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. 84. By permission. Lee County. JOHN G. McGUIRE I was born in Lee County, Kentucky, July 3, 1816. My father was Archibald McGuire. His father lost is life in the Revolutionary War. When last seen, he was waist deep in James River during a battle. His widow came to Boonesboro after the war and brought her children with her. They were John, William, James, and my father. I think there was one named Neal. Ester married Hamilton; there was another who married George Tincher. My uncle, John, moved to Greenup County and reared a large family. William went to Jackson County, Missouri. James and my father lived and died in Leslie County, Kentucky. From these two sprang most of the McGuires in Lee and adjoining counties. Ben, a son of William, lived here. My father had 13 children; 7 in one set and 6 in another. I have heard my Uncle John say he had seen 25 bears in one hollow in what is now Wolfe County on Stillwater. He said, if he did not kill his bear at first shot, he was in danger. My father married Miss Gire. She was German or Dutch. She died when I was 5 or 6 years old. I think the McGuires are Scotch-Irish. They came from eastern Virginia to Kentucky. I do not know why my mother came here. She married a man named Fulton. She is buried near town. My wife is a daughter of James McGuire; she was my cousin. When I would first remember, 75 years ago, they were shipping a few boat loads of coal from this place. There was none shipped from above here at that time. They used grapevines for cables. Soulhs (?) began to ship when I was 17 or 18 years old. The coal business reached its climax here before the war about 1840 to 1850. I have run 17 loads one season, with 4,000 bushels to the boat. I have sold as much as 2 boat loads. McGuire Tincher Gire Fulton Soulhs = Greenup-KY Jackson-MO Leslie-KY Wolfe-KY VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/lee/mcguire.jg.txt