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We do not know when or where Mary Smith was born, and Mary may have been born |
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in 1856, but Mary was NOT "(born in) Franklin Co., Kentucky", and their marriage |
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was NOT "in Franklin, Kentucky, on June 11, 1775" (location and date are both wrong; |
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Kentucky did not become a state until 1792, and then Franklin County, Kentucky, was |
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formed in 1795, set off from parts of Woodford, Mercer, and Shelby counties) [9]. |
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Of course, it is possible that ‘Mary Smith’ and ‘Betsy ____’ were two different women, |
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although no other marriage records have ever been found for this Daniel McAninch. |
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And Daniel McAninch’s wife’s name is NOT "Mary J. M. Ireland" (yet another fable). |
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Burks |
Daniel McAninch (born 1748-1752, died ca.1822) did NOT marry Dorcas Burks. |
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Rather, in the second generation, Daniel’s fourth son, also named Daniel McAninch |
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(b.ca.1796, Kentucky; d.Aug.1891, Putnam County, Indiana) married Dorcas Burks on |
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8 Jan. 1822, Mercer County, Kentucky, and they went north to Putnam County, Indiana. |
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Daniel and Dorcas had 8 (or 9?) children, including four sons: William A. McAninch, |
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Daniel Harris(on) McAninch, Samuel M. McAninch, and George B. McAninch [10] |
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1778 |
John McAninch, Daniel McAninch’s oldest (known) son, was born 1778-1780, almost |
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certainly in Pennsylvania (Bedford County? or Cumberland County?). John McAninch |
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would have been 11 or 12 in the 1790 census [11], and John McAninch would have spent |
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his teen-age years traveling with the family in Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky [12]. |
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1789 |
Samuel McAninch, Daniel’s second son, was born ca.5 February 1789 in Pennsylvania, |
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probably in Westmoreland County (there is no such place as “Westmoreland City”) [13]. |
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1790 |
The First Census of the United States, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania [11] |
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Myth |
The statement "They first settled in Virginia" is clearly false. Daniel McAninch brought |
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his family west across Pennsylvania [5] [6] [9] [11]. Daniel McAninch’s first two sons |
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(John and Samuel) were born in Pennsylvania, then the third son George A. McAninch |
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was born in Virginia, while the family was traveling west to Tennessee and Kentucky. |
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Myth |
Daniel’s son George A. was NOT born in 1795 in Westmoreland City, Pennsylvania. |
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Daniel McAninch and Families in Kentucky: Myths, Fables, Facts and Fiction |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XXIX n.2 / Copyright Frank McAninch / pg.2021-18 |
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