WILLIAM W. MADDOX
A memoir, written about 1920 by Ernest Greenwood Maddox about the Maddox family provides names and some dates on this line of the Maddox family. If there is no official documentation given, then the data came from the Memoir.
William (W). Maddox was born in 1787 in Virginia
according to the Trimble County Kentucky 1850
Census. I'm not sure where the middle initial W. comes
from. Various online sources include it, but I can't
find a document with it used. His father was Daniel Maddox but his
mother is still unknown.
Gertude E. Hewson, wrote Kentucky Called Them.
She lists the Tax Lists that included the Maddox family:
page 233, Jan 12, 1813 Daniel Maddox 100
acres on Corn and Spring Creeks, also listed Michael,
Wilson and William Maddox
page 251, Capt Ziba Holt 1814 Tax List, William
Maddox on Ohio River, Michael Maddox,
Daniel Maddox 105 acres on Corn Creek.
He was listed on the Tax list of Kentucky in 1812 but with no property.
He married Betsy (Elizabeth) Moreland about 1817.
William Maddox is on the 1820 Shelby County
Kentucky Census, page 165, NARA roll M33_24.
he is listed with:
1 male under 10, (Thomas)
1 male 26-44, (William )
1 female 16-25 (Betsy)
1 slave.
On the same page are his father Dan Maddox, and
brothers with their families: Robert and David
Maddox. All were engaged in agriculture.
Kentucky Counties were formed continuously in the early
19th century. In 1820 there was Shelby county just south
of Henry County and Gallatin County was on the north side
of Henry County. By 1830 Oldham County had been
created from pieces of Shelby, Henry and Jefferson
counties. By 1840 Trimble county has been created,
dividing Oldham almost in half and taking a piece of
Gallatin as well as Henry County. Trimble is on the
north east of Oldham. It is very likely that the William
Maddox family was in the same place from 1822,
1830 and 1840.
On September 2, 1822, Gallatin County Deed Book #,
page 280, William Maddox purchases 150 acres "at the
mouth of Grays fork of Corn Creek".
The Oldham County Tax Books have the following:
1829 William Matox on Corn Creek/Ohio River (Fits
with his father owning land on Corn Creek)
1830 William Maddox on Ohio River
1834 William Maddox on Ohio River, also in
Gallatin County on Corn Creek.
1836 William Maddox on Ohio River
in 1837 & 1838 there is a William H. Maddox
listed but without a place.
Corn Creek flows into the Ohio, so the question is did
William Maddox own 2 properties, one on the Ohio and one
on Gray's fork of Corn Creek OR was it the waters
of the Ohio but they come from Corn Creek. I
actually believe there was only one property, but if you
have information CONTACT
US. The Maddox family always were had
leadership roles in their local churches. William's
father, Dan Maddox was a moderator of the Corn
Creek Baptist Church and most likely William
was also active in this church. The history of Corn Creek
Church can be found at http://www.nkyviews.com/trimble/trimble_churches.htm
But then in 1832 Rev. Isaac Foster left the
Baptist church and founded the Mt. Olivette Christian
Church. William Maddox was the first
elder. A few years later Mt. Byrd Christian Church
was formed. In 1839 Mt. Olivet and Mt. Byrd
merged and William Maddox, Jeremiah Trout
(kin by marriage) and Jacob Overpeck represented
Mt. Olivet
http://www.nkyviews.com/trimble/pdf/Mt_Byrd_Christian_Church.pdf
Mt. Bryd continues and maybe of the related families to
the Maddox were involved.
William Maddox is on the 1830 Oldham County KY.
Census. There was intermarriage with a Trout child
a few years later. It is not a perfect fit, but is
probably our William. 1830 Oldham Co.,
KY Census 40-301 next to Daniel Trout
William Madox
2 males 10-15 (John but he was only 9, Thomas),
1 male 15-20 (William Jr),
1 male 50-60 (William but he was only 43),
1 female 0-5 (Martha Jane ?),
1 female 5-10 (or Martha Jane - she would have
been close to 5 years old.),
1 female 15-20 (?),
1 female 40-50 (Elizabeth but she was only 35)
no slaves, total 8 people
Trimble County Tax List 1837 William
Maddox is listed with 174 acres on Ohio River ( very
likely the same place as 1814) with one black tythe and 1
white thythe, 3 horses, 50 cattle. Total value of
property $4180.
Census records of Trimble County 1840 list William
Maddox as head of house hold with:
1 male < 5, (this could be one of the 3 sons that "died
as a youth"
1 male 15-20, (John W.)
1 male 30-40,
1 male 50-60 (William)
1 female <5, (Bettie)
1 female 10-15, (Martha)
1 female 40-50. (Betsy)
I don't know who the 30-40 year old man was nor where was
George, who would have been about 9 years old
The 1850 census states that William
Maddox was a farmer 63 years old, born in Virginia,
Eliza Maddox age 52 was also born in Virginia, George
age19 was born in Kentucky and Mary age 11 was
born in Kentucky.
The known children of William W. and Elizabeth Maddox
were:
1. William born about 1817. He died as a youth.
2. Thomas born 1819 married Salome Trout on
April 27, 1840 in Trimble County, Kentucky.
3. John W. born Nov
25, 1821 married Susan Jane
Greenwood moved to Marshall County, Ky. by
1880 and died there Feb 28, 1895.
4. Martha born about 1825 married John C.
Greenwood first and then a Mr. Fresh. Her
last known address was Trout, Kentucky.
5. George born about 1831 married Martha F.
Bates. He was in Milton, Kentucky in 1900.
6. Andrew born about 1831 (George's twin)
Andrew died as a youth.
7. Mary Elizabeth "Bettie" born about 1839,
married William Campbell. She died
shortly after her 7th child was born in 1874.
8. Fluty died as a youth,
9. Silas died as a youth.
10. Levi died as a youth
11. Walter died as a youth
12. Salomia died as a youth.
The children and their spouses are in the Ernest G.
Maddox Memoir written in 1900. It is a very
sad story with 7 of the 12 children who "died as a
youth". I don't know the young girls story listed in
the 1850 Census. ie 11 year old Mary (Martha)
She was not listed in the Memoir. Was she a
grandchild or niece or just not listed in the memoir?
There was a family story about how this family floated down the Ohio River with about five children and came ashore at Milton Kentucky. We know William had been raised in this area and the story is not of their migration to Kentucky. It is possible that William went to Indiana with his father and returned after a few years. To get across the Ohio they would have had to "float across the Ohio River".
Elizabeth Maddox died April 27, 1855 of Typhus. There many in Trimble county that died of Typhus that year. William Maddox died shortly thereafter on June 18, 1855 of dropsy in Trimble county, Kentucky.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
If you know the answer please CONTACT US
1. What was William Maddox mother's name?
2. Did he have a middle initial W. and what did it
stand for?
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