Tombstone Tuesday - Rebecca Smith

Rebecca

Smith

Mar. 5, 1850

Apr. 13, 1935

A loving mother

and a faithful

friend

Buried Smithland Cemetery, Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 26 April 2013.

According to her death certificate, Rebecca Smith, an African American lady, was the widow of Amos Smith. She was born in Livingston County and was the daughter of George Hurley and Matilda Dumas. The 1880 Livingston County census shows Amos and Rebecca Smith, along with their children, George, Howard, Maud, Maggie and Eva, living in Smithland. Sometime after 1880, the family moved to Paducah, where Amos died in 1908 and Rebecca died in 1935.

Published 3 June 2014, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,  http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Tombstone Tuesday - Andrew J.R. Hurley

Andrew J.R. Hurley

Born

Nov. 19, 1814

Died

May 5, 1854

 

Buried in the Hurley- Dickerson Cemetery east of Burna (Livingston County) on Mitchell Road near Ralph Hardin Road. This cemetery is almost destroyed with only a few tombstones surviving. Tombstone photographed and submitted by Marty Hodge, Marion, Kentucky.

 

Andrew J.R. Hurley is identified as a child and heir of Moses Hurley in Livingston County Deed Book HH, pages 278-279. In that deed dated 19 January 1846, William T. Hurley, Andrew J.R. Hurley, George C. Hurley, Wiley Spell and wife Cynthia (late Hurley), children of Moses Hurley Dec'd convey  land in Livingston County to Dickson G. Hurley, also a child of Moses Hurley.

 

Andrew J.R. Hurley married Miss Messenniah J. Asher 31 October 1839 Livingston County. They appear with their children on the 1850 Livingston County census. Livingston County Vital Statistics records the death of Andrew J.R. Hurley.  It states he was born on the Smithland-Salem Road and was the son of Moses and Catharine Hurley.

 

Published 29 October 2013, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/