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Husband: Richard CONAWAY
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   Born: about 1810                in Kentucky (1)
Married: 1837                      in Lewis County, Kentucky (42)
Married: 20 MAR 1838               in Lewis County, Kentucky (43)
   Died: about 1875                in Lewis County, Kentucky (2)
 Father: Richard CONAWAY
 Mother: Barbara BARNETT
Spouses:
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   Wife: Elizabeth RAVENCRAFT
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   Name: Elizabeth RAVENSCRAFT
   Born: between 1815 AND 1819     in Kentucky (5)
   Born: about 1815                in Kentucky (6)
   Born: about 1816                in Kentucky
   Born: about 1819                in Kentucky (7 8)
   Died: 1899                      in Lewis County, Kentucky (9)
   Died: after 1880                in Lewis County, Kentucky (10)
 Father: James Isaac RAVENCRAFT
 Mother: Cordelia HEARN
Spouses:
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Children
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01  (F): Mary Frances CONAWAY (12)
   Born: 13 DEC 1838               in Lewis County, Kentucky (13 14)
   Born: 18 DEC 1838               in Lewis County, Kentucky (15)
   Died: 30 NOV 1922               in Tollesboro, Lewis County, Kentucky (16)
Spouses: George Headley HARRISON
02  (F): Amanda J. CONAWAY
   Born: JAN 1840                  in Lewis County, Kentucky (17)
   Born: about 1840                in Lewis County, Kentucky (18)
   Born: about 1841                in Kentucky (19)
   Died: 11 MAY 1915               in Fleming County, Kentucky (20)
Spouses: Joshua D. FITCH
03  (M): Thomas James CONAWAY
   Born: MAR 1842                  in Lewis County, Kentucky (21)
   Born: about 1843                in Lewis County, Kentucky (22)
   Born: 1843                      in Lewis County, Kentucky (23)
   Died: 15 FEB 1923               in Tollesboro, Lewis County, Kentucky (24)
Spouses: Martha Ann PARKER
04  (F): Sarah Elizabeth CONAWAY
   Born: about 1844                in Kentucky (25)
   Died:
Spouses: 
05  (F): Cordelia Ann CONAWAY
   Born: about 1846                in Kentucky (27)
   Born: about 1848                in Kentucky (28)
   Died: 1887                      in Lewis County, Kentucky (29)
Spouses: Charles Morgan OWENS; Thomas J. BECKER
06  (F): Georgia Anna CONAWAY
   Born: about 1848                in Kentucky (30)
   Born: about 1853                in Kentucky (31)
   Died: 1892 (32)
Spouses: Augustus Cole OWENS
07  (F): Martha Catherine CONAWAY
   Born: about 1853                in Kentucky (33)
   Died: 1883                      in Lewis County, Kentucky (34)
Spouses: James H. BAUGH
08  (M): John Robert CONAWAY (35)
   Born: about 1857                in Kentucky (36)
   Died:
Spouses: 
09  (F): Augusta Belle CONAWAY (38)
   Born: about APR 1860            in Lewis County, Kentucky (39)
   Born: 1860                      in Lewis County, Kentucky (40)
   Died: 1883 (41)
Spouses: James Henry OWENS

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Additional Information

Richard CONAWAY:
Residence: JUN 1850, Lewis County, Kentucky 3
Residence: 01 AUG 1870, Tollesboro Cemetery, Lewis County, Kentucky 4

Elizabeth RAVENCRAFT:
Residence: JUN 1880, Tollesboro, Mason County, Kentucky 11

(04) Sarah Elizabeth CONAWAY:
Residence: JUN 1880, Tollesboro Cemetery, Lewis County, Kentucky 26

(08) John Robert CONAWAY:
Residence: JUN 1880, Tollesboro Cemetery, Lewis County, Kentucky 37

Footnotes

  1. U.S. Census; 1850 Lewis County, Kentucky.
  2. Assumed.
    His heirs first appear in 1875 Lewis Co. KY tax list.
  3. U.S. Census; 1850 Lewis County, Kentucky.
  4. U.S. Census; 1870 Lewis County, Kentucky, p.503a (Ancestry.com image 189).
  5. Assumed.
    This is a compilation of dates from the 1850-1880 census.
  6. U.S. Census; 1880 Lewis County, Kentucky.
  7. U.S. Census; 1850 Lewis County, Kentucky.
    Agrees with the 1870 census.
  8. U.S. Census; 1860 Lewis County, Kentucky.
  9. Lewis County, Kentucky Historical Society.
    From a typed family history in archives (author unknown).
  10. Assumed.
    She is listed in the 1880 census living in the Tollesboro area.
  11. U.S. Census; 1880 Lewis County, Kentucky.
  12. Obituary.
    gives her surname as Conaway.
  13. Death certificate.
    It gives age at time of death as "83 yrs. 11 mos. 17 ds.", but the obituary gives the day as the 18th.
  14. Obituary.
    it lists day as 18th but death certificate says 13th. It gives age at time of death as "83 yrs. 11 mos. 17 ds.".
  15. Ibid.
  16. State of Kentucky Bureau of Vital Statistics, cert.#25006, vol.051, death vol.22.
  17. U.S. Census; 1900 Lewis County, Kentucky.
  18. U.S. Census; 1850 Lewis County, Kentucky.
  19. U.S. Census; 1880 Lewis County, Kentucky.
  20. Steve Ruggles ruggles@jinx.sckans.edu.
  21. U.S. Census; 1900 Lewis County, Kentucky.
  22. U.S. Census; 1860 Lewis County, Kentucky.
  23. Cemetery marker.
  24. State of Kentucky Bureau of Vital Statistics, cert.#05451, vol.011, death vol.23.
    Conway family file in the Lewis County Historical Society gives the exact location of his death.
  25. U.S. Census; 1850 Lewis County, Kentucky.
  26. U.S. Census; 1880 Lewis County, Kentucky.
    She is single and living with her mother.
  27. U.S. Census; 1850 Lewis County, Kentucky.
  28. U.S. Census; 1880 Lewis County, Kentucky.
  29. Lewis County, Kentucky Historical Society.
    This information is from a typed family history in their files.
  30. U.S. Census; 1850 Lewis County, Kentucky.
  31. U.S. Census; 1880 Lewis County, Kentucky.
    her name is recorded as Ann G.
  32. Lewis County, Kentucky Historical Society.
    From a typed family history in their files.
  33. U.S. Census; 1880 Lewis County, Kentucky.
  34. Assumed.
    Her husband has evidently been remarried for seven years, according to the 1900 census. She may have died in childbirth.
  35. U.S. Census; 1880 Lewis County, Kentucky.
    This census records his name as "Robert J."
  36. U.S. Census; 1880 Lewis County, Kentucky.
    In this census, he is recorded as "Robert J."
  37. U.S. Census; 1880 Lewis County, Kentucky.
    He is single and living with his mother.
  38. U.S. Census; 1860 Lewis County, Kentucky.
    In this census she is incorrectly recorded as a male named "Gus Debell."
  39. U.S. Census; 1860 Lewis County, Kentucky.
  40. Lewis County, Kentucky Historical Society.
    from a typed family history in their files.
  41. Ibid.
    Typed family history in archives (author unknown).
  42. Lewis County, Kentucky marriage records.
    All Lewis County marriage records for this year are dated 8 Jan 1837.
  43. Lewis County, Kentucky Historical Society.
    from a typed family history in their files.

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