Persephone’s picture from last year on the Christmas tree. December 22nd, we are just a few days away from Christmas. The time we gather with family and friends, make memories to last a lifetime and longer. The tree is decorated. Meals are planned. Four days, four meals – […]
John Marshall Clark, May 8, 1931 – April 30, 2006. Corrine Marie Clark, May 15, 1938 – July 20, 2008. Bethel Cemetery, Ballard County, Kentucky. Although I spent several hours searching for information on Corrine Marie Clark, I found nothing. What I thought was so interesting is […]
George W. Hensley was originally from North Carolina. He married Ruth Edwards there, and some of the older children were born in that state. I do not know the exact date George and his family moved to Harlan County, Kentucky. The children listed in George’s will are James, […]
Johnson Gravestone, Machpelah Cemetery, Mt. Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky. Col. Thomas Johnson loomed large in Montgomery County. He lived there from early childhood, worked hard at farming in his early years until the Civil War. Col. Johnson raised a regiment in Mt. Sterling in support of the South. […]
Know all men by these presents that we, Basil Hayden and Stanislaus Hayden, are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency the governor of Kentucky in the sum of fifty pounds current money, to the payment of which well and truly to be made to the said governor […]
For my blog today I went to photos taken at the Frankfort Cemetery. Those of Nathaniel Hart and family caught my attention. The elder Nathaniel Hart and wife Sarah Simpson Hart are buried at Boonesborough, in Madison County, but the later Harts lie in Frankfort. The family home, […]
The following is a list of marriages performed by Thomas L. Chilton for the year 1796 in Madison County. Thomas Routon and Annie Brown – January 21, 1796. James Bell and Susannah Lewis – March 24, 1796 James Shackleford and Peggy Simpson – March 31, 1796 Edward Roberts […]
Winfield Scott Aldridge and Martha Rachel Hamilton were married April 29, 1873, in Boyle County, Kentucky. P. F. Webb was bondsman. According to a note written on April 28th, John Hamilton gives consent for his daughter Martha Rachel to married Mr. Scott Aldridge. The note was witnessed by […]
Kentucky Kindred’s post from yesterday introduced you to Burdett Kemper and his family of Garrard County. Today I share his will, written the 7th day of April 1873. The following is a list of his children and grandchildren (to my knowledge): Mary Ann Kemper married William Ballard – […]
Generally when I begin a research project I find interesting facts and newspaper articles. But on this particular project there is so much information, and the cemetery is so filled with family members, this will probably be a series of blogs. It started with one gravestone photo and […]
I am a family historian, a genealogist, one who puts families together, who finds those who have been lost for many years and acquaints modern day generations with their ancestors. There's nothing like having a full family tree!
Isaiah and Lydia Ross Hill
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1929 Wedding
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Ritchey's Paternal Grandmother
George and Caroline's Wedding Day
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