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Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren Kentucky Library - Serials County Genealogical Newsletter Winter 1993 Traces Volume 21, Number 4 Kentucky Library Research Collections Western Kentucky University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/traces_bcgsn Part of the Genealogy Commons, Public History Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Kentucky Library Research Collections, "Traces Volume 21, Number 4" (1993). Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter. Paper 85. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/traces_bcgsn/85 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ISSN- 0882-2158 WINTER 1993 VOLUME 21 ISSUE NO. 4 I ^=>>1 C) f.t/yc W£'sr Quarterly Publication of THE SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INCORPORATED PO Box 157 Glasgow, Kentucky 42142-0157 ON THE COVER i Map indicating points of interest •3 on the Get To Know Your County's Heritage' Driving Tour. See Page 109 for details. u;if> i 'Le 4 •m. "TRACES- OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY Volume 21 Glasgow, Kentucky Winter 1993 Issue 3 Back of Cover Barren Co Historical Driving Tour C4 In Memory of Vivian Rousseau 109 A Get To Know Your County's Heritage Driving Tour 109 The Barton Family 212 Monroe Co Ky Vital Statistics - the Moore Family 113 Barren County's History Told In Its Names 114 Loami Whitner Adm of Peter Bush vs Lucy Bush etal 115 Books, Books, Books Hg StClairCoIL 118 For Sale by the Society 118 Gorin Genealogical Publishing 119 1993 Membership List j2i Queries ^32 1994 Membership Application 135 Kentucky 1800 Map after formation of Barren Co 136 Index J37 THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT DURING 1993! We look forward to serving you in 1994 and hope to hear from YOU with your contributions to "Traces", PAGE 150 TRACES INDEX 1993 yOKLEY.[coiitl , SALLIS A FERGUSON 102 KARY ALICE 54 . SALLIE AGNES 101 YONGJEAMS 80 . SALLIE FERGUSON 101 YOUCKIK 105 , SALLY GNES 102 YOUCUH,VIVIAN lOS . SAMUEL T 101-102 YOliHG 29 , SAKUEL THOMAS 100 YOUNG,A JR 128 . TARA 51 .AC 52 . 9ILLIAK 100 .AE 101-102 . VILLIAK H 3 .AJ 101-102 ZABLATNIK,LINDA A 88 . A P JR 88 . AMANDA JAKE 100-102 . AKPSA !00 . AKPSA P 101-102 . ARKINE BUSH 101 . ARKINE CATHERINE 100 101-102 . ARKINE CATHERINE - YOUNG 102 . ASA 3,100 •102,117 . ASA DOUGAl 100 . ASA DOUGLA 100 . ASA E 101-102 . ASA ELLIS 100-102 . BERNICE SKITR 102 . CLAUDIA WHITE 102 .E YETKAN 101-102 . ELIZA DILLON 101-102 . ELLIE SKITH 101-102 . EUGENE YETKAN 101-102 . FRANCES 102 . FRANCES DIANA CHAPKAN too ,GC 101-102 . GEORGE SD-81,100 . GEORGE C 101-102 . GEORGE CHAPKAN 100-101 . HORACE C 102 — . JANES 73 100-102 . JAKES JR 100-102 . JANES KOTIER 100 . JAKES SR 100 . JAMES WM E 100 . JEANS 77 . KEZIAH E 49 .L U 49 . LOLA 101 . LOLA ANN 100,102 . LOLA ANNA 101 . KARTHA 101-102 . KARTHA DEP 102 . KARY E 100 . KARY ELLIS 100-102 . KARY FANCILLA 100 . NOLLIE lOt-102 . KOLLY 100-102 , PEARL HANCOCK 101-102 .SA 102 IIN MEMORY OF VIVIAN ROUSSEAU! It is with deep sorrow that we report the following; "Lexington -- Vivian Taylor Rousseau. 88, of Lexington, formerly of Glasgow, died Sunday, October 3, 1993, at Lexington Country Place in Lexington. She was a former owner of a weekly Glasgow newspaper, offi cial historian for Barren County, member of the First Christian Church in Glasgow, active member of the Democratic party, DAR, Kentucky Genealogy Society and the Filson Club. She is survived by a daughter, Jean Trogdon of Lexington; a son-in-law, Fred Trogdon; a grand-daughter, Mary Grace Howard of Lexington; and several cousins. She was preceded in death by a grandson, Edwin Trogdon. Funeral services were held 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Hatcher & Saddler Funeral Home with burial in the Glasgow Municipal Cemetery." Vivian will be dearly missed by all of us. A GET-TO-KNOW-YOUR-COUNTY'S-HERITAGE DRIVING TOUR Prepared by Loretta Murray. This tour began at 10:00 Saturday morning, October 23 at the Glasgow Municipal Airport. In fewer than five miles, it offers a glimpse of Barren County's early cultural, industrial, educational, agricultural, military, transportation, and reli gious history. There is no charge for visiting any of these sites. 1. GLASGOW MUNICIPAL AIRPORT^ The airport has one 4,000 foot runway and provides air freight and private charter services. 2. GRAVE OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR MARINE WILLIAM DISHMAN (b 26 Sept 1754 in Essex County, VA; d 4 Dec 1833 in Barren County, KY). Dishman's house was locgited next to the old Mt Tabor Church. Clairborn Harlow and then Tucker Lewis later owned the land. Dishman also owned land in Hopkinsville where his son lived. 3. MT TABOR BAPTIST CHURCH was organized 5 Nov 1798, on the north bank of Beaver Creek by William Hickman (assisted Thomas Tinsley in 1776 at Harrodsburg in the first recorded Baptist preaching in KY), Alexander Davidson, and Carter Tarrant. Mt Tabor is the oldest continually-active Missionary Baptist Church between the Green and Barren rivers, the oldest church in Barren County, the mother church of several south central KY churches (such as Glasgow Baptist, 1818; Cave City, 1819; and Salem, 1820), and the site of the organization of Green 109 River Association in 1800 and Liberty Missionary Association in 1840. Early preachers were Alexander Davidson {Warren County's representative to the second constitutional conven tion of KY in 1799), Carter Tarrant (American Army Chaplin in the War of Independence 1812-1815 and author of a book advocating emancipation), Robert Stockton (American Revolutionary War chaplin and prisoner of the British in 1777 at Brandywine for two years), and Jacob Lock (Mt Tabor preacher for some 40 years until his death in 1845, baptized 700, and preached inside Mammoth Cave). The church minutes from 1798 to the present (with the exception of thirty years which burned in the clerk's house) are located in the Mary Wood Weldon Library. SITE OF TANYARD IN MID-1800'S. Born in Lancaster, KY in 1810, William Jackman learned the tanning trade in Versailles, KY. He came to Barren County in the 1830s and opened a tanyard just behind the current Mt Tabor church. According to family legend, a man from Nashville stopped by the tanyard one time and told Jackson that there was a man in Nashville who looked just like him. Jackman got on his horse and rode to Nashville to see his brother he had lost touch with. In 1890, Jackman donated the land on which the current Mt Tabor church is located. GULLIAN GRIEG STONE BARN was built about 1800 by the Dutch- German stone mason Gullian Grieg, sometimes referred to as Killian Creek. The barn in constructed of stone from the surrounding hillside and notched, axe-hewn, yellow poplar logs put together with wooden pins, square nails, and wrought and cut nails. This barn is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places because of its historic associations with early KY agriculture (for example, a hollow tree which served as a feeding trough), its importance as an unusual example of a combination of Tidewater Virginia framing traditions (first used in England and later in 17th - and 18th - century VA houses and later on barns) with the mid-atlantic bank barn form (representing an intermingling of cultural traditions in Barren County in the early nineteenth century), and its poten tial to yield information about the origins of Barren County settlement building traditions and agricultural practices. An original interior door retains hand-forged strap hinges. There are one-foot square posts. The director of the Colonial Williamsburg Historical Foundation called the barn "a fine expression of diffusion and amalgamation, the true American building." He continues, "I don't know of anyone else who has seen a titled false place in KY, TN, and OHIO — anywhere beyond the Appalachians." GULLIAN GRIEG STONE MILL. This mill represents the once- flourishing milling industry in KY. According to the Warren County court records (Barren County was then a part of Warren County), Grieg was granted a permit to construct a mill on May 1, 1798, for the price of 21 shillings. A Mr Buford bought the mill and land in 1799. In 1987, this mill was placed on the 110 National Register of Historic Places. The mill has hand-forged door hinges. It is the only surviving example of an undershot wheel of that period and illustrates dry-stone masonry techno logy in an early industrial building. The mill has also been known as the Buford's Mill, Crenshaws and Staple's Mill, Short's Mill and Denton's Mill. The original Dripping Springs Road which ran from Glasgow to Bowling Green crossed Beaver Creek near the mill and connected the Oil City Road (on which Southern Explosives is located) and the current Martin Road. 7. BEAVER CREEK. The cables from an early swinging bridge across Beaver Creek remain visible between the barn and the mill near the old swimming hole. 8. NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN BURIAL MOUNDS AND SITES OF HABITATION. At least two of these are believed to be located here. There are also caves and other sites where Indian tomahawks^ hoes, pestils, hammerheads, flint arrowheads, and human skulls have been found. Red foxes raised their young in these caves for many years until coyotes came into the area.