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I'm a descendant of Moses FERGUSON & Sophia PHELPS -- of near Rock Bridge / Sulphur Lick area -- son Sparrel P. Ferguson (1818-1888) and Charlotte T. Harris (1821-1889), and their son Samuel Turner Ferguson (1864-1927) & Lou Ella "Ellie" McPherson (1867-1949). These Fergusons and a few others founded Skaggs Creek Church (1840); and Sparrel as a minister married many couples of this area. They petitioned to leave Mill Creek Church to establish a new church in the Old Stephens Meeting House. Later in 1859 Sparrel P. Ferguson helped to organize the Monroe Baptist Church, where he served as a Deacon. They first belonged to Mill Creek Church, where my ancestors Francis Harris, Sr. and Sarah Kays were married Feb. 14, 1805. This FERGUSON family was from Bedford / Franklin Co.'s, VA and earlier from Chesterfield / Henrico Co.'s, VA, where they settled in the 1650s. My southcentral ancestry includes: Walker, Smith (Schmidt), Hayes, Emberton, Harris, Ferguson, McPherson, Goodman, Waldrop, Hamilton, Phelps, Moulder, Evans, Guffey, Coffelt, Luster ... Best regards, Christie Ferguson Cirone On Oct 24, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Sandi Gorin wrote: > I forgot to mention ... if you are searching for someone whose last > name begins with D through F that were in the counties served by this > list, feel free to post through Wednesday. > > Sandi > > Sandi's Puzzlers: http://www.gensoup.org/gorinpuzzles/index.php > Sandi's site: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ > Archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I'm not looking for him, I know where he is. This concerns George Washington Emmert s/o Phillip Emmert and Deborah Lyon. He is buried at Old Mulkey with his parents and some siblings. (although not recorded or honored with a marker) He was born March 18, 1834 in Monroe and died in a Glasgow Hotel Aug. 26, 1861 that was being used as a Confederate Hospital. I own the family Bible giving his birth. I have acquired his estate settlement. No records or newspaper articles exist to tell of his service other than an article from the Glasgow Republican of May 4, 1898 that will follow. My question is, How do I prove this man served when he died before he fired a shot? He enlisted but died before he was issued a firearm or uniform, if uniforms were issued at all. I have failed to find any record whatsoever. I welcome any response. The article reads as transcribed by Martha Harrison: "Some days ago it was our privilege to enjoy the hospitality of our old friend, John NETHERTON, who lives on the farm which was once the property and home of General Philip EMMERT, a pioneer settler who entered and patented land about eighty years ago. After a pleasant conversation with the family and partaking of a good dinner, we, in company with Mr. NETHERTON and his son, took a stroll over the farm, the home of our youth, in search of old land-marks and old associations. Our first visit was to the location of the tanyard where many days have been spent in company with fathers and brothers, when we were at work in the yard, and when we were engaged in childish play. But, alas! father and brothers, all except one, are long since passed into the world beyond, and very few things are left to indicate that a tanyard ever existed on the spot. Forty to seventy-five years ago, EMMERT's tanyard was one of the best known and oftenest visited places in the community, being the only tanyard for several miles around, when shoes and harness were not bought at stores, but hides were carried to the tanyard and worked into leather, and made into shoes and harness by the journeyman shoe and harness maker in his annual visit to the families, or the leather was made up in the neighborhood shoe and harness shop. But we not live in a better day, where these old trades and professions are not needed. Near by the old tanyard is a large beech tree inscribed "G. W. E.", 1850. G. W. EMMERT was a son of Gen. Philip EMMERT, who left the parental roof about 1854 and for a time made his home with the late Jacob DILLON, of whose death we had an account a few days ago. When the conflict of war came on in 1861, he was living somewhere in Allen county, taking sides with the Confederate army, but lived only a few days after enlisting. We have been told he died in the old building which is used as a hotel near the Glasgow hotel - that being used as hospital by the Confederates then organizing at Glasgow. He was a member of Gen. Joe LEWIS' regiment, and his death was probably the first death in the regiment. James SMITH, late post master at Glasgow, a member of his company, carried the news of his death to his relatives, and his remains were carried to Monroe county, at Old Mill Creek Church. While rambling over the grounds, we measured some sugar trees that G. W. EMMERT planted near the old tanyard, and found one to be three feet six inches in circumference, another sugar tree standing in a field nearby, which we have been told was so small when the field was cleared, that it was bent over and covered to protect it from the fire of the clearing, we measured and found it to be eight feet and seven inches around, about three feet from the ground. We lingered several hours around the old premises but found everywhere the ravages of time and custom had wrought their many changes. The orchard, one of the first planted in that part of the country and once was one of the largest, is now almost destroyed; the houses have been changed; the barn is rotted down and hauled away; the meadows are cultivated in corn and other crops; the roads are all changed; we met only "Abe" MOORE and M. K. HAMMER of the old citizens of the neighborhood while visiting in the community and we thought that like poor Rip Van Winkle there would be no one to know us or give a friendly home greeting." Randy Jobe