Birth of Ezekiel Titsworth
Recently I received a packet of family information which included material around the birth of Ezekiel Titsworth.First, let me give the background that I know: Elizabeth BADGLEY was the daughter of Reverend David BADGLEY, a Baptist minister who brought a group of 154 settlers from Hardy CO VA/WVA to Illinois in 1797. Elizabeth married John STARR and had one child, David Badgley STARR b. 3-9-1802. John STARR died in 1804. Elizabeth married Abraham TITSWORTH 1-26-1806 in St. Clair CO IL. On 5-23-1806 Ezekiel TITSWORTH was born. Those are the facts---but look at this background material that just came into my hands:"[Elizabeth and Abraham] got their effects together and went down the Mississippi in a dugout (a boat dug out of a big log). At a military post called Post Arkansas a child was born, and the father sickened and died. [Elizabeth's] brother Aaron Badgley [of Illinois], hearing of Titsworth's death, took horses sufficient to pack provisions and crossed the state of Arkansas afoot and alone, blazing a trail. He was joined by Col. Titsworth and they in a pirogue (French-Indian canoe) [made their way to] Post Arkansas to assist Aaron's sister Betsy with her small family [newborn Ezekiel and 4 year-old David Badgley Starr]in returning to the house of her father. The trip was attended with great difficulty without a road or guide, it being the dry season and they being three days and nights without water. They finally arrived safely."Elizabeth was to marry a third time, to Joel Smith, and had at least one more child.(My connection is that I am descended from Elizabeth Badgley and John Starr.) Nora Tocus
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