Treasures Found in County Court Minutes 1852

I love county court minutes!  That is where you learn about all the business conducted by the county court - from the appointment of administrators and executors of estates to ordering men to work on the roads to anything else that needed to be recorded for posterity. Thank heavens, those long-ago county clerks recorded those appointments and events. It makes genealogical research so much more interesting.

Many years ago a long time researcher told me that if you want to know what is going on in a county to pull one of those big books of county court minutes off the shelf and read it page by page.  That is exactly what I did recently in the Caldwell County Clerk's Office in Princeton. I chose County Court Order Book H and found the following entries for 1852:

"Thomas Gregory came into court and made oath that Thomas Gregory dec'd who was reputed and believed to have been a Revolutionary Soldier, died in Caldwell County, Kentucky on or about the 1st of June 1813, leaving Sally Gregory, his widow, who survived him, and remained a widow until her death in same county and state on the 7th day of March 1844, leaving the following children, to wit: Samuel Gregory, Joseph Gregory and Thomas Gregory, the above named being her only surviving children."  [p. 145,  18 Oct 1852]

"Drury C. Mitchusson, Lewis Martin and Bartus Satterfield came into court and made [oath] that Lucretia Kevil, wife of Drury C. Kevil, whose maiden name was Mitchusson, now of this county, is the sister and consequently one of the heirs of E.F. Mitchusson dec'd, late of the county of [blank] state of Texas."  [pp 148-149,  18 Oct 1852]

"F.H. Hynes made oath that Sarah Bledsoe, widow of William M. Bledsoe, a pensioner of the United States, died in Caldwell County Kentucky at the house of Samuel Hynes and that she left Emily J. Bledsoe her only surviving heir, a minor, all of which is ordered copied and certified to the proper Department in Washington that she may draw the pension and extra pay to which her parents were entitled." [p. 166,  18 Dec 1852]

"Jesse Ritch made oath that William Ritch died in Caldwell County on or about the 30th day of August 1835 at his residence in sd. county and that his wife had died previously, Viz, about the [blank] day of April 1835 and that Willis Ritch who has filed his declaration for bounty land, for services performed by his father under the act granting bounty land to certain officers and soldiers passed Sept 28th 1850, is the only heir of sd. William Ritch dec'd and is a non-resident of sd. county and state and a minor at the filing of his declaration."  [p. 169,  20 Dec 1852]

"Enoch P. George made oath that Ezekiel Rogers, who formerly lived in this county, died on or about the 31st day of August 1849, leaving Catharine Rogers, his widow, who died in this county on or about the 15th of April 1852, leaving as heirs Emily Rogers, Ann Rogers and Elizabeth Rogers; that Ezekiel Rogers during his lifetime was known and reputed, not by his neighbors but by his own declarations, to have been a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, but for what length of time he cannot say." [p. 170,  20 Dec 1852]

Published 5 Dec 2019, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,  http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/