I am trying to discern the connenction between my great-grandmother Essie May Brinkley Camfield and the man reputed to be her brother, Henry Herode. I am wondering if possibly her mother (who I have reason to believe was widowed before 1900 with several children) Lula Stokes Brinkley may have married a Herode and had Henry. I do know that in the 1930s-50's (and possibly still) that Henry and his family lived in or around Rochester and Drakesboro, Muhlenberg Co. KY Henry m. Clara (?) They had at least five children: Henry Franklin Mary Ruth Paul Silas Betty Howard These children would be 50-70 years old now. Any help would be appreciated. Mary K. Becker Corydon, IN

Vera Burnham has contributed 3 more Wills for the Muhlenberg Archives Digital Library at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ky/muhlenberg/toc.html John Robert Talbert 1813 Henry Rhoads 1812, proved 1813 Daniel or David Rhoads 1811, proved 1813

Does anyone have access to Muhlenberg Co. marriage book 1? If so, please look for the following: Nancy Tanner m. March 1806 Wiloby Wilkins James Tanner m. 26 March 1808 Nancy Jernigan Thanks. A general question: are marriage records as old as the above available thru the county (copies). *paulette* in SunnyFlorida (wheewww hot today!)

Rick, The number on the left didn't work either. Help, if you can. thanks for the trouble. Ernie Heltsley

Thanks Rick. I'm almost back to the typewriter level on some of this computer stuff. Ernie Heltsley

Mary Becker has contributed the Death Certificate of Jack Walsh 1929 to the Muhlenberg Archives at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ky/muhlenberg/toc.html

Hello Ernie, If your message was about the Muhlenberg Archives, you need to click on the number at the left hand side of the page to view the transcription of the document. Rick HELTSLEY@aol.com wrote: > Sorry to butt in, but I'm bad at this stuff. Are the bodies of these documents > on line too? There's number to the left such as 509. Is there any more info. > more than the one line. Please explain. > > Ernie Heltsley/Muhlenberg native

Sorry to butt in, but I'm bad at this stuff. Are the bodies of these documents on line too? There's number to the left such as 509. Is there any more info. more than the one line. Please explain. Ernie Heltsley/Muhlenberg native

Thank you for your reply. I really appreciate everyone effort and work for Muhlenberg Co. Nell Lewis -----Original Message----- From: Rick Girtman <rickman@worldpath.net> To: KYMUHLEN-L@rootsweb.com <KYMUHLEN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, May 13, 2001 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [KYMUHLEN] Wills & Deeds Nell, They are online at the USGenWeb Archives for Muhlenberg County. The address is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ky/muhlenberg/toc.html If you scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on Wills, you will find them. Vera Burnham who has transcribed many Wills from Book 1 tells me she has only 3 Wills left to do for Book 1. I think there are 5 years left to do for Book 2. Rick Nell Lewis wrote: > Hello Rick, > > Sorry to bother you, but in your attached message you said that "Most of Will Book I and 2 are now online" Could you please tell me WHERE online? I've just started in this county and have much to learn. Thanks for any help. > > Nell ============================== Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate your heritage! http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog

Jan, Again you you made my heart weep. Lovely, just lovely. My Mama passed away 3/28/01. I can still feel her smile. Tonia

Nell, They are online at the USGenWeb Archives for Muhlenberg County. The address is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ky/muhlenberg/toc.html If you scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on Wills, you will find them. Vera Burnham who has transcribed many Wills from Book 1 tells me she has only 3 Wills left to do for Book 1. I think there are 5 years left to do for Book 2. Rick Nell Lewis wrote: > Hello Rick, > > Sorry to bother you, but in your attached message you said that "Most of Will Book I and 2 are now online" Could you please tell me WHERE online? I've just started in this county and have much to learn. Thanks for any help. > > Nell

BEAUTIFUL as always Jan......... Brought tears to my eyes......my mom has been gone since 1975......... So ALL out there that still have your mom...( you are a very lucky person)...give your mom an extra "hug" and kiss for Mothers Day......:>).. Margaret

Hello Rick, Sorry to bother you, but in your attached message you said that "Most of Will Book I and 2 are now online" Could you please tell me WHERE online? I've just started in this county and have much to learn. Thanks for any help. Nell -----Original Message----- From: Rick Girtman <rickman@worldpath.net> To: KYMUHLEN-L@rootsweb.com <KYMUHLEN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, May 11, 2001 6:47 AM Subject: [KYMUHLEN] Wills & Deeds Hello, I am able to take requests for Wills from Will Book 2 & 3. Most of Book 1 and Book 2 is now online. The index for Will Book 3 up to the year 1856 is online at the Muhlenberg Archives. If you know the page number of a Will from Book 2 that is not online yet or the page # for a Will from Will Book 3 I will transcribe those and send them to you. Also, if you know the page number for a Deed from Deed Book #1 to Deed Book #5 I can send those. I am unable to do lookups, but if you know the page number I will transcribe it. I am only able to get about 7 Deeds or Wills each week so if there are a lot of requests I will do them in the order I receive the requests. If you have any original records for Muhlenberg County, please consider donating them to the Muhlenberg Archives to help other researchers. Bible records, marriage records, Biographies, pensions, etc. Any records for Muhlenberg County would be welcomed as long as they are not copyrighted; must be from original source material, microfilms, state records or books published before 1925. Thanks, Rick Girtman ============================== Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate your heritage! http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog

From:  Jan  unicorn@sun-spot.com A Long Chain of Wonderful (from the "Sunday Afternoon Rocking" series) If ever there was another as wonderful as she was, I am not sure who it might have been.  She had a sparkle in her eye, and a story always ready to be told upon her tongue.  She told wonderful tales, of Indian ancestors and pioneer ancestors, of "haints" and miracles.  How much was actually truth, and how much embroidered for the sake of entertaining a youngster, I am perpetually in search of and have never quite discovered.  She knew just when to pause for effect, just when to lower her voice to a suspenseful whisper, just when the story was ended in such a way to leave room for a ripe imagination to keep dwelling upon it….for a lifetime!   She could giggle like a young girl, and tease as surely as her grandchildren.  She could cock her head to one side, holding a bit of crochet her hand, eye it appraisingly, go home and reproduce it, needles clicking as the same pattern emerged magically in her lap.  She could stir through bits of fabric and "see" the quilt  exactly as it would look before her family had a clue what she was thinking.   She could narrow her eyes, look you over, and without a pattern, make a dress that fit exactly.  She could mutter over a dying houseplant, tuck it under her arm, and when next you saw it, it would be green and flowering.  She could coax a feathered friend to say "pretty bird!" and a child to say "thank you" and "please".   She could make chicken and dumplins before many could warm up what came in a can, and her "blue jelly" was a delight to the little girl who grasped a jar of it each time she returned home from a visit.  She was my "Me-Maw", my grandmother. If ever there has been another as wonderful as she is, I am not sure who it could have been…unless it was Me-Maw.  She is my very best friend.  We tackle remodeling together, and get way in over our heads before we think about what we got into.  We rest quietly together, and dream together.  She both exasperates and delights me with her level of energy, for I, eighteen years her junior, sometimes have to struggle to keep up with her.  She is alternately a carpenter, a designer, an engineer, a plumber, a seamstress. She can, without pausing for breath, rebuild a garage door, fix a leaky faucet, hammer together a bookshelf, redecorate a room, design and make herself draperies of any style she has glimpsed in a magazine or on television…and more than a few sets that came from her own imagination.  Once I invited her to "tea parties" where she solemnly drank air from a tiny cup.  Now we share coffee breaks.  We are dangerous in a bookstore together, and occasionally, for the sake of both our financial pictures, have to "swear off" and remind each other "we mustn't".   We can dream up more projects together than any army of women could accomplish in a lifetime.  We can overhear something and our eyes meet, then delighted smiles cross our faces, for we invariably know what the other is thinking.  My children call her their "jazzy grandma", and think she can do no wrong, and perhaps she can't…not in our eyes, anyway. She is "Mama", my mother. I suspect, if I had known my great grandmother a bit more in my childhood, I would be able to say…"if ever there had been another as wonderful as she was, I am not sure who it could have been…unless it was my Me-Maw or my Mama".  I suspect so, because I know how my Mama and my Me-Maw spoke of her, and hearing the stories of her "water fight" with the children at the creek, I suspect she had the same mischievous twinkle in her eye as my Me-Maw, the same girlish giggle.   Hearing of her talents, I suspect she may well have been how it was that my Me-Maw had such an adept hand and eye with a needle, such a wonderful sense of color, and my Mama has the same.  In fact, I suspect these traits I call so "wonderful" must have been passed through the generations, and each young lady has thought the same of her Mama through the ages. I suspect each of you this day, are remembering Mama, or a grandmother.  Perhaps you are thinking of a favorite aunt or someone who in some way "mothered" you and made you feel secure and nurtured.  And that is as it should be…as the roots are tended so flowers the garden.  And so somewhere in your life, I hope for each of you, there was a lady about whom you can say…"If ever there has been another as wonderful as she was or is…I am not sure who it could have been."  Tell her today, if she is yet with you…and if not, tell another that they may remember what you remember. Just a thought, jan Copyright ©2001JanPhilpot ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (Note: Afternoon Rocking messages are meant to be passed on, meant to be shared...simply share though e-mail as written without alterations...and in entirety. If planned for a publication, permission must be granted by the author. Please forward sufficient information concerning the nature and intent of the publication. 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Tamara Kincaide has contributed 2 more Muhlenberg County cemetery files for the Muhlenberg Archives at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ky/muhlenberg/toc.html Roark Cemetery Lee Cemetery -Lee surname only Other files uploaded today are: Court: Moody Hollerman to Thomas Grayson Deeds: Wilson Holliman to Moody Holliman 1804 Wilson Holliman to Moody Holliman 1805, Deed of gift Wills: James Miller 1851 Jane Poag 1860 Jacob Shutt 1851

Rick, Would be most interested in seeing the wills of: James Miller, July 1851, Book 3, page 111. and Jane Poag, proven, Sept. 1860, Book 3, pages 72-75. Thanks, Ronda

Vera Burnham has transcribed 3 more Wills from Will Book 1 for the Muhlenberg USGenWeb Archives at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ky/muhlenberg/toc.html William Allison 1814 James McCartney 1814 Elijah Wilson 1812

When you can, I would be very grateful if you transcribed the will of Jacob Shutt, Book 3, 1851, p.112 Thank you so much, Carolo Rick Girtman wrote: > Hello, > > I am able to take requests for Wills from Will Book 2 & 3. Most of Book > 1 and Book 2 is now online. The index for Will Book 3 up to the year > 1856 is online at the Muhlenberg Archives. If you know the page number > of a Will from Book 2 that is not online yet or the page # for a Will > from Will Book 3 I will transcribe those and send them to you. > > Also, if you know the page number for a Deed from Deed Book #1 to Deed > Book #5 I can send those. I am unable to do lookups, but if you know the > page number I will transcribe it. I am only able to get about 7 Deeds or > Wills each week so if there are a lot of requests I will do them in the > order I receive the requests. > > If you have any original records for Muhlenberg County, please consider > donating them to the Muhlenberg Archives to help other researchers. > Bible records, marriage records, Biographies, pensions, etc. Any records > for Muhlenberg County would be welcomed as long as they are not > copyrighted; must be from original source material, microfilms, state > records or books published before 1925. > > Thanks, > Rick Girtman > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog

Hello again, New Will uploaded to the Muhlenberg Archives at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ky/muhlenberg/toc.html Will of Richard Cash 1823, probated 1824 Rick

Hello, I am able to take requests for Wills from Will Book 2 & 3. Most of Book 1 and Book 2 is now online. The index for Will Book 3 up to the year 1856 is online at the Muhlenberg Archives. If you know the page number of a Will from Book 2 that is not online yet or the page # for a Will from Will Book 3 I will transcribe those and send them to you. Also, if you know the page number for a Deed from Deed Book #1 to Deed Book #5 I can send those. I am unable to do lookups, but if you know the page number I will transcribe it. I am only able to get about 7 Deeds or Wills each week so if there are a lot of requests I will do them in the order I receive the requests. If you have any original records for Muhlenberg County, please consider donating them to the Muhlenberg Archives to help other researchers. Bible records, marriage records, Biographies, pensions, etc. Any records for Muhlenberg County would be welcomed as long as they are not copyrighted; must be from original source material, microfilms, state records or books published before 1925. Thanks, Rick Girtman