William Collins born June 10, 1788, died November 13, 1874. Old Burlington Cemetery, Boone County, Kentucky. One old gravestone can give us so much information – with a little research, of course. William Collins is buried in Old Burlington Cemetery, in the city of that name, in Boone […]
Charlotte, wife of A. Bhymer, born December 3, 1828, died June 24, 1889. Independence Cemetery, Kenton County, Kentucky. Alford Bhymer, born April 28, 1824, died August 24, 1906. Mary Belle Pope, 1856-1930. James M. Williams, born June 4, 1816, died February 27, 1873, aged 67 years, 8 months […]
Captain H. W. Egelston, Co. G, 18th Ky V I, 1825-1908. Mary A., wife of H. W. Egelston, 1837-1893. Independence Cemetery, Kenton County, Kentucky. Hiram W. Egelston is buried in Independence Cemetery in the town of the same name, in Kenton County in northern Kentucky. It seems that […]
George B. Lipscomb, 1835-1918. Elizabeth Lipscomb, 1836-1921. Independence Cemetery, Kenton County, Kentucky. The Lipscomb family is represented in Independence Cemetery in Kenton County, Kentucky, by the gravestone of the father and mother – George B. Lipscom and Nancy Elizabeth Mardis – and their son, Thomas Lipscomb and his […]
In September of 2015 we visited the city cemetery of Independence in the county of Kenton. This wasn’t a huge cemetery, but an interesting one. Clouds were beginning to build, as you can tell from the photos, and we barely had time to take some photos before the […]
How interesting that so many in the family were flour millers! from Kentucky – A History of the State, Perrin, 1887 Kenton County David Keefer was born in Maryland, May 20, 1824, and is a son of William and Sarah (Euker) Keefer, natives, respectively, of Maryland and Pennsylvania. […]
from Kentucky – A History of the State, Perrin, 1887 Kenton County, Kentucky Alexander Davezac, a native of Toulouse, France, was born February 22, 1847, and is a son of Peter and Mary (Besson) Davezac. Peter Davezac came to the United States in 1859, sojourned awhile in St. […]
I have a photo of a lovely little girl to share with you today! Perched atop bales of hay she is adorable in her plaid dress with velvet cuffs. We get a good look at her little boots and the tiny ring on her left hand. Just look […]
The small town of Independence in Kenton County, Kentucky, was on our tour of northern Kentucky several weekends ago. Until I researched the woman for whom this gravestone represents, I didn’t realize the full meaning of the name of the town – quite by accident, I am sure, […]
from Kentucky – A History of the State, Perrin, 1887 Kenton County, Kentucky Thomas H. Kennedy, a native of Kenton County, Kentucky, was born February 3, 1833, and is a son of Thomas D. and Nancy (Davis) Kennedy, natives of Covington and Pennsylvania, respectively. Joseph Kennedy, the paternal […]
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