This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CHEEK, BROWN, ALLEN, SHELLEY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jAB.2ACI/1834 Message Board Post: CHEEK, BROWN, ALLEN, SHELLEY; KY 1850-1890 Trying to trace life of John H CHEEK, b. NC abt 1846 to Mebane CHEEK and (allegedly) Elizabeth MALLETT. Mebane remarried, to Candace ALLEN, 15 Dec 1847 in Orange county, NC. He and Candace had a son, then moved to Clinton county, KY late 1849 or early 1850. The 1850 census mistakenly has all born in VA. 1850, Clinton co KY: Mabane (37), Candace (25), John (3), Beaufort (2). 1860, Clinton co KY: Maborn (44,NC), Candis (45,NC), John (14,NC), Bedford (11,NC), James (8,KY), Sarah C (7,KY) John H CHEEK married Francis J BROWN in Clinton county 7 Jan 1865. A John H CHEEK enlisted in the South Cumberland infantry battalion, 10 Jun 1865, and mustered out 23 Oct 1865 in Columbia, KY. There was a James H BROWN enlisted in another company of the same battalion, 24 March 1865. I suspect he was brother to Francis, and a John BROWN does appear as surety for the marriage bond. There is a BROWN family in Clinton county of that era which looks like a good match, as follows: 1850, Washington co, VA: Andrew Brown (36,VA), Mahaley (28,VA), James (6,VA), John W (5,VA), Mary A (3,VA), Francis J (fem,1,VA), Andrew J (1,VA) 1860, Albany, KY: Sally Miller (37,TE) farmer, Rebecca (35,TE), Ester (69,TE) spiner; Andrew Brown (37,VA), Mahala (35,VA), James Z<?> (16,VA), John W (15,VA), Francis J (fem,11,VA), Andrew J (9,VA), George F (7,VA), Elizabeth C (6,VA), Analiza (3,VA), Debey (2,VA) That would make John about 19 and Francis about 16 when they married. If anyone knows more about either of their families, I would like to hear from you. I have been unable to locate John and Francis CHEEK in 1870, and I am wondering if perhaps Francis died during childbirth after she and John CHEEK married. John H CHEEK remarried, 8 Feb 1876 in Clinton county to Gallatia W ALLEN, b. abt 1844, NC, daughter of Hinton J ALLEN and Harriet WELDON, who came from Granville county, NC to Clinton county KY between 1855 and 1860. I suspect that Candace ALLEN, mother of John CHEEK, and Gallatia ALLEN were related. It is possible Gallatia's father, Hinton ALLEN, and Candace ALLEN were siblings, children of Drewry ALLEN and Rebecca CHAMPION, who also came to Clinton county, KY between 1850 and 1860, from Alamance county, NC. John H CHEEK and Gallatia were probably in Barren county, KY in 1880, as: 1880, Hiseville, Barren co KY: J H Cheek (33,NC, NC,NC), G W (36,NC, NC,NC) There were other CHEEK family members in the area. James M CHEEK (son of Mebane and Candace) and Elizabeth Jane SMITH, both born in Clinton county, KY and who married abt 1871, had their 4th child, John M CHEEK, in Glasgow, Barren county, KY, 29 Nov 1881. James and Elizabeth CHEEK moved on to Missouri, where their sixth child, James R CHEEK, was born at Cave Springs, MO, near Springfield in Greene county. Also in Greene county and staying in that area for the remainder of their lives were Thomas SHELLEY and Charity CHEEK, who married in KY about 1873 or earlier and moved to MO between late 1879 and early 1882. According to her death certificate Charity was daughter of Mayburn CHEEK and Candace ALLEN. She might be the child listed as Sarah C CHEEK in 1860, age 7. According to a letter from one of her grandchildren, Thomas SHELLEY and Charity CHEEK eloped when she was 15, and rode 20 miles on a mule to get married. Thus they were probably married in a county adjacent to! Clinton county. I have not yet seen their marriage record, if it still exists. A transcribed 1890 tax list for Greene county, MO shows T W SHELLEY and J H CHEEK, both residing in Cass township. That is either John H CHEEK or James M CHEEK (I have not seen the original handwriting). I have lost the trail for John CHEEK and Gallatia ALLEN after that. They had no children that I am aware. Some of Gallatia's relations lived in northern AR. Kevin Kelly in MO