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Catherine Tompkins
Female
11 October 1759 – 25 April 1804
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Two women named Catherine Thompkins
Please do NOT merged this Catherine with the Catherine Thompkins who was married to Elisha Estes. This Catherine Thompkins was married to Christopher Hensley. A Bible source shows that the parents, Benjamin Thompkins and Elizabeth Goodloe, had a daughter named Catherine born 11 October 1759. However, there are no primary sources attached to indicate who their daughter, Catherine, married. It could be either one of these women, but they are not the same woman.
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vNatale
An Analysis of the Davis and Hensley Family Connections
Catherine (Tompkins) Hensley Davis had three children with her first husband Chrisley Hensley who married three children of Thomas Davis, who was a brother to Catherine's second husband William Davis. According to Ragland's History of Logan County, West Virginia, written in 1896, Catherine's son Daniel Hensley married Thomas Davis' daughter Jemima Davis. Catherine's son John Hensley married Thomas Davis' daughter Sarah "Sally" Davis. Catherine's daughter Mary "Polly" Hensley married Thomas Davis' son William Davis, Jr. When Catherine's daughter Catherine Hensley married Abraham Miller in 1814 in Floyd County, Kentucky, the marriage record specifically showed Catherine Hensley's stepfather was William Davis. This suggests Catherine (Tompkins) Hensley was married to William Davis by 1814. However, they were married many years earlier when their daughter Catherine (Davis) was born about 1787. Catherine (Tompkins) had two daughters who were both named Catherine. The older one was by her first husband, and the younger one was by her second husband.
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JoseOnline
Family Citation in History of Logan County, West Virginia
The settlement at the mouth of Spruce, where Lewis Rutherford now lives, was made by Benjamin Sprouse. At just what time he settled there is not known, but he raised a large family of boys and girls, and with Reuben Thacker, a brother-in-law, moved further to the west, selling his place to William Davis, who came from Albermarle County, and claimed to be a first cousin of Thomas Jefferson. Davis married a Mrs. Hensley, of Russell County, who was the mother by her former marriage of four sons and one daughter. Three of the sons - William, Robert and John - and the daughter, whose name is forgotten. There was another son - Daniel - who had been captured by the Indians in 1790, and who remained with the Indians until 1807, when he joined the family and married a daughter of Thomas Davis, of Albermarle County, and niece of the William Davis above mentioned, settled at the mouth of Rockhouse Fork of Pigeon. Of the other Hensley boys, Robert married a daughter of Capt. Henry Farley, and settled at the mouth of Sugartree; William married a Miss Brewster, and settled opposite the mouth of Pond, on what is now known as the Lawson farm, and John married a Miss Davis and settled lower down the river. The daughter above mentioned married William Davis, a son of Thomas Davis of Albermarle, and nephew of the William Davis above mentioned, who settled near the mouth of Pigeon. William Davis, Sr., had one daughter by his first wife. William Davis, Sr., married a Miss Runyon, by whom he had two daughters, one of whom married Jess Stratredge and the other Jacob Runyon. (Ragland, Henry Clay, History of Logan County, W.Va. 1896)
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Her family name
May have been "Tompkins" see:http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/hensley/hensley-catherine-logan-wv.htm
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JerryAld
Discussions
Evidence of parent/children relationships?
June 14, 2020
I have seen many discussion attributing Elijah Hensley to his father Christopher, but I have not seen any documentation as to this relationship anywhere. Has anyone else found evidence for the parent-child relationships reflected here?
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Molly Reid
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d. 23 May 1842, Logan County, West Virginia, USA 
