An article about a married couple with
Caldwell County, Kentucky connections appeared in several newspapers in 1880. [1]
The parties were Drury Mitchuson Kevil and his wife, Lucretia Kevil Mitchuson.
The article stated they were about to celebrate their 50th wedding
anniversary and lived in Milan County, Texas. Their names were very similar, but the article says they were not related.
Drury M. Kevil was born in 1808 in Kentucky[2]
and named for the father of his future wife. She was born in South Carolina in 1810[3]
and was named for the mother of her future husband. When she married Drury
Mitchusson Kevil, her name became
Lucretia Kevil Mitchussson Kevil. Are you dizzy or confused yet? I will let you
try to figure it out if the couple was related..
On the 11th day of
September 1830, Drury M. Kivell and Miss Lucretia Mitchusson married in
Caldwell County. Giving consent for the bride was Jonathon Stevens, her
guardian. [4]
They lived in Caldwell County through 1870, at least, and then are found on the
1880 Milan County, Texas census. [5]
In 1880, Drury M. Kevil was age 70 and
living with his son, Uriah Kevil. Drury’s wife, Lucretia, was not listed in
this household, but was listed as living near by with another son, Jesse P. Kevil.[6]
Lucretia Mitchusson Kevil died 5
February 1896[7] and
Drury M. Kevil died 18 October 1898.[8]
Both are buried in Old City Cemetery, Rockdale, Milam County, Texas.
Original Marriage Bond and Consent of Drury M. Kevil and Lucretia Mitchusson. Click on Bond for an enlarged view.
[1]
One newpaper
in which the article appeared was the Evening Visitor in Raleigh, North
Carolina, Wed., 6 October 1880, p. 4.
[2] Find A Grave
#124712918, Drury M. Kevil. The newspaper article gives his birth year as 1778,
which would make him 52 when he married Lucretia, very likely incorrect.
[4] Original Marriage
Bond and Consent note for marriage of Drury M. Kivell and Miss Lucretia
Mitchusson, Caldwell County Clerk’s Office, Princeton, Kentucky, accessed 2019.
[5] 1880 Milan County,
Texas census, Rockdale, Roll 1319, p. 269 B, E.D. 104, Ancestry.com.
[6] 1880 Milan County,
Texas census, Dist. 103, Roll 1319, p. 261A, E.D. 103, Ancestry.com
[7] Find A Grave
#124712949, Lucretia K. (Mitchusson) Kevil.
[8] Find A Grave #124712918,
Drury M. Kevil.
Published 2 April 2020, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blog.spot.com/
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