Henry Wellons

Henry Wellons is the father of John Chapple Wellons, the grandfather of John Chapel (sic) Wellons, the great grandfather of James H. Wellons and the great great grandfather of Ralph Wellons, my grandfather.

He was born around 1776 in Southhampton, Virginia. His parents appear to be Henry and Eleander Wellons of Southhampton, Virginia.

There is no real record of his death. Some Ancestry.com family trees place the date at 1840.

On September 18, 1798 he was granted 200 acres in Kentucky in Lincoln County. That portion of Lincoln county was folded into the creation of Pulaski County. The property was near Fishing Creek, which is now part of Lake Cumberland, a large reservoir. It was also near the town of Somerset.

On December 5, 1801 he married Rebecca Chapple in Pulaski County, Kentucky.

His son, John Chapple Wellons, was born on April 22, 1805 in Pulaski County.

Henry executed a land deed on February 1, 1813 giving his brother Robert Wellons his Power of Attorney for the purpose of selling his land to another brother, John Wellons, a wealthy Virginia land owner who had property on the James River in Virginia.

Henry’s wife Rebecca presumably dies in or near 1825.

Henry married Thirzah Sayers on November 20, 1826 in Pulaski County.

Both weddings are well documented.

A blog article by Leah reports that she was given a biography of John Chapple Wellons, her ancestor. The person who wrote the biography was a grandson of John Chapple Wellons and the biography stated that the family owned 12 slaves in the early 1800’s and that they were freed before the civil war. She found some property owners with names similar to Wellons in the censuses of 1810, 1820 and 1830 which enumerated slaves. There were no slaves when John Chapple Wellons’ household is reported in the 1850 census or for two decades before then. There were possibly four sons of John Chapple Wellons on the union side in the civil war, including our John Chapel (sic) Wellons, Jr.