Early One September Morn
by Duane Bristow
September 4, 1962
The western mountains were yet to know,
The warmth of the sun,
And in the East the stratus hid,
The entrance of his majesty.
Yet, above them,
(They were so still),
The cirrus showed the white of silk.
(For from the sky and from the cloud,
The sun's glory reflected down.)
Silvery jewels, they were set,
Beneath a shroud of blue so pure.
And yet, could even God devise,
A blue so blue, A white so white?
And beneath in the valley where shadows lay,
From a hill I watched the morning unroll.
And the September air, it was chill,
At least chilly to one,
So long used to the summer sun.
The wind in the mountain,
You could hear it blow,
Foretelling of winter and snow.
And the white, it was pure,
And the blue, it was peace,
And hoping someday,
That all strife should cease,
Here what I saw, I set down,
That to him who could see,
It could be found.
school bus driver for Springfield Board of Education for over 20 years
member of Akron Lodge #83, F.&A.M.; 32 Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite
in Loudoun County Virginia.
fought with the Lopez Expedition to free Cuba from Spain
near New Orleans. There is a monument to him at Frankfort Kentucky
This is Duane on the farm.
This is Duane in 1999.
Caroline in 2001
Mary and her sisters.
Ruth and her sisters.
Chris on top of Sewell Mountain
Victoria as a baby.
Victoria 2005
Cruz in 2001
Fireflies at Dusk In the tall grass on the hillside, The fireflies begin a symphony of light. Their silent ethereal music, is played in waves across the grass. In golden notes, Against a darkening sky, They play a soft summer nocturne. by Roger Selvidge
A drawing by Russell.
middle names. The twins were held back by the mother and were not
was old enough to go.
Nickname (Vangie) Vangie was injured by a anesthetist during a knee surgery. he lifted her chin to put a tube down her throat and cracked the cervical spine & did damage to the brain stem. This was on Nov. 19, 1990 and she was in a wheelchair from that date on.
Nickname (Wellie) After Wellie & Mary married, his brother taught school at Hidalgo, KY and his sister, Bessie, took over the 1-room school & taught for a little while. When she left, Wellie was asked to come in and complete the school year. A man named Belsh Dishman rented them a house for $1/mo. Belsh later committed suicide & his gravestone was thrown into the grave & buried with him. Also at Hidalgo lived a terrific gunsmith, Wyatt Atkins, whose gun-making tools are now in the Smithsonian in Washington. Cemetery is at Peolia Methodist Church on Rte. 738 near Albany, KY
Called (Mary) Was a twin of Robert. The twins were named for their parents but with no middle names. Mary used (Mary Ewing Booher) as her married name. The twins were held back by the mother and were not allowed to go to school for 2 years until their youngest sister, Annie, was old enough to go. The mother (Mollie) said she didn't want her youngest child to be home alone for those years so she held the twins back and they all 3 started to school the same day.
Leah was one of the most generous people. She had so little money as a child but when she was about 14-1/2 she bought a pretty watch band for her older sister's birthday, even though she couldn't afford a watch for herself. After her husband died she never wanted to live; however, she outlived him by 15 years. She often said she wanted to hurry up and go to heaven to be with Harold and her beloved dog Jeep, so named because she was born in the back seat of a Jeep. Leah was loud & loving & had beautiful black eyes & wavy hair
When Ralph & Cheryl went to an Albany, KY attorney to handle something in regard to her father's estate, the lawyer gave Ralph the dog tags from Ralph's Uncle John who had served in the First World War. He also gave Ralph his grandfather, George Washington Booher's, Masonic Lodge pen. Ralph is the only Mason in the family. Ralph gave his brother John the dogtags worn by their Uncle John and he kept the masonic pen.
Bob died of kidney failure at his home located at 412 W. Howard St., Muncie, Ind. after a 14 month illness following surgery to remove a brain tumor. He got massive infections and was not able to throw them off, even with antibiotics.
When Jim was born, his mother agreed to name him James provided no one would nickname him Jim. In about 2 weeks she was the first to call him Jim. It stuck. The day Mom brought Jim home from the hospital as a new baby, the boy upstairs, Bryant Barkley, was messing around on the stair landing and broke out a window into our living room. His club fell into our house and his dad came down and demanded the club back. He got it.
Brother Ralph gave John their Uncle John Booher's dog tags from the First World War. Makes sense because their name was the same. A lawyer in Albany KY had stored them for several years in his desk drawer, ever since he had handled Della Booher's estate. He turned them over to Ralph when Ralph & Cheryl went to him to handle part of her father's estate. Born in Whitlatch Clinic, Milan, Indiana. Clinic was operated by Dr. Hunter who delivered John. John was named for his uncle John Ewing and his uncle Paul Booher, by his 2 sisters, Evangeline & Leah
Mary Ann was born in the Whitlatch Clinic in Milan, Ind. The charge for the delivery was $60. Before she married Conley, Mary Ann had a daughter named Debbie who was adopted by an Akron, Ohio couple.
Bessie was a good singer and taught music. Played gospel music while sister Maud sang. Died from poisoning about 15 days after giving birth to a stillborn girl. Pet name for her husband was "Punk" and he called her that, too.
He was killed while walking across roadway and hit by speeding automobile. His first wife, Alice Bessie Little, was his 1st cousin. His pet name for his wife was "Punk" and she called him that, too.
When Clyde was about 2 he was climbing around on some boards which had been removed from an old wagon, when he stepped on a nail. His mother, Bessie, and grandmother Little poured kerosene in a bucket and made him soak his foot in it. When he was a little older, he was playing with a cousin who was whirling a gear plate around and let go and it cut Clyde's jugular vein. His mom poured pepper in the wound and got the blood stopped. Age 3 he was punching at a mule which kicked him in face. Unconscious several days.
Toot loved to visit her cousin, Ruth Lowrey, and they rode horses. Ruth said that Tootsie was a wonderful girl & she loved her dearly. Died of congestive heart failure, Cemetery located on Romig Road, Akron, Summit County, Ohio
Served in US Marine Corp. from 1943 to 1946; time in Okinawa (Apr. '45-Nov. '45) Richard also worked in Customer Service for East Ohio Gas Co.
1880 Census of Franklin County, TN, Vol. 10, E.D. 88, Page 3, Line 29 Peggy Speck, grandmother, age 72; Susan Speck, mother, age 37; Bell Speck, age 15; Gertrude Speck, age 6 and Alma Speck, age 4, all sisters of Hortense
Died of congestive heart failure.
Died of lung cancer after smoking most of his life. His wife, Nurlene died about 6 weeks later, of stomach cancer. Pastor Elmer Rich preached his funeral. Buried at Hillside Memorial Park, Akron. Info taken from his Remembrance Card from Eckard-Baldwin Funeral Home, Akron
Died of congestive heart failure. Information taken from Akron Beacon Journal obituary
Died of congestive heart failure after being bed ridden for 3 years.
Died of congestive failure.
Died of pneumonia.
Died of congestive heart failure. Funeral was at Eckard-Baldwin Funeral Home, 760 E. Market St, Akron OH, on May 31, 1968, Rev. Francis of the Church of God, attending
Died of pneumonia
Died of malnutrition - not able to eat and consume food.
Taught school At Green Township Schools, near Akron, Summit, Ohio. Was married to Roy Lee Benson, a smoker, who died just 6 weeks before Nurline did, with lung cancer. She had stomach cancer. They left only one child, Nancy Sue Benson, age 17.
StoneBridge is the local Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)
Born the day President George H. Bush came to town, by train, campaigning for reelection.
The 1850 Census lists him as "Daniel" - probably to avoid confusion with his grandfather Buried on "Old Homeplace" believed to now be owned by Grandaughter, Maude Benson Tucker. This place is on the hill just east of Kelso, on the right of U.S. Highway 64, going east. Old home stood on 1 Mar 1977
Buried on "Old Homeplace", believed to be owned by grandaughter, Maude (Benson This is on the hill just east of Kelso, TN, on the right of U.S. Highway 64, going east. As of 1 Mar 1977 the old home still stood.
Eliza & husband, bought a hotel in railroad town, Truscott, Texas, no autos in Truscott. Their daughters helped mom serve food to the lodgers but Ora would sneak off about noontime to run down to the depot to see who got off the train. Her mom & Bessie didn't like it that she shirked her duty. Had hotel, renamed Benson Hotel,about 1907-1909. They then bought a farm at Gulliland, TX. That's where Bessie lived when she married her cousin, Richard Oscar Benson. In 1957 hotel still there & well kept.
His wife, Margaret (Maggie) Omohundro, was his 1st cousin.
His wife, Mattie B. Faulkner, was his 1st cousin; his nickname was "Bug"
Per Clyde Little Benson, Sr., Nicholas (Nick Little) was in his field in Texas plowing when someone noticed that the horses were standing in the same place for a long time and went out to see why. Nick was dead and leaning up against his plow. The horses had waited patiently. Per Durley Lowrey Alexander, 6/17/02, Nicholas had taken out his false teeth and put them in his pocket. Found by someone, possibly Richard Oscar Benson. Nick's spouse - Eliza Frances Benson Little became impossible to live with.
Ora was a good singer and taught music.
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1820 Census, Lincoln County, TN shows him to be 37 years old at time, making his birthdate 1783; our family records indicate his birthdate circa 1770-trying to reconcile the difference
Rev. Ralph Turner preached the funeral. Buried at Lakewood Park Cemetery Info taken from the Memorial Card from Carl L. Kaufmann Funeral Home, Cleveland.
Richard Stack's daughter, Sandra Stack, researched and determined her paternal grandfather's name was Edward Stackowicz
Phyllis worked in the office at Firestone Rubber Co. and, later, as Church Secretary for the McKinley Ave. Church of God
Tim lived in Cuyahoga Falls, Summit County, Ohio when he married Liz.
On old documents, Robert Matthew signed his name with 2 t's, but it has 1 t on his new tombstone. Probably should have been 2. Ralph said that the 1 t spelling came from a letter written by his sister Maggie when she was answering some questions about the family tree. She just misspelled it; it had 2 t's on his marriage license.
After Mollie's husband died in 1911, she & her children moved in with her sister-in-law's (Maggie Ewing's) home. When Mollie died in 1916 Maggie finished raising the children, the youngest of whom was 8.
Name pronounced Jess' ee U' wing. Family Tree Maker shows Jesse to have been born in Cumberland County Kentucky; Clinton County was carved out of Cumberland County. Jesse was a teacher and farmer and became Clinton County School Commissioner. Records of Jesse's & Mariba's family came from an old family Bible, last known to be in the possession of John Ewing, Akron, Ohio.
Her name is pronounced Mar-eye' bee. Source of info. was Mary (Ewing) Booher, grandaughter of Mariba Wood and sister of Mariba Ewing. Mariba and Jesse lost their first 3 children to flux (dysentery) all in one week in the summer of 1856. They were age 5 down through 6 months old. They went on to have 3 more children. The Ewing Schoolhouse near Albany, KY was named for Mariba (Wood) Ewing as she was the oldest person in the area when the school was built, about 1910.
Christened in All Saints Parish, Leicester, Leicestershire, England Came to America at age 18 in 1775 on Ship named Hopewell. Settled in Williamsburg, Virginia, and became one of George Washington's secretaries.
Owned a woolen manufactory in Leicestershire, England.
He sailed from England to Burmuda on ship named Truelove on June 10, 1635 as indentured servant of William Wells of Norwich. Wells was 17 & John 18 yrs. Truelove reached Boston in 1635 - first records of John are from First Church of Southold, Long Island, showing he lived there prior to 1654. Probably now out of debt to Wm. Wells. Sept 26, 1664 he was part of a group of Long Islanders who petitioned the Gov. of the Colony of New Jersey to buy land in NJ from the Staten Island Indians.
Family Tree Maker, World Family Tree Maker, Vol. 11, Pre-1600 to Present estimates born 1604-1630 Family Tree Maker, World Family Tree, Vol. 11, Pre-1600 to Present estimates death at 1664 to 1720
Tried for Bigamy with no attorney, found guilty and died shortly thereafter from heartbreak - buried at Mansfield Reformatory, Mansfield, Ohio. Fanny said Willie was unhappy with her & found a girlfriend & married her. No one knew for sure.
Died of sun stroke after working in the fields. She died one week to the day before her mother gave birth to twins: Robert and Mary.
Called (Camel) Rev. Lionel Talbott & Rev. Rick W. Smale officiated at Mathew Campbell Ewing's funeral at Brown-Haddix Chapel. Per Funeral Home pamphlet Campbell worked in a factory in Muncie, Ind. for many years, but somehow there was a mistake made in his personnel records and the name Ewing was dropped; therefore, he worked all his time there just as Mathew Campbell.
Called (Mariba, pronounced Mar-eye'-be) Her little sister, Mary, loved to rub Mariba's back during her last months of sickness and Mariba appreciated it and said the back rubs made her feel better.
Called (Net) She was born a blue baby & was not expected to live. She expected & got preferential treatment. She was eccentric and never married but took great pride in being able to recall all her sibling's and their children's birthdays. She was always supported by members of the family until able to get Social Security. Her brother, John, promised to keep her always, in return for inheriting the Ewing farm at Albany, Ky. He sold the farm, moved to Akron, OH and only kept Nettie a few years. She went to a home.
Called (John) John worked many years for and retired from Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio
Nickname (Sophie) Buried in McWhorter Cemetery at Peolia Church.
Called (Bob) He was a twin and the twins were named for their parents but with no middle names. Date of death of Robert Ewing was checked by his niece, Evangeline (Booher) Benson on April 20, 2005 and the date is September 28, 1938 on his tombstone; Wellie had the date wrong. His epitaph reads "Loved One, Farewell"
Annie was diabetic and extremely overweight
Nickname GW George's father was Sevier (Burr) Boiles, who later married and had 16 children who were 1/2 brothers/sisters of GW. One of these was named Eliza (Liza) Boiles who later marred Landy Cash.
Was a small child when mother died. She & her half brother, Frank Choate, were taken from the graveside & raised by a Littrell or McCoy family. She attended a 1-room school called The Seminary. Nickname (Freely) It was claimed that Choate was not Frelia's father. Her father was said to be Marion Stephenson, believed to be a Union Army officer. Wellie Booher, Frelia's 9th child, told his son, Ralph, that Capt. Stephenson, not Marion, was his grandfather. Capt. S. did, however, fight in Marion, VA.
Nickname was Bina, pronounced Biney Died giving birth to her first child, which also died
Uncle Porter gave his nephew, Ralph Booher, some of the information about the Booher family geneology and it has been included in this Brothers Keeper file. Porter got very deaf in his old age and his wife was blind so they depended some on their daughters who lived close by. While Porter's brother, Wellie, was teaching at Hidalgo, KY, Porter had the renouned gunsmith, Wyatt Atkins, make him a gun. Wellie wrote Porter who came on his horse & picked up his new gun--cost $10. Atkins' tools now in Smithsonian. Porter was very kind.
Nickname (Bill)
Nickname (Jess), Jess had lost 2 fingers in an accident when a young man. He liked to get young kids to pull at his hands and then accuse them of pulling off his 2 fingers. He owned a store in Albany, Ky & held auctions which drew large crowds. He had a wonderful sense of humor and loved to tease and laugh. All the kids loved him. His great grandson, David Anderson, played major league baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers & the San Francisco Giants. Then coached Toledo Mud Hens & U. of Memphis baseball team.
Called (Bessie) Married an elderly man, Edward Fudge. She moved from Indiana to NY to live with her son, Billy Fudge She was cremated and her ashes brought back to the Tuggle Cemetery at Albany, Clinton County, Kentucky by her son, Billy.
Called (Ethel) Aunt Ethel took 12-yr-old neice, Evangeline Booher, to drug- store in Detroit & bought her the 1st hot fudge sundae she ever had. Ethel was a loving & giving person, who voiced regrets in later life that she had done nothing much with her life. The rest of the family saw her differently. She came to her brother's (Wellie's) house in Covington, Ky with Bill Osteen in 1940 to get married. Wellie performed the ceremony but was not told that Bill was a divorced man; that would have stopped the wedding.
Called (John) Drowned while swimming in a rain swollen (Cumberland) river, Buried in Tuggle Cemetery, Albany, Clinton County, Kentucky. Served in the Army during WW1
Called (Chester) was wounded in the battle of Argonne Forest in France, WW1 Brought to hospital in Mass. His father G.W. Booher & 2 brothers went to see him and found him recovering. After they left him he was moved to another hospital (Boston City) to make room for other patients and he developed pneumonia & died before his relatives got back to Kentucky. They had to go back to Boston by horse and wagon to pick up his body. Duty in Co. M 18th
Nickname (Ed) Ed's father was a cranky, domineering old man, who hit his children when he wanted to. He came out to a field where several of his sons were clearing it of stones. Ed was the most peaceful and quiet of the sons but he had had it with his dad and when he saw him approaching, he took a bell off a cow and cold cocked the old man with. G.W. never gave Ed trouble anymore. Greatly weakened by arthritis and died of pneumonia. Albany Methodist Church, Sewell Funerl Home, Albany, officiating
Called (Sallie) Sallie's funeral was at Talbott Funeral Home, Sunday, 2 Dec, 1979. Rev. Paul Quiggins, officiating. She is buried at the Albany, Ky. cemetery.
Nickname (Jont), pastored a long time in Louisville, KY When his brother, Wellie, & wife Mary, moved to Hidalgo, KY so Wellie could teach school, his brother, Jonathan, moved them with horse and wagon.
Harlan doctored in Lynchburg, TN after going to school at (Berea & Vanderbilt) He died 2 weeks after having surgery at Baptist Hosp., Rev. Bill Haynes and Rev. David Spender ( Methodist ministers) officiated..
Called (Horace) by some of the family and (Ben) by others
Nickname (Georgie) Buried in Shawnee Township Cemetery, Lima, Ohio
Called (Paul) - Paul had Alzheimers for a few years Laughlin Funeral Home, 2320 Bob Wallace, Huntsville AL 35805, 256-534-2471 Paul was the last of the 16 children of George Washington Booher and Freely Clementine (Choate) Booher to die.
Rev. Humble, Rev. Moody & Rev. Glidewell officiated at Leona Jane Cross's funeral, at Peolia Methodist Church. Buried at Peolia Cemetery. Per Funeral Home pamphlet.
Buried in Tuggle Cemetery near his mother. Single man. Nickname, Billy
Porter Booher & John Clarence Choate put a tombstone on their grandmother's (Martha Franklin's) grave. Martha had her last child (Frelia Clementine) possibly by Capt. Leander Stephenson of Monticello, Wayne County, Ky. She gave her the last name of Choate even though her husband (Choate) had left home.
Jane Booher was visiting her sister, Elizabeth Boiles, who had married George Boiles after his first wife died. While visiting there, Jane got pregnant by George's son, Sevier (Burr) Boiles, and had a child whom she named George Washington Booher. Jane's name possibly was Sally Jane 1860 Clinton County, KY Census Household No. 681
Both Peter Booher and George Boiles are grandfathers of George Washington Booher & they & their wives are buried in same cemetery in unmarked graves. Above info. told to Ralph Booher by his Uncle Porter Booher
Nickname (Burr Boils) Sevier and his father, George Boils, are buried side by side in the Cash & Boils Cemetery in Clinton County, Kentucky. Burr acknowledged George W. Booher as his child but did not care for him or want to marry Jane. Jane & husband, Mr. Bess, went to Texas to pick cotton. George Booher lived with his grand- father, Peter Booher. Jane died with TB. Burr married Mary Daniels & had 16 more children after he fathered George Washington with Jane.
George Boils and his son, Sevier (Burr) Boils are buried side by side in the Cash & Boils Cemetery in Clinton County, Kentucky.
Christened on 6 Dec 1732 in All Saints Parish, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Christened on 13 Sept 1734 at All Saints Parish, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Christened on 28 Jun 1736 at All Saints Parish, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Christened on 17 May 1740 at All Saints Parish, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Christened on 12 Apr 1746 at All Saints Parish Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Christened on 1 Sept 1748 at All Saints Parish, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Christened on 23 Dec 1751 at All Saints Parish, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Little Old Bible found by Catherine Bagby, Glasgow, KY
Nickname Willie
Hanover County is just north of Richmond, VA Buried at Adairland -- possibly cemetery
Buried at Adairland - possibly a cemetery
Died when 31 yrs and 3 mos old from flu - left three small children; John, Margaret and Kate
Little Old Bible found by Catherine Bagby, Glasgow, KY
Litle Old Bible found by Catherine Bagby, Glasgow, KY Little Old Bible found by Catherine Bagby, Glasgow, KY
Ralph Booher said the May 17, 1762 date is on John's tombstone. John A. Bagby, Jr. enlisted in the Revolutionary War in the fall of 1778 and was then living in Louisa County, Virginia. He drew a pension which began on March 4, 1831 with certificate issued Jan. 26, 1833. John & Matilda lived in Virginia until 1817, then moved to Barren County, KY. John was a sergeant in the Rev. War & was discharged in 1781.
Widow Matilda applied for bounty land Apr. 14, 1835. Her pension began Mar 4, 1836; certificate issued 7/29/1840.
Family Group Records-Ancestral File - Internet shows birthdate as 4 Nov 1793
Family Group Record-Ancestral File-Internet shows died 1851
IFamily Group Record-Ancestral File-Internet shows birthdate 20 Jun 1805 Buried at Adairland -- maybe cemetery name
Family Group Record - Ancestral File-Inernet shows birthdate as 3 Jun 1808
Buired at Adairland - possibly a cemetery name Family Group Record-Ancestral File-Internet spells name Theodoscia
Family Group Record - Ancestral File - Internet - birthdate of 18 Nov 1812
Jamestown, VA is now called James City County, VA and is just west of Williamsburg, VA. Jamestown served as the capital of Virginia for 92 years.
Family Group Record-Ancestral File-Internet shows spelling to be Theodoscia
Nickname is Buck Little Old Bible found by Catherine Bagby, Glasgow,KY
Info taken from Family Group Record - Ancestral File - Internet Catherine Bagby, Glasgow, KY, does not list this child.
Family Tree Maker, World Family Tree, Vol. 11 estimates birth between 1566 and 1595 Family Tree Maker, World Family Tree, Vol. esimates date of death between 1620 and 1680
Died at age 24, a single man.
Margaret Mariba Ewing (Aunt Maggie) never married but helped raise her brother's (Robert Mathew Ewing's) children after he died in 1911 and his wife (Mary [Mollie Bagby] Ewing died in 1916. Maggie's and Robert's parents had split their 360 ocre farm near Albany, Clinton County, KY between their son who had 12 children and their unmarried daughter, the only remaining children. When Robert died, Aunt Maggie took Robert's wife (Mollie) and the rest of her children still at home and provided a home for them.
Never married; served in 1st World War but did no go overseas
Marvin moved from Tennessee to Texas and stayed for a while in the Truscott area. He liked to visit his cousin, Richard Oscar Benson, who had moved to Brownfield, TX with his family. Per Clyde Benson, Sr. in discussion with Vangie Benson on 10/8/2006 about a letter written in 1934 by his mother, Bessie Little Benson.
Ethan was 6 lbs. 15-1/2 oz. and 19 inches long at birth
Christine's name may have been spelled Brahm; she was living in Toledo, Ohio when she married Josh.
Phyllis gave Carly's birthdate as Dec. 22, 2000; this is probably incorrect.
Big City Cemetery at Monticello, where most people in the area are buried
David Played 9 years as shortstop for LA Dodgers, wearing jersey No. 12 Played 1 year with San Francisco Giants Manager for the Toledo Mudhens AAA Team, with Detroit Farm Teams earlier Resigned as Manager for Toledo in 2000 to become Head Baseball Coach at his alma mater, University of Memphis (TN).
Nickname "Kathy"
George's birth name was Guffey but Georgia made him add the Mc to it before she would marry him. Some of the Guffey family were pretty low class and Georgia wouldn't connect with that.
Per her daughter, Mildred, as told to Evangeline (Booher) Benson in May of 2002, Aunt Elma never liked her first name (Myrtie) and didn't want people to know what it was. She was a good cook, a gracious hostess to the Wellie Booher family on the 2 occasions when the family visited there. She became blind in her last years. Her husband was deaf so they had to help each other.
Ruby Nell (Booher) Upchurch gave to her cousin, Evangeline, a beautiful blue & white piece of pottery from her Bybee collection. It is boat shaped and Vangie cherishes this gift and uses it to hold bananas or other fruit. Ruby Nell's house was just outside of Albany, KY and was furnished with handmade, cherry wood pieces throughout. Beautiful place to visit from the basement on up.
From middle age on, Eileen suffered from serious asthma and enphysema and had to use oxygen. After her divorce, she lived in a pretty cottage adjoining her parents' farm just outside of Albany, KY. She always welcomed the Booher cousins for visits.
Mildred lives at 2001 Marilee Dr., Louisville KY 40272 Phone 502-937-3238
Lloyd was diagnosed with Alzheimers about 2 years before he died. After about a year Dorleen and Lloyd moved in with their daughter, Judy Duncan, in Bowling Green, KY so Judy could help care for Lloyd. On Apr. 6 Lloyd was diagnosed with acute leukemia and lived only 11 days.
Reported by Mary Ewing Booher to be a hard-boiled, difficult person.
Mary Elizabeth was named for her Aunt Mary (Ewing) Booher, her father's sister.
Lived in Wayne County, KY when his son Earl Carter was born in 1912
Lived in Wayne County, KY when son Earl Carter was born.
Liza's name is spelled Lizzie in at least 1 record
Capt. Stephenson came to visit Frelia, when she was dying of cancer When he left the bedroom, Frelia told her daughter (Ethel) that she could die in peace because she had finally seen her "daddy". During Civil War served in Company H, 30th KY Regiment, Union Army 1863-1865. Served in KY House of Representatives from 1875-1877. A successful businessman and an elder in the Christian Church.
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Info from awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=get&db=:1895161&id=1108977178
One place we found name spelled Samual
Reuben Wood was murdered by the Confederate Gorilla, Champ Ferguson who killed over 100 men because he perceived them as enemies because they had chosen to side with the North (President Lincoln) during the Civil War. Reuben was the great uncle of Mary (Ewing) Booher who told this story many times to her children. Champ Ferguson was hanged in Nashville after being tried for the murder of 23 people of whom Reuben Wood was no. 5 in the indictment. Book about it was "Champ Ferguson, A Confederate Gorilla"
Lives in Gallatin, Tenn.
Lives in Jamestown, KY
Rev. Elmer Rich, Pastor of the McKinley Ave. Church of God, Akron, was her pastor and preached her funeral. Info. taken from her Remembrance Card from Schermessor Funeral Home, Akron
Vickie is now Mrs. Philip Andrew Grigson and lives in Paris, Kentucky She graduated from U. of Kentucky
Rhonda is a graduate of U. of Kentucky
Graduated from U. of Kentucky Live in Winter Springs, FL
Lives in Winter Springs, FL
Nickname is Trey, because he is the third John Paul Booher
Nickname "Charlie"
This man would be a great grandfather of Vangie Benson.
Nancy (?) Stephenson was the mother of Leander; therefore, a great grandmother of Wellie Booher's children.
Not sure if first name was Rodney or Roy
Stella (Burris) Hill was a first cousin to Mary (Ewing) Booher, Sophia (Ewing) Cross, etc.
Arthur Harlan always had scars on his arms from falling into the top of a stove where his father was cooking moonshine out in the woods. The stoves were usually hidden under a bluff and twigs were piled around the chimney so it couldn't be spotted.
David also worked for International Harvestor in Illinois. He enlisted in the Army Feb. 8, 1945 in Louisville, KY. Served in Fort Sill, OK; Gifu, Japan; Texas; & California as a Message Center Clerk in Service Battery 8th FA Battalion. Discharged May 23, 1947 as a Corporal, Received WWII Victory Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; Expert Infantryman Badge
Nellie is a sister of the Mr. Farmer who married her husband's oldest sister, Bina Booher.
In 2003 Brandy is studying History & Government at Texas Woman's University
In 2003 Khrystal plays soccor at Poteet High School
Tori was adopted by Shannon & Chuck
Mike wrote a book entitled "The Weasel's Luck".
Aunt Louise was an excellent model of what a woman should be. She was full of energy and was accepting of all of us neices & nephews. She did an excellent job of raising her children. She was a daughter of Jacob Meeker who served as a state representative in Missouri and who attended Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, way back in the late 1800s when many young people did not go to college.
Immigrant - 1st generation American
Immigrant - 1st generation American
Attended Rollins College which is located in Winter Park, Florida, very close to Roy & Vangie's home on Eastern Parkway.
Aunt Louise Booher, grandmother of Betsy, told Vangie on 11/13/04 that Betsy is expecting twins in about 2 weeks or about late November.
Elizabeth lived in Japan where she met her husband
Nickname: Chet
Roy C. had only a middle initial, no name. His nickname was Caboose but the family called him "Boosie"
A neighbor called Mary Faye "Girlie" and sister, Ruth, couldn't say that so she called "Dirlie" and then Dirlie changed the spelling to Dirlye.
Patricia went into a diabetic coma and never woke up
Two Stepchildren: Paige Lorraine Summerlin - Born 26 Jan 1971 Forrest David Summerlin - Born 18 Sep 1973
Alcie Mae died of bronchial pneumonia when only 14 days old Her brother, Clyde, said he knows her name was Alice, not Alcie. It is spelled Alice in the newspaper obituary; however, her funeral brochure spells her name Alcie. Clyde is trying to get birth records to see how it was spelled there (Oct. 8, 2006). The baby had an Aunt Alcie but the mother was Alice. Who knows? Her obituary was written by Mrs. G. W. Hardin, a friend & neighbor of Bessie's
There has been some question about the date of this child's birth. Her father, Oscar, in a letter dated July 30, 1935 told his mother that Bessie had the baby "last Friday morning". The Benson children have always said that their mother lived about 15 days after the birth of her last child. Two Fridays before Oscar's letter was written would have been Friday, July 19th. The birth was difficult & the doctors had to turn the baby & bring her feet first; she was born dead and Bessie probably got an infection. No anti-biotics
Mr. Green already had a son, Andrew Green, before he married Gertie. Andrew owned a house in the country near Brownfield, TX which he let Richard Oscar & Bessie Benson stay in when they had 3 of their children. Later Richard & Bessie moved onto Andrew's farm about 1 mi. W. of Brownfield. That is where the family lived when their son, Roy Lee Benson (father of Becky, Randy & Molly) was born.
Andrew owned the house about 1 mi. W. of Brownfield, TX where Roy Benson, father of Becky, Randy & Molly) was born. Andrew was admired and appreciated by the Benson family which lived in the Green houses until Bessie died & Oscar took his 4 children to Akron, OH to live.
per Clyde Benson, he said he barely remembers it and that Dick has some documentation.
Mayme visited her Albany Ky relatives at least 3 times. She stayed at a hotel there nnd once left her expensive mohair coat and Aunt Sophie boxed it up and sent it to her in Tulsa.
Mary worked at the Albany shirt factory until she got cancer and had to have a breast removed. She then worked at a factory, making army duffle bags but then got cancer again in the bone and brain.
David has a step-son named Howard Anthony Cruz Jennings, Tisha's son before she and David married
His father, Thomas Wood, walked from Albany, Kentucky to Illinois to visit his son, Jonathan, and 2 of his own brothers. While in southern Illinois Thomas bought land. In the fall, he walked back to Albany and his boot rubbed a blister on his foot, which caused blood poisoning. He died 8 days after he returned to Albany.
Before this marriage,Tisha had a son named Howard Anthony Cruz Jennings
At birth he was so small it was said his head would fit in a teacup.
80th Birthday Party
Mary
Russell and Trudy
Cindy and Trudy
Trudy
Hobbies - reading, football, politics, bible study, investment, travel
Cindy and Trudy
Addie Lyons Hopper
1933
Kenneth Lafever in the late 1940s
Nora in the late 1940s
Betty and Jimmie Goff - 1902
Betty and Jimmie Golf - 1902
Dan and Lillie Davis
Dan and Lillie Davis
Jesse Bristow 1940s
Jesse Bristow 1923
Jesse Bristow and Nora Lafever - 1941
Roy Bristow's Family - 1925
Roy Bristow's Family - 1925
Lorene Lafever
June Dilldine - 1940
Thomas Hopper's Family - 1924
Addie Hopper's Family - 1924
Oscar Lafever during World War II
Jesse Bristow and Nora Lafever - 1941
The will of John Bristow probated November 6, 1716 and recorded in Will Book
"B", page 51, Middlesex County, Virginia reads:
"In the name of God Amen I John Bristow being sick and week in body but
sound in memory do make this my last will and testamt First I bequeath my
soule to God that made itt & my body to the earth from whence it came & all
my worldly goods as follows: Item I lend unto my loving wife Mary Bristow
one negro woman named Judy during my wifes natural life & then to return to
my estate againe Item I give and bequeath unto my son Nicholas Bristow one
negro man named Jack to him and his heirs Item I give and bequeath unto my
Daughter Anne Bristow one negro woman named Bess with incres to hur and hur
heires forever Item I give and bequeath unto my grandson John Bristow sone
of Tho: Bristow one negro boy named Majgor (sic) to him & his heires Item I
give and bequeath unto William Owen sone of Michaell Owen one negro garle
named Lotty hur and hur incres forever Item I give and bequeath unto my
sone William Bristow one negro garle named Rose hur and hur incres forever
Item I give and bequeath unto my sone James Bristow one negro woman named
Giney hur & hur incres forever Item I give & bequeath unto my two sones
Nicholas & James Bristow my land to be equally divided betoined them &
theire heires forever Item I give & bequeath my hole personall estate to be
equally divided betoine my wife & children after my debts first paid &
Lastly I appoint my sones Nicholas & James Bristow Executures of this my
last Will & Testament as witness my hand and seale this 20 Day of Feb 1716
(Signed) JOHN BRISTOW (Seal)
signed and sealed & delivered in Jre of us
Will Daniell
Will Daniell jnr.
Probated November 6, 1716"
Duane in 1972 in Harlan County Kentucky
This is Duane in 2007.
Eva - 1999.
Eva - 1977.
Eva in 1968.
Eva and Duane on their honeymoon - 1965.
Chris in 1978.
David and Chris Bristow in 1984.
David and Chris Bristow - 1984.
David Bristow - 1985.
David Bristow in 1975.
David Bristow in 1972.
David Bristow in 1971.
Roger Selvidge's grave at Beech Bottom Cemetery in Clinton County
Duane Bristow's family in about 2000.
Michael and his Twin Marjorie
Marjorie and her twin, Michael
Lorene Lafever
Beecher Lafever
Dora and her twin, Nora Lafever
Betty Goff, Ada, Linda, Nora, Duane
Betty Goff, Ada, Linda, Nora, Duane
Mae Beck
Arthur Harlan and Annie Ewing Harlan
Annie Ewing Harlan and Arthur Harlan
Karen Bristow - 1974
Kenneth Lafever - Sept. 22, 2009 at Golden Rule nursing home
Ruth
Janice and Gene
Bill and Ollie Adler
Bill's footstone at Earlham cemetery in Richmond, IN
Ollie and Bill Adler
Donald Allison's family
Donald and Beth Allison
Donald Allison
Beth Allison's family
Donald and Beth Allison
Ryan Allison's family
Lorene Allison's family
Jessica Harlan - 1989
Becky
Howard and Betty Harlan
Betty and Howard Harlan
Darrell and Chris Harlan - 1989
Chris and Darrell Harlan - 1989
Russell Flowers - 1984
Baylos Harlan's Family - 1966
Mabel Harlan's family - 1966
Becky Neal - 1990
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Harlan, Arthur and Walter
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Harlan, Arthur and Walter
Roy Harlan's family - 1986
Norman and Doris Harlan - 1984
Doris and Norman Harlan - 1984
Ronda - 1989
Gilliam Lafever's family about 1920 or 1921
America Lafever's family about 1920 or 1921.
Tisha - May 28, 1992
Lisa Harlan - 1977
S. W. Bristow, Wife Ellen, Sons Roy and Mack about 1897
Triplets
Dr. Bristow at Graduation
Addie Lyons Hopper
Julie and Amy - 1983
Amy and Julie - 1983
Arthur Harlan's family - 1934
Annie Harlan's family - 1934
Linda Greenlee's family
Gilliam and America Lafever
Gilliam and America Lafever
Kenneth Lafever
Kenneth in the Army in Germany about 1946.
Ada's biography-1
Ada's biography-2
Ada's biography-3
Ada's biography-4
Treva with her children, Debra and David
Robert (Buddy) Goodwin and Treva Lafever Goodwin
Robert (Buddy) Goodwin and Treva Lafever Goodwin
Treva with her children Debbie and David
Treva with her children Debbie and David
Beecher and Jerry
Beecher's Children
Myrtle's Family
Martha and her twins, Marjorie and Michael
Gilliam Lafever's 90th birthday party - March 9, 1975
Herschel
Charlie
Betty
Asher and Canzada
Asher and Canzada
The house at Boiling Springs
Ada
Teen ager - Kenneth
Cruz and his fiance, Misty Trichell - Thanksgiving 2009
Misty and her fiance, Cruz Jennings, Thanksgiving 2009
Obit.
Christmas card 2011 from Cruz & Misty
Christmas card from Cruz & Misty 2011
Mary Bayless Wood
Robert Matthew Ewing and Mary Bagby Ewing
Robert Matthew Ewing and Mary Bagby Ewing
Mariba Wood Ewing and her daughter Margaret Mariba (Maggy) Ewing
Mariba Wood Ewing and her daughter Margaret Mariba (Maggy) Ewing
Mary Bagby Ewing
Children of John Howard Bagby and Sofia Smith Bagby
Children of Sofia Smith Bagby and John Howard Bagby
John Bagby's will
Letter from Margaret Ewing to Mary Goodwin - 1902
2012 photo
Birth 03-07-2012 7:50 pm
4 of 5 generations
Colt's family
David, Cruz, & Hazel with the baby
Fox Lyons 20 years old
Minnie Lyons
Hazel in 2012
She was a graduate of the Clinton County High School and a member of the High Street Baptist Church in Somerset, Kentucky and worked as a secretary at the Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital and Lake Cumberland Anesthesia for over 30 years. She loved playing the piano, especially the old gospel hymns, enjoyed crocheting, working puzzles, reading and growing flowers. She was a loving wife and mother and was especially close to her granddaughter, Kasey, with whom she spent wonderful time. She will be greatly missed by her family, church and many close friends.
Letter from Jenny to her niece, Nettie, 1942
David Harlan
Letter to Nettie from her aunt Jenny - 1942
Betty, Howard and Betty Josephine Harlan
Betty, Howard and Betty Josephine Harlan
Betty Josephine Harlan as a baby with her parents
Charlie on the farm.
John Lyons grave
Mary Lyons grave
Caroline in 2010
363. James Henry7 Bozarth (William6, Levi5, Joseph *4, John * (Jersey)3
Bozorth, Simon *2, Gean (John) *1 Bossard/Bossart) was born May 28, 1833 in
White County, Tennessee, and died December 08, 1881 in DeKalb County,
Tennessee. He married Mary Ball Smith July 21, 1854 in Smithville, DeKalb
County, Tennessee. She was born February 23, 1835 in Tennessee, and died July
05, 1888 in DeKalb County, Tennessee.
Notes for James Henry Bozarth:
Family of James Henry Bozarth from the Bozarth Beacon January 1991, page 412
Children of James Bozarth and Mary Smith are:
699 i. James Monroe8 Bozarth, born May 13, 1855 in
DeKalb County, Tennessee; died April 23, 1930 in Near Paul's Valley, Oklahoma.
He married Lotta Susan Medlin December 17, 1874 in DeKalb County, Tennessee;
died Unknown.
700 ii. Marcus D. Lafayette Bozarth, born May 19, 1857
in DeKalb County, Tennessee; died Abt. 1946 in Fremont, Nebraska. He married
Mary Ellen Nora Lafever; died Unknown.
+ 701 iii. Isaac McQuire Bozarth, born April 10, 1859 in
Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee; died November 29, 1929 in Milford,
Beaver County, Utah.
+ 702 iv. Jefferson Davis Bozarth, born June 29, 1861 in
Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee; died July 11, 1955 in Clinton, Custer
County, Oklahoma.
+ 703 v. Samuel Bozarth, born July 30, 1865 in Silver
Point, Dekalb County, Tennessee; died October 22, 1945 in Wichita Falls State
Hosp., Texas.
704 vi. Elija (Leige) Bozarth, born August 18, 1867 in
DeKalb County, Tennessee; died May 22, 1900 in Collins County, Texas.
Notes for Elija (Leige) Bozarth:
Elija never married.
705 vii. John W. Bozarth, born September 07, 1869 in
DeKalb County, Tennessee; died Unknown. He married ??? Bell in Tennessee; died
Unknown.
706 viii. Elizabeth (Betty) Bozarth, born June 18, 1871
in Silver Point, Tennessee; died January 01, 1956 in Silver Point, Tennessee.
She married James Goff 1889; born February 01, 1854 in Silver Point,
Tennessee; died January 18, 1938 in Silver Point, Tennessee.
707 ix. Morning Glory Bozarth, born September 13, 1873
in DeKalb County, Tennessee; died September 23, 1873 in DeKalb County,
Tennessee.
+ 708 x. Matthew Bozarth, born September 04, 1875; died
1908.
120. William6 Bozarth (Levi5, Joseph *4, John * (Jersey)3 Bozorth, Simon
*2, Gean (John) *1 Bossard/Bossart) was born 1811 in DeKalb County, Tennesse,
and died Aft. 1880 in Mine Lick, DeKalb County, Tennessee. He married Nancy
Allen Burton Abt. 1832 in White County, Tennessee. She was born February 05,
1816 in White County, Tennessee, and died Bef. 1880.
Children of William Bozarth and Nancy Burton are:
+ 363 i. James Henry7 Bozarth, born May 28, 1833 in
White County, Tennessee; died December 08, 1881 in DeKalb County, Tennessee.
364 ii. Waymon Bozarth, born Abt. 1835 in Tennessee;
died Unknown.
365 iii. Isaac Bozarth, born 1837 in Tennessee; died
Unknown. He married Mary Caroline Murphy March 28, 1860 in DeKalb County,
Tennessee; died Unknown.
366 iv. Mary Bozarth, born 1839 in Tennessee; died
Unknown. She married George Smith November 27, 1856 in DeKalb County,
Tennessee; died Unknown.
367 v. Pheobe Bozarth, born 1841 in Tennessee; died
Unknown. She married George F. Baker August 11, 1857 in DeKalb County,
Tennessee; born 1834; died Unknown.
368 vi. Louisa Bozarth, born 1843 in DeKalb County,
Tennessee; died Unknown.
369 vii. Joseph Bozarth, born 1845 in Tennessee; died
February 18, 1930 in Silver Point, DeKalb County, Tennessee. He married Martha
Puckett July 31, 1866 in DeKalb County, Tennessee; died Unknown.
370 viii. Finus Bozarth, born Abt. 1846 in Tennessee;
died Unknown. He married Martha ??? June 01, 1869 in DeKalb County, Tennessee;
died Unknown.
371 ix. Sarah Bozarth, born 1849 in Tennessee; died
Unknown.
+ 372 x. Levi Lafayette Bozarth, born December 1860 in
DeKalb County, Tennessee; died Unknown.
373 xi. Grant Bozarth, born 1869; died 1938.
+ 374 xii. Sherrod Bozarth, born March 15, 1873 in
Joblin, Missouri; died November 29, 1948 in Lone Pine, Redmond, Oregon.
32. Levi5 Bozarth (Joseph *4, John * (Jersey)3 Bozorth, Simon *2, Gean
(John) *1 Bossard/Bossart) was born 1775 in Mohongalia Conunty, Virginia, and
died December 07, 1840 in DeKalb County, Tennesse. He married Sarah (Sally)
Pierce February 24, 1802 in Hardin Country, Kentucky, daughter of William
Pierce. She was born 1786 in South Carolina, and died 1859 in DeKalb County,
Tennesse.
Notes for Levi Bozarth:
From the 1830 census White Country, Tennessee
Notes for Sarah (Sally) Pierce:
Bouth Sarah and her father were Cherokee Full Bloods.
Children of Levi Bozarth and Sarah Pierce are:
+ 118 i. Joseph6 Bozarth, born Abt. 1803 in White
County, Tennessee; died Unknown.
119 ii. John D. Bozarth, born 1808; died Unknown.
+ 120 iii. William Bozarth, born 1811 in DeKalb County,
Tennesse; died Aft. 1880 in Mine Lick, DeKalb County, Tennessee.
121 iv. Elizabeth Bozarth, born Abt. 1812; died
Unknown. She married Nathan G. Steale 1823; died Unknown.
+ 122 v. Bert (Bird) Waymon Bozarth, born December 16,
1813 in White County, Tennessee; died 1857 in Taney County, Missouri.
+ 123 vi. James Bozarth, born 1815; died 1845 in DeKalb
County, Tennessee.
124 vii. Malinda (Lindy) Bozarth, born 1818 in DeKalb
County, Tennesse; died Unknown. She married James L. Dearman Abt. 1840; died
Unknown.
125 viii. Nathan D. Bozarth, born January 29, 1814 in
Tennessee; died Unknown.
+ 126 ix. Levi Jr. Bozarth, born October 08, 1821 in
White County, Tennessee; died April 16, 1856 in DeKalb County, Tennessee.
127 x. Sarah (Sally) Bozarth, born Abt. 1824; died
1846. She married Andrew Johnson Abt. 1840; died Unknown.
14. Joseph *4 Bozarth (John * (Jersey)3 Bozorth, Simon *2, Gean (John)
*1 Bossard/Bossart) was born 1740 in Burlington County, New Jersey, and died
May 25, 1790 in Nelson County, Virginia or Kentucky. He married Elizateth ???
Abt. 1758 in Monongalia County, Virginia. She was born Bet. 1737 - 1739, and
died March 08, 1828.
Notes for Joseph * Bozarth:
This is taken from the Bozarth Beacon July 1988 Volume III, No. 2
JOSEPH BOZARTH FROM: "HISTORICAL REGISTER of VIRGINIANS IN THE REVOLUTION",
Soldier - Sailors - Marines 1775-1783, by John H. Gwathmey, Introduction by
Dr. H.J. Eckenrode,Director of the Virginia Division of History and
Archaeology. The Dietz Press, Publishers Richmond Virginia.
A pay roll of Capt. William McCluers Company of Militia in the County of
Jefferson and State of Virginia in Col. William Linns Batalion under Command
of Col. George Rogers Clark against the Shanaway Indians in the year 1780 from
the 9th day of July to the 19th day of August. Bouth days included.
William McCluer Capt. 19 July
Thomas Beard Lieut. "
Joseph Bozer Lieut. " (Bozarth)
George McCluer Ensig "
James Forker Sergn "
Plus many more
From the Bozarth Beacon Vol X, No. 4 page 1075
Margaret Mobley has proven Joseph Bozarth for DAR and write to say,--Please
let the (family) know and if they need any help through this line they can get
in touch with me. I have also proven this line for the Huguenot Society.
"WRITE to MARGARET MOBLEY, P.O. Box 233, DOWNING, MO 63536-0233."
The Bozorths apparently lived according to the European custom of
primogeriture at that time as a deed granted by Joseph, dated Dec. 27,1779,
conveyed his holding on Ten Mile Creek, Monongalia County, Virginia, to one
James Fitzpatrick, for the sum of 3,000 pounds, a consideruble amount, when it
is considered that 50 pounds would buy about 400 acres of that western
wilderess land. It is recorded in deed book I C Washington, Pa., althrough the
heading of the deed reads Mohongalia County, Va. The index book in which found
was book 40, P. 942.
DEED Joseph Bozorth to James FitzPatrick
Know all me(n) by these Presents that Joseph Bozorth of the County of
Monongalia and the State of Virginia for the Consideration of three Thousand
Pounds Pens Currency to me in hand Paid the Reced whereof I do acknowledge and
myself there with Fully Sarisfyed have bargained and by these Presence do
bargain Sell and demise (devise) unto James FitzPatrick of the County and
Coloney aforeseaid one messauge and Tract of Land laying and situate on the
waters of Tenmile Creek ajoining David Enoch on the one side John Rease,
Zophar Ball and Rease Gaddis with all the appurtances thereunto b (e) longing
which Land with the appertainances above mentioned I do oblige myself, my
Heirs, Executors and administrators to warrant and forever to Defend unto
James FitzPatrick, his heirs and assigns the Load of the Soil only Excepted.
In Witness whereof I Set my hand and afixed my Seal this 27th Day of December
1779. Joseph Bozorth seal Signed, sealed and Delivered in Present of us-------
----
Isaac Leet, Jnr, John Woolverton, John Davis, John Reynolds
Washington County: I do hereby Certify that John Davis came in his proper
person Before me (he being a witness to the foregoing instrument of writing)
and on his Solemn Oath Did Dispose and Say that he was present and Saw heard
Joseph Bozorth Sign, Seal and write the Same According to Law.
Sworn before Saml Mason seal
Recorded: Oct. 5th A.D. 1786
Thos Stokely Rcord.
Washington County, Pennsylvania
Deed Book 1 - C, page 163
Jonathan Bozorth, who with his elder brother Joseph, and Joseph's children,
migraded from western Pa. to Kentucky in 1780. From the letter of Charles T.
Skow dated 1959
Joseph Bozorth died 1790, Nelson County, Virginia, Will 25 May 1790,Probated
14 Dec 1790.
Notes for Elizateth ???:
Elizateth be came 2nd wife of Veazy Alexander when Joseph Bozarth died in 1790.
Children of Joseph Bozarth and Elizateth ??? are:
24 i. James5 Bozarth, born Abt. 1759; died Unknown.
+ 25 ii. Elizabeth Bozarth, born Abt. 1760 in
Mohongalia Conunty, Virginia; died March 08, 1828 in Howard County, Missouri.
+ 26 iii. John (Sheriff) Bozarth, born 1761 in Frederick
Conunty, Virginia; died 1836 in Lewis Country, Missouri.
+ 27 iv. David Bozarth, born 1763 in Mohongalia
Conunty, Virginia; died February 21, 1843 in Howard County, Missouri.
+ 28 v. Joseph Jr Bozarth, born 1765 in Mohongalia
Conunty, Virginia; died November 22, 1832 in Howard County, Missouri.
29 vi. Rhoda Bozarth, born Abt. 1767 in Mohongalia
Conunty, Virginia; died Unknown. She married Richard Brady April 14, 1792 in
Nelson Country, Kentucky; died Unknown.
Notes for Rhoda Bozarth:
Consent signe by Veazy and Elizabeth Alexander
30 vii. Major William Bozarth, born 1769 in Mohongalia
Conunty, Virginia; died 1861 in Howard County, Missouri. He married Lydia ???
Abt. 1798; died Unknown.
Notes for Major William Bozarth:
Notes for Lydia ???:
MILITARY RECORDS
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, July 23, 1918
Bozarth, Lydia
Pensioner (1812--14) No. of certificate 2751
Isued July, 1868.
May 7th, 1879. Paid $75.00 under act of May 24th, 1878.
Colonel P. L. Berry.
Address, 1102 Brown St. , Philadelphia.
(Widow of Major William Bozarth)
+ 31 viii. Abner Bozarth, born February 20, 1772 in
Mohongalia Conunty, Virginia; died February 13, 1818 in Christian County,
Kentucky.
+ 32 ix. Levi Bozarth, born 1775 in Mohongalia Conunty,
Virginia; died December 07, 1840 in DeKalb County, Tennesse.
33 x. Mehetable Hetty Bozarth, born Abt. 1777; died
Abt. 1803. She married Edward Wells February 09, 1802 in Hardin Co., Kentucky;
died Unknown.
+ 34 xi. Jonathan * Bozarth, born February 20, 1780 in
Mohongalia Conunty, Virginia; died May 16, 1854 in Howard County, Missouri.
+ 35 xii. Rebecca Bozarth, born Abt. 1784 in Mohongalia
Conunty, Virginia; died Abt. 1830 in Schuvler Country, Illinois.
+ 36 xiii. Israel Bozarth, born 1785 in Nelson County,
Virginia, District of Kentucky; died 1859 in Probably New Madrid County,
Missouri.
6. John * (Jersey)3 Bozorth (Simon *2, Gean (John) *1 Bossard/Bossart)
was born 1714 in Burlington County, New Jersey, and died September 21, 1760 in
Nelson County, Kentucky. He married Innocent Borden July 13, 1734, daughter of
James Borden and Mary ???. She was born 1716, and died Aft. 1761.
Notes for John * (Jersey) Bozorth:
This John is called Jersey John brcause he was born in New Jersey. Their were
so many Johns, Geneologists gave them different titles to try and keep them
straight.
Taken from the Bozarth Beacon Page 51 October 1987
Will of John Bozorth From Frederick County Will Book 2, P. 455 Date: 21 Sept.
1760
Children: Joseph to receive 200 acres of land between Elias Garrards and
Richard Flekhers.
Remaining children (un-named) to share and share alike. Children are young.
Executors: Wife: Innocent Bozorth, William Chenaweth and John Chenaweth.
Witnesses: John Corbley, David Ruble, and Josiah Springer.
Probate Date: 4 Nov. 1760
Children of John Bozorth and Innocent Borden are:
+ 14 i. Joseph *4 Bozarth, born 1740 in Burlington
County, New Jersey; died May 25, 1790 in Nelson County, Virginia or Kentucky.
+ 15 ii. John (Indian) Bozarth, born 1743 in Probably
NJ or Monongalia Co., Va.; died 1832 in Virginia.
16 iii. Louisa Bozarth, born September 04, 1747 in
Greene County, Pennsylvania; died Unknown.
Notes for Louisa Bozarth:
Said to be the first white child born in Monongalia County, Virginia Sept. 4,
1747.
+ 17 iv. Jonathan Bozorth, born December 13, 1754 in
South Ten Mile Creek, Virginia; died September 14, 1830 in Grayson County,
Kentucky.
3. Simon *2 Bozorth (Gean (John) *1 Bossard/Bossart) was born 1690 in
Poss. Alsace/Lorraine, France, and died February 19, 1753 in Evesham,
Burlington County, New Jersey. He married Mary Mason/Marson Abt. 1712,
daughter of John Mason/Marson. She was born Abt. 1694, and died Abt. 1749.
Notes for Simon * Bozorth:
This is from the Bozarth Beacon July 1990
1713 SAMUEL COLES TO SIMON BOZORTH INDENTURE
This legal document is the earliest evidence we have of Simon Bozorth being in
the colonies. Also, the spelling is definitely BOZORTH.
(411) / Coles / to / Bozorth / Deed Book B-B
This Indenture made the fifth Day of the Month Called March / In the Year of
our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirteen BETWEEN / Samuel Coles of the
County of Gloucester in the Province of New Jersey Yeoman of the / One Part.
and Simon Bozorth of the Township of Eversham in the County of Burlington /
and Province afore said. Husbandman of the other part WITNEDETH That the said
/ Samuel Cole for and in Consideration of the sum of Four Pounds Current Money
of the province Aforesd. / To him in hand Paid & Secured by the Simon Bozorth
before the Sealing & Delivery of / these presence the Receipt where of he said
Samuel Cole Dose hereby Acknowledge
From the Bozarth Beacon, July 1987, Simon Bozorth Will of 1749
THIS IS NOT THE COMPLETE WILL
I Simon Borsworth of the Township of Evesham and County of Burlington and
province of Western Jersey Being at this time in health but Considering the
uncertainty of this life and that it is expected for all men once to Dye. I
make and ordain this to be my last will and testament makeing nall and void
all former wills and testaments and this only to be taken for the same
(unreadable) my will is that my just debts be paid by my exector and executors
hereafter named:
Item I give to my son Thomas five shillings
Item I give to my son John five shillings
Item I give to my son Samuel all that part of my farm or plantation
Item I give to my loveing wife the use and income of the remaining part of the
land houses and improvements.
Item I give to My daughter Experience a Being in the house
Item I give to my wife Mary my house hold goods
Item I give to my son Andrew my homested or other part of my ( ) not before
bequeathed
Item I ( ) to my daughter Elizabeth Springer
Item I give to my daughter Mary Longman
Item I give to my daughter Experience
My loveing wife Mary my Executor and my son Andrew my executor of this my last
will and testament in witness
Signed Sealed and Delivered SIMON BOZORTH
Children of Simon Bozorth and Mary Mason/Marson are:
5 i. Thomas3 Bozorth, born Abt. 1713 in Burlington
County, New Jersey; died Unknown.
+ 6 ii. John * (Jersey) Bozorth, born 1714 in
Burlington County, New Jersey; died September 21, 1760 in Nelson County,
Kentucky.
7 iii. Elizabeth Bozorth, born Abt. 1715; died
Unknown. She married John Springer September 24, 1733 in Burlington County,
New Jersey; died Unknown.
8 iv. Mary Bozorth, born 1722 in Burlington County,
New Jersey; died Unknown. She married Richard Langman April 24, 1741 in
Burlington County, New Jersey; died Unknown.
+ 9 v. Samuel Bozorth, born Abt. 1727 in Burlington
County, New Jersey; died Abt. 1804.
10 vi. Bathsheba Bozorth, born Abt. 1728 in
Burlington County, New Jersey; died Unknown. She married Thomas Simons January
08, 1745/46 in Burlington County, New Jersey; died Unknown.
+ 11 vii. Andrew Bozorth, born October 19, 1732 in
Burlington County, New Jersey; died February 10, 1812 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
12 viii. Experience Bozorth, born 1735 in Burlington
County, New Jersey; died Unknown. She married Thomas Connor May 22, 1753 in
Burlington County, New Jersey; died Unknown.
Notes for Experience Bozorth:
FIRST ACCOUNT OF THE 1779 INDIAN ATTACT ON THE BOZARTH FAMILY from the Bozarth
Beacon, Vol 5,No. 3.
In 1847, I.D. RUPP, a respected PA historian published short historeies of
each PA county in a single volume. At the end of six pages devoted to Greene
Co. (established in 1796), RUPP reprinted a letter written in April 1779
(pages 339&340)
The folling occurred within or near Greene county, then Westmoreland:
"Madam:--I have written to Mr.--------, of your city, an account of an affair
betreen a white man and two Indians. I am now about to give you a relation in
whech you you will see how a person of your sex acquitted herself in defence
of her own life and that of her husband and children.
"The lady who is the subject of this story, is named Experience Bozarth. She
lives on a creek called Dunkard creek, in the south-west corner of this
county. About the middle of March last, two or three families, who were afraid
to stay at home, gathered to her house and there stayed---looking on
themselves to be safer than when all scattered about at their own houses.
"On a certain day, some of the children thus collected came running in from
play, in great haste, saying there were ugly red-men. One of the men in the
house stepped to the door, where he recived a ball in the side of the brest,
which caused him to fall back into the house. The Indian was immediately in on
him, and engaged with another man who was in the house. The man tossed the
Indian on a bed, and called for a knife to kill him. (Observe, these were all
the men that were in tne house.) Now Mrs. Bozarth appears the only help, who
not finding a knife at hand, took up a axe that lay by, and with one blow cut
out the brains of the Indian. at that instant, (for all was instantaneous,) a
second Indian entered the door, and shot the man dead who was engaged with the
Indian on the bed. Mrs. Bozarth turned to this second Indian,and with her axe
gave him several large cuts, some which let his entrails appear. He bawled
out, murder, murder. On this, sundry other Indians, (who had hitherto been
fully employed, killing some children out of doors,) came rushing to his
relief; the head of one of these Mrs. Bozarth clave in two with her axe, as he
stuck it in the door, which laid him flat on the ground. Another snatched hold
of the wounded, bellowing fellow, and pulled him out of doors; and Mrs
Bozarth, with the assistance of the man who was first shot in the door and by
this time a little recovered, shut the door after them, and fastened it, where
they kept garrison for several days. "Westmoreland, April 26, 1779
13 ix. Zebulon Bozorth, born Abt. 1748 in Burlington
County, New Jersey; died Aft. 1779.
1. Gean (John) *1 Bossard/Bossart was born Abt. 1660 in Alsace/Lorraine,
France, and died Unknown. He married Margare Mullerin VonWesthoffen. She died
Unknown.
Notes for Gean (John) * Bossard/Bossart:
The (*) indicates my line through the Bozarth's
Ron Engdahl
8837 Douglas Circle
Helena, Mt. 59602
Rwengdahl@aol.com
I'm updating this information all the time as Cousins give me more
information. If you find data that is wrong please let me know.
A lot of the information in my Bozarth history came from the BOZARTH BEACON.
Gale (Rose) Mark, Editor
3743 South "E" Street
Springfield, Or. 97478-6439
Cost is $10.00 for 4 issues
(A very good buy)
The Bozarth Beacon has been coming out for over 12 years. You can buy the back
issues.
John Bossard came to Virginia from London with wife and 3 chilren as refugee
aboard ship (Peter & Catherine) Capt. by David Perreau to colony of Manakin,
Virginia, Sept 20, 1700.
From Register of the Qualified Huguenot Ancestors of the National Huguenot
Society. Fourth Edition 1995.
JEAN BOSSARD
m. 24 March 1691 at Strasburg, France to Margaretha Mullerin Von Westhoffen.
Came to the James River in Virginia as a French Refugee on the ship Peter &
Anthony, 1700 with his wife and three children, Naturalized in Virginia 1705.
Children:
SIMON BOSARD/BOZORTH; b. Strasbourg, France d. w. 25 September 1749,
Burlington, NJ. m. 1712 Mary Marson, In Burlington, NJ.
PETER & ANTHONY
List of passengers from London to James River in Virginia, being French
Refugees imbarqued in the ship ye Peter and Anthony, Galley of London,
Daniel Perreau Commander (viz't) 20th of Sept. 1700 1700:
Monsieur Je Joux, minister
Jean Bossard, sa femme and 3 enfants
Jean Morroe (possibly Moreau?)
Plus many More
This is from "Gayle (Rose) Mark" from the Bozarth Family Genealogy Forum
Hi Suzanne, I would like to be able to answer all of your questions concerning
Jean Bossard/Bozarth, but I can't and I don't know of anyone at this time that
can. In Bozarth Beacon, Volume X, No. 4 I printed an article stating in
part.."The entry in the 1995 edition of the Register of Qualified Huguenot
Ancestors is in error and without documentation." and goes on to say "While
Johann Boussart, burgher of Strasbourg (husband of Margaretha Muller) MAYBE
the Jean Bossard who arrived in VA via England 9 years later this is still
only conjecture on the part of serious researchers. The Date and Birth &
marriage of Simon Bozorth is undocumented as are the names of his parents."
As for Henry Bossard a paper written by Ted W. Bozarth (longtime Bozarth
researcher and Associate Editor for Bozarth Beacon) states Henry Bossard, Sr.
was identified as son of Jean Bossard by The Huguenot Soc. of America. Other
ref. Henry Bozart, Berkeley Co., VA, Henry Busard, Hampshire Co.,PA, Henry
Bossard taxed Berks Co, PA 1780, Rudolph Bossart also taxed same place, Henry
Bossard (c1740-1791) died Westmoreland Co., PA . The name seems to have taken
on many spellings. I also have a FGS for a Phillip Bossard b. ca 1706 Alsace
Germany, d. Hamilton Twp. PA, children: Melchior, Christina, Henry and three
others unnamed.
It's hard to say how Bossard came to be pronounced or spelled Bozorth/Bozarth.
I understand in the Pines of NJ it is pronounced Beaushure. I hope I'm right
on that. Immigrants speaking poor English might have contributed to the
spelling. I would be happy to see anyone else's explanation.
Contact me by e-mail if you would like copies of what I have concerning Henry
Bossard. Gayle, Editor Bozarth Beacon
Children of Gean Bossard/Bossart and Margare VonWesthoffen are:
+ 2 i. Caleb2 Bozarth, died Unknown.
+ 3 ii. Simon * Bozorth, born 1690 in Poss.
Alsace/Lorraine, France; died February 19, 1753 in Evesham, Burlington County,
New Jersey.
Jimmie Burchett Maupin
John Thomas and Ada Griffin Harlan
John Thomas and Ada Griffin Harlan
George Washington Harlan was born on November 11, 1860 On September 29, 1878 when he was 18 years old he married Martha Bowman. She was born in 1863 so she was 14 years old at the time. She had had a daughter, Louisa Jane, by him two weeks before their wedding. They had seven children together. The Harlan family said that George Washington Harlan died young probably around his 40th year. So far I have been able to find no record of his death or his burial place. It is interesting that his son Quintice's gravestone says "son of Martha Harlan" but does not reference his father. Quintice died in 1911. Later Martha Bowman Harlan married Lucian Arnold who was five years younger than she was. At that time Martha had five boys and two girls: Arthur Floyd Louisa Jane John Thomas Mary Belle Quintice Eary It is possible that she had two more girls named Annie and Lillie. In 1903 Martha's daughter, Mary Belle, was 18 years old and her daughter, Louisa, was 25 and married. That year both Martha and Mary Belle had babies by Lucian Arnold. Lucian Arnold was 35 years old at that time and Martha was 39. Flora Belle Arnold, daughter of Mary Belle Harlan was born on April 26, 1903. Luther Arnold, son of Martha Bowman was born on May 1, 1903. During the next 24 years Lucian Arnold had six more children, with Mary Belle Harlan. On May 2, 1938 Lucian Arnold was living separate from Mary Belle. He went to her house and shot and killed her then walked back to his house and killed himself. Lucian was 70 and Mary Bell was 53. Martha was 74 and she died the next year. When Lucian shot Mary Belle in 1938 two brothers (probably John Thomas and Eary) came from Albany with guns to kill Lucian according to Junior Bunch, son of John Bunch. When they found he had already killed himself they stayed overnight with John Bunch and his family. John Bunch's wife was Flora Belle Arnold, oldest child of Lucian Arnold and Mary Belle Harlan. Junior Bunch as eight years old at the time.
George Washington Harlan was born on November 11, 1860 On September 29, 1878 when he was 18 years old he married Martha Bowman. She was born in 1863 so she was 14 years old at the time. She had had a daughter, Louisa Jane, by him two weeks before their wedding. They had seven children together. The Harlan family said that George Washington Harlan died young probably around his 40th year. So far I have been able to find no record of his death or his burial place. It is interesting that his son Quintice's gravestone says "son of Martha Harlan" but does not reference his father. Quintice died in 1911. Later Martha Bowman Harlan married Lucian Arnold who was five years younger than she was. At that time Martha had five boys and two girls: Arthur Floyd Louisa Jane John Thomas Mary Belle Quintice Eary It is possible that she had two more girls named Annie and Lillie. In 1903 Martha's daughter, Mary Belle, was 18 years old and her daughter, Louisa, was 25 and married. That year both Martha and Mary Belle had babies by Lucian Arnold. Lucian Arnold was 35 years old at that time and Martha was 39. Flora Belle Arnold, daughter of Mary Belle Harlan was born on April 26, 1903. Luther Arnold, son of Martha Bowman was born on May 1, 1903. During the next 24 years Lucian Arnold had six more children, with Mary Belle Harlan. On May 2, 1938 Lucian Arnold was living separate from Mary Belle. He went to her house and shot and killed her then walked back to his house and killed himself. Lucian was 70 and Mary Bell was 53. Martha was 74 and she died the next year. When Lucian shot Mary Belle in 1938 two brothers (probably John Thomas and Eary) came from Albany with guns to kill Lucian according to Junior Bunch, son of John Bunch. When they found he had already killed himself they stayed overnight with John Bunch and his family. John Bunch's wife was Flora Belle Arnold, oldest child of Lucian Arnold and Mary Belle Harlan. Junior Bunch as eight years old at the time.
George Washington Harlan was born on November 11, 1860 On September 29, 1878 when he was 18 years old he married Martha Bowman. She was born in 1863 so she was 14 years old at the time. She had had a daughter, Louisa Jane, by him two weeks before their wedding. They had seven children together. The Harlan family said that George Washington Harlan died young probably around his 40th year. So far I have been able to find no record of his death or his burial place. It is interesting that his son Quintice's gravestone says "son of Martha Harlan" but does not reference his father. Quintice died in 1911. Later Martha Bowman Harlan married Lucian Arnold who was five years younger than she was. At that time Martha had five boys and two girls: Arthur Floyd Louisa Jane John Thomas Mary Belle Quintice Eary It is possible that she had two more girls named Annie and Lillie. In 1903 Martha's daughter, Mary Belle, was 18 years old and her daughter, Louisa, was 25 and married. That year both Martha and Mary Belle had babies by Lucian Arnold. Lucian Arnold was 35 years old at that time and Martha was 39. Flora Belle Arnold, daughter of Mary Belle Harlan was born on April 26, 1903. Luther Arnold, son of Martha Bowman was born on May 1, 1903. During the next 24 years Lucian Arnold had six more children, with Mary Belle Harlan. On May 2, 1938 Lucian Arnold was living separate from Mary Belle. He went to her house and shot and killed her then walked back to his house and killed himself. Lucian was 70 and Mary Bell was 53. Martha was 74 and she died the next year. When Lucian shot Mary Belle in 1938 two brothers (probably John Thomas and Eary) came from Albany with guns to kill Lucian according to Junior Bunch, son of John Bunch. When they found he had already killed himself they stayed overnight with John Bunch and his family. John Bunch's wife was Flora Belle Arnold, oldest child of Lucian Arnold and Mary Belle Harlan. Junior Bunch as eight years old at the time.
George Washington Harlan was born on November 11, 1860 On September 29, 1878 when he was 18 years old he married Martha Bowman. She was born in 1863 so she was 14 years old at the time. She had had a daughter, Louisa Jane, by him two weeks before their wedding. They had seven children together. The Harlan family said that George Washington Harlan died young probably around his 40th year. So far I have been able to find no record of his death or his burial place. It is interesting that his son Quintice's gravestone says "son of Martha Harlan" but does not reference his father. Quintice died in 1911. Later Martha Bowman Harlan married Lucian Arnold who was five years younger than she was. At that time Martha had five boys and two girls: Arthur Floyd Louisa Jane John Thomas Mary Belle Quintice Eary It is possible that she had two more girls named Annie and Lillie. In 1903 Martha's daughter, Mary Belle, was 18 years old and her daughter, Louisa, was 25 and married. That year both Martha and Mary Belle had babies by Lucian Arnold. Lucian Arnold was 35 years old at that time and Martha was 39. Flora Belle Arnold, daughter of Mary Belle Harlan was born on April 26, 1903. Luther Arnold, son of Martha Bowman was born on May 1, 1903. During the next 24 years Lucian Arnold had six more children, with Mary Belle Harlan. On May 2, 1938 Lucian Arnold was living separate from Mary Belle. He went to her house and shot and killed her then walked back to his house and killed himself. Lucian was 70 and Mary Bell was 53. Martha was 74 and she died the next year. When Lucian shot Mary Belle in 1938 two brothers (probably John Thomas and Eary) came from Albany with guns to kill Lucian according to Junior Bunch, son of John Bunch. When they found he had already killed himself they stayed overnight with John Bunch and his family. John Bunch's wife was Flora Belle Arnold, oldest child of Lucian Arnold and Mary Belle Harlan. Junior Bunch as eight years old at the time.
Hobart Bray's grave - Big Meadow Church Cemetery Barren Co. KY
James and Louisa Bray gravestone
Quintice Harlan gravestone - Big Meadow Church Cemetery
Martha Bowman Harlan's gravestone Big Meadow Church cemetery
Eary W. Harlan's gravestone - Big Meadow Church cemetery
Mary Belle Harlan's gravestone - Big Meadow Church cemetery
Paul Harlan's gravestone - Big Meadown Church cemetery
Rachel Reece Harlan's gravestone - Big Meadow Church cemetery
Vesta Lee Harlan's gravestone - Big Meadow Church Cemetery
"Alf Bray Killed as Team runs away near Summer Shade Alf Bray, 48 year-old farmer and part time minister of the Summer Shade community, was killed instantly on his farm Monday afternoon, May 13, at 3:00 p.m. when a team ran away throwing him from the wagon as he was hauling water. He suffered a broken neck. The son of the late Jim and Louiza Harlin Bray, both of Monroe County, he was born July 18, 1908 in Barren County. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mahalie Gilley Bray; two sons, Kenneth and Gerald Bray, both at home; four daughters, Mrs. Alma Jane Goode, Summer Shade; Mrs. Wandalane Page, Beaumont; and Brenda Sue and Loretta Gail Bray,, both at home; five brothers, Hobart Bray, Albany; Otha Bray, Glasgow; Walter Bray, Louisville; Bubby Bray, Rt. 3 Glasgow, and Ossie Bray, Rt. 5 Glasgow; a sister, Mrs. Florence Gooden, Randolph. McMurtrey Funeral Home of Summer Shade has charge of arrangements and service will be held Wednesday at 1:30 at the Dripping Springs Church with interment in the Big Meadow Cemetery. Rev. Joe Richey will conduct services. The body will remain at the funeral home until time for services."
"Alf Bray Killed as Team runs away near Summer Shade Alf Bray, 48 year-old farmer and part time minister of the Summer Shade community, was killed instantly on his farm Monday afternoon, May 13, at 3:00 p.m. when a team ran away throwing him from the wagon as he was hauling water. He suffered a broken neck. The son of the late Jim and Louiza Harlin Bray, both of Monroe County, he was born July 18, 1908 in Barren County. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mahalie Gilley Bray; two sons, Kenneth and Gerald Bray, both at home; four daughters, Mrs. Alma Jane Goode, Summer Shade; Mrs. Wandalane Page, Beaumont; and Brenda Sue and Loretta Gail Bray,, both at home; five brothers, Hobart Bray, Albany; Otha Bray, Glasgow; Walter Bray, Louisville; Bubby Bray, Rt. 3 Glasgow, and Ossie Bray, Rt. 5 Glasgow; a sister, Mrs. Florence Gooden, Randolph. McMurtrey Funeral Home of Summer Shade has charge of arrangements and service will be held Wednesday at 1:30 at the Dripping Springs Church with interment in the Big Meadow Cemetery. Rev. Joe Richey will conduct services. The body will remain at the funeral home until time for services."
Plaque at Clinton County Courthouse
Robert Matthew Ewing and his family about 1900
Mollie Bagby Ewing and her family about 1900
1834 letter from Thomas Wood to his brother Abram.
Duane as a teenager.
Duane and Eva - 1966
Duane and Eva - 1966
Duane and Eva after 30 years.
Victoria and Caroline
Victoria and Caroline
Victoria, Caroline, David, Tisha - Prom - 2012
Victoria - High School Graduation - May 19, 2012
Caroline and Victoria
Caroline and Victoria
Caroline, Victoria, David, Tisha - Prom 2012
Colt - May 19, 2012
John Leslie Arnold's gravestone at Big Meadow Church cemetery
L. E. Bristow, Jr. and Wife Debbie
L. E. Bristow, Sr. and wife Rosita
Joann and family
The Bristow Family with roots in South Central Kentucky since the early 19th century was headed through the second quarter of the 20th century by Dr. S.W. Bristow, a widely known and honored country doctor in Clinton, Wayne, and Cumberland Counties. Though always poor, Dr. Bristow saved money all his life and invested it in land. Thomas Hopper, a twenty-one year old fiddle player, married Addie Lyons, a sixteen year old daughter of a strait laced farm family in April of 1901. A year later on April 27, 1902 they began their family which would by 1917 include eight children, with the birth of a girl, Lillie. They lived at Happy Top near Zula in Wayne County, Kentucky. Just down the road lived Doctor Sam Bristow, a well known country doctor in that area, and his wife Ellen and two sons, Roy and Mac. The Hopper family included six girls and two boys. Doctor Bristow had to pass by the Hopper house when he made housecalls and he was often seen riding by on horseback. Sometimes he would return late at night with a glowing coal oil (kerosene) lantern hanging from the horse's saddle. Roy Bristow was ten years older than Lillie Hopper, the oldest of the Hopper children. In February 1918 when Lillie was fifteen years old and Roy was twenty-five they decided to marry. Lillie knew that her father wouldn't let her marry and in Kentucky she would have to have his permission. She arranged with her mother to let her stay overnight Saturday night with her Uncle, Addie's older Brother, Ike Lyons. Ike lived on a farm at the foot of Poplar Mountain about five miles from the Hopper's home. His farm was just across the mountain from Duvall Valley and from there it was not too long a ride by horseback to Tennessee. Lillie rode to her Uncle Ike's place in the afternoon and Roy rode his horse and met her there. They started out riding and rode all night. They got to Byrdstown Tennessee about daylight Sunday morning, February 3rd. They found where a preacher lived and knocked on his door getting him and his wife out of bed and asked him to marry them. He agreed. The preacher's wife had done her washing the night before and since it was winter she hung the laundry from clothlines stretched throughtout the house so that the heat from the stove would dry the laundry during the night. Lillie and Roy were married standing among the laundry. They started housekeeping on a small farm on Pott's Creek that Roy had bought just down the road from his parent's home. They worked hard on the farm and in March 1920 Lillie had her first child, a boy she named Jesse. They seemed unable to make a living farming and word came that there was a railroad strike in Indiana and the railroads were scouting for Kentuckians to come to work on the railroads to break the strike. In about 1922 Roy and Lillie took their young son and moved to Richmond, Indiana. The people there were frugal German and Central European stock unlike the Anglo saxon and French people of Kentucky and Tennessee. They resented the back country hicks moving in from the South and taking their jobs. The general pattern was that the husband would go to the North and find a job and a place to live. Then he would send for or return and get his family. As a result the southerners tended to move into areas where other southerners lived and when Roy found work and a place to live he went for Lillie and Jesse. Roy and Lillie and Jesse moved from house to house all over Richmond and took in other Kentuckians as boarders. Eventually Roy went into contruction work and traveled to Louisville and Chicago while Lillie and Jesse stayed in Richmond. There was a continuous turnover as Lillie's boarders would find a place to live and new arrivals would move in. So Roy worked while Lillie ran a boarding house. When he returned to Kentucky to get his family Roy brought with him Bill Adler, a friend he had met in Indiana. When he moved his family to Indiana, Lillie's two sisters, Zella and Ollie went there too. Eventually Ollie married Bill Adler. Zella married Bill Gorsuch and they lived in Dayton Ohio. In 1928 when she was 26 years old Lillie had her second boy, Larry. The next year Roy was injured in an automobile accident and became unable to work. They were forced to return to the farm in Kentucky just at the beginning of the Great Depression. Doctor Bristow, Roy's father, had a brother, Prentice, who had moved to Texas and was a doctor there. Prentice had begged Sam and Ellen to come visit him for a number of years. In the summer of 1930 they decided to do that and were gone to Texas for a period of time that was probably two weeks or more. During the time that they were gone, Roy died from a bowel obstruction. Dr. Sam returned and blamed himself for not being there. He thought that he could have saved his son if he had not taken the only vacation he ever took. He swore never to leave again. Lillie was left to live on a farm with a ten year old boy as her only help and to care for a two year old child. Dr. Sam told her he would pay Roy's funeral expenses if she would sign a paper agreeing that she would never remarry. She refused to do that and instead sold a twenty acre field off her farm to get money to pay for Roy's funeral. It was over twenty years later before she got enough money ahead to buy back that field. Because she would not agree not to remarry, Dr. Sam refused to furnish any support for Lillie and her two children. When Roy died in 1930, Lillie's younger sister, Mae, moved in with her to help take care of the children. Mae was 17 at the time. In 1933 she married Elbert Beck and they moved to Indiana. Dan Davis was orphaned when his dad was killed in coal mines in Duvall Valley. This was at Christmas when Dan was small. His mother died shortly after. He lived with mean foster parents. He worked for a farmer named Byers in the Guinn Valley of Clinton County Kentucky. He came down with pneumonia and a doctor removed one lung on the kitchen table of the little shack where Dan lived. It took him two years to recover. During his recovery the farmer's daughter cared for him and eventually he married Geneva Byers. They went to Michigan where he hoped to do farm work but he heard there was work in Richmond, Indiana and they moved there and lived next door to Roy and Lillie Bristow in the 1920's. Jesse and Lillie liked Neva. Geneva died from complications after an operation in 1934. Dan, always shy and bashful, was overcome with grief. In 1935 Lillie took her two children back to Richmond and married Dan Davis who had been widowed from his wife Geneva in 1934 and who had a son, Don. Don was almost the same age as Larry. Jesse began high school in Richmond but after he had gone two years World War II started and he was drafted into the Army in 1941. He married in 1942 just before being sent overseas where he was gone for almost three years. Larry completed high school and joined the Navy after the war. He stayed in the Navy until he retired in Florida years later. In 1947 Dan and Lillie bought a house at 421 South 9th Street in Richmond. Dan worked for the Richmond Gas Company and in 1962 Dan committed suicide due to poor health. Lillie worked at that time and until she retired as a clerk in two or three department stores on Main Street in Richmond. In 1943 Doctor Sam Bristow bought several adjoining tracts of land in the Cowan community in the Guinn valley of Clinton County from Leo Sewell and Lloyd (Poore or Parragin). In 1946 Dr. Bristow sold most of this farm in the Parmley Hollow to his two grandsons, Jesse W. and Larry E. Bristow. Jesse had returned from the war and he and his wife, Nora, were doing factory work in Richmond. Dr. Sam asked Jesse to return to Kentucky to be available to help take care of him and Ellen as they aged. In the Fall of 1949 Jesse Bristow built a house on the farm and moved in that winter. For the next 15 years until he was unable to work due to poor health Jesse and his wife worked to improve the farm and raise their two children. Jesse died due to lung cancer in 1975 and his son, Duane, and his family visited and cared for Lillie until her death from leukemia in 1988 at age 86.
Effie Harlan Dorsey Birth: Mar. 15, 1917 Death: Jan. 13, 2007 Effie Dorsey, 89 of Glasgow died Saturday January 13, 2007 at the Barren County Health Care Center in Glasgow. Born in Barren County the daughter of the late E.W. Harlan and the late Rachel (Reece) Harlan. Mrs. Dorsey was married to the late Edwin M. Dorsey, a homemaker and a member of the South Fork Baptist Church. Survivors include a son Royce Dorsey (Patsy) of Glasgow; 6 grandchildren; 10 great grandchildren and 6 great great grandchildren. In addition to her parents and husband she was preceded in death by a daughter Doris Pamplin and a brother Clifton Harlan. Funeral services were 11:00am Tuesday January 16, 2007 at the A.F. Crow & Son Funeral Home with burial in the Glasgow Municipal Cemetery. Edwin M Dorsey died at age 66 and was survived by his wife, son and daughter. He is also buried in the Glasgow Municipal Cemetery.
Gayle Dalton Lexington Herald-Leader (KY) - December 4, 1988 CAMPBELLSVILLE -- Gayle Dalton, 42, wife of Steve Dalton, died Friday at her home after an illness. Services 11 a.m. Monday at Campbellsville Christian Church. Visitation after 4 p.m. today at Parrott & Ramsey Funeral Home. Burial at 1 p.m. CST at Elk Springs Cemetery, Monticello. Burial: Elk Spring Cemetery Monticello (Wayne County) Wayne County Kentucky, USA Gayle Dalton, 42, Wellington Park, Campbellsville, daughter of the late Charles Calloway Thompson and Nannie Lee Littrell Thompson, was born in Bell County, Nov. 23, 1946. She died at 9:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 2, 1988, at her home after an illness. She was a member of the Campbellsville Christian Church. She united in marriage to Steve Dalton on May 31, 1969. Besides her husband, she is survived by one son, Sam Dalton, Campbellsville; four sisters and four brothers, Ann Partin, Chenoa, Ky., Pat Jackson, Crittenden, Ky., Lois Lawson, Wise, Va., Sue Goodin, Charles Thompson, and Johnny Thompson, all of Ingram, Ky., Ernest Thompson, Charleston, S.C., and Bill Thompson, Copperas Cove, Texas; several nieces and nephews and many other relatives and friends. The funeral was at 11 a.m., Monday, Dec. 5, at the Campbellsville Christian Church in Campbellsville by Bro. Paul Patton. The graveside service followed at 1 p.m. CST at Elk Springs Cemetery in Monticello, Ky. by Bro. Paul Bohrer. Pallbearers were Russell Montgomery, Mark Matuszewski, Bobby Cofer, Chuck Headley, Leroy Bratcher and Jim Miller
Ella Mae Beck Birth: Jun. 24, 1913 Monticello (Wayne County) Wayne County Kentucky, USA Death: Sep. 21, 2008 Straughn Henry County Indiana, USA Ella Mae Beck, 95, passed away Sunday morning September 21, 2008 at A Home Nursing Home in rural Straughn, Indiana. A daughter of the late Thomas and Addie Lyons Hopper, Mae was born in Monticello, Kentucky on June 24, 1913. She has made her home in Straughn since 1950. She worked for Huntington Industries in New Castle where they manufactured ladies clothing. She retired from there in 1980 after 43 years of service. Mae had been a member of the Straughn Community Chapel for over 50 years and was a member and past Worthy Matron of the Lewisville Order of the Eastern Star #463 a member of the White Shrine of Jerusalem #14 of New Castle and received the Miriam Award in 1984. She is survived by several nieces and nephews. Mae was preceded in death by her husband Elbert H. Beck on May 11, 1980. They were married in Columbia, Kentucky on May 20, 1933; 2 brothers and 5 sisters. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m, on Thursday September 25, 2008 at the Marshall & Erlewein Funeral Home in Lewisville. Burial will follow at the Lewisville Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 - 7 p.m. with Eastern Star Services to be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday September 24 at the funeral home. ********************************* BECK, ELLA MAE DOB: 24 Jun 1913 DOD: 21 Sep 2008 Age: 95 Last address of record: 47387 (Straughn, Henry, IN) Family links: Parents: Thomas Hopper (1878 - 1923) Addie Lyons Hopper (1885 - 1974) Spouse: Elbert H. Beck (1901 - 1980) Burial: Lewisville Cemetery Lewisville (Henry County) Henry County Indiana, USA
Mae and Elbert's gravestone at Lewisville Cemetery
Luke Gilliam Lafever Birth: Mar. 4, 1885 Tennessee, USA Death: May 19, 1980 Sparta White County Tennessee, USA Funeral services for Luke Gilliam Lafever, 95, of Route 2, Baxter, were conducted Wednesday, May 21, at the chapel of Dyer Funeral Home with the Rev. John Lombard and the Rev. Frank Davis officiating. Burial was in Boiling Springs Cemetery. Mr. Lafever died May 19 at Cookeville General Hospital. A native of Putnam County, he was the son of the late Asher and Canzada Elrod Lafever. Survivors include three sons, Kenneth Lafever of Richmond, Ind., Beecher Lafever and Hershel Lafever, both of Baxter; seven daughters, Mrs. Ada Dilldine of Pontiac, Mich., Mrs. Myrtle Love of Woodbury, Tenn., Mrs. Nora Bristow of Albany, Ky., Mrs. Dora Sweet of Indianapolis, Ind., Mrs. Betty McDonald of Cookeville, Mrs. Lorene Allison and Mrs. Treva Goodwin, both of Sparta; 25 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; and one great-great- grandchild. Dyer Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Family links: Parents: Asher Lafever (1850 - 1935) Canzada Elrod Lafever (1854 - 1939) Spouse: America Alice Goff Lafever (1891 - 1963) Children: Charlie C Lafever (1910 - 1978)* Hershel Lafever (1912 - 1994)* Nora L Lafever Bristow (1922 - 1994)* Betty Cass Lafever McDonald (1933 - 1994)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Boiling Springs Cemetery Baxter Putnam County Tennessee, USA
America Alice Goff Lafever Birth: Jul. 17, 1891 DeKalb County Tennessee, USA Death: Mar. 15, 1963 Putnam County Tennessee, USA Mrs. America Alice Lafever, 71, died March 15 at Cookeville General Hospital following a brief illness. Funeral services were Sunday at the Boiling Springs Baptist Church with Rev Willie Huddleston officiating. Burial was in the Boiling Springs cemetery. Mrs. Lafever was born in DeKalb County, daughter of James and Betty Bozarth Goff. She was a resident of Baxter Rt 2 and a member of the Church of God. Survivors are her husband, Gillian Lafever; sons Charlie & Hershel both of Baxter; Beecher, Ringgold, Ga.; Kenneth, Richmond, Ind.; seven daughters: Mrs. Myrtle Lowe, Woodbury; Mrs. Ada Dilldine, Pontiac, Mi.; Mrs. Dora Sweet, Indianapolis, In.; Mrs. Nora Bristow, Albany, Ky; Mrs. Lorene Allison, Mrs. Irena Goodwin, both of Sparta; Mrs. Betty Cass, Baxter; 4 brothers: Charlie, Baxter; Jimmie, Fairport, NY; Lanis, Baxter; Delbert, Pontiac, Mi; sisters: Mrs. Betty Ann Morris, Mrs. Nancy Pullum, Mrs. Ida Dilldine, Mrs. Ada Jones, all of Baxter; Mrs. Gertrude Pullum, Sparta. Whitson Funeral Home in charge. Family links: Parents: James Madison Goff (1854 - 1938) Mary Elizabeth Bozarth Goff (1871 - 1956) Spouse: Luke Gillian Lafever (1885 - 1980)* Children: Charlie C Lafever (1910 - 1978)* Hershel Lafever (1912 - 1994)* Nora L Lafever Bristow (1922 - 1994)* Betty Cass Lafever McDonald (1933 - 1994)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Boiling Springs Cemetery Baxter Putnam County Tennessee, USA
James Charlie Lyons Birth: Jan. 18, 1913 Death: Jan. 16, 1998 JAMES CHARLIE LYONS, age 84, of Franklin, Indiana passed away Friday, January 16, 1998 at Extenda Care in Franklin, Indiana. He was born in Cooper, Kentucky on January 18, 1913, the son of Willie and Myrtie Manning Lyons. Both parents preceded him in death. On June 29, 1937 he married Ina Copenhaver, who preceded him in death. He is survived by three brothers-Grady Lyons of Richmond, Indiana, Gene Lyons of Muncie, Indiana, and William Lyons of Monticello, Kentucky. Preceding him in death are two brothers Robert and Kenneth Lyons. He was employed by Auco Industries in Richmond, Indiana. Funeral services were held Monday, January 19, 1998 at 10 A.M. in the funeral home chapel with Brother Dough Thacker officiating. Burial was in Elk Spring Cemetery. Marvin S. Hicks Funeral Home in charge of arrangements Family links: Parents: William Henry Harrison Lyons (1888 - 1975) Mertie Manning Lyons (1887 - 1970) Spouse: Ina G. Copenhaver Lyons (1914 - 1996)* Burial: Elk Spring Cemetery Monticello (Wayne County) Wayne County Kentucky, USA
Steve fishing in NC 2011
Steve fishing in NC 2007
The following research is accredited to Mike Terry from an article from the "1984 Terry Family Historian", which was published by Mike Terry. It was submitted by Hope Davis for publication to Sherri Schäefer Bagby in January, 2000. See full article under JAMES LAWRENCE TERRY. OUR FAMILY RECORD: RECORD OF JAMES LAWRENCE TERRY - SON OF JAMES TERRY, SON OF STEPHEN TERRY. My Grandfather Terry's name was Stephen. He was born in Louisa County, Virginia, about the year of 1758, and enlisted as a soldier in the Revolution when about seventeen years old. Was shot through the body at the battle of Brandywine, August 11th, 1777, when about eighteen years old. He lived however, until he was about sixty years old. He died August 1820. I can just remember seeing him. He acquired considerable property, and was considered a well-to-do farmer. He was a very fine looking old gentleman. He moved from Virginia to Kentucky in 1809, or 10, and settled in Todd County, about three miles northwest from Nashville. Here he lived until his death. He married a lady by the name of MILDRED BAGBY, about the year of 1781 or 82. Of her family I know but little, only that she told me that all of her brothers but one were in the Revolutionary War. Her youngest brother, JOHN BAGBY moved to Barren County, Kentucky. I was at his house at various times during the years 1836 and 37, first in 1831. He was a fine looking old man. Had a large farm and a good many slaves. The family were originally from England, and settled in the colony of Virginia, but at what period I do not know. NOTE: The death dates of Stephen Terry in this article do not coincide with the death date given under Stephen Terry. The death date given to Stephen Terry of January 18, 1820, is taken from family Bible records. The above date seems to be from recollection of memory. More About STEPHEN TERRY, SR.: Resided at "Noel House"1782-1788 Louisa County, Virginia, "Noel House" listed in Louisa County Historical Homes Book. Children of MILDRED BAGBY and STEPHEN TERRY are: 1. JAMES S. TERRY, b. about 1784, Louisa County, Virignia; d. about 1819, Natchez District, Mississippi. 2. WILLIAM MORRIS TERRY, b. March 31, 1786, Louisa County, Virignia; d. January 06, 1859, Todd County, Kentucky. 3. STEPHEN TERRY, JR., b. about 1788, Louisa County, Virignia; d. Unknown. 4. NATHANIEL TERRY, b. about 1790, Louisa County, Virignia; d. Unknown; m. ARRENCE WARNER, June 30, 1818; b. before 1800; d. Unknown. 5. MARTHA ANN TERRY, b. about 1793, Louisa County, Virignia; d. Unknown. 6. SARAH A. TERRY, b. about 1795, Louisa County, Virginia; d. Unknown; m. DANIEL DUVALL, June 17, 1813; b. before1795; d. Unknown. 7. AMANDA MALVINA TERRY, b. about 1800, Louisa County, Virginia; d. about 1844, Todd County, Kentucky; m. JOHN P. HILL, JR., February 09, 1826; b. February 1806; d. about 1874, Christian County, Kentucky. 8. ELIZABETH ANN TERRY, b. about 1800, Louisa County, Virginia; d. Unknown. 9. MILDRED TERRY, b. after 1800; d. Unknown; m. WILLIAM WALTER BOWLING, January 11, 1827; b. Unknown; d. Unknown. She married Stephen Terry on 14 Dec 1782 in Todd co Ky, son of James Terry and Henrietta.
Nora Lafever and her twin sister, Dora, had six older brothers and sisters and four who where younger than them. It was difficult living on a Tennessee farm in the middle of the great depression. Nora's older brothers, Charlie and Herschel, had gone to Indiana to find work and ended up as farm hands for a farmer named Weaver. When Mr. Weaver needed a housekeeper they suggested their younger sister, Nora, and sent for her to come to Indiana. This was 1937 and Nora was fifteen years old. By the time she was twenty she had worked as a housekeeper for the Weavers and a nannie for Madge Reid, a school teacher in Richmond who had two children, and then worked at Perfect Circle making piston rings. By then her older sisters, Myrtle and Ada, were married and Ada and her husband, Amon, were living in Michigan and Myrtle and her husband, Hose, lived on a farm in southern Tennessee. Her sisters, Dora and Lorene, had also come North looking for work. Lorene stayed with Nora for a while and worked with her at Perfect Circle. Then Lorene moved on to Michigan and probably stayed with Ada and worked there. Eventually she married and moved back to Tennessee to live on a farm with her husband, Claborn, and work in a garment factory. In 1942 both Nora and Dora married. In 1943 Ada had returned from Michigan to her and Amon's small farm in Tennessee and Nora's new husband, Jesse, had been sent overseas in the Army to fight in the Pacific theatre. Ada was pregnant with her second daughter so Nora stayed with her for a while on the farm to help out. By 1944 Ada had her baby and Amon returned to Tennessee to live for a while on the farm. Nora returned to Richmond, Indiana and worked at Belden making wire and when Jesse's unit was returned to the states temporarily to an army base in Spokane Washington, she and another army wife drove a 1939 Buick she had purchased from Indiana to Washington where they stayed for a week or two with their husbands. In early 1945 the war was over and Jesse returned to Richmond to work at Belden with Nora. In 1947 Nora had her first child, a son she named Roy Duane. Later that year her brother, Kenneth, returned from his Army duty in the occupation of Germany and came to Richmond looking for factory work. He stayed with Jesse and Nora and the new baby at first but soon bought an apartment house and moved into the attic of it so he could rent out all four apartments. In 1949 Jesse's grandfather, Dr. Samuel W. Bristow, sold Jesse a farm near Albany in southern Kentucky and asked him to move there to help take care of him and his wife, Jesse's grandmother, Ellen, as they aged. So Jesse and Nora, who was again pregnant, and their son moved to Albany and stayed with the doctor and his wife while they built a house on the farm where they could live. In January 1950 they had moved into the house on the farm and Nora gave birth there to a daughter, Karen. During or after the birth she had a seizure and she continued having occasional seizures for the next thirty years. Eventually she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. By the early 1970s she was unable to walk and had to use a wheel chair for the rest of her life. She worked hard with Jesse on the farm as long as she could. In 1975 Jesse died from lung cancer and Karen, who had been teaching school in eastern Kentucky, returned to the farm to care for her mother. In 1979 Duane who was a forester returned to the farm and built a house there and Karen married and left. By the late 1980s, Nora had to go to a nursing home and eventually due to diabetes, both legs were amputated. She died in a nursing home near Cookeville, Tennessee in 1994.
S. W. Bristow's Family
By Duane Bristow, his great-grandson
Dr. Samuel W. Bristow practiced medicine in Clinton and Wayne counties of
Kentucky during the first half of the twentieth century. Dr. Sam, as he was
called, worked in an area with no hospitals or clinics, no nursing homes, and
no pharmacies. Much of the time he worked in his patient's homes. He learned
to practice medicine without X- Rays or medical labs. During his career he
delivered over 2,000 babies including one set of triplets. According to my
father who was born in 1920 and was a teenager during the Great Depression,
Grandpa lived at Zula in Wayne County until the mid 1930s when he moved to
Albany in Clinton County. He rode a gray horse to make house calls and had a
kerosene lantern which he hung on the saddle horn because he often had to go
on house calls late at night. After he moved to Albany he got an old black
model T Ford and learned to drive that, although Dad said he never looked at
the road when driving, but wanted to look at the farms and countryside along
the way. He probably got in that habit riding the old horse. My grandmother,
his daughter-in-law, tells me that he would often pass her father's house in
the early 1900s asleep on his horse after staying up nights with a patient.
The horse knew the way home so Dr.Sam didn't have to pay attention to driving.
According to my dad, in the wintertime, Grandma Ellen, Dr. Sam's wife, would
sometimes have to come out of the house with a hammer to break Dr. Sam's boots
loose from the stirrups where they had frozen after he had crossed a stream on
his return home. (I have the old kerosene lantern he carried on his horse. It
still works but gives very little light.)
And I remember Dr. S.W. Bristow, the surviving twin born to Jesse Leven and
Lois Bristow in the Fall of 1873 in Beech Bottom in Clinton County where he
grew up. He had a brother, Prentice, four years younger than himself and a
sister, Gertie, eight years younger. In the winter of his eighteenth year,
against his parents' wishes, Sam married Mary Ellen Bruton from Cumberland
County. Because of disagreement over his marriage his parents refused to help
Sam in his desire to attend medical school at the University of Tennessee.
With the loyal support of his wife he got a job in a stave mill and worked his
way through medical school graduating in 1901 at age 28. During this time Dr.
Sam, as he came to be called, had two sons born in the first and third years
of his marriage. Until they were 60 or 70 years old Sam and Ellen Bristow
lived in constant poverty and often fear of starvation and left a legacy of
frugality which was to influence their descendents for at least three
generations.
Although one of the first in his area to have electricity, a
telephone, and, during the second world war, a car, Dr. Sam died in 1954 in
his home in Albany, Kentucky never having had a bathroom. He taught school for
a while and set himself up in medical practice in Hegira in Cumberland County,
Kentucky. Later he moved his practice to Gap Creek, Zula, and Powersburg in
Wayne County and around 1935 to a house on Washington Street in Albany,
Kentucky. His mother died in 1905 and Dr. Sam did not get along with his step
mother. His two sons married in 1917 and 1918 and by 1928 each had two
children. His father died in 1924 when Dr. Sam was 51.
In 1930 Dr. Sam's younger brother who was a doctor in Texas wrote inviting Sam
and Ellen to let the boys take care of things while they visited him in Texas.
They took him up on the offer and went to Texas returning in time for the
funeral of their eldest son who had died of a bowel obstruction at the age of
38. Although, he often was paid for medical services in produce and livestock,
charging $4.00 for a house visit and $10.00 for delivering a baby, Dr. Sam was
able to get enough money ahead by the second world war to acquire several
tracts of land in Clinton and Wayne Counties.
On October 10, 1953 Clinton, Wayne, and Cumberland Counties honored Dr. Sam by
proclaiming Dr. Bristow Day with a day long program on the courthouse square
in Albany. A large crowd attended including several hundred of over 2000
babies Dr. Bristow had delivered.
In May 1954 Dr. Bristow died quietly in his sleep leaving his wife, one son,
seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Four years later Ellen died
of cancer and his farm on Washington Street was named the Bristow subdivision
with Bristow Street bisecting it. He and Ellen were buried at Gap Creek
cemetery in Wayne County Kentucky.
I have his ledger from the fall of 1933 through the spring of 1934. It is an
old dry and brittle accounting journal about 4 X 7 inches. It is handwritten
in pencil. Although mostly clear and legible, it is difficult to read in some
places. For any who are interested I reproduce parts of that journal here.
There are also some entries from his journal of 1949.
Of particular interest to some will be such items as the charge for delivering
a baby, which usually involved a house call and sometimes staying overnight
with the family. He charged $10.00 for that in the 1930s. The charge for
setting a broken arm was $2.00. The charge for pulling a tooth was 50 cents.
Note: I may have some of the names spelled wrong due to difficulty in reading
the journal. Also it is sometimes difficult to tell if an entry was charged or
was paid because in the beginning of the book, grandpa put charges in one
column and payments in another but later he began putting everything in the
same column and making a checkmark when the patient later paid the charge. The
reader should also recognize that grandpa not only ran a physician's business
but also a farm and sometimes took payment in days work on the farm or in farm
produce.
September 1933
Note: - at this time he was at Zula in Wayne County KY
Sept. 1
Charley Dalton - med - charged - 10 cts.
Hardy Cross - pd. by cash - 1.00
Wyet Alkins - pd. by cash - 1.00
Gear Daniel - charged - 3.50 on Aug. 31 & 3.50 on Sept. 1
Lewis Patton - med - pd. - 10 cts.
Mrs. Patton - med by Lewis - pd. - 25 cts.
Sept. 2
Hardy Cross - med - charged - 60 cts.
Mrs. Patton - med - charged - 15 cts.
W. H. Massengale - order self - charged - 1.50
Brown Bass - charged - 1.50
Lute Troxel - charged - .75
Sept. 4
Lute Troxel - charged - 10 cts.
Joe Hart - charged - 4.00
Ret Clark - pd by cash - 5.00
Tina Bates - Pd. - 10.00
Sept. 5
Phillip Dalton - med by Walter H. - 10 cts.
Harrison Lee - med - 50 cts.
Sept. 6
Let Dabney - paid - 3.00 - med - 25 cts.
Sept. 7
Bill Atkinson - 25 cts.
Joe Hart - med - 60 cts.
Sept. 8
Let Dabney - 1.50 - med - 60 cts.
Parker Marcum - 3.50
W. H. Massengale - pd. Brown Bass - 2.25
Sept. 9
Walter Denney - med - 50 cts.
Arthur Perdue - 1.10 - cash
Gerte - .75
Sept. 10
Letie Dabney - med & visit - 1.40
George Bridgeman - med - 10 cts.
Sept. 11
Letie Dabney - med - 15 cts.
Sherman Marcum - med for Mamie - 15 cts.
Brown Bass - med - 20 cts.
A. A. York - med by Willy - 60 cts.
Let Dabney - paid - 1.50
Sept. 13
Let Dabney - visit & med - 1.65
Sept. 14
Sherman Powers - med - 55 cts.
John Hurt - med - 1.40
Tom Burris - med - 15 cts.
Marvin Hicks - med - 10 cts.
Let Dabney - med - 25 cts.
Marvin Hicks - paid by 1 day's work - 75 cts.
Sept. 15
W. H. Massengale - paid by 1/3 day's work - 25 cts.
Marvin Hicks - paid by 1 day's work - 75 cts.
Sept. 16
Roe Marcum - med - 50 cts.
Herb Perdue - med for wife - 75 cts.
Let Dabney - med - 60 cts.
W. H. Massengale - paid by 1 day's work - 75 cts.
W. H. Massengale - paid by cash - 1.00
Sept. 17
Joe Hart - extract teeth - wife - 50 cts.
Sheard Pierce - med - 1.00
Rob Massengale - med - 75 cts.
Lute Troxell - med - 25 cts.
W. H. Massengale - med - Mamie - 25 cts.
Sept. 18
John Throshed - med - paid - 1.00
Johnnie Morgan - med - 60 cts.
Tom Massengale - pd. by cash - 4.00
Sept. 19
Boss Hicks - pd. by cash - 4.00
Lorane Perdue - med - 55 cts.
Let Dabney - pd. by cash - 1.50
Sept. 20
Othey King - med - 65 cts.
Let Dabney - visit - 1.50
med by Walter - 45 cts.
Jess Chaffin - O.B. Girl - Bal. - 8.00
Sept. 21
Tina Massengale - pd. by cash - 4.00
Sept. 23
Johnnie Burris - med - 10 cts.
Conn Rains - med - 10 cts.
Tom Massengale - 4.00
Sept. 24
Jack Massengale - med - 15 cts.
Dewey Carr - med - 10 cts.
Geo. A. Massengale - O. B. Girl - 10.00
Grdy Guffey - 20 cts.
T---- Guffey - 15 cts.
Andy Guffey - 30 cts.
Sept. 25
Jack Massengale - 25 cts.
Stank Shelton - O. B. Girl - 10.00
Tom Massengale - visit - 4.00
Sept. 26
Tom Massengale - med - 25 cts.
Sept. 27
Luther Troxwell - med - 15 cts.
Sept. 28
Sheard Pierce - med - 10 cts.
Tom Massengale - pd. by cash - 4.00
Purit - c. v. - 2.00
Reneau Dalton - med - 30 cts.
Sept. 29
Willie Denney - O. B. Boy - 10.00
Jarvis C. Perdue - med - 75 cts.
Mrs. Webb - paid - 1.50
Sept. 30
George Bridgeman - med - 25 cts.
H. C. Davis - cash - 1.00 - .05
W. M. Bertram - see wife - 6.00
January 1949
Note: - at this time he was in Albany, KY
Jan. 1
Bass Brown - 4.00
Tildy Shelton - med - 1.25
Jan. 2
Bass Brown - 4.00
Jan. 3
Lute Daniel - 4.00
Jan. 5
Bruce Bowlin - O. B. - 20.00
cr. work ????? - 8.00
team - 4.00
work toilet - 3.00
Jan. 7
Bass Brown - 4.00
Jan. 10
Lute Daniel - cash - 5.00
Howard Babs - chk. - 6.85
Charley J. Brown - med - 2.50
John L. Means - Albany - vis see girl - 3.00
Jan. 13
Bass Brown - med - 1.00
Charley Brown - office - 2.00
Jan. 19
Preacher Witham - nite - 4.00 pd.
Jan. 20
Preacher Witham - 3.00 pd.
Jan. 21
Jones Benet - med - 1.00
Levi Harmon - med - 1.00
Jan. 24
Roy Brown - med baby - 1.50
Jan. 26
Marshel Flowers - med - 1.00 - Frogue, Ky.
Add York - pd. - 7.00
Jan. 27
Add York - pd. - 7.00
Jan. 28
Add York - 7.00
Jan. 29
Brad Perdue - by cash - 2.00
MARSICO, Francis P. age 80, of Huber Heights, passed away Wednesday July 28, 2010 at his residence. Frank was born on September 12, 1929 in Dayton to the late Pasqual and Mary (Longo) Marsico. He was preceded in death by his brother, Leonard Marsico. Frank is survived by his wife, Evelyn (Gorsuch) Marsico; son, Francis W. Marsico (Karen) of Huber Heights; daughter, Mary Christman of CO.; granddaughters, Lindsay Marsico Johnson (Ben), Amiee Marsico, and Catherine Marsico; great grandson, Noah Johnson; brother, John Marsico; special friends, Fred Lounsberry, Bill Lubera & Doug Callahan; his loyal companions, Fritz and Gigi and many friends. Frank was the owner of Marsico's Grocery Store. He graduated from the University of Dayton in 1952, was a Flyer Faithful, member of the UD Presidents Club and avid school supporter. He was a founding and dedicated parishioner at St. Peter Catholic Church in Huber Heights & a member of the Knights of Columbus. He served in the 17th "Buffalo" Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army during the Korean War, was a member of VFW Post 3283, American Legion Post #200 and a member of OA. He was proud of his service to the country and his Italian heritage. He viewed each day as a "gift" from God and will be greatly missed by all. Mass of Christian burial 10:00 AM Monday, August 2, 2010 at St. Peter Catholic Church, 6161 Chambersburg Road, Huber Heights with Father Earl Simone celebrant. Family will receive friends at the Marker & Heller Funeral Home, Huber Heights Chapel, 5844 Old Troy Pike on Sunday from 2-5 PM. If desired memorial contributions may be made to St. Vincent Hotel, 1133 Edwin C. Moses Blvd. Suite 300, Dayton, OH 45408 in Francis's memory. Francis W Marsico Jr 8901 Swinging Gate Dr Dayton, OH 45424-1104 born ca 1953 MaMar1929St. P Relatives: Francis Paul Marsico, Evelyn Mae Marsico, Karen Sue Marsico, Lindsay Noelle Marsico, Amiee Frances Marsico, John A Marsico, Catherine A Marsico, Leonard J Marsico
Will of Mary Bristow I, Mary Bristow of the County of Middlesex, being in perfect sence and memory, do make this my last Will and Testament in manner following: First, that all my debts be paid. Item. I give unto my daughter Mary Ammon two Negro girls named Emmy and Leyy, to her and her heirs forever. Item. I give unto my grandson William Daniell my best bed and furniture belonging to it. Item. I give unto my son Jedediah Bristow all the rest of my estate both real and personal to him and his heirs forever. And I do constitute and appoint him the said Jedediah Bristow Executor of this my last Will. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Second day of April 1741. Mary Bristow Signed, sealed, and published and declared to be my last Will in the presence of .....James Campbell, John Price, Mary Carter. At a Court held for Middlesex County on Tuesday the 6th day of Nov. 1744 this will was proved by the oath of James Campbell one of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be Recorded and the within named Jedediah Bristow having taken the oath of Exor., Certificate is granted him for obtaining a probate in due time. Tho. Price, C.M.C. Note: Data on the family of Mary Goodloe Carter Bristow and John Bristow has been provided in 1978 by: Mrs. Pattie M. Norris, Indianola Ms Miss Mildred Toaz, Kiowa Ok Mrs. Nan R. Routson, Wooster Oh Mr. Andrew M. Bristow, Bel Air Md
David Harlan and Dorleen Cross - 1927
David Harlan and Dorleen Cross - 1927
Sophia and Annie and Dorleen and David - 1927
Sofia and Annie and Dorleen and David - 1927
Mary and Wellie
John Thomas and Arthur Harlan's families - 1934
John Thomas and Arthur Harlan's families - 1934
Funeral of Robert Ewing - 1938
Wellie and Mary Booher at God's Bible School, Cincinnati, OH
Wellie and Mary Booher at God's Bible School - Cincinnati, OH
Maggie Ewing and family - 1930
1950 - 17 years old
Mary Booher and friend?
Vangie and Vorees about 1937
Vangie and Vorees about 1937
Vorees
Johnnie Lyons Family & others - 1917
Luther Arnold and his wife, great nephews and families - 1960
Luther Arnold - 1960
Jeremiah B. Bruton and his wife, Ellender Brown
Jack and Margaret Farley's gravestone
Kenneth F. Neighbours
The Expedition of Major Robert S. Neighbors to El Paso - 1849
Vangie Booher - 1951 - 18 years old.
John Ewing and family
Margaret Ewing
Morris Ewing
Morris Ewing
Inez Ewing
Maggie Ewing
Robert Matthew Ewing
Velma Ruth
Arthur Harlan and family - 1949
Annie Harlan's family - 1949
Luther and Christine Arnold's gravestone at Randolph Cemetery
Maxie and Delsie Arnold's gravestone at Randolph Cemetery
Lucian Arnold's gravestone at Randolph Cemetery
Junior Bunch with his cousin Eva Harlan Bristow - Aug. 21, 2012
John Bunch Jr. with his wife Bessie - August 21, 2012
Bessie and her Husband at their home - Aug. 21, 2012
John Thomas Harlan
Ada Griffin Harlan
Robert Matthew Ewing
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1940 Census Nettle Creek, Randolph, Indiana Household Members Age Head Herschel Lafever 27 Wife Martha Lafever 36 Sister Dora Lafever 18 Son Mickal Lafever 1/12 Daughter Marjorie Lafever 1/12
Tim Bristow's wedding to Page Simpson - 1970
Page Simpson's wedding to Tim Bristow - 1970
Prentice & Mary Kathryn - 1987
Mary Kathryn and Prentice - 1987
George Long & Family - 1963
George Long & Family - 1965
George Long & family - 1963
Larry and Rosita
Larry and his brother Jesse
Larry and Rosita
Shirley
Larry Jr.
Larry Jr.
Lillie
Eva - 1965
A letter from Prentice to his brother, Samuel William, in Kentucky.
P.M. BRISTOW, M.D.
STANTON, TEXAS
MAY 18, 1930
Dear Brother and Family;
No doubt you will be surprised to get a letter from me but I
am coming with one anyway.
I am back at the office after a rather hard pull, and am
making a living.
We had planned to see you again this summer; but owing to
the misfortune of having to be operated on, and it has left me
in such a condition that I will not be able to stand the trip,
we have been forced to give up the idea.
I think under these conditions that you should come to Texas
this summer and see what there is out here. The roads are fine
and a camping trip will be really beneficial to you both, so why
not take a few weeks off and rest and recuperate and you will go
home feeling that you are far better off by having had a real
vacation. You can let the boys look after things for you.
You must remember that you only live once, and when you die
you will leave it all here as none of it will go with you.
It will be several weeks before my wound heals, and it has
to be dressed daily. so I am compelled to stay around home.
Hoping to hear from you soon I am as ever your same old Bud.
Prentice
P.S.
I am sending you some letters you might be interested in.
Office of
J. E. BRISTOW
OIL AND MINING OPERATOR
305 S. Bishop
San Angelo, Texas
April 17, 1930
Mr. P. M. Bristow
Stanton, Texas
Dear Sir:
In reply to your letter, I will say that I feel like I am
kin to all the world. Since seeing the fuss that was put up
about my kidnapping in Mexico, I ahve a kindly feeling for
everyone. I am happy to be loose, happy to receive your letter.
I haven't the slightest douby that we are related. My father
was Jackson Bristow who was born in Clinton County, Kentucky. I
was born on the line between Kentucky and Tennessee in the
foothills of the Cumberland Mountains. My father's father was
Frank Bristow who was the son of Eleven Bristow. Eleven Bristow
was born in Virginia, migrated to Kentucky in early days. We
are of English descent, related to Joseph H. Bristow who was
former Senator from Kansas and who has the history of the family
tree as far back as the 16th century, but, I only know that we
are descendents from an early English settlement in Virginia,
then to Kentucky. My father came to the Indian Territory in
1884 and I was raised among the Indians and did not realize my
danger in Mexico. Would like to visit you some day. I am a
graduate on the University of Arkansas, Medical Department. I
practiced medicine ten years. I was admitted to the Bar in
Oklahoma in 1909. Held many offices in Oklahoma. Engaged in
the oil business in 1916, now live at 305 South Bishop, San
Angelo, Texas.
Respectfully yours,
J. E. Bristow
Office of
J. E. BRISTOW
OIL AND MINING OPERATOR
305 S. BISHOP
SAN ANGELO, TEXAS
APRIL 25, 1930
Dr. P.M. Bristow
Stanton, Texas
Dear Doctor:
I was glad to get your letter. I realize that you are the
son of my Father's Cousin and I remember your father very well,
although I was a very small child. He visited our home and I
have the honor of being named after him. My first name is
Jesse and my father's name was Jackson Bristow, who taught
school at Lettered Oaks, Kentucky. I think your father either
taught at the same place before him, or just after him. My
Great Grandfather, who was also your Great Grandfather, I
remember visited us once when I was just a very small child. He
had what I thought to be a very fine walking cane. He gave this
to my Grandfather, Frank Bristow, who lived at Willow Grove.
I have some oil property up near Big Spring, Texas, and I am
going up in a few days to look it over, and it will give me
great pleasure to drive down to Stanton and have a visit with
you. I have your identity perfectly fixed.
Respectfully yours,
J. E. Bristow
Cohen Dabney
Arthur Harlan & his children after the death of his wife.
Howard in the Navy
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Jack Ferguson
Jack Ferguson
Jack Ferguson, 93, Albany, passed away Monday, March 19, 2012 at Clinton County Hospital. He was a local businessman since 1939 and a member of Peolia United Methodist Church. He was preceded in death by his wife, Clara Ferguson, a grandson, Jerry Lane Ferguson and a great-grandson, Shelby Ferguson. He is survived by two daughters, Lynda Logan, Nashville, TN; Karen (Bill) O'Neill, Long Beach, NY; two sons and daughters-in-law, Gary Lane and Pearl Ferguson, Albany; Lowell and Marta Ferguson, Lexington, KY; five grandchildren, Stacey Evans, Ayla and Jack O'Neill and Kara and Dana Ferguson; also four great-grandchildren.
Richard Edward Harle Jr, 65, of Athens, GA passed away Thursday, July 12, 2012. A native of Trenton, New Jersey, Mr. Harle was the son of Richard Edward Harle Sr and Connie Carson Harle of Las Vegas, NV. He served in the United States Army during Vietnam and was an auto repairman. Survivors in addition to his parents, include daughter, Amy Arnett and husband, Michael of Roswell, GA; sister, Karen Patzer of State College, PA, and grandchildren, Gavin and Sadie Arnett. July 26, 2012 I feel deep sadness at the passing of Rick..my deepest sympathy to Amy and family. Sleep well my friend, in peace. Margie ~ Margie Trigg, Oak Ridge, Tennessee July 23, 2012 Rest in peace, Rick. I am sad. Rest easy. ~ Melanie Gary L Causby Home (706) 549-4957 238 Chalfont Ln Athens, GA 30606-2004 Richard E Harle Home (702) 616-3267 8351 Huxley St Las Vegas, NV 89123-2380 Age: 87 Associated: Constance E Harle The Journal and Constitution, Atlanta, GA, 7/19/81 Athens, Ga., auto repairmen Rick Harle and Steve Tingle were sick and tired of car break- ins at their shop, so they armed themselves with a 12-ga. shotgun and a .45 automatic and waited after dark. Their stakeout quickly paid off as they apprehended a pair of youthful thieves. Amy Katherine Arnett Amy Katherine Harle Roswell, GA Snellville, GA Athens, GA Portland, OR Edgewater, MD Atlanta, GA Amy Katherine Arnett was born in 1970. Amy currently lives in Roswell, Georgia. Before that, Amy lived in Athens, GA from 1988 to 2003. Before that, Amy lived in Snellville, GA in 2003. Amy Katherine Arnett is related to Michael Arnett, who is 40 years old and lives in Roswell, GA. Amy Katherine Arnett is also related to Melanie Causby, who is 63 years old and lives in Athens, GA. Amy Katherine Arnett is also related to Richard Harle, who is 65 years old and lives in Athens, GA. Amy Katherine Arnett is also related to Richard Hale, who is 46 years old and lives in Gainesville, GA. 1999 Hi Duane, Man, that is the most amazing web site! I have spent several hours there and don't think I have scratched the surface. You must have hundreds of hours invested in it. Well, yup I am in Athens. I think you left school before me. I was married in Sept '68, drafted in June, '69. Sent to Asmara, Ethiopia, brought wife over. Daughter, Amy born there, she was just married the end of Aug to a good guy. She is in grad school at Portland State Univ in OR. I finished and went to grad school here in Outdoor Rec....never quite finished. Did my internship in Winder, Ga at Ft Yargo St Park. Lived for a short time with folks in Connecticut(bad idea) and job hunted. No good. No jobs. Came back to Athens to work for a friend in his father's iron work business. I was out of money, needed to do something. In 1976 I started my own business, a car repair business. Car Craft. I took in a partner and that turned out to turn my life upside down as of about 2 years ago. Due to religion, greed, power and control issues he pushed for a split. I was afraid to go in debt at my age...almost 53 now, I sold to him and have been working there since. Bummer. Hindsight is 20/20 I know, but I never realized how much a part of me the business was. Nothing has really turned up, I have tried to be patient and hoped for some new opportunity to present itself...not yet. I was married to my first wife for about 17 yrs, one child only. I was single about 7 yrs, been remarried for about 5 yrs. My second(and final) wife is a Jewish woman originally from NY City. She is on her second life, she just completed her master's degree in Psycho Education and is teaching at a school here for emotionally disturbed kids. She had worked at UGa as a computer graphics artist. Her folks own a Bagel Bakery in Scottsdale, AZ. Unfortunately for me, I began having panic attacks. Actually started while I was in the Army. I went to a succession of docs, shrinks and nobody could figure out what was up. I was beginning to believe I really was crazy. I went until about 1987 until I got a proper diagnosis. Agoraphobia. Actually PTSD, not from the military but from my childhood. We both came from very dysfunctional families. I have done a lot of therapy, workshops, men's groups etc in my quest for my sanity. I am a fan of John Bradshaw, Robert Bly, Joseph Campbell, Alice Miller and more. My wife and I actually have a good relationship. I need to work another 8-10 years, if my investments do well maybe less. I made some risky Internet plays that did well but the markets are pretty volatile now.
Rick and his daughter, Amy, at her wedding in 1999
Newspaper article about Mary Belle's death
A coverlet made by Mary Wood
AUSTIN -- Corine Hill Holder, 90, of Austin, died Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, at the NHC Healthcare in Glasgow. The Barren County native was the daughter of the late H. K. and Stella Burris Hill, and wife of the late Roy Delbert Holder. Mrs. Holder was a registered nurse and was an employee of T. J. Samson Community Hospital for 30 years. She was a member of the Tracy United Methodist Church. She is survived by two sons, Philip Hill Holder, of Austin, and Roy Darrell Holder, and wife Elizabeth, of Snelleville, Ga., and a granddaughter, Sarah Elizabeth Holder, of Atlanta, Ga. Burial in the Glasgow Municipal Cemetery.
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John Arthur Bagby Jr's house in Barren County
Nov. 16, 2012 - Ralph with Cheryl and Eva Bristow
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Colt - July 28, 2013
Colt, Misty and David
July 28, 2013
Colt and Duane Bristow - July 28, 2013
Colt and his great, great grandmother, Hazel Allen - July 2013
Hazel was one of the youngest of 13 children. Her father J. Hugh Phillips died just before Hazel's 12th birthday. After that her mother, Finnie, it was said, pretty much "went wild" and abandoned her family. As a result Hazel was raised as an orphan. Hazel June Phillips Allen 1921-2015 Hazel June Phillips Allen, 93, of Danville, died Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. Born Sept. 25, 1921, in Danville, she was the daughter of the late J. Hugh and Finnie Mildred Settles Phillips. Hazel was a retired licensed practical nurse who worked at both Central Baptist and Baptist East hospitals. She was a member of First Baptist Church, a Kentucky Colonel and belonged to Golden Opportunities Nursing Organization with Jewish Hospital. Hazel was predeceased by her husband, Robert Allen, and her brothers and sisters, Louise Young, Irene Lape, Ruth Bandy, and Thomas, Robert, Charlie, Ray and Jesse Phillips. Survivors include her children, William Edward Galbreath of Danville, Howard Hugh Galbreath of Nicholasville and Robert Lee Galbreath of Redwood City, California; stepchildren, Robert (Louise) Allen of Danville, Dennis (Pat) Allen of Bowling Green, Jim (Joyce) Ely of Salvisa, Alicia Allen of Mobile, Alabama, and Martina Allen of Perryville; 16 grandchildren; 18 great- grandchildren; and 12 great-great-grandchildren. The funeral will be 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, at First Baptist Church with Dr. Tim Mathis officiating. Burial will be in Bellevue Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be grandsons, Chris, Andy, Kelvin and Jay Galbreath and Sam Allen. Honorary pallbearers will be LaTisha Galbreath Bristow, Anna Galbreath Dunn, Karen Howard, Christie Galbreath, Alicia Allen, Martina Allen, Angela Allen and Amy Allen. Visitation is after 5 p.m. today at Stith Funeral Home. Memorial donations are suggested to Heritage Hospice or the American Cancer Society.
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The Parmley House - courtesy of Shirley White
The Parmley House - courtesy of Shirley White
Parmleys - courtesy of Shirley White
2nd family kids - Tom, Robert, Joan, and Evie
brother, John, and her sister who were married - Margaret, Lue, and John
Edward Owen and his wife, Jane Cowan
William J. "Bill" Cowan
Sarah Susan Wray Cowan
Fratie Ellen Cowan Sloan
James Roscoe Sloan
Edward N. Hill
Bercie Ruth Sloan Hill
Judy Ellen Hill
Kathy Ruth Hill Dorn
Audrey Maupin
Geneva Byers
1st Lieutenant, 3rd Infantry Div., 7th Army, Company K - 1944
Garlin Murl Conner Birth: Jun. 2, 1919 Death: Nov. 5, 1998 Information provided by Judy Richards, FAG #47131306: LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Lt. Garlin Murl Conner left the U.S. Army as the second-most decorated soldier during World War II, earning four Silver Stars, four Bronze Stars, seven Purple Hearts and the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during 28 straight months in combat. But despite backing from congressmen, senators, military veterans and historians, he never received the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military distinction, awarded for life-risking acts of valor above and beyond the call of duty. Now a federal judge in Kentucky has ended his widow's 17-year quest to see that her husband received the medal. U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell, in an 11-page opinion issued late Tuesday, said a technicality will prevent Pauline Conner of Albany, Ky., from continuing her campaign on behalf of her husband, who died in 1998. Russell concluded that Pauline Conner waited too long to present new evidence to the U.S. Army Board of Correction of Military Records, which rejected her bid to alter her husband's service record. Russell praised Conner's "extraordinary courage and patriotic service," but said there was nothing he could do for the family. "Dismissing this claim as required by technical limitations in no way diminishes Lt. Conner's exemplary service and sacrifice," Russell wrote. Richard Chilton, a former Green Beret and amateur military historian who has researched Conner's service, said Conner deserves the Medal of Honor. Chilton pledged to get resolutions from lawmakers and veterans' groups in all 50 states in an attempt to get Congress to act on Conner's behalf. "I want to make sure they can't walk away from this," Chilton told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "He's a man worthy of this." Roughly 3,400 people have received the Medal of Honor since it was created in 1861, including actor Audie Murphy, the most decorated U.S. soldier in World War II. Murphy fought in the same areas as Conner and went on to star in dozens of Hollywood films, most of them Westerns and war epics. Conner served with the 3rd Infantry Division, which fought in France and Europe in 1945. The Army in 2001 named Eagle Base in Bosnia-Herzegovina after Conner, who died in 1998 in Clinton County, Ky., where he lived after his fighting days and served 17 years as president of the Clinton County Farm Bureau. "He was a real hero," said attorney Donald Todd of Lexington, who represents Conner's family. Conner's citation for the Distinguished Service Cross states that on Jan. 24, 1945, near Houssen, France, he slipped away from a military hospital with a hip wound to rejoin his unit rather than return home to Kentucky and unreeled a telephone wire, plunged into a shallow ditch in front of the battle line and directed multiple rounds of fire for three hours as German troops continued their offensive, sometimes getting within five yards of Conner's position. The board first rejected Conner's application in 1997 on its merits and turned away an appeal in June 2000, saying at the time no new evidence warranted a hearing or a new decoration despite more than a dozen letters of support for Conner. In the years that followed, lawmakers in Kentucky, Tennessee and three other states passed resolutions backing the effort to see Conner receive the Medal of Honor. After Chilton found three eyewitness accounts to Conner's deeds in 2006, Pauline Conner resubmitted the case to the board in 2008 — two years after the statute of limitations expired. A bipartisan group of current and former members of Congress has backed Conner's application in the past, including retired Sen. Bob Dole, a Kansas Republican and World War II veteran; retired Sen. Wendell Ford, a Democrat from Kentucky; current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky; and Whitfield, who represents Conner's home town near the Tennessee line. Noted World War II historian Steven Ambrose, who died in 2002, wrote in November 2000 to support Conner's application, saying his actions were "far above the call of duty." The review board remained unmoved by Conner's submission. "The most recent information received 22 December 2008 is not new evidence and does not warrant granting an exception to the above cited regulation and a formal hearing," wrote Conrad V. Meyer, the director of the Army Board for Correction of Military Records on Feb. 9, 2009. While the military board has upgraded other recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross to a Medal of Honor, the action is rare. As of 2012, the last year available, 178 Distinguished Service Crosses had been elevated to Medal of Honor status out of 13,000 issued since 1917. Military policy dictates that the first decoration must be re-examined, re-justified and then re-evaluated with new evidence before any action can be taken. The military can also conduct a review at the behest of Congress. In February, the Pentagon announced that President Barack Obama will bestow the Medal of Honor on 24 other veterans after a decade-long congressionally mandated review of minorities who may have been passed over for it because of prejudices. The unusual mass ceremony, scheduled for Tuesday, will honor veterans — most of Hispanic or Jewish heritage — who already had been recognized with the Distinguished Service Cross. Conner's commander in World War II, retired Maj. Gen. Lloyd B. Ramsey of Salem, Va., filed an affidavit saying Conner's work, while injured, provided valuable intelligence. "There is no doubt that Lt. Conner should have been awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions," Ramsey wrote. "One of the most disappointing regrets of my career is not having the Medal of Honor awarded to the most outstanding soldier I've ever had the privilege of commanding." Conner's fellow soldiers also filed affidavits crediting Conner with helping not only save the lives of fellow soldiers but being key to defeating the Germans in the battle. Retired Lt. Harold Wigetman, a member of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry, said that between the artillery strikes Conner called in and spray from his own machine gun, he killed at least 50 German soldiers and wounded twice as many. "His heroic and entirely voluntary act saved our battalion," Wigetman wrote. "If he hadn't done what he did, we would have had to fight for our lives." Inscription: 1st LT US Army World War II Distinguished Service Cross Silver Star with 3 Oak-Leaf Clusters Purple Heart with 2 Oak-Leaf Clusters Burial: Memorial Hill Cemetery Albany Clinton County Kentucky, USA
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Bozarth House on Goff Ridge Road Dekalb County TN
Bozarth house on Goff Ridge Road - Dekalb county Tennessee
James Henry Bozarth and Mary Ball Smith Bozarth
James Henry Bozarth and Mary Ball Smith Bozarth
Charlie Clay Goff and Ella Odell Lafever Goff
Charlie Clay Goff and Ella Odell Lafever Goff
Joe Hughlee Goff
Charlie Leon Goff
Ida Helen Goff
The Goff Women - Charlie Clay Goff's family
James M. Goff and Betty Golf
Jimmie and Betty Goff
John B. Owen, Jr. Obituary
John B. Owen, Jr.
County TN census as head of family with 5 children, 4 boys, 1 girl.
Girl was Elizabeth (1844) married John W. Dove
James Madison Goff
Betty Bozarth Goff
The sons of Asher Lafever and Cansada Elrod Lafever
Asher and Canzada Lafever's children and grandchildren - 1924
Kathleen Love and her parents and son
Wilma Kathleen Davis Love
Errin Burr Jackson
Errin's family.
Mike Love with wife and daughter - 2010
Mike and Cindy's daughter, Leslie Rhea Love
Kathy Sue Love Anderson's family - 2011
Children of Jimmy Alan Love and Christie Todd
Billy Joe Love
Jonathan and his first wife, Brionna "Bree" West, widowed in 2011
Jonathan and his second wife, Devin Mitchell - 2013
Tiffany Denise Love Salyer and her mother, Sherri Ann Alford Love
Tiffany Denise Love and her husband, Bobby Salyer
Tiffany's girls, Carrigan, Hayley, and Alana
Betty Baker Herman Love
Amanda Renea Love
Betty's family
Joy and Johnny's marriage
Tessa and Eldon - photo by Jonathan Love
Jimmie's grandchildren - Luke Gilliam's great great grandchildren
Jimmie Love's family
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=52577422 Edna Bruton Neighbours Birth: Apr. 12, 1877 Burkesville Cumberland County Kentucky, USA Death: Feb. 16, 1963 Olney Young County Texas, USA daughter of Albert Kelly Bruton - Louvena Smith Funeral services for Mr. Edna Neighbours were held at the First Methodist church of Olney with Rev. Dunson, pastor and Rev. Erwin Reed, pastor of First Baptist church officiating. Mrs. Neighbours came to Texas at an early age with her parents. Miss Edna Bruton was married on 14 April 1892 near Bells, Grayson County, Texas to D.E. Neighbours in her parent's home. He preceded her in death. As a pioneer on the North Texas prairies, she heard the scream of the panther and the howl of the lobo wolf, and saw the cattle herds go north by her home in the Indian Territory between Madill and Tishomingo. She was the mothe rof nine children, seven were surviving at her death. Mrs. Neighbours had lived at Olney since 1929 having moved here from Baylor County. She was a Methodist. She was the mother of nine children, seven of whom survived her. Survivors: two sons - Willie B. Neighbours of Goree, Dr. Kenneth Neighbours of Olney, a member of the Midwestern University teaching staff; daughter daughters - Mrs. A.L. Ferrell of Fort Worth; Mrs. B.H. Norman of Olney; Mrs. Warren Peabody of Memphis; Mrs. O.O. Youngblood of Lewisville; 10 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; one brother; one sister. She was preceded in death by two infant daughters. Family links: Parents: Albert Kelly Bruton (1845 - 1914) Lou V. Smith Bruton (1845 - 1936) Spouse: Daniel Eben Delinney Dixon Neighbours (1868 - 1934)* Children: Bur Nettie Lou Neighbours Ferrell (1893 - 1987)* Henrietta Neighbours Norman (1896 - 1996)* Kelly Nathaniel Neighbours (1900 - 1950)* Ida Fay Neighbours (1907 - 1907)* Ada May Neighbours (1907 - 1907)* Mildred Rene Neighbours Youngblood (1909 - 1988)* Willie B. Neighbours (1911 - 1982)* Kenneth F. Neighbours (1915 - 2002)* Siblings: Millie Rosa Bruton Sewell (1866 - 1892)* Sam Edward Bruton (1867 - 1939)* Amanda Frances Bruton Garner (1870 - 1944)* Mary Ellen Bruton Bristow (1872 - 1958)* Jesse Marshall Bruton (1875 - 1954)* Edna Bruton Neighbours (1877 - 1963) Cora Inez Bruton Garner (1880 - 1951)* Agnes C. Bruton (1883 - 1963)* James Blaine Bruton (1885 - 1968)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Restland Cemetery Olney Young County Texas, USA Created by: Searchers of our Past Record added: May 19, 2010
Nettie Irene Ewing
Newspaper picture from the early 1950s.
Albert Kelly Bruton's grave
James P. "Jake" Bruton
George Franklin and Family
George Franklin with the secret service with Richard Nixon
Margaret Jackson Franklin
Edward M. Franklin and his parents and family
Edward M. and Alice Bruton Franklin
Brandy (left) and Katie (right)
Bruce, Patricia and Logan Forsyth
Bruce, Patricia and Logan Forsyth
Logan and Bruce Forsyth - 2013
Brian Forsyth - 2013
Velma Ruth Forsyth Arthur
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June and her family - 2010
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Daniel C Davis Birthdate: 1891 Death: Died September 11, 1961 Immediate Family: Son of Taylor James Davis and Sally A. Davis Husband of Lillie Geneva Davis Managed by: Randall Gene Davis Last Updated: February 28, 2015 Taylor James Davis Birthdate: July 10, 1848 Death: Died December 24, 1894 Immediate Family: Son of Thomas Davis and Margaret Davis Husband of Sally A. Davis Father of Martha J Duvall; James Calvin Davis; Telitha E Rigney; Sarah Margaret Duvall; John M Davis and 2 others Half brother of Nelson Davis; William Davis; Mary A Davis; Sarah Stockton, Stockman; Elizabeth Davis and 2 others Sally A. Davis (Hughes) Birthdate: April 20, 1850 Death: Died August 20, 1901 Immediate Family: Daughter of Morgan Hughes and Sarah Hughes Wife of Taylor James Davis Timeline 1850 April 20, 1850 Birth of Sally 1869 August 17, 1869 Age 19 Birth of Martha J Duvall 1870 January 6, 1870 Age 19 Birth of James Calvin Davis Albany, Clinton, Kentucky, United States 1871 September 3, 1871 Age 21 Birth of Telitha E Rigney 1873 Age 22 Birth of Sarah Margaret Duvall 1876 Age 25 Birth of John M Davis 1879 Age 28 Birth of Thomas F Davis 1891 Age 40 Birth of Daniel C Davis 1901 August 20, 1901 Age 51 Death of Sally
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Ed and Floyd Cowan - brothers
Ed and Floyd Cowan - brothers
Antha Cowan Shelton
https://www.connleybrothersfuneralhome.com/obituary/wendell-h-harlan/ January 19, 1950 - October 9, 2019 Wendell H. Harlan, 69, of Taylor Mill, KY passed away on Wednesday, October 9, 2019. He was born on January 19, 1950 in Albany, KY to his parents: Howard and Betty Harlan. He was a Veteran of the US Air Force, serving during the Vietnam Era. Wendell was a Purchasing Manager with CBT Company in Cincinnati, OH. He loved to travel, fish and spend time with his grandchildren. Wendell was preceded in death by a sister: Barbara Harlan. He is survived by his loving wife of 47 years: Barbara Wischer Harlan; sons: Christopher (Christina) Harlan and Darrell Harlan; sister: Jo (Denton) Neal; brothers: Roy (Brenda) Harlan and Randell (Sue) Harlan and 5 grandchildren: Sierra, Blake, Gabby, Josephine and Hayden. Burial will be at the convenience of the family. Connley Brothers Funeral Home in Latonia, KY serving the family. Memorials are suggested to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society C/O lls.org. Online condolences may be expressed on Facebook or at www.connleybrothersfuneralhome.com
