Tom McCabes Genealogy 2022

Bourbon Co marriages on familysearch.org has this information about Henry and Sally's marriage taken from original Kentucky records.

Henry McDonald Sarah Hicklen 28 Dept 1793 Bourbon co. Her father's name was Hugh.

Some Information about Rebecca's parents come from the the notes of R Byron Bird, who wrote NEESE NOTES, which was published in 1979. The information is not in the book but in his vast collection of data on Turley, Hicklin and McNabb families.

Taken from the Mooreseville Indiana Obituary Finder. (This is probably Margaret, the daughter of Henry McDonald.)

Harrah, Margaret Maiden Name: McDonald Date of Death: 10/17/1865 Birth Date: 06/12/1804 Spouse: Thomas Cartmel Harrah Survived By: Husband and children. Other: Age 61. Born in Fayette Co., Kentucky. Married in Sept. 1826 in Bath Co., Kentucky. Mother of 9 children. [Article in Martinsville Reporter, April 5, 1983, quotes Ruth Straley as remembering this woman's husband's name as J.C. Harah.] Cemetery: Harrah/McNabb Cemetery, Madison Twp., Morgan Co. Source Information: Cemetery index (1991)

Fayette Co KY Will Book D Page 3 25 APR 1816 


Henry McDonald 
Sarah, his wife 
Children: 
1. Sally Sanders 
2. Polly Martin 
3. Betsy Knox 
4. William McDonald 
5. Patsy Cartmill 
6. Henry McDonald 
7. Ann Cartmill 
8. Jane Hicklin 
9. John McDonald 
10.Eliza McDonald 
11.Margaret McDonald 
12.Rebecca McDonald

The signature on this will, was spelled McDonnell. But 
someone else could have signed for him. In the actual body of the will the 
children were listed as McDonald. Several plantantions around him were named. One is Bullock Plantation. His will was witnessed by Samuel 
McDonald and James McDonald.

Henry McDonald Tombstone Birth Date: abt 1787 Death Date: 17 Nov 1853 Age: 66 Burial Location: Union, Poweshiek Cemetery: McDonald Source: Grave Stone Records of Poweshiek, Iowa Page Number: 455

From Findagrave, McDonald Burying Ground

Henry McDonald Death: Nov. 14, 1853

aged 66 years; Henry McDonald came to Iowa in 1846 and bought the farm on which he is buried. He built a log cabin to raise his family. One day in 1847, the Indians captured Henry. A Tribal Council was held and they decided to let him go free if he could run the gauntlet and survive. Two lines of Indians formed facing each other, armed with swinging tomahawks, but he survived and was set free. In November 1853, he became ill and knowing he would die, he had his sons drive him to the plot near the road. He told the sons, "I'm going to die. Bury me at this spot near the road so that as folks drive by they'll not forget my grave." However the roads were changed. The lone marker still stands. It reads: Henry McDonald, died November 14, 1853, age 66." Two children are also buried there

Martinsville Republican, Sept. 2, 1886

McNabb, Rebecca Maiden Name: McDonald Date of Death: 08/21/1886 Birth Date: 07/00/1806 Martinsville Republican, Sept. 2, 1886

Spouse: Hicklin McNabb in 1820 Survived By: Three children. Other: Age 80 years and 2 months. Born in Bath Co., Ky. Parents: Henry and Sarah (Hicklin) McDonald. "At an early age, she came to Morgan County, in company with a widowed mother and other friends and settled on a farm near Landersdale, where she spent all of her life except for the last 5 years, when she lived with her youngest daughter, Mrs. Margaret Bell." Mother of seven children; had been a widow for 51 years.