Source: Gladys Turman famres31@email.msn.com
The Jackson Purchase area of Kentucy is so interesting, history wise. I was going to tell the story about Bartlett (Frey) Hartgrove and Elizabeth Liles. Bartlett's mother never married and had three sons out of wedlock, Bartlett first born 1 Feb. 1800 Stokes Co. North Carolina. Then there was Martin and I believe without having to get my book, a Thomas, (not sure on the last one) anyway Bartlett was the son of Petrees or Peter Frey. I found the Bastard Bond she had filed. It seems the Freys and Hartgroves all hang out together and was fairly well off in Stokes County.
Catherine's parents was James Hartgrove and Susanna Langford, both families coming out of Virginia into North Carolina. Bartlett was married three times, first to a Martin in Stokes Co. then a daughter of George A Bullen who went from Rowan Co. into McCracken Co. about 1825. Mary Ann Bullen Hartgrove died of childbirth or soon after and Elizabeth Liles, daughter of William Liles and Jane, married Bartlett and took over raising his tiny baby, Delilah. About 1859, the families of George Cook Bolen (Bullen then later changed to Bowlin) Bartlett and Elizabeth all sold their property in McCracken, Marshall and Calloway Cos. and removed to Ripley County, Missouri. Which was the biggest mistake they could have made as their farm was directly on the Military Road near Fairdealing, Mo.
When the War broke out George Cook Bowlin Bolen was captured and put in a Union Prison Camp. and the old folks of Bartlett and Elizabeth was murdered by Yankee Soldiers and their farm burned. I have been trying to find where they were buried, that is if they were!!!! They, the Yankees, released George Bowlin and after 1870 he and Nancy Jane Hartgrove, a daughter of Bartlett and Elizabeth moved into Independance Co. Ark. stayed a short time then removed into what is now Boone Co.Ak. Their daughter, Martha Elizabeth Bowlin, (my grandmother) married Hiram Hardin in Boone Co. She died in 1896, and he and the four children went by wagon train into Indian Territory. Hiram died about 1909 in Clarksville, Ok. a tiny settlement west of Porter, Ok. George Cook Bowlin ran a country store there until his death about 1906. Nancy Jane Hartgrove Bowlin and her sons then (1906) moved into Ft Sumner New Mexico she died in 1922. They ran Indian Trading Post along the New Mexico Highways for many years. There is still one ran by one of the descendants about 15 miles east of FtSumner, DeBaca Co.
Gladys famres31@email.msn.com
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