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From: "Shawn Byrd-Johnson" <>
Subject: Re: [KYCLAY-L] Dickey Diary
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:01:07 -0000


I would be if it's not too much trouble, and I just want to say, Leslie,
that I really appreciate all the hard work and long hours you are putting in
to share the Dickey Diaries with others. Your work has not gone unnoticed.

Shawn Byrd-Johnson
American by birth, Southern by the Grace of Marriage

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From: Leslie Gunter <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, August 20, 1998 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [KYCLAY-L] Dickey Diary

>Here are the last of the entries that reference James Bowling.
>Leslie
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>page 2193-97
>John McDaniel - Benge, March 14, 1898
>
>I was born in Perry County, March 13, 1825. My father, John
>McDaniel was born in Buckingham County, Virginia. He came to
>Kentucky before he was married. He had 11 children; Reuben,
>Thomas, Keziah, Mary, Jesse are dead. Elizabeth (Robison),
>Tilah, Nancy (Robison), myself and William who lives in
>Barboursville, are living. My great grandfather came from
>Ireland. His son Thomas was my grandfather. He was a deaf mute.
>My mother, Judah Cornett, daughter of Nathaniel Cornett. He
>lived in Perry County. His brother, Roger Cornett lived at
>Benge. My uncle Robin Cornett kept the toll gate which
>stood just east of where James Benge now lives. It was kept
>by Elijah McWhorter at the foot of McWhrter Hill previous
>to that time. I think the gate eas discontinued about or
>during the war. In 1852 I took Bob Potter to Mt. Vernon to
>school. We paid toll at a store house some 6 to 10 miles this
>side of Mt. Vernon, kept by a man named Smith. There were many
>six horse wagons come to Goose Creek when I was a boy, from
>Louisville, loaded with goods and went back with salt. Robin
>Cornett would buy things from these wagoners for people who
>would leave mney with him for that purpose. When the K.C.R.R.
>reached Lexington it killed the salt trade from central Kentucky.
>One was hardly out of sight of wagons those days. When I work-
>ed at Gen Whites about 1843 there were 12 furnaces in operation
>on Goose Creek and salt was selling at 35 cents a bushel.
>The following persons owned or operated furnaces at that time:
>Alex White, above the mouth of Buzzard; Adam White of Abingdon
>at the mouth of Buzzard; Daniel Bates above Hortons on the
>west side of the creek; Gen White at the Forks of Goose Creek;
>T.T. Garrard, where it now stands, built in 1832; Daugherty &
>James White on the main Goose Creek above the Forks; Frank &
>William White on the same Fork; Racener at D.Y. Lyttle's Ford
>below Manchester; someone near where Garrison now lives at
>the Ford of Little Goose Creek; Frank Clark at mouth of the Red
>Bird, making ten. Precious to that time there was aa furnace
>at Ford of Little Goose west of Manchester on the Burning
>Springs Road between James Love's house and the ford. There
>was once a furnace just above town at the mouth of Tanyard
>Branch; James Bowling was drowned int he deep well near it
>called ___McHone Hole. I worked there three months for Gen.
>White. I heard Daugh White say in speech when running against
>T.T. Garrard for the Lower House, that he had eaten clabber out
>of a dish, sitting on the floor, around which were gathered
>his brothers and sisters each of whom would take a spoon in
>turn as it was passed from one to the other. (I suppose this
>was a little demagogery to win votes as T.T. Garrard was
>born rich. J.J.D.)
>
>There is another page and a half of writing on this subject if
>anyone is interested.
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>page 2159-60
>John H. Gilbert
>
>I was born in Clay County Jan 12, 1842. My father's name was
>Felix G. Gilbert; my mother's name was Jemmina Snavely of Smith
>County, Ga (Va.?) My father was born i Tenn. He was a son of
>Felix Gilbert one of the early settlers of Clay County. He came
>here a few years after ny uncle John Gilbert came. I have heard
>my ant Mry Ann McCollum say that when my grandfather came to
>Red Bird there were only wo familiees on the creek, viz;-
>Dillon Asher and Rev. John Gilbert, my great uncle. My grand-
>mother's name was Wallace of Tenn. Scotch-Irish. The Gilbert's
>are English. My father died in October 1855. (see will in Man-
>chester). He was five years the junior of my uncle John. I am
>sure of this. He was 95 years old (John Gilbert made his will
>August 17, 1860. The same was probated April 1, 1868 - see
>record in Clay County Court. This would put ZRev. John Gilbert's
>birth 1755 and 113 years at his death.) at the time when he died.
>It was in winter time when my grandparents came. My grandfather
>had children as follows: John, Mary Ann, Felix, James, William,
>Wallace and Hamilton and Haywood the youngest, Jennie, younger
>who married Sam Jones. Their descendants live in Knox Co. Mary
>Ann married Isaac McCollum. My uncle (or great uncle) marriedMollie
Bowling
>sister of James Bowling and early settler of this county. James Bowling
had
>a brother whose name I do not
>remember who was the father of "Hungry" John Bolling still
>living on Sinking Creek, Knox Co. and "Hungry" James, dead
>and Mrs. John Holland mother of Anderson Holland of Martin's
>Creek, this county. She still lives.
>I have heard my uncle Rev. John Gilbert say that he came when
>peace was first made at the close of the Revolutionary War.
>He was born in 1755, he would be 28 years old in 1782 or 1783.
>when peace was made, I heard both my grandfather and ny great
>uncle John Gilbert say that my grandfather was 95 years old
>qwhen he, the latter, died. There were salt wells bored in Red
>Bird. John Gilbert made salt there and sold his works to Dire.
>
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>The following entry has 11 pages and refers to many different
>people. I will only include the reference for James Bowling.
>
>page 2112
>This is Henry Lucas speaking:
>My maternal grandfather was John Cundiff. My father
>died when I was six years old, it was about 1821. Grandfather
>Cundiff was a loyal friend, he would do anything in his power
>for a friend, was a great power in elections. My uncle John
>Cundiff killed Eli Bowling. Bolling was a bully, a man of
>great power. He led my uncle to Old Bill Dincel's house,
>where old Millie Henson lived. They had a quarrel about the
>woman. Bowling kicked my uncle, a small man. He went away
>and came back with a dirk knife, called Bowling to the door
>and plunged it into him. He died in a few minutes. My uncle
>left the country and never returned. Uncle Sam Lucas took
>his wife to him. Eli Bowling was a bad man. His son James
>Bowling was hunting for my uncle John when he met my grand-
>father Cundiff. "Jim put that gun down, we have gotten rid
>of two bad men and let the matter stop". He did so. The
>Cundiff's of Breathitt are the same stock.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: <>
>To: <>
>Date: Thursday, August 20, 1998 12:08 AM
>Subject: Re: [KYCLAY-L] Dickey Diary
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>>I would certainly appreciate your checking the James Bowlings for me.
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