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Indiana Cousins of Zerelda Elizabeth Cole-James Family


Before Lucy Cole of Woodford County, Kentucky married Jonathan Sebastian Cropper, the Cropper family’s ancestry reached back to 1685 and the birth of Ebenezer Cropper in Snow Hill, Worcester County, Maryland. After Lucy Cole Cropper died, Sebastian Cropper married Provey Dorsey of New Castle, in Henry County, KY. Sebastian & Lucy Cole Cropper’s son, Joseph Yates Cropper born in Woodford… (more…)

HISTORIC TINTYPE of RHODA MAY-JAMES


RHODA MAY (1806-1889) is the stalwart spouse of the “talented, but erratic” Rev. Joseph Martin James (1791-1848). Rhoda withstood all transgressions, indignities, & social ostracism that her husband created with admirable Teutonic stoicism. When acute alcoholism took Joe’s life at age fifty-seven, Rhoda became a forty-two year old widow, left alone to raise nine children. For the next forty-one years… (more…)

William Harold Latham passed away


Mr. William Harold Latham, 79 of Cincinnati, Ohio passed awayThursday, Nov. 5, 2009.He was the husband of the late Martha Lee (Hooker) Latham. He was born in Pulaski County, Ky. to the late Smith and Augusta (Owens) Latham. Harold was a longtime member of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Somerset, Ky. and was a veteran of the United States Marine… (more…)

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