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Catherine BRANHAM

Female 1792 - 1856  (64 years)


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  • Name Catherine BRANHAM  [1, 2, 3] 
    Birth 1792  Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Female 
    Reference Number 396 
    Death 14 Aug 1856  Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • Info on Martha Herndon's Findagrave memorial (#18206049) gives date of Catherine's death as 1854, but she signed her will in 1856. Kansas Historical Quarterly says she died in 1856 in Platte County, Missouri.
    Person ID I396  scruggshovis
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

    Family Richard Wyatt HERNDON,   b. 1788, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1820, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 32 years) 
    Children 
     1. Elvira S. HERNDON,   b. 1811, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Dec 1872, Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)  [natural]
     2. Martha Washington HERNDON,   b. 11 Dec 1812, Scott, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Jul 1886, Weston, Platte, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)  [natural]
     3. Horace B. HERNDON,   b. 22 Oct 1816, Scott, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Apr 1890, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)  [natural]
     4. Mariam Burbridge HERNDON,   b. 1818, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jan 1880, Atchison, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)  [natural]
    Family ID F139  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1792 - Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 14 Aug 1856 - Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 

    • CENSUS 1830: on familysearch.org. Catherine. [should be c. 43.] location: not listed on the census. (note: index says location is Scott, Kentucky.) The marks in the columns do not seem to match the existing family members.
      free white males 20-29 - 1 [son Horace,14?]
      free white fem. 20-29 - 1 [likely daughter Marian 12. Both Martha and Elvira appear to be married at this point. So only Marian and Horace still at home. Richard gone.)
      free white fem. 30-39 - 1
      free white fem. 60-69 - 1

      CENSUS 1850: Cathn, 68, b. in Virginia, living with son Horace34. location: Lee Township. Platte County, Missouri

      BURIAL 1856 or later: Missouri Wills, written in 1856. Info on Martha Herndon's Findagrave memorial (#18206049) gives date of Catherine's death as 1854, but she signed her will in 1856.

  • Sources 
    1. [S19] 1850 US Federal Census, Location: Lee, Platte, Missouri; Roll: M432_410; Page: 361B; Image: 158. Found on Ancestry.com and familysearch.org.

    2. [S32] Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current.

    3. [S50] Missouri, Wills and Probate Records, 1766-1988, Location: Weston, Platte, Missouri, United States; citing family 6, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. Found on familysearch.org.


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