Our Lucky and Unlucky Ancestors

Jessie Wyant, Bessie’s sister lived to 103.

Jacob Webb died at age 98, earning obituaries in 3 Madison County newspapers.

Aunt Carrie Wellons was divorced from Ralph Musick (and already remarried) when he committed a murder suicide by shooting his second wife and then himself.

Isaiah Lane died at 26 years old with a wife and 3 children. His estate was declared insolvent. Then his wife and her new husband filed to partition the property the survivors jointly inherited.

Harris Gammon died at age 20, with a wife and one child and another on the way.

The wealthiest folks in the family appear to be:

The father and son team of William and Andrew Carson, who have pages of property purchase records documented.

And Henry Wellons, who was granted 200 acres in Kentucky as a young man, plus a large inheritance from his father. A family story says he had 12 slaves on the Pulaski County, Kentucky “plantation”, and that the slaves were freed before the civil war by Henry or his son John Chapple Wellons, but there is no proof of either claim.