Nathaniel "Thaney" Houston
and Elizabeth "Betsy" Fleming

Nathaniel "Thaney" Houston b 1 Aug 1846 d about 1929; buried Goose Creek Cemetery, KY; s/o John or Abraham Potter and Hannah Houston. Nathaniel "Thaney" Houston m. 22 Jan 1868 Letcher Co KY to Elizabeth Betsy Fleming b Jan 1841 Boone Creek, Letcher Co KY d about 1922; buried Goose Creek Cemetery, KY; d/o Frederick Nelson "Fighting Fred" Fleming and Nancy Ann "Annie" Wright (aka Amy).  Children of Nathaniel "Thaney" Houston and Elizabeth "Betsy" Fleming;

 Mary Houston b 1867 m. Sam Bentley b 1867; s/o John Manuel Bentley and Elizabeth Unknown.

 Preston Houston b 1870 Letcher Co KY.

 Joseph P Houston b about 1871 Letcher Co KY d 20 May 1876. Cause of death listed as dropsy.

 Hannah Houston b 29 Dec 1863 Letcher Co KY d 29 Sept 1960 Haymond, Letcher Co KY m. Alexander Wright b 15 Apr 1857 Beefhide, Letcher Co KY d 21 Sept 1929 McRoberts, Letcher Co KY buried Millstone, Letcher Co KY, s/o Samuel W Wright and Elizabeth Betsy Adams. Hannah Houston m. 8 Nov 1921 Letcher Co KY to William Milton "Milt" Meade b 6 Aug 1887 Letcher Co KY d 1935, s/o Albert R Meade and Elizabeth Estep. William Milton "Milt" Meade m. 24 Sept 1907 to Lucy Taylor d about 1918 KY in childbirth, d/o John W Taylor and Lavina Catherine Roman. Alexander Wright m. 27 Apr 1873 Letcher Co KY to 1st Mary Matilda "Polly" Collier b 30 Apr 1855 d 17 Mar 1939 Logan Co WV buried Load, Greenup Co KY, d/o William Dee "Willie" Collier and Rebecca Meade. Mary Matilda "Polly" Collier m. 27 Apr 1873 Letcher Co KY to 1st Andrew Wright b 18 Jan 1853 d 13 Jan 1886, s/o Susannah Wright (d/o Joel Martin Wright and Susannah Bentley or Bates)

 Anna Houston b 1873 Letcher Co KY d 31 Oct 1906 Letcher Co KY m. 8 Jun 1892 Letcher Co KY to Joshua Mullins b 22 Jan 1869 Pound, Wise Co VA d 18 Nov 1946 Pound, Wise Co VA, s/o James "Jim" Mullins and Rebecca Hayes. Joshua Mullins m. Susan Venters b 1849 d 1909. Joshua Mullins m. Rosa B "Rosie" Adams b 28 Jan 1872 d 20 Oct 1951 Millstone, Letcher Co KY, d/o Jesse B Adams and Margaret Peggy Jenkins. Rosa B "Rosie" Adams m. 2 Nov 1888 Letcher Co KY to John Fulton b 12 Jan 1869 Wise Co VA d 11 May 1946 Letcher Co KY.

 Levina "Viney" Houston (aka Lovina) b 1875 Letcher Co KY m. 14 Oct 1897 Letcher Co KY to Rhodes Meade b 1871; s/o James Madison Meade and Letitia Wright.

 Rinda Mae Houston b 14 Oct 1877 KY d 9 Jun 1915 m. about 1898 to Jonathon A "Twig" Collier b 3 Feb 1874 d 13 Nov 1960 buried Goose Creek, Letcher Co KY, s/o Stephen Collier and Mary Meade.

 Aulden "Olvin" G Houston b Jun 1879 m. Susan Wright b about 1880; d/o William Jesse Wright and Mary E Brummett.

 Oliver Denton Houston b Nov 1882 m. Eliza Jane Wright b 4 Jul 1886; d/o William Jesse Wright and Maggie Perdue. Eliza Jane Wright m. Samuel Bentley; s/o Solomon Bentley and Mary Jane Bentley.

Elizabeth Betsy Fleming
and Robert Frasure

Elizabeth Betsy Fleming b Jan 1841 Boone Creek, Letcher Co KY d after 1910, d/o Frederick Nelson "Fighting Fred" Fleming and Nancy Ann "Annie" Wright (aka Amy). Elizabeth Betsy Fleming m. Letcher Co KY to (1) Robert John Frasure. Child of Robert John Frasure and Elizabeth Betsy Fleming;

 Nancy Jane Frasure (aka Frazure or Frazier) b 1861 d 1921 m. William Teague Quillen (aka Timothy) b 13 Sept 1859 Letcher Co KY d 12 Oct 1933 Letcher Co KY, s/o Richard Teague Quillen and Catherine Yonts. Children of William Teague Quillen and Nancy Jane Frazure;

 Cosby Jane Quillen b 26 Apr 1882 d 15 Mar 1972 m. 13 Jan 1989 Letcher Co KY to Timothy Paul Johnson b 17 Jan 1873 Long Fork, Shelby Creek, Pike Co KY d 29 Sept 1948 KY buried Goose Creek, Letcher Co KY, s/o Sebastian C Johnson and Mary Elizabeth Hall. Children of Timothy Paul Johnson and Cosby Jane Quillen;

 Nanny B Johnson b 19 Apr 1902 m. 6 May 1922 to William Ervin Wright b 16 Feb 1880 Letcher Co KY d 31 Mar 1961 Pike Co KY, buried Millstone, Letcher Co KY, s/o Andrew Wright and Mary Matilda "Polly" Collier.  William Ervin Wright was a merchant Neon, Letcher Co KY. William Ervin Wright m. 15 Dec 1900 to (1) Mary Tolliver b 20 Oct 1883 d 12 Mar 1922 buried Millstone, Letcher Co KY, d/o Melvin Burton Tolliver and Arminda A Baker.  Mary Tolliver m. 15 Dec 1898 to (1) Ben Craft.

 Luther Johnson m. Golda Ruth Stephens, d/o William L Stephens and Amanda Sue Clay. Child; I. Female Johnson m. Male Mullins, s/o Charles Arvid Mullins and Ethel Smallwood.

 Richard Quillen b about 1881 m. Carrie Venters b about 1882. Children of Richard Quillen and Carrie Venters;

 Bertha Quillen b about 1899.

 Gertrude Quillen b about 1902.

 Herbert Quillen b about 1905.

 Nora Quillen b about 1906.

 Conley Quillen b about 1910.

Male Quillen

 Male Quillen

 Female  Quillen

 Female Quillen

 Female Quillen

Richard Quillen m. (2) to Nettie Carrico.

A conversation with Alma Meade
by Kathy (Source):

The afternoon after we went to the cemetery at Goose Creek, I met Alma.

Alma (d/o Rhodes Meade and Lovina Houston) is wonderful. She is 90. Her sight is failing, but she can still see shapes. She is a little hard of hearing, but all you have to do is speak up. She has a wonderful clear voice. She looks like she might be 70. She is certainly not a shriveled up little old lady. You would never know that she was 90.

I asked Alma about Thaney and Betsy and Annie. What I found out changed my perceptions regarding those census records.

Joshua did marry Susan Wright Venters, and she was mean as a snake. She was not good to his children. She was not good to him. She would not feed the children. They were starving. Grandma Betsy came and took them to her home. Alma said that when she fixed them dinner she had to stop them from eating so much because they were so hungry and she did not want them to get ill. After the children were gone, Susan tried to poison Joshua. I had always heard it was poison in his soup. Rosie heard it was in the coffee. Alma said it was in the spring water.

But, someone tipped him off and she failed in her attempt. I asked her why Joshua would let Susan starve the children or be mean to them. She couldn't answer that. I asked her why Susan would want to poison Joshua. She said she didn't know, that Susan was just a very mean woman who did things for no reason.

Also, when I called (referencing a phone call to Alma Meade, d/o Rhodes Meade and Lovina Houston) I asked about Betsy and Thaney and their dates of death. She said she had the dates written down and I could see them when I came back to visit her. She said Betsy died first when she was a very little girl. She said she was 13 or 14 when Thaney died. Since the last census I could find them in was 1920 and Denton no longer had them in his household in 1930, that made sense. I would approximate Betsy died about 1922 and Thaney in 1929. I have not found a death certificate for either of them.

When we walked up that hill to the cemetery I could tell from Archie's description and from the place where the Meade and Houston houses has been that we were coming in from the back of the cemetery. Robert found Jennie McCray's grave and that of her husband. We found no markers for the babie's graves, but lying behind Jennie's grave were the remnants of an old rusted fence. Rosie and I tried to lift it away and we poked in the soft ground there for a stone. Archie thought there were stones for both Betsy and Thaney. We could not find them.

We only found another piece of the fence at what must have been the back right hand corner of the cemetery. Where was all the rest of the fence? My thought is that when the convicts cleaned the graves, they threw that fence over the hill. They could have thrown two old stones that might have fallen down, too. There are many rocks serving as head and foot stones in that cemetery in obvious straight lines of graves.

Rosie uncovered two stones from under the leaves and growth. One grave was sunken in and its stone was down and almost sunk and covered, too. There really weren't that many Houstons in the marked graves -- more Colliers, but who knows who were in all those graves marked only with stones.