Can anyone help me with the following? Can't seem to get anywhere in
finding the ancestry of either ISAIAH or NANCY or the location of Isaiah's
death...thanks.
--Dave Masonhall
<dmasonhall(a)coinet.com>
ISAIAH CATES/KATES (b. circa 1817 in Tennessee/North Carolina;
d. early 1860's in southwest Missouri) married NANCY SHELTON (b. circa 1823
in Tennessee; d. circa 1895 in McKinney, Texas) circa 1841. It is believed
they were in the Giles County, Tennessee area at this time. Nancy was the
daughter of William (b. Missouri/Virginia) and Mary (b. circa 1793 in
Virginia) Shelton. By the 1850 census, they had moved 60 miles northwest to
Perry County, Tennessee, a county split in half by the Tennessee River, but
moved to Franklin Township, Dent County, Missouri, a journey of 250 miles
to the northwest across the Mississippi River, circa 1854 where the family
resided during the 1860 census. In the late 1850's, Isaiah was reported to
be a doctor/farmer in southwestern Missouri. He supposedly was making a
house call one night and was stranded in a snowstormhis horse becoming
entangled in a wire. He was found the next morning and later contracted
pneumonia and died. His gravesite is as yet unknown. In the 1870 census,
Nancy, George, Isaiah Jr., Joel, John, Elizabeth and Nancy's mother, Mary
Shelton, were again in Dent County (Franklin Township, Salem), Missouri.
In the 1870's, the family relocated once again to Young County, Texas, an
even-longer trek of over 500 miles to the southwest. They had seven
children named Margera (Margaret) Ann, Sarah, George, Isaiah Jr., Joel,
John Conley and Bette Elizabeth.
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