Gideon Augustus Haydock ^78,179,211

  General Notes:

Taken from "Haydock Family Notes," by Melbourne Smith.

After the death of their parents the children were "apprenticed" to various members of the Society of Friends.

Following the expiration of their terms of apprentice ship in Rahway, New Jersey, the three oldest children, Mary, Joseph and Gideon A. moved to Smithland, Marchall County, Kentucky, near the mouth of the Cumberland River. This was presumably between 1825 and 1830, the exact date is not known.

Gideon A. Haydock died on his farm in Marshall County, Kentucky on March 6, 1850, at age 47.
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Taken from "The Story of Great Grandmother Leech."

Elizabeth Haydock Leech was born in Smithland, Kentucky, September 26, 1833. Her mother, Harriet Conway, was of Irish descent, her father, Gideon Haydock, was a Quaker whose parents had come to America to escape religious persecution in England...

Gideon Haydock died before his five children, Elizabeth, Joe, Gus, Maria (Buntie) and Clara were grown.
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  Noted events in his life were:

1. Religion: Quaker.

Gideon married Harriet Byron Conway, daughter of Conway and Crenshawe, in 1831 in Smithland, Marshall County, Kentucky. (Harriet Byron Conway was born in 1815 in Marshall County, Kentucky ¹⁸⁰ and died on 25 Dec 1883 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri ¹⁸⁰.)