Individual Details

The only marriage for a Samuel Haden in Logan County is to Margaret Hughes 7 Apr 1806. In "Men Whom I Remember" by George D. Blakey: Samuel married a "Miss Harris"
The Samuel that married Margaret Hughes is most probably of the Hadden line, son of Elisha, William or Thomas Hadden. The marriage is a little too early to be that of Samuel Haden.

A Samuel Hayden m Rebeccah Harris 30 Jul 1813, Madison County, KY. The date given is the bond date; Robert Harris was bondsman and as father of the bride, gave consent. I first thought this was one of the Hadden descendents of the Samuel Hadden from Montgomery Co KY; one of that Samuel's sons, Nicholas Hadden, married Nancy Noland daughter of Jesse Noland and Sarah Barbara Turner in Madison Co KY.

There is one problem I have not been able to resolve. In the book, Madison County Kentucky Court Order Book B, p.131 [and not indexed], there is the following:
Court meeting 3 Nov 1795
Agreeable to a writ of ad quod damnum directed to the sheriff of Madison County for the view of seat for a water griss mill for Samuel & Richard HEADEN on Muddy Creek, do report the followeth: The acres of land, the property of James Lackey, valued at 12sh and no other damages found. Signed, Edward Bullock, David McCord, Samuel South, Thomas Thorp, William Jones, Joseph Bennett, Jonathan West, James Lowry, Benjamin Baxter, Richard West, William West and John Davis.
Headen is a spelling sometimes seen for members of the Haden family. However, I find not Samuel & Richard of the age to be these men, that would have been in this location, in the Haden family. These names also do not appear in this book anywhere else. The names of Thomas Thorp & William Jones who apparently served on this "jury" for the viewing of the grist mill, are both associated with the Harris family.

Descendants of Samuel H. say he did indeed marry Rebecca Harris. Madison Co seems to be a distance away from Logan Co where Samuel lived; however, he had Haden cousins in Madison Co - John Haden who married Rachel Reynolds and whose father Anthony Haden [the younger] was Samuel's father's older brother. The Harris family had come to Madison Co from Albemarle Co VA and could have been known to the Hadens in earlier generations. There are in fact intermarriages between the family of Anthony Haden and the Harris family.

The 1810 Madison Co KY has two men named Robert Harris. Both are 45+ One of these has no children in his household. This could be the Robert, son of Christopher Harris if his children were all grown by 1810. The other with margin note that says "Tate's Crk" has 2 boys -10, 1 young man 26-45, himself 45+, 1 girls -10, 2 girl 16-26 [one of these could be Rebecca], 1 lady 45+.

The biggest problem with this marriage to Rebecca Harris is that on 28 Jan 1836, Samuel H. Haden sold his land in Logan Co, and at that time his wife was listed, signed and released her dower as FRANCES Haden. The 1850 census does not have her name but has the initial "F". Samuel could have been married twice, or perhaps Francis was a Harris and that is not his marriage in Madison Co at all.

In at least one database online, Fanny [nickname for Frances] Harris, b. 10 Sep 1793 in Madison Co to Christopher Harris [the younger Christopher] & his wife Elizabeth Ann Grubbs, is shown as married three times - to Joseph Black, 26 Feb 1815, by whom she had three children born by 1819, to Thomas Ernest, and to Samuel "Hayden". The order of the marriages is not clear and I find nothing to indicate she married Thomas Ernest at all. As the widow, Frances Black, she was in Simpson Co in 1830. I do think there is an excellent possibility that Samuel married two Harris ladies. It is true that some of the granddaughters were named Rebecca Frances, using both names and some believe it was the same person - but that does not explain the death date of Rebecca in 1835, nor the fact that Frances was obviously married to Joseph Black at the time Samuel Haden's children were born.

Birth	14 Jan 1792
Marriage	30 Jul 1813	Madison County, Kentucky - Samuel H. Haden
Death	4 Jan 1835

Spouse	Samuel H. Haden (1790 - 1865)
Child	William Haden (1814 - )
Child	Robert Harris Haden (1816 - 1892)
Child	Ann H. "Nancy" Haden (1817 - 1904)
Child	Tyree Joseph Haden (1819 - 1905)
Child	Benjamin Haden (1821 - )
Child	Lucy Catherine Haden (1824 - 1880)
Child	Mary E. Haden (1826 - 1890)
Child	Joseph T. Haden (1829 - )
Child	Samuel H. Haden Jr. (1832 - 1904)
Child	Joshua S. Haden (1834 - 1840)