Vinson Maddox
1803 ~ 1863

    The family Bible says Vinson was born July 16, 1803.  Who was he named after?  Was Vinson his mother's maiden name?  He perhaps was named Vincent, but Vinson was a popular given name at that time.

     The family Bible says "Vinson Maddox departed July 23, 1863."  He was too old to be in the Civil War.  He would have been sixty.  But where was he during all this time.  I have been unable to find him in the 1850 and 1860 census of anywhere in the US.  Did he go to Mexico?  To the Caribbean?  Did he join a Navy?

     He was grown when his father died in 1824, but he never showed up on any tax list in Lewis, Fleming, Mason or Bracken Co., KY, where family lived.