Monday, August 29, 2011

Cynthia Ann Wickliffe (1844-1889)

Cynthia Ann Wickliffe

Cynthia Ann Wickliffe was born on April 4, 1844 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.  She was the fourth child born to John D. Wickliffe, but the tenth born to Rachel Oates Boggess Wickliffe.   



On September 6, 1865, Cynthia married William Obadiah Utley in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.  She was 21 years old and he was 33 years.  Obadiah was born on February 14, 1832 in Kentucky. 



Obadiah and Cynthia raised their children on their farm in Seminary, Hopkins County, Kentucky.  They had the following five children:



                        Halcyon                                 born July 3, 1865

                        Aspasia                                  born March 4, 1868

                        Delmont                                 born November 9, 1870

                        Elizabeth Celia                     born October 26, 1873

                        William Ross                         born September 25, 1886



Cynthia Ann Wickliffe Utley died just three years after the birth of her youngest child.  She died on September 6, 1889 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee.  She was 45 years old at her death. 



After his wife’s death, Obediah lived the rest of his life in Hopkins County, with his son, Aspasia, and his family.  William Obediah Utley died on September 30, 1920 in Kitchen, Hopkins County, Kentucky.  He was 88 years old. 



Notes for Cynthia Ann Wickliffe

Birth:  Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.

Marriage:  Dodd, Jordan, comp.. Kentucky Marriages, 1851-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,                 USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.

Death:  Ancestry.com, James Nourse & His Descendants: Public Member Tree.  Accessed on 9 August 2007.



Notes for Obadiah Utley

Birth:  Ancestry.com, James Nourse & His Descendants: Public Member Tree.  Accessed on 9 August 2007.

Death:  Commonwealth of Kentucky, Health Data Branch, Divisision of Epidemiology and Health Planning, comp.. Kentucky Death Index, 1911-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.
 

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