$300 one day after date I promise to pay Nancy Edwards three hundred dollars for value received this 15th 1840 Benjamin Edwards Received of Theodore Clarkson and Martha his wife, late Edwards, Catherine Edwards and Sarah Edwards, heirs and devisees of Benjamin M. Edwards, deceased, three hundred dollars […]
This is an old newspaper clipping from a 1941 Springfield Sun – the local newspaper for Washington County, Kentucky. I’m sure this was one my great-grandmother, Frances Barber Linton Montgomery, saved, since it was a few years before she died – and because her mother’s death, thirty-one years […]
Well this is one for the record books – in all the old documents and pieces of paper saved by my great-grandmother, Frances Barber Linton Montgomery, I would never have thought about finding a candling certificate in the bunch! This belonged to her brother, John Edgar Linton, who […]
William Linton, son of John Linton and Ann Nancy Mason, was born 1790 in Loudoun County, Virginia. William came to Kentucky before his parents in 1818, since he married Eliza Lyon Moran, daughter of William Moran, Jr., and Mary Barber, in Washington County April 5, 1817. The couple […]
In the picture above is Great-Grandmother Frances with her brother, Edgar, and sister, Alice. They are 10 and 12 years older, respectively. Neither married and lived together until their deaths. Grandmother Frances Barber Linton Montgomery Grandmother Extraordinaire! Frances Barber Linton Montgomery was my mother’s grandmother – my great-grandmother. […]
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