My name is Ladell APPLEGATE Wiggins. I did a long research on the APPLEGATE'S, I am very willing to share and have 5 4inch notebooks of records. I will try to answer any question I can. Love to share. Let me hear from you. applegaterme@aol.com Thanks, Ladell

Some people believe that Samuel Applegate and his wife Judith Rogers were the parents of Harriett Ann Applegate and some believe that she was the daughter of Elijah Applegate and his second wife Elizabeth BENCE LEATHERMAN (widow of Michael Leatherman). She was born in 1829 in Jefferson Co. KY near Louisville. If she is the daughter of Samuel that would make Elijah her grandfather. Elizabeth Bence Applegate is on the 1850 Jefferson Co. KY Census with a John Reader living with her and her daughter Elizabeth Leatherman. Elijah is on the 1810 Jefferson Co. KY Census. He is then on the 1820 Goshen, Clermont Co. OH census. And, in 1830 still in Goshen, Clermont Co. OH census with 1 female 0-5 which Harriett b. 1829 falls into. On the 1840 census he has moved to Jefferson Co. KY and has 1 female 10-15 which still fits Harriett's age. Elijah died in 1848 in Jefferson Co. KY. In Clermont Co. Elijah lives next door to the Reeder's on one census and on the other a couple of houses away so Harriett and Jacob would have known each other from Clermont Co. and that is why he went off to Louisville to marry Harriett. When Harriett marries Jacob, she is the ward of George L. Gailbreath. If her father is Elijah and him being dead she would have a ward, but Samuel is still alive at the time of her marriage. Found George L. Gailbreath was married to Cynthia Rogers d/o Edward and Elizabeth Rogers. Cynitha had two sisters who married Applegates (*note Harriett's second child is named Addie Cynitha): 1. Judith Rogers b c 1805 Bullitt Co. KY md Samuel P. Applegate 24 Jul 1826 in Bullitt Co. KY. 2. Malinda Rogers b c 1806 Bullitt Co. KY md Elijah M. Applegate 23 Oct 1827 in Bullitt Co. KY. Judith has mental problems and goes to a home and I believe dies and Samuel disappears. Harriett has 10 kids and does not name any of them: Elijah, Samuel, Judith, or Elizabeth or any variation thereof. Children of Harriett Ann Applegate and Jacob William Reeder: Hilda; Addie Cynthia, Thomas Taylor, Jesse, Hudson Guy, Soctt Winfield, Sherman Demitt, Sallie Louella, Blanche A., and George G. Does anyone have proof of her parents? Thanks Brenda Stewart Reeder