tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41775427176568325522024-02-07T21:50:37.954-06:00Union CemeteryPreserving and Restoring Old Union Cemetery in Boyle County, KentuckyBob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-34420537566243655272018-03-04T10:31:00.000-06:002018-03-04T10:31:52.713-06:00<u><b>The New Book about Old Union Cemetery is ready for orders and shipping</b></u><br />
March 3rd, 2018<br />
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The new book is ready. <u><b><span style="color: red;">Please spread the word to family and friends. </span></b></u>Our goal is to sell 200 copies of the book. That will be a real challenge without help from everyone.<br />
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The full details about the book and how to order etc. are on my Pipes Family Web Site.<br />
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<a href="http://www.pipesfamily.com/">www.pipesfamily.com</a><br />
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Please know that the sale of this book is a fund raiser for maintenance of the Old Cemetery where the Pipes, Harmon and Gray ancestors are resting. <u><b>All</b></u> proceeds go the Family Association<br />
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You may go there to reserve a copy and /or pay for one and the first copies will be here mid-March to ship out. The first 50 are almost gone, so do not wait!!<br />
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<br />Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-83971560525854237202016-10-28T14:40:00.000-05:002018-01-20T09:52:37.389-06:00A New Book about the Old Union Cemetery and Church BuildingAt the Family reunion in August of 2016 A small group of members of the Pipes Harmon Gray family association agreed to take on the fund raising task of writing a book about the Old Union Church and burying grounds in the west end of Boyle County, Kentucky.<br />
We are off and running and need all the help we can get. If you have pictures, information or stories about the old church and those buried there, please consider letting us add that to the book.<br />
The book will be sold with all proceeds going to the family association for cemetery maintenance costs.<br />
We have some pictures of those buried there already:<br />
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<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Rice Harrison (R.H.)
Harmon and </li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">his Wife Elizabeth “Bettie” (Gray) Harmon</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Elias Hardin Pipes and </li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">his
wife<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Victoria Hourigan Pipes</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Levi Allen Pipes</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">John “Jackie” Sheperson</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Josephine (Edwards) Pipes</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">John W. Grantland and (he is not buried in Old Union)</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">his wife Louisa Calvert (She is buried in Old Union)</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">John Bradford “J. B.”
Harmon and </li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">his wife Catherine (Montgomery) Harmon</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Iola (Lanham) Young</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">George Washington Pipes
and </li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">his wife Mariah (Edwards) Pipes</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Nannie M Pipes Overstreet (wife of John Caleb
Overstreet II) Dau. of Levi Allen Pipes</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Nathan Waters Pipes and
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<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">his wife Keziah “Kizzie” (Brand) Pipes</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Sally Montgomery (Wife of Morris Pipes)</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Ansel L. Bandy and </li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">His wife Mary Burgess</li>
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George Washington Crain
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his wife Nancy Arnold Crain (Crane)</div>
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James Whitehouse and</div>
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His wife Agnes Hunn Whitehouse</div>
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<li style="color: black; font-family: "garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Susie Pipes Tharp</div>
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Her Husband Callon Tharp</div>
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Archa Gray and</div>
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His Wife Martha Montgomery</div>
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Jefferson Taylor Harmon ( Not in Old Union)</div>
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His 1st wife Kizzie Whitehouse ( she is in Old Union) </div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>If you can help with pictures of the old building that would be great. I have all of the old pictures from newspaper articles taken after 1960 but no original pictures of it.<br />
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Stories of ancestors who attended services there also are helpful. Please contact me and discuss what I have already and what you may have to add.<b></b><br />
email me at pipesb@pipesfamily.comBob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-67930838632984293672014-05-19T16:01:00.001-05:002014-05-19T16:01:47.521-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My new book about the Pipes family in central Kentucky is ready for sale. This is the story of my G Grandparents, Obediah B. Pipes and Josephine B. Edwards. They are resting in old union Cemetery with many of their friends and relatives. Go to my web site <a href="http://www.pipesfamily.com/">www.pipesfamily.com</a> to see a preview and purchase the book. Proceeds from the book will be donated to the Cemetery maintenance fund.<br />
Thanks! and please tell everyone about the book.<br />
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<br />Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-36364126843475287432012-01-27T11:00:00.004-06:002012-01-27T12:04:05.630-06:00Another Set of Monuments Restored in Old Union<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguSziM1gQ6VTlXmtzpoY-NSvmghdCoG9nCQfUGVFPfADdEV1XfVBDVCDebEYM-Y9KZNeysmG6Ih5_jea_ApylO3lKIlxugUvPi1JDtcARfSM4T3PeTDvXvyXRZAebFKjEkwWppanVBKOY/s1600/restored+stone+NW+Pipes.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 216px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702370619808623858" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguSziM1gQ6VTlXmtzpoY-NSvmghdCoG9nCQfUGVFPfADdEV1XfVBDVCDebEYM-Y9KZNeysmG6Ih5_jea_ApylO3lKIlxugUvPi1JDtcARfSM4T3PeTDvXvyXRZAebFKjEkwWppanVBKOY/s320/restored+stone+NW+Pipes.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div>I received a wonderful Letter and some pictures this week from Barbara May. Barbara was one of the very first 'Cousins' that my family met when we made our first visit to Danville to discover more about our family history in 1984. She introduced us to Brenda Edwards from the Advocate Newspaper and the result was a wonderful afternoon in Constitution Park in Danville and a full page article with pictures in the Sunday Edition of the paper. Brenda and Barbara made us feel very welcome and were so gracious and helpful, it made our family feel very special.</div><br /><br /><div>We were all from central Michigan and descendants of James Franklin Pipes who was born in 1876 on a farm on Ben Minor Ridge Road to Obediah Brumfield Pipes and Josephine Bonaparte Edwards. James was my grandfather and migrated to Michigan in the early 1920s to work for General Motors. </div><br /><br /><div>There were few people named Pipes in Michigan and to say we were disconnected from our roots would be an understatement.</div><br /><br /><div>That has changed over the years since that day in 1984 and my family will always remember Barbara and Brenda and how they helped us renew that connection to our roots in Kentucky. </div><br /><br /><div>Barbara sent me news this week about the Cemetery and the restoration of the largest monument in the cemetery. The monument is for Nathan Waters Pipes and his wife Keziah (Brand) 'Kizzie' Pipes. This monument had been leaning preciptiously for many years due to the foundation shifting and the ravages of the wind and weather. A company from Stanford was hired and they brought in a large crane to take the stone down and then a new foundation was poured. The smaller stones were also reset on new foundations and while she was at it, Barbara had them make bases and then mounted the previously broken stones for the parents of Nathan Waters, Nathaniel Pipes and Margaret Harmon.</div><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div>On our first trip to Union Cemetery in 1984, Nathan and Keziah's monument was standing tall and proud but the smaller stones for Nathaniel and Margaret were down and broken. Now they are all standing up again and thanks to Barbara May they are resting close and protected and where they belong.</div><br /><br /><div>Also in the family plot is the stone and resting place for Mallie Pipes, the young daughter of Nathan and Keziah who passed away in 1874 at 13 years old.</div><br /><br /><div>Barbara is considering repairs for the wrought iron fence around the plot and proper landscaping for the area inside the fence. These fences are very difficult to repair and maintain and suffer greatly from vandals, weather and intruding cattle. Many of them in the cemetery have been damaged.</div><br /><br /><div>This is the best news I have heard about the cemetery in some time and we should be forever grateful to Barbara for personally making this happen.</div><br /><br /><div>Please consider a donation to the Family Association fund for restoring these old stones. Robbie Mayes is making a concerted effort to repair and reset the ones that can still be worked with. The address is on the main page.</div>Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-32266671531761558902012-01-27T10:30:00.003-06:002012-01-27T10:39:39.352-06:00Johnny Harmon ObituaryA tragic accident on January 15, 2012 took the life of Johnny Harmon. His obituary appeared in the Advocate Messenger and is copied here. John was the brother of our dear friend Peggy Edgington.<br /><br />10:41 a.m. EST, Tuesday, January 17, 2012<br />PERRYVILLE — John “Johnny” C. B. Harmon Jr., 62, of Perryville, died Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012, in Lexington. He was the husband of Judy Goode Harmon.<br /><br />Born June 14, 1949, in Boyle County, he was a son of Bertha Yates Harmon of Perryville and the late Jack Harmon. He was a very active member of Perryville Baptist Church where he was a deacon and had served on various church committees.<br /><br />Johnny was a retired employee of the United States Postal Service, having worked for 36 years in Danville. He was a 1967 graduate of Boyle County High School where he played baseball, football and basketball. Johnny is remembered as a “natural” athlete; he excelled in all sports. His love for softball didn’t end with high school; he continued playing for many years. Johnny was a member of a former state championship fastpitch softball team and a member of the Perryville fastpitch softball team. He coached the Boyle County Middle School Girls fastpitch softball team, was inducted into the Boyle County High School football hall of fame, was an avid golfer, played racquetball and enjoyed farming. Above his love for sports was his family; he cherished his time spent with his family and grandchildren.<br /><br />In addition to his wife Judy, he is survived by three daughters and their husbands, Toni and Dale Joslyn of Danville, Dian and Tommy Tillett of Parksville and Kelly and Brent Webber of Lexington; one son, Brad Harmon of Lexington; two sisters and their husbands, Wanda and Bill Sprinkle of Paris and Peggy and Fred Edgeington of Harrodsburg; and six grandchildren, Kelsey Joslyn, Tyler Sebastian, Caleb Harmon and Savannah, Brittany and Tyler Tillett.<br /><br />Services for Johnny will be 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, at Perryville Baptist Church by the Rev. Chuck Bass, with burial in the Hillcrest Cemetery.<br />Pallbearers will be Glen Gorley, Gregg Pierson, Tony Perkins, Larry Moore, Chris Fitzwater, Terry Stigall, Roger Webb and Jackie Casey.<br /><br />Visiting hours will be after 5 p.m. Wednesday at Perryville Baptist Church.<br />Expressions of sympathy are suggested to the University of Kentucky Southeast Center for Agriculture Health and Injury prevention, c/o Kim Judd, UK CPH, room 104B, 111 Washington Ave., Lexington, KY 40536-0003.<br /><br />Wilder Funeral Home, Perryville in charge of arrangements.<br />Visit Johnny's online guestbook at www.wilderfh.com.<br />Copyright © 2012, AM NewsBob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-77859750703774190092010-08-25T14:19:00.008-05:002010-08-25T14:34:28.376-05:00Something New, Somethng Old<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_PgJP4VgROL5llJtJF-AMNRtseNwp72bKHNv-r-BNzAdZ1x1rbHx4I0aZwjGAPim6WZpfL8FgGnD3xtj75PjQBnWpwNhn7QW1Il4icTWgYNzyVWO6qrmuQc82FbvU20O93lU2o9KUD-M/s1600/smcheck2a.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 141px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509432232624907682" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_PgJP4VgROL5llJtJF-AMNRtseNwp72bKHNv-r-BNzAdZ1x1rbHx4I0aZwjGAPim6WZpfL8FgGnD3xtj75PjQBnWpwNhn7QW1Il4icTWgYNzyVWO6qrmuQc82FbvU20O93lU2o9KUD-M/s320/smcheck2a.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiciBpVyYm-AHc9dBPGn8ivbdPLZIs2wzXrgtx7gVPiE-CX8oOiIPG8zTqsKbKBNfKggbczrJFU0KnRBDhEPOE7cptC88fYZwgnxCFOTHRM_R83zlOyE8otgTqJcNNDHy-yxWFN1hZhPs/s1600/smcheck2b.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 141px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509432027071395714" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiciBpVyYm-AHc9dBPGn8ivbdPLZIs2wzXrgtx7gVPiE-CX8oOiIPG8zTqsKbKBNfKggbczrJFU0KnRBDhEPOE7cptC88fYZwgnxCFOTHRM_R83zlOyE8otgTqJcNNDHy-yxWFN1hZhPs/s320/smcheck2b.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-_HfRkdDJKZOULLsWh_SWqb_AMsbA9KsL6SIOzOxJQyyWc0flDCJlKBSDupgzCZK8z9RkcdD26fA-OYBTWq5UbT0sxC2pm2lwwApP-UqyK4Z51HthvETQbuJedkan6PSIYQJIt6Us06w/s1600/check1b.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 142px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509431892365687202" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-_HfRkdDJKZOULLsWh_SWqb_AMsbA9KsL6SIOzOxJQyyWc0flDCJlKBSDupgzCZK8z9RkcdD26fA-OYBTWq5UbT0sxC2pm2lwwApP-UqyK4Z51HthvETQbuJedkan6PSIYQJIt6Us06w/s320/check1b.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH66GJiEUIZlgd02nQoYfu0eB7eBNMgM4kqGafFMyUwwB8X9NkC0U_q_Tx041d2n7SyhW8fTCv7p1Ce3wGPIvfNfOPfboY-vYJ_Rb_g_eFqJzPRRW008RZXgpz1fOVBgB2PEZ7nN3YdFc/s1600/smcheck1a.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 141px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509431718278345250" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH66GJiEUIZlgd02nQoYfu0eB7eBNMgM4kqGafFMyUwwB8X9NkC0U_q_Tx041d2n7SyhW8fTCv7p1Ce3wGPIvfNfOPfboY-vYJ_Rb_g_eFqJzPRRW008RZXgpz1fOVBgB2PEZ7nN3YdFc/s320/smcheck1a.jpg" /></a><br />Same old excuses, I have been busy with an article about John Pipes Jr.'s oldest son named Joseph who lived in the SW corner of Pennsylvania. John was first married to Jemima Harriman in Morris County, NJ. Will post a link here when I am done. We also discovered a new Son named Daniel, so he has 3 sons and a daughter there: Joseph, John III, Daniel and Rhoda.<br /><br />Something new was sent to me by Robert Mitchell who is a desc of the Robert Mitchell in Old Union and the Mitchell family from Mitchellsburg. His G Grandfather was R.H.C. Mitchell, an attorney and businessman from Danville. He owned and operated the Mitchell farm in the late 1800s and hired Elias Hardin Pipes, "E.H." and George Washington Pipes, "G.W." at various times. He then paid them with Bank Checks. Robert sent me two of these checks from 1898 and 99. One is for fertilizer and the other is for Threshing services. </div>Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-31953720070274756912010-08-03T15:07:00.002-05:002010-08-03T15:11:47.196-05:002010 Reunion Reminder and InformationDear Harmon, Gray, Pipes Family Members,<br /> <br />1. Reminder - Family Reunion is this coming Sunday, August 8 at Perryville Christian Church @ 1:30 pm<br /> <br />2. Family member Ross Pipes has a cooking blog and a book review blog. Click on links below for some great recipes and book reviews.<br /> <br /> http://www.grandpashomecooking.typepad.com/<br /> <br /> See note received from Ross today:<br /> "I finally got my August book report written and posted. This was, without a doubt, a terrific month of cooking, cleaning house, hosting wonderful visits of family, and still become totally engaged in reading some remarkable books. I hope that you'll take the time to read all I have written about the three books I read in July. They are books I hope many will read. Now ... I'm finally ready to start reading a stack of new ... look forward to ... being great books."<br /> Keep on reading http://www.pipesbookreview.blogspot.com/<br /><br />3. We're fielding a question, "Is anyone interested in a Family Facebook Site to connect with other members of the Harmon, Gray and Pipes families?" <br /> <br /> See thoughts on this in note I received recently from Ross Pipes:<br /> <br /> "I wish there were a way to know more family members and to be able to communicate history, joys, and concerns. I wonder sometimes about family interests, careers, medical history, adoptions, religion, and concentrations of family within geographic areas (I was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, but we have lived in the Durham (and Durham County), Chapel Hill (Orange County), and Raleigh area of North Carolina for 24 years. I wonder what other family members live in this area and whether we share any interests.<br /> If a Pipes, Harmon, and Gray Facebook page were to be started, I think it would take some advance thought, energetic organization, and excellent initial launch messages to get it started on the right path."<br /> <br />If anyone has any interest in starting a Family Facebook site, you may get in touch with Ross Pipes at E-mail Address for further discussion. rosspipes@gmail.com<br /> <br />4. Would you like to share your family research with others? I am a volunteer at the Harrodsburg Historical Society. The Research Library maintains a large collection of family files, genealogy books, original documents, etc. Feel free to bring a copy to the Reunion on Sunday and give to me for donation to the Harrodsburg Historical Society Research Library.<br /> <br />5. If you are coming from out-of-town or out-of-state for the reunion, you may want to come a day or two early at do some family research in Boyle and Mercer Counties. The Harrodsburg Historical Society will be open Friday and Saturday from 1-4 pm each day.<br /> <br />Regards,<br /> <br />Peggy Harmon EdgingtonBob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-7137129267356653052010-07-24T17:09:00.001-05:002010-07-24T17:10:57.442-05:002010 Family Reunion in PerryvilleNews Flash: This just in from Peggy Edgington.<br /><br />Dear Family Members,<br /> <br />I have spoken today with Robert Mayes, President, of the Harmon, Gray, Pipes<br />Family Association. The 2010 family reunion will be held at the Perryville Christian <br />Church at 205 East Third Street on Sunday, August 8th at 1:30 p.m. SINCE YOU<br />ARE RECEIVING THIS NOTIFICATION BY EMAIL OF REUNION, YOU WILL NOT<br />RECEIVE WRITTEN NOTIFICATION FROM ROBERT MAYES. This will help<br />save on mailing expense. <br /> <br />The meal will be potluck. Plan on making and bringing your favorite dishes and <br />having great fellowship. If you're coming from out-of-town; you can pick something<br />up along the way if you like.<br /> <br />There will be a business meeting after lunch, and then we will gather for annual<br />family picture. <br /> <br />Bring any information that you want to share with others (pictures, articles, family<br />trees, etc.) for the sharing table that will be set up.<br /> <br />If you cannot attend this year, please send a check to support the upkeep of<br />the Old Union Cemetery. Make check payable and send to: Old Union Cemetery, <br />P.O. Box 124, Perryville, KY 40468. This has been a wet season; so, there<br />has been lots of mowing expense. The cemetery has been mowed about every<br />two weeks.<br /> <br />Just a reminder to check out Bob Pipes' wonderful website www.pipesfamily.com<br />if you haven't done so lately. On Bob's webpage, you can click on Visit our<br />Union Cemetery Site or go to www.unioncemetery.blogspot.com<br /> <br />Hope to see you at the family reunion on August 8th.<br /> <br />Peggy (Harmon) EdgingtonBob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-71825434327961585872010-07-10T10:32:00.003-05:002010-07-10T10:52:12.582-05:00Rachel Pipes LuckettI received word today that Rachel Pipes Luckett had passed away back in June of this year. Audrey Smothers sent me her death notice from the newspaper. Rachel was the daughter of Obediah Silas Pipes and Malissa Wright. She was most likely named after her paternal grandmother, Rachel Brand, wife of Alfred Warden "A.W." Pipes.<br />A.W. and Rachel relocated their family to Clay Co. Missouri after living for many years in the house just east of the cemetery now owned by Randy Glasscock that was (We believe) the original home site of John Pipes Jr and also his Son Nathaniel.<br />Obe Pipes returned to Kentucky and had a farm on Logan Hill Rd north of Gravel Switch. Obe was named for his uncles Obediah and Silas Pipes. He married Malissa Wright who was the widow of Ephraim Smothers and they had three daughters, Rachel, Nadine and Louise.<br />The 4 sisters mentioned are the children from Malissa's marriage to Ephraim. The two sisters are children from Malissa's mariage to Obe.<br />Here is the death notice:<br />Rachel Pipes Luckett, 85, Lebanon, died Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at the Lifecare Center of Bardstown, Bardstown.<br />Born Sept. 24, 1924 in Marion County, she was a member of the Lebanon Baptist Church.<br />She was preceded in death by: her husband, John Bernard "J.B." Luckett Sr.; her parents, Obediah Silas and Melisa Wright Pipes; four sisters, Genetta Padgett, Margaret Padgett, Verna Hoskinson and Pearlee Piece; and two brothers, Frank and William Hardin Smothers.<br />Survivors include: two daughters, Darnel (Larry) Farris of Lebanon and Portia (Willard) Price of Hodgenville; a son, John Bernard (Linda) Luckett Jr. of Elizabethtown; two sisters, Nadine Stiles of Elizabethtown and Louise Reynolds of Columbus, Ind.; a sister-in-law, Susan Tatum of Lebanon; a brother-in-law, Joseph Luckett of Campbellsville; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.<br />Funeral services were held Friday, June 11, at Bosley Funeral Home, Lebanon, with burial in Lebanon National Cemetery. Rev. Roger McCurry officiated.<br />Pallbearers were Gary Reynolds, Chris Gribbins, Wayne Stiles, Jerald Crawford, Scott Gribbins, and Kevin Krebs.<br />Bosley Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-15965925085004665742010-07-03T20:06:00.003-05:002010-07-03T20:13:51.543-05:00Remembering the 4th of July 1776On this day we commemerate and honor the patriots who lived and fought for the cause of our freedom from tyranical government. Some of those men rest here in Old Union and many more in the countryside near by.<br /><br />These words from the declaration of their purpose and the reason for their rebellion mean everything to us.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#3366ff;">"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."</span>Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-49495547828751551952010-06-14T13:58:00.003-05:002010-06-14T14:02:45.694-05:00More recipes from Cousin Ross Pipes' BlogHere's a new post of one of the summer delights ... refreshing, healthy, and delicious Cukes 'n Onions<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.grandpashomecooking.typepad.com/">http://www.grandpashomecooking.typepad.com/</a><br /><br />Coming up soon ...<br /><em>Steamed shrimp, clams, mussels, and oysters ... with dipping sauces<br />Onion Jam<br />Chicken Liver Pate (served with toast points and Onion Jam ... delicious!)<br />An all vegetable sandwich that even the carnivores will love (I think)<br />Sunday Dinner ... Pot Roast<br />Grandma Stewart's Three Bean Salad </em><br />And lots more<br /><br />I've just posted my recipe for Pot Roast and a 1920's photograph of my Mom when she was a girl. [Ross' Mom was Charlotte Allen, who married Lloyd Pipes]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.grandpashomecooking.typepad.com/">http://www.grandpashomecooking.typepad.com/</a>Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-7052123932861091812010-06-03T21:22:00.003-05:002010-06-03T21:50:24.290-05:00Two Interesting Blogs to visit.I heard today via email from a cousin of ours. Like me, he is a great grandson of Obediah Brumfield Pipes and Josephine Edwards, who are both in Old Union. This cousin's name is Ross Pipes and he descends from Obediah's son named William Obediah. I descend from Obediah's son named James Franklin. So we are cousins twice removed. Ross grew up in a very close knit family in Indianapolis at the same time I was growing up in Michigan. Lloyd Pipes was Ross' father and Ross has vivid memories of growing up with a man who was truly a great father figure.<br />Ross sent me a couple of links that I think you may enjoy visiting. Ross has a voracious appetite for good books and good food. And so, one blog is for book reviews that he has written and the other is for recipes from his family and his experience, presented in a very artistic and interesting way. He mixes stories and anecdotes from his childhood memories in with very enticing dishes and pleasing pictures. So visit and then if you are so inclined, send Ross an email and say hello to a cousin. Look around in the recipes to find the stories.<br /><a href="http://www.pipesbookreview.blogspot.com/">http://www.pipesbookreview.blogspot.com/</a><br /><a href="http://www.grandpashomecooking.typepad.com/">http://www.grandpashomecooking.typepad.com/</a>Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-20152866573518633662010-05-31T11:01:00.004-05:002010-05-31T11:07:09.294-05:00Memorial Day 2010 Civil War VeteransToday we remember the Civil War Veterans buried in Old Union Cemetery.<br />Ansel Lee Bandy<br />Charles Burchell<br />Jesse P. Cox<br />Samuel H. Harmon<br />Bradford Pipes<br />Elias Hardin Pipes<br />Obediah B. Pipes<br />MC Roberts<br />Richard Survant<br />James B. Williams<br />R.B. WilliamsBob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-52799871708599736712010-04-28T09:43:00.003-05:002010-04-28T09:52:12.184-05:00A Genealogy WorkshopI am sending the following press release to you in case you know of anyone who is interested in this workshop. Please help us get the word out to those who would enjoy coming to this event.<br />Thank you so much, Carolyn Crabtree<br /><br /><br /><strong>Event:</strong> Genealogy Workshop at Forkland Abraham Lincoln Museum<br /><br /><strong>Address:</strong> 16479 Forkland Road, Gravel Switch, Kentucky 40328<br /><br /><strong>Date:</strong> May 22, 2010<br /><br /><strong>Time:</strong> 9am-4pm<br /><br /><strong>Cost:</strong> $25 includes catered box lunch<br /><br /><strong>Contact:</strong> Pat Williams, 859-332-7606 or e-mail gwill@mis.net<br /><br /><strong>Web site:</strong> http://www.forklandlincolnmuseum.orgBob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-14859034817978541162010-03-31T18:51:00.004-05:002010-03-31T19:25:37.389-05:00The Catlin FamilyThere are two families in Old Union Cemetery that have intrigued me for some time now. William Davis Catlin and his brother Commodore Perry Catlin are brothers and sons of John T. Catlin. William's wife was Mary Calvert and Perry's wife was Nancy Abigail Harmon.<br />The Catlin Family first came to the area in 1789 when Seth Catlin relocated from Delaware and brought his family and quite a few other families along. Seth acquired about 350 acres of land on Lick Run just north and west of old Haysville. Seth's son Theodore was the father of John T. Catlin and the property stayed with his descendants well into the 1900s.<br />You can see the genealogy report for <a href="http://www.pipesfamily.com/oldunionindex.htm">Seth Here</a>.<br /><br />It took some luck and some great research and a great deal of help from others to bring this all together. We have Wills for Seth and John T., Census data, and some great research by a guy named Gary Young from Maryland who used the tax lists of Washington/Marion Counties to prove the connection between Theodore Catlin and his son John T. Catlin.<br /><br />Rita Jane Satterly , who is a descendant of this family, found very critical data in the Courthouse in Springfield and added much of her own family information to help us fill out the picture of these two brothers. They intermarried with the Harmon, Gray, Hundley, Calvert and Edwards families as well as many others from the area.<br /><br />And finally, a lady I have not met, except via email, named Irma Bradley supplied us with the copies of the wills which were key to proving all these connections.<br /><br />As always, let me know if you see errors or if you would like copies of the wills etc.Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-37187740515514649552010-03-12T20:09:00.004-06:002010-03-12T20:29:02.114-06:00Elias Montgomery Harmon<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAhRG-VNP5trEt6LX5WgE5xb71HFPvqUckrqtUWV3IC86SDSWVTDGdN_DapYFe7G4iDU1mIkCi3IAOvaBSNw_yW7FcphQvqPG4HydJIeWmxumKt-nFdS0YsLwR6sM6wWxxC7bshtlMsLU/s1600-h/lo-res+Elias+Montgomery+Harmon+%26+Margaret+Conder.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 256px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447938912596860818" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAhRG-VNP5trEt6LX5WgE5xb71HFPvqUckrqtUWV3IC86SDSWVTDGdN_DapYFe7G4iDU1mIkCi3IAOvaBSNw_yW7FcphQvqPG4HydJIeWmxumKt-nFdS0YsLwR6sM6wWxxC7bshtlMsLU/s320/lo-res+Elias+Montgomery+Harmon+%26+Margaret+Conder.jpg" /></a><br /><div>A great picture of Elias Montgomery Harmon(1844-1924) and his 3rd wife Sallie Ann Montgomery(1854-1941). This great picture comes to us from Mark Schmidt, one of Elias' descendants. I think the picture is dated about 1910. Mark had the picture attached to a family tree on Ancestry.com and has given us permission to show it here. He also has a Conder family bible with some family info in it. Elias was married first to Margaret Conder then to Clarissa Montgomery and lastly to Sallie Ann Montgomery. He was a private in Company "G" of the 10th Kentucky Infantry(Union). Elias also had a farm very close to the cemetery and it was listed in the census next door to Rice Harmon's place which is right at the entrance road to the cemetery. Elias was a son of Michael Harmon III and Marion Webster. Click the photo to enlarge.</div><div>Note: the writing on the photo says that this is Margaret Conder but if you look at the ages, this has to be Sallie Montgomery.</div>Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-91421395195223065722010-03-11T15:53:00.002-06:002010-03-11T16:01:14.350-06:00Another picture of the George Washington Pipes House<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggYet0IlDPfgqA8_zc3T_w09hyphenhyphenK6fJnSPZSfsQHQlW__C55NBfR98HWOjzxTkQaeF9wJn4UHAdYOJL1d8dds_g99MCREU1L34mK4-xzdZKypSyEZ_ZTkE2jk77sLWMalA5rtwpNcn9xO4/s1600-h/GWPipesHouse.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 237px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447499503873562866" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggYet0IlDPfgqA8_zc3T_w09hyphenhyphenK6fJnSPZSfsQHQlW__C55NBfR98HWOjzxTkQaeF9wJn4UHAdYOJL1d8dds_g99MCREU1L34mK4-xzdZKypSyEZ_ZTkE2jk77sLWMalA5rtwpNcn9xO4/s320/GWPipesHouse.jpg" /></a><br /><div>This is the house that is east of the cemetery about 1/2 mile or less.</div><br /><div>The picture shows George, his wife Mariah Edwards Pipes, Miss Edna Shoemaker and a daughter of Ada Pipes Cox named Hope. (Ada was a daughter of George and Mariah and wife of Perry F. Cox) Picture was sent by Tom and Beth Cox of Colorado.</div><br /><div>I am posting it because it is a much bigger and better picture of the home. It is still standing but has been updated. Now owned by the Sheperson family. Click to enlarge.</div><br /><div></div>Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-9109834113599931462010-03-06T20:23:00.005-06:002010-03-07T10:12:07.985-06:00Murder and Mayhem in KentuckySorry I have not posted anything in the last couple of weeks but I am working on a project titled "Murder and Mayhem in Kentucky". The period from 1862 to 1910 in central Kentucky was <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">fraught</span> with lawlessness, killings, gangs of bandits, lynchings and regulators. Most of that stemmed from the period of the Civil War, when Martial Law was declared and local law enforcement was rendered ineffective. Some people took the law into their own hands as a means of self preservation and some saw it as an opportunity to take advantage of others.<br />Some of our family were dragged into it or the victims of it. Bradford Pipes was murdered, so were Isaac Thomas <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hourigan</span> and Samuel T. Harmon. And yes, some of the perpetrators were married into the family and many were neighbors.<br />William S. Wilson, The <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Crowdus</span> family, The <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Rousey</span> family from <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Milledgeville</span> and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Butchertown</span> and the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Rowes</span>, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bluford</span> Kennett, John Pennington, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Benjamin Hardin Whitehouse</span> and other familiar family names all were involved in one way or another. It is an enthralling historical story and one that really grabs your imagination.<br />Thanks to two of my mentors from Boyle and Marion Counties, (Karen Fowler Caldwell and the late John <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Sheperson</span>), I have been sent many, many newspaper clippings and articles over the last few years about all of the above. In my files is a copy of a letter written in 1970 in Missouri by a grandson of Silas Pipes. And in the letter, the grandson describes how Silas told him in the early years of the 20<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span> Century about the day in late November of 1868 when Smith <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">Rousey</span> died in a gun battle on the Isaac Shelby farm south of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">Danville</span>. The story will give you goosebumps.<br />If you have any information about any of the violence that <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">occurred</span> in this period, please consider sharing it with me. Please contact me first as I have a lot of items already but I really need more. I have many small snippet items that were published in local newspapers but I may have missed some.<br />My plan right now is to put all of this into a booklet that will be sold as a fund raiser for the cemetery.Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-51013254179946430942010-02-23T09:29:00.002-06:002010-02-23T10:25:01.176-06:00Washington's BirthdayI should have posted this yesterday but did not get it done in time.<br />George Washington was born on February 22nd, 1732 in the same era as most of our Pipes, Harmon and Gray ancestors who migrated to Mercer, Lincoln and Washington Counties. They served with Washington in the revolution and Kentucky became a state in 1792 while Washington was in his first term as President. Mary Morris Pipes tells the story in her Pension application, filed near the end of her life, how John Pipes met with Washington to discuss his plans to stay with the Continental Army.<br />George Washington is still a "Larger Than Life" figure in the history of our country and I think it is interesting how families started naming their children in his honor. I have about 20 people in my database files with the name George Washington and probably 50 more with the name George or George W.<br />Here are just a few of them who are closely connected to our families and the Cemetery.<br />1. George Washington Pipes b. 1809 to Elizabeth Pipes. He was a grandson of John Pipes, his mother married (2nd) Jacob Harmon. Jacob and Elizabeth migrated to Missouri and George went with them. George married his cousin Mary Pipes in Missouri they had 8 children and many descendants.<br />2. George Washington Edwards b. 1813, a son of Josiah Edwards and Sallie Wright, he married Isabelle Brown and his brother Josiah Monroe Edwards is in Old Union as well as his niece Josephine Edwards, who is my G Grandmother.<br />3. George Washington Crain b. 1835, a son of Thomas Underwood Crain, he married Nancy Arnold and is in Old Union. Many of you reading this are related to this George Washington.<br />4. George Washington Pipes b. 1844, a son of William Pipes and Nancy Gray and grandson of John Pipes. He married Mariah Edwards, had many children and lived just east of the cemetery. He and Mariah and his father William are in Old Union.<br />5. George Washington Harmon b. 1862, a son of Samuel Henry Harmon and Sarah Shaver, he married Maggie Pirtle and had three children.<br />6. George Washington Edwards b. 1862, a son of James Franklin Edwards and Martha Walston, he married Annette Lysle. He is a brother to Josephine Edwards Pipes, My G Grandmother.<br />7. George Washington Crane Jr. b. 1873, a son of #3 above, he married Lucinda Bottom who is in Old Union.<br /><br />You can see how we have so many strong connections to this man who had such a large and lasting influence on our country, our history and on each of us.Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-7255816992785890062010-02-14T15:03:00.006-06:002010-02-14T22:31:15.916-06:00Happy 95th Birthday Edna Lankford<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3OvQVuH6IdhRkOdaWpmTOneKvRs78O419szGFr5GrQx_5p0gZfvVpEBNM2dCXDm9eoNle2KA9ro-iwbqWoOeJVqmjm6F2rCy50LT5lYtGUrgtf4vKpJQHZ5cA0SP8Udj9ZPp9KBx23Uc/s1600-h/Edna+Lankford+95th+Birthday+02112010.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 182px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438208277670061682" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3OvQVuH6IdhRkOdaWpmTOneKvRs78O419szGFr5GrQx_5p0gZfvVpEBNM2dCXDm9eoNle2KA9ro-iwbqWoOeJVqmjm6F2rCy50LT5lYtGUrgtf4vKpJQHZ5cA0SP8Udj9ZPp9KBx23Uc/s320/Edna+Lankford+95th+Birthday+02112010.jpg" /></a><br /><div>LANKFORD CELEBRATES 95TH BIRTHDAY<br />Edna Lankford, Danville, celebrated her 95th birthday on Thursday, February 11, 2010 at the McDowell Place where she is a resident. Visiting Lankford were her children, Mary Frances Campana of Corvallis, Oregon and Robert Lankford of Los Angeles, California.<br /><br />Lankford, an active member of the Women’s Mission Group of Lexington Avenue Baptist Church and Perryville Homemakers Club, has received numerous recognitions.<br /><br />Recognitions include Boyle County Fiscal Court’s Distinguished Service Award, Proclamation from City of Danville Office of Mayor Hugh Coomer, Kentucky Assisted Living Facilities Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, City of Perryville Community Service Award, acknowledgement from The House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Speaker Jody Richards and Member Mike Harmon, and has been named a Kentucky Colonel by Governor Steven L. Beshear.<br /></div><div> </div><div>Thanks to Peggy Edgington for sending this along. It appeared in the Advocate Messenger. </div><div>Edna is a long-time supporter and current Vice-President of the Harmon, Gray & Pipes Family Association. </div>Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-87192520968747640332010-02-12T16:25:00.004-06:002010-02-12T16:57:57.229-06:00New Burials in Old Union Discovered.A fellow researcher ( and distant cousin) by the name of Sandy Kassen, who follows the Russell Family genealogy in central Kentucky sent me an email saying that she found two persons who are buried in the cemetery that we had not previously found in any records. The death certificates for them say "Burial in Old Union". I found the records on Ancestry.com. They do not have a stone and as the burials were in 1926 and 1932 I assume there may not have been a stone.<br />The persons are John Rufus Pipes and his wife Addie Johnson. They lived their lives near Gravel Switch and had no children. John was a son of Elias Hardin Pipes and Victoria Hourigan. He passed away in 1926 and Addie died in 1932. His obituary did not mention the burial but their death certificates both give Old Union as the burial place. They were among the last of the Pipes family to remain in Boyle and Marion Counties.<br />Addie's parents were W. C. Johnson and Celia May.<br />I can email copies of the death certs if anyone wants them.<br />I will add them to the "additional List" this week.Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-87473271963663751782010-02-09T09:48:00.006-06:002010-02-09T10:32:24.424-06:00New Genealogy Reports Now AvailableToday I am making the genealogy reports from my Master Genealogist Database available for viewing. I will put a link in this post but also add a link to the reports on the left side of the blog. The reports I have now are for the Pipes Harmon Gray families as well as the Crain and Montgomery families. I will add other families in the future but I need to do some more digging to get back to a common ancestor for each family and that means a single man and wife who came to Kentucky between 1780 and 1810 and purchased land in the area of the Cemetery and then intermarried with the families above. Obvious candidates are the Catlin, Calvert, Bottom, Whitehouse and Arnold families and possibly a few others.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pipesfamily.com/oldunionindex.htm">The reports are here</a><br /><br />You will notice that the same people appear in many of the reports and that is what happens when cousins and families inter-marry and a community develops and remains in place for almost 100 years. The 19th Century is unique in our history and is the foundation which most of us have built our lives upon. That time period seems to me to be so very stable and bears almost no comparison to the explosive changes that occured in the 20th Century. Perhaps I am being naive, but that is what makes the cemetery and the memory of the people who rest there so special.Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-1183812648339522342010-01-24T13:03:00.003-06:002010-01-27T15:07:39.683-06:00Michael Harmon Genealogy Report<span style="color:#ff0000;">UPDATE: I corrected some mistakes in the genealogy report today (1/27/10). The children of James Michael Harmon were in the wrong family.</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Also, the Report now has the date and time in the page header so you can tell when it was last updated.</span><br /><br />Today I am posting a link to a genealogy report on Michael Harmon Sr. and his descendants.<br />Please thank all those who have helped me gather this information and realize that I still have more details to add. I will continue to update the report as I add information. I also intend to add reports like this on other "Founding Families" from the area near the cemetery and those in the cemetery.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pipesfamily.com/harmna.htm">http://www.pipesfamily.com/harmna.htm</a><br /><br />My sources for this have been: Peggy Edgington, Mary Audrey Smothers, Rita Satterly, the books compiled and published by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, Luther Stinson Crain, Lloyd Harmon and Genevieve (Logan) Prather, the census records for Boyle, Washington and Marion Counties and many other Harmon researchers and also the resources of Ancestry.com.<br /><br />I should emphasize that this type of report always contain errors. I make typing errors or misinterpret the info, etc. I always consider this info Public Property, so use it how ever you please but please check the information against the sources or do your own research to verify before accepting it as "Gospel".Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-31852153214866357582010-01-06T14:01:00.003-06:002010-01-06T14:09:19.317-06:00Cemetery "Additional List" updatedI know this is kind of a goofy name for this very important piece of information but I could not think of a better name.<br />Anyway, I updated the "Union Cemetery Additional List" today. If you scroll down and look on the left side, you will see a link to it. It is a .pdf file and it contains all of the names that I have found so far of those who are listed or mentioned as being buried in the Cemetery but as of 2008 when I performed the inventory of the cemetery they had no marker.<br /><br />It is important to know about this list if you are doing research or need to know the whole picture of who is in the cemetery.Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177542717656832552.post-53226868615512367812010-01-01T14:33:00.002-06:002010-01-01T14:39:52.841-06:00The Mapping DatabasePlease note that the main purpose for this web site is the database that tells us who is buried in the Cemetery and to provide pictures of the stones and info about the people. <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">You can now link to the database info by clicking on the image of the old church above.</span></strong> I am adding comments about who each person is as I find the information. Please dont hesitate to help me out. I always enjoy hearing from you. Many thanks to Peggy Edgington, Rita Satterly, Audrey Lanham Smothers, Mary Guerrant and Mary Rall for help so far. It helps to see the info if you can zoom your browser to make the page smaller.Bob Pipeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023060734676997841noreply@blogger.com0