This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: suegenet Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3945.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Sarah, #1 Don't know why other people find it so alluring but I have always been interested in history and now I am addicted to genealogy. #2 I bowl, read and volunteer at nursing homes in the area. #3 I have only been into genealogy a little over a year. My children wanted me to do a family tree for them and I found out my Grandfather's real name was Fenice Dailey from Garrad County KY. I always knew him as John Davis. Which sparked my interest as to why he changed his name and moved to Ohio in 1910. He was born July 6 1883 in Garrad. #4 Most of my feelings have stayed about the same only much more interested in genealogy than I ever thought I would be. #5 Internet, Libraries, genealogy Clubs. #6 Very Surprised and shocked quite often and very saddened at times. # 7 LDS (free site), Libraries. Genealogy Clubs on the Internet. # 8 Get all the information you can from relatives while they are still alive. I have no one to ask since all of my family has long ago passed away. Also have family write on the back of old pictures who the people are. Good Luck to you. BTW One of my Dailey ancestors from Garrad married a Simpson. Sue in Florida Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: idyllicmelody Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3945/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, my name is Sarah Simpson, a student at Garrard County High School, and I'm writing a paper concerning why people love genealogy. I'm hoping you'll be able to help me by answering a few of the below questions. Answer any or all of them, whatever you wish to do. 1.Why do you believe people find history so alluring? 2. What other interests and hobbies do you have besides history/genealogy? 3. How long have you been interested? What initially spurred your interest in history/genealogy? 4. How have your feelings and opinions changed toward your pursuit over time? 5. How/where do you do your research? 6. Have you ever been surprised or amused by your discoveries? 7. Can you suggest any other sources of information for me? 8. Any final thoughts? Thanks very much, Sarah Simpson Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

1.Why do you believe people find history so alluring? Sarah, genealogy is not just history…………..it YOUR history. I have held my breath at times over the years when I realized that one or another of my ancestors had participated in a historical event I studied in school. It made history come alive to me and made me understand how history touched me. One of my 6th great grandfathers was with Gen. George Washington at Valley Forge……….Zachariah Salyer…….descendant of a French Hugenot. I didn’t have a clue until I started researching my family history. I am 9th cousins with Pres. Bush, 8th cousins with Sen. John McCain and Pres. James Madison’s great aunt was my 6th great grandmother, Anne Madison. I read history differently now that I know where my blood lines fit into it. 2. What other interests and hobbies do you have besides history/genealogy? Sewing, knitting, crochet, counted cross stitch, painting, jewelry making, decorating, quilting and on and on. 3. How long have you been interested? What initially spurred your interest in history/genealogy? I can’t remember a time when I was not interested in our family history. When I started researching about 1975, I already knew a lot about my dad’s family lines because he had talked so much about them when we kids were growing up. He always wanted to know about his family history but he did not understand that it could be researched as far back as it can be researched. My dad is responsible for my interest in genealogy. 4. How have your feelings and opinions changed toward your pursuit over time? It has made me very thankful to be an American, very thankful to God that I live in the time that I live in and very thankful that I can pass what I have learned on to my grandson. 5. How/where do you do your research? When I started I did most of my research by mail and trips to the Ohio Historical Society, the courthouse in Louisa, KY (Lawrence Co.) and cemetery trips. Now I do most of it by internet and then order records to document everything I can. 6. Have you ever been surprised or amused by your discoveries? Many times over! In my husband’s lines in Missouri, I found that a great grandfather had died and his second wife (whom my husband always pointed out was not HIS great grandmother!) lost her pension from her husband having been in the Civil War because she and her daughters were running a ‘bawdy’ house. I got all this when I ordered the Civil War records for her husband. 7. Can you suggest any other sources of information for me? 8. Any final thoughts? I was born in Ohio but my family moved back to KY when I was two months old. When I was five years old we moved back to Ohio and stayed. When I started school in Ohio, I was teased about my southern speech and called ‘hillbilly’ like it was something of which I should be ashamed. If I had known then what I know now about my ancestry, those kids would have been lined up to get my autograph! What most people don’t understand is statistically speaking, it is nearly impossible for any American NOT to be related to a whole gang of famous people, you just have to dig out the info. I am cousins with Elvis Presley, Wayne Newton, Kirstie Alley and many more famous people. I wonder if the famous people to whom I am related have had any of the same family lore, recipes, etc. passed down to them that I grew up with or if these wonderful gems were allowed to die in their lines. Sarah, thank you for this chance to tell you about how genealogy makes me feel. Sharon Young Jebavy <>< No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.4/1355 - Release Date: 4/1/2008 5:37 PM

Sarah, About fifteen years ago while visiting my grandmother I was thumbing through her well-worn Bible. In it were names I didn't know. I asked her about one in particular and she told me it was her grandmother. I was ashamed that I knew so little about my family. From then on my grandmother and I went on a journey of exploration. She was old and unable to walk but she could remember 90 years of family history. As I learned a little bit she would fill in the blanks with wonderful stories. All I had to do was mention a name and she did the rest. She called it 'rattlin' bones' . I made copies of death, birth and marriages information for her to read and remininise. We both shared some wonderful memories. I traveled to long forgotten cemeteries and churches and old places; took pictures and shared these with her as well. More stories came out. Thankfully my grandmother and I shared these pleasures for several years before her passing. I typed all of the wonderful stories into book form and shared them with my family as Christmas gifts. I didn't stop there but sought out other relatives to pump their brains. I learned one ancestor was captured in the Civil War which led me to the battlefield where he fought and was captured. This in turn led me to explore all I could find out about that battle and the surrounding area. I checked out the various prison camps where he was kept and learned more history. He was forced to sign an oath and was released in Richmond, Virgina. Another road trip and more history lessons. Throughout the years of researching my family history I enriched my life with so much historical and geographical information that I would never have done otherwise. I have traveled hundreds of miles just to look at a tombstone so that by being there I could know my family. With the help of the internet I have made connections throughout the USA and gotten to know family members I would never have known. All of this I have shared with my family and posted on the internet so that my family story will not be forgotten.. Genealogy never ends. Kay Withers Cynthiana > [Original Message] > From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> > To: <KYGARRAR-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 4/2/2008 6:55:54 PM > Subject: [KYGARRAR] Why genealogy? > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: idyllicmelody > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.g arrard/3945/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > Hi, my name is Sarah Simpson, a student at Garrard County High School, and I'm writing a paper concerning why people love genealogy. I'm hoping you'll be able to help me by answering a few of the below questions. Answer any or all of them, whatever you wish to do. > > 1.Why do you believe people find history so alluring? > > 2. What other interests and hobbies do you have besides history/genealogy? > > 3. How long have you been interested? What initially spurred your interest in history/genealogy? > > 4. How have your feelings and opinions changed toward your pursuit over time? > > 5. How/where do you do your research? > > 6. Have you ever been surprised or amused by your discoveries? > > 7. Can you suggest any other sources of information for me? > > 8. Any final thoughts? > > Thanks very much, > Sarah Simpson > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KYGARRAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Roslyn (and list) If you notice, the original post was actually on a forum and you have to click the link to reply on the forum. Sarah probably is not on this list, and probably won't see replies on here. Alice On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Roslyn McLendon <nonny984@comcast.net> wrote: > Hi Sarah, > 1. People want to know what happened to make them what they are today. > 2. I paint, garden and read. > 3. When I was 16, I found my ggrandmother's wedding certificate in an old > family bible, and I was hooked. I am 70 now and have been searching for > my > family tree for at least 30 years. > 4. I still get excited when I make a new "find" about my family or when I > can make a trip to Kentucky to the courthouse and search. > 5. Mostly on the internet, but sometimes the libraries which have all > kinds > of information, and when I can, I go to the courthouses. > 6. I found a little footnote in the back of a library book 30 years ago > and > didn't know if it pertained to my gggrandfather, but wrote it down. > Twenty > years later, I got his civil war papers and found the same information > that > I had jotted down earlier. > 7. Courthouses, (clerk's office), libraries, historical museums, old > pictures in the family album, your grandparents or aunts and uncles. > 8. It is a rewarding challenge. Just make sure you keep notes of where > you > found your information and stick it away and you may uncover something > someday that will match up with your earlier finds. Enjoy it! > Roslyn > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KYGARRAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Sarah, 1. People want to know what happened to make them what they are today. 2. I paint, garden and read. 3. When I was 16, I found my ggrandmother's wedding certificate in an old family bible, and I was hooked. I am 70 now and have been searching for my family tree for at least 30 years. 4. I still get excited when I make a new "find" about my family or when I can make a trip to Kentucky to the courthouse and search. 5. Mostly on the internet, but sometimes the libraries which have all kinds of information, and when I can, I go to the courthouses. 6. I found a little footnote in the back of a library book 30 years ago and didn't know if it pertained to my gggrandfather, but wrote it down. Twenty years later, I got his civil war papers and found the same information that I had jotted down earlier. 7. Courthouses, (clerk's office), libraries, historical museums, old pictures in the family album, your grandparents or aunts and uncles. 8. It is a rewarding challenge. Just make sure you keep notes of where you found your information and stick it away and you may uncover something someday that will match up with your earlier finds. Enjoy it! Roslyn

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: factorykitten07 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/2219.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My gr gr grandfather was Albert Huffman. Not sure if same one though! I know one of Albert's sons was Thomas Huffman, his son Thomas Huffman Jr. Thomas Huffman Sr. was married to a women named Alice who was 15 when she married Tom Sr. Thats all I know on that...sorry Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Probably - tell me more about the family - Grandparents - where are they from - Most BUFORD's are related - We go back a very long way to Virginia 1635 and England about 1000 and then France. And yes, we certainly are "Cuddly, Lovable little devils...." I tried corresponding with Tommy several years ago but even tho he said he would get "right back" to me he never did. One of our relatives gave the land for a town in Garrard County a long time ago. A lot of the Buford men were lawyers and politicians. Tell me more about "Judge Buford." His full name. Thanks for writing - looking forward to hearing from you. fern ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emalene Rohrer" <erohrer@arclp.net> To: <kygarrar@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:48 PM Subject: Re: [KYGARRAR] Buford Website Up-date 3-27-08 > fern, were you related to the Bufords in Nicholasville? Tommy is our > Representative in Frankfort, his father Billy was a Lawyer. A relative was > Judge Buford who lived near me, long ago and I think they came from > Madison. > Prominent there too. They are a very likable family. Emma > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Fern" <rumycuzn@bresnan.net> > To: <KYGARRAR@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:09 PM > Subject: [KYGARRAR] Buford Website Up-date 3-27-08 > > >> Hello folks, >> >> Spring at last - for most of us - some of my friends are still battling >> flood waters. May God help them.... >> >> I just finished another Buford Website up-date and want to invite you all >> to come by and take a look. I reconstructed another Buford line that >> encompass eight states - from Florida to Kansas and Texas. Over 40 pages >> in my Microsoft Word. It is a monster and took me a long time in >> researching. I want to thank all of you who gave me a helping hand along >> the way - you know who you are.... >> >> Hope you all had a Great Winter and are now starting to enjoy Spring. We >> here in Colorado have sure had our share of the soft White stuff. Snow >> fall this year is over 200% of the norm. Our rivers will be crowding >> their banks soon. >> >> Take care everyone. Fern K. Buford Walker >> www.bufordfamilies.com >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> KYGARRAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KYGARRAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

fern, were you related to the Bufords in Nicholasville? Tommy is our Representative in Frankfort, his father Billy was a Lawyer. A relative was Judge Buford who lived near me, long ago and I think they came from Madison. Prominent there too. They are a very likable family. Emma ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fern" <rumycuzn@bresnan.net> To: <KYGARRAR@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:09 PM Subject: [KYGARRAR] Buford Website Up-date 3-27-08 > Hello folks, > > Spring at last - for most of us - some of my friends are still battling > flood waters. May God help them.... > > I just finished another Buford Website up-date and want to invite you all > to come by and take a look. I reconstructed another Buford line that > encompass eight states - from Florida to Kansas and Texas. Over 40 pages > in my Microsoft Word. It is a monster and took me a long time in > researching. I want to thank all of you who gave me a helping hand along > the way - you know who you are.... > > Hope you all had a Great Winter and are now starting to enjoy Spring. We > here in Colorado have sure had our share of the soft White stuff. Snow > fall this year is over 200% of the norm. Our rivers will be crowding > their banks soon. > > Take care everyone. Fern K. Buford Walker > www.bufordfamilies.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KYGARRAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Hello folks, Spring at last - for most of us - some of my friends are still battling flood waters. May God help them.... I just finished another Buford Website up-date and want to invite you all to come by and take a look. I reconstructed another Buford line that encompass eight states - from Florida to Kansas and Texas. Over 40 pages in my Microsoft Word. It is a monster and took me a long time in researching. I want to thank all of you who gave me a helping hand along the way - you know who you are.... Hope you all had a Great Winter and are now starting to enjoy Spring. We here in Colorado have sure had our share of the soft White stuff. Snow fall this year is over 200% of the norm. Our rivers will be crowding their banks soon. Take care everyone. Fern K. Buford Walker www.bufordfamilies.com

Don't know if there is any connection to Nancy, but I have a Nimrod Coghill, son George, and possibly a dau. Nancy(not sure of that)but they were in n. Ky. There were some Germanna family around there also, (Harmon) and maybe more. Try the area around Henry, Trimble, Carroll County for some of the family you are searching-could be there is a connection there. Not far from Garrard County. Roslyn

This message appeared recently on the Germanna Colonies rootsweb: Message: 3 Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:26:17 -0400 From: "William and Julia Wallace" <wwallace@muskingum.edu> Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] References to Some Residents of the First Colony of Germanna To: germanna_colonies@rootsweb.com Message-ID: _47e6f529.27d.59f50.703@muskingum.edu_ (mailto:47e6f529.27d.59f50.703@muskingum.edu) Do you have any more information on Nancy Kelly? I have a friend at the Garrard Historical Soc. looking for information on the Kelly family. I have been no help. They lived near the "Germannans". I have the maps somewhere that Fred Simpson published. J.W. (Julie) Wallace Response: For Germanna Researchers - some of the migration trails of some descendants of early Germanna colonists. This information is far from adequate, as researching females is difficult. The Kemper Family genealogy has been digitized and is on HeritageQuest, available at many public libraries which subscribe to this genealogical database. (Search term in Books: Kemper) Here are some sketchy notes on Nancy Kelly Kemper of Garrard Co., KY. She was the widow of George Nimrod Kemper (d. Aug 1820 in KY) of that county. He in turn was one of the sons of John Kemper, the elder of Garrard Co., Dicks River area. Mercer Co. was on the other side of the River. (That is where many Kemper-Holtzclaw marriages took place.) There were two John Kempers in early Garrard Co., one being married to Sarah Rosser [my ancestor] and the other, believed to be younger man, married to Judith Burdette [variant spellings]. The Kempers and the Rossers were believed to have been of Fauquier Co., VA. Preparer: E.W. Wallace Edited 1/99; edited 12/07 Tax lists added Mar 2008 NANCY KELLY. Wife and widow of George Nimrod Kemper of Garrard Co., KY. She appears in the 1820 census of Garrard Co., KY, p. 565 (or on HeritageQuest, M33, Roll 21, Page 131). Living at home at that time were three young sons and one daughter. Nancy was under age 45. Geroge Niimrod Kemper died August 1920, according to the Kemper Family Genealogy. Deduction: She was widowed before she was age 45. In her household she had two sons under age 10 and one under 16. There was one daughter 10-16. There were no slaves. If the census was taken by neighborhoods, it seems that two Holsclaw families lived nearby: Jacob Holsclaw, who had a relatively large household, and John Holsclaw with four young sons under age 10. Several Holtzclaws married into the Kemper family, but the relationships of these Kempers to Nancy's deceased husband are unknown. At least one John Kelly appears in the 1820 census of Garrard Co., and he seemingly is an older man but with a number of females of varying ages in his home. (Kemper Genealogy says he died 1834.) On page 136 a John Kelly, about age 45, appears in the 1820 census for Garrard Co., KY A number of Kelleys and Kelly males appeared on tax lists of Kentucky in 1789 and 1790, but it is difficult to say at this time whether any of these men may have been the father of Nancy Kelly. (See note at bottom.) The 1795 tax lists of Kentucky list these Kelly males in counties adjoining Garrard Co., KY: Kelley, Amaniel - Madison Kelley, William - Bourbon Kelly, Daniel - Mercer Kelly, Jacob - Mercer Kelly, John - Fayette Kelly, Joseph - Woodford Kelly, Samuel - Madison Kelly, Samuel - Mercer Kelly, Timothy - Mercer Kelly, William - Bourbon Source: TLC Genealogy, The 1795 Census of Kentucky [Miami Beach, FL: TLC Genealogy, 1991], p. 96 Note: My recollection from the Kemper Family Genealogy [my names for it--the title is slightly more elegant] is that her parents were John and Elizabeth Kelly. Probably they came from Fauquier Co. or possibly Culpeper Co. VA My further comments: I would highly recommend that the researcher peruse, if at all possible, the works about early Kentucky of Michael L. Cook and his wife Betty Cummings Cook, particularly the books having to do with Kentucky Court of Appeals. There are some wonderful depositions which the Cooks transcribed. These books are probably at Eastern Kentucky U. in Richmond, KY, not far from Garrard Co. Also, there are some Cook transcriptions of records of the early counties in Kentucky. Jillson's books on land grants in Kentucky may be helpful. At one time there was a CD-ROM of these books about land grants, very searchable. An afterthought: According to the *1795 Census of Kentucky*, cited above, Richard Rosser, believed to be brother of Mrs. John Kemper the elder [nee Sarah Rosser] was listed in that 1795 tax list as of Fayette Co. I stumbled upon a transcribed Rev. War pension claim of Richard Rosser in an old tattered booklet [typewritten and then mimeographed] found at my local Family History Center. The title included the name *Old Crab Orchard*. John Kemper gave a deposition/affidavit (?) to the effect that Richard Rosser had been his messmate in Benjamin Harrison's company [in the Revolution]. I made the leap of faith that Rosser was Kemper's brother-in-law. (This is why we genealogists have to study neighborhoods!!!) As far as my research has gone, Kemper did not apply for a Rev. war pension. A lot of conjecture here, but no proof. That is the way when we research our female ancestors, alas! Unless she had a child out of wedlock!!! E.W.Wallace Two Kelley males were in Madison Co., KY [adjacent to Garrard Co.] in 1789: Immanuel and Stephen. (It is believed that Garrard Co. was formed from Madison Co., but this needs to be confirmed). **************Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. 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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: judy111146 Surnames: ADAMS,KING,KERR,STONE,LONG,MOBERLY,TUDOR,FINNELL,PREWITT,HARRIS, more Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/2175.12/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have an ancestor also from the 11th. Please email copy if still available. Thank you. Judy ADAMS at adams1111@bellsouth.net. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

I think I have posted this before, but in case you missed it: This book has been digitized and is available on the online genealogical database called HeritageQuest. If you contact your local public library, you may be able to determine where and how you can get access to this database. Only public libraries, as I understand it, can now subscribe. This is the book which refers to Fauquier Co., VA where many of the First Germanna colonists settled. But, of course Fauquier Co. was formed from Prince William Co., where many of the early records have been destroyed [or at least not located]. (There are a couple of books on Prince William Co., but the one Index I surveyed did not seem to include any Germanna surnames. Too bad, because some of our folk were there in its early days!) A good many of the First Germanna descendants migrated to Kentucky, and, in particular, I am thinking of Mercer and Garrard Cos. But, of course, our migrating ancestors went where there was Land, and cheap land, on a decent watercourse. Kentucky counties kept dividing, so you may find Germanna families anywhere, and they intermarried with persons who had Anglo [or Irish] surnames. (One of my Kemper ancestresses of Garrard Co., KY was Nancy Kelly. Seems like one of the Kempers married an O'Bannon.) This is the digitized book. Groome, H. C. Fauquier cduring the proprietorship: a chronicle of the colonization and organization of a Northern Neck county Richmond: Old Dominion Press, 264 pages. (There is an index. Click on Table of Contents which will give you a link to the Index, if I remember correctly. Maybe you will find some good leads.) E.W.Wallace **************Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15?ncid=aolhom00030000000001)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: suegenet Surnames: Humphrey, Locker, Dailey, Davis Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/2175.11/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I know this is a very old post but I just came across it and was wondering if there was any chance you could send me the attachment. Thank you, suegenet@yahoo.com Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: KandyBackAgee Surnames: Fisher Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3944/mb.ashx Message Board Post: NOTE: I DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS INDIVIDUAL. JUST POSTING THE OBITUARY ON OSCAR FISHER JR FROM THE DAYTON (OH) DAILY NEWS 3/20/08 Oscar Fisher Jr. Age 81, of Riverside, OH passed away March 19, 2008. Oscar was born August 16, 1926 in Lancaster KY. He retired from System Research Laboratories. Oscar is survived by his loving wife Virginia of 62 years; children Jeff (Sue) Fisher, Rick (Patty) Fisher, Randy (Laura) Fisher, Ruth (Bobby) Parham, Jinnie (Allan) Wilkins; grandchildren Jeff (Michelle) Fisher, Kevin Fisher, Garrett Fisher, Tony Fisher, Nick Fisher, Melissa Fisher, Joel Fisher, Kiel Fisher, Jillian Fisher, Chris Parham, Jason Parham, Allan Michael Wilkins; great-grandchildren Allyn Watts, Will Fisher; and many other friends and relatives. He was a good husband, father, grandfather, friend, and neighbor. Oscar died peacefully with his family around him. Remember the big "O"! The family will receive friends March 21, 2008 from 9:30-11:00am at Newcomer Funeral Home Beavercreek Chapel (3380 Dayton-Xenia Rd.) The funeral service will follow at 11:00am. Interment will be at Mt. Zion Park Cemetery. To ! send the family a special message please visit online, www.NewcomerFamily.com Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: DWW502 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3891.1.2.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: i am sorry, in the previous message I said Lindsey was a son of Lindsey.......my mistake he was the son of John Murphy and Susan Massie Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: DWW502 Surnames: Murphy/Massie Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3891.1.2.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I do believe that the Lindsy you speak of is the Son of Lindsey Murphy and Susan Massie. I have his death certificate Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Thompson, Hill, Evans, Murphy Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3943/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From the Memphis Daily Appeal - 5 Dec 1865 Bloody Tragedy in Mississippi. A Son Murders A Family. The Mother, Son and Three Sisters Dead. The Father and a Sister Wounded. James Thompson left his home eight or ten years ago. About a year since he returned to the house of his father, near Brooksville, on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. James exhibited to his father what appeared to be authentic and official letters from Peru; showing that he was citizen of that country, and had been in the Peruvian army. When this man arrived at home the Federal army was approaching Brooksville, and young Thompson persuaded his father to deed his property to him, so that he could legally place it under the protection of the Peruvian flag. James has recently been organizing a colony for Brazil. He sold stock from the place, and his last act was to place one hundred bales of cotton on a flatboat on the Tombigbee river, which flows within a few miles of Brooksville. The father became alarmed, and, it appears, left home on Tuesday of last week, for Gainesville, to obtain legal advice as to the proper steps to take in restraining his son. It appears, however, that this move was made quietly, and that the relations of James, with the family, which consisted of his stepmother, three half sisters and a half brother, were entirely cordial. There is also a full brother named Joseph, who it is feared was accessory to James. On Sunday morning James approached the house and inquired of the negroes in the yard, if all were well. He then entered the house, and it appears, shot his sister Margaret with a shotgun as she was in the act of dressing herself. She had one stocking on and had another in her hand. The shot took effect in her right shoulder and side, nearly tearing the arm from the body, and mangling the side most horribly. The mother was heard by her daughter Jemima, who was upstairs, to beg her son most piteously not to shoot; but a! second report followed, and the mother was found dead, shot in the right shoulder and aide, on the floor back of the bed. The mother and this daughter must have died instantly. The murderer then entered the room of his brother, Clay, whom he shot in the forehead, killing him instantly. Clay was also heard by the girls above stairs begging his brother not to shoot him. The two girls upstairs closed and bolted their door, but the terrible man ascended the stairs and forced it open. Jemima slipped by him, rushed down, and was on the threshold of the door, when she was seized by the shoulder and flung back into the room and shot in the back of the head with a pistol. She must die. From the direction of the fatal shot she must have been on her knees, begging for her life. The murderer then again went upstairs and shot the last and youngest sister, named Emma, in the shoulder and breast. She got under the bed, where he fired two shots at her. She abandoned this positio! n and placed herself behind a wardrobe. Here she received two shots, one in the side and one in the left thigh. This young girl may recover. James now left the house and proceeded to the river, where his cotton boat was moored. He met his father and the Sheriff of the county. He aimed deliberately at his father, but the cap snapped. He fired the second barrel, but it was knocked up by a by-stander, and passed harmlessly over the father's head. He then his pistol and fired twice, one shot taking effect in the body of the father, who now clenched the desperado and after a fierce struggle he was bound. The hue and cry was raised, and citizens from Brooksville followed the ruffian to the river, who were with difficulty restrained from burning him. He is in jail at Macon. It is supposed that Joe Thompson was an accomplice, from the fact that he told his father and the sheriff, on their arrival at the river, that his brother James was drinking and would do mischief since which that time he has not been seen. James Thompson is described as a small man, with a pleasing but reckless face. He is thirty years of age. END OF ARTICLE. >From the Louisville Daily Journal - 14 Dec 1865 Horrible Murder. - A young man named James Thompson, of Noxubee, Miss., murdered his mother, brother, and two sisters, Saturday last. Thompson had some difficulty with his father about a little property. He killed his mother, two sisters, and one brother in revenge for his supposed grievances. Thompson was taken to Brooksville, Miss., and hanged by the citizens. END OF ARTICLE Roland Thompson, his brother, is listed on the Civil War monument to the dead standing in Macon, Miss. If James was gone for eight to ten years to S. America, when and where did he serve in the Civil War? At this stage of the war, southerners were doing many things to protect what cotton they had left, so the story rings true about a scheme to bring it under the protection of a Peruvian citizen. What doesn't make sense is the story of James being crazed by brother Roland's death and waiting 3 or 4 years to snap. I wonder what the house servants were doing when the rampage was going on? Did they run to get help? This story was taken from an eyewitness because of the detail. Emma did give an interview to the Meridian Clarion dated 10 Dec 1865 but did she also give an interview to this reporter which shows that the wounds she sustained was not life-threatening. Was this a planned event as James was armed to the teeth, shotgun and pistol, which meant a certain amount of reloading had to be done. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: rarden155 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3936.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: There are still many people in Garrard, Mason and Woodford related to this family. There were marriages in all three areas for the next three generations connected to them and neighbors who came to Kentucky from the Fauquier county Va. area. Namely, Thompson, Pepper, Kemper, Burdett, Pollard Swope, and others of the Germanna community. Thanks Harold W. Rarden Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.