Boone County, Kentucky Genealogy Trails

(Source: Kentucky Ancestors, Oct. 1972. Transcribed by Joanne Morgan)

The first Boone County Courthouse was built in 1800 (presumed to be of logs), the second one in 1817, and the third, or present building, was completed in 1889.

Regarding the SECOND COURTHOUSE -- The Boone County Court on 5 February, 1816, “agreed to build a Commodious Court house at this place, to be brick & to be commenced this Season.”  4 March 1818, the court agreed “the court house to be built at this place shall be …forty feet in length and thirty-six feet in width of a suitable thickness and of proportional height”.  6 January 1817, “The commissioners for building the courthouse…proposed the following additions to the former proposed plans which is for the stone wall to be raised one foot higher two chimneys with two fireplaces in each. The house to be well oiled, painted & penciled with white lead & to have a stone sill for the door, which proposition the court doth agree to”.  1 September 1817, the courthouse commissioners suggested the following addition to the courthouse, ”to erect an addition of 12 feet in front to be open two story high spaced upon pillars 5 in number & that Geo. Throop the undertaker now is agreed to wait until the collection of the next levy for his pay”.  6 October 1817, “the courthouse commissioners be & are authorized to cause an addition of a cupola & steeple such as they may think proper to other courthouses & may open a subscription for that purpose & receive such donations as may be given”.  However, it was not until 6 October 1828 that “It is now agreed & ordered by the court that a cupola be erected”... “and have placed in said cupola such a bell as they may think advisable:.  5 October 1829, “It is ordered that Willis Graves who has heretofore been appointed a Comr. to have a cupola erected on the courthouse. Also have a Franklin or lightning rod made and put up on the courthouse”.  The cupola was erected by W. Calvert.  45 July 1831, it was reported that Robt. Wake had put a new roof on the courthouse & “the comrs. will therefore pay said Wake on order agreeable to contract”.  1 July 1833, “Johnson Bradly is appointed as Comr. to return the courthouse bell which is cracked & have exchanged or moulded over as he may think best & hang again”.  (See Order books A, B, C, and D.)

3 March 1823, the Comrs. To have the courthouse & Clerk’s office enclosed with a plank fence 4 feet high capd. with plank, black locust post & with 4 gates to run with Washington Street 10 feet east of the Clerk’s office” etc.  Evidently the photograph of the building was taken between 1817 and 1828 or before the cupola was added to the building.

MARRIAGE RECORDS OF MARTIN OWENS

Marriage records of Rockcastle, Lincoln, and Pulaski counties, Kentucky .

Communities of Broadhead, Crab Orchard, Ottawa , Bee Lick and general area.

Marriage records of Martin Owens.  Commence to celebrate the rites of matrimony in the year of our Lord, February 19, 1850.  Written in his own handwriting on the first page of his book.

“…You will find some mistakes in the spelling of these names. I have corrected a few in parenthesis that I know are incorrect”.

Typed and submitted by Joanne Scobee Morgan

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Alford Proctor  married Christian Carreal  February 19, 1850

Reuben Soung married Selena McCoy       June 1, 1850

William Harrison married Louzey (Louisa) Cummins July 31, 1850

James Thompson married Elizabeth Adams October 24, 1850

John Soord married Elizabeth Minkes    October 24, 1850

William Adams married Elizabeth Thompson January 23, 1851

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McCager Thompson married Mary Ann Brown January 23, 1851

Andrew Adams married Mary Hasty     December 10, 1851

Eligah (Elijah) Watson married Elizabeth Lowarene (Lowrence) March 4, 1851

William Adams married Emily Hasty    April 8, 1851

William Colson married Lousinda Hamm June 6, 1851

Benegemine (Benjamin) Van Hook married Jane Reynolds August 27, 1851

John McCoy married Mary Deboard       January 1, 1852

Stephen Vandepool married Margret Rynolds (Reynolds) January 1 1852

Howsley Cable married Elizabeth Ramsey March 24, 1852

Abraham Waters married Delilia Johnson March 28, 1852

Lewis Williams married Elizabeth Row May 2, 1852

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Johnson Sowdens or Sowders married Mary J. Regges May 20, 1852

Stephen Swinney married Sarah Thompson June 10, 1852

John Owens married Eliza Mullins     November 25, 1852

John Cummins married Nancy Hardon December 2, 1852

James Hauk married Matilda Payne January 27, 1853

William Bullark married Elizabeth Cash February 3, 1853

John Adams married Edney Tony     March 15, 1853

John Pointer married Sarah Harden       March 25, 1853

Jones Cummins married Hariet Stringer ---- --- ------

William Stakes married Elizabeth Vandepool April 15, 1853

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Andrew Payne married Sarah Sowder     June 2, 1853

William Vandepool married Martha Reynoldes June 2, 1853

George Lykins married Seesand Bissinger July 4, 1853

Fedrick De Board married Mary Owens   July 19, 1853

Allen Owens married Mary Stokey           September 1, 1853

John McClure married Margret Little        September 17, 1853

Malden Blankship married Mary Hasty     September 22, 1853

James J. Ross married Kitty Ann Woogiat November 9, 1853

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John Henshall married Susananah Whittimore December 26, 1853

Jerrom B. Lane or Lare married Ann French June January 2, 1852

Samuel Lepew married Arrah Mecvey March 15, 1854

Ruben Reynoldes married Nancy Collier May 2, 1854

William Cummins married Mary Ann Owens June 2, 1854

Daniel Wallen married Lucinda Tyere   July 24 1854

John Saswell married Margret Regges   July 25, 1854

James Lvannoyes married Telitho Tates October 11, 1855

Samuel Brewer married Martha Van Hook May 1, 1855

William Harrison married Elizabeth Soord July 10, 1856

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John H. Neely married Susananah Barren October 2, 1856

Jesse Preston married Charity Ann Owens October 7, 1856

William Todd married Eliza Stakes       October 23, 1856

John Southard married Anny N. Renner October 23, 1856

John R. Griffin married Mary Owens     July 22, 1856

Uriah Swinney married Mary E. Van Hook December 9, 1856

General Burton married Eliza Hasty       February 12, 1856

William E. Hamn married Amanda Smith December 25, 1856

John Cummins married Sarah Miller       January 7, 1857

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Thomas Abrams married Mary Sunsbord  July 31, 1857

William Saswell married Mary Hargard    May 1, 1857

Zacriah Adams married Elizia Farry         March 9, 1857

Nichlos Minkes married Martha Haggard  March 12, 1857

William Hasty married Henretta Wadle     September 16, 1857

M. G. Bryant married Savanah Adams      December 22, 1857

M. Woods married Sarah Minks                January 7, 1858

John Newcum married Elizabeth Farris     March 28, 1858

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Wesley Davis married Lucinda Decany        March 9, 1858

Ezekiel Hamn married Arthusa Todd            April 15, 1858

George Payne married Elizabeth Sowders     May 27, 1858

Madison Floyd married Melly E. Floyd         July 15, 1858

Henry Owens married Nancy Todd                December 20 1858

William S. Payne married Mary J. Cummins March 10, 1859

William Owens married Catherine Tyre         June 17, 1859

James Hamn married Mary J. Dowel              June 23, 1859

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Harrison Surber married Mary Surber             November 18, 1859 

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