Wingate family stone, Frankfort Cemetery, Franklin County, Kentucky. Since I have previously written two blogs about the Henry Wingate family one would think I had exhausted the subject. Honestly, that is never the case. There is always something new to find out about families. My research today is […]
Sarah Gibson’s Franklin County will, was written July 15, 1807, and probated in November of the same year. She must have realized time was getting close. Sarah makes provision for her two unmarried daughters, Betsy and Sally. Two sons, James and William, are named in the will, as […]
For my blog today I went to photos taken at the Frankfort Cemetery. Those of Nathaniel Hart and family caught my attention. The elder Nathaniel Hart and wife Sarah Simpson Hart are buried at Boonesborough, in Madison County, but the later Harts lie in Frankfort. The family home, […]
Henry Wingate Who has heard of Henry Wingate? How many of you have heard of his famous grandson, Paul Sawyier, the famous Kentucky painter? Henry Wingate lived, but was not born in, Franklin County. His parents, Smith and Susanna Wingate, arrived there when he was still at an […]
After a long weekend attending the Dutch Cousins Gathering, I can honestly say they are some of the most wonderful people I’ve ever met. The words that come to mind are friendly, openhearted, kind – and they are just as passionate about genealogy and their family history as […]
The Courier Journal, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Saturday, October 27, 1900 Frankfort, Kentucky, October 22 – Special – On September 10, 1850, Mr. Marcus H. Cromwell was united in marriage to Miss Emily J. McMeekin, in Fayette County, Kentucky, and recently celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their […]
Ragland – Frankfort Cemetery, Franklin County, Kentucky. Looking through my photographs taken at the Frankfort Cemetery in Franklin County, I came across a small cluster of stones – three for the Ragland family. The largest and most decorative is for Miles B. Ragland who was killed by machine […]
The Frankfort Roundabout, Franklin County, Kentucky Saturday, March 23, 1895 Deaths of the Week A Rich Harvest for the Grim Reaper Bryant – Mrs. Puss Bryant died Wednesday night at her home on East Main Street, after a brief illness, aged about 80 years. The deceased was a […]
Dr. Aquilla Talbott, December 17, 1838 – September 3, 1907. Sallie J. Head, his wife, January 13, 1839 – August 2, 1909. Lexington Cemetery, Fayette County, Kentucky. The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Wednesday, September 4, 1907 Dr. Aquilla Talbott, one of the best-known physicians of Lexington, and […]
William E. Bradley, May the twenty-seventh 1840 – February the sixteenth 1905. Frankfort Cemetery, Franklin County, Kentucky. The Owensboro Messenger, Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky Friday, February 17, 1905 Prominent Whisky Man William E. Bradley Dies Suddenly At Frankfort Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 16 – William E. Bradley, aged sixty-three […]
Isaiah and Lydia Ross Hill
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