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From: jo harper <>
Subject: [KYALLEN] Allen County versus Sumner County?
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 22:39:09 -0500
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Peggy LaPorte wrote:

>Searching for any information on the families of Guilford Center, b. 1820
>in Allen Co., KY and Sarah K. Hatler, also b. 1820 where??. They were
>married 25 SEP 1839 in Allen County, KY and after 1843 are found in Sumner
>County, TN (although this may have been a boundary change rather than a
>change of residence).


Now this is really interesting to me, and I'd love to hear some
conversation on it. I'm very new to genealogy, and knowing that my folks
come from Allen County, Kentucky, I've been concentrating there. Then I
found that one set, Armstead Markham and Polly Corder married in Sumner
County, Tennessee in 1826 and removed to Allen County, Kentucky in
1832. So I've really been wondering about those placements, how they got
to TN, and why they went to KY.

Then just tonight, I was researching Roy Markham's good work on the
additional details of the 1850 census, to be found on The Other Allen
County Site, and find that four Markhams on that census married women in
Sumner County, TN, those four women all bearing different
surnames. Fascinating.

So what is it about Sumner County versus Allen County? Anything remarkable
about 1832, when my people went from the one to the other? Would love to
hear from anyone who has any ideas or knowledge of the history of this area.

Thanks so much.

BTW, I highly recommend the FREE little program Tree Pad for copying and
pasting data such as this census info and storing any and all manner of
information. Can be had at www.treepad.com. Wonderful for genealogical
research. Highly user friendly, quite flexible. I copy and paste all my
genealogical emails, websites, records, research ideas, etc., and the
program is almost infinitely searchable, so things can be easily found.

jo


Jo Harper
Nebraska, USA
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