Sisters Lucinda Howard Hopkins and Sarah Howard Brock (2nd and 3rd from left). Others unknown. Cindy and Sary were the daughters of John Covey Howard and Mary F. Morris. When Sary’s husband died in March 1933, she left Wallins Creek in Harlan County, Kentucky, to live with Cindy near Morrow, Ohio. Cindy’s husband had died […]
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This Week in the Family History: April 12–18
Feature: Berry Howard 118 Years Ago: Berry Howard’s trial for murder regarding the assassination of Kentucky Governor William Goebel began 16 April 1902.1 The Franklin County Grand Jury had returned indictments for ten men—five for murder and five as accessories—nearly two years earlier, on 17 April 1900. Berry was among the five indicted for murder. […]
This Week in the Family History: March 8–14
Feature: Henry Lewis Goodloe 241 Years Ago: Henry Lewis Goodloe was born 10 March 1779 1 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. He was the son of Thomas Allen Goodloe and Dorothy Waller.2 Henry was 10-years-old when his father first appeared on the Fayette County Tax List in 1789, three years before Kentucky gained statehood.3 He […]
This Week in the Family History: March 1–7
Feature: John Covey Howard 214 Years Ago: John Covey Howard was born 6 March 1806 in Knox County, Kentucky. He was the son of John Howard and Mary Risner.1 John was the earliest born of my sixteen 2nd great-grandparents. He also lived longer than the others, dying 20 November 1899 at 93. John Covey married […]
This Week in the Family History: February 16–22
Feature: August Krueger 93 Years Ago: August Krueger died 16 February 1927 in Berea, Madison County, Kentucky. His death certificate lists heart failure as the cause of death, but the family story is that he hemorrhaged when eating either a cracker or cornbread after having a tonsillectomy.1 August was the son of Fritz Krueger and […]
This Week in the Family History: February 9–15
Feature: William Washington Lanier 128 Years Ago: William Washington Lanier probably died 11 February 1892 in Fredonia, Chambers County, Alabama. That is the date on his headstone in what is now called Swint-Hammack Cemetery at Fredonia.1 An entry in a family Bible originally owned by William’s grandson, William Larkin Lanier, states he died on 28 […]
This Week in the Family History: January 5–11
Feature: Marie Krueger 65 Years Ago: Marie Krueger and Henry Cox were in a serious two-car accident 9 January 1954 near Calloway in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. Henry was driving north on U.S. 25 when the driver of the other car got into his lane. Henry swerved to miss the other car, but he couldn’t get […]
Heirloom: Woven by Mary F. Morris Howard
Heirloom ducks? Yes, but before we get to that let’s talk about my 2nd great-grandmother who is connected to them. As with most Marys of her time, Mary F. Morris was called Polly. She was born in the Watts Creek area of Harlan County, Kentucky to Littleton Morris and Martha Mark. The year is debatable, […]
Longevity: The Hopkins Siblings Had It
Considering that life expectancy is currently 78.6 years,1 the longevity of Jim and Cindy’s children is remarkable. The average age of their nine children who lived past infancy was 83.4 years. James Arton Hopkins and Lucinda Howard married on Christmas Day 1885 in Harlan County, Kentucky. Their 10 children were born between 1886 and 1906. The youngest […]
Start: Why I’m a Genealogist
Emma Ewers Taylor Hopkins was responsible for my start in genealogy, even though it didn’t happen until 24 years after she died. Becoming a genealogist was the last thing on my mind when I picked up my maternal grandmother’s fill-in-the-blanks family tree book in 2002. I hadn’t seen it since I looked at it around […]