Nelson County, to wit To any authorized Minister of the Gospel These are to license you to solemnize the rites of matrimony according to the forms of the church to which you belong, between Benjamin Blankenbaker and Miss Charlotte Harrison, daughter of Elizabeth Harrison. Given under my hand […]
My fourth-great-grandfather, John C. Dillehay, was born in Maryland and came to Kentucky around the turn of the 19th century. His father has eluded me – perhaps this will of George Delahay from Charles County, Maryland, could hold a clue? Let’s check other records first. This last name […]
Old Bardwell Cemetery, Carlisle County, Kentucky. Old Bardwell Cemetery is in the county of Carlisle in the Jackson Purchase, far western Kentucky. Bardwell is the county seat, located at the junction of Highways 62 and 51. If you drive west on Hwy 62, make a left at the […]
The Cook gravestone with the names of the twelve children of Strother and Lucy Cook – George W., John S., Mary J., Susan B., Lucy J., Strother M., Sarah T., Allen T., Julia A., Elizabeth M., Emma D. and James S. Cook. Yesterday we talked about the happy […]
Interior Journal, Stanford, Lincoln County, Kentucky Tuesday, April 24, 1888 The relatives of Rev. Strother Cook, Sr., and wife, “Aunt Lucy,” who attended their golden wedding in Mercer County last Thursday, tell me that the ten children of the aged couple acted as attendants and that the “ceremony” […]
From Otto A. Rothert’s A History of Muhlenberg County, printed in 1913, we find the following description of Old Liberty Church and Cemetery: Old Liberty is now a ruin – four tottering log walls, each about twenty-five feet long, enclosing a sunken floor and a caved-in roof, mingled […]
Among the early citizens of the Old Liberty area of Muhlenberg County was the Martin family. Mrs. Susannah Walker Martin, widow of Thomas Martin of Virginia, a Revolutionary War soldier, moved her family to the county in 1805. Her three daughters, Betsy, Mary and Nancy, soon married and […]
Breckinridge County Marriage Register Date of Marriage – Parties Names – By whom Married – Place of Marriage – Names of Witnesses Present Married September 18, 1877, Daniel L. Collie and Miss Sallie C. Morris, by George B. Overton, at A. R. Morris, Rev. George H. Morris and […]
Ballard County Courthouse, 132 Fourth Street, Wickliffe, Kentucky. Ballard County was formed from Hickman and McCracken counties in 1842. The first courthouse for the county was in the city of Blandville. This courthouse burned February 17, 1880, and most records were destroyed. The present courthouse, in Wickliffe, was […]
For our blog today we travel to northern Kentucky, in the county of Campbell. The border of the county is the grand Ohio River, down which many pioneers descended in the early days to come to the great state of Kentucky. The city of Newport is on the […]
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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
