My connection to Brown County are the CLAPTON and FOLLOWELL families.
JESSE CLAPTON married MARIA FOLLOWELL and both lines have become brick
walls. I have tried for years to find the parents of Jesse and Maria
with no success. The closest I have come is recently finding a mention
in a Bartholomew Co. court document of a MAHALA FOLLOWELL who had a
daughter named Maria. This MAHALA FOLLOWELL married WILLIAM PERCIFIELD
and lived in Brown Co. NO LEADS at all on JESSE's parents.
Jesse and Maria were divorced in Brown Co. in 1853. She was remarried
to Solomon Hicks. After the death of Maria and Jesse's daughter,
Elizabeth Ann, their son-in-law, William Hayward, married a daughter of
Solomon Hicks. Toward the end of their lives Solomon and Maria lived
near William and Julia Hayward in Newton Co., IN. It is thought that
Maria and Solomon died there.
ANY and ALL HELP APPRECIATED!!
Thanks.
Adina Dyer
Descendants of Unknown Clapton
1 Unknown CLAPTON
2 Jesse CLAPTON Born: CA 1819 in Kentucky Died: Unknown
+Maria FOLLOWELL Born: CA 1827 in Kentucky Died: Unknown in Newton
Co., IN? Married: 25 August 1840 in Brown Co., IN Father: UNKNOWN
Mother: Mahala FOLLOWELL? Mahala FOLLOWELL married WILLIAM PERCIFIELD,
1835
Monroe Co., IN. They lived in Brown Co.
3 [1] Elizabeth Ann CLAPTON Born: CA 1844 in Indiana Died:
October 1870 in Carroll Co., IN +Benjamin J. HUBBARD Married: 4
June 1859 in Brown Co., IN
*2nd Husband of [1] Elizabeth Ann Clapton:
+William Willard HAYWARD Born: CA 1845 in Nunda, Livingston Co., NY
Died: March 1917 in Indiana Harbor, Porter Co., IN Married: 12 February
1865 in Tippecanoe Co., IN Father: James C. HAYWARD Mother: Hannah
Marion FISHER
3 Mahala CLAPTON Born: CA 1848 in Indiana Died: Unknown
+William S. HUTCHISON Married: 19 November 1868 in Brown Co., IN
3 Nancy J. CLAPTON Born: CA 1851 in Indiana
+Nathaniel HOLCROFT Married: 1871 in Brown Co., IN
2 Elizabeth CLAPTON Born: 1 April 1823 in Kentucky Died: 1 January
1881 in Brown Co., IN
+George PERCIFIELD Born: 11 March 1822 in Tennessee Married: 4
March 1847 Brown Co., IN
3 Martha PERCIFIELD Born: 1843
3 Sarah A. PERCIFIELD Born: 1845
3 Marcus B. PERCIFIELD Born: 1848
3 Lucy J. PERCIFIELD Born: 1849
3 Anderson Breedlove PERCIFIELD Born: 1851
3 Bluford PERCIFIELD Born: 1853
3 Nancy PERCIFIELD Born: 1854
3 William H. PERCIFIELD Born: 1856
3 Eliza PERCIFIELD Born: 1859
3 Watson PERCIFIELD Born: 1862
3 Mary/Lydia PERCIFIELD Born: 1864
3 Sherman PERCIFIELD Born: 1866