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 >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >