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Author: gwk404
Surnames: Chaney, Cheney
Classification: queries
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Wow. That is really good research.
As I mentioned, I am not certain that I connect up with this family or how. I hope I do
but so far not anything to really document the relationship. I pick up my
Chaney/Cheney's in Mason Co., Kentucky. But with the added information:
1) James Chaney/Cheney listed listed in the 1850 & 1860 census at being born in
Pennsylvania in 1785
2) James has a brother Edward - probably older who had a bondsman of William Ricketts.
Both James & Edward had dealing with Drake's & Boyd's - surnames also
found in Huntingdon Co., PA.
3) ISAIAH Chaney is listed as a bondsman in Mason Co. KY in 1803 and ISAIAH Chiney is
listed in the 1810 census there. Is there any possibility that Isaiah & family left
for Kentucky after 1793?
There is an Ezekiel Chiney also enumerated in Mason Co.,KY in 1810 (since the census
for Mason Co. was surname sorted, don't know if Isaiah & Ezekiel Chiney were
neighbors - not Ezekiel looks like possibly young enough to just have married.)
James & Edward were in the 1810 Lewis Co., KY census. James was in the 1820
census but haven't located Edward - son John was born in KY but a couple daughters
were listed as being born in Ohio with younger sons being born in Indiana and Illinois and
Edward died before the 1850 census.
I did find an Edward Cheney in Greene Co., OH for 1820 and living two doors down from
a Thomas Cheney.
I also found in 1820 census, some Chaney/Cheney/Chenney/.. in Champagne Co., OH -
some of that county's history mentioned that these people came from Virginia? One
was an Isaiah listed. (There was a family Cherry that was also possibly indexed as
Chenny.)
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