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The Curd Family 

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The Fey School 

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vol. 39, no. 2/winter 2003 

The Curd Family and its Mercer County Ghost Towns 

Jean C. Dones ................................................................................................................................... 62 

Tombstone Inscriptions, Garrard County ......................................................................................... 65 

Abstracts from the Cumberland Courier, Burksville, July 29, 1874................................................... 66 

Edmonson County School Census, 1877 ........................................................................................ 70 

The Fey School and the Felix Pousardien Family 

Marguerite A. Miller ......................................................................................................................... 83 

Baugh Families in the Early History of Kentucky 

Ivan W. Baugh ....................................................................................................................... 87 

Vital Statistics ................................................................................................................................. 97 

Thataway ...................................................................................................................................... 101 

Abstracts from the Lexington Observer & Reporter, January 13, 1864 

Dr. Melba Porter Hay.......................................................................................................... 104 

Book Notes ................................................................................................................................... 111 

Queries ......................................................................................................................................... 113 

Mystery Album ............................................................................................................................. 114 

on the cover: The Kentucky General Assembly held its last regular session in the present Old State Capitol 

in 1908. The building, the first Greek Revival state capitol west of the Allegheny Mountains, was designed by 

twenty-five-year-old architect Gideon Shryock and constructed from 1827 to 1830. The Old State Capitol became 

the home of the Kentucky Historical Society in 1920 and remains a museum on its campus.

The Curd family and its 

Mercer County ghost towns 

By Jean C. Dones 

Dones is a double g-g-g-g-granddaughter of John Curd Sr. and Elizabeth Price. She is a member of the 

Jamestown Society through Lucy Brent, wife of John Curd Jr. (m. 1758), and John Price, father of Elizabeth Price. 

Curdsvilles can also be found in Daviess County, Ky., and Buckingham County, Va. 

Among the lost, or “ghost,” communities in 

Kentucky are New Market and Curdsville in Mercer 

County. Each has an interesting history with many 

unanswered questions. The two communities are 

linked by a common connection with John Curd 

and his descendants. 

I continue to research Curdsville and would 

welcome any comments, suggestions, corrections, 

and additions. 

John Curd 

John Curd Jr. (b. 14 April 1726, Goochland 

County, Va.) was one of the eight children of John 

Curd and Elizabeth Price. His grandfather was 

Edward Curd, whose first record in America dates 

from 1705. John Curd Jr. married Lucy Brent, a 

daughter of James and Catherine Brent, in Lancaster 

County, Va., on 7 April 1758. Their 11 children 

were all born in Goochland County from 1759 to 

1780. 

Following military service and starting in 1780, 

John Curd Jr. began to apply for land grants in 

Kentucky County, Va. Kentucky County had just 

been opened for settlement by the Virginia legislature, 

and was further divided into three counties: 

Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln. Applications for land 

grants were subsequently made by John’s sons and 

the sons of Joseph Curd (John’s brother, who had 

remained in Virginia). The significance of the early 

land grants for John Curd is emphasized by the fact 

that the first settlement in Kentucky, Fort Harrod, 

was founded in 1774. 

It is not known if John Curd Jr.’s first trip to 

Kentucky preceded bringing his family. Travel would 

have been extremely difficult for women and children; 

the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland 

Gap was little more than a marked trail. In addition, 

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there was always the threat of Indian attacks. 

Some historians have recorded that John Curd 

and his family were members of the Traveling 

Church, which involved the movement of an entire 

church body from Spotsylvania County, Va., to 

Kentucky in 1781. However, a list of participants in 

this migration does not include any Curds. 

KHS Collection 

This detail of a land plat prepared by Neal O. Hammon 

shows the land owned by John Curd Jr. along the 

Kentucky River. Curd established a tobacco warehouse 

at the mouth of Dix River in the 1780s.

The Curd family, continued __________________________________ 

John Curd was an energetic courageous individual, 

and certainly a visionary concerning opportunities 

for himself and his family in the West. He had 

served as an emissary for Virginia Gov. Patrick 

Henry on missions to Kentucky and he knew what 

to expect in this vast unknown area. 

So John Curd Jr. focused his attention on the land 

grants located on Dick’s River and Salt River. There 

is no question that on the basis of his experience and 

observations, he sought a practical way to move 

goods and people past the palisade cliffs of the 

Kentucky River. The buffalo trail used by animal 

herds, Indians, and frontiersmen provided the 

answer. 

It is said that Dick’s River (later also called Dix 

River) was named for Captain Dick, a Cherokee 

chief helpful to early pioneers and settlers in the area. 

In 1786, petitions were submitted to the Virginia 

legislature by John Curd and others “to establish a 

public ferry, a town, and an inspection of tobacco, 

on the land of John Curd in the county of Mercer. 1 

Because of the inadequacy of roads, access to river 

transportation was vitally important to ensure 

profitable and convenient markets. There were a 

number of ferries along the Kentucky River. As Dr. 

Thomas D. Clark—historian laureate of Kentucky— 

has written: 

“Curd’s Ferry was the first wagon road out of the 

Bluegrass area into the central Kentucky section, 

namely Lexington. This crossing connected the 

central Bluegrass with the country south of the 

Kentucky. Beyond this it was a flatboat dockage and 

landing from which many flatboats departed Kentucky 

for New Orleans in the early years of the 

downriver trade. The Curd family name has lingered 

on in Kentucky in one form or another.” 

John Curd’s tobacco inspection warehouse was 

one of the first such ports established on the Kentucky 

River. At that time, tobacco was the standard 

currency and by Virginia law, farmers were required 

to have an official inspection of all tobacco sold 

there. A certificate would be given, which would pass 

for currency and could be used to pay taxes. 

The warehouse must have been a crude structure. 

It was described as “[One] log cabin used as a scale 

room, with door turning on a wooden standard with 

staples hasp and pad lock. One open sided room 

with posts in the ground with cabin roof.” 

It appears that there were problems with the 

physical condition or maintenance of the property 

since in September 1790 John Curd was ordered “to 

repair the present warehouse at the mouth of Dick’s 

River, making it closed and secure to strong doors 

hung with iron hinges and secured with strong locks 

or bolts, on or before December 25 next; and to 

make such additions thereto as shall conveniently 

contain, together with the present warehouse, 146 

hogsheads, the addition to be made close and secure 

as above directed on or before April 1 st next.” 

The warehouse and ferry landing still existed in 

1822, when they are mentioned in the widow’s 

dower of Nancy Curd, widow of John’s son Newton 

Curd. The warehouse history is not known, but the 

ferry continued through several owners. The landing 

was used by the Shaker community of Pleasant Hill 

as early as 1816 and, in 1830, the Shakers purchased 

the landing from Newton Curd’s heirs. Eventually 

the Shakers oversaw the construction of a road along 

the bluff hillside to the river; this became a major 

route used by both Confederate and Union forces 

during the Civil War. 

In May 1793, John Curd petitioned for permission 

to erect a water grist mill on his lands near the 

mouth of Dick’s River. 

After Kentucky became a state—on June 1, 

1792—special acts of the Kentucky Legislature 

established warehouses on the Kentucky River, 

including Curd’s at the mouth of “Dix River.” In 

1804, a legislative act authorized the inspection of 

beef and pork at a number of tobacco warehouses 

along the river, including Curd’s. 

Some genealogists list John Curd’s death as 1801 

in Mercer County. However, a December 1797 item 

in the Kentucky Gazette states that “John and Price 

Curd, executors of the estate of John Curd dec’d. 

regarding the estate sale. John Curd lived on the 

Kentucky River.” In 1802, John Curd, a son, of 

Warren County, issued power of attorney to David 

Curd of Barren County to allow David to act for 

him the settlement of their deceased father’s estate. 

Final settlement, however, did not take place until 

1819, when John Pryor, probably a son of Mary 

Curd Pryor, and Woodford Curd were authorized “to 

sell, divide and make deed to certain tracts of land, 

devised by John Curd to his heirs.” 

John and Lucy Brent Curd are believed to be 

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The Curd family, continued __________________________________ 

buried in the Curd cemetery “On the Ison Farm” in 

Mercer County. It is also believed that Newton Curd 

and his wife Ann Elizabeth Hatcher were buried in 

the same cemetery, although the gravestones were 

removed by a later owner. 

New Market 

The “town” referred to in the 1786 petition was to 

be called New Market. It was to include 20 acres of 

John Curd’s property at the confluence of the Kentucky 

and Dick’s rivers. There were detailed specification 

concerning plans for the town and the responsibilities 

of those purchasing lots. Lots were to be 

sold at public auction and were to be advertised for 

three months at the Mercer, Lincoln, and Fayette 

county courthouses. 2 

No record has been found of any activity at New 

Market. It’s likely that Curd’s dream simply “never 

got off the ground.” 

Curd House, Jessamine County 

In 1986, an historical marker honoring John Curd 

was dedicated on High Bridge Road in Jessamine 

County. In 1984, the Curd House at that location 

was listed on the National Register of Historic 

Places. The present owners, Margaret and Terry 

Morgan, have a deep interest in Curd history and 

have extensively researched the family. They have 

proudly shared their interest with schoolchildren, 

historical groups, and interested individuals. 

Curdsville 

In the 1893 edition of Lippincott’s Gazeteer of the 

World, Curdsville is listed as “a hamlet of Mercer 

Co., Ky., 1 ½ miles from High Bridge Station, which 

is 10 miles west of Nicholasville.” It’s likely that 

Curdsville was a cluster of buildings with businesses 

providing services for the many Curd families who 

lived on surrounding farms. 

Curdsville appeared on the 1876 Centennial Map 

of Mercer County and in the 1890 Kentucky Geological 

Survey’s Preliminary Map of Kentucky. 

William Curd of Lexington grew up listening to 

stories about his great-grandfather’s general store in 

Curdsville and his wagon trips to Louisville to 

replenish its inventory. 

Dr. John Curd, whose father was born in Louisville 

in 1879, recalled childhood visits to Curdsville. 


“My father took his family and relatives a number of 

times to visit the Curdsville area,” Curd said. “He 

pointed out where the blacksmith shop and other 

buildings stood, including sites where his uncle lived, 

and the Curdsville and Shawnee Run cemeteries and 

Shakertown … his parents were married in the 

Shawnee Run Church.” 3 

Dora Curd Markovich (b. 1910), who lived in 

Long Beach, Calif., remembered Curdsville in 1993: 

“A little village with a mill (the old stone was there 

when I grew up), a post office, a blacksmith shop, a 

general store, and of course, houses, and the old 

cemetery where most all of our ancestors were buried 

… I went to a one-room school which was on the 

edge of our property. A plot of ground was deeded to 

the county for the school, and if it ceased to be a 

school [would] revert back to the heirs. Daddy made 

a trip back there after the family came to California 

and used some of the money he sold it with to put a 

fence around the old cemetery. … My high school 

alma mater was Harrodsburg, 10 miles away. … Of 

course, we all went to Shawnee Run Church, even 

those who would move away and marry.” 4 

The school was probably Locust Grove School, 

which existed from 1890 to 1939. 5 

Mercer County historian Alma Ray Ison gathered 

information about the area from her husband’s 

cousin, James H. Ison: 

“His farm land adjoins the river near High Bridge. 

He says it was known as Curdsville when he was a 

child and has continually been spoken of as such 

because the vicinity was completely inhabited by 

families by the name of Curd. There was a one 

room school in the 1900s called Locust Grove. On 

the back of his farm near the river and indications of 

an old foundation, which he thinks could possibly 

have been the remains of the Curd warehouse.” 

Churches and Cemeteries 

Most Curdsville area residents attended Shawnee 

Run Baptist Church, organized in 1788. The present 

church is the fourth structure on the site. Many 

Curd names are to be found in the church’s adjoining 

cemetery. 

There were three other small Curd family cem- 

Continued on page 110

Tombstone Inscriptions, 

Garrard County 

The following appeared in Volume 26 of the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society in January 1928. The 

transcriptions were done by Alice E. Trabue, then chairwoman of historical research for the Colonial Dames Society. Though 

the information may not appear exactly as it did on the tombstones, no changes have been made to the original text. 

Anderson Family Cemetery, near Lancaster 

James Anderson 

Born 1776, 

Died April 24, 1824. 

Margaret Mills (Alcorn) 

Wife of James Anderson, 

Born Oct. 28, 1781, 

Died August 1, 1860. 1 

In Memory of the Honorable 

Simeon Anderson, 

A representative in the 

Congress of the United States 

From the Fifth District of the State of Ky. 

Died Aug. 11, 1840 

Aged 38 years. 2 

In Memory of 

Almira G. and Amanda R. 

Anderson, 

Infant daughters of Simeon and Amelia Owsley 

Anderson. 

Clayton Anderson 

Born 180_, 

Died 1866. 

Elzina 

Wife of Clayton Anderson. 3 

Tombs of Boyle Family, near Lancaster 

In Memory of 

Major John Boyle, 

who departed this life Sept. 11 

in the year of our Lord 1824, 

in the 74 th year of his life. 4 

In Memory of 

Jane Boyle, 

who departed this life Dec. 7 th 

in the year of our Lord 1801, 

in the 50 th year of her life. 5 

When shall Spring visit the mouldering urn, 

When shall day dawn on the night of the grave, 

O’er the cold cheek of death smiles and roses are 

blending, 

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. 

D.V. 

his wife Mary Boyle 

born Aug. 18 A.D. 1776 

died May 20 A.D. 1808. 

In Memory of 

Ellen (Boyle) Banton 

born Nov. 17—1780, 

died June 21—1814. 6 

1 Margaret Mills “Peggy” Allcorn was born in Virginia, a 

daughter of Revolutionary War soldier James Allcorn (b. 1730, 

Va., d. 15 March 1781, Guilford Courthouse, N.C.) and Jane 

Mills (b. 1730). Her siblings were James Lusk Allcorn (b. 1759, 

Va.), George Allcorn (b. 25 March 1760, Va.), William Charles 

Alcorn (b. 1764, N.C.), Elizabeth “Betty” Allcorn (b. 1764, 

N.C.), John Allcorn (b. 5 June 1766, Wythe County, Va.), 

Mary “Polly” Allcorn (b. 1769, Va.), Nancy Allcorn (b. 1770, 

Botetourt County, Va.), Jane Allcorn (b. 1774, Va.), and Sarah 

“Sally” (b. 1779, Va.). Margaret married James Anderson on 6 

January 1801 in Garrard County. 

2 See Biographical Directory of the American Congress 

(Washington, D.C., 1950), pages 782-83. Anderson was born near 

Lancaster on 2 March 1802 and was admitted to the bar in 1823. 

He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives 

(1828-29, 1832, 1836-38) before his election to Congress as a 

Whig. He served from 4 March 1839 until his death near 

Lancaster. Anderson was the father of William Clayton Anderson 

(b. 26 December 1826, near Lancaster, d. 23 December 1861), 

who served in Congress as a member of the American Party from 

from 4 March 1859 to 3 March 1861. William Clayton Anderson 

Continued on page 110 


Abstracts from the Cumberland 

Courier, Burksville, July 29, 1874 

The Cumberland Courier was published on Wednesdays by “Walker & Matthews, Editors and Proprietors.” 

Subscriptions were $2 for one year, $1.25 for six months paid in advance. Joel Cheek was the authorized agent for 

advertisements and subscriptions. Jacob Bruton was also an agent. M.C. Gittings, of Judio, was also an agent, for 

sales and collections. 

The local postmaster was A.J. Phelps, who also 

advertised his “Cash Store,” which also accepted 

“Country Produce” in payment for his goods. Phelps 

also advanced cash or goods on pension claims. 

The pastor of the Presbyterian church was Rev. 

J.P. McMillan. Services were held in the Chapel of 

Alexander College. 

The Burksville city administration was Police 

Court Judge Joseph P. Frank Sr., Marshal Ben Riall, 

and trustees Dr. W.G. Hunter, William F. Alexander, 

J.S. Benton, N.B. Cheatham, and C.L.S. Matthews. 

Cheatham was also running for county assessor, 

somewhat immodestly stating that “there is not a 

man in the county more thoroughly qualified to 

attend to the duties of this office than myself. 

The local state senator was D.R. Haggard and the 

state representative was W.G. Hunter. 1 

Officers of the Cumberland County Circuit 

Court, which convened on the second Monday of 

March and September, were Judge T.T. Alexander, 

Commonwealth’s Attorney A.M. Adair, Clerk J.W. 

Williams, and Sheriff H.M. Alexander. 

Officers of the Cumberland County Court, which 

convened the second Monday of each month, were 

Judge John Q. Owsley; Clerk E.A. Waggener; Charles 

Smith, county surveyor; R. Gibson, poor-house 

superintendent; William Check, school commissioner; 

W. E. Paull, jailer; and J.T. Baker assessor. 

A quarterly court was held the Tuesday after the 

second Monday in January, April, July, and October. 


A Court of Claims was held on the second Monday 

in October. 

Magistrate’s Court had six divisions: First District, 

A.G. Waggner and James Haggard; Second District, 

From The Orphan Brigade 

Martin Hardin Cofer (1832-1881) went from a largely 

self-taught youth in Hardin County to chief justice of 

the state’s highest court. In between, he was a 

secession activist, newspaper editor and 

commander of the Confederate 6 th Kentucky Infantry 

during the Civil War. After the war, Cofer was noted 

for being the first judge in Kentucky to recognize and 

follow the 14 th Amendment, which allowed African 

American testimony in the state’s courts.

Abstracts from the Cumberland Courier, continued _______________ 

R.G. Cole and J. William Morgan; Third District, 

Reuben Hicks; Fourth District, J.E. Coop and Enoch 

Coop; Fifth District, C.F. Alexander and A. Carter; 

and Sixth District, John Vincent and Gid. Pharis. 

S.H. Boles of Glasgow and W.K. Botts of 

Burksville advertised their law practice in the courts 

of Cumberland County. 

Attorney William Cheek, with a office in the 

Bank Building in Burksville, advertised his work in 

collections. 

A poem title “The Angel of the Hospital,” said to 

have been written by George D. Prentice, was 

apparently written by his son Courtland, deceased by 

1874. The manuscript, said to have been in 

Courtland Prentice’s handwriting, was in the possession 

of “young” Harry Colston of Louisville before 

Colston was captured at the Battle of Shiloh. 

The story “That Little Old Maid,” by Mary E. 

Clarke, was published. 

The death of D.S. Benedict, 76, “one of 

[Louisville’s] oldest and most enterprising merchants” 

was announced. 

A. Dulworth led a group of 19 qualified voters of 

the Kettlecreek District of Cumberland County to 

the July term of Cumberland County Court and 

submitted a petition to place on the ballot a proposal 

to sell “spirituous and vinous liquors” in the district. 

It was reported that “Indians are raiding along our 

entire Southern and Western frontier.” 

In a testimonial for appellate court judicial candidate 

Martin H. Cofer 2 reprinted from the Louisville 

Commerical, Cofer was identified as the “first Circuit 

Judge in Kentucky of the Democratic party who had 

the nerve to obey the laws of the United States and 

admit colored men to the witness-box.” Cofer, remembered 

as a “gallant Confederate soldier,” declared 

in a speech in Shelbyville that he would not run on his 

“rebel record.” In an advertisement, Cofer described 

himself as 42 and a licensed practicing lawyer since 

1856 “except for a short period during the war.” He 

KHS Collection 

Dr. Godfrey Whiteside Hunter (1841-1917), born in 

Ireland, was a medical doctor and a U.S. Army 

surgeon prior to coming to Burksville at the end of 

the Civil War. Turning his attention to politics, Hunter 

served in the Kentucky legislature from 1874 to 

1878 and in Congress (1887-89, 1895-97 and 1903- 

5). He was also U.S. minister to Guatemala and 

Honduras. 

had also served as a circuit court judge in the Fifth 

District since 1870. Another item in the paper, 

presumably written by Walker and/or Matthews, 

stated: It is seldom indeed that we have two men 

offering for the same office who morally and intellectually 

are so equally matched as are the Hons. M.H. 

Cofer and W.B. Harrison. 3 Personally we favor our 

old friend Judge Cofer, but they are both Christian 

gentlemen, and whichever may succeed, we will have 

in him as honest and upright Judge.” 4 

An item, referring to a similar one in the Louisville 

Courier-Journal, touted the candidacy for Court of 

Appeals clerk of Thomas C. Jones. 

Druggists W.P. Alexander and A.G. Dougherty, with a 

store at 4 Court Place, advertised “Family Medicines, 

Perfumery, Pure Brandy & Whisky, sold by prescription, 

“accurately compounded at all hours, Day or Night.” 



W.C. Hickey advertised boots and shoes manufactured 

by Harvey & Keith of Louisville. 

Attorneys Craddock & Walker advertised their 

services as life and fire insurance agents. 

The faculty of Burksville College for Young Ladies 

and Gentlemen was advertised as J.R. Hoover, 

principal; J.A. Hanby and G.C. Woodson, assistant 

principals; Miss Carrie Magrane, teacher of music; 

Mrs. Ellen Hoover, assistant teacher of music; and 

Madame Magrane, “French Instructress.” 

State Auditor D. Howard Smith notified each 

county’s sheriff to “collect from the white taxpayers, 

for the present year (1874), 45 cents on each $100 

worth of taxable property; 25 cents on each white 

enrolled militiaman; and $1 on each dog over two 

belonging to white persons, and you will also collect 

from the colored tax payers for said years, 45 cents on 

each $100 worth of taxable property, $1 on each male 

colored person over twently-one years of age; 31. on 

each dog over two belonging to colored persons; and 

26 cents on each colored enrolled militiaman. 

BIRTH. 

On Monday the 27 inst., to the wife of Oliver G. 

Martin, an eleven pound son. 

H. Clay Rogers announced himself as a candidate 

for jailer. 

State Superintendent of Public Instruction 

H.A.M. Henderson announced that, in the first year 

of the “Colored school system,” the “colored school 

census reaches the surprising aggregate of 37,332 

pupil children.” 

James T. Williams announced that he had found 

jewelry. 

“Primus,” correspondent from Amandaville, wrote 

that a debating society meeting at Hopewell Church 

on Crocus creek was being held. It was reported that 

“nothing this side of the moon, or the long-tailed 

comet that can equal them.” Reece Morgan was 

called “the champion declaimer.” “Uncle Ed Paull,” 

presumably jailer W.E. Paull, was reported as cam- 


paigning for re-election in the Crocus Creek area. 

“His face all radiant with the hope of success, in fact 

he was smiling away back of his ears, and says if he is 

elected he will feed us all well, quite an item these 

starvation times.” 5 

Political candidates could announce their candidacies 

at the rate of $8 for state and district races, $6 

for county races, and $5 for town and other races. 

Advertising candidates were Martin H. Cofer and 

W.B. Harrison for appellate judge; C.W. Milliken 6 

for Third District congressman; James Garnett, of 

Adair County, and Major W.H. Botts of Barren 

County, for 6 th Judicial District judge; David T. 

Towles, for Commonwealth’s attorney; John Q. 

Owsley and R.G. Cole for county judge; Scott 

Walker for county attorney; L.A. Waggener for 

county clerk; Republican J.S. Bruton for county 

clerk; Joseph A. Traylor for county assessor; P.M. 

Sewell, of Irish Bottom, “People’s Independent 

candidate” for county assessor; W.E. Paull for jailer; 

and H.W.D. Patterson for county surveyor. 

George Seaver, proprietor of the Burksville & 

Glasgow Stage Line, advertised the line’s new 

coaches, which made trips to Glasgow every Tuesday, 

Thursday, and Saturday at 6 a.m. Arrival time in 

Glasgow was 4:40 p.m., which connected passengers 

with the evening train of the Glasgow branch railroad. 

The coaches returned to Burksville every 

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7 a.m., arriving 

there at 6 p.m. “Ministers of the gospel, and children 

under ten years of age” were charged half fare. 

“Hancock” announced that he could be found at 

his old stand until further notice. 

Jacob S. Bruton advertised his candidacy for 

county court clerk. He related that he submitted to a 

test administered by Adair Circuit Court Clerk Jas. 

T. Page. He satisfactorily passed the test, which was 

given under the supervision of Adair Circuit Court 

Judge Thomas T. Alexander, who certified the result. 

Bruton also said he possessed a similar certificate 

from “Judge Fox.” 

G.A.C. Turner led a group of 19 qualified voters of the 

Marrowbone District of Cumberland County to the July


term of Cumberland County Court. Under “Chapter 

117, Acts of the Legislature, Session 1873-74,” Turner 

submitted a petition to place on the ballot a proposal to 

sell “spirituous and vinous liquors” in the district. 

A.J. Phelps advertised to sell “cheap for cash” a 

“Portable or Stationary Engine of twelve horse 

power,” in addition to “several sets of well tools, 

suitable for boring a 41/2 inch chamber.” 

Elder T.C. Frogge, of the Methodist Church, and 

Elder G.A. Coulson, of the Baptist Church, were to 

speak at a four-hour debate beginning on August 19 

at Salem Church, “two miles and a half from 

Burksville.” The debate, which was to continue for as 

many days as necessary, was to explore four questions, 

including whether Methodist and Baptist 

baptisms were sustained by Scripture, if the Baptist 

Church could be traced to the Apostles, and if the 

Methodist Church was “part of the visible Church or 

Kingdom of Christ. 

M.C. Gittings, postmaster of the Judio neighborhood, 

announced a new mail route, from Burksville 

to Judio, Centre Point, and Tompkinsville. 

C.L.S. Matthews advertised “Cute or Sunbeam” 

framed chromos. 

Scott Walker announced his candidacy for county 

attorney. 

H.C. Baker notified the public that Southern 

Mutual Life Insurance Co. renewals, solicited by 

H.C. and Finish E. Baker, could be found at the 

office of Craddock and Walker. The company, based 

in Louisville, had assets of $705,462. 

Emmons & Grissom ground cornmeal every Friday. 

1 Dr. Whiteside Godfrey Hunter (b. 25 December 1841, 

near Belfast, Ireland, d. 2 November 1917, Louisville), was a 

medical doctor and Union Army surgeon during the Civil War. 

Hunter moved to Burksville at the end of the war and served as 

state representative from 1874 to 1878. He later was U.S. 

minister to Guatemala and Honduras and served as a 

Republican in Congress from March 4, 1887 to March 3, 

1889, from March 4, 1895 to March 3, 1897, and from 

November 10, 1903 to March 3, 1905. Hunter was buried in 

Louisville’s Cave Hill Cemetery. See Biographical Directory of the 

American Congress (Washington, D.C.), p. 1352. 

2 Martin Hardin Cofer (b. 1 April 1832, d. 22 May 1881), 

was a son of Thomas Cofer and Mary Hardin. Largely selftaught 

as a Kentucky youth, he was admitted to the bar in 

Illinois in the early 1850s. He married Mary Ellen Bush (b. 4 

June 1835, d. 15 January 1895), a daughter of Christy Bush Jr. 

and Mary “Polly” Goodin, about that time and remained in 

Illinois for three years. He returned to Kentucky and set up a 

practice in Elizabethtown that continued until the early 1860s. 

Cofer was an activist for Kentucky’s secession from the Union, 

becoming editor of the Elizabethtown Democrat newspaper and 

unsuccessfully running for the state legislature “on a Southern 

Rights ticket” in August 1861. Cofer helped organize the 6th 

Kentucky Infantry and became its lieutenant colonel under 

Colonel (later judge and congressman) Joseph Horace Lewis. 

Cofer was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh and commanded the 

6th Kentucky at Chickamauga. Promoted to colonel in 1863, 

Cofer became provost marshal of the Army of Tennessee the 

following year. Returning to Elizabethtown after the war, Cofer 

resumed his law practice. He published A Supplemental Digest of 

Decisions of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, 1853-67, which 

became the standard work on the subject, and served as a 

circuit court judge from 1870 to 1874. He was elected an 

associate justice on the state Court of Appeals—then 

Kentucky’s highest court—and served from August 1874 to 

1881, when he became chief justice. Congress restored his U.S. 

citizenship in March 1871. Cofer was known for his 1871 

ruling allowing African American testimony in Kentucky in 

accordance with the 14th Amendment. He died in office in 

Frankfort and was buried in Elizabethtown City Cemetery. 

William C. Davis, The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky 

Confederates Who Couldn’t Go Home (Baton Rouge, 1980), 

pages 8, 34, 37-38, 99, 204, and 262. See also H.A. Sommers, 

Elizabethtown & Hardin County, Kentucky, 1869-1921 (1921; 

Reprint, Elizabethtown, 2001), pages 7-9. 

3 W.B. Harrison’s ads identify him as a resident of Marion 

County. Cofer married Mary Ellen Bush (b. 4 June 1835, 

Hardin County, Ky.) on 8 May 1853. 

4 The race was for the Third Appellate District seat on the 

Kentucky Court of Appeals, then the state’s highest court. 

5 Paull also apparently owned a hotel in Burksville. 

6 Biographical Directory of the American Congress (Washington, 

D.C.), pages 1567-68. Charles William Milliken (b. 15 August 

1827, near Murray, Calloway County, d. 16 October 1915, 

Franklin, Simpson County) moved with his parents to Simpson 

County in 1829. After graduating from Wirt College in Sumner 

County, Tenn., Milliken was admitted to the bar in 1850 and 

began practicing in Franklin. He served as Simpson County 

prosecutor from 1857 to 1862 and Fourth District 

Commonwealth’s attorney from 1867 to 1872. Milliken was 

elected as a Democrat to Congress and served from March 4 

1873 to March 3, 1877. He was buried in Simpson County’s 

Greenlawn Cemetery. See Biographical Directory of the American 

Congress (Washington, D.C.), pages 1567-68. 


Edmonson County 

School Census, 1877 

School censuses are important documents because they often provide proof of family relationship. Many were also 

produced annually, allowing researchers to gather information between U.S. Census years. One of the earliest school 

censuses in the KHS collection is a microfilm roll of one taken in Edmonson County in 1877. This transcription 

includes only a portion of the original records. Though microfilmed in 1991, as many as 50 percent of the microfilm 

pages are unreadable. 

CENSUS REPORT OF THE DISTRICT TRUSTEE 

For District No. 1 to the SCHOOL COMMISSIONER for the 

County of Edmonson for School Year ending June 30 th , 1877. 

Names of Parents or Guardians Names of Children Age Sex 

A.H(?) Hampton Argin 20(?) F 

S____ 12 F 

J____ 14 M 

Sherman 12 M 

? 8 M 

? 6 M 

Wm. Miller ? 16 M 

? 13 M 

Charles(?) P. 9 M 

S.C. Bird Bettie 16 F 

Lucy 11 F 

John Reynolds Robert(?) Y. 19 F 

Jacob 18 F 

Thomas Reynolds(?) Waley(?) F. 13 M 

E_____ 10 M 

_____ _____ 8 M 

Charles Durham(?) Thompson(?) 10 M 

T.N. Durham 10 M 

James F.(?) Edwards Susie T. 8 F 

Sarah P. 6 F 

John H. Gries Susan B. 8 F 

W.J.(?) Hagdon Robert C. 1_ M 

_____ S. 8 F 

William Williams _____ _____ 18 F 

W.W. _____ Williams ___th 15 M 

A.T. 1_ M 

W.W. 13 M 

W.R. Hume A.G. 19 F 

S.E. 15 F 

A.C. 13 

_____ Brown(?) Charlotte Y. 16 F 

James Y. 14 M 

2003 Kentucky Ancestors V39-2 70

Edmonson County School Census, continued ____________________ 

Milton Cox Y.M. 19 F 

M.J. 13 F 

F.(?)M. 11 M 

S.H. 6 M 

J____ A.(?) Bird R.(?)M. 14 M 

Thorn.(?) W.(?) Crabtree M.E. 6 F 

Jas. N. Huffman John _. 17 M 

_____ 14 M 

(Henry?) __ __ 

(Charles S.?) __ __ 

(Lee/Leo?) __ __ 

_____ _____ _____ _____ __ __ 

Ellis D. Magens Oscar S.N. 18 

Cathrine 15 __ 





William Higganbotham Mary G. 14 F 

Charloty B. 12 F 

Emer. J. 10 F 

Jesey H. 7 

Robbert M. Davison William 18 M 

John D. 15 

Nancy C. 10 F 

Jane Beckner Benjaman O. 17 M 

Angelina 15 F 

William R. 12 M 

Joseph Duval (Leney Cox?) 7 M 

Thomas J. Howard William C. 7 M 

Lennia 6 F 

John S. Hawkins Saraha J. 19 F 

Henry T. 18 M 

Melvina 16 F 

Jeff. D. 14 M 

John S. 11 M 

Mary G. 7 F 

Franklin W. Woolsey William H. 15 M 

Saraha P. 12 F 

Santford C. 8 M 

Lucy G. 6 F 

Henry C. Davis Bevely R. 15 M 

Mary F. 13 F 

Jimison 11 M 



Sarah C. 9 F 

Euberttes(?) Emberson 14 M 

Sarah J. Emberson 18 F 

John J. Martin Eliza J. 18 F 

Robert S. 15 M 

Georgiana 13 F 

Sarah C. 11 F 

Isaac S. 8 M 

James H. 6 M 

Felix Owen Charls J. 19 M 

Amanda H. 9 F 

Paradisa Gray Ulysses 9 M 

Ellen 6 F 

Washington Age Francis M. 17 M 

Rebecca 14 F 

Marian 9 F Elizabeth 

A. 6 F 

Santford C. Woolsey Armindia 18 F 

Hairison 15 M 

Nancy E. 13 F 

Milford D. 10 M 

E____ 8 M 

Emellen G. 6 F 

Chesterfield P. Woolsey Felix Woolsey 18 M 

Joseph Hawkins Mary M. 18 F 

William M. 16 M 

(Aeri?) 1_ M 

Luiza B. 13 F 

Martin Whittle Huldy H. 12 F 

James 7 M 

Francis M. Kelly 

Hezekiah C. Briggs Virgil V. 13 M 

Veachel V. 10 M 

COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY, 

Edmonson County, Common School District No. 2 

The undersigned, Trustee for the District aforesaid, hereby reports to the Common School Commissioner of 

the County aforesaid, that the above and foregoing is a true report of the number of white children between 

the ages of six and twenty years residing in said District; their names, age, and sex, and the names of their 

parents or guardians. 

Signed by 

H.C. Briggs, Trustee 

Dated the 27 day of April, 1877 







Taylor Hayse Arlander 8 M 

J.W. Slemmons John M. 11 M 

Elizabeth D. 9 F 

Sallie Ann 7 F 

T.S. Holton Nancy C. 18 F 

Nancy Holton Mary E. 15 F 

G.J. Wright Jerry E. 17 M 

William P. 15 M 

Charles M. 12 M 

James (M./N.?) 7 M 

Thomas Holton wife Sallie E. 18 F 

John Coats Edmonia 6 F 

E.B. Gray Martha J. Burnett 15 F 

Larkin(?) J. 13 M 

Leah R. 11 F 

Armetia E. Burnett 10 F 

John Holton Mary A. 13 F 

Martha A. Piers 13 F 

Sarah M 11 F 

Susan B. 9 F 

Richard Holton wife Susan 19 F 

Scott 13(?) M 

Dabnie McDaniel Victoria McDaniel 19 F 

(Eadood?) 16 F 

Winfield S. 15 M 

Robert 14 M 

James 12 M 

William T. 10 M 

Joseph 8 M 

Havilah 6 M 

George Estes and wife George Estes 10 M 

Abaloma 16 F 

Taylor Coats Elizabeth 6 F 

O.P. Wilson Joshua E. 18(?) M 

Henrietta 15 F 

Martha B. 13 F 

Mandy(?) 11 F 

James J. Roberts Mary 9 F 

James 7 M 

John Lee (James?) R. 12 M 

_____ A. 8 F 

Joseph _. 8 M 



John M. Houchin William (T.) 19 M 

Charles _. 17 M 

Andrew _. 15 M 

Sarah A. 13 F 

Henry _. 11 M 

Elizabeth (D.?) 8 F 

Frederic F. 6 M 

Henry Sell Mandy C. 1_ F 

Charles (W.?) 15 M 

Matilda _. 14 F 

Sarah _. 10 F 

Margaret Adwell Georgeann 17 F 

Dimeon 15 M 

Granvil Sturgeon James T. 16 M 

Mary E. 16 F 

Granvil 10 M 

Elisabeth 12 F 

Thomas H. 7 M 

Samuel (Cuttiff?) Samuel T.(Lawson?) 8 M 

Widow Sims Lucinda Sims 18 F 

William Blair Mary E. Blair 11 F 

Ann M. Doyel Richard 17 M 

William Jones wife Oliver Doyel 12 M 

Sallie 19 F 

Sutton Doyel Sutton Doyel 19 M 

J.B. Davis Elen 17 F 

Martha J. 14 F 

Joseph T. 12 M 

Thomas P. 10 M 

William _. 8 M 

Lucas F. 7 M 

COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY, 

Edmonson County, Common School District No. 2 

The undersigned, Trustee for the District aforesaid, hereby reports to the Common School Commissioner of 

the County aforesaid, that the above and foregoing is a true report of the number of white children between 

the ages of six and twenty years residing in said District; their names, age, and sex, and the names of their 

parents or guardians. 

Signed by 

J.B. Davis, Trustee 

Dated the 26 day of April, 1877 







Margaret Lee Malissa J. 19 F 

James J. 12 M 

Sarah E. 10 F 

Thomas F. Hunt Laura A. 17 F 

Mary E. 12 F 

Billy(?) 10 M 

Frank Kinney Mary E. Kinney 10 F 

Frank 8 M 

Wm. Furlong Mary C. 10 F 

John Coats Mary H. 17 F 

Jane Doyel Jane Doyel 13 F 

Elizabeth Crump John D. 17 M 

Peter Retherford Thomas J. 17 M 

Luvena 14 F 

(Uphond?) 7 F 

Johnathan Beckner Joseph 20 M 

John W. 17 M 

Susan 9 F 

William Beckner Martha F. 7 F 

Benjamin Blair B.F. 17 M 

Joseph R. 13 M 

John L.(?) 7 F 

Benjamin Sanders Nancy J.(?) 7 F 

John B. Blair J.B. 7 M 

Roly Blair Charlie A. Keer 12 M 

(Rosetta?) Keer 12 F 

Nancy S. Keer 10 F 

John T. Keer 7 M 

George W. Keer 6 M 

Baley Blair 14 M 

John Blair 13 M 

Charles E. Byrn John F. 6 M 

George W. (Sumette?) Martha (Byrans?) 16 F 

Polly Cox James H. 14 M 

Nancy A. 6 F 

Wm. Emersons wife Nancy L. 18 F 

Wm. W. Davis Amanda __ __ 

(Wm. L.?) __ __ 

Eliza _. __ __ 

Mary _.W. __ __ 

John L. Smith/South? John C. __ __ 

Lucy J. __ __ 



Isaac J. __ __ 

Mil__ __ __ 

D.H. Furlong Oll___(?) __ __ 





D.C. Crenshaw Lucy M. 16 F 

Mary D. 12 F 

Hattie _. 10 F 

John A. 8 M 

R.H. Blair Cyntha A. Literal(?) 19 F 

Joseph Tibbs Thomas 16 M 

Nancy A. 7 F 

William A. Skaggs Jemima A. Mastain 8 F 

Martain J. Moore John B. Moore 18 M 

Joseph S. 16 M 

Isaac M. 13 M 

Nancy E. 11 F 

Isaac Martain Jennie B. Martain 8 F 

W.H. Moon Julia E. 7 F 

William F. Guep John R. 11 M 

Solaman Wells Elijah L. 15 M 

Sarah E. 13 F 

Rutha A. 11 F 

Catharine M 6 F 

Middeton B. Moore Elijah M. 12 M 

Sarah S.(?) 12 F 

Polinia J. 10 F 

Nancy E. 8 F 

Martha S. _ F 

John F. Pardue ___rd V. Pardue 7 F 

Smith Brooks James 10 M 

Thomas 7 M 

Leander Lindsay Sarah J. 13 F 

Marshal E. 11 F 

Thomas 9 M 

Collens Hardy Nomoon 9 F 

Thompson 8 M 

Alfred 6 M 







F.M. White E.V.(?) 12 

M.J. 8 

M.T. 7 

James C. Durbin Mary A. 14 

Nancy 10 

Charlley 8 

Gary D. 6 

F.M. Low W.H. Low 17 

Maried(?) 15 

Miles 14 

Mary 18 

Rubin 11 

G.G. 8 

Anny(?) S. Logson Mary E. 14 

J. 12 

Garry M. 9 

Joseph C. Simons Giles V. 9 

James O. 7 

Joachim Simons Charles C. 17 

Joachim 9 

Mary E. 10 

Catherine 8 

Anabel 7 

James Hack Henery V.(?) 11 

Ivabel 7 

Gary A. 7 

Jonathan Wisong Juley 18 

Drizzila 14 

George 12 

Richard Durbin Rachel 7 

B.B. White Samuela C 18 

Hesteran 15 

Robert 12 

Woodford 10 

Marget 8 

Mary A. Davis Thomas J. 18 

Gary 16 

Mary E. 18 

Isaac Willis Mary E. 10 

J.T. 8 







D.W. Hazelip S.B. 14 F 

Ransom C. 12 M 

Alice G. 10 M 

S.G. Madison Grant 19 M 

Critenden 14 M 

Green 12 M 

Bell 9 F 

Nora 7 F 

David Prichett H.P.(?) 12 M 

J.W. 10 M 

Willis Radford Vola 6 F 

Willie Raynor 13 M 

J.A. Wise Willard 9 M 

Elliott 7 M 

Elizabeth Cruchfield 13 F 

S.G. Horne(?) Volendham 12 M 

Oscar 6 M 

William Madison Anya F. 7 F 

Merduth York Roseana(?) 18 F 

Elizabeth York Mary 19 F 

Elizabeth 9 F 

Molisa 8 F 

Howard 6 F 

Simeon/Sariean? Brooks Thomas 13 M 

Idea 10 F 

William Hazelip Henry 15 M 

Jennie 7 F 

Johnie 6 M 

Mary Dicas 18 F 

Elizabeth Tibbs Mary 18 M 

W.H. Riggin(?) Janny 18 F 

Samuel 17 M 

Willie 14 M 

Ben Frank 12 M 

Wm. Dicas John 17 M 

E.F. 12 F 

Adolphus 7 M 

William Willcoxon Lanna(?) M 

David York Hatten alias Merduth 18 M 

_____ _____ 12 M 

H.T. Webb Polly A. 16 F 

Mortin(?) W. 14 F 



Gara(?) A. 12 F 

Robt. D. 7 F 

Barnett Linsey Morselous 17 M 

R.C. Hazelip William W. 10 M 

James Alexander Jesse T. 17 M 

Wm. T. 10 M 

Chas. 8 

James A. 6 M 

Fanny Kielin/Kutson? Nancy 12 F 

Anna R. 10 F 

R.R. Walker Roesana(?) 18 F 

R.C. Hazelip(?) Myrtie 6 F 

Mary W. Tuck/Tuek? _to 9 F 





William H. Wells James H. 18 M 

Rhodey E. 14 F 

John W. 11 M 

Jenny 9 F 

Stephen _. 6 M 

Roritt Rama Robert 16 M 

Mary E. 14 F 

J.R. Simmons Mary E. 11 F 

Ama Simmons Spieva A. 18 F 

Alexander A. 14 M 

Kisiah Scott George N.(?) 16 M 

Henry A. 12 M 

Mary 10 F 

James H. Poteet James M. 15 M 

Mary J.(?) 11 F 

Joseph H. Poteet Nancy V. 17 F 

Francis 10 F 

Wm. J. Poteet Napolian 6 M 

Betsy A. Simmons Manteville(?) 6 M 

William A. Cowles Louisa A. 9 F 

John O. 7 M 

Mary Scott John C. 15 M 

William Hawks John M. 12 M 

Christopher C. 10 M 

Margaret E. 9 F 

Mary Ann 7 F 

John D. Poteet _____ B. 7 F 

Henry Poteet Mark Cown(?) 12 M 



S.T. Wingfield May Ann 19 F 

John Simeon(?) 17 F 

Ruby N.(?) 15 F 

Sarah A. 12 F 

Arariah 5 M 

John Florn(?) Mary F. 3 F 

_____ 9 F 

Ha___ 7 F 

John Scott William 14 M 

James 7 M 

Levi Edwards Seth _. 19 M 

_____ 18 M 

James Amos James 19 M 

Alexander Scott 14 M 

James M. Maxey/Massey _____ _____ 9 F 

James B. 7 M 

Thomas A. Poteet _____(Ely?) 6 F 

William Baugh Wm. M. 9 M 

John(?) W. 7 M 

J.V. Wingfield _____ A. 15 F 

_____ _. 15 M 

Mary E. 11 F 

_____ 10 M 

J.V. 8 M 

Silas Watt Mary E. 6 F 





Elizabeth A. Blair Jas. L(?) 18 M 

Edward L.(?) 15 M 

Elizabeth F. 13 F 

Jerry(?) L. 11 M 

Elias H. 8 M 

John L.(?)H. 6 M 

Willis H. Blair John T. 7 M 

George W. Blair David B. 10 M 

William D. 8 M 

Worth Gibson Malinda 8 F 

Henry Blair Sarah A. 18 F 

William 16 M 

Luther 14 M 

Robt. 12 M 

Serilda A. 10 F 



Mackey S. 7 M 

Henry B. Blair Jas. W. 18 M 

Edward W. 15 M 

Mary E. 13 F 

David S. 11 M 

Eliza A. 9 F 

Sarah H. 7 F 

Edward Blair Sarah A. 14 F 

Ra_shey E. 9 F 

Susen P. 7 F 

Lewis Merideth Margret 19 F 

Joseph E. 14 M 

William E.(?) 12 M 

Rebeca A. 10 F 

Ida D. 7 F 

Henry A. Demumbrun Henry A. 18 M 

Sarah C.(?) 17 F 

Sarah G. Page Arwilda 6 F 

Jas. C. Smith Lorianah E. 14 F 

Sanford P. Lewis Mary F. 19 F 

Alish A. 18 F 

Jane 17 F 

William F. 17 M 

An 1874 Kentucky Geological Survey map of Edmonson County shows several Merideth families living 

near the Bee Spring community. 



Razid B. 15 F 

Henry A. 11 M 

William Age Melissia 18 F 

Elender Davis George R. 19 M 

John _. 17 M 

Jas. _. 14 M 

___mia 12 F 

George Miles John _. 16 M 

Jasper _. 14 M 

Martha E. 1_ F 




Names of Parents or Guardians Names of Children Age 

Sex 

Elizabeth Moore L. Gie(?) 17 F 

John Tanner Anrod(?) 10 F 

Robbert 13 M 

Cansada(?) 8 F 

W.D. Sperman Nannie Owen 11 F 

Willie 9 M 

James Owen 7 M 

J.P. Sperman Mollie 14 F 

Fannie 19 F 

John Wells Mary J. 18 F 

James 13 M 

George 11 M 

Selena 9 F 

Bishop 7 M 

Thomas Wells Luvica(?) Isaac 12 F 

Lesie(?) Isaac 10 F 

J.A. Vincent Robbert 11 M 

John 9 M 

Willy(?) 7 M 

R.M. Lee Cois(?) 15 M 

Church 13 M 

Sally 11 F 

Cally 9 F 

Luranda Meredeth M.T. 19 F 

W._. 17 M 

Luranda 15 F 

Charles Lindsey Wathan(?) 17 M 

John Garner Arcada 19 F 

Lucinda 17 F 

Isaac 15 M 


The Fey School and the 

Felix Pousardien Family 

By Marguerite A. Miller 

Mrs. Miller is currently researching the Gagel, Quillman, and Fey families of southwestern Jefferson County. Her 

article, Fey School, Jefferson County, 1877-1923, appeared in Volume 36, Number 2. 

In the years around 1920 my mother, Dorothea V. 

Gagel, often went to school early. She would start a 

fire in the old potbelly stove so the classroom would 

be warmer by the time the teacher and other students 

arrived. 

Known as the Fey School, it appears in Jefferson 

County public school records from 1877 to the end 

of the 1922-23 school year, when it closed. One of 

the records noted that the structure was made of logs 

and was built in 1864. After the exterior was 

weatherboarded, the Fey School was described as a 

frame building. 1 

The old Fey School still stands today as a privately 

owned house in the 7700-block of Arnoldtown Road 

in southwestern Jefferson County. You can still see 

that it is built of logs, though it now has a covering 

of aluminum or vinyl siding. 

The building was across from land owned by Felix 

Pousardien, who had been a school trustee for the 

1911-12 school year. 2 Pousardien’s son, Felix Joseph, 

had attended the school and appears in a photograph 

taken about 1914. 


posed on one of 

his farming 

implements in front 

of his Arnoldtown 

Road home on 3 

September 1922. 

After the closing of Fey School, Felix Pousardien 

bought the building at a public auction on August 27, 

1924, for $1. His deed was dated 28 October 1924. 3 

Pousardien was a son of Frank Pousardien and 

Louise Jackey. The Pousardien and Jackey (originally 

spelled Jacquier) families had come to America from 

France. 

Frank Pousardien and Louise Jackey/Jacquier 

Frank Pousardien (b. 25 Jun 1820, France, d. 3 

October 1875) married Louise Jackey/Jacquier (b. 15 

July 1830, France, d. 10 September 1875). Both 

were buried in St. Andrews Catholic Church Cemetery. 

4 

The couple had at least nine children: 

1. Joseph Dominic (b. 24 February 1854, d. 14 

February 1919). He was baptized on 19 March 1854 

at St. Andrews Catholic Church and his sponsors 

were Dominic Juchoff (Jucoff) and Cecilie Jacquier 

(Jackey). 5 He married Catherine Wesiel on 27 July 

1880 in Jefferson County. Witnesses were: Frank 

Jucoff and Mary Ann Wissell. Catherine’s stone gives 

her birth and death years as 1868-1934. She died on 

18 February 1934. Joseph and Catherine were buried 

in St. Andrews Catholic Church Cemetery. 6 

2. Louise (1863-1926) 7 married William Hinkle 

on 18 August 1887 in Jefferson County. Witnesses 

were Denis Shairnohar and Lizzie Pousardien. 

William’s stone in St. Andrews Catholic Church 

Cemetery gives his birth and death years as 1864- 

1931. 

3. Elizabeth (b. about 1858) married Nicholas 

Hinkle on 25 April 1882 in Jefferson County. 

Witnesses were John Henkel and Maggie Pousardien. 

4. Felix (b. 22 February 1862, Jefferson County, 

d. 30 May 1946). 

5. Josephine (b. 25 October 1872, d. 8 April 

1950) became a nun, Sister Bertranda. She taught at 


The Fey School and the Felix Pousardien Family, continued ________ 

St. Andrew’s Parish School in Roanoke, Va., for some 

30 years. She is buried in Nazareth, Ky. 8 

6. Lizzie, born in November 1868, according to 

her marriage records, was baptized as “Melissa” on 1 

November 1874. Her sponsors were Henry Stoltz 

and Cecilia Jacquier (Jackey) 9 She married Frank J. 

Plengemeier on 4 February 1890 in Jefferson 

County. Frank was born on 21 December 1867 in 

Germany and died on 12 September 1946. He is 

buried in Calvary Cemetery. 10 (Some members of 

the Plengemeier family are also buried at St. 

Andrews.) 

7. Secilia (b. about 1861) married Joseph Stinson 

on 22 July 1884 in Jefferson County. Witnesses were 

Lovell R. Stinson and Louisa Pousardien. She was 

listed in the 1880 census as 19 and living with Mary 

Botto, 65. 

8. Margaret (b. about 1856) married Joseph 

Kohler on 26 June 1883 in Jefferson County. Witnesses 

were John Kohler and Charlotte Pousardien. 11 

9. Charlotte 

Pousardian and Heidt/Hite Families 

Felix Pousardian, a son of Frank Pousardian and 

Louise Jackey, was baptized on 19 October 1876 at 

St. Andrew’s Catholic Church. His sponsor was Rosa 

Heidt. 

When he was orphaned at age 10, Felix was taken 

into the household of Anthony Heidt. He is even 

identified as “Felix Hite” in the 1880 census, living 

with Anthony Hite, 55, (b. France), and his wife 

Rosa, 48, (b. Baden). Felix was also listed with 

Anthony Heidt in St. Andrews Catholic Church 

records from 1881. 

Anthony Heidt was a son of and Heinrich Heidt 

(b. 1795) and Maria A. ____ (b. 1799, d. 3 October 

1868). 12 For some reason, he was not listed in his 

father’s will, dated 8 October 1878. 13 

It was Heidt who sold Felix Pousardian farmland 

along Arnoldtown Road, just across the road from 

Fey School. 

Felix Pousardian married Anna Marie Emmerich 

(b. 18 August 1860, d. 25 December 1952), a 

daughter of John Emmerich, on 7 January 1892 in 

Jefferson County. Witnesses were John and Mannie 

Pope. Felix and Anna Marie are both buried in St. 

Andrews Catholic Church Cemetery. 14 

Felix and Anna Marie had five children: 


1. Lena Belle (b. about 1900, d. 14 June 1959), 

who married Charles L. Callahan (b. 11 August 

1895, d. 12 April 1946), a son of Thomas Callahan 

and Ella Finn. He was an electrician. He was buried 

at St. Andrews cemetery. 15 

2. Virginia May, who married ____ 

Musselman. 16 

3. Florence Augusta, who married James Lang/ 

Long. 17 

4. Louise Marie (1897-1946), who married Earl 

D. Fella (b. 1893, d. 10 September 1955). 18 

5. Felix Joseph (b. 16 April 1901) married Dora 

Florence Wurster (b. 29 August 1904) on 8 October 

1924. She attended Mill Creek School in nearby 

Shively and Louisville Girls High School, from 

which she graduated on 14 June 1922. She worked 

many years for L&N Railroad. The couple and their 

children moved to Palmyra, Ind., where they spent 

much of their lives. 

Felix Joseph and Dora had three children, Felix 

Joseph Jr.(he attended both Kerrick and Mill Creek 

Elementary Schools), Dorothy Ann, and Stephen 

Frederick. 19 

The Jackey family 

The Jackey family is well known in southwestern 

Jefferson County. Members, with the surname 

Jacquier, emigrated from France. Through research I 

have found a John Jackey Sr. (b. 10 June 1827, 

France, d. 3 December 1912, Jefferson County), a 

farmer who lived in the Shively area of Jefferson 

County. He is buried in St. Andrews Catholic Church 


and Dora Florence 

Wurster were 

married on 8 

October 1924.


Cemetery. 20 He is believed to have been a brother of 

Louise Jackey, who married Frank Pousardien. Cecilie 

Jackey was most likely a sister as well because she was 

the sponsor of Joseph and Melissa’s baptism. Another 

likely brother was Charles Jackey (b. about 1840, 

France), who appeared in the 1880 census. 

Pousardiens 

Dora Pousardien believes that all Pousardiens in 

the United States today are descended from one 

original immigrant family. Dora Wurster Pousardien 

celebrated her 100 th birthday in August 2004. 

Fey school was originally a log cabin built in 

1864. As shown in a 1912 photograph, it was later 

weatherboarded to make the interior warmer. 

We have two pictures of the old school with some 

of the children. The other picture was taken a little 

earlier because Felix is a bit younger and he is on the 

far left near the torn area, second from left. It may 

have been taken about 1911. 

A picture here is also of this farm of Felix’s. This 

gives us a good view of how the houses were built 

and the area looked around 1920 or earlier. A 

teacher Mr. Armstrong would stay with the Hite/ 

Heidt family when he was teaching at the Fey School 

as Dora tells of stories her husband Felix Joseph had 

told over the many years of their marriage. 

1 Fey School Records, Jefferson County Public Schools 

Archives & Records Center. (Contact: Shirley Botkins.) 

2 Kentucky Ancestors, Vol. 36, Number 2 (Winter 2000), p. 96. 

3 Jefferson County, Ky., Deed Book 1115, p. 575. 

Frank and Louise 

Jackey Pousardien. 

4 St. Andrews Catholic Cemetery, Jefferson County, Ky. 

Though no stone for Louise has been found, she was buried 

there, according to a granddaughter, Dora Pousardien. 

5 St. Andrews Catholic Church records on film at the 

Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort, Ky. According to 

family tradition, Pousardian was born about 1851 in France. 

6 Kentucky Death Certificate no. 19/6341 and other death records. 

7 Dora Pousardien and the cemetery stones at St. Andrews. 

8 Dora Pousardien 

9 St. Andrews Catholic Church records on film at the 

Kentucky Historical Society. 

10 Kentucky Death cert no. 46/20356. 

11 Margaret Pousardian’s birth date was given by Dora 

Pousardien. 

12 Tombstones in St. Andrews Catholic Cemetery in 

southwestern Jefferson County, and recollections of Dora 

Pousardien. 

13 Jefferson County Will Book 9, p. 524. Heinrich’s will lists 

only four daughters. 

14 Kentucky Death certificates no. 26162 (1952) and 11413 

(1946) and tombstones in St. Andrews Catholic Church 

Cemetery, southwestern Jefferson County. Anna Marie 

Pousardian was living on Blanton Lane at the time of her death. 

Her daughter, Lena Belle Callahan, was the informant on her 

death certificate. 

15 Information from and Linda Allen, a granddaughter of 

Lena Bell Pousardian Callahan, and Dora Pousardien. See also 

Kentucky Death Certificate (1946) 9,230 and U.S. Census of 

1930, Jefferson Co. Ky. 

16 Husband’s name from Obit of Felix and Anna Pousardien 

30 May 1946—25 Dec 1952 in the Louisville Courier Journal. 

17 Husband’s name from Obit of Felix and Anna Pousardien 

30 May 1946—25 Dec 1952 in the Courier Journal. 

18 Information from Dora Pousardien. See also Kentucky 

Death Certificate No. (1955) 18,521 and tombstones at St. 

Andrews Catholic Church Cemetery. 

19 Dora Pousardien. 

20 Kentucky Death Certificate No. (1912) 31,106. 

A fragment of a photo of Fey School students, 1911. 

Felix Joseph Pousardien is on the far left, near the torn 

area. Originally a log cabin when it was built in 1864, 

the building was later weatherboarded to make the 

interior warmer. 



Female students of Fey School. First row, from right: 

Alma Bachmann, ____ ____, ____ ____, Elise Binder. 

Second row: Leda Bachmann, Rosie Regenauer, 

Thelma Sanders, Mildred Weber, Bertha Taylor. Third 

row: Philipine Eicher, Irma Werntz, Alma Sanders, 

Florence Eicher, Florence Weber, Marjorie Taylor, 

Nannette Wurster, Helen Regenauer, Clara Gruber. 

Forth row: Dora Wurster, ____ ____, Medeline Taylor, 

Bertha Weber, and ____ ____. 

The Heidt-Pousardien “home place” and farm along 

Arnoldtown Road in southwestern Jefferson County, 

probably in the 1920s. The girls posing in the field at 

center are unidentified. 


Students posed in front of a weatherboarded Fey 

School in the early 1900s. 

“District 5” School, early 1900s. The teacher was Miss 

Margaret McCallum. First row students included Wilfred 

Weber, Bertha Taylor, Helen Regenauer, Clara Gruber, 

Wallace Wildt, Marjorie Taylor, Alma Sanders, Florence 

Weber, Clarence DeRossett. Second row students 

were Edward Huber, Albert Pfoff, Joe Stowers, Curtis 

Sauer, Glen Taylor, Winston Harris, Robert Stowers, 

Chester Stowers, and Clifford Wildt. Third row students 

included Lloyed McCubbin, May DeRossett, Lottie 

Brown, Dora Wurster, Madeline Taylor, Nannette 

Wurster, and Buelah Taylor.

Baugh Families in the Early 

History of Kentucky 

By Ivan W. Baugh 

Mr. Baugh’s The Baugh Family: Virginia to Kentucky, via South Carolina appeared in Volume 39, Number 1 

in 2003. 

From the days when it was a county of Virginia to 

the present, the Baugh family name has been a part 

of Kentucky history. A John Baugh was a signer of a 

petition sent from Fort Boonesborough to the 

Virginia Legislature on 16 October 1779. 1 

By 1800, there were two Baugh families in Kentucky, 

living in Barren 

and Madison Counties. 2 

John Baugh—who may 

have been the petition 

signer—appeared in 

Barren County in the 

1790 Census. 3 The 

Barren County Baughs 

appearing in Kentucky 

tax lists in 1800 were 

John, his son John Jr., 

and William. The Madison 

County Baughs were 

Joseph and William. 4 

There are numerous 

sources that imply relationships 

between the 

Baugh families of Barren, Madison, Garrard, Russell, 

and Logan Counties, from naming patterns and 

Virginia counties of origin to settlement in Logan 

County, Ky., and Mt. Vernon, Jefferson County, Ill. 

BARREN COUNTY BAUGHS 

The John Baugh (b. about 1743, d. before 5 May 

1819, Barren County) who settled in Barren County, 

married Rosannah Waters (b. 1752-4, Frederick 

County, Va., d. 8 May 1819, Barren County, Ky.), a 

daughter of Thomas Waters and Elizabeth ____, 

before 1769. 5 

John “Baw” entered about 2,600 acres on the 

south side of Beaver Creek in what became Barren 

County in 1798. 6 He appeared on the first Barren 

County tax list in 1799 with 200 acres on Beaver 

Creek with one white above 21, one white 17-20 

Described as a “man of extensive 

information and a Christian preacher,” 

Baugh later became “a wealthy 

merchant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, 

with a branch house at Carthage, 

Tenn.” About 1815, Baugh sent one of 

his brothers—possibly Philemon—to 

manage an “immense cargo of produce” 

that he was shipping to New Orleans. 

The brother, however, began gambling 

on the return trip and arrived back in 

Bowling Green “penniless.” 

and three horses. He also appears in numerous land 

records over the years. 7 John “Baw” Jr. was listed 

with 150 acres on Beaver Creek and one white above 

21 and one horse. 

From their earliest times in Virginia, family members 

were known for their church membership. A 

John Baugh was listed as a member of Turkey Creek 

Baptist Church in South 

Carolina in 1786 and a 

Rosannah Baugh was a 

member of Poplar Spring 

Church there in July 

1794. A John Baugh, who 

may have been John Jr., 

was a founding member of 

Mount Tabor Baptist 

Church in Barren County 

in November 1798 and 

John and Rosannah’s sonin-law 

William L. Murphy 

was a church trustee in 

1806. 

William Baugh joined 

the tax list in 1801, with 200 acres on Skegg’s Creek, 

one white over 21 and one horse. George Baugh 

appeared in 1805, with one white 17-20 and two 

horses. Rosannah is listed on the 1820 Census in 

Barren County with one white male 0 to 10 and one 

white female 45 and over. 

John and Rosannah were the parents of Nancy (b. 

about 1769, m. Robert Hindman), 8 William (b. 

about 1771, m. 1. Mary Chandler, 2. Annaliz 

____?), 9 Henry (b. about 1772, d. about 1836, Ky.), 

Philemon (b. about 1773, d. December 1849, Jersey, 

Ill., m. 1. Mary “Polly” Norris, 2. Keziah “Kissey” 

Allen), 10 Jacob (b. about 1774), John Jr. (b. 1776, 

N.C., d. 30 December 1854, Mt. Vernon, Jefferson 

County, Ill., m. Mary Downing), 11 George (b. about 

Continued on page 90 


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Baugh Families, continued ___________________________________ 

Continued from page 87 

1778), Waters (b. about 1780), Rosannah/Rose Ann 

(b. about 1782, m. John Walker), 12 and Sally (Sarah?) 

(b. about 1784, m. William L. Murphy). 13 

Nancy Baugh 

Nancy Baugh (b. about 1769), a daughter of John 

Baugh Sr. and Rosannah Waters, married Robert 

Hindman, the first constable of Barren County, who 

died at Vincennes during the War of 1812. 

Hindman had purchased 60 acres on Beaver Creek 

from William Newell on 18 March 1805 and 250 acres 

from Arnold Custer on 28 January 1809. The family 

lived near a place called Prewitt’s Knob. 14 Hindman 

wrote his will in 1812 and it was probated in January 

1813. Listed were his wife Nancy Baugh Hindman and 

children Rebecca, John, Robert, Roseanna and Polly 

Hindman. The executor was Nancy’s brother Waters 

Baugh and witnesses were John Baugh and Nancy’s 

brother-in-law William L. Murphy. 15 

Robert and Nancy’s children were also listed in 16 

July 1821 and 20 October 1823, guardian bonds. 

These children were America, Mary, “Moarning 

America,” Robert, and Robert (Roberta?) Mary. 16 

William Baugh 

William Baugh (b. about 1771, d. 30 December 

1854, Mt. Vernon, Jefferson County, Ill.), a son of 

John Baugh Sr. and Rosannah Waters, married Mary 

Chandler on 28 October 1790 in Washington 

County. He appears in numerous Barren County land 

records in the early 1800s. Apparently after the death 

of a second wife, Annaliz ____, Baugh was appointed 

guardian of his and Annaliz’s children on 16 April 

1821. The children were Avena, Edward H. Harrison, 

Nancy, Robert, and Rosey. 17 He is listed on the 1820 

Census in Barren County with three white males 0 to 

10, one 16 to 18, and one 45 and over; one white 

female 0 to 10, one 10 to 16, and two 16 to 26, with 

two people engaged in agriculture. 

Philemon Baugh 

Philemon Baugh (b. about 1773, d. December 

1849, Jersey, Ill.), a son of John Baugh Sr. and 

Rosannah Waters, married Mary “Polly” Norris. He 

appeared on the 1820 Census in Barren County with 

four white males 0 to 10, one 10 to 16, and one 26 to 

45; three white females 0 to 10, one 10 to 16, and one 

26 to 45, with four people engaged in agriculture. 

After Polly’s death, Baugh married Keziah 


“Kissey” Allen on 11 April 1831 in Hamilton 

County, Ill. He later moved to Jersey County, Ill., 

where he died in December 1849. Baugh’s children 

included David M. Baugh (m. Nancy T. Gill). 

John Baugh Jr. 

John Baugh Jr. (b. 1776, N.C., d. 30 December 

1854, Mt. Vernon, Jefferson County, Ill.), a son of 

John Baugh Sr. and Rosannah Waters, married Mary 

Downing on 26 July 1797 in Mercer County. 18 

Baugh began his adult life in Barren County, purchasing 

land and improving his financial situation. 19 

Described as a “man of extensive information and a 

Christian preacher,” Baugh later became “a wealthy 

merchant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, with a 

branch house at Carthage, Tenn.” 20 About 1815, 

Baugh sent one of his brothers—possibly 

Philemon—to manage an “immense cargo of produce” 

that he was shipping to New Orleans. The 

brother, however, began gambling on the return trip 

and arrived back in Bowling Green “penniless.” 

Nearly bankrupt and “almost in despair,” Baugh 

left Kentucky for Vandalia, Fayette County, Ill., where 

he started a boarding house and served as a justice of 

the peace. “Too full of life to set still,” Baugh moved 

from place to place “at leisure intervals, trading and 

peddling.” By 1826 or 1827, Baugh began using Mt. 

Vernon, in Jefferson County, Ill., as his base, though 

also spending time in Greene County and Galena 

before his death in Mt. Vernon in 1854. 

John and Mary’s children, all of whom were born 

in Barren County, were Downing (b. 21 April 1798, 

d., 1888, McGregor, Clayton County, Ia., m. 1. 

Milly Pace, 2. Sophronia Davis), Elizabeth (b. about 

1801, m. 1. Thomas H. Flippen, 21 2. Edmond 

Tunstall), Jane (b. about 1805, m. William West 

“Buck” Pace), 22 Emily (b. about 1806, m. John 

Foley), 23 John “Jackie” (b. 5 March 1808, d. 20 

February 1881, Wise, Tex., m. Elizabeth Mildred 

Bruce), 24 Miriam (b. about 1810, m. Joseph 

Morrison), Moses (b. 1810, m. Mary Byers), 25 Rose 

Ann/Rosanna (b. about 1812, m. 1. Allen Flippen, 

2. Samuel P. Wilson), 26 and Peggy Ann (b. 1815, d. 

1861, Hill County, Tex., m. Samuel Morrison). 27 

Downing Baugh 

Downing Baugh (b. 2 April 1798, Barren County, 

Ky., d. 1888, McGregor, Clayton County, Ia.), a son 

of John Baugh Jr. and Mary Downing, married Milly 

Pace on 14 August 1806 in Jefferson County, Ill.


According to researcher Adam Clark Johnson, 

Baugh went to Vandalia, Ill., with his father about 

1815 and taught school there and in nearby Bond 

County. Moving to Mt. Vernon in 1827, he went into 

the merchandizing business with his father. When his 

father left the area, Downing Baugh stayed, building a 

store “on the north side of the square in 1832” and a 

two-story frame house. He was a member of the Mt. 

Vernon Methodist church and “superintendent” of its 

Sunday School for many years. 28 

Serving as a justice of the peace and postmaster 

over the years, Baugh turned his attention to becoming 

an attorney, which he eventually did. He was 

appointed to an unexpired circuit court judge term 

in 1854 and earned a reputation as “one of the best 

judges of statute law in the State.” 

Baugh moved to McGregor, Ia., in 1857 and served 

as city court judge. He also developed 32 lots on 

McGregor’s south side, which became known as 

Baugh’s Addition. After his wife died in May 1846, 

Baugh married Sophronia Davis on 11 November 

1846 in Hamilton County, Ill. 29 He died in 1888 and 

was buried in Pleasant Grove Cemetery in McGregor. 

Downing and Milly’s children included Ann 

Maria (b. about 1825), Mary Elizabeth (b. about 

1826), Joel V. (b. 19 May 1838, Mt. Vernon, 

Jefferson County, Ill.), John W., and Thomas J. 30 

Downing and Sophronia had a daughter, Judith, 

who was born in 1849 in Illinois. 

BAUGHS OF MADISON AND GARRARD 

COUNTIES 

Joseph, William, Abraham, and Rhoda Ann 

Baugh, children of Abraham Baugh 31 (b. about 

1732, Henrico County, Va., d. 1797, Powhatan 

County, Va.) 32 and Judith Coleman (b. 1732, 

Powhatan County, Va., d. 1798, Powhatan County, 

Va.) lived in Madison and Garrard Counties. 33 

Joseph Baugh 

Joseph Baugh (b. 28 September 1758, 

Cumberland County, Va., d. 15 February 1846, St. 

Charles County, Mo.), a son of Abraham Baugh and 

Judith Coleman, married Nancy Gentry on 3 March 

1796 in Madison County, Ky. Joseph was a Revolutionary 

War veteran. 34 

Joseph and Nancy moved to Madison County in 

1781 and to St. Charles County, Mo., in 1816. They 

were the parents of the following children, all of 

whom were presumably born there: William G. (b. 21 

November 1796), Benjamin (b. 27 February 1798), 

Judith, James F. (b. about 1809), Lucinda, Alsey, 

Martha “Patsy” (b. about 1811), Nancy, and Mary. 

Rhoda Ann Baugh 

Rhoda Ann Baugh (b. 2 February 1760, 

Cumberland County, Va., d. before 1828, Madison 

County, Ky.), a daughter of Abraham Baugh and 

Judith Coleman, married James E. Blackburn Jr. (b. 

about 1755, Buckingham County, Va., d. March 

1828, Madison County, Ky.), a son of James 

Blackburn Sr. and Mary ____, about 1778. 

Rhoda and James moved to Madison County and 

were the parents of Elizabeth P. (b. 1 July 1779, 

Cumberland County, Va., d. 11 September 1862, 

Paint Lick, Garrard County, Ky., m. Benjamin 

Boatright), 35 James (b. 1793, m. Nancy Forsythe), 

John (m. Elizabeth Patterson), William (m. Isabella 

Mitchell), Mary (m. ____ Carter), Judith (m. ____ 

Maxey), and Rhoda Ann (b. 2 June 1792, 

Buckingham County, Va., d. 19 July 1871, Paint 

Lick, Garrard County, Ky., m. John Patterson Jr.). 36 

Other possible children include David, George, 

Rankin, Robert, Simeon, and Thomas. 

William Baugh 

William Baugh (b. 17 September 1765, 

Cumberland County, Va., d. 12 April 1841), a son 

of Abraham Baugh and Judith Coleman, married 

Elizabeth Ashbrook (b. 8 September 1770, Va.) on 

18 September 1788. 

William appeared in the 1820 Madison County 

census with two males 10-16, one 16-26, and one 45 

or over; and four white females 0-10, one 10-16, one 

26-45, and one 46 or over, with seven people engaged 

in agriculture. 

William and Elizabeth’s children included Joseph 

(b. about 1791, Madison County), William A. (b. 

about 1795, Madison County, m. 1. Peggy Kincaid, 

2. Susan Forsythe), 37 and Abraham (b. 1795, d. 

1859, m. Amanda Malvina Pearl). 38 

After Elizabeth’s death, William married Susan 

Carter (b. Ky.) and settled in St. Charles County, 

Mo. He moved to Montgomery County, Mo., in 

1832. He apparently later married Nancy V. Chambers 

Hayslip, a widow. 39 

Some descendants of William Baugh moved west, 

several eventually settling in Oklahoma. I learned 

about this family while teaching at Howard Payne 


Baugh families, continued ___________________________________ 

University in Brownwood, Texas. A colleague gave 

me a copy of his family’s research that traced the line 

from Virginia though Kentucky to Oklahoma and 

on to Texas. 40 

Abraham Baugh Jr. 

Abraham Baugh Jr. (b. 7 August 1773, 

Cumberland County, Va., d. December 1833, 

Garrard County, Ky.), a son of Abraham Baugh and 

Judith Coleman, married Martha Johnson (b. 3 

October 1773, Va.) on 21 December 1793 in 

Powhatan County, Va. 

Abraham and Martha moved from Powhatan 

County to Garrard County, Ky., in the early 1800s. 

Abraham is listed in the 1820 Census in Garrard 

County with three white males 0-10, one 10-16 and/ 

or 16-18, three 16-26, one male 26-45, and one 45 

or over; and one white female 0-10, one 16-26, one 

26-45, and one 45 or over. The couple’s children 

included William Johnson (b. 20 September 1794), 

Jesse Gill (b. 3 October 1796), Elisha Polk (b. 7 July 

1798, Powhatan County, Va.), Rowena (b. 7 August 

1799), Celia (b. 11 May 1801), (Unknown twins, b. 

7 August 1803), Abraham G. (b. 15 October 1805), 

_____ (b. 1806), Darius (b. 3 December 1808, 

Garrard County, Ky., d. 15 February 1885, Putnam 

County, Mo.), 41 Marcellus (b. 4 February 1812), 

Martha Ann (b. 27 August 1814), and Amasa B. (b. 

9 June 1818). 

After Martha’s death, Abraham married Elizabeth 

Higginbotham Brown on 5 October 1827 in 

Garrard County. 

Abraham G. Baugh 

Abraham G. Baugh (b. 15 October 1805), a son of 

Abraham Baugh Jr. and Martha Johnson, married Rebecca 

Moore on 13 February 1824 in Garrard County. 

After his marriage, Abraham left Garrard County and 

was living in Logan County during the 1830 census. 

This raises the question of a connection between the 

Garrard County and Logan County Baugh families. 

LOGAN COUNTY BAUGHS 

John Baugh and his younger brother Samuel (b. 

1788, Va., m. Elizabeth Williams) arrived in Logan 

County between 2 July 1817 and 28 September 

1817. (John’s son Van Allen Baugh was born near 

Nashville, Tenn., on the former date, while Samuel’s 

first child was born in Kentucky on the latter.) 42 

John and Samuel appear on the Logan County tax 


list in 1819. 43 John is listed in the 1820 Census in 

Logan County with two white males 0-10, two 10-16, 

one 26-45, and one 45 or over; and one white female 

0-10, one 16-26, and one 45 or over, with five people 

engaged in agriculture. Samuel appeared in the 1820 

Census in Logan County with one white male 0-10, 

two 10-16, and one 26-45; and two white females 0- 

10, one 10-16, and one 26-45 or over, with two 

people engaged in agriculture. He appears in one 

census record as a cooper, or barrel maker. 

John Baugh 

John Baugh (b. 1 May 1774, Shirley Hundred, 

Va., d. 20 September 1855, Logan County, Ky.), a 

son of James Baugh IV, married Elizabeth Taylor (b. 

6 May 1784, S.C., d. 6 April 1860, Logan County, 

Ky.), who may have been half-Cherokee Indian. 

They were buried in the Baugh Cemetery in northern 

Logan County. 44 

John and Elizabeth’s children were Moses (b. 5 

January 1807, Edgefield County, S.C., d. 7 October 

1884, m. Mary B. ____), 45 Bartlett (b. 15 July 1804, 

Edgefield County, S.C., d. 12 October 1875, 

Pleasanton, Linn County, KS, m. Elizabeth Dillon), 

Lavina (b. 27 February 1812, Edgefield County, 

S.C., m. Lewis McPherson), 46 John (b. 12 October 

1814, Edgefield County, S.C., d. 17 July 1904, Linn 

County, Kan., m. Minerva J. Vickers), Van Allen (b. 

2 July 1817, Davidson County, Tenn., d. 7 February 

1886, Davidson County, Tenn., m. Minerva Cabler), 

Daniel Lee (b. 11 January 1820, Logan County, Ky.,, 

d. 30 January 1883, Ky., m. Susannah “Ann” 

McPherson, 47 Mary Frances “Polly” (b. 2 January or 

26 June 1823, Logan County, Ky., m. David Love 

Fleming), 48 Levi N. “Lee” (b. 2 March 1825, Logan 

County, Ky., d. 16 April 1906, m. Nancy 

McPherson), 49 and George N. (b. 9 March 1829, 

Logan County, Ky.). 

Samuel Baugh 

Samuel Baugh (b. 1788, Va.), a son of James 

Baugh IV, married Elizabeth Williams (b. Va.), in 

March 1815 in South Carolina. 

Samuel and Elizabeth’s children were Susan (b. 28 

September 1817, Ky., m. Alfred C. Wilson), Mary 

“Polly” (b. 25 August 1819, m. John Knight), 

Frances (b. 4 June 1821), James M. (b. 30 September 

1823), Eliza (b. 22 September 1825), Simeon (b. 8 

March 1828), John (b. 7 March 1830), Sara (b. 1 

May 1832), Samuel W. (b. 13 August 1834), and


Tabitha Ancefronia (b. 18 August 1835). 

From Logan County, John and Samuel’s descendants 

went to Butler and Muhlenberg Counties and 

to Kansas, Missouri, and Tennessee. William 

Bartlett, a son of Daniel Baugh and grandson of 

Samuel and Elizabeth, went to Missouri about 1857, 

as apparently did James Baugh, a son of Samuel and 

Elizabeth. 50 James Baugh V, brother of John and 

Samuel, traveled to Kentucky with them before 

continuing west, eventually settling in Texas. 51 

Bartlett Baugh 

Bartlett Baugh (b. 15 July 1804, Edgefield 

County, S.C., d. 12 October 1875, Pleasonton, Linn 

County, Kan.), a son of John Baugh and Elizabeth 

Taylor, married Elizabeth Dillon (b. 5 April 1810, 

Russellville, Logan County, Ky.) in Russellville, 

Logan County, Ky. 52 

Bartlett was a farmer, who moved his family to 

Potosi Township, Linn County, Kan., probably in 

1856. He appeared in the 1850 Census in Logan 

County as 41, with Elizabeth, 40. Also in the household 

were John, 17, William A., 15, E. Virginia, 14, 

Louis B., 11, Sarah Cassandra, 7, Nancy J., 6, 

George M., 4, and Angelina, 1. Baugh appeared in 

the 1860 Census in Linn County as 51, with Elizabeth 

as 50 (b. N.C.). Also in the household were 

their children, all of whom were listed as having been 

born in Kentucky: Lewis, 22, Sarah, 18, Nancy, 17, 

George, 15, Angelina, 13, Sethia (female), 8, 

Quincy, 5, and Melv (male), 2. 53 Baugh is listed in 

the 1870 Census in Linn County as 60, with Elizabeth 

as 60. The children still in the home were Lewis 

B., 25, George M., 23, Angelina B., 21, Lucy S., 17, 

Quincy, 14, and Melville B.C., 12. 

Bartlett and Elizabeth’s children, all of whom 

except Melville were born in Logan County, were 

John H. (b. December 1832), 54 William Allen (b. 15 

June 1834), E. Virginia (b. about 1836), Louis B. (b. 

about 1839), Sarah Cassandra (b. 5 January 1842), 

Nancy J. (b. about 1844), George Mitchell (b. 

February 1847), Angelina B. (b. 4 May 1852), Lucy 

Sethia (b. about 1853), Quincy A. (b. about 1856), 

and Melville B.C. (b. about 1858, Kan.). 

John Baugh 

John Baugh (b. 12 October 1814, Edgefield County, 

S.C., d. 17 July 1904, Linn County, Kan.), a son of 

John Baugh and Elizabeth Taylor, married Minerva 

Gorden Vickers (b. 25 March 1821, Hopkins County, 

Ky.) on 9 April 1840 in Hopkins County, Ky. 

John was a farmer, who moved his family to Potosi 

Township, Linn County, Kan., in 1856. He appears 

in the 1860 Census of Linn County as 45 (b. S.C.) 

and a farmer, with a real estate value of $2,600 and a 

personal estate worth $1,300. “Manerva” (b. S.C.) 

was 40 years old. Also in the household were John, 

18, Sarah, 16, Martha, 14, Margaret, 11, Cassia, 8, 

Louisa, 6, Julia, 2, in addition to “A. Buskill,” 22 (b. 

“K.T.”). All the children were listed as having been 

born in South Carolina. All, except Louisa and Julia, 

had attended school within the year. 

According to History of the State of Kansas, Baugh had 

a 170-acre farm in section 13 (Pleasanton Post Office) 

and served as a Linn County justice of the peace. 55 

John and Minerva’s children, all of whom were born 

in Logan County, Ky., were Mary E. (b. 25 March 

1841), John W. (b. about 1842), Martha L. (b. about 

1846), Millie Margaret (b. about 1849), Lydia Virginia 

(b. 1851), Paulina Catherine (b. 1854), Louisa N. (b. 

about 1854), and Julia F. (b. about 1858). 

Van Allen Baugh 

Van Allen Baugh, a son of John Baugh and 

Elizabeth Taylor, returned to the Nashville, Tenn., 

area where he had been born. He was listed as V.A. 

Baugh in the 1860 Census, living in Nashville’s 6 th 

Ward. He was 42 (b. Ky.) and a blacksmith, married 

within the year. The value of his real estate was 

$10,100, and the value of his personal estate, $500. 

Mary Frances 

“Polly” Baugh, a 

daughter of John 

Baugh and 

Elizabeth Taylor (b. 

1823, Logan 

County), married 

David Love Fleming 

(b. 1821), a son of 

David L. Fleming 

and Lydia Shelton, 

on 4 December 

1826. The couple 

lived in Logan 

County; their 

children included 

Lydia Elizabeth, 

George Thomas, 

Moses Allen, Bartley 

Taylor, Lavina 

From Logan County, Kentucky (History) 

(1976) 

Virginia, Mary Cassander, David Love Jr., and Sarah E. 



Also in the household were Minerva, 34 (b. Tenn.), 

Henry C., 13 (b. Tenn.), Eadwell (male, b. Tenn.), 

Margaret Myers, 15 (b. Tenn.), and Nancy Cabler, 

61 (b. Tenn.). Van Allen died in Davidson County 

on 7 February 1886. 

Mary Weldon Baugh 

Mary Weldon Baugh (b. 1767, Cumberland 

County, Va., d. after 1814, Logan County, Ky.), a 

daughter of Abraham Baugh and Judith Coleman, 

married 1. James Routten and 2. Archibald Felts (b. 

1758, d. 1814). 56 

Mary and Archibald moved to Logan County and 

were the parents of Mary (b. 5 February 1797, 

Logan County. 

RUSSELL COUNTY BAUGHS 

Marcellus Baugh 

Marcellus Baugh (b. 4 February 1812, Garrard 

County, Ky.), a son of Abraham Baugh Jr. and 

Martha Johnson, married Permelia Stapp/Stepp on 

14 November 1832 in Russell County, Ky. 57 Baugh 

lived in Russell County, where he served as a magistrate 

and justice of the peace. In those capacities, he 

performed several marriage ceremonies in 1852 and 

1853. 58 Baugh served in the Union Army during the 

Civil War before settling in Cumberland County, 

where he became a minister. 

Baugh is listed in the 1860 Census of Cumberland 

County as 48 (b. Ky.), living in Burkesville. Also in 

the household were his wife Parmelia (b. Ky.), 52; 

William D., 24; Sarah Jane, 23, school mistress; 

Simon, 20, farmer; Elisha, 17; Mary, 14; Elizabeth, 

14; and Marcellus Jr., 11. All the children were born 

in Kentucky, and William D., Mary, Elizabeth, and 

Marcellus Jr. attended school within the year. Living 

next door to Baugh was Sarah S. Maxey (b. Va.), 89, 

who may have been a relative. 

Marcellus and Permelia’s children, all of whom 

were born in Russell County, were Abraham (b. 

about 1834), Sarah J. (b. about 1836), William D. 

(b. about 1838), Simeon (b. about 1840), Elisha (b. 

about 1842), Elizabeth and Mary (twins, b. about 

1844), and Permelia A. (b. about 1846). 

MISCELLANEOUS BAUGHS 

Henry Baugh appears in Pulaski County, Ky. 

(Somerset area), on the 1810 census. 59 Until I saw the 

work of Frank Deis, I presumed that this family was 


From Logan County, Kentucky (History) (1976) 

Bartley Taylor Fleming and Jemima Mary Moore were 

married on 19 February 1874. Bartley (b. 22 July 1853) 

was a son of Mary Frances “Polly” Baugh and David 

Love Fleming. Jemima was a daughter of William Abner 

Moore Jr. and Patsy Jane Johnson. Bartley and Jemima 

were the parents of Lillie Frances, William Rufus, Verna 

Marshall, Sidney Ross, Thenia Ophelia, Quincy Elvin 

“Jake,” and Eula May. 

somehow connected to those in Garrard and Madison 

counties. In his research, Deis documents the fact that 

these people were named Bach before settling in the 

United States. The named was anglicized as Baugh. 

Hence there is no known connection between this 

group from Germany and the other Baugh families 

who trace their roots back to William Baugh, Sr. who 

arrived in the United States in 1639 from England. 

You may follow this line on the Baugh Branches web 

site under the Virginia Roots section. 60 

1 Robinson, Petitioners of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky, 

Petition 9, p. 48. 

2 Franklin Gorin, The Times of Long Ago, Barren County, 

Kentucky (Louisville, Ky., 1929), p. 20. 

3 This author thinks that this is the same John Baugh who was 

at Fort Boonesborough. This remains a topic for further research. 

4 G. Glenn Clift, “Second Census” of Kentucky-1800 (Baltimore: 

Genealogical Publishing Co., 1966), p. ?? 

5 Research of Edna Vinson Davis. After the death of Thomas 

Waters (b. about 1714, Va.), Elizabeth married Jacob Wright. 

The Wrights apparently traveled with the Baugh family to 

Laurens County, S.C., and later to Barren County, Ky. At one 

time the family lived in Frederick County, Va. 

6 Sandra K. Gorin, Survey Entries in Green County, Ky., 1798- 

1812; 1796 Logan County, Ky., Certificates; and Warren County, 

Ky., Certificates (1797 through 1799) of Lands Originally on 

Barren County Soil (Glasgow, Ky., 1991), p. 34. Barren County


was formed in 1799 from Green and Warren Counties and this 

work is designed to document those settlers with land in Warren 

County prior to the formation of Barren County. 

7 For examples, see Sandra K. Gorin, Barren County, 

Kentucky, Deed Books AA, A, and B (Glasgow, Ky., 1991), p. 7, 

and Sandra K. Gorin, Barren County, Kentucky, Deed Books C, 

D, and E (Glasgow, Ky., 1991), p. 9. 

8 Sandra K. Gorin, Barren County, Kentucky, Deed Books 

AA, A, and B (Volume 1) (Glasgow, Ky., 1991), pages 55 and 71; 

Barren County Will Book 1, p. 245; Barren County Will Book 2, 

pages 128-29, and research of Edna Vinson Davis. Nancy Baugh 

and Robert Hindman were married on 12 September 1797 in 

Washington County, Ky. 

9 William Baugh and Mary Chandler were married on 12 

September 1797 in Washington County. 

10 Philemon Baugh and Keziah “Kissey” Allen were married on 

11 April 1831 in Hamilton County, Ill. 

11 John Baugh Jr. married Mary Downing on 26 July 1797 in 

Mercer County, Ky. 

12 Rose Ann/Rosannah Baugh married John Walker on 13 

October 1803 in Barren County. 

13 Barren County Will Book 1, p. 245 and Sandra K. Gorin, 

Barren County, Kentucky, Deed Books AA, A, and B (Volume 1) 

(Glasgow, Ky., 1991), p. 60. William L. Murphy was a trustee of 

Mt. Tabor Baptist Church when he received an August 1806 land 

donation in the church’s name from Elijah “Haiden.” Sally Baugh 

married William L. Murphy on 12 July 1809 in Barren County. 

14 Franklin Gorin, The Times of Long Ago, Barren County, 

Kentucky (Louisville, Ky., 1929), p. 20. 

15 Sandra K. Gorin, Barren County, Kentucky, Deed Books AA, 

A, and B (Volume 1) (Glasgow, Ky., 1991), pages 55 and 71; 

Barren County Will Book 1, p. 245; Barren County Will Book 2, 

pages 128-29, and research of Edna Vinson Davis. Nancy was 

listed as adminitrix in Robert’s August 20, 1821, estate settlement. 

16 Sandra K. Laughery Gorin, Guardian Bonds, Barren County, 

Kentucky, 1809 through 1858 (Glasgow, Ky., 1990), p. 26. 


Kentucky, 1809 through 1858 (Glasgow, Ky., 1990), p. 2. 

18 Mercer County, Ky., Marriage Book A, p. 665-6 (26 July 

1797) and Mercer County Register 1, p. 50. 

19 Sandra K. Gorin, Barren County, Kentucky, Deed Books AA, A, 

and B (Volume 1) (Glasgow, Ky., 1991), p. 90. While in Barren 

County, John Baugh Jr. owned a “headright” south of Glasgow. 

20 This information, along with the subsequent story, is taken 

from an article by Adam Clark Johnson that appeared in the Mt. 

Vernon Register-News. Johnson was the author of a series of 

historical articles that appeared in the newspaper in the 1870s 

and 1880s. Clippings have been preserved in a file at the C.E. 

Brehm Memorial Library in Mt. Vernon. Some genealogists refer 

to the collection as Pioneer Families of Jefferson County, Illinois, the 

name given a bound version of the clippings. 


Kentucky, 1809 through 1858 (Glasgow, Ky., 1990), p. 29. See 

also Franklin Gorin, The Times of Long Ago, Barren County, 

Kentucky (Louisville, Ky., 1929), p. 24, and Sandra K. Gorin, 

Survey Entries in Green County, Ky., 1798-1812; 1796 Logan 

County, Ky., Certificates; and Warren County, Ky., Certificates 

(1797 through 1799) of Lands Originally on Barren County Soil 

(Glasgow, Ky., 1991), p. 34. Elizabeth Baugh married Thomas 

H. Flippen on 18 November 1816 in Warren County, Ky., and 2. 

Edmond Tunstall about 1820 in Bond County, Ill. Flippen 

apparently lived in a portion of Barren County that became 

Monroe County. He had served as a Barren County justice of the 

peace in 1808. He was also possibly the Thomas Flippin who 

entered land along Big Barren Creek in 1799. 

22 Jane Baugh married William West “Buck” Pace about 1823 

in Jefferson County, Ill. 

23 Emily Baugh married John Foley in Jefferson County, Ill. 

24 John “Jackie” Baugh married Elizabeth Mildred Bruce on 4 

June 1828 in Jefferson County, Ill. 

25 Moses Baugh married Mary Byers on 18 August 1831 in 

Barren County, Ky. 

26 Rose Ann/Rosanna Baugh married Allen Flippen on 11 

November 1824 in Barren County, Ky., and 2. Samuel P. Wilson 

on 24 October 1833 in Hamilton County, Ill. 

27 Peggy Ann Baugh married Samuel Morrison on 13 February 

1834 in Jefferson County, Ill. 

28 Johnson was the author of a series of historical articles that 

appeared in the Mt. Vernon Register-News in the 1870s and 

1880s. Clippings have been preserved in a file at the C.E. Brehm 

Memorial Library in Mt. Vernon. Some genealogists refer to the 

collection as Pioneer Families of Jefferson County, Illinois, the name 

given a bound version of the clippings. 

29 Mt. Vernon Register-News (undated clipping file). Sophronia 

was identified as a “sister to Mrs. H. Davidson, of an excellent 

family in Franklin County.” 

30 Downing and Milly’s children remained in Mt. Vernon, Ill., as 

noted in the Mt. Vernon Register-News: Mrs. J.J. Fly, who is still 

with us, at an advanced age, and is the mother of Walter, Oscar 

and Addison Fly, and Mrs. Carrie Spiese and Amy, at home; Mrs. 

H.H. Wilkerson, who moved to Chicago and died; Thomas J. 

(dead). Another child, John W., was identified as “our well known 

express agent.” John W. Baugh was the father of Frank, Nellie, and 

Joe V., “present editor of the Mount Vernon News.” The children 

of Joe V. Baugh included Ernest, Harry, and “Mrs. ‘Hat’ Thurston, 

living in Dakota.” Also included in the book was: “The Baughs 

then lived on what is now Herrin’s corner. We were sent over to 

Aunt Mariah’s, who kept gingerbread and cider about where 

George Carter now lives, for the ‘treat’ was a good one—just such a 

one as Aunt Mariah (colored) delighted to give.” 

31 Those interested in researching this line will find the work of 

Nora Cott of Bethesda, Md., useful. 

32 Abraham Baugh married Judith Coleman in 1757. 

Researcher Mike Arslan’s information on the family can be found 

at: http://www.arslanmb.org/baugh/baugh.html. 

33 Abraham Baugh and Judith Coleman were married in 1757, 

Va. Abraham was a son of Thomas Baugh (b. 1690, Henrico 

County, Va., 1762?) and Sarah Ashbrook (b. 1690). Abraham’s 

siblings included Joseph (d. about 1777, m. Rachel ____), 

Thomas, James (d. 1778), and Martha (b. ____ Russell). See will 

of Thomas Baugh of Dale Parish, Chesterfield County, Va., Will 

Book 1, p. 333. 



34 Mt. Vernon Register-News (undated clipping file). 

35 Benjamin Boatright was born on 8 September 1769 in 

Cumberland County, Va. Elizabeth and Benjamin’s children 

included Benjamin Daniel (b. 11 December 1816, Powhatan 

County, Va.), William van Renselaer, Martha Gill, Mariah B., 

James Blackburn, Eliza Radford, Alexander Allen, (unknown 

infant), Rhoda Ann, and Lucy B. 

36 Rhoda Ann Blackburn and John Patterson were married on 

28 March 1809 in Madison County. Their children included 

James (b. 20 April 1810, Ky.), Celia (b. 15 July 1811), Sally L. (b. 

24 February 1813, Garrard County), Julia Ann (b. 15 March 

1815), Allen (b. 23 April 1817, Garrard County), Permelia Agnes 

(b. 4 October 1819, Garrard County), John Dickson (b. 27 May 

1822), Elizabeth (b. 16 December 1826), Asa (b. 4 January 1828), 

Rhoda Ann (b. 29 June 1830, Garrard County), Nancy Jane (b. 17 

March 1833), and Margaret Hannah (b. 5 January 1836). 

37 William A. Baugh married Peggy Kincaid on 24 February 

1820 in Madison County and Susan Forsythe on 26 August 

1828 in Madison County. Their children included John H. 

Baugh (b. 18 November 1823). William A. Baugh is listed in the 

1820 Census in Madison County with one white male 26-45, 

one white female 16-26, and one person engaged in agriculture. 

38 Abraham Baugh married Amanda Malvina Pearl (b. January 

1807) on 18 January 1825 in Laurel County, Ky.). Their children 

included Adaliza, Sarah Crosby, Henry Pearl, John William, Jane 

Francis, Martha Ann, Sidney Clay, Joseph Franklin, Mary 

Aseneth, Margaret Elizabeth, James Robert, and Helen Emily. 

39 Mt. Vernon Register-News (undated clipping file). 

40 One Baugh researcher, Mrs. Robert C. Wallace of 

Bartlesville, Okla., provided information and sources to the 

Kentucky Historical Society, which was placed in the Baugh 

family files of the Thomas D. Clark Library. See also research of 

Nora Cott, of Bethesday, Md., who was a member of the 

Daughters of the American Revolution through her Baugh line. 

This family expanded sourth along the Interstate 75 corridor and 

lived in Laurel County and in neighboring areas. 

41 Darius Baugh married Sarah Triplett (b. about 1811, Ky.) on 

13 September 1828 in Russell County, Ky. Their children 

included Caroline (b. 16 September 1847, Livonia, Putnam 

County, Mo.), Martha Jane (b. 6 October 1829), Nancy (b. 

about 1832), Rutha Jane (b. about 1833), William Riley (b. 

about 1835), Elizabeth A. (b. 17 March 1835), John (b. January 

1838), Rowena (b. 12 December 1839), Sarah G. (b. 28 October 

1840), and Mary F. (b. about 1854). 

42 Baugh, Ivan W., “The Baugh Family: Virginia to Kentucky, 

via South Carolina,” Kentucky Ancestors, Vol. 39, No. 1, pages 3-6. 

43 Logan County, KY Tax list (viewed on microfilm at the 

Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY) 

44 Logan County, Kentucky, Cemeteries (2000, Russellville, Ky.), p. 

192. See also Logan County (history) (Paducah, Ky., 1996), p. 224. 

The cemetery book gives directions to the Baugh cemetery as: 

“From Lewisburg, KY, take Hwy. 106 northeast 1.9 miles; turn left 

on Hwy. 1153 and veer to left onto Iron Mountain Road for 5 

miles. Plot is behind Baugh farmhouse at 5078 Iron Mountain 

road. Take a path through the field, through woods on small farm 

trail. Graveyard is fenced, is cared for by Borders family in 


Michigan. Information provided by Claudia M. Borders, as told by 

Molissie Penrod Baugh to Elsie Baugh borders in 1981.” 

45 Hopkins County, Kentucky, Cemeteries (Vol. 2) (Madisonville, 

Ky., 1970), p. 108. 

46 Logan County, Kentucky, Marriages, 1790-1805 (Russellville, 

Ky., 1981), p. 67. The information was taken from Muhlenberg 

Marriage Book 2, p. 25. Lavina Baugh married Lewis McPherson 

on 22 November 1844 in Muhlenberg County, Ky. 

47 Daniel Baugh family Bible. See “The Baugh Family: 

Virginia to Kentucky, via South Carolina,” Kentucky Ancestors, 

Vol. 39, No. 1, p. 5. Daniel and Susannah (b. 9 February 1826, 

Ky., d. 14 August 1902, Ky.) were married on 12 February 1845 

in Muhlenberg County, Ky.. 

48 Logan County (history) (Paducah, Ky., 1996), p. 224. 

49 Nancy McPherson was born on 5 December 1827 and died 

on 17 February 1900. 

50 An entry in the family Bible belonging to Elizabeth Baugh, 

wife of Samuel Baugh, states that he died and is buried in New 

Madrid, Mo. Research in that area has not been successful in 

locating his grave. Photocopies of pages from this Bible appear in 

Kuhlenschmidt, Eden. The Descendants of Samuel and Elizabeth 

Baugh: A Snapshot in Time 1800-2001. 

51 A letter from Bartlett Baugh to his sister, Levina Baugh 

McPherson dated 1858, tells about John going to Texas to visit. 

The letter appears in Palmer, Del., Baugh Station, 1992. 

52 Bartlett and Elizabeth are buried in Fisher Cemetery, Linn 

County, Kan. 

53 Bartlett’s family members appear to have been somewhat 

jumbled in the 1860 Census. He appears in the household of 

Reuben Lamb, 19, having been married within the year, and 

living next door to Martha Baugh, 21, head of household. It 

seems obvious that Bartlett’s name was transposed with Martha’s, 

which should place here in Reuben’s household (both married 

within the year), and Bartlett as head of the household that 

contained his wife and children. 

54 John Baugh appears next to his uncle Bartlett in the 1860 

Census of Linn County as 28 and a farmer, born in Kentucky. 

His wife Mary, 25, was born in Ohio. Also in the household was 

their daughter Mary, 6 months old, born in Kansas. 

55 Cutler, William G., History of the State of Kansas (Chicago, 

1883), p. 1,111. 

56 Routten may have been from Buckingham County, Va. See 

Baugh family file, Thomas D. Clark Library, Kentucky Historical 

Society, Frankfort. 

57 Mrs. Donald E. Jordan, “Russell County, Kentucky, 

Marriage Certificates,” Kentucky Ancestors (Vol. 2, No. 3, January 

1967), p. 90. Baugh and Stapp were married by John Balinger. 

58 Mrs. Donald E. Jordan, “Russell County, Kentucky, Marriage 

Certificates,” Kentucky Ancestors (Vol. 2, No. 4, April 1967), pages 

148, 150-51, 153-55. The article began in Vol. 2, No. 3 and was 

continued in Vol. 3, No. 1 (July 1967) and Vol. 3, No. 2. 

59 http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/%7Edeis/bau4.html (Frank Deis 

has done considerable research on this line) 

60 http://home.mindspring.com/~iwbaugh/Virginia/Virginia- 

Roots.htm

VITAL STATISTICS 

The Mercury, Carlisle, Nicholas County, January 

22, 1891 

Mrs. Jane Roberts has moved the remains of her 

son from the old Concord burying ground to the 

Carlisle Cemetery. Although it has been in the 

ground fifteen years the coffin was as sound as the 

day it was placed there. Mrs. Roberts has placed a 

handsome monument over the graves of her husband 

and son in our cemetery. 

James Tune of Russell, Ky., was in town Sunday 

and Monday visiting his brother Richard. He brings 

the news of Wm. Saunders marriage to an Ohio lady. 

Mr. Hubbard B. Taylor, aged 80 years, died at 

home Cla__k(?), on the 16 th inst. He was a cousin of 

Dr. Hubbard Taylor, formerly of this city. 

FOREST RETREAT. 

Mrs. Hollar an aged lady living on Crooked 

Creek, and mother of Rev. E.S. Hollar, of Bald Hill, 

died last Friday. Funeral and burial Sunday last at 

Bare Foot. 

JACKSTOWN. 

Died—At Little Rock, Mr. Beverly Crump, aged 

86 years. 

Mr. Al. Mockabee, of Winchester, formerly of this 

county, died last week at the age of 80 years. 

MATRIMONIAL. 

The Mt. Sterling Gazette announces the marriage 

of Dr. W.C. Shankland and Mrs. Mollie B. Cox. 

DEATHS. 

Willie, son of Jas. Daugherty, aged about 15 years, 

died Tuesday morning last. 

In Remmington [sic, Remington], Ind., Mr. Roy 

D. Davidson, brother-in-law of 

David Stephenson, of this county. He was a 

former resident of this county. 

Birth, wedding, and death 

notices of Kentuckians 

from historical newspapers 

On Thursday last, January 15 th , the infant son of 

J.S. and Josephine McMahill Bush breathed its last at 

the home of its grandparents, Seth and Margaret 

McMahill, in this city. Only a brief life on earth of 

five weeks—only a brief fluttering of the wings, then 

folded them to rest forever! A few days before the 

death of the young mother she took the little one in 

her arms and said, “Call it Joe—you will all want to 

call it that for me.” At another time, seeing its feeble 

condition, she seemed to whisper a desire to take it 

with her. Heaven has mercifully granted her wish— 

For on Friday, the 16 th , the beautiful white casket 

which contained her mortal remains, and which had 

been deposited in the cemetery vault, was opened, 

and little Joe was laid in his mother’s arms. Thus 

while their bodies shall moulder back into commingled 

dust, she holds him in an eternal embrace of 

love in the glory land. Brief services at the house 

were conducted by Rev. Wm. Rowland, of the M.E. 

Church. The father, J.S. Bush, had been notified, 

and arrived in time to be present. 

J.A.C. 

THE COMMONWEALTH. 

Kennedy Houston was acquitted at Carterville of 

the charge of having murdered Dick Moore. 

The jury in the case of the Commonwealth 

against Wm. Ballenger, charged with murdering Sam 

Turney, colored, at Millersburg, with a base-ball bat, 

returned a verdict of involuntary manslaughter, and 

fined him fifty dollars and costs. 

Aunt Mary Jones, colored, died at North 

Middletown, Bourbon County, a few days ago. She 

was undoubtedly the oldest person in the county. 

She is known to be over one hundred years of age, 

and came originally from Virginia. 

A colored woman about sixty years of age, the 

wife of Henry Lewis, fell into the fire and was 

burned to death at Curdsville, Daviess County, a few 

days ago. The husband was away at work at a saw 

mill at the time. 

A skeleton found in Louisville the other day may 


Vital Statistics, continued ____________________________________ 

lead to the explanation of a mysterious disappearance. 

Seven years ago, Charles Bell, who was a 

produce dealer, living near the city, disappeared. 

Nothing has been heard of him since. His uncle, 

Thomas Semple, who had come into possession of 

Bell’s property, the other day dug up a skeleton in his 

stable which corresponds to Bell’s height. It is believed 

Bell was murdered for money. 

Near Crab Orchard, Mrs. Jane Mullins, shot and 

killed her son Henry, nineteen years old. He had 

come home from the town in a hilarious mood, and 

picking up his mother’s three-year-old foster children, 

was tossing it in the air. His mother commanded 

him to put the child down, and when he 

refused, picked up a musket to compel him. The boy 

seized the gun, a struggle ensued, in which the gun 

was discharged, killing the boy. 

Mrs. John R. Conley returned from Louisville last 

week. She attended the wedding of a nephew of Mr. 

Conley’s while in the Falls City. 

As Cashier Congleton was searching the safe on 

Saturday for a missing life policy, he found under a 

piece of carpet a small package that contained six 2 

½ dollar gold pieces that had been left in bank by 

the late J.P. Foster, fifteen or twenty years ago. Mr. 

C. paid over the money to the widow and guardian 

of the children. 

BETHEL. 

Died—Saturday January 24 th , Mrs. Allie Peters, aged 

eighty-three years. The very large crowd that followed 

her remains to their last resting place, attested of the 

high esteem in which she was held at home. Funeral 

services were conducted by Rev. G.W. Young. 

BIRTHS. 

McGinley—To the wife of John McGinley, Jr., 

this county, on the 25 th , a son. 

OBITUARY. 

On Tuesday, January 20, 1891, Willie, aged 14 

years, son of James and Rebecca Daugherty, after an 

illness of six weeks, was called from his sufferings to 

be at rest. His span of life on earth was short, but he 

endeared himself to many who sincerely deplore his 


loss. In his bright face was expressed a noble character. 

One’s heart was made glad to the pure soul that 

looked from his clear brown eyes. … He was gentle 

as a brother, and loving and tender as a son. During 

his illness when mother and sister expressed a desire 

to watch through the weary hours of the night, he 

earnestly plead, “Don’t sit up, I don’t want to tire 

you. I can rest better if you sleep too….” 

RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT. 

Resolutions of respect to the memory of W.J. 

Myers, by the Board of Supervisors of tax of Nicholas 

County. 

Since it last sitting an old and valued member of 

this Board has passed away in the person of W.J. 

Myers, for many years prominently identified with 

the history and deliberations of this body. … He was 

particularly open and candid in the expression and 

exercise of his friendships. He was utterly free from 

hypocrisy and deception of every kind. His friendship 

was the very essence of loyalty and lifelong in its 

duration, unless disturbed by causes found elsewhere 

than in himself. … 

Geo. R. Martin, 

Wm. A. Wilson. 

Com. Of Board of Supervisors N.C. 

The Lexington Transcript, April 11, 1891 

MARRIED. 

Crowder-Cotton 

A very romantic wedding took place Thursday 

evening in the parlors of the Phoenix Hotel. The 

contracting parties were Miss Lute Cotton, a very 

beautiful young lady of Danville, Ky., and Mr. 

Joseph Crowder, of the same place. 

Mr. Crowder was a student of Kentucky University 

in 1881-2. The bridal party arrived on the 3 

o’clock train over the Cinconnati Southern, and 

went directly to the Phoenix Hotel, where, at 9 

o’clock, they were quietly married, Dr. Bartlett 

performing the ceremony in his customary pleasing 

manner. 

The attendants were Miss Lucile Spears of this city 

and Miss Bell Cotton, younger sister of the bride, 

and Mr. C.C. Johnson, of Raleigh, North Carolina, 

and Mr. Joe McDowell, of Danville. A number of 

friends of both the bride and groom were present,


and after the ceremony a handsome lunch was served 

and a very pleasant evening was spent by all. The 

party returned to Danville yesterday. 

The Kentucky Leader, Lexington, April 8, 1891 

THE DEATH ROLL. 

Rev. R.S. Hitchcock. 

The remains of Rev. R.S. Hitchcock, D.D., who 

died of pneumonia at his late residence in 

Hollidaysburg, Pa., on Monday last, arrived here on 

the 12:20 p.m., K.C. train today, accompanied by 

Mrs. Hitchcock. 

The funeral services will take place at the Second 

Presbyterian Church tomorrow (Thursday) morning 

at 11 o’clock. 

The pall-bearers will be Squire Bassett, Dr. L.B. 

Todd, James A. Curry, Hiram Shaw, William E. 

Bush, John R. Sharp, W.B. Kinkead and G.B. Hale. 

Dr. Hitchcock was a minister of the Presbyterian 

Church. He taught a private school in the old 

Masonic Hall on Walnut street in this city and was 

also a professor at Center [sic, Centre] College, and 

was a well known and highly respected citizen. 

Rowletto—Coffey. 

Yesterday morning at the home of the bride at 75 

Ohio street, Miss Ella Coffey, a well-known and very 

popular young lady, was married to Mr. S.B. 

Rowletto, of Owen county, Rev. T.S. Tinsley, of the 

Christian Church, officiating. A large number of 

guests were present and the occasion was a most 

felicitous one. 

April 9, 1891 

WEDDING BELLS. 

Edwards-Lillard. 

At three o’clock, this afternoon, at the home of the 

bride, No. 212 North Limestone, Miss Lena Lillard, 

oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Lillard, was 

married to Rev. E.R. Edwards, pastor of a prosperous 

Christian Church in Brooklyn, New York. 

The bride is a charmingly pretty brunette, winsome 

and attractive in her manner, with more friends than 

she can enumerate. Her bridal costume was of gray 

cloth with hat of gray crepe du chine, brightened with 

a touch of yellow. She looked very handsome. Elder 

Robert T. Mathews united the couple with a few very 

impressive words in the presence of a number of 

friends. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards left immediately after 

the ceremony for their Brooklyn home. 

April 10, 1891 

THE DEATH ROLL. 

Frank Tarrant. 

The funeral of Frank Tarrant, a young unmarried 

carpenter and painter, who died of consumption at 

St. Joseph’s Hospital yesterday afternoon, took place 

this morning at ten o’clock. He was well known and 

formerly resided at 123 South Broadway. For the 

past four or five months the deceased has been a 

patient at the hospital. 

April 13, 1891 

Mssrs. Will Shelby, John Payne and three gentlemen 

friends, of Big Stone Gap, who will be among 

the attendants at the Berryman wedding, will arrive 

in the city on the 22d, and will take in the two 

matrimonial events of the week. 

THREE WILLS 

Probated by the County Clerk To-day— 

They are Those of Preston Parker, Benjamin G. 

Tyler and John H. Wallace. 

Three wills were probated by the County Clerk to-day. 

They were those of Preston Parker, Benjamin G. 

Tyler and John H. Wallace. Mr. Parker was a citizen 

of Bourbon county at the time of making his will, 

February 27, 1884. He bequeaths all of his property 

to his wife, to be hers as long as she remains his 

widow, but when she again married the property is 

to go to his children. 

Circuit Clerk Joseph M. Jones and ex-County 

Clerk J.M. Hughes, of Paris, are witnesses to this 

brief will. 

Mr. Tyler leaves, after his debts are paid, one-third 

of his estate to his grandson, Tyler Hampton. Should 

the latter die before reaching his twenty-second year 

the property shall revert to his daughter, Jennie 

Atkins. Of course the other two-thirds of Mr. Tyler’s 

property goes to his wife and children. 

The next and last will is that of John H. Wallace, 

who requests that after the payment of his just debts, 



his property all be sold and the proceeds be divided 

equally between his children and grandchildren. His 

son, William K. Wallace, is appointed executor of 

the estate. The will is dated March 12, 1886, and 

there are two codicils of the same date attached. 

A number of Lexington people will go to Versailles 

on Wednesday to attend the marriage of Miss 

Maggie C. Wooldridge to Mr. John G. Edwards. 

Both youth people are well known here where they 

frequently visit. 

DEAD FROM HIS INJURIES. 

Daniel Brown, the Veteran Trainer, Succumbs to 

the Effect of His Accident. 

Daniel Brown, the veteran trainer, who was 

thrown from a road cart and seriously injured at the 

covered track of Brasfield & Co., Saturday last, died 

last night from his injuries. 

Lexington on Centennial 

Day, June 1, 1892. 

Crowds gathered in the 

Cheapside section to 

celebrate the 100th KHS Collection 

anniversary of statehood 

and to witness the 

presentation by the city of 

Philadelphia of four 

paintings commemorating 

the American Revolution. 

The paintings, by Franklin 

Dulin Briscoe, have hung 

in the Old State Capitol for 

many years, and are part 

of the KHS collection. 


From the time of the accident until his death he 

never regained consciousness. He was fifty-two years 

of age, and first came into prominence as trainer of 

the noted Blue Bull. Last year he developed the 

sensational two-year-old colt Sternberg, the property 

of St. Clair & Dickerson. 

The remains of Mr. Brown were shipped this 

morning to this home in Cambridge City, Ind. 

Mr. Ed Hawkins, a grocer of Jefferson street and a 

very popular young man, will be married tomorrow 

to Miss Willie Burton, of Mercer county. They will 

return to Lexington immediately. 

Mr. J. Mc. F. Porter, of the Roger Williams copper 

works, left for Johnstown, New York, where he has 

gone to secure a very handsome bride. Mr. and Mrs. 

Porter will arrive in Lexington the last of the week, and 

will make their abode at Mr. Baker’s, on Upper street.

THATAWAY 

Kentuckians and their descendants 

who helped settle other portions of 

the United States. 

Christopher Mann (b. 15 September 1774, Va., d. July 11, 1885, near Independence, Mo.), a son of Jonas Mann 1 

(b. N.J.) and Agnes Williams, came to Kentucky with his family at a young age and became acquainted with Daniel 

Boone and his sons. In response to inquiries by Lyman C. Draper, the 110-year-old Mann responded to Draper in a 

letter taken down by Mann’s daughter Alice. Alice Mann’s note to Draper read: “My father is a great talker. He could 

talk to you all day and tell you many interesting things of his early days; how he worked and how he got his first pants & 

hat. He says if you ever come to Mo., come and see him. You will be welcome. I read your book to him and nothing ever 

interested him so much. I will write again. … His words exactly. I did not copy it for I wanted you to know how well he 

could keep on … subject.” The letter appears with newspaper clippings and other related items in the Draper Manuscript 

(15C26). Text appears with modern spelling and punctuation. Notes appear in brackets. 

I remember Daniel Boone while he lived in 

Kentucky on the Licking. I was a boy then, about 

twelve years old. I remember his [two] boys well. 2 

They were about my size. [Daniel Boone] never 

raised any crops. He hunted & fished most of his 

time I knew him in 1786. He would go from place 

to place and hunt. He hewed the logs & built a 

house. His boys did the most of it. He was never 

known to make a stop without bringing down 

something. The animals were not as wild as they 

[were when they] had nobody to fear. 

It was not thickly settled. Daniel would sit in his 

cabin and kill Buffalo that came around to lick Salt. 

They had licked a ditch four feet deep all around his 

house. I have walked in the ditches sometimes over 

my head. He would boil down the water and make 

salt. The first I ever saw he gave dada. The place the 

animals had made around the house was called 

Boone’s Lick. I saw him before he lived in this house, 

and heard my Dada tell how many deer, Buffalo, 

Bear & etc. Boone had killed in a day. He was talked 

of as the old Back wood’s hunter. 

No one knew where he lived … after the Robbers 

made a raid on his house and the [two] boys killed 

them. One let the dogs out while the other Shot. 

After we heard about this, I desired to see the house. 

Dada was looking for land. I went with him and 

went by Daniel’s, but he told dada about it and said 

his boys done very well. He asked how far we lived. 

Dada told him about 70 [miles]. He said, “Old 

woman, we must move. They are crowding us.” 

I remember how his wife looked and the dogs, he 

had six. He had a horse to [carry] his game on. He 

had a load of furs ready to take off and he [fed] his 

horse a half of deer and started. Nobody knew where 

he was. He was dressed in leather. He was about the 

age and size of dada. I heard him tell dada he liked 

fish better than any thing else. 

I knew Griff Jackson and Cornelius Washburn 3 

was my cousin. I knew Mike Donaho[?] and lots of 

the men that you have the pictures of in the book. 

They all followed us to Kentucky and we went 

together to [from?] Virginia. 

I could tell you lots about these men, but nothing 

more about Daniel Boone as he did not stay one 

place long to get acquainted and lived in a world of 

his own. I have seen him pass with his old horse 

loaded with game of every kind. He would go by 

where we lived and would sometimes talk to Dada 

and tell what luck he had. He had traps of every 

kind to catch raccoon and etc.Yours Respt. 

Christopher Mann 

Unidentified newspaper clipping, 

September 16, 1883 

A VERY OLD MAN. 

Independence, Mo., Sept. 16—(Special.)—Christopher 

Mann celebrated his 109 th birthday anniversary 

yesterday. He is probably the oldest man in Missouri, 

and can claim a larger number of descendants than 

any man living, having twenty six children, forty 

grandchildren, fourteen great-grandchildren, and five 

great-great-grandchildren, all of whom were represented 

at a reunion yesterday. Four generations 

descending from him have their homes about this city, 

and joined with the neighbors of the aged sire in 

surprising him on his 109 th birthday with a gathering 

to do honor to the man who has made his home here 

since 1848, and at all times retained the highest 


Thataway, continued________________________________________ 

esteem of his fellow-men. His second wife enjoys the 

blessings awarded to him in his declining years. 

Seventeen of his children are living, the oldest being 

72 and the youngest 17 years of age. Mr. Mann is hale 

and hearty, and though his mind is considered somewhat 

impaired, he talks intelligently upon subjects 

known to him in his earlier days. He takes walks, and 

when asked in what county in Virginia he was born, 

he laughed heartily, and said he came into the world 

before Virginia was divided into counties, and was 

afterward associated with Daniel Boone, his three 

sons, and six dogs in Kentucky. He is one of the 

pioneers of this county, and bids fair to enjoy good 

health for some time yet to come. 

Unidentified newspaper clipping, 

September 1884 

THE OLDEST MAN IN MISSOURI. 

Recollections of a Man Who Was Born 

Before the Declaration of Independence 

Was Signed. 

At a point two miles north of Independence off the 

Wayne City road stands a one-story weather-beaten 

frame house formerly owned by Col. Gilpin, the man 

who is credited with first prophesying the greatness of 

Kansas City. From here an unobstructed view is obtained 

on Independence on the south, Kansas City and 

Wyandotte on the west, and Liberty on the north. Here 

resides Christopher Mann, who is undoubtedly the 

oldest person in Missouri, and one of the oldest in the 

United States. A. Times reporter visited the aged 

patriarch recently, the occasion being the celebration of 

his 110 th birthday. “Uncle Chris,” as he is familiarly 

called by his neighbors and acquaintances, has a mind 

well filled with the happenings of “other days long 

gone,” and nothing gives him more pleasure than the 

presence of a good listener. Having been born at a time 

when the American colonies were struggling for freedom 

from a tyrannical power, his early training instilled 

into his mind a deep love of independence and a strong 

sence [sic] of right. Unlike many men who first saw 

light in “declaration days,” he claims no personal 

acquaintance with the father of his country, although 

born within a few miles of the Washington homestead. 

While yet a boy he removed with his father to 

Kentucky, and never tires relating anecdotes of 

Daniel Boone, the great hunter and trapper. He 


describes Boone as being medium height, muscular 

build, keen gray eyes, small nose and thin lips. He 

was a man who dealt only with the realism of life, 

and when he smiled, which was seldom, his face 

lighted up with a very singular and striking expression. 

Boone held very little intercourse with the few 

white people of that section, preferring the solitude 

of the forest or society of his wife to that of the 

outside world. 

Mr. Mann claims with pride that he never was 

whipped in a personal encounter, and cites an 

incident in his life in Kentucky, when he had a sever 

fight with a noted “bully” named Lyons. This man 

Lyons had on one occasion chastised Mrs. Mann’s 

father in a manner which fired the blood of the 

young man, and he determined to whip Lyons on 

sight. One day Lyons approached the house through 

the orchard and young Mann met him half way and 

told him of this purpose. Both men stripped to the 

waist and proceeded to spar in a manner that showed 

they were well matched. First Mann struck Lyons a 

powerful blow in the face, which dislocated his 

thumb, and he was immediately [enclinched?] by 

Lyons. The bully, expecting an encounter with the 

young giant, had previously had his hair cut very 

short, and had greased his head with bear’s oil, 

making it sol slick that Mann could not gain any 

advantage in that direction, but, getting a hold on 

his throat, he soon checked the breathing of his 

opponent to such an extent that he readily consented 

to say enough. During the scuffle Mann received a 

powerful blow in the side, which swelled to such size 

that his father produced a lance and performed a 

surgical operation on his son which caused him to 

lose considerable blood but afforded no relief. 

Later on in life Mr. Mann passed through Indiana 

on his way to a home in the far west and stopped 

one night at a tavern kept by Gen. William Henry 

Harrison, afterward president of the United States. 

Mr. Mann says the house was crowded and he was 

compelled to sleep on the floor, for which accommodation 

the landlord charged him full rate. “Never 

since then” observed Mr. Mann, “have I liked Bill 

Harrison.” He remembers distinctly when a single 

log hut stood on the bank of the White river, where 

now is built the prosperous city of Indianapolis. 

“Harrison was a good fighter though,” remarked Mr. 

Mann, as his mind reverted to his favorite topic,

Thataway, continued________________________________________ 

“and he did whip old Tecumseh powerful bad at the 

battle of Tippecanoe.” He distinctly remembers 

“Dick” Johnson, Stonewall Jackson, Gen. Orr, 

Thomas Benton, and other men of note. Having 

removed to this county in 1840, his recollections of 

early times in its settlement form an interesting 

chapter. He is now hale and hearty and bids fair to 

live ten years longer.—Kansas City Times. 

Chicago Times, 

July 12, 1885 

A CHUM OF DANIEL BOONE. 

Independence, Mo., July 11—(Special.)—Christopher 

Mann, the oldest man in Missouri, died at his 

home on the Wayne City pike to-day at the age of 

111 years. He had often boasted that he never had 

taken a dose of medicine. He was a native of Virginia, 

had lived in Kentucky, and was a companion 

of Daniel Boone, and for forty odd years has been 

identified with the advancement of the interests of 

this county. Mr. Mann claimed the distinction of 

having voted at every presidential election since 

Washington, and during that time had only voted 

for three defeated presidential candidates. For a 

dozen years past Sept. 15, the anniversity [sic] of Mr. 

During his acquaintanceship with Christopher Mann, 

Daniel Boone (b. 2 November 1834, Berks County, 

Penn., d. 26 September 1820, Defiance, Mo.) owned a 

cabin in Maysville. Boone’s sons recalled by Mann 

were Daniel Morgan and Jesse Bryan Boone, both 

described as “fair haired with blue eyes.” The image is 

from a copy of the only portrait of Boone taken from life, 

which was painted by Chester Harding in 1819. 

Mann’s birthday, has been an occasion of important 

meetings. A reunion of his twenty-six children, 

grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-greatgrandchildren, 

who are numerous in these parts. He 

was in a good state of health up to the time of death. 

1 Jonas Mann lived in Pendleton County, “below the mouth 

of Richland creek” in 1803. 

2 Boone had a cabin in Maysville at this time. Boone’s sons 

were Daniel Morgan and Jesse Bryan Boone, both “fair haired 

with blue eyes.” See John Mack Faragher, Daniel Boone: The 

Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (New York, 1992), p. 

236. 

3 Cornelius “Neal” Washburn was a son of Jeremiah 

Washburn. According to his father’s will, his siblings included 

George, Joseph, and Nicholas Washburn. Half siblings included 

John and Samuel Washburn, sons of Elizabeth ____. Elizabeth 

(m. Harlun), and Rebecca Washburn may have been siblings or 

half siblings. Cornelius Washburn was a member of the 

celebrated “Mason County Spies” unit that excelled as a covert, 

intelligence-gathering force. The unit was formed by order of 

Brigadier General James Wilkinson on March 31, 1792—from 

his headquarters at Fort Washington (present-day 

Cincinnati)—and served mainly from May 4 to Dec. 9, 1792. 

See Lewis and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume 

2 (1874 Reprint, Frankfort 1966), p. 553. See also G. Glenn 

Clift, History of Maysville and Mason County, Volume 1 

(Lexington, 1936), pages 111, 115, 380-81. 


Abstracts from the 

Lexington Observer & Reporter, 

January 13, 1864 

By Dr. Melba Porter Hay 

The Lexington Observer & Reporter was published weekly on Wednesdays by D. C. Wickliffe. Cost of a subscription 

in advance was $2 or $2.50 at the end of six months. 

The paper reported that “Mr. [Lazarus] Powell, of 

Kentucky, introduced into the Senate of the United 

States on Monday last, a bill to prevent officers of the 

army and navy, or other persons engaged in military 

service, from interfering with elections in the States; 

and moved its reference to the committee on the 

Judiciary.” However, “the radical Senators opposed the 

reference, and instituted in lieu of the Judiciary, the 

committee on Military Affairs. Messrs. Powell and 

[Garrett] Davis, of Kentucky, fought valiantly for the 

bill and its proper reference but were overpowered by 

those who are willing to see every vestige of Republican 

freedom swept away by despotic power.” 

The paper reported that newspapers in Cincinnati 

have announced “that the headquarters of the Department 

of the Ohio are to be removed at once to this city; 

and that Assistant Adjutant General, (Col. Anderson) 

had all the books and papers ready for removal from that 

city several weeks ago.” Also, “Gen. [Ambrose] Burnside 

has withdrawn his resignation, at the earnest solicitation 

of the President, and, it is stated, will be again assigned to 

the command of the department Ohio, in place of Gen. 

Foster who asks to be relieved in consequence of illhealth.” 

In addition, it was reported that Gen. Rosecrans 

is “to take command of the Department of Missouri, in 

place of Gen. Schofield. If this report should turn out to 

be true, it would seem that Mr. Lincoln was unable to 

resist the radical pressure made upon him by the Loyal 

League representatives.” 

The paper stated: “John Morgan is advertising for 

men to make up another guerrilla force, and expects 

ere long to be in the saddle.” 

It was reported that W. T. Samuels had assumed 

the duties of auditor of Kentucky. His qualifications 


were “of the highest order,” and he has been “regarded 

as one of the best officers the State has ever 

had.” His predecessor, Grant Green, was also “watchful 

of the public interest, and successful in the 

discharge of all his duties.” Likewise, Grant’s assistant, 

Cornelius Bailey, “has shown himself to be a 

faithful and competent officer.” 

“Despatches have been received here, announcing 

the death of Col. Roy Cluke, of Clarke, and Capt. 

Wm. R. Lewis, of Fayette, both of the rebel army, at 

Johnson’s Island, on the 1 st inst.” 

It was reported that Col. Sanders D. Bruce of the 

20 th Kentucky “has been appointed Military Commander 

of the Post at Louisville, in place of Col. A. 

W. Holman, of the 11 th Kentucky Cavalry.” Col. 

Bruce’s staff included: Maj. H. A. Mitchell, Invalid 

Corps; Capt. H. C. Brennan, 20 th Kentucky Volunteer 

Infantry; Capt. C. J. Wilson, 33 rd Kentucky 

Volunteer Infantry; Capt. James A. Crawley, 87 th 

Indiana Volunteer Infantry; and Lt. James A. 

McCampbell, 20 th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. 

It was reported that “Mr. Fred Fitch has become a 

partner with his brother in the conduct of ‘Fitch’s 

Drug Store,’” which is “one of the largest establishments 

in the country.” 

It was announced that Dr. D. T. Morton performed 

the wedding of Mr. C. C. Stivers to Miss 

Minerva Christopher in Lexington on December 29, 

1864 [sic; 1863]. 

It was announced that the Rev. George W. Varden 

performed the wedding of Miss Josie M. Stone to 

Mr. George Lancaster of Lexington on January 5,

Abstracts from the Lexington Observer & Reporter, continued _______ 

1864, at the home of the bride’s father, Col. Kinsey 

Stone, in Bourbon County. 

Wm. R. Lewis of Scott County offered for sale the 

65-acre farm on which he lived, situated on the 

turnpike between Frankfort and Georgetown. He 

also offered for sale his “thoroughbred young English 

stallion, Melbourne,” described as three years old 

and “one of the best bred colts in the United States.” 

Mary H. Cooper advertised for sale “several 

hundred first rate locust posts . . . at my farm on the 

Versailles turnpike near the city limits.” 

H. C. Funk advertised for sale his farm in “Jessamine 

County, nine miles from Lexington and four 

miles from Nicholasville, and a quarter mile from the 

Turnpike between the two places.” This farm consisted 

of 127½ acres. He also offered for sale 15 

additional acres of timber, located a mile and a half 

from the other. 

James O. Hervey, proprietor of Kentucky Central 

Nurseries at Nicholasville advertised trees for sale, 

including 10,000 peach trees, 10,000 evergreens, 

dwarf pears, and cherries, plus raspberries, strawberries, 

grapes, and currants, &c. 

Mrs. George C. Bain offered for sale a 75-acre 

farm in Woodford County “on the waters of South 

Elkhorn, about 8 miles from Lexington on the Old 

Frankfort Turnpike, within ¼ of a mile of Brown’s 

water mill, adjoins the lands of Thomas Steele, Wm. 

Payne, James Brown, and John Utterback.” 

Samuel Coleman, Thomas T. Hayes, and James G. 

Kinnaird, trustees, advertised for a teach for “District 

School No. 22, about 10 miles from Lexington on 

the Todd’s road to Winchester.” Applicants should be 

qualified to teach “the English branches, the Ancient 

Languages, and Mathematics.” 

Paul R. Rankin, commissioner, announced a 

commissioner’s sale on February 18, 1864, of a 

“splendid Scott County farm” of 520 acres, located 

“one mile and a half from Georgetown on the 

turnpike road to Frankfort.” The sale was to include 

“likely Negroes, consisting of men, women, &c . . . 

personal property . . . stock of all kinds . . . house 

and kitchen furniture.” The upcoming sale was the 

result of a judgment of the Scott Circuit Court in 

the case of Belknap v. Junius R. Ward. R. P. Snell was 

to be auctioneer. 

Robert Todd offered a reward for information that 

would enable him to recover a horse stolen from his 

farm near the Versailles Turnpike. He described the 

horse as “a heavy, square built BROWN HORSE, 9 

or 10 years old about 15½ hands high, with one 

white hind foot and blind in one eye.” 

Wm. A. Lindsay provided a testimonial in favor of 

“G.B. Bailey’s Seed Cleaner,” which he said was “the 

BEST MACHINE ever produced for taking out 

cockle, cheat, &c.” Those wanting more information 

about this machine could “apply to the subscriber at 

the Broadway Hotel, or to L. K. Prather, a few doors 

above.” 

J. Levi Patterson advertised for sale “three fine 

Jacks.” He noted that persons interesting in purchasing 

could apply to him at his home “near Broadwell 

Cross Roads, six miles south of Cynthiana, Harrison 

County, Ky.” 

Thomas Montague offered a reward for the return 

of a bay mare stolen from him “in Fayette County 

two miles from Lexington on the Nicholasville 

Pike.” 

Roger Cannon offered a reward for the return of a 

bay mare stolen “from the Old Ferguson farm and 

adjoining Clifton Ware and Noah Howe’s . . . about 

15½ or 16 hands high. . . . Moves slowly.” Information 

on her whereabouts could be “given to 

McGrady at the 2d toll gate on the Winchester Pike, 

or Mat Moran, on the Clintonville and Paris Pike.” 

A. F. Eastin advertised 96 acres for sale, “situated 

in the county of Fayette, about six miles from 

Lexington at the crossing of the Todd’s road and the 

road leading from Walnut Hill to Chilesburg.” 

George Graves offered a reward for a “strayed or 

stolen” bay horse four years of age. He asked that it be 

returned to him or to F. P. Hord’s stable in Lexington. 



W. W. Bruge offered a $50 reward “for the apprehension 

and delivery to me of a mulatto Negro man 

named John Anderson, about 5 feet 8 inches high; 

35 to 40 years of age; small and rather delicate.” 

Susanna Keith offered for hire “a Negro woman, 

who is a good cook washer and ironer; 2 girls, one 

about 16 and the other about 14, competent house 

servants; and a Negro boy about 15 years old, 

sprightly and capable.” Interested parties could apply 

to the subscriber on Upper near Maxwell.” 

John A. Willis, master commissioner, gave notice 

to creditors of John M. Hunt, defendant in the 

Jessamine Circuit Court case of Leonard Cassell v. 

John M. Hunt, that they should “present their claims 

to the undersigned commissioner, at his office in the 

town of Nicholasville, Ky., on or before the 1 st day of 

February, 1864.” 

W. C. Hamilton & Co. advertised that the firm 

wanted to purchase “good clean hemp” and would 

pay “the highest market price for hemp seed.” 

Wm. McCracken’s Livery and Sale Stables, Main 

Street, Lexington, advertised that it had “fine carriages 

& horses, with careful and attentive drivers, 

buggies and horses, and good saddle horses,” as well 

as “the best ostlers.” 

Wm. H. Price offered a reward for a “light gray 

stud colt,” stolen from his home in Jessamine 

County, one mile from Nicholasville. 

W. Adams and Dean Megee offered cattle and 

sheep for sale. They could be seen at Megee’s farm, 

“in the corner of Jessamine County, immediately on 

the Woodford and Fayette line.” 

John H. Payne Jr. gave notice that creditors of 

George H. Bowman, deceased, could present their 

claims to him as executor of Bowman’s estate. 

O. P. Beard announced that he would “continue 

to buy mules and horses for government use, and 

will . . . pay the highest price . . . in this market.” He 

said he would also keep “at all times a good assortment 

of buggies and carriages for hire.” 


S. S. Thompson advertised for “a lot of locust 

timber, for which I will pay a fair price in cash.” 

Wm. T. Hughes advertised for an overseer, single, 

“who has experience in the management of a farm 

and Negroes.” 

Speed S. Goodloe, master commissioner, announced 

a sale of slaves “in the cases of Thomas 

Hughes’ Executors vs. James N. West, and Wm. T. 

Hughes, Assignee vs. Same.” The sale was to be held 

in front of the courthouse in Lexington on February 

1, 1864. 

M. S. Dehoney offered for sale seven acres of land 

with three dwellings—one the former home of M. A. 

Dehoney—“on the Georgetown and Frankfort pike 

about half way between the two places.” Interested 

parties could contact Dehoney at “White Sulphur P. 

O., Scott County, Ky.” 

Charles S. Bosworth offered for sale “the farm 

upon which I now reside, in Woodford County, five 

miles from Versailles, on the Scott’s Road, about one 

mile west of the McCoun Ferry Road, containing 

125 acres of good land in a high state of cultivation.” 

John P. Innes gave notice that a stray horse had 

appeared at his farm, “9 miles from Lexington on the 

Russell Turnpike, about two weeks since.” The 

owner “can obtain the horse by coming for him and 

paying expenses.” 

C. C. Bryant offer a $26 reward for the return of a 

“light sorrel mare, eight years old, with heavy mane” 

that was stolen “on the night of the 8 th inst., from 

the farm of D. B. Bryant, seven miles from Lexington 

on the Nicholasville turnpike.” 

Mrs. Embry offered “Embry’s Blacksmith Shop 

and a small residence near by,” located on the Richmond 

Turnpike, for rent or hire. Interested parties 

could apply to Mrs. Embry “on the premises, or to 

W. B. Morrow, druggist, in Lexington, Ky.” 

F. Jones announced that he had a large stock of 

fruit and ornamental trees for sale at Jones’ Nursery 

in Clark County. Interested persons could apply for a


catalogue to “J. S. Wilson, Lexington; Henry Jones, 

Mount Sterling; Messrs. Farley & Taylor, Richmond, 

or F. Jones, Athens, Fayette County, Ky.” 

It was reported that the “extensive bakery establishment 

of Mr. John W. Lee, on Spring Street, 

between Main and Water, in this city, was destroyed 

by fire on Sunday evening.” The “exceedingly cold 

weather” made it difficult to fight the fire. 

Mrs. R. S. Bullock announced her intention to 

open a school at her residence on Upper Street, near 

Hill Street, on February 1. Tuition in the primary 

class for a session of twenty weeks was $13. 

It was noted that the Louisville Journal had reported 

that “Brigadier General Boyle has been 

relieved from the command of this district, and Gen. 

Jacob Ammen has been appointed his successor.” 

Also, the Danville Tribune reported that “Brig. Gen. 

S. S. Fry has been relieved as commander of the 

District of Central Kentucky, and ordered to report 

for duty at Knoxville.” 

It was reported that James Keith, “son of Mr. 

Quincy A. Keith, President of the Kentucky Central 

Railroad, was frozen to death, a few nights ago, 

while on his way from Cincinnati to his home, five 

miles out on the Lexington turnpike.” Also, “on the 

night of the 31 st ult., Mr. Milburn, a blacksmith, 

residing a few miles from Danville, Ky., was frozen to 

death on his way home.” 

L. B. Todd, postmaster at Lexington, announced 

that on January 12, 1864, letters for the following 

persons remainded in the post office: Mr. Barter, 

Frederick Braxton, Alf G. Barnard, Thos. Bracken, 

Thos. Cabbert, Mrs. Mandy Clay, Miss Nancy 

Canon, Capt D. O. Crawford, Newton Cannon, 

James Dean, Patrick Drury, Miss Sue Ewing, John 

M. Fleming, Miss J. S. Ferguson, Timothy Gierty, 

Mrs. Elizabeth Gibson, G. M. Goodlow, Miss Bettie 

Herndon, Mrs. W. F. Hendricks, Sergeant B. 

Hinchman, J. W. Johnson, Messrs. Chas. Kreydoon 

& Bro., Lawrence Lawless, Harvey Lamne, John M. 

Luttrell, Michael Milligan, Francis M. Moore, Theo 

McHold, Dr. J. S. Newberry, Miss Lina Neal, Thos. 

O’Day, Thos. C. Paynes, Stephen Philips, Harvey 

Rush, T. B. Salts, Mrs. Hannah Smaw, Mrs. Bridget 

Slevin, George Sutton, Robert A. Thompson, Richard 

Walker, James Williams, Miss Harriet Woods, 

Miss Maria Young, Miss Eliza Young, Miss Mollie E. 

Bowlin, C. C. Brown, S. C. Bull, Miss Maria Bryce, 

W. P. Collins, John Coxen, J. B. Cottle, John K. 

Cook, R. M. Cox, Joseph Dear, Miss Martha England, 

James Fitzpatrick, Miss Nannie A. Foster, S. 

D. Grizzard, H. P. Goudy, Thos. Hoover, Mrs. Mary 

Holland, David Horn, Miss Lettia Lewis, Miss Jane 

Lisle, H. H. Monday, Mrs. M. F. Moss, John G. 

Netre, Wm. Oldham, Mrs. Hannah E. Page, A. L. 

Soule, Dr. W. D. Scott, John T. Stone, Mrs. Nancy 

Williams, Letty Williams, W. D. Young. Hours for 

the post office were 8 a.m. to dark, except on Sunday, 

when it was open from 8 to 9 a.m. 

David T. Carr announced that a black horse, 

“blind in one eye, and high-headed, rough shod all 

round,” has been stolen from his residence at 

Chilesburg, Fayette County, on December 24. He 

added: “Supposed to have been taken by some of the 

hands returning from Camp Nelson.” 

Margaret Couchman offered a $25 reward for 

return of a mare stolen from her “9 miles from 

Lexington near the Todd’s Road, leading to Lexington.” 

William S. Brink offered a “liberal reward” for the 

return of his “bay stallion colt, two years old last 

spring,” that had been stolen from him “8 miles 

south of Lexington on the Tates Creek Road, on the 

27 th of December.” 

Mrs. M. Woodfolk offered a $100 reward for return 

of “a negro boy named Tee, about 21 years old; 5 feet 7 

inches high; weighs about 140 pounds; is lame from 

one leg being one inch shorter than the other.” He ran 

away “July last,” and “went to Camp Nelson, and is 

said to be there occasionally from Tennessee.” 

D. C. Wicliffe offered a $10 reward for return of a 

“rockaway harness . . . stolen from my premises within 

the last ten days.” He also offered “$25 for such 

information as will lead to the conviction of the thief.” 

The Curd House advertised for hire “a girl about 



seventeen common cook—a good washer and ironer.” 

Charles S. Bodley, administrator of Thomas J. 

Wells, announced that he would hold an auction of a 

“chestnut filey [sic]” and a “grey colt” on January 20 

at 10 a.m. in front of O. P. Beard’s stable. 

Jane H. Lowen, administratrix of Lewis Lowen, 

announced slaves for sale—“women, girls and boys; 

all competent and good servants”—in front of the 

courthouse in Nicholasville on January 18. She 

would also “at the same time hire out for the present 

year several Negroes, among them some good cooks, 

house girls and boys.” 

Z. Gibbons, attorney at law, advertised his practice 

in Fayette and adjoining counties. 

B. Macauley, stage manager, announced upcoming 

performances at the theatre in the Odd Fellows’ Hall. 

John W. Lee published a note of thanks to 

“Messrs. O. A. Reynolds, R. J. Woodhouse, John 

Richards, James Bruen, and numerous citizens . . . 

for their strenuous to save my bakery from fire on 

Sunday night. . . . Also to the Lyon Fire Company.” 

Advertised for sale: A “house and lot situated on 

Short Street, adjoining the Baptist Church, formerly 

owned by William Pullen. For terms, call on I. N. 

Sheppard and W. R. Snider, Trustees, or James F. 

Drake, who will show the property to any one 

wishing to purchase.” 

Chas. S. Bodley, administrator of Ann E. Boyd, gave 

notice for those with claims against the Boyd estate to 

“present them to me proven according to law.” 

George Stoll Jr., city clerk, reported that the 

mayor had made appointments to standing committees 

of the city council as follows: Claims—J. W. 

Lee, chairman, Thos. Smith, O. A. Reynolds; Ways 

and Means—W. W. Lonney, chairman, E. H. 

Parrish, B. G. Bruce; Propositions and Grievances— 

D. F. Wolf, chairman, J. W. Lee, O. A. Reynolds; 

Judiciary—Wesley [Suchcer ?], chairman, James 

Chrystal, Thomas Smith; Improvements and Repairs—W. 

W. Bruce, chairman, Thomas Smith, J. Q. 

A. Hayman, M. G. Thompson; Poor and Work 


House—mayor, ex-officio, chairman, W. W. Lonney, 

B. G. Bruce; City Schools—B. G. Bruce, chairman, 

E. H. Parrish, W. W. Lonney, D. F. Wolf, Hiram 

Shaw, Prof. J. K. Patterson, Joseph Wasson; Accounts—E. 

H. Parrish, chairman, M. G. Thompson, 

J. W. Lee; Gas—James Chrystal, chairman, W. 

Spencer, Thomas Smith; Trustee School Fund—D. 

F. Wolf, chairman, J. W. Lee, J. Q. A. Hayman; Fire 

Department—M. G. Thompson, chairman, W. W. 

Bruce, B. G. Bruce. 

Notice was given that Fred Fitch had become a 

partner with Frank Fitch in Fitch’s Drug Store. 

W. S. McChesney, who had a “commission and 

forwarding house on Short Street between Mill and 

Broadway,” announced that he would “pay the 

highest price in cash for country produce, viz: hemp, 

wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley.” 

S. Schoonmaker advertised for “a good salesman 

in an dry goods store.” 

Joseph George offered a “suitable reward” for 

return of or information leading to the recovery of a 

sorrel mare that had strayed or been stolen. He 

noted: “She will probably aim to get to the neighborhood 

of Chilesburg or Athens.” 

Daniel Runyon advertised for the return of a “large 

light roan cow, blind in her right eye,” and her calf. 

Anyone returning them would be “liberally rewarded.” 

Wm. F. Craven advertised for sale twenty head of 

mules, which “can be seen at my farm in Fayette 

County, about 9 miles from Lexington, and about 

two miles south of the Versailles turnpike.” 

E. L. Van Winkle, secretary of state, presented a 

letter from Governor Thomas Bramlette to the 

Kentucky Senate and House of Representatives, 

asking them to authorize “the speedy organization of 

a State force” to provide security and defend the 

citizens of the commonwealth. 

Thomas Montague advertised a “liberal reward for 

the return of” a bay mare stolen from his property 

“on the Nicholasville pike, on Wednesday last, the


30 th of December.” 

Samuel Downing offered a reward for the return 

or a mare stolen from his farm “about 4 miles from 

Lexington on the Nicholasville turnpike, on the 

night of the 25 th ult.” He noted: “She was seen going 

in the direction of Nicholasville that night, with two 

men riding her.” 

Norton & Sharpe, Lexington, advertised: “Bull’s 

Bitters, Bull’s Sarsaparilla, and Worm Destroyers, 

sold wholesale and retail.” 

It was reported that the “remains of Col. Roy S. 

Cluke, of the 8 th Kentucky (Rebel) cavalry, who died 

at Johnson’s Island on the 1 st day of this year, arrived 

at Paris on Monday last, permission having been 

granted for their internment in Kentucky. Col. Cluke 

was a native of Clarke [sic] County, Ky., served nobly 

in the Mexican war as a private in the 2d Kentucky 

regiment, but the honors which he won at Buena 

Vista were clouded by the fatal delusion which impelled 

him to raise a regiment of rebel cavalry when 

Kirby Smith occupied our State, and he has fallen a 

victim to disease contracted while engaged in the rebel 

service.” Also, the remains of Capt. Wm. R. Lewis of 

Fayette County, who died at Johnson’s Island “have 

been by permission brought to Kentucky for interment, 

and will be buried at the residence of his father, 

Mr. S. Higgins Lewis, in this county.” 

William S. Galpin and William S. Simpson announced 

that their business, Galpin & Simpson, had 

been dissolved. All persons indebted to this company 

were requested to pay the debt to Hunt & Beck. 

Samuel T. Hayes offered a reward for the return of 

a horse stolen on January 5 and information about 

the perpetrators of this “gross outrage.” He related: 

“I sent my servant to town in charge of my wagon 

loaded with wood. On the way, about 7 miles from 

Lexington on the Winchester pike he was stopped by 

two men in a buggy, dressed in citizens clothes, the 

one with cap and the other a hat, and one of the 

horses of my team was taken out, put in the buggy, 

and an old worn out horse left in his stead.” 

A. Bohannon and J. Stout, executors of Sally 

Bohannon, deceased, advertised a sale at the courthouse 

in Versailles of 350 acres of land, “including 

the dwelling house belonging to the estate of German 

Bohannon, dec’d.” Also, sold will be “one 

Negro man, about 50 years old; one Negro woman, 

without encumbrance, about 22 years old; one 

Negro woman 24 years old, with two children; one 

Negro girl about 16 years old.” 

D. R. Thomas advertised for sale “426 acres of 

Nicholas land, lying on the pike to Sharpsburg, 3 

miles east of Carlisle, known as the John Hall farm.” 

Thomas Norris & Co. announced the purchase of 

“the confectionary establishment on Main Street, of 

Mr. George Krauss.” The new owner promised to 

“keep constantly on hand, and manufacture to order, 

every variety of confectionary.” 

James Reidy and D. Burbank announced the 

dissolution of their partnership in the business James 

Reidy & Co. Burbank had purchased the stock of 

the company and had associated himself with W. E. 

Bosworth, planning to carry on the business under 

the name Burbank & Bosworth. 

T. J. Harrison’s Drug Store advertised for sale 

“best clear white Maysville Coal Oil”; “family dyes, 

all colors”; “pomades for beautifying the hair”; 

“Glycerine Cream, Camphor Tea, Rose Lip Salve, 

and Coral Lip Balm”; “fine cloth, hair, nail and tooth 

brushes”; and “Glenn’s celebrated Verbena Waater 

and fine Toilet Soaps.” 

A. F. Hawkins, cashier of the Northern Bank of 

Kentucky in Lexington, provided notice that the 

president and directors of the bank had declared a 

dividend of four percent. 

Newbol & Co., located “4 doors below Phoenix 

Hotel,” advertised ladies’ and children’s furs “At Cost.” 

F. P. Hord, L. C. Graves, W. McCracken, E. R. 

Hoagland, O. P. Beard, and Jas. Perkins announced 

that “In consequence of the high prices of feed, the 

Livery Stable Keepers of the city of Lexington” had 

established livery prices. 



Speed S. Goodloe, master commissioner, announced 

the sale to the highest bidder of “two 

Negroes,” a boy about twelve and a woman about 

40, to be held in front of the courthouse in Lexington 

on February 1, 1864. This sale was the result of a 

lawsuit between J.A. Grinstead against Blackwell & 

Murphy. 

The trustees of Woodford Female College— 

Thomas Graddy, Zeb Ward, Wm. M. Daniel, N. 

Stone, and John S. Minary—announced that the 

school and approximately six acres of land would be 

auctioned at the courthouse in Versailles on January 

22, 1864. 

Campbell & Cochran, No. 17, Main Street, 

The Curd family, continued ____ 


eteries in Mercer County, and the names were copied 

in the 1960s by May Jessamine Bland James, a Curd 

descendant who lived in Tucson, Ariz. 

Post Office 

Listings of Mercer County post offices do not 

include Curdsville. Perhaps mail would have gone 

through the Harrodsburg or Danville offices. An 

1869 letter from prisoner of war R.S. Curd to his 

wife was addressed to “Pleasant Hill, Ky.” 6 

Railroad 

Curdsville had one of the seven Mercer County 

railroad stations, providing a vital link for the Curd 

families and other area residents to move their produce 

to the markets in Cincinnati and Chattanooga. 

1 William Walter Hening, Laws of Virginia (Volume 1) (New 

York, 1823), p. 400–402. 

2 Ibid. 

3 Dr. John Curd (of Louisville) to Edna Curd Miller (of 

Kenton, Ohio), 1993. 

4 Dora Curd Markovich (of Long Beach, Calif., to Jean C. 

Dones (of Columbus, Ohio), 1993. Original in the possession 

of the author. 

5 Harrodsburg Herald (Centennial Edition, Burgin School 

Days section), 1978. 

6 Letter in the possession of William Curd of Lexington. 


Lexington, announced they had “just received” two 

Steinway pianos, which they would sell “at 

manufacturer’s prices.” 

Norton & Sharpe, Lexington, advertised “Dr. John 

Bull’s Compound Cedron Bitters” for sale. The remedy 

was said to treat “diseases of the stomach, bowels, liver 

or kidneys,” as well as “all affections [sic] of the brain, 

depending upon derangement of the stomach or 

bowels,” plus “gout, rheumatism and neuralgia” and 

“fever and ague.” Dr. John Bull’s “principal office” was 

located on Fifth Street in Louisville. 

The newspaper noted that a vote on the expulsion 

of Garrett Davis of Kentucky from the U.S. Senate 

was set for January 13, 1864. 

Tombstones, continued _______ 


was buried in Bell View Cemetery in Danville. 

3 Clayton Anderson was likely a brother of Simeon 

Anderson. He married Elzina Jennings (b. 1827, Ky.), a 

daughter of Baylor Jennings (b. 1795, Va.) and Louvina Brown 

(b. 12 April 1799, Ky.). Baylor and Louvina were married 22 

December 1817 in Garrard County. Besides Elzina, their 

children were Baylor Jr. (b. 1830), Sally (b. 1834), Russell (b. 

1837), and James H. (b. 1843). 

4 Boyle (b. about 1749), who lived in Botetourt County, Va., 

before moving to Kentucky, is credited with planting the first 

peach seeds in Kentucky, in the fall of 1775, about three miles 

south of Richmond. He was the father of John Boyle Jr. (b. 

1774-1834), who served in Congress (4 March 1803-3 March 

1809) and as chief justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals 

(then the state’s supreme court) (April 1809-April 1810), and 

U.S. district court judge (9 November 1826-28 February 1834), 

for whom Boyle County was named. See Lewis Collins and 

Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky (Maysville, Ky., 1874; 

Reprint KHS: Frankfort, 1966), p. 513. See also Directory of the 

American Congress (Washington, D.C., 1950), p. 877. 

5 Jane Black (b. 1749) was a daughter of Samuel Black and 

Katern Shaw. Jane and John’s children, besides John Jr., were 

Alexander (b. 1771), Sarah (b. 4 June 1773), Ellen (b. 17 

November 1778), Mary Jane (b. 20 November 1780), and 

Susan (b. 1782). 

6 Ellen Boyle, a daughter of John Boyle and Jane Black, 

married Henry Banton in 1804. She is said to have died in 

Knox County, but was buried next to her mother. Some 

researchers believe her birth year to be 1778.

BOOK NOTES 

CROMWELL’S COMMENTS. By John M. 

Cromwell. (2002. Pp. 183. Indexed. Softcover, 

$10, plus $3 shipping. Order from the Cynthiana- 

Harrison County Museum, P.O. Box 411, 

Cynthiana, KY 40347.) 

Cynthiana banker John M. Cromwell—also once 

the city’s mayor—wrote a history column in the 

Cynthiana Democrat from 1928 to 1940. Often the 

result of a question asked of him, a current event, or 

something he found in an old edition of the paper, 

Cromwell’s columns traced the history of the people 

and places in Cynthiana and Harrison County. 

An example, titled “Light,” appeared on April 30, 

1931: Lamps—It does not appear to be of record 

just at what period in the economy of human affairs 

that the lamp superseded the candle. While there can 

be little doubt that it followed the candle, it is more 

than likely that they were used contemporaneously 

for many years. Indeed, I recall when they were so 

used myself, as I have often seen my grandmother 

mold tallow candles. … Originally the lamp consisted 

of a vessel holding inflammable fluid, such as 

animal fats, and later oils from plants, in which a 

wick was suspended. The first lamps had shells or the 

skulls of animals for cups, and reeds or rushes for 

wicks. Later the wicks were made of twisted rags. As 

an improvement on these came the old bat shaped 

iron lamp, in use in more modern times. I recall such 

a one in my mother’s kitchen. … Now, I’m not 

going to try to tell you anything about the electric 

light; this story is long enough as it is, besides I know 

very little about it. I will say, however, that forty odd 

years ago I sat in the law office of Blanton & Berry, 

the same office that is occupied at present by 

Swinford & Swinford, and saw the streets of 

Cynthiana lighted for the first time by electricity. It 

was in the month of February, or March, in the early 

nineties. The lights were furnished by the Cynthiana 

Electric Light and Artificial Ice Co., the late William 

Addams, president.” 

THE DESCENDANTS OF JACOB C. [AND] 

JANE (EPPERSON) TURNMIRE OF 

PUTNAM COUNTY, MISSOURI. By Gary G. 

Books on Kentucky genealogy and history 

contributed to the KHS library by 

authors, publishers, and compilers 

Lloyd. (2003. Pp. 412. Indexed. Hardcover, $20, 

plus $4 shipping and handling. Order from the 

author at 7 Center Road, Kirksville, MO 63501.) 

Jacob C. Turnmire (b. 5 January 1818, Burke 

County, N.C., d. 21 February 1888, Putnam 

County, Mo.), who married Jane “Jensy” Epperson 

(b. 13 September 1822, Tenn., d. 15 July 1894, 

Putnam County, Mo.), was a grandson of Han 

Martin Dormeyer (b. 1688, Butten, Germany). This 

work includes 2,807 direct descendants of Jacob 

Turnmire, 118 photographs, and seven maps. The 

1,628 surnames include Butler, Collins, Drummond, 

Embree, Harlan, Ledford, Lewis, Lloyd, Martin, 

Patterson, Smith, Thomas, Thorington, and Young. 

BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 

SURVEYOR’S PLAT BOOK, 1762-1858. 

(2002. Pp. 86. Indexed. Softcover, $14.50, plus 

$3.50 postage and handling. Order from the 

Clearfield Co. Inc., 200 Eager Street, Baltimore, 

MD 21202 or via the internet at: 

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Buckingham County, Va., was created in 1761 

from the part of Albemarle County that lies south of 

the Fluvanna/James River. When the Buckingham 

County courthouse burned in 1869, most of its 

records were destroyed, making subsequent genealogical 

and historical research extremely difficult. 

One of the few survivors from the county’s old 

records is the Surveyor’s Plat Book (1762-1858), 

which is housed at the Virginia State Library and 

here abstracted and edited by D.A.R. Librarian Eric 

Grundset. The abstracts and two indexes in this 

publication include the names of every person and 

place appearing in the Surveyor’s Book. The abstracts 

typically supply the name of the landholder, the date 

the plat was surveyed, the size of the lot, the names 

of neighbors, references to any transfer of the property, 

and the names of any abutting creeks, rivers, 

mountains, roads, or ferries. In all, the abstracts refer 

to about 3,000 early inhabitants of Buckingham 

County (most of them prior to 1820), and they are 

easily identified in the name index at the back of the 


Book Notes, continued______________________________________ 

volume. The author has prepared a map of 

Buckingham County to serve as a general locationfinder 

to place names, which are also indexed. All in 

all, this diminutive book is a major resource for 

Buckingham County research and, when used with 

modern plat maps, land tax records, and other post- 

1869 sources, will enable the researcher to piece 

together more information on county families. 

(Researchers should note, as Grundset points out in 

his preface, that owing to changes in Virginia county 

boundaries, a number of the tracts abstracted herein 

are now situated in Appomattox and Cumberland 

counties.) 

ANCESTRAL ROOTS (of Certain American 

Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700). 

(2004. Pp. 380. Indexed. Hardcover, $35, plus 

$3.50 postage and handling. Order from the 

Clearfield Co. Inc., 200 Eager Street, Baltimore, 

MD 21202 or via the internet at: 

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This is the eighth edition of the classic work on 

the royal ancestry of certain colonists who came to 

America before the year 1700, and it is the first new 

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QUERIES 

Graves, Lambert, Hall 

Looking for information about Rice Graves of 

Daviess County, who attended West Point and 

served as a confederate officer during the Civil War. 

Nancy A. Markle, 305 Walnut Street, 

Middlesex, NJ 08846 

Price, Gano, Major 

Searching for any information on John Price, who 

married Susan Gano in Franklin County in 1797. 

Susan was a daughter of Rev. John Gano, who was 

buried in the Daughters of the American Revolution 

lot in Frankfort Cemetery. John married 1. Elizabeth 

Redd Major. His will is dated 1832. Susan was 

buried in Missouri. Some members of the family 

moved to Scott County, others to Missouri. 

Kathy Hall, 131 South Hill Road, 

Versailles, KY 40383 

E-mail: Hallkathyw@aol.com 

Townsend, Simmons, Martin 

Searching for any and all information on Nancy Ann 

Townsend (b. circa 1830, Ky.), who married 1. Joel 

Simmons circa 1850 and 2. Abiel Allen Martin circa 1865. 

She and Abiel resided in Alexandria, Campbell County. 

Joyce Martin Riedlin, 16244 Kline Young Road, 

Stewartstown, PA 17383-0334 

Payton 

Wanted: Information on James Payton (b. 1840), 

who married Amanda Rearden. He was listed on the 

1850 census in Franklin County in the household of 

Cornelius Payton. James and Amanda had four 

children: Calvin, Lewis Franklin, Albert, and Robert. 

James was killed about 1889 in an accident while 

working on a Kentucky River lock. 

Evelyn Carroll, 1114 Leslie Avenue, 

Frankfort, KY 40601-1246 

Irvin, Martin, Williamson, Seaton 

I am seeking information on my great-grandparents, 

Robert P. Irvin and his wife Mary Ann Martin, 

who were married in Elkton in 1849. They had two 

children. Their daughter Henrietta (b. 1851, d. 

1928) married Perry Williamson of Smith’s Grove. 

Questions about Kentucky 

families submitted by 

Society members 

Their son Elisha (b. 1854, d. 1919) married Amanda 

Seaton in Hardinsburg. Other Irvins lived in and 

around Elkton and Daysville from 1793 to the 

1900s, but I just can’t seem to tie them together. Any 

help would be appreciated. 

Ernest M. Irvin, 3573 Fullerton Avenue, 

Alton, IL 62002 

e-mail: Illsadsack@aol.com 

Davis, Murley 

Looking for information on Nathaniel Davis (b. 

about 1778, Va.), who married Margaret Murley of 

Lexington about 1800. Their children were Daniel 

(b. Scott County), William B. (b. July 1801, Ky.), 

Joshua (b. Nov. 1802, Ky.), Sarah, Alicy/Ailsy, and 

Elijah. The family moved to Jennings County, Ind., 

then to Iowa. My great-grandfather Lewis B. Davis 

was born in Jennings County and later moved to 

Iowa. Family history has it that Nathaniel’s siblings 

included James, Phanuel, Septemus, and Thomas, all 

of whom came to Kentucky. 

James K. Davis, 720 Arbor Avenue, No. 33, 

Fort Collins, CO 80526-3125 

Tryitt, Stewart, Sparks, Sloan, Schoolcraft, 

Nickle, Mescal, Judd 

I have been gathering information on men who 

served in Company A of the Union 7 th Kentucky 

Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. I would like to 

get information on the following soldiers: Wiley Truitt 

(b. 1843, Owsley County), Silas Stewart (b. 1839), 

John Stewart (b. 1836, Ky.), Thomas Sparks (b. 1840, 

Estill County), James E. Sloan (b. 1841, Estill County), 

Thomas S. Sloan (b. 1839, Ky.), William E.D. Sloan 

(b. 1845, Ky.), James C. Schoolcraft (b. 1835, Lee 

County, Va.), Henry F. Nickle (b. 1838, Anderson 

County, Tenn.), Stephen C. Mescal (b. 1817, Ky.), 

Charles A. Judd (b. 1842, N.C.), and William C. Judd 

(b. 1842, N.C.). I need names of the soldiers’ parents, 

wife or wives, dates and places of birth and death, and 

places of burial. Pension papers usually also contain a 

physical description, which I would like to add to my 

information. Thank you. 

Ruth Eager Moran, 5001 Brettshire Way, 

Oklahoma City, OK 73142 


MYSTERY ALBUM 


The KHS Special Collections department’s holdings 

include more than 200,000 photographs and other 

images. Its studio negative collection includes a group of 

glass-plate negatives taken by H.A. Gretter from 1909 to 

1920. The collection was labeled “General Assembly.” 

The men pictured are thought to have been state representatives 

or senators. The image at top left was labeled 

“Jackson,” and may be Rep. Thomas C. Jackson, a 

Marion County Republican in 1908, or Rep. W.J. 

Jackson, who represented Hickman County in 1906, 

1908, and 1912. The image at left, identified as “Kirk,” 

may be Rep. M.C. Kirk, who represented Martin and 

Johnson counties in 1912, or Thomas S. Kirk, who 

represented Pike, Martin, and Johnson counties in 1891- 

93 and 1894 and served as 33 rd District senator in 1900 

and 1902. The above image may be that of Charles W. 

Nagel, a Campbell County Republican, who served in 

the senate in 1910. Before his election as a senator, Nagel 

had served six years as mayor of Bellevue. 

If you recognize those pictured or can provide any more 

information about them, please contact Kentucky 

Ancestors at 100 W. Broadway, Frankfort, KY 40601- 

1931, or call, toll-free, 1-877-4HISTORY (1-877-444- 

7867), or e-mail: Tom.Stephens@ky.gov.



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