ky-footsteps-digest Monday, August 31 1998 Volume 01 : Number 457 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 16:09:09 -0400 From: "C. Richard Matthews" Subject: KFY: CEM: Slusher Cemetery #3 - Bell Co SLUSHER 3 CEMETERY Surname Given Name Born Death Slusher Robert Lawrence 05/09/1917 01/27/1967 Slusher Ben 04/25/1923 02/14/1938 Slusher Abraham B. 10/26/1881 12/21/1966 Slusher Tempa Noe 10/01/1887 06/26/1968 Wilson Samantha Lynn 05/07/1980 one date Wilson Ray Keith 12/20/1936 03/20/1969 Wilson Julius Leon 11/26/1931 03/08/1952 Slusher Nora 09/14/1894 01/19/1972 Slusher Haywood 05/31/1895 02/12/1950 Slusher Brown 01/05/1916 09/06/1959 Slusher Debbie 03/05/1869 01/05/1947 Slusher Haywood G. 03/17/1870 02/15/1948 Slusher John 08/31/1886 01/18/1962 Nelson Mable Slusher 02/11/1922 06/17/1966 Perkins Deborah Kay 11/18/1953 06/13/1994 Perkins Ronald Sr. 01/12/1941 one date Location: Going East on Rt 119 turn right on to Rt 1344 as soon as you cross Railroad turn right go to the end of road turn left in front of house turn back right first road follow this cem will be on left about a mile this road circles back to road you came on. Stay right after Cem. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 16:09:58 -0400 From: "C. Richard Matthews" Subject: KFY: CEM: Thompson Cemetery #3 - Bell Co THOMPSON 3 CEMETERY Surname Given Name Born Death Thompson Ruth 09/21/1927 01/11/1928 Thompson William 02/26/1868 01/06/1925 Thompson Sirreny 11/10/1872 11/02/1946 Thompson Mary I. 08/24/1907 08/03/1926 Thompson Lloyd 10/09/1888 04/30/1953 Thompson Margaret 05/15/1892 07/15/1985 Thompson Manuel 05/04/1911 03/23/1929 Thompson Edgar 1920 1983 Thompson William N. 08/07/1909 05/11/1953 Location: Going East on Rt 119 turn right on Rt 1344 go past Hoskins Cem Rd on right it's the next left. Follow to the end of the road to last house. Thompson 2is in front yard. #3 is in front and up the hill to the right. About a 1/2 mile to top of ridge. Cem is to the left on this ridge. Has mostly flat stones and grown up. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 16:08:47 -0400 From: "C. Richard Matthews" Subject: KFY: CEM: Roberts Burial - Bell Co ROBERTS BURIAL Surname Given Name Born Death Roberts Thomas J. 01/28/1847 03/18/1830 Woodson Mary Jane 1825 03/22/1845 Son of Anderson and Amanda M. Roberts who may be buried there also. Mary Jane wife of Silas mother of a Missouri governor she was a McRoberts. This burial is on old 25E after old Lone Jack school on left at foot of tree. Before you get to the sharp curve. Before the overhead bridge for new 25E. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 16:09:34 -0400 From: "C. Richard Matthews" Subject: KFY: CEM: Thompson Cemetery #2 - Bell Co THOMPSON 2 CEMETERY Surname Given Name Born Death Thompson Dewey 12/15/1910 06/05/1990 Thompson Mellie 05/08/1913 09/25/1979 Hoskins Bradley 03/15/1918 06/29/1985 Hoskins Deavudy 05/26/1922 one date Thompson Sillus 08/11/1919 10/31/1981 Thompson Doris J. 09/17/1928 one date Hoskins Elihu 01/15/1904 10/14/1985 Hoskins Ethel 09/02/1909 one date Thompson Chester 05/10/1929 10/22/1983 Lawson John B. 02/03/1935 one date Lawson Cleo 06/11/1932 10/04/1978 Hoskins Robert Chester 08/07/1967 1967? Hoskins Rhoda Mae 08/07/1966 1966? Location: Go East on 119 from Pineville turn right on Rt 1344 stay on this until you come to Hoskins Cem Rd it's the next rd left after HC Rd. Follow this road to end the last house cem is in the front yard. Another Thompson Cem is to the right front of this one. See TC 3. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 16:10:24 -0400 From: "C. Richard Matthews" Subject: KFY: CEM: Webb Cemetery - Bell Co WEBB CEMETERY Surname Given Name Born Death Baker Minnie 1904 1976 Gooche H. 04/??/1862 09/??/1938 Mason Elin 1872 1900 Sharpe James W. 1871 1864 Webb R.B. no dates Webb William Wesley 02/09/1936 06/01/1998 Location: On Rt190 after passing Salam Church and crossing bridge turn left and the first road right (Davisburg Trail) this cem is 2 tenths of a mile past the Gibbson Cem. Its on the left in a horseshoe curve dirt road left goes to the cem. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 19:47:44 -0400 From: "C. Richard Matthews" Subject: KFY: CEM: Gibson Cemetery #2 - Bell Co GIBSON 2 CEMETERY Surname Given Name Born Death Brooks Lizzie 1900 1958 Coile Irene Gibson 04/09/1934 02/06/1998 Collins Arnold 05/24/1941 09/04/1989 Collins Ethel L. 10/08/1921 03/01/1974 Collins Joyce 03/17/1935 one date Daniel Keith A. 08/13/1967 12/11/1967 Daniel Roger 1919 1988 Daniel Sadie 06/24/1917 one date Daniels Brenda S. 10/05/1948 06/07/1997 Daniels Cagle 09/21/1946 08/18/1983 Daniels Charles 1942 1971 Daniels Willie Lee 12/26/1903 08/31/1970 Duvall Andrew Shane 12/24/1988 01/27/1989 Fuller Kenneth 1942 1962 Fuson Frances 1937 1957 Gibson Arizona 1909 1987 Gibson Burchfield 07/08/1886 11/17/1957 Gibson Burrel 02/27/1944 06/22/1967 Gibson Garfield 1950 1997 Gibson Guital 1906 one date Gibson Josie 09/26/1889 07/31/1968 Gibson Lee Roy 01/06/1908 05/30/1958 Gibson Mary 04/25/1913 03/16/1972 Gibson Mary Alice 1917 1973 Gibson Ray Field 07/19/1925 12/15/1982 Gibson Rev. Nathaniel 1905 1974 Gibson Samuel 02/24/1957 09/29/1980 Gibson Sarah J. 02/08/1928 one date Gibson T.J. 08/15/1933 02/21/1974 Gibson Willie Burch 06/13/1960 12/09/1983 Golden John Matt 12/06/1908 01/13/1987 Golden William Snead 12/02/1915 02/07/1992 Howard Willie Jean 04/25/1946 10/23/1996 Maiden Floyd Jr. 09/20/1950 04/12/1992 Mason Ava 1978 1978 Mason Charles Lee 07/11/1953 05/26/1963 Mason Hattie no dates Mason Jim Ike 1905 1968 Mason Ned 1909 1966 Mason Virda 08/28/1911 04/06/1953 Mason William Robert 07/15/1902 01/30/1975 Merida Cory R. 1995 1996 Partin Lillie 10/20/1911 05/24/1989 Partin Mandy Jane no dates Partin Saretia 08/17/1924 one date Polly Donny R. 1959 1978 Polly Levi Sr. 05/09/1901 05/04/1964 Polly Mae 05/01/1904 05/01/1967 Simpson Angeline 06/02/1913 01/03/1998 Simpson Harvie 1925 1975 Smith Janet L. 1967 1968 Webb Betty J. 04/25/1936 one date Webb Rev. R.V. 06/13/1934 01/22/1996 Webb Tava E. 02/13/1931 06/05/1984 Webb Virble 1923 1975 Location: Go West on Rt 190 past Peavier Cem to sharp curve to right at Harmony School road turns left in the center of this curve. Go left to the fork in road go left up the hill road goes left almost back the same way you came. Cem is on the left. If your in front of harmony School gone to far. If you go to the second fork before going up hill gone to far. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 07:38:45 -0500 From: "Diana Flynn" Subject: KFY: BIO: Pottorff, William A., M. D. - Jefferson Co POTTORFF MCKEWEN COOPER BUTLER Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. MORGAN COUNTY ADAMS TOWNSHIP PAGE 312 WILLIAM A. POTTORFF, M. D., druggist, was born in Jefferson County, Ky., August 20, 1839, and is a son of Simeon and Eliza A. (McKewen) Pottorff, both natives of Jefferson Co., Ky. The former was of German and the latter of Irish descent. Simeon Pottorff was educated and married in his native State, where in ealy life he was employed at the carding business in a woolen factory, at Jefferson, Ky.; afterward he engaged in agricultural pur- suits, and continued the same until the spring of 1877, when he came to Em- inence, Morgan County, Ind., and made his home with his son, our subject, until his death, which occurred March 23, 1878, in his eightieth year. Both himself and wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he having been a member for more than seventy years. William A. Pottorff, the subject, received a good common school education in his native State, and was employed on his father's farm until he was twenty-one years old. He then went to Southern Kentucky, where he was engaged in teaching for two years, and afterward, for a short time, was employed as salesman in a general store. In the spring of 1864, he commenced the study of medi- cine, in Jefferson, Ky., with Dr. M. L. Cooper, and graduated from the Medical Department of the Louisville University in the spring of 1867. He then commenced the practice of his profession in his native county, where he remained some three years. In January, 1871, he came to Eminence, Morgan County, Ind., where he has since practiced his profession with excellent success. In June, 1883, he bought a drug store at Eminence, and is now conducting that business in connection with his profession. The Doctor was married, February 15, 1870, to Mary E. Butler, a native of Louisville, Ky. Four children, two sons and two daughters, have blessed this union, all of whom arre yet living. Both himself and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Doctor is also a member of Em- inence Lodge, No. 440, A., F. & A. M. In politics, he is a Democrat, and is one of the leading and prominent citizens of the township and county. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 08:15:12 -0500 From: "Diana Flynn" Subject: KFY: BIO: Pruitt, Daniel - Oldham Co PRUITT WILLIAMS ARNOLD POTTS Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. MORGAN COUNTY ADAMS TOWNSHIP PAGE 312 DANIEL PRUITT, farmer, brick-maker and brick-layer, was born in Oldham County, Ky., December 3, 1823, and is the third child in a family of eleven children born to Eli and Nancy (Williams) Pruitt, the former of whom was a native of North Carolina and the latter of Washington County, Ky. They were of German and English decent respectively. When but a lad of some four summers, in 1795, Eli Pruitt emigrated with his parents from North Carolina to Kentucky, which was then almost an unbroken wilderness. They settled near the present site of Lexington, where his father, Bright Pruitt, bought some 600 acres of military lands, which he lost in consequence of a defective title. Afterward he entered 400 acres in what is now Oldham County, Ky., where still later he built and operated a distillery until 1830, when he came to Gregg Township, Morgan Co., Ind., where he resided until his death. Young Eli received a very fair education at the rude log schoolhouses of the Kentucky frontier, and learned the cooper's trade with his father, which he followed for a number of years. At the age of twenty- seven he was married, soon after which he bought a farm in Oldham County, Ky., and was engaged in agricultural pursuits in connection with his trade until the fall of 1835, when he came with his family to Adams Township, Morgan County, Ind., entered and bought 743 acres of wild land, and improved a farm upon which he resided until his death, which occurred March 28, 1868, in his seventy-seventh year. He was an enrolling officer in Kentucky during the war of 1812, and Township Trustee for one term after he came to Indiana. Himself and wife were members of the Christian Church. In politics, he was identified with the Democratic party, and was one of the pioneers of Morgan County. Dan- iel Pruitt, the subject, received a fair common school education, and was employed on the home farm until he was twenty-one years old. He then went to Mooresville, where he remained one year, and learned the brick- making and brick-mason's trades, which he followed in connection with farming for some thrity-five years. In 1846, his father deeded him forty acres of wild land in Adams Township, Morgan Co., Ind., to which he added, now owning a well-improved farm of 113 acres, upon which he resides. He was married, December 29, 1846, to Elizabeth Arnold, a native of Harrison County, Ind., and a daughter of Richard and Lovina (Potts) Arnold, who were among the early settlers of Morgan County. To Mr. and Mrs. Pruitt have been born eleven children, ten of whom, four sons and six daughters, are yet living. Both himself and wife are members of the Christian Church. In politics, he is a stanch Democrat. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 08:43:11 -0500 From: "Diana Flynn" Subject: KFY: BIO: Pruitt, Eli, Rev. - Oldham Co PRUITT WILHITE KIVETT Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. MORGAN COUNTY ADAMS TOWNSHIP PAGE 313 REV. ELI PRUITT, farmer and stock-raiser, is the eldest son of James and Polly (Wilhite) Pruitt, natives respectivley of South Carolina and Virginia. James Pruitt was a soldier of the war of 1812, and was in the battle of New Orleans. He moved to Kentucky, there married, and farmed until 1832-33, when he came to this county, and located on land he had previously entered. He built a cabin, but lost his health the first year, and died with consumption in 1846, upward of sixty years old. He was possessor of nearly 1,000 acres, was a Democrat and an upright citizen. Mrs. Pruitt afterward lived with our subject until her decease in 1866, being sixty-six years old. Eli Pruitt was born in Oldham County, Ky., August 19, 1820, was reared to honest farm toil, and is largely self-educated. When he was twenty-two years old, he located where he now resides, having, however, previously entered forty acres adjoining, and beginning with but a horse and a cow, his outfit being of the most primitive kind. Being an expert with the ax, he soon accumulated, by industry and care, a farm consisting of 200 acres. September 29, 1842, he married Miss Barbara M. Kivett, a native of North Carolina, by which union were producted two sons and four daughters, of whom are living, John M., Belinda A., Paulina J. and Sarah M. Mr. Pruitt has been a leader in society, and is a licensed minister of the Christian Church; he has held several large revivals, made many baptisms and solemnized a number of marriages. His conduct proves his professions, and he is greatly esteemed. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:15:23 -0400 From: "Karen Ansley Krugman" Subject: KFY: WILL: Brown, 1825 - Hopkins Co In the name of God Amen I William Brown of the County of Hopkins and State of Kentucky being of sound mind and disposing[?] memory but knowing that it is appointed once for all men to die do make this my last Will and Testament, after all my just debts are paid my will and desire is - Item 1st Lend[?] unto my beloved wife Sally Brown all my estate both real and personal during her natural life, Item 2nd I give to my son Dabney Brown the Tract of land on which I now live containing two hundred acres including twenty Acres Pattented in my name liry[?] on the East of the aforesaid two hundred acres survey and one Bed and furniture Item 3rd I give to my son William Brown the Tract of land I bought of George Phipps containing one hundred and thirty nine acres be the same more or less, Item 4th I five my son Robert Brown two hundred dollars & one horse bridle and saddle and one bed and furniture Item 5th I give to my Daughter Elmira Brown two hundred dollars one horse bridle and saddle and one bed and furniture, Item 6th after the death of my wife and the articles having furnished my Children as above devised my desire is the balance of my estate be sold and the poceeds arising thare from to be equally divided between my eight legatees herein after named Beginning with the heirs of my decesed son Richard H. Brown whose names are Willand L Brown & Sally Jane Brown to whom I give one eighth parts as above proposed to be equally diivided between them and paid to them by my Executor when they Marry or become of lawful age to act for themselves I give to my son Jesse Brown one eighth part, I also give to Ann Winstead one eighth part, I also give to my Grand son Thomas Brown who is the son of my son Thomas Brown one eighth part to be paid to him by my Executor when he is of age I also give to my son Dabney Brown one eighth part, I also give unto my son WIlliam Brown one eighth part I also give to my son Robert Brown one eighth part, I also give unto my Daughter Elmina Brown one eighth part, lastly I appoint my sons Jesse Brown & Dabney Brown to execute this my last Will and Testament sined by my own hand this sixteenth day of August eighteen hundred and twenty five and acknowledged in the presence of Witnesses: Samuel Compton, Robert Newton, Benjamin Cates (signed) William Brown Kentucky Hopkins County, December County Court 1825 The foregoing instrument of writing was exhibited into Court and proven to be the last Will and Testament of William Brown dec'd by the Oath of Samuel Compton & Robert Newton, subscribing Witnesses thereto & ordered to be recorded. (signed) San Woodson, clk Hopkins County Wills, W/B 2, Page 223, 224 William Brown, Dec'd. Will. To w. Sally, the land of all estate both real and personal. To son, Dabney, tract of land on which now lives, containing 200 acres, and 1 bed and furniture. To s.William, tract of land purchased from Geo. Phipps, containing 139 acres. To s. Robert, $200. & 1 horse, briddle and saddle, 1 bed and furniture. To dau, Elmira, $200.,1 horse, briddle and saddle, 1 bed and furniture. After death of w. all property to be sold and proceeds to go to heirs of dec'd s Richard T. Brown, whose names are Wm. L. Brown, and Sally Jane Brown, to whom 1/8 part is to be given when they marry or become of age. To s. Jesse Brown, 1/8 part. To Ann Winstead 1/8 part. To g/s Thomas Brown, s. of dec'd s. Thomas Brown, 1/8 part, when he comes of age. To s. Dabney Brown, 1/8 part. To s. William Brown, 1/8 part, to da Elmira Brown, 1/8 part. Ex. Jesse Brown and Dabney Brown. AUG 16, 1825. Witnesses: Samuel Compton, Robert Newton, Benjamin Cates ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:19:09 -0400 From: "Karen Ansley Krugman" Subject: KFY: WILL: Ligon, 1912 - Hopkins Co Last Will and Testament of Robert H. Ligon - I, Robert H. Ligon, of Hopkins County Kentucky, being of sound mind and disposing memory, do hereby make my last wil and Testeament, as follows, hereby revoking all others; 1st - I desire all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid. 2nd - I give all my property of every kind to my beloved wife, to have and to hold for and during the term of her natural life or widowhood, her estate therein to terminate upon her death or marriage, which ever should happen first. Under this devise, she shall have the right only to the use of the reality and the personality. She shall have the right to the interest on all moneys, but the principal shall remain intact. 3rd - upon the termination of the estate of my wife, as provided in the foregoing item, then all my property of every kind shall be equally and jointly divided among my children in fee simple. IN TESTIMONY THEREOF witness my signature, this the 3rd day of April 1912. Witnesses: R.H. Ligon R.T. Whittinghill C.J. Waddill ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:48:11 -0400 From: "Karen Ansley Krugman" Subject: KFY: WILL: Hibbs, 1918 - Hopkins Co WILL: Margaret E Hibbs (dau m. Ligon) Hopkins Co. Kentucky I, Margaret E. Hibbs of Hopkins County, Ky., hereby make this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former ones made by me. First; I give and bequeath to my daughter, Susan Katherine Hibbs, Fifteen Hundred Dollars and sufficient beds, bedding, bed linen, quilts and blankets to keep her comfortable the rest of her life. Second; I give and bequeath all of the residue of my estate to my seven living children, namely; Rebecca Jane Toombs, Rose Palestine Ligon, Liza Lu Demia Clark, Sarah Ellen Peyton, Susan Katherine Hibbs, Charles Lemuel Hibbs and George Eldreth Hibbs, equally. I do not leave to my grandchildren, George Smith and Desmond Smith, anything whatever; because of their mistreatment of their mother and of me. Third; I hereby appoint C. O. Osburn executor of this will and direct that he shall have full power to sell and convey any and all real estate of which I may die the owner, and this power shall extend to all of his successors in said trust, and to all administrators with this will annexed. Witness my hand this May 29th, 1918. Margaret E Hibbs Witnesses: J A Jonson John S. Williams State of Kentucky, County of Hopkins, Sct. I, Irene Hatcher, Clerk of the Hopkins County Court, do hereby certify that on this day the foregoing last will and testament of Margaret E. Hibbs, deceased was produced in open Court, probated and ordered recorded, whereupon the same together with this certificate have been duly recorded in my said office. GIven under my hand this the 5th day of October 1931. (signed) Irene Hatcher Clerk. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:23:47 -0400 From: "Karen Ansley Krugman" Subject: KFY: WILL: Metcalf, 1815 - Christian/Hopkins Cos WILL: William Metcalf, 1815 - Christian/Hopkins County, Kentucky Will of William Metcalfe - Christian County Kentucky William was married to Hester Brazelton. This will is typed exactly as it came out of the Courthouse - no punctuation and a few other little errors here and there. Actually found on the books in Hopkins County, Kentucky, Courthouse Wills and administrations - Book 2, page 268 and 269 ************************************************************************* In The name of God Amen. I William Metcalf, of Christian County and the State of Kentucky do make this my last will and testament First I leave to my wife Hester Metcalf the whole of my estate after my just debts are paid for her own use and benefit during her natural life but if there be any part she should not wish to keep to give it up to my executors to be equally divided among my heirs and at her death to be divided as follows my sons, John and Thomas Metcalf to each have equal share and my grandsons John and James Metcalf sons of James Metcalf deceased together to have an equal share with one of my heirs and William Metcalf and Mary Teague each to have an equal share and Elizabeth Jones one hundred dollars less than equal share and Isaac Metcalf fifty dollars less than equal share and Grace Pursley an equal share and Norris MEtcalf an equal share and Silas Metcalf son of Norris Metcalf One hundred fifty dollars ___________ _____ ______ interest ________ the executor till he arrives at the age of twenty one years if he lives to that age if not to all of the afore named heirs with the rest of my estate. I do hereby appoint Hester Metcalf my wife and William Metcalf my son executors to my estate. Witness this my last Will and testament this 16th day of December 1815. William Metcalf ------------------------------ End of ky-footsteps-digest V1 #457 ********************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical 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.