Re: escendants of Kinsey Tudor
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Re: escendants of Kinsey Tudor
John Tudor 1/19/11
Left these notes from previous followup post.
Kinsey Tudor's birth year is estimated by the fact that he was the bondsman for the marriage of his uncle, Daniel Tudor's marriage to Mimey Moberly on 10 Nov. 1795 in Madison Co., KY which supposes him being at least 21 years of age.Kinsey was the eldest of Henry Tudor's children and Daniel the youngest son of John Tudor.Both Daniel and his nephew, Kinsey were about the same age.Kinsey's father, Henry was taxed for him in 1794, so this supposes his birth to be at least 1773.
Kinsey's father, Henry wrote in his will of 1815 :"I will and desire that my son Kinsey Tudor have one bed and furniture if he comes back from Orleans.If he should never come back, I wish it sold and the money equally divided among my other sons."He never returned.Later generations have surmised that he was carrying produce down the Mississippi to New Orleans when he disappeared.If in fact, Kinsey was carrying produce, as so many did in that day and time, the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers were havens for pirates, who would capture and murder the flatboatmen and either keep their produce, or send one of their party with it to Orleans to cash in.If not pirates, the rivers alone could be dangerous when low waters would present a hazard of hitting a sandbar, andwrecking.
From the area of Barren Co., Kentucky, there were two major waterways to the Ohio River.The Cumberland, south of Barren Co. and into Tennessee is not a likely choice as the trip would be long before coming back into Kentucky and emptying into the Ohio at Smithland. However, Kinsey and Winney Gee, his wife where charter members of the Old Mulkey Meeting House near present day Tomkinsville, Kentucky, that was once the southern part of Barren County.This would suppose that Kinsey lived near by, and if so would have been close to the Cumberland River.Then again, in 1813, he sold land in Barren Co. while a resident of Jackson County, Tennessee.We just don't know where he might have been before going south.A likely route could have been the Barren River which runs into the Green River, then into the Ohio just north of Henderson, Kentucky.This of course, assumes that the streams were navigatable at the time, especially the Barren.
Had the latter been the route taken by Kinsey, what may have awaited him was one of the infamous Cave in Rock Gangs on the Ohio below where the Green River joinsit.Gangs of robbers, for several years used this giant cave on the Illinois side of the river as an attraction to weary flatboatmen.Certain members of the robbers would pose as guides to help the boatmen through the dangerous parts of the river.If not successful, the boatmen would often be attracted to the signs on the bank near the cave that welcomed them to food and drink.Even below the cave other robbers stood ready to accomplish the same thing, to murder and steal. These gangs were, over a period of time, made up of different people. The earliest of them, Meason (Mason) and Wilson (perhaps another name used by Mason), met their end before the time spoken of above, but others continued to use the cave to ambush river traffic afterwards.
Another possibility would be that Kinsey was part of the Kentucky Militia that joined Jackson in the War of 1812 Battle of New Orleans.Kinsey, in 1804, was a captain in the Barren Co. Militia. He would have been about forty years of age; not unusual to participate.The Battle occurred shortly after January 4, 1815, when the Kentucky troops arrived.
If we considered that Kinsey survived the trip south, there is no guarantee that the return trip home would have been a safe one for some of the same reasons given for the trip south.The return trip was most always by land, untamed land, and saturated with the same dangers found on the rivers; robbers, sickness, etc.
Kinsey was known to have been divorced.Perhaps he just decided to not come home?.In a message from descendant, Alma Jeanette Adams Mote, quoting Eloise Bridges Coats about Kinsey's wife Winny Gee Tudor," Winny Gee was said to be a most beautiful woman.In 1813 she was named as 'the other woman' in a divorce case in Barren County Kentucky by Nancy Summers, wife of John Summers."It was shortly afterwards that Kinsey left.
By Danny Mote - Sep 1, 2000
John Summers' wife, Nancy filed for divorce KY Circuit Court 17 March 1812. From the Acts of Tennessee 1825, Chapter CLXXVII, page 205 Section 2 "Be it enacted that the name of John Tether, an illegitimate Son of John Summers, of Franklin County and child of Winney Tether be, and the same is hereby changed to that of JOHN SUMMERS." I believe that Winney Tether is the same as Winney Tudor.
Patty Woodall, Historian Crow Creek, Alabama
It is with hope that another and wiser person may have a better knowledge of factsconcerning the subjects of this disjointed text. - Gerald R. Tudor, compiler of Tudor Family History of Descendants of John "Tedder" Tudor of Surry Co., VA whose Inventory was returned on 1 Apr. 1721.This John being the great grandfather of Kinsey Tudor.
Gerald Tudor
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