We continue the Bullitt County 1850 census written by Mrs. W. V. Mathis, Wallace A. McKay and W. C. Barrickman. Betty Darnell shared this in The Pioneer News on 16 Dec 1992.
This particular article contained no census data, but is worth sharing for its content.
15 September 1950
"Bullitt Chapel Cemetery Record"
Close to the county line between Bullitt and Nelson, near Deatsville, once stood a pioneer Catholic Chapel. Its head was the Rev. Charles Nerinckx, a native of Belgium. he founded the teaching order of the "Loretto Sisters at the Foot of the Cross," to provide educational opportunties for the children of the pioneers who settled in that section, and built the chapel of St. John, locally called Bullitt Chapel.
In 1811 Joseph AUD, a Maryland immigrant to Nelson County, bought of Henry CRIST 300 acres on "Rock Run," in Bullitt County. In 1814 he gave by deed, a tract of land containing 10 acres, called "Assumption Hill," to the Right Reverent Benedict Joseph Flaget, bishop of Bardstown; on this tract St. John's Chapel was built, and a • burial-ground laid off, "adjoining the plantation the said Joseph AUD now lives on." He died in 1815, and his grave was one of the first in the new cemetery, although the record below does not include his name. The record does include the Levi MAGRUDER family plot, which is not within the walls of the cemetery, but adjoins it in an enclosing wall of its own.
The archives of the Sisters of Loretto at Loretto, Ky., has a list of those who are buried in the Chapel Cemetery, and Sister M. Philippa (HENDERSON), of the Motherhouse of the Loretto Sisterhood at Nerincla, who is a great-granddaughter of Joseph AUD, has graciously copied the lists for "Who Was Who." It contains the names of many early settlers in Bullitt a hundred or more years ago.
William BARCLAY, 29 Nov. 1770-24 May 1848; David BARCLAY 11 Nov. 1813-13 Dec. 1858; Amanda M. BLANDFORD 13 Feb. 1840-30 June 1891; Benedict BLANDFORD 25 Sept. 1793-17 Oct. 1865; George H. BLANDFORD 26 Nov. 1826-15 July 1869; Joseph B. BLANDFORD, 18 Oct. 1836-2 Jan. 1894; Leidelia A. BLANDFORD 15 May 1829-10 March 1875; Matilda A. BLANDFORD 13 Mar. 1831-10 March 1875; Richard BLANDFORD, aged 91, d. 2 Jan. 1843; Ignatius(?) BROWN 10 Sep. ????-22 March 1841; John H. BURCH 22 Feb. 1859-7 Oct. 1859; Oliver S. BURCH 23 Nov. 1872-12 Jan. 1877; Verlinda C. BURCH, wife of Thomas J. 19 Jun. 1835-8 Jul. 1859 (she was a granddaughter of Joseph AUD); J.E. CECIL (CISSELL?), aged 72, d. 13 Jul. 1834; George B. DANT, aged 36 years, 3 month. 7 Jul. 1854; Wm. H. DANT, aged 28 years, d. 3 Apr. 1843; Sarah E. DENT, aged 9 years, 9 months, 14 days, d. 20 Mar. 1852; Thomas H. DENT, aged 21 years, d. 2 Apr. 1843; George T. GLASSCO, aged 3 days, d. ???? 1858; Sarah A. GLASGOW, wife of Thomas, d. 26 Mar. 1881.
Elizabeth Ellen GOLDSMITH (great-granddaughter of Joseph AUD), wife of Henry 5 Oct. 1843-8 Sept. 1894; Henry GOLDSMITH 14 May 1847-24 Jan. 1899; Hubritha A. MASDEN GOLDSMITH (sister of Elizabeth Ellen), (second wife of Henry) 27 June 1852-23 March 1928; Susan GOODMAN, aged 27 years, native of Tyrone, Ireland, d. 7 Sept. 1848; Sarah J. HARDY 1 Oct. 1849-29 Jun. 1911; Thomas HARTMAN 19 Feb. 1835-30 Apr. 1841; Margaret HARTNETT, aged 41 years, d. 13 April 1839; Sarah Trecy LAVELY, aged 1 month, John Erwin LAVELY, aged 1 day, Mary Frances LAVELY, aged 8 days, children of James A. and Mary LAVELY; Theresa LAVELY, wife of William, 7 Jan. 1779-27 Oct. 1856; William LAVELY 6 Jan. 1854-18 Dec. 1874 (This is an error, the stone reads: 18 Dec. 1774-6 Jan. 1854); Infant son of J.M. and R.F. LUTZ, born and died 11 Jan. 1856; Rosella F. LUTZ, wife of James M., 23 March ????-25 Jan. 1868.
Albert S. J. MAGRUDER (grandson of Joseph AUD) 29 May 1866-7 Aug. 1899; Catherine A. MAGRUDER (second) wife of Levi, 24 Dec. 1815-4 Jan. 1863; Levi MAGRUDER 6 May 1796-2 May 1868; Levi H. MAGRUDER (son of Levi and Elizabeth) 20 Feb. 1832-18 Sept. 1841; Elizabeth MAGRUDER (daughter of Joseph AUD), (first) wife of Levi, 6 Nov. 1797-13 Jun. 1839; Mary E. MAGRUDER, (third) wife of Levi, 2 May 1833-29 July 1899; James Commodore Perry MAGRUDER (son of Levi) 3 Oct. 1823-27 June 1854; James C.P. MAGRUDER (son of Perry) 14 April 1854-30 June 1854 (Dr. Jas. C. Perry MAGRUDER practiced medicine in Owensboro, Ky. During a small-pox epidemic there in 1854, he contracted the disease and died, three days before his infant son, who caught the disease from him; both were buried in the same grave in the Levi MAGRUDER lot). Commodore P. MASDEN 2 March 1847-30 Aug. 1849; W.M.C. MASDEN 14 April 1857-3 Aug. 1924 (they were sons of John and Elmira MASDEN); Elmira MASDEN (granddaughter of Joseph AUD), 24 Sept. 1820-3 Nov. 1894.
Teresa MONARCH 19 Oct. 1803-30 Sept. 1860; Austin MUDD, aged 56 years, d. 12 August 1861; Lucy MUDD, wife of Austin, d. 22 August 1851; Matthew MUDD 15 Aug. 1854-11 April 1870; Nancy MUDD 27 May 1804-25 May 1887; W.H. MUDD 14 Oct. 1835-1 Nov. 1910; Marian MUD b. and d. 1 Dec. 1866; Nettie E. MUDD, b. and d. 30 Jun. 1867; J. A., E. A. and L. A. MUDD (a single concrete stone marks the grave or graves); Nancy ORSBOURN 4 Oct. 1789-22 May 1838.
Son of T.F. and M. O'BRYAN 22 May 1844-14 July 1864; Wife of Thomas C. O'BRYANT 15 July 1809-26 Jul. 1864; Thomas O'BRYANT 18 Feb. 1803-22 Dec. 1872; John O'BRYANT 3 June 1867-25 Dec. 1867; Benedict Joseph SHEPHERD, aged 15 years, 9 months, 16 days, d. 5 Jan. 1836; Nancy A. SHEPHERD, wife of James, aged about 83, d. 5 Sept. 1879; James P. SHEPPARD, Apr. 1790-24 Oct. 1872; Ann STARS, aged 3 years, 6 months, d. 0 April 1841; Marget STARS, aged 14 months, d. 5 Sept. 1850; Thomas S. THOMPSON 27 March-1811-8 June 1838; Mary V. THOMPSON 30 Aug. 1834-2 March 1857; Mary C. THOMPSON, aged 93 years, d. 30 May 1851; Mary Ann THOMPSON, aged 31 years, 5 months, 18 days, d. 5 Apr. 1789 (another reading says d. 5 April 1843).
Overall Family Cemetery, on the O.R. McGRUDER place, about 1 mile from the Deatsville Pike. William OVERALL, 60 years, d. 10 Oct. 1810; Ann OVERALL, 70 years old, d. 4 Feb. 1839; John OVERALL, Sr. 20 April 1795-23 Dec. 1860; Harrison OVERALL 13 Sept. 1818-3 Feb. 1841.
This project is presented here with the kind permission of Betty Darnell, and The Pioneer News.
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