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Early William McAninch's in Kentucky and Tennessee |
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There are at least nine different William McAninch's in early Kentucky and Tennessee. |
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First Generation: two McA/Ninch’s from early western Pennsylvania to Kentucky |
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There were six different ‘First Generation’ McA/Ninch’s in early western Pennsylvania [Note 1]. |
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Two of these men, Daniel McAninch (b.1750-1755) and William McAninch (b.bef.1765), are |
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related (brothers?, or cousins?), and went down the Great Valley to Kentucky together [Note 2]. |
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1G.1. |
Daniel McAninch, born 1750-1755, Ireland [prob. County Antrim, Ulster Province, |
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in Ky |
(northern) Ireland]; Westmoreland County, 1790 [First Census of the United States]; |
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down the Shenandoah Valley, eastern Tennessee, and through the Cumberland Gap |
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into Kentucky; one of the McAninch pioneers in Lincoln County and Casey County, |
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Kentucky [Notes 3,4]. Daniel's five known sons founded McAninch family lines in |
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southern Kentucky, Giles County, Tennessee, central Indiana, Missouri, and Iowa. |
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Sons: |
1. John McAninch, b.1779-1780 (Pennsylvania?), mar. Patsy Cooper, 7 Oct. 1801, |
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Pulaski County, went to Giles County, Tennessee [Note 5], died prob. bef. 1750 |
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[ten children, including second son, William, b.1805-1810, prob. Casey County] |
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2. Samuel McAninch, b.ca.5 Feb. 1789, Pennsylvania, mar. (Mary) Polly Skidmore, |
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5 July 1813, Lincoln County, and they went to Hendricks County, Indiana [Note 6] |
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[thirteen children, including William S. (Skidmore) McAninch, b.5 Mar. 1835, |
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Hendricks County, mar. Mary Maria Johnson, went to Iowa after the Civil War] |
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3. George A. McAninch, b.1794, Tennessee (Virginia), mar. Mary Elizabeth Ross, |
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17 Feb. 1817, Casey County; patriarch of McAninch families in Kentucky |
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[seven children, including second son William 'Berry' McAninch, b.1820, in |
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Casey County, mar. Nancy Ann Morgan, and they remained in Casey County] |
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4. Daniel McAninch, b.ca.1796, Kentucky, mar. Dorcas Burks, 8 Jan. 1822, Mercer |
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County, and they went to Putnam County and Hendricks County, Indiana [Note 6] |
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[eight children, first child William A. McAninch, b.1822, prob. Mercer County, |
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went to Indiana, mar. Elenora E. Kelley, died 1885, Hendricks County, Indiana] |
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5. Henry[?] McAninch, b.1802-1804, prob. Lincoln County, Kentucky, went south |
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(with brother John and father Daniel) to Giles County, Tennessee, with multiple |
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land records there, two children under 5 (b.1825-1830) on the 1830 census, then |
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McNairy County, Tennessee, 1840, and possibly west to Searcy County, Arkansas] |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XXIII n.1 / April 2015/ Copyright Frank McAninch / pg.2015-02 |