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James G. Hallick was born about 1838 in Caldwell Co., Kentucky
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4,5 He was probably one of the two males under age 5 listed in the household of his father,
John Hallick, in the 1840 Federal Census of Caldwell Co., Kentucky
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6 His mother died on 16 Feb 1841, when James was about 3 years old.
7 His mother's brother,
Robert Livingston Cobb, was appointed his guardian by the Caldwell Co. County Court on 16 Jan 1843, in the expectation that he and his siblings might be entitled to proceeds from the estate of their mother's brother, Isaac Clark Jr.
8,9 On 15 Jan 1848 Robert reported to the Caldwell Co. County Court that he had received $87.05 as guardian of James and his siblings, their late mother's share of the estate of her brother Isaac. He reported he had loaned it at 6% interest to James H. Holloway. No further record of his guardianship have been found.
10 James appeared on the 1850 Federal Census of Crittenden Co., Kentucky
G, in the household of
Giles Lyon Cobb and
Marion Catlett, his mother's brother and his wife.
11,12 He also appeared on the 1850 Federal Census of Caldwell Co., Kentucky
G, in the household of
Rev. James Wilkerson Mansfield and Mildred Clark, who were the parents of the man his sister
Aurelia would later marry.
13 Research Note, 8 Mar 2019:
No further record of James has been found after he appeared in the 1850 census at age 12.