Looking for Cemetery enthusiasts! This month’s History Mystery is focused on unraveling the mysterious location of the Pruett-Mardis Cemetery in Kenton County. Or is it the Mardis Cemetery in Kenton County? Or better yet: Where exactly is Jacob Mardis (1815-1855) buried? Find-A-Grave lists Jacob as buried in the Pruett –...
Slaves Identified in Kenton County, Kentucky Clerk’s and Kenton County Vital Statistic Records, 1840-1865. By Arnold Taylor. (2014. Pp. 58. Spiral Softcover. Lexington: www.slavelawsuits.com) This new title by Arnold Taylor was recently accepted into the library holdings here at KHS. As a transcribed collection of enslaved individuals listed in Kenton...
“The Navigator Containing Directions for Navigating Main and South Licking Rivers together with the Distances from one place of Notoriety to another…” Picture it: 1818, traveling along the Licking River in your flatboat. Unlike the Ohio River, the Licking is more narrow, with many twists, turns, and “ripples” to navigate....
