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Descendants of John Fannin

Generation No. 1

1. John⁶ Fannin (Bryant⁵, Achilles⁴ Fanning, Bryan³, Laughlin² Fannin, Thomas Amis¹ Fanning) was born 30 Jul 1779 in Wythe CO., VA., and died 25 Jun 1853 in East Fork, Lawrence CO., KY.. He married Mrs. (Unknown) Keziah Abt. 1801 in VA.. She was born 23 Dec 1783 in Giles Co., VA., and died 31 Oct 1854 in East Fork, Lawrence CO., KY..

Notes for John Fannin:
INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS FILE COULD CONTAIN ERRORS AND SHOULD BE RESEARCHED TO YOUR OWN SATISFACTION BEFORE YOU USE ANY OF THE DATA. STEPHEN FANNIN, SON OF JOHN D. FANNIN BEING THE FATHER OF GEORGE BRYANT FANNIN THAT MARRIED LOUISE CLAY IS IN QUESTION, SO CONFIRM ALL DATA TO YOUR OWN SATISFACTION AS THIS INFORMATION WAS PROVIDED IN GOOD FAITH FROM THE AUTHOR AND FAMILY MEMBERS AND MAY NOT BE PRINTED OR SOLD FOR PROFIT AS THE DATA IS COPYRIGHTED IN THE PAUL LEADINGHAM AND ALLIED FAMILIES GENEALOGY AND ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED BY THE AUTHOR AND FAMILY MEMBERS IN 2002.

JOHN FANNIN WAS BORN IN WYTHE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, ON JULY 30, 1779, AND DIED ON JUNE 25, 1853 IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
ACCORDING TO A NEWS PAPER ARTICLE, WRITTEN BY EVELYN SEYPHERS JACKSON, ON JUNE 9, 1977, FOR THE ASHLAND DAILY INDEPENDENT NEWS PAPER, JOHN FANNIN CAME TO BOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY FROM WYTHE COUNTY,
VIRGINIA AROUND 1819 OR 1820.
THE ARTICLE WENT ON TO SAY THAT HE AND HIS WIFE, KEZIAH, BORN DECEMBER 23, 1783, AND DIED ON OCTOBER 31, 1854, ARE BURIED IN THE STEWART/FANNIN CEMETERY ON KENTUCKY STATE ROUTE 3, IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY. SOME FOLKS CALL THIS THE FANNIN-STEWART CEMETERY ON EAST FORK, LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY. THE DATES ON HER TOMBSTONE DECEMBER 23, 1783 AND DEATH ON OCTOBER 31, 1854.
I FOUND THE STEWART/FANNIN CEMETERY ONE AND HALF MILES SOUTH OF THE BOYD COUNTY LINE INTO LAWRENCE COUNTY ON STATE ROUTE 3. THE CEMETERY IS ON THE RIGHT AT THE TOP OF A STEEP HILL BEHIND A TWO STORY HOUSE THAT SETS ON ROUTE 3. THE FANNIN'S ARE BURIED IN THE FRONT OVER LOOKING ROUTE 3 AND THE STEWARTS ARE IN THE BACK WITH ABOUT 50 GRAVES MARKED BY METAL CROSSES, AND NO NAMES.
IT APPEARS TO ME THE FANNIN/STEWART CEMETERY WAS STARTED BY JOHN FANNIN AND IT IS ON HIS FARM BECAUSE ISAAC HIS SON WAS BORN SEP 12, 1808 AND DIED JULY 27, 1845 WAS BURIED THEIR? IT MAY HAVE BEEN STARTED BY BURYING A WILLIAM CLAY FIRST WHO DIED JAN 26, 1842, AND ISAAC IN 1845 AND JOHN, HIS DAD ON JUNE 25, 1853. THESE ARE THE FIRST THREE EARLY MARKED GRAVES. MRS. KEZIAH THE WIFE OF JOHN FANNIN WAS BURIED ON OCT 31, 1854.
I STRONGLY BELIEVE THE TWO STORY FARM HOUSE THAT SETS ON STATE ROUTE 3, AND THE CEMETERY ON THE HILL ABOVE THE HOUSE WAS THE ORIGINAL HOMESTEAD OF JOHN AND MRS KEZIAH FANNIN, AS THEY MIGRATED UP FROM WYTHE COUNTY, VA. AROUND 1820.
JOHN FANNIN'S TOMBSTONE LISTS HIS DEATH DATE AS JUNE 25, 1853.
HIS WILL DATED JUNE 4, 1853, IS RECORDED IN THE LAWRENCE COUNTY WILL BOOK 1, PAGE 43. THEREIN HE BEQUEATHED PART OF HIS ESTATE TO JOHN FANNIN JR.; BRYANT FANNIN; THE HEIRS OF PHILLIP FANNIN, DECEASED; THE HEIRS OF ISAAC FANNIN, DECEASED; THE HEIRS OF STEPHEN FANNIN, DECEASED; SARAH, THE WIFE OF GEORGE HOWE; ABSOLUM STEWART AND HIS WIFE AMY FANNIN, DAUGHTER OF JOHN FANNIN; THOMAS PITTS AND HIS WIFE MARY.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DATA BASE OF THE MORMAN CHURCH, STEPHEN IS THE FATHER OF BRYANT FANNIN THAT MARRIED LOUISE CLAY. THE INFORMATION IN THE MORMAN DATA BASE IS INCORRECT AS BRYANT FANNIN IS NOT THE SON OF STEPHEN. LATER RECORDS SHOW BRYANT FANNIN'S WIFE AS LOUISA CLAY, DAUGHTER OF BRATLEY AND NANCY PRINCE FANNIN.
BRYANT AND LOUISA CLAY FANNIN HAD A SON NAMED WILLIAM EDWARD THAT MARRIED AMANDA FULLER, AND THEY HAD A SON NAMED GEORGE BRYANT FANNIN BORN 1894 THAT MARRIED DORA ELLEN LOWE. SOME OF MY RECORDS SHOW THE PARENTS OF GEORGE BRYANT FANNIN THAT MARRIED DORA ELLEN AS GEORGE BRYANT FANNIN SON STEPHEN FANNIN, BUT I ASSUMED WHEN MY FATHER IN=LAW TOLD ME SEVERAL TIMES THAT HE WAS NAMED AFTER HIS GRAND DAD, BUT HE MEANT GRAND DAD'S WHO ARE GEORGE M. FULLER AND BRYANT FANNIN.
THE MARRIAGE BOND OF BRYANT AND LOUISA CLAY FANNIN STATE HIS NAME IS BRIANT/BRYANT AND THAT LOUISA CLAY'S FATHER IS BRANTLEY. TO CLEAR UP THE RECORDS FOR FUTURE GENERATION BRYANT FANNIN MARRIED LOUISA CLAY IN 1848, NOT GEORGE BRYANT.
GEORGE BRYANT FANNIN MARRIED DORA ELLEN LOWE FANNIN ON JUNE 28, 1921 AND THEY HAD SEVEN CHILDREN ONE OF WHICH IS BETTY DORIS FANNIN THAT MARRIED MEREDITH PAUL LEADINGHAM OCT 14, 1954 IN OLIVE HILL,CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
MEREDITH PAUL LEADINGHAM MOTHER BELVA ADKINS'S LINE GOES BACK THROUGH THE ADKINS SIDE TO ANNA STEWART, TO WILLIAM RILEY STEWART TO ABSOLUM AND AMY FRANCES FANNIN STEWART.
AMY FRANCES FANNIN, DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND MRS. KEZIAH FANNIN,MARRIED ABSOLUM STEWART, AND THEY HAD NINE CHILDREN WE KNOW OF, AND ALL WERE BORN IN ESTEPP, LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY:
1. JOHN MARSHALL STEWART, BORN OCTOBER 16, 1841, MARRIED MARTHA J. MERRIOTT, IN NOVEMBER OF 1870. JOHN MARSHALL DIED IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY ON AUGUST 10, 1910.
2. WILLIAM RILEY STEWART, BORN IN 1843, MARRIED MARY ELLEN LAMBERT ABT. 1863, AND WILLIAM RILEY DIED AUGUST 24, 1900, IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY. THIS WILLIAM RILEY STEWART AND MARY ELLEN LAMBERT HAD A
DAUGHTER NAMED ANNA MARY STEWART THAT MARRIED FRANK NEWBERRY ADKINS OF SHANTY BRANCH, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY. FRANK NEWBERRY ADKINS AND ANNA STEWART HAD THREE DAUGHTERS ONE OF WHICH WAS BELVA ADKINS THAT MARRIED REV. MEREDITH (MERDIA) FRANKLIN LEADINGHAM WHO HAD 10 CHILDREN, ONE OF WHICH IS MEREDITH PAUL LEADINGHAM WHO WROTE THIS ARTICLE AND IS THE LEADINGHAM FAMILY HISTORIAN.
3. ISAAC STEWART, BORN IN 1845, MARRIED SUSAN J. LAEKINS, IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, AND DIED IN 1920, IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
4. KESIAH STEWART OR IS IT KEXIAH STEWART AFTER HER GRAND MOTHER? SHE WAS BORN IN 1847, MARRIED HIRAM D. BERRY IN 1871, AND DIED IN 1916, IN LAWRENCE COUNTY. KENTUCKY.
5. O'LEANDER COX STEWART, BORN JANUARY 14, 1850, MARRIED ELLEN FRANCES SAVAGE, IN 1871, IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, AND DIED ON JANUARY 28, 1926.
6. JAMES F STEWART, BORN ON APRIL 6, 1852, DIED IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY. NO OTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. 1994.
7. MARY E. STEWART, BORN AUGUST 12, 1854, DIED IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, ON AUGUST 14, 1896. NO OTHER INFORMATION.
8. ALMIRAH K. STEWART, BORN DECEMBER 19, 1859. NO OTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE.
9. SARAH P. STEWART,BORN MAY 1, 1861 AND MARRIED HARM O'DANIELL.
WILLIAM RILEY STEWART AND MARY ELLEN LAMBERT, NUMBER TWO ABOVE HAD FOUR CHILDREN: JERRY STEWART BORN IN 1864; MITCH K. BORN ABT 1866; GIRARD KINNER STEWART; AND ANNA STEWART, BORN ABT 1884, AT BOLTSFORK,
BOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
ANNA STEWART MARRIED FRANK NEWBERRY ADKINS IN 1902, AND THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN; MARGARET JANE ADKINS, BORN IN 1903 AND DIED AT 9 MONTHS OLD OF DYPHERIA; HERMIA ADKINS BORN IN 1905, AND MARRIED ERVIN PATRICK, AND HAD FOUR CHILDREN; BELVA (BELL) ADKINS, BORN DECEMBER 5, 1907, AND MARRIED REV. MEREDITH FRANKLIN LEADINGHAM FROM
DOWN THE ROAD AT MUSIC, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND THEY HAD TEN CHILDREN: HERMIA BEATRICE LEADINGHAM ROUSE; IMOGENE (JEAN) LEADINGHAM ELLIOT; JOSEPH (JOE) EARL LEADINGHAM; MEREDITH PAUL LEADINGHAM MARRIED BETTY DORIS FANNIN FROM GREENUP COUNTY, KENTUCKY; JESSE FRANKLIN LEADINGHAM, MARRIED BETTY JANE CONLEY OF WURTLAND, KENTUCKY, JOYCE ANN LEADINGHAM THOMPSON, MARRIED REV. LEON THOMPSON FROM SOUTH SHORE, GREENUP COUNTY, KENTUCKY, LAWRENCE EVERETT LEADINGHAM, MARRIED JEAN MARSHALL FROM PENDLETON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, PATTIE SUE LEADINGHAM FREEMAN, MARRIED REV. LARRY FREEMAN, DONALD RAY LEADINGHAM, AND
CHARLES DAVID LEADINGHAM.
ANNA STEWART, DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM RILEY AND MARY ELLEN LAMBERT DIED OF TYPHOID FEVER ON JANUARY 5, 1909, WHEN HER THIRD CHILD BELVA (BELL) ADKINS LEADINGHAM WAS 13 MONTHS OLD. BELVA AND HER SISTERS WERE RAISED BY WISER ADKINS AND HIS WIFE MARGARET JANE WILLIAMS ADKINS, WHO LIVED IN A SMALL HOUSE ACROSS THE ROAD FROM HER DAD, FRANK NEWBERRY ADKINS, REMARRIED A SECOND TIME TO ADA DAVIS, AND THEY HAD13 MORE CHILDREN. (SEE FAMILY GROUP LISTING UNDER FRANK NEWBERRY ADKINS AND ADA DAVIS).
JOHN AND MRS. KEZIAH FANNIN ARE THE GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRAND PARENTS OF MEREDITH PAUL LEADINGHAM, THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE AND THE FAMILY HISTORIAN, WHO LIVES IN FREDERICK, MARYLAND, IN 2002, WITH HIS WIFE BETTY DORIS FANNIN LEADINGHAM, WHO IS ALSO THE GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRAND DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND MRS. KEZIAH FANNIN.
JOHN FANNIN DIED OCTOBER 31, 1854, AND IS BURIED IN THE STEWART/FANNIN CEMETERY ON KY 3, IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY. PHILLIP STROTHER FANNIN, BORN 1844, WAS THE GRAND SON OF JOHN AND MRS. KEZIAH FANNIN, AND THE SON OF ISAAC FANNIN BORN SEPT. 12, 1808 IN WYTHE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AND PHILLIP STROTHER FANNIN'S MOTHER WAS SOPHIAH ROSS, BORN APRIL 14, 1818, DIED JULY 16, 1878, AND SHE WAS A SISTER TO JUDGE JOHN D ROSS, AND THEY ARE BURIED IN THE STEWART CEMETERY.
ISAAC FANNIN, BORN SEPT. 12, 1808, WAS THE SON OF JOHN FANNIN BORN IN WYTHE COUNTY, VIRGINIA IN 1779 AND DIED JUNE 25, 1853, IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY. HIS WILL IS OUTLINED ABOVE.
PHILLIP STROTHER FANNIN, LISTED ABOVE AND HIS WIFE HAD 13 CHILDREN. SEE LISTING UNDER HIS NAME AND FAMILY GROUPS.
PHILLIP STROTHER FANNIN WAS A PROMINENT BEAR CREEK FARMER AND CATTLEMAN AND LIVED IN HIS BIG HOME, STILL STANDING (IN 1977) FOR 55 YEARS. HE MOVED TO CATLETTSBURG, BOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY AROUND 1900 AND RESIDED THERE FOR 14 YEARS. HE MADE SEVERAL TRIPS TO FLORIDA, WHERE HE BECAME ENCHANTED WITH THE CLIMATE AND SPENT THE LAST 23 YEARS OF HIS LIFE IN ST. PETERSBURG, WHERE HE DIED AT THE AGE OF 92. HE WAS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, A DAUGHTER, MRS GEORGE P. MORRISON OF ST. PETERSBURG, AND TWO SONS, NICHOLAS AND CHARLES H. FANNIN, AS WELL AS 13 GRAND CHILDREN AND SEVERAL GREAT-GRAND CHILDREN (IN 1977). THERE WERE OTHER FANNIN FAMILIES IN BOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, NOT, AS FAR AS WE KNOW, RELATED TO THOSE OUTLINED ABOVE AND DESCENDANTS OF JOHN FANNIN, THAT WAS BORN ON JULY 30, 1779, IN WYTHE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
THE LATE CECIL FANNIN, OWNER AND OPERATOR OF THE OLD BLUE RIBBON BUS LINES AND FOUNDER OF THE BLUE RIBBON BOWLING LANES IN ASHLAND, BOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WAS A SON OF DAVID CROCKETT FANNIN AND SARAH ALICE PELPHREY OF ELLIOTT COUNTY, KENTUCKY. CECIL FANNIN MARRIED ETHEL ALLEN OF FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY.

INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM:

1. LILLIAN STEWART OF CAPE CORAL, FLORIDA IN 1991 AND 1998.
2. ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE ASHLAND DAILY INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, JUNE
9, 1977, WRITTEN BY EVELYN SEYPHERS JACKSON..
3. JOHN FANNIN'S WILL DATED JUNE 4, 1853, RECORDED IN THE LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY WILL BOOK 1, PAGE 43.
4. LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY DEEDS, DATED MARCH 30, 1855, RESEARCHED BY COA MEEK NEWMAN OF 733 BATH AVE. ASHLAND, BOYD, CO., KY. ON PAGE 37 OF THE APRIL 1994 EASTERN KENTUCKY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. P.O.
BOX 1544 ASHLAND KENTUCKY 41105-1544. THE PUBLICATION IS TITLED THE TREE SHAKER. THE ARTICLE STATES THAT ON MARCH 30, 1855- FROM BRYAN FANNIN, THOMAS N. PITTS AND WIFE MARY, JOHN D. FANNIN, JR. AND JOSEPH FANNIN, JR. TO ABSOLOM STEWART, FOR $250 BY VIRTUE OF THE PARTIES OF THE FIRST PARTY, BY THE WILL OF JOHN FANNIN, SR. DECEASED: TRACT OF
LAND HE LIVED ON AT HIS DEATH AND NOW OCCUPIED BY ABSOLOM STEWART. (E-20) EDS. NOTE: JOHN FANNIN, SR. BORN 7/30/1779 WYTHE CO., VA. DIED 6/25/1853. WIFE KEZIAH BORN 12/23/1783 DIED 10/31/1854, AND BURIED IN STEWART CEMETERY IN LAWRENCE CO., KY., AND ABSOLOM STEWART WAS THEIR SON-IN-LAW, THAT MARRIED AMY FANNIN, DAUGHTER OF JOHN FANNIN, SR.
5. COMPUTERIZED BY MEREDITH PAUL LEADINGHAM OF FREDERICK, MD. IN 1994, AND UPDATED BY ITEM 4 ABOVE IN JULY OF 1994.
6. ALSO SEE THE 1850 CENSUS OF LAWRENCE CO., KY. WHICH SHOWS THAT JOHN FANNIN, SR., AGE 71, AND MRS KEZIAH AGE 66, WERE LIVING IN LAWRENCE CO., KY., NEAR THEIR CHILDREN.
7. FOR THE MARRIAGES RECORDS OF JOHN AND MRS. KEZIAH FANNIN'S CHILDREN, SEE LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY MARRIAGE BOOKS AT THE COURT HOUSE IN LOUISA, LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY. JOHN , JR. TO MARGARET FURGERSON, BOOK 1, PAGE 113; BRYANT TO MARY SMYTH, BOOK 1. PAGE 10; ISAAC TO SOPHIA ROS, BOOK 1, PAGE 72.;SARAH TO GEORGE HOWE, BOOK 1, PAGE 151; AMY "ANNA" FRANCES TO ABSOLUM STEWART, BOOK 1, PAGE 164; MARY TO THOMAS PITTS, BOOK 2, PAGE 133.

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More About John Fannin:
Burial: 26 Jun 1853, Fannin/Stewart Cemetery on route 3 in Lawrence CO., Ky. A

More About Mrs. (Unknown) Keziah:
Burial: 01 Nov 1854, Fannin/Stewart Cemetry on route 3 in Lawrence Co., KY.
Fact 2: Lawrence CO., KY. the Cemetery is a mile and half south of the Boyd CO., KY.
Fact 3: line on route 3 on the right behind a two story white house, or was in 1998.

Children of John Fannin and Mrs. Keziah are:

+	2	i.	Bryant⁷ Fannin, born 27 Jun 1801 in Wythe CO., VA.; died 06 Nov 1872 in Garner Creek, Boyd CO., KY..
+	3	ii.	Joseph Fannin, born Abt. 1802 in Wythe CO., VA.; died 17 Jul 1846 in Lawrence CO., KY..
+	4	iii.	Isaac Fannin, born 12 Sep 1808 in Wythe, CO., VA.; died 27 Jul 1845 in Lawrence CO., Ky..
+	5	iv.	Phillip Strother Fannin, born Abt. 1809 in Wythe CO., VA.; died 1853.
+	6	v.	John Fannin, born 26 May 1812 in Wythe CO., VA.; died 14 Jan 1890 in Lawrence CO., KY..
+	7	vi.	Sarah Fannin, born 15 Oct 1813 in Wythe, CO., VA.; died 06 Jun 1874 in Boyd CO., Ky..
+	8	vii.	Amy "Anna" Francis Fannin, born 18 Nov 1815 in Wythe CO., KY; died 01 May 1908 in Bear Creel, Buchanan, Lawrence CO., KY..
+	9	viii.	John Jackson Fannin, born 1818 in Lawrence CO., Ky..
+	10	ix.	Mary Fannin, born 1824 in Lawrence CO., Ky..

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