John Osbourn Warren was born 178 years ago – May 8, 1834 – in Marion County, Kentucky. John was the son of John Warren and Mary Ann Lanham. He married Anna Carrico in 1857 in Washington County, Kentucky. John and Anna had 6 children: Mary Katherine, Marcella, Mary […]
The last time Ritchey and I visited the Linton Cemetery in Washington County, Kentucky, it looked like this – so overgrown, if you didn’t know there was a cemetery under all the weeds and bushes, you would never know it was there. Standing next to Captain John Linton’s […]
Susan Linton Moran was born 188 years ago – May 7, 1824 – in Washington County, Kentucky. Susan was the daughter of William Moran, Jr., and Susan Linton. In 1840 Susan married Richard Keene. They had 9 children: Mattie E., Susan Mary, Charles W., Letitia Ann, James Francis, […]
Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Adair County, Kentucky Lieutenant Nathan G. Butler was born in Adair County, March 25, 1828, within 400 yards of where he now resides, and is the eldest of twelve children, eleven of whom are still living, born to Champness and Amanda S. (Cheatham) Butler, […]
Matilda Carrico was born 194 years ago – May 6, 1818 – in Nelson County, Kentucky. Matilda was the daughter of Vincent Carrico and Mary Elder. Her parents migrated from Maryland around the turn of the century. Matilda’s siblings were John C., Charles C., Mary, Lucinda, John Vincent, […]
This cemetery is located at the corner of Coulter Road and Glenn Creek Lane in rural Washington County, Kentucky. I don’t know if this is a family cemetery, or if there was a church here at one time. Henry Trout March 10, 1825 – October 3, 1908 This […]
Lucinda Jane Brothers was born 165 years ago – May 5, 1847 – in Washington County, Kentucky. Lucinda was the daughter of William Brothers and Prudence Crouch. In 1864 she married James Polin McIlvoy. They had 4 children: William Alexander, Mary Ebbie, Mattie Eugenia and Thomas Joseph McIlvoy.
from They Called Stafford Home Traveler’s Rest Stafford County, Virginia Around 1700 James Ball acquired part of the huge Sherwood Forest tract which had been granted in 1667 to William Ball and Thomas Chetwood. James Ball’s grandson, Burgess Ball (1749-1800), inherited the property and was likely the builder […]
Mary Wells and George Yates, I, were married 341 years ago – May 4, 1671 – in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Mary, born in Lower Norfolk County, Virginia, was the daughter of Richard Wells and Frances Elizabeth White. George, born in Essex County, England, was the son of […]
Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Marion County, Kentucky Mrs. Mary J. Lancaster Spalding is a native Kentuckian, born on the 25th of May, 1816. She is a direct descendant of the Lancaster family of England, and her ancestors came to America about fifteen years after the Maryland colony was […]
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