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Daniel's Wife (or Wives): What We Know and Don't Know
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 Christina
Nave / Neff InformationThere is no documented evidence to know whether or not Christina Nave lived long enough to accompany Daniel Haston in his eventual move to middle Tennessee. But nonetheless, some descendents of Daniel erected a monument to her memory in the Big Fork Cemetery, beside the grave of Daniel. We do not know for sure if a wife of Daniel is buried in the Big Fork Cemetery. And if a wife of Daniel is buried next to him, it is possible that the wife could be a second (or third) wife. Neff (alternate spelling for the surname "Nave")
researchers are somewhat uncertain regarding Christina Nave's connection
to a specific family. William Neff did indicate: "Christina
Nave G516 (family file #), b. abt. 1750 we believe in Augusta County, VA, was
the daughter of Dr. Hans Conrad Näf and Katherina Isler, who immigrated
from Kt. Zuerich in 1734. We have no records of Conrad Näf after the
1750 and believe he was killed during the Lord Dunmore wars with the
Indians. His descendents all moved to the part of western North
Carolina that is now east
Tennessee. From Shenandoah County, VA marriages, we have her married to
a Daniel Histand on 28 Sept 1773." According to Neff research records, Christina was possibly/probably the sister of:
Note: David Haston, apparently was the auctioneer or the one who proclaimed publicly the upcoming auction (paid $1.00 for "crying vendue") in the administration of an estate for a Jacob Neff / Knave in Knox County, TN in 1805-1806. Was this Jacob Neff / Knave a close relative to Christina Nave? It is interesting that this is the last documented Knox County, TN record that we have for David Haston prior to his move to White County, TN. Is it possible that this Jacob Neff / Knave was a close relative of David's mother and, for some reason, David remained in Knox County until the decease and estate settlement of Jacob Neff / Knave. One oral account indicates that Daniel's wife remained behind in east Tennessee for some unspecified amount of time prior to her journey to White County to meet Daniel on the new homestead. Could her delay have had something to do with Jacob Neff / Knave's situation?
Jacob Mitchell was an original (1808) land grantee in White County, TN whose land was adjacent to that of Daniel & Joseph Haston. A family Bible record (supposedly in the possession of Glen Cowan, great-great grandson of Morris and Elizabeth [parents of Jacob Mitchell]) indicates that this Jacob Mitchell (one source [from Sharon Spurgeon] says "Montgomery Co. Maryland May 1 1784") married a Lucinda Hastings. This Lucinda Hastings possibly was a daughter of Daniel Haston. Jacob Mitchell's brother, Rev. James Mitchell, married a Sarah / Sally Nave (born March 4, 1793) from Rockingham County, VA in Knox County, TN on October 6, 1808. Was this Sarah / Sally Nave related to the Jacob Neff / Nave / Knave for whose estate settlement David Haston was the auctioneer? Was she in some way related to the Christina Nave who married Daniel Histand on September 28, 1773 in Shenandoah/Dunmore County, VA?
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Howard H. Hasting, Sr. Comment Howard H. Hasting, Sr. was one of the most avid Daniel Haston researchers. Mr. Hasting made this very interesting comment in the written report of his life's research work on the Daniel Haston family:
Elizabeth Jane Stipe Hasting was the great grandmother of Howard H. Hasting, Sr. Their lives overlapped by 22 years, thus Howard Hasting would probably have known her quite well. Thus, he probably heard her reminisce often about family history. If Daniel Haston was born in 1735, as one source indicates, and his wife was born at about the same time, then Mrs. Daniel Haston would have lived to about 1845 (assuming that Elizabeth Jane Stipe Hasting's recollection was accurate). Elizabeth Jane, in that case, would have known her husband's great grandmother (Daniel's wife) until she (Elizabeth Jane) was about ten years old. If Daniel and his wife were not born until about 1750, as many Haston researchers speculate, then Elizabeth Jane would have been about 25 years old when Mrs. Daniel Haston died. Howard H. Hasting, Sr.'s statement that Elizabeth Jane "remembered seeing her" would seem to imply that she (Elizabeth Jane) was very young when Mrs. Daniel Haston died. That could suggest that (1) Mrs. Daniel Haston was born around 1735 or so or that (2) Mrs. Daniel Haston lived to "only" be 90-95 years old.
The "Daniel paid her transportation to this county" comment may harmonize with the possible 1806-1807 return trip that Joseph made, from White County, to the Knox County area and the arrival of David to White County at about that same time. Source: Page 4 of Howard H. Hasting, Sr.'s report of his research results for the family of Daniel Haston. (written in 1954 and revised in 1980, unpublished) [no stated indication is given as to where Mr. Hasting obtained this information, but probably from a firsthand account from his great grandmother, Elizabeth Jane Stipe Hasting] |
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S.S. (Samuel Schockley) Haston's Civil War Questionnaire Regarding Remarks on Ancestry Daniel Haston's great grandson, Samuel Shockley (Schockley) Haston, returned his civil war veterans questionnaire to the Tennessee Historical committee in May of 1922. It was received there on May 23. As a response to the "Remarks on Ancestry" section, S.S. Haston wrote:
Samuel Shockley Haston was 78 years old when he completed this questionnaire, so it is possible that he could have been confused in his thinking, although his other responses seem to be sensible. If taken at face value, this Ruthy Brown would have been the wife of Daniel Haston. A family of (Isaac & William) Browns were close neighbors to Daniel's family after they settled south of the Caney Fork River in White County, TN. Suppose this person was Daniel's wife, was "Brown" her maiden name or did she marry some "Mr. Brown" after the death of Daniel? What does it mean that this Ruthy Brown was at "battle at Buncker hill and carred watter?" Was she a "Molly Pitcher" type "camp follower" during the Revolutionary War? The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775 just outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
S.S. Haston's great grandmother on his mother's (Jane Shockley's) side was Rutha Young (mother of S.S. Haston's grandfather, Samuel Shockley). Was he thinking about her and was mistaken about her maiden name? She was about nine years old (born 1766) at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill and supposedly was born in Surry Co, NC. She lived until 1867 and died in Van Buren Co, TN. S.S. Haston would have known her for two decades or so prior to her death.
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1820 Federal Census One female over the age of 45 was living with Daniel Haston in White County, TN at the time of the 1820 Federal Census. Presumably, this was the wife of Daniel Haston.
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Two mothers of Daniel's children? David (born 1777) and Joseph (born 1780) were literate men. Apparently, from documents signed by their "marks," Isaac (born 1794 or 1795) and Jesse (born 1796) could not write. Since, at that time, the education of children was often the responsibility of the mother, this could possibly indicate that Daniel had two wives, the earlier wife being literate and the later wife being illiterate. The known children of Daniel were born in clusters, David and Joseph were born in 1777 and 1780 and Isaac and Jesse were both born in the mid-1790s. Catherine was probably born in about 1790. One decade separates the birth of the first cluster from the second. It's also likely that there were children of Daniel born during the 1780s whose identities are unknown to us. |
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McComisky? (McComiskey, McComesky, or some similar spelling of the surname) Daniel Haston's son, David, was apparently the oldest son of Daniel Haston. Some earlier Haston family researchers have referred to him as David McComisky Haston. We have no documentation to verify that Daniel gave his son, David, the "McComisky" middle name, but there is evidence that David Haston may have given this (or some other spelling of this name) middle name to two of his sons, Daniel & David. Also, there is additional evidence that appears to connect the Haston family to the family of a Daniel McComisky, who died in Baltimore Co, MD in 1790. Read more about this possible Haston-McComisky connection. Why would such an uncommon surname be given as a middle name? The most obvious assumption would be that there was some kind of familial connection to a family with that surname. Specifically, the connection would typically be to the maiden name of the paternal grandmother or the maiden name of the mother. Thus, the McComisky connection might suggest that:
Here's a working hypothesis (purely hypothetical at this point) for future research: Daniel Haston married Christina Nave in September of 1773. But Christina died within the first couple of years of their marriage. And Daniel then married a close relative of Daniel McComisky of Baltimore County, MD, who became the mother of Daniel's son David (May 6, 1777). It is not likely that she would have been Daniel McComisky's daughter, since other of his daughters (and their children) were named in his will, but was no mention of a Daniel McComisky daughter who could have been Daniel Haston's wife. Perhaps she was a younger sister of Daniel McComisky. Note: The above paragraph is purely hypothetical. Please contact us if you have more information related to this Haston-McComisky connection. |
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