Nehemiah Younger married Rachel Lytle on 5 September 1795 in Baltimore County, Maryland. Rachel was the second of his three known wives.
Weeks
This Week in the Family History: July 16–22, 2023
Houston G. Hankins and Mary Weeks married on 17 July 1833 in Livingston County, Kentucky. They were from different counties. How did they meet?
This Week in the Family History: June 4–10, 2023
Kathleen White Neely appeared in a Life Magazine ad for Maytag washers in 1961.
This Week in the Family History: May 7–13, 2023
Alford Taylor, the ninth of eleven children born to James Francis Taylor and Margaret E. Ramsey, was born on 7 May 1875 in Renfro Valley, Rockcastle County, Kentucky.
This Week in the Family History: January 15–21, 2023
Wilson R. Howard died on 19 January 1894 in Lebanon, Laclede County, Missouri at about age 31. He was hanged for the murder of Thomas McMichaels in Maries County, Missouri, which happened five years earlier.
This Week in the Family History: July 12–18
Feature: Nancy Jane Bennett 168 Years Ago: Nancy Jane Bennett was born on 17 July 1852 in Georgia. Her youngest son, James Doffin Lanier, gave that date when he provided the personal information for Nancy Jane’s death certificate in 1926.1Georgia Department of Public Health, death certificate 24347 (1926), Mrs. Nancy Jane Lanier; digital image, Georgia […]
This Week in the Family History: May 3–9
Feature: Madison Owens and Cecilia Owens 157 Years Ago: M. C. Owens completed a marriage bond on 7 May 1863 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, for the intent to marry Cecilia Owens.1 The marriage certificate portion of the bond is blank and no other records in the County Clerk’s office record the official date they married. […]
This Week in the Family History: April 26–May 2
Feature: Elmer Dennis Hopkins 60 Years Ago: Elmer Dennis Hopkins retired from the Louisville and Nashville Railroad 28 April 1960. Except for a break of less than 10 months for service in the U.S. Army from May 1918 to June 1919, he had worked for L & N since 15 December 1915.1 Elmer was working […]
This Week in the Family History: July 17–23
July 17 ► 40 Years Ago: Anna Rose Taylor Chesnut died in 1976 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan. (Taylor line) ► 183 Years Ago: Houston G. Hankins and Mary “Polly” Weeks were married in 1833 in Livingston County, Kentucky. (Hankins line) July 20 ► 57 Years Ago: John William “Will” McCauley died in 1959 […]
This Week in the Family History: May 8–14
May 8 ► 261 years ago: Job Weeks was born in 1755 in Gloucester County, New Jersey. [Hankins line] May 12 ► 66 years ago: George Washington Owens died in 1950 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. [Taylor line] May 14 ► 137 years ago: Thomas Leander “Lee” Hankins and Samantha Angeline Petty were married in 1879 […]
