I am looking for information on Rachel HILL who was born January 7, 1799 in Pennsylvania.
She married James CHENOWETH and died on October 10, 1843. She is buried in the Pioneer
Park Cemetery, Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana.
James CHENOWETH b. January 02, 1800, Shelby Co., KY; d. February 02, 1883, near Madison,
Jefferson Co., IN; m. (1) RACHEL HILL, January 27, 1820, Jefferson Co., IN; b. January 07,
1799, Pennsylvania; d. October 10, 1843, buried Pioneer Park cemetery, Franklin, Johnson
Co., IN; m. (2) MARY MARIAH (ABBOTT) MOORE, November 04, 1844, Johnson Co., IN; b. 1811,
New York; d. October 04, 1881, Iowa; m. (3) MARY JANE MARTIN, December 24, 1856, Boone
Co., IN; b. Bet. 1810 - 1830; m. (4) ELLEN HARTSOCK, March 29, 1866, Jefferson Co., IN; b.
1846, Indiana.
http://www.chenowethsite.com/ch1j0s1.htm
Thomas Chenoweth (Abt. 1775 - 1859)
........... +Nancy Collins (Abt. 1777 - 1853)
.......... James Chenoweth (1800 - 1883)
.............. +Rachel Hill (1799 - 1843)
http://www.chenowethsite.com/chcin600.htm#a03306
James, the son of Tom, at the age of 60, is found living alone in Boone Co., IN not far
from his native state of Kentucky. James is credited with 4 wives and 15 children. But at
age 60, he had not yet married his fourth wife, Ellen Hartsock. His last child Ruth is
given to have been born when James was 79! His children are found scattered all over
Indiana. Living in the same county is his son, John W. Chenoweth[t][c], with his wife,
Harriett Bills, and his first 3 daughters. Harris states that all children were born in
Johnson County, where John himself was born and married. This looks unlikely. Sarah, the
youngest, is there and yet family records place her birth as May 20, 1861, obviously
wrong. John would die in the Union Army at the end of 1862 at Chicksaw Bluffs, MS. Sarah
Chenoweth, the oldest daughter of James, had married William M. Bowers in 1842 in Johnson
Co., IN. In the Census she and William are found with five of their children in Tippecanoe
Co., IN. Living with them is Sarah's brother Thomas H., who would not marry for
another 6 years. This would be in Boone County to Rachel J. Serring. Her parents are not
known, but in the Census, there is a Rachel J. Sering, age 20, the daughter of George and
Nancy, in Center Township of Boone County, the same township where Tom's father,
James, is found. We believe that son Joseph.[t][c] with his wife, Eliza Foster, and first
daughter are located in Allen Co., IN under the name of Col. Chenoweth. Katurah Chenoweth,
married in Johnson Co., IN, lived only two years after this union to Charles Bay. Charles
is found in the 1860 Census in Johnson County and their child Mary Jane. With them are 4
other Bays ranging from 26 to 1. What their relationship to Charles was is not known. Mary
Jane would marry Francis Asbury Henderson. Living in the same township there is a
ten-year-old Francis A. Henderson, the son of Lewis Henderson. Strengthening the case,
there is a John Bills staying with this Henderson family. Harriet Bills, of course, is
Mary Jane's aunt by marriage to her uncle, John W. Chenoweth. Fourteen houses away
from the Bays is a daughter of James, Lydia. She had married John W. McCain in 1853 in
Johnson County. With them are their 3 children found in this Census. John would die in 3
years at the siege of Vicksberg, in the service of the North. Jane 'Jennie'
Chenoweth is in Tippecanoe Co., IN where she had married Joseph Faulkner less than two
years earlier. Simon M. Chenoweth is not found. His mother, Mary Mariah Moore, nee Abbott,
had divorced James, in 1846 after only two years of marriage. Most likely she and Simon
went to Iowa, as Simon would join the Union Army there in 1864. Within five months of
enlisting, he caught typhoid pneumonia. He died in a US Hospital in Iowa in October of
1864.
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