Agnes

I love all the old family photos I have found. It has been such fun to get to know these people through research in genealogy. This is my Great, Great Grandmother, Sarah Agnes (Payne)Huckaby. She was born January 20, 1820 in Barron Co., Ky, the daughter of Jubal and Rhonda (Basham) Payne. She was known in many old documents as Agnes.

Sarah Agnes was the second wife of Joseph Huckaby. Joseph was born to Thomas and Nancy C. (Chaffin) Huckaby on October 18, 1789 in Bedford, VA. (Thomas Huckaby had served four years in the Revolutionary War.) Joseph moved with his parents to Barron Co., KY and later served with his brother Nathan in the War of 1812. They served as privates in Thomas Griffins Co., Kentucky Militia under Col. Samuel Parker's 14th regiment. This regiment took part in the Battle of New Orleans on Sunday, Jan 8, 1815. ("...and the British kept a coming.")

Joseph married Mary Polly Bridges on 31 Jan. 1818 in Allen Co., KY. She was born in 1797. Together they had 8 children but Mary died in 1838 in Barron Co. Ky. On June 23, 1841 Joseph married Sarah Agnes Payne. She and Joseph added 15 more children to the family. In the 1850 Census there were two other children listed as living with Joseph and Agnes. Perhaps they were her children from a previous marriage.

Joseph moved his family from Kentucky to Missouri in 1857 where six of their children were born. Joseph died January 1, 1871.

In 1880 with the help of a son, Agnes applied for his War of 1812 pension. She signed the application with "X, her mark" On the 1880 Federal Census she was living with four of her children. At the time of her death in Missouri Aug 7, 1911 a check for $36. was sent by the government to her son for burial expenses. Joseph and Agnes are both buried in Hopewell Cemetery.