Dear researcher of Kentucky records Years ago, while studying a Stephens family of Henderson Co., KY ca 1812-1815 and its linkage to a Williams family in the early 1800s, I discovered that the head of the Stephens family, David Stephens (he had a number of daughters, indicate the deeds of Henderson Co. and two deceased sons) had been in the War of 1812.  More about this later.  He was quartermaster but resigned (sickness?--he died about 2 years later.) The online subscription database Fold 3 is offering FREE information (June only) about participants in the War of 1812, mostly pensioners, but I will point out to you a book which has to do with Kentucky participants, published long ago. In trying to round up info about the Henderson Co. KY relatives of my ancestor, I had hired a good genealogist in Frankfort, KY to trace some of my scattered Williams family, and through some luck, we discovered that they were in EARLY Henderson Co.  The extended Williams family, who had Texas roots beginning ca 1852, had some old letters which linked the Williamses of Kentucky to some females who bore the maiden name Stephens.  We deduced from a mutilated letter than many of my great-grandfather's relatives were of Henderson Co., KY. Through some of my reading, I found that one David Stephens of Henderson Co. had been quartermaster for a company from Henderson Co. KY.  However, he had died ca 1814, and his widow, Elizabeth had married her older neighbor, Samuel F[arrar] Williams, and he became guardian of Elizabeth's children.  These Stephens daughters--whom I discovered through reading LOTS of Henderson Co. deeds--were wives or mothers of some of the letter-writers to my Williams ancestor, who somehow had got to coastal Texas ca 1852.  His cousins, as deduced from these letters, had broad (for the time period) geographical reaches--Columbus, KY; Springfield, IL; Kansas City, MO; Logan Co., IL; Henderson Co., KY (and look in "Vanderbergh county, Indiana also).  Some of this info was from a torn letter in our extended family which we gathered from the content was written from Henderson Co, KY, probably after the Civil War as he (the letter-writer) bemoaned War and the recent illness and death of one of his younger sons, apparently on the Mississippi River--on a trading trip. Let me tell you, however, about a book written some years ago, about the Kentuckians' participation in the War of 1812.  You may have to do some digging in county records--wills, guardianships, deeds (of heirs), to verify what you find in this long-ago published book. The book about the War of 1812 and Kentuckians is by Anderson Chenault Quisenberrry and this is the title.  Parts of it are on Google.books, but there is probably insufficient information for you to make any deductions.  If you live in Kentucky, it may be on the bookshelves of a local public library--or a college or University library in that state.  If I am not mistaken Anderson Chenault Quisenberry was connected with what later became the US Defense Department.  No doubt, wikipedia or some such website may have a biography of Quisenberry.  His name certainly connects him with Kentucky. (The stepfather of one of my great-grandmothers was named Anderson Chenault of Madison Co., KY.  His second (?) wife was my widowed ancestress, Nancy (Oldham) Harris, widow of Overton Harris, who died testate in Madison Co., KY in 1827.) Here is some incomplete information about this book of Kentucky in the War of 1812. May you learn about some of your *missing* male ancestors. If you have some information to add about this book or even the above *squashed* family history, may I hear from you? Evelyn W. Wallace Kentucky in the War of 1812 « Back to search results stmt. resp.: Anderson Chenault Quisenberry ; preface by G. Glenn Clift and an added index supplied by the Kentucky Historical Society authors: Quisenberry, Anderson Chenault, 1850- format: Books/Monographs language: English publication: Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1969 physical: 242 p. : ill., ports. subject class: 976.9 M25