List of the many that have graciously helped on this project. List is alphabetical by last name.
Kandie Adkinson – Kentucky Secretary of State Office, Land Office Division
Janet Burton Amick
David Barker
Harold Bates
Marquita Bazany
Randy Brainard
Polly Brainard
Sharon Stewart Brumfield
Jerry Burton
Ruth Brainard Burton (1915 – 1994)
Bobby Jack “Bob” Burton (1937 – 2019)
Greg Bush
Phyllis Brainard Bush
Matt Cline
Roy Cline
Frances Tiller Coleman (1921 – 1999)
Hoppy Coleman (1941 – 2021)
Pearl Burton Coleman
Pope Coleman
Joseph A Conley
Robert Cook
Donald L Cooke – Professional Engineer, Land Surveyor – Grayson, KY
Barbara Copley
Donna Cordial
Ferrel Cordle
Debbie Crabtree
Lou Ann Burton Crace
Ted Crace
Gail Shelton Crisp
Randy Crisp
Deborah Ekers Critser
Curtis Crye
Gwen Curtis – Map Collections, Science Library, University of Kentucky Libraries
Allen Davis
Bob Davis
Ron Davis
Teddy Davis (1944 – 2020)
Ercel Dickens (1948 – 2022)
Michael Dixon
Sarah Dorpinghaus – Special Collections Research Center, University of Kentucky Libraries
Shell Dunn – Special Collections Research Center, University of Kentucky Libraries
Lydia Justice Edwards
John Enyart (1950 – 2021)
Rick Epling
Vicki Evans (1963 – 2020) – Genealogist, Greenup County Public Library
Bob Fannin
Bernie Fannin
Gail Fannin
Jo Ann Wilburn Fannin
Roy Fannin
Danielle Fraley Farace
Eden Fryer
Lisa Davis Fryer
Pat Gee
Kim Lucas Gillum
Donna Riggs Griffith
August “Cap” Gullett (1931 – 2019)
Betty Schmidt Gullett
Carson Bill Gullett (1935 – 2022)
Curtis Hamilton
Barbara Clark Hardy
Deborah Gee Harper
Matthew Harris – Special Collections Research Center, University of Kentucky Libraries
Ed Hicks
John Hiett – Kentucky Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mine Safety
Paul Hutchinson (1931 – 2021)
Robert “Bob” Ihrig
Debbie Jones – Boyd County Clerk (Kentucky)
Thomas “Tom” Jones
James “Jim” Kettel – Boyd County Public Library, Minnie Winder Genealogy & Local History Room
Teresa Martin Klaiber
Al Kresse
Charles Layne
Minnie Thomas Leibee
Edwin Lemaster (1922 – 2019)
Jack Lucas
Lisa Stapleton Lucas
Tim Lucas
Rhonda Towler Lyons
Joe Marcum
Brenda Chaffin McCown
James McCown
Jan Thomas McCown
Jo Ann Deerfield McGranahan
Ben Millard
Donnie Miller
Pam Kelly Miller
Don Moore
Myrtle Gullett Moore (1925 – 2019)
Virginia Musick
Linda Newman
Terrie Clarke Neufarth
Sue Nixon
Kaye Pennington-Westcott
Fannie Mae Lucas Peterman
James Powers (1938 – 2020) – Boyd County Public Library, Minnie Winder Genealogy & Local History Room
Tim Preston – Ashland Daily Independent
Charlotte Davis Queen
Donald Reil
Edsel “Ed” Rucker
Luther Rucker
Glen Roy Shavers
Zach Shavers
Bill Singleton
Orville Smith
Denise Spaulding
Darrell “Snuffy” Stewart
Tom Tiller
Horty Thomas (1931 – 2017)
Larry Thomas
Mary Etta Tiller Thomas (1934 – 2013)
Mitch Thomas
Teresa Tiller Thomas
Elmer Thornberry
Donald “Don” Thornsbury
Linda Click Thornsbury
Tom Tiller
Carolyn Johnson Towler
Donna Tussey
Jessica Vaughn
Bobbi West
George Westcott (1941 – 2019)
Raymond Whitley (1930 – 2013)
Rusty Whitley
Charlie Wilburn
James Wilburn
Don Wise (1932 – 2017)
Steve Wolfe
George Wolfford (1935 – 2016)
Charles Young
Ken Young
Proud of you Lon. This is great!!!!
Lon I really thank you as well for letting Mom and I share our pictures and history with you. One correction please. Fannie Mae Marshall Peterman is Fannie Mae Lucas Peterman please. (Mom’s Mother’s maiden name was Marshall)
Debbie, Thanks for your kind help and kind words. I have corrected the error in the name. Enjoy! Lon
Lon,
This is really good! I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to look at your website. There are so many names that I am familiar with. One question, the Williams/Kilgore, was that on Star Hill? Up from June Bug’s house? That is who we visited while there. He allowed us to go up that “Hill” and I use that term lightly, because it didn’t look so high from the bottom of that hill, but climbing it was quite an adventure. We found James Kilgore, Sr, wife headstone, Melinda Kilgore and their daughter Margaret, but couldn’t find James’s monument. If this is the same cemetery, did you happen to see it?
You’ve done such a great job on this. Congratulations.
Shirley Turner (Anna Kilgore’s daughter)
Hi Shirley,
It is so nice to hear from you.
1) There is a Google Maps link in the article that shows exactly were the Williams / Kilgore Cemetery is located. It is “up from June Bug’s house”. It is very near were June Bug lived. But this is not “Star Hill”. Star Hill is about 2 miles due west of this hill and cemetery. June Bug did not live by Star Hill, he lived 2 miles east of Star Hill. So we are speaking of the exact same cemetery, but that cemetery is NOT on Star Hill, or at least not on the hill that I, and all the area residents, refer to as Star Hill for my entire life. If you ask anyone from the area where Star Hill is, they will direct you to the hill that US 60 goes over (between the community of Star and Wilson Creek), and that hill is about 2 miles west of the Williams / Kilgore Cemetery. This cemetery is at the community of Kilgore, the community of Star lies a bit west of Kilgore.
2) The day I was there I did not attempt any sort of meaningful inventory of the graves, but there were some Kilgore’s buried there.
3) I would love to speak with you a bit regarding the “Kilgore’s”.
Enjoy! Lon
Lon, My Great Grandfather was on the 1870 Boyd County Census with your GGGrandfather William Kibbie. Looks like they took him in when his Mom died. Would love to discuss.
Hi John,
I am not aware of William Kibbie. How am I related exactly and how are you aware of this connection? I am confused.
I just accessed the 1870 US Census record you cite with both William Kibbie and Alex Cauffield in the household of Lewis L Kibbie, but I am unsure how I am connected to William Kibbie.
Please advise.
Enjoy! Lon