T H E MOUNT V E R N O N 8 K N A L THURSDAY A P R I L *, 1975 P A G E J M X - « » a v £Jar*h Bailey. Sa rah and Alvah's chi ldren were : Char lot te , Wade,

Rockcastle Recotiections """•,™ EU* "Buet" W a d e mar r i ed W . H. Jones of WOdie. The i r chi ldren w e r e Lena, Ha r ry , Willie, Mart in , Belle and Ollie. L e n a mar r i ed Dr . R o b e r t Lewis , a young doctor f rom Tennessee who es tabl ished pract ice in Wlldie. They had two daughte rs , Beulah and Lena. Beulah mar r i ed C. G. S tewar t . T h e r e weWf no children.- Willie Jones , who became a doctor, marr ied Bess D u n b a r and they w e r e p a r e n t s of Arbor , Ka ther ine and Mary Lee. Belle n e v e r mar r ied .

Singleton mar r ied Susan Wheeler and they made t h e i r "mist Of I

Ma jo r Lawrence Singleton se rved as an officer under Genera l Marion, " T h e S w a m p Fox" of the Revolution. He lived on Rock Creek, a t r i b u t a r y of the Yadkin River in Nor th Carolina. H e mar r ied Tamsey Mare t , t h e daugh te r of a F rench nobleman Wbo was a b ro the r t o Josepene Maret , wife of Napoleon Bonaparte .

T h r e e descendan t s of Major Singleton and his wife, Tamsey , came to Ky . in 1796. Phil ip Pau l se t t led in Clay County; J a m e s E g b e r t built the first t a v e r n on the old S t a t e Road, near Bear t r ack Rock Grea t Sa l tpe t r e Cave . The road wen t th rough a low place in the mountain for m a n y years known as Singleton Gap, in the vicinity of wha t is still known a s Singleton Valley. The third b ro the r . Daniel Mason Singleton, se t t led in Lincoln County, n e a r Crab Orchard.

The Rockcastle branch of t h e Singleton family a re descendan t s of J a m e s E g b e r t Singleton and his wife, M a r g a r e t Crawford Singleton. They had th r ee sona< Maret , Daniel and Mason. T h e r e were t w o girls, who moved with the i r b ro ther . Mason, to Missouri and se t t led there , and Mare t marr ied Tish J a r r e l l and they se t t led in Singleton Valley. A f t e r the Ken tucky Legis la ture passed The Homestead Act in 1840 he pa ten ted several t r a c t s of land nearby. Their children were : Philip, Richard, Tamsey, Mare t ish and Margare t Ann. Daniel Singleton died dur ing the winter of 1855-66 from exposure . H e Is buried ' near Boone Spr ing , in the garden of the C. A. Mullins place, near t h e log house he buil t t h e r e .

Phillip Singleton mar r ied M a r g a r e t Ann Fish. They had five boys and four girls . Tamsey Mare tish Singleton mar r ied Morgan Forbes. They had two sons: Henry and Schuyler and a daugh te r who mar r ied Tom J im Ballard and they were pa ren t s of M a t t Wade and Benne t t Ballard. Ma t t becoming one of the county 's most popular politicians and office holders. Margare t Ann marr ied Adam Griffin and they ra ised a large family.

Phillip Singleton marr ied Margare t Ann Fish. They had five boys and four girls; Sa rah Ann . who marr ied J a m e s Henry Mullins; Margare t , who mar r ied Gilvey Black; Lou Net t ie , who marr ied Chesley P a y n e . Mary Susan, wbo marr ied Willis Allen; William, killed at t h e Ba t t l e of Chat tanooga; Jason, who died of yellow feve r in Andersonvil le Prison; Philip Paul (Pleasant) , who lived in Singleton Valley all his life; Gren, w h o also spen t his en t i re lifetime the re ; J a m e s Egber t , a rai l roader , who lived most of his life in Livingston, Ky.

Richard Sing no me, for mast of t h e i r lives, on Ctdokra >. were : Daniel Mason, J a m e s Maret . Squ i re Richard, S h e r m a n -buried in Texas; Monroe, w h o married Dona Langford; Willis. w h 3 married J a n e f l a r k ; Mary, who marr ied Pink Langford: Angeline, who mar r ied Spencer Large ; Mare t ish, who mar r ied Charlie Thomas,

David Singleton, son of J a m e s Mare t Singleton, is a grandson of Richard Singleton, g r e a t grandson of Phillip Singleton and erea t - fcrea t -gr todioE of J a m e s Egbe r t -Singleton, n m of t h r e e Singleton b r o t h e r s who c a m e to Kentucky from North Carolina in 1795. David, who now lives in J a r l t o n . Ohio, was born and rea red in t h e G r e a t Sa l tpe t r e Cave region and probably knows more about t h a t section of the country than anyone now living. H e has been of much hel)/ v3 m e in the p r e ^ - r a t i o n of this his tory of Rockcastle County.

MARET: J a m e s Maret , Rockcastle County 's most illustrious citizen to wear the family name, was not a nat ive of the county, being born in G a r r a r d County , n e a r Lancas t e r , Kentucky , on_ Augus t 6. 1855. His fa ther was George S. Mare t . who marr ied £Siza Smi th , rfrS»nr«*W3iI£3M|*»4Ier s i s t w , Glatfea,

marr ied Mitchell Mare t . J a m e s Mare t s g randfa the r , J acky Maret , came from Tarboro . Nor th Carolina, to Ga r r a rd County, Ky. in 1797 and died t he re in 1863. J a m e s Mare t wen t with his fa ther ' s family to Columbus, Texas, in 1872, coming back to Kentucky in 1876. H e had, in t h e meant ime, learned te legraphy and came to Mt. Vernon as te legraph opera to r and rail road agent for the L & N, an office which he held for t w e n t y years . His outs tanding ach ievements in o the r fields dur ing tha t t ime a re noted in a special ar t icle on him e l sewhere in this volume. H e had one son, Lloyd.

J a m e s Mare t ' s toother's sister, as ment ioned above, mar r ied Mitchell Maret , p resumably t h e Mitchell Mare t who buil t wha t was known as thcrold Mare t home which stood n e a r t h e p resen t Mare t Cemete ry on the ridge be tween Buckeye and WOdie, Ky. As t h e ear ly comers to t h e section progressed , they were able to replace t h e pole cabins which she l te red them by t h e more imposing two-story buildings of hewed logs, with huge s tone chimneys. The s tone work in t h e ch imneys of the ojd Mare t home stood for many y e a r s a f t e r t h e old house was goie and were the finest examples of such masonry t h a t I have ever seen. The old house occupied a most a t t r ac t ive location and was sur rounded b y ample lawn, orchard, ga rden and outbuildings. The numerous1

slave cabins stood in a spo t below t h e bouse and many of t he i r former inmates a r e buried in the big cemete ry , which is now one of the best kept ru ra l cemete r ies in t h e county.

Alvah Marat , w h o ^ B c over the place a f t e r his fa ther ' s death , marr ied Sa rah Hunt , ' daugh te r of t h e fo rmer Char lo t te Hiat t whose p a r e n t s w e r e William Pea i l i e Hiat t and his wife, the fa rmer

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Dealie Mare t mar r ied Tommy French . T h e y had five children: Willie, who died young; Bessie, who mar r ied San t fo rd Coffey and had nine children. They w e r e Hes te r , Hazel, I rene , Lucy Tea, William Lewis, Johnny , Glenn, Lucille and Laverne ; Johnny ; w h o mar r ied Stella Adams and had t h r e e daughte r s : Ruth . Beatrice and Louise.

Ella Mare t marr ied Jones Fish. Their children were : Daisy, who mar r ied Floyd Miller. Their children were ifulia Floyd, who married Taylor and had children; Willie, who fcarried Dorothy Brock and had one son; Jack, who never mar r i ed ; Tea (Telitha) who n e v e r mar r ied .

Maggie Mare t mar r ied J o n e s H i a t t son of Bennet Hiat t and Ceilia Bailey. Both lived to a ripe old age and w e r e the " P a p p y and Mammy Hia t t " made famous by f r equen t ment ion over the CBS network from Renf ro Valley. Their children were Tabi tha Belle, Laura , Lura , Celia Wade, Ruby and Jones B e n n e t t

Belle Mare t marr ied first Mart in Jones , brother of W. H. J o n e s to whom h e r s is ter , was marr ied. Her pa ren t s had the wedding annulled and she a f t e r w a r d s mar r ied Henry Catron, a widower with chi ldren. She and Ca t ron*huk two o r - th r ee children before her dea th a t an ear ly age. • • J ' • '•

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