Category: Montgomery County, KY
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Wavetops: James McCullough (Sr.) (1757-1838) When John McCullough died in 1766, he left four orphans without family or support in Rowan County, North Carolina. The courts bound each child to an apprenticeship, each with different terms. In her 1991 Ph.D. dissertation, Johanna Lewis1 noted that of 52 orphans placed as apprentices before 1770, only one…
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A Hard Row to Hoe You might recall I was very excited to find a book documenting this family last year: I finally got to spend some quality time looking at the evidence presented in this book and untangling some of the questions it raises – and when all is said and done, there are…
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Travels Through the Places They Knew We weren’t supposed to be here, but Hurricane Helene washed out parts of the Interstate, so we took a more Northern route. Our original itinerary took us from San Antonio to Nashville on day one—a 15-hour sprint followed by a leisurely 12-hour leg to the house in Baltimore via…
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A Quick Overview of my work under this surname This is my wife’s paternal line – which reminds me: SIDE NOTE: If you’re a genealogist/family historian, I hope you’re not using “mother’s maiden name” in your security questions for any of your sensitive online accounts. Because it is distressingly easy to learn that information, even…
Mightier Acorns 