Below is a letter written by Mrs.Edwin Denney (Elinor) to my mother Mrs. Sarah Elsie Clark. My mother had written a letter to Elinor's sister-in-law Eula Denney, wife of Perk Denney, inquiring about family lineage.  Perk was a brother to Elinor's husband Edwin.  The letter is reproduced exactly as it was written by Elinor.- Tom Clark son of Elsie Denney Clark.

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Dear Elsie:

    Denneys first in the highlands of Scotland.

    1642 Denney family lived in Dublin, Ireland.

About 1800 James and his wife Esther Small came to Wayne Co., Kentucky,bringing their two youngest boys and three girls - Matthew and younger brother Henry. Matthew was the third child, born January 12, 1782, making him about 18 when he came to Kentucky. (This ends the account as related by Lincoln Denney, grandson of Matthew, to his oldest daughter, Lela Denney Hutcheson of Frazier, Ky. ...

Other descendants or Edward may have come to Surrey Co., N. C., (Sam Denny) with name spelled Denny.

    1 Matthew Denney married Elizabeth Dodson, daughter of Thomas
Dodson and settled in Wayne Co. Ky. They had 10 children - Jackson,James, John, Franklin, Reuben, George, Thomas, Jerry, Mary, Kate and Elizabeth. Jackson was born in 1817.

    Jackson Denney married EIXXX Jane Dick. Children: Charles, James Braxton, Sherman, Jeremian (Jerry) , Matthew, Charles, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas, Rebecca, Winnie, Kittie, Mattie, Nancy, Ulysses Simpson.

William, James Lincoln, John Charles, Thomas Sherman, known as Dick, Nannie Jane, Minnie.

Charles S. Denney died Dec. 6, 1906. Buried at old home place at Griffin, Wayne Co., Ky. The grave stone reads 1907 which is in error, according to Hattie Denney. The stone says: 'XXXX "In My Father's House Are Many Mansions," and "Father, Into Thy Hands I Commend My Spirit. "Luke XXI11 4-6

Joseph Ryan Denney, born Dec. 7, 1867, married Hattie Lovelace.Children: XXXXXXXX Fred, Perk Elmon, Effie,Edwin Ray. Joseph Ryan died March 1,1905.

William, born Dec. 10, 1870

James Lincoln, Born Nov. 3, 1884, youngest child, I believe. Never married. A merchant.

J. C. Denney - John Charles. Born Jan. 27,1879. Married Osa Mae Young, born in Buchannon Co., W. Va. She died April 1,1924.

He died In Wayne Co. Ky. 1953. Two children – John Charles, lawyer in Monticello. Beatrice, married and died in childbirth, as did her mother when Charles was born.

Thomas Sherman, born April 27, 1872. Lived in Monticello had
7 children. Always called Dick.

Minnie, born April 10, 1874. Never Married. Live with her sister Jane in Monticello.

Nannie Jane, called Jane, born Oct. 9,1876. Second wife of John Keeton. Both Minnie and Jane taught school.

I hope this is fairly accurate. I have taken this from several sources. We have been to the graves at Griffin several times, as recently as this summer. I believe I have the dates correct -I know there is an error on one of them and I believe it is Ed’s grandfather’s.

Please excuse the terrible typing. I am trying to learn to

use a new typewriter, and the keys are all changed from when I learned in the dark ages.

    We haven’t seen Jim in a long while and as always wonder
where and how he is. We would enjoy seeing your family -come to
see us.

If you have dates I do not have, please let me know. I am trying to get at least the essential history straight