107. Harvey Ison
One of Harves sons sold his half of the home place to Van B. Frazier foran old car which was broken down within a month and shortly the otherbrother sold Van his half of the farm.
Harvey inherited the home place at the mouth of Paw-Paw Hollow andapparently lived with his mother and father for some time prior to their death. The 1910 census lists Harvey 57, Hannah 77, Lissie niece 19, George nephew 13, Hannah niece 13. His father George will have been dead 2 years as of this census and apparently Harvey has moved back in with his mother.
108. John Ison
He made his home at the mouth of Frazier Branch on Kingdom Come Creek, Letcher Co., Kentucky.
109. Elijah Ison
Owned the land in and around and lived at the mouth of Big Eli's Branchon Kingdom Come Creek, Letcher Co., Kentucky Had a sawmill, farmed and blacksmithed. He made a good living on his farm and had two sons who became Doctors of medicine. He was known to be a frugal honest person. If you were promised a pound of bacon for a day's work you got a pound exactly not an ounce more or less and the bacon was shaved until the scale said one pound exactly. The person relating this to me told it with the slant that it wouldn't have hurt to give a little extra if the first cut had been a little over a pound but the same person would have had hurt feelings if the first cut had been a little less than a pound and Eli hadn't shaved enough off his own bacon to make up the pound!!! Honesty is something that everyone wants practiced when it is in their own favor.
It was told to me that Eli had had a patch of beans stolen from him by someone coming in through the woods and picking them before Eli could get them picked. Eli was suspicious of his nephew Boney Garrett who lived just down the road from him. The following year, there was a crowd of folks at Eli's house on a summer Sunday afternoon and Eli made thecomment that he had a nice patch of beans that would be ready to pick the following week and he would be getting a lot of beans off them. Boney was there and Eli made sure to say it so Boney could hear. Early the following morning, Eli was in his bean patch before daylight and was waiting with his shotgun. As the early morning light began to filter through the fog, Eli saw a shadowy figure come into the bean rows and godown the row checking the beans. The beans weren't ready to pick and soon the figure smelled a setup and turned and started to hurry out ofthe patch. Eli shot the fellow in the butt but he got away without giving away his identity. It was quite some time before Eli saw Boney again and he got to pick his own beans that year without any outside help.
403. William McKinley Ison Dr.
He was a Medical Doctor. He and his wife had no children.
110. Mary Polly Ison
Polly was married first to Henry Combs who died then she was supposedly pressured into marrying Henry Ingram and she ran away to Missouri the day following her marriage to him and later she met and married Dave Day and had him four sons. Polly and Dave lived on Kings Creek, Letcher Co.,Kentucky
111. Gideon Ison
Big Gid lived on the property near where the Barking School was locatedat the lower end of the Big Bottom at the mouth of Kingdom Come Creek. He was reputed to have been a very fine fiddler. The Barking School was named for the Railroad siding which was located near the road bridge crossing the river near the mouth of Kingdom Come Creek.
113. Ursula Ison
Ursula and Will lived on Bee Tree Fork on Smoot Creek in Letcher County, Ky. Usley lived a hard life with Will and she left him when her youngest child was about nine years old. She courted and married Jim Frazier after he killed Will. Her children were hostile toward Jim and assured her burial beside Will.
Will had threatened to kill both James H. Frazier and Ursula if he caughtthe two of them together. They were courting and knew that eventually hewould catch them together so James beat him to the draw by waiting forWill to come to town on a Saturday to do his business and shooting himfrom the second floor window of his store building across from the Bankof Whitesburg. James was convicted of murder but was pardoned by thegovernor of Kentucky before he even left Letcher Co. Jail.
1880 census lists his age as 12.
434. Harve Banks
died young.
James shot Will Banks while he was standing in front of the Bank ofWhitesburg from the second story window of his store building which waslocated directly across from the Bank of Whitesburg. The reason he shotWill was that Will had told him that both James and Usley would be killedby Will if he ever caught the two of them together and James believedthat he would do it. James was convicted of murder and shortly pardonedby the governor of Kentucky.
114. Bony Ison
Big Bony lived in the Big Bottom at the mouth of Kingdom Come Creek and had a store at his home near the mouth of the creek near where the railroad trestle crosses the creek. The 1927 flood destroyed his home and he built a home where Arlie Caudill and family lived about 300 feet up river from the mouth of Kingdom Come.
Bony left home and lived on Smoot Creek and lived with Francis Caudill while his wife was mentally ill. After his wife died, he left Francis and moved back home and then married Sarah Miller.
He was a deputy and killed a man in the line of duty.
1 _MDCL Became mentally ill some years prior to her death.
Martha became mentally ill after having her children.
115. Moses Ison
1 _FA1
2 PLAC Sawmiller/Woodsman/Farmer
Born the youngest member of his family, Mose was married at the tender age of 15 to Phoebe Hampton and the family and neighbors built him and his new bride a house in the mouth of Tyler Branch on Kingdom Come Creek in Letcher Co., Kentucky. He farmed and timbered and later bought a steam driven sawmill. Something happened to his first wife Phoebe that she became mentally ill and later died but I'm not sure if she died of pneumonia, from exposure or what. Her illness caused her to go out without dressing in the winter and wade in the creek when there was snow on the ground. His parents took care of the children of his first marriage: Mary and Hannah.Moses then married his pregnant girlfriend, Polly Ann Hogg, in October,1895 and things went better for him. In the 19teens, he sold his mineral rights off his farm to Kentucky River Coal and Land Company. He logged and sawed until the depression in 1930. A large part of his product,after the rail road came up the river around 1910, was rail road crossties. He owned all of Tyler Branch ridge top to ridge top and the land across the creek to the ridge top directly opposite the land on the Tyler Branch side...something over 200 acres. He mortgaged his land at two different times to Van B. Frazier, a first cousin of Polly Ann and a local business man, in the late 20's, in order to buy sawmill and logging equipment. When the depression hit, his business bottomed out and he lost the piece of property across the creek from his house to Van B. Frazier who held the mortgage on it. His son Bradley taught school and used his income to pay off the mortgage on the major portion of the farm including the house and all the property on the Tyler branch side of Kingdom Come Creek. Bradley's sacrifice was never repaid either by money or in a favored portion of the farm when it was divided and willed out.
In the spring, there is a small fish called locally "horny heads" which comes up the small fast creeks to spawn. When these small fish began to spawn, Mose would call for the boys to get a tub and head for the creek to catch them. Many fish were caught and taken home where they were fried crisp and furnished a spring feast. They were called horny heads because they grew horny projections all over their heads and their skins became rough like sand paper during the spawn. The areas of the creek where swift water ran over small gravels would be black with hundreds ofthe wiggling spawning fish.
Mose was a great believer in celebrating Independence Day. He would order a block of ice to be delivered at the mouth of Kingdom Come Creek by train on July 4 and the ice would be picked up on a wagon and brought home. Upon the arrival of the ice, a mutton would be butchered and the first cuts would be put on to cook and the remainder would be cut up and layered with ice in a tub. The whiskey jug would be brought out and Mose and all his guests would drink and eat. Some time during the day, sticks of dynamite would be ignited for the fireworks. The celebration would last until all the mutton and whiskey and dynamite were gone. Around 1926 or 1927, Mose bought his first car.
Apparently, Mose and Polly Ann were both good people and well liked for the older people who had known them spoke of them fondly and without malice. Ira Banks was listed as being part of the Ison household in 1910 age 15 as a servant. Ira talked to me about having spent some time with them but I didn't realize what his reasons for being with them were atthe time.
In the interim prior to his death, he had fluid collect in his abdominal cavity and he was tapped and the fluid drained out from his abdomen into a dishpan, symptomatic of congestive heart failure, they called it heart dropsey. Grace Cornett Ison said that a day or so before he died that his legs burst and fluid ran out into folded quilts which were placed under him. She said that he was in a great deal of misery during his last days.
Polly Ann was dark skinned, had brown eyes and black hair. She is saidto have Cherokee blood but I am not sure where it came in unless it washer great grandmother Banks or maybe through the Hoggs. Some of thefamily which has only Hogg ties have high cheek bones and dark skin and ahook nose so it may have come from the Hoggs originally since the Frazierfamily has a female ancestor Sina Hogg. Most of the Banks familyexhibit some of the Native American characteristics without evidence ofhaving Hogg blood so maybe both families have the link to the Cherokee orIroquois. She chewed Red Ox Twist tobacco but you didn't see her spit.She was a very silent person, seldom speaking and when she got angry shewould give Mose the silent treatment for weeks.
She was bedfast for about a month prior to her death. She had liverfailure at the time of her death. There was a huge snow at time she wasburied and the snow was as deep as the height of the wagon wheels. Thisinformation was supplied by Grace Cornett Ison who was living in thehouse with Mose and Polly Ann at that time.
459. Lora Ison
Lora was standing in front of the fire place in her flannel night gown,probably very early in the morning, while there was a new roaring fire towarm up the cold house and the updraft of air being pulled into the fireand up the chimney sucked the tail of her gown against the fire andignited it. She inhaled the flames which shot up the front of her gownand burned her lungs and died. She was a little girl, just days from herthird birthday.
460. Mallie Ison
Mallie and Navire had no children of their own but raised her brotherNavire's daughter Janice Sue. They lived most of their life in Blackey,Kentucky. She was well loved by all her nieces and nephews.
He was exposed to mustard gas in WWI and drew a pension all his life.After returning from WWI, he worked in the woods with Mose's crew andattempted to jump or step over a stump and didn't make it and castratedhimself. He mostly sat on his porch and he liked to go to the river andfish but he wasn't able to do very much at all. He was a very pleasantperson and all the children loved him and called him Bud or Buddy.
494. John L. Ison
No children
495. Marilyn Ison
No children
119. Martha Jane Ison
They Moved to Indiana to live Probably in the Dupont area but not sure