Genealogy Projects tagged with Kentucky on the Geni Family Tree

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  • Gillum Cemetery, Carter County, Kentucky

    This cemetery is located on Gillum Cemetery Road - Mile Branch, Carter County, Kentucky. Find a Grave

  • Gallatin County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gallatin County, Kentucky. Official Website Overview The county was formed on December 14, 1798 and named for Albert Gallatin, the Secretary of the Treasury under President Thomas Jefferson. During the Civil War, several skirmishes occurred in the county and the Union Army arrested a number of men for treason for supporting the C...

  • Fulton County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fulton County, Kentucky. History The rural county was organized in 1845. It was named for Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat. The county was developed for agriculture, which was originally dependent on slave labor. Area farmers had ties to Tennessee planters, and shipped produce down the Mississippi River, which formed the...

  • Fort Campbell

    Fort Campbell is a United States Army installation located astride the Kentucky–Tennessee border between Hopkinsville, Kentucky and Clarksville, Tennessee (post address is located in Kentucky). Fort Campbell is home to the 101st Airborne Division and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. The fort is named in honor of Union Army Brigadier General William Bowen Campbell, the last Whig G...

  • Fort Knox

    Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository, which is used to house a large portion of the United States' official gold reserves, and with which it is often conflated. The 109,000-acre (170 square mile) base covers parts of Bullitt, Hardin and Meade counties. It currently holds...

  • Bullitt County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bullitt County, Kentucky. Official Website History Both France and Britain had traders and colonists who encountered the Shawnee. European colonization of the Americas led to competing claims between those nations to the lands west of the Appalachians and east of the Mississippi River. After suffering defeat by Great Britain in th...

  • Meade County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Meade County, Kentucky. Official Website The county was founded December 17, 1823, and named for Captain James M. Meade, who was killed in action at the Battle of River Raisin during the War of 1812. Adjacent Counties Hardin County Breckinridge County Perry County, Ind. Harrison County, Ind. Crawford County, Ind. ...

  • Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Paducah, Kentucky

    This project is for those buried in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky. Find a Grave

  • Bellarmine University

    Wikipedia =Bellarmine University is an independent, private, Catholic university in Louisville, Kentucky. The liberal arts institution opened on October 3, 1950, as Bellarmine College, established by Archbishop John A. Floersh of the Archdiocese of Louisville and named after the Cardinal Saint Robert Bellarmine. The name was changed by the Board of Trustees in 2000 to Bellarmine University. The...

  • Cave Hill National Cemetery

    Cave Hill National Cemetery, located in Louisville, Kentucky, is comprised of six burial sections at the northwest corner of the privately owned Cave Hill Cemetery , (a separate project on Geni), a grand Victorian-era cemetery that provided a proper resting place for the dead within a beautiful park setting. The national cemetery features rows of marble headstones following the curvilinear path...

  • Nelson County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Nelson County, Kentucky.= Official Website =The fourth county created in what is now Kentucky in 1784, was named for Thomas Nelson Jr., the Virginia Governor who signed the Declaration of Independence. Adjacent Counties * Anderson County * Marion County * Washington County * LaRue County * Hardin County * Bullitt County * Spencer County

  • Ohio County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ohio County, Kentucky.= Official Website =Ohio County was formed in 1798 and was named for the Ohio River, which originally formed its northern boundary. It lost its northern portions in 1829, when other counties were formed it.The first settlements in Ohio County were Barnetts Station and Hartford. In January 1865, during the America...

  • Wolfe County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wolfe County, Kentucky. Official Website Wolfe County was formed on March 5, 1860, and was named for Nathaneal Wolfe, a member of the legislative assembly. Adjacent Counties Menifee County Morgan County Magoffin County Breathitt County Lee County Powell County Cities & Communities Baptist Bear Pen Betha...

  • Morgan County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Morgan County, Kentucky.Morgan County was formed on December 7, 1822 and was named for Daniel Morgan, a distinguished general in the American Revolutionary War. Adjacent Counties * Elliott County * Lawrence County * Johnson County * Magoffin County * Wolfe County * Rowan County * Menifee County Cities & Communities

  • Maplewood Cemetery, Mayfield, Kentucky

    The cemetery is located in Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky, on the north side of E. Cemetery Road with entrances at its intersection with N 7th Street and N 6th Street. The cemetery has entrance monuments, called the "Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield", that were gifted to the cemetery by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The monuments consist of three pairs of stuccoed concrete p...

  • Floral Hills Memorial Gardens, Taylor Mill, Kentucky

    Floral Hills does not give out locations to non-relatives. You will need to call office and get location to have photo request fulfilled. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 492265 (Floral Hill Memorial Gardens). It's located on 5336 Old Taylor Mill Road, Taylor Mill, Kenton County, Kentucky. Find a Grave

  • Owensboro, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Owensboro, Kentucky. Official Website Owensboro is the county seat of Daviess County. History Wikipedia Following a series of failed uprisings with British support, however, the last Shawnee were forced to vacate the area before the end of the 18th century. The first European descendant to settle in Owensboro was frontiersm...

  • Lexington, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky.= Official Website =Lexington is located in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky and is known as "The Horse Capital of the World". History Lexington was founded by European Americans in June 1775, in what was then considered Fincastle County, Virginia, 17 years before Kentucky became a state. A party of...

  • Fleming County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Fleming County, Kentucky. Fleming County's first residents were nomadic hunters' who visited the Upper and Lower Blue Licks along the Licking River near the county's western and southern borders perhaps as early as 8000 BC. Adena craftsmen may have carved the enigmatic six foot diameter limestone bowl and lid shaped "kettles" which...

  • Spencer County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Spencer County, Kentucky. Official Website Spencer County was formed in January 1824, by the 32nd Kentucky General Assembly. The county was named for Kentucky's Captain Spier Spencer, who fought and died in the Battle of Tippecanoe. During the American Civil War, the courthouse at Taylorsville was burned by Confederate guerrillas i...

  • First & Second Battles of Cynthiana (1862 & 1864), US Civil War

    During the early summer of 1862, John H. Morgan led his small cavalry force of Kentuckians, Georgians, and Texans on a raid that later had a direct impact on the Kentucky Campaign that same summer and fall. Morgan led his men to Cynthiana in mid-July, the town called later as the “best Rebel town of our Native State.” Indeed, in 1861 and 1862 nine companies of infantry were raised in Harrison C...

  • Caldwell County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Caldwell County, Kentucky. Official Website History Caldwell County was formed from Livingston County in 1809. Prior to that, Caldwell County had been part of Christian, Logan, and Lincoln Counties. In the early nineteenth-century, Caldwell County witnessed the passage of the forced migration of the Cherokee to the West on the Tr...

  • LaRue County, Kentucky

    Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Larue County, Kentucky.The county was formed on March 4, 1843. It was named for John P. LaRue, an early settler. It is best known as the birthplace of United States President Abraham Lincoln, when it was part of Hardin County. The county sponsors the annual Lincoln Days celebration on the first full weekend of October, Friday through...

  • Commonwealth of Kentucky

    This subportal is part of the USA Portal . = Kentucky , officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth (the others being Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts). Originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Union. ...

  • Sulphur Springs Cemetery, Franklin, Kentucky

    The cemetery is located on the northeast corner of the intersection of Sulphur Springs Church Road and Neosheo Road. The cemetery is identified as SW 56 (Sulphur Spring Cemetery) on page 282 of Simpson County, Kentucky Cemeteries, © 1983 Simpson County Historical Society, published by Simpson County Historical Society. Find a Grave

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