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Surnames: Cavender, Milligan, Humphreys
Classification: Query
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I find a reference to Justus Cavender in the family of William Cavender of Kansas on the
Ancestry.com database set. It says Justus was b. ca. 1866 in IN.
The other children given in William's family were born in Ohio or Kansas, according to
the roster.
I find a "Jestus" Cavender living in Huntington, Indiana, with a Lewis family
and "Ily" Cavender.
I suspect that this Jestus and the Justus given in the database entry for William's
family are the same person.
William's apparent brother, Anthony, was a husband of the woman whose name is shown as
Ily, but was in fact Maria Louisa Humphreys--they married in Jefferson County, Indiana, in
1854. Anthony, according to family notes in the Indiana Historical Society, was killed in
a boating accident at Evansville, Indiana, before 1870.
Anyone connect with this line? I am kin of Maria Louisa Humphreys Cavendar Milligan. (She
was the second wife of Lamdbin P Milligan of 'ex parte Milligan' legal case
fame.)