J.W. Ainsworth
Mar. 24, 1841
Apr. 4, 1917
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Dollie A. His Wife
Jan. 9, 1848
Dec. 4, 1918
Buried Deer
Creek Cemetery, Crittenden County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 7 November
2014.
According to
his death certificate,[1]
James W. Ainsworth was born in Todd County, Tennessee [sic] and was the son of Charl. Ainsworth and Malinda Durham. The
family of James C. and Melinda Ainsworth was enumerated on the 1850 Montgomery
County, Tennessee census. James W. Ainsworth, age 10, was listed in that household.[2] By 1860, the Ainsworth family had moved to
Livingston County, Kentucky and was in Crittenden County by 1870.
On 21
December 1865, J.W. Ainsworth married
Miss Darthula Bettis at the home of Jacob Bettis in Crittenden County.[3] Ainsworth received a pension for his service
in Co. B., 6th Illinois Cavalry.[4]
Following his death, his wife, Darthula Bettis Ainsworth received a widow's
pension.
Darthula/Dorothy
Angelina Ainsworth was the daughter of
Jacob W. Bettis and Juda Walker, both of whom were born in Tennessee.[5]
The obituary
for J.W. Ainsworth appeared in the 12 April 1917 issue of the Crittenden Record-Press. Survivors included a son,
Julian Ainsworth of Blodgett, Missouri and daughters, Emma, wife of Audie Love of
Salem and Annie wife of Will Privet of Sheridan. He was given a Masonic burial
at Deer Creek Cemetery.
[1]
Kentucky Death Certificate #10411, James W. Ainsworth, Ancestry.com, accessed 4
October 2017.
[2]
1850 Montgomery County, Tennessee census, Ancestry.com, accessed 4 October 2017.
[3]
Brenda Joyce Jerome. Crittenden County,
Kentucky Marriage Records, Vol. 1 1842-1865 and Abstracts of Wills Book 1 1842
- 1924, (Evansville, IN: Evansville Bindery, 1990) 114.
[4]
U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934,
Ancestry.com, accessed 4 October 2017.
[5]
Kentucky Death Certificate #38396, Dorothy Angelina Ainsworth, Ancestry.com,
accessed 4 October 2017.
Published 5 December 2017, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/
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