William Chiswell Dawson - Gedcom Sources

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SOURCE: I made a copy of this at the Russelville, Kentucky archives. I do not know the name of the author. Kay E. (Dawson) Hommel

"This farm has been in my mother's family, the Dawson's, since 1808, having been purchased from a Mr. Byrd who obtained the original patent. The present house was built about 1820. It is a very unpretentious brick one and one half (1 1/2) story house, set with the compass. The windows are six or more feet from the ground to the bottom of the window, which was considered a necessary precaution against prowlers in the early days. The framng as well as the sashes were made of walnut. Some of the original sashes are still in use. All of the material, with the exception of the hardware, came off of the place. Lumber was sawed by hand bey placing the log across a narrow ravine; one man stood below the log and pulled on end of the saw while the man on the other end of the saw stood above. Bricks were burned on the plqce, and all the work was done by family slaves. The molding around the windows, doors, built-in presses, and chairboarding was made with a hand plane, which we still have.

The basement, or cellar to them, was originally used as the dining room and kitchen. The doors leading to it had handmade wooden hinges, some still in place. The little one-half second floor contains three rooms. The partitions were made of 17" poplar boards, tongue and grooved together , and the original hardware still remains on some of the doors. An interesting thing about one of these rooms is a bolt on the outside of the door. This room always was used for the wayfarer who asked for a night's lodging and was welcomed with the understanding that he would permit himself to be locked in, since the story of Big Harp and little Harp as still fresh in the minds of the early settlers.

The rafters are hewn chestnut timbers, fastened together at the apex with wooden pegs about 1 1/2 inches in diameter and about 9 inches long.

After the original owner died, (William Chiswell Dawson), his son (George W. Dawson), my grandfather, added a log "L" of two rooms connected with the original brick house by a "dog trot." This part was an old log house built in the 1700's, and it was moved from another part of the farm. Originally this log house was the home of Sam Morris, a member of the notorious Murrel Outlaw Gang. These two rooms became the kitchen and dining room. They have beamed ceilings which take a very high polish. In the middle of the ceiling in the dining room is a perfectly round hole of about 2 inches in diameter, which I have been told was used by the master for a bell rope so he could awaken his Negroes without getting out of bed. Both rooms have a 4 foot stone fireplace.

The chimney of the brick part of the house is unique in that the one chimney takes care of four different fireplaces. This house, on a knoll, was so situated that the original master could stand in his yard and "spy' on any of his slaves in his fields as they worked."

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@R1350455808@ 1820 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,7734::0
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1820 U S Census; Census Place: Russellville, Logan, Kentucky; Page: 42; NARA Roll: M33_26; Image: 53 1,7734::1259952
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@R1350455808@ 1830 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. 1,8058::0
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1830; Census Place: Russellville, Logan, Kentucky; Series: M19; Roll: 39; Page: 65; Family History Library Film: 0007818 1,8058::1875458
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@R1350455808@ 1840 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. 1,8057::0
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Year: 1840; Census Place: Logan, Kentucky; Page: 195; Family History Library Film: 0007829 1,8057::1280394
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