John Tyler Mainous (1849-1943)

& 1st wife Ellen Botner (1855-1887)

& 2nd wife Polly Morgan (1867-1942)
John Tyler was the son of Lazarus Lawson Mainous and Rebecca Amanda Flannery. Polly Ann Morgan was the daughter of Joseph Morgan and Elizabeth Nantz (Nance)

JOHN TYLER MAINOUS was the son of LAZARUS LAWSON MAINOUS who was the son of  JACOB MANESS. John Tyler was born 30 December 1849 in Jonesville, Lee Co., Virginia65, and died 29 December 1943 in Buck Creek, Owsley Co., Kentucky. He married (1) ELLEN BOTNER 01 December 1869 in Buck Creek, Owsley Co., KY, daughter of ELIAS BOTNER and MATILDA MINTER. She was born 10 September 1855 in Harlan Co., KY6, and died 13 April 1887 in Owsley County, Kentucky. John Tyler then married (2) POLLY MORGAN 01 December 1889 in Buck Creek, Owsley Co., KY68, daughter of JOSEPH MORGAN and ELIZABETH NANTZ. She was born 10 November 1867 in Morgan Farm, Clay Co., KY, and died 01 February 1942 in Buck Creek, Owsley Co., KY68. Ellen Botner is buried in the Mainous Cemetery, Scoville, KY69. John Tyler and Polly Morgan are buried in Lexington, Kentucky near their son, Arch Glass Mainous.

John Tyler and Mainous was the 8th child of Lazarus L. Mainous and Rebecca and was less and three years old when the family came to Kentucky. As a boy of 12 during the civil war, it was his responsibility to hide the family's horses in the woods whenever Army or guerrilla forces were in the area, taking them from farmers by force. His brother Absolom served in the union Army and was injured and received a pension of $6 per month. It should also be noted that Lazarus L. was also a union Army veteran. A pension of $6 per month does not sound like much, but put in perspective, most food and necessities were raised on the farm, and the pension was used to buy salt, sugar and coffee which sold for about five cents a pound.

John Tyler Mainous set up housekeeping in a log cabin on Buck Creek which had been built by early trapper-hunters by the name of Turner. He had six children by his first wife, Ellen Botner, who died and nine children by his second wife, Polly Morgan. The Mainous's in Kentucky were industrious farmers. The original "Turner Cabin" can be see (before it demolition) by clicking here to view The John Tyler Web page.

Children of JOHN MAINOUS and ELLEN BOTNER are:

1. ROBERT BOTNER4 MAINOUS, b. December 1874, Buck Creek, Owsley Co., KY; d. 1956.

2. MARTHA JANE MAINOUS, b. 01 February 1878, Travellers Rest, Owsley Co., KY; d. 1950, Owsley Co., KY.

3. WALTER ELBERT MAINOUS, b. July 1879, Travellers Rest, Owsley Co., KY; d. 1963.

4. EDWARD CHESTER MAINOUS, b. September 1881, Buck Creek, Owsley Co., KY; d. 1922.

5. VIRGINIA MAINOUS, b. September 1883, Buck Creek, Owsley Co., KY; d. 1924.

6. MATILDA MAINOUS, b. 10 February 1886, Buck Creek, Owsley Co., KY; d. 24 June 1982.

Children of JOHN MAINOUS and POLLY MORGAN are:

7. WILLIAM LAZARUS4 MAINOUS, b. 12 September 1890, Buck Creek, Owsley Co., KY; d. 11 April 1983, Appalachia, VA.

8. LUCY GABBARD MAINOUS, b. 05 July 1892, Buck Creek, Owsley Co., KY70; d. 16 January 196970; m. (1) HARVEY DUNBAR, Unknown; b. Unknown71; d. Unknown; m. (2) WILLIAM PENDLETON, Unknown; b. Unknown71; d. Unknown.

9. LUMMIA MANN MAINOUS, b. 04 February 1894, Buck Creek, Owsley Co., KY; d. 16 April 1983.

10. FRANKLIN MCKINLEY MAINOUS, b. 29 July 1896, Buck Creek, Owsley Co., KY; d. 1993.

11. ARCH GLASS MAINOUS, b. 07 April 1899, Buck Creek, Owsley Co., KY; d. 17 August 1990, Lexington, Fayette Co., KY.

12.  JOSEPH HAMPTON MAINOUS, b. 06 April 1901, Buck Creek, Owsley Co., KY; d. December 1993.

13. ISAAC SYLVESTER MAINOUS, b. 26 October 1903, Buck Creek, Owlsey Co., KY72; d. 195573; m. HAZEL HICKS; b. Unknown; d. 1995 - 74. Moved to Tenn.

14. BESSIE KATHERINE MAINOUS, b. 30 October 1908, Buck Creek, Owsley Co., KY; d. 1962.

15. JOHN TYLER MAINOUS, JR., b. 30 June 1912, Buck Creek, Owsley Co., KY; d. 1972, Buck Creek, Owsley Co., KY.

 

The graves of John Tyler and Polly Morgan Mainous in Lexington, Kentucky.
Grave of Ellen Botner Mainous, first wife of John Tyler Mainous Receipt from Mariah Botner Meter (?) for money paid by John Tyler Mainous as executor of the estate of Elias Botner, father of Ellen Botner (his first wife). Mariah is beleived to be Ellen's sister
1917 photo of some of the children of John Tyler and Polly Ann Morgan (taken in William Lazarus Mainous' backyard in Applachia, Va)

Back row: Callie, Arch Glass, Polly Ann (mother), Frank McKinley, Sybil (wife of William Lazarus)

Front row: Chester, Helen, William Lazarus, Bruce

John Tyler and Polly Ann Morgan Mainous' Family Bible
Complete picture of all 9 of John Tyler and Polly Ann Morgan's children

From left to right: William Lazarus, John Tyler Jr (baby), Lucy,  Joseph Hampton (Joe Hamp), Arch Glass (A.G.),  Bessie Catherine, Lummia (Lummie), Issac Sylvester (Ike) and Frank McKinley (Frank)

The John Tyler Mainous Farm in Owsley County, Kentucky (Buck Creek)
The photo to the right is the second floor interior of the John Tyler Mainous Farm (now since demolished by others to make way for a mobile home). The home originally belonged to the Turner Family and was a simple two story log cabin. The picture at the left shows these exposed logs on the second floor. John Tyler covered the building in clapboards and expanded the original structure by adding the "kitchen wing"  and a two story addition on the back of the house. In the photo above, the kitchen wing is closest (with the well in the foreground and a shed style front porch roof) and the original two story log cabin in the rear of this photo on the back left of the building (using this photo above as a guide). The "new" bedroom wing is not visible in the picture above but the log photo above is taken looking into this original structure on the second floor. You can note not only the original logs but also the first generation clapboards put up during the first renovations in the middle of the 19th century.
The dimensions of the John Tyler Mainous Farm in his own hand  - August 1884