Richard Cole, Sr

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COLE, RICHARD Ancestor #: A024218
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Service: PENNSYLVANIA Rank(s): PRIVATE
Birth: 1729 PENNSYLVANIA
Death: 11-21-1814 WOODFORD CO KENTUCKY

COMMENTS (Overview)
1) RICHARD COLE, SR WAS PROBABLY BORN IN SOUTHSIDE VA & RESIDED IN KING GEORGE CO UNTIL AT LEAST 1773.
2) C1785 MOVED TO KY WHERE HE DIED. NO EVIDENCE HE EVER LIVED IN PA. SEE 'FORKS OF
3) ELKHORN CHURCH', P 101 FF & PENSION APP OF JOHN COLE. SEE DATACF. 12-3-81

RESIDENCE: 1) State: PENNSYLVANIA

SPOUSE
Number Name
1) ANN HUBBARD
2) EMSEY JAMES

Child [Spouse #] Spouse
RICHARD, JR. [1] SALLIE/SARAH YATES

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cole-5170

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8713232/richard-james-cole

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• ** PLEASE DO NOT ADD INFORMATION THAT HAS NOT BEEN DOCUMENTED.

The parents of this Richard Cole are UNKNOWN.
His parents are NOT confirmed.
The only reference is a will that was written that mentions that John Cole of Culpepper, VA had a second son named Richard.
This does NOT confirm that this Richard Cole was his son.
There are too many Richard Cole's especially living in Virginia.

• ** PLEASE NOTE: Richard Cole DID NOT have a middle name.

All papers he signed NEVER had an initial-NMN [no middle name]

• ** PLEASE DO NOT ADD any children to this Richard and Ann [Hubbard] Cole.

The only documented children that were ever mentioned were:
1. Richard NMN Cole Jr married Sarah 'Sallie' Yates.
2. Sarah 'Sally' Cole md Benjamin Graves.
3. Deacon Jesse NMN Cole md Nancy Sparks
4. Alice md Captain Anthony Lindsay and Lucy Cole md Jonathan Cropper.
These children were the only names that have documented sources.

Children that DO NOT have any documented sources that have been added are
1. John 'Squire' Cole, Agnes and Elizabeth. What ever happened to Agnes and Elizabeth?
From Doris Waddell's Family Genealogy: "We know that John Cole I (1680-1757) was in Culpeper County, Virginia when he died and that his son Richard Cole came to Woodford County, Kentucky, in 1782, with his two married sons Richard and John II. W. E. Riley in History of Woodford County says that Richard was born in Pennsylvania in 1729 and died in Woodford County, Kentucky in 1814, and that his wife, Ann Hubbard, was born in Pennsylvania in 1739 and died in Woodford County in 1795. Richard and Ann were farmers and ran the Black Horse tavern. This tavern was on the Frankfort Lexington Road (near Midway, KY) and was a major stop for stagecoaches. It has been preserved as a historic building, but is privately owned."

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Where is the proof of the Richard Cole prom Culpeper County. John Cole II settled in Baren County, Kentucky,

1. DNA "Y" match and DNA "X" by five [5] first cousins and [2] of their children. [Our Cole "Y" DNA does not match the John Cole of Culpeper].
2. Chalkey’s, Augusta County Virginia Records]. Richard Cole, Sr born 1729 Pennsylvania records - went to Woodford County in 1783. Volume 2 page 405-Richard Cole age 72 last March, makes declaration that he served during the war, enlisted under William Long.
The Richard Cole - A Richard Cole served first in the 6th Company, 10th Regiment. 1781-Robert Patton Company-Pennsylvania company].
3. Pennsylvania Archives. REV WAR - Richard Cole - Private- Roll Box 61. 1775-1783. a. Continental Line. [page 714], THE SIXTH COMPANY. Private - Richard Cole. b TENTH PENNSYLVANIA [Page 725]. CAPTAIN PATTON’S COMPANY. Cole, Richard, May 1, 1777.
4. Register of Kentucky Historical Society, April 1945 page 113. A Deposition of Richard Cole dated 1790. ‘Said Cole made oath....That in the year 1785 in the summer season June or July, this Defendant accompanied the Complainant [Wilkinson] and the Defendant [Marshall] into the bottom where the town of Frankfort now stands on the Kentucky River, when the said Defendant surveyed that tract of land...... Said Defendant also saith that he himself did not attend the remaining of the said survey up the river in every port, but that he was sometimes absent.”
June 23, 1785. Humphrey Marshall, himself a deputy surveyor under Thomas Marshall, surveyor of Fayette County, completed the survey of the vacant lands [Frankfort, Kentucky] and because the 5th to take up land where the city now stands. William Ballard, a man named present, and R. Cole, were his chain carriers and markers.
5. From Register, Kentucky Historical Society [April 1945] p 113. “JUNE 23, 1785-Humphrey Marshall, himself a deputy surveyor under Thomas Marshall, surveyor of Fayette County, completed the survey of the vacant land [Frankfort, Kentucky] and became the 5th to take up land where the city now stands. William Ballard, a man named Brent, and R. Cole, were his chain carriers and markers.”
6. RICHARD COLE - Came to Kentucky around 1783-6 Versailles, Woodford, Kentucky. He came to Franklin County, Kentucky where in the summer season June or July he assisted Humphrey Marshall in surveying the site of Frankfort. He married Ann before he moved to Kentucky. They settled at what is known as the Waits Place on the Lexington-Lees Town Road. Their home was on the Old Frankfort and Lexington Road, it was about three miles from the town of Midway and about the same distance from the Old Harmony Presbyterian Church, which is now the property of the Baptist Denomination. He afterward conducted a famous Inn. The Black Horse Tavern on Lees Town Road there know as “Cole’s Road.” The house is gone, but the family graveyard is on the opposite hill - oldest stone dated 1922. Ann [Hubbard] Cole, Richard Cole Sr, Susan Palmer, William Y. Cole, Amos Cole, James Cole, Jesse Cole, Julia Austin, Sally [Yates] Cole, Richard Cole, Jr., Greenberry Moore and Jesse R. Moore are all buried there. There is a small house where Zeralda Cole and Rev. James spent their honeymoon behind where the Tavern stood.
7. Cole’s Tavern in Woodford County Had Dubious Reputation Popular Hangout For Hearing Politics and Gossip in Early 1800’s By Frieda Curtis-Wheatley - 2002. Richard Cole, Sr., born April 23, 1729, in Pennsylvania and his wife, Ann Hubbard-Cole, born in 1730, were early pioneers to what is now Woodford County, Kentucky. Woodford County was created from Fayette on November 12, 1788.
8. Richard Cole, Sr., a Revolutionary War soldier, arrived in Kentucky County Virginia  about 1782. He located on a farm situated on the Leestown Pike ( US 421) better known for more than a half-century, after the formation of Woodford County, as Cole’s Road. During this era settlers were making their homes in all parts of the county. The beautiful, fertile, timbered land, with many springs of cool water, seemed to lure settlers. Mr. Cole was a prosperous and painstaking farmer. He soon became the "High Sheriff" of Woodford County and his son in law Benjamin Graves was the Justice of the Peace.  Soon after arriving in Kentucky he built a large building on the premises near the road. It housed his family, as well as being used as a tavern to accommodate the traveling public.  The road was the main thoroughfare from Maysville and Lexington, to Frankfort and Louisville. On July 1, 1794, Richard Cole, Sr., was appointed to work on part of the old Leestown Road of which he was surveyor, along with his son, Richard, and others. All gatherings of the politicians in that end of the county met at either Cole’s Tavern or Offutt’s Crossroads. The vicinity in which Cole’s Tavern was located was known as Sodom. The village of Sodom, located on Elkhorn Creek, had flour and grist mills; as well as cotton and hemp factories, a tannery, shoe shop, carding machine, and a storehouse.
The manufacturing town of Sodom has passed into the annals of history. Railroads drew the trade to other localities. Later known as Fishers Mill, the remains of old buildings could be found by turning north off Leestown Pike in front of the Wait’s Place. Cole’s Tavern in Woodford County Had Dubious Reputation Popular Hangout For Hearing Politics and Gossip in Early 1800’s By Frieda Curtis-Wheatley - 2002 
 In October of 1874, William Edward Waits and R. L. Waits purchased land located on the Leestown dirt road from Thomas H. Bedford, the guardian of several Bedford children. On April 11, 1891, Henry Waits bought the property containing about 146 acres from Edward Waits. The one-acre graveyard was not conveyed. Mr. Waits, a bachelor of Woodford County, died intestate in 1925. On January 5, 1926, Thomas Roach bought the property from the Waits heirs. The land was located on the Leestown turnpike, four miles west of Midway. An 11-room frame house was constructed on the side of the old Cole Tavern, about the years 1866 to 1871, making it between 85-90 years old when it burned on April 12, 1956. The cookhouse, located about 50 feet behind the house, was spared along with the springhouse. The springhouse was built over a small stream which ran under the building, for cooking purposes, and out the other side. An old map shows this stream of water called Cole's Branch. In later years the property was referred to as the Waits Place. My aunt's family occupied this house, located on the Leestown Pike (US 421) for a number of years in the 1930s and early 1940s. My sister, Maxine, and I were born in this house, even though our parents, Wesley and Atha Pettit-Curtis, had a home in Scott County, Kentucky. Some years before this house was destroyed by fire, the road elevation in front of the house was raised. Today the old cookhouse and springhouse are difficult to see as you drive by, because of the trees and brush grown up beside the road. The one lone tombstone stands for Ann Hubbard-Cole (1730-1795), surrounded by a black wooden fence on the hill. In the 1930s many stones were in the graveyard, but have disappeared with time. I have always heard the tavern referred to as Cole's Bad Inn, justified or not, I don't know. There is no historical marker. [Information obtained from the History of Woodford County, by Railey; Early Western Travels; Stagecoach Days in the Bluegrass; Court Records and a Lexington newspaper. Frieda Curtis-Wheatley]
9. “Second Census” of Kentucky 1800” page 58. COLE, RICHARD SR. Woodford County on 8/1800 and 8/10/1800.
10. FIRST CENSUS OF KENTUCKY 1790. Page 1-History of the First U S Census of Kentucky. Page 5. Kentucky Counties in 1790 and page 22 - Cole, Richard Fayette County, 6/1/1789. Cole, Richard Jr. Woodford 5/12/1790. [Fayette and Woodford Counties were originally part of Virginia [Fincastle County, Virginia]. [Woodford County, Kentucky was originally part of Fayette County, Kentucky. it became Woodford County in 1789 which could explain why Richard Cole is found listed in both counties.] Ancestry.com. Kentucky Federal Census, Reconstructed, 1790.
11. History of Woodford County pages 65-66 and 233.-States that is received a pension from the Revolution (page 21). States Ann, Richard, and Richard Jr were all born in Pennsylvania.
12. WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED YEARS 1789-1989. Pages 44-45. Nugent’s Crossroad and Offutt-Cole Tavern. Nugent’s Crossroads is a tiny hamlet on the Midway-Versailles road, but what a wealth of history may be found there! On the northeast corner is a nondescript building which has been vacant for years but is supposed to be the first Ford garage in Woodford County. It is the southwest corner, however, which is so steeped in history that it is almost a shrine, for there, behind a low rock wall is the famous Offutt-Cole Tavern.
Vicki Dennis, writing in the Lexington Magazine in 1979 sets the tone for the inn’s history. She wrote, “The tavern got the start because of its great location. It sits at the Intersection of what were two of the busiest buffalo traces in Central Kentucky. After the buffalo moved on and the settlers moved in, a log house was built by Hancock Taylor, an early surveyor who scouted much of Woodford, Fayette, and Franklin counties during the late 1700’s. It was an ideal location for Taylor and his fellow surveyors since it was in the middle of the land they were scouting.”
After Taylor’s death - brought on prematurely by Indians who objected to his being there - the house passed to Hancock Lee, Taylor’s cousin. [In actuality, the house was left by Hancock Taylor to Willis Lee, his cousin, but when he, too, was killed by Indians, the house passed to Willis’ brother, Hancock Lee. Hancock met a similar fate, and the house was inherited by his son Major John Lee, who brought his family from Virginia to settle here.]
Ms. Dennis further stresses the age of the building: “It is very likely one of the oldest - if not the oldest - structure in the Commonwealth. Local historians have traces the history of the building, and it could have been built as long ago as 1773, one year before Kentucky’s first settlement was just a glimmer in James Harrod’s exploring eye.”
Major John Lee, shortly after his arrival, noted the amount of travel on the intersecting roads and shortly thereafter turned his house into an inn. In addition to serving as the innkeeper for a time, he is also one of the men credited with the establishment of Versailles, and he became a very prominent man in the area. As more settlers came into the vicinity the area became known as Leesburg in honor of the Lees. [The present name of Nugent’s Crossroads evolved later when two bachelor Nugent brothers ran a general store for much of the first half of this century.]
In 1802, the Lee house was leased to Horatio Offutt, who built the brick addition, and later to John Kennedy and William Dailey [Dalley/Daly] when it became a halfway house for travelers on the Lexington and Frankfort Stage Line.
Some of the most fascinating times at the tavern must have been in the days when Dailey was the proprietor, for the old Kentucky Gazette relates that the inn featured, “Venison, wild turkey or other game, great bowls of vegetables, all the Johnny Cake a man could eat, berry pies, elder or stronger drinks; crackling bread, pork, buffalo steaks and fish.” An English journalist tells of his experience at the inn: “Dailey, have a good violin, on which he plays by ear with some taste, entertained us with music while we suppee”.
Daily was connected with the inn from 1804-1812. The next proprietor was Richard Cole, Jr. who ran the inn as The Black Horse Tavern and who, when he died was described as one of the County’s wealthiest men. his connection adds another dimension to the historic building because his son, James, was the father of Zerelda Cole, the mother of the outlaws Frank and Jesse James. Zerelda stayed at the inn for some time during her childhood.
13. The KENTUCKY GENEALOGIST Vol 2#2 pages 55. [Page 215] -Claims Filed in the Public Record Office. Wm. Cunnningham and County, Falmouth Store, vs. Richard Cole, £42.2.8 by Bond. Richard Cole moved to Kentucky not long after the close of the war. I have not been able to find where he settled in Kentucky, but believe it was not far from Lexington.
14. Will Book D, pages 275-276. Dated 1 April 1805. Probated December 1814. LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT: Sept ye first day 1805. I make this my last Will and Testament. I give to my son Richard Cole six Shillings Cash to remember me and to Jonathan Crapper one dollar and George to my son Jesse Cole and Grace to Alice Lindsey and Hester [Dave crossed out] instead of Dave for Jesse Cole or Anthony Lindsey to give my wife Emma Cole Twenty dollars a year as long as she remains a widow and the rest of my estate to be equally divided amongst the rest of my children that shall be then alive. Written my Own hand Richd Cole NB. Emsey is to have her bed and a Horse and Saddle and after her Death Dave is to be sold and the Money to be divided between Alice Linsey and Jesse Cole. /s/ Richd Cole. Woodford County Set December County Court 1814.
15. Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society - September 1920. The old home that has sheltered the Waits family from more than fifty years has rather an interesting history. It is situated on the Old Frankfort and Lexington Road, better known for more than half a century after the organization of the county as “COLES’S ROAD”.
In 1782, RICHARD COLE SR., came from Pennsylvania and located on this farm. He was a prosperous, painstaking farmer and soon erected the road. It only housed his family but was also used as a tavern to accommodate the traveling public. The road, at that early day, being the main thoroughfare from Marysville and Lexington to Frankfort and Louisville. Such men as Henry Clay and John Critteneden often stopped there for rest and refreshments on travels through central Kentucky in behalf of clients and the promotion of their political interests. The vicinity was known as “Sodom”, the reason for which I cannot give unless I should say that it was a rendezvous for assembling of the politicians of Franklin, Scott and Fayette Counties in order to “Hob-Nob” and prognosticate with their Woodford County friends on the state of the Union. At that time Midway was not on the map and all gatherings of the clans in that end of the county were held wither at Cole’s Tavern or Offutt’s crossroads.
16. Elizabeth Mary Cole is daughter of Thomas Cole and Elizabeth Stephanson.- RESOURCE CARD. COLE, Richard - Private 6th Pennsylvania Regiment. Born 1729: Pennsylvania. Died 11-21-1814; Woodford County, Kentucky [resided in Pennsylvania during Rev War] Married [1] Ann Hubbard [2] Emsey James. Children date in #335302. and #355771.
17. WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY MARRIAGE BONDS AND CONSENTS 1789-1830. Volume 1. Page 31. COLE, Richard and Emsey Jones 21 Jul 1795. Bondsman: Thomas Sharp - Consent Emms Jones [self]
18. DEED BOOKS A and B 1789-1796, Woodford County, Kentucky page 42. Page 67 - 3 April 1792. Deed Book B. Benjamin Craig and Ann, his wife, of county of Woodford district of Kentucky to John Finney of aforesaid county and district 200 pounds 179 1/2 acre county of Woodford by Richard Coles. Benjamin Craig, Ann Craig. Page 89. [Page 465] Commissioners appointed surveyors to part of old Leestown Road - Richard Cole Senior, Benjamin Graves, Richard Cole junior.
19. WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY DEED BOOK C. Page 20. [Page 194-17 October 1797] Benjamin Craig and Nancy, his wife, of Franklin County, to Richard Cole, of Woodford, 5 shillings, 27 3/4 acres, corner to Richard Cole, Junior. Witness: Thomas Gist, Thomas Montague, Benjamin Craig, and Nancy Craig.

Page 35-36. [Page 346] John Payne and Betsy, his wife, of Scott County, to Richard Cole of Woodford £210, 28 acres, on south fork of Elkhorn. Witness:  Richard Cole, Senior, Thomas Guthrie, Junr, John Payne and Betsy Payne.

Page 36. [Page 347 - 2 November 1802] Richard Cole, Senior, and Emma Margaret, his wife, to Richard Cole, Junior, 50 pounds, 27 3/4 acres, on South Fork of Elkhorn. Richard Cole and Emma Margaret Cole.
20. WOODFORD Will Book C-2. Page 100. [Page 320-7 October 1799] Richard Cole, Senior., and Emmy, his wife, To Richard Cole, Jr. 27 3/4 acres signed: Richard Cole, Emma Margaret Cole.
21. WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY WILLS AND ESTATES 1789-1815 by Charles M. Franklin. Page 5. COLE, Richard. Will Book D p. 275. Dated 1 September 1805. Recorded December, 1814. Wife, Emsey Cole, Son-Richard Cole, Relation not given-Jonathan Cropper, Son-Jesse Cole, Relation not given-Alice Lindsey and Relation not given-Anthony Lindsey.
22. U S Census for Woodford County, Kentucky. 1810 page 6 [Page 381 line 12] Richard Cole, Sr lists one male and one female over age 45.
23. GRAVE SITE: Richard Cole S was born 23 April 1729, he died November 21,1814. He is buried next to Ann Hubbard Cole in the Cole Family Cemetery on the hilltop next to where Cole's Bad Inn once stood. Like the old tavern his headstone is no more, this is an old photo. [His gravestone was stolen, replaced recently and added a middle name of James], He NEVER had a middle name. [The picture of the original gravestone is the one pictured]
Ann Hubbard Cole died in February 1795. After the death of his wife Richard married Emsey Margaret James. Richard Sr. died 21 November 1814. Richard, Ann and many of the family are buried in the Cole Family Cemetery on the hilltop next to where the tavern once stood. A 1922 census of the cemetery showed the following headstones: Ann Cole wife of R. Cole died Feb. 11, 1795 age 65 years. Richard Cole Sr. died Nov 21, 1814, Susan Palmer born 1778 died 1823, William Y. Cole Born Sept 16, 1788 Died June 19, 1823, Amos Cole Born Feb. 1798, Died May 12, 1827, James Cole Born Sept. 8, 1804, Died Feb. 27, 1827. Jesse Cole Born May 21, 1793, Died Aug. 3, 1833, Julia Austin, wife of James M. Austin, Died July 11, 1835, age 18, Mrs. Sally Cole Born Oct 1, 1765, Died Nov 8, 1836, Richard Cole Born April 23, 1763, Died July 9, 1839, Greenberry Moore Born Oct 31, 1815, Died Mar. 21, 1852, Jesse R., daughter of G & S.F. Moore Born Aug. 25, 1851, Died May 9, 1852. Today there are only two lone headstones that remain, those of my fourth great grandparents Richard Cole Sr. and his wife Ann Hubbard Cole. Her headstone has stood there on the hilltop since 1795.
‘ANN HUBBARD COLE died 11 February, 1795,’aged 65 years’ and was, apparently the first of the family to be buried in the COLE cemetery at Midway - at least her’s is the oldest tombstone in the graveyard [Kentucky Cemetery Records, Volume 1].

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Richard Cole Sr. was born 23 April 1729 in Pennsylvania. He married Ann Hubbard, Born 1730. Richard Cole Sr. was a Revolutionary Soldier and early settler of Woodford County. He was also a Constable in the days when Woodford was still a part of Fayette County Kentucky. He started the infamous Cole Tavern also known as Cole's Bad Inn at his farm on the Leestown Pike and Elkhorn Creek. The early settlement was known as "little Sodom", Woodford Village and later Fishers Mill. The settlement got its dubious reputation from the roughens that hung out at the tavern and at Woodford Shipping Port. They piloted the flatboats on the Kentucky River making the trip between Woodford and New Orleans. The tavern burned in the winter of 1811. from: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8713232/richard-james-cole [2nd gravestone]-first gravestone did NOT have a middle name of even a "J".

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DNA Y # [R-BigY152439] [R-M269]
Note: Found one reference to his birth: 23 April 1729 Pennsylvania, Somerset County, Pennsylvania USA
1, Pennsylvania Archives: https://wolfensberger.org/pages/library/books/Pennsylvania/pennsylv... [a] S40.4-Volume 1. RG-4, Record of the Office of the Controller General: RICHARD COLE #972. [b] Western Bounty Survey Account: 1782-1810. Box 1 - Ohio River to the Northwest corner of the commonwealth. [c] Journal RG-4 - Volume 2. S4.11 1785-1793, pages 1-343. 1775-1795, pages 344-620.
[d] Continental Journals 4:12. [e] Certificate Books 4:17 [1 & 2 index] Capt. Patton 6th Regiment and 10th Regiment. Dep.4:17 11 Box. Page 1-77 and 191-331 [Box 1] Yorktown [Box 2] pages 1-280 and 391. [e] S 4:19 Department Interest certificate. Philadelphia 500-530 Bow 7-31, Lebanon Box 3-6, Yorktown Book 2-391, May Box 1-280 and Book 2-6.
2. Chalkey’s, Augusta County Virginia Records]. Richard Cole, Sr born 1729 Pennsylvania records - went to Woodford County in 1783. Volume 2 page 405-Richard Cole age 72 last March, makes declaration that he served during the war, enlisted under William Long.
The Richard Cole - A Richard Cole served first in the 6th Company, 10th Regiment. 1781-Robert Patton Company-Pennsylvania company].
3. Pennsylvania Archives. REV WAR - Richard Cole - Private- Roll Box 61. 1775-1783.
a. Continental Line. [page 714], THE SIXTH COMPANY. Private - Richard Cole.
b TENTH PENNSYLVANIA [Page 725]. CAPTAIN PATTON’S COMPANY. Cole, Richard, May 1, 1777.
4. A Deposition of Richard Cole dated 1790. ‘Said Cole made oath....That in the year 1785 in the summer season June or July, this Defendant accompanied the Complainant [Wilkinson] and the Defendant [Marshall] into the bottom where the town of Frankfort now stands on the Kentucky River, when the said Defendant surveyed that tract of land...... Said Defendant also saith that he himself did not attend the remaining of the said survey up the river in every port, but that he was sometimes absent.”
5. From Register, Kentucky Historical Society [April 1945] p 113. “JUNE 23, 1785-Humphrey Marshall, himself a deputy surveyor under Thomas Marshall, surveyor of Fayette County, completed the survey of the vacant land [Frankfort, Kentucky] and became the 5th to take up land where the city now stands. William Ballard, a man named Brent, and R. Cole, were his chain carriers and markers.”
6. Excerpt from the Executive Journal of Governor Garrard 1796, November 10. Commissioned in Light Infantry Company of the 11th Regiment [Woodford County, Kentucky] Richard Cole, Lt.
7. DAR paper #355771. Alice Shaw Bazzell. References: War Dept. Washington D. C. November 25, 1941. Pennsylvania Archives S 5 - Volume III page 175. The records show one Richard Cole [rank not stated] served in the war as a member of the 6th Regiment neither the date of his entry into service nor the date of his separation therefrom is shown. Volume IV page 170 - The records show however that he acknowledged receipt from agents of the Penn. Line of a certificate dated July 1, 1784 for the sun of $72. as balance of settlement between him and the U. S. to January 1, 1782 and that he also acknowledged receipt of a similar certificate of same date for service to 1.1-1783, no later record of him has been found. Richard Cole served as a private [question as to service & place of residence]. DAR #355771 and #335302. [John Sunkel signed two of his certificates].
8. RICHARD COLE - Came to Kentucky around 1783-6 Versailles, Woodford, Kentucky. He came to Franklin County, Kentucky where in the summer season June or July he assisted Humphrey Marshall in surveying the site of Frankfort. He married Ann before he moved to Kentucky. They settled at what is known as the Waits Place on the Lexington-Lees Town Road. Their home was on the Old Frankfort and Lexington Road, it was about three miles from the town of Midway and about the same distance from the Old Harmony Presbyterian Church, which is now the property of the Baptist Denomination. He afterward conducted a famous Inn. The Black Horse Tavern on Lees Town Road there know as “Cole’s Road.” The house is gone, but the family graveyard is on the opposite hill - oldest stone dated 1922. Ann [Hubbard] Cole, Richard Cole Sr, Susan Palmer, William Y. Cole, Amos Cole, James Cole, Jesse Cole, Julia Austin, Sally [Yates] Cole, Richard Cole, Jr. , Greenberry Moore and Jesse R. Moore are all buried there. There is a small house where Zeralda Cole and Rev. James spent their honeymoon behind where the Tavern stood.
9. Cole’s Tavern in Woodford County Had Dubious Reputation Popular Hangout For Hearing Politics and Gossip in Early 1800’s By Frieda Curtis-Wheatley - 2002. Richard Cole, Sr., born April 23, 1729, in Pennsylvania and his wife, Ann Hubbard-Cole, born in 1730, were early pioneers to what is now Woodford County, Kentucky. Woodford County was created from Fayette on November 12, 1788.
Richard Cole, Sr., a Revolutionary War soldier, arrived in Kentucky County Virginia  about 1782. He located on a farm situated on the Leestown Pike ( US 421) better known for more than a half-century, after the formation of Woodford County, as Cole’s Road. During this era settlers were making their homes in all parts of the county. The beautiful, fertile, timbered land, with many springs of cool water, seemed to lure settlers. Mr. Cole was a prosperous and painstaking farmer. He soon became the "High Sheriff" of Woodford County and his son in law Benjamin Graves was the Justice of the Peace.  Soon after arriving in Kentucky he built a large building on the premises near the road. It housed his family, as well as being used as a tavern to accommodate the traveling public.  The road was the main thoroughfare from Maysville and Lexington, to Frankfort and Louisville. On July 1, 1794, Richard Cole, Sr., was appointed to work on part of the old Leestown Road of which he was surveyor, along with his son, Richard, and others. All gatherings of the politicians in that end of the county met at either Cole’s Tavern or Offutt’s Crossroads. The vicinity in which Cole’s Tavern was located was known as Sodom. The village of Sodom, located on Elkhorn Creek, had flour and grist mills; as well as cotton and hemp factories, a tannery, shoe shop, carding machine, and a storehouse.
The manufacturing town of Sodom has passed into the annals of history. Railroads drew the trade to other localities. Later known as Fishers Mill, the remains of old buildings could be found by turning north off Leestown Pike in front of the Wait’s Place. Cole’s Tavern in Woodford County Had Dubious Reputation Popular Hangout For Hearing Politics and Gossip in Early 1800’s By Frieda Curtis-Wheatley - 2002
In October of 1874, William Edward Waits and R. L. Waits purchased land located on the Leestown dirt road from Thomas H. Bedford, the guardian of several Bedford children. On April 11, 1891, Henry Waits bought the property containing about 146 acres from Edward Waits. The one-acre graveyard was not conveyed. Mr. Waits, a bachelor of Woodford County, died intestate in 1925. On January 5, 1926, Thomas Roach bought the property from the Waits heirs. The land was located on the Leestown turnpike, four miles west of Midway.
An 11-room frame house was constructed on the side of the old Cole Tavern, about the years 1866 to 1871, making it between 85-90 years old when it burned on April 12, 1956. The cookhouse, located about 50 feet behind the house, was spared along with the springhouse. The springhouse was built over a small stream which ran under the building, for cooking purposes, and out the other side. An old map shows this stream of water called Cole's Branch. In later years the property was referred to as the Waits Place. My aunt's family occupied this house, located on the Leestown Pike (US 421) for a number of years in the 1930s and early 1940s. My sister, Maxine, and I were born in this house, even though our parents, Wesley and Atha Pettit-Curtis, had a home in Scott County, Kentucky. Some years before this house was destroyed by fire, the road elevation in front of the house was raised. Today the old cookhouse and springhouse are difficult to see as you drive by, because of the trees and brush grown up beside the road. The one lone tombstone stands for Ann Hubbard-Cole (1730-1795), surrounded by a black wooden fence on the hill. In the 1930s many stones were in the graveyard, but have disappeared with time.
I have always heard the tavern referred to as Cole's Bad Inn, justified or not, I don't know. There is no historical marker. [Information obtained from the History of Woodford County, by Railey; Early Western Travels; Stagecoach Days in the Bluegrass; Court Records and a Lexington newspaper. Frieda Curtis-Wheatley]
10. The old home that has sheltered the Waits family for more than fifty years has rather an interesting history. It is situation on the old Frankfort and Lexington road, better known for more than a half century after the organization of the county as “Cole’s road.” It is three miles from Midway and about the same distance from Old Harmony Presbyterian Church, that is now, and has been for years, the property of the Baptist denomination.
In 1782 Richard Cole, Sr., came from Pennsylvania and located upon this farm. He was a prosperous painstaking farmer and soon erected a large log building on the premises that was only a short distance from the road that not only housed his family, but was also used as a tavern to accommodate the traveling public that road, at that early day being the main thoroughfare from Maysville and Lexington to Frankfort and Louisville. Such men as Henry Clay and John J Crittenden often stopped there for rest and refreshments on travels through central Kentucky in the behalf of clients and the promotion of their political interests. The vicinity was known as “Sodom”, the reason for which I cannot give unless I should say that it was a rendezvous for assembling of the politicians of Franklin, Scott and Fayette counties in order that they might ‘hob-nob and prognosticate’ with their Woodford County friends on the state of the union. At that time Midway was not on the map and all gatherings of the clans in that end of the county was either held at Cole’s tavern or Offutt’s crossroads.
Richard Cole, Sr. was born in Pennsylvania in 1729 and died in Woodford County 1814. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. In 1810 Richard Cole was reported to have two members in his family and to be the owner of five slaves. At the same time Richard Cole, Jr., his son reported ten in his family and had three slaves to his credit. He too was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1763, and died in Woodford County in 1839, regarded as one of the county’s wealthy men. [History of Woodford County]
12. 26th “Second Census” of Kentucky 1800” page 58. COLE, RICHARD SR. Woodford County on 8/1800 and 8/10/1800 
13. FIRST CENSUS OF KENTUCKY 1790. Page 1-History of the First U S Census of Kentucky. Page 5. Kentucky Counties in 1790 and page 22 - Cole, Richard Fayette County, 6/1/1789. Cole, Richard Jr. Woodford 5/12/1790. [Fayette and Woodford Counties were originally part of Virginia [Fincastle County, Virginia]. [Woodford County, Kentucky was originally part of Fayette County, Kentucky. it became Woodford County in 1789 which could explain why Richard Cole is found listed in both counties.] Ancestry.com. Kentucky Federal Census, Reconstructed, 1790.
14. Ancestry.com. Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots. COLE, Richard Sr. Cemetery in Midway Cemetery location: Midway, Woodford County, Kentucky 55 - Reference: Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Volume 1 p- Serial: 11912: Volume 4.
15. Kentucky Marriage records [2nd] Bondsman Thomas Sharp page 3 Note: Emsey Tanner.
16. History of Woodford County pages 65-66 and 233.-States that is received a pension from the Revolution (page 21). States Ann, Richard, and Richard Jr were all born in Pennsylvania.
17. WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED YEARS 1789-1989. Pages 44-45. Nugent’s Crossroad and Offutt-Cole Tavern. Nugent’s Crossroads is a tiny hamlet on the Midway-Versailles road, but what a wealth of history may be found there! On the northeast corner is a nondescript building which has been vacant for years but is supposed to be the first Ford garage in Woodford County. It is the southwest corner, however, which is so steeped in history that it is almost a shrine, for there, behind a low rock wall is the famous Offutt-Cole Tavern.
Vicki Dennis, writing in the Lexington Magazine in 1979 sets the tone for the inn’s history. She wrote, “The tavern got the start because of its great location. It sits at the Intersection of what were two of the busiest buffalo traces in Central Kentucky. After the buffalo moved on and the settlers moved in, a log house was built by Hancock Taylor, an early surveyor who scouted much of Woodford, Fayette, and Franklin counties during the late 1700’s. It was an ideal location for Taylor and his fellow surveyors since it was in the middle of the land they were scouting.”

 After Taylor’s death - brought on prematurely by Indians who objected to his being there - the house passed to Hancock Lee, Taylor’s cousin.  [In actuality, the house was left by Hancock Taylor to Willis Lee, his cousin, but when he, too, was killed by Indians, the house passed to Willis’ brother, Hancock Lee.  Hancock met a similar fate, and the house was inherited by his son Major John Lee, who brought his family from Virginia to settle here.]

Ms. Dennis further stresses the age of the building: “It is very likely one of the oldest - if not the oldest - structure in the Commonwealth. Local historians have traces the history of the building, and it could have been built as long ago as 1773, one year before Kentucky’s first settlement was just a glimmer in James Harrod’s exploring eye.”
Major John Lee, shortly after his arrival, noted the amount of travel on the intersecting roads and shortly thereafter turned his house into an inn. In addition to serving as the innkeeper for a time, he is also one of the men credited with the establishment of Versailles, and he became a very prominent man in the area. As more settlers came into the vicinity the area became known as Leesburg in honor of the Lees. [The present name of Nugent’s Crossroads evolved later when two bachelor Nugent brothers ran a general store for much of the first half of this century.]
In 1802, the Lee house was leased to Horatio Offutt, who built the brick addition, and later to John Kennedy and William Dailey [Dalley/Daly] when it became a halfway house for travelers on the Lexington and Frankfort Stage Line.
Some of the most fascinating times at the tavern must have been in the days when Dailey was the proprietor, for the old Kentucky Gazette relates that the inn featured, “Venison, wild turkey or other game, great bowls of vegetables, all the Johnny Cake a man could eat, berry pies, elder or stronger drinks; crackling bread, pork, buffalo steaks and fish.” An English journalist tells of his experience at the inn: “Dailey, have a good violin, on which he plays by ear with some taste, entertained us with music while we suppee”.
Daily was connected with the inn from 1804-1812. The next proprietor was Richard Cole, Jr. who ran the inn as The Black Horse Tavern and who, when he died was described as one of the County’s wealthiest men. his connection adds another dimension to the historic building because his son, James, was the father of Zerelda Cole, the mother of the outlaws Frank and Jesse James. Zerelda stayed at the inn for some time during her childhood.
18. THE COLE FAMILY OF WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY [A Short sketch of the family, prepared by Redmond S Cole 10 May 1935. [did not verify facts] Have copy. [this family was not his Cole family but assembled all the information that he had acquired and did a sketch on this family.
19. FIRST GENERATION: Richard Cole, is earliest known ancestor. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1729 and died in Woodford County, Kentucky in 1814. It seem certain that he was in the patriot army during the War of the Revolution. [HISTORY WOODFORD COUNTY, page 21]. Prior to coming to Kentucky Cole lived for a time in Culpepper County, Virginia [History Woodford County page 249] He lived on a farm on the old Frankfort-Lexington Road, about three miles from the present town of Midway and about the same distance from the Old Harmony Presbyterian Church. Here he erected a large building which was used as a tavern. Many Kentucky celebration, including Henry Clay and John J. Crittenden often stopped on their journeys. Among the early settlers the vicinity was known as "Sodom". [History Woodford County p 6-45.] Robert M. Cole of Missouri, then quite an old man told me in 1901 that this tavern was known as the "Black Horse Tavern". Richard Cole, probably married in Pennsylvania, ANN HUBBARD, born in Pennsylvania in 1730 and died in Woodford County, Kentucky in 1795 [History Woodford County page 66].
20. Register of Kentucky Historical Society, April 1945 page 113 Deposition of Richard Cole - 1790. Said Cole made oath that in the year 1785 in the summer season June or July, this Deponent accompanied [Wilkerson] and the Defendant [Marshall] into the bottom where the town of Frankfort now stands on the Kentucky River, when the said Defendant surveyed that tract of land. Said Deponent also saith that he himself did not attend the running of the said survey up river in every part, but was sometime absent.
June 23, 1785. Humphrey Marshall, himself a deputy surveyor under Thomas Marshall, surveyor of Fayette County, completed the survey of the vacant lands [Frankfort, Kentucky] and because the 5th to take up land where the city now stands. William Ballard, a man named present, and R. Cole, were his chain carriers and markers.
21. Excerpt from the Executive Journal of Gov. Garrard, [These papers document the military affairs of the state and Governor James Garrard's role as commander-in-chief of the Kentucky militia. Included are appointments, commissions, lists of newly elected officers, election certificates or returns, recommendations and nominations, resignations, letters by individuals declining appointments, regimental returns (indicating strength of the militia), and correspondence relating to matters of regimental boundaries and the strength, organization, structure, and composition of the militia.] 1796 November 10 - COMMISSIONED in Light Infantry Company of the 11th Regiment [Woodford County] Richard Cole, Lt. From Appendix A page 204 Principal Taverns of Central Kentucky 1820 - 1860 a compiled from agenda, Old letters and other documents. COLES TAVERN at Nugents’ Cross Roads, Woodford County, Kentucky 1820-1840.
22. A HISTORY OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH AT THE STAMPING CROUND, KENTUCKY. by J. W. Singer - Rev. 1970. He [Richard Cole Jr] operated a tavern near Frankfort in the early 1800's and kept in his home his son's widow, Sallie Lindsay Cole and her two children, Zerelda and Jesse Richard. Zerelda attended a school in Lexington, and visited in the home of her uncle, Judge Lindsay, at Stamping Ground. This house is still standing on the Locust Fork Pike and is the home of Mrs. Margaret Sprake.
While Zerelda Cole was visiting with her uncle, she was baptized into the membership of the Stamping Ground Baptist Church, and met a young Baptist preacher who was studying for the ministry at Georgetown College. The young preacher's name was Robert James and he and Zerelda were married on Christmas Day, 1841, at the Lindsay home.
One the fourth Saturday in February 1842, Sister Zerelda Cole James was granted a letter of dismissal. She and Robert moved to Clay County, Missouri and became the parents of Frank and Jesse James.
23. Death or birth ? or 1724 as stated in Early Virginia Immigrants. Date inscribed on tombstone.
24. FORKS OF THE ELKHORN by Ermina Jett Darnell-1946, The Standard Printing Company, Louisville, Kentucky pages 5-6 - Capt Hannock Lee [1742-1819]. who returned to Virginia and married Winifred E. Beale in King George County, December, 1776. He had large grants of land in the vicinity of Midway and Woodlake, a part of which he sold in 1794 to RICHARD COLE, JR. Pages 101-102 One record indicates that Richard lived for several years in King George County, Virginia.
He came to what is now Franklin County, where in the summer of 1785 he assisted Humphrey Marshall in surveying the site of Frankfort. He afterward went to Woodford and settled at what is known as the Waits place on the Lexington-Leestown road, which was known for many years thereafter as "Cole's Road." Here he conducted a famous inn, "The Black Horse Tavern."
25. A JAMES W. SAMES III Rt 1, Versailles, Kentucky 40383. phone 505-846-4197. He was working on Cole's Blackhorse Tavern--the Woodford County, Historical Society has already done a lot of work on the Tavern. Mr Sames is kin to the James Family. He is trying also to obtain all he can on the Cole's.
26. From: Betty Mayfield. In 1769 the explorers and Long Hunters were about the only occupants of the area [Woodford County, Kentucky] and the first woman came in 1775. Since both were born in Pennsylvania, I would be inclined to guess that they floated down the river with him from Pittsburgh in the mid 1770's.

 27.  THE RED BOOK page 634.  Montgomery County, was not formed until 1784 and its parent County was Philadelphia which was the original county formed in 1682.  Information on Montgomery County, can be obtained from the Montgomery Courthouse, Norristown, Pennsylvania 19404 [deeds after 1784].  The Philadelphia information was combined in 1854 and the city and county offices merged in 1952 [1682  City Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107-3209 -for indexes and 34 S 11th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for records.  This [Montgomery Co/Philadelphia Co is located in the south eastern corned of the state and has BUCKS County to the east and CHESTER COUNTY and DELAWARE COUNTY to the west and BERKS COUNTY to the north.   Philadelphia COUNTY is located at the southern end-this county is a small county and borders the states of NEW JERSEY and DELAWARE.    Pennsylvania.  - Counties  Westmoreland County 1779 from Bedford County.  Bedford 1771 from Cumberland.  Cumberland 1750 from Lancaster.  Lancaster 1729 from Chester.  Chester 1652 original county.

28. Redmond S. Cole [of Tulsa, Oklahoma] Book dated 8 May 1935, based on his research which began in 1901. He collected much data on this family thinking it was his Cole family, when he found it wasn’t, he compiled it into a useable form so that it might help others. He quoted a lot from Railey’s Woodford County History. Mrs. Darnell also writes “Yes, I do consider the Redmond Cole history accurate, except when he has been led astray by Mr. Railey on the Martins of Midway. He shows very plainly that the Pennsylvania KOHL’s, though they settled in Virginia, were a different line from ours, who were undoubtedly English. Mr Railey is a very old man and his knowledge of Woodford County is remarkable as far as his own family and his neighbors are concerned, but when people that he didn’t know so well would give him their family records, he’d get all mixed up.” In the same letter she writes about Guy A. Gladson [Chicago attorney and railroad man], who spent much time, effort and money on the early Virginia Coles, and whose work has been widely accepted [Gladson descended from the Gole-Lindsey branch of the family]. “Mr. Guy A Gladson wrote me: You will find a very interest in account of RICHARD COLE of Westmoreland in Wilstach’s Tidewater Virginia, pages 285,287, and in Wm & Mary Quarterly Vol. 4, pages 29-32. Richard’s will probated 1675, is mentioned in W & M Quarterly Vol 1, p 153. The characteristics of the old gentleman were such that I think it probable that he was the ancestor of the sandy haired, freckled face, fightin’ Coles of Kentucky. Culpeper you know, is directly up the Rappahannock River from Westmoreland and likewise on the normal route for the migration of the family.” Everyone seems to agree with Gladson on the early Richard Cole, who was a real character, indeed! In a letter of 12 Feb 1943 Mrs Darnell writes concerning the Westmoreland Richard Cole, “Ues, I think that old Richard Cole was our ancestor. Two years ago my nephew went to Salisbury Park [the name Richard gave his estate, L-S II] now called Cole’s Point, the old house is gone, but he sent me a picture of the English Walnut tree growing in what was the front yard, and a piece of brick that marks the location.” I have an idea that Richard [1729-1814]’s 2nd wife Emsey James was a relative of Zeralda’s husband.” Ann Lindsay Grigson’s History of the Anthony Lindsay family 6 says that Betsy [Richard%E2%80%99 daughter] married a SNAPE and not a SWOPE, and that she did not move to Kentucky a long with the rest of the family.
29. Letter of Bryant R. Edmunds, Tulsa, OK 1948. I’m proud that my grandfather William Edmunds in 1812 grew and shipped the first hogshead of tobacco from John Cole’s warehouse down big Barren River.
30. From Appendix A p 204. Principal Tavern of Central Ky 1820-1860 as compiled from ado units, old letters and other documents. COLES TAVERN at Nugents Cross Roads, Woodford County, Kentucky 1830-1840
31. The KENTUCKY GENEALOGIST Vol 2#2 pages 55. [Page 215] -Claims Filed in the Public Record Office. Wm. Cunningham and County, Falmouth Store, vs. Richard Cole, £42.2.8 by Bond. Richard Cole moved to Kentucky not long after the close of the war. I have not been able to find where he settled in Kentucky, but believe it was not far from Lexington.
32. Will Book D, pages 275-276. Dated 1 April 1805. Probated December 1814. LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT: Sept ye first day 1805. I make this my last Will and Testament. I give to my son Richard Cole six Shillings Cash to remember me and to Jonathan Crapper one dollar and George to my son Jesse Cole and Grace to Alice Lindsey and Hester [Dave crossed out] instead of Dave for Jesse Cole or Anthony Lindsey to give my wife Emma Cole Twenty dollars a year as long as she remains a widow and the rest of my estate to be equally divided amongst the rest of my children that shall be then alive. Written my Own hand Richd Cole NB. Emsey is to have her bed and a Horse and Saddle and after her Death Dave is to be sold and the Money to be divided between Alice Linsey and Jesse Cole. /s/ Richd Cole. Woodford County Set December County Court 1814.
33. Woodford County Sct December County Court 1814. The foregoing instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Richard Cole dead, was produced in court and proven to be written wholly in his own hand writing [except the interlineation of words “Hester instead of Dave” and ordered to be certified. And at a county court began and held as aforesaid on the 6th day of February 1816 the said will was farther and fully proven by the oath of James Twyman who stated that to the best of his knowledge and belief that said will was written entirely by said Richard Cole dead and the same was ordered to be recorded. Teste - John McKinney, Jr C W C
34. Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society - September 1920. The old home that has sheltered the Waits family from more than fifty years has rather an interesting history. It is situated on the Old Frankfort and Lexington Road, better known for more than half a century after the organization of the county as “COLES’S ROAD”.

  In 1782, RICHARD COLE SR., came from Pennsylvania and located on this farm.  He was a prosperous, painstaking farmer and soon erected the road.  It only housed his family but was also used as a tavern to accommodate the traveling public.  The road, at that early day, being the main thoroughfare from Marysville and Lexington to Frankfort and Louisville.  Such men as Henry Clay and John Critteneden often stopped there for rest and refreshments on travels through central Kentucky in behalf of clients and the promotion of their political interests.  The vicinity was known as “Sodom”, the reason for which I cannot give unless I should say that it was a rendezvous for assembling of the politicians of Franklin, Scott and Fayette Counties in order to “Hob-Nob” and prognosticate with their Woodford County friends on the state of the Union.  At that time Midway was not on the map and all gatherings of the clans in that end of the county were held wither at Cole’s Tavern or Offutt’s crossroads.

35. Elizabeth Mary Cole is daughter of Thomas Cole and Elizabeth Stephanson.- RESOURCE CARD. COLE, Richard - Private 6th Pennsylvania Regiment. Born 1729: Pennsylvania. Died 11-21-1814; Woodford County, Kentucky [resided in Pennsylvania during Rev War] Married [1] Ann Hubbard [2] Emsey James. Children date in #335302. and #355771.
36. WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY MARRIAGE BONDS AND CONSENTS 1789-1830. Volume 1. Page31. COLE, Richard and Emsey Jones 21 Jul 1795. Bondsman: Thomas Sharp - Consent Emms Jones [self]
37. WOODFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY. WOODFORD COUNTY ATLAS 1877-1969 printed by Lathrem’s Print Shop, Versailles, Kentucky. WOODFORD COUNTY - Woodford County was formed in 1788 and named after General William Woodford. It was the last of the nine counties organized by Virginia previous to the separation and admission of Kentucky into the union in 1792. Originally, Woodford was very large and extended to the Ohio River but after many divisions, it now ranks as 107th in size of the 120 counties. Woodford County was created from Fayette County on 12 November 1788. It is bordered by Anderson, Fayette, Franklin, Jessamine, Mercer and Scott counties.

VERSAILES - named for the city of Versailles, France was established 8 November 1792.  It was laid out in an exact circle extending 660 yards in every direction with the court house as its hub on the lands of Hezekiah Briscoe.  Versailles was known to the pioneers as “Falling Spring”, because of the large stream of water that gushed from a cavern which lies beneath much of the downtown section.  The water flowing from this spring has been used through the years by animal, man and industry.

MIDWAY - was created in 1835 by the Lexington and Ohio Railroad Company, but there would have been no town if the railroad had not been compelled to buy the farm of John Francisco to gain right-of-way.  The 216 acre farm was purchased for the sum of $6,480.00 and sold in lots to the first residents.  It derived its name from being located Mid - way between Frankfort and Lexington along the railroad.  in 1846 the town became incorporated.

38. DEED BOOKS A and B 1789-1796, Woodford County, Kentucky page 42. Page 67 - 3 April 1792. Deed Book B. Benjamin Craig and Ann, his wife, of county of Woodford district of Kentucky to John Finney of aforesaid county and district 200 pounds 179 1/2 acre county of Woodford by Richard Coles. Benjamin Craig, Ann Craig.
Page 89. [Page 465] Commissioners appointed surveyors to part of old Leestown Road - Richard Cole Senior, Benjamin Graves, Richard Cole junior.
39. WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY DEED BOOK C. Page 20. [Page 194-17 October 1797] Benjamin Craig and Nancy, his wife, of Franklin County, to Richard Cole, of Woodford, 5 shillings, 27 3/4 acres, corner to Richard Cole, Junior. Witness: Thomas Gist, Thomas Montague, Benjamin Craig, and Nancy Craig.
Page 35-36. [Page 346] John Payne and Betsy, his wife, of Scott County, to Richard Cole of Woodford £210, 28 acres, on south fork of Elkhorn. Witness: Richard Cole, Senior, Thomas Guthrie, Junr, John Payne and Betsy Payne.
Page 36. [Page 347 - 2 November 1802] Richard Cole, Senior, and Emma Margaret, his wife, to Richard Cole, Junior, 50 pounds, 27 3/4 acres, on South Fork of Elkhorn. Richard Cole and Emma Margaret Cole.
40. Kentucky Frontiersmen Located in Census and County Records Volume 2, Will Book A,B,C,D, Woodford County, Kentucky. Compiled by Doris Nave - Barbara Augspurger 1981. Page 67. [Page 275] 1 September 1805 - December Court 1814. RICHARD COLE wife Emsey [?] Cole son Richard Cole, Jonathan Cropper, son Jesse Cole, Alice [?] Lindsey, Anthony Lindsey. Page 68. [Page 285] Emsey Cole, widow of Richard Cole, her right of dower. May Court 1815.
41. WOODFORD Will Book C-2. Page 100. [Page 320-7 October 1799] Richard Cole, Senior., and Emmy, his wife, To Richard Cole, Jr. 27 3/4 acres signed: Richard Cole, Emma Margaret Cole.
42. Taxpayers, Woodford County, Kentucky 1790-1799. Page 3 1790. Richard Sr., Richard Jr. and John Cole. Page 10-1791. Cole, John and Richard Sr. Page 22-1792. Cole, John, Richard Jr, Richard Sr and COIL, Samuel. Page 32-1793, Page 38-1794, Page 49-1795, Page 61-1796, Page 70-1797. Cole, John, Richard Jr and Richard Sr. 1798 - NONE LISTED. Page 98-1799, Cole, Richard Jr and Richard Sr.
43. WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY WILLS AND ESTATES 1789-1815 by Charles M. Franklin. Page 5. COLE, Richard. Will Book D p. 275. Dated 1 September 1805. Recorded December, 1814. Wife, Emsey Cole, Son-Richard Cole, Relation not given-Jonathan Cropper, Son-Jesse Cole, Relation not given-Alice Lindsey and Relation not given-Anthony Lindsey.
44. U S Census for Woodford County, Kentucky. 1810 page 6 [Page 381 line 12] Richard Cole, Sr lists one male and one female over age 45.
45. Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Volume I, p. - Serial 11912: Volume 4. Midway, Woodford County, Kentucky 55.
46. GRAVE SITE: Richard Cole S was born 23 April 1729, he died November 21,1814. He is buried next to Ann Hubbard Cole in the Cole Family Cemetery on the hilltop next to where Cole's Bad Inn once stood. Like the old tavern his headstone is no more, this is an old photo. [His gravestone was stolen, replace recently and added a middle name of James], He never had a middle name.
[b] Find A Grave. Memorial# 8713232
Birth: Apr. 23, 1729 Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Nov. 21, 1814, Woodford Village, Woodford County, Kentucky, USA
Richard Cole Sr. was born 23 April 1729 in Pennsylvania. He married Ann Hubbard, Born 1730. Richard Cole Sr. was a Revolutionary Soldier and early settler of Woodford County. He was also a Constable in the days when Woodford was still a part of Fayette County Kentucky. He started the infamous Cole Tavern also known as Cole's Bad Inn at his farm on the Leestown Pike and Elkhorn Creek. The early settlement was known as "little Sodom", Woodford Village and later Fishers Mill. The settlement got its dubious reputation from the roughens that hung out at the tavern and at Woodford Shipping Port. They piloted the flat boats on the Kentucky River making the trip between Woodford and New Orleans. The tavern burned in the winter of 1811. Ann Hubbard Cole died in February 1795. After the death of his wife Richard married Emsey Margaret James. Richard Sr. died 21 November 1814. Richard, Ann and many of the family are buried in the Cole Family Cemetery on the hilltop next to where the tavern once stood. A 1922 census of the cemetery showed the following headstones: Ann Cole wife of R. Cole died Feb. 11, 1795 age 65 years. Richard Cole Sr. died Nov 21, 1814, Susan Palmer born 1778 died 1823, William Y. Cole Born Sept 16, 1788 Died June 19, 1823, Amos Cole Born Feb. 1798, Died May 12, 1827, James Cole Born Sept. 8, 1804, Died Feb. 27, 1827. Jesse Cole Born May 21, 1793, Died Aug. 3, 1833, Julia Austin, wife of James M. Austin, Died July 11, 1835, age 18, Mrs. Sally Cole Born Oct 1, 1765, Died Nov 8, 1836, Richard Cole Born April 23, 1763, Died July 9, 1839, Greenberry Moore Born Oct 31, 1815, Died Mar. 21, 1852, Jesse R., daughter of G & S.F. Moore Born Aug. 25, 1851, Died May 9, 1852. Today there are only two lone headstones that remain, those of my fourth great grandparents Richard Cole Sr. and his wife Ann Hubbard Cole. Her headstone has stood there on the hilltop since 1795. I recently replaced Richard Cole Sr.'s headstone and put it next to his wife, a place it had always been, before it was stolen. I guess being the Great-Great Grandfather of Frank and Jesse James was more than one souvenir hunter could stand. For more info visit www.tsgraves.com/ and go to the Cole's Bad Inn Section. Be sure and read the account in "The Frankfort Argus" a real historic newspaper account of the death of his grandson Amos Cole in a brawl in 1827 at his fathers place the famous Black Horse Tavern.  Burial:
Cole Family Cemetery 
Midway, Woodford County, Kentucky, USA
Plot: Hilltop the Old Cole Farm, Intersection of 421 and Fishers Mill Road 

His family goes back to James Cole through James’ son of Hugh.  The reasoning on this comes mainly from the early movement of the family around the country.  It just seems to radiate out of Massachusetts.  More importantly, we persist in the use and reuse over and over again of certain names such as John, William, James, Jesse and etc., the same as the James Cole family did.  At any rate Redmond very graciously, when he came to the above conclusion, assembled the information he had compiled and gave it to John Henry Cole, of Andrew County, Missouri, who in turn compiled more information and later died.  His brother Horace Cole of Andrew County now has the work along with the history that Anita Cole has compiled ton 1785 RICHARD assisted Humphrey Marshall in surveying the site of Frankfort, Kentucky.  He owned a farm and a tavern, Black Horse Tavern, on the old Frankfort-Lexington Road, half way between the village of Midway and the old Harmony Presbyterian Church with which some of the COLES affiliated.  This tavern was a frequent stopping place of HENRY CLAY and other celebrities of that day, though it acquired the name of ‘Sodom’ among the more straight laced early settlers.

‘ANN HUBBARD COLE died 11 February, 1795,’aged 65 years’ and was, apparently the first of the family to be buried in the COLE cemetery at Midway - at least her’s is the oldest tombstone in the graveyard [Kentucky Cemetery Records, Volume 1].
51. Birth: Apr. 23, 1729, Pennsylvania, USA Death: Nov. 21, 1814, Woodford Village, Woodford County, Kentucky, USA. Richard Cole Sr. was born 23 April 1729 in Pennsylvania. He married Ann Hubbard, Born 1730. Richard Cole Sr. was a Revolutionary Soldier and early settler of Woodford County. He was also a Constable in the days when Woodford was still a part of Fayette County Kentucky. He started the infamous Cole Tavern also known as Cole's Bad Inn at his farm on the Leestown Pike and Elkhorn Creek. The early settlement was known as "little Sodom", Woodford Village and later Fishers Mill. The settlement got its dubious reputation from the roughens that hung out at the tavern and at Woodford Shipping Port. They piloted the flat-boats on the Kentucky River making the trip between Woodford and New Orleans. The tavern burned in the winter of 1811. Ann Hubbard Cole died in February 1795. After the death of his wife Richard married Emsey Margaret James. Richard Sr. died 21 November 1814. Richard, Ann and many of the family are buried in the Cole Family Cemetery on the hilltop next to where the tavern once stood. A 1922 census of the cemetery showed the following headstones: Ann Cole wife of R. Cole died Feb. 11, 1795 age 65 years. Richard Cole Sr. died Nov 21, 1814, Susan Palmer born 1778 died 1823, William Y. Cole Born Sept 16, 1788 Died June 19, 1823, Amos Cole Born Feb. 1798, Died May 12, 1827, James Cole Born Sept. 8, 1804, Died Feb. 27, 1827. Jesse Cole Born May 21, 1793, Died Aug. 3, 1833, Julia Austin, wife of James M. Austin, Died July 11, 1835, age 18, Mrs. Sally Cole Born Oct 1, 1765, Died Nov 8, 1836, Richard Cole Born April 23, 1763, Died July 9, 1839, Greenberry Moore Born Oct 31, 1815, Died Mar. 21, 1852, Jesse R., daughter of G & S.F. Moore Born Aug. 25, 1851, Died May 9, 1852. Today there are only two lone headstones that remain, those of my fourth great grandparents Richard Cole Sr. and his wife Ann Hubbard Cole. Her headstone has stood there on the hilltop since 1795. I recently replaced Richard Cole Sr.'s headstone and put it next to his wife, a place it had always been, before it was stolen. I guess being the Great-Great Grandfather of Frank and Jesse James was more than one souvenir hunter could stand. For more info visit www.tsgraves.com/ and go to the Cole's Bad Inn Section. Be sure and read the account in "The Frankfort Argus" a real historic newspaper account of the death of his grandson Amos Cole in a brawl in 1827 at his fathers place the famous Black Horse Tavern. 

  Burial:  Cole Family Cemetery , Midway, Woodford County, Kentucky, USA  Plot: Hilltop the Old Cole Farm, Intersection of 421 and Fishers Mill Road  [Richard Cole Sr. was born 23 April 1729, he died November 21,1814. He is buried next to Ann Hubbard Cole in the Cole Family Cemetery on the hilltop next to where Cole's Bad Inn once stood. Like the old tavern his headstone is no more,  Was told that Richard’s tombstone was stolen and it was replaced with a new one.  The new one added a middle name JAMES.  The original one had just RICHARD COLE [have picture of the old and new tombstones].  Created by: Mike Graves, Record added: May 02, 2004 .  Find A Grave Memorial# 8713232 [The new headstone is wrong - Richard Cole DID NOT HAVE A MIDDLE NAME and none of his children were given middle names.

ANOTHER BIO on Richard Sr. • Richard James Cole, Sr
Birth 23 Apr 1729 Pennsylvania, USA Death 21 Nov 1814 (aged 85) Woodford Village, Woodford County, Kentucky, USA Burial Cole Family Cemetery Midway, Woodford County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map Plot Hilltop the Old Cole Farm, Intersection of 421 and Fishers Mill Road Memorial ID 8713232 · Richard Cole Sr. was born 23 April 1729 in Pennsylvania. He married Ann Hubbard, Born 1730. Richard Cole Sr. was a Revolutionary Soldier and early settler of Woodford County. He was also a Constable in the days when Woodford was still a part of Fayette County, Kentucky. He started the infamous Cole Tavern also known as Cole's Bad Inn at his farm on the Leestown Pike and Elkhorn Creek. The early settlement was known as "little Sodom", Woodford Village and later Fishers Mill. The settlement got its dubious reputation from the roughens that hung out at the tavern and at Woodford Shipping Port. They piloted the flat boats on the Kentucky River making the trip between Woodford and New Orleans. The tavern burned in the winter of 1811. Ann Hubbard Cole died in February 1795. After the death of his wife Richard married Emsey Margaret James. Richard Sr. died 21 November 1814. Richard, Ann and many of the family are buried in the Cole Family Cemetery on the hilltop next to where the tavern once stood. A 1922 census of the cemetery showed the following headstones: Ann Cole wife of R. Cole died Feb. 11, 1795 age 65 years. Richard Cole Sr. died Nov 21, 1814, Susan Palmer born 1778 died 1823, William Y. Cole Born Sept 16, 1788 Died June 19, 1823, Amos Cole Born Feb. 1798, Died May 12, 1827, James Cole Born Sept. 8, 1804, Died Feb. 27, 1827. Jesse Cole Born May 21, 1793, Died Aug. 3, 1833, Julia Austin, wife of James M. Austin, Died July 11, 1835, age 18, Mrs. Sally Cole Born Oct 1, 1765, Died Nov 8, 1836, Richard Cole Born April 23, 1763, Died July 9, 1839, Greenberry Moore Born Oct 31, 1815, Died Mar. 21, 1852, Jesse R., daughter of G & S.F. Moore Born Aug. 25, 1851, Died May 9, 1852. Today there are only two lone headstones that remain, those of my fourth great grandparents Richard Cole Sr. and his wife Ann Hubbard Cole. Her headstone has stood there on the hilltop since 1795. I recently replaced Richard Cole Sr.'s headstone [unfortunately he added a middle name James which is wrong, Richard had no middle name] and put it next to his wife, a place it had always been, before it was stolen. I guess being the Great-Great Grandfather of Frank and Jesse James was more than one souvenir hunter could stand. For more info visit www.tsgraves.com/ and go to the Cole's Bad Inn Section. Be sure and read the account in "The Frankfort Argus" a real historic newspaper account of the death of his grandson Amos Cole in a brawl in 1827 at his fathers place the famous Black Horse Tavern

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