Sylvester Welch
Sylvester
married Arabella Scott Davis, a widow. She was the daughter of Col.
(Dr.) John Mitchell and Catherine Ware Scott.
Sylvester
moved
to Frankfort in the late 1830's to take the job of Chief Engineer for the
State of Kentucky to plan and supervise the
consturction
of
navigation locks on the Kentucky River. Prior to arriving in Kentucky,
he had successfully completed the Allegheny Portage
Railroad
in Western
Pennsylvania which allowed canal boats to be raised via inclined planes on
railroad flatcars over the Allegheny Mountains
east
if Kentucky, particularly on the Lexington and Frankfort
line.
Arabella
and Sylvester Welch had five daughters. Arabella Welch built four houses,
on land that had been the garden, behind the
house
on
Clinton and Ann Streets for four of her five
daughters.
| Arabella
"Tennie" Scott Welch, who married Edward Payson Bryan. Bryan came
to
Frankfort
during the Civil War as a telegrapher for the L & M Railroad. He later became station Agent in Frankfort until being promoted in 1890 to Superintendant of Terminals in Louisville. E. P. Bryan raised his family at Glen Mary on the Versailles Road not far from Jett. |
| Mary
"Polly" Welch, married Edward H. Hensley.
E. H.
was one of the people who persuaded Robert Burns Wilson to move to Frankfort.
Polly and E. H. had a daughter, Arabella "Belle" with whom Wilson was in love at one time. Belle Hensley married Charles Elwood Colahan, who at one time was head of the Naval Acadermy at Annapolis. Belle's brother, Rev. Alex. Hensley gave the funeral for Wilson, when he was buried in the Frankfort Cemetery. |
| Louisa Welch married Leopold Labrot, owner of Labrot and Graham Distillery |
| Katie Welch married A. J. Grant |
| Lizzie Welch - married ? Corvell |
Source:
Maunsel
White
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