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From: "MIDIguru" <>
Subject: Re: [KYBATH] Chastain/Maxey
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 19:52:50 -0500
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Wow.... I'm glad we did this "roll call"....

as it turns out.... I am the FIRST cousin 4 times removed of Thomas
W. Maxey... common ancestor being Rene Chastain.... I actually can
come into Thomas's line in two different directions....

So... hello cousin...

Johnny Mack Souder


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Subject: Re: [KYBATH] Chastain/Maxey


> It's been a while since I checked out Edyth Maxey's book and I
failed to get
> my money by the deadline for the reprint a few years back. I do know
someone
> who has the book and will see what she says. I "believe" that she
was the
> first one to cite the whole name Elizabeth Lydde "Lydia" and I
thought she
> got it from Rev. Rene Chastain's marriage list. Apparently that may
not be
> right. The following letter is from a Maxey researcher in 1998 and
if anyone
> is in Bath County the deed to grandchildren by Rane Chastain would
be worth
> looking at. I'll be up there (I'm in Louisiana) the third weekend in
July and
> can check the deed book.
>
> I have your Thomas Maxey in my files: He was b. Montgomery Co., KY
10
> May1802, m. Sarah Cassity 9 Dec 1824 at Fleming Co., KY, and d.
Fleming Co.,
> KYc. 1871. He was buried at Poplar Run. Like his brother Colvit 2
> yearsearlier, Thomas was apprenticed to Joseph Kelso in 1818 (Bath
Co., KY,
> Deeds,Bk. B, p.444). He and Sarah spent most of their long married
life in
> BathCo., KY and were located there in the 1830, 1840, 1850, and 1860
> censuses.Sometime before 1870 they moved to Fleming Co. in the
Centerville
> District.He was a carpenter and in 1870 was employed as a
millwright.Thomas
> (I show him with the middle initial 'W') was the son of Thomas
Maxeyand his
> first wife, Lydia Chastain, (I don't have the date for their
marriage,but she
> died in 1805, shortly after the birth of their 6th child). Thomas
wasborn in
> Buckingham Co., VA 1765. He married Ann Biggs c. 1806. Thomas
diedin
> Montgomery Co., KY 1808 and is buried in Bath Co., KY. He had one
child
> byhis second marriage, but Thomas died before she was born. Some
records
> youmight want to check: Bath Co., KY, Deeds, Bk. B, p.77 is Rane
Chastain's
> deedof gift to his grandchildren; Montgomery Co., KY, Wills, Bk. A,
> pp.336-337 isThomas's inventory & appraisal of estate, taken 5 May
> 1808.Thomas was the son of Nathaniel Maxey (6 Jul 1745-c. 1808) who
was born
> inGoochland Co., VA and died in Buckingham Co., VA. Buckingham
Co.'s first
> 110years of records were destroyed by a fire, so some of his records
are
> sketchy.He married twice - to a Ruth E. Ford and 2nd to an
> Elizabeth.Nathaniel was the son of William Maxey (c. 1706-1768) and
his
> second wifeMary. His first wife was probably Mary Soblet. Check
following
> records: VALand Patents, Bk. 14, pp. 44-45; Goochland Co., VA,
Deeds, Bk. 1,
> p.443;Goochland Co., VA, Deeds, Bk. 1, p. 444; VA Land Patents, Bk.
24, pp.
> 468-469;Cumberland Co., VA, Deeds, Bk. 1, p.327, Bk. 3, p.24;
Cumberland Co.,
> VA,Wills, Bk. 1, pp.356-358; Cumberland Co., VA, Wills, Bk. 2,
pp.46-47; -
> all ofthese records refer to William.William was the son of Edward
T. Maxey
> (c. 1674-1737) who may have been inHenrico Co., VA and died in
Goochland Co.,
> VA. He m. Mary Susannah Gates c.1710, probably at Goochland.
>

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