The Cincinnati skyline from the Cincinnati Museum Center. The last week of June Ritchey and I were in Cincinnati. This wasn’t per se a genealogy trip, our main focus was the Cincinnati Art Museum (saw my favorites – John Singer Sargent’s A Venetian Woman, Van Gogh’s Couple Walking […]
In memory of John Linton who departed this life December 4th 1836, in the 86th year of his age. Linton Family Graveyard, Washington County, Kentucky. John Linton was a captain of the Loudoun County Militia of Virginia during the Revolutionary War, my fourth and fifth great-grandfather since I […]
Jessie and Nannie are seated. Standing, from left, Opal, Philip, William, James, Thomas, Jessie and Catherine. Today I share a photo of my father’s family, taken June 26th or 27th of 1971. My grandparents, Jessie Delbert Hill and Nannie Bell Coulter celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on the […]
Leander ‘Lee’ S. Wright, born November 2, 1848, died September 16, 1907. Virginia A. Ladd, his wife, born December 10, 1847, died October 9, 1909. Maplewood Cemetery, Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky. The Paducah Sun, McCracken County, Kentucky Monday, September 16, 1907 I’m surprised there was no mention of […]
When I first saw this beautiful bas relief stone in Richmond Cemetery in Madison County, it seemed a mystery. Two first names on front, Lucy and Nannie; two lovely angels, holding hands, one pointing to heaven. The angels – so young and beautiful – are magnificently carved, and […]
Thomas McCall’s will was written February 10, 1844 and proved in court one month later, March 11, 1844. Evidently, he was ill, he was only 52 years of age. Born in Pennsylvania he moved with his parents, John McCall and Martha Orr, to Washington County, Virginia, as a […]
Know all men by these presents, that we, Logan Myers and John J. Nevins, are held and firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in the sum of 50 pounds, to the payment whereof well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, jointly and severally, […]
Today I share two photographs most likely taken after the Civil War. There are still the large, voluminous skirts, and hoops underneath. The 1870’s brought in the slimmer style skirts with a bustle in back. The beautiful woman in the above photograph is still showing large bishop sleeves, […]
Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky About three years ago Ritchey and I were in Madison County, researching and taking cemetery photos. The county is named for our fourth president, James Madison, and was created a Kentucky county by Virginia in 1785. The small town of Milford was the […]
I know I have inundated you with DeMott information in the last week or so, but wanted to share the will of Lawrence DeMott, father of Peter DeMott. Lawrence was born in 1718 and died May 14, 1800, in Mercer County, Kentucky. According to old records, he, too, […]
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
John Linton Edwards
1929 Wedding
Revolutionary War heroes and families.
Ritchey's Paternal Grandmother
George and Caroline's Wedding Day
Klein Sod House
