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Author: tylerporter91
Surnames: Bullock, Cole, Davis, Abram, Hendricks, Abrams, Sandefur, Hamm
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I know this is a VERY old thread, but seeing as I have yet to find anyone else who has any
kind of evidence for Rebecca (Bullock) Abram's parentage, I wanted to add my theory:
I believe Nathan Bullock and Minerva Cole to be Rebecca's parents. Nathan and Minerva
were living with (presumably) Minerva's parents Harbin and Rebecca (Davis) Cole and
their daughter (listed as Malanda/Malinda, though I believe her name to actually be
Miranda) in the 1850 Greene County census. There is a marriage record for a Minerva
Bullock and a Samuel Sandifur, who married on January 30, 1859. Samuel and Minerva appear
in the 1860 census (listed as Sanderford) as the family directly after Harbin and Rebecca
Cole, and it lists a Maranda and a Rebecca - both roughly matching the correct ages
(Miranda was listed as 1 in 1850 and 10 in 1860 and Rebecca was listed as 8) - as children
in the household, but it lists their last name as Sanderford as well. I have seen this
particular naming mistake made before in my own ancestry, so I do not believe it means
anything that they're listed as Sanderfords, too. There is a two year age difference
between the Minerva Bullock of the 18!
50 census and the Minerva Sandefur of the 1860 census (20 in 1850 compared to 32 in
1860), but this is reconciled in the 1870 census where she is listed as being exactly 20
years older than she was in the 1850 census.
In addition, as was stated, Rebecca married Samuel Abram. Samuel's brother Jacob
married first a Miranda Bullock and then a Margaret Sandefur, both of whom I believe to be
Rebecca's sisters - the 1860 and 1870 censuses for Samuel and Minerva also list a
Margaret as being their child. Of course, it was not uncommon for siblings in one family
to marry siblings of another, so I do take this to be evidence as well.
While all the evidence I have is circumstantial, it is the only thing that makes sense to
me. Nathan and Minerva Bullock disappear after 1850; there is a marriage record for a
Minerva Bullock to a Samuel Sandefur in 1859; the Miranda and Rebecca listed in the 1860
census with Samuel and Minerva are too old to be their children together, which implies a
different father for them; Rebecca and both a Miranda Bullock and Margaret Sandefur
married into the same family of Abram's; and Rebecca's death certificate lists a
Nathan Bullock as her father and the Nathan Bullock married to Minerva Cole seems to be
the only Nathan Bullock in the entire state of Indiana at the time. I'm currently in
the process of trying to find an obituary for any of Minerva's other children to see
if they mention Rebecca, but I have yet to find an obituary for any of them. If anyone has
any other evidence (or a rebuttal), please feel free to add.
Now, after the conclusion I've drawn, my question is this: Who was Nathan Bullock?
I've found plenty of information on Minerva Cole's ancestors (well, her
mother's ancestors anyway), but I have found nothing on Nathan's. Does anyone have
any information?
On a side note, I'm a descendant of Joseph and Edith (Abrams) Hendricks' daughter
Velma. She married Charles Hamm and they are my great grandparents.
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