Robert Thompson Bean, Wholesale Grocer, was born June 15, 1842, near Mt. Sterling, Montgomery County. He is the oldest son of James and Mary Bean. His father was a highly respected farmer of Montgomery County, and gave him every advantage of education, which was interrupted, however, by ill […]
This is surely the longest will I’ve read. The will itself is eight pages, with many limitations on what can be done with what is given to wife and children. As we always love to see, Nicholas Hadden listed his children, the two girls with their married names. […]
Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records, by Mrs. Harry Kennett McAdams, 1929 Copy of Newspaper Article, Printed in “Sentinel-Democrat,” Mt. Sterling, Ky., March 14, 1929 We are publishing below, through the courtesy of Mrs. Rezin Owings and Mrs. W. P. Oldham, a sketch of the life of Rev. John […]
I. W. Banta, Pleasureville Cemetery, Henry County, Kentucky. It must have been that Isaac Washington Banta was so well known that having “Pappy” written on his individual gravestone meant everyone in Shelby and Henry counties knew exactly who he was. His devoted wife, Belle Dooley Banta, has “Mammy” […]
W. H. H. Miller, November 5, 1840-June 18, 1913. Nannie Gibson Miller, December 19, 1840-January 24, 1908. Machpelah Cemetery, Mt. Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky An old stone, over one hundred years old, stands in the Machpelah Cemetery in the small town of Mt. Sterling, Montgomery County, in remembrance […]
Enoch Gravestone, Machpelah Cemetery, Mt. Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky The Mt. Sterling Advocate, Montgomery County, Kentucky Wednesday, February 2, 1910 Mr. John C. Enoch, who for 22 years has been a resident of our city, died at a Cincinnati hospital on Thursday morning, January 27, 1910, and was […]
Johnson Gravestone, Machpelah Cemetery, Mt. Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky. Col. Thomas Johnson loomed large in Montgomery County. He lived there from early childhood, worked hard at farming in his early years until the Civil War. Col. Johnson raised a regiment in Mt. Sterling in support of the South. […]
Amanda C. Robertson, born March 5, 1812, died August 22, 1902. Machpelah Cemetery, Mt. Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky. The Mt. Sterling Advocate, Montgomery County, Kentucky Tuesday, August 26, 1902 Robertson – At the home of Miss Mary McDonald in this city on Friday morning, August 22, 1902, Mrs. […]
Today when one thinks of a wedding, a white dress covered with lace comes to mind. Not so in in the nineteenth century – most wedding dresses were any color other than today’s white. A reader told me about a green wedding dress that her third great-grandmother wore […]
George W. Thomas, born April 17, 1804, died February 25, 1863. Mary Ann, wife of George W. Thomas, born November 12, 1812, died February 12, 1846. Thomas Grubbs, born January 16, 1775, died March 9, 1859. Col. James Mason, September 29, 1769 – March 1855. Married January 7, […]
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 