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2 Raymond Thomas Horton, 1914-1987
Raymond Thomas Horton was born on 15 November 1914, in Campton, Kentucky. His father, Herbert Hilary Horton, was 21 and his mother, Lucy Ethel McCoun Horton, who went by “Ethel,” was 18. Herbert died in 1931 when Raymond was 16. Raymond attended Berea Academy from 1931-1934, graduating in 1934, and Berea College for one year.…
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94 Mark Whitaker, 1760-1812
Mark Whitaker (1760-1812) was a leading Methodist circuit-riding minister at a time when this denomination was booming, especially in frontier areas. He was born in Frederick County, Maryland and moved with his parents to Surry County, North Carolina. Mark’s career as a minister began in about 1780 in Castlewood in Russell County, Virginia, where he…
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250 Thomas Bartow Jr, 1737-1793
Thomas Bartow II was born on 26 January 1737 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, the son of Thomas Bartow I (1709-1782) and an unknown mother. Thomas Bartow II married Sarah Benezet (1747-1818) on 23 June 1768, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They had 10 children in 20 years. He died on 26 January 1793, in Philadelphia at…
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92 Drury Puckett Jr, 1777-1815
In 1777, he was born in what is today Russell County, Virginia. He was the seventh of nine children of Drury Puckett Sr (1733-1794) and Judith Lowry (1737-1794). By the mid-1790s, Drury had migrated to Kentucky, settling in an area that today is near a town called Burning Fork in Magoffin County. At the time,…
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88 and 89 William John Cockerham, 1794-1852, and Elizabeth Hill, 1798-1880
Elizabeth Hill was born in North Carolina, in about 1796 anddied in Lee County, Kentucky, after the 1880 census,probably in 1881.1 She is believed to have been the daughterof Joel Hill (1763-1843) and Anna Watson (1773-1855). On29 Mar 1821, Elizabeth married William John (or JohnWilliam) Cockerham (1794-1852) in Wilkes County, NorthCarolina. They migrated to Breathitt…
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Horton and Bryan Family History 