During the lengthy research on my Linton family – 50 years at this point – I have found more information on the extended family than any of my other ancestors. Within that time period I have met and collaborated with numerous Linton descendants, distant cousins that are very […]
Today I share with you the original National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution working sheet for application of Adelaide Linton Cartier. She is a cousin, along with being a cousin of Garwood Linton, my good friend (and cousin!) from Logan County and Jefferson County. He brought Adelaide’s […]
Today I share with you a photo of John Wesley Linton and wife Emma Adelaide Proctor, and two of their children. With a bit of thought and research I believe I can tell you which of their five children are in the photo. Let’s start with a little […]
A good friend, Garwood Linton, entrusted some of the Linton information from his family into my keeping for awhile. This is the information gathered by Adelaide Linton Cartier, daughter of Hugh Walter Linton and Eliza Belfield Garnett. You have heard me speak of the letters written by my […]
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 […]
Linton Cemetery, October 11, 2013 My 4th great-grandfather, Captain John Hancock Linton, came to Washington County, Kentucky, from Loudoun County, Virginia, in early November of 1818. Some of his children arrived in Kentucky a few years before this date, but by 1818 the captain and his wife Ann […]
During our visit to Logan County, Kentucky, in March of 2013, Ritchey and I were fortunate to meet a Linton cousin – Garwood Linton! He is also a descendant of Captain John Hancock Linton through son Benjamin Franklin Linton. I descend from Captain John’s son William and his […]
Frances Garnett Linton was born 81 years ago – September 25, 1932 – in Christian County, Kentucky. Frances was the daughter of Hugh Walter Linton and Eliza Belfield Garnett. She married R. W. Cartier and they had one daughter: Frances Elaine Cartier.
John Wesley Linton, the son of Benjamin Burkett Linton and Nancy Jane Newman, was born November 14, 1843, in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He was the grandson of Benjamin Franklin Linton and Lucy Crewdson, who married April 12, 1805, in Fluvanna County, Virginia; and the great-grandson of Captain John […]
Hugh Walter Linton died 68 years ago – March 21, 1945 – in Christian County, Kentucky. Hugh was the son of John Wesley Linton and Emma Adelaide Proctor. He married Eliza Belfield Garnett February 5, 1913, in Logan County, Kentucky. Hugh and Eliza had three children: Hugh Walter, […]
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