Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!BIRTH: a) The Pulaski Co., KY 1900 Census show him to be the son of Newton
VanHook and 8 years old; birthdate MAR 1892.
b) His son, Beau, said that his birthday was on March 18, 1892 (to
Larry Herrin on March 9, 1992).

!OCCUPATION: Farmer & schoolteacher

!CHURCH: Old Fashioned Missionary Baptist Church - member
Baptized at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church May 3, 1908.

!DEATH: Talked to mom by phone today (18 Jul 1992) and she told me that Evelyn
Vanhook had called and that uncle Fred died yesterday.

CHARLES married HARGIS MARY MARTHA in Nov 1915 in Pulaski County, Kentucky. MARY (daughter of HARGIS MARION and BRAY ELIZA JANE) was born in Aug 1890 in Pulaski County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet]

1. VAN HOOK RUTH J.
2. VAN HOOK PAULINE
3. VAN HOOK WILLIAM GARNER
4. VAN HOOK BENNIE MARCUM
5. VAN HOOK ROBERT MARION died in 1949.
6. VAN HOOK MARY ELLEN
7. VAN HOOK GEORGE BRYON
8. VAN HOOK UNKNOWN
9. VAN HOOK UNKNOWN
10. VAN HOOK UNKNOWN

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!BIRTH: Rockcastle Co. KY Vital Statistics

1856 Apr 16th R. N. Vanhook male white Rockcastle Benjamin Vanhook
white Jane Reynolds

!CENSUS: a) The Pulaski Co., Kentucky 1900 Census shows his birth as APR 1857,
and his tombstone 1856.
b) 1920 Pulaski County Kentucky Census Dwelling 39 Family 41 Sht. 2B
living on Old London Rd. Grundy Precinct #24.

!MARRIAGE: Rockcastle County, KY Minister's Returns page 205.

..........................................................................
This is to certify, that on the 25 day of March 1886 the Rites of
Matrimony were legally solemnized by me between R.N. Vanhook and Nancy J.
Ping at Henry Todds in the County of Rockcastle in the presence of John
Owens and Eliza Todd. Signed, C. D. Burnett, M.Y.
..........................................................................

!RESIDENCE: Pulaski and Rockcastle Counties, KY

!CHURCH: Member #62 of Friendship Church of Christ in Rockcastle Co. KY on
October 30, 1875. Membership commenced on Sep. 4, 1875. Member #58 on list of
June 9, 1877.

!BURIAL: Pulaski Co., KY Cemetery Records and photo of tombstone (on file
with L. Herrin)

Buried in White Lily Cemetery in Grade, KY beside his wife Nancy Jane Ping.

NOTES: Per Johnny B. Bullock on 1-26-90, the woods behind his house is called
Newt's Woods after Robert "Newt" Van Hook. There is a spring there called
Newt's Spring. Johnny told me that Van Hook, Kentucky was named after Newt Van
Hook. Larry Herrin 3-8-90. Herb Van Hook told me in 1992 that Van Hook, KY was
named after Samuel Monroe Van Hook.

ROBERT married PING NANCY JANE on 25 Mar 1886 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. NANCY (daughter of PING JAMES MADISON and BARNES LAURA ELLENDER) was born in 1861 in Pulaski County, Kentucky; died in 1951 in Pulaski County, Kentucky; was buried in 1951 in Grade, Pulaski County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!RESIDENCE: Pulaski and Rockcastle Counties, KY

!CENSUS: 1920 Pulaski Co. Kentucky Census listed in (2) places: 1) with son
J. R. Vanhook Dwelling 91 Family 93 Sht. 5A & B and 2) with Robert N. Vanhook
Dwelling 39 Family 41 Sht. 2B.

!BURIAL: Buried in White Lily Cemetery in Grade, KY. Buried beside her husband,
Robert Newton.

!CHURCH: Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church by letter Mar 7 1908.

!NOTE: Lela Agnes Vanhook Birth Certificate 59423 Commonwealth of Kentucky
shows that her grandmother N. J. Van Hook was the midwife living in
Drum, Ky.

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!BIRTH: Tombstone Inscription Jan. 24, 1838. (Picture of stone in files of
Larry Herrin).

!RESIDENCE: Rockcastle and Pulaski Counties, KY

!CENSUS:
The Pulaski Co., KY 1880 Census lists him as age 50 and born in KY. He was
living in the Woodstock district.
The 1900 Census lists him in Dist. 4, age 70, b. JAN 1830. He has son, d/l
and grandchildren living with him.

!BURIAL: Pulaski & Rockcastle Co., Ky Cemetery Books and Tombstone Inscription
Feb. 26, 1910 (on file with L. Herrin)

Buried in Friendship Cemetery on Hwy 461 on Left right over the county
line.

BENJAMINE married REYNOLDS LIDDIA JANE on 27 Aug 1851 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. LIDDIA (daughter of REYNOLDS JESSE and BARNES ELIZABETH) was born on 25 Jul 1829 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky; died on 12 Aug 1897 in Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County, kentucky; was buried in Aug 1897 in Level Green, Pulaski County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!LINEAGE:
C. Fred VanHook said she was the daughter of Jesse Reynolds (to L.Herrin on 07
JUL 1989; audio taped).

!RESIDENCE: Rockcastle and Pulaski Counties, KY

!CENSUS:
The 1880 Pulaski Co., KY Census lists her as 50 years old and born in KY.

!BURIAL:
Buried beside her husband, Benjamin Franklin VanHook in Friendship Cemetery in
Level Green, KY. Photo on file of tombstone. In the Census she is listed as
Liddia J., Jani, and Jane. On her stone she is listed as Jane.

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!LINEAGE: "Ben Hines was a first cousin to my Grandpa Ping." Charles Fred Van
Hook 1-27-90 to Larry Herrin.

!MARRIAGE: Pulaski Co., KY Bk 1 Page 378.

!RESIDENCE: Pulaski and maybe Laurel Counties, KY

!CENSUS: Pulaski Co. KY 1860 Census shows James was 24 years old, from KY and a
farmer.
Ellen is listed as his wife and Anna as his daughter. (Pg. 61, Somerset P.O.)
House 32, Family 29.

!MILITARY: Co. I 49 KY INF from Tombstone

!DEATH: Pulaski Co., KY Vol. 25 Cert. 12061.

!BURIAL: Buried in White Lily Cemetery near Grade, KY. Have photo of stone with
no dates.

JAMES married BARNES LAURA ELLENDER on 17 Jun 1858 in Pulaski County, Kentucky. LAURA (daughter of BARNES MATTHEW and RICHARDSON LETTIS (LETTY)) was born in Nov 1828 in Colo, Pulaski County, Kentucky; died in 1913 in Pulaski County, Kentucky; was buried in 1913 in Grade, Pulaski County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!BIRTH: Tombstone Inscription at White Lily Cemetery. (1829-1913)

!LINEAGE:
There are two Matthew Barnes: 1) Married Hannah Jones in 1831, thus was
married too late for Ellen (1829), and 2) married Letty. Matthew and Letty
were born in 1790 & 1789, respectively, thus were old enough to parent Ellen;
as born out by the 1850 and 1860 Census.
Also, Family Group Record of Pamela Waddle Copenhaver Springfield, Il.

!RESIDENCE: Pulaski Co., Ky

!CENSUS:
1850 Census shows Sarah as the daughter of Mathew and Lety (Litis?)
Barnes; age 21 and b. in Kentucky.
1870 Census shows Laura E.
1860 Pulaski County, KY Census for Somerset P.O. shows Ellen is 29.

!DEATH: Tombstone Inscription at White Lily Cemetery. (1829-1913). (Photo on
file with L. Herrin).

!BURIAL:
Stone is photograped and copied; located in White Lily Cemetery, near Grade,
KY. Stone says Laura Ellen as name. 1860 Census says Ellen, and marriage
records show Sara Elleander.

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!CENSUS:
1860 Pulaski Co., KY Census Page 61 of Dist. 1 Somerset House 377, Family
366 show Martin 50 and Ellen 48.
Martin and wife Ellen were still alive in 1870 since the census showed them
as 60 and 58, respectively. He was a farmer from Kentucky.

!DEATH: 26 FEB 1910
VanHook, F. M. (1982). "VanHook: The VanHook Family". Lebanon, TN.
Appendix (Ancestors of Joseph H. VanHook). page 3.

!BURIAL:
5 or 6 of Martin's siblings are buried in Old Wilderness Road Cemetery
near Brodhead, KY. C.E. Latham told me in 1990 that M V hook on a stone across
from his home on McQuery Road near Plato, Pulaski Co., KY.
Actual stone found by Charles Hilton in summer of 1992. It is on Mr. Latham's
farm and says upside down "M" L VAN DEC 9 1873.

MARTIN married THOMPSON ELENOR (ELLEN) in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. ELENOR (daughter of THOMPSON JOSEPH SR. and CHARLTON NANCY) was born on 28 Feb 1812 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky; died after 1870 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!LINEAGE: Nina Cash 9322 Mirror Circle Westminster, Ca. 92683 Family Group
Sheet for Joseph Thompson.

!BIRTH:
1988 Mormon IGI Records for Kentucky show Elenor Thompson b. 28 Feb. 1812
in Rockcastle County, KY to parents Joseph Thompson and Nancy Charlton. (page
12743); Batch 870410 Ser. Sht. 40.

!DEATH: 12 Aug 1897
VanHook, Fred McFarland (1982). "VanHook: The VanHook Family". Lebanon,
TN. Appendix (Ancestors of Joseph H. VanHook). page 3.

!CENSUS:
1860 Pulaski Co., KY Census Dist. 1 Somerset House 377 Family 366 show
Ellen as 48.

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!LINEAGE:
Per Fred VanHook's recorded conversation of Jul 27, 1989, he said that Jesse
Reynolds is the father of Jane Reynolds. From Pulaski County Marriage Records
Jesse Reynolds married Betsy Burns (BARNES) 16 APR 1810.

!BIRTH: Rockcastle County, Ky 1850 Census Dwelling 238, Family 238. Shows
Jesse Reynolds as the head of household and 66 years old b. Tennessee.

!DEED: Sumner County Tennessee Deed Book Vol. 3, page 219 shows Jesse Reynolds
as a witness to the deed of 19 Nov 1801 between Frederick Snyder, Sullivan Co.
Tennessee, Jeremiah Rankin, Fayette Co., Kentucky and George Reed of Mercer Co.
Kentucky (land on the North side of the Cumberland River). This record was
witnessed by two Walkers and Caleb Reynolds, brother to Jesse married
second, Elizabeth Walker, daughter of John Walker.

!MARRIAGE: a) Pulaski County, Ky "Marriage Records Pulaski County, Kentucky
1797-1850, page 36.
b) "The Reynolds Family 1530-1959" by Tillman, S. F. lists Jesse's
wife as Elizabeth _____.

source a)
16 April 1810, Pulaski County, KY "Marriage Records Pulaski County,
Kentucky 1797-1850", page 36.
(Certified Marriage Bond on file).

consent notes on file at Pulaski Co. Courthouse:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Sir these are to certify that you are at liberty to grant Marage
Liencis to Mr. Jesse Runnels for my Daughter Betsy Barnes ___ given under
my hand the 14 of April 1810 ______________________________Elijah Barnes
Attest: Leonard Mckinzey"

"This may certify that my son Jesse Runnels has my consent to obtain
Licenies in in a case of Marage between him and Betsy Barnes given under
my hand this 16 of April 1810. Wilam Runos
Attest: Leonard Mckinzey.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

!CENSUS:
1830 Lincoln Census:
Reynolds, Jesse Lincoln Pg. 338 No Twp. Listed.
2 males under 5
1 male 30-40
1 female under 5 (Liddia Jane?)
1 female 10-15
1 female 40-50
1840 Census:
Rennels, Jesse Listed in Rockcastle Co. Pg. 5
1850 Census:
Reynolds, Jesse listed in Rockcastle County - Southern District, age 66 b. TN
1860 Census:
Reynolds, Jesse listed in Rockcastle Co., KY Census, Mt. Vernon District.

!QUESTION: Who was his father? William or Nathaniel. There is no Nathaniel in
the 1810 Census, but there is a William. The Reynolds Family Book lists
Nathaniel. Is it wrong? Yes.

JESSE married BARNES ELIZABETH on 16 Apr 1810 in Pulaski County, Kentucky. ELIZABETH (daughter of BARNES ELIJAH SR. and UNKNOWN ELIZABETH M.) was born in 1789 in Kentucky; died in Jan 1880 in Pulaski County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!BIRTH: a) Rockcastle County, Ky 1850 Census Dwelling 238, Family 238.
Shows Elizabeth Reynolds in the household of Jesse Reynolds as 52
years old b. Tennessee.
b) Rockcastle County, Ky Census Dwelling 55, Family 55 shows Elizabeth
as 69, b. Kentucky.

!LINEAGE:
Per taped interview with C. Fred VanHook on 27 JUL 1989, Jesse Reynolds' wife
was a Barnes; he could not remember her first name. He also indicated her
father was named Matthew Barnes.

!MARRIAGE:
Pulaski Co., Kentucky Marriage Records show Jesse Reynolds married Betsy
Burns. "The Reynolds Family 1530-1959" by Tillman, S. F. lists Jesse's wife as
Elizabeth _____.

16 April 1910, Pulaski County, KY "Marriage Records Pulaski County,
Kentucky 1797-1850", page 36.
(Certified Marriage Bond on file).

"Sir these are to certify that you are at liberty to grant Marage
Liencis to Mr. Jesse Runnels for my Daughter Betsy Barnes ___ given under my
hand the 14 of April 1810 ______________________________Elijah Barnes
Attest: Leonard Mckinzey"

!DEATH: Pulaski Co., KY 1880 Mortality Schedules

55 Reynolds, Elizabeth 91 W KY VA NC Jan none phthesic
Dist. #92

LEWIS married HINES NANCY on 5 Feb 1835 in Pulaski County, Kentucky. NANCY (daughter of HINDS STEPHEN and REESE SARAH) was born in in Madison County, Kentucky; died in Nov 1840 in Somerset, Pulaski County, Kentucky; was buried in 1840 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!LINEAGE: Laura Ellen's father was Matthew Barnes per C. Fred VanHook on tape 27
JUL 1989 by Larry Herrin. Fred also said that Laura Ellen's mother was a
Richardson.

!MARRIAGE: Pulaski Co. Marriage Records 1797-1850", page 3.
(Certified copy on file).

!CENSUS:
The 1860 Census show Matthew Barnes, age 69 and from Kentucky,
and his wife Letty, 70 years old and from Virginia. The Census was copied in
1989 by Larry Herrin. The 1860 Census show Matthew Barnes, age 69 and from
recorded on the sequential pages with James Madison Ping and his wife Ellen,
leaving little question that this is the correct relationship (Page 60 & 61).
1860 Pulaski Co., KY Census Page 5 Dist. 2 House 31 and Family 28.
Verified by the 1850 Census showing Matthew Barnes 60 years old from
Kentucky and Letty Barnes 61 years old and from Virginia. Sarah is listed as 21
years old; year of birth, 1829.

!BURIAL: Baker-Mounce Cemetery Rt. 192 onto Malvin Hill Rd.

M. Barnes Oct 23 1866 (only date)

!NOTES: C. Fred Van Hook said on 1-27-90 that Matthew Barnes had seven boys and
seven girls, and his wife was a Richardson. Fred said four of the girls married
Mounce's. He also said that one of them married a Meece, one a Farmer and the
other one married "granddad Ping". Fred said that Matthew Barnes stole a boat
at the Battle of New Orleans and came up the Mississippi River. He was deeded
1500 acres of land on Buck Creek, according to Fred.

!LINEAGE: "Barnes - Gregory Book I" (1979). Located /@/ Pulaski Co. Hist. Lib.

MATTHEW married RICHARDSON LETTIS (LETTY) on 19 Jun 1812 in Pulaski County, Kentucky. LETTIS (daughter of RICHARDSON WILLIAM SOLD. and BOBBITT JANE (JENNY)) was born in 1789 in Lee County, Virginia; died in 1866 in Nancy, Pulaski County, Kentucky; was buried in 1866 in Nancy, Pulaski County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!LINEAGE:
Laura Ellen's mother was a Richardson per C. Fred VanHook on tape 27 JUL 1989
by Larry Herrin. "Barnes - Gregory Book I" (1979) /@/ Pulaski Co. Library.

!BIRTH: Mormon Ancestral File (1987), "Descendency Chart of Elijah Barnes",
from CD-ROM 24 Aug 1991. Also, the question of whether Jane Bobbitt was her mother or st ep-
mother is resolved from Letty's consent note where Jane signs for her daughter.

!CENSUS:
From the 1860 Kentucky Census, it was found that Matthew
Barnes' wife Letty was 70 years old and was born in Virginia.
1860 Pulaski Co. KY Census, Dist. 2 Page 5, House 31 and Family 28.

!MARRIAGE: Pulaski Co. Marriage Records 1797-1850", page 3.
(Certified copy on file).

!BURIAL: Whitis Cemetery Nancy, Kentucky. (No dates).
"Lettie Barnes"