We visit Old Paint Lick Cemetery in Garrard County again today. Our focus is on the Walker family, Edwin Hockaday Walker and wife Elizabeth Woods Walker. Edwin was the son of John Williams Walker (1802-1885) and Jane Miller Kavanaugh (1809-1895), born January 21, 1843. Elizabeth was the daughter […]
From A History of Muhlenberg County by Otto A. Rothert Francis M. Finley, a Federal soldier, and Thomas M. Finley, a Confederate soldier, were brothers, members of one of the dozen or more families in Muhlenberg County that were represented in both armies. They were born in the […]
Last week I posted a 1903 wedding photograph. Mention was made about how many grooms in the 1800’s were 15 to 20 years older than their brides. And Nicki, one of my readers, made a comment that many young women in the 1890’s and beyond married older Civil […]