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. 128-131.

LIFE OF JOHN FRANKLIN.  In a triangle settled John Franklin, John McFerran
and John Gorin, at Glasgow, near the Big Spring below the public square. 
In that triangle were also Jas. Forbes, Samuel Bell, Wm. Logan, James
Ritchey, George Walters, John Clack and Mrs. Clack, his mother.  John
Franklin was of English extraction, and a gentleman of the mildest manners.
 He was born in Amherst County, Virginia.  He married Pamela Dawson, said
to be of English and Irish descent.  She was beautiful in person and
demeanor, the meekest woman ever beheld by the writer, yet she was cheerful
and humble in a degree far beyond women in her circumstances generally are.
 She was kind and benevolent, and withal, a remarkable woman of sense and
high virtues.  She never was known to speak evil of her neighbors.  She
spoke but little of the trifles of the day.  For all she had a pleasant
smile and a kind word.
	Her husband, John Franklin, was like her.  He was a man of retiring
habits, and never held an office - never sought one, but avoided all and
any distinction of that kind.  He lived quietly, and somewhat in
retirement, though fond of his gun and hunting, and his hounds and the
chase.  He was fond of his friends, neighbors and acquaintance.  Like all
his neighbors, he was generous and hospitable; indeed, the want of
hospitality in those days was the exception.
	He was always pleasant and agreeable.  He was independent in his
principles and a firm supporter of his government; he was independent,
though not wealthy in the world's goods.  He had not a great many slaves,
but enough for a comfortable support, but not enough to make him arrogant
or proud or a drone in society; on the contrary, he was industrious, frugal
and economical.  He had a large family, all of whom married except one son,
Martin, who died at the White Sulphur Springs in Virginia, about 1806,
where he had gone for his health.  When Mr. Franklin came to this county in
the spring of 1798, nearly all his family came with him or soon after.
	James Franklin, his eldest son, settled on the South Fork of Beaver Creek
about one mile from Glasgow.  After the death of his first wife, whose
maiden name we do not recollect at present, he married Jane Finney.  Like
his father he was fond of a quiet life, and a country full of game, and
moved to a cove in the knobs of Warren County, where he could enjoy deer
hunting and the privacy of life.  He had several sons and daughters by his
first wife, none by his second.  John, one of his sons, was at the battle
of the Thames.  
	John, another son of Mr. Franklin, married Miss Gibson, and removed to
Alabama after she became a state.  We have lost sight of his family.
	Joel, his youngest son, married Miss Greer.  By her he had a son and two
daughters.  His eldest daughter, Pamelia, married Daniel Stovall, of Allen
County - she is dead.  His second daughter married ---and moved to
Missouri. We are ignorant of her whereabouts, if alive.
	We believe his son Joel died unmarried.
	His daughter Molly married John Moss, and moved to the state of Tenessee. 
We knew some years ago some of the family at Nashville, Tenn.
	Margaret (Peggy) married James Waggener.  They had several children. 
Years after the death of Mr. Waggener she married John McDaniel.  They had
no children.  Both are dead.
	Sarah (Sally) Franklin married G. Washington Fletcher, who was also at the
battle of the Thames.  By him she had three children, two daughters and one
son.  After Mr. Fletcher's death she removed with her children to Missouri.
	Elizabeth (Betsey) 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.
	Five of the Franklin family, to-wit; John Gorin, Charles Harvey, Joel
Franklin, John Franklin and G. W. Fletcher were at the battle of the Thames
- two, G. W. Fletcher and Henry Gorin were in the Hopkins Campaign.
	In the fall of 1807 or spring of 1806, the settlement becoming too thick
for game, and the quiet so much loved by Mr. John Franklin, he sold his farm
and purchased one in the west of the county nine miles from Glasgow in the
edge of the Barrens, where deer and foxes were plenty.  There with his
faithful and beloved wife, one son, Joel, together with his children,
grandchildren and friends, who were frequent visitors, he passed a quiet
and peaceful life until he and his wife were called home in a green old
age.

Franklin McFerran Gorin Forbes Bell Logan Ritchey Walters Clack Dawson
Finney Gibson Greer Moss Waggener McDaniel Fletcher Harvey
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Amherst-VA Warren-KY MO Nashville-Davidson-TN Allen-KY

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