grandmother, Elizabeth Breedlove King HUSBAND John BREEDLOVE-3 1820 Census, p. 146 line 43 Madison Co. Kentucky HEAD John BreedloveMales 2 under 10, 1 10-16 and 1 over 45 (He would be 59 years old) > Females 1 under 10, 2 16-26, and 1 26-45 (Is this a 2nd > marriage because of the age difference?) > NOTE: The children fit except Nancy (adopted) is not included. Nancy married William Johnson 14 Jan 1819 in Knox Co., KY, so she would not be listed. > So I am pretty sure this is the right family. BUT the 1820 January > Court stating that William Breedlove is an orphan of John Breedlove > doesn't fit with this census record, nor does it fit with the 1827 > death date that I have. Just because William is an orphan of John Breedlove doesn't mean that John is dead or even that John is his father. John's wife could be dead and he was given legal custody of his orphan children or John was given guardianship of a brother's son or his deceased father's son William. > "The Breedloves came from somewhere in the Blue Ridge > Mountains in Virginia. There were 4 brothers - John, James, > William, and Henry (called Hen), and 2 sisters, Lucinda and > Elizabeth. They left Virginia in the autumn of 1830 because of their > dislike of slavery. In the crowd with the Breedloves were the > Millers, Hoovers, and Chanbers. They crossed the Ohio river at > Louisville, Ky, landing at New Albany, Ind. Here the families > separated - the Breedloves went to Brown County and settled in near > Helmsburg. John and James stayed there. James died in 1902. > John was in the war of 1812, and was married twice. Dates > and names unknown except that the second wife was Polly > Ann and they had a set of twins. John stayed around > Helmsburg until quite old, being known as Uncle John, then went > to South Dakota, where he died" I have looked at this tale for over 20 years and have only been able to verify one item, that John Breedlove did live in Brown County, Indiana and die in the Dakotas where he was on the 1880 census and his third wife (widow) Jerusha was on the 1900 census. NONE of the other data in this story can possibly pertain to the family of John Breedlove and Elizabeth Adams. To start with there was no child named Henry. There also was no son named James, though there was a son Thomas James Breedlove but he died before Oct 1877 in Brown County, IN, and not in 1902 as the story relates. No adult James Breedlove is on any census in Brown Co. Indiana from 1850 to 1900. John was born in 1809 and could not have fought in the war of 1812, his wives were Cynthia Mitchner, Orinda Followell and Mrs. Jerusha Miller, not a Polly Ann among them, and no sets of twins that I can verify. The family of John & Elizabeth Adams Breedlove was certainly there long before 1830 as several of their children married in Indiana in 1824 and 1827, so this story evidently belongs to another group of Breedlove's or someone has confused a few generations. One thought is that the four brothers John, James, William and Henry are sons of another unknown Breedlove, and that the first John the story tells of is the John who married Elizabeth Adams. James could be the one who married Nancy Davis in Henrico Co., VA in 1799 and who lived in Gibson and Posey County, IN 1820-1860 and quite possibly the one on the Madison Co., KY Tax Lists. William and Henry evidently moved on to other states and I have no logical candidates for them, though it appears that Henry was the youngest of these boys. They all would have been adults by 1830 so the Lewis Henry Breedlove of Shelby Co., IN is not one of them. Another thought is the Madison County, Kentucky tax lists and census showing James, William and John. Charles Breedlove who married Sally Fletcher also had contacts with Madison Co., KY and his daughter Polly married William Hamilton in 1815 in Knox Co., KY. Could it be that Charles's deceased brother Spencer Breedlove is the father of this lost family of Breedlove's???? All that is known of Spencer is that his heirs received a land grant for his Revolutionary War service in Tennessee that was assigned to someone else by these heirs. Tom King