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From: "Tony Welder" <>
Subject: [KYBREATH-L] Fw: dickey diary - Spurlock/Cope/Breathitt
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 16:19:03 -0700


Forward from another list......Kathy....

--------- Mrs. sophia w. Hyden:
> daughter lizzie, married first james Webb who died of measles, then john
Dezan
> who was waylaid and killed by john Hensley. she is now married to Elijah
> Spurlock.
>
> deposition of Samuel Spurlock, Jackson ky, july 21, 1898
> i was born in Breathitt co ky, oct 19, 1816. my father was Jesse
spurlock.
> he was born in Va in 1779. he came from Lee co. Va to Breathitt co ky.
in
> 1810. i had only one brother William, he died in breathitt co in 1854.
> married Levisa Cope. i do not know our stock or anything further back on
our
> people. my mother was jane herren. she was born in ireland. she was a
woman
> grown when she came to america. her brothers came with her. he was in
> breathitt one time but left. i do not know where he went. my father had
a
> brother, john, who lived in Clay county. he had other brothers in clay
> county.
> William jackson Cope -- old Jesse spurlock came here from virginia. the
clay
> co spurlocks are the same. old billy Hays was an early settler. Estill
and
> Perry counties met at the mouth of quicksand. my uncle Wiley cope went
to
> missouri with all his family except james d. cope. my father married
polly
> Hammond. they had children as follows: levi and sallie (william kash)
twins:
> levisa (william spurlock); elizabeth (john Back); polly (Sam spurlock);
wiley
> on big branch; myself; alfred e. moved to arkansas; eliza died single;
> louvisa (john w. williams)
>

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