James Aud
James Aud was born in Maryland on 20 July 1780. The date is cut on his gravestone, and the county history of 1883 calls him a native of Maryland. His father was Thomas Aud, one of the Maryland Catholics who settled on Cox's Creek in Nelson County, Kentucky. James's own marriage bond says so in three words: "Son of Thomas".
He married Ann Moore in Nelson County on 26 February 1803. In Kentucky a man who meant to marry gave the county clerk a bond, with a second man as surety, that there was no lawful reason against the match. A bride under twenty one also needed a parent's written consent. The published abstract of James's bond reads: "AUD, James. (Son of Thomas) married Ann Moore, daughter of Elizabeth Moore. Surety, Thomas Aud. Consent filed with bond. February 26, 1803." James was twenty two. Ann had turned eighteen the month before. The bond names her mother and no father.
Fourteen months later James signed for his wife's mother. On 24 April 1804 Henry A. Clark married "Elizabeth Moore, widow of William Moore, dec'd", and the surety on that bond was James Aud. Ann's father, very probably that William Moore, was dead by then.
Their first child, Lucy, was born in 1804. Martina followed in 1806. John Sanders was born on 2 March 1812, in Nelson County by his memorial, and Priscilla Ann in 1816. By August 1818 the family had moved west to Breckinridge County, on the Ohio River, where Thomas J. was born on the 27th. Arremus followed in 1823 and Henry about 1827. Catherine, called Kate, and William complete the family.
The family went on to White County, Illinois. Catherine married Thadias Teachner there in 1829, and Priscilla Ann married Boston Wease in 1831. On 14 June 1836 James bought forty acres of government land, the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 29, township 6 south, range 9 east. A section was a square mile of surveyed public land, and a quarter of a quarter was forty acres. Eleven days earlier his son John had bought the forty acres across the section line in section 28.
The older generation died within twenty months of each other. Elizabeth Clark, Ann's mother, died on 1 October 1838, aged sixty nine. Nancy Ann died on 27 August 1839, aged fifty four. James died on 10 May 1840, aged fifty nine. All three were buried in one small plot at the Moore Cemetery in White County. Nancy Ann's stone and Elizabeth's are carved with crosses. James's ends with two words: "OUR FATHER".
The plot filled with the next generation. His son John buried a boy and two wives there and was laid beside them in 1888. Caroline, the first wife of his son Thomas J., died in 1839 at twenty two and lies there too.
The county history of 1883 names James's wife twice, and differently. In the sketch of Thomas J. she is "Nancy A. (Moore)". In the sketch of Boston Wease, Priscilla Ann is "daughter of James and Nancy (Clarke) Aud". Clarke is very probably the name of Nancy's stepfather, Henry A. Clark, put on her by whoever gave the Wease family's story eighty years later.
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Cite: Heirology, "James Aud (1780-1840)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/james-aud-1780-1840-4192e9.