NameDaniel Varvel
Birthabt 1777, Pennsylvania
Deathbef 1870, Bath Co., Kentucky
Other spousesMrs. [Varvel]
Marriage4 Feb 1819, Bath Co., Kentucky
SpouseRachel Mitchell, 1C5R
Birthabt 1800
Deathaft 1870
FatherSamuel Mitchell (~1762-<1850)
MotherRebecca Pettit (~1767->1860)
Children
Birthabt 1826, Bath Co., Kentucky
Birthabt 1832, Bath Co., Kentucky
Deathaft 1880
Birthabt 1834, Bath Co., Kentucky
Deathbef 1900
Birthabt 1836, Bath Co., Kentucky
Deathbef 1900
Birthabt 1838, Bath Co., Kentucky
Census Notes for Rachel Mitchell
I cannot find Rachel in the 1860 census. She is not recorded with any of her known children, all of whom I’ve found. But there were probably additional children born between 1819 and 1825, who might have been living in another county. Also, when people shuffled between relatives often they were missed by the census.

1870 census of Bath Co., Ky, Bethel precinct, lists Rachel age 70, retired (and presumably widowed, although the 1870 census does not record marital status), as a boarder with her daughter Lucinda.
Notes for Daniel & Rachel (Family)
Bath County Marriage Book 1, as transcribed by Alice P. Reynolds, lists this marriage as Samuel Vewuel and Rachel Michall. The census, though, shows a Daniel and Rachel Varvel.

There are very likely to be additional children to this family, who had either died or left the nest before 1850.
Census
1820 census of Floyd Co., Ky, enumerated 7 Aug, lists :
Daniel Varvil: 1 male 26-44: 1 female 16-25; 1 male under 10; 3 males 10-15.

This suggests that Rachel was Daniel’s second (or later) wife, and that he had at least three sons by a previous wife.

I cannot find this family in the 1830 or 1840 censuses, neither in Kentucky nor Ohio. (They may have been living in Adams Co., Ohio, or across the river in Mason Co., Ky, in 1847, judging by their son John’s marriage record.) It may be that they were living with a relative, with Daniel not recorded as a head of household, or it might be that he sometimes went by another given name.

1850 census of Bath Co., Ky, district 2, p. 53, lists as family #719:
Varvel, Daniel, 73, Penn.; Rachel, 50, Ky; Lucinda, 12, Ky; Armilda, 16, Ky.
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