Wade & Webb Family History

Caroline McKinney1820–1897

Georgia · Chambers · Lawrence · Randolph

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Sources
  4. Notes

Birth

  1. 8 Nov 1820 Georgia 1

Marriages

  1. 25 Aug 1838 John Hicks, at Chambers, Alabama 2
  2. 1843 Jourdan Lamb, at Alabama
  3. Date unknown spouse unknown
  4. Date unknown George Washington Stanford

Death and burial

  1. 15 Oct 1897 Death: Dadeville, Tallapoosa, Alabama 6

Family

Parents
Eli McKinney 1800–1857
Marriage 1, 25 Aug 1838
John Hicks 1818–1894
Children
Nancy Ann Hicks 1846–1926
William Thomas Hicks 1845–1862
James Harris Hicks 1842–1894
Amos Eli Hicks 1839–1922
Joseph Tillman Hicks 1849–?
John A Hicks 1843–1865
Marriage 2, 1843
Jourdan Lamb 1804–?
Children
Matthew J. Lamb 1854–?
John T C Lamb 1849–?
Rachiel R. Lamb 1844–?
Laban Lamb 1857–?
Martha A. Lamb 1851–?
Mary C. Lamb 1846–?
Marriage 3
Spouse unknown
Children
Elizabeth J. Stamford 1844–?
William T Stamford 1852–?
Sarah C Stamford 1848–?
Marriage 4
George Washington Stanford 1820–?

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Caroline McKinney
  2. Sister of Eli Harris McKinney Sr.
  3. Emma Louise McKinney, daughter
  4. Lila Walden, daughter
  5. Hilda Webb, daughter
  6. William Albert Webb Wade, son

2nd great-grandaunt of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Caroline McKinney was born in Georgia on 8 November 1820, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives no source for the date and names her parents as Eli McKinney and Sarah "Sallie" Gresham.1 On 25 August 1838 she married John Hicks in Chambers County, Alabama; some index entries give the date as 26 August, and one of them names Eli McKinney in the record.2 Inference Eli McKinney's appearance in the record, probably as the consenting father or as a bondsman (the man who signed the marriage bond as surety), supports the tree's identification of her parents.2 The tree names six children, born between 1839 and 1849: Amos Eli, James Harris, John A., William Thomas, Nancy Ann and Joseph Tillman Hicks.3 The federal censuses of 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 list Caroline Hicks in the household (the people living together at one address, as the census-taker recorded them) of John Hicks: in Chambers County in 1850, in Randolph County in 1860, and in the Rome election precinct of Tallapoosa County, Alabama, in 1870 and 1880.4 According to the tree, two of her sons died in the years of the Civil War, William Thomas in 1862 and John A. in 1865.5 Her husband died in Tallapoosa County on 24 December 1894, and Caroline Hicks died at Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, on 15 October 1897.6 A Texas death record of 1926 for J. D. Morgan names John Hicks and Caroline McKinney as parents.7 Inference Since the tree's daughter Nancy Ann Hicks died in 1926, the record is probably hers, as Mrs. J. D. Morgan, but the tree does not record her marriage.7

The tree attaches to Caroline three further husbands or families that cannot be hers.8 It makes her the wife of Jourdan Lamb, with six Lamb children born between 1844 and 1857, on the strength of census entries for a Caroline Lamb in his household in Cache Township, Lawrence County, Arkansas, in 1860 and 1870; but in both of those years Caroline Hicks was being enumerated with John Hicks in Alabama, and her Hicks children were born in the same years as the Lamb children.8 It also links her to a George Washington Stanford of Lauderdale County, Alabama, and to three Stamford children, and gives her the other names Mary Stapler and Caroline Stapler, with no record of any of these.9 An English christening record of 1854 for an Alfred Hicks is attached as well.10 Inference These are almost certainly other women named Caroline who were merged with her or attached to her by mistake; the records support only her marriage to John Hicks.8

Sources

Every FamilySearch record attached to Caroline McKinney.

  1. 25 Aug 1838Caroline Kenny, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  2. 25 Aug 1838Caroline Kenny, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  3. 1838Caroline Mc Kenney in entry for John Hicks, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  4. 26 Aug 1838Caroline Mc Kenney, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  5. 26 Aug 1838Caroline Mc Kenney, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  6. 25 Aug 1838Caroline Mc Kenny, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  7. 26 Aug 1838Caroline Mc Kenny, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  8. 25 Aug 1838Caroline Mc Kenny, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  9. 25 Aug 1838Caroline Mc Kenny, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  10. 25 Aug 1838Caroline McKenny, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  11. 25 Aug 1838Caroline McKenny, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  12. 25 Aug 1838Caroline McKenny, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  13. 25 Aug 1838Caroline McKiney, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  14. 1850Caroline Hicks, "United States, Census, 1850"
  15. 1854Caroline in entry for Alfred Hicks, "England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  16. 1860Caroline Hicks, "United States, Census, 1860"
  17. 1860Caroline Lamb, "United States, Census, 1860"
  18. 1870Caroline Hicks, "United States, Census, 1870"
  19. 1870Caroline Lamb, "United States, Census, 1870"
  20. 1880Caroline Hicks, "United States, Census, 1880"
  21. 15 October 1897Caroline Hicks, "Alabama, Deaths and Burials, 1881-1952"
  22. 22 July 1926Caroline McKinney, "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977"
  23. 25 Aug 1838Caroline Kenny, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  24. 25 Aug 1838Caroline Mc Kenny, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZ1M-QQL: birth 8 Nov 1820, Georgia, no source attached; parents Eli McKinney and Sarah Sallie Gresham back to the text
  2. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, John Hicks and Caroline Mc Kenny, 25 Aug 1838. Record: John Hicks and Caroline Mc Kenny, 25 Aug 1838 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, John Hicks and Caroline Mc Kenney, 26 Aug 1838. Record: John Hicks and Caroline Mc Kenney, 26 Aug 1838 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Eli Mc Kenny in entry for John Hicks and Caroline Mc Kenny, 25 Aug 1838. Record: Eli Mc Kenny in entry for John Hicks and Caroline Mc Kenny, 25 Aug 1838 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZ1M-QQL: marriage 25 Aug 1838, Chambers, Alabama back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZ1M-QQL: children with John Hicks: Amos Eli (1839–1922), James Harris (1842–1894), John A (1843–1865), William Thomas (1845–1862), Nancy Ann (1846–1926), Joseph Tillman (1849) back to the text
  4. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Caroline Hicks in entry for John Hicks, 1850. Record: Caroline Hicks in entry for John Hicks, 1850 "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Caroline Hicks in entry for John Hicks, 1860. Record: Caroline Hicks in entry for John Hicks, 1860 "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, Caroline Hicks in entry for John Hicks, 1870. Record: Caroline Hicks in entry for John Hicks, 1870 "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, Caroline Hicks in entry for John Hicks, 1880. Record: Caroline Hicks in entry for John Hicks, 1880 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LCD9-3SV (their page): residences 1850 Chambers; 1860 Randolph, Alabama; 1870 and 1880 Election Precinct 14 Rome, Tallapoosa back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZ1M-QQL: William Thomas Hicks (1845–1862), John A Hicks (1843–1865) back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LCD9-3SV (their page): death 24 Dec 1894, Tallapoosa, Alabama "Alabama, Deaths and Burials, 1881-1952", FamilySearch, Caroline Hicks, 15 October 1897. Record: Caroline Hicks, Alabama Deaths and Burials, 15 October 1897 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZ1M-QQL: death 15 Oct 1897, Dadeville, Tallapoosa, Alabama back to the text
  7. "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977", FamilySearch, Caroline McKinney in entry for J D Morgan, 22 July 1926. Record: Caroline McKinney in entry for J D Morgan, 22 July 1926 "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977", FamilySearch, John Hicks in entry for J D Morgan, 22 July 1926. Record: John Hicks in entry for J D Morgan, 22 July 1926 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZ1M-QQL: child Nancy Ann Hicks (1846–1926) back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZ1M-QQL: spouse Jourdan Lamb, marriage 1843, children Rachiel R. (1844), Mary C. (1846), John T C (1849), Martha A. (1851), Matthew J. (1854), Laban (1857); residences 1860 and 1870 Cache Township, Lawrence, Arkansas "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Caroline Lamb in entry for Jourdan Lamb, 1860. Record: Caroline Lamb in entry for Jourdan Lamb, 1860 "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, Caroline Lamb in entry for Jordan Lamb, 1870. Record: Caroline Lamb in entry for Jordan Lamb, 1870 "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Caroline Hicks in entry for John Hicks, 1860. Record: Caroline Hicks in entry for John Hicks, 1860 "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, Caroline Hicks in entry for John Hicks, 1870. Record: Caroline Hicks in entry for John Hicks, 1870 back to the text
  9. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZ1M-QQL: spouse George Washington Stanford; children Elizabeth J. (1844), Sarah C (1848), William T Stamford (1852); other names Mary Stapler, Caroline Stapler FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KN73-7GR (their page): residence 1860, District 1, Lauderdale, Alabama back to the text
  10. "England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch, Caroline in entry for Alfred Hicks, 1854. Record: England, Births and Christenings: Caroline in entry for Alfred Hicks, 1854 back to the text