Today In Genealogy History – July 17, 2011
Jonathan Edwards was born 240 years ago – July 17, 1771 – in Loudoun County, Virginia. He was the son of Jonathan Edwards and Sarah Barber.
Kentucky Kindred Genealogical Research
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Robert E. Lee Montgomery
Robert E. Lee Montgomery, the son of William Peter Montgomery III and Martha Ann Carrico, was born September 15, 1865, a few months after the Civil War ended. There is no question as to which side the Montgomery family favored in the war! Robert is my great-grandfather – […]
Today In Genealogy History – July 16, 2011
William A. Logsdon and Alice McIlvoy were married 171 years ago – July 16, 1840, in Washington County, Kentucky. William, the son of Joseph Logsdon, was born October 24, 1799, in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. Alice, the daughter of Alexander McIlvoy and Mary Magdelene McConley, was born in […]
1817 Letter From Nicholas L. Lewis to William L. Lewis
Note by Phyllis Brown: William Linton Lewis was the son of William Joseph Lewis and Catherine Jennings Linton. Catherine was the sister of Captain John Linton. I’m not sure who Nicholas L. Lewis is. I’m sure he is a relative, but more than that I cannot say. The […]
Today In Genealogy History – July 15, 2011
Richard Keene was born 202 years ago – July 15, 1809 – in Loudoun County, Virginia. He died August 27, 1874, in Washington County, Kentucky. He was the son of Richard Keene and Elizabeth Rebecca Linton, and grandson of Captain John Linton and Ann Mason. Richard married Susan […]
Mary Hill and Bert Thompson
Marriage of Bertram Thompson and Mary Hill Samuel Bertram Thompson, son of William and Daisy Catherine Thompson, and Mary Lydia Hill, daughter of Jessie Delbert and Nannie Belle Hill, were married March 22, 1930, at the court house in Marion County, Kentucky. She would die less than three […]
Today In Genealogy History – July 14, 2011
John Murphy and Mary Yarbrough were married in Lincoln County, Kentucky, 216 years ago – July 14, 1795. Mary was the daughter of Randolph Yarbrough and Mary Bailey, and was born in Virginia. Two of John and Mary Murphy’s daughters married into the Hill family and both their […]
Margaret Ellen McIlvoy Walker
Obituary taken from “The Springfield Sun” Washington County, Kentucky Funeral services will be held at St. Dominic’s Catholic Church in this city at 9 o’clock Friday morning for Mrs. Mattie McIlvoy Walker, with interment in the church cemetery. Mrs. Walker died at 4:45 Wednesday morning [13 Dec 1939] […]
Today In Genealogy History – July 13, 2011
Catherine Walsh Linton was born 149 years ago – July 13, 1862. Catherine was the daughter of John Walsh (sometimes the name is spelled Welsh), born in Galway, Ireland, April 1, 1826, and died in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, April 2, 1871; and Sarah Hollard, born January 12, 1826, […]
Sarah E. Linton – Sister Mary Baptista
While researching in Prince William County, Virginia, ten years ago, Ritchey and I found Linton Hall School. It, indeed, had significance with our Linton family. Land that had been handed down through the generations came to the last daughter – Sarah E. Linton, daughter of John Tyler Linton […]
