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1870 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census - Glasgow Precinct
(John S., son of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk, seen here by 1870 with an ever growing family)
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John S. Mank W/M 36 Blacksmith
Mildred J. W/F 39
George E. W/M 15
James L. W/M 14
Sarah C. W/F 12
Martha S. W/F 11
Benjamin T. W/M 7
John W. W/M 4
Mary M. W/F 1
1870 Cumberland County Kentucky Federal Census., Burkesville
(ZHC, below, was Zachariah Henry Clark, son of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk. By 1870 he has left the family home and resides in the household of H. S. Parish, a minister for the Cumberland Presbyterian church. It is yet unknown if his leaving Barren Co. had anything to do with the divorce of his parents. That Zachariah is studying the ministry in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church is of some family interest as also Zacharaih's nephew, James Louis Mauk, the son of John S. Mauk and Mildred Jane Nichols, also was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister.)
Z.H.C. Mock W/M 22 Theological student $100 (personal estate value) Tenn
1870 Mitchell County Kansas Township 7 south of Range 6 West E PO Asherville
(Our first glimpse of George and apparently his mistress (as no marriage record has yet to be found) Eliza Sartain Bunch, and her children from her deceased husband Zachariah Bunch, in Mitchell County Kansas. Oral history tells us they arrived to settle in then-frontier Mitchell County c1868)
dw#3/fm#3 Mauk
George 59 Farmer Tn
Eliza 35 Keeping House Ky
Lorrisa 10 At Home Ky
Permelia 8 At Home Ky
1880 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census -, Slick Rock Precinct, p. 2
(Malinda, below, is daughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk, seen here with her husband William Yeary and her family)
dw#25/fm# 26 Yeary
Wm 49 TN VA SC
Malinda 44 wife TN TN TN
M E 21 dau. KY TN TN
Louis W 19 son KY TN TN
M V 18 dau. KY TN TN
B J 17 son KY TN TN
W C 10 son Ky Tn Tn
1880 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census - Slick Rock - page 2
(Martha, below, daughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk, seen here with her husband JJ Locke and young son)
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Annie 30 widow KY KY KY
Earl 12 son KY KY KY
Arnett
Lizzie 40 sister keeping house KY KY KY
Lasley
Nora 8 servant KY KY KY
Lock
J J 38 farmer KY KY KY
Martha 40 wife keeping house KY KY KY
Eldridge 6 son KY KY KY
1880 Metcalfe County Kentucky Federal Census Lafayette Magisterial District Page 9
(John, son of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk, has passed away c, 1875 and left spouse Mildred to raise their 7 children, all grandchildren of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.)
Dw#82/Fm#83 Mauk
Mildred J. F W W 49 KY Keeping House KY VA KY
James L. Son M S W 22 KY On Farm KY TN KY
Sarah C. Dau F S W 20 KY TN KY
Martha S. Dau F S W 19 KY TN KY
Benjamin T. Son M S W 15 On Farm KY TN KY
John W. Son M S W 13 On Farm KY TN KY
Mary M. Dau F S W 10 KY TN KY
Zackeriah D. Son M S W 8 KY TN KY
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1880 Green County Kentucky Federal Census - Greenburg District No 1
("H. C.", below, was Zachariah Henry Clark, son of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk. By 1880 he had comleted the theological studies in which he was engaged a decade prior, and he is now a "Preacher of Gospel". Zachariah has married and established a family of his own. Son Vardaman was born just the previous November of 1879.)
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Mock
H.C. W/M 32 Preacher of Gospel Tn Tn Tn
MMB W/F/ 25 wife Keeping House Ky Ky Ky
Mary C. . W/F 6 Daughter Ky
Francis E. W/F 3 Daughter Ky
Vardaman P. W/M 6/12 Son Ky
1880 Mitchell County Kansas Federal Census Asherville Township Page 34
(Eliza, below, was widow (common law apparently) of George Mauk, seen here just two years after George's death with what appears to be a third spouse, with her children from her relationship with George. They reside just two doors from son of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk, Jesse and his family)
Dw#229/Fm#229 Nelson
Homer(?) 45 Farmer KS
Eliza F. Wife 42 Keeping House KY
Mauk
Sarah R. Daughter 8 KS
H.A. Son 6 KS
James Son 3 KS
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1880 Mitchell County Kansas Federal Census Asherville Township Page 34
(Jesse, below, son of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk, seen here with spouse Susan (Perkins) and their growing family)
Dw#232/Fm#232 Mauk
Jessie E. 34 Farmer TN
Susan A. Wife 36 Keeping House KY
Wm. J. Son 10 KY
Alonzo Son 8 KS
Joel P. Son 5 KS
Jessie T. Son 3 KS
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1880 Sheridan County Kansas Federal Census Twp7/Rng27 Page 7
(B.H. below, nee Benjamin E Howard, was 8th child and fifth son of Geo and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk and W.T. [William Tom] was 11th child and eighth son of same. We have record that William Tom married a Rebecca Hinckle some 7 years prior to this record. It remains unknown what became of Rebecca)
dw#73/fm#79 Mock
BH (self) 37 Farmer TN VA TN
LF 34 Wife Keeping House KY KY KY
JE 7 Son KY TN KY
Ida E 6 Daughter KY TN KY
Bell S 5 Daughter KY TN KY
Louis V 3 Son KY TN KY
Willard G 1 Son KY TN KY
WT 27 Brother Farmer TN VA TN
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1900 Barren County Kentucky Federal Census
(Catherine Richards, nee Mauk, below, seen here in the home of her daughter and grandchildren. Daughter Martha is, by 1900 widow herself, wife of John Tyler Deweese. Martha and John Tyler's older daughters have all married and only the sons remain in the home)
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Martha Deweese head W/F Jan 1850 50 Wd28 8/6 TN TN TN Farmer
Charles S. son W/M Oct 1880 20 s KY KY TN Farm Laborer
John S. son W/M Dec 1883 16 s KY KY TN Farm Laborer
Luther E. son W/M Nov 1885 14 s KY KY TN Farm Laborer
Catherine Richards mother W/F Feb 1831 69 Wd57 2/1 TN TN TN
1900 Linn County Kansas Federal Census Paris Township page 13B
(Benjamin, below, was son of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk. While most of his children have grown and married two sons remain in the home. This is the last census upon which Benjamin will appear. Benjamin passed away about three years after this census was recorded)
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Benjamin head Dec 1842 57 m29 Tn Blacksmith
Lucinda F wife May 1847 53 m29 7/6 Ky
Wilford G son June 1879 21 Ky Blacksmith
Benjamin R son July 1889 10 Ks At School
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1900 Mitchell County Kansas Federal Census Asherville Twp Ed 74 Page 5B
(Sarah R., below, is daughter of George and Eliza Sartain Mauk. She has married Salon and is helping to raise his children from his prior marriage. Daughter Ethel is from her union with Salon, one of three that will live to adulthood)
dw#95/fm#95 Steer
Salon Head Aug 1844 55 marr 13 yrs CT CT RI
Sarah R Wife July 1872 27 marr 13 yrs 5chld/1lng KS KY KY
Delia C Daughter May 1879 21 KS CT IL
Mable J Daughter Mar 1881 20 KS CT IL
Miron L Son Aug 1882 18 KS CT IL
Eathal P Daughter Apr 1890 10 KS CT IL
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1900 Mitchell County Kansas Federal Census Asherville Twp Ed 74 Page 5B
("Lizie", below, is Eliza Sartain Bunch Mauk Nelson, common-law widow of George Mauk. Although it is recorded here she has but two children, at least 6 are known to have been born to her. She resides adjascent to her daughter Sarah and her son Henry Alfred, both born to her and George Mauk)
dw#97/fm#91 Mauk
Lizie F. Head Oct 1838 61 wd 2chld/2lvng KY KY KY Farmer
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1900 Mitchell County Kansas Federal Census Asherville Twp Ed 74 Page 5B
(Henry, below, is son of George and Eliza Sartain Mauk. He has married Nancy Collins and is recorded here with his growing family)
dw#95/fm#90 Mauk
Henry Head Nov 1873 26 marr 5 yrs KS TN KY Farm Labor
Nancy J Wife Aug 1876 25 marr 5 yrs 3chld/3lvng NE NC TN
Ernest L Son June 1895 4 KS KS NE
Charley T Son Jan 1897 2 KS KS NE
Dollie M Daughter Jan 1899 11/12 KS KS NE
Chapel
Frank Boarder Jun 1874 25 KS OH NY Farm Labor
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1910 Mitchell County Kansas Federal Census Asherville Twp Ed 91 Page 2A
(Sarah R., below, is daughter of George and Eliza Sartain Mauk. All the children recorded here are from her union with Salon, and all live to adulthood)
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Salon Head 64 married twice this time 24 yrs CT RI RI Farmer General Farm
Sarah R Wife 38 married once 24 yrs 8chld/4lng KS KY KY
Ethel P Daughter 20 KS CT KS
Edna Daughter 9 KS CT KS
Salon Jr Son 6 KS CT KS
Sadie Daughter 3 KS CT KS
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1920 Mitchell County Kansas Federal Census Beloit Twp Ed 99 North Walnut Street Page 8A-8B
(Sarah R., below, is daughter of George and Eliza Sartain Mauk. Eldest living daughter Ethel has married and is no longer in the home)
dw#206/fm#208 Steere
Salon Head 74 CT RI RI
Sarah R Wife 48KS KY KY
Edna Daughter 19 KS CT KS
Salon Jr Son 16 KS CT KS
Sadie Daughter 15 KS CT KS
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1930 Mitchell County Kansas Federal Census Beloit Twp Ed 3 Walnut Street Page 7B
(Sarah R., below, is daughter of George and Eliza Sartain Mauk. Eldest daughter Ethel has passed away as has husband Salon. Widow Sarah now cares for her grandaughters)
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Sarah R Head 80 wd marr 19 yrs KS US US
Clark
Martha R Grand-Daughter 18 KS US KS Waitress Cafe
Faye E Grand-Daughter 14 KS US KS
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Kansas State Census
1895 Mitchell County Kansas State Census Index Asherville Township page 1
(this shows Susan A, nee Perkins, wife of Jesse Mauk who was son of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk, with her children and her brother-in-law James, son of George and Eliza Sartain Mauk-Jesse was deceased 10 years prior to the date of this census. Elder son Jerome has apparently struck out on his own and is no longer in the home)
Mauk, Susan A 52
Mauk, James A 18
Mauk, Perkins 20
Mauk, Titus 17
Mauk, Roscoe 13
1895 Mitchell County Kansas State Census Index Asherville Township page 11
(Here we see Sarah Rachel, nee Mauk, daughter of George and Eliza Sartain Mauk, with her family. Mabel, Myron, DH-Deliah, and Louis would be Solon's children from his deceased wife Elvira Woodworth, and young Ethel would be Sarah and Solon's first child)
Steere, Solon 50
Steere, Sarah R 22
Steere, Louis 22
Steere, D H 17
Steere, Mable 15
Steere, Myron 13
Steere, Ethel 5
Mauk vs Mauk
Petition to Barren County Court 1865
By Elizabeth Mauk for divorce from George Mauk
From the collection of Jon Huffman
Transcribed by Lois Card
Mauk vs Mauk
Dep for Pltf
Filed by Examiner
Septr 3rd 1866
Barren Co
Bundle #3178
1866/1867
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(p1)
Barren Circuit Court
Elizabeth Mauk Pltf
against
George Mauk
Wm Yeary
John Bailey
Charles Stery
Defts
Petition in Equity
The plaintiff Elizabeth Mauk states
that she is the wife of the Defendant George Mauk,
that her said husband has been a confirmed drunkard
for more than one year past that he has & is now
wasting his prosperity without making any suit-
able provision for the maintenance of plaintiff
& his infant children & that there are three infant
children of plaintiff & her said husband; that the
said Defendant George Mauk has habitually behaved
towards plaintiff for not less than six months in
such cruel & inhuman manner as to indicate
a settled aversion to her & to destroy permanent-
ly her peace & happiness; that the said deft George
Mauk has attempted to injure plaintiff with
force & violence in such a manner as indicates an
outrageous, ungovernable temper in him & prob-
able danger to her life or great bodily injury
from remaining with him; that she has been
compelled to abandon her home and children & is
now living separate & apart from her said
husband; that she now resides in Barren County
& has resided in this state for one year past;
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that the said drunkeness & wasting of property
on the part of the said deft George Mauks cruel &
inhuman conduct to plaintiff & attempts to
injure her by force & violence occured in this
State & within five years next before the com-
mencement of this action.
Plaintiff states that she has reason to suspect
& charges that the said defendant George Mauk
if not prevented will fraudulantly sell, convey,
or conceal his property so as to (sic) plaintiff from
obtaining alimony for herself & maintenance
for her said infant children. Plaintiff states and charges
that the defendant Wm Yeary is indebted to the said
defendant Geo Mauk in the sun of $200; that the
said defendant Jno Bailey is indebted to the said deft Geo
Mauk in the sum of $140 - & the said deft Charled
Storry in indebted to the said deft Geo Mauk in
the sum of &100 - Plaintiff states that unless the
said deft Geo Mauk is restrained from dispose-
ing (sic) of his property & collecting said debt great &
irreparable injury will result to plaintiff & her
said infant children. She states that the said
deft George Mauk is the owner of two tracts of land
in Barren County conveyed to him be Jno Nichols
& Thomas Hearlan containing ____ acres evidences of
the title to which will in due time be files
herewith.
Wherefore plaintiff prays for a divorce from her
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(p3)
said husband & fer (sic) an order of injunction against
the said George Mauk forbidding his selling his
said land & other property directing to Sheriff
of said county to deliver to plaintiff all of his
personal property & for an order injoining (sic) &
restraining the siad defts Yeary, Bailey & Storry
from paying said debts or any part thereof to
said Mauk until the matters & things in this
action can be heard & determined & for all proper
relief.
Elizabeth Mauk
by J. W. Gorin
Elizabeth Mauk says she believes the statements
made in the foregoing petition are true.
Elizabeth Mauk X (her mark)
Sworn to before me by Elizabeth Mauk April 21st
1865 W.F. Evans J Blele
The clerk of the Barren Circuit Court will issue
an order of injunction enjoining Wm Yearly (sic)
John Bailey & Charles Storry from paying to the
Defendant Mauk what they or either of them
may be owing to him, and to also to enjoin said
Mauk from selling or disposing of any land
he has title to to a possession of until an order
of said Circuit Court may be made in the
premisis. You will direct the Sheriff of this
county to take into custody and deliver
to the plaintiff so much of and such articles
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(p4)
of the personal property of said Mauk as she
may select not to exceed in value of $300. And you
will also issue an order directing and enjoing
said deft Mauk not to interfere with said
property thus delivered to the plaintiff until
permitted to do so by an order of said Circuit Court
this order to be issued without requiring the
plfs to give bond. Given under my hand as
Judge of the County Court of Barren County
April 20th 1865
W. F. Evans J. Blele
a copy attest W. S. Porter clk
Elizabeth Mauk
vs
Deft in Equity
Geo Mauk & Others
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(The Depositions)
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The deposition of Virgina Nichols
(possibly Virgiania Ann Shipley Nichols, kin to Elizabeth Shipley Mauk)
taken at the Law office of J W Gorin
in the town of Glasgow Ky on the 1st
day of Sept 1866 to be read as evidence
in an action pending in the Barren
Circuit Court in which Elizabeth Mauk
is Pett & George Mauk is Deft
Question by Pltf
State whether or not you are acquainted with the parties
to this suit and ?__? not a fact that the defendant is &
has been prior to the 21st April 1865 a confirmed
drunkard.
Ans Yes Sirs he was
Ques by Pltf
Is it or not true from what the neighbors & those
who know the facts universally acknowledged as
true that the defendant has treated his wife
in a cruel & inhuman manner & has been
fraudulantly disposing of his property
without leaving or providing a suf-
ficiency for his infant children.
Ans I don’t know any thing about that
except what I heard Mrs Mauk (sic) their children
say about it.
Cross Examined by Deft
ist You have stated that Mr Mauk was
a confirmed drunkard. Please state how
often you ever seen him drunk. When it
was and where.
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Ans I saw him drunk on the day she went
from there & at other times but I have
no recollection of any particular day of
the week or month
(signed)
V A Nichols
Also the Deposition of
Michael Shanks taken at
the same time and place
and for the purposes mentioned
in the afore?
Question by Plantiffs ?__?
Were you or not acquainted
with defendant George Mauk &
How far did you live from
him?
Was he or not a confirmed drunkard
more than one year previous to
21 April 1865 Was there not wasting
his estate Pne year previou to
taht time without making suitable
provisions for his family
How many children has he
How old are they and where are they
Has or not said Mauk for
not less than six months
before 21 April 1865
behaved toward his wife d?__?
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In such a cruel and inhuman
manner as to indicate on his
part a settled aversion to her
So as to destroy her peace and
happiness
Ans
as to 1st I am acquanted with Mr Mauk
As to 2nd yes six I think he was
as to the 3rd Everything seemed to be
wasting away like there was no
care taken of.
as to hid providing for his family
I don’t know. I don’t know how
many children he has & how old
they were or where they are.
of his treatment to his wife I
was not there nor do I know any
thing about it
Deft Mauk lives in the county of
Barren consecutively about 12
years before the 21st of April 1865 & owned the farm where
he lives.
Cross examined
You have stated this during the year
spoken of Everything on Mr Mauks
farm seemed to be wasting away. How
often were you on the farm That year
was not as good care been taken of it
that year as any year before
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Ans
I was there several times during
that year to get him & his boys
to work for me. he was drunk
he could not work. he did not
seem to take as good care of his
farm about that time as he had
done before. (signed) Michael Shank
Also the Disposition of G W Mauk
taken the same time &
place for the purposes
mentioned in the action.
Witness states that he is acquainted
to the parties in this action
that he resided in their family
in the month of March previous
to April 1865 & he was then &
has been for a year or more
previous to the time a confirmed
drunkard his farm was going to
waste but he had while I was
there tolerable plenty to live on
I don’t know that I ever saw him ?__?
wife treat his wife. but he swore &
cursed about the place a good deal
but I never saw him attempt to
strike her. He owned the farm on which he lived
& some horses & cattle & the last time
I saw him he was still drinking
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Cross Exmamined
I am 20 years old in next Feby
The farm was going to waste by
his neglect to cultivate it.
George W. Mauk
Also the deposition of a
nother Geo W Mauk:
witness is acquainted with
plaintiff in this suit. That he had
been a confirmed drunkard
ever since I knew him & I have
known him 20 years or all my
life, I am about 25 years old
his property seems to be wasting
away and his wife wants to have
plowing done by the boys & the
farm cultivated & he swore they
should not do so that there should
not be plow stuck in the ground
that was in the year 1865 & before
the 21st of Apl of that year. He
hide out a piece of cash & other
things from the use of the family
& he treated my mother very bad
& threatened her life ?__? & tiring
this was in 1862 or 1863 from the
month of Feby 1865 to the 21st Apl
1865 I was at home from the army
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his treatment to my mother
during that time was very much
?___? & I had to frequently inter-
fear to keep him from being
cruel to her.
Did deft George Mauk
during the time you speak of
being at the house behave toward
plaintiff in such a cruel and
inhuman manner as to indicate
to her to destroy per-
manently her peace and happi-
ness
Ans
Yes Sir
Did he during that time attempt
to injure her with force and
violence in such a manner as
to indicate a danerous ?__?
?__? temper in him and
probable danger to her life
or great bodily harm by
residing with her
Ans
Yes SIr
Question
Where did defendant
reside on 20 Apl 1865 and
for a year before then
Ans
On the farm on which he now lives
in Barren County
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Question
How much Estate had
your father then and now
Ans
He had about 200 acres of land
& has it yet ?__? he has ?__? 2 horses
& some cattle & hogs
Quest
Has he not offered to dis-
pose of his farm at a very
low rate with an expressed
view of giving to Texas if So when
Ans
He has not to my knowledge
but before the separation he
threatened frequently to sell out
& go to some new country
when my mother left he had
about $300 or more in cash notes
Quest
State why your mother left
your father if you are not a son
of plaintiff & defense and when
she left if she was compelled
to leave on account of cruel
treatment
State all you about the treatment
& ?__? and conduct of your
father toward your mother for
the last five years
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Ans
I am a son of the parties in
this action. My mother left
my father about the last of
Mch or 1st of Apr 1865 She left
him because she was ?__?
the threats of Deft in danger
of her life and I trust my
self she was in danger of her
life at the time she went away
he had been cursing and abusing
her all night & he threatened her life & she left next
morning early. I had to step
in the room with him to prevent
him from injuring her. In 1862
he was loading or fixing to load
his pistol & threatened to kill her
often when he loaded his gun he
stated that he done so to kill my
mother
& we had to hide them
from him to prevent him from
doing her bodily harm ?__?
?__? diseparated & selling off some
of his property
Cross Examination
I was at my fathers on yesterday
I made a ?__? of these in 1865
my father had a tolerable
plenty of provisions for the
family at that time
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He has more quiet & less a
business & when he was sober
than when he has drunk
The farm is tolerable poor
He had a Black Smiths shop
but was doing but very little
work in it at the time my mother left I don’t know what
my father done with the money
he got for the stock he sold
I don’t know whether he has
it now or not
Has not your father been selling & caarrying
on his farm since your mother left
him Also coming at his blacksmith
shop
Ans
He has not this year last year I carried
on the farming myself or raised
a crop then My father is carry-
ing on the Blacksmith Shop this
year in past year in partnership with Spencer
When your father spoke of selling the farm
& going to some new country with your
little brother did he say anything to
indicate that he intended to have the
rest of the family behind
Are you not very anxious that your mother
should gain this suit
Ans
Yes sir I answer the question also
in the affirmative George W Mauk
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Also the Deposition of Catherine Richards
taken at the same time and place
to be read as evidence in the
same action
Question
Are you a daughter of
Plaintiff and defendant
Ans
Yes Sir
Quest How many children have
them and how old are they and
where are they
They have 9 - 3 married & 6 Single
The youngest is about 13 years
Old The next oldest about 19-
& the next oldest about 21. My mother
now lives on Mr Becks farm near
Glasgow & the 2 youngest living
with her.
Quest
State where have you lived for
fourteen years last past
State all you (sic) about the treatment
of your mother by your
father
Ans I lived with my father & mother
I have heard my father within
the last 3 years after threaten the
life of my mother I have also
heard the same threats within
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(p11)
the last 6 months before they parted
Quest
Did or did not Defendant
behave toward your mother
during the last six months that they lived together
continually in a manner to
to indicate that he had no
regard for her feelings and
hated her
Ans Yes Sir
Quest
State all you know about
it
Ans I never saw him strike her
but I heard him abuse & threaten
her very much and neglect her he
left the house & when he came
in brought a club in his hand
& sit it in the corner near him
& he would curse her & look
at her in a threatening way & look
at the club but he did not attempt
to strike her
Quest
Has he or not been wasting
his property within the last few
years and is he he not still very
dissatisfied(?) Ans Yes Sir
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Cross Examined (?___?)
You say your father is wasting his
property In what way is he doing
this
Ans He is selling it off at low proces
& drink it up & wasting it in
one way or another
Catherine Richards
Also Deposition of John Mauk
wittness states that the Deft has about 200
acres of Land 2 horses 2
or 3 head cattle & some hogs
I lived between a ?__? and a half
mile of the parties for the last
10 years just preceeding the time
of their parting. My father
treated my mother so badly
that the very often sent for
me to come over to get her
& frequently found him drunk & with
a gun or a pen knife in his
hands & threatening the life of
my mother. This occuredwithin 6 mos just pre-
ceding the 21st day
of Apr 1865. He has been for
the last several years wasting
his property for drink &
in the fall of 1863 he spent frpm
$1.-&1.50 per day at a still house
when I was working
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Cross Examined
He killed 2 horses in a spree
& sold other property I don't
know what he did with
the money. I am a son
of the Pet & Deft in this action
The farm is a poor one
worth perhaps $1000 or $1500
John S. Mauk
State of Kentucky Barren County
I George W Trabue Examiner for Barren Co
certify that the foregoing Depositions of Virginia A
Nichols, Micheal Shanks, Geo W Mauk, another
G W Mauk, Catherine Richards, & John S. Mauk
were taken before me at the time & place
in the action mentioned in the caption. The said
witnesses having been first sworn by me that
the evidence they should give in the action
should be the truth & their statement re-
duced to writing by me in their presence
the Pet & also Defts atty being present
Given under my hand Sep 3 1866
G. W. Trabue BC
Examiner fee for Dep $3.
2 ?___? 40 ?__? ?__?
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Property Settlement for Elizabeth Mauk
We John Lock Michael Shank & Jones ?A ?__?
having been summoned & duly sworn by J W Renick
?__? for S R Tolle S B C to set aside three hundred
Dollars worth of the property of George Mauk Senior
for Elizabeth Mauk Set aside the following articles
at the following prices towit
One Low Bedstead & Bedding 6.00
One Beadsted Cover led dheet & straw tick 2.00
One flax wheel & five chairs 3.50
One lot of casting & candle molds 2.50
One Hackle Bushel of meal & sifter 2.00
One Bedsted & Bedding 6.00
One cupboard & cupboard ware 8.00
One yoke & oxen & wagon 100.00
One white cow & calf 25.00
One spotted heifer 24.00
One Barrel Whisky at $240 cents per gallon 106.00
Twenty five pounds of bacon at 25 cts per pound 6.25
one lot of cupboardware knives and forks 3.00
one chest & coffey mill 1.50
One falow collar & geer 3.50
One Dish pan wash pan & coffey pot .70
(total) $299.95
Amounting in the whole to Two Hundred and
Ninety nine Dollars & 95 cts This Apr 22nd 1866
(signed)
John Lock
Miacheal Shank
Jones A ?__?
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Elizabeth Mauk
vs
George W Mauk
(map)
See image links below
Under an order from the Barren
Circuit Court at term
Term 1867 we have surveyed
the land belonging to George
W. Mauk and have land
one third on value as
follows The whole
tract beginning at two
white oaks East corner
on Down the fence 44w40 poles to a stake & two small post
oaks Yeary's Corner Thence same corse 46 poles to a post oak
& dogwood Thence N77W21 poles to two gums & a poplar thence
S62w 198 poles to an ash and white oak Yeary's corner (at 6)
thence s30e116 poles to a white oak thence N86E148 poles to
a hickory on a branch John Bailey's Corner thence s80E33 poles
to a stone white oak pointer thence N5E25 poles to a stone and
Chestnut thence East 34 poles to a poplar & dogwood Bailey's Corner
on Depps line thence with said line N5E180 poles to a poplar
two white oaks & dogwood on Drane Corner thence west 40 poles
to a post oak whit oak & hickory on ?__? old line thence
N5E41 poles to the Beginning-Containing 272 Acres
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Elizabeth Mauks one third is bounded as follows
"Beginning at a stake on John Bailey's line (at 8) Thence
N20W153 poles to a black oak gum & dogwood on Yeary's
line (at5) Thence S62W129 poles to an ash & white oak Yeary's
corner thence S30E116 poles to white oak thence N86E109
poles to the Beginning-Containing 98 Acres
Nov 28th 1867
?_? 3 days Survey Commisioner $12
Wm Bailey 3 day com & chairman 7.50
George Spencer(?) Same 7.50
(total) $27.00
James W Scrivener(?)
W T Bailey
George M. Spencer
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Final Judgement
Barren Circuit Court
Judgement
Elizabeth Mauk Pltf
Against
George Mauk & others Defts
This day this cause came on to be
heard upon the pleadings exhibits & proofs & the
court being advised it is now adjudged that the
Plaintiff Elizabeth Mauk & defendant
George Mauk her husband be & they are hereby
divorced from bed and board for the period of
six months next after the rendition of this
Judgement. It is further adjudged so much of that the
injunction herein granted by the Judge of the
Barren County Court as enjoins & restrains
the said George Mauk from selling any land
to which he may have title be contained & not
the allotment of personal property to plaintiff
made by the Sheriff of said County on the
22nd day of April 1865 amounting in value
to the sum of two hundred & ninety nine dollars
& ninety five cents be & the same is hereby
confirmed. It appearing that the defendant
Wm Yeary may regularly ?__? with process
& the plaintiff having alleged that said
Yeary was indebted to the defendant
George Mauk on the 21st day of April
1865 two hundred dollars & the said Yeary having failed to
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answer plaintiffs petition it is taken for confessed
as to him & it is therefor adjudged & ordered that
the said Yeary pay said two hundred dollars
& the interest thereon to the said plaintiff
Elizabeth Mauk or her atty.
The defendant Jno G Bailey having attested
in his answer that he was indebted to the deft
George Mauk forty dollars and 25 cts on the 21st day of April 1865 It is ?__?
now adjudged & ordered that said Baily (sic) pay said forty
dollars &25cts & the interst thereon to the plaintiff
Elizabeth Mauk or her atty.
The defendant Charled Story having ?__?
in his answer that he was indebted to the defen
dant George Mauk on the 21st day of April
1865 one hundred dollars it is adjudged
& ordered that said Story pay said one
hundred dollars & the interest thereon to the plaintiff
Elizabeth Mauk or her atty
It is further adjudged & ordered that James W Gorin
attorney for plaintiff in this action
be & he is hereby allowed the sum of fity
Dollars as a fee for bringing & attending
to this suit to be paid out of the proceeds
of the debts aforesaid on said Yeary, Story and
Baily after paying the costs of this suit to be taxed by the clerk & the residue (?) of said debts is
allowed to plaintiff for maintenance
the court reserves the right to make
such modifications of this judgement
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& further orders in this cause as justice
& the circumstance & action of the parties in the
future may seem to require
This case is now continued
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Kentucky Vital Statistics
W T Mawk Nov 1853 to George and Elizabeth Shipley
Barren County Kentucky Deeds:
Geo Mawk to Wm M Yeary
120 Acres on Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek
For the sum of $400
March 29, 1865
Know all men by these presents that I George Mauk of the first part of and in consideration of four hundred dollars in hand paid have this day Bargained and Sold and conveyed unto William M Yeary of the Second part both of the county of Barren and State of Kentucky the following Boundary of Land. in Said County and State and on the South Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek Beginning double poplar thence South 62 W 241 poles to a Stone in an old field thence South 19 E 60 poles to a dogwood thence South 30 E 20 poles to an ash white oak pointer. thence N 62 E 194 poles to a gum and poplar thence South 77 E 20 poles to a dogwood and Post oak thence N 49 E 45 poles to a Stake Suppose to be in Geo Mauks line thence to the Beginning Containing One hundred and twenty acres more or less to have and to hold unto the Said William M Yeary and his heirs forever and the party of the first part hereby warrants and defends the Said tract or parcel of Land to Said Yeary with covenants of general warranty-In Testimony whereof the Said Mauk and wife have set their hand and affixed their seal this 29th day of March 1865.
George Mauk (seal)
Elizabeth Mauk (seal)
State of Kentucky
Barren County
I R.B. Evans clerk of the county court for Said county certify that the foregoing deed from Geo Mauk and ELizabeth his wife to Wm M Yeary was on the ____day of _____ 1864 acknowledged before Thos Davis an acting deputy for me by Said Mauk & wife to be their act & deed. wherefore the same & this certificate have been recorded in my office. The proper Stamp being atttached to the original deed as ____ by an act of congress.
Given under my hand this 24th day of April 1865
R.B. Evans CBCC
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Geo Mauk lease to EW Kerr
January 21, 1865
This indenture made this 21st day of January 1865 between George Mauk and Elizabeth Mauk of the first part and Elizabeth W Kerr of the County of Jefferson and State of Kentucky of the Second part Wtnesseth that the parties of the first part hereby lease to the parties of the second part the following premisis to wit: A certain tract or parcel of land lying on Nichols branch of Fallen Timber Creek containing about 200 acres, being the tract on which the parties of the first part live. It is agreed that the party of the Second part shall commence alteration for the purposes of obtaining oil or other product within three years else this lease to be null and void.
For the space of Twenty five years and ___ to keep the tenants in quiet possession of the premisis during said Terms.
It is hereby agreed between said parties that the party of the Second part shall have the sole and exclusive right to bore, explore, mine and dig for oil, salt water, coal or other mineral and the exclusive right to use and benefit of all of said oil minerals etc that may be on or under Said land for the terms of years above specified and no other right or privilege is granted.
In consideration whereof the parties of the Second part bind themselves to give to the parties of the first part One tenth part of all the oil salt or other product obtained from said land to be delivered by the parties of the Second part to the parties of the first part in marketable condition upon the premasis in good and sufficient barrels which shall be furnished by the parties of the first part.
It is agreed that if the parties of the Second part fail to obtain oil or other products and shall abandon the premisis or upon the expiration of the terms for
(line missing in copy)
machinery they may have placed upon said land.
It is agreed that the parties of the Second part shall have the right of way to and from said premisis over any land or water course assgned or possesed by the parties of the first part and the right to make all roads _____ to get the product of said land to market in the cheapest and best manner.
It is further agreed that the parties of the Second part may at any time or times hereafter during the term hereby granted lease or ____ let all or any part of Said premisi or the whole or any part of Said term may be aquired or transfered to any person or persons whomsoever.
In Testamony whereof we have affixed our hands and seals the day and year above written .
George Mawk (signed)
Elizabeth Mauk (her mark)
Elizabeth Kerr
Witness
Saml Jordan
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All Mauk Family Land Records
Barren County Kentucky Probate Records
(Bill for services submitted to estate of Calum Homan Slayton by George Mauk)
March the 15, 1853
C H Slayton to Geo Mauk
cutting knife 015
to setting a pair of shoes and making two trowels 035
to sharpening 4 plows 015
to laying 2 hoes 035
to sharpening 2 plows 010
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to mending a sythe 010
to sharpening 3 plows 024
to making a pair of shoes 037
to sharpening 4 plows 032
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to making a pair of shoes and setting a pair 053
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to work don on a wagon 040
to pointing and sharpening 2 big plows 035
to fixing stretchers 020
to making a pair of shoes 037
to making a ??? 010
to ???? 015
to making a double tree March the 20th 1854 025
to sharpening a ? plow 010
to laying 2 plows 080
to sharpening 2 turning plows 020
to setting a pair of shoes 015
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to sharpening 2 plows 016
to forging shoes and making one 020
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Asherville Cemetery Mitchell County Kansas
Photographs from the collection of Jennifer Mauk
George Mauk and Eliza Sartain Headstone
All Posted Mauk Family Death Records
Edna Weidenhaft (1900-1992) papers
Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
Family Group Sheet for George Mauk and Mary Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
(this shows Susan A, nee Perkins, wife of Jesse Mauk who was son of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk, with her children and her brother-in-law James, son of George and Eliza Sartain Mauk-Jesse was deceased 10 years prior to the date of this census. Elder son Jerome has apparently struck out on his own and is no longer in the home)
Mauk, Susan A 52
Mauk, James A 18
Mauk, Perkins 20
Mauk, Titus 17
Mauk, Roscoe 13
1895 Mitchell County Kansas State Census Index Asherville Township page 11
(Here we see Sarah Rachel, nee Mauk, daughter of George and Eliza Sartain Mauk, with her family. Mabel, Myron, DH-Deliah, and Louis would be Solon's children from his deceased wife Elvira Woodworth, and young Ethel would be Sarah and Solon's first child)
Steere, Solon 50
Steere, Sarah R 22
Steere, Louis 22
Steere, D H 17
Steere, Mable 15
Steere, Myron 13
Steere, Ethel 5
Mauk vs Mauk
Petition to Barren County Court 1865
By Elizabeth Mauk for divorce from George Mauk
From the collection of Jon Huffman
Transcribed by Lois Card
Mauk vs Mauk
Dep for Pltf
Filed by Examiner
Septr 3rd 1866
Barren Co
Bundle #3178
1866/1867
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Barren Circuit Court
Elizabeth Mauk Pltf
against
George Mauk
Wm Yeary
John Bailey
Charles Stery
Defts
Petition in Equity
The plaintiff Elizabeth Mauk states
that she is the wife of the Defendant George Mauk,
that her said husband has been a confirmed drunkard
for more than one year past that he has & is now
wasting his prosperity without making any suit-
able provision for the maintenance of plaintiff
& his infant children & that there are three infant
children of plaintiff & her said husband; that the
said Defendant George Mauk has habitually behaved
towards plaintiff for not less than six months in
such cruel & inhuman manner as to indicate
a settled aversion to her & to destroy permanent-
ly her peace & happiness; that the said deft George
Mauk has attempted to injure plaintiff with
force & violence in such a manner as indicates an
outrageous, ungovernable temper in him & prob-
able danger to her life or great bodily injury
from remaining with him; that she has been
compelled to abandon her home and children & is
now living separate & apart from her said
husband; that she now resides in Barren County
& has resided in this state for one year past;
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that the said drunkeness & wasting of property
on the part of the said deft George Mauks cruel &
inhuman conduct to plaintiff & attempts to
injure her by force & violence occured in this
State & within five years next before the com-
mencement of this action.
Plaintiff states that she has reason to suspect
& charges that the said defendant George Mauk
if not prevented will fraudulantly sell, convey,
or conceal his property so as to (sic) plaintiff from
obtaining alimony for herself & maintenance
for her said infant children. Plaintiff states and charges
that the defendant Wm Yeary is indebted to the said
defendant Geo Mauk in the sun of $200; that the
said defendant Jno Bailey is indebted to the said deft Geo
Mauk in the sum of $140 - & the said deft Charled
Storry in indebted to the said deft Geo Mauk in
the sum of &100 - Plaintiff states that unless the
said deft Geo Mauk is restrained from dispose-
ing (sic) of his property & collecting said debt great &
irreparable injury will result to plaintiff & her
said infant children. She states that the said
deft George Mauk is the owner of two tracts of land
in Barren County conveyed to him be Jno Nichols
& Thomas Hearlan containing ____ acres evidences of
the title to which will in due time be files
herewith.
Wherefore plaintiff prays for a divorce from her
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said husband & fer (sic) an order of injunction against
the said George Mauk forbidding his selling his
said land & other property directing to Sheriff
of said county to deliver to plaintiff all of his
personal property & for an order injoining (sic) &
restraining the siad defts Yeary, Bailey & Storry
from paying said debts or any part thereof to
said Mauk until the matters & things in this
action can be heard & determined & for all proper
relief.
Elizabeth Mauk
by J. W. Gorin
Elizabeth Mauk says she believes the statements
made in the foregoing petition are true.
Elizabeth Mauk X (her mark)
Sworn to before me by Elizabeth Mauk April 21st
1865 W.F. Evans J Blele
The clerk of the Barren Circuit Court will issue
an order of injunction enjoining Wm Yearly (sic)
John Bailey & Charles Storry from paying to the
Defendant Mauk what they or either of them
may be owing to him, and to also to enjoin said
Mauk from selling or disposing of any land
he has title to to a possession of until an order
of said Circuit Court may be made in the
premisis. You will direct the Sheriff of this
county to take into custody and deliver
to the plaintiff so much of and such articles
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of the personal property of said Mauk as she
may select not to exceed in value of $300. And you
will also issue an order directing and enjoing
said deft Mauk not to interfere with said
property thus delivered to the plaintiff until
permitted to do so by an order of said Circuit Court
this order to be issued without requiring the
plfs to give bond. Given under my hand as
Judge of the County Court of Barren County
April 20th 1865
W. F. Evans J. Blele
a copy attest W. S. Porter clk
Elizabeth Mauk
vs
Deft in Equity
Geo Mauk & Others
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(The Depositions)
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The deposition of Virgina Nichols
(possibly Virgiania Ann Shipley Nichols, kin to Elizabeth Shipley Mauk)
taken at the Law office of J W Gorin
in the town of Glasgow Ky on the 1st
day of Sept 1866 to be read as evidence
in an action pending in the Barren
Circuit Court in which Elizabeth Mauk
is Pett & George Mauk is Deft
Question by Pltf
State whether or not you are acquainted with the parties
to this suit and ?__? not a fact that the defendant is &
has been prior to the 21st April 1865 a confirmed
drunkard.
Ans Yes Sirs he was
Ques by Pltf
Is it or not true from what the neighbors & those
who know the facts universally acknowledged as
true that the defendant has treated his wife
in a cruel & inhuman manner & has been
fraudulantly disposing of his property
without leaving or providing a suf-
ficiency for his infant children.
Ans I don’t know any thing about that
except what I heard Mrs Mauk (sic) their children
say about it.
Cross Examined by Deft
ist You have stated that Mr Mauk was
a confirmed drunkard. Please state how
often you ever seen him drunk. When it
was and where.
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Ans I saw him drunk on the day she went
from there & at other times but I have
no recollection of any particular day of
the week or month
(signed)
V A Nichols
Also the Deposition of
Michael Shanks taken at
the same time and place
and for the purposes mentioned
in the afore?
Question by Plantiffs ?__?
Were you or not acquainted
with defendant George Mauk &
How far did you live from
him?
Was he or not a confirmed drunkard
more than one year previous to
21 April 1865 Was there not wasting
his estate Pne year previou to
taht time without making suitable
provisions for his family
How many children has he
How old are they and where are they
Has or not said Mauk for
not less than six months
before 21 April 1865
behaved toward his wife d?__?
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In such a cruel and inhuman
manner as to indicate on his
part a settled aversion to her
So as to destroy her peace and
happiness
Ans
as to 1st I am acquanted with Mr Mauk
As to 2nd yes six I think he was
as to the 3rd Everything seemed to be
wasting away like there was no
care taken of.
as to hid providing for his family
I don’t know. I don’t know how
many children he has & how old
they were or where they are.
of his treatment to his wife I
was not there nor do I know any
thing about it
Deft Mauk lives in the county of
Barren consecutively about 12
years before the 21st of April 1865 & owned the farm where
he lives.
Cross examined
You have stated this during the year
spoken of Everything on Mr Mauks
farm seemed to be wasting away. How
often were you on the farm That year
was not as good care been taken of it
that year as any year before
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Ans
I was there several times during
that year to get him & his boys
to work for me. he was drunk
he could not work. he did not
seem to take as good care of his
farm about that time as he had
done before. (signed) Michael Shank
Also the Disposition of G W Mauk
taken the same time &
place for the purposes
mentioned in the action.
Witness states that he is acquainted
to the parties in this action
that he resided in their family
in the month of March previous
to April 1865 & he was then &
has been for a year or more
previous to the time a confirmed
drunkard his farm was going to
waste but he had while I was
there tolerable plenty to live on
I don’t know that I ever saw him ?__?
wife treat his wife. but he swore &
cursed about the place a good deal
but I never saw him attempt to
strike her. He owned the farm on which he lived
& some horses & cattle & the last time
I saw him he was still drinking
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Cross Exmamined
I am 20 years old in next Feby
The farm was going to waste by
his neglect to cultivate it.
George W. Mauk
Also the deposition of a
nother Geo W Mauk:
witness is acquainted with
plaintiff in this suit. That he had
been a confirmed drunkard
ever since I knew him & I have
known him 20 years or all my
life, I am about 25 years old
his property seems to be wasting
away and his wife wants to have
plowing done by the boys & the
farm cultivated & he swore they
should not do so that there should
not be plow stuck in the ground
that was in the year 1865 & before
the 21st of Apl of that year. He
hide out a piece of cash & other
things from the use of the family
& he treated my mother very bad
& threatened her life ?__? & tiring
this was in 1862 or 1863 from the
month of Feby 1865 to the 21st Apl
1865 I was at home from the army
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his treatment to my mother
during that time was very much
?___? & I had to frequently inter-
fear to keep him from being
cruel to her.
Did deft George Mauk
during the time you speak of
being at the house behave toward
plaintiff in such a cruel and
inhuman manner as to indicate
to her to destroy per-
manently her peace and happi-
ness
Ans
Yes Sir
Did he during that time attempt
to injure her with force and
violence in such a manner as
to indicate a danerous ?__?
?__? temper in him and
probable danger to her life
or great bodily harm by
residing with her
Ans
Yes SIr
Question
Where did defendant
reside on 20 Apl 1865 and
for a year before then
Ans
On the farm on which he now lives
in Barren County
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Question
How much Estate had
your father then and now
Ans
He had about 200 acres of land
& has it yet ?__? he has ?__? 2 horses
& some cattle & hogs
Quest
Has he not offered to dis-
pose of his farm at a very
low rate with an expressed
view of giving to Texas if So when
Ans
He has not to my knowledge
but before the separation he
threatened frequently to sell out
& go to some new country
when my mother left he had
about $300 or more in cash notes
Quest
State why your mother left
your father if you are not a son
of plaintiff & defense and when
she left if she was compelled
to leave on account of cruel
treatment
State all you about the treatment
& ?__? and conduct of your
father toward your mother for
the last five years
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Ans
I am a son of the parties in
this action. My mother left
my father about the last of
Mch or 1st of Apr 1865 She left
him because she was ?__?
the threats of Deft in danger
of her life and I trust my
self she was in danger of her
life at the time she went away
he had been cursing and abusing
her all night & he threatened her life & she left next
morning early. I had to step
in the room with him to prevent
him from injuring her. In 1862
he was loading or fixing to load
his pistol & threatened to kill her
often when he loaded his gun he
stated that he done so to kill my
mother
& we had to hide them
from him to prevent him from
doing her bodily harm ?__?
?__? diseparated & selling off some
of his property
Cross Examination
I was at my fathers on yesterday
I made a ?__? of these in 1865
my father had a tolerable
plenty of provisions for the
family at that time
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He has more quiet & less a
business & when he was sober
than when he has drunk
The farm is tolerable poor
He had a Black Smiths shop
but was doing but very little
work in it at the time my mother left I don’t know what
my father done with the money
he got for the stock he sold
I don’t know whether he has
it now or not
Has not your father been selling & caarrying
on his farm since your mother left
him Also coming at his blacksmith
shop
Ans
He has not this year last year I carried
on the farming myself or raised
a crop then My father is carry-
ing on the Blacksmith Shop this
year in past year in partnership with Spencer
When your father spoke of selling the farm
& going to some new country with your
little brother did he say anything to
indicate that he intended to have the
rest of the family behind
Are you not very anxious that your mother
should gain this suit
Ans
Yes sir I answer the question also
in the affirmative George W Mauk
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Also the Deposition of Catherine Richards
taken at the same time and place
to be read as evidence in the
same action
Question
Are you a daughter of
Plaintiff and defendant
Ans
Yes Sir
Quest How many children have
them and how old are they and
where are they
They have 9 - 3 married & 6 Single
The youngest is about 13 years
Old The next oldest about 19-
& the next oldest about 21. My mother
now lives on Mr Becks farm near
Glasgow & the 2 youngest living
with her.
Quest
State where have you lived for
fourteen years last past
State all you (sic) about the treatment
of your mother by your
father
Ans I lived with my father & mother
I have heard my father within
the last 3 years after threaten the
life of my mother I have also
heard the same threats within
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the last 6 months before they parted
Quest
Did or did not Defendant
behave toward your mother
during the last six months that they lived together
continually in a manner to
to indicate that he had no
regard for her feelings and
hated her
Ans Yes Sir
Quest
State all you know about
it
Ans I never saw him strike her
but I heard him abuse & threaten
her very much and neglect her he
left the house & when he came
in brought a club in his hand
& sit it in the corner near him
& he would curse her & look
at her in a threatening way & look
at the club but he did not attempt
to strike her
Quest
Has he or not been wasting
his property within the last few
years and is he he not still very
dissatisfied(?) Ans Yes Sir
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Cross Examined (?___?)
You say your father is wasting his
property In what way is he doing
this
Ans He is selling it off at low proces
& drink it up & wasting it in
one way or another
Catherine Richards
Also Deposition of John Mauk
wittness states that the Deft has about 200
acres of Land 2 horses 2
or 3 head cattle & some hogs
I lived between a ?__? and a half
mile of the parties for the last
10 years just preceeding the time
of their parting. My father
treated my mother so badly
that the very often sent for
me to come over to get her
& frequently found him drunk & with
a gun or a pen knife in his
hands & threatening the life of
my mother. This occuredwithin 6 mos just pre-
ceding the 21st day
of Apr 1865. He has been for
the last several years wasting
his property for drink &
in the fall of 1863 he spent frpm
$1.-&1.50 per day at a still house
when I was working
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Cross Examined
He killed 2 horses in a spree
& sold other property I don't
know what he did with
the money. I am a son
of the Pet & Deft in this action
The farm is a poor one
worth perhaps $1000 or $1500
John S. Mauk
State of Kentucky Barren County
I George W Trabue Examiner for Barren Co
certify that the foregoing Depositions of Virginia A
Nichols, Micheal Shanks, Geo W Mauk, another
G W Mauk, Catherine Richards, & John S. Mauk
were taken before me at the time & place
in the action mentioned in the caption. The said
witnesses having been first sworn by me that
the evidence they should give in the action
should be the truth & their statement re-
duced to writing by me in their presence
the Pet & also Defts atty being present
Given under my hand Sep 3 1866
G. W. Trabue BC
Examiner fee for Dep $3.
2 ?___? 40 ?__? ?__?
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Property Settlement for Elizabeth Mauk
We John Lock Michael Shank & Jones ?A ?__?
having been summoned & duly sworn by J W Renick
?__? for S R Tolle S B C to set aside three hundred
Dollars worth of the property of George Mauk Senior
for Elizabeth Mauk Set aside the following articles
at the following prices towit
One Low Bedstead & Bedding 6.00
One Beadsted Cover led dheet & straw tick 2.00
One flax wheel & five chairs 3.50
One lot of casting & candle molds 2.50
One Hackle Bushel of meal & sifter 2.00
One Bedsted & Bedding 6.00
One cupboard & cupboard ware 8.00
One yoke & oxen & wagon 100.00
One white cow & calf 25.00
One spotted heifer 24.00
One Barrel Whisky at $240 cents per gallon 106.00
Twenty five pounds of bacon at 25 cts per pound 6.25
one lot of cupboardware knives and forks 3.00
one chest & coffey mill 1.50
One falow collar & geer 3.50
One Dish pan wash pan & coffey pot .70
(total) $299.95
Amounting in the whole to Two Hundred and
Ninety nine Dollars & 95 cts This Apr 22nd 1866
(signed)
John Lock
Miacheal Shank
Jones A ?__?
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Elizabeth Mauk
vs
George W Mauk
(map)
See image links below
Under an order from the Barren
Circuit Court at term
Term 1867 we have surveyed
the land belonging to George
W. Mauk and have land
one third on value as
follows The whole
tract beginning at two
white oaks East corner
on Down the fence 44w40 poles to a stake & two small post
oaks Yeary's Corner Thence same corse 46 poles to a post oak
& dogwood Thence N77W21 poles to two gums & a poplar thence
S62w 198 poles to an ash and white oak Yeary's corner (at 6)
thence s30e116 poles to a white oak thence N86E148 poles to
a hickory on a branch John Bailey's Corner thence s80E33 poles
to a stone white oak pointer thence N5E25 poles to a stone and
Chestnut thence East 34 poles to a poplar & dogwood Bailey's Corner
on Depps line thence with said line N5E180 poles to a poplar
two white oaks & dogwood on Drane Corner thence west 40 poles
to a post oak whit oak & hickory on ?__? old line thence
N5E41 poles to the Beginning-Containing 272 Acres
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Elizabeth Mauks one third is bounded as follows
"Beginning at a stake on John Bailey's line (at 8) Thence
N20W153 poles to a black oak gum & dogwood on Yeary's
line (at5) Thence S62W129 poles to an ash & white oak Yeary's
corner thence S30E116 poles to white oak thence N86E109
poles to the Beginning-Containing 98 Acres
Nov 28th 1867
?_? 3 days Survey Commisioner $12
Wm Bailey 3 day com & chairman 7.50
George Spencer(?) Same 7.50
(total) $27.00
James W Scrivener(?)
W T Bailey
George M. Spencer
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Final Judgement
Barren Circuit Court
Judgement
Elizabeth Mauk Pltf
Against
George Mauk & others Defts
This day this cause came on to be
heard upon the pleadings exhibits & proofs & the
court being advised it is now adjudged that the
Plaintiff Elizabeth Mauk & defendant
George Mauk her husband be & they are hereby
divorced from bed and board for the period of
six months next after the rendition of this
Judgement. It is further adjudged so much of that the
injunction herein granted by the Judge of the
Barren County Court as enjoins & restrains
the said George Mauk from selling any land
to which he may have title be contained & not
the allotment of personal property to plaintiff
made by the Sheriff of said County on the
22nd day of April 1865 amounting in value
to the sum of two hundred & ninety nine dollars
& ninety five cents be & the same is hereby
confirmed. It appearing that the defendant
Wm Yeary may regularly ?__? with process
& the plaintiff having alleged that said
Yeary was indebted to the defendant
George Mauk on the 21st day of April
1865 two hundred dollars & the said Yeary having failed to
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answer plaintiffs petition it is taken for confessed
as to him & it is therefor adjudged & ordered that
the said Yeary pay said two hundred dollars
& the interest thereon to the said plaintiff
Elizabeth Mauk or her atty.
The defendant Jno G Bailey having attested
in his answer that he was indebted to the deft
George Mauk forty dollars and 25 cts on the 21st day of April 1865 It is ?__?
now adjudged & ordered that said Baily (sic) pay said forty
dollars &25cts & the interst thereon to the plaintiff
Elizabeth Mauk or her atty.
The defendant Charled Story having ?__?
in his answer that he was indebted to the defen
dant George Mauk on the 21st day of April
1865 one hundred dollars it is adjudged
& ordered that said Story pay said one
hundred dollars & the interest thereon to the plaintiff
Elizabeth Mauk or her atty
It is further adjudged & ordered that James W Gorin
attorney for plaintiff in this action
be & he is hereby allowed the sum of fity
Dollars as a fee for bringing & attending
to this suit to be paid out of the proceeds
of the debts aforesaid on said Yeary, Story and
Baily after paying the costs of this suit to be taxed by the clerk & the residue (?) of said debts is
allowed to plaintiff for maintenance
the court reserves the right to make
such modifications of this judgement
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& further orders in this cause as justice
& the circumstance & action of the parties in the
future may seem to require
This case is now continued
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Kentucky Vital Statistics
W T Mawk Nov 1853 to George and Elizabeth Shipley
Barren County Kentucky Deeds:
Geo Mawk to Wm M Yeary
120 Acres on Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek
For the sum of $400
March 29, 1865
Know all men by these presents that I George Mauk of the first part of and in consideration of four hundred dollars in hand paid have this day Bargained and Sold and conveyed unto William M Yeary of the Second part both of the county of Barren and State of Kentucky the following Boundary of Land. in Said County and State and on the South Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek Beginning double poplar thence South 62 W 241 poles to a Stone in an old field thence South 19 E 60 poles to a dogwood thence South 30 E 20 poles to an ash white oak pointer. thence N 62 E 194 poles to a gum and poplar thence South 77 E 20 poles to a dogwood and Post oak thence N 49 E 45 poles to a Stake Suppose to be in Geo Mauks line thence to the Beginning Containing One hundred and twenty acres more or less to have and to hold unto the Said William M Yeary and his heirs forever and the party of the first part hereby warrants and defends the Said tract or parcel of Land to Said Yeary with covenants of general warranty-In Testimony whereof the Said Mauk and wife have set their hand and affixed their seal this 29th day of March 1865.
George Mauk (seal)
Elizabeth Mauk (seal)
State of Kentucky
Barren County
I R.B. Evans clerk of the county court for Said county certify that the foregoing deed from Geo Mauk and ELizabeth his wife to Wm M Yeary was on the ____day of _____ 1864 acknowledged before Thos Davis an acting deputy for me by Said Mauk & wife to be their act & deed. wherefore the same & this certificate have been recorded in my office. The proper Stamp being atttached to the original deed as ____ by an act of congress.
Given under my hand this 24th day of April 1865
R.B. Evans CBCC
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Geo Mauk lease to EW Kerr
January 21, 1865
This indenture made this 21st day of January 1865 between George Mauk and Elizabeth Mauk of the first part and Elizabeth W Kerr of the County of Jefferson and State of Kentucky of the Second part Wtnesseth that the parties of the first part hereby lease to the parties of the second part the following premisis to wit: A certain tract or parcel of land lying on Nichols branch of Fallen Timber Creek containing about 200 acres, being the tract on which the parties of the first part live. It is agreed that the party of the Second part shall commence alteration for the purposes of obtaining oil or other product within three years else this lease to be null and void.
For the space of Twenty five years and ___ to keep the tenants in quiet possession of the premisis during said Terms.
It is hereby agreed between said parties that the party of the Second part shall have the sole and exclusive right to bore, explore, mine and dig for oil, salt water, coal or other mineral and the exclusive right to use and benefit of all of said oil minerals etc that may be on or under Said land for the terms of years above specified and no other right or privilege is granted.
In consideration whereof the parties of the Second part bind themselves to give to the parties of the first part One tenth part of all the oil salt or other product obtained from said land to be delivered by the parties of the Second part to the parties of the first part in marketable condition upon the premasis in good and sufficient barrels which shall be furnished by the parties of the first part.
It is agreed that if the parties of the Second part fail to obtain oil or other products and shall abandon the premisis or upon the expiration of the terms for
(line missing in copy)
machinery they may have placed upon said land.
It is agreed that the parties of the Second part shall have the right of way to and from said premisis over any land or water course assgned or possesed by the parties of the first part and the right to make all roads _____ to get the product of said land to market in the cheapest and best manner.
It is further agreed that the parties of the Second part may at any time or times hereafter during the term hereby granted lease or ____ let all or any part of Said premisi or the whole or any part of Said term may be aquired or transfered to any person or persons whomsoever.
In Testamony whereof we have affixed our hands and seals the day and year above written .
George Mawk (signed)
Elizabeth Mauk (her mark)
Elizabeth Kerr
Witness
Saml Jordan
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All Mauk Family Land Records
Barren County Kentucky Probate Records
(Bill for services submitted to estate of Calum Homan Slayton by George Mauk)
March the 15, 1853
C H Slayton to Geo Mauk
cutting knife 015
to setting a pair of shoes and making two trowels 035
to sharpening 4 plows 015
to laying 2 hoes 035
to sharpening 2 plows 010
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to mending a sythe 010
to sharpening 3 plows 024
to making a pair of shoes 037
to sharpening 4 plows 032
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to making a pair of shoes and setting a pair 053
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to work don on a wagon 040
to pointing and sharpening 2 big plows 035
to fixing stretchers 020
to making a pair of shoes 037
to making a ??? 010
to ???? 015
to making a double tree March the 20th 1854 025
to sharpening a ? plow 010
to laying 2 plows 080
to sharpening 2 turning plows 020
to setting a pair of shoes 015
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to sharpening 2 plows 016
to forging shoes and making one 020
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Asherville Cemetery Mitchell County Kansas
Photographs from the collection of Jennifer Mauk
George Mauk and Eliza Sartain Headstone
All Posted Mauk Family Death Records
Edna Weidenhaft (1900-1992) papers
Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
Family Group Sheet for George Mauk and Mary Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
Petition to Barren County Court 1865
By Elizabeth Mauk for divorce from George Mauk
From the collection of Jon Huffman
Transcribed by Lois Card
Mauk vs Mauk
Dep for Pltf
Filed by Examiner
Septr 3rd 1866
Barren Co
Bundle #3178
1866/1867
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Barren Circuit Court
Elizabeth Mauk Pltf
against
George Mauk
Wm Yeary
John Bailey
Charles Stery
Defts
Petition in Equity
The plaintiff Elizabeth Mauk states
that she is the wife of the Defendant George Mauk,
that her said husband has been a confirmed drunkard
for more than one year past that he has & is now
wasting his prosperity without making any suit-
able provision for the maintenance of plaintiff
& his infant children & that there are three infant
children of plaintiff & her said husband; that the
said Defendant George Mauk has habitually behaved
towards plaintiff for not less than six months in
such cruel & inhuman manner as to indicate
a settled aversion to her & to destroy permanent-
ly her peace & happiness; that the said deft George
Mauk has attempted to injure plaintiff with
force & violence in such a manner as indicates an
outrageous, ungovernable temper in him & prob-
able danger to her life or great bodily injury
from remaining with him; that she has been
compelled to abandon her home and children & is
now living separate & apart from her said
husband; that she now resides in Barren County
& has resided in this state for one year past;
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that the said drunkeness & wasting of property
on the part of the said deft George Mauks cruel &
inhuman conduct to plaintiff & attempts to
injure her by force & violence occured in this
State & within five years next before the com-
mencement of this action.
Plaintiff states that she has reason to suspect
& charges that the said defendant George Mauk
if not prevented will fraudulantly sell, convey,
or conceal his property so as to (sic) plaintiff from
obtaining alimony for herself & maintenance
for her said infant children. Plaintiff states and charges
that the defendant Wm Yeary is indebted to the said
defendant Geo Mauk in the sun of $200; that the
said defendant Jno Bailey is indebted to the said deft Geo
Mauk in the sum of $140 - & the said deft Charled
Storry in indebted to the said deft Geo Mauk in
the sum of &100 - Plaintiff states that unless the
said deft Geo Mauk is restrained from dispose-
ing (sic) of his property & collecting said debt great &
irreparable injury will result to plaintiff & her
said infant children. She states that the said
deft George Mauk is the owner of two tracts of land
in Barren County conveyed to him be Jno Nichols
& Thomas Hearlan containing ____ acres evidences of
the title to which will in due time be files
herewith.
Wherefore plaintiff prays for a divorce from her
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said husband & fer (sic) an order of injunction against
the said George Mauk forbidding his selling his
said land & other property directing to Sheriff
of said county to deliver to plaintiff all of his
personal property & for an order injoining (sic) &
restraining the siad defts Yeary, Bailey & Storry
from paying said debts or any part thereof to
said Mauk until the matters & things in this
action can be heard & determined & for all proper
relief.
Elizabeth Mauk
by J. W. Gorin
Elizabeth Mauk says she believes the statements
made in the foregoing petition are true.
Elizabeth Mauk X (her mark)
Sworn to before me by Elizabeth Mauk April 21st
1865 W.F. Evans J Blele
The clerk of the Barren Circuit Court will issue
an order of injunction enjoining Wm Yearly (sic)
John Bailey & Charles Storry from paying to the
Defendant Mauk what they or either of them
may be owing to him, and to also to enjoin said
Mauk from selling or disposing of any land
he has title to to a possession of until an order
of said Circuit Court may be made in the
premisis. You will direct the Sheriff of this
county to take into custody and deliver
to the plaintiff so much of and such articles
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of the personal property of said Mauk as she
may select not to exceed in value of $300. And you
will also issue an order directing and enjoing
said deft Mauk not to interfere with said
property thus delivered to the plaintiff until
permitted to do so by an order of said Circuit Court
this order to be issued without requiring the
plfs to give bond. Given under my hand as
Judge of the County Court of Barren County
April 20th 1865
W. F. Evans J. Blele
a copy attest W. S. Porter clk
Elizabeth Mauk
vs
Deft in Equity
Geo Mauk & Others
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(The Depositions)
(p1)
The deposition of Virgina Nichols
(possibly Virgiania Ann Shipley Nichols, kin to Elizabeth Shipley Mauk)
taken at the Law office of J W Gorin
in the town of Glasgow Ky on the 1st
day of Sept 1866 to be read as evidence
in an action pending in the Barren
Circuit Court in which Elizabeth Mauk
is Pett & George Mauk is Deft
Question by Pltf
State whether or not you are acquainted with the parties
to this suit and ?__? not a fact that the defendant is &
has been prior to the 21st April 1865 a confirmed
drunkard.
Ans Yes Sirs he was
Ques by Pltf
Is it or not true from what the neighbors & those
who know the facts universally acknowledged as
true that the defendant has treated his wife
in a cruel & inhuman manner & has been
fraudulantly disposing of his property
without leaving or providing a suf-
ficiency for his infant children.
Ans I don’t know any thing about that
except what I heard Mrs Mauk (sic) their children
say about it.
Cross Examined by Deft
ist You have stated that Mr Mauk was
a confirmed drunkard. Please state how
often you ever seen him drunk. When it
was and where.
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Ans I saw him drunk on the day she went
from there & at other times but I have
no recollection of any particular day of
the week or month
(signed)
V A Nichols
Also the Deposition of
Michael Shanks taken at
the same time and place
and for the purposes mentioned
in the afore?
Question by Plantiffs ?__?
Were you or not acquainted
with defendant George Mauk &
How far did you live from
him?
Was he or not a confirmed drunkard
more than one year previous to
21 April 1865 Was there not wasting
his estate Pne year previou to
taht time without making suitable
provisions for his family
How many children has he
How old are they and where are they
Has or not said Mauk for
not less than six months
before 21 April 1865
behaved toward his wife d?__?
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(p3)
In such a cruel and inhuman
manner as to indicate on his
part a settled aversion to her
So as to destroy her peace and
happiness
Ans
as to 1st I am acquanted with Mr Mauk
As to 2nd yes six I think he was
as to the 3rd Everything seemed to be
wasting away like there was no
care taken of.
as to hid providing for his family
I don’t know. I don’t know how
many children he has & how old
they were or where they are.
of his treatment to his wife I
was not there nor do I know any
thing about it
Deft Mauk lives in the county of
Barren consecutively about 12
years before the 21st of April 1865 & owned the farm where
he lives.
Cross examined
You have stated this during the year
spoken of Everything on Mr Mauks
farm seemed to be wasting away. How
often were you on the farm That year
was not as good care been taken of it
that year as any year before
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Ans
I was there several times during
that year to get him & his boys
to work for me. he was drunk
he could not work. he did not
seem to take as good care of his
farm about that time as he had
done before. (signed) Michael Shank
Also the Disposition of G W Mauk
taken the same time &
place for the purposes
mentioned in the action.
Witness states that he is acquainted
to the parties in this action
that he resided in their family
in the month of March previous
to April 1865 & he was then &
has been for a year or more
previous to the time a confirmed
drunkard his farm was going to
waste but he had while I was
there tolerable plenty to live on
I don’t know that I ever saw him ?__?
wife treat his wife. but he swore &
cursed about the place a good deal
but I never saw him attempt to
strike her. He owned the farm on which he lived
& some horses & cattle & the last time
I saw him he was still drinking
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Cross Exmamined
I am 20 years old in next Feby
The farm was going to waste by
his neglect to cultivate it.
George W. Mauk
Also the deposition of a
nother Geo W Mauk:
witness is acquainted with
plaintiff in this suit. That he had
been a confirmed drunkard
ever since I knew him & I have
known him 20 years or all my
life, I am about 25 years old
his property seems to be wasting
away and his wife wants to have
plowing done by the boys & the
farm cultivated & he swore they
should not do so that there should
not be plow stuck in the ground
that was in the year 1865 & before
the 21st of Apl of that year. He
hide out a piece of cash & other
things from the use of the family
& he treated my mother very bad
& threatened her life ?__? & tiring
this was in 1862 or 1863 from the
month of Feby 1865 to the 21st Apl
1865 I was at home from the army
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(p6)
his treatment to my mother
during that time was very much
?___? & I had to frequently inter-
fear to keep him from being
cruel to her.
Did deft George Mauk
during the time you speak of
being at the house behave toward
plaintiff in such a cruel and
inhuman manner as to indicate
to her to destroy per-
manently her peace and happi-
ness
Ans
Yes Sir
Did he during that time attempt
to injure her with force and
violence in such a manner as
to indicate a danerous ?__?
?__? temper in him and
probable danger to her life
or great bodily harm by
residing with her
Ans
Yes SIr
Question
Where did defendant
reside on 20 Apl 1865 and
for a year before then
Ans
On the farm on which he now lives
in Barren County
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Question
How much Estate had
your father then and now
Ans
He had about 200 acres of land
& has it yet ?__? he has ?__? 2 horses
& some cattle & hogs
Quest
Has he not offered to dis-
pose of his farm at a very
low rate with an expressed
view of giving to Texas if So when
Ans
He has not to my knowledge
but before the separation he
threatened frequently to sell out
& go to some new country
when my mother left he had
about $300 or more in cash notes
Quest
State why your mother left
your father if you are not a son
of plaintiff & defense and when
she left if she was compelled
to leave on account of cruel
treatment
State all you about the treatment
& ?__? and conduct of your
father toward your mother for
the last five years
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(p8)
Ans
I am a son of the parties in
this action. My mother left
my father about the last of
Mch or 1st of Apr 1865 She left
him because she was ?__?
the threats of Deft in danger
of her life and I trust my
self she was in danger of her
life at the time she went away
he had been cursing and abusing
her all night & he threatened her life & she left next
morning early. I had to step
in the room with him to prevent
him from injuring her. In 1862
he was loading or fixing to load
his pistol & threatened to kill her
often when he loaded his gun he
stated that he done so to kill my
mother
& we had to hide them
from him to prevent him from
doing her bodily harm ?__?
?__? diseparated & selling off some
of his property
Cross Examination
I was at my fathers on yesterday
I made a ?__? of these in 1865
my father had a tolerable
plenty of provisions for the
family at that time
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(p9)
He has more quiet & less a
business & when he was sober
than when he has drunk
The farm is tolerable poor
He had a Black Smiths shop
but was doing but very little
work in it at the time my mother left I don’t know what
my father done with the money
he got for the stock he sold
I don’t know whether he has
it now or not
Has not your father been selling & caarrying
on his farm since your mother left
him Also coming at his blacksmith
shop
Ans
He has not this year last year I carried
on the farming myself or raised
a crop then My father is carry-
ing on the Blacksmith Shop this
year in past year in partnership with Spencer
When your father spoke of selling the farm
& going to some new country with your
little brother did he say anything to
indicate that he intended to have the
rest of the family behind
Are you not very anxious that your mother
should gain this suit
Ans
Yes sir I answer the question also
in the affirmative George W Mauk
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Also the Deposition of Catherine Richards
taken at the same time and place
to be read as evidence in the
same action
Question
Are you a daughter of
Plaintiff and defendant
Ans
Yes Sir
Quest How many children have
them and how old are they and
where are they
They have 9 - 3 married & 6 Single
The youngest is about 13 years
Old The next oldest about 19-
& the next oldest about 21. My mother
now lives on Mr Becks farm near
Glasgow & the 2 youngest living
with her.
Quest
State where have you lived for
fourteen years last past
State all you (sic) about the treatment
of your mother by your
father
Ans I lived with my father & mother
I have heard my father within
the last 3 years after threaten the
life of my mother I have also
heard the same threats within
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(p11)
the last 6 months before they parted
Quest
Did or did not Defendant
behave toward your mother
during the last six months that they lived together
continually in a manner to
to indicate that he had no
regard for her feelings and
hated her
Ans Yes Sir
Quest
State all you know about
it
Ans I never saw him strike her
but I heard him abuse & threaten
her very much and neglect her he
left the house & when he came
in brought a club in his hand
& sit it in the corner near him
& he would curse her & look
at her in a threatening way & look
at the club but he did not attempt
to strike her
Quest
Has he or not been wasting
his property within the last few
years and is he he not still very
dissatisfied(?) Ans Yes Sir
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Cross Examined (?___?)
You say your father is wasting his
property In what way is he doing
this
Ans He is selling it off at low proces
& drink it up & wasting it in
one way or another
Catherine Richards
Also Deposition of John Mauk
wittness states that the Deft has about 200
acres of Land 2 horses 2
or 3 head cattle & some hogs
I lived between a ?__? and a half
mile of the parties for the last
10 years just preceeding the time
of their parting. My father
treated my mother so badly
that the very often sent for
me to come over to get her
& frequently found him drunk & with
a gun or a pen knife in his
hands & threatening the life of
my mother. This occuredwithin 6 mos just pre-
ceding the 21st day
of Apr 1865. He has been for
the last several years wasting
his property for drink &
in the fall of 1863 he spent frpm
$1.-&1.50 per day at a still house
when I was working
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(p13)
Cross Examined
He killed 2 horses in a spree
& sold other property I don't
know what he did with
the money. I am a son
of the Pet & Deft in this action
The farm is a poor one
worth perhaps $1000 or $1500
John S. Mauk
State of Kentucky Barren County
I George W Trabue Examiner for Barren Co
certify that the foregoing Depositions of Virginia A
Nichols, Micheal Shanks, Geo W Mauk, another
G W Mauk, Catherine Richards, & John S. Mauk
were taken before me at the time & place
in the action mentioned in the caption. The said
witnesses having been first sworn by me that
the evidence they should give in the action
should be the truth & their statement re-
duced to writing by me in their presence
the Pet & also Defts atty being present
Given under my hand Sep 3 1866
G. W. Trabue BC
Examiner fee for Dep $3.
2 ?___? 40 ?__? ?__?
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Property Settlement for Elizabeth Mauk
We John Lock Michael Shank & Jones ?A ?__?
having been summoned & duly sworn by J W Renick
?__? for S R Tolle S B C to set aside three hundred
Dollars worth of the property of George Mauk Senior
for Elizabeth Mauk Set aside the following articles
at the following prices towit
One Low Bedstead & Bedding 6.00
One Beadsted Cover led dheet & straw tick 2.00
One flax wheel & five chairs 3.50
One lot of casting & candle molds 2.50
One Hackle Bushel of meal & sifter 2.00
One Bedsted & Bedding 6.00
One cupboard & cupboard ware 8.00
One yoke & oxen & wagon 100.00
One white cow & calf 25.00
One spotted heifer 24.00
One Barrel Whisky at $240 cents per gallon 106.00
Twenty five pounds of bacon at 25 cts per pound 6.25
one lot of cupboardware knives and forks 3.00
one chest & coffey mill 1.50
One falow collar & geer 3.50
One Dish pan wash pan & coffey pot .70
(total) $299.95
Amounting in the whole to Two Hundred and
Ninety nine Dollars & 95 cts This Apr 22nd 1866
(signed)
John Lock
Miacheal Shank
Jones A ?__?
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Elizabeth Mauk
vs
George W Mauk
(map)
See image links below
Under an order from the Barren
Circuit Court at term
Term 1867 we have surveyed
the land belonging to George
W. Mauk and have land
one third on value as
follows The whole
tract beginning at two
white oaks East corner
on Down the fence 44w40 poles to a stake & two small post
oaks Yeary's Corner Thence same corse 46 poles to a post oak
& dogwood Thence N77W21 poles to two gums & a poplar thence
S62w 198 poles to an ash and white oak Yeary's corner (at 6)
thence s30e116 poles to a white oak thence N86E148 poles to
a hickory on a branch John Bailey's Corner thence s80E33 poles
to a stone white oak pointer thence N5E25 poles to a stone and
Chestnut thence East 34 poles to a poplar & dogwood Bailey's Corner
on Depps line thence with said line N5E180 poles to a poplar
two white oaks & dogwood on Drane Corner thence west 40 poles
to a post oak whit oak & hickory on ?__? old line thence
N5E41 poles to the Beginning-Containing 272 Acres
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Elizabeth Mauks one third is bounded as follows
"Beginning at a stake on John Bailey's line (at 8) Thence
N20W153 poles to a black oak gum & dogwood on Yeary's
line (at5) Thence S62W129 poles to an ash & white oak Yeary's
corner thence S30E116 poles to white oak thence N86E109
poles to the Beginning-Containing 98 Acres
Nov 28th 1867
?_? 3 days Survey Commisioner $12
Wm Bailey 3 day com & chairman 7.50
George Spencer(?) Same 7.50
(total) $27.00
James W Scrivener(?)
W T Bailey
George M. Spencer
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Final Judgement
Barren Circuit Court
Judgement
Elizabeth Mauk Pltf
Against
George Mauk & others Defts
This day this cause came on to be
heard upon the pleadings exhibits & proofs & the
court being advised it is now adjudged that the
Plaintiff Elizabeth Mauk & defendant
George Mauk her husband be & they are hereby
divorced from bed and board for the period of
six months next after the rendition of this
Judgement. It is further adjudged so much of that the
injunction herein granted by the Judge of the
Barren County Court as enjoins & restrains
the said George Mauk from selling any land
to which he may have title be contained & not
the allotment of personal property to plaintiff
made by the Sheriff of said County on the
22nd day of April 1865 amounting in value
to the sum of two hundred & ninety nine dollars
& ninety five cents be & the same is hereby
confirmed. It appearing that the defendant
Wm Yeary may regularly ?__? with process
& the plaintiff having alleged that said
Yeary was indebted to the defendant
George Mauk on the 21st day of April
1865 two hundred dollars & the said Yeary having failed to
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answer plaintiffs petition it is taken for confessed
as to him & it is therefor adjudged & ordered that
the said Yeary pay said two hundred dollars
& the interest thereon to the said plaintiff
Elizabeth Mauk or her atty.
The defendant Jno G Bailey having attested
in his answer that he was indebted to the deft
George Mauk forty dollars and 25 cts on the 21st day of April 1865 It is ?__?
now adjudged & ordered that said Baily (sic) pay said forty
dollars &25cts & the interst thereon to the plaintiff
Elizabeth Mauk or her atty.
The defendant Charled Story having ?__?
in his answer that he was indebted to the defen
dant George Mauk on the 21st day of April
1865 one hundred dollars it is adjudged
& ordered that said Story pay said one
hundred dollars & the interest thereon to the plaintiff
Elizabeth Mauk or her atty
It is further adjudged & ordered that James W Gorin
attorney for plaintiff in this action
be & he is hereby allowed the sum of fity
Dollars as a fee for bringing & attending
to this suit to be paid out of the proceeds
of the debts aforesaid on said Yeary, Story and
Baily after paying the costs of this suit to be taxed by the clerk & the residue (?) of said debts is
allowed to plaintiff for maintenance
the court reserves the right to make
such modifications of this judgement
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(Judgement p3)
& further orders in this cause as justice
& the circumstance & action of the parties in the
future may seem to require
This case is now continued
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Kentucky Vital Statistics
W T Mawk Nov 1853 to George and Elizabeth Shipley
Barren County Kentucky Deeds:
Geo Mawk to Wm M Yeary
120 Acres on Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek
For the sum of $400
March 29, 1865
Know all men by these presents that I George Mauk of the first part of and in consideration of four hundred dollars in hand paid have this day Bargained and Sold and conveyed unto William M Yeary of the Second part both of the county of Barren and State of Kentucky the following Boundary of Land. in Said County and State and on the South Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek Beginning double poplar thence South 62 W 241 poles to a Stone in an old field thence South 19 E 60 poles to a dogwood thence South 30 E 20 poles to an ash white oak pointer. thence N 62 E 194 poles to a gum and poplar thence South 77 E 20 poles to a dogwood and Post oak thence N 49 E 45 poles to a Stake Suppose to be in Geo Mauks line thence to the Beginning Containing One hundred and twenty acres more or less to have and to hold unto the Said William M Yeary and his heirs forever and the party of the first part hereby warrants and defends the Said tract or parcel of Land to Said Yeary with covenants of general warranty-In Testimony whereof the Said Mauk and wife have set their hand and affixed their seal this 29th day of March 1865.
George Mauk (seal)
Elizabeth Mauk (seal)
State of Kentucky
Barren County
I R.B. Evans clerk of the county court for Said county certify that the foregoing deed from Geo Mauk and ELizabeth his wife to Wm M Yeary was on the ____day of _____ 1864 acknowledged before Thos Davis an acting deputy for me by Said Mauk & wife to be their act & deed. wherefore the same & this certificate have been recorded in my office. The proper Stamp being atttached to the original deed as ____ by an act of congress.
Given under my hand this 24th day of April 1865
R.B. Evans CBCC
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Geo Mauk lease to EW Kerr
January 21, 1865
This indenture made this 21st day of January 1865 between George Mauk and Elizabeth Mauk of the first part and Elizabeth W Kerr of the County of Jefferson and State of Kentucky of the Second part Wtnesseth that the parties of the first part hereby lease to the parties of the second part the following premisis to wit: A certain tract or parcel of land lying on Nichols branch of Fallen Timber Creek containing about 200 acres, being the tract on which the parties of the first part live. It is agreed that the party of the Second part shall commence alteration for the purposes of obtaining oil or other product within three years else this lease to be null and void.
For the space of Twenty five years and ___ to keep the tenants in quiet possession of the premisis during said Terms.
It is hereby agreed between said parties that the party of the Second part shall have the sole and exclusive right to bore, explore, mine and dig for oil, salt water, coal or other mineral and the exclusive right to use and benefit of all of said oil minerals etc that may be on or under Said land for the terms of years above specified and no other right or privilege is granted.
In consideration whereof the parties of the Second part bind themselves to give to the parties of the first part One tenth part of all the oil salt or other product obtained from said land to be delivered by the parties of the Second part to the parties of the first part in marketable condition upon the premasis in good and sufficient barrels which shall be furnished by the parties of the first part.
It is agreed that if the parties of the Second part fail to obtain oil or other products and shall abandon the premisis or upon the expiration of the terms for
(line missing in copy)
machinery they may have placed upon said land.
It is agreed that the parties of the Second part shall have the right of way to and from said premisis over any land or water course assgned or possesed by the parties of the first part and the right to make all roads _____ to get the product of said land to market in the cheapest and best manner.
It is further agreed that the parties of the Second part may at any time or times hereafter during the term hereby granted lease or ____ let all or any part of Said premisi or the whole or any part of Said term may be aquired or transfered to any person or persons whomsoever.
In Testamony whereof we have affixed our hands and seals the day and year above written .
George Mawk (signed)
Elizabeth Mauk (her mark)
Elizabeth Kerr
Witness
Saml Jordan
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All Mauk Family Land Records
Barren County Kentucky Probate Records
(Bill for services submitted to estate of Calum Homan Slayton by George Mauk)
March the 15, 1853
C H Slayton to Geo Mauk
cutting knife 015
to setting a pair of shoes and making two trowels 035
to sharpening 4 plows 015
to laying 2 hoes 035
to sharpening 2 plows 010
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to mending a sythe 010
to sharpening 3 plows 024
to making a pair of shoes 037
to sharpening 4 plows 032
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to making a pair of shoes and setting a pair 053
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to work don on a wagon 040
to pointing and sharpening 2 big plows 035
to fixing stretchers 020
to making a pair of shoes 037
to making a ??? 010
to ???? 015
to making a double tree March the 20th 1854 025
to sharpening a ? plow 010
to laying 2 plows 080
to sharpening 2 turning plows 020
to setting a pair of shoes 015
(page 2)
to sharpening 2 plows 016
to forging shoes and making one 020
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Asherville Cemetery Mitchell County Kansas
Photographs from the collection of Jennifer Mauk
George Mauk and Eliza Sartain Headstone
All Posted Mauk Family Death Records
Edna Weidenhaft (1900-1992) papers
Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
Family Group Sheet for George Mauk and Mary Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
We John Lock Michael Shank & Jones ?A ?__?
having been summoned & duly sworn by J W Renick
?__? for S R Tolle S B C to set aside three hundred
Dollars worth of the property of George Mauk Senior
for Elizabeth Mauk Set aside the following articles
at the following prices towit
One Low Bedstead & Bedding 6.00
One Beadsted Cover led dheet & straw tick 2.00
One flax wheel & five chairs 3.50
One lot of casting & candle molds 2.50
One Hackle Bushel of meal & sifter 2.00
One Bedsted & Bedding 6.00
One cupboard & cupboard ware 8.00
One yoke & oxen & wagon 100.00
One white cow & calf 25.00
One spotted heifer 24.00
One Barrel Whisky at $240 cents per gallon 106.00
Twenty five pounds of bacon at 25 cts per pound 6.25
one lot of cupboardware knives and forks 3.00
one chest & coffey mill 1.50
One falow collar & geer 3.50
One Dish pan wash pan & coffey pot .70
(total) $299.95
Amounting in the whole to Two Hundred and
Ninety nine Dollars & 95 cts This Apr 22nd 1866
(signed)
John Lock
Miacheal Shank
Jones A ?__?
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Elizabeth Mauk
vs
George W Mauk
(map)
See image links below
Under an order from the Barren
Circuit Court at term
Term 1867 we have surveyed
the land belonging to George
W. Mauk and have land
one third on value as
follows The whole
tract beginning at two
white oaks East corner
on Down the fence 44w40 poles to a stake & two small post
oaks Yeary's Corner Thence same corse 46 poles to a post oak
& dogwood Thence N77W21 poles to two gums & a poplar thence
S62w 198 poles to an ash and white oak Yeary's corner (at 6)
thence s30e116 poles to a white oak thence N86E148 poles to
a hickory on a branch John Bailey's Corner thence s80E33 poles
to a stone white oak pointer thence N5E25 poles to a stone and
Chestnut thence East 34 poles to a poplar & dogwood Bailey's Corner
on Depps line thence with said line N5E180 poles to a poplar
two white oaks & dogwood on Drane Corner thence west 40 poles
to a post oak whit oak & hickory on ?__? old line thence
N5E41 poles to the Beginning-Containing 272 Acres
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Elizabeth Mauks one third is bounded as follows
"Beginning at a stake on John Bailey's line (at 8) Thence
N20W153 poles to a black oak gum & dogwood on Yeary's
line (at5) Thence S62W129 poles to an ash & white oak Yeary's
corner thence S30E116 poles to white oak thence N86E109
poles to the Beginning-Containing 98 Acres
Nov 28th 1867
?_? 3 days Survey Commisioner $12
Wm Bailey 3 day com & chairman 7.50
George Spencer(?) Same 7.50
(total) $27.00
James W Scrivener(?)
W T Bailey
George M. Spencer
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Final Judgement
Barren Circuit Court
Judgement
Elizabeth Mauk Pltf
Against
George Mauk & others Defts
This day this cause came on to be
heard upon the pleadings exhibits & proofs & the
court being advised it is now adjudged that the
Plaintiff Elizabeth Mauk & defendant
George Mauk her husband be & they are hereby
divorced from bed and board for the period of
six months next after the rendition of this
Judgement. It is further adjudged so much of that the
injunction herein granted by the Judge of the
Barren County Court as enjoins & restrains
the said George Mauk from selling any land
to which he may have title be contained & not
the allotment of personal property to plaintiff
made by the Sheriff of said County on the
22nd day of April 1865 amounting in value
to the sum of two hundred & ninety nine dollars
& ninety five cents be & the same is hereby
confirmed. It appearing that the defendant
Wm Yeary may regularly ?__? with process
& the plaintiff having alleged that said
Yeary was indebted to the defendant
George Mauk on the 21st day of April
1865 two hundred dollars & the said Yeary having failed to
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answer plaintiffs petition it is taken for confessed
as to him & it is therefor adjudged & ordered that
the said Yeary pay said two hundred dollars
& the interest thereon to the said plaintiff
Elizabeth Mauk or her atty.
The defendant Jno G Bailey having attested
in his answer that he was indebted to the deft
George Mauk forty dollars and 25 cts on the 21st day of April 1865 It is ?__?
now adjudged & ordered that said Baily (sic) pay said forty
dollars &25cts & the interst thereon to the plaintiff
Elizabeth Mauk or her atty.
The defendant Charled Story having ?__?
in his answer that he was indebted to the defen
dant George Mauk on the 21st day of April
1865 one hundred dollars it is adjudged
& ordered that said Story pay said one
hundred dollars & the interest thereon to the plaintiff
Elizabeth Mauk or her atty
It is further adjudged & ordered that James W Gorin
attorney for plaintiff in this action
be & he is hereby allowed the sum of fity
Dollars as a fee for bringing & attending
to this suit to be paid out of the proceeds
of the debts aforesaid on said Yeary, Story and
Baily after paying the costs of this suit to be taxed by the clerk & the residue (?) of said debts is
allowed to plaintiff for maintenance
the court reserves the right to make
such modifications of this judgement
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& further orders in this cause as justice
& the circumstance & action of the parties in the
future may seem to require
This case is now continued
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Kentucky Vital Statistics
W T Mawk Nov 1853 to George and Elizabeth Shipley
Barren County Kentucky Deeds:
Geo Mawk to Wm M Yeary
120 Acres on Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek
For the sum of $400
March 29, 1865
Know all men by these presents that I George Mauk of the first part of and in consideration of four hundred dollars in hand paid have this day Bargained and Sold and conveyed unto William M Yeary of the Second part both of the county of Barren and State of Kentucky the following Boundary of Land. in Said County and State and on the South Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek Beginning double poplar thence South 62 W 241 poles to a Stone in an old field thence South 19 E 60 poles to a dogwood thence South 30 E 20 poles to an ash white oak pointer. thence N 62 E 194 poles to a gum and poplar thence South 77 E 20 poles to a dogwood and Post oak thence N 49 E 45 poles to a Stake Suppose to be in Geo Mauks line thence to the Beginning Containing One hundred and twenty acres more or less to have and to hold unto the Said William M Yeary and his heirs forever and the party of the first part hereby warrants and defends the Said tract or parcel of Land to Said Yeary with covenants of general warranty-In Testimony whereof the Said Mauk and wife have set their hand and affixed their seal this 29th day of March 1865.
George Mauk (seal)
Elizabeth Mauk (seal)
State of Kentucky
Barren County
I R.B. Evans clerk of the county court for Said county certify that the foregoing deed from Geo Mauk and ELizabeth his wife to Wm M Yeary was on the ____day of _____ 1864 acknowledged before Thos Davis an acting deputy for me by Said Mauk & wife to be their act & deed. wherefore the same & this certificate have been recorded in my office. The proper Stamp being atttached to the original deed as ____ by an act of congress.
Given under my hand this 24th day of April 1865
R.B. Evans CBCC
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Geo Mauk lease to EW Kerr
January 21, 1865
This indenture made this 21st day of January 1865 between George Mauk and Elizabeth Mauk of the first part and Elizabeth W Kerr of the County of Jefferson and State of Kentucky of the Second part Wtnesseth that the parties of the first part hereby lease to the parties of the second part the following premisis to wit: A certain tract or parcel of land lying on Nichols branch of Fallen Timber Creek containing about 200 acres, being the tract on which the parties of the first part live. It is agreed that the party of the Second part shall commence alteration for the purposes of obtaining oil or other product within three years else this lease to be null and void.
For the space of Twenty five years and ___ to keep the tenants in quiet possession of the premisis during said Terms.
It is hereby agreed between said parties that the party of the Second part shall have the sole and exclusive right to bore, explore, mine and dig for oil, salt water, coal or other mineral and the exclusive right to use and benefit of all of said oil minerals etc that may be on or under Said land for the terms of years above specified and no other right or privilege is granted.
In consideration whereof the parties of the Second part bind themselves to give to the parties of the first part One tenth part of all the oil salt or other product obtained from said land to be delivered by the parties of the Second part to the parties of the first part in marketable condition upon the premasis in good and sufficient barrels which shall be furnished by the parties of the first part.
It is agreed that if the parties of the Second part fail to obtain oil or other products and shall abandon the premisis or upon the expiration of the terms for
(line missing in copy)
machinery they may have placed upon said land.
It is agreed that the parties of the Second part shall have the right of way to and from said premisis over any land or water course assgned or possesed by the parties of the first part and the right to make all roads _____ to get the product of said land to market in the cheapest and best manner.
It is further agreed that the parties of the Second part may at any time or times hereafter during the term hereby granted lease or ____ let all or any part of Said premisi or the whole or any part of Said term may be aquired or transfered to any person or persons whomsoever.
In Testamony whereof we have affixed our hands and seals the day and year above written .
George Mawk (signed)
Elizabeth Mauk (her mark)
Elizabeth Kerr
Witness
Saml Jordan
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All Mauk Family Land Records
Barren County Kentucky Probate Records
(Bill for services submitted to estate of Calum Homan Slayton by George Mauk)
March the 15, 1853
C H Slayton to Geo Mauk
cutting knife 015
to setting a pair of shoes and making two trowels 035
to sharpening 4 plows 015
to laying 2 hoes 035
to sharpening 2 plows 010
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to mending a sythe 010
to sharpening 3 plows 024
to making a pair of shoes 037
to sharpening 4 plows 032
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to making a pair of shoes and setting a pair 053
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to work don on a wagon 040
to pointing and sharpening 2 big plows 035
to fixing stretchers 020
to making a pair of shoes 037
to making a ??? 010
to ???? 015
to making a double tree March the 20th 1854 025
to sharpening a ? plow 010
to laying 2 plows 080
to sharpening 2 turning plows 020
to setting a pair of shoes 015
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to sharpening 2 plows 016
to forging shoes and making one 020
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Asherville Cemetery Mitchell County Kansas
Photographs from the collection of Jennifer Mauk
George Mauk and Eliza Sartain Headstone
All Posted Mauk Family Death Records
Edna Weidenhaft (1900-1992) papers
Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
Family Group Sheet for George Mauk and Mary Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
Barren Circuit Court
Judgement
Elizabeth Mauk Pltf
Against
George Mauk & others Defts
This day this cause came on to be
heard upon the pleadings exhibits & proofs & the
court being advised it is now adjudged that the
Plaintiff Elizabeth Mauk & defendant
George Mauk her husband be & they are hereby
divorced from bed and board for the period of
six months next after the rendition of this
Judgement. It is further adjudged so much of that the
injunction herein granted by the Judge of the
Barren County Court as enjoins & restrains
the said George Mauk from selling any land
to which he may have title be contained & not
the allotment of personal property to plaintiff
made by the Sheriff of said County on the
22nd day of April 1865 amounting in value
to the sum of two hundred & ninety nine dollars
& ninety five cents be & the same is hereby
confirmed. It appearing that the defendant
Wm Yeary may regularly ?__? with process
& the plaintiff having alleged that said
Yeary was indebted to the defendant
George Mauk on the 21st day of April
1865 two hundred dollars & the said Yeary having failed to
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answer plaintiffs petition it is taken for confessed
as to him & it is therefor adjudged & ordered that
the said Yeary pay said two hundred dollars
& the interest thereon to the said plaintiff
Elizabeth Mauk or her atty.
The defendant Jno G Bailey having attested
in his answer that he was indebted to the deft
George Mauk forty dollars and 25 cts on the 21st day of April 1865 It is ?__?
now adjudged & ordered that said Baily (sic) pay said forty
dollars &25cts & the interst thereon to the plaintiff
Elizabeth Mauk or her atty.
The defendant Charled Story having ?__?
in his answer that he was indebted to the defen
dant George Mauk on the 21st day of April
1865 one hundred dollars it is adjudged
& ordered that said Story pay said one
hundred dollars & the interest thereon to the plaintiff
Elizabeth Mauk or her atty
It is further adjudged & ordered that James W Gorin
attorney for plaintiff in this action
be & he is hereby allowed the sum of fity
Dollars as a fee for bringing & attending
to this suit to be paid out of the proceeds
of the debts aforesaid on said Yeary, Story and
Baily after paying the costs of this suit to be taxed by the clerk & the residue (?) of said debts is
allowed to plaintiff for maintenance
the court reserves the right to make
such modifications of this judgement
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& further orders in this cause as justice
& the circumstance & action of the parties in the
future may seem to require
This case is now continued
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Kentucky Vital Statistics
W T Mawk Nov 1853 to George and Elizabeth Shipley
Barren County Kentucky Deeds:
Geo Mawk to Wm M Yeary
120 Acres on Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek
For the sum of $400
March 29, 1865
Know all men by these presents that I George Mauk of the first part of and in consideration of four hundred dollars in hand paid have this day Bargained and Sold and conveyed unto William M Yeary of the Second part both of the county of Barren and State of Kentucky the following Boundary of Land. in Said County and State and on the South Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek Beginning double poplar thence South 62 W 241 poles to a Stone in an old field thence South 19 E 60 poles to a dogwood thence South 30 E 20 poles to an ash white oak pointer. thence N 62 E 194 poles to a gum and poplar thence South 77 E 20 poles to a dogwood and Post oak thence N 49 E 45 poles to a Stake Suppose to be in Geo Mauks line thence to the Beginning Containing One hundred and twenty acres more or less to have and to hold unto the Said William M Yeary and his heirs forever and the party of the first part hereby warrants and defends the Said tract or parcel of Land to Said Yeary with covenants of general warranty-In Testimony whereof the Said Mauk and wife have set their hand and affixed their seal this 29th day of March 1865.
George Mauk (seal)
Elizabeth Mauk (seal)
State of Kentucky
Barren County
I R.B. Evans clerk of the county court for Said county certify that the foregoing deed from Geo Mauk and ELizabeth his wife to Wm M Yeary was on the ____day of _____ 1864 acknowledged before Thos Davis an acting deputy for me by Said Mauk & wife to be their act & deed. wherefore the same & this certificate have been recorded in my office. The proper Stamp being atttached to the original deed as ____ by an act of congress.
Given under my hand this 24th day of April 1865
R.B. Evans CBCC
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Geo Mauk lease to EW Kerr
January 21, 1865
This indenture made this 21st day of January 1865 between George Mauk and Elizabeth Mauk of the first part and Elizabeth W Kerr of the County of Jefferson and State of Kentucky of the Second part Wtnesseth that the parties of the first part hereby lease to the parties of the second part the following premisis to wit: A certain tract or parcel of land lying on Nichols branch of Fallen Timber Creek containing about 200 acres, being the tract on which the parties of the first part live. It is agreed that the party of the Second part shall commence alteration for the purposes of obtaining oil or other product within three years else this lease to be null and void.
For the space of Twenty five years and ___ to keep the tenants in quiet possession of the premisis during said Terms.
It is hereby agreed between said parties that the party of the Second part shall have the sole and exclusive right to bore, explore, mine and dig for oil, salt water, coal or other mineral and the exclusive right to use and benefit of all of said oil minerals etc that may be on or under Said land for the terms of years above specified and no other right or privilege is granted.
In consideration whereof the parties of the Second part bind themselves to give to the parties of the first part One tenth part of all the oil salt or other product obtained from said land to be delivered by the parties of the Second part to the parties of the first part in marketable condition upon the premasis in good and sufficient barrels which shall be furnished by the parties of the first part.
It is agreed that if the parties of the Second part fail to obtain oil or other products and shall abandon the premisis or upon the expiration of the terms for
(line missing in copy)
machinery they may have placed upon said land.
It is agreed that the parties of the Second part shall have the right of way to and from said premisis over any land or water course assgned or possesed by the parties of the first part and the right to make all roads _____ to get the product of said land to market in the cheapest and best manner.
It is further agreed that the parties of the Second part may at any time or times hereafter during the term hereby granted lease or ____ let all or any part of Said premisi or the whole or any part of Said term may be aquired or transfered to any person or persons whomsoever.
In Testamony whereof we have affixed our hands and seals the day and year above written .
George Mawk (signed)
Elizabeth Mauk (her mark)
Elizabeth Kerr
Witness
Saml Jordan
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All Mauk Family Land Records
Barren County Kentucky Probate Records
(Bill for services submitted to estate of Calum Homan Slayton by George Mauk)
March the 15, 1853
C H Slayton to Geo Mauk
cutting knife 015
to setting a pair of shoes and making two trowels 035
to sharpening 4 plows 015
to laying 2 hoes 035
to sharpening 2 plows 010
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to mending a sythe 010
to sharpening 3 plows 024
to making a pair of shoes 037
to sharpening 4 plows 032
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to making a pair of shoes and setting a pair 053
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to work don on a wagon 040
to pointing and sharpening 2 big plows 035
to fixing stretchers 020
to making a pair of shoes 037
to making a ??? 010
to ???? 015
to making a double tree March the 20th 1854 025
to sharpening a ? plow 010
to laying 2 plows 080
to sharpening 2 turning plows 020
to setting a pair of shoes 015
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to sharpening 2 plows 016
to forging shoes and making one 020
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Asherville Cemetery Mitchell County Kansas
Photographs from the collection of Jennifer Mauk
George Mauk and Eliza Sartain Headstone
All Posted Mauk Family Death Records
Edna Weidenhaft (1900-1992) papers
Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
Family Group Sheet for George Mauk and Mary Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
Kentucky Vital Statistics
W T Mawk Nov 1853 to George and Elizabeth Shipley
Barren County Kentucky Deeds:
Geo Mawk to Wm M Yeary
120 Acres on Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek
For the sum of $400
March 29, 1865
Know all men by these presents that I George Mauk of the first part of and in consideration of four hundred dollars in hand paid have this day Bargained and Sold and conveyed unto William M Yeary of the Second part both of the county of Barren and State of Kentucky the following Boundary of Land. in Said County and State and on the South Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek Beginning double poplar thence South 62 W 241 poles to a Stone in an old field thence South 19 E 60 poles to a dogwood thence South 30 E 20 poles to an ash white oak pointer. thence N 62 E 194 poles to a gum and poplar thence South 77 E 20 poles to a dogwood and Post oak thence N 49 E 45 poles to a Stake Suppose to be in Geo Mauks line thence to the Beginning Containing One hundred and twenty acres more or less to have and to hold unto the Said William M Yeary and his heirs forever and the party of the first part hereby warrants and defends the Said tract or parcel of Land to Said Yeary with covenants of general warranty-In Testimony whereof the Said Mauk and wife have set their hand and affixed their seal this 29th day of March 1865.
George Mauk (seal)
Elizabeth Mauk (seal)
State of Kentucky
Barren County
I R.B. Evans clerk of the county court for Said county certify that the foregoing deed from Geo Mauk and ELizabeth his wife to Wm M Yeary was on the ____day of _____ 1864 acknowledged before Thos Davis an acting deputy for me by Said Mauk & wife to be their act & deed. wherefore the same & this certificate have been recorded in my office. The proper Stamp being atttached to the original deed as ____ by an act of congress.
Given under my hand this 24th day of April 1865
R.B. Evans CBCC
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Geo Mauk lease to EW Kerr
January 21, 1865
This indenture made this 21st day of January 1865 between George Mauk and Elizabeth Mauk of the first part and Elizabeth W Kerr of the County of Jefferson and State of Kentucky of the Second part Wtnesseth that the parties of the first part hereby lease to the parties of the second part the following premisis to wit: A certain tract or parcel of land lying on Nichols branch of Fallen Timber Creek containing about 200 acres, being the tract on which the parties of the first part live. It is agreed that the party of the Second part shall commence alteration for the purposes of obtaining oil or other product within three years else this lease to be null and void.
For the space of Twenty five years and ___ to keep the tenants in quiet possession of the premisis during said Terms.
It is hereby agreed between said parties that the party of the Second part shall have the sole and exclusive right to bore, explore, mine and dig for oil, salt water, coal or other mineral and the exclusive right to use and benefit of all of said oil minerals etc that may be on or under Said land for the terms of years above specified and no other right or privilege is granted.
In consideration whereof the parties of the Second part bind themselves to give to the parties of the first part One tenth part of all the oil salt or other product obtained from said land to be delivered by the parties of the Second part to the parties of the first part in marketable condition upon the premasis in good and sufficient barrels which shall be furnished by the parties of the first part.
It is agreed that if the parties of the Second part fail to obtain oil or other products and shall abandon the premisis or upon the expiration of the terms for
(line missing in copy)
machinery they may have placed upon said land.
It is agreed that the parties of the Second part shall have the right of way to and from said premisis over any land or water course assgned or possesed by the parties of the first part and the right to make all roads _____ to get the product of said land to market in the cheapest and best manner.
It is further agreed that the parties of the Second part may at any time or times hereafter during the term hereby granted lease or ____ let all or any part of Said premisi or the whole or any part of Said term may be aquired or transfered to any person or persons whomsoever.
In Testamony whereof we have affixed our hands and seals the day and year above written .
George Mawk (signed)
Elizabeth Mauk (her mark)
Elizabeth Kerr
Witness
Saml Jordan
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All Mauk Family Land Records
Barren County Kentucky Probate Records
(Bill for services submitted to estate of Calum Homan Slayton by George Mauk)
March the 15, 1853
C H Slayton to Geo Mauk
cutting knife 015
to setting a pair of shoes and making two trowels 035
to sharpening 4 plows 015
to laying 2 hoes 035
to sharpening 2 plows 010
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to mending a sythe 010
to sharpening 3 plows 024
to making a pair of shoes 037
to sharpening 4 plows 032
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to making a pair of shoes and setting a pair 053
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to work don on a wagon 040
to pointing and sharpening 2 big plows 035
to fixing stretchers 020
to making a pair of shoes 037
to making a ??? 010
to ???? 015
to making a double tree March the 20th 1854 025
to sharpening a ? plow 010
to laying 2 plows 080
to sharpening 2 turning plows 020
to setting a pair of shoes 015
(page 2)
to sharpening 2 plows 016
to forging shoes and making one 020
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Asherville Cemetery Mitchell County Kansas
Photographs from the collection of Jennifer Mauk
George Mauk and Eliza Sartain Headstone
All Posted Mauk Family Death Records
Edna Weidenhaft (1900-1992) papers
Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
Family Group Sheet for George Mauk and Mary Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
W T Mawk Nov 1853 to George and Elizabeth Shipley
Barren County Kentucky Deeds:
Geo Mawk to Wm M Yeary
120 Acres on Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek
For the sum of $400
March 29, 1865
Know all men by these presents that I George Mauk of the first part of and in consideration of four hundred dollars in hand paid have this day Bargained and Sold and conveyed unto William M Yeary of the Second part both of the county of Barren and State of Kentucky the following Boundary of Land. in Said County and State and on the South Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek Beginning double poplar thence South 62 W 241 poles to a Stone in an old field thence South 19 E 60 poles to a dogwood thence South 30 E 20 poles to an ash white oak pointer. thence N 62 E 194 poles to a gum and poplar thence South 77 E 20 poles to a dogwood and Post oak thence N 49 E 45 poles to a Stake Suppose to be in Geo Mauks line thence to the Beginning Containing One hundred and twenty acres more or less to have and to hold unto the Said William M Yeary and his heirs forever and the party of the first part hereby warrants and defends the Said tract or parcel of Land to Said Yeary with covenants of general warranty-In Testimony whereof the Said Mauk and wife have set their hand and affixed their seal this 29th day of March 1865.
George Mauk (seal)
Elizabeth Mauk (seal)
State of Kentucky
Barren County
I R.B. Evans clerk of the county court for Said county certify that the foregoing deed from Geo Mauk and ELizabeth his wife to Wm M Yeary was on the ____day of _____ 1864 acknowledged before Thos Davis an acting deputy for me by Said Mauk & wife to be their act & deed. wherefore the same & this certificate have been recorded in my office. The proper Stamp being atttached to the original deed as ____ by an act of congress.
Given under my hand this 24th day of April 1865
R.B. Evans CBCC
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Geo Mauk lease to EW Kerr
January 21, 1865
This indenture made this 21st day of January 1865 between George Mauk and Elizabeth Mauk of the first part and Elizabeth W Kerr of the County of Jefferson and State of Kentucky of the Second part Wtnesseth that the parties of the first part hereby lease to the parties of the second part the following premisis to wit: A certain tract or parcel of land lying on Nichols branch of Fallen Timber Creek containing about 200 acres, being the tract on which the parties of the first part live. It is agreed that the party of the Second part shall commence alteration for the purposes of obtaining oil or other product within three years else this lease to be null and void.
For the space of Twenty five years and ___ to keep the tenants in quiet possession of the premisis during said Terms.
It is hereby agreed between said parties that the party of the Second part shall have the sole and exclusive right to bore, explore, mine and dig for oil, salt water, coal or other mineral and the exclusive right to use and benefit of all of said oil minerals etc that may be on or under Said land for the terms of years above specified and no other right or privilege is granted.
In consideration whereof the parties of the Second part bind themselves to give to the parties of the first part One tenth part of all the oil salt or other product obtained from said land to be delivered by the parties of the Second part to the parties of the first part in marketable condition upon the premasis in good and sufficient barrels which shall be furnished by the parties of the first part.
It is agreed that if the parties of the Second part fail to obtain oil or other products and shall abandon the premisis or upon the expiration of the terms for
(line missing in copy)
machinery they may have placed upon said land.
It is agreed that the parties of the Second part shall have the right of way to and from said premisis over any land or water course assgned or possesed by the parties of the first part and the right to make all roads _____ to get the product of said land to market in the cheapest and best manner.
It is further agreed that the parties of the Second part may at any time or times hereafter during the term hereby granted lease or ____ let all or any part of Said premisi or the whole or any part of Said term may be aquired or transfered to any person or persons whomsoever.
In Testamony whereof we have affixed our hands and seals the day and year above written .
George Mawk (signed)
Elizabeth Mauk (her mark)
Elizabeth Kerr
Witness
Saml Jordan
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All Mauk Family Land Records
Barren County Kentucky Probate Records
(Bill for services submitted to estate of Calum Homan Slayton by George Mauk)
March the 15, 1853
C H Slayton to Geo Mauk
cutting knife 015
to setting a pair of shoes and making two trowels 035
to sharpening 4 plows 015
to laying 2 hoes 035
to sharpening 2 plows 010
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to mending a sythe 010
to sharpening 3 plows 024
to making a pair of shoes 037
to sharpening 4 plows 032
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to making a pair of shoes and setting a pair 053
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to work don on a wagon 040
to pointing and sharpening 2 big plows 035
to fixing stretchers 020
to making a pair of shoes 037
to making a ??? 010
to ???? 015
to making a double tree March the 20th 1854 025
to sharpening a ? plow 010
to laying 2 plows 080
to sharpening 2 turning plows 020
to setting a pair of shoes 015
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to sharpening 2 plows 016
to forging shoes and making one 020
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Asherville Cemetery Mitchell County Kansas
Photographs from the collection of Jennifer Mauk
George Mauk and Eliza Sartain Headstone
All Posted Mauk Family Death Records
Edna Weidenhaft (1900-1992) papers
Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
Family Group Sheet for George Mauk and Mary Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
Geo Mawk to Wm M Yeary
120 Acres on Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek
For the sum of $400
March 29, 1865
Know all men by these presents that I George Mauk of the first part of and in consideration of four hundred dollars in hand paid have this day Bargained and Sold and conveyed unto William M Yeary of the Second part both of the county of Barren and State of Kentucky the following Boundary of Land. in Said County and State and on the South Swanegin Fork of Beaver Creek Beginning double poplar thence South 62 W 241 poles to a Stone in an old field thence South 19 E 60 poles to a dogwood thence South 30 E 20 poles to an ash white oak pointer. thence N 62 E 194 poles to a gum and poplar thence South 77 E 20 poles to a dogwood and Post oak thence N 49 E 45 poles to a Stake Suppose to be in Geo Mauks line thence to the Beginning Containing One hundred and twenty acres more or less to have and to hold unto the Said William M Yeary and his heirs forever and the party of the first part hereby warrants and defends the Said tract or parcel of Land to Said Yeary with covenants of general warranty-In Testimony whereof the Said Mauk and wife have set their hand and affixed their seal this 29th day of March 1865.
George Mauk (seal)
Elizabeth Mauk (seal)
State of Kentucky
Barren County
I R.B. Evans clerk of the county court for Said county certify that the foregoing deed from Geo Mauk and ELizabeth his wife to Wm M Yeary was on the ____day of _____ 1864 acknowledged before Thos Davis an acting deputy for me by Said Mauk & wife to be their act & deed. wherefore the same & this certificate have been recorded in my office. The proper Stamp being atttached to the original deed as ____ by an act of congress.
Given under my hand this 24th day of April 1865
R.B. Evans CBCC
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Geo Mauk lease to EW Kerr
January 21, 1865
This indenture made this 21st day of January 1865 between George Mauk and Elizabeth Mauk of the first part and Elizabeth W Kerr of the County of Jefferson and State of Kentucky of the Second part Wtnesseth that the parties of the first part hereby lease to the parties of the second part the following premisis to wit: A certain tract or parcel of land lying on Nichols branch of Fallen Timber Creek containing about 200 acres, being the tract on which the parties of the first part live. It is agreed that the party of the Second part shall commence alteration for the purposes of obtaining oil or other product within three years else this lease to be null and void.
For the space of Twenty five years and ___ to keep the tenants in quiet possession of the premisis during said Terms.
It is hereby agreed between said parties that the party of the Second part shall have the sole and exclusive right to bore, explore, mine and dig for oil, salt water, coal or other mineral and the exclusive right to use and benefit of all of said oil minerals etc that may be on or under Said land for the terms of years above specified and no other right or privilege is granted.
In consideration whereof the parties of the Second part bind themselves to give to the parties of the first part One tenth part of all the oil salt or other product obtained from said land to be delivered by the parties of the Second part to the parties of the first part in marketable condition upon the premasis in good and sufficient barrels which shall be furnished by the parties of the first part.
It is agreed that if the parties of the Second part fail to obtain oil or other products and shall abandon the premisis or upon the expiration of the terms for
(line missing in copy)
machinery they may have placed upon said land.
It is agreed that the parties of the Second part shall have the right of way to and from said premisis over any land or water course assgned or possesed by the parties of the first part and the right to make all roads _____ to get the product of said land to market in the cheapest and best manner.
It is further agreed that the parties of the Second part may at any time or times hereafter during the term hereby granted lease or ____ let all or any part of Said premisi or the whole or any part of Said term may be aquired or transfered to any person or persons whomsoever.
In Testamony whereof we have affixed our hands and seals the day and year above written .
George Mawk (signed)
Elizabeth Mauk (her mark)
Elizabeth Kerr
Witness
Saml Jordan
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All Mauk Family Land Records
Barren County Kentucky Probate Records
(Bill for services submitted to estate of Calum Homan Slayton by George Mauk)
March the 15, 1853
C H Slayton to Geo Mauk
cutting knife 015
to setting a pair of shoes and making two trowels 035
to sharpening 4 plows 015
to laying 2 hoes 035
to sharpening 2 plows 010
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to mending a sythe 010
to sharpening 3 plows 024
to making a pair of shoes 037
to sharpening 4 plows 032
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to making a pair of shoes and setting a pair 053
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to work don on a wagon 040
to pointing and sharpening 2 big plows 035
to fixing stretchers 020
to making a pair of shoes 037
to making a ??? 010
to ???? 015
to making a double tree March the 20th 1854 025
to sharpening a ? plow 010
to laying 2 plows 080
to sharpening 2 turning plows 020
to setting a pair of shoes 015
(page 2)
to sharpening 2 plows 016
to forging shoes and making one 020
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Asherville Cemetery Mitchell County Kansas
Photographs from the collection of Jennifer Mauk
George Mauk and Eliza Sartain Headstone
All Posted Mauk Family Death Records
Edna Weidenhaft (1900-1992) papers
Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
Family Group Sheet for George Mauk and Mary Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
January 21, 1865
This indenture made this 21st day of January 1865 between George Mauk and Elizabeth Mauk of the first part and Elizabeth W Kerr of the County of Jefferson and State of Kentucky of the Second part Wtnesseth that the parties of the first part hereby lease to the parties of the second part the following premisis to wit: A certain tract or parcel of land lying on Nichols branch of Fallen Timber Creek containing about 200 acres, being the tract on which the parties of the first part live. It is agreed that the party of the Second part shall commence alteration for the purposes of obtaining oil or other product within three years else this lease to be null and void.
For the space of Twenty five years and ___ to keep the tenants in quiet possession of the premisis during said Terms.
It is hereby agreed between said parties that the party of the Second part shall have the sole and exclusive right to bore, explore, mine and dig for oil, salt water, coal or other mineral and the exclusive right to use and benefit of all of said oil minerals etc that may be on or under Said land for the terms of years above specified and no other right or privilege is granted.
In consideration whereof the parties of the Second part bind themselves to give to the parties of the first part One tenth part of all the oil salt or other product obtained from said land to be delivered by the parties of the Second part to the parties of the first part in marketable condition upon the premasis in good and sufficient barrels which shall be furnished by the parties of the first part.
It is agreed that if the parties of the Second part fail to obtain oil or other products and shall abandon the premisis or upon the expiration of the terms for
(line missing in copy)
machinery they may have placed upon said land.
It is agreed that the parties of the Second part shall have the right of way to and from said premisis over any land or water course assgned or possesed by the parties of the first part and the right to make all roads _____ to get the product of said land to market in the cheapest and best manner.
It is further agreed that the parties of the Second part may at any time or times hereafter during the term hereby granted lease or ____ let all or any part of Said premisi or the whole or any part of Said term may be aquired or transfered to any person or persons whomsoever.
In Testamony whereof we have affixed our hands and seals the day and year above written .
George Mawk (signed)
Elizabeth Mauk (her mark)
Elizabeth Kerr
Witness
Saml Jordan
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Barren County Kentucky Probate Records
(Bill for services submitted to estate of Calum Homan Slayton by George Mauk)
March the 15, 1853
C H Slayton to Geo Mauk
cutting knife 015
to setting a pair of shoes and making two trowels 035
to sharpening 4 plows 015
to laying 2 hoes 035
to sharpening 2 plows 010
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to mending a sythe 010
to sharpening 3 plows 024
to making a pair of shoes 037
to sharpening 4 plows 032
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to making a pair of shoes and setting a pair 053
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to work don on a wagon 040
to pointing and sharpening 2 big plows 035
to fixing stretchers 020
to making a pair of shoes 037
to making a ??? 010
to ???? 015
to making a double tree March the 20th 1854 025
to sharpening a ? plow 010
to laying 2 plows 080
to sharpening 2 turning plows 020
to setting a pair of shoes 015
(page 2)
to sharpening 2 plows 016
to forging shoes and making one 020
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Asherville Cemetery Mitchell County Kansas
Photographs from the collection of Jennifer Mauk
George Mauk and Eliza Sartain Headstone
All Posted Mauk Family Death Records
Edna Weidenhaft (1900-1992) papers
Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
Family Group Sheet for George Mauk and Mary Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
(Bill for services submitted to estate of Calum Homan Slayton by George Mauk)
March the 15, 1853
C H Slayton to Geo Mauk
cutting knife 015
to setting a pair of shoes and making two trowels 035
to sharpening 4 plows 015
to laying 2 hoes 035
to sharpening 2 plows 010
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to mending a sythe 010
to sharpening 3 plows 024
to making a pair of shoes 037
to sharpening 4 plows 032
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to making a pair of shoes and setting a pair 053
to setting a pair of shoes 015
to work don on a wagon 040
to pointing and sharpening 2 big plows 035
to fixing stretchers 020
to making a pair of shoes 037
to making a ??? 010
to ???? 015
to making a double tree March the 20th 1854 025
to sharpening a ? plow 010
to laying 2 plows 080
to sharpening 2 turning plows 020
to setting a pair of shoes 015
(page 2)
to sharpening 2 plows 016
to forging shoes and making one 020
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Asherville Cemetery Mitchell County Kansas
Photographs from the collection of Jennifer Mauk
George Mauk and Eliza Sartain Headstone
All Posted Mauk Family Death Records
Edna Weidenhaft (1900-1992) papers
Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
Family Group Sheet for George Mauk and Mary Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
Asherville Cemetery Mitchell County Kansas
Photographs from the collection of Jennifer Mauk
George Mauk and Eliza Sartain Headstone
All Posted Mauk Family Death Records
Edna Weidenhaft (1900-1992) papers
Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
Family Group Sheet for George Mauk and Mary Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
Edna Weidenhaft (1900-1992) papers
Daughter of Sarah Rachel Mauk and Solon Steere, wrote this account of the family history
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
Family Group Sheet for George Mauk and Mary Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
Story told by Goldia Deweese Thomerson as told to her by Martha Richards Deweese, granddaughter of George and Elizabeth Shipley Mauk.
In 1862 the war later called the Civil War was just beginning. It hadn’t yet fully engulfed the region of South Central Kentucky, the County of Barren, near the Tennessee border.
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
Family Group Sheet for George Mauk and Mary Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
The home of George Mauk was a busy one. He had moved his family, a little over twelve years before, to Barren County Kentucky, just northeast of the town of Slick Rock, from Hawkins County Tennessee, near the Virginia Border. George was a Blacksmith and was training sons, Benjamin at least, in the lucrative trade so necessary in any commnity. The household was a busy one, and full. George and his wife Elizabeth lived with their unmarried children: their eldest daughter Catherine, "Kate", widowed now and with her two daughters Martha, age twelve and Makinnia, age ten; George and Elizabeth's 22 year old daughter Martha, and sons George, 21, Benjamin, 20, Jessie, 16, Zachariah ,14, and William, 11. Two children had married and were no longer in the extended family home. Eldest son John had married Mildred Nichols and lived next door, and daughter Malinda also resided adjacent to the family of her parents with her husband William Yeary and her new family. George and Elizabeth’s son Lewis was gone by 1860, but no one knows now, to exactly where.
It is said, in later years, that George felt strongly about the rights enumerated by the Southern States, sentiments falling firmly with the Confederacy. Two sons at least, Benjamin and William, believed in the tenants espoused by the Northern States, and would leave to work for the Union cause. Benjamin used the trade learned from his father and was employed as a blacksmith for the Union Army. Benjamin and William would eventually change the spelling of their family name as a result of this split in family beliefs, calling themselves Mock. Whether this was yet a topic of hot contention within the family home in 1862 is not now known.
One evening in that year a company of Union solders came, and chose the Mauk home, by chance I suppose, from which to ask for an evening meal and a camping place. Elizabeth had long since fed her family, her daughters and granddaughters were busy scrubbing the large table, washing the pots and plates. Biscuits, it was decided, were all she had available to feed such a crew, and even then, the only water left in the home was the washing water, the water already soapy and full of scrubbing rags and dirty pots and plates. No one, so the story goes, could bring themselves to take the long walk to the somewhat distant spring to fetch fresh water, or perhaps George forbade the errand.
Elizabeth used what she had on hand, and prepared a meager feast for the soldiers, of biscuits made with flour and soda and soapy wash water. The soldiers were fed the meal, and slept the night then, their bellies full of flour and soapy water, grateful for the kindness. They were never told the ingredients of their meal.
George and Elizabeth’s grand daughter Martha, was only a girl of 12 on that night. More than half a century later, when she was a grown woman with grand daughters of her own, Martha would recount that evening, and the meal, with a chuckle. She told her grand daughter, Goldia, as she fed Goldia the fat, hot biscuits for which Martha was then locally known. It was biscuits like these, large and golden brown, served to the soldiers then, on that night in 1862, only Martha never again used that "secret ingredient" with which they prepared the biscuits for those soldiers. She decided she liked better to prepare her biscuits without the soapy water.
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
Family Group Sheet for George Mauk and Mary Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
Notes for George Mauk and Eliza Sartain:
Barren Co KY Will Book 3, p. 386 (father of Alfred, grandfather of Eliza)
Joel Sartain Jr Date Written: 25 Oct 1853 Date Probated: November Term 1853
Wife: Sally Sartin
Sons: Alfred Sartin, Lewis Sartin, Joel Sartin
Daughters: Lucinda Sartin who married Stephen Glass, Elysabeth who md. Thomas N Clarke, Daughter: Caroline, widow of William Clarke, PollyAn who married William Word.
Slaves: Jesse and his wife Lucy, George, Lewis, Amanda, Louisa, Harriet, Reuben, Emely
Executor: Son Lewis Sartin and Stephen Glass (son-in-law); Witnesses: P W Grinstead, Philip A Shive, Henry Perkins
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
Family Group Sheet for George Mauk and Mary Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
Notes/Narrative from Jennifer Mauk
When Eliza met George he was a widower. George's parents were Henry and Sarah Mauk of Tennesee. George and his first wife (doesn't give a name) had eleven children. Their names were 1) Jesse 2)Ben - his wife's name was Lucinda 3)Will - last heard of at Kit Carson, Colo. in 1936. 4)John 5)George 6)Louis - died at the age of 19. 7)Zach - a
preacher 8)Martha 9)Kate 10)Lucinda 11)Sarah - died while a small child.
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct
1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had
made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed
info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died
of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father
never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas
where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie
in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.
Family Group Sheet for George Mauk and Mary Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
End of notes for George Mauk and Elizabeth Shipley and Eliza Sartain
On Sept.30, 1867 George Mauk married Eliza (Sartain) Bunch in Glasgow, Barron Co; Kentucky. They began the long trip westward by covered wagon. They were accompanied by Eliza's two young daughters from her previous marriage - Rissie age 8 and Melia age 5. They were also accompanied as far as Missouri by Eliza's father Alfred Sartain and stepmother America, Eliza's brothers and sisters. The Sartains stayed in Missouri.
George, Eliza, Rissie and Melia arrived in Asherville, Mitchell Co; Kansas on March 30, 1868 and took up homestead by the river. There was a small dugout already in place, not walled up with a dirt roof. They lived in that until George could get a log cabin built; a small one room cabin with a loft above it. Here four children were born. Sarah Rachel b.25 July 1871, Henry Alfred b.16 Nov 1873, Louis S. b.26 Oct 1875 and James Andrew 21 Oct 1876. Louis died when five days old. George died 13 July 1878. Both are buried at the Asherville Cemetary.
Times were very hard and Eliza found it hard to make a living for herself and her children. The Two older girls were married and in their own homes before George died. With only the most essential tools, George had made the most necessary furniture. Including a chair for each: Eliza, Sarah and Henry. They were put together with wooden pegs and had seats of buffalo hide.
Eliza and the children gathered wild plums in the fall and she preserved them in sorghum in large earthen jars. Fish from the river and corn bread was their main food along with vegetables from the garden and wild greens. In the summer, the children would gather sheep sorrel which Eliza made into pie using sorghum for sweetening.
They had an old gray mare which she used for the heaviest work and she would clean her comb by combing the mare's tail. She made all of their clothing by hand. She had to knit all the stockings for the family. Whenever she went into Asherville she would knit as she walked along. She always walked to town because , she said " The mare had working in the field and needed to rest".
George died when his son James Andrew was a baby. After George died, Eliza married again when Sarah was about 9. She married a man named Bud Whetmore. Eliza died 8 Feb 1904 at age 65 from pneumonia.
Jesse was the only one of the first Mauk family to come to Kansas. He homesteaded the quarter section east of his father's. Their houses being about 1/4 mile apart. Jessie and his wife Susan and their four sons, Jerome, Perkins, Titus and Roscoe, lived there in a stone house for a number of years. After Jessie died and was buried in the Asherville cemetary,
Susan and the boys sold the farm and moved to Talmo, Kansas. When Susan died she was buried next to James.
Notes on Eliza Sartain
Elizabeth Frances Sartain was born 15 Oct 1838 Bowling Green, Warren Co, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alfred b.1817 Lincoln Co, Kentucky and Rachel Witty b.1823 Barren County, Kentucky. (I also have more detailed info on the Sartain Line). Eliza married Zachariah Harrison Bunch b. 1842 on 2 June 1858. A daughter Torissa was born 8 July 1859. Zachariah joined the Union Army, the 21st Kentucky Volunteers on 30 December 1861. He died of Typhoid Fever in Confederate Prison at Camp Ward on 26 July 1862. (Camp Ward was near their home in Barron County where they were married.) Another daughter Parmelia Harrison was born to them on 30 March 1862. Her father never saw her. How sad!
Terissa or "Rissy" married a man whose last name was Mitchell and they had five children: Zach, Onie, Henry, Martha and Rose. They moved to Idaho where Mitchell died. Rissie and the children returned to Asherville, Kansas where she later married Abe Parrish. Abe was the father of Gove Parrish and cousin of Richard Parrish, her brother - in - law. Gove later worked as an Asherville mail carrier. Rissie and Parrish had three children: Benny, Herbert and Lenora. The Mitchell boys (above) lived at St. Joseph, Missouri and the Parrish children lived in Linn Co, Kansas in the 1930's.
Parmelia or "Melia" b. 30 march 1862, married Richard Parrish and they had two daughters: Cora Estella b. 12 Oct 1878 and Lucy b. 25 Feb 1881. They owned and lived in a little house in Simpson, Kansas (about 10 miles from Asherville) Richard died while the girls were small and Melia took in sewing. Later she married a man named Stout. In 1887 Melia died and both she and Richard are buried in the Asherville Cemetary. The girls lived part of the time with their Grandma Mauk (Eliza) and part of the time with their aunt Sarah "Sadie" Steere. Cora married Louis Steere, stepson of Aunt Sadie in the spring of 1900 and they had one daughter named Vira. Vira married Trafton Thomas and were the parents of six children: Pauline, Doris, Lois, June, Louis and Vonne. Lucy married Claude Bundy and had three children: Earl, Ed and Lucille.