Gravestone Photos of Fountain Run Cemetery – Monroe County
Fountain Run Cemetery is located in Monroe County, Kentucky, on the southwestern edge with Barren County.
Fountain Run Cemetery is located in Monroe County, Kentucky, on the southwestern edge with Barren County.
From The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878. I have permission from Southern Historical Press, Inc., to use the biographies in this volume on my blog. Judge Samuel Haycraft, pioneer and farmer, was born […]
Today I share with you gravestones of the Ransdell family buried in Providence Cemetery. Solomon Sharp Ransdell was the son of William P. Ransdell and Susan Yates, born April 9, 1863. William and Susan’s marriage bond is dated December 20, 1858. According to vital statistics they were married […]
There is so much information on the Ewell family we have discussed in the last two posts. Let’s go back to Virginia, to Prince William County, where the family originated. This is where my Linton family lived in the early days. Ritchey and I visited several times and […]
This morning’s blog was delayed due to my internet – or lack thereof. We live in a lovely place, but add in fog, rain or snow and the internet is slow – or nonexistent. Fog was so prominent this morning it was hard to see across the road! […]
As promised, the will of Major Charles Ewell, from our last post. A visit from my grandchildren made this post a little late. I’m sure you understand. It was their first visit since April when they moved to Canada. Will of Major Charles Ewell McCracken County Will Book […]
Major Charles Ewell was born September 29, 1758, in Prince William County, Virginia, the son of Bertrand Ewell and Frances Kennor. Charles was named for his paternal grandfather, who came to this country long before the revolution, with two brothers, Solomon and James. The two brothers moved to […]
A list of marriages performed in Nelson County by Joseph Ferguson, 1807-1808 September 3, 1807 – Joshua Hobbs and Lydia Beauchamp September 18, 1807 – Abram McDaniel and Verlinda Davis September 26, 1807 – Lewis Hughes and Sally Richards October 21, 1807 – John Ridgeway and Margaret Crume […]
We are on a fashion tangent today. I found this article of bridal fashions, with sketches, in the Sunday, May 2, 1920, edition of the Lexington Leader. My grandmother married in November of 1920. She wore nothing quite like this design, but looked lovely in a dark suit […]
Know all men by these presents that we, Edward Johnson and William Garner, are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency, Isaac Shelby, Esquire, Governor of Kentucky, in the penal sum of fifty pounds current money, to which payment well and truly to be made to the said […]