Dennis Partridge

Hints and Tips for Beginners Are you starting to search for your ancestors?  Have you been looking for awhile?  I hope some of these small tips can help.  Let me tell you first;  I am not a professional genealogists.  I started looking for my ancestors about five years ago.  I put the papers away for awhile but got it back out when someone asked about a relative.  That triggered my interest again.  I am on several mailing lists and have talked with many people who have been very helpful.  Most people are willing to help when you have a question.  … Read more

Clay county was formed in 1807. It is located in the Eastern Coal Field region of the state. The elevation in the county ranges from 690 to 2235 feet above sea level. In 1990 the county population was 21,746 in a land area of 471 square miles, an average of 46.2 people per square mile. The county seat is Manchester. Most of Clay County is within the Daniel Boone National Forest. , 660,000 acres in Clay and other counties. Manchester, the seat of Clay County, was established along Goose Creek in 1807 as Greenville, named for Green Clay, for whom … Read more

Clay County Cemeteries at Kentucky Genealogy Brown Wilson Cemetery Engine Cemetery Old Ben Hacker Cemetery Old Benge Cemetery Paces Creek Cemetery Other Clay County Cemeteries Boone Cemetery Broughton Cemetery Burns/Davidson Cemetery Bundy/Delph Cemetery Campbell Cemetery Carpenter Branch Cemetery Davidson, R.H. Cemetery Fariview Cemetery Farmer/Asher Cemetery Harts Branch Cemetery Hatton Family Cemetery Hibbard Cemetery Hoskins Cemetery Hoskins Family Cemetery Hubbard Cemetery  (partial) Hunter Cemetery Joe Smith Cemetery Maxline Baker Cemetery Mudlick Cemetery (Partial) Patsey Allen Cemetery Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery Pleasant Run Cemetery Rasner Cemetery Riley – Wagers Cemetery Rogers/Tanyard Cemetery Sams Cemetery Sizemore Cemetery (partial listing) Old Smith – … Read more

Directions – Out of Laurel County, East 472 into Clay County – Fogertown.  Turn left at Russell House Store, 1/2 mile on left, top of hill. Westerfield, Edith Marie 13 Aug 1925 28 May 1947 Westerfield, Celia 7 Jan 1929 12 Mar 1932 Westerfield, Ernest G. 12 Jul 1902 23 Mar 1926 US 6th Cav. Westerfield, G.M. 21 Jan 1924 24 Jan 1926 Westerfield, Elza 18 Aug 1908 5 Aug 1922 Westerfield, Walter 19 Mar 1920 19 Jun 1920 Westerfield, Pearl 7 Mar 1916 12 Feb 1919 Marcum, Hiram R. 8 Mar 1877 26 Oct 1908 Feltner, Bill 2 Mary … Read more

great-great-great-great granddaughters of Sarah Hicks Clark Submitted to Clay Co. Ancestral News,  dated 12/30/99 Printed in the Spring / Summer 2000 issue with these directions: “Old Benge Cemetery” is located on Euwell and Ann Rader’s farm at Fogertown, KY on Highway 472, between Burningsprings and London, KY.  There are 68 identifiable graves with markers and others marked only with field stones. Mosley, Darrel 12-29-1955 12-1-1970 Grimes, Angela L. 1967 1985 Mosley, Donna J. 4-29-1951 5-5-1951 Mosley, Kenneth J. 12-29-1954 10-11-1975 Mosley, Eldon 8-26-1910 7-19-1949 Mosley, Margaret N. 1884 1954 Mosley, William 1883 no date Mosley, Richard 1905 1976 WWII Sgt. US … Read more

Paces Creek Cemetery is in Garrad, Clay County, Kentucky, up on RR 3.  The post office is listed as Manchester. I have listed the entire cemetery here, with the help of my parents, Arla and Gladys (Owens) Smith. Explanation of terms used: s/o  = son of d/o  = daughter of w/o = wife of Female maiden name added when known. Front, left side of the drive. Addition and corrections marked with  *  and enclosed in brackets  *[  ] by: James E. Welch,  Sr. 54 Creekstone  Lane, London,  KY  40741 Gray, Hobert M. May 10, 1933 Jan. 5, 2001 *[s/o Shirley … Read more

Brown/Wilson Cemetery The entrance to the cemetery is located one quarter to one half mile past Goose Creek on Fork Field Road.  There is a cattle gate where the cemetery road goes to the right up the hill.  Make a right turn at the cattle gate and proceed up the hill.  Where the road forks, keep to the left and continue up the hill to another cattle gate.  This will bring you out on a plateau with the cemetery slightly to your left in the open field overlooking Red Bird River. To date there are thirty two graves.  The oldest … Read more

Here is a partial list of names.  We’d love to get this cemetery completed but the hill is rather steep and the weather hasn’t been good the last few times we were there. Directions as recalled by friends: Coming from London, on the Parkway:  turn left (toward Manchester) off the Parkway. Turn right at the first red light (in front of the Wal-Mart shopping center) onto 421 & Hwy 11. (There is a Stivers Chevron station in the direction you turn on 421.)  About a mile, 421 bares to the left and Hwy 11 bares to the right. Follow Hwy … Read more