Southeast Kentucky Family

This story was orginally published on December 30, 2008. It concerns two pictures which have been identified as Sarah Waldrup and Susannah W...

Once upon a time I sent the Boone family history to my cousin, Kris. I used my research as well as the information collected by the Boone Hi...

On Saturday morning we drove down to Berlin, Ohio and tasted cheese and fudge and bought baked goods and popcorn. Lana got bored with seeing...

I attended the Giant Festival last year in September. Part of the activities includes a dinner that the organizers put on for any Bates fami...

Linda at the cemetery where Joel Ellis Wright & Eliza Agnes Bates are buried. I had general directions on where to find Joel and Eliza...

There are three men that died within the last thirteen months who I would like to remember here at the end of the year -- only one is relate...

Ben Buster Taylor Email from Joe Bates on January 6, 2008 His dads name was Bill Taylor who died when Ben was very young. Bill Taylor was in...

Larry LePage Email from John Roberts to Joe Bates and others Teammates and Friends, Our old friend and Teammate 'Leaping Larry' LePa...

I got an email about Seldom Wright.  I spent a lot of time trying to find an obituary for her.  I even joined an online newspaper archives s...

Joel and Susannah Wright's daughter, Margaret, never married. She did have a daughter named Sidney. The father is unknown. Sidney had a ...

While we were at the How Do You Measure Up booth having our picture taken with Anna and Martin we saw President Lincoln enjoying some homema...

Sometimes it is hard to imagine how big Martin and his wife were.  At the How Do You Measure Up booth there was a ring made to duplicate the...

We all stayed to watch the final performance of the play.   Again, it was wonderful.  I sat up closer and got a few shots.  It was definitel...