John (Johannnes) Greathouse Jr.
Sex: M
AKA: Johannes Greathouse 18
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Oct 1777 - Strasburg, Dunmore County (Now Shenandoah County), Virginia 11
Christening: 15 Nov 1778 - Strasburg - German Lutheran Church , Dunmore County (Now Shenandoah County), Virginia 11
Death: Spring 1840 - , Union County, Kentucky 9
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
Notes
• Baptised: 15 Nov 1778, Strasburg, Dunmore County (Now Shenandoah County), Virginia. 11 John Greathouse & Elisabeth, parents: Johannes, infant, born 27 Oct 1777, baptized 15 Nov 1778, Godparents; Weyhrick & wife Engel.
• Tax: 1801, , Jessamine County, Kentucky. 304 His age was 16-21.
• Tax: 19 Apr-21 May 1802, , Jessamine County, Kentucky. 304 Greathouse, John - 1 white male over 21, 2 white males over 16, 14 horses, 1 stud horse, and 300 acres.
Greathouse, John Jr. - 1 white mail over 21 [and no other entries]; He was listed by the name as the younger John Greathouse.
Greathouse, William - 1 white male over 21, 1 horse.
• Tax: 3 May 1805, , 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).
• Tax: 19 Apr 1806, , 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: 27 Jul 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: 18 Aug 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.
• 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.
• He appeared on the census in 1810 in Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. 19
John Greathouse Jr
1 male 26 thru 44 (John Jr.)
1 male 45 over (?)
1 female under 10 (Lydia Ann)
1 female 10 thru 15 (Parthenia)
1 female 26 thru 44 (First Wife)
1 female 45 over (?)
• 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.
• 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 appeared on the census in 1830 in , Union County, Kentucky. 36
John Greatehouse
1 male, 5 to 10 (John Tecumseh Greathouse)
1 male, 40 to 50 (John Greathouse)
1 female, 30 to 40 (Second Wife)
• Promissory Note: Mar 1840, , Union County, Kentucky. 369 John referred to himself as the older John Greathouse in the county, John Tecumseh Greathouse (his son) being younger.
• Lawsuit: 1841-1851, , Union County, Kentucky. 304,369 Lawsuit complains that he has been dead for a year and no one has administered his estate or paid the bill owed to merchants for fence posts purchased in the spring of 1840. Daughters, Parthenia and Lydia, and their husbands were named in this lawsuit: "Hiram Greathouse and Lydia his wife" and "William Stephens and Parthenia his wife".
Parents
Father: John Greathouse Sr. (1746-Bef 1816) 14,15,16
Mother: Elizabeth (Est 1752-After 1810)
Spouses and Children
1. *First Wife (Abt 1777 - )
Marriage: 1798 - Nicholasville, Fayette County , Kentucky 9
Children:
1. Parthenia Greathouse (Abt 1799- )
2. Lydia Ann Greathouse (1801-1872) 20
2. Permilia Dale (Abt 1817 - 7 Feb 1899) 18,138
Marriage: 23 Oct 1839 - , Union County, Kentucky 177
3. Second Wife (Abt 1795 - ) 36
Marriage: Mar 1816 - Goshen, Oldham County, Kentucky
Children:
1. John Tecumseh Greathouse (Between 1821-1881) 37
Notes
Christening Notes:
The church is now called St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Witnesses to the baptism were Peter Weyhrich and wife Engle. His christening name was Johannes Greathouse.Death Notes:
He died between the tax list in the Spring of 1840 (in which he appears) and the census (in which he does not). In the census, Milly is proabably the second female 20-30 in her brother Green P. Dale's household. Green lived on the land adjoining John's. John Tecumseh Greathouse (son - about 19) had already moved to Posey County to live with Greathouse cousins.General:
Source: "Vivian M. Taylor - John Jr. turned twenty-one in October of 1798. He probably married his first wife in 1798 since his oldest child, Parthenia, was born in 1799. In 1798 the area where he lived (Nicholasville) was still part of Fayette County, Kentucky, so the marriage would probably have been recorded at Lexington, the county seat. The courthouse at Lexington was burned about 1802, and no marriage records before 1803 survive. Nicholasville became the county seat of a new county, Jessamine, in 1799, and Jessamine's records are extant."Marriage Notes (First Wife)
"John Jr. may have moved to another county for a few years: he does not appear by name in the tax lists of Jessamine County for 1799, 1800, 1801, 1803, and 1804. (He may have been the second male over 21 in his father's household in 1800, 1803, and 1804). He was listed by name as the younger John Greathouse in the county in 1802 and from 1805 to 1811. The family left Jessamine in the fall of 1811; the other men state in northern Henderson county, but John Jr. settled across Highland Creek in Union County, KY, in where he appeared in the tax rolls from 1812 through the spring of 1840. (He was missed in the census lists occasionally, but usually not two years in a row.) He was listed in the Union County census in 1830 with a woman between 30 and 40 years old and a boy under age 10."
"John Greathouse Jr., had three wives. The first was the mother of his two daughters, Parthenia and Lydia Ann (who married Hiram Greathouse in Union County, KY, in 1819 and then moved to White County, IL). The second wife, whose name is also unknown, was the mother of John Tecumseh Greathouse. Family oral tradition says that this woman was half Indian and was adopted by a Mulligan family in Kentucky, but this story has not been proven. The third wife was Permilia "Milly" Dale, born about 1817. She married John Jr. in the fall of 1839, and he appears to have died in Union County in the spring of 1840 - after the tax listing but before the census. She moved to Posey County, Indiana, and later married Henry Stripe; Milly Dale Greathouse died in 1899 in Posey County."
"John did not leave a will, and a merchant's lawsuit over John's bill (still unpaid a year after his death) mentioned only the two daughters over twenty-one and their husbands, from whom the merchant hoped to receive payment. (The lawsuit complained that no one had administered John's estate.) John had signed a promissory note as "John Greathouse Sen." in March of 1840. This reference to himself as the older John Greathouse in the county, the absence of any other John Greathouse in the Union County records from 1820 through 1844, the 1830 census showing a boy under age ten in his household, and John Tecumseh Greathouse's January 1881 obituary stating that he had been born in Union County, KY, and was fifty-nine years old at death (= birth in 1821) provide the best evidence that John Tecumseh Greathouse was the son of John Greathouse, Jr. After John Jr.'s death in 1840, John Tecumseh moved to Posey County to live with his cousins, the sons of John Jr.'s brother David. Milly was probably the second female over twenty-one in the household of her brother, Green Dale, in Union County in 1840."
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Source: Vivian M. Taylor - They Lexington courthouse burned about 1803, so we are not going to find the marriage record or his first wife's name. The first wife was about the same age as John. 9Marriage Notes (Second Wife)
Source: Vivian M. Taylor - John Jr.'s second wife was NOT married to John in Goshen, Oldham County, KY, in 1816. That is from the incorrect oral tradition. Oldham County had not been formed yet by 1816. The second marriage was more likely in 1820, the year before John Tecumseh's birth. [Lydia married in 1819 and moved to Illinois. Probably Parthenia left too; she found a husband a few years later in Illinois. The lack of women around the house to do the cooking in early 1820 would have given John Jr. the incentive to find a second wife.] I cannot find a marriage record, but either Union County, KY, or White County, IL, would have been logical. The second wife is not specified in the 1830 census as a second wife; this woman is, however, at least ten or twelve years younger than John, and the first wife was the same age group. 9