At a later point, this deed was called into question and on 15 October 1846, Croghan would record a new deed, noting that the former deed was in doubt.[2] Croghan was still in Pittsburgh when he made the second copy of the deed, which recorded on 3 November 1846.

Boynton Merrill identifies William Croghan as the brother-in-law of George Rogers Clark, and notes that Croghan founded Smithland and had a residence, Locust Grove, outside Louisville.[3] Merrill indicates that the island on which Ezekiel C. Green bought a tract of land from William Croghan was called Croghan’s Island, and was at the mouth of the Cumberland. Merrill notes that in 1806, Richard Ferguson was involved in a court dispute with Isaac Bullard over the rights to the ferry from Croghan’s Island to Smithland.[4]

Smithland’s Importance as Inland Port at Junction of Cumberland and Ohio Rivers

Merrill notes that a small town with the name Smithland had existed a few miles below the mouth of the Cumberland for some years prior to the establishment of the present town with this name at the mouth of the Cumberland.[5] The present town was established after the purchase treaty of July 1805, which extinguished the claims of the Chickasaws to all land east of the Tennessee River, at which point William Croghan applied to Livingston County court for permission to begin the town.

From the beginning, Smithland served as a kind of inland port according to Merrill, a place at which river boats going up and downriver to Memphis and New Orleans stopped for provisions, services, etc.[6] After 1810, Smithland experienced steady growth due to increasing traffic on the Ohio and Cumberland Rivers.[7] Merrill notes that cargoes produced at Nashville and other places in the Cumberland watershed were floated to the mouth of the river, where they waited for boats headed for New Orleans.[8]

According to Merrill, the trade route from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, which passed through Smithland, was one of the great transportation and commerce systems in America in the early 1800s. Almost all the finished goods of the region east of the Alleghenies that were being sent west went through Pittsburgh, where they were loaded on barges to be floated down the Ohio, ended up passing through Smithland. To these goods were added farm and forest products of the west that were bound for New Orleans and the ports of the world.[9]

The trading ties between Smithland and New Orleans are apparent in the enrollment of the steamboat Livingston of Smithland in the port of New Orleans on 22 February 1827.[10] The enrollment record states that the boat had been built at Smithland in 1826 and was owned by William Gordon, Henry Wells, and Joseph Haydock of Smithland, and Peter C. Holt of Union County, Kentucky. Gordon was the master of the boat.

Ezekiel Acquires More Island Property

Three months after buying land on Croghan’s Island from William Croghan, on 16 May 1836, Ezekiel Calhoun Green bought more land on the island from Jesse Patterson of Livingston County.[11] The deed identifies the island as a small island lying at the foot of Cumberland Island on the Ohio River just below the mouth of the Cumberland River. Ezekiel purchased 75 acres from Patterson for $300. This deed was proven and recorded on 20 June 1836 when Patterson’s wife Rebecca renounced her dower interest in the land.

On 4 July 1836, a survey for Ezekiel for 313 acres on Cumberland Island was recorded (see the digital image at head of this posting).[12] The land was surveyed under the vacant lands act, with 150 acres being granted on certificate 34, 100 acres granted on certificate 100 to James Rutter and deeded to Ezekiel Calhoun Green, 46 acres granted on certificate 19 to William and Robert Hall, and the rest granted on certificate 17 to James Rutter and deeded to Ezekiel Calhoun Green. The land had been surveyed by Rutter on 3 May 1836.  The survey record was witnessed by A. Smith and D. Frizzle. The court record of the survey has a drawing of the tract.

As we’ll see later, Ezekiel’s estate records state that he owned land on Cumberland Island at the time of his death on 6 April 1851, and the record of his daughter Mary Musa Green’s marriage to James L. Warmack on 17 November 1857 states that Mary Musa was born on Cumberland Island in Livingston County.[13] Mary Musa’s tombstone in Smithland cemetery gives her date of birth as 10 June 1842.[14] This suggests to me that by the date of Mary Musa’s birth, Ezekiel and his family may have been living — or may have had a second residence — on his island property at the mouth of the Cumberland River.

As noted in the previous posting, on 4 August 1836, Ezekiel C. Green was made guardian of his wife Matilda’s sister Elizabeth Harrison, and on 10 August 1836, Ezekiel gave his consent for Elizabeth’s marriage to Frederick W. Weller, with Wesley B. King acting as Weller’s bondsman.[15] Also noted previously is the bond Ezekiel made on 3 October 1836 with Henry Wells as the two gave security for Mary M. Harrison’s guardianship of her children by Robert W. Harrison.[16]

Jefferson’s Nephews Lilburn and Isham Lewis and Connections to Richard Ferguson and James McCawley

On 17 October 1836, Ezekiel Calhoun Green and Catherine Haydock, late Catherine Ferguson, widow of James B. Ferguson of Smithland, sold to David B. Sanders of Smithland for $1,900 the lower half of lot 7 in Smithland.[17] The deed was signed by Ezekiel Calhoun Green, C.F. Haydock, and Matilda M. Green, with Thomas Wills and Solomon Littlefield witnessing. The witnesses proved the deed on 30 January 1837, with Matilda Green relinquishing her dower rights the same day, and the deed being recorded then.

Following the death of James B. Ferguson, his widow Catherine (Given) remarried in June 1834 to Joseph Haydock.[18] Haydock’s previous wife had been Maria Ferguson, daughter of Richard Ferguson. I do not know the exact connection between James B. and Richard Ferguson, but am confident the two men were related to each other. A 26 April 1839 division of property among the heirs of Richard Ferguson notes that Richard Olive, who was previously discussed and was executor of James B. Ferguson, and G.A. Haydock were guardians of James Haydock’s heirs.[19] On 1 April 1839, Olive and Haydock petitioned for the division of property, and William Gordon, Thomas McCormick, Benjamin Barner, William Smedley, and Thomas Willis were appointed commissioners to divide the property, with Willis, Smedley, and Barner qualifying on 25 April. The land divided was lot 5 in Smithland between Mill and Market Streets. The heirs of Richard Ferguson receiving a share of the lot were the infant heirs of Maria Ferguson, daughter of Richard Ferguson and wife of Joseph Haydock, and Richard Olive, who had bought a portion of the lot from Nancy Johnson, who bought it from Hamlet Ferguson, son of Richard Ferguson, deceased. Maria and Hamlet were the only heirs of Richard Ferguson, who owned the lot at his death.[20]

In his study of Thomas Jefferson’s nephews Lilburn and Isham Lewis, who were indicted for murdering an enslaved man George at Birdsville near Smithland in December 1811, Boynton Merrill describes Richard Ferguson, who was a close personal friend of Lilburn Lewis, as a man of exceeding cruelty.[21] Ferguson was an associate of James McCawley, who was previously mentioned as one of the commissioners dividing the real property of Ezekiel C. Green’s father-in-law Robert W. Harrison. McCawley was a tavern keeper in Smithland and a trustee of the town. When Lilburn Lewis made his will on 9 April 1812 and then committed suicide the following day, he made McCawley an executor of his estate, and after Lewis’s death, McCawley took Lewis’ son Robert into his house to care for him.

Merrill says that Richard Ferguson first appears in Livingston County records in 1801, when he was charged with having committed a riot at the mouth of the Cumberland River when he abused and tarred James Axley there.[22] As noted previously, in 1806, Richard Ferguson was involved in a dispute with Isaac Bullard over the ferry rights to Croghan’s Island.[23] By 1803, Ferguson was a militia captain in Smithland, and by 1808, had become a major. The following year, he was made a justice of Livingston County.[24] In March 1810, Richard Ferguson was charged along with James McCawley and four other men with having beaten William Barker so severely that Barker’s life was despaired of; the same day, the group beat up one Samuel McCamy.[25]

Two months after this, on the night of 15 August 1809, McCawley and Ferguson assaulted Bob, an enslaved man belonging to Isaac Bullard, beating him with their fists and feet and also using sticks and clubs. After beating Bob, the duo hanged him by his neck until he was almost dead.[26] Ferguson claimed in court that he had administered the punishment as a county justice, because Bob had broken patrol laws; Kentucky law permitted justices to punish such an offense without recourse to trial or jury.[27] Merrill describes Isaac Bullard as “the county champion of drunkenness and profanity.”[28]

Merrill notes that when Lilburn and Isham Lewis were charged with the murder of George, Richard Ferguson was also in court on a debt charge and Lilburn Lewis signed his bond for the charge.[29] When Lewis made his will on 9 April 1812, in addition to making James McCawley one of his executors, he also named Richard Ferguson an executor.[30] The day after Lilburn Lewis made his will, he and brother Isham both committed suicide.[31] Merrill notes that Richard Ferguson’s son Hamlet took Lilburn Lewis’ daughter Elizabeth into his custody after the suicide, at the same time that James McCawley took into custody Lewis’ son Robert.[32]

As a previous posting has shown and as I discussed in the previous posting, Ezekiel’s brother Samuel Kerr Green was visiting his brother at Smithland from Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, in March 1837, and on 19 March 1837, Samuel signed a promissory note at Smithland to pay Ezekiel $150 that Samuel had borrowed from his brother. By the time Ezekiel died at Smithland on 6 April 1851, Samuel had not paid the debt back, and Ezekiel’s executor sued Samuel, who was living in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, to recover the debt. Samuel’s promissory note is in the case file of this lawsuit, and a digital image of it is at the posting linked at the head of this paragraph.[33]

The day before Samuel made this promissory note, John Green, father of Samuel and Ezekiel, died in Bibb County, Alabama. As I noted in my last posting, Samuel and Ezekiel are named in the estate records of both their father John Green and mother Jane Kerr Green in Bibb County, Alabama, with the estate records noting that both were sons of John and Jane Kerr Green.

On 28 June 1837 in Livingston County, Ezekiel C. Green was a buyer at the sale of the estate of William Sanders in Livingston County.[34] William Sanders was, I think, a relative of the David B. Sanders to whom Ezekiel C. Green and Catherine Haydock sold half of lot 7 in Smithland on 17 October 1836, as discussed previously.[35] There appears to have been some kinship connection between the Harrison and Sanders family, with the Harrisons using the name Sanders as a given name.

As also noted in the preceding posting, on 5 November 1838, Ezekiel Calhoun Green and wife Matilda were named as heirs of Robert W. Harrison in the order for division of Robert’s real property, and they received a share of Robert’s estate when it was divided 29 January 1839.[36]

On 27 March 1839, Ezekiel sold to Joseph and David Watts of Salem in Livingston County his remaining half of lot 7 in Smithland.[37] The deed was signed by E.C. Green with no witnesses, and was proven by Ezekiel on 25 May and recorded. Note the absence of Ezekiel’s wife Matilda from this deed, both as a signatory and relinquishing her dower rights. Matilda’s tombstone in Smithland cemetery states that she died in March 1838 — evidently at some point prior to 27 March when Ezekiel sold this half-lot. It’s tempting to wonder if he may have sold their homeplace due to her death, in fact.

Ezekiel’s Marriage to Ann/Anna Harrison? and Then to Louisa, the Widow Alvord

According to a number of sources, following Matilda’s death, Ezekiel then remarried to her sister Ann/Anna, the widow of Henry James Persons.[38] Henry J. Persons had died before 3 April 1837. Joyce Woodyard says that Ann/Anna married a third time to Wesley B. King, who has been mentioned previously.[39] This leads me to conclude that if they did in fact marry, Ezekiel and Ann/Anna Harrison Green likely divorced, since Ezekiel married again, as we’ll see in a moment, on or shortly after 14 June 1841, and the 1840 federal census shows his household with no female household members. In his household in Smithland in 1840 are two males -5 (Ezekiel’s sons John and Samuel K. Green), one male 40-50 (Ezekiel), and eight enslaved persons.[40] If Ezekiel did marry Matilda’s widowed sister Ann/Anna after Matilda died, I think he would have done so to provide a mother for John (born 1836) and Samuel (born 1837), and if this marriage did take place, then it evidently did not work out, for some reason.

On 14 June 1841, Ezekiel gave bond with Abijah L. Case in Livingston County to marry Mrs. Louisa Alvord, a widow. Neither the loose-papers marriage file nor the record of the marriage in Livingston County’s Marriage Register Bk. 1A has a return; in the return column of the marriage register is a note that no return had been made.[41] The couple definitely did marry, however, since, as we’ll see later, Louisa appears both in documents of Ezekiel prior to his death and as his widow in his marriage records.

At the time that Louisa and Ezekiel married in June 1841, she was the widow of Timothy J. Alvord, who is buried near Louisa in the Smithland cemetery with his tombstone indicating that he was born 5 October 1804 in Northampton, New York, and died 15 August 1840 (at Smithland).[42] Louisa was the daughter of David Reed and Nancy Phillips, and was born 7 April 1814 at Orono in Penobscot County, Maine. In 1815-6, her parents moved the family to Washington County, Ohio, where Louisa was raised.

Louisa’s age varies widely on federal censuses. Her tombstone in Smithland cemetery states that she was aged 75 when she died on 6 August 1892, which would give her a birth year of 1817.[43] Federal censuses from 1850 through 1880 consistently place her birth in Maine. Louisa is buried next to her third husband, Dr. Milton H. Carson, whom she married as Ezekiel C. Green’s estate was being settled. Brenda Joyce Jerome offers the following amusing notes about Louisa’s resting place:[44]

Louisa, who outlived three older husbands and an adult daughter, surely had a sense of humor. On the 1850 Livingston County census, she was age 32, but in 1860, she had only aged 8 years and in 1870 she aged another 8 years. By 1880, she had only aged 2 years. Her year of birth ranges from 1818 to 1830, depending on the census. When she died in 1892, she was age 75, which would make her birth year 1817. Maybe her hand over her mouth muffled the answer as she gave her age to the census enumerator. Of course, a lady never reveals her true age.

Another sign of her humor is the arrangement of the final resting places of her dearly departed family members. Buried directly behind first husband Timothy J. Alvord and their daughter, Julia Alvord Mitchell, is Matilda Green, second wife of Ezekiel C. Green, who was Louisa’s second husband and is buried next to Matilda. According to his tombstone, Ezekiel C. Green was born Aug. 22, 1795 Pendleton District, S.C. and died April 6, 1851.

Then there is our lady Louisa, who is buried between Ezekiel and husband #3, Dr. Milton H. Carson. The following is inscribed on his tombstone: Dr. Milton H. Carson, Husband of Louisa B. Carson, Born near Dandridge, Tenn. Jan. 20, 1807, died Smithland Dec. 9, 1886.

On 3 October 1842, Ezekiel C. Green and Samuel Patterson Sr. gave bond with Martha McCawley to administer the estate of her husband James McCawley in Livingston County. This is the same man of this name discussed previously. Martha was née Brown.

Final Records of Ezekiel in 1840s to Death in 1851

Ezekiel Calhoun Green is named in a 17 October 1842 instrument filed in Livingston County deed books involving Christopher Barr, James L. Dallam, Jesse Pell, Ezekiel C. Green, and J.L. (James Lusk) Alcorn, all apparently of Livingston County.[45] The document shows Barr indebted in varying amounts to each of the others named in the record. To satisfying his debts, Barr deeds to the other parties all the brick just burnt in his brickyard, as well as his implements and tools. The instrument was recorded 17 October 1842.

On 11 November 1844, David B. Harrison sold to Ezekiel Calhoun Green, both of Livingston County, for $300 parts of lots David had inherited from the estate of his father Robert W. Harrison — 24 and 60 on Front Street.[46] The deed was witnessed by J.W. Mills and D. Smedley, and was recorded on the day it was made. At the same time, for an additional $200, David transferred to Ezekiel all his interest in the dower share of Robert W. Harrison’s estate allotted to David’s mother Mary M. Harrison, with the same witnesses.[47] As noted previously, David was one of the children of Robert W. and Mary M. Harrison.

On 3 March 1845, another of the children of Robert and Mary M. Harrison, Rhoda Harrison, chose Ezekiel Calhoun Green as her guardian, her previous guardian W.B. King having died.[48] As noted above, Wesley B. King was apparently the third husband of Ann/Anna Harrison, whom Ezekiel is said to have married after her sister Matilda died.

On 20 May 1845, David B. Harrison sold to Ezekiel Calhoun Green for $500 two more portions of lots 24 and 60 in Smithland, again relinquishing his portion of the dowry of Mary M. Harrison, widow of Robert W Harrison.[49]  This deed is signed by both David and his wife Mary J. Harrison, and was recorded 14 October 1845.

On 16 September 1845, William Scott Haynes of Smithland mortgaged to John W. Ross and Ezekiel Calhoun Green all his interest in the publishing business in Livingston County known as the Smithland Bee, of which Haynes had a fourth share. The condition of the deed was that Ross was security for Haynes in a note of debt to Thomas M. Davis, and Ezekiel C. Green was Haynes’s security in two notes to Thomas Willis, and that if the debts were discharged, Ross and Green would hold in trust all rights in the office of the Smithland Bee until Haynes had paid in subscriptions and job work to the amount of $110 for Green and Ross in a paper of which he was to be publisher, the Jackson Republican. The deed was witnessed by James L. Dallam, clerk, and recorded 17 September 1845.[50]

On 3 November 1845, another of the children of Robert W. and Mary M. Harrison, Robert Harrison Jr., chose Ezekiel Calhoun Green as his guardian.[51] The fact that, in 1844-5, two of Robert and Mary M. Harrison’s children were choosing Ezekiel as their guardian and another selling portions of property he inherited from Robert and relinquishing interest in his mother’s dower share suggests to me that Mary M. Harrison had died in or just before 1844.

On 17 April 1846, Erasmus Rothmann of Smithland recorded a mortgage of his grey mare, dray, and household furniture and kitchenware to Ezekiel Calhoun Green, who had rented to him a house and lot in Smithland.[52] The deed was recorded the same day.

On 9 May 1848, Ezekiel Calhoun Green and wife Louisa sold to Washington H. Simpson, all of Livingston County, for $200 to be paid at Christmas day, portions of lots 24 and 60 that they had acquired from David B. Harrison.[53] The deed was recorded 5 December 1848, with Louisa Green relinquishing her dower.

On 30 October 1849, John G. Anderson mortgaged to Ezekiel Calhoun Green and William Cowper, Esqrs., for $1,000 all the merchantable property he had at the time, which included 125 acres on Deer Creek in Livingston County, along with 80 acres on waters of Redkins Creek in Pope County, Illinois, and 80 acres on Alcorn Creek in the same county, along with his farm, livestock, etc.[54]  The mortgage was made because Green and Cowper had given security for  notes made out for Anderson in the amount of $1,500.

The family of Ezekiel C. Green was enumerated on the 1850 federal census in Smithland.[55] The census gives Ezekiel’s age as 52, his occupation as farmer, and his real value as $10,150. It states that he was born in South Carolina. Also in the household are wife Louisa, 32, born in Maine, and children John, 13, Samuel, 12, and Mary M., 8, all born in Kentucky and all attending school. Also in the household is Julia Alvord, 14, born in Virginia. John and Samuel were Ezekiel’s sons by Matilda Harrison; Mary Musa was his daughter by Louisa. Julia Alvord was Louisa’s daughter by her previous husband Timothy J. Alvord. Julia Alvord Mitchell (1836-1873) is buried beside Louisa, and her last husband, Dr. Milton H. Carson, in Smithland Cemetery.[56]

On 10 January 1850 at Smithland, Ezekiel Calhoun Green and William Cowper filed an instrument in Livingston County stating that they were appointing Henry F. Givens of Smithland their attorney during their absence to act on their behalf in their mortgage agreement with John G. Anderson.[57] John G. Anderson witnessed the document with Ezekiel and William Cowper both signing and both acknowledging the document on the day it was made. This was recorded on 22 April 1850. Nothing in the document explains where Ezekiel C. Green and William Cowper were going as they made this instrument in January 1850.

Ezekiel died at Smithland on 6 April 1851. In my next posting, I’ll discuss his estate records.

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[1] Livingston County, Kentucky, Deed Bk. EE, pp. 82-3.

[2] Ibid., Bk. HH, pp. 346-7.

[3] Boynton Merrill Jr., Jefferson’s Nephews (New York: Avon, 1976), p. 121. See also Samuel W. Thomas, “William Croghan, Sr. (1752-1822): A Pioneer Kentucky Gentleman,” Filson Club History Quarterly 43,1 (January 1969), pp. 30-61.

[4] Merrill, Jefferson’s Nephews, p. 140.

[5] Ibid., pp. 121-2.

[6] Ibid., p. 122.

[7] Ibid., p. 135.

[8] Ibid., p. 137.

[9] Ibid., p. 100.

[10] WPA Survey of Federal Archives, Ship Registers and Enrollments of New Orleans, Louisiana, vol. 2: 1821-1830 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Hill Memorial Library, 1942), p. 95.

[11] Livingston County, Kentucky, Deed Bk. EE, pp. 87-8, 114.

[12] Livingston County, Kentucky, Court Order Bk. I, pp. 5-6.

[13] Livingston County, Kentucky, Marriage Register 1857 (unpaginated).

[14] See Find a Grave memorial page for Mary Musa Green Gibson, Smithland cemetery, Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky, created by Charles Lay, maintained by Jerry Bebout, with tombstone photos by wanda.

[15] Livingston County, Kentucky, Court Order Bk. I, p. 19; Livingston County, Kentucky, Marriage Register Bk. 1, p. 83; and Joyce M. Woodyard, Livingston County, Kentucky, Marriage Records, vol. 1: October 1799-June 1839, Bonds, Licenses, Consents, and Miscellaneous Loose Papers (Smithland: Livingston County Historical Society, 1992), p. 145.

[16] Livingston County, Kentucky, Court Order Bk. I, p. 33.

[17] Livingston County, Kentucky, Deed Bk. EE, pp. 257-8.

[18] Brenda Joyce Jerome, “Tombstone Tuesday – Maria Haydock,” Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog.

[19] Livingston County, Kentucky, Deed Bk. FF, pp. 194-5.

[20] On 12 May 1832, Hamlet Ferguson Jr. sold to William and Hiram Smedley of Smithland land on Market Street bordering Mill Street in Smithland, with John Price and Joseph Haydock witnessing: see Ibid., Bk. EE, p. 14.

[21] Merrill, Jefferson’s Nephews, pp. 138-42.

[22] Ibid., p. 140, citing Livingston County Court Order Bk. B, 25 February 1801, pp. 10-11.

[23] Merrill, Jefferson’s Nephews, p. 140.

[24] Ibid.

[25] Ibid., p. 139, citing Livingston County, Kentucky, Circuit Court Bundles March 1810; and Livingston County, Kentucky, Court Order Bk. C, pp. 413, 432.

[26] Merrill, Jefferson’s Nephews,p. 139, citing Livingston County, Kentucky, Circuit Court Bundles June 1810. 

[27] Merrill, Jefferson’s Nephews, pp. 140-1.

[28] Ibid., p. 395, n. 18, citing Livingston County, Kentucky, Court Order Bks. A-D.

[29] Merrill, Jefferson’s Nephews, pp. 283-4, citing Livingston County, Kentucky, Court Order Bk. E, 18 March 1812, p. 282.

[30] Merrill, Jefferson’s Nephews, pp. 293-4, citing Livingston County, Kentucky, Will Bk. A, p. 34. 

[31] Merrill, Jefferson’s Nephews, pp. 293-4.

[32] Ibid., p. 307, citing Livingston County, Kentucky, Circuit Court Bundles 1810-12.

[33] James K. Huey vs. Samuel K. Green, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, 9^th District Court case #932.

[34] See the loose-papers estate file of William Sanders, Livingston County, Kentucky.

[35] See supra, n. 15.

[36] See Livingston County, Kentucky, Deed Bk. FF, pp. 192-4; and Livingston County, Kentucky, Court Order Bk. I, pp. 193, 222-3, 412.

[37] Livingston County, Kentucky, Deed Bk. FF, pp. 212-3.

[38] See Barbara Roach Knox, “Persons,” in Livingston County, Kentucky, History and Families, p. 320; and Woodyard, Livingston County, Kentucky, Marriage Records, vol. 1, p. 138, n. 80, citing Barbara Roach Knox, Amos Person(s): His Forebears and Descendants, with Supplemental Hodge Genealogy (Fort Worth: Higgins, 1967), pp. 10-11.

[39] Woodyard, Livingston County, Kentucky, Marriage Records, vol. 1, p. 138.

[40] 1840 federal census, Livingston County, Kentucky, Smithland post office, p. 152.

[41] Livingston County, Kentucky, Marriage Register Bk. A, p. 21; and Woodyard, Livingston County, Kentucky, Marriage Records, vol. 2, p. 16.

[42] See Find a Grave memorial page of Timothy J. Alvord, Smithland cemetery, Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky, created by Charles Lay, maintained by James Bianco, with a tombstone photo by BJJ. Timothy J. Alvord’s birth to Phineas Alvord and Rachel Judd on 5October 1804 in Northampton, Massachusetts — not New York — is recorded in that town’s birth register.

[43] See Find a Grave memorial page of Louisa B. Carson, Smithland cemetery, Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky, created by Charles Lay, maintained by Bill Haseltine, with a tombstone photo by BJJ.

[44] Jerome, “Thank you, Louisa!,” Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog.

[45] Livingston County, Kentucky, Deed Bk. GG, p. 424.

[46] Ibid., Deed Bk. HH, pp. 59-60. See also Livingston County, Kentucky, Deed Bk. FF, pp. 192-4, 222-3, 412.

[47] Ibid., p. 60.

[48] Livingston County, Kentucky, Court Order Bk. I, p. 1.

[49] Livingston County, Kentucky, Deed Bk. HH, pp. 160-1.

[50] Ibid., p. 151.

[51] Livingston County, Kentucky, Court Order Bk. J, p. 63.

[52] Livingston County, Kentucky, Deed Bk. HH, p. 231.

[53] Ibid., p. 639.

[54] Livingston County, Kentucky, Deed Bk. 1, pp. 192-3.

[55] 1850 federal census, Livingston County, Kentucky, Smithland, p. 384 (dwelling/family 858; 14 September).

[56] See Find a Grave memorial page of Mrs. Julia V. Mitchell, Smithland cemetery, Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky, created by Charles Lay, maintained by Find A Grave, with a tombstone photo by Wanda.

[57] Livingston County, Kentucky, Deed Bk. 1, pp. 248-9.