Other stories about (other?) Hannah Conn Booths

Another Hannah Conn ..
Notes from a second cousin of mine, who had same great great great (?) grandparents...

William Conn died in Henry county, Kentucky in 1836. He was a Revolution War soldier and he has pension records. His pension records and Will identify James Conn, who married Nancy Erwin as a son.  James Conn died about 1830. Nancy Erwin Conn moved her family to Jackson county, Indiana about 1838., where she died about 1846 and Deed Book J, Page 387 identifies  Hannah Conn Booth as a child. Female descendants of Hannah Conn Booth can join the DAR through William Conn.

 Another note that I've saved says:

Hannah Leak married the warrior Winslow Turner III after the death of his first wife Sarah Carpenter Sowell. He and his family arrived in the Province of Texas in 1826 from Ralls Co., Mo. when he was fifteen years old, also under the sponsorship of Green DeWitt. He is buried the Texas State Cemetery in Austin. Some of his exploits are listed on his grave marker.

Winslow Turner III
Born in Missouri, 1811
Died in Bastrop County, Texas, May 6, 1880
 The headstone lists some military accomplishments: Participated in the Battle of Gonzales, Oct 2, 1815, Served in the Texas Army, 1836, and in the Wohl Campaign, 1842.

This headstone was erected by the State of Texas in 1936 (it says at the bottom of it)

Another family tree on Ancestry does show a genealogy page showing Winslow Turner to be the granson of Winslow Turner and his wife, Sarah Standish, a descendent of Miles Standish (of Mayflower fame).
Their grandson:

iv Winslow TURNER, b. 1811, Lincoln County, Missouri.

m. (1) Sarah Carpenter SOWELL,
m. (2) Hannah L. CONN.

No further information about him, though many other Turner family members are listed on this genealogy.

Another note on his Winslow Turner III's listing says:

Winslow Turner Sr. and wife Elizabeth arrived in the DeWitt Colony 4 Dec 1829 with a family of 8 according to land grant records. His league was north of Gonzales on the San Marcos River. Son Winslow Turner Jr. also received a fourth sitio with arrival listed as 18 Nov 1829 on the east bank of the Guadalupe River near the current Gonzales and Guadalupe County line. The Turners first arrived in Austin's Colony in 1827 and lived on the Colorado River. Turner owned and operated a hotel in inner Gonzales town which was on St. John Street. He was a regidor in the appointed Gonzales Ayuntamiento of 1832. As described above, Winslow Turner Jr. married Sarah Sowell in 1831. Winslow Turner is buried in the State Cemetery in Austin.

I believe this note is referring to WT III as Jr. and his father as Sr., which would support a record with a family of 8.

The only data that I can look at an original record for is the 1860 Census, saying a Winslow Turner (age 49) and wife Nancy C Turner (age 38, having been born in NC) lived in the county of Williamson, Texas.   Their 8 children were mostly born in Arkansas.

The rest of the residential data seems from a compiled Texas Census, from which I can't see anything original.

The next record to look at is

Hannah Leak Conn , Birth 9 Aug 1819 in Elks Creek, Shelby County, Kentucky,  Death 1848 in Gonzales County, Texas

and this source says she married Winslow Turner III  on 15 Nov 1839, again giving data with records I can order, but I chose not to pay for.  This record doesn't give any parents for her, but 2 children, Elizabeth Turner (b1843) and Martha Turner (b1845).

There is no data to substantiate where she died or was buried either.  Mrs. Hannah Leak Conn Turner seems to have a different life than the one my Hannah Leak Conn Booth had, though they both have the same place and close dates of birth, somehow.  Mrs. Turner was a year younger than Mrs. Booth. My Hannah Booth was definitely married in Indiana in 1843, when this Hannah Turner was having her first child in Texas.

So my somewhat educated guess is that there were two Hannah Conns born within 2 years in Elk Creek, Shelby County, KY, and they were probably cousins.  The Conns were a large family, and many of their kin decided to migrate from Kentucky to MO and then to Texas.

Now I'm somewhat interested in the Mrs. Turner story, but not enough to follow it further to clarify who she was, and who William and Nancy C. Turner might have been.

I leave you with more questions than I started but the continuing certainty that Mrs. Hannah Conn Booth was my ancestor, and just probably didn't have more to her life than simply to marry, raise a family and be on some documents before dying.

Continuing drama with Ancestry

This has become the back-story.
How many things that are listed as fact, are in fact just errors on Ancestry DOT com

I was working on another branch back from my mother's family tree, where the Conns moved to Texas back when it was being settled.

Tomorrow I'll post more details about John Thomas Conn on his birthday.

Both his parents came from VA and only moved as far as Ralls County, MO, where they have headstones in the cemetery. So there's a good likelihood that facts about them are substantiated. I'll write more about their lives later.

But let's check where his mother's parents came from.  Mildred Ann Conley Conn was born in VA.  Her father John Conley was born in 1730 (or so) in Ireland, according to Ancestry.  Her mother, Elizabeth Sanford Conley was born in 1731 in Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT...and she also died in Fairfield County, CT - in Redding in 1760.

Their lives are believable, except, how did she go to VA to give birth when she was born and died in CT?  Mildred Ann and the next to next born child are the only ones Ancestry lists has having been born in VA.  And they are the only 2 who carry the Conley last name, the other 7 having the name of Platt, being born both before and after the 2 Virginia children.  Here's the list which shows not much information about several of them.

Eunice Platt (Born: )	place unknown                     ( Died: 1829)
John Platt (Born: )	Redding, Fairfield, CT          (Died 1782)
Samuel Platt (Born: )	place unknown            (died 1782 Ridgefield, Fairfield CT)
Jonas Platt (Born: 1755)	Redding, Fairfield CT  (died 1740 Dutchess County, NY)
Obadiah Platt (Born: 1758)	Ridgefield, Fairfield CT   (died unknown)
Isaac Platt (Born: 1760)	Ridgefield, Fairfield CT   (died 1824 Redding, Fairfield CT)
Mildred Ann Conley (Born: 1770)	Falls Church, Fairfax, VA  (died 1845 Salem, Ralls, MO)
William Platt (Born: 1775)	Redding, Fairfield, CT   (died unknown)
John Conley (Born: 1785)   VA   (died  1852, place unknown.

 Don't you just know someone looked at Fairfax and Fairfield and got the 2 places confused?
I could do that.  But VA and CT are a whole long distance away, especially for colonial US.

But this brings into question the Conley connection, because the mother of Mildred couldn't have lived her whole life in CT, gone to VA in 1770 to have Mildred Ann Conley, then back in 1775 to CT for William Platt's birth, then in 1785 back to VA to give birth to John Conley.

At least the 2 children born in VA were named Conley.
So I think I can count that John Conley might at least be the brother of my ancestor Mildred Ann Conley.

Their parents are quite another matter!

And just as I was finishing up John Thomas Conn's post for tomorrow, what do I notice but another Ancestry connection (they call them hints) that places my great great Hannah Leak Conn Booth in Indiana as the daughter of yet another branch of the Conn family...which is really strange.  But the Indiana connection is the weak link in my history, so perhaps this will expain how she got there.  All will eventually be clear, or I'll just give up.