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Bracken County, KY

Do you have any Greathouse or associated ancestors who resided in Bracken County, KY? If so, please join us in our efforts to better document the Greathouse or associated ancestors who lived in this county, by sending your additions and corrections to Greathouse Point.

Greathouse or associated ancestor records found in the county:

1797, Jun 1 - BRACKEN created from CAMPBELL and MASON. (Ky. Acts 1796-1797, 5th assy., 1st sess., sec. 1/pp. 5-6).

1814, Sep 14 - US Army Enlistment: Michael Greathouse

Greathouse, Michael; 28th Inf.; age 23 or 33 [born 1781 or 1791]; laborer; b. Virginia; enlisted: Augusta, KY on 14 Sep 1814; discharged: Fort Howard, WI on 14 Sep 1819. Surname also spelled GRATEHOUSE.

Footnotes:

  1. A Michael Greathouse, aged 4 in 1795 [born 1791], was orphaned in Harrison County, VA. The Harrison County Court decided custody between a John Greathouse and a Michael Greathouse, both of said county. The court granted custody to John Greathouse.
  2. A Michael Greathouse married Maria Kittle on 10 Feb 1810 in Wood County, VA.
  3. A Michael Greathouse, age 23 or 33, born 1791 or 1781 in Virginia enlisted in the US Army at Augusta, Bracken County, KY on 14 Sep 1814. He was discharged at Fort Howard, WI on 14 Sep 1819.
  4. A Michael Greathouse, age 26-45 [born between 1775 and 1794] was named as a head of household in the 1820 census of Bullitt County, KY. He was enumerated on the line below Thomas Snowder.

Sources:

Stuart Lee Butler, Virginia Soldiers in the United States Army, 1800-1815, Athens, GA: Iberian Publishing Company. WV Archives & History Library, Charleston, WV. Page 75: 1814 - US Army Enlistment: Michael Greathouse.

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