Family Tree Nuts
Abraham Lincoln was known for his humble backwoods, self-taught beginnings. It was part of his charm and why so many regular Americans supported him. Many felt he was just like them, salt of the earth, log cabin living, hardworking Americans. Without a doubt, that is the world that he came from. A quick visit to…
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Abraham Lincoln said, “My earliest recollection was of the Knob Creek place”. Knob Creek was the place where young Abe learned to walk and talk, read and write, it’s where he first went to school, where he first worked a garden with his sister Sarah, where he witnessed the death of his baby brother, and…
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The little piece of land was so important to President Abraham Lincoln’s father, that he spent years fighting for it. That little piece of land was Sinking Springs Farm, which is now the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Park, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. In December of 1808, the young family of Thomas Lincoln, Nancy Hanks Lincoln…
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“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” “If you ever dream of beating me, you better wake up and apologize.” “I hated every minute of training, but I said don’t quit, suffer…
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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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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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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! 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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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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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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