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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 6 oVlh~rn ~entl)Ck~ 6~tt~a.loglCc.l .so c 1 t?-lu -+-, VOLUME XIX ISSUE 3 SOUTHERN KENTUCKY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY POBox 1782 Bow1lng Green, KY 42102 ·1782 1996 OFF ICERS AND CHAIRPERSONS PreSident Mark Lowe, 505 Josephine St. Spnngfield , TN Ph 800-555-4021 Vice PreSident John E. Danielson, PO Box 1843 Bow1ing Green , KY 42102·1843 Ph . 502·782·0278 Recording Secretary Gail Miller, 425 M>dcrest Dr. Bowling Green, KY 42101 Ph 502·781· 1807 Corresponding Secreta ry Betty B. Lyne, 613 E 11th Ave. Bowling Green , KY 42101 Ph . 502·84:>-9452 Treasurer Ramona Bebbitt, 271 8 Smallhouse Rd . Bow1ing Green, KY 42104 Ph . 502·84:>-69 18 Chaplain A. Ray Douglas, 439 Douglas Lane Bowling Green, KY 42 101 Ph . 502·842·7101 Program Chairperson Barbara Ford , 545 Cherokee Dr. • Bowling Green, KY Ph . 502· 782-0889 Lon ghunte r Ed~ors Sue and Dave Evans, 921 Meadow1ark Dr. Bowling Green, KY Ph . 502·842·2313 Exc/Publicatlon Chairperson Barbara Ford, 545 Cherokee Dr. Bow1ing Green, KY Ph . 502·782·0889 Membership Ch airperson John Danielson , PO Bex 1843 Bowling Green, KY 42102·1843 Ph . 502·782-0278 Hlslonan. Chairperson Irene Constant, 364 Old Lovers Lane Bowling Green, KY Ph. 502-a42-8400 Telephone Ch airperson Arvilla Cherry, 1637 Catherine St. Bowl ing Green, KY 42101 Ph., 502·781·0045 Hosp.lSoclai Chairperson Grace Douglas, 439 Douglas Lane Bowling Green, KY 42101 Ph. 502·842·7101 FuollC RelatIons Chairperson Mildred Collier, ~644 Small house Rd. Bowling Green, KY 42104 Ph. 502·84:>-4753 Sunshine Cha irperson Laurita Sledge, 835 Sledge Rd . Alvaton, KY 42122 Ph . 502-8042·9628 Llbr Liaison Chairperson Leroy Collier, 1644 Smallhouse Rd , Bowling Green, KY 42104 Ph . 502·84:>-4753 Immediate Past Pres>dent Barbara Ford, 545 Cherokee Dr. Bowling Green, KY 42103 Ph ., 502·782·0889 MEMBERSHIP Membership In th e Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society is open to all persons, especially to those who are Interested In research in Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Logan , Sim pson, and Warren Counties In Kentucky. Membership is by the year, 1 January through 31 December. DUES for indiv>dua l or famil y membersh ip are S15 per year and include a subscnption to the LONGHUNTER which is published qu arterly MEETINGS The SOUTHERN KENTUCKY GENEAlOGICAL SOCIETY meets REGULARLY on the third Monday of each month at the Houchens Center, 1115 Adams Street, at 7 PM . A cordial welcome is extended to all vlS~Or.; and prospective new members. Announcements of date, time , and place of all meetings will be displayed on the Community Bu lletin Beard, Channel 6, and in the AROUND TOWN column in the Park City Dally News TIlE LONGHUNTER VOLUME XIX, ISSUE 3 July 1996 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Table of Contents, Out of Town Visiton 1 Longhunter, Queries, Back Issues, Book Reviews 2 Medicine in Kentucky, by Sue Evans 3 Medical Advice for the Frontiersman, Selected 5 Biographical Sketches of Early Doctors in Warren County, 7 by Sue Evans Public Health, by Sue Evans 15 Queries 18 Abstracts of Warren Co., KY Deed Books, by Leroy Collier 21 Ancestry, Pe~ , and Ahnentafel Charts: Wilma Viola Brown 26 George Wayne McKinney 27 Thomas William PCM"SOIl 28 Lowell Carey Bankhead 29 Archer Christian Bankhead 30 Mary Graves Chambers 31 WillWn Felix Green 32 William H.vniIton Lillard 33 Jacob Mason Rces (Rccsc) 34 Sarah Jane Barclay 35 Martha Jane Briscoe 36 Cynthia Jackson 37 Warren Co., KY 1791 - 1900 Manlagca, by Pat Reid 38 Membcnhip List 42 Bowling Green Slrcct Names 44 Index 45 Boob and Publications by SKGS Mcrnbcn Inside Back Cover •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• our OF TOWN VISITORS Out of town ...uitors ItY)' want to: 1. Visit the Kentucky Library and the SpccW Collections in the Kentucky Building, on the campus of Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY. A competent sufi" is there to help with genealogical research. Officcn or chairpersons listed on the facing page may be contacted for further assistance. 2. Visit the County Court Clerk's office in the Warren County Courthouse, in downtown Bo"'q Green. Extensive court records, either the actual boob or microfibned copies dating from the tII'nC the county was fonned in 1796, are on file there and are in excellent condition. • 3. Can one of the officcn or chairperson.! listed in thia Quarterly for help or visit with "" .11 . ... regular meeting at the HOUCHENS CENTER, III S Adams St., Bowling Green, KYat 7 ' '' ' ;., I on the third Monday in each month. THE 1.0NGHUNTER, VOL XIX, ISSUE 3, PO. 2 THE LONG HUNTER Th e LONGHUNTER IS published quarterly and is ma iled to approximately 180 Southem Kentucky Genealogical Society members and to 100 other societies in exchange for their publications. This quarterly contains 40 to 50 pages each iSsue and is indexed with a full name index. It is designed to give researchers information about the ancestors and descendants of members of the SKGS and other Information from tile South Central Kentucky and the North Central Tennessee areas. Members are encouraged to submit articles for publication. Local newspaper clippings from the past, Census Records, Records of Court Proceedings, Bible and Cemetery Records, Family Histories, which you may have written, Pedigree Charts, and photographs (send copies only), will be ..... Icomed by our editors. Articles written for publication should be typed or printed legibly and should not be <:Ner 10 pages in length. Sources for information you submit should be stated in the article or put In footnotes at the end. The rig ht to ed~ any material for presentation is reserved by the Longhunter Editor. Although it is the desire of the Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society to publish reliable genealogical material, neither the Society nor the editors assume responsibility for facts or for opinions expressed by the contributors. Submitted material becomes the property of the LONGHUNTER and will not be retumed to the contributor. QUERIES " All members are urged to submit Queries. These should be limited to about 80 words per Query, but there is no limit to the number a member may submit. Since the LONG HUNTER is read by people throughout the United States, you will be receiving maximum exposure and should be pleased with the results. BACK ISSUES Current and back issues of the LONGHUNTER since 1978 are available for $4.00 each, postpaid. Orders should be placed with the Southem Kentucky Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 1782, Bowilng Green, KY 42102-1782. BOOK REVIEWS Th e SOUTHERN KENTUCKY GENEAlOGiCAl SOCIETY welcomes donated books for review in th e LONGHUNTER. After rfNiIIN all donated books are placed In the Special Collection at the Kentucky Libra ry, Kentucky Building, on the campus of Westem Kentucky University, in Bowiing Green, KY for all to use. Please include price and ordering instructions when you send a book in for rfNillN. ~ the person wtlo donates a book is a member of the SKGS, the tit1e and description of the book along with the price and ordering instructions will be placed with other members' books on the inside back C<:Ner of th e LONG HUNTER. MEMBERSHIP DUES Membership dues in tile SOUTHERN KENTUCKY GENEAlOGICAl. SOCIETY, which are $15 per calendar year and include a subscription to tile LONG HUNTER, published quarterly, should be sent to SOUTH ER N KENTUCKY GENEAlOGiCAl SOCIETY, P.O. BOX 1782, BOWLING GREEN, KY 42102-1782. • THE LONGHUNTER. VOL XIX. ISSUE 3. PG. 3 MEDICINE IN KENTUCKY As pioneers moved in to settle the Kentucky wilderness they were faced with numerous ailments and diseases - measles. mumps. whooping cough. scarlet fever. diptheria. smallpox. dysentery (bloody flux). influenza. typhoid fever. yellow fever, cholera, and diarrheal diseases. Alcoholism, milk-sickness (trembles), pneumonia, pleurisy, venereal diseases, and surgery which included the treatment of various wounds and fractures were also challenges. The settlers soon discovered that the Indians through centuries of trial and error had evolved a useful system of healing herbs and simple surgery and some of the earlier doctors found it profrtable to spend a year or two among the tribes learning their medical practices. Thus, the first medical practices in the area would be considered folk medicine. Within ten years after Kentucky became a state the population topped 200,000. Lured by the promise of Kentucky many young professional men moved into the state. So along with the farmers came lawyers, distillers, and doctors . • The first doctors were true General Practitioners. Not only did they have to travel enormous distances on all but non-existant roads, but they also had to diagnose, treat, compound their own prescriptions, and often perform major operations under conditions something worse than crude. But, even with all these obstacles, Kentucky is able to boast of several firsts in the field of medicine. Earty in the 1800's a medical school was in place at Trans!yvania in Lexington.