Jim, thanks for the point about changing the subject line. My EADES lived in Henderson and Daviess Co., KY. Where were yours from? Pam in Va Bch., VA

Mar 1896 Kentuckian Hopkinsville, Ky W. Brown, a Webster county convict, finished a five year term Saturday morning, but his freedom was short lived. As he emerged from the prison door he was met by the Sheriff of Hopkins county, who immediately arrested him on an old warrant charging him with horse-stealing in Hopkins county. Betty Sellers

Hopkinsville Kentuckian March 1896 W. Brown, a Webster county convict, finished a five year term Saturday morning, but his freedom was short lived. As he emerged from the prison door he was met by the Sheriff of Hopkins county, who immediately arrested him on an old warrant charging him with horse steeling in Hopkins County. Betty Sellers

A Morganfield Boy Steals a Wife Lexington, Ky March 25, 1896 J. P. McCauley of Morganfield, Ky., and Miss Ethel Matthews, seventeen years old, daughter of Robert Matthews, of this city, eloped this morning over the Louisville Southern Railroad to Jeffersonville, Miss. Miss Matthews left her home through the window by means of a ladder. The young lady left a note notifying her mother of her intention to get married. Lying on the dresser Mrs. Matthews found the following letter which was read in amazement. MR DEAR MAMA: I know you will be surprised when you find I am gone, but I am sure I am doing what is right. I have thought of it for a long time, and it is for the best. Only my love for you has kept me back so long. It nearly kills me to leave all of you, but I know if you do not now think so you will in time know I have done the right thing. I can come back whenever I want to, and you must come and see me. I know I will be so happy and I am sure we will all be happy in time. I appreciate your wanting to stay with me, when you have so many cares, and I don't blame you in the least, but no one is to blame, and I have thought so long about it. I have not decided hastily, but have thought of everything. I will write you from Louisville. I expect to be so anxious to hear from you, and you must write to me. I care none the less for you, for mama, you know what I think of you, you know I idolize you. Your devoted ETHEL Betty Sellers

Hi Jim, I will add your EADES information to my rather skimpy file on this family. I wish that you had found my Emily in your records. I have been trying to determine her parentage for some time. I will have to go to the Henderson Co. Web Page and bug them!! Pam

Mary, I found this marriage in Henderson Co., KY: Robert S. WALKER and Fannie WILLIAMS, married 27 Feb 1867, Groom , age 21, resides in Webster Co., KY. Bride, age 16. Book 7 - Page 371. You may want to check the Webster County page to see if you can find them in the 1870 Census. I checked my censuses for them - found only one that was close: R.M. WALKER, age 32, farmer, b. KY, parents born VA Jannie WALKER, wife, age 25, b. KY There are many WALKERs in the Henderson Co. censuses. I will be glad to check for specific names, okay. If you need the address of the Webster Co. page, write back and I will send it to you. Pam

YAHOO!! Yes Pam, these are GGrandparents!! THX for finding them!! in a message dated 98-02-06 18:05:55 EST, you write: << Robert S. WALKER and Fannie WILLIAMS, married 27 Feb 1867, Groom , age 21, resides in Webster Co., KY. Bride, age 16. Book 7 - Page 371. >> Mary WALKER in AZ :)

Hi all, Looking for information on my G-G-G Grandmother's family... her name was Charlotte Ellen Richmond.. Her parents were James Richmond and Rosa Jane Husk (of Daviess and Henderson Counties, KY) ... I believe she had three brothers, J.E. , J.D.C, and S.W. Richmond.... As always, any help is appreciated... Pierre Campbell email:netami@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Hi all, Looking for information on my G-G-G Grandmother's family... her name was Charlotte Ellen Richmond.. Her parents were James Richmond and Rosa Jane Husk (of Henderson KY) ... I believe she had three brothers, J.E. , J.D.C, and S.W. Richmond.... As always, any help is appreciated... Pierre Campbell email:netami@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Thanks Pam, The Burton Williams was the right one. I'm not sure about Berwell, the spelling is different from what I have. Thanks again Ann

Hi Ken, Thanks for asking about my dad's name. My father, Kestner Lee Puryear (b.1913/d.1993) had a very unusual first name - the name came from a Mr. Kestner that sold general merchandise to my grandfather, George Lee Puryear. (George Lee Puryear established "Puryear's General Store" in 1909 at Herman Valley, Union Co KY, he moved his store to Poole, KY when the government took his farm and store as part of Camp Breckinridge.) When my dad, Kestner Lee Puryear was born, this Mr. Kestner gave dad a silver drinking cup. Dad's parents must have thought Mr. Kestner was a fine person to name their first child after him. There was a Tapp family near Tilden, Webster Co KY that had a general store and they also named a son after Mr. Kestner, ie. Kestner Tapp. I have no details about this Mr. Kestner other than he sold general merchandise in the Union/Webster county area during the early 1900's. It could possibly be that this Mr. Kestner is part of your family. I will try to find out more about Mr. Kestner when I get the chance to talk to dad's sister, she may remember something more. The family would tease my dad and tell him he was named after a traveling salesman !! Take care, Dot Lauver Collierville, TN

Dot, I can't resist, I've got to ask. Do you know who you're father, KESTNER LEE PURYEAR, might have been named after. KESTNER was the spelling of my line, before my grandfather changed the spelling to KISTNER. My line settled into the Christian Co. Ky area in the mid 1800's and many are still there to this day. Two of my grandfather's sisters married WALKERS in Christian Co also. My other direct line in that area was WHITE. Would be very interested in any information you might have on your Dad's name. Thanks for any help in advance. Ken Kistner Caledonia, Ms ken1@ebicom.net At 08:11 PM 2/5/98 EST, you wrote: >was moved by my Father and Mother, (Kestner Lee Puryear and Amelia Railey >Puryear) to the Ed Melton Road and refurbished in the 1980's. > >Dot Lauver >Collierville, TN > >

Thanks for the resource, but I'm so buried in minutiae, I think I'll leave this alone for awhile. ---------- > From: Susan Young <suzana@cdsnet.net> > To: KYHENDER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Lists of Dower Slaves > Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 3:22 AM > > It was a County census. I saw it at the Sutro Library in San Francisco. > Next time I go down I will get the film number if you like. > Susan > > ---------- > > From: Anita Powers <ADPowers@worldnet.att.net> > > To: KYHENDER-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: Lists of Dower Slaves > > Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 9:20 PM > > > > Was this list available from the county or state level? > > > > Anita > > ---------- > > > From: Susan Young <suzana@cdsnet.net> > > > To: KYHENDER-L@rootsweb.com > > > Subject: Re: Lists of Dower Slaves > > > Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 3:29 PM > > > > > > I found a list of Dower slaves for Trigg Co for 1850 but there were no > > > names attached to the list except for the owner. Just gender and age. > I > > > was disapointed. > > > Susan > > > > > > ---------- > > > > From: Anita Powers <ADPowers@worldnet.att.net> > > > > To: KYHENDER-L@rootsweb.com > > > > Subject: Lists of Dower Slaves > > > > Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 6:54 PM > > > > > > > > Seeking information on whether Henderson or Union counties maintain > the > > > > records of the annual lists submitted by owners to the county clerks, > > of > > > > dower slaves. If so, what is the time period of records held? > > > > > >

Hi, We are still searching for information on our BRISBY connections in Union/Henderson County. We did receive a good lead yesterday. I was given letters written to a BRISBY (no connection) from Grace Culver Brisby. She mentions our line. She was b 10/14/1903. We would love to make connections with her family. If you know of this lady or her family, please contact us. There is a DYER leaf on this connection this branch. Thanks Judith brumm@flash.net

I Pam Yes I remember they were good times... I have no other information in the first marrage of Marshall's We propley exchanged this info on *P Grin... I am on #2 computer and really injoy the internet... On Thu, 5 Feb 1998 15:53:27, -0500 XPCG18A@prodigy.com (MRS PAMELA J GROOVER) writes: >Hi Jane, thanks for writing. I have most of the information >concerning Marshall and Emily EADES ROBARDS. However, I was unsure >(the record that I saw was inconclusive) about the name of Marshall's >third wife. What do you have on her? Do you know her parentage? >Do you remember me from Prodigy? I remember you from the Webster Co. > group. I am still with Prodigy as you can see. I just got a new >computer a few months ago and can get on the Internet. What fun!! > >Thanks again, Pam > > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

I would kindly suggest you change the subject line if not talking about the above names. Just send new message instead of reply???. Thanks. > > Researching the Following Names: BARNES BEASLEY EADS DILLS JENKINS MAHAN MILEY MITCHELL O'NEAL PARISH RUDISEL ST0UGHTON

November 26, 1885 Thursday Dont Want To Be Hanged Fowler who cruelly murdered his niece, Lydia Burnett, a beautiful young girl, eighteen years of age, near Boxville, Union County, Ky; August 16, for refusing his hand in marriage, and who was convicted of the crime in the September term of Circuit Court of Union County, and sentenced to be hanged at Morganfield, on Friday next, November 27, has been granted a respite by the Governor, and his case will go before the Court of Appeals on Saturday. Fowler asks to have his sentence changed to imprisonment for life. Betty Sellers

Pam, Joseph E. EADES who d. 1836 in KY was m. to a Frances or a Nancy. They had a daughter, Elizabeth EADES who m. 1) James W. Collins and 2) Ignatius LIVERS. +--SMALL PEDIGREE - INDIV2------------------------------------------------ ¦ +- WILLIAM LIVERS <20>-619 ¦ IGNATIUS G. LIVERS <90>-595 ¦ Abt 1757 ¦ 26 Dec 1796 ------¦ PRINCE GEORGE CO,MD ¦ NELSON CO.,KY ¦ MRIN: 23 ¦ (Other marriages) +- Unknown ¦ MARRIAGE:Abt 1827 MRIN: 214 ¦ ELIZABETH EADES-598 ¦ ¦ ¦ (Other marriages) ¦-CHILDREN--------------------------------------Born---Parent Link-------- ¦ 1.ANNE ELIZABETH LIVERS <295>-588 1828 ¦ 2.WILLIAM W. LIVERS <296>-599 1831 ¦ 3.MARIA LOUISA LIVERS <297>-600 1835 ¦ 4.JAMES B. LIVERS <298>-601 1839 ¦ Enter to add ¦ ¦ Ignatius LIVERS moved his family from Ownesboro to Henderson so he could work on the construction of the old Henderson County Courthouse. Anne Elisabeth LIVERS is my g. grandmother. Jim Smith At 12:52 PM 2/5/98 -0500, you wrote: >Jim, great to hear from you!! My EADES connection in Henderson Co., >KY is my ggg grandmother, Emily C., born c1825, married to Marshall >ROBARDS in 1837 in Henderson Co. I have not additional information >on Emily. I have made up some group sheets on EADES from the >censuses and marriage records. Gee, I am going to have to look at >the Census for Marshall and Emily. She must have been veryyoung when >married or I have her birth year wrong. Look forward to hearing from >you!! > >Pam Groover >4708 Overman Ave. >Va.Bch., VA 23455-5410 >1-757-497-6904 > >

I don't know much about the article except it was in the Hopkinsville paper but I'll try to watch and see if there is any more... -----Original Message----- From: Jillwall@aol.com <Jillwall@aol.com> To: KYHENDER-L@rootsweb.com <KYHENDER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, February 05, 1998 4:54 AM Subject: Re: Convicted 1896 >Betty, >I am interested in this case, as some of the names ring a bell. Is that the >Omer of Waller Omer Rd? Who is Tate? You may answer by private E-mail if >willing to shed more light on this. >I have letters written by my grandmother --Anna Sophia (Voss) Leibenguth, >1857-1913, to her brother John Henry Voss, 1863-1939, in Sturgis -- talking >about a murder case when Henry was sheriff. They referred to "trouble" their >father, F.W. Voss, had with a Tate. >Is there any way I could research this by mail.?Jillwall@aol.com. > >

>Henderson gleaner 1934 >Descendant of British Peer at Pool reaches 93rd Year By Jessie Spencer. >From Sunday Gleaner and Journal, Henderson Kentucky March 4 1934 page seven. > >Mrs. Peachie Thornberry observed he 93rd birthday march 2, at her home in >Poole, Webster County, Kentucky with members of her family. >Mrs. Thornberry was born march 2, 1841, and is the oldest citizen living in >this location. She is the mother of eight children, all of whom lived to be >past 21 years of age. They are: Mrs. Lander Pool, Providence; >John Thornberry, deceased; Perry Thornberry, Detroit; Mrs. H. Crowley. Miss >Lydia, Tom. Jim, and William Thornberry all of Poole. She also has a number >of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. >She was, before her marriage to Franklin Thornberry on March 2, 1858, >Peachie Pamelia Walker, daughter of Nancy Poole Walker, whose ancestors were >among the early pioneers who came from Ireland and settled in Virginia, and >Linn Banks Walker, who as a nephew of General Banks, a grandson of Captain >William Walker of Revolution fame, and a great-grandson of Sir Edward Walker >who migrated from Wales about the year 1708 and settled in Caroline county >Virginia >At the close of the war Patrick Henry gave to Captain William Walker, the >son of Edward , a track of 1,000 acres of land in what is now Fayette >County. Kentucky, in recompense for his service during the struggle for >freedom. From then members of the family later moved to their present >location near Poole. >"Aunt Peachie" as she id familiarly know to all the community, comes from a >family characterized by preserverence, energy, optimism, vivacity and >longevity, and it seems that she has inherited a full measure of these >tracts. Despite the weight of the years, the writer upon coming into contact >with her, has always found her to be cheerful and optimistic. Though small >in stature and frail of figure, she seems to have a possessed a remarkable >degree of energy abd to have been endorsed with indomitable courage and >determination. Until the past three years she did her own cooking and >helping with the household duties. >She is now confined to her bed part of the time, but until recently she was >usually to be seen setting by the hearth in the afternoon, her hair parted, >combed back, and twisted at the back of her head, an old fashioned shawl >around her shoulders, and a small clay pipe between her teeth. Sometimes her >hands engage in seeding cotton, a favorite pastime of the late years. >She enjoys recalling events of her early days and many are the tales of true >happiness which she delights the ears of he youthful listeners. To them it >is like being transported to another land to experience vicariously some of >the happenings of those bygone days. >She tells of the early settlement pf Poole; pf the grist mill and the tavern >operated by her material grandfather, John Poole, from whom the village was >named. Upon coming from Virginia he too up a large tract of land here and >later gave each of his children a town lot of 100 acres. Mrs. Thornberry >lives upon a portion of the lot given her mother by her grandfather. At the >time of these early settlements this section was so densely wooded that one >of the Walker boys walked from his fathers homestead to Poole, a distance of >over a mile, upon logs and undergrowth without letting his feet touch the >ground.. >In one of he stories she tells of a race which she has with a neighbor boy >on horseback while riding a hoped saddle on her way to a dance at the home >of a neighbor. >She attended school at "Old Salem," a log cabin school house several miles >distant from her home. The seats were made of hewn logs set upon pegs and >once while running with the avowed intention of reaching her seat before a >playmate, :Aunt Peachie" fell and struck he head on a hickory log abd >cutting a ugly gash. >However, she refused to be taken home for treatment until the school was >dismissed for the day. >The husband and older brothers of Mrs. Thornberry were away from home >after the outbreak of the Civil war and her mother having recently been left >a widow, the family was left to brace the dangers and hardships of theses >times alone and unprotected. >They endeavored to grow their own food supplies. Their hogs were wold in the >woods. They raised patches of Corn in the clearing, the ears of which they >plucked from the stalk, dried, and graded upon a piece of tin, thus making >meal for their bread. They grew their own cotton and from it and the wool >of their sheep they carded, spun and wove cloth for their clothes and for >household purposes. They also grew flax which was hacked, spun and woven >into linen at home. >The entire family stood staunchly for the Union, and a cousin Jim Poole. A >northern spy, often came to their home for protection during the night. In >the floor was a trap door under which was a hole where winter vegetables >were stored and upon one occasion the spy remained in this hole all night >while southern soldiers surrounding the house stood on guard. Each night a >quilt was hung over the window lest the suspicions of their neighbors be >aroused upon occasion when secrecy was necessary because of the visits of >the spy who was later shot and killed form ambush. The family was taught to >fear raids of guerillas who pillaged the country confiscating whatever they >chose to take. Once while going to church on horseback the girls saw strange >men also on horseback riding in their direction. Fearing that the riders >were guerillas who might molest them were it known that their sympathy lay >with the North, the girls hid there mittens which were knit of red, white >and blue yarn until the men were past the riders. Upon one occasion the >guerillas invaded the community and among other things took a beautiful >black horse from a girl friend of the family, named Louisa Sellars. >Sometime later when the mews of their capture by northern soldiers -- among >Dave Poole and later John Wood-- reached their ears the neighborhood women >congregated at the Sellars home, among them Mrs. Thornberry and her baby. A >cortege filed by the women and Louisa's horse was espied, and she stood by >uttering vile maledictions upon the luckless head of the thief. However, the >animal was later returned to her. >The Walker family kept a close lookout for the dreaded marauders during >these days. They (hid their money in the balls of yarn) which were kept in >the clothes bag. >One morning the fatherless family was alarmed at the approach of a group of >armed men. They hastily ran in all directions, hiding valuables of various >sorts. One of the young girls, Ibb, by name latter the wife of the late Joe >Tucker of this location, hastily caught up the bag of clothes within which >the yarn balls with their money was secreted and running at full speed >dumped the sack into the ash hopper disclosing as she did so the northern >uniform of her older brother. Another sister, the late Jane Walker, ran to >the stable opened the door and sat in the door way with the avowed intention >of protecting her favorite horse. >The men. approached the stable and addressed the brave girl, asking why she >sat in the stable door. One of them said, "you think you will keep us from >taking your horse don't you? Well it isn't a horse we want this time, we >only want some breakfast." Whereupon they started toward the house. As the >passed the ash hopper their eyes were attracted by the bright buttons of the >blue uniform exposed there. They made some remark and passed on. >After receiving their breakfast they rode away, leaving the property >unmolested. Years later Jane had grown to womanhood, she started to >Virginia to visit relatives there. As she was changing trains while enroute >she met the keen gaze of a gentleman who removed his hat and bowed to her >saying "You are the girl who sat in the stable door in Western Kentucky, to >keep me from stealing your horse. " >Of this interesting pioneer family but three members now survive namely. L. >B. Walker of Henderson; a sister Bettie Royster, of near Robards and Mrs. >Thornberry of Poole. >Our commonwealth owes a great tribute to such families as these who come >from Virginia, braving the dangers of the frontier and bringing civilization >to a wild and unsettled domain. >"Aunt Peachie" says that this will be her last birthday and we are saddened >at the thought of the departure of one so generally beloved and yet what >picture can be more sublime than a well spent life nearing its set? >NOTE: Peachie Permelia (Walker) Thornberry died September 22, 1934. This >article was copied by Patricia (Thornberry) Saunders. A great-granddaughter. > > > > >