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 […]
James Woods served as Colonel of a Regiment of Virginia Foot, successively known as the 4th, 8th and 12th Regiment, from about July 1777 to December 1779. It appears that he was commissioned November 12, 1776, the date of the termination of his service is not shown by […]
William S. Gattis, CO H, 15 MISS INF, CSA, January 19, 1862. Private William S. Gattis joined Captain F. M. Aldridge’s Company H, 15th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers at the age of 23, May 29, 1861, at Corinth, Mississippi. He joined for twelve months. One interesting point – on […]
Know all men by these presents that we, Henry Walker and Elias Beddell, are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency, Isaac Shelby, Esquire, Governor of Kentucky, in the penal sum of fifty pounds current money, to the payment whereof to be made to the said governor and […]
Most of the following were originally interred in Fort Brady, which was located along the Saint Mary River in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. In 1893 the fort was considered too small to be effective and was moved to a larger area. At this time those buried in the […]
Our story today begins in Georgetown Cemetery where we find the graves of the Samuell family – yes, that is correct, two l’s at the end of the surname. George Washington Samuell was born December 1, 1796, in Henry County, Kentucky. His parents were William John Samuell, born […]
Today I share with you the Revolutionary War Pension Application of Jacob Seay. Jacob was born in Amelia County, Virginia, and it was from there that his revolutionary war service began. After the war Jacob brought his wife and family to Washington County, Kentucky. Following the war pension […]
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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
Kentucky Kindred Genealogy 