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Chapter 7
The Underground Railroad Hypothesis
Underground Railroad Station Possibility-----Rufus Sigler by Dr. Robert
Thomas Sigler-----Correspondence with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.-----Excerpts from "Underground Railroad, First
Person Narratives of Escapes to Freedom in the North" by Charles Blockson.
Prentice Hall, New York, 1987. Provided by Ms. Jeannie Regan-Dinius,
Indiana Department of Natural Resources
Underground Railroad Possibility
A hypothesis has been developed which indicates that the Chalybeate Community may have been a station on the Underground Railroad.
According to the deed and the memorial stone
in the cemetery for the Methodist minister, J.
M. McIntyre, in
the cemetery, one part of the community was a Methodist congregation. The time between the first
and last burials in the cemetery covered a time span of 118 years. The
current day United Methodist Church should have information about the existence
of the Chalybeate Springs Methodist Episcopal Church. As a minimum, it
should have records which indicate the names of the pastors assigned to the church
or the circuit of which it was a part. The main questions with regard to
this issue remains "Where were the records of the Kentucky Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church maintained during the period from 1844 to 1939
and where are they archived today?" We have not yet recovered that
information from the United Methodist Church.
Correspondence from the archivists of the Indiana Conferences of the
United Methodist Church at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, have
provided the following information : "When he died on April, 12,
1864, James McIntyre was assigned to the Green River and Henderson Circuit of
the Kentucky Conference. He was on trial, serving his second appointment
for the conference, and not yet ordained, which explains why we could find no
obituary for him." The Green River and Henderson Circuit was a part
of the Green River District with I. F. Harrison serving as P. E. There
were three churches, one parsonage, and 212 members in the circuit in 1864
and it was the largest circuit in the district. The documentation which has been provided for this
information is page 6 of the minutes of the Kentucky Conference which was held
in Augusta, Kentucky, on February 25-29, 1864, with Bishop Matthew Simpson
presiding. Correspondence from the archivists of the Kentucky Conferences
of the United Methodist Church at Kentucky at Kentucky Wesleyan College in
Owensboro, Kentucky, have provided information that M. Simpson was the bishop of
the Kentucky Conference M. E. Church (North) in 1864.
A special "thank you" is extended to John R. Riggs,
Linda Butler, and William E. Bartelt of the Indiana Conferences of the United
Methodist Church and Richard A. Weiss and Becky Rightmyer of the Kentucky
Conferences of the United Methodist Church.
Playfair's Law states that 1) Water flows from a higher elevation to a lower
elevation, 2) Streams form the valleys in which they flow, and 3) Streams meet
at common elevations (except in the case of glaciation). Simple land
navigation tends to dictate that people follow either of the two paths created
by nature.....streams or ridge lines. The Chalybeate Springs Community was located on the ridge line of the Tradewater River Basin and at the
headwaters of the Caney Fork of the Craborchard Creek of the Tradewater River.
It would have been easy to find. However, people would have had to have
been very careful if they had followed the Tradewater River to get to
Chalybeate. The goal was to cross the Ohio River into Indiana....not
Illinois. Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky share a common boundary point
very close to the Chalybeate Community. The meeting house lot and cemetery were located in close proximity to both Diamond
Island and Evansville, Indiana. See the excerpt
below for information about Underground Railroad routes with respect to Diamond
Island and Evansville, Indiana. Both were popular crossing points for
ex-slaves trying to get across the Ohio River and into Indiana "Free
Territory". The community lies just west of a line from Hopkinsville,
Kentucky, to Evansville, Indiana. The Tradewater River could have been
used as a route on the Underground Railroad. If people had followed the
Tradewater River to the Ohio River and crossed it there, they would have crossed
the river into the counties in Illinois which voted overwhelmingly
in favor of the 1824 state constitutional amendment convention to re-establish
slavery in Illinois. They would not have wanted to do that. A tourist attraction in the region in recent
decades has been the "Old Slave House" which was functional during the
era of the Underground Railroad. Taking
a right turn up Craborchard Creek and then up Caney Fork would have taken them
to the Chalybeate Community. If they were following the ridge line of the
Tradewater River basin, they would have also arrived at the Chalybeate Community just before they
entered the pro-southern area of Union County, Kentucky. They could have
then been escorted to the proper Ohio River crossing points and into Indiana.
Over 50,000 North Carolinians left the state and moved to Ohio or Indiana in
protest to slavery during the thirty years before the Civil War. Quakers,
who in the beginning made up one of the largest organized religious groups in
North Carolina, led Methodists, Weslyans and others to oppose slavery and to
work for betterment of slaves. As Levi Coffin and his family became more
and more involved in aiding escaping slaves to head north through Virginia and
Kentucky, Levi Coffin, his wife Katie, and others moved to Indiana, then to
Cincinnati, where he could keep control of the long routes that slaves were
being escorted over to reach free states. Levi Coffin, who became known as
the unofficial president of the Underground Railroad, used many freed African
Americans, as well as white Americans to assist in moving escaping slaves along
the lines from Carolina to Canada. The Snow Camp Historical Drama Society,
having just completed the 20th anniversary season of the outdoor drama,
"The Sword of Peace", is earmarking a third decade with the opening of
an additional outdoor drama "Pathway to Freedom", the Nation's only
outdoor drama about the Underground Railroad. The information in this
paragraph is from North
Carolina Discoveries.
Jacob Sigler and his wife, Malinda Roberts, owned the land where the meeting
house lot is located. Jacob Sigler's grandparents were Jacob Sigler
and his wife, Margaret. They lived in Virginia and moved to the western
part of North Carolina. Jacob and Margaret's children moved west through
Tennessee and Kentucky and several of them settled in the Tradewater River
Basin. Many of their children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren are
buried in cemeteries which lie in a south - north line from Princeton, Kentucky,
to the Chalybeate Community (map
map legend) and they and their spouses account for about one third of the burials in
the cemetery at Chalybeate. Jacob and Margaret were community leaders in
the Baptist church groups in North Carolina. Marilyn Swanson has indicated
on the Sigler page of the "Our Family Tree" section of her web site http://www.foreverlivingproducts.net
that Jacob had a brother, John Sigler. John's descendents went west
through Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The two groups could have set up a network for the
Underground Railroad through family ties. Jacob Sigler, husband of Malinda,
also had an aunt and cousins who settled in Indiana south of Indianapolis.
Charles Franklin Wallace was the father of Charlotte Elizabeth Wallace (wife
of David Sigler) and was the son of John Wallace (1782-1855) and Francis
Taylor (1787-1856). An
excerpt from the History of Gibson County, Indiana, (Jas T. Tartt & Co,
Edwardsville, Illinois, 1884) concerning John Wallace, the father of Charles Franklin Wallace
is as follows.
"Mr. Wallace and wife were both members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and he was for many years a class leader. He was a Whig and
Republican, and being strongly opposed to the institution of slavery, it was the
the prime reason of his leaving Kentucky. He was also a botanic doctor and
was successful in the practice, though his main occupation was that of a
farmer."
Jacob Sigler was the grandson of George Wales (1737-1824) and Nancy Irvin,
who were born in Pennsylvania in the Quaker community and moved to North
Carolina in 1767 where they became involved with the Baptist community.
Jacob's parents, John Sigler and Nancy Wales were married in North Carolina and
moved to Robertson County, Tennessee, where Jacob Sigler grew up. George
Wales moved to Warren County, Ohio, in 1816 and Jacob Sigler had grandparents,
an uncle, and cousins living there during the 1800's. (History of Warren
County, Ohio, by W. H. Beers, 1882, pp. 650, 1019, 1020) and (Encyclopedia of
American Quaker Genealogy, Volume 1, North Carolina)
Mary Sigler, a sister of Jacob Sigler's father (John Sigler), was born in
Loudoun County, Virginia. She moved with her family to Rowan County, North
Carolina, and, at the age of seventeen, married Samuel Wales, a brother of Jacob
Sigler's mother (Nancy Wales) in 1791. The family lived in Rowan County,
North Carolina, and seven children (Margaret Wales, Sarah Wales, George Wales,
Jacob Wales, Isaac Wales, Sabra Wales, and William Winford Wales) were born from
1792 to 1818. Mary and Samuel moved to Indiana to be with their son,
Isaac, and his family. Mary died in 1845 in Bartholomew County, Indiana,
and is buried there.
Catherine Sigler, a sister of Jacob Sigler's father (John
Sigler) was born in Loudoun County, Virginia. She moved with her family to
Rowan County, North Carolina, and, at the age of fifteen, married Samuel Wales
Busey in 1794. Catherine and Samuel moved to Shelby and Franklin Counties
in Kentucky where seven children (Matthew Wales Busey, Edith Busey, Jacob Busey,
Mary Busey, Lazarus Whitehead Busey, Catherine Busey, and Samuel Andrew Jackson
Busey) were born from 1798 to 1813. The family moved to Washington County,
Indiana, and two more sons, John H. Busey and Singleton Wilson Busey, were born
in 1815 and 1818. Samuel died in Putnam County, Illinois, in 1844 and
Catherine died in Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois, in 1845. Matthew
Wales Busey married Elizabeth Bush in Washington County, Indiana, in 1821.
Eight children (Louisa Jane Busey, Simeon Harrison Busey, Mary Cerelda Busey,
Sarah A. Busey, Samuel Thompson Busey, Elizabeth Frances Busey, and Matthew D.
Busey) were born. Elizabeth Bush Busey died in Champaign County, Illinois,
in 1880.
The area of the cemetery is about 80,000 square feet. There are about
161 known gravestones in the history of the cemetery. Simple mathematics
indicates that there is about 500 square feet of surface area in the cemetery
for each known grave. Either the cemetery is extremely under populated or
many people have been buried in the cemetery without the graves being marked by
stones. Keep in mind that some of the researchers in the past included a
grave with a burial date of 1842 in their lists of stones. Their lists of
stones in the cemetery should be reasonably complete. Questions
remain. If there were other people buried in the cemetery, who were they
and why were they buried there?
It is probable that the Chalybeate Methodist community was an enclave of pro-northern,
anti-slavery, and integrationist political philosophy surrounded by people who
held the opposite views. The new county, Webster County, was formed in
1860 just prior to the Civil War. The first sheriff, Noah Nichols Johnson,
resigned with the following statement "I deem it requisite to my safety
personally and my honor as a citizen to tender my resignation." on February
17, 1862. He then joined the Confederate military forces. Below are
excerpts from a statement presented by my brother, Dr. Robert
Thomas Sigler (PhD - Sociology) concerning the social training of our
grandfather, Rufus Sigler. The views of Rufus are significant with respect to
the social views of the Chalybeate Methodist community. Both of Rufus' parents grew
up in the community and all four of his grandparents are buried in the
cemetery. At least one set of his great grandparents, Jacob Sigler and
Malinda Roberts, are also buried there.
Recollections of things told to me by my Grandfather, Rufus
Sigler
Written as remembered by Robert T.
(Bob) Sigler 7-3-01
My grandfather was an important figure in my life. I knew him better than my
brother and sister did because his house was identified as home for me in the
years before my sister was old enough to have memory of him and before my
brother was born. We went home each summer until I was in my teens. Grandfather
brought the old wooden chairs from the shed when folks came to visit, and set
them under the shade tree by the house where the men gathered to talk. I was
included in the discussions and listened to the men talk among themselves. In
later years, I realized that many of these shade tree discussions were training
sessions for me during which my grandfather provided experiences from which I
could learn proper values and behaviors.
A short history of Grandfather’s life might be in order. His father was a town
marshal in a near by town. I no longer remember the name of the town. (Sullivan
wjs 7-6-01) My father, Robert Henry Sigler, told me that he remembered
visiting his grandfather’s house and that his memories of those visits were
pleasant.
My grandfather was a coal miner. He marched with John L. Lewis and was active in
the union movement. He also worked as a supervisor of a small crew of miners
during part of his career as a miner. Coal dust settled in his lungs (black lung
disease) and he had to leave the mines. He began painting houses and did well
until he fell from the top of a 40- foot ladder. He was severely injured and had
a drain in his side to clean his abdominal cavity until his death. He was not
able to work and was dependent on a small amount of money that my father sent
him each week until he qualified for an old age pension.
He managed because he owned his home and lived very frugally. During this
period, he worked off his medical bills by supervising men who worked a farm
owned by his doctor that was behind my grandfather’s house. Unlike the doctor
who took my mother’s father’s farm to pay my grandmother’s medical bills,
this doctor did what he could to allow my grandfather to maintain his dignity.
He died while I was in college working on a BA degree.
My father’s family was not as well integrated as my mother’s family. My
father was an only child, and I though that my grandfather was also an only
child until his funeral.
My grandfather was a liberal and what I would call an integrationist. He
considered all men to be equal and to be judged on what they did --- not by what
they were. His approach was aggressive but quiet. Some stories told to me by
either granddad or dad might be useful. As a supervisor in the mines he promoted
two controversial practices. First, he applied what later would be called a
quota system. Crews were expected to produce a certain amount of coal each
shift. Granddad ran his crew on performance. His crew worked until they produced
their tonnage. If they had a good vein and worked hard, they got off early. The
principle, in his words, was a day’s pay for a day’s work. This principle
was also applied to race. His Americans of African descent miners earned the
same pay as his Americans of European descent, a principle still not fully
implemented today but put into practice in the 1930’s by Rufus Sigler. I might
note that he insisted on the same standards for the farm workers he supervised
for the doctor in the 1940’s.
As a house painter, he painted houses, not people. He painted for anyone who
needed the work done and was prepared to pay his price. He had both white and
black customers. His policy regarding churches is indirectly related to race.
Granddad’s policy for painting churches was to collect full price for the work
he did. He would then donate the money he earned to the church the following
Sunday. He applied this policy to both churches with white and non-white
congregations. While he did not say so, I suspect that he painted most of the
churches in town during the years that he was a house painter. I should note
that he has a quiet integrationist in these matters. He did not attempt to tell
others what they should do or think. He believed in leading by setting a good
example. Of course in a small town, everyone knew of his beliefs and behavior.
He was respected as a good honest Christian man and his behavior was accepted if
not always followed.
My training included this element of racial equality. While we were sitting
under that shade tree, from time to time, a black man would stop by to sit and
talk awhile. Looking back, I suspect that these visits were arranged so that I
could be taught to address these men as mister and sir, as polite children
addressed adults in those days. While I did not really notice it at that time,
one value in that small town (Sturgis wjs 7-7-01)was don’t intrude when
guests are present, a lesson taught one year when the neighbors had out-of-town
family guests. Simply put, these black men would only come by invitation and to
the best of my recollection were the only non-family visitors. My father
reported that his father was a strict disciplinarian with high expectations for
members of his family. I don’t recall this but will note that my mother (Rubye
Collins Sigler) observed that granddad was the only person who I always obeyed,
a matter of interest given my general tendency to make mother’s life
interesting.
While not as clear in my memory, I know that he taught honesty, fairness, and
tolerance for individual differences, values that were common on both sides of
our family at that time. He never spoke poorly of anyone. If he couldn't say
something good, he didn't say anything. Other people’s personal values and
behaviors were not of interest to us as long as they respected our space. Again,
values that were held in common with the Collins, Rhodes, Urton, and Wilson
families.
Granddad valued education. He, himself, never attended school. With Grandmother’s
help, he taught himself to read through the use of the Bible. He learned to find
the verses that the minister read and would go over them after church until he
could read the passage. His son completed high school, and his grandchildren
continued their education beyond high school. Both he and our parents stressed
reading and education as the hallmarks of or roads to success.
Along with my parents, Granddad is responsible for those traits that I have that
are considered to be positive.
Written as remembered by Robert T.
(Bob) Sigler 7-3-01
  Before and during the Civil War Prince Hall
Freemasons helped establish, run,
and maintain the "underground railroad" which helped thousands of
slaves reach a life of freedom. This is from the web
site of The Grand Lodge of Minnesota
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons
Prince Hall Lodge
The symbols in the photos above have been found in the cemetery at
Chalybeate. They may be related to the Masonic Order and/or the
Underground Railroad. The four-rayed star with a central point was the symbol
for a high ranking Mason. However, the symbols may just be pretty
artwork on cemetery stones. The stones marked the graves of people who
died during the 1840's. Some of the information in this paragraph has been
provided by Stan Planton, Head Librarian, Chillicothe Campus, Ohio
University.
X-Sender: hgates@pop.fas.harvard.edu
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:44:14 -0500
To: wjtjd@bellsouth.net
From: "Henry Louis Gates, Jr." <smtp.fas.harvard.edu@fas.harvard.edu>
Dear Mr. Sigler,
Thank you for your email on the Underground Railroad. As you know, its
activities were, of necessity, clandestine, so information was intentionally
kept secret. But information does exist as your Web site indicates. The Quaker
connection and the geographic meeting of free and slave states both sound like
positive clues. Local history is often a fruitful area of investigation. I
recommend that you conduct further research through your local public library
and historical society. I would also take a look at histories of the Underground
Railroad, particularly those that reference William Still.
I wish you well as you continue your study.
Best wishes
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Subject: Snippet from "The Underground Railroad"
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 17:32:06 -0500
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21)
The below (beneath my name) is from
"Underground Railroad, First Person Narratives of Escapes to Freedom in
the North" by Charles Blockson. Prentice Hall, New York, 1987.
I do not have the book here in the office, but rather was given the below as
a photocopy. Please check your local library for copies. The book, from the
pages given to me, is not footnoted. I hope thought it will help some in their
research.
Jeannie Regan-Dinius,
Special Projects Coordinator
Department of Natural Resources
Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology
402 W. Washington Street, RM W274
Indianapolis, IN 46204
317/232-1646
"The Underground Railroad existed in every state north of the border
slave states and had a particularly extensive network in the states of Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois. The Ordinance of 1787, adopted to create and govern the
Northwest Territory, stated that "there shall be neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude, in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment
of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." It was this
feature, introduced in the great ordinance by New Englanders, that frustrated
the many attempts subsequently made by Indiana Territory to have slavery
admitted within its own boundaries by congressional enactment, according to
Siebert. "It is probable," wrote James Ford Rhodes, "that had it
not been for the prohibitory clause, slavery would have gained such a foothold
in Indiana and Illinois that the two would have been organized as slaveholding
states" (cited in Siebert, The Underground Railroad, 338).
Considering the geographical location of Indiana, between the Ohio River and
Lake Michigan, it was natural for the Underground Railroad network to be
established in the region early. Indiana had its share of men and women who were
staunchly opposed to slavery and regarded the system as an unmitigated evil.
This viewpoint was expressed not only by the abolitionists antislavery citizens,
but by less passionate antislavery citizens. Among Indiana's residents was
Quaker Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the Underground Railroad. Harriet
Beecher Stowe's characters Simeon and Rachel Halliday were based on Levi and
Catherine Coffin. She also described a station stop on Elise's journey as
"a Quaker settlement in Indiana." Coffin had helped the real-life
model for Stowe's Eliza during her flight to freedom, for Coffin's house at
Newport, now Fountain City, was on the direct line between Canada and
Cincinnati, where probably the greatest number of fugitives crossed the Ohio
River from bordering slave territory. Coffin's house was often called the
"Grand Central Station of the Underground Railroad."
During the summer of 1983, while on my tour of Underground Railroad sites, I
had the opportunity to visit the Coffin homestead. It is a two-story brick house
with a basement that was used as a hiding place. The interior has been kept
simple in the Quaker tradition. Coffin kept a horse and wagon in his barn
constantly ready for emergencies connected with the Underground.
It is impossible to ascertain the number of fugitive caravans. Siebert
located 244 conductors in his study of the Underground Railroad in this state.
In both Indiana and Michigan, women's societies were formed ass auxiliaries, and
the Female Anti-slavery Association, formed at Jefferson in Henry County,
organized a Committee of Vigilance "to seek out such colored females as
for, who may now be, or shall hereafter come, within our limits, and assist them
in any way they may deem expedient either by advice or pecuniary means."
At Diamond Island near West Franklin, Posey County, many runaway slaves were
helped over the Ohio River and then taken by one of two routes.
One route
crossed the Wabash River at Webb's Ferry near the southern line of Gibson County
and continued up along the Wabash - or near it in Illinois to a rendezvous from
which friends carried them on to a point near Lake Michigan either in Lake,
Porter, or LaPorte Counties. There was a place in each county where they could
be secreted and smuggled on board a lumber bark owned and operated by
antislavery people. This boat was not much to look at but was built for strength
and speed. Anyone not acquainted with it would think the boat not fit, to
venture far from shore. The boat cruised along the shore, landing at different points in three counties, loading and
unloading the freight that was offered but carrying no passengers. The Negroes
were kept secreted in the holds until a number were gathered together. Then they
were taken along the Michigan shore on up into Canada.
The other route from
Diamond Island was to a point in Vanderburg County then known as the Calvert
neighborhood, thence north to various rendezvous. Near the city of Evansville
was another place where the w s a very runaways crossed the Ohio. This was a
very popular route as there were many free Negroes in the city among whom the
refugees could be easily hidden.
A third route was a short distance above the
mouth of Little Pigeon. The refugees crossed here by skiff and were carried up
and turned over to friends between Boonville and Lynnville in Warrick County,
Indiana
A fourth place for crossing the Ohio River was a point midway between
Owensboro, Kentucky, and Rockport, Indiana. There used to be a little
fisherman's hut on the south bank of the river at this point. Two fishermen
lived in that shock. They sold their catch to steamboats, flatboats, and coal
fleets passing down, the river and made good money this way, but their real
business '"as to carry across the Ohio River the refugees that were brought
to their shack at night.
A few miles east, at Rockport, Indiana, was another crossing over the Ohio
River. The next regular crossing was near the mouth of Indiana Creek in Harrison
County. Refugees were ferried across, then conveyed to friends near Corydon who
carried them farther into Wayne, where they had a host of friends among the
Quakers. They were then piloted through western Ohio and on to Lake Erie
Probably more Negroes crossed over the Ohio River at two or three places
above Louisville than at any other place from the mouth of the Wabash to
Cincinnati. The reason for this was that the three good-sized cities at Clifty
Falls (Greensburg, Westport, and Clarksburg) furnished good hiding places for
the runaways. Those crossing at these places were all conveyed on to Wayne
County, Indiana, and thence on to Lake Michigan."
Tradewater Basin Cemetery Map Legend
Click HERE for a map of the
cemeteries in the Tradewater Basin showing the locations of the cemeteries of
generations 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the descendents of Jacob and Margaret Sigler of
Virginia and North Carolina. The codes before the cemetery names and city names
match the codes on the map.
The map has a geographic grid. The degrees, minutes, and seconds of the lines
of longitude are: 1 (88 06 45), 2 (88 01 30), 3 (87 56 15), 4 (87 51 00), 5 (87
45 45), 6 (87 40 30), 7 (87 35 15), 8 (87 30 00) and 9 (87 24 45). The degrees,
minutes, and seconds of the lines of latitude are: A (36 53 30), B (36 56 40), C
(36 59 50), D (37 03 00), E (37 06 10), F (37 09 20), G (37 12 30), H (37 15
40), I (37 18 50), J (37 22 00), K (37 25 10), L (37 28 20), M (37 31 30), N (37
34 40), O (37 37 50), P (37 41 00), and Q (37 44 10).
SECOND GENERATION
2 HS Kentucky, Caldwell County, Holeman/Sigler Cemetery
2 SI Kentucky, Caldwell County, Rowena Baker Farm, Sigler Cemetery
THIRD GENERATION
3 FA Kentucky, Caldwell County, Farmersville, Death Location
3 SG Kentucky, Crittenden County, Shady Grove, Will Sigler Cemetery,
(on Nadine Sigler Horning Farm)
3 OC Kentucky, Webster County, Old Chalybeate Springs Methodist
Cemetery
3 ?? Kentucky, Webster County, Ramsey Farm
FOURTH GENERATION
4 HO Kentucky, Caldwell County, Holeman Cemetery
4 LC Kentucky, Caldwell County, Liberty Church Cemetery
4 MC Kentucky, Caldwell County, McNeely/Calvert Cemetery
4 CH Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, Cedar Hill Cemetery
4 YO Kentucky, Caldwell County, Young Cemetery
3 SG Kentucky, Crittenden County, Shady Grove Cemetery
4 BO Kentucky, Union County, Bordley, Burial Location
4 BO Kentucky, Union County, Bordley, Masonic and Odd Fellows Cemetery
4 COHO Kentucky, Union County, Cowan/Holeman Cemetery
4 AS Kentucky, Webster, Ashland Cemetery
4 CL Kentucky, Webster County, Clay, IOOF Cemetery
4 HT Kentucky, Webster County, Hilltop Cemetery
4 SH Kentucky, Webster County, Lisman, Shiloh Cemetery
4 PR Kentucky, Webster County, Providence, Big Hill Cemetery
4 PR Kentucky, Webster County, Providence, Sigler Cemetery
FIFTH GENERATION
5 JO Kentucky, Caldwell County, Jones Cemetery
CITY CODES
C Crofton
D Dixon
DS Dawson Springs
E Earlington
F Fredonia
M Marion (1I), Morganfield (3P), and Madisonville (7I)
P Princeton (3E) and Providence (5J)
S Sturgis
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