Today we examine the will of John Smith of Prince George’s County, Maryland. This will is interesting to me since John Smith married the widow of Jonathan Prather, Jane (I do not know her maiden name). Their son Jonathan Prather is named in the will, evidently young enough […]
I have spent a great deal of time recently in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Not physically, of course, although I do hope to visit Maryland one day. That’s the pleasant reality of having online resources, through photographs and information archives. Ritchey’s Prather family are from the county, as […]
Baruch Prather house, Raven Run Nature Sanctuary, Fayette County, Kentucky. If you remember I worked last week and part of this week on Ritchey’s Prather family. Baruch William Prather, October 20, 1742-December 2, 1810, and Sarah Jane Higgins, August 23, 1761-January 10, 1844, of Prince George’s County, Maryland, […]
Prather family plot, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Any time I see the last name Prather my mind goes to Ritchey’s 5th great-grandfather, William Baruch Prather, 1742-1810, buried at Raven Run in Fayette County. Baruch was born a Marylander, the son of Aaron Allen Prather, 1710-1777. […]
Kentucky Obituaries, 1787-1854. Compiled by G. Glenn Clift, 1977. For the year 1823, taken from The Lexington Record. Thomas Prather, of Louisville, late president of the Louisville Branch Bank. Died in February 1823. R 2/10 L. McConnell, of Lexington. Died April 19, 1823. R 4/21 Mary Hawkins, widow […]
Bourbon Cty., KY John Adkins married Elizabeth Stokewell 21 Mar 1789 Woodford Cty., KY Stephen Weekly married Betsy Arnold 21 Mar 1790 Mercer Cty., KY John S. Taylor married Sarah Gibson 21 Mar 1792 Mercer Cty., KY James Ritchey married Mary Armstrong 21 Mar 1794 Mercer Cty., KY […]
Mercer County Will Book One – Page One Will of Thomas Prather In my 34+ years of living in Harrodsburg I have never been to the county clerk’s office for genealogy research – I have only one ancestor from Mercer County. Thursday I went to the courthouse to […]
Coulter Marriages – Washington County, Kentucky Charles Coulter married Nancy Lamkin 14 Apr 1814 Charles R. Coulter married Amanda Derringer 19 Nov 1891 David R. Coulter married Elizabeth Yocum 16 Aug 1835 David R. Coulter married Elizabeth Yocum 20 Aug 1835 George Coulter married Amanda Riley 27 Aug […]
Isaiah and Lydia Ross Hill
1929 Wedding
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Ritchey's Paternal Grandmother
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Klein Sod House