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- SOURCE - SPARKS QUARTERLY: Titled - LIFE AND FAMILY OF DANIEL SPARKS(1763-ca.1820), continued: #163, Sep. 1993, p. 4152 - Excerpts:Para. 3, "According to Kuykendall family records published in aHistory of the Kuykendall Family by Geo. B. Kuykendall in 1919, pages232-33, the widow of the above Samuel Ketchum, whose maiden name wasElizabeth Sparks, was married 2nd, to Moses Kuykendall. There seemslittle doubt that this Elizabeth Sparks, often called "Betsey" inrecords of the time, was a daughter of Richard Sparks, Sr. and wasthus a sister of Daniel. A son of Benjamin and Sarah (Feree)Kuykendall, Moses Kuykendall had been born about 1748. He wasprobably a widower when he was married to Elizabeth (Sparks) Ketchum." Para. 4, "Moses Kuykendall, like a number of his neighbors inPennsylvania, including Daniel Sparks, migrated with his wife andfamily to Jefferson County, Kentucky, near the close of the AmericanRevolution. He was there in 1782 when he built what came to be calledKuykendall Station on the waters of Harrod's Creek. In 1792, adaughter of Elizabeth by her first marriage, Hannah Ketchum, wasmarried in Jefferson County to Samuel Griffy. (See Bond Book1781-1826, p. 15) The marriage bond, dated January 20, 1792, wassigned by Moses Kuykendall as bondsman and he was identified as HannahKetcham's step-father. It is also interesting to note that a deed wasrecorded in Jefferson County (Book 2, p. 270) by which Moses andElizabeth gave two slaves to Elizabeth's daughter, Hannah (Ketchum)Griffy, wife of Samuel Griffy. In this deed, Hannah is identified as"the daughter of her, the said Betsey." Moses Kuykendall died priorto June 20, 1808, for on that date his widow, Elizabeth, was married a3rd time, to William Steele, in Jefferson County, Kentucky (marriagebond dated June 20, 1808)."
SOURCE - SPARKS QUARTERLY: Titled - LIFE AND FAMILY OF DANIEL SPARKS(1763-ca.1820), continued: #163, Sep. 1993, p. 4152 - Excerpts:"Para. 4, "...Moses Kuykendall, like a number of his neighbors inPennsylvania, including Daniel Sparks, migrated with his wife andfamily to Jefferson County, Kentucky, near the close of the AmericanRevolution." Para. 4 - NOTE: Moses Kuykendall was the husband ofElizabeth Betsey Sparks, Daniel Spark's sister. It would seem thatElizabeth's and Daniel's families migrated together or shortly aftereach other to Jefferson County, Kentucky before 1782, because by 1782,Moses had a station built on Harrod's Creek by then.
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