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1 SOUR FamilyOrigins
2 NAME Family Origins(R) for Windows
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1 DATE 6 MAR 1998
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1 NAME D. Larry Williams
1 ADDR 609 Lincolnshire Ln.
2 CONT Findlay, OH 45840
1 PHON (419) 422-0228
1 _EMAIL Larry_Williams@compuserve.com
0 @I1@ INDI
1 NAME David Larry /Williams/
2 GIVN David Larry
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S7@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 NOV 1948
2 PLAC Baptist Hospital, Louisville, KY
1 GRAD
2 DATE 1 JUN 1966
2 PLAC Butler High School, Louisville, KY
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Military
2 DATE 4/12/1970 thru 1/8/1972
2 PLAC Vietnam
2 NOTE Served in the Army:
3 CONT - Basic Training at Ft. Knox, KY
3 CONT - AIT (Advanced Individual Training) at Ft. Lee, VA
3 CONT - OJT (On-the-Job Training) at Atlanta Army Depot, Atlanta, GA
3 CONT - Served one year in Vietnam at Vung Tau as a Inventory Control NCO
3 CONT - Honorably discharged in 1972.
1 OCCU Production Manager and Accountant
2 NOTE The first eight years of his career were at Colgate-Palmolive.  He
3 CONC worked four years at the plant in Jeffersonville, Indiana as a Cost
3 CONC Accountant (1974 - 1978).  The rest of his time at Colgate was spent
3 CONC as a Cost Accountant and Internal Auditor (1978 - 1982) in New York
3 CONC City.  During this time he traveled extensively all over the world
3 CONC installing cost accounting systems and performing internal audits.  He
3 CONC and his family lived in Howell, New Jersey where Jill was born at
3 CONC Freehold Hospital.
3 CONT
3 CONT The rest of his career has been served at Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. in
3 CONC Findlay, Ohio.  Larry worked as a Planning Cost Analyst in the
3 CONC financial planning area from 1982 to  1984.  He was the Findlay Plant
3 CONC Controller from 1984 - 1990.  From 1988 until 1994 Larry worked as
3 CONC Manager of Production Planning and MIS.  In 1995 he was named Manager
3 CONC of Material Preparation of the Findlay Plant where he is working at
3 CONC the time this was written.
1 EVEN Bachelor of Science in Accounting
2 TYPE Degree
2 DATE 21 MAY 1974
2 PLAC University of Louisville
2 NOTE He received his degree after serving in the Army.  Prior to serving in
3 CONC the Army, Larry went to Kentucky Southern College in Louisville (now
3 CONC defunct) majoring in Music Theory and Composition.
1 EVEN MBA
2 TYPE Degree
2 DATE 21 DEC 1977
2 PLAC University of Louisville
2 NOTE This was obtained at night while working full-time at
3 CONC Colgate-Palmolive as a Cost Accountant.
1 EVEN CPA (Certified Public Accountant)
2 TYPE Certification
2 DATE 15 MAR 1989
2 PLAC Ohio
1 EVEN CMA (Certified Management Accountant)
2 TYPE Certification
2 DATE 1 NOV 1988
2 PLAC Ohio
1 FAMS @F1@
1 FAMC @F2@
0 @I2@ INDI
1 NAME Sharon Kay /Pierce/
2 GIVN Sharon Kay
2 SURN Pierce
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 SEP 1952
2 PLAC Paris, TN
1 GRAD
2 DATE JUN 1970
2 PLAC Iroquois High School, Louisville, KY
1 OCCU College Instructor
2 DATE Starting 1993
2 PLAC Owens Community College and Ohio Northern University
1 EVEN Bachelor of Business Management
2 TYPE Degree
2 DATE 9 MAY 1992
2 PLAC Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
1 EVEN Master of Education
2 TYPE Degree
2 DATE 7 AUG 1993
2 PLAC Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
1 FAMS @F1@
1 FAMC @F36@
0 @I3@ INDI
1 NAME Damon Ralph /Williams/
2 GIVN Damon Ralph
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 NOTE After Damon was born the family moved back to Clarkson, KY in 1929.
2 CONC Damon attended the following schools:  Downs, Chestnut Ridge and
2 CONC Clarkson.  In high school, Damon was member of the Clarkson FFA
2 CONC Chapter and in November, 1944 won first place in Green River District
2 CONC in a farming achievement contest.  During his senior year he was
2 CONC editor of the Clarkson High School Keepsake Yearbook, President of the
2 CONC Senior Class, won the Citizenship Medal and was Salutatorian.
2 CONT
2 CONT Having quit high school to serve his country, Damon returned to his
2 CONC parents home and finished his Senior year at Clarkson.  After
2 CONC graduating from high school in 1947, Damon moved to Louisville, KY
2 CONC where he was employed by International Harvester Co., on May 21, 1947.
2 CONC  He worked there until May 21, 1977 when he retired at the age of 50.
2 CONC His duties over thirty years were; engine tester, assembly line
2 CONC utility man and foreman.
2 CONT
2 CONT After retirement in October, 1978, he moved to Elizabethtown, KY where
2 CONC he and Evelyn purchased a 5.5 acre baby farm.  He gardens, refinishes
2 CONC furniture, purchased a 1948 Farmall Cub Tractor and overhauled it.  He
2 CONC drove a school bus for the Hardin County Schools until retired again
2 CONC in 1996.
2 CONT
2 CONT Damon and Evelyn were active members of Carlisle Avenue Baptist Church
2 CONC in Louisville, KY.  from March, 1948 to November, 1978.   Damon held
2 CONC these positions:  Chairman of Deacons; Chairman of Building Committee
2 CONC when $350,000 remodeling accomplished; Chairman of Pulpit Committee;
2 CONC Sunday School Director; Training Union Director; Brotherhood Director;
2 CONC Member Church Program Council; Outreach Director; Trustee; and with
2 CONC Evelyn as teacher; Young Adult Couples Sunday School Class.  In
2 CONC November, 1978 they moved their membership to the Valley Creek Baptist
2 CONC Church were Damon was: Deacon; Chairman of Deacons; Chairman of Youth
2 CONC and Music Committee; and with Evely as teacher, Young Adult Sunday
2 CONC School Class and Youth Directors.  In Ocotober, 1982 they moved their
2 CONC membership to the Severns Valley Baptist Church, where they are again
2 CONC active and regular attenders at all functions.  Damon has also served
2 CONC as the Associational Brotherhood Director, Severns Valley Association
2 CONC - the years 1981 thru 1983.
2 CONT
2 CONT One of the favorite things we Williams boys got involved with was
2 CONC finding a bee tree and robbing the honey. Damon always had problems
2 CONC with bees. Uncle Hedge Williams usually had bees. One day we were at
2 CONC his house and Damon asked if there were any bees in a hive. It was a
2 CONC cool day and no bees were outside the hive. Uncle Hedge told him to go
2 CONC knock on the hive and ask if there was anybody at home.  Damon did as
2 CONC he was told and was instantly seen going out of sight down the
2 CONC hillside with bees swarming all around him.
2 CONT
2 CONT On another bee robbing excursion, Jesse, Damon and I cut a bee tree
2 CONC down near Nosey Creek and across to the north side of Celie Creek. We
2 CONC felled the tree and chopped our way to the hollow cavity where the
2 CONC honey was. Jesse and I were so busy getting the honey out that we
2 CONC didn't notice when Damon left. By the time we noticed that he wasn't
2 CONC around, we looked for him. He had already crossed the creek and was
2 CONC all the way to the top of the hill on the south side of Celie Creek
2 CONC with bees swarming all around him. Neither Jesse nor I had noticed a
2 CONC sting, even though we were dipping out honey and bees with our bare
2 CONC hands. Bees just didn't like Damon.
2 CONT
2 CONT Possum hunting was a fun passtime as well as a means of coming up with
2 CONC a little spending money.  We had one of the best little tree dogs in
2 CONC the area, a little black Spitz named Nig. If there was a possum in the
2 CONC area, Nig would find him. We would walk through the local woods,
2 CONC usually around the edges of the main timbered areas and through the
2 CONC small patches of timber, waiting for that high pitched squeak of a
2 CONC bark. The bark meant that Nig had followed the trail of a possum and
2 CONC had it up a tree.
2 CONT
2 CONT A kerosene lantern was carried for light to walk by as well as for
2 CONC finding the possum in the tree.  You hold the lantern above your head
2 CONC and slightly behind your eyes and walk around the tree.  Once the
2 CONC possum looked at the light, you could see the red glow of his eyes.
2 CONC The shining eyes let you know where he was in the tree and whether or
2 CONC not you were going to be able to shake him to the ground. Sometimes
2 CONC you had to climb the tree to shake the possum out. If  it was high in
2 CONC a big tree and you couldn't shake it out, you had to shoot it with a
2 CONC .22 rifle. We only shot one out as a last resort. The bullet made a
2 CONC hole in the fur pelt and that caused us to get less for the pelt.
2 CONC Skins, or pelts, were allowed to hang in the barn or smokehouse until
2 CONC well cured, then taken to Royal General Store, where they were sold
2 CONC for 10 to 20 cents. The price depended on the size and quality of the
2 CONC fur on the pelt.
2 CONT
2 CONT I remember one night when we were in Nosey Creek hollow behind Vaudie
2 CONC Bell's farm when Nig treed a possum over in the next hollow, down
2 CONC close to Celie Creek. We all lit out in a dead run, fearing that
2 CONC before we could cross the hill to the next holler, either Nig would
2 CONC give us out coming to him or the possum would slip out of the tree and
2 CONC get away from us.  I, being the oldest, was out-running everyone else
2 CONC as we crossed the Vaudie Ridge to the next holler. Damon was carrying
2 CONC the lantern. Just as you enter the woods going down to Celie Creck,
2 CONC there is a rock cliff about 15 feet high.  As I crossed the field,
2 CONC there was enough light for me to see where I was going, but when I got
2 CONC into the woods it got dark!  But, I kept running. Can't miss that
2 CONC possum!  I ran right out into mid-air. I went over the cliff and
2 CONC landed 15 feet below. I was lucky, because the wind had swirled around
2 CONC at the base of the cliff  and piled leaves about three feet deep. This
2 CONC cushioned my landing.
2 CONT
2 CONT By the time I'd checked myself to see if I was okay, Damon got there
2 CONC with the lantern. He stopped at the edge of the drop-off, held the
2 CONC lantern out over the edge and yelled, "What are you doing down
2 CONC there?!"  I gave him a choice piece of my mind for not keeping up with
2 CONC the light and instructed him to get down there with the lantern before
2 CONC we lost that valuable possum.
2 CONT
2 CONT Raccoons were scarce, almost nonexistent in those days and a coon hide
2 CONC sold for $5 or more!  One night we boys were possum hunting and the
2 CONC dog treed.  We got to him and saw a set of eyes like we had never
2 CONC seen. It was no possum, had to be a coon. It was up a large tree, two
2 CONC big to shake or climb and shake, so we had no choice.  We had to shoat
2 CONC it out of the tree.  We didn't dare take a chance on missing and
2 CONC having that $5 coon get away, so one of us went to the house and got
2 CONC dad out of bed to come shoot it out for us. Dad agreed, allowing that
2 CONC what we described was no possum, eyes the wrong color and too far
2 CONC apart.
2 CONT
2 CONT Taking no chances, one of us held the lantern over dad's head so he
2 CONC could see the eyes glowing and another held a flashlight pointed down
2 CONC the rifle barrel as he took aim and shot. The thing came flailing down
2 CONC through the tree branches and hit the ground PLOP! Nig, Jesse, Damon
2 CONC and I got to that critter at the same time. Largest house cat I ever
2 CONC saw!  We three boys had already spent that $5 as a part payment on a
2 CONC brand new .22 rifle in the Sears & Roebuck catalog. Dad got a kick out
2 CONC of the fact that we had all been fooled by a cat.
2 CONT
2 CONT Elizabethtown, the seat of Hardin county, was founded in 1795 and
2 CONC named for the wife of Colonel Andrew Hynes. An earlier settlement
2 CONC there had been known as Severns Valley, for John Severns a local
2 CONC settler and surveyor. The first post office opened in 1804 and may
2 CONC have first been known as Hardin Court House. The population in 1990
2 CONC was 18,167.
1 SOUR @S3@
2 PAGE Certain early details and memories were written by Olen Williams
3 CONC shortly before his death in 1992.
1 SOUR @S7@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 AUG 1926
2 PLAC On a farm near Wenona, ILL
1 GRAD
2 DATE MAY 1947
2 PLAC Clarkson High School, Grayson Co., KY
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Military
2 DATE Oct 20 1944  thru Aug 1 1946
2 NOTE Damon served in the U.S. Army starting with training in Ft. McClellan,
3 CONC AL to Ft. Jackson, SC and Ft. Sill, OK.  He was in Field Artillery and
3 CONC served overseas from March 23, 1945 to July 16, 1945 in Central
3 CONC Europe.  Decorations received were the American Theatre Medal,
3 CONC European-Afrecan-Middle Eastern W/Service Stars, Good Conduct Medal,
3 CONC and World War II Victory Medal.  After serving twenty-one months, he
3 CONC was honorably discharged with the rank of Technician Fourth Grade at
3 CONC Ft. Bragg, NC.
2 SOUR @S7@
1 EDUC Associate Degree in Production Management
2 DATE AUG 1959
2 PLAC University of Louisville
1 EDUC Degree in Production Management
2 PLAC International Correspondence School
1 FAMS @F2@
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I4@ INDI
1 NAME Evelyn Delores /Kiper/
2 GIVN Evelyn Delores
2 SURN Kiper
1 SEX F
1 NOTE Evelyn grew up on a farm north of Leitchfield, KY.  She attended
2 CONC Conklin Grade School, Clarkson and Leitchfield High Schools.  She
2 CONC graduated from Leitchfield High School in May, 1946.  In September,
2 CONC 1946, she entered Kentucky Baptist Hospital School of Nursing, in
2 CONC Louisville, but after one year she quit school and married Damon.  She
2 CONC then worked for Reynolds Metal Company as a Clerk Typist for one year
2 CONC prior to the birth of their first son, David Larry.  She later worked
2 CONC for Franklin Pioneer Corporation as Secretary for two years prior to
2 CONC the birth of their second son Terry Ray.
2 CONT
2 CONT When Larry started to school she returned to Franklin Pioneer
2 CONC Corporation and worked until September, 1956 when she went to work for
2 CONC the Naval Ordnance Station as a Clerk Typist, GS-2.  Her positions
2 CONC there were Clerk Typist, GS-3; Clerk Stenographer, GS-4; Management
2 CONC Technician, GS-5, GS-7; and Management Analyst, GS-9.  In March, 1974,
2 CONC she became ill with Rheumatoid Arthritis and left on Disability
2 CONC Retirement in May, 1975.  After retirement her time is spent in
2 CONC homemaking, baby sitting with grandchildren, volunteer hospital and
2 CONC church work.  After moving to Elizabethtown, she joined the Goldenrod
2 CONC Homemakers Club and became active as Secretary and teaches crafts and
2 CONC health lessons to club members.
2 CONT
2 CONT
1 SOUR @S7@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 NOV 1928
2 PLAC Leitchfield, KY
1 FAMS @F2@
1 FAMC @F66@
0 @I5@ INDI
1 NAME Bryce David /Williams/
2 GIVN Bryce David
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 DEC 1976
2 PLAC Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY
1 GRAD
2 DATE 1 JUN 1995
2 PLAC Findlay High School, Findlay, OH
1 FAMC @F1@
0 @I6@ INDI
1 NAME Jill Regina /Williams/
2 GIVN Jill Regina
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 APR 1980
2 PLAC Freehold, NJ
1 NAMS Her Maternal Grandmother
1 FAMC @F1@
0 @I7@ INDI
1 NAME Terry Ray /Williams/
2 GIVN Terry Ray
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 JAN 1952
2 PLAC Kentucky Baptist Hospital, Louisville, KY
1 GRAD
2 DATE MAY 1970
2 PLAC Butler High School, Louisville, KY
1 GRAD
2 DATE MAY 1974
2 PLAC University of Louisville
2 NOTE His major was Business Administration.  He also attended Account
3 CONC Executive Training Program, New York Institute of Finance in 1980.
2 SOUR @S7@
1 FAMC @F2@
0 @I12@ INDI
1 NAME Jess (NMN) (Bud) /Williams/
2 GIVN Jess (NMN) (Bud)
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Jess Williams was born near Sadler, KY on Bear Creek in south-central
2 CONC Grayson County. His formal education was limited to attending Decker
2 CONC one-room school through the sixth grade. In spite of the limited
2 CONC formal education, he believed that he could do or make anything, and
2 CONC he could.  After I was in high school and had mastered the
2 CONC fundamentals of algebra, geometry, and a little trigonometry, he could
2 CONC solve as quickly as I could, in his head, any problem he needed to
2 CONC solve for his carpentry, blacksmithing or involving the machines in
2 CONC the mill, such as gear or pulley ratios he needed.   Although he
2 CONC seemed to be impatient with me at times, his patience in working his
2 CONC crafts was unlimited.
2 CONT
2 CONT Jess enjoyed music, liked to sing tenor with the church choir and,
2 CONC from time to time, taught basic music concepts to other members of the
2 CONC church choir so they could learn to sing some new hymns.  He decided
2 CONC he needed a tuning fork, so he made one from a worn out file. He
2 CONC annealed the metal, then filed and shaped it, marked the key scale,
2 CONC then retempered it to produce each musical key he wanted. To a degree,
2 CONC his ingenuity was born of the so called Great Depression which created
2 CONC necessity. But, it was more than that. His attitude was "if I need it,
2 CONC I can make one." He could and he did. In a nutshell, that was my dad.
2 CONC
2 CONT
2 CONT Except for his time in the U.S. Army during World War I, he spent his
2 CONC 83 years within 15 miles of where he was born, save four years as a
2 CONC tenant farmer on the Tom Flavin farm near Dana, Ill.  At what age, I m
2 CONC not sure, Larkin and Nancy moved their family from the Sadler area to
2 CONC the Horntown/Little Flock Church area along the county dirt road that
2 CONC ran from Clarkson to Millerstown.  During his early manhood, he
2 CONC farmed, did carpentry work and blacksmithing.  At the farm, adjoining
2 CONC the Little Flock Church grounds, he and Larkin operated a small mill
2 CONC and blacksmith shop.   Before being drafted into the military service,
2 CONC he made the acquaintance of a young lady,  reported to have been the
2 CONC prettiest in the area, Bessie Mae Fulkerson.  They apparently courted
2 CONC some before he entered the Army.  I remember them talking about
2 CONC wondering about the well-being of each other during the flu epidemic
2 CONC and not being able to know because mail was slow or nonexistent most
2 CONC of the time he spent in Europe.
2 CONT
2 CONT Shortly after Jess was discharged from the Army, he and mom were
2 CONC married. They farmed, blacksmithed, cut timber and started a family
2 CONC with their first child, Aline.  When Olen was two years old, they
2 CONC loaded all into a Model T Ford and moved to the Flavin farm in
2 CONC Illinois.  Mr. Flavin soon learned that Dad could repair anything from
2 CONC horse harness to the binder, corn sheller and the old Fordson tractor.
2 CONC He knew Dad could husk more corn than any hired hand he had.  We were
2 CONC given the tenant house closest to the big house and Dad served as the
2 CONC most trusted handyman on the farm.  After four years, two more boys
2 CONC (Damon and Jesse), and the Depression hitting bottom, Dad decided he
2 CONC would not become rich as a tenant farmer.  In 1930, the six of us
2 CONC loaded all into what I believe was a 1926 Model T and moved back to
2 CONC Kentucky.  I was six years old.  I have two vivid memories of the trip
2 CONC back to Kentucky: the seemingly eternal flapping of the oilcloth
2 CONC curtains on the Model T and being stopped by an irate farmer pointing
2 CONC a shotgun at us.  It seemed someone had stolen his Irish potatoes, and
2 CONC he was operating his own road block.  After finding no potatoes, he
2 CONC waved us through.  Mom laughed about that later, saying that she had a
2 CONC lot of potatoes and had thought of bringing some home to grandma, but
2 CONC was glad she had decided there wasn't room in the Model T. Looking at
2 CONC the wrong end of that shotgun had scared me.
2 CONT
2 CONT Olen can't give a chronological account of their four years in
2 CONC Illinois.  However, there were things that left lasting impressions.
2 CONC One thing was the 4- and 6-horse teams that Dad used to pull the plows
2 CONC and other heavy farm machinery.  Another thing was riding the wagon as
2 CONC Dad walked along beside the wagon husking corn from two rows and
2 CONC tossing the shucked corn into the wagon box fast enough to keep the
2 CONC horses moving at a slow walk.  It was exciting to Olen when the wagon
2 CONC box was filled and we went to the corn elevator. Dad would jack the
2 CONC front of the wagon bed up and the corn would slide out the back into a
2 CONC hopper, where it was picked up by a conveyor belt and taken to the top
2 CONC of a tall corn crib.
2 CONT
2 CONT Jess and Bessie had bought a little farm, 65 acres more or less. It
2 CONC was overgrown with sassafras, persimmon, willow, sawbriars and
2 CONC sagegrass. They had bought it from Uncle Tapley (Grandpa Larkin's
2 CONC brother).  It was directy behind Little Flock Church about a half mile
2 CONC off the dirt road and across the holler from Grandpa Larkin's farm.
2 CONC Here again, I have no true chronological event memories For the early
2 CONC period back in Kentucky.  Sometime before we moved back to Kentucky,
2 CONC Grandpa Larkin and Ophelia Fulkerson had married. It puzzled Olen, a
2 CONC 6-gear-old, to find the two of them living together at grandpa's
2 CONC house. I remember jokes about Mom and Dad's father-in-law and
2 CONC mother-in-law now being their step-mother and step-father and about
2 CONC Mom and Dad being step-brother and step-sister. I still didn't
2 CONC understand it all.
2 CONT
2 CONT The house on the old home farm was two 16 X 16 rooms in need of much
2 CONC repair.  As Olen remembered, they spent the first winter living with
2 CONC grandma and grandpa, and Dad and Grandpa did the repairs and assembled
2 CONC some furniture before we moved in.  The first three or four years were
2 CONC austere and trying.  Dad added two rooms, a bedroom and a
2 CONC kitchen/dining room across the back and a porch across the front.  Dad
2 CONC spent the winter months clearing the persimmon, sassafras and willow
2 CONC brush for spring planting each year.  The kids (Aline, Damon and
2 CONC Olen), were able to pile brush for burning, but not able to swing a
2 CONC mattock hoe. In the meantime, Dad had rived enough oak shingles for a
2 CONC new roof for the house and the barn, plus adding a shed to two sides
2 CONC of the barn, plus build a log building for storage of farm tools.
2 CONT
2 CONT Too much work and exposure to the raw elements took their toll on Dad.
2 CONC  About the fourth year, after seemingly constant respiratory problems,
2 CONC Dad was hospitalized during the entire fall and winter. We were never
2 CONC sure of either the cause or exact condition. Suspicions were lung
2 CONC damage from exposure to mustard gas during his stay in France in World
2 CONC War I, plus the exposure and over-work in clearing the land and the
2 CONC building he did during those first three or four years.
2 CONT
2 CONT During that winter, three things left a lasting impression on
2 CONC Olen--now a kid of nine or 10 years old.  Dad was reserved, somewhat
2 CONC of an introvert and always very busy.  There were three neighbor men
2 CONC who were of a rowdy nature who were f'ox hunters and not above a jug
2 CONC of moonshine on occasion.  Dad had no time for any such tom-foolery,
2 CONC so he didn't associate with nor make any effort to befriend them.
2 CONC Those men came in that fall and harvested Dad's crop and saw that
2 CONC there was firewood at our woodpile all that winter without being
2 CONC asked. Birtle Williams, Aunt Clara's oldest son, came and spent the
2 CONC winter with us.  He would not allow us children to get out in foul
2 CONC weather to help him do chores. The third was one of the happiest
2 CONC occasions Olen remembered in their early family life.  In the early
2 CONC spring Dad came home after having had surgery that removed one-third
2 CONC of one lung.  He left us so weak he could hardly walk, but he returned
2 CONC weighing almost 200 pounds, looking the picture of health and was in
2 CONC high spirits.  Olen was convinced that God was good, that moonshine
2 CONC drinking fox hunters were not all bad, and that older cousins were
2 CONC pretty nice people.
2 CONT
2 CONT The primary source of cash income was tobacco, cucumbers and an
2 CONC occasional veal calf sold at weaning time.  Dad and Mom had borrowed
2 CONC $400 when they bought the farm. After a new pair of shoes, a winter
2 CONC coat and a pair of new overalls for each of us, there never seemed to
2 CONC be enough to pay more than the annual tax and interest on the note,
2 CONC never enough to pay anything on the principle.  An annual event was
2 CONC for Dad to take a day to go to town and pay his tax, renew the note
2 CONC and pay the interest.  He normally did that on horseback.  He would
2 CONC saddle up Old Bird, a little black mare, and ride off to Leitchfield.
2 CONC One of those occasions left a lasting impression on me when I was 11
2 CONC or 12 years old.  Some neighbor boys had bought an old Chevy car and
2 CONC had offered Dad a ride to town to pay his taxes and interest.
2 CONC Apparently, he had the exact amount for the interest and taxes and no
2 CONC more.  Mom and Dad were at the front door and Mom asked, "What if they
2 CONC charge you something for riding with them?"  Dad shrugged and said, "I
2 CONC don't know."   He hesitated, as if deciding whether to saddle Old Bird
2 CONC or ride with the boys, then started walking down through the field to
2 CONC catch his ride with the boys. I never knew, but wondered whether he
2 CONC offered to pay them for the ride to town.
2 CONT
2 CONT Dad was a very serious person and very private. He didn't smoke nor
2 CONC chew tobacco.  He never drank anything other than water, milk and a
2 CONC little coffee. I never heard him say a foul word stronger than "shoot
2 CONC the ornery thing!"  I never heard him tell a joke and seldom saw him
2 CONC laugh at one told by someone else.  He took no time for leisure
2 CONC activity.  However, on occasion, he would take us boys possum hunting
2 CONC at night or to the creek where we would cut a fishing pole and fish
2 CONC for catfish.  We seldom caught many, and his interest would be
2 CONC short-lived.  I remember him taking me to the swimming hole on Nosey
2 CONC Creek and holding me at my waist while I kicked and flailed until he
2 CONC could let go and I could make it to the bank on my own.
2 CONT
2 CONT He taught me to find a rabbit sitting in a brush pile. "Look for it's
2 CONC eyes," he said, "Once you see an eye, you can see the rabbit."  He
2 CONC hunted them that way with his little Stevens Favorite lever action
2 CONC rolling block .22 rifle to eat, not for the sport.  Rifle shells were
2 CONC about half a cent each for shorts. Shotgun shells were three for a
2 CONC dime. He seldom bought more than three and used them only when it was
2 CONC necessary.
2 CONT
2 CONT Pierce Franklin operated the general store at Royal and let Dad use a
2 CONC building at his store rent free as a shop/mill one day each week.  Dad
2 CONC would, on occasion, allow them to hunt on his farm, but not too often.
2 CONC  Royal was on the county dirt road, so it was a good place for Dad's
2 CONC blacksmith shop and mill.  Of course, the shop/mill also brought more
2 CONC people to the store on Saturdays.
2 CONT
2 CONT Dad operated the shop and mill at Royal for a number of years.  Most
2 CONC of the mill work was for "toll".  Toll was a small wood box filled
2 CONC with corn.  It was exchanged for grinding a bushel of corn into corn
2 CONC meal.  Blacksmith work was for cash. It cost 15 cents to sharpen a
2 CONC turning plow point at Dad's blacksmith shop.  He would forge sharpen a
2 CONC double-shovel or cultivator point for a nickel.  For 50 cents, he
2 CONC would take a piece of bar steel, forge an eye on one end for the
2 CONC handle, then anneal and forge a cutting edge on the other end before
2 CONC retempering the blade so it would hold a sharp cutting edge--a 50-cent
2 CONC hoe.
2 CONT
2 CONT Dad's mill was powered by a horizontal 1-cylinder engine with two
2 CONC 5-foot flywheels and an old Dodge 4-cylinder truck engine. This old
2 CONC Dodge was the first engine with a 12-volt battery that I have ever
2 CONC seen. The frame was cut off, leaving the transmission and part of the
2 CONC drive shaft intact.  Two oak timbers were bolted across the frame and
2 CONC a wood bearing block set on each with poured babbit bearings around
2 CONC the drive shaft and a flat pulley on the drive shaft.
2 CONT
2 CONT The 9-speed transmission gave Dad a selection of speed for the pulley.
2 CONC The Dodge engine was cooled by a barrel of water setting outside. The
2 CONC water was pumped through the engine. There was no radiator.  For
2 CONC grinding, there was a small set of stone burrs for the cornmeal, a
2 CONC crusher for cracking shelled corn and a hammer mill for grinding ear
2 CONC corn for cow feed. I've seen five or six wagon loads of corn lined up
2 CONC waiting their turn for the hammer mill.
2 CONT
2 CONT Farmers came in on horseback with a cloth sack of shelled corn for
2 CONC their cornmeal.  The horizontal engine was slow speed and was used to
2 CONC power the crusher and the stone burrs for the cornmeal. There was a
2 CONC line shaft overhead, driven bf the 1-cylinder stationary engine, so
2 CONC that by taking a belt off and putting another on, you could select
2 CONC whether you ran the crusher, the meal burrs or the grinding wheel for
2 CONC sharpening tools and plow points.   At nine or ten years old, it was a
2 CONC cherished day when Dad would take me with him for the day at the mill.
2 CONC  The activity was exciting and if it was a good day, I sometimes got a
2 CONC nickel for a candy bar or a coke. Some days there was enough
2 CONC blacksmith work or hammer mill grinding for Dad to pay for his
2 CONC gasoline and some cash money home. Other days, it was all toll corn,
2 CONC which we really didn't need, but Dad seemed to enjoy the work at the
2 CONC shop and mill.
2 CONT
2 CONT Ownership of the store at Royal changed, and relations and
2 CONC arrangements were different, so Dad put up a building at Grandpa
2 CONC Larkin's. It was still on the county dirt road, and he was still
2 CONC operating his shop and mill when I went into military service for
2 CONC World War II in 1943.  I'm not sure how long he continued there.
2 CONT
2 CONT Shortly after Dad's surgery and his return of good health, he began a
2 CONC concerted effort to pay off the $400 debt owed for the farm. He did so
2 CONC in a relatively short time by cutting and selling timber.  He cut oak
2 CONC for barrel staves. These were sold to Uncle Elmer Fulkerson.  Uncle
2 CONC Elmer had set up a stave mill in Sonora.  We cut, quartered and sold
2 CONC hickory timber for tool handles. Smaller oak timber was cut for
2 CONC railroad ties. We paid Harvey Williams 15 cents each to hue the logs
2 CONC into ties with a broadax.  I remember riding an old gray horse through
2 CONC the woods, dragging one tie at a time to the edge of the woods to be
2 CONC picked up by a truck.   Not long after becoming debt free, and with
2 CONC Dad's better health and better spirits in general, things began to
2 CONC change for us.  Dad bought us a spring-wound Victrola and an old pump
2 CONC organ, which he could play a little.  Later, he even bought a radio,
2 CONC ordered from Sears & Roebuck. The radio ordered was the cheapest one
2 CONC in the catalog, but we were lucky.  The cheap radio was out of stock.
2 CONC Sears sent a substitute, which was a better one.  It was a 5-tube
2 CONC model that had a spring-loaded switch that would turn the radio off
2 CONC after a time, depending on how far you turned the spring-loaded knob.
2 CONC We seldom used that feature.  Dad set the limits on how long the radio
2 CONC stayed turned on to save the battery.  A battery cost over $3.  The
2 CONC radio went off right after the news during the week and right after
2 CONC the Grand Ol' Opry went off on Saturday night.  With the Victrola and
2 CONC a few fiddling records, we were able to take our turn at having the
2 CONC local kids come to our house for a play party now and then on a
2 CONC Saturday night.
2 CONT
2 CONT We even got an old used Model A Ford.  When the lane dried out in the
2 CONC summer, and if we had pounded enough rock into the eternal mud holes,
2 CONC we could get it out to the county road and ride to town in style. It
2 CONC was a fair looking old Ford.  Problem was, it had a clutch and gear
2 CONC shift in the floor, not the three pedals on the floor like the Model
2 CONC T.  Shortly after we got the Model A, Dad thought he had it in low
2 CONC gear to go forward, but had it in reverse.  When he started moving
2 CONC backward, he pushed the clutch--the brake pedal on a Model T.  The
2 CONC Model A rolled back down ths hill, hit the corner of the chicken house
2 CONC and left a permanent dent on the right rear corner of the car.  There
2 CONC was no damage to the log hen house.
2 CONT
2 CONT Olen remembered Jess coming into the house one night with a load of
2 CONC firewood, laughing at himself.  It was dusk and as he had been
2 CONC splitting wood, a block of wood had started rolling down the hill.  It
2 CONC went unnoticed at first.  He saw it shaking the weeds a moment later
2 CONC and chased it through the weeds with his axe.  He thought it was a
2 CONC groundhog.  He was laughing at himself so hard, he had a hard time
2 CONC telling the story.
2 CONT
2 CONT Another memory Olen had of his Dad and brothers' childhood involves a
2 CONC pony.  Dad had made a trade with Ves Fulkerson for a pony, but for
2 CONC some reason had not brought it home the day they traded. This built
2 CONC anticipation.  Later, he went over to get the pony, and all of us boys
2 CONC were anxious to get the first ride.  We spotted Dad and the pony as
2 CONC they came through the Big Gate. The Big Gate was the gate at the
2 CONC northeast corner of our farm where the lane from the county dirt road
2 CONC came onto our property.  Sight of that pony started a footrace between
2 CONC Damon, Jesse, Howard and me.  We ran through the garden and did
2 CONC handsprings over the picket fence across the back of the garden.  I
2 CONC was well ahead of the whole crew when I heard Howard yelling for help.
2 CONC Howard had failed to clear the fence and was hanging head down by the
2 CONC cuff of his overalls. He was hanging from one of the sharp points Dad
2 CONC put on his pickets.  Dad had sharpened the pickets to a point to
2 CONC discourage the chickens from trying to fly over into the garden.  They
2 CONC had to fly all the way over, rather than flying up, landing on the
2 CONC fence, then flying down from the fence.  I rescued more than one
2 CONC chicken that had gotten itself wedged between the pointed tips of
2 CONC those fence pickets.  On this day, I went back and rescued Howard,
2 CONC too.  As a result, Damon got the first pony ride.
2 CONT
2 CONT Olen sent a copy of these memories to Royce Williams shortly after the
2 CONC Williams Family reunion at the end of June, 1992.  Royce immediately
2 CONC wrote back and asked for the same kind of account for the 1940's,
2 CONC 1950's and 1960's, but did not receive anything more. Not sure whether
2 CONC or not Olen ever worked on these decades.
1 SOUR @S1@
2 PAGE Page 75
1 SOUR @S3@
2 PAGE Some of the early details and memories were written by Olen Williams
3 CONC not long before he died in 1992.
1 BIRT
2 DATE Jul 14 1891 (1890?)
2 PLAC Sadler, KY
2 NOTE Jess never had a middle name.  He added the middle initial T. to avoid
3 CONC having his mail mixed with another Jess Williams in the same area.
3 CONT
3 CONT He was born on a Bloody Ridge farm, on Mt. Zion Road near the mouth of
3 CONC Nosey Creek, near Mt. Zion Christian Church (1994).
2 SOUR @S3@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 AUG 1974
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 DATE 1974
2 PLAC Little Flock Church, Grayson County, KY
1 FAMS @F5@
1 FAMC @F6@
0 @I14@ INDI
1 NAME Larkin /Williams/
2 GIVN Larkin
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 NOV 1866
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
2 NOTE Born at the homeplace on Millerstown Road, west and adjoining Little
3 CONC Flock Church.
2 SOUR @S3@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 8 DEC 1954
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
2 NOTE Died at home.
2 SOUR @S3@
1 BURI
2 PLAC Clarkson Baptist Cemetery
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMS @F6@
1 FAMS @F178@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I15@ INDI
1 NAME Nancy Ann (Nannie) /Keller/
2 GIVN Nancy Ann (Nannie)
2 SURN Keller
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 7 MAY 1868
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 DEC 1918
2 PLAC Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY
2 NOTE Nannie died from infection after gall bladder surgery at a Louisville
3 CONC hospital.  She rode the train from Clarkson to Louisville for the
3 CONC operation.   Tressie Gibson-Cain made her burial dress.  She was
3 CONC buried at Clarkson Baptist Cemetery because a snowstorm made it
3 CONC impossible to get her body to Little Flock Cemetery.  (Note: Larkin is
3 CONC also buried at Clarkson Baptist Cemetery).
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMS @F6@
1 FAMC @F9@
0 @I16@ INDI
1 NAME Martin (Marty) Harvey /Fulkerson/
2 GIVN Martin (Marty) Harvey
2 SURN Fulkerson
1 SEX M
1 NOTE When Marty and Ophelia bought the farm east of Jesse's farm, they
2 CONC lived in the log portion of what was later the barn.  When they built
2 CONC a frame house farther up the hill, sheds were built around their
2 CONC original log house for the stock.
2 CONT
2 CONT Marty Fulkerson would let no one except Bessie Mae plant corn.  She
2 CONC was the only one who knew how to drop the seeds right, he said.
2 CONT
2 CONT Marty died when he was 56.  He had a stroke about two years before he
2 CONC died and was paralized until his death.  Usually, a stroke paralizes a
2 CONC person on the left side, but Marty's right side was paralized.  They
2 CONC lifted him into a wagon to take him to church, and he laid on a
2 CONC straw-filled mattress.  Before his stroke, he always drove the wagon.
2 CONC He was a strict disciplinarian before his stroke, but afterwards he
2 CONC found his children's misbehavior humorous.
1 SOUR @S1@
1 SOUR @S3@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 APR 1866
2 PLAC Near Big Clifty, Grayson County, KY
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 APR 1866
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 JUN 1923
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 JUN 1923
1 REFN CAVEON72
1 FAMS @F7@
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I17@ INDI
1 NAME Dave /Williams/
2 GIVN Dave
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 7 JAN 1844
1 DEAT
2 DATE 8 DEC 1894
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
2 NOTE Dave was chopping railroad ties when the broadax glanced off the wood
3 CONC and cut his foot. Had he stopped then and tended the wound, he might
3 CONC have lived.  However, he refused to quit work before sundown, allowing
3 CONC dirt to get into the wound.  He suffered for months before death from
3 CONC gangrene.
3 CONT
3 CONT Dave and his family lived in a large house at the same location as
3 CONC Jess' and Larkin's house on Millerstown Road.  That house burned about
3 CONC 1913.  When Larkin buys this 160 acre farm on March 5, 1918, it is
3 CONC referred to as "the old home farm."
2 SOUR @S3@
1 BURI
2 PLAC Little Flock Church, Grayson County, KY
2 NOTE His and Virena's epitaph:  "Gone Home to Rest."
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMS @F8@
1 FAMC @F12@
0 @I18@ INDI
1 NAME Virena /Watkins/
2 GIVN Virena
2 SURN Watkins
1 SEX F
1 NOTE Virena talked little.  She never mentioned Dave's name again after he
2 CONC died, and she did not remarry.  She made hundreds of quilts, all the
2 CONC same pattern (string), and stopped when she went blind six months
2 CONC before she died.
1 SOUR @S3@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 FEB 1846
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 JUL 1925
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Little Flock Church, Grayson County, KY
1 FAMS @F8@
1 FAMC @F13@
0 @I19@ INDI
1 NAME George H. /Keller/
2 GIVN George H.
2 SURN Keller
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 FEB 1828
2 PLAC ?
1 DEAT
2 DATE Mar. 10, ?
1 BURI
2 PLAC Mt. Moriah
2 NOTE Epitaph:  "Dear Father we miss you so much.  We know you rest with
3 CONC God."
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMS @F9@
1 FAMC @F14@
0 @I20@ INDI
1 NAME Mary A. /Grahm/
2 GIVN Mary A.
2 SURN Grahm
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 SEP 1835
2 PLAC ?
1 DEAT
2 DATE 3/10/?
2 PLAC ?
1 BURI
2 DATE ?
2 PLAC Mt. Moriah
1 FAMS @F9@
1 FAMC @F15@
0 @I21@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas Clellan /Fulkerson/
2 GIVN Thomas Clellan
2 SURN Fulkerson
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 APR 1835
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 DEC 1890
1 FAMS @F10@
1 FAMC @F16@
0 @I22@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Margret /Read/
2 GIVN Mary Margret
2 SURN Read
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S1@
2 PAGE Page 29.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 OCT 1839
2 PLAC Larue County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 9 APR 1903
2 PLAC Grayson Co, KY
1 BURI
2 DATE 1903
2 PLAC Reed Cem., Grayson County, KY
1 FAMS @F10@
1 FAMC @F17@
0 @I25@ INDI
1 NAME Jacob (Jake) /Williams/
2 GIVN Jacob (Jake)
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 APR 1818
2 PLAC Grindstone Fork of Rock Creek, KY
2 SOUR @S3@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 AUG 1873
1 BURI
2 PLAC Williams Grave Yard, Downs School Road, Rock Creek, KY
2 SOUR @S3@
1 CENS
2 DATE 1850
2 PLAC Grayson Co, KY
2 SOUR @S33@
1 FAMS @F12@
1 FAMC @F213@
0 @I26@ INDI
1 NAME Celia /Skaggs/
2 GIVN Celia
2 SURN Skaggs
1 SEX F
1 NOTE Celia would later donate part of the land she inherited from Jacob for
2 CONC Little Flock Church and cemetery.  The deed, dated Nov. 19, 1899, sets
2 CONC aside two acres for a "United Baptist Church called Little Flock."  A
2 CONC new church was built on this land, and the original Little Flock
2 CONC congregation was moved to the church's present site from its old
2 CONC location on Highway 720 which was built in 1889.  Celia's son,
2 CONC Charles, was a trustee of the church.  The other two were John L. and
2 CONC William Franklin.
2 CONT
2 CONT Celie Creek, which runs through the old home place, was named for
2 CONC Celia Skaggs Williams.
1 SOUR @S3@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 FEB 1818
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 OCT 1898
2 PLAC Rock Creek, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Williams Grave Yard, Downs School Road, Rock Creek, KY
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMS @F12@
1 FAMC @F179@
0 @I27@ INDI
1 NAME Charles /Watkins/
2 GIVN Charles
2 SURN Watkins
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 MAY 1819
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 SEP 1886
1 BURI
2 PLAC Antioch Cemetery off Highway 720
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMS @F13@
0 @I28@ INDI
1 NAME Senthia ? Samantha A. /Hoppes/
2 GIVN Senthia ? Samantha A.
2 SURN Hoppes
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 APR 1823
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 DEC 1895
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
2 SOUR @S3@
1 BURI
2 PLAC Antioch Cemetery off Highway 720
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMS @F13@
0 @I29@ INDI
1 NAME Moses H. /Keller/
2 GIVN Moses H.
2 SURN Keller
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S33@
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1803
2 PLAC Maryland
2 SOUR @S33@
1 CENS
2 DATE 1850
2 PLAC Grayson Co, KY
1 FAMS @F14@
1 FAMC @F31@
0 @I30@ INDI
1 NAME Judith (Juda) /Clever/
2 GIVN Judith (Juda)
2 SURN Clever
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S33@
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1800
2 PLAC Kentucky
2 SOUR @S33@
3 PAGE Listed as wife of Moses H. Keller and 50 years old from Kentucky.
1 CENS
2 DATE 1850
2 PLAC Grayson Co, KY
1 FAMS @F14@
0 @I31@ INDI
1 NAME Robert /Grahm/
2 GIVN Robert
2 SURN Grahm
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F15@
0 @I32@ INDI
1 NAME  /Brewster/
2 SURN Brewster
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F15@
0 @I33@ INDI
1 NAME William /Fulkerson/
2 GIVN William
2 SURN Fulkerson
1 SEX M
1 NOTE William was married three times that we know of, maybe four.  It is
2 CONC rumored that a Jessamine County son visited William after he moved to
2 CONC Grayson County, KY, so there may be an unknown Jessamine County wife.
2 CONC Cassa Ann Beatty would be his second wife in that case and Anna Skaggs
2 CONC his third.
2 CONT
2 CONT His son Andrew Johnson Fulkerson tells the story about the Jessamine
2 CONC County wife.
2 CONT
2 CONT William had a brother named James H. Fulkerson, and their father,
2 CONC Peter, divided his 250 acres of land near Big Clifty between them.  He
2 CONC did this five years before he died.  Why?  I don't know.  (Appears he
2 CONC wanted to be sure about who got that land.
1 SOUR @S3@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 SEP 1800
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 APR 1879
1 FAMS @F16@
1 FAMC @F1121@
0 @I34@ INDI
1 NAME Cassa Ann /Beatty/
2 GIVN Cassa Ann
2 SURN Beatty
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F16@
0 @I35@ INDI
1 NAME James Harvey /Read/
2 GIVN James Harvey
2 SURN Read
1 SEX M
1 NOTE James was born in Green County but later moved to Larue County with
2 CONC his family.  He married in Larue County and lived until his five
2 CONC daughters were born, then he moved to Grayson County where a son was
2 CONC born.  He lived out his life in Grayson County and was buried there.
2 CONC His daughters and son married in that county and many of his
2 CONC descendants of Floyds, Williams and Fulkersons still live there.  His
2 CONC son moved back to Larue county and his descendants live there.
1 SOUR @S1@
2 PAGE Page 10.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 MAR 1817
2 PLAC Green CO., Kentucky
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 OCT 1880
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Reed Cem., Grayson County, KY
1 FAMS @F17@
1 FAMC @F21@
0 @I36@ INDI
1 NAME Barbara Ann /Gusler/
2 GIVN Barbara Ann
2 SURN Gusler
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 APR 1811
2 PLAC KY
2 SOUR @S1@
3 PAGE Page 29.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 21 MAR 1890
1 BURI
2 DATE 1890
2 PLAC Reed Cem., Grayson County, KY
2 SOUR @S1@
3 PAGE Page 29.
1 FAMS @F17@
1 FAMC @F22@
0 @I42@ INDI
1 NAME Eli /Read/
2 GIVN Eli
2 SURN Read
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S4@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1790
2 PLAC Virginia
2 SOUR @S1@
3 PAGE Page 3
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1850
2 PLAC Larue County, KY
2 SOUR @S1@
3 PAGE Page 3
1 PROP 50 acres, part of No. 20783
2 DATE BET 10 APR 1796 AND 1834
2 PLAC Green County, KY Land Entries pp. 156 & 395
2 NOTE Assignee of Samuel A. Spencer.
2 SOUR @S1@
3 PAGE Page 8.
1 FAMS @F21@
1 FAMC @F1652@
0 @I44@ INDI
1 NAME John /Gusler/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Gusler
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F22@
0 @I45@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret /?/
2 GIVN Margaret
2 SURN ?
1 SEX F
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 SEP 1870
1 FAMS @F22@
0 @I47@ INDI
1 NAME Elta Ree /Dennison/
2 GIVN Elta Ree
2 SURN Dennison
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S7@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 3 DEC 1909
2 PLAC Leitchfield, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 NOV 1997
2 PLAC Elizabethtown, Hardin Co, KY
2 NOTE She died at 10:05 P.M. with daughter Evelyn and son Marvin by her
3 CONC side.  She died quietly of natural causes.
2 SOUR @S7@
1 BURI
2 DATE 18 NOV 1997
2 PLAC Leitchfield Memorial Gardens, Leitchfield, Grayson Co, KY
2 SOUR @S7@
1 FAMS @F66@
1 FAMC @F26@
0 @I49@ INDI
1 NAME Samuel H. /Kiper/
2 GIVN Samuel H.
2 SURN Kiper
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 MAY 1861
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1941
1 OCCU Farmer
1 DSCR Blue eyes and brown hair
1 FAMS @F25@
1 FAMC @F27@
0 @I50@ INDI
1 NAME (Sarah or Mary ?)  Jane /McCombs/
2 GIVN (Sarah or Mary ?)  Jane
2 SURN McCombs
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S151@
1 SOUR @S152@
2 PAGE Page 8
1 BIRT
2 DATE SEP 1866
2 PLAC Kentucky
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1944
1 DSCR Blue eyes & brown hair
1 FAMS @F25@
1 FAMC @F28@
0 @I51@ INDI
1 NAME Henry Clay /Dennison/
2 GIVN Henry Clay
2 SURN Dennison
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 NOV 1873
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 DEC 1938
1 OCCU Farmer
1 DSCR Blue eyes and black curly hair - six foot tall
1 FAMS @F26@
1 FAMC @F29@
0 @I52@ INDI
1 NAME Cora Edna /Barnes/
2 GIVN Cora Edna
2 SURN Barnes
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 DEC 1874
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 MAR 1963
1 DSCR Blue eyes and red hair - 4' 11" tall
1 FAMS @F26@
1 FAMC @F30@
0 @I53@ INDI
1 NAME Hallick /Kiper/
2 GIVN Hallick
2 SURN Kiper
1 SEX M
1 OCCU Farmer
1 FAMS @F27@
0 @I54@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Franks/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Franks
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F27@
0 @I55@ INDI
1 NAME John C. /McCombs/
2 GIVN John C.
2 SURN McCombs
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S151@
1 SOUR @S152@
2 PAGE Page 8
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 OCT 1839
2 PLAC England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 OCT 1911
2 PLAC Grayson Co, KY
1 EMIG
2 PLAC England
1 OCCU Farmer
1 FAMS @F28@
1 FAMC @F2154@
0 @I56@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah (Sallie) /Foster/
2 GIVN Sarah (Sallie)
2 SURN Foster
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S152@
2 PAGE Page 8
1 SOUR @S151@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1845
2 PLAC Kentucky
1 FAMS @F28@
0 @I57@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph Clayborne /Dennison/
2 GIVN Joseph Clayborne
2 SURN Dennison
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S157@
2 PAGE p.79 - 102
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 SEP 1835
1 DEAT
2 DATE 5 DEC 1917
1 OCCU Farmer
2 PLAC Kentucky
1 DSCR Brown eyes and brown hair
1 FAMS @F29@
1 FAMC @F1881@
0 @I58@ INDI
1 NAME Rose J. (Dennison) /Stone/
2 GIVN Rose J. (Dennison)
2 SURN Stone
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S157@
2 PAGE p. 93
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 AUG 1848
1 DEAT
2 DATE 27 JUN 1896
1 EMIG
2 PLAC Ireland
1 FAMS @F29@
1 FAMC @F2516@
0 @I59@ INDI
1 NAME William Lloyd /Barnes/
2 GIVN William Lloyd
2 SURN Barnes
1 SEX M
1 NOTE                   William Lloyd Barnes, Grandfather of Elma Birch
2 CONT
2 CONT     There are many things I can remember and other things that have
2 CONC been handed down, such as his teams running off with him in the wagon
2 CONC and throwing him out. Each time a leg was broken.  The homemade
2 CONC crutches are in my family.
2 CONT       When Emil, Emler, and I were little fellows, Grandpa would want
2 CONC Mama to let us come to his house so he could take us to the farm where
2 CONC he was born (the Mrs. Laura Fraze farm). There were horse footprints
2 CONC on the doorstep that went on to the porch.
2 CONT       I thought my grandpa was handsome when he dressed to go to
2 CONC church. He would go horseback and carry an umbrella or cane.
2 CONT       The farm had 320 acres.  He would tell us about how his parents
2 CONC built a brick house on the hill a few miles from his birthplace. There
2 CONC was the prettiest stairway I ever saw going up to the bedrooms.  Of
2 CONC course when I knew it, it was used to store hay in.  I never was
2 CONC allowed to go up.  They were afraid I could not see well enough to
2 CONC keep from falling.  (That was the
2 CONT same way at My Grandpa Dennison's house.)
2 CONT     By the side of the old house were Bamigil (?) bushes.  In the
2 CONC spring you would get the buds and cook them and make salve.  In the
2 CONC yard were the garvis tree, privy bush, and ash hopper (a kiln where
2 CONC you put apples and peaches to dry them) The warping bars hung on the
2 CONC side of the warm house where there were all colors of hollyhocks. The
2 CONC cistern house was just a few feet from the back porch. There was a
2 CONC front porch all across the front of the house.  A cinnamon vine was on
2 CONC the south end.  A few feet from that was a frame covered with
2 CONC honeysuckle.  It really would smell sweet early in the morning.
2 CONT      Grandpa had three horses that I remember: old Charlie Gray,
2 CONC Fannie Curley, and Kate.
2 CONT      They would let me go fishing in the pond with a pin for a hook.
2 CONT      Grandmother was an invalid. She sat in her armed rocking chair
2 CONC something like my chair.  I can see the white oilcloth pockets on each
2 CONC arm where she kept her quilt pieces and thread. She pieced many
2 CONC quilts. They said if a young man was going to get married he would buy
2 CONC enough material for grandmother to piece him one and her one too. That
2 CONC was the way she was able to piece quilts for her grandchildren. She
2 CONC pieced one for me before I was born.
2 CONT      I can remember Papa going down to Grandpa's and getting them in
2 CONC the buggy.  They would help her out, one on each side of her and
2 CONC another to pick up her feet.  It was grand to have them come to our
2 CONC house.  Grandpa was a mason.
2 CONT      When Grandpa and Grandmother were married, there was a house
2 CONC built across the road from the brick one.  They lived there several
2 CONC years before a new house was built.  Mama said she carried her little
2 CONC pup to the new house in a baking powder can (must have been bigger
2 CONC than the cans we have now!) Papa always had part of his crop at
2 CONC Grandpa's.  We children would get to go with him.  We would leave home
2 CONC before daylight.  When we got to the house we would go to the kitchen
2 CONC and raise the table cloth that covered the dishes and get a cold
2 CONC biscuit and a piece of ham.
2 CONT      Grandpa would carry Grandmother out in the yard to a flower bed
2 CONC he had dug up.  She would take the cane and make a hole, then give me
2 CONC the seed to drop in.  Then she would cover it, using the cane.
2 CONT      Grandmother died on August 23, 1911.  I can still see the long
2 CONC funeral procession lined up the lane.  That year my pretty blue dress
2 CONC was made.  Helen made me a pillow out of it from the pieces, July,
2 CONC 1977.  Grandpa died October 2, 1913.
2 CONT       Uncle Joe lived in Clinton, Ind.  He was a jolly fellow, but did
2 CONC not get to visit us too often.  His children would come.  When
2 CONC Grandmother was real bad sick they came, also the Harrell cousins,
2 CONC too.  Some of them were four to ten years older than me.  Guess who
2 CONC had to wash dishes so she would not be eavesdropping on the
2 CONC grownups....me!  The postcard in the sunroom was sent to me after
2 CONC Florence went home.  It says, "Gee, I wish I had a girl."
2 CONT It's a man washing dishes.
2 CONT      Aunt Amanda lived in Grayson County and went to pilgrim church.
2 CONC Her son, W. C. Harrell, was a Baptist preacher. He died in 1977 with
2 CONC three sisters living, Bessie, Clara, and Elizabeth.
2 CONT      Aunt Angeline married Dr. Tom Lynch.  They lived at Short Creek,
2 CONC in Grayson County, Ky.  He was a good country doctor.  She died at age
2 CONC 26. They said she had started to tell Uncle Tom he would have to
2 CONC mother and father, but never finished.
2 CONT      Aunt Betty never married.  She would get down in the floor and
2 CONC play with us kids.
2 CONT      Aunt Emily married Uncle Bishop White, a Baptist preacher, the
2 CONC kind that went to four different churches a month.  Some were too far
2 CONC for him to come home between Saturday and Sunday services, so we would
2 CONC get to go stay with Aunt Emily.  He died the fourth Saturday in July
2 CONC in 1914.
2 CONT      Aunt Betty and Aunt Emily lived several places in Leitchfield.
2 CONT      Mama and Papa went to Illlnois to work on a farm after they were
2 CONC married.  I was born in Illinois. They came back to Kentucky and
2 CONC bought the Lampton farm on the road to Leitchfleld.
2 CONT      We had a blind mail carrier.  There were very few mailboxes.
2 CONC Most people went to the little country post offices.  We had a wooden
2 CONC mailbox.  Emil and I would get on the post to hear Bob holler "Mail
2 CONC out here!".  Of course we would snicker and he would know we were at
2 CONC the mailbox.  Grandpa's Masonic Journal and the Western Recorder came
2 CONC to our mailbox.  I learned to read out of those two papers.
2 CONT      Emil, Emler, Ree, and Irene were born at this place.  When
2 CONC Grandpa died, Mama and Papa bought the Grandpa place on Jan. 7, 1914.
2 CONT      Pauline was born at the Grandpa place, the first of the family to
2 CONC be born in that old house.  I think Ree's Evelyn was born there.  So
2 CONC far as I can recall, those were the only two of the Lloyd Barnes clan
2 CONC that were born in that house.
2 CONT      There's another story that Grandpa told.  He had been missing
2 CONC corn out of the corn crib.  He had four square holes to put the wagon
2 CONC bed on when he did not use it.  That was where the corn going out.
2 CONC One morning he went to feed and found a good friend and neighbor with
2 CONC his hand caught in the steel trap.  Grandpa asked him to go and eat
2 CONC breakfast with them.  In those days there would be people passing by
2 CONC and eat.  He told the man he would not tell on him.  Of course the man
2 CONC wouldn't go eat with him.  Grandpa never told who the thief was.
2 CONT      Grandmother said she sent Grandpa a bag of apples by his father.
2 CONC She was sure she won him in that way. It was years before they started
2 CONC dating.
2 CONT
1 SOUR @S126@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 3 APR 1832
1 DEAT
2 DATE 2 OCT 1913
1 OCCU Farmer
1 DSCR Blue eyes and strawberry blond hair
1 FAMS @F30@
1 FAMC @F35@
0 @I60@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Harrell/
2 GIVN Elizabeth
2 SURN Harrell
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S126@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1835
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 AUG 1911
1 DSCR Brown eyes & hair
1 FAMS @F30@
1 FAMC @F1870@
0 @I61@ INDI
1 NAME George /Keller/
2 GIVN George
2 SURN Keller
1 SEX M
1 NOTE A George Keller lived in Fredrick County, Maryland and voted for
2 CONC George Washington July 24, 1758 for the house of Burgess.  George
2 CONC lived in Maryland for some time.  They moved to Kentucky in the early
2 CONC days of the state and later moved to Charleston, Illinois where they
2 CONC died.  Sarah Keller is buried in Kichapoo Cemetary near Charleston,
2 CONC Illinois.
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Switzerland
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Charleston, Illinois
1 EMIG
2 PLAC Switzerland
1 FAMS @F31@
0 @I62@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Hedges/
2 GIVN Sarah
2 SURN Hedges
1 SEX F
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Charleston, Illinois
1 BURI
2 PLAC Kichapoo Cemetary near Charleston, Illinois
1 FAMS @F31@
1 FAMC @F32@
0 @I63@ INDI
1 NAME Moses /Hedges/
2 GIVN Moses
2 SURN Hedges
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F32@
1 FAMC @F33@
0 @I64@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Green /Wood/
2 GIVN Mary Green
2 SURN Wood
1 SEX F
1 NOTE A sister to Colonel Joseph Wood, an immigrant born in Gloochester,
2 CONC England and came to America and settled first in Cecil County,
2 CONC Maryland on Bohemia Manor.  He married his first wife in 1734.
1 FAMS @F32@
0 @I65@ INDI
1 NAME Charles /Hedges/
2 GIVN Charles
2 SURN Hedges
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Son of an immigrant.  According to the records of the German Reformed
2 CONC Church of Frederick City, Maryland.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1712
1 DEAT
2 DATE 21 DEC 1795
2 PLAC Fredrick County, Maryland
1 FAMS @F33@
0 @I66@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Wood/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Wood
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F33@
0 @I68@ INDI
1 NAME William /Barnes/
2 GIVN William
2 SURN Barnes
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F35@
0 @I69@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /?/
2 GIVN Elizabeth
2 SURN ?
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F35@
0 @I70@ INDI
1 NAME Dillard Porter /Pierce/
2 GIVN Dillard Porter
2 SURN Pierce
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 FEB 1927
2 PLAC Paris, TN
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Military
2 DATE Latter part of WWII
2 PLAC Italy
1 NAMS A preacher in Paris, TN
1 FAMS @F36@
1 FAMC @F37@
0 @I71@ INDI
1 NAME Mildred Regina /Ross/
2 GIVN Mildred Regina
2 SURN Ross
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 JUN 1931
2 PLAC Paris, TN
1 FAMS @F36@
1 FAMC @F38@
0 @I72@ INDI
1 NAME Dudley Porter /Pierce/
2 GIVN Dudley Porter
2 SURN Pierce
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S7@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 MAR 1894
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 JUL 1971
2 PLAC Paris, TN
1 FAMS @F37@
1 FAMC @F39@
0 @I73@ INDI
1 NAME Eva Dean /Humphreys/
2 GIVN Eva Dean
2 SURN Humphreys
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 DEC 1894
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 SEP 1968
1 FAMS @F37@
1 FAMC @F40@
0 @I74@ INDI
1 NAME William Elvis /Ross/
2 GIVN William Elvis
2 SURN Ross
1 SEX M
1 NOTE On wedding day, got in a buggy and went to Fulton Dortch (magistrate).
2 CONC  Next day holed cotton for Hilman Pierce and Bill Martin.
2 CONT
1 SOUR @S7@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 JUL 1902
2 PLAC Henry Co., TN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 NOV 1985
2 PLAC Paris, TN
1 FAMS @F38@
1 FAMC @F41@
0 @I75@ INDI
1 NAME Venola /Martin/
2 GIVN Venola
2 SURN Martin
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S7@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 DEC 1909
2 PLAC Henry Co., TN
1 FAMS @F38@
1 FAMC @F42@
0 @I76@ INDI
1 NAME William Bedford (Bep) /Pierce/
2 GIVN William Bedford (Bep)
2 SURN Pierce
1 SEX M
1 NOTE William Bedford Pierce (or "Uncle Bep" as he was known to most
2 CONC everyone) was married in Henry County to Josephine Vaughn.
2 CONT
2 CONT They lived for a time in Tyler, Texas after selling their home in
2 CONC Henry County. They later returned to Henry County where they lived the
2 CONC remainder of their lives. [Susan Elise (Wright) Myers]
2 CONT
2 CONT Josephine would start cooking dinner right after breakfast, place it
2 CONC on the kitchen table, which had a white crisp table cloth on it, then
2 CONC cover it with a sheet.   Daddy said after it was covered, no one was
2 CONC to dare reach under there to get anything:  He said she loved to eat
2 CONC -- especially vegetables from their garden (squash, cucumbers).
2 CONT
2 CONT Josephine was by herself the night William Bedford died. Sometime
2 CONC during the early morning hours Josephine woke up to find him dead. She
2 CONC stayed there until morning then walked to Harold Ellis' (1/4 mile).
2 CONC Harold walked to Dudley, Eva and Diliard's house to tell them.
2 CONT
2 CONT Josephine died at her daughter Susie's house (108 N. Highland, Paris,
2 CONC Tennessee) in March, 1947. Daddy remembers being present and that his
2 CONC father, Dudley, closed her eyes upon death.
2 CONT
2 CONT William Bedford chewed tobacco. Whenever Daddy and Granny went to the
2 CONC store, he would ask her to buy "Grandpa'" some tobacco. Daddy had an
2 CONC ulterior motive, however, because when he would take the tobacco to
2 CONC Grandpa, Grandpa would reach into his pocket, pull out his pocket
2 CONC knife, cut off a plug and give it to him!
2 CONT
2 CONT
1 SOUR @S7@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 DEC 1858
1 DEAT
2 DATE MAY 1943
2 PLAC Henry Co., TN
1 FAMS @F39@
1 FAMC @F2136@
0 @I77@ INDI
1 NAME Josephene (Jo) /Vaughn/
2 GIVN Josephene (Jo)
2 SURN Vaughn
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1865
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1947
2 PLAC Henry Co., TN
1 FAMS @F39@
1 FAMC @F2140@
0 @I78@ INDI
1 NAME Charles /Humphreys/
2 GIVN Charles
2 SURN Humphreys
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S127@
1 SOUR @S128@
1 SOUR @S129@
1 SOUR @S130@
1 SOUR @S131@
1 SOUR @S132@
1 SOUR @S133@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1833
2 PLAC Clarksville, TN
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 FEB 1901
2 PLAC Massac Farm, McCracken Co., KY
1 FAMS @F40@
1 FAMC @F1970@
0 @I79@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret Malissa /Thomas/
2 GIVN Margaret Malissa
2 SURN Thomas
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1851
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 SEP 1867
1 FAMS @F40@
1 FAMC @F43@
0 @I80@ INDI
1 NAME James Franklin (Pappy) /Ross/
2 GIVN James Franklin (Pappy)
2 SURN Ross
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S7@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 SEP 1878
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 JAN 1952
1 FAMS @F41@
1 FAMC @F2152@
0 @I81@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Alice (Mammy) /Wright/
2 GIVN Mary Alice (Mammy)
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX F
1 NOTE Mary Alice Wright's Henry County, TN. Obituary:
2 CONT "Mary Alice Wright, born April 27, 1877, departed this life August 30,
2 CONC 1948.  Age 71 years, 4 months, 3 days.  Was married to James Franklin
2 CONC Ross July 4, 1900 and to this family was born 3 children, 2 girls and
2 CONC one boy.  The girls are Mr. Lou Perry and Mrs. Truma Martin of this
2 CONC county.  The boy William Elvis Ross of Louisville, KY.  There are also
2 CONC 18 grandchildren who are all here except Glendora Ross Crews of
2 CONC Louisville, Ky.  who was unable to be here.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mary Alice Ross professed faith in Christ at an early age at Point
2 CONC Pleasant Church, also joining there, but at present being a member of
2 CONC Spring Hill Baptist Church.  She was a faithful member until death.
2 CONT
2 CONT Born and reared in Henry County and a life long resident of Henry
2 CONC County, moving from the 23rd district of Henry County some 10 years
2 CONC ago to Paris, TN. where she has many friends.  She was loved by all
2 CONC and was a friend to all."
1 SOUR @S7@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 APR 1877
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 AUG 1948
2 PLAC Henry Co., TN
1 FAMS @F41@
0 @I82@ INDI
1 NAME William /Martin/
2 GIVN William
2 SURN Martin
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 NOV 1872
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 APR 1953
1 FAMS @F42@
0 @I83@ INDI
1 NAME Betty /Phillips/
2 GIVN Betty
2 SURN Phillips
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 SEP 1876
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 JUL 1955
1 FAMS @F42@
0 @I84@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph B. /Thomas/
2 GIVN Joseph B.
2 SURN Thomas
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S127@
1 SOUR @S129@
1 SOUR @S130@
1 SOUR @S131@
1 SOUR @S132@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1827
2 PLAC Kentucky
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 DEC 1899
2 PLAC Clarksville, Montgomery Co., TN
1 BURI
2 PLAC City Cemetery, Clarksville, TN
2 SOUR @S137@
2 SOUR @S138@
1 OCCU Wagon Maker
2 PLAC Clarksville, Montgomery Co., TN
2 SOUR @S130@
1 FAMS @F43@
1 FAMC @F44@
0 @I85@ INDI
1 NAME C. Winifield /Covington/
2 GIVN C. Winifield
2 SURN Covington
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1830
2 PLAC Kentucky
1 FAMS @F43@
0 @I86@ INDI
1 NAME Nicholas Lewis /Thomas/
2 NPFX Dr.
2 GIVN Nicholas Lewis
2 SURN Thomas
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S135@
1 SOUR @S128@
1 SOUR @S129@
1 SOUR @S130@
1 SOUR @S131@
1 SOUR @S127@
1 SOUR @S139@
1 SOUR @S140@
1 SOUR @S138@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1805
2 PLAC Albemarle, VA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 NOV 1872
2 PLAC Clarksville, Montgomery Co., TN
1 BURI
2 PLAC Riverside Cemetery, Clarksville, TN
2 SOUR @S137@
1 EDUC Doctor
1 FAMS @F44@
1 FAMC @F1987@
0 @I87@ INDI
1 NAME Ellen Elizabeth /Carter/
2 GIVN Ellen Elizabeth
2 SURN Carter
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 FEB 1810
2 PLAC VA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 NOV 1872
2 PLAC Clarksville, Montgomery Co., TN
1 BURI
2 PLAC Riverside Cemetery, Clarksville, TN
1 FAMS @F44@
1 FAMC @F45@
0 @I88@ INDI
1 NAME Fielding /Carter/
2 GIVN Fielding
2 SURN Carter
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F45@
0 @I89@ INDI
1 NAME Ellen Eppes /Randolph/
2 GIVN Ellen Eppes
2 SURN Randolph
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F45@
1 FAMC @F46@
0 @I90@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas Mann Washington /Randolph/
2 GIVN Thomas Mann Washington
2 SURN Randolph
2 NSFX Jr.
1 SEX M
1 TITL Jr.
1 NOTE This the great-great grandson of William Randolph of Turkey Island who
2 CONC is also the great-great grandfather of his wife Martha Washington
2 CONC Jefferson.  He resided at Monticello and shared many of the diverse
2 CONC interests of his father-in-law.  He served in the Virginia senate, was
2 CONC a member of Congress, served in the War of 1812, and was governor of
2 CONC Virginia (1819-22) later serving in the state legislature.
1 SOUR @S154@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 MAY 1768
2 PLAC Tuckahoe, Goochland Co., Virginia
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 JUN 1828
2 PLAC Monticello, Charlottesville, Albemarle, Vir
1 FAMS @F46@
0 @I93@ INDI
1 NAME Martha Wayles /Skelton/
2 GIVN Martha Wayles
2 SURN Skelton
1 SEX F
1 NOTE In a different publication called Martha Skelton.
1 SOUR @S156@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 OCT 1748
2 PLAC Charles City Co., Virginia
1 DEAT
2 DATE 6 SEP 1782
2 PLAC Monticello, Charlottesville, Albemarle, VA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Monticello, Charlottesville, Albemarle, VA
1 FAMS @F47@
0 @I95@ INDI
1 NAME Jane /Randolph/
2 GIVN Jane
2 SURN Randolph
1 SEX F
1 NOTE The granddaughter of William Randolph, married Peter Jefferson (father
2 CONC of Thomas Jefferson).  Jane Randolph was connected with most of the
2 CONC "first families of Virginia".
1 SOUR @S2@
1 SOUR @S154@
1 SOUR @S127@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 FEB 1720
2 PLAC London, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 31 MAR 1776
1 FAMS @F48@
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I96@ INDI
1 NAME Isham /Randolph/
2 GIVN Isham
2 SURN Randolph
2 NSFX of Dungeness
1 SEX M
1 TITL of Dungeness
1 SOUR @S145@
2 PAGE Vol. 45, 1937 pp. 392-405
3 CONT Vol. 45, 1937 p. 67.
1 SOUR @S139@
2 PAGE pp. 301 - 303.
1 SOUR @S140@
2 PAGE pp. 831-833
1 SOUR @S127@
1 BIRT
2 DATE JAN 1685
2 PLAC Turkey Island, Dungeness Co., VA
1 DEAT
2 DATE NOV 1742
1 FAMS @F49@
1 FAMC @F50@
0 @I97@ INDI
1 NAME Jane /Rogers/
2 GIVN Jane
2 SURN Rogers
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S127@
1 FAMS @F49@
1 FAMC @F2064@
0 @I98@ INDI
1 NAME William /Randolph/
2 GIVN William
2 SURN Randolph
2 NSFX of Turkey Island
1 SEX M
1 TITL of Turkey Island
1 NOTE He was an American colonial official, planter and merchant.  Arriving
2 CONC in Virginia about 1672, he became the owner of a tract of land known
2 CONC as "Turkey Island" and subsequently acquired large holdings in other
2 CONC parts of Virginia.  One of the most prominent slave-holders and
2 CONC planters in the colony, he held various civil and military offices,
2 CONC including that of clerk of Henrico County, lieutenant colonel of
2 CONC militia, clerk of the Burgesses, and attorney general for the Crown of
2 CONC Virginia.  He was a founder and trustee of the College of William and
2 CONC Mary.
1 SOUR @S2@
1 SOUR @S145@
2 PAGE Vol. 45 - 1937 pp. 67, 392-405
1 SOUR @S127@
1 SOUR @S140@
2 PAGE pp. 831-833
1 SOUR @S139@
2 PAGE pp. 301-303
1 BIRT
2 DATE 7 NOV 1650
2 PLAC Yorkshire or Warwickshire, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 APR 1711
2 PLAC Turkey Island, Dungeness Co., VA
1 FAMS @F50@
1 FAMC @F2073@
0 @I99@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Isham/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Isham
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F50@
1 FAMC @F2074@
0 @I108@ INDI
1 NAME Aline (NMN) /Williams/
2 GIVN Aline (NMN)
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 JUL 1921
2 PLAC Horntown, Grayson County, KY
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I109@ INDI
1 NAME Wilbur Olen /Williams/
2 GIVN Wilbur Olen
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Olin's mother spelled his name Olen, but all school and military
2 CONC records and his signature spelled it Olin.  Olin attended one-room
2 CONC schools at Downs and Chestnut Ridge. He graduated from Clarkson High
2 CONC School.  While he was in the U.S. Army Air Corps from May, 1943 to
2 CONC November, 1945.  He was a student at Mississippi State College for two
2 CONC years and MIT for eight months.  For 33 years, he worked at Fort Knox
2 CONC Army Base, 12 years as a teacher of radio-radar repair and 21 years as
2 CONC a supervisory maintenance officer.  He lived four years in Wenona, IL;
2 CONC  12 years on the home farm, north of Little Flock Church;  27 years in
2 CONC Louisville (Brentwood St. and Florence St.) and from 1973 until his
2 CONC death at Lexington, KY (Wincester Road).  He was an amature radio
2 CONC operator, advanced class, with call letters KC4WN.  Olin's epitaph:  A
2 CONC drawing of woodcarving tools and carved duck.  Drawing by Gary Wayne
2 CONC Williams.
1 SOUR @S3@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 DEC 1923
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
2 NOTE Born in Horntown, KY
2 SOUR @S3@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 SEP 1993
2 PLAC Lexington, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Little Flock Church, Grayson County, KY
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I110@ INDI
1 NAME Jesse Calvin /Williams/
2 GIVN Jesse Calvin
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Epitaph:  A drawing of the cabin and lake Jesse built near the spring
2 CONC at his boyhood home.  The drawing is by Linda Diana Frank-Williams,
2 CONC his daughter-in-law.
2 CONT
2 CONT When Jesse was about 13, he somehow got himself a well-used guitar.
2 CONC With dreams of "singing on the radio", he took it to Birdseed Haycraft
2 CONC to tune and to teach him how to play it.  Birdseed said Jesse was a
2 CONC pretty good student, he just started late on the guitar.  Should have
2 CONC started at 8 or 9.
2 CONT
2 CONT Jesse would buy the farm where he grew up north of Little Flock
2 CONC Church.  He also bought the farm where his mother grew up, Martin
2 CONC Fulkerson's farm.  He would join the two farms by buying the back part
2 CONC of the Oscar Down farm (land once owned by Charles Hollis Williams,
2 CONC Larkin's Uncle).
1 SOUR @S3@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 JAN 1929
2 PLAC LaSalle, IL
1 DEAT
2 DATE 3 JUN 1991
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Little Flock Church, Grayson County, KY
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I111@ INDI
1 NAME David Howard /Williams/
2 GIVN David Howard
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 FEB 1932
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
2 NOTE Born in Horntown, KY, one mile north of Little Flock Church
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I112@ INDI
1 NAME Loren Lee /Williams/
2 GIVN Loren Lee
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 NOV 1937
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I113@ INDI
1 NAME Royce Albert /Williams/
2 GIVN Royce Albert
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Royce gets his middle name from Uncle Albert Clinton (Clint)
2 CONC Fulkerson, since he was born so near his uncle's birthday.
1 SOUR @S3@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 APR 1941
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I114@ INDI
1 NAME Loretta /Williams/
2 GIVN Loretta
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 NOTE Born at home one mile north of Little Flock Church, Grayson County, KY
2 CONT
2 CONT Jess added Nancy to Loretta's name after she was born.  The name is
2 CONC not on her birth certificate.  She shares the name with both her
2 CONC grandmothers, Ophelia Nancy Fulkerson and Nancy Ann Williams.
1 SOUR @S3@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 MAY 1944
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I152@ INDI
1 NAME William (Willie) McKinley /Kiper/
2 GIVN William (Willie) McKinley
2 SURN Kiper
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Elta Ree Kiper's Family Bible is in the posession of Evelyn Deloris
2 CONC Kiper Williams as of Jan 2, 1998.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 JUN 1902
2 PLAC Leitchfield, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 DEC 1972
2 PLAC Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY
1 BURI
2 DATE DEC 1972
2 PLAC Leitchfield Memorial Gardens, Leitchfield, Grayson Co, KY
1 FAMS @F66@
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I220@ INDI
1 NAME Edward Dale /Williams/
2 GIVN Edward Dale
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 DEC 1934
2 PLAC Millerstown, KY Grayson County
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I248@ INDI
1 NAME Minnie Belle /Williams/
2 GIVN Minnie Belle
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 FAMC @F6@
0 @I249@ INDI
1 NAME Hedge /Williams/
2 GIVN Hedge
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 AUG 1893
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 DEC 1971
1 FAMC @F6@
0 @I250@ INDI
1 NAME Lera (Lee) Elma /Williams/
2 GIVN Lera (Lee) Elma
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 FAMC @F6@
0 @I251@ INDI
1 NAME Onia Mae /Williams/
2 GIVN Onia Mae
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 MAY 1904
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 JUL 1932
2 NOTE Onia died of complications from neck and jaw paralysis.  Unknown
3 CONC disease.  Her best friend, Nellie Gibson-Cain, said she "never had a
3 CONC well day after Carmi Keller was born."  Her illness made it almost
3 CONC impossible for her to eat, Nellie said, "and she literally starved to
3 CONC death."  Before that, she was known in the community for her well
3 CONC developed sense of humor.  Onia Mae and Omer were second cousins. Omer
3 CONC was a grandson of Washington Williams (Ervin and Celia Fulkerson), and
3 CONC Onia Mae was a daughter of Larkin Williams. Washington was Larkin's
3 CONC uncle.
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMC @F6@
0 @I292@ INDI
1 NAME Charles (NMN) /Williams/
2 GIVN Charles (NMN)
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Charles took a big spoonful of whiskey every morning before breakfast
2 CONC for most of his life.  He mixed 11 different kinds of roots, barks and
2 CONC herbs with the whiskey, but he didn't boil it.  He called this
2 CONC medicine "bitters."  He never told anyone what the 11 ingredients
2 CONC were.
2 CONT
2 CONT Charles claimed that his grandfather, Jacob's second name was Charles
2 CONC too.  Charles moved most of his life, sometimes leaving without
2 CONC telling anyone where he was going.  When he went anywhere with the
2 CONC family, it was usually to church, no specific denomination, liked to
2 CONC go to all of the them.
2 CONT
2 CONT There were no divorces of children within this family.  They all
2 CONC outlived their mates when there are more than one.
1 SOUR @S3@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 MAR 1871
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 5 FEB 1964
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Old Lone Oak Cemetery
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I293@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Alyce (Al-a-cee) /Williams/
2 GIVN Mary Alyce (Al-a-cee)
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 MAR 1872
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 JAN 1962
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Little Flock Church, Grayson County, KY
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I294@ INDI
1 NAME Tapley /Williams/
2 GIVN Tapley
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 JUL 1870
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 3 APR 1943
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Little Flock Church, Grayson County, KY
2 NOTE Epitaph:  "Gone but not forgotten."
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I295@ INDI
1 NAME John Isham /Williams/
2 GIVN John Isham
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 SEP 1875
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 FEB 1958
1 BURI
2 PLAC Little Clifty Cemetery
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I296@ INDI
1 NAME Zerilda (Zee) /Williams/
2 GIVN Zerilda (Zee)
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 JUL 1878
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 SEP 1924
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Little Clifty Cemetery
2 NOTE Zerilda is buried at Little Flock just west of Dave and Virena's
3 CONC graves, but only a limestone rock marks her grave.  Next to her grave
3 CONC is a limestone footstone, but it is unknown which of her husbands is
3 CONC beside her.  Could also be a child?  Zerilda had a reputation as being
3 CONC "wild."
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I297@ INDI
1 NAME Mittie /Williams/
2 GIVN Mittie
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 NOV 1879
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1966
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I298@ INDI
1 NAME Hardin /Williams/
2 GIVN Hardin
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 APR 1882
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1971
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I299@ INDI
1 NAME Pina (Pinina) /Williams/
2 GIVN Pina (Pinina)
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 MAR 1886
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1924
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
2 NOTE Pina died of pneumonia at the age of 38.
2 SOUR @S3@
1 BURI
2 PLAC Little Flock Church, Grayson County, KY
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I393@ INDI
1 NAME Martin /Skaggs/
2 GIVN Martin
2 SURN Skaggs
2 NSFX Sr.
1 SEX M
1 TITL Sr.
1 SOUR @S33@
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1788
2 PLAC VA
2 SOUR @S33@
3 PAGE Listed as 62 years old and born in Virginia.
1 CENS
2 DATE 1850
2 PLAC Grayson Co, KY
2 NOTE The census shows a Lucretia living with Martin and Mary Skaggs.  I do
3 CONC not know if that is their daughter or not.
1 FAMS @F179@
1 FAMC @F180@
0 @I394@ INDI
1 NAME Mary "Polly" /Skaggs/
2 GIVN Mary "Polly"
2 SURN Skaggs
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S33@
1 SOUR @S153@
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1790
2 PLAC Kentucky
2 SOUR @S33@
3 PAGE Listed as 60 years old in 1850 Kentucky census.
1 CENS
2 DATE 1850
2 PLAC Grayson Co, KY
1 FAMS @F179@
1 FAMC @F2196@
0 @I395@ INDI
1 NAME Henry (Hunter Henry) /Skaggs/
2 GIVN Henry (Hunter Henry)
2 SURN Skaggs
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Henry (Hunter Henry) Skaggs is one of the original Long Hunters, the
2 CONC first explorers of what was to become Kentucky.  They were here before
2 CONC Daniel Boone.  They took animal pelts back east to sell.  Church
2 CONC records list Henry as a Baptist preacher.
1 SOUR @S3@
2 PAGE My uncle Royce lists Henry Hunter Skaggs as Martin's father.  However,
3 CONC the dates do not match.  Martin is more likely to be his grandson.
1 SOUR @S153@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1753
2 PLAC VA
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 1851
2 PLAC Grayson Co, KY
1 FAMS @F180@
0 @I396@ INDI
1 NAME Anna /Bass/
2 GIVN Anna
2 SURN Bass
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S153@
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1753
1 FAMS @F180@
0 @I397@ INDI
1 NAME Charles Hollis /Williams/
2 GIVN Charles Hollis
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 NOV 1838
1 DEAT
2 DATE 2 SEP 1931
1 FAMS @F1643@
1 FAMC @F12@
0 @I398@ INDI
1 NAME Washington /Williams/
2 GIVN Washington
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 APR 1840
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 MAY 1914
1 FAMC @F12@
0 @I399@ INDI
1 NAME James Martin /Williams/
2 GIVN James Martin
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 FAMC @F12@
0 @I400@ INDI
1 NAME Isham /Williams/
2 GIVN Isham
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 JUN 1848
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 DEC 1914
1 BURI
2 PLAC Mt. Moriah
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMC @F12@
0 @I401@ INDI
1 NAME John /Williams/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 APR 1850
2 SOUR @S33@
3 PAGE According to 1850 census, John was listed as a son of Jacob and Celia
4 CONC Williams and his age was 1 1/2 years old.  This means he must have
4 CONC been born in 1849 not 1850.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 JUL 1930
1 FAMC @F12@
0 @I402@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Sena (Sudie) /Williams/
2 GIVN Mary Sena (Sudie)
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1854
1 DEAT
2 DATE ?
1 BURI
2 PLAC Little Flock Church, Grayson County, KY
1 FAMC @F12@
0 @I427@ INDI
1 NAME Penina /Williams/
2 GIVN Penina
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1843
2 PLAC Grayson Co, KY
2 SOUR @S33@
3 PAGE Listed as seven years old and a daughter of Jacob and Celia Williams.
3 QUAY 3
1 BURI
2 NOTE J. H. Robertson is buried at Little Flock, assume Penina is to. Penina
3 CONC does not have a tombstone, but there is a limestone rock marking a
3 CONC grave beside J.H.'s.
3 CONT
3 CONT
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMC @F12@
0 @I462@ INDI
1 NAME James Hollis /Williams/
2 GIVN James Hollis
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 NOTE The earliest surviving record of James in Grayson County is a copy of
2 CONC an April 21, 1825 deed.  He is 27 and he buys some land on Grindstone
2 CONC Fork of Rock Creek.  He pays for it with 147 Commonwealth Papers
2 CONC (equal to $73.50 in gold or silver).  This money may have come from an
2 CONC inheritance to Sena after her father died.  Acres are not listed, but
2 CONC he buys part of the George May survey from Jack Thomas, Joseph Allen
2 CONC and Benjamin Hardin.  In the George May land grant boundary of 1789 is
2 CONC the first reference to Nosey Creek.
2 CONT
2 CONT There was a tannery on James Hollis' farm, southeast (?) of the
2 CONC cemetery.  This was a business run by James and his brother, Jacob, or
2 CONC with his son, Jacob.  They provided leather (for harness, shoes, etc.)
2 CONC for the Rock Creek Community, not just for the family's needs. Pioneer
2 CONC shoes were made by traveling cobblers.  They stayed with a family
2 CONC until everyone had shoes made, both shoes from the same pattern.
2 CONC There was no left or right shoe.
2 CONT
2 CONT James appears in the Grayson County census in 1850 (when he was 52) as
2 CONC owning $600 worth of real estate.  That would mean he was born in
2 CONC 1798.  His wife is listed in the 1850 census as Seva Hollis, and she
2 CONC was 57 that year.
1 SOUR @S3@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 FEB 1797
2 PLAC Virginia (?)
1 DEAT
2 DATE 3 AUG 1870
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Williams Grave Yard, Downs School Road, Rock Creek, KY
2 SOUR @S3@
1 CENS
2 DATE 1850
2 PLAC Grayson Co, KY
1 FAMS @F213@
1 FAMC @F214@
0 @I463@ INDI
1 NAME Sena (Senny, Cenny) /Metzel/
2 GIVN Sena (Senny, Cenny)
2 SURN Metzel
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1791/92
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 FEB 1861
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Williams Grave Yard, Downs School Road, Rock Creek, KY
2 SOUR @S3@
1 CENS
2 DATE 1850
2 PLAC Grayson Co, KY
1 FAMS @F213@
0 @I464@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Williams/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Jacob Williams, Sr., who dies in Grayson County in 1858 is listed as a
2 CONC son of Thomas.  If Jacob, who lived on the farm next to James on
2 CONC Grindstrone Fork of Rock Creek, is James' brother, then Thomas is
2 CONC James' father.  This Jacob (there are several in the line) is 25 years
2 CONC older than James Hollis.  The question is which Thomas Williams. There
2 CONC are 22 Thomas Williamses listed in various Kentucky and Virginia
2 CONC records.
2 CONT
2 CONT The most likely one is a Thomas Williams listed as a landowner in what
2 CONC was to become Larue County.  He owned 483 acres in three tracts near
2 CONC Hodgenville in the same farming community as Thomas and Nancy Hanks
2 CONC Lincoln.  He lived there in 1808.  It is unknown when he came or left.
2 CONT
2 CONT The original fort on Nolin where pioneers settled was called Phillip's
2 CONC Fort or Station. This fort was established in 1783 or 1784.  There are
2 CONC Phillipses buried with the Williamses at the Williams Grave Yard on
2 CONC Grindstone Fork of Rock Creek.  Among the early arrivals at Phillips
2 CONC Fort was John Larue, who is buried at the Nolin Cemetery.  Larue's
2 CONC epitaph is the same as that chosen by James Hollis' son-in-law:  "Mark
2 CONC the perfect man and behold the upright: for the end of that man is
2 CONC peace."
2 CONT
2 CONT Hodgenville, the seat of Larue county, is located on the site of
2 CONC Robert Hodgen's mill on the Nolin River. The mill was built in 1789
2 CONC near Phillips' Fort, which was built in 1781, in what was then Hardin
2 CONC county. Hodgenville was established in 1818 and became the county seat
2 CONC when Larue county was created in 1843. The first post office opened as
2 CONC Hodgensville in 1826 and was renamed Hodgenville in 1904. The
2 CONC population in 1990 was 2,721.  Abraham Lincoln was born near
2 CONC Hodgenville and the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site
2 CONC is on US 31E south of town.
2 CONT
2 CONT The same or another Thomas Williams accompanied Simon Kenton on one of
2 CONC his first trips to Kentucky.  These two planted the first corn crop in
2 CONC Kentucky.  This Thomas was later the jailer for Washington County,
2 CONC were he once had to jail Kenton for alleged land fraud.  There was
2 CONC such a public outcry and Thomas hated so much to jail his old partner,
2 CONC that he released Kenton after only a few days.
1 SOUR @S3@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1858
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 FAMS @F214@
0 @I465@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /?/
2 GIVN Elizabeth
2 SURN ?
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F214@
0 @I466@ INDI
1 NAME Jacob, Sr. ? /Williams/
2 GIVN Jacob, Sr. ?
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 FAMC @F214@
0 @I467@ INDI
1 NAME Eliza /Williams/
2 GIVN Eliza
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 NOTE Eliza was never married.  There with sandstones between Sena's and
2 CONC Eliza's grave at the Williams Grave yard.  It is not known if this is
2 CONC a child of Sena's or Eliza's.  It is most likely a child of Sena's
2 CONC that died early and was never listed.
1 SOUR @S3@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 NOV 1813
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 6 DEC 1885
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Williams Grave Yard, Downs School Road, Rock Creek, KY
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMC @F213@
0 @I468@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth Jane /Williams/
2 GIVN Elizabeth Jane
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 FAMC @F213@
0 @I469@ INDI
1 NAME Nancy /Williams/
2 GIVN Nancy
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 NOTE Nancy is a Twin with Mary (Polly).  The census of 1850 has Polly and
2 CONC Peggy listed as twins, but tombstones do not agree.  Nancy's tombstone
2 CONC at Rock Creek and Mary's at Williams Grave Yard give these two sisters
2 CONC the same birth date - Nov. 22, 1823.
1 SOUR @S3@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 NOV 1823
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 MAR 1904
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Rock Creek Cemetery, Rock Creek, KY
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMC @F213@
0 @I470@ INDI
1 NAME Mary (Polly) /Williams/
2 GIVN Mary (Polly)
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 NOTE Polly is a twin with Nancy.  The census of 1850 has Polly and Peggy
2 CONC listed as twins, but tombstones do not agree.  Nancy's tombstone at
2 CONC Rock Creek and Mary's at Williams Grave Yard give these two sisters
2 CONC the same birth date - Nov. 22, 1823.
1 SOUR @S3@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 NOV 1823
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 8 MAY 1898
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Williams Grave Yard, Downs School Road, Rock Creek, KY
2 NOTE Epitaph:  Having finished life's duty, she now sweetly rests.
3 CONT
3 CONT A notation on the tombstone says:  "Bought and placed here by Seny
3 CONC Hackett."
3 CONT
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMS @F226@
1 FAMC @F213@
0 @I471@ INDI
1 NAME Magarett A. (Peggy) /Williams/
2 GIVN Magarett A. (Peggy)
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 NOTE Reason and Margaret lived on a farm somewhere between Clarkson and
2 CONC Millerstown.  It is not known where they are buried.
1 SOUR @S3@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 MAY 1821
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 9 AUG 1909
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 FAMC @F213@
0 @I472@ INDI
1 NAME John D. (David?) /Williams/
2 GIVN John D. (David?)
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 AUG 1828
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 JUN 1903
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Little Flock Church, Grayson County, KY
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMS @F233@
1 FAMC @F213@
0 @I473@ INDI
1 NAME Lewis Hollis /Williams/
2 GIVN Lewis Hollis
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 JUL 1832
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 OCT 1896
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Little Flock Church, Grayson County, KY
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMS @F234@
1 FAMC @F213@
0 @I494@ INDI
1 NAME Martin B. /Skaggs/
2 GIVN Martin B.
2 SURN Skaggs
2 NSFX Jr.
1 SEX M
1 TITL Jr.
1 NOTE Martin is a brother of Celia, Jacob's wife.
1 SOUR @S3@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 MAY 1817
2 PLAC ?
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 JUN 1902
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Williams Grave Yard, Downs School Road, Rock Creek, KY
2 NOTE Epitaph:  Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMS @F226@
1 FAMC @F179@
0 @I513@ INDI
1 NAME Martha /Skaggs/
2 GIVN Martha
2 SURN Skaggs
1 SEX F
1 NOTE Martha is a sister of Celia, Jacob's wife.
1 SOUR @S3@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 JAN 1840
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 MAR 1896
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Little Flock Church, Grayson County, KY
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMS @F233@
1 FAMC @F179@
0 @I514@ INDI
1 NAME Marietta /Skaggs/
2 GIVN Marietta
2 SURN Skaggs
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 MAR 1842
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 NOV 1899
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Little Flock Church, Grayson County, KY
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMS @F234@
1 FAMC @F179@
0 @I786@ INDI
1 NAME John Henry /Fulkerson/
2 GIVN John Henry
2 SURN Fulkerson
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 FEB 1858
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 BIRT
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1929
1 BURI
2 PLAC Little Flock Church, Grayson County, KY
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I787@ INDI
1 NAME James William /Fulkerson/
2 GIVN James William
2 SURN Fulkerson
1 SEX M
1 NOTE J. W. FULKERSON, ONE OF CITY'S FOUNDERS, UNSPOILED BY WEALTH
2 CONT
2 CONT James William was one of the city founders of Drumright, Oklahoma.
2 CONC His 120 acre farm later became a part of the city of Drumright.  He
2 CONC had moved to this area from Lincoln County seven years earlier, when
2 CONC he purchased the property upon which the southeast section of
2 CONC Drumright now stands.
2 CONT
2 CONT "When he settled here there wasn't a house in sight and not enough
2 CONC children in the whole district to make a school necessary, so the land
2 CONC was farmed,"  the special edition of the Drumright News, published in
2 CONC 1915, states.
2 CONT
2 CONT "After the first well was drilled here and which proved a dry hole,
2 CONC Mr. Fulkerson went east on a visit, and it wasn't until a third well
2 CONC had been drilled that a friend wrote him that there were a number of
2 CONC squatters on his farm, and that two of them at that time were having a
2 CONC lawsuit in the courts over the ownership of a piece of property; in
2 CONC fact this suit had already gone through one court and had been
2 CONC appealed to a higher court."
2 CONT
2 CONT "Mr. Fulkerson wrote, wanting to know what it was all about and upon
2 CONC being informed, came on at once to see what was the matter with his
2 CONC farm and why outsiders should be having a lawsuit over it.  He was
2 CONC amazed to find a regular camp started, with crude buildings containing
2 CONC stoves. When he made his appearance the people demanded a townsite and
2 CONC he gave them one, platting on the start 80 acres, and here we want to
2 CONC give some well deserved praise, for he sold out this property in lots,
2 CONC in many instances for less money than he was being offered."
2 CONT
2 CONT "His desire from the start was to build a town and not to hold it back
2 CONC on account of exhorbitant prices.  After selling this off he laid out
2 CONC an additional 40 acres and a big portion of this is already sold."
2 CONT
2 CONT "There have been sixteen wells drilled upon Mr. Fulkerson's property
2 CONC and he has sold to this date a little over $60,000 worth of business
2 CONC and residence lots."
2 CONT
2 CONT "Mr. J. W. Fulkerson was born and raised in Grayson County, Kentucky,
2 CONC on a farm.  In 1887 he moved to Kansas, locating on a farm near
2 CONC Winfield.  Five years later he went to Lincoln County, Oklahoma,
2 CONC securing a homestead six miles from Chandler where he sold out and
2 CONC bought his property here upon which the southeast corner of Drumright
2 CONC is located."
2 CONT
2 CONT "Mr. Fulkerson followed the vocation of farming and stock raising all
2 CONC his life until within the past two years, when all of his time is
2 CONC taken up looking after his vast interests here."
2 CONT
2 CONT ORIGINAL TOWNSITE
2 CONT
2 CONT "The three farms that became the townsite of Drumright in early 1913,
2 CONC after the discovery of oil in 1912 brought thousands of workers and
2 CONC their families to this area."
2 CONT
2 CONT "The 80-acre farm of J. W. Fulkerson was bounded by East Broadway on
2 CONC the north, North Pennsylvania on the west, East Wood street on the
2 CONC south and California avenue on the east.  On the north side of
2 CONC Broadway were the farms of Aaron Drumright and Harley Fulkerson, son
2 CONC of J. W. Fulkerson.  Harley Fulkerson had a 40-acre tract bounded on
2 CONC the west by North Ohio avenue, on the north by East Oak street and the
2 CONC east by North Texas avenue."
2 CONT
2 CONT "Surrounding the Harley Fulkerson farm on the three sides was the
2 CONC 120-acre farm of Aaron Drumright, bounded by North Penn. on the west,
2 CONC the alley between Pine and Shaffer on the north and California on the
2 CONC east."
2 CONT
2 CONT These newspaper articles about J. W. Fulkerson and his family.
1 SOUR @S1@
2 PAGE Page 36
1 SOUR @S1@
2 PAGE Page 37.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 OCT 1859
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 MAR 1932
2 PLAC Cushing, Payne Co., OK
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I788@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas Charles /Fulkerson/
2 GIVN Thomas Charles
2 SURN Fulkerson
1 SEX M
1 NOTE After Belle died Thomas Charles Fulkeson went in a covered wagon to
2 CONC Texas.  Charles, the son, elected to live with his grandparents and
2 CONC did not go to Texas.  Thomas Clellan and Mary Margaret raised him.
2 CONT
2 CONT Tommy Fulkerson first married Mary Belle Harp who died the day their
2 CONC son Charles Nelson Fulkerson was born.  Tommy in due time remarried
2 CONC this time to Martha Hurt and started a family.
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1900, Tommy, Martha and their four remaining children loaded up a
2 CONC covered wagon, pulled by oxen and went to Texas.  Charlie stayed in
2 CONC Kentucky with his grandparents.  Tommy and family arrived at Mt.
2 CONC Pleasant, Texas with 30 cents left.  He spent 15 cents for salt for
2 CONC his oxen and the other 15 cents for necessities.  He was broke, in a
2 CONC strang area and had no job. He went down to the rail road depot to
2 CONC inquire about work.  They asked what he could do.  He told them he was
2 CONC good with steam engines and could do about anything anyone else could
2 CONC do.  He was told to come back the next morning, which he did.  They
2 CONC put him on a locomotive engine as a fireman.  After a few years he was
2 CONC promoted to Engineer at which he worked until retirement.  He refused
2 CONC to retire at first but finally the railroad company had to force him
2 CONC off for safety sake.  He was almost 75 years old.
2 CONT
2 CONT While still in Kentucky, and before going to Texas, Tommy had worked
2 CONC at construction and one job was building the stone bridges for the
2 CONC railroad between Big Clifty and Leitchfield.  He hewed the rock and
2 CONC placed them precisely so today they are still being used and are
2 CONC things of beauty with perfect arches.
2 CONT
2 CONT Years passed with only a few visits back and forth from Texas and on
2 CONC one occasion Audie returne after being away 45 years.  He left
2 CONC Kentucky when he was 9 years old.  Audie had complete and perfect
2 CONC recall of the people he knew when he left Kentucky.  He remembered the
2 CONC roads, homes, springs and fields of his first nine years experience
2 CONC which caused all to marvel at his memory.
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1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 SEP 1863
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I789@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth Ann /Fulkerson/
2 GIVN Elizabeth Ann
2 SURN Fulkerson
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 OCT 1868
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 APR 1943
2 NOTE Elizabeth An Fulkerson Gibson was burned to death when their home
3 CONC burned.
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3 PAGE Page 111
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I790@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph Allen /Fulkerson/
2 GIVN Joseph Allen
2 SURN Fulkerson
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 APR 1874
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 MAY 1930
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I791@ INDI
1 NAME Rosa (Rosy) Belle /Fulkerson/
2 GIVN Rosa (Rosy) Belle
2 SURN Fulkerson
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 DEC 1878
2 PLAC Grayson County, KY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 FEB 1963
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I804@ INDI
1 NAME James /Fulkerson/
2 GIVN James
2 SURN Fulkerson
2 NSFX Jr. (Don't know why?)
1 SEX M
1 TITL Jr. (Don't know why?)
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2 PAGE Page 74
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1800
1 FAMC @F16@
0 @I805@ INDI
1 NAME Delilah Ann /Fulkerson/
2 GIVN Delilah Ann
2 SURN Fulkerson
1 SEX F
1 FAMC @F16@
0 @I806@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah Jane /Fulkerson/
2 GIVN Sarah Jane
2 SURN Fulkerson
1 SEX F
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2 DATE ABT 1832
2 PLAC Grayson Co., Kentucky
1 FAMC @F16@
0 @I807@ INDI
1 NAME William M. /Fulkerson/
2 GIVN William M.
2 SURN Fulkerson
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1839
2 PLAC Grayson Co., Kentucky
2 SOUR @S33@
1 FAMC @F16@
0 @I810@ INDI
1 NAME James H. /Fulkerson/
2 GIVN James H.
2 SURN Fulkerson
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S33@
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1803
2 NOTE A James H. Fulkerson is listed in the 1850 census of Grayson Co.  It
3 CONC is assumed to be John Fulkerson's son.
1 FAMC @F1121@
0 @I1024@ INDI
1 NAME Philip B. /Fulkerson/
2 GIVN Philip B.
2 SURN Fulkerson
1 SEX M
1 NOTE He was commissioned as a Captain in the 2nd Battalion of Colonel
2 CONC Quick's Regiment, Somerset County Militia, almost a year before the
2 CONC Declaration of Independence.  He married Elizabeth Bruner about 1775.
2 CONC Philip lived for a time in Mercer Co., KY, as son John was born there
2 CONC about 1795. He moved to Nelson Co., Ky about 1803 and died in Ohio
2 CONC Co., prior to June 21, 1813.
2 CONT
2 CONT "..Ask that all debt be paid. Gives to beloved wife, Elizabeth the
2 CONC tracts of land on which he now lives, with all appurtenances, until
2 CONC his son, Jacob shall arrive at the age of 21 years, and at that time
2 CONC all of the aforesaid plantation to go to him, reserving at the same
2 CONC time to the testators wife Elizabeth her right of dower, including the
2 CONC dwelling house and part of the orchard (should she be alive at that
2 CONC time).  Wife, ELizabeth, to have all of the household and kitchen
2 CONC furniture except such things as may herafter be otherwise disposed of,
2 CONC also two horses, a sorrel and bald, and two mares, Juel, a bay, and a
2 CONC black, five cows and two heiffers, all of the farming utensils and all
2 CONC the hogs except the surplus pork that may be merchantable the ensuing
2 CONC fall.  At wife's death, all that part of the estate bequeathed to her
2 CONC   shall be disposed of by the Executors hereafter appointed. To son,
2 CONC Adam, 22 1/2 acres of land where he now lives, agreeably to a survey
2 CONC made by Joshua Crow. To son, Philip. 100 acres of land to adjoin
2 CONC Fulkerds tract, and to run parallel the full length of said Fulkerd
2 CONC       line. To son, Fulkerd, 100 acres out of the survey made by
2 CONC Joshua Crow, to adjoin his brother, Philip. To son, John, all the
2 CONC balance of the 500 acre tract deeded by testator by Daniel Morrison
2 CONC and others, except 86 acres lying on the west side of Fulkerds 100
2 CONC acre survey and 40 acres at the SE quarter, and of this Samuel
2 CONC Robertson to have 29 acres of the 86 acres, together with the 71 acres
2 CONC agreeably to a survey laid off by J. Crow. including the plantation he
2 CONC now lives on.  To Reed McGrew, 50 acres of land whereon he now lives,
2 CONC agreeably to a   survey made by J. Crow.  To brother, John, 40 acres
2 CONC to be laid in a square at the SE corner of the tract.   All of the
2 CONC aforesaid being contained in 500 acres deeded by said Morrison on the
2 CONC waters of Green River.  Further, that said son Adam have 28 acres of
2 CONC the 86 acres and          to be laid adjoining Samuel Roberts 29
2 CONC acres. To daughter, Rachel, one featherbed, bedstead and furniture,
2 CONC one cow and calf, one linen wheel, six plates, one pot, one Dutch
2 CONC oven, and one set of knives and forks. To daugher, Betsey, one
2 CONC featherbed and bedstead and furniture, one cow and calf, one linen
2 CONC wheel, six plates, one pot, one Dutch oven and one set of knives and
2 CONC forks.  Further, to son John, one young horse, three years old last
2 CONC spring, whichever the siad John may chose.  All the lands on the
2 CONC northwest side of the Ohio River held by deed or otherwise, and all
2 CONC the land in the state of Kentucky, to wit, a tract          on the
2 CONC south side of Toling Fork, about 28 acres, part of the tract conveyed
2 CONC by said D.L. Morrison on the waters of Green River and adjoining
2 CONC Fulkerd Fulkersons 100 acres on the west , to be sold, together with
2 CONC any parts of his personal estate not otherwise disposed          of,
2 CONC either at private or public sale, on a credit as the Exec. may allow.
2 CONC The proceeds thereof to be divided equally between all of his
2 CONC children.  If the articles bequethed to daughters, Rachel, Betsey and
2 CONC Permealy, should not be on hand when they want them, they are to be
2 CONC procured out of any sales of the estate.  Appoints friends, George
2 CONC Smith, William Rogers, and son, Fulkerd as Executors. June 21 1813.
2 CONC Samuel Neal and George Colemen, witnesses.      Probated August Court
2 CONC 1813. The exec. named in the will qualified, entering into bond of
2 CONC $2000 with John Barnes their surety."
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1 BIRT
2 DATE 1753
2 PLAC Somerset Co., New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE AUG 1813
2 PLAC Ohio CO., Kentucky
1 CHR
2 DATE 23 MAR 1753
2 PLAC Mid. Dutch Ref., Somerset Co., New Jersey
1 BURI
2 DATE AUG 1813
2 PLAC Ohio CO., Kentucky
1 FAMC @F501@
0 @I1185@ INDI
1 NAME Volker /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Volker
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S8@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1695
2 PLAC Brooklyn, New Yorkey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1780
2 PLAC Somerset, New Jersey
1 FAMS @F502@
1 FAMC @F793@
0 @I1298@ INDI
1 NAME Fulkard (Volkertszen) /Fulkerson/
2 GIVN Fulkard (Volkertszen)
2 SURN Fulkerson
1 SEX M
1 NOTE He was originally named "Folkert Folkerson" but this was somehow more
2 CONC Anglicized into Fulkard.  He was married 1748 to Maria Bogart (Bogert)
2 CONC and moved into Somerset County. His father died in 1780, leaving a
2 CONC considerable estate.  After the estate was settled Fulkard and his
2 CONC children moved to Kentucky, which then consisted of three counties
2 CONC under the dominion of Virginia. The end of the Revolution possibly
2 CONC influenced the move.  It promised new opportunities and his family was
2 CONC being reunited, with returning son Captain Philip Fulkerson receiving
2 CONC a land grant in Kentucky (on 20 Apr 1782) based on his service in the
2 CONC revolutionary army.  Fulkard moved onto 300 acres in Nelson Co., KY,
2 CONC as listed on Treasury Warrant #4706 in 1782:
2 CONT
2 CONT "... on the south side of the Rolling Fork River, 1/2 mi below the
2 CONC mouth of the first branch below Salt Lick Creek, running southward and
2 CONC up the river."
2 CONT
2 CONT This region is just south of Louisville, KY. The Rolling Fork enters
2 CONC the Ohio River at Fort Knox. Abraham Lincoln was born at Hodgenville,
2 CONC KY, a little southwest, in 1809.
2 CONT
2 CONT " In the name of God, Amen, Fulkard of the County of Nelson and the
2 CONC state of Kentucky, being very weak in body but of perfect mind and
2 CONC memory thanks be given unto God for calling unto mind the mortality of
2 CONC my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do
2 CONC make and ordain this my last Will and Testament."
2 CONT
2 CONT The Bluegrass region of Kentucky is located near the center of the
2 CONC state and is bordered by the Ohio River in the north and west and a
2 CONC ring of hills known as the Knobs in the west, south, and east. It is a
2 CONC rolling plateau that becomes more rugged near the edges. The
2 CONC underlying limestone is often visible at the surface, in road cuts,
2 CONC and where eroded by streams, most dramatically in the Kentucky River
2 CONC Palisades.
2 CONT
2 CONT The region is named for Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis), which has
2 CONC been extensively used in pastures here. The details of the
2 CONC introduction of bluegrass to the area are obscure, but it is probably
2 CONC of Eurasian origin and arrived in central Kentucky before the first
2 CONC European settlers.
2 CONT
2 CONT The Bluegrass region was the most quickly settled part of the state
2 CONC and now is home to about half the state's population. The largest
2 CONC cities, including Louisville, Lexington, and the urban area of
2 CONC northern Kentucky are located here.
2 CONT
2 CONT It is also a fact that Somerset, Kentucky was named for Somerset Co.,
2 CONC New Jersey by settlers in Kentucky from that area of New Jersey.  The
2 CONC question is, was it the Fulkerson's that so named it?
2 CONT
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2 PAGE p. 633-34
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1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 18 JUN 1727
2 PLAC New Brunswick, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 1807
2 PLAC Nelson CO., Kentucky
1 BURI
2 DATE ABT 1807
2 PLAC Nelson CO., Kentucky
1 BAPM
2 DATE 18 JUN 1727
2 PLAC Middlesex Dutch Reformed Church in New Brunswick, NJ
1 FAMS @F501@
1 FAMC @F502@
0 @I1301@ INDI
1 NAME Jacob /Fulkerson/
2 GIVN Jacob
2 SURN Fulkerson
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Source: Mentioned in father's will;  Mentioned in brother, Philip's,
2 CONC will.  Was named executor of his father's will, along with brother
2 CONC Philip, in 1807.
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2 DATE ABT 1760
2 PLAC New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 JUL 1812
2 PLAC Nelson CO., Kentucky
1 FAMC @F501@
0 @I1302@ INDI
1 NAME Derrick /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Derrick
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S19@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 MAR 1718
2 PLAC Raritan, New Jersey
1 FAMC @F502@
0 @I1303@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1721
2 PLAC Raritan, New Jersey
1 FAMC @F502@
0 @I1304@ INDI
1 NAME Dinah /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Dinah
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 APR 1727
2 PLAC Raritan, New Jersy
1 FAMC @F502@
0 @I1305@ INDI
1 NAME Deborah /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Deborah
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 APR 1729
2 PLAC Raritan, New Jersey
1 FAMC @F502@
0 @I1306@ INDI
1 NAME Peter /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Peter
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 JUL 1731
2 PLAC Raritan, New Jersey
1 FAMC @F502@
0 @I1307@ INDI
1 NAME Johannis /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Johannis
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1733
2 PLAC Somerset, New Jersey
1 FAMC @F502@
0 @I1308@ INDI
1 NAME Jacobus /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Jacobus
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1737
1 FAMC @F502@
0 @I1309@ INDI
1 NAME Abraham /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Abraham
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1740
2 PLAC Somerset, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1813
2 PLAC Jessamine CO., Kentucky
1 FAMC @F502@
0 @I1315@ INDI
1 NAME Volkert Dircks /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Volkert Dircks
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX M
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2 DATE NOV 1643
2 PLAC New Amsterdam, New York
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1700
2 PLAC Bushwick, Kings Co., NY
1 CHR
2 DATE 10 NOV 1643
2 PLAC New Amsterdam, New York
1 FAMS @F505@
1 FAMC @F506@
0 @I1316@ INDI
1 NAME Annetje /Phillipse/
2 GIVN Annetje
2 SURN Phillipse
1 SEX F
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2 DATE BET 1645 AND 1650
2 PLAC Holland
1 DEAT
2 DATE BET 1700 AND 1718
2 PLAC Bushwick, Kings Co., NY
1 FAMS @F505@
0 @I1317@ INDI
1 NAME Phillip /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Phillip
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX M
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2 DATE 1670
2 PLAC New Amsterdam, New York
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1739
2 PLAC Somerset Co., New Jersey
1 FAMS @F793@
1 FAMC @F505@
0 @I1318@ INDI
1 NAME Nicholas D. /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Nicholas D.
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX M
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2 PAGE p. 294  1758
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2 DATE 1672
2 PLAC Brooklyn
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1758
2 PLAC Kings CO., New York
1 CHR
2 PLAC Dutch Ref.
1 FAMC @F505@
0 @I1319@ INDI
1 NAME Grietje D. /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Grietje D.
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1675
1 FAMC @F505@
0 @I1320@ INDI
1 NAME Annetje D. /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Annetje D.
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1677
1 FAMC @F505@
0 @I1321@ INDI
1 NAME Neeltje D. /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Neeltje D.
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S20@
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2 DATE 1679
2 PLAC Bushwick, Kings Co., NY
1 FAMC @F505@
0 @I1322@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah D. /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Sarah D.
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 JAN 1680
1 FAMC @F505@
0 @I1323@ INDI
1 NAME Lydia D. /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Lydia D.
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 FEB 1662
1 FAMC @F505@
0 @I1324@ INDI
1 NAME Matchtelt D. /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Matchtelt D.
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 FEB 1682
1 FAMC @F505@
0 @I1325@ INDI
1 NAME Rachel D. /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Rachel D.
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 NOV 1683
1 FAMC @F505@
0 @I1326@ INDI
1 NAME Dirck "Holgerson" /Volkertszen/
2 GIVN Dirck "Holgerson"
2 SURN Volkertszen
1 SEX M
1 NOTE BEFORE 1630
2 CONT
2 CONT We don't know much for certain about Dirck De Noorman before 1630. He
2 CONC was said to be a ship's carpenter. One family legend has it that he
2 CONC came to the Dutch West India Company's New Amsterdam colony from
2 CONC Bergen, Norway. Another has it that he came by way of Hoorn, a Dutch
2 CONC seaport.
2 CONT
2 CONT One possible explanation lies with Peter MINUIT, the New Netherlands
2 CONC colony's third Director in as many years, who bought the whole of
2 CONC Manhattan Island in 1626 for $24 worth of trade goods. Anxious to show
2 CONC off the resources and potential of the new colony, Minuit and
2 CONC Assistant Director Isaac DE RAISIERES imported a group of
2 CONC Scandinavians who knew how to make pitch from pine [for caulking a
2 CONC ship's hull] and could help the colony begin a ship-building industry.
2 CONC This would place Dirck's arrival between 1626 and 1628. Another
2 CONC possibility is that he came over in 1625, when the Dutch West India
2 CONC Company imported builders to put up houses in the colony. (For the
2 CONC first year of the New Netherlands settlement, most of the colonists
2 CONC lived in log-lined, sod-roofed dugouts.) This scenario might have seen
2 CONC Dirck building the Vigne's house on the East River....and meeting a
2 CONC Christine Vigne who was in her early teens in that year. As you'll see
2 CONC further down the page, Dirck was a house builder.
2 CONT
2 CONT A NAME IS BORN
2 CONT
2 CONT The Dutch and the Norwegians used a "patronymic" naming system in
2 CONC which the father's first name became the children's last name, so
2 CONC there was no such thing as a "family name" that passed from one
2 CONC generation to the next. Dirck's son Volkert's children were surnamed
2 CONC variations of Volkerts, Volkertson and Folkertson. In 1664 the British
2 CONC seized the colony from the Dutch, and the patronymic system was slowly
2 CONC replaced by the English system of permanent family names. Generally,
2 CONC by the fourth and fifth generations we had adopted an Anglicized
2 CONC version of the name, FULKERSON.
2 CONT
2 CONT The progenitor of all Fulkersons in America appears to be Derck
2 CONC Holgerson, a Norwegian ship's carpenter who settled and prospered in
2 CONC New Amsterdam, which later was renamed New York.  In 1625, plans had
2 CONC been made for a permanent colony on Manhattan Island, and in 1626 the
2 CONC plans were implemented.  Thirty French families were moved in, and
2 CONC supply ships brought supplies, animals and more settlers.  By 1628,
2 CONC there were 270 persons in New Amsterdam, 300 in 1630, and 500 by 1640.
2 CONC  The first town charter was Breuckelen, in 1642.  After that, growth
2 CONC was made slowly, but surely.
2 CONT
2 CONT Among the first thirty French families was that of Guilaume (William)
2 CONC Vigne and his wife Adrienne Cuvielle.  The Dutch changed this spelling
2 CONC to Willen Vinje and Ariente.  They had three daughters, Maria,
2 CONC Christine and Rachel, when they arrived at New Amsterdam, but a son,
2 CONC Jan, was soon born and was the first white male born in what is now
2 CONC the State of New York.  The daughter Christine married Dirck
2 CONC Holgerson, a Norwegian, about 1630 or 1631.  Holgerson had property
2 CONC near by and later acquired a larger piece of property in Brooklyn.
2 CONC This property was officially recorded on April 3, 1645 and was 400
2 CONC acres on East River.  Dirck Holgerson died about 1690, his wife having
2 CONC preceded him in death about 1655.  It is thought they had eight
2 CONC children, three boys and five girls.
2 CONT
2 CONT THE VIGNE CONNECTION
2 CONT
2 CONT Dirck married Christine VIGNE in 1630/31, daughter of Guillaume VIGNE
2 CONC and Adrienne CUVELIER The Vignes were among the first 30 French
2 CONC Walloon families the Dutch West India Company imported to establish
2 CONC the New Netherlands colony in 1624. [By the way, Peter MINUIT was not
2 CONC Dutch...he was a French Walloon like the Vignes.] Dirck and Christine
2 CONC lived on her parents' farm, at the south end of Broadway, until 1638.
2 CONC Christine's father died in 1632, and Dirck and his mother-in-law were
2 CONC named executors of the will, as recorded below:
2 CONT
2 CONT "We, the underwritten, William WYMAN, blacksmith and Jan Thomaisen
2 CONC GROEN, as good men do attest and certify that before us appeared Dirck
2 CONC VOLCKERSON, the Norman and Ariantje CEVELYN, his wife's mother in
2 CONC order to agree with her children by her lawful husband, deceased; she
2 CONC gives to Maria VIGNE and Christine VIENJE, both married persons each
2 CONC the sum of 200 guilders as their share of their father's estate. To
2 CONC Rachel VIENJE and Jan VIENJE both minor children, each the sum of 33
2 CONC guilders, under the condition that with her future husband, Jan Jansen
2 CONC DAMEN, she shall be held to keep the said two children in good
2 CONC support, until the come of age, and that she shall be obliged to
2 CONC clothe and feed them and make them go to school as good parents are
2 CONC bound to do."
2 CONT
2 CONT MANHATTAN REAL ESTATE
2 CONT
2 CONT Between 1638 and 1645 Dirck owned and probably occupied the large
2 CONC house at 125 Pearl Street, just below Wall Street. It was on a
2 CONC quarter-acre and had a garden and apple trees. He sold the house in
2 CONC 1645. The deed states he took six of the apple trees when he moved.
2 CONC In 1648 Sergeant Daniel LITSCHOE purchased the site and converted the
2 CONC house into a tavern. The site of this tavern appears on the 1660 map
2 CONC of the city; however, LITSCHOE traded it in 1653 for "the Jansen
2 CONC house" just north of the City Wall. This may have been the old VIGNE
2 CONC home, since Jan Jansen DAMEN had just died, so Adrienne CUVELIER -
2 CONC Dirck's mother-in-law and Jan's widow - may have spent her last three
2 CONC years of life in Dirck's old house on Pearl Street. In 1691, Captain
2 CONC KIDD and his new wife, the former Mrs. Sarah OORT, moved into a large
2 CONC house on Pearl Street, half a block south of Dirck's old house. {see
2 CONC p. 97 of Pirates of the Spanish Main, American Heritage Junior
2 CONC Library, Golden Press, New York 1961, for a picture of that locale}.
2 CONT
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1638 Dirck leased a bouwery (farm) and stock from the colony's
2 CONC Governor, Willem KIEFT, "on halves." This farm was near brother-in-law
2 CONC Cornelis VAN TIENHOVEN's "plantation" at Smits Vly (translation:
2 CONC Smith's Flat), northeast of Wall Street. On August 4, 1649, VAN
2 CONC TIENHOVEN sold property on the 250 block of Pearl Street to Dirck and
2 CONC their other brother-in-law, Abraham VER PLANCK. The lots were about a
2 CONC half-acre each, extending from the East River (at Maiden Lane) to some
2 CONC high ground at the rear. Dirck subdivided his lot into smaller
2 CONC properties, and during the next five years sold the lots with or
2 CONC without a house. The deeds are recorded. Hage BRUYNSEN the Swede
2 CONC bought a lot from him in November 1653 and built his own house. (In
2 CONC February 1654 Dirck sued BRUYNSEN to pay for the property.) Dirck
2 CONC built himself a house in 1649, then sold it to Roeloff TEUNISSEN - a
2 CONC Swedish sea captain from Goteborg - in 1651 after building himself
2 CONC another new house. [These are also shown on the 1660 map.] Dirck and
2 CONC Abraham later owned other lots on Manhattan through their wives'
2 CONC inheritance, which was substantial: their mother-in-law Adrienne
2 CONC CUVELIER (VIGNE) and her husband Jan Jansen DAMEN owned Manhattan from
2 CONC Pine Street north to Maiden Lane, and from the East River to the
2 CONC Hudson River. Fortunately, the property is still in the family and we
2 CONC are all filthy rich. Okay, so we're not filthy rich. At least we have
2 CONC some great stories to tell.
2 CONT
2 CONT FARMS IN BROOKLYN?
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1638 the Indians deeded Brooklyn to the Dutch, and Dirck received a
2 CONC grant to buy 400-500 acres of land from the Indians. It had a
2 CONC mile-long frontage on the East River and had nearly the same frontage
2 CONC on the two tidal streams that bounded his land, Norman Kill and
2 CONC Mespath Kill. (The Dutch called streams or creeks "kills"). Mespath
2 CONC Kill, on the north boundary, became Newtown Creek after the British
2 CONC moved into the area and founded the Newtown settlement. [See the 1639
2 CONC map.] The northwest point along the East River frontage was known as
2 CONC Noorman's Point. Years later it was planted with green wheat fields
2 CONC and gained its current name of Greenpoint. Several other Scandinavians
2 CONC are linked to Dirck on a recurring basis and held neighboring
2 CONC properties, including Jochem CALDER, Claes CARSTENSEN, Jan FORBUS De
2 CONC Swede, Pieter JANSEN Noorman and Jacob HAIE (HUYS).
2 CONT
2 CONT INDIAN TROUBLE
2 CONT
2 CONT Dirck was one of the few Brooklyn property owners who actually
2 CONC improved their properties in the early years. It is said that the
2 CONC Indians came back to him each year, asking for more money, because the
2 CONC land had increased in value. His improvements suffered some setbacks
2 CONC in the Indian uprisings of 1643 and 1655, when fields were destroyed
2 CONC and homes and barns were burned. Indians killed two of his
2 CONC sons-in-law, Jan H. SCHUTT in 1652 and Cornelis HENDRICKSEN Van Dort
2 CONC in 1655, and tortured a third, Herman Hendricksen ROSENKRANZ, for
2 CONC eight days in 1659.
2 CONT
2 CONT THE STONE HOUSE AT NOORMAN'S KILL
2 CONT
2 CONT Dirck was a commuting farmer. He traveled up the East River in his
2 CONC boat from Smits Vly on Manhattan to his bouwerie on the Long Island
2 CONC shore. He began building a stone farm house on Long Island about 1645.
2 CONC It faced south on Norman's Kill, where he sheltered his boats. He may
2 CONC not have moved into the house until after 1655, when the small nearby
2 CONC settlement of Boswyck was established. Until then, there weren't
2 CONC enough neighbors around to assist in protecting the property from
2 CONC Indian attacks. The house remained occupied for 200 years. The land
2 CONC grant was officially recorded on April 3, 1645 and continued to be
2 CONC recognized after the English took over the colony in 1664. He leased
2 CONC part of the land, plus some other land probably on Manhattan, to
2 CONC fellow Norwegian Jochem CALDER in 1651. The 20-year lease gave CALDER
2 CONC free rent for the first six years, and he was to pay 150 guilders a
2 CONC year after that. It appears that Dirck was trying to gain more
2 CONC neighbors in Brooklyn, to help defend against the Indians, as a number
2 CONC of outright sales followed in the early 1650's.
2 CONT
2 CONT FROM THE STRAND TO THE CLAPBOARDS
2 CONT
2 CONT In January 1656 Dirck De Noorman was sued by Jan DE PERIE, a
2 CONC barrel-maker, who claimed Dirck stabbed him and "chased him from the
2 CONC Strand to the Clapboards." The suit demanded payment for surgeon's
2 CONC fees and loss of time. The quarrel began during a dice game on
2 CONC December 18, 1655. DE PERIE was trying to cheat and Dirck caught him
2 CONC at it. The argument turned into a fist fight and ended with both
2 CONC drawing their knives. Dirck was stabbed in the shoulder, DE PERIE in
2 CONC the belly. Dirck filed a countersuit to call several witnesses. DE
2 CONC PERIE's servant Jan Fredericksen testified Dirck struck first, and
2 CONC that DE PERIE chased Dirck through the streets. Maria PEECK, a
2 CONC tavern-keeper's wife, told of hearing DE PERIE conspire with his
2 CONC servant before the game, saying "There's Dirck the Noorman, who has a
2 CONC box of seawan [Indian shell money] in his sack, and he should play or
2 CONC the Devil should take him." [She was banished from New Amsterdam in
2 CONC 1663 for selling alcohol to the Indians.] The case dragged on until
2 CONC June 1658, when Dirck agreed to pay a fine for wounding DE PERIE.
2 CONC Street fights had become such a common sport in New Amsterdam that, in
2 CONC 1657, Peter STUYVESANT established a fine of 100 guilders for drawing
2 CONC a knife... and quadruple if blood was shed. By the time the trial
2 CONC ended, Dirck held the post of city carpenter and his brother-in law
2 CONC Jan VIGNE was on the City Council...so his fine may not have been
2 CONC quite that high. [DE PERIE was also called Jan DE PREE in the court
2 CONC proceedings. A Jan DE PREE sued Dirck for the right to the property at
2 CONC Greenpoint in 1644. DE PREE lost and Dirck received his official grant
2 CONC to the land in 1645. Coincidentally, a Jean DE PRY was killed in a
2 CONC shipwreck in July 1658 while trying to take a cargo of sugar and
2 CONC tobacco, presumably in barrels, to Quebec.]
2 CONT
2 CONT MRS. POTTEBACKER'S CANOE
2 CONT
2 CONT In February 1656 Dirck was sued for taking a canoe. He said two
2 CONC Englishmen had found it and left it on his property, and no one had
2 CONC come to claim it. He said it was laying about in sorry shape until he
2 CONC decided to repair it. Then the owner, Mrs. Dirck Claessen POTTEBACKER,
2 CONC demanded its return. He refused to turn it over to her unless she paid
2 CONC for the repairs. The court agreed, appointed two men to estimate the
2 CONC value of the repairs, and when payment was made Dirck returned the
2 CONC canoe.
2 CONT
2 CONT THE BURBS
2 CONT
2 CONT Dirck was listed third on the charter of incorporation for the town of
2 CONC Boswyck (Bushwick) which was founded with 22 families in 1655. The
2 CONC town was on the south border of his property. In 1662 he and some
2 CONC other landowners petitioned the authorities to have a road made to
2 CONC their properties. Dirck gave some land to the town, probably for the
2 CONC right of way and in payment for the road. In 1663 he served some role
2 CONC with the town's militia, and in 1664 he was Superintendent of Fencing
2 CONC (the wooden palisades surrounding the village for protection against
2 CONC Indian attacks).
2 CONT
2 CONT THE PATRIARCH
2 CONT
2 CONT Dirck and all of his family settled down around Boswyck. One historian
2 CONC states that "Dirck naturally contributed in the layout of the village,
2 CONC and in the construction of the buildings, the docks at the waterways,
2 CONC the roads and highly important palisade." He also notes "his lore in
2 CONC Indian warfare" and "the stimulation of his belligerent personality in
2 CONC creating courage and initiative in those fellow settlers who had but
2 CONC recently arrived from European countries...He must be considered to
2 CONC have been one of the three outstanding personalities in the history of
2 CONC the town of Boswyck. He became its patriarch. He was its oldest
2 CONC constituent." Dirck paid taxes to the town of Boswyck in 1675, and to
2 CONC New York in 1677. He died about 1678 or 1680, and was probably buried
2 CONC on his farm. His wife Christine had preceded him in death...there is
2 CONC no record of her after 1663. In the 1850's the stone house was
2 CONC demolished, and a knoll believed to contain the family plots was
2 CONC leveled, to provide sand for construction in Manhattan.
2 CONT
2 CONT THE END OF OUR NEW YORK CITY REAL ESTATE EMPIRE
2 CONT
2 CONT Dirck had sold some of his Greenpoint land even before he moved there:
2 CONC 45 acres to Peter HUDDE and Abraham JANSEN in 1651. This sale was
2 CONC witnessed by Peter STUYVESANT. He sold 62 acres to Jacob HAIE in 1653.
2 CONC Indians burned down HAIE's house at Greenpoint on November 8, 1655,
2 CONC during the second great uprising. On January 1, 1666, Dirck made a
2 CONC contract with his son Volkert, in which the son was to have the land,
2 CONC stock, and equipment for a period of five years for half of the grown
2 CONC products: maize, tobacco, rapeseed, etc. He also gave some meadow land
2 CONC to his daughter Ariantje, but on April 24, 1677 bought it back from
2 CONC her and her husband, Carel HUYSMAN, and gave it to Volkert. He gave 22
2 CONC acres to his other son, Jacob, on that same date. On April 26, 1677 he
2 CONC sold another part of his property to son-in-law Peter SCHAMP.  A tax
2 CONC assessment in 1683, after Dirck's death, showed that his son Volkert
2 CONC owned 200 acres. Volkert sold some of it to Jan MESEROLE and to Peter
2 CONC PRAA. On January 19, 1701, part of the land was surveyed and recorded
2 CONC as belonging to the "Widow of Folkert DIRKSEN." On March 16 of 1718 or
2 CONC 1719, the land was divided among her three sons, Dirck, Philip and
2 CONC Klaas, each receiving a third of the 164 acres. On the same date they
2 CONC made a joint sale to Peter PRAA, and the land passed out of the
2 CONC family.
2 CONT
2 CONT In later years it was known as the Calyer Estate, probably named for
2 CONC one of the families who lived there. The location of the house,
2 CONC according to a source in Greenpoint, was at Franklin and Calyer
2 CONC streets. The source also pointed out that nearby Norman Avenue was
2 CONC named for Dirck.
2 CONT
2 CONT The Mystery That Remains:
2 CONT
2 CONT The Thrill of History, the Agony of Patronymics
2 CONT
2 CONT Dirck was identified in a 1635 document as "Dirck VOLGERSEN the
2 CONC Noorman." A 1639 map listed his bouwerie (farm) as the "Bou. van
2 CONC DITRYCK DE NORMAN. Several historians and three independent family
2 CONC records call him VOLCKERTSEN, VOLCKERTSZEN, and VOLKERTSEN. These
2 CONC variations all have a Dutch "-sen" or "-szen" ending. The "ck" letter
2 CONC combination is also Dutch. Some legal and civil documents called him
2 CONC HOLGERSON or HOLGERSEN, but the Dutch Reformed Church (in records of
2 CONC baptisms at which he was a witness) called him VOLCKERTSZEN. Dirck
2 CONC must have liked the name, because he named his first son Volkert.
2 CONT
2 CONT His surname probably started out as HOLGERSON or HOLGERSSON, which the
2 CONC New Amsterdammers transformed into the Dutch name VOLCKERTSZEN. This
2 CONC would not have happened simply through differences in pronunciation.
2 CONC The Dutch had words and names that began with an "H" and which were
2 CONC not pronounced with a "V."
2 CONT
2 CONT Historians have settled the matter by giving Dirck's last name as
2 CONC "Volckertsen," except when referring to one of those documents in
2 CONC which his name appeared as HOLGERSON or HOLGERSEN. Rather than add to
2 CONC the confusion, this site will mostly call him Dirck DE NOORMAN - as it
2 CONC appears he was commonly known in his own day. The name became
2 CONC Anglicized to VOLKERTSON by the end of the 17th century and continued
2 CONC in that form until about the American Revolution when it changed again
2 CONC to FULKERSON.
2 CONT
2 CONT Chinese and Bumerkes
2 CONT
2 CONT Dirck didn't help us out by signing his name...in the early days he
2 CONC signed with an X. He did sign his name later on, but one family
2 CONC researcher said his signature "looks like Chinese." Decide for
2 CONC yourself.  It appears possible from the first two signatures that he
2 CONC signed his name using a bumerke, which was a written symbol that
2 CONC served as a family mark in Norway, simi