Judge Edward Clay
O'Rear
(1863-1961)
Individual Narrative
Endnotes
1. Edward Clay O'Rear II, Genealogical Charts and papers of the O'Rear (Orear) Family: Film 106; Microfilm Roll 106, Kentucky Historical Society Library, Frankfort, Kentucky. Hereinafter cited as O'Rear Papers.
2. Joan Robert Gioe, Biographical Sketches fromKentucky Genealogy and Biography by W. H. Perrin, 1887, Volume # 1, Bath and Montgomery Counties (Indianapolis, Indiana: The Researchers, 1994), p. 27-28. Hereinafter cited as Perrin's Bio. Sketches from Ky Gen. & Bio.
3. O'Rear Papers: Film 106.
4. Gioe, Perrin's Bio. Sketches from Ky Gen. & Bio., p. 27-28.
5. O'Rear Papers: Film 106.
6. John A. Richards, A History of Bath County, Kentucky (Yuma, Arizona: Southwest Printers, 1961), Page 340-341. Hereinafter cited as Hist. Bath Co, KY.
7. Edward Clay Orear, A History of the Montgomery County (Ky.) Bar (Versailles, Kentucky: privately printed, 1945). Hereinafter cited as Hist. Montg. Co, KY BAR.
8. O'Rear Papers.
9. Gioe, Perrin's Bio. Sketches from Ky Gen. & Bio., p. 27.
10. John Arthur Garraty (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Biography (New York: Harper & Row, 1974), p. ixxx. Hereinafter cited as Enc. of Amer Bio.
11. W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State (1888; reprint Greenville, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1979), p. 927-928. Hereinafter cited as Kentucky History.
12. Lineage application of Virginia Tobin O'Rear, Colonial State Virginia No. 9661, The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.
13. Mrs. Gladys Lee Aiken, 1870 U. S. Census Montgomery County, Kentucky (Springfield, Missouri: Mrs. Gladys Lee Aiken, ca 1996), p. 33. Hereinafter cited as 1870 Census Montgomery Co, Ky.
14. Gioe, Perrin's Bio. Sketches from Ky Gen. & Bio., p. 27-28.
15. O'Rear Papers: Film 106.
16. Edward Clay (II) Orear, Sketches of the O'Rear Family of Stafford County, Virginia (Frankfort, Kentucky: O'Rear Family Reunion at Attalla, Alabama, 15 Jul 1978). Hereinafter cited as Orear Sketches.
17. Judge Ed O'Rear Describes Life in Morgan County, Licking Valley Courier, West Liberty, Kentucky, 18 Oct 1951, Section 2, p.1-3.
18. Family History Department, 1880 United States Census and National Index., CD-ROM (Salt Lake City, Utah: Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS), 2001), p.373B. Hereinafter cited as 1880 Census & Index.
19. Licking Valley Courier, 18 Oct 1951, Section 2, p.1-3.
20. Orear, Orear Sketches.
21. Gioe, Perrin's Bio. Sketches from Ky Gen. & Bio., p. 27-28, says West Liberty instead of Salyersville.
22. Bliss Frye, editor, "Judge Edward C. O'Rear, Consol's Chief Counsel in Kentucky," The Check Board (Jan-Feb 1950): p. 3, has 1886 at age 19. Hereinafter cited as "Judge Edward C. O'Rear.".
23. O'Rear Papers.
24. Gioe, Perrin's Bio. Sketches from Ky Gen. & Bio., p. 27-28.
25. The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, Virginia Tobin O'Rear, Colonial State Virginia No. 9661, has 29 Nov 1882.
26. Gioe, Perrin's Bio. Sketches from Ky Gen. & Bio., p. 27-28.
27. Bliss Frye, editor, "Judge Edward C. O'Rear", p. 4.
28. Ibid.
29. Orear, Hist. Montg. Co, KY BAR, p.117.
30. Bliss Frye, editor, "Judge Edward C. O'Rear", p. 5.
31. Orear, Orear Sketches.
32. 2 Jun 1900 U.S.Census, Magisterial District No.4, Montgomery County, Kentucky, ED # 64, SD # 10, p. 9, Line 37, Dwelling 186, Family 202, National Archives and Records Administration Micropublication Series T623 Film Reel 545.
33. Orear, Hist. Montg. Co, KY BAR, p.117.
34. Garraty (ed.), Enc. of Amer Bio, p. ixxx.
35. Bliss Frye, editor, "Judge Edward C. O'Rear", p. 5.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
38. 1910 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, Crutchers Schoolhouse Precinct, Franklin County, Kentucky, SD 7, ED 49, P1A/F115, Line 1, Edward C. O'Rear, National Archives Records Administration.
39. Ibid., Mt. Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky, SD 10, ED 128, p. 15A/5, Line 182, Ed C ORear.
40. Bliss Frye, editor, "Judge Edward C. O'Rear", p. 5.
41. Orear, Hist. Montg. Co, KY BAR, p.117.
42. Bliss Frye, editor, "Judge Edward C. O'Rear", p. 5.
43. Lee Hunt Hoffman Personal Notes and Papers , In possession of the Writer.
44. O'Rear Papers: FGS #35-2 & #74.
45. The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, Virginia Tobin O'Rear, Colonial State Virginia No. 9661.
46. Hoffman Personal Notes and Papers.
47. Kentucky Death Index, online <http://ukcc.uky.edu/~vitalrec/>, Vol. 042 Certificate 20537, Death Volume 61. Hereinafter cited as Ky Death Index.
48. Bliss Frye, editor, "Judge Edward C. O'Rear", p. 6.
49. Orear, Orear Sketches.
50. Robert Ripley, "Believe It Or Not," The Lexington Herald, Kentucky (26 May 1958). Hereinafter cited as "Believe It Or Not.".
51. O'Rear Papers.
52. Ky Death Index, online <http://ukcc.uky.edu/~vitalrec/>, Vol. 042 Cert 20537, DeathVol 61.
53. The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, Virginia Tobin O'Rear, Colonial State Virginia No. 9661.
54. Edward Clay O'Rear I Cemetery Marker, Machpelah Cemetery, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky; Read by Lee H. Hoffman, 19 Feb 1999, Old side near bridge, north of road crossing bridge to new side.
55. Obituaries, Mt. Sterling Advocate, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, 12 Nov 1998 and 19 Nov 1998. Hereinafter cited as Advocate.
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