Page 2: 1880 Census, Blackberry Creek, Pike County, KY
Ruel Priest Hackney and his wife, Charlottie Smith Hackney. See here for more information about the Hackney family.
John New and wife Nancy.
Elizabeth Murphy and daughter Caldonna Hatfield. Elizabeth was the mistress of Ulysses Hatfield, shown on Page 1 of this census. In later years, Ulysses moved Elizabeth and their, by then, three daughters on land next to him and his wife Sally. Like many men in the Tug Valley during that era, Ulysses had two families and kept them both openly. They generally provided for the children of the mistress in their wills and tended to keep the secondary family living nearby, often on their own land.
Another daughter of Elizabeth Murphy and Ulysses Hatfield, Dixie Hatfield, married Basil May and had 9 sons, who formed a local baseball team.
Lewis Hatfield and his wife Surrilda May Hatfield. Lewis is the son of Ferrell Marion Hatfield.
Lewis Hatfield and wife Surrilda May Hatfield
Marion Hatfield and his wife Josephine Simpkins Hatfield. Marion Hatfield is the older brother of Lewis Hatfield, also a son of Ferrell Marion Hatfield. Josephine Simpkins was the daughter of Nancy Simpkins, of Beech Creek. Nancy Simpkins lived near the family of Anse Hatfield, and her son Joseph married Anse’s sister, Betty. Nancy had more than a dozen children by several different men. She never married, but neither she nor her children seemed to suffer any prejudice or ill treatment for that fact.
Francis Marion Hatfield and wife Josephine Simpkins Hatfield, circa 1899
Ferrell Marion Hatfield (wife Judy Ball died in 1865). Ferrell managed his large family alone until his death in the late 1880s. Still living in his home in 1880 are 1) daughter Mary. Mary never married and ended up living with her sister, Hulda Jane, until her death. 2) Smith - never married and hanged himself from an apple tree in the front yard of the house in 1885. 3) Hulda (Jane) - married Richard Keesee late in life and took care of sister Mary until her death. 4) Arrisba. At 22 she is still unmarried, but the two young boys listed below her are in fact her two son by two different fathers. Julius Marrs, who later took the name of Hatfield, and Andrew Jackson Simpkins, who later became known as Jack Hatfield. Jack’s father was also named Andrew Jackson Simpkins, and he was the brother of Josephine Simpkins, mentioned above. Arrisaba eventually married several times. 5) Amanda.
This takes us to the head of Blackberry Creek. Ferrell Marion, son of Joseph Hatfield and Martha Evans Hatfield, came as a 7 year old to Blackberry Creek and was one of the first children to settle there. He purchased the land where he is living in this census in 1846.