Person:John Harvey (48)

Research Notes

• page originally created by Chris Frano, cfranoc@@email.msn.com
• OLT's list middle name as "Page". Needs source.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 John Harvey, in History of Wayne County, Indiana: together with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens, history of Indiana and the Northwest Territory, embracing accounts of the prehistoric races, aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a brief review of its civil, political and military history (1884). (Chicago : Inter-state Pub., , 1884).

   p 337 - Caleb J. Harvey ... His grandfather, John Harvey, was born in Guilford County, N. C. , of English parents, in May, 1779, and there married Jane Cox, also of English descent, born March 3, 1782. In 1812 he removed to Wayne County, Ind., and entered 320 acres of land on Nolan's Fork, for which he paid $1.50 an acre. At that time the Indians frequently drove the settlers from their homes, and the latter built a block-house on Mr. Harvey's land, where they could take refuge in time of threatened danger. John Harvey died Sept. 12, 1850, and his wife, April 16, 1854. To them were born nine children; but two are living - Nathan, of Topeka, Kan., and William E., of Missouri. The deceased are - Rebecca, Isom, Benjamin, Aaron, John P., Mary E. and Jane A. ...
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2. ↑ John Hardway [sic], in Wayne, Indiana, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M432).

   Year: 1850; Census Place: Center, Wayne, Indiana; Roll: M432_180; Page: 183A; Image: 373.
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   Name: John Hardway [John Harvey] Age: 72 Birth Year: abt 1778 Birthplace: North Carolina Home in 1850: Center, Wayne, Indiana Gender: Male Family Number: 198