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Robert Daniel Short 1817–1900 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 4 Apr 1817

Birth Location: Shorts Cave, Edmondson Co, Kentucky, USA

Death Date: 12 September 1900

Death Location: Texas bur Clear Creek Cemetery, Brown, Texas, United States

Father: Horatio Short

Mother: Sarah Wilcoxson

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Robert Daniel Short was born in 1817 in Shorts Cave, Edmondson Co, Kentucky, USA, the child of Horatio Shorthouse Short And Sarah Sally Wilcoxson. Robert Daniel Short passed away in 1900 in Texas bur Clear Creek Cemetery, Brown, Texas, United States.

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Biography

  • Robert Daniel Short was born in 1817 in Shorts Cave, Edmondson Co, Kentucky, USA, the child of Horatio Shorthouse Short And Sarah Sally Wilcoxson.
  • Robert Daniel Short passed away in 1900 in Texas bur Clear Creek Cemetery, Brown, Texas, United States.

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Robert Short's Ancestors

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Robert Short
1817–1900
Birth Place: Shorts Cave, Edmondson Co, Kentucky, USA
Parents
Horatio Shorthouse Short
1794–1870
Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA
Sarah ("Sally") Wilcoxson
1796–1857
Green County, Kentucky, United States of America
Grandparents
William ("Red") Wilcoxson
1761–1828
North Carolina, USA
Nancy Sparks
1756–1849
North Carolina, USA
Great-Grandparents
John* Wilcoxson
1720–1782
Sarah Boone
1724–1815
William Sparks
1725–1801
Martha Moore
1730–1802
2nd-Great-Grandparents
George Wilcockson
1695–1739
Elizabeth Powell
1695–1740
Squire Sr.
1696–1765
Sarah Morgan
1700–1777

Robert Short's Timeline

2 Records

1817
4 Apr 1817
Birth of Robert Daniel Short in Shorts Cave, Edmondson Co, Kentucky, USA
Shorts Cave, Edmondson Co, Kentucky, USA
1900
12 September 1900
Age 83
Death of Robert Daniel Short in Texas bur Clear Creek Cemetery, Brown, Texas, United States
Texas bur Clear Creek Cemetery, Brown, Texas, United States

Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 4 Apr 1817
    Event Place: Shorts Cave, Edmondson Co, Kentucky, USA

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 12 September 1900
    Event Place: Texas bur Clear Creek Cemetery, Brown, Texas, United States

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