Richard CAVE & Elizabeth CRAIG

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Richard CAVE
Elizabeth CRAIG

Husband: Richard CAVE
Birth: ca. 1750, Orange Co., VA
Death: 10 Jul 1816, Woodford Co., KY
Father: Capt. Benjamin CAVE
Mother: Hannah BLEDSOE

I doubt Richard's birthdate. His mother would have been 52 years old. Either that or his mother's birthdate is wrong.

Marriage:

Wife: Elizabeth CRAIG
Birth: ca. 1750
Death: ca. 1827, KY
Father: Toliver CRAIG
Mother: Mary HAWKINS

Children:

1. Reuben CAVE
2. Hannah CAVE; m. John GRAVES
3. Mary "Polly" CAVE; m. Richard RICE
4. Richard CAVE
5. John CAVE
6. Jeremiah CAVE; m. Mary "Polly' GRAVES

Keywords for search engines: genealogy; USA, US, United States, Kentucky, Virginia

Sources:

1. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1790 (Broderbund CD-311): the 1790 Census of VA was destroyed; there was no 1790 Census in KY.

2. Anon. 1991. The 1795 Census of Kentucky [as constructed from tax lists]. T.L.C. Genealogy, Miami Beach, FL (said to include every extant tax list from the state of Kentucky for the year 1795):

Pg Name County

31 Cave, Richard Woodford

3. 1790-1870 Census Index (online at Ancestry.com): the 1800 KY Census was lost; tax lists are substituted.

1800 Tax List CAVE RICHARD KY Woodford Co.

4. 1790-1870 Census Index (online at Ancestry.com):

1810 CAVE RICHARD KY Woodford Co. p. 390 00201-10101-10

These data indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

2 males 16-25 1784-1794 = ?
= ?

1 male 45 or over in or bef. 1765 = Richard (b. ca. 1750)

1 female 9 or under 1800-1810 = ?

1 female 16-25 1784-1794 = ?

1 female 45 or over in or bef. 1765 = Elizabeth (b. ca. 1750)

1 other free
persons all ages in or bef. 1810 = ?

Without knowning any of the birthdates of any of the children, it's impossible to make use of the census data, other than to confirm that an older Richard Cave family was in Woodford Co.

5. Broderbund. World Family Trees. Vol. 12, Pedigree # 2241.

6. J.H. Spencer. 1886. A History of Kentucky Baptists from 1769 to 1885, including More than 800 Biographical Sketches. 2 vols. Self-published (republ. 1976, Church History Research & Archives, Lafayette, TN). Biographical sketch of Richard Cave in vol. 2, pp. 23-24. Almost no genealogical information, except that he was "the son of Captain Benjamin Cave of Orange county, Virginia, where he was born not far from the year 1750," and that he was the brother of William Cave, who had married the sister of Lewis Craig, and had died in Jul 1816.

7. Craig Family Genealogy.[link died]

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