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| 1. | The family bible of Jesse & Emma Petitt, in 1994 in the possession of Lila Petitt Chadwell. Most birth and marriage entries in Emma's hand. Death entries were mostly added by Lila. |
| 2. | William Voigt <w.voigt@worldnet.att.net>, a great-grandson of Stephen H. Dehart and Eliza Ann Clark, writes in an email message dated 8 Dec 1999 that John, Thomas, and Stephen, sons of Jesse H. Dehart, all had sons named William, and rather than using their real middle names, the family would call these three cousins "Bill John" (William Paul, the son of John), "Bill Tom" (William Madison, the son of Thomas), and "Bill Steve" (William Jefferson, the son of Stephen). To their relatives, which family they belonged to was the most important identifier, and referring to them this way was easier than having to remember which middle name went with which father. Official records use their real middle names or initials, of course. |
| 3. | The 1900 census of Rowan Co., Ky, (especially but not limited to Pearce and Hoggtown (Christy Creek) precincts) contains so many errors on birthdates that I suspect they are largely fictional. In my comparisons with other records that give birthdates in full, such as gravestones, death records, obituaries, and even in several cases actual birth records, the months of birth are usually different from the 1900 Rowan Co. census. The years are often different too, but one expects some inaccuracy in years. While people often get mixed up about their ages, they seldom forget the month they were born. The large number of differing months seems to indicate that the enumerator (Millard F. Fouch) "saved time" by recording many families from his own knowledge and making up the parts he didn't know. |
| 4. |
Morgan County birth, death and marriage records on LDS microfilm #0126,835. Page 6, line 21. (Note for anyone checking these records: the 1855 birth records are misbound, which since the binding runs between the mother's given name and maiden surname, can give the impression of the wrong mother's name if it is not noticed. They are bound in the following order, where L indicates the left-hand side of the page and R the right-hand side: 1L+9R, 8L+2R, 3L+7R, 6L+5R, 4LR, 5L+6R, 7L+3R, 2L+8R, 9L+1R, 10LR.) |
| 5. | "Death Records of Boone Co., Indiana 1921-1930", by Marilyn S. Walker |
| 6. | Centennial Edition, Rowan County News, May 10, 1956. A special 103 page edition published on the 100th anniversary of the founding of Rowan Co. |
| 7. |
Blair, Juanita, Past Images of Rowan County, Kentucky, Morehead, KY: privately printed, 1991, 3 volumes. Out of print. Non-circulating copies of all three volumes are at Morehead State University and the Rowan County Public Library. |
| 8. | Nancy Smedley <NASMEDLEY@aol.com>, "Re: Smedley genealogy," 19 Jun 1999. |
| 9. | Information on this family group is from email correspondence with Veronica (Highley) Baker, 7604 Timber Creek Ct., Portage, MI 49024, Paper_Tech@wow.com. |
| 10. | Correspondence in 1991 with Eris Q. Wade, RR 2 Box 192, Willis, VA 24380-9549. |
| 11. | from the Draper Manuscript Collection, Washington Papers, reprinted in Frontier Advance on the Upper Ohio, Louise Phellps Kellogg, State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Madison, 1916. |
| 12. | As published in "1890 Census Floyd County, Virginia", compiled by Marjorie Fluor Moore, 1990. Since the 1890 U.S. Census was destroyed by fire, this deserves a special note. It is a transcription of a copy found in the basement of the Floyd Co. Courthouse. A clerk apparently copied the names and ages, but no other data, from the 1890 census before sending the census books to Washington D.C. The names are in semi-alphabetic order (that is, by initial letter of the surname, then within each letter in census line order), and grouped by district, but the grouping into households and families is not preserved, which can cause some ambiguity when several families of the same surname lived in adjacent households, though usually the family groups can be inferred from the ages. |
| 13. | 1853-1872 Birth and Death Records Floyd County, Virginia and the Zion Lutheran Church Register, compiled by Marjorie Fluor and Marguerite Tise, published 1981 by Marjorie Fluor, 1920 Heliotrope Drive, Santa Ana, CA 92706. |
| 14. | Cemetery Records of Carroll County, Virginia. 1990, Carroll County Historical Society. |
| 15. | Dorothy Burnett Peterson, Blue Ridge Heritage, 1987, Charlottesville, Virginia. |
| 16. |
Debbie Howard, http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/o/w/Debra-L-Howard/BOOK-0001/bookindex.html, 1997-1999. A FamilyTreeMaker web site with very extensive register reports on Caudill, Dehart, Blair, Ellington, and other eastern Kentucky families. Updated frequently. All the reports are indexed together and pages are numbered consecutively across all reports. Hence URL's or page numbers for individuals will not be stable across time. You must go to the main index and follow links. |
| 17. | Don Nickell of Santa Fe, NM has an excellent web site at http://nickell.tierranet.com/john.htm, which is the source for most of my data on the Nickell family of Morgan Co., KY, except where other source records are specifically mentioned. |
| 18. | Email dated 14 Feb 1998 from Ruth J. White, <RUTHJAN@prodigy.net>. |
| 19. |
Randy Ice <Riceokc@aol.com>, "family history," 12 Feb 1999, Alfrey email folder. Randi's regular mailing address is 119 NW 19th St., Oklahoma City, OK 73103. His wife is a great-granddaughter of Martha Frances Alfrey. |
| 20. | Three of the daughters of James Brown and Emily Cloe moved with their husbands to Putnam County, Indiana in 1865. They were Sesa E. Brown who married David Hall, Martha J. Brown who married Thomas Jefferson Ferrand, and Emily E. Brown who married William P. Pierce. In the early 1900's when their children were grown, they started holding a "Brown Family Reunion", although since the progenitors were a group of sisters, very few of the attendees were actually Browns. The secretary of the Reunion Committee was Mrs. Martha (Call) Ferrand, wife of John Wesley Ferrand, son of Thomas Jefferson Ferrand and Martha J. Brown. A newsletter on the fourth such reunion, held 17 Aug 1911 in Somerset, Indiana, compiled by Mrs. Ferrand, is the source of much of my information on this family. Quotes from that document, referred to as the "Brown Family 1911 Reunion Notes" are scattered throughout this file. |
| 21. | information on family of Bluford Pettit from Steve Navaro, 5500 South Sycamore St. #302, Littleton, CO 80120 (303) 798-5888. He lists as his sources Ky Soc. of DAR, Bible Records Vol. 2, and the 1880 census of Pendleton Co., KY. |
| 22. | Email message dated 14 Mar 2001 from Merv Lewis <mllewis@zoomnet.net>, a grandson of Jim Will Brown and Minnie Lewis. |
| 23. | Letter and charts dated 19 Jan 1995, from Elaine Winkler, 815 South 5th Street, Ironton, OH, 45638, a great-granddaughter of Wells Cottle Jones. |
| 24. | Memoirs of Ora Venna Alfrey Donahue, 1989. |
| 25. | Letter written and signed by Emma (Smedley) Pigman on 28 Dec 1966, in possession in Dec 1999 of Ruby Ellen (Foster) Gregory, daughter of Jesse Foster and Della Smedley. The letter was copying the births and deaths from the bible of Emma's parents, Daniel Boone Smedley and Mary E. Smedley. I do not know who currently has possession of the bible itself. |
| 26. | Morgan County birth, death and marriage records on LDS microfilm #0126,835. Page 6, line 15. (See Note 4 for more info on this source.) |
| 27. | As quoted in Smoke in the Woods, Vol. 1, by Fred Brown, Jr., 1987, pg. 68 and 73. |
| 28. | Morgan County birth, death and marriage records on LDS microfilm #0126,835. Page 9. (See Note 4 for more info on this source.) |
| 29. | "Cemeteries of Floyd County, Va., Vol. 1, Indian Valley District", by Elza B. Cox & Phyllis G. Phillips. 1979. |
| 30. | Personal interview with Ora Mae Cornette, daughter-in-law of John M. Cornett as written by Susan Rose Robinson, 206 Cardinal Road, Russell, KY 41169, and forwarded by Evelyn Smith <evelynk@bright.net> in an email dated 10 July 2001. |
| 31. | Floyd County Kentucky Consent Papers 1808-1851, Joe R. Skeens, 212 Sally Stephens Branch, Prestonburg, Ky. p. 22. |
| 32. | Elza B. Cox, Genealogy of William Tobias Phillips, 1989. p. 122. |
| 33. | E-mail correspondence in 1998 and 1999 with Delores "Dodie" Hamilton, a daughter of Robert Lee Cornett. |
| 34. | Ida's maiden name is from an email message dated 27 Mar 2001 from Dodie Hamilton <dodi@bayou.com>. |
| 35. | Marvin Hall, "1855 Letcher County Kentucky Births," http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/5617/letchb55.html. |
| 36. | Dorothy Burnett Peterson, Blue Ridge Heritage, 1987, Charlottesville, Virginia, pp. 98-103. |
| 37. | Chapel Hills Cemetery Records of St. Joseph Co., Indiana, as published in The Pettit Correspondent, Vol. 4, No. 2. |
| 38. | West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia; Volume 5 (supplement). |
| 39. | site not signed, "Ancestors of John Posey Simmons," http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/1477/JPSimmons.html, January 1999. |
| 40. | Correspondence from Glenn Wells to Virginia Pettit Loomis dated 5/17/93 in which he gives his family line. |
| 41. | Notation in Bible of William Amos Pettit (per Virginia Loomis Pettit's note). |
| 42. | Linda Cassidy Lewis, "Cassity/Cassidy Family Association," http://www.gendex.com/users/LC49/ccfa/, 1998-1999. |
| 43. | Morgan County birth, death and marriage records on LDS microfilm #0126,835. Page 6, line 20. (See Note 4 for more info on this source.) |
| 44. | Email message dated 3 Apr 2001 from Mary Ann Hormuth <MPateHorm@alumni.utexas.net>. She states that her brother has the Stephen Quesenberry family bible. |
| 45. | Marvin Hall, "Descendants of Anthony Hall," http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/5617/desant.html, May 1999. |
| 46. | Social Security Death Index |
| 47. | Howard D. Crose. |
| 48. | Email message dated 6 May 1999 from Angie Jones, <angiej@mrtc.com>, titled "Baldridge & Sexton's" |
| 49. | History of Elliott County, Kentucky, 1869-1990, Vol. II, History Book Committee, 1992. |
| 50. | History of Elliott County, Kentucky, 1869-1990, Vol. II, History Book Committee, 1992, p. 69, article on Robert Lee Carter. |
| 51. | Obituary in the Rowan County News of 9 May 1940. |
| 52. | Middle name of "McKee" from email message dated 27 Aug 1999 from William "Bill" Stewart, <wstewart1@in-touch.net>, titled "correction". Bill is her great-grandson. |
| 53. | Email correspondence with Shirley McDaniel Butler in Jan 2000. |
| 54. | This family group was imported from Joe Gadus's GEDCOM file. |
| 55. | Email dated 26 March 2000 from Bobbie Lynch <blynch@kcnet.com>, a great-granddaughter of Thomas Stephens & Juelda Gregory. |
| 56. | Joe Payne, "Lineage of Gov. John Sevier," http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/4200/sevier.htm. |
| 57. | Leverich, Lyle, Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams, W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 1995, p. 17. |
| 58. | Encyclopedia Britannica, 1972 edition, Vol. 20, pp. 279-280. |
| 59. | Morgan County birth, death and marriage records on LDS microfilm #0126,835. Page 4, line 23. (See Note 4 for more info on this source.) |
| 60. | Resa Rivers, "Mauzy Family Genealogy," http://www.omnipages.com/resa/mauzy.htm, 21 May 1999. |
| 61. | Email message dated 26 Oct 1999 from Wanda Donald, <wdonald@in-touch.net> |
| 62. | Veronica Baker (Paper451@aol.com), "Re: John K. Jones," 10 Oct 1997. |
| 63. | Email dated 5 Jan 1899 from Millie Stinnett <millie@mtec.net>. |
| 64. | Bath Co. marriage book 3. |
| 65. | Email message dated 5 Jan 1998 from R. David "Dave" Goldey <goldey@mindspring.com> with a brief family group for the William H. James family (no marriage dates and most event locations are blank.) Dave is a great-grandson of Allie Herbert Pelfrey and Ida James. |
| 66. | Morgan County birth, death and marriage records on LDS microfilm #0126,835. Page 6. (See Note 4 for more info on this source.) |
| 67. | Leverich, Lyle, Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams, W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 1995. |
| 68. | Email message dated 25 Nov 1999 from Charles Wright, <charleswright@usa.net>, son of Amos Wright & Nannie Gregory. |
| 69. | Goad and Webb Family of Southwest Virginia, Vol. II, Janice Kinsler Smith, 1995. p. 497. |
| 70. | Mike Goad, "Goad Genealogy," http://www.rootsweb.com/~mikegoad/treedex.htm, 1999-2000. |
| 71. | Dorothy Burnett Peterson, Blue Ridge Heritage, 1987, Charlottesville, Virginia, pp. 85-98. |
| 72. | Elza B. Cox, Genealogy of William Tobias Phillips, 1989. p. 39. |
| 73. | 1850 census of Morgan Co., Ky |
| 74. | Post submitted 1 Oct 2000 to the Conn surname board at Rootsweb by Louis Conn. |
| 75. | Vickie Stevens, "1854 Letcher County Kentucky Births," http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyletche/1854births.html. |
| 76. | Email dated 14 Jan 2002 from Harold McKee, <hmckee@fuse.net>, "Jones/McClain Relatives". |
| 77. | Col. Leroy C. Hinton, "Rowan County, Kentucky Local and County News Jottings Happenings Collections", Vol 4, 1995. 134 pages, softcover, self-printed, available in local bookshops in Morehead. Contains transcriptions of clippings from about 15 local newspapers plus other documents such as school enrollment lists from library archives. The book is not indexed, and very few of the newspaper clippings are identified as to which paper they are from, so it is nearly impossible to do lookups in, but it is a good source for items that would have made a local newspaper column in the 1915-1934 period (coverage is especially good for 1927 and 1929.) For brevity, I usually refer to it by the abbreviated title "Rowan County Jottings". |
| 78. | Linda Cheeks Pittano <chico126@aol.com>, "Elliott Co. Selected Births 1874-1910," ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/elliott/vital/selb.txt, 10 Nov 2000. |
| 79. | John Donohew, "Donohew, Roe, Johnson, Taber, Brown, Gilbert, Keath Families", http://www.my-ged.com/donohew/, 12 Dec 2001. |
| 80. | Email dated 16 Jan 2002 from Debbie Allen, <Mwdeb@aol.com>, a granddaughter of Theodore Hall. |
| 81. | Debbie Simmons White, "1901 Elliott Co School Census," ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/elliott/vital/1901schcen5.txt, 31 Mar 2001. |
| 82. | Julia Carol (Gregory) Levesque, "Julia Carol GREGORY Levesque & Father's Family," http://home.talkcity.com/MainSt/juliacarol/, 16 Jan 2002. |
| 83. | Access Genealogy, "Kentucky World War II Casualties, Rowan County," http://www.accessgenealogy.com/worldwar/kentucky/rowan.htm. |
| 84. |
Email dated 16 Mar 2002 from John G. Pettit <Littlejohnnavy@aol.com>, a descendant of Bettie Roberts and Samuel Pettit. The message listed 20 children of William Clark Roberts, with spouses for most of them, but no marriage dates, and only approximate birthdates. |
| 85. | Marriage to Mary McVey is from email correspondence dated 15 Feb 2002 from Christy Davis <deadheads@earthlink.net>. She did not have a date, place, or sources. Since the 1860 census shows William's wife as Nancy, with a seven-year gap between the births of Obediah age 12 and Nancy age 5, I am assuming for the present that Mary died sometime after the birth of Obediah. |
| 86. | 4-generation register report for Isaac Martin emailed to me 17 Feb 2002 from Eunice B. Kirkman, <ekirkman@starband.net>. Eunice is a Patrick County researcher who has contributed hundreds of obituaries to the Patrick County message board at Rootsweb, as well as transcriptions of the 1870 census and death records for 1853-1896 to the Patrick County VAGenWeb archives. |
| 87. | Goad and Webb Family of Southwest Virginia, Vol. II, Janice Kinsler Smith, 1995. |
| 88. | Goad and Webb Family of Southwest Virginia, Vol. I, Janice Kinsler Smith, 1995. |
| 89. | Email message dated 16 March 2002 from Roy O'Connor <joanroy@earthlink.net>, a grandson of Parthena Hall and William T. O'Connor. |
| 90. | Email "Hi from a Hardin cousin" dated 5 Aug 2002 from Donna Bourne <dbourne@neo.rr.com>, a granddaughter of August Hardin and Lillian Foreman. |
| 91. | Email messages from Janet Jones Talbert, daughter of James Irvin Jones, the first dated 10 Apr 2002 titled "Floyd Rush Jones" from <JanetTalbert@aol.com>, and the second dated 12 Apr 2002 "Fwd: Floyd Rush Jones" from <Latbrazz@yahoo.com>. (She has two email addresses and forwarded my first reply to her second address and responded from there.) Filed in my Jones genealogy email folder. |
| 92. | Vickie Stevens, "1855 Letcher County Kentucky Births," http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyletche/1855births.html. |
| 93. | Morgan County birth, death and marriage records on LDS microfilm #0126,835. (See Note 4 for more info on this source.) |
| 94. | Email dated 17 Feb 2002 from Nettie S. Clifton <nettie@erols.com>, titled "Martin & Hubbard". She sites as her source for Benjamin's parents "Robert Hubbard Descendancy Chart, Mary Sue Hubbard of Murry, Ky, on file at Patrick Co Historical Society Museum". |
| 95. | Post dated 19 Feb 2002 on the Hubbard surname board at Rootsweb by Jane Moretti, <JaneJoshM@juno.com>. |
| 96. | Post dated 31 Aug 1999 from Pat Cooper <pcooper@brightok.net> on the Hubbard message board at Rootsweb, titled "Hubbard/Lowe". There is a followup post from her in the same thread dated 27 Jan 2002. |
| 97. | Email message dated 5 Feb 2002 from Larry Wayne Gregory <Nicholsbranch@aol.com>, third husband of Mary Jewell Jennings. |
| 98. | Post dated 30 Jun 2002 on the Morgan County Ky Message Board at Rootsweb, from Jackie Pottle, titled "Re: Alex Baldridge and Amanda Riddle family". |