The Arvins and The Robertsons of Estill County, Kentucky

35 THOMAS GREEN ARVIN and NANCY FOWLER ----------------------- --------------------------------------[6] Thomas Green ARVIN was born in 1815 at old Landing, Estill County, KY, to Nancy THORNTON and Jameson ARVIN. He died at Buck Creek, Ky., in 1891/2. Inheriting the Peter Alumbaugh tract of land from his Father he lived out his life in that area and was buried in the Baker Cemetery near his home.

During the Civil War he served in Company C, Eighth Kentucky Infantry.

His marriage, 23 February 1837, was to NANCY FOWLER, born, 21 February 1820, on Station Camp, Estill County, Kentucky, and died in 1885, at home on Buck Creek of a stroke. She is buried in Baker Cemetery. NANCY was the youngest child of ELIZABETH (Betsy) HILL and JOSEPH FOWLER. Her parents both died in 1824 when she was four years old. Nancy was raised by her sister, JANE and Levi FLYNN. Levi stated this when he gave her permission to marry Thomas Green ARVIN at age seventeen.

Thomas Green gave a deposition to a lawyer, J. B. White, at Irvine, Kentucky, for use in the Circuit Court of Estill County, 23 Mar 1877.

In this deposition Thomas Green gives information about his Father's family under oath. In it he: Tells his own age.

Gives the names of his parents.

Gives the names of his brothers and sisters.

Tells where they lived at different times.

Tells of his Mother's death.

Tells of his Father's will, recorded at Irvine.

Talks of the property owned by his Father.