Captain Lewis Rose, born October 11, 1749, and died February 20, 1829, left a will naming several children. He married first Barbara Thair, and, secondly, Mary Todd Hutton McMurtry, her first husband being Captain John McMurtry.
At the Historical Society in Harrodsburg, Mercer County, there are filing cabinets full of pieces of paper the county clerk was going to get rid of. Thank goodness the society realized the importance these papers would be to genealogists!
I used this particular one today since it concerned his daughter, Catherine Rose, who married her step-brother, Joseph McMurtry. Many of the Rose family members are buried in a family cemetery in the little town of Burgin, also in Mercer County. Catherine is buried in Spring Hill Cemetery in Harrodsburg.
Catharine, wife of John McMurtry and daughter of Captain Lewis Rose, born November 21, 1780, died September 1, 1867. Spring Hill Cemetery, Mercer County, Kentucky.
Little scraps of paper can be very important and give little clues about our families. My great-grandmother was diligent about saving old tax receipts and other pieces of family information!
Received of Robert B. McAfee, Executor of Lewis Rose, deceased, five hundred dollars in part of my share of the price of his land sold by said Executor according to the directions of his will. Witness my hand this 14th day of May 1842.
Catherine McMurty
Test. A. H. Alexander
NB $200 of the above said money from the land.
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