Children Lydia and Jonathan are placed in William's family by otherres earchers but their birth dates don't agree with the marriage dateof th e parents. Could they be Lydia's children from a firstmarriage? Con sidering William's age when he married Lydia, he couldhave had a previ ous marriage too.
Residences & events:
1820 William inherited from his grandfather Thomas Arthur the portiono f the estate originally to go to his father. Why, if his father wasst ill alive at the time?
1829 Knox Co, TN where he married Lydia.
1836 IN. The family moved before daughter, Lucinda, was born.
1838, Vigo Co, IN, where son John was born.
1840 Southern Dist, Bedford Co, VA. It seems before the next censusWi lliam and Anna had moved back in with his old parents. WilliamArthur J r was head of the house at age 30-39 as was his wife, both ofhis paren ts were 70-79 but where were the children? Two doors downwas brother J ames.
(Some descendants said Wm was in Pulaski Co, MO in 1840 but that manwa s born & raised in MO and was still there years afterward.)
1840 Clark Co, IL. Son Joseph was said to be born there that year.
9/17/1850 Clear Creek Pct, Clark Co, IL. At census time WilliamArthu r was a 53 year old farmer but had no real estate. Were theypreparing t o move back to IN. Lydia was 43, children in the housewere David, 17 , a labourer, Hannah, 15, Lucinda, 13, Joseph, 10,Mary, 8, and John, 6 .
Both William and Lydia disappeared after 1850 so if they didn't dieunt il the 1880s, where were they?
Vigo Co, IN. They moved back sometime before they and children diedth ere.
He may have been born in November as some say.
His death date is questionable. He disappeared from all censusrecords a fter 1850, Lydia remarried in 1858 so did he die or divorce?
