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Good morning! It’s a bright, sunny day in the heart of Kentucky. It will be a warm day and a warmer week – most temps in the 90’s! But I hope this is the end of the summer heat. One more hurrah before the lovely cool temperatures of […]
Good morning! It’s a bright, sunny day in the heart of Kentucky. It will be a warm day and a warmer week – most temps in the 90’s! But I hope this is the end of the summer heat. One more hurrah before the lovely cool temperatures of […]
Fernwood Cemetery is located in the County of Henderson, in the City of Henderson, at 920 Madison Street, in Western Kentucky, about seven blocks from the Ohio River. Ritchey and I visited Fernwood in April of 2023. It was much larger than I thought for the area. I […]
About three years ago I started a new family chart. Not so much to show family relationships, but to show what was happening in the world the years my ancestors lived. My thought was to know what my ancestors experienced and were concerned about during their lives. The […]
Today I announce the publication of my seventeenth paperback book – Early Washington County Marriage Bonds, Consents and Minister Returns 1792-1796 – on Amazon (search name of book or Phyllis Brown genealogy books). I have pondered on this book for some time. Years ago, while at the Washington […]
I have a musing for you today. Many of you may have heard of The Birth Order Book, Dr. Kevin Leman orThe Birth Order Effect, Robert Miles. There is also Born to Rebel, Frank J. Sulloway– but that is a story about one of my sisters!! And finally, […]
Ritchey and I just finished a wonderful week in Canada with our daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren – first visit since moving to Kentucky in October. What a glorious time together! Kate has a small garden in their yard and we enjoyed fresh veggies – she is a marvelous […]
Joseph McKim and his wife, Martha McClelland McKim, are buried in Old Millersburg Cemetery, in Nicholas County, Kentucky, just on the outskirts of the small town of Millersburg, home to less than 1,000 residents. Ritchey and I visited this cemetery in August of 2014. I remember we took […]
Since the book on Pleasant Grove Presbyterian Church is finished, I thought I would choose one of the older members for a post. Randal Litsey has a very lengthy will! In it he names his wife, Mary, and his three sons Leroy, John and Uriah, and daughters Nancy, […]
Good morning, all! Wanted to announce my newest book – Pleasant Grove Presbyterian Church – Cemetery Photos – Through 1920. Located in Washington County about six miles north of Springfield, off Hwy 555, the church was established in 1833, at the time known as Beech Fork Presbyterian, renamed […]
The 250th anniversary of the United States of America! From 1776 when most of the world, especially England, thought we couldn’t win the war for independence, to July 4, 2026, when we are one of the strongest countries in the world! The United States is widely considered the […]