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 1802 - 1874 (67 years)
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| Name |
Robert Wells |
| Born |
6 Jun 1802 |
Mason County, Kentucky, U.S.A.  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
Bet. 1870 and 1874 |
Vermilion County, Illinois, U.S.A. |
| Notes |
- Sulgrove, B. R. "History of Indianapolis and Marion County Indiana," (Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., 1884), pp. 545-546.
Robert Wells [father: Aaron] was born in Mason County, KY in 1804. He emigrated with wife and son, Aaron, to this township [Lawrence, Marion County, IN] about 1827, and bought the fractional quarter section now owned by James Newton Reddick, where he lived for twenty or twenty-five years. He then sold the farm to Robert Walpole and went to Stringtown, IN, where he lived for two years, thence moved to the Twelve-mile Prairie, thence to Anderson, and since the War of 1861-65 went to Illinois where he died about 1875.
His wife died when he lived on the Twelve-mile Prairie. He was a farmer while he lived here, but subsequently became a shoemaker and a dealer in harness and saddlery.
He and his wife were both members of the United Brethren Church, and they died in that faith. For four or five years that denomination held preaching at his house. He took a great interest in improving the public highways, in advancing the cause of education, and, in fact, in all laudable public enterprises. He was regarded by all who knew him as a model gentleman, and by his emigration the township lost one of its best citizens. He had six children when he left here. His son Aaron lives in Illinois."
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| Person ID |
I14020 |
Complete |
| Last Modified |
4 Apr 2018 |
| Father |
Aaron Wells |
| Mother |
Ruth Wiggins |
| Married |
31 Jul 1790 |
Washington, Mason County, Kentucky Territory, U.S.A. |
- Kentucky became a state in 1792, so Mason County in 1790 was a part of Kentucky County, Virginia.
washingtonky.com
"Washigton was established in 1786, by the Virginia Legislature, six years before Kentucky became a state. By 1790 it had grown to 119 log cabins, the second largest town in Kentucky. After separation from Bourbon County in 1788 Washington became the county seat of Mason County, which included nearly one-fourth of the area of Kentucky.
In 1792 Kentucky was admitted to the Union as the 15th state, and many Westerners hoped that Washington, the thriving little city, with its 119 log cabins, would be the capital of the United States."
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| Family ID |
F6140 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Isabella Thomas, b. Abt. 1808, Nicholas County, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. Bef. 1870, Twelve Mile, Cass County, Indiana, U.S.A. (Age ~ 61 years) |
| Married |
26 Feb 1827 |
Nicholas County, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
- Kentucky Marriages, 1783-1965: "Robert Wells & Isabella
Thomas, father: Edward Thomas; m. 22 Jan 1827 Nicholas County."
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| Children |
| + | 1. Aaron Wells, b. 7 May 1827, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. 18 Jan 1911, Scotland County, Missouri (Age 83 years) |
| + | 2. Nancy Ann Wells, b. 30 Jun 1830, Indiana, USA , d. 26 Feb 1908 (Age 77 years) |
| | 3. Edward Thomas Wells, b. Abt 1832, Indiana, USA , d. Abt 1877 (Age ~ 45 years) |
| + | 4. James Harvey Wells, b. 28 Mar 1836, Marion County, Indiana, U.S.A. , d. 7 Jan 1910 (Age 73 years) |
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| Last Modified |
26 Mar 2018 |
| Family ID |
F6139 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Born - 6 Jun 1802 - Mason County, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
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 | Married - 26 Feb 1827 - Nicholas County, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
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 | Died - Bet. 1870 and 1874 - Vermilion County, Illinois, U.S.A. |
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| Census Records |
 | Robert Wells (1802- ) & Aaron Wells (1827-1911)
U.S. Census Jackson, Clinton County, IN 1850:
"Robert Wells, age 46 b. Abt. 1804, farmer real estate owned $1000, wife Isabell, age 42 b. 1808 Kentucky; three children: Aaron 22 b. Kentucky farmer, Edward 18 b. Indiana farmer, James H. 14 b. Indiana." |
 | Robert Wells (1802-1874) & James Harvey Wells (1836-1910)
U.S. Census Carroll, Vermilion County, IL 1870 |
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