THOMAS GRAHAM
THOMAS GRAHAM was born in Virginia. With his parents he came to Kentucky, then to Jennings County, Indiana, and later with his family of six sons and three daughters he came to Johnson County, Indiana. While in Jennings he was one of the founders of the "Old Graham Presbyterian Church" of that county. He taught school in the log Court House at Franklin, Johnson Co., Indiana in the winter of 1829-30. The Bethany Church at Whiteland was organized at the home of his son, Lewis Graham, and both father and son were ruling elders.
Notes from " Kentucky Ancestors Volume 9, No. 4, April, 1974"
GRAHAM BIBLE RECORDS
Contributed by Mrs. Howard L. Bulls, P.O. Box 542, Reedley, California, 193654
From the Family Bible of Allen David Graham, son of Thomas Graham and Mary Rose. Thomas and Mary Rose, daughter of Captain Lewis Rose, were married in Mercer County, Kentucky. The marriage bond for this couple was dated October 1, 1793 and was secured by Lewis Rose. About 1800 Thomas and Mary (Rose) Graham moved to Shelby County, Kentucky and lived near other Graham relatives on land bought from the Michael Troutman 400 acre patent on Tick Creek. The nine children of this couple were born in Kentucky and are on record in Indiana State Library, Indianapolis in the DAR Bible Records compiled by Vera Tranter, Vol. II, pt. 3, p. 26.
Notes from Mary Ritchie Jarboe - - Ritchie - Shelledy Family History
THE KENTUCKY YEARS - - Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky - - Romance
Esther Shillideay, who lived on five frontiers in her lifetime from Pennsylvania through two Virginia places and two Kentucky counties, deserves recognition as a family trailblazer. The elder Grahams do not arrive in Kentucky until the following year, and friend and attorney Robert Watson of Wythe County, Virginia doesn't come out until the family is settled in Shelby County. Esther must have been about 58 to 60 years at the time of her brave trek.
The realatives arriving in 1794, the next year, were probably part of a very large trail party. George King (who will one day be Mary Jane Shelledy's stepfather) related that he came west with a large migratory party numbering 473 people, and that he was 12 years old then. George was born 1782 so he came in 1794. George's father had drowned at sea on the voyage to America and his mother had remarried to one McCaslin before the trip west. Esther's daughter, another Esther, had married David McCaslin in Wythe County, Virginia. The McCaslins are thereafter near our people in Kentucky and in Indiana.
If not arriving until 1793 Esther Shillideay had barely unpacked the saddlebags when young Thomas Graham, then under her wing, brother to the wife of her son George, fell in love. Young Thomas on October 1, 1793 wed Mary Rose, daughter of the noted Indian fighter and pioneer, Captain Lewis Rose. Captain Rose had been captured by Indians at the Battle of Blue Licks, and escaped. When Thomas was around the Rose fireside with an ear to the old hero's tales, it may have been young Mary who had his eye. The shock is that this young scalawag had married outside the family tribe. I hope his parents were not too hard on Esther when they did arrive. The Roses had, at least, become Presbyterian on the frontier.
Later, once settled up in Indiana, Thomas and his Mary Rose would help establish Presbyterian churches in two different communities. And there is a sad sequel to their story in Civil War times. One of their sons and his family moved to Salina, Kansas in 1857. A Kansas grandson of Thomas' during the Civil War, was sent from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Laramie, Wyoming to guard telegraph line and protect Oregon trail travelers. Just as the war ended, as a result of a clash with Indians, James Harvey Graham drowned in the North Platte river. In the fall of 1981 I visited Fort Laramie, beside the Platte, remembering a long story that went back to Harrodsburg and beyond.
THOMAS GRAHAM was born in Virginia. With his parents he came to Kentucky, then to Jennings County, Indiana, and later with his family of six sons and three daughters he came to Johnson County, Indiana. While in Jennings he was one of the founders of the "Old Graham Presbyterian Church" of that county. He taught school in the log Court House at Franklin, Johnson Co., Indiana in the winter of 1829-30. The Bethany Church at Whiteland was organized at the home of his son, Lewis Graham, and both father and son were ruling elders.
Notes from " Kentucky Ancestors Volume 9, No. 4, April, 1974"
GRAHAM BIBLE RECORDS
Contributed by Mrs. Howard L. Bulls, P.O. Box 542, Reedley, California, 193654
From the Family Bible of Allen David Graham, son of Thomas Graham and Mary Rose. Thomas and Mary Rose, daughter of Captain Lewis Rose, were married in Mercer County, Kentucky. The marriage bond for this couple was dated October 1, 1793 and was secured by Lewis Rose. About 1800 Thomas and Mary (Rose) Graham moved to Shelby County, Kentucky and lived near other Graham relatives on land bought from the Michael Troutman 400 acre patent on Tick Creek. The nine children of this couple were born in Kentucky and are on record in Indiana State Library, Indianapolis in the DAR Bible Records compiled by Vera Tranter, Vol. II, pt. 3, p. 26.
Notes from Mary Ritchie Jarboe - - Ritchie - Shelledy Family History
THE KENTUCKY YEARS - - Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky - - Romance
Esther Shillideay, who lived on five frontiers in her lifetime from Pennsylvania through two Virginia places and two Kentucky counties, deserves recognition as a family trailblazer. The elder Grahams do not arrive in Kentucky until the following year, and friend and attorney Robert Watson of Wythe County, Virginia doesn't come out until the family is settled in Shelby County. Esther must have been about 58 to 60 years at the time of her brave trek.
The realatives arriving in 1794, the next year, were probably part of a very large trail party. George King (who will one day be Mary Jane Shelledy's stepfather) related that he came west with a large migratory party numbering 473 people, and that he was 12 years old then. George was born 1782 so he came in 1794. George's father had drowned at sea on the voyage to America and his mother had remarried to one McCaslin before the trip west. Esther's daughter, another Esther, had married David McCaslin in Wythe County, Virginia. The McCaslins are thereafter near our people in Kentucky and in Indiana.
If not arriving until 1793 Esther Shillideay had barely unpacked the saddlebags when young Thomas Graham, then under her wing, brother to the wife of her son George, fell in love. Young Thomas on October 1, 1793 wed Mary Rose, daughter of the noted Indian fighter and pioneer, Captain Lewis Rose. Captain Rose had been captured by Indians at the Battle of Blue Licks, and escaped. When Thomas was around the Rose fireside with an ear to the old hero's tales, it may have been young Mary who had his eye. The shock is that this young scalawag had married outside the family tribe. I hope his parents were not too hard on Esther when they did arrive. The Roses had, at least, become Presbyterian on the frontier.
Later, once settled up in Indiana, Thomas and his Mary Rose would help establish Presbyterian churches in two different communities. And there is a sad sequel to their story in Civil War times. One of their sons and his family moved to Salina, Kansas in 1857. A Kansas grandson of Thomas' during the Civil War, was sent from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Laramie, Wyoming to guard telegraph line and protect Oregon trail travelers. Just as the war ended, as a result of a clash with Indians, James Harvey Graham drowned in the North Platte river. In the fall of 1981 I visited Fort Laramie, beside the Platte, remembering a long story that went back to Harrodsburg and beyond.
THOMAS GRAHAM
THOMAS GRAHAM was born in Virginia. With his parents he came to Kentucky, then to Jennings County, Indiana, and later with his family of six sons and three daughters he came to Johnson County, Indiana. While in Jennings he was one of the founders of the "Old Graham Presbyterian Church" of that county. He taught school in the log Court House at Franklin, Johnson Co., Indiana in the winter of 1829-30. The Bethany Church at Whiteland was organized at the home of his son, Lewis Graham, and both father and son were ruling elders.
Notes from " Kentucky Ancestors Volume 9, No. 4, April, 1974"
GRAHAM BIBLE RECORDS
Contributed by Mrs. Howard L. Bulls, P.O. Box 542, Reedley, California, 193654
From the Family Bible of Allen David Graham, son of Thomas Graham and Mary Rose. Thomas and Mary Rose, daughter of Captain Lewis Rose, were married in Mercer County, Kentucky. The marriage bond for this couple was dated October 1, 1793 and was secured by Lewis Rose. About 1800 Thomas and Mary (Rose) Graham moved to Shelby County, Kentucky and lived near other Graham relatives on land bought from the Michael Troutman 400 acre patent on Tick Creek. The nine children of this couple were born in Kentucky and are on record in Indiana State Library, Indianapolis in the DAR Bible Records compiled by Vera Tranter, Vol. II, pt. 3, p. 26.
Notes from Mary Ritchie Jarboe - - Ritchie - Shelledy Family History
THE KENTUCKY YEARS - - Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky - - Romance
Esther Shillideay, who lived on five frontiers in her lifetime from Pennsylvania through two Virginia places and two Kentucky counties, deserves recognition as a family trailblazer. The elder Grahams do not arrive in Kentucky until the following year, and friend and attorney Robert Watson of Wythe County, Virginia doesn't come out until the family is settled in Shelby County. Esther must have been about 58 to 60 years at the time of her brave trek.
The realatives arriving in 1794, the next year, were probably part of a very large trail party. George King (who will one day be Mary Jane Shelledy's stepfather) related that he came west with a large migratory party numbering 473 people, and that he was 12 years old then. George was born 1782 so he came in 1794. George's father had drowned at sea on the voyage to America and his mother had remarried to one McCaslin before the trip west. Esther's daughter, another Esther, had married David McCaslin in Wythe County, Virginia. The McCaslins are thereafter near our people in Kentucky and in Indiana.
If not arriving until 1793 Esther Shillideay had barely unpacked the saddlebags when young Thomas Graham, then under her wing, brother to the wife of her son George, fell in love. Young Thomas on October 1, 1793 wed Mary Rose, daughter of the noted Indian fighter and pioneer, Captain Lewis Rose. Captain Rose had been captured by Indians at the Battle of Blue Licks, and escaped. When Thomas was around the Rose fireside with an ear to the old hero's tales, it may have been young Mary who had his eye. The shock is that this young scalawag had married outside the family tribe. I hope his parents were not too hard on Esther when they did arrive. The Roses had, at least, become Presbyterian on the frontier.
Later, once settled up in Indiana, Thomas and his Mary Rose would help establish Presbyterian churches in two different communities. And there is a sad sequel to their story in Civil War times. One of their sons and his family moved to Salina, Kansas in 1857. A Kansas grandson of Thomas' during the Civil War, was sent from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Laramie, Wyoming to guard telegraph line and protect Oregon trail travelers. Just as the war ended, as a result of a clash with Indians, James Harvey Graham drowned in the North Platte river. In the fall of 1981 I visited Fort Laramie, beside the Platte, remembering a long story that went back to Harrodsburg and beyond.
THOMAS GRAHAM was born in Virginia. With his parents he came to Kentucky, then to Jennings County, Indiana, and later with his family of six sons and three daughters he came to Johnson County, Indiana. While in Jennings he was one of the founders of the "Old Graham Presbyterian Church" of that county. He taught school in the log Court House at Franklin, Johnson Co., Indiana in the winter of 1829-30. The Bethany Church at Whiteland was organized at the home of his son, Lewis Graham, and both father and son were ruling elders.
Notes from " Kentucky Ancestors Volume 9, No. 4, April, 1974"
GRAHAM BIBLE RECORDS
Contributed by Mrs. Howard L. Bulls, P.O. Box 542, Reedley, California, 193654
From the Family Bible of Allen David Graham, son of Thomas Graham and Mary Rose. Thomas and Mary Rose, daughter of Captain Lewis Rose, were married in Mercer County, Kentucky. The marriage bond for this couple was dated October 1, 1793 and was secured by Lewis Rose. About 1800 Thomas and Mary (Rose) Graham moved to Shelby County, Kentucky and lived near other Graham relatives on land bought from the Michael Troutman 400 acre patent on Tick Creek. The nine children of this couple were born in Kentucky and are on record in Indiana State Library, Indianapolis in the DAR Bible Records compiled by Vera Tranter, Vol. II, pt. 3, p. 26.
Notes from Mary Ritchie Jarboe - - Ritchie - Shelledy Family History
THE KENTUCKY YEARS - - Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky - - Romance
Esther Shillideay, who lived on five frontiers in her lifetime from Pennsylvania through two Virginia places and two Kentucky counties, deserves recognition as a family trailblazer. The elder Grahams do not arrive in Kentucky until the following year, and friend and attorney Robert Watson of Wythe County, Virginia doesn't come out until the family is settled in Shelby County. Esther must have been about 58 to 60 years at the time of her brave trek.
The realatives arriving in 1794, the next year, were probably part of a very large trail party. George King (who will one day be Mary Jane Shelledy's stepfather) related that he came west with a large migratory party numbering 473 people, and that he was 12 years old then. George was born 1782 so he came in 1794. George's father had drowned at sea on the voyage to America and his mother had remarried to one McCaslin before the trip west. Esther's daughter, another Esther, had married David McCaslin in Wythe County, Virginia. The McCaslins are thereafter near our people in Kentucky and in Indiana.
If not arriving until 1793 Esther Shillideay had barely unpacked the saddlebags when young Thomas Graham, then under her wing, brother to the wife of her son George, fell in love. Young Thomas on October 1, 1793 wed Mary Rose, daughter of the noted Indian fighter and pioneer, Captain Lewis Rose. Captain Rose had been captured by Indians at the Battle of Blue Licks, and escaped. When Thomas was around the Rose fireside with an ear to the old hero's tales, it may have been young Mary who had his eye. The shock is that this young scalawag had married outside the family tribe. I hope his parents were not too hard on Esther when they did arrive. The Roses had, at least, become Presbyterian on the frontier.
Later, once settled up in Indiana, Thomas and his Mary Rose would help establish Presbyterian churches in two different communities. And there is a sad sequel to their story in Civil War times. One of their sons and his family moved to Salina, Kansas in 1857. A Kansas grandson of Thomas' during the Civil War, was sent from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Laramie, Wyoming to guard telegraph line and protect Oregon trail travelers. Just as the war ended, as a result of a clash with Indians, James Harvey Graham drowned in the North Platte river. In the fall of 1981 I visited Fort Laramie, beside the Platte, remembering a long story that went back to Harrodsburg and beyond.
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