I have the most exciting news for everyone, but especially descendants of Captain John Hancock Linton and William Moran! A gentleman will be coming to the cemetery to use ground penetrating radar to give us an idea of how many people are actually buried in this small family […]
During the lengthy research on my Linton family – 50 years at this point – I have found more information on the extended family than any of my other ancestors. Within that time period I have met and collaborated with numerous Linton descendants, distant cousins that are very […]
Little do we know where we will find extended family members. My Linton family moved from Loudoun County, Virginia, to Washington County, Kentucky, 1800-1818. At first, according to my great-grandmother’s writings, they all moved in one large caravan. Further research has shown that Captain John Hancock Linton, wife […]
Such a simple piece of browned paper, but one so very important to me. This is a receipt given to my fourth great-grandfather, Edward Barber Edwards, by Elias Davison, after paying the amount due on his account. Elias Davison was on the list of Springfield town lot owners […]
In going through my great-grandmother’s notes this morning I found this sheet, in her handwriting, a list of primarily Edwards family members, with a marriage to a Taylor, a Linton and a Montgomery. This was one of those days when I truly ‘read’ what was in front of […]
John H. Linton was the son of Captain John Hancock Linton. The captain and his wife, Ann Nancy Mason, moved from Loudoun County, Virginia, to Washington County, Kentucky, in 1818. Their children and grandchildren also made the move. At Captain John’s death, his son John received the plantation […]
Mary Jane Janes, born December 27, 1814, died December 28, 1905. Pleasant Grove Presbyterian Cemetery, Washington County, Kentucky Mary Jane Edwards Janes was one of the younger daughters of Edward Barber Edwards and Nancy Linton. Mary Jane was a baby of two years when she made the trip […]
The Lewis Linton in this marriage bond is the son of Captain John Linton and Ann Nancy Mason. Know all men by these presents that we, Lewis Linton and Thomas Janes, are held and firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in the just and full sum of […]
William Linton, son of Captain John Linton and Ann Nancy Mason, and Eliza Lyon Moran, daughter of William Moran, Jr., and Mary Rebecca Linton, married April 5, 1817, in Washington County, Kentucky. They raised a family of at least seven children. The following is information on the family […]
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 […]
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