• General Notes

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  [Br²derbund WFT Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Tree #0725, Date of Import: Apr 16, 2002]
  
  Source: "Some Descendants of Adams, Floyd & Wood Families of Pulaski/Casey Co., Ky.", by Eugene L. Wood, 1967, p. 150
  
  The subject of this sketch was a little red Irishman, who was born in Ireland in 1751. When he was about sixteen years of age his father, mother and the family came to America. The given names of the father and mother are not known. After coming to America the family finally settled in Chester District, South Carolina, which is in the northern part of that State, and there he was reared and brought up as a pioneer boy, together with the rest of the family.
  When the differences between the Mother Country and the Colonies arrived at the acute stage, he enlisted as a private in the little army of the First Council of Safety of the Revolutionary Party of South Carolina, in the company of Capt. Ezekiel Polk, on July 7, 1775, and served ninety-two days, as is shown in the South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. III, January, 1902, No. I. It appears that he served later in the 6th South Carolina Regiment in the War of the Revolution. His name appears in an undated roll of this organization with the remark: " Commencing March 11, 1776; ending July 1, 1776." According to information handed down from his descendants and relatives, he served entirely through the Revolutionary War.
  After the Revolutionary War father and family felt the call of the wild, and packing their few belongings, they turned their faces toward the famed, though little known, Kentucky. Robert's brother-in-law, John Dick, who was also a revolutionary soldier, joined this company with his family on their journey to the new country to the west. On their way they came to North Carolina, near what is now Asheville, and remained for some time, and while there bbecame acquainted with the Wood and Stroud families, who later followed them to Kentucky. Leaving North Carolina they wended their way into Powell Valley, Tennessee, and remained for quite a time, and while here their youngest child, George W., was born August 15, 1796. After leaving Powell Valley, they took up the trail, going through the Cumberland Gap into the Kentucky land, arriving at a point near Lexington, and here remained for awhile. The game not being so plentiful in this place they then journeyed south toward the hills, forests and running streams. Their next stopping place was in Lincoln County, an area now Pulaski County, where they built a small cabin near Mt. Zion. Here was game of all kinds in great abundance. Just how long they remained here is not certain. In order to have game and fish too, they finally found themselves settled permanently in the valley of a large beautiful creek, which was afterwards named Fishing Creek, on account of the great number and variety of fish in its waters. The place where they finally made their permanent home is near what is now the small settlement of Ansel, and about twelve miles northwest of Somerset, Ky. This valley was then a wilderness of forests, canebrakes and tangled vines, but the land was very fertile, and was covered with black walnut, sugar tree, hickory, white oak, beech and many other kinds of trees. Bear, buffalo, deer, turkey and many varieties of smaller game were on all sides. Ferocious animals also roamed the forests and hills such as the panther, wolf, lynx and wild cat. In this valley they cleared a small tract of land and raised their family.
  Robert died at 6:15 in the morning on the 17th day of November 1816, and is buried in the family graveyard close to a small branch and on a low ridge just south of his old home. At five o'clock in the morning of August 27, 1817, his wife died, and the relatives and neighbors placed here in a grave by his side, and some cedars are standing like sentinals marking their last resting place.

Details of Robert Warson's family with Rebecca Wylie