Grove Hill Cemetery is located in the city of Shelbyville in Shelby County, Kentucky. It is a beautifully kept cemetery with a mixture of old and new stones. We enjoyed our visit June 6, 2017 – I can’t believe it’s been five years! Ritchey found a geocache in […]
It was a dark and stormy morning – yes, yes it was. Thunder, lightning and rain in torrents. Internet connection wasn’t there. So this post is late today! Today I share with you the will and codicil of William Hayden from Washington County Will Book A, pages 21-24. […]
Thomas Marshall McClanahan has rested in Green Lawn Cemetery in Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky, for 177 years. A native of Westmoreland County, Virginia, he was the son of Reverend William Thomas McClanahan and Mary Sophronia Marshall. Thomas’ grandfather, William, came from Ireland – as if you didn’t recognize […]
I decided to go to Paducah in McCracken County, Kentucky, today. Even though I sit at my desk in Rudyard Township in Michigan, with the cemetery photographs we have taken over the years, Ancestry and other online resources, and my genealogy books, I can whisk myself away to […]
Jonathan Edwards, Sr., is my 5th great-grandfather. Born in Maryland, he married Sarah Barber, and moved to Loudoun County before 1795. His children were born in Maryland, including my 4th great-grandfather Edward Barber Edwards. Edward is given a slave named Stephen in his father’s will. When Edward and […]
My last post was an introduction to Philip West and Mary Alice Slazor of Richland County, Illinois. If you remember I won an auction for their large, oval portraits. Today we will learn more about this family through other sources I’ve found. From the Illinois Civil War Muster […]
Since Covid-19 has hit I know many genealogical and historical libraries are closed to the public. I’m not sure if they have reopened. My genealogy library consists of 399 volumes – most on Kentucky history and Kentucky counties, many on Virginia and Maryland (since I have ancestors who […]
Our last post was about Colonel Richard Taylor, a descendant of a long line of Taylors that came from Carlisle, England. Richard’s father was Zachary Taylor, who lived in Orange County, Virginia, where Richard was born in 1744. Richard Taylor fought in many battles during the Revolutionary War, […]
The Genealogical Forum of Portland, Oregon, is the largest genealogical library in the Pacific Northwest. They offer 52,000 books, newspapers and other items, along with an amazing number of digital records. If you are a member, you can search their online records. They also sell items in their […]
Adam Beatty was born in Frederick County, Maryland, May 10, 1777, to Col. William Beatty, Jr., and Mary Dorothy Grosch. Adam Beatty came to Kentucky, and about 1803 married Sarah Green. The couple had five sons – William Rochester, John Charlton, Henry Oscar, Ormond and Adam. Beatty was […]
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
Kentucky Kindred Genealogy 