BIO-SKETCH OF SARAH (HITCHCOCK) HERNDON
(https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103084650/sarah-herndon)
Wife of PHILIP HERNDON (1808 TN-1848 TN), (Find A Grave Memorial #260829347)
HUSBAND ID: Philip Herndon (1808 TN-1848 TN), (Find A Grave Memorial #260829347).
CONFLATION ALERT: Philip Herndon AND Younger Herndon, AND their wives, both named Sarah, AND their two sets of children have been mistakenly conflated as one, but they are provably TWO separate men, women, and sets of children.
FACTS VIA DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE:
(1) Both Philip Herndon AND Younger Newton were both enumerated, same page, on the 1840 US Federal Census of Stewart Co TN.
(REF/URL: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8057/images/4410645_00663?pId=3430309.)
(2) Philip Herndon (misspelled Herendon), in first census enumeration as head of household, was first enumerated in 1830 Humpreys Co TN, the county where Younger Herndon's brother William Herndon, had land in mid-1820s; meantime William (possible father or uncle) is enumerated back in 1830 Stewart Co TN, while Younger Herndon (possible uncle or father) is enumerated further away in 1830 Trigg Co KY (erroneously indexed at Ancestry.com database as Gounger; enumerator misspelled surname as Harrington).
(REF-A: Philip's 1830 enumeration, as Herendon [sic], indexed Herenden, at URL: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/707549:8058?ssrc=pt&tid=53440451&pid=13510502899; REF-B: William's 1830 enumeration, as Herendon [sic], at URL: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/757204:8058?ssrc=pt&tid=53440451&pid=13510502485; REF-C: Younger's 1830 enumeration, indexed as Harrington [sic], at URL:https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8058/images/
4410618_00059?pId=1100728.)
(3) Philip Herndon, of Tennessee, who made an 1832 deposition at age 24 = birth calculation of 1808, died suddenly in early June 1848 following his April 1848 election to a six-year term as Justice of the Peace for Stewart Co TN, requiring a special election to replace him. Letters of Administration for his Estate were granted 5 Jun 1848. (REF: 28 May 1832 Deposition of "Phillip Herrendon" [sic, misspelling] sent to me 8 Feb 2018 by St Co TN Archivist, JL; Stewart County TN Court Books, and Will Book G, Pages 19, and 97-101, and Will Book F, Page 508.)
(4) Meanwhile, Younger Herndon, of Virginia-South Carolina-Tennessee-Kentucky, was moving between Stewart Co TN (1820, 1840) and Trigg Co KY (1830, 1850), having been recorded in Trigg Co KY road orders on 13 Sep 1836 as road hand for the Dover-Cadiz Road, census and court order both suggesting he lived along the state-line border region of both counties. His road hand work in Trigg Co KY was also mentioned 13 May 1844. Both orders misspell his surname as Herrington, which is actually HERNDON, verified by censuses of both counties and circuit court records of Stewart Co TN and probate records of Marlborough District SC. (REF: US Federal Censuses of 1820-1830-1840-1850, and Trigg Co KY Court Order Books 1836 & 1844.)
(5) On 13 May 1850 in Trigg Co KY, Younger & Sarah Ann (Wilson) Herndon purchased 140 acres of land on Little River, from Alfred Boyd, for $250. (REF: Trigg Co KY Deed Book J, page 578, instrument dated 13 May 1850, recorded 11 November 1850.) On 15 May 1856 in Trigg Co KY, Younger and wife Sarah Ann sold 115 of the 140 acres (minus M.E. church land given by an earlier owner Jacob Torian) to Chesley D. Lewis of the other part, both of Trigg Co KY, selling the land for $1000 (at a more than 4x profit). In that deed, Younger Herndon and Sarah [Ann] Herndon who is identified as "his wife" multiple times within the document, wherever her name is mentioned. (REF: Trigg Co KY Deed Book M, pages 450-451.)
(6) Younger Herndon died in Trigg Co KY before his 25 May & 13 Jun 1859 intestate probate records. (REF: Trigg Co KY Will Book E, pages 450-452; Trigg Co KY Court Order Book E, pages 145, 150, 319.) His wife "Sarah Ann Herndon" made her will, dated 15 Aug 1860, appointing her sole heir, as their last unwed child, Missouri Jane Herndon, then age 20-21. Sarah Ann died in Oct 1860, between 18 Sep 1860 census enumeration and the 8 Oct 1860 probating of her will. (REF: Trigg Co KY Will Book E, pages 321, 330; Trigg Co KY Court Order Book E, page 250, and 1850 US Fed Census of Trigg Co KY.)
(7) CONFLATION ALERT SUMMARY: The death date, sometimes even the death place, of Younger Herndon's uncle, Younger Newton (1763 VA-1847 SC), at times have been mistakenly attributed to the conflated mythical person "Younger Philip Herndon." This error mistakenly absorbed the true ages and deaths of both Younger Herndon (1785 VA-1859 KY) AND Philip Herndon (1808 TN-1848 TN), his nephew or son. This caused people to not follow the lifespans of each, as individuals, which led to the seeming "brick wall" dead end.
CEMETERY DATA:
No stone, or specific burial information:
Cemetery info from 2008 Book, "Cemeteries of Cadiz and Trigg County Kentucky" by David Sumner, Kim Fortner, Pam Metts, Charle Morris [A copy owned, purchased new at John L. Street Library, Cadiz, KY].
Not included in 1961 Book, "Statistical Handbook of Trigg County, Kentucky: The Gateway to the Jackson Purchase in Kentucky and Tennessee, Vol. 3, by Eurie Pearl Wilford Neel: the "Alfred Herndon Cemetery" is not transcribed therein (see alphabetical listing and index, page 416 & index page 68).
(URL: https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/479960-the-statistical-handbook-of-trigg-county-kentucky-the-gateway-to-the-jackson-purchase-in-kentucky-and-tennessee-vol-03?offset= , images 432 of 728.) [Two copies owned, both original and reprint editions.]
MARRIAGE DATE CALCULATION FROM 1830 CENSUS AGES OF CHILDREN (= 1823 or 1824):
(Household of 8, all white, parents and children, with zero slaves; married young ages 15-16 or 16-17.)
1830 HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:
[self/head] 1 male age 20-29 = b. betw. 1801-1810 = Philip Herndon, b. 1808.
[wife] 1 female age 20-29 = b. betw. 1801-1810 = Sarah (Hitchcock) Herndon, b. 1807.
[unknown, sis or dau, twin?] 1 female age 5-9 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = ?
[unknown, sis or dau, twin?] 1 female age 5-9 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = ?
[dau] 1 female age 5-9 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = Nancy Herndon, b. ca. 1823.
[son] 1 male age 5-9 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = Lewis Y. Herndon, b. 31 Aug 1824, md. by 1850.
[son] 1 male age 5 =="" b.="" betw.="" 1826-1830="?[dau] 1 female age 5 =="" b.="" betw.="" 1826-1830="Rebecca" Ann="" "Becky"="" Herndon,="" ca.="" 1830,="" md.="" by="" 1850.COMPARE 1840 CENSUS DATA:
(Household of 10, all whites, head and family; BE AWARE: Within the span of 11 names, are listed Younger Herendon [sic, Herndon], probable uncle, and Phillip Herendon [sic, Herndon], probable son.)
1840 HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:
[self/head] 1 male age 30-39 = b. betw 1801-1810 = Philip Herndon, b. ca. 1808
[wife] 1 female age 30-39 b. betw 1801-1810 = Sarah (Hitchcock) Herndon, b. ca. 1807
1 male 15-19 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = ?
1 male 10-14 = b. betw. 1826-1830 = Robert Herndon, b. ca. 1830.
1 female 5-9 = b. betw. 1831-1835 = ?
1 male 5-9 = b. betw. 1831-1835 = James Herndon, b. ca. 1833.
1 male 5-9 = b. betw. 1831-1835 = George Herndon, b. ca. 1835.
1 male 5 = b. betw. 1835-1840 = William Herndon, b. ca. 1837 or 1838.
1 female 5 = b. betw. 1835-1840= ?
1 male 5 = b. betw. 1835-1840 = Ellenor "Ellen" Herndon, b. ca. 1843.
COMPARE 1850 CENSUS DATA:
(Household of 7, all white, mom and children; BE AWARE: Census informants were not identified till the 1940 census, and reading census instructions to the enumerators, if on repeated visits they found no one at home, they were allowed to gather info from neighbors. This seems possible for this 1850 Census for three reasons: one, because their surname is erroneously recorded as Hendon [rather than Herndon], and, two, because Sarah's birthplace state is listed as unknown, and third, due to transposition of lines resulting in mismatch of gender & age for William and Elender.)
1850 HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:
[widow/head] Sarah, age 43 = b. ca. 1807.
[dau] Nancy Herndon, age 27 = b. ca. 1823.
[son] Robert Herndon, 17 = b. ca. 1830.
[son] James Herndon, 15 = b. ca. 1833.
[son] George Herndon, 13 = b. ca. 1835.
[son, alert: transposed lines, M] William Herndon age 12 or 13 (overwritten) = b. ca. 1837 or 1838.
[dau, alert: transposed lines, F] Ellender/Ellenor "Ellen" He[r]ndon, age 7 = b. ca. 1843.
KNOWN CHILDREN OF PHILIP & SARAH:
Philip Herndon (1808-1848) & Sarah (Hitchcock) Herndon (1807-aft. 1850+) were parents of these children:
(#1 in Goodspeed's, 1886 "History of Tennessee..." Stewart Co Section, pages 1305-1306)
(#2-7 on 1850 US Federal Census of Stewart Co TN with widowed mother Sarah Hendon [sic, Herndon]:
(1) Lewis/Louis Y. Herndon (1824/5) md. Mary Futrill.
(2) Nancy Herndon (1827), no further info, died after 1850.
(3) Robert Herndon (1833) md. Nancy Shaw & Mariah Barrett.
(4) James Herndon (1835) md. Missouri Shaw.
(5) George Herndon (1837) md. Mary E. McClannahan.
(6) Ellen/er] "Elender" Herndon (1838) md. Richard Burn[e]s.
(7) William Herndon (1843); md. Seregorda [sic] Manning.
(ALERT for children 6-7: The 1850 enumerator transposed the lines for William and Elender, saying William, 12, was female and Elender, 7, was male; likely he also transposed the ages making Ellen/er age 12 born 1838 and William age 7 born 1843, which fits with later research on their lives.)
PUBLISHED CHILD: SON LEWIS Y. HERNDON (BIO-SKETCH IN HIS LIFETIME):
Known child of Philip Herndon & wife Sarah Hitchcock (published in lifetime of son Lewis):
Lewis Herndon, born August 31, 1824 in Tennessee; died January 08, 1914 in Stewart County, Tennessee; married Mary Futrell February 19, 1846 in Stewart County, Tennessee.
(REF: Book, "History of Tennessee from the earliest time to the present : together with an historical and a biographical sketch of Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham and Houston counties" by Weston Arthur Goodspeed, 1886, pp. 1305-1306, Bio-sketch of "Lewis Herndon."
URL: https://archive.org/details/historyoftenness00good_1/page/n1385/mode/2up?q=lewisherndon.)
LEWIS Y. HERNDON, SON OF PHILIP & SARAH (HITCHCOCK) HERNDON:
(Philip's & Sarah's son, Lewis Herndon, of the 1886 Goodspeed biographical sketch, indeed followed in his father's footsteps, also serving as "magistrate," in Stewart Co TN. Identified in 1852 court & 1910 census as Lewis Y. Herndon, he served as an official in Stewart Co TN in various capacities from 1852-1894; (1) as estate administrator for relatives in 1852-53, 1857-58, 1865-67; (2) on Constable bond for District # 9 between 1 Nov 1858-1 Nov 1859; (3) from 1865 through 1894, Lewis was also Justice of the Peace, served as county poorhouse overseer, then county trustee, & tax collector. Before him, his father Philip Herndon had been Justice of the Peace for at least one earlier term in Stewart Co TN, performing marriages between 1846-1848, and being re-elected in 1848 prior to his sudden death.)
(CHILDREN SOURCE: Identified by RHB 2011 research sparked by the finding in 2010, my/RHB 1990s research, shared by fellow-researcher/series-publisher DLHj to MNG, quoted in the 2003 book by Maxine Newton Gibson, along with some identifiable conflation mistakes I had evidentiary proof to correct and realized I needed to quit working solo & share the that crucial documentation for the benefit of posterity and other researchers and historians. Documentation freely shared.)
CORRECT 1850 SURNAME OF PHILIP'S WIDOW WAS HERNDON (NOT HENDON, AS ENUMERATED):
Following all of Sarah (Hitchcock) He[r]ndon's 1850-set of children forward through the censuses, their marriages, and deaths, proves them to be Herndon's, all using spelling variants of Herndon, but never again erroneously-listed as Hendon, as it was on the 1850 US Federal Census of Stewart Co TN.
SOURCE: Alerted by 2003 compilation by Maxine Newton Gibson (although containing conflation errors, 2011 research by RHB.)
WHAT HAPPENED TO PHILIP'S WIDOW SARAH (HITCHCOCK) HERNDON?:
Philip's widow, Sarah (Hitchcock) Herndon, died sometime after the 1850 census---likely dying before the 1860 census, since according to Goodspeed's mention of them in the "History of Tennessee" (1886) in a biographical sketch of their son, "Lewis Herndon"---"neither lived to be old." One document raises the possibility she may have remarried to a Harrel, due to "Sallie Harrel" being listed as mother (with Philip Herndon listed as father) on death certificate of their son, (misspelled "Louis Herndon"), unfortunately the informant line is empty, so Harrel may be an error since it conflicts with the parental info published in the biographical sketch of their son Lewis during his lifetime. (Older death certificates are notorious for incomplete or incorrect data because surviving informants---assorted successive wives, grandchildren, in-laws, neighbors---often didn't know exact birth data or parentage.)
(REF: History of Tennessee from the earliest time to the present : together with an historical and a biographical sketch of Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham and Houston counties, by Weston Arthur Goodspeed, 1886, Section: Stewart Co, pages 1305-1306; URL: https://archive.org/details/historyoftenness00good_1/page/n1385/mode/2up?q=%22lewis+herndon%22.)
DEATH DATE SOURCE IS UNKNOWN TO ME:
Unsure source of the entered death date of 8 Feb 1860, but grateful for it, since it is reasonable inasmuch as she has no findable presence in the 1860 US Federal Census anywhere around the region of Stewart Co TN or Trigg Co KY.
BURIAL: By research conclusion, it is believed both parents of Lewis Y. Herndon, Philip and Sarah Ann (Hitchcock) Herndon, were (or, that Philip at least was,) buried in the same area or cemetery as their son LYH (Boyd Memorial Cemetery, Tharpe, Stewart Co TN), and as is so with many early graves, older grave rocks or tombstones often did not survive. I have observed tombstones in that area, made of a soft rock, perhaps limestone, and any markings had long since been weathered away.
Bio-Sketch Research provided by Rose H. Bonnell, 22 Oct 2023. (SEE: Additional info on Memorial for Philip Herndon: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/260829347/philip-herndon.)
(https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103084650/sarah-herndon)
Wife of PHILIP HERNDON (1808 TN-1848 TN), (Find A Grave Memorial #260829347)
HUSBAND ID: Philip Herndon (1808 TN-1848 TN), (Find A Grave Memorial #260829347).
CONFLATION ALERT: Philip Herndon AND Younger Herndon, AND their wives, both named Sarah, AND their two sets of children have been mistakenly conflated as one, but they are provably TWO separate men, women, and sets of children.
FACTS VIA DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE:
(1) Both Philip Herndon AND Younger Newton were both enumerated, same page, on the 1840 US Federal Census of Stewart Co TN.
(REF/URL: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8057/images/4410645_00663?pId=3430309.)
(2) Philip Herndon (misspelled Herendon), in first census enumeration as head of household, was first enumerated in 1830 Humpreys Co TN, the county where Younger Herndon's brother William Herndon, had land in mid-1820s; meantime William (possible father or uncle) is enumerated back in 1830 Stewart Co TN, while Younger Herndon (possible uncle or father) is enumerated further away in 1830 Trigg Co KY (erroneously indexed at Ancestry.com database as Gounger; enumerator misspelled surname as Harrington).
(REF-A: Philip's 1830 enumeration, as Herendon [sic], indexed Herenden, at URL: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/707549:8058?ssrc=pt&tid=53440451&pid=13510502899; REF-B: William's 1830 enumeration, as Herendon [sic], at URL: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/757204:8058?ssrc=pt&tid=53440451&pid=13510502485; REF-C: Younger's 1830 enumeration, indexed as Harrington [sic], at URL:https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8058/images/
4410618_00059?pId=1100728.)
(3) Philip Herndon, of Tennessee, who made an 1832 deposition at age 24 = birth calculation of 1808, died suddenly in early June 1848 following his April 1848 election to a six-year term as Justice of the Peace for Stewart Co TN, requiring a special election to replace him. Letters of Administration for his Estate were granted 5 Jun 1848. (REF: 28 May 1832 Deposition of "Phillip Herrendon" [sic, misspelling] sent to me 8 Feb 2018 by St Co TN Archivist, JL; Stewart County TN Court Books, and Will Book G, Pages 19, and 97-101, and Will Book F, Page 508.)
(4) Meanwhile, Younger Herndon, of Virginia-South Carolina-Tennessee-Kentucky, was moving between Stewart Co TN (1820, 1840) and Trigg Co KY (1830, 1850), having been recorded in Trigg Co KY road orders on 13 Sep 1836 as road hand for the Dover-Cadiz Road, census and court order both suggesting he lived along the state-line border region of both counties. His road hand work in Trigg Co KY was also mentioned 13 May 1844. Both orders misspell his surname as Herrington, which is actually HERNDON, verified by censuses of both counties and circuit court records of Stewart Co TN and probate records of Marlborough District SC. (REF: US Federal Censuses of 1820-1830-1840-1850, and Trigg Co KY Court Order Books 1836 & 1844.)
(5) On 13 May 1850 in Trigg Co KY, Younger & Sarah Ann (Wilson) Herndon purchased 140 acres of land on Little River, from Alfred Boyd, for $250. (REF: Trigg Co KY Deed Book J, page 578, instrument dated 13 May 1850, recorded 11 November 1850.) On 15 May 1856 in Trigg Co KY, Younger and wife Sarah Ann sold 115 of the 140 acres (minus M.E. church land given by an earlier owner Jacob Torian) to Chesley D. Lewis of the other part, both of Trigg Co KY, selling the land for $1000 (at a more than 4x profit). In that deed, Younger Herndon and Sarah [Ann] Herndon who is identified as "his wife" multiple times within the document, wherever her name is mentioned. (REF: Trigg Co KY Deed Book M, pages 450-451.)
(6) Younger Herndon died in Trigg Co KY before his 25 May & 13 Jun 1859 intestate probate records. (REF: Trigg Co KY Will Book E, pages 450-452; Trigg Co KY Court Order Book E, pages 145, 150, 319.) His wife "Sarah Ann Herndon" made her will, dated 15 Aug 1860, appointing her sole heir, as their last unwed child, Missouri Jane Herndon, then age 20-21. Sarah Ann died in Oct 1860, between 18 Sep 1860 census enumeration and the 8 Oct 1860 probating of her will. (REF: Trigg Co KY Will Book E, pages 321, 330; Trigg Co KY Court Order Book E, page 250, and 1850 US Fed Census of Trigg Co KY.)
(7) CONFLATION ALERT SUMMARY: The death date, sometimes even the death place, of Younger Herndon's uncle, Younger Newton (1763 VA-1847 SC), at times have been mistakenly attributed to the conflated mythical person "Younger Philip Herndon." This error mistakenly absorbed the true ages and deaths of both Younger Herndon (1785 VA-1859 KY) AND Philip Herndon (1808 TN-1848 TN), his nephew or son. This caused people to not follow the lifespans of each, as individuals, which led to the seeming "brick wall" dead end.
CEMETERY DATA:
No stone, or specific burial information:
Cemetery info from 2008 Book, "Cemeteries of Cadiz and Trigg County Kentucky" by David Sumner, Kim Fortner, Pam Metts, Charle Morris [A copy owned, purchased new at John L. Street Library, Cadiz, KY].
Not included in 1961 Book, "Statistical Handbook of Trigg County, Kentucky: The Gateway to the Jackson Purchase in Kentucky and Tennessee, Vol. 3, by Eurie Pearl Wilford Neel: the "Alfred Herndon Cemetery" is not transcribed therein (see alphabetical listing and index, page 416 & index page 68).
(URL: https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/479960-the-statistical-handbook-of-trigg-county-kentucky-the-gateway-to-the-jackson-purchase-in-kentucky-and-tennessee-vol-03?offset= , images 432 of 728.) [Two copies owned, both original and reprint editions.]
MARRIAGE DATE CALCULATION FROM 1830 CENSUS AGES OF CHILDREN (= 1823 or 1824):
(Household of 8, all white, parents and children, with zero slaves; married young ages 15-16 or 16-17.)
1830 HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:
[self/head] 1 male age 20-29 = b. betw. 1801-1810 = Philip Herndon, b. 1808.
[wife] 1 female age 20-29 = b. betw. 1801-1810 = Sarah (Hitchcock) Herndon, b. 1807.
[unknown, sis or dau, twin?] 1 female age 5-9 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = ?
[unknown, sis or dau, twin?] 1 female age 5-9 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = ?
[dau] 1 female age 5-9 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = Nancy Herndon, b. ca. 1823.
[son] 1 male age 5-9 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = Lewis Y. Herndon, b. 31 Aug 1824, md. by 1850.
[son] 1 male age 5 =="" b.="" betw.="" 1826-1830="?[dau] 1 female age 5 =="" b.="" betw.="" 1826-1830="Rebecca" Ann="" "Becky"="" Herndon,="" ca.="" 1830,="" md.="" by="" 1850.COMPARE 1840 CENSUS DATA:
(Household of 10, all whites, head and family; BE AWARE: Within the span of 11 names, are listed Younger Herendon [sic, Herndon], probable uncle, and Phillip Herendon [sic, Herndon], probable son.)
1840 HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:
[self/head] 1 male age 30-39 = b. betw 1801-1810 = Philip Herndon, b. ca. 1808
[wife] 1 female age 30-39 b. betw 1801-1810 = Sarah (Hitchcock) Herndon, b. ca. 1807
1 male 15-19 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = ?
1 male 10-14 = b. betw. 1826-1830 = Robert Herndon, b. ca. 1830.
1 female 5-9 = b. betw. 1831-1835 = ?
1 male 5-9 = b. betw. 1831-1835 = James Herndon, b. ca. 1833.
1 male 5-9 = b. betw. 1831-1835 = George Herndon, b. ca. 1835.
1 male 5 = b. betw. 1835-1840 = William Herndon, b. ca. 1837 or 1838.
1 female 5 = b. betw. 1835-1840= ?
1 male 5 = b. betw. 1835-1840 = Ellenor "Ellen" Herndon, b. ca. 1843.
COMPARE 1850 CENSUS DATA:
(Household of 7, all white, mom and children; BE AWARE: Census informants were not identified till the 1940 census, and reading census instructions to the enumerators, if on repeated visits they found no one at home, they were allowed to gather info from neighbors. This seems possible for this 1850 Census for three reasons: one, because their surname is erroneously recorded as Hendon [rather than Herndon], and, two, because Sarah's birthplace state is listed as unknown, and third, due to transposition of lines resulting in mismatch of gender & age for William and Elender.)
1850 HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:
[widow/head] Sarah, age 43 = b. ca. 1807.
[dau] Nancy Herndon, age 27 = b. ca. 1823.
[son] Robert Herndon, 17 = b. ca. 1830.
[son] James Herndon, 15 = b. ca. 1833.
[son] George Herndon, 13 = b. ca. 1835.
[son, alert: transposed lines, M] William Herndon age 12 or 13 (overwritten) = b. ca. 1837 or 1838.
[dau, alert: transposed lines, F] Ellender/Ellenor "Ellen" He[r]ndon, age 7 = b. ca. 1843.
KNOWN CHILDREN OF PHILIP & SARAH:
Philip Herndon (1808-1848) & Sarah (Hitchcock) Herndon (1807-aft. 1850+) were parents of these children:
(#1 in Goodspeed's, 1886 "History of Tennessee..." Stewart Co Section, pages 1305-1306)
(#2-7 on 1850 US Federal Census of Stewart Co TN with widowed mother Sarah Hendon [sic, Herndon]:
(1) Lewis/Louis Y. Herndon (1824/5) md. Mary Futrill.
(2) Nancy Herndon (1827), no further info, died after 1850.
(3) Robert Herndon (1833) md. Nancy Shaw & Mariah Barrett.
(4) James Herndon (1835) md. Missouri Shaw.
(5) George Herndon (1837) md. Mary E. McClannahan.
(6) Ellen/er] "Elender" Herndon (1838) md. Richard Burn[e]s.
(7) William Herndon (1843); md. Seregorda [sic] Manning.
(ALERT for children 6-7: The 1850 enumerator transposed the lines for William and Elender, saying William, 12, was female and Elender, 7, was male; likely he also transposed the ages making Ellen/er age 12 born 1838 and William age 7 born 1843, which fits with later research on their lives.)
PUBLISHED CHILD: SON LEWIS Y. HERNDON (BIO-SKETCH IN HIS LIFETIME):
Known child of Philip Herndon & wife Sarah Hitchcock (published in lifetime of son Lewis):
Lewis Herndon, born August 31, 1824 in Tennessee; died January 08, 1914 in Stewart County, Tennessee; married Mary Futrell February 19, 1846 in Stewart County, Tennessee.
(REF: Book, "History of Tennessee from the earliest time to the present : together with an historical and a biographical sketch of Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham and Houston counties" by Weston Arthur Goodspeed, 1886, pp. 1305-1306, Bio-sketch of "Lewis Herndon."
URL: https://archive.org/details/historyoftenness00good_1/page/n1385/mode/2up?q=lewisherndon.)
LEWIS Y. HERNDON, SON OF PHILIP & SARAH (HITCHCOCK) HERNDON:
(Philip's & Sarah's son, Lewis Herndon, of the 1886 Goodspeed biographical sketch, indeed followed in his father's footsteps, also serving as "magistrate," in Stewart Co TN. Identified in 1852 court & 1910 census as Lewis Y. Herndon, he served as an official in Stewart Co TN in various capacities from 1852-1894; (1) as estate administrator for relatives in 1852-53, 1857-58, 1865-67; (2) on Constable bond for District # 9 between 1 Nov 1858-1 Nov 1859; (3) from 1865 through 1894, Lewis was also Justice of the Peace, served as county poorhouse overseer, then county trustee, & tax collector. Before him, his father Philip Herndon had been Justice of the Peace for at least one earlier term in Stewart Co TN, performing marriages between 1846-1848, and being re-elected in 1848 prior to his sudden death.)
(CHILDREN SOURCE: Identified by RHB 2011 research sparked by the finding in 2010, my/RHB 1990s research, shared by fellow-researcher/series-publisher DLHj to MNG, quoted in the 2003 book by Maxine Newton Gibson, along with some identifiable conflation mistakes I had evidentiary proof to correct and realized I needed to quit working solo & share the that crucial documentation for the benefit of posterity and other researchers and historians. Documentation freely shared.)
CORRECT 1850 SURNAME OF PHILIP'S WIDOW WAS HERNDON (NOT HENDON, AS ENUMERATED):
Following all of Sarah (Hitchcock) He[r]ndon's 1850-set of children forward through the censuses, their marriages, and deaths, proves them to be Herndon's, all using spelling variants of Herndon, but never again erroneously-listed as Hendon, as it was on the 1850 US Federal Census of Stewart Co TN.
SOURCE: Alerted by 2003 compilation by Maxine Newton Gibson (although containing conflation errors, 2011 research by RHB.)
WHAT HAPPENED TO PHILIP'S WIDOW SARAH (HITCHCOCK) HERNDON?:
Philip's widow, Sarah (Hitchcock) Herndon, died sometime after the 1850 census---likely dying before the 1860 census, since according to Goodspeed's mention of them in the "History of Tennessee" (1886) in a biographical sketch of their son, "Lewis Herndon"---"neither lived to be old." One document raises the possibility she may have remarried to a Harrel, due to "Sallie Harrel" being listed as mother (with Philip Herndon listed as father) on death certificate of their son, (misspelled "Louis Herndon"), unfortunately the informant line is empty, so Harrel may be an error since it conflicts with the parental info published in the biographical sketch of their son Lewis during his lifetime. (Older death certificates are notorious for incomplete or incorrect data because surviving informants---assorted successive wives, grandchildren, in-laws, neighbors---often didn't know exact birth data or parentage.)
(REF: History of Tennessee from the earliest time to the present : together with an historical and a biographical sketch of Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham and Houston counties, by Weston Arthur Goodspeed, 1886, Section: Stewart Co, pages 1305-1306; URL: https://archive.org/details/historyoftenness00good_1/page/n1385/mode/2up?q=%22lewis+herndon%22.)
DEATH DATE SOURCE IS UNKNOWN TO ME:
Unsure source of the entered death date of 8 Feb 1860, but grateful for it, since it is reasonable inasmuch as she has no findable presence in the 1860 US Federal Census anywhere around the region of Stewart Co TN or Trigg Co KY.
BURIAL: By research conclusion, it is believed both parents of Lewis Y. Herndon, Philip and Sarah Ann (Hitchcock) Herndon, were (or, that Philip at least was,) buried in the same area or cemetery as their son LYH (Boyd Memorial Cemetery, Tharpe, Stewart Co TN), and as is so with many early graves, older grave rocks or tombstones often did not survive. I have observed tombstones in that area, made of a soft rock, perhaps limestone, and any markings had long since been weathered away.
Bio-Sketch Research provided by Rose H. Bonnell, 22 Oct 2023. (SEE: Additional info on Memorial for Philip Herndon: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/260829347/philip-herndon.)
BIO-SKETCH OF SARAH (HITCHCOCK) HERNDON
(https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103084650/sarah-herndon)
Wife of PHILIP HERNDON (1808 TN-1848 TN), (Find A Grave Memorial #260829347)
HUSBAND ID: Philip Herndon (1808 TN-1848 TN), (Find A Grave Memorial #260829347).
CONFLATION ALERT: Philip Herndon AND Younger Herndon, AND their wives, both named Sarah, AND their two sets of children have been mistakenly conflated as one, but they are provably TWO separate men, women, and sets of children.
FACTS VIA DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE:
(1) Both Philip Herndon AND Younger Newton were both enumerated, same page, on the 1840 US Federal Census of Stewart Co TN.
(REF/URL: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8057/images/4410645_00663?pId=3430309.)
(2) Philip Herndon (misspelled Herendon), in first census enumeration as head of household, was first enumerated in 1830 Humpreys Co TN, the county where Younger Herndon's brother William Herndon, had land in mid-1820s; meantime William (possible father or uncle) is enumerated back in 1830 Stewart Co TN, while Younger Herndon (possible uncle or father) is enumerated further away in 1830 Trigg Co KY (erroneously indexed at Ancestry.com database as Gounger; enumerator misspelled surname as Harrington).
(REF-A: Philip's 1830 enumeration, as Herendon [sic], indexed Herenden, at URL: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/707549:8058?ssrc=pt&tid=53440451&pid=13510502899; REF-B: William's 1830 enumeration, as Herendon [sic], at URL: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/757204:8058?ssrc=pt&tid=53440451&pid=13510502485; REF-C: Younger's 1830 enumeration, indexed as Harrington [sic], at URL:https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8058/images/
4410618_00059?pId=1100728.)
(3) Philip Herndon, of Tennessee, who made an 1832 deposition at age 24 = birth calculation of 1808, died suddenly in early June 1848 following his April 1848 election to a six-year term as Justice of the Peace for Stewart Co TN, requiring a special election to replace him. Letters of Administration for his Estate were granted 5 Jun 1848. (REF: 28 May 1832 Deposition of "Phillip Herrendon" [sic, misspelling] sent to me 8 Feb 2018 by St Co TN Archivist, JL; Stewart County TN Court Books, and Will Book G, Pages 19, and 97-101, and Will Book F, Page 508.)
(4) Meanwhile, Younger Herndon, of Virginia-South Carolina-Tennessee-Kentucky, was moving between Stewart Co TN (1820, 1840) and Trigg Co KY (1830, 1850), having been recorded in Trigg Co KY road orders on 13 Sep 1836 as road hand for the Dover-Cadiz Road, census and court order both suggesting he lived along the state-line border region of both counties. His road hand work in Trigg Co KY was also mentioned 13 May 1844. Both orders misspell his surname as Herrington, which is actually HERNDON, verified by censuses of both counties and circuit court records of Stewart Co TN and probate records of Marlborough District SC. (REF: US Federal Censuses of 1820-1830-1840-1850, and Trigg Co KY Court Order Books 1836 & 1844.)
(5) On 13 May 1850 in Trigg Co KY, Younger & Sarah Ann (Wilson) Herndon purchased 140 acres of land on Little River, from Alfred Boyd, for $250. (REF: Trigg Co KY Deed Book J, page 578, instrument dated 13 May 1850, recorded 11 November 1850.) On 15 May 1856 in Trigg Co KY, Younger and wife Sarah Ann sold 115 of the 140 acres (minus M.E. church land given by an earlier owner Jacob Torian) to Chesley D. Lewis of the other part, both of Trigg Co KY, selling the land for $1000 (at a more than 4x profit). In that deed, Younger Herndon and Sarah [Ann] Herndon who is identified as "his wife" multiple times within the document, wherever her name is mentioned. (REF: Trigg Co KY Deed Book M, pages 450-451.)
(6) Younger Herndon died in Trigg Co KY before his 25 May & 13 Jun 1859 intestate probate records. (REF: Trigg Co KY Will Book E, pages 450-452; Trigg Co KY Court Order Book E, pages 145, 150, 319.) His wife "Sarah Ann Herndon" made her will, dated 15 Aug 1860, appointing her sole heir, as their last unwed child, Missouri Jane Herndon, then age 20-21. Sarah Ann died in Oct 1860, between 18 Sep 1860 census enumeration and the 8 Oct 1860 probating of her will. (REF: Trigg Co KY Will Book E, pages 321, 330; Trigg Co KY Court Order Book E, page 250, and 1850 US Fed Census of Trigg Co KY.)
(7) CONFLATION ALERT SUMMARY: The death date, sometimes even the death place, of Younger Herndon's uncle, Younger Newton (1763 VA-1847 SC), at times have been mistakenly attributed to the conflated mythical person "Younger Philip Herndon." This error mistakenly absorbed the true ages and deaths of both Younger Herndon (1785 VA-1859 KY) AND Philip Herndon (1808 TN-1848 TN), his nephew or son. This caused people to not follow the lifespans of each, as individuals, which led to the seeming "brick wall" dead end.
CEMETERY DATA:
No stone, or specific burial information:
Cemetery info from 2008 Book, "Cemeteries of Cadiz and Trigg County Kentucky" by David Sumner, Kim Fortner, Pam Metts, Charle Morris [A copy owned, purchased new at John L. Street Library, Cadiz, KY].
Not included in 1961 Book, "Statistical Handbook of Trigg County, Kentucky: The Gateway to the Jackson Purchase in Kentucky and Tennessee, Vol. 3, by Eurie Pearl Wilford Neel: the "Alfred Herndon Cemetery" is not transcribed therein (see alphabetical listing and index, page 416 & index page 68).
(URL: https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/479960-the-statistical-handbook-of-trigg-county-kentucky-the-gateway-to-the-jackson-purchase-in-kentucky-and-tennessee-vol-03?offset= , images 432 of 728.) [Two copies owned, both original and reprint editions.]
MARRIAGE DATE CALCULATION FROM 1830 CENSUS AGES OF CHILDREN (= 1823 or 1824):
(Household of 8, all white, parents and children, with zero slaves; married young ages 15-16 or 16-17.)
1830 HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:
[self/head] 1 male age 20-29 = b. betw. 1801-1810 = Philip Herndon, b. 1808.
[wife] 1 female age 20-29 = b. betw. 1801-1810 = Sarah (Hitchcock) Herndon, b. 1807.
[unknown, sis or dau, twin?] 1 female age 5-9 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = ?
[unknown, sis or dau, twin?] 1 female age 5-9 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = ?
[dau] 1 female age 5-9 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = Nancy Herndon, b. ca. 1823.
[son] 1 male age 5-9 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = Lewis Y. Herndon, b. 31 Aug 1824, md. by 1850.
[son] 1 male age 5 =="" b.="" betw.="" 1826-1830="?[dau] 1 female age 5 =="" b.="" betw.="" 1826-1830="Rebecca" Ann="" "Becky"="" Herndon,="" ca.="" 1830,="" md.="" by="" 1850.COMPARE 1840 CENSUS DATA:
(Household of 10, all whites, head and family; BE AWARE: Within the span of 11 names, are listed Younger Herendon [sic, Herndon], probable uncle, and Phillip Herendon [sic, Herndon], probable son.)
1840 HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:
[self/head] 1 male age 30-39 = b. betw 1801-1810 = Philip Herndon, b. ca. 1808
[wife] 1 female age 30-39 b. betw 1801-1810 = Sarah (Hitchcock) Herndon, b. ca. 1807
1 male 15-19 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = ?
1 male 10-14 = b. betw. 1826-1830 = Robert Herndon, b. ca. 1830.
1 female 5-9 = b. betw. 1831-1835 = ?
1 male 5-9 = b. betw. 1831-1835 = James Herndon, b. ca. 1833.
1 male 5-9 = b. betw. 1831-1835 = George Herndon, b. ca. 1835.
1 male 5 = b. betw. 1835-1840 = William Herndon, b. ca. 1837 or 1838.
1 female 5 = b. betw. 1835-1840= ?
1 male 5 = b. betw. 1835-1840 = Ellenor "Ellen" Herndon, b. ca. 1843.
COMPARE 1850 CENSUS DATA:
(Household of 7, all white, mom and children; BE AWARE: Census informants were not identified till the 1940 census, and reading census instructions to the enumerators, if on repeated visits they found no one at home, they were allowed to gather info from neighbors. This seems possible for this 1850 Census for three reasons: one, because their surname is erroneously recorded as Hendon [rather than Herndon], and, two, because Sarah's birthplace state is listed as unknown, and third, due to transposition of lines resulting in mismatch of gender & age for William and Elender.)
1850 HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:
[widow/head] Sarah, age 43 = b. ca. 1807.
[dau] Nancy Herndon, age 27 = b. ca. 1823.
[son] Robert Herndon, 17 = b. ca. 1830.
[son] James Herndon, 15 = b. ca. 1833.
[son] George Herndon, 13 = b. ca. 1835.
[son, alert: transposed lines, M] William Herndon age 12 or 13 (overwritten) = b. ca. 1837 or 1838.
[dau, alert: transposed lines, F] Ellender/Ellenor "Ellen" He[r]ndon, age 7 = b. ca. 1843.
KNOWN CHILDREN OF PHILIP & SARAH:
Philip Herndon (1808-1848) & Sarah (Hitchcock) Herndon (1807-aft. 1850+) were parents of these children:
(#1 in Goodspeed's, 1886 "History of Tennessee..." Stewart Co Section, pages 1305-1306)
(#2-7 on 1850 US Federal Census of Stewart Co TN with widowed mother Sarah Hendon [sic, Herndon]:
(1) Lewis/Louis Y. Herndon (1824/5) md. Mary Futrill.
(2) Nancy Herndon (1827), no further info, died after 1850.
(3) Robert Herndon (1833) md. Nancy Shaw & Mariah Barrett.
(4) James Herndon (1835) md. Missouri Shaw.
(5) George Herndon (1837) md. Mary E. McClannahan.
(6) Ellen/er] "Elender" Herndon (1838) md. Richard Burn[e]s.
(7) William Herndon (1843); md. Seregorda [sic] Manning.
(ALERT for children 6-7: The 1850 enumerator transposed the lines for William and Elender, saying William, 12, was female and Elender, 7, was male; likely he also transposed the ages making Ellen/er age 12 born 1838 and William age 7 born 1843, which fits with later research on their lives.)
PUBLISHED CHILD: SON LEWIS Y. HERNDON (BIO-SKETCH IN HIS LIFETIME):
Known child of Philip Herndon & wife Sarah Hitchcock (published in lifetime of son Lewis):
Lewis Herndon, born August 31, 1824 in Tennessee; died January 08, 1914 in Stewart County, Tennessee; married Mary Futrell February 19, 1846 in Stewart County, Tennessee.
(REF: Book, "History of Tennessee from the earliest time to the present : together with an historical and a biographical sketch of Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham and Houston counties" by Weston Arthur Goodspeed, 1886, pp. 1305-1306, Bio-sketch of "Lewis Herndon."
URL: https://archive.org/details/historyoftenness00good_1/page/n1385/mode/2up?q=lewisherndon.)
LEWIS Y. HERNDON, SON OF PHILIP & SARAH (HITCHCOCK) HERNDON:
(Philip's & Sarah's son, Lewis Herndon, of the 1886 Goodspeed biographical sketch, indeed followed in his father's footsteps, also serving as "magistrate," in Stewart Co TN. Identified in 1852 court & 1910 census as Lewis Y. Herndon, he served as an official in Stewart Co TN in various capacities from 1852-1894; (1) as estate administrator for relatives in 1852-53, 1857-58, 1865-67; (2) on Constable bond for District # 9 between 1 Nov 1858-1 Nov 1859; (3) from 1865 through 1894, Lewis was also Justice of the Peace, served as county poorhouse overseer, then county trustee, & tax collector. Before him, his father Philip Herndon had been Justice of the Peace for at least one earlier term in Stewart Co TN, performing marriages between 1846-1848, and being re-elected in 1848 prior to his sudden death.)
(CHILDREN SOURCE: Identified by RHB 2011 research sparked by the finding in 2010, my/RHB 1990s research, shared by fellow-researcher/series-publisher DLHj to MNG, quoted in the 2003 book by Maxine Newton Gibson, along with some identifiable conflation mistakes I had evidentiary proof to correct and realized I needed to quit working solo & share the that crucial documentation for the benefit of posterity and other researchers and historians. Documentation freely shared.)
CORRECT 1850 SURNAME OF PHILIP'S WIDOW WAS HERNDON (NOT HENDON, AS ENUMERATED):
Following all of Sarah (Hitchcock) He[r]ndon's 1850-set of children forward through the censuses, their marriages, and deaths, proves them to be Herndon's, all using spelling variants of Herndon, but never again erroneously-listed as Hendon, as it was on the 1850 US Federal Census of Stewart Co TN.
SOURCE: Alerted by 2003 compilation by Maxine Newton Gibson (although containing conflation errors, 2011 research by RHB.)
WHAT HAPPENED TO PHILIP'S WIDOW SARAH (HITCHCOCK) HERNDON?:
Philip's widow, Sarah (Hitchcock) Herndon, died sometime after the 1850 census---likely dying before the 1860 census, since according to Goodspeed's mention of them in the "History of Tennessee" (1886) in a biographical sketch of their son, "Lewis Herndon"---"neither lived to be old." One document raises the possibility she may have remarried to a Harrel, due to "Sallie Harrel" being listed as mother (with Philip Herndon listed as father) on death certificate of their son, (misspelled "Louis Herndon"), unfortunately the informant line is empty, so Harrel may be an error since it conflicts with the parental info published in the biographical sketch of their son Lewis during his lifetime. (Older death certificates are notorious for incomplete or incorrect data because surviving informants---assorted successive wives, grandchildren, in-laws, neighbors---often didn't know exact birth data or parentage.)
(REF: History of Tennessee from the earliest time to the present : together with an historical and a biographical sketch of Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham and Houston counties, by Weston Arthur Goodspeed, 1886, Section: Stewart Co, pages 1305-1306; URL: https://archive.org/details/historyoftenness00good_1/page/n1385/mode/2up?q=%22lewis+herndon%22.)
DEATH DATE SOURCE IS UNKNOWN TO ME:
Unsure source of the entered death date of 8 Feb 1860, but grateful for it, since it is reasonable inasmuch as she has no findable presence in the 1860 US Federal Census anywhere around the region of Stewart Co TN or Trigg Co KY.
BURIAL: By research conclusion, it is believed both parents of Lewis Y. Herndon, Philip and Sarah Ann (Hitchcock) Herndon, were (or, that Philip at least was,) buried in the same area or cemetery as their son LYH (Boyd Memorial Cemetery, Tharpe, Stewart Co TN), and as is so with many early graves, older grave rocks or tombstones often did not survive. I have observed tombstones in that area, made of a soft rock, perhaps limestone, and any markings had long since been weathered away.
Bio-Sketch Research provided by Rose H. Bonnell, 22 Oct 2023. (SEE: Additional info on Memorial for Philip Herndon: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/260829347/philip-herndon.)
(https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103084650/sarah-herndon)
Wife of PHILIP HERNDON (1808 TN-1848 TN), (Find A Grave Memorial #260829347)
HUSBAND ID: Philip Herndon (1808 TN-1848 TN), (Find A Grave Memorial #260829347).
CONFLATION ALERT: Philip Herndon AND Younger Herndon, AND their wives, both named Sarah, AND their two sets of children have been mistakenly conflated as one, but they are provably TWO separate men, women, and sets of children.
FACTS VIA DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE:
(1) Both Philip Herndon AND Younger Newton were both enumerated, same page, on the 1840 US Federal Census of Stewart Co TN.
(REF/URL: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8057/images/4410645_00663?pId=3430309.)
(2) Philip Herndon (misspelled Herendon), in first census enumeration as head of household, was first enumerated in 1830 Humpreys Co TN, the county where Younger Herndon's brother William Herndon, had land in mid-1820s; meantime William (possible father or uncle) is enumerated back in 1830 Stewart Co TN, while Younger Herndon (possible uncle or father) is enumerated further away in 1830 Trigg Co KY (erroneously indexed at Ancestry.com database as Gounger; enumerator misspelled surname as Harrington).
(REF-A: Philip's 1830 enumeration, as Herendon [sic], indexed Herenden, at URL: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/707549:8058?ssrc=pt&tid=53440451&pid=13510502899; REF-B: William's 1830 enumeration, as Herendon [sic], at URL: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/757204:8058?ssrc=pt&tid=53440451&pid=13510502485; REF-C: Younger's 1830 enumeration, indexed as Harrington [sic], at URL:https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8058/images/
4410618_00059?pId=1100728.)
(3) Philip Herndon, of Tennessee, who made an 1832 deposition at age 24 = birth calculation of 1808, died suddenly in early June 1848 following his April 1848 election to a six-year term as Justice of the Peace for Stewart Co TN, requiring a special election to replace him. Letters of Administration for his Estate were granted 5 Jun 1848. (REF: 28 May 1832 Deposition of "Phillip Herrendon" [sic, misspelling] sent to me 8 Feb 2018 by St Co TN Archivist, JL; Stewart County TN Court Books, and Will Book G, Pages 19, and 97-101, and Will Book F, Page 508.)
(4) Meanwhile, Younger Herndon, of Virginia-South Carolina-Tennessee-Kentucky, was moving between Stewart Co TN (1820, 1840) and Trigg Co KY (1830, 1850), having been recorded in Trigg Co KY road orders on 13 Sep 1836 as road hand for the Dover-Cadiz Road, census and court order both suggesting he lived along the state-line border region of both counties. His road hand work in Trigg Co KY was also mentioned 13 May 1844. Both orders misspell his surname as Herrington, which is actually HERNDON, verified by censuses of both counties and circuit court records of Stewart Co TN and probate records of Marlborough District SC. (REF: US Federal Censuses of 1820-1830-1840-1850, and Trigg Co KY Court Order Books 1836 & 1844.)
(5) On 13 May 1850 in Trigg Co KY, Younger & Sarah Ann (Wilson) Herndon purchased 140 acres of land on Little River, from Alfred Boyd, for $250. (REF: Trigg Co KY Deed Book J, page 578, instrument dated 13 May 1850, recorded 11 November 1850.) On 15 May 1856 in Trigg Co KY, Younger and wife Sarah Ann sold 115 of the 140 acres (minus M.E. church land given by an earlier owner Jacob Torian) to Chesley D. Lewis of the other part, both of Trigg Co KY, selling the land for $1000 (at a more than 4x profit). In that deed, Younger Herndon and Sarah [Ann] Herndon who is identified as "his wife" multiple times within the document, wherever her name is mentioned. (REF: Trigg Co KY Deed Book M, pages 450-451.)
(6) Younger Herndon died in Trigg Co KY before his 25 May & 13 Jun 1859 intestate probate records. (REF: Trigg Co KY Will Book E, pages 450-452; Trigg Co KY Court Order Book E, pages 145, 150, 319.) His wife "Sarah Ann Herndon" made her will, dated 15 Aug 1860, appointing her sole heir, as their last unwed child, Missouri Jane Herndon, then age 20-21. Sarah Ann died in Oct 1860, between 18 Sep 1860 census enumeration and the 8 Oct 1860 probating of her will. (REF: Trigg Co KY Will Book E, pages 321, 330; Trigg Co KY Court Order Book E, page 250, and 1850 US Fed Census of Trigg Co KY.)
(7) CONFLATION ALERT SUMMARY: The death date, sometimes even the death place, of Younger Herndon's uncle, Younger Newton (1763 VA-1847 SC), at times have been mistakenly attributed to the conflated mythical person "Younger Philip Herndon." This error mistakenly absorbed the true ages and deaths of both Younger Herndon (1785 VA-1859 KY) AND Philip Herndon (1808 TN-1848 TN), his nephew or son. This caused people to not follow the lifespans of each, as individuals, which led to the seeming "brick wall" dead end.
CEMETERY DATA:
No stone, or specific burial information:
Cemetery info from 2008 Book, "Cemeteries of Cadiz and Trigg County Kentucky" by David Sumner, Kim Fortner, Pam Metts, Charle Morris [A copy owned, purchased new at John L. Street Library, Cadiz, KY].
Not included in 1961 Book, "Statistical Handbook of Trigg County, Kentucky: The Gateway to the Jackson Purchase in Kentucky and Tennessee, Vol. 3, by Eurie Pearl Wilford Neel: the "Alfred Herndon Cemetery" is not transcribed therein (see alphabetical listing and index, page 416 & index page 68).
(URL: https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/479960-the-statistical-handbook-of-trigg-county-kentucky-the-gateway-to-the-jackson-purchase-in-kentucky-and-tennessee-vol-03?offset= , images 432 of 728.) [Two copies owned, both original and reprint editions.]
MARRIAGE DATE CALCULATION FROM 1830 CENSUS AGES OF CHILDREN (= 1823 or 1824):
(Household of 8, all white, parents and children, with zero slaves; married young ages 15-16 or 16-17.)
1830 HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:
[self/head] 1 male age 20-29 = b. betw. 1801-1810 = Philip Herndon, b. 1808.
[wife] 1 female age 20-29 = b. betw. 1801-1810 = Sarah (Hitchcock) Herndon, b. 1807.
[unknown, sis or dau, twin?] 1 female age 5-9 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = ?
[unknown, sis or dau, twin?] 1 female age 5-9 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = ?
[dau] 1 female age 5-9 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = Nancy Herndon, b. ca. 1823.
[son] 1 male age 5-9 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = Lewis Y. Herndon, b. 31 Aug 1824, md. by 1850.
[son] 1 male age 5 =="" b.="" betw.="" 1826-1830="?[dau] 1 female age 5 =="" b.="" betw.="" 1826-1830="Rebecca" Ann="" "Becky"="" Herndon,="" ca.="" 1830,="" md.="" by="" 1850.COMPARE 1840 CENSUS DATA:
(Household of 10, all whites, head and family; BE AWARE: Within the span of 11 names, are listed Younger Herendon [sic, Herndon], probable uncle, and Phillip Herendon [sic, Herndon], probable son.)
1840 HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:
[self/head] 1 male age 30-39 = b. betw 1801-1810 = Philip Herndon, b. ca. 1808
[wife] 1 female age 30-39 b. betw 1801-1810 = Sarah (Hitchcock) Herndon, b. ca. 1807
1 male 15-19 = b. betw. 1821-1825 = ?
1 male 10-14 = b. betw. 1826-1830 = Robert Herndon, b. ca. 1830.
1 female 5-9 = b. betw. 1831-1835 = ?
1 male 5-9 = b. betw. 1831-1835 = James Herndon, b. ca. 1833.
1 male 5-9 = b. betw. 1831-1835 = George Herndon, b. ca. 1835.
1 male 5 = b. betw. 1835-1840 = William Herndon, b. ca. 1837 or 1838.
1 female 5 = b. betw. 1835-1840= ?
1 male 5 = b. betw. 1835-1840 = Ellenor "Ellen" Herndon, b. ca. 1843.
COMPARE 1850 CENSUS DATA:
(Household of 7, all white, mom and children; BE AWARE: Census informants were not identified till the 1940 census, and reading census instructions to the enumerators, if on repeated visits they found no one at home, they were allowed to gather info from neighbors. This seems possible for this 1850 Census for three reasons: one, because their surname is erroneously recorded as Hendon [rather than Herndon], and, two, because Sarah's birthplace state is listed as unknown, and third, due to transposition of lines resulting in mismatch of gender & age for William and Elender.)
1850 HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:
[widow/head] Sarah, age 43 = b. ca. 1807.
[dau] Nancy Herndon, age 27 = b. ca. 1823.
[son] Robert Herndon, 17 = b. ca. 1830.
[son] James Herndon, 15 = b. ca. 1833.
[son] George Herndon, 13 = b. ca. 1835.
[son, alert: transposed lines, M] William Herndon age 12 or 13 (overwritten) = b. ca. 1837 or 1838.
[dau, alert: transposed lines, F] Ellender/Ellenor "Ellen" He[r]ndon, age 7 = b. ca. 1843.
KNOWN CHILDREN OF PHILIP & SARAH:
Philip Herndon (1808-1848) & Sarah (Hitchcock) Herndon (1807-aft. 1850+) were parents of these children:
(#1 in Goodspeed's, 1886 "History of Tennessee..." Stewart Co Section, pages 1305-1306)
(#2-7 on 1850 US Federal Census of Stewart Co TN with widowed mother Sarah Hendon [sic, Herndon]:
(1) Lewis/Louis Y. Herndon (1824/5) md. Mary Futrill.
(2) Nancy Herndon (1827), no further info, died after 1850.
(3) Robert Herndon (1833) md. Nancy Shaw & Mariah Barrett.
(4) James Herndon (1835) md. Missouri Shaw.
(5) George Herndon (1837) md. Mary E. McClannahan.
(6) Ellen/er] "Elender" Herndon (1838) md. Richard Burn[e]s.
(7) William Herndon (1843); md. Seregorda [sic] Manning.
(ALERT for children 6-7: The 1850 enumerator transposed the lines for William and Elender, saying William, 12, was female and Elender, 7, was male; likely he also transposed the ages making Ellen/er age 12 born 1838 and William age 7 born 1843, which fits with later research on their lives.)
PUBLISHED CHILD: SON LEWIS Y. HERNDON (BIO-SKETCH IN HIS LIFETIME):
Known child of Philip Herndon & wife Sarah Hitchcock (published in lifetime of son Lewis):
Lewis Herndon, born August 31, 1824 in Tennessee; died January 08, 1914 in Stewart County, Tennessee; married Mary Futrell February 19, 1846 in Stewart County, Tennessee.
(REF: Book, "History of Tennessee from the earliest time to the present : together with an historical and a biographical sketch of Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham and Houston counties" by Weston Arthur Goodspeed, 1886, pp. 1305-1306, Bio-sketch of "Lewis Herndon."
URL: https://archive.org/details/historyoftenness00good_1/page/n1385/mode/2up?q=lewisherndon.)
LEWIS Y. HERNDON, SON OF PHILIP & SARAH (HITCHCOCK) HERNDON:
(Philip's & Sarah's son, Lewis Herndon, of the 1886 Goodspeed biographical sketch, indeed followed in his father's footsteps, also serving as "magistrate," in Stewart Co TN. Identified in 1852 court & 1910 census as Lewis Y. Herndon, he served as an official in Stewart Co TN in various capacities from 1852-1894; (1) as estate administrator for relatives in 1852-53, 1857-58, 1865-67; (2) on Constable bond for District # 9 between 1 Nov 1858-1 Nov 1859; (3) from 1865 through 1894, Lewis was also Justice of the Peace, served as county poorhouse overseer, then county trustee, & tax collector. Before him, his father Philip Herndon had been Justice of the Peace for at least one earlier term in Stewart Co TN, performing marriages between 1846-1848, and being re-elected in 1848 prior to his sudden death.)
(CHILDREN SOURCE: Identified by RHB 2011 research sparked by the finding in 2010, my/RHB 1990s research, shared by fellow-researcher/series-publisher DLHj to MNG, quoted in the 2003 book by Maxine Newton Gibson, along with some identifiable conflation mistakes I had evidentiary proof to correct and realized I needed to quit working solo & share the that crucial documentation for the benefit of posterity and other researchers and historians. Documentation freely shared.)
CORRECT 1850 SURNAME OF PHILIP'S WIDOW WAS HERNDON (NOT HENDON, AS ENUMERATED):
Following all of Sarah (Hitchcock) He[r]ndon's 1850-set of children forward through the censuses, their marriages, and deaths, proves them to be Herndon's, all using spelling variants of Herndon, but never again erroneously-listed as Hendon, as it was on the 1850 US Federal Census of Stewart Co TN.
SOURCE: Alerted by 2003 compilation by Maxine Newton Gibson (although containing conflation errors, 2011 research by RHB.)
WHAT HAPPENED TO PHILIP'S WIDOW SARAH (HITCHCOCK) HERNDON?:
Philip's widow, Sarah (Hitchcock) Herndon, died sometime after the 1850 census---likely dying before the 1860 census, since according to Goodspeed's mention of them in the "History of Tennessee" (1886) in a biographical sketch of their son, "Lewis Herndon"---"neither lived to be old." One document raises the possibility she may have remarried to a Harrel, due to "Sallie Harrel" being listed as mother (with Philip Herndon listed as father) on death certificate of their son, (misspelled "Louis Herndon"), unfortunately the informant line is empty, so Harrel may be an error since it conflicts with the parental info published in the biographical sketch of their son Lewis during his lifetime. (Older death certificates are notorious for incomplete or incorrect data because surviving informants---assorted successive wives, grandchildren, in-laws, neighbors---often didn't know exact birth data or parentage.)
(REF: History of Tennessee from the earliest time to the present : together with an historical and a biographical sketch of Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham and Houston counties, by Weston Arthur Goodspeed, 1886, Section: Stewart Co, pages 1305-1306; URL: https://archive.org/details/historyoftenness00good_1/page/n1385/mode/2up?q=%22lewis+herndon%22.)
DEATH DATE SOURCE IS UNKNOWN TO ME:
Unsure source of the entered death date of 8 Feb 1860, but grateful for it, since it is reasonable inasmuch as she has no findable presence in the 1860 US Federal Census anywhere around the region of Stewart Co TN or Trigg Co KY.
BURIAL: By research conclusion, it is believed both parents of Lewis Y. Herndon, Philip and Sarah Ann (Hitchcock) Herndon, were (or, that Philip at least was,) buried in the same area or cemetery as their son LYH (Boyd Memorial Cemetery, Tharpe, Stewart Co TN), and as is so with many early graves, older grave rocks or tombstones often did not survive. I have observed tombstones in that area, made of a soft rock, perhaps limestone, and any markings had long since been weathered away.
Bio-Sketch Research provided by Rose H. Bonnell, 22 Oct 2023. (SEE: Additional info on Memorial for Philip Herndon: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/260829347/philip-herndon.)
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