On This Date in 1828 ...

William Badgett [age 33] departs Pleasant Hill.

William Badgett arrived at Pleasant Hill with his parents and siblings at age 16. He signed the church covenant at nineteen and again four years later. But William eventually left the Shakers in 1828 and less than two months later he married Janie Hover in Mercer County, Kentucky.

Janie Hover was a fellow Shaker and their bondsman at the wedding in Mercer County was Isaac Lineback, another fellow Shaker.

William Badgett is on the tax list of Mercer County in 1834 and after that the family moved to the Mackville area of Washington County, Kentucky. I believe William died when his children were young, but do not know the cause of death, nor do I know when Jane died or where they are buried.

William and Jane had four children born in Washington County:

John Wesley Badgett, who died in April 1863 (Civil War casualty?)

Hardin Badgett, who served the Union in the Civil War, married, had children and left Kentucky for Logan County, Illinois

Lucinda (Lucy) Ann Badgett, married, had children and remained in Washington County, Kentucky the remainder of her life

Calvin Badgett, who died February 1864 of cholera and dysentery at a POW camp Richmond, Virginia.

On This Date in 1829 ...

Lawson Runyon [age 21], son of Emley and Lydia departed Pleasant Hill.

Lawson's hymn "Contentment" appears on page 231 of Paulina Bryant's hymn book begun 1854, recording earlier hymns.

Lawson went to Hot Springs, Arkansas following his departure from Pleasant Hill. There, at age 37, he married a seventeen year old native American woman, Emily Ross, on May 25, 1845.

Lawson left Pleasant Hill four months after his younger brother Robert Comstock Runyon left. Robert married Betsy Thompson, a Cherokee, and they named their son Lawson.