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From: "Jo Thiessen" <>
Subject: [KYSCOTT-L] Fw: Pack Family in Scott Co.
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 08:34:23 -0400


Someone else might benefit from this also.
Jo
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> From: Jo Thiessen <>
> To: Beverly Pack <>
> Subject: Re: Pack Family in Scott Co.
> Date: Thursday, June 10, 1999 11:16 AM
>
> From a database on Mulberry family, a book of Scott Co. marriages and the
> 1850 Scott Co. census:
> Lucinda Mulberry (1792-1860), d/o Jacob Mulberry, married John Pack
> In 1850, in District 1, East Part, there is a Richard F. Pack, age 26,
with
> Lucinda Pack age 52, Sarah M. age 22, and John, age 1.
> Marriage book shows: Richard F. Pack m. Sarah M. Emison 1 Apr. 1848
>
> Benjamin Pack (prob. Jr.) m. Catharine Henton/Hinton 16 Jan 1849
> Census of 1850 shows Benj. Pack age 40 with Catherine age 30.
>
> My will book only goes thru 1822, but the courthouse may have a will for
> Benj. Pack Sr.however there is a John Peck in King George Co., VA -
> petititon signed by John and William Peck, plus William Campbell and Wm.
> Burgess for division of the county - 15 Oct. 1776. This Pack/Peck,
> Campbell, Burgess Mulberry group settled the north end of Scott County in
> the 1790s.
>
>
> Cemetery book:
> Ben Pack Sep 24, 1810 - Mar 10, 1855 p. 41
> Catherine Pack Sept 4, 1820 to Jan 28, 1897 p. 42
> p. 127:
> John Pack, Aug. 22, 1789 - Aug 4, 1841
> Lucinda M. Pack Dec 4, 1792 - Jul 31, 1860 w/o John
>
> Kentucky Sentinel mentioned as footnote 120, p. 173 of "Scott Co., KY: A
> History"
> mentions Richard F. Pack and William Emison as owning sawmills.
>
> p.217 "Scott Co., KY: A History"
> "In January 1877 the Little EAgle correspondent to the Times wrote, 'It
is
> the intention of some of the country merchants to bu8ild several business
> houses on the line of the railroad at or near Mr. S.T. Connellee's, with
> the expectation of having a depot established.' In February promoters
> Richard F. Pack and T.J. Burgess purchased about twenty-five acres from
> Connellee at one hundred dollars per acre with plans to donate four acres
> to the railroad company. 'It is at the crossing of the Big Eagle and
> Harrison county pike and the Railway. The town I suppose will be called
> Sadysville.' mused the correspondent. Cincinnati Sourthern Railroad
> officials countered promoters' aggressiveness by advising Pack that 'if
he
> wanted a depot, he must build it, and then it was to be under the control
> of the Railroad Company.' By August 1877 Sadieville had a 'blacksmith
and
> carpenter shop, one dry-goods store, two groceries, one hotel, and seven
> dwellinghouses,' and H.H. Squairs was developing the depot grounds and
> side-tracks. T.J. Burgess, Sadieville's major developer, bought 11.5
> acres, 'a greater portion of the land suitable for building,' from
Richard
> F. Pack. Kaly's Hotel offered music, dancing, and dining in addition to
> boarding space."
>
> p. 262- footnote #35 references above notes saying Pack's wife was the
> former Sarah "Sadie" Emison. Jan 24, Feb. 14, and May 25, 1877 issues of
> Georgetown Weekly Times.
>
> That exhausts my book supply I think, but I have someone checking at the
> library to see whether there is a family file for Pack.
> Jo

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> > From: Beverly Pack <>
> > To:
> > Subject: Re: Pack Family in Scott Co.
> > Date: Thursday, June 10, 1999 1:52 AM

I do have a copy of
> a biography on John E. PACK, M.D. who was born in Scott Co in 1849 (this

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