A Lost Hornaday in early NC
If anyone is working the early Hornaday family in NC, I would like to make contact with such a person.I have access to the book "The Hornadays, Root and Branch," and it does not help me one bit.
Without getting into all the details, there are three Underwood brothers who were in Montgomery/Stanly Co., NC: 1. Alexander Underwood, b. 1795, d. 1825; 2. John Underwood, b. 1805, d. ca. 1840; and Isaiah H. Underwood b. 1812, d. 1881.Until recently nothing, and I mean nothing, was known about either of their parents.One of the great difficulties is that Montgomery County (which included Stanly Co until 1841) has had its records burned multiple times.
In the 1840 census an elderly woman was living in the Isaiah H. Underwood household.And in the 1840 census she was identified as Mary Underwood, age 78, born NC.There is persistent lore among the Isaiah Underwood descendants that Mary was a Hornaday, and one of her grandsons was even given the middle name of Hornaday (verifiable fact).No one presently knows what Isaiah's middle name was, but it's possible that it was Hornaday.
I am now pretty confident that Mary's husband was a son of Alexander and Mary (Underhill) Underwood of Orange County, NC.I am estimating that Mary married her Underwood husband ca. 1790-1794 in Orange County.At this time Alexander Underwood was living very close to some of the Orange County Hornadays in Orange County, and as a matter of fact, starting in 1792, when Alexander was apparently about to sell out and move south, he sold a 300 acre tract on Rock Creek of land to Nathan Hornaday.And on the same day - 24 May 1794 - he sold two tracts, totally 354 acres, on Cain Creek - to Christopher Hornaday.
Given what I now think I know I have to work under the assumption that the book "The Hornadays, Root and Branch" did not get it all right; i.e., that somewhere - probably among the children of John, Christopher, Nathan or Lewis Hornaday - there is supposed to be a Mary who has been "lost" or mis-identified.Or I suppose it might be possible that Mary could have been a unknown youngest child of John, the progenitor.
So...If anyone has the slightest clue where a "lost" Mary Hornaday, b. ca. 1770-1775, might fit into the Hornaday family, I'd surely like to hear from you.
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