Hansford family great uncles and aunts

Rev. Thomas Hansford had many brothers and sisters, and I'm not sure how accurate some of the information on Ancestry is. Rev. Hansford was my 4 times great grandfather. Let's explore some more of my great times 5 aunts and uncles.  Yes, they become 5 times greats, because a grandfather's brother is already a great uncle. Thus a great grandfather's brother is a great great uncle.

Richard Hansford, (1763-1813) has 2 birthplaces listed on Ancestry, but no original documentation.  I'll just accept it was somewhere in VA at this point. He married in 1791 to Catherine Acree, and they have 3 sons recorded. The oldest was named after his brother (or maybe Richard's father) William Sallis Hansford. The second son carries his mother's surname as his middle name, which often happened, John Acree Hansford. And the third was David William.

The Virginia Military Records Appendix of State-wide and  Miscellaneous Records, pg 542 lists Richard Hansford as receiving payment for "provisions furnished Capt Lynn's company.  These payments were from the Revolutionary War. There are 1032 pages of microfilms of these payments, and this section just says to Virginia Militia in the Revolution. Apparently many of theses pages were loose and have dates anywhere from 1775 to 1781.  As Richard may have been only 12 in 1775, it's more likely he did provisions toward the later date.  But since he didn't even marry until he was 28, it's hard to see that he had his own farm at the age of 18 (in 1781).

A lot of conjecture on my part.  Who knows the truth.

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Sarah (Sallie) Hansford White (June 17, 1767 - ?) has little information about her on Ancestry...like many women who weren't part of the written records of early America.  She married Samuel White in 1787 in Botetourt County VA.  I've never heard of that county, so did a bit of a search. It's in the Appalachian Mountains area near Roanoke.

Great Aunt Sallie had at least 4 children, Susannah, Nathaniel, Samuel Morris White, and William Henry White, the last of whom was born in 1795.  So though we don't know when Sallie died, it must have been after 1795. The records on Ancestry have her 4 children born in 4 different counties of VA, and though she had been born in Orange County VA, her death (of unknown date) is listed as being in Pratt, Kanawha County WestVirginia.

But of course we know it wasn't West Virginia at that time since the state didn't come into being until 1861.  And I just found that Charleston, WV (the state capital) is in Kanawha County. Having driven through that area last year, I am in awe that anyone grew any food in those mountains, which are such a great source of coal but give very few flat areas for fields. But that's just my perspective. The town of Pratt used to be Clinton (until 1905) so again the records would have changed names...but how did anyone decide that was where she died, I wonder. So this is conjecture on top of geography which got names changed through history.  Phaw!

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Elizabeth Hansford
may have been born 17 May 1768, in Orange County VA.  The Ancestry records seem to depend upon some from England, Dorset County. But I think there was another couple named William and Mary Hansford having their children in England, and there's no way this family went over there and had any of their children.  The Elizabeth that I have listed doesn't necessarily have a husband on 33 out of 35 Ancestry trees, but on one of them she married a William Boone, but there's nothing to substantiate it.  Again she died on an unknown date in Pratt, Kanawha, West Virginia.

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Great times 5 Aunt Frances Hansford Whitmore was born 17 July 1773 in Russell County VA. She died in in 1813 in Rockingham County  VA. She married in 1805 to John Whitmore, and they had daughters, Catherine and Mary.  She died at age 40, leaving very young daughters. So of course I want to check and see if Uncle John remarried. I know he lived until 1850, and died in Ohio.  It looks like he'd been married before marrying Frances, and possibly he married again after her death.  He also spelled his name either Whitmer or Whitmere.