This article, written by Todd Preston, President of the Magoffin County Historical Society, was taken from the July 28, 2005 issue of THE SALYERSVILLE INDEPENDENT newspaper.
 

            We held our regular monthly meeting last Sunday with quite a large turn out: Wimp Conley, Todd Preston, Kay Bentley, Donna Miller, Stacey Blanton, Connie A. Wireman, James Montgomery, Ruth Anna Montgomery, Brooke Jenkins, Sarah Shepherd, Charlotte Gillum, Luva Connelley, Belsey Connelley, Leola Cole, Jessica Miller, Abby Conley, Dallas Bentley and others.

            We went through the entire program for the 27^th Annual Founders Days where all events are to be held at the Pioneer Village with craft booths in the Community Center yard and food booths behind Pioneer Village.  No other booths are to be set in or around town according to the proclamation signed by the mayor and county judge.

            Now we will be fervently working toward the largest and best Founder’s Days ever with the main theme being a Magoffin County Homecoming, while spotlighting the history and genealogy of one of our early families, the Hammonds.

            Our little town can’t hold as many visitors as some of our neighboring counties but our gauge stick is not how many people we bring into our town but how many cousins meet and greet new cousins and show off what Magoffin County has to offer, so if your motive is only to try to fleece our visitors, shame on you!  We invite you to go elsewhere or stay at home for our motive is not to turn Founder’s Days into a wall to wall yard sale nor a political rally.  We urge you to go four-wheeling elsewhere not during the parade.

            We are pleased with our July window display and thank Dorotha Jean Wireman of Waldo, KY for sharing her patriotic quilts to be used as backdrops this month.  Coming up will be a display by Vera Stamper. We invite you to stop by and see it.

            Angie Chaffin, 6988 Old Cabin Lane, Gloucester, VA 23061 ([email protected]) visited Monday researching her Hammond family and announced that a military stone is to be set and dedicated August 20^th at the gravesite on Phipps Fork of Rockhouse on John Franklin’s grave.

            John Franklin b. 1835 d. 1922 was a Sergeant in Co. C, 5^th KY (Consolidated) in Capt. Thomas J. Henry’s Company of the Confederate Army and was wounded 14 May 1864. He was a son of Martin Franklin and Eliza Hammons. Now, Randall Manns, Steve Rudd, Todd Preston and others, take note of this date and mark it on your calendar. Angie is trying to get some of the 5^th KY to participate.

            The Confederate monument for Archibald Rudd, Jr. that has been broken by a falling tree needs attention, so CSA members, be aware of these needs.

            Linda Day, 5370 Carmel Road, Hillsboro, OH 45133 sent me a large packet of Howes family material that is much too large to put in a column but since I’m a Howes descendant and it was enlightening to me, I will pass some of it on in hopes that other kinsmen may find it helpful and perhaps send additional information of their own.

            Elexious Howes was born in 1788 Maryland and died in 1866 on Rockhouse Creek in Johnson Co. KY. He was a son of Charles Howes and a grandson of Henry Howes.

            Elexious married in 1809 Washington Co. VA to Sarah “Sallie” Hudson born in NC d. 1872 Rockhouse Creek, Johnson Co. KY. They were the parents of eleven children: (1) John Howes b. 1810 m. Jane Young, (2) Mary “Polly” Howes b. 1812 m. David Conley, son of Edmund Connelly and Lydia Joynes, (3) my ancestor Amy Howes b. 1814 m. 1833 Delaware Walker, (4) Nancy Howes b. 1817 m. in 1837 to Lewis Todd, (5) James Madison Howes b. 1819 m. Jane M. Hager, (6) Catherine Howes b. 1822 m. Charley Ware, (7) Claiborne Howes b. 1825 m. Delilah Baldwin, (8) Wm. Wiley Howes b. 1827 m. 17 Jan 1849 Mary Susan Witten b. 1829, dau of Wm. W. Witten and Charlotte Hackworth. Wm. Wiley m. 2^nd to Mary Ferguson Kelly in 1854. (9) Sarah Howes b. 1829 m. 1^st Anthony Baldwin, Jr. b. 1825 NC and m. 2^nd James Trimble, and (10) Henry Jefferson Howes b. 1831 m. 1852 Sarepta Patrick b. 1834, dau of John and Martha Patrick and (11) Louisa Howes b. 1837 m. 1856 to Harvy C. Davis b. 1836, son of Richard and Eleanor Davis.

            This info was collected by various researchers and will be lodged in our shelves. We invite you to come in and browse and/or add to it.

            Liz Shultz of Girard, PA, a dau of Herbert C. Howard and Ivor Lois Wetherby ([email protected]) writes she has been to our society several times. Her father was Herbert C. Howard b. 21 Feb 1910 d. 18 Mar 1983, son of Allen G. Howard b. 1889 d. 1972 Ashland, KY. Allen m. in 1909 to Susan J. “Susie” Wireman, dau of John T. Wireman and Nancy Allen.  Liz writes she found in the Vital Statistics another Herbert Howard who was born in Magoffin in 1910 and died 29 Oct 1918.  She would like to know who he was.

I could find no other Herbert who could be the above Herbert in our Howard book or listed as a head of household in 1910.  This Herbert died at age 8.  Can anyone help Liz? 

            Donald and Sissel Barrett, 20604-30^th Ave., East Spaway, WA 98387 visited and took a tour of our Pioneer Village.  Ms. Barrett was very impressed for she was born in Norway. When I showed the feather tick mattress on the beds, she exclaimed, “We slept on one and covered up with another one to keep warm!”  It is so rewarding to realize that we have captured the nostalgia of yesteryear for our visitors.

            Donald Barrett is a career veteran of the Armed Forces and is the son of Gertie Montgomery. This daughter is mistakenly written as “Hetty” Montgomery on page 474 of our Montgomery book. She was the dau of Wilkerson Montgomery b. 1878 who married Edy Conley Craft.

            Wilkerson was the son of William Montgomery b. 1855 and married in 1875 to Emily Wages. She was born in 1857 to Harrison Wages (b. 1831) and Priscilla Patrick (b. 1839, dau of Lewis Patrick and Lucy Adams). Lewis Patrick was born ca. 1817. Lucy was b. ca. 1818, the dau of Stephen Adams and Mary Webb.  Lewis was a son of William Patrick, Jr. and Nancy Prater (buried in an abandoned cemetery in unmarked graves). Nancy was a dau of Archibald Prater and Sarah Fugate (buried in an abandoned cemetery in unmarked graves).  William Patrick, Jr. was a son of William Patrick, Sr. and Mollie Reins who are buried in the Meredith Patrick Cemetery in unmarked graves.

            Harrison Wages was a son of Moses Wages b. 1795 and Rebecca Smallwood b. 1784, both born in South Carolina.

            William Montgomery was a son of Silas Montgomery b. ca. 1822 and m. in 1848 to Aggie Sizemore. Aggie was born in 1824 to George “Goldenhawk” Sizemore and Sallie Anderson. Silas was a son of John Montgomery, Jr. b. 1793 and Sarah Flannery. John Jr. was a son of John Montgomery, Sr. b. 1763 who married Susanna Porter.

            Shirley Dunn ([email protected]) writes that she needs help with her Gilliam family. She is looking for Elizabeth Gilliam who married on 4 August 1872 to Daniel Robbins. The 1880 Morgan Co. KY census lists Daniel Robbins age 25, Elizabeth age 26, Shilo age 6, Mary age 4, William E. age 2.

            The 1860 Morgan census has: Jesse Gillam age 33, m. in 1848 to Margaret Caudill age 30, Peter age 10, John age 7, Elizabeth age 5 (b. 1855), Mary A. age 3 months. I believe this Elizabeth married Daniel Robbins and speculate that Jesse was a son of Charles Gillum who is listed as age 48 b. VA in the 1850 Morgan Co. KY census. He was married to Winny Lewis age 42 b. VA and is the only Gilliam who is old enough to be Jesse’s father in the 1850 census.