Annotated Bullitt County 1850 Census

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 Newson 24 Mar 1993.

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29 September 1950

Judge Samuel E. DeHaven

Mr. McKay contributes a very readable and interesting article concerning "circuit court sessions in Bullitt under the old Constitution." Mr. McKay says there are not but few of the people of Bullitt who remember the sessions of the Bullitt Circuit Court, over which Judge DeHaven presided (1850-1891).

The last judge to hold court under the "old constitution," was Judge Samuel E. DeHAVEN of LaGrange. He was a fine, learned, old-time lawyer, and by common concent was regarded as one of the ablest and best Circuit Judges in the Commonwealth. He was a good- sized man, more than six feet in height, with dark iron-grey hair and beard.

To what Mr. McKay has written I (Barrickman) wish to add a [postcript. My father and the "old Judge" were life-long friends and business associates. They were both born in the same year, my father on Smith's Run, a tributary of Harrod's Creek, in Oldham County, and Sam on Wolf-pen branch, also a tributary of Harrod's Creek, near the Oldham-Jefferson county line.

When I was born I narrowly escaped being the Judge's namesake; my father wanted me named Sam, my mother insisted that I should be named for her father; so they "compromised" and I was named Wilhite. Judge DeHAVEN gave me my first saddle and briddle, but it was my grandfather CARPENTER who provided the horse!

Census record:

[904/904] Henry SHAW 32, Lucy 19, William J. 12, James H. 8, John W. 8, Sarah A. 5, Elizabeth M. 3, Mary M. 6 months.

The census taker skipped household #905.

[906/906] James SHEPHERD 50 farmer, Nancy 45, William H. 23, Armilda A. 20, James F. 18; Tresa MONECK 40.

[907/907] A.D. LAURELL 29 (born Guadalupe Islands, West Indies) farmer, Josephine 31, Juliet 12, Eugene 10, Athenase 25 black (West Indian), Edward 2.

[908/908] James ASHBAUGH 40 (married 1832), Eleanor (THOMPSON) 38, Wm. 16, Ann 15, Catharine 12, Mary 10, Frederick 9, Julia 5, Verlinda 4, George 3, Eliza 2.

[910/910] Y. PARRISH 45, Frances 22, Elizabth 8 months.

[911/911] Dennis EVANS 39 laborer, Patsy 45, Rachel 18, Young 16, John 8, Martha 6, George 4, Judge Booker 1. [free black family]

[912/912] William W. BELL 42 farmer (married 1830), Eliza (ASH) 42, W.T. 20, Maiiah 17, Jacob 13, Lynne BELL 20 laborer.

[913/913] D.C. McKAY 25 school teacher (married 1846, Susanna, daughter of Mrs. Ann DENT), Julie McKAY 25 (perhaps sister of D.C. McKAY), William H. 3, Thomas 3, Emily 4 months.

[915/915] William BARCLAY 45 miller, Christine 84, Elizabeth 54.

[916/916] David BARCLARY 36 blacksmith, Susan 26, John 3, David 3.

[917/917] Thomas P. BARCLAY 38 miller (married 1846), Mary Ann 22 (daughter of John HARDMAN), William 3, John 9 months

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