The Times of Long Ago, Barren County, Kentucky by Franklin Gorin. John P.
Morton & Company, Incorporated, 1929. Published originally in the Glasgow
Weekly Times, 1870's. pp. 129-130.

THE GORIN FAMILY. [Included in the biography of James Franklin].  Elizabeth
(Betsy) [Franklin] married John Gorin.  She resembled her mother more than
either of her sisters.  They had eleven children, all of whom lived to be
men and women.
	Margaret (Peggy), their third daughter, died in her eighteenth year.
	Susan married Elijah Haydon; had several sons and daughters.  She died at
Alton, Ill., in 1833, of cholera.  Their descendants are scattered in
Missouri and Alabama.
	Mary (Polly) married Charles Harvey.  She had several daughters and sons. 
Those that are alive live in Louisville, and the lower part of this state
and Tennessee.
	Henry Gorin married Maria Whitaker; had one son and seven daughters.  His
son Wm. B., a doctor, lives in Missouri; a daughter, Mrs. McPherson, in
Louisville, and the others who are alive live in Tennessee and Texas.
	John Gorin married Eliza Wilson.  Their children are scattered.  James W.
Gorin, their son, lives at Bowling Green, Ky. Another son, Henry Franklin,
married and died in Philadelphia, Pa., leaving several daughters, now
living there we believe.
	Gen. John Gorin was born in Fairfax County, Va., May 15, 1763, and died in
Glasgow, Ky., August 5, 1837.  Entered the Continental Army at 13 years of
age and fought to its end.
	Franklin Gorin married first, Louisa F. Underwood; had several children,
all of whom are dead.
	Their eldest daughter, Maria Louisa, married Robert S. Bell, son of Wm.
Bell, of Bell's Tavern.  Mr. Bell left children, sons and daughters, one of
whom is living, William F. Bell of Elizabethtown, Ky.  By her second
marriage with G. M. Proctor, she had three children, Eugene U., Louise G.
and Mary Lurty - all living.
	He [Franklin] married the second time, Mrs. Fannie C. S. Boardman.  They
had five children, all dead except Mrs. Alice A. G. Blakemore, wife of Wm.
H. Blakemore, Esq., of Oldham County, Ky. His last and present wife,
Deborah Putnam Campbell, of Cherry Valley, N. Y., had three children - two
living, a son and daughter.
	Sarah R. [sic - Sarah H(ensley)] married Dr. George Rogers.  They had
several sons and daughters, all of whom are dead except Judge John G.
Rogers, of Chicago; L. P. Rogers, of Glasgow; Mrs. Margaret Wood, wife of
Wm. J. Wood, of Barren County, and Mrs. Ann Snoddy, of Louisville, Ky. 
Judge Geo. C. Rogers left four children.  Mrs. Martha Johnston, wife of Dr.
T. B. Johnston, left two, a son and daughter.  Mrs. Henrietta Smith, wife
of Noah A. Smith, left four children, one son by her first husband, Thomas
Pollard, and three by her last, George R., Junius and Wm. Smith.
	Betsey (Elizabeth) Gorin married H. P. Murrell.  She died leaving a
daughter who married --- Otis.  She died leaving a daughter who married
first --- Martin, and secondly, Maj. H. F. Ewing, of Pulaski, Tenn. She is
now dead.
	Dr. James M. Gorin married Elizabeth R. Rodes, daughter of Clifton Rodes
of Barren County.  He died without issue.
	Thomas Jefferson Gorin married Mary Ann Bowman.  They had -- children, all
dead except four, Mary Elizabeth, who married D. M. Ashby.  They had six
children - all living.  Emma married H. C. Murrell; has four children
living.  Florence, unmarried; and Jas. E. Gorin married Mary Rogers,
daughter of J. T. Rogers.
	Evalina Gorin married Dr. George Y. Shirley; she died after giving birth
to one or more children.  She, and all her children and husband are dead.
	Of the eleven children of John and Elizabeth Gorin, only two are living,
Thomas J. Gorin and the writer, and of the husbands of the daughters and
the wives of the sons, all are dead except the wife of F. Gorin.

Gorin Franklin Haydon Harvey Whitaker McPherson Wilson Underwood Bell
Proctor Boardman Blakemore Putnam Campbell Rogers Wood Snoddy Johnston Smith
Pollard Murrell Otis Martin Ewing Rodes Bowman Ashby Shirley
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