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1778), Waters (b. about 1780), Rosannah/Rose Ann
(b. about 1782, m. John Walker), 12 and Sally (Sarah?)
(b. about 1784, m. William L. Murphy). 13
Nancy Baugh
Nancy Baugh (b. about 1769), a daughter of John
Baugh Sr. and Rosannah Waters, married Robert
Hindman, the first constable of Barren County, who
died at Vincennes during the War of 1812.
Hindman had purchased 60 acres on Beaver Creek
from William Newell on 18 March 1805 and 250 acres
from Arnold Custer on 28 January 1809. The family
lived near a place called Prewitt’s Knob. 14 Hindman
wrote his will in 1812 and it was probated in January
1813. Listed were his wife Nancy Baugh Hindman and
children Rebecca, John, Robert, Roseanna and Polly
Hindman. The executor was Nancy’s brother Waters
Baugh and witnesses were John Baugh and Nancy’s
brother-in-law William L. Murphy. 15
Robert and Nancy’s children were also listed in 16
July 1821 and 20 October 1823, guardian bonds.
These children were America, Mary, “Moarning
America,” Robert, and Robert (Roberta?) Mary. 16
William Baugh
William Baugh (b. about 1771, d. 30 December
1854, Mt. Vernon, Jefferson County, Ill.), a son of
John Baugh Sr. and Rosannah Waters, married Mary
Chandler on 28 October 1790 in Washington
County. He appears in numerous Barren County land
records in the early 1800s. Apparently after the death
of a second wife, Annaliz ____, Baugh was appointed
guardian of his and Annaliz’s children on 16 April
1821. The children were Avena, Edward H. Harrison,
Nancy, Robert, and Rosey. 17 He is listed on the 1820
Census in Barren County with three white males 0 to
10, one 16 to 18, and one 45 and over; one white
female 0 to 10, one 10 to 16, and two 16 to 26, with
two people engaged in agriculture.
Philemon Baugh
Philemon Baugh (b. about 1773, d. December
1849, Jersey, Ill.), a son of John Baugh Sr. and
Rosannah Waters, married Mary “Polly” Norris. He
appeared on the 1820 Census in Barren County with
four white males 0 to 10, one 10 to 16, and one 26 to
45; three white females 0 to 10, one 10 to 16, and one
26 to 45, with four people engaged in agriculture.
After Polly’s death, Baugh married Keziah
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“Kissey” Allen on 11 April 1831 in Hamilton
County, Ill. He later moved to Jersey County, Ill.,
where he died in December 1849. Baugh’s children
included David M. Baugh (m. Nancy T. Gill).
John Baugh Jr.
John Baugh Jr. (b. 1776, N.C., d. 30 December
1854, Mt. Vernon, Jefferson County, Ill.), a son of
John Baugh Sr. and Rosannah Waters, married Mary
Downing on 26 July 1797 in Mercer County. 18
Baugh began his adult life in Barren County, purchasing
land and improving his financial situation. 19
Described as a “man of extensive information and a
Christian preacher,” Baugh later became “a wealthy
merchant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, with a
branch house at Carthage, Tenn.” 20 About 1815,
Baugh sent one of his brothers—possibly
Philemon—to manage an “immense cargo of produce”
that he was shipping to New Orleans. The
brother, however, began gambling on the return trip
and arrived back in Bowling Green “penniless.”
Nearly bankrupt and “almost in despair,” Baugh
left Kentucky for Vandalia, Fayette County, Ill., where
he started a boarding house and served as a justice of
the peace. “Too full of life to set still,” Baugh moved
from place to place “at leisure intervals, trading and
peddling.” By 1826 or 1827, Baugh began using Mt.
Vernon, in Jefferson County, Ill., as his base, though
also spending time in Greene County and Galena
before his death in Mt. Vernon in 1854.
John and Mary’s children, all of whom were born
in Barren County, were Downing (b. 21 April 1798,
d., 1888, McGregor, Clayton County, Ia., m. 1.
Milly Pace, 2. Sophronia Davis), Elizabeth (b. about
1801, m. 1. Thomas H. Flippen, 21 2. Edmond
Tunstall), Jane (b. about 1805, m. William West
“Buck” Pace), 22 Emily (b. about 1806, m. John
Foley), 23 John “Jackie” (b. 5 March 1808, d. 20
February 1881, Wise, Tex., m. Elizabeth Mildred
Bruce), 24 Miriam (b. about 1810, m. Joseph
Morrison), Moses (b. 1810, m. Mary Byers), 25 Rose
Ann/Rosanna (b. about 1812, m. 1. Allen Flippen,
2. Samuel P. Wilson), 26 and Peggy Ann (b. 1815, d.
1861, Hill County, Tex., m. Samuel Morrison). 27
Downing Baugh
Downing Baugh (b. 2 April 1798, Barren County,
Ky., d. 1888, McGregor, Clayton County, Ia.), a son
of John Baugh Jr. and Mary Downing, married Milly
Pace on 14 August 1806 in Jefferson County, Ill.