Carrie Durrah Webb 1872 - 1932

Carrie Webb

Feb 1872

May 10, 1932

At Rest

Buried in Smithland Cemetery, Livingston County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 2 Aug 2013.

According to her death certificate, Carrie Webb was born February 1871 in Smithland, Kentucky. She was the widow of William Webb and her parents were Nathan Durrah and Sarah Jones, both of whom were also born in Smithland. [1]

Will and Carrie Webb were enumerated on the 1910 Livingston County Census and were listed as living on Black Alley in Smithland. Will was age 45 and Carrie was age 38. He had been married twice.  Carrie had been married one time and had given birth to no children. Living with the family were close relatives of Will Webb.[2]  Carrie and Will were African-Americans.

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[1] Kentucky Death Certificate #12095 (1932), Carrie Webb, Ancestry.com

[2] 1910 Livingston County, Kentucky census, Roll T624_491, p . 11 A, E.D. 0099, Ancestry.com

Published 30 Apr 2019, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,  http://www.wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Dr. Claudius H. Bailey and Family

Near the top of the hill in Smithland Cemetery are a collection of stones that mark the graves of the family of Dr. Claudius H. Bailey.  It is difficult to read the names carved on the stones, but it appears they are as follows:

Catharine Bailey  consort of C.H.  died Dec. 10, 1849 in the 53d year of her age.

Margaret Bailey  daughter [the rest is illegible] [carved on side of above stone]

Mary Ann   [no last name and no visible dates]

Catharine  [no last name and no visible dates]

Bailey Family Plot

Smithland Cemetery

The tombstone of Catharine Bailey , who died in 1849, has various initials and dates, especially 1913, carved into the top.

Catharine

Consort of

C.H. Bailey

died Decr 10th 1849

in the 53rd

year of her age

Smithland Cemetery

Who was this Dr. Claudius H. Bailey?  From public records, we know he was in living in Lincoln County, Missouri  during the 1830s. In 1836, Claudius H. Bailey and his wife, Catharine Ann Bailey, conveyed land adjoining the town of Troy, Lincoln County.[1] The next year an advertisement appeared in a local newspaper announcing Dr. C.H. Bailey's candidacy for the office of Circuit and County Clerk of Lincoln County.[2]  He sold land in Lincoln County in 1843 and, by 1845, had moved to Livingston County, Kentucky.

The first record of Dr. C.H. Bailey in Livingston County was the marriage of his daughter, Mary Ann, and Henry A. Harmon on 22 July 1845.[3] Was this Bailey daughter the Mary Ann buried with the other family members at the top of Smithland Cemetery? If so, she likely died before 1850 as Henry A. Harmon appears that year in his mother's household and there is no mention of Mary Ann.[4] Henry died in 1855 and is also buried in Smithland Cemetery.[5]

 His first appearance on the Livingston County Tax List was 1846, when he was taxed on one slave and a store valued at $800.[6]

In 1848, Dr. Bailey leased lot # 15 in Smithland and later purchased it. Located on this lot were the drugstore and dwelling house of Dr. Bailey.[7] He also purchased part of lot #51 in 1848.

The 1840s were not good to Dr. Bailey. His wife, Catharine, died 10 December 1849 and it appears he lost at least three daughters about that time.   A few months after his wife's death, however, Dr. Bailey married Mary Coker on the 19th of August 1850.[8]

Dr. Bailey and his new wife, Mary, were enumerated on the 1850 Livingston County census. Dr. Bailey, age 52, was born in Maryland and Mary, age 39, was born in Kentucky. Also in their household was Thos. W. Bailey, age 27, born in Maryland.[9] Was Thomas a son of Dr. Bailey? No other record for Thomas was found.

Tragedy struck Dr. Bailey on Christmas Day 1850 when a destructive fire broke out in Smithland, consuming the businesses of C.H. Hodge and W.H. Delavan, dry goods merchants; R. Clopton, grocer; three tailor shops and Dr. C.H. Bailey, druggist.[10]  Two weeks later Dr. Bailey sold his two lots in Smithland and moved away - location unknown.[11]

No further record of Dr. Bailey has been founded.  After the deaths of his wife and daughters, was the fire too much for him to handle?  Did Smithland evoke too many sad memories for him?  Where did he go?

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[1] Lincoln County, Missouri Deed Book D, p. 255, Claudius H. Bailey and wife for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Township 51, Range 1 West; also several lots of land in the town of Troy. Recorded 19 Sep 1839.

[2] Salt River Journal, Bowling Green, Missouri, 12 Dec 1840, p. 3, Newspapers.com.

[3] Joyce McCandless Woodyard. Livingston County, Kentucky Marriage Records Including Marriages of Freedmen, Vol. II (Aug 1839-Dec 1871), (Evansville, IN: Evansville Bindery, 1994) 38.

[4] 1850 Livingston County, Kentucky census, Household of Clary Harmon, Roll M432_210, p. 323A, Image 337, Ancestry.com.

[5] Find A Grave Memorial #7542278, Henry A. Harmon, no birth date; only year of death (1855).

[6] 1846 Livingston County, Kentucky Tax List, C.H. Bailey

[7] Livingston County, Kentucky Deed Book HH:538, Weaver to Singleton and Singleton to Bailey, dated 21 Jan 1848, recorded 2 Feb 1848. Deed Book HH:601, Ford to Bailey, dated 9 Aug 1848, recorded 4 [sic] Aug 1848. Also Deed Book 1:11, Fowler to Bailey, dated 30 Dec 1848, recorded 1 Jan 1849.

[8] Woodyard. Livingston County, Kentucky Marriage Records Including Marriages of Freedmen, Vol. II (Aug 1839-Dec 1871), 62.

[9] 1850 Livingston County, Kentucky census, Roll M432_210, p. 380A, Image 451, Ancestry.com.

[10] "Destructive Fire at Smithland, Ky," Hartford Courant, Sat., 4 Jan 1851, p. 2, citing Louisville Courier, Dec. 28, Newspapers.com.

[11] Livingston County, Kentucky Deed Book 1:345, Bailey to Hodge, parts of Lots #15 and 51, dated 15 Jan 1851, recorded 21 Jan 1851.

Published 25 Apr 2019, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,  http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Hubbard J. Landram 1889 - 1925

Hubbard J.

Landram

Oct. 9, 1889

Apr. 19, 1925

Buried Smithland Cemetery, Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 2015.

According to his death certificate,[1] Hubbard J. Landram was born in Grand Rivers, Kentucky and died in Benton, Marshall County, Kentucky. He was the son of George W. Landram (born Livingston County) and Dora A. Mitchusson (born Lyon County, Kentucky). He was married at the time of his death.

 Hubbard J. Landram went to California before 1910, the year he was enumerated on the census in San Francisco.  He was married to a lady named Maria and gave his occupation as a motorman.[2] That same year, he registered to vote and stated he was a Republican and lived at 124 Lakeview Avenue, San Francisco.[3]

Landram moved back to Kentucky before 1916, at which time he was living in Paducah and was working at M.V.L. Motor Car Company.[4]   When he registered for the military draft in 1917, he was single, working in Benton and living in Paducah. [5]

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[1] Kentucky Death Certificate #10299, Hubbard J. Landram, Ancestry.com

[2] 1910 San Francisco County, San Francisco Assembly Dist. 33, Roll T624_97, p. 3A, E.D. 0082, Ancestry.com

[3] California Voter Registration 1900-1965, San Francisco 1910, Hubbard J. Landram, Ancestry.com

[4]  U.S. City Directories 1822-1995, Paducah 1916, Hubbard J. Landram, Ancestry.com

[5] U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918, Registered 15 June 1917 Paducah, Kentucky, Ancestry.com

Published 23 Apr 2019, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Happy Easter!

Published 21 April 2019, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Livingston County, Kentucky Estate Administrators 1871

Administrators of estate were usually appointed in county court shortly after a person's death. In the absence of a death date, the date of the appointment of an administrator can be used as an approximate death date. The appointment of an estate administrator was recorded in the county court minutes and sometimes in a separate administrator's bond book. The administrator was required to post bond with at least one person as surety for the faithful performance of his duties as administrator. The duties of the administrator were very similar to those of an executor of a will. An administrator de bonis non was appointed by county court to administer on the effects of a decedent which had not been included in a former administration.

The letter and number at the end of each entry refers to the county court order book and page number in which the entry appears. For example, N/106 refers to Court Order Book N, page 106. This information also appears in Administrator Bonds Book B (1868-1885). Both books can be found in the Livingston County Clerk's Office, Smithland, Kentucky.

 James R. Stallions was appointed administrator of the estate of Theodore Thompson dec'd, the widow waiving her right to administer. Surety: Benj. F. Davis.  16 Jan 1871. [N/106]

John Davis was appointed administrator of Andrew J. Anderson's estate, John G. Anderson having waived his right to administer on the estate of his deceased son, Andrew J. Anderson. Surety: John G. Anderson. 16 Jan 1871.  [N/107]

G.A. Kiplear was appointed administrator of the estate of William Banks. Surety: A.W. Martin. 28 Feb 1871.  [N/110]

G.A. Kiplear was appointed administrator de bonis non of the estate of James E. Taylor dec'd. Surety: A.W. Martin. 28 Feb 1871.  [N/110]

Adolphus B. McGee was appointed administrator of the estate of James Carroll dec'd. Surety: Robert H. May.  6 Jun 1871.  [N/134]

The estate of Charles Bradley dec'd confided to W.M. Threlkeld, Livingston County Sheriff, for administration. 6 Jun 1871.  [N/134]

W.H. Mantz was appointed administrator of the estate of W. Beverly, W.H. Mantz having filed written waiver of Martha Beverly waiving her right to administer on the estate of her dec'd husband.  Sureties: S.H. Piles, E.P. Haynes. 6 Mar 1871.  [N/112]

O.H.P. Wiley was appointed administrator of the estate of Sarah Wiley.  Surety: H.G. Jameson.  27 Apr 1871.  [N/124]

W.W. Stewart was appointed administrator of the estate of James E. Samples, the widow waiving her right to administer.  Surety: J.W. Cade.  4 Sep 1871. [N/153-154]

R.J. Robinson was appointed administrator of Hannah Jones' estate. Surety: James T. Robinson.  20 Sep 1871]  [N/162]

S.H. Piles was appointed administrator of J.W. Newman's estate, Nannie S. Newman, widow, waiving her right to administer. Surety: J.C. Hodge.  19 Oct 1871.  [N/179]

Mary Ann Decker was appointed administrator of the estate of John Decker.  Sureties: W.S. Graves, R.H. Brown.  7 Dec 1871.  [N/187]

Published 18 April 2019, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,  http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Lucinda Jane Bristow 1838 - 1875

Lucinda Jane

Dau. of

Isaac & Peachy

Wiseman

and wife of

I.C. Bristow

Born

Nov. 11, 1838

Died

Nov. 11, 1875

Buried Mt. Zion Cemetery, Crittenden County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 2012.

Miss Lucinda Jane Wiseman married Ira C. Bristoe 5 February 1870 in Smith County, Tennessee. Surety was F.M. Wood. [1] The couple appears on the 1870 Crittenden County census.[2]

Lucinda died in 1875 in Crittenden County. Her death record states she was born in Smith County, Tennessee, but lived and died in Crittenden County. Her occupation was "farmer's lady," and her parents' names were unknown. Ira C. Bristow was age 38 and born Kentucky and L.J. Bristow was age 32 and born Tennessee.[3]

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[1] Tennessee Marriage Records 1780-2002 [database-on-line], Smith County Jan 1860 - Feb 1873, Ancestry.com

[2] 1870 Crittenden County, Kentucky census, Fords Ferry Pct. #5, Roll M93_457, p. 419A, Ancestry.com

[3] Kentucky Death Records 1852-1965, Crittenden County 1875, Ancestry.com. This record gives her death date as 8 Dec 1875.

Published 16 Apr 2019, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Anderson Woodall's Memories

The following article was first published in the Princeton, Kentucky Leader and reprinted in the Crittenden Record-Press, Marion, Kentucky, on Thursday, 28 August 1913, p. 7.

"Mr. Anderson Woodall, of Crittenden county, near Crayneville, who has been here on a visit to his daughter, Mrs. E.N. Crayne, the past several days, paid this office a pleasant and interesting visit yesterday morning.

Mr. Woodall is in  his 87th year, and during his talk with us stated that he walked to Princeton with a younger brother 82 years ago from Pennsylvania county,[1] about 8 [sic] miles from Richmond. Mr. Woodall said the use of an old four-horse Virginia wagon by his parents in moving to Kentucky necessitated he and his little brother walking all the way here except when they came to creeks they could not wade, and it took them seven weeks to make the trip.

Mr. Woodall stated that he had just come in from a drive over Princeton with Mr. J.A. Stegar and that he found a vast difference in the Princeton of now and the Princeton of long ago, that is 82 years ago, which he says was then a mere place in the road, or the size of Crider, perhaps a little larger.

His father was James Woodall and his mother was, before her marriage, Miss Ellen Deboe. His father died shortly after coming to Kentucky in what is now Crittenden county and his mother lived to be 90 and a half years old. He was the oldest of several children, all of whom save one brother, John Woodall, who now resides in Seattle, Wash., as does also several children, of our subject, Anderson Woodall, who was the mainstay of his widowed mother up to her death.

Mr. Woodall was reared a Democrat, but has been a Republican since the Civil war. His youngest brother died during the Civil war at Russellville as a Union soldier from an attack of measles. He stated that a very strange coincidence occurred in which his mother told her brother, a preacher, that her son was dead, and upon being told that she must be mistaken, she said, "no, he's dead. I've seen him." Some days afterward she received the report of his death.

Mr. Woodall is a clever and interesting old gentleman, and while he has been a little inactive since an attack of typhoid fever two years ago, followed by complications, he is still quite skittish. He has over 100 grand and great-grandchildren. [From the Princeton Leader]"

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[1] He was likely referring to Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

Published 11 Apr 2019, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

W.T. Mayes - Early Member of Bethany Church

W.T. Mayes

Born

Mar. 19, 1817

Died

Sept. 26, 1886

Buried Old Marion Cemetery, Marion, Crittenden County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 25 May 2012.

William T. Mayes married Helen McCarter 17 October 1849 Livingston County, Kentucky. The bride was the daughter of William McCarter, who gave consent for the marriage license to be issued. [1]

According to the records of Bethany Presbyterian Church, [2] William Terah Templin Mayes was baptized as an infant in 1817 and joined the church in 1842. He  was an elder in the church. A Helen Mayes joined the church in 1846. Was she the wife of W.T. Mayes?

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[1] Joyce McCandless Woodyard. Livingston County, Kentucky Marriage Records Including Marriages of Freedmen  Vol. II (Aug 1839 - Dec 1871),  (Evansville, IN: Evansville Bindery, 1994) 58.

[2] Robert Wheeler, Chairman of Crittenden County Historical Society, compiler. Membership List of Bethany-Marion Presbyterian Church 1803-1881, (Listed by Family Groups), undated booklet.

Published 9 Apr 2019, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Jennie and David W. Watts

Four days after David W. Watts' birth on 7 October 1865, his mother, Jennie Want Watts,  died. She was 22 years old and had been married only  nine months to Thomas H. Watts of Smithland, Kentucky.[1]  Did she die from a disease contracted before her son's birth or did she die from complications of his birth. No records survive that tell us the answer.  In fact, little is known of Jennie Want Watts, but we do know a few things about her son.

Jennie was enumerated in the household of J.W. and Rachel Want on the 1860 census. [2] J.W. Want was listed as age 42 and a merchant born in New York. Rachel Want was age 36 and born Delaware. Jennie's birthplace was given as Indiana and she was 17 years old. Also in the home was Ann E. Want, age 15 and born Kentucky. A later census gave J.W. Want's birthplace as Canada.[3]

John W. Want wrote his will 10 September 1856.[4] In his will, he left $5 each to his children, including a daughter, Eliza J. Want. The rest of his property was inherited by his wife, Rachel A.  Want. In the codicil dated 1871, he wrote that his daughter, Eliza J. Watts, "has since departed this life" and he wanted the $5 to go to his grandson, David Want Watts, son of Eliza J. Watts.  It appears Jennie E. Want's full name was Eliza Jennie Want.

Following Jennie's death, her son, David Want Watts, lived with his grandmother, Lucinda Watts, in Smithland.[5] His father, Thomas H. Watts, left Smithland and is not found in area records thereafter. According to Find A Grave Memorial #108465694, Thomas H. Watts died in 1879 Birmingham, Alabama.  

By 1885, David W. Watts was boarding with his aunt, Mary Watts Bass, in San Antonio, Texas. He was listed as a collector with the telephone exchange. [6]  In 1900. David W. Watts and his aunt, who was the widow of  Jordan James Bass, were living in Eagle Pass, Maverick County, Texas. That year he gave his occupation as a clerk on the Southern Pacific Railroad. [7]

David W. Watts died in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 19 July 1941 and was buried in Union Cemetery, Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio.[8]  He had no known children.

 Jennie

Wife of Thos. H. Watts

Born 

Apr. 24, 1843

Died

Oct. 7, 1865

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[1] Joyce McCandless Woodyard. Livingston County, Kentucky Marriage Records Including Marriages of Freedmen, Vol. II (Aug 1839-Dec 1871), (Evansville, IN: Evansville Bindery, 1994) 147. Thomas H. Watts married Miss Jennie Want 12 January 1865 by D.A. Beardsley.

[2] 1860 Livingston County, Kentucky census, Division 2, Roll M653_382, p. 269, Ancestry.com.

[3] 1870 Livingston County, Kentucky, census, Roll:593_482, p. 234A, John W. Want, Ancestry.com.

[4] Livingston County, Kentucky Will Book B, p. 288, dated 10 September 1856 and a codicil dated 29 July 1871. The will was recorded 4 September 1871.

[5] 1870 Livingston County, Kentucky census, Smithland, Roll M593_482, p. 241B, Ancestry.com. David Watts was age 4, born Kentucky.

[6] U.S. City Directories 1822-1995, San Antonio 1885, Ancestry.com.

[7] Woodyard. Livingston County, Kentucky Marriage Records Including Marriages of Freedmen, Vol. II (Aug 1839-Dec 1871), p. 53. Jordan James Bass married Mary Duke Watts, daughter of Joseph Watts, 7 February 1849 Livingston County, Kentucky. David Watts' birth date is given as October 1865 Kentucky.

[8] Pennsylvania Certificate of Death #62594, David W. Watts, Ancestry.com.

Published 4 April 2019, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Lucian and Ethel Alsobrook

Alsobrook

Lucian

1888

1944

Ethel

1897

1974

There will be no partings in Heaven

Buried Alsobrook Cemetery, Livingston County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 30 July 2015.

According to his death certificate, [1] John Lucian Alsobrook was born 31 July 1888 in Kentucky and died 20 January 1944 Livingston County. His parents were listed as C.C. Alsobrook and Anna Belle Ramage, both of whom were born in Kentucky.

According to Social Security records, Ethel Alsobrooks was born 11 December 1897.[2]

John  Alsobrook was registered for the draft in World War II. [3] His wife was listed as Mrs. J.L. Alsobrook of R.R. #3, Salem, Kentucky. Alsobrook was self employed.

John and Ethel Alsobrook were enumerated in the household of C.C. and Ana Bell Alsobrook on the 1920 Livingston County, Kentucky census.[4]

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[1] Kentucky Death Certificate #5039 (1944), John Lucian Alsobrook, Ancestry.com.

[2] US, Social Security Applications and Claims Index 1936 - 2007, Ethel Alsobrook, Ancestry.com.

[3] U.S. World War II Draft Registration Card, 1942, John Alsobrook, Ancestry.com.

[4] 1920 Livingston County, Kentucky census, Salem, Roll T625_587, p. 7B, E.D. 116, Ancestry.com.

Published 2 April 2019, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/