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29)  GADDIS/HERRIN

Henry H GADDIS and Lucy HERRIN are oldest know ancestors of this family group.  Estimating they were probably born between 1828 and 1830.  They had three children that I am aware of: John H, Ann E and Margaret Rachel BELL.  Margaret was born in 1861 in Marion County, KY and died in 1943.  Margaret married James Henry JACKSON.  The family seems to have lived in Kentucky and Illinois.  I am presently researching leads of the other children.

It is also believed that Henry fought and died in the Civil War.
 
 

Contacts for this family group:

Karen K. Jackson-Hazley - [email protected]
                     http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/a/z/Karen-K-Hazley/index.html

Gloria Gaddis - [email protected]
Beth J Jones - [email protected] (for Martha Ann "Patsy" Gaddis m. Enoch Abell branch)
Becky Swensen - [email protected]
 
 

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New as of 16 Jan 2000

They are listed on the LDSIGI Index showing the birth of two of their children in Taylor County KY. Anne E. GADDIS, 9/26.1854, John H. GADDIS, 9/3/1856. They also had a daughter, Margaret Rachel Bell GADDIS 10/1/1861, Lebanon, KY. Two son's Amos E. GADDIS and William GADDIS, dates UNK at this time.

Henry is listed on the Marietta National Cemetery Roll and buried there. DOD 5/6/1864. He is listed on the Roll of Honor. He is listed as missing 9/21/1863, on the KY. Adjutant General's Report; he then is listed on the Database: Andersonville Prisoners of War, date of capture 9/21/1863.

Surnames connected to this Gaddis Family Group # 29 are:   ANDERSON, HARTWELL, HERRIN/HERRON, JACKSON, KING, MILLER, OLIVER, RENN, WELLS, WRENN.

Geographical Connections: KY, IL, IN
 

New as of 21 Jan 2000

Henry H was a prisoner of war at Andersonville, GA captured at the battle of Chickamauga 21 Sep 1863.  He was sent to #21 hospital in Richmond for 2 days for smallpox, then returned to prison guard.  15 Dec 1863 and January 1864 sent to Danville, then to Augusta, GA where he died 6 May 1864, they state from unknown disease!  He was originally buried in Augusta, GA until the government relocated his body to Mariette, GA National Cemetery.  Estimating that he was born abt August 1826.
 

New as of 4 Feb 2000

The following information was supplied by Gloria Blair Gaddis to Karen.  Gloria has been researching this line for the last 15 years and has agreed to posting this information here to share with all of us.

To Gaddis researchers: This is the information I have collected on the Gaddis line over the past fifteen years.  Unless noted, the information is documented.

I. Gaddis, John. Ca. 1705-1760.
    The first Gaddis in America of whom we have documented proof.  He was listed in the will of George Payne, who lived in King George County, Virginia (Will Book A-1, 1721-1752, pp. 183-184) item...I give and
bequeath to my loving wife, Martha Payne my servant boy, John Gaddis and my grey horse called Credit.

    No records can be found showing that George Payne imported John as an indentured servant.  Either those records have been destroyed, as have many Virginia records, or John was born in America and worked for the Paynes without any formal agreement.  However, since George Payne had the authority to bequeath John's labors he must have been under some type of bondage.  There is no further mention of John in the Virginia records.

II. Thomas Gaddis. Ca. 1750-1811-1812.
    There is no record of a birth date for Thomas.  First record King George County, Va. Court Orders, Bk. 1721-1765. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, Film no. 0032055, #902: "Thomas Gaddis, orphan of John Gaddis deceased is by the court bound to Robert Ellistone until he reaches the age of twenty-one years.  On consideration of which the said Ellistone is to learn him to read and write and also the arts or trade of a shoemaker and to provide him with the necessities as is by law required." Date 3 July, 1760.

    Marriage: there is no record of a marriage for Thomas in Virginia, but records show his wife's given name is Anne, and they had a child, named John, born in Virginia in 1772.  It is believed that Thomas moved west into Halifax County for a period of time.  Some members of the Payne family, mentioned in the first John's record, also went to Halifax.  A William Gaddis, believed to be the son of Thomas and Anne, was listed as a resident of Halifax County, when he purchased land in Caswell County, N.C.

    By 1784 Thomas and his family had moved into Caswell County, N.C. along with other families associated with the Gaddis line: Paynes, Dyes, Randolphs, Wesleys, Phelps and Earps.
In the state census of North Carolina, 1784-1787, Thomas Gaddis is listed as a white male, 21-61 yrs, and two males under 20, these could be sons, John and Whitfield George.

    There is no record in the 1800 census, but by 1810 Thomas is listed in the Casey County, Kentucky census.  A large number of families traveled from North Caroline over the "Wilderness Road" into eastern Kentucky, which was first Lincoln County and then divided into Casey and other counties. By 1810 Thomas (Gadess) is listed as over 45 years and with 2 males under 10, and one 16 to 26 yrs in the household. In the same census, Dennis Herren is listed, his daughter married Whitfield George Gaddis.  This couple were married by the time this census was taken, and have a son, under 10 years of age.

    In 1809 the tax records of Casey County, formed in 1807, show that Thomas Gaddis owned 143 acres on Fishing Creek.  Whitfield George Gaddis is also listed in this record, but showing no land ownership.

In the 1811-1812, Index to Wills, Casey Co., p.33 there is an inventory for the estate of Thomas Gaddis, but no will recorded.  Thomas' wife Anne is listed on the tax records for the 115 acres Thomas owned on
Fishing Creek.  Note the remainder of this acreage was listed in the Pulaski Co. records.  Up to 1820 Anne is listed on the tax records as the owner of the property, in the 1820 report her name is missing, so it
must be assumed that she died about this time.

III. JOHN GADDIS; Ca. 1772- John Gaddis, the son of Thomas and Anne who was born in 1772 in Virginia and appears to have gone to North Carolina with his parents.  But he did not move with the group to Kentucky, but stayed in North Carolina until after he married and had a child.  He then moved to Casey County where he was listed on the 1812 tax list with 113 acres on Fishing Creek.  This is probably the same acreage his father owned.

    The IGI lists a marriage between John Gaddis and Elizabeth Connolly in Caswell Co., N.C. in 1790.  A William Gaddis also married Angelico Connolly in 1795 in Caswell.  According to the various census and tax records prior to 1850, which give only approximate ages, the children of John and Elizabeth may be: 1 female, born between 1790-1794, John Gaddis, born 1806, William, 1800-1810, James, 1800-1810, Ann, born 1805, married Washington Spaw about 1836, Patsy, 1804-1810, married Wm. Phillips, Thomas, born 1815, married Lucinda Noel, Polly, ca. 1815, married Thomas Robertson, Serena, born 1816, 3 more females, not named, Stephen, born 20 Jan. 1823, Bluford, born 1825-1830, died in a Civil War training camp in Oct.1861, and Margaret, born in 1831. The IGI lists Margaret as the daughter of John Gaddis and Sally Burns, however the marriage records of Casey County show the marriage to have occurred in
1838.  There were two more children born to John and Sally, Martin V. born 1838 and Rachel, born 1840.  In the 1850 census for Casey County John Gaddis is listed as being 78 years old, he is not listed in the
1860 census.

Elizabeth died sometime between the birth of Margaret in 1831 and John's marriage to Sally Burnes in Casey County in 1838.

This is the information gathered on the first three generations of this line of Gaddis' in America.  To date no connection can be found to two other Gaddis lines in Virginia and N.C., those of Capt. Thomas Gaddis
and Archibald Gaddis.

My husband, Kenneth C. Gaddis is descended from John I, Thomas, John II, John III, Henry H., John IV, William.
 
 
 

JOHN GADDIS, ca 1806 - 1884.

John was born in North Carolina, son of John and Elizabeth (Connolly) Gaddis.  The family moved to Kentucky.  John married Mary (Polly) Dye, daughter of William Dye and Sally Gordon. Both the Dyes and the Gordons were from Caswell County, North Carolina where, John's parents had lived.  No marriage record has been located for the couple, but they probably married around 1836-1838 (marriage date of 24 Apr 1827 is being supplied by Karen).  Henry H. Gaddis, thought to be the first son of the couple, was born in 1838.  In the 1850 census for Pulaski County, John is listed on page 219, household # 614.
      John Gaddis          47 yrs       Farmer      B/P Ky. (Wrong)
      Olla (Mary)             35                                   "   ( A common nickname for Mary is Polly)
      Thomas                  21                                   "   (Married Delia Dick, 25 Dec. 1862)
      Jane (Peggy Jane) 18                                 "   (Married Alexander Latham, 1852, moved to Wright Co
                                                               Missouri where her uncle, Stephen Gaddis and wife, Malinda lived.)
      Anna (Jinsey Ann)16                                      (Married Bolin Dick, 1 Apr. 1851 Casey)
      William                   14
      James T.                12
   *  John                      10
      Mary Ann                 8                                      (Married John Wesley 10 Oct 1856 Casey)
      Parthenia                 6                                      (Married Zaccariah Phelps 18 Dec. 1870)

* A John J. Gaddis applied for a invalid pension #498 804, wife, Mandy.  She applied for a widow's pension, #390 804)

John Gaddis, in 1860 is living in Casey County with his sons, Thomas J., now 32 yrs., James T. and Parthenia.

By 1870 John, now 63 years old, is living with his daughter, Parthenia, age 25.  She marries Zacchariah Phelps in December of that year.  Another daughter, Mary Ann, lives nearby with her husband, John Wesley.

By 1880 John is 73 years old, and is listed twice on the census.  Once with his daughter, Parthenia, and once with his brother-in-law, Isahia Dye.  John died in 1884 and is buried in Argyle, Casey County, Ky. in
what was the old Valley Oak Church cemetery, now the farm of Russell Murphy.

Re: Henry H. Gaddis, oldest son of John and Mary (Polly) Gaddis.  Henry is out of the home, and married by the 1850 census.  He is living in Taylor County and listed as H. H. Gaddis, age 22, his wife, L.J. ( Lucy
Jane) Gaddis, age 24, S. J.(Samantha) 2 yrs, and Amos, 11 mos.  Henry and Lucy Jane ran off to be married at the home of his grandfather, John Gaddis, and his second wife, Sally Burnes, in August 1849.  This according to an affidavit given in 1866, by Sally Gaddis and witnessed by Rachel Gaddis, Henry's aunt.  Possibly Henry and his father did not get along.  Lucy may have been married before, Samantha was 2 yrs old in 1850, and Lucy may have been pregnant with Amos when she married Henry.
Neither Samantha nor Amos were claimed as Henry's dependents when she applied for a widow's pension. John Gaddis may not have approved of his son assuming these family responsibilities.
 

Henry H. Gaddis, 1828-1864

Henry H. Gaddis cannot be located on any documents that list him as the son of John and Mary Polly Gaddis.  But his grandfather, John Gaddis, and his suspected father, John Gaddis were father and son.  The elder John being born in Virginia and his son, John, born in North Carolina, most likely, Caswell County.  It is believed that the relationship between Henry and his father was not good, and that Henry spent much of his time with his grandfather.

After Henry married Lucy Jane Herrin, daughter of William Herrin and Elizabeth Ross, in August of 1849, the couple moved to Taylor County where they both had relatives.  The listing in the 1850 census is cited
above.  In 1860 Henry is listed incorrectly as William Gaddis. (this census taker made a lot of mistakes, not only with this family) William was 33 years old and Lucy is, once again, 25 yrs.  The children are Samantha, 12 years, Amos, 11 yrs, William D., 9 years, Sally Jane 7 years, Drusella (Elizabeth Ann), 3 years, and John, 1 year (my husband's grandfather).

When the Civil War begins, Henry joins the 6th Ky. Calvary.  By now he has three additional children, Polly D. born 1859, Margaret, 1861 and Nancy E., 1863. You have the information on his war service.  He in
buried in Marietta National Cemetery, Section F., grave number 1051.

By 1870 Lucy moved to Marion County where she purchased a farm from A. Wayman, Land Deeds Bk.6-195.  She was listed as a farmer on the census.
 
 

New as of 3 Mar 2000 from Gloria

Thomas Gaddis, son of John Gaddis, ca. 1730-1760, was born in King George Co., Va. around 1750.  He married a woman named Anne, and traveled from King George to Halifax Co., Va. and then into Caswell Co., NC where he appears in the State Census of 1784-1787. At that time he has: 2 sons under 20 (John Gaddis and Whitfield George Gaddis) and 4 daughters, one of whom may be Mary Gaddis, who married in Caswell Co. Whitfield was born in NC while his older brother, John, was born in Va.  Thomas and his family then travel with a group from Caswell Co. which includes the Phelps, Dyes, Randolphs and  Wesleys.  They settle in what was first Lincoln Co., but in 1809 was partitioned into Casey, Pulaski
and Lincoln Co.  Thomas and his wife, Anne, had a least nine children, Six males, and 3 (possibly 4) females.  That means if they lived to adulthood, three of the males are unknown.

John Gaddis, the oldest son of Thomas and Anne, was born in Va. and stayed in NC when his parents traveled to KY.  He married there in Caswell Co., possibly to Elizabeth Connolly, and had a son, John, born
in 1804 in NC.  The family then traveled to Casey County.

Thomas' other son, Whitfield George Gaddis, was born around 1784 in Caswell Co., NC. He signed a marriage bond in Lincoln Co. on 14 Apr 1808 to marry Nancy Herren, daughter of Dennis Herren. Whitfield was identified as Whitfield George, W. George, and George in various documents.  He first appears on the Casey Co. tax lists in 1809 with 150 acres on Caney Fork and two horses. He remains on the Casey lists until 1814.  He next appears on the Green Co (Later to be Taylor Co.) census in 1820. Here he is identified as George Gaddy.  His son, John Gaddis who was born in 1814 listed Green Co. as his birthplace.
Whitfield and his wife, Nancy, had at least 7 children; George born ca. 1809, married a woman named Mary. A female (Letha) born about 1810; a son, John,born 1814 in Green Co., Susan, born in 1817, married Daniel Barnes and three sons, unidentified, born between 1818-1830.

By 1850 Whitfield is dead, and his widow, Nancy, is living with her son, John, in Taylor Co. in 1860 she is living with her daughter Susan.

John Gaddis married Mary Buckner about 1832. They had about 10 children:  Mona or Maria born in 1834, J.B. (a son), born in 1838, Ellen S., 1841, married R. S. Burrows; Nancie J., 1844, married Littleberry, and Thomas Cox; Martha Ann, 1846, married Enoch Abell; George, 1848-1879; William M., Nov. 1851, married Pierena Frances Stayton on 28 Aug 1873; Sarah, 4 Aug 1858, married Charles Raymond Miles on 11 Dec. 1872, died 11 Nov. 1911.

John J. Gaddis, married a second time to Amanda Phillips on 6 Jun 1888.

William M. Gaddis, son of John J., and his wife, Pirena Stayton, daughter of Alexander Stayton and Elizabeth Mercer, had 8 children: Sanford, born 22 Oct 1877 in Taylor Co., married Mary E. Cox.  Sanford
died on 22 Jan 1921 and is buried in the Gaddis Ridge Cemetery in Taylor Co. Delitha (Litha), 22 Mar 1879, married Vanwinkle (Wink) Herron and died 21 Apr. 1946 and is buried in Gaddis Ridge. Virginia Lu, 8 Sep
1881, married John W. Cox, died29 Dec 1964. Robert, born Feb 1884, married Mary Louise Herren (sister of Wink) on 25 Mar 1903 and died 10 Feb 1944 and is buried in Gaddis Ridge. Florence, born Apr. 1889;
Fletcher born 3 Oct 1892, married Ida Woodburn on 3 Oct 1910, died 2 Aug 1968, buried in Gaddis Ridge. (Note, Gaddis Ridge is just outside of Campbellsville. Pirena died on 5 Sep 1909. William M. Gaddis then
married Ellen Wise on 7 Jan 1911 and they had a son, Hubert Gaddis, born 27 Feb. 1913.

New as of 22 Feb 2001

The following information was added by Becky Swensen to this family group.

My Line connects with the Gaddis/Herrin#29 with IIIJohn;Ca 1772 and his second wife Sally Burns. They had two children: Martin V.(also middle initial T. for Thomas)born in 1838. The V. I believe stood for Van Buran. A Lady who did some research for my Dad said that she believed he took the V. instead of the T. to differ him from another Martin Gaddis in the same area at one time. Not sure! Their other child was Rachel born in 1840. I Found them in the 1850 census in Casey Co,KY. Martin is my g-grandfather.


Martin V. GADDIS
b.18 Apr 1838 d.1 Apr.1908
married;?
Wife: Nancy Jane EDEN
b.12 Feb 1852 d.16 Jan 1900

Children:

1.Martha S. Gaddis b. 14 Aug 1869 female
2.Zenus C. Gaddis b. 17 May 1872 male
3.William S. Gaddis b. 16 Mar 1874 male
4.Sydney M. Gaddis b. 20 Apr 1876 male
5.Johnnie M Gaddis b. 18 Apr 1879 male
6.Mary Lee Gaddis b. 24 Sep 1881 female
7.Joseph E Gaddis b. 23 Mar 1884 male
8.Arthur Gaddis b. 15 Jan 1887 male
9.Anna B. Gaddis b. 25 Jul 1888 female
10.Jonas Delphy Gaddis b.4 Feb 1891 male (my gr.father)
11.Frances T. Gaddis b. 6 Sep 1895 Female

I have a picture of Martin with Nancy and five of their children. Will try to send it also. Jonas and Zenus married Davis sisters.

Jonas Delphy GADDIS
b. 2 Apr 1891 KY d. 2 Jan 1942 CA
m.1 Oct 1913
Wife: Belle Rebecca DAVIS
b. 13 Oct 1893 KA d. 7 Mar 1974 CA
Children:
Francis Lee Gaddis (my father)
2 Nov 1921 AR d. 24 Jul 1997 OK
Wife: Mabel WHEELER (living)

Zenus C. GADDIS
b.17 May 1872 d. ?
Wife: Anna C. DAVIS
Children:
1.Rosa Lee Davis b.26 Oct 1898
2.Thomas Robert Davis b.19 Apr 1902 d.16 Jul 1911
3.Ella Belle Davis b.27 Apr 1905 d.30 Oct 1910
4.George Earl Davis b.3 Jan 1908 d. 4 Jan 1908
5.Frances Virginia Davis b.26 Dec 1908 d. 5 Jan 1949
6.Gladys Mildred Davis b.26 Jun 1911
7.Herbert Theodore Davis b.2 Nov 1913
8.Ethel Bly Davis 22 Dec 1916
9.Joseph Everet Davis b.16 Jan 1920