My great great grandparents, Benjamin Hyatt and Caroline Jane Wellman
Hyatt, were living in Delaware Twp., Ripley Co., IN in 1850, with the
Allen Burton family on one side and Isaac Levi on the other (per
household numbers).
1850 Ripley Co, IN , Delaware Twp.
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Allen Burton, age 55, Male, Farmer, vvalue of real estate $500, born KY
Nancy, age 66, Female, born VA
Nancy Jane Hendrickson, age 7 Female, born IN
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Benj Hyatt, 40, M, Laborer, NY
Caroline Jane, 36, F, OH
Levi Perry, 17, M, Laborer, KY (Levi named after his great grandfather?)
Francis Warren, 15, M, OH
Nancy Ann, 12, F, OH (Nancy named after her grandmother?)
Nathaniel Wylie, 9, M, OH
Sarah Jane, 7, F, OH
James Morton, 4, M, IN
Martha Jane, 3, F, IN
Margaret Laurinda, 5/12, F, IN
Mary Laurinda, 5/12, F, IN
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Isaac Levi, 114, M, revolutionary Pensioner, $600, Hungary
Mary, 49, F, VA
Benj. Tucker, 14, M, KY
Martha Green, 57, M, Farmer, $800, KY
Caroline's maiden name came from her obituary published in The
Mattoon Gazette, Mattoon, Coles County, Illinois, Friday November 19,
1897
Carolina Jane WELLMAN was born at Cincinnati, O., April 2, 1810, and
died November 13, 1897, aged 87 years. She was married at the age of
18 to Benjamin HYATT, ten children being born to them, three sons and
three daughters survive. After their marriage she and her husband
moved to Indianapolis and resided there until 1860 when they came to
Coles county, her husband dying in 1874. Mrs. Hyatt was a thorough
and devout christian and honored as such by all her friends. The
funeral services were conducted at the house by Rev. S. G.
Battenfield, of the Christian church, and the interment took place at
Dry Grove cemetery Sunday.
A note written by my aunt in the 1940s states that Sally HYATT’s
grandfather was named BURTON. Sally Hyatt was Sarah Jane Hyatt,
daughter of Benjamin and Caroline Jane, so this suggests that
Caroline Jane's father was a BURTON.
I have found the following marriages:
Northern Kentucky Marriages, 1795-1850 : LEVY, Nancy & WELMAN, James,
03 Feb 1803, Kentucky, Harrison County
Marriages of Campbell, Boone and Kenton Counties, Kentucky,
1795-1850: BURTON, Allen & Nancy WELMON, 19 Apr. 1814, m by RS, b
(bondsmen?) Joseph Smith & Abraham Levi, Campbell Co., KY
This suggests to me that Caroline's mother may have been Nancy "LEVY"
who married James "WELMAN", that James died and Nancy "WELMON"
married Allen BURTON, but I can find no other proven family to research.
Some descendants are supposed to have Cherokee heritage. My
autosomal DNA, tested a few years ago, shows that I am 94% Europena.
5% East Asian and 1% Native American (or 6% Native American).
I continue to hope that someday I can find proof, one way or the
other, of whether I am descended from Isaac Levi and one of his spouses.
Gwen Boucher