Childress

Childress Lineage
Ailey Obedience Childress 1760-1804

Childress Migration
Garrard County, Kentucky

Ailey Obedience Childress, 4th Great-Grandmother

Sources vary on the spelling of the surname as Childers or Childress, on the spelling of Ailey as perhaps Ailsy or Ailcey, and on whether Obedience is part of her name. Also some sources seem to conflate someone by the same name but with birth dates of 1780 or 1783, which would not work with the dates of her marriage and the birth of her children. 

1760-1804
b. Garrard County, Kentucky 
d. Garrard County, Kentucky 

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Parents & Maternal Lineage TBD

Spouse: Elijah Whitney 1761-1830
Married: 1781

Children: 6

1. Hiram Whitney 1785-1842
2. Eliza Whitney 1789-1870
3. Joseph Whitney 1793-1830
4. Elizabeth Whitney 1796-1849
5. Martha Patsy Whitney 1797-1850
6. Mary Polly 1798-1867

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Bibliography 

Ancestry ®. "Public Member Trees Database.” © 1997-2025 Ancestry®.  Ancestry.  ancestry.com/ Lawson-Robertson Family Tree. www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/10075800/family  User profile for William Harris Lawson, Jr., user Livingweb. Accessed 14 October 2025.

Geneanet. "Public Member Database." © 1996. Geneanet. en.geneanet.org Accessed 15 October 2025.

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The original date of this post: 17 October 2025
Most recently updated: 17 October 2025

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