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Category: Kentucky History

The Battle of Perryville, Kentucky 8 October 1862

Posted onFebruary 18, 2021February 20, 2021

CategoriesCivil War, Kentucky HistoryTagsBattle of Perryville, Civil War, Civil War in Kentucky

USS Indianapolis (CA-35) and the Kentucky Hero, Robert Earl McDowell

Posted onJuly 29, 2019July 30, 2019

Seaman 1st/C. McDowell, Robert Earl (8558560). Born 12 Dec 1924 in Jackson County, Kentucky. Fourth child of Bert and Fairy (Reynolds) McDowell. Robert grew up on a farm at Horse Lick, Jackson Co. His father ran a grocery and was Continue Reading

CategoriesKentucky History, Pacific Theater

The Last Flight of Wheel ‘n Deal

Posted onJune 18, 2019June 18, 2019

CategoriesArmy Air Corps, Clay County in World War II

Charles R. Roland: Historian and WWII Veteran of the Battle of the Bulge turns 100

Posted onNovember 15, 2018July 8, 2020

The following is a brief biography of Dr. Charles P. Roland on his 100th birthday, written by acclaimed author and Kentucky historian Thomas H. Appleton. It is reposted here by permission of the author.  Professor Roland’s personal information has been Continue Reading

CategoriesKentucky HistoryTags394th Infantry Regiment, Battle of the Bulge, University of Kentucky

Yearbook for Laurel Creek High School, Mill Pond, Clay County, Kentucky 1939-1940.

Posted onJune 6, 2018January 25, 20211 Comment

               

CategoriesClay County, Kentucky History, Kentucky History

Roscoe Burns Store Ledger

Posted onOctober 22, 2017October 22, 2017Leave a comment

Roscoe Burns (23 November 1893 – 6 October 1965). Born: Clay County, Kentucky Died: Clay County, Kentucky Buried: Maxaline Baker Cemetery, Oneida, Kentucky Married (1st) Sarah Hensley (12 February 1898 – 13 July 1954) Married (2nd) Sallie Barger Children: Ambrose Continue Reading

CategoriesBurns, Kentucky History

Clay County’s Part in the Contested Election of 1868

Posted onOctober 22, 2017January 25, 2021

  Politics in Kentucky has frequently been the spark-point for violence, corruption, and distinction, particularly among the Eastern Mountaineer.  Much of the outright hatred levied against one political party or its patrons began in the era of Southern Reconstruction, explained Continue Reading

CategoriesKentucky History

Pioneer Families: Clay County, Kentucky 1769-1969

Posted onOctober 11, 2017June 10, 20192 Comments

Throughout my time as a genealogical researcher and specifically Kentucky history and families, I have discovered no other book which draws as many inquires as Kelly Morgan’s Pioneer Families: Clay County Kentucky 1769-1969.  His first edition was published in 1970 Continue Reading

CategoriesClay County, Kentucky History, Genealogy

The Pearl of the Orient: Ray Gregory Protects the Streets of Postwar Manila

Posted onOctober 8, 2017August 25, 2019

  By: Gary Burns Reprinted from The Clay Count Ancestral News 32, no. 1 (2016). Ray Gregory may have been fifteen however, in 1943 he was far from oblivious to the turmoil the world outside, Hima, Clay County, Kentucky, had Continue Reading

CategoriesClay County in World War II

Staff Sergeant Walter E. Woods, 169th Infantry, 1944-45

Posted onOctober 8, 2017June 3, 20192 Comments

By Gary Burns Reprinted from Clay County Ancestral News 32, no. 1 (2016). Like most veterans of WWII, my father, Ambrose Burns, created a scrapbook of important events which occurred around him during his wartime service. Most veterans ranked their Continue Reading

CategoriesClay County in World War II, Kentucky History

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