By: Dr. Gay Sweely The house itself was … peeking stoically out from behind two overgrown oak trees …. It was a timeworn stone structure … with an addition thoughtlessly tacked on the back. That part was painted a dingy white … Indeed, the house hadn’t been lived in … …
Tag: Revolutionary Soldiers
Collections Corner: Southern Revolutionary War Pensions & Rosters
This month’s Collection Corner comes to us from Kandie Adkinson at the Kentucky Secretary of State Land Office. At a recent event at Boonesborough, Kandie shared one of her favorite secret weapons when researching Revolutionary Soldiers in connection to land records: The Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements and Rosters …
John Storms and Hannah Collard: My Mystery Ancestors
By: Patricia Craig Johnson John Storms and Hannah Collard have been in the back of my mind for years. Since finding that Simon Pryor Jr. married Margaret Storms 20 May 1813[1] I have wanted to prove the identity of her parents. I felt the logical prospects were John Storm and his …