Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!CENSUS: Aron Van Hook age 59 farmer from Virginia and Sarah, age 49, born
Virginia. Daughter Sara listed as 10 years old. All children were born in
Kentucky.

!MARRIAGE: Pulaski County, KY Marriage Book I, page 115, 5-23-1823.

!LINEAGE: Pulaski County, Ky 1850 Census, 29 August 1850, Div. #1, page 32,
Dwelling 444 & Family 444.

AARON married HUMPHREY SARAH on 23 May 1823 in Pulaski County, Kentucky. SARAH was born about 1806 in Virginia; died after 1870 in Pulaski County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!LINEAGE: Pulaski Co. KY Deed Book 17, page 208, 19 May 1856.

Aaron Van Hook Paper of Administration to George Van Hook. Power
of Attorney. (Aaron appointed his son, George, to handle the estate
of Lawrence Van Hook who died 1801 in Caswell Co., NC. Aaron
testified that he was the son of Aaron who was the son of Lawrence

AARON married RUSSELL JEMIMA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
Powell, William S. (1977). "When the Past Refused to Die". Caswell County
Historical Society: Yanceville, NC.

page 94.
"But with the opening of the new courthouse early in 1785 the area around it
began to develop. Lawrence Van Hook was authorized to keep an ordinary or
tavern at Caswell Court House, as the place was called, later that year."

page 168.
"Not all young people lived such an easy life. Young Lloyd Van Hook, who had
recently gone to Danville, Virginia, to work, wrote a very touching letter home
to his father, Lawrence, on March 18, 1837. He was obviously quite homesick and
now filled with repentance for something that had occurred before he left for
the big city. `I should be very glad to see you all and all of my old
acquaintances. I should be very glad to see old Uncle Thomas Johnston's Family
it would afford me great pleasure to spend a week over the ground where I was
chiefly raised although I know that it would make me feel Melincholy still it
would afford me pleasure-but nay the time is past when I shall be as one of
your family-no more I shall enjoy the pleasing smiles of my little Brothers &
Sisters night after night, but nay, [i am] still absent from you all,
unfortunate and disobedient child that I am ..." (Continues on for a while).
"But all must have been forgiven because young Van Hook was back in Caswell
County in 1846 employed as a schoolteacher."

LAWRENCE married LLOYD BRIDGET in New Jersey. BRIDGET was born in in New Jersey; died after 1778 in Caswell, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

WILLIAM married NORMAN RUTHE. [Group Sheet]