Descendants of George French - Frenchfamilyassoc.com

Generation 1 (con't)the mother and her age fits that in the 1820 Greenville,1830 Anderson and 1840 Campbell Censuses.According to other family researchers, George is thefather of George William, James, John and PinkneyFrench, all of whom live in adjacent Chambers County.George seems to be alive in 1856 when the will of MaryPolly Corr is probated, but he does not appear in the1860 Census. He may have passed away betweenDecember 1856 and October 1857, since he is notmentioned in the letter from Laban Corr cited in Nancy'snotes. However, the 1860 U. S. Federal CensusMortality Schedules Index shows George French died inOctober. Since this is an index of "those who died in thetwelve months prior to the enumeration" and theenumeration occurred on July 26, 1860, this confirmsGeorge's death date as October 1859. The cause ofdeath is indicated as "lungs inflamed." No grave siteshave been found, but George and Nancy may be buriedin the Old Wedowee Cemetery where there are 200unmarked graves dating from the 1800s.Of interest is the fact that in the 1840 and 1850 AlabamaCensuses, there also are two other Frenches who mightbe related to George. John C. French, age 59 and bornin South Carolina is in DeKalb County, while JamesFrench, age 61 and born in South Carolina, is inMarshall County. Both these counties are about 100miles north of Randolph County, but all three were partof the Indian cessions of the early 1800s. It is possiblethat these Frenches could have acquired their landthrough the Land Lotteries of that time, but no record hasyet been found.Nancy (Elizabeth): Nancy (Elizabeth) Corr was born in1800 in South Carolina, USA 1 . She died in 1860 inRandolph County, Alabama, USA 1 .Page 4 of 45Sunday, 06 March 2011