My husband, Ritchey, in the photo above, taken in Schuyler County, Illinois, at Sugar Grove North Cemetery. He is standing between the gravestones for William McKee and Cassandra Frakes and Charles Ritchey and Amanda McKee, his 3 gr and 2 gr grandparents. My Husband’s Family After spending 25 […]
Colonel Augustine Warner was born 370 years ago – June 3, 1642 – in Gloucester County, Virginia. Augustine was the son of Augustine and Mary Warner. Augustine married Mildred Reade, the daughter of Colonel George Reade and Elizabeth Martiau. They had 6 children: Elizabeth, Mildred, Mary, Augustine, George […]
Reuben Berkeley is the son of William Berkeley and Elizabeth Hancock, and a brother to Elizabeth Berkeley who married Benjamin Mason (their daughter Ann Nancy Mason married Captain John Linton). Loudoun County, Virginia, Will Book C pp. 301-304 In the name of God Amen. I, Reuben Berkeley, of […]
Mary Edwards was born 243 years ago – June 2, 1769 – probably in Charles County, Maryland. Mary was the daughter of Jonathan Edwards and Sarah Barber. She married John Myvert Moran; they had 8 children: Jane, John, Catherine, Sarah, William, Richard, Elizabeth and Thomas Moran.
Gethsemani Abbey Public Cemetery CD Nelson County, Kentucky My newest CD – Gethsemani Abbey Public Cemetery – is finished! It contains 154 regular gravestones and one large, two-sided memorial stone for those who do not have individual stones. There are a total of 286 people buried in the […]
from A History and Genealogy of Northeastern Nelson County, Kentucky Carter Family Edward Carter of Loudoun County, Virginia, died c. 1812, Nelson County, Kentucky, son of Peter Carter and Amelia Veale of Loudoun County, Virginia, married Margaret Mason, daughter of Benjamin Mason and Elizabeth Berkeley. Peter Carter was […]
Elvis Dean was born 119 years ago – June 1, 1893 – in Washington County, Kentucky. Elvis was the son of Henry Edward Dean and Martha Ellen White. His siblings were Ethel, Everett, Elmer and Gracie Dean.
Marriage Records – Anderson County, Kentucky Benjamin Hawkins married Jane Watts – July 13, 1837 Benjamin Hawkins married Jane Busey – June 25, 1860 Benjamin L. Hawkins married Elizabeth A. Sims – August 19, 1852 Dudley M. Hawkins married Susan J. Thacker – December 26, 1844 Edwin E. […]
Elizabeth Littlejohn and James William Carrico were married 181 years ago – May 31, 1831 – in Nelson County, Kentucky. James was the son of Levi Carrico and Harriet Neal. James and Elizabeth had 4 children: John Morris, James Levi, George William and Stephen Carrico.
Nancy Edwards is my great-great-great-grandmother, the daughter of Captain John Linton and Ann Nancy Mason. She married Edward Barber Edwards, most likely in Loudoun County, Virginia, about 1796. In 1818 the entire family of Captain John moved to Washington County, Kentucky – children and grandchildren. Edward Barber Edwards […]
Isaiah and Lydia Ross Hill
1929 Wedding
Revolutionary War heroes and families.
Ritchey's Paternal Grandmother
George and Caroline's Wedding Day
Klein Sod House