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Subject: WESTERN KY RESEARCH Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 19:52:14 EDT From: Chascum@aol.com Brenda Robinson Barfield 876 Lee Road 227 Smiths, AL 36877-3807 BarfieldB@aol.com February 11, 1996 WESTERN KY RESEARCH This is in response to a request about research in Western KY--please pass this on to other KY researchers--some of my KY families are listed below: 1. Western KY Journal, edited by Brenda Joyce Jerome, 300 W. Water St., Newburgh, IN 47630-1158. $20 per year, quarterly magazine, queries free to members, began Jan 94, good source. She adds more source books for sale each year. Write and she will send you a list of what is for sale. She sells booklets on Cald-well, Livingston, Crittenden Counties (prices are all abt $25 ea). The Journal also covers other counties of Henderson, Union, Webster, Hopkins, Lyon, Livingston and Trigg plus those above. Send your first query with subscription. Tell her I sent you. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Lyon County Historical Society, P. O. Box 811, Eddyville, KY 42038, membership $5 per year, $10 family, $100 life. As of 1994 they had the following for sale (copied from their application): a. Tale of Two Cities, Cities Twaine (with index) 56 pages, (Ken-tucky Bicentennial Edition Reprint) $12. b. Lyon County Cemeteries, 348 pages, last name index $18 (I have this book--if you are researching this county it is invalu-able). c. One Century of Lyon Co History, 130 pages, indexed $10. d. Pictures: Old Court House, Main St. Old Eddyville, Map Old Eddyville (Legend), Kuttawa Springs--$5 each. e. Set of prints, 20 x 74, Mathew Lyon, William Kelly, Mineral Mound, Steamer--J.B. Richardson, KY St Pen., TN Rolling Mill, LeClede Hotel, Old Eddyville Ferry, Hawthorne Chapel, Mint Spring--$5 each. ***FOR MAIL ORDERS PLEASE ADD $2.00 FOR POSTAGE & HANDLING. Some historical info about Lyon Co, KY: created in 1854 (near Livingston Co) U.S. census available 1860-1920, parent county or territory, Caldwell. County Seat, Eddyville, KY 42038. Lyon Co Clerk Records: birth 1912-1932, marriages and land records from 1854, clerk of Circuit Court has divorce records. Caldwell County was split from Christian & Livingston Counties. Trigg County is also closely connected. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Scarlett McDonald, 166 Center Ridge Road, Eddyville, KY 42038, has some books for sale some of which are: Lyon Co KY Birth Records 1874-1910, Marriages Vol 1 1854-1874, Marriages Vol 2 1875-1890, Births, and Deaths. (I have purchased all of these). Tell her I sent you! ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4. This is one of the best sources of records available. My genea-logical research began from an article published in the Sunday Parade Magazine in the 1980s about genealogicaly research through the Mormon Church. I wrote to the address they gave and request-ed information about their centers. They sent me some forms and broshures of what is available for research through them and I have never looked back. Most large cities and many small ones have family history centers. They are open to the public several days per week, call and get their hours and days. I have many films and fiche for the southern states on file at my local history center on indefinite loan to me (and anyone else who wants access). We have few KY records at our libraries and all the marriage records which I have copied came from the History Center. For Micro-filmed KY records go to the nearest Latter Day Saints Family History Center near you. You should call the local church and ask them where the nearest history center is. If it is near you, go there and get started. Get the address for Utah where all genealogical records are kept. They publish booklets for sale (for 25 cents) last time I bought one for every state in the U.S. of where each state's records are stored. They also have all the forms you need for anything for 10 cents each. It takes about two weeks to order film for less than $3 each, you view them for 3 weeks and return them, OR----pay $6 for indefinite loan and keep them a long time. My history center has two computers and printers, many books, films, fiche, and copy machine. The Mormons volunteer their time to work in the family history centers. They will show you how to use their facilities. Some of them know a lot about how to do things and others are just learning. If you visit them when a learner is there, go back and try again another time when a more knowledg-ab-le person is there. Ask them to let you know when an educa-tional session will be available. The Mormon use the genealogi-cal software program PAF. Last time I was there it was $35. --------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Commonwealth of KY, Department for Health Services, Vital Statistics, 275 East Main St, Frankford, KY 40621-0001, you can order death certificates from this address--I have ordered all the dates I know and they are very helpful and fast. Or write and they will send you a form. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Good luck fellow researchers! My W. KY families are: BROWNING (Nimrod & son William & his sons: James & Williamson?, Marion, Jackson, Wilson & William (twins), Willis & his son A.E. Emaria-h & his son Charles Woodson & his dtr Oda Lee) Nimrod & William came from NC, TN, to KY See ETHERIDGE/VINSON/WOODSON below--need proof of rela- tionships between Williamson, Willis, James, & William Browning. All Browning families in Caldwell & Lyon Co in 1850s & 1860s appear to be connected to my family. CANNON (Nathaniel father of Rosanna who m. 1812 James GRAY, and Mary Cannon who married Benjamin A. Darnell. CRABB Joseph & Rosanna (Hurd) CRABB of VA, had two children that I know of Rhoda born about 1802 in KY married Fountain ROGERS and Joseph CRABB (my ances-tor) who married Fountain's sister, Elizabeth Rogers, both children of William, son of Dauswell ROGERS, REV WAR SOL-DIER. Any Crabb researcher!!!!!!!!!!!!! CUMMINS (Florilla C. (Ward) Gray born Stewart Co, TN married (2) 1856 Simon A. Cummins. Her first husband James Gray was kin to me. CORRECTION HERE: I first thought her maiden name was ROACH, but it was Ward per her marriage record to James Gray. DARNELL (Henry Darnell signed marriage bond for Rosanna Cannon and James Gray, and Benjamin A. Darnell married sister Mary Cannon above. (Caldwell Co, KY 1817) DOOM (Ms. Merle Ganier of Fort Worth TX has the book for sale of Jacob Doom (817-838-5727) my ancestors (Jacob, David, Columbus, Willie Ann "Lula") ETHERIDGE (Sarah J./G. dtr of John H. & Cecily (Newby) Etheridge, married A.Emariah Browning) GALLOWAY Kin by marriage GRAY (Garrett from NJ/James from VA died bef 1850 KY/his son James Gray married 1849 Florilda C. Ward--in 1850 they had one son James M. Gray, she married (2) 1856 Simon A. Cummins. HARRIS (Pernicia/Pernecy 1st wife of Thomas J. Robertson) had two sons, Leonard and Leander (one disappeared as a young man and the other was called Lonnie Robinson--he never married and is buried in Doom Cemetery. KNIGHT (Who is Hattie Knight, in cemetery listed as sister of George West? in Lyon Co, KY) LADY Kin by marriage. MONEYMAKER Kin by marriage. NEWBY (Mrs. Elizabeth (Mitchell), dtr of Z. & Elizabeth Mitchell, mother of Cecelia Newby--born 1814 SC. Have several Newby records to share--who was her father? RAINS (Mrs. Nancy Rains, from Montgomery & Stewart Co, TN, REIN children: James, Richard, & Sarah/Sallie (Rains) married George W. West in 1846 TN, came to Caldwell Co, KY by 1860. (Who is Crecy Rein, in a Lyon Co KY cemetery listed as sister of George West? Is she Luvetia Smith, first wife of James Rains of TN--sister-in-law of George West?) ROBERTSON (William H. "Buck" married Elizabeth who? lived in ROBINSON Hopkins Co, KY., their dtr Armelia H. married my ancester Columbus DOOM) (William of Hopkins Co?, and his son Thomas J. Robert- son/Robinson and second wife Willie Ann "Lula" DOOM) Searching for Thomas J.'s parents, he was born about 1848 possibly Hopkins KY, died 1926 Princeton. ROGERS SEE CRABB ABOVE. STONE (William married Susannah P. Gray, dtr of James and Rosanna (Cannon) GRAY. Nancy R. Stone, dtr of William and Susannah (Gray) Stone, married Samuel Stacker WEST. SULLIVANT (Nathaniel, father of Charlotte, who married May 10, 1810, Caldwell KY, David DOOM, son of Jacob. (I have several Sullivant marriage dates to Pinnel/Brown/ Mitch-ell that may be kin. VINSON (Mrs. S.A. Vinson married Williamson Browning 1849 Caldwell Co, KY) need more on them WEST (George W. married Sallie RAINS 1826 Stewart Co, TN, their son Samuel Stacker WEST born 1848 TN, they came to Caldwell/Lyon Co KY 1849. (Cemetery records lists 2 sisters of George West, Hattie Knight and Crecy Rein?) WARD (Florilda C. Ward married (1) June 18, 1849 James Gray, son of James and Rosanna (Cannon) GRAY, m. (2) WARFIELD My ancestor's sister, Ida B. West, married Noah H. Warfield, they had one son Jesse Hugh Warfield, would like to know more. Ida B. was dtr of George West. WOODSON Believe my ancester Charles Woodson Browning was named for a relative or ancester with surname Woodson. Searching for Woodson/Browning connection. I have made some notes about a Browning/Woodson family from an old KY history book if anyone is interested this connec- tion. -------------