Mahala George b. Abt 1824 Kentucky, USA: Our Family History

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Name	Mahala George [1]
Born	Abt 1824	Kentucky, USA [1]
Gender	Female
Census	16 Jul 1860	Prestonburg (post office), Floyd County, Kentucky, USA [2]
	1. Bays, Charles, 30, male, farmer, [no real estate value stated], personal $400, Virginia 2. _____, Mahala, 37, female, laborer, Kentucky 3. _____, Susan, 6, female, Kentucky 4. _____, Laura E., 2, female, Kentucky 5. Hill, William, 12, male, Kentucky, attending school 6. _____, Cynthia, 11, female, Kentucky, attending school [William and Cynthia Hill in this census are almost certainly the children found in the 1850 census in the home of Robert M. George, with Mahala still present: William, age 5, and Cynthia, age 4, While the ages do not match, the names and birth order do match. Mahala may have been married to a Hill in the 1840's and widowed or divorced, and the enumeration may have failed to take her surname into consideration. Alternately, perhaps she was not married, had two children, and later assigned the children their father's surname.]
Census	30 Jun 1870	Paintsville (post office), Barnett's Creek Precinct, Johnson County, Kentucky, USA [3]
	1. Bays, Charley J., 40, male, white, farmer renter, real estate $400, no personal, Virginia 2. _____, Mahala, 44, female, white, keeping house, Kentucky 3. _____, Susan Mary J., 16, female, white, at home, Kentucky, attending school, can read and write 4. _____, Lara Emaly, 12, female, white, at home, Kentucky, attending school, can read and write 5. _____, James J., 7, male, white, Kentucky, attending school 6. _____, Charles W., 5, male, white, Kentucky 7. George, [Hylton?], [12?], male, white, works on farm, attending school, can read and write, [citizen over 21?]
Census	3 Jun 1880	Barnett Creek, Voting Precinct 4, Johnson County, Kentucky, USA [4]
	1. Bays, Charles J., white, male, 50, married, farmer, Virginia, Virginia, Virginia 2. _____, Mahala, white, female, 56, married, keeping house, Kentucky, Kentucky, Virginia 3. _____, Laura E., white, female, 22, daughter, single, at home, attending school, Kentucky, Virginia, Kentucky 4. _____, James J., white, male, 17, son, single, works on farm, attending school, Kentucky, Virginia, Kentucky 5. _____. Charles W., white, male, 14, son, works on farm, attending school, cannot read, Kentucky, Virginia, Kentucky
Person ID	I82	ZZZ George (Client Julia George)
Last Modified	8 Aug 2012

Father	Robert Moody George, b. 6 Mar 1800, South Carolina, USA
Mother	Martha "Patsy" Porter, b. 1805, Virginia, USA , d. After 1850 (Age 46 years)
Married	18 Sep 1822	Floyd County, Kentucky, USA [5]
Family ID	F2	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 James William Hill, d. Abt 1847

Married Abt 1843 [2, 6, 7]

Marriage date based on age of son William Hill, 12, in the 1860 Floyd County census.

The 1840 census reflects a "William Hill," age 30-40, with a son age 15-20. On the same page is the Robert M. George family (Mahala's family), in addition to other George families and affiliated surnames. It is likely that Mahala married a son from this family; the naming of their eldest son "William" supports this likelihood. There is another William Hill in the county at the same time, but the lack of proximity makes him a less likely candidate.

Children

	1. William Hill, b. Abt 1848, Kentucky, USA
+	2. Cynthia Alice Hill, b. Abt 1849, Kentucky, USA

Last Modified 8 Aug 2012

Family ID F30 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Family 2 Charles Bays, b. Abt 1830, Virginia, USA

Married Between 1850-1856 [1, 2, 8]

Children

	1. Robert M. Bays, b. 17 Mar 1856, Floyd County, Kentucky, USA
	2. Martha Jane Bays, b. 15 Jan 1857, Big Sandy, Floyd County, Kentucky, USa
	3. Lore E. Bays, b. 24 May 1858, Sandy River, Floyd County, Kentucky, USA

Last Modified 7 Aug 2012

Family ID F29 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Sources

[S2] 1850 U.S. census, Floyd County, Kentucky, population schedule, "My District," p. 928 (penned, recto), p. 464 (stamped, verso), dwelling 727, family 727, Robert M. George household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 July 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 200.
[S107] 1860 U.S. census, Floyd County, Kentucky, population schedule, Prestonburg (post office), p. 1 (penned), p. 101 (penned, top right), dwelling 3, family 3, Charles Bays household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 August 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 367.
[S109] 1870 U.S. census, Johnson County, Kentucky, population schedule, Barnett's Creek Precinct, Paintsville (post office), p. 21 (penned), p. 121 (stamped, verso), dwelling 143, family 142, Charley J. Bays household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 August 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 477. .
[S110] 1880 U.S. census, Johnson County, Kentucky, population schedule, Barnett Creek, Voting Precinct 4, enumeration district (ED) 45, p. 5 (penned), p. 163 (stamped, recto), dwelling 25, family 25, Charles J. Bays household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 August 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 425. .
[S52] Dr. Willard Rouse Jillson, "Early Floyd County Marriage Records (1803–1860)," Kentucky Marriage Records: From the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983, reprinted 1986), 170, entry for Robt. M. George-Patsy Porter, 18 September 1822; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 22 July 2012).
[S108] 1840 U.S. census, Floyd County, Kentucky, [township not stated], [p. not stated or illegible], line 25, William Hill household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 July 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication M704, roll 110.
[S112] Kayleene Lowe, Martha "Patsy" Porter / Robert Moody George (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kyjohnso/FTGeorgePorter.htm : accessed 8 August 2012), descendant report, 4 October 2002; citing data from Karen Ammon and Kay Grosnickle.
[S104] Floyd County, Kentucky, Birth Register, 1856, entry for Robert M. Bays (27 March 1856); "Kentucky, Birth Records, 1852–1910," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 August 2012); citing Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records—Microfilm (1852–1910), microfilm rolls no. 994027–994058, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort. .