As mentioned in the previous post, we periodically find accounts of a musket ball or rifle ball passing through one individual and into another.  Such is the case concerning a

When I put the Squire Boone timeline together for a previous post, it intrigued me that for a short time prior to their trek to the Carolinas, the George Boone

I recently found a detailed article concerning the formation of Kentucky  at the Kentucky Genealogical Society website.  It was written by the former publisher of “Bluegrass Roots”, Landon Wills, and

State seals were used by government authorities to attest to and give validity to public records and documents.   I am sharing the images of the original concept seals.  According to

The last time I saw Ol’ Badger at Fort Boonesboro, I asked him how he lost an eye.  It was clear the question made him uncomfortable and he did not

John Richard Parker, (1830 – 1915), was the son of Silas and Lucinda Parker in Crawford County, Illinois. His grandfather, John Parker, was recruited to settle his family in north

Speaking of frontiersmen ..   Bland Ballard has been the subject of a number of biographical sketches. This post contains two similar but different accounts of Ballard’s life.  The first