Excerpts from Hardin/LaRue County History

LEGEND:  A: Number of acres of land	E: Number of white males over 21 years of age
B: County in which land is located	F: Blacks above 16 years of age
C: Water course on which land is located	G: Total blacks (slaves)
D: In whose name land was first entered, surveyed or patented	H: Number of horses.

#5. John Brunk: No 1 and (blank) listed; E: 1, H: 8. (This is Dennis Hank's old friend. He was one of the prominent members of the South Fork Baptist Church. He died in the year 1829, at an advanced age leaving a widow, Mary, and eight children. His daughter married William Ellit. His daughter is not now known in this location. Elizabeth was the wife of George Burkhart.  (Burkhart was a close neighbor of William Ellit's for many years).

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#24: William Ellet (Ellit): A. 300; B. Hardin; C. Neolelinn (sic); D. entered by Shepard Gum, surveyed and patented by Broadhead; E. 1; H. 71. (His name appears as a member of the South Fork Baptist Church for some years. There are no Ellets now in LaRue County. William Ellit, Jr., sold about 500 acres of land on South Fork Creek in the year 1845.)  William's  page from the 1810 census can be found on M252 Roll 6 page 305.  John Brunk is on page 311 and Thomas Lincoln on page 314.  In addition, the children of George Elliott and Mary Jane Uptegrove remained with their mother when she remarried Silas Smith, so there may be some connection with present day families after all.  Jacob Elliott and his children also remained in LaRue County).

#26. Isaac Friend: A. 160; B. Hardin; C. South Fork; E. 1, H. 1. (He was a brother of Jesse Friend, who married Nancy Hanks, Lincoln's aunt, Polly Hanks. Isaac was for some time a member of the South Fork Baptist Church but, like his brother Jesse, he "went off" with William Downs' party and was excluded from the South Fork Church. Many Friend descendents are in LaRue and other counties of Kentucky and in the West.