Genealogy KY Families - KY Family Stories

June 2, 2022

Discovering My Link to The Old Stone House

Thomas and Dinah Kennedy settled Covington, KY and ran a ferry. They lived in the Old Stone House.

May 29, 2022

Randolph Martin’s Life Intersects Two Significant Events of the 1800s

Was he the Forest Gump of the 1800s? Randolph Martin’s life had touchpoints on remarkable events in Kentucky and US History. As a Civil…

May 3, 2022

Teamster Saves Seamstress’s Heart When Rascal Forsakes Her

Teamster, Patrick Hollearn married the stern seamstress, Cordelia Hadley. Learn about teamster work in the early 1900s.

April 24, 2022

Fairytale Life for Marie Hollearn Ends Tragically at The Eads Bridge

James Tilton looked across the Eads Bridge to the St. Louis streetlights casting a glow on the Mississippi River. While waiting for his shift…

April 18, 2022

Frank C Hollearn Uses an 1890-Style Hustle to Find a Path to Success

Frank Hollearn (1854-1922) had hustle and ambition; he wanted more than farm life in Kentucky offered.

April 2, 2022

John & Margaret Hollearn in America

John and Margaret Barry Hollearn, Irish immigrants, raised their family in the Montgomery County, KY area during the late 1800s.

March 31, 2022

Ice Wagon is Risky Work for Jack Hollearn

Born in Virginia, John was the first-born child of John and Margaret Barry Hollearn. He drove the ice wagon in Mt. Sterling, KY.

July 22, 2021

Lost Daughter of a Entertaining Kentucky Politician

This is the biography of Mary “Polly” Salyer (1842-1915) was the bastard daughter of Samuel Salyer, who lived most of her life in Breathitt County, Kentucky.

July 20, 2021

Genealogy Challenges: Searching for the Right Thomas Watkins

There were multiple Thomas Watkins roaming North Carolina around 1800. Here is part of the genealogy for the Rowan County one.

July 19, 2021

Private Thomas Watkins Role in Defeating the Elite Tory Army

Ancestor Bio: Thomas Watkins (1751-1854) This Kentucky family story actually begins in North Carolina during the American Revolution. My sixth great-grandfather, Thomas Watkins, served…