Through out 2024 I was working through some genealogical problems in early Louisville, Kentucky (see post). It was a popular place to go in the American journey westward. The popularity led to same name men arriving in the vicinity near the same time. I was searching for James Cunningham. In …
I’m pleased to announce that my latest research article, “Five Families from Hawkins County, Tennessee: Their 1850s Migration to Pulaski County, Kentucky,” has been published in the Tennessee Genealogical Society‘s Ansearchin’ News. My search for one person–virtually a needle in a haystack–stumbled upon a mass migration in the 1850s. East …
On my recent genealogy road trip we crossed the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois and we visited the gravesite of a Frances (Hooe) Pryor, a wife featured in my book Pryor Wives. The Confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi River We drove around areas in Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee that …
In 1791 Nathaniel and Robert Pryor were apprentices in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Nathaniel Pryor was part of the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1803. In 1808 in Jefferson County, Jane Pryor married John B. Gilly. The Adam S. Pryor who was apprenticed in 1817 in New Orleans was Robert’s son …
In 1911 this Valentine Day postcard was sent from Indianapolis, Indiana to Estella/Estelle (Roberts) in Public, Kentucky. Estelle (born 1888) was the sister of James Luster Roberts (born 1897). She was listed in 1910 in Pulaski County, Kentucky in her parents’ household (see Table). “To My Sweet Valentine,” 1911, front …
