This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Saylor, Taylor Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3AB.2ACI/6871.1.1 Message Board Post: Joyce, Does this gentleman also get other court cases for you dated back in the late 1800's. My gr.gr.gr. grandfathers children took him to court and I do know that there is a very large court records at the Kentucky Archives of this. I have bits and parts of it.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Johnson, Blevins, Parsons, Green, Roark, Howard, Brock, Saylor Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3AB.2ACI/6871.1 Message Board Post: Lisa, I needed information on a trial that took place after an 1918 killing in Harlan Co. I contacted Chester Ward at 821 Glenn Court, Owensboro, KY 42303-0520 and told him what I knew which was only the year it occured, the victims names and the name of the perpetrator. Mr. Ward got all of the information I could have asked for and he is very reasonable. The information was worth a lot more money than he charged for it. The trial was moved from Harlan Co to Bell Co and he got me the records of both counties from somewhere at the state archives. They didn't do an actual transcript then like we know them today. It's more like the minutes of a meeting. It will tell the names of everybody concerned, including the names of jurors and witnesses and where they live, the amount of bail, who put up the bail, and whatever was decided. You can also contact Mr. Ward at chesterward@mindspring.com Just tell him everything you already know and what you want and he will give you a price before he does anything so you will know what to expect. Good luck and I hope you find everything you are looking for. Joyce Shannon Zandri

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3AB.2ACI/6871 Message Board Post: Does anyone know if these old court records exist and who I could contact for them? According to family stories, my great grandfather, Henry Saylor, was shot and killed in July of 1918 in Pathfork on Pucketts Creek, Harlan Co., KY. He was killed by a man whose lastname was Craig. Later Craig was later tried, found guilty & sentenced to prison. I would like to try and find a copy of the court records from that time. I have also been looking for newpaper records. If anyone has any information, please let me know. thanks -lisa

In a message dated 9/20/05 2:10:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, JessDan2@aol.com writes: > I am seeking any information about Cora Daniels and/or Otis Bradford who > were married in Harlan County. This was probably late 1800s or early 1900s. > Any > information will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks... and God There is no marriage record in Harlan county for Otis Bradford and Cora Daniels.---Janette Nolan

I am seeking any information about Cora Daniels and/or Otis Bradford who were married in Harlan County. This was probably late 1800s or early 1900s. Any information will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks... and God bless.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AB.2ACI/6867.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry that path is INACCESSIBLE not accessible.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AB.2ACI/6867.2.1 Message Board Post: Yes, the cemeteries are getting bad. My family has tried many times to contact Harlan County. The cemetery up in Gabes Branch (Ages) is accessible. The path is to the top of the mountain and to the cemetery is steep and dangerous. There is money allocated by the state for these cemeteries however trying to get any help from the county is like pulling teeth. It is a shame that our deceased forefathers of Harlan County are treated with such disgrace and indignity. One of my descendants buried there is a Civil War Veteran, his stone is falling apart and I would like to get a new stone for him. He was a Confederate Soldier. He owned all of Ages Bottom for many years, his name was Hugh Smith.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AB.2ACI/6870 Message Board Post: After many months of building and working I've finally finished the GenSearch Program. With GenSearch you can easily find living realitives, search your ancestors back to the 1500's or later, find old newspapper clippings, search family photo databases, build and share your family tree online, connect with family members using special GenSearch messaging software, locate lost loved ones, friends and family. This program coveres every county, in every state in the United States. GenSearch uses every major resource on the net and combines them in to one great program. You can * Easily find generations of your family. * Find old photographs of your ancestors * Find old family stories, newspapper clippings * Build your family tree and intergrate it with others to branch it out even longer. * Complete list of family websites, message boards and chat rooms * Talk to family and friends on our special instant message program * Share photos and stories of your family No longer do you have to go from site to site, to find your family and pay a monthly payment just to search through endless amounts of wrong information. GenSearch is the best family history & geneology tool you will find. The BEST Part is the program is 100% FREE! All you do is pay $6.00 shipping, and cost to produce and package the program. The program comes on a CD-ROM that will work on PC & MAC Computers. In addition, I have included a program that will stop popups, and help your computer run faster. To get your FREE copy of GenSearch, send $6.00 check, cash or money order to: GenSearch C/O Roger Pence 1776 S. 1180 W. Lexington, In 47138 If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me: genosearch@yahoo.com PS; I'm also available to do research on your family and history of your family, with guarantueed results. If you have any questions, e-mail me at the address above.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Madden, Yates, Farler (Farley) Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3AB.2ACI/1354.3218.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Peggy, Nothing so concrete as a birth certificate I'm afraid. Its only through inference and circumstantial evidence. Luckily since the Madden name is not common in Harlan County it's pretty good evidence. In the 1850 Harlan County, Kentucky census Chamion Madden is listed of HOH with wife Sarah and son Achali (or Achalis). Their neighbor is Forrest Farley who has who I assume to be Champion's sister, Hester (my Great Great Grandmother) boarding there. Hester was supposed to be an excellent business women. Kizzy Madden doesn't show up in the 1850 Census (or the name is spelled wrong enough that I can't find her). In the 1860 Census, I can't find Champion but I do find Hester. Living with Hester & her husband Andrew Valentine Yates (30 years her senior, same age as Kizzy!) is Kizzy. Kizzy, of course I assumed was her mother but could be her aunt or some other kin. She could even be unrelated. I find that unlikely but possible. The Maddens seems to have come from Tennesee but in the 1860 census Kizzy's birthplace is said to be Virginia. I was always told that Hester was a Cherokee and so the Tennessee / Virginia origin (Appalachia) makes sense. And what seems to be their lack of 'official' records and their flight from Tennessee, speaking in a very loose timeframe here, in around the same time as the Trail of Tears make sense if the Cherokee story is true. I have never heard of Champness. I would like to hear everything you know about the Maddens as well please. Thanks. Best Regards, Andy

Just a note about the care of cemeteries. The Lewis descendents came up with this plan a few years ago. We meet for a reunion over the Memorial Day weekend and choose to have an auction to maintain our cemetery. We are paying someone in the community to maintain the yearly care of our cemetery. It has been a great success. We all bring heirlooms we don't want, new stuff or garage sale items. We have raised so much money that this year the monies went to the Dione Baptist Church which housed our big meal this year on Sunday. Happy Trails, Linda Lewis-Weissinger Descendent John Jarrett Lewis (1790-1860) and both wives, Jane Smith (1795) and Elizabeth Morgan (1799-1868)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AB.2ACI/6869 Message Board Post: I am told that my father was a bus driver in Harlan. His name is S.B. King . Any information would be appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Madden Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3AB.2ACI/6862.2.2.1.1 Message Board Post: There's also the Bill's Creek or Dizney Church of God Cemetery... lots of graves there from the early 1900's.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: woolum Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3AB.2ACI/6868 Message Board Post: in 1933/34 josephine (joie mae) woolum, she was surgical supervisor at harlan hospital, does anyone remember her, i have a picture of the hospital and also one of a mrs goth date 1934. joie was born in morgan co tenn in 1900.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AB.2ACI/6867.1.1 Message Board Post: Yes, I know how bad the cemeteries are. I have family in the Masonic Cemetery and others and was not able to get to them because of the condition they are in. The Blanton cemetery I am refering to is on Ligget street in Wallins. I didn't even know it was there and kind of found it by accident. The name says Private Blanton Cemetery. There was also another one I couldn't get to. I didn't see a name and it had a heavy cable across it so you couldn't get in. Can't remember the name of the street it's on but it's in Wallins with the rest of them.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nolan Morgan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3AB.2ACI/6861.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you so much Tina, a thank you means so much to our volunteers. Elton has much more planned for our Harlan Research site. We got a generous offer from a volunteer and she is transcribing the 1930 census for us. All the Ky coordinators, as a group efffor, pitched in and purchased 44 microfilmed rolls of rejected birth applications, the birth record you could not locate, may be in the rejected birth files. They are births prior to 1911. The images will be online, thanks to the generosity of volunteers. I purchased the microfilm for Harlan and Leslie County. We should have those uploaded by late October. A Ky military photo book, World War 11 is being documented. Our goal is to keep genealogy records free to all. Volunteers are always welcome and a thank u warms our heart and makes our day. :) Thanks to All Elva Nolan Morgan

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AB.2ACI/6861.1 Message Board Post: A Hugh Thank You For All The Hard Work That All Of You Did Making This Happen, Thru All Of You, I Have Found Marriage Dates That I Never Would Have Without This Placement To This Board, Thank Each And Everyone Of You. Blessings To Each. Tina M Redden

In a message dated 9/15/05 7:44:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time, sheree606@alltel.net writes: > 29 Jan 1875 Green B. Day Lee County KY to Ira Day b. Lee County Va and > Blank b. Harlan County, KY{This is GreenBerry Day--whose mother was Eliza > Skidmore Day. Eliza was the d/o Ira and Sarah (Ledford) Skidmore of Harlan co. > Ira and Eliza were in the 1860 Harlan Co census in HH 681. They were in > Lee Co, Ky census in 1870 and 1880.---Janette Nolan] > > 11 Jan 1874 Willie Day b. Lee County KY to Newberry Day b. Lee County, > VA and Diana Day b. Estill County, KY > >

Several years ago I was so struck by how overrun the Stephen Cawood cemetery was, I called around to to various Harlan city offices. I finally found a very nice lady who was a secretary in one of the court offices, and I expressed my concerns and asked who was responsible for these small town cemeteries. She said she would ask the judge if he could send some of the county jail inmates to clear the cemetery. He must have done so, because on my next trip to Cawood, we could visit areas that had not been cleared for years. Whoever those inmates were, they did a fine job and I was grateful. Our immediate family graves are looked after by my cousin's family, which has tended them for years. Many other families do the same. But we are all aging, and anyone can see what will happen in years to come. This year, the Cawood cemetery was fairly cleared. You can see where some families have "taken up" their deceased family members and moved them, I suppose to a bigger place such as Resthaven in Harlan. We could find my auntie's father's grave, which was often hidden by brambles of wild roses. I'm a transplant Kentuckian. Born in Cawood, raised in Ohio, and I know just about every name in the Stephen Cawood cemetery, and am somehow related to many of them. There are thousands of people like me, with emotional ties to places we never really lived, or rarely lived, and lots of us are interested to preserving and respecting our ancestors graves. We just can't do the necessary work. Sharon > From: gjnolan@aol.com > Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:41:44 -0600 > To: KYHARLAN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [KYHARLAN] Re: cemeteries > Resent-From: KYHARLAN-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:41:48 -0600 > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AB.2ACI/6867.2 > > Message Board Post: > > I have heard that most all of the cemeteries in HC are getting in really bad > shape. John Langford--before he passed away- was doing a pretty good job of > recording and cleaning some of them, but since his death I don't know of > anyone who is working on them. I don't know much about the cemetery on > Liggett St in Wallins, but I sent your question on to Kathryn Trail, who at > one time lived in Wallins and recorded a lot of the cemteries there. She > might be able to answer that question. Some of the families listed at the > Sang Branch Cem (Ky King Cem) were Scott, Howard, Hensley, Helton, > Shackleford,Caldwell, Spurlock and others.--Janette > > > > ==== KYHARLAN Mailing List ==== > Harlan Kentucky Websites. > Harlan County Research: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyharlan/ > Harlan County: AHGP: http://www.ahgp.org/ > Harlan County ALHN: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyharla2/ >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AB.2ACI/6862.2.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Randy--You are right. The Alva Memorial Gardens( formerly the Gilbert Lee ) Cemetery located at Alva--should be on that list. Also missing is the Evarts Memorial Gardens at Evarts. I am sure there are a lot more cemeteries not listed and a lot of the names have been changed. As I said the list was given to me several years ago, and I can't even remembered who published it. As for the Herman Roark cemetery listed at Pathfork I know nothing about it. I have never seen anything about it or if it is still there.---Janette

In a message dated 9/16/05 8:08:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, csbenge@comcast.net writes: > I couldn't get up to the Sang Branch Cemetery. Does anyone know what > Some of the families listed at the Sang Branch Cem (Ky King Cem) were Scott, Howard, Hensley, Helton, Shackleford,Caldwell, Spurlock and others.--Janette