Greetings:
Henson Twigg Burgess, his wife Catharine, and his children Mary Ann,
Gabriel, and Richard emigrated to Adams County from Hocking County, Ohio
about 1846. They settled in French Township where the household appeared on
the 1850 and 1860 censuses. Their children John, Elizabeth, Philemon,
Louisa, Mark, Emanuel, and George were born in Indiana. In 1867, Henson and
his family returned to Hocking County. Louisa wed Louis Nutter and they
emigrated back to Indiana and settled in Wells County. Henson's brother
Gabriel had left Ohio to settle in Wells County sometime between 1840 and
1842.
I am investigating the period that Henson and his family lived in Adams
County. The biography for Louis Nutter in the "Biographical Memoirs of
Wells County, Indiana" published in 1903 has the locations all mixed up, but
it says that Henson was a professional deer hunter. The censuses have him
as a farmer, owning land worth $300 in 1850 and $500 in 1860.
Can anyone give me some guidance about where to send for land and/or tax
records? Perhaps one of you knows of a history text that may give me some
background about life in Adams County was like in the 1850's.
If anyone is researching this family, feel free to email me.
Thanks!
Genehunter
My Homepage: Genehunter's Family Forest
(
http://mysite.verizon.net/doololly/)
Researching Burgess, Lambert, Glass, Kienzle,
Bright, Siefert, Nutter, Hartman, Helterbrand,
Lanning and Bond with Ohio connections.
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