This map is from our Kentucky County Maps by Puetz. This is a wonderful book that has been much used and much loved! It is starting to fall apart and I really need to try to find another one. Ritchey and I use this on our adventures through the different counties of Kentucky. It shows where cemeteries are located, as well as churches and small communities, as well as even the smallest roads – which has been very helpful at times when you’ve turned onto so many small roads you have no idea how to get back to your starting point!
Some of the blogs in recent months have been snippets from The News-Leader and The Springfield Sun – two newspapers from Washington County – that include news from the small communities throughout the county. Each little area is shown on the map above and gives you a good perspective of where the people lived.
A little down from the center of the map is a red half circle around a cross in a rectangle (representative of a cemetery) with an arrow pointing to Old KY 555 (click on the photo and it enlarges, once more and it’s even larger – then click your back arrow to go back to the blog). The red dot shows exactly where the Linton Cemetery is located. My Captain John Linton, William Moran, William Linton, Eliza Moran Linton, Benjamin Franklin Linton, Milly Linton Edwards and John L. Linton are all buried there – probably along with others who do not have head stones. My great-grandparents, Frances Barber Linton and Robert E. Lee Montgomery lived on Old KY 555, about 1/2 mile down from the cemetery.
My great-great-grandparents, Edward Edwards Linton (son and grandson of William Linton and Captain John Linton) and Catherine Elizabeth Taylor are buried at Pleasant Grove – just up the road from the Linton cemetery. This was the church Captain John helped to start in 1833 – giving land and wood for pews. It is an amazing coincidence that Ritchey’s father, Rex Edwin Brown, was pastor at this church during the early sixties. We attended the 150th anniversary of the church shortly after our marriage, and the 175th anniversary in 2008.
Isaiah Hill, Civil War veteran, and Lydia Ann Ross, my great-grandparents on my dad’s side, are buried at Willisburg (just slightly north of Pleasant Grove) in Evergreen Cemetery. Originally from Garrard County they could be considered new-comers to the county!
My mom’s family, the Carrico’s, were from the St. Rose area (in the lower left) – taking Highway 429 south from St. Rose to Smith Road (2782). They lived about middle-way on Smith Road. During high school mom walked down to Blandford Road where she caught the bus. It continued through Bear Wallow, to Manton and on to Fredericktown where she went to school. It was an eighteen mile trip over narrow roads – one way!
As with any county in any state there are small communities that hold on to their independence and their heritage. In many of these we find our roots, if we but do a little searching! What have you found in your county?
Categories: Family Stories, Genealogy Ramblings
Where did you purchase the Kentucky County Maps by Puetz. I see Amazon has a few for $95.00, is that the going rate or is there a place to get it cheaper? Thanks, Betty
Wow! I paid $22.95 for mine – which was years ago – but $95 sounds ridiculous! I probably bought it from a vendor at a genealogy conference – but am not sure which one.
Question – my g-g grandmother was Susan Ann Linton (or Susannah) born in Oct 1829 in Washington Co., KY. Linton was her maiden name. She married my g-g grandfather James Hayner on Christmas Day 1849 and by 1851 they had one daughter Martha and had moved the very southwest corner of Iowa (Page County) right on the Missouri border. I believe her father may have been William Linton and her mother Eliza ? Believe she may have had brothers Edward b. abt 1824 and George M. born abt 1831? And sisters Margaret born about 1828 and Mary born about 1834. The only way I came up with this is that I find newly married 19 year old Susan Hayner and her husband James in Washington Co., KY in the 1850 Census with no children yet and a few pages away I find this William Linton age 60 and wife Eliza age 50 with children Edward 26, Margaret 21, George 19 and Mary 16. They also have a William Frost living with them who is declared as “idiotic”. He is 4 years younger that William. No relationship given in 1860. I have never officially placed my Susan in this family, but condisering this census is less than 1 year after their marriage in Washington Co., Ky, I would assume her parents lived there (although as we know you can’t assume in genealogy–her parents could have been dead and William could be an uncle etc.) Anyway, do you have any more information about the children of William and Eliza?
Thanks!
Valerie