Colonel John LaRue was one of the original founding families in this area of Kentucky. He was a large landowner. LaRue County, Kentucky was named in his honor. Kentucky Gov. John LaRue Helm who served 1850-51 and again in 1867 was his grandson.
***Claimant of 40,000 acres of Kentucky land***
John LARUE died after 4 Jan 1792 when his will was written. The will was probated 8 May 1792.
DAR Patriot #A066877 He furnished supplies to the Continental Army. (His brother Jacob LARUE and his father Isaac LARUE are also DAR Patriots).
From Collins "History of Kentucky"
"John LARUE, for whom the county was named, emigrated with a considerable company, from Virginia, and settled in Phillips’ fort. When they left the fort, Larue bought and settled the land which includes the knoll.
Robert Hodgen, his brother-in-law, bought and settled the land on which Hodgenville has been erected. They were both noted for their uprightness and sterling moral worth—both of them members of the Baptist church, and beloved for the unobtrusive and devoted piety."
From "Six Generations of laRues and Allied Families" by Otis M MATHER
"Tradition says that he was a man of great physical strength. But after a residence of less than eight years in the wilderness he fell sick , and in the early days of the month of January, 1792, he died in the humble home which he had built on the Knoll Farm. His body was laid in the graveyard adjoining the fortification which for several months had been the home of himself and his family. The marker and inclosure [sic] for the grave, which were erected by his widow and maintained by his children, and which stood until within the memory of men now living, has disappeared. Today the location of his grave is known only by the stones of other members of the family who died later. Even the old graveyard itself, in which possibly more than a hundred of the early settlers are buried, the first of whom was the victim of an Indian's tomahawk, has almost been forgotten by the present generation. It is on a hillside on the farm now owned by A. B. TWYMAN, a fourth of a mile east of the road leading north from Hodgenville. For twenty years it was the only burying place on upper Nolynn, and it continued to be generally used for a quarter of a century after Hodgenville was established."
***Claimant of 40,000 acres of Kentucky land***
John LARUE died after 4 Jan 1792 when his will was written. The will was probated 8 May 1792.
DAR Patriot #A066877 He furnished supplies to the Continental Army. (His brother Jacob LARUE and his father Isaac LARUE are also DAR Patriots).
From Collins "History of Kentucky"
"John LARUE, for whom the county was named, emigrated with a considerable company, from Virginia, and settled in Phillips’ fort. When they left the fort, Larue bought and settled the land which includes the knoll.
Robert Hodgen, his brother-in-law, bought and settled the land on which Hodgenville has been erected. They were both noted for their uprightness and sterling moral worth—both of them members of the Baptist church, and beloved for the unobtrusive and devoted piety."
From "Six Generations of laRues and Allied Families" by Otis M MATHER
"Tradition says that he was a man of great physical strength. But after a residence of less than eight years in the wilderness he fell sick , and in the early days of the month of January, 1792, he died in the humble home which he had built on the Knoll Farm. His body was laid in the graveyard adjoining the fortification which for several months had been the home of himself and his family. The marker and inclosure [sic] for the grave, which were erected by his widow and maintained by his children, and which stood until within the memory of men now living, has disappeared. Today the location of his grave is known only by the stones of other members of the family who died later. Even the old graveyard itself, in which possibly more than a hundred of the early settlers are buried, the first of whom was the victim of an Indian's tomahawk, has almost been forgotten by the present generation. It is on a hillside on the farm now owned by A. B. TWYMAN, a fourth of a mile east of the road leading north from Hodgenville. For twenty years it was the only burying place on upper Nolynn, and it continued to be generally used for a quarter of a century after Hodgenville was established."
Colonel John LaRue was one of the original founding families in this area of Kentucky. He was a large landowner. LaRue County, Kentucky was named in his honor. Kentucky Gov. John LaRue Helm who served 1850-51 and again in 1867 was his grandson.
***Claimant of 40,000 acres of Kentucky land***
John LARUE died after 4 Jan 1792 when his will was written. The will was probated 8 May 1792.
DAR Patriot #A066877 He furnished supplies to the Continental Army. (His brother Jacob LARUE and his father Isaac LARUE are also DAR Patriots).
From Collins "History of Kentucky"
"John LARUE, for whom the county was named, emigrated with a considerable company, from Virginia, and settled in Phillips’ fort. When they left the fort, Larue bought and settled the land which includes the knoll.
Robert Hodgen, his brother-in-law, bought and settled the land on which Hodgenville has been erected. They were both noted for their uprightness and sterling moral worth—both of them members of the Baptist church, and beloved for the unobtrusive and devoted piety."
From "Six Generations of laRues and Allied Families" by Otis M MATHER
"Tradition says that he was a man of great physical strength. But after a residence of less than eight years in the wilderness he fell sick , and in the early days of the month of January, 1792, he died in the humble home which he had built on the Knoll Farm. His body was laid in the graveyard adjoining the fortification which for several months had been the home of himself and his family. The marker and inclosure [sic] for the grave, which were erected by his widow and maintained by his children, and which stood until within the memory of men now living, has disappeared. Today the location of his grave is known only by the stones of other members of the family who died later. Even the old graveyard itself, in which possibly more than a hundred of the early settlers are buried, the first of whom was the victim of an Indian's tomahawk, has almost been forgotten by the present generation. It is on a hillside on the farm now owned by A. B. TWYMAN, a fourth of a mile east of the road leading north from Hodgenville. For twenty years it was the only burying place on upper Nolynn, and it continued to be generally used for a quarter of a century after Hodgenville was established."
***Claimant of 40,000 acres of Kentucky land***
John LARUE died after 4 Jan 1792 when his will was written. The will was probated 8 May 1792.
DAR Patriot #A066877 He furnished supplies to the Continental Army. (His brother Jacob LARUE and his father Isaac LARUE are also DAR Patriots).
From Collins "History of Kentucky"
"John LARUE, for whom the county was named, emigrated with a considerable company, from Virginia, and settled in Phillips’ fort. When they left the fort, Larue bought and settled the land which includes the knoll.
Robert Hodgen, his brother-in-law, bought and settled the land on which Hodgenville has been erected. They were both noted for their uprightness and sterling moral worth—both of them members of the Baptist church, and beloved for the unobtrusive and devoted piety."
From "Six Generations of laRues and Allied Families" by Otis M MATHER
"Tradition says that he was a man of great physical strength. But after a residence of less than eight years in the wilderness he fell sick , and in the early days of the month of January, 1792, he died in the humble home which he had built on the Knoll Farm. His body was laid in the graveyard adjoining the fortification which for several months had been the home of himself and his family. The marker and inclosure [sic] for the grave, which were erected by his widow and maintained by his children, and which stood until within the memory of men now living, has disappeared. Today the location of his grave is known only by the stones of other members of the family who died later. Even the old graveyard itself, in which possibly more than a hundred of the early settlers are buried, the first of whom was the victim of an Indian's tomahawk, has almost been forgotten by the present generation. It is on a hillside on the farm now owned by A. B. TWYMAN, a fourth of a mile east of the road leading north from Hodgenville. For twenty years it was the only burying place on upper Nolynn, and it continued to be generally used for a quarter of a century after Hodgenville was established."
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