James C. Huff, Jr.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1830, Harlan Co, Kentucky
• Census: 1840, Harlan Co, Kentucky
• Census: 1850, Harlan Co, Kentucky

Notes:

"The Origin of Lovelady Gap" From Herald-Virginian, Dec 5 , 1968 by Emory L. Hamilton

Alfred "App" Huff who lived near Elk Knob, some four miles east of Pennington Gap was a grandson (of Thomas Lovelady) and was reared by his grandfather James Huff who was a member of the party who killed the half-breed Indian Chief Benge in 1794.

James Huff was still alive in Harlan County, KY, in 1845. App Huff remembered many Indian stories told him by his grandfather James Huff.

One of the stories told by App Huff in 1922 to the late Mr. Winfield S. Rose of Big Stone Gap, associates Thomas Lovelady with an Indian massacre on Black Mountain. The story as related by App to Mr. Rose was that a man named Breeding, his two sons, and two other men who were thought to be son-in-laws of Breeding, had set up a ginseng camp on Black Mountain and one day decided to go down to Poor Fork in Harlan Co. (KY) to do some fishing. Upon returning to camp that night they heard owls hooting around the campsite and were warned by Lovelady that the hooting owls were Indians. The ginseng diggers refused to believe him, but Lovelady being convinced they were Indians slipped out of the camp and hid himself in a hollow log where he soon became witness to the massacre of his fellowmen.

Huff states that at the time Lovelady lived in a cabin on the site of the P. Litton Farm in Lee County and traded with the Shawnee Indians, with whom he was on friendly terms.


Census:
Name: James Huff
Home in 1830 (City, County, State):
Harlan, Kentucky
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 2
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored):4

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James Huff 9
James Huff 4
Thomas Huff 2
William Baley 6 ?
Vincent Huff 3

also Allen and Parker



Census:
Name: James Huff
Home in 1840 (City, County, State):
Harlan, Kentucky
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1
Persons Employed in Learned Professional Engineers: 1
White Persons - Deaf and Dumb - 25 and over: 1
No. White Persons over 20 Who Cannot Read and Write: 2
Free White Persons - Under 20: 2
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 6
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 6

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Winston Huff
James Huff
Thomas Huff
James Huff
David Garrison
Isaac Huff




Census:
1850 Harlan Co, Kentucky
James Huff 82 1768 Virginia
Obedrence Huff 82 1768 Virginia
Alfred Huff 14 1836 Kentucky

next:
Thomas J. Huff 1807 VA
Catherine 39 1811 NC
Polly 16 1834 KY

same page:
Isaac Huff 1802 VA
Elizabeth 24 1826 VA
Ira 23 1827 KY
Marton 21 1829 KY
William 20 1830 KY
John W. 14 1836 KY
Hiram 12 1838 KY
Rebecca 11 1839 KY
Milton 6 1844 KY

James married Obedience Koger in 1790 in Virginia. Obedience was born in 1768 in Goochland Co, Virginia; died in 1860 in Clover, Harlan Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]