Buford already had a small plantation on the small tract, at time ofwill.
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source: Graveyard records contributed by Phillip Rice & David Salyers, from book in Casey Co., KY Library.
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Source Tom Evans: Casey Co, KY Order Book 1, pp 349 and 353
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Mary (Polly) Ann and Austin moved to Honeygrove, TX, where fatherSamuel Augustus Erwin had been the surveyor who platted the communitymap and was a founding father. Her mother, Sarah Spears Riffe die dwhen she was young, and gr'father, Christopher Riffe raised her andher brother, William Carroll Erwin. (Christopher was a man ofprominance in the area, and had the guardianship papers for the twoyoun g minors.)
She and Austin moved from KY to TX after her children were born inthe Casey Co, KY area.
The name Erwin appears sometimes as Ervin in records.
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Her grandfather's grave, Samuel Augustus Erwin, founder of HoneyGrove, Fannin Co., TX had last name always used as ErWin, not ErVin.
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WWI Aviator; reached rank of Lt. Col; live all over US during thattime incl
Colo Sps & Pueblo
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Per: Herman Peyton's letter dater Aug 1984,Valentine came from VA toLincoln Co, KY and setled at Peyton's Well, no more than 15 mi fromHustonville. PEYTONS OF VIRGINIA, published 1976; Valentine ha d beengranted land, first in Fayette Co, because of being a soldier; theland supposedly was not good for farming, and then founded Peyton'sWell, 3 mi n/e of Hustonville, Lincoln Co, KY (Vol II, pg 662 ,"History, of Kentucky" noted V. Peyton as a soldier of theRevolution."
Birth info fro manuscript written by Mrs. James Arnsparger, 1946.
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Valentine's will was dated 14 Oct and probated 26 Dec 1831, LincolnCo., KY
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Vol II, pp 662, V. Peyton listed as soldier of the Revolution, andgranted land. He was a Lieutenant during the AmericanRevolution...source Mrs. James Arnsparger, 1946 manuscript.
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Abstract of Valentine Peyton's Will, Lincoln County, KY.
"To Randolph, the plantation I now live on, all of which he is toenjoy during his life and at his death to go to Speed Peyton, toBuford Peyton, to Polly R. Peyton, the widow of Vincent Peyton untilhe r youngest child comes of age, then to her son Valentine. To LucyHill and her heirs, Simeon and Randolph Peyton, Simeon's son Edmundand his sisters Zuritha and Maria. My wife to be supported by Simeo nPeyton and she is to live in her own dwelling house. To BufordTinsley, Thos. and Jas. Tinsley, the children of Delia Tinsley, dec'd.The rest of my estate to be divided among my children andgrand-chi ldren. That is the children of Vincent Peyton, Rhoda Goode,Delilah Speed and Delia Tinsley." Signed in the presence of John E.Wright, Joseph Hooker and David Alcorn, Oct. 14, 1831 " In addition, Igiv e to Edmund Peyton, to him my negro girl, Zuritha Peyton, to MariaPeyton, my negro girl, Martha.."
Lincoln County Will Book L, 1831-33, p. 256
Executors were Randolph, Buford and Simeon Peyton.
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Vol. I, pp. 400-402.
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BURIED AT FOREST LAWN, HOLLYWOOD HILLS/BURBANK
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CHILD WAS ADOPTED
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Herman Peyton gave me much handwritten information about the family,as he had carefully journeled it. He remained on the Peyton family inCasey Co., KY farm land his whole life, and his
son, William and wife remain on the land (2006). Patricia JoanAllen's manuscript info on this was provided by Fay Peyton SpiresAyers, sister of Bernard Peyton, Sr. Faye had the original KY LandPaten t in her possession, purchased for Vincent Peyton for his own byhis father, Lt. Valentine Peyton, the son of Philip. (KY Land Patent#N3149-Vincent Peyton, assignee of Valentine Peyton, 6 Jul 1820.)
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info:Betty Knipple Turner
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source birth & death:Tom Evans
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Was believed to have beenone of the first practicing dentists in thenewly formed territory of OK, after having moved from MO.
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source:1880 Lincoln Co. Census, as listed in Family Search. Born inGarrard Co., KY (per obit notice)
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She was united with the Fork Baptist Church in early girlhood andbaptised in the Dix River, Garrard Co. (per obit article)
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source Patricia Allen
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He first married Nancy, approx 1960; 0 children; next he married hisbrother George's ex-wife, Mary, and they had two children, Robbie and?; and last, married, Jerri, had 0 children together.
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Death may have been due to a brain tumor.
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per: Sam Booth, ltr 1987
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middle name shown as both Lee and Lafayette...not sure which iscorrect
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Aunt Margaret was his mother, Clarissa's, sister.
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dates from Genealogy of Herbert Russell, Dee Bottom'familyfindings.homestead website; birthplace source Nina Overstreet,gr-granddaughter of Marcellas S. Russell, in a KY Historical abstract.
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source Genealogy of Herbert Russell, Dee Bottom (Gotkin?)website
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on South Fork Creek.
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served in the VA Militia during the Rev. War, and the KY SixthRegiment, during War of 1812, under Lt. Col. Davenport and CaptainJesse Coffee (This regiment took part in the Battle of the Thames, inCan ada, during which the great Indian Chief Tecumseh was killed.)
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source: Genealogy of Herbert Russell...Dee Bottom's familyfindingssite.
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She had a son, Pat, when they married. When he was an adult, theymoved next door to him, in FLA.
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source; USGen Web archives cemetery records, Boyle Co., KY.
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source; fam Search IGI
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death certificate lists cause of death as intestinal obstruction (3wks) due to adhesions from previous operation.
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info: gravesite/stone info
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He was shot in the neck at the Battle of Mill Springs, 10 Jan 1862,and survived nearly 30 years after as an insane paralytic, cut offfrom off enjoyments of life. (source: Arnsparger manuscript)
My family sources tell of the various Peyton family members takingcare of him over the years.
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Lists him as 32, living wi Mary, 33, Elvira, 9, Eliza T, 3, Thomas J, 1/12; also in household was Sarah Dunn, 27; he was a farmer wi 600 A.
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SUFFERED HEART ATTACK ON TRAIN, RETURNING FROM
VISIT WI SON, FRANK; TAKEN OFF TRAIN & DIED AT
OKLA CY HOSP
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lists him in household, as 32, with wife Mary, 20, son Adam, 2, andBernridge Parker, uncle, 39.
They were living next to his brother, Vincent, wife Amanda Wald (whowere also listed wi household members (cousin?) Nannie Johnson, 22,Grand Johnson, 7, Mattie Johnson 5 and Minnie Johnson 4. Nearb y wasJohn Russell, 40, wife Mary, 41, and family .
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William migrated from KY to Lafayette Co., MO, after some of theirchildren were born in Casey Co.
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died as a young man of poss. typhoid fever; never married.
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source: Gravestone info. from printed info from Hustonville Cemetery, Lincoln Co., KY
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dates and middle initial source: Family Search.org, IGI file. This notthought to be our Russell, as our James is James F...probably forFranklin. Our James F has a different birth date, as well.
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source: 1880 census Linc. Co, Dist 70, Hustonville.
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source: Tom C
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lived and died in the same house where he was born; Milledgeville is ~10 mi so of Danville, KY; birth date discrepancy...same article liststwo different dates...quote from himself lists date of 1885 , articlefrom gr-gr.dau, Nina Overstreet shows 1855, article publisher may havemisread number.
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Actual day of 18 is not certain for birthdate of 18 July 1865