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6:1 JOHN SCROGIN 

32. JOHN SCROGIN (E14) (Parents:Scroggins07) 

Born 31 May 1787 Sussex County, Delaware 

Died 22 Jun 1853 or 1854 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Married (1) 33. Rachel Kendrick 02 Feb 1808 Bourbon County, Kentucky 

Born 

c1790 

Died before 19 Oct 1835 

Children (1): 

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Scrogin (F70) 

b. c1809 Bourbon County, Kentucky 

d. after 1860 

m. John Moore 13 Jun 1826 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Samuel Scrogin (F90) 

b. 14 Jun 1810 Bourbon County, Kentucky 

d. 09 Oct 1849 Shelby County, Kentucky 

m. Malinda Miles 22 Dec 1832 Shelby County, Kentucky 

16. Benjamin (Benoni) Scrogin (F45) (Children:Scroggins05) 

b. 24 Jan 1811 or 1812 Bourbon County, Kentucky 

d. 09 May 1875 Shelby County, Kentucky 

m. 17. Pamelia M Bohannon 08 Oct 1833 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Irene Jean Scrogin (F71) 

b. 22 Dec 1813 Bourbon County, Kentucky 

d. 02 Jan 1872 Shelby County, Kentucky 

m. Abraham Miles 16 Dec 1828 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Mary W “Polly” Scrogin (F64) 

b. 29 Oct 1815 Bourbon County, Kentucky 

d. 10 Aug 1879 Shelby County, Kentucky 

m. Peter Vardeman c1834 

Sarah Jane Scrogin (F72) 

b. 15 Jul 1819 Bourbon County, Kentucky 

d. 02 Sep 1899 

m. Joshua Tharp 20 Aug 1835 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Married (2) Margaret “Peggy” ------ Baldwin 19 Oct 1835 Shelby County, KY 

Born c1801 South Carolina 

Died 

Known step-children: 

Elizabeth Baldwin 

b. c1820-1825 

d. 

m. Jeptha Dulin 18 Oct 1844 Morgan County, Indiana 

:Prepared by WILLIAM G SCROGGINS Rev. 23 Jun 2004, Reposted 13 Sep 2004 

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Julia Ann Baldwin 

b. c1833 Kentucky 

d. 

m. William Minney 

Children (2): 

John B Scrogin (F91) 

b. c1836 Indiana 

d. 

m. Ruth Ann Keeling c1859 Iowa 

Francis Marion Scrogin (F92) 

b. c1838 Indiana 

d. 

m. 

John Scrogin (E14) was a son of Samuel Scrogin (D5) and Elizabeth “Betty” Collins 

who migrated to Bourbon County, Kentucky, from Sussex County, Delaware, in 1794. 1 

Rachel Kendrick was a daughter of Benoni Kendrick and Mary Warner who moved from 

Culpeper County, Virginia, to Bourbon County before 1795. 2 

The birth date of John Scrogin (E14) was recorded in the family register of his father: 3 

Register of Samuel born 14th Jan 1749 died May 2nd 1830 

aged 81 years 3 months & 19 days 

Joseph born Aug 4th 1774 

Robert “ Oct 4. 1776 

George “ June 19. 1779 

Sally “ June 10. 1782 

Joseph Collins Mch. 26. 1785 

John May 31st 1787 

Samuel June 1st 1791 

On 07 June 1819 Samuel Scrogin (D5) testified that he moved to Kentucky from Delaware in 

1794: 4 “... in the year 1794 I removed from the State of Delaware to Kentucky ...” 

John Scrogin (E14) and Rachel Kendrick were married in Bourbon County, Kentucky, 

on 02 February 1808. 5 

John Scrogin (E14) was identified as John, Jr. on the 1810 census for Bourbon County, 

apparently to differentiate between him and his uncle John Scrogin (D2) who was identified 

as John, Sr. in the enumeration. John (D2) had a son John (E4) who was 36 years old in 1810 




and, as far as is known, the second child and first son of John (E4) was not born until 1811: 

(Federal Census Microfilm 252, Roll 5, pages 68-113.) 

John Scroggin Jr 1 M 16-26 1 F 16-26 (Rachel) 

1 M -10 (Samuel) 1 F -10 (Lizzie) 

John Scrogin (E14) served six months in the War of 1812, from 20 May through 19 

November 1813, as a private in Captain Richard Matson’s Company of Infantry, Mounted 

Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers commanded by Colonel Richard M. Johnson. His pay for 

the period was $8 per month ($48), plus 40 cents a day allowance for his horse ($73.60), 

which totaled $121.60. 6 During his tour of duty, John Scrogin’s unit fought in the Battle of 

the Thames on 05 October 1813. The Thames River is in southern Ontario, Canada, where it 

empties into Lake St. Clair. 7 

Kentuckians were prominent among those who fought to protect their homes from the British 

and Indians in the War of 1812, including men of the Scrogin family and their relatives. 

Robert Scrogin (E10) was 1st Lieutenant, Thomas Bohannon (Buckhannon) was 1st Corporal 

and Joseph Scrogin was a corporal in Matson’s Company with John Scrogin (E14). The place 

of Private Joseph Scrogin, who volunteered as a substitute for Pittman Williamson and was 

promoted to Corporal, in the family has not been identified. One John Scrogin and a Robert 

Scrogin served as privates in Captain Virgil McCracken’s Company of Riflemen, 1st Rifle 

Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel John Allen from 12 August through 14 October 

1812. Abraham Bohannon (Buckhannon), Seth Cook and Abraham Kesler of Shelby County 

also were privates in McCracken’s Company. Although this roster stops at 14 October 1812, 

McCracken’s Company fought at the Battle of River Raisin on 12 January 1813 where 

McCracken was killed and Abraham Bohannon, uncle of Pamelia Bohannon Scrogin, was 

captured and later, with many other prisoners, murdered by the Indians. Perhaps contacts 

with Bohannon, Cook and Kesler during military service influenced John Scrogin (E14) to 

move to Shelby County from Bourbon County. 

Leven Polk Scrogin (E7) was 1st Corporal in Captain Maurice Langhorne’s Company of the 

1st Rifle Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Militia, with drummers Thornton Wilson, who 

married Rachel Kendrick’s sister Mariah Kendrick, and Cumberland Wilson from 

15 August 1812 through 14 October 1812. Thornton and Cumberland Wilson probably 

were brothers since Thornton J. Wilson later named a son Cumberland H. Wilson. 

Cumberland Wilson was married to Mary Parker in Woodford County, Kentucky, by D. 

Robinson on 02 April 1818. 

Private Johnston Scrogin, who was in Combs’ Company, Francesco’s Regiment, probably 

was Robert Johnson Scrogin (F14). Private Mitchell Kendrick, first cousin of Rachel 

Kendrick Scrogin, was in Thomas’ Company, Boswell’s 10th Regiment, from 29 March to 

28 September 1813. He was captured after “Dudley’s Defeat” at Maumee River and forced to 

run the gauntlet between two lines of Indians which resulted in permanent crippling injuries. 

John Scrogin and George Scrogin served as privates in Captain Josiah Buskirk’s, 3rd 

Regiment, Kentucky Mounted Volunteer Militia under Colonel James Allen from 18 

September to 30 October 1812 in the expedition to Vincennes. They were discharged at 




Busseron in Indian Territory, 180 miles from their home in Shelby County, Kentucky. 8 John 

and George “Scrogin” probably were members of the Scoggin family that resided in Shelby 

County at that time. 

In May 1813 Richard M. Johnson of Scott County, Kentucky, a member of Congress from 

Kentucky, was authorized to form a regiment of mounted Kentuckians to scout the Indian 

country from Fort Wayne to Lake Michigan, along the lake, then over to Illinois River and 

back to Ohio River near Louisville. Marching from Kentucky, the regiment made a 

rendezvous at Fort Winchester on 18 June 1813. During the reconnaissance Johnson’s 

regiment passed the battleground at River Raisin and buried the bodies of all of the 

Americans that they could find which had lain unburied where they had fallen in the 

massacre of 22 January 1813. Subsequently, General William Henry Harrison, in preparing 

for an invasion of Canada, called upon Governor Shelby of Kentucky to supply men for his 

expedition. The Kentuckians assembled at Newport on 31 July 1813. Colonel Johnson was 

directed to remain at Fort Meigs with his regiment until the main expedition could sail from 

the Portage across Lake Erie to Canada. Then Johnson was to march to Detroit and into 

Canada to meet the army. The Portage was on the shore of Lake Erie where Port Clinton is 

now located. The troops embarked on 20 September and landed near Malden, on the 

Canadian shore of the lake, on 27 September. On 01 October Johnson’s Regiment of 

Mounted Kentuckians entered Canada from Detroit and joined the expedition. The enemy, 

consisting of British regular soldiers, Canadian militiamen and Indians, elected to make their 

stand a few miles from Chatham within the steep banks where McGregor’s Creek joins the 

Thames River. Reconnaissance by personnel from Johnson’s Regiment on 05 October 

identified the deployment of the defensive forces on the north bank of the river. The position 

chosen by the British has been described as well-selected. On their left was the river with a 

high and precipitous bank and on their right was a marsh that ran almost parallel with the 

stream for about two miles. Between these, two or three hundred yards from the river, was a 

small, narrow swamp with a strip of solid ground between it and the larger marsh. It was so 

disposed as to easily flank Harrison’s left. The space between the river and the great swamp 

was covered with beech, sugar maple and oak trees, with very little undergrowth. The British 

Regulars were formed in two lines between the small swamp and the river and their artillery 

was set up in the road near the bank of the stream. The Indians were posted between the two 

marshes where the undergrowth was thicker. Oshawahnah, a Chippewa chief, commanded 

their right wing and Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee commanded the left. In the disposition 

of his army for the attack, General Harrison placed Johnson’s Regiment in front. Since the 

British troops were drawn up in open order, General Harrison permitted Colonel Johnson, at 

his own request, to have one of his battalions charge them. This battalion, led by his brother, 

Lieutenant Colonel James Johnson, charged the British Regulars, broke the first line, 

scattering it in all directions, and continued against the second line, which it also penetrated. 

The Kentucky horsemen then turned and attacked the rear of the broken columns. Totally 

overwhelmed, the British surrendered as fast as they could throw down their arms. Within 

five minutes after the first shot was fired, most of the British troops were made prisoner. 

Having reviewed the rout from a distance, the British commander, General Proctor, fled the 

battle scene in his carriage. 




Under the leadership of Richard Johnson, himself, the remaining battalion of his regiment 

moved against the Indians on the left almost simultaneously with the attack by the other 

battalion against the British. In order to reduce his casualties, Colonel Johnson called for 

twenty volunteers to attack the Indians with him and draw their fire so that the remainder of 

the unit could rush the enemy positions in relative safety while the Indians were reloading 

their weapons. One of the more moving aspects of this epic of heroism concerns William 

Whitley, one of the earliest pioneers into Kentucky, who volunteered to go with the decoys. 

Whitley, who was 63 years old and a former colonel of militia, could have had any command 

he desired in this expedition, even that of Major General. However he volunteered as a 

private soldier and retained that position by preference. There were only five survivors of the 

volunteers, later called “The Forlorn Hope.” Led by Colonel Johnson and Whitley into 

withering gunfire, fifteen men were killed and four were wounded. Only one of them 

miraculously escaped unhurt. The old pioneer William Whitley was killed and Colonel 

Johnson was wounded. 

Because of the thickness of the underbrush on this part of the battlefield, the mounted 

riflemen had to leave their horses and proceed on foot. The main body of the battalion 

charged into the Indians in the woods and brush, shouting the Kentucky battle cry, 

“Remember the Raisin!” The fierce hand-to-hand combat lasted for about eight minutes until 

the second wave under Donaldson moved in to support Johnson’s troops. Under the fresh 

assault, the Indians soon gave up and fled in confusion. 

Meanwhile, Major DeVall Payne and some sixty horsemen from Johnson’s Regiment 

pursued General Proctor beyond Moravian Town. Proctor was so closely pursued that 

he abandoned his carriage in the road, mounted bare-back on one of his carriage horses and 

took through the woods. Twenty-four hours later he was sixty-five miles from the 

battleground. His carriage, sword and many valuable papers were captured. His government 

later censured him for abandoning his command. Major Payne’s men, in their pursuit of 

Proctor, took prisoners and captured valuable spoils including three brass cannons that had 

been taken from the British by the Americans at Burgoyne’s surrender at Saratoga in 1777 

and later recaptured by the British at Hull’s surrender. One of them is on display at the 

Kentucky Historical Society. 

The losses in the action were not large, that of the Americans being about fifteen killed and 

thirty wounded. The British lost eighteen killed, twenty-six wounded and six hundred 

prisoners, including twenty-five officers. In their retreat from the field of battle, the Indians 

did an unusual thing for them and left some of their dead behind, so it is known that, at least, 

they lost thirty-three warriors. The great Indian leader Chief Tecumseh was among those 

killed but his body was removed by the Indians. 

The victory at the Thames ended the campaign, broke the British and Indian alliance and 

established American control of Michigan Territory. 

On 07 October 1813, two days after the battle, the Kentuckians began their return March 

home. John Scrogin (E14) was discharged from his regiment on 20 November 1813: 9 




This is to make it known to whom it may concern that John Scroggin a soldier in 

Captain Richard Matson’s Company composing a part of the Regiment under my 

command has served his country the period of six months and this is the evidence that 

said John Scroggin is entitled to a tour of duty for the said period; and in testifying 

the honorable services of said John Scroggin in having acted the part of a brave 

soldier; the Commandant of said Regiment takes this last occasion to return to the 

Officers and Men his sincere thanks for their faithful services - for their ready 

acquiescence in his commands, and for the fortitude with which they submitted to 

privations and hardships, and to congratulate them on the termination of their 

services, which was as brilliant as the commencement was patriotic. 

Richard M. Johnson 

November 20, 1813 Col. R. M. V. 

John Scrogin (E14) was residing in Bourbon County in 1820: 10 

John Scroggin 1 M 26-44 1 F 26-44 (Rachel) 

3 M -10 (Samuel) 3 F -10 (Irene) 

(Benjamin) 

(Mary) 

(?) (Sarah) 

This tabulation is incorrect. John and Rachel had six children by 1820 but the count was two 

boys and four girls. Elizabeth should have been listed as over ten years. The third son 

probably should have been the fourth daughter. Samuel Scrogin appears in the age group of 

10 and under in 1810 and 1820, probably because he was born just before the census was 

taken in 1810 and had not reached his tenth birthday when the census was enumerated in 

1820. 

By 1825, John Scrogin (E14) was living in Shelby County, Kentucky. In 1798 Samuel 

(D5) and Betty Scrogin sold 100 of the 200 acres that they owned on Townsend Run in 

Bourbon County to their son Robert Scrogin (E10) for five shillings. 11 In 1818 Samuel 

conveyed the remaining 100 acres to son George (E11) for $600. 12 Since Robert (E10) got 

100 acres of his parents’ land for 5 only shillings, he must have been the eldest surviving son 

with the right of primogeniture to his father’s land. Joseph Scrogin (E9) must have died 

before Joseph Collins Scrogin (E13) was born in 1785, considering the re-use of the name 

Joseph. No records have been found pertaining to Joseph Scrogin (E9), Joseph Collins 

Scrogin (E13) or Samuel Scrogin, Jr. (E15) in Bourbon County, so they all probably died 

young. 

Since John Scrogin (E14) did not share in the previous division of his parents’ land, the 

family apparently decided in 1825 to make an arrangement giving John equity with his 

brothers. On 05 September 1825 Robert Scrogin of Bourbon County conveyed 102 acres and 

17 poles in Bourbon County on the waters of Silas Run to John Scrogin of Shelby County for 

$642: 13 




This Indenture was made on this 5th day of September in the year of our Lord, 

1825 between Robert Scrogin of the County of Bourbon and the State of Kentucky 

of the one party and John Scrogin of the County of Shelby in the State aforesaid of the 

other party. Witnesseth that ... Robert Scrogin for ... $624.00 lawful money of the 

United States ... paid by ... John Scrogin ... has ... sold ... unto the said John Scrogin one 

certain tract ... of land ... in the County of Bourbon and on the waters of Silas Run ... 

Beginning ... corner to John E. Shropshire and Robert Griffith ... by my own land ... 

Jacob Coils line ... corner to L. Corbin ... with said Corbin and Joseph Shropshires line ... 

to John E. Shropshires line ... to the beginning containing 102 acres and 17 poles ... 

Robert Scrogin 

The deed was acknowledged by Robert Scrogin in Bourbon County Court on 05 September 

1825 and produced for record on 30 November 1825. 

The likelihood that this deed was based on sibling parity is substantiated when in the 

following year John and Rachel Kendrick Scrogin sold this land for $2042, making a profit 

of $1400: 14 

This Indenture was made on the first day of June ... 1826 between John Scrogin and 

Rachel his wife of the County of Shelby in the State of Kentucky of the one party and 

John E. Shropshire of the County of Bourbon and the State aforesaid of the other 

party. Witnesseth that ... John Scrogin and Rachel Scrogin his wife for ... two 

thousand and forty two dollars lawful money of the United States ... paid by ... John 

E. Shropshire ... have ... sold unto the said John E. Shropshire one tract ... of land 

containing one hundred and two acres and seventeen poles ... in the County of 

Bourbon and on the waters of Cylas ... Beginning ... corner to Robert Griffiths and 

said John E. Shropshire ... corner to said Griffiths and Robert Scrogin ... with said 

Scrogins line ... to Jacob Coils line ... corner to Lewis Corbin ... to the 

intersection of the said John E. Shropshire ... to the beginning ... In the binding 

whereof the said John Scrogin and Rachel Scrogin his wife have hereunto 

subscribed their names and affixed their seals the date above. 

John Scrogin (Seal) 

Rachel Scrogin (Seal) 

Bourbon County Clerks Office October 14th, 1826 

This deed of bargain and sale from John Scrogin and Rachel his wife to John E. 

Shropshire being acknowledged before me on the 1st day of June last by the said 

Scrogin and wife to be their act and deed and the said Rachel being examined by 

me privately and apart from her husband declared that she did freely and willingly 

deal and deliver this deed themselves and explained to her and wished not to 

retract it and consented that it might be recorded and the same being this day 

produced to me forever and duly recorded in my office. 

Teste 

Attested 

Joseph T. Mills 

Thomas P. Smith CBC 




John Scrogin (E14) was enumerated on the 1830 federal census in Shelby County, Kentucky, 

on the north side of the road from Frankfort to Louisville: 15 

John Scrogin 1 M 40-50 1 F 30-40 (Rachel) 

1 M 20-30 (Samuel) 2 F 10-15 (Mary) 

1 M 15-20 (Benjamin) (Sarah) 

This indicates that Rachel died after 1830 and before 19 October 1835 when John Scrogin 

(E14) married his second wife, the widow Margaret Baldwin: 16 

We, the undersigned, are jointly and severally held and firmly bound unto the 

Commonwealth of Kentucky, in the sum of L50 to be made and levied of our 

respective goods, chattels, lands and tenaments, and for the use of the 

Commonwealth upon the condition that there is no lawful cause to obstruct the 

marriage of John Scroggin and Mrs. Margaret Baldwin, a widow. 

Given under our hands and seals this 19th day of October, 1835. 

John Scroggin (Seal) 

Jas. C. Henderson (Seal) 

State of Kentucky Shelby County Sct. 

John Scroggin having entered into bond, with security, in the penalty of L50 this 

license is granted him to intermarry with Mrs. Margaret Baldwin, a widow. 

And any minister, legally authorized, may celebrate the rites of matrimony between 

the said John Scroggin & Mrs. Margaret Baldwin. 

Given under my hand, as clerk, this 19th day of October, 183-. 

Jas. S. Whitaker, Clerk 

by Thos. Wallace, D.C. 

On the 19th day of October I did celebrate the rites of matrimony between the 

above named couple. 

A. Cook 

Returned to my office as Clerk of the Shelby County Court, on the 25th day of 

September, and recorded by Jas. S. Whitaker, C. State of Kentucky, County of 

Shelby 

The date of return must be an error and probably should read October instead of September. 

The minister Abraham Cook preached at Indian Fork Baptist Church near 

Bagdad, Kentucky. 

On the next day, 20 October 1835, Thornton J. Wilson, husband of Mariah Kendrick and 

brother-in-law of the recently deceased Rachel Kendrick Scrogin, conveyed land to the 

children of Rachel Kendrick and John Scrogin: 17 

This Indenture made this 20th day of October in the year of our Lord one Thousand 

eight hundred and thirty five between Thornton J Wilson of the County of Boone and 

State of Kentucky on the first part and Elizabeth Moore Samuel Scroggin Benoni 




Scroggin Irene Miles Polly Vardeman Sally Tharp of the County of Shelby and State of 

Kentucky of the Second part witnesseth that the Said Thornton J Wilson for ... the Sum 

of fifteen hundred dollars ... hath ... Sold ... unto ... the Said parties of the Second part ... 

all that tract or parcel of land Situate ... in the County of Shelby on the waters of Six mile 

containing one hundred and eighty nine acres & 145 poles and bounded as follows to wit 

beginning a Stone in Joseph Floods line thence N3 1/2 W111 poles to a Stone in Sd Floods 

line thence N2 1/2 W133 poles to two beeches and sugartree thence S87 1/2 E129 3/4 

poles to a hickory Thence S1 E120 poles to three beeches crossing The Creek at 32 and 

86 poles thence on the Same Course and line 118 poles to three beeches Thence S89 1/2 

W123 poles to the beginning ... In witness whereof the Said party of the first part hath 

hereunto Set his hand and Seal the day and date first above written 

Acknowledged and Signed in 

Thornton J Wilson (Seal) 

presence of Henry Bohannon 

& Wm Bohannon 

State of Kentucky I James S Whitaker Clerk of the County Court for the 

Shelby County Sct County afoursaid do certify that this deed from 

Thornton J Wilson To Elizabeth Moore Samuel Scroggin 

Benoni Scroggin Irene Miles Polly Vardeman & Sally Tharp was produced to me in 

my office on the 14th day of March 1836 and was proven by the oath of Henry Bohannon 

A Subscribing witness to be the Act and deed of the Said Thornton J Wilson and on the 

23rd day of the same month was further proven by the oath of Wm Bohannon another 

subscribing witness thereto to be the act and deed of the said Thornton J Wilson 

whereupon Said deed together with this certificate is recorded in my office given 

under my hand the date last afoarsaid 

Ja S Whitaker Clerk 

Shelby County Court 

The clerk who transcribed this deed into the record book misspelled the name of Polly 

Vardeman as Tolly. It is pertinent to note that the Kendrick side of the family apparently 

considered Benjamin Scrogin to be named Benoni for his maternal grandfather Benoni 

Kendrick. 

Thornton Wilson resided in Bourbon County, Kentucky, when he bought this land on 15 

December 1828 from William and Rhoda Miles of Weakley County, Tennessee, for 1500. It 

was described as containing 189 acres, 3 roods and 25 poles in Shelby County on Six Mile 

Creek and included Radcliffe’s mill dam. 18 Perhaps the purchase was funded by Benoni 

Kendrick, who lived with Thornton and Mariah Wilson in Bourbon County in 1820. 19 

Benoni Kendrick died before 01 November 1830 when Thornton J. Wilson was appointed to 

administer his estate with Robert Scrogin (E10) as his security. 20 Benoni Kendrick probably 

transferred all of his assets to Thornton Wilson before applying for a Revolutionary War 

pension in 1818 when he declared that he was in “reduced circumstances.” 21 

Since no record has been found of John Scrogin (E14) having owned land in Shelby County, 

perhaps he lived on the Wilson tract there under some sort of a familial agreement with his 

brother-in-law against a background of a mutual legacy of their wives. Although there is no 




statement in the deed to that effect, the timing suggests that it is another conveyance made to 

equalize an estate distribution. Since he sold it to them for what it cost him, Thornton Wilson 

apparently had some obligation to his nephews and nieces. 

Benjamin (F45) and Samuel (F90) Scrogin acquired their sisters’ shares of this land for $780 

by a deed dated 01 October 1845: 22 

This Indenture made this first day of October in the year One thousand eight hundred 

and forty five between John More and Elizabeth Moore his wife daughter of John 

Scrogins, Abraham Miles and Irean Miles his wife daughter of John Scrogins, Peter 

Vardeman and Mary Vardeman his wife daughter of John Scrogins, and Joshua Tharp 

and Sallie Tharp his wife daughter of John Scrogins of the County of Shelby and 

State of Kentucky of the one part and Benjamin Scrogins and Samuel Scrogins of the 

County and State aforesaid of the other part witnesseth that the said John Moore and 

Elizabeth More his wife, Abraham Miles and Irean Miles his wife, Peter Vardeman 

and Mary Vardeman his wife and Joshua Tharp and Sallie Tharp his wife for ... seven 

hundred and eighty dollars in hand paid viz; to John Moore two hundred dollars, to 

Abraham Miles one hundred and ninety dollars, to Peter Vardeman one hundred and 

ninety dollars and to Joshua Tharp two hundred dollars ... hath ... sold ... unto ... 

Benjamin Scrogin and Samuel Scrogin ... all their undivided interest to a tract of land 

which was deeded to the heirs of John Scrogins by Thornton Wilson situate ... in the 

County of Shelby on the waters of Six Mile and bounded as follows ... containing 189 

acres 3 roods 25 poles ... in witness whereof the said John Moore together with 

Elizabeth More his wife, Abraham Miles together with Irean Miles his wife, Peter 

Vardeman together with Mary Vardeman his wife and Joshua Tharp together with 

Sallie Tharp his wife doth hereby relinquish their right of title in and to the lands 

conveyed in the deed hath hereunto set their hands and seals the day and date first 

above written. 

John Moore (Seal) 

Elizabeth Moore (Seal) 

Abram Miles (Seal) 

Irean Miles (Seal) 

Peter Vardeman (Seal) 

Mary Vardeman (Seal) 

Joshua Tharp (Seal) 

Sarah Jane Tharp (Seal) 

There were no witnesses given. The boundaries were identical to those in the Wilson deed. 

Unless it was intended to mean “heirs of Rachel Scrogins, widow of John Scrogins,” the term 

“heirs of John Scrogins” must have been used in the sense of “children of John Scrogins” or 

“heirs-to-be” since John was alive at the time of writing. Shortly after their marriage in 

October, John Scrogin (E14)) and his new wife Margaret went to Morgan County, Indiana, 

where he entered 40 acres on 20 December 1835. 23 Morgan County, Indiana, is directly 

southwest of Indianapolis and adjoins Marion County. The county seat is Martinsville. The 

county is traversed from the northeast to the southwest by the White River. On 20 December 




1835 John entered 40 acres there which were the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of 

Section 32, Township 12, Range 2 East.. 24 He acquired this land through a Federal patent: 25 

Certificate 

No. 25833 

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: 

Whereas John Scrogin of Morgan County, Indiana, has deposited in the General Land 

Office of the United States, a certificate of the Register of the Land Office at 

Indianapolis, whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said John 

Scrogin, according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April, 

1820, entitled “An act making further provision for the sale of Public Lands,” for the 

Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section Thirty two in Township 

Twelve North of Range Two East, in the District of Lands subject to sale at 

Indianapolis, Indiana; containing Forty Acres; according to the General Land Office 

by the Surveyor General, which said tract has been purchased by the said John 

Scrogin, NOW KNOW YE, That the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in 

consideration of the premises, and in conformity with the several acts of Congress, in 

such cases made and provided, have given and granted, and by these presents do give 

and grant, unto the said John Scrogin and to his heirs, the said tract above described: 

To have and to hold the same, together with all the rights, privileges, immunities, and 

appurtenances of whatsoever nature, thereunto belonging, unto the said John Scrogin 

and to his heirs and assigns forever. 

In Testimony whereof, I, Martin Van Buren, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 

STATES OF AMERICA, have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and 

the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed. 

Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the twentieth day 

of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 

thirty seven and of the Independence of the United States the sixty first 

Martin Van Buren 

By the President 

Hudson M. Garland, 

By A. Van Buren Sec’y 

Recorder of the General Land Office. 

Section 32 lies east of Martinsville and southwest of the town of Cope, Indiana. Clear Creek 

runs through the section, just east of the center line, and flows north into White River. 26 

On 08 January 1836 John Scrogin conveyed his Morgan County land to Ebenezer Henderson 

on a warrant deed for $50. The deed was acknowledged in court on the same day and 

recorded. 27 This must have been a mortgage because on 20 September 1838 Ebenezer 

Henderson and his wife Cynthia sold the tract to Margaret Scrogin for $50. They 

acknowledged this deed in court on the same day and it was recorded. 28 

Ebenezer Henderson had a tract adjoining John Scrogin on the west in Morgan County. On 

06 April 1833 he entered the 40 acres of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of 

Section 32. 29 This contact and others with members of the Henderson family suggest that the 




maiden name of Margaret “Peggy” Baldwin Scrogin may have been Henderson. James C. 

Henderson, who was surety on the marriage bond for John Scrogin and Margaret Baldwin, 

may have been her father or brother. Jeptha Henderson, who was in Iowa with John and 

Peggy when John wrote home to Kentucky in 1850, had the land adjoining John Scrogin 

(E14) on the east in Morgan County. By a warrant deed dated 27 February 1847 he 

purchased for $275 the 40-acre northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 32 from 

Robert H. Scrogin (F53), son of Joseph Scrogin (E21), who was a first cousin of John 

Scrogin (E14). The deed was acknowledged on 26 November 1847. 30 

John Scrogin (E14) had two sons by Peggy (Henderson?) Baldwin who were born in 

Indiana before 1840. John B. Scrogin (F91) was born about 1836 and Francis Marion 

Scrogin (F92) was born about 1838. The 1840 census for Morgan County, Indiana, 

indicates that Peggy Baldwin had at least two daughters before she married John 

Scrogin: 31 

John Scrogging 1 M 50-60 1 F 40-50 (Peggy) 

2 M -10 (John B) 1 F 15-20 (Elizabeth) 

(Francis M) 1 F 5-10 (Julia Ann) 

Elizabeth Baldwin and Jeptha Dulin (Dewling) obtained a marriage license on 17 October 

and were married on 18 October 1844 by Hiram T. Craig. 32 Jeptha Dulin (Dewling) bought 

the 40-acre northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 34, Township 12, Range 2 

East from William Hess on 22 February 1848 for $135. The deed was recorded on 23 

September 1848. 33 Jeptha Dulin (Duling) sold this tract to Benjamin Speake on 08 October 

1848 for $150. The warrant deed was recorded on 17 July 1849. 34 

Jeptha Dulin, who also was in Iowa with John and Peggy Scrogin in 1850, may have been 

related to Moses Dooley (Dooly), who married Elizabeth Bohannon in Shelby County, 

Kentucky, on 24 April 1823. 35 Elizabeth was a daughter of John Bohannon, Jr. and Polly 

Sacra. 36 

On 04 March 1849 John Scrogin (E14) and his wife Margaret Scrogin (Margrette Schroggan) 

sold the 40 acres in Morgan County on a warrant deed for $330 to Thomas 

F. and Sarah Huff. John signed the deed as John Scrogin and Margaret made an X mark 

where her name was written Margaret Schroggan. They acknowledged it in court on 24 

March 1849. 37 

Joseph Scrogin (E21) was enumerated in Morgan County in 1840: 38 

Joseph Scroging 1 M 50-60 1 F 30-40 

1 M 5-10 1 F 20-30 

1 F 15-20 

1 F 10-15 

Joseph Scrogin (E21), who was a son of Robert Caldwell Scrogin (D7) and Ann 




Culver, was married to Martha Campbell. 39 Joseph died in Morgan County, Indiana, on 25 

May 1841 and his obituary was printed in a Kentucky newspaper on 06 July 1841: 40 

Jos. Scrogin, 53, formerly of Franklin County, died in Morgan County, Iowa. 

There is no Morgan County, Iowa; a prophetic error, perhaps, since nine years later his 

cousin John Scrogin (E14) moved from Morgan County, Indiana, to Clayton County, Iowa. 

In 1850 John and Peggy Scrogin went to Iowa to claim a land grant for his service in the War 

of 1812. On 15 August 1850 John wrote from Iowa to his children in Shelby County, 

Kentucky, saying that they arrived in Iowa on 08 April and had rented a house and land about 

four miles from McGregor’s Landing on the Mississippi opposite Prairie de Chien, 

Wisconsin, while waiting for his bounty land warrant. The letter remarks about Peggy 

wanting to go to Indiana; sends greetings to Uncle Bill Bohannon in Kentucky; and refers to 

John and Marion, Jeptha Henderson and his wife and mother, and Jeptha Dulin and his wife, 

as being with them. The writing and the signature are by the same hand: 41 

August 15th 1850 

My deare children I wonce more make the attempt to wright two you All to let 

you heare that I am well at this time and all the rest of the family thanks be to the 

good lord for his tender mercies Jeptha and his mother has Enterd One hundred and 

Sixty Acres of land With the best Spring water on it that I ever Drank it runs Cold and 

fresh and is so cold it is timbered land and is about four miles from McGregors 

landing on the missisippi Oposit prarie duchien it is a prarie country About 6 or 7 

miles from the river with timber in places and around it I have cut forty house logs 

last Spring after the woods was burned but the weeds and bushes is as high as my 

head and So thick that it is with diffuculty that a person can get a long I want to get 

the logs haled and put up as soon as I can before cold weather Sets in we landed the 

Eighth Day of April in Iowa we rented a house and Some ground 3 or 4 acres our 

truck patch and Corne is good altho the Storm tore it all to peices Jep henderson has a 

house and Some Corne and a truck patch we have a field of Corne on the prarie of 

tenn or twelve Acres that is tollerable good 

I wish you to wright as quick as you can as I want to hear from you as Soone 

as possible I have not my land warrant yet as it has only pased the lower house If I get 

any it will be 80 Acres as I Served Six months only peggy talks Very mutch of going 

to indiana next Spring if the lord is willing and we Should all live and have our health 

John and Marion Will be with us I am well pleased with the Country this far there is 

Some deer and Some bear and wolves I killed one deer and one large koone Some 

birds and Squirels feasents Give my Compliments to all the inquiring friends I way 

180 pounds in my Shirt Sleeves tell uncle Bill Bohannon that I am the Same Old John 

Scrogin yet and friend that I never was hartier in my life tho Afflicted with pains in 

the upper Jouint of my right thigh Jeptha hendersons wife has a nother Son Jeptha 

dulins wife has a nother Son also No more at present But Sill remain your Ever loving 

Old father while I live here on this Earth and after this earthly tabbernicle is also 




(illegible word) I hope to meet you all at the house that is not made with hands 

Eternal in the heavens and not my friends only But all the human family 

John Scrogin 

Direct your letter to McGregors Landing 

Clay Co 

Iowa 

Written on a single sheet of paper, folded so as to make two pages, the letter was folded 

twice again and sealed with the address and postmark on the outside: 

It was postmarked, Prairie Du Chien Aug 21. 

Benjamine 

Scrogin 

Christains burgh 

Shelby County 

Kentucky 

Jane Catherine Scrogin (G65) practiced her penmanship by copying some of the script and 

writing her name in blank spaces on the paper. Jane was a daughter of Benjamin Scrogin 

(F45). Someone, probably Sciota Young Scroggins, wrote on the outside of the folded letter: 

W. B. Scroggins’s Great Grandfather 

Another early settler of Clayton County, who arrived there in 1851, described the town of 

McGregor as then a hamlet of five or six small buildings. He said that the spring of 1851 was 

one of the wettest ever known. The prairie between Chicago and Elgin was half under water. 

The railroad track was newly laid, unballasted and indifferently graded, with ties laid on the 

prairie sod in some places. The fastest speed was ten miles per hour and frequently little 

faster than a man could walk. Traveling by rail was tedious, but traveling by stage was 

exhaustive and described by some as paying for the privilege of wading through mud on foot 

with a rail on the shoulder with which to pry up the coach when it was stuck. 42 

The town of McGregor is in northeastern Iowa on Mississippi River opposite Prairie du 

Chien, Wisconsin, just north of where Wisconsin River enters the Mississippi. Located in 

Clayton County, McGregor is not far from Fort Atkinson, an outpost of the 1840’s that has 

been restored; Effigy Mounds National Monument, where the Indian mounds are in the 

shapes of birds, snakes and mammals; Pikes Peak and Echo Valley State Scenic and 

Recreational Parks; and Spook Cave. Clayton County is drained by Turkey River which 

flows into the Mississippi about half-way between McGregor and Dubuque, Iowa, to the 

south. The wooded hills and river bluffs of northeastern Iowa break the level plains of the 

state which contains one-fourth of the highest grade tops oil in the United States. A series of 

highways and byways known as Great River Road follow the Iowa bank of the Mississippi 

from the Minnesota border south to Dubuque. It follows one of the most dramatic stretches of 

the river’s entire length. Located near Marquette, Iowa, north of McGregor, Effigy Mounds 




National Monument is situated on soaring bluffs above the river. Just south of McGregor, 

Pikes Peak State Park also has Indian mounds, a cave, a 

falls and colorful sandstone cliffs. 

Shortly after John wrote home, he was enumerated on the federal census in Mendon 

Township, Clayton County, Iowa, 23 August 1850: 43 

John Scroggins 62 M Farmer born DE 

Margaret Scroggins 49 F SC 

Julyann Scroggins 17 F KY 

John Scroggins 14 M IN 

Francis M Scroggins 12 M 

IN 

John Earlywine 18 M Laborer OH 

Jeptha Henderson lived next to John Scrogin: (dwelling 666, family 666.) 

Jeptha Henderson 29 M Farmer born KY 

Matilda Henderson 22 F KY 

Mary E Henderson 7 F IN 

Elias S Henderson 2 M IN 

John E Henderson 1/12 M IA 

His file does not contain an application for bounty land, but John Scrogin (E14) swore to his 

service in the War of 1812 on 29 July 1850: 44 

State of Iowa 

Oath of Identity 

Clayton County SS 

On this twenty ninth day of July A.D. 1850 appeared before me 

the undersigned a Justice of the peace for the County and State above mentioned 

John Scrogin who being duly sworn according to law declares that he is the 

Identical John Scrogin who was a private Soldier in the company commanded by 

Captain Richard Matson in the Regiment Commanded by Col Richard M Johnson 

of Kentucky Mounted Vollunteers that he enlisted on or about the twentyeth day of 

May A.D. 1813 for the term of six months and was discharged the twentyeth day of 

November A.D. 1813 by reason of the expiration of the term of service. 

John Scrogin 

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written. 

Thos. B. Twiford 

Justice of the peace 

A patent was issued on 01 May 1852: 45 

The United States of America 

To all to Whom these Presents Shall Come Greeting: 

Whereas in pursuance of the act of Congress, Approved September 28th 1850 

Entitled “an act granting bounty land to Certain Officers and Soldiers who have been 




Engaged in the Military Service of the United States, Warrant No. 15933 for 80 acres 

issued in favor of John Scrogin Private in Captain Matsons Company Kentucky 

Mounted Volunteers War of 1812 has been returned to the general land office with 

evidence that the same has been duly located upon the South half of the South West 

quarter of Section Four in Township Ninety four North of Range three West in the 

District of Lands Subject to Sale at Dubuque Iowa Containing Eighty Acres, 

according to the Official Plat of the Survey of the said Land returned to the 

General Land Office, by the Surveyor General. 

Now Know Ye, that there is therefore granted by the United States unto the 

said John Scrogin the tract of land above described To Have and To Hold the said tract 

of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said John Scroggins and to his heirs 

and assigns forever In Testimony whereof I Millard Fillmore President of the United 

States of America, have caused these Letters to be made Patent and the Seal of the 

General Land Office to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand at the City of 

Washington, the First day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & 

Fifty two, and of the Independence of the 

By the President; 

(Seal United States ) 

(General Land Office) 

United States the Seventy Sixth. 

Millard Fillmore 

By Alex. McCormick Asst Secy. 

E. S. Torrey Recorder of the General Land Office. 

Record of Miscellaneous Military) 

Grants, Vol. 25, Page 240) E 

Filed for Record this 2nd day of September A.D. 1865, 

J. Oglesbee Recorder Clayton County Iowa. 

Although the sale of land to a pair of 16- and 14-year-old boys seems highly unusual and 

hardly legal, John (E14) and Margaret Scrogin sold his bounty land, the south half of the 

southwest quarter of Section 4, Township 94, in Clayton County, Iowa, to their sons John B. 

Scrogin (F91) and Francis M. Scrogin (F92) on 08 May 1852 for $100: 46 

This Indenture Witnesseth: That John Scrogin and Margaret Scrogin of the County of 

Clayton and the State of Iowa, in consideration of One Hundred Dollars to us paid by 

John B. Scrogin and Francis M. Scrogin of the County and State aforesaid, the receipt 

whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby grant, bargain, sell and convey to the 

said John B. Scrogin and Francis M. Scrogin, their heirs and assigns forever, the 

following real estate in Clayton County and State of Iowa, and described as follows to 

wit: The South half of the South West quarter of Section Four in Town Ninety four, 

Range three west of the principal meridian, containing Eighty acres more or less, 

together with all the privileges and appurtenances tothe same belonging. 

To Have and To Hold the same to the said John B. Scrogin and Francis M. Scrogin 

their heirs and assigns forever, the Grantors their heirs and assigns, hereby 

covenanting with the Grantees their heirs and assigns, that the title so 

conveyed is clear free and unencumbered, and that they will Warrant and Defend the 

same against all legal claims whatsoever. 




In Witness Whereof, the said John Scrogin and Margaret Scrogin his wife, who 

hereby relinquishes her dower in said premises, have hereunto set their hands and 

seals this 8th day of May A.D. 1852. 

In presence of us John Scrogin (LS) 

Jeptha Henderson 

her 

V. R. Miller Margaret X Scrogin (LS) 

mark 

State of Iowa 

Clayton County Be it remembered that on this 8th day of May A.D. 1852 

before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, in 

person came John Scrogin and Margaret Scrogin to me personally known to be the 

persons, whose names are subscribed to the foregoing deed of conveyance as parties 

thereto and acknowledge the same to be their act and deed for the purposes therein 

named. And the said Margaret Scrogin wife of said John Scrogin to me personally 

known as aforesaid on having been made acquainted with the contents of said 

conveyance acknowledged on an examination apart from her husband that she 

executed the same and relinquished her dowry in the real estate therein mentioned 

freely and without compulsion or undue influence of her husband. 

V. R. Miller Justice of the Peace 

Filed for Record Sept. 3rd 1852 

On the same day Margaret Scrogin bought the 80-acre north half of the southeast quarter of 

Section 5 in Township 94, Range 3 West, from Jeptha Henderson and his wife Matilda 

Henderson for $100. Both signed the deed before witnesses Lewis Sturm and V. R. Miller. 47 

The north half of the southeast quarter of Section 5 and the north half of the southwest 

quarter of Section 4, Township 94, Range 3, Iowa, were located by Jeptha Henderson on 16 

April 1850 with Bounty Land Warrant 44818 and the United States patent for them was 

issued to him on 10 July 1851. 48 

The 1852 land transactions of John and Margaret Scrogin apparently reflect the plans made 

by the aging John for his wife and children in Iowa before making a trip back to Kentucky to 

visit his first family. Perhaps Peggy went with him as far as Indiana, according to her desires 

expressed in his letter, and by transferring title to their sons before they left, they avoided 

legal difficulties that might have arisen from their failure to return. John got back to Shelby 

County to see his children there. Christine Fry Merchant, of Bagdad, Kentucky, had a vague 

recollection in 1975 of a story she heard as a child about the day that “old man Scroggins 

came back to Kentucky, riding in alone on his horse.” 

John did not return to Iowa. On 18 May 1855 Margaret Scrogin of Clayton County, Iowa, 

applied for another bounty land grant as a widow, stating that her husband John Scrogin had 

died at Christiansburg, Kentucky, on 22 June 1855. Other documents in the file support the 

date of application, so the year of John’s death must have been 1853 or 1854: 49 

BOUNTY LAND CLAIM 

Form of Declaration 

To be made by the widow of a deceased person who has had a land warrant, 




and desires another. 

State of Iowa 

County of Clayton ss. 

On this 18th day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred and 55 personally 

appeared before me, a Justice of the peace within and for the County and State 

aforesaid, Margeret Scrogins aged fifty five years, a resident of Clayton County in the 

State of Iow., who being duly sworn according to law, declares, that she is the widow 

of John Scrogins, deceased, who was a private in the company commanded by 

Captain Matson in the Kentucky united volunteers commanded by Colonel Richard 

Johnson (she thinks) in the war with Great Brittian declared by the United States on 

the 18 day of June 1812, That her said husband Volunteered in Burboun County on or 

about the dont know day of A.D. for the term of and continued in 

actual service in said war for the term of Six months and was honorably discharged at 

on the day of A.D. She further states that she was married to the said John 

Scrogins in Shelby County Kentucky on the 19th day of November A.D. 1835 by one 

Abram Cook a Baptist Minister and that her name before her said marriage was 

Margeret Baldin that her said husband died at Christianburg Ky. on the 22nd day of 

June A.D. 1855 and that she is now a widow at the date of executing this her 

declaration and her husband obtained a Bounty Land warrant under act of Congress 

Sept. 28th 1850, for 80 acres, No. 15933, which he did legally transfer and dispose of, 

and not within her power to return, she refers to said declaration for evidence of her 

husband’s service. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty 

Land to which she may be entitled under this, or any other act of Congress, except as 

above stated. She further declares that at the time of her husband receiving the 

Warrant No 15933 he sent his discharge to the federal city and to which She 

refferrs for the date of his volunteering and discharge her 

Mgrgret X Scrogins 

mark 

We, A. C. White and Oley Hulverson residents of Clayton County in the 

State of Iowa upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and 

acknowledged by Margeret Scrogins in our presence, and that we believe, from the 

appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she 

represents herself to be. 

A C White 

Oley Hulverson 

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed 

before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants 

to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, 

and that I have no interest in this claim. 

Andrew Anderson J.P. 

POWER OF ATTORNEY 




Know all men by these presents, That I Margeret Scrogins of the County of 

Clayton and State of Iowa and the widow of John Scrogins deceased, who was a 

soldier in the service of the United States, do hereby irrevocably constitute and 

appoint John T. Neely, Esq., of Washington City, D.C., my true and lawful attorney 

... 

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eighteenth 

(18th) day of May A.D. 1855. 

her 

Margeret X Scrogin (Seal) 

mark 

Acknowledged and subscribed before me, a Justice of the peace in and for the 

County of Clayton and State of Iow this 18th day of May A.D. 1855. 

Andrew Anderson J.P. (Seal) 

Robert R. Read, Clerk of the District Court at Garnavillo in Clayton County, certified that 

Andrew Anderson was a Justice of the Peace on 21 May 1855. On 23 August 1855 at 

Shelbyville, Kentucky, Hector A. Chinn, Clerk of Shelby County Court, certified that the 

records in his office showed that John Scroggan and Margaret Baldwin were married on 19 

October 1835 by A. Cook, a minister of the Gospel. 

POWER OF ATTORNEY 

Know all men by these presents. That I, Mrs. M. Scroggins of the County of 

Clayton and State of Iowa, wid. of Jno. Scroggins who was a Priv in Capt. Matson’s 

Co. Ky. Mil. war 1812 &, whose application for Bounty Land under act 1855, No. 

219523, was filed on the 20th day of Oct. 1855 in the Pension Office, at Washington, 

D.C., do hereby constitute and appoint H. D. Evens of McGregor’s Landing P.O. 

Clayton Co. & State of Iowa my true and lawful attorney, prosecute my claim before 

said office, and receive my Bounty Land Warrant or Certificate for delivery or 

transmission to me. 

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth 

day of July 1857. 

R Hurlbut 

her 

C Rowen 

Margaret X Scroggins (Seal) 

Witnesses 

mark 

Margaret was allowed 80 acres on 07 November 1857. Her specific claim for land and her 

eventual disposition of it has not been determined but it may have been the north half of the 

southeast quarter of Section 5, Township 94, north of Range 3 west of the 5th prime 

meridian, in Clayton County. A deed by which she obtained this land has not been found in 

Clayton County but she sold it to Peter Fisher on 24 June 1861 for $800. 50 

John Scrogin (E14) and his first wife Rachel Kendrick are presumed to be buried in the 

Scroggin graveyard on the farm owned by Less Johnson in 1973. It is situated about 2.5 

miles north of Bagdad in Highway 395 and about 1/2 mile south of where the road crosses 

Six Mile Creek. Their sons Benjamin (F45) and Samuel (F90) Scrogin owned this land and 




had a mill near where the road crosses the creek. Samuel (F90) and his wife Malinda Miles 

are buried there with engraved stones marking their graves: 51 

Samuel Scroggin 

Malinda 

born June 14, 1810 

wife of Samuel Scroggin 

died Oct. 09, 1849 born Aug. 10, 1812 

died June 26, 1872 

The only other stone there is for Mahala, daughter of G. F. & Sarah Moore, who was born on 

08 August 1858 and died on 03 May 1863. Their relationship to the Scrogin family is not 

known. 

Benjamin Scrogin (F45) is buried in the cemetery at Indian Fork Baptist Church with his 

wife Pamelia Bohannon Scrogin. His tombstone gives a birth date of 24 January 1811 which 

conflicts with Samuel’s birth date of 14 June 1810. Since John Scrogin (E14) and Rachel 

Kendrick were married on 02 February 1808 and had a daughter Elizabeth first, about 1809, 

the birth date of Samuel may be accurate with Benjamin being born either 24 June 1811 or 

24 January 1812. 

This area of Shelby County, which is now served by the Bagdad Post Office and known as 

Bagdad, was previously served by a post office at Christiansburg and generally known as 

Christiansburg. The present community of Christiansburg is 10 miles northeast of 

Shelbyville, the county seat. Incorporated on 01 January 1824, Christiansburg had two 

churches, Baptist and Methodist, two physicians, two taverns, four stores and groceries, a 

steam sawmill, a woolen factory and four mechanics shops in 1873. In a story written about 

Shelby County that year, Bagdad, Jacksonville and Consolation were described as small 

places. All four are on the ridge dividing the watershed of the county. Land northeast of the 

ridge is drained by Benson Creek, Six Mile Creek and the Indian Fork of Six Mile into the 

Kentucky River. The Scrogin land was at the junction of Indian Fork and Six Mile creeks. 

Most of the county is drained into Salt River to the south by Clear, 

Beech, Brashears, Bullskin, Fox Run, Plum, Gist, Long Run and Floyd’s Fork creeks. 

Shelby County was the 12th county formed in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 

third established after Kentucky was admitted to the Union. Created in 1792 from Jefferson 

County, it was named for Isaac Shelby, the first, and then, governor of the state. The first 

station established by a white man in the area that is now Shelby County was built by Squire 

Boone in 1779. Situated on Clear Creek at the Painted Stone, the location of the station is 

now within the limits of the city of Shelbyville. For nearly two years, Boone’s Station was 

the only one between Harrodsburg, and its surrounding small stations, and the large fort at 

the Falls of the Ohio, with its small satellite stations along Beargrass Creek. In September 

1781, Boone’s Station was abandoned temporarily after Indians began making frequent 

appearances in the neighborhood and there was an attack. Fleeing to the stronger settlements 

at Louisville, the little band of pioneers were attacked by a large group of Indians near Long 

Run Creek with a loss of 100 white persons, men, women and children killed or captured, 

including two daughters of John and Sarah Scoggin Hansborough who lived at Boone’s 

Station at the time. Learning of the massacre, Colonel John Floyd and Captain John Holder 




led 37 men after the Indians but they were ambushed by 200 warriors who killed 16 of the 

pursuing Kentuckians. Only 9 or 10 Indians died in the engagement. Boone’s Station was not 

re-occupied until about Christmas 1781. In 1783 when he was serving in the Virginia 

legislature, Squire Boone transferred his station to Colonel Lynch and it was thereafter 

known as Lynch’s Station. Other early settlements in the Shelby County area were the station 

of Captain Robert Tyler on Tick Creek, Owen’s Station built in 1782 by Brackett Owen, 

Colonel Aquila 

Whitaker’s Station on Clear Creek and Captain Samuel Well’s Station. 

Squire Boone was the brother of Daniel Boone and of Sarah Boone who married John 

Wilcoxson. Jane Wilcoxson, granddaughter of John and Sarah Boone Wilcoxson, married 

William Bohannon and had Pamelia Bohannon who married Benjamin Scrogin (F45). 

Six miles east of Shelbyville there is an ancient Indian fortification situated on a hill some 

200 feet above the surrounding terrain with a view for miles around. A double ring of 

earthworks from 4 to 8 feet high encircled several wooded acres watered by a spring. Graves 

and Indian relics have been found in the vicinity. 

On 08 March 1856 John Scrogin (Scroggins) of Clayton County, Iowa, bought for $93.50 

from William Joshua Barney and Georgianna F. Barney of Dubuque County, Iowa, the 

southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 4 in Township 94 North of Range 3 

West of the 5th prime meridian. 52 John Scrogin (Scroggins), who signed the deed with an X 

mark, sold the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 4, Township 94, Range 3 

west, in Clayton County, to F. Larned for $300 on 08 October 1856. 53 These deeds must 

pertain to John B. Scrogin (F91), although he used his middle initial on all subsequent court 

transactions. It is likely that the B. stood for Baldwin. 

Margaret Scrogin was living with her son John in Mendon Township, Clayton County, Iowa, 

on 19 June 1860: 54 

John B. Scroggins 23 M Farmer born IN 

R. A. Scroggins 21 F MO 

Mary Scroggins 1 F IA 

James Hamilton 21 M Laborer NY 

Margret Scroggins 56 F KY 

John B. Scroggins (F91) was shown with real estate valued at $400 and personal property 

worth $100. Margaret was credited with real estate valued at $800. Her birthplace of 

Kentucky and age of 56 do not coincide with the 1850 census, which showed her as born in 

South Carolina and aged 49. Since she represented herself as 55 in 1855 when she applied for 

the bounty land, she probably was 59 or 60 in 1860. 

Julia Ann Baldwin (Scrogin) married William Minney before 1860 and was tabulated with 

her husband. Francis Marion Scrogin (F92), who was not listed on the 1860 census as a head 

of household in Mendon Township, must have been living with another family. The records 




of Clayton County do not show a marriage for Julia Ann Baldwin (Scrogin), John B. Scrogin 

or Francis M. Scrogin. 55 

On 24 February 1859 John B. Scrogin (F91), his wife Ruth Ann and Francis M. Scrogin 

(F92), all of Clayton County, sold to G. S. C. Scott and Henry C. Scott of the firm of Scott 

and Brother, for $300, the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 4, Township 

94, Range 3 west. 56 

The fact that Frances Marion Scrogin (F92) did not have a wife to sign the deed, suggests 

that he was not married by 1859. 

On 29 May 1863, by a deed of quit claim, John B. Scrogin of Clayton County conveyed to 

Margaret Scrogin of the same place, for $169, the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter 

of Section 4, Township 94, North of Range 3, west of the 5th prime meridian, in Clayton 

County. He signed with an X. 57 

On 26 August 1865 Margaret Scrogin and John B. Scrogin (Scroggins) sold to Patrick Hynes, 

for $400, the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 4, Township 94, north of 

Range 3, west of the 5th prime meridian. The deed was acknowledged by Margaret and John 

B. Scrogin on the same date at McGregor in the office of Thomas Updegraff, a notary 

public. 58 

The relationships of John Scrogin (E14), his second wife Margaret Baldwin and their 

children, Elizabeth Baldwin, who married Jeptha Dulin; Julia Ann Baldwin, who married 

William Minney; John B. Scrogin (F91); and Francis Marion “Dick” Scrogin (F92); are 

proved by depositions, which state that Ruth Ann Scrogin, the wife of John B. Scrogin, died 

before 29 August 1865 and that she had no issue. Elizabeth Baldwin Dulin died before 27 

May 1858, when Jeptha Dulin was described as a widower. The record also states that 

Margaret Baldwin Scrogin “left here” after 24 July 1861, but it is not understood if it meant 

that she left Mendon Township, Clayton County or the state of Iowa. She was signing deeds 

in Clayton County in 1865: 59 

State of Iowa ) 

Clayton County) 

David Moody being first duly sworn state that I was personally 

acquainted with the family of John Scroggin 

sometimes called Scroggins. That Margaret Scroggin the wife & afterwards widow of 

John Scroggin was living here and supposed to be single Nov 27th 1860. I knew 

nothing of the death of her husband except by hearsay from the family at the time she 

remained single up to the time she left here which was subsequent to July 24th 1861. 

That William Minney and Julia Ann Minney were husband & wife. Julia Ann being 

the daughter of Margaret Scroggin or Scroggins. That Martin Diem Sr. was the owner 

of SW SE 5.94.3. and was the same person who made deed as Martin Deim to Ismael 

P Stanes May 17th 1890. That the name of John B Scroggin sometimes called 

Scroggins is correct. he was the son of John Scroggin & Margaret Scroggin & there 

was no other John except John the Father & John B the son. That Margaret Scrogin 

who was grantee and Margaret Scroggin grantor in deeds of NE of SE & NW of SE 



6:23 JOHN SCROGIN 

5.94.3. is one and the same person. That the grantors in deed of SE SW 4.94.3 dated 

Feby 24th 1859 are the same identical persons who were grantees in deed of same 

land dated May 8th 1852. That Rutha Ann or Ruth Ann Scroggins was the wife of 

John B Scroggins and I am pretty certain died without having any children. 

David Moody. 

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of May 1896 by David Moody. 

Filed June 23d 1896. (Notarial) Robert Quigley Notary Public. 

F. N. Soll Recorder. (Seal) in and for Clayton County Iowa 

State of Iowa. ) 

Clayton County) s.s. 

George O Minnie being first duly sworn state that I am well acquainted 

with Francis Marion Scroggins lived with him at one time he is my uncle I further 

state that he is the same person who was grantee as Francis M Scrogin in deed 

5.8/52 Recorded in Book H. page 66 and was the same identical person who 

signed deed 2.24/59 Recorded in Book S page 60. as Francis Marion Scroggins 

and that said Francis Marion Scroggins was single 2.24.1859. That Margaret 

Scroggins and John B Scroggins grantors in deed 8-26-1865. Recorded in Book 

A2 Page 28 were Mother and Son, and were both single 8-26-65 Margaret Scroggins 

being a widow and John B Scroggins a widower at that time. 

George O. Minney. 

Subscribed and sworn to before me by George O Minnie this 15 day of June 1896. 

Filed June 23d 1896. (Notarial) Robert Quigley. 

F. N. Soll Recorder. (Seal) Notary Public. 

State of Iowa. ) 

Clayton County) 

Ezek Moody and Nancy F. Moody each being first duly sworn states. I was 

personally acquainted with John Scrogins with Margaret Scroggins his wife with John 

B Scroggins with Francis Marion Scroggins commonly called Dick Scroggins with 

Julia Ann the wife of Wm. Minney and with Jeptha Duling: That the family were 

from Kentucky they could not read & write and their names were written to 

instruments just as the person doing the writing for them understood the name herein 

The name was written and used as Scroggins, Scrogins, Scroggin and Scrogin. that 

John Scrogin who entered the SE SW and the SW SW 4.94.3 and to whom the U S 

issued patent as John Scroggins and who sold and deeded said land 5.8.52 to John B 

and Francis M Scrogin as John Scrogin was one and the same identical person. That 

Margaret Scroggins who signed deed 11.27.60 Recorded in Book S, 275 and deed 

8.26.65, Recorded in Book A2 28. and who is grantee in deed as Margaret Scrogin 

5.29.63. Recorded in Book Z, P age 460. and was grantee in deed 5.8.52. Recorded in 

Book H. 67 as Margarete Scrogin and conveyed to Peter Fisher as Margaret Scroggin 

6-24-61 in Book S, Page 544 was one and the same identical person and when deeds 

11.27.1860 Recorded S. 275. and 6.24.1861 Recorded S. 544. and 8.26.1865 

Recorded in A2 page 28 were executed the said Margaret Scroggins was a widow. 

That John B Scroggins who made deed 5.29.1863. Recorded Book Z 460. Deed 


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8.26.1865. Recorded Book A2 28 Affidavit 8.29.1865 Recorded Book 50. 459. and 

deed John M Scrogins 2.24.59 Recorded in Book Q 376. and who was grantee in deed 

5.8.1852. Recorded in Book H page 66 as John B Scrogin. and was grantee in deed 

6.12.1863 Recorded in Book Z, 461 as John B Scroggins are one and the same 

person and at the time of making deeds 5.29.1863 and deed 8.26.1865, said John B 

Scroggins was a widower. That Rutha Ann Scroggins was the wife of John B 

Scroggins 2.24.1859. she died leaving no children. she was the same person referred 

to in affidavit of John B Scroggins 8.29.1865. Recorded in 50. page 459. as Ruth Ann 

Scroggins. That Jeptha Duling was a widower 5.27.1858 when he executed deed to 

Thomas Gannon Recorded in Book P. 318. That Thomas Gannon was the name of the 

purchaser instead of Garmon as shown by abstract and was the same identical person 

who deeded said land to Sarah E Barker 4.15.67. Recorded Book A2 534. 

Ezek Moody. 

Nancy F. Moody. 

Subscribed and sworn to before me by Ezek Moody and by Nancy F. Moody this 

18th day of June 1896 and I certify that the contents of the foregoing affidavit was 

fully made known to each of them before they signed & Sworn to the same. 

Filed June 23d 1896. (Notarial) Robert Quigley Notary Public. 

F. N. Soll Recorder. (Seal) in & for Clayton Co Ia. 

The statement about literacy probably applied to Margaret and her children, who were the 

principals in most of the subject deeds, but John Scrogin could read and write, as indicated 

by his letter to his son, Benjamin, on which the signature matches John’s signature on other 

public papers. 

Ruth Ann, the wife of John B. Scroggins (F91), was a daughter of Edmond and Mary 

Keeling of Polk County, Missouri. (Clayton County, Iowa, Deed Book 50, page 549.) 

Affidavit 

State of Iowa ) 

Clayton County) SS 

I, J. B. Scroggins do solemnly swear that Edward Keiling & Mary Keiling of Polk 

County Missouri who executed a deed to me 12th June 1863 are the Parents of my 

deceased wife Ruth Ann Scroggins 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29 of Aug 1865 

his 

Tho Updegraff) 

John B X Scroggins 

Notary Public) 

mark 

Filed Sept 24th 1880 

C L McGonigle Recorder 

On 12 June 1863 Edmond Keeling and Mary Keeling of Polk County, Arkansas, conveyed to 

John B. Scrogin (Scoogins) of Clayton County, Iowa, for $1.00, the southwest quarter of the 

southwest quarter of Section 4, Township 94, Range 3 west of the principal meridian, 

containing 40 acres. The quit claim deed was signed Edmond Keeling and Mary X Keeling. 




Edmond Keeling and his wife Mary acknowledged the deed and she relinquished her dower 

right in the property in Polk County Court, at Bolivar, Missouri, on 12 June 1863. 60 

Ruth Ann Keeling Scrogin obtained land from her brother-in-law Francis Marion Scrogin on 

24 February 1859: 61 

Know all men by these presents That I Francis M Scroggins of Clayton County State 

of Iowa for and in consideration of the Sum One hundred and fifty Dollars in hand 

paid by Rutha Ann Scroggins of Clayton County State of Iowa do hereby sell and 

convey unto the said Rutha Ann Scrogins, her heirs Executors and assigns the 

following described premises situated in Clayton County State of Iowa to Wit The 

South West quarter of the South West quarter of Section (4) in Town Ninety four (94) 

Range Three (3 ) West containing Forty acres more or less ... 

Signed this 24th day of February 1859. 

In presence of Thomas Arnold.) 

Francis Marion Scroggins. 

State of Iowa Clayton County Mendon Township) On this 24th day of February A 

D 1859 before me Thomas Arnold a justice of the peace duly Elected and commissioned in 

the Town and County aforesaid in person came Francis M Scrogins to me personally known 

to be the identical person whose name is affixed to the above deed as grantor and 

acknowledged the same to be his voluntary act and deed for the consideration therein 

specified In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand as justice aforesaid the 

day and date above written. 

Thomas Arnold, Justice of the peace. 

Filed for Record Oct 11th 1860. ) 

Jacob Nicklaus Recorder by Alpheus Scott Deputy.) 

[Marginal note: See Affidavit of George O Minnie Book 67. Page 229.] 

Julia Ann Baldwin was married to William Minney before 06 September 1859 when they 

conveyed title to some land to Margaret Scroggins for $100: 62 

Know all men by these presents That we William Minney and Julia Ann 

Minney his wife of Clayton County State of Iowa in consideration of the sum One 

Hundred Dollars in hand paid by Margaret Scroggins of Clayton County State of 

Iowa do hereby sell and convey unto the said Margaret Scroggins the following 

premises to wit The South West quarter of the South East Quarter of Section Number 

5 Five Township Number (94) Ninety four North of Range 3 Three West containing 

forty acres more or less ... and the said Julia Ann Minney hereby relinquishes her 

right of Dower to the premis ... Signed this Sixth day of September A D 1859. 

In presence of Thomas Arnold, Dorr D Hoxsie.) his 

William X Minney. 

mark 

her 

Julia Ann X Minney. 

mark 

State of Iowa Clayton County.) 




On this 14th day of August A D 1860 before me a Notary Public in and for said 

County personally came William Minney & Julia Ann his wife to me known to be 

the identical persons whose names are affixed to the above Deed as grantors and 

acknowledged the same to be their voluntary act and deed. 

Thomas Arnold. (Notarial Seal) 

Notary Public. 

Filed for Record Sep 3rd 1860. ) 

Jacob Nicklaus Recorder by Alpheus Scott Deputy.) 

This deed probably represented a mortgage because Margaret Scrogin (Scroggins) sold it 

back to Julia Ann Minney for $100 on 07 November 1860: 63 

Know all men by these presents. That I Margaret Scroggins of Clayton County State 

of Iowa in consideration of the sum of One Hundred Dollars in hand paid by Julia 

Ann Minney of Clayton County State of Iowa do hereby sell and convey unto the said 

Julia Ann Minney the following premises to wit. The South West quarter of the South 

East quarter of Section No. Five (5) Township No. Ninety four (94) North of Range 

Three (3) West containing Forty acres more or less ... Signed this Twenty Seventh 

day of November A.D. 1860. 

In presence of Thomas Arnold, J.C. Shadbolt. 

her 

Margaret X Scroggins 

mark 

State of Iowa Clayton County, SS. On this 27th day of November A.D. 1860, before 

me a justice of the peace in and for said County personally came Margaret Scroggins 

to me personally known to be the identical person whose name is affixed to the above 

Deed as grantor and acknowledged the same to be her voluntary act and deed. 

Filed for Record Feb. 7th 1861 

Thomas Arnold. 

Jacob Nicklaus Recorder. By Alpheus Scott Deputy. 

William and Julia Ann Minney of Clayton County, who signed the deed with their marks, 

sold the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 5, Township 94, to G. W. 

Hampshire, for $240 on 31 August 1861. 64 

William Minney bought the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 5, 

Township 94, of Range 3 West in the Dubuque Land District from Francis and Lucy Daniels 

for $66.00 on 06 March 1854. 65 

William Minney, who married Julia Ann Baldwin, was born in New York of Canadian 

parents. William and Julia Ann probably were married about 1855, because they had sons 

aged 4 and 1 in 1860. They resided in the town of McGregor, Clayton County, Iowa, when 

the census was taken on 12 June 1860. Jeptha Dulin, or one of his relatives, lived with 

them: 66 William Minney 28 M Laborer born NY 

Julia Minney 26 F KY 




C H Minney 4 M IA 

G O Minney 1 M IA 

Thomas Stephenson 22 M Laborer Canada 

J J Doolin 30 M Laborer KY 

William Minney had personal property valued at $75. 

William and Julia Ann Minney of McGregor Post Office, Mendon Township, Clayton 

County, Iowa, had three more sons before 29 July 1870: 67 

William Minnie 40 M Laborer born NY 

Julia Ann Minnie 39 F Keeping House KY 

Charles Minnie 14 M IA 

George Minnie 11 M IA 

William Minnie 10 M IA 

John Minnie 7 M IA 

Homer Minnie 3 M IA 

The parents of William Minney, who had personal property worth $300, were of foreign 

birth. He and Julia Ann were tabulated as being unable to read or write. 

Julia Ann Baldwin Minney apparently died before 07 June 1880, when William Minney 

of Mendon Township, Clayton County, Iowa, was described as a white, male laborer 

and widowed boarder, aged 52, who was born in New York to Canadian parents. 68 

George O. Minney was born in Iowa in May 1859. A resident of McGregor City, 

Mendon Township, Clayton County, his father was shown as a native of Canada and 

his mother of New York on the census. He had been married for 12 years by 12 June 

1900. 69 

John Minney (Minnie), who was born in Iowa in July 1864, was recorded as a child of 

parents who were born in New York. John had been married for 7 years in 1900. 70 




JOHN MOORE 

Born 1803 Henry County, Kentucky 

Died 1891 

Married (1) Elizabeth Scrogin (F70) 13 Jun 1826 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Born c1809 Bourbon County, Kentucky 

Died between 26 Jun 1860 and 18 Jun 1861 

Known children (1): 

John Moore Jr (G162) 

b. 1828 Kentucky 

d. 

m. Susan ------ c1852 

Joseph Thomas “Tom” Moore (G295) 

b. c1829 

d. 1899 

m. Ann Eliza Hall 22 Mar 1849 

Wilson Moore (G296) 

b. 01 Oct 1830 

d. 19 Feb 1907 

m. Sarah Jane Hall 27 May 1852 

George Francis Moore (G297) 

b. 24 Apr 1832 

d. 22 Sep 1896 

m. Sarah Elizabeth Hughes 26 Aug 1855 

James C Moore (G298) 

b. 02 May 1835 

d. 26 Nov 1899 

m. Nancy Jane Stivers 27 Oct 1859 

Edna Ann Moore (G163) 


d. 

m. James B Shuck 26 Oct 1859 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Samuel Moore (G164) 


d. 

m. 




William Moore (G165) 


d. 

m. 

Married (2) S Frances “Celie” Dowden 18 Jun 1861 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Born 31 May 1842 Henry County, Kentucky 

Died 1903 

Children (2): 

Whittington Moore 

b. 1862 

d. 

m. Nancy C Bohannon 13 Sep 1883 

Owen Moore 

b. 15 Jul 1865 

d. 09 Mar 1924 

m. Ina Bella Edrington 

John Moore (1803-1891) who married Elizabeth Scrogin (F70) descended from Oscar 

Layton Moore. 71 Elizabeth and John were married on 13 June 1826 in Shelby County by 

William W. Ford: 72 

June the 27th 1826 

I do hereby certify that on the 13th day of June I did celebrate the rites of 

matrimony between John Moore and Elizabeth Scoggan agreeable to the license 

issued by the Clerk of Shelby County Court bearing date June the 6th 1826 

William W. Ford 




Shelby County Court Office Sct. 

June the 27th 1826 

This certificate was this day returned and is duly recorded. 

Att. 

James S. Whitaker, Clerk 

Shelby County Court 

The census for District 2, Christiansburg Post Office, Shelby County, Kentucky, on 26 June 

1860, reveals some of the children of John Moore and Elizabeth Scrogin (F70): 73 

Jno. Moore Sr 58 M Farmer born KY 

Elizth. Moore 51 F KY 

Saml. Moore 16 M Laborer KY 

James Shuck 22 M Laborer KY 

Ednor Shuck 19 F KY 

Wm. Moore 8 M KY 

Saml. Smith 24 M School teacher KY 

Jno. Moore Jr 32 M Farmer born KY 

Susan Moore 28 F KY 

John Ezra Moore 8 M KY 

Margt. Moore 8 M KY 

Margt. Moore, aged 8, who was listed as a male, undoubtedly should have been tabulated as 

a female. Her age may be wrong, too, unless she and John Ezra were twins. 

James B. Shuck, aged 25, born and residing in Shelby County, and Edney Ann Moore, 

daughter of John Moore, aged 18, born and residing in Shelby County, were married on 

26 October 1859, with W. J. Stivers as bondsman. 74 

There undoubtedly were some children born to Elizabeth Scrogin Moore between John 

Moore, Jr. about 1828 and Edna Ann Moore about 1841. 

Elizabeth Scrogin Moore (F70) probably died after the 1860 census and before 18 June 1861 

when John Moore appears to have married again. On that date John Moore of Shelby County; 

aged 59; 2nd marriage; farmer; born Henry County, Kentucky; parents born Virginia; 

married S. Frances Dowden of Shelby County; aged 21; 1st marriage; born Henry County; 

father Willis Dowden, who was bondsman, born Shelby County; mother born Woodford 

County. 75 

Owen Moore (G300) and Ina Bella Edrington are buried in Section P of Frankfort Cemetery 

in Frankfort, Kentucky. 




SCROGIN-MOORE DESCENDANCY CHART 

Ramona S Slattery (Mrs Leo), 2370 Bald Knob Road, Frankfort KY 40601-9529 

24 March 1999 

1 John Moore b: 30 Nov 1803 d: 26 Mar 1891 

+Elizabeth Scroggins (F70) b: 1809 m: 06 Jun 1826 d: 1856 

2 John Moore, Jr. (G162) b: 1827 

2 Joseph Thomas “Tom” Moore (G295) b: Abt 1829 d: 1899 

+Ann Eliza Hall b: Abt 1825 m: 22 Mar 1849 d: 03 Aug 1897 

3 Fanny Moore (H419) b: 1851 d: Bef 1878 

3 Reuben Moore (H420) b: 1855 d: 05 Nov 1895 

+Nancy Price Arnsparger b: 16 Jun 1866 m: 29 Dec 1885 d. 11 Jun 1943 

4 Betty Moore (J411) b: 01 May 1896 

3 James Buchanon Moore (H421) b: 26 Jul 1857 d: 17 Apr 1938 

+ Sarah Frances “Fanny” Arnsparger b: 29 Apr 1862 m: 16 Dec 1880 d: 22 

Jun 1888 

4 Arthur Moore (J412) b: 20 Oct 1881 d: 03 Mar 1907 

+ Minnie Thomas Perkins b: 05 Sep 1886 m: 10 Oct 1901 d: 23 Mar 1954 

5 Lonnie Charles Moore (K379) b: 09 Aug 1902 d: 01 Apr 1961 

+ Ola Lee Pace b: 26 Aug 1903 m: 29 Dec 1920 d: 1985 

5 Nannie Mae Moore (K380) b: 18 Jul 1906 d: 23 Nov 1939 

+Raymond William Sudduth b: 29 Apr 1900 m: 22 Aug 1922 d: 13 Dec 

1931 

6 Mildred Marie Sudduth (L313) b: 16 Mar 1923 

+Eugene Marshall Lindsey b: 10 Feb 1921 m: 23 Sep 1942 

7 Marshall Lloyd Lindsey (M172) b: 29 Apr 1947 

+Sue Anne Adcock b: 1947 m: 10 Aug 1967 

*2nd Wife of Marshall Lloyd Lindsey: 

+Virginia Rita Bobbitt b: 11 Dec 1949 m: 29 Mar 1969 

8 Marsha Lee Lindsey (N74) b: 06 Jun 1971 

*3rd Wife of Marshall Lloyd Lindsey 

+Catherine Miller m: 08 Jun 1976 

8 David Beard Lindsey (N75) b: 19 Feb 1981 

8 Abigail Miller Lindsey (N76) b: 29 Nov 1982 

8 Caroline Collins Lindsey (N77) 

7 Eugenie Marie Lindsey (M173) b: 13 Nov 1949 

+Daniel Ray Moffen b: 26 Feb 1947 m: 24 Jun 1967 

8 Heather Beth Moffett (N78) b: 12 Dec 1967 

+Michae1 David Rose m: 23 Jun 1990 

9 Emily Kate Rose (P6) b: 13 Jul 1990 

*2nd Husband of Heather Beth Moffett: 

+Ron Simmons b: 20 Jun 1967 m: 26 Nov 1993 

9 Hunter Simmons (P7) b: 15 Jun 1994 

8 Amy Lindsey Moffen (N79) b: 05 Sep 1971 

+Jon Matthew Atherton m: 15 May 1993 

6 Arthur Lloyd Sudduth (L314) b: 11 Nov 1925 d: 01 Dec 1929 




6 Ramona Frances Sudduth (L315) b: 03 Nov 1928 

+Leo Nash Slattery b: 22 May 1922 m: 09 Feb 1957 

7 Phillip Lee Slattery (M174) b: 27 Nov 1957 

7 Sarah Ellen Slaffery (M175) b: 13 Sep 1961 

+Stephen Scott Hunsaker b: 12 Feb 1955 m: 07 Jun 1986 

8 Stephen Tyler Hunsaker (N80) b: 28 Sep 1989 

8 Keenan Scott Hunsaker (N81) b: 07 Jan 1994 

4 Iva Frances Moore (J413) b: 26 Nov 1883 d: 28 Nov 1983 

+Arthur Coghill b: 08 Oct 1880 m: 09 Oct 1901 d: 29 Jan 1956 

5 Thomas Franklin Coghill (K381) b: 27 Jan 1903 d: 27 Feb 1989 

+Lelia Carpenter b: 29 Mar 1902 m: 22 Dec 1920 d: Dec 1986 

6 Thelma Lavaughan Coghill (L316) b: 24 Sep 1924 

6 Nancy Lee Coghill (L317) b: 29 Jul 1932 

5 Baby Boy Coghill (K382) b: Bef 1908 

5 Tandy Beard Coghill (K383) b: 22 Jul 1908 d: 04 Dec 1994 

5 Bertha Lee Coghill (K384) b: 22 Aug 1910 d: 23 Aug 1997 

+Raymond Taylor Wheeler b: 29 Nov 1898 m: 03 Jul 1933 d: 05 Jul 

1991 

6 James Ray Wheeler (L318) b: 08 Aug 1937 

6 Carol Sue Wheeler (L319) b: Aft 1937 

4 Lonnie Moore (J414) b: 05 Apr 1886 d: 16 Feb 1887 

4 FannieMoore (J415) b:13 Jun 1888 d: 04 May 1889 

*2nd Wife of James Buchanon Moore: 

+Laura Clark b: 1872 m: 20 Apr 1893 

3 Elizabeth Moore (H422) b: 1858 

+William Arnsparger b: 15 Sep 1854 m: 13 Mar 1878 

4 Clarence Beard Amsparger (J416) b: 04 Dec 1878 d: 12 May 1961 

+Grace Stuart b: 13 Mar 1879 d: 31 Jan 1964 

4 Annie Arnsparger (J417) 

4 Joe Sanford Amsparger (J418) b: 04 Jan 1880 

3 Sidney Moore (H423) b: 1863 

3 Josephine Moore (H424) b: 03 Oct 1867 d: 28 Mar 1941 

+Calvin W. Green b: 25 Oct 1861 d: 07 Jan 1951 

4 Bess Green (J419) 

4 J.B. Green (J420) 

2 Wilson Moore (G296) b: 01 Oct 1830 d: 19 Feb 1907 

+Sarah Jane Hall b: 17 Aug 1835 m: 27 May 1852 d: 09 Aug 1875 

3 Stephen Moore (H425) b: 09 Apr 1854 d: 14 Aug 1914 

+Alice Duncan m: 19 Mar 1878 

*2nd Wife of Stephen Moore: 

+Caroline Armsparger b: 06 Nov 1867 m: 09 Apr 1883 d: 1940 

4 Oscar Layton Moore (J421) b: 26 Sep 1884 

4 Edgar Moore (J422) 

4 Mary Moore (J423) 

4 Carolyn Moore (J424) 

4 Birdie Moore (J425) 




4 Virginia Moore (J426) 

4 Lucille Moore (J427) 

4 Dorothy Moore (J428) 

4 Roy G. Moore (J429) 

3 Joseph Wilson Moore (H426) b: 26 Jun 1857 d: 18 Sep 1905 

+Sarah Miles b: 18 Jul 1862 m: 1877 d: 21 Jul 1922 

4 Ernest Linwood Moore (J430) b: 03 Oct 1877 d: 09 Apr 1946 

+Carrie Byars 

5 Melvin Marion Moore (K385) 

5 Edith Moore (K386) 

5 Estelle Moore (K387) 

5 Voris Moore (K388) 

5 Forrest Moore (K389) 

4 Amy River Moore (J431) b: 28 Jun 1881 d: 04 Dec 1974 

+Herbert F. Montgomery b: 1876 d: 1947 

5 Frances Montgomery (K390) b: 21 Jun 1901 d: 06 Apr 1967 

+Minish T. Semones b: 15 Feb 1899 d: 20 Feb 1976 

6 Mary Belle Semones (L320) b: 21 Aug 1921 

+ J. Hurshal Ruble b: 20 Jan 1921 d: 18 Mar 1985 

5 Mary Kesler Montgomery (K391) b: 21 Apr 1905 d: 12 Dec 1956 

+Harvey Cecil Lee b: 07 Sep 1902 d: Dec 1982 

6 Sarah Frances Lee (L321) 

6 Mildred Lee (L322) 

6 Juanita Lee (L323) 

6 Cecil Franklin Lee b: 25 May 1933 d: 30 Jul 1949 (L324) 

4 Ada Lou Moore (J432) b: 10 Dec 1882 d: 04 Jul 1942 

+George Marshall 

4 Hester Mae Moore (J433) b: 20 Nov 1884 d: 20 Aug 1954 

+Oscar Wells b: 10 Aug 1884 d: 13 Dec 1955 

4 Ora Lena Moore (J434) b: 10 Nov 1886 d: 09 Feb 1937 

+Willie Hubbard 

4 Bertha Moore (J435) b: 03 May 1890 d: 17 Sep 1948 

4 Voris Moore (J436) b: 19 Dec 1888 d: 12 Jul 1889 

3 Morgan Moore (H427) b: 1868 d: 1944 

+Mary Adlade Miles b: 18 Apr 1871 m: 17 Jan 1886 d: 23 Dec 1893 

4 Selene Moore (J437) 

4 Claude Moore (J438) 

4 Forrest Moore (J439) 

*2nd Wife of Morgan Moore: 

+Mona Edna Ellis b: 04 Oct 1855 m: Abt 1900 d: 16 Jun 1938 

*2nd Wife of Wilson Moore: 

+Surelda Roberts m: 24 Dec 1878 

3 Murrell Moore (H428) b: 1885 d: 07 Sep 1924 

+Lavernia Green b: 1889 m: 17 Aug 1904 

3 Ira C. Moore (H429) b: 1885 

+Susan Magruder b: 1894 m: 17 Dec 1919 




2 George Francis Moore (G297) b: 24 Apr 1832 d: 22 Sep 1896 

+Sarah Elizabeth Hughes b: 14 Feb 1838 m: 26 Aug 1855 d: 01 Dec 1911 

3 Mahala Jane Moore (H430) b: 08 Aug 1858 d: 03 May 1863 

3 George Drufal Moore (H431) b: 22 Mar 1860 d: 28 Jan 1934 

+Anne Elizabeth Clark b: 07 Apr 1865 m: 15 Oct 1885 d: 07 Apr 1936 

3 Nannie E. Moore (H432) b: 07 Mar 1863 

+Owen Douglas Deakins b: 1857 

4 Curtis Cleveland Deakins (J440) eb 1959 

+Fanny Busey m: 23 Dec 1903 

3 Edna Ann Moore (H433) b: 12 Mar 1866 d: 16 Feb 1936 

+Lindsey Thomas Watkins b: 14 Aug 1863 m: 17 Feb 1887 d: 18 Apr 1929 

4 Alex Arthur Watkins (J441) 02 Feb 1894 d: 28 May 1963 

+Virgie Lee Clark b: 10 Aug 1896 m: 07 Oct 1914 d: 26 Jan 1936 

5 Marvin Watkins (K392) b: 30 May 1916 

5 Lola Mae Watkins (K393) b: 15 Jul 1920 

4 Ethel Watkins (J442) b: 22 Sep 1899 

+Jethro Herrell b: 10 Nov 1896 m: 24 Dec 1918 

5 Alvin Thomas Herrell (K394) b: 14 Nov 1933 

4 Gladys Watkins (J443) b: 10 Jun 1904 

+Russell Eastman b: 17 Jun 1901 

3 Marquis Delafayette Moore (H434) b: 22 Dec 1868 d: 1942 

+Florence E. Duncan b: 1869 d: 1935 

3 Isaac Payne Moore (H435) b: 24 Aug 1872 d: 21 Jun1956 

+Daisy Cook b: 26 Nov 1879 m: 20 Jul 1898 d: 13 Jul 1960 

4 Cynthia L. Moore (J444) b: 27 Apr 1899 

+Harry Robert Brooks b: Oct 1898 m: 16 Jun 1920 

5 Archie Winton Brooks (K395) b: 25 Apr 1921 

5 Calvin Jay Brooks (K396) b: 12 Sep 1923 

5 Don Burton Brooks (K397) b: 03 Mar 1928 

5 Todd Irvin Brooks (K398) b: 22 Apr 1929 

4 Paul Garnett Moore (J445) b: 25 Aug 1911 

4 Rynthia Augusta Moore (J446) b: 13 Aug 1915 

+Allan E. McLeod m: 16 Oct 1936 

*2nd Husband of Rynthia Augusta Moore: 

+Willett Clark Busey b: 04 May 1912 m: 08 Jun 1946 

5 Lannie Clark Busey (K399) b: 15 Jun 1944 

+Ann LaVerne Pippin b: 20 Jan 1949 m: 29 Aug 1970 

6 Christopher Scott Busey (L325) b: 24 Feb 1975 

2 James C. Moore (G298) b: 02 May 1835 d: 26 Nov 1899 

+Nancy Jane Stivers b: 08 Apr 1844 m: 27 Oct 1859 d: 24 Jan 1913 

3 William Clayton “Billy” Moore (H436) b: 11 May 1863 d: 08 Nov 1927 

+Willie Bell Peters b: 26 May 1869 m: 01 Mar 1886 d: 30 Jul 1936 

4 Dallas Clayton Moore (J447) b: 26 Jan 1891 

4 Ailene Moore (J448) b: 01 Feb 1896 

+Rufus Dankle Kendall 

3 Lula B. Moore (H437) b: 01 May 1874 d: 15 Feb 1904 




+Virch Gordon b: 1881 d: 1936 

4 Lillian Beatrice Moore (J449) b: 23 Oct 1895 d: 30 Sep 1987 

+Orville Hopper b: 21 Jun 1892 d: 19 Jun 1960 

4 Sadie Moore (J450) b: 16 Jan 1900 

2 Edna Moore (G163) b: 1841 

+James Shuck b: 1838 

2 Samuel Moore (G164) b: 1844 

+Nancy Unknown b: 1845 

3 George Moore (H438) b: 1866 

3 Garvin Moore (H439) b: 1868 

3 Lucinda Moore (H440) b: Nov 1869 

2 William Moore (G165) b: 1852 

+Edna Jones 

*2nd Wife of John Moore: 

+Frances “Celie” Dowden b: 31 May 1842 m: 18 Jun 1861 d: 1903 

2 Whittington Moore (G299) b: 1862 

+Nancy C. Bohannon b: 1863 m: 13 Sep 1883 

2 Owen Moore (G300) b: 15 Jul 1865 d: 09 Mar 1924 

+Ina Bella Edrington b: 27 Sep 1867 d: 24 May 1925 

3 Georgia Moore (H441) b: 16 Jul 1886 d: 31 Jul 1977 

3 Forest F. Moore (H442) b: 21 Feb 1892 d: 18 Aug 1980 

+Ruby Smith b: 05 Sep 1895 d: 13 Feb 1937 

*2nd Wife of Forest F. Moore: 

+Anna Stivers b: 14 Jun 1914 m: 18 Aug 1939 d: 02 Feb 1986 

3 Bayne H. Moore (H443) b: 10 Aug 1893 d: 12 Feb 1935 

+Elizabeth Rogers b: 18 Mar 1895 m: 07 Apr 1914 d: 07 May 1988 

4 Owen H. Moore (J451) b: 22 Aug 1915 d: 13 Apr 1994 

+Mary Withers b: 09 Mar 1920 m: 12 Apr 1952 

3 Vivian Moore (H444) b:09 Jun 1896 d: 30 Dec 1972 




Descendants of Archibald Moore 

E-mail data of Charles L. Cook, Jr., 09 June 1998 

1 Archibald Moore 

.. +Nancy 

......... 2 James Polk Moore 1844 - 1913 

............. +Polly Hulette 1845 - 1932 

.................... 3 Arch A. Moore 1870 - 1941 

........................ +Rosa Ella Bryant 1870 - 1906 

............................... 4 Evelyn Moore 1891 - 1967 

................................... +Price Cash Cook 1887 - 1951 

........................................... 5 George Hower Cook 1911 - 1983 

............................................... +Louella Rogers 1919 - 

...................................................... 6 Patricia Ann Cook 1942 - 

.......................................................... +George Sengstock 

................................................................. 7 George Sengstock 

..................................................................... +Unknown 

................................................................. 7 Katie Sengstock 

........................................... *2nd Wife of George Hower Cook: 

............................................... +Imogene Hargraves 

...................................................... 6 Richard Allen Cook 1948 - 1994 

...................................................... 6 Rhonda Marlene Cook 1952 - 

...................................................... 6 James Howard Cook 1952 - 

...................................................... 6 Rita Gayle Cook 1955 - 

...................................................... 6 Michael Scott Cook 1959 - 

........................................... *3rd Wife of George Hower Cook: 

............................................... +Edith Pickett 1919 - 1984 

........................................... 5 Mary Ella Cook 1912 - 1987 

............................................... +Emmons George Kyser 1905 - 1980 

........................................... 5 Lula Mae Cook 1915 - 

............................................... +Coleman Russell Roach 1910 - 1967 

...................................................... 6 Larry Russell Roach 1949 - 

.......................................................... +Peggy Ann Mitchell 1949 - 

................................................................. 7 Kimberly Ann Roach 1970 - 

..................................................................... +Troy Fulkerson 

............................................................................ 8 Connor Fulkerson 

................................................................. 7 Brian Russell Roach 1973 - 

..................................................................... +Heather Rachel Boss 

...................................................... *2nd Wife of Larry Russell Roach: 

.......................................................... +Connie Younger 1953 - 

........................................... 5 Evelyn Price Cook 1918 - 

............................................... +Eugene Hoge Brown 1913 - 1990 

...................................................... 6 Eugene Scott Brown 1941 - 

.......................................................... +Patricia Elizabeth Barnhill 1944 - 

................................................................. 7 Diana Lynn Brown 1971 - 

................................................................. 7 Michelle Gwen Brown 1971 - 




................................................................. 7 David Michael Brown 1978 - 

...................................................... 6 Mary Evelyn Brown 1945 - 

.......................................................... +Charles W. Palmeter 1943 - 

................................................................. 7 Jeffrey Charles Palmeter 1968 - 

..................................................................... +Beth Ann Gurman 

............................................................................ 8 Whitney Morgan Palmeter 1994 - 

................................................................. 7 Todd Eugene Palmeter 1970 - 

........................................... 5 Edwin Pershing Cook 1920 - 1920 

........................................... 5 Sallie Corine Cook 1922 - 1968 

............................................... +Paul Douglas Carter 1921 - 1973 

...................................................... 6 Paul Daryl Carter 

...................................................... 6 Sallie Ann Carter 

.......................................................... +Robert Edward Flynn 

........................................... 5 Nellie Christine Cook 1923 - 

............................................... +William Andrew Fitzgerald 1925 - 

...................................................... 6 John Andrew Fitzgerald 1951 - 1980 

.......................................................... +Belinda Barnett 

...................................................... 6 Charles Patrick Fitzgerald 1954 - 

.......................................................... +Martha Deitz 

...................................................... 6 Thomas Edward Fitzgerald 1955 - 

.......................................................... +Barbara Davis 

...................................................... 6 Kimberly Ann Fitzgerald 1962 - 

.......................................................... +Bruce Eckerle 

........................................... 5 Stella Moore Cook 1925 - 1994 

............................................... +Charles K. Saad 1921 - 

........................................... 5 Charles Ray Cook 1926 - 1926 

........................................... 5 Robert Ginn Cook 1929 - 

............................................... +Lois Jean McAllister 

........................................... *2nd Wife of Robert Ginn Cook: 

............................................... +Shirley Mack 1935 - 

........................................... 5 Maurice Gayle Cook 1931 - 

............................................... +Eva Nancy Blalock 1940 - 

...................................................... 6 Stephen Price Cook 1967 - 

.......................................................... +Michelle Stem 

.................... *2nd Wife of Arch A. Moore: 

........................ +Hallie Morse Moore 1898 - 1923 

............................... 4 Clara Belle Moore 1923 - 

................................... +Clarence Ferguson 

........................................... 5 Carol Ferguson 

........................................... 5 Gary Ferguson 

........................................... 5 Kevin Ferguson 

Archibald and Nancy Moore are buried in the Moore Graveyard on the farm of Eugene 

Moore on Bryant-Benson Road: [Church and Family Graveyards of Franklin County, The 

Kentucky Genealogical Society, Frankfort, 1976, Ramona S. Slattery, Project Chairman.] 




Nancy Moore 05 May 1805 13 May 1903 

(Wife of Arch Moore) 

Arche Moore 09 Aug 1809 02 Nov 1881 

Nathaniel Morten Moore 01 Mar 1833 22 Jun 1876 

Joseph Moore (Aged 25 years) 22 Feb 1883 

J. B. Moore 01 Mar 1836 19 Jul 1905 

Others buried here without markers: 

Amanda Sallee Moore 

Nelson Moore 09 Aug 1833 17 Oct 1907 

Lucinda Sampson Moore 1909 

(wife of Nelson Moore) 

Emily (Emely) Moore (daughter of Nelson and Lucinda Sampson Moore) 

Sarah Moore (daughter of Nelson and Lucinda Sampson Moore) 

Harriett Moore (daughter of Nelson and Lucinda Sampson Moore) 




SAMUEL SCROGIN (F90) 

Born 14 Jun 1810 Bourbon County, Kentucky 

Died 08 Oct 1849 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Married Malinda Miles 22 Dec 1832 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Born 10 Aug 1812 Kentucky 

Died 26 Jun 1872 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Children: 

Cynthia Ann Scrogin (G97) 

b. 01 Oct 1833 Shelby County, Kentucky 

d. 22 Dec 1872 Shelby County, Kentucky 

m. Harvey Bohannon 31 May 1849 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Francis Marion Scrogin (G98) 

b. c1830-1835 Shelby County, Kentucky 

d. 28 Nov 1853 Shelby County, Kentucky 

m. apparently not 

Nancy “Nannie” Scrogin (G99) 

b. c1835-1840 Shelby County, Kentucky 

d. 

m. (1) Elliott Gale Bohannon 20 Dec 1855 Shelby County, Kentucky 

(2) Merritt J Mullen 03 Mar 1870 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Irene “Rena” Scrogin (G100) 

b. c1843 Shelby County, Kentucky 

d. 

m. not before 1880 

John Samuel Scrogin (G101) 

b. 1849 Shelby County, Kentucky 

d. 

m. Alice Mariah Wilson 27 Feb 1872 Boone County, Kentucky 

Malinda Miles who married Samuel Scrogin (F90) on 22 December 1832 in Shelby County, 

Kentucky, reputedly was a daughter of a Samuel Miles. 76 

Samuel Scrogin (F90) was enumerated on the 1840 census in Shelby County next to his 

brother Benjamin: 77 

Samuel Scroggins 1 M 30-40 1 F 20-30 (Malinda) 

1 M 15-20 (?) 1 F 15-20 (?) 

1 M 5-10 (Francis M) 1 F 5-10 (Cynthia) 

1 F - 5 (Nancy) 

It was reported that Samuel Scrogin (F90) died at home in Shelby County on 08 October 

1849: 78 




Memorandum that on the 8th day of October 1849 Samuel Scroggin of the County of 

Shelby being sick of sickness whereof he died on the same day to wit the 8th day of 

October 1849 at his dwelling house in said county did make and declare his last will 

and testament non cupative in these or words of like substance that is to say “I want 

you (his wife) to take my property It is for you and my children.” These words or to 

the like effect the said Samuel Scroggin deceased in the presence of the subscribers 

with intention that the same should be his last will and testament. The undersigned 

witness Benjamin Scroggin states further that in addition to the above testamentary 

words, he heard the said Samuel Scroggin say “as long as you live or remain single” 

and then he added “will that do?” James Miles one of the subscribing witnesses says 

he distinctly heard this last sentence “will that do?” The above is the substance of 

what the said Samuel Scroggin said 

on the day above mentioned which we have reduced to writing this 13th day of Oct. 

1849. 

James Miles 

Benjamin Scroggin 

Richard Radford Jr 

Shelby County Sct. 

November Term 1849 

On motion of James Miles who filed a writing purporting to be the non cupative will 

of Samuel Scroggin decd. It is ordered that summons issue against Malinda Scroggin, 

widow, Harvey Bohannon, Cynthia Bohannon, Marion Scroggin, Nancy Scroggin, 

Irene Scroggin, & John Scroggin heirs &c. 

December Term 1850 

James Miles & Benja Scroggin appeared in court & being sworn states that the 

writing purporting to be the non cupative will of Samuel Scroggin decd now filed in 

this court was made and published by him five days previous to his death which will 

is ordered to be recorded & time given the next of kin to administer. 

April Term 1850 

This day came Malinda Scroggin & on her motion & she having taken the oath 

required by law & entered into bond with James Miles and Abram Miles her 

security in the penalty of $3000 conditioned as the law directs letters of 

administration is granted to her with the non cupative will annexed of Samuel 

Scroggin dec’d in due form of law. 

James S. Whitaker 

Clk. Shelby County Court 

State of Kentucky 

County of Shelby 

However his tombstone shows that Samuel Scroggin died on 09 October 1849. As her 

brother-in-law and next-door-neighbor Benjamin Scrogin (F45), Malinda Miles does not 

appear on the 1850 census. A few years later the surviving family of Samuel Scrogin (F90) 

were named in a deed: 79 




This Indenture made this 27th day of September 1854 between Malinda Scroggin 

widow of Samuel Scroggin dec’d Harvey Bohannon and Cynthia Ann his wife Nancy 

Scroggin Irene Scroggin and John S. Scroggin, Francis M Scroggin heirs and legal 

representatives of Samuel Scroggin dec’d by Henry Bohannon commissioner 

appointed by the Shelby Circuit Court of the first part and Noel K. Johnson of the 

second part, Witnesseth That the said circuit court did at the present September Term 

order and decree that the said commissioner should on behalf of the said parties of the 

first part convey to the said party of the second part the tract of land mentioned and 

described in the pleadings and papers filed herein containing four and a half acres of 

land on Six Mile and particularly described in a bond filed herein executed by the 

said Samuel Scroggin and bearing date the 27th day of Sept. 1845 It also appearing 

that the consideration money to eight hundred and eighty four dollars has been fully 

paid. Now in consideration of the premises and of the order and decree of the Shelby 

Circuit Court aforesaid the said party of the first part by the commissioner aforesaid 

does by these presents give grant bargain and sell release convey and confirm unto 

the said party of the second part all of the said tract of land together with the 

appurtenances thereon to belonging or in anywise appertaining. To have and to hold 

the land hereby conveyed with the appurtenances unto the said party of the second 

part his heirs and assigns forever. In witness whereof the said party of the first part by 

the commissioner aforesaid have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and date 

first above written. 

Henry Bohannon Com. (Seal) 

Malinda Miles Scrogin was enumerated on the 1860 Shelby County census as a farmer 

with real estate valued at $2100 and personal property worth $1200: 80 

Malinda Scroggin 49 F Farmer born KY 

Irene Scroggin 17 F KY 

John S Scroggin 13 M KY 

Nancy Scroggin 20 F KY 

(illegible) Scroggin 2 M KY 

The two-year-old boy, whose name appeared to be something such as Loring, has not 

been connected with Malinda. 

According to her tombstone, Malinda Miles Scrogin died on 26 June 1872. A court order was 

issued on 16 July 1872 for an appraisal of her estate. The inventory and appraisement was 

submitted to the Shelby County Court later that year: 81 

Schedule of property appraised by order of ----- 16th of July, 1872 as the 

property of Malinda Scroggin dec’d. 

1 stack oats 6.00 

1 pile corn 8.00 

1 corn ----- half interest 1.50 

2 pr gears 3.00 




1 plow .10 cutting box 4.00 4.10 

1 sorrel horse 120.00 1 bay mule 90.00 210.00 

1 roan --- $50.00 white cow 40.00 Brown cow 40.00 130.00 

1 wagon 10.00 1 cooke stove & vessels 10 1 bbl vinegar 4.00 24.00 

1/2 bbl salt 50 cts 1 lot empty bbls 50c 1 bbl saghum 50c 1.50 

17 jars 2.00 2 buckets .25 252 chambers 50c 2.75 

1 lot metal vessels .50 1 cupboard 25 2 irons 50 1.25 

1 pr candlesticks 10c 1 lot cupboard vase 6.00 6.10 

1 cake mould 30 1 pr. andirons 1.00 1.30 

1 brass kettle 50 1 baskett 50 1 coffee mill 25 1.25 

1 large kettle 1.00 1 stove 2.50 1 clock 3.00 6.50 

1 set chains 6.00 1 set 8.00 1 stand table 1.00 15.00 

1 looking glass 50 1 lounge stead 2.50 3.00 

1 pr bed stead 8.00 1 pr lamps .40 8.40 

1 bowl & pitcher 1.00 1 feather bed & pillow 8.00 9.00 

1 feather bed & pillow No. 2 8.00 1 feather bed & pillow 8.00 16.00 

1 lounge bed 4.00 1 bedroom carpet 3.00 7.00 

1 parlor room carpet 5.00 1 cottage bed stead 9.00 14.00 

1 stand table 1.50 1 parlor stove 10.00 11.50 

1 reel 25 1 big wheel 50 1 settle wheel 50 1.25 

1 ------ .50 

1 note of hand on T. D. Wilson dated Augs 20th 1871 211.00 

1 note of hand on J. S. Scroggin dated May 1st 1872 81.20 

1 note of hand on James L. Scofield given June 30th 1869 

credit 16 dollars dated 2nd of Nov. 1870 207.27 

1 note of hand on Harvey Bohannon given May 1st 1870 135.30 

1 note of hand on James M. Johnson & Bros. given dated August 

13, 1870 with a credit dated Feb 17th 1872 85.35 

1 note on Harvey Bohannon dated March 31 1870 with a credit 

dated April 7th 1870 267.48 

1 note of hand on Ben Vardiman & Vardiman dated Feb 8th 1870 

with a credit dated Jan 1st 1872 14.60 

1 note of hand on James Miles dated Sept 16th 1870 with credit 

dated June 13th 1872 30.60 

1 note of hand on Lewis Hieatt & Bros dated Sept 27th 1855 with 

various credits 36.00 

Approved 

J. S. Scroggin Thos. D. Wilson 

S. E. Miles N. Flood 

Kentucky Shelby County Court Sct. 

Sept. Term 1872 

An inventory and appraisement of the personal estate of Malinda Scroggins dec’d 

was this day produced in court by her administrator J. S. Scroggins which was 

examined and approved of by the court and ordered to be recorded. 




A settlement filed 09 March 1874, listing the debits and credits of the estate, included the 

names of J. S. Scroggin, Harvey Bohannon, James M. Johnson, T. D. Wilson, Ben 

Vardeman, H. T. Montfort, Ned Flood and William Scroggin: 82 

Upon the application of J. S. Scroggin Admr of Malinda Scroggin dec’d who was 

sole deviser for life of Sam’l Scroggin dec’d ... 

The balance of the estate was distributed to each of four heirs; Nannie Mullen, Rena 

Scroggin and Jeptha and Ada Bohannon. This indicates that Irene “Rena” Scrogin (G100) 

was unmarried in 1874. 

Francis Marion Scrogin (G98), who was born between 1830 and 1835, died 28 November 

1853. 83 

Harvey Bohannon who married Cynthia Ann Scrogin (G97) was a son of Henry Bohannon 

and Philadelphia Gale and a nephew of William Bohannon whose daughter Pamelia married 

Benjamin Scrogin (F45). Harvey Bohannon and Cynthia Ann Scrogin were wed by Abraham 

Cook on 31 May 1849 in Shelby County with the consent of his father Henry Bohannon and 

her father Samuel Scrogin (Scroggan). The bond was secured by Abraham Lewis. 84 Henry 

Bohannon was a farmer, surveyor, justice and sheriff of Shelby County, Kentucky. He was a 

trustee of Indian Fork Baptist Church and a secretary and treasurer of Georgetown College, 

Georgetown, Kentucky. Harvey and Cynthia Scrogin Bohannon had a son Dr. J. G. 

Bohannon who was born in Shelby County on 09 October 1852, the first of two boys and a 

girl. 85 Cynthia (G97) died in 1872 prior to the accounting of her mother’s estate in 1874, 

which showed as heirs, Jeptha (H267) and Ada (H268) Bohannon who must have been 

Cynthia’s children. Her second son Henry Samuel Bohannon (H269) died in 1867. 

Cynthia Ann Scrogin (G97) and Henry Samuel Bohannon H269) are buried in the 

Christiansburg Cemetery on Fry-Christiansburg Road, 2.7 miles from Bagdad via State 

Route 12: 86 Cynthi Ann Henry Samuels 

Wife of 

Son of 

Harvey Bohannon H. & C. A. Bohannon 

Born 

Born 

Oct. 1, 1833 Feb. 27, 1855 

Died 

Died 

Dec. 22, 1872 Nov. 18, 1867 

A published biography of Dr. Jeptha G. Bohannon (H267) describes the Scrogin and 

Bohannon families as of Scots ancestry, the Miles family as English, and the Gale family as 

French. Dr. Bohannon attended Georgetown College and graduated from the University of 

Louisville School of Medicine in 1874. He moved to Greenville in Muhlenberg County, 

Kentucky, in 1878, where he married A. M. Haden, daughter of G. W. Haden and Lucy R. 

Slaughter, on 02 September 1879. They had two sons, George Harvey Bohannon (J192) and 

Joseph Haden Bohannon (J193). 




Harvey Bohannon married (2) Cynthia A. Gale on 30 October 1873. 87 

Elliott Gale Bohannon who married Nancy “Nannie” Scrogin (G99) was born about 1836, a 

brother of Harvey Bohannon who married Cynthia Ann Scrogin (G97). Elliott Bohannon, age 

18, born in Shelby County, and Nancy Scrogin, age 18, born in Shelby County, daughter of 

Samuel Scrogin, with consent of her mother Malinda Scrogin (Scroggin) and Henry 

Bohannon, father of the groom, were married on 20 December 1855 in Shelby County by 

Thomas M. Daniel before witnesses George Radford, S. E. Miles and Isaac Sacry. Harvey 

Bohannon was bondsman. 88 Elliott died after 1857 and before 1860, when Nancy was 

identified as a widow, with a son Lowry Bohannon, aged 2, in the household of her mother. 

On 03 March 1870 Nancy married (2) Merritt J. Mullen (c1831-c1878), son of John 

McMullen and Mary McGovern, who were married in Ireland about 1805-1810. Merritt J. 

Mullen married (1) Frances R. Farnsley, daughter of James J. Farnsley, Jr. and Frances 

Oldham Prince, on 07 May 1861 in Jefferson County, Kentucky. They had two children, Ida 

May Mullen (born 1862) and William B. Mullen (born 1863), before Frances died on 16 

January 1869 and was buried the following day in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville. Merritt 

J. Mullen died before the 1880 census was taken in Shelby County, Christiansburg District, 

when Nancy was enumerated as a widow and seamstress, with her son Lowry and sister Irene 

in residence with her. 89 

John Samuel Scrogin (G101) was residing with his mother and unmarried sister Irene (G100) 

in Christiansburg Precinct on 02 July 1870: 90 

Malinda Scroggin 56 F Keeping house born KY 

Irene Scroggin 25 F At home KY 

John S Scroggin 21 M Farmer KY 

Real estate value $20,100; personal property value $1600 




JOHN SAMUEL SCROGGIN (G101) 

Born c1849 Kentucky 

Died 

Married Alice Mariah Wilson 27 February 1872 Boone County, Kentucky 

Born c1854 Kentucky 

Died 

Children: 

Hubert Scroggin (H270) 


d. 

m. 

Ida Scroggin (H271) 

b. 08 Nov 1876 Dallas, Texas 

d. 12 Aug 1944 Abilene, Taylor County, Texas 

m. Guy McArthur “Mack” Wilbanks May 1900 Seymour, Texas 

Marion Scroggin (H272) 

b. Aug 1879 Texas 

d. 

m. 

Jethro Scroggin (H273) 

b. 

d. 

m. 

Leroy Scroggin (H274) 

b. 

d. 

m. 

Iva Scroggin (H275) 

b. 

d. 

m. 

Emma A Scroggin (H276) 

b. 

d. 

m. 




Inia M Scroggin (H277) 

b. 

d. 

m. 

Alice Mariah Wilson, who married John Samuel Scroggin (G101) in Boone County, 

Kentucky, on 27 February 1872, was a daughter of Cumberland H. and Angeline Wilson. 

Cumberland H. Wilson was a son of Thornton J. Wilson and Mariah Kendrick who were 

married in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on 24 May 1818. Mariah Kendrick Wilson was 

the sister of Rachel Kendrick who married John Scrogin (E14). 91 Thomas D. Wilson, son of 

Thornton J. Wilson and Mariah Kendrick who was born in Boone County, Kentucky, on 21 

February 1836 and moved to Shelby County in 1861, married Belle Miles (G118), daughter 

of Abraham Miles and Irene Scrogin (F71), in 1860. 92 Thomas D. Wilson of Boone County, 

aged 24, 1st marriage, farmer, born Boone County, father born Virginia, mother born 

Bourbon County, and Belle Miles of Shelby County, age 18, 1st marriage, born Shelby 

County, father Abram Miles born Shelby County, mother born Bourbon County, married on 

13 December 1860, bondsman S. E. Miles. 93 

John Samuel Scroggin (G101) and Alice Mariah Wilson moved to Young County, Texas, 

after the birth of their son Hubert about 1875 and before 1880 when they were tabulated on 

the census there. By 1900 they were living in Precinct 4 of Knox County, Texas, where the 

census tabulation suggests that their sons Hubert (H270) and Marion (H272) had died or left 

home: 94 John S Scroggin W M 31 Farmer b KY Father b KY Mother b KY 

Alice Scroggin W F 27 Wife b KY KY KY 

Hubert Scroggin W M 4 Son (blind) b KY 

Ida Scroggin W F 3 Dau b TX 

Marion Scroggin W M 8/12 Son b TX 

John S Scroggins 

Alice Scroggins 

Ida Scroggins 

Jethro Scroggins 

Leeroy (sic) Scroggins 

Iva Scroggins 

Emma A Scroggins 

Inia (sic) M Scroggins 

Head of household 

Wife 

Dau 

Son 

Son 

Dau 

Dau 

Dau 




GUY MCARTHUR WILBANKS 

Born 01 Oct 1876 Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas 

Died 26 Mar 1935 Seymour, Texas 

Married Ida Scroggins (H271) May 1900 Seymour, Texas 

Born 08 Nov 1876 Dallas, Texas 

Died 12 Aug 1944 Abilene, Taylor County, Texas 

Children: 

Lena Mae Wilbanks (J194) 

b. 04 Apr 1901 Knox City, Texas 

d. 

m. Bernie Summers 12 Jul 1920 Abilene, Taylor County, Texas 

James Ellis Wilbanks (J195) 

b. 09 Nov 1902 Seymour, Texas 

d. 11 Nov 1934 Seymour, Texas 

m. not 

Alice Wilbanks (J196) 

b. 25 Mar 1905 Seymour, Texas 

d. 

m. (1) Walter Williams 

(2) John Summers 

Irene Wilbanks (J197) 

b. 23 May 1906 Seymour, Texas 

d. Feb 1956 

m. Earle F Skinner 23 May 1923 Seymour, Texas 

Ida Aline Wilbanks (J198) 

b. 09 May 1914 

d. 

m. G W Evans 30 Dec 1935 Abilene, Taylor County, Texas 

Maggie Lavada Wilbanks (J199) 

b. 23 Feb 1916 Seymour, Texas 

d. 1950 Abilene, Taylor County, Texas 

m. (1) Sam Thomas 

(2) John Butler 

Carey LaVerne Wilbanks (J200) 

b. 05 Sep 1918 Seymour, Texas 

d. 

m. Noel Worley 12 Feb 1938 Clovis, New Mexico 




NOEL WORLEY 

Born 16 Jun 1913 

Died 

Married Carey LaVerne Wilbanks (J200) 

Born. 05 Sep 1918 Seymour, Texas 

Died 

Children: 

Noel Dwain Worley (K134) 

b. 12 Jan 1939 Clovis, New Mexico 

d. 

m. Verline June Monk 19 Feb 1959 Grants, New Mexico 

Sandra Joyce Worley (K135) 

b. 15 Nov 1940 Hereford, Texas 

d. 

m. Don Robb 30 Dec 1950 Hereford, Texas 

Vicki Jann Worley (K136) 

b. 27 Aug 1943 Hereford, Texas 

d. 

m. Bobby Lee Tyler 17 Dec 1960 Portales, New Mexico 

Linda Jean Worley (K137) 

b. 16 Jun 1948 Hereford, Texas 

d. 

m. James Noey 29 Nov 1968 Friona, Texas 




NOEL DWAIN WORLEY (K134) 

Born 12 Jan 1939 Clovis, New Mexico 

Died 

Married Verline June Monk 19 Feb 1959 Grants, New Mexico 

Born 25 Jun 1943 

Died 

Children: 

Beverly Yvonne Worley (L136) 

b. 12 Sep 1960 Hereford, Texas 

d. 

m. 

Preston Dwain Worley (L137) 

b. 03 Feb 1962 Hereford, Texas 

d. 

m. 

Carey Meshel Worley (L138) 

b. 14 Apr 1964 Hereford, Texas 

d. 

m. 

Rodney Jay Worley (L139) 

b. 09 Jun 1968 Hereford, Texas 

d. 

m. 




DON ROBB 

Born 16 May 1940 Dimmitt, Texas 

Died 

Married Sandra Joyce Worley (K135) 30 Dec 1950 Hereford, Texas 

Born 15 Nov 1940 Hereford, Texas 

Died 

Children: 

Richard Noel Robb (L140) 

b. 08 Oct 1961 Hereford, Texas 

d. 

m. 

Berle Kent Robb (L141) 

b. 16 Nov 1962 Hereford, Texas 

d. 

m. 




BOBBY LEE TYLER 

Born 

Died 

Married Vicki Jann Worley (K136) 17 Dec 1960 Portales, New Mexico 

Born 27 Aug 1943 Hereford, Texas 

Died 

Children: 

Tyson Lee Tyler (L142) 

b. 03 Mar 1962 Hereford, Texas 

d. 

m. 

Terry Lynn Tyler (L143) 

b. 28 May 1963 Pierre, South Dakota 

d. 

m. 

Lisa Jann Tyler (L144) 

b. 25 Aug 1964 Hereford, Texas 

d. 

m. 

Lori Jean Tyler (L145) 

b. 30 Jul 1966 Amarillo, Texas 

d. 

m. 

Kelly Dawn Tyler (L146) 

b. 27 Nov 1968 Amarillo, Texas 

d. 

m. 




JAMES NOEY 

Born 31 Aug 1950 Deport, Texas 

Died 

Married Linda Jean Worley (K137) 29 Nov 1968 Friona, Texas 

Born 16 Jun 1948 Hereford, Texas 

Died 

Child: 

Tammy Michelle Noey (L147) 

b. 13 Jul 1970 Mount Pleasant, Texas 

d. 

m. 

At the end of her 1976 family record, LaVerne Wilbanks Worley wrote, “That’s 12 

grandchildren and I’m tired writing! ..................... or maybe just tired!!!!!! 




ABRAHAM MILES 

Born 07 Feb 1809 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Died 02 Jul 1877 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Married Irene Jean Scrogin (F71) 16 Dec 1828 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Born 22 Dec 1813 Bourbon County, Kentucky 

Died 02 Jan 1872 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Children: 

Rachel Ann Miles (G105) 

b. 11 Aug 1833 Shelby County, Kentucky 

d. 02 Feb 1910 

m. Thomas Dudley Kesler 25 October 1849 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Mildred Miles (G117) 


d. 

m. Richard H Pace 18 Dec 1856 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Belle Miles (G118) 


d. 

m. Thomas D Wilson 13 Dec 1860 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Joseph M Miles (G106) 


d. 31 Jul 1851 Shelby County, Kentucky 

m. not 

Abraham Miles, who married Irene Scrogin (F71), was a son of Samuel Miles, Jr., by his 

second wife Ann Lewis. 95 Abraham (Abram) and Irene (Irean) were married by William W. 

Ford in Shelby County, Kentucky, on 16 December 1828. 96 

It has not been determined if the children tabulated with Abraham and Irene Scrogin Miles in 

District 1 of Shelby County, Kentucky, on 07 October 1850, were all of their issue: 97 

A Miles 41 M Farmer born KY Real estate value $5440 (Abraham) 

I Miles 35 F KY (Irene) 

S Miles 21 M KY 

R Kesler 5/12 M KY (Rachel, F 17) 

M Miles 13 F KY (Mildred) 

J Miles 7 F KY (Belle?) 

J M Miles 2 M KY (Joseph) 

T Kesler 22 M KY (Thomas) 

P Kesler 5/12 M KY (John Ezra?) 

The entry age for R. Kesler must have been confused with the one for P. Kesler. Surely R. 

Kesler was Rachel Ann Miles Kesler (G105), aged 17; T. Kesler was her husband Thomas 




and P. Kesler was their first child, John Ezra Kesler (H187), who was born in 1850 and died 

in 1851. Rachel Ann Miles (G105), daughter of Abram, married Thomas D. Kesler on 25 

October 1849 with Robert Montgomery as bondsman. 98 Rachel Ann Miles (G105) was born 

on 11 August 1833 and died in February 1910. Thomas Dudley Kesler, who was born on 24 

May 1828 in Shelby County and died there on 21 May 1903, was a son of James W. Kesler 

and Nancy Cook who were married in Shelby County on 01 November 1825. 99 [Jean Kesler 

Preston, Lexington Kentucky, 1998, gives as 31 October 1825.] Walter James Kesler (H138), 

son of T. D. Kesler and Rachel Ann Miles (G105), married Myrtle Forrest Scrogins (H69), 

granddaughter of Benjamin Scrogin (F45) and Pamelia Bohannon. 100 

Daughter Belle, aged 16, was living with Abraham and Irene Miles on 29 June 1860 when 

they were enumerated in District 2 of Shelby County, Christiansburg Post Office: 101 

Abram Miles 51 M Farmer born KY 

Irene Miles 46 F KY 

Belle Miles 16 F KY 

Belle was shown as age 18 in December 1860 when she got married. Abraham was credited 

with owning real estate worth $7444 and personal property valued at $2330. 

Thomas D. Wilson, who married Belle Miles (G118), daughter of Abraham Miles and Irene 

Scrogin (F71), in 1860, was a son of Thornton J. Wilson and Mariah Kendrick. Thomas was 

born in Boone County, Kentucky, on 21 February 1836 and moved to Shelby County in 

1861. 102 On their marriage license, Thomas D. Wilson was described as of Boone County, 

aged 24, 1st marriage, farmer, born Boone County, father born Virginia, mother born 

Bourbon County, and Belle Miles was described as of Shelby County, age 18, 1st marriage, 

born Shelby County, father Abram Miles born Shelby County, mother born Bourbon County. 

They were married on 13 December 1860 with S. E. Miles as bondsman. 103 

Alice Mariah Wilson who married John Samuel Scrogin (G101) in Boone County, Kentucky, 

on 27 February 1872, was a daughter of Cumberland H. and Angeline Wilson. Cumberland 

H. Wilson was a son of Thornton J. Wilson and Mariah Kendrick who were married in 

Bourbon County, Kentucky, on 24 May 1818. Mariah Kendrick Wilson was the sister of 

Rachel Kendrick who married John Scrogin (E14). 104 

Mildred Miles (G117), daughter of Abraham, married Richard H. Pace on 18 December 1856 

with J. E. Miles as surety on the bond. 105 

Joseph M. Miles (G106), son of Abraham Miles and Irene Scrogin, was born on 29 October 

1849, died on 31 July 1851 and is buried in the Miles-Wilcoxson Cemetery on the farm of J. 

Crawford on Taylor-Bright Road, .8 mile from Route 395 in Shelby County, 1.1 miles north 

of Bagdad. His parents are interred there also: 106 




Irene 

Abram Miles 

Wife of Abram Miles 

Born 

Born Feb. 7, 1809 

Dec. 22, 1813 

Died 

Died July 2, 1877 

Jan. 2, 1872 

Aged 58 yrs & 10 Ds 

Our father and mother are gone 

They lay beneath the sod 

Dear parents though we miss you much 

We know you rest with God. 

Abram F. Kesler (H137), son of T. D. and R. A. Kesler, who was born on 14 March 1865 and 

died on 10 October 1870, is also buried in the Miles-Wilcoxson graveyard. 

Records of the probate of the estate of Abraham (Abram) Miles are recorded in Shelby 

County, Kentucky. 107 

Martha Jane Kesler, daughter of James W. Kesler and Nancy Cook and sister of Thomas 

Dudley Kesler, married Henry T. Montfort. James W. Kesler was the son of William Henry 

Kesler and Susannah Fultz. Henry T. Montfort and Martha Jane Kesler were the parents 

of: 108 

Catherine “Kittie” Montfort, who married James E. Newkirk 

Thomas Hertell Montfort who married Josie Scrogin (G67), daughter of Benjamin 

Scrogin (F45) and Pamelia Bohannon 

Belle Montfort who married C. V. Demaree 

Henry Montfort, Jr. who married Amelia Scrogin (G61), sister of Josie (G67) 

James Montfort who married Irene Kesler 

Owen Montfort who married Belle Hall 

Julia Montfort who married George Stapleton 

Nannie Montfort who married Lee Cook 

Warren Montfort who married Cora McGinnis 

Kittie Montfort, daughter of H. T. Montfort, and James E. Newkirk were married in Shelby 

County on 24 April 1867, with Thomas Kesler and A. Tharp as witnesses. 109 

James E. Newkirk and Catherine Montfort had a daughter Julia Isabel Newkirk who married 

Horace Rodman Kesler (H188), son of Thomas D. Kesler and Rachel Miles (G105). 110 




THOMAS DUDLEY KESLER 

Born 24 May 1828 Franklin County, Kentucky 

Died 21 May 1903 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Married Rachel Ann Miles (G105) 25 Oct 1849 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Born 11 Aug 1833 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Died 02 Feb 1910 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Children (order of birth unknown): 

John Ezra Kesler (H187) 

b. 1850 

d. 1851 

m. 

Samuel Dudley Kesler (H191) 

b. 1853 

d. 1921 

m. 

Mildred Frances Kesler (H471) 

b. 1854 

d. 1924 

m. George Franklin Montgomery 

Irene Elizabeth Kesler (H472) 

b. 1856 

d. 1889 

m. James Montfort 

Isaac Newton “Ike” Kesler (H189) 

b. 1858 

d. 1912 

m. 

William Christopher “Will” Kesler (H190) 

b. 1860 

d. 1948 

m. 

Nannie Belle Kesler (H195) 

b. 1862 

d. 1932 

m. William Harvey Botts Jr 


d. 

c. Thomas H. Botts (J131) 




Alice Thomas “Tom” Kesler (H194) 

b. 1863 

d. 1943 

m. Dave Cox 

b. 1863 

d. 1953 

c. Alice Cox (J130) 

Abraham (Abram) Franklin Kesler (H137) 

b. 14 Mar 1865 

d. 10 Oct 1870 Shelby County, Kentucky 

m. not 

Walter James Kesler (H138) 

b. 21 Apr 1867 Franklin County, Kentucky 

d. 01 Dec 1941 Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky 

m. Myrtle Forrest Scrogins (H69) 09 Mar 1892 Shelby County, KY 

Sue Maranda Kesler (H196) 

b. 1870 

d. 1933 

m. Frank Ford 

b. 1860 

d. 1932 

c. Clayton M Ford (J132) 

Hubert Kesler Ford (J133) 

Mary E Ford (J134) 

Horace Rodman Kesler (H188) 

b. 17 Apr 1872 

d. 20 Jun 1940 Shelby County, Kentucky 

m. Julia Isabel Newkirk 1894 




Robert Lee Kesler (H192) 

b. 1876 Bagdad, Shelby County, Kentucky 

d. 1958 

m. Annie Maude Wade 

Hubert Weller Kesler (H193) 

b. 1878 

d. 1959 

m. Belle Pulliam 

Thomas D. Kesler and Rachel A. Miles (G105) had fourteen children. 111 

William Harvey Botts, Jr., who married Nannie Belle Kesler (H195), was the son of Dr. 

William Harvey Botts and Elizabeth Bohannon of Shelby County. 112 

Kesler death records from Frank Scroggins [22 Jun 2004]: 

Samuel Dudley Kesler son of Hubert Kesler and Belle Pulliam d. 23 Sep 1942 Franklin 

County Wife Elizabeth Harlow. B Bagdad Cemetery. DC#21802. 

Walter James Kesler son of Thomas d. Kesler and Rachel Miles d1 Dec 1941 DC#30162 B 

Bagdad, Ky. Wife Myrtle Kesler. 

Horace Rodman Kesler SON OF Thomas Kesler and Rachel Miles d 20 June 

1940 DC#15770 B Bagdad Cemetery. Wife Julia Newkirk 

Isaac Kesler son of Thomas Kesler and Rachel Miles d 25 April 1912 DC#11251 

b Pleasureville Ky. Wife not mentioned although said he was married. informant 

was Acy Bryant of Cropper. 

William Christopher Kesler son of Thomas Kesler and Rachel MIles d. 16 Oct. 1948 

Bagdad, Ky.DC#21813. (Single) Informant Thomas H Botts. 

Mildred Frances Montgomery Dau of Thomas Kesler and Rachel MIles d 23 July 1924 

married to G.F. Montgomery who was the informant.B. Bagdad Ky 

Sue Amanda Ford Dau of Thomas Kesler and Rachel Miles d.11Oct 1933. married to Frank 

Ford.Informant was Clayton Ford.B Bagdad. Ky dc#27459 

Alice Thomas Cox Dau of Thomas Kesler and Rachel Miles D 4 OCT 1943 DC#23370 

Married to David Cox, the informant. B Bagdad, Ky. 

The only place I can find anything on Nannie Kesler is on William Hartwell Botts DC#6057 

Botts d 24 Feb 1936. b Bagdad, Ky informant T.H,Botts 




HORACE RODMAN KESLER (H188) 

Born 17 Apr 1872 

Died 20 Jun 1940 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Married Julia Isabel Newkirk 1894 

Born 14 Nov 1877 Anderson County, Kentucky 

Died 13 Aug 1972 Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky 

Children: 

Louis Rodman Kesler (J148) 

b. 05 July 1896 Shelby County, Kentucky 

d. 10 Oct 1908 Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 

m. Elsie Eddith Whitman 12 Jun 1924 

b. 04 May 1901 Shelby County, Kentucky 

d. 25 Aug 1966 Bagdad, Shelby County, Kentucky 

c. Jean Louise Kesler (K110) 

b. 02 Jun 1925 Shelby County, Kentucky 

d. 

m. Robert D Preston 12 Mar 1949 




ROBERT LEE KESLER (H192) 

Born 1876 Bagdad, Shelby County, Kentucky 

Died 1958 (bur. Bagdad Cemetery, Shelby County, Kentucky) 

Married Annie Maude Wade 

Born 27 Jan 1881 Franklin County, Kentucky 

Died 1973 (bur. Bagdad Cemetery, Shelby County, Kentucky) 

Children: 

Oscar Thomas Kesler (J402) 

b. 1901 Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky 

d. 1970 

m. Alma Jackson (1905-1996) Bullitt County, Kentucky 

Hattie Elizabeth Kesler (J403) 

b. 1904 Shelby County, Kentucky 

d. 1994 

m. Charles Willard Cox (1903-1979) Urbana, Macon County, Illinois 

Mary Frances Kesler (J404) 


d. 

m. George Ivan Linn (1909-1983) Watson, Clark County, Indiana 

Robert Wade Kesler (J405) 


d. 1917 

m. 

Robert Bryan Kesler (J406) 

b. 1925 Sellersburg, Clark County, Indiana 

d. 

m. Anna Mae Pinckley (1928- ) Clark County, Indiana 

Descendants of Mary Frances Kesler (J404) and George Ivan Linn are in the following chart: 




SCROGIN-KESLER-LINN DESCENDANCY CHART 

John R Linn, 573 L’Ombre Circle, Ft. Walton Beach, FL 

21 Mar 1999 

1-- John Scrogin (B2) ( - ) 

sp-Jane Clarke ( - ) 

2-- Joseph Scrogin (C1) ( - ) 

sp-Sarah Ann Caldwell ( - ) 

3-- Samuel Scrogin (D5) (1748-1830) Somerset, MD 

sp-Elizabeth “Betsy” Collins ( - ) 

4-- John Scrogin (E14) (1787-1853) Sussex, Delaware 

sp1-Rachel Kendrick (1790- ) Culpeper, VA 

5-- Samuel Scrogin (F90) (1810-1849) Bourbon, KY 

sp-Melinda Miles ( - ) 

5-- Benjamin Scrogin (F45) (1811-1875) Bourbon, KY 

sp-Pamelia “Pamela” Bohannon (1814-1899) 

6-- William Samuel Scrogins (G60) (1843-1905) Shelby, KY. 

sp-Mary “Edna” Edna Wade (1849-1924) Shelby, KY 

7-- Lillie Mae Scrogins (H68) (1867-1930) 

sp-John Cox (1866-1953) 

8-- Verna Cox (J58) (1888-1975) 

sp-John William Prewitt (1881-1950) 

9-- William Prewitt [II] (K616) ( - ) 

sp-UNK Prewitt ( - ) 

10-- Jackson Prewitt (L469) ( - ) 

10-- Isaac Prewitt (L470) ( - ) 

10-- William Prewitt [III] (L471) ( - ) 

8-- Mary Cox (J57) ( - ) 

sp-Earl Fulton Wade (1888-1965) Bagdad, Shelby, KY 

8-- Emeral Cox (J55) (1895-1950) 

sp-Emma Cox (1895-1968) 

9-- Atlanta Mae Cox (K617) ( - ) 

8-- Ruby Cox (J56) (1901-1987) 

sp-John Jerome Marion (1898-1961) 

9-- John Jerome Marion [II] (K405) ( - ) 

9-- Teresa Marion ( - ) 

(ERROR - TERESA WAS GEN. 10 - WGS) 

7-- Myrtle Forest Scrogins (H69) (1874-1963) Shelby, KY 

sp-Walter James Kesler (H138) (1867-1941) Franklin, KY 

8-- Leonard Christopher Kesler (J104) (1892-1972) Shelby, 

KY 

sp-Harriet “Hattie” Neville Martin (1889-1984) 

8-- Charles Russell Kesler (J117) (1895-1966) Bagdad, Shelby, 

KY 

sp-Mary Pauline Marion (1895-1939) Bagdad, Shelby, KY 




9-- Marion Forest Kesler (K406) (1915- ) Bagdad, 

Shelby, KY 

sp-James Francis Garris (1912-1955) Albion, Erie,PA 

10-- Mary Kathryn Garris (L335) (1942- ) Butler, 

Butler, PA 

sp-Francis Victor McAdams (1941- ) 

Columbus, Franklin, OH 

10-- James Roy Garris (L336) (1946- ) Butler, Butler, 

PA 

sp-Margaret “Molly” Lindsey Harris (1944- ) 

Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH 

11-- Elizabeth Ann Garris (M216) (1966- ) 

Eustis, Lake, FL 

sp-Donald Harrison Browning ( - ) 

12-- Hannah Ellen Browning (N92) 

(1990- ) Morganton, Burke, NC 

11-- Allison Marion Garris (M217) (1970- ) 


sp-Sharon Lazelle Pilgrim (1943- ) Mascotte, 

Lake, FL 

10-- Roberta Sue Garris (L334) (1952- ) Butler, Butler, 

PA 

sp-Eugene Everette Thomas [Jr] (1950- ) Eustis, 

Lake, FL 

11-- Sandra Kay Thomas (M218) (1972- ) Eustis, 

Lake, FL 

11-- Christie Michelle Thomas (M219) (1975- ) 

Hopkinsville, Christian, KY 

sp-Charles Ray Lockwood [Jr] (1949- ) Kansas City, 

Wyandotte, KS 

11-- David Russell Lockwood (M220) (1981- ) 


9-- Roy Thomas Kesler (K407) (1918- ) Bagdad, Shelby, KY 

sp-Josephine Osborne (1917- ) Umatilla, Lake, FL 

10-- Russell “Rusty” Kesler (L338) (1950- ) Orlando, 

Orange, FL 

sp-Martha Sharpe (1950- ) Detroit, Wayne, MI 

11-- Nicholas Kyle Kesler (M221) (1977- ) 

Orlando, Orange, FL 

11-- Neal Russell Kesler (M222) (1979- ) 

Orlando, Orange, FL 

10-- Charles Kesler (L337) (1953- ) Orlando, Orange, FL 

sp-Patricia Andre’ (1950- ) Coral Gables, Dade, FL 

sp-Frances Shelton (1889-1973) Altoona, Lake, FL 

8-- Gayle H. Kesler (J105) (1898-1982) Shelby, KY 

sp-Rosa “Rosa” Curtis Young (1901-1953) Shelby, KY 




9-- Mary Elizabeth Kesler (K618) (1920- ) Charlestown?, 

Clark, IN 

9-- Anna Gayle Kesler (K619) (1926- ) Charlestown?, 

Clark, IN 

sp-Roy “R J” Jackson Owens (1922- ) Shelby, KY 

10-- Brenda Sue Owens (L472) (1951- ) Shelbyville, 


sp-Michael “Mike” White (1950- ) Shelby, KY 

11-- Christopher “Chris” White (M223) (1976- ) 

Shelbyville, Shelby, KY 

10-- Kay Owens (L473) (1960- ) Shelbyville, Shelby, KY 

sp-Michael “Mike” Clark (1956- ) Shelbyville, Shelby, 

KY 

11-- Mikala Clark (M224) ( - ) 

10-- Gay Owens (L474) (1960- ) Shelbyville, Shelby, KY 

8-- Selbert Ray Kesler (J106) (1901-1996) Bagdad, Shelby, KY 

sp-Martha Ann Smith (1900-1994) Charlestown, Clark, IN 

8-- Frank Carey Kesler (J107) (1904-1975) Shelby, KY 

sp-Esther Mitchell (1904- ) Charlestown, Clark, IN 

7-- William Benjamin “Banie” Scroggins (H70) (1878-1939) 

sp-Sciota “Otia” Rebecca Young (1884-1965) 

8-- Garnett Franklin Scroggins (J53) (1901-1956) 

sp-Mary Emaline Martin ( - ) 

9-- William Gilbert Scroggins (K39) ( - ) 

sp-Patricia Ann Jones ( - ) 

10-- UNK Scroggins ( - ) 

8-- William Forrest Scroggins (J54) ( - ) 

6-- Louisa Scrogin (G64) (1836-1899) 

sp-William Elza “Elzy” Wade (1829-1868) Henry, KY 

7-- Benoni Kendrick “Kendrick” Wade (H75) (1853-1894) 

Franklin, KY 

sp-Eliza Miles (1856-1884) 

8-- John Wade (J734) (1874- ) 

8-- Louetta Wade (J735) (1879- ) 

8-- William “Billie” Wade (J736) (1880- ) 

sp-wife of Billie Wade ( - ) 

9-- Leonard Wade (K620) ( - ) 

8-- James “Jimmie” Wade (J737) (1880- ) 

7-- Cynthia A. “Annie” Wade (H76) (1856-1894) 

sp-UNK Wiley ( - ) 

8-- Eddie Wiley (J137) ( - ) 

8-- Roy Wiley (J138) ( - ) 

8-- Lula Wiley (J139) ( - ) 

sp-Husb-Lula Wiley Hibbs ( - ) 

9-- Louise Hibbs (K621) ( - ) 

9-- Frank Hibbs (K622) ( - ) 




8-- Ella Wiley (J140) ( - ) 

sp-UNK Hollis ( - ) 

7-- James “Jim” C. Wade (H77) (1858-1894) 

sp-UNK wife Wade ( - ) 

8-- Nellie Wade (J141) ( - ) 

sp-UNK Harris ( - ) 

8-- Lee Wade (J142) ( - ) 

8-- Russell Wade (J143) ( - ) 

7-- Oscar P. Wade (H79) ( -1894) 

sp-Unk wife Wade ( - ) 

8-- Anna Wade (J146) ( - ) 

8-- Clancy Wade (J145) ( - ) 

8-- Robert Wade (J147) ( - ) 

7-- Royal “Ryle” W. Wade (H78) (1861-1894) 

sp-Unk wife Wade ( - ) 

8-- John Wade (J144) ( - ) 

5-- Elizabeth “Lizzie” Scrogin (F70) ( -1856) 

sp-John Moore ( - ) 

5-- Irene Scrogin (F71) (1813-1872) ,Bourbon, KY 

sp-Abraham Miles (1809-1877) Shelby, KY 

6-- Rachel Ann Miles (G105) (1833-1910) Shelby, KY 

sp-Thomas Dudley Kesler (1828-1903) Franklin, KY 

7-- John Ezra Kesler (H187) (1850-1851) Shelby, KY 

7-- Samuel Dudley Kesler (H191) (1853-1921) Franklin, KY 

sp-Cynthia Harrod (1862-1943) 

8-- Earl or Erle H Kesler (J738) (1883-1962) 

7-- Mildred Frances Kesler (H471) (1854-1924) Franklin, KY 

sp-George Franklin Montgomery (1851-1929) 

8-- Herbert F Montgomery (J739) (1876-1947) 

sp-Amy Moore (1881-1974) 

9-- Frances Montgomery (K623) (1901-1967) 

sp-Minish T Semones (1899-1976) 

10-- Mary Belle Semones (L475) (1921- ) 

sp-J. Hurshal Ruble (1921-1985) 

11-- James Thomas Ruble (M225) ( - ) 

sp-Jean Allridge ( - ) 

12-- Jeffery Thomas Ruble (N93) (1966- ) 

12-- James Bradley Ruble (N94) (1968- ) 

11-- Jerry Wayne Ruble (M226) ( - ) 

12-- Mark Ruble (N95) (1964- ) 

12-- Teresa Ruble (N96) (1966- ) 

sp-Eugene Cole ( -1993) 

9-- Mary Kesler Montgomery (K624) (1905-1956) Franklin, 

KY 

sp-Harvey Cecil Lee (1902-1982) 

10-- Sarah Frances Lee (L476) ( - ) 




10-- Mildred Lee (L477) ( - ) 

10-- Juanita Lee (L478) ( - ) 

10-- Diana Lee (L479) ( - ) 

10-- Charles David Lee (L480) ( - ) 

10-- Robert Louis Lee (L481) ( - ) 

10-- Roy Lee (L482) ( - ) 

10-- Harvey Kesler Lee (L483) ( - ) 

10-- John E. Lee (L484) ( - ) 

10-- Cecil Franklin Lee (L485) (1933-1949) 

8-- Victoria Montgomery (J740) (1878-1959) 

8-- Viola Montgomery (J741) (1878-1963) 

7-- Irene Elizabeth Kesler (H472) (1856-1889) Franklin, KY 

sp-James Montfort (1859- ) Franklin, KY. 

8-- Clarence Montfort (J742) ( - ) 

sp-Mattie Montfort ( - ) 

9-- Chester Montfort (K625) ( - ) 

9-- Della Montfort (K626) ( - ) 

sp-Raymond Samples ( - ) 

9-- Dora Montfort (K627) ( - ) 

9-- Ruth Montfort (K628) ( - ) 

9-- Frank Montfort (K629) ( - ) 

9-- Dallas C Montfort (K630) (1913-1955) 

9-- Mozella Montfort (K631) ( - ) 

sp-Shirley Holly ( - ) 

9-- Nellie Juanita Montfort (K632) ( - ) 

9-- Leona Frances Montfort (K633) ( - ) 

9-- Cinderella Montfort (K634) ( - ) 

sp-Elliott Allison ( - ) 

8-- Harvey H. Montfort (J743) (1889-1968) 

sp-Mattie Quire ( - ) 

9-- Ardis Montfort (K635) ( - ) 

sp-Kate Estes (1882-1965) 

8-- Cleo Montfort (J744) (1886- ) Shelby, KY 

sp-Pierce Stivers ( - ) 

9-- UNK Stivers (K636) ( - ) 

sp-Billy Stringfellow ( - ) 

9-- Clifford Stivers (K637) ( - ) 

9-- Raymond Kesler Stivers (K638) ( - ) 

8-- Rachel Montfort (J745) ( - ) 

sp-Willie Wash Pulliam ( - ) 

8-- Willie Montfort (J746) ( - ) 

7-- Isaac Newton Kesler (H189) (1858-1912) Shelby, KY 

sp-Margaret Cox (1862-1958) 

8-- John W. Kesler (J747) (1883-1907) 

8-- Paul Kesler (J748) (1885-1968) 

sp-Carrie Scobee (1888-1987) 




9-- Elizabeth Kesler (K639) (1908-1946) 

sp-Cecil Potter ( - ) 

sp-Brook Wilson ( - ) 

9-- Lillian Kesler (K640) ( - ) 

sp-Louis Ritchie ( - ) 

9-- Mildred Kesler (K641) ( - ) 

sp-I. B. Case ( - ) 

sp-Louis Peak ( - ) 

9-- Cora Mae Kesler (K642) ( - ) 

sp-Russell Tipton ( - ) 

9-- Virginia Kesler (K643) ( - ) 

sp-Harold Bohannon ( - ) 

7-- William Christopher Kesler (H190) (1860-1948) Shelby, KY 

7-- Nannie Bell Kesler (H195) (1862-1932) Shelby, KY 

sp-William Hartwell Botts [Jr.] (1862-1936) 

8-- Thomas H. Botts (J131) (1884-1954) 

sp-Mary Scearce (1884-1967) 

9-- Robert Lewis Botts (K644) ( - ) 

sp-UNK Botts ( - ) 

7-- Alice Thomas Kesler (H194) (1863-1943) Shelby, KY 

sp-David Cox (1863-1953) 

8-- Alice B. Cox (J130) (1900-1986) 

sp-James Benjamin Lewis (1896-1989) 

9-- Benjamin Allen Lewis (K645) (1920-1992) Shelby, KY 

sp-Nellie Frances Lewis (1925- ) 

10-- Robert Allen Lewis (L486) ( - ) 

sp-UNK Wife Lewis ( - ) 

11-- Michelle Lewis (M227) (1979- ) 

10-- Judy Ann Lewis (L487) ( - ) 

sp-UNK New ( - ) 

11-- Stacy Marie New (M228) ( - ) 

sp-Glen Stacy ( - ) 

9-- David Hartwell Lewis (K646) ( - ) 

sp-Ruby Lewis ( - ) 

9-- James Hamilton Lewis (K647) (1929- ) 

sp-Shirley Wise (1935- ) 

9-- Jack C. Lewis (K648) (1934- ) 

sp-Lewis ( - ) 

7-- Abraham Franklin Kesler (H137) (1865-1870) Shelby, KY 

7-- Walter James Kesler (H138) (1867-1941) Franklin, KY 

sp-Myrtle Forest Scrogins (H69) (1874-1963) Shelby, KY 

*** SEE PAGE 1 FOR CHILDREN *** 

7-- Sue Maranda Kesler (H196) (1870-1933) Franklin, KY. 

sp-Frank Ford (1860-1932) 

8-- Clayton M Ford (J132) (1892-1959) 

sp-Ida Mae Moudy (1891-1972) 




9-- Mary Jeanette Ford (K649) ( - ) 

sp-Raymond Crawford ( - ) 

9-- UNK Ford (K650) ( - ) 

sp-Paul Houston ( - ) 

9-- UNK Ford (K651) ( - ) 

sp-Charles Bond ( - ) 

9-- UNK Ford (K652) ( - ) 

sp-Justice Cheatham ( - ) 

9-- UNK Ford (K653) ( - ) 

sp-E. B. Suter ( - ) 

9-- UNK Ford (K654) ( - ) 

sp-Dale Krebs ( - ) 

9-- William G. Ford (K655) ( - ) 

9-- Clayton M. Ford [Jr.] (K656) ( - ) 

8-- Hubert Kesler Ford (J133) (1895-1978) 

sp-Mary Olive McCann (1890-1962) 

9-- Sue Ford (K657) ( - ) 

9-- William Frank “Boo” Ford (K658) ( - ) 

9-- Helen Ford (K659) ( - ) 

sp-Harold Baker ( - ) 

9-- Jack Ford (K660) ( - ) 

9-- Sarah Katherine Ford (K661) ( - ) 

sp-UNK Miller ( - ) 

8-- Mary E. Ford (J134) (1899- ) 

sp-Gatton Davis (1900-1985) 

9-- Joe Davis (K662) ( - ) 

9-- Virginia Davis (K663) ( - ) 

9-- Julia Davis (K664) ( - ) 

9-- Sue Davis (K665) ( - ) 

7-- Horace Rodman Kesler (H188) (1872-1940) Shelby, KY 

sp-Julia Isabel Newkirk (1876-1972) Anderson, KY 

8-- Nettie Forest Kesler (J749) (1894-1982) Shelby, KY 

sp-David Arthur Morse ( -1980) 

9-- Mary Virginia Morse (K666) (1916-1989) Shelby, KY 

sp-Bernard Nolin Hilbers ( -1947) 

10-- Marjorie Gail Hilbers (L488) (1943- ) 

sp-Don Robert Goode ( - ) 

10-- Don Roberts Goode [Jr] (L489) (1949- ) 

sp-Edward Balz ( - ) 

9-- Alvin Arthur Morse (K667) (1918-1986) Shelby, KY 

sp-Hallie Louise Slucher ( - ) 

10-- Lois Anne Morse (L490) (1941- ) 

sp-Bennie Davis Estes [III] ( - ) 

11-- Anne Davis Estes (M229) (1962- ) 

11-- Susan Morse Estes (M230) (1964- ) 

10-- Eugene Alvin Morse (L491) (1946- ) Shelby, KY 




sp-Patricia Lynn Cornelius (1951- ) Shelby, KY 

11-- Eugene Patrick Morse (M231) (1980- ) Louisville, 

Jefferson, Ky. 

11-- Lindsey Blair Morse (M232) (1985- ) Shelbyville, 


9-- Inez Kesler Morse (K668) (1921- ) Shelby, KY 

sp-Wallace Bullock Hance ( - ) 

10-- Arthur Wallace Hance (L492) (1939- ) 

sp-Damie Laifue ( - ) 

11-- Darrell Eugene Hance (M233) (1963- ) 

11-- Julie Hance (M234) ( - ) 

10-- Mary Carolyn Hance (L493) (1940- ) 

sp-Herman G Young ( - ) 

10-- Nettie Catherine Hance (L494) (1943- ) 

sp-Thomas S Watson ( - ) 

10-- John Roger Hance (L495) (1951- ) 

10-- Anthony Bullock Hance (L496) (1960- ) 

9-- Wallace Julian Morse (K669) (1923-1924) Shelby, KY 

8-- Louis Rodman Kesler (J148) (1896-1980) Shelby, KY 

sp-Elsie Eddith Whitman (1901-1966) Shelby, KY. 

9-- Jean Louise Kesler (K110) (1925- ) Bagdad, Shelby, KY 

sp-Robert Doyle Preston (1923- ) Thealka, Johnson, KY 

10-- Robert “Dee” Doyle Preston [Jr.] (L497) (1953- ) 

Owensboro, Daviess, KY 

sp-Janet Faye Rutledge ( - ) 

11-- Karen Eddith Preston (M235) (1988- ) 

11-- Kathleen Elaine Preston (M236) (1990- ) 

10-- Julia Leanora Preston (L498) (1955- ) Lexington, 

Fayette, KY 

sp-Steven Mitchell Wiggs ( - ) 

sp-Douglas Gregory Heinzen ( - ) 

11-- Leslie Thomas Heinzen (M237) (1987- ) 

11-- Gregory Daniel Heinzen (M238) (1988- ) 

10-- Timothy Rodman Preston (L499) (1960- ) Hamilton, 

Butler, OH 

sp-Peggy Ann Willard ( - ) 

9-- Phyllis Evelyn Kesler (K670) (1926- ) Shelby, KY 

sp-Garnett Thomas Greene ( - ) 

8-- Ida Florence Kesler (J750) (1897-1978) Shelby, KY 

sp-Virgil Lee Skelton (1896-1964) 

9-- Violet Claire Skelton (K671) (1914- ) Shelby, KY 

sp-Charles Selbert Bohannon ( - ) 

10-- Wilma Jean Bohannon (L500) (1931- ) 

sp-Harold Ray Arrington ( - ) 

11-- Darrell Glenn Arrington (M239) (1952- ) 

10-- Billy Ray Bohannon (L501) (1933- ) 




sp-Jane Cheryl Bohannon ( - ) 

11-- Jerry Lynn Bohannon (M240) (1951- ) 

sp-Mary Lou Harmon ( - ) 

11-- Cheryl Ray Bohannon (M241) (1955- ) 

sp-UNK Lacefield ( - ) 

11-- Robin Kay Bohannon (M242) (1957- ) 

11-- Michael Bohannon (M243) (1965- ) 

10-- Charles “Donald” Bohannon (L502) (1934- ) 

sp-Juanita Hedges ( - ) 

11-- Donna Lou Bohannon (M244) (1952- ) 

sp-Steve Miller ( - ) 

12-- Chris Miller (N97) ( - ) 

11-- Sandra Sue Bohannon (M245) (1953- ) 

11-- Charlene Gail Bohannon (M246) (1954- ) 

11-- Roxy Anne Bohannon (M247) (1956- ) 

10-- Wanda Carol Bohannon (L503) (1943- ) 

sp-David Heilman ( - ) 

11-- Lee Ann Heilman (M248) (1967- ) 

11-- Marcia Heilman (M249) ( - ) 

11-- Stephen Jeffery Heilman (M250) (1970- ) 

9-- Joe Thomas Skelton (K672) (1916-1970) Shelby, KY 

sp-Stella May Moore ( - ) 

10-- Tommy Lee Skelton (L504) (1936- ) 

sp-Wanda Stockton ( - ) 

10-- Paul Rodney Skelton (L505) (1940-1959) 

sp-Betty Rogers ( - ) 

11-- Teresa Joyce Skelton (M251) (1958-1958) 

10-- Anne Ida Skelton (L506) (1942- ) 

sp-Bobby Tracy ( - ) 

11-- Robert Darrell Tracy (M252) (1959- ) 

sp-Alvin Wright ( - ) 

11-- Stephen Elwood Wright (M253) (1963- ) 

9-- Harold Maxwell Skelton (K673) (1921-1987) Shelby, KY 

sp-Evelyn Elizabeth Scobee ( - ) 

10-- Judith Lane Skelton (L507) (1942- ) 

sp-Arnold Burgin ( - ) 

11-- Deborah Lane Burgin (M254) (1958- ) 

11-- Allen Ray Burgin (M255) (1960- ) 

sp-Tommy Yount ( - ) 

11-- George Steven Yount (M256) (1966- ) 

10-- Harold Lynn Skelton (L508) (1943- ) 

sp-Joan Thomas ( - ) 

10-- Linda Louise Skelton (L509) (1947- ) 

9-- Forest Edwin Skelton (K674) (1924-1990) Shelby, KY 

sp-Nellie Louise Hull ( - ) 

10-- Gary Wayne Skelton (L510) (1945- ) 




10-- Jean Marie Skelton (L511) (1947- ) 

10-- Ronald Eugene Skelton (L512) (1951- ) 

9-- Eugene Andrew Skelton (K675) (1926-1980) Shelby, KY 

sp-Thelma Tingle ( - ) 

sp-Opal Turner ( - ) 

8-- Graham Botts Kesler (J751) (1899-1971) Shelby, KY 

sp-Virginia Maxwell Bergen ( - ) 

sp-Mable Whitaker ( - ) 

8-- Phyllis Rachel Kesler (J752) (1903-1985) Shelby, KY 

sp-William Walter Peyton (1899-1982) 

8-- Edith Evelyn Kesler (J753) (1909- ) Shelby, KY 

sp-James Whitman Brown ( -1939) 

9-- Jimmie Roe Brown (K676) (1932- ) Shelby, KY 

sp-Rosena Bailey Jesse ( - ) 

10-- Jimmie Wayne Brown (L513) (1952- ) 

10-- Stevie Lynn Brown (L514) (1955- ) 

10-- Terry Lee Brown (L515) (1956- ) 

10-- Andrea Lynn Brown (L516) (1964- ) 

sp-Louis Stanley Carwile (1916-1981) 

9-- Larry Stanley Carwile (K677) (1941- ) Shelby, KY. 

sp-Patricia Ashby Marsee ( - ) 

10-- Betty La Nette Carwile (L517) (1964- ) 

10-- Marsha Ann Carwile (L518) (1967- ) 

7-- Robert Lee Kesler (H192) (1876-1958) Bagdad, Shelby, KY 

sp-Annie Maude Wade (1881-1973) Franklin County, KY 

8-- Oscar Thomas Kesler (J402) (1901-1970) Shelbyville, Shelby, 

KY 

sp-Alma Jackson (1905-1996) Bullitt County, KY 

9-- Hazel Marie Kesler (K341) (1924- ) 

sp-UNK Baxter ( - ) 

10-- Marie A Baxter (L262) ( - ) 

sp-Dwain Gilbert ( - ) 

10-- Gene Baxter (L266) ( - ) 

9-- Mildred J. Kesler (K342) (1928- ) 

sp-Omer Freund ( - ) 

8-- Hattie Elizabeth Kesler (J403) (1904-1994) Shelby County, 

KY 

sp-Charles Willard Cox (1903-1979) Urbana, Macon, IL 

9-- Wilma Jean Cox (K343) (1934-1952) Sellersburg, Clark, 

IN 

sp-Melvin Edward Armstrong (1926- ) Charlestown, 

Clark, IN 

10-- Pamela Jean Armstrong (L267) (1952- ) 

Jeffersonville, Clark, IN 

sp-Dennis Pooler ( - ) 

11-- Chad Allan Pooler (M147) (1976- ) 




11-- Shawn Michael Pooler (M148) (1981- ) 

Methodist Hosp., Louisville, Jefferson, KY. 

8-- Mary Frances Kesler (J404) (1913- ) Bagdad, Shelby, KY 

sp-George Ivan Linn (1909-1983) Watson, Clark, IN 

9-- Ivan Wade Linn [Sr] (K344) (1934- ) Sellersburg, Clark, 

IN 

sp1-Thelma Faye Shuck (1934- ) 

10-- Ivan Wade Linn [Jr.] (L268) (1954-1973) 


sp-Karen Merner ( - ) 

11-- Kimberly Wade Linn (M149) (1973- ) 

Tampa, Hillsborough, FL 

sp-Charles Ivan Brady ( - ) 

12-- Kyle Dale Brady (N73) (1996- ) 

10-- Michael Wayne Linn (L269) (1956- ) 


sp1-Suzanne Cannon ( - ) 

11-- Harmonie Michelle Linn (M150) (1977- ) Tampa, 

Hillsborough, FL 

11-- Michael Wayne Linn [II] (M151) (1978- ) Tampa, 


11-- Aaron George Linn (M152) (1980- ) Tampa, 


sp3-Debra Lynn Tutle ( - ) 

sp3-Diana Lea Perkins ( - ) 

sp2-Judy Marie Johnson Reed (1948- ) Tampa, 


10-- Tracie Frances Linn (L270) (1970- ) Tampa, 


sp-Sean Patrick Parker ( - ) 

10-- Kevin Wade Linn (L271) (1978- ) Tampa, 


9-- John R Linn [Sr] (K345) (1933- ) Sellersburg, Clark, IN 

sp1-Alpha “Sissy” Young Lewis (1929- ) Linden, Marengo, 

AL 

10-- Robert “Bob” Lewis Linn (L272) (1957- ) New 

Albany, Floyd, IN 

sp-Wendy Lee Davis (1957- ) San Antonio, Bexar, TX 

11-- Joel Robert Linn (M153) (1980- ) Ft. Walton Bch, 

Okaloosa, FL 

11-- Jessica Lee Linn (M154) (1982- ) Ft. Walton Bch, 

Okaloosa, FL 

11-- Joseph Robert Linn (M155) (1985- ) Ft. Walton Bch, 

Okaloosa, FL 

11-- George Ivan Robert Linn (M156) (1988- ) Ft. 

Walton Bch, Okaloosa, FL 




11-- Ian Robert Linn (M157) (1991- ) Paxton, Walton, 

FL 

10-- John “Johnny” Robert Linn [Jr] (L273) (1958- ) 

Lexington, Fayette, KY 

sp-Sherrie Ronaele Cooper (1961- ) Eglin AFB, 

Okaloosa, FL 

11-- Zachary Tucker Linn (M158) (1989- ) Ft. Walton 

Bch, Okaloosa, FL 

10-- Daniel “Danny” Ray Linn (L274) (1961- ) Stark, 

Bradford, FL 

sp1-Barbara Jean Sotler (1962- ) Seymour-Johnson, 

Goldsboro, Wayne, NC 

sp2-Patricia Ann Dalton (1963- ) Eglin AFB, 

Okaloosa, FL 

10-- Ivan “Van” Young Linn (L275) (1967- ) South Miami, 

Dade, FL 

sp-Kelley Lynn Sullivan (1969- ) Milton, Santa Rosa, 

FL 

11-- Savannah Abigail Linn (M159) (1994- ) Crestview, 

Okaloosa, FL 

11-- Charles Ivan Linn (M160) (1997- ) Ft. Walton Bch., 

Okaloosa, FL 

sp2-Glenda Ellen Moody (1940- ) Greenville, Greenville, 

SC 

8-- Robert Wade Kesler (J405) (1917-1917) Bagdad, Shelby, KY 

8-- Robert Bryan Kesler (J406) (1925- ) Sellersburg, Clark, IN 

sp1-Anna Mae Pinckley (1928- ) Clark County, IN 

9-- Rodney Bryan Kesler (K346) (1951- ) Jeffersonville, Clark, 

IN 

sp-Mary Wife of Rodney Kesler ( - ) 

9-- Bret Delaney Kesler (K347) (1955- ) 

sp-Wife of Bret Kesler ( - ) 

10-- Child of Bret Kesler (L276) ( - ) 

sp-Lori Wife of Bret Kesler ( - ) 

10-- Dau. of Bret Kesler (L277) ( - ) 

10-- Allison Mae Kesler (L278) (1985- ) 

10-- Child of Bret Kesler (L279) ( - ) 

9-- Alex Lee Kesler (K348) (1961- ) 

sp-Carolyn Marie Von Eper ( - ) 

10-- Kyle David Kesler (L280) (1986- ) FL 

10-- Sarah Nicole Kesler (L281) (1988- ) FL.? 

sp2-Dorothy Marie McCartney ( - ) 

7-- Hubert Weller Kesler (H193) (1878-1959) 

sp-Belle Pulliam (1883-1970) 

8-- Thomas Lee Kesler (J754) (1907-1907) 

8-- Samuel D. Kesler (J755) (1909-1941) 




sp-Elizabeth Harlow (1910- ) 

8-- Ellsworth W. Kesler (J756) (1918- ) 

sp-Virginia B. Kesler ( - ) 

9-- UNK Kesler (K678) ( - ) 

6-- Belle Miles (G118) (1842- ) Shelby, KY 

sp-Thomas D. Wilson ( - ) 

6-- Joseph M. Miles (G106) (1849-1851) 

6-- Mildred Miles (G117) ( - ) 

sp-Richard H. Pace ( - ) 

5-- Mary “Polly” Scrogin (F64) (1815-1879) ,,KY 

5-- Sarah Jane Scrogin (F72) ( - ) 

sp-Joshua Tharp ( - ) 

sp2-Margaret Baldwin ( - ) 




PETER VARDEMAN 

Born 01 Aug 1810 Kentucky 

Died 30 Aug 1877 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Married Mary W “Polly” Scrogin (F64) 

Born 29 Oct 1815 Bourbon County, Kentucky 

Died 10 Aug 1879 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Children: 

(son) Vardeman (G121) 

b. probably c1832 Shelby County, Kentucky 

d. before 1850 

m. 

Angeline Vardeman (G122) 


d. 

m. John T Riddle 13 Feb 1855 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Jeremiah F Vardeman (G123) 


d. 

m. 

John Thomas Vardeman (G124) 


d. 16 Oct 1923 Marshall, Saline County, Missouri 

m. Cornelia “Nellie” Fenwick Gaines 08 Dec 1866 

Elizabeth F Vardeman (G125) 


d. 

m. Benjamin Onan 07 Jul 1859 Shelby County, Kentucky 

William Vardeman (G126) 


d. 29 Oct 1925 Marshall, Saline County, Missouri 

m. Sarah Mildred “Sally” Scearce 10 Nov 1864 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Benjamin Vardeman (G127) 


d. 

m. Anna Brown 18 Jul 1867 Shelby County, Kentucky 




(daughter) S J Vardeman (G128) 


d. probably before 1860 

m. 

(daughter) M A Vardeman (G129) 



m. 

(daughter) M Vardeman (G130) 

b. Feb 1850 Shelby County, Kentucky 


m. 

Abraham (Abram) Vardeman (G131) 


d. 

m. 

Quentin D Vardeman (G132) 

b. 11 Apr 1853 Shelby County, Kentucky 

d. 02 Apr 1887 Shelby County, Kentucky 

m. Charity F ------ (Mary?) 

(child) Vardeman (G133) 

b. after 1860 Shelby County, Kentucky 

d. after 1877 

m. 

Peter Vardeman who married Mary “Polly” Scrogin (F94) was a son of Thomas Vardeman 

and Mary “Polly” Wilcoxson who were married in Woodford County, Kentucky, on 29 

October 1804. Thomas Vardeman was a son of Peter and Prudence Vardeman. Polly 

Wilcoxson Vardeman was a sister of Jane Wilcoxson who married William Bohannon and a 

daughter of Daniel Wilcoxson and Sally Faulconer who were married in Kentucky in 

October 1780. 113 

After the death of Thomas Vardeman, Polly Wilcoxson Vardeman married (2) Samuel 

Miles, Jr., son of Samuel Miles and Sarah James, on 03 April 1822 in Shelby County 

with Nathan Underwood as bondsman. 114 She was the third wife of Samuel Miles, Jr. who 

married (1) Eunice Cook, daughter of William Cook and Margaret Jones, on 24 February 

1798 in Franklin County, Kentucky, 115 and (2) Ann Lewis, daughter of Joseph Lewis and 

Sarah Beck, on 07 April 1802 in Shelby County, Kentucky. 116 Subsequently Polly Miles was 

guardian of the heirs of Thomas Vardeman; Peter, William and Mary Vardeman, and made 

guardian’s reports on 16 November 1829 and 16 August 1830, the latter being witnessed by 

Henry Bohannon, Justice of the Peace for Shelby County. 117 




Peter Vardeman was born on 01 August 1810, died on 30 August 1877 and is buried in 

Bagdad Cemetery, Bagdad, Kentucky. Appraisals and sales reports pertaining to his 

estate, beginning 14 September 1877 and administered by his son Jeremiah P. Vardeman 

(G123), mention his widow Mary and an unnamed infant child. 118 Peter Vardeman and Polly 

Scrogin (F94) reputedly had 13 children but the names of only 11 are known. The other two 

were a son born between 1830 and 1835, probably about 1832, who died before 1850, and an 

infant (minor) living in 1877 who was born after the 1860 census. 

His widowed mother Mary “Polly” Wilcoxson Vardeman Miles apparently lived with 

Peter in 1840: 119 

Peter Vardeman 1 M 20-30 1 F 50-60 (Polly Miles) 

2 M 5-10 (?) 1 F 20-30 (Polly Vardeman) 

(Jeremiah) 1 F 5-10 (Angeline) 

1 M - 5 (Thomas) 1 F - 5 (Elizabeth) 

Peter Vardeman was enumerated on the Shelby County census on 04 October 1850: 120 

P Vardeman 40 M Farmer born KY (Peter) 

M Vardeman 35 F KY (Mary) 

A Vardeman 16 F KY (Angeline) 

J Vardeman 14 M KY (Jeremiah) 

T F Vardeman 12 M KY (Thomas) 

E F Vardeman 10 F KY (Elizabeth) 

W Vardeman 8 M KY (William) 

B Vardeman 6 M KY (Benjamin) 

S J Vardeman 4 F KY 

M A Vardeman 2 F KY 

M Vardeman 8/12 F KY 

The names of the three daughters, S. J., M. A. and M. Vardeman have not been determined. 

They must have died before 1860 since they do not appear with Peter and Mary on the census 

then: 121 Peter Vardeman 49 M Farmer born KY 

Mary Vardeman 45 F KY 

Jeremiah Vardeman 24 M 

KY 

Thomas Vardeman 21 M Laborer KY 

William Vardeman 18 M Laborer KY 

Benjn Vardeman 16 M Laborer KY 

Abram Vardeman 8 M KY 

Quinton Vardeman 6 M KY 

Angeline Vardeman (G127), daughter of Peter Vardeman, married John S. Riddle on 13 

February 1855 with Jeremiah Vardeman as bondsman. 122 




Elizabeth F. Vardeman (G125) of Shelby County, daughter of Peter Vardeman, who was 

surety on the bond, married Benjamin Onan of Shelby County, on 07 July 1859. 123 Benjamin 

Onan was born on 01 January 1835, died on 19 April 1865 and is buried at Indian Fork 

Baptist Church. Cleopatra Onan, daughter of B. and E. Onan, who was born on 18 September 

1862 and died on 23 September 1862, is also buried there. 124 Since Elizabeth Vardeman 

Onan is not buried with them, under that name, she probably married another man after 

Benjamin died. 

Sarah Mildred “Sally” Scearce, who married William Vardeman (G126) on 10 November 

1864, with G. T. Scearce as security on the bond, was the daughter of James Scearce and 

Mildred Blades. She was described as of Shelby County, aged 21, 1st marriage, born in 

Shelby County, daughter of James Scearce, born in Shelby County, mother born in Shelby 

County. William Vardeman (G126) was described as of Shelby County, aged 22, 1st 

marriage, farmer, born in Shelby County, father born in Shelby County, mother born in 

Kentucky. 125 

Benjamin Vardeman (G127) and Anna Brown were married on 18 July 1867 with Arman 

Brown as bondsman. 126 

One family record states that the wife of Quentin D. Vardeman (G132) was named Mary and 

that they were the parents of Charity F. Vardeman Rogers (H279), Clara C. Vardeman 

(H280), Winford Vardeman (H281), Mary E. Vardeman (H282) and Otho Vardeman (H283). 

Q. D. Vardeman (Vardiman) owned two lots and L. Vardeman (Vardiman) owned one lot 

in the village of Consolation in Shelby County in 1882. T. J. Vardeman (Vardiman) lived 

east of Consolation and north of Stringtown in the hills along North Benson Creek. 127 

Situated between Bagdad and Jacksonville, Consolation was on the Louisville, Cincinnati 

and Lexington Rail Road line. When the tracks were re-laid in a deep cut near Consolation, 

the community was bypassed and soon dwindled. 

Although the marriage record of William Vardeman states that his father Peter was born in 

Shelby County, Kentucky, it is probable that he was a native of Woodford County. Thomas 

Vardeman, father of Peter Vardeman, was a resident of Woodford County in 1820: 128 

Thomas Vardeman 1 M 26-44 1 F 26-44 (Mary) 

1 M 10-15 (Peter) 1 F 10-15 (Mary) 

1 M -10 (William) 1 F -10 (Sallie) 

William Vardeman, son of Thomas and Mary Wilcoxson Vardeman, was born in 1813 in 

Kentucky. The name of his first wife has not been determined. He married (2) Mrs. Letha 

Bohannon Christie, daughter of Henry Bohannon and Philadelphia Gale and widow of 

Jeffrey B. Christie, son of Henry Christie. Letha Bohannon Christie Vardeman married (3) 

Richard Day on 22 December 1898 in Shelby County. 129 

Sallie Vardeman, daughter of Thomas Vardeman and Mary Wilcoxson, was born in 1818 




and died on 24 March 1888. She married Stephen Martin who was born in 1814 and died on 

27 February 1879. They were the parents of Mary Martin, Martha Martin who married (1) 

Alfred Facker (Fecker) and (2) T. J. Hill, Letha Martin, and William M. Martin, who was 

born on 09 July 1846 and died on 09 February 1924. William married (1) Nannie Magruder 

on 03 February 1876 and (2) Mildred Wade on 09 March 1887 in Franklin County, 

Kentucky. By his first wife, he had Ira Willie Martin and Chester David Martin. By his 

second wife Mildred Wade (1862-1944), daughter of Obediah Wade and Eusebia Cook, he 

had Hallie Neville Martin, who was born on 06 March 1889 and married Leonard 

Christopher Kesler (J104), son of Walter James Kesler (H138) and Myrtle Forrest Scrogins 

(H69), on 27 February 1919. 130 . 

Mary “Polly” Vardeman, daughter of Thomas Vardeman and Mary Wilcoxson, married 

Jackson Yunt (Yount) on 29 June 1837 in Shelby County. 131 She apparently died before 21 

September 1865 when Jackson J. Yount married (2) Elizabeth Hammond in Shelby 

County. 132 

Thomas Vardeman, who married Mary Wilcoxson, was the son of Peter and Prudence 

Vardeman who moved to Shelby County before 22 July 1808 when Peter, the elder, 

made his will naming his wife Prudence, son Thomas, daughters Dorcas Greer, Naomi 

Marshall, Prudence Marshall and Molly Menefee, granddaughters Patty Menefee, Naomi 

Nash and Sally Lancaster, and sons-in-law George Marshall and Lewis Marshall. 133 

Prudence Vardeman married Lewis Marshall in 1789 and Naomi Vardeman married George 

Marshall in 1796 in Bourbon County, Kentucky. The Baptist congregation that was 

established in 1787 at Cooper’s Run in Bourbon County met at the “schoolhouse at Brother 

Vardiman’s” in its early days. The parents of Rachel Kendrick, wife of John Scrogin (E14), 

belonged to Cooper’s Run Baptist Church. 134 

Peter Vardeman apparently came to Kentucky from Franklin County, Virginia, where 

his name appears in court records. Thomas Hale was appointed a captain of the Henry 

County, Virginia, militia in “the room of Peter Vardeman” in 1779. 135 Franklin County was 

formed from Henry County, Virginia, in 1786. 

Lewis and George Marshall, who married Prudence and Naomi Vardeman, were sons of the 

Reverend William Marshall (1735-1809) and Mary Ann Pickett, daughter of William Pickett, 

who were married in 1766. William Marshall, a Baptist minister, and his wife came to 

Kentucky in 1779, settling first in Lincoln County and then in Henry County. 136 




THOMAS VARDEMAN 

Born 

Died before 03 Apr 1822 

Married Mary Wilcoxson 29 Oct 1804 Woodford County, Kentucky 

Born c1786 Fayette County, Virginia 

Died 


Mary “Polly” Vardeman 

b. 

d. 

m. Jackson Yount 29 Jul 1837 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Peter Vardeman 

b. 01 Aug 1810 

d. 30 Aug 1877 

m. Mary Scrogin (F64) 

William Vardeman 

b. 1813 

d. 

m. (1) ----- ------ 

(2) Letha Bohannon Christie 

Sarah “Sally” Vardeman 

b. 1818 

d. 24 Mar 1888 

m. Stephen Martin 01 May 1834 Shelby County, Kentucky 




JOSHUA THARP 

Born 14 Mar 1813 

Died 30 Mar 1899 

Married Sarah Jane Scrogin (F72) 20 Aug 1835 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Born 15 Jul 1819 Bourbon County, Kentucky 

Died 02 Sep 1899 


John Tharp (G134) 

b. c1835-1838 

d. 

m. 

Cumberland Tharp (G135) 

b. c1835-1838 

d. 

m. 

Mary Ann Tharp (G136) 

b. 18 Nov 1839 Shelby County, Kentucky 

d. 09 Feb 1904 Callaway, Custer County, Nebraska 

m. Richard Henry Pinnell 12 Feb 1860 Vermillion County, Indiana 

William Benjamin Tharp (G137) 

b. 1845 Lizton, Hendricks County, Indiana 

d. 

m. (1) Betty Moss 

(2) Margaret Catherine Canady 

Laura Tharp (G138) 

b. 

d. 

m. 

Rena Tharp (G139) 

b. 

d. 

m. 

Julie Tharp (G140) 

b. 

d. 

m. 




Katherine Tharp (G141) 

b. 

d. 

m. 

Sarah Tharp (G142) 

b. 

d. 

m. 

Joshua Tharp, who married Sarah Jane Scroggin (F72), was a son of John Tharp (born 09 

December 1770; died 02 August 1853) and Rebecca Lee. Rebecca Lee Tharp was a daughter 

of Daniel and Mary Lee. Joshua and Sarah Jane were married by Baptist minister Abraham 

Cook in Shelby County, Kentucky, on 20 August 1835. 137 They were residing in Hendricks 

County, Indiana, by 1845, when their son William Benjamin Tharp was born. 138 This 

biographical sketch does not include daughter Mary Ann Tharp who married Richard Henry 

Pinnell in Vermillion County, Indiana, in 1860. 139 

Joshua Tharp moved to Indiana after 1840 when he still was a resident of Shelby County, 

Kentucky: 140 Joshua Tharp 1 M 20-30 1 F 15-20 (Sarah Jane) 

2 M - 5 (John) 1 F - 5 (Mary Ann) 

(Cumberland) 




RICHARD HENRY PINNELL 

Born 28 Jan 1841 Henry County, Kentucky 

Died 19 Jan 1912 in Callaway, Custer County, Nebraska 

Married Mary Ann Tharp (G136) 12 Feb 1860 Vermillion County, Indiana 

Born 18 Nov 1839 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Died 09 Feb 1904 Callaway, Custer County, Nebraska 

Child: 

Jennie Samantha Pinnell (H365) 

b. 03 Dec 1860 Lizton, Hendricks County, Indiana 

d. 08 Nov 1946 Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska 

m. Orlando Taylor Lewis 29 Feb 1880 

Richard Henry Pinnell was a son of George L. Pinnell and Nancy Cox. 




ORLANDO TAYLOR LEWIS 

Born 18 Sep 1859 Danville, Hendricks County, Indiana 

Died 14 Sep 1923 Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska 

Married Jennie Samantha Pinnell (H365) 29 Feb 1880 

Born 03 Dec 1860 Lizton, Hendricks County, Indiana 

Died 08 Nov 1946 Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska 

Child: 

Everett Erroll Lewis (J357) 

b. 27 Apr 1884 Lomax, Nebraska 

d. 01 Oct 1959 Callaway, Custer County. Nebraska 

m. Mary Alice Barron 06 May 1906 

Orlando Taylor Lewis was a son of Joseph Powers Lewis and Elizabeth Mahon. Joseph 

Powers Lewis was born on 14 March 1811 in Bracken County, Kentucky, married Elizabeth 

Mahon in 1858 and died on 11 April 1889 in Sand Valley, eight miles west of Callaway in 

Custer County, Nebraska. 




EVERETT ERROLL LEWIS (J357) 

Born 27 Apr 1884 Lomax, Nebraska 

Died 01 Oct 1959 Callaway, Custer County. Nebraska 

Married Mary Alice Barron 06 May 1906 

Born 06 May 1887 Ocanto, Custer County, Nebraska 

Died 

Child: 

Orville Everett Lewis (K303) 

b. 28 Feb 1909 Callaway, Custer County, Nebraska 

d. 

m. Frances Barton 

Mary Alice Barron was a daughter of Charles Shermer Barron (b. 01 March 1850 Dayton, 

Montgomery County, Ohio; d. 01 March 1935 Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska) and 

Mary M. Young (b. 18 November 1856 Maxwell, Story County, Iowa; d. 28 November 1948 

Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska) who were married on 28 February 1878. 




ORVILLE EVERETT LEWIS (K303) 

Born 28 Feb 1909 Callaway, Custer County, Nebraska 

Died 

Married Frances Barton 

Born 04 Mar 1908 Aurora, Hamilton County, Nebraska 

Died 

Child: 

Barton Orville Lewis (L233) 

b. 15 May 1935 Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska 

d. 

m. (Unknown) 17 Aug 1961 




ADDENDA 

Peter Vardeman of Henry County, Virginia, must have been descended from John Vardeman, 

who emigrated from Sweden to America with his family, settled in South Carolina in the 

early 18th century and died there, according to descendants, at the extreme age of 125 years. 

He was a Lutheran in Sweden and joined the Episcopalian Church in South Carolina. His son 

John Vardeman, Jr., who was seven years old at the time the family emigrated, married 

Elizabeth Morgan, a native of Wales, and moved to Bedford County, Virginia, on the east 

slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains, not far from the Peaks of Otter. There he and his wife 

affiliated with the Baptist Church. They had twelve children, of which the four eldest sons 

were William, John, Amaziah and Morgan Vardeman. About 1767, John Vardeman, Jr. 

migrated with his young family to the settlements on New River, where his last child, son 

Jeremiah Vardeman, was born on 08 July 1775, in what is now Wythe County, Virginia, 

about twelve miles above Fort Chiswell. In 1777 he went further west to the Clinch River in 

southwestern Virginia. When Indian trouble arose, the family moved into the nearby fort of 

Shadrach White on the Maiden Spring Fork of the Clinch in what is now Russell County. 

Others there included the noted hunters and explorers, James, Henry and Richard Skaggs. In 

autumn, 1779, the Vardemans went to Kentucky and settled near Crab Orchard in what 

became Lincoln County. Son William, who was the first to settle in Kentucky, fought at 

Point Pleasant on 10 October 1774. Later he went to the Natchez country. Sons John (III) and 

Amaziah were in George Rogers Clark’s campaign against the Shawnee in 1782. Sons 

Amaziah and Morgan served under Colonel William Whitley on scouting expeditions and in 

the campaign to Nick-o-jack (sic) in September 1794. Son Jeremiah also fought against the 

Indians. John Vardeman, Jr. moved to Missouri where he died about 1827 at the age of 109. 

(Photocopy of undated, anonymous typescript from Valerie Hurd, POB 1066, Sundance, WY 

82729-1066.) William Whitley led a group of Kentuckians, who joined a force of 

Tennesseans at Nashville, against the southern Indians who had been harassing the 

settlements in Lincoln County. The expedition became known as the Nickajack campaign 

from the name of the major Indian town, which was destroyed. (Collins’ History of 

Kentucky.) If John Vardeman, Jr. was 109 when he died about 1827 and 7 when his family 

came to America, he must have been born about 1718 and emigrated about 1725. However, 

with his twelfth child being born in 1775, it could be estimated that he was married about 

1750, which suggests that he may have been born later than 1718. 

Much of the above Vardeman history came from Morgan Vardeman, son of John Vardeman 

and Elizabeth Morgan, during an interview with Lyman Draper [Data of Sharon Primeau 

primeau@pcok.com


about l09 years old, a native of Sweden and at 7 years old, his father and family 

emigrated to America and settled in South Carolina and there the old man (John 

Vardeman, Sr.) died at the advanced age of l25 years, a man of piety of the 

established church. There Vardeman (John, Jr.) married young Elizabeth Morgan, a 

native of Wales in South Carolina and soon after settled in Bedford Co., Va. and there 

united with the Baptists and ever after continued a religious profession. About the 

year l767 moved to New River, in 77 removed to Clinch and there forted at Shadrach 

Whites, in the neighborhood of Maiden Spring fork of Clinch, there Skeggs, James 

and Henry and Richard, all noted hunters all forted at this same time (with families) at 

Whites. 

Jeremiah Vardeman died in Ralls County, Missouri, between 01 January l842, when he made 

his will, and 06 June 1842, when it was proved in court: [E-mail data of Sharon Primeau 


give her and because the said James and Richard have more property than I am able 

to give each of my children. I give to my four grand children, Marthy Singleton, John 

Porter, Lutitia Porter and Jeremiah Porter, the children of my daughter Elizabeth 

Porter, deceased, each one dollar. I gave to Elizabeth what I intended when she 

married. I give to four grand children, James Culbertson, Ann Eliza Culbertson, 

Jeremiah Culbertson and William Culbertson children of my dau. Mary F. 

Culbertson, one dollar each. Gave to Mary her portion when married and children 

seem to have the prospect of living as well as my own children. I give and bequeath 

to my dau. Sarah M. Griffin the possession of a tract of land lying in Audrain County 

containing 320 acres to possess during her life, I give land in trust to her children the 

children of said Sarah Morgan Griffin, I am convinced if I were to give my dau. Sarah 

any property whatever it would be lost to her and the estate forever, because the 

involved situation of James Griffin her husband, would cause any property that might 

fall into his or her hands to be taken immediately to help satisfy his debts, therefore I 

permit them abarely (sic) to enjoy the possession of said land during her lifetime. I set 

my hand first day of January l842, 

Jeremiah 

Vardeman 

Lucy apparently was the second wife of Jeremiah Vardeman. Elizabeth James, born about 

1780 and died in 1823 in Pulaski County, Kentucky, married Jeremiah Vardeman, a Baptist 

preacher in Pulaski County near the towns of Somerset and Shopville, who was born about 

1775. Elizabeth had two brothers, Daniel Fields James and Joseph Martin James who also 

were Baptist ministers. Joseph Martin James had a son Joseph McAlister James who married 

one of his first cousins, Elizabeth Vardeman James. [E-mail query of Eric James 


theirs. 

the Lord. They became Baptists ministers as did also Abraham, a younger brother of 

They grew to manhood in the State of Kentucky, and both saw service as Union 

soldiers in the Civil War. My father enlisted October 14, 1861--was discharged 

because of a bullet wound, December 31, 1864, and then rendered eleven 

additional months of hospital service. I do not know in what year of the war my 

uncle enlisted. He served more than a year. 

They were married while comparatively young men. Uncle Will married Sallie 

Scarce (sic), who became dear Aunt Sallie and the mother of four girls. A few 

years later, December 8, 1866, father married Cornelia Fenwick Gaines, who 

became our precious mother. There they farmed, raising various grains, livestock, 

and tobacco; mostly tobacco. 

Yielding to the general unrest and spirit of progress, Uncle Will moved his family to 

Indiana about the year 1876. He farmed there for a while, and in the year 1878 came 

to Missouri, bought a small farm on the Marshall-Miami road and sent for his wife 

and four girls the same fall. They came on the river by boat to Miami where Uncle 

Will met them in a farm wagon. They stayed over night at a crude hotel in Miami 

experiencing great discomfort, and the next day proceeded on their journey by wagon 

to their new home. 

About four years later on the fourteenth day of March, 1882, my father with my 

mother, six brothers and one sister, his family at that time, arrived in Marshall. Uncle 

Will met them in a farm wagon, drawn by four mules, and they drove out on what is 

now North Odell Avenue over a stumpy road through muddy Salt Fork bottoms 

where they stuck once, to be helped out by Messrs. Bob and Henry Irvine--on to my 

uncle’s farm, north and west of Marshall. He had made a change of homes since 

coming to Missouri. 

They found my aunt and cousins waiting for them in semi-darkness; their only 

light, a lantern and tallow candles. They had broken their lamp flues that morning 

in the excitement of getting ready for their Uncle Tom, Aunt Nellie, and the 

children. 

My uncle and father were almost pioneers. The Indians were gone when they came to 

Missouri, but flocks of wild turkeys were in the woods--and there were plenty of 

weeds--hazel brush and uncleared land. Hazel nuts, hickory nuts, and acorns were 

plentiful; also wild grapes, wild plums, blackberries, strawberries, and all kinds of 

wild game. 

With the exception of one year my father and family lived on various farms north 

of Marshall until the year 1908. We had increased to eleven children of which I 

was the first “Puke.” We younger members were all girls, so that we were then as 

we are today, six brothers and five sisters. 




In that year 1908, my father bought a small farm near Nelson, Missouri, and moved 

my mother and unmarried children. He made his home there until the fall of 1919, 

when he sold the farm and bought property in Marshall, continuing to live there the 

remainder of his life. 

Uncle Will lived north of Marshall until the year 1920, when he too made Marshall 

his home, living there until his death. 

The two brothers and their families were, for many years, the only relatives in 

Missouri, and they were always friendly and had great regard for each other. One 

cousin says, “There was no greater pleasure in our childhood than going to see the 

cousins and having them come to visit us.” 

I feel sure all eleven of us can reiterate that statement. Going to Uncle Will’s when a 

child, eating Aunt Nellie’s salt rising bread, yellow butter, and jam, watching her rock 

serenely and receiving notice from the cousins was my realization of earthly heaven. 

My father and my uncle lived to see many marvels of science. They saw the laying of 

almost the first, perhaps the first railroad in Kentucky and an early one here. 

One of the cousins remarked that the roar of the early trains filled her childish heart 

with more terror than thoughts of the Devil. Electric lighting, the auto, the airplanes 

were in use before their deaths. The radio with earphones was just coming in at the 

time of their passing. None of these things moved their faith in God--rather 

heightened their faith in him. Did not God make men in his own image? 

My father did itinerant missionary work, but held no regular pastorate in Missouri. A 

cousin says, “The brothers loved the Bible. Their eyes shone with joy as they 

discussed the great truths it contains, and in passing they pillowed their heads on its 

promises.” 

Uncle Will was a great worker for the Lord, serving four rural churches of Saline 

County for years. Two of them, Salem and Pin Oak, were organized through 

his efforts, and the influence of his life and work will live forever. It was my 

privilege to attend a service at one of his churches a few years ago, and I could 

seem to feel his spirit present. 

My father died in the fall of 1923, at the age of 85 and was laid to rest beside my 

mother who preceded him two years. 

Uncle Will died two years later, October 1925, at the age of 83 years. Pointing 

upward his last words were “Mommie” (his name for my aunt), “Heaven.” 

Aunt Sallie lived until October 1928 when she, too, passed on and was laid beside 

my uncle in Ridge Park. The brothers and their wives lie close together in death. 




Of my father’s immediate family all eleven children are living. Of my uncle’s 

immediate family three daughters yet live, one widowed and two unmarried. His 

oldest daughter Mrs. Henry Harvey died last fall. She left a fine family of six 

children. 

Among the brothers’ numerous descendants are to be found; a doctor, a preacher, 

a school teacher, a policeman, and many worthy followers of various occupations. 

Yes, their work on earth is over, 

Only we who yet remain, 

Hold the banner they have left us, 

May we keep it free from stain. 

Side by side in Ridge Park lying 

Side by side and head to head 

We can hear our Savior saying, 

“Only sleeping, they’re not dead.” 

When, on Resurrection morning 

They, the trumpet call obey, 

There will be a glad reunion 

Through God’s one unending day. 

Although the 1850 census enumeration of Peter and Mary Scrogin Vardeman lists son 

Thomas as T. F. Vardeman, his obituary in the Democrat-News of Marshall, Missouri, gives 

his name as the Reverend John Thomas Vardeman, the Ridge Park Cemetery records give his 

name as John T. Vardeman and the 1900 census for Saline County, Missouri, lists him as 

John Vardeman. (Data of Valerie Hurd.) 

Although one family record shows that the wife of Quentin D. Vardeman (G132), was named 

Mary and that they had a daughter named Charity F. Rogers, the tombstones of Bagdad 

Cemetery indicate that Q. D. was married to Charity: (Bagdad Cemetery, Shelby County, 

Kentucky, Ramona S. Slattery, Cemetery Projects Chairman, The Kentucky Genealogical 

Society, Frankfort, 1996.) 

Section “D” - Division I 

Vardiman, Peter Aug. 1, 1810 Aug. 30, 1877 

Vardiman, Mary W. Oct. 29, 1815 Aug. 10, 1879 

Vardaman, Q. D. Apr. 11, 1853 Apr. 2, 1887 

Rogers, Charity F. 1856 1916 

Vardeman, Clara C. Feb. 19, 1878 Mar. 26, 1890 

(Daughter of Q. D. & Charity F Vardeman) 

Vardeman, Elizabeth M. 1884 1920 

Vardeman, Winfred 1880 1955 




The last two markers must pertain to unmarried daughters of Q. D. and Charity, who have 

otherwise been identified as Winford Vardeman (H281) and Mary E. Vardeman (H282). 

Elizabeth Vardeman died on 28 February 1920 in Jefferson County, Kentucky, where she 

resided (Volume 021, Certificate 10034, Death Volume 20, Kentucky Vital Records Index 

Internet web page.) Winfred Vardeman died on 30 January 1955 in Shelby County. (Volume 

007, Certificate 03067, Death Volume 55, Kentucky Vital Records Index Internet web page.) 

Charity F. Rogers (Rodgers) died on 03 April 1916 in Shelby County. (Volume 19, 

Certificate 09022, Death Volume 16, Kentucky Vital Records Index Internet web page.) 

This indicates that Charity was married for a second time after Q. D. died. 

The middle name of Mary W. Scrogin Vardeman may have been Wilcoxson. 




QUENTIN D VARDEMAN (G132) 

Born 11 Apr 1853 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Died 02 Apr 1887 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Married Charity F ------ (Mary?) 

Born 1856 

Died 03 Apr 1916 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Children: 

Clara C Vardeman (H280) 

b. 19 Feb 1878 

d. 26 Mar 1890 

m. not 

Winfred Vardeman (H281) 

b. 1880 

d. 30 Jan 1955 Shelby County, Kentucky 

m. 

Elizabeth Mary Vardeman (H282) 

b. 1884 

d. 28 Feb 1920 Jefferson County, Kentucky 

m. 

Otho Vardeman (H283) 

b. 

d. 

m. 




JOHN THOMAS VARDEMAN (G124) 

Born 02 Oct 1838 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Died 16 Oct 1923 Marshall, Saline County, Missouri 

Married Cornelia Fenwick “Nellie” Gaines 08 Dec 1866 Kentucky 

Born 14 Feb 1846 Kentucky 

Died 25 Nov 1921 Saline County, Missouri 

Children: 

Ernest Vardeman (H367) 

b. 26 Sep 1867 Kentucky 

d. bef Sep 1970 

m. Elizabeth ------ 

John Peter Vardeman (H368) 

b. 25 Nov 1869 Kentucky 

d. 26 Jun 1945 (bur Ridge Park Cemetery, Marshall, Missouri) 

m. Luella “May” Smith 25 Dec 1894 

Richard Henry Vardeman (H369) 

b. 25 Oct 1871 Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky 

d. 22 May 1949 Bothwell Hospital, Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri 

m. Mary Caldonia “Callie” Smith 09 Sep 1895 Marshall, Saline Co., MO 

Jeremiah Vardeman (H370) 

b. 11 Dec 1873 Kentucky 

d. 

m. 

Hiram Botts Vardeman (H371) 

b. 17 Dec 1875 Kentucky 

d. 31 Mar 1945 (bur Ridge Park Cemetery, Marshall, Missouri) 

m. Lueva ------ 

Grace Truman Vardeman (H372) 

b. 21 Jan 1878 Kentucky 


m. ----- Nall 

Miles Standish Vardeman (H373) 

b. 14 Mar 1880 Kentucky 


m. Mary Josephine “Mollie” Harris 




Bonnie E Vardeman (H374) 

b. 03 Nov 1882 Missouri 


m. Charles Conaway 

Margaret May “Maggie” Vardeman (H375) 

b. 17 Jun 1885 Missouri 

d. 

m. Emmett Self 

Elizabeth Gaines Vardeman (H376) 

b. 05 Nov 1887 Stanhope, Missouri 

d. 15 Mar 1977 (bur Ridge Park Cemetery, Marshall, Missouri) 

m. 

Frances Laura Vardeman (H377) 

b. 16 Aug 1890 Missouri 

d. 28 Sep 1970 (bur Ridge Park Cemetery, Marshall, Missouri) 

m. 

John Thomas Vardeman was a son of Peter Vardeman and Mary W. “Polly” Scrogin. He was 

a farmer, Baptist minister and a Union soldier in the Civil War who enlisted on 14 October 

1861 and was discharged on 31 December 1864 because of a bullet wound. Cornelia 

Fenwick “Nellie” Gaines was a daughter of Henry and Harriett Gaines. John Thomas and 

Nellie Gaines Vardeman arrived in Marshall, Saline County. Missouri, on 14 March 1882. 

They are buried there in Ridge Park Cemetery. 

Ernest Vardeman resided in Moberly, Randolph County, Missouri, from 1920 to 1939. John 

Peter Vardeman was a farmer who lived in Marshall, Missouri, in 1939. Jeremiah Vardeman 

was a resident of Portland, Oregon, in 1939. Hiram Botts Vardeman resided in Jamestown, 

Moniteau County, Missouri, from 1920 to 1939. Miles Standish Vardeman lived in Salisbury, 

Chariton County, Missouri, from 1920 to 1939. Bonnie Vardeman Conway taught at Fair 

Play School. (Data of Valerie Hurd.) 




ERNEST VARDEMAN (H367) 

Born 26 Sep 1867 Kentucky 

Died bef Sep 1970 

Married Elizabeth ------ 

Born 1871 Pennsylvania 

Died 

Children: 

Edward Vardeman (J373) 

b. 1900 

dd. 

m. 

Albert Vardeman (J374) 

b. 1902 

d. 

m. 

Ernest Vardeman lived in Moberly, Randolph County, Missouri, at least from 1920 to 1939. 

Edward Vardeman resided in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1939. Albert Vardeman also lived in 

Moberly, Missouri, in 1939. [Data of Valerie Hurd.] 




JOHN PETER VARDEMAN (H368) 

Born 25 Nov 1869 Kentucky 

Died 26 Jun 1945 (bur Ridge Park Cemetery, Marshall, Missouri) 

Married Luella “May” Smith 25 Dec 1894 near Herndon, Saline County, Missouri 

Born 27 Feb 1872 Adams County, Illinois 

Died 05 Jun 1966 [bur. Ridge Park Cemetery, Marshall, Missouri] 

Children: 

Charlie H Vardeman (J375) 

b. 1897 Missouri 

d. bef Jun 1966 

m. 

Johnnie W Vardeman (J376) 


d. 

m. 

Edmond S Vardeman (J377) 

b. 1906 

d. 

m. 

John Peter Vardeman was a farmer who resided in Marshall, Saline County, Missouri, in 

1939, as did his son Johnnie. Sons, Charlie and Edmond, lived in Kansas City, Missouri. 

[Data of Valerie Hurd.] 




RICHARD HENRY VARDEMAN (H369) 

Born 25 Oct 1871 Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky 

Died 22 May 1949 Bothwell Hospital, Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri 

Married Mary Caldonia “Callie” Smith 09 Sep 1895 Marshall, Saline Co, MO 

Born 22 Aug 1878 Benton County, Missouri 

Died 04 Nov 1930 Marshall, Saline County, Missouri 

Children: 

Rena B Vardeman (J358) 


d. aft 11 Nov 1985 

m. Thomas J “Jeff” Uzzell 

Nelle B Vardeman (J359) 

b. 28 Mar 1900 

d. 20 Dec 1991 (bur Nelson Cemetery, Nelson, Saline County, Missouri) 

m. Charles E Brown 

Claude Philip “Jack” Vardeman (J360) 

b. 24 Dec 1901 Nelson, Saline County, Missouri 

d. Colorado (bur Ft Logan Cemetery, Colorado) 

m. Beatrice ------ 

Bonnie M Vardeman (J361) 

b. 1904 

d. 1910 (bur Nelson Cemetery, Nelson, Saline County, Missouri) 

m. not 

Irvin R Vardeman (J362) 


d. 

m. Velma “Potty” ------ 1938 

Jerry Thomas Vardeman (J363) 

b. 22 Mar 1910 Nelson, Saline County, Missouri 

d. 07 Nov 1985 Hughesville, Pettis County, Missouri 

m. (1) Alma Elizabeth Ireland 

(2) Mary Lucille Curry 07 Jun 1947 

(3) Mildred Jewell Barnett (Dewitt) 29 Oct 1977 

William Francis “Bill” Vardeman (J364) 

b. 05 Sep 1913 Missouri 

d. 26 Oct 1980 (bur Johnson County Memorial Gardens) 

m. Velma Beatrice Hannons 31 Dec 1938 Houstonia, Pettis County, MO 




Mary Elizabeth Vardeman (J365) 

b. 21 Nov 1915 Nelson, Saline County. Missouri 

d. 08 Feb 1989 Columbia, Boone County, Missouri 

m. Charlie Alexis “C A” Staples 07 Jan 1931 Sedalia, Pettis Co., MO 

Richard Henry Vardeman was a son of John Thomas Vardeman and Cornelia Fenwick 

Gaines. Mary Caldonia Smith was a daughter of Irvin(e) E. Smith (b. 24 Mar 1844) and 

Mary Jane Van Horn (b. 30 Nov 1847). 

Richard was a section foreman for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. He died of a cerebral 

hemorrhage as a result of arteriosclerosis and chronic myocarditis. Callie Smith Vardeman 

died of a hyperthyroid condition. Both are buried in Nelson Cemetery, Nelson, Saline 

County, Missouri. 

Rena Vardeman (J358), who lived in Marshall, Missouri, in 1920 and Kansas City in 1939, 

had a daughter Phyllis Roe (K307), born 21 February 1930, who has been married several 

times. Her husband Thomas J. “Jeff” Uzzell and their daughter [name unknown] were killed 

in an automobile accident on 31 March 1952. 

Nelle Vardeman (J359) and Charles E. Brown had three children, Janice Marie Brown 

(K308), who married William Robert Wallace on 24 August 1985; Jesse Lee Brown (K309), 

who was born on 10 November 1930; and Richard Brown (K310). Son Jesse was living in 

San Diego, California, and Richard also resided in California in 1996. 

Jack Vardeman (J360) worked as a section hand for the railroad in Missouri and later moved 

to Colorado Springs, Colorado. He and his wife Beatrice were the parents of Sam Vardeman 

(K311), a resident of Englewood, Colorado, and Gertrude Vardeman (K312), who married --- 

-- Shewey and lived in Pueblo, Colorado. 

Jerry Thomas Vardeman (J363) and Alma Elizabeth Ireland, who married on 23 June 1934, 

were the parents of Mary Esther Vardeman (K313), who was born on 26 April 1935 in 

Napton, Saline County, Missouri, and married Donald Ramey on 07 March 1954; and 

Elizabeth Ruth “Betty” Vardeman (K314), who married ----- Baldwin. Alma Ireland 

Vardeman was killed by lightning on 24 May 1945. By his second wife, Mary Lucille Curry, 

Jerry Thomas Vardeman (J363) had a son Jerry Lee Vardeman (K315), who married Carol 

Ann Gorman on 06 October 1968. 

Bill Vardeman and Velma Hannons were the parents of Kenneth William “Kenny Bill” 

Vardeman (K316), whose wife is named Myrna. The last known residence of Bill Vardeman 

(J364) was Cassville, Barry County, Missouri. Velma Hannons Vardeman resides at 86th and 

Grant, in Kansas City, Missouri. (Data of Valerie Hurd.) 




CHARLIE ALEXIS “C A” STAPLES 

Born 19 Nov 1914 Nelson, Saline County, Missouri 

Died 18 Feb 1988 Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri 

Married Mary Elizabeth Vardeman (J365) 07 Jan 1931 Sedalia, Pettis Co., MO 

Born 21 Nov 1915 Nelson, Saline County, Missouri 

Died 08 Feb 1989 Columbia, Boone County, Missouri 

Children: 

Marylou Staples (K304) 

b. 14 Jul 1931 Nelson, Saline County, Missouri 

d. 28 Dec 1995 Western Medical Center, Warrensburg, Johnson Co., MO 

m. Harold Dyer Hurd 17 Jul 1948 

Louis Marshall Staples (K305) 

b. 17 Oct 1932 near Nelson, Saline County, Missouri 

d. 

m. (1) Patricia Ann Franklin 04 Jun ---- 

(2) Patricia ------ 

Charlie Alexis Staples was a son of Bernard Earle Russell Staples (b. 19 Apr 1892) and Lula 

John Wesley Leftwich (b. 01 Jan 1884). Mary Elizabeth Vardeman (J365) was a daughter of 

Richard Henry Vardeman and Mary Caldonia Smith. Mary Elizabeth’s birth certificate shows 

two dates, 21 March and 21 November 1915. 

C. A. Staples farmed about a half-mile east of the intersection of D highway and 127, about 

half-way between LaMonte and Sweet Springs, Missouri. He also worked for the Pettis 

County ASCS office. (Data of Valerie Hurd.) 




HAROLD DYER HURD 

Born 27 Oct 1926 Bothwell Hospital, Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri 

Died 

Married Marylou Staples (K304) 17 Jul 1948 

Born 14 Jul 1931 Nelson, Saline County, Missouri 

Died 28 Dec 1995 Western Medical Center, Warrensburg, Joh----? 

Children: 

David Key Hurd (L234) 

b. 21 Aug 1949 Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri 

d. 

m. Valerie Gayle Heermann 25 Jul 1970 Sweet Springs, Saline Co., MO 

Rhonda Lynn Hurd (L235) 

b. 06 Oct 1953 Research Hospital, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO 

d. 

m. (1) Rick D Sonnenberg 02 Jun 1972 

(2) Thomas James Standerford 27 Jun 1981 

Kimbra Lea Hurd (L236) 

b. 25 Mar 1965 Robbstown, Nueces County, Texas 

d. 

m. Clay Allen Hilsabeck 10 Nov 1990 

Harold Dyer Hurd is a son of John Theodore Hurd (b. 19 Sep 1901) and May Tennessee 

Kindle (b. 15 Jun 1997). Marylou Staples (K304) was a daughter of Charlie Alexis Staples 

and Mary Elizabeth Vardeman (J365). 

Harold was in the 1128 Engineer Combat Group, 3194th Engineer Supply Company, which 

occupied the north half of Germany during WWII. Afterward, he was a district sales manager 

for Massey-Ferguson and lived in Missouri, Kansas, Canada, Texas and Nebraska. He is a 

family genealogist. 

Funeral services for Marylou Staples Hurd (K304) were held at Blackwater Chapel in Pettis 

County, Missouri. She is interred in Fairview Cemetery at Sweet Springs in Pettis County. 

Rhonda Hurd Standerford (L235) resides in Humboldt, Nebraska. 

Kimbra Hurd Hilsabeck (L236) lives in St. Joseph, Missouri, where she is a bank loan officer 

and serves in the Air National Guard. (Data of Valerie Hurd.) 




DAVID KEY HURD (L234) 

Born 21 Aug 1949 Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri 

Died 

Married Valerie Gayle Heermann 25 Jul 1970 Sweet Springs, Saline County, MO 

Born 29 Sep 1949 Sweet Springs, Saline County, Missouri 

Died 

Child: 

Scott David Hurd (M81) 

b. 11 Feb 1975 Bothwell Hospital, Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri 

d. 

m. 

David Key Hurd (L234) is a son of Harold Dyer Hurd and Marylou Staples (K304). Valerie 

Gayle Heermann is a daughter of Clarence Edward Heermann (b. 01 Aug 1923) and Florene 

Delora Falk (b. 08 Aug 1927). David and Valerie were married at Immanuel Lutheran 

Church in Sweet Springs, Missouri. 

David owns Sundance Texaco in Sundance, Wyoming. 

Valerie, who was christened at Immanuel Lutheran Church, is a family genealogist. 

Scott David Hurd, who was christened in August 1975 at Our Savior Lutheran Church in 

Sedalia, Missouri, is a student in the physical therapy program at the University of North 

Dakota at Grand Forks. (Data of Valerie Hurd.) 




MILES STANDISH VARDEMAN (H373) 

Born 03 (14?) Mar 1880 Kentucky 

Died 03 May 1949 

Married Mary Josephine “Mollie” Harris 

Born 03 (31?) Jan 1885 Missouri 

Died 16 Feb (Dec?) 1980 [bur. Ridge Park C., Marshall, Saline Co, MO] 

Children: 

James R Vardeman (J378) 

b. 1914 

d. 

m. 

Phillip Harris Vardeman (J379) 

b. 17 May 1915 

d. 23 Feb 1968 

m. Frances Louise Carter 25 Aug 1940 

Miles Standish Vardeman lived in Salisbury, Chariton County, Missouri, at least from 1920 

until 1939. [Data of Valerie Hurd.] 

David Vardiman e-mail 

dvardima@oldcolo.com.David Vardiman. 

sent me this.I guess when you put them on the web site you have to edit 

some.just wanted to sent you the info,the way he e-mail to me. 

David Miles Vardiman b;2-4-1954 m;4-4-1976 

Dr.Phillph Harris Vardiman b;5-17-1915 d;2-23-68 m;8-25-1940 Frances Louise 

Carterb;8-30-1917her 2nd hus was John Clay Robinson m;1976. 

my siblings are Larry Vardeman b;1-13-1943 m;Janette [Santen] b;9-29-1942 

Billie Francile Vardiman b;1 /11/1944.m;Bill Vardiman 

Stephen Vardiman b;1-16-1949 m;Barbra Knote b;6-4-1952 2nd wife Diane 

Mary Vardiman b;10-6-1951 m;George Cambell,Guadelupe Alonso,Robert Koger 

Ann Vardiman b;10-7-1952 m;Ted KURTZ. 

I married Debra Jo Claar 4-4-1976 B;4-4-1954 

ch;Benjiam David Vardiman b;7-7-1979 

Jeremiah David Vardiman b; 2-2-1982 

Catherine Ellen Vardiman b;1-7-1985 

my grandparents; 

Miles Standish Vardiman b;3-3-1880d;5-3-1949m;Josephine Harris b;1-3-1885 

d;2-16-1980 

my great great grandparents 

John Thomas Vardiman b;10-2-1838d;11-16-1923 m;12-18-1886 toCornelia 

Fenwick[Gaines]b;2-14-1846d;11/20/1921 

my great great grandparents 

Peter Vardiman b;8-8-1810 d;8-30-1877 m;Mary W.Scroggins b;10-29-1815 

d;8-10-1879 

my 3rd great grandparets 




Thomas Vardeman b;1765 m;1792 to Rachel Wilcox. 

my 4th grandparents John Vardman jr,Elizbeth Morgan 

have more .sent later. Pam 




WILLIAM VARDEMAN (G126) 

Born 02 Oct 1842 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Died 29 Oct 1925 Marshall, Saline County, Missouri 

Married Sarah Mildred “Sally” Scearce 10 Nov 1864 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Born 22 Apr 1843 Shelby County, Kentucky 

Died 18 Oct 1928 

Children: 

Anna Laura Vardeman (H378) 


d. 1938 

m. Henry Harvey 1890 

Elizabeth Belle “Lizzie” Vardeman (H379) 

b. 07 Sep 1867 Kentucky 

d. 13 Dec 1942 

m. not 

Minnie W Vardeman (H380) 

b. 04 May 1874 Kentucky 

d. 28 Jan 1933 

m. not 

Willie May Vardeman (H381) 

b. Sep 1877 Indiana 

d. 

m. (unknown - no children) 

The Reverend William Vardeman and his wife Sallie Scearce are buried in Ridge Park 

Cemetery, Marshall, Saline County, Missouri. Their daughters Lizzie and Minnie also are 

interred in Ridge Park Cemetery. 

In 1877, William Vardeman, who was Baptist preacher, moved to Switzerland County, 

Indiana, where he farmed and preached at two churches, Olive Branch and Mount Zion. 

After eighteen months, he went to Saline County, Missouri, in 1878. There, he farmed 

northwest of Marshall and preached at Salem and Pin Oak Baptist Churches. He served in the 

Union Army during the Civil War and received a pension for wounds. [Data of Valerie 

Hurd.] 




HENRY HARVEY 

Born 

Died 

Married Anna Laura Vardeman (H378) 1890 

Born c1866 

Died 1938 

Children: 

Theodore Harvey (J367) 

b. 

d. 

m. 

Kathryn “Kate” Harvey (J368) 

b. 

d. 

m. 

Bob Harvey (Reverend) (J369) 

b. 

d. 

m. 

Bess Harvey (J370) 

b. 

d. 

m. 

Henry Harvey Jr (J371) 

b. 

d. 

m. 

Sally Harvey (J372) 

b. 

d. 

m. 

In 1939, Theodore and Kate Harvey resided in Marshall, Missouri; the Reverend Bob Harvey 

lived in Triplett, Chariton County, Missouri; and Henry Harvey, Jr. made his home in 

Fairville, Missouri. [Data of Valerie Hurd.] 




DESCENDANTS OF JOHN WILLIAM VARDEMAN 

Eric James


death: ? 

... 4 Patsey Vardeman 

....... +Samuel Holmes m: September 02, 1840 

... 4 Elizabeth Vardeman b: November 10, 1792 d: March 17, 1845 Age 

at death: 52 

....... +Ephraim Pennington m: September 20, 1812 

... 4 Ann Vardeman b: December 10, 1794 d: October 14, 1830 Age at 

death: 35 

....... +Lindsey Stephenson m: September 12, 1815 

... 4 Jeremiah Vardeman b: May 10, 1797 d: March 28, 1854 Age at 

death: 56 

....... +Polly Coffey m: March 11, 1828 in Casey Co. KY 

... 4 Jane Vardeman b: April 23, 1802 

....... +P.W. Stephenson m: May 10, 1820 

... 4 Mary "Polly" Vardeman b: September 18, 1805 in Pulaski Co KY d: 

June 17, 1845 in Pulaski Co KY Age at death: 39 

....... +Garland Smith m: August 02, 1826 

... *2nd Husband of Mary "Polly" Vardeman: 

....... +William W. Farris b: August 10, 1818 in Pulaski Co KY m: 

October 13, 1838 d: May 18, 1851 in Pulaski Co KY (Bur in rear of Daniel 

Field James house.) Age at death: 32 

..... 5 Ephraim C. Farris b: 1845 

... 4 William Vardeman b: June 09, 1807 d: July 12, 1846 Age at 

death: 39 

... 4 Martha Vardeman b: April 14, 1810 d: April 21, 1852 Age at 

death: 42 

... 4 Eliza Emily Vardeman b: October 10, 1812 d: April 21, 1852 Age 

at death: 39 

. 3 Alexander Vardeman b: 1769 

..... +Rachel Monteel 

. 3 Jeremiah Vardeman b: July 08, 1775 in New River, Fincastle Co, now 

Whythe Co KY d: May 28, 1842 in Ralls Co. MO Age at death: 66 

..... +Elizabeth Ryan 

... 4 Thomas B. Vardeman b: 1794 in KY 

... 4 Emily Jane Vardeman b: 1796 in Lincoln Co KY 

. *2nd Wife of Jeremiah (Rev.) Vardeman: 

..... +Elizabeth "Betsy" James b: Abt. 1779 in Culpeper Co VA m: August 

12, 1799 in Lincoln Co KY d: Bef. April 05, 1823 in Pulaski Co. Ky Age 

at death: 44 est. 

... 4 Jefferson Vardeman 

... 4 John James Vardeman b: January 1800 

... 4 Diadamia (Twin) Vardeman b: February 25, 1803 d: October 25, 

1857 Age at death: 54 

....... +Richard (Col.) Matson m: March 09, 1820 

... *2nd Husband of Diadamia (Twin) Vardeman: 

....... +Samuel Fuller m: January 14, 1840 




... 4 Elizabeth (Twin) Vardeman b: February 25, 1803 d: 1871 Age at 

death: 67 est. 

....... +Lewellen Porter m: December 19, 1818 

... 4 Ambrose Vardeman b: October 25, 1804 

... 4 Mary Frances Vardeman b: August 29, 1806 in Lincoln Co KY d: 

January 02, 1837 in Ralls Co MO Age at death: 30 

....... +James Culbertson 

... *2nd Husband of Mary Frances Vardeman: 

....... +James Culbertson m: December 26, 1822 in Fayette Co KY 

..... 5 James Culbertson 

..... 5 Ann Eliza Culbertson 

..... 5 Jeremiah Culbertson 

..... 5 William Culbertson 

... *3rd Husband of Mary Frances Vardeman: 

....... +James Culbertson m: December 26, 1822 in Fayette Co KY 

... 4 Julia Ann Vardeman b: October 1808 in Lincoln Co KY 

....... +John Davis Biggs m: May 01, 1833 in Ralls Co MO 

... 4 Dulcemia Vardeman b: 1811 

... 4 Jeremiah Briscoe Vardeman b: June 12, 1814 in Fayette Co KY d: 

June 23, 1886 in Ralls Co MO Age at death: 72 

....... +Julia Tyre 

... 4 William Henry (Rev.) Vardeman b: June 28, 1816 in Fayette Co KY 

d: 1891 Age at death: 74 est. 

....... +Lizzie M. Lindsay m: February 04, 1852 

... 4 Sarah Morgan Vardeman b: 1820 in Lincoln Co KY 

... 4 Elizabeth Vardeman b: 1822 in Lincoln Co KY 

. *3rd Wife of Jeremiah (Rev.) Vardeman: 

..... +Lucy Unknown m: Aft. 1823 

... 4 Caroline Vardeman 

. 3 Tabitha Vardeman b: 1777 




NOTES 

Descendants of Irene (Jean) Scrogin 

Sally Steele 03 Feb 2001 

1 Irene (Jean) Scrogin 1813 - 1872 

.. +Abraham Miles 1809 - 1877 

......... 2 Samuel E Miles 1829 - 1914 

............. +Susan F Major 1836 - 1874 

.................... 3 John Harvey Miles 1854 - 1917 

........................ +Minnie Foster 

............................... 4 Maude Miles 1875 - 

................................... +Everett E. Ames 

........................................... 5 Carol Ames 

........................................... 5 Ernestine Ames 

........................................... 5 James Ames 1902 - 

.................... *2nd Wife of John Harvey Miles: 

........................ +Lucy Davis Tharp 1863 - 1926 

............................... 4 Bessiee Beryl Miles 1884 - 

................................... +Victor Gabby 1880 - 1932 

........................................... 5 Clara Davis Gabby 1908 - 

............................................... +Earl Green 

...................................................... 6 Dorothy Genine Green 

...................................................... 6 Garnett Thomas Green 1927 - 

...................................................... 6 Robert D Green 1930 - 

...................................................... 6 Barbara Bess Green 1936 - 

............................... *2nd Husband of Bessiee Beryl Miles: 

................................... +Claude Hulett 1886 - 

........................................... 5 Dorothy Miles Hulett 1920 - 

............................................... +Frank Bland Conn 

............................... 4 Esther Major Miles 1885 - 

............................... 4 Kate Brownie Miles 1888 - 

................................... +Robert Elmer Stratton 1883 - 1949 

........................................... 5 Thomas Miles Stratton 1912 - 

........................................... 5 Nell Elizabeth Stratton 1917 - 

........................................... 5 Robert Julian Stratton 1921 - 

........................................... 5 Major Elliott Stratton 1928 - 

.................... 3 Samuel L Miles 1858 - 1918 

........................ +Catherine (Fanny) Fields 1859 - 1935 

............................... 4 Harold E Miles 1884 - 1916 

................................... +Anna Murnane 1885 - 1976 

........................................... 5 Maurice Earl Miles 1911 - 1988 

............................................... +Laura Charlotte Bussi 1911 - 1998 

...................................................... 6 Maureen Lois Miles 1936 - 1972 

.......................................................... +Robert Sullivan 

...................................................... 6 Laurence Harold Miles 1940 - 




.......................................................... +Michele Girelli 1942 - 

...................................................... 6 Sally Arline Miles 1944 - 

.......................................................... +Dean Edward Rhodes 1936 - 1998 

...................................................... *2nd Husband of Sally Arline Miles: 

.......................................................... +Lloyd Alfred Steele 1940 - 

............................... 4 Lillian Miles 1885 - 1928 

................................... +William Joseph Farry 1879 - 1926 

........................................... 5 Frances (Fanny) Margaret Farry 1910 - 

............................................... +Jos. Anthony Sanderson 1901 - 

...................................................... 6 Frances Winifred Sanderson 1929 - 

.......................................................... +James Lewis Stinson 1924 - 

...................................................... *2nd Husband of Frances Winifred Sanderson: 

.......................................................... +Ralph E. Sutliff 

...................................................... *3rd Husband of Frances Winifred Sanderson: 

.......................................................... +Leighton A. Stines 

...................................................... 6 MaryEllen Sanderson 1930 - 

.......................................................... +John David McGrew 1929 - 

...................................................... 6 Rita Marie Sanderson 1934 - 

.......................................................... +Michael Dougherty 

...................................................... 6 Michael Joseph Sanderson 1935 - 

.......................................................... +Delores 

........................................... 5 William Joseph Farry, Jr. 1913 - 1915 

........................................... 5 Baby Farry 1915 - 

........................................... 5 Clarence Joseph Farry 1916 - 

............................................... +Esther Huddleston 

........................................... *2nd Wife of Clarence Joseph Farry: 

............................................... +Lucille Johnson 1921 - 

...................................................... 6 Kevin Lee Farry 1962 - 

.......................................................... +Kathy Marshall 1961 - 

...................................................... 6 Billie Lynn Farry 1965 - 

.......................................................... +Stanley Holn 

........................................... 5 Lillian (Sis)Grace Farry 1918 - 

............................................... +Richard Henry Sparing 1918 - 1973 

...................................................... 6 Barbara Colleen Sparing 1941 - 

.......................................................... +Harvey L. Marshall 1939 - 

........................................... 5 Betty Irene Farry 1920 - 1994 

............................................... +Kenneth Lipke 1913 - 

...................................................... 6 Shirley Lipke 1954 - 

.......................................................... +Alan Nichol - 1984 

...................................................... *2nd Husband of Shirley Lipke: 

.......................................................... +Craig Meyer 

............................... 4 Frank Miles 1887 - 1909 

............................... 4 Clarence Miles 1889 - 1937 

................................... +Sadie McGinnis 

............................... 4 Minnie Miles 1891 - 1964 

................................... +Jack Lewis Williams 1888 - 1968 




........................................... 5 Jack Lewis Williams, Jr. 1927 - 

............................................... +Beverly Johnson 1933 - 1990 

...................................................... 6 Jack Lawrence Williams 1952 - 

...................................................... 6 Keran Williams 1954 - 

.......................................................... +Francis Wrzesinski 

...................................................... 6 Kim Williams 1956 - 

........................................... 5 Shirley Mae Williams 1930 - 

............................................... +Herbie E. Plews 1928 - 

...................................................... 6 Reese William Plews 1964 - 

............................... 4 Winnie Miles 1891 - 1983 

................................... +Daniel W. Ellis 1888 - 1972 

............................... 4 Buford Joseph Miles 1895 - 1977 

................................... +EleanorJeannette Forsgren Taylor 1909 - 

............................... 4 Samuel L. Miles, Jr 1897 - 1914 

.................... 3 Abraham Major Miles 1865 - 1898 

........................ +Fannie E. Clark 1868 - 1901 

............................... 4 Nellie B. Miles 1890 - 

................................... +Arthur Patrick McMenama 1890 - 

........................................... 5 Paul Joseph McMenama 1910 - 

............................................... +Henrietta McNeese 1914 - 

...................................................... 6 Robert Paul McMenama 1932 - 

........................................... *2nd Wife of Paul Joseph McMenama: 

............................................... +Mabel Young 

........................................... 5 Arthur Patrick McMenama, Jr 1913 - 

........................................... 5 Rosemary McMenama 1916 - 1941 

........................................... 5 Ellen Frances McMenama 1918 - 

............................................... +Paul LeRoy Flint 1916 - 

...................................................... 6 Rosemary Flint 1944 - 

........................................... 5 Bernard Miles McMenama 1922 - 

........................................... 5 John Harmon McMenama 1933 - 

......... *2nd Wife of Samuel E Miles: 

............. +Mattie Clark Morris - 1917 

......... 2 Rachel Ann Miles 1833 - 1910 

............. +Thomas Dudley Kesler 1828 - 1903 

......... 2 Mildred A. Miles 1837 - 1911 

............. +Richard Pace 1835 - 1917 

......... 2 Isabella (Belle) Miles 1843 - 1920 

............. +Thomas Dudley Wilson 1836 - 1925 

......... 2 Joseph Matson Miles 1848 - 1852 




1 . Family register of Samuel Scrogin, W. H. English collection, Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, 

photocopy in possession of compiler; deposition of Samuel Scrogin, Bourbon County, Kentucky, Circuit 

Court, File Box 731. 

2 . Crager material, vertical file Kendrick, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort; Shelby County, 

Kentucky, Deed Book D2, page 117; Bourbon County, Kentucky tax lists; Records of Cooper's Run 

Baptist Church, Kentucky Historical Society Register, Frankfort, Volume 22, page 258, and Volume 27, pages 

642 and 646; naming patterns and circumstantial evidence. 

3 . Family register, supra note 1. 

4 . Deposition, Bourbon County, Kentucky, Circuit Court File Box 731. 

5 . Bourbon County, Kentucky, Marriage Book 2, page 30. 

6 . National Archives military records. 

7 . Kentucky in the War of 1812, Anderson Chenault Quisenberry, The Kentucky Historical Society, 

Frankfort, 1915, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1969. 

8 . ibid. 

9 . National Archives bounty land file 

10 . 1820 Federal Census Microcopy 33, Roll 18, page 116, line 32. 

11 . Bourbon County, Kentucky, Deed Book E, page 551. 

12 . ibid, Deed Book P, page 176. 

13 . ibid, Deed Book S, page 198. 

14 . ibid, Deed Book T, page 91. 

15 . 1830 Federal Census Microcopy 19, Roll 41, page 251. 

16 . Shelby County, Kentucky, Marriage Book 4, page 299. 

17 . Shelby County, Kentucky, Deed Book D2, page 117. 

18 . ibid, Deed Book X1, page 158. 


20 . Bourbon County, Kentucky, Order Book I, page 408. 

21 . National Archives pension file S36030. 

22 . Supra note 17, Deed Book L2, page 39. 

23 . Morgan County, Indiana, Tract Book. 

24 . ibid. 

25 . Order No. 2131548, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, Volume 86, page 151. 

26 . Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, Baskin, Forster and Company, Chicago, 1876, 

reprinted Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, 1968. 

27 . Morgan County, Indiana, Deed Book D, page 440. 

28 . ibid, Deed Book F, page 392. 

29 . Supra note 23. 

30 . Supra note 27, Deed Book M, page 46. 

31 . 1840 Federal census, page 531. 

32 . Morgan County, Indiana, Marriage Book B, page 142. 

33 . Supra note 27, Deed Book M, page 461. 

34 . ibid, Deed Book N, page 297. 

35 . Shelby County, Kentucky, Marriages 1792-1833, Eula Richardson Hasskarl, Ada, OK, 1983. 

36 . Bohannon data of compiler. 

37 . Supra note 27, Deed Book N, page 195. 

38 . Supra note 31, page 533. 




39 . Scrogin Scroggin Scroggins, Arthur E. Scroggins, Dodge City, KS, 1964. 

40 . Scott's Papers, Hattie Marshall Scott, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, 1953. 

41 . Photocopy of letter, original possessed by Charles Kenneth Scroggins (K44), Versailles, KY, 1997. 

42 . Source missing. 

43 . 1850 Federal census, page 177, house 665, family 665. 

44 . National Archives bounty land file. 

45 . Clayton County, Iowa, Deed Book Z, page 462. 

46 . ibid, Deed Book H, page 66. 

47 . ibid, Deed Book H, page 67. 

48 . Volume 103, page 146, U.S. Records of Patents, certified on 01 June 1896 by the U.S. Land Office in 

Des Moines, Iowa; Clayton County, Iowa, Deed Book 72, page 254. 

49 . National Archives bounty land file. 

50 . Supra note 45, Deed Book S, page 544. 

51 . Data of Julian K. Wood, Bagdad, KY, 1973. 

52 . Supra note 45, Deed Book N, page 242. 

53 . ibid, Deed Book N, page 240. 

54 . 1860 Federal census, page 828, house 798, family 723. 

55 . Correspondence with Clayton County, Iowa, Court Clerk. 

56 . Supra note 45, Deed Book Q, page 376 (a marginal note refers to an affidavit in Book 67, pages 229, 

230 and 231). 

57 . ibid, Deed Book Z, page 460. 

58 . ibid, Deed Book A-2, page 28. 

59 . ibid, Deed Book 67, pages 228-229. 

60 . ibid, Deed Book Z, page 461. 

61 . ibid, Deed Book S, page 60. 

62 . Photocopy of unreferenced Clayton County, Iowa, deed. 

63 . Supra note 45, Deed Book S, page 275. 

64 . ibid, Deed Book T, page 356. 

65 . ibid, Deed Book P, page 41. 

66 . 1860 Federal Census Microcopy 53, Roll 315, page 62, dwelling 482, family 440. 

67 . 1870 Federal Census Microcopy 64, Roll 383, page 12, dwelling 80, family 83. 

68 . 1880 Federal Census, page 17, Supervisors District 2, Enumeration District 141, 

dwelling 54, family 55. 

69 . 1900 Federal Census Microcopy 17, Roll 425, Supervisors District 77, Enumeration 

District 59, sheet 4, dwelling 312, family 326. 

70 . ibid, Enumeration District 58, page 9, dwelling 176, family 176. 

71 . First Families of America, page 312, data of unknown correspondent. 

72 . Supra note 16, Marriage Book 2, page 47. 

73 . 1860 Federal Census Microcopy 653, Roll 395, page 81, dwellings 600 and 601, families 560 and 561. 

74 . Shelby County, Kentucky, Marriages, Volume II, Eula Richardson Hasskarl, Ada, OK, 1985. 

75 . ibid. 

76 . Source unknown. 

77 . 1840 Federal Census Roll 123, page 137. 

78 . Shelby County, Kentucky, Will Book 19, page 204. 

79 . Supra note 17, Deed Book T2, page 10. 




80 . 1860 Federal census, page 91, dwelling 671, family 627. 

81 . Supra note 78, Will Book 34, page 333 

82 . ibid, Will Book 35, page 285 

83 . Kentucky Historical Society records. 


85 . Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume III, Sam McDowell, Cook-McDowell Publications, 

Owensboro, KY, 1981, excerpted from Kentucky: A History of the State, W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle and G. 

C. Kniffin, c1880. 

86 . Cemeteries in Shelby County, Kentucky, Shelby County Historical Society, Shelbyville, 1979 


88 . ibid, Marriage Book 8, page 2417. 

89 . Family records of Merritt David Mullen, Ridgecrest, CA, 1996. 

90 . Family records of LaVerne Wilbanks Worley, Throckmorton, TX, 1976. 

91 . ibid.. 

92 . Supra note 85. 



95 . Cook data of compiler. 




99 . Supra note 35; Wilcoxson and Allied Families, Dorothy Ford Wulfeck, Naugatuck, CT, 1958, printed 

Commercial Service, Waterbury, CT. 

100 . Data of Selbert Kesler, Umatilla, FL, 1984. 

101 . 1860 Federal census, page 87, house 647, family 603. 






107 . Supra note 78, Will Books 37, page 100, and 38, page 187. 

108 . Data of Julia Newkirk Kesler, 1964, and Jean Kesler Preston, Lexington, KY, 1988. 





113 . Wilcoxson and Allied Families, supra note 99. 


115 . Marriage Records of Franklin County, Kentucky, 1790-1815, Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, Chillicothe, 

MO, undated. 


117 . Supra note 78, Will Book 9, pages 5 and 96. 

118 . ibid, Will Book 38, various pages. 

119 . 1840 Federal Census Roll 123, page 135. 

120 . 1850 Federal Census District 1, dwelling 805, family 805. 




121 . 1860 Federal Census, page 76, house 567, family 527. 


123 . ibid. 



126 . ibid. 

127 . An Atlas of Henry and Shelby Counties, Kentucky, D. J. Lake and Company, Philadelphia, 1882. 



130 . ibid. 



133 . Shelby County, Kentucky, Will Book 2, page 469. 

134 . Kentucky Historical Society Register, Volumes 22 and 27, Frankfort. 

135 . An Old Virginia Court, Marshall Wingfield, publication data missing. 

136 . Source unknown. 


138 . History of Clinton County, Missouri, publication information missing. 

139 . Data of Carolyn Berry, 78 Cuesta Vista Drive, Monterey, CA 93940, 1997, from family chart of Barton 

Orville Lewis found in unidentified records in Salt Lake City by John Royston Fisher during research on the 

Pinnell family. 

140 . 1840 Federal Census page 136.

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