Letters 2/2/2019

THIS IS THE YEAR FOR THE DUTCH COUSINS IN KENTUCKY! Get ready.

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BIG NEWS!   SAVE THE DATES: We have set the DC reunion meeting for Sept 12,13,14,&15, 2019 at the Kentucky State University, Harold R. Benson Ag building, 1525 Mills Ln, Frankfort, KY 40601. Cousins: save the date on your calendar and start travel plans! Janice Cozine, our treasurer, says she thinks this place will be even better for us than the KY History Center. We hope to have a really big crowd to show it off!

1. Janice is arranging reduced rates at nearby hotels, and promises to have that information right away.
2. Charlie Westerfield, our president is getting speakers and programs together and will be sharing that within a week or two. He is in charge of the dedication of the Kentucky Historical Marker for the WESTERFIELD MASSACRE near Louisville, which will probably be a bus excursion. 
3. During our informal meeting this week, Denise and I started planning to get the newsletter together.
4. Tamara Fulkerson, our vice president, is contacting people and setting up the lists of chairpersons for the different committees, so we will have that information soon, too.  I do know she has all but one or two of the chairs filled and we have a new one this year. We like to get as many representatives from the different Low Dutch family groups as possible.
5. Dana (Bantau) Wade of Kentucky came to her first DC at Old Mud in 2017 and is excited about chairing one of our most important jobs – the display contest. Hope each of our Dutch families is working on a display to show your connection to the Low Dutch ancestors if possible all the way back to New Amsterdam – Or whatever you want to share about your Low Dutch family. We’ll come up with a special award for the display judged best so start working on it.
6. There’s lots more to do, and more to tell. This is such a talented, friendly, wonderful group of cousins!  If Tamara calls and asks if you are willing to help, please say yes. You’ll be glad you did.

Sunday September 15 we will have worship again at the Old Mud Meetinghouse at Harrodsburg. Charlie and his team, Janice and Eddie Cozine, King and Sharon Cole, and Tamara Fulkerson will continue to be hard at work on this project.

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SENT BY: Darren Westerfield
I’m Darren Westerfield, originally out of Fulton Co., IL.
Welcome Mark Selinger, and thanks for more Westerfield information, I’ll take all I can find on family history!  I am still trying to find the final link between Harrodsburg, KY, and Fulton Co. IL.  Since we Westerfields are famous for using the same first names, usually skipping a generation, your mention of your fourth generation grandfather Samuel, (Jacobus’ son), peaked my interest.  Go forward two more generations of time and there is my second generation grandfather also named Samuel, who married Anna Mae Lingenfelter and took the family to Fulton Co., IL., (the “line of Samuel” as told to me by Claude W.)  I’ll just take a couple more vacation days and hang out at the Hist. Society to go through Claude’s info. when I come to the reunion in Sept. to see what I can find out. Ironically, my dad’s name was also Samuel and I should have been named after my grandfather, Clayton.  Of course, my grandmother’s name is Catherine!

Carolyn, I’ll write you later about what I found in the 1940 census, very fascinating.  My favorite name from the past is “Butter” Westerfield, but “Lettuce” is a close second.
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SENT BY: Jim cozine to James  Moore

This is Jim Cozine (a Dutch Cousin) living in Las Vegas, NV.

Way back in 2005 or ’07 at the Dutch Cousins Gathering in Kentucky you gave me the following postcard size – string bound 24 page 
Sermon… Somehow it escaped my attention and has been in a file folder all these past 11~13 Years — I only just finished reading it a few days ago. As dated the words appear to be 240 yrs old..during the American Revolution. from James Moore.
I tried to image sitting in the Conewago meeting house and listening to this sermon.. Our vocabulary sure has changed..

Question  – Is this from an identifiable source or something you put together from various places as a sample for your Business?  Please share with us what you know about it. Thanks  Jim C  
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SENT BY: James Moore:

I made this one just for that event.  I customize an original sermon of ours.  

“The Necessity of keeping the Soul” is really by Gilbert Tennent, dated December 23rd, 1744

This sermon was intended both to exhort Christians and warn non-Christians.

It is a 24-page sermon/pamphlet containing this sermon which was later published and made available to many who did not originally hear this sermon, even us today. The original imprint measures 4-3/8” x 6-1/4”. It follows all the printing conventions of the day: Caslon-style type, excessive capitalization of nouns, using italics to quote Bible verses, and using “catchwords” (which is a preview the word or syllable at the bottom on a page that will be the first word/syllable on the following page).

I purchase and make replicas of many 17th and 18th century period sermons and books.  I sell the pamphlets in my Etsy Store at the following link:  We make tackle for fishers of men. by 18thCenturyBibles

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SENT BY: Gary Stanford
Please share the following information with all of our Dutch Cousins.  This information was passed down to me from my late uncle, Robert Edward Westerfield in the mid 1980’s.  I truly believe it is important to know why many Dutch ancestors chose to change their last names.

Many people wonder why they changed their last name from Westervelt to Westerfield? My late uncle, Robert Edward Westerfield provided the answer to this mystery. As the Revolutionary War approached the British became allies with the Indians in North America. The British government put a 5 pound bounty for the scalps of anyone who had the last names provided by the British. There were several Dutch names on this “Hit List”, so the Dutch Reformed Church decided to do something about these murders. The DRC authorized several names on this list to change their last name so as to confuse the enemy. The Westervelt name was on this list along with other Dutch names. The Allied Indians became confused because if your name was not on the list they would allow you to escape (because you were not of any value to them). The DRC did however have strict guidelines on the name changes. They could only be done at time of marriage or birth and the name change was not reversible.

NOTE: from carolyn: I know the English paid 5 pound bounty for scalps of white captives, as we had several such incidents in our Dutch in Kentucky, but I never heard they paid bounty for a list of names provided by the British.  Anyone else familiar with this?
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SENT BY: Can anyone help or have info on this? Dutch Cousins Vivian Stewart and Tamara Fulkerson and others are against a brick wall in applying for DAR membership on their Dutch ancestor, William “Will” Cozine of Kentucky, who was killed in the civil war.

We believe Will was the son of Peter Van Harlyn Cozine, but we still have no proof– other than a William G. Cozine signed as witness on Peter’s application for bounty land. (we need to prove he is the son of Peter VH Cozine, son of Garret Cozine, son of Rev. Cornelius Cozine). Will’s connection to Peter VanHarlyn Cozine is the only missing link for the apps to be approved.

The 80 acres bounty land was right on the Spencer/Shelby county line. After the veteran Peter VH Cozine died in 1857, Will Cozine and family continued to live there, giving their address as Mt Eden. The young widow Rebecca Cozine re-married to Martin Moore in 1870 at the residence of Icy Cranfill, and a third time in 1884 to Thomas Anderson. In the 1900 census, Rebecca (Barnes, Cozine, Moore) Anderson is still living at Mt Eden. Since that is where Peter Van Harlyn Cozine’s 80 acres bounty land was (at Mt Eden, right on the Spencer county line) I believe the land records might hold the proof. Is there anyone who would volunteer to go to the courthouse at Shelbyville and search? Tamara Fulkerson searched in Spencer Co, but never found anything.

William G. Cozine b. ca 1827 KY died 17 Nov 1862 near Columbia KY, buried Mill Springs Nat’l Cem. at Nancy, KY He married Rebecca Jane Barnes on 9 Feb 1854, at Mt Eden, Spencer Co KY.  Rebecca (who married twice more after Will’s death) is still living there in 1900. 

They had five children: 
Octavia Frances Cozine b, 11 Jan 1855 (married Foreman) 
Sarah Bell Cozine b. 26 Apr 1857 (Married Rodgers) John T. Cozine b. 24 Oct 1859 
Joseph William “JoeBilly” Cozine b. 17 Jun 1862 
Martha Cozine b Sept 1863. (no further info)

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SENT BY: Our president, Charlie Westerfield is moving ahead with plans for a big ceremony for the unveiling of the Westerfield Massacre monument near the site of the event (outside Louisville) during the Dutch Cousins weekend. Lynn Rogers just posted a full article about what happened to Jacobus Westerfield and family (and others). Pam Ellingson has it on the website. Go to www.DutchCousins.org  or If you google “Westerfield Massacre DC 2019” it comes up very easily.
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SENT BY: Mary Woodfill Park, Past Directress General, Society of Daughters of Holland Dames.
She is now Maryland president of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America until May 2020. We send congratulations – and condolences (smile) for all the new work on her desk.
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SENT BY: Hi!
I’m contemplating coming in September from rural Alberta, Canada. 
I would love to be kept in the loop of what is going on, who’s attending and any other relative info I need to potentially attend this event!
Thanks,
Melona Gallagher (Van Nice, Van Nuys, Banta, Bailey, Montfort, Terhune  and many more)

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SENT BY: We’ll be having another contest on the best family display at the DUTCH COUSINS gathering in September.  Here’s pictures of some previous ones. Dana Wade is the chairman this year.  Get started on yours now.
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipP1KDv-E3V5-qmidpRnkXk_25S8mF4Ho6V-onuwBNN446tbSXJCeLvYhTD7A_qEXA?key=Wk0tbUY2bTktYXp0eFh5MUU4NHdJdG1TUnhSRk

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SENT BY:  Peggy Kephart Morrow
I would like to make contact with David A. Harris who sent the following message send in the Dutch Letters email, Dec. 24.  I also descend from Kephart’s on my father’s side.  My DeMarest/Ryker connection is through my mother’s side.  I am curious to know more about the Jacob Kephart he mentions.

Best,
Peggy Kephart Morrow
SENT BY: David A. Harris
Greetings.  I would like to receive your letter, and join your group. One of my ancestors was Daniel Harris who married Elizabeth Demarest.  Elizabeth was the daughter of Samuel and Lea Demarest. As you know, Samuel Demarest came out to KY as did Daniel and five or six of his children.  Daniel Harris and Elizabeth (Demarest) Harris had a daughter named Ellen (Lena) who married Jacob Kephart. Daniel and Elizabeth, along with her father, were members of the Low Dutch community.
 In any event, I would like to be added onto your email list, if you please.  Do you all have any ‘reunions?’
 I live in Idaho, but I went to graduate school at the University of Kentucky in Lexington I wish that I had been doing genealogy back then!. Thank you for your help.
(NOTE: We need David Harris to contact us again. He never returned the request for more infomation, and we do not have his current address)

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SENT BY:  To stay in touch, we mainly use our official website, www.DutchCousins.org, and the weekly or so Dutch Letters email. The email goes out to almost 1,000 addresses – and I know it is passed on to others who do not use computers, and is posted at some libraries.  The letters are also archived on the website. 

SENT BY: Carolyn Leonard
Editor, Dutch cousins of Kentucky

E-mail me: Editor234 (at) gmail.com
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