Month: February 2022

MURDER? MYSTERY! HEADLESS CORPSE FOUND ON CIVIL WAR GRAVE!

By Family Tree Nuts / 02/25/2022 / Comments Off on MURDER? MYSTERY! HEADLESS CORPSE FOUND ON CIVIL WAR GRAVE!

Creepy things have been known to happen at night in the old graveyards, grave robbers creep around digging up the dead looking for gold and silver. Picture this, a headless corpse dressed in a tuxedo with white gloves sitting on top of a coffin of a Civil War Colonel who has been dead for 114…

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MOST UNDERRATED MAN IN FRONTIER HISTORY, BENJAMIN LOGAN

By Family Tree Nuts / 02/18/2022 / Comments Off on MOST UNDERRATED MAN IN FRONTIER HISTORY, BENJAMIN LOGAN

 One of the most important Kentucky founders is buried on the edge of a cornfield and a creek bank. General Benjamin Logan. Benjamin Logan was born in 1742, in Augusta County, Virginia. An interesting not well-known fact about him is that he married Ann Montgomery, whose sister married Colonel William Casey, the namesake of Casey…

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40-MILE RIDE TO SAVE AMERICA! PAUL REVERE OF THE SOUTH!

By Family Tree Nuts / 02/18/2022 / Comments Off on 40-MILE RIDE TO SAVE AMERICA! PAUL REVERE OF THE SOUTH!

 This is the story of Captain John Jacques Jouett, Jr. His ride to save America was an amazing and an exciting feat. Captain Jack Jouett was born 7 December 1754, in Albemarle County, Virginia, and he wasn’t of normal ancestry. His father owned a tavern called “The Swan” that was quite a popular hangout spot…

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THE BLIND BARD OF KENTUCKY! MORRISON HEADY, INSPIRATION TO ALL!

By Family Tree Nuts / 02/18/2022 / Comments Off on THE BLIND BARD OF KENTUCKY! MORRISON HEADY, INSPIRATION TO ALL!

The Blind Bard of Kentucky! Even though he was blind by his teenage years, and deaf by the time he was 40, he became an accomplished author, poet, and invented creations that helped the deaf and blind, James “Morrison” Heady. Heady was born on 19 July 1829, in Elk Creek, Kentucky. When he was a…

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AMAZING HISTORY AT HIGH BRIDGE, KENTUCKY

By Family Tree Nuts / 02/17/2022 / Comments Off on AMAZING HISTORY AT HIGH BRIDGE, KENTUCKY

 Isn’t it amazing? At one time, it was the tallest bridge over a navigable waterway in North America. High Bridge Kentucky!  High Bridge spans over the Kentucky River, with Jessamine County on the north end, and Mercer County on the south end. Just a few hundred yards up river from the bridge is the mouth…

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STORY OF MAN IN THE WWII DOOLITTLE RAID PHOTO

By Family Tree Nuts / 02/16/2022 / Comments Off on STORY OF MAN IN THE WWII DOOLITTLE RAID PHOTO

The WWII photo taken form the Doolittle Raid is one of the most well known images of the war but like every photo, this one has so much more to offer us. This story is about Clarence Moore “Bob” Logsdon, a young boy that grew up during the Great Depression in Fairhope, Alabama and went…

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