February 2002 Genealogy Forum News

KENTUCKY

(January Newsletter)

Happy 2002!!

Happy New Year, One and All

Merle and I both hope you had a safe and Happy Holiday Season. Now it is time for New Year Resolutions and New Beginnings. The best way to begin is to find that long lost ancestor you haven't been able to find yet. It hardly seems possible, does it? Our January 2002 Genealogy Forum newsletter is ready and waiting to try to help you get your new year off to a good start with lots of great organizing tips.

January 2002 Genealogy Forum News

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Our theme for February will be "Records: What's Available?" All readers are encouraged to contribute. Please read "Call for Papers," found at http://www.genealogyforum.rootsweb.com/gfnews/january02/papers0102.htm and submit your articles, stories, poems, links, etc., to HOST GFS Carol or to me Host GFS Rip before the 20th of January.

HUMOR

Many years ago a Kentucky grandmother gave a new bride the following recipe for washing clothes....

1. Bilt fire in backyard to heat kettle of rain water.

2. Set tubs so smoke wont blow in eyes if wind is pert.

3. Shave one hole cake of lie soap in bilin water.

4. Sort things, make 3 piles. 1 pile white, 1 pile colored, 1 pile work britches and rags.

5. To make starch, stir flour in cool water to smooth, then thin down with bilin water.

6. Take white things, rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard, and then bile. Rub colored, don't bile, just rinch and starch.

7. Take things out of kettle with broomstick handle, then rinch, and starch.

8. Hang old rags on fence.

9. Spread tea towels on grass.

10. Pore rinch water in flower bed.

11. Scrub porch with hot soapy water.

12. Turn tubs upside down.

13. Go put on clean dress, smooth hair with hair combs. Brew cup of tea, sit and rock a spell and count your blessings.

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The following were sent to me by a friend, I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. I have no idea who to give credit to :-)

"Actual Epitaphs from Gravestones"

On the grave of Ezekiel Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia:

Here lies Ezekiel Aikle Age 102

The Good Die Young.

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In a London, England cemetery:

Ann Mann

Here lies Ann Mann,

Who lived an old maid

But died an old Mann.

Dec. 8, 1767

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In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery:

Anna Wallace

The children of Israel wanted bread and the Lord sent them manna, Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife, and the Devil sent him Anna.

~~~~~

Playing with names in a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery:

Here lies Johnny Yeast

Pardon me for not rising.

~~~~~

A lawyer's epitaph in England:

Sir John Strange

Here lies an honest lawyer,

And that is Strange.

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Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont:

I was somebody.

Who, is no business

Of yours.

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Lester Moore was a Wells, Fargo Co. station agent for Naco, Arizona in the cowboy days of the 1880's. He's buried in the Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona:

Here lies Lester Moore

Four slugs from a .44

No Les No More.

~~~~~

In a Georgia cemetery:

"I told you I was sick!"

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John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery:

Reader if cash thou art

In want of any

Dig 4 feet deep

And thou wilt find a Penny.

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More fun with names with Owen Moore in Battersea, London, England:

Gone away Owin' more

Than he could pay.

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Someone in Winslow, Maine didn't like Mr. Wood:

In Memory of Beza Wood

Departed this life

Nov. 2, 1837

Aged 45 yrs.

Here lies one Wood

Enclosed in wood

One Wood

Within another.

The outer wood

Is very good:

We cannot praise

The other.

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On a grave from the 1880's in Nantucket, Massachusetts:

Under the sod and under the trees

Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.

He is not here, there's only the pod:

Pease shelled out and went to God.

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The grave of Ellen Shannon in Girard, Pennsylvania is almost a consumer tip:

Who was fatally burned March 21, 1870

by the explosion of a lamp filled with

"R.E. Danforth's Non-Explosive Burning Fluid"

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Oops! Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York:

Born 1903--Died 1942

Looked up the elevator shaft to see

if the car was on the way down.

It was.

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In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery:

Here lies an Atheist

All dressed up

And no place to go.

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In a cemetery in England:

Remember man, as you walk by,

As you are now, so once was I,

As I am now, so shall you be,

Remember this and follow me.

~~~~~

To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone:

To follow you I'll not consent,

Until I know which way you went.

KENTUCKY SURNAMES

Madison County = BLACKBURN - BRANDENBURG - HAGGARD - HALL - HORNBUCKLE - ISAACS - KINDRED - LOCKHART - OVERSTREET

Magoffin County

Marion County = JUSTICE - SCOTT

Marshall County

Martin County

Mason County

McCracken County = GARRIOTT - JONES - RANSDELL - TAYLOR - UNDERWOOD - WHITE - WYATT

McCreary County

McLean County

Meade County = BRANDENBURG

Menifee County

Mercer County

Metcalfe County = ANDERSON - BELL - BUTLER - CURTIS - FITZGERALDS - GERALDS - HAGAN - SKAGGS - WHITE

Monroe County = ANDERSON - BELL - BUTLER - CURTIS - FITZGERALDS - GERALDS - HAGAN - HUGHES - SHIRLEY - SHIRLY - SKAGGS - SUMNER - WHITE

Montgomery County

Morgan County = ADKINS - BELLEW - CLEVENGER - DAY - ELSWICK - HAMILTON - WHITT

Muhlenburg County = BLAIN - BLAINE - BRITT - BROWN - CHILDRESS - FREE - GATES - GRAYSON - HUNSAKER - NOE - POLEY - POPE - PORTER - RAUCH - RICE - SHEPHERD - SMITH - TAYLOR - VICK

Nelson County = BARTLEY - SNIPP

Nicholas County

(Remember, email me privately and I will have the person looking for these surnames get in touch wiht you.)

KENTUCKY WEBSITES

Johnson County pages include:What's up page

http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyjohnso/WU.htm

Kentucky Land Grants: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyjohnso/landGrant.htm

Vietnam Wall of Honor: (A-D surnames; all counties) http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyjohnso/VVK.htm

World War I memorial page that lists all of the veterans. http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyjohnso/WWI.htm

Pictorial History of Meade Memorial School http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyjohnso/meade.htm

Adoptions in Kentucky in the 1910 census http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyjohnso/Adopt.htm

This page contains links to Kentuckians in Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, who were adopted and from Kentucky; all counties.

JENNY'S FAMILY FOREST. Includes CASE, COURSEY, EILERS, MARTIN, MITCHELL, ONKEN, PINSON, PITTMAN, RENKEN, ROBERT, RUPERT, TURLEY, VANDIVER, WORMER, and more. Families from Germany, France, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and all over the U.S. (mainly California, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, and Virginia) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jennycase/home.html

KENTUCKY. Morgan County. Murphy Fork Road Cemeteries. Indexes and photographs of the majority of the gravestones in the two cemeteries

-- Murphy Fork Cemetery and Ben Murphy Cemetery -- located here. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tmsgen/mfcem.html

GREAT: Just go to this page and you can find a link to any Kentucky county from here - plus a lot of other links.

http://www.lineagesnet.com/usa/KY/GraysonCounty.html

GENEALOGY INFORMATION

The following was forwarded from one mailing list to another so many times, I am not sure who to give the credit to for passing it along (rip):

Forwarded from the Blacksheep mail list, thought some of you might be interested. Even if you don't want to be "certified", I suspect each of us would benefit from the lessons on researching/documenting.

Original message:

This is forwarded, I looked it over, and it appears to be straight forward and above board.

Subject: Free Certification Class for Genealogists

Something I would like to do this next year is give people who cannot afford it the opportunity to become certified genealogists by offering the Certification Class for Genealogists, free of charge. Please take advantage of it, if you are interested. For information about the class go http://www.rootsweb.com/~genclass/cert/cert.htm To begin, just start at http://www.rootsweb.com/~genclass/cert/month1/cert1_1.htm Change the last 1 to a 2, 3 and then 4 and you'll have the first months lessons. You 'must' turn in homework, which is what makes it different from the other classes.

You are accountable for your work and will be given pointers on how to do things, if warranted. And you must do the months in order, although they are totally free of charge, including the test at the end of the year. I look forward to hearing from each of you.

-- Diana J. Muir, Professional Educator

770-431-5105 (office) 240-597-5977 (fax) 678-576-6381 (cell)

NEW KENTUCKY MAILING LISTS

(Go to http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl sign up and see the available mailing lists.)

kyahgp -- Kentucky American History and Genealogy Project

kycumber -- Cumberland County, Kentucky

SOUTHERN-PLANTATIONS -- History and owners of Southern Plantations

Rip

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