Genealogy of Marchant Thomas

OWSLEY COUNTY COURIER JUNE 9, 1939

LUTHER AMBROSE RECEIVES DEGREE

Luther Martin Ambrose
Berea, June 7 Luther Martin Ambrose of Berea College, a native son of Owsley County received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky June 2. The degree was awarded in recognition of the completion of three years of study beyond college graduation including the acquiring of a reading knowledge of two foreign languages and the completion of a piece of original research.

Dr. Ambrose wrote a history of the County Academy system in Kentucky. He studied the system as a whole with its academies in 82 counties and its land grants of 6,000 acres to each academy. He wrote a history of each of the 88 academies composing the system. The study involved traveling more than 8000 miles in Kentucky and a study of the county court records in 97 counties.

He was born in Owsley County in 1898, the youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Barton P. Ambrose of Conkling. He attended school one year at Doe Creek before his parents moved to Berea. In Berea he continued his education graduating from the college in 1920 with the B. S. Degree. He has been a member of the teaching faculty of Berea for 19 years. In 1928 he received the masters degree from the University of Chicago.

Mr. Ambrose married Edith Tutt of Wolfe County in1922. They have four children.

Many people in the county will remember Dr. Ambrose from his occasional visits with his sisters, Mrs. J. S. Rowland and Mrs. M. A. Wilson of Booneville and Mrs. Ruth Wilson of Conkling.

After a summer of further study and travel Dr. Ambrose will return to Berea to assume new duties in the department of education and teacher training.

[Luther Martin Ambrose born August 6, 1898 to Barton Potter Ambrose and Isabelle Carmack, died February 3, 1981 in Madison County, he married Edith Tutt in 1922. Mr. Ambrose taught for 50 years before retiring from Berea College, upon his retirement he was given the Distinguished Alumnus Award by the Berea College Alumni Association.] ~Michelle Williams Cole

Carmack Surname File at the KY Historical Society, Frankfort KY.
1900 Owsley Co. KY Census by Betty B. Gabbard, P.39, Island Cr Prec.,

Nancy Jane BISHOP

1878 -

Simpson BRANDENBURG

1835 -

Polly CARMACK

3 Sep 1822 -

Celucius CLARK

Martha COUCH

1873 -

Mary CRASE

David FAUBUS

ABT 1846 -

George W. FIELDS

Jan 1881 -

September, 1864

Michael "Long Mike" GABBARD

30 Apr 1837 - 22 Aug 1902

James Bowman work from Owsley Co. KY Library, Vol 1 P. 268 - 1837.
Jacklyn Thomas Flannery, grt granddaughter of Michael Gabbard.
Jacklyn Thomas Flannery, grt g/daugh of Mike Gabbard & Mary Ann Mangan.

Nicholas GEORGE

Mary Jane "Polly" HARRIS

Nancy HUNT

9 Jan 1803 - 17 Oct 1886

Lou JUDD

1888 -

Shirley LAWRENCE

Watie Conley MATLOCK

3 Jan 1915 - 3 Feb 1994

Rachael MORRIS

Margaret PETERS

9 Sep 1853 -

Calvin SIZEMORE

1884 -

Nancy J SIZEMORE

Jun 1891 -

Rachel SIZEMORE

ABT 1888 -

1900 Owsley Co. KY census, Buffalo Precinct, HH 203 - 1888.
1910 Owsley Co. KY Census, Island Cr Precinct, HH 57 - m. 2 yrs.
Probably divorced abt 1910. Rachael living at home with daugh in 1910 census.

Elinor -------

Nancy Margaret ALLEN

20 Sep 1837 - 22 Jan 1910

Luther AMBROSE

6 Aug 1898 - 3 Feb 1981