2376. Elisha Abner
Moved to Ohio.
In 1900 Leslie County, Kentucky census and the 1910 Laurel County census. In the 1900 Franklin cesus he was an inmate in the State Prison.
5110. Willie Sandlin
From Donald Baker.
Subject: Willie Sandlin - Congressional Medal of Honor
He was a multiple cousin of Lincoln Baker.His mother, Lucinda Abner Sandlin, was Lincoln's first cousin, their mothers being sisters.
His father, John "Dirty Face" Sandlin & his parents were Jackson Sandlin & Ludema RILEY.Jackson's grandmother was Zilpha Baker, sister of Lincoln's grandfather, married to James "Old Grey Jim" Sandlin - buried at Cortland. And more connections.
Congressional Medal of Honor Winner Sgt. Willie Sandlin (1891-1949) U.S. Army Sergeant Willie Sandlin was born near Buckhorn in Perry County, Kentucky and was the only Kentuckian to receive the Congressional Medal Of Honor in World War I.Of all the American servicemen who fought during the Great War, only Sergeant Alvin C. York received more decorations for valor than Sandlin. He enlisted in the army in 1914 and had served on the Mexican border.
In 1917 he was sent to France with the 132d Infantry. Promoted to sergeant, Sandlin single-handedly destroyed three German machine gun emplacements and killed twenty-four of the enemy on September 26, 1918, at Bois de Forges. For that action, he was awarded the congressional Medal of Honor on July 9, 1919.
After the war, Sandlin returned to East Kentucky and bought a farm on Owls Nest Creek near Hyden. He and his wife, the former Belvia Roberts, were active in the Frontier Nursing Service.
They had one son and four daughters. Sandlin, then 59, died on May 29, 1949, of a lingering lung infection resulting from a poison gas attack on his company in the Battle of the Argonne. He was buried in Hurricane Cemetery near Hyden. In September 1990 his remains were reburied in the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery in Louisville.
2384. Jason Walker Baker Bowling
Dr. John J. Dickey Diary, Fleming County, Ky. Recorded in the 1870's and beyond. Reprinted in Kentucky Explorer, Volume 10, No 4 - September, 1995. p. 86. By permission. Clay County.
JASON WALKER BOLLING
Benge, Kentucky, June 15, 1898.My great grandfather, Jesse Bolling, came to Kentucky in 1810. My grandfather, Elijah Bolling was born at the Three Forks of Powell River in Lee Co., Virginia in 1798, and when he was 12 years old his father removed to Perry Co., Ky. Daniel Duff baptized by great-grandfdather, Elijah
Bolling. Rev. Andrew Baker baptized by great-grandfather at Blackwater Church, now Hawkins County, Tenn. My great-great grandfather was Major John Bolling. He had 19 sons. I do not know that there were any daughters. One of these sons, William Bolling married Martha Jefferson, sister of Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States. Other sons were, Jesse, above mentioned, Benjamin the oldest born in 1752 or 3. Jesse was born 1765. Roberta the wife of U. S. Senator Archibald Dixon, was the daughter of Dilaney Bolling of Missouri and the granddaughter of Major John Bolling, aforesaid. Gov. John Young Brown's wife was a
daughter of Archibald Dixon. (Roger Cornett, son of the original William Cornett built the house where Hamp. Coldiron lives, in 1802, he married Zilpha Callahan. This makes the date of the Cornett's coming to Kentucky 1796-1799 probable. Men from Crug's Ferry at mouth of Sexton were at the raising. Roger Cornett was into slaves and land. He owned the Coleman Survey, patented in 1783 of 5,600 acres.) There are some Bollings in western Kentucky. One went to Congress some years ago, perhaps 1870 or 1872. The first Bolling who came to America was Colonel Robert Bolling of London, England. I think old Cava Baker made the rhyme on the "Cattle War," I have always heard it that way. Old Julius Bob Baker and William Neal were in St. Clair's defeat. Baker held a Major's Commission. They are both buried at Buffalo, Owsley, County. Neal requested to be buried beside Baker. John Gilbert and John Amis married sisters of James Bowling [sic]. From Eli, John (grandfather
of Judge Josiah Comb's wife), Christopher, William, Joseph, Nancy (Sizemore) another sister of these, have descended most of the Bollings in Clay County. Jesse Bolling, my great grandfather married Mary Pennington of Lee County, Va. He was born in North Carolina at Hillsboro. His
father was born in Virginia. David Pennington, her brother, was living during the War of the Rebellion. My grandfather, Elijah Bolling stayed with him in Lee Co. during the late war. Jesse Bolling had ten children
as follows: Hannah mararied Huff; Mary married Abram Barger; Justice married ??; John married Polly Lewis; Jesse married Lewis for his second wife; William married a daughter of Daniel Duff; Elijah married Roberts; George married Lewis; a daughter married Joseph Spencer; Betsey married Abel Pennington; another married Maggard; another died single. A. P. Hill and Basil Duke married sisters of John Morgan. His mother was the daughter of John Hunt, the first millionaire in Kentucky. Dr. Foster of Kentucky was reared by Mrs. Hunt.
5166. Ethel Turner
ETHEL T. CAUDILL
BOONEVILLE, KY – 26 April 1974 – A former postmaster of Lucky Fork, Mrs. Ethel Turner Caudill, age 66, died at her residence Friday, April 26 after a long illness. She was a native of Breathitt County, a retired school teacher and a member of the Faith H ill Community Church.
She was survived by her husband Arthur G. Caudill, Lucky Fork, a son, Gary Caudill, Ashland, a daughter, Mrs. Anita Caudill, Cincinnati; two sisters, Mrs. Elva Gabbard, Goshen, OH; Mrs. Minnie Whitaker, Lucky Fork and a brother, Letcher Turner, of Cincinnati.
Services were at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 28 at the Faith Hill Community Church by the Rev. Howard Jenkins officiating. Burial was in the family cemetery with Searcy and Strong Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
ARTHUR G. CAUDILL
BOONEVILLE, KY – 20 September 1982 – Arthur G. Caudill, 76, of Ricetown, a retired merchant, died Sunday. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Faith hill Community Church with visitation from 6 to 9 p.m. today at Searcy and Strong Funeral Home.