Page 10 -12 -- 90-Year-Old
Livingston County Native Wrote Her Memories In 1972
PHOTOS: Dr. Herbert B. Wolfe
(Cover Photo)
Page 13-16 -- The "Red
Fox Of The Mountains" Hanged For Murderous Crimes
Page 17-20 -- The Remarkable
Elijah P. Marrs: Slave, Soldier, Teacher, Preacher
PHOTOS: Elijah P. Marrs
Page 21-22 -- Gone Are The
Many Rural Post Offices Of Meade County
PHOTOS: Battletown Post Office;
Verda Bennett Hamilton
Page 23-25 -- Frankfort Was
Once A Deadly City Where Assassinations Abounded
PHOTO: A view of Frankfort, ca.
1940s.
Page 26-28 -- Hog Butchering
Memories From Big Willard In Perry County
PHOTOS: Hog Butchering Process
Page 29-32 -- Mountain Talk
Was Hard To Understand 100 Years Ago
PHOTOS: Mountaineer Woman Sketch
Page 33-34 -- "Old Stepping
Stone" Is A Part Of Dowell Family Heritage
PHOTO: Old Dowell Farmhouse,
Breckinridge County/The Stepping Stone
Page 35-36 - Buckhorn's Log-House
College Served Children Of Five Counties
PHOTOS: Witherspoon College at
Buckhorn/Louise Chappell At Laurel Fork/Majestic Countryside
at Buckhorn
Page 39-40 -- Two African-American
Cemeteries Found In Pendleton County
PHOTO: Grave marker of William
L. Southgate/Millers Ridge Cemetery
Page 41-42 -- A Letter From
Noted Kansas Saloon-Smasher, Carrie Nation
PHOTOS: Carrie
Moore Nation, Temperance Crusader.
Page 43 -- Pauline Marie Isabell
Cantrell: A Kentucky Matriarch
PHOTOS: Pauline
Cantell with her sisters.
Page 44 --
History Of Shelbiana Elementary, Pike County's Oldest Hand-Built
School
PHOTOS: Shelbiana
Elementary
Page 45-46
-- John G. Fee Fought For Social Equality At Berea And The Nation
PHOTOS:
John G. Fee
Page 47-48
-- Shell Family Roots Run Deep In Rockcastle County, Kentucky
PHOTOS:
Frank and Joann McGuire Shell And Family
Page 49
-- Many Kentucky Holiday Memories Came Out Of The Kitchen
PHOTOS:
Sketch
Page 58-61
-- The 1937 Flood In Louisville Via Radio Bradcasts
PHOTOS:
1937 Flood
Page 64 --
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to send in their books and other projects (pertaining to Kentucky)
to appear on this page.
McIntosh Family, Bach Family, Daniel
Boone, Wills Family, Weird Legends, Biographies And Social History
Page 62
-- Short Gleanings From Collins's 1878 Historical Sketches Of Kentucky: Little Known & Mostly Forgotten -- From
One Of Kentucky's Most Noted History Books.
Grant County, Mercer County, Boyle County, Bourbon County,
Mason County, Nelson County, Henry County
Page 66
-- Old-Time Recipes
To Enjoy Conducted by Darlene
Howard
Boiled Ham, Potato Griddle Cakes, Brown
Sweet Potatoes, Supreme Of Chicken, Baked Dressing, Baked Lima
Beans
Other Photos
Page 4-- Turner/Riley Family
of Morris Fork, Breathitt County.
Page 5 -- McKinly Family
Page 6 - Upper Laurel Fork School,
Bell County, ca. 1922-1923
Page 7 -- Fred Parker with children.
Page 8 -- Coal-loading station
of the Hatfield-Campbell Creek Coal Co., Glomawr, Perry County,
ca. 1950.
Page 9 -- Collinses of Breathitt
County.
Page 12 -- Home of William McChristy
Parker, Salem, Livingston County.
Page 13 -- Sarah
"Sally" Evans, who was born in 1832. Resided in Bell
County.
Page 15 -- Style Mart Basketball
Team Of 1936, Mayfield, Graves County.
Page 16-- Unidentified couple,
possibly Louis and Julia Robinson, of Estill County.
Page 20 -- Lindsey and Ophelia
Murphy, Nicholasville, Jessamine County.
Page 22 -- Grave marker of Civil
War veteran Cpl. Silas Benett (1842-1914).
Page 25--
Picturesque waterfall, Little Bloody Creek, Wolfe County.
Page 27
-- James Buchanon and Rachel Isabella Gabbard, both born in Owsley
County.
Page 30--
Mary Elizabeth Snyder Stanberry, born 1806 in Knox County, buried
in Laurel County.
Page 31
-- Children of Onnie H. Culp, 1954.
Page 38
-- A Mystery Photo from the collection of the estate of Julia
Adams Heller, Louisville.
Page 40-- Fred Frazure of McRoberts,
Letcher County.
Page 46 -- Andrew Saylor Family
of Floyd County.
Page 50-- Tranquil snow scene
in the beautiful woods of Kentucky.
Page 61 -- Family photo at Sess
Holbrook's home on Shootin' Fork in Wolfe County.
Page 62 -- Pine Grove School,
Bath County, ca. 1940.
Page 63 -- Rock Spring School,
Lawton, Carter County.
Page 64 -- Susan Jane Sweeney
Noble and Thomas Jefferson Noble family, Casey County.
Page 65 -- Children of Wilbert
Forest and Sanders and Annie Morris; Hardgrove daughters, Pulaski
County.
Page 66-- Mosleys/Howards of
Leslie County.
Page 68 -- West brothers, Clay
County.
Page 69 -- Edmona Lamb Coomes.
Page 70 -- Civil War Veterans;
Laney W. Davidson, Barwick, Breathitt County.
Page 72 -- Ada Lee "Dollie"
Hart Steele and George Wesley Steele; Hopkins celebrate 63 years
of marriage.
Page 73 -- Barnett mother and
daughters of Franklin County.
Page 74 -- McRoberts High School
Graduating Class; Rev. J. E. Durham and Wade Moore.
Page 75 -- Oscar and Dotty Berry
Davidson 50th anniversary.
Page 76 -- Sarah Frances Franklin
Back, a fifth generation descendant of Benjamin Franklin; Sherman
Cortsel Black; Iva Black Fields.
Page 77 -- PFC Jerome L. Clark
and Cpl. Herman H. Clark, both Scott County natives.
Page 78 -- Betty Murrell Jackson
and Wiley Jackson, Turkey Creek, Breathitt County.
Page 79 -- Mowerys of Kentucky.
Page 80 -- Earl and Alma Bryant,
Letcher County; William Lee Stone, Knott County.
Page 81 -- Rev. C. L. Brington
family, Breckinridge County, ca. 1919.
Page 82 -- Vernon R. Frazier,
Leslie County.
Page 83-- Davidson Substation
Dairy, Quicksand, Breathitt County.
Page 84-- Livingston County Ridge
Mine near Salem, ca. 1940.
Page 85 -- James Harrison Brewer,
Harlan County; Virgil Steed, Fayette County.
Page 86 -- Sharon Heights Hospital
employees, Jenkins, Letcher County.
Page 87 -- Butcher/Crouch photo,
Bath County; Matthew Reuben Barnett, Mt. Pisgah, Wayne County.
Page 88 -- 1942-43 Prestonsburg
High School Basketball Team.
Page 89 -- Dan and Jeanne Johnson
Stanberry, Lynn Camp School, Knox County, Kentucky.
Page 90 -- Green Daniel and Sylvania
Helton Daniel, ca. 1900.
Page 91-- James W. Sears and
Martha Ella Farmer Sears, Pulaski County.
Page 92 -- Levi D. Johnson and
Lillie Smith Johnson, married 6/16/1910.
Page 93 -- Adam and Louise Mann
celebrate 60th anniversary.
Page 94 -- Heaberlin Family,
Greenup County, ca. 1943.
Page 95-- L & N Track Gang,
Orlando, Rockcastle County.
Page 96-- Major Elisha Bowman
Treadway.
Page 97 -- D. N. Welch.
Page 98 -- Arnett family members,
Salyersville, Magoffin County.
Page 99 -- Four young soldiers
in Korea.
Page 102 -- Poe Family, 1912,
Floyd County.
Page 103 -- Loyall Indians, 1935
Football Team, Harlan County.
Page 104 -- Steed twins at Good
Samaritan Hospital, Lexington, Fayette County.
Page 105 -- McCloud Family, 1940,
Letcher County.
Page 106 -- Rev. Andrew Wilson,
Addie Bays, and Donna Wilson; 1940, Leslie County.
Page 107 -- Raymond Cook, Estill
Cook, and W. A. Cook, ca. 1940.
Page 110 -- Eva, Eva, and Virgil
Lee Barker.
Other Features
Page 16 -- Sketches of Kentucky's
Great Outdoors: Bob White In Kentucky
Page 19 -- Thoughts To Ponder
From The Kentucky Philosopher
Page 41 -- Kentucky Roadside
History Markers - They Tell The Story Of Our State: Trimble County
and Woodford County.
Page 52 -- Wise And Otherwise
Page 67 -- Word Puzzle: Legilsators
From Ohio County.
Page 71 -- Songs Kentuckians
Were Singing 100 Years Ago: Joy To The World
Page 53-54 Kentucky's 1879 State Gazetteer: A Look
At Kentucky Towns
Ashland, Boyd County.
Coldwater, Calloway County.
Coral Hill, Barren County.
PHOTOS: Deming
High School, Mt.Olivet, Robertson County; Poke Street, Covington,
Kenton County; a view of beautiful homes in Maysville, Mason
County.
Page 51
Kentucky Genealogy
Websites: Each month The Kentucky Explorer presents
websites related to genealogy in Kentucky for our growing number
of readers who use computers and the Internet.
Conley Corner
Graves County Genealogy And History
Scary Stories Of Mammoth Cave
Feuds
Kenvir, Harlan County, Kentucky
Fourmile Explosion, 1945
Silver Bear Books
McCracken County History And Genealogy
Union County History and Genealogy
If you have a website you would like
listed, please e-mail us at: kyexgen@tgtel.com
Page 56-57 Readers Share Postcard Views ca. 1910
"Summer on the Cumberland"
Burnside, Pulaski County.
Crittenden County Hospital, Marion.
Devil's Hollow Bridge of Frankfort,
Franklin County.
Mr. Nelson H. Trimble's residence, Mt.
Sterling, Montgomery County.
Masse Memorial Hospital, Paris, Bourbon
County.
Page 68-72 Kentucky Genealogy Help Line: Queries are published
free up to 50 words as space is available.
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Hammons
Page 73-74
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Page 75-95 I Remember
By Our Readers -- From All Over
Kentucky
Thanks For The Memories, Bob
Childhood Memories
The Mail Carrier
The Mowerys Of Kentucky
An Old-Fashioned Christmas
Memories Of Long Ago
A Mighty Storm
Honoring My Dad
Cecil E. "P. I." Evans
My Sentimental Journey
A Kentucky Christmas
Yesterday's Memories
How Did I Grow Up?
Slow Me Down, Lord
Memories Of Grassy Branch
The One-Room School
House On Half-Mile Branch
Page 96-97
Strictly Kentucky Genealogy Various
materials to aid in Family History Research.
Treadway
Welch
Page 100-101
Readers Share Old Photos
Dawson Boys In 1927, Louisville.
307th Bomb Squadron in Korea, ca. 1952.
Avawam Basketball Team ca. 1951, Perry
County.
Everett "Mug" Moore, Johnson
County.
Jasper and Reva Combs, Perry County.
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