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Ancestors of Charles Edward Gillespie


Generation No. 6


      32. Jonathan Gillespie, born in Tazewell Co., Va.. He married 33. Rebecca in Tazewell Co., Va..

      33. Rebecca

Notes for Jonathan Gillespie:
They lived in Licking River Region, KY

Bath Co., Ky 1830 Census:1840
Jonathan Gillespie
Rebecca Gillespie
Charles Gillespie
1 male under 5 yrs.
1 male 20-30
1 Female 20-30
1 Female 50-60



     
Children of Jonathan Gillespie and Rebecca are:
  16 i.   Charles Lucien Gillespie, born 1819 in Tazewell Co., Va.; died April 17, 1877; married (1) Eliza Ann McCormick September 19, 1837; married (2) Mary Ann Gillespie July 02, 1861; married (3) Rebecca Van Landingham December 13, 1870.
  ii.   Alexander Gillespie, born Abt. 1804 in Va.; died Aft. 1870.
  Notes for Alexander Gillespie:
Note: either Maria is dau or 2nd wife. Age 46 in 1850 Bath Co., Ky. Census.
In 1870 Rowan Co., Ky. Hh3105

1850 Bath Co., Ky. Census:
Alexander Gillespie 46 b. Va., Carpenter
Maria 25 b. Ky.
John 19 b. Ky., Laborer
Mary A. 17 b. Ky.
Elizabeth 15 b. Ky.
William 13 b. Ky.
Granville 7 b. Ky.
Harvey 5 b. Ky.
Sarah J. 3 b. Ky.
Marinda T. 2mo. b. Ky.


  iii.   Nelson Gillespie, born Abt. 1810; died Aft. 1850; married Mary.
  Notes for Nelson Gillespie:
age 40 in 1850 Montgomery Co., Ky.

1850 CENSUS, Division 1, Oldham Co, KY this could be not sure.
Family name Ind. name Age Page Seq

Gillespie Ann 10 277 204
Gillespie Horace 18 277 204
Gillespie Nelson 47 277 204
Gillespie Ruth 48 277 204



      38. Jonathan Manier Mynhier, born 1781 in Va.; died September 01, 1842 in Bath Co., Ky.. He was the son of 76. John 2nd. Minear Jr. and 77. Magdelena Peveler. He married 39. Hannah Saylor February 27, 1803 in Monongalai Co., W. Va..

      39. Hannah Saylor, born 1784 in Cassen, Virginia; died February 09, 1833 in St. George, Randolph Co., Va.. She was the daughter of 78. John B. Saylor and 79. Elizabeth Fied.

Notes for Jonathan Manier Mynhier:
Menifee Co., Ky. Cemetery Inventories Book 3: by Kendel Culbertson
Jonathan Mynhier no dates is Located at Ginter Cemetery, Leatherwood, Menifee Co., Ky.
was located at Mynhier Cemetery in Cave Run Lake area.


1840 Census: Bath Co., Ky
Jonathan Maneer 1 male under 15, 1 male under 20, 1 male under 60, 1 female under 10, 1 female under 15, 1 female under 60 Census page 231 line 22.

from papers of Mrs. Dayton Royse:
Will dated 14 Sept 1842, Bath Co., KY
source unknown:
Along with two of his brothers, he left his relatives in Va around 1799 to make a living in the foothills of Ky. There he bought property and settled down.
Born cir. 1781 in VA died 1842/1843. It has been told that he died at Hacker Creek in W. VA. He is buried in the Ginter Cemetery in Menifee Co., KY; moved there from the Mynhier Cemetery when Cave Run Lake was formed. Jonathan's will was probated in Bath Co., KY but there is no proof of a WVA death. Records show items were sold 14 August 1843 in Bath County to settle his estate. It mentions his wife Hannah and sons David and Thomas Mynhier. Items for sale in addition to usual household goods and livestock (cattle, horses, and sheep) were: clock and case, looking glass, scythe, crosscut saw, grindstones, 1 still and 12 tubs, canoe, rifle, Bible, silver watch, medical book etc. Julia Hunt says Jonathan "was hired to a doctor and became a doctor."


1 Moved his family to Bath County, Ky and changed the spelling of his name to "Myhnier". There has been no documentation found to support this.



By Charles B. Gillespie-1995
and published in The Kentucky Explorer--March 1995


This story starts with Johannes (John) Manier born February 11, 1730 in Michelfeld, Germany. He was the son of Johannes and Catharina Manier. They came to America when John was two years old. His sister, Elizabeth, was born at Lancaster, Pa., December 24, 1732. John married in 1751, I am not sure what was the name of his wife, but they had eleven children. The names of the children were: Adam, Jonathan, David, Elizabeth, Philip, John 2nd, Mary Ann, Katherine, Sarah, Samuel and another daughter, name not known.

John 2nd is where the story starts. He was born in 1756, married 1775. Do not have the name of his wife, but in the year 1784, they were living near the town of Tazewell, Virginia. Tazewell was then a frontier settlement and a place of safety, for the people living nearby.

The story is based on facts, but is impossible to know the things that happened in every day life at that time. The house where they lived was like many log buildings of that day and time, a large double log structure, with an open hallway between them, also a lean-to on the back of each building. There were also small rooms in the (loft) upstairs. A fireplace was at the end of each building. John and family lived in one large room, while across the hallway a friend and family occupied the other part of the building.

Hearing that Indians had been seen in the vicinity, John and his neighbor, decided to take their families into the settlement for safety. After leaving them there, John and his neighbor went back to their home to check on the situation. There was a yard fence around the house with a gate in front. After entering the gate and going toward the house, they saw that Indians were already inside. In the haste to leave the neighbor leaped over the fence, John stopped to open the gate, and the Indians caught him there. The other man ran into the brush along the Clinch River and escaped, going back to the settlement. He got a group of men together and returned to the Mynhier home and found John's body by the gate. He left a wife and four small boys.

The boys' names were: John 3rd, born 1779, Jonathan, 1781, David 3rd, and Joseph, who was the youngest. After the Indian raid, not much is known what took place the next fifteen years. In the spring of 1800 John, Jonathan and David decided to leave Tazewell and journey to Kentucky, in search of other land and possibly some adventure along the way. So they traveled down the Holston River, taking the same route that William Gillespie and Benjamin Logan had taken some twenty-five years before.

This route through the Cumberland Gap, had been traveled by many thousant of people since 1775, when Boone and his men hacked out the trail to what was to be Boonesborough. After crossing the Cumberland River, they followed the Wilderness Road to the "Hazel Patch." The road forked here, one branch going to Boonesborough, the other toward the falls of the Ohio River, where Jefferson County came into being in 1780, with Louisville, the county seat.

The Manier boys followed the road to Boonesborough. After passing there they went through Clark County. They came to the Iron Works Road, which came into being, after the Bourbon Furnace was built in 1792, near what was later Owingsville, county seat of Bath.

This road was built to haul the iron produced by theBourbon Furnace to Louisville and other markets throughout the country by way of the Ohio River. The furnace was built by Jacob Myers, and owned and operated by John Coky Owings. They followed this road to the Bourbon Furnace area, and the settlement of Owingsville, which became the county seat of Bath County when it as formed in 1811.

By the time Jonathan Mynhier and his brothers reached here, the Bourbon Furnace had been in operation for seven years. There was quite a settlement of people at that time, as men were busy digging iron ore. They hauled it by oxen to the furnace. Wood was cut to be burned into charcoal, while limestone was broken up to be used in the mixture of ore limestone and charcoal. This was used in melting the ore down. A building was by the side of the furnace where the sand molds were made to run the liquid iron into. These molded bars of iron suitable for shipping to all parts of the country.

The Mynhier brothers stopped here a few days, as there were many people here--with a store, blacksmith shop, barber shop and many other activies. This was the last settlement they would see before reaching their destination. They traveled on from here, soon reaching the Licking River near a cross road. This place would some eighty years later be called Salt Lick, Ky., when the railroad was built in 1880.

Surveyors had reached the Licking River Valley as far back as 1774, mapping the valley and its tributaries. The Mynhier brothers started up the river in the first part of April, 1800. They found several people settled on farms along the way. After traveling some miles up the river from the mouth of Salt Lick Creek, they came to where two families lived very close to each other. They had built near to each other for safety from roving Indians at the point where the two farms joined. One of the farmers was named McKenzie, the other Saylor.

Staying overnight with these families, the brothers inquired about land on up the valley, and were told that there was much land up the way not yet settled. By the time they were ready to leave the next morning John and Jonathan had met a girl from each family. Sarah McKenzie and Hannah Saylor occupied their minds much during the next two or three years.

They journeyed on up the valley to where Beaver Creek empties into the Licking River, also near the mouth of Buck Creek. They decided to explore Beaver Creek, going about six miles up the valley, past the mouth of Leatherwood and Murder Branch to Cold Cave Creek. (I might mention here that Murder Branch got its name, after the raid on "Morgans Station" near Mt. Sterling on April 1, 1793. A band of Indians, most of them Wyandotte, attacked the fort while the men were in their fields working their crops. They captured nineteen women and children, taking them toward the hills of what was later Menifee County. The men of the fort got together and followed them, catching up with them on Beaver Creek. At the mouth of this branch the Indians murdered some of the captives, and escaped with the rest.)

The two Mynhier brothers found the valley very fertile, and to them a beautiful place to live. No doubt Daniel Boone had explored this valley, the two years he had spent in Kentucky in 1769-1771. (In 1926, my brother- in-law, W. B. Rose, and I were in the cave at the head of Murder Branch. We found D. Boone carved in the wall of the cave, along with many other names, dated from the early eighteen hundreds. Boone's name was later chipped away.)

Up until now, no one had settled in the valley from Cold Cave to the mouth of Beaver. No doubt trappers had been here catching the beaver which had numerous dams along the creek. Virgin timber was everywhere. Oak, poplar, pine, ash, hickory and many other species abounded.

After seeing all of this, they decided they had found the place they had been looking for. So they proceeded to see about acquiring the land around this part of Beaver Creek and up the Licking River a little way.

About this time David, one of the brothers, decided he wanted to go back to Virginia, leaving Jonathan and John here.

After some time had lapsed, and several trips back to Mt Sterling and other procedures, they finally received a patent or (grant) from the government on several thousand acres of land.

Beginning where Buck Creek and Beaver Creek empties into the Licking River, the line was up Beaver to Leatherwood, thence up Leatherwood to Joe's Branch, thence up this branch and over the hills to Cold Cave on Beaver Creek. The line then extended over the head of Murder Branch, through the Sassafras Gap to the the mouth of Fugate on the Licking River, then down the river to the starting point.

As it was now fall and with winter drawing near, the brothers went about finishing their cabin, building a lean-to by the side of it for the horses they had ridden from Virginia. This cabin was built at the Cave Hollow, about a mile up Beaver from the river near Leatherwood Creek.

As deer and bear were plentiful, they had no trouble keeping meat for the table. Of course, other necessities had to come from Owingsville or Mt. Sterling. They had to get corn and fodder for the horses from the McKenzies and Saylors for the winter. Of course, they would get to see the girls each time they went down the river.

They hunted and trapped through the winter, catching mink, beaver, and muskrat. They came out in the spring with many valuable furs. They also kept clearing ground through the winter months, so they could start planting their crops in the spring. They took their furs to market and bought harnesses for the horses, plows, and other much needed supplies with money they were paid.

They worked very hard for a couple of years clearing land and raising corn for their animals. Starting with two cows and a few sheep, as the years went by their stock began to accumulate.

It was a very lonesome life for the boys. So as has been mentioned, they kept in touch with the two families down the river and the girls that they had met when they first came up the river. Now Sarah McKenzie and Hannah Saylor had grown into beautiful young ladies by this time. So along about 1803 John decided to get married to Sarah McKenzie. Jonathan and Hannah Saylor seemed to have the same notion.

After their marriage John decided to go down river to where Sarah's people lived, so he sold his interest in the Beaver Creek land and bought land down there. In the years following, John and Sarah had six children; two boys, Jonathan and Bill, and four girls: Sibbie, Libbie, Martha and Nannie. (Martha will be in the story later.)

Now after Jonathan and Hannah were married, he went about building a new home, as the cabin was too small to start a family in. So cutting poplar trees and hewing them on both sides, with the help of neighbors down the river, they soon had a new double log house with lean-tos on the back and an open hallway between. This was the customary way to build in that day. As has been mentioned before, sheep was a necessary animal in those days. They were sheared and the wool was taken down the river to be carded and prepared to be spun into yarn. Most everyone had a spinning wheel. The yarn was woven into blankets, also knitted into socks and stockings for the family.

Flax was raised and spun into light cloth for summer wear. Shoes and moccasins were made from animal skins, so there was not much left to buy at the store. Lye was made from wood ashes. Thin soap was made with the lye and animal fat obtained from hog entrails and other parts of the animal.

Mt. Sterling and Hillsboro were the nearest stores. I was told that Hillsboro was their post office at that time. The frontier family had to work very hard to exist in those days; the wife sharing the hardships with her husband. She had to do the spinning, knitting and other work around the house. She also helped in the garden and with other crops.

Jonathan and Hannah, raised a very large family. There were four boys and eight girls in the brood. They named the boys from the Bible: David, Thomas Shelton, (King) Solomon and Jonathan. The girls were: Elizabeth (Betty), Polly, Ann, Sarah, Loucinda (Lou), Cynthia, Kate and Julia. Betty was the oldest of the girls, being born in 1806. Kate died in her teens. She was said to have been a very beautiful and talented young girl. David, I believe, was born in 1804.

There was a David, John and Jonathan, in every branch of the family. It seems they were the most-liked names.

As was mentioned, there were deer, bear and other wild animals in the valley, along with the wild turkey. I will relate here how they went about catching the turkey.

It seems that wild turkeys traveled up and down the hollows from the valley into the hills. A pole pen was built at the mouth of the hollow. A little trench was dug from the outside, under the pin and sloped upward inside. Corn was dropped along the trench. The turkey went along eating the corn. When the turkey got inside, it never looked down to see how it had come in. Thus, turkeys were easily trapped.

When Elizabeth was about eighteen she was married to Thomas Lewis, who lived on the Licking River, opposite from the mouth of Salt Lick Creek. I do not know how many children they had. Dr. Lewis, a son, was a very prominent physician in the town of Salt Lick in the latter part of the last century. The farm along the Licking River valley, I believe, is still occupied by a descendent.

Polly married James Link from the upper north fork section of Licking River. I do not know much about their family. My grandmother, who was her niece, always called her Aunt Pop Link. This marriage took place about 1828 or 1830. People had been coming into the valley for the last twenty-five years, settling on land near the Mynhier grant. Also, when one of Jonathan and Hannah's children married, they deeded a parcel of land to each one.

By this time the Beaver Valley Iron Works had been built, about seven miles up the Beaver valley, at the mouth of Miers Fork. This was built in 1819, by J.T. Mason. It started operation with Robert Crockett as ironmaster. In 1828 Jonathan Kring came here from Pennsylvania to operate the furnace. His son William was eighteen-years-old at the time.

There was quite a settlement of people here now, ore had to be dug, limestone broken up, charcoal burned, and all of it haulded in to the furnace to melt the ore down. The wagon road had been built on up the valley to connect with the old state road, at the little settlement, which was later called Frenchburg.

William Kring, like all other young men, went looking for a girl friend. The biggest supply (of young girls) around at that time were the Mynhiers. He soon got acquainted with Ann, and it was not long until they decided to get married. The farm Jonathan and Hannah allotted to them extended from the mouth of Beaver up the river to the mouth of Fugate, a boundary of several hundred acres. This land was now in Bath County, which was establised in 1811. Later, in 1869 it became Menifee County.

It was not much of a problem getting things done in those days. People would help each other. If a barn or house was to be built, the neighbors would come. The wives cooked while the men worked. They would have a big dinner and all had a joyful time. (Dinner is called lunch now)

There were many ways of entertainment then, bean hulling, apple peelings, and corn husking, to name a few.

William (Billie) and Ann had two boys that I know of. There might have been more. Jess inherited the home place on the river. Later his daughter Myrtle, who married Jack Utterback, obtained the old Kring farm, I suppose by buying out the other heirs, and also by inheritance. This property stayed in the family until the Cave Run Dam was built.

Jonathan Kring, 11, was allotted the farm on Skidmore Branch, which took in many acres on Beaver Creek and extended all the way up Skidmore. Jonathan and his wife Elizabeth, who about everyone called "Uncle John and Aunt Liz" had two boys and one girl that I know of. The boys were William (Dill) and Milton and their sister, Ann, named after her grandmother. Ann married Robert (Bob) Cockran, and was allotted the acreage on Beaver. Bill and his wife Joanne were given the farm on Skidmore which joined the home place. They operated a store there for many years.

The next in the Mynhier family is Jonathan, Jr. When it became time for him to marry, he went down the river and married the daughter of John and Sarah Mynhier, his first cousin Martha. After his father, Jonathan Sr., died Sept. 1, 1842 he inherited the home place. His mother Hannah lived with his family the rest of her life.

Jonathan and his wife had several children, namely Wesley, Leslie, David Henry ("Little Dave"), and James Winslow, who was four years old at the time of his father's death.

As we all know Kentucky was a very divided state during the Civil War. No one knew who to trust. There were roving bands or patrols, some Rebels, some Union, passing through the country side.

A group of men in Menifee County banded together, calling themselves Home Guards, they said to protect the people of the valley. They turned out to be more outlaw, than law, doing a lot of things they were not supposed to do.

On July 4, 1863, Jonathan's brother-in-law rode up to the house and told him a group of Home Guards were camped a couple of miles up the road, and some of the men were getting together to go up there and scatter them out. He joined them, but when they drew near the camp, one of the men in the group asked for permission to go into the camp and get his brother, who was with the Home Guards, out. When he went in, he warned them of the coming attack, so they all took off up Beaver Creek. The men returned to their homes.

Later that night just before bed time, Jonathan was playing with his children when a band of men rode up in front of his house. As anyone riding at night at that time, could be an enemy, he slipped up the stairs and out on the roof to see who they were. It is surmised that someone hiding above the road in the bushes shot him. He rolled off the roof to the ground. He was buried the next morning in the family plot near the house.

Martha, being left with small children, after awhile married Joseph Wells, whose wife had died earlier, leaving him with small children. They enjoyed many years together.

In later years Winslow, the youngest son of Martha, inherited the home farm. He married Louise Ann Ginter. They raised a very large family.

The boys were: John, Farmer, Edward, Joseph, Bill, Levi and Ted. The girls were: Julia, Sally and Leona. Sally married W. H. Hunt and, I believe, died at child birth before she was twenty. Leona, Levi and Bill, all died young. "Uncle Winn" and "Aunt Louis Ann," as everyone called them in later years, were very well loved people, and were missed very much when they passed on.

The next that is mentioned in Jonathan and Hannah's family is my great-grandmother Loucina (Cindy), who was born about 1822. She was near 85 when she died in 1907, when I was four years old.

My mother said I called her my grandma and my grandmother Hannah, my pretty grandma. When she was growing up on the farm, she had to help work at everything that was done in the field or in the home.

They made their soap by saving hickory and oak ashes through the winter, then filling a wooden barrel with them, then make a little duck's nest in the top to pour the water in. By the time the water reached the bottom of the barrel, it ran out through holes in the edge of the barrel as the best lye that could be found. They mixed it with hog fat and boiling down to a solid making really fine soap. This custom was still used when I was a yound lad. In fact, we used this system in making soap during the Great Depression of the 1930's. It has a very great cleansing power.

Loucinda said they made their own alcoholic beverages in those days, for to treat their many ailments, and other things. They made the whiskey red, by using soot from the fireplace to mix in it. At about eighteen years, Loucinda married Perry Walton, who lived across the hill on Clear Creek. Their marriage was around 1840. Jonathan allotted her the farm on upper Leatherwood.

They proceeded to build their house at the mouth of a hollow, which now is called the old house hollow. Perry Walton died in 1856 leaving Loucinda with several young children, whose names were: Lynn, Sarah, Loucinda (Aunt Lou) who married William Patrick, and Hannah, who was eight-years-old at the time. The boys were George and Jonathan (Jock).

My grandmother Hannah was born Sept. 17, 1848. Sarah and Lynn were older than her. Aunt Lynn married a man named McCarty over in the Salt Lick Creek area. I don't have any information about their family other than to know the McCartys were my distant relatives. Sarah married John Donothan, who lived on Glady Branch of Leatherwood Creek. This marriage was in 1858. The Donothans were not the first settlers there, as a family by the name of Mullins obtained that land about 1815. They built a house, cleared this land and raised their crops there for about thirty years. The place was very beautiful with much level and lying at the head of the valley, walled in on three sides by sandstone cliffs. This place looks much the same now as it did then. Ruth and I were there about twenty years ago. The springs were still putting forth beautiful clear water, no doubt as they were when the Mullins family settled here.

When some of the Mullins family died, the Donothan family bought the farm. At the time John and Sarah married he owned the farm. They raised a large family as most everyone did in those days. Guess they thought there was safety in numbers. The boys were: Henry, Elijah, Alfred, Harvey and Newton. They also had two or three girls.

Two of Jonathan and Hannah's sons, when they were married, were allotted land a little way down Beaver from the home place. David, on one side of the creek, owned to the mouth of the creek. Shelton's land on the other side extended to the mouth of Buck Creek.

David was the father of Robert (Lob) Mynhier. His farm later was the site of the first post office in the Beaver Valley. James W. (Jim) Swim carried the mail over the Leatherwood Hill from the White Sulphur Springs Resort by mule to establish the Lonesome Post Office on November 6th, 1885. (On November 1, 1890 George F. Mynhier was post master and by May 15, 1897 George H. Harmon had become the post master.) The Lonesome Post Office was changed on September 14, 1907 with its mail then sent to Yale, Kentucky. This farm was in the family until the Cave Run Dam was built. It was owned by his granddaughter Elizabeth and her husband, Newt Montgomery, and family at the time.

There was much more to be said about things that happened during the century, but I guess that is all for this time.


Note: !From Phyllis Mossing. Jonathan left will in Bath County, KY. Probably came to KY about 1790. Will witnessed by a John Sailor; in Flelming Co., KY for 1809 tax list, then moved to Montgomery Co., KY.
Change Date: 3 APR 1999 at 00:00:00




More About Jonathan Manier Mynhier:
Burial: Ginter Cemetery, Menifee Co., Ky
Note: August 15, 1852, Could be death date Killed by Indians.
Occupation: Doctor
  Notes for Hannah Saylor:
thought to be of German descent and spoke German.

Menifee Co., Ky. Cemetery Inventories Book 3: by Kendel Culbertson
Hannah (Saylor) Mynhier no dates is Located at Ginter Cemetery, Leatherwood, Menifee Co., Ky.
was Located at Mynhier Cemetery in Cave Run Lake Area.


More About Hannah Saylor:
Burial: Ginter Cemetery, Menifee Co., KY
Note: Last name could be spelled sailor.
Note:: 1865, Could be death date
     
Children of Jonathan Mynhier and Hannah Saylor are:
  i.   Thomas Shelton Mynhier, born 1822 in Bath Co.,Ky; married Elizabeth A. Saylor Brown December 25, 1839 in Morgan Co., Ky; born Abt. 1823 in KY.
  Notes for Thomas Shelton Mynhier:
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/bath/census/1850/part8.txt

1850 Bath Co., census:
Thomas C. Mineer 28 yrs farmer b. KY
Eliza A. 28 yrs
Sarah J. 9 yrs
John 7 yrs
Loucinda 5 yrs
Joseph 2 yrs
John Link 14 yrs (? son of Thomas sister Polly Manier Link?)

ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/bath/census/census60.txt

1860 Bath Co., KY census:
#792
Thomas Manier 39 Ky
Eliza 38
Sarah 19
John 17
Lucinda 15
Joseph 12
David 9
Mary 7
Henry 5
James 1

From Phyllis Fugate Mossing of Toledo, Ohio:

1870 Menifee Co. census:
T. C. Thomas Mynhier 49
wife-Eliza 48
son-David age 19
Henry (13),
Mary (17),
Samuel (10),
Johnathan (5),
J. M. (5)
Note: Eliza's maiden name was Brown.








  More About Thomas Shelton Mynhier:
Occupation: Farmer

  Notes for Elizabeth A. Saylor Brown:
dont know but could be a Saylor parents could be Wm. C. Saylor and Brown.

  19 ii.   Loucinda "Lou" Mynhier, born January 1826 in Menifee Co., Ky.; died September 17, 1907 in Menifee Co., Ky; married Green Perry Walton 1842 in Ky..
  iii.   Kate Mynhier, born 1809 in Salt Lick, Bath County, Kentucky; died in at the age 18.
  iv.   Solomon (King) Mynhier, born 1804 in Montgomery Co., Ky; married (1) Almira (Anna) Litro November 05, 1826 in Morgan Co., Ky; born Abt. 1809; married (2) Sarah Ann Sexton June 09, 1854 in Bath Co., Ky; born 1804.
  Notes for Solomon (King) Mynhier:
1840 Census: Bath Co., Ky
Maneer Sollomon 1 male under 5, 2 males under 15, 1 male under 40, 2 females under 5, 2 females under 10, 1 female under 40, Census page 231 line 26.

1850 Morgan Co. Census:
Solomon Mynhier 45 yrs.
Anna 41 yrs
Jonathan 22 yrs
Simon 20 yrs
Nancy 18 yrs
Sarah 16 yrs
Julia 10 yrs
Josiah 8 yrs
William 6 yrs

1870 Census: (2nd wife)
Solomon Manier 66 yrs
Sarah 43 yrs
Armina 15 yrs
Rhoda 13 yrs
Wesley 10 yrs
Mary 8 yrs
George 6 yrs
Cynthia 4 yrs


  More About Solomon (King) Mynhier:
Burial: Donathan Cemetery Near Scranton, KY
Note:: 1805, Could be birth date
  Marriage Notes for Solomon Mynhier and Sarah Sexton:
http://www.webpak.net/~kyblue/bath/archives/marriages/marma.htm
Marriage: Groom: Solomon MANIER Bride: Sarah Ann SEXTON Date: 9 Jun 1854 Source: Bath County Marriage Book 3,



  v.   Elizabeth "Betty" Mynhier, born November 29, 1806 in Morgan, Bath Co., Ky.; died March 12, 1891 in Bath Co., Ky; married Thomas Lewis, Jr. September 28, 1823 in Bath Co., Ky; born July 27, 1798 in Morgan Co., KY; died July 27, 1888 in Bath Co., Ky..
  Notes for Elizabeth "Betty" Mynhier:
This was written by a Charles B. Gillespie............

When Elizabeth was about eighteen she was married to Thomas Lewis, who lived on the Licking River, opposite from the mouth of Salt Lick Creek. I do not know how many children they had. Dr. Lewis, a son, was a very prominent physician in the town of Salt Lick in the latter part of the last century. The farm along the Licking River valley, I believe, is still occupied by a descendent.



  Notes for Thomas Lewis, Jr.:
from papers of Mrs. Dayton Royse:
1850 Bath Co., Ky census-2nd district--#683-Thomas Lewis-53-born Ky-$4000 real estate; wife Elizabeth, age 44 born Ky. All Children born Ky. Died on 88 birthday-Slate Creek.

1850 Bath Co.,Ky census:
Thomas Lewis 53 farmer
Elizabeth 44
Jonathan 25
Henry 21
Nancy J. 19
Hannah 17
Mary A. 15
Louise 13
Henry C. 11
Loucinda 9
Elizabeth 7
Josephine 5
Moses 1


1870 Bath Co., Ky. Census:
#298 Mudlick Precinct:
Thomas Lewis 72, Ky, Farmer;
Elizabeth 65,
Cynthia 25,
Moses 21,
George Spence 6,
Susan Daniel 14,


Thomas parents names were Thomas Lewis and Hannah Hopkins.

  More About Thomas Lewis, Jr.:
Burial: Rt. 60 Cemetery,Barnes-Lewis Cemetery in Bath Co., ky.
Occupation: Farmer., Dr.
  Marriage Notes for Elizabeth Mynhier and Thomas Lewis:
Married by in Joel Cook

http://www.webpak.net/~kyblue/bath/archives/marriages/marme.htm
Marriage: Groom: Thomas LEWIS Bride: Elizabeth MINEAR Date: 28 Sep 1823 Source: Bath County Marriage Book #1, As compiled by Alice P. Reynolds



  vi.   Anna Mynhier, born October 06, 1808 in Bath Co., Ky.; died March 02, 1892 in Menifee Co., Ky; married William M. Kring December 24, 1826 in Bath Co., Ky; born January 10, 1805 in Connelsville, Fayette Co., PA.; died March 02, 1892 in Menifee, Kentucky.
  Notes for Anna Mynhier:
Menifee Co., Ky., Cemetery Inventories Book 3: by Kendel Culbertson
Ann Kring 10/6/1808 to 3/2/1892 Located at Ginter Cemetery, Leatherwood, Menifee Co., Ky.


  More About Anna Mynhier:
Burial: Ginter Cemetery, Menifee Co., KY
Note:: June 10, 1808, Could be birth date.

  Notes for William M. Kring:
William (Billy) came to Ky. around 1823 at age 18 with his father Jonathan Kring of Pennsylvania to run the Beaver Valley Iron Works.

From Ruth Cholin Feb. 1999:
"William Kring came to Kentucky from Pennsylvania in early 1800's and settled in Menifee Co., and founded iron works at what is now known as Scranton. Part of the old stack is still standing. William Kring settled in Menifee County 8 miles south of Scranton near Beaver Creek. The Cemetery is near that fram and bought a farm on Licking river about 4 miles from where he lived. He raised a family of 10 children Elizabeth Kring Williams, I saw one time when I was a little girl. She lived Catlettsburg, W. Virginia and founded a collage there and was head of it until she died and was buried there. Myrtle Utterback, a sister,now lives on the farm that William Kring bought when he sold out on Beaver Creek. Later on one of Myrtle Utterback's sons bought the farm."
written to Atta Mae (Hankins) Stammer (dec late 1960's/early 1970's) by Effie (Kring) Frisby - related. No known dates on notes.


1870 Menifee Co., Ky. Censes:
Kring, William (65, born PA)
Ann (63),
Louisa (20)
Note: Ann's maiden name was Manier.

Note: Father name was Jonathan Kring b. May 3, 1775 Rockingham Co., Va., Mother name Ann Suter.

Note:
Menifee Co., Ky., Cemetery Inventories Book 3: by Kendel Culbertson
William Kring 1/10/1805 to 3/2/1892 Located at Ginter Cemetery, Leatherwood, Menifee Co., Ky.


  More About William M. Kring:
Burial: Ginter Cemetery, Menifee Co., KY
Nick Name: Billie
  vii.   Mary Polly Mynhier, born 1805 in Montgomery Co., Ky; married (1) James Harty November 20, 1820 in Bath Co., Ky; married (2) Gaul Luke August 15, 1828 in Bath Co., Ky; married (3) James Link November 06, 1832.
  Notes for Mary Polly Mynhier:
This was written by Charles B. Gillespie............

Polly married James Link from the upper north fork section of Licking River. I do not know much about their family. My grandmother, who was her niece, always called her Aunt Pop Link. This marriage took place about 1828 or 1830. People had been coming into the valley for the last twenty-five years, settling on land near the Mynhier grant. Also, when one of Jonathan and Hannah's children married, they deeded a parcel of land to each one.



  viii.   Nancy Mynhier, born 1817; died 1884; married Fielding B. Steele November 21, 1839 in Bath Co., Ky; born 1815 in Va.; died 1892.
  More About Nancy Mynhier:
Burial: Ginter Cemetery, Menifee Co., KY

  Notes for Fielding B. Steele:
1850 Bath Co., Ky. Census:
Fielding Steele 35 b. Ky. Farmer
Nancy 33 b. Ky.
Mary A. 7 b. Ky.
Jonithan M. 5 b. Ky.
Fielding T. 3 b. Ky.

1870 Menifee Co., Ky. census:
Steele, Fielding B. (54)
Nancy (52),
Mary (26),
Sarah (17),
Martha (12),
Malipa (5)
Note: Nancy's maiden name was Manier, Mary married Robert Becraft, and Sarah married Stephen Gose.

1880 Menifee Co., Ky. Census: 4-203
Fielden B. Steele 64 yrs. farmer, b. ky..
Nancy 62 yrs. wife, keepshouse b. ky.
Sarah 27 yrs. daughter, b. ky.
Marthy 22 yrs. daughter, b. ky.
Malisa 15 yrs. daughter, b. ky.
William 11 yrs. son, b. ky.
Samuel 9 yrs. son, b. ky.
Albert 8 yrs. son, b. ky.
Francis 7 yrs. daughter, b. ky.
Grant 6 mo. son, b. ky.
Farmer 6 yrs. son, b. ky.


  More About Fielding B. Steele:
Burial: Ginter Cemetery, Menifee Co., KY
Occupation: Was a Justice of Peace of Menifee Co., Ky.
  Marriage Notes for Nancy Mynhier and Fielding Steele:
Was a Justice of Peace of Menifee Co., Ky.

  22 ix.   David S. Manier, born March 1823 in Bath Co., Ky.; died January 02, 1905 in Menifee Co., Ky; married Cassandra Andrue (Audren) Brown June 27, 1847 in Bath Co., Ky..
  x.   Jonathan Saylor Mynhier, born 1828 in Bath Co., Ky.; died July 04, 1863 in Bath Co., Ky; married Martha Jane Manier June 14, 1849 in Bath Co., Ky; born 1832 in Fleming Co., Ky.; died 1912 in Beaver Creek.
  Notes for Jonathan Saylor Mynhier:
Jonathan inherited his parents farm when his father died. Jonathan was killed during the Civil War by "Home Guards" . Martha later married Joseph Wells whose wife had died leaving him with small children.

ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/bath/census/
1850 Bath Co., Ky. census:
Jonathan Mineer 22 yrs farmer b. Ky.
Martha 16 yrs b. Ky
John W. 1/12 yrs. b. Ky
Hannah Mineer 65 yrs. b. VA mother
Hannah Mineer 14 yrs b. Ky. sister

ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/bath/census/census60.txt
1860 Bath Co., Ky. census:
#797
Johnathon Manier 31 Ky.
Martha 26
John 10
David 6
Delia 4
Winslow 9mo.
Hannah 76 Va.
Martha Harmon 8 Ky.

1880 Menifee Co., Ky. Census: 2-143 (this is the way its in the book)
Johnathan Monear 52 yrs. farmer b. ky.
( ) wife 48 yrs. keepeshouse b. ky.

by Charles B. Gillespie
The next in the Mynhier family is Jonathan, Jr. When it became time for him to marry, he went down the river and married the daughter of John and Sarah Mynhier, his first cousin Martha. After his father, Jonathan Sr., died Sept. 1, 1842 he inherited the home place. His mother Hannah lived with his family the rest of her life.

Jonathan and his wife had several children, namely Wesley, Leslie, David Henry ("Little Dave"), and James Winslow, who was four years old at the time of his father's death.

As we all know Kentucky was a very divided state during the Civil War. No one knew who to trust. There were roving bands or patrols, some Rebels, some Union, passing through the country side.

A group of men in Menifee County banded together, calling themselves Home Guards, they said to protect the people of the valley. They turned out to be more outlaw, than law, doing a lot of things they were not supposed to do.

On July 4, 1863, Jonathan's brother-in-law rode up to the house and told him a group of Home Guards were camped a couple of miles up the road, and some of the men were getting together to go up there and scatter them out. He joined them, but when they drew near the camp, one of the men in the group asked for permission to go into the camp and get his brother, who was with the Home Guards, out. When he went in, he warned them of the coming attack, so they all took off up Beaver Creek. The men returned to their homes.

Later that night just before bed time, Jonathan was playing with his children when a band of men rode up in front of his house. As anyone riding at night at that time, could be an enemy, he slipped up the stairs and out on the roof to see who they were. It is surmised that someone hiding above the road in the bushes shot him. He rolled off the roof to the ground. He was buried the next morning in the family plot near the house.

Martha, being left with small children, after awhile married Joseph Wells, whose wife had died earlier, leaving him with small children. They enjoyed many years together.



  More About Jonathan Saylor Mynhier:
Burial: Ginter Cemetery, Menifee Co., KY
Note: 1826, Menifee Co., Ky. , could be birth date

  Notes for Martha Jane Manier:
Menifee Co., Ky. Cemetery Inventories Book 3: by Kendel Culbertson
Martha (Mynhier) Wells 1832 to 1912 is Located at Ginter Cemetery, Leatherwood, Menifee Co., ky.
was Located at Mynhier Cemetery at Cave Run Lake area.


  More About Martha Jane Manier:
Burial: Ginter Cemetery, Menifee Co., Ky
  Marriage Notes for Jonathan Mynhier and Martha Manier:
Jonathon Saylor Minear married his 1st. cousin Martha Jane Manier.


  xi.   Sarah Mynhier, born 1831 in Ky; married John Law August 06, 1846 in Bath Co., Ky; born 1817 in Pa..
  Notes for Sarah Mynhier:
listed in 1850 census with children:
Loucinda age 3
Obadiah age 1
They had a son Wallace Law who ran a rooming house at Salt Lick, KY




  Notes for John Law:
1850 Bath Co. Ky. Census:
LN HN FN FIRST NAME LAST NAME AGE SEX RACE OCCUPATION VAL BIRTHPLACE SNDX
15 325 325 John Law 33 M Farmer 400 PA L000
16 325 325 Sarah Law 19 F KY L000
17 325 325 Lucinda M. Law 3 F KY L000
18 325 325 Obadiah C. Law 1 M KY


1860 Bath Co., Ky. Census: #798
John Law 43, b. PA.
Sarah 29
Lucinda 12
Obediah 10
Hannah 4
John 1


  xii.   Julia A. Mynhier, born 1813 in Menifee Co., Ky; married William Walton, Jr. March 22, 1831 in Bath Co., Ky; born 1812 in Bath Co., ky..
  Notes for William Walton, Jr.:
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/bath/census/census60.txt

1850 Bath Co., Ky. Census:
William Walton 38 b. Ky. Farmer
Julia A. 37 b. Ky.
Simon 17 b. Ky. Laborer
Katharine A. 15 b. Ky.
Nancy I. 13 b. Ky.
Henry 10 b. Ky.
William N. 7 b. Ky.
Hannah 5 b. Ky.
Lucinda 4 b. Ky.
Jonithan 1 b. Ky.

Bath County Census - 1860:
Record #782:
William WALTON, 48, Ky;
Martha, 28;
Nancy, 23;
Lucinda, 16;
Johnathon, 11;
Joseph, 6;
Falmer, 4;
George, 5;
Elizabeth, 11mo



1870 Bath Co., Census:
Record #315, Mudlick Precinct:
William Walton 59, KY, farmer;
Martha 38,
Lucinda 25,
John 16,
Turner 14,
George 12,
Elizabeth 10,
Mary 8,
James 4,
Alice 1



  xiii.   Cynthia Mynhier

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