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Show . c' • j ( ( ( ( Page 2 Little York. My grandfather was so pleased with the climate of the sunny south that soon after the close ot the war he moved to Yorm Cowity of York District, as it was then called, thinking the bleak no~h not so congenial to his health. · My father, a much younger man, served also three years and a half under General Washington in the latter part of the war and was one in line of the Hollow Square around the gallows at Taj)pan when and where Major Andrew was hanged and he also stayed with Washington until the surrender at York Town. · lq father, Culbert Means Isany, was reared in York district, South Carolina and. then moved to !Dgan, now Simpson County, in Southern Kentucky. · In the year 1811 he carried chain, blazed trees and .assisted in laying out I a new county seat, Franklin' C1ty, in ,the same county. In the year 1812 my father married my mother, Miss Margaret Cook, and in the year 1813 enlisted to go with General Jackson to be at th·e battle of New Orleans. And on the 19th day of December A. D. 1815 I and my twin brother, Isaac Leany, were born in Franklin Precinct, Logan or Sipson, County, Kentucky. I being the tirst born was callee! William. P'ather, Mother and family struggled with all the hardships of a frontier life until the year 1823, when my mother died after a long severe spell of sickness, being the mother of six sons and one daughter, namely J'oseph, Vfilliam, Isaac, James Myrem, Sarah Ann and Thomas Jefferson, who was then an infant only a few days old. · Atter much sickness ) and big doctor bills, which added much to our hard struggle to ma~e all ends meet, we had much poverty to conten~ with. My father came into· this country on horse back and spent what money he brought with him in his pocket tor land and all else had to come from the soil through our hands, but we raised our cotton, wool, flax, hemp, indigo, etc. etc., We were independent and even happy. In the year 1824 my father married again, a Miss Margaret _. Williams, who was another good woman, and we were fond of her and by her my ·!· father had three daughters and one son, namely Elizabeth, Watson, die'd in |
