Shasta, you know I have 1920 Census for Pike What do you need. I am going to get you girl Shasta971@aol.com wrote: > > Hi Wilma, > I saw your message posted to Jerry. about the 1920 census for Pike Co.Ky. > Do you do look-ups for other people? > Thanks for your time > Shasta > > ==== KYPIKE Mailing List ==== > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > ..........................PIKE MAILING LIST............................ > A ROOTSWEB SUPPORTER AND LISTOWNER AND MODERATOR: commander@inetone.net > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- Old Regular Baptist Obituaries Obituaries: http://www.angelfire.com/ky/Obituaries SEARCHING - KY, VA & NC "ROSE"/"FLEMING"/"WARD"/"RATLIFF"/"BENTLEY"/"BOLLING " "FLETCHER"/"COLE"/"BARTLEY"/"SWINEY"/"CASTLE"

Hi Wilma, I saw your message posted to Jerry. about the 1920 census for Pike Co.Ky. Do you do look-ups for other people? Thanks for your time Shasta

Hi, Have you checked http://members.xoom.com/Appalachian/html/meredith.htm.. I found this info at this site.http://www.rootsweb.com/~kypike/index.html Good luck.

A lot of people who md in Pike Co were living in Tazewell Co in 1850 census. 1850 Tazewell Co VA #1050 George CHARLES 50 not k md 10 Aug 1823 Pike Co Abby (Payne) 43 VA John 24 Cidna (?Sydney) 18 Clarissa 16 md 1 Adam DAVIS, 2 Curtis COLEMAN Washington 21 Polly 12 Idiotic #1045 David D. PAYNE 23 VA m 15 Mar 1845 Taz. Catherine (Charles) 23 Nancy 4 #983 James DAVIS 26 KY s/o Thomas, m 3 Jan 1845 Pike Polly (Mary CHARLES) 23 Ky d/o Sarah David 25 KY Clarinda 5 VA John 1 Va

>From the Columbus Dispatch Newspaper Columbus OH CAUDILL Mary M. "Lena" Caudill, 81 of Madison Mills, died Thursday, July 2, 1998 in Auburn Manor in Washington C.H. She was born Sept. 1, 1916 in Johnson County, Kentucky. The daughter of Furman and Shirley (Lambert) Blair. Mrs. Caudill was a member of Little Paint Church in Johnson County, KY. She was preceeded in death by parents, husband Robert (9-8-62); 1 brother. She is survived by sons - Bobby (Mary) Caudill of Mason; Gene (Jeanie) Caudill and Elbert (Brenda) Caudlill both of Washington C.H.; daughter - Janalee (Bo) Henry of Madison Mills; 13 grandchildren; 20 great grandchildren; sister Valeria Tackett of Columbus. A funeral service will be held 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 7, 1998 at the PORTER FUNERAL HOME, Mt. Sterling. The interment will followin Pleasant Cemetery, Mt. Sterling. Visitation will be Monday, July 6, from 4:00 - 8:00 p.m. -- Old Regular Baptist Obituaries Obituaries: http://www.angelfire.com/ky/Obituaries SEARCHING - KY, VA & NC "ROSE"/"FLEMING"/"WARD"/"RATLIFF"/"BENTLEY"/"BOLLING " "FLETCHER"/"COLE"/"BARTLEY"/"SWINEY"/"CASTLE"

Pike Co , KY CHARLES, Michael age 58 CHARLES, John age 21 CHARLES, David age 25 CHARLES, Frederic age 44 CHARLES, John, Jr. age 23 CHARLES, George age 87 Found these in the Census Index for KY while at Clayton Genealogy Library in Houston TX. Does anyone connect to these families? Thanks, Virginia

Date Groom Bride 10-Aug-1823 CHARLES, George PAIGN, Abagail dau. of David 26 May-1825 CHARLES, Frederick McCOLLEY, Elizabeth 03 Dec-1823 CHARLES, David CLINE, Sarah 27-Jun-1827 SMITH, John CHARLES, Kate dau. of George 28-Oct-1842 DANIELS, Richard CHARLES, Margaret dau. of Michael Does anyone connect with these families in Pike County KY?

George CHARLES who md Abagail PAYNE 10 Aug 1823 PCK, were parents of Clarra CHARLES who md Curtis COLEMAN s/o William & Betty COLEMAN and were on 1850 Tazewell Co, VA census. Curtis COLEMAN had sons Sherman & Adam who md ROBERTS sisters, who were daughters of Owen "Odey" ROBERTS, who was s/o Cornelius, s/o James ROBERTS, Jr of Pike Co, KY. Owen ROBERTS family lived in McDowell Co, WV and The COLEMAN family also moved from Tazewell to McDowell Co, WV The Sarah CLINE who md David CHARLES 3 Dec 1823 was d/o Michael CLINE Rodney Veitschegger

Susan, Found a photo in a book of Christina Elkins with a obit. of her son with his family listed. If you do not have a copy let me know. Gary Susan Martucci wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I want to thank all of you who wrote to me with suggestions about how to spend my time when visiting Pike County. I think > that I was very efficient during my brief time there - mostly because of your excellent suggestions. > > I just got back from my visit to Pike County. I drove up to Grundy, VA last Monday. I was able to do research in Pikeville > for three whole days. On Friday, we toured a couple of cemeteries and a local church before heading back home to South > Carolina. As you can probably guess, three and half days was just not enough to see and do everything that I wanted to, but > it was a great trip. > > The major places that I visited were the Pike County courthouse and the Special Collections room at Pikeville College > library. I was at the Pikeville College library for only one day (definitely not enough time), but I did not even stop for > lunch. I wish I had another day just to browse. I spent two days at the court house, but they were not full days. I had > lunch one day with a cousin that I had not seen for over twenty years. On another day, I spent the early morning at the > Buchanan County courthouse trying to locate a marriage record that should have been in Pike County, but was just not there. > There was good and bad news about the visit to Buchanan county. The good news was that I found one of the missing marriages. > The bad news was that it was in marriage book #1 which they did not have at the courthouse anymore. > > I stopped by the Tourism/Visitor Information booth looking for local maps and found a book on Pike County for sale. The title > is "Pike County - A Very Different Place" by William David Deskins. It was published in 1994. The book was published in > conjunction with the Bicentennial of Kentucky (in 1992). The book begins with a brief overview of the people that may have > been in the area 10,000 years ago. It quickly moves into the 1700s and ends with a chapter called - World War II and Beyond. > I have not read the entire book yet, but it seems to be an interesting book and contains a section of pictures in the middle. > It cost $30.00. > > One of the more interesting finds from the Special Collection room was a file cabinet of Community Studies. Apparently, > students at Pikeville College taking a course called Appalachian Studies are required to do a project/report on an Appalachian > community. Most of the reports were brief (only 4-10 pages), but they were on very specific communities in Pike County. Most > of the students would pick their home community if they were from the area. These studies usually included oral interviews > with an older person in the area (many times it seemed to be an interview with grandparents or some other local older > person). I actually found a study that mentioned my GG-grandfather by name. The report usually included the names of the > major families in the community. I copied several of the reports that dealt with the area that my mother and her cousins grew > up in. They had a wonderful time reading the reports because they typically were about people that they knew "in the old > days". The communities that I was looking into were Mouthcard, Feds Creek, and Little Card (which was filed under Card > Creek). One of the reasons that I mentioned these community studies was because I always looked at the back page of a report > for the bibliography. In two of the reports, I saw a reference to "100 year History of Mouthcard Baptist Church". This was > the church that my family attended. This was not a document that seemed to be located in any library - it was distributed to > church members at the time, but after talking to the pastor of the church, he has tracked down a copy of the church history > and is making me a copy. > > The courthouse was a wonderful place to visit. I was able to look at original marriage documents for most of the marriages in > my main lines. The courthouse also had copies of Pike county census records plus a good collection of surrounding counties' > census records. These were very helpful when I found a marriage record that gave me a new family branch to look at. In my > library in South Carolina, I only have the microfilm to look at, so it was nice to see indexed books of most of census > information. I wish my library had a copy of the books. The courthouse charged $0.25 per page for marriage records, census > info and school census records. In the deed and will section however, each page costs several dollars ($5.00 for a two page > deed). My family transferred land and recorded a lot of deeds, so I did not get too many of those records. > > Apologies for the length of this post. I had such a great time on my visit that I wanted to share a little with you. This > was definitely not my last trip to Pike County. One additional note - The fall foliage this year is just spectacular. The > entire drive from South Carolina to Kentucky was one breathtaking view after another. > > Happy Hunting Everyone... > > -- > Susan Martucci > jkdevl@earthlink.net > > ==== KYPIKE Mailing List ==== > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > ...........................PIKE MAAILING LIST.......................... > Please do not send attached files to our list. Some older systems will > not handle or process them. 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============================================================== ============================================================== PLEASE REFER YOUR REPLIES DIRECTLY TO: <JudithM@sj.bigger.net> ******I've done a Blankenship Lookup with no positive results. PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR REPLIES TO MY ADDRESS: I'M ONLY HELPIN ============================================================== ============================================================== Please look for these names and dates: Blankenship Looking for information about who the parents may be of Lydia Blankenship born about 1817 in VA. Married in 1834 to a John Blackburn in Pike County KY. Thanks

I'm trying to find living relatives of, or backgrounds of, brothers Raymond and William White. William lived in Freeburn. b. 6-19-1905 d. 11-13-1984. His brother Raymond lived in Phelps. b. 5-3-1902 d. 7-31-1954. Both men were coal miners. I am Raymond's grandson. Their parents were John and Cecelia Bolden White but that's all I know about their predecessors. Thank you. Reg Wilcox

Jerry, I don't know if the Pike county census is on line or not but I have a 3 volumn set of the 1920 pike county census. Is there anyone you would like for me to look up for you ??. I would be glad to do this for you. Wilma Wireman At 07:18 PM 11/8/98 -0600, you wrote: >Could anyone tell me if Pike County Census are available by Internet and if >so what the address might be? > >Thanks. > >Jerry > > >==== KYPIKE Mailing List ==== >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >...........................PIKE MAILING LIST........................... >To contact our Pike List Owner Glenn Belcher: "E" commander@inetone.net >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > >

Could anyone tell me if Pike County Census are available by Internet and if so what the address might be? Thanks. Jerry

Jerry, Ther is a site www.census-online.com/links/index.html that has census for several KY counties but have not put Pike county on it yet. Perhaps they may in the near future. Paul Diles ---------- > From: Jerry W. Baird <jbaird@naxs.com> > To: KYPIKE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [KYPIKE-L] Pike County Census > Date: Sunday, November 08, 1998 7:18 PM > > Could anyone tell me if Pike County Census are available by Internet and if > so what the address might be? > > Thanks. > > Jerry > > > ==== KYPIKE Mailing List ==== > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > ...........................PIKE MAILING LIST........................... > To contact our Pike List Owner Glenn Belcher: "E" commander@inetone.net > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Brenda, I don't know if this is any help.... Annals of Floyd County 1800-1821 by Wells lists a few references to a Meredith and Meriday Collins and one Margaret. Most are deed transactions on Shelby Creek. One is an agreement to try for Salt Water on 6 Aug. 1819. The one reference to Margaret (sometimes shortened to Mary) is: 16 Nov. 1809: Articles of Agreement for Dissolution of Marriage between Daniel Bence Jr. and Mary, his wife, with Danile Wolf, the father of Mary Bence, of Surry County, N. C. , acting as trustee for Mary Bence. Daniel Wolf agrees to rais e Lewis Bence, the child of Daniel and Mary Bence. WITNESS: William J. MAyo, Richard Collins and Margaret Collins. Not much help, but it's all I could find. Candy Parent Tazewell County, VAGenWeb page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vatazewe/ http://www.htonline.com/~candy/ candy@htonline.com -----Original Message----- From: RUCollins2@aol.com <RUCollins2@aol.com> To: KYPIKE-L@rootsweb.com <KYPIKE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, November 08, 1998 7:17 AM Subject: [KYPIKE-L] Help.......... > >Hello List, > >I am in kind of a delima and wondered if anybody on this list might be able to >help me out. Where is the story. > >I have been searching for many many years for info on Meredith COLLINS b. 1760 >Va. d. 1841 Pike Co. KY. His first wife after all these years has never been >found tho all researchers believe that marriage took place around the >birthdate of first son Bradley who was b. 1786 NC. Meredith's second wife has >always been thought to be Mary "Polly" HOLLOWAY but in the 25+ years of >research I have never found one piece of evidence that proves his wife's name >was HOLLOWAY. > >The researcher that documented HOLLOWAY as Meredith's wife was Eula Collins >Conley, the great granddaughter of Meredith but I guess even Eula might/could >have mad a mistake. It just seems odd that we have never been able to trace >anything about this person. > >Last week I recieved an email about a marriage on a cd in Tyrell Co. NC that >a >M. COLLINS mar Mary HORTON 2-1-1800. This Mary would probably also be >referred to as Mary "Polly" Collins . Then another email came out of Orange >Co. email list with this info......... > > >Brenda, > >Just wanted to say that I have the map by Markham. There is a Key Index >to the Map, however only one Collins is listed. > >There is Joseph Collins (1752) owning land. It is a large block of land. >Flat River goes through the upper right side tip. Surrounding owners >William Combs, James Scarlett, John Brown, Ansil Parrish, James >Marshburn (don't see him listed in index), William Churton. James Walker >is below James Marshburn. > >Thomas Collins (1761). Dial Creek runs through his land. It is a branch >off Flat River. Thomas's land is square also however it is the shape of >an upside down "U". The center of this "U" is owned by Henry Horton. The >outer land owners are John Brown (same property as above), John >Carrinton, Thomas Person, Arthur Mangum, William Smallwood, William >Ashley, William McFarland. > >Just thought I would pass this along to you. > >All this land is in the upper right hand corner of Orange County. > >Gloria > >-- >Walker - Vaughn - Acadian Webpage >http://www.geocities.com/~vauwal >http://pw2.netcom.com/~daglo/gloria.html (simple) > >Gloria Vaughn Walker >daglo@ix.netcom.com >P.O.Box 890874 >Houston, TX >77289-0874 > >NOTE: That living around my COLLINS kin is Henry HORTON. Also my father and >grandfather carried the name WALKER in the middle name. When I ask the family >how come Walker I was told it was an old family name however I have never been >able to find a Walker. My gggrandfather is John W. Collins s/o of Meredith and >everybody always assumed that the "W" was for Wesley but it also could have >been for Walker. > >Can anybody look through your sources and see if you can find a death record >on this Mary "Polly" Collins who d. about 1812 in Floyd Co. ,later Pike Co. >Also does anybody have any source book on early Russell Co. births that could >check the records for Meredith;s children born in Russell county between >1800-1809. Any help appreciated and any subjections as to where to go from >here are welcome. > >Brenda Collins Dillon > > > >==== KYPIKE Mailing List ==== >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >...........................PIKE MAILING LIST........................... >Our PikeList is sponsored by the RootsWeb Data Genealogical Cooperative >"ROOTSWEB" is funded entirely by you the genealogical community. To be >informed how you can support these and other internet genealogy through >RootsWeb why not go ahead and visit their site right now and learn how. >.......http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html.......... >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > >

Susan, I do not have the parents of William B. Hackney, he was born abt. 1890, but he does not show on the 1900 census as a child. Maybe some one else on the list can help with this one. Jonah >Hi Jonah, > >On the William B. Hackney info, do you have William's parents? I have some Williams, but they do not seem to have the right birthdates to fit >with your William. I am sure that he plugs into my data, but I don't see where right now. > >It was nice to meet other KY-Pike researchers at the courthouse on my visit.

Hello List, I am in kind of a delima and wondered if anybody on this list might be able to help me out. Where is the story. I have been searching for many many years for info on Meredith COLLINS b. 1760 Va. d. 1841 Pike Co. KY. His first wife after all these years has never been found tho all researchers believe that marriage took place around the birthdate of first son Bradley who was b. 1786 NC. Meredith's second wife has always been thought to be Mary "Polly" HOLLOWAY but in the 25+ years of research I have never found one piece of evidence that proves his wife's name was HOLLOWAY. The researcher that documented HOLLOWAY as Meredith's wife was Eula Collins Conley, the great granddaughter of Meredith but I guess even Eula might/could have mad a mistake. It just seems odd that we have never been able to trace anything about this person. Last week I recieved an email about a marriage on a cd in Tyrell Co. NC that a M. COLLINS mar Mary HORTON 2-1-1800. This Mary would probably also be referred to as Mary "Polly" Collins . Then another email came out of Orange Co. email list with this info......... Brenda, Just wanted to say that I have the map by Markham. There is a Key Index to the Map, however only one Collins is listed. There is Joseph Collins (1752) owning land. It is a large block of land. Flat River goes through the upper right side tip. Surrounding owners William Combs, James Scarlett, John Brown, Ansil Parrish, James Marshburn (don't see him listed in index), William Churton. James Walker is below James Marshburn. Thomas Collins (1761). Dial Creek runs through his land. It is a branch off Flat River. Thomas's land is square also however it is the shape of an upside down "U". The center of this "U" is owned by Henry Horton. The outer land owners are John Brown (same property as above), John Carrinton, Thomas Person, Arthur Mangum, William Smallwood, William Ashley, William McFarland. Just thought I would pass this along to you. All this land is in the upper right hand corner of Orange County. Gloria -- Walker - Vaughn - Acadian Webpage http://www.geocities.com/~vauwal http://pw2.netcom.com/~daglo/gloria.html (simple) Gloria Vaughn Walker daglo@ix.netcom.com P.O.Box 890874 Houston, TX 77289-0874 NOTE: That living around my COLLINS kin is Henry HORTON. Also my father and grandfather carried the name WALKER in the middle name. When I ask the family how come Walker I was told it was an old family name however I have never been able to find a Walker. My gggrandfather is John W. Collins s/o of Meredith and everybody always assumed that the "W" was for Wesley but it also could have been for Walker. Can anybody look through your sources and see if you can find a death record on this Mary "Polly" Collins who d. about 1812 in Floyd Co. ,later Pike Co. Also does anybody have any source book on early Russell Co. births that could check the records for Meredith;s children born in Russell county between 1800-1809. Any help appreciated and any subjections as to where to go from here are welcome. Brenda Collins Dillon

Hi Jonah, On the William B. Hackney info, do you have William's parents? I have some Williams, but they do not seem to have the right birthdates to fit with your William. I am sure that he plugs into my data, but I don't see where right now. It was nice to meet other KY-Pike researchers at the courthouse on my visit. > Subject: Re: [KYPIKE-L] Great Visit to Pike County > Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 16:23:50 -0500 > From: jomay@eastky.net (Jonah May) > To: KYPIKE-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi Susan, > Glad you enjoyed your visit to Pike County. Here is the little bit > of information that I have on HACKNEY'S in the Fedscreek and Mouthcard > area. I made a mistake about the Pond Creek family, they were HENSLEY'S > not HACKNEY'S that I have married to the BALL family. > Jonah May > > Descendants of William B. Hackney > > 1 William B. Hackney b: Abt. 1890 in Pike Co., Ky. Age at first > Marriage: 18 est. Number of children: 6 > . +Rosa Varney b: November 1889 in Pike Co., Ky. m: April 09, 1908 in Pike > Co., Ky. Age at first Marriage: 18 est. Number of children: 6 Father: > Adrian Varney Mother: Louisa Collins > 2 John Hackney b: 1909 > 2 Vada Hackney b: 1911 > 2 Phillip Hackney b: 1913 > 2 Eunice Hackney b: 1915 > 2 Finis Hackney b: March 16, 1917 in Pike Co., Ky. Age at first > Marriage: 21 Number of children: 8 > .... +Mertie Varney b: 1917 in Pike Co., Ky. m: June 05, 1938 in Pike Co., > Ky. Age at first Marriage: 21 est. Number of children: 8 Father: > Cleveland Varney Mother: Mary Honaker > ... 3 Clifton Hackney > ... 3 Ferrel Hackney > ... 3 Clinton Hackney Number of children: 3 > ....... +Edith Turnmire Number of children: 3 Father: Robey > Turnmire Mother: Maxie Chapman > ...... 4 Clinton Hackney, Jr. > ...... 4 Tammy Hackney > ...... 4 Maxie Hackney > ... 3 Carl Hackney > ... 3 Charlie Hackney > ... 3 Jewel Hackney > ... 3 Julia Hackney > ... 3 Estill Hackney > 2 Delphie Hackney b: 1919 -- Susan Martucci jkdevl@earthlink.net

Hi Susan, Glad you enjoyed your visit to Pike County. Here is the little bit of information that I have on HACKNEY'S in the Fedscreek and Mouthcard area. I made a mistake about the Pond Creek family, they were HENSLEY'S not HACKNEY'S that I have married to the BALL family. Jonah May Descendants of William B. Hackney 1 William B. Hackney b: Abt. 1890 in Pike Co., Ky. Age at first Marriage: 18 est. Number of children: 6 . +Rosa Varney b: November 1889 in Pike Co., Ky. m: April 09, 1908 in Pike Co., Ky. Age at first Marriage: 18 est. Number of children: 6 Father: Adrian Varney Mother: Louisa Collins 2 John Hackney b: 1909 2 Vada Hackney b: 1911 2 Phillip Hackney b: 1913 2 Eunice Hackney b: 1915 2 Finis Hackney b: March 16, 1917 in Pike Co., Ky. Age at first Marriage: 21 Number of children: 8 .... +Mertie Varney b: 1917 in Pike Co., Ky. m: June 05, 1938 in Pike Co., Ky. Age at first Marriage: 21 est. Number of children: 8 Father: Cleveland Varney Mother: Mary Honaker ... 3 Clifton Hackney ... 3 Ferrel Hackney ... 3 Clinton Hackney Number of children: 3 ....... +Edith Turnmire Number of children: 3 Father: Robey Turnmire Mother: Maxie Chapman ...... 4 Clinton Hackney, Jr. ...... 4 Tammy Hackney ...... 4 Maxie Hackney ... 3 Carl Hackney ... 3 Charlie Hackney ... 3 Jewel Hackney ... 3 Julia Hackney ... 3 Estill Hackney 2 Delphie Hackney b: 1919 >Hi Everyone, > >I want to thank all of you who wrote to me with suggestions about how to spend my time when visiting Pike County. I think >that I was very efficient during my brief time there - mostly because of your excellent suggestions. > >I just got back from my visit to Pike County. I drove up to Grundy, VA last Monday. I was able to do research in Pikeville >for three whole days. On Friday, we toured a couple of cemeteries and a local church before heading back home to South >Carolina. As you can probably guess, three and half days was just not enough to see and do everything that I wanted to, but >it was a great trip. > >The major places that I visited were the Pike County courthouse and the Special Collections room at Pikeville College >library. I was at the Pikeville College library for only one day (definitely not enough time), but I did not even stop for >lunch. I wish I had another day just to browse. I spent two days at the court house, but they were not full days. I had >lunch one day with a cousin that I had not seen for over twenty years. On another day, I spent the early morning at the >Buchanan County courthouse trying to locate a marriage record that should have been in Pike County, but was just not there. >There was good and bad news about the visit to Buchanan county. The good news was that I found one of the missing marriages. >The bad news was that it was in marriage book #1 which they did not have at the courthouse anymore. > >I stopped by the Tourism/Visitor Information booth looking for local maps and found a book on Pike County for sale. The title >is "Pike County - A Very Different Place" by William David Deskins. It was published in 1994. The book was published in >conjunction with the Bicentennial of Kentucky (in 1992). The book begins with a brief overview of the people that may have >been in the area 10,000 years ago. It quickly moves into the 1700s and ends with a chapter called - World War II and Beyond. >I have not read the entire book yet, but it seems to be an interesting book and contains a section of pictures in the middle. >It cost $30.00. > >One of the more interesting finds from the Special Collection room was a file cabinet of Community Studies. Apparently, >students at Pikeville College taking a course called Appalachian Studies are required to do a project/report on an Appalachian >community. Most of the reports were brief (only 4-10 pages), but they were on very specific communities in Pike County. Most >of the students would pick their home community if they were from the area. These studies usually included oral interviews >with an older person in the area (many times it seemed to be an interview with grandparents or some other local older >person). I actually found a study that mentioned my GG-grandfather by name. The report usually included the names of the >major families in the community. I copied several of the reports that dealt with the area that my mother and her cousins grew >up in. They had a wonderful time reading the reports because they typically were about people that they knew "in the old >days". The communities that I was looking into were Mouthcard, Feds Creek, and Little Card (which was filed under Card >Creek). One of the reasons that I mentioned these community studies was because I always looked at the back page of a report >for the bibliography. In two of the reports, I saw a reference to "100 year History of Mouthcard Baptist Church". This was >the church that my family attended. This was not a document that seemed to be located in any library - it was distributed to >church members at the time, but after talking to the pastor of the church, he has tracked down a copy of the church history >and is making me a copy. > >The courthouse was a wonderful place to visit. I was able to look at original marriage documents for most of the marriages in >my main lines. The courthouse also had copies of Pike county census records plus a good collection of surrounding counties' >census records. These were very helpful when I found a marriage record that gave me a new family branch to look at. In my >library in South Carolina, I only have the microfilm to look at, so it was nice to see indexed books of most of census >information. I wish my library had a copy of the books. The courthouse charged $0.25 per page for marriage records, census >info and school census records. In the deed and will section however, each page costs several dollars ($5.00 for a two page >deed). My family transferred land and recorded a lot of deeds, so I did not get too many of those records. > >Apologies for the length of this post. I had such a great time on my visit that I wanted to share a little with you. This >was definitely not my last trip to Pike County. One additional note - The fall foliage this year is just spectacular. The >entire drive from South Carolina to Kentucky was one breathtaking view after another. > >Happy Hunting Everyone... > >-- >Susan Martucci >jkdevl@earthlink.net > > > >==== KYPIKE Mailing List ==== >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >...........................PIKE MAAILING LIST.......................... >Please do not send attached files to our list. Some older systems will >not handle or process them. You're encouraged to privately exchange OK >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >

I recently ordered the microfilm copy of the 1870 Pike County census. However, over half of the pages were unreadable--many nearly blank. Because of this, I never did find the one individual I was most interested in locating-- John Morgan Slone/Sloan. He should have been about 5 years old and I believe his mother's name was Bethany or Bethina or something similar. Does anyone have a better copy that they could look for him? We've been searching for poor John for about 5 years and have been unable to find him a father. Thanks for your help. Candy Parent Tazewell County, VAGenWeb page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vatazewe/ http://www.htonline.com/~candy/ candy@htonline.com