Happy New Year!

Wishing you peace, health and happiness in 2015!

Published 31 December 2014, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Monument Monday - Ella Adams

Ella Summers

Wife of

David Adams

Oct. 14, 1852

Aug. 12, 1912

Buried in Smithland Cemetery, Smithland, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 3 August 2014.

Ella Summers first appeared on the 1860 Livingston County, Kentucky census in the household of her parents, Joseph and Evelyn Summers. Her Kentucky death certificate (#20461) identifies her parents as George [sic] Summers and Evelyn Haines, both born in Kentucky.

Ella first married Henry Marshall on 10 March 1869 and later became the second wife of  David Adams.

Published 29 December 2014, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Winter Book Sale

Several books are on sale through January 2015. For the list of books, go here: Winter Book Sale

Published 27 December 2014, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Statistics

Trying to improve my writing and research skills while writing this blog is always a challenge. It isn't easy trying to determine the subject of the next blog.  Maybe taking a look at the posts with the highest number of hits will show why those posts were of interest. This list pertains only to the blog posts during 2014.

The five posts with the highest number of hits during 2014 were as follows:

1.  He Married the Girl Who Brought the Eggs 

2.  Battle of Salem, Kentucky

3.  Follow Up On 1866 Livingston County Apprenticeships

4.  A Pistol and a Fiddle

5.  Cemeteries Here and There

Now, what do these posts have in common?  Not one thing. The last three all appeared in the month of September. Is that significant? I have no idea. The titles for #1 and #4 have catchy titles. Does that help? Maybe. The counties covered and the subject varies, but I have learned during the seven years of writing this blog that posts on the Civil War usually draw more hits. So, should I write about the Civil War during September and use a catchy title?

If you have any suggestions for topics or would like to submit a post, contact me through this blog.

Published 26 December 2014, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,  http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Merry Christmas!

Wishing you a Merry Christmas filled 

with the wonders of the season.

Published 25 December 2014, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Monument Monday - Linnie Nelson

Nelson

Linnie Doyle

Wife of Everett

Nelson

Nov. 5, 1885

Dec. 4, 1919

She was a kind and

affectionate wife, a fond

mother, and a friend to all

Buried Dyer Hill Cemetery, Livingston County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 15 October 2010.

Linna E. Doyle, daughter, was living in the household of James W. and Ella F. Doyle in Dyers Hill District of Livingston County, Kentucky on the 1900 census. 

Everette Lane Scyster Nelson, age two, died 13 October 1919 in Livingston County. He was the son of Everett Nelson and Linnie Doyle, according to his death certificate #28212 (1919).

Published 22 December 2014, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Livingston County Executors 1873

When a person wrote his will, he usually named an executor to perform certain tasks after the testator had died. The executor's duties were to collect debts and credits due the estate, make a just and true accounting of his actions and deliver all legacies specified in the will.   The executor signed a bond to show that he would faithfully perform his duties. The following information comes from Livingston County, Kentucky Executors Bonds 1853 - 1916, a bound volume in the county clerk's office in Smithland. The date listed below is the date the bond was signed.

Jesse L. Abell - executor of the estate of Washington Abell  1 January 1873

John E. Lemen - executor of the estate of Sarah A. Lemen   3 March 1873

Elizabeth Stonebreaker - executor of the estate of Henry Stonebreaker  7 April 1873

S.G. Moxley - executor of the estate of George G. Aydelott  12 June 1873

John N. Mills - executor of the estate of Charles Mills  10 November 1873

James W. Cade - executor of the estate of John B. Signiago  8 December 1873

Bond Appointing James W. Cade

Executor of the last Will and Testament

of John B. Signiago

Published 18 December 2014, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/