Looking for father of Alfred Harrison Puckett, born 1805, Virginia

Question

Unfortunately, we don't know that much about Alfred's family because he died when his children were young. Family members, have said his mother was related to Benjamin Harrison V, I think, in order for time frame to fit. It has been said that Alfred was named after someone in his mother, Alice's family. Alfred was highly educated, he was a trained M.D..He died in St. Louis, MO. as a result of treating patients during Cholera epidemic in 1846

Answer 1

There was a Douglass Josephus Puckett in Livingston Co, KY in the early 1800s.  

Deed Book B:420 008141982:440 - Douglass Josephus Puckett Power of Attorney to John Puckett Esq, 1813, property in MO, New Madrid & Cape Girardeau Cos, possession of “Majr James Brady Warren Harris”.

Possibly this Douglass Josephus Puckett was the father of Alfred Harrison Puckett who named a son Douglass Josephus Puckett.

Douglass Josephus Puckett and John Puckett in Livingston Co, KY I believe were brothers from Laurens Co, SC, the sons of Charles Puckett, son of the original Douglass Puckett (died 1790 Charlotte Co, VA).

See https://sites.google.com/site/womackgen/puckett-family

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OOOOH- how very interesting! Alfred's son Douglas named his first child, a daughter, Alice Vinnie Puckett, after his grandmother. This was reported by one of Douglas's sons to my great Aunt Jessie, Alfred's youngest grand daughter. Being as the Puckett genealogy is so messed up, I haven't been able to determine what is actually correct.

Answer 2

Have you seen this:  https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L6T2-3Y5

Priscilla L Harrison dau of Isham Harrison, married a Puckett, and had son Alfred H Puckett.  Her approx birth year of 1798 appears incorrect; she was probably about 12 years older.  I don't know the documentation for any of this.

Douglass Josephus Puckett was from (I think) Laurens Co, SC.  He was an attorney in the town of Spartanburg, Spartanburg Co, SC.  Deed records show that Isham Harrison sold land to Douglass Josephus Puckett in Spartanburg Co in 1808.  When Douglass Josephus Puckett sold land in Spartanburg in 1811, his wife was listed as Priscilla L Puckett.  Isham Harrison died in Missouri in 1835.

Charles Puckett, son of the first Douglass Puckett, came to SC and settled near Musgrove Mills on the Enoree River in what later became Laurens Co, SC.  He was there by 1777.  I think his younger brother Douglass Puckett Jr joined him.  If you go to the SC Archives online, you can search for Charles Puckett (https://www.archivesindex.sc.gov), he is indexed as "Pucket, Charles".  There is a plat for Ann Musgrove showing both Charles Pucket and Douglass Pucket as adjacent landowners.  

I think both Charles and Douglass had sons named Douglass - Charles had Douglass Josephus Puckett and Douglass had Douglass Josiah Puckett (I think, I may have them backwards).  Both D J Pucketts were lawyers and they frequently used their full names in records, probably to tell them apart.  

I am working on this slowly:  https://sites.google.com/site/womackgen/puckett-family/d12-douglass-puckett?authuser=0

The Puckett lines in Laurens Co, SC are complex, and I am trying to sort them out.

Note also a Cheatham connection - Charles Puckett had a brother and a son named Cheatham Puckett.  Isham Harrison's wife's mother was a Cheatham according to the link above.

I found a little more, some nice person on ancestry added this record:

Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City

Madison County Probate Estate File

Reel C7777

 

Estate of Isham Harrison

Amey Harrison & Caleb Cox

To Application for Letters of Adm

Clerk of Madison County Court

Filed March 9^th 1836

Wm M. Newberry clk

 

State of Missouri

Madison County

County Court, Clerk’s office, in vacation, March the 9^th 1836

 

Be it Remembered, that on this 9^th day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty six, before me, the undersigned, Clerk of the county court of Madison County, came Amey Harrison and Caleb Cox, and made application for Letters of Administration on the estate of Isham Harrison deceased, late of said county, and ____ [?] to law make oath and say, that the said Amey Harrison widow of said deceased, Nancy Powell, late Nancy Harrison, George H. Miller, Amey M. Miller, Elizabeth C. Miller, Eliza W. Miller, Sarah Jane Miller, John I. Miller & Nancy C. Miller infant children of Sarah D. Miller decd, late Sarah [referred to as Sally on another document] D. Harrison all of the said County of Madison – Damascus T. Allen, Minerva Long, late Minerva Allen, Vermont R. Allen, Napoleon C. Allen, Eugene N. Allen, Harriet Allen, Musadore E. Allen, children and heirs of Elizabeth Allen decd, late Elizabeth Harrison, all of said county, Andrew M. Harrison, Lemuel R. Harrison and Lucy Goode, late Lucy Harrison, of Franklin County State of Illinois, and Alfred H. Pucket and Eliza W. Thompson, late Eliza W. Pucket, of the county of Perry and State of Missouri – and Ethelred [?] B. Puckett whose residence is not known), children and heirs of Priscilla L. Pucket, late Priscilla L. Harrison, are the only heirs and legal representatives of the said Isham Harrison deceased, so far as the said applicants know and believe; and that the said deceased died without a will, so far as said applicants know and believe. And that they will make a perfect inventory of, and faithfully administer, all the estate of the deceased, and pay the debts as far as the assets will extend and the law direct, and account for and pay all assets which shall come to their possession or knowledge.

Amey Harrison

Caleb Cox

Sworn & Subscribed to before me, this 9^th day of March, A.D., 1836.

William N. Newberry clerk

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Oh, that is even more interesting! Alfred was definitely living in Perry Co., Missouri at that time. He was married to Amey Bettis Matthews.  While, Alfred's mother doesn't seem to match, Alfred died in St. Louis in 1846, probably due to Cholera, as he was an M.D. treating patients with Cholera.

That being said, this is the closest I've ever been to finding the accurate family of Alfred. Thank you!

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These Pucketts were a lot more educated than most at that time.  Alfred's brother Etheldred B Puckett was a Methodist preacher and a teacher.  Bounced around (like many preachers did), I find records of him in Illinois, Mississippi and Tennessee.  He wrote this book, printed in 1853:  https://www.loc.gov/item/11017912/

Alfred's sister Eliza married in Caldwell Co, KY:  https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&q.filmNumber=7719555&q.surname=pucket

William R & Eliza Thompson on the 1850 Census of Perry Co, MO.  Had a son named Alfred.

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That makes much more sense than trying to fit Alfred in with the Estill Co., KY Pucketts. In my corresponding with a descendant of Samuel Puckett, he implied that his ancestors weren't very educated, and therefore, Alfred being an M.D. did not fit. Your info is by far more logical.