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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
Transcript of CONTENTS KENTUCKY ANCESTORS GENEALOGICAL QUARTERLY OF THE KENTUCKY
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Elmwood Cemetery, Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky, M. J. Edgeworth continued from volume 1, number 4, page 131................................. 23 Stanley Catholic Cemetery, Daviess County, Kentucky copied April 5, 1965 by M. J. Edgeworth, Owensboro, Kentucky ....... 26 Search for Lost Graveyards............................................................... 26 County Death Records...................................................................... 27 Old Tuttle Grave Yard, Estill County, Kentucky contributed by Mrs. William Freeman, Lexington, Kentucky ............. 28 News Items....................................................................................... 29 Queries ............................................................................................ 31 Number Two, October 1966 Kentucky’s First Capitol ................................................................... 43 Index to Will Book 1, Kenton County, Kentucky, August Court 1840 to November 18, Court 1878 .............................. 44 Mason County, Kentucky, Court and Other Records, includes the Dye family contributed by Mrs. Lula Reed Boss, Maysville, Kentucky................. 47 The Poor House (Deed Book Q, page 164, September 3, 1818) .......... 51 Bradley – Pelham – Finley Families Bourbon and Mason Counties, Kentucky.......................................... 52 Funeral Invitations, Mason County, Kentucky .................................. 53 Pendleton County, Kentucky, Court and Other Records, includes the Colvin family contributed by Mrs. Lula Reed Boss, Maysville, Kentucky................. 54 Washington County, Kentucky ......................................................... 55 Powell Family Bible Records contributed by Rodney L. Powell, Isabela, Puerto Rico....................... 56
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Tunis Newkirk Bible, Jefferson and Bullitt Counties, Kentucky contributed by Thomas F. Newkirk, Houston, Texas ......................... 57 Bible Records of the Faulkner Family of Marion County, Kentucky contributed by Mrs. Glenn Burchett, Louisville, Kentucky ................ 59 Charles Duncan, Culpeper County, Virginia, and Madison County, Kentucky submitted by Nancy R. Roy, Santee, California. ................................ 61 Names of Ones Buried in Old Todd Graveyard in Adair County, Kentucky contributed by S. M. Suddarth, Columbia, Kentucky ........................ 62 Graveyard Destruction, Scott County, Kentucky, and Nelson County, Kentucky Mrs. Mary Lowry Smith Huggins, New Bloomfield, Missouri.............. 63 Elmwood Cemetery, Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky, Sixth List M. J. Edgeworth (continued from volume 2, number 1, page 26) ................................. 64 Carpenter’s Fort Cemetery, Lincoln County, Kentucky (Corrections and additions) Janie Sue (Mrs. D. A.) McFarland ..................................................... 68 Carpenter Burying Ground Near the Site of Carpenter’s Station.................................................. 68 Carpenter Burying Ground – Lincoln County, Kentucky Major Russell’s Place ........................................................................ 69 Bethel Church Cemetery – Located at Baldwin, Kentucky, in Madison County, Kentucky copied by Flora Baker Hicks on June 5, 1958................................... 69 Trigg County, Kentucky, Cemetery contributed by Miss Mary Hamilton, Bessemer, Alabama.................. 70 News Items....................................................................................... 71 Queries ............................................................................................ 75
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Number Three, January 1967 Map of Russell County, Kentucky ..................................................... 85 Book Review..................................................................................... 86 Russell County, Kentucky, Marriage Certificates contributed by Mrs. Donald E. Jordan, Indianapolis, Indiana ........... 87 Mason County, Kentucky, Court and other Records, includes the Bailey family .................................................................................... 95 Major Valentine Peers....................................................................... 97 Edward Lee of Mason County, Kentucky contributed by Mrs. Lula Reed Boss, Maysville, Kentucky................. 99 Nicholas County, Kentucky, Court and other Records, includes the Dale Family contributed by Mrs. Lula Reed Boss, Maysville, Kentucky.................100 Nicholas County, Kentucky, Wiliam Bartlett Family ..........................101 Henry County, Kentucky, Thomas Bartlett .......................................103 Some Boyds of Harrison County, Kentucky.......................................104 Ancestry of Former Governor Bert Thomas Combs contributed by Ruth Combs – Combs Family Historian, Richmond, Kentucky ........................................................................105 Andrews Bible Record contributed by Mrs. C. H. Peden, Glasgow, Kentucky........................107 Malcom Worley Bible Record copied by Hazel Spencer Phillips from the Ohio Historical Museum, Columbus, Ohio ...............................................................................109 Dimmitt Bible Record contributed by Mrs. W. W. Weis, Maysville, Kentucky .......................110 Records from the Bible of John R. Taul (Fayette, Breckinridge, and Henderson Counties, Kentucky) contributed by Glen E. Taul, Henderson, Kentucky ..........................111 St. Charles Privilege Church Cemetery, Hopkins County, Kentucky copied in May 1964 by Mrs. Mary McCann of Escondido, California, and Pauline McClearn of Dawson Springs, Kentucky .......112
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Buried in Boone County, Kentucky...................................................113 Kentuckians Who Came to Boone County, Missouri compiled by A. Maxim Coppage, Pittsburg, California .......................114 Rouse George Rouse Family of Culpeper County, Virginia, and Boone County, Kentucky. ..........................................................115 Queries ............................................................................................116 News Items.......................................................................................128 Number Four, April 1967 Map of Harrison County, Kentucky...................................................131 News Items.......................................................................................132 Genealogist Seeks Help from Harrison County, Kentucky, Relatives contributed by Thomas Milton Tinney, Orem, Utah...........................133 McClain Family contributed by Ross Clinton McClain, Covington, Kentucky..............138 Some Boyds of Harrison County, Kentucky.......................................139 Barlow Family contributed by A. Maxim Coppage, III, Pittsburg, California ..............140 Lewis County, Kentucky Records from Lewis, Fayette and Mason Counties, Kentucky. Includes Parker, McGlasson, Shackleford, Moore and Mackey families contributed by Mrs. Lula Reed Boss, Maysville, Kentucky.................141 Funeral Invitations, Mason County, Kentucky ..................................145 Russell County, Kentucky, Marriage Certificates (continued from Volume 2, Number 3, January 1967, Page 94) contributed by Mrs. Donald E. Jordan, Indianapolis, Indiana ...........148 Lillard Bible Record contributed by Mrs. Anita Moore, Harrodsburg, Kentucky ................156
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Funeral Invitation.............................................................................157 Lindsey Cemetery, Harrison County, Kentucky contributed by F. P. Wood, Seattle, Washington................................158 Yelvington Cemetery, Daviess County, Kentucky copied, January 1964, by Mrs. W. E. Leachman, Mrs. Edgar Cox, M. J. Edgworth.................................................................................161 Iron Ore Hill Cemetery, Daviess County, Kentucky Some Older Tombstones copied August 17, 1965 by M. J. Edgeworth, Owensboro, Kentucky.......................................163 Alexandria, Campbell County, Kentucky Court Order Book 6, page 303, April 26, 1852 (Heirs of Edward Turner of Campbell County, Kentucky) copied and contributed by Margaret Strebel Hartman (Mrs. Robert R., Jr.) Newport, Kentucky............................................164 Mrs. James O. Franklin submitted by Wyatt Shely, Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.........................165 Queries ............................................................................................166 News Items.......................................................................................178
VOLUME 3
Number One, July 1967 Map of Washington County, Kentucky.............................................. 1 Book Review..................................................................................... 2 COURT RECORDS Will of Charles Kennett of Washington County, Kentucky contributed by Mrs. Mary Frye Barley, Whittier, California ............... 3 Washington County, Kentucky Data from Rejected Claim – John Cammack – Virginia. contributed by Mrs. Lula Reed Boss, Maysville, Kentucky................. 5 Fredericktown, Washington County, Kentucky contributed by Mrs. Edmund I. Richerson, Elizabethtown, Kentucky.......................................................................................... 7
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Notes on Life of Rev. Henry Hamner, Methodist Circuit Rider, Washington County, Kentucky contributed by Mrs. E. A. Pence of Graham, Missouri ....................... 8 Mason County, Kentucky, Court and other Records (Jacob Reed) contributed by Mrs. Lula Reed Boss, Maysville, Kentucky................. 9 Allen County Soldiers in the War of 1812 contributed by Louise Horton, Austin, Texas .................................... 13 Boone County, Kentucky, Marriages................................................. 17 Russell County, Kentucky, Marriage Certificates contributed by Mrs. Donald E. Jordon, Indianapolis, Indiana ........... 18 William Walker of Fleming County, Kentucky contributed by Mrs. E. J. Walker, Houston, Texas ............................ 23 Funeral Invitation: Sanford Bland ................................................... 6 FAMILY RECORDS Genealogist Seeks Help from Harrison County, Kentucky, Relatives contributed by Thomas Milton Tinney, Orem, Utah........................... 24 Makemson Family contributed by Walter K. Makemson, Leesburg, Indiana ................... 27 CEMETERY RECORDS Shaker Records gathered from various sources by Mrs. Hazel Spencer Phillips, Lebanon, Ohio.................................................................................. 29 Kentucky Natives who Died in Missouri and Interesting Kentucky Items taken from old Columbia, Missouri, papers housed in the Missouri Historical Society and compiled by A. Maxim Coppage, Pittsburg, California ......................................................................................... 32 Queries ............................................................................................ 34 News Items....................................................................................... 45 Number Two, October 1967 Calloway County, Kentucky.............................................................. 48 Early Courthouse Being Restored, Calloway County, Kentucky submitted by Murray-Calloway Genealogical Society, Murray, Kentucky.......................................................................................... 49 Mason County, Kentucky, Court and other Records contributed by Mrs. Lula Reed Boss, Maysville, Kentucky................. 50 Nicholas County, Kentucky, Records
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contributed by William M. Talley, Vanceburg, Kentucky ................... 57 Court Order Book, page 117, June 23, 1856 located at Alexandria, Campbell County, Kentucky Robert Young Heirs, Campbell County.............................................. 59 Bute County, North Carolina, Records (and Shelby County, Kentucky) contributed by a friend. .................................................................... 60 Court Order Book 6, page 303, April 26, 1852 copied by Mrs. Robert R. Hartman, Jr., Newport, Kentucky .............. 61 Boone County, Kentucky, Marriages................................................. 62 Index to Russell County, Kentucky, Marriage Certificates contributed by Mrs. Donald E. Jordon, Indianapolis, Indiana ........... 63 FAMILY RECORDS The Daniel Boone Home ................................................................... 68 Ignatius Turley – Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri contributed by Miss Valle Higginbotham, Potosi, Missouri ................ 69 McClain Family ................................................................................ 70 Stubblefield Family........................................................................... 71 Moore Family ................................................................................... 71 BIBLE RECORDS George Bratton Bible – Warren County, Kentucky submitted by Mrs. Bonnie H. Baird, Louisville, Kentucky.................. 72 Erwin – Bunnel Family Bible Records contributed by John Paul Grady, Midland, Texas.............................. 73 Marshall Bible – Woodford County, Kentucky contributed by Mrs. Wade Hampton George, Versailles, Kentucky..... 74 Wood – Davidson Bible – Kenton County, Kentucky .......................... 74 Richardson – Thomasson Bible Record contributed by Mrs. Edna E. Mitchell, Gary, Indiana ........................ 75 [Rouse] Bible Record......................................................................... 76 Leonard Cassell Bible Record contributed by Mrs. Earl Z. Arthur, Seal Beach, California ............... 77 Benjamin Hardesty Bible contributed by Mrs. George Miles Bowles, Pleasureville, Kentucky .... 78 CEMETERY RECORDS [Wilson] Cemetery, Woodford County, Kentucky. .............................. 79 Brasher Cemetery, Christian County, Kentucky................................ 80 Corley – Sinnett Cemetery, Hancock County, Kentucky contributed by Mrs. K. L. Watkins, Hawesville, Kentucky.................. 81 Queries ............................................................................................ 82 News Items....................................................................................... 95
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Number Three, January 1968 COURT RECORDS Mason County’s First Temple of Justice contributed by Mrs. Lula Reed Boss, Maysville, Kentucky................. 98 Mason County, Kentucky, Court and other Records contributed by Mrs. Lula Reed Boss, Maysville, Kentucky.................101 Abstracts of Clippings from the scrapbook of Anna P. Newdigate of Mason County, Kentucky submitted by Mrs. Robert R. Hartman, Jr., Newport, Kentucky.........103 Will of Thomas W. Edwards – Green County, Kentucky submitted by Beatrice Edwards Sorensen, Moore, Idaho. ..................105 Index to Russell County, Kentucky, Marriage Certificates contributed by Mrs. Donald E. Jordon, Indianapolis, Indiana ...........109 FAMILY RECORDS Stewart/Goode Family – a correction William C. Stewart............................................................................108 Penn Family of Virginia in Kentucky Charles Hughes Hamlin, C. G...........................................................114 Robert Marshall Family contributed by Mrs. James J. Bushnell. ...........................................124 BIBLE RECORDS Ephraim Trabue Family Bible contributed by Marion Rex Trabue. ..................................................127 CEMETERY RECORDS The Gilead Church Cemetery copied by Mrs. Lela Shelton, submitted by Hester E. Garrett ............128 Mouser Cemetery, Hart County, Kentucky copied by Mrs. Lela Shelton, submitted by Hester E. Garrett ............129 Queries ............................................................................................130 Books...............................................................................................143 News Items.......................................................................................146 Map of Streams of Kentucky.............................................................121 Number Four, April 1968
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COURT RECORDS Return of Ministers’ Marriages - Mason County, Kentucky Mrs. Lula Reed Boss.........................................................................149 Index to Russell County, Kentucky, Marriage Certificates Mrs. Donald E. Jordon .....................................................................154 Two notes from Record Book A of Pope County, Illinois, Marriages Mrs. L. Don Turner...........................................................................159 [2] Marriages – Kenton County, Kentucky .........................................159 Court Order Book A, and 5, [Benjamin Sutton], Campbell County Mrs. Margaret Strebel Hartman ........................................................165 FAMILY RECORDS Abstracts of Clippings Mrs. Margaret Strebel Hartman. .......................................................160 Robert Marshall Family – Fayette County, Kentucky Mrs. James J. Bushnell....................................................................161 Isaac Family of Virginia, Carolinas, Kentucky Mrs. Henry Brinkdopke ....................................................................166 McClain Family – Harrison County, Kentucky Mrs. Oscar W. Vontz.........................................................................170 Jeremiah Wilson – Woodford County, Kentucky Mrs. Marion Wood Mahin .................................................................171 [Miss Lily Hughes – her gourd & corn cob] George H. S. King .............................................................................171 MAPS Topographic Maps of Kentucky.........................................................172 Index Map ........................................................................................174 BIBLE RECORDS Barnard Family Bible Mrs. Edw. C. Hamilton .....................................................................175 Mozee Family Bible Mrs. Oscar Vontz..............................................................................176 Records from Family Bible of Captain Jack Jouett Mrs. W. Burford Davis......................................................................177 OBITUARIES Captain John Pendleton Mr. Abel Pennington Mrs. E. T. Ashley III..........................................................................180 Mrs. W. E. Bach, Club Woman, Taken by Death [Taken from Lexington Herald, Lexington, Kentucky].........................181 News Items and Books [Lest We Forget] ............................................182
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Queries ............................................................................................185
VOLUME 4 Number One, July 1968 Cover Picture on April, 1968, issue of Kentucky Ancestors Mrs. Condit B. Van Arsdall, Jr.......................................................... 27 Map of Wayne County, Kentucky...................................................... 1 American Genealogy John Walton..................................................................................... 3 COURT RECORDS Returns of Ministers’ Marriages – Mason County, Kentucky, continued Mrs. Lula Reed Boss......................................................................... 10 1795 – First Tax List of Green County, Kentucky John Paul Grady .............................................................................. 16 Wayne County, Kentucky, Delinquent Tax List for 1826 Mrs. W. H. Nutter ............................................................................. 21 Abraham Parker, A Revolutionary Pensioner – Campbell County, Kentucky Mrs. Margaret Strebel Hartman ........................................................ 22 FAMILY RECORDS Stull – White – Williams families A friend ............................................................................................ 23 Isham Browder Historical Marker – Fulton County, Kentucky Mary N. McDade Wright. .................................................................. 26 Chronicles of Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky ....................... 27 Abstracts of Clippings – Mason County, Kentucky, continued Mrs. Margaret Strebel Hartman ........................................................ 28 BIBLE RECORDS Moranda Burks Family Bible, Hardin County, Kentucky Sally Neff.......................................................................................... 29 Family Record of the Children of David and Amanday M. Morris, Woodford & Henry County, Kentucky Ben Hume Morris ............................................................................. 30 CEMETERY RECORDS Selective Listing of Names and Dates Copied from Tombstones in Wayne County, Kentucky, Cemeteries, Together with the Location
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of the Cemeteries Garnet Walker.................................................................................. 31 Hill Graveyard, Bourbon County, Kentucky ...................................... 34 Tucker – Hall Graveyard, probably Bourbon County, Kentucky Mrs. Mahlin C. Northcutt ................................................................. 34 Queries ............................................................................................ 35 News Items and Books ..................................................................... 48 Genealogical Chart Calloway County Genealogical Society .............................................. 51 Number Two, October 1968 Picture of Old State House and Annex, Frankfort, Kentucky ............. 53 COURT RECORDS 1795 First Tax List – Green County, Kentucky John Paul Grady .............................................................................. 55 Concerning Ministers’ Returns of Marriages in Kentucky in the Early 1800s............................................................................ 61 Returns of Ministers’ Marriages – Mason County, Kentucky Mrs. Lula Reed Boss......................................................................... 62 Lowery Marriages and Parent’s Consents in Warren County, Kentucky Mrs. Daniel Byrne ............................................................................ 68 Rountree Marriages, Warren County, Kentucky Kenneth H. Lee................................................................................. 69 FAMILY RECORDS Descendants of Andrew Craig and Sophia Laughlin, Laurel County, Kentucky Mrs. Barbara B. Ewell ...................................................................... 70 Heirs of Jeremiah York (Court Order Book) Campbell County, Kentucky Mrs. Margaret Strebel Hartman ........................................................ 72 Robert Marshall Family, Fayette County, Kentucky Mrs. James J. Bushnell.................................................................... 73 James Shaw – A Revolutionary Soldier (Court Order Book) Campbell County, Kentucky Mrs. Margaret Strebel Hartman ........................................................ 78 Logan Genealogy – From Kentucky to Ohio Mrs. Harold E. Logan ....................................................................... 79 Edward Taylor, Citizen – Boone County, Kentucky............................ 81
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Boone Family Addenda Mrs. Olive Lewis Kolb ....................................................................... 82 BIBLE RECORDS Bible Records of Thomas Laughlin – Whitley County, Kentucky courtesy of Mrs. Ruby Berry Stallings............................................... 71 Bible Records of Truman and Long Families – Campbell County, and Kenton County, Kentucky Mrs. James Wolcott .......................................................................... 87 CEMETERY RECORDS Tabers— Ridge Spring Church Cemetery, Hardin County, Kentucky................................................................. 89 The Grimes Cemetery, Bourbon County, Kentucky Bess L. Hawthorne ........................................................................... 90 William Hicks - Calloway County, Kentucky Mrs. David Orrahood........................................................................ 90 Queries Answers to Queries – For Kentucky Ancestors File............................. 61 News Items and Books .....................................................................106 Number Three, January 1969 COURT RECORDS Early Kentucky Settlers from Ontario County, New York, [to Hardin-Hart County, Kentucky] Louis Ansel Duermyer ......................................................................111 Robert Caldwell – Campbell County, Kentucky .................................114 “Return of Ministers’ Marriages” – Mason County, Kentucky Mrs. Lula Reed Boss.........................................................................115 John Colvin – Campbell County, Kentucky .......................................133 William Olwin – Campbell County, Kentucky Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................139 FAMILY RECORDS Descendants of Andrew Craig & Sophia Laughlin Craig Mrs. Barbara B. Ewell ......................................................................124 George Smith Ruth Carpenter Hall .........................................................................128 Spencer Adams Mrs. Ralph G. Miller .........................................................................129 Heflin Family A. Maxim Coppage............................................................................130
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Taylors Lorena Duncan Currents..................................................................131 Abstracts of Clippings (Mason County, Kentucky) Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................134 BIBLE RECORDS Family Bible of Thomas Moore Baker – Owen County, Kentucky submitted by Mrs. William H. Merrifield ...........................................135 Records from Family Bible of John Tinsley submitted by Mrs. Jim King .............................................................136 Stephen Glass Bible contributed by Mrs. N. B. Hedges .....................................................137 The Page Bible Merritt L. Page..................................................................................138 CEMETERY RECORDS Utica Cemetery, Daviess County, Kentucky M. J. Edgeworth ...............................................................................140 Pleasant Valley Christian Church Cemetery, Daviess County, Kentucky M. J. Edgeworth ...............................................................................142 Thomas Mosley – Daviess County, Kentucky Mrs. David Orrahood........................................................................143 Warner Crow Houston Katharyn C. Leachman.....................................................................143 Stockton Graveyard, Fleming County, Kentucky Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................144 Sargent John Waller – Mrs. C. L. Frazer............................................146 John Young – Family Cemetery, Fayette County, Kentucky Mrs. E. C. Wooton ............................................................................147 Wells Cemetery, Hardin County, Kentucky Pauline Jones and Sally Neff.............................................................148 Upton Cemetery, Hardin County, Kentucky Sally Neff..........................................................................................149 Lindsay – family graveyard, Scott County, Kentucky Mrs. J. W. Singer..............................................................................149 FUNERALS Mrs. Sidney Thomas.........................................................................127 Miss Sarah Logan.............................................................................149 Queries ............................................................................................150 News Items and Books .....................................................................163
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Number Four, April 1969 Cane Ridge Meeting House near Lexington, Kentucky Record of Marriages Jefferson County confirmed by Rev. G. Gates of Middletown, Kentucky........................167 COURT RECORDS Abstract of Succession of Moses Clifton Hardesty Mrs. Amos E. Neff.............................................................................172 The Four Richard Parkers – (Mason, Fayette, Boone Counties) Mrs. Lula Reed Boss.........................................................................173 FAMILY RECORDS Ironton (Ohio) Register Mrs. Lula Reed Boss.........................................................................179 Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois Oscar J. McKee ................................................................................180 The Adams Family of Virginia and Kentucky Mrs. DeForrest C. Parrott .................................................................181 The Winston Family (Boone County, Kentucky) Mrs. Robert M. Rouse.......................................................................184 Descendants of Andrew Craig and Sophia Laughlin Barbara B. Ewell ..............................................................................185 Abstracts of Clippings Mrs. Robert R. Hartman ...................................................................192 Mrs. Nina Mitchell Biggs [Shirley F. McGhee] ..........................................................................193 BIBLE RECORDS Bible of Richard Wyatt Sebree and Bible of Wm. J. Sebree Richard O. Sebree ............................................................................194 Nall Family Records Mrs. Arch L. Moore...........................................................................195 Beaty Bible Mrs. Wm. A. Cleveland .....................................................................196 Family Bible of Meredith Holiday Vice and Vice Family Mrs. Marvin B. Vice..........................................................................197 From the Bible of Caroline Robbins Ryan Mrs. K. L. Watkins............................................................................200 CEMETERY RECORDS Some Cemeteries in Owsley County, Kentucky – Moore, Bond, Smith, Botner, New Hope, Isaac, Marcum, and Hogg Cemeteries Reverend Dennis L. Brewer...............................................................201
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Cemetery in Campbell County, Kentucky Jean Houston (copied by Pat Neal)....................................................205 Funeral: Mrs. Margaret Watt ............................................................196 Queries ............................................................................................206 News Items and Books .....................................................................218
VOLUME 5 Number One, July 1969 Liberty Hall, Frankfort, Kentucky Record of Marriages confirmed by Rev. G. Gates of Middletown, Kentucky .................................................................. 3 Kentucky References Found in History of Grundy County (Missouri), 1881 Miss Annette Hoffman ...................................................................... 7 Postmasters at Long Falls Creek Post Office (McLean County, Kentucky) Katharyn C. Leachman..................................................................... 24 COURT RECORDS and/or ABSTRACTS OF COURT RECORDS The Story of the Four Richard Parkers (Mason County, Kentucky) Mrs. Lula Reed Boss......................................................................... 12 John McKenney Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................ 28 FAMILY RECORDS The First Ham(m)on(d) Families in Kentucky Neal Owen Hammon......................................................................... 19 Haden of Virginia and Kentucky Charles Hughes Hamlin, C. G........................................................... 25 Concerning the Ancestry of Thomas Milton Tinney Thomas Milton Tinney...................................................................... 29 Watson Migration from Maryland Richard S. Uhrbrock......................................................................... 30 Samuel Porter Harold T. Smutz ............................................................................... 30 Abstracts of Clippings Mrs. Robert R. Hartman, Jr. ............................................................. 31
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BIBLE RECORDS Bible Record of McKee Family Mrs. Ralph E. Sutton........................................................................ 32 Elijah Eaton Bible Ben Hume Morris ............................................................................. 33 Harrison – Franklin Bible Mrs. Martha P. Reneau..................................................................... 34 The Three Leachman Family Bibles William L. Litsey............................................................................... 35 Records from the Reverend John G. Ellis Bible Mrs. Maklin C. Northcutt.................................................................. 38 CEMETERY RECORDS Some Cemeteries in Owsley County, Kentucky (Shepherd Cemetery) Reverend Dennis L. Brewer............................................................... 39 Lewisport, Hancock County, Kentucky, Cemetery M. J. Edgeworth ............................................................................... 42 Yates Family Cemetery H. T. Parrish..................................................................................... 42 Funeral: Mrs. Elizabeth Cunningham............................................... 24 Queries ............................................................................................ 43 News Items and Books ..................................................................... 55 Number Two, October 1969 Cover, Second Capitol of Kentucky Kentucky References Found in History of Grundy County (Missouri), 1881 Miss Annette Hoffman ...................................................................... 59 COURT RECORDS and/or ABSTRACTS OF COURT RECORDS Returns of Ministers’ Marriages (Mason County, Kentucky) Mrs. Lula Reed Boss......................................................................... 63 Register of Physicians (Calloway County, Kentucky) Danny R. Hatcher............................................................................. 70 FAMILY RECORDS Moore Family A friend ............................................................................................ 72 The First Ham(m)on(d) Families in Kentucky
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Neal Owen Hammon......................................................................... 76 Stull – White – Williams Addenda W. W. Miller ..................................................................................... 82 BIBLE RECORDS Daniel Duncan Family Bible Mrs. Marie Osmun ........................................................................... 87 Perry Thomas Family Bible Edison H. Thomas............................................................................ 88 CEMETERY RECORDS Old Milburn Cemetery, Carlisle County, Kentucky Dick Barclay..................................................................................... 91 Rose Hill Cemetery, Daviess County, Kentucky M. J. Edgeworth ............................................................................... 92 Mills – Hanks Cemetery Mrs. Richard Q. Bell ......................................................................... 96 Funeral: Mrs. Amelia Grimes............................................................ 90 Queries ............................................................................................ 97 News Items and Books .....................................................................109 Certificate of Ownership ................................................................... 87 Number Three, January 1970 Kentucky References Found in History of Grundy County (Missouri), 1881 ...............................................................................115 Flagg Spring Baptist Church Mrs. Jean Houston...........................................................................120 COURT RECORDS Returns of Ministers’ Marriages; Ministers’ Bonds Mrs. Lula Reed Boss.........................................................................122 History in County Court Records (Floyd County, Kentucky) ..............128 Walter Crow Mrs. Amos Neff.................................................................................129 Mattingly (Nelson and Washington Counties, Kentucky) A Friend ...........................................................................................130 Heirs of Andrew Mefford (Greenup County, Kentucky and Pike County, Missouri) Mrs. Robert R. Mefford .....................................................................140
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Heirs of David Downard (Campbell County, Kentucky) Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................144 FAMILY RECORDS Abstracts of Clippings (Mason County, Kentucky) Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................133 The First Ham(m)on(d) Families in Kentucky Neal Owen Hammon.........................................................................135 Anthony Lindsay of Lindsay Station and His Descendants Richard Orr Sebree...........................................................................141 Excerpts from the Journal of George Mansfield Young Mrs. Jean Houston...........................................................................148 BIBLE RECORDS The Sallie Ann Davis Bible Records Mrs. H. T. McClure...........................................................................145 Willoughby T. Young’s Bible Records ................................................146 Bramel Family Bible Record Georgia Thompson ...........................................................................149 Jacob M. Cooper Bible Record Mrs. Fred Garrett .............................................................................150 CEMETERY RECORDS Presbyterian Church Cemetery at Hyden, Leslie County, Kentucky Mrs. Robert Radar............................................................................151 Hill and Troutman Cemetery, Nelson County, Kentucky Daniel O. Ice ....................................................................................151 Pleasureville Graveyard, Fleming County, Kentucky Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................152 FUNERALS James H. Gibson..............................................................................128 Miss Sarah Logan.............................................................................152 Queries ............................................................................................153 News Items and Books .....................................................................167 A Correction Martha L. Burkhead.........................................................................127 Number Four, April 1970 The Kehoe House..............................................................................171
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COURT RECORDS Marriages performed by the Reverend Henry Winfrey James C. Winfrey .............................................................................172 Mattingly A friend ............................................................................................175 FAMILY RECORDS John and Jane Kercheval Mrs. Lula Reed Boss.........................................................................182 Anthony Lindsay of Lindsay Station and His Descendants Richard Orr Sebree...........................................................................188 Excerpts from the Journal of George Mansfield Young Mrs. Jean C. Houston.......................................................................181 A Valuable Man Mrs. G. Funston Bilbrey ...................................................................181 Payton, Peyton Mrs. K. L. Watkins............................................................................195 Christian County – 1878 Map...........................................................196 Old Atlases of Some Counties in Kentucky........................................198 Frederick and Catherine Elgin’s Letter – 1822 James G. Elgin.................................................................................199 Whitaker and Benton Family Mrs. Wm. E. Leachman ....................................................................202 Layton – Tanner – Houston Mrs. Wm. E. Leachman ....................................................................202 Family Records of George Leachman, Sr. Mrs. Wm. E. Leachman ....................................................................203 BIBLE RECORDS Wilson – Martin Bible Mrs. C. H. Peden ..............................................................................204 Wilson Bible Dr. William Talley.............................................................................206 Bash Bible Mrs. Thelma Abney ..........................................................................201 CEMETERY RECORDS
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Hendronsville Cemetery Louis R. Boone and Mrs. Nancy Ellis ................................................207 Plum Creek Christian Church Graveyard [in part] Mrs. M. C. Northcutt ........................................................................208 Queries ............................................................................................209 News Items and Books .....................................................................223
VOLUME 6 Number One, July 1970 COURT RECORDS Pendleton County, Kentucky, Tax Records Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................ 3 Daniel Kain ...................................................................................... 7 Miscellaneous Fleming County Records Dr. William Talley............................................................................. 8 Davis (Nelson and Washington Counties) A friend ............................................................................................ 13 Bruner (Mercer County, Kentucky) A friend ............................................................................................ 16 FAMILY RECORDS William Henry Downing, Pioneer Mildred Hatcher ............................................................................... 17 John and Jane Kercheval Mrs. Lula Reed Boss......................................................................... 18 Alexander Gilmore Mrs. K. L. Watkins............................................................................ 22 Stone Family Records Mrs. N. B. Hedges............................................................................. 24 Anthony Lindsay of Lindsay Station and His Descendants (See Cemeteries) Richard Orr Sebree........................................................................... 30 BIBLE RECORDS Hayman and Coats Families Mrs. Jeanette McCool Parr ............................................................... 23 Bible of John Burton Smith Mrs. Robert E. Jenkins..................................................................... 25 Huffman Mrs. Robert M. Rouse....................................................................... 26 Williams – Kidwell Bible
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Mrs. C. H. Peden .............................................................................. 27 Grider Family Records Pauline Bingham.............................................................................. 29 CEMETERY RECORDS Lindsay Cemetery; The Cole Graveyard Near Midway, Kentucky ....... 31 Copied From Stamping Ground Cemetery, Scott County, Kentucky Richard Orr Sebree........................................................................... 32 Thomas Williams Dr. Ray Mofield ................................................................................ 32 Some Cemeteries in Pendleton County, Kentucky Ellis Graveyard; Mt. Auburn Cemetery; Bonar Graveyard ................. 33 Fryer Graveyard; Riverside Cemetery, Falmouth, Kentucky Mrs. M. C. Northcutt ........................................................................ 34 Elmwood Cemetery M. J. Edgeworth ............................................................................... 35 John Haynes Graveyard ................................................................... 39 Tindle – Burnette Cemetery E. Dunn; Mrs. K. L. Watkins; Larray R. Welch .................................. 39 Queries ............................................................................................ 40 News Items and Books ..................................................................... 54 Number Two, October 1970 First Governor’s House, Frankfort, Kentucky (Picture) ...................... 57 Native Kentuckians A. Maxim Coppage............................................................................ 59 COURT RECORDS Court Order – Mahala Gibb (Campbell County, Kentucky) ................ 61 Abstracts of Shields Deeds in Mercer County Records Mrs. W. S. Conover........................................................................... 62 Deed – Baker – Brice – Miles (Campbell County, Kentucky)............... 66 List of Fire Buckets in Washington, July 1815 (Mason County, Kentucky) Mrs. W. W. Weis ............................................................................... 67 Tabb Family of Mason County, Kentucky Mrs. Lula Reed Boss......................................................................... 68 Heirs of Benjamin Mosby of Boone County, Kentucky Mrs. Ezra E. Davidson...................................................................... 72 Deed – Charles Stricker to John Lee (Campbell County, Kentucky) Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................ 73
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Skaggs A friend ............................................................................................ 74 FAMILY RECORDS Walker Family – Allen County, Kentucky Charles W. Palmer, Jr. ..................................................................... 81 BIBLE RECORDS Skaggs Bible Mrs. Leonard T. Harris ..................................................................... 82 Westerfield Bible Mrs. William Freeman ...................................................................... 84 Ezekiel Downing Bible Frank L. Williams............................................................................. 85 CEMETERY RECORDS Short Cemetery, Jackson County, Kentucky Mrs. James T. Sasseer...................................................................... 87 Flat Foot Cemetery, Butler County, Kentucky Mrs. Thurston Abney........................................................................ 89 Ward or Hatfield Cemetery, Daviess County, Kentucky Mrs. Thurston Abney........................................................................ 89 Bowman Graveyard, Fleming County, Kentucky Dr. William Talley............................................................................. 90 Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Fleming County, Kentucky Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................ 90 Willett Graves, Fleming County, Kentucky Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................ 91 FUNERALS W. S. Alexander................................................................................ 86 Mrs. Almedia Howe........................................................................... 91 Queries ............................................................................................ 92 News Items and Books .....................................................................111 Number Three, January 1971 Nathaniel Haggard house (picture on front cover) .............................113 Journal of John Wallace Mrs. Charles A. Hofstetter ................................................................115 COURT RECORDS
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George Carter Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................118 Mason County, Kentucky, Court and Other Records Mrs. Lula Reed Boss.........................................................................119 Abstracts of Wills of Campbell County, Kentucky (Will Book A) Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................125 William Gosney Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................134 FAMILY RECORDS John Waits and His Wife, Mary McShane, of Harrison County, Kentucky Reverend Emmett Moore Waits .........................................................131 One of the First Bowles Families in Kentucky C. T. McWhorter ...............................................................................135 BIBLE RECORDS Peay Family Bible Records Mrs. Wm. H. Eckert..........................................................................136 Pennell Bible Records Mrs. Wm. H. Eckerts ........................................................................137 Jacob Hite and Elizabeth His Wife’s Book Mrs. W. H. Sallee..............................................................................139 Williamson – Sheridan Bible Record Richard C. Sheridan.........................................................................141 Bushart Bible Mrs. Glynn F. Bushart .....................................................................142 CEMETERY RECORDS Alexander Cemetery, Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky Mrs. Booth Huffaker and the late Mrs. Ione Nolan ............................143 Funeral: Helen Adams......................................................................138 Queries ............................................................................................150 News Items and Books .....................................................................164 Number Four, April 1971 Pisgah Presbyterian Church, Woodford County, Kentucky (Cover) COURT RECORDS A List of Tavern, or Ordinary, Licenses, Mason County, Kentucky.....171 Sheriff’s Bonds, Mason County, Kentucky
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Mrs. Lula Reed Boss.........................................................................174 John Cockran – from Order Book 2, Boone County, Kentucky Mrs. Clifford Coyle............................................................................175 Abstracts of Wills (Book A) of Campbell County, Kentucky Mrs. Margaret Strebel Hartman ........................................................176 Some Scott County, Kentucky, Marriages of the Green Family Mrs. C. T. Ashley and Devonda Ramsey............................................193 FAMILY RECORDS Cralle ...............................................................................................182 Taber A friend ............................................................................................183 Philip Buckner Mrs. Louise Poage ............................................................................185 The Descendants of Colonel Abraham Hite Mrs. (W. H.) Helen Hite Sallee...........................................................186 Lewis Vimont’s Letter to the Rev. John Barnett James Barnett..................................................................................192 The Boales or Bowles Family of Christian County, Kentucky Eugene A. Cordry .............................................................................194 William Risk J. R. Johnson...................................................................................197 James Moor Mrs. Robert R. Hartman, Jr. .............................................................199 BIBLE RECORDS Winstead Family Bible Record Mrs. Leonard T. Harris .....................................................................200 Kinkead and McMurry Family Bibles Mrs. G. R. Scott................................................................................201 CEMETERY RECORDS Caldwell Family Cemetery, Pendleton County, Kentucky contributed by William S. Kenner, Erlanger, Kentucky......................203 Yager Cemetery, Kenton County, Kentucky copied by Mrs. Mayo Taylor, Erlanger ...............................................203 Edwards Cemetery, Hart County, Kentucky contributed by Mrs. C. F. Stimpson; copied by her and her sister, Evelyn .............................................................................204 St. Jerome Catholic Church, Fancy Farm, Graves County, Kentucky copied by Mrs. Ellis Potts, Madisonville, Kentucky; submitted by Frank E. Toon, Calusa, California.....................................................206 St. Denis Catholic Church, Hickman County, Kentucky copied by Mrs. Ellis Potts, Madisonville, Kentucky............................207 St. Charles Catholic Church, Carlisle County, Kentucky
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copied by Mrs. Ellis Potts, Madisonville, Kentucky............................208 Jackson Cemetery copied by Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Watkins, Hawesville, Kentucky ............208 Queries ............................................................................................209 News Items and Books .....................................................................222
VOLUME 7 Number One, July 1971 Front Cover – Home of Washington Young, Wayne County, Kentucky ................................................................. 1 Donaldson Creek Church Mary Higgs....................................................................................... 3 COURT RECORDS Mason County, Kentucky, Court and Other Records Mrs. Lula Reed Boss......................................................................... 5 Abstract of Wills (Book A) of Campbell County, Kentucky Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................ 9 Deposition of Mrs. Ruth Hamilton – Gallatin County, Kentucky ........ 30 FAMILY RECORDS The Descendants of Colonel Abraham Hite Mrs. Helen Hite Sallee ...................................................................... 15 Hardin A friend ............................................................................................ 21 BIBLE RECORDS John Samuel Power Family Bible Rear Admiral Mitchell Dudley Matthews ........................................... 24 Fleming County, Kentucky, Bible and Family Records (Henry Bruce Family Bible & Wm. Dudley, Sr., Family Record) Rear Admiral Mitchell Dudley Matthews ........................................... 26 CEMETERY RECORDS The Old Mt. Pleasant Cemetery – Warren County, Kentucky Lloyd M. Raymer .............................................................................. 31 Grove Hill Cemetery – Shelby County, Kentucky Dr. and Mrs. Robert Hasskarl........................................................... 33 Johnson Graveyard Katharyn Leachman ......................................................................... 35
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Vaughan Burying Ground – Christian County, Kentucky Eugene A. Cordry ............................................................................. 36 Thomas P. Polk (in Elmwood Cemetery, Augusta, Kansas) Mrs. P. E. McGuyre .......................................................................... 37 Abney Cemetery; Alcorn Cemetery – Estill County, Kentucky Diane Rogers and Ellen Rogers......................................................... 38 Queries ............................................................................................ 40 News Items and Books ..................................................................... 55 Number Two, October 1971 FRONT COVER Home of Samuel J. Walker of Appomattox County, Virginia COURT RECORDS Lewis County Will Book C Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................ 59 Fleming County, Kentucky Mrs. Lula Reed Boss......................................................................... 65 Abstracts of Wills (Book A.) of Campbell County, Kentucky Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................ 71 Some Marriages of Breckinridge County, Kentucky Mrs. K. L. Watkins............................................................................ 90 FAMILY RECORDS Logan A friend ............................................................................................ 78 Notes on the Quisenberry Family – Owen County, Kentucky Mrs. James Wolcott .......................................................................... 84 BIBLE RECORDS Bible of Elder Richard and Elizabeth (Bowles) Thomas H. J. Rhodes .................................................................................... 85 CEMETERY RECORDS Skelton Cemetery, Livingston County, Kentucky; City Cemetery, Sikeston, Missouri Mrs. Victor B. Bonney ...................................................................... 91 Mt. Vernon Baptist Church Cemetery ............................................... 92 Minish Cemetery, Gratz, Owen County, Kentucky William J. Hearn .............................................................................. 93 South Hampton Cemetery, Daviess County, Kentucky Ernest Baskett ................................................................................. 96
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Samples Graveyard Ellen and Diane Rogers .................................................................... 98 Queries ............................................................................................ 99 News Items and Books .....................................................................110 Number Three, January 1972 Front Cover – “Sorrel Blossom” with Pine Tree border Names Mrs. C. T. Ashley III..........................................................................115 Funeral: Richard W. Watkins............................................................125 From The Diary of Thomas Keyes Humphreys Allen S. Humphreys .........................................................................146 COURT RECORDS Lewis County Will Book C Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................117 Abstracts of Wills (Book A) of Campbell County, Kentucky................126 Some Court Records of Knox County, Kentucky L. D. Prewitt .....................................................................................150 FAMILY RECORDS Fleming County, Kentucky – McClane–McClain–McLean–McLain Family..............................................................................................132 Fleming County, Kentucky – Hart Family Mrs. Lula Reed Boss.........................................................................136 Distant Cousins of the Queen of England in Kentucky Stratton Hammon ............................................................................137 The Descendants of Colonel Abraham Hite Mrs. Helen Hite Sallee ......................................................................141 BIBLE RECORDS H. H. Mansfield Testament Mrs. Stephen P. Smith......................................................................147 Bible Record of Jacob and Harriet (Lamaster) Oglesby Helen White......................................................................................149 Fairleigh Family Record Mrs. Gene B. Newcomb ....................................................................151 CEMETERY RECORDS Alexander Cemetery .........................................................................152
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Boian Cemetery................................................................................153 The Old Dripping Springs Cemetery– Estill County Ellen and Diane Rogers ....................................................................155 Queries ............................................................................................156 News Items and Books .....................................................................167 Number Four, April 1972 Front Cover – The Seal of Kentucky COURT RECORDS Genealogical Data from Early Breckinridge County Deed Books D. Lynn Bolin...................................................................................171 Adair County, Kentucky, Stray Book #1 Mrs. Ruth Paull Burdett ...................................................................177 Abstracts of Wills (Book A) of Campbell County, Kentucky................184 William Stone Heirs Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................189 Some Court Records of Knox County, Kentucky L. D. Prewitt .....................................................................................191 Abraham Depew Heirs Mrs. Clifford Coyle............................................................................199 FAMILY RECORDS The Stringfield Family of Kentucky and Virginia Mrs. DeForrest C. Parrott .................................................................190 Fleming County, Kentucky – Cord Family Mrs. Lula Reed Boss.........................................................................192 Bullocks of Virginia and Kentucky Nada Binnion Fuqua ........................................................................195 Lewis Singer Family Record Mrs. Charles R. Pryor .......................................................................200 William Leachman Robert C. Jobson..............................................................................176 BIBLE RECORDS Cowherd Bible Mrs. Vyron Mitchell ..........................................................................201 Susan Patience Kelly’s Bible Mrs. Belva Geist ...............................................................................202 The Scott Family Bible......................................................................204 Bible Record of Hopkins Family Susan C. Eads .................................................................................205
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Spencer Bible Record Mrs. N. B. Hedges.............................................................................206 CEMETERY RECORDS Some Cemeteries in Breckinridge County, Kentucky Bewleyvill, Hickerson, Jordan Daniel Lynn Bolin.............................................................................207 Finnell Family Tombstone Records Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Parrish................................................................208 Redbird Cemetery, Old Redbird Cemetery – Whitley County, Kentucky Mrs. Homer B. Davis ........................................................................209 McCoy Cemetery in Powell County, Kentucky ...................................210 Crowe Cemetery; Roberts ? Cemetery Diane and Ellen Rogers ....................................................................211 OBITUARY Mrs. Belle M. Parsons A. Maxim Coppage............................................................................183 FUNERAL Kate Stout Mrs. W. S. Conover...........................................................................204 Queries ............................................................................................213 News Items and Books .....................................................................222
VOLUME 8 Number One, July 1972 Front Cover – Benjamin Stephen’s House 1820 Census of Rockcastle County, Kentucky Linda Ramsey Ashley ....................................................................... 3 COURT RECORDS Fleming County Marriages Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................ 6 Some Harrison County Marriages Mrs. Wm. M. Rose ............................................................................ 9 Green(e) A friend ............................................................................................ 11 William Wright ................................................................................. 12
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Newton Mrs. Robert R. Hartman, Jr. ............................................................. 15 Some Unusual Items from U. S. Census Records Allan S. Humphreys ......................................................................... 26 FAMILY RECORDS Davis Family – Lewis County, Kentucky Mrs. Lula Reed Boss......................................................................... 10 A Genealogical Puzzle William H. Sebastian ........................................................................ 13 Some Notes on the Wright Family Dudley D. Wright.............................................................................. 16 The Haskins Family of Adair County, Kentucky J. D. Trabue..................................................................................... 18 The Descendants of Colonel Abraham Hite – Footnotes Mrs. Helen Hite Sallee ...................................................................... 20 BIBLE RECORDS Records from the Bible of Charles Humphreys Allan S. Humphreys ......................................................................... 25 Miles Hiter Upton Family Bible James S. Upton................................................................................ 27 Fleming County, Kentucky, Bible and Family Records Thomas Dudley Family Bible Rear Admiral Mitchell Dudley Matthews, USN (Ret.) ......................... 29 Fleming County, Kentucky, Bible and Family Records Elisha Arnold Robinson Bible Rear Admiral Mitchell Dudley Matthews, USN (Ret.) ......................... 30 Fleming County, Kentucky, Bible and Family Records Edward C. Bright Bible Rear Admiral Mitchell Dudley Matthews, USN (Ret.) ......................... 31 Fleming County, Kentucky, Bible and Family Records John Thomas Power Family Bible Virginia (Miss Jennie) Baker Power................................................... 31 Fleming County, Kentucky, Bible and Family Records William and Agnes A. Ross Bible Rear Admiral Mitchell Dudley Matthews, USN (Ret.) ......................... 32 CEMETERY RECORDS Caldwell Farm Cemetery William S. Kenner............................................................................. 32 Elmwood Cemetery (1st list), Daviess County, Kentucky M. J. Edgeworth ............................................................................... 33 Bennett Cemetery, McLean County, Kentucky Delmon C. Jarvis.............................................................................. 37
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Queries ............................................................................................ 38 News Items and Books ..................................................................... 55 Number Two, October 1972 Front Cover – Boone County’s Second Courthouse About the Front Cover and the Artist ................................................ 59 Marriage Records of Martin Owens (Rockcastle, Pulaski, and Lincoln Counties, Kentucky) Sharon Elizabeth Scott ..................................................................... 60 Hardin County Historical Library is Now Open to the Public Mrs. Dewey Pate............................................................................... 93 COURT RECORDS Thomas Boone’s Heirs v. William Chiles & al Louis R. Boone ................................................................................. 66 Heirs of Col. Holt Richeson Mrs. Lula Reed Boss......................................................................... 72 FAMILY RECORDS William Lancaster James R. Glacking ........................................................................... 74 Harris or Harrison ? Michael Lewis Cook .......................................................................... 79 The Descendants of Col. Abraham Hite – Footnotes Mrs. Helen Hite Sallee ...................................................................... 80 BIBLE RECORDS Cornelius Bible Records George B. Loeffler ............................................................................. 83 Stites Bible Mrs. K. L. Watkins............................................................................ 84 Carlton Family Bible Records Mrs. J. W. Wolcott ............................................................................ 85 CEMETERY RECORDS Stockton Valley Obituary Index (Clinton County, Kentucky) Timothy A. Cantrell and Viebie Cantrell ............................................ 86 Hart Cemetery; Penny Graveyard (Whitley County, Kentucky) W. B. Dulaney .................................................................................. 92 Corrections
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Regarding Taylor Family Mrs. Wm. H. Eckert.......................................................................... 93 Regarding Breckinridge Name Mrs. Charles R. Fitzner..................................................................... 94 Queries ............................................................................................ 94 Omissions – In Whitley Query #3077 ................................................106 News Items and Books .....................................................................109 Number Three, January 1973 Picture – Birthplace of Dr. George W. Reed Mrs. Glenn F. Roberts Marriage Records of Martin Owens Sharon Elizabeth Scott .....................................................................115 Pond Run Church of United Baptist of Jesus Christ William J. Shull................................................................................137 1830 Census of Rockcastle County, Kentucky Linda Ramsey Ashley .......................................................................141 COURT RECORDS Caroline A. Grant .............................................................................119 Thomas Boone’s Heirs v. William Chiles & al Louis R. Boone .................................................................................120 John Yeoman Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................139 FAMILY RECORDS Mitchell Family Mrs. Lula Reed Boss.........................................................................128 Kentucky Families in Missouri A friend ............................................................................................138 Zachariah Crow Family Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................140 BIBLE RECORDS Utz Bible Zayda K. Clore..................................................................................144 Maxwell Family Bible Zayda K. Clore..................................................................................145 Bible Record of Albert T. Moss Mrs. Eugenia B. Toland ....................................................................146
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Rhea Family Bible Mrs. Judith A. Walters .....................................................................147 Adres Family Bible D. Lynn Bolin...................................................................................148 CEMETERY RECORDS Cemetery in Hartford, Kentucky Rickie Ashley....................................................................................149 Old Kentucky Graveyards Miss Helen B. McCachen ..................................................................151 Caldwell Cemetery; Duggin Family Plot; Gross Cemetery; The Old Irvine Cemetery Ellen & Diane Rogers........................................................................152 Correction Mary Trigg Mabel M. Logan................................................................................140 Funeral: Elizabeth Russell................................................................151 Queries ............................................................................................155 News Items and Books .....................................................................166 Number Four, April 1973 Front Cover – “Cane Brake Cabin” Mrs. Andrew Cochran Duke .............................................................171 Mrs. Lula Reed Boss, noted historian, dies (From “The Ledger – Independent,” Maysville, Kentucky ....................172 COURT RECORDS Green County, Kentucky, Marriage Bonds John Paul Grady ..............................................................................174 Fleming County Records Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................176 Boone County Administration and Guardian Book Mrs. Clifford Coyle............................................................................178 Abstracts of Some Court Records of Mason County, Kentucky Mrs. W. W. Weis ...............................................................................181 William Cornelius Heirs; Peter C. Statts............................................171 John Lovel Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................198
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FAMILY RECORDS Hardin Settlers – 1755 to the Present A friend ............................................................................................183 A Letter to General Edward Hobson from Joshua F. Bell Mrs. Ralph N. Blakeman ..................................................................191 Descendants of Thomas Byers – Mason County Records The late Mrs. Lula Reed Boss............................................................192 Supplement to the Page Family published in Kentucky Ancestors Merritt L. Page..................................................................................197 Family Records of Cornelius Dabney Mrs. Margaret Bridges ......................................................................199 BIBLE RECORDS Information from the Reynolds Bible Mrs. Alex Allen .................................................................................201 Lewis Family Bible Mrs. K. L. Watkins............................................................................203 Holbrook Bible Records Mrs. J. Everett Bach.........................................................................204 CEMETERY RECORDS Elmwood Cemetery (second list), Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky M. J. Edgeworth ...............................................................................205 Gillispie Family Cemetery, Bourbon County, Kentucky Mrs. Clifford Wonn ...........................................................................209 Alsip Cemetery, Estill County, Kentucky Mrs. Raymond Smith........................................................................210 Gray Cemetery, Gray Bend, Lee County, Kentucky Mrs. J. Everett Bach.........................................................................210 Funeral Invitation: Mrs. Hannah Duke .............................................175 Queries ............................................................................................211 News Items and Books .....................................................................222
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Number One, July 1973 Front Cover – Home of Chittenden P. Lyon Ante Bellum, and an Old Brick House Lawrence Casner.............................................................................. 3
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A Letter from George C. Givens to his brother John L. D. Prewitt ..................................................................................... 6 Kentuckians and Direct Kentucky Descendants in Panhandle of Texas Bill Weaver....................................................................................... 8 Items from the Paris Kentuckian 1884 – Unclaimed Letters Mrs. G. L. Barnett ............................................................................ 33 COURT RECORDS Two Deeds from Deed Book A – Meade County, Kentucky, Records... 14 Meade County – Will Book A D. Lynn Bolin................................................................................... 15 Court Order Book A – Campbell County, Kentucky ........................... 17 Captain John Wilson – Lewis County, Kentucky Mrs. Lula Reed Boss of Maysville, Kentucky ..................................... 24 Marshall Hall [page 27]; Thomas Powling Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................ 38 FAMILY RECORDS Eldridge Hopkins – A Popular and Useful Name Mrs. Dayton Royse ........................................................................... 7 Some Early Kentucky Slaughters Paul McClure ................................................................................... 25 Two of the First McWhorter Families in Kentucky C. T. McWhorter ............................................................................... 28 BIBLE RECORDS Mason County, Kentucky, Bible and Family Records ........................ 34 James Calvert Bible [Page 34]; Hugh McIlvain Bible.......................... 35 Robert Bullock Yancey Bible............................................................. 36 James Duncan Peed Bible Rear Admiral Mitchell Dudley Matthews, USN, (Ret.) ........................ 37 CEMETERY RECORDS Chambers – Greer Cemetery, Barren County, Kentucky.................... 39 Gatewood Cemetery, Barren County, Kentucky Mrs. C. H. Peden .............................................................................. 40 OBITUARIES: Some Obituaries from Minutes of North Bend Baptist Association Mrs. Robert M. Rouse....................................................................... 41 FUNERALS: Elizabeth Newman [Page 5]; Mattie Power...................... 6
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Mrs. Susan Rosendol........................................................................ 16 Corrections Address of Mrs. Maude A. McFadden................................................ 55 Regarding Elder Richard Thomas III ................................................. 55 Queries ............................................................................................ 42 News Items and Books ..................................................................... 53 Number Two, October 1973 Front Cover – The Rasnic House Earl R. Tayce Some Kentucky Families in Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois Phyllis Taylor Hawes ........................................................................ 59 COURT RECORDS Lewis County Will Book D Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................ 63 Court Order Book A – Campbell County, Kentucky Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................ 69 William Rankin(s) – Mason County, Kentucky................................... 75 Rhodin Hord – Mason County, Kentucky Mrs. Lula Reed Boss......................................................................... 78 FAMILY RECORDS The Early Hutchison Family in Kentucky Paul McClure ................................................................................... 79 Captain James A. Allen Mrs. G. L. Barnett ............................................................................ 83 The Goodrum Family of Virginia and Kentucky................................. 84 The Duckett Family of Warren County, Kentucky Mrs. DeForrest C. Parrott ................................................................. 86 BIBLE RECORDS The Black Family Bible – Scott County, Kentucky............................. 87 The Self Family Bible – Scott County, Kentucky Mrs. James Demarce........................................................................ 88 The Brown Family Bible – Grant County, Kentucky T. J. Beach....................................................................................... 89 From the Bible of James Rice Boardman of Nicholas County, Kentucky Laura B. Boardman.......................................................................... 90
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Albert Osborn Bible – Grant County, Kentucky Mrs. James W. Wolcott ..................................................................... 91 CEMETERY RECORDS Cold Water Cemetery – Simpson County, Kentucky Beatrice Lambert.............................................................................. 92 Brammer Cemetery – Greenup County, Kentucky Evelyn Jackson ................................................................................ 95 Caldwell Cemetery in Campbell County Park .................................... 96 McKay Graveyard – McKay Farm, Kenton County, Kentucky William S. Kenner............................................................................. 96 OBITUARY – Rev. Thomas Kennedy Mrs. Ora W. Clough.......................................................................... 97 Funeral Invitation – Charles Cox ...................................................... 97 Queries ............................................................................................ 98 Corrections Query #4261 ....................................................................................106 Hardin Settlers.................................................................................110 News Items and Books .....................................................................110 Deaths – Mrs. Dayton Royse; Mrs. Lynette L. Russell........................111 Number Three, January 1974 Front Cover – the Mullins House Mrs. E. K. Belew...............................................................................113 Some Kentucky Families in Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois Phyllis Taylor Hawes ........................................................................115 COURT RECORDS Lewis County Will Book D Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................121 Woodford County, Kentucky, Records Mrs. William A. Cleveland.................................................................130 Court Order Book A – Campbell County, Kentucky Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................131 FAMILY RECORDS Col. Aaron Lewis of Kentucky
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Michael L. Cook................................................................................137 BIBLE RECORDS Bash Family Records Mrs. Edward N. McAllister ................................................................143 The John Warren Family Record James Logan Morgan .......................................................................144 CEMETERY RECORDS Site of the Wm. T. Caldwell Home and the Caldwell Family Cemetery William L. Litsey...............................................................................145 Names on the Tombstones in the old Mullins Graveyard Mrs. K. E. Belew...............................................................................146 Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery, Wayne County, Kentucky Asher L. Young.................................................................................147 Stephensport Baptist Church Cemetery, Breckinridge County, Kentucky D. Lynn Bolin...................................................................................150 Queries ............................................................................................151 News Items and Books……………………………………………………114, 165 Number Four, April 1974 About the Front Cover, “Thatcher’s Mill”...........................................171 Some Kentucky Families in Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois Phyllis R. T. Hawes...........................................................................172 COURT RECORDS Court Order Book A – Campbell County, Kentucky ...........................181 A List of Delinquents, 1805-1806 – Campbell County, Kentucky Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................188 Woodford County, Kentucky, Records – Order Book A, pages 38, 45 Mrs. Wm. A. Cleveland .....................................................................180 Woodford County, Kentucky, Deed Book C–2, page 89; Deed Book K, page 320 Mrs. Wm. A. Cleveland .....................................................................192 FAMILY RECORDS Green(e) A friend ............................................................................................187 The Ramsey Family of Rockcastle and Garrard Counties, Kentucky
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Mrs. C. T. Ashley, III.........................................................................189 Transcript of Letters – Rebecca J. Howard to F. S. Taylor Mrs. Glenn R. Hand .........................................................................193 Transcript of Letters – J. T. Osborn to F. S. Taylor Mrs. Glenn R. Hand .........................................................................195 Waterfield Data Mrs. Frank S. Gray...........................................................................196 BIBLE RECORDS William J. Woods Bible, James D. Woods Bible Mrs. Stephen P. Smith......................................................................197 John Ford Green Bible – Grant County, Kentucky Mrs. James W. Wolcott .....................................................................200 Graham Bible Records Mrs. Howard L. Bulls........................................................................201 George W. Metcalfe of Shelby County, Kentucky, and Edgar County, Illinois Louis D. Melnick ..............................................................................203 CEMETERY RECORDS Elmwood Cemetery, Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky M. J. Edgeworth ...............................................................................204 Cripple Creek Cemetery R. Smith...........................................................................................206 Crowe Cemetery Barbara Wells...................................................................................207 Temple, Jagger, Ollie, and Red Hill Cemeteries Daniel McCarthy ..............................................................................209 Brown Cemetery Raymond Boone and Mrs. N. B. Hedges............................................210 Queries ............................................................................................211 Corrections of address ........................................................................................213 of name............................................................................................219 News Items and Books .....................................................................222
VOLUME 10 Number One, July 1974 Front Cover – Ohio and Cumberland River Junction
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A Tribute to Kentucky Gypsy Gray Henry ............................................................................ 3 COURT RECORDS Court Order Book A – Campbell County, Kentucky ........................... 4 A List of Delinquents in Campbell County, Kentucky Margaret Strebel Hartman………………………………………………….12, 20 Union County, Kentucky, and the Lewis Family Michael L. Cook................................................................................ 13 Shoemaker – Virginia and Kentucky A friend ............................................................................................ 18 FAMILY RECORDS Journal Started by Thaise Maquaire C. J. Viller ........................................................................................ 21 Some McIntires in Kentucky and Their Descendants Raymond McIntire Grinstead............................................................ 27 Funeral Notice – of William House Mrs. Wesley R. Nelson ...................................................................... 31 BIBLE RECORDS McAtee and Clark Bible (Nelson County, Kentucky) Mrs. Jane Clark Heist....................................................................... 32 Alexander Family Bible (Mercer County, Kentucky) Mrs. Anita Moore.............................................................................. 33 McClary Family Records (Garrard County, Kentucky) Andrew K. Houk, Sr.......................................................................... 34 Barlow Family Bible W. B. Dulaney .................................................................................. 36 Samuel Perry – Tho. Ross Bible (Campbell County, Kentucky) Mrs. R. R. Hartman .......................................................................... 37 CEMETERY RECORDS Some Cemeteries in Meade County, Kentucky (Chappell, Algood–Fulton, Raymond) ................................................ 38 Boone Family Cemetery, Meade County, Kentucky Mrs. Rita A. Thompson..................................................................... 39 Yates Cemetery, Whitley County R. Smith........................................................................................... 39 Four Cemeteries of the Little Bend [Boone, Willett, King, Hollcroft] (Meade County, Kentucky) D. Lynn Bolin................................................................................... 40 Queries: (4570 through 4659)........................................................... 41
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News Items and Books ..................................................................... 54 Number Two, October 1974 Front Cover – An old stone house at Sanders, Kentucky Martha Sanders Reiner (Mrs. Charles F.) Kentuckians By Birth Mrs. James G. Hobbs ....................................................................... 59 Newspaper Items – Ironton (Ohio) Register Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................ 70 COURT RECORDS The Wilson Family of Lewis County, Kentucky Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................ 65 Marriage Register of William Head for 1853, Breckinridge County, Kentucky Michael L. Cook................................................................................ 71 Marriage Record Addenda, Breckinridge County, Kentucky Michael L. Cook................................................................................ 71 John Mansfield Heirs Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................ 84 FAMILY RECORDS Notes on the Moore – Harrison Family of Harrison County, Kentucky Reverend Emmett Moore Waits ......................................................... 73 William Glackin James R. Glacking ........................................................................... 77 Another “First” Bowles Family of Kentucky James Frederick O’Nan .................................................................... 83 BIBLE RECORDS Mason County, Kentucky, Bible and Family Records Roff-Shipman ................................................................................... 85 Shotwell-Shipman ............................................................................ 86 Mitchell–Shotwell ............................................................................. 88 Mitchell–Harrison............................................................................. 90 Mitchell–Wheatly .............................................................................. 91 Piper–Parker..................................................................................... 92 Parker–Piper..................................................................................... 92 contributed by Rear Admiral Mitchell Dudley Matthews, USN (Ret) CEMETERY RECORDS Pleasant Adkisson Cemetery
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Mrs. Rita A. Thompson..................................................................... 72 Elmwood Cemetery, Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky (Third List) M. J. Edgeworth ............................................................................... 94 Tichenor Cemetery, McLean County, Kentucky Delmon C. Jarvis.............................................................................. 97 Queries: (4661 through 4734)........................................................... 98 Change of Address: Mrs. Esther L. Hill ............................................. 99 Correction Of price of book The Bowmans by J. W. Wayland..............................104 News Items and Books .....................................................................109 Number Three, January 1975 Front Cover – Map of Lincoln County, Kentucky Photogrammetry Division, Bureau of Highways Kentuckians By Birth Mrs. James G. Hobbs .......................................................................115 COURT RECORDS Index – Federal Census, Grant County, Kentucky – 1820 James Glacking................................................................................121 Court Order Book A – Campbell County, Kentucky Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................125 The Will of Francis Triplett – (abstracted) – Virginia Kathleen B. Carter............................................................................134 Campbell County, Kentucky – 1808 Delinquent Tax List Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................141 Woodford County, Kentucky, Records Mrs. William Cleveland.....................................................................146 FAMILY RECORDS Hoover Family – From The Western Citizen Mrs. Ora W. Clough..........................................................................124 The Huffstuter Family ......................................................................131 The Will of Edmund Baxter – Nicholas County, Kentucky Mrs. Wilford H. Graves .....................................................................133 Genealogy of the William Haggards – Clark County, Kentucky, and Missouri Patience Haggard .............................................................................135
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BIBLE RECORDS Ropke Family Records – Jefferson County, Kentucky Patricia R. Updegraff ........................................................................142 Gregory Family Records – Boone County, Kentucky Pat Gregory ......................................................................................143 John Alexander Turner Bible Records – Bath County, Kentucky, and Texas Mrs. A. N. W. Barnes ........................................................................144 CEMETERY RECORDS Elmwood Cemetery, Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky M. J. Edgeworth ...............................................................................147 The Pine Hill Cemetery, Powell County, Kentucky Ellen and Diane Rogers ....................................................................151 FUNERALS Sallie Boude .....................................................................................120 Sophia Case .....................................................................................124 Queries: (4735 through 4823)...........................................................152 News Items and Books .....................................................................165 Change of Address Norma Dixon....................................................................................157 Miss Maude A. McFadin ...................................................................167 Number Four, April 1975 Front Cover – Pen and Ink Drawing of the Old State House Earl R. Tayce Cloud – The 1850 Census Index – Indiana L. D. Prewitt .....................................................................................171 Cloud – Heads of Families 1820 – 1830 Indiana Census L. D. Prewitt .....................................................................................172 Kentucky Natives Enumerated in 1860 Census, Livingston County, Missouri...........................................................................................173 Webster County, Kentucky. Couples Married Within the 1850 Census Year Mrs. Booth Huffaker.........................................................................176
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COURT RECORDS Marriages Performed by William Rogers for 1851 to 1868 Ellen Diane Rogers ...........................................................................178 Court Order Book A – Campbell County, Kentucky Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................180 Taber – (Partial Listing of Census and Deeds) A friend ............................................................................................186 Abstracts of Some Early Deeds in Mason County, Kentucky Mrs. W. W. Weis……………………………………………………………194, 200 FAMILY RECORDS The Contested Kentucky Lands in the Estate of Joseph Lewis Michael L. Cook, C. G.......................................................................190 A Branch of the “Osborn” Tree Robert G. Osborn .............................................................................195 Halbert and Watkins Families of Lewis County, Kentucky Willie M. Watkins .............................................................................201 BIBLE RECORDS Bible of James J. Asken (Smith, Hawkins, Kendall)...........................202 William D. Clark Bible W. H. Marshall .................................................................................203 Green Bible Mrs. J. W. Wolcott ............................................................................204 CEMETERY RECORDS Rose Hill Cemetery, Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky (3rd & 4th list) M. J. Edgeworth ...............................................................................205 Hoover Cemetery; Graham Family Cemetery (Meade County, Kentucky) Rita A. Thompson.............................................................................209 FUNERALS John Atherton ..................................................................................177 Elizabeth Warder Orr .......................................................................189 Edward Cox......................................................................................204 Queries ............................................................................................210 Change of Address: Mrs. Mary Ruth Ransdell ...................................217 News Items and Books .....................................................................222
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VOLUME 11 Number One, July 1975 Front Cover – The “Ben Adkins” Mill – Wayne County, Kentucky Asher L. Young Private Land Claims with Kentucky Residents Louis Raymond Boone...................................................................... 3 COURT RECORDS Unrecorded Deeds in Hardin County, Kentucky Margaret S. Richerson ...................................................................... 5 Court Order Book A – Campbell County, Kentucky ........................... 11 Taber A friend ............................................................................................ 17 Catharine Bryant Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................ 36 FAMILY RECORDS Notes on the “Helm Branch” of Breckinridge County, Kentucky Daniel Lynn Bolin............................................................................. 23 From Bible Record of Francis Marion and Edith E. Lacy Vaughn Mrs. Maurice Ward Maxwell ............................................................. 27 Funeral: Mrs. Bettie L. Britten, Mason County, Kentucky ................. 29 BIBLE RECORDS The Bible of Jacob Barrickman and Jane Swan June B. Barekman ........................................................................... 29 Mason County, Kentucky, Bible and Family Records ........................ 30 Joseph Power Bible; John Willett Power Bible Rear Admiral Mitchell Dudley Matthews, USN Retired ...................... 30 Work – Hay Bible Data By ? ................................................................................................. 32 CEMETERY RECORDS Salem Cemetery, Madison County, Kentucky Mrs. Kenneth Warren ....................................................................... 33 The Jolly Cemetery, Breckinridge County, Kentucky Robert C. Flood ................................................................................ 37 Hyden Cemetery, Boone County, Kentucky Terry Lanham................................................................................... 38 Anglin Cemetery, Greenup-Carter County, Kentucky Evelyn Jackson ................................................................................ 39
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Queries ............................................................................................ 40 News Items and Books……………………………………………………...…2, 54 Number Two, October 1975 Front Cover – Map of Hardin County, Kentucky Photogrammetry Division, Bureau of Highways The Crittenden Press, September 28, 1893, and October 5, 1893 Mrs. Ronald K. Singleton.................................................................. 59 Mount Arrarat Missionary Baptist Church – Knox County, Kentucky George W. Blanton ........................................................................... 64 COURT RECORDS Unrecorded Deeds in Hardin County, Kentucky Margaret S. Richerson ...................................................................... 71 Tavern Bonds (Mason County, Kentucky) Mrs. W. W. Weis ............................................................................... 77 John Bull’s Oath of Intention (Mason County, Kentucky) Mrs. Wm. A. Cleveland ..................................................................... 80 Duplicates of Confederate Pension Application (Grant County, Kentucky)................................................................. 81 Declaration of Intent for Naturalization U. S. A. (Grant County, Kentucky) Mrs. J. W. Wolcott ............................................................................ 82 FAMILY RECORDS A Letter to Lelia Lewis from George W. Berry Mrs. Samuel B. Ingels ...................................................................... 83 Nathan Fitch Family Mrs. R. B. Small, Jr.......................................................................... 63 BIBLE RECORDS J. Martin Sanders Bible Records Mrs. Merle Hicks Harris.................................................................... 84 Joshua Sanders Bible Records (Bourbon and Campbell Counties, Kentucky) Mrs. Betty J. Sutton ......................................................................... 85 Stubblefield Bible (Jackson County, Kentucky) Edna Jones ...................................................................................... 87 Polley Bible Records Raymond L. Jackson ........................................................................ 88
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CEMETERY RECORDS Gilliam Cemetery, Elliott County, Kentucky John A. Stegall and Dwanette Phillips .............................................. 89 The Moreland Cemetery.................................................................... 91 Mount Carmel Cemetery, Estill County, Kentucky Ellen and Diane Rogers .................................................................... 91 Elmwood Cemetery, Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky M. J. Edgeworth ............................................................................... 92 Queries: (4998 through 5090)........................................................... 95 Correction: Couples Married within the 1860 Census Year (not 1850 Census Year) Mrs. Booth Huffaker.........................................................................101 News Items and Books .....................................................................109 Number Three, January 1976 Front Cover – Map of Bourbon County, Kentucky Photogrammetry Division, Bureau of Highways.................................113 Kentuckians Who Applied for Land at the Crawfordsville, Indiana, Land Office in the Year 1831 Thelma M. Murphy, Indianapolis, Indiana ........................................115 Kentucky Natives Living in Carlisle Garrison, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Shown in 1860 Federal Census of Cumberland County Mrs. Booth Huffaker, Dallas Texas ...................................................117 Andrew Lynn Family.........................................................................117 Mount Arrarat Missionary Baptist Church (Knox County, Kentucky) George W. Blanton, Frankfort, Kentucky ..........................................118 Excerpts from Trail Breakers Mary P. Bonnie.................................................................................121 COURT RECORDS Unrecorded Deeds in Hardin County, Kentucky Margaret S. Richerson ......................................................................122 Court Order Book “A,” Campbell County, Kentucky Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................127 FAMILY RECORDS
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Andrew Linn Family Mrs. Robert R. Mefford .....................................................................117 Hardin A friend ............................................................................................126 He Was Not Captain John Randolph Charles Hughes Hamlin....................................................................131 Arabia Brown of Garrard County, Kentucky Dr. Glenn Dooley..............................................................................133 Ramsey Family Data Mrs. C. E. Klinger.............................................................................136 Alexander Morgan Family Mrs. Andy R. Klobnak ......................................................................140 BIBLE RECORDS Holt Bible Mrs. Leonard T. Harris .....................................................................137 Washington Richardson Family Bible Irma Mae Ewy ..................................................................................141 Carr Family Bible; J. M. Carr Bible Marvin D. Snoddy and Bonnie E. Snoddy .........................................142 CEMETERY RECORDS Rowan County Cemetery and the Corps of Engineers’ Cave Run Lake Stuart Seely Sprague........................................................................143 Correction: Henry Willis Grant instead of George Grant ....................153 Queries: (5091 through 5191)...........................................................153 Number Four, April 1976 Front Cover – Home of Colonel George Morgan Chinn Genealogical References in Elmer Decker’s History (Knox County) L. D. Prewitt .....................................................................................171 COURT RECORDS Aaron Adams – Claimant for Pension Increase (Harrison County) William C. Highfill ............................................................................177 Coulter–Stone George H. S. King .............................................................................178 Court Order Book A – Campbell County, Kentucky ...........................179 Grant County Circuit Court Records.................................................185 Cassander G. Groom; Daniel Flinn
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Mrs. J. W. Wolcott ............................................................................186 Cecilia Thomas Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................195 FAMILY RECORDS Controversy About the Ancestry of William Crawford (1764-1846) Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................187 Mrs. Ellen (Marshall) Wade John F. Reesor .................................................................................195 Colonel George Morgan Chinn Linda Anderson................................................................................196 The King Letters Mrs. B. W. Pott.................................................................................199 BIBLE RECORDS Levi Hale Bible Records Mrs. Russell E. Bradford ..................................................................203 Smith Family Records Edna Jones ......................................................................................204 The James Harrison Marshall Family Bible.......................................205 The Moses Thompson Marshall Family Bible John F. Reesor .................................................................................206 CEMETERY RECORDS The Marshall Graveyard (Barren County) John F. Reesor .................................................................................207 Pioneer Graveyard in Front of the Captain Jack Jouett House, Woodford County, Kentucky William Hearn ..................................................................................208 Frank Family Cemetery (Old McQuady Cemetery) Breckinridge County D. Lynn Bolin...................................................................................208 Holsclaw Tombstones (Boone County, Kentucky) R. R. Hartman, Jr.............................................................................208 Confederate Soldiers of Kentucky, and Unknown Places Buried in the City Cemetery, Madison, Georgia Ted O. Brooke ..................................................................................194 Queries ............................................................................................209 News Items and Books .....................................................................220
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Front Cover – New Liberty Baptist Church, Owen County, Kentucky New Liberty Baptist Church, Owen County, Kentucky Martha Sansom Greenlee ................................................................. 3 Some Kentuckians Who Settled in McDonough County, Illinois Duane Lester.................................................................................... 4 COURT RECORDS Martin (of Halifax and Franklin Counties, North Carolina) A friend ............................................................................................ 12 Heirs of John Stevens Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................ 18 FAMILY RECORDS Rev. William Thomas Mrs. W. C. Endicott .......................................................................... 3 The Pribbles of Kentucky Mrs. Robert J. Buxton ...................................................................... 19 Family History of Samuel Davidson Martha Sansom Greenlee ................................................................. 24 Nelson Data ..................................................................................... 27 BIBLE RECORDS Fleming County, Kentucky, Bible and Family Records ...................... 28 William Franklin Morgan Bible ......................................................... 28 Belt-Atkinson Bible .......................................................................... 29 Woodson Morgan Bible ..................................................................... 30 Changes Rear Admiral Mitchell Dudley Matthews ........................................... 31 Dobyns Family Bible Mrs. Norman C. Updegraff................................................................ 32 CEMETERY RECORDS Old Louisville Western Graveyard Mrs. Bennett F. Hughes.................................................................... 34 Foster Family Cemetery.................................................................... 37 Hollcroft Family Cemetery Rita Adkisson Thompson.................................................................. 37 Queries: (5270 through 5374)........................................................... 38 News Items and Books ..................................................................... 54
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Number Two, October 1976 About Front Cover – Home of Orville Browning Family, 1894-1907 Verna M. McDowell and C. A. Browning............................................ 59 The Church of the Ascension – Frankfort, Kentucky Mildred H. Riedel.............................................................................. 59 Some Kentuckians Who Settled in McDonough County, Illinois Duane Lester.................................................................................... 62 COURT RECORDS Court Order Book 4 – Andrew, Frances, and Henry Ramey Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................ 69 Martin (of North Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana) A friend ............................................................................................ 70 Court Order Book A – Campbell County, Kentucky ........................... 79 FAMILY RECORDS The Marshall Family (of Fleming, Mason, and Lewis Counties, Kentucky) Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................ 85 Daniel Lynn Bolin (of Breckinridge County, Kentucky) Michael L. Cook................................................................................ 90 Thomas Hale (Mercer County, Kentucky) Mrs. J. Oscar Phillips ....................................................................... 90 BIBLE RECORDS Charles White Bible (Kenton County, Kentucky) Mrs. Robert M. Rouse....................................................................... 91 (Jacob) White Family Bible (Campbell County, Kentucky) Ronald Brennan ............................................................................... 92 Glenn Family Bible Mrs. R. M. Colwell ............................................................................ 94 Highfill Family Bible Records (Pendleton County, Kentucky) Mrs. Louise Belew Schwartz ............................................................. 95 CEMETERY RECORDS Sandy Hook Cemetery, Elliott County, Kentucky .............................. 96 George A. Steagall Cemetery, Elliott County, Kentucky ..................... 97 Barker Cemetery, Elliott County, Kentucky John A. Stegall ................................................................................. 98 Some Obituaries from Minutes of North Bend Baptist Association Mrs. R. M. Rouse.............................................................................. 91 Queries: (5375 through 5438)........................................................... 99
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News Items and Books .....................................................................109 Number Three, January 1977 Front Cover – Old Covered Bridge at Cynthiana, Kentucky Mrs. Frank E. Martin Native Kentuckians in 1860 Federal Census for Wapello County, Iowa Max Howk ........................................................................................115 Church of the Ascension, Frankfort, Kentucky Mildred H. Riedel..............................................................................121 Names of Postmasters of Lecta, Kentucky (Barren County, Kentucky) Charlene S. Lewis.............................................................................140 COURT RECORDS Burriss Marriage License of Lewis County, Kentucky, 1807-1972 .....125 Burriss Marriage License of Fleming County, Kentucky, 1798-1851 Mrs. Wilbur D. Dillow.......................................................................128 Pension Claim of Major Groom of Caldwell County, Kentucky Mrs. John Burgess ...........................................................................129 FAMILY RECORDS Major Groom of Caldwell County, Kentucky Mrs. Gladys Carner (or Mrs. Richard Carner)....................................131 Robert Marshall Family (Boone County, Kentucky, Court Records) Mrs. James J. Bushnell....................................................................132 Thomas Dunn, Kentucky Pioneer of 1776 (Bourbon County, Kentucky) Mrs. Elizabeth F. Rhodes..................................................................138 Allender – Overly Families of Fleming County, Kentucky Mrs. James G. Hobbs .......................................................................141 Jones Family Record (Knox, Jackson Counties) Edna Jones ......................................................................................150 BIBLE RECORDS McAtee – Wathen Mary Wathen White..........................................................................143 Charles Nicholson Bible Records Mrs. Robert R. Hartman ...................................................................146 Stimpson Franklin Nicholson Bible...................................................147
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William Nicholson Bible....................................................................148 James Shackleford Nicholson Bible ..................................................149 William Marion Nicholson Bible P. S. and Doris Nicholson .................................................................150 CEMETERY RECORDS Elmwood Cemetery, Daviess County, Kentucky – 9th list M. J. Edgeworth ...............................................................................151 Correction: of name of author of “The Tinkling Spring” .....................128 Funeral: John Ed Hawkins...............................................................155 Queries: (5439 through 5501)...........................................................156 News Items and Books .....................................................................166 Change of Address: of Mrs. Cordelia C. Gary.....................................167 Number Four, April 1977 Front Cover – The Old Grapevine Christian Church Lawrence Casner Native Kentuckians in 1860 Federal Census for Wapello County, Iowa Max Howk ........................................................................................171 Church of the Ascension, Frankfort, Kentucky Mildred H. Riedel..............................................................................177 University of Louisville Medical Department Van A. Stilley....................................................................................180 COURT RECORDS Grant County, Kentucky, Survey Book, Land Warrants Mrs. J. W. Wolcott ............................................................................176 Scott County Quarterly Court Jury Book, 1878-1881 Mrs. Wilford H. Graves, Jr. ...............................................................183 An Act for the Divorce of Nancy A. Grant Mrs. Margaret Strebel Hartman ........................................................189 Court Order Book A – Campbell County, Kentucky ...........................190 FAMILY RECORDS Wight
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Mrs. Joseph W. Pikell .......................................................................193 Abstract of Wilson Dunn’s Letter Mrs. J. W. Wolcott ............................................................................194 Hardin A friend ............................................................................................195 Harden / Hardin (g) Mrs. E. Gaines Davis ........................................................................196 John M. Bennett Mabel M. Klobnak ............................................................................182 BIBLE RECORDS Logsdon Family Bible W. Robert Logsdon ...........................................................................198 Joseph Hill Family P. S. and Doris Nicholson .................................................................199 John Ford Family Bible Mrs. James W. Wolcott .....................................................................200 The William Penn Burns Family Bible Tom R. Walters.................................................................................201 CEMETERY RECORDS Mount Washington, Kentucky, Cemetery Mrs. W. H. McFarland ......................................................................202 Salem Baptist Church Ellen and Dianne Rogers ..................................................................210 Queries: (5502 through 5574)...........................................................211 News Items and Books .....................................................................222
VOLUME 13 Number One, July 1977 Front Cover – Horse Hollow Cabin of “Raccoon” John Smith Asher L. Young Native Kentuckians Who Were Heads of Households Enumerated in the 1850 Clay County, Illinois, Federal Census John W. Tanner, CGS....................................................................... 3 Church of the Ascension – Frankfort, Kentucky Baptismal Records, 1839-1890 continued from volume 12, number 4, page 179, April 1977 Mildred H. Riedel.............................................................................. 10
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COURT RECORDS Court Order Book A – Campbell County, Kentucky Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................ 15 Will Book A – Gallatin County, Kentucky Gertrude E. Hewson ......................................................................... 22 Abstracts of Court Order Book No. 1 – Oldham County, Kentucky Mrs. A. H. McKechnie....................................................................... 27 FAMILY RECORDS Infant Heirs of James Smith, Deceased............................................. 9 Heirs of Reuben Morris Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................ 21 Hale Family Data (correction) Arlene Hale Brachman (Mrs. Robert)................................................. 31 BIBLE RECORDS Fleming County, Kentucky, Bible and Family Records ...................... 32 Reason Tolbert Family Bible ............................................................. 32 Henry Bruce Family Bible................................................................. 33 John J. Moore Family Bible Rear Admiral Mitchell Dudley Matthews, USN (Ret) .......................... 34 Bible of James Fuson Mrs. Roy C. Nestor ........................................................................... 35 Dr. Dunham’s Bible, Casey County, Kentucky Patricia Lister and Mrs. Bertha Dunham .......................................... 36 Deer Family Bible Record Wally O. Deer ................................................................................... 38 CEMETERY RECORDS Slaughter Cemetery, Todd County, Kentucky P. S. and Doris Nicholson ................................................................. 39 Granny’s Hill Cemetery, Webster County, Kentucky Mrs. J. E. Wallace ............................................................................ 43 Queries: (5575 through 5639)........................................................... 44 News Items and Books ..................................................................... 54 Number Two, October 1977 Front Cover – High Bridge, Kentucky................................................ 69 High Bridge and the Area Surrounding It Col. George M. Chinn and Mrs. Mary Margaret McGohon ................. 59
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COURT RECORDS Marriage Records of Reverend LaFayette Johnson Mrs. Doris Taylor.............................................................................. 71 Index to Owen County, Kentucky, Will Book A, 1820-1842 Mrs. W. H. Merrifield ........................................................................ 75 A Return of a Delinquent List of Taxes, 1809, Campbell County, Kentucky.......................................................................................... 76 Abstracts of Court Order Book No. 1 – Oldham County, Kentucky, 1823-29 Mrs. A. H. McKechnie....................................................................... 77 Will Book A – Gallatin County, Kentucky .......................................... 81 1799-1835 Marriages, Bonds, Consents for Gallatin County, Kentucky Miss Gertrude Earl Hewson.............................................................. 86 FAMILY RECORDS The Marshall Family [a correction] Abel B. Betts, not Botts Mrs. Thomas W. Botts ...................................................................... 70 Moffett Data R. Blythe Collings............................................................................. 90 From the Martin Family Records Mrs. John Reilly ............................................................................... 91 BIBLE RECORDS John H. Tubb Family Bible, Marshall County, Kentucky Mrs. Abigail Rice Hyde...................................................................... 92 James Black Bible Records, Henry County, Kentucky Miss Christine Mullikin .................................................................... 93 Johnson–Price Family Bible J. W. Prather.................................................................................... 94 CEMETERY RECORDS Dishman Cemetery, Wayne County, Kentucky Mrs. Irene Byrer and Mrs. Nell Marsh............................................... 95 Morgan Cemetery, Wayne County, Kentucky Mrs. Irene Byrer and Mrs. Nell Marsh............................................... 98 Layne Cemetery, Floyd County, Kentucky Mrs. Anne Layne Hayes .................................................................... 99 Old Layne Cemetery Mrs. Anne Layne Hayes .................................................................... 99 Corrections Query #5551 – date of death of Alexander D. Orr ..............................102 “Kindred Families” – cover is hard-bound in Buckram ......................111
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Queries: (5640 through 5706)...........................................................100 News Items and Books…………………………………………………..…99, 110 Number Three, January 1978 Front Cover – Janett Ann Pulliam Francis Keith Peyton Adair County, Kentucky A. Maxim Coppage............................................................................115 COURT RECORDS 1799-1835 Marriages, Bonds, Consents – Gallatin County, Kentucky Gertrude Earl Hewson......................................................................116 Index to Will Book A, Grant County, Kentucky, 1820-1833 Mrs. J. W. Wolcott ............................................................................120 Abstracts of Court Order Book No. 1 – Oldham County, Kentucky Mrs. A. H. McKechnie.......................................................................122 Court Order Book A – Campbell County, Kentucky ...........................128 A List of Delinquent Taxes for 1807 – Campbell County, Kentucky ...133 Heirs of Chas. H. Collins Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................144 FAMILY RECORDS Turley – Gaunt Family Data Mrs. Frank Collins, Jr. .....................................................................121 Walker Data A friend ............................................................................................134 Artman Family Margaret Artman Alzner ...................................................................137 BIBLE RECORDS Eads Family Bible Jeraldyne Beets Clipson ...................................................................142 Peter Fitzgerral Bible ........................................................................143 John Fitzgerrel Bible Mrs. Wm. H. Johnson.......................................................................144 Three Generations of Glacking Family Bible Records James R. Glacking, C. G...................................................................145 CEMETERY RECORDS Glackin Family Cemetery, Boone County, Kentucky James R. Glacking, C. G...................................................................148
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Dedman Cemetery, Kenton County, Kentucky ..................................150 Ellis Cemetery, Kenton County, Kentucky Mrs. Robert Colwell ..........................................................................150 Elmwood Cemetery, 10th List, Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky M. J. Edgeworth ...............................................................................151 Stanfield Cemetery, Whitley County, Kentucky Charley M. Cornelius........................................................................155 Queries: (5707 through 5778)...........................................................156 News Items and Books………………………………….………….…….147, 167 Number Four, April 1978 Front Cover – Dutch Station, 1779-1780, Jefferson County, Kentucky Church of the Ascension, Frankfort, Kentucky Baptismal Records, 1839-1890 continued from volume 13, number 1, page 14, July 1977 Mildred H. Riedel..............................................................................171 COURT RECORDS Marriage Records of Rev. LaFayette Johnson Mrs. Doris Taylor..............................................................................177 1799-1835 Marriages, Bonds, Consents, Gallatin County, Kentucky Gertrude E. Hewson .........................................................................183 Index to Deed Book “A 2” – Gallatin County, Kentucky Mrs. W. H. Merrifield ........................................................................189 Eliza Rebecca Nickleson Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................191 Will of Major John Hardin ................................................................192 Deed – John Hardin to William Hardin A friend ............................................................................................193 FAMILY RECORDS Walker A friend ............................................................................................195 BIBLE RECORDS Gooding Family Bible James H. Doyle, Sr...........................................................................199 Family Bible of John Ping
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Miss Avis G. Hamilton ......................................................................200 Wash Bible Mrs. J. O. Franklin...........................................................................202 CEMETERY RECORDS Woods Cemetery, Leslie County, Kentucky Olene (Woods) Bailey and Oleta (Woods) Morgan...............................204 Granny’s Hill Cemetery, Webster County, Kentucky Mrs. J. E. Wallace ............................................................................205 Elmwood Cemetery (13th list), Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky M. J. Edgeworth ...............................................................................206 Gilbert Cemetery, Clay County, Kentucky Tom R. Walters.................................................................................210 Funeral Invitation: Beriah Magoffin, Sr. contributed by Mrs. W. S. Conover, Harrodsburg, Kentucky .............203 Change of Address: of A. Maxim Coppage .........................................213 Corrections Job Garvey, not Job Gary .................................................................231 Ed Krakau, not Ed Krakan (on front cover, October 1977) ................220 Queries: (5779 through 5904)...........................................................211 News Items and Books .....................................................................230
VOLUME 14 Number One, July 1978 Front Cover – Daniel Boone’s Log Cabin – Before Restored St. John’s Evangelical (Lutheran) Church Mrs. William F. Knable ..................................................................... 3 COURT RECORDS 1799-1835 Marriages – Bonds – Consents – Gallatin County, Kentucky Gertrude Earl Hewson...................................................................... 9 Harding vs. Harding – A 1753 Virginia Divorce A friend ............................................................................................ 15 Thomas Ashby’s Will – Frederick County, Virginia A friend ............................................................................................ 17
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Mitchell Family Record – Lewis County, Kentucky Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................ 19 Heirs of Nancy Stevens Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................ 23 FAMILY RECORDS The Bakers of Gallatin and Owen Counties, Kentucky Dorothy Merrifield ............................................................................ 24 Corn Family – Henry County, Kentucky Mrs. Harold Walters ......................................................................... 30 Massie Family – Harrison County, Kentucky ? Mrs. Guy W. Martin.......................................................................... 31 BIBLE RECORDS Fleming County, Kentucky, Bible and Family Records ...................... 32 Jasper Seybold Family Bible............................................................. 32 John Downs – Molly Sebold Family Record Rear Admiral Mitchell Dudley Matthews, USN (Ret) .......................... 35 CEMETERY RECORDS Darnall Graveyard, Fleming County, Kentucky Martha Royse, Marie Grannis, and Caren Curotto ............................ 37 The Dave Brumfield Cemetery, Jessamine County, Kentucky Robert May Suell .............................................................................. 38 Old Cemetery in Harrison County, Kentucky .................................... 39 John B. Smitson Stone, Bracken County, Kentucky Miss Margaret Whitehead and Mrs. Thelma Whitehead..................... 40 Funeral Service – of Mrs. A. M. Neal – Shelby County, Kentucky Blythe Collings ................................................................................. 38 Queries: (5905 through 6040)........................................................... 41 News Items and Books ..................................................................... 61 Number Two, October 1978 Front Cover – Armstrong Homestead Dorothy Armstrong Holcomb Subscribers to the Morgan County, Illinois, Atlas – 1872 – Who List Their Nativity as Kentucky and the Year They Came to Illinois Janice (Lovekamp) Fox ..................................................................... 67 Church of the Ascension – Frankfort, Kentucky
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Baptismal Records, 1839-1890 continued from volume 13, number 4, page 176, April 1978 Mildred H. Riedel.............................................................................. 72 COURT RECORDS Thomas Spillman ............................................................................. 71 Abstracts of Court Order Book No. 1, Oldham County, Kentucky, 1823-1829 continued from volume 13, number 3, page 127, January 1978 Mrs. A. H. McKechnie....................................................................... 78 1799-1835 Marriages – Bonds – Consents – Gallatin County, Kentucky Gertrude Earl Hewson...................................................................... 83 Death of Mrs. Israel Ludlow.............................................................. 90 Children of Christina and Solomon Trusdell, Sr................................ 98 Julius T. Hughey..............................................................................101 William McNaughtin, wife Catherine to John McClure Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................104 FAMILY RECORDS North Carolina on the Kentucky Frontier John Hale Stutesman....................................................................... 89 Walker and others, Tennessee A friend ............................................................................................ 91 Mitchell Family Records – Bath, Fleming County, Kentucky Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................ 94 BIBLE RECORDS Bible of Levi Griffin – Gallatin County, Kentucky Carl R. Bogardus, Sr., M.D. .............................................................. 99 Roger Cornett Bible Records – Perry County, Kentucky Paul Begley ......................................................................................100 Bible Record of John T. Hardin and Elizabeth Parrish Mrs. W. Lee Wood, Jr. ......................................................................102 CEMETERY RECORDS Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery, Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky Wade Eades, Mrs. Joe K. Eades, Mrs. P. W. Clough ..........................105 Correction: The Ridge Runners – price of Vol. IX - $8.00....................123 Queries ............................................................................................111 News Items and Books .....................................................................125
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Number Three, January 1979 Front Cover – Daniel Boone’s Cabin – After Restored in 1944 Dr. Eslie Asbury Letter to the Editor About Daniel Boone’s Log Cabin Dr. Eslie Asbury ...............................................................................131 St. John’s Evangelical (Lutheran) Church Mrs. William F. Knable .....................................................................133 COURT RECORDS Brides’ Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky, Marriages Mrs. W. H. Whitley ...........................................................................139 Walker Data A friend ............................................................................................142 A List of Delinquents Returned by the Sheriff of Campbell County as Insolvents and Removed out of the County for 1807, 1809 Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................145 1799-1835 Marriages, Bonds, Consents, Gallatin County, Kentucky Gertrude E. Hewson .........................................................................146 Newport Presbyterian Church to Newport Methodist Episcopal Church Mrs. W. W. Weis ...............................................................................162 FAMILY RECORDS Mitchell Family Records Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................152 The Bakers of Gallatin and Owen Counties, Kentucky Mrs. W. H. Merrifield ........................................................................157 David McCoy A. Maxim Coppage............................................................................132 BIBLE RECORDS Berryman Family Bible Records (Barren County, Kentucky) Robert McAlear.................................................................................163 Bible Record of Godfrey Gregory Family (Washington County, Kentucky) Mrs. Hugh Brown Gregory................................................................164 Morin Family Bible (Campbell County, Kentucky) Ronald Brennen ...............................................................................165 Edward Berry Crowe Bible Record Mrs. Bazil E. Crowe ..........................................................................166 James H. Haynes Family Bible (Meade County, Kentucky) Louise Coleman................................................................................167
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CEMETERY RECORDS Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery, Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky Wade Eades, Mrs. Joe K. Eades, and Mrs. P. W. Clough ...................169 The Bartleson – Miller Family Cemetery, Wayne County, Kentucky J. C. Sexton .....................................................................................174 Funeral Service: of Pierson Willis Blythe Collings .................................................................................168 Queries: (7035 through 7128)...........................................................175 News Items and Books .....................................................................189 Number Four, April 1979 Front Cover – The Log Church was 100 Years Old March 5, 1979 The Log Church Was 100 Years Old on March 5, 1979 (Oak Pond Church Cemetery) Asher L. Young.................................................................................195 Records from William C. Thomasson’s Book (Hopkins, Webster Counties) Mrs. Ralph D. Lynn………………………………………………...198, 220, 225 COURT RECORDS 1799 – 1835 Marriages, Bonds, Consents – Gallatin County, Kentucky Gertrude Earl Hewson......................................................................203 Brides’ Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky, Marriages Mrs. W. H. Whitley ...........................................................................209 FAMILY RECORDS Layton and Palmer Family Data (Caldwell, Christian, Trigg Counties) Mrs. James J. Bushnell....................................................................215 Will of Francis Cooke of Plymouth ....................................................221 From the “Mayflower Descendants” ..................................................221 Philip Tabor A friend ............................................................................................197 George Hill, Soldier, War of 1812, and Mary Ann (Baldwin) Hill Madileen Small.................................................................................222 The Cleaver Family William A. Owens .............................................................................223
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BIBLE RECORDS Amos Copeland – His Book (Marshall County, Kentucky) Clara C. Darnall ...............................................................................224 Davenport Family Bible Marvin D. Snoddy ............................................................................226 Edward Currey Bible Records Mae Ann Hauss................................................................................227 The Achilles Webb – Cornelia Ann Barnett Bible Anthony Jones .................................................................................229 CEMETERY RECORDS Shemwell Cemetery, Marshall County, Kentucky Dorothy Shemwell Waggener ............................................................230 The Fred Martin Cemetery, Knott County, Kentucky Garnard Martin ................................................................................231 David Gross or Grundy Cemetery, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky ....232 Scott Cemetery, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Mrs. Lawrence L. Lant ......................................................................233 Davis Cemetery, Morgan County, Kentucky Mrs. J. Everett Bach.........................................................................234 Elmwood Cemetery – 12th list, Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky M. J. Edgeworth ...............................................................................235 Cemetery in Westport, Oldham County, Kentucky L. B. Gardiner ..................................................................................239 Watts Graveyard Mrs. Dorothy Watts Brooks ..............................................................240 Corrections volume 14, number 2, page 113, October 1978, should be Jane WILLS, not Willis .....................................................246 Harding vs. Harding .........................................................................221 Queries: (7128 through 7213)…………………………………………..228, 241 News Items and Books .....................................................................254
VOLUME 15 Number One, July 1979 Front Cover Jim Wainscott Certificates issued to Kentuckians from Jeffersonville, Indiana,
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Land Office Thelma M. Murphy........................................................................... 3 COURT RECORDS Brides’ Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky, Marriages Mrs. W. H. Whitley ........................................................................... 9 1799-1835 Marriages, Bonds, Consents – Gallatin County, Kentucky Gertrude Earl Hewson...................................................................... 15 FAMILY RECORDS Captain Thomas and Rebecca Sharpe Dooley Family Dr. Glenn Dooley.............................................................................. 21 The Pocket Remembrancer of Henry Bruce (1777-1855) Rear Admiral Mitchell Dudley Matthews, USN (Ret) .......................... 26 Mitchell Family Records Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................ 32 Records of Major John Hardin A friend ............................................................................................ 35 James Carnachan Dunlap I – Family Data Clarke Dunlap.................................................................................. 36 BIBLE RECORDS Records from the Bible of James Carnachan Dunlap II Clarke Dunlap.................................................................................. 38 Kelly Family Bible Mrs. Virgil W. Kelly........................................................................... 39 Bentley – Jeffries Bible Records Mrs. Jacquelyn Ritter Johnson......................................................... 40 CEMETERY RECORDS Johnson Cemetery, at Buckhorn, Perry County, Kentucky Eileen Cornett and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Riley ................................. 41 Taulbee Cemetery, Frozen Creek, Breathitt County, Kentucky Mrs. J. Everett Bach......................................................................... 42 Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Near Corbin, Whitley County, Kentucky W. B. Dulaney .................................................................................. 42 Wallace Graveyard: Evans/Evins Graveyard, Jessamine County, Kentucky Mrs. L. F. Benton ............................................................................. 43 Hunter Graves Mrs. L. F. Benton ............................................................................. 44 Kelly Family Graveyard Mrs. Virgil W. Kelly........................................................................... 44
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Queries: (7214 through 7330)........................................................... 45 News Items and Books ..................................................................... 63 Number Two, October 1979 Front Cover – Cabin of James Thomas – Trigg County, Kentucky Certificates Issued to Kentuckians from Jeffersonville, Indiana, Land Office Thelma M. Murphy........................................................................... 67 St. John’s Evangelical (Lutheran) Church [Campbell County, Kentucky] Mrs. Wm. F. Knable.......................................................................... 73 Items from Portsmouth, Ohio, Tribune Newspaper Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................104 COURT RECORDS 1799-1835 Marriages, Bonds, Consents – Gallatin County, Kentucky Gertrude Earl Hewson...................................................................... 79 Brides’ Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky, Marriages Mrs. W. H. Whitley ........................................................................... 87 Heirs of Robert Shaw (Campbell County, Kentucky) M. S. Hartman ................................................................................. 97 Hardin/Harding (Adair County, Kentucky; Shenandoah, etc. Counties, Virginia) A friend ............................................................................................ 98 FAMILY RECORDS James Thomas – West Kentucky Pioneer (Trigg County, Kentucky) Edison H. Thomas............................................................................ 93 Francis Baker (a note about the family) Florence M. Baker ............................................................................102 BIBLE RECORDS Family Bible of Henry Mandeville Goodman and Sally Elliott Lampton Robert E. Goodman..........................................................................103 CEMETERY RECORDS Cornett Cemetery, at Daisy, Perry County, Kentucky Eileen Cornett ..................................................................................105
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McConnell Cemetery, Woodford County, Kentucky Mrs. Wm. A. Cleveland .....................................................................107 Antioch Mills Cemetery, Harrison County, Kentucky Wilma Bonar ....................................................................................108 Corrections volume 14, number 4, page 195, April 1979 John Carnefix, not Carefix; Oak Forest, not Oak Pond Asher L. Young................................................................................. 72 Davis Graveyard, volume 8, number 1, page 10, July 1972 Elizabeth Ross Davis, 1825-1905; not born October 23, 1826 Mrs. Robert Colwell ..........................................................................110 Queries: (7331 through 7437)...........................................................111 News Items and Books .....................................................................126 Number Three, January 1980 Front Cover – A day at a Brush Arbor in the mountains of Southeastern Kentucky Edna Jones of Tyner, Jackson County, Kentucky Church of the Ascension, Frankfort, Kentucky Mildred H. Riedel..............................................................................131 COURT RECORDS Brides’ Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky, Consents, Bonds, and Marriages Mrs. W. H. Whitley ...........................................................................137 1799-1835 Marriage Bonds and Consents – Gallatin County, Kentucky Gertrude E. Hewson .........................................................................143 Apprentice Bonds – Campbell County, Kentucky Mrs. Susan C. Eades ........................................................................150 Some Records from 1st Court Order Book, Woodford County, Kentucky Mrs. Wm. A. Cleveland .....................................................................153 Chinn Marriages – Lee Marriages (Lancaster County, Virginia) A friend ............................................................................................163 FAMILY RECORDS James Arnett, Early Kentuckian (Fayette and Woodford Counties, Kentucky) Margaret B. Kinsey...........................................................................154
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Arnett Families in Southeastern Kentucky Mrs. E. K. Salyer ..............................................................................156 Robert and Chloe Collins Bomar Dan M. Bomar..................................................................................161 Henry Family of Orange County, Virginia; Bourbon County, Kentucky; Morgan County, Illinois Mrs. L. Don Turner IV ......................................................................164 BIBLE RECORDS Barnett Bonar Bible Records Mrs. Alvin E. Bonar ..........................................................................165 Helm – Sharp Bible Records Margreta Harr ..................................................................................166 Lee Family Bible Marvin Delano Snoddy .....................................................................167 Rowe – Moore Family Bible David Henry-Rowe Streets ................................................................168 Family Bible Records of Joseph E. Day, Letcher County, Kentucky Mrs. Floyd L. Owen ..........................................................................169 CEMETERY RECORDS The Marion Slone Cemetery, Knott County, Kentucky Garnard Martin ................................................................................160 Death Records of Sacred Heart Parish, St. Vincent, Kentucky, 1818-1974 Teresa T. Hite and Philip Crowdus....................................................171 Correction: Berryman Family Bible Record: reference – Volume 14, Number 3, Page 164.......................................................170 Clarification: In name of “Mrs.” Elenor Tapley, Volume 14, Number 3, Page 223 .........................................................................160 Queries: (7437 through 7515)...........................................................177 News Items and Books .....................................................................189 Number Four, April 1980 Front Cover – The “Old” Community Bank, Erlanger, Kentucky Earl A. Tayce (205 Locust Street, Erlanger, Kentucky 41018)............236 St. John’s Evangelical (Lutheran) Church Mrs. Wm. F. Knable..........................................................................195
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COURT RECORDS Brides’ Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky, Consents, Bonds, and Marriages Mrs. W. H. Whitley ...........................................................................201 Abstracts of Court Order Book No. 1 – Oldham County, Kentucky, 1823-1829 Mrs. A. H. McKechnie.......................................................................207 Index to Deed Book “A 1” – Gallatin County, Kentucky, 1797-1808 Mrs. W. H. Merrifield ........................................................................213 Thomas Spilman of King George County, Virginia – Treasury Warrant Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................218 FAMILY RECORDS Migration of Some South Carolinians into what is now Lyon County, Kentucky Christopher Waldrep ........................................................................219 The Immediate Family of Benjamin Threlkeld (c. 1744-1793) ............222 Mason County, Kentucky, Bible, and Family Records, Corrections, and Additions Mitchell Dudley Matthews ................................................................225 Cut and Catey (Bronaugh) Peyton of Virginia and Kentucky Wallace Hopper ................................................................................226 Kentucky Names – In Records of Shenandoah County, Virginia A friend ............................................................................................232 BIBLE RECORDS Garrison Family Bible (Allen County, Kentucky) Ray H. Garrison ...............................................................................233 Bethel Baxter, Bible Record Charles Baxter .................................................................................234 White Family Bible Ronald Brennan ...............................................................................235 CEMETERY RECORDS Ellis Cemetery; Crouch Cemetery; Spencer Cemetery; Gallatin County, Kentucky Gertrude E. Hewson .........................................................................237 Oak Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Wayne County, Kentucky Garnet Walker..................................................................................238 Records of Stewart Cemetery, Trigg County, Kentucky Mrs. W. O. Segree.............................................................................240 Butler Cemetery – At Lone Star, Hart County, Kentucky Fred G. Butler ..................................................................................241 Corrections
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See front cover – Volume 15, Number 2, October 1979 – artist, William J. Thomas, Jr., not Thompson...........225 See Volume 15, Number 2, Page 105 – part of Cornett Cemetery is a continuation of the Johnson Cemetery in Volume 15, Number 1, Page 41...........................................................................231 Suggestion: ca. Civil War Pension Papers Betty Lou Mefford.............................................................................231 Queries: (7515 through 7599)...........................................................242 News Items and Books……………………………………………….…..231, 254
VOLUME 16 Number One, July 1980 Front Cover – The Depot on the Southern Railway at Erlanger, Kentucky Earl R. Tayce – artist (205 Locust Street, Erlanger, Kentucky) About picture, “A Day at a Brush Arbor in the Mountains of Southeastern Kentucky” Clayborne D. Campbell; Paul Huff .................................................... 3 Minutes of the First Baptist Church of Taylorsville, Spencer County, Kentucky L. L. Hill ........................................................................................... 5 Church of the Ascension – Frankfort, Kentucky Mildred H. Riedel.............................................................................. 9 COURT RECORDS Brides’ Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky, Consents, Bonds, and Marriages Mrs. W. H. Whitley ........................................................................... 15 Harden – Hardin – Harding A friend ............................................................................................ 20 FAMILY RECORDS Enyart Records Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................ 24 James Cooper Family of Shelby County, Kentucky (Obituary) Mrs. Janine Porter............................................................................ 25 Cut and Catey (Bronaugh) Peyton of Virginia and Kentucky
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Wallace Hopper ................................................................................ 26 BIBLE RECORDS Mastin Family Bible Mary Edwards McMurtry.................................................................. 34 Younger Family Bible Records L. L. Hill ........................................................................................... 37 Stewart Bible Mrs. Anita Moore.............................................................................. 38 CEMETERY RECORDS..................................................................... Brown Cemetery Mrs. N. B. Hedges; Raymond Boone.................................................. 6 Sugar Creek Christian Church Cemetery, Gallatin County................ 33 Furnish Cemetery, Gallatin County Gertrude E. Hewson ......................................................................... 33 Death Records of Sacred Heart Parish, St. Vincent, Kentucky, 1819-1974 Teresa T. Hite and Philip Crowdus (Union County, Kentucky) ........... 39 Queries: (7599 through 7725)........................................................... 43 News Items and Books ..................................................................... 62 Number Two, October 1980 Front Cover – Family Photograph of Capt. and Mrs. John L. Foster of Bullitt County, Kentucky Mrs. Robert Lee Hauss ..................................................................... 65 St. John’s Evangelical (Lutheran) Church Mrs. Wm. F. Knable.......................................................................... 68 COURT RECORDS Thomas Fretwell’s Heirs Mrs. Ora W. Clough.......................................................................... 67 Abstracts of Court Order Book No. 1 – Oldham County, Kentucky, 1823-1829 Mrs. A. H. McKechnie....................................................................... 74 Brides’ Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky, Consents, Bonds, Marriages Mrs. W. H. Whitley ........................................................................... 80 Glinn /Glenn Marriages Mrs. Robert Colwell .......................................................................... 83 John Hackney Heirs – Woodford County, Kentucky
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Mrs. Doris B. Nave ........................................................................... 85 FAMILY RECORDS Henry Talbert and Some of His Descendants Charles G. Talbert ............................................................................ 88 The Watkins Ancestry of Henry Clay John Stutesman............................................................................... 92 Children of Thomas Bradshaw Caroline Bass................................................................................... 93 The Bottom Family in America Alice Bottom Bell and Nellie Bottom Phillips ..................................... 94 BIBLE RECORDS Family Bible of Harmonious Alkire Carl S. Alkire.................................................................................... 98 Creek Family Bible Record Louella Kelley Staum........................................................................ 99 Dr. John Andrew Jackson Lee Bible Sheryl Hanson..................................................................................100 Bible of W. John Biggerstaff Mrs. J. M. Thomas ...........................................................................101 Fleming County, Kentucky, Bible and Family Records ......................102 Caleb Taylor – Elizabeth Shaw Bible .................................................102 John T. Bramel – Amanda Belle Dudley Bible Rear Admiral Mitchell Dudley Matthews, USN (Ret) ..........................104 CEMETERY RECORDS Craig Cemetery – North Cemetery – Rudd Cemetery Gertrude E. Hewson .........................................................................105 Dawley Cemetery Loreen Ranshaw and Gertrude E. Hewson........................................106 Wil(1)hoit Cemetery Charles Baxter .................................................................................106 Death Records of Sacred Heart Parish, St. Vincent, Kentucky, 1819-1974 Teresa Hite and Philip Crowdus........................................................107 Corrections Prince and followers settled in Caldwell not Lyon County, Kentucky Christopher Waldrep ........................................................................ 84 Zip Code – for Sue Gunter – 74003, not 47003 .................................121 Queries: (7726 through 7812)……………………………………...…....91, 113 News Items and Books .....................................................................126
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Number Three, January 1981 Front Cover – The Scheben Feed Store Earl R. Tayce Records of Some Kentuckians in Illinois Mrs. L. Don Turner...........................................................................131 Church of the Ascension, Frankfort, Kentucky Mildred H. Riedel..............................................................................132 COURT RECORDS............................................................................ Abstracts of Court Order Book No. 1, Oldham County, Kentucky, 1823-1829 Mrs. A. H. McKechnie.......................................................................139 Brides’ Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky, Consents, Bonds, and Marriages Mrs. W. H. Whitley ...........................................................................142 Marriage Records of Reverend Lafayette Johnson Doris Taylor .....................................................................................145 Kennard: Maryland; Kennard – Younger (Page 153) A friend ............................................................................................151 Heirs of William Rout, Sr., Bourbon County, Kentucky Mrs. Robert Colwell ..........................................................................160 Declaration of Intent for Naturalization U. S. A. Margaret Cleveland ..........................................................................157 John Lucust (Page 141); Samuel Smith (Page 154); Stephen Irons Margaret Hartman............................................................................161 FAMILY RECORDS The Kentucky Antecedents of General James Clifford Veatch William A. Veitch..............................................................................155 The Chesnutt Family of Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky Gracia Chesnutt and Ruth Briscoe ...................................................158 Younger Family Mrs. Edward Hillman .......................................................................161 BIBLE RECORDS Redden Bible; Jackson – Woods Bible Mrs. James O. Franklin....................................................................162 Bible Record of John Plain Mrs. Arch R. Moore ..........................................................................164 Ralph Willis Hicks Bible Record Mrs. Merle Hicks Harris....................................................................166 The Finley Bible Record George F. Lents, Jr. ..........................................................................167
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CEMETERY RECORDS Death Records of Sacred Heart Parish, St. Vincent, Kentucky (Union County) Teresa T. Hite and Philip Crowdus....................................................168 Correction: Harry Winston Walker’s birth date 1854, not 1864 .........183 Queries: (7813 through 7907)...........................................................175 News Items and Books .....................................................................190 Number Four, April 1981 Front Cover – Kenton County Courthouses at Independence, Kentucky Charles F. Folmer, 6701 Circle S. Road, Austin, Texas 78745 St. John’s Evangelical (Lutheran) Church Mrs. Wm. F. Knable..........................................................................195 Marriage Records of Reverend Lafayette Johnson Doris Taylor .....................................................................................201 COURT RECORDS Abstract of Will Book “B” – Gallatin County, Kentucky Gertrude E. Hewson .........................................................................208 Cox Marriages – (Bourbon, Fayette, and Scott Counties, Kentucky) Mrs. Dorothy Colwell ........................................................................216 Harden/Hardin/Harding – Harrison County, Kentucky A friend ............................................................................................217 FAMILY RECORDS The Two William Crawfords of Lewis County, Kentucky Dr. Allen W. Scholl ...........................................................................221 Peter Poindexter, Early Kentuckian Mrs. Ann P. Couey............................................................................227 BIBLE RECORDS Rogers – Collins Bible Record Blythe Collins...................................................................................229 Corn Family Bible Blythe Collings .................................................................................231 Moses Martin Bible Fred Lockenour ? .............................................................................232
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Sandusky Bible Records Mrs. Anita Moore of Harrodsburg, Kentucky .....................................233 CEMETERY RECORDS Death Records of Sacred Heart Parish, St. Vincent, Kentucky (Union County) (end) Teresa Hite and Philip Crowdus........................................................234 Queries: (7908 through 7986)...........................................................242 News Items and Books…………………………………………………...228, 254
VOLUME 17 Number One, July 1981 Front Cover – The Ohio River – the Northern Boundary of Kentucky Church of the Ascension – Frankfort, Kentucky Mildred H. Riedel.............................................................................. 3 Kentucky Counties ........................................................................... 9 The Bethel United Baptist Church (Wayne County, Kentucky) Asher L. Young................................................................................. 11 Marriage Records of Reverend Lafayette Johnson Doris Taylor ..................................................................................... 20 COURT RECORDS Heirs of Solomon Trusdell, Sr. Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................ 10 Harrodsburg Presbyterian Church (Mercer County, Kentucky) Mrs. J. W. Wolcott ............................................................................ 12 Harmonious Alkire Heirs to Richard Smart of Franklin County, Kentucky (Bourbon County, Kentucky) C. S. Alkire....................................................................................... 13 Knox County, Kentucky, Revolutionary Service................................. 16 Genealogical Mention in Deed Book “A,” Knox County, Kentucky L. D. Prewitt ..................................................................................... 17 FAMILY RECORDS Calloway Mrs. LeCompte Beard....................................................................... 15 Bays – Griffy Families Elisabeth Salyer ............................................................................... 26
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The Two William Crawfords of Lewis County, Kentucky Dr. Allen W. Scholl ........................................................................... 27 Copy of a Letter Written by Cole Younger in Prison L. L. Hill ........................................................................................... 34 BIBLE RECORDS Pilson Bible Record Betty R. Couch................................................................................. 19 Connor Bible Mrs. Anita Moore.............................................................................. 35 Reuben E. Kirtley Bible Mrs. Elizabeth M. Kirtley .................................................................. 36 The Family Record of Dempsey and Polly Carroll Mrs. Elizabeth M. Kirtley .................................................................. 40 The Brooking Family Bible Mrs. Ewell Gibson ............................................................................ 41 CEMETERY RECORDS Flemingsburg Cemetery Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................ 44 Hurst and Abram Cemetery; Hay’s Cemetery Geneva S. Pettit................................................................................ 49 Correction: re: Smith Papers Martin Sims ..................................................................................... 63 Queries: (7987 through 8071)........................................................... 50 News Items and Books ..................................................................... 62 Number Two, October 1981 Front Cover – Huff Family of Hart County, Kentucky Evelynne Alvis, 1210 Shopping, Weatherford, Oklahoma 73096 St. John’s Evangelical (Lutheran) Church – Campbell County, Kentucky Mrs. Wm. F. Knable.......................................................................... 67 COURT RECORDS 1811-1966 Minton Marriages, Bonds, Consents – Union County, Kentucky Madileen Small................................................................................. 73 Deed of 50 Acres to Mark Harding – 7 April 1706 – Northumberland County, Virginia
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A researcher..................................................................................... 76 Abstract of Will Book “E” – Gallatin County, Kentucky Gertrude E. Hewson ......................................................................... 79 FAMILY RECORDS Fairfax A researcher..................................................................................... 78 Poage Mrs. Louise Poage ............................................................................ 86 Lanham – Bristow – Sutton Family Records Mrs. Mittie M. Stevens...................................................................... 87 Azel Simpson of Virginia and Kentucky Mrs. Mary Greathouse...................................................................... 88 BIBLE RECORDS Mason County, Kentucky, Bible and Family Records Rear Admiral Mitchell Dudley Matthews, USN (Ret).…………….......93, 95 (includes Bibles of:) Charles F. Lander............................................................................. 93 James H. Cooper’s First Bible........................................................... 94 James H. Cooper’s Second Bible....................................................... 95 Thomas Forman–Mary Tebbs............................................................ 97 Samuel Piper–Ellen A. Fitzgerald ...................................................... 98 Benjamin Elliott Warder – Mariah J. McIlvain................................... 99 Record from Bible of Robert Moseley (1797-1884) Mrs. Mary Lee Mahin........................................................................102 Enoch Kirby Family Bible Carl R. Bogardus, Sr., M. D. .............................................................105 CEMETERY RECORDS Death Records of the White Sulphur Baptist Church, Caldwell County, Kentucky Richard C. Sheridan.........................................................................106 Newton – Yeiser Cemetery, Daviess County, Kentucky Mrs. B. M. Yeiser..............................................................................106 Nicholas County, Kentucky, Graveyards Standiford Graveyard .......................................................................107 Herndon Graveyard ..........................................................................108 Ishmael Cemetery.............................................................................109 Mrs. Annis Talley Willcoxson…………………………………………….107-109 Snelling Cemetery, Bath County, Kentucky Mrs. Jeannette Parr..........................................................................110 Beech Valley Cemetery, Wayne County, Kentucky Garnet Walker..................................................................................110 Baldwin – Wash Family Cemetery, Franklin County, Kentucky Anita Chinn Gantley and Joseph P. True ..........................................111
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Tombstones on James McClure Farm Wm. Chipley.....................................................................................111 Hunter Graves Shirley Cobb, Jr. ..............................................................................111 Correction: Allen Skelton not Skilton Mrs. Bernard Skelton .......................................................................101 Queries: (8071 through 8167)…………………………….…..…….87, 92, 112 News Items and Books..……………………………………...………….105, 126 Number Three, January 1982 Front Cover – Main Street, Corinth, Kentucky – Grant County Robert C. Shannon, 1645 Seminole Boulevard, Largo, Florida 33540 Church of the Ascension – Frankfort, Kentucky Mildred H. Riedel..............................................................................131 Abstracts from Early Paris, Kentucky, Newspapers Mrs. Ora W. Clough..........................................................................137 Roster of Confederate Soldiers Who Went from Mercer County, Kentucky Rebecca W. Conover .........................................................................143 COURT RECORDS Adams – of Botetourt County, and Montgomery County, Virginia; Garrard County, Kentucky A researcher.....................................................................................145 Delaney Marriages – Union County, Kentucky Madileen Small.................................................................................149 Curtis Marriages – Mason County, Kentucky Dorothy Colwell................................................................................152 FAMILY RECORDS The Crawford – Gilbert – Wilkey Family Faye Wilkey Brown...........................................................................153 Solomon Saylor Family Nancy Farmer Creech.......................................................................155 Harden – Harding Talbott R. Allen ................................................................................157 Hardin
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Mrs. George R. Webster ....................................................................158 The Family of Cornelius Vaughan.....................................................159 Henry Crutcher ................................................................................160 Mrs. Barbara B. Lindauer……………………………………………….159, 160 BIBLE RECORDS Vaughan Family Bible Mrs. Barbara B. Lindauer.................................................................161 Wells Family Bible Records Blythe Collins...................................................................................163 Lillard Family Bible Records; Sampson Family Bible Mrs. Anita Moore………………………………………………………..…165, 166 Bible of Rev. David Barrow Mrs. Hazel M. Boyd ..........................................................................167 Collins Bible Mrs. James O. Franklin....................................................................169 CEMETERY RECORDS Lazarus Bach Cemetery, Breathitt County, Kentucky Mrs. J. Everett Bach.........................................................................170 Stivers Family Cemetery; Deatherage Family Cemetery, Jefferson County George F. Lentz, Jr. ..........................................................................174 Drake Cemetery, Scott County Kentucky Mrs. Marie DeFrees ..........................................................................175 Boaz Cemetery, Bath County, Kentucky Mrs. Clifford P. Wonn .......................................................................175 Old Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rockcastle County, Kentucky Mrs. Linda R. Ashley ........................................................................175 Corrections David Ringo......................................................................................154 Sidney S. King, Jr.............................................................................168 Mrs. W. Baker ..................................................................................191 Queries: (8167 through 8259)……………….………………151-52, 162, 176 News Items and Books .....................................................................189 Number Four, April 1982 Front Cover: Wooldridge Monuments, Maplewood Cemetery, Mayfield, Kentucky Asher L. Young.................................................................................195
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St. John’s Evangelical (Lutheran) Church Mrs. Wm. F. Knable..........................................................................196 Some Kentuckians Found in 1852 Census of California A. Maxim Coppage............................................................................202 Kentucky Soldiers – buried in “Soldiers Rest” Cemetery, Vicksburg, Mississippi Mrs. Charles Deevers .......................................................................203 COURT RECORDS Brides’ Index – Scott County, Kentucky – Marriage Book “A,” 1837-1863 Susan Eades ....................................................................................204 Abstracts of Will Book “C” – Gallatin County, Kentucky Gertrude E. Hewson .........................................................................210 Bourbon County, Kentucky – Guardian Settlement Book “A” Mrs. Elizabeth T. Clough ..................................................................216 Mercer County, Kentucky – Random Marriages, Licenses, and Preachers’ Returns Rebecca W. Conover .........................................................................222 FAMILY RECORDS Rev. Francis Clark – Mercer County, Kentucky Mrs. Hugh Brown Gregory................................................................229 Richard Callaway – Children Mary J. Carter and Eleanor Harris....................................................232 Samuel Rouse – Revolutionary War Pensioner Mrs. R. M. Rouse..............................................................................233 BIBLE RECORDS Bright Family Bible Mrs. Paul Chase ...............................................................................235 The Toliver Shanks Family Records of Shelby County, Kentucky Blythe Collings .................................................................................237 Brown – Coats Family Bible Records Joy S. Hendrickson ..........................................................................238 Mill – Hanks Bible Records Alice M. Bell .....................................................................................240 CEMETERY RECORDS Renfro Valley Cemetery, Rockcastle County, Kentucky Andrew K. Houk, Sr..........................................................................241 Coffey – Hiatt Cemetery, Rockcastle County, Kentucky Andrew K. Houk, Sr..........................................................................242 McClary Cemetery, Rockcastle County, Kentucky
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Andrew K. Houk, Sr..........................................................................243 Correction: Poynter, not Paynter (Q# 8094, Volume 17, Number 2, Page 115) Vernon Eaton ...................................................................................245 Queries: (8259 through 8330)………………….........203, 234, 239-40, 244 News Items and Books……………………………………...…….221, 249, 254
VOLUME 18 Number One, July 1982 Front Cover: Octagon Hall – near Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky Asher L Young, 7401 Harness Drive, Nashville, Tennessee 37221 Church of the Ascension – Frankfort, Kentucky Mildred H. Riedel.............................................................................. 3 COURT RECORDS Kendall Marriages in Bourbon County, Kentucky Mrs. Robert Colwell .......................................................................... 9 Heirs of James McKee. Thomas Boone Heirs – of Bourbon County, Kentucky Mrs. Ora W. Clough.......................................................................... 9 Brides’ Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky – Consents, Bonds, Marriages Mrs. W. H. Whitley (Courtesy of Mrs. Robert Gaitskill) ...................... 10 Heirs of Charles Jones of Bourbon County, Kentucky Mrs. Clifford Coyle............................................................................ 16 Brides’ Index – Scott County, Kentucky – Marriage Book “A” 1837-1863 Susan Eades .................................................................................... 18 Will Book “C” – Gallatin County, Kentucky (abstract) Gertrude E. Hewson ......................................................................... 24 FAMILY RECORDS Fullenwider – Hardin by a researcher................................................................................. 29 Searching for Moses Crawford Dr. Allen W. Scholl ........................................................................... 32 BIBLE RECORDS
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The England and Higgins Bible (Bath County, Kentucky) Thela England (Mrs. Dale) ................................................................ 37 Cottongim Bible Records (Clay County, Kentucky) Mrs. Ralph Cottongim ...................................................................... 39 Judkins, Manning, Sherwood Bible (Todd County, Kentucky) Margaret T. Pace (Mrs. Rufus)........................................................... 41 CEMETERY RECORDS Richards Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky Lloyd Dean....................................................................................... 17 Upper Marsh Creek Cemetery – Pine Knot, McCreary County, Kentucky Sgt. Ron Rader and Miss Sara Stephens ........................................... 43 Jack Dolen Cemetery, McCreary County, Kentucky Sgt. Ron Rader and Cart Stephens ................................................... 45 Boyd Cemetery, Whitley County, Kentucky Mrs. J. A. Bondurant........................................................................ 46 Partin Cemetery, Whitley County, Kentucky Mrs. J. A. Bondurant........................................................................ 47 Riggle Cemetery, Pendleton County, Kentucky Mrs. Robert Colwell .......................................................................... 47 The Meador Cemetery, Breckinridge County, Kentucky Robert C. Flood ................................................................................ 48 Queries: (8331 through 8406)........................................................... 49 News Items and Books ..................................................................... 60 Number Two, October 1982 Front Cover: An Outdoor Baptism in Rockcastle County, Kentucky (C. I. Ogg) Robert C. Shannon, 1645 Seminole Boulevard, Largo, Florida 33540 St. John’s Evangelical (Lutheran) Church Mrs. Wm. F. Knable.......................................................................... 67 Kentucky Circuit Court Judges, 1802-1851 Perry A. Brantley .............................................................................. 73 COURT RECORDS Brides’ Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky – Consents, Bonds, and Marriages Mrs. W. H. Whitley (Courtesy of Mrs. Robert Gaitskill) ...................... 75
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Brides’ Index – Scott County, Kentucky – Marriage Book “A” 1837-1863 Susan Eades .................................................................................... 80 Abstracts from Early Paris, Kentucky, Newspapers Mrs. Ora W. Clough.......................................................................... 86 Random Marriage Licenses and Preachers’ Returns 1842-1888 of Mercer County, Kentucky Rebecca W. Conover ......................................................................... 89 FAMILY RECORDS Searching for Moses Crawford Dr. Allen W. Scholl ........................................................................... 95 BIBLE RECORDS The Family of Benjamin and Elizabeth Clark Hardin Margaret Lawson McClurkin............................................................. 88 The Robert Guthrie Family Bible Record Jean Wolph Hicks ............................................................................101 Garrison – Goostree Family Bible Ray H. Garrison ...............................................................................102 CEMETERY RECORDS Oak Ridge Baptist Graveyard, Lewis County, Kentucky Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................104 Black Oak Cemetery, Lewis County, Kentucky Evelyn Jackson ................................................................................106 Price Cemetery, Hancock County, Kentucky Mrs. Donald A. Vaughn ....................................................................107 Threlkel Cemetery, Butler County, Kentucky Mrs. Wm. E. Satari...........................................................................108 Queries: (8407 through 8515)...........................................................110 News Items and Books………………………..….79, 100, 103, 109, 126 Number Three, January 1983 Front Cover – Main Street, Berea, Madison County, Kentucky Robert C. Shannon, 1645 Seminole Boulevard, Largo, Florida 33540 Church of the Ascension – Frankfort, Kentucky Mildred H. Riedel..............................................................................131 COURT RECORDS
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Brides’ Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky – Consents, Bonds, Marriages Mrs. W. H. Whitley, Courtesy of Mrs. Robert Gaitskill .......................137 Brides’ Index – Scott County, Kentucky – Marriage Book “A” 1837-1863 Susan Eades ....................................................................................145 Random Marriage Licenses and Preachers’ Returns, 1842-1888 Rebecca W. Conover .........................................................................150 Will Book “C” – Gallatin County, Kentucky Gertrude E. Hewson .........................................................................156 Humphrey Frier Heirs (page 155); Ramy (page 161) Margaret S. Hartman……………………………………………………..155, 161 FAMILY RECORDS Christopher Young Shelton 1838-1887 (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky) Naomi Ward Kasubjak......................................................................162 Burnett by a researcher.................................................................................148 “A Cousin of Your Grandfather” (Doyle – Miller) (Allen, Logan Counties) Vivan Yarbrough ..............................................................................165 Malle Beckett Coyle (genealogist) Irene Gaines.....................................................................................166 BIBLE RECORDS Bible of John Washington Gaton Hawkins Geneva S. Pettit................................................................................166 Bible of Edward Smyth and Hannah Crabtree Smyth Geneva Smith Pettit..........................................................................167 Thomas Family Bible (England; Campbell County, Kentucky; Ohio) Dr. William M Talley.........................................................................168 The Watts / Hummel Notebook (Jefferson, Shelby, Lincoln Counties) Col. Robert C. Jobson.......................................................................169 CEMETERY RECORDS Gunns Chapel Cemetery, Garrard County, Kentucky Mrs. Harold C., Barbara, and Mrs. Kenneth Warren .........................171 Clarkson Cemetery – Big Springs, Meade County, Kentucky Lynn Bolin .......................................................................................175 John Portwood Cemetery Shirley Cobb, Jr. ..............................................................................176 Queries: (8515 through 8594)...........................................................177 News Items and Books .....................................................................189
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Number Four, April 1983 Front Cover – Grinding Corn for Meal Robert C. Shannon, 1645 Seminole Boulevard, Largo, Florida 33540 St. John’s Evangelical (Lutheran) Church Mrs. Wm. F. Knable..........................................................................195 COURT RECORDS Naturalization Records from Todd County, Kentucky Mrs. Joe Neale Fox ...........................................................................201 Brides’ Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky – Consents, Bonds, and Marriages Mrs. W. H. Whitley (Courtesy of Mrs. R. Gaitskill) .............................202 Carr Marriages; Shuttlesworth Marriages – Union County, Kentucky Madileen Small.................................................................................210 FAMILY RECORDS Copy of Letter of Paul C. Wilson, Jr. to Dale Van Every by a researcher.................................................................................215 John S. Wilson (1843-1912) of Tennessee and Kentucky Mary Greathouse..............................................................................216 Another Bicentennial – The Baptist Exodus from Virginia, Through North Carolina, to Kentucky Stratton Owen Hammon...................................................................220 Thomas Hayden – Mary “Polly” Willett Bro. Leo Willett.................................................................................227 BIBLE RECORDS Owings – Wilson Bible (Nicholas County, Kentucky) Connie Graves..................................................................................229 John H. Crouch Family Bible (Bourbon County, Kentucky) Donald Armstrong ............................................................................230 Campbell Bible Record (Franklin County, Kentucky) Edythe Maxey Clark .........................................................................231 Ayres Family Bible (Franklin County, Kentucky) Mrs. Eugene E. Clark .......................................................................232 CEMETERY RECORDS Brown Cemetery, Russell County, Kentucky Michael Watson................................................................................214 Best Cemetery, Mason County, Kentucky Mrs. Robert Colwell ..........................................................................219
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Curtis Cemetery, Mason County, Kentucky Mrs. Robert Colwell ..........................................................................232 Shaver Graveyard, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Mrs. Lawrence L. Lant ......................................................................233 Corrections by Mrs. Ruth D. Upton (McIlvoy, not McElroy) ..................................250 by Mrs. Eleanor Harris (Richard Callaway – dates)............................255 Queries: (8595 through 8670)...........................................................239 Library Donations ............................................................................251 News Items and Books .....................................................................253
VOLUME 19 Number One, July 1983 Front Cover – Making Shingles in Kentucky (C. I. Ogg, photographer) Robert C. Shannon, 1645 Seminole Boulevard, Largo, Florida 33540 Church of the Ascension – Frankfort, Kentucky Mildred H. Riedel.............................................................................. 3 Registration for Insurance by Robert G. Humlong, June 15, 1917..... 7 Registration September 12, 1918, by Robert Graham Humlong ........ 8 Registered by Clarence Galbraith, September 12, 1918 Leslie N. Humlong ............................................................................ 10 COURT RECORDS Dempsey Lassiter – Clark County, Kentucky Ruth Coward Cunningham............................................................... 11 Brides’ Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky – Consents, Bonds, and Marriages Mrs. W. H. Whitley (courtesy of Mrs. Robert Gaitskill) ....................... 12 Sale of Vacant Lands South of Green River ....................................... 20 New Acquisitions – Micrographic Department Joan Brookes-Smith......................................................................... 21 William Harper Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................ 36 FAMILY RECORDS
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Our Logan County Doyles Vivian Yarbrough ............................................................................. 22 Ramsey – Ramsay Records Carolyn Williams .............................................................................. 29 BIBLE RECORDS The Henry M. Cornelius Bible Records Charley M. Cornelius........................................................................ 32 Bible of Benjamin Prigmore .............................................................. 33 Bible of Duke Young Prigmore June R. Welch.................................................................................. 34 The Lapsley Bible ............................................................................. 35 The Vaughan Bible Brad Lapsley .................................................................................... 37 CEMETERY RECORDS Gray Cemetery, Whitley County, Kentucky Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Smith........................................................... 38 Carrithers – Dale Graveyard, Spencer County, Kentucky Frances Dale Cottongim ................................................................... 39 Menifee County, Kentucky, Cemetery ............................................... 40 Morgan County, Kentucky, Cemetery................................................ 43 Bath County, Kentucky, Cemetery Stuart Seely Sprague........................................................................ 44 Hardin Family Cemetery, Breckinridge County, Kentucky Elrod B. West and D. Lynn Bolin ...................................................... 47 Funeral Notices: (Hawkins, Lyle, Oldham, Yates) .............................. 6 Queries: (8671 through 8756)........................................................... 48 News Items and Books ..................................................................... 61 Number Two, October 1983 Front Cover – Outdoor Court at Irvine, in Estill County, Kentucky Robert C. Shannon, 1645 Seminole Boulevard, Largo, Florida 33540 St. John’s Evangelical (Lutheran) Church Mrs. Wm. F. Knable.......................................................................... 67 COURT RECORDS Brides’ Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky – Consents, Bonds, and Marriages
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Mrs. W. H. Whitley (Courtesy of Mrs. Robert Gaitskill) ...................... 73 Fleming County, Kentucky, Delinquent Tax Lists Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................ 82 Daviess County, Kentucky, Vital Statistics, 1852-1862 M. J. Edgeworth ............................................................................... 90 Jehue Morton’s Heir Margaret Hartman............................................................................ 97 FAMILY RECORDS The Cornelius Family George B. Loeffler ............................................................................. 91 BIBLE RECORDS The Reuben B. Smith Family Records R. Blythe Collings............................................................................. 98 The Thomas Milton Smith Family Records Blythe Collings ................................................................................. 99 Peed Data Rear Admiral M. D. Matthews USN (Ret) ........................................... 99 Joshua Hazelrigg Bible Record John R. C. Sanderson ......................................................................100 CEMETERY RECORDS Micajah Bennett Cemetery, Meade County, Kentucky Mrs. Lorna Pipes Althouse................................................................104 Stonelick Cemetery, Mason County, Kentucky Mrs. Lula Reed Boss.........................................................................105 Washington Baptist Cemetery, Mason County, Kentucky Mrs. Lula Reed Boss.........................................................................106 May’s Lick Cemetery, Mason County, Kentucky Mrs. Lula Reed Boss.........................................................................107 Correction: Landers, not Sanders ..................................................... 81 Micrographics Department Joan Brookes-Smith.........................................................................108 Library Donations ............................................................................109 Queries: (8756 through 8840)………………………………...103-4, 107, 111 News Items and Books……………………………….……………...89, 108, 124 Number Three, January 1984
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Front Cover – Henderson County Courthouse, Henderson, Kentucky From the files of the Kentucky Historical Society COURT RECORDS Daviess County, Kentucky, Death Records, 1875-1876 M. J. Edgeworth ...............................................................................131 Records from the Stray (Animal) Book of Gallatin County, Kentucky Gertrude E. Hewson…………………………………………………..…..132, 157 Brides’ Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky – Consents, Bonds, and Marriages Mrs. W. H. Whitley (courtesy of Mrs. Robert Gaitskill) .......................133 Fleming County, Kentucky, Delinquent Tax Lists (1828) Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................150 Heirs of Nancy Peck – Pendleton County, Kentucky Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................162 FAMILY RECORDS The Rolph Family of Fleming County, Kentucky Daniel N. Rolph ................................................................................154 Winders vs. Hughes – Livingston County, Kentucky Mrs. Mary Singleton .........................................................................156 White Family Data (Orange County, Virginia, Wills) Mrs. C. D. Gaines.............................................................................158 BIBLE RECORDS Family Bible of Henry H. Hill (Pendleton County, Kentucky) Claire Pratt Quotrup.........................................................................163 Records from the Bible of Lewis Allen – of Woodford County, Kentucky Emma Jean Roberts .........................................................................165 CEMETERY RECORDS Plummer’s Mills Graveyard, Fleming County, Kentucky Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................166 Fitch’s Chapel Methodist Graveyard, Fleming County, Kentucky Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................168 Foxport Graveyard, Lewis County, Kentucky Dr. William M. Talley........................................................................170 Benham Family Cemetery, Meade County, Kentucky Mrs. Rita A. Thompson.....................................................................172 Queries: (8841 through 8903)………………………………………..…153, 173 Library Donations ............................................................................183
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News Items and Books .....................................................................190 Number Four, April 1984 Cover: Second Courthouse of Greenup County (1816-1939), center, ca. 1920s. KHS Photo Archives. (see “Courthouses of Greenup County,” page 197) An Invitation from your Kentucky Ancestors......................................195 Bowman Bible Record courtesy of Col. and Mrs. George C. Chadwick..................................196 The Courthouses of Greenup County courtesy of Ms. Dorothy K,. Griffith ..................................................197 Old Salt River Primitive Baptist Church, Anderson County courtesy of Mrs. James O. Franklin ..................................................198 Older Lovelaceville Cemetery, Ballard County courtesy of the Ballard County Extension Homemakers Association.......................................................................................202 Pensioner Elisha Witt of Estill County ..............................................203 Johnson County Marriages, 1852-1855 courtesy of Charles C. Wells .............................................................205 The Family of Godhart Smick, “Hatter in Danville” courtesy of Mrs. Alexander (Marge) Harris ........................................213 The Knight Family in the Court Records of Jessamine County ..........215 Early Officials of Henderson, Clay, and Butler Counties....................223 Random Funeral Notices, Fayette County, 1854-1899 courtesy of Mrs. William A. Freeman ................................................226 Kentuckians in Hancock County, Tennessee, 1850 courtesy of William P Grohse ............................................................230 Robertson County, Kentucky, Deaths, 1874 .....................................231 Two Kentuckians Married in New Orleans, 1847
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courtesy of H. C. McDonald ..............................................................235 Book Notes.......................................................................................236 Queries ............................................................................................241 Donations to the Library...................................................................249
VOLUME 20 Number One, Summer 1984 The Courthouses of Wayne County contributed by Garnet Walker and Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan ............... 2 Mountain Island Baptist Church, Scott and Owen Counties, 1801-37 contributed by Stratton Owen Hammon ........................................... 4 Federal Nonpopulation Census Schedules for Kentucky Harlan County, Kentucky, 1860, Mortality Schedule ........................ 14 Kentucky Transactions in Hanover County, Virginia, Deed Book, 1783-92 courtesy of Mrs. Rosalie E. Davis...................................................... 16 Shackleford vs. Shackleford, Casey County, 1813............................. 18 Monument to Franklin County’s Black Civil War Soldiers contributed by Charles H. Bogart ..................................................... 19 Old Chalybeate Springs Church Cemetery, Webster County contributed by Robert H. Sigler ........................................................ 21 “No Will” of William Walden, Pulaski County, 1814........................... 25 Geological Survey Map of Magoffin County, Kentucky, 1890, with “Residents”....................................................................................... 26 Book Notes....................................................................................... 29 Library Donations ............................................................................ 34 Queries ............................................................................................ 36
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Kentucky Ancestors, Volume 19, Surname Index .............................. 47 Talmadge Marriages: an annotation contributed by James L. Pyles .......................................................... 64 Number Two, Autumn 1984 The Myalls—English Emigrants to Kentucky contributed by James Myall Berry .................................................... 66 Out of “The County of Casey…,” 1820............................................... 69 Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Todd County, from 1822 contributed by Dorothy W. Brooks.................................................... 70 Centenarian James Patrick of Floyd County contributed by Edward J. Henderson................................................ 78 Bourbon County Minute Book, 1794-1796 contributed by Mrs. Ora W. Clough .................................................. 81 McCracken County Slave Owners and Slaves Owned, 1850 U. S. Census: Schedule 2........................................................ 85 Deed of Emancipation, Harlan County, 1855 contributed by Holly Fee, Harlan Genealogical Society ...................... 90 From Virginia to Kentucky—The Family of John and Mary Watkins contributed by John H. Stutesman................................................... 91 Cemetery “Gravehouses”: A Wayne County Gravehouse contributed by Asher L. Young ......................................................... 94 Four Pioneer Family Cemeteries in Lincoln County contributed by Allan R. Leach........................................................... 95 Book Notes....................................................................................... 98 featuring John Vickers Family Record Some First Marshall County Taxpayers, 1843 Russell County’s First “Lawless” Brides Hayden Ellis, Blacksmith’s Apprentice Letcher County’s First Judge and Courthouse Donations to the Library...................................................................109
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Amendments and Annotations..........................................................111 Queries: Query Submission Form.....................................................112 Announcements ...............................................................................128 Number Three, Winter 1985 On Common Ground in Daviess County contributed by Sharon Metts Fleischer .............................................130 Kentucky Core—Family Branches ALLEN through WYATT contributed by Anne Wright Hall ......................................................132 The 1890 Special Census of Union Veterans and Widows “Special Schedule, Surviving Union Veterans . . . Clinton County, 1890” ...............................................................................................142 The Centennial of Aunt Betsy M’Kay of Spencer County contributed by Mrs. H. W. McNamara...............................................149 The County of Josh Bell with contributions by Anthony E. Gilbert, Bell County Historical Society..............................................................................151 The Family Record of Weston W. Cox of Morgan County contributed by Joe Nickell ................................................................152 Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian Church, Mercer County, 1851-1864 contributed by Evelyn P. Sanders and Rebecca W. Conover ..............154 Book Notes.......................................................................................160 featuring Simpson County Births–Deaths–Marriages, January–March 1853 1850 Laurel Countians who Married in Clay County Alvin Cooper Family Group, Wayne County Tumey Family Cemetery, Washington County Carolina Natives Residing in Ohio County in 1850 Announcements ...............................................................................148 Amendment......................................................................................153 KHS Members: RSVP........................................................................175
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Queries ............................................................................................176 Library Donations ............................................................................191 Number Four, Spring 1985 Local Officials of Bracken and Pulaski Counties, 1797-1812.............194 “Inspectors of the Several Warehouses Throughout the State,” 1792 .....................................................................................196 Kentucky Ancestors Album—The Hackney Family of Woodford County contributed by Doris (Bain) Nave Manley ..........................................197 Family Record of John W. and Nancy Calloway Johnson of Harlan County contributed by William Edings Whaley..............................................199 Of Lewis County—“The Main Line of our Thomas Family” contributed by Hazel (H. H.) Thomas ................................................201 The Heirs of Samuel Crawford, Sr., of Ohio County contributed by Louise Angle Kishi.....................................................202 Book Notes………………………………………………….…………….…204, 255 featuring “Greensburg Public Square” (c. 1870-1900) Fix Farm and Bain Cemeteries, Trimble County Some Non-Farming Inhabitants of Ohio County, 1850 Russell County “Births in December”—1852, 1853, 1854 “First Morgan County Courthouse,” 1827 Campbell and Boone County Subscribers to The Christians’ Guide (1819) Announcement.................................................................................200 Library Donations………………………………………………...……….219, 252 Queries ............................................................................................222 Kentucky Ancestors, Volume 20, Surname Index ..............................235 Annotation .......................................................................................255
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VOLUME 21 Number One, Summer 1985 Old Salem School, Butler County contributed by J. L. Thomas and Arthur C. Austin ........................... 2 James H. and Rachel Gist Turner of Montgomery County contributed by Elisabeth Bedford Bower Butler ................................ 4 Offered for Sale—Kentucky Tracts (1824).......................................... 13 McCormack Christian Church, Lincoln County contributed by Allan R. Leach........................................................... 16 Pike County Births, 1855 ................................................................. 22 Western Kentuckians “Gone West” (1910) contributed by Don Simmons ........................................................... 15 On Bottinger’s Creek, Jefferson County (1792).................................. 27 Book Notes....................................................................................... 28 featuring Nathaniel J. Judd, 5th Kentucky Cavalry Volunteers Cope Cemetery, Breathitt County Barry/Berry Brides of Barren County Runyon/Runyan Grooms of Pike County Queries ............................................................................................ 35 Number Two, Autumn 1985 Abstracts of Random Deeds for Boyle County Lands, 1790-1810 ...... 66 Contributors to the White Mills Church, Hardin County, 1861 ......... 75 Kentucky Ancestors Album: Martha Tabb and Samuel W. C. T. Wortham contributed by William O. Hubbard .................................................. 77
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First Tax List of Cumberland County, 1799 ...................................... 78 Horses “Taken Up” ........................................................................... 83 Craddock–Jones Cemetery, Hart County contributed by Garland K. Childress................................................. 84 Kentuckians in Ontario contributed by William M. Talley ...................................................... 86 Family Record of Col. Ambrose and Jane Fletcher Arthur, Knox County contributed by Susan Arthur............................................................ 87 Notices of the Funerals of Kentucky Ancestors Funeral Notice of Baker S. Graham, Shelby County contributed by Jane Gill Lawrence.................................................... 89 Powers of Attorney Recorded in Warren County, April 1797-April 1798 contributed by Joyce Martin Murray................................................. 90 Pension Declarations of Jacob Stephens and Widow Rachel, Rockcastle County contributed by A. Maxim Coppage .................................................... 92 Letters at the Gazette Office, Lexington, 1790...................................122 Book Notes………………………………………………………………..…..94, 126 featuring Owners of 10 or More Slaves, Nelson County, 1810 Wayne County Toll-Gatehouse and Family Foreign-Born Lewis Countians, 1870 Queries ............................................................................................100 Library Donations ............................................................................123 Family Histories of Young Kentuckians.............................................128 Number Three, Winter 1986 Bible Record of L. L. LaRue, Larue County contributed by Gary D. Gardner .......................................................130
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Unrecorded Marriages, 1861 and 1862, and Miscellaneous Records, Owen County contributed by Patricia Green Woolcott.............................................131 “Pensioners on the Roll . . . 1883,” Graves and Fulton Counties........135 Gosney Families of Campbell County contributed by Wm. R. (Rus) Stevens................................................136 Kentucky Confederates Buried in Arkansas and Mississippi contributed by Raymond W. Watkins................................................138 The Blair Cemetery, Russell County contributed by Jim Garner ...............................................................141 Family Record of John W. Campbell of Nicholas County and the Michel Bently McLean Family of Bath County contributed by Carolyn B. Anderson.................................................143 Abstracts of Random Deeds for Boyle County Lands, 1808-1841 ......146 Original Purchasers of Scottsville (Allen County) Town Lots, 1816 compiled by the Allen County Historical Society................................151 “Webb is the Name”—in Letcher County, 1900 contributed by Ralph Dawson...........................................................152 Wilkerson-Veluzat Family Record, Adair and Metcalfe Counties contributed by Dorothy J. Asa and Ruth Sandusky Beall..................154 Judges of the Police Courts in Kentucky Towns, 1846-1850 .............156 Book Notes…………………………………………….…………………….158, 191 Queries ............................................................................................164 Recent Kentucky Historical Society Microfilm ...................................157 Library Donations ............................................................................194 Kentucky Historical Society Photo Archives ......................................196 “In Memory Of…William D. Nicholas,” (1892) ....................................140 “A Plan of The Town of Perryville (1815)”...........................................148 The History of Harrodsburg and “The Great Settlement Area” of
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Kentucky 1774-1900........................................................................150 Some Page (Bible) Corrections ..........................................................153 Madison County: 200 Years In Retrospect..........................................195 “Log Mountain…Bell County, Kentucky, ca. 1894”............................196 Number Four, Spring 1986 Obituaries Contained within the Annual Minutes of the Booneville Association of Baptist Churches, 1883-1904, for the Kentucky Counties of Owsley, Clay, Jackson, and Lee contributed by Dennis L. Brewer ......................................................198 Record of the Edwin N. and Eliza Watkins Coleman Family, Logan and Todd Counties, Kentucky contributed by Celeste Coleman Steger.............................................203 First Tax List of Lawrence County, Kentucky, 1822 ..........................206 The Alves Family of Henderson, Kentucky contributed by Susan Alves Jahnke..................................................210 Three Family Cemeteries in Bracken County, Kentucky contributed by Wilma G. Bonar ........................................................212 Record of the Richard Edwin Rucker Family, Green-Taylor-Hart Counties, Kentucky contributed by Inez Line Warf...........................................................215 California Pioneer T. M. Brown—“Native of Kentucky” contributed by Kay Stodghill Vertrees and Howard C. Stodghill ........268 Queries ............................................................................................218 Book Notes.......................................................................................241 Volume 21, Surname Index ..............................................................249 “Rare Books” Available on Kentucky Historical Society Microfilm ......217 “Kentucky Tracts” Reviewed .............................................................267 He Also Served .................................................................................267
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“For the Kentucky Bureau of Immigration”: Views of the Colonies in Laurel County, circa 1885........................... 2 Record of the Benjamin and Jamima Lynn Kimmel Family, McCracken and Ballard Counties contributed by Dorcas M. Hobbs ...................................................... 5 The “Old Dave Fee” Cemetery, Harlan County contributed by Holly Fee................................................................... 6 The 1890 Special Census of Surviving (Union) Veterans and Widows of Veterans, for Martin County............................................. 8 The Family Record of Evan Fain, Jessamine County contributed by Richard L. Moberly.................................................... 14 Families of Kentucky Natives Enumerated on the 1850 Utah Census contributed by Darla T. Love ............................................................ 17 The Livingston Family Cemetery, Meade County contributed by Lorna P. Althouse ..................................................... 22 Brides’ Index to Railey’s “Marriages of Woodford County, 1789-1823” contributed by Susan C. Eades and Wade Eades .............................. 23 Book Notes....................................................................................... 28 Library Donations ............................................................................ 36 Queries ............................................................................................ 40 The Louisville Genealogical Society................................................... 13 “John W. and Lucy Hughes,” Louisville............................................. 13 “A Union Public Barbecue,” Lewis County......................................... 21 Some Counties’ Records on Kentucky Historical Society Microfilm.... 27 “Migrations from St. Francis/St. Pius Church, White Sulphur, Kentucky”................................................................ 31 “J. W. Slayden . . . in the gold fields of Alaska” ................................. 33 Owsley County Marriage Register Reconstructed .............................. 40 Number Two, Autumn 1986 The Washington County Courthouse—
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Seventeen Decades of Service in Springfield...................................... 74 The Ledger of the Blythe General Store, Shelby County: Accountings, 1861-1864 contributed by R. Blythe Collings ..................................................... 75 Eight Allen County Family Cemeteries: Watts-Pearson-Motley-Moore/Stone-Brite-Watkins-Bright-Brunson contributed by Martha Werst Jackson .............................................. 79 Records of the Moss-Edwards Families, Jessamine and Garrard Counties contributed by James E. Boulware ................................................... 82 “All of this Place . . . ,” Covington, Kenton County............................. 84 “A Town by the Name of Washington”: The Petitioners of 1786 contributed by Jean Calvert ............................................................. 85 My First Tax List of Caldwell County, 1809....................................... 86 Wiles, Glover, and Nichols Family Cemeteries, Hancock County contributed by Henry Bruner............................................................ 92 “In Actual Service of his Country on Lake Erie . . . ” William McGinnis of Greenup County contributed by Homer E. Baker ........................................................ 95 “And Take Unto Themselves the Surname of ’Isbell’ ” Floyd County, 1825 contributed by Charles C. Wells........................................................103 Brides’ Index to Railey’s “Marriages of Woodford County, 1789-1823” (continuation from volume 22, number 1 [Summer 1986], pp. 23-27) contributed by Susan C. Eades and Wade Eades ..............................104 Images of the Gist-Turners and “Blythewood,” Montgomery County contributed by Elizabeth Bower Butler .............................................144 Micrographics ..................................................................................106 Book Notes.......................................................................................107 Queries ............................................................................................118
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Number Three, Winter 1987 Family Record from the Bible of Simon Peter Morgan contributed by Pamela Howlett Leach and Ruth Sandusky Beall.......146 The Sidebottom and Houchens Families of Owen County contributed by Mariam Sidebottom Houchens and John M. Houchens ...........................................................................154 Lee County, Kentucky, Marriage Book I, 1870-1877 contributed by Ruth Eager Moran ....................................................156 The Births of the Children of Proctor and Mary Ann Woodard Ballard of Nelson County contributed by Roger Futrell.............................................................163 The Pioneer Thomas Cemetery, Warren County contributed by Nell Thomas Compton...............................................164 Family Record of James M. McCullough of Montgomery County contributed by Arthur E. McCullough...............................................168 Sugar Hill School, Graves County, 1886 contributed by Helen Brewer ............................................................170 Burials in the Frankfort Cemetery Marked by Obelisks contributed by Charles H. Bennett and Theresa A. Sexton ................172 Micrographics ..................................................................................169 Book Notes.......................................................................................180 Queries ............................................................................................191 Number Four, Spring 1987 Arnold’s Company of Kentucky Volunteers, 1794 contributed by Thelma M. Murphy ...................................................222 Family Record entered in “James W. Hill His Book,” Crittenden County contributed by Madileen Small and Esther Crabtree .........................225
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Isbell Family Cemetery, Todd County contributed by Joanne C. Moore.......................................................226 Four “Abandoned” Family Graveyards in Madison County contributed by James Durell and Dewey Mullins ..............................227 Families of Kentucky Natives Enumerated on the 1850 Utah Census continued from Volume 22, Number 1 [Summer 1986], pp. 17-21 contributed by Darla T. Love ............................................................229 Record from the Leggett Family Bible contributed by Elizabeth T. Clough and Mary Lou Osborne ..............236 The Paris Family Cemetery, Grayson County contributed by Douglas W. Paris.......................................................237 Kentucky Ancestors Album—“The Marshall Family of Grant County” contributed by Robert C. Shannon ...................................................238 Students of the Louisville Female High School, June 1866................239 Book Notes.......................................................................................241 Queries ............................................................................................248 Volume 22, Surname Index ..............................................................279
VOLUME 23 Number One, Summer 1987 “Riches for the Craig Heirs . . . in Pike and Letcher Counties” contributed by Willetta DeLong Tucker Klaren.................................. 2 Kentuckians Killed and Wounded at the Battle of Buena Vista, 1847 contributed by Marvin D. Snoddy ..................................................... 5 Mercer Countians Listed on (Unmicrofilmed) page 94 of the 1820 Census contributed by Arlene Brachman...................................................... 11 The Stodghill Farm Cemetery, Spencer County contributed by Kay Stodghill Vertrees and Howard C. Stodghill ........ 12
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Larue County “Farm House Map,” 1899, with Listing of Residents, Churches, Schools, Post Offices, etc. ................................................ 16 Trigg County—“Birth and Death Record Book for 1896, Drs. Blane” and “List of Deaths Reported by Dr. L. Lindsay for 1896” contributed by Trigg County Clerk Virginia Alexander....................... 26 Book Notes....................................................................................... 30 Queries ............................................................................................ 41 Number Two, Autumn 1987 Family Records in the Bibles of John Jesse and Giles Hawkins, Woodford County contributed by J. W. Singer .............................................................. 78 Family Bible Records of Mary Frances Grant Martin—From Kentucky to Texas contributed by Judy Hanner Upchurch ............................................ 84 Bible Record of Reuben and Mary Johnson Collings, Spencer County contributed by R. Blythe Collings and Cecil Day ............................... 86 Family Record in the Bible of Caleb M. Hall, Hopkins County contributed by Dorothy Williams Potter ............................................ 87 Bible Record of the Womack Family, Greenup County contributed by Kathleen Thompson Turner....................................... 89 Family Record from the Bible of Francis M. Caldwell, Livingston and Caldwell Counties, Kentucky contributed by Ruth Hill Patmor and Madileen Small ....................... 91 Family Record from the Bible of John H. and Hannah F. Colvin Smith, Campbell County contributed by Mae Smith Casson and Ronald Brennan ................... 93 Bible Record of the Family of Richard Ratcliff, Jr., Pike County contributed by Elizabeth C. Textor.................................................... 95 Family Record from the Bible of John Franklin Stark, Nelson County
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contributed by Gladys M. Gerding .................................................... 97 Record from the Family Bible of George W. and Avalener Bowlin Freeman, Madison County contributed by Donald F. Moore and Marjorie W. Moore ................... 99 Record from the Bible of the Brosee Family—Maysville contributed by Mrs. Robert R. Hartman, Jr.......................................101 Family Records from the Bibles of William S. Edwards of Green County and Samuel C. Lafferty and J. J. C. Davis of Hart County contributed by John Paul Grady.......................................................103 Book Notes.......................................................................................109 Queries ............................................................................................120 Number Three, Winter 1988 Charter Members of the German Pioneer Societies of Covington and Newport, Kentucky, 1877 contributed by Michael R. Averdick ..................................................158 The “Papers of Emily Todd Helm”— Going Back to the Original Source contributed by Terry L. Todd ............................................................174 Family Record from the Bible of William Wheeler, Sr., and Salley Shrewsbury Wheeler, Garrard County contributed by Robert McAlear and Rose Turner...............................176 Free Black Residents of Logan County, Kentucky, 1850 contributed by Norman R. Peters......................................................178 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” Joshua Cates and Eustatia Harrison, Roger Filley and Abiah Hale, Andrew Reid and Nancy Musgrove, Henry Blair and Mary Pace, Daniel Threlkeld and Nancy Ransdell, Elizabeth Cholson and Thomas Morgan, Charles Russell and Jane Mattingly, Daniel Wilcoxson and Sarah Faulconer, James L. Boggs, Sr., and Elizabeth Clement, William Fields and Mary Miller Wright, Adam Jolly, Sr., and Mary Graham, William Bryant and Rebecca Wilcoxson, Charles Gatliff and Christina McGuire, John H. Awbrey and Michie Roby Irvin, Ambrose Bush and Lucy Cholson, William Connor and Susanna Rice, Jane Gilbreath and Levi
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Conover, Jarrett Menefee, James Brenton and Mary Woodfield, John Combs, Sr., and Nancy Harding, Isaac Burkhart and Manerva Smith, Nourbourne Cooke and Judith Markham, Robert Childres and Nancy Pryor, Deverix Pulley and Mary Williams, Philemon Thomas and Mary Craig, Hendrick Banta III and Antjin Demaree, Drury Bridges and Charity Cohoon, James Dillon and Mary Salmon, George Stockton and Rachel Dorsey, Moses Bryan, Jr., and Martha Cox, Ezra Hamon and Hannah Farra, Isaac Shelby and Susannah Hart, Ezekiel Hopkins and Sarah Hazzard, Daniel Brumley and Elizabaeth Oliver, John Goode and Jane Hawkins, Elizabeth Carson and Samuel Veitch, William Beard and Eleanor Lyons, James Atwood and Mary Allen, Robert Kirkham and Jane Boyd, Michael Paul and Ann Parker, James Davis, Wiley Holland and Bathsheba Skinner, Samuel Hieronymus and Sarah White, John Shryock and Frances Troutman, Richard Calloway and Elizabeth Jones Hoy, Daniel Thatcher and Rosannah Baker, Margaret and James Hawkins .........168 Book Notes.......................................................................................198 Queries ............................................................................................205 Number Four, Spring 1988 Deaths of Native Kentuckians Reported in Charleston, Illinois courtesy of The Coles County, Illinois, Genealogical Society..............238 Kentucky Lady in a Texas Town contributed by Dora Caple DeVaun ..................................................238 Some Kentuckians in the Early Deeds of Georgia..............................239 “On A Tomb in Liverpool, England”...................................................240 Record of the George W. Patrick Family—From Shelby County, Kentucky, to Indiana, Kansas, and Beyond contributed by Phillip O. Patrick.......................................................241 ‘Kentucky Confederate Officers in Pennsylvania Penitentiary” contributed by Milton D. Thompson .................................................243 “Native of Kentucky” Interred in California contributed by Joy Burkholder .........................................................245 “Record of (Anderson Family) Births, Marriages, Deaths”—
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Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri courtesy of The Platte County, Missouri, Historical and Genealogical Society.........................................................................246 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” continued from Volume 23, Number 3 (Spring 1988) James and Eliza J. Goff, Peter McDonald and Catherine Wise, William Rogers and Ann Johnson, John and Frances Cates, Hugh Wilson and Christiana Stagner, James Girdler, Jr., and Lenny Miles, John Moran and Agnes Miller, Gerard Alexander and Elizabeth Henry, Moses Cummins Jr. and Elizabeth Garrett, George List and Maria Williamson, Malachi Cooper and Anna Wilkinson, George W. Seward and Amanda Laing, James Peart and Elizabeth Johnson, James and Nancy Norton, John R. Thomson and Martha Caldwell, George Poage and Ann Allen, William Morse and Gooley Attaway, George Levengood and Margaret Fryman, Joseph Horseman and Hannah Whaley, Robert Spradlin and Levisa Fitzpatrick, Conrad Phillips and Barbara Weaver, Daniel McCoy and Agnes Kemper, David Barrow and Elizabeth Cook, Lucas Vanarsdale and Jannetje Cosine, James Matheny I and Diana Beasely, Richard Wade and Judith Hancock, Albert Terhune and Nancy Carter, John Hall and Jane McGuffey, Meredith Collins and Polly Holloway, Margaret Powell and William Bristow, Presley O. Martin and Elizabeth O’Daniel, William G. Pickett and Ann E. Glenn, Gordon Griffin and Katherine Kisinger, Dr. John Francis Bell and Catherine Bococke, Charles McKinney and Marianne Chastain, Enoch Smith and Frances Wren, John C. Greenup and Jennie Cecil, John Carpenter and Matilda Southerland, Roger Clements and Hannah Hathaway, Richard Deadman and Catherine Gatewood, Dennis L. Tungate and Sally Scott, Moses M. Risk and Frances Crosby, Col. John Hardin and Jane Davis, John C. Gaddis and Emma J. Robson, Edward Boyd and Mary Lawson, Alexander Ross and Polly Schooler, James A. Henderson and Jane Miller, Robert A. Harbord and Martha S. Duncan, John Cundiff and Sarah Young, William Clark and Leah Johnson, Richard Rowland and Ruth Tucker, Valentine Whalen and Barbara Penner ................................................................................248 Queries ............................................................................................267 Book Notes.......................................................................................295 Volume 24, Surname Index ..............................................................301
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VOLUME 24 Number One, Summer 1988 Edward Burgess of Scott County—His Family and the Burgess Family Bible Record contributed by Michael Burgess ....................................................... 2 Kentucky Ancestors Album— The Early Clan of Whitley County The Wiggs Family of Graefenburg contributed by Marcella F. Mountjoy ................................................ 7 Four Hale Family Cemeteries in Hancock County contributed by Jerry Long ................................................................ 8 Henry Smock of Washington County, and His Widow, Margaret Van Brunt Smock, Marion County contributed by Katherine D. Peterson ............................................... 11 Marriages of Rockcastle County, 1852 and 1853 .............................. 13 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Volume 23, Number 4) John Armstrong and Mary Richardson, Josephus Cummins and Cynthiane Townsend, Samuel Auxier and Sarah Brown, Charles Stuteville and Mary Brunk, Louis Keller and Louisa Reinhold, Henry Wiggington and Ann Vallandigham, Samuel Demaree and Leah Demarest, Christian Huffhines and Anna Williard, Waller Webb and Hannah Young, Robert Wheeler and Sally Gentry, Archilles Anderson, Alexander Kenner and Arie Cook, Alexander and Mary Montgomery, Nancy Belcher and Enos Bingham, Noah Turk and Ann Carter, Jacob Van Meter and Letitia Stroud, James and Margaret Cox, William Linson and ??? Tomlinson, Thomas Crow and Nancy Donnally, Richard Burks and Jane Smith, Rachel Thomas and William Covington, John Wilson and Sarah Kelly, Henry Hawkins and Mary Walters, Daniel Doolin and Mary Bridges, William Connett and Sarah Carrell, Isham Jeffries and Jane Parker, Joseph Thompson and Elizabeth Hedges, Elizabeth Syms and James DeJarnette, John Edds and Elizabeth Lynch, Thomas Hicks and Elizabeth Morral, Henry Bell and Susannah Atkins, John Shelton and Naoma Dunlap, Samuel Brooks and Jane Spivey, Claibourne Jones and Elizabeth Giles, Osias Welch and Elizabeth Rowland, Richard Mattingly and Eleanor Hinton, John Belcher and Mary Rowe, William Linthicum and Mary Inyard, William Bickers and Sally Leathers, Samuel Sodowsky,
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Valentine Husk and Elizabeth Hacker, Lewis Thornbury and America Hunter, Abraham Bledsoe and Dorcas Ramey, Elizabeth McKinney and John Akin, Elizabeth Chastain and William Jones, Thomas Wilson and Nancy Dunn, Edmond Cotton and Sarah Dorsey, Daniel King and Hannah Guthrie, Dr. Henry Clay and Rachel Povall, Daniel Upton and Mary Black, George Boswell and Judith Fauntleroy, Alexander and Nancy Wilson, William Bramwell and Catherine McDonald, Alexander Van Winkle and Phoebe Coy, Abraham LeForgee and Joannah Talmage, Aaron Acton and Elizabeth Littrell, Edward Payne and Ann Conyers, John Barton and Mary Moore, Nicholas Talbott and Aria Kennedy, William Chenoweth and Mary Van Meter Henton, Mary Evans and Martin Downey................................................................................. 19 Book Notes....................................................................................... 44 Queries ............................................................................................ 50 Number Two, Autumn 1988 “The Seaton Family,” To 1886, “By John Seaton, Greenup” contributed by Mary Isabel Seaton Holt ............................................ 82 “Daniel Boone Once Lived in Greenup County” by John Seaton ........ 86 Kentucky Captives on “Returns of Rebel Prisoners in Fort Chambly,” 1779 and 1780 contributed by Joan H. Clifford ........................................................ 87 Church Book, 1836-1851, Church of Christ of Antioch, Calloway-Graves County contribute by Mary Lalla Turner ....................................................... 89 Christian County Lands To “Be Sold . . . To Satisfy The Tax Due Thereon,” For the Year 1809............................................................. 94 Kentucky-Born Residents of Hancock County, Tennessee, 1870 and 1910 contributed by William Grohse ......................................................... 96 The Edwin C. and Elizabeth Suitor Finnell Family Record, Franklin and Scott Counties contributed by Joe Nickell ................................................................100 Book Notes.......................................................................................102
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Queries ............................................................................................132 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Volume 24, Number 1) John W. Leitch and Jane Thomas, Charles Montgomery and Hannah Tygart, John Kennady and ??? Huber, Henry Kalfus and Ann Fisher, Richard Wade and Judith Hancock, Charles Yelton, Sr., and Amelia Ellis, Jacob Coffman and Eary Fowler, William Rippetoe and Ruth Antle, Griffen Kelly and Sarah Sutton, Cuthbert Head and Martha Gristy?, Thomas Sharp and Jean Maxwell, Lightwell Toliver and Nancy Privitt, Peter Mathews and Margaret Coffman, John Hammon and Mildred Morgan, Morgan Day and Lucinda Jones, George and Elizabeth Eaton, Tilman Kemper and Dinah Hitt, Joseph McKee and Lucinda Bartlett, Hardy Pitman and Elizabeth Harvey, Lewis Turner and Theodosia Payne, John Roby and Mary Ann Roby, John McMannis, Jr., and Nancy Gassaway, Moses Adams and Mary Garland, Lloyd Maho(r)ney and Hannah Erwin, George Guy and Angeline Tinsley, J. R. Skinner and Margaret Sheets, Allen Owens and Mary Kilbourn, Samuel S. Williams and Catherine Stephens, Washington Lively and Louisiana Kerr, Nathan Adkins and Amanda J. Adkins, Mary Mays and William Le Compte, Henry Ritter and Sarah Bragg, Shelby Johnson and Agnes McClendon, Adam Carpenter and Catherine Frye, John Mercer and Lucretia Johnston, George Hikes, Sr. and Barbara Ohlweiler, Aaron Dicken and Mariah Dean, Anderson Hammett and Mary Nichols, Robert Hardin and Elenor Sherrill, Henry Burgess and Elizabeth Mauzy, Christopher Jackson and Magdalen Boggess, William Gregory, Sr., and Nancy Ham, Ezekiel Rogers and Rebecca Williamson, John Gilmour and Jane Bronaugh, Jesse Hammon and Martha Paget, Martha Poague and James Hanna, Andrew Rice and Mary Need, Aaron Phillips and Mary Metcalf, Emeriah Edwards and Sarah Northcutt, Adam Garman and Eve Allen, Benjamin Pile, Jr., and Rhoda Weathers, Henry and Peggy Browning, James Haney and Levina Stacy, Richard C. Emberton and Rebecca Matheny ......................................................107 Number Three, Record of the Family of Benjamin Hixon, Sr., Fleming-Mason County contributed by Gerald S. Griffith ......................................................154 Record of the Amanda Jamison and Levi Jennings Family,
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Shelby County contributed by William Jennings ......................................................157 Abstracts from Bourbon County Master Commissioner’s Deed Book “A,” Part I, 1810-1826 contributed by Elizabeth Clough and Sarah Clough..........................160 Record of the Mary Tewmey and John T. Bigger Family, Perryville-Harrodsburg contributed by Thomas Bigger ..........................................................167 The Family Records of Samuel Duncan and John Duncan of Nelson County contributed by Robert P. Moore ........................................................169 Queries ............................................................................................195 Book Notes.......................................................................................220 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Volume 24, Number 2) Patience Allen and Eli Martin, Talbot Sharp and Mary Weaver, Isaac Sparks and Annis McGuire, Joseph Coriell and Jemima Voshel, Isaac Galligar and Christina Sells, Francis Berry and Phebe Coons, Joshua Yeates and Nancy Boilston, John Carpenter and Susan Shryock, Adam Owens and Julia Fleener, Solomon Norman and Mahala Brooks, John Kenton and Catharine Russell, Edward Hail and Amelia Garrett, Johann Dreyer and Margarithe Hartendorf, Basil Teagarden and Ann Todd, Joseph and ??? Watson, Joseph Goode and Nancy Combs, William Ferguson and Nancy Smith, Edmond Simpson and Sallie Marksberry, John Lowe and Mary Gilliland, Lunsford Yandell and Susan Wendel, Sarah Rice and William Triby, William Todd and Elizabeth Todd, Daniel Yager and Susanna Berry, Unity Hix and William Thomasson, Charles Bagby and Mason Anderson, Solomon Hoggins and Miltrue Tucker, John Foster and Polly Gosney, Hugh Henry and Rachel Anderson, Mark Howard and Rachel Webb, Thomas Woodward and Rachel Starr, Peter Simmons and Sarah Miles, John and Elizabeth Friggs, Jacob Maybrier and Mary Cook, William Sublett and Ruth Ford, Reuben and Marcey Kemp, William Maxey and Nancy Williams, George Summers and Jane Smith, Thomas Lewis and Hannah Hopkins, Jesse Hodges and Rebecca Fisher, Archibald Mitchell and Elizabeth Ramsey, Elizabeth Daughterty and William Sayers, Edward Evans and Elizabeth Howard, Amor Batterton and Nancy Guthrie, Walter Mobley and Elizabeth Burton, Robert Rankin and Janet
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Stevenson, John Bryant and Mary Owsley, William and Lydia Campbell, Ephraim Heath and Sally Titmarsh, Alexander Breckenridge and Magdalen Gamble, John and ??? Ray, Michael Crose and Mary Ross...........................................................175 Number Four, Spring 1989 Record of the Family of Aaron and Jenny Railey Darnell, Woodford County contributed by Matthew C. Darnell and Betty Trumbo Williams ........226 Abstracts from Bourbon County Master Commissioner’s Deed Book “A,” Part II, 1827-1841 contributed by Elizabeth Clough and Sarah Clough..........................229 Kentucky Ancestors Album— The Families of Caleb Stevens and Julia Drury contributed by Robert L. Klausmeier, Jr. ..........................................237 Records in the Family Bible of Sallie Saffell and Lewis Debell Collins, Mason and Fleming Counties contributed by James Berry .............................................................238 Peter Harrison Mathews of Hopkins County—Philadelphia to Liverpool, Kentucky to Missouri contributed by Virginia Everding ......................................................240 McCormack, Sugarloaf, and Baughman’s Station Cemeteries of Lincoln County contributed by Allan R. Leach...........................................................242 Book Notes.......................................................................................246 Queries ............................................................................................251 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Volume 24, Number 3) Samuel Harris and Susan Mayhew, Thomas Poe and Sophia Fronk, William Perdue and Polly Frost, Franklin Haselwood and Lucinda Brown, George Cleveland and Parthena Walker, William Kincheloe and Molly White, James Lockett and Elizabeth Watkins, John and Sarah James, James and Eleanor Boyd, Joseph Hubbard and Elizabeth Holland, Henry Putman and Elizabeth Kenton, William Jewell and Margaret Pantier, Joseph Farrar and Jane Ford, William Nelson and Mary Doyle, John Ellis
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and Sarah Parrish, Robert E. Ware and Frances Daniel, James Perkins and Judith Whitlow, Benjamin Combs and Sarah Richardson, Joshua Wilson and Rosey Ritter, John Miller and Ann McClintock, Edward Elliott and Hannah Cornwell, Israel Matherly and Sarah Cheney, John Hester and Mary Elizabeth Bennington, William Champ and Hannah Daugherty, and George Stovall Smith and Frances Sandifer..................................................271 Volume 24, Surname Index ..............................................................282
VOLUME 25 Number One, Summer 1989 Members of the Beaver Creek Baptist Church, Harrison County, 1809-1854 contributed by Edith Pope Westerman.............................................. 2 Three Kirkham Brothers and Their Families of Early Kentucky contributed by Steve Kirkham .......................................................... 8 An Index of Bible Family Records Presented in the Kentucky Historical Society’s Kentucky Ancestors and Register ........................ 14 Quarter Sessions Court for Mercer County, 1793-1805: Abstracts of Deed Book 4 QS, Part I: Pages 1-204............................. 23 Book Notes....................................................................................... 29 Queries ............................................................................................ 35 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Vol. 24, No. 4) Richard Foley and Margaret Wilson, Nancy Theresa McCormack and Charles Frederick Taake, Hedgeman Triplett and Nancy Popham, George Michael Bruner and Anna Barbara Templemann, Moses Wickliffe and Nancy Young, William Potter Read and Mary Ann Netherland, William Von (Van) Ransclear Boatright and Sallie Wadkins Gates, Nicholas Crist and Ruth Briscoe, Jarrott Wright and Elizabeth Griffin, Frederick Moss and Fanny Penick, William Fields and Mary Miller Wright, Benjamin Allen, Jr., and Keziah Clawson, Dudley Shipp and Polly Ellis, Ester McGuire and George Tincher, Mary Boone and Absalom Bobo Gant, James Turner and Anna Debell, Alexander Gorham and Saffrah (Sophia) Champ(e), Thomas Smith, Jr., and Mary “Polly” Eversole, Enoch
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Clark and Sarah McCoy, Sarah Shipley Mitchell and John Thompson, Peter Ruby II and Jane Brook, William Metcalf and Hester Braselton, Thomas Sanders and Sarah “Sallie” Dark, Rev. Henry Winfred and Sarah Thomas, Joel A. Watkins and Patsy Baker, and Vincent Cusenbary and Mary Davis....................... 63 Number Two, Autumn 1989 Records from the Family Bibles of Robert A. and William A. Campbell, Shelby County contributed by Frances Jones Bridges and Ralph A. Bridges............. 74 Kentucky Ancestors Album—The Family of Harbin Ford Hawkins and Elizabeth J. Clift Hawkins contributed by William L. and Ruby B. Hawkins............................... 77 Pupils, Board, & Instructors of the Caldwell Institute for Young Ladies, Danville, Kentucky, 1860-61 contributed by Richard C. Brown ..................................................... 78 Record from the Family Bible of Thomas Dodson and Polly Morrow Dodson—Wayne County, Kentucky, to Boone County, Indiana contributed by Donald and Marilyn Wall........................................... 83 Quarter Sessions Court for Mercer County, 1793-1805 Abstracts of Deed Book 4 QS, Part II: Pages 205-577........................ 85 Family Record from the Bible of Thomas Kephart, Henry County contributed by Martha H. Browne..................................................... 93 An Index of Cemetery Records Presented in the Kentucky Historical Society’s Kentucky Ancestors and Register ........................ 95 Record from the Family Bible of Ellen Hawkins Walthall Summers, Franklin County contributed by Bette P. West and Anita S. Hanna .............................104 Book Notes.......................................................................................106 Queries ............................................................................................111 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Vol. 25, No. 1) Drury Willis and Elizabeth Phelps, William Berry and Rebecca McCleary, William Miller and Mary Ann Morrow, Sanders Russell
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and Mary Polly Combs, Francis Frank Robinson and Lucinda Anderson, Robert Brannock and Elizabeth Myers, John Stiff and Barsheba Stone, Moses Wilkerson and Aletha Anderson, Jessie and Matilda Barker, John Carney and Mary J. Tyler, Ephraim Jones and Easter Rosa Litton, John Lamson and Rebeccah Carter, Stephen Jett, Jr., and Rachel Mylar/Miller, Nathaniel Hart and Sarah Simpson.................................................................................135 Number Three, Winter 1990 Family Records from the Webb, Kincheloe-Webb, Abbott-Webb, and Ellis Webb Bibles contributed by Maurice Webb...........................................................142 Kentucky Ancestors in Pioneer Days—The Taking of Ruddle’s Station, 1780, by John Zinn contributed by Roseann R. Hogan ....................................................153 Abstracts of 1820 Instruments and Indentures Recorded in Trigg County, Deed Book “A” contributed by Virginia Alexander.....................................................157 Members of the Sandy Creek Baptist Church, Butler County, 1805 to 1853 contributed by Kenneth A. Shelton ...................................................166 Kentucky Ancestors Album—Bible Record of Granville M. and Eliza P. Morris, Warren and Simpson Counties contributed by Mary June Henry Foulk ............................................172 Book Notes.......................................................................................174 Queries ............................................................................................182 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Vol. 25, No. 2) John and Elizabeth Netherton, Joseph Todd and Katherine Ferguson, John Frederick Flege and Sarah Proctor Woodyard, Anderson A. Powers and Sarah Stockton, Elijah Churchman and Elizabeth Paul, John E. Wilson and Harriott Brooks, Mathias and Elizabeth Warren, Christopher Wilson and Lucy Johnson, Richard Orrn Powell and Martha Ellen Payne, Lucy Shipp Garnett and William Garnett, Enoch Vice and Elizabeth Tucker, Samuel C. Bean and Harriet A. Bakes, Isaac L. Hynes and Martha F. Stith, and William Hays and Frances Ann Cheatwood. ...............................176
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Number Four, Spring 1990 Records from the Family Bibles of William Henry Harrison and Lula Harrison Paxton contributed by Albert G. McKey ........................................................206 Kentucky Ancestors in Pioneer Days— George Holeman in the “Savage Wilderness,” 1776-87 contributed by John Hale Stutesman ...............................................210 The Family of Fleming Smith and Prudence Bland Smith contributed by Merritt L. Page ..........................................................212 The Thomas Kephart Family Revisited— Kephart Cemetery, Henry County contributed by Robert C. Jobson ......................................................213 Correcting the Record—Fenwick Burials in Union County contributed by Montague L. Powell ...................................................213 Some Residents of Virginia and Other “Persons Chargeable With Tax” in Kentucky Counties, 1794-95 courtesy of Marian G. Hammers .......................................................214 Wilson Family Cemetery, Crittenden County contributed by Brenda Joyce Jerome................................................218 “The Golden Wedding” of Three Read Brothers— Allen County, 1889 courtesy of W. P. Oliver ....................................................................219 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Vol. 25, No.3) Luke W. Watkins and Nancy Hopkins, Edward Tyler and Nancy Langley, James and ??? Ed(e)rington, Thomas Howard and Nancy Hughes/Hues, Pennina L. Crisp and Joseph C. Mathias/Matthews, Dorcas Wilmot and William Stewart, Margaret ??? and John Wilson, Finley Gibson and Jane Gatliff, Betty ??? and Abraham Field III, John Gabby and Mary Smithers, Joshua Abney and Sarah Ann Griggs, Robert Bailey and Alicy Hendrickson, Lewis Sandlin and Sarah (Blankenship), Thomas L. Gray and Mary Bonifant, George Haley and Lavicia J. Callahan................................222 Book Notes.......................................................................................228
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Number One, Summer 1990 Some Kentucky Confederates Buried in Other States contributed by Raymond W. Watkins................................................ 2 Record from the Family Bible of Samuel Long, Sr., Fayette County contributed by Harold R. Irving ........................................................ 7 Book Notes....................................................................................... 9 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Vol. 25, No. 4) Samuel M. Hampton and Martha Carr, Phineas Runyon and Charity Coates, Thomas White, Jr., and Elizabeth Payne, Beal and Elizabeth Kelley, Paul Mitchem and Susannah Meeks, Robert Ashcraft and Catherine Cook, Rev. Jacob Rohrer, Jr., and Mary Hoover, Zilpha A. and Thomas Prowse, Sr., Esom Vice and Mary “Polly” Osborne, George Corn, Jr., and Rhoda Jane Williams, and William Kennedy and Nancy Brooks. ................................................ 13 Queries ............................................................................................ 18 Cumulative Index Number Three: Court, Vital, Military, Church, School, and Land Record Compilations Presented in the Kentucky Historical Society’s Kentucky Ancestors and The Register .................. 44 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY—Thomas Jefferson Iles and Thomas Hallowell Iles—from Kentucky to Iowa and Colorado contributed by Barbara Bovee .......................................................... 64 Number Two, Autumn 1990 Some Kentucky Confederates Buried in Other States (continuation) contributed by Raymond W. Watkins................................................ 66 Record from the Bible of Margaret Reid Thomas, Trigg County contributed by Lucille Thomas Sumner and Virginia Alexander ........ 71
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Two Pate Family Cemeteries in Hancock County contributed by Jerry Long ................................................................ 73 Kentucky Ancestors in Pioneer Days—Abraham Thomas: “This Small Legacy of Experience” contributed by Elizabeth T. Clough................................................... 75 “Three Read Brothers of Allen County”—An Addendum contributed by Frances W. Colyer ..................................................... 78 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Vol. 26, No. 1) Zachariah Haddock and Cloey Albritton, Thomas Hardwick and Rachel Sullivan(t), Isaac Baker and Permelia Barkwell, William Butler and Martha Farley, George Barnes and Agnes Bunch, Robert Marshall, Sr., Robert Marshall, Jr., and Mary Ann Simpson, Speed Smith Barclay and Hannah Ann Todd, John Edgar and Elizabeth Cummins, Richard Morton, Sr., and Margaret Downs (H(o)uston), Chesley Wooldridge and Elizabeth Johnson, Tyre Glenn and Nancy Cloak, Jame Swart and Jane Rogers, George Timmons and Rose Ashby, Robert Abell and Margaret Mills, James C. Prock and Lucy Ann DeHart, Benjamin W. Elston and Elizabeth Long……………………79, 126 Book Notes....................................................................................... 85 “The Bowmer Family of Cloverport, Kentucky,” 1903 contributed by John S. Minary and Sidney W. Harl .......................... 88 Baker-Moore-McIntire Cemetery, Washington County contributed by Mrs. Milton Keene..................................................... 89 An Index of the Principals Whose Estate Records Appear in Mercer County Will Books 1-7 (1786-1824)................................... 90 Estate Records of Mercer County, Kentucky, 1823-1826: Will Book 8—“Akin” to “Knox”........................................................... 95 Queries ............................................................................................105 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY— Dr. John Bartlett Saunders and Abraham Thomas ...........................128 Number Three, Winter 1991
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Members of the Cane Run Baptist Church, Fayette County, 1858-1899 submitted by Christine W. Mallory ...................................................130 Family Record from the Bible of Western Rowland and Susan Blair Tingle of Nelson County submitted by Ruth Rowland Green ...................................................137 A Carpenter Family Cemetery in Boone County submitted by Charles (Sam) Robinson ..............................................139 For the Union—Benjamin McGuire and Sons, Owsley County submitted by Ruth Eager Moran and Ruth S. Lovric .........................143 Family Record from the Bible of John Warren Jones and Lena Lane Jones of Mt. Sterling submitted by Bettie C. McCaleb........................................................145 Gleanings from Issues of the Hopkinsville Gazette in 1836 and 1837.............................................................................146 Black Marriages Before 1866 Recorded in Washington County, 1866-1869 submitted by Linda Anderson...........................................................149 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Vol. 26, No. 2) Drury Holt and Elizabeth (Rogers?), Thomas Hicks and Elizabeth Morral, John Coop and Susanna Monk, Edward and Mary (???) Riley, Robert Church, Sr., and Margaret Campbell, Robert Hayes Bolton and Hannah Matilda Lang, Stephen (Septer) P. Cammack and Mary Rudy, William and Frances (???) Pearson ..........................154 Book Notes.......................................................................................158 Queries ............................................................................................161 Estate Records of Mercer County, Kentucky, 1823-1826: Will Book 8—“Laws” to “Wilson” (continued from Vol. 26, No. 2) .......181 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY—Simeon Mattingly— Evette Dumas Nix—Lewis Calvert—Philemon Thomas.......................192 Number Four, Spring 1991
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An Index of Kentuckians and Kentucky Families “Featured” in The Register and Kentucky Ancestors In Family Histories, Genealogies, and Official Records ......................194 In Biographies, Autobiographies, and Topical Articles.......................207 In the ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” .......................217 In Memorials, Funeral Notices, and Obituaries .................................227 In “Featured” Journals, Diaries, and Recollections............................233 In “Featured” Correspondence ..........................................................236 In “Others Otherwise Featured” (non-Kentuckians and others not indexed elsewhere)........................239 Book Notes.......................................................................................241 Queries ............................................................................................244
VOLUME 27 Number One, Summer 1991 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY Richard David Morton, Olinthus Ellis, Elizabeth “Jennie” Calvert, Robert H. Lindsay, James Bernard Weimar, John Andrew Salyers, Benjamin Franklin Thomson, Clayton Francis Becker, Samuel Howard Doyal, Thomas Jones, Jr., William Adams Smick, Addison Reese, John Phillip Negley, George Hector Burton, Elijah and Susannah Brockman Rogers ............................................................ 2 “Robt. Lindsay” to “Friend Gus,” 1863 courtesy of Gregory Walden .............................................................. 3 Bible Record of the Wyatt Sandidge Family, Lincoln County courtesy of Jo A. Gatrell Ernst and Samuel O. Hedden ..................... 6 Henry Sloan Curry Family Record courtesy of James C. Curry .............................................................. 7 Blount Family Monument, Nicholas County
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courtesy of Carolyn Blount Anderson ............................................... 8 Holiday Family Burial Ground, Owen County courtesy of Linda Holliday Mueller.................................................... 9 Book Notes....................................................................................... 10 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Vol. 26, No. 3) Charles Hansford and Margaret Minor, George Washington Padgitt and Martha R. Carter, Adam Fisher and Elizabeth Garr, Rebecca (???) and John Webster Gilbert, Robert Wilson and Nancy Scott, George Washington Bell, Sr., and Rachel Gowdy, Robert Eliot Cleaveland and Elizabeth Cloyd, William Age and Mary Ann Demunbrun, Forrestor Timisticle Meers and Sarah Jane Wright, David B. Morris and Martha (Patsy) Downey, John Doyle and Christina Davis, James Fields and Catherine Mulberry, John Owings McKee and Martha Parks, Peter Helms and Leah Shoults, George Clark and Sarah Lee, Jefferson Williams and Nancy Campbell, James Salyers and Rebecca Roles, Joshua Wayland and Ann Ward, George Frederick Spears and Christeenah Hardin, Jonathan Hills and Lucy Lincoln, William Harrell and Minerva Woods, Jacob Bale and Sophia Snook, John Thomas and Elizabeth Hays, Lemuel Barritt and Sarah Tittle, Andrew Russell and Jane Varnell, Martin Gillaspy and Lidia McGuire, Henry Kilbourn and Charity Pointer (p.9) .................................................................. 13 Births of Belcher Children courtesy of John Marshall Prewitt .................................................... 25 Kentucky Ancestors, Volume 26, Surname Index .............................. 26 Queries ............................................................................................ 40 Number Two, Autumn 1991 Record from the Family Bible of William F. Bullock and Mary Pearce Record from the Family Bible of Edmund P. Bullock and Penelope Lowry courtesy of Betty Bullock Barnett ..................................................... 78 First Taxpayers of Menifee County, Kentucky, 1870.......................... 82 “Delinquent List of Military Fines for 1823,”
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Livingston County, Kentucky courtesy of Brenda Joyce Jerome ..................................................... 89 Dunaway Family Cemetery, Grant County, Kentucky courtesy of R. Denise Foster Korzenborn .......................................... 90 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY James Rudd Jeffries, James William Martin, Lucy Jane Kemper (Cox), Eugene S. Durrett and Harry M. Durrett, Alfred Wallace Fletcher, William James Campbell, Alfred Gilbert and Sarah Gilbert Morgan, Eliza Gatewood and Samuel Alexander Duvall, Hugh Thompson Duvall and children, John B. and “Milley” Gilbert Truitt, Samuel Gilbert, Mary A. Kenton (Wilson) ............................... 91 Record in the Bible of Eliza Gatewood Duvall courtesy of Susan Duvall Kerr .......................................................... 95 Naturalizations Recorded in Bourbon County, 1868-1905 courtesy of Patty M. Biddle and Frances M. Gaitskill ........................ 97 Book Notes.......................................................................................104 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Vol. 27, No. 1) Peter McArthur and Mary Michie (Tompkins), James Gillock and Celia Hunt, William and Catherine Lee, George Gordon and Mary McLean, Neri Swetnam and Mildred Cross, John Scott Campbell and Cynthia Overstreet, Thomas Jones, Jr., and Mary “Polly” Wood, Louis Shubert and Millie Coffee, William Rash and Elizabeth Warren, Jacob Yeazle, Sr., David Heffington and Dorothy Low(e), David McMurtry and Margaret “Polly Headington..............................107 On the Line of John McMurtry courtesy of Jane McMurtry Allen ......................................................114 Queries ............................................................................................115 Number Three, Winter 1992 Family Record from the Bible of Sarah Beale Campbell Morgan courtesy of Marsha Graham Van Ham and Valerie Francis Curtis.....142 Naturalizations Recorded in Bourbon County, “L” – “W” (continued from Vol. 27, No. 2) .........................................................144
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KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY John J. Owen, Cornelius Coop, John Scrogin, Samuel Musgrave, Sr., and Family, Smith B. Noel, Thomas Jefferson Rodgers and Amanda Wylie, William Bridges and Alfred C. Thomas, Permelia Nickell Hawkins and Family, Jacob Coffman ....................................150 Trustees of Kentucky Seminaries and Academies in the Acts of the General Assembly, 1792-1816.........................................155 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Vol. 27, No. 2) Joseph Henry Smith and Matilda Ann Humphrey, John Pugh, Jr., and Mary Donovan, George Medcalf, Sr., and Nancy ???, Henry Bingaman, Jr., and Polly ???, “William Bartlett Brown and Harriet Lowry Allen, Daniel S. Caplinger and Frances Powell, George Moore and Elizabeth McClintock Moore, Basil Corn and Hannah Bohon, William Buck Forsee I and Mary Ann Smith, Amos Pettit and Milly Glenn/Glinn.....................................................................................159 Kentucky Ancestors Album— James Parrish Ellis and Jane Berryman Ellis courtesy of Ellis O. Moore.................................................................165 Gravestones of Frances C. and Aquilla Talbott in Bourbon County courtesy of Ell Ritchey Flynn ............................................................166 Kentucky Ancestors in Pioneer Days courtesy of Glen Haney and Brenda Joyce Jerome............................167 Elgin – Singleton – Stewart Gravestones in Jessamine County courtesy of Jack Nelson....................................................................169 Book Notes.......................................................................................174 Queries ............................................................................................179 Number Four, Spring 1992 Bolin Family Cemetery, Russell County courtesy of Marion Lee Adams..........................................................206 “In the Burlington Post-Office…1876,” Boone County courtesy of William Conrad...............................................................208 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS”
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(continued from Vol. 27, No. 3) Ledstone Smallwood Cooksey and Elinor ???, John Fowler and Lucinda Ussery (Usury) Gasper Rowland (Casper Roland) and Mary Hunsaker, John Smith and Mary Storrs Russell, John Downey and Rebecca J. McDonald, Joseph L. Inskoe, Jr., and ???, George Shortridge, Jr., and Eliza Margaret Muir, James Ram(m)age and Lucy ???, James James and Mildred ???, Samuel Bowdry and Elizabeth ??? (Lewis?) ...................................................209 Crenshaw Family Bible Record courtesy of Mary L. Fuqua McAskill and Janice Plain .......................214 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY John Longley Richards, William and Elizabeth Swisgood Simpson, Robert and Lucinda Ladd Simpson, James and Catherine Bellesfelt Brenton, Luther Pleasant James, Lafayette Thompson, Samuel Perrin Bowdry, Emmacetta Cassandra Bowdry and Spruce McCoy Baird, and John Fowler and family........................................216 Faulkner Family Cemetery, Powell County courtesy of Dale E. Barnes ...............................................................220 Kentucky Ancestors in Pioneer Days courtesy of George C. Chadwick .......................................................223 Johnson, McCue, Ward, Wilson, Arterburn, Poland, Brown, and Cross Gravestones, Monroe County courtesy of Charles R. Arterburn ......................................................224 Book Notes.......................................................................................220 Queries ............................................................................................225 Kentucky Ancestors, Volume 27, Surname Index ..............................255
VOLUME 28 Number One, Summer 1992 “Mother . . . wants you to come to Ky. this spring . . . ” A letter from Thomas Bereman, Jr., Warwick, Mercer County, 1832 courtesy of Ronald E. Bereman II and Robert K. Bereman................. 2 Tithables of Lincoln County, Kentucky, 1783.................................... 4
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KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY William Sidney Willis and Eliza Vivion Willis, Charles Henry Spratt, John William Wright, M. D., Thomas Jefferson Fitzgerald and Nancy Means (Mears), and Edward D’Arcy Fitzgerald, William Augustus and Lorana Campbell Thomas, and James H. Thomas, Otho McCrackin, Perry W. Wheat, John Valentine Lindsey, Sebert and Sarah Nichols Pearman, Lucinda M. Gray Hyde, Henry Harrison Garner and Eliza Jane Johnson, George Thomas Downey and Alice Turner Downey and family, and Stephen Neal .................................. 17 Edds – Bunch Family Bible Record courtesy of John M. Bell and Catherine L. Chambers........................ 24 Jefferson Seminary Revisited............................................................ 27 Book Notes....................................................................................... 28 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Vol. 27, No. 4) Arabia Joseph Brown and Elizabeth Dooley, Richard Parker and Grissel Nalle, John Jones and Elizabeth Lucas, Dale Carter Stuart and Barbara Caroline Booth, Isaac Sevier and Agnes Davenport Crutchfield, Peter Leadingham, Sr., and Sally Hamilton, Thacker Smith Vivion and Sabrina “Sibby” Jones, Richard Nelson Allcock and Sarah (White) Murphy, McKinzie Willis and Mary Polly Logsdon, Celestine Logan Black and Hiram Hawkins Brelsford, Thomas W. Walden and Sarah Kinslaer, Thomas Bereman and Nancy Emmerson, Daisy Dean Spurlock and Levi Ross..................... 32 Queries ............................................................................................ 40 Number Two, Autumn 1992 Record from the Bible of Henry and Leucretia Phillips Benningfield courtesy of Donna Carothers Tracht and Teresa Phillips Spurling..... 66 First Presbyterian Church, Harrodsburg, Officers and Members courtesy of Mary Mitchell Wooldridge Gravely ................................... 69 Record from the Bible of Meredith O. and Margaret Noe Parrish courtesy of Bettie Tuttle and Eliza B. Gay......................................... 79 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Vol. 28, No. 1)
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Elijah Granville Ballard and Mary Powers, Eli Cothran and Caziah Meredith, Cornelius Hoagland and Mary Tuttle, Robert Davenport and Elizabeth Katherine Wise, William E. and ??? Groover, William Butler Cobb and Mary Frances Walker, William Simpson and Elizabeth (Betsy) Swisegood, William Henry Russell and Elizabeth Ann (Analiza) Tosh, Jesse Stamper and Nancy Sebastian, Benjamin Field and Mildred Slaughter, William and Nancy ??? Adams ............. 80 “Dear Sisters”: A List of Women Prominent in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Kentucky, 1887-1888 courtesy of Dr. Thomas H. Appleton, Jr. ........................................... 86 Book Notes....................................................................................... 89 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY William, John, and George M. Mills, William Polston, John Brookin Richardson, H. Elkanah Scott and Syntha E. Horsey Scott, Joseph Henry Smith and Family, Matthew Carter......................................... 95 Record from the Bible of Thacker Smith Vivion courtesy of Bettie Tuttle ................................................................... 99 Queries ............................................................................................100 Kentucky Ancestors Album—1912 Football Squad, du Pont Manual Training High School, Louisville courtesy of William E. Johnstone, Jr. ...............................................128 Number Three, Winter 1993 Some Kentuckians Who Signed Oaths of Allegiance, 1862-66 courtesy of Craig R. Scott .................................................................130 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY George Washington Larue, Joseph Shackelford and Amanda Catherine Smitha Shackelford, Samuel Ross, Samuel Hocker Jones, William Barker, William Bryant and Family, and Benjamin Clark Pearson...................................................................................138 Kentucky Ancestors in Pioneer Days—George Loveless and Family courtesy of William B. Loveless.........................................................142 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Vol. 28, No. 2) John Sanders and Sarah Gorham, John L. Bridges and Anna P.
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Adair, John Jones and Elizabeth Elrod, Jacob Larue and Mary Frost, John Durham and Martha Bugg, Fenelon Randolph Wilson and Elizabeth Trabue, and Samuel Pearman and Mary Bacorn.........145 Local Officials of Kentucky Commissioned by Governors Isaac Shelby and James Garrard, 1792-97 ................................................150 Book Notes.......................................................................................160 Queries ............................................................................................164 Number Four, Spring 1993 Family Record from the Bible of Joseph R. Perkins and Mary P. (Gray) Perkins courtesy of Robert Perkins French ....................................................190 Scates Gravestones, Christian County courtesy of Nada Fuqua....................................................................192 “List of Persons in Wayne County, Liable under the Military Laws, to be Enrolled in the Militia of . . . Kentucky,” 1863 (Parts one and two) courtesy of R. Denise Korzenborn and C. Denney Foster...................193 Inspectors at Kentucky Warehouses Appointed . . . 1792-97.............199 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Vol. 28, No. 3) Archibald Rutherford and Elizabeth Akers, Josiah Williams and Mary L. Tweedle, Joseph Greenwood and Martha Jones....................201 Book Notes.......................................................................................203 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY Ratliff Baird and Sarah (Sally) Hardin, John A. Mann, William Berry Dixon, Sr., and William Randolph Dixon, Jr. ....................................206 Queries ............................................................................................208 Kentucky Ancestors, Volume 28, Surname Index ..............................237 On the Line of—The Fearns of Hunters Bottom, Kentucky courtesy of Larry Douglas Smith.......................................................251
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Number One, 1993-1994 Family Record from the Bible of Mary E. Lobb and Thomas A. Bowling courtesy of C. Clayton Rock, Bessie Bowling Hazlewood, Mildred Bowling Routt, and Carrie Bowling Rock.............................. 2 Local Officials of Kentucky Commissioned by Governor James Garrard, 1798-1800 ......................................................................... 4 “Declaration of Marriage of Negroes and Mulattoes”: Mason County Records, 1866-1898 courtesy of Linda Anderson .............................................................. 14 Thompson – Atherton – Duvall Bible Records—Family Records from the Bibles of John Thompson and Mary Atherton Duvall courtesy of Susan Kerr and Ann G. Frederick Miller ......................... 16 Book Notes....................................................................................... 19 “List . . . of Persons in Wayne County, Liable under the Military Laws, to be Enrolled in the Militia of . . . Kentucky,” 1863 (part three) courtesy of R. Denise Korzenborn and C. Denney Foster................... 24 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY— George Felix Ingram, Ancil Daniel Powell, Benjamin Gray Perkins and Family, Joseph Hubbard and Family, and John Alfred Loy ........ 29 Queries ............................................................................................ 32 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” (continued from Vol. 28, No. 4) Samuel Rowlett and Anna King, Henry Rhoads (Jr.) and Elizabeth Stoner, Margaret Harned and Alexander Keith, John Armstrong and Mary “Polly” Swain, John Henry “Jack” Byassee and Catherine Elvira Winfrey, and John B. Powell and Nancy Daniel....................... 56 Number Two, 1993-1994 The Library of the Kentucky Historical Society— Kentucky’s Centralized Source for Genealogy.................................... 62
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Family Record from the Bible of Charles Houchin and Mary Sale Houchin courtesy of Marna L. Clemons and Frederick F. Hoffman.................. 63 Local Officials of Kentucky Commissioned by Governor James Garrard, 1801-1804 ............................................... 64 Family Record from the Bible of Alfred Sutherland and Sarah A. Hafley courtesy of Peggy Galloway............................................................... 67 Kentucky Ancestors in the Acts Approved by the Kentucky General Assembly, 1792-1796 .......................................... 68 Family Record from the Bible of Thomas Dawson and Martha M. Downard courtesy of Elizabeth F. Jackson ...................................................... 75 Some Enterprising Kentuckians at Mid-(19th) Century in Trimble County and Rockcastle County ........................................ 76 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY – Henry C. Harned ............. 77 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS”—Bartlett Foster and Elizabeth Harris, Nathaniel Harned and Mary Hartley ...................... 78 Book Notes....................................................................................... 84 Bell County Vital Statistics – Births Recorded for 1878..................... 88 Family Record from the Bible of Eveline Reese and Brooks V. Savage courtesy of Douglas P. Hobson ......................................................... 97 Queries ............................................................................................ 98 Number Three, 1993-1994 Family Record from the Bible of Margaret McCawley Kerrick courtesy of Virginia Kerrick Morey ....................................................122 Local Officials of Kentucky Commissioned by Governor Christopher Greenup, 1804-1808......................................124 Family Record from the Bible of Charles W. Wright and Harriet Bowles Wright
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courtesy of Teresa Phillips Spurling..................................................129 Kentucky Ancestors in the Acts Approved by the Kentucky General Assembly, 1797-1799 ..........................................130 Family Record from the Bible of Victoria Baynham Richards courtesy of Mary R. Sprouse, James E. Richards, Virginia Alexander............................................................................135 Some Enterprising Kentuckians at Mid-(19th) Century in Calloway County and Boyle County ..............................................137 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS”—Sarah Thomas and Henry Munday Marrs, Jesse Glascock and Eliza Jane Faubian.........140 Book Notes.......................................................................................142 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY—Thomas Hoffman and George W. Bell..................................................................................147 Queries ............................................................................................159 The Library of the Kentucky Historical Society— Kentucky’s Centralized Source for Genealogy Collections .......................................................................................139 Services and Fees.............................................................................180 NOTICES: “Richard Higgins—From Ireland to Bardstown, Kentucky” ................123 Update—Descendants of the Bowman’s Station Settlers ...................139 1994 Creech–Dean Reunion .............................................................153 Pike County Historical Society Dissolved ..........................................172 Bracken County Historical Society....................................................175 Pendleton County Historical and Genealogical Society ......................178 Number Four, 1993-1994 Family Bible Record of Elizabeth Ann Miller and William Henry Harrison Shields courtesy of Emma L. Goodley-Benton ...............................................182 Index to the “Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company, 1865-1874,” Lexington, Kentucky, Branch—March 21, 1870-July 3, 1874 Part I: “Adams” Through “Johnston”
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courtesy of Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer ............................................183 Book Notes.......................................................................................190 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS”—Thompson Duvall and Mary (Polly) LaForce, William Speer and Amelia “Millie” Estep....194 The Graduates of Winchester, Kentucky, High School— Class of 1898 courtesy of Margaret Shipp Henley ...................................................196 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY—Edwin Turner Shipp and Family, Gatewood–Johnston Family, and Amos Thatcher..................196 Local Officials of Kentucky Commissioned by Governor Charles Scott, 1808-1809 .............................................198 The Library of the Kentucky Historical Society— Kentucky’s Centralized Source for Genealogy Services and Fees.............................................................................195 Collections .......................................................................................203 Queries ............................................................................................204 Kentucky Ancestors Volume 29, Surname index................................220 Kentucky Families Featured in the Roster of “First Kentucky Ancestors”—Vol. 23 No. 3 (1988) Through Vol. 29 No. 4 (1994) .........235
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Number One, 1994-1995 Three John McGuires of Early Kentucky courtesy of Ruth Eager Moran .......................................................... 2 Local Officials of Kentucky Commissioned by Governor Charles Scott in 1810.................................................................................... 5 Kentucky Ancestors in the Acts Approved by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1800................................................................ 9 Index to the “Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company, 1865-1874,” Lexington, Kentucky, Branch—March 21, 1870 – July 3, 1874
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Part II: “Jones” Through “Young” courtesy of Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer ............................................ 12 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS”— Philip Strange and Catrene/Catherine “Katy” Ash, Daniel Grass and Rosa Jane Smothers, Martha A. “Patsy” West and William Dunbar, Joannah Berry and James Brumfield, Rebecca “Becky” Ratliff and John Sword..................................................................... 16 Some Enterprising Kentuckians at Mid–(19th) Century— in Trigg County, Kentucky................................................................ 19 Book Notes....................................................................................... 22 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY— David Montgomery Newell, William (Buck) Thompson, Lucy Jane Kemper Cox and Family, Adam (II) and Mary Ann Jones Carpenter and Family, James Matthew Sword and Mary Lowe Sword................ 28 Queries ............................................................................................ 37 Number Two, 1994-1995 Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records of Warren, Montgomery, and Clark Counties, Kentucky, in the National Archives courtesy of Stuart Seely Sprague ...................................................... 62 Local Officials of Kentucky Commissioned by Governor Charles Scott, 1811-1812.............................................................................. 64 Some Kentucky Confederates Buried in Tennessee, Illinois, and Georgia courtesy of Raymond W. Watkins ..................................................... 68 Kentucky and Other Ancestors in Collin’s “Annals of Kentucky,” 1774-1844.................................................................................................... 71 Meade County Deaths in 1898 courtesy of Ronald Clifton ................................................................ 75 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS”— Jacob Roeters Evertson and Eliza Phillips, William and Jane Frances Coomes, Horatio Turpin, and Mary Ann Bancroft ................ 78 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY—
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Philip Bancroft Turpin and Family; Lucian Thompson Owens; Micajah Callaway; Anderson, Rebecca, and Larkin Cockrill; Anderson, Mary, and Amine Hammett; General David Thomson and Family ....................................................................................... 80 Book Notes....................................................................................... 84 Queries ............................................................................................ 90 Meade County Births in 1880 courtesy of Ronald Clifton ................................................................112 Kentucky Confederates Buried in Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio courtesy of Raymond W. Watkins .....................................................115 Number Three, 1995 Family Records from the Kerrick-Newman Bible provided by Virginia Kerrick Morey, Littleton, Colorado.....................122 Family Records from the Bible of John and Margaret Spilman Thatcher provided by Mrs. Elizabeth Clough, Paris, Kentucky .........................126 Family Records from the Bible of Thomas Darnall (Fleming County, Kentucky) contributed by James L. Pyles, Maysville, Kentucky..........................127 1897 Membership of Chamber of Commerce, Lexington, Kentucky ...133 Declaration of Marriages of Negroes and Mulattoes, Nelson County, Kentucky, 1866-1872 provided by Nelson County Historical Society ...................................134 First Taxpayers of Grant County, Kentucky transcribed by Robert L. Bickers, Hyrum, Utah ................................140 Additional Kentucky Confederates Buried in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia Geoffrey R. Walden, Elizabethtown, Kentucky...................................145 Kentucky Confederate Soldiers and Civilians Buried in the Confederate Sections and National Cemetery, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky
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compiled by Geoffrey R. Walden, Elizabethtown, Kentucky ...............147 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY...........................................150 ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” .................................151 Queries ............................................................................................154 Book Notes.......................................................................................175 Announcements ...............................................................................179 Heflin Hunting .................................................................................180 Number Four, 1995 Family Record from the Bible of Joseph Lecompte Chandler and Hallie Browning Chandler (His Second Wife) of Henry County, Kentucky submitted by Mariam Skelton, Clarksville, Indiana transcribed by Georgia Rankin Cole..................................................182 Bible Records at the Kentucky Historical Society ..............................185 Some Kentucky Confederate Burials provided by Raymond W. Watkins, Falls Church, Virginia.................188 The Notebook of Thomas T. Hayes transcribed and provided by their great-great-granddaughter, Doris L. Lichtenberger ......................................................................195 First-Ever Goff/Gough Gathering .....................................................199 Book Notes.......................................................................................200 Announcements ...............................................................................204 Queries ............................................................................................206 Surname Index, Volume 30 ..............................................................228
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Some Kentucky Confederate Soldiers Buried in Georgia compiled by Geoffrey R. Walden and Raymond W. Watkins...............3, 7 LOST RECORDS OF NELSON COUNTY Early Inquests compiled by Pat Craven .................................................................... 8 Gleaning Gems from Genealogy Helen Hawes Hudgins ...................................................................... 14 Bolin Family Cemetery, Russell County submitted by Marion Adams............................................................. 17 A Brief Account From the Genealogy of the Boston Family Helen Boston Cooper........................................................................ 18 My Search for the Ellis-Shipp Family Graveyard Margaret Shipp Henley ..................................................................... 19 Fugate Farm Cemetery, Logan County compiled by Jerry and Teresa Fugate Morrison, Marion Fugate......... 20 Index to the “Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company,” Louisville, Kentucky compiled by Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer........................................... 21 A Search for the Anderson Family Cemetery, Garrard County Carol A. Novotni ............................................................................... 41 Union Soldiers’ Discharges Found in a Grant County Deed Book submitted by Robert L. Bickers......................................................... 46 Announcements ............................................................................... 42 Book Notes....................................................................................... 43 Queries ............................................................................................ 47 Number Two, 1995-1996 Genealogical Data in the Diary of the Reverend John Lyle, 1801-3 Thomas H. Appleton Jr..................................................................... 2 Letters at the Augusta Post Office, Bracken County, April 22, 1820
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submitted by John E. Leming Jr....................................................... 7 Obituaries in the Louisville Public Advertiser, April 4, 1837 submitted by Alice Roberts Fobister.................................................. 8 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY— William Free Sexton of Kentucky, Missouri, and Kansas Ruth Mary Conrad Maples................................................................ 9 The Brumley and Dicken Families of Kentucky, Indiana, and Missouri Dorothy Jean Hall ............................................................................ 10 Contributors to Foreign Missions from Christian, Todd, and Logan Counties, 1850 Timothy Mohon ................................................................................ 11 Index to the “Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company,” Louisville, Kentucky (part two) compiled by Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer........................................... 17 The African American Napiers of Casey County compiled by Doris Wilkinson ............................................................ 34 The Reverend Solomon Johnson Nichols of Russell County Carolyn S. Peters and Elmer W. Nichols............................................ 36 Some Descendants of Archibald Huston and John Stephenson in Virginia and Kentucky Thelma M. Murphy........................................................................... 37 Bible Records from the O’Neal Family of Kentucky, Missouri, and Iowa submitted by Priscilla Martin............................................................ 38 LOST RECORDS OF NELSON COUNTY Petitions for Division of Land (part one) compiled by Pat Craven .................................................................... 40 Book Notes....................................................................................... 46 Queries ............................................................................................ 50 Number Three, Spring 1996
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Who Was Levi Tyler? Mary Smith Fay, C. G.......................................................................120 Index to the “Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freeman’s Savings and Trust Company,” Louisville, Kentucky (last of three parts) compiled by Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer...........................................122 LOST RECORDS OF NELSON COUNTY Petitions for Division of Land (last of two parts) compiled by Pat Craven ....................................................................126 Obituary in the Kentucky Statesman, March 1, 1851 submitted by Marion Herman Fugate Jr. ..........................................133 Kentucky Confederates Buried in Georgia compiled by Raymond W. Watkins....................................................134 Burials in the Confederate Veterans Home Cemetery, Pewee Valley, Kentucky compiled by Geoffrey R. Walden........................................................135 Kentucky Confederate Prisoners of War Buried at Johnson’s Island Military Prison Camp, Lake Erie compiled by Jon P. Neill ...................................................................143 The Search for the Will of Simon Heflin of Mason County Don Heflin........................................................................................144 Notice of Delinquent Taxpayers Published in the Argus of Western America, 1818 (first of three parts)...........................................................................145 Taxpayers for 1895, Lusbys Mill, Owen County (first of two parts) ....155 Announcements ...............................................................................159 Communications ..............................................................................161 Book Notes.......................................................................................162 Psychic Roots, a review .....................................................................165 Queries ............................................................................................166 Relatively Speaking ..........................................................................180
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Number Four, Summer 1996 Notice of Delinquent Taxpayers Published in the Argus of Western America, 1818 (second of three parts) ...............................................182 Taxpayers for 1895, Lusbys Mill, Owen County (second of two parts).........................................................................192 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY— Davis Milburn of Kentucky and Texas Howard W. Holmes...........................................................................195 Unclaimed Letters at the Lexington Post Office, July 1894................196 Announcements ...............................................................................197 Communications ..............................................................................198 Book Notes.......................................................................................199 Queries ............................................................................................202 Relatively Speaking ..........................................................................214 Surname Index, Volume 30 ..............................................................215
VOLUME 32 Number One, Autumn 1996 Paul and Susannah Mitchem: An Antislavery Saga (first of three parts)........................................................................... 2 A Penny to Send Your Thoughts: Turn-of-the-Century Kentucky Post Cards Mary K. McCormick.......................................................................... 10 Unclaimed Letters at the Danville Post Office, July 1, 1801 .............. 12 Notice of Delinquent Taxpayers Published in the Argus of Western America, 1818 (third of three parts) .................................................. 13 LOST RECORDS OF NELSON COUNTY
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Land Book Number 3, 1823-1842 compiled by Pat Craven .................................................................... 23 Unclaimed Letters at the Elizabethtown Post Office, January 1, 1830 compiled by Mary Jo Jones .............................................................. 28 The Montgomery, Barnett, Baird, Graham, and Coplin Families of Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Indiana Thelma M. Murphy........................................................................... 29 Local News in The Sayings, Harrodsburg, January 9, 1895............... 32 Customers in the Ledger of the Store at Hinkston’s Station, 1794-97 ........................................................................................... 33 Announcements ............................................................................... 41 Book Notes....................................................................................... 42 Queries ............................................................................................ 47 Number Two, Winter 1996 “Nothing of Importance Has Occurred”: The School Journal of Martha Foster of Allen County, 1853 Tom Stephens .................................................................................. 62 Paul and Susannah Mitchem: An Antislavery Saga (second of three parts) Edwin Burrows Smith ...................................................................... 75 Slaughters Married in Graves County or Elsewhere compiled by Clifton Courtney Jr. ...................................................... 83 Register of Deaths in Maysville (1864-1887) From the Maysville Republican ......................................................... 84 A Much-Loved House: Notes on the Family of Minerva Jane Hough and Samuel Hensley of Hart County Helen Boston Cooper........................................................................ 88 LOST RECORDS OF NELSON COUNTY Constable Bonds Prior to 1811 ......................................................... 91 Judgements Dismissed, 1789........................................................... 93
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Paupers, 1874.................................................................................. 94 Receipts and Pauper Reports, 1891-1892 ......................................... 95 Bastardy Cases ................................................................................ 97 compiled by Pat Craven BIBLE RECORDS Futrell Family Genealogical Information compiled by Roger H. Futrell ............................................................ 98 Records of the Abrams family of Jackson, Madison, and Trimble Counties submitted by Geneva S. Pettit...........................................................101 Communications ..............................................................................100 Voters of Lexington, from The Kentucky Leader, August 11, 1889 .....102 Fayette County Election Officers, 1889, from the Lexington Daily Press........................................................................106 Book Notes.......................................................................................107 Unclaimed Letters at the Middlesboro Post Office, January 23, 1892.............................................................................111 Queries ............................................................................................112 Number Three, Spring 1997 African American Genealogy in Kentucky: A Case Study Linda Anderson................................................................................122 Census Report of the District Colored Trustee, Greenup County, 1881 .....................................................................125 Origins and Migrations of the Lanter Family William G. Adams.............................................................................128 Journal of John Breathitt’s Trip to Vincennes, 1804 .........................129 Paul and Susannah Mitchem: An Antislavery Saga (third of three parts) Edwin Burrows Smith ......................................................................131 Genealogical Information in The Green River Republican, November 19, 1908 ..........................................................................133
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White Family Reunion, Kenton County, circa 1906 ...........................135 Patients at the “Feeble-Minded Asylum,” Frankfort, June 16, 1900...136 Webster County Deaths, 1907 ..........................................................139 LOST RECORDS OF NELSON COUNTY Presentments to the Grand Jury of the County Court compiled by Pat Craven ....................................................................145 Delinquent Tax List and Land Sales Book, 1819 ...............................150 BIBLE RECORDS Records from the Family Bible of Samuel Pate of Hancock County compiled by Jerry Long ....................................................................154 Premiums Awarded to Citizens of Mercer at the Danville Fair, from The Kentucky People, 1870 .......................................................157 Communications ..............................................................................158 Announcements ...............................................................................159 Book Notes.......................................................................................160 Queries ............................................................................................167 Mystery Album.................................................................................180 Number Four, Summer 1997 Weddings and obituaries in the Frankfort Commonwealth, November and December, 1853 ........................................................182 Genealogical Information on the Hagans Family of Letcher and Floyd Counties biographical sketch of Dr. Allen Christian Hagans by his son, Hiram Gilbert Hagans genealogical information compiled by Jane Clark Heist, Dr. Hagan’s granddaughter photo identifications by Rose Hagans Bowling ..................................194 Delinquent Tax List and Land Sales Book, 1819 (part two) ...............197
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VOLUME 33 Number One, Autumn 1997 “This Is As Good As Can Be Made”: Excerpts From a Nineteenth-Century Cookbook Mary K. McCormick.......................................................................... 1 Genealogical Information on the Hanna Family of Shelby County submitted by Donna M. Wilson......................................................... 5 Narrative on the Family of Elizabeth Hedges of Virginia and Montgomery County ......................................................................... 8 Life and Death in Canmer, Kentucky Helen Boston Cooper........................................................................ 9 Thomas Hawes of Caroline County, Virginia, and Gallatin County, Kentucky Helen Hawes Hudgins ...................................................................... 12 Delinquent Tax List and Land Sales Book, 1819 (part three) ............. 16 Obituary and Genealogy of Fannie Tabler, Harrodsburg Democrat, September 19, 1884 ......................................................................... 25 Kentuckians Mentioned in the Knoxville Sentinel, February 1899 compiled by Dr. Thomas H. Appleton Jr. .......................................... 26 BIBLE RECORDS Bibles of the Kasey and Drury Families of Virginia and Breckinridge County......................................................................... 27 Genealogical Information of the Hartley Family of Hardin County submitted by Helen Wells ................................................................. 30 The Wash Family of Anderson County
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submitted by Vickie Bruce Gorby ..................................................... 31 LOST RECORDS OF NELSON COUNTY Archibald McDonald, Dancing School Master, and His Subscribers and Clients, 1795............................................................................. 33 Complaint Against William Gray, June-July 1785............................. 35 Burned Judgements ......................................................................... 36 Petitions and Requests for Change of Venue (M-Z) ............................ 37 Agreement Between John Anderson and James Green, 1827 ............ 39 Nelson County Judgements, 1801-04 compiled by Pat Craven .................................................................... 39 Book Notes....................................................................................... 40 Announcements ............................................................................... 48 Queries ............................................................................................ 49 Number Two, Winter 1997 Children’s Letters to Santa Claus, Lexington Leader, December 18, 1902 .......................................................................... 61 Unclaimed Letters at the Frankfort and Shelbyville Post Offices, October 20, 1804 ............................................................................. 63 BIBLE RECORDS Records of the Family of James Gentry of Madison County (1802-1898) compiled by Phyllis Cuzick Williams ................................................. 64 Records of the Bohannon and Montgomery Families of Gallatin and Carroll Counties compiled by Diane Wilkens............................................................... 66 Deaths, Funerals, and ‘Funeral Discourses’ Recorded in the Journal of Joseph Price Howe, 1798-1826 ........................................ 71 Employees and Creditors of the Pineville Coal and Coke Company, May 20, 1897 ................................................................................... 75 The Religious Family of William Wooden of Hart County Verna W. Gilbert............................................................................... 77 Delinquent Tax List and Land Sales Book, 1819 (part four)............... 79
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Thomas Hawes of Caroline County, Virginia, and Gallatin County, Kentucky (part two) .......................................................................... 85 Customers and Suppliers in the Ledger of John G. Walker’s Drugstore, Brandenburg, 1859......................................................... 90 LOST RECORDS OF NELSON COUNTY Subscribers to James Caldwell’s School, 1788.................................. 96 Exhibits in the Case of Edward S. Thomas vs. the Administrators of Michael Couchman, Deceased, 1807............................................. 97 Letter From William Chenault to Stephen Chenault, September 17, 1813 ......................................................................... 98 Index to the Deposition Book, Land Book 12, 1800-1816.................. 99 Letter to Jasper Muir From Thomas Melbourne, 1861 ......................100 compiled by Pat Craven Announcements ...............................................................................102 Mystery Album.................................................................................103 Book Notes.......................................................................................104 Queries ............................................................................................108 Number Three, Spring 1998 In Those Days: Reminiscences of Lilly Ann Dobbs Newton of Pulaski County.............................................................................121 Biographical Sketch of Grandison R. Lee of Franklin and Owen Counties ..........................................................................123 Soldiers of the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, Spanish- American War, 1898-99....................................................................125 The Fisher and Schooling Families of Mercer and Washington Counties ..........................................................................................145 LOST RECORDS OF NELSON COUNTY Estate Administrator Relinquishments, 1871-1895 compiled by Pat Craven ....................................................................150 Students of Third District School, Covington, 1934-35 .....................154 Members of the Democratic Society of Clark County, 1793 ...............156
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Unclaimed Letters in the Kentucky Reporter, Lexington, July 1927 ...159 Announcements ...............................................................................165 Mystery Album.................................................................................166 Queries ............................................................................................167 Book Notes.......................................................................................178 Number Four, Summer 1998
Unclaimed Letters in the Middlesborough News, October 1891-March 1892................................................................181 Members of the Confederate Association of Kentucky, 1893..............187 LOST RECORDS OF NELSON COUNTY Marriage Contract of Edmund Able/Abell and Lucy Cole/ Coal, December 1820 .......................................................................198 Various Land Cases..........................................................................199 compiled by Pat Craven Queries ............................................................................................200 Vacationers at Tatham Springs Resort, Washington County, 1897....211 Mystery Album.................................................................................212 Announcements ...............................................................................213 Surname Index to Volume 33 ...........................................................215
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Number One, Autumn 1998 Notes on the Francis S. Bryan Family of Nelson and Daviess Counties .......................................................................................... 2 Flood Victims in the Ashland Republican, February 21, 1884............ 8 African Americans in the Louisville Commercial, May 18, 1890.......... 11
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Soldiers of the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, Spanish- American War, 1898-99 (part 2) ....................................................... 13 LOST RECORDS OF NELSON COUNTY Burned Circuit Court (Chancery Records)......................................... 30 Benjamin Lawless vs. Moses Kirkpatrick Heirs ................................. 30 Conflicting Land Claims on Harrod’s Creek, Jefferson County........... 30 Depositions of Thomas McCarty, William Postleweight, and Samuel Phillip, 1807 ................................................................. 31 John Dicken, Assignee of John Baker, Assignee of William Lynn, Assignee of Henry Brenton and John Phillips, 1780.... 31 Pre-emptions of John Baker, Isaac Baker, and Moses Kirkpatrick..... 31 Deed from John Dicken of Lincoln County to Benjamin Lawless of Washington County, 1801 ................................................................ 31 Depositions of Thomas Curry, William Postleweight, and Frederick Edwards, 1810 ................................................................................. 32 Decision ........................................................................................... 34 Benjamin Lawless Recants Deed, June 27, 1810 compiled by Pat Craven .................................................................... 34 Some Kentucky Confederate Veterans Who Died in Arkansas ........... 35 Obituary of Confederate Colonel W. T. Withers, Lexington, June 17, 1889.................................................................................. 39 Sale Bill of J. L. Moss of Versailles, Breeder’s Gazette, 1849 ............. 41 Queries ............................................................................................ 42 Book Notes....................................................................................... 49 Mystery Album................................................................................. 55 The Anglea Family of Simpson County, Kentucky, and Sumner County, Tennessee .............................................................. 56 Announcements ............................................................................... 58
Number Two, Winter 1998 The Ledger Books of Doctor John S. Turner of Irvine, Estill County .................................................................................... 62 Notes on the Francis S. Bryan Family of Nelson
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and Daviess Counties (part 2)........................................................... 67 Burials in the Olivet Methodist Church Cemetery, Mason County..... 76 Soldiers of the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, 1898-99 (part 3) ............................................................................................. 79 Unclaimed Letter in the Spirit of Seventy-Six, Frankfort, October 25, 1827 ............................................................................. 91 Bible Records Records of the Family of John Glasgow Fitzpatrick of Madison and Bell Counties............................................................... 92 The Samuel Waters Family of Lincoln and Washington Counties ...... 93 LOST RECORDS OF NELSON COUNTY Constable Bonds, 1811-1820 ...........................................................106 Additions to Research Boxes WWWW and XXXX...............................109 compiled by Pat Craven Book Notes.......................................................................................110 Communications ..............................................................................114 Queries ............................................................................................115 Mystery Album.................................................................................119
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Citizens and Advertisers in the Hazel Green Herald, Wolfe County, March 4, 1885 ...........................................................122 Louisville Orphans in the Lexington Leader, July 11, 1889 ...............130 Obituary of Samuel Lanham of Springfield, Kentucky, and Kansas, 1907 ...................................................................................131 Unclaimed Letters in the Springfield News-Leader, January 26, 1888.............................................................................131 Early Kentucky Postal History in Bardstown, Middletown, Georgetown, and Russellville Henry A. Hudson and Mary Kay Hudson ..........................................132
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African American Funeral Director Records, Bloomfield, Nelson County, 1919-50 (part 1) compiled by Lillian Ockerman ..........................................................138 Delayed Kentucky Birth Records in Switzerland County, Indiana submitted by Ruth Dorrel.................................................................148 Kentucky Confederate Soldiers Buried at Various Locations compiled by Raymond W. Watkins....................................................154 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY Captain John Thompson of Kentucky and Missouri Betty Rolwing Darnell.......................................................................158 LOST RECORDS OF NELSON COUNTY Nelson County, Virginia (Kentucky) Judgments, 1785-86 compiled by Pat Craven ....................................................................159 Weddings and Obituaries in the Kentucky Tribune, Danville, September 1843 ...............................................................................165 Book Notes.......................................................................................166 Communications ..............................................................................169 Announcements ...............................................................................170 Queries ............................................................................................172 Mystery Album.................................................................................180
Number Four, Summer 1999 Extracts from the Georgetown Telegraph, 1812.................................182 Burials in the O’Bannon–Williamson Cemetery, Jefferson County ..............................................................................188 Announcement.................................................................................191 African American Funeral Director Records, Bloomfield, Nelson County, 1919-50 (part 2).......................................................192 Letter from John Wyatt Leathers of Kenton County to William
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Leathers, November 10, 1847 ...........................................................202 LOST RECORDS OF NELSON COUNTY Chancery Docket, 1831-1840 compiled by Pat Craven ....................................................................203 Book Notes.......................................................................................208
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Number One Autumn 1999 Burials in the Myers-Cardinal Hill Graveyard, Jefferson County ....... 2 Letters of Dr. Caleb Jones III, Graves County.................................... 10 The Paternal Ancestry of Governor A. B. “Happy” Chandler............... 14 Vital Statistics of the Adkins Family of Rowan County ...................... 23 Kentuckians Buried in Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Jacksonville, Illinois ......................................................................... 24 Unclaimed Letters in the National Republican, Lancaster, April 21, 1848 .................................................................................. 33 African American Funeral Director Records, Bloomfield, Nelson County, 1919-50 (part 3)....................................................... 34 LOST RECORDS OF NELSON COUNTY Chancery Docket, 1831-1840 (part 2) compiled by Pat Craven .................................................................... 40 Burials in the Brewer Family Cemetery, Owsley County.................... 45 Announcements ............................................................................... 49 Book Notes....................................................................................... 50
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Queries ............................................................................................ 55 Number Two, Winter 1999 Free African Americans in Casey County During the Era of the Underground Railroad Doris Wilkinson................................................................................ 62 Burials in the Quillman Cemetery, Cardinal Hill Road, Jefferson County .............................................................................. 66 Descendants of Elijah Collard and Jane Whitfield of Nelson, Hardin, and Grayson Counties ......................................................... 70 Marriage Returns of Minister “Racoon John” Smith, 1817-55 ........... 79 Lost Records of Nelson County Chancery Docket, 1831-40 (part 3) compiled by Pat Craven .................................................................... 97 African American Funeral Director Records, Bloomfield, Nelson County, 1919-50 (part 4) compiled by Lillian Ockerman ..........................................................106 Extracts from The Paris Weekly Advertiser, Bourbon County, December 1827–February 1828........................................................108 Book Notes.......................................................................................109 Communications ..............................................................................114 Announcements ...............................................................................115 Queries ............................................................................................116 Mystery Album.................................................................................120 Number Three, Spring 2000 Abstracts from the Records of St. Andrew’s Church, Jefferson County, 1851-1891 ...........................................................122 Descendants of Elijah Collard and Jane Whitfield of Nelson, Hardin, and Grayson Counties (part 2) .............................................128
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Index of the Frankfort Commonwealth, 1833-35 (part 2) ...................138 Using Legal History Resources in Family Research Kurt X. Metzmeier ............................................................................140 Lost 1855 Allen County Marriage Identified Jerry Long........................................................................................146 Letter of Advice from Enoch Smith to his Children submitted by Joyce A. Franklin ........................................................154 LOST RECORDS OF NELSON COUNTY Chancery Docket, 1831-1840 (part 4) compiled by Pat Craven ....................................................................156 Communications ..............................................................................168 Book Notes.......................................................................................169 Announcements ...............................................................................174 Vital Statistics..................................................................................175 Queries ............................................................................................176 Mystery Album.................................................................................180 Number 4, Summer 2000 Guests at the Moody House Hotel, Eminence, Henry County, 1889 Marguerite Miller..............................................................................182 Index of the Frankfort Commonwealth, 1833-35 (part 2)....................193 Descendants of Elijah Collard and Jane Whitfield of Nelson, Hardin, and Grayson Counties (part 3) .............................................194 Book Notes.......................................................................................204 Vital Statistics..................................................................................207 Announcement/Communications.....................................................209 Queries ............................................................................................214 Mystery Album.................................................................................216
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Determining the Identity of John Finley, Boone’s Guide (part 1) Lee J. Bain .......................................................................................218 Surname Index, Volume 35 ..............................................................221
VOLUME 36 Number One, Autumn 2000 Abstracts of Various Coroner’s Inquests, Henry County Marguerite A. Miller.......................................................................... 2 Determining the Identity of John Finley, Boone’s Guide (part 2) Lee J. Bain ....................................................................................... 6 Kentuckians Mentioned in the Louisville Courier-Journal, August 21, 1882 transcribed by Thomas H. Appleton Jr. ............................................ 10 Descendants of George Hume of Scotland, Virginia, and Kentucky.... 11 Announcements ............................................................................... 19 Descendants of Elijah Collard and Jane Whitfield of Nelson, Hardin, and Grayson Counties (part 4) ............................................. 20 Bible Records The George Higginbotham Family of Madison County transcribed by Dr. Kenneth W. Smith ............................................... 27 Pendleton County Fee Bills, 1832-41 ................................................ 34 Fees Paid to Jurors, Pendleton County, 1838-41 .............................. 36 Index of the Frankfort Commonwealth, 1833-35 (part 3).................... 39 LOST RECORDS OF NELSON COUNTY Chancery Docket, 1831-1840 (part 5) ............................................... 42 Justices of the Peace & Commissioners, 1785-1802 ......................... 46 William R. Hynes’s Administrators, List of Taxable Property, August Court, 1838.......................................................................... 48 Commonwealth of Kentucky vs. John W. Carrico.............................. 49 compiled by Pat Craven Communications .............................................................................. 50
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Book Notes....................................................................................... 52 Queries ............................................................................................ 56 Mystery Album................................................................................. 60 Number Two, Winter 2000 Corinth Deposit Bank, Grant County, Check Book No. 1, 1890......... 62 Land and Heirs of Evan Thomas of Pendleton County, South Carolina, and Caldwell County, Kentucky, 1812-14.......................... 72 The Ancestry and Sad Fate of Tabitha Price Holmes, Widow of Andrew Holmes of Lexington Frederick S. Sherman....................................................................... 74 Todd County in 1879, from the Frankfort Tri-Weekly Yeoman, April 19, 1879 .................................................................................. 79 Descendants of Elijah Collard and Jane Whitfield of Nelson, Hardin, and Grayson Counties (part 5) ............................................. 80 Fey School, Jefferson County, 1877-1923 Marguerite A. Miller.......................................................................... 94 Index of the Frankfort Commonwealth, 1833-35 (part 4).................... 98 Abstracts from The Farmer’s Friend, Russellville, 1809-10 (part 1) ....103 Vital Statistics..................................................................................108 Mystery Album.................................................................................110 Book Notes.......................................................................................112 Queries ............................................................................................116 Announcements ...............................................................................119 Communications ..............................................................................120 Number Three, Spring 2001
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Descendants of James Curry and Nancy Wilson of Northern Ireland, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky Charles A. Curry ..............................................................................122 Union African American Soldiers in Green Hill Cemetery, Franklin County John M. Trowbridge .........................................................................125 Guests at the Moody House Hotel, Eminence, Henry County transcribed by Marguerite Miller.......................................................130 Abstracts from The Farmer’s Friend, Russellville, 1809-10 (part 2) ....140 Grayson County School Students, 1905-15 ......................................148 Corinth Deposit Bank, Grant County, Check Book No. 1 1890 (part 2) ....................................................................................154 If You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It: Notes on the Gupton Family of Virginia and Kentucky Helen Boston Cooper........................................................................164 Bearing the Testimony Faithfully: The Alkire Family of Virginia and Kentucky (part 1) Erma Jean Loveland.........................................................................166 KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY Kentuckians in Carroll County, Missouri, Before 1876......................168 Mystery Album.................................................................................169 Announcements ...............................................................................172 Vital Statistics..................................................................................173 Book Notes.......................................................................................175 Queries ............................................................................................177 Number Four, Summer 2001 The Lamar Family of Maryland, Kentucky, and New Mexico Darlene Compton Sheets ..................................................................182
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Admission Records of the St. Joseph Orphan Society, Louisville, 1888-1925 Mary Margaret Bell...........................................................................185 Abstracts of Shouse/Shoush Deed Transactions, Montgomery County, 1818-1875 Chester C. Buchanan .......................................................................202 Bearing the Testimony Faithfully: The Alkire Family of Virginia and Kentucky (part 2) Erma Jean Loveland.........................................................................206 Vital Statistics..................................................................................209 Corinth Deposit Bank, Grant County, Check Book No. 1, 1890 (part 3) ..........................................................................214 Abstracts from the Farmer’s Friend, Russellville, 1809-10 (part 3) ...............................................................................216 Communications ..............................................................................218 Book Notes.......................................................................................219 Queries ............................................................................................221 Surname Index, Volume 36 ..............................................................224
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Number One, Autumn 2001 Dennis Doram and Diademia Taylor of Danville and Their Family..................................................................................... 2 Marcus DeLafayette Cocanougher’s Journal, Washington County ..... 5 Presidential Ancestors President Harry S. Truman and His Shelby and Woodford County Ancestors ............................................................................. 16 Bryant School Students, Franklin County, 1916............................... 21 Corinth Deposit Bank, Grant County, Check Book No. 1, 1890 (part 4) .......................................................................... 22
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The Lamar Family of Maryland, Kentucky, and New Mexico (part 2) .......................................................................... 24 Admission Records of the St. Joseph Orphan Society, Louisville, 1888-1925 (part 2) Mary Margaret Bell........................................................................... 28 Abstracts from the Farmer’s Friend, Russellville, 1809-10 (part 4) .... 49 Vital Statistics.................................................................................. 51 Communications .............................................................................. 52 Announcements ............................................................................... 52 Book Notes....................................................................................... 54 Queries ............................................................................................ 58 Mystery Album................................................................................. 60 Number Two, Winter 2001 Lieutenant James Felix McGuire and the Battle of Blue Licks (part 1) Bobby McGuire ................................................................................ 62 Golden Wedding Anniversary of Thomas Jefferson and Nancy (Marshall) Mountjoy............................................................... 71 Final Summons: Funeral Cards in the Kentucky Library of Western Kentucky University Jonathon Jeffrey .............................................................................. 72 Abstracts from the Farmer’s Friend, Russellville, 1809-10 (part 5) .... 78 Admission Records of the St. Joseph Orphan Society, Louisville, 1888-1925 (part 3) Mary Margaret Bell........................................................................... 98 Presidential Ancestors: President Truman’s Early Shipp Lineage Norman R. Peters .............................................................................102
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Index of the Frankfort Commonwealth, 1833-35 (part 4)....................107 Announcements ...............................................................................112 Book Notes.......................................................................................113 Queries ............................................................................................117 Mystery Album.................................................................................120 Number Three, Spring 2002 Kentucky Land Search: A Case Study of a Specific 50 Acres, 1784-2002 Betty L. Warren ................................................................................122 Abstracts from the Grayson Gazette, 1886-1900...............................131 Matthew Rogers and his Kentucky Descendants John M. Bell.....................................................................................140 Admission Records of the St. Joseph Orphan Society, Louisville, 1888-1925 (part 4) Mary Margaret Bell...........................................................................154 Index of the Frankfort Commonwealth, 1833-35 (part 5) ....................161 Corinth Deposit Bank, Grant County, Check Book No. 1, 1890 (part 5) ..........................................................................166 Book Notes.......................................................................................171 Relatively Speaking ..........................................................................173 Queries ............................................................................................175 Mystery Album.................................................................................178
Number Four, Summer 2002 Ancestors and Family of Dillon Asher of Clay County Janene Carole Simpson....................................................................182 Lieutenant James Felix McGuire and the Battle
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of Blue Licks (part 2) Bobby McGuire ................................................................................191 Admission Records of the St. Joseph Orphan Society, Louisville, 1888-1925 (part 4) Mary Margaret Bell...........................................................................198 Millersburg Military Institute, Bourbon County, 1910.......................209 Relatively Speaking ..........................................................................214 Book Notes.......................................................................................216 Announcements ...............................................................................222 Mystery Album.................................................................................223 Surname Index, Volume 37 ..............................................................224
VOLUME 38 Number One, Autumn 2002 John H. Slatton of Tennessee and His Six Kentucky Soldier Sons Clinton Slayton ................................................................................ 2 Orphans Listed in the Lexington Leader, 1899 .................................. 6 African American Births, Lincoln County, 1854 ................................ 8 Champe Carter of Amherst County, Virginia, and Lincoln County, Kentucky.......................................................................................... 14 Vergissmeinnicht Entries of the Quillman and Suchsland Families of Jefferson County Marguerite Miller.............................................................................. 15 Harvey Kelly and Mary Jane Campbell of Kentucky and Missouri Brooks Kelly ..................................................................................... 16 Thomas Hardwick Sr. of Virginia and Kentucky and His Missouri Descendants Virgil Hoftiezer.................................................................................. 17 More Abstracts of Shouse/Shoush Deed Transactions,
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Montgomery County, 1822-97 Chester C. Buchanan ....................................................................... 23 Corinth Deposit Bank, Grant County, Check Book No. 1, 1890 (part 6) ....................................................... 36 Index of the Frankfort Commonwealth, 1833-35 (part 6) .................... 42 Announcements ............................................................................... 47 Vital Statistics.................................................................................. 49 Book Notes....................................................................................... 50 Queries ............................................................................................ 52 Mystery Album................................................................................. 60 Number Two, Winter 2002 The Alvey Family of England, Maryland, and Kentucky Robert Lee Alvey Sr .......................................................................... 62 Index to Necrology in Annual Proceedings of the Kentucky State Bar Association Kurt X. Metzmeier ............................................................................ 74 Kentucky Confederate Home Burials, Pewee Valley, 1903-24 ............ 80 Kentucky State College, Students and Faculty, Lexington, 1906 ....... 94 Two Freedmen’s Bureau Apprenticeships, Bourbon County, 1866 ....104 Some Jefferson County Germans Who Served in the Union Army ....106 Announcements ...............................................................................110 Book Notes.......................................................................................111 Queries ............................................................................................113 Mystery Album.................................................................................118 Number 3, Spring 2003
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The Kelley Family of McCracken County and the Bald Knob Graveyard Treva Kelley Courter .........................................................................122 Tombstone Inscriptions, Jefferson and Shelby Counties ...................128 The Alvey Family of England, Maryland, and Kentucky (part 2) Robert Lee Alvey Sr. .........................................................................141 Bible Records ...................................................................................156 Vital Statistics..................................................................................164 John H. Slatton of Tennessee and His Six Kentucky Soldier Sons (part 2) Clinton Slayton ................................................................................167 Book Notes.......................................................................................170 Announcements/Communications ...................................................174 Queries ............................................................................................175 Mystery Album.................................................................................180 Number 4 Summer 2003 Abstracts from the Lexington Intelligencer, August 5, 1842 transcribed by Dr. Melba Porter Hay.................................................182 Abstracts from the Paris True Kentuckian, May 28, 1867 ..................188 Letter to Fannie Owens, Barren County, 1879 transcribed by Dr. Thomas H. Appleton Jr...........................................190 Abstracts from the Kentucky Messenger, Richmond, May 12, 1865 transcribed by Dr. Melba Porter Hay.................................................191 Sales of Forfeited Lands, 1845..........................................................192 Admission Records of the St. Joseph Orphan Society, Louisville, 1888-1925 (part 5) Mary Margaret Bell...........................................................................198
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VOLUME 39 Number 1, Autumn 2003 The Baugh Family: Virginia to Kentucky, via South Carolina Ivan W. Baugh ....................................................................................... 3 From French Huguenots to Kentuckians: A deJarnat/Rice Line John M. Bell..................................................................................... 7 Some Germans from Jefferson County, Kentucky, Who Served in the Union Army During the Civil War, Part 2 Joseph R. Reinhart........................................................................... 12 The Alvey Family of England, Maryland, and Kentucky, Part 3 Robert Lee Alvey Sr. ......................................................................... 14 Book Notes....................................................................................... 21 Corinth Deposit Bank, Grant County, Check Book No. 1, 1890, Part 7............................................................................................... 23 Civil War Pass of Sally Harris, Camp Nelson, 1863. .......................... 26 Sales of Forfeited Lands, 1845, Part 2............................................... 28 Vital Statistics.................................................................................. 36 Abstracts from the Louisville Daily Courier, December 27, 1866 transcribed by Dr. Melba Porter Hay................................................. 39 Tombstone Inscriptions, Jefferson and Oldham Counties.................. 50 Announcements ............................................................................... 55
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Queries ............................................................................................ 56 Mystery Album................................................................................. 60 Number 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 Number 3, Spring 2004 The Troutman Family and its 1911 Nelson County Reunion .............118 Thomas Arnold, Cooper, Farmer, and Civil Servant Retha I. Sleezer ................................................................................127 The Strother Moses Cook Family of Mercer County
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and the Civil War Jean D. Dones..................................................................................133 Marriages Performed by Rev. Andrew Tribble, Madison County, 1800–1813 ................................................................135 The Alvey Family of England, Maryland, and Kentucky, Part 4 Robert Lee Alvey Sr. .........................................................................137 Knox County School Census.............................................................148 Jacob and Susan Garr and their family ............................................156 Corinth Deposit Bank, Grant County, Check Book No. 1, 1890, Part 8 ...........................................................................159 Tombstone Inscriptions, Jefferson County ........................................163 Book Notes.......................................................................................167 Announcements ...............................................................................168 Queries ............................................................................................169 Mystery Album.................................................................................172 Number 4, Summer 2004 Kentucky African American Immigrants to Liberia, 1820-43 Dr. Adell Patton Jr. ..........................................................................174 Abstracts from the Kentucky Statesman, March 20, 1850 transcribed by Dr. Thomas H. Appleton Jr........................................182 The Alvey Family of England, Maryland, and Kentucky, Part 5 Robert Lee Alvey Sr. .........................................................................189 Queries ............................................................................................203 Book Notes.......................................................................................205 Announcements ...............................................................................207 Mystery Album.................................................................................208
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Number 1, Autumn 2004 The Salt River Tigers: Anderson County and the Mexican War John M. Trowbridge ......................................................................... 2 General Store Ledger, Jeffersontown, 1839–51 ................................. 10 Searching for Indigenous Ancestors Dr. Fay A. Yarbrough ....................................................................... 17 Abstracts from Kentucky Farming, October 1917 .............................. 21 Baugh Families of Logan County, 1817–1880 Ivan W. Baugh.................................................................................. 26 St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Jefferson County Marguerite A. Miller.......................................................................... 33 Abstracts from the Lexington Intelligencer Dr. Thomas H. Appleton Jr. .............................................................. 44 Queries ............................................................................................ 51 Book Notes....................................................................................... 54 Announcements ............................................................................... 55 Mystery Album................................................................................. 56 Number 2, Winter 2004 From Carolina to Kentucky: Andrew Colley—Farmer, Fighter, Pioneer Betty Butler Ravenholt ..................................................................... 58 Kentucky African Americans in the Navy During the Civil War John M. Trowbridge ......................................................................... 75 Abstracts from the Harrodsburg Herald, December 1915 transcribed by Kandie Adkinson....................................................... 93
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The Tapp, Wilson, and Prewitt Families of Montgomery County John Marshall Prewitt ...................................................................... 95 Relatively Speaking Martha W. Jackson .......................................................................... 97 Bethel College Catalog, Russellville, 1879-80.................................... 99 Vital Statistics..................................................................................102 Announcements ...............................................................................110 Queries ............................................................................................111 Mystery Album.................................................................................112 Number 3, Spring 2005 The Life and Family of Lt. Gov. John Caldwell Sandy Caldwell.................................................................................118 First Methodist Presbyterian Church, Eminence, 1877–1925 Bettyann Noe Keiser .........................................................................124 The John Baugh Family Cemetery, Logan County Ivan Baugh.......................................................................................137 Private James A. Johnson’s Civil War Letters transcribed by Kandie Adkinson.......................................................141 Cooper Family Funeral Cards and Obituaries, 1889–1924 ................147 “Doomed to their Fate”: Kentuckians at Dudley’s Defeat, May 5, 1813 John M. Trowbridge .........................................................................150 Mystery Album.................................................................................169 Book Notes.......................................................................................170 Queries ............................................................................................171 Number 4, Summer 2005
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Benjamin F. Lofland, Horatio T. Lofland Jr., and John B. Williams: Loyalists in Confederate Territory Roger H. Futrell................................................................................174 From Carolina to Kentucky: Andrew Colley—Farmer, Fighter, Pioneer, Part 2 Betty Butler Ravenholt .....................................................................181 “Doomed to Their Fate”: Kentuckians at Dudley’s Defeat, May 5, 1813, Part 2 John M. Trowbridge .........................................................................191 First Editor of Kentucky Ancestors Lived, Loved History, Genealogy Thomas E. Stephens.........................................................................205 Queries ............................................................................................207 Mystery Album.................................................................................208 Announcements ...............................................................................209 Surname Index, Volume 40 ..............................................................211
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Number 1, Autumn 2005 From Carolina to Kentucky: Andrew Colley—Farmer, Fighter, Pioneer, Part 3 Betty Butler Ravenholt ..................................................................... 2 Unclaimed Letters in the Hopkinsville Gazette, April 1, 1837............. 8 Ellis Family Reunion, Falmouth, 1909.............................................. 10 Eminence General Store Ledger, 1905-6 ........................................... 11 Kentuckians on the Mississinewa, War of 1812 John M. Trowbridge ......................................................................... 14 List of Claims in the Springfield News, Washington County, 1892..... 46 Queries ............................................................................................ 50
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Book Notes....................................................................................... 51 Announcements ............................................................................... 53 Mystery Album................................................................................. 56 Number 2, Winter 2005 Perryville Casualty Database Reveals True Cost of War Stuart W. Sanders............................................................................ 58 Those Mentioned in the Springfield News, Washington County, December 1, 1892 ............................................................................ 73 Announcements ............................................................................... 76 Pink Things: A Memoir of the Edwards Family of Harrodsburg Betty Edwards Dickson .................................................................... 77 Some Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in Kentucky ...................... 95 Queries ............................................................................................111 Mystery Album.................................................................................112 Number 3, Spring 2006 James Logan and His Descendants Joan Carruthers...............................................................................118 Kentuckians at the Battle of Tippecanoe John M. Trowbridge .........................................................................125 Catalog of Powell Academy, Catlettsburg, 1868-69............................148 Transcriptions from the Wine and Spirit Bulletin, 1888-89, Part 1 Dr. Thomas H. Appleton, Jr..............................................................151 Corinth Deposit Bank, Grant County, Check Book No. 1, 1890, Part 9 ...........................................................................158 Kentuckians in Death Notices of the Nashville Christian Advocate, June-December 1857
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Jonathon Kennon Thompson Smith .................................................164 Queries ............................................................................................169 Tombstone Inscriptions, Cox’s Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Nelson County .................................................................170 Mystery Album.................................................................................171 Number 4, Summer 2006 Annotated Notes on Bloody Monday, Louisville, August 6, 1855 Tom Stephens ..................................................................................174 Logan County Emancipations, 1792-1865 Judy Lyne ........................................................................................182 Those Mentioned in the Cumberland Courier, Burksville, July 29, 1877...................................................................................209 Correspondence ...............................................................................211 Queries ............................................................................................211 Mystery Album.................................................................................228 Index................................................................................................212
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