Yesterday's Tuckaways


Vol 2 issue 1, 1970








                        SISK FAMILY RECORD





The following was contributed by Mrs. Leon Laffoon.





Copied from papers found in the attic at Twin Maples Farm, originally


the home of William E and Amanda Cardwell, believed to have been built


in the 1840's.  This article is believed to have been written by Susan


E Sisk Cardwell, second wife of Thomas R Cardwell (sister to his first


wife). Thomas R Cardwell was the brother of Amanda Cardwell and a first


cousin to William E Cardwell.





Thomas R Cardwell and Sarah P Sisk was mared December 24th, 1860


Thomas R Cardwell and Susan E Sisk was mared October 17th, 1867


Sarah P Cardwell died August 5th, 1865


Thomas P Cardwell died February 22nd, 1864


Tennie Cardwell died August 10th, 1878


Mary A Robertson died February 10th, 1883


Martha W Fowler died August 6th, 1906


Nancy C Sisk died November 14th, 1863


Pendleton Sisk died December 13th, 1875


Susan E Sisk died January 19th, 1921 (later addition penciled in)


Thomas R Cardwell died January 9th, 1915


Charlie W Cardwell died March 29, 1912


Ada B Fugate died August 24, 1915


Walter Fugate died February 12, 1915


Adah B Cardwell was borned September 26th, 1861


Thomas P Cardwell was born March 28, 1863


Mattie W Cardwell was born November 12, 1864


Charles W Cardwell was born November 2, 1868


Pendleton Cardwell was born November 17, 1872


Barnaba Sisk was born May 15th, 1769 - died September 6th, 1841


Pendleton Sisk - born November 27, 1798


Nancy C Sisk - born September 19, 1799 - died November 14, 1863


Hettie L Sisk - born June 29, 1819 - died January 22, 1867


Milan M Sisk - born July 4, 1820 - died July 23, 1864 


Nancy L Sisk - born March 5, 1824


Louisa (Camsael or Cammel) Sisk - born December 4, 1827


Sarah P Sisk - born November 27, 1829 - died August 5, 1865


Mary A D Sisk born December 5, 1831


Martha W Sisk was borned December 1, 1834


Susan E Sisk was born September 6, 1837


Mary A Robertson died February 10, 1883


Pendleton Sisk died December 13th, 1875


Thomas R Cardwell was borned March 24, 1824


(Penciled in later)


Sarah P Cardwell died August 5th, 1865


Thomas P Cardwell died February 22, 1864


Pennie Cardwell died August 10th, 1878








Mrs Laffoon's own addition:





Milam M Sisk enlisted in Company I, Tenth Ky. Partison Rangers, 1862


and served as Orderly Sergeant of that Company.  He was in fights at


Madisonville, Hopkinsville, Clarksville, Uniontown, Owensboro, Panther


Creek, Elizabethtown, Ashbyburg, Muldraugh's Hill, all in Kentucky, 


and was at Liberty and Snow Hill in Tennessee and was on Morgans Raids 


into Indiana and Ohio, where he was captured at Cheshire. Mr Sisk was 


sent to Camp Douglas where he died the twenty third day of July 1864. 


He left a family of seven children.


(The above taken from "The Partison Rangers of the Confederate States 


of America" written by General Adam R Johnson).