married in 1818 so was probably born about 1800 or earlier.
(See Madison Co. Records by Gandrud: Vol. 141; P. 1: Marriage Book 2, p. 73
Counts, David to Abajial McClung. License 11 Apr 1818. (misspelling of Abigail)
I have been curious about this marriage. My 2nd great grandfather, David Counts, was born in the early
1800s in South Carolina. I've wondered if this could have been a first marriage for him. He married
Harriet Monk in Georgia after 1840. David was about 20 years older than Harriet, so I presume he might
have been a widower when he married her. They were in Macon, GA in the 1850 census. Evidently David died
before 1860, because Harriet and the children were listed in the 1860 Coffee County AL census that year.
Some of our family think that David was a son of Daniel Koontz(Koonce). Daniel moved from N. Carolina and
was in Tennessee for several years, before moving on to Rusk County, TX.