I found this in my older files dated February 22, 2010. Fourteen years ago – written a year before I started my blog, Kentucky Kindred. Thought I would share with you. I suppose that in everyone’s life there comes a time when we begin to think about the […]
Since writing the following post almost ten years ago, today I found new information. What prompted me to research and write this additional information was a photo I found while going through some of my boxes – still trying to organize! The photo is of an infant girl […]
Robert Ryland was a Virginian, born there in 1805. His parents were Josiah H. Ryland, March 5, 1767 – June 9, 1850, and Catharine Peachey, May 4, 1776 – June 21, 1858, who were married June 18, 1802, in Essex County, Virginia. Robert was their second son; the […]
Clement McDaniel was born in 1752 in Halifax County, Virginia, to William McDaniel and Ann Smith. He married Elizabeth Watson Coleman Octobe4 20, 1794. Clement fought in the American Revolution. After the war he moved his family to the state of Tennessee, ending up in Shelby County. Clement […]
Today I share a photo of the beautiful gravestone of John Davis and Rachel Elizabeth Long Davis. John was born in Grainger County, Tennessee, the son of Samuel Davis and Alsie Long. Both parents lived and died in Tennessee. John moved to Garrard County, Kentucky, where he met […]
Debbie Hardin, a good friend from Kentucky, asked which cemeteries I visited in Greenup County, Kentucky, when we were there earlier in the year. We visited only one, Mt. Zion Methodist Cemetery, very close to the Ohio River. Debbie sent a photo of the gravestone of one of […]
This started out as simply a post about the golden wedding anniversary of George and Eleanor Blatterman. I found the article in the October 24, 1893, issue of The Evening Bulletin of Maysville Kentucky. Many times I will do a newspaper search on golden wedding anniversaries as they […]
George W. Phillips was the son of George W. Phillips and Mary Cassity, born August 20, 1843, in Morgan County, Kentucky. Both parents were born in Virginia. George enlisted July 15, 1861, as a private in the Civil War, on the side of the Confederacy, in Company A, […]
Dr. Robert Davidson McLean was the son of Ephraim McLean and Elizabeth Davidson. Ephraim was born in 1730 in Scotland, coming to America about 1750. He married Elizabeth, 1741-1820, daughter of John Davidson and Margaret Mary Morrison, in January 1761 in North Carolina. After the revolution Ephraim moved […]
Good morning, all! To let you know why you haven’t heard much from me in the last month, Covid found me. I’ve never felt so weak. Cough and congestion made it difficult to do anything – even write a blog! I did find time to read more and […]
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