Thursday, April 2, 2020

Do These Names Make You Dizzy?


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.
3.  1850 Caldwell County, Kentucky census, Dist., 2, Roll M. 432_194, p. 377B, Ancestry.com.
[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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