Note by Phyllis Brown: This is the family group sheet for Captain John Linton and wife Ann Nancy Mason. Ten children, ten original descendants. But think of the number that would be now. There are eight generations from Captain John to my children – my Linton who is […]
The companion picture to my grandmother’s published yesterday – my Great-Aunt Maggie. Again, beautiful material for the dress, lace collar – and Maggie is wearing a watch (my grandmother is, too, but I couldn’t tell until I enlarged the picture). Papa didn’t approve of Aunt Maggie’s choice of […]
Note by Phyllis Brown: Alice Linton was known as “Auntie” to my mother. Not that she knew her – mom was four when she died. I’m sure she remembers stories her grandmother told about her sister Alice. My mother has “Auntie’s” table – a small 2 foot by […]
This beautiful picture of my great-grandparents and their first three children was taken in approximately 1898. Robert E. Lee Montgomery and Frances Barber Linton were married in Washington County, Kentucky, February 7, 1893. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1943, two years before Frances passed […]
Washington County, Kentucky, Marriage Bond Know all men by these presents that we, Horatio Mudd and Lewis Linton, are held and firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in the just and full sum of fifty pounds current money to the payment of which well and truly to […]
Note by Phyllis Brown: Captain John Linton and his wife, Ann Nancy Mason, had a total of ten children – all of which were given legacies in his will. They are listed as follows with their spouses: Elizabeth Rebecca Linton married Richard Keene (Elizabeth was named for her […]
Note by Phyllis Brown: William Linton Lewis is a nephew to my Captain John Linton. His mother was Catherine Jennings Linton, older sister to Captain John. Catherine married Joseph Lewis, son of Vincent and Ann Longworth Lewis, all of Loudoun County, Virginia. William Linton Lewis moved to Nelson […]
Note by Phyllis Brown: Ann Scarlett is my 9th great-grandmother. I am actually descended from her through two children – Ann Green who married Edward Barton and Lettice Green who married Edward Smith. Ann first married William Green, and after his death, Martin Scarlett. Will of Ann Green […]
Note by: Phyllis Brown: The following is taken from the Prince William County Deed Book Q 1763-1768, pp. 362-363. John Hancock, son of Scarlett Hancock, sold land to John Tayloe. Evidently there was some dispute with Simon Hancock claiming to have some right to the land. The interesting […]
Pleasant Grove Presbyterian Church Pleasant Grove Presbyterian Church is located in the northeastern part of Washington County, just south of the Bluegrass Parkway. From the parkway take Highway 555 south, and then make a right turn onto Highway 153. It was begun in 1833 on part of the […]
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