Cant find Nixon on Robison pg. I may have over looked it, Jan. Jean Dalrymple wrote: > > Thanks for the information, I am forwarding it on to the lists... J. <>< > > -----Original Message----- > > Subject: (no subject) > > Hi, Jean. I'm not related and don't know anything, except Nixon Covey is in > the 1850 Breathitt KY census and his wife Susannah, is 40, born in KY. (he's > 59, a clergyman C.C., born in Maryland) > Wm. L. D., 17 is a farmer, > Josephine is 9 > Jeremi W. L. M. O. (a son) is 5 > Danl. B. F. is 1 > and someone named Margaret Wells, age 18, is living with them. She was b in > Ky., but it doesn't mention any other birth places for the kids. Is this a > daughter of Susannah from a previous marriage? This Susannah surely wasn't > his 1st wife... she's too young for him. There are other Wells... a guy > named Anderson age 19, who is a coalminer, living with a bunch of guys, born > in VA, and John Wells, Jr. It did say he was 20 or 21, but a 3 is over the > 2. He's a millwright, b in KY., with wife, Sarah 21, and dau Mary age 1. > AND, on down the census, there is a Harmon Barnett, 24, married to > Eleanor, 20, and their 1st son, age 3, is Nixon! This just has to be his > daughter who named her son after her father. She's born VA or KY > In 1830 he (Nixon Covey) was in Montgomery Co., KY (Jeffersonville twp) > In 1840 he was in Morgan Co., KY > Are you in correspondence with a Janet L. Robison jrobison2@aol.com > She seems to have quite a bit on Nixon Covey at this site... > http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/r/o/b/Janet-L-Robison/index.html > > Good luck. > Joanne