John Ledford Jr. (1752 - 1802)

Born 8 Feb 1752 in Augusta, Virginia

Husband of Elizabeth (Bryant) Ledford — married 1769 in Rowan, North Carolina

Descendants

Died 20 Feb 1802 at age 50 in Cumberland Gap, Knox, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

John was born in 1752.

Research Notes

At present, it seems that two John Ledfords have been conflated. One would be the husband of Elizabeth Bryant and the father of William Alexander "Aley" Ledford; the other would be the husband of Philadelphia Stone and the father of James Ledford, John "Jack" Ledford, and William Ledford. A story, I believe reported in Egerton's book "Generations" and repeated (?) in a 2011 posting by Linda Hall, is that Elizabeth Bryant's husband was killed by a falling tree in 1802 while attempting to enter Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap. Some (perhaps 7) of the children attributed to them allegedly had either remained in NC or returned there. However, attempting to trace them through marriages and war records suggests that these 7 either were not John and Elizabeth's children, or they did not have the spouses attributed to them. Consequently, "Aley" Ledford seems the only more-or-less certain son of John and Elizabeth. At moment of my writing, I do not have access to the principal source for his lineage, but I will be able to consult it in the next week or so. At that time, I hope to revise this and related entries. But any information on primary sources relating to these persons would be warmly welcomed and greatly appreciated. --Michael Brown

Sources

• Data from family records
• John Egerton, "Generations: An American Family" (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1983 [and 2003]).
• Donald H. Campbell, "Early Settlers of Harlan County" (n.p., 2019), pp. 461-462.