Kentucky Pioneers and Their Descendants
By Ila Earle Fowler

Page255-256

"When the first settlers came to this section, the years immediately following the Revolution, Kentucky was still part of Virginia. The town of Washington, laid off in 1785, was the oldest settlement in northeastern Kentucky; Maysville was a small collection of pioneer homes called Limestone, and the county of Mason had just been established by the Virginia Legislature:"

In that year 1788 a band of sturdy pioneers set out from the Scotch Plains in New Jersey, 400 miles, with all their possessions in Jersey wagons, across the Allegheny mountains, down the Ohio River-the five families of Abraham, Cornelius, and Isaac Dreke, and David Morris, and John Shotwell- to found a new home in Kentucky wilderness of which they heard such glowing accounts.

With Immigrtion into Kentucky increasing rapidly at that time and many travelers from the North to the South passing over the highway, which is now the Maysville-Lexington road, it was not long before several hundred New Jersey and Virginia families were settled in the surrounding country."

The Division of the Baptist and Christian Churches in 1830 was made but few records were kept till 1846. Early Members; Mason Summers, Asa R. Runyon, James Morris, Leroy Dobyns, Waller Small, Elijah Groves, Lucinda Groves, Edward Groves and his wife, Francis J. Kerchival Groves, John T. John and John Allen Gano.

The following genealogy likely contains individuals related to Waller Small above, but how they are connected is unknown.

Descendants of Thomas M. Small

1 Thomas M. Small b: 1814 in KY Elizabeth E. Barnes b: 1820 in KY m: February 07, 1843 in Mason Co., KY ......... 2 Mattie E. Small b: in Lafayette Co., MO ............. John William McKinney m: in Lafayette Co., MO ......... 2 Henry F. Small b: 1850 in Lafayette Co., MO ......... 2 Nels R. Small b: 1852 in Lafayette Co., MO ......... 2 Waller Small b: 1857 in Lafayette Co., MO