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Our feature presentation -- William McAninch of Kentucky, 1790's-to-1813 |
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This man William McAninch was an early pioneer in Casey County, Kentucky. |
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At this time, we don't know who his parents were, and have no information on date |
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or place of birth, although he was born in Kentucky, according to later census records |
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(in the 1880 census, his son Samuel states that his father [William] and his mother |
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[Ladisha (Laodieca)] were both born in Kentucky). If any earlier records survive, they |
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could be someplace in Virginia, from before Kentucky became a state in 1792. |
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William married Ladisha Rawson, about whom we have no further information at this |
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time; various records show her name spelled as Ladisha, Ladosha, Ladieca, and |
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Laodieca, as best as I can read the old hand-writing. Since their second child Jonathan |
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was
born 1799-1800 [ |
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[see 1. James McAninch below, rev. Nov. 2022 /Frank]. |
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William and Ladisha had five male children, that we know of at this time (in that day |
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and age, and observing the gaps in the birth dates of those five, very likely there were |
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others, male and/or female, not yet found): |
| 1. James McAninch (Not born 1797-1800, not born in Kentucky) |
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Revised: Forward Reference: James McAninch, MFHN v.XXX n.2 p.12 (Nov. 2022 /fm) |
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2.
Jonathan McAninch, born 1799-1800, Lincoln County, |
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[1830, 1850, and 1870 census records, ’99/fm] , and married 17 Jun 1824 in Pulaski |
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County, Kentucky. Tolitha Turpin, daughter of James and Polly (maiden name unknown) |
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Turpin, who was born 1798/1799 in Kentucky. Jonathan and his family moved to |
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western Missouri (Big Creek Twp., Cass County, in the 1870 census). It is likely that |
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Jonathan died in Missouri; it is known that his wife Tolitha died in June, 1890, in |
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Jackson County (north of Cass), Missouri. |
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Jonathan
and Tolitha had [at least] 12 [ |
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3.
William McAninch, was born in Kentucky, |
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[born circa 1805, per 1850 census record, ’99/fm] |
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4.
Samuel McAninch, was born 10 April 1807 [ |
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Margaret
Myers, who was born 1812 Tennessee |
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Charles and Rebecca (Williams) Myers, went to Missouri., ’99/fm] Samuel and his family |
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also moved to Cass County, Missouri, before 1848, and is found there in the 1850, |
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1870, and 1880 Federal Censuses. |
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5.
Jesse McAninch, born 1812-1813 [ |
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Pulaski
County, Kentucky, a Jesse McIninch(sic) was married to Jane Staats |
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by Wm. O. Brice; the current conjecture is that this is the same Jesse. |
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We know that William (the father) died in 1813, in Casey County, Kentucky, and we |
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have a copy of his will, transcribed below. His wife, Ladisha, survived him, and we have |
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no information on where or when she died later. |
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Credit for the bulk of this work rests with Charles Byron Bridgeforth, a descendant of |
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Jonathan McAninch, the second son of William and Ladisha, and formerly of Raytown |
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(Kansas City area), Jackson County, Missouri. |
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Kathy obtained a copy of Charles' work from Gary McAninch, in Texas, and sent it to me |
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earlier this year. Unfortunately, Kathy says that Charles died a few years ago. We don't |
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know what happened to his original notes; some sheets are marked "Heart of America |
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Genealogical [?] & Library Inc", Kansas City, Missouri. Of course, additional copies of the |
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material that I have can be made easily for anyone interested in these McAninch lines. |
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McAninch Family History Newsletter, Vol. I, No. 3, August 1993 pg.3 page 1993-10 |
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[original contents (except as noted); change font for online presentation (May 2003)] |