Person:Thomas Isbell (2)

About Thomas Isbell

Wayne County, Kentucky, Pioneers: Biographical Sketches and Civil Court Records (1974) by June Baldwin Bork, pages 140-44 show 20 children of Thomas Isbell who was born about 1784 in North Carolina and died 1862. He married first in Wayne County 1804

While Godfrey Isbell (b. 1750) was living there, having lived in N.C. in 1784 also. Godfrey must have had a large family, like many of the Isbells of his generation, but only a few of his children are proven. Jabez born 1793 in S.C. is proven by his daughter's obituary. Nancy born about 1779-89 is proven by the fact Godfrey gave consent for her marriage to James Brooks in Wayne Co., KY in 1804. These must have been among the younger children.

Thomas Isbell b. c1784 N.C. also married in Wayne County, KY in 1804, to his first wife Leah Francis, daughter of Adjutant John Francis and Ann "Nany" Mounts (Mounce/Mountz). Thomas Isbell was the administrator of John Francis' estate. He and Frances had 10 children, and then he had at least ten more by three later wives.

Page 141: James Morris Isbell was born 1824 in Wayne Co., married Elizabeth Alexander, and was killed in the Civil War at the Battle of Kenesaw, Georgia. Their daughter Nancy Ann, born 1843, married first Thomas Lee and second to her cousin Wiseman Alexander.

Court

On the 7 October 1841, Sophia McClain, a single woman was delivered of a male bastard at the house of Nancy Gilbert in Wayne County; Sophia charges Thomas Isbell as the father of said child. Thomas was brought into Court.

(Wayne County, Kentucky, Marriage and Vital Records, 1801-1860, vol II, Marriages K-Z)

LANDS GRANT

Kentucky Land Grants Kentucky Land Grants

• Grantee: Isbell, Thomas
• Acres: 50
• Book: L
• Survey Date: 3-21-1822
• County: Wayne
• WaterCourse: Beaver Cr
• Reference: THE KENTUCKY LAND GRANTS
• Volume 1
• Part 1
• CHAPTER VI KENTUCKY LAND WARRANTS (1816-1873)
• THE COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY
• page 601
• More Info: Grantee: Isbell, Thomas
• Acres: 50
• Book: L
• Page: 37
• Date Survey: 3-21-1822
• County: Wayne
• Watercourse: Beaver Cr

• • • Source Information: Jillson, Willard Rouse. The Kentucky Land Grants. Vol. I-II. Louisville, KY, USA: Filson Club Publications, 1925.

Kentucky Land Grants Kentucky Land Grants

• Grantee: Isbell, Thos
• Acres: 12
• Book: 43
• Survey Date: 2-25-1854
• County: Wayne
• WaterCourse: Elk Sp Cr
• Reference: THE KENTUCKY LAND GRANTS
• Volume 1
• Part 2
• CHAPTER X. GRANTS IN THE COUNTY COURT ORDERS (1836-1924)
• THE COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY
• page 1383
• More Info: Grantee: Isbell, Thos
• Acres: 12
• Book: 43
• Page: 234
• Date Survey: 2-25-1854
• County: Wayne
• Watercourse: Elk Sp Cr

• • • Source Information: Jillson, Willard Rouse. The Kentucky Land Grants. Vol. I-II. Louisville, KY, USA: Filson Club Publications, 1925.

U.S.1850 United States Federal Census

1850 United States Federal Census

• Name: Thomas Isbell
• Age: 66
• Estimated Birth Year: abt 1784
• Birth Place: North Carolina
• Gender: Male
• Home in 1850(City,County,State): Division 1, Wayne, Kentucky
• Household Members: Name Age
• Elizabeth V Isbell 6
• Emily Isbell 5
• Granville C Isbell 3
• Louia Isbell 19
• Matilda C Isbell 1
• Sally Isbell 25
• Thomas Isbell 66
• William K Isbell 8

• • • Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Division 1, Wayne, Kentucky; Roll: M432_221; Page: 310; Image: 360.

• • • Source Information: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432, 1,009 rolls.