Dr. John J. Dickey Diary, Fleming County, Ky. Recorded in the 1870's and
beyond.  Reprinted in Kentucky Explorer, Vol 10, Number 10, April, 1996. p.
85. By permission.  Breathitt County.

(The following interview was made at Jackson, Kentucky, July 16, 1898.)

JAMES W. LINDEN
	I was born April 28, 1836, in Breathitt County on Cane Creek.  My 
father was James Linden.  He was born in North Carolina.  His father was 
Benjamin Linden, a German.  He came from North Carolina to Virginia, then to
Breathitt County on the North Fork, just below Jackson.  He went to Irvine
to vote and got hurt on Winding Stairs Hill.  He died at the place David
Pryre now owns in December, 1835, and was born in 1805.  He was running his
horse a race.  The horse went on one side of the tree, and he went on the
other.  One of the first settlers in Breathitt was my great grandfather. 
My mother, Nancy, was the daughter of Colonel John Haddix.  His grandson,
Sam Haddix, now lives on Gilmore Creek, Wolfe County.  He says that Samuel
Haddix came with his family and a colony and settled at the mouth of Lost
Creek.  They came from Virginia here, but he was a native of North
Carolina.  In the colony was a shoemaker, Hicks, also a gunsmith, and other
mechanics.  They had to go back to Virginia for seed corn.  They used
turkey breast and venison for bread.  Samuel Haddix had children as
follows:  Colonel John Haddix, my grandfather; Colby, father of Sam in
Wolfe; Henley; William; four sons.  Old Sam Hurst told me that he knew my
grtndfather and my father in Virginia.

Linden Pryre Haddix Hicks
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NC Germany VA Wolfe-KY

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