CORRESPONDENCE:  Jas I Harrison to Mr. Lyman Draper, 7 July, 1888.

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Transcribed by:  Dorothy des Lauriers (Ddeslaurie@aol.com)
Submitted:       4 May 2003
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It was written for Mr. Harrison by someone whose initials are C.J.



Louisville, July 7, 1888

Mr. Lyman Draper -
	I did not know either Guy Phelps or John McDowell.  I heard them spoken of 
many years ago, they lived in Bullitt’s County, Kentucky near Shepherdsville.  I 
have no knowledge of their descendants.  It is probable that David Meriwether who 
is still living, can give you some information about the persons named.

As to James Burkes who lived on Beargrass Jefferson County and died there some forty 
years ago.  He left two sons and one daughter.  All of his children are dead.  His 
oldest son - John Burkes died some three or four years ago in Henderson County leaving 
a family of several children, the other son died some years  some years childless.  
The daughter married a man by name of Tunstall, he is dead and his widow is living in 
Jefferson County near St. Matthews.  Meriwether can give you more information about the 
Burkes than I can.  Maj. John Donne lived in Porterville [?] from my earliest recollection.  
At his death which occurred about fifty years ago he was nearly 70 years of age, he had 
been a [?] Pilot many years before his death.  John Joynes [Jouner?] who was a lawyer and 
at one time mayor of city of Louisville and for many years Judge of the City Court of 
Louisville, died some eight years ago, about the age of eighty-one.  He was a son of 
Patrick [Joyes?] who settled in Louisville about the year, 1786.

I know know nothing of John [Tuel?] and John McManns.

My health is feeble especially in account of warm weather.

Respectfully yours,
Jas I. Harrison
     by C.J.