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Cyrenius Wait[1] 1791 - 1868

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• Birth	30 Sep 1791	Chester, MA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	06/08/1868	Somerset, KY
  Person ID	I1696	Curtis Family of Somerset Ky
  Last Modified	29 Dec 2019

  
  

  Father	Jonathan Wait
  Mother	Margaret
  Family ID	F703	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 1	Mary Jane Newell,   b. 1821
  Children	> 1. John Quincy Waite,   b. 1846, Pulaski County Ky ,   d. 1901, Pulaski County KY
  Documents		A History of Pulaski County Kentucky Book published by the Franklin Press Louisville Ky 1952 by Alma Owens Tibbals
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2009
  Family ID	F609	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Jane Newell,   b. 1821
  Children	1. George Washington Waite,   b. 1850,   d. 1907   2. Millard Filmore Waite,   b. 1856,   d. 1927   3. Benjamin Franklin Waite,   b. 1852,   d. 1897   4. Henry Clay Waite,   b. 1858,   d. 1900   5. Margaret Waite,   d. Oct 1922, Somerset, KY
  Documents		A History of Pulaski County Kentucky Book published by the Franklin Press Louisville Ky 1952 by Alma Owens Tibbals
  Last Modified	11 May 2019
  Family ID	F615	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 3	Eliza Beaty
  Children	1. Web Waite
  Documents		A History of Pulaski County Kentucky Book published by the Franklin Press Louisville Ky 1952 by Alma Owens Tibbals
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2009
  Family ID	F616	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos		grave stone Cyrenius Wait In Sinking Creek cemetery Somerset Ky
  		Cyrenius Wait Per Rod Zimmerman , administrator, of Pulaski County Kentucky facebook group
  		Cyrenius Wait birth record from Town of Chester Massachusetts 1791 Parents are Jonathan and Margaret
  		Somerset Kentucky historical marker--Cyrenius Wait

  
  

  Documents		Bluford and Rebecca Colyer mortgage to Cyrenius Wait This indicates that the John Colyer family while living in the Jugornot area of Pulaski County had family friend named Cyrenius Wait that may be reason a child named after him.) Bluford and Rebecca Colyer mortgage to Cyrenius Wait 1853. Status: Located
  		Bluford Colyer --Cyrenius Wait deed (There is a deed to land in the Jugornot area of Pulaski County concerning Bluford Colyer—son of John Colyer---that references a Cyrenius Wait as a man that apparently helped Bluford Colyer concerning Bluford’s land seized by the court. The Wait-Bluford Colyer deed references land near Beaver Creek. Status: Located
  		Bluford and Rebecca Colyer mortgage to Cyrenius Wait This indicates that the John Colyer family while living in the Jugornot area of Pulaski County had family friend named Cyrenius Wait that may be reason a child named after him.) Bluford and Rebecca Colyer mortgage to Cyrenius Wait 1853. Status: Located
  		1834 ancient map Cumberland River You must download and install the special Deju browser plug in from here to read this . The Wait-Bluford Colyer deed references land near Beaver Creek. From looking at ancient map of 1834 (djvu format) , it appears that current day Buck Creek used to be called Beaver Creek. Renaming it to Buck Creek appears to have possibly cleared confusion resulting from many nearby creeks emptying into Cumberland River being designated at Beaver Creek as can be seen from the 1834 map referenced above. This indicates that the John Colyer family while living in the Jugornot area of Pulaski County had family friend named Cyrenius Waite that may be reason a child named after him.) See Cyreinus Waite page where History of Pulaski County Book shows Cyrenius Waite owned coal mines at mouth of Buck Creek on Cumberland River. Status: Located
  		Land grant 1840 Cyrenius Waite land on Whitley road (modern day Rush Branch Rd.) between Pitman Creek and Buck Creek and borders with Collier/Colyer. 600 Acres.
  		1864 Kentucky State Senate vote by Cyrenius Waite Soldier Voting Ironic bill vote in February 1864 by Cyrenius Waite to allow Union Soldiers from Kentucky to vote for 1864 Presidential election, where nationwide this was thought to highly favor Lincoln for re-election in midst of Civil War. Cyrenius Waite being largest slave holder in Pulaski County KY. Kentucky was only state south of Mason-Dixon line to allow this and yet its majority voted in election against Lincoln as did its Union soldiers by 70%. Then again, KY may have been about only state south of Mason Dixon Line to be permitted to vote in this war time election.
  		1850 Kentucky Legislative Act approving Turnpike company for road from Somerset to Waitesboro Cyrenius Waite This may be predecessor to what became current day hwy 27 in Somerset connecting to Somerset to Burnside area. Note also another large slave holder and man of Revelutionary War descent, Mr. Goggins in turnpike company. Mr. Goggins family had originally also lived near Waitesboro at what became the Owens-Vaughan house on old Monticello pike and is reported to contain a lost Goggins family cemetery thereon.
  		1869 Kentucky Court Appeals case land dispute Involves Cyrenius Waite, Lindsey Colyer, Samuel Black. Note the economic devastation on land values during Civil War in Pulaski County. Land purchased for $1 per acre in 1857, sold at 20 cents an acre at auction in 1869. This appears to be property inherited from John Colyer, the father of Lindsey Colyer and Samuel Black's wife, Harriett (based on 1/17th undivided interests) At some point Cyrenius Waite has come to lay claim to the sold 1/17th interests. See 1865 deed under John Colyer, where heirs all sell their 1/17th interest in farm at Pitman Creek to Andrew Warren. Colyer family friend, Cyrenius Waite, appears to have again intervened in Colyer land as he did for Bluford Colyer...see deeds under Bluford Colyer.
  		1850 Bankers Magazine formation of Farmers Bank Cyrenius Waite Pulaski County early major bank first president Cyrenius Waite. Note that bank paid a dividend of 8 to 10% !
  		Frank Wait dies in 1897, brother to George Washington Wait
  		Mrs Cyrenius Wait dead 1898
  		William Wait diary of trip from Masechusetts to Somerset Ky 1818 accompanied by brother Cyrenius Wait, initial arrival in Pulaski County Ky
  		Cyrenius Wait: 1858 Ky legislation founder of Buck Creek bridge company Toll bridge built at current day Hail Bridge rd, off current day Rush Branch Rd, Somerset Ky. Founders are Hail, Newell, Wait et al.
  		Margaret Wait death, daughter of Cyrenius Wait
  		William Wait diary 1818 news article Upon arrival in Somerset, he describes it as a row of cabins on road at Pitman Creek. This leads me to believe he came via Salt Works Road (now Hwy 192) from London KY area to intersection at Pitman Creek. In old times, the road turned there Whitley Road (current Clay Hill Rd) to head over to what is now Rush Branch Rd (formerly Whitley Rd) where Cyrenius Wait was living next to the Colyers according to deeds on this site.

  
  

• Notes

  http://sherlene.wordpress.com/category/kentucky-langfords/page/2/ 1818?FIRST BANK IN PULASKI COUNTY: From biographical sketch posted for Andrew Jackson James, accessed 12 June 2007, by shb: ?A possible catalyst for the career of A.J. James was Tunstall Quarles who organized and established the first bank in Pulaski County, Farmers Bank, in 1818. Just prior to the War of 1812, Quarles organized a large calvary troop at his own expense, that served in the war under his command. Quarles was both a State Senator & Representative at Frankfort. A.J. not only followed Quarles? lead into state politics, A.J. also was appointed to the bank?s board of directors under Quarles, SUCCEEDING PRESIDENT CYRENIUS WAITE. As the banking profession traversed a turbulent period up to and through the Civil War, the bank faithfully issued a 5% return to investors.? ?shb 12 June 2007 854.) Patent #: 14199 Grantee: Wait, Cyrenius Grant Book & Pg: 28 138 Acreage: 8000 County: Pulaski WaterCourse: Cumberland R. Survey Name: Wait, Cyrenius Survey Date: 08/20/1847 Grant Date: 08/21/1849 KY Place Names: Waitsboro (Pulaski): wats/buhr !d (Delmer). This extinct town was at the head of navigation on the Cumberland R (a site now covered by Lake Cumberland), about 3 miles of the present Somerset city limits. In 1844 the town of Waitsborough (sic) was est by legislative act and named for Cyrenius Wait [seye/ reen/ds] (1794- 1868), who had arrived in Pulaski Co from Chester, Massachusetts in 1818 and become a prominent Somerset businessman and the co's largest landowner. The po was est as Waitsboro on Mar 2, 1846, with William L. Wait, Cyrenius 's brother, as pm. In 1864 Joseph R. Newell moved the po some 2½ mi sw and renamed it Clio, under which name it operated until 1885. A Waitsboro po was reest at the original site in 1905 but it closed after only 3 years. Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier-- "Free Frank's land speculations demonstrate white participation in business transactions with blacks, just as his saltpeter marketing activities had. Ephraim Farris, a joint purchaser with Free Frank in two land transactions, and Cyrenius Wait and Bourne Goggin, both of whom sold land to Free Frank at one time or another, were prominent whites, all of whom were elected to the Kentucky General Assembly. Bourne Goggin was elected in 1824, five years before he sold land to Free Frank. At the time of the sale he was a slaveholder. Farris was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1832. Cyrenius Wait was elected to the Kentucky Senate, although not until 1848-1850, and he too was a slaveholder. At the time he sold his land to Free Frank, Wait was considered one of the richest men in the county." We find in the transcript of the evidence a stipulation which, omitting the signatures, reads: "It is stipulated and agreed by and between the parties to the above styled action that the plaintiff, the Stearns Coal Lumber Company, now has and at the time of the institution of this action, had, a complete chain of conveyances from the patentees, Cvrenius Wait and Jacob Hudson, in Patent No. 24080 issued by the Commonwealth of Kentucky on October 18, 1855, for 9,600 acres in Whitley County, Kentucky, by which the title of the said patentees vested in the Stearns Coal Lumber Company." Stearns Coal Lumber Co. v. White, 259 Ky. 686, 688 (Ky. Ct. App. 1935) The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. The amendment was ratified by the required number of states on December 6, 1865. On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed its adoption. There were three states that rejected the 13th Amendment and did not ratify it until the 20th Century: Delaware (February 12, 1901); Kentucky (March 18, 1976); and Mississippi voted to ratify the 13th Amendment on March 16, 1995, but it was not officially ratified until February 7, 2013. At first consideration by the Kentucky legislature, Cyrenius Wait, a Ky state senator, voted with the majority to reject ratification of the 13 amendment. Collins Historical Sketches of Kentucky page 154-155: "ARTICLE XIII. Sec. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the Unitcd Statea, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. SEC. 2. Cogress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. [Approved Feb. I, 1865.) The governor's message, while not in terms recommending its ratification, ably reasons in favor of it; suggesting "that, as England, in the act of 1833 abolishing slavery, appropriated .£20,000,000 [nearly$100,000,000] to compensate the owners--it cannot be that our government will be less just, if we accept the amendment upon condition that the assessed value of 1864 be paid to the state to compensate owners who are to be affected by the proposed amendment. Our slave property was assessed for taxation in 1860, before the war began, at $107,494,527. In 1863, the effect of rebellion and unfriendly legislation reduced the valuation to $57,511,770; and in 1864 to $34,179,2411." In the senate, Feb. 20, Henry D. McHenry made a majority report from the judiciary committee, in favor of rejecting Article XIII. John F. Fisk moved a substitute and resolutions, ratifying said Article, and "requesting our senators and representatives in congress to urge that compensation for losses in slave property be made to loyal men who have not participated in the rebellion, nor given it aid and comfort-said rebellion and the mea,ures necessary for its suppression having practically destroyed property in slaves." Jas. F. Robinson made a minority report, with resolutions ratifying Article XIII, upon the payment by the United States to the state of Kentucky, for the use of its citizens, owners of slaves, of $36,530,496- the assessed value in 1864-as compensation for all claims for value of slaves enlisted or drafted into the U. S. army, and for all other claims growing out of the labor and service of their slaves; providing, further, that all laws concerning slaves shall be repealed, and thenceforth they shall have all the rights, responsibilities, and privileges of free-born colored persons; that they shall remove from the state within 10 years after their emancipation is perfected ; and the state of Ky. will accept said sum as in full of all values and liabilities, and sacredly distribute it according to the just claims of slave owners. The majority report was adopted, by 21 to 13." (NY times March 1, 1865: The vote then on H.D. McHenry's majority report, unconditionally rejecting the 13th Amendment, was 21 Yeas, (17 Guthrie, 2 secesh, 2 Rousseau--Gen. Whitaker and Mr. CYRENIUS WAIT), 12 nays,)




• Sources

  [S18131] Mary Waite Larson interview by Richard Curtis June 24, 2007 in Somerset Ky cemetery. [S18134] A History of Pulaski County Kentucky, Alma Owens Tibbals, (Franklin Press, Louisville Ky 1952), 59.