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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. 

Number One, July 1965 

VOLUME 1 

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 

Number One, July 1966 

VOLUME 2 

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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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 


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 


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 


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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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 


Nicholas County, Kentucky, Court and other Records, 

includes the Dale Family 


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 


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 


Funeral Invitations, Mason County, Kentucky .................................. 145 


(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 

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. 


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) 


Allen County Soldiers in the War of 1812 

contributed by Louise Horton, Austin, Texas .................................... 13 

Boone County, Kentucky, Marriages................................................. 17 


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 


Calloway County, Kentucky.............................................................. 48 

Early Courthouse Being Restored, Calloway County, Kentucky 

submitted by Murray-Calloway Genealogical Society, Murray, 




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 



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 


[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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COURT RECORDS 

Mason County’s First Temple of Justice 




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 




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 


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 


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COURT RECORDS 

Return of Ministers’ Marriages - Mason County, Kentucky 

Mrs. Lula Reed Boss......................................................................... 149 


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 


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 

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 


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 



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 


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 


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 


Picture of Old State House and Annex, Frankfort, Kentucky ............. 53 

COURT RECORDS 

1795 First Tax List – Green County, Kentucky 


Concerning Ministers’ Returns of Marriages in Kentucky 

in the Early 1800s............................................................................ 61 

Returns of Ministers’ Marriages – Mason County, Kentucky 


Lowery Marriages and Parent’s Consents 

in Warren County, Kentucky 

Mrs. Daniel Byrne ............................................................................ 68 

Rountree Marriages, Warren County, Kentucky 

Kenneth H. Lee................................................................................. 69 


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 


Robert Marshall Family, Fayette County, Kentucky 


James Shaw – A Revolutionary Soldier (Court Order Book) 

Campbell County, Kentucky 


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 


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 



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 


John Colvin – Campbell County, Kentucky ....................................... 133 

William Olwin – Campbell County, Kentucky 

Margaret Strebel Hartman................................................................ 139 


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) 


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 


Utica Cemetery, Daviess County, Kentucky 

M. J. Edgeworth ............................................................................... 140 

Pleasant Valley Christian Church Cemetery, Daviess County, 


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 


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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) 



Ironton (Ohio) Register 


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 


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 


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 



Liberty Hall, Frankfort, Kentucky 

VOLUME 5 

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) 


John McKenney 

Margaret S. Hartman........................................................................ 28 


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 


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 


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 



Cover, Second Capitol of Kentucky 


(Missouri), 1881 

Miss Annette Hoffman ...................................................................... 59 

COURT RECORDS and/or ABSTRACTS OF COURT RECORDS 

Returns of Ministers’ Marriages (Mason County, Kentucky) 


Register of Physicians (Calloway County, Kentucky) 

Danny R. Hatcher............................................................................. 70 


Moore Family 

A friend ............................................................................................ 72 


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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 


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 


Certificate of Ownership ................................................................... 87 



(Missouri), 1881 ............................................................................... 115 

Flagg Spring Baptist Church 

Mrs. Jean Houston........................................................................... 120 

COURT RECORDS 

Returns of Ministers’ Marriages; Ministers’ Bonds 


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) 



Abstracts of Clippings (Mason County, Kentucky) 




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 


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 


FUNERALS 

James H. Gibson.............................................................................. 128 

Miss Sarah Logan............................................................................. 152 

Queries ............................................................................................ 153 


A Correction 

Martha L. Burkhead......................................................................... 127 


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 


John and Jane Kercheval 




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 


Family Records of George Leachman, Sr. 


BIBLE RECORDS 

Wilson – Martin Bible 

Mrs. C. H. Peden .............................................................................. 204 

Wilson Bible 

Dr. William Talley............................................................................. 206 

Bash Bible 

Mrs. Thelma Abney .......................................................................... 201 


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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 



VOLUME 6 

COURT RECORDS 

Pendleton County, Kentucky, Tax Records 


Daniel Kain ...................................................................................... 7 

Miscellaneous Fleming County Records 


Davis (Nelson and Washington Counties) 

A friend ............................................................................................ 13 

Bruner (Mercer County, Kentucky) 

A friend ............................................................................................ 16 


William Henry Downing, Pioneer 

Mildred Hatcher ............................................................................... 17 

John and Jane Kercheval 


Alexander Gilmore 

Mrs. K. L. Watkins............................................................................ 22 

Stone Family Records 

Mrs. N. B. Hedges............................................................................. 24 


(See Cemeteries) 


BIBLE RECORDS 

Hayman and Coats Families 

Mrs. Jeanette McCool Parr ............................................................... 23 

Bible of John Burton Smith 

Mrs. Robert E. Jenkins..................................................................... 25 

Huffman 


Williams – Kidwell Bible 

25

Mrs. C. H. Peden .............................................................................. 27 

Grider Family Records 

Pauline Bingham.............................................................................. 29 


Lindsay Cemetery; The Cole Graveyard Near Midway, Kentucky ....... 31 

Copied From Stamping Ground Cemetery, Scott County, Kentucky 


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 



First Governor’s House, Frankfort, Kentucky (Picture) ...................... 57 

Native Kentuckians 


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 


Heirs of Benjamin Mosby of Boone County, Kentucky 

Mrs. Ezra E. Davidson...................................................................... 72 

Deed – Charles Stricker to John Lee (Campbell County, Kentucky) 


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Skaggs 

A friend ............................................................................................ 74 


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 


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 


Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Fleming County, Kentucky 


Willett Graves, Fleming County, Kentucky 


FUNERALS 

W. S. Alexander................................................................................ 86 

Mrs. Almedia Howe........................................................................... 91 

Queries ............................................................................................ 92 



Nathaniel Haggard house (picture on front cover) ............................. 113 

Journal of John Wallace 

Mrs. Charles A. Hofstetter ................................................................ 115 

COURT RECORDS 

27

George Carter 




Abstracts of Wills of Campbell County, Kentucky (Will Book A) 


William Gosney 



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 


Alexander Cemetery, Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky 

Mrs. Booth Huffaker and the late Mrs. Ione Nolan ............................ 143 

Funeral: Helen Adams ...................................................................... 138 

Queries ............................................................................................ 150 



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 

28


John Cockran – from Order Book 2, Boone County, Kentucky 

Mrs. Clifford Coyle............................................................................ 175 

Abstracts of Wills (Book A) of Campbell County, Kentucky 


Some Scott County, Kentucky, Marriages of the Green Family 

Mrs. C. T. Ashley and Devonda Ramsey............................................ 193 


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 


BIBLE RECORDS 

Winstead Family Bible Record 


Kinkead and McMurry Family Bibles 

Mrs. G. R. Scott................................................................................ 201 


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 

29

copied by Mrs. Ellis Potts, Madisonville, Kentucky............................ 208 

Jackson Cemetery 

copied by Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Watkins, Hawesville, Kentucky ............ 208 

Queries ............................................................................................ 209 



VOLUME 7 

Front Cover – Home of Washington Young, 

Wayne County, Kentucky ................................................................. 1 

Donaldson Creek Church 

Mary Higgs....................................................................................... 3 

COURT RECORDS 



Abstract of Wills (Book A) of Campbell County, Kentucky 


Deposition of Mrs. Ruth Hamilton – Gallatin County, Kentucky ........ 30 



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) 



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 



FRONT COVER 

Home of Samuel J. Walker of Appomattox County, Virginia 

COURT RECORDS 

Lewis County Will Book C 


Fleming County, Kentucky 


Abstracts of Wills (Book A.) of Campbell County, Kentucky 


Some Marriages of Breckinridge County, Kentucky 

Mrs. K. L. Watkins............................................................................ 90 


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 


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 

31

Samples Graveyard 

Ellen and Diane Rogers .................................................................... 98 

Queries ............................................................................................ 99 



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 


Abstracts of Wills (Book A) of Campbell County, Kentucky................ 126 

Some Court Records of Knox County, Kentucky 

L. D. Prewitt ..................................................................................... 150 


Fleming County, Kentucky – McClane–McClain–McLean–McLain 

Family.............................................................................................. 132 

Fleming County, Kentucky – Hart Family 


Distant Cousins of the Queen of England in Kentucky 

Stratton Hammon ............................................................................ 137 



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 


Alexander Cemetery ......................................................................... 152 

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Boian Cemetery................................................................................ 153 

The Old Dripping Springs Cemetery– Estill County 


Queries ............................................................................................ 156 



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 


Some Court Records of Knox County, Kentucky 

L. D. Prewitt ..................................................................................... 191 

Abraham Depew Heirs 



The Stringfield Family of Kentucky and Virginia 


Fleming County, Kentucky – Cord Family 


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 


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 


FUNERAL 

Kate Stout 

Mrs. W. S. Conover........................................................................... 204 

Queries ............................................................................................ 213 



VOLUME 8 

Front Cover – Benjamin Stephen’s House 

1820 Census of Rockcastle County, Kentucky 

Linda Ramsey Ashley ....................................................................... 3 

COURT RECORDS 

Fleming County Marriages 


Some Harrison County Marriages 

Mrs. Wm. M. Rose ............................................................................ 9 

Green(e) 

A friend ............................................................................................ 11 

William Wright ................................................................................. 12 

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Newton 


Some Unusual Items from U. S. Census Records 

Allan S. Humphreys ......................................................................... 26 


Davis Family – Lewis County, Kentucky 


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 


BIBLE RECORDS 

Records from the Bible of Charles Humphreys 

Allan S. Humphreys ......................................................................... 25 

Miles Hiter Upton Family Bible 

James S. Upton................................................................................ 27 


Thomas Dudley Family Bible 

Rear Admiral Mitchell Dudley Matthews, USN (Ret.) ......................... 29 


Elisha Arnold Robinson Bible 



Edward C. Bright Bible 



John Thomas Power Family Bible 

Virginia (Miss Jennie) Baker Power................................................... 31 


William and Agnes A. Ross Bible 



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 

35

Queries ............................................................................................ 38 



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 



William Lancaster 

James R. Glacking ........................................................................... 74 

Harris or Harrison ? 

Michael Lewis Cook .......................................................................... 79 

The Descendants of Col. Abraham Hite – Footnotes 


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 


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 

36

Regarding Taylor Family 

Mrs. Wm. H. Eckert.......................................................................... 93 

Regarding Breckinridge Name 

Mrs. Charles R. Fitzner..................................................................... 94 

Queries ............................................................................................ 94 

Omissions – In Whitley Query #3077 ................................................ 106 



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 



Mitchell Family 


Kentucky Families in Missouri 

A friend ............................................................................................ 138 

Zachariah Crow Family 


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 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 



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 


Fleming County Records 


Boone County Administration and Guardian Book 


Abstracts of Some Court Records of Mason County, Kentucky 

Mrs. W. W. Weis ............................................................................... 181 

William Cornelius Heirs; Peter C. Statts............................................ 171 

John Lovel 


38


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 


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 


Funeral Invitation: Mrs. Hannah Duke ............................................. 175 

Queries ............................................................................................ 211 



VOLUME 9 

Front Cover – Home of Chittenden P. Lyon 

Ante Bellum, and an Old Brick House 

Lawrence Casner.............................................................................. 3 

39

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 



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 


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 


FUNERALS: Elizabeth Newman [Page 5]; Mattie Power...................... 6 

40

Mrs. Susan Rosendol........................................................................ 16 

Corrections 

Address of Mrs. Maude A. McFadden................................................ 55 

Regarding Elder Richard Thomas III ................................................. 55 

Queries ............................................................................................ 42 



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 


Court Order Book A – Campbell County, Kentucky 


William Rankin(s) – Mason County, Kentucky................................... 75 

Rhodin Hord – Mason County, Kentucky 



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 


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 


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 


Deaths – Mrs. Dayton Royse; Mrs. Lynette L. Russell........................ 111 


Front Cover – the Mullins House 

Mrs. E. K. Belew............................................................................... 113 


Phyllis Taylor Hawes ........................................................................ 115 

COURT RECORDS 

Lewis County Will Book D 


Woodford County, Kentucky, Records 

Mrs. William A. Cleveland................................................................. 130 




Col. Aaron Lewis of Kentucky 

42

Michael L. Cook................................................................................ 137 

BIBLE RECORDS 

Bash Family Records 

Mrs. Edward N. McAllister................................................................ 143 

The John Warren Family Record 

James Logan Morgan ....................................................................... 144 


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 


About the Front Cover, “Thatcher’s Mill”........................................... 171 


Phyllis R. T. Hawes........................................................................... 172 

COURT RECORDS 


A List of Delinquents, 1805-1806 – Campbell County, Kentucky 


Woodford County, Kentucky, Records – Order Book A, pages 38, 45 


Woodford County, Kentucky, Deed Book C–2, page 89; 

Deed Book K, page 320 



Green(e) 

A friend ............................................................................................ 187 

The Ramsey Family of Rockcastle and Garrard Counties, Kentucky 

43

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 


Graham Bible Records 

Mrs. Howard L. Bulls........................................................................ 201 

George W. Metcalfe of Shelby County, Kentucky, and 

Edgar County, Illinois 

Louis D. Melnick .............................................................................. 203 


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 



VOLUME 10 

Front Cover – Ohio and Cumberland River Junction 

44

A Tribute to Kentucky 

Gypsy Gray Henry ............................................................................ 3 

COURT RECORDS 


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 


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 


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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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 


COURT RECORDS 

The Wilson Family of Lewis County, Kentucky 


Marriage Register of William Head for 1853, Breckinridge County, 


Michael L. Cook................................................................................ 71 

Marriage Record Addenda, Breckinridge County, Kentucky 

Michael L. Cook................................................................................ 71 

John Mansfield Heirs 



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) 


Pleasant Adkisson Cemetery 

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(Third List) 

M. J. Edgeworth ............................................................................... 94 

Tichenor Cemetery, McLean County, Kentucky 

Delmon C. Jarvis.............................................................................. 97 


Change of Address: Mrs. Esther L. Hill ............................................. 99 

Correction 

Of price of book The Bowmans by J. W. Wayland.............................. 104 



Front Cover – Map of Lincoln County, Kentucky 

Photogrammetry Division, Bureau of Highways 

Kentuckians By Birth 


COURT RECORDS 

Index – Federal Census, Grant County, Kentucky – 1820 

James Glacking................................................................................ 121 



The Will of Francis Triplett – (abstracted) – Virginia 

Kathleen B. Carter............................................................................ 134 

Campbell County, Kentucky – 1808 Delinquent Tax List 


Woodford County, Kentucky, Records 

Mrs. William Cleveland..................................................................... 146 


Hoover Family – From The Western Citizen 


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 



M. J. Edgeworth ............................................................................... 147 

The Pine Hill Cemetery, Powell County, Kentucky 


FUNERALS 

Sallie Boude ..................................................................................... 120 

Sophia Case ..................................................................................... 124 



Change of Address 

Norma Dixon.................................................................................... 157 

Miss Maude A. McFadin ................................................................... 167 


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 



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 


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 


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 


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VOLUME 11 

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 


Taber 

A friend ............................................................................................ 17 

Catharine Bryant 



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 


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 


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Queries ............................................................................................ 40 

News Items and Books……………………………………………………...…2, 54 


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 



Tavern Bonds (Mason County, Kentucky) 

Mrs. W. W. Weis ............................................................................... 77 

John Bull’s Oath of Intention (Mason County, Kentucky) 


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 


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, 


Mrs. Betty J. Sutton ......................................................................... 85 

Stubblefield Bible (Jackson County, Kentucky) 

Edna Jones ...................................................................................... 87 

Polley Bible Records 

Raymond L. Jackson ........................................................................ 88 

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Gilliam Cemetery, Elliott County, Kentucky 

John A. Stegall and Dwanette Phillips .............................................. 89 

The Moreland Cemetery.................................................................... 91 

Mount Carmel Cemetery, Estill County, Kentucky 



M. J. Edgeworth ............................................................................... 92 


Correction: Couples Married within the 1860 Census Year 

(not 1850 Census Year) 

Mrs. Booth Huffaker......................................................................... 101 



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 



Court Order Book “A,” Campbell County, Kentucky 



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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 


Washington Richardson Family Bible 

Irma Mae Ewy .................................................................................. 141 

Carr Family Bible; J. M. Carr Bible 

Marvin D. Snoddy and Bonnie E. Snoddy ......................................... 142 


Rowan County Cemetery and the Corps of Engineers’ Cave Run 

Lake 

Stuart Seely Sprague........................................................................ 143 

Correction: Henry Willis Grant instead of George Grant .................... 153 



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 


Grant County Circuit Court Records................................................. 185 

Cassander G. Groom; Daniel Flinn 

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Mrs. J. W. Wolcott............................................................................ 186 

Cecilia Thomas 



Controversy About the Ancestry of William Crawford (1764-1846) 


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 


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 



VOLUME 12 

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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 



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 


Dobyns Family Bible 

Mrs. Norman C. Updegraff................................................................ 32 


Old Louisville Western Graveyard 

Mrs. Bennett F. Hughes.................................................................... 34 

Foster Family Cemetery.................................................................... 37 

Hollcroft Family Cemetery 

Rita Adkisson Thompson.................................................................. 37 



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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 


Martin (of North Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana) 

A friend ............................................................................................ 70 



The Marshall Family (of Fleming, Mason, and Lewis Counties, 



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) 


(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 


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 


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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 


Names of Postmasters of Lecta, Kentucky (Barren County, 


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 


Major Groom of Caldwell County, Kentucky 

Mrs. Gladys Carner (or Mrs. Richard Carner).................................... 131 

Robert Marshall Family (Boone County, Kentucky, Court Records) 


Thomas Dunn, Kentucky Pioneer of 1776 

(Bourbon County, Kentucky) 

Mrs. Elizabeth F. Rhodes.................................................................. 138 

Allender – Overly Families of Fleming County, Kentucky 


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 


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 



Change of Address: of Mrs. Cordelia C. Gary..................................... 167 


Front Cover – The Old Grapevine Christian Church 

Lawrence Casner 

Native Kentuckians in 1860 Federal Census for Wapello County, 

Iowa 

Max Howk ........................................................................................ 171 



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 




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 


John Ford Family Bible 


The William Penn Burns Family Bible 

Tom R. Walters................................................................................. 201 


Mount Washington, Kentucky, Cemetery 

Mrs. W. H. McFarland ...................................................................... 202 

Salem Baptist Church 

Ellen and Dianne Rogers .................................................................. 210 




VOLUME 13 

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 


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COURT RECORDS 



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 


Infant Heirs of James Smith, Deceased............................................. 9 

Heirs of Reuben Morris 


Hale Family Data (correction) 

Arlene Hale Brachman (Mrs. Robert)................................................. 31 

BIBLE RECORDS 


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 


Slaughter Cemetery, Todd County, Kentucky 


Granny’s Hill Cemetery, Webster County, Kentucky 

Mrs. J. E. Wallace ............................................................................ 43 




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, 


Abstracts of Court Order Book No. 1 – 

Oldham County, Kentucky, 1823-29 


Will Book A – Gallatin County, Kentucky .......................................... 81 

1799-1835 Marriages, Bonds, Consents for Gallatin County, 


Miss Gertrude Earl Hewson.............................................................. 86 


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 


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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News Items and Books…………………………………………………..…99, 110 


Front Cover – Janett Ann Pulliam 

Francis Keith Peyton 

Adair County, Kentucky 


COURT RECORDS 

1799-1835 Marriages, Bonds, Consents – Gallatin County, 


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 



A List of Delinquent Taxes for 1807 – Campbell County, Kentucky ... 133 

Heirs of Chas. H. Collins 



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 


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 


News Items and Books………………………………….………….…….147, 167 


Front Cover – Dutch Station, 1779-1780, Jefferson County, 




continued from volume 13, number 1, page 14, July 1977 


COURT RECORDS 

Marriage Records of Rev. LaFayette Johnson 

Mrs. Doris Taylor.............................................................................. 177 

1799-1835 Marriages, Bonds, Consents, Gallatin County, 



Index to Deed Book “A 2” – Gallatin County, Kentucky 


Eliza Rebecca Nickleson 


Will of Major John Hardin ................................................................ 192 

Deed – John Hardin to William Hardin 

A friend ............................................................................................ 193 


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 


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, 


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 




VOLUME 14 

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, 



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 


Heirs of Nancy Stevens 



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 


Jasper Seybold Family Bible............................................................. 32 

John Downs – Molly Sebold Family Record 



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 




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 


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continued from volume 13, number 4, page 176, April 1978 


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 


1799-1835 Marriages – Bonds – Consents – Gallatin County, 



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 



North Carolina on the Kentucky Frontier 

John Hale Stutesman....................................................................... 89 

Walker and others, Tennessee 

A friend ............................................................................................ 91 

Mitchell Family Records – Bath, Fleming County, Kentucky 


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 


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 


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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 


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 


1799-1835 Marriages, Bonds, Consents, Gallatin County, Kentucky 


Newport Presbyterian Church to Newport Methodist Episcopal 

Church 

Mrs. W. W. Weis ............................................................................... 162 


Mitchell Family Records 


The Bakers of Gallatin and Owen Counties, Kentucky 


David McCoy 


BIBLE RECORDS 

Berryman Family Bible Records (Barren County, Kentucky) 

Robert McAlear................................................................................. 163 

Bible Record of Godfrey Gregory Family (Washington County, 


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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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 





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, 




Mrs. W. H. Whitley ........................................................................... 209 


Layton and Palmer Family Data (Caldwell, Christian, Trigg 

Counties) 


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 


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 


Elmwood Cemetery – 12th list, Owensboro, Daviess County, 


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 



Front Cover 

Jim Wainscott 

VOLUME 15 

Certificates issued to Kentuckians from Jeffersonville, Indiana, 

69

Land Office 

Thelma M. Murphy........................................................................... 3 

COURT RECORDS 


Mrs. W. H. Whitley ........................................................................... 9 





Captain Thomas and Rebecca Sharpe Dooley Family 

Dr. Glenn Dooley.............................................................................. 21 

The Pocket Remembrancer of Henry Bruce (1777-1855) 


Mitchell Family Records 


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 


Johnson Cemetery, at Buckhorn, Perry County, Kentucky 

Eileen Cornett and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Riley ................................. 41 

Taulbee Cemetery, Frozen Creek, Breathitt County, Kentucky 


Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Near Corbin, Whitley County, Kentucky 

W. B. Dulaney .................................................................................. 42 

Wallace Graveyard: Evans/Evins Graveyard, Jessamine County, 


Mrs. L. F. Benton ............................................................................. 43 

Hunter Graves 

Mrs. L. F. Benton ............................................................................. 44 

Kelly Family Graveyard 

Mrs. Virgil W. Kelly........................................................................... 44 

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Front Cover – Cabin of James Thomas – Trigg County, Kentucky 

Certificates Issued to Kentuckians from Jeffersonville, Indiana, 

Land Office 



[Campbell County, Kentucky] 

Mrs. Wm. F. Knable.......................................................................... 73 

Items from Portsmouth, Ohio, Tribune Newspaper 


COURT RECORDS 





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 


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 


Cornett Cemetery, at Daisy, Perry County, Kentucky 

Eileen Cornett .................................................................................. 105 

71

McConnell Cemetery, Woodford County, Kentucky 


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 





Front Cover – A day at a Brush Arbor in the mountains of 

Southeastern Kentucky 

Edna Jones of Tyner, Jackson County, Kentucky 



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, 



Apprentice Bonds – Campbell County, Kentucky 

Mrs. Susan C. Eades ........................................................................ 150 

Some Records from 1st Court Order Book, 

Woodford County, Kentucky 


Chinn Marriages – Lee Marriages (Lancaster County, Virginia) 

A friend ............................................................................................ 163 


James Arnett, Early Kentuckian (Fayette and Woodford Counties, 


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 


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 




Front Cover – The “Old” Community Bank, Erlanger, Kentucky 

Earl A. Tayce (205 Locust Street, Erlanger, Kentucky 41018)............ 236 


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 


Index to Deed Book “A 1” – Gallatin County, Kentucky, 1797-1808 


Thomas Spilman of King George County, Virginia – Treasury 

Warrant 



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 


Ellis Cemetery; Crouch Cemetery; Spencer Cemetery; 

Gallatin County, Kentucky 


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 

74

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 


News Items and Books……………………………………………….…..231, 254 


VOLUME 16 

Front Cover – The Depot on the Southern Railway at Erlanger, 


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, 


L. L. Hill ........................................................................................... 5 



COURT RECORDS 

Brides’ Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky, Consents, Bonds, and 

Marriages 

Mrs. W. H. Whitley ........................................................................... 15 

Harden – Hardin – Harding 

A friend ............................................................................................ 20 


Enyart Records 


James Cooper Family of Shelby County, Kentucky (Obituary) 

Mrs. Janine Porter............................................................................ 25 

Cut and Catey (Bronaugh) Peyton of Virginia and Kentucky 

75

Wallace Hopper ................................................................................ 26 

BIBLE RECORDS 

Mastin Family Bible 

Mary Edwards McMurtry.................................................................. 34 

Younger Family Bible Records 

L. L. Hill ........................................................................................... 37 

Stewart Bible 


CEMETERY RECORDS..................................................................... 

Brown Cemetery 

Mrs. N. B. Hedges; Raymond Boone.................................................. 6 

Sugar Creek Christian Church Cemetery, Gallatin County................ 33 

Furnish Cemetery, Gallatin County 


Death Records of Sacred Heart Parish, St. Vincent, Kentucky, 

1819-1974 

Teresa T. Hite and Philip Crowdus (Union County, Kentucky) ........... 39 




Front Cover – Family Photograph of Capt. and Mrs. John L. Foster 

of Bullitt County, Kentucky 

Mrs. Robert Lee Hauss ..................................................................... 65 


Mrs. Wm. F. Knable.......................................................................... 68 

COURT RECORDS 

Thomas Fretwell’s Heirs 


Abstracts of Court Order Book No. 1 – Oldham County, Kentucky, 

1823-1829 



Marriages 

Mrs. W. H. Whitley ........................................................................... 80 

Glinn /Glenn Marriages 


John Hackney Heirs – Woodford County, Kentucky 

76

Mrs. Doris B. Nave ........................................................................... 85 


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 


Caleb Taylor – Elizabeth Shaw Bible ................................................. 102 

John T. Bramel – Amanda Belle Dudley Bible 



Craig Cemetery – North Cemetery – Rudd Cemetery 


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 


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Front Cover – The Scheben Feed Store 

Earl R. Tayce 

Records of Some Kentuckians in Illinois 

Mrs. L. Don Turner........................................................................... 131 



COURT RECORDS............................................................................ 

Abstracts of Court Order Book No. 1, Oldham County, Kentucky, 

1823-1829 



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 


Declaration of Intent for Naturalization U. S. A. 

Margaret Cleveland .......................................................................... 157 

John Lucust (Page 141); Samuel Smith (Page 154); Stephen Irons 

Margaret Hartman............................................................................ 161 


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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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 




Front Cover – Kenton County Courthouses at Independence, 


Charles F. Folmer, 6701 Circle S. Road, Austin, Texas 78745 


Mrs. Wm. F. Knable.......................................................................... 195 


Doris Taylor ..................................................................................... 201 

COURT RECORDS 

Abstract of Will Book “B” – Gallatin County, Kentucky 


Cox Marriages – (Bourbon, Fayette, and Scott Counties, Kentucky) 

Mrs. Dorothy Colwell ........................................................................ 216 

Harden/Hardin/Harding – Harrison County, Kentucky 

A friend ............................................................................................ 217 


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 


Moses Martin Bible 

Fred Lockenour ? ............................................................................. 232 

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Sandusky Bible Records 

Mrs. Anita Moore of Harrodsburg, Kentucky ..................................... 233 


Death Records of Sacred Heart Parish, St. Vincent, Kentucky (Union 

County) (end) 

Teresa Hite and Philip Crowdus........................................................ 234 


News Items and Books…………………………………………………...228, 254 


VOLUME 17 

Front Cover – The Ohio River – the Northern Boundary of Kentucky 



Kentucky Counties ........................................................................... 9 

The Bethel United Baptist Church (Wayne County, Kentucky) 

Asher L. Young................................................................................. 11 


Doris Taylor ..................................................................................... 20 

COURT RECORDS 

Heirs of Solomon Trusdell, Sr. 


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 


Calloway 

Mrs. LeCompte Beard....................................................................... 15 

Bays – Griffy Families 

Elisabeth Salyer ............................................................................... 26 

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The Two William Crawfords of Lewis County, Kentucky 


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 


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 


Flemingsburg Cemetery 


Hurst and Abram Cemetery; Hay’s Cemetery 

Geneva S. Pettit................................................................................ 49 

Correction: re: Smith Papers 

Martin Sims ..................................................................................... 63 




Front Cover – Huff Family of Hart County, Kentucky 

Evelynne Alvis, 1210 Shopping, Weatherford, Oklahoma 73096 

St. John’s Evangelical (Lutheran) Church – Campbell County, 


Mrs. Wm. F. Knable.......................................................................... 67 

COURT RECORDS 

1811-1966 Minton Marriages, Bonds, Consents – Union County, 



Deed of 50 Acres to Mark Harding – 7 April 1706 – Northumberland 

County, Virginia 

81

A researcher..................................................................................... 76 

Abstract of Will Book “E” – Gallatin County, Kentucky 



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 


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 


Front Cover – Main Street, Corinth, Kentucky – Grant County 

Robert C. Shannon, 1645 Seminole Boulevard, 

Largo, Florida 33540 



Abstracts from Early Paris, Kentucky, Newspapers 


Roster of Confederate Soldiers Who Went from Mercer County, 


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 


Curtis Marriages – Mason County, Kentucky 

Dorothy Colwell................................................................................ 152 


The Crawford – Gilbert – Wilkey Family 

Faye Wilkey Brown........................................................................... 153 

Solomon Saylor Family 

Nancy Farmer Creech....................................................................... 155 

Harden – Harding 

Talbott R. Allen ................................................................................ 157 

Hardin 

83

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 


Lazarus Bach Cemetery, Breathitt County, Kentucky 


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 



Front Cover: Wooldridge Monuments, Maplewood Cemetery, 

Mayfield, Kentucky 

Asher L. Young................................................................................. 195 

84


Mrs. Wm. F. Knable.......................................................................... 196 

Some Kentuckians Found in 1852 Census of California 


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 


Bourbon County, Kentucky – Guardian Settlement Book “A” 

Mrs. Elizabeth T. Clough .................................................................. 216 

Mercer County, Kentucky – Random Marriages, Licenses, and 

Preachers’ Returns 



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 


Brown – Coats Family Bible Records 

Joy S. Hendrickson .......................................................................... 238 

Mill – Hanks Bible Records 

Alice M. Bell ..................................................................................... 240 


Renfro Valley Cemetery, Rockcastle County, Kentucky 


Coffey – Hiatt Cemetery, Rockcastle County, Kentucky 


McClary Cemetery, Rockcastle County, Kentucky 

85


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 

Front Cover: Octagon Hall – near Franklin, Simpson County, 


Asher L Young, 7401 Harness Drive, Nashville, Tennessee 37221 



COURT RECORDS 

Kendall Marriages in Bourbon County, Kentucky 


Heirs of James McKee. Thomas Boone Heirs – of Bourbon County, 



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 


Brides’ Index – Scott County, Kentucky – Marriage Book “A” 

1837-1863 

Susan Eades .................................................................................... 18 

Will Book “C” – Gallatin County, Kentucky (abstract) 



Fullenwider – Hardin 

by a researcher................................................................................. 29 

Searching for Moses Crawford 


BIBLE RECORDS 

86

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 


Richards Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky 

Lloyd Dean....................................................................................... 17 

Upper Marsh Creek Cemetery – Pine Knot, McCreary County, 


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 


The Meador Cemetery, Breckinridge County, Kentucky 

Robert C. Flood ................................................................................ 48 




Front Cover: An Outdoor Baptism in Rockcastle County, 

Kentucky (C. I. Ogg) 

Robert C. Shannon, 1645 Seminole Boulevard, Largo, 

Florida 33540 


Mrs. Wm. F. Knable.......................................................................... 67 

Kentucky Circuit Court Judges, 1802-1851 

Perry A. Brantley .............................................................................. 73 

COURT RECORDS 


and Marriages 


87


1837-1863 

Susan Eades .................................................................................... 80 

Abstracts from Early Paris, Kentucky, Newspapers 


Random Marriage Licenses and Preachers’ Returns 1842-1888 of 

Mercer County, Kentucky 



Searching for Moses Crawford 


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 


Oak Ridge Baptist Graveyard, Lewis County, Kentucky 


Black Oak Cemetery, Lewis County, Kentucky 


Price Cemetery, Hancock County, Kentucky 

Mrs. Donald A. Vaughn .................................................................... 107 

Threlkel Cemetery, Butler County, Kentucky 

Mrs. Wm. E. Satari........................................................................... 108 


News Items and Books………………………..….79, 100, 103, 109, 126 


Front Cover – Main Street, Berea, Madison County, Kentucky 

Robert C. Shannon, 1645 Seminole Boulevard, Largo, Florida 33540 



COURT RECORDS 

88


Marriages 

Mrs. W. H. Whitley, Courtesy of Mrs. Robert Gaitskill ....................... 137 


1837-1863 

Susan Eades .................................................................................... 145 

Random Marriage Licenses and Preachers’ Returns, 1842-1888 


Will Book “C” – Gallatin County, Kentucky 


Humphrey Frier Heirs (page 155); Ramy (page 161) 

Margaret S. Hartman……………………………………………………..155, 161 


Christopher Young Shelton 1838-1887 

(Muhlenberg County, Kentucky) 

Naomi Ward Kasubjak...................................................................... 162 

Burnett 


“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 


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 



89


Front Cover – Grinding Corn for Meal 



Mrs. Wm. F. Knable.......................................................................... 195 

COURT RECORDS 

Naturalization Records from Todd County, Kentucky 

Mrs. Joe Neale Fox ........................................................................... 201 


and Marriages 

Mrs. W. H. Whitley (Courtesy of Mrs. R. Gaitskill) ............................. 202 

Carr Marriages; Shuttlesworth Marriages – Union County, 




Copy of Letter of Paul C. Wilson, Jr. to Dale Van Every 


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 


Brown Cemetery, Russell County, Kentucky 

Michael Watson................................................................................ 214 

Best Cemetery, Mason County, Kentucky 


90

Curtis Cemetery, Mason County, Kentucky 


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 


Library Donations ............................................................................ 251 



VOLUME 19 

Front Cover – Making Shingles in Kentucky (C. I. Ogg, photographer) 




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 


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 



91

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 


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 




Front Cover – Outdoor Court at Irvine, in Estill County, Kentucky 

Robert C. Shannon, 1645 Seminole Boulevard, Largo, 

Florida 33540 


Mrs. Wm. F. Knable.......................................................................... 67 

COURT RECORDS 


and Marriages 

92


Fleming County, Kentucky, Delinquent Tax Lists 


Daviess County, Kentucky, Vital Statistics, 1852-1862 

M. J. Edgeworth ............................................................................... 90 

Jehue Morton’s Heir 

Margaret Hartman............................................................................ 97 


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 


Peed Data 

Rear Admiral M. D. Matthews USN (Ret) ........................................... 99 

Joshua Hazelrigg Bible Record 

John R. C. Sanderson ...................................................................... 100 


Micajah Bennett Cemetery, Meade County, Kentucky 

Mrs. Lorna Pipes Althouse................................................................ 104 

Stonelick Cemetery, Mason County, Kentucky 


Washington Baptist Cemetery, Mason County, Kentucky 


May’s Lick Cemetery, Mason County, Kentucky 


Correction: Landers, not Sanders ..................................................... 81 

Micrographics Department 

Joan Brookes-Smith......................................................................... 108 


Queries: (8756 through 8840)………………………………...103-4, 107, 111 

News Items and Books……………………………….……………...89, 108, 124 


93

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) 


Heirs of Nancy Peck – Pendleton County, Kentucky 



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, 


Emma Jean Roberts ......................................................................... 165 


Plummer’s Mills Graveyard, Fleming County, Kentucky 


Fitch’s Chapel Methodist Graveyard, Fleming County, Kentucky 


Foxport Graveyard, Lewis County, Kentucky 


Benham Family Cemetery, Meade County, Kentucky 


Queries: (8841 through 8903)………………………………………..…153, 173 


94



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 

95

courtesy of H. C. McDonald .............................................................. 235 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 236 

Queries ............................................................................................ 241 

Donations to the Library................................................................... 249 

Number One, Summer 1984 

VOLUME 20 

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 


Queries ............................................................................................ 36 

96

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 

97

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 


Amendment...................................................................................... 153 

KHS Members: RSVP........................................................................ 175 

98

Queries ............................................................................................ 176 


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 


Annotation ....................................................................................... 255 

99

Microfilm Available From Kentucky Historical Society....................... 256 


VOLUME 21 

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 


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 


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 

100

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 


Family Histories of Young Kentuckians............................................. 128 


Bible Record of L. L. LaRue, Larue County 

contributed by Gary D. Gardner ....................................................... 130 

101

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 


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 

102

Kentucky 1774-1900........................................................................ 150 

Some Page (Bible) Corrections .......................................................... 153 

Madison County: 200 Years In Retrospect.......................................... 195 

“Log Mountain…Bell County, Kentucky, ca. 1894”............................ 196 


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 


VOLUME 22 

103

“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 


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 


The Washington County Courthouse— 

104

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 

105


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 


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 

106

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 23 

“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 

107

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 


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 

108

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 


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 

109

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 


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”— 

110

Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri 

courtesy of The Platte County, Missouri, Historical and 

Genealogical Society......................................................................... 246 


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 


111


VOLUME 24 

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 


(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, 

112

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 


“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 

113

Queries ............................................................................................ 132 



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, 

114

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 



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 

115

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 


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 


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 


Book Notes....................................................................................... 246 

Queries ............................................................................................ 251 



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 

116

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 25 

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 


(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 

117

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 


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 



Drury Willis and Elizabeth Phelps, William Berry and Rebecca 

McCleary, William Miller and Mary Ann Morrow, Sanders Russell 

118

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 


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 



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 

119


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 


(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 

120

Queries ............................................................................................ 232 



VOLUME 26 

Some Kentucky Confederates Buried in Other States 


Record from the Family Bible of Samuel Long, Sr., Fayette County 

contributed by Harold R. Irving ........................................................ 7 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 9 



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 


Some Kentucky Confederates Buried in Other States (continuation) 


Record from the Bible of Margaret Reid Thomas, Trigg County 

contributed by Lucille Thomas Sumner and Virginia Alexander ........ 71 

121

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 



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 


122

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 



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 


123

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 

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 

124

courtesy of Carolyn Blount Anderson ............................................... 8 

Holiday Family Burial Ground, Owen County 

courtesy of Linda Holliday Mueller.................................................... 9 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 10 



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 


Queries ............................................................................................ 40 


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,” 

125

Livingston County, Kentucky 

courtesy of Brenda Joyce Jerome ..................................................... 89 

Dunaway Family Cemetery, Grant County, Kentucky 

courtesy of R. Denise Foster Korzenborn .......................................... 90 


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 



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 


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 

126


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 



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 


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 


Bolin Family Cemetery, Russell County 

courtesy of Marion Lee Adams .......................................................... 206 

“In the Burlington Post-Office…1876,” Boone County 

courtesy of William Conrad............................................................... 208 


127


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 


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 



VOLUME 28 

“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 

128


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 



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 


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 



129

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 


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 


Some Kentuckians Who Signed Oaths of Allegiance, 1862-66 

courtesy of Craig R. Scott ................................................................. 130 


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 



John Sanders and Sarah Gorham, John L. Bridges and Anna P. 

130

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 


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 



Archibald Rutherford and Elizabeth Akers, Josiah Williams and 

Mary L. Tweedle, Joseph Greenwood and Martha Jones.................... 201 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 203 


Ratliff Baird and Sarah (Sally) Hardin, John A. Mann, William Berry 

Dixon, Sr., and William Randolph Dixon, Jr. .................................... 206 

Queries ............................................................................................ 208 


On the Line of—The Fearns of Hunters Bottom, Kentucky 

courtesy of Larry Douglas Smith....................................................... 251 

131

Number One, 1993-1994 

VOLUME 29 

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 


George Felix Ingram, Ancil Daniel Powell, Benjamin Gray Perkins 

and Family, Joseph Hubbard and Family, and John Alfred Loy ........ 29 

Queries ............................................................................................ 32 



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 

132

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 

133

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 


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” 

134

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 


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 


VOLUME 30 

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 

135

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 


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 


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 


136

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 

137

compiled by Geoffrey R. Walden, Elizabethtown, Kentucky ............... 147 

KENTUCKIANS WHO WENT THATAWAY........................................... 150 

ROSTER OF “FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS” ................................. 151 

Queries ............................................................................................ 154 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 175 


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, 


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 


Queries ............................................................................................ 206 

Surname Index, Volume 30 .............................................................. 228 


VOLUME 31 

138

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 


Book Notes....................................................................................... 43 

Queries ............................................................................................ 47 


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 

139

submitted by John E. Leming Jr....................................................... 7 

Obituaries in the Louisville Public Advertiser, April 4, 1837 

submitted by Alice Roberts Fobister.................................................. 8 


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 


the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company,” Louisville, Kentucky 

(part two) 


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 


Bible Records from the O’Neal Family of Kentucky, Missouri, 

and Iowa 

submitted by Priscilla Martin............................................................ 38 


Petitions for Division of Land (part one) 


Book Notes....................................................................................... 46 

Queries ............................................................................................ 50 

Number Three, Spring 1996 

140

Who Was Levi Tyler? 

Mary Smith Fay, C. G....................................................................... 120 


the Freeman’s Savings and Trust Company,” Louisville, Kentucky 

(last of three parts) 



Petitions for Division of Land (last of two parts) 


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 


Communications .............................................................................. 161 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 162 

Psychic Roots, a review ..................................................................... 165 

Queries ............................................................................................ 166 

Relatively Speaking .......................................................................... 180 

141

Number Four, Summer 1996 


America, 1818 (second of three parts) ............................................... 182 

Taxpayers for 1895, Lusbys Mill, Owen County 

(second of two parts)......................................................................... 192 


Davis Milburn of Kentucky and Texas 

Howard W. Holmes........................................................................... 195 

Unclaimed Letters at the Lexington Post Office, July 1894................ 196 



Book Notes....................................................................................... 199 

Queries ............................................................................................ 202 



Number One, Autumn 1996 

VOLUME 32 

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 


America, 1818 (third of three parts) .................................................. 13 


142

Land Book Number 3, 1823-1842 


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 


Local News in The Sayings, Harrodsburg, January 9, 1895............... 32 

Customers in the Ledger of the Store at Hinkston’s Station, 

1794-97 ........................................................................................... 33 


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 


(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 



Constable Bonds Prior to 1811 ......................................................... 91 

Judgements Dismissed, 1789........................................................... 93 

143

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 


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 


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 


(third of three parts) 

Edwin Burrows Smith ...................................................................... 131 

Genealogical Information in The Green River Republican, 

November 19, 1908 .......................................................................... 133 

144

White Family Reunion, Kenton County, circa 1906 ........................... 135 

Patients at the “Feeble-Minded Asylum,” Frankfort, June 16, 1900... 136 

Webster County Deaths, 1907 .......................................................... 139 


Presentments to the Grand Jury of the County Court 


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 



Book Notes....................................................................................... 160 

Queries ............................................................................................ 167 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 180 


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 

145

Book Notes....................................................................................... 201 

Queries ............................................................................................ 203 



Index, Volume 32 ............................................................................. 220 


VOLUME 33 

“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 


Thomas Hawes of Caroline County, Virginia, and Gallatin County, 


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 

146

submitted by Vickie Bruce Gorby ..................................................... 31 


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 


Book Notes....................................................................................... 40 


Queries ............................................................................................ 49 


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 

147

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 


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 



Mystery Album ................................................................................. 103 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 104 

Queries ............................................................................................ 108 


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 


Estate Administrator Relinquishments, 1871-1895 


Students of Third District School, Covington, 1934-35 ..................... 154 

Members of the Democratic Society of Clark County, 1793 ............... 156 

148

Unclaimed Letters in the Kentucky Reporter, Lexington, July 1927 ... 159 


Mystery Album ................................................................................. 166 

Queries ............................................................................................ 167 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 178 


Unclaimed Letters in the Middlesborough News, 

October 1891-March 1892................................................................ 181 

Members of the Confederate Association of Kentucky, 1893.............. 187 


Marriage Contract of Edmund Able/Abell and Lucy Cole/ 

Coal, December 1820 ....................................................................... 198 

Various Land Cases.......................................................................... 199 


Queries ............................................................................................ 200 

Vacationers at Tatham Springs Resort, Washington County, 1897.... 211 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 212 


Surname Index to Volume 33 ........................................................... 215 


VOLUME 34 

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 

149

Soldiers of the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, Spanish- 

American War, 1898-99 (part 2) ....................................................... 13 


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 


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 



The Ledger Books of Doctor John S. Turner of Irvine, 

Estill County .................................................................................... 62 

Notes on the Francis S. Bryan Family of Nelson 

150

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 


Constable Bonds, 1811-1820 ........................................................... 106 

Additions to Research Boxes WWWW and XXXX............................... 109 


Book Notes....................................................................................... 110 


Queries ............................................................................................ 115 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 119 


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 

151

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 


Captain John Thompson of Kentucky and Missouri 

Betty Rolwing Darnell....................................................................... 158 


Nelson County, Virginia (Kentucky) Judgments, 1785-86 


Weddings and Obituaries in the Kentucky Tribune, Danville, 

September 1843 ............................................................................... 165 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 166 



Queries ............................................................................................ 172 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 180 


Extracts from the Georgetown Telegraph, 1812................................. 182 

Burials in the O’Bannon–Williamson Cemetery, 

Jefferson County .............................................................................. 188 

Announcement................................................................................. 191 


Nelson County, 1919-50 (part 2)....................................................... 192 

Letter from John Wyatt Leathers of Kenton County to William 

152

Leathers, November 10, 1847 ........................................................... 202 


Chancery Docket, 1831-1840 


Book Notes....................................................................................... 208 

Queries ............................................................................................ 211 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 217 


Number One Autumn 1999 

VOLUME 35 

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 


Nelson County, 1919-50 (part 3)....................................................... 34 


Chancery Docket, 1831-1840 (part 2) 


Burials in the Brewer Family Cemetery, Owsley County.................... 45 


Book Notes....................................................................................... 50 

153

Queries ............................................................................................ 55 


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 




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 



Queries ............................................................................................ 116 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 120 


Abstracts from the Records of St. Andrew’s Church, 

Jefferson County, 1851-1891 ........................................................... 122 


Hardin, and Grayson Counties (part 2) ............................................. 128 

154

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 





Book Notes....................................................................................... 169 


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 



Book Notes....................................................................................... 204 


Announcement/Communications..................................................... 209 

Queries ............................................................................................ 214 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 216 

155

Determining the Identity of John Finley, Boone’s Guide (part 1) 

Lee J. Bain ....................................................................................... 218 



VOLUME 36 

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 




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 



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 



156

Book Notes....................................................................................... 52 

Queries ............................................................................................ 56 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 60 


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 



Fey School, Jefferson County, 1877-1923 



Abstracts from The Farmer’s Friend, Russellville, 1809-10 (part 1).... 103 


Mystery Album ................................................................................. 110 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 112 

Queries ............................................................................................ 116 




157

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 


Bearing the Testimony Faithfully: The Alkire Family of 

Virginia and Kentucky (part 1) 

Erma Jean Loveland......................................................................... 166 


Kentuckians in Carroll County, Missouri, Before 1876...................... 168 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 169 



Book Notes....................................................................................... 175 

Queries ............................................................................................ 177 


The Lamar Family of Maryland, Kentucky, and New Mexico 

Darlene Compton Sheets .................................................................. 182 

158

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 


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 


Book Notes....................................................................................... 219 

Queries ............................................................................................ 221 



VOLUME 37 

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 


No. 1, 1890 (part 4) .......................................................................... 22 

159

The Lamar Family of Maryland, Kentucky, and 

New Mexico (part 2) .......................................................................... 24 


Louisville, 1888-1925 (part 2) 


Abstracts from the Farmer’s Friend, Russellville, 1809-10 (part 4) .... 49 




Book Notes....................................................................................... 54 

Queries ............................................................................................ 58 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 60 


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 




Presidential Ancestors: President Truman’s Early 

Shipp Lineage 

Norman R. Peters ............................................................................. 102 

160



Book Notes....................................................................................... 113 

Queries ............................................................................................ 117 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 120 


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 






No. 1, 1890 (part 5) .......................................................................... 166 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 171 


Queries ............................................................................................ 175 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 178 


Ancestors and Family of Dillon Asher of Clay County 

Janene Carole Simpson.................................................................... 182 

Lieutenant James Felix McGuire and the Battle 

161

of Blue Licks (part 2) 

Bobby McGuire ................................................................................ 191 




Millersburg Military Institute, Bourbon County, 1910....................... 209 


Book Notes....................................................................................... 216 


Mystery Album ................................................................................. 223 



VOLUME 38 

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, 


Vergissmeinnicht Entries of the Quillman and Suchsland 

Families of Jefferson County 


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, 

162

Montgomery County, 1822-97 

Chester C. Buchanan ....................................................................... 23 

Corinth Deposit Bank, Grant County, 

Check Book No. 1, 1890 (part 6)....................................................... 36 




Book Notes....................................................................................... 50 

Queries ............................................................................................ 52 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 60 


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 


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 


Book Notes....................................................................................... 111 

Queries ............................................................................................ 113 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 118 

Number 3, Spring 2003 

163

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 


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 


Sales of Forfeited Lands, 1845.......................................................... 192 




164


Queries ............................................................................................ 213 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 217 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 218 

Index, Volume 38 ............................................................................. 222 

Number 1, Autumn 2003 

VOLUME 39 

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 


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 


Abstracts from the Louisville Daily Courier, December 27, 1866 


Tombstone Inscriptions, Jefferson and Oldham Counties.................. 50 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 

165


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 


Baugh Families in the Early History of Kentucky 

Ivan W. Baugh.................................................................................. 87 


Thataway ......................................................................................... 101 

Abstracts from the Lexington Observer & Reporter, 

January 13, 1864 

Dr. Melba Porter Hay........................................................................ 104 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 111 

Queries ............................................................................................ 113 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 114 


The Troutman Family and its 1911 Nelson County Reunion ............. 118 

Thomas Arnold, Cooper, Farmer, and Civil Servant 

Retha I. Sleezer ................................................................................ 127 

166

The Strother Moses Cook Family of Mercer County 

and the Civil War 

Jean D. Dones.................................................................................. 133 

Marriages Performed by Rev. Andrew Tribble, 

Madison County, 1800–1813 ................................................................135 



Knox County School Census............................................................. 148 

Jacob and Susan Garr and their family ............................................ 156 


No. 1, 1890, Part 8 ........................................................................... 159 

Tombstone Inscriptions, Jefferson County ........................................ 163 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 167 


Queries ............................................................................................ 169 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 172 


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 



Queries ............................................................................................ 203 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 205 


167

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 208 



Volume 40 

The Salt River Tigers: Anderson County and the Mexican War 


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 


Abstracts from the Lexington Intelligencer 

Dr. Thomas H. Appleton Jr............................................................... 44 

Queries ............................................................................................ 51 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 54 


Mystery Album ................................................................................. 56 


From Carolina to Kentucky: Andrew Colley—Farmer, 

Fighter, Pioneer 

Betty Butler Ravenholt ..................................................................... 58 

Kentucky African Americans in the Navy During the Civil War 


168

Abstracts from the Harrodsburg Herald, December 1915 

transcribed by Kandie Adkinson....................................................... 93 

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 



Queries ............................................................................................ 111 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 112 


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 


Mystery Album ................................................................................. 169 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 170 

Queries ............................................................................................ 171 

169


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 


“Doomed to Their Fate”: Kentuckians at Dudley’s Defeat, 

May 5, 1813, Part 2 


First Editor of Kentucky Ancestors Lived, Loved History, Genealogy 

Thomas E. Stephens......................................................................... 205 

Queries ............................................................................................ 207 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 208 




Volume 41 

From Carolina to Kentucky: Andrew Colley—Farmer, Fighter, 

Pioneer, Part 3 


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 


List of Claims in the Springfield News, Washington County, 1892..... 46 

170

Queries ............................................................................................ 50 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 51 


Mystery Album ................................................................................. 56 


Perryville Casualty Database Reveals True Cost of War 

Stuart W. Sanders............................................................................ 58 

Those Mentioned in the Springfield News, Washington County, 

December 1, 1892 ............................................................................ 73 


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 


James Logan and His Descendants 

Joan Carruthers............................................................................... 118 

Kentuckians at the Battle of Tippecanoe 


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 


No. 1, 1890, Part 9 ........................................................................... 158 

171

Kentuckians in Death Notices of the Nashville Christian 

Advocate, June-December 1857 

Jonathon Kennon Thompson Smith ................................................. 164 

Queries ............................................................................................ 169 

Tombstone Inscriptions, Cox’s Creek Baptist Church 

Cemetery, Nelson County ................................................................. 170 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 171 


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 


VOLUME 42 

“To Meet the Enemy on Any Element”: The Kentucky Militia 

in the Battle of Lake Erie 


Thataway ......................................................................................... 19 

Free Blacks of Henry County, 1853 

transcribed by Marguerite Miller....................................................... 22 

Julia A. Carby and Her Surname: A Case Study 

172

Jerry L. Clark................................................................................... 23 

Abstracts from the Lexington Intelligencer, July 1842, Part Two 

transcribed by Dr. Thomas H. Appleton Jr........................................ 27 

Kate White Adams Milward’s Recollections of Her Early Years 

edited by Burton Milward Jr............................................................. 34 

Simon Adams’s Account Book, Shelby County, 1798-1802 ............... 39 

Kentuckians Mentioned in the Western Methodist, 1830s 

Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith ................................................. 45 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 53 

Queries ............................................................................................ 55 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 56 


“We are all Slaughtered Men”: The Battle of Blue Licks 


Major Robert Asa Hancock and His Family 

James R. Hancock............................................................................ 68 

The Shaker Experience of Mattie (Sanford) Bryant Bland 


William Miller of Henry County 


The Life and Times of Robert B. McAfee and His Family 

Connections ..................................................................................... 89 

Queries ............................................................................................ 110 


Mystery Album ................................................................................. 112 


173

The Newkirk, Harbin, and Roud Families of Kentucky, Indiana, 

and Ohio 

Tom Stephens .................................................................................. 114 

The Miller Families of Henry County, Part Two 



Connections, Part Two...................................................................... 129 

Thataway: The Seaton Family of Kentucky and Illinois...................... 134 

Thataway: Reminiscences of Jeffersontown, 

Jefferson County, 1921 .................................................................... 136 

Thataway: New Addresses of Former Jefferson Countians, 1921 ....... 138 


Those Mentioned in the Georgetown Herald, June 23, 1847.............. 157 

Queries ............................................................................................ 165 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 167 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 168 


The Abraham G. Baugh Family of Logan County, Kentucky 

(c. 1830-1880) 

Ivan W. Baugh.................................................................................. 170 

Klotter wins 2007 Governor’s Award................................................. 181 

Obituary of 103-year-old Dora Pousardien........................................ 181 



The Life and Times of Robert B. McAfee and His Family and 

Connections, Part Three ................................................................... 188 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 203 

174

Queries ............................................................................................ 206 

L. Shadrach Futrell (1831-1906) 

Roger Futrell .................................................................................... 207 

Surname Index................................................................................. 213 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 224 


VOLUME 43 

Sleettown: The Birth of a Community 

Mary Quinn Ramer........................................................................... 2 

Descendants of Warner Sleet: A Family Tree ..................................... 5 

The Kentucky Secretary of State’s Land Office Revolutionary War 

Warrants Database 

Kandie P. Adkinson .......................................................................... 11 

Oral History and Genealogy: Yes, There is Something for You! 

Sarah Milligan.................................................................................. 16 

Early Kentucky Genealogy Research 

Don Rightmyer ................................................................................. 20 

Churchill Weavers Preservation Exhibition Opens May 10 at KHS .... 22 

The Life and Times of Robert B. McAfee and His Family and 

Connections, Part Four..................................................................... 24 

Marriages Performed by Rev. John “Raccoon” Smith in Central 

Kentucky, 1819-47........................................................................... 38 


Books Added to the KHS Library Collection ...................................... 54 

Kentucky Ancestors Author Guidelines ............................................. 56 

KHS Creates Anne Walker Fitzgerald Award for Kentucky 

Genealogy and Family History .......................................................... 56 

175


The Rodgers Family: A Mystery Album Photo Identified 

Mrs. Carolyn Rodgers ....................................................................... 58 

The Kentucky Secretary of State’s Land Office Certificates of 

Settlement and Preemption Warrants Database 

Kandie P. Adkinson .......................................................................... 63 

Sergeant Proctor Ballard (ca. 1755-1820) 


Letters Remaining in the Post Offices at Bardstown and 

Elizabethtown, Kentucky, July 1825................................................. 78 


Connections, Part 5.......................................................................... 81 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 95 

National and International Historical and Genealogical Journals 

Compiled by Sally Bown ................................................................... 98 

Queries ............................................................................................ 102 


Kentucky Families in Congressional Pension Claims: The Cases of 

Sarah P. Cully and Sarah Maynard 

John P. Deeben ................................................................................ 105 

New Online Exhibit........................................................................... 109 

What is Your Story? 

Don Rightmyer ................................................................................. 110 

Kentucky Ancestors Author’s Guidelines ........................................... 111 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 112 


A Patriotic Clan from Eastern Kentucky in the War to End All Wars 

176

John Trowbridge .............................................................................. 114 

Queries ............................................................................................ 123 

North or South? Finding Your Kentucky Civil War Ancestor 

Don Rightmyer ................................................................................. 124 

Beyond the Log Cabin: Kentucky’s Abraham Lincoln, A New KHS 

Exhibition ........................................................................................ 129 

Interments in the Irish Catholic Burying Ground on 3 rd Street, 

Lexington 

Nancy O’Malley................................................................................. 130 

Kentucky Archives Month................................................................. 134 

The Kentucky Secretary of State’s Land Office Lincoln Entries 

Database 

Kandie Adkinson .............................................................................. 135 

Book Notes....................................................................................... 144 


Judges of the Kentucky Circuit Courts, 1831-1861 


Monograph Collection of County Histories: Kentucky Historical 

Society Library (Adair-Bell) 

Sally Bown ....................................................................................... 161 


Kentucky Ancestors Author’s Guidelines ........................................... 167 

Mystery Album ................................................................................. 168 

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