Nena Smothers wrote: >TIP #204: PIONEER SOLDIERS, 1778 TO 1781 Lewis Collins, in his wonderful history of >Kentucky, has aided us greatly in piecing together the names and locations of our earliest >settlers in Kentucky. Kentucky did not reach statehood until 1792, but even while we were still a >part of Virginia, the hearty pioneers were blazing out trails into this wonderful commonwealth. >According to Collins, the following is a "large portion of those who were enrolled as pioneer >soldiers of Kentucky." Some name were spelled incorrectly. >Wm. Harrod's Company, 1780, at the Station near the Falls, in now Jefferson >and Shelby Counties. >Wm. Oldham, *** To add a little bit to that info: THE KENTUCKY ENCYCLOPEDIA - John E. Kleber, Editor in Chief. Published by the University Press of Kentucky copyright of second printing 1992 Page 694 tells us: "William Oldham, soldier in the American Revolution, was born in Berkeley County, Virginia, on June 17, 1753, to John and Ann (Conway) Oldham. He fought in the early part of the Revolutionary War, rose to the rank of captain in 1775, and resigned in 1779. At that time he emigrated to the Falls of the Ohio, probably with his wife, Penelope (Pope) Oldham. He took part in some of the engagements against the Indians in the Northwest Territory and was in command of a regiment of the Kentucky militia in the ill-fated and poorly conducted expedition led by Gen. Arthur St. Clair, governor of the territory northwest of the Ohio River. On November 4, 1791, troops were attacked by Indians near the Wabash River and the border between Ohio and Indiana. William Oldham was killed, one of the hundreds killed or wounded. Two years later Capt. Alexander Gibson's men built Fort Recovery at the site of the battle. In 1823 Oldham was honored by the Kentucky legislature in naming a newly formed county for him." Do any of you know who Penelope and William's children were? My ancestor is a William Oldham but unfortunately not this one. Mine married a Mary Norris and came from Maryland. His children settled around Lexington, KY. There is record of William being in Indiana and Lexington. One of his daughters married William Montgomery. If this rings bells for any of you, I've put my info out at Rootsweb: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brooks/OLDHAMS/OldhamDesc.htm Please do not hesitate to get in touch with me. Carol Pullen-Reynolds