Elcey Thornton Dick lies in Cave Hill Cemetery, in Louisville, Jefferson County, in the Dick family plot. Her gravestone is in the shape of a large cross – quite appropriate for the suffering the young woman went through during her 25 years on this earth. The daughter of […]
Rieke Monument, Oak Grove Cemetery, Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky. A tall memorial topped with an angel stands in Oak Grove Cemetery in Paducah, McCracken County, in remembrance of the Rieke family. Five members of the William H. Rieke family are buried there. William H. Rieke was born in […]
Today we visit Calloway County in western Kentucky, specifically Ivy Cemetery, where four members of the Hay family are laid to rest. Ivy Cemetery is so named for the Ivie family, not sure why they changed the spelling on the cemetery marker. This small, rural cemetery is located […]
Know all men by these presents that we, Harvey Wyatt and Joshua Huckabee, are held and bound unto the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the sum of fifty pounds current money, which payment well and truly to be made. We bind ourselves and heirs by these presents, sealed and […]
I found this most interesting story of the Caldwell family in my Pioneer History of Washington County, Kentucky. Included in this book are newspaper articles that were written in the 1930’s by Orval W. Baylor. Thank goodness for Mr. Baylor who was as avid about history as all […]
Birdwhistle is a name long associated with Anderson County. It is loosely translated as where the birds nest. Most of the people with this surname come from Britain. In 1840 100% of people with the last name Birdwhistle lived in Kentucky – quite remarkable! I have found it […]
In Green Lawn Cemetery in Franklin, Simpson County, sleep at least twenty Confederate soldiers – perhaps more, but within the photographs that Ritchey and I took when we visited there several years ago, we counted twenty. Many of them were members of the Orphans Brigade, a Kentucky unit […]
Today I share a lovely photograph of a woman from the turn of the 20th century. This is not a carte-de-viste or a cabinet card. The front is a medium grey with a decorated oval. There is no notation of photographer, city or state. There is, however, in […]
Buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana, is William Forsyth, a nationally recognized painter and teacher. William was born October 15, 1854, in Hamilton County, Ohio. His parents were Elijah and Mary (Hackett) Forsyth. They brought their family to Indianapolis before the 1880 census was taken. Elijah […]
Leonard Mattingly, Senior, also known as “Old” Leonard, was born in 1739 in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, the son of Charles Mattingly and Sarah Catherine Fowler. In 1760 he married Margaret Monica Monarch. They had a large family which migrated with them to Washington County, Kentucky, at the […]
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
