My friends - Today, we are returning to our review of the 1830 Graves County population schedule census. We had begun this review some time ago, but we have several more installments to go before we complete it. If you see a name in the list below in which you have an interest, and would like the full enumeration age data for that household, please let me know and I'll forward that to you. As always, your help in *not* resending this entire message back to me with your request is greatly appreciated. Every now and then, I like to review, for the benefit of our new subscribers who may not be as familiar with the age groups used in the 1830 and 1840 census years as some of the tenured List subscribers, just what the age groups were, in both of those census years, for both males and females: 0-5, 5-10, 10-15, 15-20, 20-30, 30-40, 40-50, 50-60, 60-70, 70-80, 80-90, 90-100, 100 and upwards. We will close out the week tomorrow with another in the Skills Puzzler series. -B +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Graves County - 1830 Census - Heads of Households - Part 4 Baird, Lindy Casender, Silas Moss, Ebenezer Midgett, Micajah Midgett, henry Cook,Joseph Hughs, Joseph Starks, John Linsey, Stephen N. Wiat, Jonathan Cannon, Amerlin Davidson, Wm Davidson,Alexander Scofield, Henry Scofield, Samuel Casey, Flemming Patterson, Wm Moss, Susan Jackson, Hardy McLain, Mathew Lamb, James Lamb, John Little, Arthur Freze, Jacob Fulgham, Henry Buckles, Isaac Loveless, Will Peircefield, Henry Stone, Elijah Fair, J.K. Farmer, Frederick McDougle, Robert Kitts, Frances Ruford, John Boatwright, Wm Micham, John Myrick, Moreland Lockridge, R.D. Reed, James F. Hiliard, J.W. Fonville, Elijah Myrick, Dudley Michiam, Jesse Shelton, Jeremiah Rutter, William Willett, Samuel Wetherford, James Fulgam, Edmund Huntsacker, Samuel Duff, Daniel Hopkins, Rachel Heard, Frances Heard, George Larkins, Susannah Loveless, Archie Loveless, George Goad, Lewis, Sr. Goad, Lewis, Jr. Cargil, James Edins, Elias Cargill, Thomas Adams, Zedoc Adams, Jeremiah Adams, Thomas Loveless, Elias Edwards, John Gough, Jesse ~to be continued~ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Thanks Bill & ALL for your quick answer to my question --- "When did FULTON Co,KY become a county ? " --- January 15, 1845. Now, if I could just remember that Hickman is in Fulton Co, KY & NOT in Hickman Co, KY... AND that FULTON ,TN is in OBION Co? DUH, Terry p.s. - Is Hickman Twsp. (mentioned in the 1840 Census) in Fulton Co,KY or Hickman Co, KY ...today ?

Does anyone know what happened with the River Museum group that was holding meetings in the Executive Inn at one time?

Does anyone know if FULTON CO,KY was ever a part of HICKMAN CO,KY ? If so, where could i find this info. - like dates, county borders, etc. Reason I'm asking is that several refs. have been made to my FIELDS ancestors being in HICKMAN CO, KY 1830's - 1840's but the only records I currently HAVE indicate that they were in HICKMAN TWSP in FULTON CO at that time ! Stumped again, TERRY

Can anyone suggest a research source for the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic> Thanks Rose

In a message dated 12/09/1999 2:24:32 PM Central Standard Time, seeme@snowhill.com writes: << Does anyone know if FULTON CO,KY was ever a part of HICKMAN CO,KY ? >> Hi Terry,, I don't know if Fulton Co was ever a part of Hickman Co. or not, but for as long as I can remember the county seat of Fulton Co. has been the city of Hickman. It is down on the Mississippi River. The county seat of Hickman Co. is Clinton, which is inland about 25 miles. I think it has been this way since back in the Civil War. Sincerely Janice Watts Lester Nashville, Tn.

What names are you researching Judy Jerry Crute wrote: > Hi: > > I just subscribed to you listings on Nov. 27, 1999. I printed the two pages of instructions but my printer was out of Color ink and I didn't get the email address's for the various things. Would you be so kind to send them to me again. I have a new ink cartridge now. > > Thank you > > Jerry > > ==== KYJacksonPurchase Mailing List ==== > Have questions about the Jackson Purchase? Visit the Jackson Purchase FAQ site at: > http://users.arn.net/~billco/jacksonfaq1.html

My friends - Due to the continuing overwhelming response to the Yellow Fever posting I made Monday, plus last night's requests, and because I am teaching an on-line class in US Land & Property Research tonight over in the AOL On-Campus forum, there will be no data post today. I will try, however, to have all of the requests caught up before the night is out. Until tomorrow....... -B ============================================================

Amelia: I do not know this for a fact, but in all of the land deeds I have had dealings with prior to 1900, I have found the following to hold true: A wife only signed a deed for the SALE of land if: 1: It was land SHE had inherited as an heir from HER family. 2: She was the adminstrator or executrix of her husbands estate and then often her oldest living son or older brother or brother in law would also be responsible. 3: She wasn't a wife at all. Women who never married also inherited land when it came time to divide. I have not seen a deed or any other doc where land was PURCHASED with the wifes signature. I am sure the rules and laws differ from state to state and that this would not always be the case. The research I have done has been in VA, NC, TN, & AL And I have not researched any land dealings 1900 or after. Marsha -----Original Message----- From: APVID@aol.com <APVID@aol.com> To: KYJacksonPurchase-L@rootsweb.com <KYJacksonPurchase-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 2:53 PM Subject: [KYJP-L] question of Dower >Was it necessary for a wife to sign a deed when land was purchased or did she >only sign at sale to relinquish dower rights? > >Amelia > > >==== KYJacksonPurchase Mailing List ==== >Check out the Jackson Purchase Images Page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygraves/temp/JPL.htm >for landowner survey maps of portions of the Jackson Purchase, plus other images. Check it often - it changes as new material >is added. >

List members and Bill, Please accept my apology for sending the prior message out to the list. I am trying to "catch up" and failed to change the address of the edited version I send out to family and friends. Harriet

My friends - We will close out the week with another in the Skills Puzzler series. Over the course of these little brain teasers, we have covered all sorts of different scenarios which involved situations in which the more enlightened use of some of the ordinary types of documentation, as well as the use of some less-than-ordinary records groups, have been the key to breaking through a difficult problem. But what do we do when someone just simply disappears from the records (or, at least, they seem to do so, as we cannot find a trace of them), yet we know that the individual did not die, as he/she suddenly appears again, often many years later, sometimes in the same locality, and sometimes far away from his/her original home. Then, the question becomes, "Where was this person over those missing years, and what was he/she doing?" Today's Puzzler is based upon some help which I gave to a woman some years ago who was trying to get into an hereditary society. I've changed the surnames, but the facts are exactly as presented to me. The scenario was this: in the 1850 census of the City of Boston, Massachusetts, there was one Francis A[lexander] English, age 34, with his wife, Belinda (whose maiden name was Aldridge), and children Miranda, age 10, Eliza, age 6 and John J., age 4. Birthplaces are not relevant to our study here. Between 1850 and 1860, this family relocated to the Jackson Purchase region, and, in the 1860 census, the family is, in fact, shown in a JP county, with everyone ten years older, and the addition of two more children, Robert B., age 4, and Silas, age 2. However, John J. is missing. There is nothing in any record, throughout the 1860's, that mentions John J. English, although John's father, Francis, died in 1867, and a guardian was appointed for the other children. John is not mentioned. In the 1870 census, we find Belinda as head of her own household, and we also find, in that household, John J. English, age 24, shown as a "Farmer". The other older female children have married and live nearby. The problem facing us is finding what happened to John J. English between 1850 and 1870, and where do we go to try to track it down. The 1860 census of both Boston and of the JP county to which this family had moved was thoroughly researched, and the young man was not shown in either. Other research was also done in the Boston area to determine if perhaps a guardian was named, for some reason, for John J. Nothing was found to support that hypothesis. The same was down in the JP - again, nothing was found. There was a "family story" that John was an unruly child, but nothing to indicate that a guardian was needed. - ------------------------------------------------ Solution: You will recall that our task was to explain the whereabouts of John J. English, born in Boston, from the time of the 1850 census, until he reappears in his mother's household in the Jackson Purchase region in the 1870's. One of the keys, which many of those who sent their thoughts to me about this puzzler spotted, was the somewhat veiled reference in my narrative to the fact that John was, according to the family legend, an "unruly child". Several in the group felt that he may have been *so* unruly that he ended up in jail or in some type of juvenile court proceeding. It was suggested that prison records in both KY and MA be checked for this possibility. The researcher whose line this was had, in fact, gone that route, with no results. These types of records were much better in MA than in KY in the 1850's, but nothing was found. Tenured subscribers to this List may recall my mentioning, on several occasions, the need to try to place ourselves in the environment of our progenitor when we are trying to determine what action the ancestor may have taken when confronted with a situation requiring a decision. In this case, Francis English, father of John J., was shown as a teamster in the 1850 census, and as a farmer in the 1860 census in KY. Given the fact that Boston was a major seaport in this time frame, it is possible that Francis' work took him into the dock area (a teamster, by the way, was an individual who hired out his team of horses and his rig - in the northeastern part of the US, in a seaport, such men often hauled goods from ships). If we put any stock in the old family story about "unruly" John J., it would be worthwhile to see if perhaps his father sent him to sea. It was not unusual for boys as young as age 10 to be sent to sea. Doing so was considered one way to bring discipline to a child. We checked a number of ships' lists for Boston in this time period, and found nothing. We had checked, however, only ships sailing under the American flag. Looking at other lists, for foreign ships, however, did not produce any results. We turned to the newspaper archives for the area. It was common practice for newspapers to publish lists of ships crews and passengers, both arriving and departing. In 1852, we found a listing for the British bark Glasson. Among the crew was John J. English, who was shown as an apprentice seaman. That designation is unusual, since young boys were usually given the work of a "cabin boy". Later, it was found that John J. served in the Civil War in the regular Navy, and was discharged in 1867, about the time that his father died. He then appears in the 1870 census in the JP, in his mother's household. So, we have a very good idea of what John J. was doing during all of those years that he was away. When we place ourselves into the environment in which our forebears lived daily, it gives us a "leg up" when we start pondering mysteries such as the one discussed here. -Bill

Was it necessary for a wife to sign a deed when land was purchased or did she only sign at sale to relinquish dower rights? Amelia

Hi I would like the full information on the marriage of : Haymes, Jarrett L. and Starks, Nancy Jerry Crute

Hi: I just subscribed to you listings on Nov. 27, 1999. I printed the two pages of instructions but my printer was out of Color ink and I didn't get the email address's for the various things. Would you be so kind to send them to me again. I have a new ink cartridge now. Thank you Jerry

Bill, do, or don't you think that the Fever may have caused people to leave the Purchase area? Are there any population numbers to show that idea? Or would you think people would have stayed put? I ask, as that is about the time when my Payne's and Halterman's left the area of Ballard County for Missouri. Mamie

Bill: Please send the YF file. Jess

The yellow fever epidemic of 1878 was the last major outbreak of this disease. It covered the entire lower Mississippi Valley - especially bad in New Orleans and Memphis. Reba G. Cook KYJacksonPurchase-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: [KYJP-L] Yellow Fever in Fulton Co > Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 15:02:08 -0600 > From: "Terry Smith" <seeme@snowhill.com> > To: KYJacksonPurchase-L@rootsweb.com > > Would anyone know if there's any reference to other counties around the JP > having the same YF epidemic ? . . . > > Thanks, Terry > >

Hi Bill! How can I find all the listings you have posted? Are they archived so that I can review them? I am a new subscriber and I am no familiar with how to see the stuff you have archived. Thanks Jerry Crute

Bill, In Paducah, in the 1850s, how would an alien become a citizen? Would he do it in Paducah or elsewhere? Where would the records be kept? Would the Paducah Library have them? Dick

Bill, Please send me the yellow fever file. I'm looking for information on any Falls, Omar or Davis surnames from Fulton County. Susan Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Utterback <billco@ARN.NET> To: KYJacksonPurchase-L@rootsweb.com <KYJacksonPurchase-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, December 06, 1999 5:39 PM Subject: [KYJP-L] Special File: Fulton County Deaths In 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic >My friends - > >Today's data post is something different from anything that I have offered >previously. > >In the August to November time frame in 1878, Fulton County, and the town >of Hickman in particular, suffered a terrible outbreak of Yellow Fever, >which resulted in the deaths of over 100 individuals in that several month >period. On November 8, 1878, the Hickman Courier published a story about >the epidemic and gave the names and dates of death for these inidivduals, >including African American deaths(although there was no death date given >for those deaths). The fine folks at The Kentucky Explorer magazine >recently published this article, and I have extracted the names of those >who died from this disease, along with the dates of their deaths, and have >it available in a file in plain text format. > >Listed below are the surnames that are listed in the article. In a number >of cases, it is tragic to watch, day after day, as whole families are >literally wiped out by a disease that is, today, virtually unknown to us in >this country. Several of the fine physicians of the area also succumbed to >the disease over this several month period. If your families were in this >area in 1878 and some of them disappeared, this could be the cause. > >If you see a surname below in which you have an interest, and would like a >copy of the file, let me know that you would like the *Yellow Fever File*. >I will send it as a plain text attachment to an e-mail message, unless you >specify that you need it as >*straight e-mail*. As always, your help in not resending this entire >message back to me with your request is greatly appreciated. Given the >number of names in this collection, I can't extract individual names from >the list, so you will receive the complete file, from which you can cull >the names you need. > > -B >============================================================ > Fulton County: Deaths in 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic - Surnames > >Hendricks >Mangel >Witting >Young >Davis > >Heatherly >Hancock >Buckner >Gibbs >Bleeson > >Sagrist >Coffee >Harnes >Reasoner >Wooten > >Packett >Simones >Funk >Gardner >Kingman > >Dunevant >McCain >Meyer >Holeman >Bright > >Miller >Ashworth >Millet >Fortune >Sohm > >Hertwick >Young >Blanton >Samse >Amber >Barnes > >Nelson >Smith >Bayliss >Halyburton >Karcher >Parham > >Dozier >Holt >Reid >Brevard >Stoner >Catlett > >Shoemaker >Whal >Eckert >Balzer >Monroe > >Prather >Bearger >Buncho >Thomas >Frenz >Neal > >Jones >Whitting >Muse >Scharfe >Lacy >Amberg >O'Neal > >Metheny >McConnell >Luttrell > >Faris >Person >Bondurant >Stephens >Lane >Cook >Roulac > >Buck >Glaser >Sames >Cobbs >Pollard >Sherron >Corbett > >Overton >Barry >Flaser >Kesterson >Stoner >Wilburn >Greenup(from Frankfort) > >Black >Anderson >Cole >Alexander >Vandever >Overton > >African Americans: >Pullum >Bennet >Yancy >Upshaw >Adkins > >Dodds >Bennett >Redick >Watson >Matison > >Woodson >Devine >Landrum >Titus >Maddox >Freeman >Cross > > ~End of File~ > >______________________________