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Show ( ( ( Page 4. I will here sa1 I remember my uncle William Lean1 moving :from South Carolina into S1mpson County, Kentucky in a two wheeled cart without an ounce of iron upon 1 t drawn by a pair of oxen without ring or staple on the yoke, having several cows packed with their stuff and also for tae children to ride upon when tired of walking, like old Father Jacob when he left the service of Iabam.· I speak of these things to show the mode of travel customary in settling new countries in those early times, My uncle brought with him his Wife, Margaret Leany, who also was his cousin, also five sons, namely Sames, Julius, John Arthur, Culbert Means, and Daniel Steele Leany. At this early day this was called the Barrens of Kentucky on Barren R1ver, and so barren was the country that my father could spread a bii quilt over the top of any tree near the house. And when I visited the old farmhouse fifty years later those trees had grown to be a hundred feet high_ and over two feet through. I will here state a little about the religion of those early early days. My mother, a most excellent woman, attached herself to a class calling themselves Republican Baptist, who believed in baptism by innnersion and all being e~ual, giving persons no superiority only by a vote of the congregation. This was before Alexander Campbell or S~dney Rigdon were known of as reformers. My stepmother Margaret Williams, who was a mere girl when the girl when the controversy arose between the Presbyterian church that rent assunder and all those of less combative and more passive character organized themselves into what was called the Cumberland Presby-terian Church and were few in number then but now are very numerous. The other factions called themselves the Old School and New School Presbyterians. My other stepmother, Mrs. Frances Young Hendricks Leany, belonged to what was called the Hunkards or Hell Redemptionests because they believed Christ's blood sufficient to redeem all mankind when the uttermost farthing |
