Ivy Cemetery is misspelled – according to the family buried there it should be Ivie Cemetery.  Ritchey and I visited Ivie Cemetery in March of 2019 during our visit to the Jackson Purchase area of Kentucky.  If I remember correctly, it was hard to find – but we rarely give up!  An easier way is to take Ky-94 east from Murray – 8.3 miles.  The cemetery is on a little road to the left.  Faxon Road is on the right and the cemetery is just a bit further on 94 on the left.  If you search Google Maps type in Ivie Cemetery – the correct spelling!

John Ivie and wife Elizabeth Wells were born in Henry County, Virginia. They married there and had a few children before coming to Kentucky. The 1860 Calloway County Kentucky Census lists John as 64, a farmer, born in Virginia, $3,300 in real estate and $772 in personal estate.  Wife Elizabeth is 62, also born in Virginia.  Daughter Tabitha Jane, 30, was born in Kentucky.  Son John T., 25, was born in Tennessee, as well as daughter Elizabeth F., who was 21.  So there must have been a stop in Tennessee before coming to Kentucky.

John Ivie purchased at least two parcels of land when in Calloway County.  January 2, 1851, he bought 60 acres for $900 from John B. Gullick, the Northwest Quarter of Section 2, Township 2, Range 5 East.  A purchase was made on October 1, 1852, from William and Claiborn Mills of 40 acres for $50.  I couldn’t find any other purchases, but from his will he divided his 260 acres – the same amount he was taxed for in 1869.  In that year the value of his land was $2,600.  He had three horses valued at $100 each, 5 cattle for a total of $25, 10 sheep, 400 bushels of corn and 80 bushels of wheat for a total value of $2,925.  In his will the 260 acres of land was divided between his three sons and his wife and single daughters.  

Will of John Ivie

Calloway County, Kentucky, April 14, 1870

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I, John Ivie, of the County and State aforesaid, having advanced in age, though sound in mind, do hereby make my last Will and Testament as follows to wit.

First I desire that after my decease all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid out of my cash notes or money arising out of the perishable parts of my estate. 

Secondly.  I give and bequeath unto my son R. C. Ivie sixty acres of land on which he now resides, being the west side of the Northeast Quarter of Section 2, Township 2, Range 5 East.

Thirdly.  I give and bequeath unto my son R. J. Ivie sixty acres of land on which he now resides, being the North end of the Northwest Quarter of Section 2, Township 2, Range 5 East.

Fourthly.  I give and bequeath unto my son J. F. Ivie sixty acres of land adjoining R. J. Ivie and the middle part of same quarter section.  Also, ten acres on which he now resides, being the North end of my forty acre tract in Section 3, Township 2, Range 5, East in the Northeast Quarter of said section.

Fifthly.  I also give and bequeath unto my beloved wife, Elizabeth P. Ivie, during her natural life or widowhood, my homestead forty acres of land being the remainder of the Northwest Quarter of Section 2, Township 2, Range 5 East, being the south end of said quarter, and thirty acres, the remainder of my forty acre tract and being the South end

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of said tract, it being a part of the Northeast Quarter of Section 3, Township 2, Range 5 East.  I also give to my beloved wife all my kitchen and household furniture and all my property of whatever kind it may be, perishable or otherwise.

Sixth.  I give and bequeath unto my two beloved daughters jointly, to wit, Tabitha J. Ivie and Elizabeth T. W. Ivie, the lands and all my Property of whatever kind it may be, being the same set apart to my wife, and desire that they have a support out of said property until the death or marriage of my said beloved wife, at which time my two daughters are to hold, own and have full possession of the said property and profits arising therefrom.  All of which I give to my several children, their heirs and executors, administrators or assigns as above stated and desire that there be no administration nor Court expenses if possible to avoid the same and this being my last Will and Testament, revoking all other wills.  Given under my hand the day and date first written.

John Ivie, his seal

Attest – William Holland, R. F. Nix

I, Linn Boyd, Clerk of the Calloway County Court, in the State of Kentucky, certify that at a County court held for said County on the 26^th day of June 1876 the foregoing writing was presented in open Court and proven by the oaths of William Holland and R. F. Nix to be the act and deed, last Will and Testament of John Ivie, deceased, and ordered to be filed and recorded.  In testimony of which and that the same stands truly recorded in my office, I hereunto set my hand this the 20^th March 1877.  Lynn Boyd, Calloway County Court Clerk

Today I found the War of 1812 records for John Ivie. Rarely do I find much in looking through these records. I believe there were 40 pages for John! A blog for another day!