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ISSN-0882-2158 1992 VOLUME 20 ISSUE NO. 2 SUMMER SORGHUM MAKING TIME IN BARREN COUNTY Quarterly Publication of THE SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INCORPORATED P. O. Box 157 Glasgow^ Kentucky 42142-0157 4^ ON THE COVER SORGHUM MAKING TIME IN BARREN COUNTY from the collection of Arland Benningfield. If anyone can identify any of the people in this photo, please let us know. Editor The Societyhas reprinted —for the fourth or fifthtime —the always popular book "The Times of Long Ago" by Franklin Gorin, the first white child bom in Barren County. His account of early county people, places and events is a valuable and unique reference to our early history. The book has been retyped for a clearer, more easily readable page. A six-page biographical sketch of Franklin Gorin, done by Ray Gorin, has been added, and a new thirty-page complete index by Lewis Gorin has also been added. Gorin's book is another of our Bicentennialefforts. The 182 page hardbound book sells for $12, with a $2 postage and handling fee, and can be ordered directly from the Society— as can be the cemetery book. "TRACES" OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY VOLUME 20 - GLASGOW, KENTUCKY - SUMMER 1992 - ISSUE NO, 2 CONTENTS ON THE COVER - Sorghum Making Time in Barren County C2 Our Society Has Done It!!! New Cemetery Book Available... 33 "Fountain Run" Established - James Town 33 Edmonson County, Kentucky, Records 34 Rhodes ; 34 Buster 34 Wright 35 Short 35 A Sketch of the Life and Character of John McFerran, Esq,36 Membership of Mill Creek Baptist Church, Monroe Co., Ky. 40 Barren County Cemeteries Not In Any Published Book 44 The John Martin Family 44 Old Record Book Is Story of Old Times 45 The Berry Bible 47 The Bradshaw Family, continued from last issue 48 Family Reunions Announced 56 Pioneer Certificates Awarded 57 Civil War Incidents 58 A Sketch of the Wallace Families 59 Books! - Books! - Books! - Books! 63 Highlights In History Calendar. Available 65 Queries 65 Barren County's Road System in 1818 68 Map of Barren County, Kentucky 69 Cumberland County, Kentucky, History Available 70 MEMBERSHIP DUES PER CALENDAR YEAR $10.00 "TRACES" PUBLISHED FOUR TIMES PER YEAR SEND CHECK TO: SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. P.O. Box 157 GLASGOW, Kentucky 42142-0157 SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC, POST OFFICE BOX 157 GLASGOW, KENTUCKY 42142 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS - 1991-1992 President Paul Bastien 1st Vice President »Don Novosel 2nd Vice President Ruby Smith Treasurer Juanita Bardin Recording Secretary ,Sandra K Gorin Corresponding Secretary Frances Y Jones Edi tor, Traces ,Martha P Reneau Mai 1 ing Traces ,Katie Maude Smi th OTHER DIRECTORS (*Past Presidents) Mary Ed Chamberlain John Mutter * Ralph Garmon James M Simmons * Cecil E Goode * Katie Maude Smith * Brice T Leech * Mrs Bobby Lawson Vi rginia Thomerson Charlot te B Leftwich Mrs Otto Lutzow Loretta Murrey Emery H White ******************************************************* Correspondence of any nature concerning business with our Society is to be addressed to the Society, PO Box 157, Glasgow, Kentucky 42142* Please enclose a S,A,S,E» if a reply is requested or needed. Members Queries and Genealogical and Historial informat ion for publication in "Traces" is sincerely appreciated. Queries will be published as space permits. Annual Dues are $1$.$0 per year. With help from our members we can continue to bring valuable information to all our members. ,W / i OUR SOCIETY HAS DONE IT!!I!I As a Kentucky Bicentennial project, we decided to publish to-date single volume cemetery record of Barren County. have been three cemetery records done in the past unpublished manuscript done about 1950 by the Barren County Homemakers, and two volumes by Eva Coe Peden. The project took over two years to complete, with contributions from many people. Kenneth Beard, the BIG contributor, sighted most of the cemeteries recorded here, and he wrote the computer program for the book, feeding in the information as received. Another nice feature he added was the mapping of the larger cemeteries. This will be a very useful research tool for people with Barren County roots, and will be of help to other societies and 1 ibraries. County Cemeteries is 8 1/2 x 11, hard bound, 528 pages with an additional 18 pages of surname index. There are 32,915 names listed, and 612 cemeteries recorded. The cost of the book is only $25, due to the in-kind contribution of many hours of work by many people, and by a geneerous grant from the Kentucky Bicentennial Commission. To order, please send $25 plus *3.5® to cover postage and handling to: South Central Kentucky Historical and Genealogical Society, Post Office Box 157, Glasgow, KY 42141. "FOUNTAIN RUN" ESTABLISHED TOWN ESTABLISHED - JAMES TOWN Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky, Order Book 4 - Page 288. Nov 1816, Barren County Court. Submited by Gladys B Wilson, Glasgow, Ky. On application of Jacob Goodman Sr & it appearing to the Satisfaction of the Court that notice has been given at the Courthouse door two months & published in an authorized newspaper twice a month for three Months successively previous to this application, it is Ordered that the title of fifty Acres of Land in Barren County on which a Town is proposed to be established, now Owned by said Goodman & the same when laid off shall be vested in Walter Caruth, Wm Kerr, Josiah Short, John Austin & Lanmon Short, Trustees of said Town established as aforesaid be Known by the name of JAMES TOWN - Whereupon it is Ordered that the said Jacob Goodman Sr entered into bond with Wm Moore, John Austin & Lanmon Short in the sum of one thousand pounds Conditioned as the Law directs. It is not known to this writer at this time the exact date, nor the specific reason for re-naming the town James Town, to 33 Fountain Run. It is known, however, that the town is still lovingly called, at times, "Jim-Town". While researching the Masonic history of my grand-father Georgo Samuel Dyson, who was three times the Master of Loving Lodge No 323, F&AM of the Grand Chapter of Kentucky, in Fountain Run, Monroe Co., Ky•, in 1890, 1891 & 1894, I found in Kentucky Grand Chapter records of October 1882, that he was listed as a Senior Deacon in Loving Lodge No 323, in Jamestown, Monroe Co., Ky. By this, I assume that the name was changed between Oct 1882 and Oct 1883. The counties of Allen, Barren and Monroe join in a triangle, with Fountain Run being a very short distance in Monroe County, and also, a very short distance at that point from both Allen and Barren Counties. As Allen was created in 1815 from part of Barren; and Monroe created in 182Q from part of Barren, the court recordings of deeds, marriages, probate records, and such trans actions, of a particular family could very well be in three different counties, and two different town names, yet the resi dence in the same spot all the time. It would be wise for the researcher to bear this in mind, when unable to find a particular record in one of these count ies, for these margin dates. **** EDMONSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY RECORDS (From the files of Kenneth Lee) Know all men by these presents that we John Rhodes and Henry Dixon are held and firmly bound unto the justice of Edmonson County in the penal sum of $200 to which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, etc. jointly and severally firmly by these presents. Witness our hand and seals this 10th day of March 1826. The condition of this obligation is such that whereas the said John Rhodes hath this day been appointed by the county court of Edmonson County guardian of Dorothy A Rhodes, an infant heir of William Rhodes, deceased. Now if the said John Rhodes shall well and truly discharge the duties enjoined on him by law as guardian as aforesaid and keep the county court of said county harmless and also render unto said Court an account of his guardianship aforesaid when by said court required then this obligation to be void else remain in full force and virtue. /s/ John Rhodes and H Dixon. Know all men by these presents that we James F Buster, Lucy Buster, James N Blakey and John Anderson are held and firmly bound unto the commonwealth of Kentucky in the penal sum of $4000 to which payment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves and heirs jointly and severally firmly by these presents. Witness our hands and seals this 14th day of May 1827. The condition of this obligation is such that if the said James F Buster administer and Lucy Buster administrator of goods, chattels and credits of Benjamin Buster, deceased, do make a