1830 • Zadock Barnard • Green County IL

1779

Our 4X Great-Grandfather Zadock Barnard was born on November 28 to William "Elisha" Barnard and Rebecca "Polly" Bradley. He was raised in Sumner County, TN.

1801

On June 11 he married Mary "Polly" Short in Memphis Tennessee.

1830

He and his family moved to Green County, Illinois.

1847

On February 14 he died in Green County, Illnois. I cannot find documentation on this fact. If you have a lead on his death or burial place, please contact me.

1803 Tennessee • 24 years old

On 14 Mar 1803, Zadock bought 640 acres of land in Sumner County TN for $400 "cash in hand". - Deed Book #3, pages 443-444.

1804 Tennessee • 25 years old

On 5 May 1804, Jacob bought 320 acres of the above-mentioned land from Zadock for $200 "cash in hand" in Sumner County Tennessee - Deed Book #3, page 522

1820 Tennessee Census • 41 years old

2 boys under 10, one adult male under 45 years old (who works in agriculture).

4 girls under 10, 2 girls 11-16 years old, 2 young women 17-26, one adult female 27-45

1824 Tennessee Land • 45 years old

Zadock had 265 acres near/on the Red River.

1825 Tennessee • 46 years old

The Nashville newspaper posted two notices of Sheriff's sales. One in April and the next in October. Ruth Barnard is mentioned. I believe that she is Zadock's sister-in-law, Rutha Jane Short, who was the widow of Zadock's brother Jacob. Ruth was also sister to Zadock's wife, Mary. Jacob died in 1821. Ruth (and her children) moved to Greene County, Illinois a few years after this.

Drake's Creek and Red River area shown in 1790 map.

1830 Tennessee • 51 years old

Zadock sold 265 acres to Andrew Harper for $225 on 8 May 1830 - Deed Book #12, pg 343

1830 Illinois • 51 years old

Children of Zadock and Polly.

He moved to Green County Illinois as listed on the Oct 1830 Census with his wife, their 13 children, 3 nephews and a niece, and some of his married children The Overbeys (Zadock's daughter Sarah married Archibald Overby), The Mayberrys (Zadock's daughters Lucinda, Rebeca, Mary, and Elizabeth all married Mayberry men), & The Fergusons (our 3X GGrandmother Nancy Barnard married our 3X GGrandfather Andy Ferguson).

I don't have much on the youngest girl. She was listed in the 1830 Green Co. Census as being 0-4 years old. See the image for what I know so far about all of the children.

The census also showed that Andrew Ferguson lived nearby. Zadock's daughter Nancy was the only one who had left the nest. She married Andy in 1822 and they had three children (James, Zadock, and Mary) at the time of the 1830 census. That census also shows a teenaged girl (15-19 years old) in the Ferguson household. Our 2X Great-Grandmother Louisa Ferguson was born in 1834 so she was not in the census yet.

1830 Census

They all settled near Athensville, IL in Rubicon Township. 1855 Census shown below. He had been in Green County for 25 years at this point.

This census shows Zadock at 60-70 years old, living with a woman 30-40 years old and two children, a boy under 10 and a girl 10-20 years old. It almost looks like he might be a widower at this point, living with a daughter/daughter-in-law and two grandchildren? Census data certainly gives us data to theorize with! I don't have a definitive death date for Zadock OR his wife Polly, so that is a mystery to be resolved at some later time. . .

1855 Census

1839 Illinois • 61 years old

He bought 3 separate tracts of land. One in 1834 on the south side of what is now Palmyra Road and two more in 1839; a 40 acre plot to the south and an 80 acre plot across the road to the north.

I absolutely LOVE it when the property description is given with Section/Meridian location! Instead, many of the old land records use descriptions like, "mark five poles from the old white oak next to John Doe's sheep shed, then follow the river until the corner of Bob White's wheat field." Not a big help 200 years later. LOL

With Section/Meridian I can get very exact. As you can see with the following image!

The northern half of the property as seen from Palmyra Road.

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