Person:Christiana Donakey (1)

1880 US Census shows CE living in Carrsville, Livingston, Kentucky. Age is 47. Occupation is Keeping house. Born in Kentucky, father in Kentucky, mother illegible. SD 1, ED 86, Page 2. Dated 2 June 1880.

1900 U.S. Census shows Christiana E. Woodmansee, age 69, living in Carrsville. Birth Sept. 1830 in Kentucky. Marital status: widowed. Father's birthplace: Pennsylvania. Mother's birthplace: Virginia.

Family Search gives a record for a Christiana E. Donakey, birth 1834, parents John Sullivan Donakey and Rachel B. Valentine. A biography of JAMES HENRY HODGE ESQ.(1784-1833) athttp://henryghodge.com/22.html in reference to son James Lawrence Hodge states "His second marriage was on September 10, 1860 in Smithland to Christiana E. Donakey. Bondsman for the marriage was Isaac Shelby and it was solemnized by the Rev. Charles H. Campbell with attending witnesses John D. McGoodwin and John Lewis. Christiana was born ca. 1833 in Livingston County and was the daughter of John S. and Rachel B. (Valentine) Donakey. After his death a year later, Christiana disappeared from county records . . ."

1.   Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   Give maiden name as Donakey and 1st husband's last name as Hodge, no first name. Also death as after 5 Oct. 1904. No sources cited.

2.   FamilySearch: Unidentified database - please replace source when identified.

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3.   Parker, Janet J., and J. Carlyle Parker. Descendants of Gabriel Woodmancy/Woodmansee of New London, Connecticut: Thirteen Generations from 1665. (Turlock, California, 2009).