Isaiah
“Josiah” Daniel
We are able to trace Josiah through many years of census....this helps to know so many things...who were in the house, where they lived.
1810 Census shows them in Granville, NC and simply shows whites in the home and they do own slaves. (That is hard for me to wrap my mind around.)
1818 Josiah shows up in the Illinois State Census.
1820 shows them in Illinois with 9 in the family.
Josiah's wife Caroline died in 1828.
1830 still in Illinois with 9 in the family.
Here is a little human interest information about him taken from The History of Shelby and Moultrie Illinois Counties: “Hunters would come and go, remain a short time hunting and trapping , and then go elsewhere. Josiah Daniel built a cabin on Brush creek, trapped and hunted for a living, and left, after the Mexican War for Missouri—this country was settling up too fast for him.”
1840 they are in Ripley co, Missouri and the families live close to each other (the three brothers on their own) so 6 in the family.
1850 Census back in Illinois shows Josiah lives with his son William and wife Martha. Josiah is 76 by now.
By 1860 Josiah is still with his son and daughter-in-law but they are back in Missouri which is where he died in 1870.
Josiah passes away in 1870 in Missouri with his son, William, from the smallpox epidemic. William's wife, Martha, had passed away from Smallpox epidemic in 1869.
Josiah was 17 when his mother died, 44 when his wife died and 56 when his father died.
So he was born in North Carolina and moved between Missouri and Illinois. I wonder what it was like to move in the 1700s, 1800s....I can't imagine it would be easy.
Keep in mind that as of March 2020 I am linked DNA with 62 others pointing us to Josiah related to me. Blood is an amazing thing!
The names I have from here on out I'll be exploring at another time are:
Jeremiah 1752
Joseph 1709
Joseph 1677
Samuel in Massachusets
Robert 1600 in England
Robert 1566
William 1539
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