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From: marsha moses <>
Subject: Hensley archived message: Samuel Hensley of Wayne County in whatis now WV
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 09:11:43 -0500


Here is the conversation that Lorrie and I had yesterday or the day before:

Lorrie Malcom wrote:
Marsha,

I found this message that you posed to the Hensley mailing list while
searching
for info on Samuel & Robert Hensley of Boyd Co., Ky. :
.....

>
> I am still going through Hensley files and piles.
>
> I have made notes at one time from the Wayne County 1850 Census
> annotated by Billie Hill Mullins:
>
> Hensley
> Samuel 60 (b. Albemarle County, Va m. 2nd Elizabeth Fraley)
> Catherine 50 (dau McDavid m. 1815 Scott Co. Va)
> William 14
> Catherine 15
> Emily 18
> Franklin 14
> Malissa 11
> Watson 25
> Wiley 11
> Martha J. 4
>
> Between 1810 and 1820 Scott County was carved out of Lee, Russell, and
> Washington Counties. So I am becoming more and more.....................
>


No, Lorrie. I don't know anything more about this family at this time.
But I am very interested in them. I am in Florida for a week or so. I
should be back in Cabell County by Easter at the latest. I would like
to chat some more and compare notes on our Hensleys. I probably don't
have to tell you that what is now Boyd county, Ky would have been
Fayette County in the earliest days ....and then:

* Boyd County
<http://www.kysos.com/Land/kycountyformation/countysearch1.asp?searchby=NEW+COUNTY&keywordtype=AND&searchstrg=boyd&page=&show=25&sortby=&order=>;
Link to State's County Formation
* Fayette County <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ekyfayett/fayette.htm>;
was formed from Kentucky County, Virginia in 1780. At the time
Fayette County was formed it was one of the original three
counties covering the entire state of Kentucky, now divided into
120 counties.
* Bourbon County <http://www.pastracks.com/states/kentucky/bourbon>;
was formed from Fayette County, Kentucky in 1786.
* Mason County <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ekymason/mason.htm>; was
formed from Bourbon County, Kentucky in 1789.
* Greenup County
<http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ekygreen2/greenupneigh.html>; was formed
from Mason County in 1804.
* Lawrence County
<http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ekylawren/lawrence.html>; was formed
from sections of Greenup and Floyd Counties in 1822.
* Carter County <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ekycarter/>; was formed
from sections of Greenup and Lawrence Counties in 1838.
* Boyd County was formed from sections of Greenup, Lawrence and
Carter Counties in 1860.

But what is now Boyd county would have adjoined what is now Wayne County
with only the Big Sandy river dividing the farms on either side. I find
my own family moving back and forth from one side of the river to the
other in at least one occasion.


Next let me say that my 2-gr-grandmother, Lucinda Hensley
Salmons/Sammons, is said to have told her granddaughter that her
Hensley's were from Albemarle County, Virginia. ....But this is not the
question that you were asking...I don't know anything at all about the
Fraley family....

Now to the entire list I add the following story. Lucinda Hensley
Salmons/Sammmons was living in Cabell County, Virginia (now WV) in her
parents home according to the 1850 census. She was twenty years old and
one of her younger sisters was already married and out of the
household. Sometime between this date and October 1854 when she married
Rowland Salmons/Sammons she left her parents household and went to live
in Kentucky and teach school. This information is from her
granddaughter. Lucinda lived the last years of her life and died in the
household of the grandaughter's family. Ruth Salmons Nassar did a great
deal of genealogy research in the second half of the 1900's and in the
book that she eventually wrote, she mused that in that time period
Lucinda probably lived with relatives. That as a female it was highly
unlikely that Lucinda would have casually left home to teach unless she
had some trusted relative to live with in KY. Ruth had guessed that
Lucinda may have lived with her mother's people who were Webbs. Nancy
Webb Hensley, Lucinda's mother and Bird's wife, is said to have been
born in KY so that would make sense. However, last night I suddenly
thought that it may have been Hensleys living in Ky with whom Lucinda
lived.....cousins or aunts and uncles....Another thought to follow up
on: who were the Hensley families in Eastern Ky in the early 1850's?
Marsha not in WV temporarily...



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