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From: "Ramona Kelley" <>
Subject: [HACKETT-L] Dec. of Lloyd Hackett 1803. Franklin, Owen, Henry, Co., KY
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:14:57 -0500


All on the Hackett list please be aware of the fact that this is my personal Hackett family history. There are many more notes and sources on side lines of this family in my data. I will also send a descendent line to the list. I have no sources or people outside of the state of KY.

Ramona



Hackett History

By Ramona McDowell Kelley

Hackett is of Scotch Irish Origin.


Hackett, This surname derives from the personal name Haket and was brought to Ireland at the end of the 12th Century by Anglo-Norman settlers who established themselves in Leinster, where their name is commemorated in the townlands of Hacketstown and Ballyhacket Lower and Upper in Rathvilly barony, Co. Carlow, Hackettsland in Rathdown barony, Co. Dublin, and Hacketstown in Balrothery East barony, Co. Dublin. There are also places named Ballyhacket in Ulster, in Co. Derry and Co. Antrim, and places named Hacketstown in Munster, in Co. Cork and Co. Waterford. Castle Hacket in Clare barony, Co. Galway, was once a stronghold of a branch of the family which established itself in Connacht. The name is now rare in Connacht but survives in the other three provinces with the heaviest distribution in Leinster, particularly in Dublin and in Co. Kilkenny.

Reference in [Irish Family Names by Brian De Breffny. ISBN 0 7171 1233 0]


My branch of the Hacketts are said to come from Hackettstown, Warren Co., New Jersey. They migrated through Missouri and Illinois first and then into Owen, Henry , and Franklin Counties in Kentucky, settling in Owenton and Gratz in Owen County and Lockport in Henry County. Lockport may not have had that name at that time, because the Locks and Dam System of the Kentucky River may not have been constructed when the first Hacketts came to the area.

At one time they lived about twelve miles from the hide out of the Jessie James Gang, in a cave now known as Merimac Caverns, in Missouri. The older Howard Hackett was killed in that area in an Indian attack on their cabin. The Indians then burned the cabin. He is said to have a son Howard who married Mary Brian. They came to Kentucky, bringing two or three mares and a stallion of Tennessee Walking Horses. Mary drove the horses and Howard drove the supply wagons. They would always try to find a place to camp near a cabin when stopping for the night. They came to Owen County Kentucky and brought a farm. They had a hard time making a living but Mary bred the horses and sold the colts. I have not been able to trace back to a Howard Hackett and Mary Brian/Bryant yet. I have traced my line back to Lloyd Hackett 1803 and Elizabeth ? 1807 to their son John C. Hackett 1803 amd Sara K/ Bryant 1833 who were married in 1854 in Franklin Co., KY and their eight children whose names I kne!
w. Four sons, John the oldest son, Hardin, Howard [called Bub], and James [the youngest child], and four daughters Mary [the oldest child], Nancy, Sallie Buck, and Ollie Andrea. Cecil [a brother to Mary Brian or Howard Hackett, there is a question as to which] was preported to have helped to survey Frankfort the capital of Kentucky. I have found no proof of this story.

John Hackett worked on a paddle boat on the Kentucky and Ohio Rivers. A limb was caught in the paddle and he was killed trying to remove it. The engine was started while he was still on the paddle and it crushed him to death. His wife only received #300.00 in compensation for his death. There was a man named Kelley working on the same boat and may be related to the Kelley line that connects to this family later on.

Hardin Hackett moved to Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. Nancy married Andrew Smith and lived in Franklin County, Kentucky. These stories were told to me by Bernard Hackett of Lockport Kentucky, coming down from his grandmother who raised him.

Ollie Andrea [called Andy] married Toliver Crump and lived in Casey County, Kentucky. She was brushing her hair after returning from church one Sunday and Toliver came in with a knife and tried to kill her, cutting off most of one breast, leaving a very bad scar. He then killed himself, thinking she was dead. But Andy lived and her brother Howard and another brother rode horses to Casey County from Owen County and bought her back with them. She went to live with her oldest sister Mary and where she lived until she died. Andy never remarried and is probably buried in an old Graveyard near Lockport. Maybe in the old churchyard on a hill called Cemetery Hill off Highway 22. Andy was very religious and it is said she prayed beautiful prayers. She and Toliver had seven children, James the youngest and only son, Daughters Effie, Mollie, Tollie, Susie, Ollie Rooney, and Minnie Lee. When Andy returned to Owen county after Toliver's death only the three youngest children came with he!
r, Ollie, Minnie, and James. The other girls must have been married with families and stayed in Casey County. The families in the two counties lost touch with each other after Andy's death. This story told by my step grandmother, Minnie Lee in relating family history for me in 1981.

Sallie Hackett [called Sallie Buck] married twice. Her first husband was Mose Gulley. They had two sons Arthur and James Dee [called Jimmie Dee]. After Mose died she married Eddie Goebel Jones and they had four children. Eddie had a farm in Owen County across the river from Lockport, Henry County. Sallie Buck was very outspoken and smoked an old stone pipe with long green tobacco in it. She would make large pans of biscuits and wild greens she had picked herself. When she died she was living in an old log cabin across from the Orville Baptist Church and was 8o years old, having outlived two husbands. She and many family members are buried in the O'Nan Graveyard in Orville, Henry County, Kentucky.

Ollie Andrea Hackett [Andy Crump] left her daughter Ollie Rooney with her sister Sallie Buck Hackett after she returned to Owen County from Casey County and this was probably when the two cousins Arthur Gulley [Sallie's son] and Ollie Rooney Crump [Andy's daughter] met and married. Around 1917 they were living in Sallie Buck's old cabin on Bald Gap Hill near Orville. This is the first road off to the left after you pass the old grocery store in Orville and winds its way over the ridge to Lockport. Minnie Crump [ Ollie's younger sister] lived with her and Arthur. Ollie was said to be a wonderful and beautiful woman. She was also considered a good cook and made the best fried apples you ever tasted. Ollie and Arthur had three daughters, Dorothy Mae, Edith [Pug], and Iva Lee. Ollie died in the flu epidemic of 1919 and so did the young baby Iva Lee. They are buried in the same coffin in the O'Nan Graveyard. There is no stone to mark their grave. Edith died of massive burns when !
she was six or seven years old. She was ironing doll clothes with a flat iron that was heated on a wood burning stove and her long skirt got sucked into the vent and caught fire. No one was in the house at the time, so she started running toward the barn. An uncle rolled her in the snow and even though the fire was put out, she was so badly burned, she died two days later. About a year after Ollie's death Arthur married Minnie who had continued to live with the family. They had eight children.

Dorothy May Gulley was still living with Arthur and Minnie and working so hard taking care of their babies, she had become thin and ill. Her grandmother Sallie Buck went and got her and took her to live with her. Sallie's second husband Goebel was dead by then. I don't know where Arthur and Minnie were living, but an old school mate and friend of Dorothy, Virgie Kelley told me in 1993, that when she was Dorothy's best friend she was living in the old cabin on Bald Knob near Orville. The girls were about thirteen years old when the became best friends. Virgie said Dorothy had her own horse and they would ride their horses to church. One Sunday when Dorothy was about seventeen or so, the preachers son who had taken a liking to Dorothy, wanted to take her home in his buggy, so Virgie led Dorothy's horse home for them to ride together in the buggy. Having a buggy at that time was a big thing. Later she met and married Daniel McDowell of Orville.

Dan and Dorothy McDowell had two daughters, Ramona and Dolores. Ramona married Robert Dale Kelley and they had five children. Four sons, Gerald Dean, George Daniel [died shortly after birth at Shaw AFB in South Carolina], William Randolph, Mark Allen, and Sherri Lynn [she died shortly after birth at Loring AFB in Maine]. Gerald [called Jerry] married Debra and they had one daughter Nadina Lynette before they divorced. Gerald then married Linda. Nadina [called Dina] married Jason Chaviers and they had Jessica [Jessie] and Katherine [Katie]. They divorced and she later married Jeff May and they had a son Caleb. William [called Randy] married Brigitte and they had one child Angelique . Angelique married Kyle Cox and they had a son Joshua. Dolores never married.

There are individual stories on the later families. The family stories are from older family members and friends of the people described. I have tried to keep as accurate an account as possible when I talk to people and used notes and sometimes taped recordings. There are also personal notes on the genealogical records as to cause of death and family ties that cross and mingle. The above was compiled between 1981 and 2003 and will continue to be added to until I can no longer do the genealogy. I was very fortunate in having access to older family members with family stories handed down and talked about before television, when families still sat around and talked about the past. This is one reason I am anxious to put it down for others to read about.

Typed September 15, 1997 by Ramona McDowell Kelley

Ammended and added to September 12, 2003

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