Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameJames C. CUMMINGS 
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651Birth Date2 Jul 1793
Birth PlaceGuilford County, North Carolina
MemoU.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Death Date9 Aug 1867 Age: 74
Death PlaceWilliamsburg, Whitley County, Kentucky
MemoU.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Burial PlaceLouden, Whitley County, Kentucky, Old Cummins Cemetery
FatherJohn Charles CUMMINGS Sr. , 130 (1762-1826)
MotherNancy Ann TURNER , 131 (1764-1843)
Spouses
Birth Date5 Mar 1805
Birth PlaceKnox County, Kentucky
Death Date24 Sep 1855 Age: 50
Death PlaceWhitley, Kentucky
FatherMoses GATLIFF (1783-1840)
MotherMary “Polly” WALKER (?-)
Family ID6564
Marr Date11 Mar 1822
Marr PlaceWhitley, Kentucky
Marr MemoKentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965
ChildrenRebecca (1831-1914)
Notes for James C. CUMMINGS
JAMES C. CUMMINS3
The deed referenced above does not call him James "C", but just James. He was born in Guilford Co., N.C., about 1795 (in the 1860 Whitley County census he stated he was 65, born in North Carolina) He was the third son of John and Nancy. He married Sarah (Sally) Gatliff, the daughter of Moses Gatliff and Mary (Polly) Walker in Whitley County, on 11 March 1822. Cornelius, supra, p.13. Tri-County Knox-Laurel-Whitley Early Marriages, supra, p.25. (Mary was a daughter of our ancestor, Renelder Walker, so this is one of several instances of where two of our lines spring from a common source, only to rejoin later; maybe that's why we drool a lot.)
In the 1819 Whitley tax rolls he is listed as having one horse/mule. He held 50 acres on Little Patterson Creek under Kentucky Land Office Warrants 12902, dated 4-2-1824, and 12488, dated 10-24-1823, surveyed 2-16-1825. Whitley County Survey Book 1-62. He held 100 acres on Mulberry Creek under Kentucky Land Office Warrant 12556, dated 12-4-1823, surveyed 4-16-1824. Whitley County Survey Book 1-70. He held 50 acres on the Cumberland under Kentucky Land Office Warrant 14138, dated 2-16-1825, surveyed 11-18-1835, adjoining his own land on the south side of the river and Charles Gatliff's on the north side. Whitley County Survey Book 1-244. He is listed in the 1860 Whitley census as a farmer.
He died in Whitley, supposedly on 9 August 1867, but that can hardly be accurate; a Sale Bill for his cow and calf, sold to Thomas R. Early, is recorded on that date, so he must have died earlier. Whitley Will Book 3, p.272. He is assumed to have been buried in the Old Cummins Cemetery near Williamsburg, which has been destroyed.
On 22 January 1822 a warrant was issued for the arrest of James Cummins to give surety for his appearance on a bastardy charge. One Rachel Saint John (?) swore that she delivered a child by him on 14 September 1821. He gave bond, and if he is our James I have a copy of his signature.
James and Sarah had nine children, one of whom was Rebecca, the fourth child. After Sarah died, and after Rebecca's husband, William Sammons, was murdered, he provided a home for Rebecca and her four children. According to the Early book (1st Ed., p. 193) she was the eldest daughter, but that assertion is contradicted by the listing of the children, based on information at the KHS Library, as submitted by Carol S. Duranceau. Taking Duranceau, Early and Freda Bates together, they had nine children.
On Ancestry from phr4auburn.
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The deed referenced above does not call him James "C", but just James. He was born in Guilford Co., N.C., about 1795 (in the 1860 Whitley County census he stated he was 65, born in North Carolina) He was the third son of John and Nancy. He married Sarah (Sally) Gatliff, the daughter of Moses Gatliff and Mary (Polly) Walker in Whitley County, on 11 March 1822. Cornelius, supra, p.13. Tri-County Knox-Laurel-Whitley Early Marriages, supra, p.25. (Mary was a daughter of our ancestor, Renelder Walker, so this is one of several instances of where two of our lines spring from a common source, only to rejoin later; maybe that's why we drool a lot.)
In the 1819 Whitley tax rolls he is listed as having one horse/mule. He held 50 acres on Little Patterson Creek under Kentucky Land Office Warrants 12902, dated 4-2-1824, and 12488, dated 10-24-1823, surveyed 2-16-1825. Whitley County Survey Book 1-62. He held 100 acres on Mulberry Creek under Kentucky Land Office Warrant 12556, dated 12-4-1823, surveyed 4-16-1824. Whitley County Survey Book 1-70. He held 50 acres on the Cumberland under Kentucky Land Office Warrant 14138, dated 2-16-1825, surveyed 11-18-1835, adjoining his own land on the south side of the river and Charles Gatliff's on the north side. Whitley County Survey Book 1-244. He is listed in the 1860 Whitley census as a farmer.
He died in Whitley, supposedly on 9 August 1867, but that can hardly be accurate; a Sale Bill for his cow and calf, sold to Thomas R. Early, is recorded on that date, so he must have died earlier. Whitley Will Book 3, p.272. He is assumed to have been buried in the Old Cummins Cemetery near Williamsburg, which has been destroyed.
On 22 January 1822 a warrant was issued for the arrest of James Cummins to give surety for his appearance on a bastardy charge. One Rachel Saint John (?) swore that she delivered a child by him on 14 September 1821. He gave bond, and if he is our James I have a copy of his signature.
James and Sarah had nine children, one of whom was Rebecca, the fourth child. After Sarah died, and after Rebecca's husband, William Sammons, was murdered, he provided a home for Rebecca and her four children. According to the Early book (1st Ed., p. 193) she was the eldest daughter, but that assertion is contradicted by the listing of the children, based on information at the KHS Library, as submitted by Carol S. Duranceau. Taking Duranceau, Early and Freda Bates together, they had nine children.
On Ancestry from phr4auburn.
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