Granville Potter and Elizabeth "Bessie" Lunsford
Granville Potter b 1849 Pike Co KY buried Bowling Cove, s/o Richard Potter and Nancy
Stuart. Granville Potter m. Elizabeth "Bessie" Lunsford b 1864 KY buried
High Top Cemetery, Jackson, Breathitt? Co KY. Children of Granville Potter and Elizabeth
"Bessie"
Lunsford;
Purliney Potter
b 1877 Clay Co KY
Mandy Potter b
1879 Bull Skin, Clay Co KY
Barten Potter b
1880 Bull Skin, Clay Co KY
Nancy Potter m.
Finley? Holland. Children of Nancy Potter and Male Holland;
I. Rachail Gay Holland
II. Deleinia Holland
III. Eister Holland
Source: Kenneth Hoag: kshoag@aol.com
Sylvania Potter
b b May 1886 d 20 Nov 1975; m. William Turner b 8 Feb 1891 b 8 Feb 1891 d 24 Nov
1969
Polly
Potter b 1895 d 1975 Jackson, KY; m.
Henry Turner b 12 Sept 1882 d
1942 Jackson, KY; s/o George Turner II and Polly Gross.
Harvey
Potter b 1893 Jackson KY; m. Amanda Gross b 1890 Lone City, KY d 1986 Covington,
KY; d/o Jim Gross and Nancy Ann Unknown. Children of Harvey Potter and Amanda
Gross;
I. Albert Cecil "A. C." Potter b 1917 Jackson KY d 1971 New
Richmond, OH; m. Oct 1940 KY to Nancy Collins b 1924 Second Creek, KY d 1977
Cincinnati OH; d/o Jim Collins and Polly Combs.
II. Matt Potter; m. Ida Pennington
III. Bell Potter
Rachel Potter b
5 Jun 1902 Jackson KY d 17 Feb 1983 Erie PA; buried Erie Cemetery, Erie PA; m. 1919
Jackson Co KY to Greenberry McIntosh b 22 Apr 1897 Bell Co KY d 1960 Erie PA;
buried Erie Cemetery, Erie PA; s/o
Leander McIntosh and Polly Cole.
Belvins Potter
(female)
Clinie Potter
(female)
Will Potter
Bart Potter
Lennie Potter
Harry Potter
Thanks to Randy Roe, son of
Maxwell Powell Roe and Beverly
Jane New, for submitting information and photos for
this family by email on 26 July 2009. Randy sent in the following:
Bertha (Bertha L
Turner New, d/o Henry Turner
and Polly Potter) said that her Grandmother, Elizabeth Lunsford, was
known as "Bessie". She said Bessie's Father had been a plantation owner. During
the Civil War as soldiers drew close to their home Bessie's father put she and
her sister in a ditch and covered them with branches. He made Bessie promise to
take care of her sister and to stay in the ditch covered with the branches until
the soldiers had gone. She did as she had promised. Bessie
watched as the soldiers burned the house with her parents in it.
Bertha told Mom that Henry Turner, her father, was of Irish descent and the son
of George Turner II and Polly Gross. He worked in the coal mines and there
received a bad head injury. Henry died relatively young and left his wife Polly
with 11 children to support and raise. She did this by growing vegetables and
peddling them or trading them for what the family needed.
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