One of the most exciting events during my 50 years of genealogy happened during our trip to Kentucky at the end of May. Billy Wilkerson from the Simpson County Historical Society brought his ground penetrating radar machine to the small Linton family cemetery just outside of Springfield, Washington […]
Edward Edwards Linton and Catherine Elizabeth Taylor are my great-great-grandparents. Edward was the son of William Linton and Eliza Lyon Moran, born August 13, 1824, Washington County, died September 5, 1886, in Marion County. Catherine was the daughter of John Compton Taylor and Susan Clark Edwards, born January […]
This clipping from an old newspaper has been kept by my family for seventy-seven years. The notice of my great-great-grandmother’s death, Catherine Taylor Linton (the newspaper spelled it with a ‘K’), is the reason it still survives. Catherine Elizabeth Taylor was the daughter of John Compton Taylor and […]
The last of the cased photographs are tintypes – which is actually a misnomer since they were not made of tin, but metal. These were easy to make, inexpensive and durable. An easy way to know if you have a tintype is to use a magnet – the […]
The second type of early photographs were ambrotype photos. Ambrotypes look very similar to the later tintype photos. An easy way to test them is to use a magnet – even through the case you can fell the attraction of the magnet with the iron used for the […]
Hugh Walter Linton and Frances Barber Linton were cousins – both had a love of family and love of genealogy. Frances was my great-grandmother and I feel she passed that love of genealogy and research directly down to me! I know of no one else in the family […]
This family photo has been in my possession for a long time. It was included in my great-grandmother’s genealogy. In trying to research the date of this photo – definitely from the 1860’s – I found one online very similar dated 1863-1864. If you notice the photo is […]
This is a check from my great-grandfather’s account at Peoples Deposit Bank in Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky, dated July 24, 1899. It is made out to Cunningham and Duncan in the amount of $1.82 for merchandise. Now what could great-grandmother Frances have purchased? From the July 28, 1898, […]
Family of Edward Edwards Linton and Catherine Elizabeth Taylor Obituaries and Gravestones Edward Edwards Linton and Catherine Elizabeth Taylor are my great-great-grandparents. Edward was the son of William Linton and Eliza Lyon Moran; Catherine was the daughter of John Cotton Taylor and Susan Clark Edwards. Both their families […]
Catherine Elizabeth Taylor was born 184 years ago – January 13, 1830 – in Washington County, Kentucky. Catherine was the daughter of John Cotton Taylor and Susan Clark Edwards. Catherine married Edward Edwards Linton and together they had 7 children: Alice Clark, John Edgar, Annie Eliza, Margaret Gordon, […]
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