Saturday, August 18, 2018

History of Daviess County - Christopher D. Jackson


History of Daviess County

Recently I discovered a book published in 1883 about Daviess County that contained a information about people from Ohio County.  This includes people born in Ohio County that moved to Daviess County; people from Daviess County that married people from Ohio County; and some people that were born in Daviess County and moved to Ohio County and then moved back to Daviess County. I think I have short bios on 28 people who were born as early as 1797 and as late as about 1850. I will post all of these people one-by-one starting below.  The book has 854 pages and the official name of the book is:

“History of Daviess County, Kentucky. Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, Biographies of Representative Citizens.”




Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Charles Wesley Taylor



Source: A Sesqui-centennial History of Kentucky, 4 volumes, published 1945.



Saturday, August 11, 2018

The Blue and the Gray - 1905 - Beaver Dam





Source: Kentucky Eloquence, Past and Present; Library of Orations, After-Dinner Speeches, Popular and Classic Lectures and Poetry; editor Col. Bennett H. Young; published 1907 by Ben La Bree, Jr., Louisville, Kentucky. Page 348.


Saturday, August 4, 2018

John Russell Pirtle


Source: A Sesqui-centennial History of Kentucky, 4 volumes, published 1945.