Mildred
Dixon Harrod
Flat Rock,
Indiana
May 3,
1970
Dear Barbara,
You are literally an answer to one of my prayers. Seems I have been working on my many lines in genealogy for so long, with so little reward. I had hoped some time to find some descendant of my Osborne lin e in Kentucky, and now I find you.
Do you know the names of John Osborn and his wife, Nancy Robertson, before you saw my my query in The Kentucky Ancestors? The name of this first wife was a real "find" a few months ago when I found an old letter written to my grandfather, Wm. T. Weir Dixon, at Hope Indiana, from a cousin, Catherine Cox, postmarked, Crothersville, Indiana. The letter is dated August 30, 1908. She wrote "Enclosed you will find a copy of the old record taken from the Bible owned by your Aunt Sally Lett. If you do not have a copy I am sure you will be glad to have it as we are." This record did not contain the wife of Jesse Osborn. All it told about him was that he was born November 9, 1800. I had the marriage record of Jesse from my own research.
Another old letter to my grandfather from Navoo, Hancock County, Illinois, from Wm. S. Bennett (a cousin to my grandfather), speaks of Aunt Rebecca Cobb and Jesse Cobb and John Cox.
Just recently I have made contact with some of the Dixons in Kansas and California, who are descended from Henry Dixon and Alse (Alcey/Alsey) (pronounced Ail-See), Wilson, my great-great-grandparents.
Your Wilson name is interesting as I have two Wilson lines, namely, Alse Wilson who married Henry Dixon in Greenbrier County, West Virginia in 1794, and Jeremiah Wilson, a Revolutionary War soldier who lived in Woodford County, Kentucky. He was born in Virginia and married Rhoda Sutten. My Osborn line is:
John Osborn
and Nancy Robertson
Nancy Osborn
and Williamson W. Dixon
William
T. Weir Dixon and Demiah James
Harmon Dixon
and Stella Taylor
Mildred
Dixon and Dolph O. Harrod.
I was born October 4, 1906 at Hope, Indiana; married May 10, 1936. We have two children, Patricia and John.
Since I started this I have been trying to find my correspondence with a lawyer at Owenton who is interested in genealogy. He told me the names of John and Nancy Osborn was on some church book. I've found the letter. "The minutes of the Mountain Island Baptist are in the Rare Book Room at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. I have not seen them, but understand that they show that John and Nancy were received into that church by letter in January 1807."
Sometime I wish you would help me with some research at Covington on my husband's GATES family who settled there from Pennsylvania about 1837. Dolph's great-grandparents were Jacob and Ann Hester Gates. Their son, Daniel, may have gone to Cincinnati before coming to Bartholomew County, Indiana in 1850-60's.
Sincerely,
Mildred Dixon Harrod
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