Margaret Ann Taylor Hennessey was born Washington County, Kentucky, June 8, 1836, the daughter of John Compton Taylor and Susan Clark Edwards. She never knew her mother since Susan died in December of the same year. Margaret was the youngest of four siblings which in addition to herself […]
How many of you have fantasized about one area of your genealogy research? Something that seems unattainable, but would give so much information for your family tree? I have always felt drawn to the Linton family cemetery, located on North Hwy 555 just outside the small town of […]
Henry Taylor, Sr., is my 5th great-grandfather. His father, Rev. John Taylor was from Lancaster County, Virginia, which was the birthplace for Henry. His mother, I believe, is Mary Bumbury, but I haven’t any proof. Henry Taylor was born about 1707 and died in 1771. His first wife […]
Edward Edwards Linton and Catherine Elizabeth Taylor are my great-great-grandparents. Edward was the son of William Linton and Eliza Lyon Moran, born August 13, 1824, Washington County, died September 5, 1886, in Marion County. Catherine was the daughter of John Compton Taylor and Susan Clark Edwards, born January […]
I have an old, old accounting book handed down through the years that belonged to my third great-grandfather, John Compton Taylor. The pages are yellowed and tattered, and only the back cover remains. Business accounts are listed on the pages, one for each person. Most are for boarding […]
This clipping from an old newspaper has been kept by my family for seventy-seven years. The notice of my great-great-grandmother’s death, Catherine Taylor Linton (the newspaper spelled it with a ‘K’), is the reason it still survives. Catherine Elizabeth Taylor was the daughter of John Compton Taylor and […]
$300 one day after date I promise to pay Nancy Edwards three hundred dollars for value received this 15th 1840 Benjamin Edwards Received of Theodore Clarkson and Martha his wife, late Edwards, Catherine Edwards and Sarah Edwards, heirs and devisees of Benjamin M. Edwards, deceased, three hundred dollars […]
The last of the cased photographs are tintypes – which is actually a misnomer since they were not made of tin, but metal. These were easy to make, inexpensive and durable. An easy way to know if you have a tintype is to use a magnet – the […]
The second type of early photographs were ambrotype photos. Ambrotypes look very similar to the later tintype photos. An easy way to test them is to use a magnet – even through the case you can fell the attraction of the magnet with the iron used for the […]
In going through my great-grandmother’s notes this morning I found this sheet, in her handwriting, a list of primarily Edwards family members, with a marriage to a Taylor, a Linton and a Montgomery. This was one of those days when I truly ‘read’ what was in front of […]
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