In February of this year, 2024, I received a comment on Kentucky Kindred Genealogy from Larry Fenwick of Springfield, Kentucky, about my post, Displaced and Broken Stones – St. Rose Cemetery, written November 22, 2012. In the post I included photographs I took at St. Rose Cemetery of […]
Today we travel to Prince George’s County, Maryland, looking for my husband’s 8th great-grandfather, Thomas Sprigg. Thomas was born about 1630 in Northamptonshire, England. He came to Maryland about 1655, and January 18, 1658, was issued a patent for transporting seven persons – himself, his wife Catherine and […]
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 […]
I decided to visit Washington County, Kentucky, today. Specifically, the older wills. I chose the will of Henry Spalding, located in Will Book A, Pages 189-191. Henry was a young man, having married Nancy Moore four months earlier on February 12, 1801, the return signed by Baldwin Clifton. […]
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 […]
While in Kentucky last year we visited Fernwood Cemetery in Henderson County, across the Ohio River from Evansville, Indiana. Fernwood Cemetery was established in 1849 and is located at 840 Madison St. in Henderson (city and county have same name). Sacred to the memory of James B. Pollitt, […]
How many of you have fantasized about one area of your genealogy research? Something that seems unattainable, but would give so much information for your family tree? I have always felt drawn to the Linton family cemetery, located on North Hwy 555 just outside the small town of […]
Let’s talk about food. That doesn’t seem to be very genealogy oriented, but, if you think about it, food is very much a family and friends occasion. It doesn’t matter if you are cooking for two or twenty the thought and preparation beforehand will make it a feast. […]
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 […]
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