Editor's
Note: In the mid-1930s, The Louisville Herald-Post conducted
a genealogy column featuring materials sent in by its readers.
We thought our readers would find the column interesting. We
will reprint parts from this column each month. Because they
were printed some 60 years ago, we do not have any other facts,
except those given below. We hope our readers enjoy the Kentucky
Kinfolks column.
Gill-Taylor
A. B. Gill went from Baltimore to Kentucky where he married Ann
Taylor. After their marriage, they settled on a plantation near
Alexandria, Louisiana. This was in the early 1800s. Ann Taylor's
father died early, as her mother remarried a Mr. McLaren of Mississippi.
Mr. McLaren's son owned a wholesale hardware house named McLaren,
Williams, and Company. He is a half-brother of Ann Taylor.
Shannon
Robert Shannon, born 1753, was a Revolutionary soldier who settled
in Kentucky. Robert and his wife, Catharine, settled in Henry
County, Kentucky. They were from North Carolina. They were married
February 24, 1780. Robert died January 22, 1827. Catharine was
born 1762 in Pennsylvania. Her maiden name was Catharine Davidson.
They removed to South Carolina when she was 10 or 12, and they
were married by Wm. Bratton at her father's house. They then
removed to Lincoln County, North Carolina, on South Fork of Catawba.
They moved to Scott County, Kentucky, 1795, and lived 13 years
there, then removed to Fayette County, Kentucky; then to Jessamine
County, and then to Henry County, Kentucky, in 1812. They had
Samuel Shannon, born 1793, married Martha; Nancy B. Shannon,
born 1781; Mary, born 1783; Catharine, born 1785; Joseph, born
1788; Peggy, born 1791; Lillie, born 1797; John, born 1801; and
Elias, born 1812. Arthur Shannon, another Revolutionary soldier,
settled in Fayette County, Kentucky. He enlisted in Berks County,
Pennsylvania, 1776. His wife was living at the time he made his
affidavit, but his affidavit names no children. There are many
Shannon marriages and intermarriages with others by the same
name, showing that there were unrelated families in Kentucky
by this name.
Meriwether-Crawford
The Meriwethers of Virginia and Kentucky are supposed to be descendants
of Nicholas Meriwether (the immigrant), born 1647, died 1744,
who settled in New Kent County, Virginia; where he was a vestryman
in St. Peter's Parish, 1685-98. His wife, Elizabeth, is the daughter
of David Crawford of New Kent County (the name Crawford was also
spelled Craford and Crafford in early records). Much has been
published about the Meriwethers, but not much on the Crawfords.
That may be due to the fact that the records of New Kent County
were destroyed before people began taking an interest in their
ancestry. There is a tradition that the father of Nicholas Meriwether
was in Virginia before Nicholas settled in New Kent. The Meriwethers
and Crawfords were possibly neighbors in Surry County at an earlier
date. A Francis Meriwether's estate was settled in Surry County
in 1676, and that of a William Meriwether in 1695. Moreover,
there is a Robert Crawford, who left a will in Surry, probated
1717, who might have been the father of Elizabeth. A book entitled
Craw-fordiana, with a subtitle of The Descendants of John Crawford
of New Kent County, was published in New York in 1833.
Warfield
Benjamin Warfield of Ann Arundle County, Maryland, married Rachael
Ridgeley. They had a son, Elisha, born November 29, 1741, who
moved to Kentucky ca. 1790.
Miller-Carr
John W. Miller (1805-1881), born near Harned, Breckinridge County,
Kentucky, married Jane Carr, March 9, 1830, at Rome; then the
county seat of Perry County, Indiana. Two sisters of John married
men by the name of Dwyer and moved to Iowa. This family of Millers
was descended from a member of Cecil Calvert's colony that settled
in Maryland. John Miller's mother, Susan Springer, or her parents
must have come from southern Pennsylvania or northern Delaware.
Since John Miller was Catholic, it is presumed that his ancestors
either followed, or were members of one of the settlements from
St. Mary's County, Maryland, that settled near Bardstown, Kentucky.
White
Martha White, married, on October 10, 1821, William Musselman
in Daviess County, Kentucky.
Bolling-Clack
Jonathan Bolling was born in Virginia, May 22, 1767. He was married
in Albemarle County, Virginia, on November 17, 1790, to Susannah
Wood, born November 10, 1766. She was the daughter of John and
Eleanor Isreal Wood of Albemarle. Jonathan and Susannah Wood
Bolling had issue: John Bolling, born January 30, 1792; Rhoda
Bolling, born January 15, 1794; Betsy Bolling, born March 30,
1796; William Bolling, born February 10, 1799; Polly M. Bolling,
born March 1, 1803; George W. Bolling, born April 25, 1807; James
M. Bolling, born October 12, 1811; and Susannah Bolling, born
January 5, 1813. Jonathan Bolling came to Kentucky from Albemarle
County, Virginia, and settled in Barren County. Elizabeth Wood,
sister of Susannah, married John Clack of Albemarle. Moses Clack,
also of Albemarle, married Mary Dedman.
Blankenbaker-Wilhoyte
Nicholas Blankenbaker, born in Germany in 1758, died in Shelby
County, Kentucky, in 1849. He served in the American Revolution.
He was married to Fannie Wilhoyte.
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