A person can easily appear in the records of a location long after they have left the area.
Thomas Johnson Rampley left Maryland for Ohio in 1817. Throughout the 1820s he appears in court cases in Maryland because he was sued shortly after he left the state and the case drug on for years. James Tinsley left Virginia for Kentucky in the late 1790s and appeared in land deeds in Amherst County, Virginia, years afterwards settling up his father-in-law’s estate. He also appeared in a few court cases there as well through the 1810s.
An ancestor sold property in the 1850s before he left the area. The deed was not recorded by the grantee until thirty years later. Numerous other relatives appear in references in their hometown newspapers decades after they left. Just because someone left a place does not mean they stopped appearing in records in that place.
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