Today I share with you information about Dr. Aquilla Talbott, son of Gustavus W. Talbott and Frances Ann Pryor. Aquilla, named for this grandfather, was born December 17, 1838, in Bourbon County, Kentucky. His mother Frances died before 1850; Aquilla is shown in the 1850 Bourbon County Census […]
The marriage of Miss Emeline Butler and Henry Dixon Posey took place November 8, 1860, in Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky. The couple had eight children – William T., Harvey, Henry Dixon II, Harbison Butler, Eliza D., Mary W., Marshall W., Jahleel Woodbridge, and Wallace Wadsworth Posey. The Henderson […]
While visiting the Jackson Purchase area of Kentucky in 2019 we stopped at the Wyatt Cemetery in Marshall County, Kentucky. Take US Highway 68 west across Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake, turn left on Highway 1462, and a quick left onto Wyatt Cemetery Road. Wyatt Cemetery is small, […]
At the age of 89 years and a few days, Robert Houston Brank drew his last breath at his home in Garrard County, Kentucky. Born in Burke County, North Carolina, he was the son of Robert Brank, Sr., and Shirley Jean Houston. After his service in the Revolutionary […]
Lieutenant Presley Neville O’Bannon was the son of William Barbee O’Bannon and Anne Neville, of Fauquier County, Virginia, born in 1776. Born in the days of the beginning of our nation, he must have felt the need to make his mark on the world. Presley became a first […]
In searching through the cemeteries visited in Bullitt County, Kentucky, I came across the gravestone for James Combs in Old Cedar Grove Church Cemetery. The fact that he was born in Vermont was unusual, and thus started the search for records for the man, his ancestors and descendants. […]
Thomas Prather is a cousin to my husband’s William Baruch Prather. Very interesting to find his will on the first page of the first will book for Mercer County. Jonathan Prather, 1630-1680, is Baruch William Prather’s great-grandfather, my husband’s ancestor. Jonathan is Thomas Prather’s 2nd great-grandfather. Thomas Prather […]
Today we travel to far western Kentucky, to Crittenden County, located on the Ohio, Cumberland and Tradewater Rivers. Crittenden was created by the state legislature on April 1, 1842, from a portion of Livingston County. It was the state’s 91st county and was named for John J. Crittenden, […]
This photograph was reprinted in The Springfield Sun December 26, 2001. The photograph was taken in 1936 – too early for my mother, Catherine Carrico, and her youngest sister, Mary Alice, to be in school – but four of their siblings, two of my aunts – Beulah and […]
Don’t you love the old Maryland wills? Property was named, giving easy access down through the years. Most wrote very detailed wills, leaving pieces of property to their children, along with family treasures. The will of Colonel Samuel Magruder is no different. He even leaves part of a […]
Isaiah and Lydia Ross Hill
1929 Wedding
Revolutionary War heroes and families.
Ritchey's Paternal Grandmother
George and Caroline's Wedding Day
Klein Sod House