Keziah Hart was born to Nathaniel Hart and Sarah Simpson Hart in Caswell Co. N.C. She moved to Kentucky Co. VA in 1779-1780 with her parents and siblings. In about 1780 she married Laurence Thompson at Fort Boonesborough, VA.
Together they had 11 children.
The family was beset for years with financial problems and disputes over land. They were defendants in numberous lawsuits---some involving her own siblings---that continued after both were dead. One suit involved the title to land claimed by her father, Nathaniel Hart. In his will had had left 1000 acres to each child. In this case, dismissed by the Court of Appeals the judge chided her family for assigning Keziah "a tract with questionable title in the division of the family's vast holdings."
Her sister was Susannah Hart Shelby. She married Isaac Shelby, who be would become the first Governor of Kentucky. Keziah's niece through Susannah married the renowned physician and surgeon Ephraim McDowell who performed the first successful removal of an ovarian tumor.
Together they had 11 children.
The family was beset for years with financial problems and disputes over land. They were defendants in numberous lawsuits---some involving her own siblings---that continued after both were dead. One suit involved the title to land claimed by her father, Nathaniel Hart. In his will had had left 1000 acres to each child. In this case, dismissed by the Court of Appeals the judge chided her family for assigning Keziah "a tract with questionable title in the division of the family's vast holdings."
Her sister was Susannah Hart Shelby. She married Isaac Shelby, who be would become the first Governor of Kentucky. Keziah's niece through Susannah married the renowned physician and surgeon Ephraim McDowell who performed the first successful removal of an ovarian tumor.
Keziah Hart was born to Nathaniel Hart and Sarah Simpson Hart in Caswell Co. N.C. She moved to Kentucky Co. VA in 1779-1780 with her parents and siblings. In about 1780 she married Laurence Thompson at Fort Boonesborough, VA.
Together they had 11 children.
The family was beset for years with financial problems and disputes over land. They were defendants in numberous lawsuits---some involving her own siblings---that continued after both were dead. One suit involved the title to land claimed by her father, Nathaniel Hart. In his will had had left 1000 acres to each child. In this case, dismissed by the Court of Appeals the judge chided her family for assigning Keziah "a tract with questionable title in the division of the family's vast holdings."
Her sister was Susannah Hart Shelby. She married Isaac Shelby, who be would become the first Governor of Kentucky. Keziah's niece through Susannah married the renowned physician and surgeon Ephraim McDowell who performed the first successful removal of an ovarian tumor.
Together they had 11 children.
The family was beset for years with financial problems and disputes over land. They were defendants in numberous lawsuits---some involving her own siblings---that continued after both were dead. One suit involved the title to land claimed by her father, Nathaniel Hart. In his will had had left 1000 acres to each child. In this case, dismissed by the Court of Appeals the judge chided her family for assigning Keziah "a tract with questionable title in the division of the family's vast holdings."
Her sister was Susannah Hart Shelby. She married Isaac Shelby, who be would become the first Governor of Kentucky. Keziah's niece through Susannah married the renowned physician and surgeon Ephraim McDowell who performed the first successful removal of an ovarian tumor.
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