This started out as simply a post about the golden wedding anniversary of George and Eleanor Blatterman. I found the article in the October 24, 1893, issue of The Evening Bulletin of Maysville Kentucky. Many times I will do a newspaper search on golden wedding anniversaries as they […]
Malnor Coons Blaine and Mary C. Phister met and married after the Civil War on May 20th, 1874. Malnor was 28 years of age, Mary was 26. Both were born in Maysville, their ancestors having settled there in the early years of the city. Malnor was a minister, […]
While looking for a will in the Order Books of Mason County, I came across the following two notices of citizenship given to Thomas Fury and John Maloney, both natives of Ireland. In 1859 Victoria, Queen of England and Ireland, and their sovereign, had ruled for 22 years. […]
John Smart was aware he didn’t have much longer on this earth when he wrote his will July 22, 1791. The will was probated three months later, October 25th. This is the first will probated in Mason County after it was formed May 1, 1789. This was two […]
Elijah C. Phister, 1822-1887, Maysville Cemetery, Mason County, Kentucky. ‘In loving memory of a noble, useful life.’ The Evening Bulletin, Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky Monday, May 16, 1887 Judge Phister Dead The Mason County Bar Loses a Prominent Member, and the City of Maysville a Distinguished Citizen A […]
Know all men by these presents, that we, John Chambers, Jr., and John W. Henry, are held and firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in the penal sum of fifty pounds, current money, for the payment of which, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, […]
John Trotter Langhorne, born January 4, 1779, died June 30, 1833. Elizabeth Baxter, wife of John Trotter Langhorne, born November 26, 1798, died February 5, 1879. Maysville Cemetery, Mason County, Kentucky. Elizabeth Baxter Payne was the daughter of Duval Payne (1764-1830) and Hannah Innes Brent (1769-1837). She married […]
In memory of Nicholas Wallingford, was born December 14, 1759, and departed this life September 5, 1829, aged 69 years, 8 months, 21 days. Mt. Gilead Cemetery, Mason County, Kentucky. Nicholas Wallingford was born in Frederick County, Virginia, the son of Benjamin Franklin Wallingford and Prudence Elliott. He […]
My objective today was to show how easy it is to follow an ancestor in small-town newspapers. A newspaper of this kind has room to add details of the normal activities of its citizens that a larger newspaper does not. Visiting friends and relatives, club and social activities, […]
The horrors of cholera epidemics throughout the 19th century devastated families. In 1833 the disease ran rampant, beginning in Maysville, Mason County, in May. Cholera spread quickly throughout the state. Nineteen members of one Bourbon County family were victims; in Scott County, sixteen from one family. From Collin’s […]
Isaiah and Lydia Ross Hill
1929 Wedding
Revolutionary War heroes and families.
Ritchey's Paternal Grandmother
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Klein Sod House