A Trip Through Flemingsburg Cemetery – Fleming County
The Lexington Herald, Fayette County, Kentucky Sunday, July 28, 1946 Matthew Dawson Maddox, 90, retired farmer and life-long resident of Fleming County, died at midnight Friday at the home of a granddaughter, Miss Lela Milton, 160 North Broadway, Lexington, after a brief illness. He was a son of […]
1799 Will of Thomas Mills – Fleming County
Thomas Mills was the son of Jacob Mills (1720-1803) and Ann Davis Mills (1720-1793). He married Martha Phillips about 1769 in Virginia. He served during the Revolutionary War while living in Monogalia County, Virginia (now West Virginia). He bought land in Fleming County, Kentucky, in 1792 (at the […]
Gravestones From Mt. Pisgah Cemetery – Fleming County
Fleming County is in northeastern Kentucky, and was formed from Mason County in 1798. With three covered bridges it is the covered bridge capital of Kentucky. Ritchey and I have visited all three – Goddard-White, Grange City and Ringo Mills. Mt. Pisgah Cemetery is located in the northernmost […]
Rev. William Crow, Wife Elizabeth and Daughter Ruth Buried In Bellevue Cemetery – Boyle County
At the back, left side of Bellevue Cemetery, in Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky, are three graves of the Crow family. The husband and father, William Crow, was a Presbyterian minister; his wife, Elizabeth Scott McFerran, and eldest child, Ruth Crow, are buried beside him. William Crow was born […]
1882 Will of Henry Bruce Porter – Fleming County
The Porter family monument, Elizaville Cemetery, Fleming County, Kentucky. Henry Bruce Porter wrote his will less than a month before he died. Henry was a citizen of Fleming County, living in the Elizaville area. Henry married Elizabeth D. Bell about 1840. Three known children were born to this […]
1833 Cholera Epidemic Deaths In Newspapers – A Few of the Many
The horrors of cholera epidemics throughout the 19th century devastated families. In 1833 the disease ran rampant, beginning in Maysville, Mason County, in May. Cholera spread quickly throughout the state. Nineteen members of one Bourbon County family were victims; in Scott County, sixteen from one family. From Collin’s […]
A Trip Through Elizaville Cemetery – Fleming County
Elizaville Cemetery is located in the small town of the same name, in Fleming County. Take Hwy32 west from Flemingsburg, it’s about an eight minute drive through beautiful country and well worth the trip. Roland T. Carr, born February 18, 1826, died May 11, 1888. Matilda, wife of […]
Daniel Morgan and Anna Blackwell Clarkson Family Buried at Flemingsburg Cemetery – Fleming County
Daniel Morgan Family Monument, Flemingsburg Cemetery, Fleming County, Kentucky. From Daniel Morgan’s gravestone we learn that he was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, February 12, 1791, the son of Captain Simon Morgan and Elizabeth Pickett. His father was a captain in the Revolutionary forces and was wounded in […]
Peter Dillon Traveled to Mason County to Escape Irish Potato Famine
The potato famine hit Ireland from 1845-1852. Crops failed in successive years, caused by a blight that destroyed both leaves and the edible potatoes at the roots. About one million people died of starvation. By 1920 the Irish population was barely half of what it had been in […]
