Today I share with you a monumental will – very likely the longest I have typed – containing over 3,400 words. The will was written by Thomas Kennedy, born September 11, 1757, in North Carolina and died June 19, 1836, in the Paint Lick area in Garrard County, […]
Ritchey and I have spent a wonderful five years in Michigan, but we now think it is time to go home – to Kentucky. I have missed having easy availability to court houses, libraries and historical societies for research. And we miss our family and friends. We are […]
At the age of 89 years and a few days, Robert Houston Brank drew his last breath at his home in Garrard County, Kentucky. Born in Burke County, North Carolina, he was the son of Robert Brank, Sr., and Shirley Jean Houston. After his service in the Revolutionary […]
Today I share a photo of the beautiful gravestone of John Davis and Rachel Elizabeth Long Davis. John was born in Grainger County, Tennessee, the son of Samuel Davis and Alsie Long. Both parents lived and died in Tennessee. John moved to Garrard County, Kentucky, where he met […]
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Not sure you will get that many today, but the above picture started a search for the Kays, Huffman, Noel, Smith and other entwined families of central Kentucky. In the above picture we have, left to right, Sarah Kays […]
Dr. James Reid was born in Amherst County, Virginia, April 12, 1787, and died in Garrard County, Kentucky, October 26, 1848. He married Betsy Murrel January 28, 1815, bondsman John W. Reid, at James Murrel’s home, guardian of Betsy. I found two notices of James Reid in the […]
With a search in newspapers for ‘pioneer family’ I found the following article on families from Lincoln and Garrard Counties. Mr. Harry W. Mills, who wrote this article, and others in subsequent weeks, gives an interesting introduction of his beginning for the search for his Logan family. This […]
Although our journey ends in Jessamine County for burials, the beginnings of the journey are further away, begun in Clinton County, Ohio. There Lewis Cass Drake was born August 16, 1844, to Benjamin Drake and Lavina Compton. In the 1850 census of Clinton County, Benjamin Drake was 48, […]
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 […]
Kentucky Kindred’s post from yesterday introduced you to Burdett Kemper and his family of Garrard County. Today I share his will, written the 7th day of April 1873. The following is a list of his children and grandchildren (to my knowledge): Mary Ann Kemper married William Ballard – […]
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