State of Kentucky, Spencer County I, Joseph B. Cox, clerk of the County Court for the county aforesaid, do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the List of Marriages returned to my office by Joseph H. Burwell, assessor for the year 1853. Given under my […]
In the fall of 2017 Ritchey and I toured eighteen counties in Kentucky, along the southern border with Tennessee, and in western part of the state. While in Muhlenberg County we stopped by Crescent Hill Cemetery, also known as Old Company Cemetery. As from this first photo you […]
Will of Andrew Hayden Marion County Will Book 1, Page 80 Manchester, Tennessee August 12th, 1863 Dear Mother, It is with the greatest of pleasure that I seat aside this pleasant morning to answer your kind and welcome letter that I have just received. I was glad to […]
Know all men by these presents, that we, Robert T. Stockton and William W. Henderson, are held and firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in the sum of fifty pounds, to the payment whereof well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, jointly and […]
Several months ago, I posted a blog about Ritchey’s 3rd great-grandmother, Susan Stringer Bennett, who was a Real Daughter of the American Revolution. That is to say, a woman whose father was in the Revolutionary War. Today I want to introduce you to another Kentuckian who was also […]
William H. Lillard was the son of Thomas Madison Lillard and Mary Bright, born July 13, 1867, in Boyle County, Kentucky. In 1897 William married Mary Mountjoy Burke. Mary Burke was the daughter of William Buchanan Burke and Lucy Laney Baker, born March 1, 1872. The couple had […]
Peter Montgomery was a citizen of France who came to Charles County, Maryland, in the years before 1727. In that year he and his two sons already born, Francis and John Baptiste Montgomery, became English subjects of King George II. ‘Every of them shall from hence forth be […]
From Henry County, Kentucky, 1798-1995, Henry County Historical Society, 1995, we find that Dr. Sanford Brent was the son of William Brent and Elizabeth Simmons, of Fauquier County, Virginia. The parents moved to Washington County, Kentucky, in 1798, where Sanford was born. In 1803 they moved to Henry […]
Hart County is located in what I consider the beginning of western Kentucky, where the higher part of the state slopes down to the shorter western section. Hart County is centered between Hardin County on the Ohio River and Warren County that almost reaches the Tennessee border. The […]
William B. Wallace was a First Lieutenant in Woodford’s First Virginia Brigade during the Revolutionary War. He died at the age of 79 on June 21, 1833. from History of Anderson County, Major Lewis W. McKee and Mrs. Lydia K. Bond, 1937 William B. Wallace came to Kentucky […]
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Isaiah and Lydia Ross Hill
John Linton Edwards
1929 Wedding
Revolutionary War heroes and families.
Ritchey's Paternal Grandmother
George and Caroline's Wedding Day
Klein Sod House
