Nelson Conty
"DeAnna Fisher" <Byram@msn.com>
Nancy Ellen Ritchie Smith (1833-1904), Nelson Co.
Nancy Ellen Smith (wife of Walton Smith), granddaughter of Cornelius
RITCHIE (son of John Ritchie and Jemima QUICK, from Scotland and Holland
respectively) and Kesiah JUPIN Ritchie, of Nelson Co., owned about 450 acres
of the old Charles Smith homestead, Bellwood, Nelson Co., Ky., he being her
father in law and one of the earliest settlers of Nelson Co.
The Smiths built a vat and tanned their own leather, in that time
shoemakers went to the house taking measurements and returning later with
shoes for the family.
The original Smith house burned before 1850 and was replaced with one
built of logs hewed on all four sides and and fitted neatly in the corners. It
is the oldest house in that community, the others having been burned or torn
down. There is a large meathouse built of white limestone by James Cork,
formerly of Boston, Nelson Co., Ky. that is an excellent piece of workmanship.
The stone fence surrounding the property was built by his slaves and is in
good preservation. The family cemetery is upon a hill and Charles Smith is
buried there.
Across the valley from his house is a negro cemetery where Smith and his
neighbors buried their slaves, their children and grandchildren brought their
dead there in the late 1890s. It is among the largest burial ground for slaves
and their descendants in the state of Ky.
The Smiths raised flax and made it into cloth, they also kept a flock of
sheep and carded the wool into rolls for weaving. Nancy Ellen Smith and her
daughters all carded, spun, and wove, making socks, stockings, linsey for
petticoats, blankets, and carpets."
Nancy Ellen (daughter of Lewis RITCHIE and Mary Christina RAZOR,
granddaughter of Adam Razor and Martha LeMASTER and great granddaughter of
Hugh LeMASTER and Mary JUPIN) was born in 1833 and died in 1904, she is buried
at St. Thomas Catholic Cemetery, Bardstown, Nelson Co., Ky., her husband
Walton ( son of Charles Smith and Ellender MARRIMAN) died in 1882, buried in
Smith Cemetery, Bellwood, Nelson Co., Ky. They had 12 children.
Mary Ellen, b. Nov. 22,1852, d. Feb. 25, 1900, >married 1st, William C.
RITCHIE, May 12, 1874, 4 children, 2nd, Samuel HASTINGS; Margaret Ann July
1856- 185_; Matilda Susanna 1857-1900, m. Mar. 19, 1879, Thomas Y. BOONE, son
of Charles Boone and Priscilla Ann BURCH, 3 children; Nancy E. 1859-1918 m.
Aug. 13, 1888, Nelson Co. GEORGE WASHINGTON SMITH, b. Mar 13, 1867, died
Mar.
6, 1926, son of JAMES SMITH, (son of CHARLES SMITH and ELLENDER
MARRIMAN) and
Laura Ann DAWSON, both are buried in Smith Cemetery, Bellwood, Nelson Co.,
Ky., 5 children; Charles Louis 1861-1889 m. Mary A. ICE, Jan. 1887, buried St.
Thomas Catholic Cemetery, Bardstown, Nelson Co., Ky., 1
child; Frances Ann 1864-1889 m. Samuel L. ICE, it appears she died shortly
after they were married, giving birth to twins, which may not have survived,
Samuel married 2nd Alice Barnes; Martha 1866-1926 m. Aug. 6, 1889, John
VITTITOW, son of Samuel L. Vittitow and Sarah CORBETT, he died 1939, both are
buried in Smith Cemetery, Bellwood, Ky., 9 children; Cora Lee 1867-1886 never
married, buried in Smith Cemetery; Florence b. 1868, William R. 1871-1938 m.
June 1 1910, Ida Mae HALL, dau. of Elijah M. Hall and Pearl E.
LESHI, 4 children; John S. 1876-1944 m. May 22, 1900, Mary Ora BEAN, dau. of
Irvin and Mary Bean, buried St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Bardstown, Ky, 7
children; Walter.
Smith Ritchie Quick Jupin Cork Razor LeMaster Marriman Hastings Boone Burch
Dawson Ice Vittitow Corbett Hall Bean
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Henry Co., KY
Henry Co., KY
Adams, David C. Bailey, W.W. Bashaw, John T. Baskett, J.S. Bersot, Louis A.
Bishop,
Elisha Bondurant, N. Simpson Brent, Sanford Bright, Joseph T. Brown, Lawson E.
Bruce, S. Bullock, William Caseldine, S.M. Chick, James A. Chilton, William T.
Coblin,
William T. Coleman, Thomas Cooper, A.R. Cooper, J.E. Coplinger, James N. Corbin,
L.H. Corbin, Samuel R. Crabb, J.M. Crabb, W.B. Cravens, William M. Crawford,
James
W. Demaree, John M. Ditto, Polk Douthit, Silas P. Ecton, Smallwood Elkin, J.R. Ellis,
Lewis S. Foree, T.P. Gardner, J.G. Gurlitz, William J. Hall, Justus J. Hall, Squire
Hardesty, Jacob Harding, J. Hawkins, William W. Haydon, B.B. Henderson, Willis E.
Herndon, R.T. Irwin, Edward T. Johnson, Calvin R. Johnston, J.J. Johnston, Samuel
Kelley, William Kupferschmidt, William Lamaster, Benjamin Lawrence, G.W. Long,
E.T. Long, John Maddox, Notley Magruder, J.B. Markham, Judith Martin, Charles R.
Mathews, John W. McGinnis, J.T. McRoberts, John Megenity, John L. Montgomery,
W.L. Montfort, George D. Moody, James L. Moody, M.B. Moody, William B. Moore,
William T. Oldham, Laura A., Mrs. Parkhurst, Charles L. Perry, Morgan B. Piatt,
Sallie
M. B. Pollard, James I. Pollard, O.H. Prewitt, William M. Pryor, William S. Rees,
Farmer
Rice, Thomas W. Ridgway, J.W. Roberts, Moses Robertson, Henry Russell, W.C.
Samuel, Richard P. Sanford, L.M. Sarlls, J.W. Schoolcraft, Madison Hughes Scott,
James R. Secrest, James B. Sewell, G.W. Shaw, J.T. Shelton, F.M. Shouse, Dudley J.
Singleton, C.T., Mrs. Smith, Alexander Breckinridge Smith, Charles A. Smith, George
P.
Smith, Jacob Shrader Smith, W.S. Smoot, Thomas Snook, Van Buren Stapp, John S.
Stephenson, Benjamin Stephenson, John Stephenson, Nelson Stivers, James Swain,
Enos S. Thorne, William P. Tidrick, Richard L. Totten, John Tucker, Samuel Turner,
Benjamin F. Turner, William J. Vance, Robert W., Jr. Vance, Robert W., Sr. Webb,
Richard Williams, W.T. Yager, Chancellor Yager, Franklin J. Young, John B. Young,
John
F.
Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Henry Co.
WILLIAM BULLOCK was born in Sullivan County, Tenn., April 10, 1815, the
eighth of seven sons and five daughters born to William and Magdaline
(Hickman) Bullock. His father was a native of Shenandoah County, Va.,
moved to Tennessee in 1797 and settled in Sullivan County, where he died in
1856; he took an active part in the war of 1812, and was a member of the
Lutheran Church, as was also his wife, who was a native of Pennsyvlania.
Our subject learned the blacksmith's trade in early life, and was employed
in the Beaver Creek Iron Works, Sullivan County. He came to Henry County,
Ky., where he is now engaged in blacksmithing and farming, having 111 acres
of land in a high state of cultivation. April 4, 1842, he married Phebe
Malin of Henry County, who born him five sons: John, Henry, Isaac M.,
Charles W. and Levi J., all now deceased. Politically Mr. Bullock is a
Democrat.
Bullock Hickman Malin
Smith, Markham, etc.
Taken from old clippings dealing with Kentucky family history, newspaper
unknown. These clippings are about 100 years old (1997). Reprinted in
Kentucky Explorer, Volume 10, Number 5 - October, 1995. p. 95. Henry
County.
JUDITH MARKHAM
My grandmother was a Markham, niece of Vincent Markham of Powhattan
County, Va., and of Bernard who lived in Dinwiddie County. Her father was
a Revolutionary soldier, who sickened and died in Yorktown during the
siege. Her mother, who was a Wathen, took small pox, from a sick soldier
whom she entertained, as he was returning home from Yorktown, and died,
leaving three children, a son and two daughters. Her uncle Bernard took my
grandmother, who was then ten years old. Her brother, when grown, went to
Alabama, her sister married a Robinson, and lived in Chesterfield County,
near Petersburg. Her uncle, Bernard had two sons, Jack and George, and two
daughters, one of whom married Linnaeus Bowling; Judith the younger married
Norburn Cook, and went to Henry County, Ky. to live. Her uncle, Vincent
Markham, lived and died in Powhattan County, Va., leaving one child, Betsy,
who married a Lewis, and was left a widow with two sons, Joseph and
Vincent, and daughters, Mary and Sarah. Vincent and Bernard Markham had
sisters, one of whom married a Patterson, and moved to Giles Co., Tenn.
She had two sons, James and Bernard, and a daughter named Kitty.
Markham Wathen Robinson Bowling Cook Lewis Patterson
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Powhattan-VA Dinwiddie-VA AL Petersburg-Chesterfield-VA Giles-TN
History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 754.
[Nicholas County] [Carlisle City and Precinct]
WILLIAM J. KENNEDY, farmer and tobacco dealer; Carlisle; was born Feb.
12, 1843, to Alfred J. and Sally Ann (Hillock) Kennedy (see hist.). Our
subject received his education in the common schools of Nicholas County,
and commenced his career in life at merchandising at Headquarters, where
he remained sixteen years, and during the last half of that period dealt
largely in tobacco. In 1882 he bought 200 acres of land of A. W. Blair,
and turned his attention to farming in connection with his tobacco
business. He was married in Nicholas County, Nov. 21, 1865, to Miss
Eliza J. Smith who was born April 10, 1845. They have six children,
viz: Esle H., James S., Claudia, William E., Harvey M. and Warren R.
Mrs. Kennedy was a daughter of Samuel and Annie (Cook) Smith (see hist.
of Granville C. Smith). Mr. Kennedy is a member of the Masonic Order at
Headquarters and Chapter at Carlisle. He is a thorough business man,
and highly esteemed by the community, and is always first in any public
enterprise. He is a good neighbor, a kind husband and an indulgent
father. In addition to his other enterprises, he deals extensively in
stock of all kinds. In his political ideas he is a Democrat.
Kennedy Hillock Smith Cook Blair
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History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 619.
[Scott County] [Georgetown City and Precinct]
JUDGE JUNE WARD WILLIAMS; farmer, Glasgow, Howard Co., Mo. The grandfather
of our subject, Charles Williams, came from Culpepper [sic] county, Va.,
and was among the first settlers of Kentucky. He located near the Great
Crossings; he raised a large family of children, four daughters and five
sons, who were among the most wealthy and prominent citizens of the
county; one daughter is living, the grandmother of G. V. Payne; one son,
Merrit Williams, the father of our subject, was born in Scott County, Ky.,
in abut the year 1789. He was a farmer and trader, owning about 500 acres
in this county; he was an earnest Democrat, but never would accept an
office. He married a Miss Eliza Smith, who was a granddaughter of the
Gold Mine "Billy Smith." He died in 1855; he raised four boys and two
girls: Ann E., deceased, was the wife of Charles G. McHatton; Arch P. is a
resident of Frankfort; Barnett died n Louisiana; Sarah was the wife of Dr.
Henry Craig, of Georgetown and died in December, 1881; Granville is
deceased, June Ward was born in Scott County, near Georgetown in December
1833; he was educated in the Western Military Institute, then under
Thornton Johnston, and was a pupil of James G. Blaine; he went to
Missouri in 1854, and settled in Howard County, where he engaged in
farming; here he married Miss Martha Rucker, who was born in Orange County,
Va., in 1834; she was a niece of Sterling Price. They have nine living
children, four sons and five daughters. Judge Williams is a Justice of the
Peace of Howard County, Mo.
Williams Payne Smith McHatton Craig Johnston Blaine Rucker Price
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Frankfort-Franklin-KY Howard-MO Culpeper-VA LA