Newspaper – Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky Wednesday, October 26, 1898 Major Thomas Benton Carter, chief of the U.S,. detective service for the district of Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee, died of apoplexy, Sunday night. Monday morning he was found dead in his bed at Seelbach’s Hotel in Louisville. […]
Nancy Carter was born 229 years ago – November 4, 1784 – in Loudoun County, Virginia. Nancy was the daughter of Edward Carter and Margaret Mason. She married John Hughes January 19, 1809, in Nelson County, Kentucky. I have no information about children. Nancy’s siblings were Morris, Margaret, […]
New Providence Presbyterian Church is a lovely little church located on Highway 127 – about 5 miles from our home in Mercer County, Kentucky. The original church, a log cabin eighteen by twenty feet, was built in 1785. The McAfee Company, in the area in 1773, chose a […]
from Warren County, Kentucky – Biographies L. C. Heminger was born in Clearmont County, Ohio, in 1840; he is a son of Andrew H. and Charlotte (Murphy) Heminger, and is of German extraction. He was reared on the farm. At eighteen years of age he went to Cincinnati […]
Margaret DeWitt and Mason Edward Carter were married 196 years ago – May 27, 1817 – in Perry County, Indiana. Margaret was the daughter of Elisha DeWitt. Mason was the son of Edward Carter and Margaret Mason. The Masons and Carters were originally from Loudoun County, Virginia, then […]
Margaret Linton and Addison F. Carter were married 153 years ago – January 29, 1860 – in Washington County, Kentucky. Margaret was the daughter of William Linton and Elizabeth Lyon Moran. Addison and Margaret had one daughter, Martha, before his death in 1862.
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