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From: Joyce Collins <>
Subject: Re: [KYCLAY] 1860 Census Look up PLEASE
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:08:29 -0400


Message text written by INTERNET:
>Joyce,
I just have to say this, you are such a valuable person and so willing to
help with lookups. I have seen several times where you have tried to help
others or that you have helped others and just want you to know that you
and
others like you is what it is all about.
THANKS!
I don't post to this list, guess I am what they call a "lurker." Joined
the
list and posted at the beginning about my ancestors that was from somewhere

in KY, not sure what county and have now joined so many KY County mailing
lists and just keep looking for my ancestors name to pop up somewhere.
Ideana
<

Hi,

Thanks for your kind words. Just out of curiousity, who are your
ancestors? I don't know that I can help but if I have some names, dates,
etc. etc., or you know something about them, perhaps we can find something
together to get you started.

I know it probably doesn't seem like I would be nervous about making a
posting but . . . I can remember when ONLY less than 3 years ago I placed
my first posting on the Bell Co. Query page. And I was very nervous.
Now, I don't even give it a thought. At that point, I could not have
given you my grandmother's name (surname or given name). And, I knew
NOTHING about my ancestors from either side of my family - - with the
exception that I knew my Dad's siblings' names and I knew my Mother's
brothers and sisters. That is just about it! I have over 16,000 names
in my data base - - all of whom are my direct line or are connected by
marriages - - from either side of my family. Remember, there is always
someone out there who might just be waiting to know or hear about your
parents, grandparents, etc. and you just might have that "missing"
information they have been looking for. And, in exchange, they will be
able to fill in some "blanks" for you.

Just this past year, we were able to prove who my ggg-grandfather really
was. Prior to that, I had joined a WALKER Mail List because I had found
out that my gg-grandmother was a WALKER - - Sarah Ann, that is. One day
the head of the Mail List wrote to me. His name was or is, Bob WALKER.
Bob had been waiting for over 3 years!!! I was the first person who had
made a posting with regard to WALKERS from Knox Co., KY on his Mail List.
As it turned out, he had started tracing his family from TX and OK where
he was and had traced them back to Kentucky from where some had migrated
many, many years prior. We were able to put the various branches of our
families together. All this time, one local historian said my
ggg-grandfather (the father of Sarah) was a John WALKER of Knox Co & that
info was repeated over and over! They were WRONG! However, as I got
into it more, something 'just didn't seem right" about that. Little, by
little by little, I would learn a little bit more about this mysterious man
who was named Walter WALKER. Some said he could be a brother to this
John WALKER. Abt a year into my research, my cousin sent me a copy of
this old letter dated abt. 1840. That letter was signed by a Walter
WALKER. It was addressed to my gg-grandparents, Cornelius and Sally
WALKER TAYLOR. NEVER in the letter could you detect who he was . . .
but I figured that there had to be some reason my grandfather had kept that
letter all those years. He had died in 1954. My cousin had no idea who
Walter WALKER was. In the letter he tells them he is in Owen Co., IN
and that his children are living near by and he names two of them. He
speaks of a William WALKER. He says "the other boys" are in Monroe Co.,
State of KY. Well, I started to follow every clue in that letter and I
located two marriages on the same date in owen Co., IN in 1834. The
names matched the names in Walter WALKER's letter. They were Annie and
Phoebe. I still did not know he was my ggg-grandfather. I kept on
searching. In Jan or Feb. I met a Sydney Kay WELLS from Salt Lake City,
UT. She had a record of a marriage bet. a Ned or Edward WALKER to a
Polly HOLCOMBE. The HOLCOMBE was HER relative but . . .she had found in
the LDS files a little note that said on a marriage permission slip
"Edward, "Walter's son". So, then I had one brother for my Sarah!
And, then I found him in Monroe Co., KY. We even checked the court house
in owen Co., IN. There was a record of some probate proceedings for a
Walter WALKER BUT there was nothing in the court house there. The file box
was empty. I told all of this story to Sidney and sent her Walter's
letter (a copy of it). One day she left work early and went to the big
LDS center in SLC. There she found the 1850 intestate estate proceedings
(that the Mormon church had copied and put on microfilm). In the
procedings, handled by the husband of one of Walter's daughters, it NAMED
the heirs. The last name spelled out was "Sarah TAYLOR". I had found
my ggg-grandfather who never so far as I know, appeared on even ONE census
record for Kentucky. He did show on some early Tax Lists, however. But
he was found on the 1840 and on the 1850 owen Co., IN Fed. Census. So,
there is always hope but . . . it is also very important to meet as many
people as you can and talk to as many as you can because if you don't, you
might NEVER meet that "Sidney Kay WELLS" like I did who would be the KEY to
locating your ggg-grandfather..

Good luck to you in your family search.

Joyce Taylor Collins
La Palma, CA

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