General Notes

The following is from an article by Mary Virginia "Ginny" Masterson (Mrs.
Frank Schilt), a GGGranddaughter of Wesley P: She was a correspondent of
Tommy Hays stating in 1994. She was born in Indianapolis-living in
Stuart, Florida.
Wesley was named for "John Wesley" founder of the Methodist Church, and
"Francis Poythress" one of Kentucky's First Methodist Ministers.
Wesley's father, Richard, had owned over 100,000 acres of land in
Kentucky during his lifetime, but Wesley lived his entire life by selling
one piece of land after another, "Too lazy to pull on his own boots." In
his mother's will, she leaves him one slave, Lorenzo, but he is to be
freed when he becomes 28 years of age.
When Wesley was on his death bed, his grandson, Wesley C. (My
grandfather) was 10 years old. He was taken into the sickroom, the old
man told him to kneel down, hit him on the forehead and said, "Now you
will remember me," and died five minutes later.
Wesley died at the home of son, Richard W.
a lazy, do-nothing who lived off the inheritance of his father by selling
sections of the vast lands left to him.