Wesley Fantley Fultz - (15 August 1815 Russell Co, VA - 29 June 1887 Wesleyville, Carter Co, KY)
m. 28 January 1840 Carter Co, KY
Sylvia Stamper - (?)
Notes
(From P. Fultz)
Wesley Fults was born 15 August 1815 in Virginia. Most certainly Wesley place of birth was Russell County, Virginia, same as his sister, Elizabeth (Fults) Buckner so listed according to her official death record.
Wesley arrived in what is now Carter County, Kentucky at an early age with his parents Obadiah and Martha Blankenship Fults.
January 28, 1840 Wesley took as his bride Silvia Stamper, daughter of John and Sarah Stamper and Great Granddaughter of Edward Polly a Patriot who served in the Revolutionary War as a Private in the Virginia Line under Captain Burton.
Wesley and Silvia were the parents of thirteen children. Seven sons and six daughters. James, John Wesley, Obadiah, Martha, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Sarah, Millie, Nancy, Symantha (Cynthia) Evaline, Joseph, W. Lafayette (Lafe) and Emmaline.
Wesley was a farmer, Minister, Merchant and large land owner mostly on Buffalo Creek in Carter County, Kentucky where he settled early and lived and died as did several of his children and descendants many who are still there to this day. He was a Minister in the Christian Church of Kentucky and according to Arthur Fults and various other sources Wesley Fults along with his brother Arthur and a man named Lawhorn each gave part of their property where it joined to what is now Bethel Church and Cemetery located on Kentucky State route #2 in Carter County situated between lower Smokey Buffalo Creek. The original church was built in a large shove by resources contributed by Wesley Fults where when completed he often conducted services and where his family and descendants attended services and where many including Wesley and his wife, Sylvia are buried in the church yard cemetery.
According to Alfred Wesley Hurst, Wesley Fults attended the Charter Conference of the Founding of the Christian Church in Kentucky.
Wesley's Granddaughter, Emmaline Fults and Hiram Davis who now live at Loyd, Kentucky in Greenup County states that as each of Wesley's children married he gave them a farm and built them a home and supplied stock. This was confirmed by Violet (Fults) Rose another Granddaughter of Wesley's who is the daughter of Wesley's son Joseph and lives at Olive Hill Carter County, Kentucky.
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