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This story is about those Eastern Kentucky hills in which I grew up; a story of the love and admiration for those who influenced me the most. This book is a compilation of those events in my life that I either lived or was passed on to me by those around me. They are told from the perspective of having experienced them, or from the point of view of those who were telling them. They tell of the lives of those closest to me, or those who genetically passed on to me all those things that make up my character and my being. I realize that it is a very much over used cliché, and has been written time and again, but this account of life in the hills truly was “The best of times and the worst of ...
George Sylvester Caskey was born September 3, 1880 in Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, the son of Albert and Mary Griner. At the age of ten, Sylvester came to northern Wisconsin with his parents. On November 2, 1904 Sylvester married Agda (Agnes) Karin Lindstrom in Eagle River, Vilas County, Wisconsin. Agnes was born May 26, 1879 in Koping, Sweden and died on April 3, 1956. Sylvester died on January 14, 1973.
History of the Urquhart family originally of Scotland and later in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Texas and elsewhere. John Urquhart (1802-1849) was believed to have been born in Cumber- land Co., N.C., and died in Talbot or Marion Co., Georgia. He was married (1) ca. 1830 in Butts Co., Ga. to a widow, Ruth Mitchel Rhodes (1786-1835). She had seven children with her first husband William Rhodes. She and John Urquhart had no children. He married (2) 1837 in Talbot Co., Ga. Euphemia Parker (1813-1877), the daughter of Stephen W. Parker and Elizabeth Ridley. They were parents of three children: William Henry (1838-1864); Maryan Eliza- beth (1840-1844); and Amanda M. (1850-1926).