The Descendants of Samuel Ravenscroft

Sources
1. From Ravenscroft FamilyTree Maker Web Site, "The Descendants of Samuel Ravenscroft." Compiled by John Ravenscroft.
2. Nickname "Peggy" is on John Hinkson's request for the marriage of his daughter. "September the 6th 1786. Sir, you will please to Isue Lysons for my daughter Peggy to be married to Thomas Ravescraft from yours &c John Hinkson. Witness--Robert Hinkson. Clk. John Edwards."
3. Ruth Thayer Ravenscroft states that Robert was "alive in 1833." (Ravenscroft, p. 116). The 1850 Harrison County census lists a Robert Ravenscraft, age 41, living with the Humphrey Hinkson family.
4. Ravenscroft, p. 119
5. Ravenscroft FamilyTree Maker Web Site, "The Descendants of Samuel Ravenscroft." Compiled by John Ravenscroft.--John has two listings for Thomas Ravenscraft, Jr. The first listing has Thomas married to "Peggy Hinkson." I suspect that he is confused with his father's marriage to Margaret "Peggy" Hinkson.--REF
6. Ruth Thayer Ravenscroft, Ravenscroft Family History, 1954.
7. "Marriage Bond," August 12, 1812, Harrison County, Kentucky, Hand written, Harrison County, Kentucky, Office of Records.
8. "The True Kentuckian," Paris, Kentucky, June 16, 1869.
9. "Marriage Bond," January 11, 1813, Harrison County, Kentucky, Script, Harrison County, Kentucky, Records Department.
10. Nancy's birthdate is calculated from the Harrison County, Kentucky, 1850 census.
11. Ravenscroft, p. 128
12. Gravestone marker spells last name as "Culf."
13. Burgess, Louis A. Virginia Soldiers of 1776, Vol. I. (Spartanburg, South Carolina: The Reprint Company, 1973), p. 350. Reproduced from 1927 edition of the Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia.
14. The placement of COL Samuel Ewalt as the son of John Ewalt and Elizabeth Ravenscraft is purely speculative at this juncture. The reasons for placing him here is that (1) Jerry and Janice Dewitz mentions a "mother" of Samuel named "Sarah" in an explanation of the description of Ewalt land: "Notes: The "Ewalt Land" referred to above was owned by Sarah, mother of Samuel Ewalt, who married Nicholas III's sister Margaret. The old stone house pictured on the next page is the old David Family home, referred to above, which still stands." (Jerry and Janice Dewitz, "Before You," Alpha Publishing Group, Houston, Texas, 1997, p. 125) John Ewalt married Sarah Flowers in June, 1844, which would have made her Samuel's step-mother. A second piece of evidence is the Stonermouth Presbyterian Church, Ruddle's Mills, Ky, cemetery listing. An "Ewalt, John Sr., 1791-1857" is listed along with COL Samuel Ewalt "1826-1868." This dating places John Ewalt, Sr., as a real possibility as Samuel's father.

Prior to receiving the Dewitz information and the Ruddle's Mills cemetery listing, I had the following information on John Ewalt: Birth: 1789 Paris, Bourbon County, KY Father: Henry EWALT (1754-1829) Mother: Elizabeth FREY/FRYE (1757-1837)
Spouses: 1: Elizabeth RAVENSCRAFT Birth: 1793 Paris, Bourbon County, KY Death: bef 15 May 1827 Age: 34 Father: Thomas RAVENSCRAFT (~1756-1827) Mother: Margaret HINKSON (~1770-) Marriage: 3 Jul 1809 Harrison County, Kentucky
Children: Henry (1810-)
Margaret (1813-1873)
Juliana (1815-)
Elizabeth (1818-)
Rebecca (1820-)
Nancy Ann (1822-)
Samuel (1817-)

Spouse 2: Polly HALEY
Marriage: 6 Nov 1833

Spouse 3: Sarah FLOWERS
Marriage: 24 Jun 1844

With the new information, the pieces of the puzzle come together. It looks as if Samuel, the last son of John and Elizabeth Ewalt, may have actually been born in 1826. Elizabeth is mentioned as dying sometime before 1827. She may have died giving birth to Samuel.
15. Margaret's will (Will Bk. U, pp. 151-152) was probated in the Bourbon County Court, January term, January 21, 1904.
16. The birth and death data for this child was taken from a cemetery listing of the old Stonermouth Cemetery, Ruddell's Mills, Bourbon County, Kentucky, by Hattie Scott and Julia Ardery, December 15, 1928. The list is from "Presbyterianism in Paris and Bourbon County, Kentucky, 1786-1961" by Rev. Robert Stuart Sanders, D. D., The Dunne Press, Louisville, Kentucky, 1961, p. 267. While there is no proof that this is the child of Samuel Ewalt and Margaret Elizabeth Smith, circumstancial evidence points in that direction. The listing is found above the name "Ewalt, Col. Samuel, born Feb. 6, 1826, died 1868." The child's inscription reads: Ewalt, Nancy Kate, dau. of C.S. and E.M. Ewalt, b. 1852, di. 1867." The initials "C. S." may stand for "Col. Samuel" and "E. M." may be transposed initials for "Margaret Elizabeth." Also, the first name "Nancy" may have been a family name for Margaret's mother Nancy Shawhan Smith. --REF
17. "The True Kentuckian," Paris, Kentucky, October 20, 1869.
18. "The Western Citizen," Paris, Kentucky, December 12, 1850.
19. Listed as "Edward Ewalt" in McCann's Current Family genealogy, p. 23.
20. SMYRNA CHURCH
This congregation was organized under the auspices of the Cumberland

Presbyterian Church in July 1853 by Rev. George Rice. When they organized there were only seven members but in less than a week the number increased to nineteen. The first seven were; Darius McDonald, Elizabeth McDonald, E. A. Coffman, Winifred Coffman, Adam F. Trainer, Cyrus McDonald and Corelia A. Trower.

Among the elders who served this church were Darius McDonald, Adam F. Trainer, Henry Trainer, William Dums, Robert M. Vannoy, George Wagner, Cyrus McDonald, Z. B. Blackmore and William M. VanArsdel. [25]
21. Madsen, p. 34.
22. Edith died of a heart attack.
23. Sagil Elizabeth's name was officially changed to Katelyn Marie, due to the influence of grandmother Betty Hymes. The bitch strikes again!--REF July 5, 1999.
24. Name was changed from Sanders to Starnes. {REF}
25. Missouri Pioneers of Pike County. (Bowling Green, Missouri: InfoTech Publications, 1992), p. 79.

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