I am researching the WARTHEN family line.
Most particularly WILLIAM WARTHEN.
William was born 1-14-1795 in TN and migrated to IN about 1835 settling in
Brown township in Morgan county and living there till he died 11-2-1875.
William married SARAH WADKINS.
They had 5 known children
Amanda born 11-11-1818
Susan Jane born 1834
James J born 1835
Sarah Wadkins Warthen born 11-2-1836
Isaiah born 1838
The difference in the ages of the first to make me think there may have been
a prior marriage.
Also in the 1860 Morgan county census it shows a
MALINDA SECREST born 1854 living in the household.
Malinda was a daughter of William Alexander Secrest and Franky Warthen.
Willliam born about 1830 and Franky about 1827 both in Morgan county.
Was this Franky another child of William Warthen and therefore the Malinda a
granddaughter??
Debra Carter
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