Mary "Polly" Slaton, daughter of John Slaten and Elizabeth (Hibbs) Slaten, was born about 1803 in Kentucky.
On 9 September 1819 in Hopkins County, she married James Carnahan.[1]
From Hopkins County, Kentucky Deed Book 15 1847-51, page 438, Bishop to Fowler, citing suit in Chancery between Elizabeth McCulley and various parties:
This indenture made and entered. 11th day of November [1850] between Orlean Bishop, commissioner [skip] and John Fowler [of Hopkins co KY]...whereas a suit in Chancery by Petition [skip] between Elizabeth McCulley, widow of [blank] McCulley deceased & late widow of John Slaton deceased...Magnes Carnahan, Ebenzer Moore and Pheba Ann his wife [later shown to be an "orphan" of James Carnahan-CS], Thomas Carnahan, Lucinda Carnahan, Ellis Carnahan and Adelaide Carnahan, children of 'James Carnahan and Mary , his wife, late Mary Slaton, deceased,' and the unknown heirs of David and Mary Boze, his wife, dec'd, a daughter of the said decedent John Slaton [this is not clear, is this the same Mary who married Carnahan?] ... at the September term of the said court of 1850, a decree was announced...[decreed that two lots of land, exhibit A & B, were sold at public auction -for benefit of Slaton's widow and heirs- to John Fowler for $460] Exhibit A being a [patent] from the commonwealth of Kentucky to the decedent John Slaton. [Jan 13, 1838] fifty acres situate on the waters of Richland Creek [mentions George Tinley's and Reuben Martin's lines] Exhibit B [deeded by F D Word [Ford?] & wife to said decedent John Slaton Dec 6, 1836] on Richland Creek, a branch of Clear Creek, containing two hundred acres [indentures continue to be recorded into the spring of 1851][2]
Numerous confusing entries in Will Book 5 & 6, Hopkins County, Kentucky, show many of the above receiving payments by William M Slaton, from the estate of Arthur Slaton , dec'd late administrator of John Slaton. In other words, John's brother Arthur Porter was named administrator of John's estate, but died, so that William M and Martin R, sons of Arthur Porter Slaton, took over.
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