Hi Folks My Gr grandfather was Henry Cyprian French born on Aug 6 1850 and married Anna Justine Wise ,daughter of David E Wise on May 4 1872 in St John Church .Must be some kin??? Larry Crawford Elizabethtown Ky BobcatBob@aol.com wrote: > Teddy, > > Considering the near map I drew for you, it is hard to understand why you > still have no clue as to the location of St John Cemetery. The church is > clearly denoted on every map of Hardin Co, KY I have here at home. And it > clearly shows the little town of St John right next to the church. Even says > cemetery. It covers a bit of ground and really is not that hard to find. > There must be some 500 plus tombstones and I have photographs of at least 100 > of them. The cemetery surrounds an active parish chuch along with a rectory > and an elementary school. Somewhere around here I have a church bulletin and > am sure it says St John, KY but more important than the name of the town it > is located I would think would be the location. Can't go wrong with Hardin > Co, KY. > > >Here's the scoop. My g-g-grandfather was Charles William FRENCH, b > 3/22/1833 >in Hardin County, KY, married Lucinda WISE. My Aunt supplied me > with much > >information in this tree, mostly the direct line. She is reluctant to share > >sources and alot of other interesting stuff. She feels she has put so much > >time, energy and money into her research, she doesn't want to give it away. > > What a charitable attitude! I guess she thinks research is just handed to > the rest of us who share with others. The reason I put 8 generstions of > Alvey reseach on my web page was to help others and to share with others a > lot of the information that had been shared with me. I stopped at 8 only to > avoid any controversy about posting info on living persons which I did not. I > do think that is a very old attitude and probably brought on by the > difficulites when you just used a pencil and had to rewrite everything every > time you shared information with anyone. I don't remember the "good ole days" > before copy machines even at my advanced age. I doubt they will let her past > the Golden Gates with her prized binders of secret French information. I lap > both generations, have done lots of genealogy your Aunts way but am modern > enough to understand the enormous benefits and the pitfalls of todays > electronic age. I get an average of 1o queries a wek from those you browse > the Interent and run across my web page, that would never happen in the > letter writing days. Are you certain that your GG grandfather was Charles > William French who married Lucinda C Wise??. The St John marriage records > list him as Charles H and the baptismal records for many of his children read > Charles Henry French and Lucinda C Wise. > > > By the way, Bob (one of you who responded), I believe I got the burial > >information from either you or Melissa A. I still am confused as to the > >whereabouts of St. Johns. > > All on this list should know I responded to your query since I did not > respond to you directly but to the list so others could be helped as well, a > notion lost on your Aunt. > You did not get the death information from me for I have no clue as to when > Charles Henry French or Lucinda C Wise died or where they are buried. I can > give you very reliable sources for his birth and the baptismal records for > most of his children. Their marriage is recorded in Hardin Co marriage > records and St John marrige records but not having done much research on the > French surname, I have never tried to find the death dates of Charles and > Lucinda. There are a couple of books that have some information on the the > family of Leo French and Mary Ann Bryan as well but I did not see much of > Charles and Lucinda in those either. I only have church death records up to > 1869 but if the church registers are in existence today I am sure the pastor > could find a death record for you and it would include the burial location > especially if your Aunt is right and they are buried in st John. > > It is very possible that Charles Henry is buried in St John's and either has > no tombstone or the tombstone is unreadable which many are not in St John's > due to a very low grade of stone used for a large percentage of the > tombstones. Those buried in St James in E-town seem to have come for a more > afflent background and the tombstones have held up to the weather there. > But Charles and Lucinda are not listed in any St John Cemetery that I have > seen but if your Aunt says so, she must know. The Corbett book also says > that Leo French and his wife are buried there and they are no listed either. > > Bob Alvey > > ============================== > Ancestry.com now has more than 200,000 subscribers! To celebrate, > access to ALL of Ancestry.com will be free from July 18 to July 31! > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/freepromo.asp?sourcecode=A11AM