Captain Lewis Rose, born October 11, 1749, and died February 20, 1829, left a will naming several children. He married first Barbara Thair, and, secondly, Mary Todd Hutton McMurtry, her first husband being Captain John McMurtry. At the Historical Society in Harrodsburg, Mercer County, there are filing cabinets […]
Photo taken by Roy VanArsdall in 1952. I have mentioned several times since November the finding of the Rose Cemetery in the little town of Burgin, in Mercer County, where my mother lived for thirty plus years. Her best friend and next door neighbors, Geneva and Roger Vanarsdall, […]
I have been working on the Rose Family Cemetery that is located on Maude Lane in the small town of Burgin, in Mercer County, Kentucky. The land has been owned by the VanArsdall family for many, many years, and is still owned by descendants of the same family. […]
Captain Lewis Rose was in Mercer County, Kentucky, by 1780 – one of the earliest pioneers. The captain’s first wife was Barbara Trayer, and after her death he married Mary McMurtry, widow of his friend John McMurtry. In his will he leaves bequests to his wife, Mary, sons […]
Isn’t it amazing when you find something in your own back yard that you never knew existed? I had been to the Pioneer Cemetery at Fort Harrod in my hometown of Harrodsburg several times, but didn’t realize there was an addition at the back! It’s known as Memorial […]
Catharine, wife of John McMurtry and daughter of Captain Lewis Rose, born November 21, 1780, died September 1, 1867. Spring Hill Cemetery, Mercer County, Kentucky. Catharine Rose was born in 1780 to Lewis Rose and Barbara Trayer, in Mercer County, Kentucky. She married John McMurtry January 14, 1797, […]
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