Same Man - Different Name

“The following petition for change of name was filed Monday, February 7^th (1881) in Henderson County Court:  W.H. Miller, Petitioner:  Your petitioner respectfully represents that his name is W.H. Miller, that he is 38 years of age;  was born in Breckenridge County, Ky and is a citizen of Henderson County and has been a citizen of this county since 1863;  that he has no relatives living by the name of Miller;  that he has many relatives in different parts of the state named Clark;  that he desires to visit them and locate among them;  that he and his relatives desire his name changed to Clark;  wherefore your petitioner prays for the order of the Court changing his name from W.H. Miller to Lucien Simeon Clark …

“Thereupon the following order was made and recorded:  This day appeared W.H. Miller and filed his petition … from which it appears Miller is over 21 years of age, a citizen of this county, and desires his name changed from W.H. Miller to Lucien Simeon Clark.

“Mr. Lucien Simeon Clark may now be called the late Mr. W.H. Miller.  He is not dead but liveth, going out into the world the same man, but under a new name.”[1]

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[1] “Name Change,” Henderson Semi-Weekly Reporter, 11 February 1881.

Published 28 May 2020, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Runaway Notice 1830

The following runaway notice appeared in the National Banner and Nashville Whig (Nashville, Tennessee) on Friday, 26 November 1830, page 1.  These  notices were often in newspapers published in towns along the rivers. News traveled along the rivers as news travels via internet today. 

Captain Joseph Miller was born in Ohio and built his first steamboat, the Red Rover, in Pennsylvania in 1827.  He was shot and killed at Trice's Landing, Tennessee in 1846, age 55,  and is buried in Nashville City Cemetery. His daughter, Nettie, married Ben F. Egan, nephew of Benjamin Barner and Sterling M. Barner, commission merchants of Smithland, Kentucky. Capt. Miller also owned land near the Smithland Cemetery at one time.

Published 19 March 2020, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Tombstone Tuesday - Cornelius Hazel

Cornelius

Hazel

May 22, 1824

Aug. 18, 1899

The above two photographs illustrate what can happen to a tombstone within a few years. The first photo was taken 23 March 2013 and the second one was taken 15 February 2017. The stone had been broken and repaired before the 2013 photo was taken, but had broken again and was on the ground before the 2017 photo was made.

Cornelius Hazel was buried in Bells Mines Cemetery, Crittenden County, Kentucky. He married Mary Emeline Miller 6 July 1848 Crittenden County. Joseph Hughes, Justice of the Peace, officiated at the wedding. Sarah Miller, the bride's mother, gave written consent, for the license to be issued.[1]

Cornelius Hazel and family are enumerated on the 1860 Union County, Kentucky census, Post Office Morganfield, page 198.

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[1] Brenda Joyce Jerome. Crittenden County, Kentucky Marriage Records, Vol. 1 1842 - 1865 and Abstracts of Wills Book 1  1842 - 1924, (Evansville, IN: Evansville Bindery, 1990) 21.

Published 10 October 2017. Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,  http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

John A. Sarlls and Rachel A. Miller

John A. Sarlls, a merchant in the Bells mines area of Crittenden County, Kentucky, married Miss Rachel Miller 9 April 1857.[1]  Sarlls, the son of Richard and Julia Sarlls, was born in Carroll County, Kentucky and died of bronchitis on 10 February 1874,[2] leaving Rachel with several young children.

John A. Sarlls appears in the household headed by H.W. Evertson, New York - born merchant, on the 1850 Union County, Kentucky census. In 1860, John A. and Rachel A. Sarlls, with their daughter Sarah E., were living in Bells Mines in their own home. Just a few months previously, on 7 March 1859, their three-month-old son, William H. Sarlls, had died of the croup. [3]

J.A. Sarlls registered for the draft in the Civil War service in 1863 and stated he was 27 years old, a merchant, married and was born in Kentucky. [4]  

Following the death of J.A. Sarlls, his widow, Rachel, was appointed administrator of his estate on 27 September 1874. Sureties were William J. Wilson, W.H. Tudor and John Mangin.[5]    

Rachel Miller appears on the 1850 Crittenden County census in the household of John and Sarah (Miller) Mangin, who had married 20 May 1850.[6] Sarah Miller Mangin was the widow of William A. Miller, who died in 1847 and was likely the father of Rachel Miller Sarlls.

Known issue of John A. Sarlls and Rachel Miller Sarlls, as listed on the 1860-1880 Crittenden County census records:

1.  Williams H. Sarlls - died 7 March 1869, age 3 months.

2.  Sarah E. "Sallie" Sarlls - born ca 1860.

3.  Fannie M. Sarlls - born ca 1862. 

4.  Ollie Sarlls - born ca 1867.

5.  Nance Sarlls - born ca 1869.

6.  Kittie Sarlls - born ca 1871.

7.  Richard Sarlls - born ca 1873.

John A. and Rachel Sarlls are both buried in Bells Mines Cemetery, Crittenden County.[7]

Bells Mines Cemetery

Crittenden County, Kentucky

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[1] Brenda Joyce Jerome. Crittenden County, Kentucky Marriage Records Vol. 1 1842-1865 and Abstracts of Wills  Book 1  1842-1924, (Evansville,  IN: Evansville Bindery, 1990), 66.

[2] Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1910, Ancestry.com, accessed 25 February 2017.

[3] Ibid.

[4] U.S. Civil War Draft Registration Records, 1863-1865, Ancestry.com., accessed 25 February 2017.

[5] Brenda Joyce Jerome. Crittenden County, Kentucky Estate Records 1842-1865, (Evansville, IN: Evansville Bindery, 2011), 19.

[6] Crittenden County, Kentucky Marriage Records Vol. 1 1842-1865 and Abstracts of Wills Book 1 1842-1924: 29. Both John Mangin and Sarah Miller were of age. The 1850 census shows Mangin as age 26 and Sarah as age 48.

[7] Tombstones photographed 15 February 2017.

Published 21 July 2017, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/