ky-footsteps Sunday, 6 July 1997 Volume 01 : Number 139 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brenda Jerome Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 02:09:33 -0500 Subject: KY-F: Weston Cemetery - Crittenden Co. KY WESTON CEMETERY - CRITTENDEN CO, KY Recorded Nov 1989 by Brenda Joyce Jerome Located on a high hill overlooking what is left of the old Ohio River town of Weston. When this cemetery was recorded in Nov 1989, it was badly overgrown and a machete was used to clear a path to find the tombstones. Many of the tombstones lie flat on the ground. From the old town site, it is necessary to hike up a washed out road to the top of the hill. From the cemetery there is a wonderful view of the Ohio River and across the river to Hardin Co, IL. Brewer, Lee Roy 24 Feb 1948 [only date] Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Hodge, James 1885 - [blank] Hodge, Leona G. 1892 - 1938 Escue, George 4 Mar 1858 - 14 Aug 1917 Escue, Mary 15 May 1865 - [blank] Todd, George 2 Mar 1887 - 14 Mar 1909 Rushing, Hannah M.G., wife of A.E. 20 Sep 1831 - 22 Feb 1884 Gahagen, Jennie C., wife of B.F. 22 Jun 1861 - 22 Sep 1902 Lamb, James M. Co B, 1st IL Cav [government tombstone for Union soldier] Finch, J. 7 Oct 1832 - 6 Aug 1834 Daughter Phillips, E.N., daughter 11 Nov 1848 - 4 Jul 1849 Phillips, D.J. 9 Aug 1850 - 15 Aug 1850 Sturgeon, Slyvester 7 May 1866 - 2 Feb 1932 At Rest Johnson, B. 16 Jul 1896 - 5 Sep 1896 Crowell, J.C. 25 Oct 1834 - 28 Jan 1899 Crowell, Amandy J., wife of Jos. C., 19 Dec 1838 - 16 Oct 1902 Nunn, S. 11 Apr 1848 - 11 Apr 1848 Gahagen, James E. 1915 - 1933 Gahagen, Dorothy 1931 - 1951 Gahagen, Herbert 1913 - 1932 Brenda Joyce Jerome, CGRS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Visit the Western Kentucky Journal at http://www.dsenter.com/~cpalmer/wkj/wkj.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ From: WRFC71A@prodigy.com (MRS BEULAH A FRANKS) Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 07:36:38, -0500 Subject: KY-F: Wise/Fayette Co 50th Anniv. 50th ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wise will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception Saturday at their home, hosted by their children. They were married July 30, 1943 in Lexington. The Wises have three children, Rita Clark of Frankfort, Duard Wise and Carolyn Reed of Anderson County. They also have three grandchildren and two great-grandsons. >From the scrapbook of Irene Judge Wiley Beulah Wiley Franks wrfc71a@prodigy.com ------------------------------ From: WRFC71A@prodigy.com (MRS BEULAH A FRANKS) Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 07:36:36, -0500 Subject: KY-F: Bio: Franks. Edward T-Daviess Co. HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. II, pp. 634-35. [Daviess County] EDWARD T. FRANKS--The initiative and constructive ability of Mr. Franks has been manifested along divergent lines, and in each association he has shown the maturity of his powers, which has given him indubitable prestige is a lawyer, public official, financier and director of political forces. He is now giving the major part of his time and attention to the executive duties devolving upon him as president of the United States National Bank of Owensboro and he has gained recognition also as one of the able members of the bar of his native state and as a leader in the councils of the Republican party within the borders of Kentucky. Edward T. Franks was born on the old homestead farm of his father in Crittenden county, Kentucky, on the 1st of December, 1863, and is a son of John M. and Nancy Margaret (Moore) Franks, the former of whom was born near Carthage, Smith county, Tennessee, in March 1822, and the latter of whom was born in North Carolina, in the year 1828. The father died in 1883 and the mother was summoned to the life eternal in 1885. They became the parents of ten children, of whom nine were reared to years of maturity and still survive the honored parents, namely: Robert M., Jesse J., David H., Jane Ann, John T., Edward T., William B. (deceased), Helen E., Nannie, and Addie E. John M. Franks' father was of Irish lineage and was the founder of the family in Kentucky, where he took up his residence more than three-fourths of a century ago, becoming one of the prosperous agriculturists of Crittenden county, where both he and his wife continued to reside until their death. John M. Franks likewise devoted his entire active career to the great basic industry of agriculture, in connection with which he gained a goodly measure of success. He was one of the honored and well known citizens of Crittenden county, was a stalwart Republican in politics and both he and his wife held membership in the Baptist church. They continued to reside in Crittenden county until the close of their lives. Edward T. Franks, whose name initiates this review, is indebted to the public schools of his native county for his early educational discipline, and at the age of twenty years he secured a position as clerk in a dry-goods establishment in Marion, Crittenden county. To this vocation he gave his attention for a period of three years and he was then elected village marshal, an office of which he was incumbent for a short time. He resigned the position to begin the study of law, and in this preparing himself for the work of his chosen profession he was favored in having the able preceptorship of Thomas J. Nunn and William I. Cruse, representative members of the bar of Marion, the judicial center of Crittenden county. He made rapid progress in his absorption and assimilation of the science of jurisprudence and in 1888 he was admitted to the bar of his native county. He engaged in the practice of his profession at Marion, where he remained thus occupied until September, 1889, when he was appointed United States gauger, an office of which he continued in tenure for four years. He then resumed the practice of his profession at Owensboro, where he had established his residence in 1889, but after four years of successful work he was appointed by President McKinley collector of internal revenue for the Second District of Kentucky. In this important office Mr. Franks continued to serve for twelve consecutive years, in the meanwhile continuing to maintain his home in Owensboro. He retired from office in December, 1909, by voluntary resignation, as in June of that year he had effected the organization of the United States National Bank of Owensboro, of which he was elected president upon its incorporation. In executive control and capitalistic reinforcement this institution has nothing to be desired and its business has become large and substantial, based upon a capital stock of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. As already stated Mr. Franks now gives virtually his entire time and attention to the administration of the affairs of the bank. He has long been recognized as one of the wheel-horses of the Republican party in Kentucky, and as a campaign speaker and an executive in the maneuvering of political forces he has wielded potent influence in advancing the party cause. He cast his first presidential vote for General Benjamin Harrison, and stumped the western part of Kentucky in the campaign which resulted in the election of Harrison. In 1890 he was made the candidate of his party for representative of the second district of Kentucky in congress, and in 1896 he was again nominated, but on each occasion he was unable to overcome the large and normal Democratic majority in the district. In 1892 he was presidential elector on the Republican ticket for the state at large, and in many campaigns he has labored most zealously in behalf of the party cause, in which connection his services have been in requisition in all but five counties in Kentucky, as well as in Indiana and Illinois. He is affiliated with Owensboro Lodge, No. 57, Knights of Pythias, and with Green River Camp, No. 43, Woodmen of the World. He holds membership in the Baptist church, in whose faith he was reared, and his wife is a member of the Presbyterian church. They are popular factors in connection with the leading social activities of their home city and their attractive home is a center of gracious hospitality. In the year 1899 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Franks to Miss Janet Brodie, who was born and reared in Owensboro, and who is a daughter of Robert and Margaret (Reid) Brodie. Mr. Brodie died in 1899, and Mrs. Brodie still resides in Owensboro. Both were born in Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Franks have two children--Margaret Reid and Mary Fleming. Beulah Wiley Franks wrfc71a@prodigy.com ------------------------------ From: Linda Comstock-Teel <104457.653@CompuServe.COM> Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 08:42:43 -0400 Subject: KY-F: Obit: William Mitchell - Mason Co. This is the obit of my gggf that was published in his newspaper. It may have been written by his son, John Fowler Mitchell. The bracketed items are my additional contributions. William Mitchell, Sr. the veteran editor and publisher of THE HANCOCK DEMOCRAT and one of the best known men and honored citizens of this section of the State, died at his home on South State Street in this city at five o'clock a.m. Friday, April 7, 1899, at the age of seventy-five years, seven months and twenty-two days. He had been in his usual health until about four weeks prior to his demise when he was taken ill and among his ailments was a bad case of erysipelas of the foot. This, however, his physicians were able to relieve, but the trouble was found to be of a more serious character and the vital forces which had been so marked and vigorous in former years were seen to be gradually failing and the honored and courageous old man, surrounded by his children and friends, sank into the sleep that knows no waking. William Mitchell was born in Kentucky [Montgomery Co], August 15, 1823. His father, John Fowler Mitchell, was a native Kentuckian, his birth occurring in 1791, in a fort built by Daniel Boone. [Washington, Mason Co] [Mother - Charlotte Enfield Ralls of Montgomery Co.] William Mitchell received a partial education at Maysville, Ky., and while there learned the printing business. [He may have attended school with U.S. Grant in Maysville- not proven yet] He traveled extensively for several years and engaged in his chosen business in a number of cities. In 1849 he located at Cincinnati and was foreman of the old Dollar Times which in those days was one of the largest printing offices in the West. For a time he managed the New York office of Dye's American Bank Note Detector, which was con- sidered authority on banking. In 1855 he removed to Lafayette (IN), but in 1856 he came to this city and took charge of the Greenfield Sentinel, owned by the late Thomas D. Walpole, which he managed until 1859 when he founded The Hancock Democrat, which under his management grew as the country and city developed and has been a great force in the education of the people and in upbuilding and bettering the community. In connection with the paper he established a job printing office, which has few equals and no superiors in point of efficiency and quality of work produced. There is not a better equpped office outside of the large cities anywhere in the State. Mr. Mitchell filled many positions during his long and eventful life and always with credit to himself and to the advantage of those who entrusted him with placed of preferment. He was an earnest advocate of the public schools, with which he was connected in an official capacity for many years. He served as postmaster, as County Recorder, as Deputy Provost Marshal of this District, as a member of the Democratic Central Committee, as Sergeant of the Home Guards, and filled several municipal offices. He served with the Indianaians during the Morgan raid, and was under fire at Harrison, O. In politics Mr. Mitchell was originally a Whig, but with the demise of that party became a Democrat, to which party he faithfully adhered until his death. During the civil war he was a strong Unionman, and his pen was vigorously used for the support of the Union and the suppression of the rebellion. As an editorial writer he was terse and vigorous, driving to the point without any evasion or obscurity. His opponents long ago learned to respect the courage of his convictions, while his political friends admired the vigorous and pointed sentences which he penned. He united with the christian Church at an early date, and was a prominent Odd Fellow until some thirteen years ago, when he had the misfortune to lose his eyesight. In 1852 Mr. Mitchell married Celesta Long, an orphan girl, without a living relative. They lived as husband and wife until September 25, 1892, when Mrs. Mitchell died at their home in this city. This bereavement, together with the loss of his sight, weighed upon him heavily, but he continued to live at the old home where he was cared for by his daughters, and daily he was led to his office where he sat in his arm chair and listened to the reading of the current events of the day in which he retained a lively interest and upon which he still continued to express his views through the columns of The Democrat until near the close of his life. After the loss of his eyesight the business of his establishment was managed by his eldest son, John F. Mitchell, who has shown rare good judgment and business ability, and added largely to the fortune of his father. For several years a partnership existed between William, sr. and John F. Mitchell. The deceased was indulgent to a fault, and even when in great need of money would not ask those who owed him to pay him. Another characteristic of the man was his kindness to the poor, which in turn caused them to look upon him as their friend and adviser. To William and Calasty Mitchell were born thirteen children; of whom eight are still living, vis: John F, George, Thomas, William, Jr., Mrs. Nellie Kinder, Mattie, Eliza and Fannie Mitchell. The funeral occurred at the Christian Church on Sunday, the 9th inst., and was attended by a large crowd of relatives and friends both in and out of the city. The Grand Army and the city officials marched to the residence from the house to the church and thence to the cemetery after the services. The old veterans, though becoming somewhat aged, are loyal to their comrades and never fail to show their respect and love for their comrades and friends. The funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. T. H. Kuhn, and was an able and inspiring discourse. Numerous beautiful and costly floral tributes were presented, among them a number from different members of the family, one from each of the printing houses in the city, the city officers, the Helping Hand Society of the Christian Church, the Bimetallic Club of Hancock county and employees of The Democrat office. The remains were laid to rest in a beautiful vault in Park Cemetery and the earthly career of one of Hancock county's best and most influential citizens is at an end. While thisis true the influence of his life will live for years and is interwoven in the business, social and intellectual life of the county. While he, like all mortals, may have made mistakes, the influence of his life and his motives were right, and the world is better by the influence he exerted. Hancock Democrat, April 13, 1899, p. 4. ------------------------------ From: Diana Flynn Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 21:45:30 -0400 Subject: KY-F: BIO: ABNER W. ALLEN - MERCER CO. KY ABNER W. ALLEN, a prominent citizen of Greenfield Township, Orange County, Ind., was born in Mercer County, Ky., February 7, 1819. His parents, ELI and ELIZABETH (MCDONALD) ALLEN, came to Orange County the same year of his birth. In youth, he shared the privileges common to that day for obtaining an education, and during the time of his minority resided at his father's home. He was united by the bonds of matrimony to Miss MARGARET AGAN, on March 22, 1846, and to their union seven children have been born, only one, MARY E., whose birth was March 1, 1860, now living. Mr. Allen has been a farmer all his life, and is one of the worthy and influential men in his neighborhood. He is a Democrat in politics, and served the people of his township as Trustee for three years. He served his country in the Civil war, enlisting in Company H, Forty-fourth Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry, where he remained until the close of the war, and was honorably discharged at Chattanooga, Tenn., July 3, 1865. "HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE & WASHINGTON COUNTIES, INDIANA" GOODSPEED BROS. 1884 ------------------------------ From: Diana Flynn Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 22:01:29 -0400 Subject: KY-F: BIO: DR. JAMES BAKER - WOODFORD CO. KY DR. JAMES BAKER, of Millersburg, was born in Woodford County, Ky., March 29, 1814. Immediately after this his parents moved to what is now Stampers Creek Township, Orange County, Ind., where the Doctor's home has ever since been. His education is not extensive, having been limited to the early country schools of his time. The first part of the Doctor's life was passed upon the farm, and he worked some at the shoemaker's trade. About the age of twenty=six years he began the study of medicine at odd hours between his labors. Having sufficiently qualified himself, he began the practice of his profession about the year 1850, and has continued it ever since with good success. He is a member of the Christian and his wife of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Doctor is a Republican, and has been such ever since 1860, prior to which time he was a Whig. He was at one time Justice of the Peace of Stampers Creek Township, and is the present Postmaster at Millersburg. His nuptials with Miss SARAH BURGESS were celebrated July 3, 1834, and the fruits of this union were nine children, only three of whom are now alive: Mrs. LIZZIE MARSHALL, ALMON V., and Mrs. SARAH E. BYRUM. Dr. Baker is one of the highly esteemed citizens of Orange County, where he has lived to be one of its very old settlers. "HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE & WASHINGTON COUNTIES INDIANA" GOODSPEED BROS. 1884 ------------------------------ From: Diana Flynn Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 22:06:45 -0400 Subject: KY-F: BIO: GEORGE BENNETT. S/O WM. & REBECCA PITTMAN BENNETT - Unknown Co., KY. GEORGE BENNETT was born in Harrison County, Ind., May 17, 1827. In a family of eleven he is the sixth. His parents were WILLIAM and REBECCA (PITTMAN) BENNETT, who were natives of Kentucky, where they were married. From that State they came to Indiana, locating first in Harrison County, whence they came to Orange County some time prior to 1833. Here they spent the balance of their lives and at their deaths were buried in Providence Cemetery. George Bennett received in his boyhood an ordinary education such as the early schools afforded. He was raised to a farmer's life by his parents, with whom he remained until twenty-two years old. At that age he was married, July 10, 1849, to Miss NANCY GRIMES, who has borne him a family of nine children, named JAMES, DICE E., SAMUEL, REBECCA, ALONZO T., GEORGE W., JOHN L., ABRAHAM F. and ISAAC L. Farming is the almost exclusive occupation of Mr. Bennett and he owns a farm of 160 acres well improved and cultivated. As members of the Baptist Church he and wife have been prominent for more than twenty years in their community (Greenfield Township). He belongs to the fraternity of Odd Fellows and is a stanch Democrat in politics. "HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE & WASHINGTON COUNTIES INDIANA" GOODSPEED BROS. 1884 ------------------------------ From: Diana Flynn Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 22:11:35 -0400 Subject: KY-F: BIO: CYRUS W. BLACKWELL - BRECKINRIDGE CO. KY CYRUS W. BLACKWELL was born in Breckinridge County, Ky., April 27, 1825, and when six years old came with his parents to Orange County, Ind., where he was reared, educated and has always resided, engaged in agricultural pursuits (Northeast Township). August 19, 1846, he wedded MARY A., daughter of JOHN and ANNE (IRVIN) BAKER, who was born July 16, 1828, in Orange County, and children have been born to them, named MARY J., MARGRET A., JAMES N., NANCY C., GEORGE W., CALISTA E., JOHN F., DORA E. and FRANK, living and LAURA, who died in infancy. Mr. Blackwell is a Republican, and for forty-three years has been a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, of which his wife and six children are also members. Rev. JOHN BLACKWELL, father of Cyrus W. and son of JAMES BLACKWELL, was a native of the Old Dominion, born in 1802. With his parents he settled in Kentucky at an early day, where he grew to manhood and married JANE DUNCAN. In 1831 he moved to Orange County, Ind., and having joined the Missionary Baptist Church in his youth he was here ordained a minister of that faith. For years he preached in Lawrence, Orange and Martin Counties, accomplishing much good, and in company with Rev. JOSEPH ODELL organized eight different churches in the above counties. He died an honored and respected citizen in 1852, and the death of his wife occurred the same year. "HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE & WASHINGTON COUNTIES INDIANA" GOODSPEED BROS. 1884 ------------------------------ From: Diana Flynn Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 22:18:41 -0400 Subject: KY-F: BIO: WM. G. BOHANON. S/O JAMES & ELIZA TODD BOHANON -Unknown Co., KY WILLIAM G. BOHANON is the son of JAMES and ELIZA (TODD) BOHANON, and was born in this township (Marion Township, Lawrence County), January 28, 1841. The father was a native of NORTH CAROLINA and the mother of KENTUCKY. The grandparents moved first to EAST TENNESSEE and then in about 1835 to this township. They had five children-James being one. The latter was married in this county and had three children; GEORGE W., CAROLINE and WILLIAM G. James was a farmer, a Whig, a Baptist, and a man of much influence and worth. He died in 1857, but his wife yet lives. Her parents were DAVID and MARY (MARTIN) TODD, who settled in Orange County in 1825. William G. early made farming his occupation. He was industrious and judicious and soon began to accumulate. He now owns 550 acres and has a comfortable home. He raises stock of high grades. August 13, 1862, he married ELLEN J., daughter of HARRISON FIELD, who was born in February, 1843, and died January 24, 1873. June 27, 1880, he married HARRIETT J. BURTON who was born October 11, 1860. They have two children: LIZA and IDA. He is a leading Republican. His brother, GEORGE W, served three years in the Union Army in the Twenty-fourth Regiment. "HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE & WASHINGTON COUNTIES INDIANA" GOODSPEED BROS. 1884 ------------------------------ From: Diana Flynn Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 22:38:51 -0400 Subject: KY-F: BIO: JOHN H. BUCHANAN - FAYETTE CO. KY JOHN H. BUCHANAN was born in Fayette County, Ky., September 17, 1817, being one of the following family: JACKSON, WILLIAM, JOHN H., SAMUEL, SMITH, DANIEL, ARCHIBALD, JOSEPH M. and SMITH W., children of SMITH and MARY (MINTON) BUCHANAN. The parents were both natives of VIRGINIA, and early moved to KENTUCKY, where they married in 1811, and there lived until their respective deaths. The father's occupation was farming, and he was a prominent and well-to-do citizen. He died when John was about fifteen years old, and the latter lived with his mother until of age, securing a limited educations, and after that began to lay up for himself. November 16, 1848, he married ELIZABETH H., daughter of THOMAS and NANCY (DOLLINS) JESSEY, and to this union seven children have been born, as follows: CINDERELLA, MARTHA J., HENRIETTA, ANNA E., BELLE, LYDIA E. and JOHN R. Only the last two are now living. Mr. Buchanan is one of the prominent farmers of his township (Southeast Township, Orange County, Indiana), owning 400 acres of good land. He is a Democrat and served as Justice of the Peace from 1865 to 1878 with credit to himself and satisfaction to his township. "HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE & WASHINGTON COUNTIES INDIANA" GOODSPEED BROS. 1884 ------------------------------ From: WRFC71A@prodigy.com (MRS BEULAH A FRANKS) Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 23:58:45, -0500 Subject: KY-F: KY:F: Bio: Pendleton. Robert H-Trimble Co. Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887, Trimble Co. ROBERT H. PENDLETON is a native of the Old Dominion, and was born near Lynchburg, August 12, 1802, the second of nine children born to Isaac and Nancy (Hardwick) Pendleton. He was brought to Kentucky in 1806, to Garrard County; was reared on a farm, and educated in the common schools. He began life a poor boy, and previous to the civil war was quite wealthy, but that struggle deprived him of by far the greater portion of his wealth. He still owns, however, 110 acres of fine land, well improved, on the Ohio River, near Milton, and is engaged in farming and stock raising. He married in 1827, Miss Sarah Peak, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Forts) Peak. To this union six children were born, three of whom are living: Christopher, Elizabeth, John R. and William A., Nancy and Robert. John R. served in the civil war on the Confederate side, and was killed at Mt. Sterling in 1865. Mr. Pendleton and family are members of the Christian Church. Politically he is a Democrat. Beulah Wiley Franks wrfc71a@prodigy.com ------------------------------ From: "C. Richard Matthews" Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 23:03:53 -0500 Subject: KY-F: Sawmill Cem - Bell Co. KY Surname Given Name Born Death Taylor Cora 12/02 1877 12/05/1887 Slusher Mandy Gregory no dates Slusher Emma no dates Napier Franklin 1841 12/26/1896 Napier James T. 11/10/1869 03/14/1957 Napier Lucy 12/29/1847 05/13/1939 ------------------------------ End of ky-footsteps V1 #139 *************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genelaogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons.Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent.