I am currently researching the families on my maternal side - Cummins, Harrington, Kilpatrick, McKeithen, Pearman, Pierce/Pearce, Prentice, Staats, and Warwick.
The McKeithen, Pierce/Pearce and Prentice families lived in North Carolina and Virginia before moving south to Tennessee, Alabama and west to Arkansas. Some of the men in these families served in the Revoluntionary War with Sevier's men at the Battle of Kings Mountain and the War of 1812.
The Warwick family is documented back to 1755 in Sussex County, VA.As a Methodist preacher, Wiley Prince Warwick moved his family to North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.From there the family has spread out all over the south, moving to Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and ending up in Texas in the early 1900's.
The Harrington's were from the area around Sandusky, Ohio.The Cummins, Pearman and Staats families lived in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky before migrating to Vermillion County, Indiana. All of these families were among the original settlers of Helts Township area.
The Kilpatrick line is a great mystery.Family stories have my great-great-grandfather, Alex, coming to America from Scotland with two brothers, George and Robert.They were supposed to have come through Pennsylvania to Ohio where Alex met and married Ann Marie Elbertson.Through research done in the summer of 1999, we know most of this information was wrong. The 1850 census shows Alex with the rest of his family, parents Robert and Ann, brothers George, Robert and James, living in the Highland Township of Perrysville, Vermillion Co, IN.The census record also indicates Alex was born in Ohio, and his brothers in Illinois and Indiana.Alex married Ann Marie in 1853 in Vermillion Co, IN, and had 2 children born in Danville, IL - Lillie Belle in 1854, and Art Hanford in 1859.The youngest child, Robert Elbertson, was born in 1867.We do know Alex served with the Ohio 22nd Regiment, Co C, Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War.After this, Alex seems to have disappeared. He does not appear again in any records until the 1900 census, where he was living in the Danville National Home for Disabled Soldiers.Alex died in 1903, and is buried in the Danville National Cementary.Ann Marie last appears in the 1880 census with the children living in Perrysville, IN.Her date of death is supposed to be in 1904, but that cannot be confirmed. I would love to find out what happened to both during these missing years, as well any information on the rest of the Kilpatrick family.
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