Why Jim Baucom concluded that the wife of Jacob Powell Crick was Susan Haley, the daughter of Barnabas Haley & Nancy Coursey

In which I submit an essay written and researched by my rocket scientist cousin, Jim Baucom.

 "WHY I CONCLUDED THAT THE WIFE OF JACOB POWELL CRICK WAS

SUSAN HALEY, THE DAUGHTER OF BARNABAS HALEY & NANCY COURSEY"

REVIEW OF KNOWN INFORMATION

My grandfather, Estell (Doc) Baucom had known and lived among his grandparents John Baucom and his wife Nancy D. Crick when he was a small boy at Baucom, TN in Coffee County and later when John and Nancy and several of their sons and their family relocated to Marshall County, TN about 1893. Starting with these facts in 1969, by using the LDS Genealogy Library in Salt Lake City, UT  and libraries and Court Houses at various locations in AL and TN I was able to trace my line back to John Baucom and Rachel Barker in Wake County, NC.

Their son Cader Baucom and his wife Susannah Fowler came to Williamson County, TN before 1820 and had as neighbors, the Crick Family from SC, That region today is around the Eagleville, Versailles, townships and at that time very close to the Bedford County Line.

I found that Wilson Baucom, son of Cader, married Cressy Crick in 1821and that their son John married Nancy Crick in 1844. While at the Library at Murfreesboro, TN I read an article about how some of the TN Crick men who fought for the South and some for the North, by Herbert Crick in Eagleville. I called him, then met with him at his home and later attended two of the annual Crick Reunion Picnic held at the  Henry Horton State Park in TN on the second weekend in AUG.

He filled me in on The Cricks from when they left England, came to SC and then to TN. It was there that I learned that John William Crick Sr. was the father of Christiana Crick (who married Wilson Baucom) and her brother Jacob Powell Crick who married Susan Haley and it was their daughter Nancy Crick who married her first cousin John Baucom. No one that I talked to at the Crick gatherings knew anything about Susan Haley except her name. That was approximately forty years ago.

And about mid May 2012, I stumbled onto some data that leads me to be 90% sure that I know who were the parents of Susan Haley. I was reviewing page 215 of the 1850 RU Co. Census for Christiana (Crick) Baucom to see about when he husband Wilson might have died. Her Youngest child Martha D. was 2 so he probably died after 1847 and before the census. I usually look on the page before and the page after to see if there might be someone of interest to me.

Christiana’s son Mark was on the previous page but I already had his data. But on page 216 was Barnabas Haley in a household full of Courseys of all ages. It was easy to find the probable relationship of this group. Charles Coursey m Susan Haley about1803 in VA. This Susan Haley’s brother was Barnabas Haley who had married Nancy Coursey about the same time. Census Records show Barnabas in Bedford Co, TN in 1820 with 2 daughters in the 10-16 age bracket.

The following shows the census records for the people involved.

1850 RUTHERFORD CO., TN CENSUS, as copied

Page 242 Versailles Dst. Wilson and Christiana Crick Baucom’s oldest son and his wife Nancy Crick.

	Household	Gender	Age	Birthplace
	John Buncom	M	29	Tennessee
	Nancy B Buncom	F	21	Tennessee
	Westly E Buncom	M	3	Tennessee
	Julia A Buncom	F	1	Tennessee

Page 242 not all children shown. Nancy’s parents, Susan (Haley) Crick was actually about 43 & Jacob 50

Household	Gender	Age	Birthplace
	Jacob P Crick	F	43	South Carolina
	Susan Crick	M	16	Virginia
	Wilson R Crick	M	16	Tennessee
	Fanny H Crick	F	9	Tennessee
	Lee I Crick

 

Page 214 May Dst another son of Wilson and Christiana.. Both he and John were wheelwrights

	Household	Gender	Age	Birthplace
	Mark Baucom	M	22	Tennessee
	Louisa J Baucom	F	18	Tennessee

Page 215  Wilson probably died 1848-1850

	Household	Gender	Age	Birthplace
	Christiana Bancom	F	45	South Carolina
	Cader Bancom	M	17	Tennessee
	Newton Bancom	M	12	Tennessee
	Saml Bancom	M	10	Tennessee
	Wm H Bancom	M	7	Tennessee
	Jas K P Bancom	M	6	Tennessee
	Martha D Bancom	F	2	Tennessee

Page 215-216 This is the newly discovered data

Household	Gender	Age	Birthplace
Charles Corsey	M	70	Virginia
Susan Corsey	F	66	Virginia
Susan Corsey	F	42	Virginia
Cata Corsey	F	22	Tennessee
James Corsey	M	17	Tennessee
Susan Corsey (my notes, grandmother)	F	93	Virginia
Nancy Haley              (mother)	F	73	Virginia
Barnabas Haley          (father)	M	68	Virginia

 These last 3 are the parents and grandmother of Susan Haley Crick who named her daughter Nancy..

Logic and location stand out for the reason for coming to the conclusion that SUSAN HALEY is the daughter of Barnabas and Nancy.

First is the naming pattern of using Susan and Nancy as dominating female names that repeat over and over. The second reason is that proximity of Christiana (Crick) Baucom, to Charles Coursey and the others in the 1850 RU Co. TN census on pages 215-6. This region was in Williamson Co. TN until about 1845.

Barnabas and Nancy had lived just across the county line in Bedford Co., TN until the moved in with their siblings between 1840 and 1850.  And SUSAN HALEY was after all the sister in law to the widow Christiana (Crick) Baucom as Wilson Baucom died about 1849. The following article tells of how people did not move, but the county lines did. And abt. 1845 where the Baucom, Cricks and Coursey lived in Wm. Co. was placed in RU Co.

    ROVER, TENNESSEE

Rover is a community located in the North West corner of Bedford Co. Tennessee. From the Rover History Book Vol. II Dick Poplin writes: "Since the Tenth District is in the northwestern corner of Bedford County and adjacent to Rutherford County, it has had close connection with some of the communities in that county, closer than with some Bedford County communities. In the beginning, Eagleville to the northwest and Versailles to the northeast were in Williamson County, and that county had a great influence on our area. There is indication that there was some shifting of county lines in early days so that some of what is now the tenth district of Bedford County may have been in Williamson County even though we would be hard pressed to find official records of those changes in the county line. Some who were known to have lived in what is now Bedford County were included in the Williamson County census of 1830." 

Continued here:http://baucombible.blogspot.com/p/having-accepted-that-susan-was-daughter.html