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Hello,
Recently I have purchased several books from Laura Willis, the current
owner of Simmons Historical Publications, and I have really had wonderful
luck with finding additional information from them! SO ... Thank you, Bill
Utterback, for allowing our fellow researchers to provide information about
their companies and publications to our mail lists in the Friday editions,
and Thank you, Don Simmons, for gathering and publishing so much wonderful
information, and Thank you, Laura, for making us aware of the information
that can be obtained from you!
I am writing today because I wanted to see if anyone on any of the
lists that I send this copy to can help answer any of the questions you will
find intermingled with the information I have copied below from a few of the
books I have purchased from Laura. Please email me direct if anyone can
help!
If Don Simmons is still a subscriber to any of the lists I send this
to, perhaps you could be the most help of all, Don, by helping me to figure
out the discrepancies I have found in some of your publications.
Thank you, in advance, to anyone who can help me figure these things
out!
ALSO, does anyone on any of the mail lists I am sending this to have a
complete copy of ALL of the interments at the BAZZELL Cemetery in Calloway
County that they would be willing to send me? Or, does anyone know of any
website that might have the complete copy of the BAZZELL Cemetery interments?
I have been sent portions of the listing from various people, and in
alphabetizing the ones that I have been sent, I find that I have absolutely
no names listed between the surnames beginning with the letters D through O.
My last entry in the C listings if for the surname CUDE, and my next entry is
for the surname PAGE ... no one in-between! Won't someone please send me a
complete copy?
Thank you to one and all,
Nancy Winn
Ft. Worth, TX
Here's what I'm trying to figure out:
"Calloway County, KY Census of 1860" by Don Simmons. Copyright 1989.
Published by Simmons Historical Publications.
931 Bazzell James 56 Farmer 4000-925
Va.
Louiza J. 22 HD
Tenn.
Miranda 20
Tenn.
Robert I. (?) 17
Tenn.
Wm. J. 15
Tenn.
Sarah Ann 13
Tenn.
Eliza P. 11
Tenn.
Mary Frances 7 f
Tenn.
Miller Golden J. 19 m
Tenn.
Louisa F. 19
0-100 Ky.
Chunn Nancy (Bazzell) 45 (sister) 0-150
Ky.
Sarah H. 28 (niece or
step-niece ?) Ky.
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NOTE: Published in the same book, "Calloway County, KY Census of 1860" by
Don Simmons, I also found the following listings, which appears to be the
same families located in different house numbers and some with different
ages.
293 Black W. 35 Farmer
0-0 Tenn.
Sarah (Chunn) 28 HW
Ky.
G. W. 17 m
Ky.
Thos. M. 9
Ky.
Colley Sarah F. 13
Ky.
Howard Wm. 31 Farmer
N.C.
NOTE: "Calloway County, KY Vital Statistics, 1852 - 1859, (Births,
Deaths, & Marriages) by Wilda Jetton. Published 2001 by Simmons Historical
Publications.
In the above referenced book I found the following information in the
Births section:
Jul 16 1855 Black, Thomas Marion William Black Sarah Chunn
This is obviously referring to the Thos. M. Black shown in the above census,
but Thomas couldn't have been 9 years old in 1860 if he wasn't born until
1855 ... he would have been only 5 years old. I have no idea which of these
publications is correct, the census or the vital statistics?
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Listing No. 2 for the same James Bazzell family, taken from the same 1860
Census book:
295 J. C. 63 m Farmer 4000-400
Va.
Lumisa 20 f
Tenn.
Amanda 17 f
Tenn.
Robert 16
Tenn.
Wm. J. 14
Tenn.
Sarah A. 11
Tenn.
Eliza P. 8 (Mot. Narcissa Hughes)
Tenn.
Mary F. 7 (b. 4-30-1852)
Ky.
NOTE: "Calloway County, KY Vital Statistics, 1852 - 1859, (Births,
Deaths, & Marriages) by Wilda Jetton. Published 2001 by Simmons Historical
Publications.
In the above referenced book I found the following information in the
Births section:
Apr 30 1852 Bazzell, Mary F. J. C. Bazzell Narcissus
Hughes
Oct 27 1854 Bazzell, (no name) James C. Bazzell Narcissa W.
Hughes
The first listing agrees with both census listings and establishes that the
date of the census must have been prior to April 30, 1860, otherwise Mary F.
would have already been 8 years old.
The child (no name) shown on the second listing, October 27, 1854, must have
died as this child does not show up on either version of the 1860 census.
UPDATE: (March 1, 2003)
Establishing the death date of Narcissus W. (Hughes) Bazzell (from the
Asbury Cemetery Listing) as October 27, 1854 would suggest that Narcissus was
pregnant at the time of her death causing the death of the unborn child as
well or that she died during child birth and that the (no name) child shown
above obviously did not survive its mothers death, which is probably why it
was never given a name and does not appear to have a burial plot of its own
in the Asbury Cemetery where its mother and father are buried.
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MY QUESTIONS:
1. Which of these two (three) 1860 Calloway Co., KY Census listings for
this family is the correct one with respect to the household numbers and the
ages of James and his other six children?
2. Was Nancy CHUNN and Sarah CHUNN living with James Bazzell during the
1860 census? And if they were, why are they not mentioned at the 295
household?
3. If Sarah CHUNN was already married to William BLACK and already had at
least one child, age 5 (or 9?), why would Sarah have been living with her
uncle James? And, why would she have appeared on her uncles listing (#931)
in the first place when she had already appeared in the household # 293 with
her husband and child/children?
4. Who is the G. W. Black and what relationship is this person to Sarah
(CHUNN)? I find it hard to believe that Sarah would have had a 17 year old
child in 1860 if she was only 28 years old herself ... that would have made
her become a mother at the ripe old age of 11 years.
5. Was William Black married prior to his marriage to Sarah (CHUNN)?
And, if so, was this G. W. a stepchild to Sarah?
6. Other information has shown that Nancy J. (BAZZELL) CHUNN, and Garret
C. CHUNN were married July 10, 1839, which would indicate that Nancy
(Bazzell) CHUNN was a stepmother to Sarah CHUNN, as Sarah was born approx.
1832, making her abt. 7 years old when Garret married Nancy in 1839. The
questions are:
a. Was Sarah the daughter of Nancy and a first husband, and if so,
who? Or, was she born to Nancy Bazzell out of wedlock and was actually Sarah
Bazzell and perhaps married a CHUNN at sometime prior to her marriage to Wm.
Black?
b. OR .. Was Sarah adopted by Garret CHUNN which would explain why
she was a CHUNN, or was Sarah the daughter of Garret, and if so, who was her
birth mother?
7. Why/how was it that the James (J.C.) BAZZELL household was enumerated
twice and with two different locations and with very different ages for
himself and most of his children in the same 1860 census?
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