James Edwards Cavins
1819–1860
✦ direct ancestor — Owen's 4×-great-grandfather · Carpenter line
Life
- Born
- 6 Sep 1819 · Scott, Kentucky
- Died
- 13 Jan 1860 · Randolph, Missouri
Parents
Marriage & children
John Edwards Cavins (1845–1885)
Robert James Cavins (1847–1933)
Benjamin Eddins Cavins (1848–1911)
Pleasant Madison Cavins (1850–1852)
Margaret Jane Cavins (1855–1862)
Sarah Elizabeth Cavins (1858–1864)
Timeline
- 24 Nov 1842MarriedMary Frances Mansfield — Randolph, Missouri
Records behind this page
1850 United States Federal Census
1850 U.S. Census — Salt Springs, Randolph Co., MISSOURI, dwelling 348: J E Cavens household
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READ FROM THE RECORD PAGE BY CLAUDE 31 Jul 2026 (URL line checked in the response, because Ancestry's SPA can serve the PREVIOUS page after a navigate). Ancestry coll. 8054 rec. 4012914. NARA RG29 M432 Roll 411 p. 221b, line 23, dwelling/family 348. J E Cavens 31 Farmer real estate $500 b. KENTUCKY — Ancestry's suggested records resolve him to 'James Edwards Cavins' Mary Cavens 22 Thomas 6 · John 4 · Robert 3 · Benjn 1 ⭐⭐ THE MIGRATION DATUM — ALREADY IN MISSOURI BY 1850, and their eldest was born there, so the family left Kentucky BY 1844. His own birthplace is still KENTUCKY, matching the tree. ⭐ MATCHES THE TREE, four of four: Thomas 6 = [279] Thomas William b. 1844 · John 4 = [906] John Edwards b. 1845 · Robert 3 = [907] Robert James b. 1847 · Benjn 1 = [908] Benjamin Eddins b. 1848. ⚠️ MARY IS ENUMERATED 22 HERE (b. c.1828), against the tree's 1818 — but the 1860 census gives her 42, b. 1818, confirming the tree. THE 1850 AGE IS THE ERROR. Recorded, not acted on. ⭐ LEAD: the suggested records include 'Randolph County, Missouri, Marriage Index, 1829-1859 — James E. Cavens'. Their marriage record is findable.
1860 United States Federal Census
1860 U.S. Census — Silver Creek, Randolph Co., MISSOURI, dwelling 377: Mary F Cavins, WIDOWED head
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READ FROM THE RECORD PAGE BY CLAUDE 31 Jul 2026 (URL line checked in the response, because Ancestry's SPA can serve the PREVIOUS page after a navigate). Ancestry coll. 7667 rec. 40643848. NARA RG29 M653 Roll M653_642 p. 886, dwelling 377 family 539, PO Upton Vielle. FHL film 803642. Mary F Cavins 42 HEAD b. VIRGINIA Thomas W 16 · John C 15 · Robert J 13 · Benjamin E 11 · Sarah E 7 · Margaret J 5 ⭐⭐ IT ANSWERS THE DEATH QUESTION: **MARY IS THE HEAD AND NO HUSBAND IS ENUMERATED**, independently confirming the tree's death year of 1860 for [888] James Edwards Cavins. ⭐ AND IT CONFIRMS HER: 42, b. c.1818, born VIRGINIA — matching [889] Mary Frances Mansfield b. 1818, Orange Co., Virginia, exactly, and resolving the 1850 enumeration of '22' as the error. ⚠️ [910] SARAH ELIZABETH IS ENUMERATED AGED 7 (b. c.1853), against the tree's 1858 — and she is listed OLDER than [909] Margaret Jane (5, b. c.1855), reversing the tree's order. No two-year-old exists in the household. NOT CHANGED; recorded. ⚠️ [911] Pleasant Madison b. 1850 is absent from both censuses. ⭐⭐ NEW AND UNWORKED: her Find A Grave suggested record reads **'Mary Frances CORNELIUS'** — she remarried after 1860. Not entered. ⚠️ POINTER, NOT OPENED: she appears in the 1850 and 1860 SLAVE SCHEDULES as 'M Cavens' and 'Mary Cavans'.
Research notes
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Research note · 31 Jul 2026
Audited 31 Jul 2026 — his first, and his first citation. 1850 census, Salt Springs, RANDOLPH CO., MISSOURI, dwelling 348: 'J E Cavens, 31, Farmer, real estate $500', b. KENTUCKY, with wife Mary 22 and four sons — Thomas 6, John 4, Robert 3, Benjn 1 — all four already in this tree. Ancestry's suggested records resolve him to 'James Edwards Cavins'. ⭐⭐ HIS DEATH IS INDEPENDENTLY CONFIRMED: in the 1860 census of Silver Creek, Randolph Co., his wife MARY F CAVINS IS THE HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD AND NO HUSBAND IS ENUMERATED — matching the tree's death year of 1860. ⭐ LEAD: a Randolph County, Missouri marriage index entry for 'James E. Cavens' exists and has not been pulled. ⭐⭐ THE GENERATION'S HEADLINE, from the seven households read together: NOT ONE OF THESE FAMILIES WAS STILL A KENTUCKY FAMILY BY 1860, and the children's birthplace column dates each departure. CARPENTER x POWELL were in SMITH CO., TENNESSEE by 1850 (left KY c. 1845-49). CAVINS x MANSFIELD were in RANDOLPH CO., MISSOURI by 1850 (left KY by 1844). QUISENBERRY x BUSH were still in Clark Co., KY in 1850 but in BOONE CO., MISSOURI by 1860 (left c. 1854-59). Only ADAM CARPENTER x MARY ANN JONES stayed, in Casey Co., Kentucky. ⭐ AND TWO OF THE FOUR COUPLES BECAME IN-LAWS IN MISSOURI: Boone and Randolph Counties adjoin, Lucy Ann Quisenberry appears in later censuses as 'Lucy A. Cavins', and Stephen Quisenberry's own record panel carries an obituary-index entry captioned 'Cavins'. Not entered as a link — recorded as a finding. Worksheet: ancestry/carpenter-gen6-census-worksheet.md · memo: ancestry/zimmerman-carpenter-junction.md
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