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Elizabeth (Betsy) Moreland was born in 1796 in Shenandoah County, Virginia the History of Trimble County.

 A memoir, written about 1920 by Ernest Greenwood Maddox about the Maddox family, lists her father as William Moreland and her mother Priscilla Boswell. William Moreland was said to be Irish and the Bozzle family Dutch.  That may have been their history, but we have not tracked the family beyond Maryland.  William and Priscilla were married in Charles County Maryland.  We can track William through his will and properties.   There were many Boswells in Prince George's County, just north of Charles County, but I have never found a reference to this Priscilla Boswell other than the Family Memoir.

William and Priscilla Moreland moved to Virginia maybe late 1790 or 1791 with two small children.  Elizabeth Moreland was born there March 6, 1796 with her twin, Jack.  William and Priscilla's last child was born in 1800.  We believe it likely that Priscilla died shortly there after, perhaps complications of childbirth.  The family was still in Shenandoah County in 1810. The 1810 Census, Virginia Roll 71, page 6  shows the family to consist of
1 male > 45 - William Moreland
2 males 10-15, Jack and Walter Moreland
1 female 16-25 Martha
1 female Elizabeth
and 5 slaves.
No Priscilla.  Thus we believed she had died between 1800 and 1810.

By 1813 and maybe as early as 1812,  the family had moved to Henry County Kentucky.  The family settled on or near the Ohio river in the part of Henry county that eventually became Trimble County.  Close by was the Maddox family.  Betsy Moreland married William Maddox about 1817.  Betsy is never directly mentioned by name in any document until her death certificate.  We have only the Memoire & the inferences from the census of Betsy by a female being the right age, in each 10 year period.

William Maddox  is on the 1820 Shelby County Kentucky Census, page 165.  he is listed with 1 male, under 10, 1 male 26-44, and 1 female 16-25
with 1 slave.

Kentucky Counties were formed continuously in the early 19th century. In 1820 there was Shelby county just south of Henry County.  By 1830 Oldham County had been created from pieces of Shelby, Henry and Jefferson counties.  In 1840 Trimble county has been created, dividing Oldham almost in half. Trimble being on the north east of Oldham.  It is very likely that the William Maddox family was in the same place 1820, 1830 and 1840. 

The 1840 Census of Trimble County list William Maddox as head of house hold with:
1 male < 5, (George)
1 male 15-20, (John W.)
1 male 30-40, ( ? )
1 male 50-60 (William W.)
1 female <5, (Bettie)
1 female 10-15,(Martha)
1 female 40-50. (Elizabeth)

It is believed that Martha married in 1840 while just 15.  So the 30-40 year old male is probably her first husband.

The 1850 Census for Trimble County list
William Maddox was a farmer 63 years old, born in Virginia,
Eliza Maddox age 52, born in Virginia,
George age19 born in Kentucky,
Mary age 11 born in Kentucky.

The known children of William W. and Elizabeth Maddox were listed in the Maddox Family History Ernest Greenwood Maddox:: A copy can be made.
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  The children listed in this history 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 1st John C. Greenwood first and 2nd Mr. Fresh. Her last known address was Trout, Kentucky.
5. George born about 1835 married Martha F. Bates. He was in Milton, Kentucky in 1900.
6. Andrew born about 1831or 35 (maybe George's twin) Andrew died as a youth.
7. Bettie born about 1835, married William Campbell.
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.

Perhaps "Fluty" was Mary on the 1850 census.

Betsy Moreland Maddox died April 27, 1855 of Typhoid Fever and William Maddox died a few weeks later on June 18, 1855. They died and were buried in Trimble County, Kentucky. Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1953

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