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 […]
Prather family plot, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Any time I see the last name Prather my mind goes to Ritchey’s 5th great-grandfather, William Baruch Prather, 1742-1810, buried at Raven Run in Fayette County. Baruch was born a Marylander, the son of Aaron Allen Prather, 1710-1777. […]
This will of George Grundy was found in the first will book of Jefferson County, on the first two pages. He lived in the area that would become Washington County in 1792. In 1784, when his will was written, Kentucky was divided into three very large counties – […]
Seward Merrill Lemont The story of the Seward Merrill Lemont family is one of pioneer travels and business acumen. Seward Lemont was born in Cumberland County, Maine, January 21, 1834. He was one of a long line of Lemont’s from that state; the furthest back I could find […]
I have been to Eastern Cemetery in Louisville twice within a two-month time period. Ritchey and I were there around the first of October of last year; Linton and I came again the first of December. This cemetery is beside the much larger Cave Hill Cemetery, both located […]
Our father, Wendel Zoffinger, born September 29, 1817, died July 12, 1887. Susana, wife of Wendel Zoffinger, born February 10, 1810, died March 22, 1880. Friedrich Zoffinger, born October 10, 1819, died February 25, 1872. Johann Nickolaus Lauffer, born September 27, 1833, died October 7, 1875. Jakob F. […]
Charles Edwin Gheens, July 4, 1878 – November 11, 1961. Mary Jo Gheens, wife of Charles Edwin Gheens and Richard H. Hill, October 19, 1882 – June 4, 1982. Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. One of the treasures of Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville is the […]
Cave Hill Cemetery is located on Baxter Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. There are 296 acres, 49 of which were sold to the cemetery in 1863 by the Douglass family. It came with an agreement that the fence around the family lot would remain. Let me share my photos […]
My son, Linton, lives in Indianapolis, about a four-hour drive from Harrodsburg. With his hectic schedule we don’t have as much time as I would like to spend together – the mother coming out in me! But once a year we have our day – or weekend – […]
William Christian was one of the early settlers on Bear Grass Creek in Jefferson County, at that time still part of Virginia. The son of Captain Israel Christian and Elizabeth Starke, William was born in Augusta County, Virginia, in 1743. About 1768 William Christian married Anne Henry, sister […]
I am a family historian, a genealogist, one who puts families together, who finds those who have been lost for many years and acquaints modern day generations with their ancestors. There's nothing like having a full family tree!
Isaiah and Lydia Ross Hill
John Linton Edwards
1929 Wedding
Revolutionary War heroes and families.
Ritchey's Paternal Grandmother
George and Caroline's Wedding Day
Klein Sod House
