The following was taken from my Pioneer History of Washington County, Kentucky, edited and indexed by Michael L. Cook. Since the beginning of the year, I have come to thoroughly appreciate the work Michael did for genealogists during his lifetime. I purchased many of his books this year […]
This clipping from an old newspaper has been kept by my family for seventy-seven years. The notice of my great-great-grandmother’s death, Catherine Taylor Linton (the newspaper spelled it with a ‘K’), is the reason it still survives. Catherine Elizabeth Taylor was the daughter of John Compton Taylor and […]
This was a newspaper column published in The Springfield Sun in 1926. Before The War was a newspaper column devoted to gleanings from the lives of citizens of Springfield and Washington County before the War Between the States. Editor’s Note: This column will appear as a weekly Sun […]
John Edwin Smith is my gr-gr-grandfather. He was the son of Samuel E. Smith and Nancy Cusick, born March 30, 1830, in Marion County, Kentucky. He first married Ellen Lyons, daughter of Augustine Lyons. The marriage probably took place in Marion County, before December of 1850, when their […]
This is an old newspaper clipping from a 1941 Springfield Sun – the local newspaper for Washington County, Kentucky. I’m sure this was one my great-grandmother, Frances Barber Linton Montgomery, saved, since it was a few years before she died – and because her mother’s death, thirty-one years […]
James L. Moran was the son of Linton Lewis Moran and Sarah Rawlings, and the grandson of William Moran, Jr., and Susan Linton. James married his first cousin, Martha Jane Green, daughter of William Linton and Eliza Moran, but she died within two years of the marriage. He […]
Hillsborough Church, near Willisburg, Washington County, Kentucky. from The Springfield Sun, March 28, 1935 Curio Discovered by Willisburg Man Several Days Ago Estimated To Be More Than 150 Years Old; is Fine Speciman Another curio came to light in Washington County a few days ago when Mr. J. […]
The Springfield Sun, Washington County, Kentucky Thursday, May 2, 1907 Fire Destroys Frame Buildings on Main Street Heroic Work of the Fire Department Saves the Town What has been expected by Springfield citizens for years has happened! At about 3 o’clock this morning George B. Taylor discovered fire […]
This little piece was saved by my great-grandmother, Frances Barber Linton Montgomery. The obituary of her mother, Catherine Elizabeth Taylor Linton, is listed as one of the news items for that week. Catherine was the daughter of John Cotton Taylor and Susan Clark Edwards, both Washington County pioneers […]
New CD!!!!! The Samuel Riley White Family is a book I wrote several years ago incorporating information from my White and Coulter families from Washington County, Kentucky. In researching the descendants of my great-great-great-grandparents, Samuel Riley and Martha Lewis White, the last names of Royalty, Burkhead, Satterly, Foster, […]
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