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Solomon's birthplace is VA or NC. He was a lay Preacher and a Constable in Floyd Co., Kentucky in 1861 when he was killed by Miles Sturgill with a pick axe in May of this year. He is buried in the HAMILTON CEMETERY at Mitchell Branch of Tinker Fork of Mud Creek in Floyd Co., Kentucky. I spent a day with a Hamilton decendant, HAYES HAMILTON, at his home in 1989 and 2003. He told me that Solomon was the first to be entered into Hamilton Cemetery and he showed me the grave. The head stone says "S. BALDWIN DEC 1861" and is merely a rough cut rock.
I traveled to the Kentucky State archives in Frankfort to review the trial transcript but could find only the record of arraignment of Sturgill. Present were: Eli Sturgill, Jesse Hall, Eligah Hall who were obviously there to support Miles Sturgill and post bail of $4000.00. Also in the courtroom were: Davenport Newsome, John W. Baldwin, Alexander Baldwin, and Christina Baldwin, wife of Alexander Baldwin. The Baldwin men were Solomon's sons. Each posted $100.00 bond as material witnesses. This activity occurred during the June court term on the 3rd of June and was to continue in the next term. However, the following term records were missing. It appears that these records were lost during the Civil War. The records continued exactly four years later. The court books ended with "book L" and continued with "book M", but four years had passed. I do not know if the trial was held or what transpired. The next move would be to locate a newspaper of the time or find a prison record of Miles Sturgill if in fact hewas convicted.
Others present at the initial hearing and also posted bond were: Blackburn Sturgill, Thomas Tackett and Harvy Tackett. All of these people lived near the Baldwins and many of their decendants are still in the area.
In 1866 Solomons wife, Sarah, distributed a great deal of land to her children. I suppose that she did this to prepare for her second marriage. She married Solomon Hubbard on 9 July 1866. Shortly there-after they moved to Lawrence County, Ohio where many of her children moved to start a new life. This is how I came to be born in Ironton, Ohio. Miles Sturgill was born 1837 in Virginia. He married Amanda Hall on 25 Mar 1852 in Floyd Co. Ky. She was born 1838. They had 10 children in Floyd and Johnson Co. KY.
It appears that Miles did not serve any prison time for the murder of Solomon Baldwin. Miles was raised on Tolar Creek in Floyd Co. just over the ridge from Branhams Creek at Pigeon Roost.
The census of Floyd Co, Kentucky item #83, PCT #5, of 1870 lists the following: Miles-33, Amanda-32, Adaline-14, Gilbert-12, Melvina-10, Christina-8, John-6 and Mary-3/12.
Buried in the Hamilton cemetery near Solomon is a half brother, Andrew Mitchel. It is said that he owned most of the land in the area.
Solomon acquired 50 acres of land in the Mud Creek area where he lived on 27 Aug. 1843, recorded in book 11 of Floyd Co. KY. Again on 18 mar 1851, another 50 acres recorded in book 35 of Floyd Co. KY. Since he was in Russell Co. VA in 1840 and 1841, I suppose he went to Floyd co. to receive a land grant in 1843.
Alexander married Christina Hall, wife #1, in Pike Co. Kentucky on 19 Jan. 1859 (Pikeville). He married Mindy Webb Gillen, wife #3, at Ironton, Ohio on 9 Oct. 1893. His #2 wife was Lucy Layne Johnson on 7 June 1873 at Ironton, Lawrence Co., Ohio RIN #12, 13, 14, 15, 16, children by Christina Hall. RIN # 17,18, 19, 20, 21 children by Lucy Lane Johnson. RIN #22 child by Mindy Webb Gillen.
Alexander served in the Civil War mustering in at Peach Orchard, Kentucky on 16 Feb 1963 and out on 15 Sep 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky. His outfit was the 39th KY Mounted Infantry, Co. "B". He is buried under a Civil War headstone at the Hecla Cemetery in Lawrence Co. Ohio just 30 feet above William Baldwin, his Grandson.
Ironton Register, October 6, 1881- "Last Saturday night, about dusk, Thos. Campbell made a murderous assult on his father-in-law, Alex Baldwin, at the house of the latter, a couple of miles beyond Hecla Furnace. It seems that Baldwin had been at Campbell's house, and returning was followed by Campbell, who is said to have been drunk. Just as Baldwin reached his door, he caught hold of him and drawing a knife, cut him seriously in two places. One cut is on the shoulder and along the arm, making a fearful gash to the bone. The other possible fatal wound is in the lower part of the back where the blade reached the kidney and cut it.
Campbell left when he committed the deed. Two neighbors pursued him and hid themselves near the path which they calculated Campbell would take. Sure enough, Campbell soon came along and they secured him. He was taken before Esq. Webb and sent to jail in default of $800 in bail. The only excuse Campbell would give for his bloody work was that he was drunk, which fact ought to aggravate his case. It is further reported that Baldwin had remonstrated with Campbell for the harsh treatment of his wife, who is Baldwin's daughter, and this was the beginning of the bloody deed. Dr. Morris was called to attend to the wounded man and says the chances are against Baldwins recovery.
Family word-of mouth has it that Alexander and Mindie Webb Gilland married only after Mindie agreed to place her daughter by Thomas Wardin the Children's Home in Ironton, Ohio.
Alex apparently had a still in Floyd County, KY and furnished whisky to many including Noah Newsome according to Fern Glasgow, his granddaughter.
Alex acquired via a land grant in Floyd Co. KY 100 acres on the left hand fork of Big Mud Creek in 1858 on March 16, recorded in book 52.
John Wesley served in the Civil War mustering in at Peach Orchard, Kentucky on 7 Nov 1862 and out on 15 Sep. 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky. He enlisted in the 39th. KY Mounted Infantry, Co. "B" and was a private. He later moved to Lawrence Co. Ohio and raised a large family. He received a pension from the war. # 438664.
He is buried in the Hecla Cemetery in Lawrence Co., Ohio about 30 feet down the hill from his brother Alexander and is under a Civil War tombstone.
John was found guilty by General Courts Martial of desertion from camp near Louisa, KY. during the civil war he claimed he was on furlough while disabled. John signed his name with an "X".
Rebecca is buried in the Hamilton cemetery near her father, Solomon Baldwin. She was married by Robert Austin.
Jarvis served in the Civil War mustering in on Feb. 16, 1863 at Peach Orchard, Kentucky and out on 15 Sep 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky. His outfit was the 39th. KY Mounted Infantry, Co. "B". He moved to Lawrence Co. Ohio after the war and preached in the Mamre Baptist church at Kitts Hill, Ohio the rest of his life. He and his wife Elizabeth Frasure, are buried in the honor position in the front of the Mamre cemetery under a Civil War stone and a large stone from the family.
Matilda and Lackey were married by Efram Harris, a Baptist minister. THE TWO HUSBANDS OF MATILDA BALDWIN
Matilda Baldwin listed "Virginia" as her place of birth on the 1870 Pike County, KY census. She was a Cherokee Indian -- some say full-blooded, some say half-breed. She was born in 1846. Her parents were Soloman and Sarah Elliot Baldwin. Martha Baldwin, born in 1850,was probably her sister and Andy Baldwin was her younger brother. According to the 1870 Pike Co. census, Martha Baldwin, with her one-year old son, Alexander, were in the household of Jarvey Newsom, son of Frederick Newsom. Andy Baldwin visited the Newsoms and Holts while they were living in Iowa.
In Floyd County, KY, on April 14, 1860, when she was fourteen years old, Matilda married Lackey Newsom, Harvey Newsom's brother. Lackey and Matilda lived on Robinson Creek on part of the land that Frederick Newsom had inherited from his father, Harrison Newsom, who had come to Kentucky from North Carolina in early 1816.
Lackey and Matilda's first son, John Wesley Newsom, was born Sept. 12,1861. The Civil War had begun in April of that year and Lackey, with his brothers, Robert and Davenport, enlisted in the Union Army (39th Kentucky Infantry, Co. K). Lackey was stationed at a camp near the Mason-Dixon line. On the morning of March 1st he arose and went outside to wash up before breakfast. He was shot and instantly killed by one of his own side, a Yankee, who mistook him for a spy. He was killed just eight days before his second son, Noah Webster Newsom, was born. Lackey is buried in the Newsom Cemetery on the upper end of Little Robinson Creek. He and his brothers, Robert (Big Rob) and Davenport (Port), have 39th Ky. Infantry, Co. K. markers on their graves.
[note: U.S. service records have Lackey Newsome as KIA --killed in action--February 25, 1865.]
Matilda married Henry Holt about 1866. Their oldest child, Mary Holt, was born in March, 1867. Matilda and Henry lived on a fork, called Straight Fork, on the Bear Fork of Robinson Creek not far from Fed Newsom. It was very rough terrain where they lived, and their log cabin stood on just a little flat place.
Henry Holt was a puzzle. He claimed to have served nine months in the 5th Tenn. Calvary, Co. B, but no records of a "Henry Holt" in either the Confederate or Union units has been found. His grandson, Charles Little, describes him thusly: some say that Henry Holt wasn't a Holt at all, but had just taken that name when he came out of the ranks of the Yankee Army -- seeking a safe place in those Kentucky hills to hide out from the government. The Authorities wanted to prosecute him for his part as a bushwacker in the Civil War.
Henry was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian from Tennessee. He blew in here to hide from the law. Henry was an industrious cuss -- went upon Bear Fork and carved out a farm. He planted a big orchard, set out beehives, and had all kinds of vegetables and fruits. He was known for his Ginseng patch that he harvested and sold."
The Henry Holts had nine children up there on Bear Fork in addition to the three that Matilda had brought into the marriage. The Holt children were Mary (1867), Evan (1869), Andrew (1872), Darkis (1874), Perion (1875), Silas (1877), Reeney (1878), Liza (1880) and Francis(1882). The 1900 census lists a granddaughter, Rhoda Caudill, age ten, living with them.
Matilda died of a heart attack in 1908 at the home of her son, Andy Holt. She was churning butter and talking to her daughter-in-law, Eliza Jane Holt at the time. She was 62 years old.
Henry Holt died in 1913 at age 77. He had remarried to Rilda Adams on Dec. 4, 1909 in Floyd Co., KY and they had one child, Martha, born in 1911 when Henry was 75 years old. Matilda and Henry and some of their children are buried in the Indian [Sam Hall] Cemetery on Bear Fork. Three of Noah Newsom's children are buried there, also. Indians were not allowed to bury their dead in the white folks cemetery. People were always digging in the Indian Cemetery to find Indian artifacts. The cemetery is still there, though overgrown. [circa 1900 when this was written].
Henry Holt's stepsons thought he was mean to them. By 1870 John W. was living with his grandfather, Fed Newsom, over in Floyd County. In 1873, when he was eight years old, Noah went to live with the Tom May family, who lived at Jones' Chapel on Robinson Creek. Tom and his wife, Mary, raised Noah and gave him a good education. They had several children of their own.
Some time after Noah and Mary Elizabeth Moore were married, they lived on Bear Fork just over a steep hill from the Henry Holts. Although Matilda (called Granny Holt) was on good terms with the Noah Newsoms, visited them and helped out when the babies were born (she was amid-wife of a sort), Henry was not allowed on the place. Henry visited them once when Henry's grandson, Landon Holt, who lived with Henry, ran away from home and Henry and Matilda came looking for him. They lived neighbors for perhaps twelve years and the children were all good friends.
Noah's daughters thought that Noah hated Henry because Henry was a "Rebel." But evidently Henry was not a Rebel but a bushwhacker hiding from the Union Army. Noah himself was probably sympathetic with the Rebel cause, having named his first-born "John Calhoun Breckenridge Newsom" in honor of John Cabel Breckenridge, who became a United States Senator from Kentucky in 1861 but was expelled for joining the Confederacy.
There are many unsolved mysteries concerning the two husbands of Matilda Baldwin! From "The Two Husbands of Matilda Baldwin" pages of THE NOAH NEWSOM FAMILY OF ROBINSON CREEK, KENTUCKY, 1775-1950, researched and written by a descendant, Fern Rosik Glasgow, pp. 24-25
Martha is buried in the Ike Robert's Cemetery, Big Mud Creek, Floyd Co. KY. The children listed with Ambros Jones are his up thru Kenas(z). The rest are Martha's with Ambros.
Marriage record is in Vol. 10, Page 258, Lawrence Co. Ohio recordbook.
Dorcas is buried in Hecla Cemetery near brothers Alexander and JohnWesley.
Andrew is living with his sister, Marietta and her husband, Wilburn Hall in the 1880 census of Lawrence Co. Ohio. He is age 22. He is buried in the Hecla cememtery near his brothers Alexander, John Wesley, sister Dorcus and mother Sarah Elliot Baldwin Hubbard. He is 53 years of age in 1910 census of Lawrence Co., Ohio.
Amanda'a father, Alexander, gave his consent for her to marry Thomas Campbell. My records show her to be of age but perhaps I have an incorrect birth date. They were married by Jarvy Baldwin, the uncle of Amanda.
On 23 Sep 1892 a marriage license was issued to Amanda and Farmer but record was not filed. We do not know if this marriage took place. Thomas Campbell was sent to the Ohio Pen. for three years for cutting with intent to kill Alexander Baldwin in a dispute over Thomas's treatment of Amanda. She could have divorced and remarried by this time. Amanda is buried next to her son, Charles Campbell in the Ashland Cemetery, Ashland, Kentucky. Their graves are unmarked.
This man did not marry Nancy Layne Johnson who bore William Elmer Johnson. Nancy assumed the Baldwin name originally to make her life less complicated. However, she used Johnson/Baldwin alternately throughout her lifetime. Solomon later married as the records show and had six children before being killed by a auto while stepping from a street car in Ashland, Kentucky.
Solomon's father married Nancy Layne Johnson's mother (his and her second marriage) while Nancy lived in the same house. She was not adopted by her step-father but living in the same house with his son, Solomon was apparently a dangerous arrangement as she became pregnant with my Grandfather, William Elmer Baldwin. Solomon's death is recorded in Vol.-042, certificate #20976 in Boyd Co., KY death records.
An item in the Ironton Tribune on 1 May 1927 says "Sgt. Wes Baldwin returned from vacation". Wes was a policeman in Ironton for several years. I saw an article in the Ironton newspaper about Wes killing a negro in the line of duty. More research is needed to locate this article at this time. 3/29/01
Birth recorded on page 138-line 4 of Lawrence Co. Ohio birth recordsin probate court.
Thomas was 11 months old when he died. Ironton register of 17 Apr1894 lists his obit.
Zalmon Ferrall shot and killed Robert Baldwin on the steps of Robert's father's Mamre Baptist Church. Ferrall was convicted of second degree murder in court at Lawrence Co. courthouse on March 30, 1899.(from theIronton Register Thursday Mar 30, 1899).
Rosa`s death record is Vol. 1245, Certificate # 70315-code 44 inLawrence Co. Ohio records.
Navada was called "VADA". She is buried at Kitts Hill Cemetery alongside her husband, John Alexander Callicoat.
Andy is buried in he Ike Roberts cemetery, Floyd County, KY.
Source is Vol 89, Ed. 83 Sh. 20 line 90 of 1900 Ohio censes soundex.
Died of a gunshot wound.
William was born out of wedlock to Nancy Layne Johnson. He went by the name Johnson and sometimes Baldwin, in his early years. He married as Baldwin and is buried as a Baldwin. "Pop" as he was called by his children and grand-children was an outgoing person who liked to play the fiddle and dance and sing. Leroy Emerson Haas bought him a fiddle for Christmas in the 1950s and he played it until his death. Pop worked in the Matewan coal mines in West Virginia and was seriously hurt in a cave-in. He mended well and lived a long life. He retired from the Henrite Corp. in Ironton, Ohio and lived out his life in a small house near his daughter Icele Baldwin Haas.
He and Anna and Icele Edna lived in Ironton during the 1910 census. William worked in West Va. several times during this period but always came to Ironton as his relatives were there. He was in West Va. in 1925 when Anna died in Ironton at 7th and Mastin streets but he did not reach her before she died as the telegram was delivered too late. Icele and family moved to the same house in 1938 after her marriage.
Myrtle married Vincent Bell and lived most of her life in Huntington, Cabell Co. West Virginia. I talked with her twice by phone but never met her. She was William Elmer Baldwin's half-sister which he never knew. I am not certain that she knew about her father's boy William born out of wedlock and therefore was not aware of the many decendants from him. She told me that her husband did not have anything to do with the Baldwins but did not say why. I visited her only living sibling, Cora Violet, in a nursing home in Ashland KY in 1988. She did not even know her own name as she was mentally impaired. The director of the home put me in touch with her sister Myrtle. My mother Icele never mentioned her family's background during her long life.
L. E. Haas( 3/5/98)
Hazel`s death record is Vol. 1127, Certificate # 40974-Code 44 in theLawrence Co. Ohio records.
Charles obit: A life long resident of the Kanawha Valley and a 37 year employee of DuPont, Belle, WVA. Surviving are: Maxine, sons, Steve of Hurricane, WVA, Timothy of Frederick, MD; daughter Kasey of Arlington, VA; sister, Eleanora Brown of Marmont, WVA; and four grandchildren.
Died as an infant.
Died as an infant.
Divorced March 10, 1920.
Faye and John were divorced in Lawrence County, Ohio on May 12, 1927due to gross neglect.
Resided in Beech Grove, IN in 1922.
Lived in Ironton at time of brother Herman's murder.
Thomas entered service July 5, 1917 in Co. K, 9th. Infantry, 2nd. division. Wounded July 18, 1918 at Soissons France and awarded the Service Cross. Discharged May 1919. SS# 280-05-6955 He lived in Ironton, Ohio at time of brother Herman's death.
Herman died from a blow on the head by a bottle-capper. He was involved in an argument with Lawrence Justice, a head mechanic at the Marting Oldsmobile Garage, while playing cards. Justice was charged with first degree murder. The fight took place on Saturday preceding his death on Wednesday.
(Taken from the Ironton Tribune of Wednesday, August 7, 1929). He was a city laborer at time of death.
Lived in Indianapolis at time of brother Herman's murder.
Lived in Ironton at time of brother Herman's murder.
Nelson was in WWI.
Dewey entered military service May 30, 1917 with the Engineers Corp.Co. B, 7th. Regiment. He trained at Ft. Leavenworth, KS. Saw active duty in France. He married a lady from St. Rumelange, Luxembourg and later was divorced in Lawrence Co. Ohio.
marriage not verified.
William died of lung cancer.
Nickname was "Jigs".
Icele was born in a coal mining area of West Virginia (Matewan). Her mother was giving birth while her husband William Baldwin was mending from a mine collapse. He was so bad that the doctor gave up on him and left him to mend on the kitchen table while his wife was in bed with labor pains. Both Icele and William, called "Pop", came out ok. They eventually moved from the mining camp to Ironton Ohio(home) when a feud broke out between the Company and the miners.
This eventually was called "The Matewan Massacre". Pop said that blood was running in the streets when they walked over the mountain to catch a train to Ironton, Ohio with everything they owned on their backs. Icele worked for Selby Shoe Co. in the early 1930s, both at Portsmouth, Ohio and Ironton, Ohio. She never worked much after that.
She raised three children and died in a house fire of smoke inhalation. This was her home and the fire was accidental. She died four years after her husband died.
SS# 280-05-5986
Chester died alone as he lived since his wife Gertrude died. He was found in bed on the morning of Sep. 30, 1996. He died during the night. The police were called to his home as he did not answer the telephone the day prior. A window was broken to gain entrance and he was found in bed.
Chester worked most of his life at the Ironton, Ohio branch of the Dayton Mallable Foundry. He retired from this job and spent most of his time at home alone and to a large degree, shunning company. Relatives were not notified of his death until he was buried.
Only one child was born to Chester and Gertrude. Jerry is currently living in San Antonio, Texas (12/6/96)
Eloise was married by W. J. Watson, Judge, at Catlettsburg, KY. Witnesses were: J. Snead Yeager and Myrtle Groce (second wife of Eloise's father). Eloise lied about her age saying she was 21. She was just 16 years. A large note on her marriage certificate says "STUDENT-DO NOT PUBLISH".
Clifford lived his last 35 years in LaFayette, Indiana relocating there to work for William Lawrence Haas Jr. in the 1960's. He later worked for a manufacturing plant in the area and retired there.
Clifford suffered a leg fracture in 1933 when a car ran over it on the sidewalk in front of his home. I believe he was in the driveway. He was hospitalized at the Marting Hospital on 13 April 1933 and released on 30 May 1933. He was admitted again on 27 June 1933 and released on 25 July 1933.
He was again in the hospital on 25 August1933 and released on 14 November 1933.
His close friends when he was a teenager called him "crip" as he walked with a limp for the rest of his life.
Obit: Ironton Register Thursday, Dec. 3, 1925.
Last rites for Harry Emerson Baldwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. WilliamBaldwin of 12th. and Maple streets, who died last evening after an illness with condition of disease, will be held from home tommorow afternoon at two o'clock. Burial will be made in the Hecla Cemetery under the direction of O'Keefe and Company.
Leroy Emerson Haas was named after Harry Emerson. Harry died of Cronic Infantum. He was ill and attended by Dr. GeorgeHunter for seven days prior to death. His burial was handled byO`Keefe Funeral Home in Ironton, Ohio. His condition was aggrevated by measles.
Charles was killed in a F4 Phantom airplane in Zaragoza, Spain while on a training bombing mission. He was a Captain in the USA Force.
Eugene was killed in WWI.
Lives in Beach Grove, IN
Died of Pneumonia at one year.
Lives in the Los Angeles area as of 7/02.
Jerry died of a massive heart attack at his home in San Antonio, Texas. He was dead for 10 days before being found by the local authorities. His son Bradly and son's wife Sherry were the first of the family to enter the house after Jerry's removal. Similarly, his father died alone in Ironton, Ohio and was found three days later.
Clarence is buried in Hecla Cemetery, near Ironton, Ohio in the Baldwin family plot. He died of head injuries during birth.
Lives in Little Rock, AR.
Stephen was a twin brother of Linda McKee.
Linda was a twin sister to Stephen McKee
Charles died as an infant.
Larry died in infantcy.
Kenneth and Harry were twins.
Harry and Kenneth were twins. Harry had at least one additional son.
Christina was an adopted child.
Baby girl born in the HCMC in Minneapolis, Mn. 6lb. 7oz. and in goodhealth.
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