Please send letter to the entire list. I deleted it as well without reading. Evelyn

The day before yesterday someone had sent a copy of a letter describing people and events in KY around the beginning of the 1800's. This was a first hand account letter, Could someone please resend a copy of it to me. I told my wife to read it because it had info on a couple of her ancestors and she accidently deleted it without reading it. So much for deleting emails without reading the content first, just because it doesn't have your surname at the top. Thanks Robert

The above names plus LYNCH, VANMETER, COFFMAN, BURNS, PARSONS, WELTON, DELAY, LOONEY, NEVILLE, HITE, RANDALL,TIVERBAUGH, GREGG, KEETER, WILSON, WESTFALL, CASSIDY, STONEMAKER, ELLIOTT, McAFEE, BINGERMAN, LOGSTON, ALLINGTON, YOUNG, CASEY, SHANKLIN, BLUEFORD, McFARLAN, SMITH, DRAKE, TORRENCE.....are named in the George YOKUM Interview (From the Draper Papers, Circa 1843) to be found at: http://www.swcp.com/~dhickman/articles/yokum.html. Many Bath Co., connections. Glenda

In a message dated 6/16/00 8:04:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Thanks ! I rally appreciated reading that interview. Lots of names from the Shenendoah Valley there too. ie: Hiat, VanMeter, etc. Vivian

THE HART FAMILY Letter by Nathaniel Hart to Draper 1842. 2CC27-2 Thomas, John, Benjamin, David, Nathaniel and Susannah Hart were raised in Hanover county, Virginia, and about the middle of the last century removed to North Carolina (then a now country). Thomas settled near Hillsborough. David and my father, Nathaniel, settled in what is now Caswell county. My father built the Red House and lived there until 1779 when he removed to Kentucky. David Hart lived and died there, his family are living on lands in Tennessee and Kentucky. John Hart died in early life, leaving one child, Susannah, who married John Luttrell, who was killed in an engagement with the Tories and his widow married Doctor John Umstead. Benjamin Hart removed to Georgia and died there. Susannah married James Gooch and died leaving two children, James and Nancy who married Jesse Benton, the father of Thomas Hart Benton and Jesse Benton, Colonel Thomas Hart came to Kentucky in the fall 1775 and David Hart in the spring 1776. My father was here more than half his time from the spring of 1775 to the fall of 1779, he had travelled the Wilderness road 14 times, he was killed on the 22nd of July 1782 at Boonsborough. LETTER BY NATHANIEL HART TO DRAAPER. 1853. 2CC29 Col Thomas Hart was born and raised in Hanover county, Virginia, being the eldest of five sons and one daughter of Thomas Hart of Hanover. The daughter being the grandmother of Col Thomas Benton of Missouri. He removed to Orange county North Carolina about the year 1760 where he married a lady of fortune and where he continued to reside until the invasion of that State by Cornwallis in 1780 or 81, when he made a hurried sale of his lands and removed through Virginia to Hagerstown in Maryland, where he made a temporary residence with the view of removing the next spring to Kentucky. But the death of my grandfather by the Indians just before the fatal battle ofthe Blue Licks, deterred him from his favorite purpose until the spring of 1794. As the older members of his family were daughters, my father (then 24 years of age) escorted his uncles family from Maryland to Kentucky and upon their arrival at Lexington, immediately started on Waynes Campaign, where he acted as Aid de Camp to Gen Todd of the Kentucky Volunteers in the battle of the Fallen Timbers. Col Thomas Harts son, Capt Nathaniel Gray Hart, was afterwards killed near Waynes Battlefield, at the battle of the Raisin in 1813. Col Thomas Hart died in 1807. -- Bob Francis, 1920A Butner St., Ft. Eustis, VA 23604 My Homepage is: http://www.shawhan.com Ruddell's Fort Page: http://www.shawhan.com/ruddlesfort.html Early Bourbon Co. Fam. Pg.: http://www.shawhan.com/bourbonfamilies.html Bourbon Co., Ky., Bios: http://www.shawhan.com/biographies.html Shawhan Genealogy: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~shawhan/Homepage.html

Fellow researchers, I searched my files and came across some old Draper manuscripts of letters from Nathaniel Hart, grandson of the original settler by that name. These are very interesting letters in that they portray life along the frontier. I have maintained the spelling and punctuation--so be prepared for some deciphering on your part. Enjoy! Bob Francis ----- >From Gleanings from Draper Mss. Library of Wisconsin State Historical Society--HART LETTER BY NATHANIEL HART TO DRAPER. 1838. 2CC26 I have been a resident of Kentucky since the fall of 1779 to the present time. I was too young to be an actor in many of the trying scones of that early period but from 1788 until the conclusion of Col Wayne's treaty in 1795, 1 missed few opportunities of joining in the pursuit of such parties of Indiana as made incursions into the section of Kentucky where I resided. From 1779 to 1786 my residence was in the fort at Boonsborough, which my father, in conjunction with others, had erected as early as 1775. He fell by the Indian tommahawk in the dangerous season of 17821 just before the disasterous battle of the Blue Licks and as my widowed mother survived him but two years, from that period I relied upon my rifle for a greater part of my food and rainment. From the fall of 1786 1 resided in the neighborhood of Harrodsburg and the Indians, who then annoyed that part of the Country, generally crossed the Ohio Ohio river between the mouth of the Kentucky and Louisville, passing up on the south side of the river, which was then a wilderness, to McAfee’s Station. I was twice engaged in the pursuit of these Indiana an far as the banks of the Ohio without further success than that of killing a fine blooded horse under an Indian who made his escape. Gen. Scott's song while fishing on the bank of the Kentucky rivers was killed by a party of of these Indians, in sight of his fathers house and surveyor, Robert Todd, as late as 1794, was killed in view of Frankfort immediately before the Legislature convened at that place. In 1780, the Brittish officer,, Bird Col Bird, with his Indian army, decended the Big Miami and ascended Licking river as far as the mouth of Beaver creeks captured Riddles and Martins stations with the aid of his artillery. Some years after this the Federal government, for a while prohibited the Kentuckians from pursuing the Indians beyond the Ohio, but they were sometimes tempted to cross over in disregard of the injunction. On one occasion, I think in the spring of 1788, in the immediate neighborhood of your flourishing city, they met an unexpectedly large encampment of the enemy, who gave them battle and soon routed our little party with considerable loss, Samue1 and Moses Grant, the later of whom had been my school mate the previous year, were both killed at this time. Gen. Wm Lytle, after participating in the conflict, exerted himself in conducting from the ground to the canoes one or two men who were wounded, apprehending that the foremost of the party might push out from the shore before the wounded could reach it, he went ahead and finding them in the act of starting, he was only able to restrain them by raising his rifle and threatening to to shoot the first man who struck an oar till the wounded men could get up. At this critical juncture, when they expected to be fired on every instance by the enemy, an individual, then of some note in the country, threw himself out of the canoe into the river on the opposite side from the shore and patiently held on until the wounded were brought up, to the great merriment of all the rest. But in the spirit of the old injunction "to say nothing of the dead but what is creditable", so it may be proper here to remark that the decendants of this individual have long since distinguished themselves by driving the Indians beyond the Lakes. About the year 1790, Gen. Scott and Col. John Edwards conducted a party across the Ohio to break up an encampment of the enemy who had been committing great depredations on our river craft. On their arrival, the Indians had decamped, but they caught a white man in a canoe who refused to give satisfactory answers to their interragatories, when their patience was nearly exhausted, Gen. Scott demanded of him how long he had been with the Savages. Looking cooly up to the sun, he replied, " About two hours", alluding to the time he had been their prisoner. Strange to say, the party left this individual uninjured, being unable to determine whether he was deranged or totally regardless of his life. My first and only visit to Fort Washington, The site of your city, was in 1794, on my way to join Gen. Wayne's army, and I shall never forget a scene which I witnessed on my return; Cincinnati then of ten or a dozen rough log cabins on the bank of the river. A two story hewed log house, where I found Capt Gordon, an old acquaintance, keeping a house of entertainment, with whom Gen. Barbee, Col. Beatty and myself quartered for a day or two. On our way out, one of our Kentucky Colonels, (who was more remarkable for his willingness to fight than to pay his just debts), had contracted a debt with grocer, which the grocer was anxious to collect on our return, but as it was not entirely convenient, the Colonel refused to discharge it - a writ was obtained and placed in the hands of the Sheriff to arrest him. He was found smoking a pipe tommahawk in one of these cabins with a crowd of officers and soldiers around him and evinced a desposition not to be taken, when the sheriff exclaimed, "Clear the way and let me at him, God Almighty just made me to take such a man". When he had approached near enough the Col reached forward with his tommahawk and gave him a gentle chop on the heads upon which the officer wheeled to the right about and marched off with double quick step, considerably doubting the purpose for which he had been created. We had but little intercourse with the Licking previous to 1790. Frankfort, Georgetown and Paris were fronteer settlements when the U. S. Army erected Fort Washington, and even after that periods Kentucky had several forts or blockhouses on the banks of the Ohio to guard our frontier. In 1791, Gen Scott went to Fort Washington to consult with Gen Harmer in regard to the campaign conducted that year from Kentucky by Scott and Wilkinson. A guard of twenty dragoons was furnished from Lexington, who were equiped in handsome style, the General, himself in ordinary dress. Upon reaching the river he started to lead his horse into the boat ahead of the dragoon when the ferryman directed him to stand aside while the gentlemen crossed over. Some one of the company then whispered to the ferryman that the man was Gen Scott, when he exclaimed, with an oath, that he had taken him for a waiter. This, of course, diverted the old General very much and furnished the material for one of his good stories. I know of no person living in this part of Kentucky who participated in the settlement of Cincinnati as early as the year 1788; My former neighbor, Jacob Sodusky, of Jessamine county, who died some six years since, informed me that he had cut down the first tree on the site of Cincinnati for the purpose of building a cabin there. He was a man proverbial for his truth and integrity as well as for enterprise, having come out with a small party as early as 1774 to explore Kentucky and finding the country much infested with the Savages, they were detained from attempting to return to Virginia directly either by land or water, but ran down to New Orleans, in their canoes, and taking passage on a vessel to Baltimore, thence reached their homes on the South Branch of the Potomac after the absence of a year. When Fort Washington was first erected, the Indiana showed no disposition to kill the regular soldiers for some time, and in consequence of this, the oommander of the U S Army was induced to charge the Kentuckians with unnecessarily provoking the attacks of the Indians. In a short time, however, his tune was changed, for they soon evinced as great a desire to scalp his men as the had done the Kentuckians. Col. Elliott, the contractor of the U S Army, and the father of the present Commander Elliott of the American Navy, was the last person killed in the neighborhood of Fort "Washington that I knew of. As soon as Gen Wayne had succeeded in the objects of the campaign of 1794, Elliott quit the Army and was hastening in to forward out supplies to the garrison, when he was shot and scalped by the Indians between Fort Washington and Hamilton, having directed his servant to make his escape. On the following day a detachment of soldiers went with a cart and oxen with a coffin to bring in his remains. The party had placed the corpse in the cart they were fired on, Elliott's servant killed, the coffin broken open and the corpse much mutilated. On the third day the soldiers, for they were much attached to their contractor, rode to the place and throwing the corpse across a horse, galloped off with it. A few days afterwards, on my return from Fort Wayne, I saw the coffin lying on the road side broken to pieces. Had it not been for the buffalos and other wild game I am satisfied that Kentucky could not have been settled at the time it was, for this constituted the main resource with the settlers who were frequently without bread and salt. In the winter it was hung up in an open house and kept frozen; in the summer it was jerked in the woods and afterwards used in that state, sometimes recooked with butter and cream, of which we had an abundance. There were some 40 to 50 persons in my fathers family. One bushel of salt was as much as we could procur a year; the article was manufactured at Mann's Lick and at Bullit's Lick, in the neighborhood of Louisville, and was procured in the upper settlements with great trouble and risk. I have frequently seen a party of 10 or 15 hunters in the woods for a week with a little bag of salt containing perhaps a gill, which of course was used most sparingly. The hump of the buffalo was the choice delicacy with the hunters; when they were killed near our forts, they were split into and with a pole, or, when too heavy for that, with the assistance of a sapling, bent down for the purpose, half the buffalo was put upon the pack saddle and taken in. When killed at a distance from the forts, the skins were taken off and used as a sack, in which 3 or 4 hundred pounds of meat was carried at a load. But the constant dread of Indians made this an unwelcome business to all but the intrepid, as they were frequently fired on with these heavy loads on their horses, the riders sometimes on the packs, in such cases to get clear of the loads and save their lives was no trifling consideration. -- Bob Francis, 1920A Butner St., Ft. Eustis, VA 23604 My Homepage is: http://www.shawhan.com Ruddell's Fort Page: http://www.shawhan.com/ruddlesfort.html Early Bourbon Co. Fam. Pg.: http://www.shawhan.com/bourbonfamilies.html Bourbon Co., Ky., Bios: http://www.shawhan.com/biographies.html Shawhan Genealogy: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~shawhan/Homepage.html

I saw someone say on list a few days ago how many Boyds there were in the area early on - maybe late 1700's, early 1800's. I am wondering if anyone has a marriage for Elizabeth Boyd to Thomas Young? This is clutching at straws - I have not been able to find a marriage for Thomas for 25 years; I know his wife was Elizabeth. I have reason to think her surname may have been Boyd. Thought maybe a Boyd researcher had found something. Thanks for any clues. Sharon Young Jebavy <>< Columbus, OH [email protected] Those who preserve their integrity, remain unshaken by the storms of daily life. They do not stir like leaves on a tree or follow the herd where it runs. In their mind remains the ideal attitude and conduct of living. This is not something given to them by others. It is their roots....it is a strength that exists deep within them. - Anonymous Proud Member [email protected] Co-Listowner [email protected]

There seem to have been lots of Boyd's in Bath Co. Does anyone know the parents and/or siblings of Malinda Boyd who married Jasper Clayton 28 Mar 1817 in Bath Co? ( my GG Grandparents) Ione Jones Owensboro, Ky.

The normal hours for Bath Memorial Library are: Mon-Fri 9:30am-5:30pm, Sat 9:30-3:30 (at least according to their web page). I've heard the courthouse is open Saturdays 9:00-12, but not sure if they're open Mondays. I was just wondering if either will be closed the Saturday and/or Monday before the 4th of July because of the holiday weekend. :-)

--WebTV-Mail-30272-700 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit We went there on a Saturday and the courthouse was open until 12 or 2PM. However, the library was across the street and was open until 4-5. --WebTV-Mail-30272-700 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from mailsorter-101-12.iap.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.49) by storefull-142.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:42:51 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com (lists6.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.125]) by mailsorter-101-12.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8-wtv-f/ms.dwm.v7+dul2) with ESMTP id TAA13820; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:42:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e5D2a5V28586; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:36:05 -0700 Resent-Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:36:05 -0700 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Mon Jun 12 19:36:05 2000 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 21:39:48 -0500 From: Jim Allin <[email protected]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Old-To: "R.A. Powers" <[email protected]> Old-CC: [email protected] Subject: Re: [KYBATH] Bath Co. Courthouse and Library Hours References: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/3034 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] We are planning a trip to Owingsville the second week in July. Can anyone tell us what the normal hours are for the courthouse and the library? Thank you for your help. Jim Allin "R.A. Powers" wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Can one of you kind-hearted folks from the Owingsville area please find out > if the Bath Co. Memorial Library and Courthouse will be operating on their > normal schedules over Independence Day weekend (Sat. July 1st and Mon. July > 3rd)? Thanks so much! > :-) > Rebecca Powers --WebTV-Mail-30272-700--

We are planning a trip to Owingsville the second week in July. Can anyone tell us what the normal hours are for the courthouse and the library? Thank you for your help. Jim Allin "R.A. Powers" wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Can one of you kind-hearted folks from the Owingsville area please find out > if the Bath Co. Memorial Library and Courthouse will be operating on their > normal schedules over Independence Day weekend (Sat. July 1st and Mon. July > 3rd)? Thanks so much! > :-) > Rebecca Powers

Hello Everyone, Can one of you kind-hearted folks from the Owingsville area please find out if the Bath Co. Memorial Library and Courthouse will be operating on their normal schedules over Independence Day weekend (Sat. July 1st and Mon. July 3rd)? Thanks so much! :-) Rebecca Powers

I am in the process of planning a trip early this fall and wanted to find out if anyone knew the final resting place for Joshua Cantrell and Ann Graham, who both died in Bath County (he in 1800, she in 1819). And, if so, place let me know how I would jind the cemetery. I will be coming from St. Louis, Missouri. Bill Scroggin

Mabel Lamb b. 1914 in Bath Co., married Herman Hanson Wilson, Son of Wesley A. Wilson and Nancy Martin of Nicholas Co. Has anyone done research on these Wilsons? I would like to know siblings and parents of Wesley A. Wilson and Nancy Martin. Herman and Mabel married in Bath Co.

> -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Pierce [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 10:27 PM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: Bath County McClain Family > > > Hello, I am wondering if you can forward this message to the Bath county > discussion list Thank you for your help: > > I am researching the family of Rachel McClain and Augustine White. They > resided in Bath county in the early 1800's. Margaret was the daughter of > John McClain and Rachel Jones. We have a California pioneer card for my > great great grandmother Jessina White. On it, her daughter states that > Jessina was the daughter of Augustine and Margaret. It also > states that she > was born in 1826 in Ohio. I cannot ever place Augustine and Margaret in > Ohio but know that Ohio borders Kentucky. I have never seen > Jessina listed > as one of the White's children. Most lists start off with the birth of > their daughter Rachel in 1830. I am stuck here and am looking for > any help > one may be able to give. I need to find documentation to prove > that Jessina > was actually their daughter. Thank you. >

I am not a wizard on all the DENTON connections but do know that there is an Elizabeth HARPER SMITH who married James Denton 1735-1834 James died in Fleming County The HODGES line is associated with the DENTON family in the Western part of KY as is the LEE family My Great Great Grandpa, Albert Lee "A.L." Denton 1864-1951, in correspondence to my Grandma mentions "England Anderson" or maybe it was "English Anderson" and discounts some story Grandma had unearthed about a slave uprising on the "Anderson place." Albert Lee Denton married Nina HENRY, and spent most of his life in Montgomery, Clark County areas. Albert Lee Denton is the son of John Wesley Denton and Elizabeth Caroline ATKINSON. The John Wesley Denton "homeplace" is Aaron's Run in Montgomery County. Aaron's Run is on the edge of Montgomery County and converges with Bourbon, Bath, Nicholas counties. The Denton "homeplace" is located near the HENRY Mill. I also have James English abt. 1844 who married Zephia Jordan (Jorden, Jurden, Gordon) The Snow-Jordan-Harrison clan I have in Bracken County area....lately Jordans showing up in same places as DENTONs in Western KY...but I know of no link. Please feel free to contact me privately or on the list. I apologize if I ramble a bit, but think we surely have some connections. Joyce Chasing Denton, Atkinson, Coshow, Henry, Snow, Jordan, Worthington, McPherson and a slew of others! [email protected] wrote: > I am interested in getting additional information on my 6th g-grandparents, > Stephen England and Anna Jane Harper, and their ancestors. > I have the following information on the England family, working backwards: > Stephen England (1773 - 1823), David England (1754 - 1801) m. Lucy Hodges, > William England (1754 - 1801) m. Elizabeth Lee, William England m. Mary > Anderson. > All I have on Anna Jane Harper is her vitals (1772 - 1823). > > Please let me know if anyone can help fill in the blanks. > > Thank you. > > Bill Scroggin > Chesterfield, Missouri

Hi Verl.... Know you chase Dentons and Henry line. Does this James Knox connect to the Dentons? "Uncle Jim" James Knox Denton 1846-1917 Montgomery Co area Joyce [email protected] wrote: > Looking for information on parents of JAMES KNOX b.c1808 VA d.c1885 Bath Co, > KY m.3-1-1829, Bath Co. KY to Sarah Stephens daughter of William and Mary > Cunninghan Stephens. William was from VA and Mary from NC. James mother was > named Catherine, b.1789 according to Bath Co. census. his father is unknown > but was from VA. and apparently died before 1830. Catherine is shown living > with James in 1850, and in 1830 a female age 40-50 is living in household, > age fits Catherine. > > If anyone has any info I would appreciate hearing. > > Thanks for anything > > Vearl

Dear Mr. Scroggins, My Grandmother was Zella Mae Scroggins, who was born May 19, 1886 in Grant County, Ky. Her parents were John J. Scroggins, born in 1856 and Lucinda Risen also born in 1856. John J. Scroggins' father was Thomas S. Scroggins. I am not sure of the origin of the Scroggins family in Grant County, KY, but many of the Grant County families came from Bath County. I subscribe to both the Bath County and Grant County lists. I don't have much more than this but will be happy to share.

Thanks for the help Kay

Mr. Scroggin, I have a friend, Bill Scroggins, who wishes to contact you regarding your surname. Do you wish to correspond? If so, his e-mail address is: [email protected] He has done extensive work on his lines and would like to see if your lines and his cross. He does not subscribe to this list. Thanks Kay Barnes