Wordless Wednesday: Harvey and Rose Logsdon

Joseph Harvey Logsdon and mother Rose Lee (Mattingly) Logsdon
Father and Grandmother of my husband Mike
Louisville, Kentucky circa late 1940s

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Tombstone Tuesday: Wilson and Melvina Mattingly

Joseph James Wilson Mattingly

son of James Edward and Cecelia Ann "Sally" (Cusick) Mattingly

JOSEPH W.

MATTINGLY

Born

Feb. 14, 1832

Died

Mar. 13, 1914

He was a kind

and loving father

*Note: Dates are incorrect on stone. Baptized Joseph James Wilson Mattingly, 8-17-1838, by Rev. Vitalis Giles at St. Charles Catholic Church. Age 9 months. Sponsor, Weekly Mattingly (aunt). Parents, James Mattingly & Sylby Cussik (Cusick). Death certificate gives birth as "January 1832" and a death date of "March 18, 1914". Most researchers agree that the correct date of birth is December 8, 1837.   

Susan Melvina (Tucker) Mattingly

daughter of William Raphael and Elizabeth Maria (Brady) Tucker

MELVINA

wife of

J. W. MATTINGLY

Born

Jul. 10, 1830

Died

Oct. 21, 1899

She was a tender mother

and an affectionate wife.

Wilson and Melvina are buried in Calvert City Cemetery in Calvert City, Marshall Co., Kentucky. They are the paternal great, great grandparents of my husband Mike.  

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What Ever Happened to Jennie Bickett?

I don't know why Jennie Bickett haunts me so. Maybe it's because she is an unknown ghost in my husband's family. She wasn't forgotten by these living ones, they simply never knew about her. Poor Jennie!

Born Mary Genevieve Bickett on July 23, 1880 to William Barton and Julia Ann (Hardesty) Bickett, Jennie married my husband's great grandfather Charles Alexander Logsdon when she was 40 and Charles was 64. She was Charles' second wife and it was her first marriage*. Jennie and Charles had one child, a son named Thomas, born and died on February 22, 1922.

In 1930 Charles and Jennie lived on the Loretto and St. Mary's Pike, also known as Old St. Mary's Pike, in St. Mary, Marion Co., Kentucky. Charles' son, my husband's grandfather, Joseph Leslie Logsdon, had died suddenly at the age of 25 in 1919 leaving three children and a pregnant wife. I would have thought that all four of those children would have had the opportunity to know their paternal grandfather before he died in 1938. It also seems they should have known his wife Jennie, because she would have been the only paternal grandmother they would have known. Charles and Jennie were married 18 years. Charles' first wife, Josie Bean, had died in 1907, long before any of her grandchildren were born. 

Uncle Ern's barn, still standing - May 2011

Charles and Jennie lived on the same road as Thomas Ernest and Annetta Mae (Mattingly) Abell, otherwise known as "Uncle Ern and Aunt Nettie". Nettie was sister to Joseph Leslie's widow, Rose. Years later, in the late 1940s through the 1970s, my husband and his siblings all remember visiting the farm of their grandaunt and uncle many times as children. I often wonder: was Jennie still living nearby for part of that time?

Apparently none of my husband's siblings remember ever hearing their father, or his sisters, mention their grandfather Charles, or their step-grandmother, Jennie. My father-in-law would have been 22 when his grandfather died and Jennie lived another 17 years after that. By the time Jennie died in 1955, my husband and his siblings were 8, 11, and 12 years of age, but until I told them about her, none of them ever knew of great grandmother Jennie, even though she lived in a nearby county.

Of course, Charles had 7 other children and many grandchildren before he died, not just those of his son Leslie. Perhaps some of the others loved and cared for their step grandmother. It's also possible that Leslie's wife, Rose Mattingly Logsdon, may have chosen not to continue a relationship with her dead husband's family. Widowed at age 33, Rose would remain single for the rest of her life, content to be surrounded by her children and grandchildren.

I don't yet know where Jennie was buried. I probably need her death certificate to find out. Her last name was still Logsdon on the death record, so we know she never remarried. Her mother and father are buried in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery in Raywick, Marion Co., Kentucky and her husband Charles and his first wife Josephine are buried in St. Charles Cemetery in St. Mary of the same county.

Perhaps someday, another descendant of one of Charles' 8 children will be able to tell me what ever became of Jennie Bickett.

*Note: Some researchers have confused Jennie with another, younger Mary G. Bickett who married E. A. Nugent in Marion Co., Kentucky in 1904.

Map of St. Mary, including Uncle Ern's farm and St. Charles Church

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Tombstone Tuesday: Clotilda Vincent Bean

Daughter of Lord and Lady Francis Vincent of Ireland

b. March 14, 1769 - d. September 13, 1864

Wife of Edward Columbus (John) Bean
Buried St. Joseph's Cemetery, Bardstown, Nelson Co., KY

Clotilda Bean

Clotilda was the paternal fourth great grandmother of my husband, Mike. She has an interesting history which I summarized a little over a year ago in my blog: Irish Ancestors: Clotilda, Daughter of Lord and Lady Vincent. 

On Friday, May 27, 2011, Mike and I visited the Bean Cabin which has been preserved and moved to Historic Old Bardstown Village's Museum Row in Bardstown, Kentucky. As stated in my previous blog, Clotilda's husband was killed by Indians while returning to Maryland for supplies. John Bean was also of Irish heritage. 

Clotilda never remarried, she raised her family of 8 children and prospered. She was a charter member and an active church worker at St. Joseph's Proto-Cathedral in Bardstown. Clotilda was 95 years old when she died and the tombstone seen here was erected by her slave, Joe Bean. 

Mike Logsdon and Clotilda Bean Tombstone

Descendancy Chart

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Sunday's Obituary: Mrs. Rose L. Logsdon

ROSE LEE (MATTINGLY) LOGSDON

August 1, 1886 - September 1, 1973

My husband's paternal grandmother, daughter of William M. and Lou Ann (Grimes) Mattingly, wife of Joseph Leslie Logsdon who died at the age of 25 in 1919.

This clipping was among the items my sister-in-law placed in my care a few years ago. There are two other obituaries dated September 13, 1973 on Rose Lee's FindAGrave memorial that were taken from the Louisville Courier Journal. This clipping may be an earlier obituary from the same paper or it may have come from another newspaper.

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Tombstone Tuesday: Joseph Leslie Logsdon 1894-1919

JOSEPH LESLIE LOGSDON 

b. March 22, 1894* - d. July 28, 1919

Son of  Charles Alexander and Josephine Bean Logsdon

Husband of Rose Lee Mattingly

My husband's grandfather. Died young, age 26 years.
*Note: birth year on stone is incorrect.

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Tombstone Tuesday: Uncle Ern And Aunt Nettie

~Tombstone of Thomas Ernest and 
Annetta Mae "Nettie" Mattingly Abell~

St. Charles Cemetery, Marion Co., Kentucky

(Nettie is sister of my children's great grandmother Rose Lee Mattingly Logsdon)

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Tombstone Tuesday: William M. & Lou Ann Grimes Mattingly

St. Charles Catholic Cemetery, St. Mary, Marion Co., Kentucky

William M. Mattingly was the son of Joseph James Wilson Mattingly and Susan Melvina Tucker. Lou Ann was the daughter of Lorenzo Grimes and Nancy Jane Chapman. She died on January 28, 1950. William and Lou Ann's daughter, Rose Lee, married Joseph Leslie Logsdon. Children of Rose Lee and Joseph Leslie were: Joseph Harvey, Agnes Pauline Smith, Robert Adrian, and Minnie Iola Phelps. Their oldest child, Joseph Harvey Logsdon and his wife Florence Edna Moore were my children's paternal grandparents. 

William's actual year of death was 1933. Headstone says year of death is 1934. Death certificate shows 1933 as the year. In fact it has 1933 in five separate places. The 'date filed' looks like January 2, 1934. He was apparently known by the nickname "Bill Rock" which is found in the St. Charles Boromeo Catholic Cemetery List compiled by Thomas Gerald Thompson on p. 54 under Lou Ann (Grimes) Mattingly's listing.

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