Charles Franklin Trivette was born near the community of Virgie, Kentucky, May 15, 1903. Charlie Franklin Trivette was born into the household of Joseph M. Trivette and Victoria ( Johnson ) Trivette. Charlie was the grandson of Benjamin F. Johnson and Elizabeth Johnson. B.F. Johnson was the largest general store

Compiled by Roscoe Neal Reed On February 7, 1922, at about 4:30 P.M. an explosion at the Marietta Mine at Ball Fork, Pinson Fork, Kentucky, took the lives of nine coal miners and seriously injured at least one other. The bodies of the dead men were found all huddled together.

Joseph Bouney – S35,782 Service; Virginia Revolutionary Claim Act March 18, 1818 Kentucky Joseph Bouney of Floyd County in the state of Kentucky who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Phebicker [Col. Christian Febiger] of the Virginia Line, for the term of __. Inscribed on the Roll

School To Open Here September First with Largest Attendance Ever Enrolled in History of Pike County Faculty Of the Pike County High School  Six Excellent Instructors Already Employed. Four More Will Be Added by The Mid-term.  The Pike County High School is growing rapidly. It is now the largest high

Headline from Moody’s “ELK HORN FUEL COMPANY Inc. Feb 3, 1913, in W. Va, to acquire and operate 199,479 acres of coal lands in fee and mineral rights in the Elkhorn field of Kentucky, Of this acreage 184,829 acres are in Letcher, Knott, Floyd, Leslie, Magoffin, Pike and Perry Counties,

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Camp Brownlow, April 13, 1862 Apr. 30, 1862, The Marysville Tribune (40th Ohio, Piketon, Buchanan)Letter from a Soldier in the 40th Regiment – The following letter from G. P. Robinson to his father, A. R. Robinson of Darby Township, has been handed us for publication. It will be found to