Grave answers: Burial site shows much about lives long ago By CHARLES WOLFE, Associated Press July 23, 2002 FRANKFORT KY The people whose remains were found in scores of unmarked graves at a state construction site are proving to have been a diverse group, researchers say. There were men, women and children, black and white. Most were poor but others were of some means, if not actually wealthy. Some may have been among Frankfort's first inhabitants. Some likely were workhouse and prison inmates. Many bear the telltale bone damage of tuberculosis and arthritis. Most lived a life of hard labor. "We're finding a surprising composition of men, women and children," Peter Killoran, one of the researchers studying the remains at a University of Kentucky archaeology laboratory, said in an interview. They were people of varied backgrounds, "all thrown into one place," said Killoran, who teaches at Northern Kentucky University but was invited to join the research project because his expertise is in the anthropological evidence a dig can yield. The site was barely two blocks from the old state Capitol. How so many graves, so near the center of town, could have become lost or obliterated remains a mystery. But Killoran said graves often were only rudely marked, if marked at all, in the early 1800s. The first of the graves, which date back perhaps 200 years, was discovered in March by workers leveling two downtown blocks to make room for a state office building. Archaeologists rushed to the site and began finding grave after grave. Killoran said 265 people may have been buried on the site over much of the 19th century. About a third were children. In addition, the nature of the cemetery itself seems to have changed over time. Killoran and other researchers have theorized that it may have begun as a community burial ground but ended as a potter's field for prisoners, debtors and wards of the state, since a workhouse and penitentiary once stood in the same area. The children probably died of infections, he said. Frankfort twice was ravaged by cholera, a disease whose victims would have looked fairly natural in death, Killoran said. Among the adults, researchers were finding evidence of long-term diseases, primarily tuberculosis lesions on spines, ribs and leg bones. One adult male showed evidence of Paget's disease, a crippling, hereditary bone disease. One woman had a kneecap that was "worn down to the bone" and a hip socket, which should have been golf ball size, as big as a grapefruit, Killoran said. She probably lived in constant pain, walked with a pronounced limp "and eventually probably was bed ridden," Killoran said. "These people obviously were working very hard and having diseases but also living through it a long time," he said. That also indicates that people were taking care of each other. "Some of these pathologies clearly were enough that they wouldn't have been able to work," Killoran said. The remains are being cleaned, cataloged and studied at the anthropology department -- a project expected to take two years. After that, the remains are to be returned to Frankfort for another burial, possibly in green space adjacent to the building under construction, a headquarters for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. The research work is being done with sensitivity. Said Killoran: "I look at it as sort of breathing life into people who perhaps weren't treated very well while they were alive." ========================= Protect Our Children & Prevent Domestic Abuse http://endabuse.org/programs/children/ Equal Employment Know Your Rights http://www.eeoc.gov/ Keep my daughter Tabitha and grandaughter Hallie in your prayers... "Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. " Sophocles

The children in this family were believed born in Muhlenberg County, KY, and White County, IL. Father George Stum died in White County, IL and his wife and children moved to Ballard County KY by 1850 and 1860. The first son moved to Texas. Does anyone have any information on any of these persons: Husband: George Stum Born 01 Jan 1786, PA Died 04 Dec 1834, White County, IL Parents: Leonard Stum (1754-1814) and Margaret Hahn (1759-1830) Married: Muhlenberg County, KY,, 18 Mar 1813 Wife: Ruth "Polly" Jameson Born ca. 1792 KY Children: 1. Presley Stom b.ca. 1822 IL; m. 1850-1860, Ann (?Unsell) b. 1839 2. William Stom b. 1823-1824 KY; m. 1850-1860, Georgia Ann Rich. Presumably William was deceased by 1876 when Georgia m. George McNeill, perhaps in Ballard County KY. 3. Elizabeth Stom b.ca. 1826 KY (One Persillia E. Stom m. John F. Burrus, 30 Jul 1850, Muhlenberg County) 4. Joseph Stom b.ca. 1827-1832 KY m. 1850-1860 Lutitia ______. Both may have been deceased because there were children, believe theirs, living with a Keen family in Ballard County KY 1870. 5. James Henry - 20 Oct 1833 - 12 Apr 1894; m. 1860-1870, Matilda ____ - 13 Dec 1841 - 1894. Both buried Cane Creek Cemetery near Wickliffe, Ballard County, KY. 6. George b.ca. 1836 KY. Nothing more known after 1860 census when he was single.

Thank you Ernie. I live in a very small town that doesn't have a library, but I'll try a book store sometime. Melissa

Melissa, Don't know if it would help, but there are several McPhersons listed in the "Heltsley/Helsley Family" book of associations by Brenda Collier Doss. I didn't see your particular McPherson in there. None of them touch my Heltsley line as best I know. Good luck. Ernie Heltsley

Hello, everybody. I am a new subscriber to the list, and I am researching McPhersons, Johnsons, and Ashes who came to Muhlenberg and Logan counties in Ky. from Virginia after 1798 and before 1803. Lewis McPherson is buried near Rosewood. Some of his children and other relatives moved to IL by 1830. His son, James, married Rebecca Ash (also of Virginia). After Rebecca's death, he married Sarah Johnson (an in-law of Rebecca?). I believe that these families may have travelled together, and I hear that there are quiet a few McPhersons in that area. I have a lot of info to share. Can anybody help? It would be greatly appreciated. Melissa

Then I am on the right family PAUL R HELTSLEY is the son of J C HELTSLEY is apparently the son of JOSHUA & CASSANDRA HELTSLEY ================== 1880 shows JOSHUA H 51 KY KY KY CASSANDRA 46 KY NANNIE E 17 KY LOUELLA J 14 KY JOHN 12 KY CHARTLOTTE E 9 KY JOSHUA 9 HE WAS THE CORRECT AGE TO BE J C HELTSLEY from 1900 census -------- The 1900 census shows J C HELTSLEY 29 YRS AUG 1870 MARRIED 8 YRS KY KY KY FLORA L 29 YRS JULY 1870 KY KY KY MOTHER OF 3 PAUL R 7 SON FEB 1893 KY YOUR PAUL ROBINSON HELTSLEY GULIER 4 DAU AUG 1895 KY IDA 2 DAU APR 1898 KY ====== 1910 CENSUS SHOWS J C HELTSLEY 40 MARRIED 18 YRS KY FLORA 40 MOTHER TO 6 KY PAUL 17 SON KY GUILA 15 DAU KY OLA 13 DAU KY LOU 11 DAU KY RUBY 5 DAU KY RUTH 21 MONTHS DAU KY =============== Tamara On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Roger J Gervais wrote... >Dear Tamara, I'm sorry but I should have let you know what it is that I do >have as it may strike a chord with you. The only dates I have are >approximate. Donna was born in 1944 and her father Donald about 1920. His >father Paul Robinson Heltsley was born about the turn of the century. I >believe but am not sure that his father may be a Joshua Calvin Heltsley born >about 1875 - 1880 but do not know more about the ancestry than that. >Apparently Paul Robinson Heltsley (Donna's grandfather) had several wives. >Some of them were Flora Cuzma, Flora Willis, Dora Lorine Latham and Ruth >Bauer may be another. Donald Heltsley also had a brother named James Edward >Heltsley. Apparently there is a book entitled "Heltsley-Helsley Family," by >Brenda Doss that may contain some clues but I am not sure about that. Once >again I thank you for your kindness. God Bless.. Roger > >-----Original Message----- >From: Tamara Kincaide [mailto:tamara1k@evansville.net] >Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 8:16 PM >To: KYMUHLEN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [KYMUHLEN] Heltsley Genealogy > > >The 1900 census shows > >J C HELTSLEY 29 YRS AUG 1870 MARRIED 8 YRS KY KY KY >FLORA L 29 YRS JULY 1870 KY KY KY MOTHER OF 3 >PAUL R 7 SON FEB 1893 KY >GULIER 4 DAU AUG 1895 KY >IDA 2 DAU APR 1898 KY >======== > >1910 CENSUS SHOWS > >J C HELTSLEY 40 MARRIED 18 YRS KY >FLORA 40 MOTHER TO 6 KY >PAUL 17 SON KY >GUILA 15 DAU KY >OLA 13 DAU KY >LOU 11 DAU KY >RUBY 5 DAU KY >RUTH 21 MONTHS DAU KY >--------- > >IN GOING TO THE 1880 TO SEE WHO THE FATHER OF > >J C HELTSLEY born 1870 is > >I found only 1 family with a son close to that age and name beginning >with :J: > > >JOSHUA H HELTSLEY has a son JOHN 12

The 1900 census shows J C HELTSLEY 29 YRS AUG 1870 MARRIED 8 YRS KY KY KY FLORA L 29 YRS JULY 1870 KY KY KY MOTHER OF 3 PAUL R 7 SON FEB 1893 KY GULIER 4 DAU AUG 1895 KY IDA 2 DAU APR 1898 KY ======== 1910 CENSUS SHOWS J C HELTSLEY 40 MARRIED 18 YRS KY FLORA 40 MOTHER TO 6 KY PAUL 17 SON KY GUILA 15 DAU KY OLA 13 DAU KY LOU 11 DAU KY RUBY 5 DAU KY RUTH 21 MONTHS DAU KY --------- IN GOING TO THE 1880 TO SEE WHO THE FATHER OF J C HELTSLEY born 1870 is I found only 1 family with a son close to that age and name beginning with :J: JOSHUA H HELTSLEY has a son JOHN 12 ----- Tamara Protect Our Children & Prevent Domestic Abuse http://endabuse.org/programs/children/ Equal Employment Know Your Rights http://www.eeoc.gov/ Keep my daughter Tabitha and grandaughter Hallie in your prayers... "Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. " Sophocles On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Roger J Gervais wrote... >I wonder if some kind soul might be able to help me trace the genealogy of >the following family.. I am listing this from the current generation down to >what I (and the family) know... > >Donna Heltsley m Chuck Rath >Donald Heltsley m Vera A McKee (parents) >Paul Robinson Heltsley m 1) Minta Ellen Smith and 2) Flora Cuzma >(grandparents) > >Donald Heltsley had a brother Paul Heltsley Ir m Ruth Bauer > >Unfortunately that is all I have to go on. Your help would be kindly >appreciated.. God Bless.. Roger > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Dear Ernie, thank you for your kind reply and God Bless you.. Roger -----Original Message----- From: HELTSLEY@aol.com [mailto:HELTSLEY@aol.com] Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 2:50 PM To: KYMUHLEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [KYMUHLEN] Heltsley Genealogy Hi Heltsley, I too am a Heltsley, and a grand nephew or some such relationship to Joshua Calvin Heltsley, father of Paul R. Heltsley, who was married several times, I'm told by Paul's son, James Edward Heltsley. Flora Cuzma was one wife of Paul's, Flora Willis, and Dora Lorine Latham are two others. Ruth Bauer may be another. Wish I had more, but the book "Heltsley-Helsley Family," by Brenda Doss, has a little more. A.B. Willhite, 4396 Coopertown Road, Russellville, Ky. 42276 is selling them. Ernie Heltsley ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Hi Heltsley, I too am a Heltsley, and a grand nephew or some such relationship to Joshua Calvin Heltsley, father of Paul R. Heltsley, who was married several times, I'm told by Paul's son, James Edward Heltsley. Flora Cuzma was one wife of Paul's, Flora Willis, and Dora Lorine Latham are two others. Ruth Bauer may be another. Wish I had more, but the book "Heltsley-Helsley Family," by Brenda Doss, has a little more. A.B. Willhite, 4396 Coopertown Road, Russellville, Ky. 42276 is selling them. Ernie Heltsley

I wonder if some kind soul might be able to help me trace the genealogy of the following family.. I am listing this from the current generation down to what I (and the family) know... Donna Heltsley m Chuck Rath Donald Heltsley m Vera A McKee (parents) Paul Robinson Heltsley m 1) Minta Ellen Smith and 2) Flora Cuzma (grandparents) Donald Heltsley had a brother Paul Heltsley Ir m Ruth Bauer Unfortunately that is all I have to go on. Your help would be kindly appreciated.. God Bless.. Roger

>From Jan, unicorn@sun-spot.com Rocking with Serenity (from the Sunday Afternoon Rocking series) A storm ripped through my yard over a year ago, complete with resounding thunder and streaks of angry violent lightening that split the sky, complete fierce streaks of rain that pounded down unrelenting and dark clouds that promised destruction. When it was over, the maple I had nursed from a mere sprout into a fine tall tree had split and leaned threateningly to one side. We tried to save it, tried to cut away the damaged parts, and let the rest on the opposite side flourish. But my son's wedding was planned in my yard, and with so many people about, it simply seemed too precarious a chance to take. I agreed to allow it to be cut, something I find difficult to ever do. My grown son was crushed. He could remember the day the little fragile maple tree first sprung up in a flower bed, too close to the house, and how it was salvaged by being moved to its own place in the yard. He asked that we leave the trunk. I argued that a bare trunk of a tree in the yard would not be pretty, but he pleaded and promised later to carve it into something pretty if I would only leave it. And so I did. Throughout the wedding, all the rest of the summer, it sat there…a bare ugly stump. Autumn came and all around other maple trees flourished their reds and their golds, and still it sat…a bare ugly stump. In winter it was sometimes graced with a garment of sparkling snow, but for the most part it remained what it had become. And then spring came. And one day I looked for the bare ugly stump and did not find it. I gasped at what I did see. The stump looked more like a bush! LIFE was in it! Sprouting all about from the sides of its bark were tiny fresh green shoots bearing the beginnings of leaves! Hundreds of them. I pointed it out to my husband and he said, "Do you want me to get rid of that stump this year? It can never really be a tree now." And I shook my head adamantly. "No," I replied. "Anything that wants to live so badly has spirit in it…let it live, let it be what it can be." And I was amazed that the tree I thought was surely dead, the tree that for all practical intents and purposes had given up life to storm and chain saw, was not dead. Unable to sprout and grow from limbs and trunk rising into the air, it had simply reached into the soil with its probing roots, reached and prodded until finally it found the sustenance and nourishment to sprout again, to send tiny green shoots out to grace our yard again. It was a reminder. And a promise. And a lesson. The winds of life came fierce this year, and the last of a family was gone. Only four of them were left, that family that began in 1910, and none with living children. I was the daughter of their brother gone many years before, and so the four sisters were especially precious to me…and me to them. And I traveled constantly to be with them, and we spoke on the phone virtually every day. As my children had flown the nest, my goal in life seemed to be to nurture those roots, care for them in their last days, give back something of what they had given so long to me, and draw from them as many memories as I could to sustain the rest of my own life. But within two years they were gone, and the last of them in February of this year. I was not expecting it to happen so soon or so quickly. I should have been but I was not. I felt a fierce storm had passed. And though I have lived long enough to be well acquainted with inevitable good-byes, to lay it all to rest with those I know are simply "on loan" to us, I found this time more than difficult. Perhaps it was because I so identified with this family, and had for all of my life. Perhaps it was because there were so few of us, and therefore the ties were infinitely more precious. Perhaps it was because it was literally the end of a family line, or perhaps it was because it was almost literally the end of my connection with the homeland that my family had inhabited for nearly two hundred years. Perhaps it was because they had become so much the center of my need to nurture and give. I do not know. But I admit to wondering sometimes what my life was really to be about now. That is sad, I know, for I have a loving family left, mother, and children and husband. But I confess this crossed my mind. And the winter moved on, and I felt I had left some important and vibrant part of me back in the cold storms of February. I am not sure I really noticed spring this year, and if I did it was with some semblance of guilt that I could not point out the flowers to my aunts or speak to them about the coming spring, and make promises of their returning health that I could not keep. And so spring came, and summer began. I smiled and laughed and moved through the days, but my heart was not in it. And then came July…and my first grandchild, my son's child. Serenity. My son, realizing what the death of my aunts had been to me, and knowing how deeply I regretted that our line had come to an abrupt end, with all of them gone now and me the last to bear the surname, gave Serenity that surname as a middle name. I was grateful and touched. Perhaps the surname would live on then, not as a surname, but as a name to be passed on, and the stories of a family with it. I nestled the small body against my own and rocked, grateful to finally be alone with this little being, to remember the days of my own children's births. Memories flooded, and I remembered something curious my father had said at the birth of my son, his first grandchild. "I started all this!," he bragged proudly. I remember laughing, and thinking, "Typical grandpa. Yeah, dad, and you had a bit of help." So I was amused at my own thought as I held this tiny creature with her creamy skin and perfect features. "I started all this…if it had not been for…" and suddenly a bit of awe overtook me. I lay that baby down in my lap and gazed at her face, searching for family resemblances, seeing one of my own children in that creamy complexion and those fat chubby cheeks. I was relieved not to see any sign of the "family monument", the nose that gives us away as a certain family line. I checked her hands and sure enough there were the long slender fingers of my father's family, and there was the dark hair of my mother's. Of course, I admitted, it could also be of her own mother's family. I checked the tiny toes, relieved to see those must have come from another side of the house. I laughed at my own attempts to peg this tiny being into neat little family pigeon holes, and remembered doing this as a mother, and now I was a grandmother doing this all over again. And the thoughts kept coming. All the time thinking, thinking a hundred myriad thoughts. All the things new grandparents must feel and think flooded my mind and my heart. I realized I was literally holding in my hands a child that was here because of all the people I loved, and all the people her mother's family had loved, all somehow now in one package. I realized I was holding in my hands the culmination of all of our roots, our ancestry. Mentally I traced back all of the grandparents on my side of the house for as far as I could remember, and realized that because each of those couples had come together in all of those generations…we now had Serenity. Mentally I traced all of the grandparents I knew of on her mother's side of the house, and realized again that because they were…she was…Serenity. And though it seems so perfectly logical, for a moment the awesome realization struck me as the wondrous thing it really is. Our roots were alive and well…and she was the fresh young budding sprout springing from those roots. The stump of the tree that sat there dormant all winter was only waiting a bit for spring, for summer. Our family only appeared to have ended, our family line's name had changed, yes. And I the last to bear the line's ancestral name, but the tree was not really gone. Unable to sprout and grow from limbs and trunk rising into the air, it had simply reached into the soil with its probing roots, reached and prodded until finally it found the sustenance and nourishment to sprout again, to send tiny budding shoots out to grace our family again. It was a reminder. And a promise. And a lesson. I settled back in the rocker with Serenity. And then the other typical thoughts of grandparents flooded me. I thought of all the things I could do with this little being I could not do with my own. In another stage of life now, I had the time and the financial means I did not have when I was struggling to bring up a family. I was nearing retirement. I could bake cookies any day! I could sit and build block castles and play dress-up at any time of day…or night! I could take spur of the moment field trips, and I could nap until noon in order to have a slumber party at night! I could… and so I became a grandmother. I sat and rocked, as I do most every day now, with Serenity laying against my heart, and serenity warming the inside of it. I rock now…with Serenity. Copyright ©2002JanPhilpot ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (Note: Afternoon Rocking messages are meant to be passed on, meant to be shared...simply share as written without alterations...and in entirety. Thanks, jan) Sunday Afternoon Rocking columns are distributed weekly on the list Sunday Rocking. This is not a "reply to" list, and normally only one message per week will come across it, that being the column. 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Hello List, I and extended members of our family have been searching for info on my gg grandmother Elizabeth (Betsy) GROVES since 1960. She was born in 1826, Kentucky but we have no county. In 1842 she married my gg gf, William Henderson BUNTIN. She died in 1890, Earlington, KY and buried in Olive Branch Cemetery near Hanson, KY in Hopkins CO. In the handwritten journal of her husband, he states that "she had nothing, neither father nor mother." So we assume that she was living with relatives nearby. There was a brother to Betsy mentioned in the journal but not by name. Someone e-mailed me a couple of possibilities of Groves marrying Copes of Muhlenberg CO. Rachel Cope m Henry Groves 1821 Betsy Cope m Solomon Groves 1823 Susan Cope m Samuel Groves 1833. This last one was after the birth date of Betsy but... one never knows. Any help whether it is with the Copes or another possibility is truly appreciated. I know a lot about her after she married my gg gf, but nothing before. Thanks, Carolyn Buntin Eveland

Decision reached in Henderson bones dilemma Reporter: Amy Budnick Henderson, KY July 9 -- A compromise was reached on what to do with the skeletal remains of Pocahontas' grandkids. The bones of two Native Americans were found while construction crews began work on a new home in Henderson County. Archeologists confirmed the bones were descendants of the famous Indian princess, and excavation was halted until now. The bones will be allowed to stay on the grounds; they'll just be moved to the back of the lot. The remains were found two weeks ago when construction crews were excavating the site Stonegate Drive in Henderson. A map from 1880 proved that a cemetery was located on the site, and archeologists confirmed the bones are the grandkids of Pocahontas. Monday night, the two groups decided the bones will be moved to the back of the lot and the property's owner will be able to continue building. "We're thrilled, because it was a wonderful compromise," Frank Nally of the Henderson Historical Society said. "It's a win-win situation. The graves are able to stay in the general area, and she's able to build her house. We're all able to go on and put this behind us." Nally said they're still waiting to hear from archeologists to see if other remains are Native American. If they are, the Green River band of the Cherokee Nation will perform a purifying ceremony to put the spirits to rest. Indian burial sites are protected by state law and are not allowed to be touched. But the location where the bones are going to be moved is the same general area of the original cemetery, so the compromise still follows state law. ====================== Protect Our Children & Prevent Domestic Abuse http://endabuse.org/programs/children/ Equal Employment Know Your Rights http://www.eeoc.gov/ Keep my daughter Tabitha and grandaughter Hallie in your prayers... "Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. " Sophocles

Reunion to honor Ky. county founders By JOHN LUCAS Courier & Press Western Kentucky bureau (270) 333-4899 jlucas@evansville.net July 8, 2002 GREENVILLE, Ky. - When Henry Rhoads and other early settlers - many of them Revolutionary War veterans - arrived in what is now Muhlenberg County in the late 1700s, they came on footand by horseback through the Cumberland Gap with their possessions loaded onto ox carts or transferred to makeshift flatboats. They came and stayed and died here. They left behind a new state and Kentucky's 32nd county - carved from what was then the Western frontier. And they also left behind a progeny that today numbers into the thousands and is scattered across the country. On Saturday, descendants of 11 of those pioneer families will meet at the Bremen Community Center for what is being billed as one of the largest multifamily reunions ever to be held in Muhlenberg County. Sandra Galyen, with the Muhlenberg County Public Library's Genealogy and Local History Annex, doesn't know how many will return to the county for the reunion which starts at 3 p.m. Galyen, a descendant of Rhoads - who is regarded as the "father of Muhlenberg County" - expects at least 300 people. People with roots in Muhlenberg County are coming from everywhere, from California to Ohio and Michigan to Texas. Anyone who has lived in Muhlenberg County for any length of time can probably claim kinship to the old families to be represented in Saturday's reunion. The family names, in addition to Rhoads, are Hendricks, Miller, Noffsinger, Phillips, Shanks, Strader, Vincent, Whitmer, Wilkins and Wright. "We tell people when they come in (to do genealogical research) that if they had ancestors here prior to 1850 they are related to somebody still here," Galyen said. As in most isolated, rural communities, families here intermarried over the generations, so that today many of the county's residents are related, sometimes on both sides of their family tree. The reunion, which will include a pig and turkey roast (attendees are asked to bring a side item or dessert) is the result of collaboration by Galyen and a cousin, Rita Wilkins, both of whom trace their family back six generations to Rhoads. Through mailings, telephone calls, stories in local newspapers and word of mouth, they've been promoting the gathering as a "tribute to our early ancestors." Horse-and-buggy rides will also be available at the reunion, along with displays of antiques and family heirlooms and photographs. Wilkins, who lives in Carlsbad, Calif., came to visit three years mago and was bitten by the genealogy bug, Galyen said. Wilkins used the research on her Rhoads ancestry for admission into the Daughters of the American Revolution. Galyen added a lot of people use Rhoads connections for admission into the organization because the research is well established. He and other veterans of the American Revolution began streaming through the Cumberland Gap, across the Appalachian Mountains in the late 1700s to claim land awarded them for their service in the war for independence. Rhoads, born in Pennsylvania in 1739, married a Maryland woman, and they arrived in Western Kentucky in the 1780s. Rhoads first settled and helped lay out what is today the town of Calhoun in McLean County, but he moved from there to Fort Hartford in Ohio County after he lost a lawsuit over title to the McLean County property. Shortly afterward, he moved to what is today northern Muhlenberg County and in about 1792 - the year Kentucky was admitted to the union as the 15th state - he built a two-story frame house beside a road that eventually became Kentucky 70. The ruins of the long-abandoned old house, a little northeast of present-day Browder, are obscured now by trees and weeds. Having served as a delegate to the Pennsylvania constitutional convention in 1776 and a member of that state's Legislature from 1776 to 1778, Rhoads was elected in 1798 to serve in the Kentucky Legislature. There in 1798, he was instrumental in seeing a new county created from portions of Logan and Christian counties. Rhoads and others of the veterans of the Revolution who settled in Western Kentucky had fought under Gen. John Peter Muhlenberg. As a member of the state Legislature, Rhoads was able to see the new county was named in Muhlenberg's honor. Rhoads died in 1814 in Muhlenberg County, and is buried in a family plot not far from his homestead. Until recently, the Rhoads' final resting places were marked only by field stones placed at the time of their burials. In 2001, descendants erected a large tombstone to mark their graves. ================== Protect Our Children & Prevent Domestic Abuse http://endabuse.org/programs/children/ Equal Employment Know Your Rights http://www.eeoc.gov/ Keep my daughter Tabitha and grandaughter Hallie in your prayers... "Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. " Sophocles

My Great Grandfather was injured and later died in a mining accident. The people at the Muhlenburg County Public Library helped out a great deal. You can have them look stuff up for you. Tonia http://community.webtv.net/TPLUS409/ShuttFamily

Hello to Kit and others research;ing WILCOX in Muhlenberg Co., KY. I can add a little bit of information to the thread but sadly it's only a piece of the puzzle so far. Abraham WILCOX is listed on the 1810 census for Muhlenberg. The numbers indicate he had a family with boys and girls. It is possible that he is the father of George W. WILCOX (b 1808) which you have information on already. But this is unproved. An Abraham Wilcox m Mary Polly Turner in 1795 Mercer Co., KY and it appears that they moved to Muhlenberg Co. From various records, it appears that the marriage broke up and Abraham left to fight in the war of 1812. We think he went on to MO and started another family there. I have more information on the MO family if needed. Another researcher mentioned that there is a Wilcox family at Beaver Dam KY who might be related to George W. Wilcox. I don't know how far that is from Greenville, but if it is close, you might want to check around. Please let us on the Muhlenberg List know what you find out on your trip Kit. Bill in sunny Phoenix damours@juno.com

Hi Donna, I'm a Yonts family member and researcher. I have Callie Yonts' family back to the early 1700s, if you're interested. On Eliza Crockett: I only have her father (William), and no other information on her. I've heard that she's related to the famed pioneer, Davey Crockett, but haven't taken the time to look for her ancestors yet. Please e-mail me privately if you have any questions concerning the Dutch Yonts/Jans families, or visit my web site totally devoted to them at: www.nii.net/~yonts God Bless, Dr. MacTavish E-mail: yonts@nii.net

Hi, all-- I'm looking for information on Callie C. Yonts b. 1869 in Muhlenberg Co. She m. William H. Clarke, son of Edward Clarke and Mary Noble. Callie and William had 12 children: Holker, Eleanor (m. Frederick Rottmann), Wm., Joseph, Annie (m. Karl Holtzhueter), Frank, John, Margaret, Dorothy, James, Edward and Helen. Callie's mother's maiden name was Mary (Molly) E. Pannell Yonts. She later m. Alanson (A.M.) Capps and had 3 children. Mary's parents were James M. Pannell and Eliza Ann Crockett. I'd like to find a death record or information on Eliza after 1882. Any help will be appreciated. Donna

have you tryed to contact the muhl.co, genealogy and local history annex in greenville, ky. their e-mail is moplgha@muhlon.com talk to sandra galyen, carol brown, or coni wallace. they will help you with you e-mail. let me know . Kit Sinyard wrote: > Lona, > I stumbled upon this page yesterday while at work...it was a very slow day! > Put your ancestors name in, and county - there are abbreviations- and it may > give you the date of death, age, and certificate number so you can request > it. http://ukcc.uky.edu/~vitalrec/ > Kit > (researching in Muhlenberg Co ADKINS, OATES,WILCOX) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Charlo98@aol.com> > To: <KYMUHLEN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 6:52 AM > Subject: [KYMUHLEN] DEATH RECORDS > > > Hope all had a great 4th of July! > > Does anyone know where I might look for death records in Muhlenberg. My > > grandfather was killed there in a mine accident in 1923 and have never > been > > able to locate his death certificate. Have tried the local health dept. > and > > also Frankfort. Was told by Frankfort that it was possibly because of > being > > killed in the mines and that even in 1923 registration of deaths was still > > "spotty" at best. Thought their might be other local sources. > > > > Thanks - Lona > > Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio Searcher > > Researching: LOSTUTTER, WILKEY/WHELCHEL, DREW, OVERTON > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Hi Lona, What was your grandfather's name? Roxie ----- Original Message ----- From: <Charlo98@aol.com> To: <KYMUHLEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 8:52 AM Subject: [KYMUHLEN] DEATH RECORDS > Hope all had a great 4th of July! > Does anyone know where I might look for death records in Muhlenberg. My > grandfather was killed there in a mine accident in 1923 and have never been > able to locate his death certificate. Have tried the local health dept. and > also Frankfort. Was told by Frankfort that it was possibly because of being > killed in the mines and that even in 1923 registration of deaths was still > "spotty" at best. Thought their might be other local sources. > > Thanks - Lona > Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio Searcher > Researching: LOSTUTTER, WILKEY/WHELCHEL, DREW, OVERTON > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >