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Joel W. "Joseph" "Joe" COSTLOW.
ii.
William COSLOW was born on Dec 20 1835 in Mercer Co. KY.
(204)(205) He died on Oct
23 1874 in Cornishville KY.(206) -Died
of fever. He served in the military Civil War in Union Cavalry. Pvt., Co. I,
9th Kentucky Cavalry (Capt. Harvey J. Burns), enlisted 8-22-1862. He was buried
in Cornishville Christian Church Cemetery, Cornishville KY. He was a Farmer.
-Living with Paris and Rachel Shewmaker in 1850 Wash. Co. KY census (line 460).
-Nancy and Julia married James Carter and James Reed, according to his surving wife (Mrs. Garrett Daniel)'s obit (HH, 3/7/1913), but unknown which married which.
-C.C. Ransdell was guardian for his children after his death.
iii.
Marion COSTLOW was born about 1838 in KY.
(207) Not proved. He died between 1865 and 1870 in Washington Co.
KY. -Brief account in Faye Sea Sander's book on Leonard Seay, Sr. and his descendants.
Marion apparently in a politically-oriented lynching party which went to lynch
Joe Richardson. Joe killed Marion and broke up the party; then he beat up and
hung John and Bill Gibson on Three Lick Creek (near Washington-Mercer county
line], after which they were laid out on the road in front of Ellis Vorhies'
house. Joe took his family to Indiana and never returned; some of his descendants
living in Denver CO in 1984. -With Joel Joseph Costlow in 1850 Wash. Co. census.
-Reportedly, the #1 man in the Ku Klux Klan in Harrodsburg following the Civil War was Isaiah Gabhart. The #2 man was Marion Coslow, and the #3 man was Eugene H. "Dean" Carey. They headed up a lynch mob who murdered, among others -- John Divine (a Union soldier), Nathaniel Lawson Sr. (a Republican), John Divine's brother (Patterson), and John Divine's cousins John and William Gibson. They usually did this at night, rousting their victims out of bed, allowing them to start to run, shooting them in the back, then dragging them to a nearby tree (often in their own front yards) and hanging them. The terrified families of these victims were ordered not to take their loved ones down until morning, and they usually complied. There's even a tree in Cornishville, Mercer Co. Ky. called the "Hanging Tree," because this gang used it so often. (Pam Carey Durstock, Carey database, KyGenWeb, Mercer Co. Homepage)
-from the book ANNALS OF KENTUCKY -page 180 - entry dated
June 3, 1867-----John Devine shot, and then hung, by "regulators," at the house of Wm.
Carey, six miles from Harrodsburg, Mercer Co. ------
Note: Marion's brother William was in the Paris Shewmaker/Rachel Lawson household in the 1850 Wash. Co. KY household. Rachel was a daughter of Nathaniel Lawson Sr.
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