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Wikipedia The University of Louisville (UofL) is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky, a member of the Kentucky state university system. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of the first universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. The university is mandated by the Kentucky General Assembly to be a "Preeminent Metro...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Estill County, Kentucky.= Official Website = History Estill County was formed in 1808 and named for Captain James Estill, a Kentucky militia officer who was killed in the Battle of Little Mountain during the American Revolutionary War. Originally settled by European settlers entering Kentucky via old buffalo and Indian trails and trav...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Owsley County, Kentucky. History Owsley County was formed in 1843 and was named for Governor William Owsley. It is known as the poorest white county in the United States. The first settlers in Owsley County were John Renty Baker and John Abner. They settled there in about 1780 near the present Clay County line at Courtland. A gra...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Franklin County, Kentucky. It is not to be confused with the city of Franklin, in Simpson County, Kentucky. = Official Website =Franklin County was established in 1795 and was named after the American inventor and statesman Benjamin Franklin. Adjacent Counties * Anderson County * Henry County * Owen County * Shelby County * Scott Coun...
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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marshall County, Kentucky.= Official Website = History Following population increase in the area, Marshall County was created by the Kentucky legislature in 1842. The first European-American settlers had arrived in about 1818, shortly after the area was bought from the Chickasaw Indians as part of the Jackson Purchase by Gen. Andrew J...
Add pioneer settlers of Fort Boonesborough, Kentucky.to this project. You can visit HistoryLink to find out which projects include your ancestors. Historical Summary Boonesborough was founded by legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone when he worked for Richard Henderson of the Transylvania Company. Boone led a group of settlers through the mountains from Fort Watauga (at present day Elizabetht...
The cemetery is located on the north side of Iron Mountain Road about 0.6 miles north of its intersection with Park City Bon Ayr Road (Kentucky State Highway 255). The cemetery is described on pages 497 – 505 of Barren County, Kentucky Cemetery Records, © 1992 South Central Kentucky Historical and Genealogical Society, Glasgow, Kentucky. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky.= Official Website == History =Louisville is the historical and nominal county seat of Jefferson County. It was named after King Louis XVI of France, and was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians.The city's early growth was influenced ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Logan County, Kentucky.= Official Website = History Named for Benjamin Logan, who had been second in command of the Kentucky militia during the American Revolutionary War and was a leader in bringing statehood to the area, the county was created in 1792.Future President Andrew Jackson fought a pistol duel against Charles Dickinson at...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Daviess County, Kentucky. Official Website History Daviess County was established in 1815. The county is named for Major Joseph Hamilton Daveiss (a recording error in the State Clerk's office accounts for the error in spelling, which was never corrected), the United States Attorney who unsuccessfully prosecuted Aaron Burr. The c...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, Kentucky. Official Website Cumberland County was created in 1798 from land given by Green County. It was named for the Cumberland River. In 1829, the first oil well in the United States was dug three miles north of Burkesville. However, it is usually not recognized as such because the drillers were looking for sa...
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This project is for those buried in Resthaven Memorial Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. The cemetery is located on 4400 Bardstown Road and is also known as Resthaven Cemetery and Resthaven Memorial Park . Notable Burials Joe Guyon (1892-1971) - NFL & MLB Player Marvin Hart (1876-1931) - Professional Boxer Max Cullen Macon (1915-1989) - MLB Player Charles Franklin ...
Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in Barren County, Kentucky. Official County Overview Barren County was established in 1798 from land given by Green County and Warren County. Like most of south central Kentucky , Barren County was settled by the 'Scots-Irish , and still bears many cultural aspects that trace back to that heritage. The Scottish heritage is the mos...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Warren County, Kentucky. Official Website Warren County was the location of several Native American villages and ancient burial mounds constructed by earlier cultures. The first white men to enter the area were the long hunters in the 1770s. General Elijah Covington was among the first landowners. McFadden's Station, one of the ear...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Crittenden County, Kentucky. Official Website Crittenden County, located on the Ohio and Tradewater Rivers in the Pennyroyal region of Kentucky, was created by the state legislature on April 1, 1842, from a portion of Livingston County. It became the state's 91st county, and was named for John J. Crittenden, a U.S. senator, attorne...
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 Beth...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Carlisle County, Kentucky. Official Website The county was founded in 1886 and named for John Griffin Carlisle, a Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky. Adjacent Counties Ballard County McCracken County Graves County Hickman County Mississippi County, Missouri Cities & Communities ...
This cemetery is located on 511 West Columbia Street, Somerset, Pulaski County, Kentucky. Find a Grave
Scope of Project To build a single, validated and documented shared family tree for the Barnes families, from earliest origins to near modern times. How to Participate Send a request to collaborate on this project and I'll add you as a collaborator. If the profile is a public profile you have edit rights to, then navigate to the profile and under "More Actions" choose "Add to project" or...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lincoln County, Kentucky.= Official Website =Lincoln County—originally Lincoln County, Virginia—was established by the Virginia General Assembly in June 1780, and named in honor of Revolutionary War general Benjamin Lincoln. Adjacent Counties * Boyle County * Garrard County * Rockcastle County * Casey County * Pulaski County Cities & ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pulaski County, Kentucky. Official Website The county was founded in December 1798 from land given by Lincoln and Green Counties and named for Polish patriot Count Casimir Pulaski. Adjacent Counties Lincoln County Rockcastle County Casey County Russell County Laurel County McCreary County Wayne County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Floyd County, Kentucky.The county was named for James John Floyd, a pioneer surveyor who helped lay out the city of Louisville. The first court house burned down on April 8, 1808, destroying all the early records, so the earliest records of government activity do not date prior to 1808. Prestonsburg was used as a Confederate stronghol...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Russell County, Kentucky. Official Website The county was formed on December 14, 1825 and is named for William Russell, a Kentucky politician. In 2015, the cities of Jamestown and Russell Springs became two of the first gigabit internet communities in Kentucky with the completion of a state-of-the-art optical fiber network by the ...