Neighbors and Cousins

Source: Ancestry. 1870 Non-Population Schedule.

The 1870 US Census Agriculture Non-Population schedule shows a snapshot of life in Jefferson County, Tennessee. This particular section lists quite a few neighbors, many of them cousins or connected through marriage. As I go down the list I see:

- Benjamin F. Hickey, brother of my 4th-great-grandmother Sally Hickey & connection by marriage into the Thornhill family

- Joseph Jones, my 3rd-great-grandfather

- Wesley Cox, who married into the Hickey family & served in the 1st Tennessee Cavalry with Thomas W. Thornhill

- Richard Thornhill, brother of my 4th-great-grandmother Elizabeth Thornhill Jones

- Marion H. Skeen, father-in-law of Roena Green (sister of my 3rd-great-grandmother Mary Catherine Green Jones)

- Samuel Thornhill, brother of Thomas W. Thornhill & married into the Cline family

- Peter A. Cline, father of Margaret Cline, Samuel Thornhill's wife; brother to Margaret Cline, wife of Richard Thornhill

- Charles C. Cline, brother of Peter Cline, and husband to Rachel Jane Green, sister of Mary Catherine Green Jones; witness of sale of property belonging to Elizabeth Thornhill Jones

- Jane Skeen, widow of John A. Skeen

- John Kimbrough, long distant neighbors of the Jones family in Jefferson County

- William A. Bowers, husband of Margaret E. Thornhill & the plaintiff in the case of State v Samuel and Thomas Larimore

The page also tells quite a lot about the farms owned by these people. Joseph Jones had 35 acres of improved land and 90 acres of woodland. He also had two horses, a milk cow, two working oxen, one other cow, 3 sheep and 14 pigs. He grew 300 bushels of corn and 50 bushels of oats in 1870.