Jay Curry Willingham

M, #233, b. 4 March 1850, d. 1923
Jay Curry Willingham|b. 4 Mar 1850\nd. 1923|p203.htm|Thomas T. Willingham|b. a 1810\nd. 1883|p197.htm|Sarah Reese|b. a 1810|p198.htm|Jarrett Willingham Jr.|b. a 1784\nd. 11 May 1855|p119.htm|Nancy Roberts|b. a 1785|p2547.htm|James Reese||p2333.htm|Rebecca (__?__) Reese||p2334.htm|

Relationship=3rd cousin 4 times removed of Wendell Harding Wilcox.
      Jay Curry Willingham was also known as James J. Willingham. He, son of Thomas T. Willingham and Sarah Reese, was born 4 March 1850 in Spring Hill, Hickman County, Kentucky.1 The census of 1 June 1850 enumerated on 9 August 1850 in Hickman County, Kentucky, listed J. C. Willingham as the 1-year-old residing with Thomas Willingham.2 The census of 1 June 1860 enumerated on 27 July 1860 in the Clinton post office area of the Clinton District, Hickman County, Kentucky, listed James J. "Willingham" as the 11-year-old residing with Thos. J. Willingham.3
Jay Curry Willingham was a Missionary Baptist. He married Jennie Thompson, daughter of P. S. Thompson and Sarah A. (__?__) Thompson, about 1880..1,4 Jay Curry Willingham was a deputy sheriff in Graves County, Kentucky, from 1898 to 1900.1
The census of 1 June 1900 enumerated on 6 June 1900 in the Bardswell District, Bardswell, Carlisle County, Kentucky, listed the following:
Jay Willingham, 50-year-old male head of household, a deputy Sherrif, married 20 years; b:Kentucky fb:Kentucky mb:Kentucky.5

Jennie "Willingham", 38-year-old wife, married 20 years with 4 children of whom 3 were still living; b:Kentucky fb:Kentucky mb:Kentucky.5

Egie "Willingham", 17-year-old son; b:Kentucky fb:Kentucky mb:Kentucky.5

Inez "Willingham", 14-year-old daughter; b:Kentucky fb:Kentucky mb:Kentucky.5

Shirley "Willingham", 7-year-old son; b:Kentucky fb:Kentucky mb:Kentucky.5
He was sheriff in Graves County, Kentucky, in 1900.1 He died in 1923.1

Children of Jay Curry Willingham and Jennie Thompson

Citations

  1. [S247] Memorial Record of Western Kentucky by Lewis Publishing.
  2. [S248] 1850 U.S. Census, Hickman County, Kentucky, page 018A line 37 dwelling 248 family 253.
  3. [S246] 1860 U.S. Census, Hickman County, Kentucky, page 515 line 10 dwelling 528 family 505.
  4. [S2334] 1880 U.S. Census, Ballard County, Kentucky, ED 67 Sh 18 line 334 dwelling 163 family 166 page 493 B.
  5. [S2681] 1900 U.S. Census, Carlisle County, Kentucky, ED 21 Sh 04 B line 84 dwelling 77 family 83 page 004 B.
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