Family Tree Nuts
“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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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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Ned said, “Daniel, I don’t believe there’s an Indian within 100 miles of this place”. He couldn’t have been any more wrong. To tell the story, we visite the gravesite of Edward Boone, better known as Ned Boone or Neddy Boone. Ned Boone is the brother of the famous, Daniel Boone and actually Daniel and…
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Some say it’s the birthplace of Bourbon Whiskey, it has the oldest bridge in Kentucky, and it’s one of the first settlements in the American west, Georgetown, Kentucky. In 1774, Deputy Surveyor for Fincastle County, Colonel John Floyd came here to locate lands to compensate soldiers from the French and Indian War. On 7 July…
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We may find it odd today that a man of the cloth would be involved in the production of distilled spirts but our ancestors likely wouldn’t have thought anything about it. Many joke and say that they wonder if it was “just for medicinal purposes” but it certainly was not. Bourbon whiskey has become a…
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In our last installment, Sam Houston Part III – Early Political Career, we discussed the different roles Houston played in the early political scene in Tennessee, and how, with the help of several influential mentors and allies, he secured a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1823, won reelection in 1825, and was elected…
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September 26, 1820…As a student of history and an avid Daniel Boone devotee, I simply could not let this day pass without paying homage to the man who arguably shaped the nation by helping to blaze the trail into Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap that led to the great influx of settlers seeking new lands…
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