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The Troutman Family and its 1911 Nelson County Reunion

Thomas Arnold, Cooper, Farmer, and Civil Servant

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kentucky historical society KENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY contents vol. 39, no. 3/spring 2004

The Troutman Family and its 1911 Nelson County Reunion ...... 118

Thomas Arnold, Cooper, Farmer, and Civil Servant Retha I. Sleezer ...... 127

The Strother Moses Cook Family of Mercer County and the Civil War Jean D. Dones...... 133

Marriages Performed by Rev. Andrew Tribble, Madison County, 1800–1813...... 135

The Alvey Family of England, Maryland, and Kentucky, Part 4 Robert Lee Alvey Sr...... 137

Knox County School Census ...... 148

Jacob and Susan Garr and their Family ...... 156

Corinth Deposit Bank, Grant County, Checkbook No. 1, 1890, Part 8 ...... 159

Tombstone Inscriptions, Jefferson County ...... 163

Book Notes ...... 167

Announcements ...... 168

Queries ...... 169

Mystery Album ...... 172

on the cover: On a bright Summer day in 1911, the family of Shirley Troutman (at left, with cane) gathered at its home place near Boston, in Nelson County, to celebrate his 60th birthday. Those pictured formed a portion of a 33¼-by-9 inch composite photograph taken by the Royal Photo Co. for the occasion. The article The Troutman Family and its 1911 Nelson County Reunion begins on page 118. Courtesy of Mary Snider Of the 113 people who attended the 1911 birthday party for Shirley Troutman, 71 have been identified by family members. The original image, a composite made from a series of photographs, measures 33¼-by-9 inches. The Troutman Family and its 1911 Nelson County Reunion On a bright Summer day in 1911, the family of Shirley Troutman gathered at its home place near Boston, in Nelson County, to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the celebration, a photographer from Royal Photo Co. of Louisville took an image of the 113 attendees in the large, horizontal, composite format popular at the time for large gatherings. The photo measures 33¼-by-9 inches and contains remarkable detail, not only of family members, but the large brick home they posed before.

Shirley Troutman Shirley Troutman, a son of Franklin Troutman cane bearing the date of 1805 and 1884, also his and Malvina Quinn, was born in 1851 in Nelson name finely engraved on it, given by his children.”2 County and was named for the family of his mater- In November 1890 Shirley Troutman appeared on nal grandmother, Mary “Polly” Shirley (b. 1 April a list of the wealthiest citizens of Nelson County, his 1755, Culpeper County, Va.). worth given as $7,795. Also on the list was his Troutman married Charlotte “Lottie” Harned (b. mother in law Charlotte Harned ($7,335), William 1848, Ky.), a daughter of Henry Harned Sr. and Q. Troutman ($8,610), and Mrs. Anna M. Charlotte Johnson, on 25 November 1884 at the Troutman ($7,200). 3 Harned family home near Boston.1 The couple Shirley appeared in the 1910 census in Nelson shared their wedding day with Lottie’s father, who County as 58 years old, married 24 years, b. Ky., was celebrating his 79th birthday. The Nelson County parents b. Ky. Charlotte was 61, mother of four Herald reported that “he was given a gold headed children, all living, b. Ky., parents b. Ky. Also in the

2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 118 household were Willie F., son, 20, b. Ky., parents b. Peggy Duncan, Catherine Spurgeon), Michael (d. Ky. and Katie, daughter, 18, b. Ky., parents b. Ky. In S.C.), Anna, and Joseph, Leonard (m. Caty addition, son Henry (24, married three years) lived Wilhite),7 and Elizabeth “Betty” (b. 15 March 1778, there with his wife Ethel, and their child Shirley B., 2. d. 17 July 1830, m. James Carrico). Shirley and Lottie’s children were Henry Harned After Rebecca’s death about 1782, Michael married (b. about 1865, m. Ethel Brown), Malvina Quinn Elizabeth Schroeder (d. 1822) on 4 January 1784. The (b. 1887, d. 1972, m. Thomas Lafayette Greif ), couple’s children included Elizabeth “Betsy” (b. 1784), Katie, and William Franklin “Willie Frank” (b. Abraham (b. 1785?, d. 1848?, m. Eleanor “Nellie” 1888, d. 1936, m. Emily Harned). Magruder), Isaac (b. 1787?, Md., m. Elizabeth James), It is interesting to note that Shirley Troutman Jacob (b. 1789, Md., d. 28 June 1854, Bullitt County, wrote his will in August 1911, about the time the m. Ursula Magruder, Lucinda Holmes), Rebecca (b. 30 photo was taken, and died before 12 February 1917, December 1791, near Hagerstown, Md., d. 17 June the day the will was probated. 4 1874, m. John Patterson), Barbara (b. 19 July 1793, Bullitt County, Ky.) Mary “Mollie/Polly” (b. 19 July German Immigrants 1793, Bullitt County, d. June 1850, Fort Kearney, Shirley Troutman’s paternal great-grandfather was present-day Nebraska, m. 1. Jonathan Simmons Jr., 2. John Michael Troutman (b. 23 October 1738, James Morton), Phillip, Margaret (m. Lewis Brown), Germany, d. 1814), who married Rebecca Beard/ and Catherine “Caty.”8 Baird (b. about 1738), and settled in the During a trip to Kentucky in 1780, Troutman “Middletown Valley,” of the Catoctin District of served in the Lincoln County militia, in General Frederick County, Md., in the 1760s.5 George Rogers Clark’s July and August expedition Troutman served as a county militia captain and against Shawnee Indians. He also entered several member of the committee of observation in 1775 land claims before returning to Maryland. and 1776 and was an elder in the Middletown After several family members—including his sons Lutheran Church.6 John and Peter and his daughter Caty and her Michael and Rebecca’s children, all born in husband Jacob Ambrose—moved to Kentucky in the Frederick County, included John (m. Joanna late 1780s, Troutman began making plans to join Bainbridge), Caty (m. Jacob Ambrose), Peter (m. them. He sold his Maryland lands, most of which he

119 2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 The Troutman family, continued ______Those identified in the image at left are from bottom to top on the image’s right edge. At bottom (young boy, sitting) is Jesse Hewitt Harned, a son of Virgil Hewitt Harned and Ruby Lee Porter. Just above Jesse (woman holding baby) are Lora Morrison Troutman Durrett (1885-1956), with her baby girl, Lillian Elizabeth Durrett (m. Van Duren). Lora, a daughter of William Quinn Troutman and Lillie D. Ray, married Robert William Durrett (1884-1979). The couple lived at the “Durrett homeplace,” northeast of Bloomfield along Kentucky 55, just south of the Spencer County line. Above Mrs. Durrett is Virgil Hewitt Harned (b. 8 May 1874, Boston, Nelson County, d. 18 October 1941, Boston, m. Ruby Lee Porter), who is holding his son Ben Styron Harned, brother of Jesse Hewitt Harned.

had inherited from his first wife, for more than a four cows, four horses, and 10 head of sheep. She thousand pounds and moved his family in 1793.9 also was to receive “one negro girl named Darby and Troutman appeared on the 1793 Bullitt County one negro man called Ben, with all the small negroes tax list with 700 acres. The following year, he had with one negro man named Tuller.” 2,500 and in 1796, 2,650. At various times, he “Moreover,” he added, “Elizabeth was to “take owned property in Bullitt, Nelson, Washington, care of the negro Slego (76 years old) and Tom (55 Jefferson, Fayette, Henry, Grayson, Shelby, years old) as belonging to her.” After his wife’s death, Breckinridge, Garrard, and Hardin counties, in Troutman’s slaves were to be sold and the money addition to several mills and tanneries. divided among the children of his second wife. In his will, which was written on 10 April 1814 Troutman’s will also gave $1 to his sons John and and probated on 2 July 1815, he gave his wife Peter and daughter Caty (Ambrose) because they had Elizabeth his plantation for her lifetime, along with received their “proportional parts” before. Isaac

2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 120 The Troutman family, continued ______Front row, from left (seated children): Walter S. Langsford Jr. and Lee Langsford, sons of Walter S. Langsford Sr. and Eleanor W. Harned; Billy Ack and Evelyn Crady, children of Wood David Crady and Mary Ack Harned. The four children were first cousins, grandchildren of Atkinson “Ack” Lee Harned (b. 1840, Nelson County) and Emma Troutman (b. 1858). Second row, from left: Malvina Quinn Troutman Greif (holding daughter Katherine Greif), a daughter of Shirley Troutman and Charlotte Johnson Harned and wife of Thomas Lafayette Greif; Eleanor W. Harned Langsford (holding son John Harned Langsford), a daughter of Atkinson “Ack” Lee Harned and Emma Troutman and wife of Walter Langsford Sr.; Walter S. Langsford Sr.; Mary Ack Harned Crady (b. 9 March 1881, Nelson County) (holding daughter Marion Norton Crady), a daughter of Atkinson “Ack” Lee Harned and Emma Troutman and wife of Wood David Crady; and Emma Troutman (b. 1858), a daughter of Franklin Troutman and Malvina Quinn and wife of Atkinson “Ack” Lee Harned. Third row: Ruby Lee Porter (b. 29 September 1882), a daughter of Henry Sprigg Harned and Fannie Quinn Troutman and wife of Virgil Hewitt Harned; Fisher D. (1891-1986) and Ack Hill Harned (1894-1962), sons of John D. Harned and Sallie Quinn Troutman; Elza Troutman Harned, a son of Leonard Lee Harned and Ruth Shawler and grandson of Colmore L. Shawler and Mary M. Troutman; Wood David Crady, husband of Mary Ack Harned; and Atkinson “Ack” Lee Harned, husband of Emma Troutman and father of Eleanor W. Harned Langsford and Mary Ack Harned Crady. Back row, from left: (between Ruby Lee Porter Harned and Fisher D. Harned) Robert William Durrett (4 December 1884, d. 20 November 1979); (between Fisher D. Harned and Ack Hill Harned) Henry W. McClaskey Jr.; (between Elza Troutman Harned and Wood David Crady) Sallie Harned Barnes (1886-1968), a daughter of Atkinson “Ack” Lee Harned and Emma Troutman, standing to the left of her husband, Albert Johnson Barnes (b. 1888); and Marcia T. Harned (b. 1883), daughter of Atkinson “Ack” Lee Harned and Emma Troutman. received $1,000, Michael Jr. $500, and Leonard loving wife Elizabeth Troutman.” $100, “to be paid from the proceeds of the planta- Daughter Elizabeth got “the plantation she now tion I now live on after the death of my present lives on” and $100 from the proceeds of his father’s

121 2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 The Troutman family, continued ______Front row, from left (seated children): Sabina Kelly, a daughter of Mary Myrtle Troutman and John S. Kelly; Shirley Brown Troutman (b. 29 February 1908, Belmont, Bullitt County, d. 15 October 1995, Richmond, Madison County), a son of Henry Harned Troutman and Ethel Brown and grandson of Shirley Troutman and Charlotte Johnson Harned; and Henry Hewitt Harned (b. 1906), a son of Virgil Hewitt Harned and Ruby Lee Porter. Second row (seated): siblings Warren Leonard Troutman (b. 1853) Shirley Troutman (1851-1917), and Sallie Quinn Troutman (b. 1863, m. John D. Harned), children of Franklin Troutman and Malvina Quinn; Mary Myrtle Troutman Kelly (holding daughter Bethel Bowles Kelly), a daughter of Franklin Troutman and Mary Ellen Goodin/ Goodwin and half-sister of Leonard, Shirley, and Sallie; Lillie D. Ray Troutman McClaskey (holding William Durrett), mother of William Ray and Lora Troutman and Henry Morrison and James W. “Jimmy” McClaskey Jr.; and William Durrett (held by Lillie D. Ray Troutman McClaskey), a son of Robert William Durrett and Lora Troutman Third Row (standing): Rowena Belle McGee Troutman, mother of Clyde Franklin, Stella, Vernon Quinn, and Lottie Rowena Troutman and wife of Warren Leonard Troutman; unidentified; Charlotte Harned Troutman, mother of Henry, Malvina, Katie, and William Franklin Troutman and wife of Shirley Troutman; John D. Harned, father of Fisher and Ack Hill Harned and husband of Sallie Quinn Troutman; Stella Harned (or Troutman, daughter of Warren and Rowena Belle?); and James W. McClaskey Sr., father of Henry Morrison and James “Jimmy” McClaskey Jr. and husband of Lillie D. Ray Troutman. Back row: William Ray Troutman (behind Belle McGee Troutman), a son of William Quinn Troutman and Lillie D. Ray; Katie Thomas Johnson Troutman Harned (1891-1980) (at right of William Ray Troutman), a daughter of Shirley Troutman and Charlotte Johnson Harned, who married Elisha Marvin Harned; Emma May Harned (b. 1897) (behind Stella Harned), a daughter of Atkinson Lee “Ack” Harned and Emma Troutman; and Willie Troutman Harned (next to her sister in law, Emma May Troutman). plantation. Abraham got “the plantation he now lives Jacob received “the plantation he now lives on and on and one negro named Levi,” but had to pay one negro boy by the name of Tony” and $100 from various notes his father was security for to “Porter.” the proceeds of his father’s plantation. Rebecca

2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 122 The Troutman family, continued ______Front row, from left (seated children): James W. “Jimmy” McClaskey Jr., a son of James W. McClaskey Sr. and Lillie Ray Troutman McClaskey; Henry Sprigg Harned III, a son of Henry Sprigg Harned Jr. and Mary Hart (b. 1886); Darrel Harned Wells; and Tone Goodin Harned Jr., a son of Tone Goodin Harned Sr. (b. about 1877) and Callie Cook (b. about 1884), and grandson of Atkinson Lee “Ack” Harned and Emma Troutman. Second row (seated): Henry Sprigg Harned Jr. (b. 17 November 1873, d. 12 February 1950), a son of Henry Sprigg Harned Sr. and Fannie Quinn Troutman and husband of Mary Hart Harned; Mary Hart Harned (b. 1886), wife of Henry Sprigg Harned Jr.; Charlotte “Lottie” Harned Wells (holding unidentified child); and Katherine “Kate” Harned (holding, at left, Katherine Wells; other child unidentified). Third row (standing): Ethel Brown Troutman, wife of Henry Harned Troutman; Henry Harned Troutman, a son of Shirley Troutman and Charlotte Johnson Harned and husband of Ethel Brown Troutman; Callie Cook Harned, mother of Tone Goodin Harned Jr. and wife of Tone Goodin Harned Sr.; Tone Goodin Harned Sr. (holding, at left, his son James Cook Harned; other child unidentified); and Ida Stamper. Fourth row (behind Ethel Brown Troutman): Marion Pope Harned (b. about 1890), a son of Atkinson Lee “Ack” Harned and Emma Troutman and husband of Willie Troutman Harned.

(Patterson) received half of a Grayson County Charles,” in addition to $500 from the proceeds of plantation, “having sold the other half to her hus- his father’s plantation. band John Patterson.” Phillip got “the whole of my lands and mills on Mary (Simmons) got the 250-acre plantation Cedar Creek in Bullitt County near Salt River,” on adjoining her father’s, a “negro named Hannah” – the condition that he pay “one thousands pounds” to “remitting him his bonds more two hundred Dol- his father’s estate, “Seven hundred of which is to be lars” from the proceeds of her father’s plantation. given to my Daughter Caty Troutman.” Caty also Margaret received a 250-acre plantation “on which received “one negro girl called Aegar(?)” Jackson Tally(?) lived,” and “the negro boy called A woman named Peggy Tombteston(?)—perhaps

123 2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 The Troutman family, continued ______Group of five people (man seated; standing: two girls in white dresses and two boys in ties): Franklin Troutman Harned (b. 1867) (seated), a son of Atkinson Lee “Ack” Lee Harned and Katherine W. Troutman and husband of Martha Lee Slaugher (1874-1934) (with hat on daughter, Betty Ray Harned); Janice Harned (b. about 1904), a daughter of Franklin Troutman Harned and Martha Lee Slaughter; Franklin Slaughter Harned (b. 1897) (standing next to his father), a son of Franklin Troutman Harned and Martha Lee Slaughter; and Hewitt Quinn Harned (b. about 1900), a son of Franklin Troutman Harned and Martha Lee Slaughter.

an apprentice—was to receive a 180-acre plantation According to historian Evelyn Crady Adams, the somehow associated with Peter Brand “provided she couple began their married life with $100 Leonard stay with my wife until she is married.” received in his father’s will and “some help” Caty got Troutman’s will, which several of his children from from her grandfather. In 1821, Leonard had a both marriages considered unfair, generated litigation warrant for 200 acres along Lick Creek and Pine that prevented it from being settled for about 15 years.10 Tavern Road, near Boston in Western Nelson . County. He built a “roomy log homestead … slightly Leonard Troutman south of the creek and west of the road,” and called Leonard Troutman (b. 12 November 1776, d. 19 the place Farmington. July 1841), a son of Michael Troutman and Rebecca Adams described Troutman’s enterprises, which Schroeder, married Caty Wilhite, a daughter of Tobias could have also described those of his father: Wilhite and Mary Shirley on 25 April 1799.11

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The rich, creek bottom land … yielded bountiful Farmington home place—and tan yard from his harvests which Leonard, like his neighbors, marketed in father’s estate and/or heirs. He brought the tan yard southern ports. … Two caves nearby kept sweet the dairy and farm back into production and began planning a products which were raised and lowered on a platform manipulated by a windlass, and an adjacent grove of sugar “palatial brick home,” which he commenced build- maples was generous in output of syrup and sugar. Leonard ing just south of the log house in 1848. was a tanner and a merchant as well as a farmer. The large Adams’ description: tannery and log store faced the road south of the creek. Some of the slaves were skilled tanners, and the time-worn The first and second stories of the house are identical tanning stone, long after it had served its original purpose, and the large basement is stone-lined. The upper and lower was made a part of the style blocks at the Boston Christian hallways, which are forty feet long, have two rooms on Church . . . . Leonard’s thrift, industry, and good manage- each side, and there are four rooms in the ell. Each room is ment were sufficiently rewarded for him to leave to his twenty feet square and the ceilings fourteen feet high. At widow and each of six [surviving] children about $2,000 the entrance is a double balcony with wrought iron and perhaps some property besides.12 balustrades. A graceful winding stairway is at the rear of the lower hall and on the landing the grandfather clock Leonard and Caty’s children were John B. (b. 21 ticked the days and years away. Among the pieces of March 1800, d. 10 April 1872, m. 1. Mary Hill, 2. elegant furniture handed down as heirlooms are handsome bedsteads and bureaus, two rose back sofas that stood on Eleanor Quigley, 2. Elizabeth Quigley, 4. Anna each side of the fireplace in the old parlor, an inlaid walnut 13 Blackwell Montgomery), Mary “Polly” (b. 1803, m. cupboard with fan-shaped doors that once graced the old John Howlett), Warren Leonard Wilhite (b. 24 January dining room, and Franklin’s personal writing desk of 1805, d. 17 March 1862, m. Sarah E. Lutes),14 Caty elaborate design which stood in the spacious hallway. (d. 1826?, m. William Temple), Elizabeth “Bettie” (m. John Lee Jr.),15 Franklin (b. 9 December 1812, d. 4 Franklin and Malvina’s children, all presumably February 1883), and Eliza Ann (b. 1823, Nelson born in Nelson County, were Nancy “Nannie” (b. 3 County, Ky., d. 1850, m. Francis W. Maramen). October 1844, d. 28 October 1869, m. Henry Hart),16 Katherine (b. 12 December 1845, m. A.L. Franklin Troutman Harned), Frances Quinn “Fannie” (b. 16 October Franklin Troutman (b. 9 December 1812, d. 4 1847, m. Henry S. Harned), Shirley (b. 1851, d. February 1883), a son of Leonard Troutman and Caty 1917, Nelson County, Ky., m. Charlotte Harned), Wilhite, married Malvina Quinn (b. 15 September Warren Leonard (b. 13 January 1853, m. Rowena 1821, d. 23 March 1863), a daughter of William Belle McGee), Emma (b. 1857, m. Atkinson Lee Quinn and Nancy ____, on 13 January 1842. “Ack” Harned), William Quinn (b. 13 January 1859, Franklin bought 480 acres—including the d. 25 November 1889 m. Lillie D. Ray), and Sallie Quinn (m. John D. Harned). After Malvina’s death, Franklin married Mary Ellen Goodin/Goodwin (b. 24 January 1837, d. 24 August 1882), a daughter of John E. Goodin/ Goodwin and Mary Ann Margaret Swope, on 27 August 1867. Their children were Jennie E. (b. 1 July 1869, d. 4 July 1884), Mary Myrtle (m. 1. Allen McKay, 2. John S. Kelly), and Lottie (Charlotte?) H. Franklin Troutman’s will, dated 23 January 1883, names his children Fannie L. (wife of H.S. Harned), Shirley, Warren L.W., Emma (wife of A.L. Harned), William Quinn, and Emma. Fannie L., Shirley, Filson Historical Society 17 The Troutman home place had been owned by Shirley Warren L.W., and Emma each received $4,000. Troutman’s father Franklin (1812-1883), who began Shirley Troutman was appointed the guardian of building the “palatial brick home” in 1848, just south of Sallie, with H.S. Harned the guardian of Myrtle, and the log house the family had previously occupied. A.L. Harned for Jennie. Franklin also directed that

125 2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 The Troutman family, continued ______his “Knob lands” be sold to provide $50 worth of 8 Evelyn Crady Adams, “The Troutman Families of silverware and a bedstead to Emma and $25 worth Kentucky,” Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 3, p. of silver for Sallie, Jennie, and Myrtle. 200. See also Ruby S. Caulwell to ____ (fragment of undated William Quinn Troutman received the 700-acre letter) in Troutman file, Thomas D. Clark Library of the Kentucky Historical Society. Phillip Troutman was said to have homestead, along with the household and kitchen been born blind. furniture and farm implements, horses, cattle, hogs, 9 Evelyn Crady Adams, “The Troutman Families of Kentucky,” corn, hay and fodder. This was on the condition that Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 3, p. 201-2. he give his sister Sallie and half sisters Jennie and 10 Bullitt County will book A, pages 161-63 and Evelyn Myrtle one horse, one cow, and one bed stead and Crady Adams, “The Troutman Families of Kentucky,” Filson bedding each. Sallie was to be paid $2,000, with Club History Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 3, p. 202-3. See also Bullitt County will book A, p. 191, in which Troutman’s slaves, as of 12 Myrtle and Jennie receiving board, clothing, and September 1814, are listed. They were Sleg, Tom, Ben, Hagan, education, along with $3,000 each on their majority. Tony, Darby, Miller, Charles, Toby, Cislow(?), Hanna, and Harry. The “Elders of Christian Church near Boston” 11 Tobias (1750-1839) and Mary Shirley Wilhite (1755- received $100. 1844) joined the Shaker Community in Mercer County, leaving H.S. and A.L. Harned were appointed executors Bullitt County in 1808. of the will, which was probated on 12 March 1883.18 12 Evelyn Crady Adams, “The Troutman Families of Kentucky,” Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 3, p. William Quinn Troutman married Lillie D. Ray, 209. See also, Nelson County will book 4, pages 124-37 and and their children were Lora Morrison (b. September 448-459 and will book 5, p. 448. Leonard is buried in the 1884, d. 1956) and William Ray (b. August 1889). family cemetery, just southeast of the intersection of U.S. William Quinn died on 25 November 1889 and Highway 62 Kentucky 733. Lillie later married James W. McClaskey. Lillie and 13 Sarah B. Smith, Historic Nelson County (Louisville: James’ children were Henry Morrison (b. October Gateway Press Inc., 1971), p. 267. Mary Hill was a daughter of 19 Atkinson Hill, “First Judge of Nelson County.” Eleanor and 1892, Ky.) and James W. McClaskey Jr. Elizabeth Quigley were Atkinson Hill’s granddaughters. John B. Troutman and his wives are buried in the Troutman Cemetery 1 Margaret Schroeder, Lillian Ockerman (and others), Nelson “Off Highway 733” in Nelson County. Mary Hill Troutman County, Kentucky, Cemeteries, Vol. 3 (Northwestern Section; died 22 September 1830, “Age 28, 5 months, and 18 days.” Including Nazareth and St. Thomas) (Bardstown, Ky., no date), Eleanor Quigley Troutman died on 6 March 1842, at “31 years, p. 54. Shirley and Charlotte Harned Troutman’s birth and 7 months, and 17 days.” Elizabeth Quigley Troutman died on death dates are taken from transcriptions of their tombstones at 21 December 1856, “Age 38 years, 22 days.” Anna Blackwell Boston Christian Church Cemetery in Nelson County. Montgomery Troutman was born on 4 July 1826 and died on 2 Carolyn Wimp, Nelson County, Kentucky, Newspaper 17 February 1907. Also buried in the cemetery is Nancy Hill Abstracts, September 1807-September 1890 (Vine Grove, Ky.: Quigley (b. 24 March 1788, d. 12 October 1873), presumed to Ancestral Trails Historical Society, Inc.), p. 120. be a daughter of Atkinson Hill and mother of Eleanor and 3 Carolyn Wimp, Nelson County, Kentucky, Newspaper Elizabeth Quigley. Abstracts, September 1807-September 1890 (Vine Grove, Ky.: 14 Sarah B. Smith, Historic Nelson County (Louisville: Ancestral Trails Historical Society, Inc.), pages 152, 230. Gateway Press Inc., 1971), p. 267. Sarah E. Lutes Troutman 4 Nelson County will book 20. was born on 12 April 1815 and died on 11 December 1832. A 5 Evelyn Crady Adams, “The Troutman Families of Nelson County birth record lists “W.L.W. Troutman and Sally Kentucky,” Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 3, p. 199. Lutz” as parents of Mary M.E. Troutman, born 8 January 1854. See also Ruby S. Caulwell to ____ (fragment of undated letter) in The family was listed as having lived in the Petersburg Troutman file, Thomas D. Clark Library of the Kentucky neighborhood, west of Boston. Historical Society. Caulwell said Michael Troutman’s family 15 Mary Harrel Stancliff, Marriage Bonds of Nelson arrived in America in 1743 and settled near Hagerstown, Md. County, Kentucky, 1785-1832, Volume 2 (Houston, Tex., The information was apparently handed down in Caulwell’s 1963), p. 13. Elizabeth Troutman married John Lee Jr. on 14 family. She was a descendant of John Michael Troutman’s November 1829. daughter Rebecca (b. 30 December 1791, near Hagerstown, 16 Sarah B. Smith, Historic Nelson County (Louisville: Md., d. 17 June 1874), who married Phillip Patterson. Gateway Press Inc., 1971), p. 267. 6 Adams, pages 199-203. 17 Nelson County will book 19, pages 77-79. 7 Leonard Troutman and Caty Wilhite, a daughter of Tobias 18 Nelson County will book 19, pages 77-79. Wilhite/Wilhoit (b. 5 October 1750, Orange County, Va.) and 19 Stith Thompson, “The Beauchamp Family,” Filson Club Mary “Polly” Shirley (b. 1 April 1755, Culpeper County, Va.) History Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 2, p. 158. were married on 25 April 1799.

2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 126 Thomas Arnold, Cooper, Farmer, and Civil Servant By Retha I. Sleezer

Mrs. Sleezer is a great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Arnold and great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Adam Arnold, founder of the Arnoldtown community of southwestern Jefferson County.

A cooper by trade and family tradition, a farmer (b. 17 August 1743, Frederick, Md., d. 1827), by necessity, and a community and civil servant, founder of the small community of Arnoldtown, in Thomas Arnold was nonetheless an ancestral mys- Jefferson County.2 tery. His descendants were told he was from Ken- tucky, but there are many by his name in the mid- Adam Arnold 1800s U.S. Census indexes for Kentucky. Adam Arnold Sr. married Nancy Anna According to a biographical sketch found in the Matzenbacher (d. 1829, Jefferson County), establishing book, Kansas and Kansans,1 Thomas Arnold was a connection between the two families that would born on 26 April 1816, in Jefferson County, Ky. continue over at least the next half-century. It seems Because the article claimed a lack of knowledge of clear in census records that Arnold lived in his ancestry, it lends credibility to the parallel family Northumberland County, Penn., in 1790 and Wash- legend that he was an illegitimate son of Mary ington County (Upper Antietam), Md., in 1800 before “Polly” Arnold and a grandson of Adam Arnold Sr. arriving in Jefferson County, Ky., prior to 1810.3 He was living in Northumberland County, Penn., in 1790 with “one free white male 16 years & upwards” (himself ), three white males under 16 years, and three “free white females.” Mary was born in 1792 in Funkstown, in Washing- ton County, Md. Her siblings included Adam Jr. and, presumably, John. Adam Arnold Sr. appeared on the 1810 Jefferson County tax list next to a Yos/Yoes (Jost?) Arnold. Adam Arnold Jr. appeared in 1820, living In 1957, a float in the Burlington, Kan., Centennial parade featured products and in Portland. implements from Thomas Arnold’s cooper shop. The float provided much information about 19th-century containers and the tools used to make them. Included were a bucket, Mary Arnold and keg (small barrel or cask), cask, barrel (made of oak or hickory; 28-31 gallons or 34 gallons of vinegar), tub (60 pounds of tea), hogshead (55 gallons of ale or 63 gallons of Jacob Motsenbocker wine), pipe (two hogsheads, 110 gallons of molasses or 108 gallons of beer), and butt Mary Arnold married (126 gallons of wine). Arnold had lived in the Otter Creek neighborhood of Coffey County, Jacob Motsenbocker on and the float was created by the Otter Creek Ladies Club. 15 April 1819 in the

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Fairdale community of southwestern Jefferson Thomas and Mariah’s household in later census County.4 Mary and Jacob’s children included Joshua records.10 Jacob Motsenbocker (b. 18 January 1825, Marion Margaret Arnold married George R. Fox, a son of County, Ind.). Noah Fox, on 3 January 1856 in Marion County, After Jacob’s death, Mary married John Akers on 4 Ind. The Fox family lived near the Arnolds in the August 1839 in Jefferson County.5 1850 census.11 After Jacob Matzenbacher’s death, his widow Thomas Arnold Mary Ann—mother of Thomas Arnold—signed Mary Arnold’s son Thomas Arnold married over to her son a Coffey County, Kan., land grant, Mariah Hutchinson on 10 January 1839 in Jefferson which Thomas subsequently claimed.12 County.6 According to the marriage record, Mariah’s parents were deceased, and she was living with her Kansas sister, Nancy Arnold. This information matches well The 1860 federal census listed Thomas Arnold and with the fact that a Nancy Hutchinson married a family in Coffey County, with three additional John Arnold—believed to be a brother of Mary children and a grandchild: Hiram, 9; Nancy, 4; Arnold—in Bullitt County in 1824.7 Cynthia Alice, 1; and the granddaughter, Mary Thomas Arnold appeared in Jefferson County in Evalyne Fox, a daughter of Margaret Arnold and the 1840 U.S. census,8 with a female the correct age George R. Fox. Margaret Arnold Fox died between 13 to be Mariah, an additional young adult male, and December 1857, the day her daughter was born, and two children. At the time, Thomas and Mariah December 1858, when George Fox sold his quarter would have had only their first daughter, Margaret. section to Thomas Arnold.13 Margaret Fox is buried The other young man was probably Adam Arnold, in Baker Cemetery west of Burlington, Kan.14 The cousin/nephew of Thomas and Mariah. The young gravesite is marked by a small concrete rectangle with male child is still a mystery, but the age range would only her name imprinted, and alongside one marked fit Fielding Thomas Arnold, a younger brother of only with the name Riley Fox. In an affidavit, Adam Adam, who also went to Kansas after the Civil War and died there, leaving three orphaned children.

Indiana Thomas and Mariah Arnold were next found in Marion County, Ind.,9 with five Kentucky-born children: Margaret, 11; Lucy A., 8; Lyter T., 6; Samuel J., 4; and Mary E., 2. In addition, there were three young adult males in the household: Adam Arnold and John and Samuel Motsenbocker. All three adult males were coopers. The Arnold family, in a photograph taken before 1900. Front row, from left to right: Adam Arnold, believed Lilly Belle Arnold and Cora Evaline Arnold, daughters of Samuel Arnold. Back row, to be John and Nancy from left: James Walker Arnold, Lighter Thomas Arnold, and Harry Frank Povenmire Arnold’s son, lived near (born Frank Edwin Arnold).

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Arnold testified that George R. Fox died as a Union soldier in 1863, and that his only heir was his daughter Maria E. Fox.15 The 1870 federal census for Coffey County, Kan., lists the youngest of the children of Thomas and Mariah, who was Riley E.E., 6, usually identified as Elmer.16

Tragedies Margaret Arnold Fox was the first of the Kentucky-born children to die young. Three more were deceased by the end of 1876. Lighter (also spelled Leighter and Lyter) Thomas enlisted in the Union Army at age 18 in Burlington, Kan. 17 James Walker Keith, at left, with his uncle, Hiram “Dick” Arnold. Hiram was a Lighter was training at Fort son of Thomas Arnold, James was a grandson of Thomas’ through Samuel Scott, Kan., when he contracted Jacob Arnold. measles. He returned to duty after confinement in the post hospital from April 1 thirties. No cause of death was given in her death through April 18, but was readmitted on April 24 and notice and no record of her burial place has been died on pneumonia on 27 April 1863.18 found.23 Lucy Ann may have died in childbirth or A third tragedy struck Thomas Arnold’s family in from what seems to have been a typhoid outbreak, 1876, when Samuel Jacob Arnold, age 28 or 30 which took her brother Samuel and his wife (depending on the source) died of typhus fever.19 Amanda. Both Jacob and John Motsenbocker also His grandson Frank remembered being told that lost their wives in 1876. However, a review of the Samuel was weakened by a rattlesnake bite before local newspapers at this time found no mention of contracting typhus. Within three weeks of Samuel the prevalent illnesses, or the known deaths. Arnold’s death, his wife Amanda Ellen Keith, age 32, Lucy Shaw’s surviving daughter Bertha was not also died, leaving five orphans.20 The orphans were listed in the 1875 census. The first child, Mary C. Lighter Thomas, 7; Lillie Belle, 6; James Walker, 4; Shaw, had died in 1874 about three months after she Frank Edwin, 2; and Cora Evelyn, 3 months. was born and is buried at Baker Cemetery.24 Maria Samuel’s newspaper death notice indicates the doctor B. Shaw, age 4, is listed in the 1880 census with her had been treating Samuel, his wife, and two sons on father Henry C. Shaw in the household of Elzy a daily basis before his death. According to estate Rusher and Elizabeth his wife. Maria B. is identified records, Amanda’s mother, Margaret Dudley Keith, as a niece of the head of household. This suggests was also in attendance, caring for the family of her that Elizabeth Rusher might be Henry’s sister. It is daughter. She was awarded fifteen dollars from the presumed that Maria B. is the surviving daughter of estate for her nursing and died soon after.21 Lucy Arnold Shaw, given as Bertha in other sources (See endnote 26). Lucy Ann Arnold Lucy Ann Arnold, the second child born in Mary E. Arnold Kentucky to Thomas and Mariah Arnold, married The fifth Kentucky-born child, Mary E. Arnold, Henry C. Shaw in Coffey County, Kan., on 12 married J.V. Bowman on 13 July 1870 in Coffee November 1873.22 She bore two children, losing County. Her descendants remain a mystery, as does one, before she died in February 1877, in her mid- her death date. A stone at Baker Cemetery has her

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dying in 1866, before she ever married J.V. Bowman Smith on 6 June 1875 in Coffey County.28 He raised in 1870.25 Possibly, her descendants reversed the his orphaned nephew, James Walker Arnold,29 son of maiden names in obituaries and on grave markers. Samuel J. Arnold, in addition to the four survivors of Both J.V. Bowman’s wives were named Mary. The his five children: Riley, Rosa, Carrie, Thomas and other possibility is that the death date is simply Hiram R. Arnold died in Logan County, Ark. A incorrect. Jonathan Bowman and Mrs. Jonathan photograph of him and his nephew James Walker Bowman were part of the family of William H. Arnold was found in H.F. Povenmire’s collection. 30 Arnold’s wife, according to a court case filed at Coffey Catherine Anna—named as Nancy in the 1860 County District Court in 1923.26 J.V. Bowman and federal census—married Luther O. Dana on 16 Mary Arnold Bowman were not found as a family in March 1879. According to the 1900 census of the census records; but J.V. Bowman was shown as Shawnee County, Kan., they lived in Topeka where owning land on an 1878 plat map of Coffey County. they raised nine of their 10 children. The Burlington Independent reported that Bowman Cynthia Alice married a double cousin, William was president of the Strawn Literary Society and, in Harrison Arnold, about 1892 (no record found), a 1910, an original stockholder in the Strawn State grandson of John and Nancy Hutchinson Arnold. Bank.27 Estate records, which are not currently William H. Arnold was the son of Fielding Thomas available, may shed more light on Mary E. Arnold. Arnold and his second wife.31 Alice and William had four children: Adda Vernon (d. in infancy), Berta Other Children Evelyn (m. Willard M. Pennington), Ira Delmar The Indiana- and Kansas-born children all married (n.m.), and Olaf Dloice (m. Estella Hancock). Berta and raised families in Kansas, Arkansas, or Missouri. had several children. Olaf adopted one son. Hiram D. “Dick” Arnold married Martha “Mattie” Riley Elmer Arnold married Sarah Emily “Emma” Means 14 May 1890.32 Their children were George Leslie, Vivian Marie, and Beatrice. Elmer and Emma died in Springfield, Mo., as did George and V. Marie. All are buried at Eastlawn Cemetery there.33 L. Rosecrans of Allen County, Kan., took the older two orphans of Samuel and Amanda Arnold under guardian- ship.34 According to her nephew’s account, Lillie Bell got along well with Mrs. Rosecrans, learning to sew and keep house. Lighter, however, spent The Arnold family, about 1905. Front row, from left: Ira Delmar Arnold, son of William his time helping outdoors and Alice Arnold, unknown boy, and Carrie A. Povenmire, daughter of Harry and Mary and wasn’t treated as well. Povenmire. Second row (seated), from left: Mary Ann Todd Povenmire (holding John He eventually ran away Robert Povenmire, b. 21 January 1905), Cora E. Arnold, sister of Harry, and Cynthia Alice Arnold, daughter of Thomas and wife of William H. Arnold. Standing between back to Coffey County, Mary and Cora is Berta E. Arnold, daughter of William and Alice. Leaning on Cora is where he worked for the her namesake, Cora A. Povenmire (b. 21 January 1900), daughter of Harry Frank railroad in southeast and Mary Povenmire. Kansas.35 Lillie Bell

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Arnold married Henry DeLoice “Loice” Means, In 1957, for the Burlington, Kan., centennial brother of Lillie’s Aunt Emma Means Arnold. They parade, the Otter Creek Ladies Club designed and had no children. They are buried at Baker Cemetery entered a parade float titled “First Cooper Shop in in Coffey County, near Mary Arnold Bowman (see Coffey County, built on Thomas Arnold homestead, end note 26a), and Mary C. Shaw. Lighter (also 6 mi. NW of Burlington, KS.” It won first place and spelled Lyter) married Laura Matilda “Tillie” Parker was pictured in The Daily Republican.44 Thomas at Ft. Scott, Kan., on 22 April 1895. Their children Arnold and his cousin/nephew Adam Arnold report- were Grace Irene and Lewis Byron Arnold.36 edly made barrels for the whiskey that neighbors James Walker Arnold married Cora Bell Hall. produced; but as the float picture suggests, there They lost their first two infants before three children were many other articles made by coopers: kegs, survived: Orvillle, Elsie, and Vernon Arnold. water casks, buckets, and tubs.45 Frank Edwin Arnold was the only orphan to have At least four of Thomas’ children died before him. his name changed. 37 John Alexander and Lucinda That Thomas Arnold experienced “hardships and Barrick Povenmire gave him the name Harry Frank privations of pioneer life” was noted in his death Povenmire. Harry Frank, well-known as H.F. notice, published on 15 July 1887 in the Burlington Povenmire, married Mary Ann Todd on 29 March Independent after his death on 7 July. 1899.38 They became parents of four children, the Otter Creek was the name of the community first born on 21 January 1900; the youngest born on where Thomas lived in Kansas.46 The 1885 state 21 January 1905. Cora Alice never married. Carrie census had again listed his occupation as cooper.47 Agnes married Russell W. Johnson and had a daughter Before Mariah Hutchinson Arnold died 3 February and a son, still living. Frank Alexander married and 1900,48 she brought together the orphaned grand- had five daughters, all living, and one son, Martin children for a studio picture.49 Arnold Povenmire, stillborn. John Robert Povenmire That they were orphans at a young age does not married Letha Skillman, but they had no children.39 show in this photograph, or in the length of their The youngest grandchild of Thomas and Mariah lives. Lighter Thomas Arnold died 28 February Arnold was cared for first by her grandparents, 1950, at age 81. Lillie Bell Arnold Means died on 29 Thomas and Mariah, then by her aunt Cynthia Alice November 1947, at age 77. James Walker Arnold and uncle William Harrison Arnold. Cora Evelyn died on 21 February 1940, at age 78. Frank Edwin Arnold continued to be a member of the latter Arnold, renamed Harry Frank Povenmire, died at household and became caretaker of her single cousin age 86 on 12 April 1960. Cora Evelyn Arnold died Ira Delmar Arnold until she died in 1967. She on 15 November 1967, at age 91. taught school, was elected county treasurer for one Only five known descendants of Thomas Arnold term, and then served for several years as county remain in Coffey County, and none by the name of superintendent of schools. 40 Arnold. All are descendants of Frank Edwin Arnold, Harry and his family visited his Uncle Billy, Aunt renamed Harry Frank Povenmire. Alice Arnold, and sister Cora Arnold as often as 1 William E. Connelley, A Standard History of Kansas and possible. One photo shows all but one of the chil- Kansans, Volume 5 (Chicago, 1918), p 2,653-54. dren of the two couples, and one unknown boy 2 The story was passed down by descendants of Louisiana about 10 years old, as well as Harry’s sister Cora Arnold Wiser and of Catharine Arnold Potts, who were sisters of 41 Thomas’ mother Mary Arnold Motsenbocker Akers/Acres (also Evelyn Arnold. spelled Eaker), and by those of Jacob Motsenbocker, Mary’s husband. Mary Arnold was born about 1796 in Maryland and Thomas Arnold died 20 March 1887 in Marion County, Ind. See also, death Thomas Arnold was named road commissioner records for Mary Eaker. The Jefferson County, Ky., will book and helped lay out a state road from Burlington to gives Adam Arnold’s death date as 1827. The only remaining Hartford, which passed by his cooper shop.42 He evidence for Arnoldtown found so far is a street sign for Arnoldtown Road in south Louisville. An 1853 map shows three served as a juror and was paid as a road judge, Arnold residences in southwest Jefferson County, just east and according to county commissioners’ financial reports south of Pond Creek. Several related surnames also can be from 1865-67.43 identified: Reisinger (also spelled Risinger), Snorder (usually

131 2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 Thomas Arnold, continued ______spelled Snawder), and Stinson. North of Pond Creek were the 25 Coffey County, Kan., Marriage Records, Book A, p. 88. Herbert, Grant, Gagel, and Weisser (also spelled Wiser) See also Baker Cemetery, Row 8B, Grave 73 (in alignment with households. The families were also related in various ways. other Arnold family burials. 3 The Matzenbacher surname also appears in records as 26 Civil Court Case 8135, District Court Records, 16 January Matsenbougher, Motsenbocker, and Matsenboker. 1923, Burlington, Coffey County, Kan. 4 Jefferson County (Ky.) Marriage Book 1, p. 103. Mary and 27 Burlington Republican, (Special Edition,) 2 July 1976. Jacob were identified as “Jacob Motsonburger” and “Polly 28 Coffey County, Kan., Marriage records, Book A, p. 242 Arnold.” The remarks block read: “The said Polly being the 29 Guardianship file No. 2, Coffey County District Court, daughter of Adam Arnold (and) of lawful age.” Some researchers Burlington, Kan. say Jacob was born on 1 May 1781 in Mannheim, Lancaster 30 Studio picture found among the collection of Harry F. County, Penn. See also, Retha Sleezer, Jefferson Co., Va.-Ky. Povenmire, identified by Frank A. Povenmire in Spring 1979 Marriage Book 1, 1781-1826. interview. 5 Jefferson County (Ky.) Marriage Book 3. 31 Guardian’s Bond, Estate No. 7, District Court, Burlington, 6 Jefferson County (Ky.) Marriage Book 2. Coffey County, Kan. 7 Bullitt County (Ky.) marriage records (from microfilm.) 32 Coffey County Marriage Records, Book D, p. 201. 8 The census records include One male 20-30, one male 15- 33 Eastlawn Cemetery Records, Springfield, Mo., and 20, one male under 5, one female 15-20, and one female under additional dates from cemetery visit and newspaper obituary 5. research by author. 9 1850 federal census of Wayne Township, Marion County, Ind. 34 Guardianship file No. 2, Coffey County District Court, 10 1860 federal census of Burlington Township, Coffey Burlington, Coffey County, Kan. County, Kan., and subsequent state and federal censuses of the 35 Interview with Frank A. Povenmire, Spring 1979. same place and Pleasant Township in 1880 and thereafter. 36 Virginia Keith Kelley and Verla Keith, Keith Family 11 Marion County, Ind., marriage records, Book 6, p. 333. History (unpublished). 12 Coffey County, Kan., Deed Book 62, p. 561, Burlington, 37 Coffey County, Kan., Deed Book 63, p. 594. The Kan. document shows legal name and relationship. 13 Burlington Township, Coffey County, Kan. (parts of 38 Coffey County, Kan., Marriage Record, Book E, p. 334. Burlington Township later became Pleasant Township) Warranty 39 Personal knowledge of the author. Deed between George R. Fox and Thomas Arnold, 27 December 40, Burlington Republican (Obituary of Cora E. Arnold), 1858, Deed Book B, pages 36-37. November 1967 14 Baker Cemetery records. 41 Outdoor picture taken at the Thomas Arnold home site, 15 Affidavit by Adam Arnold, Coffey County Miscellaneous Otter Creek neighborhood, probably in the Spring of 1905. Book B, p.164. 42 (Burlington) Kansas Patriot, 18 February 1865. 16 Burlington Township, Coffey County, Kan. 43 Newspaper items, Kansas Patriot, Burlington, Kansas, 25 17 Dated 26 August 1862 at Burlington, Kan., 12th November 1865 through 22 June 1867 Regiment, KansaS Volunteer Infantry, Company F. 44 Centennial supplement, The Daily Republican, 2 July 1976, 18 Adjutant General’s Office, record of illness and death date section D, page 14, photograph owned by private citizen, of Lighter T. Arnold, book mark 11046 A., 1887. permission received to reprint. 19 Burlington (Kan.) Independent, 23 September 1876, and 45 Reminiscences of Bert Fry from First Hand Historical transcribed information from Estate file No. 5. Episodes of Early Coffey County, p. 38 20 Interview with Frank A. Povenmire, Spring 1979 and 46 Death notices, 15 July 1887, Burlington Independent, p. 2, marriage license, Coffey County, Kan., Book A, p. A 007, 26 cols. 2 & 4 September 1867. 47 1885 Kansas state census, Pleasant Township, Coffey 21 Guardian’s Bond and receipts from Estate file No. 5, County, Kansas Coffey County District Court, Burlington, Kan. 48 Death notice February 1900. 22 Coffey County, Kan., Marriage Record, Book A, p. 187. 49 Studio photo, about 1895-1899, credit given Mariah 23 Burlington (Kan.) Independent, 9 February 1877, p. 3. Arnold by Frank A. Povenmire in interview, spring 1979. 24 Baker Cemetery record.

2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 132 The Strother Moses Cook Family of Mercer County and the Civil War By Jean D. Dones

Dones’ article, The Curd Family and its Mercer County Ghost Towns, appeared in Volume 39, Number 2.

Strother Moses Cook (b. 10 March 1809, Madi- Company B of the 20 th Kentucky Infantry. son County, Va.) was one of at least 12 children of Records show that the 20th Kentucky took part in George Cook and Jemima Wilhoit of Culpeper the Battle of Shiloh on 7 April 1862 and in skirmish- County, Va. He came with his family from Madison ing in May near Corinth, Miss., and later in County, Va., to Lincoln County, Ky., about 1819. Danville, Ky. George Cook was a deacon at New Providence During the Summer of 1862, Confederate forces church in present-day Boyle County and Strother occupied Lexington and threatened Louisville and was said to have been “the subject of early religious Cincinnati. The Battle of Perryville, the largest battle impressions, and prayed much in secret, from his ever fought on Kentucky soil, took place on Oct. 8, 13th year, till he obtained hope in Christ, at the age 1862. I have wondered what impact this bloody of 17. 1 event had on the young men, native to that area, Strother Cook joined Hanging Fork church (later when the fighting came so close to their homes and New Providence) in March 1828, at age 21. He families. began preaching in 1833 and was ordained the John Cook was listed in the company’s muster roll following year. Cook served as pastor of several as present through August 1862. He was listed as churches, including Bethlehem, Hillsboro, and absent without leave in September-October 1862, “Unity church.”2 then as deserted on 16 October 1862. The young preacher married Lucy Mitchell Cook returned to his company on 23 April 1863 Jenkins (b. 20 September 1820) on 19 April 1838 in and was listed as present through May-June 1864, Mercer County and became pastor of the nearby then as killed in action near Atlanta, Ga., on 4 Shawnee Run Baptist Church. According to History August 1864. The official report for the 20th Ken- of Kentucky Baptists by J.H. Spencer, the couple had tucky for August 4, 1864. His unit’s official report 12 children, “ten of whom he baptized with his own for 4 August states: “Heavy shelling by the enemy hands.” through the day while our batteries are gaining The known children, all presumably born in position. 20th Kentucky, 1 killed.” That one casualty Mercer County, were George William (b. 10 Sep- would surely have been John Stephen Cook. tember 1839), John Stephen (b. 28 May 1842), Judging from the date and the notation by his Mary Jemima (b. 23 June 1844), Susan Belle (b. 13 brother in a family record that his death occurred November 1846), Lucy Jane (b. 19 January 1849), “six miles west of Atlanta,” seems likely to have been Strother Moses Jr. (b. 13 May 1851), Sarah the Ezra Church/Utoy Creek area. Trueheart (b. 14 April 1853), Allen Thomas (b. 5 A further notation on Cook’s official military May 1855), Julia Ann (b. 29 March 1857), Elizabeth record appeared as follows: Malevia (b. 15 August 1859), and Emma Dora (b. 1 June 1862). War Department, Adjutant General’s Office Washington, Aug. 20, 1879 John Stephen Cook “Tried by court martial on the charge of desertion Strother and Lucy’s second son, John Stephen (deserted Oct. 16, 1862 and returned April 24, 1863) found Cook enrolled to fight in the Civil War at age 19 on not guilty of desertion but guilty of Absence without leave and sentenced to forfeit 6 months pay dure and to become 16 October 1861 in Lexington. He was mustered in due, to be reduced the the rank and to be deprived of all on 6 January 1862 at Smithland as a corporal in furlough for one year—Post of Lebanon, Ky.

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One wonders about the 1879 date—15 years after On a visit to the Kennesaw Mountain National Cook’s death. The company muster roll for Sept.- Battlefield in 1987, my sister and I learned that John Oct. 1862 had listed Cook as absent without leave, Stephen Cook was listed as a casualty “near Atlanta.” while the Nov.-Dec. roll changed his status to After our visit, we went to the National Cemetery deserted. at Marietta, Ga., where we located the grave of “John At war’s end, the 20th lost 36 men (killed or Cook,” number 6176. mortally wounded) in action and 197 men (three Stephen’s older brother Strother Moses Cook Jr. officers and 194 enlisted men) to disease. wrote an account of his brother’s death about 1898:

Researching the Cooks John Stephen Cook, born May 18, 1842 and died As I have become interested in our family history, August 4, 1864. Was killed by a cannon ball or the John Stephen Cook, our one Civil War connection, bursting of a bomb shell near Atlanta, Georgia, 6 miles west. Buried there without a coffin till the 3rd day of was a special question. We had understood that our August 1867 when his remains were interred and grandmother Voris’ older brother, John Stephen reburied at Marietta, Georgia about twenty miles north, Cook, was killed near Atlanta on 4 August 1864. She one of the national cemeteries. Section 8, grave 6176. was 11 years old at the time of his death. How we wish we had asked her what she remembered about There are so many questions about John Stephen that sad time in her family. Cook: What kind of person he was; what motivated Our understanding was that Cook was killed in the Battle of Chickamauga, but that dates didn’t fit. Continued on page 165

Courtesy of Jean C. Dones The Cook family posed with a photograph of John Stephen Cook about 1888. The vacant chair was a common mourning expression for families who lost loved-ones in the Civil War. It came from the song The Vacant Chair or We Shall Meet, But We Shall Miss Him, written at Thanksgiving 1861.

2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 134 Marriages Performed by Rev. Andrew Tribble, Madison County, 1800-1813

On pages 108-9 of Madison County Marriage Book 9 is the following list of marriages performed by Rev. Andrew Tribble (b. 22 March 1741, Orange County, Va., d. 30 December 1822, Richmond, Madison County, Ky.), who married Sarah Ann Burris (b. 30 September 1753, Orange County, Va., d. 15 December 1830, Richmond, Madi- son County, Ky.), a daughter of Thomas Burris and Frances Tandy, on 2 June 1768 in Orange County, Va.

1801, November Aquilla Barns & Della Taylor Do. January Richard Epperson & Sally 1800, March William Taylor & Rebecca Gaddy Barns Do. October Joseph Steele & Mariam Boone 1802, December Gabriel Ragsdale & Polly Do. March Robert Epperson & Lucy Hawkins Overbeck Do., November Wm. Holeman & Elener 1805 January Wm. Hoy & Mildred Dejarnett Barns(?) 1806 November John Weagle & Polly Owens Do. Do. Allen Searcy & Agnes Storns 1806 October Arther Warren & Jane Ellison (Storms?) Do. December Joseph Stephenson & Polly Do. February Jesse Ballerson & Cata Turner Tribble Do. December David Crews & Mildred Colly Do. January James J. Dozier & Henry 1808 Do. Thomas Howard & Ritter Stayton Embry 1807 March Hezekiah Crook & Elizabeth 1803 Aug.(?) Aron Griffing & Peggy Jackson Johnson Do. March Andrew McCreery & Susannah Do. July Jacb(Jacob?) Hill & Polly Loyd Todd 1808 February Anderson Crews & Levina Do. Jan. John Allen & Nancy Young Williams Do. ____ Moses Biggerstaff & Sally Do. January John Hubbard & Elizabeth Moore Parks Do. December Michael Perkins & Mary Do./1809? July John Adams & Milligan Susannah Plowman Do. February Joseph Cox & Sarah Newland 1808 March Phillip Barnes & Fanny Barns Do. December John Samuel & Sally Chenault 1809 December Abner Oldham & Hannah Do. June Wm. Fullalove & Elizabeth White Bates Do. Do. Asa White & Mary Lewis 1804 March Jno. Kidwell & Gilly Proffit Do. October Edward Freeman & Elizabeth Do. February Wm. Berry & Rody Moman(?) Stevens Do. June John Dejarnett(?) & Perthany Do. Do. Johnathan Parker & Patsey Hoy(?) Epperson Do. March Charles Hardwick & Elizabeth 1810 June Andrew Tribble & Lucy Boone Crooke 1810 March Amos Deathridge & Elizabeth Do. May Smith Turner & Nancy Howard Ragsdale 1810 July Benni White & Mary Elstone 1805 February Enock Gasscock (Glasscock?) & 1810 February Richard Gentry & Nancy Sally Redman Hawkins Do. March Joseph McLott & Polly White Do. Aug. Olly Million & Polly Adams

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Do. June Wm. Fullalove & Rebecca 1811 December Leonard Kidwell & Liddy Sattern Wood 1811 August Jesse Million & Jemima Con Do. April Bird Deathridge & Sally Phelps Do. December Jeremiah(?) Bush & Nancy Do. July Wm. Hawks & Betsy Loyd Gentry 1812 December Elijah Harrington & Betsy Do. January George Brown & Polly Wilson Saddless(?) 1812 March George W. Stoner & Nancy Do. May Benjamin Hay & Susannah Tribble Long 1813 March Thomas Broadus & Betsy Newland 1812 David Crews & Patsy Newland Continued on page 165

Tribble Knew, May Have Influenced Thomas Jefferson According to Dr. Malcolm D. McLean of the Jr. (b. 2 December 1785, Madison County, d. 1 University of Texas at Arlington, Tribble was a December 1869, Mt. Sterling, Montgomery County, Baptist minister whose congregants at one time m. Lucy Boone); Sarah (b. 1787); Bettie (b. 1791, d. included Thomas Jefferson. Tribble was also credited 1872); and Dudley (b. 1 May 1797, Madison with in some way affecting Jefferson’s views concern- County, Ky., d. 30 June 1877, Madison County, ing “principles of religious and civil freedom” that Ky.).3 eventually made their way into the Declaration of Lucy Boone, Andrew and Sarah Ann’s daughter in Independence.1 law, was a daughter of William Boone and Nancy Tribble and his wife, Sarah Ann Burris Tribble, Grubbs and a second cousin, twice removed, of were in Kentucky by 1785. They were the parents of Daniel Boone. She married Andrew Tribble Jr. on 24 Frances (b. 3 November 1769, Orange County, Va., June 1810 in Madison County. d. 11 May 1852, Wayne County, Ky., m. George Michael Stoner); Samuel (b. 30 September 1771, 1 Dr. Malcolm D. McLean, “Andrew Tribble and Thomas Orange County, Va., d. 3 September 1814, Clark Jefferson,” Stirpes, Texas State Genealogical Society Quarterly County, Ky., d. August 1853, m. Polly Martin); (Vol. 28, No. 3, September 1988), pages 3-5. Much of the Tribble research was conducted by McLean’s wife, Margaret Martha “Patsy/Pattie” (b. 1771, Orange County, Va., Stoner McLean, who established a newspaper microfilm d. 1845, Ky., m. Dr. Jacob White); Pattie (b. 1771, collection at the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art in Fort Orange County, Va.); Lettie (b. 1773, Orange Worth, Texas, in the 1960s. See also, Western Star and Lebanon County, Va., d. 1840, Ky., m. ____ Higgins); Peter (Ohio) Gazette, Aug. 19, 1826; and Hazel Atterbury Spraker, Burris (b. 8 March 1774, Orange County, Va.); The Boone Family: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Thomas (b. 13 June 1776, Louisa, Va., d. after 1842, George and Mary Boone, who came to America in 1717 (Rutland, Vt., 1922; reprint 1974, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing probably in Platte County, Mo., m. Jane Phelps); Co. Inc.), pages 513-15. Nancy (b. 6 November 1778, Albemarle County, 2 Karen Mauer Green, The Kentucky Gazette, 1801-1820, Va., d. 2 August 1862, Madison County, Ky., m. Genealogical and Historical Abstracts (Baltimore: Gateway Press David Chenault); Silas B. (b. 3 June 1783, Inc., 1985, p. 93. The marriage announcement was taken from Albemarle County, Va., d. 8 November 1842, the 29 December 1806 issue of the Gazette. Madison County, Ky., m. Jerusha White); Mary 3 The Tribble family genealogy is based on the research of Hazel Atterbury Spraker. “Polly” (b. 1783, m. Joseph H. Stevenson)2; Andrew

2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 136 The Alvey Family of England, Maryland, and Kentucky By Robert Lee Alvey Sr. Part Four

John Henry “Old John”Alvey Sr. and his descendants

Parts One through Three of this series brought the Alvey family forward in time from Generation One; Arthur Alvey in England of about 1550 through the son of Jesse Alvey, Benedict Alvey and his two children, Henry and Susannah. Part Three included the known information on Susannah’s descendants after her marriage to her first cousin James Alvey, also a grandchild of Jesse Alvey. The Alvey family saga now continues with a third son of Jesse Alvey, John Henry Alvey Sr., often labeled “Old John” Alvey Sr.1 This John Alvey was most likely Jesse’s oldest son, already established with a wife and daughter in the 1790 St Mary’s County, Md., census. John Henry Sr., along with the family of his deceased brother James Alvey, came to Washington County, Ky., sometime around 1806-1807, a few years after his father’s death in St Mary’s County in 1803. Both John and his sister-in-law Elizabeth “Betsy” Alvey were shown on the 1807 tax lists of Washington County and were included in that county’s 1810 census. Some years later, in 1834, the portion of Washington County where the Alveys settled became part of what is know today as Raywick, Loretto and Chicago (now St Francis) in Marion County. While this branch of the Alvey family moved around substantially in later years, there are still many descendants of John Henry in Marion County. A devout Catholic family when they arrived from Maryland in 1806, the vast majority of this family remains with the Catholic faith today. The church registers and cemeteries of St Francis Assisi in St. Francis, Ky., St. Francis Xavier in Raywick, Ky., Holy Name of Mary in Calvary, Ky., St. Augustine in Lebanon, Ky., St. Charles in St. Mary’s, Ky., all of Marion County and St. Rose in Springfield of Washington County have long lists of the Alvey family descendants. The John Henry Alvey family started as did most families of this area, especially the Catholic families that migrated from Maryland, as farmers. As times changed, the family adjusted and many became blacksmiths, carpenters, tavern owners, and even county employees such as jailers and county office workers. Besides populating the local countryside, this family has members from California to Maine who still visit their cousins in Loretto, Lebanon, and Raywick. Many reside in Louisville, Evansville, and Indianapolis, but still call Marion County, Ky., their home. 2

Stephen (b. 1795, St. Mary’s County, Md.), Jeremiah Generation Seven “Jerry” Alvey (b. 1797, St. Mary’s County, Md., d. 22 John Henry “Old John” Alvey, Sr September 1872, Raywick, Marion County, Ky.), Jesse John Henry “Old John” Alvey (b. about 1757, St. (b. 1799, St. Mary’s County, Md., d. about 1847, Mary’s County, Md., d. before 1850, probably in Marion County, Ky.), Ann “Nancy” (b. 1800, St. Marion County, Ky.), a son of Jesse Alvey and Mary’s County, Md.), John Henry Jr. (b. 1802, St. Emerentia ____, married Elizabeth Williams (b. Mary’s County, Md., d. after 1830, probably in about 1762, Md., d. before 1850, probably in Washington County, Ky.), Jane (b. 27 September Marion County, Ky.) on 13 November 1776 in 1803, Washington County, Ky., d. 15 November Maryland. This date may be too early as I have 1873, Marion County, Ky.), Catherine (b. about found no marriage record in St Mary’s County, Md., 1804, Washington County, Ky.), male child (b. about and it seems no children were born prior to 1787.3 1806), and male child (b. about 1810). John Henry and Elizabeth were the parents of Mary John and Elizabeth are thought to have had at least (b. 4 February 1787, St. Mary’s County, Md., d. 3 the 12 children listed above, but little is know of five August 1821, Marion County, Ky.), Peregrine “Perry” of them. Trecy was living with her sister in the 1850 (b. 1789 St. Mary’s County, Md., d. before 1827, Marion County census; Steven had died before the Washington County, Ky.), Trecy (b. 1792, Md.), 1810 census; and Catherine and the two unknown

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John Henry Alvey Sr. and Elizabeth Williams, married Elizabeth Dennis (b. about 1790, Md.), on 14 May 1813 in Washington County, Ky.5

Jeremiah “Jerry” Alvey Jerry Alvey (b. 1797, St. Mary’s County, Md., d. 22 September 1872, Raywick, Marion County, Ky.), a son of John Henry Alvey and Elizabeth Williams, married Anna Jane “Nancy” Fields (b. about 1803, Nelson County, Ky., d. March 1893, Raywick, Marion County, Ky.), a daughter of Joseph Fields and Ann “Nancy” Harris, on 6 May 1827 in Wash- ington Co, Ky.6 Jerry and Nancy’s seven children were John David Marriage bond for Mary Alvey (b. 4 February 1787, St. “Dabney” (b. March 1828, Washington County, d. Mary’s County, Md., d. 3 August 1821, Marion County, 7 Ky.), a daughter of John Henry Alvey Sr. and Elizabeth 29 October 1908, Marion County), Teresa (b. 20 Williams, who married Charles Thompson in July 1829 Washington County, d. after 1880, m. Washington County on 25 November 1809. Absalom “Abb” Mills), Henry Charles “Harry” (b. 1832, Washington County, d. after 1882, Union males listed in the 1820 Washington County census County, m. Anna Margaret Padgett), Simeon (b. 9 were not listed by 1830. It is possible these were not December 1833, Washington County, d. 3 October siblings, but just children living with John and Eliza- 1916, Daviess County, Ind., m. Elizabeth E. Raney), beth in the 1820 census. The remaining seven chil- Sarah Ann (b. 7 May 1835, Marion County, m. John dren survived to marry and have families of their own. K. Fields),8 George (b. 1 February 1838, Marion County, m. Jane Mattingly), and William Alexander (b. 16 January 1842, Marion County, d. about 1900, Generation Eight Marion County, m. Amanda C. Duncan).9 Mary Alvey Mary Alvey (b. 4 February 1787, St. Mary’s Jesse Alvey Sr. County, Md., d. 3 August 1821, Marion County, Ky., Jesse Alvey (b. 1799, St. Mary’s County, Md., d. daughter of John Henry Alvey Sr. and Elizabeth about 1847, Marion County, Ky.), a son of John Williams, married Charles Thompson (b. 10 October Henry Alvey and Elizabeth Williams, married Sarah 1786, Mecklenburg County, Va., d. 19 July 1845, Ann “Sallie” Blair (b. April 1795, St. Mary’s County, Ind.), a son of Stith Thompson and ______on 25 Md., d. 27 February 1882, Marion County, Ky.), a November 1809 in Washington County, Ky.4 daughter of Peter Blair and Sarah Boyle, on 18 Mary and Charles had three children during their February 1821 in Washington County, Ky.10 short marriage and before the death of Mary, all of Jesse and Sallie’s 11 children were Edmund Duval whom were born in Nelson County. They were (b. 21 November 1821, Washington County, d. 21 Sterling Thompson (b. 28 February 1813, d. 23 July May 1898, St Mary’s, Marion County, m. Frances 1952, Indiana), Elizabeth Thompson (b. 7 Decem- Ann “Nancy” Miles), Charles Francis “Carey” (b. 21 ber 1814, d. 5 July 1860, Indiana, m. O.F. May 1823, Washington County, d. 21 January 1882, Houghland), and William Thompson (b. 3 April Marion County, m. 1. Susan Ann “Nancy” Howard, 1817, d. 1903, Kansas, m. 1. Sarah Sumner and 2. 2. Mary C. _____, and 3. Margaret Ann Miles), Anna Elizabeth Haas). Julia Ann “Julina” (b. April 1825, Washington County, d. after 1860, m. Edward Carey Ferriell), Peregrine “Perry” Alvey Bennett (b. 13 November 1826, Washington Perry Alvey (b. 1789 St Mary’s County, Md., d. County, d. 30 July 1876, Marion County, m. Susan before 1827, Washington County, Ky.), a son of Mary Alvey), Elizabeth (b. May 1828 Washington

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County, d. after 1880, Ky.), Thomas (b. 18 February Nancy and Richard’s five children were James 1830, Washington County, d. after 1850, Marion Harrison (b. 1822, Ky., d. 1 May 1899, Marion County), John Henry (b. April 1832, Washington County, m. Elizabeth “Betsy” Thompson), Mary (b. County, d. 25 October 1904, married Caroline about 1825, Ky.), John (b. 10 August 1825, Wash- Russell), William Marion (b. 25 May 1834, Marion ington County, d. 16 September 1909, Union County, d. 26 August 1910 in Chicago, Marion County, m. Elizabeth Ann “Eliza” Alvey), Clement County, m. Mary Jane “Eliza” Bullock), Jesse Jr. (b. 9 (b. 1831, Ky.), and Richard, Jr. (b. 1835, Ky.) May 1836, Marion County, d. 21 January 1914, Marion County m. 1. Celia Ann Bullock and 2. John Henry Alvey Jr. Theresa Walker), Wilford (b. 27 February 1839, John Henry Alvey Jr. (b. 1802, St Mary’s County, Marion County, d. 30 March 1894, Lyon’s Station, Md., d. after 1830, Washington County, Ky.), a son Larue County, m. Rosa Frances Blair), Mary Melvina of John Henry Alvey Sr and Elizabeth Williams, (b. 8 May 1845, Marion County, d. 6 April 1923, married Elizabeth “Betsy” Blair (b. 1800, St. Mary’s Marion County, m. Joseph Washington Blair). County, Md., d. 17 August 1885, Marion County, Ky.), a daughter of Peter Blair and Sarah Boyle, on Ann “Nancy” Alvey 21 November 1821 in Washington County, Ky. Nancy Alvey (b. about 1800, St. Mary’s County, John Henry and Betsy’s four children were John Md., d. after 1850), a daughter of John Henry Alvey Basil (b. 1822, Washington County, d. before 1900, and Elizabeth Williams, married Richard Lyons (b. Ind., m. Mary Ann Thompson), Priscilla (b. 1825, about 1800, St. Mary’s County, Md.) on 23 Decem- Washington County, m. John B. Ferriell),12 Susan ber 1820 in Washington County, Ky.11 Mary (b. 27 November 1827, Washington County, d. 9 December 1880, Marion County, m. Bennett Alvey), and John Coleman (b. 1830, Ky., d. 30 December 1915).

Jane Alvey Jane Alvey (b. 27 September 1803, St. Mary’s County, Md., d. 15 November 1873, Marion County), a daughter of John Henry Alvey and Elizabeth Williams, married 1. Peter Lampkin (b. about 1800, Ky., d. before 1834, Washington County) on 13 April 1822 in Washington County. She married 2. Henry “Harry” Bickett (b. 1785, Frederick County, Md., d. about 1854, Marion County, Ky.), a son of William Bickett and Priscilla Livers, about 1836 in Marion County.13 Jane and Peter’s four children were John P. (b. 1823, Washington County, Ky., d. 1874, m. Mary Margaret Wright), William A. (b. 1825, Washington County, d. 1914 Marion County, m. Susan Mary Blair), Rosella Lampkin (b. 1827, Washington County, m. 1. Ignatius Mills, 2. James Hardin Blair), and Peter (b. 1829, Washington County, m. Jane “Jemima” McPherson). Tombstone of Sarah A. Blair (b. April 1795, d. 27 February 1882), wife of Jesse Alvey Jane and Harry’s four children were Mary Eliza- Sr. Sarah and Jesse were buried in St. beth (b. before 14 June 1837, Marion County, m. Francis Assisi Catholic Cemetery in Marion Peter G. Hite), Eliza Jane (b. 10 August 1839, County. Marion County, d. 26 March 1914, Raywick,

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Marion County, m. John Jefferson Blair), Francis F. Jerry Alvey and Nancy Fields, married Anna Marga- (b. 19 September 1842, Marion County, Ky.), and ret Padgett (b. 1838, Marion County, d. 8 Septem- Robert Delaune (b. 3 October 1847, Marion ber 1888, Union County), a daughter of Josiah County, d. 6 November 1910, Marion County.14 Padgett and Margaret Mahoney, on 8 November 1853 in Marion County. Harry and Anna’s 11 children were Josiah “Jesse” Generation Nine (b. 4 November 1855, Marion County), Susan Teresa Alvey Amanda (b. 22 October 1858, Union County), Teresa Alvey (b. 20 July 1829, Washington Margaret Ellen (b. 4 September 1859, Union County, County, d. after 1880, Marion County), a daughter d. 16 October 1948, m. Thomas Jefferson Beaven), of Jerry Alvey and Nancy Fields, married Absalom Mary Jefferson “Jessie” (b. 6 April 1862, Union “Abb” Mills (b. before 23 March 1828, Washington County, d. 1903 Union County, m. Charles Benedict County, d. 2 July 1888, Marion County), a son of Alvey), William Henry (b. before 24 February 1865, Joseph H. Mills and Susannah Teresa Ray, on 14 Union County, d. before 1870, Union County), February 1865 in Marion County. George Thomas (b. 25 March 1866, Union County, Teresa and Abb’s three known children, all born in d. before 1870, Union County), Matilda Catherine Marion County, were Julia Ann (b. 19 August (b. 5 December 1870, Union County), Robert Francis 1866), Sarah Alice (16 October 1867), and Eliza (b. (b. 4 October 1872, Union County, d. before 1880, February 1870, d. before 1880, Marion County). Union County), John Anthony (b. 27 April 1874, Union County, d. 22 April 1944, Union County, m. Henry Charles “Harry” Alvey Annie May Perkins), Florence J. (b. 26 November Henry Charles “Harry” Alvey (b. 1832, Washing- 1875, Union County), Francis Henry (b. 2 February ton County, d. after 1882, Union County), a son of 1878, Union County), and Frances Augusta (b. 9

By making his mark, John Henry Alvey Sr. gave consent for his daughter Ann “Nancy” Alvey to marry Richard Lyons on 23 December 1820 in Washington Co. Two of Ann’s brothers—John Henry Jr. and Jeremiah—signed as witnesses. Ann and Richard were both born in St. Mary’s County, Md., and migrated to Kentucky with their families in the early 1800s.

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August 1882, Union County). “Tom” (b. 26 April 1847, d. 14 December 1924, Marion County, m. Sarah Ellen “Sallie” Cissell), Ann Simeon Alvey DeFrosia (b. 8 February 1849, d. 15 June 1944, Simeon Alvey (b. 9 December 1833, Washington Marion County, Ky.),20 Elizabeth Catherine (b. 15 County, d. 3 October 1916, Daviess County, Ind.), a February 1851, d. 26 November 1854, Marion son of Jerry Alvey and Nancy Fields, married Elizabeth County), Margaret Victoria (b. 12 January 1857, d. E. Raney (b. 5 May 1836, Daviess County, Ind., d. 26 26 November 1934, Marion County),21 Benedict December 1924, Bicknell, Knox County, Ind.), a Joseph (b. 27 April 1859, d. 15 April 1921, Marion daughter of Austin Raney and Roselle Ann Carrico.15 County, m. Mary Frances “Babe” Ferriell). The nine children of Simeon and Elizabeth, all born in Daviess County, Ind., were Ruth Ellen (b. Charles Francis “Carey” Alvey 1854), Ann Jane “Nancy” (b. April 1858, m. John F. Charles Francis “Carey” Alvey (b. 21 May 1823, Green), Rose Agnes “Lucretia” (b. January 1860, d. Washington County, d. 21 January 1882, Marion 25 February 1917, Daviess County, Ind., m. 1. County), 22 a son of Jesse Alvey Sr. and Sallie Blair, Ambrose I. Love, 2. John F. Green), William A. (b. married 1. Susan Ann “Nancy” Howard (b. 7 Janu- 1862, d. before 1900, m. Elizabeth ______), Teresa ary 1826, Washington County, d. before 1865), a Catherine (b. 17 June 1865, d. 28 May 1945, daughter of John Howard, on 18 May 1841 in Breeze, Clinton County, Ill., m. John Loyd Todd), Marion County, 2. Mary C. ____ (b. 1831, d. 10 John H. (b. 18 May 1866, d. 22 February 1956, November 1863) about 1865 in Marion County, Daviess Co, Ind.), 16 Joseph Floyd (b. 16 April 1868, and 3. Margaret Ann Miles (b. 1837, Marion Daviess County, Ind., d. January 1960, Daviess County), a daughter of John K. Miles and Ann County, Ind., m. 1. Estella J. Borders and 2. Mary Elizabeth “Nancy” Alvey, on 8 July 1865 in Marion Fields), Mary Adaline (b. 15 April 1871, d. 22 June County. 1969, Bicknell, Knox County, Ind., m. William The 10 children of Carey and Nancy, all born in Thedeus McBride), and Elizabeth Isabell (b. May Marion County, were Sarah Elizabeth (b. 6 March 1875, d. 1908, Daviess County, Ind., m. Levi Todd). 1842, d. 11 January 1911, Marion County, Ky., m. 1. Richard Miles and 2. Richard C. Thompson), Mary George Alvey Ellen (b. 11 June 1843, d. 1 August 1913 Nelson George Alvey (b. 1 February 1838, Marion County, m. Thomas A. Luckett), Laura Ann (b. 22 County), a son of Jerry Alvey and Nancy Fields, November 1845, d. 16 January 1916, Marion married Jane Mattingly (b. about 1840, Marion County, m. John Bernard Mattingly), Elizabeth County) about 1865 in Marion County. Isabella (b. about 1848), Mariah Louisa (b. January George and Jane’s only known child was Elias 1849, d. 11 February 1915), John Thomas (b. 7 April Henry (b. 3 November 1868, Marion County, d. 21 1852, d. 18 June 1931, Marion County, m. 1. Susan August 1938, Louisville, Jefferson County),17 m. 1. Mary Alvey, 2. Mary Belle Lafollette), Martina “Tina” Jana B. “Jennie” Ayers and 2. Margaret Anderson. (b. 1855, d. 10 April 1894, Marion County, m. Richard C. Thompson), Harriet M. (b. 10 September Edmund Duval Alvey 1856, d. 10 August 1859, Marion County), Cecilia Edmund Duval Alvey (b. 21 November 1821, Ann (b. 18 May 1857), and Elizabeth Jane (b. 2 Washington County, d. 21 May 1898, St Mary’s, Marion February 1860, m. James William Mattingly). County), a son of Jesse Alvey Sr. and Sallie Blair, married Frances Ann “Nancy” Miles (b. 14 March 1822 Wash- Julia Ann “Julina” Alvey ington County, d. 17 May 1870, St. Mary’s, Marion Julia Ann “Julina” Alvey (b. April 1825, Washing- County), a daughter of Thomas Miles and Elizabeth ton County), a daughter of Jesse Alvey Sr. and Sallie Buckler, about 1844 in Marion County.18 Blair, married Edward Carey Ferriell (b. 1830, Wash- Edmund and Nancy’s six children, all born in ington County, d. 13 September 1899, Chicago, Marion County, were Mary Jane (b. 10 May 1845, d. Marion County.), a son of John Ferriell and Eleanor 9 December 1922, Marion County),19 Thomas Jesse Blair, on 6 February 1850 in Marion County.23

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Julina and Edward’s seven children, all born in William Marion Alvey Marion County, were William Richard (b. 15 Novem- William Marion Alvey (b. 25 May 1834, Marion ber 1850, d. 19 October 1931, Marion County, m. County, d. 26 August 1910, Chicago, Marion County), Sarah Ann “Sallie” Mattingly), Cecilia Ellen “Tracy” a son of Jesse Alvey Sr. and Sallie Blair, married Mary (b. 5 September 1853, ), John Shelby (b. 2 November Jane “Eliza” Bullock” (b. April 1842, Marion County, 1855), Mary Belle (21 October 1857, m. James d. 12 January 1933, Chicago, Marion County), a Henry Brady), Sarah Louisa “Sallie” (b. 27 February daughter of Samuel Bullock and Ann “Nancy” 1860, m. John Henry Blair), Ann Frances “Fannie” (b. Mattingly, about 1860 in Marion County.24 7 Mary 1863, d. 8 February 1936, Danville, Boyle County, m. Henry Davis), Ann Mary “Annie” (b. 1 William and Eliza’s six children, all born in November 1866, m. George L. Brady). Marion County, were James Thomas (b. 10 Novem- ber 1863), John William “Wilfrey” (b. 10 February Bennett Alvey 1866, d. 23 December 1939, Louisville, m. Flora Bennett Alvey (b. 13 November 1826, Washing- Katherine “Kate” Baird), Ann Mary (b. 31 January ton County, d. 30 July 1876, Marion County), a son 1868), Sarah Eleanor “Ellen” (b. 9 February 1876, d. of Jesse Alvey Sr. and Sallie Blair, married Susan 25 July 1964, Marion County, m. Joseph Lavialle Mary Alvey (b. 27 November 1827, Washington Miles), William Clarence (b. May 1878, d. 8 August County, d. 9 December 1880, Marion County), a 1932, Marion County, m. Frances Anna Blair),25 daughter of John Henry Alvey Jr. and Elizabeth and Florence (b. May 1878 Marion County, Ky.). “Betsy” Blair, about 1850 in Marion County. Bennett and Susan’s four children, all born in Jesse Alvey Jr. Marion County, were Di Ellen (b. 18 June 1851, m. Jesse Alvey Jr. (b. 9 May 1836, Marion County, d. William Bullock), William Marion (b. 22 November 21 January 1914, Marion County, a son of Jesse Alvey 1852, d. 1854 Marion County), Charles Henry Sr. and Sallie Blair, married 1. Celia Ann Bullock (b. “Mose” (b. 11 June 1855, d. 12 November 1927, Louisville, m. Mary Miranda “Mollie” McKune), and James Edward (b. 15 October 1858, Marion County).

Elizabeth Alvey Elizabeth Alvey (b. May 1828 Washington County, d. after 1880, Marion County) was a daughter of Jesse Alvey Sr. and Sallie Blair. It isn’t known if or when Elizabeth married, but she had a daughter she named Susan Mary Alvey (b. 1851, Marion County, d. before 1893, Marion County), who married her cousin John Thomas Alvey, a son of Charles Francis “Carey” Alvey and Susan Ann “Nancy” Howard.

John Henry Alvey John Henry Alvey (b. April 1832, Washington County, d. 25 October 1904), a son of Jesse Alvey Sr. and Sallie Blair, married Caroline Russell (b. about 1840, Ky., d. before 1900, Ky.) about 1865 in Celia A. Bullock, a daughter of Samuel Marion County. Bullock and Ann “Nancy” Mattingly, John and Caroline had one child, Julia Ann (b. 16 married Jesse Alvey Jr. Jesse and Celia March 1866, Marion County.). had 10 children, all born in Marion County.

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22 September 1837, Marion County, d. 15 June 1878, Marion County), a daughter of Samuel Bullock and Ann “Nancy” Mattingly, about 1857 in Marion County. He married 2. Theresa Walker (b. about 1859, Ky., d. 10 February 1915, Marion County) on 9 February 1891 in Washington County.26 Jesse and Celia’s 10 children, all born in Marion County, were Francis Christopher “Frank” (b. 30 September 1858, d. 4 January 1897, Howardstown, Nelson County, m. Ida Mae Boone), John M. “Johnny” (b. 1 December 1859, St. Mary’s, Marion County, d. 25 March 1887, Marion County, m. Elizabeth Ann “Bettie” Cambron), Mary Eliza (b. 6 October 1861, d. before 1908, Washington County, m. James Leonard “Squire” Mudd), Josephine (b. 24 October 1863, d. after 1900), William Thomas (b. 14 February 1866, d. 2 February 1892, Marion Syrious Romanious Alvey Sr. (1877- County), 27 John Albert “Burt” (b. 28 August 1868, 1946) was the youngest of the 10 children of Jesse Alvey Jr. and Celia d. 24 November 1925, Fulton County, m. Gertrude Ann Bullock. Alvey married Marion “Gertie” Gardner), Annie Belle “Nannie” (b. 1871, County native Mary Rebecca Helen d. before 1897, Ky., m. John M. Wayne), Jesse Alvey Hayden and moved to Indianapolis III (b. 1874, d. before 1900), Ellen Celeste “Lessie” about 1920. As shown in the photo, (b. 27 August 1875, m. Joseph Spalding), and Alvey was a watchman for the United Syrious Romanious Sr. (b. 14 January 1877, Marion States Rubber Co. He is buried in Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Holy Cross, County, d. 1 March 1946, Indianapolis, Ind., m. Marion County. Mary Rebecca Helen Hayden). Jesse and Teresa had one child, Estelle A. (b. July 1891, Marion County, d. after 1966, Indianapolis, February 1971, Louisville, m. 1. George Birch and 2. Ind., m. Hubert Alstatt). Joseph W. Ellis), Mary Imelda (b. 25 August 1883, Marion County), Mildred M. (b. 18 August 1887, Wilford Alvey Louisville, m. John Bush), William Clarence (b. 28 Wilford Alvey (b. 27 February 1839, Marion November 1892, Louisville, d. 25 April 1974, Louis- County, d. 30 March 1894, Lyons Station, Larue ville, m. Cecilia Margaret Kippes), John Curtis (b. County), a son of Jesse Alvey Sr. and Sallie Blair, December 1890, Louisville, m. Lula Baxter), Thomas married Rosa Frances Blair (b. 2 December 1847, Curtis “Kirt” (b. 28 December 1893, Marion County, Marion County, Ky., d. 24 May 1940, Okolona, d. January 1986, Seymour, Jackson County, Ind., m. 1. Jefferson County), a daughter of John David Blair Clara Blanche Cole and 2. Gertie ____). and Elizabeth Isabelle Dant, on 23 March 1870 in Marion County, Ky.28 Mary Melvina Alvey The 10 children of Wilford and Rosa were Elizabeth Mary Melvina Alvey (b. 8 May 1845, Marion A “Lizzie” (b. 19 June 1871, Marion County, after County, d. 6 April 1923, Marion County),29 a 1930, m. J. Frank Hayden Jr.), Mary Sarah “Sallie” (b. daughter of Jesse Alvey Sr. and Sallie Blair, married 19 June 1871, Marion County, m. Lewis French), John Joseph Washington Blair (b. July 1836, Marion Arthur (b. 10 November 1874, Marion County, d. 12 County, d. 21 November 1885, Marion County),30 a March 1921, Louisville, m. Anna Mary “Odie” son of Peter “Diecie” Blair and Maria Blair, on 7 Ferriell), Anna Maria (b. 15 March 1876, Marion February 1871 in Marion County. County, m. 1. Robert Douglass, 2. William Reinhart), Alice J. (b. 10 November 1879, Marion County, d. 6 Continued on page 146

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145 2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 The Alvey Family, continued ______

Mary and Joseph’s five children, all born in 11 September 1860), and James Harrison Jr. (b. 22 Marion County, were Peter (b. 1870), John L. (b. August 1864). 1873), William Tyler (b. 1875, d. 17 June 1947, Marion County, Ky., m. Lettie Samuel Devine), John Lyons Sarah Bridget “Sallie” (b. 21 February 1877, d. 29 John Lyons (b. 10 August 1825, Washington December 1942, Valley Station, Jefferson County, County, d. 16 September 1909, Union County), a m. Archie Bernard Downs), and Monroe (b. 1881). son of Ann “Nancy” Alvey and Richard Lyons I, married Elizabeth Ann “Eliza” Alvey (b. 3 July 1835, James Harrison Lyons Sr. Marion County, d. 1895, Union County), a daugh- James Harrison Lyons Sr. (b. 1822, Washington ter of Charles Alvey and Mary Elizabeth “Betsy” Ray, County, d. 1 May 1899, Marion County),31 a son of on 14 February 1854 in Marion County.32 Ann “Nancy” Alvey and Richard Lyons I, married John and Eliza’s six children, all born in Marion Elizabeth “Betsy” Thompson (b. 1826, Washington County, were Mary Elizabeth (b. 5 February 1855, County, d. after 1900), on 9 July 1850, Marion d. about 1894, m. Samuel Washington Gregory), County, a daughter of John Barton Thompson II Amanda Jane “Mandy” (b. 22 September 1857, and Susan Elizabeth Mattingly. Raywick, Marion County, d. 24 December 1925, James and Betsy’s six children, all born in Marion Union County, m. William Preston Crowdus), John County, were John Austin (b. 16 June 1851, m. Thomas (b. 5 December 1863, d. 15 July 1929, Mary Elizabeth “Bettie” Brady), William Henry (b. Union County),33 Richard Henry (b. 29 January 11 December 1853, d. 10 February 1936, Union 1865, Raywick, Marion County, d. 31 July 1935, County, m. Amada Evaline “Eva” Union County, m. Anna Benita Alvey), Mary Ellen (b. 20 Sep- Thompson), Martha Ann tember 1856, d. 12 November “Mattie” (11 June 1870, d. 10 1930, Louisville, Jefferson September 1962, Louisville, County, m. John Bernardi), Jefferson County, m. George Anna B. (b. 1859, m. Joseph J. Thomas Mills), William Virgil Stockton), Thomas Marion (b. (b. 20 August 1877, d. 21 Janu- ary 1898, Union County).

Numerous Alveys attended three Catholic churches in Marion County and many are buried in their cemeteries. The churches are St. Charles Borromeo (center) in St. Mary’s, St. Francis Assisi (right) in St. Francis and St. Francis Xavier (left) in Raywick.

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John Basil Alvey John Basil Alvey (b. 1822 Washington County, d. before 1900, Ind.), a son of John Henry Alvey Jr. and Elizabeth “Betsy” Blair, married Mary Ann Thompson (b. September 1825, Washington County, d. after 1900, Ark.) (25),34 a daughter of John Barton Thompson II and Susan Elizabeth Mattingly, about 1850 in Marion County. John and Betsy’s five known children were Jane (b. 25 July 1853, St. Mary’s, Marion County, d. after 2 November 1854, St. Mary’s, Marion County), Susan Alice “Allie” (b. 3 March 1856, St. Mary’s, Marion County, m. Henry G. Haines), John Henry “Jack” Alvey series author Robert Lee Alvey Sr. posed with (b. 16 March 1859, St Mary’s, Marion County, d. 26 Mary Catherine (Alvey) Jordan and Earl Alvey at St. March 1934, Van Buren, Crawford County, Ark., m. Francis Xavier Catholic Cemetery, in Raywick, Marion Amanda Lavinia “Nell” Stevenson), Thomas N. (b. County, in 1996. Mary Jordan lives in Louisville, Earl in about 24 November 1861, Marion County), and Las Vegas, and Robert lives in Laguna Niguel, Calif. William Preston (b. 19 February 1864, Raywick, Jordan is a g-g-g-g-grandaughter of John Henry Alvey Marion County). Sr., which makes her a first cousin several times removed to Robert and Earl. Susan Mary Alvey Susan Mary Alvey (b. 27 November 1826, Wash- Kingston, Washington County, Ky. Marriage Records, 1792-1878 (Owensboro, 1981), p. 179. ington County, d. 9 December 1880, Marion 5 Margaret Clark Kingston, Washington County, Ky. Marriage County), a daughter of John Henry Alvey Jr. and Records, 1792-1878 (Owensboro, 1981), p. 4 Elizabeth “Betsy” Blair, married Bennett Alvey (b. 13 6 Jerry and Nancy Alvey were buried in St. Francis Xavier November 1826, Washington County), a son of Jesse Catholic Cemetery in Raywick, Marion County. See also Alvey Sr. and Sarah Ann “Sally” Blair, about 1850 in Kington, Washington County, Ky., Marriage Records. Marion County. 7 Dabney Alvey was buried in St. Francis Xavier Catholic Cemetery in Raywick, Marion County. See the children of Susan and Bennett listed under 8 Sarah Ann Alvey married John K. Fields (b. about 1835, the family of Bennett Alvey. Ky.) on 9 November 1856 in Marion County. 9 William Alexander Alvey married Amanda C. Duncan (b. 1 John Henry Alvey Sr. is mentioned as a son and heir in the 27 December 1847 Salem, Ind., d. 18 April 1935, Marion 1803 St Mary’s County, Md., will of his father, Jesse Alvey. The County, Ky.), a daughter of Larkin J. Duncan and Elizabeth name John Henry Sr. is based on the listing of his son John Cooper, on 5 June 1863 in New Albany, Floyd County, Ind. Henry Jr. as Henry Jr. in the 1823 Washington County tax list. 10 Jesse and Sallie Alvey were buried in St Francis Assisi Henry Alvey Jr.’s father was listed as John. Catholic Cemetery in St Francis, Marion County. See also See 2 Father John Lyons, a Roman Catholic priest of the area also Kington, Washington County, Ky., Marriage Records. from the 1950s through the 1970s, abstracted and compiled 11 Kington, Washington County, Ky., Marriage Records. the registers of many churches in Washington and Marion 12 Priscilla Alvey married John B. Ferriell (b. 25 July 1822, counties. They included many Alveys and are in the libraries of Washington County, d. 30 May 1904, Marion County), a son of the Filson Historical Society in Louisville and the Kentucky John Ferriell and Eleanor Blair, on 10 April 1875 in Marion County. Historical Society in Frankfort. 13 Henry “Harry” Bickett was buried in St Francis Xavier 3 The marriage date for John Henry Alvey Sr. and Elizabeth Catholic Cemetery in Raywick, Marion County. Williams was obtained from D.L. Downs, a direct descendant, 14 Robert Delaune Alvey was buried in St Francis Xavier based on his family lore. I have never been able to confirm or Catholic Cemetery in Raywick, Marion County. verify this date from any known record available in St. Mary’s 15 Simeon and Elizabeth were buried in St. Peter’s Catholic County, Md. Cemetery in Montgomery, Daviess County, Ind. 4 Mary Alvey Thompson was buried in St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Cemetery in St. Mary’s, Marion County. For Mary and Charles’ marriage record, see Margaret Clark Continued on page 166

147 2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 Knox County School Census, 1877

School censuses are important documents because they often provide proof of family relationship. Many were also produced annually, allowing researchers to gather information between U.S. census years. One of the school censuses in the KHS collection is a microfilm roll of one taken in Knox County in 1900. It is particularly valuable because it helps document students in the period of the 1890 census, which was subsequently lost. For example, a child born in 1881 would not appear in an available U.S. census until 1900, when he or she would be about age 19. No changes have been made to original text, with the exception of converting months to modern abbreviation rules. Notes appear in parentheses. Census Report of School Children

Knox County

Names of Parents/ Date of Guardians Names of Children Birth Age E.T. England Jr. Milly(?) England June 11, 1892 7 Mrs. Allias Owens Joseph Owens June 1883 18 “ “ “ Mit(?) March 22, 1890 11 James McManny Charles McManny Dec. 1891 10 “ “ Evan March 29, 1894 7 George Busham Frank Busham June 1, 1887 14 “ “ Gordius Mar. 24, 1889 12 “ “ John Feb. 4, 1891 10 S.M. Cannons Chelsa Jan. 6, 1886 15 “ “ Earnest Nov. 21, 1887 14 “ “ Aurthur D. May 24, 1889 12 “ “ William H. Sept. 27, 1891 10 “ “ Lacia June 14, 1894 7 Alijah Haskin Alex Enquian 1887 14 J.S. Higmight Anna Price July 10, 1890 11 Mary Burgess Molden July 24, 1885 16 “ “ Anny Feb. 22, 1887 14 Woodson Jordan Arend(?) Oct. 16, 1885 16 “ “ Reletha Jan. 26, 1889 12 “ “ Melia Jan. 1891 10 “ “ Ethel July 1895 6 T.J. Vurmillion Auther Mar. 19, 1889 12 “ “ George E. May 26, 1891 10 “ “ Walter Dec. 18, 1893 8 Frank Shupe Delva(?) Jan. 3, 1888 13 “ “ Nemey(?) Oct. 2, 1890 10 “ “ Delama March 20, 1892 9 “ “ Fannit June 22, 1895 6 D.B. Bright Rachail A. 1886 15 “ “ Olita 1882 19 “ “ Elijah 1889 12 Marthia Short Henry Jan. 1, 1886 15 “ “ John March 26, 1894 7

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Humphrey Dausson Thomas Oct. 22, 1890 11 “ “ Edward July 7, 1892 9 M.L. Brown Laure July 7, 1892 8 Thomas May James T. Feb. 9, 1888 9 “ “ Allias 1893 8 T.M. Richardson Arther Aug. 20, 1892 9 “ “ Frank March 18, 1894 7 G.T. Taylor Mary Feb. 25, 1893 8 “ “ James R. March 13, 1894 7 Joseph Tuggle Henry 1881 19 “ “ Charles 1885 15 “ “ Zalitha 1882 17 “ “ Willie April 1899 11 Dudley Claire James April 30, 1881 19 “ “ Elizza May 8, 1882 18 “ “ Mary L. Feb. 4, 1891 9 “ “ Willie L. March 9, 1893 7 G.W. Relford John A. Dec. 1888 12 Allen Burgess James Oct. 15, 1886 14 “ “ George Dec. 16, 1889 11 “ “ Cora Feb. 23, 1891 9 “ “ Della April 13, 1893 7 “ “ John H. Jan. 29, 1882 18 A.M. Hemphill John 1882 18 “ “ Arteamus 1884 16 “ “ Fred 1889 11 S.B. Reese Sussie July 30, 1889 11 Haitan Golden Susa (married) July 21, 1883 18 John E. Golden Steave(?) March 24, 1890 11 James “ Rosey Jan. 4, 1894 6 H.H. Steele Gertrude Jan. 4, 1894 7 “ “ Gladeys Aug. 20, 1895 6 Josh Stanfill Bill Aug. 10, 1890 8 “ “ John Jan. 5, 1884 7 James Sulliman Ola Nov. 10, 1889 12 “ “ Manland Oct. 5, 1890 9 R.M. Cole Myrtle Aug. 11, 1892 7 E.T. England Kate July 15, 1884 15 C.H. Horndorn Daniel H. July 25, 1899 10 “ “ Ben C. Dec. 25, 1892 8 R.H. Vermillian Oscar Feb. 3, 1884 16 “ “ Walter Dec. 27, 1892 10 “ “ Nettie(?) Sept. 13, 1894 7 C.W. Eming Ema L. Nov. 23, 1894 6 Susan Parrot Fannie Dec. 14, 1891 10 D. Buts John Dec. 19, 1886 6 “ “ Harry Aug. 11, 1889 11 J.C. Ballard Dane Aug. 31, 1883 17

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“ “ Edger Feb. 26, 1886 15 “ “ Lelia Jan. 14, 1888 12 “ “ Jesse Jan. 10, 1891 10 “ “ Bay June 10, 1890 7 Thomas Messemore William June 29, 1892 18 “ “ Margret E. March 12, 1889 12 Wm. Betey(?) Robbert April 6, 1893 7 “ “ Mary/Maney(?) Sept. 7, 1894 6 Julia Sheppard Julia June 1885 15 Thomas Hindam Flord(?) June 14, 1886 14 Mr. Hindam Mary Oct. 12, 1888 12 “ “ Lilly June 29, 1892 7 M.C. Hamell Maggie Nov. 16, 1884 17 Mairegriett Pugh Jaiwilder Nov. 14, 1895 6 J.D. Black Gerlude July 7, 1881 19 “ “ Georgia Oct. 20, 1885 16 N.(?)W. Plank Floyd May 21, 1891 9 “ “ Gracie Aug. 20, 1892 8 _._. Janis Lula Sept. 10, 1885 15 “ “ Anna Jan. 27, 1890 10 Mattie Baker Cleo Feb. 28, 1884 17 A.G. Bartun John Nov. 3, 1882 18 W.M. Lach(?) Daisy Badnob 1889 12 J.M. Riddell Lyman Benjimin Dec. 28, 1883 18 Lee Scott(?) Lee (married) June 27, 1881 19 “ “ Polly Feb. 20, 1882 18 Wm. Davis Clarance March 7, 1894 7 J.H. Smith Charles H. March 15, 1886 15 Conie Dickerson Jessie Sept. 11, 1885 16 “ “ Guy Oct. 19, 1893 8 Nancy Wilson James June 24, 1884 16 “ “ Dave April 3, 1886 14 “ “ Enis Aug. 19, 1888 12 “ “ Florence March 9, 1891 10 J.S. Miller Jessie June 24, 1890 10 B.B. Golden Effie Parrot June 11, 1881 19 “ “ Clair April 17, 1883 17 “ “ Lenard June 27, 1889 11 “ “ James Sept. 21, 1891 9 Lue Ward Mitchl Oct. 29, 1889 12 H.H. Riddell Daniel J. Dec. 10, 1884 16 W.R. Reader Ora May 12, 1881 19 “ “ Oscar June 20 1885 15 “ “ Walter July 15, 1891 10 Henry Fahy(?) George Feb. 7, 1887 14 J.T. Beddam Darna/Dama(?) Price March 11, 1888 13 “ “ John Feb. 13, 1890 11 John D. Dozier(?) James Sept. 29, 1889 12

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“ “ Juroe(?) July 28, 1893 7 Geo. Dunn Anna (married) Oct. 28, 1882 18 “ “ Ida J. April 16, 1886 14 “ “ Myrtle May 10, 1890 8 James Harklerood Narmie/Marmie T. (married) Dec. 25, 1881 19

James McQuery Elizabeth (married) March 29, 1882 18 Robert Wyat Betes/Betts(?) May 10, 1891 10 L.C. Miller Alex 1893 8 “ “ Ray 1895 6 Louisa Hughs Maggie E. Dec. 24, 1883 17 H.C. Cale/Cede(?) Maude Dec. 31, 1894 6 G.H. Albright Clarence Dec. 15, 1887 13 “ “ Lilly April 11, 1890 10 “ “ Anna D. Oct. 27, 1894 7 J.A. Stephens Ada May 28, 1895 6 John Barten James July 20, 1891 9 “ “ Lilly June 16, 1894 7 J.H. Blackburn Cora July 19, 1889 11 “ “ Winnie Oct. 8, 1892 9 “ “ Pattie M. April 21, 1894 6 J.T. Gibson Lillian Feb. 8, 1882 19 _.D. Faulkner Louis Nov. 27, 1884 17 “ “ David Oct. 28, 1887 13 T.S. Wilson Henry Feb. 11, 1882 19 “ “ Roxy L July 19, 1884 16 “ “ James B. July 8, 1888 12 “ “ Leaner (Lena) A. May 26, 1886 16 “ “ Alice Nov. 28, 1890 10 J.H. Tinsley Ben June 23, 1888 12 “ “ Morgain Dec. 22, 1894 9 W.W. Tinsley George Dec. 1, 1882 18 “ “ Mary Dec. 11, 1886 14 “ “ Alex May 27, 1889 10 “ “ Lucie April 8, 1893 7 D.T. Smith Leaner (Lena?) Oct. 15, 1882 18 “ “ Benjiman Dec. 16, 1884 16 “ “ Amanda March 14, 1888 13 “ “ Willie March 10, 1893 8 “ “ Loid (Lloyd?) March 14, 1895 6 Serry(Sarah?) Lane Daisy E. Feb. 2, 1884 16 “ “ George R. June 18, 1886 14 “ “ Bertha R. Nov. 21, 1887 13 “ “ Nelly S. Feb. 14, 1890 10 “ “ Thomas R. April 14, 1892 8 S.B. Dishman Laure(?) April 13, 1882 18 “ “ William April 4, 1883 17

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“ “ Benjiman Sept. 16, 1884 14 Alex Sumer(?) Charles W. Sept. 11, 1891 9 Amelia Culton John Feb. 12, 1881 18 “ “ Bennie July 18, 1884 16 “ “ Annie Aug. 27, 1887 13 C.M. Price William Dec. 3, 1884 16 “ “ Winnie April 26, 1884 14 “ “ Bessie Nov. 21, 1889 11 “ “ Martha Sheppard 1880 19 James Gaylord James B. Jr. May 12, 1888 14 T.F. Faulkner Willie H. Oct. 14, 1888 12 “ “ James E. Nov. 2, 1889 11 “ “ Nannie T. March 14, 1891 10 “ “ Robert T. Aug. 2, 1892 8 “ “ Laure M. Feb. 25, 1895 6 Thomas Buts Nannie E. March 12, 1890 11 “ “ Martha M. Feb. 18, 1891 10 “ “ Elmer March 31, 1893 8 “ “ Lou June 19, 1895 6 Sarah Smith Holan(?) Sept. 13, 1889 11 Y.T. Collins Games (James?) Feb. 9, 1891 8 A.W. Hopper Charls (Charles?) Black Feb. 9, 1889 11 J.A. Owens Lizza Sept. 3, 1885 16 “ “ Della Nov. 15, 1886 15 Lisey Pirce (Pierce?) Lisey Nov. 15, 1883 17 Sally(?) Horton Sally Jan. 25, 1883 17 ____ Hudson Walter Hudson June 13, 1884 16 Peter Jarvis H.P. Jarvis March 4, 1882 18 “ “ J.H. Jarvis Feb. 10, 1884 16 Sarah Hatsfield Mary Aug. 29, 1881 19 “ “ Lumpin(?) Sarey (Sarah?) 1894 6 S.B. Reese Maud 1893 7 “ “ Bradley 1894 6 B.S. Matthews Kathrine 1881 19 “ “ George 1882 18 “ “ Allis 1887 13 “ “ Charley 1891 9 “ “ Mabel 1893 7 G.T. Butz Raleigh James 1893 7 J.R. Janes(?) Mammie Oct. 8, 1890 10 “ “ Charley July 30, 1892 8 W.J. Caudill Walter April 17, 1881 19 “ “ Robert June 12, 1882 18 “ “ Gilbert Aug. 20, 1884 16 “ “ Willie Dec. 28, 1884 14 “ “ Henry Nov. 30, 1890 10 James Gregory Willie June 19, 1886 14 “ “ Jesse March 1, 1888 12

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“ “ Ben May 24, 1890 10 “ “ Thomas April 1895 5 Wm. Baker Eleanor 18 “ “ Charalice 15 Mrs. Chas. Shinely Eva Shinely 10 “ “ “ Louis 6 G.M. Jolly Bruce Jan. 17, 1886 14 “ “ Hamer Aug. 10, 1892 8 J.W. Hays Mary May 27, 1883 17 “ “ Laure Oct. 16, 1885 14 “ “ Lilla Dec. 12, 1892 12 J.T. Gibson Sally Feb. 5, 1884 17 “ “ Mary 1890 10 “ “ Fannie 1892 8 R.M. Stanburg Frank July 26, 1889 11 “ “ Mary Jan. 5, 1893 7 J.W. Parker Edwin March 12, 1894 6 James Sawyers Mary June 20, 1886 14 Mrs. Susa Tuggle Blanch 1882 18 “ “ “ Ralph June 6, 1883 17 L.H. Jarvis Carrie 1884 16 “ “ James 1885 15 “ “ Willie May 4, 1889 11 “ “ Nettie Feb. 17, 1890 10 “ “ Floyd Nov. 26, 1893 7 “ “ Lilla 1891 9 H.(?)L. Foley George Feb. 7, 1886 14 _.F.(?). Beddow John 1887 13 Fana(?) 1889 (9?) James C. Nar(?) Floasy 1889 11 “ “ James Jr. 1892 8 “ “ Lida Feb. 1894 6 “ “ Mohelay 1882 18 Arm Reynold Charles 1886 14 P.D. Brittin Daniel C. June 1, 1884 16 Amanda Stamper(?) Allias 1881 19 “ “ G.M. Feb. 17, 1887 13 H.L. Janes Nina Baker 1889 12 “ “ Sherman 1895 6 Mrs. Thomas Brook Agmos 1883 17 “ “ “ Daisy 1886 14 “ “ “ Walter 1890 10 J.D. Maine Charles (married) May 18, 1881 19 “ “ William March 28, 1883 17 “ “ John Aug. 13, 1886 14 “ “ Beadia May 5, 1889 11 “ “ Mollie March 13, 1892 8 Arch Fuller Charles 1883 17

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“ “ Allias 1885 15 Wm. Miller George July 4, 1893 8 “ “ Abner March 8, 1894 6 H.T. Brown (Brawn?) Sudia April 7, 1883 17 G.B. Bain Minnie 1886 14 E.B. Sawyers Clair July 30, 1883 17 “ “ George Jan. 5, 1887 13 “ “ Edwin July 3, 1890 9 “ “ Mary April 9, 1892 7 “ “ Bessie Sept. 5, 1894 6 Gum Keller Della April 4, 1884 16 T.B. Barner(?) Walter June 30, 1882 18 “ “ Nana Nov. 30, 1887 13 “ “ Nelley March 13, 1891 9 T.J. Mitchell Setella Sept. 30, 1881 18 “ “ Nerva June 3, 1887 13 “ “ Evie June 20, 1889 11 Wm. Dixon John Sept. 1886 14 W. Harris Theo Sept. 16, 1883 17 “ Solman T. Nov. 9, 1884 16 “ Elizza E. April 15, 1886 14 “ Sudie G. July 4, 1887 13 “ Zylem(?) C. March 9, 1889 11 “ Billy Hue Dec. 25, 1893 7 Lauisa Hughes Maggie Dec. 24, 1883 17 C.A. Gillanwater John Feb. 13, 1883 “ “ Roxie Feb. 6, 1888 “ “ Nettie Jan. 17, 1895 T. Buny Nelson Aug. 13, 1883 “ “ Nora Nov. 2, 1888 “ “ Water Aug. 10, 1889 D. Mcdonald James Sept. 26, 1881 19 “ “ George M. Aug. 26, 1883 17 “ “ Robert B. March 13, 1886 14 “ “ Vader Nov. 13, 1887 13 “ “ Minnie E. Jan. 10, 1890 10 “ “ Maud M. Jan. 27, 1894 6 W. Gilbert Edgar Jan. 3, 1883 18 “ “ Pearl Beddow Oct. 24, 1884 16 “ “ George “ Nov. 26, 1886 14 Robert Tuttle Axie July 31, 1885 15 “ “ James M. Oct. 30, 1891 8 “ “ Grannel Nov. 19, 1893 6 “ “ Callie June 14, 1895 5 Peter Hinkle Martha E. June 25, 1884 16 “ “ Rachial May 27, 1889 11 J.C. Golden Hasko Aug. 7, 1891 9 C. Moore Ben March 6, 1889 11

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“ “ Martha Oct. 16, 1886 15 “ “ Lillian July 15, 1883 17 George Vermillion Bucher (married) Nov. 26, 1883 18 Maggie Turner Graves Feb. 5, 1884 16 “ “ Oscar March 22, 1886 14 “ “ Jenny April 22, 1888 12 Martha Hinkle James Aug. 1889 11 T.R. Matthew Alta Walker March 8, 1887 13 “ “ Henry Jan. 27, 1885 15 “ “ Amas Feb. 15, 1893 8 W.M. Hinkle Charlie Aug. 20, 1882 18 “ “ Lom(?) Jan. 9, 1886 14 “ “ Willie June 17, 1889 11 Lut(?) Davis Charles Lawson(?) June 10, 1885 15 Ora Chamberlin Clide Bledsow(?) Nov. 15, 1893 8 Worthie Chamberlin Worthie June 28, 1881 15 Robert Shupe Allias Nov. 12, 1888 12 “ “ Josh Dec. 3, 1890 10 “ “ George Sept. 13, 1891 9 “ “ Elimir (Elmer?) Feb. 24, 1893 7 W.R. Ballenger Mary Aug. 31, 1887 13 “ “ Morgre(?) April 12, 1890 10 “ “ Lillian A. July 30, 1891 9 “ “ Lucia Sept. 10, 1893 7 “ “ Anna June 13, 1895 5 J.W. Murphy Birdie Feb. 8, 1885 15 “ “ Gilbert(?) June 28, 1887 13 “ “ Garrard Oct. 5, 1889 11 “ “ John Aug. 21, 1893 7 H.C. Mays William Sept. 28, 1883 18 “ “ Frank Nov. 25, 1885 15 A.M. Decker Hattie May 17(?), 1885 15 “ “ Jessie July 18, 1887 13 “ “ Elmer March 7, 1892 8 “ “ Andrew Aug. 17, 1890 10

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The Alex Sevier mentioned in the census (see page 166) was Alexander Sevier (b. 11 September 1847, Clay County, d. 4 September 1928, Barbourville, Knox County), a son of John Rector Sevier and Nancy Ewing, who married Nancy Sawyer (b. 30 October 1861, Knox County), a daughter of William Wallace Sawyer and Marena Kenner, on 13 December 1883. The couple’s children were Cora Bales (b. 13 September 1884), Alexander Ewing (b. 1 November 1886, d. 6 December 1906), Marena (b. 6 February 1889, Barbourville, m. William Joseph Madden), and John Rector II (b. 23 October 1891, Barbourville, d. 14 April 1953, Louisville, m. 1. Ruth Hamilton, 2. Irene Hamilton).

155 2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 Jacob and Susan Garr and Their Family Within the Plainview Apartments development, along Whetstone Way in eastern Jefferson County, there is stone- walled, 19th-Century family graveyard. Like many similar ones all across the state, the graveyard has been vandal- ized. There is evidence of a large monument, though no obelisk or other large-scale stone is present. Two of the four standing stones have been placed in concrete. Plastic flowers can be seen on the ground. The transition of the surname spelling from Gaar to Garr is reflected in Susan’s stone, with the spelling “Gaar” and those of her children, whose stones are spelled “Garr.”

Standing stones, set in concrete his double first cousin Susan Gaar (b. 3 February 1781, Madison County, Va., d. 7 July 1861, Susan Jefferson County, Ky.), a daughter of John Gaar and Wife of Jacob Gaar Born in Madison Co. VIRGINIA Born Feb. 3, 1781 Died July 7, 1861

Jacob Garr Born Mar. 20, 1782 Died Oct. 28, 1854

Standing stone

James O. Garr Born Oct. 15, 1828 Died Sept. 1, 1850

(Broken stone, showing lower portion of letters and numbers) April 17, 1813

(Broken stone, showing upper portion of letters and numbers) A.G. Garr Born June 3, 1816 Susan Garr (b. 3 February 1781, Madison County, Va., d. 7 July 1861, Jefferson County, Ky.) was her (Unreadable standing stone) husband’s double first cousin, a daughter of John Gaar Margaret? ____ and Margaret Wilhoit. Susan and Jacob shared the same maternal and paternal grandparents, Lorenz Gaar and Dorothea Blankenbaker and Johann Christian Jacob Gaar (b. 20 March 1782, Culpeper County, Willheit and Margaret “Peggy” Walburga Weaver. They Va., d. 28 October 1854, Jefferson County, Ky.), a were married on 18 June 1812 in Madison County, Va., son of Andrew Gaar and Christina Wilhoit, married and had at least seven children.

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Margaret Wilhoit, on 18 June 1812 in Madison Creek valued at $850. He was a white male over 21 County, Va.1 with six slaves over 16 (15 total) valued at $4,000. In 1832, Jacob and a cousin, John Fisher Gaar, He owned 11 horses and mares, three mules valued left Madison County in “a little two-horse wagon” at $120, 13 head of cattle valued at $80, and 37 for Kentucky. After four weeks, the men arrived in hogs over six months old. Certainly well-to-do, Garr eastern Jefferson County, Ky., where Jacob found a also was the owner of one “pleasure carriage or 300-acre tract he liked well enough to purchase.2 barouche” and one “silver lever” watch, for which he Bringing his family to their new home, Gaar was taxed. The total value of his possessions was began building a prosperous farm. He appears on the $34,100, which made him by far the wealthiest man 1850 census as 68 years old, born in Virginia, with a in his immediate vicinity.3 real estate value of $3,500. Susan was 66, born in The children of Jacob and Susan, all born in Virginia. The children in the household were Madison County, Va., were Joseph Wilhoit (b. 13 Horace, 18 (b. Ky.); N.H. 25 (b. Va.), and J.O., 21 July 1814, m. Paulina Elizabeth Allen), Alfred (b. Va.), all listed as farmers. Gallatin (b. 3 June 1816), Oliver Perry (b. 14 April In the 1852 Jefferson County tax list, Garr owned 1818, m. 1. Margaret Amelia Head, 2. Josephine four tracts of land: 233 acres along Beargrass Creek Sylvinia Rich) 4 , Benjamin Louis (b. 17 August 1820, (his residence) valued at $9,000; 370 acres along the d. 27 October 1887, m. Kazia Russell), Newton Ohio River valued at $18,000, 104 acres along Pope Hamilton (b. 2 August 1825, m. Berilla Ann Yager), Lick valued at $1,600; and 43 acres along Beargrass James Osborne (b. 15 October 1828), and Horace Stringfellow (b. 7 April 1832, m. 1. Eliza Jane Yager, 2. Margaret Elizabeth Byrne). Jacob’s three-page, legalistic will divided his property among his six living sons. Joseph, Oliver, Newton, and Horace each received a fourth of Jacob’s 475 acres along the Ohio River (“four miles below Louisville”) which had been conveyed “more that twenty years ago” by Thomas Garland. Joseph and Newton received the portion that included the house in which each resided.5 Benjamin and Alfred split the 300-acre farm “near the Shelbyville Turnpike road about Ten miles from Louisville” and 104 ½ acres “called the Abell tract” at the headwaters of Pope Lick and “Chenoweth’s Run,” which was “about 2 ½ miles eastwardly from my home place.” Benjamin also inherited his father’s house, but the two brothers’ property was to be made equal in value, including land and improvements. The valuation was to be made by “four discreet citizens of Jefferson County,” residents of Jacob’s neighborhood, who would value the property and divided it into lots for each son. Alfred and Benjamin could retain the land jointly,

G.T. Bergmann map, 1858 but neither could sell to anyone outside the family G.T. Bergmann’s 1858 map of Jefferson County shows without the consent of “such of my sons as said land Jacob Garr’s land in the joint possession of his sons may adjoin,” and each was to have “convenient and Alfred and Benjamin L. Garr. Other kinsmen, including necessary access and outlet” to his land. Levi, R.L., and Henry Garr are also shown. In the will Jacob also said: “I give my negro man

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1 Jacob and Susan’s fathers, Andrew and John Gaar, respectively, married sisters Christina and Margaret Wilhoit. They shared the same maternal and paternal grandparents, Lorenz Gaar and Dorothea Blankenbaker and Johann Christian Willheit and Margaret “Peggy” Walburga Weaver. 2 History of the Ohio Falls Cities and Their Counties (Cleveland, 1882), p. 63. John Fisher Gaar was Jacob’s first cousin, once removed, a son of Jacob’s cousin Aaron Gaar (b. 20 January 1773, Va., d. 18 December 1804). Jacob and Aaron were grandsons of Lorenz Gar (b. 29 November 1716, Ilenschwang, Bavaria, d. 1753, Culpeper County, Va.) and Dorothea/Dorothy Blankenbaker (b. 11 February 1729-30, Madison County, Va.). John Fisher Gaar purchased land along Cane Run in southwestern Jefferson County, near land eventually owned by Jacob’s sons Joseph, Oliver, Newton, and Horace. 3 Jefferson County 1852 Tax List, p. 12. 4 Jefferson County, Va.-Ky., Early Marriages, Book 3 (June 1837-May 10, 1842) (Louisville: Filson Club publication, 1941), p. 107. Oliver Perry Gaar married Margaret A. Head on 9 September 1841. She was a daughter of Margaret N. Head, who gave consent for the marriage in writing. 5 Jefferson County Will Book 5, pages 593-96.

History of the Ohio Falls Counties John Fisher Garr, above, came to Kentucky with his cousin Jacob Garr in 1832. They left Madison County, Va., in “a little two-horse wagon” and arrived in Jefferson County, Ky., four weeks later. John Fisher Garr was a first cousin once removed of Jacob Garr and a nephew of Jacob Garr’s wife, Susan Garr. John Fisher Garr settled on land in the “Cane Run precinct” of southwestern Jefferson County, near the 475 acres inherited by Jacob’s sons Joseph, Oliver, Newton, and Horace.

Eli to that one of my sons that he shall elect to live with upon the condition however; that the one so elected shall agree to take him as his slave and shall clothe and feed him well and shall pay to said Eli Fifty dollars per year for his labor till he is sixty years old—after that to be treated as other slaves.” All the sons were executors of Jacob’s will. They could elect one administrator, provided he would not be compensated for the service. The will was signed on June 22, 1854, in the presence of George A. The Garr graveyard along Whetstone Way in eastern Caldwell, Isaac Caldwell, and “Ch. I. Meng,” and Jefferson County. Like many other across the state, the was probated on Oct. 30. graveyard has been vandalized.

2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 158 Corinth Deposit Bank, Grant County, Check Book No. 1, 1890 (Part Eight)

Because of the loss of the 1890 federal census, records from the decade of the 1890s are important genealogical sources. The following record of the Corinth Deposit Bank lists customers and payees beginning with the bank’s founding. Dr. W.H. Daugherty–a prominent local landowner–served as first president of the bank, as well as a founding director. The record, along with others, was donated to the Kentucky Historical Society in 1999 by Mr. Giff Kollhoff of Corinth. It is in the possession of the KHS Special Collections department. For more information, contact Archivist Lynne Hollingsworth at (502) 564-1792 or via e-mail at: [email protected]. The present 6th -class city of Corinth, named for the local Corinth Christian Church, was founded on the site of an old stagecoach stop. A post office was established there on October 22, 1868. The city was incorporated in 1878. Notes appear in parentheses. No changes have been made to original text, with the exception of the deletion of check num- bers and daily totals and the addition of modern punctuation. Part Seven appeared in Volume 39, Number 1.

Payer Amount To the order of:

Thursday, June 19th 1890 Alcoke, W.W. 3.70 Commercial Gazette Co. Childers & Beasley 6.50 John Burton Davis & Mathews 26.26 Jennie Dowd Horner, J.F. & Bro. 10.00 J.H. Wright & Son Hudson, J. (D./Dr.?) 20.48 J. Binkenstein Co. Holdcraft, C.W. 5.50 B.G. Johnson Rogers, J.J. 168.70 C.W. Holdcraft Trimnell, T.E. .45 Lexington Steam Laundry Vaughan & Rowsey 20.00 P. Smith & Co. Wood, S.J. 62.50 T.J. Penn(?) Zimmerman, G.W. 10.00 J.A. Severett & Co.

Monday, June 23rd 1890 Davis & Mathews 116.20 W.H. New Gross, B. 75.00 Stewart Henly Do. 15.67 Howell Gano & Co. Do. 60.00 Isaac Hunt & Co. Marshall, G.W. 13.00 G.W. Cook Rogers, J.J. 22.50 J.W. Lawrence Sebree, S.M. 5.00 H.T. Jones Thomason, J.W. 3.00 Kennedy & Dorman Trimnell, T.E. 25.00 Self Zimmerman, G.W. 20.00 W.H. Daugherty Wilson, J.W. 16.37 T.M. Mozingo & Co.

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Tuesday, June 24/90 Alcoke, W.W. 39.46 Cincinnati Coal & Coke Co. Do. 17.67 E.F. Harmeyer Childers & Beasley 6.50 Bev Jones Dunn(?), Louis 2.50 C.P. Wheat Dougherty, R. 50.00 Isaac Marks Gross, B. 98.88 Corinth Deposit Bank Do. 69.83 F.J. Belling & Co. Do. 50.00 Erwin Doisey & Co. Do. 10.60 J.K. Hutcheson Lee, W.A. 15.50 Overman(?) Carriage Co. Lancaster, Harry 7.00 Willis Marksburry Mozingo, T.M. & Co. 31.00 Hale Justis & Co. Scott, W.W. 12.00 G.W. Cook Sullivan, Jas. O. 18.50 S.D. Rogers Sherfy, A.F. 17.45 Do. Do. 129.60 Dr. J.M. Henry Do. 64.83 Herndon Guill Stewart, Katherine Mrs. 73.00 J.D. Perkins Thomason, J.W. 20.00 J. Holbrook, Cash. Trimnell, G.W. 39.00 Herndon Guill Sherfy, A.F. 16.53 Dr. J.M. Henry

Wednesday, June 25th 1890 Cobb, J.D. 5.00 Kennedy & Dorman Denny, Jas. D. 9.00 M. Grubbs & Co. Davis & Mathews 21.79 J.S. Kinman Glass, J.H. 30.75 J. G. Munson Gentry, Robt. T. 1.25 Robt. Lancaster Horner, J.F. & Bro. 25.00 Jane M. Henderson Holbrook, David 26.30 Davis & Smith Kennedy & Dorman 27.00 J.H. Dorman Do. 77.50 J. Holbrook, Cashier Lancaster, J.W. 3.75 J.F. Horner & Bro. Lee, N.W. 15.75 Wm. Gains Line(?), C.C. 35.00 Self Morgan, W.N. 15.00 Self Ruddle, C.J. 4.00 Self Rogers, J.J. 110.10 L. Nall Do. 50.00 J.H. Glass Do. 44.89 Do. Sherfy, A.F. 24.50 W.H. Mullberry Do. 8.00 Martha J. Hamilton Do. 23.00 Lewis Morgan Do. 54.00 Do. Trimnell, G.W. 28.10 Louisville Tin & Stove Co. Wheat, C.P. 76.00 J.D. Perkins

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Thursday, June 26th 1890 Alcoke, J.W. 7.27 Sammons & Stephens Childers & Beasley 299.55 C.E. Mallory Dougherty, R. 50.00 Wash & Reed Dunaway, G.B. 142.20 John W. Dunaway Gentry, Robt. T. 2.00 Miss Disney Maxwell Glass, J.H. 10.00 H. Trigg Hudson, P.G. 18.00 P.H. Smith Holdcraft, C.W. 58.15 J.W. Vance Marshall, G.W. 50.00 Gram Breed(?) & Co. Musselman, W.T. 15.00 Self Neal, S.D. 4.48 J.W. Pence Perkins, J.D. 1.00 T.M. Mozingo Parker, E.T. 15.00 W.E. Twill Rogers, J.J. 78.00 W.B. Glass Do. 30.82 R.N. Judy Do. 27.95 D.B. Bridges Do. 69.84 Julia C. Barford Do. 46.00 Jerelda Jones Simon, J.T. 151.27 Self Sherfy, A.F. 77.70 H. Skinner Do. 30.97 Do. Slatten, Matt. 107.50 4th Natl. BK. Cinti, O. Do. 26.69 Louis Sticks & Co. Stevenson, M.A. 60.00 Self Works, LT. 50.00 W.G. Frank, Cash. Wheat, C.P. 107.00 Geo. Rafclift Zimmerman, W. 5.50 A. Wetzenbacher & Co. Childers & Beasley 5.00 Geo. Trimnell Perkins, J.D. 18.34 Geo. Ratclift Hinton, G.W. 20.00 Millier(?) Hinton

Friday, June 27th 1890 Baker, J.A. 5.00 Ella Roland Daugherty, R. 14.00 J.M. Hunt Dunn, Louis 25.00 Self Godman, Joseph L. 8.00 Self Gentry, Robt. T. 2.75 J.W. Skinner Gill, J.C. 47.50 R.A. Crouch Ireland, J.W. 45.80 Jesse Holbrook Lee, W.A. 3.00 B.A. Prather Price, J.B. 100.00 Utter Adams & Co. Perkins, J.D. 300.10 Robt. T. Gentry, Cash. Rogers, J.J. 26.00 J.S. Johnson Do. 41.20 J.R. New Do. 12.25 G.W. Honaker Slatten, Matt. 8.25 Cincinnati Suspender Co. Squiar, Lina Mrs. 500.00 Self

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Morgan, R.N. 59.60 James S. Gill Do. 200.00 R.N. Morgan Wheat, C.P. 20.00 J.B. Jones Wilson, J.W. 4.25 Wolf & Roberts Wood, Olive 20.00 E.M. Wood (Son)

Monday, June 30th 1890 Abbott, J.A. 5.00 Self Beard, A. 25.00 J.L. White Gill, J.C. 75.00 Self Glass, J.H. 18.00 W.L. Robinson Horner, J.F. & Bro. 400.00 J.F. Horner Lancaster, J.W. 3.00 C.B. Skeggs Marshall, G.W. 8.00 G.W. Cook Musselman, W.T. 10.00 Self Morgan, H.C. 14.00 Felix Edmonson Sebree, S.M. 7.00 Kennedy & Dorman Thomason, J.W. 6.00 Kennedy & Dorman Do. 40.00 “ Do. “ Wilson, J.W. 23.75 C.B. Skeggs

Tuesday, July 1st 1890 Campbell, T.H. 16.50 Julia Vest Childers & Beasley 4.75 Frank Childers “ Do. “ 5.50 Bev Jones Childers, W.H. 256.00 F. Simon Gentry & Trimnell 6.10 Robt. T. Gentry “ Do. “ 6.09 Thos. E. Trimnell Hudson, P.L. 50.00 Saml. Ack & Co. Jones, J.B. 5.00 Self Slatten, Matt. 137.70 Mack Stadler & Co. Trimnell, G.W. 32.20 Miss Mattie B. Spangler Ruddle, W.B. 1.00 J.L. Lee

2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 162 Tombstone Inscriptions, Jefferson County The following appeared in Volume 27 of the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society in January 1929. The transcriptions were done by Alice E. Trabue, then chairwoman of historical research for the Colonial Dames Society. Trabue (b. Frankfort, Ky., d. 16 August 1961, Louisville) was author of the book A Corner in Celebrities, which influenced the decision to save several historic homes in downtown Frankfort. She was an honorary vice president of the Kentucky Historical Society in the 1920s and 1930s. Though the information may not appear exactly as it did on the tombstones, no changes have been made to the original Register text.

Fox Hill: the old Bazil Prather homestead Infant and only child of R.C. & L.F. Daniel In 1926, this graveyard was within land owned by Frank Flusser Snead. Laura France Daughter of Tarlton & Lucinda J. Cox, Thomas Prather and wife of Richard Curd Daniel Born March 6, 1795 Born Feb. 3, 1840 Died Dec. 25, 1843 Died Aug. 12, 1864 When my soul wings its flight, Elizabeth C. In the regions of Night Consort of Thomas Prather And the friends of my heart pass my bier Born July 19, 1794 As they look on the tomb Died July 21, 1864 Where my ashes consume Aged 70 years & two days Oh, moisten the dust with a tear.

Nannie Prather Elizabeth Elliott Prather Consort of William A. Cocke Born May 24, 1864 Born Dec. 14, 1820 Died June 26, 1864 Died June 26, 1854 Aged 24 years, 8 mos., 22 days Mary Anne Prather Born April 27, 1864 Nannie Matilda Died March 21, 1866 Only child of Wm. A. & Nannie P. Cocke Died July 17, 1855 Archer Aged 14 months, 19 days Aged 5 years & 10 months.

Samuel M. Dickenson Frances Born July 24, 1832 Wife of J.R. Williams Died Feb. 1, 1858 Born Aug. 15, 1770 He died in the full hope of a glorious resurrection. Died Feb. 24, 1850

Fannie Neville Note: Capt. Bazil Prather, of the Revolution is Daughter of W.L. & Laura C. Prather buried here, but his grave is unmarked. He married Born August 23, 1852 Frances Merewether. Her grave is that of Frances, wife Died June 27, 1864 of J.R. Williams.

(On large stone:) Laura A.

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Rudy Burial Ground Cordelia Talbot Ross On Westport Road, Northside. Born May 31st , 1854 Died on Good Friday, March 29, 1861 James M. Rudy Our Lela Son of George & Eliza Rudy Born Jan’y 8, 1825 Laura Neville Ross Died July 23, 1837 Born March 1, 1862 Died June __, 1862 Emily Aged 4 months Daughter of George & Eliza Rudy Born June 11, 1835 Sarah Payne Ross Died April 17, 1836 Born Dec. 22, 1862 Died Jan. 3, 1864 George Rudy Born in Pennsylvania Burks’ Burial Ground September 2, 1794 At Cannon’s Lane and Bardstown Road, in 1926 Departed this life on the farm of T.M. Murphy. October 19, 1854 Here lies the body of James Burks. “Magnolia Farm” He was married August 7, 1823, to Mrs. Matilda In Herr’s Lane, East side between Westport and Ross Brownsboro roads. In 1926, this graveyard was Died October 25, 1841 in the 64th year of his age, within land owned by “Mr. E. Tachau.” Leaving these children: John , Elizabeth, James, Samuel, Charles and Mamie. Conway O. Herr Born January 16, 1823 Here lies the body of Matilda, wife of James Burks Died June 15, 1876 Died June 16, 1853, aged 56 years.

John Herr Charles Born April 11, 1798 Son of James & Matilda Burks Died December 9, 1863 Born Jan. 31, 1834 Died June 30, 1855 Susan Wife of John Herr Samuel Born April 10, 1804 Son of James & Matilda Burks Died Nov. 26, 1872 Born April 7th, 1851, in his twentieth year.

Little Albert Infant son of Samuel B. & Susan Mills Born & died Jan. 7, 1855

Ross Burial Ground At Avondale, Bardstown Road. In 1926, this site was within “Mr. Erl Dan’s land.”

Our first baby, Dear little Ada

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Continued from page 134 death, as well as her own poor health at the time. My mother, Lucy Mitchell Voris Curpen, was him to enlist; why he left his unit only to return born in 1891 and was named for her grandmother, eight months later. Lucy Mitchell Jenkins Cook, at her request. The After the war, there were various commercial grandmother burned to death shortly thereafter offerings appealing to the emotions and memories of when she fell asleep near a fireplace while holding a veterans and their families. One such effort was a newspaper. “Soldiers’ Memorial” poster, which listed the mem- Strother Moses Cook Jr. served as a missionary in bers and history of the 20th Kentucky Infantry, also Africa, and died at Lagos, West Africa, in 1907. known as the Mercer County Wildcats. The History of Kentucky Baptists, which was A family photograph was taken of the Cook published in 1886, described Strother Moses Cook family around 1888, complete with a vacant chair Sr. as “perhaps the oldest living minister in South and a photograph of their missing son and brother. District Association.” Spencer said “He walks erect, The vacant chair was a common mourning expres- appears to enjoy good health, and seems to be as sion for families who lost loved-ones in the war. It much interested in the cause of the Redeemer, as in came from the song The Vacant Chair or We Shall the days of his youth.” Meet, But We Shall Miss Him, written at Thanksgiv- ing 1861. 1 J.H. Spencer, A History of Kentucky Baptists from 1769 to A personal observation about the photograph is 1885 (Vol. 2) (Cincinnati, 1885), pages 135-36. the striking resemblance of John Stephen Cook and 2 Kentucky Baptists. Cook also served at various times at “Sugar Grove, Pleasant Run, New Salem, Mt. Freedom, Union his father. Also, the sad expression on his mother’s and McCormacks.” face, surely reflecting painful memories of her son’s

Marriages Performed By Rev. Andrew Tribble, continued ______

Continued from page 136 The above Persons was married by me a Regular Do. February Joshua Gillispie & Wm. minister of the gospel agreeable to the foregoing Newland returns. 1812 December Whitfield Broadus & Cathrine Bullard These marriages Solemnized by Mr. Tribble Senior 1811 February David Love & Sally Colly 1812 March Wm. Skinner & Jane Cornellison(?)

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Continued from page 147 on 12 October 1915 in Marion County. She was buried in St Francis of Assisi Catholic Cemetery in St. Francis, Marion 16 John H. Alvey was buried in St. Peter’s Catholic County. Cemetery in Montgomery, Daviess County, Ind. 26 Jesse Alvey Jr. and his wives Celia Ann Bullock and 17 Elias Henry Alvey was buried in Portland Cemetery in Theresa Walker were buried in St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Louisville. Cemetery in St Francis, Marion County. 18 Edmund and Nancy Alvey were buried in St. Charles 27 William Thomas Alvey was buried in St. Francis of Assisi Borromeo Catholic Cemetery in St Mary’s, Marion County. Catholic Cemetery in St. Francis, Marion County. 19 Mary Jane Alvey was buried in St. Francis Assisi Catholic 28 Rosa Frances Blair Alvey was buried in Calvary Catholic Cemetery in St. Francis, Marion County. Cemetery in Louisville. 20 Ann DeFrosia Alvey was buried in St. Francis Assisi 29 Mary Melvina Alvey Blair was buried in St. Francis of Catholic Cemetery in St. Francis, Marion County. Assisi Catholic Cemetery in St. Francis, Marion County. 21 Margaret Victoria Alvey was buried in St. Francis Assisi 30 Joseph Washington Blair was buried in St. Francis Xavier Catholic Cemetery in St. Francis, Marion County. Catholic Cemetery in Raywick, Marion County. 22 Carey and Nancy Alvey were buried in St. Francis Assisi 31 James Harrison Lyons Sr. was buried in St. Francis Xavier Catholic Cemetery in St. Francis, Marion County. Catholic Cemetery in Raywick, Marion County. 23 Julina and Edward Ferriell were buried in Holy Cross 32 John and Eliza Lyons were buried in St. Ann’s Catholic Catholic Cemetery in Holy Cross, Marion County. Cemetery in Morganfield, Union County. 24 William and Mary Jane Alvey were buried in St. Francis 33 John Thomas Lyons was buried in St. Agnes Catholic of Assisi Catholic Cemetery in St. Francis, Marion County. Cemetery in Uniontown, Union County. 25 William Clarence Alvey married Frances Anna Blair (b. 4 34 Mary Ann Thompson Alvey was buried in Forest Park October 1875, Marion County, d. 18 October 1948, Marion Cemetery in Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Ark. County), a daughter of William Richard Blair and Maria Blair,

Knox County School Census, 1877, continued ______

Continued from page 155

H.C. Faulkner Earnest Dec. 2, 1884 16 “ “ Olmer May 9, 1887 13 “ “ Clarence March 3, 1888 12 “ “ Vernon Nov. 8, 1890 10 “ “ Mildred Feb. 15, 1893 8 “ “ Earl Nov. 24, 1895 6 Alex Sevier Cora Sept. 13, 1884 16 “ “ Alex Jr. Nov. 1, 1886 14 “ “ Merena Feb. 6, 1889 11 “ “ John R. Oct. 23, 1891 9 Elizza Naper Becca Aug. 4, 1892 12 “ “ Jesse April 29, 1890 10 “ “ Lucia Jan. 29, 1895 6 John E. Byrley John Nov. 4, 1881 19 A.Y. Anderson Dawes Nov. 28, 1881 19 George Hinkle Myrtle (married) March 5, 1881 19

2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 166 Books on Kentucky genealogy and history contributed to the KHS library by BOOK NOTES authors, publishers, and compilers

Sims Index to Land Grants In West Virginia. (1952. Frederick, Montgomery, Russell, Tazewell, and Reprint 2003. Pp. 866. Indexed. Hardcover, $50, Wythe counties, Virginia, that were used in the plus $3.50 postage and handling. Order from formation of West Virginia. Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 1001 N. In a great many cases the land grants indexed here Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202-3897, or via pre-date the earliest extant census records or supple- the Internet at: GenealogyBookShop.com.) ment existing census records, and are thus indispens- able for finding individuals who lived in the area that Land records comprise one of the most important later became West Virginia. This reprint also in- sources for early American genealogical research, cludes the 16-page supplement of 1956 covering since sometimes they are the only records that can grants of Fincastle, Giles, and Rockingham counties. place an individual in a particular place at a particu- lar time. For this reason Sims Index to Land Grants in Ireland: 1841/51 Census Abstracts (Northern Ire- West Virginia is an important source for anyone land). By Josephine Masterson. (1999. Pp. 538. researching their early Virginia/West Virginia ances- Hardcover, $50, plus $3.50 postage and handling. tors. This work is a facsimile reprint of the 1952 Order from Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., book, which serves as a comprehensive guide to pre- 1001 N. Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202- 1900 land records in West Virginia (which until 3897, or via the Internet at: GenealogyBook- 1863 was part of the Commonwealth of Virginia). Shop.com.) It lists land grants that were made by Lord Fairfax prior to the creation of the Virginia Land Office in The earliest census available for all of Ireland is for 1779, as well as those issued by the Commonwealth the year 1901, earlier censuses having been destroyed of Virginia for land now located in West Virginia, in the fire of 1922 at the Public Record Office in and by the state of West Virginia under its first Dublin. This work is the nearest thing there is to a constitution. The information was compiled by partial reconstruction of the 1841 and 1851 censuses Edgar Sims, once state auditor of West Virginia, of Northern Ireland. The story behind this recon- from copies of land grants filed in his office. More struction is not without interest. The Old Age than 50,000 entries are included, each containing Pension Act was introduced in 1908, but as the civil the name of the grantee, amount of acreage, location registration of births, marriages, and deaths was not and date of grant, and the grant book and page begun in Ireland until 1864, birth certificates were numbers. Sims meticulously examined each record to not available for persons of eligible age (70 years). ensure that the spellings of the names of grantees, For persons applying to the local Pensions Office location, and descriptions of tracts were accurate, without proof of age, the pension officer sent par- and that any variations of spellings of grantees’ ticulars of the claimant to be checked in the 1841 names were also indexed or noted. Records are listed and 1851 censuses held at the Public Record Office for Barbour, Berkeley, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, in Dublin. Details were recorded by the search Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette, Gilmer, officer and returned to the Pensions Office. Signifi- Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hancock, Hardy, cantly, this checking was completed before the Public Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Kanawha, Lewis, Record Office fire of 1922! Logan, Marion, Marshall, Mason, McDowell, The Old Age Pension search summaries for Mercer, Monongalia, Monroe, Morgan, Nicholas, Northern Ireland, bound in books and held in Ohio, Pendleton, Pleasants, Pocahontas, Preston, Belfast, cover the counties of Antrim, Armagh, Putnam, Raleigh, Randolph, Ritchie, Roane, Taylor, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone. In Tucker, Tyler, Uphur, Wayne, Webster, Wetzel, Wirt, some cases a fairly complete family census record was Wood, and Wyoming counties, West Virginia, as written in the summary book, and it is from these well as for the portions of Augusta, Bath, Botetourt, summary books that this present series of census

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abstracts derives. (Most of the Old Age Pension of the family living in the household; and (7) persons records contain only brief notes recording whether or having died in the ten years previous to the census. not a census record was found for the applicant and Entries are in alphabetical order and are cross- whether the age given by the applicant matched the indexed for relatives, lodgers, visitors, and servants. census information.) Only a fraction of the popula- There are also cross-indexes for married and maiden tion is covered by these summary book abstracts, names of daughters and wives. In addition to the wherein altogether a total of 23,000 persons are census abstracts taken from the summary books identified. Admittedly, this is but a small part of the found in the Old Age Pension records, this work also whole, but it is nonetheless an extremely important contains census fragments and miscellaneous census body of genealogical data—previously thought data found in both the Public Record Office of unavailable! Generally speaking, the abstracts con- Northern Ireland (Belfast) and the National Archives tain the following information: (1) the name of the in Dublin. So all is not lost after all, and thanks to head of household; (2) often his marriage date; (3) the diligence of Mrs. Masterson, we have an unex- the wife’s name (and sometimes her maiden name); pectedly powerful tool for filling in gaps in mid- (4) the place of residence for that year; (5) names of 19th-century Irish census records! children and their ages; (6) names of other members ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Kentucky Historical Society will hold a free Beginning Genealogy seminar and workshop on Sunday, March 20, 2005. Hosted by Kentucky Ancestors editor Tom Stephens, the event will include information about first steps in genealogical research and their associated records, along with sources available at historical society facilities. Refreshments and time for research will be included. The event is for adults, and pre-registration is required. Participants should bring any information they have gathered about their family’s history. Contact Joanie DiMartino, toll-free, at 1-877-444-7867, extension 4467.

The Kentucky Historical Society and Kentucky Genealogical Society will hold a Land Records Seminar on Saturday, June 11, 2005. Featured speakers will be Kandie Adkinson of the Kentucky Land Office in Frankfort and Betty L. Warren, genealogist and land platter. For more information, contact Tom Stephens, toll-free, at 1- 877-444-7867, extension 4435, or via e-mail at: [email protected].

The new Bullitt County History Museum is now open in the restored county courthouse. It is located at 300 South Buckman Street (Highway 61) in Shepherdsville. The Bullitt County Genealogical Society provides displays and volunteers for the museum and a research room. Admission is free. Hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, except holidays. For more information, call (502) 921-0161 or write Bullitt County History Mu- seum, P.O. Box 206, Shepherdsville, KY 40165.

The 19th annual Hayes Crossing/Haldeman Reunion will be held July 29-30, 2005 at the Hayes Crossing- Haldeman Fire Department station. For more information, contact Lloyd Dean, 6770 U.S. 60 East, Morehead, KY 40351.

The 31st annual Dean & Creech Reunion will be held on Sept. 4, 2005, at the Carl Perkins Center in Morehead. For more information, contact Lloyd Dean at (606) 784-9145.

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Smith, Waller, Preston McLeod, Bowles, Steed I am trying to verify the parents of Mildred Smith Looking for information about the above families. (b. 1747, Va., d. 1803, Ky.), who married Rev. Any help would be appreciated. William Edmund Waller in 1769 in Virginia. The James M. Steed, 2465 Eastway Drive, couple came to Bryan Station, Fayette County, in Lexington, KY 40503 1785 and moved to Buck Creek, Shelby County, in 1798. According to some sources, the church estab- Graves, Lambert, Hall lished at Buck Creek in 1799 was on land owned by Looking for information about Rice Graves of Mildred’s father. Was he Francis Smith and, if so, Daviess County, who attended West Point and which Francis Smith? I have a source that says the served as a confederate officer during the Civil War. correct Francis had a connection with the Preston Nancy A. Markle, 305 Walnut Street, family. Any help would be appreciated. Middlesex, NJ 08846 Lida Barker, 747 N. Newton St., Gary, IN 46403 E-mail: [email protected] Price, Gano, Major Searching for any information on John Price, who Daugherty, Stringer married Susan Gano in Franklin County in 1797. Need information on any Daughertys and String- Susan was a daughter of Rev. John Gano, who was ers of early Lincoln County. Also need information buried in the Daughters of the American Revolution on the old McCormack Church there. lot in Frankfort Cemetery. John married 1. Elizabeth Eva Martin, 4325 Highway 1194, Redd Major. His will is dated 1832. Susan was Stanford, KY 40484 buried in Missouri. Some members of the family moved to Scott County, others to Missouri. Blankenship, Brown, Cook, Dunbar, Kathy Hall, 131 South Hill Road, Mason Versailles, KY 40383 Need birth and death dates of Angeletta E-mail: [email protected] Blankenship of Russell County, a daughter of Joel and Nancy H. Blankenship, who married Edmond Townsend, Simmons, Martin Cook. Also need parents, siblings, and birth and Searching for any and all information on Nancy death dates of Percilla (Giller) Brown, who married Ann Townsend (b. circa 1830, Ky.), who married 1. James S. Dunbar, a son of Reuben and Lettie Mason Joel Simmons circa 1850 and 2. Abiel Allen Martin Dunbar. They had eight children. circa 1865. She and Abiel resided in Alexandria, Eunice Thomas, 2895 Highway 910, Russell Springs, Campbell County. KY 42642 Joyce Martin Riedlin, 16244 Kline Young Road, Stewartstown, PA 17383-0334 Bishop, Wall, Barr, Jackson, Vaughn, Sprinkle, Sheltman Payton Looking for information on the Bishop, Wall, and Wanted: Information on James Payton (b. 1840), Barr families of Lyon, Crittenden, Hopkins, and who married Amanda Rearden. He was listed on the Caldwell Counties; the Vaughn and Jackson families 1850 census in Franklin County in the household of of Harlan County; and the Sprinkle family of Knox, Cornelius Payton. James and Amanda had four Pulaski, and Lincoln Counties. Napoleon Sprinkle children: Calvin, Lewis Franklin, Albert, and Robert. lived in the Crab Orchard and Green River areas and James was killed about 1889 in an accident while died in Lincoln County. working on a Kentucky River lock. Martha Sutton, 3744 Kentucky Highway 39N, Evelyn Carroll, 1114 Leslie Avenue, Crab Orchard, KY 40419-9637 Frankfort, KY 40601-1246

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Irvin, Martin, Williamson, Seaton physical description, which I would like to add to I am seeking information on my great-grandpar- my information. Thank you. ents, Robert P. Irvin and his wife Mary Ann Martin, Ruth Eager Moran, 5001 Brettshire Way, Okla- who were married in Elkton in 1849. They had two homa City, OK 73142 children. Their daughter Henrietta (b. 1851, d. 1928) married Perry Williamson of Smith’s Grove. Fitzwilliam, Drew, Plantagenet, Skipworth Their son Elisha (b. 1854, d. 1919) married Amanda Desire pedigree charts for: 1. Nehemiah Drew (b. Seaton in Hardinsburg. Other Irvins lived in and 4 December 1806, Baltimore County, Md.); 2. Sir around Elkton and Daysville from 1793 to the Edward Drew (1542-1598) and his wife Bridget 1900s, but I just can’t seem to tie them together. Any Fitzwilliam (b. about October 1595, Killerton help would be appreciated. House, Devon, England); and 3. William Drew and Ernest M. Irvin, 3573 Fullerton Avenue, his wife Adele Plantagenet (via George Fitzwilliam of Alton, IL 62002 Lincolnshire, circa 1400). e-mail: [email protected] Richard Morrissey, 28656 Murrieta, Sun City, CA 92586 Davis, Murley Looking for information on Nathaniel Davis (b. Malone, Updegraff about 1778, Va.), who married Margaret Murley of Looking for information on Benjamin Malone Lexington about 1800. Their children were Daniel and his son Milton Asbury Malone. Milton married (b. Scott County), William B. (b. July 1801, Ky.), Virginia Updegraff (b. 13 October 1825, d. 18 Joshua (b. Nov. 1802, Ky.), Sarah, Alicy/Ailsy, and October 1852) in 1846. He owned land in Kentucky Elijah. The family moved to Jennings County, Ind., around the time of his marriage. then to Iowa. My great-grandfather Lewis B. Davis Barbara J. Hink, 1065 Valley Lane, Unit 307, was born in Jennings County and later moved to Hoffman Estate, IL 60194 Iowa. Family history has it that Nathaniel’s siblings included James, Phanuel, Septemus, and Thomas, all McKinney, Chastain of whom came to Kentucky. I desire correspondence with others working on James K. Davis, 720 Arbor Avenue, No. 33, the McKinney families of early Lincoln, Mercer, Fort Collins, CO 80526-3125 Boyle, and Madison Counties. Descendents of Charles McKinney and Maryann Chastain. Truitt, Stewart, Sparks, Sloan, Schoolcraft, Gail Hawkins, 11615 Sagevale Lane, Nickle, Mescal, Judd Houston, TX 77089-5706 I have been gathering information on men who served in Company A of the Union 7th Kentucky Jackson, Epperson Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. I would I’m researching my Jackson roots. I need informa- like to get information on the following soldiers: tion on Lewis Jackson and Mary “Kitty” Hignite. Wiley Truitt (b. 1843, Owsley County), Silas Lewis is said to have been born in North Carolina Stewart (b. 1839), John Stewart (b. 1836, Ky.), (1832-34) and to have been a son of Gibson Jackson Thomas Sparks (b. 1840, Estill County), James E. (b. 1804, N.C.?). Lewis and Mary had the following Sloan (b. 1841, Estill County), Thomas S. Sloan (b. children, all of whom were born in Knox County, 1839, Ky.), William E.D. Sloan (b. 1845, Ky.), Ky.: John (b. about 1855), Washington (b. 1857), James C. Schoolcraft (b. 1835, Lee County, Va.), Sarah (b. 1864), Gibson (b. 1865), and George. Henry F. Nickle (b. 1838, Anderson County, Tenn.), Gibson (my grandfather) married Mary Epperson of Stephen C. Mescal (b. 1817, Ky.), Charles A. Judd Knox County. (b. 1842, N.C.), and William C. Judd (b. 1842, Peggy Jackson Hutchins, 4623 E. Holiday Est. Court, N.C.). I need names of the soldiers’ parents, wife or Granbury, TX 76049 wives, dates and places of birth and death, and places of burial. Pension papers usually also contain a

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Rogers, Acuff, Waller edition of my book about these families. They Sarah Rogers (b. 1795, Ky.), a daughter of Joseph moved into northern Kentucky from North Carolina and Mary “Polly” (Acuff) Rogers of Scott County, in the late 1700s and settled mainly in what is now married John Waller (b. 1779, Va.). They lived in Gallatin, Owen, Henry, and Scott Counties. How- Scott County from circa 1810 to circa 1832. When ever, there were also some in the Bowling Green area, and where were they married? Also need date and and in Simpson, Warren, and Allen Counties. place of death for Sarah’s mother, Mary “Polly” Anitra (Sue) Streett, 2513 Patricia Court, (Acuff ) Rogers. Falls Church, VA 22043 Marilyn J. Craig, 835 NW 18th Place, E-mail: [email protected] McMinnville, OR 97128-2443 E-mail: [email protected] Barnes, Hawkins, Calvert Am seeking information concerning Hawkins Barnes (b. 1805, near Louisville, d. 1859, Pettis Johnston, McCormack County, Mo.), a son of William Barnes and Francis Need any information concerning the family of Hawkins, who married Martha Patsy Calvert in Benjamin Johnston and Mary McCormack, who 1833. Any information about these four ancestors married on 9 February 1801 in Lincoln County. would be appreciated. After Benjamin died in Lincoln County about 1815, Kay Gregory, 3 Hillside Court, Austin, TX 78746 Mary married Sterling Abernathy (b. about 1819, E-mail: kkg.Austin.rr.com Giles County, Tenn.). The 1820 census in Giles County shows several children: One male under 10, Binion, Dean one female under 10; and two females 10-16. Information needed on Linc and Mary Dean LaJuan DeBarbieris, 813 Holton, Binion, who lived at Grahn, Ky., in the early 1900s. Bellaire, TX 77401-2812 They were closely associated with Matthew Sellers in developing the airplane and flying it at Grahn. Linc Wainscott/Winscott, Razor, Baker, Elrod, was killed while trying to help get the plane off the Roberts, March, Stice ground. Would love to receive stories about the lives of Lloyd Dean, 6770 U.S. 60 East, Morehead, KY 40351 people in these families for inclusion in the next

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171 2004 Kentucky Ancestors V39-3 MYSTERY ALBUM

These three images were found in a house on Stephens Street in Midway, Woodford County, prior to its demolition. Also in the house was a suitcase embossed with the name Juanita Darneal. The woman pictured at top left, perhaps about 1880, may be the same one pictured at bottom left. A Bettie Darneal (b. June 1881) appeared in the 1900 census in Woodford County as a servant in the home of John Buck.

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