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Welcome to Marion County, Kentucky
Marion County is
Proud to be a Participant in the
USGenWeb &
KYGenWeb Projects
Hello,
my name is
Suzanne
Shephard,
and I am the New County Coordinator for this Marion County KYGenWeb
site. Please feel free
to contact me at any time.
If you have
information that you would like to add to this Marion County web site,
please email me!

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Marion County,
was the 84th county formed, 25
Jan 1834 from Washington Co. and
named for Gen
Francis
Marion. (The Swamp Fox) of Rev
War. County seat is Lebanon. 1st explored by surveyors James and Jacob
Sandusky and settled 1779 along Hardin's Creek by Charles & Edward Beavin. Became a settlement for Roman Catholics from Charles, Prince
George and St Mary's Counties in MD. Basil Hayden Sr. had settled 25
Catholic families there on headwaters of Pottinger's Creek by 1785. 1st
Roman Catholic church in KY established here 1792. (Compiled by Sandi
Gorin)
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Marion County
"Lost & Found"
I have a large combination
autograph-scrapbook that belonged to "Miss Maggie Spalding" and I would love
to get it back to her kin if I can locate them. The book has hand drawings,
and pictures of flowers, and pasted poem clippings, and many poems and
notes written to "Miss Maggie." They seem to be mostly from male admirers
who go to great lengths extolling her beauty and virtues, and most are
signed with just initials. The notes are dated from 1856 to 1860, and most
are noted to be from Louisville, KY and some from Maysville.
I found a Margaret Isabella Spalding,
daughter of Jack Spalding and Harriet Beaven Pottinger, born in 1842, and
married in 1861 to Thomas H. Johnson. She had descendants, but names were
not listed.
This Margaret would fit the right age
bracket to have had an autograph book as a teenager. But I have no proof
that it is the correct one. If you have any information about "Miss Maggie"
or her extended family, I would appreciate knowing, and would be willing to
send the book to them. I know it isn't in my family line, but it's a
mystery that I would like to solve. I hope someone can help me get this back
to the correct family! Thank you, L. H. Murrell
sqrlmurl@bellsouth.net
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The Webmaster of this site is a
Kentucky Colonel
Commissioned,
March 4, 1974
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fulfill my obligations as Coordinator of this KYGenWeb
site,
I want it known that all contributions and contents of this website are to become the
responsibility of the State Coordinator of the KYGenWeb
Project. This
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be sold.
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