**There has been some conflicting research done regarding Alice Boggess, William Crick, Sylvester F. Driskill, and Sylvester M. Driskill. I have done my best to muddle through the records and my research notes can be found here.
Sylvester Merryman Driskill was born on September 6, 1866 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He was the son of John Franklin “Frank” Driskill and Nancy Isabel Shemwell. Sylvester was raised on the family farm in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.
Sylvester Merryman Driskill was born on September 6, 1866 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He was the son of John Franklin “Frank” Driskill and Nancy Isabel Shemwell. Sylvester was raised on the family farm in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.
Sylvester married Anna
Bell “Annie” Mohon on January 3, 1895 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He was 29 years old and she was 20
years. Annie was born in April 1875 in
Muhlenberg County, the daughter of John Marcus Mohon and Laura A. Mize.
Sylvester and Annie
were the parents of five children:
Elgin L. Driskill born November 8, 1895
Mildred Floelle
Driskill born December 1899
Dudley Bennett
Driskill born August 28, 1902
Mary Genevieve
Driskill born July 4, 1907
One child born and died between 1900 and 1910
In 1900, Sylvester and
Annie were renting a home in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Sylvester was working as a teamster at that
time.
By 1910, Sylvester and
Annie and their children were living and working on a farm in Court House,
Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.
The Driskill family
was living on Chestnut Street in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky in
1920. By that time, Sylvester had
resumed his employment as a teamster.
Sylvester and Annie
were renting a home on North Main Street in Greenville, Muhlenberg County in
1930. Sylvester was working as a
salesman in a flour mill at that time.
Their large household included their widowed daughter, Floelle Bennewitz,
and her son, Joe; their married son, Bennett, and his wife, Mary; and two of
Sylvester’s brothers, George and John.
Sylvester Merryman
Driskill died on August 8, 1946, exactly one month before his 80th
birthday. He passed away in Muhlenberg
County, Kentucky. He was buried in the
Evergreen Cemetery in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.
Anna Bell Mohon
Driskill died six years later on December 19, 1962 in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Kentucky. She was laid to rest
beside her husband in the Evergreen Cemetery in Greenville, Muhlenberg County,
Kentucky. Annie was 77 years old at her
death.
Notes for Sylvester
Merryman Driskill
Birth & Death: Ancestry.com. Kentucky, Death Records,
1852-1953 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations
Inc, 2007.
1870 US Census: Year: 1870;
Census Place: District 3, Muhlenberg, Kentucky; Roll: M593_490;
Page: 457B; Image: 282; Family History Library Film: 545989. Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [database
on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images
reproduced by FamilySearch.
Marriage: Dodd, Jordan, comp. Kentucky
Marriages, 1851-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations Inc, 2001.
1900 US Census: Year: 1900;
Census Place: Greenville, Muhlenberg, Kentucky; Roll: 545;
Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 0070; FHL microfilm: 1240545. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database
on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
1910 US Census: Year: 1910;
Census Place: Courthouse, Muhlenberg, Kentucky; Roll: T624_497;
Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 0081; FHL microfilm: 1374510. Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database
on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
1920 US Census: Year: 1920;
Census Place: Greenville, Muhlenberg, Kentucky; Roll: T625_593;
Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 99; Image: 414. Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database
on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced
by FamilySearch.
1930 US Census: Year: 1930;
Census Place: Greenville, Muhlenberg, Kentucky; Roll: 771;
Page: 1B; Enumeration District:0015; Image: 950.0;
FHL microfilm: 2340506. Ancestry.com. 1930 United States
Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations Inc, 2002.
1940 US Census: Year: 1940;
Census Place: Greenville, Muhlenberg, Kentucky; Roll: T627_1344;
Page: 19B; Enumeration District: 89-20. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database
on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Burial: Ancestry.com. U.S.,
Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi
Notes for Anna Bell
Mohon
Birth & Death: Ancestry.com. Kentucky, Death Records,
1852-1953 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations
Inc, 2007.
1880 US Census: Year: 1880;
Census Place: Court House, Muhlenberg, Kentucky; Roll: 435;
Family History Film: 1254435; Page: 131A; Enumeration
District: 138; Image: 0466. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census[database on-line]. Provo,
UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.
Burial: Ancestry.com. U.S.,
Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi
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