CONTENTS KENTUCKY ANCESTORS GENEALOGICAL QUARTERLY OF THE KENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Listed below are the contents of Kentucky Ancestors from the first issue in 1965 to the current issue in a searchable PDF format. VOLUME 1 Number One, July 1965 Officers of Kentucky Historical Society.............................................. 1 The Executive Committee ................................................................. 1 The Genealogical Committee of the Kentucky Historical Society and the Reasons for Publishing Kentucky Ancestors.......................... 2 Publications of the Kentucky Historical Society................................. 4 Publications of the Kentucky Daughters of the American Revolution........................................................................................ 5 Genealogical Research Material in the Library of the Kentucky Historical Society .............................................................. 5 Counties of Kentucky, date formed, parent county, county seat........ 7 Walker Family Bible Records, including Samuel Jennings Walker, Christian County, Kentucky; Appomattox County, Virginia............... 10 Queries ............................................................................................ 10 Jonas Rouse Bible Records, Boone County, Kentucky Mrs. Robert C. Eastman, Florence, Kentucky.................................... 11 Number Two, October 1965 Genealogical Workshop was Well Received........................................ 13 Believe It or Not................................................................................ 15 If Not in a Whisper 1 Ralph L. Schroeder........................................................................... 16 Campbell County, Kentucky, Tax Records ........................................ 18 Stonsifer Bible Records, Campbell County, Kentucky ....................... 24 Compton Family Bible ...................................................................... 26 Derrickson Family Bible, Powell County, Kentucky copied by Hazel Derrickson Neal (Mrs. Tracy).................................... 27 Kersey Family Bible.......................................................................... 28 Poor Family Bible, Garrard County, Kentucky .................................. 30 Crow Family Bible, Garrard County, Kentucky ................................. 31 Old Gasper River Church Cemetery, Logan County, Kentucky .......... 33 Whitley County Cemeteries Pleasant Hill Cemetery ..................................................................... 36 Nicholson Family Graveyard ............................................................. 38 Concerning the Marriage Records of Whitley County, Kentucky information from Mrs. Homer B. Davis, Williamsburg, Kentucky....... 38 James Shield Graveyard, Warren or Logan Counties, Kentucky submitted by Nora Young Ferguson, Bowling Green, Kentucky ......... 39 Derickson Cemetery Records, Powell County, Kentucky copied by Hazel Derrickson Neal (Mrs. Tracy), 1965.......................... 40 Funeral Invitations, Mercer County, Kentucky.................................. 40 Contributions................................................................................... 41 News Items....................................................................................... 43 Queries ............................................................................................ 44 Number Three, January 1966 Genealogical Committee of the Kentucky Historical Society............... 56 Map of Meade County, Kentucky ...................................................... 57 2 State Archives Kentucky Vital Statistics Meade County, Kentucky, Deaths, 1852-1862; 1894; 1900-1901; 1904; 1906-1907 The entire issue is devoted to Meade County deaths ......................... 58 Queries ............................................................................................ 100 Number Four, April 1966 Journal of Mary Shotwell’s Journey, 1788 (New Jersey and Mason County, Kentucky) contributed by Mrs. William W Weis, Maysville, Kentucky................. 104 Mason County, Kentucky, Court and other Records. Includes: Fields family..................................................................................... 107 Farrow family ................................................................................... 108 Brewer family ................................................................................... 108 Myers family..................................................................................... 109 Anno family...................................................................................... 109 contributed by Mrs. Lula Reed Boss, Maysville, Kentucky Green County, Kentucky, Survey Depositions Index compiled by Mrs. Leonard T. Harris, Chicago Heights, Illinois........... 111 Bible Records of the Moses Boone Family of Woodford County, Kentucky contributed by Mrs. Wade Hampton George, Versailles, Kentucky..... 115 Records from Family Bible of Thomas Wheeler Edwards contributed by Mrs. Beatrice Edwards Sorenson, Moore, Idaho......... 116 Charles A. Judd Bible, Jackson County, Kentucky contributed by Kay Brewer Briskdopke, Norwood, Ohio .................... 118 Records from the Bible of Stella P. Yost, Mercer County, Kentucky ... 118 Edmund Martin Bible, probably Mason County, Kentucky submitted by Mrs. W. W. Weis, Maysville, Kentucky ......................... 119 Records from Family Bible of Joshua Simmons contributed by Mrs. W. W. Hughes, Macomb, Illinois. ....................... 120 Records from John H. White Bible 3 contributed by Mrs. Bonnie H. Baird, Louisville, Kentucky ............... 121 Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Warren County, Kentucky ................................ 121 Kentuckians in Kern County, California contributed by Mrs. Fodyce R. Landers, Bakersfield, California......... 122 Oceanview Memorial Park Cemetery, Oceanside, California copied by Mrs. Mary B. Ryan McCann and Velva Mansir, Escondido, California ....................................................................... 122 Forgotten American Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Carpenter’s Fort Cemetery, Lincoln County, Kentucky contributed by Mrs. D. A. McFarland, New Carlisle, Ohio.................. 123 Alexandria, Campbell County, Kentucky, Court Order Book 1, Page 154, November 1811 (Fortunatus Tompkins) copied by Mrs. R. R. Hartman, Jr., Newport, Kentucky ..................... 124 Jolley (?) Cemetery, McLean–Daviess County, Kentucky submitted by Mrs. Ralph D. Lynn, Elkton, Kentucky ........................ 125 David Crews, Madison County, Kentucky contributed by Genevieve Beall Porter, Indio, California.................... 125 An Historical Atlas of Kentucky and her Counties written and compiled by Wendell H. Rone, Sr. .................................. 125 Old Tribble Graveyard, Madison County, Kentucky copied by Mrs. James C. Deatherage. ............................................... 126 Cockrell Graveyard, Estill County, Kentucky contributed by Mrs. James C. Deatherage ........................................ 126 Mt. Olivet Episcopal Church Cemetery, Pineville, Louisiana submitted by Alvin Y. Bethard, Dry Prong, Louisiana........................ 126 Cemetery, Salt River Church Yard, Mercer County, Kentucky copied by Mrs. B. F. Norfleet, Mrs. W. S. Conover, and Mrs. William Freeman ...................................................................... 127 Cemetery (John Pipes), Boyle County, Kentucky ............................... 127 Elmwood Cemetery, Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky, Fifth List copied by M. J. Edgeworth, Owensboro, Kentucky ............................ 128 4 News Items....................................................................................... 132 Queries ............................................................................................ 134 VOLUME 2 Number One, July 1966 Mason County, Kentucky, Court and Other Records includes Mefford family data and heirs of Devalt Cooper contributed by Mrs. Lula Reed Boss, Maysville, Kentucky................. 2 Madison County, Kentucky, Court Records, includes some marriages contributed by Mrs. John Hicks, Jr., Lexington, Kentucky................ 9 Joseph Hitch of Maryland and Pendleton County, Kentucky records taken from papers in the possession of Don Hitch, Erlanger, Kentucky, by Betty Rouse ................................................. 11 Kentucky Was Their Home Worley family records, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and Fayette County, Kentucky contributed by Mrs. C. R. Davis, Lansing, Illinois. ............................ 12 Bible of Thomas Louis Finney, Hart County, Kentucky contributed by Daphne Finney Anderson, Lakeside, Arizona............. 14 Records from Bible of Benjamin Silmon Forbis contributed by Daphne Finney Anderson, Lakeside, Arizona............. 15 Records from Samuel and Lydia Lane Bacon’s Bible contributed by Mrs. Anita Mitchum Moore, Harrodsburg, Kentucky.. 16 Wilder and Patrick Family Bible Records .......................................... 17 Ray—Chism Bible Records contributed by Mrs. C. H. Peden, Glasgow, Kentucky........................ 18 Born in Kentucky, Died Elsewhere from the records of Miss Avis Hamilton, Oblong, Illinois ................... 20 Last Will and Testament of Robert Ping, Deceased Jasper County, Illinois, and Pulaski County, Kentucky..................... 21 5 Elmwood Cemetery, Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky, M. J. Edgeworth continued from volume 1, number 4, page 131................................. 23 Stanley Catholic