Cole Kin

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COLE FAMILY

Name: Welch -- Black, Swarthy

Shield:A bull in a white square on a field of black with golden circles. The crest has a helmet with a green griffin holding a spear ready to strike.

History:

Sarah "Sally" McDonald Cole is the matriarch of this branch of our family. She is the granddaughter of William Cole who was a veteran of the American Revolution, and quite possibly a descendant of Baron Cole who was born 1040 in Hampshire, England, and died 1080. His descendants came to the colonies in the 1500s. Family tradition is that they came via the Mayflower. One may read a synopsis of this family history at this Cole Family site.

Sarah's father, William Cole, moved to Kentucky and married Martitia Crawford on September 24, 1803 in Paris, Kentucky. William & Martitia moved to the mountains in Estill County to begin farming in the Miller Creek area.

In a letter dated November 26, 1839, William asked Mr. Riddle to accompany Alfred Youk to get a marriage license. Sarah married Alfred York and had seven children. Their second daughter, Lititia Dow York, was the second wife of Richard Nathaniel Lyons (b. 1845 DeKalb Co Alabama). They resided in first in Proctor, Lee County Kentucky, and had two boys, Richard Nathaniel and William Alfred, before building a home in Beattyville. See other items of family interest below:

Some Direct Descendants of William Cole

William Cole 1745

+ Nellie Freeman 1748-1830

William Cole 1777 - 1843

. +Martitia Crawford 1781 - 1875

................... Sarah McDonald Cole 1820 - 1897

....................... +Alfred York 1814 - 1897

..............................William J. York 1841 - Dead

.............................. Marticia Cole York 1843 - 1893

.............................. Littia Dow York 1849 - 1924

.................................. +Richard Nathaniel Lyons, Sr. 1845 - 1919

......................................... William Alfred Lyons, Sr. 1885 - 1965