Tombstone Tuesday - James and Maranda McGregor

Jas. McGregor

Mar. 5, 1831

May 16, 1912

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Maranda His Wife

Jan. 4, 1834

July 4, 1917

Buried Cedar Hill Cemetery, Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 15 Dec 2017.

According to his death certificate,[1] James McGregor was born in Hopkins County, Kentucky and was the son of John McGregor, born South Carolina, and Polly Franklin, born Kentucky. Informant on the death certificate was L.H. McGregor.

Maranda McGregor was also born in Hopkins County and was the daughter of David Franklin and Diadema Jackson, both of whom were born in Hopkins County.[2]

James McGregor married Marand_ Franklin 18 Sep 1853 Hopkins County.

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[1] Kentucky Death Certificate #11939 (1912), James McGregor, Ancestry.com, accessed 15 Dec 2017.

[2] Kentucky Death Certificate #18811 (1917), Maranda McGregor, Ancestry.com, accessed 15 Dec 2017.

Published 13 March 2018, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Tombstone Tuesday - Jasper and Mary Franklin

Jasper Franklin

Born

Apr. 27, 1773

Died

Mar. 26, 1847

Mary

Wife of

Jasper Franklin

Born

Dec. 24, 1778

Died Mar. 3, 1846

Buried Hurricane Cemetery, Crittenden County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 7 November 2014.

Jasper Franklin married Polly Brockman 27 October 1796 Amherst County, Virginia.[1] By 7 August 1810, they had left Virginia and were living in Livingston County, Kentucky.[2] They are found in Crittenden County when that county was cut off from Livingston in 1842.

In 1842, Jasper's son, Angereau Franklin and his wife Lucinda, conveyed property on Hurricane Creek to Jasper Franklin. The deed, however, was to be null and void at the death or removal from the county by Jasper and wife.[3]

Jasper Franklin left a will in which he left property or money to the following children: Anthony, Angereau, Paulina, Anthony, Matilda, Lucinda and Calpurnia Franklin and left a colt to his grandson, Booker Franklin.[4]

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[1] Virginia Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800, Ancestry.com..

[2] 1810 Livingston County, Kentucky Census, Ancestry.com.

[3] Crittenden County, Kentucky Deed Book A, p. 400, dated 21 December 1842, recorded 11 August 1845.

[4] Crittenden County, Kentucky  Will Book 1, p. 18, dated 3 February 1847, recorded April 1847.

Published 19 December 2017, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,  http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Tombstone Tuesday - William B. and Maggie Davidson

Davidson

William B.

Davidson

Apr. 2, 1878

Sep. 17, 1944

At Rest

Maggie L.

Wife of W.B.

Davidson

Sep. 6, 1880

Feb. 8, 1917

Life, Love and Truth

Buried Union Church Cemetery, Crittenden County, Kentucky. Tombstones photographed 2012.

William Buckner Davidson was born in Kentucky and was the son of Arch Davidson and Lucy Franklin, both of whom were born in Kentucky.[1] William B. Davidson married Maggie, his first wife, about 1903.[2]

Following the death of Maggie, William B. Davidson married Maude Lasher, who is buried at Hampton Cemetery, Livingston County.

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[1] Kentucky Death Certificate #20080 (1944) for William Buckner Davidson, Ancestry.com, accessed 2 Mar 2017.  His burial place is given as "Old Union Cemetery."

[2] 1910 Livingston County, Kentucky Census, Dist. 7, E.D. 0108, Ancestry.com, accessed 2 Mar 2017 shows the first child, Truman, age 6, indicating he was born about 1904.

Published 8 August 2017, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/