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1	Virginia Marriage Records; p. 278	Family: F505
2	1880 Wise Co Collier Census Name Relation Marital Sex Race Age Born Occ. Parents Status Born Milton H. COLLIER Self M Male W 35 KY Farmer KY KY Isabella COLLIER Wife M Female W 32 KY Keeping KY KY House Mary J. COLLIER Dau S Female W 14 KY At Home KY KY William H COLLIER Son S Male W 12 KY Works KY KY On Farm Benjamin S. COLLIER Son S Male W 10 KY Works KY KY On Farm Milton P. COLLIER Son S Male W 8 MO At Home KY KY Sarah E. COLLIER Dau S Female W 6 KS At Home KY KY James P. COLLIER Son S Male W 3 TX At Home KY KY Peter P. COLLIER Son S Male W 1 TX At Home KY KY Mary J. COLLIER Mother L W Female W 60 KY Asst In (VA) (VA) Keeping House	Family: F483
3	Jack and Edith eloped by driving to Huntsville TN and arriving at night, drove to the house of the local Judge, and honked the horn in his driveway until he came out and married them. Jack and Edith drove down from Somerset with another couple one evening. Married by L.M. Jeffers (Rec.Book 18, pg 73)	Family: F001
4	Washington DC paper report of their weddings states they made their home in North Brookfield Mass.	Family: F662
5	[Archfam[2].FTW] 1880 Pulaski County Census, District 87, town of Somerset, shows: L. R. Collier, Head of household, age 35, born KY, both parents born KY Catherine, Wife, age 21, born KY, both parents born KY James, Son, age 12, born Ky, both parents born KY Andrew, Son, age 10, born KY, both parents born KY Cordelia, Daughter, age 6, born KY, both parents born KY John, Son, age 5, born KY, both parents born KY Charlie, Son, age 2, born KY, both parents born KY M. T. Collier, Uncle, age 50, born KY, both parents born TN	Family: F267
6	[Archfam[2].FTW] 1880 Pulaski County Kentucky Census, Juggernot #10 District, shows: Alexander Collyer, head of household, age 69, born KY, both parents born TN Lydia, Wife, age 67, born KY, both parents born VA Polly A. Daughter, age 39, born KY, both parents born KY James Walter, Grandson, age 19, born KY, both parents born KY Nancy J. Simpson, Granddaughter, age 9, born KY, both parents born KY Martin Collyer, !/2 Brother, age 49, born KY, father born TN, mother born KY	Family: F07749
7	[Archfam[2].FTW] 6 March, 1913 Colyer, Oscar W. 19 1st marriage, res Pulaski County, born Pulaski County, Father & mother born Pulaski County, occupation- farmer. Waddle, Zada M. 21 1st marriage residence Pulaski County, Parents born Pulaski County, Place of marriage F. F. Stigall's with S. B. Lander presiding. Witnesses J. L. Waddle & J. E. Waddle. Surety-J. H. Colyer, Clerk-C. M. Langdon.	Family: F07783
8	[Archfam[2].FTW] Groom 24 1st b. Pulaski Co, father b. PUL, mother b. PUL Bride 18 1st B. Pulaski Co, father b. PUL, mother b. PUL Robert James Surety: Robert James Witnesses: C.M. Simpson, John James Presiding: F.M. Hill	Family: F07673
9	[Archfam[2].FTW] Pulaski County Kentucky, Marriage Record Book IV shows: 20 July, 1898, Parsons, Ernest, 21, 1st marriage, born Pulaski County, Father born Montgomery County, Mother born Pulaski County, Banker; Trimble, Ida B., 19, 1st marriage, born Pulaski County, Father born Pulaski County, Mother born Pulaski County, at H. G. Trimble house, Surety Sam Boone, Witnesses, L. D. S. Patton and James Harvey, Presiding E. B. Hill, minister Methodist Episcopal Church.
10	[Archfam[2].FTW] THE COMMONWEALTH, SOMERSET, KY., OCTOBER 24, 1919 Corrine Hudson, Society Editor. Mr. Vola Padgett and Miss Lyda Colyer surprised their many friends when they slipped quietly away to Oneida, Tennessee, on last Sunday night, and were married. They were accompanied by Mr. William Tanner and Miss Edna Young, when it was made known that Mr. Tanner and Miss Young have been secretly married since July 5. The two couples have been closely associated for some time. They returned to Somerset on (Southern Railway) No. 6 Tuesday, and will make their home in this city. The Commonwealth extends congratulations.	Family: F07750
11	[Archfam[2].FTW] Wedding Announcement, Somerset Commonwealth?, October, 1927 Miss Ola Colyer and Mr. Henry Parsons, popular members of Somerset's younger set, were quietly married Saturday morning at 8 o'clock at the parsonage of the First Methodist Church, Reverend W. P. Fryman officiating. The only attendants were Mrs. Fryman and Miss Ruby Berkley. Following the ceremony, they were driven to Danville by Misses Christine Waddle and Helen Higgins where they took the train for Chicago. Upon their return today they will go to housekeeping in an apartment on Central Avenue which has been attractively furnished. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Colyer, Jr., and is one of Somerset's most attractive and popular girls. She graduated from the Somerset High School and later took a business course. For the past two years she has been employed by the W. H. Tibbals Drug Company. Mr. Parsons is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Parsons, and is employed by the Consolidated Coach Company. He is held in high esteem by the officials of the company and is considered one of its most valuable employees. By his courteous treatment and pleasing manner he has made many friends among the patrons of the company. He is one of Somerset's splendid young men and has a host of friends who are extending congratulations and best wishes.	Family: F07721
12	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Weldon Lee Barker
13	The Colyer Family of Pulaski County TN shows this as John Perry Colyer vs. James Perry.	James Perry Colyer (J.P.)
14	One of the original purchasers of the town of Hadden, CT	Nicholas Achley
15	Julia's uncle, William D. Purple, was a medical doctor who practiced medicine in McDonough NY 1830-1840 per McDonough section of book History of Chenango and Madison County NY	Julia Ann Ackley
16	From Ballous in America by Hawley 1937: Merideth Ballou spent his adult life in two several sections of Ashe Co., N. C. He was a man of distinction -- wealthy in lands, mines, negroes and all the concomitants of an old fashioned Southern planter -- an influential magistrate of his County -- and an eminent member of the Regular Baptist denomination. Mrs. Mary, the wife of his youth, a pious Baptist, and the mother of the above named chn., d. June 12, 1831, a. 51 yrs. 1 mo. and 9 ds. At the age of 70, Merideth3 m. his 2d wife, but had no further issue. He d. Mar. 17, 1847, a. 80 yrs. 5 mos. and 18 ds. He left a large estate to his chn. He owned, at one time, 10,000 acres of land, rich in mineral ores.	(Owen) Merideth Ballou
17	A twin of Nannie	Emerine Ballou
18	Sam Colyer diary records Leon's aunt Hattie coming to visit and stay with them in Somerset May 7, 1949 and Leon and Aunt Hattie go to Greenwood Ky for visit May 8, 1949.	Harriet (Hattie) Ballou
19	Harriette Simpson Arnow, in her 1986 book titled Old Burnside, pub. The University Press of Kentucky, in the first chapter of books writes: in 1849 "During this same year a great event happened in Point Isabel: the first settler came. James Ballou, fifty-one years old and of French Descent, paid Daniel Smith and his wife, Elizabeth, $1,000 for a large boundary of land that began on Cumberland River and extended over most of what would become lower Burnside, excluding a strip of land along the South Fork. James Ballou no doubt knew the Cumberland sometimes flooded wide areas of land. He built his home on higher but level land quite a distance from the rivers, where the tides never came. The two-story house with wide porches for both stories was of weatherboard and frame construction and was in good condition in the Burnside I knew as a child. The lumber for the Ballou home had been cut by a fairly new invention--a rotary saw powered by steam. Such a saw could within a few minutes cut more lumber than the earlier whip or pit saw, powered by two men, a horse or a stream of water. The rotary saw had been in use since 1830 and was not long in reaching Pulaski County. Most of the first log homes of early settlers were by 1849 being weatherboarded or replace by frame or brick. There were fifteen children in the Ballou home, and Shortly after moving to Point Isabel, they began to marry and settle in homes of their own. On of the older Ballou boys, Levi bought a small tract of land from his father; less than a year later he put up a dwelling and married Polly Ann Lewis. He sold out in 1857 to W.T. Heath and moved away. Another Ballou boy, Allen, married Nancy Lewis, daughter of John Shelby Lewis, and settled nearby in Antioch. Allen is one of the best remembered of James Ballou's children, partly because he lived until 1928, dying at ninety, bu mainly because of the sermons many older people had heard him preach in the Antioch Church of Christ and elsewhere. " A few pages later Mrs. Arnow writes of civil war times: "Most of the inhabitants of Point Isabel were probably pleased by thoughts of protection when Union General Ambrose E. Burnside, in command of a good-sized body of troops, came in March 1863 to make the place his headquarters. The general, a West Point graduate, had had so far an up-and-down career. Promoted to the rank of major-general, he was sent late in 1862 to the Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George B. McClellan. President Lincoln, angered by McClellan's failure to capture General Robert E. Lee and his army, replaced McClellan, with Burnside. Shortly after taking command, Burnside with 113,000 troops was defeated by Lee with 75,000 men at the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. Burnside was at once replace by General Joseph Hooker and relegated to the command of the Department of the Ohio. It was in this capacity that he came to Point Isabel, his purpose to stop Confederate troops that might enter Kentucky by the Cumberland River or the Somerset-Tennessee border road. On reaching Point Isabel, on of Burnside's first acts was to commandeer the home of James Ballou for his headquarters. Some of the local old-timers thought Burnside did not sleep there, but spent his nights in one of the lookout homes in the highland around Clio. Wherever the general slept, during the day he was at the house, planning work for his troops.	James Larkin Ballou
20	Joseph Ballou, 1239 Ormsby Court, Louisville, KY 1953: cited in Lafayette TN Smith County TN newspaper column by Cal Smith Oct 1, 1953--- said that James Ballou settled near the Falls of Cumberland River, at a place called Sawyer. Later he located at Point Isabella, now Burnside in 1850. He reared his family there and in the latter par of his life, removed to Indiana where he died. The book Ballous in America by Hawley says that James was a minister of the Regular Baptists, but attended largely to farming interests. He lived first in Ashe County NC then a while in VA, then in Pulaski County KY. But in 1861 removed to Boone Co. Indiana where he died of pneumonia in 1863 at about 64 years. His wido died in 1869 at 63 years quote from James W. Arnett: "...James died 1863, Boone Co., Indiana. Dr. James L. Ballou was a physician and surgeon and benefactor of the Univ. of North Carolina. He corresponded with Eleanor Baker Reeves of UNC in compiling his genealogy as listed above. He and Frankey moved back to Point Isabel, Pulaski Co., KY in 1832..."	James Larkin Ballou
21	lived in Tatesville KY 1953	Joe Mart Ballou
22	Lived at 1372 South Sixth Street, Louisville KY	Joseph Ballou
23	FROM Ballous in America by Hawley 1937: that sometime during the Revolutionary War Leonard2 took a drove of beef cattle to Philadelphia for sale, where he was attacked by small pox and died; and that later his widow and several of her chn. emigrated to West Tennessee. Leonard Ballou and his brothers fled France during the FrenchRevolution. 2 of these brothers were col's in Army. Letter from T.C. Ballou obtained by Edith Colyer Curtis This Letter is in response to numerous inquiries for informationconcerning the heirs of Leonard Ballou and his two brothers, James andWilliam, who left France during the great social and political upheaval,the French Revolution. When the National Convention of 800 members came into completecontrol of the government it was utterly hostile to the monarchy andnobility. It declared France a Republic in 1792, tried and beheaded the Kingin 1793: and took vigorous action to defend itself against the coalitionof European autocrats aimed at its overthrow and the restoration of theBourbons. In this it was successful. After hundreds of priests and royalists had been butchered by theParis Commune, in those terrible September Massacres. The reign ofterror was pouring in a steady stream of noble heads into the basket ofthe guillotine: after Lafayette had fled to Austria, the Bamouriez, whohad opposed the execution of Louis, had deserted to the enemy, thesethree Ballou brothers (two of whom were Colonels in the army) decided toleave their unhappy country and come to America. On their way to America, they stopped in Dublin, Ireland, andLeonard married a lady of rank by the name of Meridith. These brothers at first settled in Bottetourt county, Virginia.Soon afterward, Leonard, my great grandfather exchanged his Virginia homefor vast tracts of land among the smiling hills and valleys of WesternNorth Carolina. It is said he was influenced to do this, not alone bythe visions of vast mineral wealth, but because that land of the longleaf pine--that summer land where the sun doth shine---appealed moststrongly to his poetic fancy. Here lived and died, on the hills overlooking New River, his son,Meridith, whose life was long, busy and useful, and who reared a familyof ten boys and girls. These children are scattered to the four cornersof the globe---many of them in Kentucky. Meredith left a mane and example of which his family and fellowcitizens were justly proud. At the time of his death he had acquiredover thirty thousand acres of land, much of it stored with the vastmineral wealth still in the family. Here, in the land he loved, he wasgathered up to his fathers, and sleeps beneath the mumering pines high upon the New River hill that commands an extensive and beautiful view overthe wide domain he once called his own. The legend of a vast estate in France has been recited among us formany, many years; but, if we never act that, let us take pleasure in thereflection someone else enjoys it. A proper investigatin would beattended, perhaps with extreme difficulty. There is no probate court in France, no central office where willsare filed; and it is possible---if not probable---that an estate of themagnitude I have been lead to believe the Ballou's would be foundoutlawed by the statutes of limitations. While our forbears in France were Bourbons of the Bourbons, theirmigration to America and long sojourn among the crags and peaks of thefree Alleghenies transmuted the dross of their aristocratic,monarvhistic, political and social faiths into the finest gold of modernconstitutional and representative democracy. A heritage this, it seems to me, we should all be glad to hold inlife. T.C. Ballou	Leonard Ballou
24	Harriette Simpson Arnow, in her 1986 book titled Old Burnside, pub. The University Press of Kentucky, in the first chapter of books writes: in 1849 "During this same year a great event happened in Point Isabel: the first settler came. James Ballou, fifty-one years old and of French Descent, paid Daniel Smith and his wife, Elizabeth, $1,000 for a large boundary of land that began on Cumberland River and extended over most of what would become lower Burnside, excluding a strip of land along the South Fork..... There were fifteen children in the Ballou home, and Shortly after moving to Point Isabel, they began to marry and settle in homes of their own. On of the older Ballou boys, Levi bought a small tract of land from his father; less than a year later he put up a dwelling and married Polly Ann Lewis. He sold out in 1857 to W.T. Heath and moved away. Another Ballou boy, Allen, married Nancy Lewis, daughter of John Shelby Lewis, and settled nearby in Antioch. Allen is one of the best remembered of James Ballou's children, partly because he lived until 1928, dying at ninety, bu mainly because of the sermons many older people had heard him preach in the Antioch Church of Christ and elsewhere. "	Levi Ballou
25	Family Index is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ky/pulaski/vitals.html 1855 Births; page 6 S/C = Sex/Condition (Alive or Dead) Co = Color (White, Black, or Mulatto) PC = Pulaski County, KY (Scroll to the right for full place info) Typescript page preceeding actual records: "1855-1856 Pulaski County Births - All births on the following assessor's list are assumed to be 1855 unless they are dated 1856." [this transcription only lists the year if given - no assumptions have been made. vjd] Birth Date Child S/C Father/Owner Mother Co Birthplace Residence 11 Dec Maria E. Ballow F/A Levi Ballow Polly Ann Lewis W C. River PC Per letter to Cal Smith editor of Lafayette TN Smith County tn newspaper October 1, 1953, Mary Ballou Lewis was living then in Greenwood KY.	Mary Elizabeth Ballou
26	Diary of a Geological Tour by Dr. Elisha Mitchell in 1827 and 1828 with Introduction and Notes by Dr. Kemp P. Battle, LL.D. Published as James Sprunt Historical Monograph No. 6, by the University of North Carolina, 1905 45. Meredith Ballou, a Frenchman, came to Ashe about A.D. 1800, and died in 1847, bought nearly all the available iron ore in the county. He was an influential man, surveyor of note, and was for a while County Surveyor. He left sons and daughters, all of whom had families. Among his sons was Napoleon Ballou to whom he deeded all his mineral interests a year before he died and Napoleon endeavored by will to entail his property, but the will was broken. There was also litigation over the purchase of his interests at a Sheriff's sale. Many prominent lawyers were employed on one side or the other of the various Ballou suits, including two concerning the will of Meredith Ballou. It is said that Napoleon once refused $50,000 cash for his interests. The old forge is not worked now and has not been for years. A grandson of the old Frenchman, Albert Lucien Ballou, was a law student of the University of N.C. in 1902.	Meredith Ballou
27	Twin to Emerine	Nannie Ballou
28	In WWII he served in the US Navy. In 1945 he went down on the USS Indianapolis.	Clayton Paul Barnes
29	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Donna Ellen Barrows
30	Owned 80 acre farm in Blaze Valley near Somerset, Ky early in life. Howard worked as a traveling salesman after selling farm and moving into Somerset until he retired according to Jack Curtis 2004. Rev. and Mrs. Wesley Colyer spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Howard Botkin's --Jan 7, 1921 Somerset Journal	Howard Botkin
31	Rev. and Mrs. Wesley Colyer spent Tuesday and Wednesday at HowardBotkin's --Jan 7, 1921 Somerset Journal	Howard Botkin
32	Jack Curtis remembers his father Earl Curtis, talking about visiting his grandfather Botkins farm out in Ruth Kentucky as a boy. Earl often remembered his grandfather Botkin as a taskmaster, working him hard on the farm visits when he was a small boy say of the age of about 12 years old. Jack remembers Earl saying that one time he got so tired of working so hard on the farm upon visiting out there that he and his brothers walked all the way back into Somerset home.	Maranda H. Botkin
33	NEWS: Excerpts from The Somerset Journal, 25 June 1920 Sells More Edens. The Somerset Hardware Co. gives a lit of those who have purchased Eden Washing Machines in an "ad' this week. Since the "ad" was printed the company reports the following sales which should have been added: Kenwick Hotel, Mrs. Chas. Colyer, Newtonian Hotel, and Mrs. J.C. Curtis. Jack Curtis said that the Kenwick Hotel was at the end of Main Street in Somerset in the 90 degree turn before going down the hill toward the old Somerset Mill. Both Lavonia Hyman and Jack Curtis remember Savanah as one to tell of her ailments in great length as an older woman. Savannah R. Curtis ... From the Springfield News and Sun, Springfield, Ohio, June 7, 1957 ... 87, born May 18, 1870 ... daughter of Randolph and Mary Catherine Hunt Bolkin ... Preceded in death by husband John C. Curtis in January 1940 ... Survived by 5 sons; 2 brothers; sister; eight grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren	Savannah Rachael Botkin
34	Lived in Clayville VA	Francis Bradley
35	parents ran rooming house in Russell Springs, KY. Jack Curtis thought it might have been a mineral springs resort type hotel. They were from Jamestown KY. Lovonia died at about age 29 of TB and is buried next to church in Jamestown Kentucky.	Lavonia Bradshaw
36	He kept hotel in McDonough for a short time. and was brother of William Brown who was proprietor fo same hotel for many years. They lived also in Otselic NY.	Charles Brown
37	http://files.usgwarchives.org/mo/cooper/bibles/jcalvin.txt The John Calvert Family Bible ***************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. File submitted by Ruby Coleman rcoleman@netins.net These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. **************************************************************** Washington County, TN - BIBLES - The John Calvert Family Bible According to the contributor, the Calvert family moved to Cooper County, MO after living in Washington County, TN. According to the contributor, the Calvert family lived in Loudon County before moving to Washington County, TN. File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ruby Coleman rcoleman@netins.net BIRTHS: John Calvert was born October the 19th, in the year of our Lord, 1781 Dorcas Calvert was born Mrch the 20th, in the year of our Lord, 1785 William Calvert was born Sept the 15th, Anna Domia, 1803 Ursula Calvert was born July 5th A.D. 1805 Leonard Calvert was born Octber the 1st, A.D. 1807 John Calvert was born March 23rd. A.D. 1809 Nancy Calvert was born December 24th. A.D. 1810 Elizabeth Calvert was born Oct the 9th, A.D. 1812 Martin Calvert was born May 12th. A.D. 1815 Noding Calvert was born DEc 13th A.D. 1817 Tabitha Calvert was born Feb. 26th A.D. 1820 Agnes W. Calvert was born the 25th of November 1825 George T. Calvert was born the 1st day of September 1842 Cyrus P. Calvert was born the 8th day of November 1844 Sarah E. Calvert was born the 17th day of November 1846 Laveina A. Calvert was born April 6th 1849 Joseph T. Calvert was born the 7th day of April 1854 Elizabeth Calvert was born August 3rd, 1856 Eri Calvert was born Dec 8 1858 Abigail H. Calvert ws born Nov 2oth 1859 Mary E. Calvert was born September the 24th 1861 Sallie B. Calvert was born March the 6th 1867 MARRIAGES John Calvert and Dorocas Collyar was married October the 14th, 1802 James Mahan and Dorcas Calvert was married November the 25th, 1841 Noding L. Calvert and Agnes W. Brodges was married September 28th, 1841 Eliza Calvert and P.R. Wray was married March 3rd, 1880 DEATHS John Calvert died September the 13th 1839 Dorcas Mahan, late Dorcas Calvert departed this life June the 1st, 1843, in the fifty-eight year of her age. George T. Calvert died March the 15th 1847 Sarah E. Calvert died February the 8th 1848 Eri Calvert died December the 19th,1858 Abigail H. Calvert died November the 30th 1860 Lavenia A. Calvert died Sept. the 7th, 1861 Noding L. Calvert , died February the 11th 1870 Sallie B. Calvert died June the 25th 1871 Agnes W. Calvert died August the 4th 1878	John Calvert
38	TSeabaugh@aol.com wrote: > > Hello my name is Troy Seabaugh, According to our family record book I do > believe we have the same entry. If you see this to be true please let me know > so that we may work discuss this. > > William Calvert > born Feb. 26, 1757 died May 31, 1834 > Married July 18, 1780 to Elizabeth Nodding born 2 -29-1761 died 11-6-1826 > Children > John Calvert Oct. 18, 1781 died Sept. 13, 1839 > Married Dorcas Collyar	John Calvert
39	From book "Tennessee Frontiers" by John R. Finger 2001 University of Indiana Press: page 171 ---" Though Tennessee adoped North Carolina's restrictive manumission laws, it was not uncommon for early slave owners to free their property. During the first decade of statehood a number of antislavery advocates, often employing the rhetoric of morality and revolutionary patriotism, petitioned the legislature to pass more liberal manumission legislation. One such advocate was William Calvert , who in 1804 invoked humanitarian principle in seeking permission from the Washington County court to free several slaves once they had reached adulthood. Calvert insisted, however, that the slaves first compensate him for the costs of their rearing. And the 1796 state constituion tacitly acknowledged the citizenship of African-Americans by allowing free black males to vote and hold certian kinds of property."	William Calvert
40	This was second wife of Charles G. Colyer Jr. having married after death of his first wife.	Marie Frances Cargill
41	, a niece of Col. Robert Carter, of "Corotoman," per Colonial Familes of the Southern States	Carter
42	NEWS: Excerpts from The Somerset Journal, 18 June 1920 Mrs. William Curtis will leave today for Fort Thomas, Ky., to visit her uncle Captain Cecil. NEWS: Excerpts from The Somerset Journal, 22 April 1921 Mrs. Will Curtis is visiting her father at Evarts, Ky. Miss Carrie Harrison, a pupil in the Somerset Business College, is working for Judge R.C. Tartar in the absence of Mrs. Will Curtis. NEWS: Excerpts from The Somerset Journal, 26 Aug 1921 Mrs. Wilda Cecil Curtis, County Road Engineer, has been absent from her duties at the court house this week on account of illness. Excerpts from Somerset Journal, 21 Nov 1919 Mrs. William Curtis left Sunday for a visit with her father Mr. R.C. Cecil at Anchorage, Ky. NEWS: Excerpts from the Somerset Journal, 7 Nov 1919 A lad by the name of George Bullock was sent from this county to the reform school at Greendale last week. Mrs. Will Curtis and Miss Ann Hamm accompanied him. Lexington Herald-Leader (KY) - June 8, 1988 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deceased Name: SOMERSET -- Wilda Curtis SOMERSET -- Wilda Curtis, 89, of Britthaven Nursing Home, a former Pulaski County deputy circuit court clerk, quarterly court clerk, and judge's office secretary, wife of William "Bill" Curtis, died Monday at the nursing home. Mrs. Curtis also was a former interim Pulaski County judge and a former president of the Business & Professional Woman's Club. Services 10 a.m. Friday at Somerset Undertaking Co. Visitation after 4 p.m. Thursday.	Wilda Cecil
43	Somerset Commonwealth Journal Edith Lay Edith Chestnut Lay, 66, of Somerset, Ky., passed away Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009 at Sunrise Manor Nursing Home. She was born July 4, 1943 in Somerset, Ky., to the late James B. and Ruby Colyer Chestnut. She married Max Lay on Dec. 20, 1964 in Somerset, Ky.Edith graduated Georgetown College in 1964 and returned to Eastern Kentucky University to receive her Masters Degree. She was a member of the First Baptist Church.Edith is survived by her husband and her son, John B. Lay of Lexington, Ky.Preceding her in death are her parents; her son, James Chestnut Lay; and her brother, James C. Chestnut.Visitation for Edith will be held Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the chapel of Somerset Undertaking and Crematory.A celebration of Edith's life will be held Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 11 a.m. at the chapel of Somerset Undertaking and Crematory with Bro. Darrell Vance officiating. Interment will be in the Somerset Cemetery.Somerset Undertaking and Crematory is in charge of arrangements.Condolences may be expressed at www.somersetundertaking.com.	Edith Bradley Chestnut
44	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	David Samuel Cohn
45	of The Peninsular	Benjamin Collier
46	3 Dec 1787 Charles and Dabney Collier chose Langston Bacon as guardian and Betsey chose Paul Carrington as guardian (so they were at least age 14, so born before 1773) [Source: Charlotte Co, VA Court Order Book 7 p144]. Langston Bacon is Betsy's guardian by 1792 when he makes his report so she is still under age. (Source: Charlotte Co, VA Court Order Book 9 p24.) (from Rubyann Thompson Darnell, Flower Mound TX)	Charles Collier
47	POSSIBLE RELATION TO THIS WILLIAM COLLIER??? http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/textindices/C/COLLIER+1998+2025355+MESSAGE-BODY Isearch-cgi 1.20.06 (File: 13) John Pate wrote: > I am interested in any information that anyone may have on > William Collier. He was supposed to have been born in 1660 > in England, married Mary Eyers about 1682 and died in King > and Queen County, Va in 1735. John, I have some information with those names but with different combinations. Some of the dates I have are very suspect and confusing. I'm going to have to re-search. Vaughn ROBERT COLLYER/COLLIER (1566??--1625) Robert Collyer, son of Thurston, was born at Staffordshire, England, in 1566 [This date can't be right if the marriage info is correct— must be 1546] and died in 1625. He married Margery Straunge, widow, of St. Botolph, Aldegate on February 3, 1569/70 [ London Marriage Licenses, 1551-1869, pg 312] Their children: A. Charles Collyer was born about 1580 and married about 1614. The was a cloth worker and merchant in London. He had four children, two of which have been identified, William Collier and Mary Collier. 1. William Collier, the third child of Charles Collyer, was born about 1625 in London, England and married Sarah or Mary Culliford. William was a citizen and weaver in London. William took his family and went to Virginia where his uncle, Isaac Collier was in York County. William is mentioned in York County records in 1670. He later moved to New Kent County where he joined the militia as an officer. In 1675, he was named Lt. Colonel of that county. William and Sarah had one son born in England just before they made the trip to Virginia and three more born in America. They were the ancestors of the Colliers of New Kent, Hanover, and King William Counties, Virginia. Their children: a. Charles Collier who was born in London, England in 1660 and died September 4, 1735 in Virginia and married Mary Eyers on April 21, 1682. b. Sarah Collier. c. John Collier. d. William Collier Jr. 2. Mary Collyer. B. John Collyer, of London, "Merchant and cloath worker", was born in 1594 and died in December 1649. He married Regina, daughter of Mrs. Anna Semiliano. His will, made December 18, 1649 and proved January 8, 1650, directed that he be buried at Beddington, Surry and gave 1/3 of his goods to his wife, Regina, 1/3 to his son, Charles and gave the remaining 1/3, "to my brother, Isaac Collyer Sr., I forgive E500 he owes me, to my nephew, Isaac Collier Jr., E15O." There were several other bequests to relatives, in-laws and to the poor. The executors named were his friend John Throgmorton; brother, Isaac Collyer; and wife, Regina. He also stipulated that, "If my wife leaves England at any time, my son, Charles is not to go with her; he is to be brought up in English learning and the Protestant faith". [VIRGINIA MAGAZINE, XXVIII, 130] C. Mary Collyer was born about 1600. She married John Knight and they had three children. D. Isaac Collyer Sr. , our emigrant ancestor, is discussed in the following section.	Charles Collier
48	From G. Brown Goode's Virgina Cousins: "was born at Porto Bello 1720-30, and removed about the middle of the century to a place on the Meherrin River, where he owned large tracts, probably in Lunenburg Co., and in or near what is now Charlotte Co. His plantation houses were occupied by Tarleton during his raid in 1776. After the Revolution in 1802 he removed with his family to South Carolina. Married Elizabeth, dau. of John W. Wyatt, of Gloucester Co., who was grandson either of Sir Francis Wyatt, Governor of Virginia, or more probably of Rev. Hawte Wyatt, his brother. Issue:-- "	Cornelius Collier
49	3 Dec 1787 Charles and Dabney Collier chose Langston Bacon as guardian and Betsey chose Paul Carrington as guardian (so they were at least age 14, so born before 1773) [Source: Charlotte Co, VA Court Order Book 7 p144]. Langston Bacon is Betsy's guardian by 1792 when he makes his report so she is still under age. (Source: Charlotte Co, VA Court Order Book 9 p24.) (from Rubyann Thompson Darnell, Flower Mound TX)	Dabney Collier
50	Thomas M. Owen's Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama: COLLIER, JAMES. Died at his residence near the village, on Monday the 20th instant, after a severe illness of two weeks, Mr. James Collier, in the 77th year of his age. Mr. Collier was a native of Virginia, and at an early period of his life entered the Revolutionary Army. Through the whole of that arduous and protracted struggle for liberty, he manifested the most untiring zeal and unceasing devotion in the cause of his country. He was no less distinguished for his patriotism, than for high-toned honor and those bland and social virtues which endeared him to a large circle of relations and friends. Overwhelming as is this melancholy bereavement to his worthy family, in which he shone as a most affectionate husband and father, and benevolent master, there is still for them great consolation in knowing that he developed strong hopes of future bliss, that flourish above the tomb, immortal and unfading. Many of his latest moments were spent in prayer; and he maintained throughout this trying interval that propriety which belonged to the character of a man of sense, and that elevated dependence upon a higher power which became a Christian. Such were, as we have been enabled to sketch them, the life and death of our deceased friend; we see pictured in them the employments of a man bent earnestly and steadily upon the faithful discharge of the duties which pertained to the situation allotted to him by his Creator. No meritorious artifice to attract the popular applause, no disingenuous maneuvering, were perceptible in his character. These qualities rendered him firm and steady in his friendships. His loss will long be felt by the circle of relations whom he has left behind him; and his memory, as a soldier and a man, will be long and affectionately cherished by all to whom he was known. How often, at the peaceful fireside of this revolutionary soldier, have we heard the tale of the deeds of other years! Even now, can we see, in fancy's eye, the grey-haired sire, traveling with increased emotion through the memorable battles of Gilford, Brandywine, Savannah and Eutaw Springs. His aged and failing eyes glisten again with the fire of youth! At the recollection of their resplendent glories, he springs forward from the venerable chair of age, and in the warmth of emotion, almost forgets, for the time, the lapse of years! But he is gone to the cold and silent tomb, moldering into dust, and mingling again with his mother earth. No more shall his spirit rejoice in the cannon's roar, or the music of the drum. Triana, Madison Co., Ala. Aug. 18, 1832.?Southern Advocate, Huntsville, Sept. 8, 1832. Mrs. P. H. Mell has collected some additional details, and her sketch is given in full, although it contains some repetitions: "James Collier a Revolutionary soldier, is buried on his plantation near Triana, Madison County, Alabama, about twenty miles from Huntsville. "His wife is buried beside him and their monuments, with inscriptions, are now standing in a full state of preservation in the old family burying ground. The inscriptions are as follows: " 'To the memory of JAMES COLLIER, who was born in Lunenburg Co. Va., Oct. 13th, A. D. 1757, and died the 20th of August, A. D. 1832. "And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself and my eyes shall behold and not another." To the memory of ELIZABETH BOULDIN, of Charlotte Co., Va., wife of James Collier, who was born the 13th of Feb., A. D. 1763, and died the 23rd of Feb., A. D. 1828. "All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as a flower of the field, for the wind passeth over it and it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more." "James Collier was the son of Cornelius Collier and Elizabeth Wyatt, of Lunenburg County, Va. He was descended from Charles Collier, of King and Queen County, Va., on his father's side, and his mother was nearly related to Sir Francis Wyatt, Colonial Governor of Virginia. It was the old flax wheel of his (James Collier's) cousin, Mary Collier, the ancestor of the late Prof. G. Brown Goode, which suggested insignia of the Daughters of the American Revolution. James Collier was wounded at the battle of Eutaw Springs by a sabre cut across his cheek, in a hand-to-hand encounter with a British soldier. He killed the soldier and carried the scar on his face to his grave. His brother, Wyatt Collier, was killed in the same battle when only a boy. "James Collier married Elizabeth Bouldin, July 3, 1788, daughter of James Bouldin and Sally Watkins, of Charlotte County, Va. He was a large land owner in Lunenburg County and resided there until 1802, when he, with his little family, followed his father and other relatives to Abbeville District, South Carolina. He was a large planter in that State until 1818, when he followed his sons to the territory of Alabama, his older sons having settled in that part of the Mississippi territory, now Alabama, in 1812. He settled on a large plantation in Madison County, where he lived and died. "His wife, Elizabeth Bouldin, was the daughter of James Bouldin, who was the oldest son of Colonel Thomas Bouldin of Colonial fame, who settled in Lunenburg (now Charlotte) County, Virginia, in l 744, coming from Pennsylvania. His wife was Nancy Clark, niece of Captain Richard Wood of the English navy. The family of Bouldins are noted for their intellect and their love for the legal profession. Virginia boasts there has never been a generation without a Judge, even to the present day. This couple left a large family of sons, but there were only four grandsons among, the grandchildren. Governor Henry Watkins Collier was a son of James Collier. He was closely connected with the politics of Alabama from 1822 until his death in 1855. "The ancestry of James Collier is as follows: (1) Charles Collier of King and Queen County, Virginia. One of his children,- (2) John Collier, Sr., (1680-1735), who was married three times, by his third wife, Nancy Eyres, had issue, among others: (3) Cornelius Collier, born 1725, married Elizabeth Wyatt in Gloucester County, Va., about 1750, lived in Lunenburg County, Va., was a soldier in the Revolution and moved to Abbeville District, South Carolina in 1788; he had four sons and one of them was? (4) James Collier, the subject of this sketch. The facts of this article were furnished by his great-granddaughter Miss Elizabeth R. Benagh. James Collier is mentioned in the Memorial Record of Alabama, vol. ii p. 415."? Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, Vol. iv, pp. 536-7. Moved to South Carolina 1802 then to Alabama 1818 per Virgina Cousins by Goode.	James Collier