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P A G E  3
Outline of the Cheuvront Family in America
by: Wesley L. Cheuvront
from A Brief History of the Cheuvront Family In America
1: First Generation in America
---continued
 

     Early in the year 1777, Joseph was married to Elizabeth Elsworth who was born in North Carolina on March 20, 1759, the daughter of Moses and Maria Elizabeth Hinkle Elsworth. [further Ellsworth Lineage here] [further Hinkle Lineage here] To them the following children were born, as recorded by Joseph Cheuvront in his "new" Bible as mentioned in his will written on his 75th birthday Feb. 2 1832.  His will is recorded in the Harrison Co. courthouse, in Will Book No. 4, in which he disposed of more than 1100 acres of land.  The Bible record follows, in which he used a character to denote "TH" which was wrongly interpreted as "Y". [see scans of Joseph's bible here]

Joseph Cheuvront was born the 2nd day of February, 1757 
His first wife, 
Elizabeth Elsworth, was born the 20th of March, 1759 

children's ages 

Mary Elizabeth, born the 8th of December, 1777 
(at Germany Valley) 
Catherine, born the 29th of September, 1779 
Aaron, born the 14th of March, 1780 
Joseph Jr., born 26 December, 1783 
(at Fredericksburg, Va) 
Priscilla, born 22nd of October, 1785 
(probably Fredericksburg, Va) 
Moses, born the 30th of December, 1787 
Simeon, born the 10th of March, 1790 
(at Coburns Creek, Harrison Co. Va) 
Caleb, born the 10th of February, 1792 
Amos, born the 23rd of April 1794 
Gideon, born the 14th of February, 1796 
James Liteford, born the 25th of February, 1798 
(at a log cabin on 200 acres of land 
purchased in May, 1791, at what is now Midway, 
near Good Hope, West Va)
 
deaths 
 
1: Joseph Jr. died the 12th of August, 1800 (of Typhoid fever) 
2: Elizabeth Elsworth died the 18th of August, 1800 (of Typhoid fever) 
3: Simeon died in the year 1800, day unknown (from an infected knee due to a cut) 
4: Moses died in the year 1802 (day and cause unknown)
The Rev. Joseph Cheuvront wrote all of the above, and then in another hand was written the following: 

died: 

1: James L[Liteford], in the year 1840, day unknown (probably with Typhoid or Sandy Fever) 
2: Gideon, November 14th in the year 1842 (in Preston Co., with acute indigestion as he returned from Baltimore where he  had taken a herd of cattle to sell) 
3: Priscilla, December 18th, 1850 (in Jackson Co. where she had gone with her husband and family from Bridgeport to join her brothers Aaron and Amos) 
4: Aaron died-- (in Jackson Co. where he and his brothers, Amos and James Liteford, named for a Methodist Minister, had purchased 1000 acres of land jointly in 1836.  They moved by flat-bottomed boat down the West Fork, Monongahela and Ohio rivers to Ravenswood and thence over land to the mouth of Nasselrode Creek on Big Sand Creek, where they had purchased land.  Some younger members of the family hacked out a road across the country and brought livestock through.) 
 
[place of birth, cause of death, and information in parentheses was added by W.L. Cheuvront from other records]  

-from A Brief History of the Cheuvront Family in America, J. Howard Cheuvront, 1972 
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