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History Of Wolfe County, Kentucky Volume II
Compiled by The Wolfe County Woman’s Club
Campton, Kentucky 41301 X
Ms. Thelma Carroll Rice Chairperson & Editor, History Book Committee
The Wolfe County Woman’s Club, Campton, KY 41301
All Rights Reserved
No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without written permission of the Club, except for the original authors of specific sections who may reproduce their material in total or in part.
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First Printing – The Year 2000
McDowell Publications Utica, KY 42376
Printed in the Bluegrass State of Kentucky The United States of America
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book is only made possible by the unselfish hard work and unwavering dedication of the individuals who contributed articles to this effort. Their desire to preserve genealogy and local history for posterity provides the reader with a meaningful perspective of Wolfe County, past and present.
Special thanks are due to the Wolfe County Woman’s Club History Book Committee members. Their able assistance and quality advice were indispensable.
Thelma Carroll Rice , Chairperson
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Committee Members Billye Chambers Adams Josephine Rose Hollon Elsie Graham Miller
Dedication
This book is dedicated to the many who continue to research and compile family and local history. They shine a light on the past so we can see the future more clearly. Their reward is a satisfaction that only they know.
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The Year 2000, Campton, Kentucky
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements......................................................................iii Dedication.......................................................................................iv
Wolfe County Courthouse Disasters.....by Kenneth D. Bush.................1 The Hanks Family.....by Carolyn Hanks Miller & Scott Sallee.......................3 The Profitt’s – Scotland to Wolfe County.....by June E. Sachs...........10 The Swango Family.....by Bess Rose Miller................................................12 Lewis Brewer.....by Denzel "Billy Jo" Brewer.................................................25 The Lewellyn Bush Family.....By Kenneth D. Bush..................................33 Descendants of Andrew Jackson Carroll....by Edna Welte Smith.......77 Descendants of Nolan Carroll.....by Thelma Carroll Rice........................88 Robert M. Cecil and Celia Sample.....by Allene Seesholtz..................100 Collier and Alexander Descendants.....by Janice Adkins Boone.......102 Descendants of Matthew Cox.....by Linda Sue Cox..............................111 The Cruey Family of Hazel Green.....by Benjamin Bryant Polk...........140 Early Settlers on Devil’s Creek.....by Manda Taulbee Tersigni............155 The family of John Drake.....by Brian Smith...........................................158 Descendants of John Gibbs.....by Della Tyra Lacy................................203 Hollon and Rose Families.....by Edna Josephine Rose Hollon and William Landsaw Hurst Rose..............206 The Kincannon Family History.......by Tutt Lambert.............................212 Joseph Myers.....by Jane Rose Thomas.....................................................264 The Murphy Family.....by Elizabeth Murphy May......................................267 Descendants of Sylvester Profitt.....by June Sachs.............................272 Shackleford & Others.....by Manda Taulbee Tersigni..............................278 The Joseph Schull Family.....by Norma S. Arnold..................................281 The Taulbee Family.....by Bess Rose Miller.............................................285 The Tutt Family.....by Tutt Lambert............................................................288 Descendants of Isabrant VanCleve.....by Della Tyra Lacy.................350 The Wells Family.....by Jane Rose Thomas..............................................353 The Family of Johann Phillip Wissman.....by Brian Smith................355
INDEX........................................................................................................459 E
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