Harmon Greathouse
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1784 - , , Virginia
Christening:
Death: 1831 - , Henderson County, Kentucky 355
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Tax: 19 Apr 1806, Jessamine Creek, Jessamine County, Kentucky. 304 Greathouse, John, Sr. - 1 white male over 21, 2 white males over 16, 21 horses, and 300 acres.
Greathouse, John, Jr. - 1 white male over 21 and 1 horse.
Greathouse, David - 1 white male over 21, 5 horses, 200 acres in Warren County, Kentucky, on Buck Creek (entered, surveyed, and patented in name of Sampson Greathouse).
Greathouse, Harmon - 1 white male over 21, and 4 horses.
• Tax: 2 May 1807, , Jessamine County, Kentucky. 304 John Greathouse Sr, 1 white male over 21, 1 white male over 16, 18 horses, 300 acres in Jessamine County, KY. He also had 300 acres in Franklin County on Savern? Creek and 200 acres in Warren County, KY
John Greathouse Jr, 1 white male over 21 and 1 horse.
David Greathouse, 1 white male over 21, 2 horses and 250 [sic] acres in Warren County on Buck Creek.
Harmon Greathouse, 1 white male over 21 and 3 horses.
• Tax: 20 Jun 1808, , Jessamine County, Kentucky. 304 John Greathouse Sr, 1 white male over 21, 1 white male over 16, 15 horses, 300 acres in Jessamine County, 200 acres in Warren County.
John Greathouse Jr, 1 white male over 21 and 3 horses.
David Greathouse, 1 white male over 21 and 3 horses.
Harmon Greathouse, 1 white male over 21 and 3 horses.
William Greathouse, 1 white male over 21 and 1 horse.
• Tax: 29 Jul 1809, , Jessamine County, Kentucky. 304 Greathouse, John, Sr. - 1 white male over 21, 15 horses, 450 acres in Jessamine County, and 200 acres in Warren County.
Greathouse, John, Jr. - 1 white male over 21.
Greathouse, David - 1 white male over 21 and 4 horses.
Greathouse, Harmon - 1 white male over 21 and 3 horses.
Greathouse, William - 1 white male over 21 and 2 horse.
• He appeared on the census in 1810 in , Jessamine County, Kentucky. 356
Harmon Greathouse,
2 males under 10 (Major and Younger)
1 male 16 to 25 (Harmon)
1 female 16-22 (Elizabeth)
• Tax: 1810, , Jessamine County, Kentucky. 304 Greathouse, John Sr - 1 white male over 21, 17 horses, 1 stud horse, 450 acres in Jessamine County and 200 acres in Warren County on Buck Creek.
Greathouse, John Jr - 1 white male over 21 and 4 horses.
Greathouse, David - 1 white male over 21 and 6 horses.
Greathouse, Harmon - 1 white male over 21, 1 black male over 16 and 3 horses.
Greathouse, William - 1 white male over 21 and 6 horses.
• Tax: 28 Jun 1811, , Jessamine County, Kentucky. 304 Greathouse, John Sr. - 1 white male over 21, 1[sic] horse, 502 acres in Jessamine County, and 200 acres in Warren County.
Greathouse, John Jr. - 1 white male over 21 and 4 horses.
Greathouse, David - 1 white male over 21 and 7 horses.
Greathouse, Harmon - 1 white male over 21 and 5 horses.
Greathouse, William - 1 white male over 21 and 7 horses.
• Tax: 1812, , Henderson County, Kentucky. 306 Greathouse, John, Sr. - 200 acres in Warren County on Buck Creek; land entered in name of Sampson Greathouse - 1 white male over 21 and 13 horses.
Greathouse, David - 400 acres in Henderson Count on Pond Creek; land entered in name of Larkin Smith; 1 white male over 21 and 9 horses.
Greathouse, Herman - 1 white male over 21 and 4 horses.
Greathouse, William - 1 white male over 21 and 4 horses.
Adams, Charles - 1 white male above 21 and 1 horse [Number of acres is blurred] (Charles Adams married Polly Greathouse, daughter of John Greathouse Sr. and Elizabeth)
• Tax: 1813, , Henderson County, Kentucky. 307 Greathouse, David - Company of H[?] James; 400 acres of 3rd rate land in Henderson County on Pond Creek; name under which entered or by whom surveyed and patented - Tad Kukendall; 1 white male over 21 and 5 horses.
Greathouse, Hermon - Company of R. [or A.] Smith; 1 white male over 21 and 11 horses.
Adams, Charles - 1 white male above 21 (husband of Polly Greathouse)
• Tax: 1814, , Henderson County, Kentucky. 307 Greathouse, John - 200 acres in Jefferson County on Floyd's Fork, entered by Mordica Reed; 1 white male over 21; 15 horses; value of land 1.00 per acre; total value $800.
Greathouse, David - 1 white male over 21, 7 horses, and $230 total value.
Greathouse, Harmon - 1 white male over 21, 6 [?] horses, and $350 total value.
• Lawsuit: 1817, , Union County, Kentucky. 15 Lawsuit by heirs of John Greathouse, Sr. against brothers and defendents David Greathouse and John Greathouse Jr, executor. Named in the lawsuit are: Harmon Greathouse, William Greathouse, Daniel Greathouse, Jane Greathouse (infant under 21), Charles Adams and Polly Greathouse, his wife, Isaac Callinder and Rebecca Greathouse, his wife.
• He signed a will in 1831 in , Henderson County, Kentucky. 357 Letters of Administration on the estate of Harmon Greathouse deceased, were granted to his son, Younger Greathouse.
Parents
Father: John Greathouse Sr. (1746-Bef 1816) 14,15,16
Mother: Elizabeth (Est 1752-After 1810)
Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Masoner (1784 - )
Marriage: 1805 - , Jessamine County, Kentucky
Children:
1. Major Greathouse (Abt 1808-1854)
2. Younger Greathouse (Abt 1810-1860)
3. Jackson "John" Greathouse (Abt 1821-1888)
4. Louisa Jane Greathouse ( - )
5. William Greathouse (1826-1904)
6. Mary E. Greathouse (Abt 1830- )
Notes
General:
Source: Chris Bailey
He was 16-21 in 1805; on his own in 1806
This family lived in Jessmine Co., KY in 1810. By 1820 they had moved to Henderson Co., KY. Harmon apparently died 1820-30 in Henderson Co.KY. His sons and widow moved to Jackson County, IL.
in 1831Letters of Administration on the estate of Harmon Greathouse deceased, were granted to his son, Younger Greathouse, p 104, Henderson Co., KY, dated Oct 183l.
Source: Vivian Taylor
Harmon was first listed as 21 or over in the April, 1806, tax list. He was still 16-26 in the 1810 census, so he probably was born in 1784 and turned 21 in 1805.