Tombstone Tuesday - J.L. Burgess

[J.L. Burgess]

Born

Nov. 23, 1811

Died

Sept. 9, 1871

A Native of Richmond Ind.

Buried Smithland Cemetery, Livingston County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 23 September 2013. Buried beside J.L. Burgess is his wife, Icypheania Burgess  

Joseph Logan Burgess left a will[1] in which he named his wife's mother as Peachea Doyle. He also directed that an iron fence enclose the family burial lot. There is no fence there today.

[1] Will of Joseph Logan Burgess, Livingston County Will Book B:290, dated 28 August 1871 and proven 20 September 1871, Livingston County Clerk's Office, Smithland, Kentucky. 

Published 2 June 2015, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Monument Monday - Linnie Nelson

Nelson

Linnie Doyle

Wife of Everett

Nelson

Nov. 5, 1885

Dec. 4, 1919

She was a kind and

affectionate wife, a fond

mother, and a friend to all

Buried Dyer Hill Cemetery, Livingston County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 15 October 2010.

Linna E. Doyle, daughter, was living in the household of James W. and Ella F. Doyle in Dyers Hill District of Livingston County, Kentucky on the 1900 census. 

Everette Lane Scyster Nelson, age two, died 13 October 1919 in Livingston County. He was the son of Everett Nelson and Linnie Doyle, according to his death certificate #28212 (1919).

Published 22 December 2014, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Tombstone Tuesday - Icypheania Burgess

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May not be copied without written permission

 

 

Icypheania W.

Wife of

J.L. Burgess

Born

Sept. 11, 1814

Died

April 20, 1871

 

 

Buried Smithland Cemetery, Smithland, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 1 September 2010.

 

Joseph L. Burgess married Mrs. Icypheania W. Carter 1 February 1846 in Livingston County, Kentucky. No marriage between a Mr. Carter and Icypheania has been located.  The 1850 Livingston County census shows Joseph L. Burgess as age 39 and a tanner born in Kentucky. Isafena [sic] Burgess was age 36 and born in Virginia.  In his will,  [Livingston County Will Book B, page 290, recorded 20 September 1871], Joseph Logan Burgess identified Peachea Doyle as "my wife's mother and who also has been like a mother to me ..." Peachea Doyle is buried near Icypheania W. and J.L. Burgess.

 

 Peachea Norvel Doyle

Born at Lynchburg, Va.

Jan. 4, 1790

Died at Smithland, Ky.

Apr. 25, 1886

Wife of

William Doyle

 

 



Tombstone Tuesday - Martha Ann Doyle Leffler

Martha Ann Doyle Leffler

Born at Lynchburg, VA.

Oct. 14, 1820

Died at Smithland, KY.

Jan. 20, 1874

Wife of John Stephen Leffler

Buried at Smithland Cemetery, Livingston County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 4 December 2009.

Martha Ann Doyle, daughter of William and Peachea Doyle, married John S. Leffler 8 December 1840 Livingston County. On the 1850 Livingston County census, John S. Leffler was a coffeehouse keeper and on the 1860 census, he listed his occupation as a hotel keeper.

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by Brenda Joyce Jerome, CG

Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog

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Tombstone Tuesday - Frances H. Rawleigh

In Memory

of Frances H. Consort

of

Levin W. Rawleigh

A native of Virginia

Born May 17th 1818

Died March 25th 1844

 Dearest thou has left
Here thy loss we deeply feel
Yet again we hope to meet
When the day of life has fled
Thou in [two lines illegible]
By her Husband

Buried Smithland Cemetery, Smithland, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 17 June 2010.

Frances, daughter of William and Peachea Doyle, married Levin W. Rawleigh 7 October 1841 Livingston County, Kentucky. Levin W. was born in Maryland and was a ship carpenter and farmer.  Two years after the death of Frances, Levin W. married Nancy Alsobrook, who died 10 September 1847 at the age of 21 years.   Levin W. Rawleigh moved to Paducah, where he married Eliza Smith and had several children. The death date and burial place of Levin W. Rawleigh are unknown.

Tombstone Tuesday - Aaron W. & Elizabeth D. Pickett

Pickett

Aaron W. Pickett

Apr. 23, 1844

Aug. 27, 1917

~

Elizabeth D.

His Wife

Apr. 5, 1848

Oct. 21, 1917

Buried Smithland Cemetery, Smithland, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 17 June 2010. Note the I.O.O.F. (Independent Order of Odd Fellows) emblem on the tombstone.

Aaron W. Pickett was the son of George W. Pickett and Fannie Waymer. Elizabeth was the daughter of Washington Doyle and Kittie Rice. Aaron W. Pickett and Elizabeth Doyle married 8 November 1871 Livingston County, Kentucky.