Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 To: ky-footsteps@sirius.dsenter.com Subject: ky-footsteps V1 #47 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Maria & Tim Troutman Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 09:15:16 +-200 Subject: KY-F: OWENS bio, Union County, KY Baird Waldon Owens, Union County, Ky, born Sept. 11, 1880 in Union County, Ky, son of Mathew Henry Owens and Nancy Jane (Tripp) Owens of Union County, KY. The subject farmed and did odd jobs to raise his family. He married Elsie Melinda Sigler, daughter of Kelly Sigler and Mary Jane (Stone) Sigler. Together they raised 8 known children, although the 1910 census lists them as having 4 children, with 2 living, which are the 2 oldest of surviving children. Their children are; Hubbie b. 1906; Noble b. 1910; Ethel Jane b. 1912; Mathew Kelly b. 1914; Beulah ; Verdie b. 1918; Harry b. 1921; and William Ray b. 1925, and if 2 died before the 1910 census, then they had 10 children. Sometime around 1925-1926 the subject's wife left and moved to Mt. Vernon, IN where she died in 1952. Baird Waldon continued to live in Union County, KY, sometimes residing with a good friend Mr. Brown. Baird spent many days and weeks with his oldest son's family at their home. Baird died following an operation in Nov. 1962 in Union County, KY. He is buried next to his friend Mr. Brown who gave him his cemetery plot in Odd Fellow Cemetery, Bordley, KY. Names - OWENS, DEMOSS, TROUTMAN, SIGLER, BROWN March 26, 1997, Maria DeMoss Troutman, Schopp, Germany (great granddaughter) ------------------------------ From: Maria & Tim Troutman Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 09:15:38 +-200 Subject: KY-F: Bio for Owens Jefferson/Union Co., KY Mathew Henry Owens, of Union County, Ky, born April 1822 in Jeffersontown, Jefferson County, Ky to William Owens and Fanny (Zilhart) Owens of Jeffersontown, KY. Little is known about the subject's father, other than census records indicate he was born in TN. The subject's mother was a seamstress and after her husband died remarried to John Muster. The subject's mother's family were wagon makers. Mathew seems to have had itchy feet or maybe lack of finances kept him on the go. After marrying, Mathew left Jefferson County, KY and went to Iowa, though no records to prove it yet, other than FHC stating his marriage in Iowa to Elizabeth Jacobs. His first three children were born in Johnson Co., IN, though no records have been found yet to show Mathew living in Johnson County, IN. From IN, he went back to Jefferson County, KY, and then in later years went to Union County, KY, and once during the same census year, was found in Union and Webster County, KY. Mathew was a carpenter, rumored to have taught school in Johnson County, IN, and said to have preached at the Walnut Grove Church of Christ, as well as he helped to build the church. Old family members say that they remember their parents talking about his love of reading. Mathew 1st married July 1841 in Shelby County, KY to Elizabeth Jacobs, daughter of Martin Jacobs and Judith Jacobs, Elizabeth b. 1814 KY and died before 1857. They were the parents of 4 children, James b. 1842; John b. 1844; Frances Marion b. 1846; and Emily b. 1848. Mathew 2nd married in Iowa to Eveline Nelson, daughter of John Woodford Nelson, widow of William Williamson. Eveline b. 1828 IA, died before 1867. Shortly before or after the marriage, Eveline gave birth in 1851 to a daughter by her deceased husband William Williamson who was named Mary Eveline. This step daughter was welcomed into Mathew's family and later went on and married a brother to Mathew's 3rd wife, making her step daughter and daughter in law. Mathew and Eveline also had Woodford b. 1857 in Marshall County, IA; Robert b. 1862 IA; and Susan b. 1865. Mathew 3rd and lastly married Nov. 1867 Morganfield, Union County, Ky to Nancy Jane Tripp, b. Mar. 1844 d. 1916 Union County, KY. Mathew and Nancy had the following children; Ed b. 1869; Mary Evalyne b. 1870 (note; not to be confused with the daughter by the 2nd wife); Bluford b. 1873; Sylvester b. 1874; Roxie b. 1876; Charles b. 1879; Baird Waldon b. 1880; Florence. B. 1883; and Harvey b. 1887. Mathew was rumored to have had 28 children but proof of 28 have not been found. It was also rumored that he had a 4th wife by which no children were born, but once again, no proof has been found to back that up. According to older family members, Mathew died 1901 and is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Union County, Ky. No death records or cemetery records have him listed however. But, there is a hand carved stone in old section of the cemetery with the initials of MHO on three sides. His last wife Nancy is suppose to be next to him, however, there is no stone to indicate which side she may be on if she is there. Names- OWENS, DEMOSS, TROUTMAN, TRIPP, WILLIAMSON, JACOBS, NELSON, ZILHART March 26, 1997, Maria DeMoss Troutman, Schopp, Germany (great great granddaughter) ------------------------------ From: braimer@kiwi.dep.anl.gov (Happy Greer) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 21:37:06 -0400 Subject: KY-F: Livingston Co,KY,CT. ORDs. Book A Extracts Livingston Co,KY,Court Order Bk.A, 1800: Wed.,March 26,1800,p.34-- On mo. Charles STEWART, ord that Wm. BIRDSONG, James McNABB, Jonathan GREER,John POUNDS & John ATCHISON be apptd. to view & mark nearest & best way for road from Eddy to county line on direct course to Christian Court house. On mo. John CALDWELL- Charles STEWART, Joseph REED & David DAVIDSON are apptd.to view & mark way for rd. from Eddyville to Davidsons Mill. Ord. that the Sheriff advertise the ensuing Election to be held at Michael PURKELs Senr. James BELL is permitted to remove 100 acres of his Certificate No. 2552, land proved in court to be taken by a prior claim. John DOBBINS is permitted to remove 50 acres of his Cert. due to prior claim. July 22,1800,p.44-- Eddy Creek, Isaac BULLARDS We whose names are underwritten being summoned by Jesse FORD sheriff of Lvngstn. Co. to attend at Isaac Bullards, being first sworn, viewed the lands above and below where Isaac Bullard proposes his water grist mill & are of opinion that it will be neither damage nor injury to Commonwealth or others for Bullard to build the mill;"neither the mansion, offices,curtalages or gardens of any person will be overflowed by the said Mill being built and that the health of The neigh- bors will not be injured,that neither the passage of fish nor navigation will be hindered. Signed and sealed by Benjamin KILGORE,John WARE,James SATYRFIELD,John GEORGE,James GEORGE,Robert DOBBINS,John GARY,William GILKEY,Isaac GRUBBS,Henry JONES,Edwd. MITCHUSSON,Jonathan GREER. Test. Jesse FORD, S.L.C. (Sherifff Livgstn Co). Court gives permission to Bullard to build his mill. August 26,1800,p.51-- Present at Courthouse this day:Jonathan RAMSEY,William MILES, William DOBBINS, & Wiley DAVIS,Gentlemen. Jonathan GREER apptd surveyor of road from this place to Christian Court house in assistant to David JAMES. The Report of the viewers of road from MILES ferry to Intersect the rd. from Eddyville to Smith Land:considered that it be established as a public road & George SADLER apptd survyr of the road from the ferry to the Top of Bluff where REED's road crosses & John FORD from there to where rd. crosses HOGANS fork of Deer Creek & Martin RANDLEMAN from there to Benjamin HARDINS & further ord. that William MILES & Jonathan RAMSEY, Esqrs allot the hands to sd. svyrs. Nov. 26,1800,p.61-- Pursuant to law court proceeds to make allowances to County Creditors & Lay the County Levy to wit: pay 8 shillings per woolf sculp to the following: William STORY,James SATYRFIELD,James GREER,Joseph MORGAN, Jesse ROBERTS,John POUNDS,James McNABB,Larkin BINNITT,John GASKINS,James IVEY,James CLARK,John CONWAY,John DOBBINS, David BROWN. Ord. the County Levy be Seventy five Cents pr. tithable for the present year. Happy Greer braimer@kiwi.dep.anl.gov ------------------------------ From: Maria & Tim Troutman Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:54:40 +-200 Subject: KY-F: Memories of Sarah Eldridge DeMoss, Hopkins Co., Ky My daughter had a school project in September 1995 to gather childhood memories of her grandparents. She had to gather at least a half page of memories. They were asking for memories from the grandparents childhood to early teenage years. The reason for the assignment I believe was to tie in some way with the Old Settlers Reunion they held every year in Buffalo Gap, Taylor County, Texas where we were living at the time. I had let everyone know about it to give them time to think, and then we made phone calls on Sept 12, 1995 to get this memories. I've asked Nancy about this to ok it with her first. I hope some of you enjoy it or get a chuckle out of it. Granted they aren't long, they tried to tell the story as simple as possible for a 3rd grader to understand. Sarah Ellen Eldridge DeMoss- great grandmother to Laken Troutman. Granny-as she told me on Sept. 12, 1995 My mom was a very clean person and did not like one speck of dirt in the house. We had a stove that used coal. Well one day for some reason, me and my sister Nell decided to play in the coal bucket and play with the coal. We got covered in coal soot and dust. Momma was furious with us and decided as punishment that we had to stay filthy until Daddy got home, so he could see the mess we had made. Well Daddy wasn't too happy with us when he got home. In the summertime I spent many hours outside playing under a great big cherry tree. Momma would take my toy dishes, dolls, clothes and cradle and put it all under the tree for me to sit and play. Me and my kitty cat would sit there all day long under that tree, with me dressing the cat in my doll clothes, but she let me do it. In the wintertime when Daddy wasn't out in the fields, he would put on a white gown and pretend that he was a ghost and chase us around the house. We would run from room to room, screaming because we were "scared" of the ghost. We knew it was only a Daddy "ghost", but we were having fun playing with him. When it would snow, Momma would wrap us up real good. After she had us in long underwear, coats, mittens, hats, and scarves, then when we would go outside. Then once we were outside, Daddy would take us and roll us up in a blanket and roll us like a barrel across the yard. There wasn't much snow left unrolled on by the time we went back inside, but it was fun to me. (Another personal note from me--though this is a childhood memory for her, it isn't my favorite one of the ones we collected) Sarah Eldridge was born Dec. 1919 in Hopkins Co., KY, her memories are from Hopkins Co., KY. Maria DeMoss Troutman, Schopp, Germany granddaughter of Sarah DeMoss ------------------------------ From: Maria & Tim Troutman Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:55:07 +-200 Subject: KY-F: Memories of James DeMoss On Sept. 12, 1995 at approximately 9pm, I (Maria) was talking to my mother and father, gathering their childhood stories from them for my daughter Laken. Laken had a school project of gathering childhood memories of at least a half page for school. These stories tend to be a bit special to me because 3 of the stories I had never heard before, and only hours later the next day, Daddy was dead from a massive heart attack. If only we could turn back time and make him go to the hospital to have something done, but those are only Ifs, possible nothing could have been done to prevent his death. It was just his time, as young as he was. (His stories as he told me over the phone) "My name is James Allan DeMoss, I am Laken Troutman's Grandaddy Jim. I spent about the first 8-10 years of my life in Madisonville, KY, then we moved to Sturgis, KY where my dad built a house. Back in Madisonville, I used to roller skate a lot down a hilly street called Park Avenue. One day we decided to build a go cart. Nothing was bolted together, it was just nailed here and there to hold it together. My roller skates slid apart and they were used on the bottom of our go cart as the wheels. We spent all day long riding that go cart down the hill then hauling it back up to the top to do it all over again. We did that almost all day long, until.. the city police pulled me over and told me to get that contraption off of the street before I got ran over. Another time I used some 2 X 6's to make a "boat", using a canvas tarpaulin to make it waterproof. I got my "boat" built and put it in a ditch, climbed aboard, and off I went floating down that ditch. But I ran into some rocks, my boat got stuck and I could not get it unlodged, so I had to leave my boat stuck in the ditch. I later found out that my ditch was actually a drainage area for stuff such as dishwater from the local businesses. We used to go to an old junkyard and get broken safety glass that was square shaped. We called these square pieces of broken safety glass our "diamonds". Behind the junkyard was a pond. We would get the old gas tanks off of the cars, make a raft using the gas tanks as floats for the raft, then we would float out in the pond. Mom never found out about that one! One day I was at my Grandma's (Nannie Myrtle Lyle Eldridge) and I wanted to go to the ballpark. Well it had started to rain and I didn't want to get wet going to the ballpark so I borrowed an umbrella. Off I went, with an umbrella in one hand while riding my bike. Well the wind caught the umbrellas as I was going down the hill and turned it inside out, umbrella wasn't of much use and I got soaked. When I was about 7 years old, me and some friends, Danny & Johnny, decided to dig a swimming pool in the very back of our yard. We got our "pool" dug out and filled it up with a garden house. It was awfully muddy in that pool but we swam in it until we got caught. Once we got caught, our fun was over and we had to fill the pool back in and then be hosed off with the garden hose." (Personal note- I've heard stories about his fast driving, my mothers swears when they were dating and he was showing off he turned a corner on two wheels in a car due to the speed he was driving. Then his mother, My Granny and his Aunt, his mother's sister, have told how he always took things apart to see how it would work, or how he didn't have to do anything but dirt would find him) James DeMoss was born March 1946 in Madisonville, Ky, but did most of his growing up in Union County, KY. His memories are from Hopkins Co, KY. Maria DeMoss Troutman-daughter of James DeMoss ------------------------------ From: Maria & Tim Troutman Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:55:23 +-200 Subject: KY-F: Memories of Anna Owens DeMoss- Union County, KY Anna DeMoss as told Sept. 12, 1995 When I was little I had toy dishes that were just like the ones my mom had. I had a toy percolator (coffee pot) and my Mom would put coffee in it for me. My Grandpa Owens would then sit at my little table and let me pour him coffee and he would sit there and drink his coffee. If Momma was cooking chicken and dressing, she would take my toy roaster pan and put me a chicken leg and some dressing in it and cook it. That way I had my own serving in my own dishes. Back when I was a kid, I thought my Grandma Owens had special straws. They weren't' just a plain old straw as we had at home, but her's looked like a long handled spoon but they were also straws. I also had a black patent purse that was very special to me because me and Grandma had purses exactly alike. So anytime we were together at church or somewhere, we had matching purses. One year at Christmas, I got a special stove. You see the stove was special because Santa had dented it coming down our chimney. My Daddy had a 1931 Model A car, with a rumble seat on the back. A rumble seat looks like a trunk, but it opens up to make a seat on the back of the car. Everytime we went to get Grandpa for a visit, he would always sit in the rumble seat. Rumble seats do not have a top to protect you from the wind or sun, so Grandpa was always riding in that rumble seat, riding in the wind and sun. Friends are very important. When I was in the 5th grade I made friends with a girl named Vinnie Covington. For religious reasons (vaccinations), her parents pulled her out of school, but I never forgot about her. Later on when I was in the 9th grade, I decided that I was going to write her a letter and see if she still lived where she did back in the 5th grade. Well she wrote me back and we have been friends ever since, keeping in touch with each other as we grew up and married. She married Jerry Tinsman and moved to Farmington, IN and raised 11 children. That was nearly 34 years ago and we still keep in touch at least once a year. (Personal note--Daddy, (her husband, James DeMoss,) has told tales of when they were first married and her cooking and how "hard" it was to swallow, such as the biscuits that wouldn't break if you threw them at the wall. Momma has told about frying apples just like you would fry potatoes and had to thow the pan away due to the apples sticking so bad. ) (Another interesting or amusing thing I learned just last week, was when Anna married Jim, Anna wanted a large wedding, but her parents could not afford it, but Anna had a large wedding. They "shopped" around for friends or acquaintances that had dresses that looked similiar in color and design, the hats that the bridesmaids wore that was popular in 1964, they made themselves from Oatmeal boxes. Anna made her own dress, Jim wore a suit he had gotten new when he was in the 8th grade (I guess he was a big 8th grader). I guess I was shocked to learn that they had shopped for people with matching clothing, even down to the flower girl and ring bearer) Anna was born Dec. 1946 in Union County, KY, Memories from Union Co., KY Maria DeMoss Troutman, Schopp, Germany, daughter ------------------------------ From: cpalmer@ix.netcom.com (Carole Palmer) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:30:39 GMT Subject: KY-F: Correction! It has been brought to my attention that there is an error in the following message I posted this week. The name of the deceased is Nannie A. Wilson, not Watson. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused. >While looking at death certificates today I saw this one and jotted >down a few of the most important facts: > > Nannie A. Watson, born 27 Jan 1838, Clay KY; > died 25 Apr 1924, Webster County, age 86 yrs, 2 mos, 25 days; > father: Jacob J. Sigler, born NC > mother: Elizabeth Price, born Webster County > informant: L.J. Sigler of Clay, KY > buried: Providence > >Certificate # 10585 Carole Palmer Webster County KYGenWeb Page Sponsor http://www.dsenter.com/~cpalmer/index.htm ------------------------------ From: Maria & Tim Troutman Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 15:26:02 +-200 Subject: KY-F: 1870 Union County, KY Census Info taken only of family and possible family members. 1870 Union County, Ky Census Caseyville District Owens, James age 27 farmer born IN. Matilda age 24 keeping house born KY Sarah age 4 born KY Martha F. age 1 born KY ------------------------------------------------------------------- Caseyville Distrit OWENS, Francis M. age 24 farm hand born IN Rebecca J age 28 born KY John (b. July) age 11/12 born KY ------------------------------------------------------------------- Caseyville District DUNCAN, (unreadable) B. age 37 farmer born, KY Susan age 39 born KY David V. age 19 farm hand born KY John H. age 17 farm hand born KY Martha A age 16 born KY Fannie age 10 born KY Sallie age 9 born KY Robert age 6 born KY Nannie age 2 born KY ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hills Precinct value of real estates $450; value of personal estate $350 OWLEY, Matthew H. age 47 farm hand born Ky =20 Nancy J age 26 =09 Woodford age 13 farm hand born IA Robert D. age 8 Susan age 5 Edinir (? male) (July) age 11/12 unfortunately, I failed to record down where the others were born at. Owley is really OWENS - ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hills Precinct, next door to the Owley/Owens family TRIPP, David age 24 farm hand born IN Mary E. age 19 born IA Alice G. age 1 born KY Mary E. age 4/12 (jan) born Ky (note, Mary E, the wife here, is a step daughter to family listed above, and the David Tripp is a brother to the Nancy J listed as the wife of Mathew Owley/Owens) - ------------------------------------------------------------------- Linde Precinct Value of real estate $1450/ Value of personal estate $650 HAZEL, Hiram age 43 farmer born KY Elizabeth age 44 born TN Francis E. age 17 Hiram J age 14 Margaret A age 12 John W. age 10 Mary E age 7 Martha J age 5 William age 11/12 (july) All children born in KY - ------------------------------------------------------------------- (precinct not listed in my notes) value of real estate $2000/ value of personal estate $650 HAZEL, Cornelius age 46 farmer =20 Emiline age 35 Jasper age 21 Mariar age 14 Sarah A. age 12 Crockette age 7 Mary Lee age 4 John age 3 Peter age 1 all children born in KY - ------------------------------------------------------------------ (no precinct listed in my notes) VAlue of real estate $2000/ value of personal estate $900 HAZEL, Richard age 50 farmer=20 Sallie age 30 James R. age 14 Matilda J. age 13 America age 11 Mary age 9 Victora F. age 7 Caleb age 5 George W. age 3 Augustus age 1 Winstead, JAMES age 9 (black) all children born in KY - ------------------------------------------------------------------- (no precinct listed in my notes) Value of real estate $2800/ Value of personal estate 400 HAZEL, Fielding age 51 farmer born KY Martha age 33 Elizabeth age 15 Matilda age 12 Hugh age 10 Emmaline age 8 Ira age 6 Samuel age 5 Hiram age 2 Louiza age 6/12 (dec) All children born in KY - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Morganfield Value of real estate $1800/ Value of personal Estate $ 1000 EVANS, Richard, age 27 druggist born KY Ophelia age 25 Eldridge age 3 Edmond J. age 63 born VA America age 55 born KY - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Maria Troutman - Germany ------------------------------ From: Maria & Tim Troutman Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 20:00:30 +-200 Subject: KY-F: HENTON/JACKSON letter This was sent to me by Harry Henton of Plattsmouth, NE, who is now deceased. He contacted me about the Henton family and I tried to brush him off as I was not interested in starting on that long family at the time, but he persisted, not that it was his fault, but he always managed to call when I was eating my evening meal, or after a bad day of work, when my mind just couldn't pay attention to what he was telling me. How I wish I had of paid closer attention to him now. He died unexpectedly, and according to his daughter, did not have his genealogy organized, but knew exactly how it all went together in his head. And I will say, he could rattle off names until I was thoroughly confused about who he was talking about. In the below letter, I have no idea who Dear Violet is, nor do I have any idea who or how Margaret Pardue fits into the HINTON/HENTON family. 1002 Battlefield Drive Nashville, TN 37204 Dear Violet; June 19, 1964 It was real nice hearing from cousins I'd never heard of, you and your mother. Uncle Jim sure left a "tribe" of his own, Grandmother hardly left a ripple, in comparison! I am writing this to you because it was you who wrote to me, and I ask you kindly to share the letter with your mother. She and my mother would be first cousins, since her father and mother's mother were brother and sister, which makes you and I second cousins. I trust the good Lord saw all of you safely back to your home. I was touched by the way you asked me if I know YOUR Jesus, for I call him "my" Jesus, too. Yes, I do know HIM as my Savior, and I love Him and believe His words and try to obey them. For He is the Blessed Savior of all of us who love Him and obey all of His Commandments. You asked for "all the data, " I have on the Jackson-Hinton sides of our "house". It quite a lot, too much for a letter, so I'll try to give you some particulars. Since you speak of your own "Family Tree", as the descendants of but one child of our great-grandparents of the Jackson-Hinton marriage, perhaps you might be interested in the "Tree" from which their marriage took "root", or became a "branch" or however it is that mankind "grows" here in the world. My grandmother had wonderful knowledge of her, and our, "people" from way back. She passed it on, through Mother, to me. So let us take a little trip back in time and place to a large area in Kentucky, about the City of Lexington, and about the year 1800. A family by the name of BUCKLEY lived there in those days. Perhaps you may not have heard of those ancestors of ours. The BUCKLEY parents and two of their daughters were ancestors of both great grandfather HINTON and great grandmother HINTON! It's a long family "tale", and gets quite complicated as the story unfolds. For there were three BUCKLEY sisters and all three of them are my own ancestors-one of them having produced, in the generations, also my father as well as my mother. I was not told the first names of the three BUCKLEY sisters and a lot of the story was left for me to figure out the best way I could find. So I figured, that their ages must have been years apart. Probably several other children who didn't "count" as ancestors. I was told only the surnames of the men the three sisters married, and these are the surnames: The oldest sister married a CRAWFORD, the middle sister married a MACGRAW, and the youngest married a HENTON. Perhaps only the HENTON move "rings a bell" for you. But just wait a minute. Maybe you might like to know the BUCKLEYs moved to Kentucky from Virginia before Kentucky was a State in Union, and probably were of English Descent. Through them, "we" have been Americans since almost anybody today is an American; but through the CRAWFORDS and HENTONS and JACKSONS too and, for me, through the MACGRAW ancestor and the HARRISON man his daughter married. For that daughter was the mother of the man my grandmother married and was my grandfather HARRISON. Now the oldest Buckley girl married the CRAWFORD man about the year 1800. Her youngest sister must have been an infant at the time. It seems that, after the CRAWFORD couple went to live in Barren County, then wilderness Country, they must have lost contact with the BUCKLEY relatives. The CRAWFORD man was a descendant of one of the early families of settlers in Kentucky. He was of Scottish stock. The couple probably had several children but I was told of only two, their oldest daughter whose first name I don't know, who became our great great grandmother JACKSON; and their oldest son Granville CRAWFORD, who became the grandfather of my own father! His mother and great grandmother HENTON were first cousins but they only knew each other through our great grandmother and her uncle Granville, who visited frequently in her own mother's home when she was a girl. It was after Mother and Dad had married that Grandmother HENTON learned of their close kinship. So, you see, I'm a descendant of those three BUCKLEY sisters on three sides of our branch of this "Family Tree." So now to get back to the BUCKLEY sisters, for a moment. By now, she had grown up and married George HENTON, of nearby Woodford County, and the son of this couple was our great grandfather John Napolean HENTON, who was called, "Nap" HENTON. The day would come when he would marry his own mother's niece, Nancy JACKSON! Now the original HENTONS in this country came from England. The father of our great great grandfather HENTON seems to have settled in Kentucky's Woodford County some time before 1800. He was a wealthy and well educated man and educated his own children. He spelled the name HENTON. He probably had several children but I was told of only of two. The oldest son, Thomas HENTON who inherited the homeplace at their father's death, and George, our ancestor. Sometime after the marriage, whether before or after their son "Nap" was born, they settled on a farm of about 900 acres in Daviess County. The little farm of our cousin Mattie WILLIAMS and her husband is all that is left of it now, but great great grandfather HENTON was the first white man to own that land. Not long after their move to Daviess County, the young JACKSON couple came there and settled on their farm close by the original HENTON farm. Great great grandmother HENTON never knew the young Jackson woman was her own sister's granddaughter. She had died before her son married her niece's daughter Nancy. Great Great grandfather Andrew JACKSON had come from Virginia and met the young CRAWFORD girl in Barren County, and they were married there early in the 1820's. They went from her home to settle in Daviess County. He was probably of English stock and , so the story goes, a brother to the father of "Stonewall" JACKSON. Nancy was their first child, born in 1825. When she was 15 yrs old, she and "Nap" HENTON were married. My grandmother was their first child, born in 1845. Her name was Margaret, they called her "Maggie", and her nieces and nephews called her, "Aunt Mag" HARRISON. You may know the names of the eight HENTON children. Anyway, I'll tell you. The four boys were ; Critt (John J. Crittender), Guy (Guy Buckley), James (your grandfather), and John. The girls were; Maggie (my grandmother), Molly (Mary Ann), Lou (Marie Louise) and Nan Napolean, the youngest child. Aunt Nan was born some months after her father was killed, and she was Mattie's mother. Perhaps you may not know that the HENTON family was quite well-to-do before the Civil War. Great Grandfather had many families of slaves, some of which his own father had inherited from his father. Great Grandfather JACKSON also owned slaves, and gave one, a girl named Grace, to Grandmother, Nancy, when she was born. She took her into the HENTON house, as part of her dowry when she married, and Grace became the "Mammy" of all the HENTON children. When he learned that Abraham LINCOLN was elected President, great grandfather HENTON freed all his slaves. He gave $50.00 a piece in gold to 40 of the males 18 yrs old and older, and also to Grace. Grace refused her freedom but took the money, because she thought her beloved "missus Nancy" shore will need it some day. Missus Nancy shore did see the day she needed Grace's money to buy food for her family- and Grace was "a member of the family", until her own death several years after great grandfather's death. Hard times fell upon the widow HENTON and her fatherless children! Grandmother went to work in the fields to support them. The original house had burned shortly before her father was killed and the family had to move into one of the cabins of the former slaves. The father and older children had built a lean to room on it, intending to rebuild the house later, but he was killed, Aunt Nan was born in that built on room of the cabin and grew up in the dire poverty that struck the family after her father's death. I guess you know the story of how our grandfather was killed in the second year of the Civil War, by outlaws who posed as "Southern guerrillas." The year the War ended and my grandmother was 20 years old, the Lord sent a little hope and help to Grandmother in the person of Elder FORD, of the Christian Church. He arranged for her to enter a collage at Midway, Kentucky, so she could become a teacher and help the family in this way rather than by working (like the slaves had worked) in the fields. (It was at this time that the HENTON family joined the Christian Church) Now our dear old JACKSON ancestor had been of the opinion that "education" is wasted on girls, they grow up and marry anyway! So our Grandmother Nancy never so much as learned to sign her own name - until Grandmother taught her to read and write when she came home from college. Grandmother had read to her and written for her and signed her name to legal papers (they had to sell portions of the farm, from time to time). Then , after she had worked in the fields to see to it her brothers went to school, Critt took over these duties for his mother. And thereby hangs the tale of how the HENTONS came to be divided in the HENTONs and the HINTONs! Uncle Critt began signing his mother's name to legal papers as HINTON. When Grandmother came home from the school she learned of it and was fit to be tied! But Uncle Critt was "stubborn" and insisted on spelling his name HINTON. One, or maybe two, of his brothers sided with him, Grandmother said, and your father seems to have been that one - or one of the two. As for the JACKSON and HENTON and HINTON descendants, there must be a lot of us by now, but I know very few, Mother knew several of her JACKSON cousins and very many of her HENTON and HINTON cousins. I always "looked up" to all of them. Of all the JACKSON ones that Mother knew, I know only of one family in Owensboro that might still be living there. They are LUCKETS, who own the LUCKETT Florists there; or maybe, they still own it. So these, I guess, are the partie-nears, almost a "book about" our far - spreading Family Tree in this letter. I hope you like it. May our dear Lord bless you and yours and keep all of you in his Love. Your cousin, Margaret Pardue. [Personal Note- Correct children for "Nap" Henton and Nancy Jackson Henton are ; George, Margaret, John "Critt", Guy Buckley, Mary Ann, Maria Louisa, Francis Marion Dailey, Richard Fillmore, James Samuel Jackson, and Nannie "Nan" Napolean Henton, with Francis Marion Dailey Henton being our connection] Maria DeMoss Troutman - Schopp Germany ------------------------------ End of ky-footsteps V1 #47 ************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation.