Harman and Mercy Greathouse

Harman and Mercy Greathouse settled in Nelson County Ky. The grave stones pictured below are on the farm of John Mayer and can be found at the following location on Google maps

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Harman Greathouse Jr.


Special thanks to Rick Greathouse and the Greathouse Point web site that has a page dedicated to Harman Greathouse. Harman was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He once gave a fellow wounded soldier his horse so that he may live. You can read all about it here on the Greathouse Point web site.

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Mercy Bukey Greathouse






Mercy Bukey was the daughter of John Bukey and Jemima Dunn.
Bukey had come to America from Switzerland in 1750 and settled in Maryland. Jemima Dunn was the daughter of Hezekiah Dunn and Marcia Martin of Sussex County N.J.
The Bukey Family History by Barbara Maybury and Phyllis Slater. Pittsburgh, Pa and Wheeling West Va. and The Early Indian Wars and Settlement of West Virginia p 264-265, 282-283


The following pedigree information about Marcia “Mercy” Burkey has been located in the following Rootsweb / Gedcom databases and is believed to be true but has not verfied.
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jolly-poteet&id=I6804&style=TEXT and
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=stobie&id=I322463&style=TEXT


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