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- Dr. Armistead Guthrie Churchill spent his youth in and around
Elizabethtown, then Elizabeth Town, the county seat of Hardin County, now
Larue County, Kentucky. Elizabethtown was named after his maternal
grandmother, Elizabeth Warford/Warfield. The first apparent record of
Armistead Guthrie Churchill was the iincident that occurred on the night
of August 24, 18116, when at the "Dry Run" plantation of the late
Alexander Scott Bullitt in eastern Jefferson County, Kentucky. Armistead
was there apparently with his father who was assisting his younger sister
Mary Churchill who, as the widow of Alexander Scott Bullitt, was residing
there. This shooting incident apparently was part of the controversey
between Armistead's father, Armistead Churchill, and Cuthbert and William
Christian Bullitt, sons of Alexander Scott Bullitt by his first marriage.
Armistead's father was later charged for the murder of Joseph Frederick at
"Dry Run" plantation on September 5, 1816; tried in the Bullitt County
Circuit Court on June 3 & 4, 1817; and acquitted on February 25, 1818. Dr.
Armistead Guthrie Churchill lived in his father's home in Hardin County,
Kentucky after his father's trial had concluded in 1818 and remained there
until sometime prior to 1830 when the entire family moved to Simpson
County, Kentucky. As his father, Armistead Churchill, had becom somewhat
of an outcast with regards to the ramainder of the Churchill family in
Jefferson and Hardin Counties, Kentucky, Armistead Churchill took his
three children and relocated in Simpson County, Kentucky just prior to
1822/3 when Dr. Armistead Guthrie Churchill was known to have married Mary
Randolph Moore in that county. Simpson County, Kentucky was formed in
1819 partly from Loagan County, Kentucky and Simpson County Courthouse
burned in 1822. While residing in Simpson County, Kentucky with his wife,
Dr. Armistead Guthrie Churchill was known to have been engaged as a
medical doctor and is believed to have practiced medicine in both Simpson
and Calloway Counties, Kentucky for about 20 years and may well have been
a physician prior to his arrival in Simpson County, Kentucky just after
1820. After residing in Simpson County, Kentucky for a number of years,
he, his wife, father, and children moved to Calloway County, Kentucky
prior to April 1, 1840, when at that time Dr. Armistead Guthrie Churchill
purchased of Daniel Groves for $400 two tracts of land in Calloway County
about four miles from Waidesboro. This property, situated on Waides
Creek, featured several houses, a mill, and all the mill machinery,
including mill stones and the iron the wheels. This same property was
sold three years later on February 25, 1841 to Dr. Armistead Guthrie
Churchill's mother-in-law, Frances B. Moore of Simpson County, Kentucky,
for $800. This transaction took place just prior to his death in February
of 1841. At the writing of his will on October 25, 1840, he instructed
his executors, his father and wife, to sell his medicines and instruments
to help pay his debts. His codicil, dated February 9, 1841, further
states that his two sons should be taken by Abner Warford Hynes of
Bardstown, Kentucky to be educated, and that Mr. Hynes should try to "make
men's business clerks or good mechanicks" of them. It appears that Dr.
Armistead Guthrie Churchill and his father Armistead Churchill kept their
ties with the Hynes family of Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky and not
the Churchill family of Jefferson and Hardin Counties, Kentucky. Dr.
Armistead Guthrie Churchill's will and codicil were probated in Calloway
County Court on March 22, 1841, and at his death in Waidesboro, Calloway
County, Kentucky, Dr. Armistead Guthrie Churchill was interred in the
Waidesboro Cemetery in Calloway County, Kentucky.
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Abt 1796 - 1841 (~ 45 years)
