David Garth

  General Notes:

Rev. War; son of John Garth

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From family website Ancestors of Emma Ettalene Ford David Garth is listed as being born about 1751

Notes for David Garth:
Family History: Southern Genealogies #1, 1600s-1800s
Historical Southern Families, Vol. XXIII, Ford of Virginia and Kentucky, with Related Families: Mallory, Milstead, Page 20
"The Garth family derived its name from the old English word "girth", meaning circumference or girdle. (Webster Unabridged Dictionary) Nancy Garth who married John Ford was the daughter of David Garth of Goochland Co., Virginia. The record of the marriage is found in the old Ford family Bible, brought from South Carolina to Kentucky ca. 1796.
One John Garth is of record in Louisa County, Virginia, leaving his will there in 1786. (Torrance: Wills and Administrations, p. 165). The children named were: Thomas Garth, David Garth, John Garth, Sarah Mousby, Betty Rose (Ross), and Mary Ann Lobbins. These young people were attracted, like so many others, to the unimproved western lands once occupied by the Indians. The tax lists of 1800 in adjoining Albemarle County show the names of a half dozen Garth households, who at a later date had migrated over the Blue Ridge mountains to the Ohio valley."

Virginia Taxpayers, 1782-1787, Surnames F-G, Page 47
Garth, David 1 4 Lou.
Garth, David 1 4 Lou.
Garth, John 1 9 Loui.

Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume II, The Garrett Family of Louisa County, Virginia, page 397
Sept. 13, 1784. D. B. "H" page 431, Louisa.
David Garth and wife Fanny of Trinity Parish to Henry Garrett, 192 1/2 acres which was purchased by John Garth who gave it to David Garth.

Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume II, The Garrett Family of Louisa County, Virginia, page 398
August 12, 1800 D. B. "P", page 44, Louisa
Henry Garrett qualified as Sheriff of Louisa County. Securities, Henry Garrett,Jr., James Pulliam, Dabney Trice, Thomas Hardin, David Garth and John Edwards.

1810 Kentucky Census - Shelby County - Roll 8 Book 1, page 212
(transcribed from photocopy on Genealogy.com)
David Garth 0-0-0-1-1 0-1-0-0-2

1820 Kentucky Census - Henry County - Roll 22 Book 1, page 146 (Genealogy.com microfilm image)
David Garth 0-0-0-0-0-1 0-0-0-0-1
(listed below David: William Garth 1-0-0-0-1-0 0-0-1-1-0 Ben Garth 1-0-0-0-1-0 0-0-1-0-0
William Garth 1-0-0-0-1-0 0-0-1-0-0

David married Frances "Fanny" Sneed or Snead, daughter of Benjamin Sneed or Snead and Mary Ann aka Polly Perry Sorrell, on 23 Nov 1781 in Goochland Co, VA. (Frances "Fanny" Sneed or Snead was born 1755 about in Goochland, Virginia and died between 1827 and 1834 in Henry Co., KY.)