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From: "Glenda Anderson" <>
Subject: [KYBATH-L] TRUMBO/ATCHISON/KEITHLY/JOHNSON/EMMONS/BROWNING/BRAMMER/CRAWFORD
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 20:41:25 -0700


Continuing with Conrad W. Feltner's book, THE TRUMBO FAMILY (1974):

Andrius and Mary Maglena? TRUMBO = Hans Jacob and Mary TRUMBO = Andrew
Trumbo married (1) Margaret "Kate" HARNESS and (2) Mrs. Martha RATLIFF =
John TRUMBO (fifth child of Andrew and Kate) married Sarah ATCHISON.

B5. JOHN TRUMBO was born 12 Oct 1776 in Hardy County, Virginia, and died 30
March 1856 in Bath County, Kentucky. He came to Kentucky with his parents
and brothers and sisters in 1788 and, as shown previously, lived in Bourbon
County until 1795 or 1796. He married 29 Oct 1795 SARAH ATCHISON, who was
born 15 July 1778 in Virginia and died 23 Oct 1853 in Bath County, Kentucky.
They moved to Montgomery County, the part of which is now Bath, for their
oldest son says he was born in Bath County in the 1850 census.

Tax lists in Montgomery County 1797-1810 and in Bath County 1811-1830 show
the following listIngs for John TRUMBO:
Years Cattle Horses Land
Blacks
1797 1 150 on Slate Creek
1799 4 "
1800 3 "
1801 4 "
1802 4 "
1803 6 "
1804 6 "
1805 8 "
1806 "
1807 6 "
1808 3 "
1809 3 "
1810 6 "
1811 6 "
1812 5 "
1813 7 "
1814 7 "
2
1815 7 "
2
1816 6 "
2
1817 7 163 on Slate Creek
1
1818 8 165 on White Oak
Creek
1819 8 4 190 on White Oak
Creek 1
1820 6 4 187 on Slate Creek
1
1821 7 5 187 "
1
1822 7 4 187 "
8
1823
1824 4 6 100 on Slate Creek
1825 5 4 147 on White Oak
Creek
1826 6 5 140 on Slate Creek
1827 5 4 "
1828 6 5 "
1829 6 5 "
1830 6 6 "

As has been mentioned previously, John was an athlete of some prowess. In
fact, some of his feats are a little larger than life.

John L. Trumbo said: "He was a miller by trade. He was a powerful man and
could jump six and one-half feet high. He could hop and jump fifty-one feet
in three hops on level ground. One of his best-known feats was to run his
arm through the eye of the Slate Creek Forge hammer and tap it against the
anvil. The hammer weighed seven hundred pounds. On one of his hunting trips
across Licking River, he killed a deer and, coming back, he found the ice on
the river broken up and running. Taking off his clothes, he put the deer,
clothes, and gun on his shoulders and swam the river and never got his
powder wet.

"At a log rolling he stuck his handspike in the mud on Slate Creek and it
took root and grew into a large Sycamore. It was known as John's handspike
for several generations. It was finally cut down and sold as a saw log."
(Source: Information on the family and THE TRUMBO FAMILY by S.B. Trumbo,
including information collected by A.C. Trumbo)

Isaac TRUMBO in his 1917 letter added a couple more tales. "He was trace
hunting on Big Sandy for bear. He took a bear out of a cave and killed him.
He could outrun any animal he ever saw if you let him pick his ground. He
killed a wolf with his knife. He made thirty pounds of saltpetre thirty
miles from home in 1813 when he came from the army on furlough. He did ths
work and never slept a wink in eight days and nights.Pa said he whippped a
bully in Bourbon County at seventeen years of age. The Jones boys were
whipping everybody so he whipped them." (Source: Letter written by Isaac
Trumbo to Lewis A. Trumbo I in 1917.)

John was in the War of 1812. Some of his descendants had his old uniform as
late as 1865 when it was destroyed by fire. He was a 2nd Lieutenant (the
highest officer under the captain) in Captain Nimrod H. Moore's Co. U.S.
Infantry commanded by Colonel Thomas Deye OWINGS.

The first mention of John TRUMBO in the Bath County Deed Books is 21 Oct
1816 where the dispute with OWINGS gave him title to his land.

On 4 Aug 1817, John KEITHLY sold John TRUMBO fifteen acres on Slate Creek
for fifteen dollars. On 21 September 1818, the other parties in the land
dispute made him a deed for his share to give him clear title to one hundred
three and one-half acres won from OWINGS. On 15 July 1819, John TRUMBO sold
BARNABUS JOHNSON, his son-in-law, 79 1/2 acres on Slate Creek for $1,050
unless a prior claim was proved.

In 1827, he with others posted bond so his brother, Jacob, could be sheriff.
In 1820, he and Sally sold 79 1/2 acres to WILLIAM ATCHISON for $112. In
1832, he with the other Trustees of Wyoming sold lot 13 to SAMUEL TRUMBO for
$18. This was one of several deeds he made as a trustee. In 1838, he
mortgaged personal property for land ANDREW TRUMBO, JR. (III) had sold him.
In 1840, he made deeds with the other heirs of his brother, Andrew TRUMBO,
disposing of his brother's land. Also in 1840, he gave his daughter, SALLY
SNEDEGAR, a tract of land on Licking River for love and affection. Since he
lived another sixteen years, there are probably more deeds made by him but
this is as far as they have been traced.

His will recorded in Bath County shows he had disposed of all his estate
prior to his death, with the exception of two Negro women. Jane was to
select her new master or mistress. Betty was to select any of his children
to live with. A previous deed showed he deeded everything else to his son,
Adam, to take care of him in his old age and bury him in one of the Trumbo
cemeteries in Wyoming, Kentucky.

John and Sarah had ten children; all were girls except the oldest and the
youngest.
C1. Isaac Trumbo was born in 1796.
C2. Elizabeth Trumbo was born in 1798.
C3. Nancy Trumbo was born in 1800.
C4. Sarah Trumbo was born in 1803.
C5. Margaret Trumbo was born in 1805.
C6. Dorotha Trumbo was born in 1808.
C7. Deborh Trumbo was born in 1811.
C8. Ruth Ann Trumbo was born in 1813.
C9. Rachel Trumbo was born in 1815.
C10. Adam Trumbo was born in 1817.

C1. ISAAC TRUMBO was born 6 Sept 1796 in Bath County, Kentucky, and died
in 1875. He married ELIZABETH KEITHLEY 1 Feb 1821 in Bath County, Kentucky.
She was born about 1803 in Bath County, Kentucky. It is believed they had
seven children.

In the 1850 census, Isaac was listed as a miller; in the 1860 census, he was
listed as a farmer; from a deed, he was listed as a carpenter; so he must
have been a jack of all trades. From the different records, it seems that he
moved about quite often.

Isaac first appears in Bath Co8unty records on 3 May 1816 when he bought lot
189 from the Trustees of Owingsville for $50. He would have been about
nineteen at this time. He later sold this lot to HENRY BROTHER in 1821; this
was the year he got married. He first appeared on the tax lists in 1818 in
Bath County being over twenty-one and owning one horse and one cow. In 1820,
he owned one cow. In 1821 he is shown as owning two town lots, one stud
horse and one mare. In 1822, he was in Fleming County owning 72 acres and
one horse. In 1824, he still owned these 72 acres and owned two lots in
Carlisle. In 1825, he is back in Bath County being listed as owning 43 acres
in Fleming and two town lots. In 1829, he is in Bath listed as owning 40
acres in Fleming County on Licking River. In 1830, he is listed by John
Trumbo as owning 40 acres in Fleming County, two lots in Carlisle, and two
town lots at the mouth of Slate Creek (Wyoming). Later tax lists showed he
owned a store for several years.

Other deeds included: In 1820, JOSEPH CRAWFORD sold Isaac Trumbo lot 29 with
a house on it in Wyoming for $100. In 1821, GEORGE McGAHE, infant orphan of
BARY McGAHE age seventeen, was bound as an apprentice to Isaac TRUMBO until
age twenty-one to learn the trade, art, and mystery of house joiner and
carpenter.

In 1822, Isaac and wife, Becky, sold lot 29 and house back to JOSEPH
CRAWFORD for $100. In 1825, he bought lot 2 from JOSEPH BRAMMER for $21.

In later years, Isaac and his wife lived with their daughter, Mary Jane, and
her husband.

D1. John Keithley TRUMBO was born in Bath County, Kentucky, 14 Nov 1821.
He married 20 Jan 1845 EMILY BROWNING of Fleming County and they had two
children. He operated a store in Kentucky for a time.

He went to California in search of gold in 1849. He was in the mercantile
business in California. He was the founder of the horse market in
Sacramento. The Horse Market was the center of lively trade in the early
days of the gold rush. He was interested in mines and mining enterprises for
a number of years. He was a lumber merchant in Carson Valley where his
father-in-law had a lumber mill. He also prospected in the Carson Valley. He
was a clerk at a meeting to call a Constitutional Convention in 1863 and a
clerk at Side's Trial. He was shot in the shoulder and hip 11 Feb 1860 in a
fight over a land claim in Genoa, Nevada. He moved to Corinne, Utah, and
later to Salt Lake City, Utah.

He went back to Kentucky for his wife but she would not go with him. He
married Mary McIntosh REESE 29 Nov 1857 in Genoa, Nevada. They had eight
chldren. He later returned to Kentucky where he lived until he died. He was
always well dressed and was a good dancer and entertainer.

Mary McIntosh REESE was born 15 Oct 1838 in New York City; she died 23 Dec
1916 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was the daughter of Col. John Reese and
Catherine Miles. John Reese was one of Nevada's most prominent pioneer
citizens. He laid out the city of Genoa and Reese River, Nevada, was named
in his honor. He also laid out what was known as the McDonald train over the
mountains to California.

John K. died 19 June 1885 in Sharpsburg and is buried in the Sharpsburg
Cemetery in Kentucky. His first wife raised the first two children by the
first marriage and spent her life within the borders of Fleming County. She
was born 23 Sept 1818 and died 14 Sept 1898. Tax lists show her owning one
horse most of the time.

....I will continue next time with William Browning TRUMBO, son of John
Keithley TRUMBO and Emily BROWNING. William Browning TRUMBO married Madama
EMMONS 15 Feb 1871 at the house of W. W. EMMONS in Bath County....Glenda

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