Today we visit Nelson County to talk of property of John Speak. John Speak, born February 2, 1785, in Charles County, Maryland, came to Kentucky with his father Urban Speak, to Pottingers Creek, with approximately 25 Maryland families, to begin their life in Kentucky. John was a young […]
John Wheeler is my ninth great-grandfather. He was born in England and came to the colony of Maryland in 1652. The first evidence we have of John Wheeler, later Major John Wheeler, was January 22, 1652, when ‘The deposition of John Wheeler, age 21 or thereabouts, sworn and […]
St. Thomas Catholic Church in rural Nelson County, Kentucky, is centrally located in the county, south of Bardstown off US 31E. About 1787 Edward and Thomas Howard settled on the Poplar Neck of Beech Fork River. Thomas and wife Ann constructed a log house here in 1795. Members […]
Burials, St. Thomas Church, Nelson County, Kentucky (These are burial dates, not death dates.) 1851 February 16th – Laura Gilkey, wife of Richard Ballard, about 28 years old April 8th – Jemima Mattingly, daughter of James Mattingly and Laura Hagan, about 5 months old April 22nd – John […]
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