Notes for: Fulkard Fulkerson

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https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/f/u/l/Chuck-Fulkerson/GENE6-0118.html

From Marna Wakeland Wilson at WorldConnect:

Marriage date (March 30, 1818) taken from Record of Marriages in Ohio Co. Ky. 1799-1851

Taken from Biographical Sketches Ohio County Kentucky
Fulkard, when a young man about 1812, came with his parents, who were among the early settlers, to Ohio Kentucky, then almost a wilderness. Here, his father, Philip Fulkerson, bought several thousand acres of Military lands and improved a farm, upon which he resided until his death.
In this county, Fulkard was married and after attaining his majority,improved a farm on a part of his fathers purchase, where he remained until the fall of 1823, when he sold and removed to White County Illinois, where he bought a farm and resided for some 35 years.
His wife died in 1850 and in 1858 he sold his farm and returned to Kentucky, making his home with his children until his death, which occured in April 1867, in his 72nd year. He and his wife were life long members of the United Baptist Church.