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Abstract The Moran family was an early non-native settler of the Silver Creek, Madison, Kentucky area when John Cleveland Moran (1763-1835) and Elizabeth (Betsey) Ann Barnett (1765-1835), along with Barnett’s family members, emigrated to the area from Virginia in the late 1700s. J.C. Moran and Elizabeth Barnett moved to the area with Elizabeth’s mother, Mary Montgomery Barnett (who already had family in Kentucky), and some of Elizabeth’s siblings following the death of Elizabeth’s father Robert...