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GENERATION NO.6
Bafford "Barefoot" was born in New Jersey and died in Eaton, Preble County, Ohio and is buried in Cemetery. He married
Nancy Ann Parks in 1786 in Rowan County, North Carolina, d/o Charles Parks and Catherine _________. She was born April 5,
1768 in North Carolina and died October 9,1862 in Preble County, Ohio. The first seven children being born in North Carolina
and the last seven in Barren County, Kentucky.
The children of Bafford and Nancy Parks are:
1.Robert b.August 3,1786
2.Catherine b.December 30,1787
3.Charity b.October 16,1789
4.Anna b.April 23,1791
5.Julia b.February 15,1793
6.Phineas b.November 27,1794
7.Charles b.March 25,1798
8.Elizabeth b.August 19,1800
9.Wilson b.March 1,1802, Barren County, Kentuxcky and d. September 2,1885, Barren County, Kentucky
10.Lucy b.January 4,1804
11.Nancy b.December 30,1805
12.Jane b.October 6,1807
13.Frances b.April 1,1809
14.Isaac b.February 11, 1811
Note: My ancestery to this generation is proven positvely, as I remember my father, Erney Clifford Runyon mentioning
his "Granddad Barefoot", but he knew little about him. The ancestry above this person is from the research of many, starting
with myself and my sister June (Runyon) Arnold, who knew how to do this, before we knew anything about computers! My special
thanks to her for tweeking my interest in family genealogy.
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Article sent to me by cousin Gayle Hilderbrand, could possibly be from "Kentucky Footsteps":
THE BAREFOOT RUNYON CASE
By W.Logan Porter,Attorney at Glasgow,Kentucky
Major Botts was one of the most resourceful men I have ever known at the Bar.
There was an action pending in the Metcalfe Circuit Court in ejectment, and the question was as to the location
of a certain chestnam corner that had been destroyed by fire. Major Botts was defending the action,and Barefoot Runyon
was the principal witness for the plaintiff. Major Botts in his address to the jury made a play of the name "Barefoot" in
Runyon's name, and described him in a humorous way going through the wiffle briars, broom sedge, and sassafras bushes hunting
barefooted ,and described him going through the briars with the blood running down his legs and feet in such a homorous way
that practically destroyed his evidence. The fury found for the defendant.
Major Botts was a trial lawyer, and was unaware of the fact that Barefoot Runyon was his principal witness in
an important case to be tried the next day, and Captain R_____, who represented the plaintiff in the first case, was gratified
that Major Botts had destroyed the evidence of Runyon in the next case, as the same jury would try the second case, and expressed
his gratification, which was communicated to Major Botts.
The next morning when court assembled, the jury, as was the custom in rural courts, were all in the jury box.
When Major Botts was called on for a motion the next morning the said he hand no motion, but desired to make a personal explanation,
and then he proceeded to recite the circumstances that occurred in his address to the jury the day before, and said, that
after court adjourned, he found that he was mistaken as to the character of Barefoot Runyon, and desired to apologize
to Mr.Runyon, and to make his apology as broad as the charge had been made on the previous day, and then said that he was
advised that Mr.Runyon was an humble citizen, living in a cabin on a hillside, and was one of the most reliable,truthful,
honest, and best citizens of Metcalfe County, and that he wanted to retract everything that he had said that was derogatory
to his character.
The jury of course being present heard the apology, and on the trial of the case that day , Major Botts succeeded
in winning his case on the evidence of Barefoot Runyon.
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