tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79985098481202098242024-03-13T00:35:46.482-05:00Western Kentucky Genealogy BlogMiscellany of Tips, Records and Other Useful ThingsBrenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.comBlogger1835125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-22526648500352115162024-03-06T07:00:00.002-06:002024-03-06T07:00:00.245-06:00Rules for the County Jailer 1875<p> <i style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Being the Jailer in 1875 in Lyon County, Kentucky consisted of more than carrying the keys to the cells. Other duties were required and were spelled out in a document found among loose county court papers in the courthouse in Eddyville. How do these rules compare to the duties of present-day jailers?</i></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Rules for the government of the Jailer</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">"The Jailer is required to Keep the Jail perfectly clean, & suffer no filth of any Kind to accumulate in or about it.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">He is required to clean out the privy valt <i>[sic]</i>, or Sink, under the Jail, immediately and as often as may be necessary to prevent a stench in the Jail.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">He is required to whitewash both the upper and lower cells and to use in the cells and in the Sink under the Jail, chloride of lime or other disinfect out in such quantities and often enough to destroy the Scent and purify the air of the Jail.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">He is required to Keep the clothing and bedding of prisoners perfectly clean.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">He is directed to feed the prisoners confined in the Jail at regular intervals three times a day with a sufficiency of wholesome food and to keep them supplied with fresh water."<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Filed in open Court and ordered to be spread at large upon the order book of this court and delivered to the Jailer April 26, 1875.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Originally published in the Wesstern Kentucky Genealogy Blog 20 Feb 2020 and re-published 6 Mar 2024.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-16419692820576918502024-02-07T06:00:00.004-06:002024-02-07T06:00:00.133-06:00William N. St. John - Steamboatman<p><br /></p><div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5125436701618633413" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 528px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The first appearance of William N. St. John by name is on the 1850 Livingston County census record when he was living in a household headed by Nancy St. John. William was 19 years old, an engineer and was born in Illinois. Nancy was 60 years old and born in Virginia. Was she his mother - very possibly. Both of them may have been part of the family of an older William St. John, who is found on the 1840 Livingston County census. Ann Jane St. John, who married G.W. Burton<a href="file:///C:/Users/Brenda/Desktop/StJohn.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">[1]</span></span></span></a>, and P.M. St. John, who married Lavenia Wilson<a href="file:///C:/Users/Brenda/Desktop/StJohn.doc#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">[2]</span></span></span></a>, were likely siblings of William N. St. John. There should have been more siblings.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">William N. St. John married Serena Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith, 16 December 1856<a href="file:///C:/Users/Brenda/Desktop/StJohn.doc#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">[3]</span></span></span></a> at New Liberty, Pope County, Illinois. They were living in Livingston County in 1860 with their 2-year-old daughter, Laura. William N. continued to work on the river and was listed as a steam boat engineer.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">By 1870, the St. John family had moved to Evansville, which was the center of riverboat traffic in the area. William was now listed as a river boat pilot. They did not stay long in Evansville, but returned to Livingston County before 1880.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">William and Serena St. John had a number of children, including the following who appeared on the 1880 census: Laura, Jennett, William N., Joel, Alice B., Cora, Daisy, Lilly, Violet and Charles.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">A small article in the River News of an Evansville newspaper recorded the death of William St. John. It stated the following: "The remains of Capt. Wm. St. John, who died at Paducah on Sunday, were taken to Smithland for burial. Capt. St. John was at one time a well known Cumberland river steamboatman. He resided in this city some years ago, and has many friends here who will be pained to learn of his death."<a href="file:///C:/Users/Brenda/Desktop/StJohn.doc#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">[4]</span></span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">William N. St. John's monument marks his burial spot in Smithland Cemetery. His wife, Serena, is buried in Maplelawn Cemetery in Paducah.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkzHGYpJAHg3zjQha2BwuKBMvwJozOx-i2dF_IC0Chb9Yj63rEQxpBOyHAQQVm1w6f-DyUmt9X2UC0dsXmMmD6narD0XcbqcTiknwfnNtjV3Nes7goaxrvLddo_4eo-mM8Qpkdrxn1sN0/s1600/StJohn2Smithland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkzHGYpJAHg3zjQha2BwuKBMvwJozOx-i2dF_IC0Chb9Yj63rEQxpBOyHAQQVm1w6f-DyUmt9X2UC0dsXmMmD6narD0XcbqcTiknwfnNtjV3Nes7goaxrvLddo_4eo-mM8Qpkdrxn1sN0/s400/StJohn2Smithland.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;">Wm. N. St. John</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;">Died</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;">Nov. 23, 1884</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;">Aged</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;">51 yr's., 9 mo's.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;">Buried Smithland Cemetery</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;">Smithland, Kentucky</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div><br /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><br /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Brenda/Desktop/StJohn.doc#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">[1]</span></span></span></a> Joyce McCandless Woodyard. <i>Livingston County, Kentucky Marriage Records Including Marriages of Freedmen, Vol. II</i>, (Evansville, IN:Evansville Bindery) 1994, p 19-20.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Brenda/Desktop/StJohn.doc#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">[2]</span></span></span></a> Kentucky Death Certificate #16598 (1923) of Mattie B. Hill identifies her parents as Martin <i>[sic]</i> St. John and Louvenia Wilson.</div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Brenda/Desktop/StJohn.doc#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">[3]</span></span></span></a> Judy Foreman Lee & Carolyn Cromeenes Foss. <i>Pope County, Illinois Marriage Books A-E 1813-1877 Vol. 1, </i>(Evansville, IN:Evansville Bindery) 1990, p. 57</div></div><div id="ftn4"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Brenda/Desktop/StJohn.doc#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">[4]</span></span></span></a> "River News," <i>Evansville Daily Courier</i>, Tues., 29 November 1884, p. 3.</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Originally published 17 September 2015, <i>Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, </i> http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/ Reprinted 7 Feb 2024</span></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-38869274476523306892024-01-01T04:30:00.003-06:002024-01-01T04:30:00.243-06:00Gone Fishing<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6lPZqbsyoulOkjxHUUSQUZqjOjTJxMn_VQI6l5qhcvimr2LJEiJlvHMn2Sd9cTEUCs_mN4XKQs0SKuu3CYuQdBd_elsIymffDyXkQYXAoDsrCQ0Zjp1TRInuLse2uetW9NsmmUJ6_QqYstqSf7lZQ3lCWXEj1XxhyO_ApJjokju-WxLcGVmvlCsyUpPY/s306/Gone%20Fishing%20Gif.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="306" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6lPZqbsyoulOkjxHUUSQUZqjOjTJxMn_VQI6l5qhcvimr2LJEiJlvHMn2Sd9cTEUCs_mN4XKQs0SKuu3CYuQdBd_elsIymffDyXkQYXAoDsrCQ0Zjp1TRInuLse2uetW9NsmmUJ6_QqYstqSf7lZQ3lCWXEj1XxhyO_ApJjokju-WxLcGVmvlCsyUpPY/w306-h181/Gone%20Fishing%20Gif.jpg" width="306" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-63935568567483393922023-12-24T06:30:00.004-06:002023-12-24T06:30:00.133-06:00Merry Christmas!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie4iTAHQOFT6vEY4WkR8h5emD9gsK2vBImhRzxvZTOE37IQhR9bLlzBgciSHhiiTC4_Xzd7w9ebDSP6zHjLx1vyhksUGKzD5T0TGM0a7g5VOwW5xKljfk8IfIfYP_QlGeFjMgRqMwU83ewGxumTuZWZ9oL1kijSuaF5iHtdQA7FfeiA4ZzEyMacLJRtMY/s696/santa-claus-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="457" height="441" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie4iTAHQOFT6vEY4WkR8h5emD9gsK2vBImhRzxvZTOE37IQhR9bLlzBgciSHhiiTC4_Xzd7w9ebDSP6zHjLx1vyhksUGKzD5T0TGM0a7g5VOwW5xKljfk8IfIfYP_QlGeFjMgRqMwU83ewGxumTuZWZ9oL1kijSuaF5iHtdQA7FfeiA4ZzEyMacLJRtMY/w290-h441/santa-claus-3.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> <b>Merry Christmas from Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog</b></i></div><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-40710424065757725242023-12-15T06:00:00.010-06:002023-12-15T06:00:00.150-06:00Destructive Fire at Smithland 1875<p> <i>From the Evansville, Indiana
Courier, 15 Oct 1875.</i></p>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A special telegram to the <i>Courier</i>,
received last night, brings the particulars of a disastrous conflagration that
occurred in Smithland, Kentucky, on Monday evening, in which two fine store
rooms were burned and a complete stock of goods destroyed. The fire originated
in an old, unoccupied dwelling adjoining the store of Mr. Tom Leech. The flames communicated to the store and from
thence to T.T. Cochran’s establishment, both of which were destroyed. Leech’s
entire stock was destroyed before the flames could be extinguished, and the
goods of Cochran were only secured after being somewhat damaged. The entire
loss will exceed $10,000, upon which
there was little or no insurance. The work is supposed to be that of an
incendiary.</span><div><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Published 15 Dec 2023, <i>Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog.</i> httyp://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/</span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-28798132652140718302023-12-11T06:00:00.021-06:002023-12-11T06:00:00.139-06:00Livingston County's Bowie Family Connection<p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;">Jim Bowie, who is often associated with the Bowie knife and who was killed at the Alamo in 1836, spent part of the fourth year of his life with his family in Livingston County, Kentucky. Rezin Bowie, Jim's father, can be found on the 1800 Livingston County tax list and was appointed appraiser of the estate of John Clark deceased that same year.</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998509848120209824#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face="calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">[1]</span></span></span></a></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The Bowie family came to Livingston County from Logan County, Kentucky, where Jim was born. After staying in Livingston County a short time, the family moved on to District of New Madrid (Missouri) and about 1802 moved on to Louisiana. You can read more about Jim Bowie <a href="https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/bowie-james">Here</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><br /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998509848120209824#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face="calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">[1]</span></span></span></a> Livingston County Court Order Book A, no pagination, 25 Mar 1800.</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: center;">Originally published 5 Feb 2016. Published again 11 Dec 2023.</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: center;">http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/</div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-59116447701530424652023-11-30T06:00:00.005-06:002023-11-30T06:00:00.146-06:00More Memories from Buz Egan<p><i>Those of you who follow this blog know that I have spent a lot of time researching Smithland, Kentucky and its residents. One of the town residents I enjoy most is Ben F. Egan, more commonly known as Buz. I've written about him several times. This article was originally published 27 Mar 2014.</i></p><br />Buz was a steamboat captain on the Ohio and Cumberland rivers for many years and knew just about everyone in the business or connected to the business. He also knew the men who reported the news of steamboats. So, when he was in a town, he visited the reporter who wrote the river news and talked. And talked and talked some more. He talked about old steamboat men in Smithland, calling them "old mariners." He talked about which ones were buried on "graveyard hill" in Smithland, which was often called "mouth of the Cumberland" or "mouth of Smithland." Because of his talking, we get an inside look at people he knew in Smithland and on the rivers. Thank you, Buz!<br /><br />Below are some of the news items found in the Evansville, Indiana <em>Journal, </em>which is available on microfilm at Willard Library in Evansville:<br /><br /><u>15 December 1884:</u> Speaking of his life-long friend, A.J. Duncan (deceased), Ben F. Egan says: Allen and I were boys together at that good old town at the mouth of the Cumberland river. When I first learned to know him well he and I were officers, in 1855, on the Nashville and St. Louis packet, Aleonia ... Capt. Duncan married the niece of Capt. J.V. Scyster, of Smithland ... The widow of Wm. Mantz, a favorite engineer on the Cumberland river, is the niece of Capt. Duncan.<br /><br /><div><u>22 April 1885</u>: [Speaking of J.W. Mills] His earthly voyage is ended, and he now sleeps on the graveyard hill down at the mouth of Smithland, and near him lie his old-time friends R.C. Weston, J.V. Throop, D.G. Fowler, N.F. Drew and Blount Hodge.<br /><br /><u>11 October 1886</u>: When a boy down at the mouth of Smithland, I played with the Matheny boys, Clem, Will, Tobe and Jim. Clem died at the pilot's wheel of the W.A. Johnson; Will committed suicide; Tobe was executed at Paducah by a military order issued by Gen. Payne, and now comes the intelligence from Evansville that Jim died there a few days ago, a victim of that dread disease, consumption. All of these boys were boatmen, and all, except poor Jim, died with their boots on. W.S. Gupton, a well known pilot, is their nephew.<br /><br /><u>3 December 1890</u>: Recalling ante-bellum days, Buz says: In the long ago Dixon Given drove a stage and kept a tavern on the point opposite the Mouth of Smithland. The old gentleman is dead and forgotten, and not a vestige of that house, nor of the ground on which it stood, remains. It has tumbled into the Ohio River. H.F., D.A., Mildred, Emily and Kate are dead. Judge W.P. Fowler married the oldest daughter. There <em>[sic]</em> sons are Dick, Joe, Whyte and Gus. Only Joe survives.<br /><br />This is just a sample of what Buz had to say. <br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Published a second time 30 Nov 2023, <i>Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, </i> http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-87547650347782812772023-11-24T06:30:00.027-06:002023-11-24T06:30:00.135-06:00Eddyville Trustees 1806<p>The following document was found
among the loose county court papers in the Livingston County Clerk’s Office a
number of years ago. Eddyville was
located in Livingston County at that time and remained there until 1809 when it was located in the
new county of Caldwell. By 1854, Lyon
County had been created from Caldwell County and Eddyville was then located in Lyon
County.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Many times information of this
sort was recorded in the county court order books (court minutes), but this
document was not recorded there. As far as I can determine, it is found only in
the loose county clerk papers.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr_qN-kKTWPpTMMbGaws2HVRNQDilUN5F03UeyIXQ9T29MfkzITDylNgTm1NUi7So-AqNg4DashPh9DeajufkpYjDM9oBksCCBsbX_-sRCZScEo2Ete32xckV5bDkFjHxSOUElpB1QJOrtCEBELTZGutvLMfYm_Zld2WIRGwCYgQJZZp14pbtmRR_UTd8/s1037/EddyvilleTrustees.jpeg.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="897" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr_qN-kKTWPpTMMbGaws2HVRNQDilUN5F03UeyIXQ9T29MfkzITDylNgTm1NUi7So-AqNg4DashPh9DeajufkpYjDM9oBksCCBsbX_-sRCZScEo2Ete32xckV5bDkFjHxSOUElpB1QJOrtCEBELTZGutvLMfYm_Zld2WIRGwCYgQJZZp14pbtmRR_UTd8/w373-h361/EddyvilleTrustees.jpeg.jpeg" width="373" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click on document for an enlarged view</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“As a Meeting of the lot holders
and residents of the Town of Eddyville the following Gentlemen on the first
Monday in August 1806 were duly Elected Trustees for said Town and took the
oath accordingly Gideon D. Cobb, Samuel C. Clarke, Elijah G. Galusha, Moses
Timmons, Blake Baker Esqrs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Attest<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jacob E. Faller<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>C.L.C., Eddyville August 4 1806"</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Published 24 Nov 2023, <i>Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,</i> http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/</span></o:p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-50726349985104488482023-11-23T06:30:00.001-06:002023-11-23T06:30:00.140-06:00Happy Thanksgiving!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_5g8osOXYcqtMSCVtH9saDBvnJgqVTGLbmfxKXUkBGyRSuafwnow2akHH13lasnIiVJsrYVxhpashBQ1cMesJ5DtcATSnYkGXmkvCIWlZkrSQOsKXR9sJhT82Ocn_K1AdgpHEWhUAeYSvHIjkwjwHuQPPrOSaqqX0vRE7xZwPShYxCtDlArfCo6KGsuk/s654/Thanksgiving%20clipart%202017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="654" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_5g8osOXYcqtMSCVtH9saDBvnJgqVTGLbmfxKXUkBGyRSuafwnow2akHH13lasnIiVJsrYVxhpashBQ1cMesJ5DtcATSnYkGXmkvCIWlZkrSQOsKXR9sJhT82Ocn_K1AdgpHEWhUAeYSvHIjkwjwHuQPPrOSaqqX0vRE7xZwPShYxCtDlArfCo6KGsuk/w446-h332/Thanksgiving%20clipart%202017.jpg" width="446" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: helvetica;">Happy Thanksgiving from the <i>Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog</i></span></div><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-102979925305314722023-11-14T07:00:00.003-06:002023-11-14T07:00:00.146-06:00May Day - Union County, Kentucky 1902<p> <i>Organized labor celebrated May Day 1902 in Morganfield, Kentucky with a day of festivities. A look at the typical May Day activities is provided in the Evansville Journal News on Friday, 2 May 1902, page 1. </i></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">May day was celebrated here yesterday by the different branches of organized labor. It was the most largely attended and widely represented celebration of the kind ever held in Western Kentucky.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The crowd assembled at Young's Grove early in the day. The committee in charge had everything in order before the crowd arrived. There were 30 head of sheep, 15 shoats, 15 lambs, 10 calves, 2 beeves for meats and these were barbecued by Tom Sparks, considered an expert in that line. The arrangements committee consisted of John Jarbeau, Henry Veach, James Threlkeld, James Sickling and Charles Morehead.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The following organizations participated in the festivities: Local 9757, composed of teamsters, painters, paper hangers, carpenters, bricklayers, machinists and laborers; 1123, U.M.W. of A., of DeKoven; 8989, Federation of Labor of Uniontown; 1414, U.M.W. of A. of Uniontown; 836, U.M.W. of Sturgis; 990, U.M.W. of Grangertown; 119, Federation of Labor, teamsters, of Sturgis.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The music for the occasion was furnished by the DeKoven corncert <i>[sic]</i> band, director and leader, Joe Young, C.P. Neggie, Ben Hieronymous, Fred Newcomb, William Walker, Jim Boettiger, S. Newcomb, F. Shipley, Wes. Ames, H. Spragues, C. Spragues, E. Ames and William McKinley.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The speakers for the occasion included E.P. Taler, of Owensboro, John Brashear, of Madisonville, Wm. Howell, and Judge Clements of Morganfield. Judge Clements made an appeal for Marshall Hubby, a boy about 17 years old who had lost his leg in an accident in one of the mines, and $150 was quickly subscribed for the purpose of securing an artificial leg for the lad.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The celebration of May Day in Morganfield was one of the most successful ever held in Western Kentucky. There was no liquor on the ground, but there were barrels of ice water and lemonade, and coffee was served hot to those who wanted it.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Another celebration will be held the 4th of July at Sturgis.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> <i>Originally published<span style="font-size: x-small;"> 1 May 2016, Western Kentucky Genealogy, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/ and re-peated 14 Nov 2023.</span></i></o:p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-31512726225555652132023-11-01T06:30:00.005-05:002023-11-01T06:30:00.151-05:00Smithland Deaths March 1814<p>Proving once again that it helps to expand the boundaries in your research, the following death notices<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998509848120209824#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> were found in a Nashville, Tennessee newspaper. While that may seem strange, it really isn't. Steamboats had begun plying the rivers in 1811 between Smithland and Nashville, making travel between the two cities faster and easier. News traveled farther and quicker by steamboat, but newspapers were still read, shared and read again. The following death notices were of interest to the folks who traveled the rivers or who lived anywhere between the two cities.</p><p>Originally published 6 July 2017. Repeated 1 Nov 2023.</p><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Died<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">- At Smithland, Kentucky, on the 4th inst., <i>Maj. Richard Ferguson</i>, an old settler of that place.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">- At the same place, on the 5th inst<i>., Mrs. Elizabeth Hance</i>, consort Capt. William Hance.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">- At same place, on the 6th inst., <i>Mrs. Elizabeth M'Cawley</i>, consort of James M'Cawley, Esq.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">- At same place, on the 7th inst., master <i>Robert Lewis</i>, son of Lilburn Lewis, Esq. dec. of Livingston County, Kentucky.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998509848120209824#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">- At same place on the 9th inst., <i>Edward Brown, </i> Hatter.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">- At same place, on the 12th inst., <i>Mrs. Catharine Ferguson, </i>wife of Col. Hamlet Ferguson, of Randolph County, Illinois Territory.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><!--[endif]--><br /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998509848120209824#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <i>Nashville Whig</i>, Wednesday, 23 March 1814, page 3.</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998509848120209824#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> According to <i>Livingston County, Kentucky Cemeteries 1738 - 1976 </i>by Livingston County Homemakers, 1977; page 196, Robert died at age 7 and is buried in Lewis Family Cemetery, Birdsville.</div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-69377317864692326672023-10-17T06:00:00.008-05:002023-10-17T06:00:00.148-05:00Crittenden County News Items 1904<p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>The Crittenden Press on Thursday, 22 Dec 1904 was full of family visits and more. The following is a sample of what appeared in this popular weekly newspaper published in Marion, Kentucky.. </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">J.R. Farris, of Salem, was in the
city Thursday visiting his daughters, Misses Lake and Eva, on East Belleville
street.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Strachley, of
Cincinnati, are expected to arrive Saturday for a short visit to her mother,
Mrs. Maxwell.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Ernest Paris, of Cave-in-Rock came
over Saturday to visit his mother, sister and brothers, returning home Sunday
morning.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Mr. and Mrs. Geo. M. Swisher, of
Tunica, Miss., are expected here in a few days to spend the holidays with the
family of her father, R.H. Kemp.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Richard E. Pickens Jr., of
McLeansboro, Ill., is expected home to spend Christmas with his parents here. He
has charge of one of Stinson Bros.’ big
stores and is succeeding well in the mercantile business.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Dr. G.E. Shively has just
completed a beautiful cottage on the corner of Kevil and East Wilson avenue and
will occupy it soon. The house is as convenient and cozy as it is possible to
make one. The location is fortunate, too, for a physician’s home.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Whitney, of
Water Valley, Miss., will arrive Sunday morning to visit her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. R.F. Dorr. After a short stay here they will go to Bowling Green to visit
Mr. Whitney’s relatives before returning to their southern home.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Frank Dorroh, of Crayneville, was
in the city Saturday. He received a sample box of apples from Washington
Territory sent in by some of our former citizens, who are thriving in the west.
Frank says the apples are fine but old Crittenden is good enough for him.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Mrs. Kit Nunn went to Repton
Friday to spend the holidays with her daughter, Mrs. Henry Hartzell.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Mrs. J.W. Flynn, of Grandview, Ill., will spend the holidays with her mother, Mrs. J.P. Pierce.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Published 17 Oct 2023, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/</i></span></o:p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-33533521321359077542023-10-05T06:00:00.020-05:002023-10-05T06:00:00.144-05:00The Barner House on Charlotte Street<p> <i>The following post was originally published on the 20th of Sep 2018.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">For
several years I have been researching the Barner family, along with
the house they lived in, on Charlotte Street in Smithland. Benjamin Barner was
the first of the family to live in this house and, about 1841, his brother and
sister in law, Sterling M. and Sarah Jane (West) Barner, moved from Nashville,
Tennessee to live with Benjamin. Also living in the household were Sterling and
Sarah Jane's children, Mary E., Joseph, and Martha "Miss Pattie"
Barner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Unfortunately,
all members of the family were deceased by 1870 with the exception of Sarah
Jane. She and her grandson, Sterling Barner Taylor, child of Miss Pattie's
unfortunate marriage to B. Waller Taylor, moved to Russellville,
Kentucky to live with her sister, Elizabeth Saffrans. In 1873, Sarah
Jane married George Blakey and then died in 9 January 1879 in Bowling Green,
Kentucky. Through the years the Barner house in Smithland
was rented out to various tenants, including J.W. Bush,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7998509848120209824/126568821778032867"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></a> Mrs. Nannie
(Haydock) Ferguson,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7998509848120209824/126568821778032867"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11pt;">[2]</span></a> and E.G. Leeper.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7998509848120209824/126568821778032867"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11pt;">[3]</span></a> Leeper agreed to pay
rent of $125 per year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">By 1890,
Miss Pattie's son, Sterling Barner Taylor, a physician living in Columbus, Ohio
and the only surviving heir of the Barner family, began to sell off the
property in Smithland, including the house on Charlotte Street. Mrs.
Nannie Ferguson, who had first rented the house in 1866 and had also been
living there since the summer of 1880, agreed to buy Lots #37, 38, and 39 which
included the dwelling house, for the sum of $500.</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7998509848120209824/126568821778032867" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11pt;">[4]</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Nannie
Ferguson died in 1901 and the Charlotte Street house and two extra lots were
inherited by her children, Hamlet, Nettie and Maude Ferguson.
Hamlet was living in Kansas City, Missouri when he conveyed
his interest in the property to his sisters, Nettie and Maude.</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7998509848120209824/126568821778032867" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11pt;">[5]</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> By 1919,
Nettie and Maude had moved to San Diego, California and sold the house to J.E.
Massey.</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7998509848120209824/126568821778032867" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11pt;">[6]</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Massey and his
family lived in the property for a number of years and then it sat empty for
some time. On 1 December 2009, the house was destroyed by fire. Today the
lot on which the house stood is vacant with no remnant of the old house
remaining. It was said that the oldest part of the house was an
original log cabin in the center portion of the house. This appeared to be
true from what remained of the house after the fire. Very likely the house was
enlarged to accommodate the larger number of people when Sterling moved his
family to Smithland.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">There
are various rumors about the house on Charlotte Street. A local tradition says
it was the oldest house in Smithland, but no one, to my knowledge, has offered
proof. Some people believe that slaves escaped to free territory via an
underground tunnel leading from the house to the Ohio and Cumberland Rivers,
just a half block from the house. Whether this is true or not, I
cannot say, but I do know that on the 1850 Livingston County Slave Schedule,
Sterling Barner had four slaves listed as his property. In 1860, Sterling had
four slaves and his brother, Benjamin, had two slaves. It is interesting that
the 1870 Livingston County census does not show any black or mulatto persons
with the surname of Barner. Did they move away from Livingston County when they
were freed or did they change their surnames? <br />
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzJ5d2WNlHrhtB43OgqlnkJERi8gOiZRL8lc0cnP1yYCgp_YbJNdYIqr5nc6v3mAkiPLIYICgvNefqirfbbYNdgRzTlV-fdvqhgPNo9Pv773_wrFCwWomZ8XabmZqsXoTNYTZQSHDPRLBpZP1ApFm71YQgxIqpdu_dJ2tiMh6eJqC_hjJLZvq1GIJAnko/s733/BarnerHouse4Dec2009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="733" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzJ5d2WNlHrhtB43OgqlnkJERi8gOiZRL8lc0cnP1yYCgp_YbJNdYIqr5nc6v3mAkiPLIYICgvNefqirfbbYNdgRzTlV-fdvqhgPNo9Pv773_wrFCwWomZ8XabmZqsXoTNYTZQSHDPRLBpZP1ApFm71YQgxIqpdu_dJ2tiMh6eJqC_hjJLZvq1GIJAnko/w413-h310/BarnerHouse4Dec2009.jpg" width="413" /></a></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Barner House 4 December 2009 (after the fire)</div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7998509848120209824/126568821778032867"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></a> Rental agreement dated
1 Jul 1865 between J.W.Bush and Mrs. Sarah J. Barner to rent part of her
residence until 28 Dec 1865; copy of letter in compiler's files.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7998509848120209824/126568821778032867"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></a> Letter dated 6 Feb 1866
from Pattie Barner to her mother, Sarah Jane Barner, stating "I suppose by
this time Miss Nannie has become fully installed in her new [house?]. Give my
love to Mrs. Haydock and Miss Nannie also ..." Transcription of
letter in compiler's files.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7998509848120209824/126568821778032867"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">[3]</span></a> Rental agreement dated
7 Jan 1870 between E.G. Leeper and Sarah J. Barner to rent her dwelling
house <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7998509848120209824/126568821778032867"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">[4]</span></a> Livingston County Deed
Book 19:155-156, Sterling B. Taylor to Mrs. Nannie Ferguson, 12 May 1890;
recorded 7 Dec 1892.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7998509848120209824/126568821778032867"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">[5]</span></a> Livingston County Deed
Book 29:445-447, Hamlet Ferguson and wife Mathilde to Nettie and Maude
Ferguson, 14 Sep 1903; recorded 20 Oct 1904.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7998509848120209824/126568821778032867"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">[6]</span></a> Livingston County Deed
Book 45:472-473, Maude and Nettie Ferguson to J.E. Massey, 31 Jul 1919;
recorded 27 Mar 1920.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">A repeat publication on 5 Oct 2023 <i>Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, </i>http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-8307491532465096772023-09-27T06:00:00.009-05:002023-09-27T06:00:00.134-05:00Henderson, Kentucky Newspaper Ads 1852<p> <i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">What
better way to get a sense of the business and social climate of an area than to
read the newspaper advertisements? The following advertisements have
been gleaned from the 20 January 1853 issue of the Democratic Banner of
Henderson, Kentucky</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">. <i>This issue of the Banner is available in the
Henderson Public Library and also on Newspapers.com. It was originally
published on this blog on the 26<sup>th</sup> of Sep 2019.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Administrators
Notice</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> - Notice is hereby given to all the creditors of
Benjamin F. Hardwick, Dec'd, to produce to the undersigned Administrator of
said Dec'd, or to file with the presiding Judge of the Henderson County Court,
their claims against the said Benj. F. Hardwick Dec'd ... on or
before the 8th day of January next, when a settlement of the matters of the
Administration will be made. The assets are not sufficient to pay all the
debts, and the claims not presented by the day aforesd., will not be paid, nor
any part of them this 7th December 1852. [signed] S.L. Drewry,
Admr. December 9, 1852</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Life
Insurance</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> - The undersigned is Agent for the Kentucky Mutual
Life Insurance Company, and will insure both Whites and Slaves, upon the most
favorable terms. P.H. Hillyer, Agent. R.P. Letcher,
Medical Examiner.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">F.
Millet, Merchant -</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> This gentleman has removed to his new store rooms on
the north side of Mill Street where he will keep on hand a general assortment
of goods in his line.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Negros </span></b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">[sic] </span></i><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">For Sale
- </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">On the 24th inst. (county court day) I will expose for sale
at the court house door in the town of Henderson, four negroes, a woman and
three children. The two youngest children will be sold with the mother as I am
unwilling to separate them. A credit until June next will be given. Bond with
approved security will be required. [signed] John B.
Cabell</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">W.R.
King</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> - The report of this gentleman's death is no doubt
false ... he has arrived at Havana in improved health.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Particular
Notice -</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> The undersigned, desirous of closing out his
business in this place, offers his well selected stock of ready-made Clothing
and furnishing goods at very low prices. His stock consists, in part, of Coats,
vests, pants, drawers, shirts, sacks, cloaks, &c. of every style
and quality; hats, caps, shoes, boots, &c. On Saturday, the 20th inst., I
will commence <i>SELLING OFF AT COST</i>, and on Saturday the 27th I
will commence selling <i>AT AUCTION. </i>All sums of $5 and
under cash at hand - over $5 credit until the first of March, good security
required. Country merchants will find it to their interest to call at the
auction sales every Saturday. I hope those who may read this may give me a call
and satisfy themselves that my word is <i>NO HOAX.</i> [signed]
S. Bissinger.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">For Sale
-</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Two good work horses (one rode well) either works
well in single or double harness or in ploughing. Having bought a
pair of mules for my purpose, have no use for the horses. Call at the
Louisville Furniture Rooms, Main Street. [signed] C.H. Woolford.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Second time around 27 Sep 2023, <i>Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, </i> http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-83414247690160596162023-09-11T05:30:00.021-05:002023-09-11T05:30:00.160-05:00Sisters Marry Same Day 1907<p><i>I am sharing a little information from my research today. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the announcement of the marriages<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of sisters, Amanda and Elinor Barbara Joyce of Morganfield, Union County, Kentucky. The announcement appeared in the Owensboro Messenger on Thursday, 10 Oct 1907, page 5. Although I never met Amanda and “Nellie” Joyce, they were distant relatives and were the daughters of James Madison Joyce and Mary Paschal Davenport. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our common ancestor was Revolutionary War patriot George Joyce (1759 – 1835). This post was originally published 15 April 2021.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal">“The marriage of Rev. H.B. Self and Miss Amanda Joyce, and Mr. Allen Omer Hooper and Miss Elinor Barbara Joyce, of Morganfield, was solemnized at the Christian church at Morganfield Tuesday morning. The ceremony was said by the Rev. R.H. Crossfield, of Owensboro.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“The church was tastefully decorated for the occasion by the girls of the 1905 class of the Morganfield high school of which Miss Amanda Joyce was a member.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“The ushers were Mr. Fred Dyer, of Sturgis; Mr. Will Markwell, of Sturgis, and Dr. Richard Foster, of Morganfield. Immediately after the ceremony the wedding party left for Louisville, where Mr. and Mrs. Hooper will visit Mr. and Mrs. Milton Young, formerly of Morganfield. From Louisville Mr. and Mrs. Self will visit in several central Kentucky cities. On their return to Morganfield, Mr. and Mrs. Self will be at home with Mrs. Elinor D. Hatfield and Mr. and Mrs. Hooper will be with the groom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hooper, near Grove Center.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Rev. Self was formerly assistant pastor of the First Christian church here and has many friends in Owensboro. He recently accepted the call to the Christian church at Morganfield.”</p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Amanda Joyce Self was born in 1885 Union County and died 3 Dec 1970 Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. According to a death notice, her body was returned to a Union County funeral home, but the place of burial was not given. </i><a href="file:///C:/Users/Brenda/Desktop/Joyce%20Double%20Wedding.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="font-style: italic; mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><i> Her husband, the Rev. Self, was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Morganfield.</i><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Brenda/Desktop/Joyce%20Double%20Wedding.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="font-style: italic; mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></a><i> </i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Eleanor Barbara Joyce, better known as “Nellie,” was born in 1888 Union County. She died in 1919 and is buried beside her husband, Allen O. Hooper in Odd Fellows Cemetery #37.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Brenda/Desktop/Joyce%20Double%20Wedding.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><!--[endif]--><div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Brenda/Desktop/Joyce%20Double%20Wedding.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">“Deaths and funerals in Kentucky,” <i>The Courier-Journal</i>, Louisville, Kentucky, Fri., 4 Dec 1970, p. 3. “Morganfield - Mrs. Amanda Self, formerly of Union County, died in Birmingham, Ala. The body will be returned to Whitsell Funeral Home here.”</span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Brenda/Desktop/Joyce%20Double%20Wedding.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="line-height: 13.91px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></a> “Retired Minister, Rev. Self, Dies,” <i>The Messenger,</i> Madisonville, Kentucky, Thurs., 2 July 1959, p. 10.</span></p></div><div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn3" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Brenda/Desktop/Joyce%20Double%20Wedding.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="line-height: 13.91px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Find A Grave, Memorial #107954266, Nellie Joyce Hooper and Memorial #107954272, Allen O. Hooper</span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: small;">Published again 11 Sep 2023, </span><i style="font-size: small;">Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, </i><span style="font-size: small;">http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/</span></p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-86898395583279851652023-08-30T06:00:00.021-05:002023-08-30T06:00:00.143-05:00Salem Cemetery 1888<p> <i>The following deed for a public
burying ground in Salem, Livingston County, Kentucky can be found in Livingston
County Deed Book 10, page 249. This cemetery is still in use today, making it 134 years old.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“This deed of gift and transfer
made and entered into this 16 day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand
eighty eight, Between Asa Alvis, M.H. Utley and T.W. Lowery, of the county of
Livingston and State Of Kentucky of the first part and the citizens of the town
of Salem and those living Adjacent to … town of Salem and their heirs of the
second part, all of the County and State aforesaid, witnesseth That the said
parties of the first part has <i>[sic]</i> this day given unto the said parties
of the second part a certain tract or parcel of land … for the purpose
of a public Burying Ground … containing
by survey One acre, be the same more or less. To have and to hold with all the
appurtenances thereunto belonging. And the parties of the second part to
forever warrant and defend the right and title of said land from them … In
testimony hereof we have set our hands and seals this day and date above
written. [signed] T.W. Lowery, Sallie Lowery, Acy <i>[sic]</i>
Alvis, M.C. Alvis, M.H. Utley, S.M. Utley.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p>State of Kentucky, County of Livingston}
Sct. I, J.M. Worten, Clerk of the County Court for the county and state
aforesaid, hereby certify that the foregoing deed to the Citizens of the Town
of Salem, was this day produced to me in my office, and ordered to be recorded,
the same having been duly acknowledged by T.W. Lowery, Sallie Lowery, Asa
Alvis, M.C. Alvis, M.H. Utley and S.M. Utley before J.M. Roney, my Deputy to be
their act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned, as appears by an
endorsement thereon in said Deputy’s hand writing in these words, to wit: “Ack’d
March 19<sup>th</sup> 1889. J.M. Worten, Clk. By J.M. Roney, D.C." Recorded 20
March 1889. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Published 30 Aug 2023, <i>Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, </i>http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-31550390458622933302023-08-16T06:00:00.000-05:002023-08-16T06:00:00.145-05:00Manumission of Slave Iras - 1825<p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Slaves in Kentucky were
manumitted [emancipated] through the county court or through a provision in the
last will and testament of the slave's owner. The amount of the bond was not
paid unless the slave had no support and became a charge upon the county. The
following manumission is recorded in Caldwell County, Kentucky Order
Book D, pages 160 and 169.</i></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"A Deed of
manumission from </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> of this County to
Iras commonly called Ivy was this day produced in open Court and acknowledged
by McVay to be his act and deed for the purposes therein named and ordered to
be recorded, to wit: State of Kentucky Caldwell County To
wit: Be it Known that I have this day emancipated and set free my negro Woman
named Iras commonly called Ivy of dark complection aged
about forty five years which said girl was purchased by me of and from David
Tucker of Mecklingburg County and state of Virginia hereby Renouncing all claim
to her from henceforth, and do request the County Court of Caldwell to give the
Certificate a place on their records. And furthermore request any person to
treat her with friendship so long as she may deserve the same. In Testimony
whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this 17th day of January 1825 at
Princeton." [signed] Hugh McVay.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"On motion of Hugh
McVay, who at the January term last of this court recording his Deed of
emancipation, by which he set free & emancipated his negro Woman named Iras
commonly called Ivy of dark complexion aged about forty
five years, leave is given him & he enters into and acknowledges bond in
penalty of $1000, payable to the Justices of the Caldwell County Court and their
successors in office, to keep his negro from becoming chargeable to said
county, conditioned according to law, together with Kinson McVay his security
and it is ordered that a certificate of freedom be granted said negro
woman." 18th April 1825.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Originally published 16 Aug 2018 and re-published 16 Aug 2023, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog</i></span></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-59862620872276477902023-08-03T07:00:00.011-05:002023-08-03T07:00:00.144-05:00Marriage Consent Notes<p><i> Through the years, I have transcribed quite a few marriage records, many of which include notes. As a rule, consent notes were written by a parent or guardian of an underage bride or bridegroom and simply stated that consent was given for the marriage license to be issued. Also, brides over the legal marrying age of 21 often wrote their own consent note. Lucky is the researcher who finds that his ancestor included additional information, such as birth dates or places. Below are examples of consent notes found in my research:</i></p><br />On 21 March 1886 in Livingston County, Kentucky, Jeptha Moxley, age 56 and a farmer, obtained a marriage bond to marry Margaret Jane Page, age 31. Both the prospective bride and bridegroom were marrying for the second time. For some reason, Margaret Jane’s father, W.T. Champion, sent along a note that provided wonderful information.<br /><br />“marget Jane Page wast were marget Jane Champion first madon name wer born July the 6 day 1855 her mothers name was Crowfford george Crowffords daughter Nancy Jane Champion now she was bornd September the 29 day 1822 & now the wife of W.T. Champion. W.T. Champion wer bornd 1819 february all three of the 12 dau[?] as wer bord in Livingston County W.T. Champion This is a full State ment of all the facks in the case that I know of in the case. W.T. Champion” Oh, to have a note like this for some of my elusive ancestors!<br /><br />Another favorite note is actually a letter written by Willis L. Hobby, to his son, William M. Hobby, who was to marry Miss Lucinda C. Crow in Caldwell County, Kentucky. The letter is dated 3 September 1855 and was sent from Grass Valley, California. The marriage occurred 8 November of that year.<br /><br />“Dear Sun: I have Jest received your compliments and vary unexpectedley had I thought of being addrest on A Subject of Such magnitude as yours and having but a few moments to reflect I shall bee at great loss for the form of my letter however I bee willing to gratify you as fore as I can consistent with my feelings and interest; William you have complied with your duty as an obedient Sun to me, being your Father and I feel willing as a Father to comply with my duty to the child. William in the first place I feel it my duty to ask you some important questions; the first question I ask have you give your Self time for [illegible] and Sober reflection in regard to this matter; also have you taken into considderation the great responsiblity which involvs upon the head of the family and also the Solam oath that is binding through life. William I never intend to make or brake matches and if you think you had rather ingay a retyard life exersise your one free will and if you do well it will bee well for you and if not dont reflect on me. William let the result bee as it may I hope you will Stay with my children till I return. I will start home the 15 of November next if I live and able to travel. William Study your interest and act in accordance is all that I can say at presant. I will do no more I remain your father. Willis L. Hobby.”<br /><br />Then there is the note filed with a 1909 Hopkins County, Kentucky marriage license for a couple from Paducah. It says: “Dear Sir I return license issued on the --- as illness over taken Miss --- & we will bee unable to get to Hopkins County in limited time so we wish them to bee cancled & the record distroyed we have kept it a secret ..."<br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Originally published 18 July 2008 and republished 3 Aug 2023, <i>Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,</i></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-51814369692026040982023-07-19T06:00:00.013-05:002023-07-19T06:00:00.137-05:00Emancipation of Edmond<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Slaves in Kentucky were emancipated by their
owner petitioning the county court or being set free through a provision in the
owner’s last will and testament. The following Deed of Emancipation is found in
Livingston County, Kentucky Court Order Book (county court minutes) L, pages 9 - 10, 3 March
1851.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Brenda/Desktop/McCawley,Martha.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">“George D. Williamson, administrator of Martha
McCawley dec’d produced a Deed of Emancipation for slave Edmond … I Martha McCawley
widow of James McCawley dec’d of Smithland, Ky in a few days purpose taking a
trip to Louisville and Jefferson County to see my friend And whereas I am
seized and possessed of my own property a certain mulatto Boy named Edmond aged
about 22 or 23 years of age, raised by myself who I wish to serve no one after
I shall die shall do as promised that is to pay me four hundred Dollars for
himself. Edmond paid to me $100 this day and as soon as he pays the remaining
$300, then I have obligated my heirs to manument Edmond immediately after my
death. It is understood Edmond is to serve Martha as long as she lives …Tho he
may have paid me the Three hundred Dollars while I live, as he promises to pay
me along as it may be convenient to him … he will always be given a receipt …
If I should die before he pays all, he must pay the balance to my heirs,
Executors Administrators and there be manumitted. But it is understood that
Edmond is to serve me as a slave faithfully during my life as tho this paper
did not exist as what I now do is merely to secure him his freedom after my
death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>20 July 1849<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[signed] Martha McCawley. Wit: W. Beverly,
Mina McCawley.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">And thereupon Geo. D. Williamson proved sd.
writing by the oaths of W. Beverly and Mina Williamson, late McCawley,
subscribing witnesses to be act & deed of Martha McCawley, desired that a
Certificate of freedom be given to Edmond. Whereupon the boy Edmond came into
court and appears to be about 25 years old with a scar on his left arm on the
inside of his elbow and a small scar between his eyes just above the nose and
is 5 feet high.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/Brenda/Desktop/McCawley,Martha.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> The two
entries just prior to the Deed of Emancipation of Edmond, both on page 9, are
the appointments of administrators of the estates of Martha and James McCawley.
The entry following the Deed of Emancipation on page 10 is the appointment of appraisers
of the estate of Martha McCawley. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText">Published 19 July 2023, <i>Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, </i>http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/</p>
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</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-90695887341737842262023-07-06T06:00:00.002-05:002023-07-06T06:00:00.133-05:00John Bayliss - Early Salem Merchant<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>This post was first published in the Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog </i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>7 Feb 2013. </i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.85px;">Salem was a bustling town when John Bayliss arrived about 1816. The seat of justice of Livingston County, it was a busy place, especially the county courthouse, which faced what is today US Highway 60. It was but a few years prior to John's arrival that the courthouse was the scene of the most astonishing trial in the history of Livingston County when the nephews of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.85px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.85px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.85px;">Thomas Jefferson were tried for the murder of a slave. This trial would have been recounted through the years and, without a doubt, John Bayliss heard all the details shortly after his arrival.</span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">John quickly settled into life in Salem and married Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of local businessman William Thompson, 17 October 1816. They had at least one child before Elizabeth died a few years later. John Bayliss then married Susan Boggs, daughter of William Boggs, 17 September 1823. John and Susan had several children, including two who died as infants. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">John Bayliss and William McCroskey entered into partnership to conduct a mercantile business in Salem. At some point, they had a saddler shop, also. Their saddler shop was located catty corner across the public square from the courthouse.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In 1836, John Bayliss decided to relocate and sold his town lots in Salem, to James Campbell. In this deed, John reserved 10 feet including the graves of his children in the garden ... "and permission to inter his Wife in sd. space" unless he decided to move the corpses later.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">John moved to Paducah and formed a partnership with John A. Calhoun. The partnership, while profitable, was dissolved in 1841, the same year John wrote his will. In his will, John named his wife, Susan, his son, William, and his daughter, Sarah Margaret. Susan was named as executrix.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Because the partnership assets had not been assigned before John died, a law suit ensued which dragged on for several years. It was disclosed in this law suit that Susan Boggs Bayliss' agent, William Kay, who was also John Bayliss' brother-in-law, had dissipated the assets of the Bayliss-Calhoun partnership as well as John's personal assets and there was not enough money to cover the estate debts. The administration of the estate was later turned over to Berry Hodge. Susan, who had suffered a number of losses during the past few years, "lost her mind" and was committed to the Tennessee Lunatic Asylum in Nashville, where she died circa 1843.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">William Bayliss, only surviving son of John Bayliss' first marriage, was born 26 July 1817 in Salem. After his father moved to Paducah, William Bayliss and William McCroskey formed a partnership in a dry goods business in Salem.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On the 27th of November 1841, William "being sick and weak but of sound mind and memory" and to restore his health, wrote "I intend starting in a few days to New Orleans and may go to Cuba ... and the possibility that I may never return." In the will, he mentions a wife, Mary, who was to receive his entire estate. To date, a marriage record for William and Mary has not been found. William did go to Havana, Cuba and he died there 24 January 1842. There is a tombstone for him in the old, abandoned <a href="http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/01/pippins-butler-cemetery.html" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;">Pippin/Butler Cemetery</a> in Salem. Whether his body is interred there or the stone is simply a memorial to his life is unknown. A large slab stone, it is broken and lies on its side amid downed branches and with myrtle surrounding it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sarah Margaret Bayliss, who was born 19 November 1828, was the only surviving child of the marriage of John Bayliss and Susan Boggs. After her father's death, she moved to Montgomery County, Tennessee where she married J.N. Corbett 19 February 1846. The Corbetts moved to Nashville and had a number of children. When William McCroskey of Salem wrote his will 8 June 1856, he devised to "Sarah M. Corbitt, if living, (my old friend and first partner in the merchantile business, John Baylis dec'd daughter), $1000 in cash." Perhaps McCroskey had heard of the dissapation of the assets of John Bayliss. Sarah Margaret Bayliss Corbett died in Nashville 30 January 1900 and is buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.</span></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The burial places of John Bayliss and his two wives are unknown. Perhaps they are buried in the little cemetery in the Bayliss garden or maybe they are interred in the Pippin/Butler Cemetery. John and Susan Bayliss may even be buried in Paducah.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span> </div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNsWB-delfstebWEPzZCbOuimtLog7P5WxE7cA6PqfYfLsemv_0gjHVMhB_-v2J9Z7-sXFdVPEnCnnl-XZqEAl3hp8l9aQZmgzNa4phVcqPVK7g39kijOgbtxdh0hbWO_hiSdS9edGkxI/s1600/Bayliss,+Wm+2+(Butler-Pippin)+01-09-2013.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNsWB-delfstebWEPzZCbOuimtLog7P5WxE7cA6PqfYfLsemv_0gjHVMhB_-v2J9Z7-sXFdVPEnCnnl-XZqEAl3hp8l9aQZmgzNa4phVcqPVK7g39kijOgbtxdh0hbWO_hiSdS9edGkxI/s400/Bayliss,+Wm+2+(Butler-Pippin)+01-09-2013.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;">In</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;">Memory</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;">of</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;">William Bayliss</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;">born july 26th</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;">1817</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;">died jany. 24</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;">1842</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;">citty of havana</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo courtesy of Jerry Bebout.</span></em></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Repeat publication 6 July 2023, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-7516558684035647272023-06-19T06:00:00.033-05:002023-06-19T06:00:00.147-05:00Crittenden County, Kentucky Union Soldiers<p><i>The following post was originally published on this blog on 22 Feb 2017. </i></p><p>Several years ago I came across a list of Civil War Union soldiers in the loose papers in the Crittenden County Clerk's Office. Named were the soldiers and the regiments and companies in which they served. The lists were arranged by district in Crittenden County. The information was published in Vol. VII, No. 1 (Winter 2000) issue of the <i>Western Kentucky Journal.</i> I have never seen such a list of Union soldiers in other western Kentucky counties, although it was ordered that a list be made in each county.</p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Resolutions for the purpose of correcting the returns of troops furnished from the different counties. Whereas, there exists, in many counties of the State, a doubt as to whether or not the men furnished for the purpose of suppressing the present insurrection have been accurately credited to the proper counties, upon the rolls in the office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky - therefore be it Resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>1. That it is hereby recommended to the judges of the county courts to immediately appoint committees of two or more, in every precinct of their respective counties, who ... shall go through such precinct, carefully ascertain and report as many as possible of the following facts, viz: the name, date of enlistment, in what company and regiment, or other service, every soldier or marine entered from Kentucky, who has served in the State of Kentucky or elsewhere, under the authority of the United States, for the purpose set out in the above preamble. That all returns shall, as soon as practicable, be delivered to the judge of the county, who shall immediately transmit the same to the Adjutant General of Kentucky, and he shall, in all instances where the evidence is satisfactory, re-adjust the rolls in his office ... <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998509848120209824#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">A later resolution stated the Adjutant General of Kentucky was required to procure descriptive rolls of every enlisted man in the service of the State or United States and include this information in his next annual report.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998509848120209824#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">In Crittenden County, T.L.R. Wilson (replaced by S. Hodge) was appointed to procure a descriptive list of the men who volunteered in the Federal Army which had been regularly enlisted since the first day of June last and report same to the county court so it could be certified to the Adjutant General of Kentucky. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998509848120209824#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Taking lists in Crittenden County districts were W.C. Carnahan, H.C. Gilbert, J.A. Davidson, Wm. S. Williams, J.H. Travis, D.B. Cassidy and W.H. Franklin. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998509848120209824#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Union soldiers from Crittenden County received a break from paying taxes. All soldiers who had been in the Federal services and had been discharged since the 10th day of January 1865, were released from paying poll tax for 1865 (laid in 1864) and, if they had already paid, the sum was to be refunded to them. It is doubtful confederate soldiers received such a break.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><!--[endif]--><br /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998509848120209824#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Resolution No. 10, <i>Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky</i>, (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864)137-138, Approved December 22, 1863.</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998509848120209824#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Resolution No. 38, <i>Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, </i>(Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864) 159-160, Approved February 12, 1864.</div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998509848120209824#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Crittenden County Court Order Book 3:187, 10 October 1864.</div></div><div id="ftn4"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998509848120209824#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Crittenden County Court Order Book 3:189, 10 October 1864.</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Published 19 June 2023, <i>Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com</i></span></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-1526620944017869352023-06-07T06:30:00.007-05:002023-06-07T06:30:00.130-05:00John H. Going Petition for Free Papers<p><i>This post was originally published on this blog 31 March 2008.</i> </p><p><em style="font-family: arial;"><br /></em></p><p><em style="font-family: arial;">Being free in Kentucky did not guarantee a person of color the same rights and privileges as a white person. Their movements were often restricted to the area where they were known. Traveling outside their immediate area and sometimes even in their own area required papers identifying them as free.</em></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><em>Several free men of color, all with the surname of Going settled in Livingston County prior to 1820. They lived in the part of Livingston County that would become Crittenden County in 1842. One of those men, John "Jack" Goin, was born about 1787. In 1847, Going wanted to visit Mississippi to claim his portion of his brother’s estate. The following petition was filed Wednesday, 26 May 1847 and is found in Crittenden Circuit Court Order Book A, pages 308, 312 and 322. Although called John H. Going in the circuit court sessions, he is listed as Jack Going in the order book index.</em><br /><br />"To the Honorable Judge of the Crittenden Circuit Court ... Your Petitioner John H. Going, a man of color a resident of this County would Respectfully [say] to your Honor that he has lived where he now does & its neighbourhood for near thirty five years that he is very well Known to many persons of the County & he hopes & believes favourably Known that he is a free man & has been so since his birth altho his color is dark & might be taken as prima facie evidence that he was a slave. That his Mother was named Agnis an Indian by blood his father a free man of color. He would further represent to your Honor that he has a brother by the name of Thomas Going of the County of Claibourne & state of Mississippi - that he has been dead some years & died without children leaving him as he understands one of his heirs that the Estate is valuable & time enough has elapsed since his death for its full & entire settlement ... and he now desires to go to sd. state of Mississippi & claim his wrights But he finds some difficulty in travelling because of his collor. He therefore humbly & Respectfully petitions & asks your Honor to permit him to introduce in Court proof of his freedom & have it certified to all whom it may concern so that he shall be able to pass & attend to his business."<br /><br />Two days later, John H. Going filed the depositions of Thomas S. Phillips and Ira Nunn. Phillips stated that he had been acquainted with Going for about 30 years and during that time he had resided as a free man of color and not born a slave. It was reported that he was of Indian and Negro blood or parentage [and] from information he had a brother by the name of Thomas Going who was an eminent Physician and died in Mississippi and affiant [Going] had an uncle who was a Physician who once practiced medicine in copartnership with Thos. Going.<br /><br />Ira Nunn stated in his deposition that he had known Going for 30 years and that he was raised in the same county in Georgia as Going. He also stated Going had always been considered & recognized by his neighbors as a free man of color.<br /><br />The following circuit court entry is dated Saturday, 29 May 1847: "It appearing from the petition and the Depositions that the petitioner has for the last 30 years been acknowledged and recognized in the community ... to be a free man of color & that he was born free considered of African & Indian blood [and] it is therefore considered that Going be recognized and considered to be a free man of color and entitled under the laws of this commonwealth to all the privileges such persons are entitled."<br /><br /><em>John H. Going is listed on the 1850 and 1860 Crittenden County census records as a wagonmaker born in Georgia. In 1867, L.J. Crabtree submitted a claim to the Crittenden County Court for "hauling Jack Goins a pauper from Bells Mines to Marion .... $5.00" The reason for this claim is unknown. We also do not know the date and place of John Goins' death.</em></div><div><em><br /></em></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Published again 7 June 2023<i>, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/</i></span></div><div><br /></div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-80888517287501411032023-05-23T06:30:00.003-05:002023-05-23T06:30:00.140-05:00Affidavit of William Gholson for Military Service<p><i>Originally published 19 Aug 2021.</i> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>By the law of the 18<sup>th</sup> of March 1818, indigent
officers of the Revolutionary War were entitled to $20 per month and privates
who were indigent were entitled to $8 per month. They had to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have served not less than nine months in the
Continental Line during the war. One of those indigent soldiers was William
Gholson of Caldwell County, Kentucky. His affidavit, along with those of
others, is recorded in Caldwell County Court Order Books B and C. <o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“William Gholson an Indigent Revolutionary soldier of the
old Continental Army personally appeared in court in order to be heard<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>respecting his being entitled to the benefit
of the law of the 18<sup>th</sup> of March 1818 Entitled an act to provide for
certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States during
the Revolutionary War, and being duly proven Testifies that in January 1777 he
Enlisted in Capt. John Spottswoods Company tenth Virginia Regt. Of Continental
Troops for three years and that he continued with the Army<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>until Charleston fell into the hands of the
British and that he made his escape from the enemy the 14<sup>th</sup> day of
June 1780 when he returned home having served the time of his enlistment. He
further swears that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of
his country for support.”<a href="file:///F:/GholsonWmRevPensionDeclaration1820Caldwell.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“On motion of William Gholson who
produced his affidavit<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… ‘State of
Kentucky Caldwell County on this 24<sup>th</sup> day of July 1820, personally
appeared in open Court being a court of record for William Gholson aged 62
years resident in said county<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… doth declare
that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows – that he enlisted in the
month of January 1777 in the tenth Virginia Regt. Commanded by Colonel Edward
Stevens for the term of three<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>years in
Captain John Spotswoods Company for the Virginia line on the Continental
establishment, all of which is contained in his original declaration which a bears
date of May 25<sup>th</sup> 1818 on which he has received a pension, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>certificate number 14.592.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“And I do solemnly swear that I
was a resident citizen of the United States on 18<sup>th</sup> of March 1818
and I have not since by gift<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sale
or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>disposed of my property or any part
thereof with intent to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of
an act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide for certain person[s] engaged in
the land an naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war” passed
on the 18<sup>th</sup> March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in
trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have
I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by
me subscribed. And I further declare I have no property except $30 which is due
me from T.C. Gholson, my occupation at present is that of teaching a small
Country School, and not able to labor for a living … I have one son named
Richard D. Gholson aged about 16 years who is unable to render me any great
service in procuring subsistence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[signed] Wm. Gholson<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>24<sup>th</sup>
day July 1820.” <a href="file:///F:/GholsonWmRevPensionDeclaration1820Caldwell.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///F:/GholsonWmRevPensionDeclaration1820Caldwell.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Deposition
of William Gholson, Revolutionary pension, Caldwell County, Kentucky County
Court Order Book B, p. 235, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///F:/GholsonWmRevPensionDeclaration1820Caldwell.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Affidavit of William Gholson, Revolutionary War pension, Caldwell County,
Kentucky County Court Order Book C, pp 202-203,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>24 July 1820.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-22141373765523172002023-05-10T06:00:00.018-05:002023-05-10T06:00:00.133-05:00John Behagg - Smithland Sexton<p> <i>Originally published 31 July 2009. One of my favorite citizens of Smithland before and after the Civil War.</i></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><br /></h3><div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1996620781974392035" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 528px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh111HiC55PIW5-INKpjMxRsFEANdes2YvjLNxEQsWPezi6DKO5vDG_WIbQ2uRh9XbX0jsFBNDXr5TBPXfWSUgm7tYd07mvo3hSsPcabTOknr9m0M5eDbkBxg_Ai3QzYRF7RdVSHoVH144/s1600-h/JohnBehagg1July2009.jpg" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364587630839659090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh111HiC55PIW5-INKpjMxRsFEANdes2YvjLNxEQsWPezi6DKO5vDG_WIbQ2uRh9XbX0jsFBNDXr5TBPXfWSUgm7tYd07mvo3hSsPcabTOknr9m0M5eDbkBxg_Ai3QzYRF7RdVSHoVH144/s320/JohnBehagg1July2009.jpg" style="border: none; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; width: 286px;" /></a><br />Tombstone of John Behagg, Smithland Cemetery.<br /><br /><br />John Behagg never bought or sold land. He never applied for a license to keep a ferry, tavern or coffee house. He was never appointed to appraise an estate or to work on the public roads. He never left a will or had sufficient estate to require an administrator. Very likely his life was one of hard work trying to provide for himself, his wife and his step-children. John Behagg was the sexton, or grave digger, for Smithland, Kentucky in the mid-1800s. While he generated few public records, there is enough information to get a glimpse of his life.<br /><br />I first ran across Behagg’s name while researching Martha Barner Taylor. Miss Pattie, as she was usually known, died in Nashville in 1869 and her body was brought back for burial in Smithland Cemetery. One of the estate expenses listed was to “Behagg for digging grave, $5.00.” That was enough to make me wonder who “Behagg” was and if this was how he earned his living.<br /><br />Records on John Behagg were few and far between in Livingston County. However, I found several vouchers in county court minutes for digging graves for paupers and also found that in August 1845, he was appointed to take charge of the courthouse. This was likely for keeping the courthouse clean and orderly.<br /><br />Census records show that John Behagg was in Livingston County by 1840 and had a number of people in his household, including a female who was of the age to have been his wife. No marriage record for him was found in Livingston County, but there is a marriage for John Behagg and Amanda Leftridge 9 May 1836 in Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. There were other Behaggs in Evansville, but they didn’t show up for some years after this marriage. However, maybe he was related to some Behaggs in neighboring Warrick County, Indiana. Were John and Amanda living in Indiana at the time of their marriage or did they make a special trip to Evansville to marry?<br /><br />The Behaggs were still living in Smithland at the time of the 1850 census, along with Amanda and Joseph Leftridge, who were probably the children of Amanda by a former marriage. On the 1860 and 1870 census Livingston County census records, John Behagg is listed with Hester Behagg. I have an idea Amanda and Hester were the same person as on 7 November 1841 in Livingston County, Sarah Lefftrage, daughter of Mrs. Hester Behagg, married James Drewry.<br /><br />Per Livingston Circuit Court Order Book L, page 260, John Behagg appeared in court on 2 October 1844 and made a declaration for the purpose of becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States. He stated that he was “born in the Kingdom of Great Britain in Huntingfordshire <em>[sic]</em> England. That he left that Kingdom and came to the United States of America in the year 1828 …” According to Circuit Court Order Book M, page 276, on Friday, the 19th of November 1847, John Behagg was declared to be a citizen of the U.S.<br /><br />Amanda/Hester must have died after she and John appeared on the 1870 census as John married Rebecca Stevenson on the 23rd of October 1872 at the Methodist Church in Smithland. When John obtained the marriage bond (Marriage Bond Book 1, page 4), he stated it was his third marriage and he was sexton of a church. He was 71 years old. This was the first marriage for his bride, Rebecca, who was 26 years old.<br /><br />When John Behagg died 2 November 1875, he left no will or estate settlement. However, his grave is marked by a tombstone, now on the ground, in Smithland Cemetery. It states he was 78 years and 3 months old at the time of his death. Although the age differs from what was shown on the census records, it is surely the same man. There was no other person in Smithland or vicinity with the name Behagg. Nearby is a tombstone for a child of Joseph Leftridge.<br /><br />So, even with few available records, a small picture of John Behagg has emerged. This proves that no matter what the occupation or social class, every person in town has a story to tell. John Behagg may not have served in public office or been a large landowner, but he was a part of the town and performed a useful service in his job.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-29455182120786538222023-04-25T06:30:00.001-05:002023-04-25T06:30:00.137-05:00Ben Egan's Report on Conditions at Smithland 1862<p><i>Originally published 19 July 2012 and re-printed 25 April 2023.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>It was surely difficult seeing your hometown overrun with soldiers during the early days of the Civil War, especially if those soldiers were in the Federal army and you sympathized with the southern cause.</p>People expressed their displeasure at the war in different ways. Some citizens of Smithland, Kentucky risked repercussions by flying the Confederate flag, others enlisted in the Confederate army and still others sent reports on the Federal army to the Confederacy.<br /><br />Shortly after the war began in 1861, it was recognized that Smithland was important because of its location at the confluence of the Cumberland and Ohio rivers. The Federal army moved into Smithland in September 1861 and remained there until after the war was over in 1865. The strengths and weaknesses of the Federal army at Smithland was of interest to the confederacy. Who better to report on activities than Ben F. Egan? As a former resident of Smithland, he knew the people, the roads and, as a steamboat captain, he knew the rivers.<br /><br />The first report Egan made about the Federal army in Smithland can be found in Official Records, Series I, Vol. 52, page 155, dated 26 September 1861. The report was sent from W.J. Waldron at Clarksville, Tennessee to General Polk. Waldron stated that "Capt. Ben F. Egan, just in from Smithland, reports that steamer <em>Empress</em> landed there on Tuesday evening 1,000 infantry and one company of cavalry, and took possession of the town."<br /><br />It is a later report that provides a good look at the Federal army in Smithland. This report is located in Confederate Citizens File, Civil War, on Fold3. Egan submitted this report on the 11th of February 1862 [incorrectly given as 1861 in one place]. The report, accompanied by a hand drawn sketch, reads as follows:<br /><br />"The Federal forces now occupying Smithland number 320, regularly enlisted soldiers and about 75 raw, green recruits recently brought there by P.D. Yeiser, of Eddyville Ky, who is raising a company for Judge Williams' regiment, these men are quartered in an old cooper shop near the market house. The Federals are encamped on Dr. D.B. Sanders' hill, behind his brick house in the orchard, their position is shown in the sketch ... these men are armed with the old U.S. muskets. There are only 3 pieces of cannon, one 64 and two 32 pounders - The 64 and one 32 are planted behind the camp and command a range a range <em>[sic]</em> from the Sulphur Spring (about a mile and a half distant) to the head of Cumberland island, the other 32 pounder is planted in the south East corner of the Grave Yard, commanding a range from the Sulphur spring to the foot of the Cumberland island - the guns in the accompanying sketch are marked ... The camp is on the farther side of the hill from the town immediately below the 64 lb gun. These guns are planted so as to command the road leading to Eddyville and Paducah but can be fired in any direction, as they work on turn tables. The pickets are stationed about a mile on the Paducah road and about a mile and a half on the Eddyville road and in a circle of about a mile to the Cumberland river. Trenches are dug on each side of the big road ... The troops say that if they are left alone and have one week to complete their fortifications that they will be well prepared to resist any attack that may be made by Southern troops.<br /><br />"On Tuesday night an expedition of these troops started up the Cumberland river destroying all flat boats, ferry boats & rafts... and every description of water craft. On Wednesday they progressed as far as Greens Ferry, and were to continue the destruction of boats as far up the river as Ross' Ferry (27 miles) - The force occupying Smithland are [illegible word] and have been all the time in constant fear and alarm and greatly dreading an attack."<br /><br />The Grave Yard mentioned in the report is Smithland Cemetery, which is located high on a hill just back of the old courthouse and provides a good view of the rivers.<br /><br />It is unknown if Egan's reports ever became known to Smithland residents, but it is known that he left Smithland before the war and never returned to live there.<br /><br />Ben F. Egan led a very interesting life on the river and elsewhere. He was the son of Edward Egan and Martha "Patsy" Barner of Logan County, Kentucky. After her husband died, Patsy Barner Egan married Henry Wells, an early commission merchant in Smithland. Following the death of his mother and stepfather, it is believed Ben F. Egan moved into the house of his Uncle Benjamin Barner on Charlotte Street. He was a Mexican War veteran and lived a long life. He died in 1908 in a hospital in Washington, D.C. and is buried beside his wife, Nettie Miller Egan, in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Brenda Joyce Jerome, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog. http://wkgenealogy.blogspot.com/.</div>Brenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.com0