KY-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest 27 November 1997 Volume 97 : Issue 11 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:29:32 -0500 From: "Jo" Subject: KY-F: OBIT: Kimbler, 1997 - Adair Co Taken from the Indianaplois Star, Indianapolis, IN, Friday, February 21, 1997. Portions in parentheses are additions I have made. ROBERT KIMBLER Age 72 , Indianapolis, died February 18. A body and fender repairman for 45 years, he was both self-employed and worked for several car dealerships, retiring in 1983. He was a Navy veteran of World War ll and a 50 year member of Englewood Masonic Lodge. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association. Services: 11a.m. February 22 in Little and Sons Funeral Home, Beech Grove, with calling from 4 to 8 Feb. 21. Burial: Forest Lawn Memory Gardens, Greenwood. Survivors: wife Delores CARMAN Kimbler: children Kay SPELLMAN, Rebecca SIMEONE, Carol MORGAN, Steve, John, David, Arthur KIMBLER: sisters Virginia BURKETT (Somerset KY), Martha L. STERN (Goshen, IN): 17 grandchildren: 17 great grandchildren. ( Robert KIMBLER was born in Adair County KY to Mary Etta SWANSON Kimbler and John Robert KIMBLER on 2 March 1925.) ______________________________ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 12:17:36 -0500 (EST) From: LoveGenCa@aol.com Subject: KY-F: WILL: Melton, 1846 - Henderson Co In the name of God Amen. I John Melton of the county of Henderson and the state of Kentucky: being weak in body, but of sound mind and disposing memory (for which I thank God) and calling to mind the uncertainty of human life and being desirous to dispose of all wordly estate as it hath pleased God to help me with, I give and bequeath the same in manner following towit. 1st after the payment of all my just debts and funeral expenses I give to my wife Elizabeth one third part of my estate, both real and personal, for and during the term of her natural life, and after her decease I give the same to my son Robert to him and his heirs forever, 2nd I give to my son Eli the fifty acres of land on which he is at this time living. 3rd I give to my son Joseph one hundred acresof land to be run off as to include the improvement where he now lives. 4th I give William Melton and John Melton and Margaret E. Melton and Franklin Melton (infant heirs of my son Daniel dec.) the sum of one dollar each and to their Mother Mary Melton one dollar. 5th I bequeath to my son John B. Melton my Macon tract of land. 6th I give to my daughter Darcas the sum of Twenty dollars. 7th I give to my sons James Smith and William Richardson each fifty acres of land . 8th I give to my daughter Mary Elizabeth Twenty dollars. 9th I give my son Robert all the rest of my estate, both real and personal of what nature or kind so ever it my be, not herein before particulary disposed of to him and his heirs, executors, administrators and all signers forever. 10th And lastly I do hereby appoint my friend George F Edwards and my son Robert executors of this my last will and testiment hereby revoking all other or former wills or testiments by me here tofore made. inwit where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 7th day of May 1846. Siged and sealed in the presence of us his Jacob B. Son John Melton William Grayson mark John Allen State of Kentucky Sat December County Court 1846 Henderson County This last will and testiment of John Melton dec. was produced and proved in open Court according to law by the oaths of William Grayson and John Allen Subscribing Witnesses thereto and ordered te be recorded. Attest Will D. Alliron clk. (see order book E page 334) ______________________________ Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1997 08:35:07 -0500 From: "Debbie Hund Hogan" Subject: KY-F: History of the Union 27th Ky. Infantry - Part 1 The following was published in the 1890's, so as I understand it....the copyright is expired. ---------- From: Debbie Hund Hogan To: South-Central-Kentucky Mail List SOUTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY@rootsweb.com>; KYTAYLOR mail list KYTAYLOR-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: History of the Union 27th Ky. Infantry - Part 1 Date: Tuesday, November 25, 1997 10:15 AM The Union 27th Kentucky Infantry was recruited from the counties of Casey, Green, Taylor, Hart, Nelson, Hardin, Grayson, Breckinridge and Meade. The rosters for this regiment will be going up on the Archives page as I get them transcribed. Field and Staff and Co. C rosters are already online. This history is quoted ver batim from a book published in the early 1890's by an organization that was raising money for a memorial to the Union soldiers in Frankfort. The title of the book is "Union Regiments of Kentucky". The book is available in the Louisville Free Public Library. Most of the information in the book was obtained from official documents. The history of the 27th, however, was written by Col. John H. Ward who was second in command of the regiment throughout the war. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Twenty-seventh Kentucky Volunteer Infantry by Col. John H. Ward Before Kentucky as a state had called for any soldiers to sustain the Union cause, and perhaps before there was more than one organized regiment at Camp Dick Robinson on Kentucky soil, Maj. W. T. Ward, Edward H. Hobson and John H. Ward visited that camp. The night they arrived, Gen. Nelson (then the trusted agent of President Lincoln) sent for Maj. Ward, whom he knew as a former soldier in the war with Mexico. The next day Maj. Ward went to Washington City, and was commissioned as a brigadier-general of volunteers, and given the authority to raise three regiments of infantry. About the 20th of September, 1861, he opened camp for recruits at Greensburg, Ky., within 24 miles of Gen. Buckner's rebel forces at Munfordville, with whom he had many encounters, losing men in killed, wounded and prisoners before we had a regimental organization and often before the company to which the men were attached had been organized. Many of our recruits came from inside the rebel lines, or very near to them, and had to fight on the way to camp. We had no arms except our private ones, and a few Home Guard muskets. We had no countenance from the state, as the governor (Magoffin) was in sympathy with the South, and no money except what we furnished from our own means, and they very limited. The men being without money wanted to leave one small month's pay with their families. So we furnished that much to each recruit as long as we could, thus getting twenty or thirty men for a company, and forming a nucleus. We had no quartermaster nor commissary stores except what we gathered from the country, and for which we gave reciepts to the people. I do not see how troops could have greater difficulties to encounter; certainly the men behaved as well as men could under the circumstances. Afterward, when the military commission was formed, and attempted to furnish some things to us, we thought ourselves well off by contrast. And as recruits were brought in, those who were in camp, and had left the $13.00 of the first month's pay with their needy families and had recieved another month's pay for services, would loan it to their officers to be advanced to ther recruits when they came in too fast for the small sums furnished by the military commission for that purpose. Here was tried and true patriotism that people outside the border states knew nothing about. to be continued ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ******************************************* 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. 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