Mom's adoption story taught me that every trial happens for a reason
I suppose that when you come right down to it, the story of how I became Linda Kidd's son explains everything about me that is worth...
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By JEFF KIDD
Nov 22, 20167 min
It's Thanksgiving. Can I watch you butcher your hog?
(Note: This blog post is adapted from "Wilson Grub," a family cookbook I wrote in 2015. I'm sharing it here because, well, it's...
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By JEFF KIDD
Nov 18, 20162 min
This photo warmed my heart; here's why
The G.W. Hall family. Pictured, from left, are: SON- Bethel George Hall (BORN December 26, 1893) MOTHER- Nancy Abigail Quisenberry (BORN...
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May 29, 20167 min
Honoring my family's fallen warriors on Memorial Day
Paper flowers began blooming in late February in the front room of the farmhouse where my mother grew up. By April, it could be difficult...
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Jeff Kidd
Mar 29, 20164 min
The improbable, fantastic, (somewhat) true life of Jilson Setters
“In a windowless cabin, hidden away in a high cranny of the Kentucky mountains, lived Jilson Setters, who, for all his sixty-five years,...
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Jeff Kidd
Dec 29, 20152 min
Friends to the end: The story of David Kendall and Lewis Frank Templeman
I'm not sure how David Kendall and Lewis Frank Templeman met, only that they grew up only a few miles apart in rural Rowan County, Ky....
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Nov 21, 20154 min
Family cookbook aims to explain how folks of modest means ate like kings
My Uncle Kenny Wilson is fond of saying that, until someone told him otherwise, he never realized he grew up poor. "I figure there were a...
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Nov 14, 20157 min
Murder victim, self-made mechanic among those in my family tree with birthdays week of Nov. 16
Birthdays from my family tree for the week of Nov. 16: Nov. 16 Nancy Davis Wilson, (my 5G aunt-in-law on my mother's side) b. 1804 in...
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Nov 7, 20157 min
Twins who married twins ... and had twin brothers ... among those in my family tree with birthdays w
Birthdays from my family tree for the week of Nov. 9: Nov. 9 Samuel Webb Caudill and Sarah Maggard Caudill, his wife. Sarah Maggard...
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Oct 31, 20158 min
Irish immigrants, frontiersman who settled Kentucky with Daniel Boone among this week's family-t
Birthdays from my family tree for the week of Nov. 2: Nov. 2 Levi Alfrey, (my first cousin three times removed on my mother's side), b....
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Oct 24, 20156 min
Happy birthday to the best mom a little orphan boy could have asked for
Birthdays from my family tree for the week of Oct. 26: Oct. 26 Nancy Frances Wilson Williamson, (my first cousin three times removed on...
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Oct 17, 20155 min
Several children of a prominent relative celebrated October birthdays ... and died young
Birthdays from my family tree for the week of Oct. 19: Oct. 19 John Wilson, (my first cousin three times removed on my mother's side), b....
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Oct 10, 20156 min
My great-grandfather, several members of prominent Ohio family — all Wilsons — among family-tree bir
Birthdays from my family tree for the week of Oct. 12: Oct. 12 Matilda Wilson, (my first cousin three times removed on my mother's side),...
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Oct 4, 20153 min
Great uncle among those in my family tree with birthdays week of Oct. 5
Birthdays from my family tree for the week of Oct. 5: Oct. 5 Mary Abigail Banks Quesenberry, (wife of Andrew Quesenberry, my 3G uncle on...
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Sep 26, 20159 min
Prolific moonshiner, wealthy Ohio landowner among those in family tree with birthdays this week
Birthdays from my family tree for the week of Sept. 28: Sept. 28 Myrtle Kidd, (my first cousin once removed on my father's side), b. 1917...
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Sep 19, 201510 min
Mystery relative(?) is among those in my family tree with birthdays this week
Birthdays in my family tree from the week of Sept. 21: Sept. 21 Anna Martin, (my 4G grandmother on my mother's side), b. 1801 in Morgan...
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Sep 12, 20158 min
Uncle Trace among many Lamberts in my family tree with birthdays this week
Birthdays in my family tree for the week of Sept. 14: Sept. 14 Wayne Monroe Wilson, (my second cousin three times removed on my mother's...
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Sep 6, 20154 min
Leona's lesson: Life's tough; that's no reason not to smile
I've spent quite a bit of time in the past year combing through my genealogical records and stitching together little biographies to...
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Sep 5, 201510 min
My papaw, presidential namesakes among those in family tree with birthdays week of Sept. 7
Birthdays from my family tree for the week of Sept. 7: Sept. 7 Washington Wilson, (my first cousin three times removed on my mother's...
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Aug 29, 20155 min
Fondly remembered 2nd cousin and his mother among those with birthdays week of Aug. 31
Birthdays from my family tree for the week of Aug. 31: Aug. 31 Clarence Wills, (my second cousin three times removed on my mother's...
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