Or, Subtitled: “[W]e did talk of going to texas but we heard so much bad news of people fiting and killing one another thar that we concluded to come here this spring”
Proven and Probable Children of Moses Birdwell by His Second Wife Hannah Folkinson or Folkindon
In my last posting, I offered a list of proven and probable children of Moses Birdwell (1769-1849) by his first wife, whose name is unknown. As another previous posting states, a family history document compiled by several members of the Cunningham family, which connects to the Birdwells through the marriage of Moses’ daughter Nancy to Calvin Cunningham, states that Moses had twenty children, ten by each of his two wives.
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BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS 
A thought: Have you considered the possibility that Jeremiah’s disappearance from the public record may have been due to his possible service in the Mexican War?
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That’s a possibility, for sure, but I do think his wife Sarah was widowed by 1850 when she appears on the federal census heading their household – and I haven’t been able to find a record of Jeremiah after that day, too.
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