Francis Henry Dallam

Francis Henry Dallam was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 1812 and died in Henderson County 31 March 1866.[1] He was the son of Nathan Smith Dallam and Sarah Hicks, who married in Winchester, Kentucky in 1807.  The Dallam family had moved to Kentucky in 1804 and, in 1808, they moved to Christian County, Kentucky, where Nathan was clerk of court for many years.  He was elected to the state legislature and was a personal friend of Henry Clay.[2]  Nathan and Sarah are buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Princeton, Caldwell County.

After studying law in Frankfort, Kentucky, F.H. Dallam moved to Livingston County, Kentucky and then to Henderson.  F.H. married Miss Camilla Barbour 9 April 1839 in Caldwell County, Kentucky.[3]  The following children were born to this couple: Camilla B. Dallam Dudley, Florence "Floy" Dallam Alves, Henry Dallam, Kate Dallam and Clara Dallam.  Camilla B., Florence and Kate are known to be buried in Fernwood Cemetery  although Kate's grave is unmarked.[4]  Henry Dallam moved to Texas and died in Stephens County 15 November 1911.[5] He is buried in Acker Cemetery, Wayland, Stephens County.[6]

F.H. Dallam built an Italianate style home on Dixon Street in Henderson between 1855 and 1866. The house still stands. The family is listed on the 1860 Henderson County census.[7] Clara, the  youngest child was not listed in the household and very likely died before 1860.

Dallam was a faithful member of the Episcopal church.

The following scene is described in Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky:  "The death scene of this faithful Christian gentleman was quite impressive and touching. After a stormy night at the end of March, and after he had been gradually sinking all night, the sun arose and its bright rays streaming in through the closed shutters aroused him, and he looked up and asked, 'Is not this Easter Sunday?'  Those in attendance said, 'Yes, this is Easter Sunday,' and then, with full consciousness and looks of thankfulness in his eyes, in a few minutes he departed this life,  -  Sunday morning, A.D. 1866."

  

F.H. Dallam

Buried Fernwood Cemetery, Henderson County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 23 May 2019. It appears the top part of this monument may have broken off and is now missing.

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[1] H. Levin. Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, (Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1982 reprint) 383-4.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Brenda Joyce Jerome. Caldwell County, Kentucky Marriages 1833-1853. (Evansville, IN: Evansville Bindery, 1997), 43.  Chs. B. Dallam was surety.

[4] "Former Henderson Woman Dies Sunday," Henderson Gleaner, 4 Sep 1951, p. 6. "Miss Kate Dallam, member of one of Henderson's prominent families, died at her home in Louisville late Sunday night ... funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday ... burial will follow in Fernwood cemetery." Kate was age 97 when she died.

[5] Texas Death Index, 1903-2000, Henry Dallam, Stephens County, Ancestry.com.

[6] Find A Grave Memorial #40050597, Henry Dallam, born 26 Sep 1840; died 15 Nov 1911.

[7] 1860 Henderson County, Kentucky census, Division 1, Roll M653_373, p. 46, Ancestry.com.

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

Tombstone Tuesday - George M. Dallam, Infant

George M.

Infant son of

W.J. & K.A. Dallam

Born April 26th

1847

Died August 3rd

[1849]

Buried Smithland Cemetery, Livingston County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 20 December 2010.

George M. Dallam was the child of William J. Dallam and Kate A. Miles. William J. Dallam was born 1821 Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky and died 1893 Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. He married Catharine Miles in 1843 Crittenden County. The family appears on the 1850 Livingston County census, Smithland,  and then on the 1860 Henderson County census. By 1870, they had moved to Evansville. William J. Dallam served as Postmaster and Deputy County and Circuit Clerk in Livingston County. After moving to Evansville, he was in the shoe and boot business. Both William and Kate Dallam are buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville.

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by Brenda Joyce Jerome, CG

Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog

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Renouncement of Will Provisions

When a man made provisions for his wife in his will, she did not have to accept the provisions. Perhaps what  he intended her to have was less than one-third of the total value. In cases such as this, the wife might notify the court to renounce the provisions made for her. Once she renounced the provisions made by the will, she could accept her dower right of one-third of the value of her late husband's property. This is what Susan Ellen Dallam of Caldwell County, Kentucky did following the death of her  husband, Charles B. Dallam,  who left a will in Caldwell County Will Book B, page 94 and which was proven in county court 17 January 1848.

Susan’s renouncement states as follows:

“To the honourable County Court of Caldwell County, whereas my husband Charles B. Dallam lately departed this life in this County leaving a last will and testament which has been duly proven and admitted to record before your honourable body at your last January term 1848 and whereas my said husband made certain provisions for me in said will which is herein referred to, but for reasons satisfactory to myself, and which were not (I am satisfied) anticipated by my husband, I have determined and hereby declare that I will not take or accept the provisions made for me by said will, or any part thereof, and I hereby  renounce all benefit which I might claim by said will.

In testimony whereof I have hereto signed my name and affixed my seal this the 21^st day of February 1848. [signed] Susan Ellen Dallam. Signed, sealed &c in the presence of us. Attest  T.L. McNary, Jas. Blue.”

Tombstone Tuesday - Virginia Dallam Atkinson

Virginia Dallam
Atkinson
1863 - 1941

Virginia Dallam Atkinson was born 26 February 1863 Henderson, Kentucky and died 29 December 1941. She is buried at Fernwood Cemetery.

Virginia Dallam Atkinson was the daughter of Virginia Josephine Dallam, born 20 February 1834 Caldwell County, Kentucky and died 1 May 1869 Henderson County, Kentucky, and John Cunningham Atkinson, for whom Atkinson Park in Henderson is named. Siblings of Virginia Dallam Atkinson were John C. Atkinson, Kate Atkinson and Anna Webb Atkinson. The Dallams were members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

Tombstone Tuesday - Samuel J. and Floy D. Alves

Alves
Samuel J.
1847 – 1923

Floy D. His Wife
1847 – 1923

Buried Fernwood Cemetery, Henderson, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed March 2009.

Samuel J. Alves was born 2 August 1847 and died 3 June 1923. His parents were Dr. William J. Alves and Augusta Ann Hughes.

Florence Dallam was born 5 August 1847 and died 2 March 1923 at the home of her daughter, Camilla, wfe of A.P. Harness. Florence was the daughter of Frances Henry Dallam and Camilla J. Barbour. Samuel J. Alves and Florence Dallam married 27 April 1869. They were members of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Henderson.

William J. Dallam

Dallam Tombstone, Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Indiana.

William J. Dallam was surely a product of western Kentucky, having lived in several different counties before moving to Indiana. He was born in 1821 and was the seventh child of Nathan Dallam and Sarah Hicks, who left Clark County, Kentucky and migrated to Christian County, Kentucky. About 1825, the Dallam family settled in Caldwell County, where William J. spent his childhood and youth. Nathan and Sarah Dallam are buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Princeton, Caldwell County. Of the ten children of Nathan and Sarah, only William J. Dallam went to Indiana. His siblings lived primarily in Paducah, Smithland, Princeton and Henderson, Kentucky.

In 1840, William J. Dallam moved to Old Salem, Livingston County, where he served as Postmaster and Deputy County and Circuit Clerk. Later he was a merchant in Marion, Crittenden County, being one of the first to engage in business there after the county was created in 1842.

William J. entered the dry good business, first in Paducah and then in Livingston County. Later he moved to Caldwell County were he went into business with his brother, Lucian Dallam. Still later he moved to Henderson, where his brothers, Frances Henry and Lucian Clay Dallam, and his sister, Virginia Josephine Dallam Atkinson, also lived.

In July 1862, William J. Dallam advertised his “two-story brick Dwelling-House situated on the corner of Main and Elm” for sale or rent. It was during that year that Dallam moved his family across the Ohio River to Evansville, Indiana, where he lived at 600 Upper 1st Street. Dallam and his son, William Jr., became wholesale and retail dealers in boots and shoes at a shop on Main Street.

Dallam married Kate Miles in 1843 at Old Salem and they had the following children: Sarah Isabelle “Belle,” James L., Charles Francis, William J. Jr., and Douglas Dallam. Kate Miles Dallam died of malarial fever 22 January 1882 at the age of 60 years and is buried in the family plot at Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville.

On the 25th of May 1893, the Evansville Courier announced “the sad intelligence of the entrance into eternal rest of the spirit of W.J. Dallam” the previous day. He had been ill for several weeks and, while it was known that he could not recover, he remained cheerful to the end. His funeral services were held at the residence of his daughter, Belle, and his remains were laid to rest at Oak Hill Cemetery in a private ceremony.

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Brenda Joyce Jerome, CG
Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog

Tombstone Tuesday - Nathan and Sarah Dallam

Col. Nathan S. Dallam
who was born Dec. 19, 1782
departed this life June 1, 1837
In the 55 year of his age
[box stone at top]

To the
Memory
of
Mrs. Sarah Dallam
widow of
Col. N.S. Dallam Decd.
who was born June 5,
1792
died Jan. 12, 1839
[stone at bottom]

Buried Cedar Hill Cemetery, Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky. The footstone for Sarah Dallam is leaning against the tombstone of Nathan S. Dallam. Tombstones photographed March 2009.

Nathan S. Dallam and Sarah Hicks were married 1807 Clark County, Kentucky and moved first to Christian County and later, Caldwell County.

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Brenda Joyce Jerome, CG
Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog

The Dallam Family - Public Servants

Home of James L. Dallam in Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky.

Public service appears to have been the motto of the Dallam family. The progenitor of the family in western Kentucky was Nathan Smith Dallam, who left Harford County, Maryland about 1804 and settled in Clark County, Kentucky, where he married Sarah Hicks 14 October 1807. The following year he moved to Christian County, where he served as clerk of court and was also elected to the state legislature.

The year 1827 was an eventful one for Nathan S. Dallam, who was then living in Caldwell County, Kentucky. In October, he was chosen clerk of court, which included both county court as well as circuit court, and the following month he purchased land where the family was residing on the road leading from Princeton to Eddyville. Dallam continued to serve as clerk of court until 17 April 1837, when he tendered his resignation due to the state of his health and recommended his son, Charles B. Dallam, as his successor.

Charles B. Dallam was not the last of the family to serve as clerk of court. In 1833, James L. Dallam, the oldest son of Nathan S. Dallam, was appointed clerk of court in adjoining Livingston County and he chose another brother, Francis Henry Dallam, as his deputy. Ten years later, James L. Dallam chose still another brother, Edward Winston Dallam, as deputy clerk. James L. Dallam was clerk of court during the removal of the Livingston County seat of justice from Salem to Smithland in 1842.

Nathan S. and Sarah Dallam had ten children, six of whom were sons and almost all of them were involved in public service. This family also produced prominent business men, including brothers Francis Henry Dallam, a lawyer who moved to Henderson, Kentucky; William J. Dallam, who was in the shoe and boot business in several Kentucky counties before settling in Evansville, Indiana and Lucien Clay Dallam, a banker who settled in Henderson, Kentucky. If any family served the public in western Kentucky, it was the Dallam family.

There will be more articles on the Dallam family in future blogs.


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Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog
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