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Kentucky Ancestors Genealogical Quarterly of the Kentucky Historical Society Vol. 39, No. 2 Winter 2003 kentucky ancestors genealogical quarterly of the kentucky historical society The Curd Family The Fey School Baugh Families and its and the in the Mercer County Felix Pousardien Early History of Ghost Towns Family Kentucky Vol. 39, No. 2 Winter 2003 kentucky ancestors genealogical quarterly of the kentucky historical society Thomas E. Stephens, Editor kentucky ancestors Dan Bundy, Graphic Design Kent Whitworth, Director James E. Wallace, Assistant Director administration Betty Fugate, Membership Coordinator research and interpretation Nelson L. Dawson, Team Leader management team Kenneth H. Williams, Program Leader Doug Stern, Walter Baker, Lisbon Hardy, Michael Harreld, Lois Mateus, Dr. Thomas D. Clark, C. Michael Davenport, Ted Harris, Ann Maenza, Bud Pogue, Mike Duncan, James E. Wallace, Maj. board of Gen. Verna Fairchild, Mary Helen Miller, Ryan trustees Harris, and Raoul Cunningham Kentucky Ancestors (ISSN-0023-0103) is published quarterly by the Kentucky Historical Society and is distributed free to Society members. Periodical postage paid at Frankfort, Kentucky, and at additional mailing offices. Postmas- ter: Send address changes to Kentucky Ancestors, Kentucky Historical Society, 100 West Broadway, Frankfort, KY 40601-1931. Please direct changes of address and other notices concerning membership or mailings to the Membership De- partment, Kentucky Historical Society, 100 West Broadway, Frankfort, KY 40601-1931; telephone (502) 564-1792. Submissions and correspondence should be directed to: Tom Stephens, editor, Kentucky Ancestors, Kentucky Histori- cal Society, 100 West Broadway, Frankfort, KY 40601-1931. The Kentucky Historical Society, an agency of the Commerce Cabinet, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, or disability, and provides, on request, reasonable accommodations, includ- ing auxiliary aids and services necessary to afford an individual with a disability an equal opportunity to participate in all services, programs, and activities. Since 1836 kentucky historical society where history lives contents vol. 39, no. 2/winter 2003 The Curd Family and its Mercer County Ghost Towns Jean C. Dones ................................................................................................................................... 62 Tombstone Inscriptions, Garrard County ......................................................................................... 65 Abstracts from the Cumberland Courier, Burksville, July 29, 1874................................................... 66 Edmonson County School Census, 1877 ........................................................................................ 70 The Fey School and the Felix Pousardien Family Marguerite A. Miller ......................................................................................................................... 83 Baugh Families in the Early History of Kentucky Ivan W. Baugh ....................................................................................................................... 87 Vital Statistics ................................................................................................................................. 97 Thataway ...................................................................................................................................... 101 Abstracts from the Lexington Observer & Reporter, January 13, 1864 Dr. Melba Porter Hay.......................................................................................................... 104 Book Notes ................................................................................................................................... 111 Queries ......................................................................................................................................... 113 Mystery Album ............................................................................................................................. 114 on the cover: The Kentucky General Assembly held its last regular session in the present Old State Capitol in 1908. The building, the first Greek Revival state capitol west of the Allegheny Mountains, was designed by twenty-five-year-old architect Gideon Shryock and constructed from 1827 to 1830. The Old State Capitol be- came the home of the Kentucky Historical Society in 1920 and remains a museum on its campus. The Curd family and its Mercer County ghost towns By Jean C. Dones Dones is a double g-g-g-g-granddaughter of John Curd Sr. and Elizabeth Price. She is a member of the Jamestown Society through Lucy Brent, wife of John Curd Jr. (m. 1758), and John Price, father of Elizabeth Price. Curdsvilles can also be found in Daviess County, Ky., and Buckingham County, Va. Among the lost, or “ghost,” communities in there was always the threat of Indian attacks. Kentucky are New Market and Curdsville in Mercer Some historians have recorded that John Curd County. Each has an interesting history with many and his family were members of the Traveling unanswered questions. The two communities are Church, which involved the movement of an entire linked by a common connection with John Curd church body from Spotsylvania County, Va., to and his descendants. Kentucky in 1781. However, a list of participants in I continue to research Curdsville and would this migration does not include any Curds. welcome any comments, suggestions, corrections, and additions. John Curd John Curd Jr. (b. 14 April 1726, Goochland County, Va.) was one of the eight children of John Curd and Elizabeth Price. His grandfather was Edward Curd, whose first record in America dates from 1705. John Curd Jr. married Lucy Brent, a daughter of James and Catherine Brent, in Lancaster County, Va., on 7 April 1758. Their 11 children were all born in Goochland County from 1759 to 1780. Following military service and starting in 1780, John Curd Jr. began to apply for land grants in Kentucky County, Va. Kentucky County had just been opened for settlement by the Virginia legisla- ture, and was further divided into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln. Applications for land grants were subsequently made by John’s sons and the sons of Joseph Curd (John’s brother, who had remained in Virginia). The significance of the early land grants for John Curd is emphasized by the fact that the first settlement in Kentucky, Fort Harrod, was founded in 1774. It is not known if John Curd Jr.’s first trip to KHS Collection Kentucky preceded bringing his family. Travel would This detail of a land plat prepared by Neal O. Hammon have been extremely difficult for women and chil- shows the land owned by John Curd Jr. along the dren; the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Kentucky River. Curd established a tobacco warehouse Gap was little more than a marked trail. In addition, at the mouth of Dix River in the 1780s. 2003 Kentucky Ancestors V39-2 62 The Curd family, continued __________________________________ John Curd was an energetic courageous indi- It appears that there were problems with the vidual, and certainly a visionary concerning opportu- physical condition or maintenance of the property nities for himself and his family in the West. He had since in September 1790 John Curd was ordered “to served as an emissary for Virginia Gov. Patrick repair the present warehouse at the mouth of Dick’s Henry on missions to Kentucky and he knew what River, making it closed and secure to strong doors to expect in this vast unknown area. hung with iron hinges and secured with strong locks So John Curd Jr. focused his attention on the land or bolts, on or before December 25 next; and to grants located on Dick’s River and Salt River. There make such additions thereto as shall conveniently is no question that on the basis of his experience and contain, together with the present warehouse, 146 observations, he sought a practical way to move hogsheads, the addition to be made close and secure goods and people past the palisade cliffs of the as above directed on or before April 1st next.” Kentucky River. The buffalo trail used by animal The warehouse and ferry landing still existed in herds, Indians, and frontiersmen provided the 1822, when they are mentioned in the widow’s answer. dower of Nancy Curd, widow of John’s son Newton It is said that Dick’s River (later also called Dix Curd. The warehouse history is not known, but the River) was named for Captain Dick, a Cherokee ferry continued through several owners. The landing chief helpful to early pioneers and settlers in the area. was used by the Shaker community of Pleasant Hill In 1786, petitions were submitted to the Virginia as early as 1816 and, in 1830, the Shakers purchased legislature by John Curd and others “to establish a the landing from Newton Curd’s heirs. Eventually public ferry, a town, and an inspection of tobacco, the Shakers oversaw the construction of a road along on the land of John Curd in the county of Mercer.1 the bluff hillside to the river; this became a major Because of the inadequacy of roads, access to river route used by both Confederate and Union forces transportation was vitally important to ensure during the Civil War. profitable and convenient markets. There were a In May 1793, John Curd petitioned for permis- number of ferries along the Kentucky River. As Dr. sion to erect a water grist mill on his lands near the Thomas D. Clark—historian laureate of Kentucky— mouth of Dick’s River. has written: After Kentucky became a state—on June 1,
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