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 knowing. It has shaped m...

(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 Thanksgiving and I crave Gran...

The G.W. Hall family. Pictured, from left, are: SON- Bethel George Hall (BORN December 26, 1893) MOTHER- Nancy Abigail Quisenberry (BORN July 5, 1867) holdin...

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 to find a place to ...

“In a windowless cabin, hidden away in a high cranny of the Kentucky mountains, lived Jilson Setters, who, for all his sixty-five years, had never seen a rai...

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. Neither do I know many...

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 Kentucky; d. May 20, 18...

Birthdays from my family tree for the week of Nov. 9: Nov. 9 Samuel Webb Caudill and Sarah Maggard Caudill, his wife. Sarah Maggard Caudill, (my 4G grandmoth...

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. 1875 in Rowan County,...

Birthdays from my family tree for the week of Oct. 26: Oct. 26 Nancy Frances Wilson Williamson, (my first cousin three times removed on my mother's side), b....

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. 1910 in Bath Townsh...

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), b. 1814 in Madison ...

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 my mother's side) b....

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 in Rowan County, Ky...

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 (now Rowan) County, K...

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 side), b. 1901 in Ke...

I've spent quite a bit of time in the past year combing through my genealogical records and stitching together little biographies to coincide with my relativ...

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 side), b. 1821 in Madis...

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 side), b. 1900 in Kentuck...