Individual Details

Abraham Adam PICKLESIMER

(4 Jun 1775 - 11 Oct 1823)

His parentage is not confirmed.

The records seem to indicate that in Abraham's wanderings he apparently was not seeking cheap, fertile land to cultivate. Had he been interested in tilling the soil, there appears to have been no reason for him to abandon the original 160 acres of rich river-bottom land he owned in Gallia County, Ohio, and move his family to a meager, eighty-two-acre, hillside plot in the rugged wilderness of Right Beaver Creek in Floyd County, Kentucky. It would appear that the main attractions in the areas where he settled were the isolation, the mountain forests and the streams, thereby, suggesting that his major pursuits were hunting and trapping. Abraham Adam Picklesimer was perhaps more "at-home" in the forests, and more comfortable when not surrounded by the usual "trappings" of a growing community. Like many other frontiersmen of the times, as soon as neighbors got too close and civilization began to close in, he simply chose to move on to another unspoiled and less-populated area.

Events

Birth4 Jun 1775
Marriage License25 Jul 1800Franklin Co., VA - Elizabeth "Betsy" PRATHER
Marriage29 Jul 1800Franklin Co., VA - Elizabeth "Betsy" PRATHER
EmigrationAbt 1809Franklin Co., VA to Floyd Co., KY
Death11 Oct 1823
Probate22 Dec 1823Floyd Co., KY
BurialPicklesimer Cemetery, Big Mud Lick Creek, Floyd (now Johnson) Co., KY

Families

SpouseElizabeth "Betsy" PRATHER (1774 - 1861)
ChildNathaniel PICKLESIMER (1801 - )
ChildThomas PICKLESIMER (1805 - 1838)
ChildJohn PICKLESIMER (1807 - 1860)
ChildMary PICKLESIMER sp (1809 - 1832)
ChildSamuel PICKLESIMER (1813 - 1842)
ChildDavid PICKLESIMER Jr. (1817 - )
ChildElizabeth PICKLESIMER (1819 - 1840)

Notes

Burial

He was buried on a small rolling knoll just above the bend in the creek and less than 200 yards from the site where the old family home stood. He was perhaps the first to be buried in this plot which later became the final resting place for many of the other early family members. Other, much later descendants of Abraham and Elizabeth are interred in a newer section of the cemetery farther up the hill. The old part of this cemetery is now just above and to the right of Kentucky State Route 172 going up Big Mud Lick Creek. A carved fieldstone originally marked Abraham's grave, which is within a few feet of the edge of the bank above the highway. Since the recent re-discovery of Abraham's grave a small granite marker has been added, but the year of his birth (1776) on this headstone is incorrect. A later and more thorough inspection of the inscription on the old fieldstone marker determined that the inscribed year of birth was 1775.