Don’t we all love the historic homes that have survived the years and remain as a remembrance of days gone by? Today I introduce you to the Rachel Black Givens house in Lincoln County. The Givens family moved to Kentucky, specifically Lincoln County, about 1780. I have already […]
Last week Ritchey and I had company from Kentucky – good friends from Danville. There was no time for genealogy! But we are back on track today. We will visit the Dutch Tract Cemetery in Henry County, Kentucky. It is also known as Pleasureville Cemetery, for the small […]
Continuing our research on Rev. John Gano, today I share his will. It was written in 1799 and he mentions hope that his health will be restored. He must have recuperated since it was another five years before his death in 1804. His first wife, Sarah Stites, died […]
The Lexington Herald, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky Monday, June 19, 1916 Rev. John Gano’s Body is Re-Interred First Revolutionary Soldier to be Buried in the D.A.R. Lot The first Revolutionary soldier to be buried in the D.A.R. lot in the Frankfort Cemetery was the Rev. John Gano, whose […]
Harrison Thomson, September 20, 1811 – January 14, 1872 Joice Quisenberry Thomson, December 4, 1810 – November 23, 1896 The Morning Herald, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky Wednesday, November 25, 1896 Mrs. Joicy Thomson Dies Here Yesterday at the Home of H. T. Groom. Funeral Today. Died, on November […]
In my last blog we talked about Bartholomew Wood, his move after the Revolutionary War to Christian County, Kentucky, and his involvement with the city of Hopkinsville. If you remember the photographs from that post, the new monument for Bartholomew Wood said he died in Christian County November […]
Today, Pioneer Cemetery in Hopkinsville is not the area of unmarked graves as mentioned in the article about Bartholomew Woods. Money was donated by citizens a few years after this article was written, but several years went by with nothing accomplished. When Ritchey and I visited in October […]
The Kentucky Gazette, Lexington, Fayette County Kentucky Saturday, October 6, 1787 Louisville, September 20 On Thursday the ninth of August departed this life, in the twenty-fifth year of her age, Mrs. Elizabeth Downing, the amiable consort of Mr. John Downing, of this town; after an illness of about […]
Col. James Mason was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, September 29, 1769, the son of John Mason, September 1, 1743, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, – April 11, 1831, Fayette County, Kentucky, and Anna Marie Murray, January 2, 1741 – December 19, 1819. James Mason married Anna Elizabeth Fishback January […]
I was drawn to Garrard County this morning, specifically to the Forks of Dix River Baptist Cemetery. The first two photographs in my files were those of the gravestones of Tharp and Tabitha Hughes. And my research was set. Obituaries are always a good source and therefore I […]
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